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The month of November is not only known as the month that kicks off the holiday season but it is also National Novel Writing Month. What does that mean? In short it is a month where writers sit down with their ideas and try to produce 50,000 new words for their novel. 50K words in 1 month is not an easy task, or at least it isn't for me. The whole exercise is a challenge for me because I can not self edit during the writing process. I tend to write the same sentence over and over until I "get it right", this is a slow a aggravating process that burns me out before I have written two or three chapters. I am not really sure why I fall into that style of writing, it clearly doesn't work for me. NaNoWriMo forces me to just keep writing over the speed bumps.
This year was my third year taking on the challenge. My first year I completed the first draft of a 51k word novel, to be honest it wasn't the best work I have ever done but it was a novel with a beginning, middle and end. It even had a pretty good story. It needs a second draft and I am remiss to admit that I have not gone back to it. The second year I was all gun-ho, I had an idea that was pretty good and was ready for November 1st to roll around. I admit I was over confidant. After all the previous year I finished with a handful of days to spare. Within three days the wheels flew off the car and I was completely stymied. I couldn't write a sentence, it was more than just writer's block it was as if the ability to write was stripped away from me. I gave up before week one was even over.
I was so discouraged that I wasn't interested in trying again and it wasn't until my wife stepped in that I settled myself in to try again. This year I was able to blow it out of the water, I finished the month with over 60k words! Here are things that I did different this year that really made a difference.
- I spent the month of October getting my Scrivener project set up. That means more than just creating a new project. I explored the application tips and tricks to find out what really worked for me and set up the project to reflect what allowed me to get the most out of the tool.
- I also created (in Scrivener) an outline of the entire story from beginning to end, and allowed myself the room to change that outline during the challenge.
- I spent time writing character sketches for all the major characters and one sentence summaries for most of the minor ones.
- Then on October 31st I looked at a calendar and based on work and family commitments I scheduled time allotments for each day. I was realistic with each day, some days I was able to set aside a few hours and there were days where I could only set aside 30 minutes. But every day had some writing time. My wife was great and understanding when it came to my writing time, she even allowed me to squeeze in a few extra hours here and there.
- Because I am a bit of an analytics geek (day job influence) I created an Excel Spreadsheet to track writing session rates and metrics that actually made it a bit of a game for me, I even built in rewards for every 5k words written.
- Each day when I wrote, I found a quiet place to write where I could stay focused.
That looks all fine and good but at the end the reason I was able to write so much in such a short amount of time was that I really became attached to story and the characters. I spent a lot of time getting to know them during preparation, I knew where I needed the story to go and was invested in the journey.
Now for the sad part. While I finished the challenge with a rate of just over 2k words per day, I was unable to keep up the pace and when November ended I fell off the writing train. My manuscript has sat for a month and a half almost untouched. I am now trying to set up a new calendar (just like I did going into the challenge) and a new spreadsheet that can keep the game going. I am kicking off in February with a goal of another 30k words (estimated to complete the first draft), I just need to get a rate of just over 1k words a day.
If you are interested in learning more please check out the official NaNoWriMo site


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|Lenora Andres
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
|Hi, I am working with the committee planning our 55th reunion! The date and place has been set, and more will follow! We are doing this ourselves, so keeping the price down AS LOW AS WE CAN GO AND STILL HAVE A NICE REUNION! Look for an email or information on Facebook (you can be invited in by anyone on FB who is already on - just to be approved by Lance Lambert, who started this group a number of years ago!) Word of mouth - so please spread the word, but get them to get us their email address, all contact information, and continue to pass the word!
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|Erla Elizabeth Kiteley "E"
Thursday, July 9, 2015
|My life has been very interesting since graduating from Stadium High School and spending a few years at TCC. I was a bit of a gypsy when it came to settling down - both in vocation and location. I had several unusual jobs in the sixties from a receptionist, model, artist, bartender, and dancer. I worked at an ice cream shop, library and insurance agency - finally getting hired as a stewardess (what I was called at my hire date in 1969). I flew for 35 years and retired in 2006. During that time I raised twin boys and a daughter. I have traveled much but now enjoy spending time at home in the Northwest. After retirement I returned to my first love -Art - and have been painting ever since. However the joy of my life has been being a mother; My sons and daughter are my best creations! I I have lost two dear grandsons - one to SIDS at three months and the other to a rare Zellweger disorder which took his life at four years. From this - I have learned to appreciate every moment in life; I cherish my friends and love the simplest moments and things in life. My love of painting and a small level of success has enabled me to donate from time to time to Childten's Hospital. There is nothing more dear than the face of an innocent little one who bravely faces daily health issues . The lessons I have learned from them. In the future I hope to travel a little more...spend time with my one 13 yr old grandson and keep busy with wonderful, caring friends who have enriched my life and made a difference in the lives of others. Our upcoming reunion will be a hectic but rewarding time to reacquaint with the young children of the 60's. I will cherish each memory and moment we share.%uD83D%uDC99
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Saturday, July 4, 2015
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|Tamara (Starkey) Smith
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
|After granduation I attended TCC for a year and then transferred to UPS where I earnd a BA in elementary Education. A Month after graduation I married Richard Smith and moved to Torrance, California where teaching positions wlere waiting for us. We have a son and daughter who have given us 5 wonderful grandsons ranging in age from 7 to 14. Our daughter is a teacher on leave to raise her 3 boys and our son is an Engineer with CAL-FIRE. I worked in Torrance Unified School district for 38 years, Nineteen in the classroom and the remainder as an administrator. I retired as an Elemantary Principal. In retirement I love traveling, spending time with family and friends, and scrapbooking. My husband and I belong to Corvettes of Southern California. We own a '62 white vette with red interior and an'11 bright orange vette with tan interior. I have traveled to all 50 state and visited all of the capitols and DC. My current goals are to visit the remaining seven California Missions and all seven continents and as many countries as possible.
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|Erica (Honeywell) Posner
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Blissfully married to my high school sweetheart after 46 years, Terry and I have been enjoying being grandparents to our daughtter's three (10, 7 & 4), who thankfully live close by. Our son in Chicago isn't quite done playing around before he settles down. Terry still works full time and I love being retired. I somehow manage to fill my days puttering and being entertained by the birds at the feeders outside my windows. (Son's comment on his last visit as I excitedly pointed out the plethora of chickadees, "Mom...you are now officially an old person.")
The thing is, I don't feel like an old person. I don't even regard my mom (still sharp,active and independent at 94, God bless her) as an old person. I do love my afternoon naps, but who doesn't? What a relief to finally be okay with not having goals in life; to get up each day, stretch, brew a cup of coffee, talk or not talk, then do or not do something productive. Life is good!
I'm looking forward to our reunion.
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|Susan rutherford
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
|Can it really be our 50th? Yikes! Too many years to cover. Some great, some not so great and some just flat out incredible! Fifty years with same man, one son, three grandchildren..all perfect of course. Well loved, kept in touch with friends, buried some,learned much about life along the way. Finally know whats important, or at least think I do. Looking forward to catching up on and renewing old friendships and acquaintances. Bring your dancing shoes Bobbie jean!
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|David Price
Friday, June 5, 2015
Greetings from Denver, where I have lived since the early 70s. I came here for graduate school (they offered me money) and did not expect to stay because I missed the water. But I kept getting jobs and then formed a company with a friend. I am still working as President of a small non-profit organization I formed in the mid-80s. I consult with courts and justice systems, and with human services agencies around the country. Retirment is probably a few years away.
I have been lucky in life and am very happy. My life took a strange turn in the late 60s when my dad accepted a job in Turkey and I ended up graduating from college in Beirut, Lebanon (The American University of Beirut). I was drafted before I entered graduate school and served in Viet Nam as an interrogator/translator. I finished graduate school in Denver and then traveled for a year in South and Central America (one of many travel experiences). I have been working at various jobs ever since, both as a vocation (researcher) and an avocation (waiter/bartender, exercise instructor).
I assume you are as surprised as I that we have come this far. I am not certain where this journey will end, but I will continue to have fun living. Although I have cut back on my paid work, I cntinue to volunteer on several fronts. For example, I am serving as President of my neighborhood association in downtown Denver (art museum, capitol, library), serve on a couple of boards and perform pro bono work for public agencies. I am expecting to live to be 100, which is not too ambitious these days. That age seems very distant to me now, but I know the time will pass quickly.
I have fond memories of my years at Stadium and I am looking forward to reconnecting with all of you at our 50th reunion. CONGRATULATIONS to all of us.
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|Suzanne Smith
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
|My husband, Dan Meyer (married 48 years) retired last summer from our auto collision repair business in Tacoma after 30 years. We live in Gig Harbor and do quite a bit of traveling. We have two children and 3 grandchildren. They all live in Gig Harbor, which makes it fun. We will be on a trip in July, so, we might not make it home for the reunion.
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|Lenora Roberts Andres
Thursday, February 26, 2015
|I'm still married to Tom (46 years!), two married daughters, one with 2 boys, ages 6 and 8 and the other with 1 1/2 year old girl and 13 year old boy. We really enjoy being grand parents! Tom and I have liked to travel - although those long flights are getting to be too long! We belong to two car clubs (Gallopin' Gertie's Model A Club and Steeds), so lots of social time with friends from these clubs. We are getting ready to downsize to a more carefree living style home and yard, and are looking forward to a very active 55 and over community. I have been on our reunion committee every single reunion, and have enjoyed getting to know a lot more people than I knew in high school!
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|Jerry K Otto
Friday, January 16, 2015
After High school I attended Green River Jr. College for aircraft design. Before I got a job with Boing I got my draft notice and joined the Navy. After 4 years in the Navy I was then into electronics. I joined the local telephone company(Pacific Northwest Bell) now Century Link. I spent 35 years working as an inside electronic tech( Central Office tech). after retiring in 2005 I hired on with the Puyallup School district as a custoidian. I work at Aylen Jr. High School .
I collect stamps, have many house plants, and enjoy reading. I ride my motorcycle whenever I can. I have two daughters and a son, 8 grand children, and 3 great grand children. two small ChiPom puppies and tropical fish. Have been married three times, my last wife and I have been married for 26 years.
I have never been to a reunion yet and am looking forward to the 50th. Not sure I will know anyone but it will be fun connecting. I feel lucky to have always lived in Tacoma, except for part of the time I was in the Navy.
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I have a gambling problem.
For years, I've had trouble turning down a good wager, particularly if it involved a sporting event. I think after watching sporting events for so long — as is required by my job — I got jaded to all but the most thrilling of athletic endeavors and it takes a little something extra to spice things up for me to hold my interest.
Hence, my gambling problem.
Now the Supreme Court has seen fit to allow individual states to decide if they want to allow sports gambling within their borders. I suppose that will be nice for some of you, but in all honestly, it won't affect me all that much.
You see, the good thing is my habit has never cost my a lot of money, mostly because I don't have a whole lot of it to gamble. So I tend to use other forms of currency — often in the form of some sort of unsavory chore around the house with my wife or some sort of public humiliation with one of my coworkers. No money is ever exchanged — but one's dignity often is.
Sometimes this works out in my favor — as an example, the time I won a March Madness bracket bet with TDN reporter Twin and she had to work a shift in the Heywood Elementary School carnival dunk tank. Sometimes this doesn't work out so well for me, such as the time I lost a bet playing miniature golf with my wife in Myrtle Beach and had to spend the next day buried in the sand.
As unpleasant as the consequences of those wagers can sometimes be, however, they are generally over in a few hours, everyone has a good laugh at the loser's expense and there are never any life-altering consequences.
Until a few weeks ago, that is.
Two years ago, my daughter was entering Troy Junior High School and had hopes of becoming a pole vaulter on the school track and field team. She made it her immediate goal to break the school record in the event before she left the junior high. Now, thanks in large part to coaching she had received from local vaulting gurus Herb Hartman and Roger Bowen, I knew my daughter was a good vaulter, but I still didn't think she was in any danger of breaking the school record.
That's because the school record was set by Christine Moser, a state qualifier and currently the second-best vaulter in Troy High School history. It wasn't so much that I thought my daughter was that bad, as much as I realized just how good Christine — now a senior at Troy — really is.
Still, though, I wanted some sort of motivation for my daughter … something she could keep working for even though she probably never would break the school record. So I asked what would be a decent prize if she were to actually break the record.
She said she wanted a dog.
As you may remember, The Great Dog Debate has been going on in the Fong household ever since my wife and I were married. She has always wanted one, I never have. Once we started having children, the pressure to get a dog only intensified, as both the kids and my wife were now pushing for a dog, but I held firm. The way I figured it, there was only room for one flea-bitten mongrel in the Fong household, and we already had one named "Daddy."
While I was outnumbered, I was able to stand my ground for years and seemed to be winning the battle. I figured all I had to do was hold off four more years until my daughter went to college and then war would be won. But when she asked if she could get a dog if she broke the Troy Junior High School pole vault record, I figured it was a win-win situation for me.
She would have motivation to work hard and continue to improve — and likely would fall just short of breaking the record, meaning we wouldn't have to get a dog. How could I possibly lose?
Of course, as the folks in Las Vegas know, the house always wins. In this case, it was the rest of the Fong house.
Earlier this spring, my daughter vaulted 9 feet, 2 inches at Northmont, good enough to break the school record by 5 inches. The second after she landed on the mat, she sprang up, looked right at me, absolutely beaming, and said, "We're getting a puppy!"
As it would turn out, she'd break her own record again last weekend at the Ohio High School Athletic Association 7th and 8th Grade State Championships, vaulting 9'3," good enough for fourth place in the entire state of Ohio. Thank God I never bet her she could get a puppy each time she broke the record.
I am, of course, a man of my word, which means this summer we'll be looking around shelters and pet rescue agencies for a dog that best fits our family's lifestyle. My daughter is excited, and also started to look ahead to her high school pole vaulting career.
Just the other day she asked me, "Dad, if I break the high school record, can I get a new car?"
I'm hope I can resist the temptation to enter into that wager … but I doubt it.
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My client, AAA Ohio, uses Lotus Notes internally and within the last week the preheader is not showing up, but rather the <title> is showing up as the preheader in Lotus iNotes (Lotus Notes' app for iPhone). I've started just putting in the preheader as the title, which isn't a big deal, but it's just really strange! FYI, I'm using ExactTarget/Salesforce Marketing Cloud as my ESP. Anyone else run into this issue?


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The Gravity Maze is a mind puzzle that will test your kids visual acuity and their logic skills by getting them to create a track that will move a marble from the highest point to the lowest point. You can stack, move, re-arrange and rotate the stacks to create the perfect path for the marble. They will have fun for hours, since the kit comes with sixty different puzzles and four different levels of difficulty. If they get stumped… the solution is on the back of the card.
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Crèche is available in the church hall on Sunday mornings during the church service. Infants and children are welcome to join crèche at any time during the service. Parents are also welcome to stay with their child and use the crèche facilities.
There are a number of Sunday morning services throughout the year including 'All Age Services' when crèche is unsupervised. Please feel free to take your child to the crèche room where the toys and books will be available at any time during these services.
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Gallery Aaldering
Gallery Aaldering is a family owned business since 1975. Founder Nico Aaldering and his son Nick are responsible for operational and executive management. The company has been in Brummen since 1987 and started on the location where we currently have our second workshop and detailing shop.
As a family owned business Gallery Aaldering is proud of its history and traditions, but the future is just as important. At the heart of this all is the passion for classic automobiles. For that reason we participate in the most impressive classic car rally in the world, the Mille Miglia.
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|Arnhemsestraat 47, 6971 AP Brummen, Netherlands
We have a very nice Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Coupe on offer. Supplied from new on the 22nd May 1975 by Dick Ventura Volkswagen Inc. in Quincy, Illinois. We have obtained the car from its first owner, a fact borne out by the accompanying documentation. Every original book is still present, from the owners
manual, service book, guarantee certificates, customer id card to even the sales document holder from 1975. The first/only owner had kept the car for some 43 years and amazingly had only been driven 4,268 miles! This is one of the last Karmann cars ever built in Osnabrück, where production stopped on the 31st July 1974. It is finished in the original and special "Ravenna Green" with beige vinyl trim and carpets. The cars authentic interior is in top condition. It is absolutely amazing that this car has retained over 90% of its first coat of paint! The bodywork is phenomenally straight with perfect body panel fittings. The hubcap edges are nice and thin and the even the sills are in their first coat of paint. It has retained its matching numbers original '1600 AH' engine. Two years ago all the gaskets are replaced. The work done is backed up with the invoices. This Karmann has a rev-counter, a feature we had never seen before. This is a well-documented, low mileage, top quality Karmann with a very special colour finish, the like of which there is no other. Truly unique! Gallery Aaldering is Europe's leading Classic Cars specialist since 1975! Always 300-350 Classic and Sportscars in stock, please visit www.gallery-aaldering.com for the current stock list (all offered cars are available in our showroom) and further information. We are located near the German border, 95 km from Düsseldorf and 90 km from Amsterdam. So easy traveling by plane, train, taxi and car. Transport and worldwide shipping can be arranged. No duties/import costs within Europe. We buy, sell and provide consignment sales (selling on behalf of the owner). We can arrange/provide registration/papers for our German (H-Kennzeichen, TÜV, Fahrzeugbrief, Wertgutachten usw.) and Benelux customers. Gallery Aaldering, Arnhemsestraat 47, 6971 AP Brummen, The Netherlands. Tel: 0031-575-564055. Quality, experience and transparency is what sets us apart. We look forward to welcoming you in our showroom


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text: UN Millennium Development GoalsIn September 200, building upon a decade of United Nations conferences and summits, world leaders came together at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets - with a deadline of 2015 - that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals.Task1. Choose one (1) of the UN Millennium Goals state the goal.2. Explain whether they expect that goal to be met or not met.3. Why do you think that they have been able or unable to meet that goal?To complete the task, click HERE.Links


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Determine Your Face Shape
One of the basic steps to choosing a hair and also a makeup style is to determine your face shape. Some would rely om their intuition when opting for shades and designs, however specialists claim that these modern arts are just as complex as fashion and possesses some well-defined rules and guiding principles that enhance the success of our selection. Those who are keen to decide in which category they belong to and implicitly what are the main styles and qualities that complement their look have the chance to skim through the characteristics of the four basic face shapes.
Types of Face ShapesOur face shape can have a crucial importance when we decide to choose the best makeup products and tones. Moreover it can also influence your hair style selection as well as basic outfits. Our facial features though unique in their own can still be categorized according to various principles. Therefore it is important to know which group do we belong to when it comes of the lines of the face as well as various angles and shapes. Specialists defined four types of face shapes in order to group people with different facial traits. The main goal of the professionals was to simplify the art of makeup as well as the selection of ideal colors and designs. Those who are keen to explore the realm of measurements and facial analysis will be thrilled to look through the various types of face shapes and their signature characteristics.
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The Deep Web, often called the Hidden Web, Dark Web or Invisible Web, is a part of the Internet that is not indexed by regular search engines and often not reachable using ordinary web browsers you use on a daily basis, but additional software is required to run on your computer in order to be able
The Deep Web, often called the Hidden Web, Dark Web or Invisible Web, is a part of the Internet that is not indexed by regular search engines and often not reachable using ordinary web browsers you use on a daily basis, but additional software is required to run on your computer in order to be able to access it. It is the home of illegal, or partly legal stuff. You can find anything in the deep web, from illegal porn and drug dealers to assassins willing to kill anyone you want, for a reasonable price. You can also watch live shows where people kill someone for money. On most occasions these shows are free to watch while "director" of the show pays the price and orders how person will be tortured/killed (usually young women). These chilling facts are so disturbing considering that some of these shows work on hourly basis. Meaning each hour someone is tortured while hundreds of people watch free of charge. "Director" pays any price from $1000 to $5000 and it is charged more if there are any unusual requests during the show.
Animal cruelty is probably the most demanded freak show on the dark web. Show called "crush porn" has its own forum and large member database. It is extreme cruelty show where naked women crush small animals with their genitals (usually breasts) during the bizarre sex show. Animals such as rabbits, hamsters are the ones that are mostly used in these god forbidden acts. U.S. government has taken action against these cruel individuals and together with Silk Road website (drug trade) they have taken down dozen actresses and directors of these live shows.
Why would anyone want to access it anyway, you may ask? Well, not everything in the deep web is necessarily illegal. Sometimes people just want privacy or desire to hide their (legal) activities from other people and the Government. There is a banned books library, fake ID services for almost any country in the world and many other services that we do not feel naming in this article. Almost any deep web software will, besides access to the deep web, give you full anonymity online too. One of the most known websites that was constantly accessible in the deep web was Wikileaks.
It is assumed that vast majority of content on the Internet is buried in the deep web. One of the most known tools to access deep web is Tor project. It allows you to connect to the Internet through other Tor users' computers, giving you full anonymity online. However, dark web security experts laugh at the notion that Tor is all you need to protect yourself. With emerging crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, deep web now has monetary anonymity. Our world has reached another level of wickedness and most of us can't even imagine, not even in the worst nightmares, how heinous it can be.


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Retired Norwich Fire Department LT. Doug Smith faithfully served the citizens of Norwich for 30 years and is now in need of our support.
LT. Smith was recently diagnosed with liver and colon cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. His friends, Canterbury Volunteer Fire Company Inc., and fellow Norwich firefighters have organized a benefit pasta supper in his honor on Friday, January 5, 2018 at the Canterbury, CT town hall. See the Facebook Funds for Hope link for more information.
Starting Tuesday, December 26, 2017 tickets for the benefit pasta dinner will be available for purchase at the City of Norwich Fire Department Headquarters located at 10 North Thames St. Norwich, CT. Tickets are $10 for an adult and $5 for children 12 years old and younger.
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My name is Venus.
An introvert, a dog lover, a book reader, anime blogger and a few more things that fall in the realms of introverting.
I like listening to music and my preference is in pop, though I don't shut my doors for rock and classics when mood demands it. BTS and Spyair are my current preference. TVXQ 8 years ago. Prior to that is a playlist full of anime songs. And nothing but anime.
But times change. Preferences change. But one thing that doesn't is the fact that I am an introvert and I enjoy doing things alone. Not a complete anti-social, mind you. But doing things 'solo' is how I function.
I'm a freelance writer by preference and a full-time coordinator by financial needs.
I love books. I love reading. And I dream to be an author.
Dream come true…
And yes, believe it or not, I just became AN AUTHOR like less than a month ago….My debut work – Caffeinated Solitude
It's my (Crissa and mine, actually) caffeinated brain at work. A collection of short, evocative poems that capture the reader's imagination. Within each individual poem is a complex story that prompts readers to envision the circumstances that brought characters to such dramatic deeds.
The poems can be read quickly, – written in solitude but inspired by many.
And if by reading what I just wrote you want to give it a look, check the preview from
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MAY 2018 is this blog's birthday. I'd prefer calling this a laboratory – a digital outlet for all 'introvert' stuff I do. For instance, reading books, which gave birth to book reviews.
Rants are off-limits, but opinions-slash-reflections on real-life events are part of the learning process. So yes, you'll come across a few along the way.
Call it self-serving, but introverts speak what they want in the medium they're comfortable at. This is mine. So go navigate through that 'BLOG' section on the upper right panel and tell me what you think!


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Scroll Magazine puts web stuff on paper
As you might guess from the number of book reviews I have posted here, I like reading things printed on paper. Yeah I know, that's so old-fashioned. But true.
If you feel the same about paper and would like to read more about web related subjects offline, take a look at Scroll Magazine, brought to life by Web Directions founders John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin, and designed by Veerle Pieters.
Prefer reading on-screen? Buy the magazine in PDF format. Don't want to pay at all? Wait until three months have passed since the paper issue was published and the articles come online in HTML format for free.
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The growth is not just remarkable, it appears to be accelerating. As Kevin Kelly wrote in Wired (10 years ago):
Do you think this model applies to Prosper? Do you agree that Prosper may get as big as Ebay? Or bigger?
The Law of Exponential Value Success is nonlinear
The chart of Microsoft's cornucopia of profits is a revealing graph because it mirrors several other plots of rising stars in the Network Economy. During its first 10 years, Microsoft's profits were negligible. Its profits rose above the background noise only around 1985. But once they began to rise, they exploded.
Federal Express experienced a similar trajectory: years of minuscule profit increases, slowly ramping up to an invisible threshold, and then surging skyward in a blast sometime during the early 1980s.
The penetration of fax machines likewise follows a tale of a 20-year overnight success. Two decades of marginal success, then, during the mid-1980s, the number of fax machines quietly crosses the point of no return - and the next thing you know, they are irreversibly everywhere.
The archetypical illustration of a success explosion in a Network Economy is the Internet itself. As any old-time nethead will be quick to lecture you, the Internet was a lonely (but thrilling!) cultural backwater for two decades before it hit the media radar. A graph of the number of Internet hosts worldwide, starting in the 1960s, hardly creeps above the bottom line. Then, around 1991, the global tally of hosts suddenly mushrooms, exponentially arcing up to take over the world.
Each of these curves (I owe Net Gain author John Hagel credit for these four examples) is a classic template of exponential growth, compounding in a nonlinear way. Biologists know about exponential growth; such curves are almost the definition of a biological system. That's one reason the Network Economy is often described more accurately in biological terms. Indeed, if the Web feels like a frontier, it's because for the first time in history we are witnessing biological growth in technological systems.


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Soulful single, "One in a Million," from Nicole Willis in advance of new album
by Andrew Mason
It's always a pleasure to hear modern soul music done right, with no pretension, and musical chops that are skillful and appropriate without calling undue attention to themselves. Finland's Soul Investigators and Brooklyn-born vocalist Nicole Willis have mastered this craft and demonstrate it amply on their new release "One in a Million."
The ebullient single comes in advance of a new full-length album, Happiness in Every Style, out October 2 (and available for pre-order here and via iTunes). As the title suggests, the subject matter flips the coin from her last LP, Tortured Soul, and puts her powerful, evocative voice in the service of mostly upbeat tracks. The album was co-produced by Willis and the Soul Investigators, who include two superb instrumentals in the bargain, slick numbers that are guaranteed to turn heads of funk and soul fans.
More info, including tour dates, can be found on Ms. Willis's website.
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Kanye West & Kim Kardashian rumoured to be dating.
In Kanye West's recent release, "Theraflu," he admits to having feelings for Kim Kardashian while she was dating Kris Humphries, so this may not come as a suprise if it's true.
TMZ reports that Yeezy and Kim K are indeed dating, although in the beginning stages. The two were photographed leaving the movie "Hunger Games" together in New York City last night.
'Ye raps on "Theraflu,"
"And I admit I fell in love with Kim ... 'Round the same time she fell in love with him ... That's cool, babygirl, do your thing ... Lucky I ain't had Jay drop him from the team." Kanye also references Wiz Khalifa. Listen below.


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Patrick E. Hobbs is named the new athletic director at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
On his second day as the athletic director at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Patrick E. Hobbs pulled into the parking lot of the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC) on the Livingston Campus and found that someone was in his reserved parking space. He walked up and noticed that the backseat of the car, which most likely belonged to a representative from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, was piled high with Bibles. Hobbs wondered whether he might benefit from two or three of them. Starting a big new job, he joked to himself, he was going to need all the wisdom he could find.
In November, Hobbs was named to lead the athletics department at Rutgers–New Brunswick, which this spring concludes its second season in the very competitive Big Ten athletic conference. With a mix of executive positions to his name, including overseeing the sports program at Seton Hall University, his alma mater, Hobbs quickly emerged as the right person for the job.
In preliminary meetings with president Robert Barchi before his appointment, the two men discussed the growing ambition of Rutgers as the state's comprehensive research university—and, later, the appropriate role of athletics within it. Hobbs, a native of New Jersey, has long been well aware of the frequent accolades bestowed on Rutgers faculty and alumni. "In talking to Dr. Barchi," says Hobbs, "I conveyed my unique combination of academic and athletics experience. Dr. Barchi sees me as somebody who can bridge those worlds."
Within days of taking the reins, Hobbs made a splash with his first executive decision, selecting Chris Ash, a highly regarded co-defensive coordinator for The Ohio State University football team, to be the head coach of the Scarlet Knights football team. (See related story.) Hobbs has since been attending one event after another to say hello to prominent alumni and boosters. He has also been meeting with the coaches of the 24 sports programs under his purview, the people on whom he will depend to bring winners to Rutgers while providing student-athletes an indelible academic and athletic experience.
"When it is working right," says Hobbs, "student-athletes come to our university; we cheer them on for their successes on the field as they get a great education; and they give back once they graduate. There is no reason why athletics can't be a tremendous complement to the mission of the university, something that adds to the reputation of Rutgers."
In another dramatic move, Hobbs announced in January an ambitious plan—"R Big Ten Build"—to raise $100 million to construct and renovate facilities. The news came just one day after the New Jersey Legislature approved $25 million in economic redevelopment growth tax credits for the initiative. The first order of business, he says, is a much-needed multisport training and practice facility adjacent to the RAC, which itself will undergo a facelift. (Other immediate plans call for upgrades to the Hale Center at High Point Solutions Stadium and Yurcak Field.) Hobbs says that Rutgers, already late to the dance, can't effectively recruit promising student-athletes without this centerpiece, which will require private funding. To that end, Hobbs, Ash, and Scarlet Knights men's basketball head coach Eddie Jordan kicked in $50,000 each in a video appeal that Hobbs emailed to 190,000 alumni and Rutgers supporters to participate in the effort. (Learn more at RutgersBigTenBuild.com.)
"It's not just a multisport practice and training facility with lots of courts, coaches' offices, and locker rooms," says Hobbs. "It's an announcement that Rutgers is going to be competitive across all of our sports in the Big Ten."
As the leader of the athletics department, he embraces being the public face of Rutgers athletics, a role in which he is evidently quite comfortable: during a basketball game between the Scarlet Knights and Wake Forest at the RAC in late November, his image appeared on the large video screen as he was introduced to the audience, which erupted over his big smile and fist pump of enthusiasm (although his former Seton Hall colleagues, he jokes, are troubled by the sight of him in red ties).
"I want to see improvement every day," says Hobbs, the father of three children in their 20s. "I am going to wake up every morning and ask myself a simple question: 'Will the things that I am about to do today advance Rutgers athletics?' If so, we will start to accomplish the big tasks."
Hobbs is no stranger to challenges. A native of Maplewood, New Jersey, he received his undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University in 1982, law degree from the University of North Carolina in 1985, and master of laws degree from New York University in 1988. Hobbs joined Seton Hall's law school faculty in 1990 and was its dean by 1999, proving to be an effective fundraiser as the law school's academic reputation soared. From 2009 to 2011, Hobbs temporarily managed Seton Hall's athletics department during a turbulent time at the university, replacing the men's and women's basketball coaches and the athletic director while balancing the department's budget.
Outside of higher education, Hobbs led a commission that approved the plan to build Newark's Prudential Center. From 2004 until 2014, he was the commissioner of the State Commission of Investigation, the agency that investigates corruption and waste. Most recently, Hobbs was an ombudsman for New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
Now, Hobbs is pursuing his first love: sports. "I feel incredibly fortunate to have this opportunity," says Hobbs, an avid golfer who bears the understated self- confidence of an athlete. "I am more excited today than when I started talking about the job with Dr. Barchi. It's all I have been thinking about."
After two weeks of nonstop activity in his new job, Hobbs finally found time to go to the ShopRite near his Basking Ridge, New Jersey, home. He came out an hour later to find his keys in the ignition and the car still running. He shook his head and smiled to himself. Yes, he's been a little preoccupied lately with thoughts of Rutgers. •


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An Ocala mother was arrested for defrauding church members out of money in Ocala (Marion County), Florida. She told church members that her child had cancer and needed money for a medically necessary kidney transplant. The whole story was a hoax and the mother merely took the money for her own personal use. She received prayer, money, and then an extended invitation to the local jail. You can read about this story at Florida Mother Defrauds Church Members in Ocala, Florida.
It is a shame that a mother would bring a child into a fraudulent scheme of this nature. It sets a bad example for other parents and children for that matter. While Misty Dawn Everly was arrested and did apologize for her actions, it does not erase or wash away her conduct. It is a criminal case that should be prosecuted accordingly.


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There are no one style of shoe that is best for anyone person.
The shoe should fit the needs of that person's foot structure; wearing a shoe with too little or too much support can have as much of a negative effect as a proper shoe can have a positive effect.
In general, here are some guidelines to follow when choosing the shoe for you:
1) Be sure the length is proper, do not increase length to get more width, instead change the shoe for a wider option. The end of the shoe should be approximately half a thumbs length from the longest toe.
2) A sturdy shoe will have a strong shank; if you can twist the shoe in your hands easily the shank is either made of weak material or non-existent.
3) Check the heel counter. Pushing firmly on the heel counter with your thumb, if it bends easily it is not appropriate for most activities.
Remember, some footwear is made specifically for certain events or occasions but not suitable for long term wear.
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Genes (A-F, I-K) and gene sets (G-H, L-M) differentially expressed in the pfcrt data set. For each pairwise comparison, 7G8 vs 7G8 pfcrt_CTL , 7G8 vs 7G8 pfcrt_T76K , and 7G8 pfcrt_CTL vs 7G8 pfcrt_T76K , we listed genes with significant differential expression, i.e. with a fold change greater than 1.5 and a normalized fold change two standard deviations above the median values. We listed the gene sets significantly enriched and depleted in 7G8 in comparison with both 7G8 pfcrt_CTL and 7G8 pfcrt_T76K , and in 7G8 and 7G8 pfcrt_CTL in comparison to 7G8 pfcrt_T76K . (XLSX 48 kb)


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"Jonnes is addicted to intriguing etymological and historical tidbits; "dope" comes from doop, Dutch for "sauce," an apt term for the sticky stuff prepared in opium dens. (Booth reports that the world "hip" has an opium-den association; "Its root lay in the fact that addicts gained sore hips from reclining on their sides on hard, opium den bed-boards.")"Jonnes, Jill is the author of 'Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams A History of America's Romance With Illegal Drugs', published 1999 under ISBN 9780801861659 and ISBN 0801861659.[read more]
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I miss Serial. There, I said it. I've always been a massive true crime fan, so naturally I was instantly obsessed with Serial. I read everything that I could get hold of about the case, even the court records. I was so absorbed in it that I struggled to hold conversations with people who weren't listening to it and I felt a bit lost when it ended.
If you're looking for new podcasts to replace the Serial shaped hole in your life, here are my favourite gruesome podcasts. But first, a warning. If you're of a delicate nature, the three first podcasts especially are not for you. They cover very disturbing topics and they do occasionally get very graphic.
The Last Podcast On The Left
"Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski explore the horrors of the world both imagined and real." They talk about murderers, cults, the paranormal, suicide, aliens, creepypastas, urban legends, Satanism and many other topics. This is my favourite podcast. It has the greatest name! I have a very morbid sense of humour and they make me cry with laughter. They don't spare any gory details. If you only listen to one of these podcasts, make it this one.
Sword and Scale
"Sword and Scale covers the underworld of criminal activity and the demented minds that perform the most despicable and unthinkable actions. A show that reveals that the worst monsters are real." They use taped confessions and 911 calls, courtroom testimony, interviews and other audio from the cases. It's perfectly executed and the narrative is wonderful. This podcast occasionally gets extremely graphic.
The Generation Why Podcast
Justin and Aaron discuss unsolved murders, controversies, mysteries, conspiracies and anything that impacts our culture. Every now and then they are joined by experts. It could for example be an author who's written a book about that episode's topic. Here are a few episodes that I recommend: Elisa Lam, Rape Culture, The Black Dahlia and Casey Anthony.
Caustic Soda
"A weekly podcast about science, horrible news and humor hosted by Toren Atkinson, Kevin Leeson and Joe Fulgham. Each episode of Caustic Soda takes a gruesome, gory or otherwise horrible topic, such as shark attacks, parasites and radiation, and breaks it down into an easily-digestible bubbling paste of funny!" I heard about this brilliant podcast from someone in the The Last Podcast On The Left Facebook group. It's like Stuff You Should Know for morbid people.
Thinking Sideways
"Investigating things we simply don't have the answer to. Sometimes you have to think a little sideways to come up with a plausible solution to the mystery." Who doesn't love mysteries! There are lots of episodes about missing people and disturbing murder cases, but there are episodes about 'nicer' topics too. Some of my favourite episodes are Lost Boy Larry, Elisa Lam (can you tell that I'm intrigued by her case?), Time Travelers, YOGTZE-Fall and Boy in the Box.


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Today marks the last time I'll tell myself this.. and the first time I'll really listen.
Enough. Enough hoping. Enough wishing. Enough hurting. Enough waiting. Enough lying. Enough feeling.
For weeks, you've been asking yourself and the Lord if it's A, B, or C. For weeks, you've been granted indirect pieces of answers. It's about time to face the truth, to complete the puzzle.
He's over you.
What's left is to do the same.
He was able to; why can't you?


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Keeping It Simple: The Secret to School Leadership
"You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike." Computer game Zork 1
School leadership often reminds me of the text based adventure games I used to play in the 1980's and early 1990's. Games like Zork and The Hobbit had real character and charm but they often left you with a sense that it was only through trial and error (and luck) that you ever really managed to accomplish anything. If only headship was as simple as typing, 'complete performance management', 'discipline child' or 'make budget balance', like in those games.
As a school leader, I have made some pretty impressive mistakes over the years. These are usually when I try to be too clever and overcomplicate things.
In my time, I have:
– created data systems that make no sense,
– written a report about a report,
– created a policy on policies,
– written vision statements that no one remembers (or cares for),
– carved out rules that were almost impossible to follow;
– given out directives that – when applied – took an eternity to complete.
– On all these occasions I forgot one simple rule:
I forgot to keep it simple.
Primary school leadership – the art of keeping it simple
This is not to be confused with, 'it is simple'. School leadership rarely is, but when you strip it back to purpose then we can begin to gain our perspective again, to 'lead a happy school where all the children are learning!'
Whoop! Easy right? If only…Of course, it won't be long before some bright spark asks, 'learning what?' or, 'how do you know they are happy?'
This is not the blog to discuss my thoughts on the curriculum or personal development within the school. Though to answer the first one and keeping it simple, 'children do need to be able to read, write and do arithmetic'. You will not be in leadership long if you ignore this.
Unhappy children make for a very unhappy school. When you apply simple logic to more complex issues we begin to understand what it is we do again. Keeping things simple in leadership is about ensuring you are doing the absolute core things expected of you. Some of these are about safeguarding children through tests.
This is the 'rational head' bit. Keeping your focus on the core things you need to do, through allowing teachers the freedom to teach and children the liberty to learn. When we become too prescriptive about the 'how', I often find that school leaders complicate the process. That is when it often goes wrong.
Primary school leadership – when are initiatives 'too much'?
The, 'everyone must write in green pen' or '5 levels of coloured marking' initiatives. We end up interfering and making teachers juggle X whilst having to do Y. School leaders (especially most head teachers) need to remember they do not have to teach every day. They need to create an environment where the skilled craft of teaching can thrive. This is a place that keeps its core purpose absolutely central to the process and system.
Though the rational leader does not necessarily teach they have to understand teaching and learning. They have to know how it works in their school. I believe that the school leader must understand the data, the strengths and the gaps within their organisation as well as anyone else.
At its simplest level, a good school leader should be able to highlight the key elements of their school without referring to files, programmes or support. Therefore, heads should make it simple and keep it focussed upon core elements.
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Reforming primary staff meetings – cut through the 'stuff'
I often read tweets and blogs about Staff Meetings and INSETs. Many teachers share a frustration that these are often a waste of their time. I feel for this perspective. To overcome this, often leaders make meetings more and more 'doing' focused: inputting data, conducting a work scrutiny, planning a new topic.
This overwhelms staff and does not relieve any of their frustrations. The staff meeting should be the time to reflect and do the important things collectively, sharing experiences and knowledge.
If you find that the majority of your staff meetings just deliver more training and more new initiatives (learning the lingo or memorising the 18 new levels of "not levels!") then imagine what it must feel like to be a member of staff sitting through it thinking 'I have 30 books to mark, and tomorrow's lesson to plan'.
As leaders we often create complications by making teaching more convoluted than it should be. This stops teachers having the time to do the things that matter most. Staff meetings should be reflective. They should be about getting some time to consider your teaching and review what it is you are doing rather than what it is you are 'going' to do. It is common sense.
A leaders' perspective is not the same as the teachers
I think too many of us like the sound of our own voices. The staff meeting is not a chance to show everyone why we are the great Ted Talk no one has heard (usually for good reason).
I have walked around, as a school leader, more times than I feel comfortable exclaiming to the "masses" my genius educational ideas. But I forget that I am often watching from my ivory tower and my perspective is not the same as the teachers.
This is a vital lesson to learn for the head teacher. I have my 99 problems but being the class teacher is not one.
In The Hobbit text adventure, there was one section I could never get past: 'some pale bulbous eyes watch you…'
If you do nothing or wait they eventually jump on you and kill you. The simple escape was to either 'run away' or 'put on the ring' and become invisible. You can't do either of them in school leadership. But when faced with challenges, you can keep it simple.


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Coming Up!
What with all this talk of obesity in the news recently we thought we would come up with something to help. That's why we at The Joiners have decided to take part in National Pie Week.
This year Pie week takes place from Monday the 1st of March but here in the Joiners we'll be dishing up some of the nations favourite homemade pies from the 3rd until Saturday the 6th of March... there may even be some left for Sunday Lunch of that week too.
Talking of Sunday Lunch, need i remind you that Mothering Sunday is on the 14th of March this year. We will not be making any extra charge for this special Sunday Lunch, just our normal low prices. You WILL need to book for this one. 01388 605131.
We all like the sport of kings don't we, and the Cheltenham Festival takes place Tuesday the 16th until March the 19th of March. We will be opening up from 1pm on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to watch dreams won and lost. friday normal opening.
The Wednesday of that week will see us celebrating the patron saint of our neighbours Ireland as it is St Patricks day on the 17th of March. We will be having Irish Stew, Irish Music an Irish Quiz and of course specials on our Irish Drinks. Begorrah! If that is how you spell it.
Mon the 29th March 'til Sun the 4th April is our CASK ALE WEEK. Special offers on our cask consitioned ales all week. and this leads us to......
Good Friday Fish and chips for lunch and then our annual special, super duper, fantabulous fish night. The regular menu will also be available.
Easter Sunday. You'd better get booking now for easter Sunday Lunch and then stay with us later for our annual Egg Jarping Competition. That starts at 8pm. Dunno what Egg Jarping is? Well you are in for a packed house treat.
Then we have Bank Holiday Monday, we'll be open all day with Darts and Doms knockout from 5pm.
DL15 0JW 01388 417878 Bookings taken by telephone or facebook. https://www.facebook.com/Joinersarmshunwick/ firstname.lastname@example.com


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Welcome to:
"Making a Daily Effort"
My name is Eddie Eagle, Executive Director of Making a Daily Effort (M.A.D.E.)
Making A Daily Effort Prevention Services, Inc. (M.A.D.E.) is an organization solely focused upon citable, scientific, and educational purposes. Our mission is to regulate and achieve the goal of HIV and Viral Hepetitus prevention services to high risk populations in the metropolitan Chicagoland area, specifically Cook County case management citizens infected with HIV, Hepatitis, and other STD's. We also seek to provide a variety of social, health, housing, and referral information and opportunities for the formally incacerated individuals re-entering communities within Cook County. Our vision for M.A.D.E. is to promote and assist all American, Illinois, Chicago community citizens, (particularly African-American) in reducing, eradicating, or governing HIV, Hepatitis, and other STD's, in the U.S. and particularly Cook County.
Several published and noted example of M.A.D.E. organizational Educational, Scientific, and Charitable programs and events include the following:
• In 2012 M.A.D.E. has represented it's Chicagoland community at the 2012 United States Conference on AIDS held in Las Vegas. In addition we've sponsered "Market Day's", "Summit of Hope", First Ladies", "Gay Pride Parade", "2012 Love Fest" and more...
• During the 2011 Baseball season M.A.D.E., working with Haymarket, Beyond Care, Jackson Park, and Merk Pharmiceuticals launched the "Step Up to the Plate" program which was an initetive for instant Hepatitas C testing for the Chicago area for a total of five days between the Chicago White Sox @ Comisky Park and Chicago Cubs @ Wriggley Field. Over eight hundred souls were tested.
• M.A.D.E. Prevention Services jhas become a fixture in the underground ball scene working with The School of Opulence, House of Infinity, House of Balenciaga, Coalition for Justice and Respect, Bayard, Rustin Access Center, and The Gay Black Caucus to ensure that events such as "Love Fest", "Pride", and "Black Pride and Market Fest" were fully accommodate with testing, counseling, and distribution of literature for AIDS, Hep-C and other sexually transmitted diseases with Safe Sex Kits.
• On December 6, 2008 M.A.D.E. teamed up with a local promotion Rails Entertainment Company, which allowed us the opportunity to conduct testing at their weekly parties which caters to adult African-American Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender (LGBT) community on Friday nights. We also brought our outreach unit to test, counsel and distribute literature to the many youths under the age of 21 that hang outside of the Prop House for an opportunity to safely engage with the larger LGBT community. As we continued to grow in favor with the LGBT adult and youth community we were invited to Boys Town where we became a fixture in the community testing 10 to 15 LGBT clients per night twice a week for more than two years.
• In 2008 M.D.E. was introduced through Provident Hospital to Club Escape, a night club that's located at 75th & Stoney Island in Chicago, they cater to the adult LGBT community. We started out testing there twice a week in collaboration with Provident Hospital of Cook County. In 2012 the venture grew into the MTI Project (MSM Testing Initiative) which is now a pay for service contract for M.A.D.E. sponsored by The AIDS Foundation of Chicago.
Mark Loveless, who founded the Coalition for Justice and Respect, an organization that has led the fight for equal rights for the LGBT community, used M.A.D.E. services to test, counsel, distribute literature and supply safe sex kits for an event that was held at the University of Chicago in their cultural center. This center was created for young LGBT youth to serve as a safe haven for the youth in the Englewood community in Chicago.
The religious community has utilized M.A.D.E. to test, counsel, and distribute literature at many of their events such as "The First Ladies Health Day", Labors of Christ Annual Retreat", Fellowship Baptist Woman's Day of Prayer", and "The Martin Temple Methodist Church Annual Health Day. At the Martin Temple Methodist Church Annual Health Day M.A.D.E. tested more than 100 clients with a result of 3 being found to be positive. All 3 of these clients were directly connected to care at Provident Hospital of Cook County.
In addition the Chicago school system has allowed M.A.D.E. to test, counsel, distribute literature and supply safe sex kits for several high schools such as Marshall High School, Ada S. McKinnley & Prologue Continuation School.
M.A.D.E. also services the colleges such as Malcolm X, Chicago State & Kennedy King to name a few with testing, counseling, distribution of literature and safe sex kits.
Please show your support or innovative grassroots HIV prevention efforts such as ours by giving generously to Making A Daily Effort. With your help, we can ensure more people gain access to knowledge, medical care and prevention as a result of HIV testing services in their community. What you do today will make a difference in someone's life which in turn will make you feel good. Make A Daily Effort to feel good today.
Eddie Eagle
Executive Director, Making a Daily Effort
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Sand Casting Pattern Design
The best components start with a qualified and experienced casting pattern maker.
At our captive sand casting pattern shop, our highly skilled pattern makers create custom patterns based on your exact specifications.
Because our casting pattern shop is dedicated solely to serving our foundry and customers, you can be assured you will always receive the highest quality patterns.
Our casting pattern makers work closely with our engineering team and foundrymen on every job to ensure we produce the very finest components.
We don't take shortcuts in our sand casting pattern making because we're accountable for the resulting component.
This single-source capability, and vested interest in the entire process, ensures the best castings in the shortest amount of time. The care we put into building each pattern significantly improves the tooling life expectancy.
Our talented craftsmen have many years of experience at Badger Alloys, and understand our process and passion for superior quality castings.
Whether your patterns are simple or complex, require high volume or low volume usage, our casting pattern makers are dedicated to meeting your exact requirements. Our team of patternmakers, engineers, and foundry personnel are dedicated to working collaboratively with customers to achieve the desired result.
Your casting may require a robotically milled mold or prototype, a 3D-printed mold, or a hand-crafted traditional wood or urethane pattern. Regardless of your selected tooling method, we are committed to providing the highest value casting for your project. Download our whitepaper on "Which tooling method makes sense for your sand casting."
Badger Alloys' robotic capabilities and benefits
Short-run, complex castings and/or those that require a prototype are ideal candidates for Badger Alloys to mill using our KUKA Quantec six-axis robot.
Investment in this equipment has allowed us to provide casting customers a lower cost, more efficient, highly precise alternative to traditional tooling methods.
Using robotically milled tooling can:
- Shorten lead time by up to 70%
- Decrease upfront investment by 20% to 30%
- Eliminate equipment storage and/or maintenance cost
- Create large castings
- 8'x8' maximum mold size
(cope or drag)
- Castings up to 4000 lb.
- 8'x8' maximum mold size
3D Modeling
Additionally, we have the ability to create 3D models using your drawing or models, to help you evaluate the best casting process for your needs.
You can send files to us in virtually any file format, including:
- IGES files
- STEP files
- SCPRT (surfcam)
- SLDPRT (solidworks)
- PSMODEL (powershape)
- DGK (powermill)
- DWG (autocad)
- MCX (mastercam)
- Parasolid x_t
Casting Pattern Storage
After project completion, customers can store patterns at Badger Alloys' 45,000 square foot pattern storage facility.
We know how valuable and important your patterns are, and we keep them protected in our secure building dedicated solely to pattern storage.
Keeping active patterns in our facility allows for quicker turnaround and lengthens casting pattern life.
Contact Badger Alloys for more information or quickly request a quote online for our casting pattern making services.


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Ombre hairstyles are enjoying their moment in the spotlight right now. Among the trendiest hairstyles, ombre hair is sported by many celebrities. This hairstyle is subtle but beautiful; from a deep dark shade, the color slowly mellows to a lighter hue. It is usually best to keep the upper part of your hair natural, that way the style won't need much upkeep. However, if you are in the mood to experiment, try out colors that contrast each other for a bigger effect. But, what does ombre mean anyway?
Ombre is French word that literally means "shade". Main characteristic of this hairstyle is the gradual change from one color to another. The colors can be anything you want, but for a powerful impact, it's best to have contrasting colors. Ombre hairstyles are great for those who are dyeing their hair for the first time.
As there is very little upkeep, you get a feel of hair dyes without taking much of a risk. However, with ombre, you can also go all out with your hairstyle and make it quite daring by using vibrant or unnatural colors. There are so many options, so let's find out which ombre hairstyle is the one for you!
Brunette to Blonde:
This is one of the most common ombre styles, especially among brunettes. If you want to keep it subtle, you can choose your natural hair color and go a few shades lighter on the ends. For a striking look, you can opt for your natural hair color and a platinum blonde. As there are many different shades of brown and blonde, ask your colorist to advise you on the best options that will suit your skin tone the most.
Brunette to Red:
For a strong look, go for a brunette to red ombre hairstyle. If you don't want full-on fire engine red, opt for a subtler shade like dark copper, burgundy, auburn, or dark cherry. To suit professional occasions, opt for a light copper blonde. This color is almost the color of honey. While not being over-the-top, it gives depth and dimension to your hair. There will be a moderate level of upkeep as red hair color needs to be bright or it can look faded.
Brunette to fantasy color:
Fantasy colors are offbeat ones like pink, purple, violet, or green. If you are the adventurous type, fantasy colors are a great way to showcase your personality. For those looking to incorporate an unnatural color into brown hair color, the vivid color will contrast well with brown, giving an effortlessly cool look.
If you want it subtle, choose a muted color like dark orange or deep purple. The idea is that the fantasy color should almost blend in with the brown color. If you want it bold, then the sky is the limit! There will be a moderate level of upkeep as fantasy colors can fade quite quickly.
Blonde to Brunette:
It's not the most common, but this look is striking. If you want to keep it subtle, choose a brown color that is very close to your natural shade of blonde. Of course, you can color your entire hair in different shades, but if you want less upkeep, it's best to keep the top half of your hair in its natural color. If you want it noticeable, choose a brown color that is a few shades darker than your natural blonde color. If you want it full-on, pick the darkest brown and pair it with platinum blonde.
Blonde to Red:
A blonde to red ombre hairstyle looks enchanting yet natural. For a subtle look, go for a dark blonde and light copper-red hair color. For a marked difference, opt for a honey blonde and burgundy ombre. For an all-out combo, bright bleach blonde with fierce red will be a powerful combination. If you need to worry about professional situations, stick with colors that are close to each other. Consult a professional stylist to understand how you can pair these two colors without making your hairstyle look too loud.
Blonde to Fantasy Color:
Blonde hair is a great canvas for any fantasy color. To keep it muted, choose a light fantasy color like pastel pink or purple. Refrain from colors that can be jarring, like green. If you want it noticeable, go for a color like hot pink. If you want darker colors like blue, then keep it mild.
For the ultimate contrast, go for a baby blonde and deep purple combo or light blonde and deep blue combo. The deep and vivid colors contrast well with baby blonde, while keeping it classy. You will need to go for regular touchups to maintain the sheen and body of the fantasy color.
Red to Fantasy Color:
Red provides a great backdrop for any fantasy color. If you have deep red hair, go for dark pink or dark purple for a mild ombre. For an ombre hairstyle of medium intensity, opt for a lighter red hair color and pink or light blue. If you want it bold, go for a deep red and light pink, or green combo. Or, if you have a lighter shade of red hair color, opt for a deep purple or blue.
There are many shades of red, with everything from cherry red to ginger, so it's best to consult a credible stylist before choosing your colors. As both red and fantasy hair colors need to be vivid to look lively, you will have to go for regular touchups to maintain the body and shine of the colors.
Black Ombre Hairstyle:
Black hair offers THE perfect contrast to any color. Whether it is a dark burgundy, chocolate-brown, cherry red, honey blonde or a funky fantasy color, black goes well with all of it. Depending on your preference and occupation, choose a color that complements your skin tone. The color you choose will heavily influence your hairstyle's maintenance.
Reverse Ombre Hairstyle:
After the ombre hairstyle trend exploded a few years back, the reverse ombre came into existence. The name of this hairstyle is self-explanatory. If you talk about a brunette-blonde ombre, the reverse hairstyle is the blonde-brunette combo. It is basically the same; just the order of the colors descending from the roots is interchanged. However, the effect of the reverse ombre is often mesmerizing.
Grey or Silver Ombre Hairstyle:
You can also achieve a grey or silver ombre. Dark colors are good combinations to pair grey or silver with because dark colors contrast them elegantly. However, if you have something in mind, it's better to have a chat with your stylist before deciding a color combination. There will be some maintenance as grey and silver colors need to have sheen for the hairstyle to look good.
There are a few key points to remember before you get your hair done in ombre. If you are not naturally baby blonde or platinum blonde, you will definitely have to get your hair bleached to some extent. While you can color your hair at home, never try to bleach your hair. If you're looking for the perfect ombre, it is always best to leave it to the professionals.
Before you make a decision on the colors you want, always ask an experienced stylist for advice. Any credible stylist from a reputable
Beauty salon in Los Angeles
can guide you in your choice. Chances are, your stylist can stop you from making a blunder you will be stuck with for the next few months!
Ombre hairstyles will never go out of fashion as they offer a very elegant and unique way to express your personality. They can embody any color, any feeling, and any look. In all its variants and forms, the humble ombre hairstyle can bring out your best features.


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You have probably read the title and thought you are far too young to worry about it; loss of bone density. If you have read this far, it is probably only so you can pass on some information to your mother/aunt/grandmother.
Well please do read on because, while osteoporosis most commonly affects post menopausal women, loss of bone mass starts much earlier and affects both genders. Both men and women reach peak bone mass at the age of 30.
It is true that there are some factors that you cannot control, such as having a small frame, low body weight or a family history of stress fractures in later years. However you can and should make some simple life changes now to keep your bones healthy and strong for many years to come.
It has been found that exercising consistently, 30 minutes per day, five times per week, stimulates bones to re-model. The activity must be weight bearing, holding your body against gravity, so walking, running, playing tennis, practising yoga and Pilates are all good.
However, excessive amounts of high intensity exercise puts excessive stress on joints and over time can cause imbalances and injuries.
A regular yoga practice will not put too much strain on joints or damage cartilage and has the same bone health benefits. By holding your body weight against gravity, you put a mild stress on your bones which are stimulated to lay down new growth.
A dynamic practice will move the body through every plane of movement, working the upper body and spine as well as lower body which is where many forms of exercise focus.
An extra and important benefit of yoga is its focus on the spine and improving your posture. A regular yoga practice opens up the chest, and strengthens and lengthens the thoracic spine, which is a particularly vulnerable area when significant bone mass is lost.
A hunched posture and osteoporosis together can result in stress fractures to the front of the thoracic vertebrae, making the hunched posture even worse.
This all sounds terribly serious but just remembering, you really can prevent this situation through a dedicated yoga practice to open up the front body, strengthen core muscles and maintain a healthy spine.
All yoga is good, but these standing poses and chest openers are particularly effective for encouraging bone growth and good posture:
Utkatasana (chair pose)
Virabhadrasana 1 and 2 (warrior 1 and 2)
Ardha Chandrasana (half moon pose)
Setubandhasana (bridge pose)
Bhujangasana (cobra pose)
There is a theory, backed up by research, that too much protein (animal based or not) can actually weaken bones. Protein is acid forming and when too much acid enters the bloodstream, the body excretes alkaline calcium to neutralize it. Of course balance is the key, you may or may not eat meat and dairy and there is no need to shun either but just by increasing the proportion of fruit and veggies in your diet, you can balance your system and prevent calcium loss.
Vegetables (particularly broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes and kale)
Fresh and dried fruit
I am well aware that women are at more risk, and you need to work on this throughout life. The thing about protein is interesting - yet another reason for a balanced, non-faddy diet.
I do the warrior pose most days and really feel this strengthens my ankle bones. I am doing this partly to ward of osteoporosis in my bones as I get older, though it is also great for my balance and concentration.
that about sums it up! Very interesting article though, I admit that being male and not on the space station I didn't think this was an issue for me. I will be walking more and eating more broccoli!
That's interesting about protein affecting bones. But also very annoying when you've not long started a low-carb diet (which automatically increases your protein intake, which I thought was gooood!) It seems there's no perfect way to eat, frustratingly.


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St Matthew's Catholic Primary School is situated in Logan City 30km south of Brisbane CBD. Established in 1984 by the Sisters of St Joseph we continue to foster the traditions and spirit of Saint Mary MacKillop and the Josephite Sisters.
St Matthew's contributes to and builds on over 150 years of Catholic Education in Queensland. Ours is a three stream school of 560 students from Prep - Year 6. We are proud of our extensive and comprehensive school facilities and of our dedicated staff who are committed to life-long learning for our students. In addition to the subjects outlined in the Australian Curriculum we also offer Religious Education.
We hope that Religious Education is more than a subject in that it guides our community and permeates all that we do at St Matthew's. We also have a range of activities designed to enhance and balance our curriculum and provide as much opportunity as we can for the children in our care. To support the work of classroom teachers we have specialist staff in the areas of Physical Education, Music, LOTE (Spanish in Years 5 & 6), Learning Support (including enrichment), Library, Curriculum Development and Information & Communication Technology (ICLT).
Since 2011 we have been progressively engaging in the new Australian curriculum beginning with Mathematics & English in 2011 and Science in 2012. Our extra-curricular activities include: Junior and Senior Choir, School Band, Instrumental Music Program, Violin lessons, Keyboard lessons, Guitar lessons, a wide range of sporting opportunities, Junior Rock Eisteddfod, Drama Club, Chess Club and a variety of opportunities for students displaying particular gifts and talents.
Our school Annual Plan targets, amongst other priorities, the improvement of the ICLTs. Our school has an extensive wireless network system, all classrooms have an up-to-date data projector - laptop - sound system set-up, and all classrooms have interactive digital whiteboards. St Matthew's has two computer labs and we have ipads and over 150 laptops throughout the school – each year level has access to at least 15 laptops.
St Matthew's promotes Gospel values through the enhancement of the social climate of the school. We have a whole school buddy program where older students team with younger students to enhance learning and offer support. We have a proactive resilience program which focuses on positive behaviour and targets bullying. Our Pastoral Care Worker and our Guidance Officer provide support to individual students and to classes. We take the opportunities presented at our weekly assemblies to reinforce values and behaviours that our CARE expectations - Cooperation, Acting safely, Respect & Effort. Many of our Year 6 students volunteer for pastoral care activities, such as helping younger children in the playground, or supervising games in the library.
At St Matthew's we are well-supported by the parent community. The St Matthew's parent community lives the Mary MacKillop motto of "never seeing a need without doing something about it" and is well known for raising funds for those less fortunate. We have a very active Parents and Friends Association. Parents support school life in many ways including: reading, perceptual motor program, library assistants, Parents Friends fundraising, crossing supervisors, classroom help, sport's day officials, tuckshop helpers, excursion supervisors etc. Our School Board assists with the development of policy and budget.
As you browse our website I hope you gain a sense of the caring community that we strive to be. If you would like further information or to arrange a visit to our school please contact us through the information and numbers outlined under the Contact Us menu.
Tim StinsonPrincipal