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Chris wrote: "So I'm 22 and recently just graduated college. My sex life hasn't really been bad with girls overall. I've had a good amount of different sexual partners, like 15 or so and have had sex many times and usually it's no problem getting it up with them when I finally get there with them in the moment. But as I always find certain girls attractive, based on looks, personality, and whatever, I also just find feet attractive as well, like in addition to traditional sex and sex positions, but for the longest time I've been super insecure about it. After seeing your video about the actual defintions of kink and fetish I guess I would place myself somewhere in between, because I feel my thing sort of spans a range of different things. I've for the longest time jacked off to essentially foot worship of all sorts (it doesn't matter, girl's feet guy's feet), so I question whether I'm Bi. But racing around in my head, I always come back to the conclusion of I would never want to be with a guy, like in any sense, it creeps me out. So what is it?
Also, I've always longed for a good relationship with a beautiful girl who gets my personality but would also (this being my question out of all of this) worship/lick my feet… I think with all the searching I've done in my head… I think that what I have as my "thing" is just sort of a G-Spot on my feet. Like the sensation of licking there turns me the fuck on and like that's literally all it would take to have a good continuous sex life with a girl. I'm just so insecure about admitting that to someone I don't really know at the beginning and then nervous as to whether they would accept that. Like from a girl's perspective what do you think?
I've always been told by so many friends who are girls that I can get an absolute beauty of a chick, so after a while my self confidence has built and I believe that too, but there is just this as well. Also, this is just an aspect for the sex part of it, I too get turned on when I really click with someone. I have a really sarcastic, joking attitude a lot of the time, so when a girl is like that too, and then feeds it back at me, sort of making fun of me in a joking way, challenging each other, so that turns me on, too.
Anyway, my main thing is the foot thing I have and I would just be so grateful for an opinion from someone as understanding and open as you seem to be."
Liz says: It's actually not unheard of for people without foot fetishes to find stimulation of their feet in certain spots to be erotic, psychologically and physically. For you it's like having a "G Spot" in your feet, in which stimulation is simply arousing, but for this lady in the Netherlands it led to her experiencing (unwanted, inconvenient) orgasms. A lot of people have non-genital erogenous zones, like when we are turned on by our partner kissing our necks or blowing into our ears.
You need to find a woman who is sexually free spirited, meaning open to new experiences and not holding conservative sexual views. She will be less likely to say "Gross!" and judge your desires, and more likely to give it a try. This is something you will have better luck with if you only share it with a real girlfriend, not a hook-up. Wait until your feelings mutually deepen before telling her you get super horny when your feet are licked, but don't wait so long that she feels like you've been hiding your true self with her. If she associates feet with being dirty or smelly, ensure her you'd have them clean first.
You're probably not bisexual, based on what you've said about having zero interest in being with men. Some straight men with submissive tendencies get off on being humiliated or treated as subordinate even by other men, because it feels extra humiliating when a man talks down to them or makes them lick their feet, for example. This might play a role in why it doesn't matter if it's men or women's feet for you.
Don't be insecure about this! It's just one thing about you that some women will understand and others will not. Just be picky about who you deem worthy of knowing this tidbit of information and let the ones who judge you go. I'm not suggesting you dump a woman who loves you but just isn't into it after having tried it, though. She's probably still going to be a keeper! I'm referring to any woman who dismisses your desires as "disgusting" and isn't willing to try it.


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It's been TALKED ABOUT, mulled over and put on the shelf for YEARS, but NOW it seems that FINALLY a SEQUel to 1988's CLASSIC film 'Coming to America' is in the works! Eddie Murphy has signed on to reprise his role and the film will be directed by Craig Brewer!!
Continue reading #EddieMurphy to STAR in #ComingToAmerica2 directed by #CraigBrewer! [details]

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I have purchased Fancy Product Designer and Fancy Product Designer Plus Add-On plugin. I have installed Fancy Product Designer plugin but i can't install Fancy Product Designer Plus Add-On plugin. please help me how to install that plugin.
Thank you
Installing the plus add on works similar to installing the Fancy Product Designer.
After installing the plus Add On you won't see an own tab in the sidebar though. You know if the plugin is installed by p.e. having a look in the individual product settings of a woocommerce product. There should be added a "plus" tab.
I just bought the Plus Add-On but when I upload the .zip folder in WordPress, it doesn't work. Do I really have to pay another $20 to have Envado install the plugin for me? That would be ridiculous!!
@Tyler If you have issue installing the plugin, please create support ticket, so you can share your login credentials.


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Quiz: What Season Should You Get Married In?
After "the question" comes the next big question: Which season should I get married in? After all, this decision will dictate everything from venue to menu to decor and dress. Uncertain of your best-match season? Thankfully, the, uh, highly scientific algorithm below has it all figured out for ya.


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General Atomics Predator C Avenger's unique design, reduced signature, and speed increases its survivability in higher threat environments and will provides the military with an expanded quick-response armed reconnaissance capability. The first flight occurred in April 2009 and the aircraft is currently in an expanded flight test program.
The Avenger is a long-endurance, medium-to-high-altitude Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) system that can perform wide-area surveillance, time-sensitive strike missions over land or sea, and a host of other challenging military missions. The aircraft has much higher operational and transit speeds than current Predator-series aircraft, resulting in quick response and rapid repositioning for improved mission flexibility and survivability.
THis makes Avenger a highly advanced, next-generation RPA. The jet aircraft is equipped with a Pratt and Whitney PW545B turbofan engine capable of producing 4,800 pounds thrust. The engine is designed for greater fuel economy and features class-leading fuel consumption components. Avenger can operate at speeds up to 460 MPH, a maximum altitude of 50,000 feet, and 18 hours endurance. Its significant payload capacity enables it to carry multiple sensors, while its internal weapons bay can house 3,500 pounds of precision munitions.
The next-generation Avenger employs the same materials and avionics as Predator B and is likewise controlled from and fully interoperable with GA-ASI Ground Control Stations (GCS) used for operating Predator-series aircraft.


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Nimble, lycanthropic, psychotic archer.
Human Form
Will: 7
Speed: 6
Experience: 2735/2770
Taint: 5 (Disorder (1) Psychotic)
Skills and Talents:
Athletics, Awareness, Thievery, Streetwise, Parry, Dodge, Weaponry (Crossbows, Simple ;Blunt, Blades, Axes, Military; Blades, Bows), Armouring (1), Literacy, Linguistics (Vargarian, Trade Dwarf), Armsmaster check at -4 for untrained weapons, Weapon Specialisation (Longbow) +2 to damage with longbows, Marksman no penalty for double or triple range, Accurate Shot called shots at -3, Iron Will +2 to Will saves, Jaded no shock from mundane horrors, Dual Shot fire two arrows at -2
+1: Stealth, Weapon Focus (Longbow) +1 to hit
- Damage Reduction: DR 5/Silver.
- Heightened senses: Sight, Hearing, Smell
- Lycanthropic Empathy: In any form, lycanthropes can communicate and empathize with normal or dire animals of their animal form. This gives them a +1 racial bonus on checks when influencing the animal's attitude and allows the communication of simple concepts and (if the animal is friendly) commands, such as "friend," "foe," "flee," and "attack."
Inventory: 13/13
-Vosh'Noruk (The Widower) (+2 to Hit (+1 WF)); D12+11; 75m; Piercing; Half Action Reload) Special: Re-roll misses to hit, if failed a second time it automatically hits a random target.2
-Diziar (The Hunter's Blade) (Heft 2; Balance 2; D8+1; Pen [3]; Versatile)1
-Fenryrthropian Battle Plate AQ Half-Plate 6 [B], 3 [A, L], Wildform Enchantment 6
-Elven Chainmail Shirt 4 [B], 3 [A] Wildform Enchantment 3
-Cloth undershirt
-AQ Openhelm 4 [H]
-Fancy Scabbard
-40x Broadheads, 4x Alchemist Fire Arrows 1
-Drow Cloak (+4 Stealth at night or in the Underdark)
407 Platinum
300 Gold
5 Silver
10 Copper
15 Unidentified Gold Pieces
AC Courser Palfrey "Bill"
Speed: 12
Attack: Hoof (D5; Impact; Reach [1])
Skills and Talents:
Athletics +1, Awareness +1, Low Light Vision, Heightened Senses (Smell), Sprint, Endurance
Herbivore Animal checks Fear every time it is attacked
Quadruped May carry 4x it's strength
Wartraining Rider checks ride to negate herbivore effects
16x Rations8
AQ Winter Cloak
MQ Short Sword (+1 Heft; +2 Balance; D8; Pen 3; Slashing) 1
2x AC Openhelm
1x MQ Leather Shit1
15x Vialheads1
AQ Composite Longbow (D12+4; 75m; Piercing; Half Action Reload)
Gun (Ridiculous Stats; Reload 2Full)
Satchel containing 29 purple bags
Carrying Capacity: 11/52
Wolf Cub
A lycanthrope retains all the special qualities of the base creature and the base animal, and also gains those described below.
- Alternate Form (Su)
A lycanthrope can assume the form of a specific animal (as indicated in its entry).
Changing to or from animal or hybrid form is a move action and a charisma check.
A slain lycanthrope reverts to its humanoid form, although it remains dead. Separated body parts retain their animal form, however.
Afflicted lycanthropes find this ability difficult to control (see Lycanthropy as an Affliction, below), but natural lycanthropes have full control over this power.
Hybrid Form
Will: 7
Speed: 7
- Attacks
Claws (2) AB (+0; D6)
Bite (+0; D6)
Can use both in full attack
- DR 10/Silver
Wolf Form
Will: 7
Speed: 8
- Attacks
Bite (D8)
- DR 10/Silver
Born into a poor family in Haand, Andreas and his twin brother Wolfram had a relatively normal upbringing for ones of their demographic, roaming the streets whenever they could escape from their parents and their dreary lives. The twins were not close in public, as their differences in appearance meant they suffered constant taunts that they weren't really related, so they ran with different groups on the streets to avoid the drama and hassle, while maintaining their close ties in private and using this bond and their disparate abilities and sizes to gain an advantage. Wolfram was associated with the intake groups of a Haand thieves guild, while Andreas was always struggling to prove that even as the smaller twin he was the more potent, fighting and duelling almost constantly and honing his skills from a young age, always using the largest weapons, and even those too big for him to prove everyone wrong. This led to him being taken into a training program at a mercenary recruiting camp, where the older mercenaries 'retired' to groom promising youngsters that could be bought cheaply as recruits for the mercenary companies. When one of the twins accepted a dare or was given a challenge that proved too difficult alone, they combined their formidable skills (usually in secret if possible) to each gain a reputation as fearsome and cunning warriors and thieves.
In their adolescence Wolfram rose in the thieves guild ranks, while Andreas was slowly ostracised from the mercenary school for his reluctance to take jobs that led to him being out of the city, instead choosing to stay near his ailing parents and watching out and helping Wolfram when the situation demanded it. The need for an income led to him utilising the only thing he was skilled in, joining as a combatant in an underground fighting organisation where fighters fought for their own winnings and bets were not taxed by the city lord. The brothers earned their keep in this manner until Wolfram's final assignment led to him being assigned to burgle from the organisers of the fighting arena, taking the entire set-up's funds then reporting it to the authorities, effectively wrecking Andreas' income. Naturally he revealed his concerns to his brother, and knowing that the fight organiser's would blame Andreas for leaking information about the structure of security and placement of the safe to his brother, whereas refusing the mission would lead to recriminations from the thieves guild possibly culminating in one or both of their deaths. They took the only option remaining, fleeing the city entirely and heading to the capital to establish a new life, where we first meet them.
On the day the party freed Karganath, Prince of Murder, the brothers made separate pacts with the Lord of Blades. Wolfram made a pact to wield a Daemon weapon in the name of Karganath and so his composite longbow was forever transformed, becoming Vosh'Noruk the Widower. Andreas similarly made a pact with the Prince, his greatsword becoming Kyn'Draex the Reaper and made subsequent pacts to receive Daemon Armour and profane strength.
Whilst on the pirate caravel the Manticore it came to the party's attention, at the demise of a crewman, that Wolfram had contracted lycanthropy. He now has mastered as best he can his beastly affliction, now being able to assume the form of a wolf at will, or the bastard hybrid form the the lycanthrope. The party suspect he must have been incubating the disease for full two cycles of the moon, since when they were attacked by the mercenary werewolves outside of Grimstad, and Wolfram has finally put reason to the few mornings he has woken covered in torn clothing, splattered in blood.
Wolfram, The Statue
As his companions fall around him, Wolfram Alpha, enraged by the onslaught of magical trickery, bursts into hybrid form. Firing two arrows at a time straight into the organs of orcs and white elves alike, he struggles to breathe through the acid gas that has destroyed the lungs of his companion, Caleb. Seeing that the passageway is clear of the force walls that were rendering his projectlies useless, he stows his daemon bow and charges towards the mages, his Hunter's Blade in hand.
Surrounded by magicians and their foul orc servants, Wolfram attacks as if every movement is his last. The white elves trap him in a cage of invisible walls and stand around him, laughing sadistically, waiting for their chance to strike. His mind overtaken by rage, Wolfram mentally fends off the incantations that promise to turn him to stone, and, feeling his strength waning, he begins to run, every fiber of his being hoping for a way out of this hell into which he has been thrust.
An orc deftly knocks him to the ground and the mages advance, trapping him again in their invisible prison. Fear fills his soul as he realises the futility of his situation. As his concentration wavers and the mages begin chanting, his last thought is for his brother, Andreas, and he vows that they will be reunited as his body and mind turn, piece by piece, to stone.


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READING - A goal in the 98th minute by Penn State Berks was the difference, as the host Nittany Lions upended The University of Scranton women's soccer team, 1-0, on Wednesday night in non-conference action.
With the defeat, the Royals fell to 5-3-3 overall, while Penn State Berks improved to 7-6 with the win.
In the contest, Scranton and Penn State Berks were deadlocked in a defensive battle all night long, with both teams failing to score in regulation time to send the match to overtime.
The first half saw Scranton outshoot Penn State Berks, 5-4, then hold an even higher edge in the second half in the shots department, as they posted 10 shots compared to just five for Penn State Berks.
However, the Royals were unable to get anything past Penn State Berks goalie Leslie Estrada, who made seven saves in regulation to keep Scranton off the scoreboard.
In the overtime period, the only shot taken was by Penn State Berks' Megan Jardine, whose strike found the back of the net eight minutes into the frame to give the Nittany Lions the win.
Overall on the night, Scranton outshot Penn State Berks, 15-10, while the host Nittany Lions had a slight 6-4 edge on corner kicks. Offensively, junior Mazie Stiles (Nyack, N.Y./Albertus Magnus) was aggressive on the attack all night long, taking a match-high seven shots on the evening.
The University of Scranton women's soccer team returns to action on Saturday, as they leap back into Landmark Conference play with a home match vs. Moravian. Action gets underway at Weiss Field beginning at 4 p.m.


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Australian Government response to: Before it's too late: report on the inquiry into early intervention programs aimed at reducing youth suicide
This response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing's report, Before it's too late, outlines the Australian Government's initiatives to tackle the issue of youth suicide.
Suicide is a national tragedy that has a devastating impact on individuals, families and communities – an impact not always obvious or recognised. People from all walks of life take their own life, and the causes appear to be a complex mix of adverse life events, social and geographical isolation, cultural and family background and supports, socio-economic disadvantage, genetic makeup, mental and physical health, coping skills and resilience. Youth suicide is a particular tragedy, in which young lives are cut short and enormous potential is lost.
While the causes and precipitating factors for every individual suicide are likely to be different, there are well recognised risk factors for suicide, and conversely, evidence based protective factors which reduce the likelihood of suicide for individuals and across the population.
The House of Representatives Standing Committee has acknowledged the preceding Senate Inquiry into Suicide in Australia, The Hidden Toll: Suicide in Australia, and recognises Before it's too late to be complementary to The Hidden Toll. Both reports identify that effective suicide prevention responses require a sustained whole of government approach to suicide, including a combination of universal, population based initiatives and community-led initiatives that target those at particular risk of suicide, underpinned by the best available evidence.
As such, this response focuses on early intervention efforts and efforts to promote good mental health and build resilience and resourcefulness in children and young people, to reduce the incidence and seriousness of problems that develop later in life, and to provide an effective suicide prevention response. Because of the strong relationship between resilience, vulnerability and crisis, the Australian Government targets its suicide prevention efforts across a continuum of suicide prevention activity, supported by early intervention and clinical mental health initiatives.
With mental illness remaining the largest risk factor for suicide and psychological distress often being the 'tipping point' to spontaneous acts of suicide and self-harm, the Australian Government plays a national leadership role in improving the lives of Australians living with mental illness, their families and carers. It achieves this through articulating a vision for reform for Australia's mental health system and driving collaborative effort across the different levels of government, non-government organisations (NGOs) and the private sector.
On 7 December 2012, COAG agreed to release the Roadmap for National Mental Health Reform (the Roadmap), which strongly re-affirms the ongoing commitment of all governments to national mental health reform. The Roadmap sets out the shared vision and aspirations of governments for mental health reform over the next ten years, and includes a number of important strategies that will help Commonwealth, State and Territory governments tackle mental health issues that are relevant to youth suicide. These include:
- Support for the development and maintenance of appropriate suicide prevention actions
- Enhancement and implementation of mental health and social and emotional wellbeing programs in parenting, perinatal care, early childhood development, pre-school and school communities
- Better equipping early childhood and education workers and institutions to support and assist children and young people who may be at risk of developing mental illness and their families
- Building the competency of early childhood and education workers and institutions to identify and respond effectively to early signs of mental health issues and
- Expanding early intervention services for young people, ensuring national availability.Top of page
A key task for the Working Group and ERG will be to build on the preliminary set of indicators and targets contained in the Roadmap and determine the best set of national indicators and targets to measure government progress towards national mental health reforms. The Working Group and ERG will also develop a successor to the Fourth National Mental Health Plan, for consideration by COAG in 2014, which will convert the high level aspirations of the Roadmap into medium-term actions.
The Australian Government's mental health reform package totals $2.2 billion over the period 2011-12 to 2015-16. This reform package includes the expansion of youth-focussed mental health and wellbeing initiatives through:
- $31.3 million over five years commencing 1 July 2011, to establish a nationwide network of school support teams to provide direct support to secondary schools and surrounding communities impacted by suicide or concerned about students at risk. The teams work with schools to minimise the distress caused to staff and students, and to coordinate the appropriate services and resources required. The Outreach to Schools project is being delivered through headspace
- $197.3 million over five years, on top of a current commitment of $133.3 million to 2013-14, to expand existing and establish new youth focused mental health services through the headspace program. Specifically, the 2011 Budget measure provides funding which will see 90 headspace sites funded across Australia by 2014-15
- $222.4 million over five years to establish up to 12 youth early psychosis sites, based on the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) model. This built on a 2010-11 Budget measure that provided $25.5 million over four years to establish up to four sites, bringing the total number of sites to be funded to 16, and the total Commonwealth investment in the measure to $247.9 million over six years. The EPPIC model promotes early detection and management of psychosis and holistic support resulting in better mental health and social outcomes for young people experiencing early psychosis and their families and
- An additional $61 million over five years to establish 40 new Family Mental Health Support Services announced in the 2011-12 Budget. These new community based services are being rolled out progressively, with the first 13 funded from mid-2012. They will provide family focussed early intervention support to assist children and young people who are at risk of, or affected by, mental illness.
- $33.9 million over five years for services for children with mental health and developmental issues through the Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) program and to support linkages between relevant medical service providers.
- $11 million over five years for the expanded Medicare Healthy Kids Check, which will include consideration of social and emotional wellbeing and development, and bring forward the check from four to three and a half years of age.Top of page
In its first year the Commission focussed on developing the inaugural National Report Card on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. In its first 12 months, the Commission has also met with over 800 stakeholders and established a variety of partnerships, including Batyr & the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre on youth specific mental health research.
The Government welcomed the release of the inaugural Report Card, titled 'A Contributing Life', on 27 November 2012. The Report Card makes a number of recommendations aimed at governments, service providers and the broader community covering a range of areas important to mental health consumers and their carers. The Government will consider the Report Card and its recommendations carefully as part of the ongoing reform process.
On 23 May 2013, the Government also released Australia's first National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Strategy, supported by $17.8 million over four years (2012-13 to 2016-17).
The Strategy identifies six broad action areas, which are:
- Building strengths and capacity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Building strengths and resilience in individuals and families
- Targeted suicide prevention services
- Coordination approaches to prevention
- Building the evidence base and disseminating information and
- Standards and quality in suicide prevention.
Through the existing National Suicide Prevention Program, the Commonwealth funds two universal school based initiatives for mental health promotion, illness prevention and early intervention, KidsMatter Primary and MindMatters for secondary school.Top of page
There are a number of programs under the Taking Action to Tackle Suicide package that target young people under broader population based initiatives. Such initiatives include:
- Community prevention for high risk groups, which is delivering strategic responses for high risk communities which incorporate known high risk youth, such as the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) population and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and
- Targeting men who are at greatest risk of suicide measure which will deliver a targeted beyondblue campaign on mental health for 15-25 year old men to reduce stigma associated with mental illness and encourage more young men to seek help.
- In 2011, 321 young people aged 15-24 years are reported to have taken their own lives (ABS: Causes of Death Australia, 2011).
- While the 2011 age-specific death rate for young males aged 15-19 years (10.4 per 100,000) was the lowest age-specific death rate for men overall, because young people are less likely to die from other natural causes, suicide still accounts for a high proportion (25.8%) of deaths among young males. This has been true each year in the last decade.
- Young women are three times as likely as young men, and twice as likely as the total population, to experience suicidal thoughts, make a suicide plan or attempt suicide (2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing).
- Only 43.5% of young people who reported suicidal behaviour in the 12 months prior to the 2007 survey used services for help with their mental health problems over that same year.
It should be noted that these data are highly affected by additional sensitivities surrounding these deaths, coronial practices at the state/territory level, and individual coroners' views about intent, specifically the age or developmental stage at which deaths among the young can be attributed to suicide.
While the number of youth suicides officially reported has generally been declining over the last decade, in line with the trend across all age groups, young people continue to be identified as a priority high risk group for suicide (see figure 1).Top of page
Figure 1: Suicide deaths among 15-24 year olds per 100,000 population, 1998-2011
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2011
(a) Data for 2006, 2007, 2008 has been finalised see 3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2011 Technical Notes 2 (www.abs.gov.au)
(b) Data for 2009 and 2010 have been revised. See 3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2011 Technical Note 2 and Explanatory Notes 92-95 (www.abs.gov.au).
(c) Data for 2011 is still preliminary and subject to a revisions process. See 3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2011 Explanatory Notes 92-95.(www.abs.gov.au)
Text version of figure 1Suicide deaths per 100,000 population:
- 1998 - 17.1
- 1999 - 14.6
- 2000 - 12.9
- 2001 - 12.8
- 2002 - 11.8
- 2003 - 10.9
- 2004 - 9.5
- 2005 - 10.2
- 2006 - 10.3
- 2007 - 10.1
- 2008 - 9.4
- 2009 - 8.8
- 2010 - 9.5
- 2011 - 10.1
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2011
(a) Data for 2006, 2007, 2008 has been finalised see 3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2011 Technical Notes 2 (www.abs.gov.au)
(b) Data for 2009 and 2010 have been revised. See 3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2011 Technical Note 2 and Explanatory Notes 92-95 (www.abs.gov.au).
(c) Data for 2011 is still preliminary and subject to a revisions process. See 3303.0 - Causes of Death, Australia, 2011 Explanatory Notes 92-95.(www.abs.gov.au)


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This week's "Bird of the Week" is the Baltimore oriole. This is the time of the year that the Baltimore oriole returns to Reading from it's wintering grounds in Central and South America. The male Baltimore oriole has brilliant orange and black plumage. It's wings, throat, back, and tail are black while it's underparts, shoulders, rump, and the tip and edges of tail are orange.
The Baltimore oriole breeds along woodland edges and open areas with scattered trees, especially deciduous trees. They also frequent parks and wooded urban areas. There nest is gourd-shaped and woven from hair, plant fibers, and synthetic fibers. It is hung by the rim from thin branches or a fork in a tall tree.
The Baltimore oriole eats caterpillars, fruits, insects, spiders, and nectar. They can sometimes be attracted to your backyard by putting out halved of oranges or grape jelly!
It's song is a series of rich whistled notes interspersed with rattles. It's call is a chatter.
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Violin, accordion, drum, clarinet, saxaphone and upright bass band players with Smilin Johnnie and his Prairie Pals written on the drums. Guitars and a banjo are in front of CJGX microphone. CJGX was a privately held radio station out of Yorkton Saskatchewan. The letters GX in the call sign indicated Grain Exchange.
For more information on CJGX see the Canadian Communications Foundation website.
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The Specktator is thrilled to have European Street Cafe as title sponsor of the online calendar!
As one of my favorite places to eat, drink and socialize in the the city, "E. Street" (as the cool kids call it) makes the perfect partner to help promote the best events happening in the city.
NOTE: This is a "curated calendar," meaning I have personally reviewed each event and consider it to be of interest to the general public and/or something particularly compelling. It is important to know that businesses cannot buy a calendar entry. That said, if you have an event you would like considered for the calendar, send the pertinent information to firstname.lastname@example.com.
And by the way, be sure to change the view from "month" to "stream" below. Unless you like being really annoyed.
It's time for the 5th Annual Back to School SmARTs Art Walk featuring the USGBC Green Lion Festival! Enjoy live music, 20+ local artists, delicious food trucks and 35+ participating venues. Celebrate the end of summer in Jax.
Artwalk headquarters is at Hemming Park with live performances on the Main Stage, local artists and vendors, food trucks and an interactive kid zone with activities and fun bounce houses
Highlights include:
8+ Art & Culture Venues
16+ Dinner & Sweets Venues
14+ Live Music & Performance Venues
13+ Venues Open After 9 p.m.
36+ Total Stops
From Facebook:
Green Lion Festival is a festival that seeks to promote and elevate the awareness of green-focused businesses and organizations in Jacksonville. We aspire to be a green and eco-friendly festival while reaching out to the community.
This year's event will take place during First Wednesday Art Walk and will promote awareness of green-focused business, innovative organizations, and community outreach.


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i'm preparing to interview tao lin for someplace cool hopefully. if you have any questions you would like me to ask him, fwd them to me and i will ask
says tao: "i am down for any questions"
&now! &now! I think EVERYONE'S going to be there . . . *sigh*
i sure hope so. are you going, molly?
You invited me to come to your own site and hate you? (I'm the Starbucks barista.) This is disappointing. I thought you were giving me a suggestion for someone other than yourself.
I haven't read anything by you or heard of you before, so it's hard for me to work up any enthusiasm for hating you.
Can you help me out here? What don't people like about you or your writing?
I am trying to wean myself off Tao Lin hatred, but I would really like to see someone ask him about the details of his parents' legal problems, why they had to leave the US for Taiwan (or maybe it had nothing to do with the lawsuit by the people they cheated out of $1.7 million dollars), if Tao grew up rich, does it bother him that his father went to prison, etc., that if he sees a connection between that and his thinking there's nothing wrong with shoplifting (I work at Starbucks and while it's pretty hard to shoplift drinks, people do shoplift the products and it causes problems for everyone, including customers - I used to work in a clothing store and it really is not good to shoplift because the company has to raise money to make up for the losses so the customers get hit by higher prices by the ones who are trying to get something for nothing), etc. I know you won't do this, because you will think it is 'impolite' and of course you want to ingratiate yourself with Tao since he is a celebrity and you probably want a blurb for him and you just don't want to make him annoyed or whatever.
But if you do want to research his parents' background, there's plenty of stuff online from the SEC and other places. I think this has more to do with the person Tao has become than a lot of people do. Maybe in the ghetto, it is not that odd for kids' parents to be in prison, but how many of Tao's classmates at NYU had their fathers in prison while they were attending? Maybe if you are never going to show any emotions other than boredom or depression, it won't, but maybe not.
As for you, James Yeh: I don't really think your worthy of any clever or witty hate. Do you? Give me something to work with.
OK, I haven't read anything yet and I have to get offline now, but I watched a video interview of you, and other than the fact that you did it, there is absolutely nothing to hate about you. You seem boringly (in a nice way) normal and unaffected. Even if your writing is terrible, I could never work up the slightest hatred for you. You would have to become a different person. Sorry, you're unhateable. Bye. I won't be back.
i want to know what kind of footwear tao lin wears
wow, kind of don't know what to say to anonymous
"unhateable," "boringly normal (in a nice way) and unaffected"
hi ryan, i'll just look under the table at some point during interview and make a mental note of what he is wearing
ask tao about the math of selling shares in his novel
at this blog http://americanfiction.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/screwing-the-system-with-tao-lin-and-binky-urban/#comments someone with a knowledge of eighth grade arithmetic explains why his selling 60% of the novel Richard Yates doesnt make sense
first what tao did or said he did:
In an interview with the Urban Elitist, Tao Lin discusses how he's successfully financed his forthcoming novel by selling six $2,000 shares in it. Lin is somewhat infamous for his hustling for attention; I haven't read a word of his fiction, so I have no clue if it's worth that kind of investment. But going the Tao Lin route, however attention grabbing, still means lots of mac and cheese, at least for a while:
I have had part-time jobs almost continuously since college (I am 25), I think, except for maybe one year when I shoplifted batteries and Moleskine journals to sell on eBay. I stopped working at my last part-time job last August when I sold 60% of the royalties to my next novel, RICHARD YATES (Melville House, 2010), for $12,000. Since then my money (other than the $12,000) has come from selling pre-orders and lifetime subscriptions to books that a press I started called Muumuu House is publishing; Christmas and Chinese New Year's money from my parents and brother; and selling drawings, drafts of things, and various "piles of shit" from my room on eBay.
then the expalantion of why it doesnt make sense:
Tao projects sales of the book at 13,000 at the Publishers Weekly website.
For argument's sake, say the book is priced at $20 and Tao is getting a royalty of 20%.
That would mean he'd get $4 in royalties for every book sold.
Four dollars times 13,000 copies is $52,000.
If 60% is 3/5 and Tao's royalties are roughly $52,000, then he's sold $31,200 of his future earnings for $12,000. He loses almost $20,000 in income, a big gain for the shareholders.
Let's say the book is priced at $15 and his royalties are 15%. In that case, he'd be getting $2.25 in royalties for each copy sold. That would mean that assuming Tao would sell 13,000 copies, his total royalties would be $29,250.
His shareholders would have 3/5 of that, or $17,550. He would lose $5550 in income.
But if the book sells only 10,000 copies, Tao would do better.
He's given himself a financial incentive to sell fewer books, based on whatever break-even point the book price and his royalty rate are.
Of course, he may be in dire need of the cash now, but it seems like the more successful the book is, the worse Tao will end up financially
tao replies:
your logic seems weird
but its completely logical math!!!
the lady tries to explain:
Obviously you will lose money if your shareholders make money.
They paid $12,000 for 60% of something, right?
That would mean that the whole is $20,000.
If you make more than $20,000 in royalties from you're book, your shareholders will gain and you lose money you otherwise would have had as income.
As I said, the immediate need for cash, plus the possibility of inflation, and the publicity value, might help you out.
Cash-wise, though, it's a bad deal for you the better your book does.
Maybe you priced the shares too low?
most ppl ridicule the lady but shes just making obv math sense
her math is fine, but her conclusion is whack. the thing is, in every case she mentions, tao would still be making money. just not as much as he would have had he not sold his shares. but he would still be making money. so it's not exactly a "bad deal," since the trade-off of future royalty percentages for a cash advance is apparently worth it to tao
tao still owns 40% of his novel
'boxers or briefs?'
and before i continue i must write
* spoiler alert *
because i'm hoping for the answer 'none'
and i'd like to know what kind of shoes ryan manning is wearing
and in case anyone wants to know what kind of shoes i am wearing, right now it would be 'none' but often it would be 'ugg flip flops, dark brown, with dark brown shearling insole'
i hate wearing socks and i do not like having my heels covered either, not even in 'winter', although i can tolerate a heel strap on occasion
that's funny redpencil, i will ask him tomorrow
i like how, so far, the questions i've gotten from people are either intensely whimsical or intensely vitriolic
hi james, we met at tao and zachary and jamie's thing last night
ask him why he tells some people he's carles but other people that he's not carles
thx bro
hi david,
nice to meet you last night
the interview's over, but i will ask him anyway, since it's a question i wonder myself sometimes
thanks for writing
damn, email me the answer (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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Over half would not recommend a career as an NHS manager. | via Health Service Journal
Four fifths of managers planning to leave the NHS say changes in workload and job satisfaction are to blame. According to a survey by trade union Managers in Partnership, 60 per cent of 394 of its members are planning to leave the NHS in the next five years, either to retire or seek alternative employment.
Of this 60 per cent, the majority said changes in the NHS affecting their job satisfaction was their main reason for wanting to leave the health service. Slightly fewer respondents said changes that have affected their workload and health was their reason for leaving. Over half – 54 per cent – of all respondents said they would not recommend a career as an NHS manager to family and friends.
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Youngblood, 42, appeared before Pro-Tem Judge Kevin Fitzwater in Metropolitan Court Wednesday morning. Youngblood in October was sentenced to a day in jail and one year of probation after being found guilty of aggravated drunken driving. She was arrested in May at a sobriety checkpoint after she refused to take a Breathalyzer test.
As a condition of her probation, she is prohibited from using drugs and alcohol and must submit to regular testing. A court official said that two of Youngblood's recent tests were invalid because the sample was too diluted.
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Fitzwater said Youngblood will now have to take one drug and alcohol test each week for the next six weeks. She will also be on a new drug and alcohol testing system that will require her to take more frequent tests at random.
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…I have heard that a lot. And never paid it a mind.
Whats your purpose? What do you do? What will you do after you have done what you were purposefully doing? Why dont you have a better purpose?
"I can make you my purpose, it will keep me entertained for the rest of my life"
Because I dont understand the question.
I dont have a purpose in life
I dont wanna find cure for cancer. That's a purpose? Right?
If I got asked that question…I would be like…dude…I have 20 purposes to get done today…I dont have time for one purpose and one life!
I still dont understand what this means…
Use purpose in a sentence…maybe that might help?
My purpose in life is to look at the sky, watch another cloud go by or a few birds fly and sit under the stars and not ever ever cry!
My purpose today is to make it better than yesterday and stronger than this morning…example, if I was crying and sad yesterday, then I wanna have a smiley kinda day.
My purpose is….
I dont have a purpose
I dont have a job or a salary, that kinna purpose?
Raising the kids and watching them grow for next 30 years. that's a declaration to the universe…
"I want to watch my kids grow and thrive and have a better life than mine. It's a done deal. So dont mess with me"
Sounds like a angry mommy bird to me. If you have been abused and your kids threatened, what kind of purpose will you have?
I dont know what I want to do.
I cant know….I will never know
I dont want to know.
I only want to feel what you feel and kindness and touch and smile.
It doesn't matter to me.
If I can just smile and laugh and have one physical friend, prefer someone who speaks English, then my purpose is done!!
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I work as an English teacher, and I teach primary school students aged 11 - 14. Being a teacher has taught me to feel compassion for my students and to watch the progress of a human in their development during such a sensitive period. In the future, I hope to complete further studies and eventually become a university instructor. I also have a legal translation license. The majority of the cases I translate are about the expansion of the settlements and violations against Palestinian people. My hobbies include playing video games on my PC. At the moment I am playing 'War Thunder.' I also enjoy listening to music. I have a huge music collection. I love metal! Some of my favorite bands are Metallica, TOOL, Dream Theatre and A Perfect Circle. I also really like Pink Floyd and I know the Roger Waters is very supportive of the Palestinian people. My love of metal music means I am not a traditional primary school teacher, but I hope I am the coolest teacher! Just like School of Rock, I see myself as the Jack Black of Palestine! I hope Palestinians are able to establish actual unity, that is, we are able to unify our human vision. - Ahmed Abu Hashhash
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Relationships … Content … Fun!
It's time to focus on customer Relationships. OMG & LOL … I love our clients. By working with us, you obviously already totally get this. I talked to a client yesterday that has been sending their quarterly patient newsletter since 1998. They're a conservative practice and I bet they aren't following the latest trends … they just know and have known for years intrinsically that keeping a bond between them and their patients through quality communication, education, and even a little bit of entertainment is the right thing to do.
This week's post on Forbes by Steve Olenski, a contributing writer for advertising and marketing etc., put an interesting twist on a lot of great advice for marketing for 2014. He asked contributors (from successful CEOs to Marketing Managers) to pick a song title, lyric, movie title, or quote to describe where they see marketing going in 2014. I'd recommend it as a good read. It's fun and there is a lot of interesting and varied advice. The constant is: focus on our customer experience. I've included the link below.
Customer expectations have evolved … we've seen it in dentistry. Competition is fierce and customer perceptions are hard to break through. We have taken our product and service offering to a whole new level to ensure we break through those barriers and differentiate your practice from the pack.
Customers want more than a tag line; they want our service promise to be part of the core of our business. Customers are self-educating so we have to help them make the right buying decisions by providing the right content at the right time. From campaign creation to call conversion, your Account Managers are dedicated to helping you deliver on all fronts.
Probably the most relevant to dentistry, and what we're working hard to do for you here at Patient News, was said by Randall Rozin in reference to a line by Rhett Butler, "You should be kissed … and often … and by someone who knows how." Mmm gotta like that one! He states "Products reach parity faster than ever. Real lasting sustainable advantage comes from creating real differentiation at the service level to constantly 'kiss' the customer at relevant touch points between their needs and your brand."
While companies are all talking about how important delivering amazingly useful and entertaining content is … you're already ahead of the game. That's what your newsletters are doing … that's what our amazing new facebook content package is all about … that's why you are winning in your market. It's the new "return on relationship" marketplace.
I like the quote by Rich Romig (Harte-Hanks marketing): "The less prepared will reveal themselves to be … less prepared, and will spend another sizable chunk of the year playing catch-up." If you feel you're still slightly unprepared – do immediately book a business review meeting with your Account Manager to discuss your current challenges and your goals for 2014. She has extensive information at their fingertips that they would be pleased to provide to help you be even more successful in 2014.
Ted Rubin reinforces, "Communication and relationship building are the keys that will set your brand apart, add value, and lead to trust and loyalty. The brands who wake up and take advantage of these opportunities, instead of looking at social as just another place to advertise, will increase the lifetime value of their customers."
I really encourage you to set aside time to talk to your Account Manager. She has many ways they can help you create and share great content with patients and prospective patients – content that will differentiate your practice. And she can make it easy for you.
To wrap this all up, I'll remind you of something Dirty Harry said… "You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" Oh Harry, you were such a tough guy … and yes, luck can have something to do with it, but to really blow away last year's numbers, it takes a plan and support. You've got it with Patient News.
Ask your Account Manager to help you with:
- Patient retention development & patient loyalty gift cards with 100% reach
- Facebook – brand new content to engage patients – $100 off for existing clients
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- The type of direct mail content that will draw more new-patient calls
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Patient News has been building relationships and getting results for dentists like you since 1993. Tap into our 20 years and 100 million campaign experiences with any business advertising or marketing dilemma you have. Your Account Manager would be pleased to schedule a conference call for you with our executive support.
Have a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season! Best wishes from everyone on your PNP team!
Here's the link to the Forbes' 2014 Marketing Predictions With A Twist article. Enjoy!


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It's the last day of the working week so that must mean it's time to celebrate some of our amazing supporters. Happy #FundraisingFriday! We couldn't do it without you! Read on to find out all about this week's fundraisers…
Excel Childcare: Christmas Fayre
We would like to say a huge thank you to Excel Childcare for their continued support.
They held their Christmas Fayre last weekend and raised a further £320! Well done guys!
University of Leeds student society, Cutting Edge spent a day in Leeds City Centre spreading the message of CHSF to all the Christmas shoppers.
The President of their society said:
We were able to remind the people of Leeds to think of all the children that may be facing the scary prospect of surgery during this otherwise festive time of year, and the hardworking staff on the surgical care teams looking after them.
As medical students from the Surgery Society of the University of Leeds, it was extremely important for us to challenge the misconception of surgeons as intimidating and mean – we don't break hearts, we mend them!
UKIM Youth Leeds: Fundraising Challenge
Usamah Ahmed said:
In our youth club we were joined by one of our elders who spoke about the importance of charity – particularly helping those who are less fortunate to us in terms of health and well-being.
From this, we were set up on a challenge whereby the youth club was split into two teams with the aim of each team to raise money for two local charities: Martin House Children's Hospice and of course Children Heart Surgery Fund.
Each team was given £100 and expected to change this into a bigger sum of money and from the fundraising techniques used, both teams were able to raise a fantastic amount!
Amazing fundraising this week from some seriously dedicated supporters! Feeling inspired? Get in touch with Lisa Williams, Community Fundraiser on email@example.com | 0113 381 4810 to see how you can get involved.


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Lewis Hamilton ready for Bahrain battle
Lewis Hamilton is expecting another close weekend between Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull at the Bahrain GP.
All three teams looked sharp in Friday practice at the Sakhir International Circuit and there could be an extra twist after Lewis Hamilton was handed a five-place grid penalty.
The world champion needs a new gearbox, therefore violating FIA rules that state that drivers cannot change that section of their car within a six-race period.
It all stems from a hydraulic leak in Melbourne, a race he went on to finish second in behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.
The Scuderia looked sharp in testing in Barcelona and took advantage of a Virtual Safety Car to claim the opening race of the season.
Red Bull's form in Catalonia also suggests they are closing the gap on the Silver Arrows and they could strike in Sakhir after a mixed time Down Under.
Lewis Hamilton's punishment puts extra pressure on him heading into Saturday's qualifying in Bahrain and the Brit believes it will be another tight session between the top teams.
"It looks very close between all the teams and we definitely have got some work to do to try to see if we can eke out to be ahead of the others," he said.
"Practice has shown that it's incredibly close between the three teams. It will be a tough weekend."
Hamilton is 6/4 to take pole, with Vettel 9/4 and the other Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas 7/2.
Vettel won this race last year and is 4/9 to retain his crown, with the world champion 8/1 and Bottas available at 8/1.
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Specialist Services Lloyds certified Fire Rated Bathroom modules
Our standard range of modules are housed in custom made ISO 20' Containers and come in a range of layouts – available upon request. Specialist Services also has an extensive range of Hire Units available for immediate hire from stock.
Electrical And Instrumentation Rooms
Designed to incorporate control equipment including switchgear and transformers these modules can be for Offshore or Onshore. Specifications vary dependent upon usage (down hole pumps, VSDs, acid injection etc) and location. Full design of cable routing, HVAC and electrical connections are done in-house. Please consult with a Specialist Services representative with your equipment specifications for more details on options available such as sizes, walling, flooring, skids etc
Various types of workshop designs and specifications are available. From complete Services and Maintenance Base Complexes including breakout machines, nuclear calibration and wash bays to small converted 10' containers used for site maintenance of tools with storage racks and G vice.
Converted Container
For a speedy and cheaper solution existing ISO Containers can be lined out with paneling and converted to a clients requirement for offices or workshops. A large number of designs are available upon contact with our representatives.
- Architectural outfitting
- Blast doors
- Blast walls
- Control shelters
- Equipment shelters
- Fire doors
- Fire walls
- Fire windows
- GRP bathrooms
- Living quarters
- Mobile homes
- Mudlogging labs
- Noise enclosures
- Oilfield camps
- Recruitment services
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6/9/12 Piece Magnetic Spice Jars with labels
Regular price $9.99
Your choice of 6, 9, or 12 spice jars. These jars are made of durable stainless steel and have a magnetic back for mounting. The clear lid makes it easy to see what's inside, but these jars also come with a set of labels to make it even easier to tell which spice is which! Lids also have a sprinkle and pour openings for when you just need a pinch, a dish, or "to taste".
Already have spice jars? Label pack is also available.


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(04-07-2019, 02:16 PM)WoltreX Wrote:(04-07-2019, 01:38 PM)GK102 Wrote: In previous mod versions I have the option to turn off the trackpad but this version is not available
Can you help me turn off the trackpad? thank you
Download the file and copy into the system(root)/etc folder. Or read the guide.
Thank you I was off it.
I have problems, my laptop have 1 mic port and 1 headphone port as picture. My headset is a kind of 3.5 jack with mic.
I can't use the headset's mic, the system always record voice from the laptop's mic.
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(HealthDay News) If you've ever wanted to shout "shut up!" while listening to someone else's cell phone conversation in an elevator, train or restaurant, new research reveals why.
Overhearing one-sided conversations really is more annoying because the brain finds it more taxing, and therefore more distracting, to listen to only half of a conversation versus the whole thing.
"It's unbelievably irritating to overhear someone on a cell phone," said lead study author Lauren Emberson, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. "It's harder to tune out, you can't pull your attention away from it and you're more distracted by it."
Community: People with the most annoying voices are the ones who talk the loudest, it seems.
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Recognized in the Technology Category for Entrepreneurial Innovation and Significant Contribution to Regional Growth
BLUE BELL, PA, June 16, 2015 – CoreDial, LLC, a leading SaaS platform provider for the channel, announced today that Alan Rihm, CEO, has been selected by Ernst & Young as Technology Entrepreneur of the Year® 2015 in Greater Philadelphia. Alan was selected by a panel of independent judges and honored at a special gala event on June 11 at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel.
Alan has spent the past 20 years as an entrepreneur in the Philadelphia area focusing on digital innovation and contributing to the growth of the area's technology scene. Under Alan's leadership, CoreDial has experienced rapid growth, expanding its channel partner portfolio to more than 370 businesses and increasing its local workforce by 50% in 2015. He was also instrumental in closing a $27.5 million growth equity round this May with Philadelphia-based firm, LLR Partners, to further enhance CoreDial's ability to be a regional hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.
"I'm honored by this recognition, and it's clearly a testament to past, present and future employees who are really the ones who should be acknowledged," said Alan Rihm, CEO, CoreDial. "I'm thrilled for all of my fellow Entrepreneur of the Year recipients, who are each driving innovation and advancement of the Philadelphia business ecosystem. EY's program is a tribute to the incredible talent and entrepreneurial spirit that makes up our great community. CoreDial is proud to call the Philadelphia region home and be able to contribute to the area's rapidly evolving technology industry."
Alan is now eligible for consideration for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year National program. Winners will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 14, 2015. The EY program identifies entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
About CoreDial
Based in Blue Bell, PA, CoreDial cloud software and services enable companies to quickly and cost effectively sell, deliver, manage, and invoice for high quality, private labeled cloud communication services including hosted PBX solutions, VoIP, SIP Trunking, and Unified Communications. With no hardware or software to buy, our Channel Partners—Managed Service Providers, Value Added Resellers, and IT Solution Providers—deliver valuable end-user solutions, while creating margin rich recurring revenues and building value in their brand.


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Our top ranked facilities include Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Hospital, The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Partnerships with the Nashville Veterans Administration and an ever expanding affiliate network of community and regional medical systems, provide the patient base for Vanderbilt.
Surgeons from the Section of Surgical Sciences run the ACS Level I Trauma Center and Burn Center. Vanderbilt's top ranked surgeons also provide leadership and innovations in areas such as high volume pancreatic and hepatobiliary surgery, liver, kidney, pancreas, heart and lung transplantation, breast cancers intraoperative radiation therapy, trans-anal endoscopic microsurgery, robotic surgical procedures, collaborations with engineers, perinatal and fetal surgical interventions, endovascular peripheral and neurovascular interventions, transcutaneous aortic valve replacement, minimally invasive mitral valve repair, pediatric cardiac repair of congenital cardiac anomalies, and many other unique services.
Our medical center boasts 1,105 total beds, 834 adult and 271 children's. Vanderbilt's 56 adult and 16 pediatric ORs enable us to perform over 51,000 surgeries annually. As of July the Section will have 244 full-time clinical faculty and on average about 177 residents and fellows. Twelve adult specialties are nationally rank best or high-performing, 10 pediatric specialties rank nationally best.
Vanderbilt's research is an integral part of what we do in our efforts to improve patient care. Our research efforts span from spread of cancers and various clinical trials, to identifying safer systems of surgical care, and improving educational systems for students, residents and faculty. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine remains in the top 10 nationally for NIH funding.
Overall Vanderbilt's preeminent surgical programs provide a comprehensive academic and clinical experience for surgeons, teaching faculty and trainees resulting in compassionate yet innovative patient care.


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Plays from Western literature come to Iranian bookstores
TEHRAN – A collection of five plays from Western literature have recently been published in Persian in Iran, publisher Nimaj has announced.
"Hernani" by prominent French author Victor Hugo is a highlight of the books.
Translated by Ramtin Shahbazi, the play is about a tragic love story between a former noble, who became a bandit after being banished, and a young woman named Donna Sol de Silva, who has two other suitors, her uncle Don Ruy Gomez and Don Carlos, king of Spain.
French writer Jean Genet's 1947 play "Deathwatch" rendered into Persian by Media Kashigar is another book in the collection.
The play is about four prisoners who are locked up in the same cell. Green-Eyes has killed a woman and is to be guillotined. Maurice and Lefranc have been sentenced for more minor crimes.
Maurice has a deep attachment to Green-Eyes, as does Lefranc, but secretly. He also hates Maurice, while feigning to hate Green-Eyes, preferring him to Snowball, who is also condemned to death, and along with Green-Eyes, they are considered the Kings of the prison.
Translated by Mohammad Monem, "The Humans" by American playwright Stephen Karam is also among the books. It is about the unhappy Blake family who gathers together on Thanksgiving while the family members are dealing with aging, illness and a changing economy.
The play was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.
French playwright Philippe Minyana's "Inventories", about three actresses who agree to reveal their personal secrets on stage every night, is another book. It has been translated into Persian by Ziba Khadem-Haqiqat.
Another book is American writer Nick Zagone's "Smoke Scenes". The play is about two actors on a stage who try to make and continue dialogues about smoking.
The play has been translated into Persian by Farhad Bigdelu.
Photo: Front covers of the Persian versions of the plays published by Nimaj Publications in Tehran.


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Emotional Therapies with Ariane Wittgreen Antinori
30/05/2019 @ 14:00 - 16:005e
Join us to hear more about the work of Consulta Medicina Holistica. Learn about EMDR – a therapeutic approach to emotional issues by using voluntary eye movements. A therapy with amazing results in cases of PTSD, trauma and anguish. We will also learn about Family Constellation work which treats emotional problems by studying the family dyanmics and sourcing the dormant memories that are causing pain.
This should be a very interesting and helpful afternoon to help us understand more about the treatment of emotional problems.


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Each morning my in box is filled with new ideas/products/projects and of course loads of spam.
Once I've sorted the good from the bad I flag the ones I want to read later and am often rewarded with hours of reading that lead me down a rabbit hole of new products I can recommend to clients, along with inspiration for both my business and personal life.
I was asked about my hobbies this morning and the two that really stand out are gardening, which I do every morning and then there's poetry. I've always liked reading it and now I write my own which is mainly kept locked away but I recently submitted a poem to the Jugiong Writers Festival which was both thrilling and nerve-racking. My words were out there for all to see and while that's the same for a blog, poetry is personal! I have no exceptions of winning anything but I will enter again and again and maybe one day I'll write something that everyone will want to see.
Now back to the world of design!
Here are some of the things that stood out for me in recent weeks.
You may recognise Gavin & Warren who became household names in Australia after they appeared
on the 1st series of the 'The Block'.
After almost a decade as high profile interior designers, Gavin & Warren followed their creative talents to give rise to a highly sought after wholesale art business working exclusively with interior designs, architects and decorators.
Their latest catalogue arrived and this glossy treasure-trove of artwork
had one major stand out for me.
The Echo New York Collection.
Echo New York were well known in the 1930's – 1950's for their amazing scarves.
They then evolved into textiles and have worked with the likes of Ralph Lauren.
Designer Boys have brought their wall art to Australia and these pieces are printed on a white border
to replicate the look of a textile.
Only new to the market, these two are finished in a champagne gold frame.
Finished in a champagne gold frame
Large 85 x 85cm $825
X Large 105 x 105cm $1,200
available through The Style Project
To see more Designer Boys art click here
"How to buy a great gift: 50 things to buy your friends this year"
had 3 stand out items for me and a lot of fabulous eye candy!
Matte black double gourde lamp from Bragg & Co
Shades Key Ring from Georg Jensen
Out East Houses and Gardens of the Hamptons by M. Brian Tichenor
available from Booktopia
To see all of Melissa Penfold's recommendations click here
Pierre dining table from Wisteria Design $3,950
available through The Style Project
Amara rattan bar cart from Wisteria Design $1,090
available through The Style Project
Amara rattan bedhead from Wisteria Design available in
Queen $1,300 & King $1,500 through The Style Project
To see more from Wisteria Design click here
If you're looking for more inspiration, to the right of this blog we have brands that we love working with – 36 in total – all filled with stunning images & ideas. That's all for this week.
Wishing you a fabulous week ahead
Yours in Style
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Dayton Stops Hiring Smokers, Citing Health And Cost Benefits
The change is intended to reduce the city's health costs
Dayton officials say the southwestern Ohio city will no longer hire people who flunk pre-employment tests for tobacco and nicotine.
The Dayton Daily News reports the change is intended to encourage a healthier workplace and reduce the city's health costs.
Dayton Human Resources Director Kenneth Couch says employees who smoke cost thousands of dollars more annually in medical costs and lost productivity.
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