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Wonkette is an American online magazine of topical satire and political gossip, established in 2004 by Gawker Media and founding editor Ana Marie Cox, edited by Ken Layne from 2006 to 2012, and owned and edited by Rebecca Schoenkopf since 2012.[2] Prominent U.S. political bloggers including Juli Weiner, Jim Newell and Alex Pareene established their careers at Wonkette. The current editor is Rebecca Schoenkopf, formerly of OC Weekly. Wonkette covers US politics from Washington DC to local schoolboards. Taking a sarcastic tone, the site focuses heavily on humorous breaking news, rumors, and the downfall of the powerful. It also deals with serious matters of politics and policy, producing in-depth analysis.
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|Politics, satire
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|Wonkette Media
|Alexa rank
|44,023 (December 2018[update])[1]
|January 2004
|Current status
Launch and historyEdit
Wonkette was established in January 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Its founding editor was Ana Marie Cox, a former editor at suck.com.[3]
Cox rapidly established a large reading audience and media notice for the site. The blog gained further national media attention after Cox publicized the story of Jessica Cutler aka "Washingtonienne", a former Hill staffer who blogged about her affair with a member of former Senator Mike DeWine's staff.[4]
Cox announced her resignation as Wonkette's editor on January 5, 2006, in order to promote her book, Dog Days, and was succeeded by David Lat, the author of Underneath Their Robes, a blog about the federal judiciary, and Alex Pareene, a young New York University student and Gawker intern/guest editor in New York who moved to D.C. for the Wonkette position. (In late 2007, Pareene moved to the flagship Gawker site and, in April 2010, to Salon.)
In June 2006, Lat announced his decision to leave Wonkette. His slot was to be filled by guest editors until August 2006, when longtime political blogger Ken Layne joined as editor. Wonkette reached its largest pre-2008 audience during the 2006 midterm elections due to scandal coverage of Mark Foley and other incumbents involved in corruption, sex-abuse and bribery scandals.
After Pareene and Layne's departure in October 2007, a team of new editors including John Clarke, Jr. and Megan Carpentier was installed by Gawker management. Gawker publisher Nick Denton brought Layne back as sole editor two months later, who put in place the team of Jim Newell of IvyGate, videographer Liz Glover, former Gawker blogger Sara K. Smith, Columbia literary magazine The Blue and White editor Juli Weiner, and longtime contributors Princess Sparkle Pony (Peter Huestis) and Josh Fruhlinger, the Comics Curmudgeon.
Wonkette teams covered both the Denver DNC and St. Paul RNC conventions. Newell and columnist Josh Fruhlinger covered Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington. As with many political websites, readership hit new records between the November 2008 election and January 2009 inauguration.
Past and current guest editors and contributors include Reason Magazine editor Nick Gillespie, Washington Post reporter David Weigel, DCeiver editor and Huffington Post writer Jason Linkins, Gawker editor and The Awl founder Choire Sicha, New York comedian and author Sara Benincasa, Chicago artist and journalist Lauri Apple, Boston Globe political blogger Garrett Quinn, cartoonist Benjamin Frisch, and Vanity Fair online writer Juli Weiner.
In April 2011, Wonkette came under criticism after blogger Jack Stuef wrote a post that was interpreted as mocking Trig Palin for his having Down syndrome. The post suggested that Trig was possibly the result of incest between Todd Palin and Bristol Palin. In response, at least 14 advertisers, including major companies such as Ford, Toyota, Verizon, Nordstrom, and Papa John's,[5] announced that they would exclude their network remnant advertising from Wonkette. Editor Ken Layne announced that Stuef was placed on probation and Stuef apologized for the post.[6][7][8]
The name of the site is a play on the slang word wonk, meaning a "zealous student of political policy",[9] adding the feminine ending to best describe founding editor Cox and as a play on the word "gazette."
Separation from Gawker MediaEdit
On April 14, 2008, Gawker Media announced that it was selling Wonkette and that Layne would remain managing editor and part owner. Gawker Media head Nick Denton attributed the sale to "hunkering down" before another dot com downturn and the Internet bubble bursts: "And, even if not, better safe than sorry; and better too early than too late..."[10] Gawker's Silicon Valley gossip site, Valleywag, was merged with the flagship Gawker.com site, its popular music site, Idolator, was sold to Buzznet, and The Consumerist was sold to Consumers Union as part of the same divestiture effort.
Wonkette Media also launched Wonkabout, a D.C. culture guide, which ran from February 12, 2009 until April 28, 2011, and was edited by Arielle Fleisher.[11][12]
In February, 2017, Wonkette went ad-free [13], and it is now supported by reader donations.
Style and frequent targetsEdit
Wonkette makes frequent targets of mainstream media outlets like CNN, The Washington Post and Politico, when they are perceived as missing opportunities for substantive political analysis by attempting to get "scoops" or simply covering the actions of others in the mainstream media.[14][15] Truck Nutz references became very popular during the 2008 Presidential Election, while following the election of Barack Obama, the site also published humorous pieces about Tea Party Protesters, Birthers, Peggy Noonan's weekly column and Sarah Palin.[16][17][18] Right-wing blogs such as Andrew Breitbart's Big Government and National Review Online's The Corner are constant targets.[19]
Regular featuresEdit
- Gifzette Daily Briefing: Morning humor and commentary by Matt Langer, editor of Gifzette and writer for The Awl.
- Ayn Rand's Adventures In Wonderland: America 2010: Serial graphic novel by cartoonist Benjamin Frisch. The series has concluded.
- Barry, Can You Hear Me?: Op-ed column by comedian/radio host Sara Benincasa.
- Cartoon Violence: Weekly or bi-weekly study of a few poor-quality political cartoons. The cartoons often share a theme. Written by Josh Fruhlinger, who is also the author of The Comics Curmudgeon.
- Rumors On the Internets: Daily collection of often ridiculous political opinions from the blogs; named for George W. Bush's 2004 debate performance mention of "rumors on the Internets".
- Washington Blingees: Political figures depicted as MySpace-style animated gifs, created using the website Blingee, filled with hip-hop and "tween" imagery.
- It's Morning In America: Daily news briefing that mocks the style of Beltway news roundups that aim to shape news and opinion. This feature was replaced by the Gifzette Daily Briefing by Matt Langer.
- Fridays With Peggy: Deconstructions of Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal column, often recasting her writing as either the work of a Tory from the 17th century or that of a depraved Gonzo-style character suffering constant hallucinations in her Upper East Side apartment.
- Win of the Afternoon: Snarky reader comments.
- Wonkette World o' Books: Reviews of political books, mostly those written by Republican political or media celebrities, edited by book reviewer Greer Mansfield.
The Bloggies at SXSW selected Wonkette as Best Political Blog in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Wonkette was chosen as a top political blog by Vanity Fair and Real Simple in 2008. Wonkette won the Best Liberal Blog category in the 2008 Weblog Awards and is nominated in the humor, politics and group-blog categories in the 2009 and 2010 Bloggies. Items are frequently picked up by national broadcasts including Colbert Report, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me and CNN.[citation needed]
Alex Nichols, writing in The Outline in 2017, described Wonkette, saying, "This is why I love Wonkette, the gossip blog that refuses to die. Wonkette is Bush-era liberalism frozen in amber, motionless and immortal, forced to passively observe a changing world until the end of time. Why does it still exist? Hard to say. But as long as it is here, we must celebrate its inanity." He wrote, "The site isn't an indictment of centrists, the Democratic Party, or neoliberalism. It doesn't prove a point about anything, and it isn't an example of any trend or political tendency, which makes it all the more baffling ... Wonkette simply exists, and it might outlast us all."[20]
- ^ "Wonkette.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
- ^ Layne, Ken. "Your Wonkette Has a New Wonkette Publisher/Editor, For Freedom!".
- ^ Bosman, Julie (April 18, 2004). "First With the Scoop, if Not the Truth". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
- ^ Rosen, Jeffrey (December 19, 2004). "Your Blog or Mine?". New York Times. New York Times Company. Retrieved July 29, 2008.
- ^ "Big Journalism Articles - Breitbart".
- ^ Sadowski, Jathan (April 20, 2011). "Boycotting Wonkette [UPDATE: Probation]". Slate.com. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^ Dickson, Caitlin. "Derek Hunter Attempts to Defund Wonkette by Boycott". NationalJournal.com. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^ Hagey, Keach (April 21, 2011). "Advertisers boycott Wonkette over Trig Palin post - On Media". Politico.Com. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^ Safire, William (July 26, 1992). "ON LANGUAGE; The 'Bizarre' Bazaar" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Ken Layne (April 14, 2008). "Yes We Can: Wonkette Goes Solo". Wonkette.com. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^ "Introducing Wonkabout"
- ^ Fleisher, Arielle. "Tattooed Pig Urges Wonkabout To Leave DC (Goodbye Forever!)".
- ^ Rebecca Schoenkopf (February 9, 2017). "Wonkette To Ad Networks: Fuck Off And Die". Wonkette.com. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ Weiner, Juli. "Politico's SCOOP Reveals Journalists Talk To Each Other, With Covert Digital Marxist iGroupthink Thing".
- ^ Newell, Jim. "CNN's Ed Henry Writes Worst Article In American History".
- ^ Sara K. Smith, "Daily Briefing: Birthers Demand Evidence That Obama's Baseball Pitch Was Valid And Official" July 15, 2009 Wonkette.com
- ^ "sarah palin - Search Results - Wonkette".
- ^ Jim Newell, "Peggy Noonan Discovereth Thine Twitter Machine" Wonkette.com July 22, 2009.
- ^ "Andrew Breitbart Longing To Shoot The Next Person Who Insults Him" Wonkette.com September 19, 2011.
- ^ Nichols, Alex (November 10, 2017). "The Blog Nobody Needs". The Outline. Retrieved November 16, 2017.


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Today I attended the funeral of the lovely lady that I went out to visit on my bike. She had a good send off conducted by the Rev.
She was well known in the community for her warm smile,and the ability to talk. She always welcoming and had a positive outlook on things and a sense of humour.
This was a good thing as she may have smiled at the goings on in the back pew.
Last night we had a pot luck supper at The Manse. Despite not having a lot of food to prepare, I had attended two services, cleaned the house after lunch and put out cutlery, plates etc and cleared up after all our guests had departed. By the time we got to bed we were knackered.
So when I woke up this morning and remembered that there was no school and therefore no children to lever out of bed, I thought that I would stay in the warm until it got light and the hens wanted "out". Anyway Monday is our day off. Something in the back of my mind connected warmth with heating. "Funeral!", I yelled at the slumbering Rev. "We haven't put the heating on!" As with most ancient buildings, the old stone Church takes a bit of heating up. The Rev. shot out of bed as if I'd pinched him, startling the dog and began stumbling about looking for clothes.
I drifted off listening to the "Today" programme, and realised it was late and pulled on a jumper and my coat to let the hens out. After breakfast I made the mistake of taking my coffee to my desk to check my e.mails. I had a chat with my daughter on Facebook, read my friends exciting blog paulbennison.com, well worth a look! Then I realised it was 10am and the coffin had arrived next door, and I was still in my PJ's.
The Rev. had robed up and was shouting "Don't be late!". I rushed into the shower, threw some clothes about, thinking I should have decided what to wear last night. My new black jeans didn't fit due to being a size too small. I am sure they must have been on the wrong hanger, or I was feeling optimistic at the time that I bought them.
I rushed about sponging last nights supper off the ones I wore to Church and threw on a coat to cover all. It was hardly going to be warm in the building anyway. I joined the mourners and walked along slowly as if I meant to get there at that time.
The church was packed to the gunnels, most of the folk I had never met before. As I was desperately scanning for a seat, the Rev. appeared and asked me to join the chaps in the back row. Old Hamish was trying to look inconspicuous against the far wall, he seldom sits with anyone when he attends services ,so I often join him. The only problem is, that he has an Argyll accent as thick as a kilt and mine is pure Sussex. So communication can be a bit of a problem.
There was a large gap between H and my dear old friend of 92 years, N. He is blind and very deaf and has Scoliosis badly which makes standing difficult. Next to him on the end was "The Dutchman" his nickname, as he originally hails from Holland . Now he has a Dutch accent mixed with Argyll, making him almost unintelligible, especially on the phone, to a sassanach like me.
Talking was not my immediate problem, I had to get to the gap between N and H. N could not move out of the pew being so bent. So I considered walking along the pew but thought this might be a bit disrespectful, especially as H takes these solemn occasions very seriously, and tradition matters here! So, our man from the Netherlands and I stood N. as upright as possible and I put both arms around him and tried the front approach, with as much dignity as possible. I tried to squeeze past by putting one knee between his and the other in the gap and my bum on the hymn book shelf, sending books scudding along the polished surface. I got in but realised that I was facing the wrong way. The leg room is about a one leg width, so with some wriggling I got the right way round!
By this time old H. is glaring and The D. and I were in hysterics. N liked the cuddle and decided to sit nearer me to get warm. On Sundays he usually offers me a mint if I sit next to him, today I declined as he had some with difficult wrappers which he was sucking to remove the paper, putting the soggy bits in his pocket. The Dutchman and I found it terribly difficult to stay serious.
Sorry K., about our behaviour but I am sure that you are" throwing your crown in the air" and rejoicing at being Home, I think that you would have laughed at us and I know that your great faith has you on the "Bright side of life."


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Texas Health Resources and Aetna have joined forces to form an accountable care organization. The ACO will serve Aetna members in Dallas, Collin, Denton, Ellis, Grayson, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, and Tarrant counties.
Two weeks ago, THR formed an ACO partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The health system said the two deals are the first of many similar ACO agreements with major payers to come in the next few months.
Aetna, too, has more local ACO partnerships in the works.
ACOs are designed to deliver high-quality patient care at reduced costs. This means keeping people healthy and out of the hospital, said Doug Hawthorne, CEO of Texas Health Resource.
"We are creating a physician-directed care-team approach that we believe will foster more accountability across the continuum of care, from the individual patient to the physician to every other provider on the team," he said in a statement. "Our ultimate goal is to help physicians manage the health of their patient populations and improve their health and well-being."
The agreement with THR will use a payment model that rewards physicians for:
- The percentage of Aetna members who get recommended preventive care and screenings;
- Better management of patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes;
- Reductions in avoidable hospital readmissions; and
- Reductions in Emergency Room visits by improving primary care access hours.
Dr. Michael Stoltz, president of Texas Health Physicians Group, said one of the goals is to provide physicians with better predictors of health risk earlier in a patient's life.
"By implementing behavior interventions early, we can improve health and outcomes in the long term," he said. "We will also provide tools to help physicians better manage patients with multiple chronic conditions who need immediate interventions. Such resources and tools can help physicians more efficiently manage a growing patient population, keep the healthy patient well and focus on patients needing their guidance most."
Wendell Watson, THR director of public relations, said the Aetna agreement is basically the same as the one it struck with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX). He characterized the BCBSTX agreement as a letter of intent, with specifics to be worked out in the coming months. The deal with Aetna is "effective immediately," he said.
Watson said the Aetna ACO would have 21,000 members initially, with the potential to grow to almost double that amount.
"This is another step forward from fee-for-service to a value-based model that includes patient outcomes and overall coordination of care," he said.
Like healthcare systems, insurers are entering accountable care agreements with providers nationwide, said Aetna spokesperson Anjie Coplin. Aetna struck a deal in November with Baylor Health Care System to have its Medicare Advantage patients receive in-network care at Baylor facilities, Baylor Quality Alliance physicians and HealthTexas Provider Network physicians. The insurer also announced Monday it was forming an ACO with Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston.
Coplin said Aetna expects to create similar agreements with other DFW providers in the near future.
THR owns 25 acute care hospitals including Texas Health Presbyterian, Texas Health Arlington Memorial, Texas Health Harris Methodist hospitals, Huguley Memorial Medical Center, and Texas Health Physicians Group.
Aetna is a benefits company that serves roughly 3.5 million people.


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INFORMED: Information Exchange and Data Transformation
Launched in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship and Action (IDEA) Lab, Information Exchange and Data Transformation (INFORMED) is an incubator for collaborative regulatory science research focused on supporting innovations that enhance FDA's mission of promotion and protection of public health. Drawing from the expertise of a diverse group of physicians, data scientists, statisticians, and entrepreneurs-in-residence, INFORMED is expanding organizational and technical infrastructure for big data analytics and examining modern approaches in evidence generation to support regulatory decisions. Special emphasis is placed on systems thinking in regulatory science research to facilitate the development and adoption of new solutions for improving efficiency, reliability, and productivity in a broad range of workflows related to drug development and regulatory decision making.
The research portfolio of INFORMED includes investigations into the use of real world data for clinical evidence generation and prospective pragmatic clinical trials, testing the utility of biosensors and the internet of things to quantify intrinsic and extrinsic (e.g., environmental) factors influencing the patient's experience, identifying opportunities for machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve existing practices, and exploring the utility of open-access platforms and emerging technologies such as blockchain to enable secure exchange of health data at scale. In addition, INFORMED is actively pursuing the development of programs to support creation of a knowledgeable, sustainable, and agile data science workforce capable of addressing the needs of cancer patients in today's technology-driven and connected world.
Additional information:
- From big data to smart data: FDA's INFORMED initiative
- HHS Idea Lab
- INFORMED: an incubator at the US FDA for driving innovations in data science and agile technology


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Anarkali Frocks with churidar is the most popular women dress in India and Pakistan. Angrakha frock with churi pajama designs 2015 launched by designers. Many girls likes umbrella frock for wedding, party and events. Anarkali frock cutting is the tough job.
Many young girls teaching from internet that how to cut Angrakha frock at home but if you need a beautiful fancy Anarrkali frock with churidar then you should buy it from a famous boutique. Stylish anarkali angrakha frock designs catalogue by famous designers has been recently launched in market.
Anarkali Frocks with Churidar
Frocks are highly popular among ladies and girls for party wear because there are different types of frocks with respect to length and border area. Each design is unique in its worth and look. Pishwas is the long frock with choori pajama and long doppatta having embroidery on sleeves, border and choli.
Embroidery include hammer work, dabka, gotta, thread work etc. Umbrella frock and Anarkali frocks carry almost same look and are not much different. They are shorter in length than pishwas. Now designers have introduced the a line frocks with or without belt at back.
The latest fashion of Anarkali frock is with full sleeves, tight waist fitting and attractive color combination at the border of frock, waistline belt and neckline. These styles differ from one category to another category like Angrakha is slightly different due to its neckline style. In Angrakha we use V shape neckline around the neck and goes toward waist line. Usually we decorate this line with stylish laces patches and stones.
Some designers made stylish but short wasket on this frock. Now Anarkali frocks with churidar pajama are used in wedding, evening parties and also for bridal dress.
Following is the stylish embroidery frock design 2015 2016 by Indian designer presented by Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu. You can see beautiful embroidery work on neckline and sleeves.
This is the another Bollywood designer Angrakha Anarkali Frock style with embroidery work. This is the contrast Anarkali frock with chudidar pajama.
My favorite two color contrast angrakha style anarkali long rock with beautiful embroidery work. This is the most beautiful frock. You can wear this at party, function, wedding etc.
Let us know in the comment box if you like this post. Thanks for reading. Keep visiting FashionNama.com for latest fashion news and releases.


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The London mayoral election is in full swing and it seems that a huge number of my neighbours in and around the capital are happy enough to have Boris Johnson as mayor of one of the world's biggest cities.
The attitude I've come across time and again is that he's "harmless and amusing, so why not re-elect him?"
It's worrying that a man who basically does nothing at all, and so does nothing negative, can still be so highly thought of as a politician. I think it says far more about our citizens' general malaise about politics than it does about the individual candidate.
Funny and amusing is for stand-up comics. Thoughtful and decisive is for leaders. Don't be fooled.
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Big Issue Invest funded social enterprise, Hey Girls has launched their Social Impact Report 2018, revealing that they have donated in excess of 2.3 million pads and tampons to people across the UK in under a year.
The report was launched as Celia Hodson, Founder of Hey Girls, gathered partners, supporters, investors, government and customers together to offer a collective 'Thank You' for their support in Edinburgh.
Firstport was proud to be in attendance and to have provided with support and funding through Firstport's Start It and Build It Awards last year, to help get Hey Girls up and running and has since, grown into a sustainable scalable social enterprise.
Hey Girls was launched in January 2018, selling menstrual products online using a Buy One Give One model – meaning that for every box purchased, a box is given away to a girl or woman in need in the UK. In 12 months, the organisation was recognised as one of Scotland's start-up innovators and social enterprise game-changer.
Since then, they have supported over 200 donation partners in communities across the UK and provided education resources to over 3,000 school kids.
Hey Girls has also supplied menstrual products to over 1,400 schools in 12 Local Authorities across Scotland and supplied menstrual products to nine universities and colleges across the UK.
At the event, where the report was launched, more than 50 people gathered at Brodies in Edinburgh to highlight how they had each contributed to Hey Girls.
In August 2018, Hey Girls launched their products in 228 ASDA and 80 Waitrose stores across the UK, following a £100,000 investment from Big Issue Invest's Power Up programme enabling the social enterprise to upscale. The company is also a major provider in the Scottish Government's initiative to provide free sanitary products all pupils and students nationwide.
Celia Hodson, who set Hey Girls up with her two daughters said:
I am so very proud to be here today, to launch our first Social Impact Report and celebrate with our loyal supporters who have backed us all the way. What a massive first 12 months! I guess everyone has heard the saying that it takes a village to raise a child, well this gathering highlights that it take a huge number of willing people and their gifted expertise to launch and grow a social enterprise.
Thanks go to our customers, without their sales and their support, we wouldn't be able to donate products to women and girls in need - and this is really what we are all about.
I'd also like to thank the team and everyone who has been part of the Hey Girls story for getting us this far, with very special thanks to Big Issue Invest in particular for their ongoing support – we wouldn't have been able to upscale to meet demand without their backing.
To read the full report click here.
For more information about Hey Girls, to buy their products or to get in touch visit their website.


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By Roberto Alborghetti – Mitrani Yarden
HOPES was born in a rainy night, in Florence, during a long talk…
We were both thinking about life, world, art, fashion, design…
We asked ouselves about a possible way to say, to communicate, to do, to express and to make something new… for us, for the others, for the people. For the world.
So we dreamed…
HOPES is a first answer to our dreams.
HOPES is an open space for freedom.
HOPES is the place where we want to build our opportunities.
HOPES is the name of a new collection.
HOPES is visual art.
HEPES is music.
HOPES is where we'll tell our creativity.
HOPES is the garden where we'll see growing up our projects.
HOPES is the story of our goals, events and meetings.
HOPES is a point of views and visions.
HOPES is a trip throughout the different languages of art expression.
HOPES is on open space: join us and share your art, your creativity and your dreams…


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It is a late evening, you just got back home, boiled water, prepared a cup of tea and turned your PC on. Do you know where your purse is? If you are part of a great majority, having the same purchasing behaviour when it is a late evening of a tiring day, you will probably find it lying right next to you, waiting to be open and used.
We all have read about magical Wednesdays and Sundays, two days of the week when people become a little more relaxed about their purchases and focus their attention on something they should not. According to numerous research done in US, people tend to spend over 20% more during Wednesdays and Sundays. The situation gets even worse if it's an evening after a tiring day, i.e. university or/and a job.
A simple way to check your psychological state towards purchases would be going out to a supermarket after you had a tiring day. You need to buy a loaf of bread, milk, eggs and a piece of ham, but you end up buying all this plus triple chocolate muffin box, white chocolate, cookies and 2 liters of ice-cream. The psychology behind such situation is easy to understand: we all want to reward ourselves and we are looking for the treat since we think we deserve it. Psychologists call this as "ego depletion": an attitudinal behaviour when we become a little careless about our purchases when tired.
Having a tiring day (both physically and mentally) can affect your purchasing behaviour, which turns out to be "less beneficial" (both from a material perspective and a financial perspective) than some other time. The "after-job" time, when you are willing to spend more is sometimes also called a "happy hour" – the time when you want to rewards yourself with something you deserve, either by foods or by goods. You get home, get into your own space, get relaxed and are more willing to write down your Visa numbers while purchasing a new pair of facial cream or a scarf. Such emotional state that makes us more vulnerable in regards to our purchases in economics is called "spending trigger". The bad news is, that we all from time to time have "spending triggers", but the good news is, that knowing what the "traps" of such behaviour are, you can find ways to avoid bad purchases and financial regrets.
If You Are Overworked
You like your job. Actually, no, you love your job. But the love is so frustrating, that it takes much more than 37 hours/week of your full attention and the only thing that you are craving for, is rest. You might be thinking that you deserve something more than 40 or 60 hour job and that is why online shopping might seem an appropriate way to end your tiring working day regardless of your purchases. Sure, you might be thinking that you can compensate a lack of free time with something you might be wanting (a new computer or a large flat-screen TV), however, such new purchases will make you happy only for a while. Our needs and wants certainly differ, one could be happy with a new pair of shoes whereas the other would consider purchasing the newest Macbook Pro, but the result still tends to be the same: an (un)wanted and (un)predicted purchase with the (un)wanted and (un)predicted expenditure. Something that you could live without. Something you are not fully sure whether you need or want. Something you are undecided about.
In order to avoid high expenditures and unwanted goods, try to set a barrier which you cannot exceed. Think of something feasible: if you think 200 kr/month is a good amount of "unpredicted expenditures", try to keep purchases within the decided amount. After all, when you have worked for too long, try weighting an opportunity cost: wouldn't it be better to get an extra hour of sleep rather than purchasing new set eye shadows which you might not even need?
You Are In Need Of Something
You are 100% you need a special product you have been dreaming about for a long time and you simply decide to check the prices as you get back home tired. Knowing that our self-control highly depend on our levels of tiredness, you might want to postpone your purchases, even though you might be thinking that you want it right here and right now.
In order to help maintain control over your purchases, it may pay to avoid making important financial decisions if you feel tired. For less important decisions (such as small purchases) it could also pay off to wait until the next day. And in order to avoid such unpredictable purchases as chocolate muffins or ice-cream, try making a "needs" and "wishlist" for groceries. Saving 20 kr. each week could add a bit of savings into your "leisure" account and if you do so, you might end up having a pleasant amount of savings by saving just a little each time (read an article "Save money like Chinese do").
After all, it is said that money can buy you happiness, only if you spend them right.


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Meetings Africa 2019 will take place in Johannesburg, from February 25 to 27, at the Sandton Convention Centre.
SA Tourism's Chief Conventions Bureau Officer, Amanda Kotze-Nhlapo, joined Tourism Update in a live-streamed webinar to discuss the exhibition: which exhibitors and buyers will be attending; the valuable networking sessions that allow exhibitors and buyers to connect one-on-one; advice on setting up a good exhibition stand, as well as the Green Stand Awards; and success stories around Meetings Africa.
Kotze-Nhlapo also touched on the exciting National Convention Bureau campaign and what it aims to do for the meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) industry. The itinerary for the three-day event was also shared in the interview.
Listen to the full podcast below.
For more information on Meetings Africa, visit the website here.


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World Prematurity Day - A Story from the Heartby admin
Seven years ago a news radio show host moved to Tulsa with his wife on the day they discovered she was pregnant with twins. Joe Kelley, the host of News Talk 740 KRMG didn't know then what kind of a connection he would have with Hillcrest, but that is where the story begins.
Settling into a new job, new town, new house and new school for their daughter, the Kelley's began to focus on researching local hospitals and doctors, preparing for the birth of their twins. They chose the Peggy V. Helmerich Women's Health Center at Hillcrest Medical Center.
Joe's wife, Nicole, didn't know at that time how soon she would rely on this decision. A month and a half before her due date, she went into labor. Spending 17 days in the hospital, twin boys, Brooks and Hudson were born four weeks early.
The boys' early delivery required a stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Peggy V. Helmerich Women's Health Center, providing the technology, expertise and environment necessary to help Brooks and Hudson grow and thrive. In 2006, Joe and Nicole shared their story with us and appreciation for their experience at Hillcrest. "The level of care we received at Hillcrest was second to none," says Nicole.
From the moment Joe and Nicole decided to choose Hillcrest, we have had a special connection with their family. Like many of Joe's listeners and fans, we have seen their family grow over the last six years and have enjoyed being a part of their lives, as well. Milestones like the boys' sixth birthday earlier this year remind us how important these connections are. The proud father tweeted this picture.
We, like many Tulsans, were sad to hear the news the Kelley's would be leaving Tulsa, but happy for their bright, happy and healthy future. "In many respects, we feel like we are losing a family member," says Tyra Palmer, Vice President of Communications at Hillcrest HealthCare System. "Joe and Nicole graciously bestowed upon Hillcrest the honor of caring for their family, and in turn, the experiences Joe so willingly shared have helped many others. Joe became a trusted voice of Tulsa and he has left an enduring mark upon our community and for that we will always be grateful."
Thank you, Joe and Nicole for allowing us to be a part of your lives here in Tulsa. We wish you and your family the best!


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Shellie Rushing Tomlinson is the author of the award-winning nonfiction humor titles Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On and Sue Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy! She is a popular blogger and speaker, and the host of the radio program All Things Southern LIVE. Tomlinson loves sharing humor and hope with audiences across the country. She and her husband have two grown children. They live and farm in Louisiana.


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Chad Makihele: Bass guitar, Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric) | John Naki: Drums | John Malimali: Percussion | Lieni Makihele: Vocals | Jelani Jones: Keyboards | Marcus Damien: Guitar (electric) | Jai Vatuk: Guitar (acoustic), Guitar (electric), Keyboards | Mike Mays: Saxophone | Steve White: Trumpet
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Guitarist/bassist Chad Makihele writes most of the lyrics and arranges the records tracks. Lieni Makihele arranges vocals, while John Naki plays the drums and also arranges songs. John Malimali is on percussion, having played in the '90s reggae group Mission Irie, where he was known as Baby Rasta. Lead guitarist Marcus Damien Snapp has played with Slap Back and Boo Ya Tribe. Keyboardist Jelani Jones has toured with the world with the Bonedaddys, and guitarist/keyboardist Jai Vatuk has toured with the English Band. Mike Mays plays saxophone and Steve White plays trumpet.


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Since our last article on Eiko Ojala (previously) the Estonian graphic designer and illustrator has continued his fantastic three dimensional drawings for leading publications around the world. His process involves a mix of digital illustration, paper textures, and a mix of both real and artificial shadows. Eiko won a 2013 Young Illustrators award and an ADC Young Gun award, and his work has appeared in Wired, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Dwell Magazine and elsewhere. You can see more over on Behance.


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Current UnitStudents are learning how to read traditional notation for and play B, C and D on the second string. They are also reviewing how to read and play E, F and G on the first string.
This is a course for beginners or for students who have studied previously and wish to continue their study of guitar. You will learn simple folk-song type material using varied melodic style as well as modern chording styles. Activities are geared to learning staff notation, chord patterns, and rhythm. Practicing is done during class sessions on instruments provided by the school. You can expect to become a moderately good player.
You will learn open chords, movable chords, accompaniment techniques, and a variety of playing techniques and styles including both the pick-style and finger-style approaches to the guitar. Music fundamentals, theory, songs, performances, listening, composing, improvising, analyzing, and reading standard notation and tablature will be included in this course.
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Part 1: Chapters 1-2
• In Chapter 1, Frederiek, or Frikkie, arrives at his uncle's farm during his school break and goes in search of Tengo, the son of his uncle's boss-boy and the household cook.
• Frikkie is treated with a great deal of respect by all who meet him because it is well known that he will one day inherit the farm from his childless uncle.
• In Chapter 2, Tengo is outside his family's small hut, working with a hunk of clay, when Frikkie finds him.
• Tengo and Frikkie go swimming in the small river where Frikkie taught Tengo to swim a few summers ago.
• Frikkie tells Tengo that he does not plan to do much travel when he is older.
• Frikkie simply wants to get through his matriculation exam so that he can come to live on the farm permanently.
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Nye Bevan Commons 3
3. The valley of glass
To help re-image the sustainable city within the bricks and mortar of a modern housing estate we can go back in time. The map of Clapton 1800 where Nye Bevan stands in Millfields by the river Lea shows nothing but fields. By 1830, it was full of Victorian terraces. And glasshouses, growing vegetables for the city. The lower Lea valley was known as the bread basket of London, as much for its fields as the 'valley of glass'. The open marshes were for most part commons land or lammas land which were open to commoners during the winter months. At the time, city and country had in place systems of reciprocal exchange. A million tons of horse manure and other organic waste went with the barges up the Lea back to the countryside.
With the industrial revolution such systems became redundant diminishing the role of the waterways as a conduit between the city and countryside.
The railways, the modern sewers along with the introduction of fossil fuels in agriculture brought about what Marx called the 'ecological rift'. A rift emerged between city and countryside, between humans and nature. The countryside and much of the commons were enclosed with unprecedented urban growth and long distance trade: the hallmarks of industrial capitalism.
The challenge of contemporary mass housing is how it relates to the ecological rift through the idea of a sustainable city.
Within modernity, the 'sustainable city' as an idea is not new; it was there at the start of the 20th century. Paul Geddoes in 1915 wrote about possibility of the 'garden city' being everywhere; replacing the slums with an agri-industrial environment that combined factory work with mass housing and agriculture. But neither technology, nor capitalism nor society evolved in that direction given the scale at which these things were transformed along with the very idea of 'who we are' as modern subjects.


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Deploys are in Toyworld in the ACT too, but have only just made it in the past few weeks. I just find it interesting how the Deploy just never seems to get much presence in Australia:)ReplyDelete
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Quote of the Day - The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
Coast to Coast Internet Radio Dives Into The $150,000 First-year Associate Salary
After a few stagnant years, salaries for first-year associates in big law firms are exploding. Starting pay just went up to an incredible $150,000 at some large firms. What is causing this first year salary boom? What do graduating law school students think about this? Who is going to pay for it?
My fellow Coast to Coast co-host and Law.com blogger Bob Amgrogi and I examine the reasons for these new salary heights with expert insight from Melissa Lennon of the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. Melissa is the Senior Director of the Temple Law (Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law) School Office of Career Planning . Melissa is also a former practicing Attorney at a fairly large firm.
Our show also features Carey Bertolet, who as former commercial litigator, is now the Managing Director of BCG Attorney Search in the New York office, which recruits and advises many large firms on salaries and other issues. She has been recognized as an authority and is frequently contacted to comment on the trends in the legal hiring market.
Our final guest is my son, Michel Ayer, a student at the University of Iowa College of Law, who plans to graduate and start looking for a job next year. He is also a contributing writer for May It Please the Court. Michel won Best Advocate and Best Brief in the Jessup International Moot Court team and is consequently the Captain of Iowa's International Moot Court team. He is also written a Note for the Journal of Corporation Law and is pursuing a Master's degree in Urban & Regional Planning. This show gives an invaluable discussion for all firms looking for new talent and law students looking for jobs.


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Awkward, right? Anti-gay congressman Ralph Hall accidentally attended an LGBT event last week when he simply walked through the wrong door.
The Texas rep. slipped in to an LGBT event for the Victory Fund last week, and even enjoyed a bit of hospitality (and a drink) before he realized he was in the wrong place.
Hall and his staffers thought that they were at an event for a fellow congressman, which was scheduled for the same day. They were welcomed warmly to the event and offered refreshments.
After making polite conversation, Hall asked about the congressman he was there to support. He was told that he was definitely in the wrong place, prompting him to quickly leave the premises.
"At that moment I realized that this was not the reception I intended to attend, and I put down my glass, thanked the sponsor, and told him we would be leaving," Hall said.
But his presence was noted by the LGBT attendees.
"Many of those in attendance probably were surprised to see me walk in, but were not surprised to see me leave quickly," Hall said.
On Twitter, observers wondered whether Hall was there on purpose or whether he was lost.
GOP Rep. Ralph Hall, a DOMA supporter, wandered into Victory Fund Pride reception. He seems to be lost. pic.twitter.com/N2fgx3Sb5f
— Justin Snow (@JustinCSnow) June 5, 2013
An article on The Hill reported on the mix-up with a story titled: "Ralph Hall Lets His Hair Down."
To that article, Hall replied: "I would just say that while I do have a good head of hair for a 90-year-old, I do not have the quantity of hair, nor the inclination, to let it down."
What do you think of Ralph Hall's LGBT mix-up? Sound off!
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Biscayne Boulevard has its share of great restaurants, many are open only for dinner, like Michy's, and some just for afternoon eating, like The Daily.
Luckily, Canela Cafe offers a taste of tapas right on 51st Street, between downtown and the Upper East Side, and serves three delicious menus daily.
Perhaps the most delightful perk of Canela, for the internet obsessed, is the free wi-fi in a neighborhood not well-populated with hotspots. Munching on a wide variety of vegetarian and meaty tapas while scouring the web for new shoes is sort of unbeatable.
The spinach and cheese empanadas pleasantly surprise; they're not only tremendously tasty, but they're made with a buttery, flaky pastry crust. Canela is perfect for dessert or as a "sweet side" -- a cappuccino with dulce de leche, peraline and canela cinnamon, for which the restaurant is named.
Definitely try the gambas aljilo. These shrimp are sauteed in white wine, lemon juice, olive oil and garlic. Not to be eaten on a date, but just so taste bud-friendly that it's worth bringing along some mints and enjoying the savory shellfish without worrying about the consequences.
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November 10, 2019
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Playstation Plus free games of July
Starting July 3rd if you are a PlayStation Plus member you can add three new games to your collection. The games that are being added are Gotham City Impostors, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, and Renegade Ops. Previously free titles Virtua Fighter 5, Hard Corp: Uprising, and Zombie Apocalypse are being removed from the free offerings to make way for the new titles.
Sony also announced that some titles like Crysis and Killzone 3 Multiplayer will be part of a 50% off summer sale.


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Horror comedy is a tough genre of movie to pull off correctly. You can't sway two heavily to either horror or comedy sides, and you need to make sure that whatever horror tropes you're lampooning doesn't come across as patronizing to horror fans. You also need to make sure that you aren't spoofing the subject-du-jour, and if you are, make sure you do it well lest you get your movie lumped in with money grubbing satirists or become a parody of yourself. Most meta-slasher or slasher parody films nowadays are just rehashes of Wes Craven's 1996 masterpiece, Scream. A couple movies put fun little spins on the formula, but for the most part, they're becoming as repetitive as slasher flicks did back in the '80s and '90s.
Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi or, it's catchier English title, Witching & Bitching, is a comedy(?) horror(?) action adventure film from Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia. This movie seems to spoof old occult and witch movies from the '70s, but it definitely takes some pages from Robert Rodriguez and Sam Raimi's books as well. The movie is about a couple of guys, José (Hugo Silva) and Tony (Mario Casas) who stick up a gold buying store with José's elementary school aged kid, Sergio (Gabriel Delgado). In their getaway they team up with Manuel, a down on his luck taxi driver who decides he'd much prefer to be a gold thief than a cabbie. Police and José's wife are in pursuit, but before they can catch them, José and his crew run into a coven of witches. Things get out of hand incredibly quickly, and hilarity(?) ensues. (more…)


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Meet Mary Caitrin Mahoney
A commenter on Facebook, upon reading my previous post wrote:
Yes, the bodies do pile up on the Clinton Highway, don't they?
In fact, WND was kind enough to provide us with a little refresher on what they call the "Clinton Death List": 33 Spine-Tingling Cases.
Just to put Seth Rich's suspicious murder into perspective, I decided to peruse this list of deaths. And I stumbled across one that sounds oddly familiar.
The death of Mary Caitrin Mahoney.
Mahoney was a former Clinton White House staffer until 1995 who became friends with a young intern by the name of Monica Lewinsky.
After her time in the White House, Mahoney took a job as the night manager of a Georgetown-area Starbucks. And in 1997, she was murdered in an apparent "robbery."
Take a look at the description of her murder:
Mahoney she was killed at the coffee store during a shooting that was described as a robbery, though nothing was taken.
A man named Carl Derek Havord Cooper was arrested and charged with their murders in March 1999. Cooper pleaded guilty and said he went to Starbucks to rob the store after it had closed. He said he ordered Mahoney, Evans and Goodrich to the back of the store, but he claimed Mahoney attempted to grab his gun. Cooper said that's when he shot her and the other two employees and then made his escape, fearing the gunfire would alert authorities. Goodrich made the confession after a 54-hour interrogation. He later recanted, but was found guilty [Emphasis mine].
A robbery where nothing was taken?
Interesting. Sounds familiar no?
But this is the kicker:
Mahoney was shot five times, once in the back of the head, with the key to the safe in her hand. The safe, which held $10,000, wasn't touched. Despite the Starbucks' location in a densely populated neighborhood, no one reported hearing gunfire, sparking speculation that the gunman used a silencer.
So, a safe with ten grand is left untouched – despite the fact that Mahoney had the key in her hand.
Now, for the "interesting timing portion" of the story.
Mary Caitrin Mahoney was murdered during the "pre-trial media coverage" of Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton.
The very lawsuit that uncovered the cigar-fueled sexual romps in the Oval Office between then-President Clinton and Mahoney's friend Monica Lewinsky.
Is there proof that the Clintons had her killed?
No. Of course not.
But isn't it odd how the Clintons are always only one or two degrees away from a murder?
Now, so far, nobody has linked Seth Rich's murder to either the DNC or Hillary Clinton.
But then again, they really aren't investigating it, are they?
Former DC detective Rod Wheeler told Fox5 in DC that the DC police have been given a stand-down order on Rich's murder [see the video at my earlier post HERE].
If this proves to be true, something stinks to high heaven.
Just like Mahoney, Rich was murdered in a "robbery" where nothing was taken.
And just like Mahoney, the timing of Rich's death is highly suspicious.
I'll be honest with you. When it comes to the Clintons, I don't think you can rule out foul play. They really are awful, venal people.
And when you check out WND's list of people connected to them who up and died, it really is hard not to wonder about Seth Rich.
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An evening of acoustic blues
This was Alan's second visit to the Berkoff Performing Arts Centre as he follows his debut in June last year. The artists have received some excellent accolades from the likes of Bob Harris, Maverick Magazine and The Weekender Review.
"How one man can sit on stage with one guitar and create such fantastic live music is astonishing." The Weekender Review.
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