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If you see this often enough, you're bound to be sick to your stomach.
In this short video, Keril and I backtrack to about 3 years ago, when I would always call and ask him to transfer 100 bucks into my account so those NSF Fees wouldn't hit. I was lucky and fortunate to have a friend that I could rely on who had the capabilities and means to help me during those tough times.
At some point, you hit the threshold and can't take it anymore, and then you start looking for other options.
One of those options has been starting my very own online business. Like you, I needed to start my own business and I desperately needed it to work. I had no other options– it was either that, or pretty much lose everything I've worked for over the previous seven years.
As much as I needed this to work, I didn't have a clue on how to get started. I've heard about PPC CCP, OPD, GDS and all these other acronyms that made absolutely no sense to me. I heard about article marketing, video marketing, customer conversions, affiliate marketing, joint-ventures, "before, during and after units," keyword research, SEO. Imagine how overwhelmed I was. The sad thing about this whole story is that I didn't even know what service or product I wanted to provide. At this point, you can see I'm getting pissed off and thinking about quitting even before getting started.
I'm here to tell you that you are not alone. How you feel right now, is just how I felt 3 years ago. So here's the deal, the videos that Keril and I have put together are designed for that feeling. It doesn't matter whether you're just getting started, had your online business for a while and are not getting the results you want, or you have been toying around with the idea of starting. Whatever part of the spectrum you're on, just know that it's possible to gain the success you want once you get the clarity you need to create your very own online business.
Here's the exciting part, your business can be anything you want–anything that's exciting to you! You just have to want to do it. The Internet can provide you with all of the material desires, lifestyle desires, and opportunity you've been wanting once you understand and embrace the principles of the online business world.
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Whether you teach, coach, clean, make decisions, make repairs, patrol the campus, or counsel students, you make IUP an outstanding place for our students to learn, and in turn, a rewarding place for each of us to work. You can be proud when you invest
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During these most formative years, our students are learning to become tomorrow's problem solvers. They depend on you to guide them, to mentor them, and to support them. At a time when costs are on the rise--for example text books, rent, and general
living expenses--IUP students need your support.
Each semester, many students are able to maintain their enrollment solely because of scholarship support they receive. Without it, and without donors like you, they would no longer study on campus. Also important, students who receive scholarships
tell us your support inspires them to excel, and, over time, they tend to give to IUP when they become alumni.
Making your gift is easy and can be personally rewarding. You can make a gift through payroll deduction. You can write a check and send it in campus mail. Or, you can make a credit card transaction. How you do it and what area of the campus
benefits is up to you. You might choose to give to the Fund for IUP, the Sutton Scholarship, the Lively Arts, Athletics, or to your own department or area of interest. See how gifts like yours are used across campus to assist students with tuition, books, and other learning experiences.
Bonus! If the number of individuals making gifts in support IUP programs and students increases this year, we stand to be rewarded additional performance budget funding from the State System.
This is a big deal. Did you know that this year, because of the number of people that made gifts to the Foundation for IUP last year, the university was awarded $677,000 in performance funding. That's huge! Our university family played a very
substantial role in this achievement. Without our collective support, our allocation may have been far less. It's no understatement to say every donor counts!
We are telling alumni about this excellent opportunity, and it's important for our immediate family to know, too.
2016-17 Goal: 800 Donors
All donors will be invited to a victory reception hosted by President Michael Driscoll on April 26, 2017.
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Call it an artistic take on moonlighting: Dancers at major companies often use their free time to perform with smaller operations, known as "pick-up" companies. The additional work can bring major roles, as well as connections to like-minded professionals. Creating those opportunities for dancers is a role in itself—one that former New York City Ballet soloist Tom Gold has assumed over the past decade in his transition from dancer to choreographer to impresario of his own company.
On Monday, Tom Gold Dance, featuring a roster dotted with City Ballet members, will present its first evening of all-original work at Florence Gould Hall. Mr. Gold's path—a case study for anyone looking to advance in one's field—was bolstered by two smart moves: plotting a long-range course, and bringing in a mentor with whom top dancers want to work.
It was while he was still dancing that Mr. Gold laid the foundation for a small but focused company that now tours regularly, provides top dancers a creative outlet, and serves as a platform for his own work. Back in the summer of 1999, Mr. Gold was asked to bring some fellow City Ballet dancers to the South of France. He obliged, and what could have been a one-off performance gradually grew into an all-but annual program—one that he didn't have trouble filling.
"Word got out," he said. "It's like giving the dancers summer camp."
Through the years, Mr. Gold honed his leadership skills and organized more trips to other countries, where he'd typically program dances by George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp and Jerome Robbins —plus one original. By the time he retired from City Ballet in 2008, he had organically built his résumé, his network, his reputation, and his own body of work. He formally launched Tom Gold Dance that same year.
"Now I have a whole repertory," he said. "After years of putting groups together, the next step was to create a company."
Of the 20 dances he has created, four will be presented in Monday's program. They include a duet set to a suite of music by French composers; a crisp ballet set to Mozart; a contemporary work called "Elemental"; and a splashy tango finale.
At a recent rehearsal in Midtown, Mr. Gold, who is 43, spent time polishing these works with his dancers, who include City Ballet principals Abi Stafford, Tyler Angle and Robert Fairchild, as well as American Ballet Theatre soloist Simone Messmer.
More than anything, though, the studio time revealed what is clearly Mr. Gold's secret weapon: 73-year-old Wilhelm "Willy" Burmann, a master ballet teacher whose venerated class at Steps on Broadway draws a cross-section of the city's ballet dancers.
Mr. Burmann's official title with Tom Gold Dance—"artistic associate"— does not indicate his true function: He's the muscle. "Don't just step back—PUSH," he quietly barked at Devin Alberda, whose day job is in the corps de ballet at City Ballet, as he executed a simple walking backward step that led to a diagonal pose.
Mr. Gold initially brought in Mr. Burmann, a tall, angular figure with a strong German accent, for an extra layer of authority and artistic cohesion. "When I started out 12 years ago," he said, "I was really working with my peers. I was dancing at that time, too. So I couldn't be out front with that objective eye."
Though he has now fully made the transition off the stage, Mr. Gold has continued to call on Mr. Burmann, who remains a draw for younger dancers. Amanda Hankes, a City Ballet corps member who has worked with Mr. Gold for about three years, said: "Tom throws a lot of choreography at you fast, but it's great for those of us who don't get to work with Willy often. I've been able to dance [Balanchine's] 'Apollo' and be coached on it."
When the company is on the road, Mr. Burmann leads a morning class and a pre-show warmup, and he helps perfect the choreography.
"It holds the group together," said Mr. Gold. "He believes in the same style I do."
That cohesion wards off the fatal flaws that often plague pick-up troupes. "A lot of times people think of these side-trips as easy," said Ms. Hankes. "Usually, you do your own warm up or a dancer leads it."
It is Mr. Burmann who smooths those bumps and bridges different styles of training: "I've known Tom for years because I have been taking Willy Burmann's class for a long time," said Ms. Messmer. "I've gravitated to certain dancers and movement quality, and a lot of them have trained with Willy."
Putting those dancers together fulfills Mr. Gold's vision for building a company with a clear point of view. "If you have a mish-mosh and it's all over the place, people are confused," he said. "I want the audience to be entertained, and I want the dancers to look good."
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Russia on Saturday paid a rare tribute to the seminal role Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov played in exposing communist rights abuses as it marked the 90th anniversary of his birth.
The 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner died in 1989 as the regime he spent nearly three decades fighting went through its final throes.
But the man whom the Soviet system stripped of all titles and banished into exile is primarily remembered in modern Russia as the father of the hydrogen bomb.
There is no statue commemorating Sakharov's humanitarian legacy or state organisation carrying the memory of his name.
The opposition New Times weekly conducted one recent poll showing that most young Russians know of Sakharov as a nuclear scientist -- a fact highlighted in history textbooks.
Yet the state media took the unusual step Saturday of recognising Sakharov as the man who sacrificed his name and career to reveal the frightening faults of the communist system.
"His relations with the authorities were not simple," Channel One television admitted on its website.
"For many, he remains a moral guidepost, an example of honour and principle," it said.
The network -- run by the state just as it had been in Soviet times -- planned to air a special film on Sakharov about his personal life.
The RIA Novosti news agency called Sakharov "one of the leaders of the human rights movement who was strongly opposed to the Soviet forces' invasion of Afghanistan."
It also identified him as someone who bitterly fought the authorities and "laid out the principles of the state's democratic reform."
The anniversary comes at a sensitive political time in Russia. The country is approaching a March 2012 election in which either President Dmitry Medvedev or his mentor Vladimir Putin -- a former employee of the KGB -- can run.
Medvedev has used past occasions to highlight his more liberal leanings and recently played up a link between his modernisation efforts and Tsar Alexander II's decision to emancipate the serfs in 1861.
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One of the large ones I used to know had two bouts of bloat. I don't see that dog in the park anymore so I don't know if anything "happened" to him.
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People with allergies can sometimes tolerate an animal they spend a lot of time with. But not another animal of the same type. You might find whatever dog you get, even a non shedding Labradoodle, might still require some build up before your SO could tolerate it.My SO has been suggesting a labradoodle. Her sister owns one and my SO has been around the dog for long periods of time with no allergic reactions.
AS to whether a Labradoodle really would be one of the non-shedding ones, obtaining the dog as an adult would allow you to determine that. Plus, an adult could run with you as soon as you can build it up to the running you do. You'd have to wait till a puppy is 18 to 24 months old, depending where you run. I know you didn't say you were looking for a puppy, just saying, just in case.
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If anyone gets a chance to read up on the history of how Los Angeles grew to become a massive metropolis, take the opportunity. Interesting stuff. The shenanigans around the battle for the Owens River are particularly dramatic.
Although it's fictional, Chinatown is also a great movie about Los Angeles and the battle over water rights.
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An exciting new project opened in 2014 in the grounds of St Catherine's Hospice.
The Mill is a welcoming cafe open to all, and also provides information and light-touch therapies to support people affected by life-shortening illness – helping them to live better and more independently with their condition.
The idea is that by working in this way, St Catherine's is able to help people sooner and empower the community to help themselves and each other. We can also continue our relationship with patients who have been discharged from other hospice services and provide continuity for those who are bereaved.
Meanwhile the café and the room hire opportunities are generating vital funds to be ploughed back into the hospice. It is also hoped the café – which serves everything from coffee and pastries to afternoon tea and full meals – as well as the range of activities which will be hosted there, will attract many new supporters who might not otherwise have known about St Catherine's.


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Using Whole Grains
Using whole grains as either a porridge (cooked), blanched or soaked to soften them is common in many countries. Not only does the use of cooked whole grain improve the nutritional value of the bread, but cooked or partially cooked grain helps the bread to stay moist for much longer. The grains also give the bread a sensational flavour.
I'll be going into detail in future articles, but grains like rice, oats, millet, wheat, barley, rye, spelt and quinoa all make great additions to bread, using the 'cooked' method that follows.
You can also use the 'blanched' method for all of the above grains, and use it also for linseed, sunflower kernels, pumpkin seed meal, nut meals, semolina, rye or wheat grits, kibbled wheat or rye, and even wholemeal flours.
Simpler still, you can make a 'soak' for things like pearled barley, rolled oats, or some of the above grains and seeds - depending on the texture you wish to achieve in the final bread.


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There is a huge difference between biodiversity and monoculture tree plantations. Biodiversity consists of a rich diversity of plants, fungus, animals, birds, insects and microbes.
Therefore it is very disturbing that humanity has been rapidly removing Earth's prime mixed forests in favour of monoculture plantations and fast short-term large profit schemes for a few.
A clear distinction between monoculture plantations and natural forests is needed.
Another harmful impact of monoculture plantations is the large quantities of agrochemicals that are often used on them. This causes considerable contamination and deterioration of soils and watersheds and has serious negative impacts on human health in rural communities. The local and indigenous communities that live in the vicinity of forests are very important because they are the natural forest stewards. It is thus disturbing that many plantation companies have violated the land rights of indigenous peoples. The plantations are often restricted areas that provide no benefits or natural resources for the local communities.
The fact that forest restoration and preservation is required is unquestionable. Yet caution is required in the application of this.
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Helping "light green" consumers walk the talk: Results of a behavioural intervention survey in the Swiss electricity market
While many consumer surveys show very positive attitudes towards renewable energy, the share of consumers actually purchasing green electricity is still in the single-digit percent range in most countries. What can be done to help consumers with positive attitudes towards green electricity to "walk the talk", i.e. to behave consistently with their preferences? We developed a psychological model based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to design a large-scale behavioural intervention survey with 1163 Swiss electricity consumers. Our results show that by providing information targeted at the key factors influencing the intention to purchase green electricity, namely attitudes towards purchase, social norms and perceived behavioural control, a significant increase in green electricity market share can be achieved. Our results show that price is not the only barrier to purchasing green electricity, and that information to increase the perceived benefit of buying green electricity as well as targeted communication to overcome inertia among retail electricity consumers are equally important factors.
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Global stocks were catapulted to record highs on Thursday following the Federal Reserve's "dovish hike" which rekindled investor's appetite for riskier assets. Asian shares have traded mostly higher today as participants digest the Fed's caution to future rate increases with the bullish domino uplifting European equities. With risk-on being the new name of the game in the short term, Wall Street may stroll into further gains moving forward.
Although the impressive stock market rally has displayed repeated signs of resilience against political risk and uncertainty this quarter, participants must remain diligent as some fragments of a bear market still linger. A situation in the future where investors start to lose faith over Trump's pending fiscal stimulus plans could be the start of a steep market selloff.
Dollar punished by Doves
The Greenback was exposed to sharp losses on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve signaled a more moderate pace of monetary tightening in 2017 than most investors anticipated. Although US interest rates were increased as widely expected, the cautious tone Yellen struck at the press conference coupled with the static projections on the dot plot has extinguished expectations of four US interest rates increases this year. Regardless of the sharp Dollar selloff, the bullish bias remains intact in the longer term and with "the economy doing well" as Yellen stated buyers may reappear once a support has been established. Technical traders may observe how the Dollar Index reacts to the physiological 100.00 support which could provide protection for the bulls or simply assist the bears if prices are breached.
Sterling bounces back to life, but for how long?
Sterling bulls were back in action on Thursday with the GBPUSD lurching towards 1.2370 following the Bank of England's unexpectedly hawkish signals on future interest rate increases. Although the monetary policy was left unchanged, the emergence of a lone BoE hawk coupled with concerns of rising inflation simply offered Sterling a solid boost. With speculations potentially heightening over other policy makers moving to the hawkish camp following the dissenting vote by Kristin Forbes, the Pound could be supported in the short term. Although the Central Bank has raised expectations for economic growth in the first quarter to hit 0.6%, this may be overshadowed by the Brexit developments in the medium to longer term.
While the current gains on the GBPUSD are impressive, it must be kept in mind that this has little to do with a change of sentiment towards Sterling but extreme Dollar weakness. Technical traders may pay very close attention to how prices react around the 1.2400 regions with weakness below opening a path back down towards 1.2200.


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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
vacation highlights
These are just a few of the many vacation photos that highlight some of my favorite moments of the trip. And while I live in one of the most beautiful places on earth, my heart will probably always live in Texas.
+ p.s. the armadillo and ducks on the riverwalk photo credits belong to my lovely mr.
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Had a lovely time with you and LJ. The ranch just isn't the same without you. ViVa Savannah!!
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I would love to take a vacation just like this place. It is really interesting, quite relaxing and worth exploring. :D
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March 2009
And speaking of new gear: the NAMM show in January defied gloomy expectations and served up a huge helping of new equipment for your drooling pleasure. Check out Part 1 of our 2-part show report in the March issue.
Also in this issue, ace producer Jeffrey Wood of Fantasy Studios in San Francisco gives us an enlightening interview on what it means to be a producer in today's music world. There's a lot to learn from this honored industry veteran.
All this plus a slate of cool reviews (one of which you can check out in full right here on the website), our monthly columns, Readers' Tapes, and much more. You can't afford to make mistakes when buying gear these dayslet the March RECORDING help you make the right choices!
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Britain is beating France at its own game with soaring exports of bubbly
BRITAIN is beating France at its own game with soaring exports of bubbly, the Environment Secretary will declare today.
Lizz Truss will speak to the Oxford Farming Conference on wine exports
Liz Truss has written to French Foreign Secretary Laurent Fabius, who last month warned of an "Anglo-Saxon plot" to dethrone France as the world's culinary queen.
Ms Truss will tell the Oxford Farming Conference: "Exports of English and Welsh wine are on course to break a £100million barrier this year, two-thirds of it in sparkling wine, as our confident producers take on the Australians, French and Italians at what was their own game.
"Beer exports are also breaking records, with more than a billion pints of beer sold abroad for the first time. That means growing demand from brewers for high-quality British barley and hops."
Last year, Sam Lindo of Cornwall's Camel Valley Wines was on a shortlist of three to be International Sparkling Winemaker of the Year and only lost to long-established French champagne specialist Charles Heidsieck. Kent wine maker Chapel Down also exports its sparkling wine worldwide.
France is increasingly worried about its status as the world's leading culinary nation. Last month Mr Fabius launched what he called a "gastrono-diplomacy" drive, including plans to promote French cuisine in its embassies.
Ms Truss will tell the conference: "We have rediscovered that connection with our food with a vengeance.
"Over Christmas, I wrote an open letter to Laurent Fabius. France is worried that Anglo-Saxon food could be threatening its own culinary status and is planning a worldwide food campaign of its own.
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Cruz is right. Legally mandating that a certain percentage of fuel used be ethanol is a bad idea for several reasons:
First, mandating ethanol means more land must be plowed to grow corn for fuel. The Department of Energy estimates that if corn ethanol replaced gasoline completely, we'd need to turn all cropland to corn -- plus 20 percent more land on top of that.
Second, requiring ethanol fuel raises the price of corn -- bad news for consumers who must pay more for food. [Emphasis added.]
For someone who claims to be a pro-market libertarian, Stossel is being incredibly dense with his point that requiring ethanol will increase the price of corn. In the short run, it's likely that the price of corn will increase, but it in the long run it will likely revert to normal levels. Put simply, markets respond to incentives. If corn prices go through the roof, more people will look into growing corn in order to capitalize on the higher prices. As supply increases, prices will drop, and the market will correct itself to a more stable price level.
What's concerning about Stossel's point, though, is that a libertarian is arguing against a policy on the basis of price stability. Any libertarian with a basic knowledge of American political history in the 1970s would know that price stability was the main reason for Nixon enacting wage and price controls. As such, libertarians embrace price dynamism as a feature of the marketplace, as it enables the rapid dissemination of information based on a single signal: price.
Thus, Stossel's complaint about government regulation being bad for consumers makes about as much sense as complaining how a drought in Iowa is bad for consumers. Sure, there might be a sharp, immediate jump in prices, but the market will sort it out eventually.
The root of the issue, though, is that Stossel still fancies himself as a consumer advocate, and he clearly believes that the market is better at taking care of consumers than the government. The problem with this entire approach is that it assumes that consumption is the purpose of life, which is why consumers need an advocate. While consumption (whether of food, drink, entertainment, etc.) is a fact of life, it is not the purpose of life, nor is it the basis of economic success. Production and capital are the basis of economic success; excess consumption is the result. As such, it is simply ass-backwards to approach any economic question from the perspective of consumption.


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Full of lemon flavor, moist, dense, and rich.
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Mint and Berries come together in this crunchy cereal.
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This flavor is all about purple. Purple drank & purple juice combined to make the ultimate grape vape.
Despite the best worst name ever, this juice really delivers. Nice lemony inhale with a good cakey exhale. It doesn't have that pledge chemically taste that I've found in other lemon juices. I DIY and its one of the few juices I'll still order. And 50ML for $20 isnt a bad price at all.
This was one of the others I liked from the giveaway. It's a nice lemon cake blend.
The lemon was true lemon, and not overpowering . The cake was a nice flavor that rounds it out.
Not perfect, but good!
This was the best of the six I recieved as a prize on reddit.
This stuff nailed the grape! It's like grape koolaid and Concord grape had a baby. Very tastes stuff, but it also had a chemical taste that was ever so mild.
Personally, I liked it. I found that the chemical taste added a needed bite. Normally that would be a con, but hey, taste is subjective!
Milk and almond? Sounds good!
However, I found this underwhelming. The almond wasn't all they, I got other nuts, mainly peanut. I think hazelnut was also mentioned, and it's slight.
It reminds me of a coffee vape but it's off. This juice was also a bit harsh... Not my thing.
Everything Orange is what they said!
It's very... Very orange. Maybe to much orange. I know what they were aiming for, but it tastes chemically and harsh. Some other fruit could have helped to round it out IMO.
I answered a trivia question on reddit and was gifted sample bottles of several flavors.
The company seems to have good customer service. I haven't purchased from them, however ship times were fast, and although I didn't care for the product a lot, their juice seems fairly affordable and might appeal to certain audiences.
Twisted has an easy to navigate website with some nice sampler offerings. They ran a great sale which is why I originally bought from them. Regularly, their juices are moderately priced at about $0.50/mL. The juices came shipped in sealed plastic bags with child-proof caps. The labels are beautifully designed and really high production quality. The bottles could definitely be sold in a store, as opposed to some vendors which seem to print their labels on an inkjet in the back. They don't offer much in way of VG/PG ratios: only two options. They also could offer more flavor choices.
Have ordered from these guys once - they put out a special for a FREE 15 ml of Mili Vanili (I paid shipping) and then also included a free sample of Vanilla Cloud. Can't really get much more generous than that. Both flavors are good, though I prefer Vanilla Cloud. Order was mailed out quickly with tracking and arrived in a couple of days. I don't know if it's standard or what, but they also included a scratcher card for prizes which I thought was a sweet touch. Can't comment on their customer service because I didn't need to approach them, but based on their generosity I would imagine it's good!


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Sync Center cannot delete temporary files
I recently tried out the Sync Center but found it would not meet my needs (i.e. cannot specify another location or partition to store the offline files). So I've decided not to use it however it had already sucked down about 22GB from my NAS and won't give it back.
I've tried disabling offline files and after a reboot I have not regained any space.
I've tried clicking delete temporary files on the disk usage tab of the offline files dialog. it runs through a list of the files in the storage saying it is removing them and then says completed removing offline files. but when I check the space has not been reclaimed and opening the offline files again still shows 22GB used.
I've tried "View your offline files" and selecting them and clicking delete. Shows a delete progress bar and then completed but still the files persist.
any suggestions please?
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Windows 10, Home Clean Install
Very possibly,if you try backup and restore from a time prior to Sync Center, you may be restored to your original files. If that does not work, I would try a system restore from a time prior to your problem. I am fairly sure one of these remedies will work.
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Without going through all the details and hours I spent struggling to make this stupid program cough up about 21GB of consumed space and still having misc. data lost in that black hole I finally found a solution that worked perfectly for me. If you want to turn off offline folders permanently follow this:
- disable offline folders using the manage offline folders from sync center (requires reboot)
- Open an elevated command prompt (right-click, run as administrator)
- Type these commands:
cd %systemroot%\Windows
takeown /f csc /r /a /d y > NUL
icacls csc /grant AdministratorsF) /t /l /q
- Delete folders under c:\Windows\CSC
Got this from: Need to delete \csc Folder, "Access Denied" even in safe mode - Vista Forums
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The government moved to reverse a federal judge's Friday order that lifted the travel ban and warned the decision posed an immediate harm to the public, thwarted enforcement of an executive order and second-guessed the president's national security judgment.
Friday's ruling prompted Trump to denounce the "so-called" judge in a series of tweets on Saturday.
The appeal now goes to a three-judge panel which can act at anytime to uphold the order or suspend it pending a full appeal. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment beyond the filing.
Seattle US District Judge James Robart's ruling barred the administration from enforcing the sweeping order that also indefinitely barred Syrian refugee admissions and prompted large protests across the United States.
Trump, whose personal attack on Robart went too far for some who said the president was undermining an institution designed to check the power of the White House and Congress, said he was confident the government would prevail.
"We'll win. For the safety of the country, we'll win," he told reporters in Florida.
Robart's ruling came in a case brought by the state attorney general of Washington State and was backed by major state employers Amazon.com Inc and Expedia Inc.. The lawsuit is one of several now filed against the Trump executive order around the United States, but it was the first case leading to a broad decision that applies nationwide.
The Justice Department appeal criticized Robart's legal reasoning and said the state of Washington lacked standing to challenge the order and didn't identify any legal defect in the order.
State lawyers worked around the clock last weekend against the backdrop of turbulent scenes at US airports, where immigrants were detained by federal officials unprepared to implement the president's directive.
The US State Department and Department of Homeland Security said they were complying with Robart's order and many visitors are expected to start arriving on Sunday, while the government said it expects to begin admitting refugees again on Monday.
A decision to reinstate Trump's order could again cause havoc at US airports because some visitors are in transit, as was the case when the order took effect on Jan. 27.
As the ban lifted Friday, refugees and thousands of travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen who had been stopped in their tracks last weekend by the executive order scrambled to get flights to quickly enter the United States.
The panel that will decide whether to immediately block the ruling includes three judges appointed by former Republican president George W. Bush and two former Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama.


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Severin 45 Cracked
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Severin 45 Cracked, John Powers Severin was a comic-book artist whose work ranged from the anarchistic satire of Mad and Cracked magazines to the gritty heroics of "Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos."
Severin, who died Feb. 12 at age 90 in his Denver home, worked until he was 89, when he drew an issue of "Witchfinder Lost and Gone Forever" for Dark Horse Comics that was published this year.
During a career of more than 60 years, he gained a reputation for attention to detail and historical knowlege that made his work a resource for other artists striving to capture period costumes and arcana, said comic-book and television writer Mark Evanier.
"Jack used to always say if you ask Johnny Severin what a soldier's belt buckle looks like, he draws you an army," said Evanier, who wrote "Kirby: King of Comics," a biography of comic-book creator Jack Kirby.
Severin's six children knew that their father's work routine — and attitude toward his kids — bore little resemblance to those of other fathers in the Long Island neighborhood where they grew up, said daughter Michelina Van Gemert, 56.
"He was always home, and he always had discussions with us. There was no subject we wouldn't discuss," she said. "Other kids didn't see their fathers until they came home from work. They didn't have conversations with their fathers. I would come home from school and say, 'I need to do a paper on the Peloponnesian War,' and my father would say, 'I have three books on it.' "
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ManVsBeer (2059) Hebden Bridge, England | November 19, 2013
Just a few doors along from 'The Florist' with a similarly young clientele in a similarly trendy older styled pub with very little room to maneuver inside, this one perhaps edges any competition between them because of its slightly superior drinks selection (however its worth visiting both if you are in the area and are able to). This ground level bar occupying a corner on a road and alleyway path it has a nice vibe to it and doesn't take too many people to fill it up when the popular drinking nights come around as its a fine place to sup. They also do a good line in pie and mash if you want to eat. Ales are on row by the pillar in the middle of the bar and rotating guests feature here.


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Five years have passed since we first began giving back to our community through the ICLS Ambassador Program. A program which has grown dramatically through each referral to Plastic Surgery by ICLS. It has become and integral part of our culture and is something we are extremely passionate about. Relying on happy patients spreading the word of their ICLS experience gives us the ability to support local cancer research endeavors reach their ultimate goal.
We are eternally grateful to all of our amazing ICLS Ambassador's, as this year's contribution could not have been possible without you. This year, the ICLS Ambassador Program will be donating to a deserving organization called:
A non-profit network of professional volunteer childcare providers helping mother's with cancer. Providing free relief childcare for these deserving mother's so they are able to focus on their health and recovery.


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This fitness machine Shoulder Press Machine in the series of Hydraulic Line machines is part of a special round training. The machine is designed to strengthen with maximum efficiency and safety and without straining of joints. The whole series of Hydraulic Line machines operates on the principle of oil dampers, which provide stable resistance throughout the range of exercises. Shoulder Press Machine is a machine for complex strengthening the shoulder muscles and arm muscles. Its robust construction ensures stability during exercise and soft padding provides the necessary comfort, which makes the use of this machine very comfortable. Seat with a sturdy backrest is equipped with a wide, moisture-resistant upholstery. Resistance of the machine in both directions of movement is provided by a hydraulic damper adjustable to six levels of difficulty. The entire frame is then fitted with a coating with improved resistance to scratching and peeling. Because the machine does not strain the articular apparatus, Shoulder Press Machine is ideal for recovery training and daily intensive workout.
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- zero resistance at the beginning ensures easier start of the movement
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- stable resistance of the hydraulic damper in both directions and in a full range of movement
- does not strain joints
- suitable for the purpose of recovery and intensive workout
- safe exercise even without professional supervision
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- weight: 35 kg
- upholstery colour: orange (pumpkin)
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In George Bush and his Marxist Handlers, an article in The Spectator [ page 44 on 5 November 2005 - a significant date for Parliament and Guy Fawkes ] John Laughland tells us that
George Orwell is rightly credited with predicting a great deal, yet it is an indication of how far leftwards the West has travelled that his key prediction is often overlooked. Orwell saw that the Cold War would end on the basis of a convergence between communism and capitalism — the very predicament in which we now find ourselves. At the end of Animal Farm the farmer, who symbolises the capitalist West, returns to the farm and plays cards with the pigs, who symbolise communism. The shivering creatures outside 'looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which'.
He brought us the idea of New Speak.
Wonder whether you can tell the difference between the life styles of Bush, Blair, Chirac and Vladimir Putin with their bodyguards, multiple luxury homes and apparatchiks fawning on them. I can't.
George Orwell went to Eton but grew to hate the Empire and hate communism even more. He was disliked by other socialists because he told the truth. Letting the cat out of the bag is not a socialist technique. Nineteen Eighty Four does just that.
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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. Noted as a political and cultural commentator, as well as an accomplished novelist, George Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century. He is possibly best known for two novels written towards the end of his life, in the 1940s; the political allegory Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, which describes a totalitarian dystopia so vividly that the adjective "Orwellian" is now used to describe totalitarian mechanisms of thought control. Orwellian describes a situation, idea, or condition that George Orwell identified as being inimical to the welfare of a free-society. Often, this includes the situations depicted in his fictional novels, particularly his political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bengal Presidency (present-day Bihar), in British India.[6] His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of the Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of plantations in Jamaica.[7] His grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair, was a clergyman.[8] Although the gentility passed down the generations, the prosperity did not; Eric Blair described his family as "lower-upper-middle class".[9] His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service.[10] His mother, Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.[7] Eric had two sisters: Marjorie, five years older, and Avril, five years younger. When Eric was one year old, his mother took him and his older sister to England.[11][n 1] His birthplace and ancestral house in Motihari has been declared a protected monument of historical importance.[12]
In 1904, Ida Blair settled with her children at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit in mid-1907,[13] they did not see the husband and father Richard Blair until 1912.[8] His mother's diary from 1905 describes a lively round of social activity and artistic interests.
The family moved to Shiplake before the First World War, where Eric became friendly with the Buddicom family, especially their daughter Jacintha. When they first met, he was standing on his head in a field. On being asked why, he said, "You are noticed more if you stand on your head than if you are right way up."[14] Jacintha and Eric read and wrote poetry, and dreamed of becoming famous writers. He said that he might write a book in the style of H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia. During this period, he also enjoyed shooting, fishing and bird watching with Jacintha's brother and sister.[14]
At the age of five, Eric was sent as a day-boy to a convent school in Henley-on-Thames, which Marjorie also attended. It was a Roman Catholic convent run by French Ursuline nuns, who had been exiled from France after religious education was banned in 1903.[15] His mother wanted him to have a public school education, but his family could not afford the fees, and he needed to earn a scholarship. Ida Blair's brother Charles Limouzin recommended St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, East Sussex.[8] Limouzin, who was a proficient golfer, knew of the school and its headmaster through the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club, where he won several competitions in 1903 and 1904.[16] The headmaster undertook to help Blair to win the scholarship, and made a private financial arrangement that allowed Blair's parents to pay only half the normal fees. In September 1911 Eric arrived at St Cyprian's. He boarded at the school for the next five years, returning home only for school holidays. He knew nothing of the reduced fees although he "soon recognised that he was from a poorer home".[17] Blair hated the school[18] and many years later wrote an essay "Such, Such Were the Joys", published posthumously, based on his time there. At St. Cyprian's, Blair first met Cyril Connolly, who became a noted writer and, as the editor of Horizon, published many of Orwell's essays.
As part of school work, Blair wrote two poems that were published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard.[19][20] He came second to Connolly in the Harrow History Prize, had his work praised by the school's external examiner, and earned scholarships to Wellington and Eton Colleges. But an Eton scholarship did not guarantee a place, and none was immediately available for Blair. He chose to stay at St Cyprian's until December 1916, in case a place at Eton became available.[8]Burma and afterwards
After finishing his studies at Eton, having no prospect of gaining a university scholarship, and his family's means being insufficient to pay his tuition, Eric joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He resigned and returned to England in 1927 having grown to hate imperialism, as shown by his novel Burmese Days, published in 1934, and by such essays as "A Hanging", and "Shooting an Elephant." He lived for several years in poverty, sometimes homeless, sometimes doing itinerant work, as he recalled in Down and Out in Paris and London, his first major work. He eventually found work as a schoolteacher, but ill health forced him to give this up to work part-time as an assistant in a second-hand bookshop in Hampstead, an experience later partially recounted in the novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
Eric Blair became George Orwell in 1933, while the author was writing for the New Adelphi, and living in Hayes, Middlesex while working as a schoolmaster. He adopted a pen name in order not to embarrass his parents with Down and Out in Paris and London. He considered such possible pseudonyms as "Kenneth Miles" and "H. Lewis Allways" before settling on a name that stressed his lifelong affection for the English tradition and countryside: George is the patron saint of England (and George V was monarch at the time), while the River Orwell in Suffolk was one of his most beloved English sites. Blair also thought that a last name beginning with the letter "O" would best position his books on bookseller's shelves.
Between 1936 and 1945 Orwell was married to Eileen O'Shaughnessy, with whom he adopted a son, Richard Horatio Blair (b. May of 1944). She died in 1945 during an operation.Spanish Civil War
In 1936, Orwell went to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War as part of the ILP Contingent. This roughly 25-person contingent joined the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), which fought alongside the anarcho-syndicalists against Franco's fascist army. The POUM Marxists should not be confused with the right-wing Communists, who worked hard to undermine the leftist POUM. By his own admission, Orwell joined the POUM (as opposed to the Communists) by chance; however, he grew to passionately prefer the POUM position over time. During his military service, Orwell was shot through the neck, and barely survived. In order to recuperate, he spent six months in Morocco. His book Homage to Catalonia describes his experiences in Spain.
World War II and after
Orwell began supporting himself by writing book reviews for the New English Weekly until 1940. During World War II he was a member of the Home Guard, for which he received the Defence medal. In 1941 Orwell began work for the BBC Eastern Service, mostly working on programmes to gain Indian and East Asian support for Britain's war efforts. He was well aware that he was shaping propaganda, and wrote that he felt like "an orange that's been trodden on by a very dirty boot." Despite the good pay, he resigned in 1943 to become literary editor of Tribune, the left-wing weekly then edited by Aneurin Bevan and Jon Kimche. Orwell contributed a regular column entitled "As I Please
In 1944 Orwell finished his anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm, which was published the following year with great critical and popular success. The royalties from Animal Farm provided Orwell with a comfortable income for the first time in his adult life. From 1945 Orwell was the Observer's war correspondent and later contributed regularly to the Manchester Evening News. He was a close friend of the Observer's editor/owner, David Astor, and his ideas had a strong influence on Astor's editorial policies. In 1949 his best-known work, the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published. He wrote the novel during his stay on the island of Jura, off the coast of Scotland.
In 1949 Orwell was approached by a friend, Celia Kirwan, who had just started working for a Foreign Office unit, the Information Research Department, which had been set up by the Labour government to publish pro-democratic and anti-communist propaganda. He gave her a list of 37 writers and artists he considered to be unsuitable as IRD authors because of their pro-communist leanings. The list, not published until 2003, consists mainly of journalists (among them the editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin) but also includes the actors Michael Redgrave and Charlie Chaplin. Orwell's motives for handing over the list are unclear, but the most likely explanation is the simplest: that he was helping out a friend in a cause — anti-Stalinism — that both supported. There is no indication that Orwell ever abandoned the democratic socialism that he consistently promoted in his later writings — or that he believed the writers he named should be suppressed. Orwell's list was also accurate: the people on it had all, at one time or another, made pro-Soviet or pro-communist public pronouncements.
In October 1949, shortly before his death, he married Sonia Brownell. Orwell died in London at the age of 46 from tuberculosis, which he had probably contracted during the period described in Down and Out in Paris and London. He was in and out of hospitals for the last three years of his life. Having requested burial in accordance with the Anglican rite, he was interred in All Saints' Churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire with the simple epitaph: Here lies Eric Arthur Blair, born June 25th 1903, died January 21st 1950.
Orwell's son, Richard Horatio Blair, was raised by an aunt after his father's death. He maintains a low public profile, though he has occasionally given interviews about the few memories he has of his father. Blair worked for many years as an agricultural agent for the British government, and had no interest in writing.
George Orwell's work
During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in books of reportage such as Homage to Catalonia (describing his experiences during the Spanish Civil War), Down and Out in Paris and London (describing a period of poverty in these cities), and The Road to Wigan Pier, which described the living conditions of poor miners in northern England. According to Newsweek, Orwell "was the finest of his day and the foremost architect of the English essay since Hazlitt."
Contemporary readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The former is an allegory of the corruption of the socialist ideals of the Russian Revolution by Stalinism, and the latter is Orwell's prophetic vision of the results of totalitarianism. Orwell had returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and anti-Communist, but he remained to the end a man of the left and, in his own words, a " democratic socialist".
Literary influences
Orwell claimed that his writing style was most similar to that of Somerset Maugham. In his literary essays, he also strongly praised the works of Jack London, especially his book "The Road." Orwell's descent into the lives of the poor, in "The Road to Wigan Pier," strongly resembles that of Jack London's "The People of the Abyss," in which London disguises himself as a poverty stricken American sailor in order to investigate the lives of the poor in London. In his literary essays, George Orwell also praised Charles Dickens, and Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick. Another of his favourite authors was Jonathan Swift, and, in particular, his book Gulliver's Travels.
Quotations from George Orwell
"The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States." Notes on Nationalism, May 1945.
"The Spanish war and other events in 1936–37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." — From the essay "Why I Write" [1]
"Plenty of people who are quite capable of being objective about sea urchins, say, or the square root of 2, become schizophrenic if they have to think about the sources of their own income." — From the essay "Antisemitism in Britain" [2]
"What purpose is served by saying that men like Maxton are in Fascist pay?... It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy." — From "Homage to Catalonia" (1938).
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". — From Animal Farm (1945).
"One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up." — From "Manuscript Notebook," (1949).
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." — From the essay "Notes on Nationalism" (1945).
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting." — From the essay "The Sporting Spirit" (1945).
"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear". From the Preface of Animal Farm The Freedom of the Press
"There are families in which the father will say to his child, 'You'll get a thick ear if you do that again', while the mother, her eyes brimming over with tears, will take the child in her arms and murmur lovingly, 'Now, darling, is it kind to Mummy to do that?' And who would maintain that the second method is less tyrannous than the first? The distinction that really matters is not between violence and non-violence, but between having and not having the appetite for power." From the essay "Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool" (1947).
"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy".
"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength." From Nineteen Eighty-Four.


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