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I have had these stories bookmarked, some for a while now, and I have to share the headlines (and sub-headlines, if applicable) with you, dear readers, so you can experience the full range of "advice" going on here.
Debate at Harvard University Asks if Hooking Up is Degrading or Liberating" (ABC)
"You Like That, Baby? You Like That?
Do adult films really ruin men in bed?" (Nerve)
"Why You Shouldn't Have Sex" (MomLogic)
"Is your date a 'stud or dud?' Ask your phone" (CNN)
I know, I know ... sex has been, is and will be discussed ad nauseum for all of time, and these articles are like, a molecule's worth of the commentary out there on the topic. What kills me is all the contradiction out there. It's fine to do it, don't do it, it's degrading, no it's not, porn is bad, no it's not, no really, it is, oh and by the way, do a background check everyone you date, because everyone lies, except for those who don't.
One thing that is crystal clear: Figure out what you are comfortable with, and forget the rest of this crap.


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Let's start with appetizers. Nothing gets a gathering off to the right start like creative finger food.
Ever cook in a wig? This may be your last chance in 2009 to don one for a sure-fire flammable party hit - Crepes Suzette. OK, you may be too shy, and your Julia Child accent weak -- well, then just gather your friends around the computer screen and bathe in the warm glow of my Julia Child Crepes Suzette Video - where this bejeweled and coiffed Chef channels the original Top Chef, Julia Child. Another festive holiday favorite of note is my Egg Nog Recipe & Tipsy Tree Trimming Video. I take you step-by-step through the making of a homemade egg nog; then join in as I attempt to trim the tree after one egg nog too many! Another party beverage is my revolutionary rum drink video for a 99 Cent Mojito.
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Ian Brown: Sing When You're Winning
There's none more Manc than King Monkey, and the former Stone Roses lead singer details his love for Manchester United...
"Man City? Man City? Nah, he's a f***in' fraud, man!
No sooner has Ian Brown shaken FourFourTwo by the hand, he's questioning a recent issue of this very magazine. It featured Badly Drawn Boy, resplendent in a Manchester City scarf.
"He's a Bolton fan. He's not Man City."
Neither is Ian Brown 'Man City', but by rights he should be.
Brown grew up in Timperley, a place where "the houses were either Red or Blue." Brown's house was Blue, but he went over to the other side in 1968, aged just five.
"Me uncle went down to Wembley for the '68 European Cup final against Benfica and brought me back a programme," he smiles. "I was hooked from that moment on."
Predictably, the family took his defection hard. "I was the red sheep of the family because they were all City season ticket holders; me father, brother, two of me uncles, brother-in-law, sister, niece, all of 'em. Me nana supported 'em too and she used to buy me City moneyboxes and City badges to try and turn me. But I was strong. I'd be like, no way, I'm a Red. They tried to turn me, but I wasn't gonna turn."
In 1971, celebrating his eighth birthday, Brown stood in the Stretford End for the first time as United thumped Southampton 4-1. "I remember that day so clear, man, it was like it was last week. It was such a buzz being in such a massive place. Obviously Old Trafford was a lot smaller than it is now, but it was all terracing and the atmosphere was just amazing."
The hero that afternoon had been Alan Gowling, who helped himself to a hat-trick. But for Ian Brown, his mates and numerous undersized kids around the world, there was only one true hero; El Beatle.
- Best United moment?
I should say winning the Champions League in 1999, but I was at a gig in Belfast that night so didn't get to the Nou Camp. So I'd say beating Barcelona in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1993 in Rotterdam. That was fucking amazing.
- Worst United moment?
Probably when George Best left us in '74. Me dad just said, "Don't worry about that, come and support City instead!"
- All-time United hero?
I'd have said Best, but I met him on the street in 1990 and he was an ignorant bastard. He couldn't even be arsed to say hello. So I'd have to say Cantona, for how he represented himself. He gave his whole soul to Man United and we could see that.
- All-time United villain?
I don't 'ate anyone but I think it's funny it took Forlan so long to score a goal. When my sons and me play in the garden and we spoon it wide, we call it doing a Forlan. It's amazing how well he's done since he left us though.
- Who do you hate?
I don't hate any other teams or anyone 'cos of where they're from. Anyone who claims their city's better than anyone else's is mad. Why? Have you got a cooler hospital, then?
- Dream signing?
Ronaldinho. He'd have been amazing had we got him, but he wouldn't have liked the weather.
"George Best was the man. When I was a kid he used to have this boutique on Bridge Street in Manchester, which is where the village barber is nowadays. We used to get a train into town every day and there'd be posses of little kids waiting outside his shop to see him. He'd turn up in his yellow Lotus Europa, with some blonde in the passenger seat, and disappear round the corner. A few minutes later, he'd come back with a big bag of Blackjacks chews, hand 'em out to us and tell us to all run along. You can't do that these days, giving sweets to kids, but it was alright back then."
His passion for United was shared by John Squire and Mani, "Reni was an ex-City ball boy, so he supported them, but the other two were both United. Mani was always a big Red. In 1994, when we'd just finished The Second Coming, we knew we'd be going on a world tour the next year and I was sat there with Mani. I said to him, 'We're gonna have an amazing year in 1995, and he just turned round and said, "Yeah, you're right, we're gonna win the league, we'll win the FA Cup… it'll be amazing." The rest is rock and roll history, with the Roses imploding in a mess of drugs and resentment.
Since going solo, Brown has come up smelling of roses, having just released The Greatest, the first of several greatest hits albums he has planned. Despite relocating to West London, he gets back to Old Trafford as often as his schedule allows and is usually flanked by two of his three sons. "The two who live in Manchester with my ex are both firm United. I actually launched my Golden Greats LP at Old Trafford at the Leicester game in 1999 and we had all these balloons with my face on whacking around us. After a while, one of 'em says: 'These balloons are bugging me, Dad, I can't see the game. Can I pop them?' I thought that was really funny – my mug getting in the way of the game."
The other son, Emilio, lives in London with Brown and his Mexican wife, Fabiola. "She supports Tuzezo, a Mexico City team," he smiles. "I've got mates over there who keep telling me that next time I'm over, they're gonna take me to see 'em. I can't wait."
Emilio's allegiance, though is more of a concern. "He should be a Red really, but his pals are Chelsea and they're all saying Man United are rubbish, so he looks as though he'll support them instead. It won't be easy to take if he does, but they're his local team so what can I do? I'm still working on it though."
In the shorter term, Brown's biggest concern is that United bounce from a trophy-free season last time around. "We need to be winning titles every season," he says, "but obviously that got a lot harder with Abramovich's money."
It's perhaps surprising, particularly given his fiercely and famously anti-authority stance, Brown thinks Malcolm Glazer could be the man to reel Chelsea in this season.
"I don't agree that he'll be bad for United, like a lot of Reds do, and I certainly don't agree with all that burning effigies business," he shrugs. "United's a PLC and someone was always likely to buy it. From what I've seen and heard so far, Glazer will make money available for transfers and the standards will be maintained. He understands the history of the club and what we're about and it seems that we've just got to give him a chance. Time will tell, though."
And with that, King Monkey stubs out his fag, shakes FourFourTwo's hand… then shakes his head once again at Badly Drawn Boy. "City? He's from Bolton…"
Interview: Nick Harper. Portraits: Steve Orino. From the November 2005 issue of FourFourTwo.


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Derelict London tour: Silvertown
Tim Metcalfe works for architects Pollard Thomas Edwards and shares his experience on the Derelict London tour of Silvertown and The Royal Docks.
Silvertown was born more than a century ago. Located in East London between Canary Wharf and City Airport Silvertown, originally a place of invention Silvertown led the way in nautical engineering and new ways of milling.
On the Derelict London tour, which was led by Paul Talling, we visited iconic buildings including Millennium Mills, the derelict Tate Institute and a Victorian church, now the Brick Lane Music Hall. This area is surreal, and has an edgy yet tranquil ambiance, a treasure-trove of potential.
Historically, Silvertown was the home of inventions including nautical engineering, new ways of milling and waterproof clothing and undersea cables. It now enters its next stage of innovation and invention and will be home to a new reinvented 'atelier' on a grande scale and will become a place where people who make things, can show and share them.
Responsible for the reinvention are The Silvertown Partnership (Chelsfield Properties, First Base and Macquarie Capital) and you can find out more about the future plans of Silvertown visit the website: www.silvertownlondon.com
You can also find out more about the Derelict London tours, led by Paul Talling, on his website: www.derelictlondon.com


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What is a stroopwafel? Same question I had when I saw this was our Daring Kitchen challenge for March. So, a stroopwafel is a waffle biscuit (or cookie, depending on where you live) filled with a sticky delicious carmel which is the "stroop". Very popular in their native country, the Netherlands where market vendors continue to make these in the traditional way and their delicious scent calls to customers.Cinnamon flavours the biscuit and the filling but maybe other spices, vanilla or finely ground nuts could be used.
Our host Juliana from Egg Day said "They are a little fiddly and timing is critical. They are a yeasted cookie dough made in a shallow waffle cookie press, like a pizzelle iron, split down the middle and filled with a gooey dark brown butterscotch filling." Wow, Juliana wasn't kidding! I struggled splitting these little wafels down the middle! I used my electric pizzelle maker but had to be careful not to close it too tightly lest I create a wafel so thin that splitting was impossible. Nonetheless, stroop wafels are delicious and I thank Juliana for introducing me to these delights.
This is Juliana's recipe with my comments in red
Servings: 24
For the Wafels:
1/2 cup / 120ml warm water (105-110°F / 40-43°C)
1/4 ounce / 7g / 1 envelope active dry yeast (regular, not quick rise)
1/2 cup / 100g granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup / 2 sticks / 8 ounces / 225g unsalted butter, melted
2 large eggs
4 cups / 500g all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For the Stroop Filling:
1 1/2 cups / 300g brown sugar, packed
1 cup / 2 sticks / 8 ounces / 225g unsalted butter
1/3 cup / 80ml dark corn syrup (see note below)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Oil spray for cookie press (I didn't need this, there is a lot of butter in the dough)
IF you can't find dark corn syrup here are some substitutes
1/4 cup / 60ml light corn syrup plus 4 teaspoons/ 20ml molasses
1/3 cup / 80ml molasses
2/5 cup / 80g packed brown sugar mixed with 4 teaspoons / 20ml hot water
In a stand mixer bowl combine water, yeast, a pinch of sugar from the ½ cup and salt. When the yeast is foamy (about 3 minutes) add the remaining sugar and butter, blend together. Add the eggs and mix. Add the flour and cinnamon. Mix one minute beyond just combined. Allow the dough to rest, covered or wrapped in film, while you make the stroop.
In a heavy bottom pan combine the brown sugar, butter and corn syrup. Over medium high heat, bring mixture to a boil, not stirring. Attach candy thermometer.
In a heavy bottom pan combine the brown sugar, butter and corn syrup. Over medium high heat, bring mixture to a boil, not stirring. (I stirred otherwise it would have burnt) Attach candy thermometer. Brush the sugar down from the sides of the pan with a wet pastry brush. Bring to 234-240°F / 112-115°C / soft ball stage. If you don't have a candy thermometer, you can test it – at this point the syrup dropped in to cold water can be formed in to a soft and flexible ball. Remove from heat, add cinnamon. Stir until smooth. (I then cooled the pan in a bowl of cool water because I was worried about the caramel overcooking. Next time I would probably stop cooking the caramel before it reached temperature. My caramel was quite firm towards the end of making the wafels.)
Preheat waffle iron.
Measure the dough into 24 to 26 x 1 1/2 ounce / 42g balls. Roll into round balls.
Lay out a cutting board, round or decorative cookie cutter, knife, and offset spatula.
In quick order spray the cookie press, put in a ball of dough into each side of the cookie press. Close quickly using pressure to flatten the dough. Timing varies for each iron, roughly 1-3 minutes, allow your cookies to cook. Look for the steam coming from your press to diminish noticeably. You are looking for a dark golden brown. If they are undercooked they will not be crispy when cool. If they are overcooked you cannot split the cookie to fill it.
As soon as the cookie is cooked (it may be puffed, if you're lucky) cut with the round cutter. This gives you a clean edge to halve the cookie.
Cut it through the middle to make two disks. It will be hot, use a clean tea towel to handle the cookie if necessary. Spread 1-2 tablespoons stroop onto one half of the cookie, then top with the other half. Allow to cool. If you move quickly, you can refill the cookie press after you've cut and split the cookie.
Those cookies can cook while you are filling the ones you just removed from the iron. If you move quickly, you can refill the cookie press after you've cut and split the cookie. Those cookies can cook while you are filling the ones you just removed from the iron.


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Watch the video for ProbCause's "Chicago Style."
Chicago's own ProbCause shared his track "Chicago Style" with the world two weeks ago, and now the track has gotten a short video of its own. Cutting off the footwork-inspired last minute of the track, the video only runs 1:37.
In it, we see footage of ProbCause rapping interspersed with B-roll of the Chicago streets that he calls home. Prob interpolates some lines from Twista's 1997 single "Adrenaline Rush," showing devotion to his hometown's legacy.
Be sure to listen to ProbCause's recent, Chance The Rapper-featuring track "LSD" if you haven't already (as well as its Hood Internet remix), and follow ProbCause on Twitter @ProbCause.


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Transparency and accountability are essential in developing a responsible microfinance sector.
We encourage our partners to report to the MIX Market, a global, web-based source for financial and social performance data on MFIs. Of our partners, 55 % report financial performance and 45 % report social performance to the MIX Market. The percentage of microfinance partners that were financially rated increased to 55 %. The percentage of partners with an external social rating increased to 25 % in 2012
We also ask our partners to disclose their interest rates to MFTransparency.
Our partners provide us with the interest rate details on their primary financial product(s). Oikocredit determines whether the interest rate is acceptable using the knowledge of partners and field staff and assessing the local market.


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Saturday, 7. May 2005anti-christ, May 7, 2005 1:45:00 AM AEST
"The Antichrist Version 666"
This book could possibly be a real live account of how the Antichrist grew up, and his controversial theories to how and why we are here. The book ties the Mayan calander with the Bible's prophecies. The Mayan calander ends in 2012. The Bible states in revealation, that an Antichrist will rise seven years before the end of the world. Then by doing the math the time of the antichrist is now, the beginning of 2006. It also ties the Egyptian, Mayan, and all other pyramids that had been built around the world at the same time, to the Antichrist, and how they were built for his eyes only, to ensure eternal life. The book explores why Venus was worshiped by the Egyptians and Mayans, and why it is so important to our existance, eternally. This book is the Antichrist's testament, and explains why he is God, and how science explains all the mysteries of the Bible, from longivity of life in Genesis, to why Jesus' blood was drained for the Holy Grail. This book rocks, leaving "Left Behind" in the dust. It also explains Why the ourborous was so important and how 2012 is the end of this world, but also the begining of the new world. This book is give's you a fresh new perspective to our existance. This book shows that religion was created as a mind police to keep all the world behaved and civil so that we can get to the level of technology that we have today. Because, it was truely vital for our eternal existance. The "End Of Days" has begun!!! "The Antichrist Version 666" written by Cloise Orand II is now available at www.theantichristversion666.com. Check out the website for your chance to get an autographed copy of the most eye opening book you'll ever read. Cloise will be appearing at Barnes and Noble at Harvard University on 10/20/06 at 7:00 p.m. for an inhouse book signing. He's also been invited to the Montel Williams Show, look for him there.
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Nominations Announced for the 38th Annual Annie Awards
Dec 06, 2010, 11:00 ET
BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announces nominations today for the 38th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year's best in the field of animation including best animated feature, television production, commercials, short subjects, video games and outstanding individual achievements. The 2010 nominations for Best Animated Features are: Despicable Me (Illumination Entertainment); How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation); Tangled (Disney); The Illusionist (Django Films); Toy Story 3 (Disney/Pixar).
Nominations for this year's Best Short Subject include "Coyote Falls" (Warner Bros. Animation), "Day & Night" (Pixar), "Enrique Wrecks the World" (House of Chai), "The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger" (Plymptoons Studio) and "The Renter" (Jason Carpenter). Best Animated Television Productions include "Futurama" (The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox), "Kung Fu Panda Holiday" (DreamWorks Animation), "Scared Shrekless" (DreamWorks Animation), "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (Lucasfilm Animation, Ltd.) and "The Simpsons" (Gracie Films).
Nominations for Best Animated Television Production for Children are "SpongeBob SquarePants," and "Fanboy & Chum Chum" (Nickelodeon), "Adventure Time" and "Regular Show" (Cartoon Network) and "Cloudbread" (GIMC).
"This has been an unprecedented year for animation, as the high quality of work represented by our nominees will attest," says ASIFA-Hollywood President Antran Manoogian. "On behalf of ASIFA-Hollywood, we congratulate all of the nominees and their respective studios."
For a complete listing of Annie Award nominations, tickets and event information, visit www.annieawards.org. Winners will be announced at the 38th Annual Annie Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 5, 2011, at UCLA's Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, CA.
Special juried awards honoring career achievement and exceptional contributions to animation will also be awarded: Winsor McCay Award – Brad Bird, Eric Goldberg and Matt Groening for career contributions to the art of animation; June Foray Award – Ross Iwamoto for significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation; Ub Iwerks Award – Autodesk for the development of digital entertainment creation tools that play an essential role in animated productions, films, video games and commercials worldwide; Special Achievement Annie Award – "Waking Sleeping Beauty" for the documentary about the turbulent and fruitful years of Disney Animation (1984-1994) when the studio went from outworn anachronism to Hollywood juggernaut, creating a string of influential films and ushering in a 'second golden age' of animation.
The Annie Awards' black-tie ceremony will feature a lively mix of animation luminaries, celebrity presenters and comedic talent to celebrate this year's best of the best. A pre-reception begins at 5:00 pm with the awards ceremony following 7:00 pm. A post-show celebration immediately follows at UCLA's Royce Hall. More than 1,500 entertainment industry insiders are expected to attend the annual Annie Awards.
ASIFA-Hollywood is the largest of an international network of chapters and supports a range of animation initiatives through its membership. Current projects include an animation archive, library and museum, classes and screenings, and animated film preservation efforts. The Industry's oldest and most prestigious award, The Annie Award is considered an important industry benchmark and an annual predictor of the Academy Award for best animated feature.
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Machines Corp. has led the nation with the number of U.S.
patents earned. Last year, with 8,088 earned patents, IBM
became the first company to receive more than 8,000 U.S.
patents in a single year and also marked the 24th consecutive
year the company has topped the list of U.S. patent recipients.
Behind the numbers is IBM's intellectual property team of
more than 100 lawyers. These lawyers are tasked with managing intellectual property portfolios for the Armonk, New
York-headquartered company and generating income from
IP, which in 2016, came to more than a cool $1.6 billion. They
are also actively engaging in advancing IP policy matters.
It's certainly no easy task. But with more than two decades
as a leader in the IP space, you'd expect nothing less than seasoned experts who have managing intellectual property portfolios down to a science. Even when talking about IBM's tens
of thousands of patents and hundreds of trademarks, IBM's
intellectual property team doesn't disappoint.
Years of experience have resulted in a patenting process that
runs like a "machine," says Mark Ringes, vice president and
assistant general counsel at IBM, who leads the IP team. "The
whole patenting process is almost a factory-like structure in
that we set filing targets by business unit every year," he says.
The team works closely with the business side and gets weeklyupdates on the number of patents that have been issued fromthe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, he says, "so it's a very,very carefully managed process throughout the organization."This sophistication also colors the way the IP teamapproaches litigation, says John Desmarais, founding part-ner in the New York City-based firm Desmarais LLP, whoworks as outside counsel on IP matters for IBM. More thanfive years ago, in 2010, IBM and a number of other compa-nies were sued together for patent infringement, Desmaraisrecalls. It became evident, he says, that it would be compli-cated to coordinate with all the defendants to come up with aunified strategy, so IBM volunteered to go first as the test case.
And it paid off. IBM's motion for summary judgment of
noninfringement was granted. Meanwhile, the rest of the
defendants faced a very different scenario, Desmarais says.
"It was a very risky thing to do," he explains. "And I don't
know that a lot of clients would've done that … whereas IBM
said: 'No, we're sophisticated enough and sharp enough that
we can go first and we can protect ourselves.'"
IBM now has its sights on a 25th year leading the United
States in patents, which means Ringes and his team are
already looking forward with that goal in mind.
They are also actively engaged in intellectual property
policy matters. For instance, there are a number of issues
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Bouncing back from Hurricane Sandy, Abraham Merchant (Merchant Rivers House) unveiled a beer-focused waterfront bar on the restored Pier 15. On offer are sea-inspired bar bites like lobster rolls, fish-and-chips, crab cakes and shrimp cocktail with heirloom tomato gazpacho. Sip local craft beers like Bluepoint on red bar stools as you watch sports games on seven flatscreens or, better yet, take in scenic skyline views through the floor-to-ceiling windows. During the day, the bar also doles out cones of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, sorbets and frozen yogurt, fit for indulging your inner kid as you soak up rays on the outdoor deck.
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By Greg Wyman, VP Asia Pacific, StorageCraft // 8 April 2015 // Related Categories: Tips
Data is the most critical asset for all business regardless of size or complexity. If an organisation were to lose six months of data, including all debtors, it would certainly go out of business.
Market feedback suggests that relatively few organisations fully test the recoverability of all their servers nearly often enough – any many not at all. Yet those that don't perform a full and complete recovery test every night, run a serious risk.
Backup is often likened to an insurance policy – a drain on Opex until an emergency occurs, then management wish they had invested in the premium solution that also allows recovery from corporate backups. Thousands of people each year find that some or even all their data is non-recoverable
Those people need DART - daily automated recovery testing.
Their testing should be fully automated and require no manual involvement, whether the organisation has 400 virtual servers across 18 hosts and multiple locations, or it is a single physical SQL, Exchange or Windows Essentials server. Staff should begin each workday by checking a screen to receive assurance that their data, databases and servers are recoverable - because recoverability was tested overnight.
Recovery solutions that leverage the latest DART technology, such as WatchDog Software, take next generation sector-based real-time recovery backup, recovery and disaster recovery technologies and automatically test the recoverability of every server nightly without manual involvement. Recovery testing should cost less than $600 per year for up to 50 servers, or under $1,400 pa for testing unlimited servers daily.
For every entity that tests recoverability there are two or more that don't. When a prospective customer tells me "We have a great backup, it cost $xxx,xxx and does everything," I ask: 'Do you test recoverability every night?"
Usually they respond: 'Of course not, it is too difficult and time-consuming'. But if it is too hard to test recoverability, imagine what it will be like if and when a disaster strikes – ouch!
So recovery testing should be automated and occur every day / night. Disaster recovery with automated recovery testing can often be added to existing backup products, enabling an existing product to run between 7pm and 6am, and the real-time disaster recovery solution between 7am and 6pm to deliver real-time backups every 15 minutes and night recovery testing of all your servers.
Tell the IT team they are going to do a fire drill to check how long it takes to get t three critical servers back into full production. Starting now! Once the colour returns to their faces, monitor how long it takes, how disruptive it is and then determine how much data would have been lost. The figure how that would have impacted the business if the event had been real.
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It's a website, dummy.
Also, it's a blog that focuses on learning how to respect food, rather than fear it, by devoting time and energy to perfecting recipes, and my own skills. I have a growing list of foods I've always wanted to try and always discounted as too labor intensive. Recipes like traditional ramen broth, puff pastry, paella, or even just interesting and new cuisines I've never tried to make before. I intend to attempt a new recipe every week, and capture the process in notes and photos, with total honesty regarding any failures along the way. Special guests will be assisting with their own specialties!
P.S. I'm sorry I called you dummy. I didn't mean it. 😉


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Data Collection Overview
Alberta's Tomorrow Project (ATP) has 55,000 participants who have completed a general questionnaire on health, lifestyle and demographics since the project was first launched. More than 99% of our participants have provided their provincial Personal Health Care number and consented to linkage with administrative health databases to allow further research into health outcomes and usage of health services in the years ahead.
Researchers interested in viewing Alberta Tomorrow Project data tables should visit the Summary Data Tables page. Full surveys can be found here.
Between 2001-2008, approximately 31,000 participants returned health and lifestyle information via detailed baseline questionnaires. In 2008, half of those participants agreed to join ATP in a new, nation-wide consortium of five regional health studies called the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP). New participants were also recruited from the general population.
As part of the expanded collection campaign in 2008, established and first-time participants provided not only extensive information on their health and lifestyle history, but also blood samples (non-fasting), urine (spot samples), and in some cases saliva for DNA extraction. Physical measurements taken at this time included blood pressure, resting heart rate, standing and sitting heights, body weight, percent body fat (via bioelectric impedance), waist and hip circumferences, and grip strength. Physical measurements and biological samples have been collected from 30,000 ATP participants since 2008.
Today, three-quarters of our participants are enrolled in both the provincial and national research platforms.
Questionnaire themes and biospecimens:
Health and lifestyle factors addressed by 55,000 participants include the following:
- Personal and family health history
- Educational background
- Employment status and work history
- Height
- Weight
- Waist/hip circumference
- Diet and nutrition
- Physical activity
- Sleep patterns
- Social support and stress
- Reproductive health
- Ethnic background
- Cancer screening history
- Medication use
- Sun exposure
- Tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke
Physical measurements conducted on 30,000 participants in more than 140 mobile study centres include many or all of the following:
- Standing/sitting height
- Weight
- Waist/hip circumference
- Blood pressure
- Resting heart rate
- Body composition
- Grip strength
Biospecimens collected from 30,000 participants include:
- Blood samples
- Urine samples
- Whole blood spots
- DNA extracted from almost 10,000 saliva samples
Surveys Conducted and Cohort Growth:
One series of baseline questionnaires was used for participants enrolled between 2001-2009, while a new set of surveys was devised for recruits joining the nation-wide Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP) from 2008-2015.
Copies of the questionnaires can be found on our Previous Surveys page, and a description of the types of variables available on each survey can be found via our Data Dictionaries.
ATP Baseline Questionnaires (2001-2008)
Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire (HLQ):
This questionnaire contained sections about personal and family health history, cancer screening tests, reproductive health, smoking, sun exposure, spirituality, social support and stress, body measurements and demographic characteristics.
Canadian Diet History Questionnaire-I (CDHQ-I):
This food frequency questionnaire was intended to assess food and nutrient intakes by Research Participants in the year prior to questionnaire completion.
Past Year Total Physical Activity Questionnaire (PYTPAQ):
The PYTPAQ was designed to obtain information about the type and amount of physical activity undertaken by participants in the past twelve months. It asked participants to consider the type of activity they completed in four areas: occupation, household, leisure time and transportation.
The PYTPAQ was developed specifically for use in Alberta's Tomorrow Project and was tested for reliability and validity (Friedenreich et al. Amer J Epidemiol, 2006). It has since been used extensively worldwide. On behalf of external researchers who wish to use the self-administered PYTPAQ questionnaire, we have provided additional information that can be found on our Previous Surveys page.
ATP Follow Up Questionnaires
Survey 2004 (S04):
Survey 2004 was distributed to participants who joined ATP between 2000 and 2003. It contained questions on personal health history, cancer screening tests, sun exposure, smoking, body measurements, lifetime weight pattern, alcohol, sleep and shift work, health risk perception, quality of life, demographic characteristics and for women, hormone replacement therapy use.
Survey 2008 (S08):
Survey 2008 was distributed in 2008 to Research Participants who joined ATP between 2000 and 2007. This questionnaire included information on personal and family health history, cancer screening tests, smoking, quality of life, fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity (IPAQ, Craig et al., 2003), sleep and shift work, built environment (Cerin et al., 2006), work history, body measurements and demographic characteristics.
CPTP Questionnaires (2008 – 2015)
Research participants involved in the CPTP protocol completed either an UHLQ and PANS or a Core questionnaire. Each cohort in CPTP used the same questions to ensure uniformity of the information gathered.
Update Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire (UHLQ) or Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire II (HLQ-II):
This questionnaire was based on ATP's original Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire completed by all participants who joined ATP between 2000 and 2008. Questions covered topics such as personal and family health history, health check-ups, reproductive health, past year medication use, alcohol, smoking, sun exposure, sleep, work and demographic characteristics.
Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (PANS):
This survey asked about physical activity and dietary habits. The physical activity section was the long form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ, Craig et al., 2003), while the nutrition sections asked about consumption of servings of several food groups similar to those used in Canada's Food Guide (Bush et al., 2007).
Core Questionnaire (Core):
This questionnaire was a refined version of the UHLQ combined with the PANS. Small changes were made based on feedback from Research Participants to make the questionnaire easier to complete. It included sections on demographic characteristics, cancer screening tests, reproductive health, personal medical history, current medication use, family health history, sleep, sun exposure, food consumed, alcohol, smoking, physical activity, work and body measurements. The cohorts in CPTP used the same questions to ensure that the same information was collected across all cohorts.
Physical Measurements:
Research Participants who attended a Study Centre had several measurements taken during their visit. These included blood pressure, sitting height, standing height, waist and hip circumferences, grip strength, weight and bioimpedance. Measurements were recorded in one of two potential formats: electronically (Onyx, OBiBA open source software) or in a combination of the Study Centre Questionnaire (SCQ) and Physical Measures Recording Booklet (PMRB).
Summary of Biospecimens Collected
Standard operating procedures for collection, processing and storage protocols are available upon request by emailing email@example.com.
Blood Samples
2001 Collection (2001-2002)
A pilot program to evaluate the feasibility of blood collection among ATP Research Participants was done in 2001. Blood was collected from 768 Research Participants beginning in November 2001 and ending in December 2002. The time from collection to -80 ˚C freezer was approximately 24 hours for all samples.
2005 Collection (2005-2006)
Additional blood samples were collected in 2005 as part of an Approved Ancillary Study. A portion of these samples remain available for analyses. Blood was collected from 802 female Research Participants beginning in March 2005 and ending in August 2006. The time from collection to -80 ˚C freezer was approximately 24 hours for all samples.
CPTP Collection: 2008 – 2015 (29,183 participants)
Blood sample collection for CPTP began December 2008 and was completed in July 2015. Approximately 50 mL of non-fasting blood was collected from each of 29,032 consenting research participants who attended a study centre. Post collection, blood samples were divided into 0.5mL or 1mL cryovial aliquots of:
- plasma
- Serum Separator Tube (SST) serum
- red top serum
- buffy coat
- red blood cells
The time from collection to -80˚C freezer was 2 hours for 76% of participants, and was approximately 24 hours for 24% of participants.
2015 Collection (2015-2017)
Additional blood samples were collected starting in 2015 as part of an Approved Ancillary Study. A portion of these samples remain available for analyses. Blood was collected from 464 Research Participants beginning in August 2015 and ending in March 2017. The time from collection to -80˚C freezer was 2 hours for all samples.
Urine Samples (2009 – 2015)
Spot collection urine samples were donated by a total of 29,935 research participants (as of November 1, 2015) between December 2008 and July 2015.


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It is fitting that Charles Dickens's bicentenary coincides with Lawrence Durrell's centenary, for the two novelists have crucial resemblances: both of them are triumphant in the intensity and power of their writing, but capable of calamitous lapses of taste; both of them are riotous comedians who sometimes plunge into hopeless melodrama. It is true that Einstein's theory of relativity, which Durrell foisted on the structure of The Alexandria Quartet (reprinted, with a new introduction by Jan Morris) has no more part in Martin Chuzzlewit than the ludicrous sexual obsessions derived from Sade and Henry Miller which sully Durrell's plot. But Dickens in certain moods was, as Angus Wilson said of Durrell's novels, 'floridly vulgar'.
Justine, the first volume of the quartet, was published by Faber in 1957. The successor volumes (Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea), which Durrell called 'siblings' rather than 'sequels', appeared by 1960. Each sibling overlaps and amends: different narrators correct each other, shift emphasis, analyse protagonists differently, provide revelations from fresh perspectives. In an afterword Durrell wrote, 'I have always believed in letting my reader sink or skim.' Certainly, one needs to skim, for his narrative is sometimes overblown, his protagonist Justine is as improbable as her namesake in Sade, and the motives and reactions of her satellite characters resemble a queasy adolescent daydream too closely to convince.
Mountolive is the most readable and satisfying of the quartet. Its depiction of office politics and diplomatic intrigue (its eponymous hero is British Ambassador in Egypt) is written with delicious irony. In Mountolive Durrell finally roots his characters, makes one understand and care about some of them, and consummates his design.
It is hard now to recapture the impact half a century ago of these novels' heat, luxuriance and profanity. Redolent of Mediterranean beauty and squalor, with jokes about Horsham, Sidcup and Luton as reminders of English drabness, they exhilarated those who had chafed at the currency restrictions on foreign travel and the provincial-minded prudery of national censorship. One character speaks of 'that grim air of unflinching desperation with which Anglo-Saxons embark upon their pleasures'. Durrell's temptresses sip Pernod, read Vogue, use gold nail-varnish and enjoy sex.
'We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour,' Durrell declares in Justine. He provides sumptuous descriptions of the Egyptian countryside, and indeed of the snowbound Home Counties, but his descriptions of Alexandria — its beauty, cruelty, menace, mystery, decadence — vie with The International Zone, Paul Bowles's account of Tangiers written a few years earlier. His city is populated by sensualists, money-grubbers, cynics, savages, and fatalists. Morbid lassitude overwhelms some: wild storms of frustration batter others. There are unforgettable glimpses: the bar where sulky rent-boys play backgammon under petrol-lamps; a pock-marked old furrier, Cohen, singing feebly on his deathbed; the circumcision booths hung with patriotic flags, where grotesquely dressed clowns with painted faces gambol to distract the boys.
There are harsh contrasts: bankers' limousines bear their freight of chic ladies to bridge tables, synagogue, fortune-teller, or smart café, while nearby a dwarf plays a mandolin, an immense eunuch with a carbuncle the size of a brooch gobbles pastry, a legless man on a trolley dribbles. Durrell's longer set-pieces, such as his account of the festival of Sitna Mariam and carnival ball that provide the climaxes in Balthazar, are glorious.
His leading protagonists are, however, bores. Justine is a voluptuous, self-obsessed, unhappy Jewess who hurts those whom she needs most: 'We use each other like axes to cut down the ones we really love,' she says. After an early marriage to a Parisian-Albanian novelist, she writhes as the tormenting wife of a jealous Copt banker-connoisseur, Nessim Hosnani. Other wearisome characters are a Greek cabaret entertainer with a collapsed lung, Melissa, and the lesbian artist Clea. It is hard to believe in any of them, or care about their erotic shenanigans. Conversely, the prize-winning novelist Pursewarden begins by seeming a self-indulgent poser, takes cyanide, and posthumously becomes one of the strongest, wisest and most alluring of the characters: his transformation is crucial to Durrell's use of narrative truth as a series of blinds, feints and misperceptions.
Aside from the landscape raptures, the pleasure of these novels lies in their peripheral characters, who resemble Pickwicks seen through the lens of Krafft-Ebing or Sacher-Masoch. Chief of these is brandy-sodden Joshua Scobie, a Falstaffian pederast with a glass eye, once a pervy scoutmaster from Hackney, later a policeman with the Alexandria vice squad, briefly station head of SIS, singer of roistering ballads, who uses 'Saffron Walden' as a synonym for male brothel ('He was caught in Saffron Walden, old man, covered in jam'). Scobie is eventually beaten to death by sailors from HMS Milton, on a wharf smelling of urinals and sesame, while disguised as a type of Edwardian tart known as a Tuppenny Upright.
Then there is Toto de Brunel, a dimpled little creature who makes himself the poodle of rich old ladies by deliberate malapropisms, and is stabbed through the temple by a hat-pin while secreted under the pile of coats at a carnival ball. Justine's kinsman Capodistria, who debauched her in childhood, appears to be killed during a duck shoot at a superbly evoked salt-lake — prompting her to join a kibbutz. Capodistria later bounces back into life, living in a Martello tower and studying black magic, pictured in a topcoat with fur collar and cuffs, bowler hat and cigarette-holder, and likened to a tall rat in an animal cartoon. There is a poignant scene in which a youth called John Keats, who has been despised as a squalid sensation-mongering hack, is revealed to be a writer of eager, bright sensibility, before going to his death in desert warfare.
Despite much joyous stuff, the quartet is flooded with pretentious bilge about evil, perversity, infidelity and disorder. Sexual frankness played a big part in Durrell's plans for the novels, but he combines the dreary priapism of Alan Clark with portentous smut — Joe Orton without the giggles. 'He felt her on top of him, and in the plunge of her loins he felt the desire to add to him — to fecundate his actions,' begins one passage. Overall, the supposed eroticism seems very dated, and is often unreadable.
Fugitive relief from bad sex and interminable contrived anguish is provided by Amateurs in Eden. Its author, Joanna Hodgkin, is the daughter of Durrell's earliest wife, Nancy Myers, by her second husband, a Quaker colonel in the SOE whom she agreed to marry after he festooned a Jerusalem lamp-post with his Old Etonian tie.
Hodgkin began this memoir as a way to raise money for the care of her beloved Durrell half-sister, Penelope, who was stricken by Alzheimer's. It chronicles the escape of Nancy Myers from provincial conformity in small-town Lincolnshire to the louche world of 1930s Fitzrovia: she was for a time the muse of a novelist, John Gawsworth, who resembled Peter Sellers playing the part of Inspector Clouseau. When she began sleeping with Lawrence Durrell, he was working as an estate agent in Leytonstone. After their marriage in Bournemouth, intent on forgetting Lincolnshire and Leytonstone, they had a furiously unhappy time with Henry Miller's set in Paris. A fter fizzing passion in Corfu, their marriage juddered apart in wartime Egypt.
The best parts of Amateurs in Eden describe Nancy's calm, gentle life as Mrs Hodgkin, and have little to do with the tempestuous Durrell phase. After some discontented years in postwar England, she became a tender, demonstrative, original-minded woman, whose cheerful, shrewd love for her daughters is delightfully evoked. This is a disarming, understated book. Only a brute would sneer at its chronicle of domestic furies and affections, told in a tone of simple thanksgiving.


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... and now look at him.... a big kid who just cracks me up. He works so hard to keep up with big brother, Huey, and does not want to be grouped with Louie and referred to as "the babies"... he hates it when I say that. He gives me fits with the potty training... but then makes me laugh when he says "I so anry... I not wuv you amore". He's very cuddly, and sweet, sweet, sweet! He's also a major booger! I like to call him "Dewey Jekyll and Dewey Hyde". It fits! But I guess that's just how life is when you're three.
Dewey loves "frawbry milk" (or pink milk), "squirt cheese" on crackers (or.. the squirt cheese he licks from the crackers) and "MaDono's humgers". Tonight, while enjoying an Oreo cookie (or.. the frosting from an Oreo cookie) he asked for "more frosting please" and then was stunned that I could not just deliver more frosting. Ah, the mind of a three-year old. Some other things Dewey enjoys are Mickey Mouse, Thomas the Tank Engine and Blues Clues. Most of all, Dewey likes to spend his days playing trains and must have his Thomas train in his bed before he will even consider sleeping.
To celebrate his birthday, we had a quiet little birthday party complete with the "bouncy house" that grandma sent for Christmas. The boys love it when I pull that out! Dewey enjoyed opening gifts from Mom and Dad, Huey, Auntie Kelli (with the black hair) and grandma. He loves his Mickey Mouse t-shirt and movie and is really looking forward to shopping for a special something with the gift card grandma sent.


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By Dr Hakim
I'm so often caught up in the daily concerns of work and the wars raging across Afghanistan and many parts of the world that I forget how remarkable it is that at the Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre in Kabul, 19 small teams with more than 70 active Afghan Peace Volunteers are putting nonviolence into microscopic but concrete practice.
There's also the pulsating energy from 100 eager street kids ready to change themselves.
All these 'small people' with 'big souls' touch me. They move my days and nights.
Night after day in Afghanistan
Night after day,
while many are stressed sick
providing for their mud shelters and dented aluminum plates,
and a few are unhappy despite excess cash,
I'm tired of all popular news.
I'm irritated by the stale showiness
of stiffly-dressed politicians and business sharks
sweet-talking the world.
I'd rather spend time with the unglamorous millions,
like with boot-polishing street kids, Mahdi and Inham.
They never claim to be smarter or better,
like when Mahdi offered his meek, non-digital sound byte,
"No human is above another".
In their discarded voices,
they nurse gratitude rather than greed.
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Month: October 2015
National Conversation – Creating a Healthier Scotland: What Matters to You?
From August 2015 to April 2016 the Scottish Government is holding a
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• What support do we need in Scotland to live healthier lives?
• What areas of health and social care matter most to you?
• Thinking about the future of health and social care services, where should
our focus be?
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Twitter: @scotgovhealth #healthierscotland
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/healthier.scot
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Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Integrated Care Fund
Local Reference Groups in all 6 areas have some short-term Integrated Care
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Saturday 31st Oct 2015
10am – 12noon
Come along to our FREE event!
Explore local opportunities to help you look after
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Stalls, refreshments, information and
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Drug Proof Your Kids Course Stonehaven Starting October 26th
Parents are the strongest, single influence in a child's life… lf you don't talk to your kids about drugs, who will?
'How to Drugproof your Kids' is a FREE course that equips parents with the information and skills they need to encourage their children to form a responsible attitude towards drugs, including cigarettes and alcohol, steering them away from their harmful use.
It is being held at Stonehaven Community Centre
Monday 26th October to Monday 30th November 2015
From 7pm to 9pm for 6 weeks
It's a fun and interactive community course developed by the national charity 'Care for the Family'. Session Topics inlcude
- Parenting through prevention,
- building a strong foundation,
- creating integrity and responsibility,
- communication and participation,
- creating a 'safe network' and peace of mind,
- recognition and affirmation
The course is free of charge. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Contact Stonehaven Community Centre, 01569 762688, for more information or to book a place.
'Don't Get Scared, Get Checked'
The benefits of finding cancer early will be highlighted to shoppers in Grampian over the next two weeks as the Detect Cancer Early tour kicks off at ASDA Aberdeen Beach tomorrow (Wednesday 21 October).
The 52-date national tour is focused on raising awareness of the importance of screening and the potential signs and symptoms of bowel, breast and lung cancer, in a bid to encourage more people to get checked at the earliest stage and save more lives.
The Scottish Government's Detect Cancer Early programme aims to increase the proportion of people diagnosed and treated in the first stage of breast, bowel and lung cancer by 25 per cent by the end of 2015. Read the rest of this entry »
NEW Greenspace Community Grant Programme Opens TODAY
Do you know of a local community greenspace project that would benefit from funding? If so, then get ready for a new community grant programme!
The first funding round of the programme opens for applications across Scotland, England and Wales on 19 October and will close on 30 November. This will be your first chance to submit an application for a grant of up to £12,000 to create better and happier places where you live and there will be two funding rounds per year over the next three years! Read the rest of this entry »


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We had a pretty good Easter here! I hope everyone else had a good weekend as well. I ate almost an entire bag of Sweetart Jelly Beans yesterday. Can you say addictive? Regular Sweetarts are one of my favorite candys. But, I think now that Easter is over, I'm going to be giving up sugar. And once I've given up sugar, I'll give up simple carbs. I'm not sure I can give up the coffee, but we'll see! I always feel better when I'm not eating sugar. My joints don't ache. I'm less tired. So, that part is great. It just takes soooo much will-power!
Also, I wanted to thank everyone who joined my first "Sit & Relax" hop this past weekend. I especially wanted to thank all of you who posted the button!! I think that that button will lead you back to the old post though, so you might have to get the new one this weekend. I haven't figured that part out yet. Sorry! I'm learning as I go. Remember, it will be open each week from midnight Thursday night until Midnight Sunday night.
In about one week, I'll be having my first giveaway!!! I have a Real-Life friend who makes the sweetest, cutest little girls' hair accessories. I'm looking forward to it. So, if you have a daughter, niece or some other little girl that you'd like to accessorize, come back in about a week.
AND, it was pretty muddy here this past week. Boy, does it get muddy in the spring. In fact, my back yard is still under water. We were at a friend's house on Saturday and 2 of our kids decided that they were going to play in the mud. I can not wait until she sends me the pictures so that I can share them with you, because words are just not enough to describe what my little girl looked like.
Oh! We're on Spring Break this week!
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I have vague memories of when I was two years old. My uncle would come home bearing gifts with a big smile on his face. While for most kids, this would bring joy, for me, it just evoked a sense of terror. Because what followed simply made me quiver.
He would make me sit on his lap and while no one was looking, start feeling me up. The worst was when nobody was at home. He would convince my parents that I was in safe hands and that they could go out and do their chores or take a break. After all what harm can an uncle possibly do? That is when he used to take me to the room and start molesting me. While I was too young to understand what was right and wrong, I remember feeling terribly violated and uncomfortable. No amount of weeping or pushing him around would make a difference to him.
Later whenever he came home, I used to try to push him away and hit him. But instead of trying to understand the source of my anger, I was only severely reprimanded by my parents for my bad behaviour.
Several years later, when I could express myself with words, I finally got the courage to confide in my mother. Her reaction left me stunned and speechless. She censured me saying that I was talking rubbish and that Western movies and serials were rotting my brain. Though she made sure that I was never alone with my uncle, our relationship deeply soured after that incident. I felt hurt and betrayed by my very own mother and completely stopped sharing my feelings with her. I kept as much distance from her as I could.
The torture caused by my uncle impacted my life. He robbed me of my innocence and childhood, making me feel ashamed of my body and myself. I always wondered if he felt an ounce of shame. I started having anger and anxiety issues which split over in my day to day life. I could never have a normal relationship with a man throughout my youth and couldn't stand the thought of anybody touching me.
Somehow I did get married and gave birth to a beautiful daughter and a son. But the birth of my daughter brought in a paranoia. Certain thoughts kept plaguing me, 'what if somebody did the same to my daughter?' I so desperately wanted her to live the joy and innocence that was taken away from me. My behaviour became irrational and it all reached a boiling point. I had two options, either to go completely crazy or seek professional help.
Counselling really helped me in getting a release from my childhood trauma. It made me realise that I do not have to be the victim anymore and that I had the power to change my life around, which I did. With counselling, I could overcome my paranoia with my daughter and also patch things with my mother. Today, I am glad to say that I share a healthy relationship with my family and live a life without the pain, guilt, anger and shame that was caused by my uncle's vile actions.
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VecValuesToIgnore holds values that will not appear in the vectorized loop. We should therefore ignore their cost when VF > 1.
I think this bit was missed by https://reviews.llvm.org/D15177 which introduced the VecValuesToIgnore construct, but considered it only in register-usage calculation.
The testcase is taken from https://reviews.llvm.org/D12770 - is had redundant cases, and we check that the cost model ignores them.


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DROME PROVENCALE, SUPERB CASTEL FROM XIIIème CENTURY
A few minutes away only to highway and TGV train station, ideally located in a dominant position in the heart of a pretty village, is this 18th Century Château.
The owners of this place restored it with particular care so as to preserve the atmosphere in days of yore.
The living area is about 980 sq m and divided between a main house and three independent apartments (143, 90 and 87 sq m).
The ground floor offers a magnificent 84 sq m reception room with its majestic fireplace, a dining room, a 44 sq m professional kitchen.
All the rooms benefit from generous volumes and exceptional luminosity.
The property comprises 15 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms or shower rooms, 4 lounges, a study, a relaxation room, a laundry room...
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Famed scientist Stephen Hawking, a kin of Albert Einstein in the cosmology of odds and evens, has claimed the Boston Celtics' fate is in the hands of quantum fluctuations.
Yes, Hawking told an audience of eggheads whose brain is in the shape of a basketball, God rolls the dice to determine whether Kevin Garnett will overcome Carmelo Anthony.
If you want to discover the God particle, you should look to see if Avery Bradley moves quicker than something shot out of the Hadron Collider.
However, quantum fluctuations are really the key to victory in a seven game series between the New York Knicks and the Celtics starting on Saturday.
As Garnett learned earlier in the season, forget controlling the ball. If you can play mind games with the Knicks, they will be off their feed, passing on the honey-nut cereal in the honey-nut-of-a-series.
Hawking might well tell Celtics' players that there is no escaping a black hole if you are pulled in at Madison Square Garden. The problem is that the opposite force in the TD Garden is less powerful.
The proof that physics controls the basketball fortunes of the NBA is found every night at the free-throw line where gravity shows that a brick and a feather fall next to the rim at the same speed.
Whatever team loses, the players will be subject to an Inquisition demanding answers to the imponderable. Those who said a prayer before the game may wonder why the laws of relativity gave them the shaft of a black hole.
Dark matter truly dominates the world of the NBA playoffs. You can't see it, but it may tell you who will win the games.


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Some products, services, events or entire movements resonate more with some generations than others. Conventional wisdom says older people have more history and wisdom on their side, whereas their kids may be more open to new ideas. It's the coming together of these that nudge culture forward, one step at a time. We spoke to two young professionals who are passionate about the causes they represent—environmental preservation in the case of Felicia Buck, and the sport of soccer for Morgan Copes—about how to rouse the troops (and fans) from generations with different life experiences.
New Orleans native Morgan Copes has played soccer his whole life, cradle through college. He even became licensed as a coach before taking a detour into the corporate world, spending five years with Regions Bank. But though he thrived in banking, soccer was in his soul. "The idea came a few years ago when my friend John Killian and I were having a few beers and said, 'We should have a professional soccer team in Birmingham.'" Four-and-a-half-years later, the dream has come to fruition. By 2019, Birmingham will have a professional team in the United Soccer League, playing against teams from Nashville to New York. Copes, the team's vice president, is confident the city has the soccer fan base to support the team enthusiastically, and the excitement will only grow.
Meet Felicia Buck:
Felicia Buck grew up in McCalla, Ala. with her mother and stepfather. She spent weekends with her father where she learned about sustainability from a young age, when he bought some land in Springville and decided they would build a house by hand. When it was finished, they outfitted it with oil lamps, composting toilets and solar panels, the latter making the family truly ahead of their time.
It seems fitting, then, that she would gravitate toward environmental stewardship as a career. Having graduated from UAB with an individually designed major in Sustainability, today she is executive director of Alabama Environmental Council, bringing in fresh new ideas and initiatives, managing the day-to-day operations and serving an important role as a local environmental advocate.
When you're selling an idea—its importance of it, the advantages or the magic—do you need
different talking points when you talk to people of different generations?
Copes: You're trying to find what really resonates with that individual. Somebody from the Baby Boomer generation may or may not catch the same kind of excitement from somebody who's a millennial, right? But look at it this way: You probably remember the first concert you ever went to, and if you had the opportunity to do it all over again, you would. It's a time that you cherish. Probably your taste in music is going to be totally different than a millennial's, and their first concert is going to be something completely different, but they still have that same thrill.
I think sport has the wonderful opportunity to do the same. And so I think the underlying principle is that we're there to create memories with friends, family, loved ones. and even business partners that are going to last for years. People can talk about, 'I was at that game,' and 'I remember when…' and so on. And we have that opportunity. I think it's a very big responsibility but one we're excited about.
Buck: Absolutely. With kids of younger ages and even teenagers you can talk about the environment and they're already excited and gung ho about it. Our niche is recycling, and we are able to provide school recycling and education programs so the students know how and why it is important to recycle. And then with kids and teenagers, what they learn they take home, so it spreads to the family, and then we see the families really getting into it.
But sometimes when you're talking to an older crowd, you have to really listen to what they're interested in. For them, they're motivated either from a public-health standpoint, because serious health issues such as cancer are on the rise, or you have to take it from an economic standpoint by bringing attention to things such as the new jobs that can be created and money that can be saved by diverting waste from landfills. So it all depends on who you're speaking with and your ability to listen and find out what the people of the community want.


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Afternoon in February – A Poem for February
Image Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The day is ending,
The night is descending;
The marsh is frozen,
The river dead.
Through clouds like ashes
The red sun flashes
On village windows
That glimmer red.
The snow recommences;
The buried fences
Mark no longer
The road o'er the plain;
While through the meadows,
Like fearful shadows,
Slowly passes
A funeral train.
The bell is pealing,
And every feeling
Within me responds
To the dismal knell;
Shadows are trailing,
My heart is bewailing
And tolling within
Like a funeral bell.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "we've always done it this way."
Come on, let's mix it up! The heart surgeon says.
B-but we've always done it this way! The other replies, this is how you replace a heart valve.
That's the most dangerous phrase in the human language! The first surgeon replies haughtily as he inputs a fruit loop into the patient's heart. This will be his valve. He will be a fruit loop in a world of Cheerios.
(taken from this post on the experiments of Harry Harlow)
This is serious business, because this is a large part of how sexism, racism, homophobia, rape culture, ethnocentrism, etc. continue to happen.
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