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FileMaker Excellence Award Winners for 2014
The following awards were presented at the annual FileMaker Developer Conference 2014 recognizing both FileMaker Business Alliance members and FileMaker Technical Network members for excellence in various business and technical categories.
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The FileMaker Excellence Award winners are chosen from over 1,200 FBA members worldwide who are FileMaker consultants, solution providers, plug-in developers, trainers, and hosting companies that serve a wide variety of industries. The categories of the awards are Business Partner, Next Generation, Leads, Design, Development, and Commercial Solutions.
FileMaker Excellence Award for FBA Business Partners of the Year
These FBA companies are being honored for their overall sales achievement for 2014. They have a clear definition of business growth, and carry a "win together" approach to business through licensing knowledge and marketing investments.
FileMaker Excellence Award for FBA "Next Generation" of the Year
Cristoffer Ippolite of iSolutions, Inc.
This award recognizes the FBA member that has done the most to introduce new developers to the FileMaker Platform, and promote adoption of the latest technologies among those who earn a living as FileMaker developers.
Crisoffer Ippolite of iSolutions was honored with this award for 2014. He has an active FileMaker training business teaching developers best practices when developing solutions with the FileMaker Platform. His FileMaker Mentoring program has successfully turned a number of student and recent graduates into full-time FileMaker developers. He is also a contributor to the FMJumpStart program as a trainer, and an advocate for FileMaker Certification.
FileMaker Excellence Award for FBA Leads of the Year
Skeleton Key
This award recognizes the FBA company that has done the most to expand awareness of the FileMaker Platform and has generated the highest volume of new prospective customers.
Skeleton Key was honored with this award for 2014. Skeleton Key has been highly engaged in creating awareness of the FileMaker Platform and generating leads through many channels, such as Apple Store App Spotlights, blogging, FMAcademy, their monthly Chatter newsletter, FileMaker User Groups, and through social media channels — LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
FileMaker Excellence Award for FBA Design of the Year
Angel City Data
This award recognizes the FBA company that has demonstrated the best interaction design and visual design to create an exceptional user experience.
Angel City Data was honored with this award for 2014. Angel City Data built an iPad solution to reduce paper forms for their customer in the market refrigeration services industry. Used by in-house admins and field technicians, the solution is visually appealing, friendly, intuitive, and easy to use. The company is now saving an estimated $2,000-3,000 per month on paper — and other costly fees caused by missing, incomplete data, and redundant data. It has also allowed them to reallocate resources giving them more field technicians to service more customers, more efficiently.
FileMaker Excellence Award for FBA Development of the Year
Simple Database Solutions
This award recognizes the FBA company that has demonstrated the ability to tackle complex and technically challenging projects.
Syncing solutions between devices can complex and there are a variety of ways to do it. Simple Database Solutions was honored with this award for the development of "EasySync," an easy-to-use sync framework for mobile solutions. EasySync provides features and options that allow developers to apply their own business rules to their specific sync process. With an open source license, it can be used out of the box or a developer can get under the hood and tweak it to meet their business needs.
FileMaker Excellence Award for FBA Commercial Product of the Year
Barcode Creator
This award recognizes the FBA company that has demonstrated innovation, competitive differentiation, and customer value in a product that runs on or enables better solutions on the FileMaker Platform (e.g. SBA solutions, plug-ins, developer tools).
Barcode Creator, by geist interactive, eliminates the need to install plug-ins, fonts, or access the Internet when generating barcodes. This product uses only native FileMaker functions and script steps, making it easier to integrate support and to lower costs.
FileMaker Technical Network
With a community of over 60,000 FileMaker Technical Network members, the following individuals have been awarded the FileMaker Excellence Award in the categories of Design, Development, and Community.
FileMaker Excellence Award for Development of the Year
Polygon Pictures
This award recognizes the FileMaker Technical Network member that has demonstrated the ability to tackle complex and technically challenging projects.
Polygon Pictures was honored for this award for 2014. With over 500 people working on digital animations, it was hard to ensure everyone had access to the right files and know what projects they were assigned to. The solution, built by an in-house FileMaker developer at Polygon Pictures, uses PHP/MySQL and FileMaker WebDirect to allow external studios to participate in projects. It was built in five months to manage every piece of animation, which increased their productivity tremendously.
FileMaker Excellence Award for Design of the Year
National Geographic Society (NGS), Tom Puckett
This award recognizes the FileMaker Technical Network member that has demonstrated the best interaction design and visual design to create an exceptional user experience.
National Geographic Society (NGS) was honored with this award for 2014. The solution, designed for the iPhone, is a directory of over 1,800 staff members, with approximately 500 users that need access to staff information on the road. The design of this iOS solution is clean, well organized and incorporates the NGS branding throughout the app. The interaction design is intuitive and can be used without referencing a manual. It's easy to find the right people, contact them directly and send group emails, if needed. This solution is a great example of how a properly designed solution can help an entire organization.
FileMaker Excellence Award for Community of the Year
Mike Beargie
This award recognizes the FileMaker Technical Network member that has broadened awareness of the FileMaker Platform through active online or offline contributions, sharing their FileMaker knowledge and expertise in an effort to help other developers be successful.
Mike Beargie was honored for this award for 2014. Mike regularly participates in the FileMaker TechNet Forums (both English and French), posting almost daily to assist developers from around the world. He is currently one of the top ten contributors among the over 60,000 FileMaker Technical Network members. He is an active blogger for his FileMaker consultant company, Anvil Dataworks. He is a key organizer of the Central Ohio FileMaker User Group. And last year, he travelled across Ohio during the spring of 2014 sharing the release of FileMaker 13 with dozens of users from five different non-FileMaker tech groups.
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Bring a subtle hint of chintz into your home with a Vintage China Clock from Lavinia's Tea Party.
These upcycled plates turned timepieces will add a bit of vintage kitsch to any home. The vintage plates, each a unique design sourced at markets across the UK, have a hole drilled and a clock mechanism added. Each plate is different, from florals to more kitsch designs, and there is a vast selection to choose from.
The clocks are 30% off at Bouf for the next 7 days. See the website for more details.

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Groups validate 5-year anti-corruption strategy action plan documen
Representatives of some Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as the media have validated a five-year anti-corruption strategy action plan document.
The validated document is to be presented to the Federal Government through the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.
This happened in a two-day brain storming stakeholders' forum held between March 26th and 27th in Abuja, to scrutinize and validate the 25-page five-year action plan (2017-2021).
The event was jointly organized by the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the British Council, the European Union (EU) and the consultants to the organizers, the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (RoLAC).
The British Council, the EU and RoLAC were represented by their officials, Dr. Adaeze Chidi-Igbokwe (Consultant), Emma Uche and Pwanakei Dala.
The acting Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Usman Abubakar was represented by the Director of Planning, Research and Review of the commission, Bala Mohammed.
Malami, represented by the chairman, Technical Committee on the Implementation of the National Anti- Corruption Strategy (NACS), Hajia Ladidi B. Mohammed, in his opening address, said his ministry is committed to combating and preventing corruption as well as public engagement, campaign for ethical re-orientation, enforcement and sanctions and recovery, and management of proceeds of crime.
ICPC 's acting chairman said the commission was in alignment with the effort of the NACS and determined to deliver within the mandate of the commission in line with the Act and the National Strategic plan on fighting corruption.
In their contributions, Chidi-Igbokwe, Uche and Dala, said every hand must be on deck to eradicate corruption in the country, regretting that it was becoming endemic. They urged every Nigerian to participate in fighting corruption.
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A mahogany wind tunnel for testing spacecraft aerodynamics is just too delightfully steampunk for real life. Or is it a real-life simulation of a 1980s-style overly-exuberant display of photographic superposition?
Take a tiny space shuttle, suspend it with magnets, and you have this beautiful low-speed wind test in a transparent hexagonal tunnel wrapped in mahogany. The shuttle model is suspended within the test section by magnets using the MIT/NASA Langley 6-inch Magnetic Suspension/Balance System (MSBS) as part of early testing on space shuttle aerodynamics.
The hand-crafted low-speed mahogany wind tunnel was built at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1960s, and relocated to NASA's Langley Research Center in the mid-1980s. It's since been retired from active research, and donated to Old Dominion University.
Image credit: NASA
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NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/. Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) and iHeartMedia have announced that the annual Empire State Building (ESB) holiday music-to-light show will feature global superstar Mariah Carey and her iconic hit song, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from her first holiday album, Merry Christmas. The show, designed by renowned lighting designer Marc Brickman, will premiere on December 19 and will be synced live each night at 7 p.m. ET on iHeartMedia New York's Z100, 103.5 KTU and 106.7 Lite fm through December 25.
To kick off the holiday season, Mariah Carey "flipped the switch" at a lighting ceremony in ESB's famed Fifth Avenue lobby. The event is a part of "ESB Unwrapped," a month-long celebration which features dazzling holiday decorations in the building's Fifth Avenue windows and Art Deco lobby, appearances by special surprise guests and a pianist playing a selection of holiday favorites.
"We're proud to partner with iHeartMedia and how much fun is it that multi-platinum musical superstar Mariah Carey has chosen to feature her chart-topping iconic holiday classic "All I Want for Christmas Is You" in our signature holiday music-to-light spectacular?" said Anthony E. Malkin, Chairman, and CEO of ESRT. "Our holiday light show brings New York City's holiday season to the entire world via social media and is the very pinnacle of the holiday season from high atop our iconic tower in the heart of the New York skyline."
"I can see the Empire State Building from my apartment, and it is one of my favorite buildings in the world," said Mariah Carey. "To have its iconic lights synched to my song is the perfect gift this holiday season."
"Participating in the Empire State Buildings light show has become an annual holiday tradition for iHeartMedia stations in NYC and our listeners," said Tom Poleman, President of National Programming Groups for iHeartMedia. "It's such a magical time of the year in the Big Apple, and we are looking forward to spreading holiday cheer across the City."
The stunning presentation will be visible to revelers and tourists from various vantage points around New York City and the Tri-State area, and fans should use the hashtag #ESBUnwrapped on social media channels to join in the excitement. Fans can listen to the holiday music-to-light show by tuning into Z100, 103.5 KTU, and 106.7 Lite fm, or by streaming the stations live on iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia's all-in-one streaming music and live digital radio service. A video of the entire show will be posted on the Empire State Building's YouTube channel (bit.ly/ESBUnwrappedVid) immediately following the event for those around the world to enjoy.
About the Empire State Building
Soaring 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan (from base to antenna), the Empire State Building, owned by Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., is the "World's Most Famous Building." With new investments in energy efficiency, infrastructure, public areas and amenities, the Empire State Building has attracted first-rate tenants in a diverse array of industries from around the world. The skyscraper's robust broadcasting technology supports all major television and FM radio stations in the New York metropolitan market. The Empire State Building was named America's favorite building in a poll conducted by the American Institute of Architects, and the Empire State Building Observatory is one of the world's most beloved attractions as the region's #1 tourist destination. For more information on the Empire State Building, please visit www.empirestatebuilding.com, www.facebook.com/empirestatebuilding, @EmpireStateBldg, www.instagram.com/empirestatebldg, http://weibo.com/empirestatebuilding, www.youtube.com/esbnyc or www.pinterest.com/empirestatebldg/.
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Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), owns, manages, operates, acquires and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the Empire State Building, the world's most famous building. Headquartered in New York, New York, the Company's office and retail portfolio covers 10.1 million rentable square feet, as of September 30, 2016, consisting of 9.4 million rentable square feet in 14 office properties, including nine in Manhattan, three in Fairfield County, Connecticut and two in Westchester County, New York; and approximately 707,000 rentable square feet in the retail portfolio.
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I wanted to post this link from a clinic on Vitamin C dosing. I am making no claims, I am not a doctor, I do know when I see results.
Tom C
I wanted to post this link from a clinic on Vitamin C dosing. I am making no claims, I am not a doctor, I do know when I see results.
Tom C
any known method for extraction of vitamin C ? as far as i know, vitamin C shares the same receptors as sugars, and hence it's absorbtion is competitively inhibited by their presence. as such, it is best to be separated from any sugar when ingested (that's why most 'pills' suck - they have more sugar than vitamin C).
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pure ascorbic acid used for baking is almost pure vitamin C.
Ascorbic Acid Vitamin C Powder - Also Known As Powdered Vitamin C or Pure Ascorbic Acid Powder* - My Spice Sage
Tom C
Back when I had a blog going I wrote a bit about vitamin C. For instance I had a four part series that just looked at reviewing the past years worth of research on vitamin C. I'll dig up an archived copy when I get a chance, but the mind boggling thing for me is that vitamin C appears to be almost universally beneficial. It is an anti-toxin, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-cancer, anti-oxident. It is also incredibly non-toxic. About the only single possibly worrisome thing I saw in that one years reserach review was equivecol data that it may potentiate the endocrine disrupting effects of bisphenyls. Therapeutically, the major issue is dosage, where the really tremendous therapeutic effects can not be achieved with the oral dosage route (though the recent liposomal formulations may be a way around this). In any event. I posted this earlier on a different thread but while I am trying to dig out some of my previous blog posts here is a write-up on the history of vitamin C and the evidence for its use in cancer. Vitamin C - PDF.
Very informative and the stuff really works for a host of ailments:
Optimization of Vitamin C and Antioxidant Therapy - YouTube
Simple to take the lab test for vitamin c means calcium if its level is better then ok otherwise must be take the c therapy like cal1000 in the tablet forum or injection forum respectively therefore this thing will enable to make the body more healthy.
Give me a week or two and I will try and go through the past couple years research on vitamin C and see what I can synopsize. While this isn't an electronics topic I do think it is worth discussing. A similar thread related to vitamin D might also be worthwhile . In fact if you ask me, (though this not being my specialty I am vehemently unqualified) all of the major advances in internal medicine relate to a further understanding of either how elements or various micronutrients (vitamins) play a role in physiology. With a few exceptions (and irregardless of the research) it is quite neglected.
Tom C,
After my last post I owe you something on this. Let me preface this by saying 3-4 things. 1) In real estate the saying is location, location, location, with vitamin C it is dosage, dosage, dosage, did I say dosage, dosage, dosage, yes, dosage, dosage dosage. You might overdose with too much oral vitamin C but it might be easier just to drop a ton of it on your head. Too much taken orally leads to diarrhea. However, at the maximum tolerated oral dose, one is still an order of magnitude or more less than the amount most animals have in their blood stream when healthy. One can bypass this either through intravenous vitamin C or liposomal vitamin C. IV vitamin C is well known, liposomal C is so new I am now entirely certain what to say. There is a study showing liposomal C is absorbed at about 3x the rate of regular C. However the question is how well does it get into cells. There is a credentialed clinician that states he finds liposomal C superior to intravenous C in treating some diseases. Alright point 2, you will say I am just cherry picking studies. I did a search of Pubmed with "vitamin C" in the title of the article. I have omitted 95 percent of the articles. If you go back and do the same I challenge you to come up with the harmful studies. There are very many studies reporting things to the effect, to make something up of, "Vitamin C has no effect on alopecia in aborigines" there is next to nothing harmful. After having studied this a bit, the only thing I ever saw is it may potentiate the effects of bisphenyls in plastics. Alright points 3 and 4, I can't remember, but it does bring to mind a pet peeve of mine. When it is said something strengthens the immune system, what the hell does that mean? Specific, general immunity? If immunity is too much strengthened does that mean you now have an autoimmune disease? Vitamin D decreases the incidence of autoimmune diseases while upregulating an arm of immunity not taught twenty years ago, namely antibiotic peptides, a whole new arm to the immune system. If not detailed, for myself I find it best just to substitute "life force" for immunity to understand such great advertisement claims. This post is too long to start on the medical literature, and even when I do I may restrict myself to 3-6 months at a time not the whole past year. Having only looked at "vitamin C" not "ascorbic acid" or ascorbate and only in the title of the study I will just say I am not disappointed by the recent research
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The peer reviewed published medical literature was searched through the online portal PubMed. A search term of Vitamin C was entered and this search was further confined to the term appearing in the study title and the study having been done between 1/1/2012 and the present. This search yielded 113 articles. The titles of a few of these articles sometimes accompanied by brief excerpts from the study abstract or personal comment are below. The hyperlinks to these articles are omitted so as not to trigger the board spam filter. My comments will be enclosed in /* */ brackets. The abstracts to these articles are easily obtainable while perhaps a quarter of them will also have free online access to the full text, for the others a trip to a medical library or medical library online subscription may be necessary. Without further ado, starting with the oldest articles first.
1) Subcellular basis of vitamin C protection against doxorubicin-induced changes in rat cardiomyocytes. /* comment, doxorubicin is a chemotherapeutic with a side effect of possibly damaging the heart */
Conclusion as stated in study abstract These findings suggest a nutritional approach of using Vit C for preventing Dox-induced cardiotoxicity and better management of cancer patients.
2) A significant relationship between plasma vitamin C concentration and physical performance among ***anese elderly women. from abstract "... After adjusting for the confounding factors, the quartile plasma vitamin C level was significantly correlated with the subject's handgrip strength (p for trend = .0004) and ability to stand on one leg with eyes open (p for trend = .049).
CONCLUSIONS: In community-dwelling elderly women, the concentration of plasma vitamin C related well to their muscle strength and physical performance.
3) Vitamin C and fibre consumption from fruits and vegetables improves oxidative stress markers in healthy young adults.
4) Changes in markers of inflammation, antioxidant capacity and oxidative stress in smokers following consumption of milk, and milk supplemented with fruit and vegetable extracts and vitamin C. "Therefore, regular consumption of the supplemented milks may confer health benefits because of increased antioxidant potential or through mechanisms resulting from increased vitamin C or decreased uric acid concentrations."
5) Vitamin C prevents hyperoxia-mediated coronary vasoconstriction and impairment of myocardial function in healthy subjects. /* This study strikes me as notable but may require some background. The administration of high concentration oxygen to people with some acute or chronic illnesses can cause some unwanted changes in circulation. In this study 8 healthy volunteers were given supplemental oxygen. It was noted that coronary blood velocity then decreased 28 percent, coronary artery resistance increased 34 percent and left ventricle blood flow velocity decreased 11 percent. */ "These effects on flow and function were eliminated by the infusion of vitamin C, suggesting that these changes are mediated by vitamin C-quenchable substances acting on the coronary microcirculation."
6) Intravenous ascorbic acid (vitamin C) administration in myomectomy: a prospective, randomized, clinical trial. /* Myomectomy is a uterine surgery. This randomized trial took place in 102 patients in two groups. Group A received 2 grams vitamin C intravenously pre-operation. The conclusion doesn't really do it justice so I'll quote the results section.*/
"RESULTS: The blood loss (521.44 ± 199.24 vs. 932.9 ± 264.38 ml; p value <0.001), duration of the operation time (42 ± 13.9 vs. 68 ± 21.7 min; p value <0.001), days of hospitalization (2.7 ± 0.69 vs. 3.1 ± 0.59 days; p value 0.002) in group A were significantly less than in group B (p value 0.001). The chance risk ratio of a blood transfusion in group A was 0.4 (7.7 vs. 18% 95% CI of 0.1-1; p value 0.07). ... Ho hummm
7) Cytoprotective effect of vitamin C against gentamicin-induced acute kidney injury in rats. /* Gentamicin is an antibiotic that can cause kidney damage */ "Concomitant administration of gentamicin and vitamin C resulted in a significant reduction of morphological and functional kidney alterations."
8) Vitamin C attenuates the physiological and behavioural changes induced by long-term exposure to noise. "We conclude that vitamin C supplementation can attenuate or prevent the psychological and physiological damage induced by prolonged noise exposure in mice."
9) Ascorbate-dependent decrease of the mucosal immune inflammatory response to gliadin in coeliac disease patients. "Ascorbate decreases the mucosal inflammatory response to gluten in an intestinal biopsy culture model, so it might have a role in future supplementary therapy in CD."
10) Vitamin C in sepsis. " Therefore, it may be possible to improve microvascular function in sepsis by using intravenous vitamin C as an adjunct therapy."
11) Vitamin C transport and its role in the central nervous system.
12) The hepatoprotective potential of Spirulina and vitamin C supplemention in cisplatin toxicity. Cisplatin is a chemotherapeutic that can damage the liver. "The supplementation of Spirulina and vitamin C could effectively bring down the levels of these enzymes. Light microscopy also showed that cisplatin treatment induced liver injury and that histopathological abnormalities were prevented by Spirulina and vitamin C supplementation."
13) The effect of monosodium glutamate on the cerebellar cortex of male albino rats and the protective role of vitamin C (histological and immunohistochemical study). /* Never heard this one before. MSG is a very common food additive which can cause neuronal damage. See neurosurgeon Dr Russel Blaylock's research and writings for background */ "In conclusion, MSG has neurotoxic effect leading to degenerative changes in neurons and astrocytes in cerebellar cortex of albino rats and vitamin C supplementation could protect from these changes."
14) Effect of vitamin C depletion on UVR-B induced cataract in SMP30/GNL knockout mice. "In conclusion, VC depletion may increase the susceptibility to develop UVR-B induced cataracts in mice unable to endogenously produce VC."
15) Vitamin C for DNA damage prevention.
16) Combination of glucan, resveratrol and vitamin C demonstrates strong anti-tumor potential.
17) Effect of vitamin C deficiency during postnatal development on adult behavior: functional phenotype of Gulo(-/-) knockout mice. "The subnormal movement, combined with hypersensitivity to a dopamine agonist, point to developmental ascorbate deficiency causing long-term striatal dysfunction."
18) Melatonin and vitamin C ameliorate alcohol-induced oxidative stress and eNOS expression in rat kidney.
19) Intravenous vitamin C administration reduces fatigue in office workers: a double-blind randomized controlled trial. "Thus, intravenous vitamin C reduced fatigue at two hours, and the effect persisted for one day. There were no significant differences in adverse events between two groups. High dose intravenous vitamin C proved to be safe and effective against fatigue in this study."
I apologize, that was only six months worth of studies, will try to do a part two at some point for the most recent six months. Of course one might also expand the search to include ascorbate or ascorbic acid in the title and get more studies.


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Chris Letts inherited a love of sculpture from his father John, who proved to be a great source of encouragement and inspiration. Chris studied at art college where he also developed an interest in graphics which led to a successful career in graphic design.
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Once upon a time there was a shop with a forum attached to it. When this was advertised as for sale Anne jumped at the chance and bought it. After a while she realised that web design was not her strong side and when Lorna told her that Catherine was a designer this led to the start of a great team.
After a couple of months it became clear that the forum would do better on it's own and the shop became Mama Natura. Stuck for a name for the forum, Anne asked around until Carla suggested Natural Mamas.
The forum opened in December 2008 and has been growing steadily ever since. In 2009, Catherine became part owner and it has been run as a team effort ever since.
Anne is a work at home mum to Ben, Ruben and Eleanor. In addition to running the forum she is a carrying consultant and educator (wrapmybaby) and takes care of the day to day running of Onbag. She lives in Norfolk and is married to Colin who is a Science teacher.
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There's a widespread belief that actually existing democracies are in the grip of a fast-paced world dominated by breaking news and all things instant. The following contribution sets out to question this belief. It takes readers on a time journey. It sets out to probe the meaning of time, and explains why time has a malleable quality. It asks why time is a political matter and why, when they function well, democracies do intriguing things to people's shared sense of time. The text is a revised version of a presentation to the international conference, The Toronto School: Then, Now, Next held at the University of Toronto, October 15, 2016.
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MILAN: Prysmian, the world'slargest cable maker, expects revenues at its telecom business torise 10 percent this year, compared to a flat forecast for totalsales, the head of the business told Reuters on Tuesday.
Philippe Vanhille also said he expected margins to improveto around 15 percent.
The cable maker said on Tuesday it was investing a total of250 million euros to boost its capacity around the world tobetter serve its telecom clients.


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Deploying an ASP.NET JSON-RPC web service on IIS 7
I've tried to deploy an ASP.NET web application manually and I'm just getting a directory listing. I've copied the published folder to "C:\intepub\wwwroot", then converted to application. Is there a step I'm missing?
Edit: One thing to note is that this application doesn't contains any .aspx pages, it's a web service using Jayrock which provide it's own pages to explore the service interface. When using the application through the VS development web server everything work as expected, I can see the web interface and connect to the service without any problem. But when deployed on IIS, it does nothing at all.
Edit: I think it got to do with IIS not able to figure how to start the application handler properly.


text: The LA Market Week, previously known as LA Fashion Market, is the West Coast's premier destination for contemporary fashions, including apparel, accessories, and footwear. The market hosts various tradeshows that highlight both established and up-and-coming designers. With thousands of brands participating in the LA Market Week, this is the place for buyers to discover new brands and create new shopping experiences. LA Market Week takes place at the various contemporary showrooms in the district.


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In Poneloya (Nicaragua), many hotels offer decent accommodation for a mid-range price.
The first of Poneloya hotels is the Hotel and Restaurant Posada del Poneloya. For $20 a night you can get a single room with private bathroom. The Hotel , though not located near the ocean, is a short walk away from the beach.
For an even more budget option, try the Surfing Turtle Lodge. Although situated in a remote location (2km away from Poneloya), this lodge is a perfect place to enjoy the beauty of the island, while getting a surpringly good service and comfortable rooms for a budget price ($10 a night).
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The Rye PBA Executive Board ensures that the RPBA standards, values and mission statement are adhered too. While establishing an over sight of the bargaining commitee between the City of Rye and the sworn officers it represents. The board also approving any legal support, scholarships and charitable donations in time of need, as well as, the daily functioning and logistics of the RPBA.
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Source : Philippine Daily Inquirer by Miguel Camus
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) remains confident that US aviation regulators will lift restrictions imposed on local carriers by the fourth quarter of 2013, but concerns over the sustainability of recent reforms linger.
Key "showstoppers" include the difficulty in amending the law that would grant added autonomy to CAAP while overcoming restrictions that prevent CAAP from spending for the continuous training of safety inspectors, CAAP director general William Hotchkiss III said at a forum on Friday.
Hotchkiss said a team of US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspectors was in the country and "all indications are positive towards a possible upgrade before the end of the year" and possibly as early as October.
"Remaining hurdles will have to address the sustainability issue," Hotchkiss said on the sidelines of the country's first aviation safety and good corporate governance forum.
This was the second time the FAA sent a team after the US regulator and CAAP signed a technical assistance program last June 4, which calls for a two-year monitoring period.
This means that if reforms are not in line with what have been agreed upon, the FAA could return the Philippines to Category 2 status, again preventing local carriers from expanding flights in the United States.
Only flag carrier Philippine Airlines mounts flights to the US, however, its ability to expand there is limited by current restrictions.
CAAP has been calling for an amendment to Republic Act 9497 to include provisions that would authorize the government to transfer its so-called state of registry obligations to the state of the operator as well as to create a separate agency to handle aircraft accident investigations.
"Although multiple bills to establish a National Transportation Safety Board have been proposed in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, none have received priority or passage," Hotchkiss said in his speech before industry stakeholders.
As noted, another key hurdle involved the continuous training of safety inspectors.
"CAAP has the necessary funds to support the recurrent training," Hotchkiss said. "However, government accounting rules disallow release of funds for training of contractual employees who make up the majority of our experienced inspector corps."
Reforms by CAAP have helped remove the Philippines from a European Union blacklist on July 12. But it still faces several challenges, said Mokhtar Awan, Asia Pacific regional director of International Civil Aviation Organization, during the same forum.
He cited CAAP's difficulties in hiring and keeping qualified technical personnel, its modernization, and even "negative" media reporting. On the autonomy issue, he said that CAAP "is still in transition."
"Safety oversight is a state's responsibility. However, this cannot be achieved solely by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines without the political support from the government of the Philippines," Awan said.
The EU ban had been in place since 2010, a year after the Icao found "significant safety concerns" in the country's aviation standards. The Philippines passed the Icao audit in February, and this led to the lifting of the ban on Philippine Airlines last month.
The FAA downgrade, meanwhile, was imposed in 2008.


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We obviously love the entertainment and fashion spaces, and are as addicted as the next gal to the every move of the Gigi and Kendalls of the world. That said, it's occasionally refreshing to see women working outside of these industries celebrated, which is why we so eagerly poured over the contents of LinkedIn's newest "Top Professionals Under 35" ranking. Here, some of the most inspiring women featured on this latest list to help motivate your hustle as we head into hump day.


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Winter in San Diego is gorgeous, with everything at its greenest and sunsets at their most vibrant. There's no pesky marine layer to play party-pooper, and the occasional rainfall makes for fluorescent clouds at sundown. The rooftop bar at Hello Betty Fish House in Oceanside is my new favorite place to gaze at the horizon and pretend that I totally saw the green flash—not to mention you're perched right over Kelly McGillis' house in Top Gun , so get ready to have your breath taken away.
But before heading to the roof, make sure to grab a meal in the actual restaurant (211 Mission Ave.). Hello Betty is a charmer. The dining room is funky and stylish without feeling forced, and, overall, it feels incredibly comfortable. There's a vast, open lot on the west side of the building (who knows how long that will last, alas), so the open-sided bar has gorgeous breezes slipping inside. Kids (both legit and overgrown) will love climbing all over the groovy dune buggy parked in the middle of the restaurant.
There are only so many new spins one can put on a fish taco, and in a region saturated by taco options, it can be difficult to stand out from the pack. Don't miss the smoked-fish taco, a great tweak on an old favorite. The basic fish-taco building blocks are there: cabbage, crumbly cheese and robust pico de gallo. Filling out the locally made tortilla are chunks of smoky whitefish, tender and flaky with the telltale punch of smoke not only hitting your tongue but wafting into your nose, as well. The crunchy freshness of the toppings worked as a perfect complement to the cured flavor. A creamy chipotle aioli adds a nice zing in lieu of the more mellowing, traditional crema.
You'll find a few raw items, from poke to oysters, but this fish house isn't a sushi joint. I did, however, enjoy the sushi-adjacent hamachi crudo. It's a pricey little appetizer, but quite a colorful and quirky plate. Wasabi "caviar" tops the paper-thin slices of fish, piled in vivid-green mounds of Technicolor heat. Crispy fried shallots add texture and crunch while a drizzle of citrus-soy reduction lends a bright and slightly sweet note.
Nothing disappointed me on the menu, but I did find the more-traditional offerings underwhelming. The albacore-tuna melt was aggressively fine , but a bit more of a mayo bomb than I want in a fresh-fish restaurant. Our hungry bellies couldn't wait to dig into the crab-and-cheese dip; it was pleasantly heavy on the crab but disappointingly short on gooey cheese.
Dragging children along while reviewing restaurants often means everyone deserves an ice-cream sundae. The cinnamon sopapilla sundae was just silly-good. Horchata ice cream? Yes, please. Mounds of fresh whipped cream? Sure, tiny toddler of mine, scoop that mess up like your life depends on it. Don't forget the sweet and crispy sopapillas—fried wedges of light dough dusted with cinnamon and sugar: a churro's sophisticated cousin.
Say hello to Betty. And maybe Goose and Maverick, too.
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Rosie Kay's latest work MK Ultra comes to the Laban theatre on 20 April 2017.
Explaining my new work, MK Ultra to people has become a lot easier in recent weeks. Even six months ago, mentioning my work looking at conspiracy theory would have drawn a snort from many over the age of 25. But it is different now- 'Fake News' and 'Alternative Facts' have become the news and the fragile balance of trust between truth, the news, our leaders and the media has been fractured. The lid has been lifted, and widespread belief and knowledge of conspiracy theory is now being looked at seriously- something I've been advocating for several years as I researched and watched the gulf between the mainstream, the alternative and how young people were navigating their way in this confused world of distrust. Most of us have been in a state of stasis, but young people have known and felt the disintegration of belief in our leaders and the stories they tell us.
Researching conspiracy theory since 2012, I came across the theory of the 'Illuminati', for those who don't know, a supposed shadowy elite who control the media through messages in pop music, entertainment and intent on somehow ruling the world, spreading a 'New World Order' agenda of state control. Through my research I encountered a lot of conspiracy theory, I looked at false flag attacks, false news, alternative theories on almost every single mainstream news item, as well as theories on shadowy elites, occult sects, secret societies, modern witchcraft, assassinations and celebrity deaths.
The conspiracy theory is that the people who created and developed the brainwashing technique of MK Ultra teamed up with CIA and Disney to create automaton pop stars. MK Ultra was a CIA brainwashing programme that was carried out across Western Universities in an attempt to use experimental psychology to programme potential spies, soldiers and assassins. While it is historically agreed that MK Ultra did in fact take place, and many people were unwilling volunteers, there is no evidence that MK Ultra has continued past the early 1970's. The theory is that it did continue, with the MK Ultra doctors and the CIA directors teaming up with Walt Disney to attempt to brainwash singing and acting children, and turn them into programmed stars who would perform as puppets spreading messages to alter public consciousness.
Potential stars were brainwashed through MK Ultra torture techniques and programmed to be perfect performing pop stars. This was carried out through the Disney club and took several attempts before they struck gold with their first mainstream star, Britney Spears.
But one of the downsides of the MK Ultra brainwashing, is that the programming starts to falter as the victim ages, with the individuals own personality fighting back and trying to break through their brainwashing. The stars would have some kind of episode, often with the media reporting planted stories of drink or drug addictions, before the star is put into some kind of 'psychiatric unit' where, the public would be told they were having rehabilitation, but in actual fact they would be being re-programmed. The stars, now re-progammed by their 'handlers' then return to their grueling touring and performance schedules, often looking a little bit dazed, but mostly compliant until the next 'episode'.
This is supposed to have happened very famously to Britney, but also to Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan, and most recently to Kayne West.
So far, so bizarre.
While conspiracy theory can be seen as a joke- the preserve of the tin hat brigade, still obsessing about 9/11 and career suicide for academics, as I was told, I felt that this was a real phenomenon and one ripe for artistic exploration.
Hidden within pop music videos is a tick-list of illuminati symbols- symbols that tell the viewer if this artist is a puppet of the illuminati or not. These symbols include butterfly's (linked to monarch programming, a term for a certain type of brainwashing), triangles (THE sign of the illuminati and a symbol of the power of the elite over the masses) one eye and eye of Horus (links to Egyptology and the all seeing eye), birdcages (trapped), asylums (the brainwashing torture chambers), broken glass (symbolizing the shattered psyche), checkered floors (linked to freemasonry) and occult and satanic signs. If you don't believe me, try watching Keisha's Die Young video with this all in mind, and you'll soon see it.
But what this incredible world reveals is far more than just a crazy conspiracy theory that generally young people are aware of, and older people are not. This world holds up a mirror to where we are now. Do we all think we are stars now? Are we the stars in our own reality TV show, and each aspect of our lives defines our individuality? Each product we buy or activity we do shows how separate and special we are, but in fact we are not free, perhaps we have been sold a dream and we are living in a brainwashed state. We are living in our own bubble, we see our version of the truth, and live our lives surrounded by information that helps reinforce the bubble of reality we inhabit. And like our pop stars, our programming is starting to dysfunction, we are starting to see through our dream, and waking up from the sleepwalk that has taken us into the harsh reality of where we are now. As one young person put it succinctly; "we used to believe, we used to be told what was real by our leaders, but since recent events, we've been let down. Now we fend for ourselves'.
In this new world reality, it's not just the New World Order we need to be afraid of, it's our lack of leadership and the forces that fill this vacuum as we stumble along, half awake, half asleep. Or maybe we are just about to wake up, and realise that there is a new reality, just around the corner, or is it 'over the rainbow'?
Read the full interview with Rosie Kay on the Dance Tabs website.
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We've all had the experience of outgrowing something that used to be a problem for us in the past, and now as you think about that old situation, the pain has gone.
So what happened in order for us to overcome that challenge? Well, generally speaking; time passed, we moved on, gained new experiences, learned a few things, and obtained new perspectives.
Eventually we heal and/or transform our thinking, and it takes as long as we allow it to take.
What if you had a way of speeding up time (so to speak), so that your future learnings and perspectives could be available to you now? If it was possible, would you be interested in accessing your future knowledge and life experience so that you can use it now? To find out how that is possible, read on…
At a sub-conscious level, time does not even exist. Our direct experience, (even when our thoughts wander to the past or future) is always in the present. Some people believe that we are controlled by our past, but what if our current experience is what we're going through in order to have the future experience that awaits us?
Our future exists of an infinite number of potential possibilities. To a large extent we create our personal future internally first through our current thoughts and feelings, which then attract their coherent external reality.
So who plants the seeds which sprout into the thoughts and feelings that give rise to our future? Even if your answer is God, could it be that the future which you're going to experience is planting those seeds in your present? In any case, you get to choose which seeds to nurture and which to negate.
Entertaining this idea, even if only as a metaphor, enables us to imagine a future where we are well, and well over our current challenges. And according to Albert Einstein: "Imagination is the greatest creative force in the universe."
So with this in mind, you can fast-forward & get your future healing now by exploring the 7 steps below. These are an abbreviated form of one of the Authentic Self Empowerment methods which I elaborate on my Mind Over Matter CD/MP3.
Please note that the following steps are not intended to help people overcome grief, although they may prove to be useful to someone who has been grieving for a long time already and wants to be able to move on.
- How are you experiencing this problem / issue right now?
- What do you want to experience instead? (What is your desired outcome?)
- How far out into the future would you IMAGINE GOING until you've outgrown this issue and become TOTALLY RESOURCEFUL? Make sure to get a positive representation of a future time before moving on to step 4.
- Imagine being in your brighter future and feeling good. Become aware of the learnings, insights and resources that you need in your present.
- Beyond even this (your representation from 4.)…you can look back on how your life has unfolded perfectly.
- Bring all this wisdom and knowledge back into your body.
- NOW…what's the next smallest step that you can take which leads toward your desired outcome?
Our thoughts and mental images are the blueprint from which we build our present reality. We experience everything through the metaphors of our mind, including time. So, if the time to heal isn't now, then when will it be?
Enjoy your future now!
Written by Jevon Dangeli – NLP/Hypnotherapy Trainer & Coach


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Here at MDC, we are lucky enough to have a panel of experts to sound off on those topics that leave the everyday girl scratching her head. Today, for example, we asked hair guru Zachary Morad to spill on the tell-tale signs it's time for a haircut!
Has your hair been looking a little off? Something just isn't working, yet you can't put your finger on it. Chances are you're in need of a haircut. Many times we go to our stylist and request "just a trim," which is fine and will serve as a great temporary fix. However, if you're feeling like your hair is in need of a little extra love, it may be time for a bit of an overhaul. Not sure if this applies to you? Whether you have thin, fine hair, or have thick, voluminous curls, follow my guide below to find out if it's time for your hair to get a makeover!
Your Hair Refuses to Be Styled
Have you found yourself increasingly opting for a top knot or ponytail lately? If styling your hair has become somewhat of a hassle, it's probably been far too long since you've had a cut! Next time, you head to the salon, go for a look with sharp angles around your face.It will help your hair keep its shape longer and allow for longer stretches of time in-between snips.
Flat Strands
Are your blowouts not as voluminous as usual? Chances are that your hair is getting a little heavy and needs to be lightened up. Try going for a more layered look, it will help you maintain your volume and give you an added boost of texture! (In the meantime, try giving your roots a spritz with Kérastase Resistance Spray Volumifique.)
Lack of Shine
Another way you can always tell it's time for a major haircut is if you're noticing your hair is lacking in shine and vibrancy. Over time, as your hair grows and is subject to styling tools and other everyday wear-and-tear elements, it will start to lose its shine and begin to look dull. It's time to chop! For a temporary shine re-boost, try Garnier Fructis Brilliantine Shine Glossing Spray)
Tangled Tresses
Have you started to notice that your hair is getting tangled a lot easier and more often than usual ? This is probably because you need a little maintenance. Once the ends of your hair begin splitting, it can make it easier for your hair to get tangled. This is due to your cuticle losing the smoothness it had when it was healthy and freshly trimmed.
Getting a major cut not only updates your look, but revives your hair and restores its luster.
Now that you've seen this guide, do you think it could be time for a haircut? Spill in the comments below!
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How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Tme (B)
Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed.
It is not difficult for us to understand, or at least to think that we understand, Jesus' decision to leave, to be alone, far from all of his work and from all of the requests made by the whole town...gathered at the door of the mother-in-law of Simon. As a man, and so like us, Jesus Christ had his limits, the need to rest so he could find the strength to continue his work. Even though, being God, and so being the very source of all strength and energy, he would not have lacked the power to heal the sick and deliver those possessed by demons, he had all the same fundamental human needs, not the least of which is rest from work. And so, we cam imagine that, at the beginning of his earthly ministry, non yet accustomed to the crowds needing his help, Jesus found a moment for himself, a quiet moment of self-care.
However, such a reading, whatever truth there may be in it, misses something crucial about the life of Jesus. Jesus did not rise so early, he did not go off to a deserted place, to find and renew the strength necessary to take up again the healings and deliverances of the people of the town. As we read, after Simon and those who were with him had found Jesus and told him that the whole town was looking for him, Jesus revealed to them that he had no desire to return to those healings that he had dome in the city. Even though he had compassion for the people, his priority was that purpose for which he had come — the preaching of the Good News, of the Gospel. That is to say, his mission, his being send, more precisely his being sent by the Father, and so even more his identity as the Son, the Son send into the world by the Father but never absent from him — this mission and this identity, not his tiredness nor any kind of self-care, were at the heart of Jesus' prayer in the deserted place, early in the morning.
We, of course, are not sons of the Father by nature, and we have not been sent in the same way, with just the same saving mission of the eternal Son of God and his Paschal Mystery. We are, however, rightly and truly sons of the Father by our baptism; we are also, by our baptism and our confirmation, anointed by the same Spirit, and in that same Spirit partakers in the mission of Christ; some of us, moreover, are by our religious vows dedicated to preaching, and it is for us as preachers, no less than it was for Jesus in his earthly mission, to say, Let us go on to the nearby villages that we may preach there also. For this purpose have we come. Given all of this, it is also clear that our prayer, and in a particular way our private prayer, the prayer we make either physically or spiritually "early in the morning before dawn" in a "deserted place" ought to be rooted in this mission — the preaching of the Gospel — and in this identity — the filial participation in the mystery of God.
Brother and sisters, we all have a lot of work to do, and it is easy to feel sorry for ourselves, as though we were with Jesus in the house of Simon's mother-in-law, the whole town gathered at the door asking to see us, asking for our time and our energy. It is understandable that after our work, and after that sense that our work has been, and perhaps always will be, beyond our ability to accomplish, we desire a time, some time, brief or long, in which we can get some rest, be entertained, taste that dolce far niente during a few hours of idleness. It is understandable, and considering the weakness of our humanity, probably even justifiable. However, during these quiet moments, whether early in the morning or late at night or in a momentary pause between our daily tasks, we have even greater need of prayer. We need a life of prayer rooted non in the desire for energy to do even more work, nor in the desire to stop working and enjoy idleness, however necessary these both may be. What we need is a prayer rooted in the awareness of our identity — an identity received by the grace of the sacraments, an identity which we renew every time we celebrate the Mass and receive the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, an identity of being sons of God, partakers of the eternal life of the living God.
Filial prayer is not in the life, of course, a magic solution for our fatigue. Job's question is in a certain sense the question that will remain until the end of the world: Is not man's life on earth a drudgery?
Are not his days those of hirelings? Filial prayer does not take away the difficulties that belong in this world to our mission. We ought rather to say with St. Paul, If I preach the gospel, this is no reason for me to boast, for an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not preach it! Filial prayer, however can be, and it ought to be the source of our joy whether we are at work or at rest, in drudgery or in play. We are sons of the Father, and by grace and love, we can taste, even today, here and now, the sweetness of the immortal life of the Trinity, the life promised by our Savior, Jesus Christ.
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This is where the story takes place. The main character, Joe Mack, escapes from a prison in Siberia and is on the run in different locations within the taiga of Siberia for over a year.
Lake Baikal Region Prison
This is the prison barracks from which Joe Mack escapes from. This prison is surrounded by a ten-foot high electrified barbed wire fence.
Vanyushin's Cabin
This cabin is where Mack steals a sweat shirt, canned meat, and a knife in the beginning of his journey. Two geologists are staying in this cabin and they do not realize they have been robbed.
The Village
The village is a group of about 29 people who are on the run from the Russian government. They live in the mountains of Siberia and are left alone in exchange for furs they give to the Russian official in Aldan. Mack stays with this group...
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I'm so sorry to hear that Lana! You hit the very reasons I wear the high heels; I am taller than my Primary class (and can look some people in the eye) and I imagine they make me thinner (something about the ratio of pounds to inches I tell myself). Loved the post as always. Tang and bagels (or pretzles) was always the magic cure.
Pride Goeth Before the Fall
I should have learned my lesson in fourth grade…but some of us are slower than others. Back then I was desperate for clogs, not just any clogs—clogs with heels. Missy Scanzoni had the perfect clogs that clapped when she walked and made her look taller, prettier and most important of all, older. I asked my mom if I could have shoes like Missy Scanzoni and her response was "Absolutely not," or something to that end. (She was a smart and practical mom.) But somehow I knew I needed to wear those shoes. I hatched a plan. I convinced Missy to trade shoes during recess. I gave her some sparkly unicorn stickers, along with my sneakers, and she handed me her clogs. The moment was magical. Like Cinderella getting the glass slipper. I put them on and instantly I was beautiful; elegant, I could even run in them—ha, what did my mom know? I made sure everyone on the playground saw me wearing them. As I traipsed around the swings and jungle gym, I thought to myself, the next day we'll trade again—I had plenty of stickers.
But when the bell rang and I started back to class, my foot caught on a tree root. Ouch! My ankle turned. I wanted to cry. I couldn't walk. The teacher and my best friend Hilary Donahue had to carry me to the nurse's office. They called my mom before I had time to explain. "No, no, these aren't my shoes!" I still had on Missy's clogs! When the story was all told, the nurse called the teacher, the teacher called Missy. It was a big hullabaloo. Worst of all, the sympathy I'd gotten for my sprained ankle was gone. Everyone was mad. I was just the silly girl who wore someone else's shoes—really not so cool when you put it that way…gross! I spent the next day at home in recovery, drinking Tang, eating bagels, watching Gilligan's Island (it wasn't so bad).
My first day back at school, after we had stood for the Pledge, a voice came over the loudspeaker, "Recently we had a student injured during recess because she traded shoes. There will be no more trading shoes during school." I must have turned a thousand shades of red as I melted into my desk. (I don't remember much of fourth grade after that.)
But something about time heals old wounds…and makes us forget. This time it wasn't Missy's clogs I longed for, it was my sister Keri's shoe collection—the best, most amazing, most fantastic collection of platform heels you'd ever hope to own. Hot pink, leopard print, every shade of green you can imagine (her favorite color), some she'd even dyed herself with a Sharpie pen to match the color of an outfit (she's so clever), boots four inches off the ground. I'd been wearing flats for years, missing out on all this fashionista fun! Why not get some summer sandals with a platform heel? I'm almost 40, my mom can't say, "no!"
I bought a pair of sandals—white cloth across the toe, knotted with a rosebud print from the 1950's. They're adorable! The platform heel, 3 inches high, makes me tall enough I can almost look straight into Cooper's eyes. Yesterday was the first time I wore them to Church. For three hours I knew they'd be comfortable enough. No problem. I walked slowly, but that didn't matter, I need to be reverent, right? The new vantage point was incredible. I was towering. I didn't care about looking older, (like I did in fourth grade), I did believe, however they made me look thinner!
Driving home from Church, Cooper mentioned he got a lead on a house for rent on the island, (we're still searching.) We decided to stop by the address and what do you know, the owner was outside gardening. How lucky! He told Cooper we should take a look. I hurried out of the car as he reached to shake my hand. I stepped onto the gravel driveway and suddenly my ankle turned. The elderly gentleman did what he could to grab hold as I teetered sideways. If not for his grip I would have surely gone down hard on the sharp stones. He lectured me afterwards, (like a trained parent), warning of rocks and shoes with heels. It sounded familiar. Thoughts of clogs, Missy Scanzoni, and my mother's stern but always loving face came rushing back to mind. So did the embarrassment of being clumsy.
I spent the evening with frozen vegetables on my ankle along with my essential oils—lemongrass and deep blue. I kept my foot elevated, wishing I had Tang and bagels, worried this injury was going to stop me from hiking the trails. I wanted sympathy, but it was hard to accept when I knew it was my own darn fault. So much for fashion and my pride. I think maybe I learned my lesson this time. (Mom you were right.) The next time I see something that I'm sure will make me prettier, thinner or more amazing, it just better not come with a three-inch heel.
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How can a sad story be so funny? It is because of the delightful way you write your personal history, while keeping us up to date on what is going on. Lesson here….I love my flats and I am sticking with them. That is the truth and for real!


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Otherwise, I'm still waiting to hear from: Aberrant Dreams, Aeon, Fantasy, and Talebones on other stories.
February rejections from: Glimmertrain and Son & Foe.
Apart from that I've been making progress on the novel (working out characters and plot details), watching the Olympics, and working with Morocha. I still don't have a saddle, but it's supposed to be delivered on Friday!


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KATRINA: Hurricane Victims Say Agents Advised Against Flood Coverage
Six weeks before Hurricane Katrina tore up the Gulf Coast of Mississippi last August, Dr. Munson Hinman went to see his insurance agent to buy flood coverage for his home near the beach.
He had a blank check in his pocket, but, Dr. Hinman testified in Federal District Court here on Tuesday, the agent talked him out of buying the coverage.
"He didn't tell me directly not to get it,'' Dr. Hinman recalled. "But in a roundabout way he said it wasn't necessary. He was emphatic about that it wasn't necessary.''
Dr. Hinman, a chiropractor, was testifying in a lawsuit against Nationwide Insurance that could force the Ohio company and other insurers to pay out billions of dollars for claims of flood damage from Hurricane Katrina and other storms that they have previously denied. Mr. Hinman's home was heavily damaged in the hurricane.
The insurers have said their policies specifically rule out coverage for floods.
But Richard F. Scruggs, a Pascagoula lawyer who rose to prominence as he helped win a $250 billion settlement from the tobacco industry a few years ago, argues that in selling home insurance with many references to windstorms and hurricanes, Nationwide and other insurers led customers to believe that any hurricane damage - whether from wind or water - would be covered.
That perception was reinforced, Mr. Scruggs said in an interview, by agents who suggested to customers like Dr. Hinman that they did not need to buy the separate coverage for flood damage that is provided by the federal government and sold through agents.
"They thought they had all they needed,'' Mr. Scruggs said.
Representing Nationwide, Daniel F. Attridge, a lawyer for the Chicago firm of Kirkland & Ellis, argued in court that the company's home insurance policy was unambiguous in its exclusion of flood damage.
For wind damage alone from Hurricane Katrina, the insurers are paying more than $30 billion and the federal government expects to pay another $25 billion to those homeowners in the region who bought separate flood insurance policies.
Katrina is already the most costly hurricane ever. But tens of thousands of residents who lost their homes have been left without money to rebuild because the insurers say most of the storm damage came from flooding rather than high winds. Many homeowners are applying for federal grants.
The lawsuit against Nationwide is unfolding before Federal Judge L. T. Senter Jr. of the Southern District of Mississippi in a city still crippled from the storm. Its downtown is filled with patched-up buildings, many of them empty. Many streetlights and phones are still not working. Piles of rubble rise two stories high along some side streets.
The new concrete and glass federal courthouse was also damaged by the hurricane and has yet to reopen fully.
Many homeowners have complained that they received less than they expected for wind damage because they were told by their insurers that they were entitled to receive payments only for damage to roofs and other parts of their house above the highest water stains on their walls.
Mr. Scruggs addressed that issue on Wednesday by leading a private meteorologist, Rocco Calaci, through a detailed accounting of the movement of wind and waves along the Mississippi on Aug. 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina struck.
According to Mr. Calaci's testimony, hurricane-force winds battered the coast for hours before water rushed over the land, knocking down houses and trees. High winds, he said, continued for several more hours after the water had receded.
Several people who rode out the storm in their homes testified earlier that, in their neighborhoods near the Alabama border, the water rose slowly and gradually to more than five feet in their homes.
That was in contrast to the sudden surge of water, three stories high, that smashed across the beach around Bay St. Louis and Waveland to the west, at the Louisiana border.
But all along the Mississippi coast, residents say, their homes suffered heavy wind damage long before the water began to rise.
Testimony in the trial began Monday and may continue into next week. By agreement of both parties, Judge Senter is serving as judge and jury.
The lawsuit pits Nationwide against a couple from Pascagoula, Paul Leonard, a police lieutenant, and his wife, Julie, who runs a child care business. They estimated their modest two-story house suffered $130,000 in damage that Nationwide says was mostly from floodwater.
The Leonards' lawyers estimate that $72,000 of the damage came from wind. But they say the insurance company is obliged to pay the whole $130,000. The Leonards' lost another $28,000 in furnishings and clothing, they said. The insurance company has so far paid them $1,600 to account for the loss of a few roof shingles and at least one broken window.
The Leonards' lawsuit is the first to go trial in a dispute that may eventually involve thousands of plaintiffs and dozens of lawyers.
Mr. Scruggs - who is arguing the case with his son Zach; a colleague from northern Mississippi, Don Barrett; and John Jones from Jackson, Miss. - said he had already filed suit on behalf of about 2,000 clients seeking redress from their insurers, including Senator Trent Lott, who is both a neighbor of Mr. Scruggs in Pascagoula and his brother-in-law; and Representative Gene Taylor of Bay St. Louis.
Many of those attending the trial are lawyers for other clients and they are taking detailed notes.
Mr. Scruggs, whose waterfront home was heavily damaged by Katrina, said he chose to pursue the claims individually or, perhaps eventually in groups, rather than as a class action mainly because it could take years to receive court certification for a class action. "Time is of essence,'' Mr. Scruggs said in the interview. "These people need the insurance money to rebuild.''
Dr. Hinman, who lives near Mr. Leonard, testified that he received nearly $137,000 from Nationwide shortly before the trial.
Joe Case, a spokesman for Nationwide, said the company decided to resolve Dr. Hinman's complaint that he had been misled by adjusting his claim as if he had bought flood insurance. But Mr. Case said the company continued to dispute that others had been treated unfairly.
Testifying as the first witness on Monday, Mr. Leonard said he asked his Nationwide agent, Jay Fletcher, whether he needed flood insurance shortly after Hurricane Georges in 1998.
"He told me I didn't need it,'' Mr. Leonard told the court. The two men did not discuss the issue again, and part of Nationwide's defense in the lawsuit is that the statute of limitations has run out for Mr. Leonard.
In an interview, Mr. Scruggs said that advice provided by the insurance agent, who is not a defendant in the lawsuit, amounted to an expansion of the home insurance contract, and signaled to Mr. Leonard and other customers that nothing more than the homeowners' policy was needed for hurricane protection.
Mr. Attridge, the lawyer representing Nationwide, said Mr. Fletcher was not authorized to expand the coverage, and Mr. Fletcher never explicitly told clients that their policies would protect them from hurricane flooding.
Lawyers for Nationwide also acknowledged that Mr. Fletcher himself had not bought flood insurance. By the time of Katrina, the lawyers said, Mr. Fletcher had sold flood insurance to 180 of his 1,200 Nationwide home insurance customers. Along the Mississippi coast, fewer than 20 percent of all homeowners bought flood insurance and many now say they thought their home insurance policies would cover any kind of hurricane damage.
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He added, "We hope the court will find Nationwide acted appropriately.''
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While the film debut of Deadpool in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine proved to be far from a success story, Ryan Reynolds never stopped pushing for the creation of a Deadpool solo movie that could possibly redeem the character in the eyes of moviegoers. That film finally arrived in early 2016, shocking the world by turning into one of the biggest critical and commercial hits of the year, and earning a sustained push for an Oscar nomination from many.
With that kind of success under their belts, one would think Fox might opt to stay the creative course for the upcoming Deadpool 2. Surprisingly enough though, that hasn't been the case. Back in October, Deadpool director Tim Miller left the sequel, reportedly due to creative differences with producer and star Reynolds. Shortly after, composer JunkieXL exited from the project, citing Miller's departure as his reason. John Wick co-helmer David Leitch would eventually come aboard and fill the directing void.
Now, according to Collider, it appears that Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are out of Deadpool 2 as well. The duo has reportedly been replaced by Drew Goddard, working alongside Reynolds himself. Goddard and Reynolds are said to be currently hard at work on the screenplay for Deadpool 2, which still has yet to be given a formal release date by Fox. How far Reese and Wernick got with their script, whether any of their work is being retained by Goddard and Reynolds, and why exactly they are no longer involved with the film are all questions that have yet to be answered.
[Update: In response to the breaking news of Goddard's involvement, Ryan Reynolds shared on social media that Reese and Wernick are still involved with writing the picture, and that they are "the heartbeat of the whole thing."]
.@RhettReese and Paul Wernick are still very much writing the screenplay. They're the heartbeat of the whole operation. https://t.co/7XyZvUlUSi
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) February 23, 2017
Goddard of course brings a lot of built-in genre credibility to his work on Deadpool 2, having been a long-time disciple of Joss Whedon. Goddard cut his teeth in Hollywood by penning episodes of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, before later writing and directing the Whedon-produced, critically acclaimed horror-comedy The Cabin in the Woods. Goddard also wrote the J.J. Abrams-produced monster flick Cloverfield, as well as the Brad Pitt zombie epic World War Z. Arguably Goddard's crowning achievement to date though is creating, writing for, and executive producing Netflix's Daredevil series.
It remains to be seen why exactly Reese and Wernick left or were let go from scripting duties on Deadpool 2, so it's obviously too early to say if their departure - like Miller's before them - is in any way tied to creative differences with Reynolds. Considering Goddard's resume though, he seems as good a replacement choice as any. Only time will tell how different his sensibilities end up being than those of his predecessors.
Next: Deadpool 2 Potential Filming Start Date Revealed
Source: Collider


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RICHMOND, Va. – The VCU Basketball family got bigger on Thursday afternoon with the start of the NCAA signing period.
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Lyles (pictured, left) is a three-star recruit out of national power DeMatha High School. The 6-1 combo guard averaged nearly 11 points and three assists en route to leading the Stags to Washington Catholic Athletic Conference finals, which included a 20-point, six-assist outburst against Bishop O'Connell. He chose VCU after being pursued by Oklahoma State, Penn State and Virginia Tech.
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Lewis (pictured, right) is a three-star recruit out of Dickson County High School. The 6-1 point guard has been praised for his speed and ability to create plays for his teammates, as well as finish around the glass. He averaged 19.6 ppg, 3.9 spg, 3.7 apg during his junior season when he led the Cougars to 21 victories. He landed with the Rams after receiving interest from Georgia and Wichita State.
"JeQuan is a very talented point guard who has all the makings of someone who can excel at the position in our program," Smart said. "Specifically, his quickness and ability to change speeds will allow him to thrive in our system."
"He could go down as the steal of the A-10," Telep stated. "VCU spent time in Tennessee cultivating relationships and when Lewis showed he had the mental and basketball makeup of a Ram, they were there ahead of the pack. This is a BCS conference level guard."
Simmons is VCU's third three-star recruit. The 6-9 big man out of South Miami was recently rated as the 25th overall center in the class of 2013 by ESPN.com and gives the Rams valuable depth on the interior. As a junior, Simmons averaged 26 ppg and 15 rpg and is praised for his ability to run the floor and score with his back to the basket. He chose VCU after gaining interest from Alabama, Georgia, Kansas State, Miami and Memphis.
"Tre possesses a great body and doesn't mind using it," Smart said. "He carves out space and seals extremely well around the basket. He also possesses very good skill and touch for a big man. His ability to finish around the basket makes him a great addition to our frontcourt."
"Four years ago, the Rams went to California for their center," Telep said. "D.J. Haley played in two NCAA tournaments and his size had to be replaced. Smart did it a year ahead of schedule with this aircraft carrier."


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I woke up to a notification from a user named Master Beta, and it made me want to respond with NO. FUCK YOU. DIAF. But I think I should just dismiss him.
WHY. WHY are women seen as over-sensitive and "hysterical" and told to calm down about this shit.
How could we not get upset? How could we not make a fuss and demand some change?
No human being deserves to be treated like this, whether IRL or online.
My god, this poor woman. My heart goes out to her.
So apparently I actually wanted some ManThoughts (silly lady brain, what do I know what I want!) and this charming fellow was kind enough to respond:
Let me explain:
The guy (presumably it's a guy) who made these comments is doing it to provoke a reaction. It's bullying 101. They will say whatever gets the biggest response to whomever gives the biggest response.
Hence if you "make a fuss and demand some change", you have given the bully/troll exactly what they were after and you are just exacerbating the issue.
Anita is like manure to flies with this stuff, because she even gives the troll publicity. Which is one reason they target her etc.......
You must have been told when you were younger that the best approach to verbal abuse is to not let it get to you? The abuser often loses interest.
Ohhhh, we're asking for it by speaking up for our rights you say? How silly of us, we'll shut up the fuck up and leave the trolls to it in future. THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR LOOKING OUT FOR THE STUPID WOMENZ!