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Polices often result from disputes. Many business owners have learned that it is far better to have firm policies in place before disputes can arise. This often saves time and money since some disputes can lead to litigation.
Your company's handbook can set the tone
Avoiding a company type
Diversity in the workplace is crucial to the overall health of the business. Along with race, gender, age, and life experience, the company's manager or human resources department needs to consider a diversity of type. Some companies are known for a competitive work environment that fosters a certain kind of personality, while other companies have creative thinkers who focus on innovation.
Sick leave laws differ city by city in California
Most employers are aware of sick leave rules that went into effect in 2015 as part of the California Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act. However, some may not be aware that several cities have their own paid sick leave requirements. Under California law, all but a few employers must allow their workers to use 24 hours or up to three days of sick leave in 12 months.
U.S. Women's Soccer get their court date
The United States Women's Soccer Team won their second straight World Cup in dominating fashion. Not only did they win, but they also became high-profile spokespersons for many social issues but particularly in the area of equal pay for women. This issue has been simmering for some time with an initial lawsuit by five players in 2016 on the topic. It reemerged International Women's Day on March 8 when it filed a class action against U.S. Soccer Federation for making less money than the male players despite ongoing success at the highest levels. The suit was set aside until after the World Cup so the team could concentrate on their play, then the plan was to mediate the dispute.
Can employees still be fired for smoking pot?
The legalization of recreational marijuana has left many employers in California wondering how it will impact their workplace. Can employers deny employment or discipline workers for testing positive when using pot outside the workplace is legal?


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This is definitely not my first haul from BH Cosmetics, and it will NOT be my last. They have great quality products for cheap, and they've yet to disappoint me. I only got 3 things, but received a 4th item as a gift, so I was quite excited, especially once I saw that the gift was a small eyeshadow palette.
Take a look:
I got this bag because sometimes when traveling with my kit my brushes end up all over the place. I like to keep them separated, i.e the clean brushes and the dirty brushes that I've used on my clients. This is the perfect size and will work great.
I bought the Studio pro 18 piece brush set, with a leather tool belt. This will come in handy when doing faces; I had one a couple of years ago but it ripped and I never got a new one.
The midnight affair palette was what I received for free, a look with these colors will be coming soon
I also purchased a pair of studio pro tweezers to assist with applying lashes.
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Chef Dan Barber makes this wonderful ricotta with buttermilk as well as whole milk, so it's slightly tangy and creamy. It's terrific with salads or spread on toast with a little honey. Slideshow: Cheese Recipes
How to Make It
Line a colander with cheesecloth and set it over a large bowl. In a large saucepan, combine the milk with the buttermilk. Cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until the milk starts to separate and reaches 185° on a candy thermometer, about 5 minutes. Cook for 3 more minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat and let stand for 10 minutes. Using a ladle, gently spoon the mixture into the prepared colander and let drain until the ricotta is thick, about 30 minutes. Transfer the ricotta to a medium bowl and season with salt; reserve the whey for another use.


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Just consider that for 101 years there has been a Gambonini either milking or overseeing the milking at the family's 540 acre dairy off Lakeville Highway in Petaluma. And because milking is twice a day, 365 days a year, the clockwork routine each morning and evening amounts to nearly 75,000 trips through the milk parlor.
Children were born and older family members died but the milking went on around weddings, graduations and funerals. Cows have to be milked no matter what. It's the basic and undisputable tenet of dairy farming that is passed from one generation to the next along with the land and cattle. It's all part of the cow culture in the Sonoma-Marin Dairy Belt where Holstein blood lines and alfalfa hay prices are always prime topics of conversation
Today, three generations of the Gambonini family live and work on the family's organic Gamlake Dairy ranch, which was purchased in 1913 and has continuously produced milk for the regional market. The family includes George and Margaret Gambonini, their son Frank Gambonini and his wife Stacey, both 47, and Frank and Stacey's three daughters, Frankie, Alex and Sammie.
The Gamboninis fit the profile of the modern American farm family – hard-working stewards of their land who uphold the agricultural tradition of community involvement and farm leadership.
All three generations of the Gambonini family are being honored as Sonoma County Farm Bureau's Farm Family of the Year, an award recognizing the rural values and the work ethic the Gamboninis uphold on a daily basis. The family will receive the award at Farm Bureau's Love of the Land celebration on July 17 at the Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate and Gardens in Fulton.
"The Gambonini family truly represents the perseverance and dedication it takes to survive and prosper in agriculture, particularly, the dairy industry. The Gamboninis made the transition to organic milk production in 2007 because they knew it was the best way to assure a higher price for their milk so future generations of the family could continue in the dairy business," said Tito Sasaki, president of Sonoma County Farm Bureau.
Also being honored at Love of the Land are Art Ibleto, the Pasta King, recipient of the Farm Bureau Hall of Fame Award and Fred and Nancy Cline, Sonoma Valley vintners and dedicated conservationists, recipients of the Luther Burbank Conservation Award for their caring ways in managing land and natural resources.
The Love of the Land event is open to anyone who wants to join in honoring the Gambonini family, Ibleto and Fred and Nancy Cline while celebrating Sonoma County agriculture and its rich heritage.
Frank Gambonini, a fifth generation Gambonini who has dairy farming in his DNA, and his wife Stacey, a city girl from Chicago who is learning the ways of dairy farming, are the current proprietors and resident cow tenders at the Gambonini family's Gamlake Dairy in the hills north of Lakeville Highway. The couple lives in the main ranch house with their daughters. Oldest daughter, Frankie, is studying dairy science at Cal Poly. Alex and Sammie are students at St. Vincent's and active in showing their dairy cattle at local fairs as members of the 4-H.
"I took over from my father, who took over from his father, with the father- to- son succession continuing back five generations to Battista Gambonini," said Frank Gambonini, who returned to the family dairy in 1989 after earning a degree in dairy science at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He knew he wanted to be a dairy farmer since he was a toddler following his father George around the ranch in his little rubber boots, thinking he was a "big time farmer" like his Dad. That childhood perception has become reality as he manages the day-to-day operation of the family dairy.
"Dairy ranching is all I ever wanted to do," he said. "I love the outdoors and the cows." He said the way-of-life is the tradeoff for the 365-day-a-year work schedule.
Margaret Gambonini said like his father and grandfather before him Frank has passion and commitment for dairy farming.
"Dairying is a business and a lifestyle that requires you to put your heart and soul into it," said Margaret Gambonini.
Frank's great, great grandfather Battista Gambonini, who emigrated from Switzerland, arrived in Petaluma in 1868. He found his first job working on the Brown Ranch in Hicks Valley. He worked for other dairy ranchers for nine years before having money to lease his own dairy ranch. He continued leasing ranches until 1908 when he was able to purchase a portion of the LeBaron Ranch near Valley Ford.
Battista's son Silvio Gambonini eventually took over the family dairy, moving the operation to their present 540 acre ranch in 1913.
Investments have been made over the years to keep the dairy farming operation economically viable and less labor intensive. In 1989 when Frank returned home from college to work on the dairy, his parents invested in the remodeling of the milking parlor even though milk prices were at one of their cyclical low points. At that time, George and Margaret said if Frank was making the commitment to stay on the farm then he should have a milking barn that is more efficient. They wanted it better for their son than it was for them, part of the family support essential for the transition from generation to generation.
In 2007, Frank and Stacey converted to organic milk production, which required many changes in both their thinking and farm management. They milk 250-270 cows and sell their milk to Sierra Organics. Frank and Stacey value being certified organic and are proud of the milk they produce for consumers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Stacey and Frank Gambonini recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. Stacey, who grew up in a large Irish-Catholic family in the Chicago suburbs, said she is always learning about the milk business and the dairy culture that now defines her life.
"Sometimes I feel as if I am having an out-of-body experience when I walk into the house and Frank has his face in Hoard's Dairymen and one of the girls is reading Holstein World.'' said Stacey. But, she said, ranch life has instilled character and a work ethic in her daughters, which makes her proud.
Stacey doesn't get involved in milking or artificially inseminating the cows but is focusing her creativity and organization skills in ranch beautification, which is important to her. She has revamped the yard around the ranch house and landscaped the entrance to the ranch. She is planning a makeover for the farm yard near the milk parlor, barns and corrals.
Frank and Stacey are active in agricultural and dairy industry organizations including Farm Bureau, Western United Dairymen and the North Bay Dairy Herd Improvement Association. Frank helps coach the dairy cattle judging team at Petaluma High School, which last year won the national title and the opportunity to compete at an international dairy judging contest in Scotland. Two of his daughters were on the team. Stacey is a member of the North Bay Dairywomen.
The Gambonini's Gamlake Dairy has been honored twice by the Sonoma County Fair as "Dairy of the Year." The first time was in 1989 when Frank's parents George and Margaret Gambonini operated the dairy. Last year, the fair honored Frank and Stacey Gambonini with the Dairy of the Year Award. The award not only recognized their stellar dairy management but their community service and agriculture leadership.
"Being recognized by your peers for how you run your dairy is a great honor," said Frank.


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The Dark Path:
A fantasy sword-fighting adventure.
At Utepils Brewery October 10th and 11th 2019 two shows per night, 7:00pm for the PG-13 show and 9:30pm for the rated R show. A beverage is included in the ticket.
Oct 10th OR 11th 7 PM shows:
Buy Tickets Now-Oct 10th or 11th PG 13 7:00PM show
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Joanne Langione Dance Center
38 Border St
Newton, MA 02465
Joanne Langione Dance Center has been providing quality
dance education for over 40 years to students ages 12 months to 18 years old through
a diverse offering of ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, acrodance, musical theater
and creative movement programming. JLDC is a community based school
educating students to the many ways in which a proper dance education can
inform their lives: creating life-long lovers of dance whether a student
chooses to dance professionally or whether she dances for the simple joy of it.
In 2015 JLDC opened a brand new state-of-the art facility with four spacious
studios, student and parent reception areas and ample parking.www.jldancecenter.com Find us on Facebook and Instagram.
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Stratton Engraved Chrome And Gold Plated Rollerball And Biro Pen Set
Stylish Engraved Pen Duo Gift Set
- Product Code: WST1004/DOU
- £44.99 inc. VAT
This Stratton Engraved Chrome and Gold Plated Rollerball and Biro Pen Set will make a stylishly sophisticated gift for both men and women alike.
These beautiful chrome pens feature gold plated detailing to the lid, clasp, nib and waist of the barrel and are produced by the world famous Stratton of Mayfair company - with all the craftsmanship that their heritage entails - which has gone into producing these gorgeous writing instruments for your lucky recipient to use, enjoy and treasure for years to come.
The pen set utilises standard Parker refills (which are available widely) and comes neatly presented in a chrome presentation gift box which can be personalised along with the pens.
We can engrave your chosen names or message onto the side of each pen and also a longer message onto the lid of the gift box for a truly personal gift that is perfect for congratulating new jobs, graduations, or marking anniversaries and milestone birthdays.
Pen dimensions: L140mm x D10mm
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(01-13-2019, 09:01 PM)Fredledingue Wrote: ...The difference between the number of migrants who would climb a 15 feet wall and those who would climb a 30 feet wall is minimal. Most of them would climb none of them. Have you tried to climb a 15 feet wall? So a 30 feet wall is plain paranoid.
...Only Berlin had a concrete wall, much smaller than Trump's.
This is yet-another useless government funded project.
The Berlin wall was built of machine guns and the willingness to use them - not just concrete. Tunnels are easily found by existing technology, if properly deployed. The cost of building a wall is one of the cheapest ways to upgrade border security. Doing nothing is the most expensive.
I'm sure the wall will be designed for the location. Some places it may be twice as high as other places. Let the architects and engineers fulfill the scope, and stop nay-saying conjecture.


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|Steve Berry
|Rogue Women Writers Panel at Thrillerfest
"They may seem like characters from best-selling thriller novels, but these kick-ass women writers have very real lives...." –The Big Thrill
"An all-star lineup of premier thriller authors.... I'm a huge fan of their work."
–The Real Book Spy
Lisa Black
● A forensic specialist, she is still catching criminals in FLA. Her novel, Perish, is a nominee for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award.
Chris Goff
● An intrepid world traveler, she was once trapped with her daughter in a dangerous enclave in the Middle East.
Karna Small Bodman
● While serving as Sr. Director of the National Security Council, Karna was the highest-ranking women on the White House staff. Her books regularly hit Amazon's #1 in Thrillers.
Robin Burcell
● A hostage negotiator, forensic artist, and former police officer, she's an inductee into the Dick Tracy Hall of Fame.
KJ Howe
● Has raced camels in Jordan and ziplined in
a Costa Rican jungle. Her novel, The Freedom Broker, won the Thriller Award for Best Debut.
Gayle Lynds
● Recently appeared on CBS Sunday Morning about conspiracy theories. She shattered the glass ceiling at Bouchercon's all-boys poker games.
Jamie Freveletti
● Has a black belt in Aikido and is a recovering lawyer. Her novel, Running from the Devil, won the Barry Award for Best Thriller.
Lynne Constantine
● Has explored coral reefs all over the world, sunken wrecks in the South Pacific, and fallen in love with angelfish in the Caribbean. She is two people: Liv Constantine writing with her sister, and L.C. Shaw writing solo.
Valerie Constantine
● Has worked with advance teams at the White House, planning presidential trips and travel and has visited over forty foreign countries.
|Steve Berry
|Rogue Women Writers Panel at Thrillerfest
Although I will not be attending ThrillerFest this year, it is a great event. And I know the Rogue panel, as usual, will be spectacular.ReplyDelete
Conferences can be wonderful, eye-opening opportunities, and I suggest doing your homework to get the most bang for your buck. Check out where you want to be and when, who you want to meet and what want to ask them. You'll be glad you did.ReplyDelete
I love all of the terrific advice you've put together here, Karna. One can never learn enough, and you're reminding all of us with that with this terrific blog. I enjoy your thrillers, too, and particularly the tremendous sense of backroom and power reality, but then you bring exceptional experience from your White House and journalist years, and the very fact that you always stay current. Oh, to have a peek at your Top Secret Rolodex! Brava!ReplyDelete
What great advice! No matter where you are in the spectrum of writing (from aspiring to multi-published), I believe it always pays to remind yourself of good writing advice--especially from the pros. Wish I'd had a peek at this back when I first started. Glad I've had the opportunity now!ReplyDelete
Wonderful column, Karna. Thanks so much for putting so much into it. Great advice.ReplyDelete
Appreciate these comments -- S. Lee - we will miss you at ThrillerFest; Lisa you are so right about attending conferences and carefully analyzing the best speeches and workshops to attend (There are always SO many though, it's often hard to choose). And thanks for your words, Gayle...coming from the "Spay master" herself - yes, we really should compare "Top Secret" experiences!....Karna BodmanReplyDelete
Best conference ever! Great write up, Karna.ReplyDelete
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Sheffield Wednesday's home kit for the 18/19 campaign has been unveiled.
Blue and white stripes return to the front of the shirt, which sports a solid blue back, while the shorts revert to black with blue socks and a black turnover.
The strip features the embroidered Owls crest, together with the high quality silicone ELEV8 logo to complement the sleek new style.
The full kit is manufactured from the moist management fabric featuring EVAPOR8 technology, with two versions of the shirt.
The first is a pro-fit piece laser cut for improved athlete fit and the second a loose fitting replica featuring mesh side panelling that showcases both logos.
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Six candidates standing for General Election
Six candidates have put their names forward to stand for the Orkney and Shetland constituency in next month's UK Parliamentary Election.
The deadline for nominations for the poll closed at 4pm this afternoon, Thursday.
The candidates whose names will appear on the ballot paper on polling day are:
- Robina Rendall Barton – Scottish Labour Party
- Miriam Brett – Scottish National Party
- Alistair Carmichael – Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Jamie Halcro Johnston – Scottish Conservative and Unionist
- Stuart Hill – Independent
- Robert Smith – UK Independence Party
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Any student who earns less than a 2.00 cumulative GPA will be placed on academic probation and will be limited to 15 units of enrollment in the following term.
A student placed on probation must earn a term GPA of 2.00 or higher in the subsequent semester of enrollment.
A student will be placed on final probation in the following situations:
A student placed on final probation must earn a cumulative GPA of a 2.00 or higher in the subsequent semester. A student on final probation will be limited to 15 units of enrollment in the following term.
A student will be academically dismissed from the University (ineligible to continue attendance) in the following situations:
In order to remain in good standing at UW-W, students must have a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or above. Some colleges and/or programs may require a combined UW-Whitewater GPA above 2.00 in order to remain in good academic standing in the programs.
If you're attempting to determine what your grade point average will be after a given semester, you can visit the GPA Calculator on the Academic Advising & Exploration Center's website.
A course in which a grade of C- or below (C-, D+, D, D-, F, or NC) was originally earned may be repeated once for grade and earned credit replacement. The grade and credits earned for the repeated course will replace those earned in the initial attempt when calculating grade point average and credits toward degree.
Courses taken initially at UW-Whitewater may not be taken at another institution to replace the UW-Whitewater grade and credit.
All attempts of repeated courses, including the grades, remain on academic records and transcripts even though they may not be included in the GPA calculation or earned credits. Students should be aware that graduate schools and other institutions to which they might wish to transfer may not accept repeats and may include all grades in calculating GPA for admission.
Student athletes, veterans and international students should check with the appropriate UW-W school officials before repeating courses as it may affect their eligibility or financial benefits.
The full repeat policy will appear on the Registrar's Office web page under the "Policies" link .
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Brand Spotlight: Pretty Green
This week we're taking a look at one of our favourite brands for SS19, Manchester's finest, Pretty Green.
Since being founded by Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher in 2009, Pretty Green has become a must-have name in every modern man's wardrobe. This spring, we're ready to embrace the vintage vibes with a modern flair that this brand brings. Keep reading to take a look at some of our top picks at the moment.
Unique Basics:
The warmer weather is on the way and we're getting ready with Pretty Green. Basic t-shirts and polos are perfect for the transitional season; great for layering under sweatshirts or wearing alone as the temperature rises.
From the brands SS19 line, we've picked out two of our essential pieces for March. The white polo shirt with contrasting mustard/red edges is a simple yet unique piece, that can be easily paired with jeans for an effortless weekend look. If polos aren't your thing, this navy t-shirt with red/white piping is another subtle yet striking piece. Pretty Greens use of contrasting colours
Paisley Perfect:
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Spring Denim:
The start of spring 2019 has us reaching for new jeans. The black denim gets put away for autumn as we opt for lighter, indigo shades. These '6-month wash' jeans from Pretty Green are ideal for the everyday. Versatile and comfortable, these slim-fit jeans will go with anything.
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I introduced myself to Margaret, the manager, and we immediately built a rapport. She handed me an application, and after I filled it out she had her assistant manager, Renee, give me a tour of the building. Our last stop was one of the projection booths. I stepped into the tiny room, recognizing the familiar platter system with film spooling from it, through the projector and back to the platter. Standing next to the THX sound system tower was a man dressed in jeans, a white button down shirt, Justin Roper boots, and a black cowboy hat. He looked up for a moment to see who was interrupting his work. I was immediately drawn to his beautiful hazel eyes and dark brown hair and beard. Not the type of man I normally would have found myself attracted to—but there was something about him. Renee introduced him as Ed, the resident Lothario of the theater. I could see the color of red creep up his neck even in the dark booth. Then nodding politely to him, we left and headed back to the manager's office.
A few weeks had passed, and I hadn't heard anything, so I headed back to the theater. Margaret apologized and said she had misplaced my phone number. I thought it was odd, but said nothing as I wrote down my number on a piece of paper. A week later, she put me on the schedule and thus I began my employment at Salem Centre Movieland. On my breaks, I would sit upstairs in the coffee bar and study and Ed would come out of one booth door and head towards another, often smiling at me as he passed. Sometimes he would stop and sit down at the chair across from me and ask what I was working on. Over the next several months, we discovered we had the same interests and same friends and we started hanging out together. Neither one of us was looking for a relationship. He had just broken up with a girl he had been dating and I, at that moment, had sworn off guys—a statement I proclaimed a loud to some of the girls at the theater, which of course lead them to wonder about my sexual orientation. Whoops. Ed and I had soon became best friends. I could tell him anything and although he might have laughed at my antics, he never judged me. We came from two very different worlds; I was a city girl, born and raised, while he was raised on a cattle ranch in northern Idaho, but we both had a love for the theater (both movie and live theater), and even on our days off, we'd go to the movies together or go out for a late dinner with other friends from the theater. We were a tight net group.
I'm not sure when we began to look at each other differently, but one day, I was standing down by the front doors, tearing tickets, when Ed walked right past me. Not even looking up, he asked if I wanted to go out on a date with him. I quickly answered, "Love to." Not expecting me to say yes, he walked right into the glass pane door. Ouch.
The irony is that after meeting me for the very first time in the projection booth on that fateful October afternoon, he walked into Margaret's office and read my application. Seeing I had worked for the competition, he figured I was a spy and took it upon himself to round file my application. If I hadn't had gone back and asked why I hadn't heard from her, I would have never met and fallen in love with my husband.


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Verifying Adium Releases
After you've downloaded Adium, it can be a good idea to make sure you have downloaded the real Adium. While we have no reports of anyone distributing Adium with malicious changes (e.g., backdoors), it is better to be safe than sorry.
Starting from Adium 1.5.9, our releases are signed using GPG.
Import our key
To verify our releases, you first need to import our public key. This step only needs to be done once.
- Download and install GPG tools from https://gpgtools.org/.
- Download DA9316A3.asc, which is our public key.
- Launch "GPG Keychain Access", in the "File" menu, choose "Import..." and select the
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Maybe not, but our tomatoes have grown as if we were injecting them with steroids (we're not!)
Our Bush Goliath has a cluster of five tomatoes growing together, but our Better Boys are alive and kickin', too.
We had our first pest run in: whiteflies. Gross little paper-thin suckers that covered our tomato plants. I went to buy Elementals Insecticidal Soap, but the store was sold out. Instead, a Bayer representative introduced me to a replacement insecticide safe for fruits and veggies. It took quite a bit of time to ensure my plants were thoroughly covered. Now the plants are covered in whitefly carcasses. I'm keeping an eye on things though to make sure I got them all.
All in all, the City Picker Patio Garden Kit is a great buy!
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This post on time, is not on time
Main Question: Is time an illusion?
At every moment, no matter what, time passes. Unless you own a blue telephone box, you cannot pause, fast-forward or rewind time. Phrases such as "time flies when you're having fun", the concept of daylight savings and leap years, have me wondering whether time is real or just an illusion.
Sub Questions:
- What is time?
- The system of those sequential relations that any event has to another, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another. -www.dictionary.com
Time tells us such things as the duration of events, when they occur, and which events happen before which others. It is also what clocks are used to measure. Time is typically divided into 3 parts, the past, the present and the future.
"Time is only a reflection of change. From change, our brains construct a sense of time as if it were flowing." -Julian Barbour
Aristotle was the first to claim that "time is the measure of change". He emphasized "that time is not change [itself]" because a change "may be faster or slower, but not time…" For example, a leaf can fall faster or slower, while time itself cannot be faster or slower.
2. How was time created?
The oldest known time keeping device is a sun dial from Egypt, that dates to about 1500 BCE.
Like the sundial, long ago people used the sun and the moon to keep track of time. A day started when the sun was rising above the horizon and ended when it was below, but all days would not have the same length of time depending on the region and season. In the case of the moon takes about a month to go from the full moon to the new moon. While Egyptians were the first to have a 24 hour day, the Babylonians were the first to divide the hour into 60 minutes, and seconds came later on.
3. Does time have a beginning or end?
This question, like most time questions is controversial. Philosophers Plato and Aristotle believed that the past is eternal. They believed this because for any time there is an imaginable earlier time.
On the other hand, Augustine believed that the universe was made with time and not in time, he implied that time began with God's creation a finite time ago. Stephen Hawking also believes that the universe has not existed forever. Instead, the universe, and time itself, had a beginning in the Big Bang, about 15 billion years ago.
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Learning more about time, creates more confusion and opens up new questions such as : is time relative? is time fundamental? what a world without the concept of time would look like if possible? From my questions, many answers had divided opinions. At this "time", I do believe that time is an illusion. Although time is incredibly practical, it's not real in the sense that it exists only because of conventions accepted by humans for their convenience.
"The dividing line between past, present, and future is an illusion" – Albert Einstein


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Amman, Geneva 9 September 2019 – Nearly 200 representatives of States and civil society including dozens of landmine survivors from Jordan and all over the world, have begun three days of in-depth work to foster national and international partnerships that can contribute towards meeting the rights of mine survivors and other persons with disabilities in countries that are or have been affected by explosive remnants of war.
The three-day Global Conference on Assistance to Victims of Anti-Personnel Mines and Other Explosive Remnants of War and Disability Rights, is being chaired by His Royal Highness Prince Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan and sponsored by a Decision adopted by the European Union Council to support implementation of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.
"Jordan has been able to achieve a great milestone, clear our lands of the deadly bondage brought about by anti-personnel mines," said Prince Mired. "However, Jordan is among the 30 States that have declared a significant number of landmine survivors. This means that while we have removed the mines, too many still live with the devastating consequences caused by these weapons. Jordan has not forgotten its commitment to meet these victims' needs. Nevertheless, because this demands a comprehensive response, we have ensured that our efforts to assist survivors are integrated into other government programmes such as development, health and labour, and obligations acquired under another international instrument, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities," said His Royal Highness.
Prince Mired is deeply engaged in matters related to disability issues as Chairman of the Hashemite Commission for Disabled Soldiers and President of the Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He is also Special Envoy of the Convention.
Thanks to the European Union, representatives of mine-affected States, including some of the poorest in the world, have been able to reach Amman so that their voices, concerns and expertise can be heard. "The European Union is proud to be part of this global movement seeking to end the suffering and casualties caused by anti-personnel mines," said H.E. Ambassador Maria Hadjitheodosiou, Head of the European Union Delegation.
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Give Your Kitchen a French Country Makeover for $500 or Less
If a trip to France isn't in your budget, don't despair. You can still enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of the French countryside by giving your kitchen a makeover. The French country style is both elegant and cozy, as it was inspired by the charming homes located in Provence, the region of France that borders Italy. Provence also lies along the Mediterranean, making blue hues and other natural colors a must for any French country decorating scheme. With these simple changes, it's possible to transform your kitchen from bland and boring to chic and elegant for less than $500.
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In honor of the upcoming tribute show for Stan Lee (for more info, see Dan Goodsell's post here), Dan created some pictures of Mr. Toast dreaming of being a super-hero.
I think Spidey-Toast would make a great cartoon, so to help with pitching it, I humbly submit to Dan the Spidey-Toast theme song. Enjoy.
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The new SEAT Tarraco represents the voice of the people, writes David Miles.
The new 7-seat large SUV is named after the Mediterranean city of Tarragona and was chosen by 140,000 on-line enthusiasts.
Priced from £28,335 to £38,055 the Tarraco range joins the SEAT Spanish arm of the VW Group's other SUVs – the compact Arona and the very highly rated and award winning Ateca mid-sized SUV – both these models being five doors, five seat offerings.
But the Tarraco is aimed at those who want even more space, more seating or load carrying combination options so it can also compete with now less popular MPV people carriers. We know SUV styling is the driving force behind new cars sales.
Depending on the spec chosen there is the choice of two direct injection turbocharged petrol engines – 1.5 TSI Evo 150hp manual 2WD and the 2.0 TSI 190hp with standard fit DSG auto gearbox and 4Drive 4WD.
For those that want diesel power there is the usual VW Group's workhorse unit – the 2.0 TDI 150hp manual with 2WD, the same unit with DSG auto and 4Drive and the 2.0 TDI 190hp with standard fit DSG auto and 4Drive. All engines have start-stop technology.
Spec levels are SE, SE Technology, Xcellence and Xcellence Lux and of course personalisation options. Further spec levels of FR and FR Sport are scheduled and a plug-in hybrid powertrain will also be added next year.
All spec levels have a 10.25-inch digital cockpit and 8.0-inch floating central display screen and importantly the heating and ventilation controls are separate and so not operated via the touchscreen. Standard equipment includes Front assist, Lane Assist and Emergency Call. Such items as Park Assist, an Electric Tailgate with virtual pedal which allows the foot to be waved under the rear bumper to open the tailgate and a top view camera system are amongst the convenience items available.
Also included are the now commonplace connectivity functions so overall it's a well specced, practical and well equipped vehicle at whatever level of equipment is chosen. However you need to pay an extra £110 if you want a space-saver spare wheel rather than the tyre repair kit, a must have I feel for most people. If you need a towbar with electrics that adds £685 to the price and a panoramic sunroof adds a further £960.
Its competitor models are fairly numerous these days even in this large size SUV segment and its closest rival also comes from the VW Group of brands; it's the highly rated Skoda Kodiaq but that offers five and seven seat models, with the same engine and drivetrain choices at similar prices. Probably the deciding factor on whether to buy a SEAT Tarraco or a Skoda Kodiaq will be down to whichever dealership is most convenient and which offers the best transaction price or finance deal.
Also to be considered in the large SUV segment are the Mazda CX-5, Citroen C5 Aircross, Peugeot 5008, Kia Sorento, Hyundai Santa Fe, VW Tiguan Allspace and moving to premium brands – the Audi Q5, BMW X5, Land Rover Discovery and Volvo XC90.
Designed and developed by SEAT in Spain, but manufactured at the VW Group's Wolfsburg Plant in Germany, the Tarraco SUV is 4,735mm long, 1,839mm wide and 1,674mm tall – creating a huge interior space and an imposing robust exterior image. At the front is a prominent grille design flanked by full LED headlights retaining the company's triangular signature.
The LED lighting also allows for dynamic rear indicators which have become popular with many new cars. The wide and full height tailgate gives easy access to a flat load floor with no high sill to load items over and into the vehicle. Overall the Tarraco has a more conservative visual appearance than some of its 'blinged-up' rivals.
Inside it's much the same story with all the controls well laid out, most of the specification most commonly needed and with reasonable amounts of soft-touch trim. However there is an equal measure of harder plastic trim as well. It's all very clean and clinical in its interior styling but perhaps a bit bland.
The Tarraco is mainly about interior space. With all three rows of seats in use there is a small 230-litres boot, fold down the third row of two rear individual seats and this increases to 700-litres and with the second and third rows of seats folded down the load space increases to a cavernous 1,775-litres.
My test drive model had the popular 2.0-litre TDI 150hp turbodiesel engine, 6-speed manual gearbox and with 2WD. A rotary dial allows various driving models from Eco to Individual to be chosen at will. This model with the Xcellence spec level I tried costs £31,900.
Xcellence versions include 19-inch alloys, dark tinted rear windows, chrome roof rails, sat-nav with 3D mapping, Alcantara trimmed front sports seats, Adaptive Cruise Control with speed limiter, KESSY keyless entry with push-button start, Park Assist self parking and front parking sensors plus a rear view camera.
The engine we know well from other SEAT and most other VW Group brands. It's a strong workmanlike performer with 340Nm of torque from 1,750rpm and it works well with the 6-speed manual gearbox. For preference I'd find the extra refinement and ease of driving
worthy of choosing the 7-speed DSG automatic gearbox. But that comes with 4Drive 4WD traction and pushes the price up to £36,815 which might be a step too far for some owners particularly as it increases the running, insurance and tax costs.
As for performance the top speed of my manual gearbox model was more or less matched by the auto gearbox model.
The handling for such a large and elevated vehicle was good, sharp front end steering response, accurate feedback through the steering wheel and it was generally composed and well-balance. However the larger 19-inch wheels didn't help with ride comfort on country roads where impacts from potholes were well and truly felt inside the cabin. I also noted there was significant wind noise at higher cruising speeds from the door mounted mirrors.
The new SEAT Tarraco 7-seat large SUV in whatever spec will fit the bill for most who want fashionable SUV styling, need to carry up to seven, or less people and lots of load space. It doesn't obviously stand out from similar models in a crowded market but neither does it not measure up to what it was designed to do.
The deciding factors for customers will be convenience of a SEAT dealership and the actual haggled price or most attractive PCP finance deal. If the best deal turns out to be a Tarraco over any of its competitors you won't be losing out.
MILESTONES: SEAT Tarraco 2.0 TDI Xcellence, 150hp manual, 7-seat SUV £31,900
Engine/transmission: 2.0-litre, 4-cylinder, direct injection turbodiesel with start/stop, 6-speed manual, 2WD
Performance: 126mph, 0-62mph 9.8-seconds, WLTP Combined Cycle 47.1mpg (44.1mpg on test)
CO2 129g/km, diesel rate VED First Year road tax £170 then £145 Standard rate, BiK company car tax 33%
Insurance: Group: 24E Warranty: 3-years/60,000-miles
Dimensions/capacities: L 4,735mm, W 1,839mm, H 1,674mm, wheelbase 2,790mm, boot/load space 230 to 1,775-litres, braked towing weight, 2,200kg, 5-doors/7-seats
For: Versatile and fashionably styled large SUV, seating for seven, large load area when needed, well equipped, strong fuel efficient diesel engine, wide range of engine choices, competitively priced
Against: Doesn't stand out for exterior kerb appeal, somewhat bland interior styling, access to the third row of seats is best done by agile children, very firm ride with the large wheels, wind noise from the door mirrors, ungenerous VW Group warranty.
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Martha Magenta lived in Bristol, UK. Her haiku, haibun, senryu, and tanka have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She was awarded Honorable Mentions in contests for haiku, tanka and haibun in 2017/2018. She is listed on The European Top 100 haiku authors, 2017.
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As a result of your responses, in December 2017 North Lincolnshire Spatial Planning, Economy & Growth,Business Development initiated a consultation on the Application for Designation of Barrow upon Humber Neighbourhood Area. The consultation, which closes 4:30 Friday 9th February 2018 can be viewed online in the Neighbourhood Planning Section of the North Lincolnshire Council website at www.northlincs.gov.uk
The next phase is the Creation of a Steering Group
This Group will, through engagement with the community via meetings, events, notices and /or social media, and consultation with North Lincolnshire, surrounding Town & Parish Councils and other Statutory Bodies such as Environment Agency, Natural England and Historic England, be responsible for the :
Development of a Vision (15-20 year strategy setting out the aspirations for the community.) and Objectives (what the Neighbourhood Plan aims to achieve)
Generation of Options and the
Creation of a Draft of the neighbourhood Plan for
- submission to North Lincolnshire (for independent and examination and consultation)
- community approval via referendum (Open to anyone who is registered to vote in the Neighbourhood Plan Area)
It is anticipated that this stage of the process will take a minimum of 2 years.
Once approved, the Neighbourhood Plan will be adopted as part of the Development Plan for North Lincolnshire
The Parish Council would like to hear from members of the public living or working in the Parish including representatives from: Community Based Fund raising Groups/ Clubs; Residential Facilities; Retail & Hospitality; Sport & Recreation; Agriculture (land owners); Business/Independent Traders and Service Providers, who are interested in becoming a member of the Steering Group and be part of this exciting venture which will see a Neighbourhood Plan for Barrow upon Humber become a reality.
If you would like to bring your interest, skills and experience to the Group, please contact us by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by post to:
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You will be contacted following the outcome of the North Lincolnshire consultation. Please note that in order to ensure representation from a broad spectrum of the community, it may be necessary to limit the number of representatives from a specific sector.


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It has reduced the time it takes to respond to attacks. That comes back to the proactive point. It makes us able to lower down in the kill chain, we can react now, rather than reacting to incidents that happened, we can see an instant, in some cases, as it's being implemented, or as it's being launched.
One of the most valuable features is all the correlation that it does using AI and machine learning. An example would be alerting on a host and then alerting on other things, like abnormal behavior, that it has noticed coming from the same host. It's valuable because we're a very lean team.
The solution provide visibility into behaviors across the full lifecycle of an attack in our network, beyond just the Internet gateway. It makes our security operations much more effective because we are now looking not just at traffic on the border, but we're looking at east-west internal traffic. Now, not only will we see if an exploit kit is being downloaded, but we would be able to see then if that exploit kit was then laterally distributed into our environment.
Vectra produces actionable data using automation. That has helped us. It's less manpower now to look at incidents, which has definitely increased efficiency. Right now, in a lot of cases, our mean time to detection is within zero days. This tells me by the time something happened, and we were able to detect it, it was within the same day.
The dashboard gives me a scoring system that allows me to prioritize things that I should look at. I may not necessarily care so much about one event, whereas if I have a single botnet detection or a brute force attack, I really want to get on top of those.
It gives you access, with Recall, to instant visibility into your network through something like a SIEM solution. For us, being able to correlate all of this network data without having to manage it, has provided immediate value. It gives us the ability to really work on the stuff where I and my team have expertise, instead of having to manage a SIEM solution...
The solution's ability to reduce alerts, by rolling up numerous alerts to create a single incident or campaign, helps in that it collapses all the events to a particular host, or a particular detection to a set of hosts. So it doesn't generate too many alerts. By and large, whatever alerts it generates are actionable, and actionable within the day.
One of the most valuable features of the platform is its ability to provide you with aggregated risk scores based on impact and certainty of threats being detected. This is both applied to individual and host detections. This is important because it enables us to use this platform to prioritize the most likely imminent threats. So, it reduces alert fatigue follow ups for security operation center analysts. It also provides us with an ability to prioritize limited resources.
The solution is rather easy to use.
It has a huge rate of protection. It's has a low level of positives and a huge rate of threat protection. It's easy to deploy and easy to implement. It has an incredible price rate compared to similar solutions.
The URL filtering is very good and you can create a group for customized URLs.
The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically learn the traffic in our environment, and change the merit recommendations based on that.
In general, the features are all great. However, if I need to take hardware for ASA, because they need to upgrade to Firepower, we want to create rules. For that, most of the time we go to the command line. Right now Firepower is working really hard on the grid. You can apply all those rules to the grid. Even if you want to monitor the logs, for example, the activity will tell you which particular user has been blocked because of that rule. Firepower's monitoring interface is very good, because you can see each and every piece. ASA also had it, but there you needed to type the command and be under the server to see all that stuff. In Firepower you have the possibility to go directly to the firewall. The way the monitoring is displayed is also very nice. The feature I appreciate most in Firepower is actually the grid. The grid has worked very well.
I like most of Cisco's features, like malware detection and URL filtering.
The most valuable feature of this solution is the filtering.
The solution can be integrated with some network electors like Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco ISE, and Active Directory to provide the client with authentication certificates.
The IPS signatures and the IPS database that are given are much better than what is commonly available.
The most valuable feature is the central command center, where we can control and manage the solution.
The monitoring is the most valuable feature.
The false positives and the tuning side of it is something that could use improvement. But that could be from our side.
It does a little bit of packet capture on alert so you can look at the packet capture activity going on, but it doesn't collect a whole lot of data. Sometimes it's only one or two frames, sometimes it does collect more. That's why they have the addition of their Recall platform, because that really does help expand the capability.
Some of their integrations with other sources of data, like external threat feeds, took a bit more work than I had hoped to get integrated.
I would like to see a bit more strategic metrics instead of technical data. Information that I could show to my executive management team or board would be valuable.
I'd like to be able to get granular reports and to be able to output them into formats that are customizable and more useful. The reporting GUI is lacking.
Some of the customization could be improved. Everything is provided for you as an easy solution to use, but working with it and doing specific development could be worked on a bit more in the scope of an incident response team.
One thing which I have found where there could be improvement is with regard to the architecture, a little bit: how the brains and sensors function. It needs more flexibility with regard to the brain. If there were some flexibility in that regard, that would be helpful, because changing the mode of the brain is complex. In some cases, the change is permanent. You cannot revert it.
You are always limited with visibility on the host due to the fact that it is a network based tool. It gives you visibility on certain elements of the attack path, but it doesn't necessarily give you visibility on everything. Specifically, the initial intrusion side of things that doesn't necessarily see the initial compromise. It doesn't see stuff that goes on the host, such as where scripts are run. Even though you are seeing traffic, it doesn't necessarily see the malicious payload. Therefore, it's very difficult for it to identify these type of host-driven complex attacks.
While the alerts they offer are good, it could improve it in the sense that they should be more detailed to make the alerts more useful to us in general. Sometimes the solution will offer up false positives. Due to the fact that the alerts aren't detailed, we have to go dig around to see why is it being blocked. The solution would be infinitely better if there was just a bit more detail in the alert information and logging we receive.
Performance needs improvement.
There are problems setting up VPNs for some regions.
We are unhappy with technical support for this solution, and it is not as professional as what we typically expect from Cisco.
To be frank, the product is not really stable, although they're working on that. Whenever I go to the technical community with an issue, they will usually say that it is not there yet, but the technical team are working on it. The issues are not insolvable. I think they should just keep working on the product to make sure that the product can become very stable. The technical support is great. I appreciate that. We have a lot of communities supporting Firepower now, so you can find help for whatever issue you have.
I don't think this solution is a time-based control system, because one cannot filter traffic based on time.
If the price is brought down then everybody will be happy.
With the next release, I would like to see some PBR, so that you can do the configuration with the features.
We need more integration. It would be good if Azure IPS and TippingPoint IPS and other products from Trend Micro like their DBI and IWSVA could talk between each other.
I would like to see this solution more lightweight and easier to install.
The firewall rules are limited.
Pricing and Cost Advice
We have a desire to increase our use. However, it all comes down to budget. It's a very expensive tool that is very difficult to prove business support for. We would like to have two separate networks. We have our corporate network and PCI network, which is segregated due to payment processing. We don't have it for deployed in the PCI network. It would be good to have it fully deployed there to provide us with additional monitoring and control, but the cost associated with their licensing model makes it prohibitively expensive to deploy.
At the time of purchase, we found the pricing acceptable. We had an urgency to get something in place because we had a minor breach that occurred at the tail end of 2016 to the beginning of 2017. This indicated we had a lack of ability to detect things on the network. Hence, why we moved quickly to get into the tool in place. We found things like Bitcoin mining and botnets which we closed quickly. In that regard, it was worth the money.
The license is based on the concurrent IP addresses that it's investigating. We have 9,800 to 10,000 IP addresses.
There are additional features that can be purchased in addition to the standard licensing fee, such as Cognito Recall and Stream.
We are running at about 90,000 pounds per year. The solution is a licensed cost. The hardware that they gave us was pretty much next to nothing. It is the license that we're paying for.
I don't know the exact amount, but most of the time when I go to a company with a proposition, they will say, "This thing that you are selling is good, but it's expensive. Why don't you propose something like FortiGate, Check Point, or Palo Alto?" Cisco device are expensive compared to other devices.
Licensing for this solution is paid on a yearly basis.
We have a three-year license for this solution.
TippingPoint is not as expensive as Palo Alto but it's not as cheap as Fortigate.
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Vectra® is the leader in network detection and response – from cloud and data center workloads to user and IoT devices. Its Cognito® platform accelerates threat detection and investigation using artificial intelligence to collect, store and enrich network metadata with the right context to detect, hunt and investigate known and unknown threats in real time. Vectra offers three applications on the Cognito platform to address high-priority use cases. Cognito Stream™ sends security-enriched metadata to data lakes and SIEMs. Cognito Recall™ is a cloud-based application to store and investigate threats in enriched metadata. And Cognito Detect™ uses AI to reveal and prioritize hidden and unknown attackers at speed.
Snort is an open-source, rule-based, intrusion detection and prevention system. It combines the benefits of signature-, protocol-, and anomaly-based inspection methods to deliver flexible protection from malware attacks. Snort gained notoriety for being able to accurately detect threats at high speeds.
Using a combination of technologies such as deep packet inspection and threat reputation, the TippingPoint NGIPS provides organizations with a proactive approach to security. It gives you the high accuracy, comprehensive contextual awareness, in-depth analysis of network traffic, and the visibility and agility necessary to keep pace with today's evolving security landscape.
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By David Schoen
New York's NBC News anchor David Ushery paid a visit to SFC's television studio.
The anchor gave a few words of advice, cracked some jokes, described his experiences as a journalist, and even openly prepared for his commencement speech for St. Francis College's graduating class.
College staff and faculty Thomas Flood, David Gewirtz, Rich Relkin, Lauren Bertolotti, and Brian Gregory showed Ushery SFC's 7th floor TV studio. After meeting with the crew at Terrier TV, Ushery held a small conference with the group.
Ushery started off by explaining that many microphones and cameras in the studios of NBC are manned electronically. Ushery revealed that, although these new tactics can eliminate jobs and humane judgement, digitally-operated mics and cameras ensure a sense of stability and they're both becoming more widespread in the news industry.
David Ushery also disclosed NBC's impartiality when it comes to modern politics. Ushery explained that, as a journalist, he must be objective when speaking of political figures and lauded the NBC News crew in Washington for their around-the-clock services during this polarizing time in national reports.
Ushery then divulged into his reporting on tragic events, like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012. Ushery said that he went up to Connecticut to interview the parents of one of the deceased children and "quietly" sat in to "listen to their story" before explaining to them what to expect when other media services call them.
Ushery said that tragic stories like this one are less about pressuring the interviewees but broadcasting the stories of those who want to raise awareness on such issues. The NBC News anchor also revealed that this nonpartisan viewpoint in journalism comes as a result of covering many local, national, and international news stories truthfully.
Ushery also stressed neutrality, claiming that the first purpose of broadcasting is to "present the facts." Ushery also said that he works at 30 Rock with fellow NBC News anchor Michael Gargiulo and SFC interns at NBC, including Danielle Francavilla and Anthony Iannizzi.
Ushery also took a substantial amount of time to devote the conference to the students, giving them advice on how to prosper in the news industry and jokingly asking the seniors what they'd like to hear at graduation "besides "you're hired!"."
Ushery finished his conference on a light-hearted note, telling the graduating seniors that they should "try to laugh at my bad jokes" at the ceremony.


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Ever wonder who's the inspo behind your favorite singer's love songs? Country star Brett Young just revealed his muse-and she now doubles as his fiancée! Yep, the "Mercy" singer is officially engaged.
Young finally asked his longtime girlfriend Taylor Mills to become his wife earlier this month according to People, and the two couldn't sound happier. "We are both more excited than we can express and looking forward to starting this chapter of our lives together," they told the entertainment mag.
This chapter comes nearly 10 years after their initial meeting. Young told People that they first met in Scottsdale, Arizona, when Mills was in school, and they dated for six years. They moved to Los Angeles together once she graduated, but called it quits when his career took him to Nashville.
"When I moved to Nashville, we took a break for a few years, and I wrote a lot of my first record about her," he said. "There was never any bad blood; it was just the wrong time for us. We recently got back in touch and realized that we were both finally in the same place and knew it was right." So right, in fact, that he knew it was time to ask that BIG little question.
Young popped the question at the Graduate hotel near the University of Mississippi, Young's alma mater.
"We met in Arizona while she was at school at ASU, and we will likely get married there, so I thought it would be romantic to propose where I went to school," he explained. "We were able to get a suite with a large covered patio and the hospitality staff at the hotel set it up while we were at dinner, so it was waiting for us when we got back."
The suite was decked out with some bubbly, rose petals galore, and candles. Swoon. If that set up wasn't enough to make Mills say yes, the custom engagement ring certainly was. Young also shared a glimpse of the sparkler in his Instagram post, above.
With the help of David M. Kodner of David Kodner Personal Jewelers, Young chose and designed a stunning solitaire diamond ring on a diamond band fit for a queen. Their engraved initials was the icing on the already-blinged-out cake.
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You may have noticed that my blog was a bit quiet over the last three weeks. It's not that I don't have anything to say (that rarely happens), it's just that the one question that everyone wants to ask was the one I couldn't answer. Each year when the season ends you only have a brief period to mourn the loss of those friends and that time before you have to start thinking of what's next. So, as you may remember, our season in Bakersfield ended in mid-April. And, if you didn't know, it's now the end of August. That's over four long months since the season ended. In the summer before we went to Bakersfield and the year before when we prepared to go to Crimmitschau, Germany, we had already made a decision by mid-June. So this year the agony that can be the unknown went on over two months longer than usual. And I feel fortunate to know now where we'll be spending the next seven months, because we have lots of friends who are still playing the waiting game.
The reason for this delay is complicated, but makes perfect sense. Essentially, like everything else these days, it comes down to the economy. The reason we couldn't stay in Bakersfield was due to economics: the economics of married players costing more than single players, even if said player was one of the league leaders in scoring (just saying). Because Bakersfield, and many other teams, is taking that openly discriminatory (in my humble but not litigious opinion) stance on hiring married players, there was an increased number of guys looking for spots on teams overseas. And because the struggling economy isn't exclusive to the U.S., those teams are also downsizing and cutting back in various ways. And so this situation has led to a bit of a log jam, where European teams are finding players that will take less money or waiting for AHL/NHL free agents who don't find a home in the U.S. and start looking across the Atlantic. And all this is happening in a time crunch. So that's the very basic, very simplified, semi-technical side of it.
The human side is a bit less simple. Here you have men who have invested themselves in hockey as a career and hope to be compensated in relation to their performance and their character. And more than that, they have chosen this lifestyle, at least for the time being, and the limbo between seasons is the payment for the fact that their favorite recreational activity is also their profession. So when a drought such as this occurs, these players can feel the toll both on their bank accounts and their egos. And since money is what keeps us alive and confidence is what makes them successful, an off-season like this can be a bit depressing.
Add to this the fact that many of these men have women and/or children and/or dogs that they may support financially and by whom they are always supported emotionally. Surely the men folk feel additional pressure during a slow off-season when they have a family. But the pressure falls on us as well. Most of the significant others of hockey players that I know are extremely adaptable. They move from town to town, country to country, endure multiple trades in one season and leave their families and careers far behind. Amidst all this, they still manage to raise children, go to school, achieve professional goals, make friends, learn new languages. Moving with the seasons (hockey seasons, that is) is one thing, but even the most adaptable and able can become stressed when the unknown is added to the unstable.
And that stress is part of the reason why the blog was so sporadic and many phone calls went unanswered this summer. Even though asking your friend in the hockey life 'where to next?' may seem like the logical conversation-starter, it can sometimes be the cruelest question ever asked. On the other hand, not being asked is sometimes equally as unnerving, because the question just hangs there in the air. And that's why avoiding the interactions where the question might be asked or not asked is sometimes easier. Cowardly, but easier. So if, over the last few months, you called, e-mailed or texted me asking, with true concern and love in your heart, where we are off to, I apologize for not answering you sooner. It's just that I literally didn't know, and even when something is being worked out, you learn to be wary of discussing it because it can so easily fall through. So we wait, answer truthfully, and seek refuge in the co-misery of other hockey friends who understand the frustration.