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|Ecodriving principles
|Written by Miloš Veverka
What is ecodriving?
It is possible to save up to 20 % of fuel consumption by energy-efficient driving. This saves
Before you start the engine
Before you get into a car, think about other ways of transport that could be better. An alternative could be faster than a car, mainly during rush traffic hours. Up to 1 km prefer walking, to 10 km prefer biking or city transport. Up to 100 km use public transport or car, up to 1000 km travel by train. Travelling by train or public transport for long distances has a lot of advantages – it is quick, safe and you do not have to drive. You can work on your laptop, read a book, watch countryside or just relax. Nowadays it is a standard that european high-speed trains (TGV, ICE, RAILJET, etc.) exceed the speed of 200 km per hour.
If we need to use a car, we do not have to own it
Car-sharing means to have an available car, but not to own it. This decreases the number of cars in the cities. More information you can find in the Technical report. Car-sharing is widespread in Germany and in Western Europe countries.
Choose the right car
By choosing the right car at acquisition it is possible to influence substantially environmental pollution and also driving costs. The most environmentally friendly type of propulsion is electricity (optimal from renewable sources), then gas - LPG, CNG (optimal from biogas plants generating biogas from waste, sewage), hybride (electricity/petrol) and at the end petrol. The dirtiest propulsion is diesel, because of carcinogenic particle matters originating in the combustion process.
When you own an older or second-hand car, keep the engine in good condition. At acquisition prefer gas (LPG, CNG) or petrol variant to diesel notably if you intend to use your car for short drives and for urban driving. Diesel cars have to be equiped with particulate filter (DPF). Older diesel cars without filter should be retrofitted.
Tips before driving
By good trip planning you can save time and fuel. Take into consideration:
Emission control technologies, particulate filters
For the reduction of air pollution by gasoline vehicles, the use of 3-way catalyst is widespread. The catalyst turns emissions of CO, NOx and HC into harmless products N2, H2O and CO2 by additional catalytic burning at the catalysts (platinium, rhodium). Cars with GDI engines (Gasoline Direct Injection), which are on the market since 2012/2013, should be equipped with GPF (Gasoline Particulate Filter). If the GPF is not a part of new car exhaust system, you should retrofit it with GPF additionally. The EU legislation set no particulate limits for GDI cars in time of placing this new technology on the market.
The 3-way catalyst requires unleaded petrol, because Pb is catalyst poisoning. Lifetime of the catalyst is also decreased when unburned petrol gets into the catalyst. It can happen while the engine is misfired, or while long starting or lugging of the vehicle to start without starter. Combustion of the pertol inside the catalyst can increase its temperature above 1 400 °C, what destroys the catalyst. Lifetime of the 3-way catalyst is about 80 – 160 thousand km.
For reduction of air pollution by diesel vehicles, filters or other technologies (DOC, SCR, EGR, DPF etc.) are used. Diesel motors produce 200-times more particulate matters (PM) than gasoline motors, so PM must be removed. For their removing DPFs are frequently used. As PM are very fine soot particles with health dertimental effect, correct operation and maintenance of DPF is very important.
Correct operation and maintenance of Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF):
Diesel Patriculate Filter (DPF) needs low-sulphur diesel using only. Content of sulphur in diesel should not exceed 15 mg/kg. During right running of the car, regeneration of DPF takes place as a part of normal operation cycle, when caught soot particles are burnt to enable normal working of the DPF and prevent clogging.
If you use your diesel car for urban driving and short trips only (cold starts), it is necessary from time to time, at the latest when onboard control signalises a problem with the filter, to drive at least 10 minutes continuously (optimal on a highway) at 2000 – 3000 RPM to enable regeneration of the filter and burning of soot particles.
The DPF must cleaned from noncombustible particles and ash periodically in professional cleaning services. The cleaning is required every 6 to 12 months – depending on the vehicle use. The filter should be cleaned if regeneration process is done too often.
For long lifetime of the DPF, the engine must be kept in a good condition, too. Co-burning of oil in the engine damages DPF. When the DPF is cleaned (mentioned above), engine control is also recommended. If DPF operation and maintenance is correct, DPF works during all vehicle lifetime.
Short trips are not good for diesel vehicle, because diesel engine warms up much more slowly than gasoline engine. Cold diesel engine consumes more fuel and produces much more PM than the warmed one. DPF is quickly clogged with PM and it has no time to regenerate. So at acquisition if you plan to use your car for short drives and for urban driving, prefer gas or petrol variant to diesel. Moreover, petrol vehicle can be retrofitted to LPG, what reduces fuel costs by half and also decreases harmfulness of car emissions.
Fuel type
Fuel type influences significantly air pollution and also economy of driving. CO2 emitted by combustion of 1 l of fuel is much lower in case of LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) and CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) than in case of petrol or diesel car.
Petrol car can be retrofitted to LPG rather easily. On the market, there are also cars with a combined fuel type - petrol and LPG or petrol and CNG.
Advantages of LPG car:
Disadvantages of LPG car:
Ecodriving tips while driving
Driver behaviour can influence significantly fuel consumption and enviromental effect of driving. For fuel savings the following principles of ecodriving are important to be kept:
Parking tips
The way of parking and departing from parking place also influences the fuel consumption. You should keep the following principles:
Smart use of air-conditioning
Air-conditioning (MAC – mobile air-conditioning) belongs to the most energy demanding devices in cars and it can increase fuel consumption by more than 2 l/100 km Therefore you can save a lot by smart use of air-conditioning. Here are some tips which should be kept:
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Taulia, the market-leading provider for supplier financing, today announced that it has seen more than a 350% increase in revenue during the second quarter of 2014, compared to the same quarter from 2013.
The San Francisco-based startup signed 13 new customers during the quarter, nearly doubling that number from last year. Taulia also hired 34 new employees in the quarter to support the rapid growth. Taulia now serves nearly 300,000 suppliers through its cutting-edge SaaS platform.
"Taulia is honored to have won the trust of so many new customers, and we look forward to serving all their needs as we continue to grow," says Bertram Meyer, CEO of Taulia. "We're thrilled with the momentum we saw in the second quarter, and we look to continue this rapid growth in the coming weeks and months."
The new customers come from around the world, as Taulia continues its push into Europe and Asia. Because of the dramatic growth, Taulia is expanding its San Francisco headquarters. With offices already in London, England, Dýsseldorf, Germany, and Park City, Utah, the company recently opened new offices in Austin, Texas, and in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Taulia's growth has been recognized with several awards and accolades during the quarter. Taulia was named as one of the 2014 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for the second consecutive year, became an Oracle Gold Partner, and was named by AlwaysOn to the 2014 OnDemand 50 Companies to Watch list. In addition, Taulia maintained its 100% customer retention and renewal rate.
"We've had a wonderful experience and relationship with Taulia, and we look forward to continuing our partnership in the years ahead," said Steve Richards, Accounts Payable Manager at Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated and a participant in Taulia's customer spotlight roadshow and webinar series.
Also during the quarter, Taulia introduced anyERP™, which provides seamless integration for the industry's widest range of ERP systems. Taulia Business Exchange 2.0.1 has also been certified by SAP as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform.
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Taulia is the fastest growing SaaS platform and network for Supplier Financing, eInvoicing and Supplier Portals. Through turning every invoice into a revenue opportunity, Taulia enables organizations to strengthen supplier relationships while adding millions to the bottom line. Some of the most innovative brands in the world rely on Taulia, including Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, Pfizer, Pacific Gas & Electric, Hallmark, and many other Fortune 500 companies from various industries. Taulia is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Dýsseldorf, Germany, and Park City, Utah. For more information, visit http://www.taulia.com.

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SFC's opening day of the women's film festival showcased an engaging panel on film intersection.
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Articles and tip sheets focused on product certificationProduct certification can give manufacturers an edge over their competition and help drive consumers to their product
When Products are Certified, Everyone's a Winner
As my children enter their toddler years, I can see how competition will begin to play a role in our lives. My kids compete over everything—mostly toys— and it frequently ends up with one of them getting angry at the other. Nevertheless, they each continue time and time again, to compete against each other in whatever they are doing. This mentality holds true in the marketplace as well. No matter what type of business you're in, your competition will ultimately shape your decision-making process to the point where potentially bad decisions are made or opportunities are lost. One opportunity that will put you ahead of the competition in the water treatment product marketplace is product certification.
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(2) Auditing ensures that the products are manufactured in the same way, with the same materials, every time. Too often we think of audits as a burden, but a certification audit ensures that products are manufactured consistently, and many manufacturers actually find this practice helpful in creating and maintaining a reliable manufacturing process.
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The standards that are used have been created using a process in which many stakeholders—including product certifiers, manufacturers and regulators—are given the opportunity to provide input. This process is the best way to ensure that all viewpoints are heard. These standards are continually reviewed and revised as new technology is released into the marketplace.
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I have been researching destinations for our family's Christmas holiday next year and there is really only one other island in the Caribbean which is comparable in price and offerings. It however does not offer any all inclusive resorts, which unfortunately, when traveling with 11 people is a necessity.
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Nice article.....yes, it talks about things we "aruba lovers" have known for some time...
was flying on usair the other day for work and the new monthly magazine highlighted aruba...it also had a nice article and referenced how many return visitors aruba has....says tons about the island, it's culture and it's people doesn't it ??!!
Thanks for the "heads-up" article about Aruba in the "New York Daily News." I thoroughly enjoyed it. So many of my friends have asked about Aruba and why, I, liked/like it so much. I have sent the link to them and am sure that we will get a few more frequent visitors.
Great article..... so very true!!!
_____Wishing I was in Aruba!_________


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Remember Personal Responsibility?
Ithaca Community News
June 21, 2006
I can't quite remember who coined the phrase, whether it was Newt Gingrich or some other right-winger, but the term became widely used to describe how welfare mothers needed to pull up their bootstraps and work their way out poverty. I wasn't following politics all that much in the early 1990s because I was too busy being a low-life welfare queen taking advantage of the hapless and hardworking taxpayers of
The logic that followed: I was raising the kid, so naturally I assumed no personal responsibility.
No matter, I'm getting off-track. Nowadays, when I think of personal responsibility, I think of a lot more than what I'm going to make my kids for dinner.
Nowadays, when I think of personal responsibility, I think of how much I'd LOVE to see our current administration take some personal responsibility for their choices. And if they can't take personal responsibility, I'd love to see some accountability. For those authorizing torture, killings, human rights abuses, and environmental destruction, I am ready to see them held accountable for their actions.
For a political party that so loves personal responsibility, why hasn't President Bush met with Cindy Sheehan and answered her question? She's been asking for two years what noble cause her son died for, and will be heading back to
And Rumsfeld? He's responsible, too, for those torture manuals. You know, the ones given to those in charge at Abu Graib and
I've got my fingers crossed that the marines involved in the Haditha killings will be prosecuted and forced to show some personal responsibility. President Bush said May 31, "If…laws were broken, there will be punishment." Well, guess what, Mr. Bush, twenty-five percent of the twenty-four civilians killed that day were children shot at close range, and whether or not you can ferret out some justification, shooting children is illegal, even in war. If not by your own questionable ethics, then certainly by your born-again morality.
Our congress needs to show some personal responsibility too, for continuing to appropriate $87 billion per year and more to the war machine alone, while telling us that they have to cut education, cut health care, cut social security. They finally did reauthorize welfare this year—after only five years since the 1996 welfare law (dubiously dubbed the personal responsibility and work reconciliation act) expired. For five years congress couldn't agree on the terms of the bills being introduced because they were too busy bickering over nickels and dimes compared to what we spend on war.
Still, no one cared. Did you see any headlines about welfare reform? Women and children are poorer than ever, and the fingers still point to their own bad choices as the cause of their plight.
As far personal responsibility goes, all I can say is this: I've been responsible for my kids, that much is true. Wherever my income has come from, I've done the mothering thing 24/7 for nearly fifteen years. I've been responsible, and I accept all the choices I've made in life that have gotten me to this point.Isn't it time we asked our leaders to stand up and do the same?


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Synthesis and characteristics of modified polyamides based on lactames
and polyetheramines
Polimery 2003, No 2, 116
DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14314/polimery.2003.116
Conditions of the syntheses, by anionic polymerization method, of homo- and copolyamides based on ε-caprolactam (KL) and κ-lauryllactam (LL) modified with urea prepolymers (Table 2), obtained from tolylene diisocyanate and three various polyetheramines (polyoxyethylenediamine, polyoxypropylenediamine or polyoxypropylenetriamine - Table 1), have ben described. An introduction of flexible polyether segments into the polyamide chain has been done with the aim to increase the impact resistance. The effects of the type of amine used and copolyamides KL/LL compositions on the chosen mechanical properties (stress at break, elongation at break, impact resistance at temp. 20°C and -40°C) as well as on the contents of non-polymerized components (soluble in acetone) have been determined (Tables 3-6). Expected substantial improvement of impact resistance was reached only in the case when polyoxypropylenetriamine was used.
Keywords: polyamides, modification, polyetheramines, urea prepolymers, impact resistance
Synthesis and characteristics of modified polyamides based on lactames and polyetheramines


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2 Kings 23:4 English Standard Version (ESV)
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Take notes kids, we are watching the fall of America! Stupid Frickin' Decisions at EVERY turn!!!
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Seth Ginsberg, co-founder and president of the Global Healthy Living Foundation, explains what patients should know about biosimilar therapies. http://www.centerforbiosimilars.com/interviews/seth-ginsberg-what-patients-need-to-know-about-biosimilars
Pfizer offers a patient-friendly explanation of biosimilars – what they are, how they differ from generics, and how they are developed and approved, among other topics on the company's biosimilars website. Read more.
By 2020, the global biosimilars market is expected to top $390 billion and account for up to 28 percent of the global market for pharmaceuticals, due in large part to the loss of patent protection for commercially successful drugs. Read more.


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Returning to The Swan hotel at Lavenham in Suffolk several years after my original stay, I was relieved to find that it was just as lovely as I remembered it. This time it also had the added attraction of its new (to me) Weavers' House Spa which had been seamlessly added to the original hotel and included an outdoor hot tub and treatment rooms as well as a steam room, sauna and relaxing conservatory.
A traditional hotel
If you like your hotels built along traditional lines, with flagstone floors, high-ceilings, open fires and exposed beams then The Swan at Lavenham is for you. This 15th century hotel with 45 luxury bedrooms and suites is simultaneously sprawling but intimate, where exploring down a random corridor can take you to a peaceful inner courtyard, a cosy lounge for afternoon tea, grand meeting rooms lined with tapestries, a casual brasserie, a formal restaurant, the terraced garden or a classic British pub.
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The building is almost Tardis-like in its ability to expand space and means you will always be able to find your own space, even in its busiest periods.
In the heart of Lavenham
Finding The Swan itself is easy – it's right in the heart of the beautiful Suffolk town of Lavenham, famous for its stunning traditional half-timbered buildings which line every street.
Harry Potter connection
Indeed, the moment you check in (and haul your bags from the hotel's private car park which is across the road) you might be tempted like me to head straight out again and take endless pictures of the rickety buildings, which include the birthplace of fictional wizard Harry Potter (it's De Vere House on Water Street, just round the corner from the hotel) – Lavenham having stood in for Godric's Hollow in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The Weavers' House spa
Once you're done with marveling at a village which seems to have come straight out of a film set or medieval England (more than half the buildings are listed) then you can retreat to The Swan for a thoroughly relaxing stay. I headed for the spa for a hour-long massage and emerged very relaxed, which was the whole idea – it's not a vast spa area though so I imagine this could get busy in the summer months – and resisted the various food and drink options on offer in the spa's conservatory/chill-out room so as best to enjoy dinner that evening.
Wearing my Swan hotel fluffy robe back to my room there were all sorts of delights waiting for me, from Temple Spa toiletries (lots of them) to tea and coffee facilities, Smart TV, lots of towels, a fruit bowl and generally all the essentials and non-essentials you'd hope for in a luxury hotel room. It was a decent size and had a large and immaculate bathroom with a free-standing bath, and our offered turndown service produced even yet more toiletries and towels.
Dinner at The Swan
Dinner in the formal Gallery restaurant (it actually has a gallery and a gazillion exposed beams) was as impressive as the surroundings. The menu was sparsely-written but intriguing, with dishes described thus: 'Tarragon, Gnocchi, Wild Mushroom, Dashi' and 'Carrot, Confit Lamb Shoulder, Goat's Curd, Pumpkin Seeds' or 'Potato, Onion Jam, Truffle.'
It certainly added a touch of mystery to the proceedings and while some seemed frankly bonkers – 'Mackerel, Rhubarb, White Chocolate and Buttermilk' anyone?' – you did get the feeling that head chef Aaron Gilbert knew what he was doing, even if the dishes are listed in sections from 'To Start, In-Between, To Follow, and Mains which makes you worry you're supposed to select from every course, (but thankfully you don't have to, unless you've ravenous).
Our faith in the chef was justified as the dishes were excellent, from the hand-poured dashi soup and to the scallops with crispy pork belly, to the roast loin of venison with kale for the main course.
From dinner to breakfast
There was an epic choice of desserts ranging from a deconstructed Marathon bar to 'Pudding Rice' and so we went for passion fruit tart with white chocolate and the prune and Armagnac souffle which sounded weird but thankfully tasted great. Thus replete, we staggered upstairs and crashed out before embarking on another epic meal, this time, breakfast, which was a slightly austere event thanks to lots of staff hovering about in dead silence and seeming just moving jugs of juice around. Some background classical music and making more of the central table would go a long way here but the food was still excellent.
There was just time for a grand tour of The Swan before we left and here we got to nose around the different standards of hotel rooms – which range from modern to classic styles, some boasting four-poster beds and stand-alone baths, and all with a sense of style and luxury.
The Airmen's Bar
Finally we visited the hotel's own pub, the Airmen's Bar. Named after the servicemen stationed at RAF Lavenham, the bar is like stepping back into the 1940s, with poignant memorabilia of the 487th Bombardment group of the 8th US Army Air Force who flew more 6,000 sorties while stationed here during the Second World War. It's a fitting tribute and yet another thing that makes The Swan at Lavenham a truly unique place to stay.
The Swan hotel and spa, High Street, Lavenham, Suffolk C010 9QA
Prices start from £110 per room B&B based on two sharing going up to £365 for a top Constable suite. Check website for special offers and packages. Dinner from the a la carte menu is from £40 per person for three courses. Overnight guests have a complimentary two-hour session with use of the facilities in Weavers' House Spa including the sauna, steam room, outdoor vitality pool and relaxation lounge.
To book directly with the hotel, click on: The Swan hotel and spa
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The Swan at Lavenham is part of the prestigious Pride of Britain Hotels group which is made up of some of the best 50 hotels in Britain. Other Pride of Britain Hotels reviewed by ALadyofLeisure include:
Hambleton Hall hotel Rutland: warm, welcoming and wonderful food
Barnsley House hotel and spa – a wonderfully cosy Cotswolds hideaway
Luckham Park luxury hotel near Bath: my very own Palladian mansion for a night


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From Mount Everest to Ground Zero: Pune cop couple's fall from grace
With Pune-based constable con couple, Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod, being suspended from the police department we take a look at their controversial 'climb' to fame, and back
With Pune-based constable con couple, Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod, being suspended from the police department we take a look at their controversial 'climb' to fame, and back.
Probe ordered into 'record': In June 2016, days after they made waves across the country, Pune police order probe against 'record-breaking' constable couple after eight fellow mountaineers from Maharashtra filed a complaint stating that the couple was never at the Everest summit and had, in fact, morphed pictures of themselves at the top. On June 6, newspapers across the country had prominently published the Rathods' feat — that they had, on May 23, touched the summit of Mount Everest together — the first couple to have done so.
On June 16, mountaineers Anjali Kulkarni, Sharad Kulkarni, Surendra Shelke, Anand Bansode, Shrikant Chavan, Rupali Chavan, Manisha Waghmare and Amit Singh filed a complaint with police commissioner's office against the Rathods, disputing their claim of having reached the Everest summit.
They morphed my Everest pictures, says Bengaluru climber: Speaking to mid-day over the phone from Bengaluru, mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta had earlier said he had reached the Everest summit on May 21 at 5.45 am and these were the photographs he had taken. "I don't know if the couple reached the summit or not. But, the pictures they have shown are definitely mine. I can prove it. I even have a video of my feat with the time stamp. I am shocked that Makulu Adventures put their name on the morphed pictures. How can they misuse my pictures like this?" Siddhanta said.
Explaining how Makulu could have got their hands on his photographs, Siddhanta said, "The pictures were taken by my climbing Sherpa Pemba. When we returned to base camp, I saw Pemba and the other Sherpas sharing their pictures. This could be how Makulu Adventures and the Rathods got my pictures."
Nepal Tourism steps in: Even as the Pune Police was probing the constable couple, for allegedly faking their summit of Mt Everest, the Nepal tourism ministry started its own investigations in July 2016. Speaking to mid-day from Kathmandu, Aananda Pokharel, Nepal Tourism Minister, had said, "I am aware of the complaint and the whole case. A three-member committee has been set up that comprises one member from my ministry, one member from the Nepal Tourism Board and one member from the Department of Tourism."
Nepal confirms Pune couple morphed pictures: Following the probe, Nepal's Department of Tourism confirmed that the Pune constable couple had indeed morphed the Everest summit pictures of another mountaineer and fraudulently obtained a summit certificate for themselves on June 10. The confirmation came after tourism department officials received a written clarification from Mohan Lamsa of Makalu Adventures, the agency hired by the Rathods to organise their Mt Everest expedition.
Makalu Adventures' clarification stated that the pictures had been morphed, and blamed their climbing Sherpas — Furba and Fursemba, who accompanied the Rathods on the expedition — for the goof-up.
After almost a month-long investigation, a high-level committee formed in India also found the constable couple from Pune guilty of faking their Mount Everest summit and has ordered the Department of Tourism (DoT) to cancel their summit certificates with immediate effect.
Following the confirmations of the con job, Nepal slapped 10-year climbing ban on the couple. In November 2016, five months after a fact-finding committee was set up to probe mid-day's expose, the two were suspended from the police department based on the committee's report.
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Building and sustaining a successful Social Media strategy takes time and work. I'm often asked what makes a good strategy and while there is no single answer to this question, there is a standard plan of action. Each business, brand, or individual will have different purposes and goals for using Social Media. But whatever these are, the steps to get there revolve around the same plan. The best way to convey this is to think about growing a garden – it doesn't matter what is being farmed, the process is essentially the same.
So let's take a look at the ways in which gardening relates to growing a Social Media strategy.
Picking Your Plot of Land
When it comes to gardening, you have to find good, healthy, viable plots of land to use. Different soils and terrains produce better results for different crops. Social Media is much the same. There is a lot of "land" out there to choose from – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, Pheed, Google+, YouTube, Flickr, FourSquare, MySpace, Orkut, Reddit, and so many more. You need to determine which sites, and how many, are the ideal planting ground for your Social Media strategy.
Prepping Your Land
So now that you have a viable piece of land, you don't just throw down some seeds and walk away. The ground needs to be tilled, fertilized, groomed, and organized into sections for each item to be grown. When it comes to Social Media, you can't just pick three sites and start posting. You need a plan – what are the reasons for being on these Social Media sites, what are your short-term goals, what are your long-term goals, who is your audience, what does your audience want, how will you engage your audience? Answering these questions and putting a plan in place is the key step to any Social Media strategy.
Planting Seeds
When your garden is ready to be planted, it's time to plant the seeds. The seeds need to be properly spaced to allow for sufficient growth. They need to be placed at measured intervals and at a calculated depth into the soil. Now that you've determined what you will use Social Media for and why, you need to determine HOW you will use it. How frequently will you post, what type of posts will you generate, who will be responsible for making the posts, who will respond to customer requests and engagement, how will you handle negative comments, how will you cross-advertise across multiple platforms? These are important calculations that you must make to ensure a successful strategy.
Watering and Tending the Garden
After the seeds are planted and as the garden starts to grow, there is a set watering and tending schedule. Water must be provided at the appropriate times to feed the garden. The garden must be tended for weeds and other distractions that may disrupt the growth of the crop. Now that you've established a schedule and administrative responsibilities for your Social Media strategy, you must ensure that the necessary steps are being executed. Providing fresh content, monitoring engagement and responding quickly is the key to your success on Social Media. It's important to remember, that like a garden, this is the one never-ending step of the process.
The Crop is Growing, Even if You Can't See It
For the first period of growth, you can't see the crop above the surface of the soil. Instead the seeds are growing and developing beneath the surface, putting out roots into the soil for stability and to absorb nutrients. The seeds start to sprout and head towards the surface but it will still take time for the sprout to break through. Social Media success often takes a long time to "see". The progress and development of the online campaign can take months or years to reach a fully measurable and successful state. But this doesn't mean that it isn't working – it's just still "growing".
Evaluating the Crop
As the crop is growing and expanding, regular test samples are taken and observations made to determine the viability of the crop. Is the watering schedule sufficient? Is the crop growing at the expected rate, is it smaller or more abundant than years past? Are there signs of disease or infestation that may jeopardize the crop? Likewise, you need to constantly monitor and evaluate your Social Media strategy. Is your posting schedule working – should you change the posting times, add more posts, or post less? Is your content working – are you getting good engagement with your audience, do you need to add different types of content? Are your engagement levels where you want them – what can you do to increase your engagement? Are there negative posts jeopardizing your success – how do you respond to these, are you reassuring your audience that you value them? Social Media is a very fluid environment and posts that worked just last week may not work this week. Stay attuned to the trends and input of your audience in order to maximize your efficiency.
Reap Your Harvest
After all the hard work, the crop is bountiful and reading to be picked. Similarly, when executed properly, a good Social Media strategy will produce bountiful rewards. Capitalize on these rewards – customer loyalty, lead generation, new customers, sales, referrals, etc. to maximize your brand's success.
Just remember that a Social Media strategy is a continuous garden – it needs constant tending to consistently produce results. The more it is maintained, tended, and watered, the larger and more productive it will grow.


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Quantum Vibe: Assimulation - Available in print and on Amazon Kindle and PDF from DriveThru Comics!
How the heck did they manage to get it inside when it appears to be at least 10 feet too big to fit even if they tilted it at an angle to get the most barn door width they could get?
Well, the rings have demonstrated that they're capable of disintergration but I haven't seen any evidence that they also have a tractor beam feature.
Insufficent data to do more than merely speculate.
I suppose the lefties of your acquaintance are paralyzed when presented with right hand adapted gear. The reverse is often true, but us southpaws learn to adapt. Or heck, she could be fully ambidextrous.


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ZIMBABWE A national cricket team lost their one-off T-20 cricket match against Kenya A by seven wickets at Mutare Sports Club yesterday.
by Sports Reporter
After whitewashing their guests in the one-day series, Zimbabwe were expected to continue the winning run in the 20-overs version of the game, but they found themselves on the receiving end.
The hosts went in to bat first and they struggled to impose themselves as they lost wickets at regular intervals.
In the end they managed 110 runs in their allotted 20 overs which didn't give the bowlers something to work with.
Kenya raced to the target in 14.4 overs with Dhiren Gondaria's unbeaten 68 being the top score for the Kenyans.
Wellington Masakadza, Tino Mutombodzi and 20-year-old Rugare Magarira claimed a wicket each, but there wasn't any more success to write home about.
Once the batsmen struggled to put an imposing total on the board, the bowlers were always going to find it tough to defend such a low score.
Skipper Prince Masvaure top-scored for Zimbabwe with 23 while opener Chamu Chibhabha hit 20 and Mutombodzi made 19.
Cephas Zhuwao, who lit up the one-day series with some brutal batting displays, struggled yesterday and was dismissed after facing three balls, one of which he heaved for a maximum, before he became Kenya A's first wicket.
Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe and Ireland women's national teams' match was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to a wet outfield following rains that fell on Sunday and yesterday morning.


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As Interim Radiologist-in-Chief for the Joint Department of Medical Imaging (JDMI), Dr. Heidi Schmidt is accustomed to the informal consultations that take place daily between colleagues. And she's equally aware that family doctors don't have the same kind of access to that expertise.
"They're lacking the hallway conversations that happen in the hospital," says Dr. Schmidt, "where you can ask someone, 'Hey, by the way, what do you think I should do here?'"
Catherine Wang, VP of Clinical Operations and Diagnostic Partnerships at the University Health Network (UHN), and administrative lead for JDMI, which encompasses medical imaging across UHN, Women's College Hospital and Sinai Health System, elaborates. "Tertiary and quaternary care hospitals are built for the specialist world. But if you think about it, patients seldom, if ever, see a specialist. They mostly go to their family doctor. So it's not good enough that we're only understanding what the specialist needs."
Once they'd identified an opportunity to do better, Catherine and her team went to work.
"The radiologist isn't the first person who springs to mind when you're thinking of specialists," she says. "But the radiologist is incredibly important to ensure an accurate diagnosis and determine appropriate treatment options. We have a huge role to play in changing the system if we really want to improve access for all patients in the community and hospitals."
To start, they asked themselves some basic questions: How can we create a better relationship between the radiologist and the family doctor? How can we help primary-care physicians order the most appropriate test and schedule it in the appropriate timeframe? How might we streamline the system so that patients don't unnecessarily turn to Emergency departments (ED) due to limited imaging access in the community?
The answers became an innovative JDMI call centre program to give family doctors point-of-care radiology advice and faster access to imaging services for their patients.
Dr. Schmidt, who along with JDMI's Office of Strategy Management and Operational leaders, founded the program, says, "In many cases the ED is the only way a family physician can access urgent imaging. By offering a direct pathway to our diagnostic services and radiologist consultation, a significant number of imaging related ED visits can be avoided."
Additionally, with JDMI's guidance, an initial request for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) might be updated to a more appropriate and more readily available computed tomography (CT) scan, giving family physicians and their patients quicker access to the right test, and helping reduce wait times for other imaging studies in high demand.
And the benefits extend beyond this initial consultation, says Catherine. "We can design a report to meet the needs of the primary care physician, a report that's not the same as the one that gets sent to a cardiologist, for example. We can also play a navigator role. Rather than simply sending the report and leaving it for the family doctor to figure out, we can aid in the interpretation of the report and suggest the next course of action, all because we now have a relationship with the doctor that we didn't have before."
Plans are underway to make the program even more useful and accessible. "If we can figure out a provincial strategy to allow electronic referrals, then we can really get going," Catherine explains. "Right now, it's all done manually, which is cumbersome. With an electronic platform, every family physician can have access to the right specialist, including radiology. We can also build in clinical decision support, like data related to referral practices. We can say to a family physician, 'here's your order in practice, and here's what your order looks like in the context of all your peers ordering the same test. Are you an outlier? Are you not?' We can offer real-time feedback and meaningful support."
The call centre program is now built into a cross-organization, quality improvement collaborative, branded as SCOPE (Seamless Care Optimizing the Patient Experience) and the team at JDMI has provided guidance to other Toronto health providers to implement their own call centres following the same model.
This emphasis on primary care is mirrored in provincial policy, and to Catherine, that policy makes perfect sense. "The family doctor is the gatekeeper to the whole system. The lifetime health of most patients is probably managed by a family doctor. Specialist may come and go, but the primary care physician is going to be with that patient for the duration."
"Some family doctors know exactly what they want to do, and we want to be respectful of that," she adds. "But, innovations pioneered here at JDMI have led to real, tangible improvements in support for primary care practitioners. Going forward, we can play an even greater navigation role, and try to do away with the Snakes and Ladders game that patients sometimes go through."


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Port Fuel Injected NON-Turbo Reliant
Before I started racing my Reliant again in 1999 I had a brief fling with trying to get a PFI setup working without a turbo. Inspired by the FFV Acclaims I figured I'd give it a try. I knew it *could* work based on the fact I drove a $150 87 Lebaron with a bypassed turbocharger for 6 months (Don't look at me funny, that's how I purchased it!) The car ran pretty good down low but was severely lacking any moderately high rpm power. I figured the later model intake would be just the ticket! I took the original 1985 TBI motor & auto trans that was lurking beside the garage and tossed on a 89 turbo intake. I used 33 pph TII injectors because the car was already equipped with the GLHS TII electronics. A exhaust pipe exited out the side with a single cat used as a muffler.
How did it run? Well.. it was a little soft. I suspect the 33 pph injectors were a bit much for a N/A motor. Turbo computers are calibrated to run full rich at WOT and the 87 Lebaron had 27 pph units compared to the 33 pph units that was installed in the Reliant. I think if I tried smaller injectors or lowering the fuel pressure it would have run better at WOT. Another issue is at WOT the turbo computer also pulls back some timing, it is expecting boost after all! I think if a zener diode was installed on the TPS feed so that it never quite saw WOT the car would have run better.
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"Robbed Visitor, Goes to Prison," Toronto Star. August 5, 1910. Page 10.
Nine Months for Edward Walsh – The Money Goes Back to His Victim
George Empey Went Back to His Former Boarding House and Stole $42/
Because the bills found on Edward Walsh corresponded with those taken from Thomas White, a Californian, Walsh will go to the Central for nine months. It was some days ago that the charge was laid. White had been met at the station by two strangers, drinks followed, then he slept in a downtown hotel, and $245 disappeared from his pocket. The bills were on the First National Bank of Los Angles, and $150 of the same bank were found on Walsh by Detective Taylor. White gets the roll of $150.
Irene Britton, convicted as frequenter of a house of ill-fame, was fined ten dollars and costs.
Robbed Former Landlord.
Claiming that Grover Empey went back to his former boarding house, 188 Spadina avenue, entered during the night and stole $42, the proprietor, John Cansaul, pressed the charge against him in this morning's Police Court.
'Took it while I was sleeping,' complained Cansaul, and the young man did not deny it.
He goes to the Central for four months, and any money found goes back to the owner.
Court Visitor Locked Up.
Herscharn Hertz, for many weeks a familiar figure about the court room as spectator, has been taken into custody, and will be examined by a doctor.
Ernest Carter was remanded a week on two charges of theft, $30 from A. E. Hockins, and a gold ring from Mrs. R. J. Moyes. To the theft of the former amount from his employer, the plea was guilty, but the boy's mother was in court to press for leniency.
They Were Acquitted.
'He didn't say anything to me about borrowing a few feeds of oats,' said George Brennan, flatly contradicting the story of Ernest Amos, who was charged jointly with Charles Howard with the theft of a bag of eats from George Stevenson.
It was one to one on the evidence, for Howard had not heard the conversation. No records were against the two young men, so the charges were dismissed.


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Teen Mom's Butch Keeps Up With The Kardashians, Loves Kourtneyby Kelly Lynch at . Updated at .
When you take a leave of absence for 4 years, you miss out on a lot.
Mainly, you miss out on several episodes of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Butch, Teen Mom star Tyler Baltierra's dad, was released from a four-year prison sentence in August, just in time for his son's wedding to longtime girlfriend Catelynn Lowell.
That's great, but HE MISSED SO MUCH KARDASHIAN NEWS.
"I used to watch the Kardashians, not too much anymore," Butch admitted in a bonus clip on MTV.com
"Kim kind of faded away a little bit," he declared as he cooked himself some eggs. "Got married to Kanye."
Yes, yes she did. And she's very arty now.
"Now, Kylie Jenner, and her lip fillers thing?" a perceptive Butch inquired.
"I know she has lip gloss but these kids took it to a whole different...realm! They're trying to use suction things to bring their lips out or something.
"I see some pictures of these young women, or young girls that were trying to puff their lips out and they didn't look too happy!" Butch said as he slumped his shoulders forward. made a sour-puss face.
Classic Butch.
Moving on to 2015's hottest topic...
"Bruce, Bruce," Butch said pensively.
"Or Caitlyn, Caitlyn! or whatever you want to call yourself. Jenner. You just kinda flipped the script on us.
"Hey, you're doin' what you wanna do, I guess. I can't judge. Who am I to judge?
"If you're happy, you're right where you wanna be, well, I'm glad it's you and it ain't me."
Then it came time for some tough love. Butch is not pleased with Scott Disick's antics as of late.
"I think Scott's a f---king cry baby little bitch, scuse my language," Butch said.
He's got it going on, Hey. He's got a restaurant in New York [actually, Butch, that closed], he's got a lotta shi-t goin' on.
"But you lost a beautiful *wife," Butch said to Scott through the camera.
"I think Kourtney is the prettiest Kardashian there was, anyway. And still is," Butch admitted.
"You f--ked up, bro. You f--ked up."
I think the Kardashians would agree with you on that one, Butch.
*Scott and Kourtney aren't actually married.


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Pop music's newest teen heartthrob Austin Mahone spotted shirtless at the beach.
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Published in Canadian Jewish News
It's all the rage these days to say that we're living in a "post-fact" or "post-truth" world. In such a world you can get away with saying just about anything. Except, is this so?
To be sure, with the growth of internet news sites and the proliferation of other websites and blogs – millions upon millions of them – in addition to the expansion of social media platforms, the glut of voices shouting to be heard is overwhelming.
Last month's column noted that while facts matter, it appears that emotion matters more. This is especially so given the feeling conveyed by the non-stop flood of negative news that ours is a more violently disordered world than ever. That certain key facts prove otherwise does not seem to count for much.
Earlier this month, in the aftermath of the police killing of Aaron Driver, who reportedly was planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Southern Ontario, the Globe and Mail argued at length in an editorial, bolstered by an array of statistics, that the chance of Canadians dying from such attacks is miniscule.
"A person in Canada willing to carry out a terror attack in the name of [the Islamic State] is an exceedingly rare thing, like a needle in a haystack with 35 million pieces of benign straw," the Globe wrote. According to the paper, while in 2014 more than 1,800 people were killed in car accidents, "over the past two decades, Canada has had between five and zero terrorist incidents per year. In 2015, the database recorded five individual acts of terrorism in Canada. They resulted in two injuries and no deaths."
Yet the amount of media attention devoted to the Aaron Driver case was enormous and created, in its wake, perceptual consequences of risk and vulnerability to ordinary citizens that the citing of car fatalities can't quite quell.
Recently, Robert Fulford in the National Post proposed the idea that there's a link between technological advances in mass media – providing us what he calls "an almost instant connection with the most terrible crimes on earth" – and "the spreading of anxiety."
Fulford noted that "Last year a survey of 100,000 students by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health in the U.S. found that more than half of students seeking help at campus clinics reported anxiety as an issue" exceeding those who reported depression, previously their primary malaise.
It certainly makes sense to accept the link Fulford draws – whether it's anxiety related to non-stop news about increasing global competition for employment, robots replacing many existing job opportunities, unaffordable housing, or, indeed, instant reports of terrorist attacks among other terrible crimes.
The sense of dread grows and spreads. And rabid demagogues like Donald Trump seize on this and imagine somehow that they can get away with such ludicrous falsehoods as Trump's claim that the President of the United States is the "founder of ISIS." Trump's later inconsistent assertion that he was merely being sarcastic, but not really sarcastic, only compounded the sense among many that Trump is incapable of even distinguishing between truth and falsehood, as Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria argued even before this latest Trump absurdity.
The good news (yes, there is indeed good news) is that, for many – arguably the majority of people — facts do matter. Most of us accept, as an unstated part of our ordinary grasp of reality, that there should be at least a rough correspondence between what a person says (the narrative) and the way things really are (the facts). Establishing that correspondence is not always easy, but it can and often must be done. Truth matters. It matters a lot.
Fortunately, along with the glut of irresponsible voices screaming on the internet, we can be grateful for the increase in fact-checking sites devoted to debunking distortions and lies.
Their vigilance helps ensure our sanity.


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We have a political system that could hardly be better designed to generate corruption. Blithely, every few years, we trot off to vote a small number of people into power. We even use that phrase--'vote into power'--although we well know Lord Acton's dictum that all power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
So, very deliberately, we put people into positions that are likely to corrupt them. And we plume ourselves on how good our system is. We even go to war to defend it and spread it about.
But, making matters worse, such positions attract the wrong kind of people, people who are dysfunctional, people with low self-esteem and weak personalities who compensate with power and position, people who have little love for other human beings, people who instead of attending to their inner deficiences and fixing them by changing themselves try instead to change everyone round them. And we give them a whole country to play with...
So they start with internal corruption, and we put them in positions that tend to make them externally corrupted. Once, when the Divine moral compass was generally steered by, there was constant correction militating against malign internal and external forces, but all that was biffed overboard, so now we are dependent on politicians having good wiring between their ears. Few do. No wonder we end up with corrupted countries.
The only way out of that, short of a miracle, is to change the system. Ditch the system that breeds corruption, the elected dictatorship, and use the Internet to change to a national plebescite. Let the people be self-governing.
A prime example of this corruption phenomenon is the Prime Minister of New Zealand. If ever a PM was a chronically messed-up human being it is her. Small wonder that New Zealand is going down the social tubes. And small wonder that her party was caught with its fingers in the public till, having made off with $750,000 with which it bought the last election by funding a last-ditch advertising push that got the few percent it needed. Published interviews show that she was psychologically abused as a child and is now a mess inside. But her way of dealing with the resultant abnormality, instead of fixing it, was to claw her way to topmost power and shift the whole country towards her abnormality so that she could call herself normal. Weird 'logic', but that is how the dysfunctional function. The abused abuse: she is abusing a country. Yet 33% of the populace, although down from teh former 62%, still think she is the bee's knees and the best bod for the PM's job. Another case of the Stockholm syndrome, where the hijacked end up siding with the hijackers. Or, to use an older analogy, another case of PC-fearful, sycophantic supporters cheering on the naked emperor as he struts his stuff down the High Street.
Monday, 30 October 2006
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text: Leave it to Jeff Goldlbum to promise that the one Jurassic Park actor more exciting than Jeff Goldblum might appear in the Jurassic World universe. After telling Entertainment Tonight that Laura Dern might appear in a future installment of the resurrected franchise, Goldblum doubled down on Watch What Happens Live. "I can't divulge anything," he said, "but maybe maybe maybe she will." Goldblum went on to explain that after the forthcoming sequel, in which he makes an appearance, there'll be a third movie "which, you know, some people may or may not be in, that's all I can say." Question is: Is Goldblum telling the truth, or are these Jurassic Little Lies?


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Country Girls by Blake Karrington
3.5 out of 5 stars
For the record we LOVE Blake Karrington!!! Country Boys I, II, and III all made our Top 12 of 2012 Book List. I think we were excited about Country Girls but we also didn't want to make the mistake of comparing it to Country Boys. Because Van and Tee (from Country Boys) were both intelligent, hardworking, ride or die women. They were in a league of their own...so of course we thought no other females could compare to them.
Anyway back to Country Girls - MHB crew - Prada, Diamond, Tiffany, Tiki, and Niyah. And then there was Gwen, who was an original member but no longer kicked it with the crew. These girls were out robbing dope boys for their come up. Prada was fake dating a big time drug dealer, Mayo, to set him up for a hit from Niyah. It was crazy because Mayo would have given her anything she asked for...so she really didn't need to set him up.
Gwen was dating Mayo's best friend Jr., but she had nothing to do with the hit. Gwen was also the ex-girlfriend and baby momma of Niyah's husband Chad. Hence the reason she was really not down with the crew anymore. We understood why Gwen didn't like Niyah but it also took us back to Van and Tee (from County Boys). Van and Tee held down the same man but never let it interfere with business. But hey this NOT County Boys!!!
So once we got over this NOT being County Boys - we really did enjoy the book! It was a high drama book. From Niyah trying to keep her secret life from Chad, Prada playing Mayo for his money stash, Diamond sleeping with Mike (Mayo's friend) to get a rental extension, Gwen testing her loyalty to MHB or her man Jr., to Alexus being taken in by Prada and the crew. There is a lot of action in this book to keep you guessing. And Blake did a great job with the cliffhanger!
Prada vs. Mayo and Niyah vs. Jr. who comes out a winner?
Country Girls II by Blake Karrington
2.5 out of 5 stars (Tiffany's opinion)
Before we get started this review will be my (Tiffany's) opinion and will not speak for all of 556 Book Chicks.
I was disappointed in Country Girls II. I don't want to give away the book, but the story was a little choppy in book 2. Blake did bring in a character we all love - Van (from County Boys). I'm just not sure if I liked how she was introduced to the book. Now Van was Niyah's cousin..so Niyah went to Van for a connect. If you didn't read Country Boys - Van didn't want Que to be a part of that life, so I found it hard to believe that she would help her female cousin with a connect.
Then the feud between Niyah and Gwen just got out of control. To the point where I was like put a bullet in both of them and keep the story moving. And take Chad weak behind with them. They spent too much time trying to decide to be loyal to MHB or declare war on each other. MHB didn't look like a top notch crew - they looked like a bunch of amateurs. Alexus proved her gangster by saving Niyah's life. But the BOSS of the crew was Diamond - she took care of her problem and kept it moving...no questions - no second thoughts.
I love Blake but I was not feeling Country Girls II, but he has to bring in Country Girls III. Of course there was a cliffhanger to get me back on board.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
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Will I make it to my birthday?
  If you noticed the date of this blog, it is obvious that blogging has taken a back seat in the list of my regular activities. I am not sure I can place a finger of blame, but I do have a suspicion or two. It is not because I am too busy. It is not because my computer has crashed. It is not because I have found a new interest. I think the main reason is that I am overwhelmed by the unbelievable happenings in my world. So much stuff is going on, that I cannot focus upon any particular subject to write about. Donald Trump is in the fight of his life....literally. Russia and the U.S. are doing the war dance, with China curiously spectating. The globalists are furious that Hillary couldn't do what she was expected to do, so they are taking matters into their own hands.
  Churches are drying up or adapting to the modern cultures. Christianity is becoming the pariah of our modern world. Amazingly the world allows Islam to gain its admiration in spite of ISIS and other similar atrocities, and to literally lean over backward for its demands for Sharia law. Even the femanists are strangely silent as more and more women are forced to adorn themselves in funeral attire, while covering their faces with shame.
  Hoards of frustrated or focused people are physically protesting whatever and leaving behind ravaged neighborhoods with wounded bodies. They try to blame President Trump, but he wonderfully stays one step ahead of them.... so far. The fake news tells us that George Soros is funding all the havoc in his attempt to globalize everything. If I didn't know better, I would be tempted to identify him as Mr. 666! Mr. Bloomburg, a rich character in New York City, is currently offering city Mayors $17 million dollars if they will ignore Washington and adopt globalist plans independently. I sure wish there would be some way to describe what a traitor is and what should be done with him or her. Of course that won't happen, because we would be forced to remember the liberal story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Bleeding hearts would be crying again.
  Well, anyhow, I have succeeded in filling up a few minutes of your time, and taken a breath myself. I don't suppose there is much I can do about the stuff listed above. I have spent my entire life caught up in the flood of these events, and never had much strength to stem the tide. Tomorrow I will be 79 years old and looking forward to all the hooplah involved. I leave you with my intense belief that Jesus is still in charge and he could call us into His presence at any moment... yes even before my birthday party!
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In Getting Things Done (2001), David Allen introduces his famous system for stress-free productivity. With this system, you can face an overwhelming amount of things to do, but still be productive, creative and relaxed as you tackle them.
Why you should care: Learn to do more and stress less.
These days, work can be hectic. A typical morning might look something like this: You're in the middle of writing a document when an email comes in telling you to update your antivirus software. Then, just as you're about to do this, your aunt Sheila calls to say you should RSVP to her wedding, and, as you hang up, your boss marches in demanding you start working on a new document.
Now, what were you doing again?
Knowledge workers in particular spend their days juggling dozens of tasks and projects at once, while being constantly bombarded by still more. To survive this onslaught, most people cram everything into their heads, trying to keep important information, appointments and upcoming tasks "on their mind."
Unfortunately, this approach squanders the brain's wonderful capacity to think by cluttering it up with a jumble of information.
What's more, trying to remember everything eventually leads to an inability to concentrate fully on the work at hand, because your brain will still try to work out all the unsolved problems and undone tasks that you've stored in it.
These are open loops – they haven't been brought to closure – and your brain will constantly remind you about them, whether you want it to or not. This is distracting; you can't possible focus properly when thoughts like "Remember to pay this month's electricity bill" keep interrupting your flow.
So what can you do to master the modern workplace's web of tasks, meetings and information so that you can truly focus on what you're doing?
This is where GTD comes in.
Through a specific and powerful five-stage workflow, you can get back in control of everything on your plate:
It's as simple as that. GTD enables you to feel a greater sense of control over your work, which produces a sense of relaxed control, better decisions and more flexibility when faced with changing circumstances. But before diving into the details of each step in the GTD process, let's get your workspace and tools set up.


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Tragedy strikes again. It boggles my mind the things that people think of to harm others. What is it that makes someone want to harm people that they don't know? What is the thought process that leads you to look for and develop an entire scenario to produce mayhem?
The information we learn about people who do these things seems to run along the same lines. The words used to describe them are very telling – loners, isolated, keep to themselves, smart to brilliant, quiet. It is just chilling.
Prior to being such a big United States, we were a community. Everyone knew everyone and people looked out for one another. Now in a strange way, we almost promote distance, non involvement and separation.
When one of us gets lost or is about to step over the edge, who is there to help? If no one is paying attention and no one wants to get involved, we can't begin to prevent what happened in Aurora, Colorado. That is what makes the whole thing so very sad.


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The Logitech G533 Wireless Gaming Headset:
When it comes to using headsets and headphones for music and gaming, I've become rather picky, it's not just a matter of quality of sound and brand name, but also comfort.
Overall the Logitech G533 Wireless Gaming Headset provides a solid gaming and music experience, with its lack of sound bleed, head comfort, and adjustable voice mic for communication or short video production. I am hung up on the USB adapter, but, if you can overlook that, you should have a great experience like me, I was sorry to see it go.
This is definitely an entry level headset and is an affordable headset for your noob gamer or budget gamer like me.
The Logitech G533 Wireless Gaming Headset is a large headset and can seem a bit weird when placing it on a table, it's rather large indeed, though it's flexible and seems like a sturdy build and doesn't feel like you're about to break an extremely delicate piece of technology.
The sound, as expected is stunning and clear, though, because of the size of the phones themselves I felt had a higher bass pitch for most rock styled music, though hip hop and house delivered a great experience and the sealing itself maintained the sound and had very little to no sound bleed even on the highest sound level.
As a gaming headset, it comes with a collapsible mic on the left of your headset. Testing the mic out, it seems fine, it's clear, though, to be fair, it's only just a bit more clear than it would be for a basic phonemic. I think there could have been a bit more energy placed here.
User Experience:
Recently, I managed to get my hands on some JBL Bluetooth Headphones, they're simple, charge them, switch them on, and switch both my Macbook and Headsets blue tooth option on, and it's connected.
When it came to the Logitech G533, I struggled to get the device connected to my laptop, only to realize you needed to connect a USB adapter to the laptop first, only then to connect to your headset. I found this process frustrating and a little disappointing, I expected more from a primarily gaming device, when a gaming rig already has a short supply of USB ports, an extra one used just for your headset is a bit of a pain and I feel a design oversight, the headset seems more than big enough to include it's own Bluetooth emitter onboard.
Buying this Headset:
You should be able to pick this headset up at your local electronics store or online for roughly R1500. I'd save and upgrade to the already cooler: Logitech G633 Artemis Spectrum, for an extra R500 which looks a lot cooler, and I feel could provide better performance, though I've not tried it myself.
Final thought: It would be so cool if the Logitech logo lit up. Just saying, it's the little things.