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Throwing your first dinner party can be a seriously nerve-wracking event. With so much at stake, it's easy to get caught up in the stress of planning it and end up despising the process. In actuality, a well-executed dinner party should be stress-free and really rewarding. It's less about the food and more about the fun and the atmosphere, and who doesn't love playing hostess? With these simple rules, you can have a delicious dinner party that your guests will remember.
Be prepared
The majority of the work for a dinner party should be done before the guests arrive, so that when they're in your home, you're free to give them the full attention. Think hard about your guest list before anything else – make sure everyone gets on, or will probably get on if they're not yet acquainted. Appoint a deputy to keep the conversation going and drinks flowing while you're out of the room. Make sure all your shopping is done before the day itself – you'll want to spend that cleaning and preparing food. If you're cooking much from fresh, do everything that can be successfully reheated in the microwave well ahead of time. Make sure your cocktails are ready for when your guests arrive so you're not rushing from the start. It's really important that you're aware of any dietary requirements of your guest in advance too – there's nothing more awkward than a vegan having nothing but carrots and broccoli to eat at a dinner party.
Don't over-complicate it
Nobody is expecting Michelin star cuisine. Make something you're comfortable making, that you've trialled before, and you know you're not going to mess up. A cold starter or dessert is a great way to ensure you have to do minimal cooking too. If you're a nervous chef, check out these kitchen hacks that Kristin Mcgee has come up with to get you started.
Keep the drink flowing
There's nothing worse than running out of wine at a dinner party. Buy as much as you expect to need, and then buy extra. If you're lucky, your guests will bring some too, but don't count on it. Wine is the lynchpin of the dinner party, so keep everyone's glasses topped up. Unless you've got a very foodie group of friends, don't stress yourself with pairing the wine with the food, just have a few different grapes and colors available. And always have a liqueur or whiskies available for after dinner sipping.
Have entertainment planned
Nobody is expecting a clown or a mariachi band to show up after dinner, but it's a good idea to have a few ideas of post-dinner fun, just in case conversation starts to slow down. If you're all keen card players, a few rounds of poker after dinner can be brilliant fun. Otherwise keep it light with Articulate or the name game – where you pop a celebrity's name on your forehead and ask questions to determine who you are. There's no better way to get everyone giggling.
The more you have prepared before guests arrive, the easier it's guaranteed to go. Just enjoy it, don't do the washing up until the next day, and have a laugh – it's meant to be fun after all.


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LAS VEGAS--The international crowd keeps getting bigger at Comdex.
Representatives come from all over the globe--Australia, Asia, Europe, and South America--looking for a "one-stop shop" to sell their products and to network with industry executives and analysts. Like their U.S. counterparts, many of them also admit they like coming to glitzy Las Vegas for the nighttime entertainment.
Their products run the gamut. Yueh-In Company from Taiwan is showing off its speaker systems for computers, while Austria's Rakoczy Print & Design is touting "ecologically sound" mouse pads made of pressed cotton.
Of course, all the big PC makers, such as Sony, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba, are here, touting their latest hardware. They typically exhibit through their U.S.-based operations, such as Mitsubishi Electric America in Orange County, California.
Comdex has 568 international exhibitors this year, representing 25 countries, which is up sharply from 405 last year. The show also held an "international marketing forum" to help foreign companies figure out how to sell in the U.S. market. Another goal is to help U.S. companies expand in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. A separate session focused on China, among the hottest emerging markets.
The financial stakes are high. The United States alone accounted for 41 percent of the $610 billion global information technology market in 1996, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
On the flip side, the rest of the world offers big growth potential for U.S. companies, many of which already do a majority of their business outside the United States. Europe holds a 27 percent share of the global IT market, followed by the Asia-Pacific Rim with 24 percent, and Latin America with 2.9 percent, according to IDC. A recent report said that Internet usage has increased more than 788 percent in Latin America since 1995. (See related story)
Trade commissions from more than a dozen countries also are out in force at Comdex. The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council--which now handles all of China, not just Hong Kong--both are represented. The Colombian Government Trade Bureau is here, as is the government of Baja, California.
The Australian Trade Commission also is making a stand, joining in a venture-capital forum. According to Robert Hunt, Australian trade commissioner for information technology, high tech is booming Down Under.
Hunt cites statistics showing that high tech has grown nearly 90 percent from June 1993 to June 1996, it generates $25 billion annually in revenue, and it employs 250,000 people. He also points out that Australia is No. 2 in the world in terms of computer use, on a per-capita basis, after the United States.
"Australians are great early adopters of technology," said David James, chief executive of Ni-Tech, an Australian software start-up. "Australia also has a huge pool of largely untapped IT talent; the missing ingredient is access to venture capital."
How to delete your Facebook account so the social network stops tracking your data: CNET discovered that simply deactivating your account doesn't go far enough.
How to use Apple's Instant Hotspot feature: With just a few clicks -- or taps -- your Apple devices can create a hotspot network while you're on the go.

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The Office of College Relations & Strategy is home to Westminster`s Coaching & Mentoring Center, and handles various college-wide endeavors such as strategic planning, board relations, community and government relations, student consulting and institutional research, reporting and analysis. The Coaching & Mentoring Center includes the Alumni Mentoring Program, First-Year Network, Gold To Grad, and Master Track, and is also a resource for faculty and staff development.
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Annalisa Holcombe
Annalisa Hollcombe is the Chief Strategy Officer and the Director of the Coaching and Mentoring Center at Westminster College.
Originally, I was a student. I came here when I was 18, and my admissions officer who contacted me was amazing; I was worried about coming here because I was a first generation college student, so I wanted to make sure I fit at Westminster, and she contacted me saying it would be great to have me at Westminster. It was an honor for me because everybody I grew up with went to the community college, and I was like "What? Wow" She had the student body president take me on a tour, who was also female, first gen, and lived on the west side. And I could then see myself here, because she was like me! I am still friends with both of them.
There is no day-to-day. (Laughs) I think that I just run around like a crazy person most of the time, there's almost always a meeting, a person, a need… I struggle to find time because there's just not enough time in the day! So there is no usual, but the good part is that I get to do meetings with senior leaders, I work with the board directly all the time, I'm doing big picture governance for the college but I also am regularly interacting with our students. The balance really keeps me happy with my job and clued into what matters most here.
My first day ever? Present me would say, gosh, probably to relax? And to know that the future is not going to be what you had planned, but that it will probably be more meaningful and impactful than you had ever hoped. I really think that my entire life was changed because I started working here, in really amazingly good ways. And I also think that my entire family's life was changed; when I talk about there's no such thing as work/life balance, there's only work/life integration? I live it, all the time. My husband goes to school here now, because he heard me talking about how much I love the place. He loves it too. He heard me talking about AMP and how much it had impacted me and one day he said "You know how you always talk about living your best life? And doing what you really want to do?" So he quit his job and came back to school here and now he's employed full time as a chemist, doing really well. Doing a job you don't like will never make you happy, no matter what the money is. It's about how you get up every morning to spend your day that creates your happiness.
(Laughs) No!
Clapping with one hand. It's really fun to watch people try.
Salsa, on everything, all time. When I go to restaurants and get a salad I always ask if I can have salsa instead of dressing. (Laughs) It's really good!
This is so hard. I think that for me it would probably be, hmm, well I'm going to have to say it's a mixture and I can't choose. One of them would be the alumni house because I started working at Westminster in the alumni office, and we didn't have the alumni house when I started so I got to be part of helping to create that and looking at what we have now is so exciting and so great. I've met some of my best friends in the world through our alumni, and so that house made me who I am. And then the second would be Converse. Because we first officially said "Coaching and Mentoring" here, and Converse just really says "Westminster". When I was a student it was this iconic building and I never in a million years thought I would have this super awesome office in the iconic building, and now I do, which is amazing.
Nichole Greenwood
Nichole Greenwood is the Director of Institutional Research, Planning & Effectiveness in the department of Strategic Planning in the Office of the President. She earned both her B.A. and M.P.C. from Westminster College.
My education, I didn't want to go to a big school and I wanted to stay close to home, because it was just my mom and I, so that's why I picked here.
Oh, I don't even know how to answer that. (Laughs) Whatever comes up, whatever's most important, but typically I do a lot of spreadsheet work and number crunching and pulling a lot of data.
Um, you probably don't want this answer… (Laughs)
I would tell "First Day Nichole" to gain the most experience that she possibly could but to make sure to spread her wings and venture out.
Writing queries at the colon prompt to pull data out of the system.
There you go! I win!
Hmmm, horseradish sauce.
My office. Because I can see all of campus – I have a beautiful view – but I can also be in my own little world where I can work, and there's enough traffic that comes through here that I'm not lonely, but not too much that it's overwhelming. And I can open my window!
Richard Chapman
Richard Chapman is, among other things, the Co-Director of the Coaching and Mentoring Program at Westminster
So I got hired as an adjunct during grad school, really liked it, met some people like John Watkins and thought Westminster would be a great place to be. Westminster called and offered to hire me – different labor market back then – as a professor and I jumped at the chance.
At work? (Laughs) So typically I check emails texts, and phone calls. Because I'm in the online programs, I have to constantly check those. And then, grading of projects is probably my number one priority in the online program. I do some teaching in the classroom but only during spring semester. After that it's office hours, committee meetings, coaching and mentoring center meetings.
"You're gonna love it!"
I really had trouble, so I took the job, and – between us – I cried when I took it. I was like, "I'm a phd, I'm going to end up 40 miles from where I grew up, in Orem…" And I wanted to go to the west coast, California preferably, I had dreams of travelling far, and come to find out I don't think I could have found a better job for me.
Yeah! And in hindsight, I should have been like, partying that night. It's a great fit, I wanted to fit well at a research institution, and Westminster, one thing I love is that they've really allowed me a lot of flexibility. My career has been all over the map, and it's been great.
Okay, probably, so this is actually more from my youth than now but it's still probably in there; either Tolkien-lore, the books not the movies, or military history.
No, because I can't do popular media! You know, they'll have questions about the Jersey Shore, and I'm dead; never watched it.
Hmmm, what's the pepper sauce that I get from Tsunami? It's a type of pepper. I should Google it real fast. I eat this way too much; I buy bottles of it and put it on my eggs every time I eat eggs. It's habanero pepper sauce. I have that like once a day, I love it. I don't use wasabi; I think it overpowers the sushi, so I do the habanero sauce cause it makes it spicier without changing the flavor.
Favorite place… the stream. I take Elizabeth there; when she was little she used to jump off into the waterfall. I try to get her to get her to do it now, and she's like "That looks dangerous!"
Nicole McKenna
Nicole McKenna is a Frankenberg Fellow who oversees Westminster's coaching and mentoring programs, works to promote the growth of the center, and fosters community relations by attending sugarhouse community council and chamber meetings.
I was pretty set on going to the U, actually. I had toured there, and I was kind of trying to force myself to make it the right fit, and then I toured Westminster because they had reached out to me, and I fell in love with the campus the first time I toured it. I'm super happy.
Um, insane! Super busy. I jump around a lot, and have a lot of different roles. Sometimes it's office management, sometimes it's community relations, sometimes it's focusing on all the coaching and mentoring programs, so it can be anything from event planning to working on programming to working on developing our center and helping Annalisa get her stuff done.
Hmmm, I don't really know if it's advice, but one thing would be is that a good boss is probably the most important thing that will make you happy at work. Like you can be drowning in a lot of work but as long as you have a really great team and everyone works really well together then the stress kind of goes away.
I have really thick hair, and I can do it in like twenty minutes! But seriously, crisis management. If someone tells me there's a problem, I will fix it, in like 30 minutes! I will be panicking on the inside, but it will be fixed.
Fry sauce. Total Utah thing. When I was like eleven, I went to D.C. for a youth leadership thing, and I was by myself in the airport and went and asked the lady at McDonald's for fry sauce, and she was like, "… Who are you…?" Like all "What is fry sauce" and I was like "Ugh, can I just have ketchup and mayo then?" like the pretentious little nine year old I was.
I really love being out on Dumke Field, because the back of the library has that quote by Eleanor Roosevelt that I like, and I really love just looking at that quote, and then you can see Converse in between the trees, and the mountains behind it. That's my favorite view ever; it's gorgeous.
Jules Harding
Jules Harding is the Community Relations Assistant, and works to develop rapport and mutually beneficial relationships between Westminster students, faculty, alumni, trustees, and the surrounding Sugarhouse community. She writes community newsletters, updates on Westminster's Strategic Plan, and manages social media for various mentoring programs.
So I actually transferred here in my second year of school, from the UBC which is a huge school – about twice the size of the U – in Vancouver, Canada which is where I grew up. I realized pretty quickly that my "dream school" wasn't what I thought it would be, and anyways I started dating this guy who had moved to Vancouver from Utah for a job, with the intent to move back for school, and amidst all my complaining about UBC he basically took the opportunity to sell me on Westminster, which initially worked because I was super into him, (laughs) but after touring and finding out more, it became clear that Westminster was the school I wanted but didn't know existed.
Absolutely. I really think the experiences I've had here made me discover my ideal life.
It's a lot of creative thinking and collaborating with Annalisa and her ideas of how to make Westminster the best it can be. And then it's mostly designing and writing content for newsletters, social media, the website… And laughing a lot. Everyone who works here is really funny.
Maybe to know your worth and not to settle? I had a couple of jobs that weren't as challenging or fulfilling as this one, and so I think I would tell young me that opportunities are always worth pursuing if they'll make you happier. Also the power of a boss who respects you is not to be ignored; Annalisa is very empowering.
Hmm… I'm really lucky. Like in a statistic-defying way. You know the dice game, Yahtzee? Where if you roll all five dice as the same number it's 50 points? I will roll like four or five of those a game. I have no idea what the deal is. My dad also used to take me to horse races to pick the winners, from the shadows all shady because I was too young to actually place the bet. (laughs) But luck isn't a skill I guess… I also cook really good breakfasts!
When I was a kid I used to put ketchup and malt vinegar on anything remotely close to a potato. But my household has recently been making chicken tacos for dinner like at least once a week, and I make a cilantro sauce that's just cilantro, lime, garlic, sour-cream, and plain yogurt and we've started putting it on EVERYTHING. I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with sauces.
I really like to study in that corner of the library that is all windows and has a couch; it feels secluded but you can still see outside. And maybe HWAC, because I like to gossip in the hot tub.
Amy Dockstader
Amy Dockstader is the Coaching and Mentoring Manager for our office, and oversees everything from admission to the program to the details of program planning.
I feel like it's cliché to say, but honestly the small class sizes. And the scholarship they gave me. I was debating between here and Western Washington, which was my dream school to go to, but they didn't give me any scholarship. So Westminster with the scholarship and small class sizes was it.
It's different ever day, or I guess every week. This week I'm working solely on AMP interview stuff, prepping Annalisa for that, getting it all organized for her, other weeks I'm working on student consultant stuff, so really all in all I'm like Annalisa's organizer and planner.
I guess really learn to network, it's not something I really learned until the end of last year and so if I had known that earlier I probably would have been more apt to reach out to staff and faculty.
Probably organizing, I'm really good at it. When I was little I used to organize my friends' rooms for fun, (laughs) they loved it because their parents would be like "you need to clean your room!" So I would clean it and then their parents would find out and they would get in huge trouble.
It depends on what I'm eating… But… Fry sauce goes on burgers and fries, and I'll even eat it with chicken nuggets, but I also really like the spicy mayo that goes on sushi; it's my favorite.
No I haven't, what is it?
Hmm, I really like Bassis, because I also work at the Center for Civic Engagement, so that area where they have big tables and you can pull chairs around it. And the building is newer, I like studying in there more than in the library. It was convenient when I lived on campus as a first-year student, but now I don't go over there as much.
Jazmin May
Jazmin May is the coordinator of the First-Year Network mentoring program at Westminster.
The fact that everybody here was super welcoming, and the small class sizes of course. So I had a tour during middle school, and during that tour I just felt like Westminster was my home because everybody would like, talk to me and encourage me, and you know, made me feel at home. And then in high school when I applied here even still then my admissions counselor was like how's it going, how's your family, and that made me feel really welcomed.
Hmmm, I go through the things I have to set up, so like right now I'm focusing on the mentor applications, and then marketing for it, and then during the summer I'll be working on the training manual. I try to plan in advance what I know I need to get done for the next step.
Probably to always have confidence, to not doubt yourself because I know that when I first started working I was like, "Am I going to be good for the job? How should I do this?" and now I would say to remember I have the potential and always have confidence that I can get it done, and that there's always people around to help you so ask.
Wow, I have no idea. It has to probably be time management. I know a lot of people struggle to get things done, but I just make a system for myself and I know, like, okay, if I do this now then I'll have thirty minutes to do this other thing, and then I'll be able to balance everything.
Hmmm, definitely not ketchup. I used to say ranch but now I'm kind of getting over it, so… Does guac count?
Shaw. Because, so, one because its big and I get really claustorphobic in small spaces, but also I just like seeing people pass around me. So even if I'm doing my own work just to see people around me is nice.


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THE launch of a new £10million research centre in Shoreham will be the highlight of centenary celebrations at Ricardo.
The global strategic, technical and environmental consultancy is planning a whole year of celebrations to mark 100 years of successful operations.
A bursary scheme has been launched for students from the Shoreham area and in the spring, a round-the-world relay of historic vehicles will be starting in the town.
The launch of the world-class, low carbon Vehicle Emissions Research Centre at Ricardo's Shoreham Technical Centre, Bridge Works, in mid-2015 is seen as an enduring legacy for the future.
Mark Garrett, chief operating officer, said: "True sustainability is not just measured in terms of our ability to reduce the carbon we release into the atmosphere, the resources we consume or the pollution associated with the emissions of transport and industry.
"For a business to be truly sustainable it needs to do all these things, but it also needs to be commercially profitable in order to sustain its own performance and develop world-class talent for the future.
"Ricardo is one of very few companies that can demonstrate a commitment to pushing the boundaries of energy efficiency and clean technology for 100 years.
"This is clearly a cause for celebration for our employees past and present, our customers and our many other stakeholders around the world, as we look forward to many future successful years for Ricardo."
The new Shoreham facility will enable the development of next-generation of clean, low carbon vehicles.
The company was founded by Harry Ricardo as Engine Patents Ltd on February 8, 1915, and formally registered on August 10 the same year.
Its first major success was the design of an engine which transformed the performance of the world's first battle tank, during the First World War war.
The proceeds of this early success gave Mr Ricardo the resources to create the technical centre in Shoreham, which remains the world headquarters.
A new website (www.ricardo100.com) has been launched to keep people updated on centenary events. In the spring, there will be a book published and staff will begin the Ricardo 100 Global Challenge.


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Gamecocks Still On The Board With Smith
DB Branden Smith (5-11 165) of Atlanta is still not ready to reduce his long list of offers to a more manageable number. "I'm open to everyone," Smith said. "Everybody is the same."
Clemson and USC are among his offers and both are still involved. Smith attended camps at Clemson, Georgia, Auburn and LSU but only worked out at Auburn and LSU. His trip to Clemson was his second.
Smith said he's hearing the same pitch from his recruiters. "All the coaches say the same thing," he said. "They really want me and I can help the team a lot."
Smith has no other visits planned this summer. He's also not decided on official visits, and he's not decided on any games he'll attend this season.


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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Weekly Round UP June 3rd
This week I found inspiration all over the web for card designs. It's just amazing the talent and diversity a person can find in the blog world.
Look at this gorgeous Butterfly found at
My Creative Chaos
I so dig this summertime colors in this birthday card. I am totally going to make something with this color scheme! Can we say Pinned! Follow all my Pinterest boards because they are way cool.
Paper. Markers, Ink, Oh MY!
This takes a lot of patience(something I don't have a lot of) and even-handedness to color in a stamped image. Amazing!
My Crafting Place
Thanks for stoppin' by for some Puddin N Pie
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Celebrate and worship this Christmas with contemporary Christian Music superstar Chris Tomlin. The Grammy winner is on tour this holiday season, bringing his uplifting songs to the country once more.
"With so many worldly distractions, its easy to lose sight of whats most important." Chris Tomlin recognizes this and desires to reacquaint his fellow Christians with the one fundamental element that's become all too elusive. As Chris himself explains, "The thought I've had running through my head is that its time to introduce ourselves to love again. People need to be reminded that what were here to do is to love God and love people. Worship is a relationship of love. Its our love of God and our love of people."
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|Exegesis Volume 6 Issue #8
Exegesis Digest Mon, 19 Feb 2001
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:05:17 -0800
From: "William D. Tallman"
To: Exegesis
Subject: Astrology: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Hello all,
It has occurred to me that I've inadvertently painted a misleading picture of the current state of astrology, wherein I've emphasized all the things that astrology lacks if it is ever to achieve general acceptance in modern times. In painting that picture, I have, so I have come to think, made the assumption that the potential positive versions thereof would be obvious to the reader.
I can now see how that assumption is at the very least undependable, and is most probably simply invalid; my growing suspicion is that the reader may indeed draw the conclusion I basically hold no hope for astrology. Were that true, I would never have appeared in this forum. So I'm going to take some pains to paint another picture here, one that addresses what is possible for the future of astrology, if the effort is made to make it so.
To begin with, I will look at what already exists, what is already available, and what has already been done.. at least so far as I am personally aware.
Astrology has a fairly rich traditional lore, the applications of which are becoming more accessible through research. In general, there have been only a few periods during which active practice and study did not take place throughout the civilized world. So not only does a very long history of the study exist, but it can be seen to encompass virtually every culture as well. The result is a rather enormous mass of material that emanates directly from the study of the heavens for the specific purpose of divining the affairs, and the future, of mankind. This historical resource is very poorly understood, however, and will require a good deal of effort to take in hand; nevertheless, we do not suffer a dearth of recorded astrological practice.
The central problem in addressing all this is the current definition of astrology. In the main, it is assumed that 'legitimate' astrology is limited to horoscopy, such that any material that is not relevant thereto is not to be considered astrological in nature. Of course, the traditional lore of horoscopy is much more limited than that of astrology in general, which tends to imply that this limitation applies to astrology as well. This does not have to be the case. It only takes the declaration that any study of the celestial sphere for the purpose of divining the affairs and future of man is, by literal definition, astrology. Corollary to this, of course, is the declaration that horoscopy is a specific branch of astrology, such that is the basis of our current usage. If we can do this, we can develop ways of accessing the value inherent in all the material that is not specifically horoscopic in orientation.
So the thrust of effort in these regards should be towards generating a systematic approach to astrological material, whenever and wherever it was generated, such that nothing is simply dismissed out of hand for the lack of any way of seeing what to do with it. There is some excellent work being carried out currently in several venues, each of which, as one might expect, has its own orientation and its own purposes. Where work is not being done, it is certainly not because the expertise to do so does not exist, it is because there is currently no recognizable (much less accepted) meta-format that exists to draw all these materials together. It is the development of that meta-format which I would specifically suggest be immediately addressed, and by those who are disposed by talent, training, and inclination towards that sort of work.
It's pretty obvious that applied astrology is the principle, if not the only, current strength extant. There are very many people who practice astrology at one or another level of expertise, commitment, and ability (knows stuff, wants to do stuff, and can do stuff). At the moment, we know more about astrology than at any time in the history of mankind, because we have a broader array of tools and skills at our disposal than ever before. We have general availability to any given individual of every known (by modern researchers) aspect of astrological knowledge and usage. The price of the book and the will to apply what is there is all that is required, and from the ubiquitous presence of the friendly neighborhood psychic book shop, almost all of which have a more or less extensive astrology section, it would seem that the price is available and the will (presumably) to make use of it is also there.
We have an interesting array of different 'schools' of astrological practice, representing most horoscopy about which anything much is known, and including some astrology that is perhaps based or derived from horoscopy but takes it into different areas of application. We have a discernible philosophical spectrum concerning all aspects of astrology, both theoretical and practical, and in this last century (the twentieth) there has been quite well known and respected work to discover and show how astrology can (does?) correlate with modern academically accredited disciplines of knowledge. We also have a surprisingly extensive range of astrological application, although that is not at all well known, even within the astrological community.
What we don't have is any way of seeing how all of these various schools, practices and applications relate to each other, such that they all form a discernible general field of study, discipline of practice, etc. It would seem trivial to at least establish the fundamentals for doing this: They all deal with planets and the configurations they create in the celestial sphere. They all operate within the same environment and apply to the same terrestrial phenomena... the affairs of men. They share a common fundamental terminology and rudimentary language.
The reality is, however, that each of these various manifestations of astrology are basically parochial, such that they do not easily admit to comparison with each other. The devotees and practitioners of each appear to hold that they are the custodian of astrological 'truth', where the implication is that others do, at best, to a lesser extent, if at all. The saving grace here is that the devotees and practitioners are generally amongst the minority, where the majority are users not fully committed, if at all, and there are always some number of dilettantes or students that are even less committed, of course. These students (dilettantes?) generate, in their own practice and experience, some form of individual means of correlating the various schools and applications they follow, and so we cannot assume that a way of relating this panoply of astrology such that creates a whole, does not exist, for indeed it obviously does. Individuals do it all the time. We need to discover what is most commonly done and why.
Theoretical work:
A great deal of theoretical work has been done in astrology in the past century, some of which has apparently fairly ready academic acceptance (the work, not astrology itself). There are several stages in which that work has developed, each more or less resting on that which went before. Some of this work is represented in current astrological thought and practice, and some is not. Most of this work is generally available in book form.
In addition, there has been a continuing effort to ground astrology in science that has gone forward through the centuries, and it is doing so today. Of my own knowledge, there are several projects that have been undertaken by qualified and well regarded scientists for the specific purpose of developing a foundation for astrology in one or another field of science. One of which I am currently aware explicitly intends to develop a solid and testable foundation for astrology in physics, and I am given to understand has made good progress.. ie has generated some testable theoretical material, which appears to be currently undergoing verification, etc., etc.. There are others that approach astrology from a biological point of view, as well as the better known psychological approaches.
So far as I know, none of these have reached the stage of legitimate full scale test projects, but apparently not for the lack of will on the part of the workers involved. The means to carry these projects out simply does not now exist. The best that can be done is to amass case studies and submit them to some sort of inspection and manipulation, usually involving statistics in one form or another. The sort of projects that require a large number of workers are apparently not presently possible, simply because the personnel is not available to do the work. It's important to note here, that the personnel does indeed exist. There are more than enough astrologers out there to do a variety of such projects, but there is a uniform reluctance, if not outright refusal, on the part of the astrological community in general to be involved in such efforts.
The reasons for this are several. There is the perception on the part of most astrologers that they are not able to do the work, whatever it is. There is the perception on the part of most astrologers that such efforts constitute a clear and present danger to their own form of practice. And there is the general ideology that astrology is best left a mystery, lest it be contaminated somehow by any sort of active investigation. There are other reasons as well, but these are fairly well known and understood by most of us.
In other areas of study, the area itself is the subject of respect and is regarded as having intrinsic value in its own right. People come to study and learn such subjects, and those who can and will, go on to contribute their own work to the field, such that all who study are heirs to whatever enrichment those contributions create. This is not the case with astrology, and the reasons for this are themselves fairly well understood, I think: most fall into the categories already stated above. I will address those reasons shortly.
So there are possibilities for the advancement of astrological knowledge, and those possibilities have been more or less continuously presented by one or another astrologer, but there is virtually no one there to accept and make use of those possibilities. Without such a corps of workers in astrological research, virtually nothing is possible in the area of theoretical development beyond the individual (small group) efforts in case studies, etc.
In order to make any sense of this state of affairs, its useful to look at what sort of situation can be said to be the case with current astrology. If we can do that, maybe we can see at least where effort is required
The fundamental type of organization that is now manifest in astrology is approximately that of the old craft guild halls, but without the benefits thereof and with most of the abuses instead. Astrological knowledge is doled out by those who have it, but quite deceitfully: the lore is presented with the implied assumption that it will support the generation of a given individual's competency as an astrologer, but with the full knowledge that it is not the lore but the personal skills and talents that are the operative function. If it were possible that the lore itself could do the job, then cook-book astrology would be a real value; so far as we have seen to date, it is not.
These skills and talents are indeed developed in astrology schools, as are all such, through exercise and application under knowledgeable guidance, but the results are all too often the generation of yet another devotee to a particular school or practice, such that supports the continued existence of the school itself rather than the career of the student. These schools are created, not by demonstration of a haven for meritocracy, but by any 'astrologer' who can manage to market themselves well enough to have a book they've written accepted for publication. This gives them the leverage to do the lecture circuit and write articles in the various astrology magazines, such that their names are advertised and their reputations duly enhanced. They then cash in by contributing to the founding of a 'school of astrology', which serves to further underwrite continued publication, etc. etc.
Some of these people are indeed good astrologers, but so are many practitioners who do not so market themselves. Some can indeed teach astrology itself, rather than their own brand of astro-charisma, but so can many other astrologers about whom we never hear. But neither of these are the rule, unfortunately, and in any case, there is no way of demonstrating peer reviewed competency upon which the student can rely as a matter of course. I remember being told at one point by someone who would have seen me become a prosperous astrologer: "You don't have to be good, you just have to be 'out there'!!". I declined to embrace that point of view, but it's rather obvious that it is a discernible rule of thumb in the astrology profession.
If this is the present state of affairs, then we can ask what they could be given the current state of astrology organization. A very brief look at the past can provide an answer.
In the old guild halls, there were grades that the learner achieved, the overall organization of which fell into three categories: apprentice, journeyman, and master. The apprentice studied in a guild hall with a master, and having completed that course of instruction, set out (journeyed) through a succession of jobs or postings, where further learning of different ways of doing things took place. Whoever could then demonstrate a product of value in the marketplace could then develop a personal reputation that led to the achievement of the status of master. These three stages are still in use in the trades (it's socio-politically incorrect to contemplate oneself as a master, and so that grade exists in the form of the business owner who has developed the marketable reputation).
They are also mirrored in academia, which developed only a short while later, although well within the era of the guilds: the Bachelor's degree is the achievement of journeyman status, having completed the apprentice course of undergraduate study. The Master's degree is the achievement of the eponymous guild status, where the individual demonstrates the ability to do original work. The Doctorate is a further step, specifically oriented to academia. It is the ability to demonstrate mastery of the philosophy of the subject of interest, such that it can be taught (doctor -docent.. common root), although now it's more oriented towards the demonstration of that philosophical mastery in the production of original work that is of accepted value to the professional community. In general, the difference between the Master's thesis and the Doctoral dissertation is that of knowing how, and being able to actually do, original work. Beyond the Doctorate is the Professorship, etc, etc.
Astrology has nothing of this sort, because there is no means of coordinating the various schools such that they are of discernible value to each other.. so that credits in one are honored in another, for instance. This may be the case in specific situations but is not so generally. Absent this, there seems no means of establishing any sort of whole field (all-astrology) construct into which all this disparate practice and philosophy can be assembled. So astrology can neither demonstrate competency as a trade/craft, or as a profession. I will readily admit that my judgments of the standards of an astrology professional have no intrinsic basis in the practice of astrology; those standards come from elsewhere in the care-giving community.
In short, much is possible, but very little is accomplishable. The astrological community is unwilling to give general support to any serious attempt to further our understanding of astrology, even though the ways and means to do so not only exist but are regularly offered for use. Although I've addressed the reasons for this situation a number of times, and in different forums, I said I would do it here. And so I will.
At present, astrology is largely the purview of those who want what they are not willing to earn. They want the security of a means of knowing what is not, for whatever reason, immediately obvious, but they are not willing to risk that security by questioning the means they use. For them, astrology is the ideal world view: it provides a means of gaining insight into the nature of human reality, but it allows them to determine the meaning and significance of that reality as they like, with no requirement to support their claims in any way. The fact that most astrological usage today is a manipulation of archetypes means that the interpretations thereof can be anything the practitioner wishes, with the idea of a more concrete version of the lore being unacceptably 'deterministic'.
Accordingly, we see a strong tendency of astrologers to identify themselves more with some one or another point of view rather than with astrology itself. We see them use such points of view that have been generally identified and subscribed as sources of authority, very much in the same manner as religious sectism where that authority provides 'revealed knowledge' that does not admit query or doubt. These groups become havens of support, where defense against such heretical activity can be vigorously mounted, thus providing further isolating confirmation of what seems very like parochial righteousness.
It is customary in our times to engage some institutional world view as a virtual replacement for one's inner and subjective reality. Examples of such institutions range from religion and philosophy to advocacy of some social stance or cultural practice. In general, the default fallback mode for each of these is militaristic and aggressive defensiveness. So it is now with astrology, but astrology itself is not one of those institutions: the various established points of view arrogate astrology as a foundation for their own support, creating this militant parochialism inside the body of astrological practice and thought.
Historically, we can see that one of the major cultural determinants of the last several millennium is laid upon the various interpretations and worships of a single (historical?) figure's acknowledgment and commitment to a single deity. From Abraham and Yahweh have descended three of the most militaristic world religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and much of the history of western civilization is writ by the antagonism between these three. I suspect that if the subscription to astrology was that extensive, we would not have a much less tragic history of astrology itself to record. Never mind the fairly universal objection that astrology is meant only for the benefit and nurture of mankind: the exact same claims were and are put forth by these world religions.
We can suppose, of course, that what we're really addressing here is the state of the human condition, the reality of human nature. And it's difficult to argue the point. But what is most important to realize here is that not all such human endeavor is oriented to and maintained in this manner. While science and academia certainly have their versions of this sort of thing, the acknowledged intention is that the endeavors themselves be raised above that level. This is also generally true of the established arts. Why isn't, or can it not be, true for astrology as well?
As long as the majority of astrologers conceive of astrology as a form of religion, I see no potential for change in this state of affairs. It used to be said that astrology was the queen of sciences; we all know why this is no longer so, but we appear to now believe that astrology is not and can never be any sort of science again. The reality here is that any field of interest can be made a science (as well as an art, a philosophy, a practice or craft, etc.), all that is required is that it be treated as such, that the methodologies and philosophies of science be brought to bear on astrology.
It is now commonly thought, apparently, that astrology cannot be both a science and a religion, and maybe that's true, but I suggest that this depends on how both of these treat with astrology. The default mode is to position them as mutually exclusive antagonists, such that lays waste to any grounds upon which they meet, but that is the result of refusal to put forth any effort to understand or exert control over either of these pursuits. The fact is, I submit, that the state of astrology today is that of the 'wasted grounds' where science and religion have fought numerous battles. So it's not the fault of astrology itself, but how it has been used, that is the root of the Problem of Astrology, I think.
It would appear that there indeed exists much positive potential for astrology, not just as a matter of it's own essential value, but of the variety of possible and extant tools, skills, projects, ideas, etc., that continue to arise and be offered to the astrological community. Unfortunately, that community does not now have the means or inclination to accept or make use of these offerings. I've described this situation briefly as best I can in this post. The question now is: what can be done?
In my next post, I will address that question in some detail.
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Once upon a time I studied Okinawan Kenpo Karate, a very aggressive form of martial arts that originated in Okinawa. It was one of the best times of my life as far as my physical fitness goes and it was a stellar of way of releasing aggression and retraining your instincts and reflexes to be aggressive rather than defensive. Kenpo is known for being fairly undogmatic however most schools of Kenpo Karate agree on the following:
- Kenpo is a system of self-defense focusing almost entirely on counter-strikes. Typical schools of Kenpo do not teach initiating attacks against others.
- The goal of a Kenpo practitioner is to end a fight however he/she can as quickly and efficiently as possible.
- Kenpo is almost exclusively a stand-up martial art, using hand strikes, kicks, elbows, knees, throws, and in some cases, grappling joint locks to defend against an enemy.
It was fabulous! I advanced through my training quickly, earned my black belt, and truly felt like I'd connected with a physical activity in a way that I never felt with other sports or activities I tried. Then, I got hurt, moved, and was forced to stop. I've thought about returning to the art but ultimately decide against it every time. I realized that what I missed most isn't the fighting, the weapons, or the defense; I miss studying the kata.
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What is a kata?
Kata is a Japanese word that refers to repeated detailed choreographed patterns of movements often practiced solo. The goal of kata is to practice and retain proven techniques of self-defense. By performing the kata in a repetitive manner you develop the ability to execute techniques and movements in a natural, reflex-like manner which internalizes the movements so they can be executed and adapted under different circumstances, without thought or hesitation.
I would sometimes spend hours performing a kata over and over and over again. THAT is what I miss. I miss the deep focus of training my body to perform new fluid motions over and over again, to learn new positions and train new reflexes. It was incredible and it's been on my mind a lot lately, that's why I've decided to pick up yoga.
Yoga is not the same as kata. Let me repeat that, it is not the same at all. It is, however, my best alternative at this time. I took a few yoga classes once, a few years ago, but I had a hard time making the 6pm course time. Here in Atlanta there are literally hundreds of options for yoga but with my career it's hard for me to commit to a time and with this traffic it's even harder for me to commit to both a time and a location. Besides, what I loved about kata was the fact that it was personal, self-focused, and done individually. Being frank, I don't want to attend a class full of other people. I want to focus by myself.
I've been looking for something that would work for me and I think I found it in YogaDownload.com.
Why Yoga?
YogaDownload.com lets me practice the yoga at home, in my own time, alone. It gives me exactly what I want. I can choose whatever music I want, or no music at all. I can choose to light candles or open the windows or perform it in the pitch black if that's what I prefer and sometimes that is what I prefer. It's what I preferred when I did kata. It helped me to focus on what my body was doing rather than what was around me. Sometimes I need that.
It also lets me do yoga at 2am on a Saturday night if that is when the mood strikes me. Besides, I just really, really, really hate going to classes. I feel like there are already enough times on my time and the last thing I need is just one more place I have to be or one more thing I have to do. Can we just get a break from the obligations already?! Seriously.
If I get really in to it (and I think I might) I may have to set-up my own little yoga home studio when we buy our house next year. YogaDownload.com has these printable yoga pose guides you can print and frame and tons of video courses ranging from beginner to expert and even includes prenatal (you know…in case we're ever lucky enough to conceive and carry full-term).
Do you do yoga? Have you ever tried yogadownload.com? I'd love to hear your thoughts!


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Research Administration
Research and Scholarly Activities
Vice-President, Research
Authorization: Board of Governors
Approval Date: Dec 16, 2014
Amended: Mar 21, 2017
To establish general principles and procedures for the development, approval and administration of Research Projects conducted at the University of Saskatchewan (the "University").
The University is committed to excellence in Research and the administration of funding provided in support of that Research. All Research Agreements must be approved and signed by the Research Services and Ethics Office, the unit responsible for establishing and applying responsible Research conduct policies and procedures that meet the terms and conditions of the Funders and the University.
Scope of this Policy
The policy applies to all Research Projects and Research Programs conducted or proposed to be conducted by members of the University, on or off University premises, using University personnel, students, premises, resources, services, facilities, or equipment.
Related policies are: Eligibility to Apply for, Hold and Administer Research Funding; and Institutional Costs of Research.
This policy replaces the Administration of Research Funds policy and the Administration of Research Grants and Contracts policy.
1.0 Definitions
The following capitalized terms, whether used in the singular or plural, have the following meanings in this policy:
1.1 "Academic Home" means the college, school, division, department or unit in which the Principal Investigator holds their primary appointment.
1.2 "Administering Unit" means the college, school, division, department, centre or other university unit that accepts administrative responsibility for a Funded or Non-Funded Research Project. In cases where the Administering Unit is not the Academic Home of the Principal Investigator, they may transfer administrative responsibility for a Funded or Non-Funded Research Project to an Administering Unit with approval from their Academic Home and the Administering Unit that accepts the administrative responsibility.
1.3 "Co-Investigator" or "Co-I" means an individual participating in a Research Project who makes a significant contribution and plays a significant role.
1.4 "Direct Costs" means the budgeted expenditures for carrying out a Research Project at the University. Direct Costs may include: the salaries of Research assistants and stipends for graduate students; equipment and supply costs; travel and publication costs; user fees; and other costs allowed by the Funder.
1.5 "Eligible Member" mean members of the University who are eligible to apply for, hold and administer funds as provided for in Section 2 and Section 3 of the Eligibility to Apply for, Hold and Administer Research Funding Policy of the University.
1.6 "Funder" is defined as any organizational unit internal or external to the University which provides funding for the purposes of pursuing Research.
1.7 "Funded Research" means Research undertaken or proposed to be undertaken using financial and/or other (e.g. in-kind) support from a Funder or the University, whether by participation or competition, call for proposals, or pursuant to an agreement of any kind.
1.8 "Institutional Costs" means University expenditures incurred to benefit and support Research and for which it may not be possible to provide an exact itemization of the cost attributable to an individual Research Project. Institutional Costs are real costs to the University, and include, without limitation, building use and depreciation, utilities, maintenance and upgrade of library resources, computer and network support, management and administration of Research, financial services (including purchasing, financial reporting and accounting), legal services, human resource services, risk management services, technology transfer services, regulatory and Research compliance (including Research ethics, human ethics, animal ethics, and biohazard certification), hazardous waste disposal, controlled goods, radiation safety, occupational safety, campus security and liability insurance.
1.9 "Non-Funded Research" means Research undertaken or proposed to be undertaken using non-financial means pursuant to an agreement of any kind.
1.10 "Principal Investigator" or "PI" means the individual responsible for the intellectual leadership of a Research Project or Research Program. For clinical Research, the PI is defined as the person responsible for the conduct of clinical Research at a Research site, which is where the clinical trial related activities are conducted.
1.11 "Research" is defined as an undertaking intended to extend or apply knowledge through a disciplined inquiry or systematic investigation of scholarly and artistic activity.
1.12 "Research Fund" is defined as the means by which Research Projects are established within the University financial system.
1.13 "Research Project" is defined as Research undertaken with an intended inquiry, examination, defined question or hypothesis, start and end dates, deliverables, and budget (if applicable).
1.14 "Research Program" is defined as a collection of Research Projects which are aligned around a central theme. While each Research Project is complete within itself, it may have overlapping staff, timelines or deliverables with other Research Projects within the Research Program. As such, managing the Research Projects together generates savings or synergies that would not exist if they were managed and run separately.
1.15 "Research Agreement" means any document between the University and another entity for the purpose of Research, documented through (not an exhaustive list), funding proposals, Research contracts, Research grants, technical services agreements, service agreements, clinical Research agreements, memoranda of understanding, etc.
2.0 Proposals for Externally Funded Research
2.1 Any Eligible Member (as defined in the policy Eligibility to Apply for, Hold and Administer Research Funding) of the University who wishes the University to secure financial or other support for Research shall prepare a proposal which includes, at a minimum, the following information: a statement of work; identification of the individuals and their affiliation who would undertake the work; the facilities to be used; and a budget for the Research Project or Research Program (if applicable), including a provision for the recovery of the institutional costs incurred in support of the proposed Research (if allowed by the Funder). This would include the total direct costs of the Research and the associated Institutional Costs of Research (ICR) as outlined in the ICR Policy and Procedures.
2.2 Effective (date following approval of policy amendment), under no circumstances shall a proposal or budget for a Research Project or Research Program be prepared or approved which provides for a PI Fee to be paid to an Eligible Member.
2.3 Individuals must comply with the published Policies and Procedures of the University and of the Research Funder to be considered eligible to act as a PI or Co-I.
2.4 All such proposals must be approved by the PI, Co-Is (if applicable) and the appropriate officials in the Administering Unit in which the PI (and Co-Is, if applicable and as required) holds his/her letter of appointment, and then sent to the Research Services and Ethics Office, Office of the Vice-President Research, for institutional review and approval before being sent to the Research Funder. If the proposal is associated with a centre/institute or secondary unit, and using resources within that centre/institute/unit, then in addition to the Administering Unit, approval must also be obtained from the centre/institute/unit.
3.0 Negotiation of Agreement Terms and Institutional Authorization
3.1 All proposed Research Agreements must be submitted to the Research Services and Ethics Office, Office of the Vice-President Research, which will ensure that the terms and conditions are consistent with all applicable University policies, regulations and procedures as may be, from time to time, enacted and amended.
3.2 The contracting party for a Research Agreement shall be identified as the University of Saskatchewan represented by the Board of Governors.
3.3 Principal Investigators, department heads, associate deans research, deans, directors are not authorized to sign a Research Agreement on behalf of the University. No Research Agreement for Funded Research shall be binding on the University unless it is signed as per the University Signing Authority Policy and Use of Corporate Seal Policy.
4.0 Institutional Awards
4.1 In the case of institutional awards, such as the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Major Science Initiatives (MSI) etc., regardless of the named PI, these awards will be administered by the Vice-President Research.
4.2 The Vice-President Research may complete a delegation of signing authority form for each institutional award. The delegated individual will be responsible for all expenditures.
5.0 Roles and Responsibilities
5.1 Research administration has many requirements in order to comply with regulations, agreements, policies and procedures. There are many parties involved in the administration of Research with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Principal Investigators, Co-Is, the Administering Unit, Research Services and Ethics Office, and Financial Services, must understand and follow their respective roles regarding the administration of Research at the University. The Research Administration Procedures outline all respective roles and responsibilities.
6.0 Full Cost Recovery in Research
6.1 The University is committed to the principle of recovering the full costs incurred in support of Research. Costs include the Direct Costs and Institutional Costs of Research unless the Research is subject to more restrictive, formal, publicized terms or policies regarding cost recovery associated with a Funder as described in the Institutional Costs of Research Policy and Procedures.
The Research Services and Ethics Office, Office of the Vice-President Research is responsible for the administration of this policy and is authorized to modify procedures. Any significant modifications of procedures shall be reported annually to University Council.
The Research Services and Ethics Office does not have the authority to sign-off on behalf of the University on Research proposals or Research Agreements, or authorize Research Funds where the policies provided herein have not been complied with.
Related Documents
Research Administration Procedures
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Contact Information
Contact Person: Director, Research Services and Ethics Office, Office of the Vice-president research
Phone: 306-966-8575
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I recently caught a short article in The Economist on how Nordstrom's and Macy's are using mobile in the shopping mix. It's a good reminder and again points to a radical change coming in the way we see POS or point of sale terminals. Mobile solutions are replacing static registers while also making it easier to present the right product to the right person in a way that delights them (see iBeacon). In contrast to the Visa PayWave (see also this) I've written about , Nordstrom demonstrates how inventory, online and in-store can begin to empower their assistants to really begin to build a shopping relationship with me. From having a product/upc scanner in the pocket to knowing what other sizes are in stock, or taking my payment there and on the spot. Soon the customer will be able to do this all too and that will further improve the relationship. It may not be long before you sign-in to the store with Facebook and then it remembers.
In this change to moving service and payment to small personal devices, it is easy to miss other new benefits that may emerge. Customers are served where they shop. Registers aren't left unattended. While customers don't like to be stalked, assistants are now armed with a helpfulness device. Now that connection is the new learning on how to get what you want or pay the money. Rather than just wanting to ring your sale up, they can find inventory and answer other questions. Assistants also clear up, or hang up stuff rather than having a traditional register place that is a mess. Choreography changes. Along with stock management, just another way to avoid more markdowns.
Nordstrom's newest stores have more mobile devices for accepting payment than fixed ones. With them, salespeople can tell, for example, if a customer is close to an upgrade, which would entitle her to such goodies as free alterations to clothing. She can then be encouraged to claim the benefit by buying a little more. Nordstrom's grasp of inventory is good enough that shoppers can check online whether an item is available at a specific store.
One of Macy's tricks is to use its shops as distribution centres. This expands choice online and prevents stock going unsold. An unwanted coat in Boston can be shipped to a shivering shopper in Boise. That sounds expensive but "if you can prevent a markdown, that covers a lot of shipping costs and satisfies the customer," says Karen Hoguet, Macy's finance chief.
See more:
- Why Relationships and the Shopping Experience Will Define Mobile Payments
- Pocket retail: personalisation and localisation are the secrets to success
- What is Apple's Pocket Store Strategy? Why Its Next SVP Retail Must Have One


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At the end of the 2014 regular legislative session, lawmakers slipped in a budget proviso funneling $75,000 through the state tourism agency for the Carolina Panthers' summer training camp at Wofford College in Spartanburg.
Then-Gov. Nikki Haley vetoed the proviso, writing in her veto message: "The National Football League is an enormously successful multi-billion dollar organization and we're proud to host the Panthers' training camp in Spartanburg, but it's hard to imagine they need $75,000 from South Carolina's taxpayers."
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How your body is changing
Hormones released throughout your pregnancy do two things. They influence the growth of your baby, and they send signals that change the way your own organs function. In fact, the hormonal changes of pregnancy affect nearly every part of your body.
Here's an overview of what's happening, and where:
Your hormones
Hormone production is continuing to increase this month. This increase is likely resulting in some unpleasant signs and symptoms. You might be experiencing nausea and vomiting, breast soreness, headaches, dizziness, increased urination, insomnia and vivid dreams. Nausea and vomiting may be the most significant hormone-related change you've experienced since last month.
Scientists aren't quite sure why hormonal changes cause nausea and vomiting. Changes in your gastrointestinal system in response to high hormone levels almost certainly play a role. Increased progesterone slows down the pace at which your food passes through your digestive tract. Therefore, your stomach empties somewhat more slowly, which may make you more likely to have nausea and vomiting. Estrogen may have a direct effect on the brain that triggers nausea.
Nausea and vomiting affect up to 70 percent of pregnant women. These uncomfortable problems typically begin between the fourth and eighth weeks of pregnancy. They usually subside by 14 weeks. Even though it's commonly called morning sickness, it can occur at any time of day.
For some women, nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy are accompanied by excessive salivation — an uncommon condition called ptyalism. It may be that women with ptyalism aren't producing any more saliva than usual, but that they're having trouble swallowing it because of their nausea.
Your heart and circulatory system
Your body is continuing to produce more blood to carry oxygen and nutrients to your baby. Increased blood production will continue throughout your pregnancy. It will be especially high this month and next, while pregnancy is making enormous demands on your circulation.
Despite this effort, your blood vessels are dilating even more quickly and your circulation is just a bit short of blood volume. To accommodate these changes, your heart is continuing to pump harder and faster. These changes in your circulatory system may be causing fatigue, dizziness and headaches.
Your breasts
Stimulated by increased production of estrogen and progesterone, your breasts are continuing to enlarge as the milk-producing glands inside them grow in size. You may also notice that your areolas, the rings of brown or reddish-brown skin around your nipples, are starting to enlarge and darken. This is the result of increased blood circulation. Your breasts may feel tender, tingly or sore. Or they may feel fuller and heavier.
Your uterus
If this is your first pregnancy, your uterus used to be about the size of a pear. Now it's starting to expand. By the time you deliver your baby, it will have expanded to about 1,000 times its original size.
To house your growing baby, your uterus expands from an area within your pelvis to just below your rib cage. Through this month and the next, your uterus will fit inside your pelvis. However, its increasing size may cause you to feel the need to urinate more often. You may also leak urine when you sneeze, cough or laugh. This is a simple matter of geography. During the first few months of pregnancy, your bladder lies directly in front and slightly under your uterus. As your uterus grows, your bladder gets crowded out.
Throughout these weeks, the placenta is continuing to grow and secure its attachment to the uterus. Sometimes this results in minor bleeding, which usually is normal. But if this does happen, let your health care provider know about it.
Your cervix
This month, your cervix becomes bluish tinged and continues to soften. Over the course of your pregnancy, your cervix will become softer and softer. This prepares it for thinning (effacement) and opening (dilation), necessary parts of childbirth.
By the seventh week of pregnancy, the mucous plug is well established in your cervix. This structure blocks the cervical canal during pregnancy, to prevent germs from getting into your uterus. The plug loosens and passes late in pregnancy, typically when your cervix starts to thin out and open in preparation for labor.
Your vagina
You may experience some vaginal bleeding during the first 12 weeks of your pregnancy. Statistics indicate that as many as 40 percent of pregnant women may have some bleeding. However, statistics also indicate that fewer than half these women will have miscarriages.
The 'warmed-up' effect
If you've been pregnant once before, you may notice that you're bigger than you were at the same time during your last pregnancy. You may also notice that side effects seem to be happening earlier this time.
You could call this the "warmed-up" effect. Like a balloon that's easier to blow up the second or third time around, your uterus may expand more quickly and easily once it has been through one pregnancy. Your abdominal muscles and ligaments have already been stretched once, so they give more easily as your uterus expands on the second go-round.
The downside is that because your uterus is getting bigger, faster, you may experience symptoms such as pelvic pressure and back pain sooner in this pregnancy than you did in your first pregnancy.
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Pen Jillette has his 10 Commandments up from his new book. I take issue with what I'm seeing as naivete. So, blog post!
1. The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
2. Do not put things or even ideas above other human beings. (Let's scream at each other about Kindle versus iPad, solar versus nuclear, Republican versus Libertarian, Garth Brooks versus Sun Ra— but when your house is on fire, I'll be there to help.)
3. Say what you mean, even when talking to yourself. (What used to be an oath to (G)od is now quite simply respecting yourself.)
4. Put aside some time to rest and think. (If you're religious, that might be the Sabbath; if you're a Vegas magician, that'll be the day with the lowest grosses.)
5. Be there for your family. Love your parents, your partner, and your children. (Love is deeper than honor, and parents matter, but so do spouse and children.)
6. Respect and protect all human life. (Many believe that "Thou shalt not kill" only refers to people in the same tribe. I say it's all human life.)
7. Keep your promises. (If you can't be sexually exclusive to your spouse, don't make that deal.)
8. Don't steal. (This includes magic tricks and jokes — you know who you are!)
9. Don't lie. (You know, unless you're doing magic tricks and it's part of your job. Does that make it OK for politicians, too?)
10. Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
I like the beginning of the first point he makes. Human intelligence and creativity are awesome. Love is suspect. It smacks of woo. Altruism, self sacrifice, loyalty and so forth are things that should be discussed separately. After all, what is love? Baby, don't hurt me no more.
The second point is crap. "Do not put things or even ideas above other human beings." That's unusable. It sounds like it makes sense. But every dollar you don't spend in starving African nations is a dollar spent that could have saved lives. It reeks of feel good and when you dig you get to economy which is the balance of limited resources against unlimited wants. You can't always put people first. People are important. Point two is poorly thought out.
I can get behind point 3. Honesty is important. Privacy is also important. Say what you mean. But leave room for jokes and privacy.
Point 4 is okay albeit boring. It's like rest and have down time.
Point 5 I take some issue with. "Family" is a loaded word. I think we covered people being important on point 2. But if your family is killing you as they do by draining you and being familiar strangers no matter how much you just want to make sense, drop them. Or at least reduce their impact. For the sake of all people you should be willing to tailor your involvement to sustainable levels. Penn doesn't give you all that leeway and promotes that "love is deeper than honor". No. Love is a foil. Blood doesn't make a friendship. If your relatives are friends, more power to you.
Point 6 is point 2 again. But this time it can be an argument for pro-life stances. I disagree with it.
Point 7 is Point 3. Keep your promises is a lot like say what you mean. Furthermore, I think your word is important but is it the seventh most important thing? No. That's because you need to be willing to grow and change at any time and sometimes that affects your current promise.
Point 8 is simple "don't steal." It's naive. Steal if you must to survive. If you steal from me, we have a conflict. And so it goes. It is unnatural to own property and with desperate times full of people at wide varieties of income, well, I just hope they are doing whatever they can think of to survive. I think that's the appropriate game theory.
Point 9 is Point 7 and Point 2. Don't Lie. Say what you mean which involves keeping your promises. Is honesty that important? No. Falsifiability is.
Point 10 is the joke at the end representing the don't covet clause of the Old Testament. It's not serious and so I won't overly debug it. I think ambition is generally an awesome thing. Channel yours.
Soon, I will come up with my rebuttal to the 10 Commandments but I haven't decided if it's important to come up with my top ten or just to try and structure my most important concepts that I personally would advocate.
Stay tuned.


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- Don't cram! Instead follow your plan.
- Get enough rest the night before and eat a good breakfast on the day of the test.
- During the rest make sure you have everything you are allowed to bring into the exam room.
- Understand how the test is scored: Some exams drop points for answered or incorrect answers. Be sure to check the rules on your particular test. Some times it's better to guess, other times it's best to leave the questions answered.
- Read and understand instructions and directions!
- Manage Your time well. Some sections my give you less time than others.
- If you are stuck, move on. However some test do not let you go back to previous questions.
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- If you are before time is up, take the time to review your exam if you are allowed to. This will help you catch careless mistakes but be sure not to start second guessing yourself.
- Relax and remain calm during the exam.
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Ask for guidance and assistance. If it helps get some additional tutoring either through a teacher or a tutoring service. You can also form a study group if you learn well in groups.
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You have a vision. Regardless if you are planning to buy your holiday house or simply invest money in Costa Blanca, you have a dream you want to pursue. Our main goal it to do everything in our power to help you fulfill this dream. This is why it is vital that we get to know you and get to know your expectations. This is a starting point before any property purchase.
If you already know what you are looking for we are ready start looking for property for yourself. Not only among the properties we have listed in our office but also among all the agencies we work with. This will allow you to concentrate on choosing the right property for you without running around from one agency to another and explaining everywhere your expectations and what you are looking for. You will save a lot of energy and your precious time that you can use on something else like playing tennis or sunbathing.
First of all we search in our database for the right property, our database is connected to our partners operating in Costa Blanca. This is the way we search for the best property for you among hundreds of properties for sale. We will present you with all the opportunities we think will fit within your criteria. Then we start scrutinizing them one by one following conversations with you in order to reach several properties that we think you would love and would like to see.
Bearing in mind our experience and over 30 years experience of our partner Jetvillas.com we are convinced we will be able to fulfill your expectations and offer you the gems of Costa Blanca.
When you are ready to become happy owner of the property on the beautiful and sunny coast we will assist you to the very end of the process. We can help you organize the whole process step by step from from finding the dream villa to organizing notary public to compleate and exchange. We would like all the steps to be clear and if they are any questions we will ask them and answer them to make sure all is in order.
For as long as you are here in Spain we are able to help you not only during the process of buying or selling your property. We can also offer you guidance on local schools (if you are thinking of moving here with young family) as we have gone through the process ourselves. We can suggest great restaurants from local tapas bars to great steakhouses. We can help you with local sightseeing recommendations and also with organizing necessary paperwork for new residents of this beautiful corner of Spain.
Our partner Jetvillas.com is well respected estate agent from Moraira, with 30 years experience in construction, renovating and selling property in Costa Blanca. Jetvilas.com have successfully build and sold hundreds of villas over the years gaining trust and fantastic contacts with local authorities and local professionals.
If you already own property here and you are thinking of renting it out please also let us know we can help you with this.
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