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So I had a creepy deja vu of the Spider incident a couple of days ago. I was in the living room on my laptop one night, when my room mate BA was in the bedroom. "Hey guys, I think there's a praying mantis in here." "Mm hmm?" I responded. "Well, I think it's a praying mantis." "Maybe it's a grasshopper?" I lazily responded without moving. She didn't seem too freaked out by this potential praying mantis/ grasshopper in the bedroom, so there was no reason why I should be.
A little while later she called out, "Sue! There might be a bug on your bed." She sleeps on the upper half of our bunk bed, and I on the lower. "Okay, I'll be sure to check when I get in." Then a little later "Somebody put on the light! The insect's on my bed!"
I finally felt like I might need to be doing something more supportive than making non commital responses from the next room, so I got up and switched the light on. I peered on to her bed...
and saw THIS:
Okay, not this exact one, because I didn't take pictures, but proceeded to helpfully start freaking out. "Ohmygosh, it's huge!"
Then we both simultaneously started yelling, "EWWW, WHAT is it DOING?"
The Insect was moving in an odd manner and then started SPEWING SOME DARK LIQUID OUT OF ITS MOUTH AND ON TO HER BED RAILING!!! Okay, maybe not spewing, but dripping in a steady and disgusting manner. "Is that BLOOD??" "Sick!"
By this time, our third room mate decided it was time to join us, while I started running around our room looking for a weapon. There didn't seem to be anything big enough to kill it. Plus BA felt like there would be guts everywhere if we smashed it. "What do we do? What do we do?" "Watch out, it can fly!" "Come, Holy Spirit!"
"Get me a plastic dabba (tupperware)" BA finally decided. I did. That must have been the most helpful thing I did all evening. The Insect evaded her, and began to crawl down to my bed. She lunged at it and half missed, while all three of us proceeded to scream loudly (I might have started it.). Past 11 pm in a crowded apartment building. Whatever did our neighbours think we were upto?
Anyway. She caught it. And left it trapped under a plastic dabba on our kitchen floor for the next day, until our guy friends came and rescued either its dead body or its semi conscious body.
It turns out to be a 'katydid', or a bush cricket. It seems that I am not the only person in whom katydids inspire fear, as I found out as I typed in 'Can katydids...' in Google search, and found these options:
I was also fascinated to read that some species of katydids are 'exclusively predatory, feeding on other insects, snails or even small vertebrates such as snakes and lizards.'
Moving on.
So two of my guy team mates took me out on brother sister date the other day. They showed me that they knew me well, by pulling out a Scrabble board at the restaurant (much to the bemusement of passersby who have never seen such a thing).
When I was a kid playing Scrabble with my parents used to be so frustrating because my dad always got the 7 letter words, and would be hundreds of points ahead of us every time. But then some years ago I started playing an online game that transformed my seven letter word making abilities and made me a Scrabble master (comparatively):
This game: Eight which just makes you start looking at letters differently as you search for the big word hidden in them.
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So you know who I'm always thinking of the mechanics and logistics of people finding the right person to marry... I just read this article where Leah Libresco talks about the same thing!
If Someone Put Me in Charge of Yenta-ing You All
Matchmaker, matchmaker...
The funny thing is, I already work in an organization which involves young people working together on service and evangelistic projects. Not surprisingly, there have been several matches that have come out of it.
On the other hand, doing a service project or joining a service-oriented organization that has a large number of young people of the same faith JUST to find someone seems like a bad idea... because then it seems purely self-serving. Or desperate. NOT an attractive quality in a potential life partner, OR a fulfilling way to live your life.
I guess a good balance is to be open to the possibilities without that being your focus.
Nothing more to say, and almost bed time, so here's a cute song (stolen from Conversion Diary a few weeks ago)
And here's a WONDERFUL post that made me laugh out loud several time:
The Arm in my Driveway
Heather is always so funny and real.
Plus, that is EXACTLY me every time something goes wrong "Why ME, Lord? Don't you love me? Why is this happening???? Please nooo!!!" Yeah, Super Mature Christian am I.
Um, I got nothing. Bedtime.
"Discipline is remembering what you want."
More Quick Takes at Conversion Diary.


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Cyberspies breach US fighter-jet project: Report (ZDnet.co.uk, 21 April 2009)
and the hype around viruses/worms that hide more important issues for international peace: Forget Conficker — focus on the real threats
US official: We are under cyberattack all the time (ZDnet.co.uk, 22 April 2009) China is the usual suspect.
the wording is not as silly as it may appear. The parallel with banks under attack is probably better in reflecting the situation. It's not war all the time, but there is certainly a regularity in trying to get access to information.
Which makes me think of the work of a PhD student he presented at the BILETA 2009 conference at Winchester. Titiriga Remus explains about Cyber warfare and Law of the nations. A missed rendez-vous. In short, the concept of attack in international law rarely fits cyber warfare and maybe there should be some conceptual changes made. (for conference abstracts, see http://www.winchester.ac.uk/?page=10664)

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The postponed revival of dance-ical "Bob Fosse's Dancin'" and Off Broadway stagings of plays by Stephen Karam and John Osborne have claimed slots in the 2011-12 season at the Roundabout Theater Company.
The Gotham nonprofit's production of terp tribute "Dancin'," which will re-create Fosse's original choreography from the 1978 original, had initially been skedded for the 2008-09 season but was bumped for a revival of "Waiting for Godot" starring Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin.
Previously announced helmer Graciela Daniele remains attached, with Fosse's daughter, Nicole, on board as a creative consultant. Production will occupy a fall slot at Studio 54, one of the Roundabout's three Broadway venues.
Off Broadway staging of Karam's "Sons of the Prophet," playing the Laura Pels Theater at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater, reps a step up for the scribe, whose breakout play "Speech and Debate" preemed at the Roundabout's smaller black-box venue.
New play, commissioned by the Roundabout and helmed by Huntington Theater a.d. Peter DuBois, centers on a Lebanese family living in Pennsylvania. Skedded for the Pels in the fall, "Sons" is produced by the Roundabout in association with Boston's Huntington, where the show will bow in April.
Also in the Pels, Sam Gold has signed on to helm Osborne's 1956 play "Look Back in Anger," the angry-young-man play set in 1950s England. Project reps an unusual one for Gold, who is currently better known for helming new work including the Roundabout's "Tigers Be Still."
A number of entries in the Roundabout's 2011-12 season remain to be announced.


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After completely drying the laundry room out and super cleaning the entire area that had been blanketed in mold-covered insulation, the BH and I were finally ready to build the new wall for the laundry room. Ignore the hanging overhead light -- it was the only overhead light in the room and I'm waiting until the very … Continue reading Laundry room gets a new wall
Success!! We have located the bastard leak...and it's a big ol' dirty bastard of a leak in the kitchen sink drain pipe. Super annoying to access, super aggravating to maneuver around the plumbing, but totally do-able. We stared at the above all week while waiting to get the new sink in the laundry room installed...the … Continue reading Big Ol' Dirty Bastard Sink Leak
The Bastard Kitchen Sink Leak
There's a bastard leak in the kitchen sink pipe. The leak is a bastard because it's now requiring us to pull away the backing behind the plumbing in the cabinet below the sink. I have everything I can possibly cross crossed in the hopes that the leak is something we can access from the kitchen since we can't … Continue reading The Bastard Kitchen Sink Leak
Home Improvement Hermit
That's my new title...Courtney, home improvement hermit. Nothing like setting a nuptial date, and deciding to hold the ceremony and the party the following day at our home to set the home improvement list into overdrive. 7 months. We've given ourselves roughly 7 months to power thru a few of the bigger home improvement things … Continue reading Home Improvement Hermit
The Nuptial Plunge
So...this happened towards the end of the 2015 summer. Unlike the photo would lead one to believe, the proposal did not happen at a baseball game (thank the heavens because that is WAY too much stranger attention for me to handle). It all went down on our back deck right before we left for a baseball … Continue reading The Nuptial Plunge
Back in the saddle again
Well, it only took forever -- but I'm finally back into the knitting swing. After being incredibly lax in my knitting -- I started of 2016 with a knitting bang. I resigned from my office job and kicked off 2016 by taking inventory of all the yarn (SO MUCH) that I had, finished three projects that … Continue reading Back in the saddle again
true Courtney fashion…
About this time almost a few years ago the BF and I were sitting having dinner in Long Beach and discussing the future. During that discussion -- the decision to make the cross-country move was set in stone. (technically, our discussion happened June 1st, so more than a few days ago) June 2nd I let … Continue reading true Courtney fashion…


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Simple Living at Aberdeenshire
If you would rather go to a secluded place free from the hassle and bustle of life then Aberdeenshire in Scotland is the place you should find yourself! Also known as the Country of Aberdeen, it is among the 32 unitary council of Scotland. And even if it may often be associated with Aberdeen, it does not really include such city since it is an independent Council Area even though Aberdeenshire Council has its own headquarter located at Woodhill House within Aberdeen locality. This is what makes the place unique council wherein the headquarters are located outside its borders. For reference, the south borders of Aberdeenshire are Perth and Kinross, and Angus while it is the Moray and Highland on its west.
The moment visitor's land on the place, the very first thing that will catch their attention is its hilly surroundings. In terms of historical value, the place has a lot to offer since it is highly gifted with prehistoric as well as historic heritage. Truth is, its name originated from the historic country of Aberdeen which on the other was abolished during the year 1975, governed by the Act of 1973 under the Local Government of Scotland.
What are some historical places that you can visit in Aberdeenshire? Believe your tourist guide when they tell you that that the whole week is not enough for you to truly discover the place. There are a lot of wondrous sites that you can visit and one of those is the Muchalls Castle. The castle was first created by Alexander Burnett of Leys but it was his son named Sir Thomas Burnett who was able to complete it. What makes this structure highly famous is the fact that it played a great part of history since it serves as imperative turning point during the Reformation of Scotland.
If you rather want to visit scenery which has something to do with nature then the River Dee is a good tourist spot. This place played a good role in terms of nature conservation and it also embraces various designated areas within. The river is naturally surrounded with birchwoods, pinewoods, and heather moors. Get the chance to be in touch with the water vole, otter, and freshwater mussel since they come vastly available on the place.
Famed because of its association with the Burnett of Leys clan, the Monboddo House is one of the most renowned mansions within Aberdeenshire. The property however is originally owned by the Family of Barclay during the 13th century. Through time, it was passed on from one family to another until the moment when it arrives to the possession of the Burnett of Leys.
All of these places will surely bring back memories of pleasant yesterdays. So if you feel tired from all the chaos brought by the modern technological age, then Aberdeenshire is a good place for you to remember memories of yesterdays. Indeed, UK has a lot of tourist destination to offer like Aberdeenshire so would it be nice if you start packing your clothes, start a trip and be fascinated?


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What others had to say about the 2012 roadshow
Got some feedback about the roadshow? Email firstname.lastname@example.com
"Hi Kenny, I attended the bullying talk yesterday in Christchurch. Congratulations on a great seminar! I was very impressed with the Cleft Roadshow and wish you all the best for your trip. Well done!" – Kate
"Huge congrats to Kenny and everyone else involved in the Roadshow! Wellington pulled out a stunning day! Kenny your passion and committment to the organisation and the cause is astounding! Keep up the great work!" – Jen
"Thanks for today…my wife & I appreciate the support & time given to this venture. A great initiative. It"s also great to have the "Face it" logo & what it means out there in the public domain for cleft awareness. Well done team & it was a pleasure to meet Kenny too." – Marcus
"Awesome to meet you today, Riley & Adrienne :D"
"Was great meeting you 🙂 thanks for an awesome event. You are a credit to the cleft community kenny." – Jessica
"Just been and visited the roadshow in Napier and wanted to say what a fantastic idea and well done to Kenny and everyone else who was involved in organising it and making it happen. Well done Cleft NZ :-)" – Joanne
"Thanks so much for today Kenny. You"re doing a remarkable job. For those of you further north, please make the effort to see Kenny, you"ll definitely get so much out of it. Thank you Kenny for educating people so that clefts really are just a normal part of our society, which in turn is going to help my Liv and everyone else in this group. And also Kenny, thought you"d find it funny that Liv was still
going on and on before bed that you"re both special since you"re clefties and lefties!!!!" – Sophie
" Was very cool seeing the truck in Hamilton and meeting you Kenny. Thanks so much for organising the event, legend!!!!!" – Anita
"It was great meeting you, and you are doing a great job. Still trying to get B to sign up to the youth page lolz I will keep bugging him heehee" – Rachel
"Thanks kenny it was great to meet you and awesome what you are doing for our cleft kids around the country!!!!!! Have fun in Auckland!!!" – Anita
"The rain didn"t get in the way and the guys did a great job, great information, and mostly just nice to meet with you on your country tour on behalf of us – great job!! well done!" – Lorraine
"Great to meet you ever so briefly today Kenny. Hoping to catch up again before you head back south. :-)" – Kylie
"Kenny, it was a pleasure to spend the day with you on Saturday – and to meet new families and see older families again. Looking forward to helping with the next one!" – Louise
"Great to catch up with you Kenny and what an awesome effort you put into the road show. I think my 7 year old cleft kid summed it up on the way home – "Kenny was really nice to do that eh mum?" – Barbara
"It was a pleasure to meet you on Saturday. Thank you for taking the time to meet & connect with all the cleft kids. Tom doesn"t say much, but I know he got a lift from meeting you – a boy who looks like him. It was a relief, if that makes sense? We hope there will be more road shows. If so, Tom and our family would love to be involved x" – Kate and Tom
"Thanks for the feedback and well done. it was great for the patients, community and our service. your time and effort is much appreciated." – Megan, CMDHB
"I went on Saturday to Cornwall Park and met Kenny and some other lovely people. I filled in a membership form and they gave me the blue book… great to go along and meet them and have a bit of a chat." – Jan


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When thinking about vegan leather alternatives I often think of polyurethane based fabrics which are not great for our environment and in long-term not great for animals either. However, there are other great alternatives such as Pinatex (made out of pineapple waste) and cork, which is personally my favourite alternative.
Cork is a great sustainable fibre which has an interesting story. Cork oak trees grow in Portugal and unlike other trees, they thrive when their bark is peeled off them every few years, whereas other trees die if their bark is peeled off. They grew a different type of bark to protect them from forest fires and they regrow the bark when it's burned or peeled off making it a renewable resource. It's also waterproof, fire resistant and can be modified in many ways. To me, it reminds of all the corks used in wine bottles and cork tiles used for some interior design (a look that I've really liked), but now also, apparently, as a leather substitute in the fashion industry and quite frankly I really like the look of it!
There are not many brands that use cork to make their designs, but the few I've seen so far have been very promising. One of those brands I wrote about in the post about my favourite sustainable brands and now I would like to introduce you to Grow From Nature.
Grow From Nature drives their beautiful line of cork accessories by being sustainable, eco-friendly and vegan. They showcase the unique patterns of cork to their and the designs' advantage in making each item special and in its own way beautiful.
They believe that sustainability isn't the future but that it is the present. That is why they strive to be more sustainable in everything they do. They are very straightforward that there is still a lot of work to be done towards sustainability and explain what they are doing to achieve it. They use an eco-friendly cork from Portugal in all of their designs and actually tell an interesting story about their cork here. Their cork harvesters are paid well and they manufacture all of their designs in Portugal.
Now they are also expanding their range to cork shoes, how exciting!
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Calling All Young Artists
Hello everyone! My name is Clarinda Cloud. I like to tell people about identifying and sharing feelings. Would you like to help me? My author, Jodi Desautels, and I are looking for drawings by children that show feelings. Can you help us? Drawings will be posted on this blog.
All drawings must be emailed by a parent or guardian with this permission form. If you are not able to print and scan the form, the email must have all the information in the form. Please send your emails to: email@example.com. Put "feelings drawing for Clarinda Cloud" as the subject. Thank you!
01/06/2014 4:45pm
This is a good idea, and I wish you the best with this new reveal!
Jodi Desautels
01/06/2014 4:51pm
Aw! Thank you, Virginia! I hope that it is successful as well. If you know of any children, parents, grandparents, teachers, guidance counselors, daycare providers, etc…please keep them this in mind.
01/07/2014 10:20am
Excellent... love this idea!!!
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01/07/2014 10:22pm
Aw! Thank you, Lee! I hope it catches on! I like the idea too!
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I love the creation in this art. You can definitely see the angry girl. She did a wonderful detailed picture of angry.
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Introducing the Home Care Services BureauJune 17, 2016
Introducing the Home Care Services Bureau As of January 2016 there was a new bill that passed to protect consumers in need of Home Care. The Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act provides for the licensure and regulation of Home Care Organizations and the registration of Home Care Aides. This went into effect Jan 2016. Home Care Companies are required to be licensed by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) 1099 companies are now READ MORE
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On Sunday, March 6, 2016, it was a cloudy, blustery day on the San Francisco Bay. Views of the city were in front of us and the Bay lay between us and San Francisco. However, we weren't there for what was happening outside, were there for the magic inside. Dozens of yogis ventured to the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond to lay our mats out and meditate, sweat and chant for a cause. We were all there to help those who can't help themselves and are in need of the help of READ MORE
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In 2003 I graduated in Fashion and Costume Design from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. For my final exam, I created a women's collection inspired by Yves Saint Laurent. I introduced my book with this quote: "This collection was born from the desire to give a woman a dress and the freedom to be Alive. Elegance is a way of moving and flowing into Life. Fashion fades, only Style is eternal". Huge success! Two months later, that collection got me my first my first paid job as a junior Designer for Dolce & Gabbana. I was incredibly excited and proud and I had finally proven to my family that I could become a great Artist.
Here's the little video intro that I made back then to introduce "Yves, les autres et moi" (Yves, the others and I). The voice is Yves Saint Laurent's.
In the years that followed I designed for some of the most important Luxury Fashion houses: Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Gianfranco Ferré, Missoni, Roberto Cavalli, Prada, Ralph Lauren and. Many others. I am grateful beyond words for the opportunities, the mentoring, the creativity and the fun that I've received throughout my career as a Fashion Designer. I loved my job, made excellent money, worked with the most gifted and talented people, met and styled A-list celebrities, traveled around the world and attended incredible parties in the most exotic locations. For many years I thought I had the world in my hands but under the surface, something was missing. I had the feeling I couldn't really be or express myself or my ideas and was forced to follow the Industry's dictated rules instead.
Fashion is a cutthroat arena full of unique personalities. It has its positive and negative sides like anything else in life. On one hand, there are the out of control fashion divas trapped in their egos who think fashion is just about image, appearance, and glamour. They constantly feel the need to show up, they always feel challenged, they raise the competition, they judge others and at the end of the day, they are always overwhelmed, frustrated and insecure. On the other hand, you have the geniuses. For them fashion is Art, it's about telling a story, communicating feelings, creating a movement or a social revolution, bringing awareness. It's a passion that comes from deep within, it's not about them, it's about giving to people the freedom and the opportunity to live a dream on their own skin, a dream that also gives them confidence and power of expression. I was lucky enough to be able to work with some of those geniuses, and I've always strived to be one of them.
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Bhoomi from Kolkata, are credited with reviving folk music in Bengal.
As the name Bhoomi suggests, this Bangla Band's music is close to its roots. Their songs, colored with the flavor of traditional tunes, have easily conquered the young and the old. Bhoomi [Earth] has fast emerged to be one of the most popular bands in the last few years. It is the only band which defines its music as decidedly 'urban folk', and it is evident in their consistent fusion of modern, urban lyrics with Bangla rural folk tunes like Baul or Bhatiyali, the latter being traditionally sung by the boatmen on the Ganga and also the Padma, now in Bangladesh.
It is a significant achievement that Bhoomi of all the bands, has been successful in expanding the audience of Bangla Band's urban music beyond the college campus and youth circuits into the older, middle aged listeners. Though everyday city life remains one of their main inspirations behind their music, the band maintains that there was no conscious attempt to sound political at all.
For an entire generation of Kolkatans, Bhoomi's first album Jatra Shuru opened up a whole new world in music. The group does not like to call itself a Bangla rock band. Instead, they have emerged as the voice for Bengali youth and speak about the new generation's joys and sorrows, about who they were and what they want to be - all in lilting melodies and simple lyrics.
After having come out with four successful albums - including Jatra Shuru Udaan and Paal Chhutechhe, Bhoomi is now looking to expand beyond Bengal. "Our lyrics set us apart, and more importantly, they are totally original" says Surojit Chatterjee, the band's lead singer, lyricist and composer.
In Kolkata today, bands like Bhoomi, ChandraBindoo, Krosswindz and Cactus are hugely popular. "Bands have taught people that music need not always be solo singer-focused. Guitarists, bassists and drummers too play an important role", says Soumitra Ray, the other lead singer and drummer. Bhoomi, which started out in 1999, has today been credited with reviving folk music in Bengal. "Our popularity is not just with youngsters, Bhoomi's songs are enjoyed by a wide cross section of people", says Surojit, who feels Bhoomi is the only band that has conquered urban as well as rural Bengal. "We churn out numbers that strike a chord as we speak the language of the people", says Abhijit Ghosh, bassist and entertainer of the group. "We have performed at several festivals in India and the US.
We have also performed to a record audience in Washington and Los Angeles", says Surojit.
Probably a decade earlier a rock band singing folk numbers would have been unthinkable. Earlier, the rock groups sang Bengali songs that were either adaptations or translations. But things have changed. "We dislike singing cover versions and that is why people enjoy our music", says Abhijit.
The first Bengali music album of the group called BHOOMI sets in motion the concept of folk music in terms of MUSICAL BANDS. The songs are original, but have rustic flavors all the same. The harmony in all the numbers is highly appreciable. It is really a matter of sheer joy to listen to this album. If I am not mistaken, the artists have toiled hard to visit various rural places and learn the nuances of different types of sounds that could be transformed into musical notes. It is sad that the female voice is no more associated with this Bangla Band.
Definitely, "Yatra Shuru" is a JOURNEY WELL BEGUN! Music sure brought them closer, but it is a sense of fun that really binds them together as a group.
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Rejoice, Arkansas residents, because Wednesday is a HUGE day. John Daly's steakhouse is having its grand opening. Hooray!
Yes, we were as surprised as you to learn that Daly hadn't yet opened a steakhouse in his native state. But now the two-time major champ has rectified that glaring void with his latest business venture. And not surprisingly, he seems pretty excited about it. So excited, in fact, he cropped the beginning of his name out of this photo:
And good lord, is that a lot of hashtags. John, you probably didn't need to alert anyone to the fact that your steakhouse serves dinner. . .
Anyway, Daly shared a few other photos ahead of the bid day. Here's a glance at the menu, which looks reasonably priced and surprisingly understated (Well, other than Daly's lion logo).
The only personalized item we see on there is Big John's Steakhouse Burger, which is topped with charred onions and fried egg. Sounds about right -- and very yummy.
RELATED: Watch John Daly get drenched in booze after earning first senior tour victory
As for the decor, it's surprisingly muted as well. But there is at least one painting of Daly:
And check out this golf club chandelier!
That's a nice touch. Not that we should be surprised that John Daly knows how to run a restaurant. He was once on an episode of Bar Rescue, so he's totally got this.
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The mountains from the balcony, in their sunrise glow, made me hungry to be out there among them. Long's Peak, Colorado's northernmost 14-er, is visible to the right.
I packed a backpack with cardstock, acrylic paints, brushes, sunscreen, and a coat just in case I got cold (I didn't), and by 7:30 am, I was on the road to the park, waves of happy exhilaration and anticipation washing over me.
I was driving through the Big Thompson Canyon, where the signs say, "Bighorn sheep, next 10 miles," and I was hoping I would get to see some. Sure enough, I rounded a bend, and there were four stalwart ones right on the side of the road. (By the time I parked and got the camera out, they were trotting off into the distance, so in the photo they look like four white specks to the left of the more distant car.) It made me happy just to see the way these bighorn sheep walked. They were so muscular and yet so graceful.
I got up to Rocky Mountain National Park and took the shuttle to Bear Lake. Day after Labor Day = best time to go! The massive crowds of people were thinned to almost nothing, so Bear Lake didn't have the agonizing "Get Me Away From All These People" feeling that it did in July when I went.
The lovely view at Bear Lake:
I hiked to Bierstadt Lake, which also had a lovely view, and I sat on a rock and pulled out my painting stuff and painted it. It made me happy to apply color to paper, even though I knew it was turning out amateurish and...well, just funny-looking. This was literally the first time in my life I had ever sat outside to paint a landscape. But it was something I had wanted to do ever since I came here in July. I had been longing to come out here and paint this--even though I knew I wouldn't really be able to.
The painting in front of the original:
Then I hiked on a little further and came to the steep part with the switchbacks, where the inspiration had first struck me to come out here and paint, and I sat down exactly where I had said to myself I wanted to sit, and I painted another painting. But I got tired and hungry and by the time I was painting the aspen trees, I was a bit bored and just abandoned it before all the details were done. Oh well...even if I had done my most careful work, I would not have been able to do it justice. The point was, it was fun and it made me happy to do it.
On the way home, driving out of the parking lot, I passed two elk on the side of the road. I also saw lots of chipmunks, a huge wild turkey, and two deer, making my wildlife count entirely satisfying.
After all that, I had a wonderful evening with some friends, the most delicious chocolate cake I have ever tasted, and a sweet time of sharing and prayer.
There was even a spectacular sunset to put a fitting bookend on the day (but I didn't get a photo of it).
Thank you, Jesus, for bringing such beautiful moments into my life. Thank you for this beautiful day!


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Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum
10515 Mackall Road, St. Leonard, MD 20685
Phone: 410-586-8501 Email
Nearly 70 archaeological sites on the property reflect more than 8,000 years of human occupation. Included are a visitor center, exhibit barn, gift shop, hiking trails, a re-created Indian Village and canoe/kayak launch. Also on the grounds is the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory. Call about scheduling a tour of the facility.
Kings Landing Park
3255 Kings Landing Road, Huntingtown, MD 20639
Phone: 410-535-2661 or 410-535-5327
This 260-acre park on the Patuxent River and Cocktown Creek offers a variety of outdoor activities. A site for environmental education, the park features pastures, woodland and wetlands. Amenities include picnic shelters with tables and grills, wetlands boardwalk, fishing pier, launch area for canoes and kayaks, swimming pool ($), horse ring and Tom Wisner Hall (for indoor meetings and receptions). Youth camping, horse ring, picnic shelters and hall require reservations. Reservations are required for groups of 30 or more. Hours vary by season.
Nans Cove
Broomes Island Road, Broomes Island, MD 20615
Phone: 410-535-5327
Kayak and canoe launch. Open dawn to dusk.
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North Beach Welcome Center Pier & Beach
9023 Bay Ave., North Beach, MD 20714
Phone: 410-286-3799
5300 Breezy Point Road, Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732
Phone: 410-535-0259
Offering kayaks and stand-up paddle boards (SUPs) for hourly or daily rental at both locations. Tubes and bicycles are available to rent at the North Beach site.


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Joel Peckham
Joel Peckham is an essayist, poet, and scholar. His most recent books include the poetry collection God's Bicycle and a book of essays titled Resisting Elegy: On Grief and Recovery. He teaches at Marshall University and lives in Huntington, West Virginia, with his wife and son.
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NEW EDIT 3/11/18: A method to mitigate some service failures in pfSense is to install and configure the "Service_Watchdog" package in the pfSense offerings to restart HAProxy (and any other service of your choice, such as OpenVPN, in my case) in case of detected service failures.
When finished, the Backend section will look something like this. In this screenshot, there are two unrelated servers. For our purposes, look at the *.sandstorm.io entry. I've changed my "Health Check" setting from the default "HTTP" to Basic, which does a simple socket check on the host. The Sandstorm server returns unrecognizable data via the HTTP check to the Health Check service and it shows up as being down, and I didn't feel like troubleshooting.


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Boomdash Digital Bring 'Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare' to Android
Official mobile game of the chilling remake of one of horror's most iconic movies is available to play on the Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore today.
Manchester, UK – 28th October 2016 – Boomdash Digital, have today released Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare, the official mobile game based on the terrifying remake of Evil Dead, on Android smartphones and tablets.
Based on what is widely regarded as 'the most terrifying movie you will ever see', Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare is an action-packed first person runner. Players get to experience familiar locations and characters from the movie the moment they enter the cabin, in a game packed with psychological terror, movie audio and cinema realistic graphics.
A secluded cabin. An ancient curse. An unrelenting evil. All you have to do is survive!
During the course of the game, players run from cinema's most iconic cabin, where they then need to survive the Deadite infested woods and avoid a number of deadly obstacles. To help players survive the woods and dispatch bloodthirsty Deadites, they are able to access an arsenal of signature weapons within the game, including the trusty boxcutter, chainsaw and shotgun.
With the help of the Book of the Dead, players must fight for their survival, attempt to complete increasingly challenging missions, collect blood droplets, unlock bonuses, upgrade weapons and ultimately prepare themselves to battle against the Evil Witch!
Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare is free to play from:
– Google Play
– Amazon
– Spine chilling, 1st person POV, puts players at the centre of the Evil Dead universe
– Record times, distances and Deadite-killing achievements to beat your friends
– Cause carnage with an array of murderous weapons including the boxcutter, chainsaw and shotgun.
– Run deeper into the woods to unlock new missions straight out of the Book Of The Dead
– Realistic 3D graphics and camerawork recreate the look and feel of the movie set
Game Info:
– Title: Evil Dead: Endless Nightmare
– Publisher: Boomdash Digital Limited
– Developer: Dream Country Limited, Inlifesize Ltd
– Category: 3D Endless Runner
– Monetisation: Free with In App Purchase
– Age: 17+
For press assets, such as screenshots and a game description, please visit http://bit.ly/evildeadpresskit
For more information, please visit Google Play or Amazon
Press Enquiries, please contact Ross Newsome at email@example.com


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Whenever there is property that is taken over by the government or local authorities there is very little that people or entities can do. The rules are very clear regarding the takeover of such properties if the land so taken over is being used for development of roads, bridges, hospitals and other such infrastructure for the benefit of the public as a whole. However, on the other side, the rules are pretty clear about the compensation that is payable to the entities from whom the properties have been taken over by the government.
However, getting compensation is a long and procedurally time consuming affair. The starting point for all such valuation is to have the entire area valued by a third party valuer. It is here that we could come into the picture and play a very important and vital role. We, being a reputed and successful valuer based out of Adelaide would be in a position to handle such compensation valuations helping both the parties to have their objective fulfilled.
While there could be many such valuations companies in Adelaide, there are certainly are some distinguishing features that set us apart from the others. A few such points are being given below for your reference.
• First and foremost, we know the various rules and regulations governing compensation valuations and also have regular updates on the changes to the laws that could be happening every now and then.
• We are a Government sponsored and recognized valuer and that in itself is a big feather in our cap.
• We play a big role in helping both federal governments and local governments in their efforts to get the right compensation values for properties that are being taken over
• From the customers' point of view it is our responsibility to ensure that they are able to get fair value for the properties which they have to forfeit.
If you are busy and can't come to meet us, we will come to you. You can book an appointment with our valuer at your site. Call on (08) 7009 4449 to book an appointment or write to us at [email protected] and book your appointment as soon as possible.


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Jersey says it is on track to meet AIFMD deadline
Jersey remains on track to meet the requirements of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and will introduce new fund regulations in April, a conference in London has heard.
Jersey remains on track to meet the requirements of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and will introduce new fund regulations in April, a conference in London has heard.
More than 350 practitioners including leading lawyers, fund managers and other finance professionals were given an update at the event – which was organised by promotional body Jersey Finance.
The island's plans for new regulations also pave the way for the creation of a passport regime for alternative investment funds as soon as it becomes available to 'third countries' in 2015.
Meanwhile, Jersey continues to report a growing alternatives funds sector, which accounts for some 70% of all Jersey funds business. The net asset value of funds at the end of 2012 stood at £192bn.
The conference also heard that a number of manages are considering increasing their presence or opening new offices in Jersey to take advantage of the jurisdiction's position as a non-EU state. This means the island can run a separate funds regime besides AIFMD for alternatives, which managers can use to market to investors elsewhere in the world who do not need access to EU capital.
Geoff Cook, CEO of Jersey Finance (pictured), said: "We are confident that we will satisfy the criteria to comply with the AIFMD and remain attractive both for ongoing 'business as usual' activity with Europe and also the increasing volume of business targeting markets outside the eurozone. At the same time, there is also evidence of an uptake of new entrants from the fund sector having an enhanced presence and in some cases opening new offices in Jersey."
Currently, Jersey is developing the following:
• Creation of an opt-in regime for managers wishing to market to European investors by mirroring EU requirements, through private placement arrangements with individual EU countries
• The introduction of its own set of AIFMD regulations which start to come into effect from next month
• A process to enable individual agreements to be signed between Jersey's regulator and the regulators of EU Member States
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bag- 3.1 Phillip Lim | watch c/o Daniel Wellington
This leather jacket was one of my favourite purchases last fall, and although I only get a short window of time to wear it each year, it was soooo worth the splurge. Every time I throw it on, I feel like I'm channeling my inner Michael Jackson or something (heee heee!), and those darling little perforations? Yup, they're star shaped... So. Good. What can I say, it had me at leather jacket. xx
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Current Developments
Pacific Heights East
South Surrey, BC
Canadian Horizons is currently working with the City of Surrey and other landowners and stakeholder groups on a Neighbourhood Concept Plan for what is known as Area 3 in the Grandview neighbourhood of Surrey. Canadian Horizons controls 18 acres of land within this large future neighbourhood. The process has started and we anticipate a concept plan by late 2017. We are hoping to start our rezoning process in early 2018 with completion anticipated for late 2018 or early 2019. Stay tuned for more.
Abbey Ridge
North Surrey, BC
Located in the brand new neighbourhood on the border of the highly desirable Fraser Heights area of North Surrey, this proposed development is an assembly of 9 properties totaling approximately 10 acres. When approved, the development will consist of approximately 60 lots ranging in size from 4,000 to over 13,000 square feet. This will be a unique community with access to two large Metro Vancouver parks (Tynehead and Surrey Bend Park) as well as being very well served by transportation networks (Highway 1, 15, South Fraser Perimeter Highway, and the Golden Ears Connector and Bridge). There will also be views of the mountains to the north as well as the Fraser River. Canadian Horizons worked with the community and the City of Surrey to complete the Abbey Ridge Local Area Plan which outlines permitted densities as well as future trails, park land, and public facilities. The Plan was approved in Winter 2015 and Canadian Horizons made rezoning application in early 2016. Canadian Horizons anticipates Third Reading from Mayor and Council of the City of Surrey in early 2017 with construction commencing Spring 2017. Homes will be occupied late 2017 or early 2018.
Pacific Heights
South Surrey, BC
This is currently Canadian Horizon's signature development. Pacific Heights is an 11 property assembly of approximately 17 acres, located at the south-west corner of 18th Avenue and 168th Street in the Sunnyside Heights Neighbourhood of South Surrey. This development will consist of approximately 129 RF-12 and RF lots ranging in size from 3,500 square feet to over 6,000 square feet. The site is very unique as it is the only development in South Surrey which takes advantage of a gentle south-west slope. When complete, this development will offer panoramic views of Semiahmoo Bay, agricultural land, and Mount Baker and the Cascade mountains to the east. This new neighbourhood will be well served by parks, trails, golf courses and the beach, all within minutes of the site. The development is currently under construction with completion anticipated for Spring 2017. Show homes by our builder partners Morningstar Homes, Miracon, and Foxridge Homes are anticipated to be open Summer 2017.
April Creek
South Surrey, BC
This development consists of 67 half acre RH-G zoned lots, nestled within significant tree growth and adjacent to parks and greenspace. The development is currently under construction with new homes scheduled to start Summer 2016.
North Surrey, BC
Another project located in the new Abbey Ridge area of North Surrey, this proposed development consists of approximately 4.5 acres of land resulting in approximately 40 single family lots. This will be a unique location as it is located on a gentle slope to the north, which will offer views of the mountains and Fraser River. The site is also nestled within dense mature tree growth, semi-isolated from the rest of the future Abbey Ridge neighbourhood. Similar with Abbey Ridge, Canadian Horizons anticipates this development will receive Third Reading from Mayor and Council of the City of Surrey in early 2017 with construction commencing Spring 2017. Homes will be occupied late 2017 or early 2018.
Hyde Canyon
Township of Langley
This is a very unique development within the Township of Langley where 65 lots are proposed on 32 acres surrounded by lush agricultural land. All governmental approvals have been received and construction is underway. For more information and pictures please visit www.hydecanyon.com and http://benchmarkhomesltd.com/community/hydecanyon/.
Township of Langley, BC
An emerging neighbourhood in the Township of Langley, Canadian Horizons worked with the community and the Township of Langley for over 5 years to complete the Neighbourhood Plan. The Plan was approved in the fall of 2015. Canadian Horizons submitted a rezoning application to the Township in early 2016 for 108 single family lots.


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Rachel Zoe and her husband Rodger Berman have officially welcomed their first child into the world—his name is Skyler Morrison. The stylist just tweeted, "Thank you all so much for your love! @rbermanus and I couldn't be happier with little Skyler Morrison in our arms...he is everything. XoRZ."
On the one hand we hope he, like Jenna Lyons' son, develops an appreciation for hot pink nail polish. On the other, watching him rebel would be just as fun. Congrats to the happy couple!


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Opinions from influencers order top occupation any alma mater any topic any agree & disagree
Jimmy Carter, American politician, 39th president of the united states (in office from 1977 to 1981)Technology is being introduced into electoral processes to promote efficiency, but it also moves voting and counting into the unobservable digital realm. In the Netherlands, electronic voting has been abandoned amid concerns about foreign interference in elections. During the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States, Russian hackers broke into the Democratic National Committee's email syste... See More
Bill Shorten, Australian politicianWe're a grown up democracy - it shouldn't be taking eight days to find out who won and who lost. We can't afford to let Australia drift for eight days after an election.
Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician and prime ministerI think we considerably overestimate the security of the current paper voting system and we also overestimate the insecurity of electronic voting systems.
Bill Thompson,I do not think it is possible to design an e-voting system that can be guaranteed secure against a concerted and well-funded attack. I am concerned that this will happen, or worse, that it will be suspected and that the results of an election will be cast into doubt.
Lawrence Norden, Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for JusticeIf you have machines not working, or working slowly, that could create lots of problems too, preventing people from voting at all.
Sania Nishtar, Pakistani cardiologistOn balance, internet voting is feasible, which if effectively deployed, could improve accessibility for voters, especially those that are overseas and others for whom access is an issue, such as the disabled. It could also potentially save costs and time.
Kathy Sheridan,In the early 2000s, the then taoiseach Bertie Ahern said we were a "laughing stock" with our use of the "peann luaidhe", and so the Fianna Fáil lads fluttered €51 million on electronic voting machines with no paper trail or independent verification. Trust the lads, was the message. Without the combined firepower of media, experts like Margaret McGaley and thinking politicians, we too might be livi... See More
Narendra Modi,On one hand, there are parties that have lagged behind in technology, either they cannot understand or are purposely spreading lies. They have opposed all subjects in technology — EVM, Aadhaar card, mobile phone, every where.
Kersti Kaljulaid,In addition to having a really secure personal identification system, which is a physical card, and two codes – I think, frankly, it's slightly stronger than somebody opening my passport with my photo that is six years old. We have made the system even stronger by the fact that e-voting lasts several days.
David Dill, Computer scientistThe way I look at things is: How many people have to conspire to steal an election now? With paper ballots at polling places, to steal a significant number of votes, you'd have to have lots of poll workers or a lot of voters voting fraudulently, which would be very difficult and expensive. And with paperless touchscreen voting you maybe need a few programmers. If you had widespread Internet voting... See More
Avi Rubin,My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change. People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.
Michael Geist,While technology may someday allow us to replicate these essential features online, many of them are currently absent from Internet voting, which is subject to any number of possible disruptions. These include denial of service attacks that shut down the election process, counterfeit websites, phishing attacks, hacks into the election system, or the insertion of computer viruses that tamper with e... See More
Michael Shamos, American mathematicianTechnology is always required in elections. The days of the hand-counted ballots are over. You can design technology in a way that makes the problems readily apparent or that they're disguised. My position is that when a problem is found, it's an engineering problem.
Antonio Mugica,The reason to bring technology into the election process is to increase integrity and security, but it has a series of important collateral benefits. One is cost reduction: so I'm sure Britain could spend less per election if it was using technology, and the security and integrity would be 10 to a hundredfold better. So you have something that's a hundredfold better, and it's going to cost less... See More
Alex Halderman,Machines [are] stored around the country [India] in a variety of locations, from abandoned warehouses to schools, etc. [and it is] likely many of them could be accessed by criminals, especially with the aid of dishonest insiders.
Ron Rivest, CryptographerWe have learned the hard way that almost any computer system can be broken into by a sufficiently determined, skillful, and persistent adversary. There is nothing special about voting systems that magically provides protection against attack... Voting system software may be maliciously designed, may contain bugs, or may be changed or replaced at some point during the pre-election roll-out of eq... See More
Dominion Voting Systems,Dominion has invested in the development of proprietary technology that truly sets its products apart from the competition. Focusing on two key aspects of the electoral process – risk-limiting auditing and voter intent – Dominion's technology improves the transparency and integrity of the election process.
Ted Selker, Computer scientistNumerous pieces of evidence suggest that electronic voting machines outperformed all other methods used [in the 2004 US presidential election].
Harris Miller, American politicianThe machines performed beautifully ... Instead of theories about catastrophes, the simple reality is that the machines produce accurate results and the voters love them.
Verified Voting Foundation,Far too many states use unreliable and insecure electronic voting machines, and many states have made their situation worse by adding some forms of Internet voting for some voters, which cannot be checked for accuracy at all. Even in states where verifiable systems are used, too often the check on the voting system's function and accuracy is not done. The voting equipment now in use are aging; res... See More
Debra Bowen,When I took office, I commissioned a top-to-bottom review of all our voting systems: paper-based optical scan systems, as well as the e-voting or touchscreen systems. The University of California took the lead, and it involved universities and private-sector people from around the country. I have about 700 pages of documentation that are publicly available on my Web site, and I had another private... See More
Ed Felten,If there is uncertainty after an election, either because of the possibility of tampering or just the possibility of error or malfunction, a paperless system like Georgia's doesn't have any way to go back to other evidence to figure out what really happened.
John Bercow, Speaker of the House of CommonsI don't mean by that that it will necessarily at any stage be compulsory to vote in that way, but I think that the notion that, if it can be established as secure and reliable, people should have the option to vote online, will gain ground more and more and more.
WebRoots Democracy,There have been more instances of fraud across the world with paper votes than electronic ones, and the recent recounts of electronic votes in the US showed no evidence of hacking.
John Sawers, Former M16 chiefThe more things that go online, the more susceptible you are to cyberattacks.
Bill Clinton,Until we get this [electronic voting] straightened out, every state should go to some sort of paper ballot system.
Matt Blaze,Few, if any, state and local IT departments are equipped to protect this infrastructure against the full force of a hostile intelligence service, and these systems are very attractive targets for disruption.
Institute of Economic Affairs,We must not be afraid of technological change and the rise of robots. New technology offers us improved living standards and a better quality of life and there is little evidence that job displacement is moving faster than the economy's ability to develop new types of employment. It is often overlooked that with technological change has come the creation of many new jobs already, including IT and ... See More
Barry Diller, American businessmanThe Internet came together as a miracle, really. Anyone with a wire can publish, we need to keep it that way.
Cindy Cohn, American civil liberties attorneyYour ability to access a website depends on your desire to access the website and not the deals that the intermediaries have made with each other.
John Oliver,ISPs should not be able to engage in any sort of f*ckery that limits or manipulates the choices you make online.
Julius Genachowski, Business executive, politicianNet neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons.
Thomas de Maiziere,I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.
Donald J. Trump, President of the USAIt's old-fashioned — but it's always good to have a paper back-up system of voting.
Adam Smith Institute,A much better idea than putting income tax on robots would be to remove income tax on humans. That would spur human progress faster than even the visionary Mr Gates could ever imagine.
Centre for Policy Studies, Head of economic research at the Centre for Policy Studies (free-market British think tank)Going ahead with a robot tax or other measures that would discourage investment in capital would be hugely damaging for the UK. The UK already suffers from a low capital-labour ratio, which is dampening productivity growth and holding back wage increases. Corbyn's plans would exacerbate this problem and simply encourage new technologies and economic activity to locate elsewhere. The result w... See More
Dean Baker, Macroeconomist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research[This] is a tax on productivity growth.
Mady Delvaux, Luxembourgish politician and Member of the European Parliament[There might be a] need to introduce corporate reporting requirements on the extent and proportion of the contribution of robotics and AI to the economic results of a company for the purpose of taxation and social security contributions.
Robert J. Shiller, Professor of economics at Yale and Nobel laureateA moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of a policy to address rising inequality. Revenue could be targeted toward wage insurance, to help people replaced by new technology make the transition to a different career. This would accord with our natural sense of justice, and thus be likely to endure.
Matt Lynn,In truth, AI and robotics promises to fuel a new wave of growth, which the world could certainly use. Even if it doesn't, it will certainly replace lots of dull tasks, and remove a lot of daily drudgery. The last thing we want to do is tax that out of existence — no matter how many software billionaires tell us we should.
Gaby Hinsliff,But Conservatives shouldn't mock the robot tax unless and until they've got something better to offer. Labour is on to something, even if it's not yet quite sure what, and the Tories are running out of time to catch up.
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. Investor at Reddit, Stripe, Change.org, Pinterest and many othersIf the robots are creating wealth for their owners, that for sure should be taxed.
International Federation of Robotics,The IFR believes that the idea to introduce a robot tax would have had a very negative impact on competitiveness and employment.
Sérgio Rebelo,We find that when robots are relatively expensive, taxing them is useful in terms of improving the distribution of income between routine workers, whose jobs can be automated, and nonroutine workers, who benefit from automation.
David Descoteaux,And couldn't this [robot tax] result in double taxation for businesses, including many SMEs? Today, a company that uses technology to increase productivity pays taxes on its profits. However, if using a robot helps a company generate more profit, it will then have to pay more income tax plus a tax for having used a robot to increase its profitability.
Matteo Salvini, Italian politicianI do not want to stop progress, but there are, according to estimates, three million jobs at risk. Robots must be a help to human effort, not a replacement of human beings. Otherwise in thirty years in Italy we will only have restaurants, radios and not much more.
Dario Floreano,Robotic manipulators have been replacing humans on factory floors around the world to produce better goods, in larger numbers at more affordable prices, for the past 50 years. There's no reason why more advanced robots should be treated differently from a tax perspective.
Ron Johnson, Republican u.s. senator for wisconsin; manufacturing businessman
disagrees Net neutralityWhat you really want is an expansion of high-speed broadband, and in order to do that you have to create the incentives for those smaller ISPs to invest. They don't really control their own fiber if the government tells them exactly how they're going to use their investment.
Josh Shapiro, American politicianNet neutrality is critically important to ensuring a free and open Internet. It allows for free expression, technological innovation and a level playing field. Without it, our economy and our democracy will suffer by creating artificial market barriers and privileging certain speech and content over others.
Comcast,Comcast does not and will not block, throttle, or discriminate against lawful content. We will continue to make sure that our policies are clear for consumers and we will not change our commitment to these principles.
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Hey guys! So excited to share some photos of our family taken as a photoshoot collaboration with Chamak & More. Its strange that although I am snapping away our life all the time, but when it comes to having photos with all four of us in them, we don't have as many as I would like. So when the opportunity presented itself to work with Sundus Khan on this, I was all in!
Although we had never met before, but when she came over to our place on the day of the shoot, we were all so comfortable with each other at once, which felt really nice. I think its really important to have a friendly and comfy vibe with your photographer, and it goes both ways, when the photographer doesn't treat you like an object and you don't treat the photographer as a service you have hired. Mutual understanding, respect and care goes a long way in this process, and that really shines through in the quality of the photos at the end. Plus, being comfortable in your own skin first, and then just going about naturally for the photos, is also very important.
Sundus suggested coming over and doing the first set of photos at home and then we could have one outdoor location of our choice for the next part of photos. I loved the idea. We adore our humble, cottage-style home that we have set up in the past few months, and I knew the kids would be comfortable here and would get into the groove of the session if we start snapping in our living room with their toys and books around us. We took our time with these photos, and got some really good ones in our home setting and outside in our shady front yard as well. All of us, also hopped on my mint-green bike and posed for one of my favorite photos of the shoot. 🙂


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Drift Plume has taken its first step with Fate Pendulum's Project Italy. As a preview in Ninja-Con 2014, the audience was only able to hear who was speaking, but last Friday, at the Cultural Alliance of Long Beach (CALB), performing the whole script as a theatrical read made all the difference. As a writer, it feels amazing to have me and my cowriter's words come to life. And all the more impressing was the announcement of the Visual Novel and Radio Drama in the works! The audience were darling, the Cast superb, and the Producers were impressive. It was a fantastic experience and I'm excited to see all that is in store for Fate Pendulum's Project Italy.
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Preparing For Italy
Yesterday, Azure Lorica built the stage for the live reading of Fate Pendulum's Project Italy. Produced by Drift Plume, presented by Ninja-Con, our show will be premiering at CALB, this Friday, 7:00PM!
Doors open 6:30PM, and admission is FREE! We encourage donation for this community event, to help us continue our cause for the Arts. And to let you in with us are the following sneak peek photos of the early stages of bringing Project Italy to life!
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Humble Beginning
Originally, the story of Project Italy was just for fun. My co-writer and I created the story throughout our years in highschool and college, and after completing the first draft, we couldn't help by create more. We wrote stories after stories, scenarios after scenarios – many of which were lost through out our years of moving on to new computers, laptops, and messengers. Long before Facebook was mainstream, we wrote, and we wrote, and soon after we made Plays, and then a Convention, and now we're back to writing more because we have a fantastic idea of creating a visual novel. We hope that you can join us for our upcoming show: FATE PENDULUM'S PROJECT ITALY
When we continued the story of Project Italy, new characters were created. Some of them became significant, others became permanent. In all due respect, any of them could have been discarded, but in all due respect, they made their presence too strong to neglect. I wish I can unveil more to you, dear reader, but for now, do enjoy Fate Pendulum's original characters.


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I ran for 30-40 minutes. Then I did the elliptical for one hour. After 3 months, I noticed that I wasn't going to the gym enough. I averaged 2-4 times a week, but in my mind, it wasn't enough. I needed to go at least 5 times to the gym every week, if not 6. I also started using the weight machines. I did a core workout 3 times a week, leg day, and an upper body workout once a week. I do the core workout most of the time. It takes about one hour to complete the circuit two times.
I started doing way too many reps, and the reps themselves weren't challenging enough. So I reduced the amount of reps and added 30% weight. Then I worked my way back up to 15 reps. Now, I make sure that I'm doing the exercises slowly, to get the most out of them. I used Jefit to track my workouts. It makes it easy to know where your were in the previous workout and where to go next.
My workouts still include a lot of cardio. I don't plan on changing them. However, I'm able to run 10km 2-3 times a week, and 6-8km the rest of the days. I try to go for a long run on Saturdays or Sundays, which is at least 20% more than usual. I use the elliptical now to cool down. This week, I have started using the elliptical backwards. I read that this could help with knee soreness.


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Karl Abraham (May 3, 1877 – December 25, 1925) was an early German psychoanalyst, and a student and colleague of Sigmund Freud. He made substantial contributions to the world of psychoanalysis. His work on dreams enriched the understanding of myths and symbols, and he was a pioneer of the study of war neuroses. Abraham was fascinated by the various stages of psychosexual development, suggesting greater differentiation in libido development and postulating the connection between disturbance in psychosexual development and psychosis, which was later worked out by Freud. Freud regarded Karl Abraham as his 'best pupil' and eventually became his close friend and confidante.
Although Karl Abraham was included in Freud's "inner circle" and remained loyal to him throughout his life, he left Vienna to found the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute due to disagreement with Carl Jung. This institute proved significant in the expansion of psychoanalysis not only in Germany, but through his analysands, students, and colleagues there, among whom were included Melanie Klein and Karen Horney, he contributed to the successful expansion of psychoanalysis to Great Britain and the United States. Karl Abraham's loyalty to Freud was admirable and unusual since Freud's unwillingness to allow intellectual disagreement among his followers (including Jung, Alfred Adler, and Sándor Ferenczi) led to the breakdown in relationship between them and Freud. Had Abraham been able to maintain better relationships with them perhaps he could have served as a bridge between their work and Freud's, to the benefit of all.
Karl Abraham was born in Bremen, Germany on May 3, 1877, into a well-to-do, highly cultured, and well established Jewish family. Karl's father, Nathan Abraham, used to be a teacher of Hebrew religion, but he gave this up for economic reasons, becoming a businessman. As a result, Karl abandoned the Jewish faith early. His writings also reflect no interest in religion, this being in marked contrast to his friend and mentor, Sigmund Freud.
Abraham became deeply interested in philology and linguistics, and he learned to speak five languages, read several others, and even analyzed and psychoanalyzed some patients in English. Following the standard German preparatory education, Karl Abraham received his medical degree from the University of Freiburg in 1901. He married his cousin, Hedwig Burgner in 1906 and they had two children; his daughter was the well-known psychoanalyst Hilda Abraham.
His first position was at Burgholzi Mental Hospital in Zurich. Abraham became an assistant to Eugene Bleuler and studied with Carl Jung, who in 1907 introduced him to Sigmund Freud. In that same year, Karl Abraham published his first paper, which began with the phrase "according to Freud." It was a prophetic beginning. Karl Abraham among all Freud's disciples, never deviated from personal loyalty to Freud or from the classical principles of psychoanalysis.
Abraham was soon alienated by Jung's personality and by what he saw as Jung's threats to the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Despite Freud's pleadings the two men were never reconciled, and Abraham soon left Zurich to establish a practice in Berlin, opening the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis. This practice flourished, and among his analysands (psychoanalyzed persons) were several who became respected analysts (psychoanalysts), including Sandor Rado and Helen Deutsch.
During World War I Abraham was mobilized as chief physician in a psychiatric unit. At that time he became interested in the study of war neuroses.
During 1924-1925, Abraham was the analyst of Melanie Klein and of a number of other British psychoanalysts, including Alix Strachey, Edward Glover, and James Glover, the latter subsequently becoming physicians in the United States. Abraham was also a mentor for an influential group of German psychoanalysts, including Karen Horney and Franz Alexander.
He died on December 25, 1925, in Berlin at the age of 48. Karl Abraham brought to the fledgling psychoanalytic movement considerable prestige, and his contributions have lasted far beyond his own brief life.
According to verified sources, Karl Abraham's total literary output was about 700 pages, consisting of four short books and forty-nine papers, all but eight of which dealt with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, Karl Abraham made important contributions to the psychology of sexuality, character development, psychological understanding of myths, psychoanalytical interpretation of dreams, symbolism, and folk psychology.
Abraham was a pioneer in the study of war neuroses. Together with Sandor Ferenczi he developed the first psychoanalytical research on these problems.
Abraham made original contributions to the study of libido, introducing a differentiation in the phase of libido development based on the separate oral activities of sucking and biting. Based on this, he proposed two different modes in which infants relate to objects: incorporation (through sucking) and destruction (through biting), which gives infants their first experience of conflict. This led him to postulate a model of disturbance in ego development based on the ambivalence generated by the experience of conflict during libidinal development.
Abraham was the first to research psychosis from the psychoanalytical perspective. In his early research he discovered that disturbances of ego functions are secondary with respect to disturbances in libido. Thus, he was able to apply his theories of libido development to dementia praecox (schizophrenia).
Karl Abraham also collaborated with Sigmund Freud on the understanding of manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder), leading to Freud's paper on Mourning and Melancholia in 1917.
Karl Abraham is mainly remembered for two things—that he was a pioneer of German psychoanalysis and that he founded the Berlin Society of Psychoanalysis.
One of Karl Abraham's key ideas is expressed in his description of psychological defense, "A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work." This idea has become aphorismic in psychoanalytical understanding of ego defense.
For the last 30 years of his life, Sigmund Freud was in search of inheritors, younger, talented, and energetic persons—preferably men—who could devote themselves to him and to psychoanalysis and carry on his psychoanalytic legacy. So Freud began to gather round him talented younger thinkers like Karl Abraham, Sandor Ferenczi, and Carl Jung. He seated them at a table with himself at the head, like a monarch surrounded by his knights. In time Freud gave some of them rings to seal the fellowship. He called them his sons. Over time, though, it became clear that Freud could not bear much of any intellectual disagreement from his followers. Among these, Abraham remained loyal and unquestioning. Many years later, when Freud was asked by John Dorsey who was his best pupil, he promptly replied Karl Abraham.
In his work Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) Sigmund Freud wrote: "The communal life of human beings had, therefore, a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love." In other words, it can be referred to Eros and Anank or "Love and Necessity," which constitute the foundations of any society. This Freudian sentimental idea is appropriate to apply to Abraham's life and work and legacy. Karl Abraham truly lived a life of loving and working; and his life is a legacy for loving and for working.
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Our voices are an extremely important part of our lives, and for most of us, they are critical in helping us communicate and express ourselves. However, there are times when our voices aren't responding exactly the way we would like. Sometimes this is due to overuse or illness. Other times it might be due to allergies or even anxiety and nervousness.
The most important thing to know about nervousness, anxiety and stage fright is that not only are all of these the exact same thing, so is excitement, anticipation and joy. Biologically, each of these is the psychological effect brought on by the body releasing a high dose of adrenaline in its system. Therefore, you get to choose what you call that biochemical release, which changes the psychology of it. In other words, think of nervousness, anxiety and stage fright as excitement, anticipation and joy, and you're already a significant step ahead in managing your problem with stage fright.
This pertains to vocal care in several ways such as if an adrenaline surge goes unchecked, it can cause physiological problems with the voice like shallow breathing, trembling voice, dry mouth and stressed cords leading to hoarseness and actually could pave the way to true vocal damage due to misuse of the voice.
Nervousness when speaking can lead to a noticeable change in your voice tone, which can be problematic in many circumstances. For instance, a shaky voice during a public presentation or during an important conversation can reflect poorly on your confidence in your subject and even your confidence as a person. This can have negative consequences in many areas of your life from job interviews and sales pitches to even having a successful date if you find your voice shaking on a first phone call or a first meeting.
Feeling a sense of inner confidence is key, and a first step to overcoming a nervous voice. Concentrate on conveying confidence over perfectionism. If your voice sounds confident, you appear to be an authority on your subject, even if that subject is personal and about you. Volume has a little to do with it, and so does diction-enunciating your words clearly and using appropriate inflection. A good tip is to practice-even emulating a speech given by someone else or a monologue delivered by a skilled actor can help you improve and polish a confident delivery.
Maintain a sense of energy in your speech-again enunciating your words, using proper diction is very helpful. When your words fade off or sound mumbled, you appear less confident. To keep energy up, skip the coffee and instead take in some exercise in the morning, eat a healthy breakfast, listen to music that help you get charged up.
Practice-your speech, interview, pitch… Practice in front of a mirror, record yourself or invite a friendly audience over to hear you. Practice until you can't get it wrong not just until you finally get it right. This strategy might not help you so much as you prepare for a date, but going on several dates will certainly help prepare you for the next one.
Posture is more important than you might think. Having good posture not only relays a sense of confidence, but it helps you attain and maintain proper breath support. One of the primary causes of a shaky voice is that you are not engaging your breath and supporting it properly. Stand up straight, head forward, shoulders back but relaxed, and breathe deeply, keeping your shoulders from rising and feeling your diaphragm extend through your waist. Then, speak, feeling a bit of tension in your waist, supporting your breath with energy. That should greatly reduce instances of your voice shaking from nerves.