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I am an expert in customer and digital strategy, with a focus on data-driven generation of ideas to innovate and improve services and customer experience.
I help clients improve business performance, drive revenue and reduce operating costs by better meeting the needs of their customers and better engaging with their business ecosystems.
I help clients to embrace digital and both reconfigure and reimagine the customer experience they offer across multiple touch points.
The client is a dog-food local business from Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. They offer pet owners the possibility of feeding their best friends with 100% natural food, with a number of benefits including risk reduction of breed typical diseases and lower health costs in the long run. Their relationship model is mostly face-to-face. They have been struggling to scale the business up.
With a modest digital footprint and a stable portfolio of loyal customers, they seek to build digital credibility, improve customer experience and attract new customers.
I embraced the challenge from strategy to execution with a customer-centric mindset. We've started off by leveling their digital footprint by reviewing key assets, webmaster tools, social platforms and reputation.
The first sprint revisited the digital strategy and adopted social-first, focusing on Facebook and Instagram, and addressed the necessary reconfiguration of the business operating model.
The second sprint will lead the adoption of customer-centricity. Starting with education (Human-Centred Design), followed by the craft of the 'Voice of the Customer' (from CX Research to Data Analytics). The idea is to co-create a full cycle of VoC operation, from research to insights to feeding client-related processes - while informing interactions and social media actions.
The client is a reputable Lutheran Church operating at the heart of London City for people from all walks and especially expatriates. Their digital presence offers a website and mainstream social media, but they are not necessarily coordinated across channels.
Having spent some time without proper digital capacity, they need help to address design for performance (incl. web optimisation, SEO and UX redesign), as well as a step change from a communications perspective (on and off-line).
I embraced the challenge from strategy to execution following a paced collaborative approach, aiming to help the client accelerate the acquisition of the necessary basic digital capabilities.
An agile approach was adopted to speed up the delivery of benefits while bite sizing the sprints according to the available capacity. The redesign for web performance was prioritised - from amending out of date information to setting up webmaster tools and optimising for search engines (SEO). CX/UX redesign and communications review will come next.
Impact of applying web optimisation techniques:
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The company was assessing opportunities for increasing market share of their auto insurance product, particularly among young drivers. They have had few good results in previous initiatives, but were still to find a better approach to engage to this particular audience.
I played a role as Lead Service Designer
The Client specialises in distributing parts for professional home services and operates both in retail (B2C) and with corporate clients (B2B). They were leading a major transformation programme and this engagement should help them channel shift customer contact volumes to drive revenue and improve customer loyalty. I was part of a 6 FTE team.
I joined the team responsible for mapping the current Customer Contact Journey and analysed the Voice of the Customer/Voice of the Employee data to heat map the customer experience and inform the insights.
I also led the thought leadership work stream, researching analyst reports and building specific intelligence to inform the future redesign of the customer journey.
The client is a reputable UK Charity, committed to increase the scale and impact of skills-based volunteering throughout the UK by connecting non-profits with skilled volunteers. Having moved their service operations to the digital environment in 2015, they needed help to set up a proper digital presence, and adapt their service offer and offline activities for a better user experience.
I embraced the challenge from strategy to road mapping the execution, in close collaboration with Reach's team including the Marketing Manager, Digital Manager and CEO. We jointly built/shared knowledge of current business and digital footprint, as well as past UX and customer initiatives.
I held responsibility for mentoring the internal team and accelerating their learning curve around web optimisation, SEO/SEM and special offers for charities (eg. Google Ad Grants).
I also executed a complete assessment of improvement opportunities from a branding perspective and set data analytics for feeding insights and the agenda of future improvements.
Each year, one-third of all food produced for human consumption in the world is either lost or wasted. This wastage is both a missed opportunity to improve global food security and mitigate environmental impacts of food production. So the design challenge proposed by ideo.org and +acumen was: how can we reduce food waste in our communities?
Staffed with diverse participants from 5 countries - Brazil, EUA, Canada, UK and Tunisia - and led by the Experience Designer Sheila Mac, the DesignMakers started exploring facts and figures of food waste. It soon became clear that 'food' was too large of a category to deal with.
The desired solution had to be something appropriate to foster engagement in more than one country though. So, the project statement was eventually rewritten as an outcome of the design research.
We learned a lot from the people we designed for. People are encouraged to eat at least 5 fruits and veggies a day, but they end up making poorly informed shop decisions for several reasons. In special, there was this ambiguity between going for affordable nutritional fresh food and the time pressure of urban contemporary life. If only fruits and veggies could last longer... A new challenge statement then emerged: how might we redesign people's behaviour and attitude towards fresh food?
Seasonal fruits were chosen for a first prototype, as they are juicier, cheaper and last longer - all of them among the key attributes perceived as value by our personas. So, what if people could easily get access to a Produce Calendar when they are shopping for fruits?
Design research was developed in varied fronts and included online resources, interviews with experts and non-experts (stay-at-home mummies, young adults, seniors, chefs and the managing director of a fruit & veg warehouse) and immersion (street market). Also, the water crisis in Brazil was adopted as analogous inspiration. Brainstorm sessions were particularly organised to improve remote visual collaboration.
Storyboards helped to make friends with the best ideas, select a prototype, and the questions we wanted this prototype to help us answer. A total of 3 iterations were executed, and among positive and negative feedbacks, a few surprising findings came up.
The learnings with the prototype helped calibrate the implementation action plan and pitch. An initial service was established and a website was born: fruitsoftheseason.com, designed to help people identify fruits on season in their location and built to load nice and fast on mobile devices. Also, a blog for discussing about food waste was made available at fruitsoftheseason.com/blog, and a Facebook Fan Page to help foster engagement was then set at facebook.com/fruitsoftheseason. How would you like to help us change the world?
Almaviva is an Italian telemarketing company that operates customer services on behalf of their clients. They had just been handed-over a contract for a country-wide client in Brazil with a history of poor customer service. How could they improve customer experience with a service that was systematically failing to meet customer expectations?
As a first response to the situation, the leadership considered ellaborating a large scale transformation programme. My first contribution was convincing the leadership team due to its dynamic nature, focussing on "100 tiny changes" would be far more efficient than investing on large-scale customer projects - that most often than not struggle to get traction in complex environments. This helped create positive response and build confidence sooner.
Journey mapping was then the next natural step and by selectively pulling customer feedback, it was possible to rapidly heat map the steps and spot the key pain points requiring priority attention. I was then able to make a case for mapping the employee experience as well, and by pulling from employee feebacks, draw and share another important perspective to inform the decision on what to prioritise and how to frame the opportunities.
As the team evolved raising the profile of the customer perspective, it became easier to collaborate, jointly visualise issues and come up with creative ideas to solve them. Service design techniques were then pulled to help solve the identified design challenges.
By adopting an agile approach, hypothesis and ideas could be tested within shifts of the contact center operation. Team leads played a role supporting their respective cells, to expedite the learning curve. Improvements and failures were jointly reviewed and focus groups and workshops were executed to help in specific tunings. And eventually, customer experience ratings finally started to improve consistently - and a specific team was assigned responsibility to keep evolving the customer journey approach.
Interaxa is a global integrator of technology solutions for Contact Centers with a solid presence in Brazil, where they have grown quite fast and decided to re-design their internal relationships to improve service delivery.
The project was about learning their current contracts and capabilities, designing the necessary organisation, assets and competences to help Interaxa transform its once not formal processes and centralised governance towards a collaborative high performance service organisation.
By observing teams playing a role in service delivery, it was possible to rapidly build a shared vision of the typical flows. Since teaming up was already a common practice in the organisation for solving daily issues, the workshops were very productive and many good ideas came up.
A new approach for operating governance was jointly created and helped a lot to improve relationships. The project was later extended to other Interaxa operations abroad.
Claro is a company of group TelMex and plays a leading role in Brazil's mobile telecom segment. They were looking for improving customer experience and fostering loyalty in a highly competitive scenario and decided to establish a specific transformation programme for this purpose.
I was responsible for leading 'Claro Experience Transformation', a cross functional programme that redesigned key moments of the customer experience.
The program was designed to help Claro move their thinking beyond customer-centricity towards customer intelligence. It started by reassessing the customer journey and spotting critical moments of truth from the customer perspective - informed by data-analytics from a variety of customer-related sources.
A number of experience inconsistencies were identified, eventually grouped, priositised, approved and actively redesigned in specific work streams, following service design and agile approaches. Cross-functional teams were mobilised and assigned responsibility for the necessary redesign work.
The programme was quite successful in delivering value creation and benefits to the business. An audited 18% cost reduction across the business within its first 12 months was observed and also helped reduce inbound contacts (-6%) and increase NPS (+2 points).
The programme also helped build a better equipped team, appropriate tools, and leaner processes that collectively helped Claro to offer a more consistent and engaging customer experience.


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Well, frankly, I was so engrossed in trying to get a team for the Heritage India Quiz 2006 that I didn't sit down to study for this exam before 9.30 p.m. the day before. On top of it, hadn't really attended the classes for quite a few chapters. I was practically looking at some chapters for the first time that night.
No problem at all though. It was a really easy paper, and not at all lengthy (our teacher kept on, unsuccessfully for me at least, tried to keep scaring us into the fact that it'd be 'very lengthy'). I finished about 45 minutes early, that too napping a bit in between and discussing 'more things' with teachers about the Heri Quiz. Questions were really very simple indeed. And after finishing early, went off to the I-lab for some 'official QC work'.
Oh, and what exactly was I doing about the Heri Quiz? Well, I spent the whole of Wednesday evening calling up members and making lists of those who were interested. Much of Thursday morning went into trying to convince one of new members to come on-board – he didn't. Almost going crazy trying to decide whom to take in, I quickly made an online test and gave the members a diktat to try it. It worked. The test just told me exactly what I wanted and who all were suitable. It's always nice to have tests, and the answers they give really help me determine the psychology of the member.
The final decision was that Yours Truly, and two other brand-new just-took-off-the-packaging-and-playing-with-the-bubble-wrap-right-now members will be coming along. I've got NO IDEA what'll happen. I know that some of my pals from other schools are turning up.
Fingers crossed…
Oh, by the way, I'm not giving the math term exam on Monday, since Heri Quiz is on Sunday. Instead, I'll be giving my math exam on 3rd October. There goes a perfectly nice holiday down the drain studying…but I wanted to postpone 'death' as much as possible.


text: Independent Study is the 2nd book in The Testing trilogy. The plotline is predictable: just more Testing like Catching Fire was just more Hunger Games but in a different arena. It's almost formulaic dystopia: blend Divergent together with Hunger Games and you get The Testing. It features stereotypical main characters: (too) intelligent & perfect female main character who asks all.the.right.questions.all.the.time. There's really nothing original or groundbreaking in this book what.so.ever. But it's also highly entertaining, a fun ride (although lacking somewhat in the action department, which seems to be symptomatic of middle book syndrome) and a sure winner with reluctant readers. So yeah, Charbonneau sucked me in.


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"We have only the best wishes" for the singer, her ex-management company says
Kelly Clarkson has parted ways with her manager, Jeff Kwatinetz of the Los Angeles-based company The Firm, PEOPLE has confirmed.
In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, a spokesperson for The Firm says, "Kelly Clarkson is an enormously talented artist. We are pleased to have served as her managers during her well-deserved rise to stardom and are proud of the role we played in backing her creative choices.
"We believed in Kelly from the day we met her and believe in her now. We have only the best wishes and hopes for her in the future."
Clarkson says in a statement: I am blessed to work with so many talented people. We've accomplished some amazing things together. I wish them all the best.
The news of changes in Clarkson's team comes as she prepares for the June 26 release of her new album, My December – the first album she co-produced and wrote entirely.
Meanwhile, the industry has been buzzing about turmoil between the singer and RCA chief Clive Davis, who reportedly voiced concerns that My December didn't have a guaranteed radio hit.
Kwantinetz recently defended Clarkson, telling Entertainment Weekly: "In a time when record labels are under increased economic pressures, they get nervous when a big-selling artist like Kelly wants to take risks and evolve. The pressure they put on this young woman to compromise herself and do another version of the same record, I've never witnessed in my career."
Even American Idol judge Simon Cowell weighed in, defending Clarkson for her artistic integrity and noting of My December: "It's not as commercial as her last record, but any Kelly Clarkson record at the moment is a pretty good record compared to the competition because she's an incredible artist."
Clarkson's first single from My December, "Never Again," peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard charts, a disappointment after Clarkson's No. 1 smash, 2004's "Since U Been Gone."
Sources at RCA say that, despite reports, the label plans to support Clarkson's album release and nationwide summer tour, which begins July 11. "I'm really proud of this album," Clarkson tells PEOPLE. "My previous albums are great albums. But this one is very intimate."


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Vitamin C and folic acid are necessary for a healthy plant to grow. Most plants are able to produce their own vitamin C, and folic acid can be found in high levels naturally in some plants. Folic acid especially is present in dark green leafy vegetables. However, you can assist a plant that is deficient in any one of these vitamins by giving it a fertilizer that contains these vitamin supplements.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C, also called ascorbic acid, is an antioxidant, which is a substance that prevents damage that can be attributed to oxygen. Plants actually need vitamin C because this vitamin increases their ability to cope with stress associated with ultraviolet radiation and extremely hot and dry conditions. Vitamin C especially is helpful by protecting a plant from the negative consequences of the presence of light during photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process in which a plant converts the sun's energy into sugar it can use for food.
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Protecting a plant from ozone is another way vitamin C helps a plant to grow and thrive. When sunshine, oxygen and pollutants in the air exist together, they produce ozone. Ozone is a substance that penetrates the leaves of plants and breaks down into molecules that will end up injuring the plant if an antioxidant fails to counteract it. This is the reason the antioxidant vitamin C is essential for plant growth. In addition, vitamin C efficiently preserves the number of nitrates present in plant tissues. Plants require nitrates, which are a combination of two important plant nutrients -- nitrogen and oxygen -- to grow well.
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Folic acid, also called vitamin B9, enables plants to regulate their DNA functions. This acid basically helps a plant to produce DNA, which is a nucleic acid that possesses an organism's genetic information. Folic acid additionally enables plants to produce RNA, a nucleic acid that carries information from DNA to plant cell structures known as ribosomes and helps a plant synthesize protein. Plants need protein to build up the structures in their cells.
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Regulating a plant's metabolic functions is another important contribution of folic acid. Folic acid enables plants to metabolize carbohydrates, proteins and lipids -- or fatty substances. Folic acid essentially helps plants to grow more heavily and healthily. Because folic acid exists in plants but decomposes rapidly when exposed to strong light, giving plants additional folic acid during the planting process is recommended.


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We come before the Lord not only for ourselves but for those who are dear to us and for the others who needs to be prayed for. Our fellow Christians need help through our prayers too and we can definitely be of service by addressing their need to the One who can provide for their physical and spiritual necessities.
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In the spirit of community prayer you have heeded God's call for us to be our "brother's keeper." Blessings are sent forth to this person's life through our fervent prayer and offering. It is indeed a wonderful gift for a special family or for special occasions. This offering will also benefit our less fortunate brothers and sisters in the Holy City as they will receive part of the amount that you paid for your candle.


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Working & volunteering for Comic Relief
Comic Relief is a major charity based in the UK which strives to create a just world, free from poverty. We'll do just about anything to see that vision become a reality and our mission is to drive positive change through the power of entertainment.
Since we first set up shop in 1985, we've been doing three main things...
Over the years we've inspired a lot of people who don't normally 'do' charity to, well, do charity. The support we've had from so many friends has always blown us away – and still does today.
So there you go, that's us in a nutshell. But if you'd like to find out even more about what we do and why we do it, take a look at our 'your impact' and 'about Comic Relief' sections.
All the money raised by the public is spent by Comic Relief to help poor and disadvantaged people in the UK and the world's poorest communities.
You can find out about this work in our 'your impact' section.
We'd love for you to get involved, and there are many ways to do so. Firstly, you could fundraise as part of Red Nose Day or Sport Relief. To help your school or group do this, and to help children and young people learn about what they're fundraising for, we'll provide you with lots of tailor-made schools and early years resources.
Comic Relief also works throughout the year to tackle the root causes of injustice and poverty. We can provide you with information and resources to help children and young people learn about important global issues - giving them the opportunity to make a difference and voice their opinions.
We work with a really wide range of organisations – big and small. To see how you might get involved with us, visit our 'partners' section. Or if you're after the personal touch, drop our Corporate Team an email at firstname.lastname@example.com. They'll be happy to discuss potential partnership opportunities with you.
All of our current vacancies are advertised on www.comicrelief.com/careers so keep an eye on this and follow the instructions of how to apply if you're interested in any of the roles.
You can be kept up-to-date on new vacancies by signing up for email job alerts on jobs.comicrelief.com/register.
Call centres are absolutely vital in getting public donations to us. So if your company has a UK-based call centre which your own volunteers can staff and are interested in getting involved please read more here.
There are lots of different ways to make a donation to Comic Relief. Just pick the way that's easiest for you:
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Anyone know of any beach houses that rent out for wedding purposes? We are thinking of getting married on the beach and then just walking over to one or two joining beach houses for our reception? Setting up a tent and renting everything? Also if anyone has experience in this, let me know how hard it is and if it was a good deal less expensive than renting a venue?
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My house has a single pane wood casement window. I would like to install a stained-glass window on the inside ofthis window. The stained glass window is for decoration, but would essentially be functioning as an interior storm window.
Is this a good idea? Can I seal this inside window to the frame with molding/caulking? Will the interior space between the windows get dirty or collect condensation?


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I don't feel like I should start a post about my bland day without first, acknowledging the date. 9/11, 11 years later, and I know many people who are still very much feeling and living the effects of that day…so thank you to all who risked their lives to help out on that day and every day since.
We woke up this morning bright and early despite having a baby-free home and getting little to no sleep last night. Starbucks was in order. John left to go grab our coffee while I feasted away. I am obsessed with this cereal so please, if you have a Target nearby, run out NOW and grab a box….you will not regret it.
I made the hubs some waffles on his return home and hopped in the shower after adding a post to pootimestwo.wordpress.com . We are going to run out to Best Buy and Kroger in a few and then go pick up the monstas. I see a whole lot of cleaning in our future today, but I promise a better update later! See you then.
Whenever I decided I'm going to clean, that annoying childhood joke about the "vindow viper" pops into my head….anyone remember it? no? Great…proof that I really am NOT funny.


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KINGSTON, R.I. – Want to know what kinds of foods prevent disease? Then watch what migratory birds eat during their stopovers on Block Island.
Two University of Rhode Island scientists believe that birds choose certain berries because they offer protection against oxidative stress that occurs during long flights. Oxidative stress can lead to inflammation and a variety of diseases in birds and humans.
The team's preliminary findings show that birds stopping over on Block Island favor the arrow-wood berry, which contains more anti-oxidants and pigments than the 11 other island berries studied by the researchers.
Navindra Seeram, assistant professor of pharmacy and head of the Bioactive Botanical Research Laboratory at URI, and Scott McWilliams, URI professor of wildlife ecology and physiology, have teamed up to research migratory birds' eating habits and how their diets might be used to understand the role of berries rich in anti-oxidants in human health. Research has shown a diet rich in anti-oxidants can help prevent cancer and other serious illnesses.
Seeram reported the findings today at the American Chemical Society's 239th national meeting in San Francisco.
"We're suggesting that birds choose deeply colored berry fruits in part because of their anti-oxidant properties," Seeram said.
About 11 years before Seeram arrived at URI, McWilliams began laying the foundation for the recent study.
"When I started studying birds during their migratory stopover on Block Island, I was impressed that most of the migratory birds ate berry fruits even though they usually eat insects or seeds at other times of the year," said McWilliams, who came to URI in 1999. "I began studying the relationship between the nutritional qualities of fruits and how those nutrients might fuel migration."
When Seeram arrived at URI two years ago, McWilliams saw a University story online that detailed Seeram's research interests.
"I saw the story about Navindra and in it he was talking about oxidative stress and inflammation and the effects berry fruits can have on reducing those impacts on people."
So McWilliams, who does his research and teaches in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, tracked down Seeram, who works in the College of Pharmacy. They developed their mutual research interests into a successful collaboration that included URI graduate student Jessica Bolser and post-doctoral researcher Liya Li, who works in Seeram's lab.
Called the lynchpin between McWilliams and Seeram, Bolser spent months in the field on Block Island observing the birds' nutritional patterns and collecting batches of 12 different kinds of berries for their analysis of anti-oxidant levels.
The research indicates that birds prefer to eat certain fruits that have more antioxidants and key nutrients. In return, the seeds in the berries are dispersed by the birds. "It's the way plants ensure their survival. Birds eat the berries, digest them and defecate the seeds over wide areas," McWilliams said.
"Meanwhile, the birds are attracted to the berries because of their rich color, which we believe is a plant's response to the stress of constant exposure to the sun and other stresses. Berry color could be a plant's way of fighting oxidative stress. It's a partnership that benefits plant and bird."
The Seeram-McWilliams partnership will continue. "We've only measured a few of these anti-oxidants," Seeram said. "Our next step is to determine how birds can detect these compounds."
"Whenever we exercise, we undergo oxidative stress, and the same is true for birds," McWilliams said. "We're flying birds in wind tunnels to produce oxidative stress, and then we are going to see if anti-oxidants found in these berries alleviate that stress," McWilliams said.
The research may benefit human health as well as bird conservation. If further research shows the direct link between bird health and diet, then the findings will play a critical role in habitat protection for migratory birds, McWilliams said.
"That's what is so great about URI," Seeram said. "Because the University is small, without the usual bureaucratic walls, we can create these partnerships. This collaboration between professors in two separate colleges would not have happened so easily in other universities and produced results so quickly."
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Actor and former presidential candidate Fred Thompson is getting his own radio show.
Westwood One said Monday that "The Fred Thompson Show" will debut March 2, replacing "The Radio Factor With Bill O'Reilly," which ends its six-year run February 27. O'Reilly announced his decision to step down from the show this month, saying the workload for his radio and TV duties had become too much.
In his show, Thompson will share his conservative views on politics, topical issues and pop culture stories as well as conduct guest interviews and take listener calls. The two-hour show, broadcast from the Westwood One studios in Washington, will air live from noon-2 p.m. weekdays.
Thompson, also a former U.S. senator, most recently co-starred in NBC's "Law & Order" and HBO's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" before taking time off from acting to seek the Republican nomination for president last year.
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How to Organize Your Content into a Podcast
Learn what you need to conduct an interview, understand the entire interviewing process, find out how to land good guests, and what to do when your interview goes sideways.
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I'm happy to say I'll be presenting 2 writing workshops to middle grade students this Saturday, October 23, 2010!
The Annual District 97 Young Authors Conference is from 9-11:00 at Lincoln School, 1111 S. Grove, in Oak Park.
I'll be talking about my young adult novel, Shattered. I'll also provide a writing prompt and will facilitate a critique group, so that students will get the chance to explore 2 tools writers often use. A free journal will be given to each participant.
A book sale will be held in the gym from 11:00-11:30, with books provided by the Magic Tree Bookstore. All participating authors will be on hand to sign.
This special event is one of the reasons I love living in Oak Park!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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Hi. Thanks for checking out my profile. I'm a published writer, editor, and musician with lots of dynamic experience. I've also taught at a number of universities. A native of Cambridge, MA, I have lived in three countries and am tri-lingual. Currently, I'm poetry editor for Glimpse Journal, released a new CD, and am finishing a PhD in English Literature. I like to keep busy. Always open to new job opportunities, collaboration, and connecting with interesting folks.


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For the third year in a row the City of Dallas and the Trinity River Corridor Project are holding a photo contest for photographers of any age for youth, amateurs and professionals. The subject categories are wildlife, forest/prairie, architecture/structures and the various rivers/ponds along the Dallas Trinity River Corridor Project. The winners of last year's contest showed diversity with coyotes howling on a snow covered riverbank, the flooded Trinity River, buildings reflecting in the water, the hardwoods during a downpour and close-up wildlife photos.
One of the main features in the area is the Trinity River Audubon Center. Sustainable and LEED-certified, the Center is lies on 120 acres in the Great Trinity Forest. The $37 million restoration and capital improvement project is only 8 minutes from Downtown Dallas. It features educational classes, workshops, bird tracking programs, hiking trails and a nature club.
The Great Trinity Forest is 6,000 acres and supports diverse plant and animal species. It is a mixture of aquatic and wetland ecosystems, hardwoods and grasslands. It is common to spot over 50 bird species in a day. Texas is home to 636 out of the 957 bird species in the U.S. This area is a dream for nature lovers and photographers. There are also paddling trails.
Plants and birds on the four mile walking trails
• Lemon beelbalm, Indian Paintbrush and other wildflowers in the restored prairie
• wetland bogs
• Grasshopper Sparrows, Dickcissels, Eastern Meadowlarks, Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, Cooper's Hawks to name a few
Best Views of the Trinity River
• Upper and Lower Chain of Wetlands
• Trinity River Audubon Center
• Trinity Overlook 110 W. Commerce Street (at Beckley)
• Great Trinity Forest
• Margaret Hunt Hill Construction (Beckley at the Continental Ave. Bridge
• Trinity River Trammel Crow Park (3700 Sylvan Avenue)
3rd Annual Trinity River Corridor Project Photo Contest
• The Contest ends on October 15, 2011 at midnight.
• Judging begins shortly thereafter
• There will be a presentation to the winners during a City Council Meeting
• Grand prize winner $500; 1st place winners $125; 2nd places $50; 3rd places $25
Register online here under special events
Trinity River Audubon Center
500 Great Trinity Forest Way*
Dallas, TX 75217
For more information call 214-398-TRAC
*Dallas recently changed the name of the street so if the Great Trinity Forest way does not show up on maps or GPS, please try 6500 Loop 12.


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- 6 Seater - Crew Van
- Heated Front Seats
- 8" Touchscreen Display
- 16" Alloy Wheels
Key information
The Ford Transit Custom is the market leading mid-sized van renowned for its toughness, practicality and reliability. As it's got older, it only become smarter with new innovative features and the latest technologies to help you work smarter instead of harder.
This L2 Double Cab version has a second row of seats so that three extra people can be transported. It still has a load volume of 4.4m³ which allows it to carry two Euro pallets and it has a payload capacity of 1,339kg. If you need extra storage space, the dual passenger seat at the front has a lift-up cushion to reveal an underseat stowage area.
The Transit Custom is built for ease of use which is why the load height is particularly low. The twin sliding side doors open to 930mm so that the passengers in the second row can access the seats easily. Similarly, the rear doors open up to 180° making it easier to access the cargo space from the back.
With the new Euro 6 regulations in place, the engine range in the Transit Custom has been changed from 2.2-litre versions to smaller 2.0-litre diesel powertrains. Despite their smaller size, they actually deliver more power as well as reduced emissions and lower running costs.
In the cabin area of this top of the range Limited model you receive heated front seats to make the colder winter mornings and early starts more bearable. The 8" touchscreen infotainment system is compatible with certain apps and it houses the DAB Radio so you can listen to digital stations on the road.
Call us to see what colours we have available.
*Images for illustration purposes only
*Brochure and vehicle specification information should be checked at point of sale
Technical data
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Standard options
- Door mirrors with blind spot eliminator and integrated side indicator
- Air conditioning
- Remote central door locking
- Passenger side sliding load door
- Headlights with courtesy delay
- Front and rear mudflaps
- Multi-piece rear bumper
- DAB/AM/FM radio with SYNC 3, Voice Control System, AppLink, audible text messaging and privacy mode
- 8" touchscreen display, integrated control panel, USB connectivity port with iPod® functionality, remote audio controls and four front speakers
- Height and reach-adjustable steering column
- Trip computer
- Electrically-operated front windows
- 8-way adjustable driver's seat with lumbar adjust and armrest
- Two 2 litre bottle holders
- Lockable glovebox capable of A4 file storage
- Two 12-volt power points
- Dual front passenger seat with lift-up cushion and underseat storage
- Loadspace compartment lights
- Gear Shift Indicator – to aid economical driving
- Stowage box over instrument cluster with 12-volt power point
- Full-width DIN/ISO-compliant metal bulkhead with load-through facility (Van only)
- Electrically-operated and heated door mirrors
- Quickclear heated windscreen
- Washer fluid low-level sensor
- Full wheel covers
- Spare wheel with tool kit (steel)
- Hill-start assist
- Heater
- Ford easy fuel capless refuelling system with misfuel inhibit
- Power-assisted steering
- Power deadlocks
- Auto relocking (door auto relocks after 45 seconds if a door is not opened)
- Immobiliser
- Power-foldable door mirrors with body colour housings
- Projector-style halogen headlights with static cornering lights and LED daytime running lights
- Body colour rear bumper
- Body colour bodyside mouldings
- Body colour front, side and cargo door handles
- Chrome front grille surround
- Front fog lights
- Front and rear parking distance sensors
- Rain-sensing front wipers
- Automatic headlights
- Cruise control with Adjustable Speed Limiter
- Dual front passenger seat with fold-out table
- Leather-trimmed steering wheel
- Leather-trimmed gearshift knob
- Map reading lights
- Easy Clean Load Floor (Van only)
- High series instrument cluster with instrument panel dimmer
- Washer fluid low-level sensor
- 16" alloy wheels with locking wheel nuts
- Heated front seats
- Front passenger's airbag with deactivation switch
- Load area protection kit
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Depot-specific differences in the lipolytic effect of leptin on isolated white adipocytes
Frühbeck G, Gómez-Ambrosi J.
Laboratory of Metabolic Research, Department of Endocrinology, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.
Revista: Medical Science Monitor
Fecha: 01-feb-2002Endocrinología y Nutrición
In the present study we hypothesized that leptin-induced lipolytic effects show depot-specific differences.
Three-month-old male lean (+/+) and obese fa/fa rats were used. Lipolysis was determined in the absence or presence of leptin (0.63, 6.25 and 62.5 nM) together with agents acting at the A1 adenosine receptor of fat cells isolated from both subcutaneous and omental depots. The glycerol released into the incubation medium was taken as the lipolytic rate index.
The highest dose of leptin produced a 57.5 +/- 7.3% and 70.3 +/- 3.8% increase in omental and subcutaneous glycerol release, respectively, compared to the basal lipolytic rate (P<0.001). The addition of the three leptin concentrations in the ligand-free state produced a significantly greater stimulation of lipolysis in subcutaneous fat cells (P=0.0331; P=0.0003 and P=0.0015, respectively) compared to omental adipocytes. Under adenosine A1 receptor agonism and antagonism the same pattern of response was observed between visceral and subcutaneous adipocytes of lean rats. Although adenosine deaminase produced near maximum lipolysis in the adipocytes of lean animals, only half of the maximum lipolytic rate (50.9 +/- 3.2%) was achieved in fat cells from fa/fa rats (P=0.0034). Leptin had no effect on the lipolytic activity of adipocytes from either localization in fa/fa rats.
It can be concluded that decreased sensitivity to the lipolytic effect of leptin in omental adipocytes compared to subcutaneous fat cells may underlie, at least in part, the association of visceral fat accumulation with increased co-morbidities.
CITA DEL ARTÍCULO Med Sci Monit. 2002 Feb;8(2):BR47-55
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WD My Cloud EX4 full review
When Western Digital retired its WD My Book Live consumer NAS range, the replacement WD My Cloud series was originally limited to a single-bay network drive. The 'cloud' aspect was promoted to capitalise on the marketing term, as well as spelling out remote-access capabilities that were already in place for the My Book World and My Book Live products.
Adding a multi-disk unit to the range was inevitable, and we have the 4-bay WD My Cloud EX4 as the first RAIDed option; there's also now a 2-bay EX2 available.
Like Seagate, Western Digital is not noted for its NAS hardware but for its hard-disk manufacturing expertise. But by selling a complete ready-to-go solution incorporating disks and enclosure it should be in a position to undercut anyone selling the components separately.
Here we tested the 8 TB model, featuring four 2 TB WD Red disks, and which sells for under £600. With a quartet of these disks currently costing around £300, that puts the enclosure into £250-300 territory. And indeed, you can buy the diskless EX4 chassis for around £280.
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WD My Cloud EX4 review: Build and design
Unlike the slim white single-bay My Cloud, the EX4 model looks more like a traditional NAS in the QNAP mold, in black metal and plastic. Four disk drawers are easily accessible from the front, although with nothing to lock them in place except some stiff levers. In fact, unlike most NAS enclosures (and excepting Drobo here) the EX4 accepts bare disks into its front slots, where most design have disks loaded first into slide-in caddies.
The My Cloud EX4 is a budget consumer NAS with a low-power processor at the helm. In this case it's an old Marvell Kirkwood ARM chip, clocked at 2.0 GHz and with but one processor core.
Extra hardware features are limited to two USB 3.0 ports beside the two ethernet ports. Like the Seagate it economises with an external laptop-style mains adaptor, with the same danger of losing data when the little plug is pulled from a powered-up unit. WD also includes a second DC power input, so that if you purchase a second it can be attached to perhaps safeguard against that eventuality.
WD My Cloud EX4 review: Interface
The new admin console that debuted with the original My Cloud is used again here. It's a tidy and attractive interface, themed in black with easy to navigate tabs for the main areas of interest.
The cloud features allow you to access photos, video and music from an iPad or iPhone. Any remote access on your Mac requires the installation of Java, a serious security threat to any computer, especially for the product's intended audience of casual users.
Unlike some cloud NAS applications, which allow you to keep a folder synced between different computers like Dropbox, there is little development here of media sharing that's been offered on consumer NAS units for several years.
WD My Cloud EX4 review: Performance
The My Cloud EX4 wasn't quite the slowest NAS drive on test here. For big sequential reads, such as copying a Blu-ray or DVD from the drive, we saw it reach 93 MB/s of sustained reads in Blackmagic – about 80 percent of the speed of the best NAS units. And in our second test with QuickBench, the WD could average 107 MB/s read speeds.
Write speed is inevitably where any low-power NAS drive suffers. In both benchmark applications, this WD recorded write speeds of 37 MB/s in the best-case sequential tests. At one-third the speed available to the best units, large-file writes will naturally take three times longer to complete
And when confronted with small files – our 4 to 1024 kB test collection – it wrote to the NAS at only 5.5 MB/s. At that rate, a 500 GB backup of your Mac's hard drive would take well over a day to complete.


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- Wedding: September 2009 - Barr Mansion
This question is part of our blog and boards series, The Buzz, where we poll the hive for great advice and ideas and run a selection of helpful answers on the blog. Read more about the series here, and a couple of our first The Buzz posts: Saving for your first home and Length of dating before getting engaged.
We want to know:
What was your most nontraditional wedding choice? How did your friends/family/guests react?


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WASHINGTON - Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday - from a contrite President Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back.
Sherrod, who was forced to resign Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin the federal government and transform "this misfortune" into an opportunity to use her life experiences to help people, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.
Obama had stayed out of the public brouhaha that followed Sherrod's ouster from the Agriculture Department after a conservative blog posted a clip of the black woman's comments and portrayed her as racist. Once it became clear that the speech in question was advocating racial reconciliation, not racism, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized to her and offered her a new job Wednesday. Gibbs also apologized publicly "for the entire administration."
Thursday morning, Obama spoke by phone with Sherrod and said he hoped she would accept the Agriculture Department's offer of a new position, Gibbs said. He added that Obama thought Sherrod was "very gracious."
Sherrod hadn't decided whether to accept the invitation to come back, but she did accept the apologies.
In an excerpt of an ABC News interview broadcast Thursday, Obama said Vilsack was too quick to seek Sherrod's dismissal.
"He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles," Obama said.
The president said he has instructed "my team" to make sure "that we're focusing on doing the right thing instead of what looks to be politically necessary at that very moment. We have to take our time and think these issues through."
As top government officials begged for her forgiveness, Sherrod didn''t shy away from telling her story on television. She hopped from network to network, even chatting with the women of ABC's "The View" and letting CNN film part of her call with Obama as she traveled the streets of New York City in a car.
Sherrod has said she resigned under White House pressure, but Vilsack repeatedly has said the decision was his.
In offering his remorse Wednesday, he told reporters: "This is a good woman. She's been through hell. ... I could have done, and should have done, a better job."


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November 19: International Games Day at Your Library
St. Petersburg Main Library joins thousands in celebrating the popularity and power of games and play
St. Petersburg, FL (November 18, 2016) – St. Petersburg will join over a thousand libraries around the world on Saturday November 19, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium, 3745 Ninth Avenue North, for the ninth annual celebration of gaming in libraries – International Games Day @ Your Library. Like many other libraries across the country and around the world, St. Petersburg Main Library will offer board and tabletop games for all ages.
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The St. Petersburg Library System is pleased to offer this program as a part of its Community Development Initiative, a method to enhance the provision of resources, services, and programs focused on the Education, Economy, Ecology, Equity, Efficiency and Engagement of our community.
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Annette's leaf is placed at Angeline's. If you have memories or photos of Annette, please post a comment.
April's leaf is placed at Angeline's. If you have memories or photos of April, please post in the comments.
In Memory: Dolores Beamon
by Cynthia Lee Ozimek
Originally published in Real Change
On Monday, January 5 [2004], at 6:30 a.m., the body of longtime Hammond House shelter resident Dolores Beamon was found in a Seattle parking lot. While the cause of her death has yet to be determined, it has been theorized that homelessness, poor health and the snowstorm that had brought the city to a virtual standstill all contributed to her sad and unexpected demise. Fifty-four years old at the time of her passing, Beamon was born and raised in the Seattle area and is survived by her mother, her siblings, and many nieces and nephews.
Dolores had a positive, cantankerous, and humorous influence on many of the women she knew during her three-year stay at Hammond House. She was well known for the kind and intelligent hand she offered to her friends, the courageous demeanor she presented in the face of great physical discomfort, the withering commentary she offered to her detractors, and her love of anything related to the Mariner's baseball team. Read the rest of this entry »
Placed August 16, 2011:
- Sarah Sullivan: 1948—2011
- April Beachem: 1960—2008
- Ella Lewis: 1947—2009
- Annette Anderson: 1972—2008
- Michelle Jackson: 1970—2009
- Sharon Kilgore: 1959—2010
- Melody Rayl: 1965—2008
- Dinah Lane: 1951—2005
- Robin Langston: 1972—2000
- Renee Williams: 1966—2004
- Irene Giguerre: 1956—2006
- Tonya "Sonshine" Smith: 1968—2006
- Dolores Beamon: 1949—2004
- Tessie Comeslast: 1956—1999
- Dinetta Williams: 1962—2008
Placed August 28, 2013
- Karen Camy: 1958—2013
- Charlene Downey: 1967—2012
- Sarah Fraillon: 1975—2011
- Roxanne McDonald: 1966—2011
- India Valdez: 1945—2010
Leaves placed August 27, 2014
- Jenny Wilcox: 1971—2012
- Lori Dillon: 1958—2010
- Anna "So-So" White: 1949—2014
Leaves place September 28, 2017
- Lizzie Bynum: 1982—2014
- Francine Hobgood: 1961—2016
- Trina Bolar: 1961—2016
- Ruanda Morrison: 1960—2017
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"Power dies, power goes under and gutters out, ungraspable. It is momentary, quick of flight and liable to deceive. As soon as you rely on the possession it is gone. Forget that it ever existed, and it returns. I never made the mistake of thinking I owned my own strength, that was my secret. And so I was never alone in my failures. I was never to blame entirely when all was lost, when my desperate cures had no effect on the suffering of those I loved. For who can blame a man waiting, the doors open, food offered, arms stretched wide? Who can blame him if the visitor does not arrive?"
–from "Tracks" by Louise Erdrich
Tessie Comeslast, friend to many in the homeless community; died on August 14th, 1999. She was Flathead, from St Ignatius, Montana, and was a powerful, compassionate woman. She is survived by two of her three sons and at least one grandchild.
Tessie died of complications of pneumonia, at a friend's house. She had a prescience of her own death: earlier in the year she'd seen the owl, and gave some of her hair to her friend Kim, telling her to burn it in the traditional way. A memorial service to "raise up her name" was held at Angeline's Day Center.
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My Memories of a Beautiful Sister by Janice Connelly
I met Irene in 2005; we were bunkmates at Hammond House Shelter. She was one bed over from mine. Irene was a beautiful, long-haired, quiet, dignified Native lady. She liked her beer and could get a little rowdy when she came in at night, and she was well liked by the staff at Hammond. In spite of her condition she could always be talked into retiring to her bed peacefully. We didn't get to talk too much because she usually came in close to quiet time at 10 p.m. She had a boyfriend who adored her; she felt the same about him. Read the rest of this entry »
Michelle's leaf is placed at Angeline's. If you have photos or memories of Michelle, please post a comment.
According to her friend Janna, Sharon Kilgore had a very difficult life, with many difficult things surrounding her. She did her best in an often impossible situation. In spite of all the odds against her, she kept a sense of humor, black as it may have been.
In a video Public Service Announcement for the Church of Mary Magdalene, Sharon spoke up to solicit donations of brassieres for their "Ministry of the Lingerie:" "You never know when you might have to go to a funeral, baby," she said, and then laughed her beautiful laugh.
She used to call all of us younger women, "baby girl." She was a tough mom figure to many, and will always be missed.
Sharon's leaf is placed at Angeline's.
The rise in suicides in King County's Homeless Community
by Michele Marchand; originally published in Real Change in 2005
On the streets, where last names are seldom important or even known, Dinah Lane was often called Dinah Shore. Although both these Dinahs had strawberry blond hair and amazing smiles, you couldn't imagine someone less like the sunny 1950s television hostess and singer than Dinah Lane. She was a homeless activist, a striver for justice, and was always reading thick tomes from the Public Library. She engaged for hours in intense, thoughtful conversation about the government, systems and conspiracies.
Robin Langston was strangled to death in the alley off Third Avenue and Blanchard Friday, September 15, 2000 at 4 a.m. Late in the afternoon that day I walked down the alley, just after I'd gone to a police briefing about the murder.
Ella's leaf is placed at Angeline's. If you have memories or photos of Ella, please post a comment to share them.
Melody's leaf is placed at Angeline's. If you have memories of Melody to share, please post in the comments.
Tonya's leaf is placed at Angeline's. If you have photos or memories of Tonya, please post a comment.
Sarah's leaf is placed at Angeline's. If you have photos or memories of Sarah, please post them in the comments.
Renee's leaf is placed at Angeline's. If you have memories or photos of Renee, please post in the comments.


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(No.9, Vol.6,Nov-Dec 2016 Vietnam Heritage Magazine)
La Residence Hotel & Spa5 Le Loi St, HueTel: (054) 3827-475La Residence Hotel & Spa offers a 3-night package at VND 9,130,000 per room for 2 persons with breakfast, a 45-minute spa services, one-way airport transfer and a 10 per cent discount on food and beverage. It runs from 1December, 2016 through 15 January, 2017. Surcharge is applicable for the Gala Dinner on 24 and 31 December.
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Palm Garden Resort Hoi An has a two-night 'Festive Getaway Package' from 1 December, 2016 to 28 February, 2017. It costs VND3,100,000 per person in a twin-sharing room with breakfast, roundtrip airport transfers, a lunch or dinner, a 45-minute head/back/foot massage and a 50 per cent discount on spa service. Cam Ranh Riviera Beach Resort & SpaNorthern Peninsula Cam Ranh, Khanh Hoa ProvinceTel: (058) 3989-898www.rivieraresortspa.com Cam Ranh Riviera Beach Resort & Spa is offering 'All Inclusive Package' at VND5,725,000 per room per night including breakfast, lunch and dinner, free drinks at restaurants and pool bar.
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The four-and-a-half star Aroma Beach Resort has a 50 per cent off on the rate for those who book from now till 31 March, 2017. The discount is not applicable on public holidays.InterContinental Asiana SaigonCorner Hai Ba Trung & Le Duan Blvd, Dist.1, Ho Chi Minh CityTel: (08) 3520-9999
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So. I read The Bloggess post today and died laughing because honestly, as much as I love my husband and as much as I value a healthy sex life, I have to admit, I've spoken very similar words in my own head on occasion: "Well then I guess we're both gonna have to pee in the bed because I'm stopping in about 10 minutes. Some of us have shit to do Kevin". (A quote from Jenny Lawson's, The Bloggess post 5/6/14). I find this hilarious probably because my husband's name is Kevin.
For reference: http://thebloggess.com/2014/05/this-is-why-im-almost-never-asked-to-write-for-the-news/#comments
So freaking funny (and true!) about the soaked sheets thing. I mean, "once upon a time", in the not too distant past, and maybe even sometimes, still… occasionally (ahem), soaked sheets are hot. And you know...my husband and I have tried some pretty freaky stuff, so maybe there were some other body fluids involved. But it's also extremely possible we were just so inebriated, that it really was an accident…
Anyhooo, I'm totally digressing. Point is: "Oh you want sex??? Sure. I'll pencil you in".
I'm 45 now. Busier than ever before and my one-and-only kid is now 13. I'm not chasing diapers anymore but somehow I'm busier! The sexual dynamo I was certain I'd be til they toss me in the kiln, so-to-speak, has packed her bags and set sail for a destination unknown. Perhaps it's the crazy over 40 hormones. Maybe it's my work schedule what with massage and writing, soccer games and training transport throughout the week, the countless errands and house crap that needs to get done. It's all just exhausting. Who has the energy for a zesty romp after a day like that? Not I, said the fly, with a pie in his eye. (I couldn't resist that. I use to say that when I was a kid. I loved rhyming).
Anyway- who doesn't LOVE a good orgasm?
These days, I'm likely to knock out one or two all by myself. Less time. No contorting. No laying there feeling guilty because you're about to fall asleep. And…NO SOAKED SHEETS. First of all, "Eww" (unless it's a reckless night of weekend abandonment). And secondly, guess who has to launder that shit?! You guessed it.
"Toss me in the kiln" : That's cremation speak versus "put me in the ground", for those who prefer to be embalmed in gnarly smelling fluid, laid in a box at which people can gawk, then buried like a doggy bone. I guess I'd rather be "burned and returned" (to the Earth and maybe a small part of me in a keepsake box for my son to display on his mantle. The part that reminds him to stop peeing on the toilet lid). I'm sure some people think cremation is equally as "eeewwwy". To each his own.
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I've spent over ten years living in Asia. There are lots of pluses and minuses to the expat life, and many of the pluses go by unnoticed.
One that we seldom talk about is what I call the "news blackout."
When you can't read or understand the language of the country around you, you are isolated--some would say "insulated"--from the commentary, punditry, and brouhaha surrounding events in the news.
Oh, we get the basics from the internet. We generally know what happened, to whom, and when, and where. But the speculations on "why" and "how" don't always seep through.
"Did you hear what Commentator A said about Pundit B's comments on the editorial given on such-and-such channel regarding the president's speech?"
That's something you generally won't hear around a dinner table in South China. Even those with cable don't get the sheer mass of "opinion" received by those with the most basic service "back home."
Yes, I've been accused of having my head in the sand (or elsewhere). You know the image, right? It was thought long ago that an ostrich would bury its head in the sand (or hide it in some bushes) and imagine that its whole, gangly body was hidden, and it was therefore safe from predators.
Well, I don't know how safe the opinion blackout here leaves me, but it certainly leaves me happier.
So turn it off from time to time. Establish your own personal blackout. Stick your head in the sand, and stop the noise.
You'll be happier.


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