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Good Questions: Attractive Storage for Twins' Stuff?
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I just reclaimed space in my kitchen bookshelf by putting my 4 year-old twins' stuff in their room. Now I'm looking for good ways to store their stuff. I want the storage to be either invisible or attractive, and easy for them to manipulate. Any ideas?
Thanks, Erica
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Dear Erica,
There are some really attractive and well-designed storage options for kids, including DWR's Cubits modular storage boxes, which can be stacked in different configurations and made more "invisible" by adding doors. SF's Giggle also sells a line called Jax, which we like for its softness (see the storage tower and the toy box. Also try DWR Jax, Offi Kids, Netto Collection, Magis Me Too, Stokke, and stores that specialize in well-designed contemporary furniture for kids like Giggle, Modernseed, Kid's Supply Co, and ModernMini.
In the "invisible" category there are plenty of options that will work in a space-constrained environment. A great one: light-weight under-bed bins with handles and wheels or casters. Kids can easily roll them out and push them back. We like Stacks and Stacks' Under Bed Carts, which don't have lids and so are even easier to access.
Collapsible canvas or mesh cubes with handles are also great for kids' rooms because they're light-weight and see-through, and they can be hung from low hooks in a closet when not in use. We can suggest the Container Store's, which come in pink, blue, black and white.
Other thoughts or ideas out there?
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The only problem with the kind of chest illustrated here, is the lid can slam down on kids' hands severing their fingers. A 'light weight' lid as far as an adult is concerned, may still irreparably damage a child.
Also any tower that can be pulled down on them, or fall when they try to climb it.


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The 1 Percenters Who Act Like Scrooge...and the Ones Who Don't
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It's holiday season, and mean-spirited misers abound. GOP legislators have Dickensian plans for the 99 percent, aiming at shredding our social safety nets, undermining our healthcare, and making us pay for the financial crisis created by reckless financiers. Naturally, they decry even a modest income tax surcharge on millionaires, channeling Scrooge-worthy logic to justify their worship of Big Money at the expense of everyone else.
Meanwhile, JPMorgan Chase honcho Jamie Dimon, the highest paid executive among the six biggest and most dangerous banks, whines that he doesn't deserve our ire: "Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it," said Dimon, whose 2010 take totaled $23 million.
Let us help you understand it. We don't hate you because you're rich, Mr. Dimon. Americans actually tend to admire people who make lots of money and, say, contribute useful things to society and promote the public good. Witness the recent outpouring of love for Steve Jobs. No, we itch for our pitchforks because you are greedy. You want to horde everything at the top and you refuse to acknowledge that you have any responsibility toward your fellow Americans. In fact, the way you make your money makes you look like a public menace. You dealt in risky derivatives and mortgage schemes that helped tank the global economy. You defrauded your investors. Your bank has even had the gall to foreclose on military families. Back in October, thousands of us stood outside your swank apartment on Park Avenue holding signs and telling you in plain English why your statements that bank regulations are "un-American" and such are both stupid and harmful. But apparently the message didn't get through. I guess we'll have to keep coming back until you do get it.
There are plenty of 1 percenters who support Dimon's view of the world, in which crushing ordinary people in the name of greed is something to be applauded.
But not all. And, like Warren Buffett, whose op-ed " Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" sent shockwaves through the country back in August, they are becoming more and more vocal. Philadelphia lawyer and philanthropist Dan Berger, a member of the Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, has been hitting the airwaves and writing for months explaining why current tax policy unfairly favors the rich -- and why that's dangerous for everyone. Berger is concerned about the social pathologies and dysfunction created by the concentration of wealth at the top, and worries that we have unlearned the lessons of the Great Depression -- the last time such concentration devastated the country. "We are in a golden age of the cult of wealth," he warns. "Economic, social, and political life by, of, and for the one percent is an old story in the history of world civilization--one which inevitably ends badly."
Over the last decade, incomes for the richest 1 percent of Americans grew faster than that of any other group. CEO pay has soared 300 percent since 1990, while that of the average worker has risen a paltry 4 percent. If 1 percenters can't be convinced that such disparities are morally wrong, Berger suggests they conjure up some " enlightened self interest" in order to grasp what might happen if society becomes further unbalanced. He sees the Occupy Wall Street movement as the mere "tip of the iceberg."
Billionaire hedge fund manager Jim Chanos has also gone public expressing his support for Occupy Wall Street and his objection to tax policies weighted toward the 1 percent: "I have a problem with private capital asking for lower tax rates on certain forms of income that I believe are income, not returns on capital, than say teachers, soldiers, fireman and policeman." Chanos explained to AlterNet why 1 percenters who can't see why Americans are angry are seriously out of touch: "They say we live in an 'aspirational society,' but many of those in the 1 percent accuse the Occupy Wall Street movement of class warfare and bemoan the fact that the president dubs them millionaires and billionaires. Well, I'm pretty sure most of the 99 percent would still aspire to be called the same thing!"
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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - The man who once fought for the District 83 State Representative seat now makes his endorsement for one of the runoff candidates.
"We are here today for me to endorse Delwin Jones in this run off for House District 83," says Zach Brady, former Dist. 83 Candidate.
Lubbock attorney Zach Brady says he supports incumbent Delwin Jones, especially after the State Ethics Commission launched an investigation into the other candidate, Charles Perry's, campaign.
Brady says honesty and integrity is of the utmost importance in a candidate.
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Teaching … is essentially a transformational activity, which aims to get students to take charge of their learning and to make deeply informed judgments about the world. This book also challenges us to examine the institutional conditions that support or undermine this more ambitious view of teaching. In this sense, it urges a transformation of the conditions of teaching.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership.[xi]
— David A. Garvin, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, 8.
If active learning is such a good idea, why is it so seldom seen?
Powerful forces sustain the traditional teacher-centered approach to education. For simplicity, these forces can be grouped into three general categories: political and institutional barriers, epistemological barriers, and practical barriers.
[Question: which category of barriers are you most interested in removing?]
- Political and institutional barriers. Administrators perceive active learning as an expensive proposition (i.e. small, intimate classes and low student-teacher ratios). [This can be solved with good design. How do you get active learning with large group of students? Start by hiring a good architect.] Incentives often point in the wrong direction: they elevate research over teaching, or suggest that little is to be gained by excellence in the classroom. Experimentation with unfamiliar teaching methods takes time, and, especially at secondary schools, time and energy are at a premium. Most instructors are already spending long hours, both in and out of the classroom, grading papers, preparing exams, reviewing lesson plans, and meeting with students. They have little time left for wholly new efforts, or for the emotional involvement that is required in active learning. This approach demands a willingness to meet students on their own terms and to get to know them as individuals; both responsibilities exact a heavy emotional toll. Moreover, school systems and state universities are often subject to tight centralized control, with governing boards that dictate content and regulate instructional practices by imposing standardized tests or uniform requirements. In such settings, the traditional teacher-centered approach is clearly the path of least resistance for many instructors.
Students are often equally uncomfortable with the new approaches. From the students' perspective, active learning is risky: it requires a change in roles and responsibilities, but with an uncertain payoff. Especially where these methods are rarely or partially practiced, students tend to resist their introduction, fearing that they will learn less in their classes. After all, the argument runs, if the teacher speaks less, isn't less information being conveyed? And won't learning be correspondingly reduced?
- Epistemological barriers. Followers of the traditional model and believers in active learning hold fundamentally different assumptions about knowledge, the learning process, and the role of education. On the surface, the disagreement appears to be about the day-to-day details of classroom management; in reality, it reflects opposing premises and educational philosophies. Thus discussion is confused, the underlying issues are obscured, and resistance to the new model persists because it is far easier to change methods than it is to alter fundamental assumptions and beliefs.
What are the core assumptions of the teacher-centered model?
What are the core assumptions of the student-centered or active learning model?
- sees information transfer as the primary goal of education;
- assumes that facts and concepts can be learned without experiencing or directly applying them;
- insists on the primacy of content and subject matter
- regards the classroom as the instructor's private preserve (not open to observation or criticism)
- instructors are the hub around which the classroom revolves
- focuses on skill development, the integration and use of knowledge, and the cultivation of lifelong learning;
- wary of "inert ideas … that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations." (Whitehead)
- gives equal weight to process and classroom climate
- sees teaching as important enough to be subject to the same standards of oversight, assistance, and review as scholarly research
- grants students far more authority and autonomy than in the traditional model
There are more epistemological barriers: the Pygmalian Effect (Rosenthal). What you get from students is what you expect. Instructors who were told that their students were unusually talented produced better results than instructors who were told that their students were average or mediocre, even when there was no real difference in student mix. Apparently, instructors were communicating their prior expectations through inflection, tone, and nonverbal behavior, and students were responding in kind.
Similar results are likely when instructors merely go through the motions of active learning. Students will quickly sense a teacher's lingering doubts; and absence of real interest in their comments, perhaps, or an uneasiness when some point in the lesson plan does not emerge spontaneously in a discussion. If the instructor lacks faith, students will wonder why they should trust themselves to an unfamiliar and unproven approach.
- Practical barriers.
- EVALUATION. It is difficult to measure and document the success of this approach, especially over the short time span that most schools, colleges, and universities use for evaluative purposes. Many of the desired objectives—creativity, willingness and ability to continue learning, enthusiasm for education, greater personal initiative and self-direction—emerge slowly and tentatively over time; they are hard to detect with the usual standardized tests.
- LACK OF CLEAR PRECEPTS FOR PRACTICE. Teaching of this sort is exceedingly hard to do. It requires a shift in the role, preparation, knowledge, and skills of instructors. Yet relatively few reformers have dealt with such operational matters, or have translated their lofty goals into the gritty details of classroom management. For the most part, they have argued educational philosophy, rather than effective implementation.
- LACK OF PRECISE TERMINOLOGY, a vocabulary for talking cogently about the teaching process
- MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS about active learning persist, for example, the view that active learning is identical to the Socratic method, that student-centered discussions are unstructured bull sessions, that active learning eliminates the instructor's responsibility for mastering content, or that facts cannot be communicated successfully using this approach.
Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys … [yet] there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what pupils have learned.— John Dewey, How We Think, 35.
— David A Garvin, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, 4.
…the most eloquent critiques of the teacher-centered approach date back to such master vintners as John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Jean Piaget, and Carl Rogers. Their concerns are as timely today as they were when they first appeared.
Objections to the traditional model can be grouped into three broad categories: cognitive, philosophic, and pragmatic.
- Cognitive concerns arise because of the shakiness of the traditional model's assumption that students can assimilate and retain information independent of its use. A number of studies have found that, when lecturing is the dominant mode of teaching, students forget as much as 50 percent of course content within a few months. … Retention, it appears, increases markedly when learning is solidly anchored in the experience and interests of students.
- Philosophic objections. The traditional model implies that the primary goal of education is information transfer. Facts, theories, and modes of analysis must be communicated so that each generation can build upon the successes of its predecessors. According to this view, knowledge lies at the core of learning, and that knowledge is best transferred from experts to novices via lectures.
Lectures are an extremely efficient method of transferring information. Even with low retention rates, they are a powerful tool… But lectures are of only limited value if the goals of education go beyond information transfer. The development of clinical judgment, the formation of critical skills, the shaping of artistic sensibility—such achievements are difficult to nurture through lectures. Preparing students to think independently is an enormous challenge. And if the goal of education is to help students grow as individuals and forge their own identities, the teacher-centered model has even less appeal. Rather than immersing students in learning opportunities, it floods them with facts. All too often, the result is loss of interest and deadening of curiosity.
- Pragmatic objections… Many students don't like it. Students today are distressingly disaffected with formal education. For many of them, class time is more of a chore than a delight.
The improvement of teaching and learning in universities is an important matter. Its purpose is not only to provide students with a more pleasant and rewarding educational experience, but also to prepare them to take charge of their own learning and to participate in a society in which learning is a cooperative more than a competitive act.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xix.
The aim of teaching is not only to transmit information, but also to transform students from passive recipients of other people's knowledge into active constructors of their own and others' knowledge. The teacher cannot transform without the student's active participation, of course. Teaching is fundamentally about creating the pedagogical, social, and ethical conditions under which students agree to take charge of their own learning, individually and collectively.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xvi.
— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xv.
The ethical dimensions of teaching, David Garvin argues, usually take the form of dilemmas that require decisions but have no obvious right answers:
- valuing divergent questions versus keeping the discussion on track,
- acknowledging right answers versus encouraging deliberate discussion,
- publicly revealing students' flawed reasoning versus correcting students' understanding
- capitalizing on an individual's feelings for the purpose of making a good teaching point versus respecting the individual's personal stake
Teaching, it seems, is a struggle for mastery not only of content and craft, but also of self. Learning to teach is, in important respects, learning to view one's own knowledge and expertise as instrumental to others' learning, rather than as something to be displayed.
Good teaching, in the ethical sense, enables students to engage in intellectual discourse, to learn how ideas are shaped and used, and to articulate those ideals clearly. Knowledgeable teachers often slip into defining teaching as knowing and telling it all.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xv.
Practitioners of occupations requiring complex strategies of estimation and decision making acquire a large portion of their practical knowledge from observing and interacting with other skilled practitioners. … Although the social dimension of learning is critical to practical application of knowledge, we construct formal learning in schools and universities in ways that discourage social interaction. We emphasize individual cognition over social interaction, abstract manipulation of symbols over concrete application in practical settings, and generalized learning over applications in specific social contexts. As a consequence, learning in school becomes progressively isolated from the kind of learning that affects people's competencies in real life. The problem for teachers is not whether students will learn when they are not in school. People are inveterate learners. Rather, the problem is how to construct learning in school so as to maximize its influence over learning in the world.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiv.
…the acquisition and application of knowledge are fundamentally social acts.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiv.
Discussion teaching, as defined and practiced by the authors, is essentially a systematic way of constructing a context for learning from the knowledge and experience of the students, rather than exclusively from the canons of disciplinary knowledge.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiv.
Hence, when Roland Christensen argues, in his essay on questioning, listening, and response, that students should take collective responsibility for determining the direction of the discussion, and that teachers should enable that responsibility, he is acting on a belief that learning occurs when students actively form the relationship of new knowledge to its intellectual and social context.
— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xii.
One insight from the current research is that all learning is contextual in at least three senses:
- new knowledge is acquired by extending and revising prior knowledge;
- new ideas acquire meaning when they are presented in a coherent relationship to one another; and
- knowledge becomes usable when it is acquired in situations that entail applications to concrete problem-solving.
These three meanings of context set a frame of reference for thinking about effective teaching.
Current research on human learning has converged on a few key ideas about the nature of learning and their consequences for teaching. These ideas are remarkably parallel with what the authors of these essays have discovered by studying their own teaching. In describing their experience with discussion teaching, they have tapped into a broader set of ideas that could have far-reaching consequences for the way teaching and learning are conducted in our society.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiii.
The distinction between conventional pedagogy and discussion teaching also raises the question of what teachers should know about how students learn. Conventional pedagogy is essentially ideas about teaching disconnected from ideas about learning. To teach is to convey information; thus teaching consists of organizing and communicating content. We discover whether students have learned by seeing how well they are able to report back what we have told them; how they learn is not our concern.— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xiii.
To the authors of these essays, on the other hand, knowledge of teaching depends on understanding how students learn. To teach is to engage students in learning; thus teaching consists of getting students involved in the active construction of knowledge. A teacher requires not only knowledge of subject matter, but knowledge of how students learn and how to transform them into active learners. Good teaching, then, requires a commitment to systematic understanding of learning.
David Cohen sums up conventional pedagogy as follows: 'Teaching is telling, knowledge is facts, and learning is recall.' (1989) …— Richard F. Elmore, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership, xii.
In this [other] conception of teaching, the roles of teacher and student are easily reversible. Students teach each other, and they teach the teacher by revealing their understandings of the subject. Teachers learn by this process, not only by being exposed to students' understandings of the subject, but also by steadily accumulating a body of knowledge about the practice of teaching.
In this view, teaching is enabling, knowledge is understanding, and learning is the active construction of subject matter.


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South Florida Dentistry for Children takes pride in our local community.
We are always happy to donate items for your school or charity function. All we need is two weeks notice and a receipt from your organization. We also believe in giving back to our community by supporting local sports teams, area schools, churches, synagogues, and area organizations. Some of the organizations we have worked with are:
Relay for Life, Coral Springs Panthers, Parkland Soccer, GBYSA, Spirit of Giving Network, Cardinal Gibbons High School, Coral Springs Academy of Dance, Westminster Academy, Panda Parents, Inc., SOS Children's Villages, Florida Singing Sons Boychoir, Gold Coast Youth Orchestra, Parkland Flag Football, Coconut Creek Hawks Baseball, High 5 Basketball, Dynasty Basketball, South Florida Stingrays, Coral Springs Renegades Soccer, South Florida Crush, Coral Springs Lacrosse League, Camp Jenny, Camp Boggy Creek, Park Vista High School Lacrosse, Coral Glades High School Volleyball, Boca Raton High School Football, Spanish River High School Cross Country, YMCA of Parkland, Coral Springs Forum's Community Picnic and Egg Hunt, McNab Elementary School Yearbook, Chabad of Parkland, Girl Choir of South Florida, Hillel Day School, Women's Club of Mary Help of Christians, Coral Springs Charter School Cheerleading, People to People Ambassador Program, Sandpiper Shores Elementary Super Science Symposium, West Boca High Band, Coconut Creek Elementary PTA, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Baseball, Softball Association of South Florida, Boca Raton Fast Pitch Softball Association, Margate Pinto Baseball, Team Boca Soccer, Coral Springs Winter Baseball and many more.
As a community service, we have a preschool and elementary school program, where we will come to your school for a presentation. We pride ourselves in having a fun and interactive program for children, which includes information on going to the dentist, tooth brushing and flossing, healthy snacks and drinks, and dental safety. All students receive a goody bag at the end of the presentation. If you are interested in hearing more about this free program for your students, contact Susan Daly, RDH at 954-752-7651x220 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. In addition we are able to participate in career day at your school. Some of the schools we have visited are:
St. Joan of Arc Kindergarten, Schaeffers Preschool Academy, Children in the Spirit, A Kids World Academy, Broward College Preschool, Footprints Preschool, Bright Minds Preschool, Glades Christian Academy, Mary Help of Christians Preschool, St. Ambrose Preschool, Coconut Creek Academy, First United Methodist Preschool, Pompano Preschool, Oxford Academy, Village Methodist Preschool, Chabad Hebrew Academy, Discovery Preschool, Cypress Preschool, Kiddie Academy, Hunt Elementary, Coral Springs Community School, Amanda's Place, Somerset Pines, Circle Time Preschool, Calvary Christian School, McNab Elementary School, Abundant Life Christian School, Westchester Elementary School, Coral Springs Community Church & Dayschool and many more.
We also visit Mommy and Me groups. Our talk focuses on development of the teeth, oral care for infants and toddlers, nutritional guidance, and safety. This is a fun and informative session for Moms (and Dad's too!). Information will be given on when to start dental care, feeding habits, sippy cup use, good snacks vs bad snacks. Contact Susan Daly to schedule a talk.
If your Daisy or Brownie troop is interested in an office tour or a presentation at one of your meetings. We are happy to accommodate you. We also invite small preschool groups of 10 children or less to visit our office for a fun, informative tour.
New Building
Yes, what you have heard is true! South Florida Dentistry for Children, P.A., will have a new home by the end of 2014! After forty-one years of providing the Coral Springs community with comprehensive dental care from our office in the Village Square Shopping Center, we have outgrown our space. We will be moving into a brand new facility just in time for our forty-second anniversary!
Here is a bit about the timeline:
Ground breaking took place in December 2013
The building will take approximately 9-12 months to complete. We are anticipating a November 2014 completion date.
And a bit about the building features and benefits:
- It will be located on the SW corner of 101 Avenue and 31st Street (10188 NW 31 Street).
- The services and professionals you are accustomed to, in an updated space
- Key West style architecture
- 10 dental treatment chairs
- Private, dedicated patient consultation space; Every dentist chair has a view
- Approximately 4,760 square feet
- Modern, eco-friendly interior and exterior materials
- Digital Radiography
- Updated sterilization center
- Completion estimated for November of 2014
- Interior design by Practice Design Group
- Exterior architectural design by LM Architect Associates, Inc.
- Construction by JCI Development Corp.
South Florida Dentistry for Children has been in the Village Square Shopping Plaza, since 1974, and in its present space since 1978. "Our current building has seen multiple renovations and expansions, but with the growth of our practice and advancements in technology, we really have outgrown the old space." said Dr. James Bennett." "The goal of our practice is the same today as it was forty-one years ago, when the practice was first formed, to provide professional, courteous and technically innovative dental care. Our patients deserve the best, and this new facility will provide just that."
"This new building will provide our patients with the latest in dental technologies, allowing for faster procedures and better patient flow." said Dr. Bennett. "Many of our patients are second-generation South Florida Dentistry for Children patients and we want to continue to provide the same quality care South Florida Dentistry for Children is known for, for generations to come."
South Florida Dentistry for Children, P.A.
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A variety program filled with various segments such as studio songs, outdoor sequences, dances, comedy skits and two game segments; Mothi Vilaiyaadu and Kavikalam.
Hosted by Uthayam stars, Kishore and Haymalini, the show aims to merge the old with the new. Various artistes spanning from the stars of the yesteryears to the young rising stars will be featured in this program. It will also provide interesting info nuggets about the entertainment scene and industry in Singapore.


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Kindly reposted from The RecruiterGuy aka: Chris Hoyt. For more on Chris and Social Recruiting follow his blog here and @therecruiterguy.
A few months ago I was asked to provide my thoughts on an article being written byJeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd in an upcoming edition of People & Strategy. The title was "Five Myths and Realities When Considering Using Social Media Inside the Company"
As it's been recently published, I thought I'd push to you those 5 Myths that were presented and my response that followed. I'd encourage everyone to grab the complete article (linked below) as there were a few others included within the responses that did a great job summarizing their thoughts on the topics. I wonder where you might come out on the following…
- Social media is a time waster at work and should be banned.
- Social media is a fad and will fade away in a few years.
- If you build it, they will come…
- My employee population is too old to deal with social media for learning.
- Social Media is difficult to measure in terms of a return on investment.
All great topics and presented nicely by Meister and Willyerd who co-authored the book, "The 2020 Workplace" – a book I'd highly recommend that anyone check out.
Let's Concentrate on Managing the People
Ms. Meister and Ms. Willyerd write an interesting article with many great points related to the validity of social media taking a somewhat permanent residence within our various working generations. To be clear, however, the definition of "social media" is communication built upon a platform that allows for the contribution and exchange of user-generated content. While Facebook has risen to become a giant among social channels, it certainly does not stand alone when considering the ever-growing need of people to collaborate and communicate on topics ranging from weekend picnics to billion dollar projects.
There are other social communication tools and networks that should not be ignored and are considered social in nature. In fact, many of them have been around and in use for years. Tools and platforms like Lotus Notes released in 1989, allow for threaded discussions and the collaboration of any number of projects. Today Lotus Notes offers features very similar to other products, like Microsoft's SharePoint, that include blogs, Wikis and seamless calendar and e-mail integration and are being rapidly adopted around the globe. These were never deemed "scary" or "time wasters," because they were typically limited to internal company use and did not include surveys to help you discover what type of Disney Princess or virtual Farmer you might be.
What is typically a mainstream social network can be surprising as well. Twitter, a micro-blogging service that allows for 140-character updates, rocketed into popularity throughout 2009. And while at a glance Twitter may seem to some as a silly collection of ramblings, many companies are seeing incredible success using it to offer service and/or sales options to their customers. Are employees venting about their noisy cubical neighbors? Sure. But they are also connecting with peers to work on various projects or even using advanced search features to connect with talent within their professions.
And it doesn't end with Facebook and Twitter. MySpace is still a contender for highly trafficked social sites, and so are more professionally driven social networks like LinkedIn. The broad range of networks isn't necessarily about niche topics either. We have an almost endless list of sites and forums from which to select because of a growing demand for constant communication in the formats that users desire.
My role at PepsiCo is to push the boundaries related to how recruiters find and engage top talent internally and externally. I get to see the creation and evolution of countless social networks and how they impact people and business. One thing is always constant: No matter the name or the appearance of the network and regardless of its casual or professional adoption rate, ease of use drives its evolution or demise.
I think that…Smart and savvy companies have moved past anxiety over social media and network phenomenon and have embraced their use for more than just customer interaction.
Incredibly valuable organizations, such as the Social Media Business Council and Word of Mouth Marketing Association, move to help educate (via collaboration!) both large and small companies about social media for business. I'm of the opinion that the companies that adapt the demands of their employees to fit their business needs and that concentrate on managing the people, not restricting the media channels, will see increased productivity, quality and even employee retention in the long term.


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Dear Marvel Comics,
On Friday evening, I was watching Talk Dirty To Me, the 1980 porno classic from the tail end of that era when adult movies had plots and were shot on film and occasionally had weird artsy pretensions and were just in generally, totally awesome. Anyways, some time during the second sex scene, the lead actor John Leslie, all tanned and hairy and kinda like all hunchback-y and shit while he was banging it out, totally resembled Wolverine and I imagined a very awesome one-shot wherein Logan, for some reason or another, is involved in the 70s porn industry.
I'm thinking he loses a card game and refuses to pay so they drug and kidnap him. Like, it's all kind of against his will and the comic is him, weeks or even months later, returning to the porn scene to get revenge on the schlockmeisters who did this to him. So, we'll have this procedural comic with like, these flashbacks of Logan on the set or hanging out with these 70s porn actors partying it up and "acting" in the movies, if you know what I mean. There will be, within the flashbacks, a sub-plot where he has an intense romance with a porn actress who is sweet and kind but troubled and as a result, won't leave the industry. It's intended to reflect the doomed romance with Mariko from Wolverine 1-4.
It ends, after lots of investigating (imagine Paul Schrader's Hardcore only Wolverine's in it), with Wolverine finding the dudes who kidnapped him, and walking in on them making another movie (the movie they are making should be American revolution-themed and the comic should take place in 1976) and he throws them around and shit and then, the porn actress chick he had this intense emotional relationship grabs him by the arm and stops him. They share a look and he puts his claws back in and and just walks away. FIN.
It is important that this is serious but playful and that it doesn't devolve into really stupid "snuff" or abuse porn territory. The porn guys are icky, but they aren't evil or sickos, you know? That's why there's the super convoluted aspect of Logan losing a bet and them kidnapping him. Like, it's gotta have a real laid-back 70s vibe.
I've thought about the artist and while my first thought was the rather obvious Milo Manara, the truth is Manara works best when he can actually do pornographic work and X-Women suffered a great deal from the fact that like, it didn't just devolve into all the character naked and doing it with one another. Then I considered Ariel Olivetti because that would just be pretty crazy, but like most modern comics artists, he suffers from making all his women the same. Richard Corben is the only guy who could do it right because despite he's attuned to body types of the past and he's really good at like, making things gritty and creepy and weird. He'd capture the serious but sorta silly attitude that would be necessary for the comic.
Well, I hope to hear from you soon. I'm sure you will love my idea!
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My Honda CB1300 runs a standard rear tyre of 180/55 I would like to replace that with a 190 section, would that size tyre upset the handling in any way?
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bryfor59 says:
Hi, just wondering why you want to change the tyre size and why you would need to reset the suspension settings (re your other post) I had a CB 1300 myself up to about 2 or 3 years ago and found it handled great with original tyre sizes and factory suspension settings, (maybe there is a big difference in our body height and weight etc, of course? I am around 5'9" and 12st, fyi) I used full tyre and had to change blobs at least 2 or 3 times a year, I thought it was a great bike and loved it!
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MarcusMarsh says:
Changing your tyre will have an impact on the handling although you'll probably have to try it see what the effect is. It is unlikely to improve your handling. You may also run into clearance problems between the tyre and the swing-arm and also your chain. This would be to be carefully looked at before making the change. I would also question why you would want to do this.
The wider profile allows for more lean angle as confirmed by mcn experts on other threads but I wouldn't do it if it upsets the handling in any way.
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If you go for a wider tyre, you will need a shallower profile....
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The wider profile allows for more lean angle as confirmed by mcn experts on other threads but I wouldn't do it if it upsets the handling in any way."
Maybe? it might give you a better lean angle but you can only lean it till it grounds out and if you cant do that with your standard tyre cant see how a wider profile would make it any easier! (and fyi I did ground mine out regularly on standard tyre)
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'Don't mingle with the the openers, Frankie' they said.... 'They'll all probably fangasm over us' they said...
"Ow... My...Pride." I heard Mikey fake cough and looked in time to see him clutching his chest. I rolled my eyes at him.
"No Frankie. I don't want you getting lost or something." I jerked my arm out of his and slapped his hand away.
"I'm not a little kid anymore, Way." I said through my teeth. I opened the doors with the button on the wall and jumped down to the hard pavement.
Everyone around us was partying, getting ready for one of the hugest shows that was to happen in about an hour and a half. One of the other buses caught my attention, which drew my eyes to her.
The bus had a huge flag painted on the side. It was horizontal stripes layered white on top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom. It looked familiar.
And the girl in front of it made my mouth drop. I hadn't seen anyone from the opening bands, thanks to the guys, but she caught my attention pretty damn fast.
She was standing in front of a group of people setting down, playing a violin. I couldn't hear it from here, so I wandered in closer, trying to blend in.
As I got closer, I actually saw her. She was pale as snow, her cheeks rosy under her black and red fringe which she shook out of her eyes. Her arms were as white as her neck and face, her nails painted a bright, blood red.
She looked up as the little...stick thingy slid along the strings, making a sweet hum come out of her instrument. Her eyes were a flat, icy blue.
The eyes of a blind person. She saw me, though, and smiled. Her lips were as red as her nails, her teeth gleaming pure white against them.
Something about her mace me get even closer. Her fingers shook on the strings, making the sound vibrate. "Okay, is all you get da? Run along now everyone! Kysh!" she waved her hands.
The small group dissolved. She grinned at me. "Zdravstvuyte malenʹkiy" she said as she put her violin back into it's case. "Hello." she laughed at my dumbfounded face.
"Hi." I blushed. she picked up the case with both of her hands like it was weighing her thin arms down. "I'm Frank Ie-" she laughed softly.
"I know who you are." she smiled. "I am known Albina." she said it Ahl-bee-nah. She set her case back on the ground and put her hands on my shoulders.
She kissed each of my cheeks once, making me blush slightly. She stepped away from me after a second. Her eyes made me feel cold, like I was standing in the middle of a blizzard.
"I.....like your playing." I said after a second, mentally kicking myself. Smooth!
"Spasibo." She put the tips of her fingers to her mouth. "Thanks, I mean." she said, her face a little redder now.
I grinned. "No worries. I think that's cool." I looked at the bus again. "What flag is this?" I asked, nodding to it.
She raised her head. "Is the flag of my homeland. Is the Russian flag." she said proudly. I nodded.
"Cool. So what kind of band are you exactly?" I asked. "I mean, you're pretty awesome on the violin, but this isn't exactly a classical music kind of place." I shrugged.
"You never know what we Russians can do, da?" she laughed. "Don not worry, Frank Iero. You shall see exactly what kind of band we are soon." I saw movement over her shoulder.
A tall, thin man came over to her, touching her shoulder. "Vy pochti gotovy?" he said softly. I blinked at them.
"Da." he nodded and looked at me. His eyes were almost as blue as hers. "Frank, this is Akim. He is my friend." she smiled. Akim grinned, his face softening little.
"Privet." he kissed my cheeks as well, making my jaw fall slightly. "Ey! Alexander! Podoydi syuda na sekundu!" Albina ducked her head slightly, looking at the ground.
A shorter boy who looked like he could sort of fit in around here came around the bus and looked at Akim and Albina. "Da?" He asked, his voice soft and musical. He was the opposite of Akim, who towered over him.
His face was soft and rounded, but defined, the line of his jaw and chin sharp. His black hair looked like he'd just straightened and done it, but it was so shiny I doubted he had. In all, he looked normal, his body average.
Albina seemed nervous though for some reason. "Ah. Privet!" for the second time, some strange man kissed my cheeks. "I am Alexander." he smiled at me and I was blinded.
He's so pretty. Like a girl. "Hi. I'm Frank Iero." he laughed.
"I am well aware of who you are friend." he grinned. I blinked. "Would you like to meet the others of the band?" he asked.
"Sure?" I wasn't too sure. Not if all of them were going to kiss me.
"Ey, rebyata, vykhodite syuda!" he shouted in Russian, I was guessing. A girl was first around the bus's end. She looked like a mini Albina, except her hair and clothes were different.
Albina wore a thin black shirt and and tight dark grey pants. The girl was in a short red skirt and a black tank, her long arms covered by black and white striped long fingerless gloves.
"Privet!" she giggled. "I am Zoya." she hugged me tightly, her thin arms hard with muscle I wasn't expecting.
The next around the bus was another boy. He seemed too young to be in a band, but when I saw his arms, they were covered in muscles. His eyes, unlike the others, were a deep green. "Privet." he said softly, crossing his arms and leaning against the bus.
"Hi?" I waved at him. He didn't seem to care. A second boy came around, looking just like the other, only with different hair.
"Don't mind my brother." he patted the first. "Privet. I am Valentin. And my brother is Bogdan." he stood next to Bogdan and said something in his ear.
Both wore black shirts and baggy black pants, their hair the only difference I could find. Valentin's was a lighter blond where Bogdan's was a soft brown. Both were a normal haircut, parted the same way. "Ey! Renata!"
A tall girl came around the corner, her short hair standing on end. "Chto?!" She looked at me, her eyes black. She was even prettier than Alexander.
But was nowhere near Albina. Her face looked like a doll's. Soft features, a small, pouted mouth and a small, softly sloping nose. "Privet." her pink mouth formed the word.
She went back to teasing her purple hair with a comb. I looked at the simple outfit she wore. A black shirt and purple skinny jeans. "You all should e getting ready. We go on in an hour." she said to the others as she went back around the bus.
"Da. Do svidaniya" The twins left with Akim and Renata. Zoya, Alexander and Albina were still here.
"Excuse them. They're not used to talking to anyone off of the bus or fans." Alexander smiled. "These two are a bit more tame than Renata, though." he laughed.
"Yeah, I can tell." I smiled. Alexander smiled at me for a moment.
"But, she's still my sister." he sighed. I blinked. "And she's right. I'll be heading back now. Don't take to long girls. Do svidaniya, Frank." he smiled at me.
"Bye." I waved. Albina finally looked up. "You okay?" I asked softly. She nodded.
"Are not!" Zoya giggled. "Alexander told Albina that he loves her and now wherever we're not on stage she ignores him." Albina pushed Zoya.
"You shouldn't go around saying things like that sister!" she shouted. I looked at them. Yeah, they could be sisters. "Go get ready!"
"Konechno veshchʹ mamoy." Zoya laughed, skipping out of her sister's reach and around the bus.
Albina growled and sighed. "That damn girl..." she shook her head. "But what she said is the truth." she sighed again. "He asked me to marry him but I....." she shook her head again.
I put my hand on her shoulder. I felt like I was already her best friend, even though I only met her thirty minutes ago. She looked at me, her eyes full of tears.
"Just tell him you don't like him like that." I said easily. "It's better than leading him on." I smiled.
"Okay." she swallowed hard. She looked over her shoulder as the bus started to rock a little. "I have to go." she leaned forward and kissed my cheek. "You should watch our set. You'll understand better. Do svidaniya, Frank." she said softly before she picked up her violin and walked around the bus.
I touched my cheek before I turned to head back to our own bus. It felt like I was floating rather than walking.
"You look like you're high." I heard Mikey laugh as I got dressed and did my hair for the show. I was first ready and it was the fastest I'd ever done it.
I ran off the bus with my guitar, making the others shout at me in confusion. Getting to the back of the stage was easy enough, and I looked at the dark, empty space before me. "Made it." I panted.
Suddenly, there was movement in the dark. I squinted and still couldn't tell. The crowd went silent in an instant. The light blazed to life and focused on the stage.
Everyone I had met was there, standing like statues. On the far side of the stage, I saw Albina and Zoya. Albina had two sticks in her hands, and suddenly, there was a bell like sound filling the air.
And with every ding, the others started to move. When it stopped, they exploded. Albina, Zoya and Renata were all singing in the same high note while the twins destroyed the beauty with their screeching bass and guitar.
Akim sat behind the drums, his hands moving so fast they blurred. And Alexander stood in front of the main mic, his hand closing around it.
And he sang. My heart stopped at the sound. It was nothing like his voice. And in Russian.
Albina picked her violin up off of the ground quickly, her voice filling the air as she hit a high note that made my throat hurt. And then Zoya was playing the flute, dancing around on her toes.
And Akim was playing the soft beat she danced to. Albina was so soft in her playing, I hardly heard her. But, sure enough, she was playing under Alexander's singing.
Until the song built back up into sweet metal. Then she was heard loud and clear, her hands dancing.
Zoya danced around her, her flute pointed out and down like it was a wand. The song wound down a little and seemed to end, only for them to burst with a sudden fury into another verse, the girls singing to loudly with Alexander I had to cover my ears a little.
And then it was over. My heart was racing, even though I hadn't understood one word of the song. The crowd was screaming so loud at that point I had to take a deep breath to keep from panicking.
I bit my lip hard. Albina looked over at me, her eyes lined with black makeup and so icy blue they looked white. She smiled, her red lips parting.
After a second, I noticed what everyone was wearing. The twins and Akim hadn't changed their clothes, But Renata had put a black bow into her huge hair and stood easily with the guitar strapped over her shoulder.
Zoya had changed into tight red pants and her gloves were now red and black, matching her outfit perfectly. Alex had changed into a tight, button down black silk shirt and tight pants as well.
And Albina...still took my breath away. She'd pulled the red half of her hair into a pony tail and the black half was puffed up, her fringe clipped out of her eyes by a red bow with a skull in the middle. And she'd changed her shirt from a solid sleeveless back to a lace tank top, her red bra showing though without any trying.
She looked perfect. I watched their whole set. Even when Alexander took off his shirt and threw it over Akim.
He was BUILT. Like.....a model built. But I ignored him and watched Albina the rest of the time. When the set was over, she and Zoya ran over to me and hugged me tight. "You like it?" Albina asked me.
I nodded. Zoya danced off. "Did you tel him?" I asked her softly. She nodded. "And?"
"He took it well after I told him I was in love with someone else already." she said softly, not ducking her head as the others walked past her.
"Oh." I felt empty all of the sudden. "Whoever they are, they're lucky." I patted her shoulder. Her blue eyes locked on mine.
She leaned forward slowly. I closed my eyes in nerves. Her soft hair brushed my cheek. "YA lyublyu tebya." she whispered, her breath tickling my ear.
"What does that mean?" I asked. But she only pulled away silently and followed her band. She looked over her shoulder once at me and smiled.
"Do svidaniya." I heard saw her mouth move a second before the sound hit me. She turned and left the stage area into the dark parking lot.
A hand on my shoulder made me jump about a foot in the air. "Was she from Damaged Inside?" Gerard's voice made my heart slow down a little.
"If that's the Russian band, then yes." I said, not looking away from the door.
"Wow. She's cute." He stated. "Are they good?"
"Very." I still stared at the door.
"Well, it's our turn now. So focus." he shook my shoulders, making my guitar bounce against my back.
"Right." I ripped my eyes off of the black rectangle in the end of the hall and followed the guys onto the stage.
Through the whole set, I could have sworn I saw Albina in the crowd in the very back. And at the very end, I blinked my eyes and she was gone. Gerard grabbed my hand and pulled me off the stage. "What's up with you?" He asked me, pushing me against the wall.
"I have to find her. Ask what the last thing she said meant." I pushed him away and ran into the night. He didn't try to stop me this time.
I ran to our bus first and put my guitar down on the couch. Then I looked for their bus.
It had only moved a little, to circle up with the other buses. I ran straight to it and knocked on the black glass doors.
I waited for what felt like forever. And then they opened, Alexander standing there in glasses. "Can I talk to Albina?" I asked him before he could say anything.
"Da." he stepped back and waved his hand for me to come on. "They're just playing a song from the motherland." he said as I walked up the stairs. "Feel free to listen until they are done."
I stood by him in the front of the bus and watched. Bogdan seemed calmer now as Valentin plucked softly at an acoustic guitar and Albina played a soft tune.
Renata started to sing like an angel in front of me, her mouth opening gracefully. They all seemed so at home in the tight space. Akim and Zoya had their heads back against the couch as they listened, their eyes closed.
The air around them was so calm and peaceful that my usual post-show adrenalin rush had vanished into its own sense of peace. I felt the burning need to talk to her vanish in an instant.
I leaned against the wall as she played, her eyes closed. Nobody aside from Alexander even looked like they knew I was there.
Suddenly, I felt like I wasn't supposed to be here. I walked back outside and headed over to our bus.
I picked up my guitar from where I'd left it and placed it carefully on it's base. Somehow, I felt like I could hear the song all the way over here.
It made me feel heavy. I kicked off my shoes and headed into my bunk. Laying there, the curtain shut, I curled into and ball facing the wall and cried.
When I woke up, the bus was moving. I gasped and sat up, cracking my head on the bottom of Gerard's bunk. "Ah fuck!" I grabbed my head and fell back.
"You okay?" I heard Gerard ask. It seemed the others were all awake.
"Yeah." I sighed. The curtain flew open and light flooded in on me. I squinted into it and saw Gerard hunched over to look at me.
"Let me see. You could be bleeding." I sighed and rolled out of my bunk, standing in front of him.
"One time...." I sighed. His cool fingers touched the hot spot, making me flinch.
"Well, no blood." he said calmly.
"Okay Doctor Gerard." I pushed his hands away.
"Did you ever find her?" He asked, not moving.
"Yeah." I ducked my head.
"And?" He sounded jealous.
"And nothing. I didn't even talk to her." I said, looking back at him.
There was a long pause before his hand rested on my shoulder. "Don't worry about it, Frankie." He said softly. "I'm here if you need anything. You know that."
I nodded and he squeezed my shoulder before he got into his own bunk. Once he'd shut the curtain, I headed to the front of the bus and in front of the window.
My eyes drifted to the outside world. We were on a highway, the red tail-lights of hundreds of cars lighting it up. Directly to the left of us, I saw the Russian flag.
I focused on it. It was their bus. Her bus. Damaged Inside's bus. And, sitting in the window, was Albina.
Before she noticed me, I lay back on the couch and roll onto the floor. I crawled out of direct view and into the kitchen, getting down a cup to get some water.
I drank half of it and poured the rest out. "You guys, we need to do something. Mikey, come play a game with me."
"No." I heard the tired groan.
"I'll play. I can't sleep anyway." I heard Gerard get back up and come out. I smiled at my best friend.
After he beat me - many times - I finally quit and looked quickly out the window. Albina was still there. "Frankie?" Gerard asked softly.
"Yeah?" I whispered back. He was closer to me on the couch than I had thought.
"H-how do you feel about me?" he asked softly, apparently trying to not wake the others.
"How so?" I breathed. His hand rested on my knee.
"Don't freak out." He whispered. His lips touched mine. A kiss?
I kissed him back instantly, not sure what else to do. His other hand moved to my cheek as he leaned in closer.
Damn him. I gripped the front of his shirt and pulled him against me. "Damn tease." I growled in my throat, kissing him hard.
When I let him go for a moment to gather his thoughts, I quickly glanced out the window. Albina had been watching.
There were black lines down her cheeks. Had she been crying? Her red mouth moved and Alexander was there.
I gaped as she pulled him into a kiss. But I only had a moment to register this before Gerard took advantage of my open mouth and bit my lip.
A quiet groan ground out of my chest as he pulled me into another kiss, this one deeper. If she was still watching, maybe it was for the best.
They seem content over there. And we're just fine over here. I didn't want to disturb the peace of either bus.
Actually, from the way Gerard was touching me, we were more than just fine over here.....
Kysh - Shoo
Da - yes
Zdravstvuyte malenʹkiy - Welcome small one
Vy pochti gotovy - Are you almost ready?
Podoydi syuda na sekundu - come here for a second
Ey, rebyata, vykhodite syuda - Hey everyone come on out
Chto - What
Privet - Hello
Konechno veshchʹ mamoy - Sure thing mom
YA lyublyu tebya - I love you
Do svidaniya - Goodbye
If any of these are wrong, sorry! Google hates me
Super long, really random one for you guys. I mean, I REALLY have no idea where this came from. But the songs I used for Damaged Inside were Hetalia - Russia's Winter and I Met You, a Russian folk song.
Speaking of Russia, has everyone seen AlteredEgosInc's new video FROZEN? If not, you're dying inside.
So I'll help you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nnbHo58yB8&feature=g-user-p&list=PL1qWPhrz7bRMV9j1bkXEuQQQltkenR3zi That. That right there is pure awesomeness and wonderment.
And, not to freak anyone out, but I will be in one of the parts as a clone (my awesome fans who actually WATCH the video will understand what I mean. Hearts for you!!!!)
And the group is really good. So check out the rest of their stuffs and subscribe. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS PASTA SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!
Anyway, spaz moment done. JK!! Every moment with me is a spaz moment!
But in all cerealness, candy is amazing. So R+R and go eat some.
Hugs and Russians,
PS, if you are Russian and reading this, YA LYUBLYU TEBYA Spasibo za chteniye!!!!!!!!!


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I'm sorry I have been gone for so long. I had a kinked neck, heat rash and I still have a wild case of Eczema as seen above. That is just below my boob. Because of my sensitive skin I can't exercise at the moment. Since I can't exercise, I quit my journey altogether. But I am back! I can't exercise but my diets will be strict! (Taken with Instagram at My Bedroom)
I am allowing myself two Cheat Days instead of one (for now). I had to stop my diet recently because I had dizziness, nauseousness, disorientation and severe stomach pains. It was all because I shocked my body with my dramatic food change.
My new diet begins the day after tomorrow and so do my simple exercises. Why the day after tomorrow? Because I plan on eating pizza like a savage tomorrow. It will be the fair well to my fat ass.
Many people say you should not wait another second after deciding to lose weight. That you should go all in that very second. That is not helpful for me. My will power is at a 10/10! I eat it once, and then I let it go for about 2-3 weeks. If I go all in today and don't eat pizza tomorrow, I will fail! I will become miserable and that will lead me to give up and binge.
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I have a horrible update. I live in a second floor apartment. And the only reason I use to exercise was because there was no one living in the first floor apartment.
It appears my landlord has decided to move in some of his family members and/or friends to first floor. Meaning, my fast weight loss method of hardcore cardio is out the door. Why? Because if they complain about the noise I make while jumping around during my workouts, I can easily get kicked out because he will put his friends and family first. My parents and I can not afford that due to me being unemployed.
The first time I lost weight, my hardcore cardio method helped me lose 42lbs/19.09kgs in just a little less than 3 months! Hopefully I don't give up when I see that the weight takes forever to come off this time.
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With the Cowboys banged up, the Eagles look to be heading in to a win-or-go-home NFC East Division championship match-up in the final week of the regular season.
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Posted 27 April 2011 - 05:44 PM
I bought this as a filler on a NewEgg order once, and traded it to Amazon for $2. You have to have a microphone so it's unplayable as is.
Posted 27 April 2011 - 07:36 PM
Game really kind of sucks, got for $5 at Target. It isn't accurate at all, may be a fun drinking game but that's about it. Doesn't pick up tones correctly.
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Posted 27 April 2011 - 07:40 PM
horrible horrible game. If this was the ps3 or 360 version for $4.99, Id say get it just for the achievements/trophies. But as others said. Doesnt pick up tones correctly and no fun whatsoever.
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I know most psychology junkies know what the Five Factor Model (aka The Big Five) is, but I'll still make a post about it because I'll be referencing to The Big Five in later posts.
The Big Five
The Five Factor Model (most commonly known as The Big Five) is a frequently used method by many psychologists to reliably measure the personality traits of persons. The questionnaire itself is called Revised Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), and it measures the levels of Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. A way to memorize The Big Five is using the acronym O.C.E.A.N.
Openness to Experience
Persons who score high on Openness to experience tend to want new experiences, are curious, and usually creative. These are the "open-minded" people who are not afraid to look at things differently and who are not afraid to try new things. On the hand, persons who score low on Openness prefer things that are familiar to them, are unadventurous, and tend to be more traditional. These are the people who like to stick to a particular method or way of thinking because it has helped them in the past. They are usually conservative in their way of viewing things.
Persons who score high on Conscientiousness are organized, reliable, and responsible. These are the individuals you want to seek out when working on a group project. They are also very good at adapting to new authority. Persons who score low on conscientiousness are quite the opposite. They tend to be disorganized, irresponsible, unmotivated, and unreliable. These people are all over the place when it comes to setting priorities.
Persons high on Extraverson tend to be more outgoing and social. These are the persons who like to go to parties and are comfortable when interacting with others. On the other hand, persons low on Extraversion tend to be more reserved and prefer to have their alone time. (NOTE: Someone low on extraversion—an introvert—is not necessarily a shy person. Even though an introvert prefers to be alone, he or she may not necessarily have a problem interacting with others.)
Persons high on Agreeableness are the warm and caring individuals. They like other people and are usually interested in helping others. These are the people who like to do volunteer hours to help their community and usually like to donate money to charity. Persons low on agreeableness tend to be unconcerned about others, and it may be easier for them to get angry at others. They are usually uncooperative and uncaring of others.
Persons high on neuroticism tend to be anxious, insecure, and unhappy. These are the persons who have trouble controlling their emotions and are more susceptible to depression. Persons low on neuroticism are more in control of their feelings. They are calm, secure and happy. These are the people who are less worrisome and therefore stress less.
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Barring child pornography is clearly constitutional, the court ruled, but outlawing images that do not involve the use of real children violates the First Amendment rights of people in the adult entertainment industry.
The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal focused on wording barring sexually explicit depictions that "appear to be" minors or "convey the impression" that minors are being portrayed.
"We find that the phrases ... are vague and overbroad and thus do not meet the requirements of the First Amendment," wrote Judge Donald W. Malloy. ``The balance of the Child Pornography Prevention Act is constitutional when the two phrases are stricken."
The appeal was filed on behalf of The Free Speech Coalition, a group of adult filmmakers, publishers, distributors and others in the industry.
"Nobody is endorsing kiddie porn. But when you get into this language that's wide open like that ... that goes too far," said H. Louis Sirkin, who represented the plaintiffs. "Nobody wants to be subject to a rule based on what someone thinks someone looks like."
The U.S. Justice Department did not return a call Friday seeking comment.
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I have 3 boys and am constantly fighting with them about brushing their teeth. If I don't stand and supervise, I'll walk past to see them playing, or just holding the toothbrush in their mouth until the timer runs out. While I've always thought the spin brushes were just a gimmick, I finally broke down and "Santa" put them in their stockings. It's amazing how much that has simplified my life! Now I walk by and they are brushing away! They think it's so cool! And I can get back to making lunches, laying out clothes, and all the other things a busy mom of 3 has to do in the mornings. Ended up being a simple solution to make life a little more simple!


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Nice looking site, well laid out and good images too. There are a couple of minor issues.
I think 3rd person commentary on a single photographer website is a questionable technique. It can come across as pretentious and personally I would avoid it. If you do want to use it you need to be absolutely consistent and on your Saddleworth page you talk about "our photographs". On your 'About' page you revert totally to 1st person and talk about "my website".
If you intend this to be a professional site, rather than just a way to display your photos, you should consider whether a guestbook sends out the right message.
Quote: I don't like the third person approach either
Neither do I, same reasons as Ian. Is it a Photium thing? Does the sample / starter site do that?
You've done well to make a Photium site look fairly unique. Your pictures are great, let them do the talking.
Many thanks to you all for taking the time to look and leave a comment here, it really is very helpful and greatly appreciated!
Thanks Ian, Gav and Chris L for the input on writing in the 3rd person. On the 'about' page I had intended to leave a personal message signing it with my name at the bottom, leaving the rest of the site in the 3rd person, but I'm perhaps now inclined to make the whole site singular after your comments. Chris L, yes the Photium templates all have their homepage standard text in the 3rd person which is probably why many people copy that format, thinking it's the best thing to do (including me!).
Ian, I can see where you're coming from about having the guestbook. I think I'll leave it there for the time-being but will keep your suggestion in the back of my mind. At the moment and for many many years to come I'm not intending to solely be a professional photographer (I've only just finished being a student afterall!) but if it means getting the right image, then I will remove.
Thanks again! Charlotte
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Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending the NASFT Winter Fancy Food Show, hosted at the Union Square, in San Francisco. After attending this event I am now calling it the mecca of premium foods and beverages. The show truly captures the essence of some of the finest foods in the world. Three days of over 1,300 exhibits and samplings of more food than anyone person could even imagine to consume. I met some talented people who are passionate about what they do and their products.
One of my first stops of the day was at a little booth, by Tahitian Gold, the exhibit featured ground vanilla from the worlds rarest vanilla beans. This product can be used as an alternative to whole vanilla beans, making it convenient to get that fresh vanilla flavor with no nothing wasted. Their chef had prepared a delightful sauce that was so flavorful I actually licked the bottom of my cup to get the last drop! I was told that by using this ground version instead of the extract, the flavor is more intense and less is needed to please your palate. And judging by that sauce, I would have to agree.
As I continued to wander through the never-ending row of booths, I happened across Hak's BBQ. I am not an expert by any means, but having lived in Kansas City for almost a decade and then moving to Austin, TX… It's safe to say, I know a thing or two about BBQ. Chef Sharone Hakman developed his own product line of sauces, after being a contestant on MasterChef and blowing away Chef Ramsey away with his secret weapon sauce. Once I sampled shots of each of the three variations, I declared the Habanero Pineapple to be my favorite. It was sweet with just the right amount of kick. All three variations were tasty though. I am looking forward to making some brisket and trying it out soon!
During the show, I also encountered an incredible cooking demonstration where the featured Japanese chef was creating a lovely Brown Rice Salad. It was a beautifully sculpted tower of rice garnished with a mouthwatering sesame dressing. The plate was just as appealing to look at, as it was delicious. The ingredients consisted of brown and white rice, black sesame paste, Hijiki a type of seaweed and Itakonyaku, a type of Japanese food consisting of konyaku cut into noodle like strips. (Konyaku, was described as basically a Japanese yam or potato. It is very starchy and can be used to create flour or as a vegan substitute). The dish is super healthy and savory all at once.
I suggest tasting at all steps to be sure that you are adding the flavors to your liking. It is a gorgeous dish and very light, so would be a great post-appetizer, pre-entrée dish. You can find the recipe below.
Of course the show had so much more to offer, but I can't possibly go into detail about all of it. What I can say is this… 2013 will be a very exciting year in food and there will be new trends and products that will change that way that we consume and prepare our foods. I will be sure to share more fabulous products and recipes as I encounter them and would love for you to share your finds with me as well (email@example.com). Then maybe together we can stay in the loop on all the foodie trends.
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Im reading to many to list,:) But heres mine! Plz read!!!!
I know this is kind of off the topic, but I like the way Taruna calls us Twilight Family! Love this group :)
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|Being continually in people?s sight, by the satiety which it creates, diminishes the reverence felt for great characters.
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|Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
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|Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
|Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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|Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
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|Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
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|Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
– Sigmund Freud
|Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity.
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|Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
– Charles Kingsley
|Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
– Andy Warhol
|Being happiness doesn't a mean you got every things but it means you find a way to achieve your desire things.
– Prakash Adhikari
|Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
– Claude Lévi-Strauss
|Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
– George Orwell, 1984
|Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
– Samuel Johnson
|Being in love is not about how much love you have you start with but it is how much love you build till the end.
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Wow, you are right, you know IS's. I think the straight 6 may be more durable than the V6. What do you think?
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