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Designed as three distinct concrete volumes, House in Travanca is without a doubt one of the most glamorous homes in Portugal. Located in Santa Maria da Feira, the house was designed by Nelson Resende and it constitutes a house that is built in an irregular area.
It is located in a rural village and it is developed in three different levels. In this home, accesses are solved in the middle level, a level where the main service areas are.
The main service areas located in the home's middle level include a kitchen, a laundry, a kitchen, as well as outdoors areas such as a patio, a barbecue, and a backyard.
The middle level is also the level where the owners of the house can have the main access to the glamorous house's interior by a covered corridor, maintaining a view through a garden.
Situated in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, this house is developed in three levels and one of the levels in this house is the inferior level.
Being a more restricted area, this level allows more expansive approach despite the intimate relation which is established with the house's interior areas, exclusively the house's bedrooms. The house also has an upper level and the different levels of the house are connected by a staircase.
The house has big glass areas and in addition, it also has wood pavements. Inside, the glamorous house has walls that are colored in white and the white color in the house walls and carpentries, the wood in the pavement, and the stone in the house's service areas allow the creation of a simple environment.
In any way, this house is a glamorous house with various different parts and if you want to know how the house looks like, you can see photos of the house taken by FG+SG.


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DHIS2 Android App Roadmap
DHIS2 new generation Android app was first released in Aug 2018. It replaced the previous, data-model specific DHIS2 Android Event and Tracker Capture apps. The new app requires DHIS 2.29 or greater. DHIS2's Jira Android App Dashboard. You will need to register as a Jira user.
The new app is frequently released with bug fixes - you can check in github all previous releases. Major features are only released every 4 month, in tandem with DHIS2 major releases.
DHIS2 Android SDK Roadmap
The new app is based on a new SDK, which can be used to develop new Android Apps for specific use cases. The SDK streamlines data & metadata synchronization, fast tracking the development of new apps. The new SDK requires DHIS 2.29 or greater. You can follow the development in Jira by going to the Android SDK dashboard. You will need to register as a Jira user.
The first oficial (1.0) version of the SDK is planned for release on early December 2018. Major releases occur every four months, and include the necessary adjustments to ensure compatibility with DHIS2 releases. At the minimum, we ensure 'current' and previous 2 versions compatibility.
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Rupert Murdoch Joins Twitter
As the world welcomed the New Year or prepared for their New Years Eve celebrations, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch decided not only would he make himself more accessible to the public, he would create himself a Twitter account.
You would be forgiven for thinking that Murdoch's account, @rupertmurdoch, was a fake account; it has the default Twitter icon and the eight posted tweets on his account are 'different', to say the least.
However, the account has already been given Twitter's stamp of approval, having been verified, and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (and former employee Piers Morgan) have already welcomed the media mogul to the service:
Continue via Rupert Murdoch Joins Twitter.
Samsung Galaxy Note hits 1 million units shipped, coming to U.S. next year
Samsung has announced that it has reached 1 million Galaxy Note units shipped. As we all know, that doesn't necessarily means the same number sold — however, that's still an impressive figure for a device as powerful and somewhat controversial as the Note.
In related news, the Korean company said their smartphone/tablet will hit the U.S. shores at some point next year. If I had to guess, I would say that we'll see this powerful device announced by some carrier (maybe even more than one) at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas. In that sense, we've already heard AT&T may launch the LTE-enabled version, which is awesome.
Now I'm eager to hear – are you going to be one of the first ones to get the Samsung Galaxy Note when it's released in the States? Or is it too big of a phone and too small of a tablet for you?
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Microsoft Applications Certificate
NC State's Microsoft Applications Certificate program allows students to complete a series of coordinated courses in a shorter period of time than an associate degree. Students in associate degree programs may benefit from adding a certificate to their areas of expertise. A minimum of a 2.00 grade-point average must be obtained for all required courses in order to receive a certificate.
Microsoft Applications Certificate Classes
- CISS1210 – Microsoft Word
- CISS1220 – Microsoft Excel
- CISS1230 – Microsoft Access
- CISS1240 – Microsoft Office Workplace Technology
- CISS1250 – Microsoft PowerPoint
- CISS1270 – Microsoft Word Advanced
- CISS1280 – Microsoft Excel Advanced
- CISS1290 – Microsoft Excel Business Intelligence
Upon successful completion of a certificate program, a Certificate Request form must be completed in the Student Records Office in order to receive a certificate.
Students Graduating on TimeN/A*Title IV students complete the program within 9 months*Fewer than 10 students enrolled in this program. This number has been withheld to protect the confidentiality of the students.
Program Costs*Cost: $3,337Description: for in-state tuition and fees: No: NoCost: $6,675Description: for out-of-state tuition and fees: No: NoCost: $1,000Description: for books and supplies: No: No
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Americans have a growing appetite for government regulation of big tech companies in the wake of Facebook's recent scandals and other data privacy breaches, according to a new survey by HarrisX, a market research firm.
When asked whether big tech should be regulated by the federal government in the same way big banks are, 53 percent of survey respondents said yes. But just 31 percent of those same respondents said they believed the government was capable of passing and enforcing those regulations.
HarrisX surveyed 2,546 adults within 24 hours of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony earlier this month. Zuckerberg went to the capital to answer for the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which a Republican-backed political strategy firm accessed Facebook data from up to 87 million users without their consent. Zuckerberg also fielded questions about how Russian agents have manipulated the platform to influence elections.
Here are some other key stats from the HarrisX survey, which was first spotted by Recode:
- 84 percent of respondents believe that tech companies are legally responsible for the content they carry on their platforms and 83 percent want tougher penalties for breaches of data privacy.
- Sixty-two percent of baby boomers and just 44 percent of millennials believe big tech should be regulated like big banks.
- Respondents don't believe all tech companies should have the same level of regulation. Forty-nine percent said Facebook should be "heavily regulated" while just 34 percent said Google should. Only 27 percent believe Amazon should be heavily regulated.
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Leadership and Groups: New Perspectives
May 31, 2013
In February of 2013 the Jepson School of Leadership held a conference to celebrate its 2oth anniversay, and that conference featured panel presentations on a variety of topics related to leadership. Included in the 2-day event was a panel presentation dealing with leadership and groups, featuring
Don Forsyth
John Antonakis
Michael Hogg
Jean Lipman-Blumen and
Ron Riggio.
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Featured Guest: Maggie Craddock, author of Power Genes: Understanding Your Power Persona–and How to Wield It at Work.
SARAH GREEN: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green. What's your relationship with power? That's the subject of today's interview with Maddie Craddock, author of Power Genes: Understanding Your Power Persona– and How to Wield It at Work. Maggie, thanks so much for talking with us.
MAGGIE CRADDOCK: Well, thank you so much.
SARAH GREEN: I'd like to take a step back before we get into a power persona and just talk about power to start off, because that can be a loaded term, I think, depending on what your understanding of it is. How do you see power?
MAGGIE CRADDOCK: Well you know, it's interesting. The way that I see power evolves from much of my work as an executive coach. Because I was involved in an awful lot of venues where people wanted to talk about leadership. And then I began looking through all the different faces of leaders there and looking at everybody from Mao Tse-tung to Mother Teresa to George Washington to Hitler and thinking well, aren't these people all leaders, but they have very, very different styles of exerting influence, don't they? Because I thought well, we have leadership. But we also have followership, which can be pretty important to moving something forward as well.
And then I began to look at all the different styles that people had around power. The things that they did and the things that they didn't do. The feelings that they inspired in other people and then the behavior that they exhibited. And so I kind of broke it down into the emotional and behavioral pieces. And that helped me rank different power styles and perhaps how they evolved over the course of people's lives.
SARAH GREEN: Well, so let's get a little bit into what some of these different power personas are and how you set about organizing them.
MAGGIE CRADDOCK: Sure. Well in the book Power Genes, there are four core power styles– the pleaser, the charmer, the commander, and the inspirer. And power basically looks at how we respond to authority or wield authority in any kind of system. And of course, the first system that we were ever a part of was the family system. And for many of us, the first authority figures, or the first people who ever had power over us, were the caregivers in our family system.
So the way that you break down the four core most basic power styles has to do with different things that happened in the family system. Pleasing as a power style is basically exemplifying people who connect with others at a really personal level. So scarcity issues within the family system are kind of at the heart of this one, Sarah. There are outside stressors that are causing those security issues, which could be parents struggling to pay the bills or maybe everybody being preoccupied with a sick relative or something like this. But the bottom line is pleasers didn't really get the attention that they were craving from their caretakers early in the game. And so they grew up really hardwired to seek validation and take care of other people. It makes them great nurturers. It makes them also very vulnerable to having people withdraw approval.
Now, charmers, that second power style, is more about people that have this intensity of focus. It can be very seductive. It can intimidate people, too. And charmers don't have as much respect for formal authority. Because in this family system, these are people who learned to triangulate early in the game, and it's usually because they needed to soothe an emotionally needy parent. And so whether a charmer comes from a broken home or just one of those homes where one of the parents was turning to the kids rather than their spouse for emotional support, they often learn to manipulate the situation to get their needs met. And they're very strategic, but they can triangulate a lot.
Now, the third style would be the commander. The commander is exemplified by people who come from a family system that was really a little bit of a hierarchy. And it was one parent in charge, and that family system usually had to be part of a larger system, like military hierarchy or maybe a very formal religious system or a sports-centered system. And they grew up really playing by the rules and understanding the pecking order and knowing that that one parent– it could be a matriarchy or a patriarchy, it doesn't matter– was really going to call the shots.
And then finally, we have the inspirer. And the inspirer comes from a family where both the caregivers were probably really innovative thinkers. And inspirers grew up feeling rewarded for questioning the status quo. And so they're much more, I would say, less tied to rules, but they have very altruistic reflexes that cause them to look out for the greater good. Your inspirers often go into science and the arts and things like this and can be highly entrepreneurial.
SARAH GREEN: What I found interesting about these four very different sketches is that you frame them up in terms of how people relate to trust and fear and formal and informal styles leadership on this two-by-two matrix. And when I looked at the matrix, I thought I knew immediately which one I would be. And then as I started reading through the book, I realized actually I had totally misidentified myself. How easy or hard is it to see yourself in one of these personas?
MAGGIE CRADDOCK: Well, that's a great question, Sarah. Because we all carry within us the seeds of all four power styles, which plays to the title of the book, Power Genes. Some of these power styles are dominant within us, and some of them are recessant. That's our genetic metaphor. You'll find that it will be a little situational, which power style will get tapped into. And under very difficult circumstances, of course, people will fall back on the power style that they've been imprinted with most strongly by watching the caregivers in their family system.
Learning more about the four core power styles is what you do when you're delving into some of the material in Power Genes. But everyone's got their own signature power style, Sarah, and it's going to be made up of a little bit of a combination of the different kinds. So some people will look at this and say, gosh, I've got a lot of the strengths we associate with the pleaser, but by blind spots fall more in the commander quadrant. And that's pretty natural. The thing that most people want to do is to develop the capacity not just to habitually respond to a challenge based on their first thought or how they get triggered, but to take enough of the strategic pause to go to their second thought and begin to be a little bit more agile, so that they can draw on the strengths that might be most effective in the situation and not fall back on bad habits where they're not working for them. But being conscious of different powers styles and the combination that you tend to operate from most of the time is really helpful in terms of developing that agility.
SARAH GREEN: You mentioned blind spots and living into some of this stuff. But by definition, we're sort of blind to our own blind spots. So how do you overcome that challenge? How do you really put this into practice?
MAGGIE CRADDOCK: I love that question because really being able to see those blind spots is one of the most powerful aspects of using the power grid. And we call them blind spots because it's something that we devote a lot of energy to not wanting to know about ourselves. We all like to think of ourselves as coming across a certain way. It's always very interesting for me as a coach to try to understand how someone describes a client behind their back. Because interestingly, how you hope you're coming across and how you're presenting yourself is one thing. But that blind spot often includes some of the simple descriptors that people would use to talk about you when you're not in the room. And what are those, and how to do we get a hold on that? Because you can get all sorts of feedback, and some people just can't take it in.
But when you get a context for how certain types of responses may be related to what's gone on in your family system, your tendency to be a little bit impatient or a little bit terse might have been something that you just picked up at the pre-verbal level from watching your caregivers operate. That can really help you see into that blind spot. And before you know it, you've got some sort of inner structure to work with that puts it in perspective.
I had a client who was a senior executive in the communications industry. And he was just fantastic at crafting messages for corporations and synthesizing what they wanted to say to the media and this sort of thing. But internally, things were very difficult for him. Because he would talk over people in meetings, get really impatient with his staff, people couldn't get a word in edgewise with him. Now, before an important meeting, we'd film him. We talk about the use of silences. We talk about strategic pauses. And when he was scripted, he was fantastic, because we're talking about an absolutely brilliant man. But in those spontaneous moments, which, of course, always occur in business or any kind of system for that matter, he still would fall back on this impatience and talking over other people.
Well, when we started working with the power grid, he began to realize he was the middle of three brothers. His oldest brother had been someone that his parents had paid a tremendous amount of attention to, because he was a varsity athlete, straight-A student, sold an internet company at just the right time in the market, retired, private jet, healthy kids, fantastic thing.
SARAH GREEN: We all hate those people. Yes.
MAGGIE CRADDOCK: I know. We love to hate them. We try not to act like we do, but it's tough. And the younger brother had had a lot of challenges in life. In and out of rehabs, drug problems, couldn't keep a marriage on track, couldn't hold on to a job, couldn't stick with the career. So this gentleman's the man in the middle, absolutely starving for attention, not getting enough attention from either one of those caregivers. So he was always balancing his parents' attention between the older brother who could do no wrong and the younger brother who could do no right.
When he began to understand that dynamic and how that helped him deal with some of the big blind spots about how he would just panic when people began to withdraw their attention or how impatient he would get about that, we didn't need to film him anymore. He was able to express his authentic self much more powerfully on the job, because he began to understand how some of the early issues in his family system were impacting that blind spot of his.
SARAH GREEN: So in the book, I think you make the very sensible point that you can't learn to get better at wielding power just from a book. You have to learn by doing it. And unfortunately, I guess that means you probably can't learn from a podcast either. But if you could just give one piece of advice you'd like to leave people with today, what would it be?
MAGGIE CRADDOCK: Well, you can't learn from a book. But what you can do is you can take the information that you get from a book or a podcast or an article or whatever and then turn around and try to put that into action for yourself. So if I go back to the one piece of advice, I'd say look at those power styles. But when you find yourself doing something habitually that doesn't seem to be working in your favor on the job, try not to just go with your first thought. Try to take a strategic pause and take a look at that and wait for your second thought. Because your first thought if somebody is stepping on your turf professionally, if an alpha boss is barking at you and just throwing your concentration or something like this, the first thought that flashes through your mind is going to be a conditioned response, Sarah. You're probably not even responsible for it, like, if they would just get the heck off my back, you know?
But going back to what we were saying earlier, your second thought can be much more compassionate and also much more strategic. Such as, let's take the alpha, because who hasn't met them on a tense day in business. When somebody's really flustered and losing their temper with you, your first thought might just be to turn around and snap back off. Most of us don't do that. Most of us take a deep breath and wait for that second thought, which often just gets the person refocused on the job. I had one client say, my first thought was to blow my stack. My second thought was to turn to that person and say, I can see how passionate you are about this deadline. Let's talk about what we can do. And sometimes you can bring in that humor and keep people focused on the job at hand.
SARAH GREEN: Well Maggie, I think you have made us all feel a little bit more powerful. Thank you so much for talking with us.
MAGGIE CRADDOCK: Thank you, Sarah. I really appreciate it.
SARAH GREEN: That was Maggie Craddock, and the book is Power Genes. For more, visit hbr.org.


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Blue Star of David on a white armband as part of a work created by Akiva Kenet Segan
Copyright: Akiva Kenet Segan 2008
Photo plates from the "Wooden Synagogues" book, portions of which were used to draw images depicted in the young man's torso between his shirt collar and arms folded across his chest. In the Wooden Synagogue book photo above, there are five flying birds in the synagogue wall-painting towards the upper left of the photo. In the artwork, the birds were painted above the violin - seen directly below the man's left arm - seen on viewer's right. Photo (below at left) of the Torah parchment from the book 'The Last Jews of Eastern Europe.' Photo at lower right of detail of a wooden synagogue wall, some of which was drawn in the torso area of Young Man with Star....
The yellow patch was not uniform in all the places under the Third Reich regime and at least at the start there were a few blue Stars of David on a white arm band. It was somewhat like precursor of the Israeli flag.


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The Four Ways to Begin Transforming From a Financial Advisor to a Bionic Advisor Today!
The Hypothetical Playbook for a #Bionic Advisor
So, I've written at length about the bionic advisor and how the future will be bionic. To date, I have kept the conversation somewhat abstract. However, I thought it would be interesting to tackle what a currently licensed financial advisor could do to become closer to bionic. Not in ten years, not in five years, but today.
My methods were simple. First, I surveyed the existing technology ecosystem. My goal? Find the tools that a financial advisor, with a focus on insurance, would need to transform him or herself into a #bionic advisor. This would include CRMs, such as Finaeo, but also other tools to help you deal with the needs of an assortment of clients.
In the end, there were four key technologies I focused on that could turn an advisor bionic – not in ten years, not in five years, but today:
- Enlist the help of robo-wealth services
- Using technology to set up group benefits
- Automating your marketing
- Tying it all together with a verticalized CRM
So if you're interested in how to digitize your practice today, look no further!
Enlist the Help of Robo-Wealth Services
So where do we start? Well, if your focus is on insurance, you need to understand that a bionic advisor is going to be a more holistic advisor. You will be there for your client's risk profile, for sure, but you'll also need to help them think about their cash flow, their budget, and how to protect their wealth. Now, I'm not saying that you need to get your CFP (though that's not necessarily a bad idea either). What I am saying is that you need to start thinking about where you should enlist technological help to make sure your clients are being serviced best.
So I'll get my MFDA, you're thinking.
Well, sure, that's certainly one thing you can do. However, this is a sensitive area in Canadian finance. With the advent of ETFs, mutual funds are often not the right answer for your client. They have their uses, but for a simple index fund that is rebalanced automatically, the management fee often doesn't make sense. The skyrocketing growth of ETFs over the last decade (from less than $1T to $4T in assets under management) demonstrates that the market is hungry for different investment classes. Hell, post-2008, young people don't trust banks, and millennials would rather invest their money into Bitcoin. The traditional ways of wealth management that financial advisors have worked on is transforming – and a bionic advisor shouldn't be left behind.
The financial advisor of the future will need to face clients who want alternative asset classes, know about ETFs (as well as cryptocurrencies), and are trying to take control of their financial futures. As such, a new era of investment advice will have to come into existence. Luckily, the beginnings of this has already been fermenting for the past few years. Look no further than robo-advisors who are reaching out to financial advisors to distribute on their behalf. You have your big dog, WealthSimple, doing it through their broker partnerships, but we're also seeing smaller companies begin to go direct to advisors. For example, Justwealth has been working almost entirely through advisor partnerships. They provide advisors and mutual fund dealers with the toolset to easily access and purchase ETFs on behalf of their clients, instead of being limited to just mutual funds. More choice is always a plus, and a lower rate ETF may be exactly what your client needs to better protect his or her wealth.
Moreover, these new tools tend to provide much higher value to the client aside from just the higher ROI. For example, newer robo-advisor platforms provide beautiful dashboards for your clients that give them a direct view of their assets, growth, and expectations. It lets them feel much more involved than just receiving a quarterly report, or logging into an ancient looking client platform. Plus, much of this will be built directly into a verticalized CRM (more on this below). That means opening a new account for a client can be as simple as two clicks, with your CRM grabbing data from your FNA to pre-populate much of the application process. No pen and paper, no lengthy processes and endless meetings. The bionic advisor of the future gets things done fast.
Tl;dr: Step 1 – get set up on a wealth management system working with financial advisors.
Using Technology to Set Up Group Benefits
Okay, so you've got wealth covered. Next up, group benefits. This targets two groups of people. First off, you may be the individual advisor who occasionally works with a business owner. One minute, you're talking life, DI, and RRSPs, and the next moment she's asking you about setting up a group policy for her employees. Conversely, you may be a group benefits advisor looking for the next new thing in group benefits, flex accounts, and HSAs.
Either way, read on!
Let's first talk about the individual insurance advisor who doesn't know anything about group insurance. If that's you, you have a few options when confronted with a client who wants a group policy:
- Refer to a group benefits advisor in your circle
- Try to do it yourself!
Now, in many cases, the first option makes a lot of sense. Especially if you build a mutually beneficial referral circle. However, let's say you don't have someone to send the work to, this is where some technological platforms can help you. For example, Collage offers a platform that partners with insurance advisors to help them sell group benefits. Like Justwealth above, this provides a nice client portal and easy walkthroughs to simplify the entire process. As a bionic advisor without a focus on group benefits, you could easily jump onto this platform and offer a fairly good service to the occasional, one-off group insurance situations you find yourself in.
But even seasoned advisors will become more effective and efficient using the technological platforms of the future. These platforms have started offering new flex plans which offer a massively differentiated option for group advisors who want an alternative or non-traditional option for their clients. Take a look at HoneyBee as a great example. It doesn't do direct sales to customers as many tech competitors may. Instead, it is a platform built for advisors to help companies figure out their health and allowance accounts. It's easy to set up, builds a direct client portal for the company and its employees, and makes you look like amazing.
A financial advisor looking to become bionic, then, will begin to implement these sorts of group benefits tools into his or her offerings. It will allow you to offer a holistic suite of products and group policies that put other advisors to shame. And, once more, not to sound like a broken record, but an insurance verticalized CRM will be the quarterback of all of this in the future. Advisors will be directly connected to these group services, be it buying a policy right from your platform a la an Amazon-esque experience, or connecting to another tech provider who can provide you with a built-in products.
Tl;dr – Find a group benefits tech platform to help you meet your client needs.
Your Marketing
Next up, let's talk marketing, as if you want to become a bionic advisor, it's time to digitize and modernize your marketing. This starts simply from an up-to-date website. If you like to build your own, you can do it through Squarespace in a weekend without any technical skills required. If you're looking for some help, check out our friends at Advisor Websites who do this specifically for financial advisors. And make no mistake, your website and your LinkedIn are now your actual resume. Whenever a new prospect searches for you, this is what pops up – so make sure it looks good.
A second aspect of marketing that's worth investing in is marketing automation. That is, building out a touchpoint cadence with your clients and making sure you reach out at the appropriate times. This can be for everything from a weekly newsletter, to a check-in set up automatically for every three months. Today's bionic advisor should look into a service like Mailchimp. When you get a new client, put said client into the appropriate segmented list, and let the automation work its magic. Want to go more client specific? Advisor Stream works directly with financial advisors to help them send out mass-emails appropriately.
Finally, you should start thinking about what channels you can advertise across. For example, Finaeo offers our advisors a digital financial needs analysis form which works with our CRM. Enterprising advisors could take this FNA and use it as a lead magnet, creating advertisements campaigns across social media platforms such as FB which lead directly to this form. That way, a lead will fill out some key information for you in a very user-friendly way.
Tl;dr – Digitize your marketing stack!
Tying It All Together With A Vertical CRM
Finally, let's talk about the final piece of this equation – your vertical CRM. Now, I use the term "vertical" here to denote that this is a CRM built for financial advisors, with a focus on insurance. And this is an important distinction. Often enough, I chat with financial advisors who are using a generic CRM. It's primarily used as an overly expensive contact manager – a place to find emails and phone numbers, and occasionally update information. And, look, that's actually very useful. It's much better than pen and pepper. After all, some organization is better than no organization at all. A single place where you can find as much information as possible is never a bad thing.
However, a generalized CRM is not built for financial advisors. It isn't built in a way that understands your work flow. A simple Finaeo example – as mentioned above, we have built out a financial needs analysis tool for our advisors (and a group policy intake form for our group advisors) which connects to our vertical CRM. Moreover, when it comes to a vertical CRM, you get a platform designed by people who really understand your business. This comes out in the small touches and nuances. It comes out when you need to add a policy to a prospect and can build one with ease. It comes with the intelligence to give you a reminder 90 days before renewal for your group clients. It comes with a chatbot that gets you insurance quotes on the go. It comes with all the small pieces that create a fully fleshed out, incredibly powerful experience. I'm pitching, I know, but I get excited when I think about what we're doing for financial advisors around here.
So let's walk through the user flow together around the financial needs analysis tool. You have a prospect come in. You send her the FNA to fill out pre-meeting. By meeting time, the FNA has already been finished and has populated your CRM with her information. Let's take it a little further into the future: she's stated she needs life insurance in her FNA, so your CRM has already generated you a handful of quotes. Let's go another year into the future of that – once you meet with her, you show her the quotes, and through an Amazon-like shopping experience, you add the policy she wants to a cart, get her e-signature, and send it all out. Now she just needs a medical (or, if guaranteed, maybe not even that) and you're good to go. All in one meeting.
Just as importantly, a vertical CRM can play the quarterback to the other tools you are using. Imagine a future where all the tools I discussed above are built out in one centralized location. Your marketing feeds directly into your CRM, your CRM feeds directly into both group and wealth tech platforms, and everything ties cleanly.
Simply put, a generalized CRM will not be able to do these things. At least not without $10s or $100s of thousands in customizations. When it comes to building something that truly encapsulates your workflows, you need to go vertical. And the future bionic advisor will be vertical.
Tl;dr – A vertical CRM is necessary to become a bionic advisor.
Overall, then, the building blocks to a successful bionic advisor are already in place. If you want to become a bionic advisor – that is, a financial advisor with a focus on client relationships, and a more holistic approach, buoyed by technology – it's time to get set up!
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Don't wait for an excuse to make margaritas… but if you're looking for one, grab a giant bag of grapefruits next time you're at the store and you'll have a built-in reason to make grapefruit margaritas!
While I'll never turn down a margarita of just about any flavor combination, grapefruit margaritas are our go-to at home. We love the tart-sweetness from the grapefruit juice and find that the grapefruit version goes a bit further than your traditional lime margarita (given that a grapefruit produces at least 3x as much juice as a lime!). And we're all about the long-game when it comes to margarita making!
Whip up a quick batch this weekend and snuggle in with a bowl of guac and chips! These grapefruit margaritas only require a few ingredients, most of which you likely have on hand. For the tequila, we absolutely love Hornitos Reposado because it's super smooth, reasonably priced and really tasty.
They're slightly sour and decently strong, these grapefruit margaritas are easy to mix up and double/triple for company. You could sugar the rim to balance the tartness, but personally I'm a salt girl through and through…
- 4 oz tequila
- 2 oz. triple sec
- 1 grapefruit freshly squeezed
- 1 lime halved
- 1 oz. simple syrup
- salt or sugar to serve
- ice
In a cocktail shaker or pitcher, add a few big handfuls of ice, tequila, triple sec, grapefruit juice and lime juice. Shake or stir until well-combined and frosty.
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The US on Thursday announced it has sanctioned former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh under a 2016 human rights law.
A press release from the Treasury Department notes the Trump administration has used the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act that former President Obama signed in 2016 to freeze the assets of Jammeh and a dozen other "serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors."
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order "declaring a national emergency with respect to serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world and providing for the imposition of sanctions on actors engaged in these malign activities." The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control also sanctioned "39 affiliated individuals and entities" under the directive.
"Today, alongside the president and the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State took action against persons who have committed serious human rights abuse and engaged in corruption around the world," said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a statement. "The department is committed to protecting and promoting human rights and combatting corruption with all of the tools at our disposal."
"Today's actions advance our values and promote the security of the United States, our allies, and our partners," he added. "We must lead by example, and today's announcement of sanctions demonstrates the United States will continue to pursue tangible and significant consequences for those who commit serious human rights abuse and engage in corruption."
He stepped down in January after he lost to current President Adama Barrow in the country's 2016 presidential election. Jammeh is currently in exile in Equatorial Guinea.
A report that Human Rights Watch released in 2015 notes police and officials with Gambia's National Intelligence Agency "promptly rounded up" dozens of people "on suspicion of their sexual orientation" after Jammeh signed a law that sought to impose a life sentence upon anyone found guilty of "aggravated homosexuality."
Jammeh in 2015 said he would slit the throats of gay men in his country. He has also described gay men as "vermin" and said homosexuality is among the three "biggest threats to human existence."
The Gambian government in 2014 stopped providing financial support to Jammeh's nephew, Alagie Jammeh, who was studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at the time, because he posted a pro-LGBT message to his Facebook page. Alagie Jammeh received asylum in the U.S.in 2016.
The Treasury Department's press release does not specifically refer to Jammeh's anti-LGBT rights abuses, but it does note he "has a long history of engaging in serious human rights abuses and corruption." The U.S. on Thursday also used the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to sanction former Gambian National Intelligence Agency Director General Yankuba Badjie.


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Central banks call out in the quiet
- A relatively quiet week for economic releases has perhaps elevated the importance of the better news that came with the release of the Euro area PMI business confidence indicators. The Swiss National Bank's attempts to control housing are of interest, but unlikely to start trending on Twitter.
- Risk concerns seem to have been rising, with speculation about policy assisting in a relatively sudden decline in the value of the Argentinian peso. As the Fed seems determined to continue with its scaling back of quantitative policy, emerging markets must adjust to a higher bond yield world.
- Bank of England governor Carney is in Davos (as a Canadian, one would have hoped he would have more respect for skiing than that). Markets are in a state of some anticipation about forward guidance and unemployment and interest rates. Expect the sound of backtracking (in a Canadian accent).
- The ECB's Draghi is also scheduled to speak, but we have already had his opinions this week via the medium of a media article. Ecofin are scheduled to meet too.
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Memory is a complex skill involving perception, encoding, storage, recall. If the underpinning it relies on fails, it doesn't work as it should. Worse, even at its best, it does not work like a video stored on a shelf somewhere, or a jpeg, stored on a hard drive, but it is fallible, as Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues have shown, especially when we are young. But don't look for her name in this book, she is not there. And the title is misleadingly simple: the book is complex indeed.
Hasselmo is looking at the behavioral and neural dynamics of episodic memory, the memory of what has happened or what has yet to happen, rather than the overlearned memory of how to perform a skill or specific facts about things in the world. Space and time are coded in episodic memory pathways, linking events and episodes, with memory and drug-guided behavior all interlinked. Now you have an idea of the 7 chapter headings.
An episode is thus an experience we recall during a specific time interval and in a specific location. If you don't get excited about grid cells and their relationship to oscillatory dynamics in the entorhinal cortex, then this book is not for you but rather for those who are serious about the cornus ammoni, viz. Ammon's Horn, and all that this means for neuropsychology and neuroscience in general.
Essential to understanding this book is to understand the existence of multiple forms of memory, namely for the name of a state in the USA (semantic memory), or tracking a phone number in your head (working memory), or how to drive a car (procedural memory), or what you had for breakfast on your birthday (episodic memory) for which this book was written, in terms of matching the behavior of memory with the physiology of the substrates of the brain that produces it that constitutes then episodic memory.
In examining the neuronal pathways that attend memory in the hippocampus and the areas tending to it, especially the entorhinal pathways, Hasselmo draws frequently on an analogy of an entire orchestra, seating different instruments in different but connected and adjacent areas, and responding on different levels to different aspects of the conductors and transcription demands, including both pitch and timing in their instructions. He makes reference as well to the rhythms of the orchestra as emanating from Theta activity, and takes us through the complex mechanisms and structures we would encounter in negotiating our way through the CA fields mostly, and the surrounding areas. This model thus demonstrates the oscillatory dynamics of memory formation in the mesial temporal lobes where the hippocampus lives. Reciprocal richness of memory suggests connectedness to the sensory areas which provided the input in the first place. The 'what' of a memory and the 'where' of a memory are still however encoded separately. Here, he describes what grid cell spacing is, for those rendered curious by what I wrote early on. You will gather then that this book is not for beginners, but for serious students of the minutiae of memory formation down to cells and firing, and not to how one remembers that a rabbit is called a rabbit, and what one does down a maze chasing rats.
Central to episodic memory formation is the coding of space and time, and as I noted before, separate entities have to converge into a single recall. In this chapter, the idea of spiking and phase coding is reduced to the analogy of two toy monkeys, both clanging symbols at 1Hz. When the one monkey on a unicycle,(yes you heard me) speeds up its clanging in response to the phase angle a spot on its wheel moves through, and when it stops, although it was once in synch with the other monkey, it is now out of synch, the extent to which it is so can be predicted by the exact distance travelled by the red spot on the wheel. This is phase coding of spatial location by analogy. When the spiking of the first neuron is in synch with the second, their spikes will be in phase, but this will occur and fail recursively as the second moves and hence oscillates faster. The same will happen with Theta phasing, and I caution that the wavelength of Theta here is a bit wider than human, as much of this work is done on rodents.
The author then discusses how biophysical models of the entorhinal cortex, the most important neighbor of the hippocampus proper, can account for a range of intrinsic properties of the area. Hippocampal cells can read and store the code, since the phase of grid cell oscillations depends on location, and can be accessed by other neuronal structures for the encoding and retrieval of special location in episodic memory.
Encoding and retrieval of episodic trajectories is pursued in a similar vein. If you think of the analogy he uses around parking his car in different places in the same building on different days, you can see that simply place cells alone cannot encode the different locations without a trajectory model of how the car got there. With place cells alone, only the most recent trajectory can be followed. The more recent strength replaces the earlier strength in the memory trace, although you could think it through to find for instance your peppermints you dropped near yesterday's parking spot. Grid cells and place cells thus show stable firing over multiple different exposures to an environment even with long delays between exposures. This requires however association with the sensory input, as sensory cues are necessary to set the phase of firing to the same starting point to ensure stability.
Episodes and events thus have to be linked in some way, since events are a central point in episodic memory, and we have to associate locations and times along a spatiotemporal trajectory with specific items and events. Here, he will describe the hippocampal circuitry for associations as well as the function of hippocampal subregions, including region CA3 and its role in associative memory. The interesting fact here is that after initial and complex excitation, the same memory can be re-associated by firing just a subset of the original circuits, and the recall is whole, even when the cues are incomplete, something called pattern completion. Elements of a memory may thus be used in a kind of priming to reproduce multiple elements of a more complex memory. This opens the door for imperfect memory, and the brain will accept false memories when they are full of complex detail.
This issue of how the CA3 works in associative memory is then discussed in detail, including the role of the dentate gyrus in sorting out the overlapping memory that will result. Region CA1 is also a target for extensive discussion, as it is intimately connected by the Schaffer collaterals, as strongly as are the excitatory connections from the CA3 to the Mossy fibers, but the pattern of connectivity is vastly different to the pattern in the CA1. The Mossy fiber input from the dentate to the CA3 stops before it reaches CA1, CA1 fields have only very weak recurrent connections, so the vast majority of synapses in the stratum radiatum of CA1 arise only from the Schaffer collateral pathway from CA3, and finally, CA1 receives input from layer III of the entorhinal cortex rather than II, and this input is segregated with input from medial entorhinal cortex entering areas of CA1 proximal to CA3, and input from the lateral entorhinal cortex entering CA1 more distal near the subiculum. Now this may seem meaningless or complex, but in reality to neuroscientists this describes markedly divergent functions in these two areas, which leads to implications for functional studies of the behavior of memory. Input from the CA3 thus can head off down the Mossy fibers, and through the fornix to the mammillary bodies, but not from the CA1 directly, suggesting different pathways for heteromodal information. There is in effect no direct connection from the CA3 to the entorhinal cortex other than via the CA1 to the subiculum. This will be of importance as the CA1 will act as a gating mechanism via Hebbian modification, mapping CA3 activity to the associated activity in entorhinal cortex and gating how strongly the CA3 output spreads back to influence the entorhinal cortex. In this way, information comes in from the perirhinal areas, richly encoded heteromodal information which is sent through the entorhinal area and via the CA3 and mossy fibers through the fornix arches and mammillary bodies, to be further encoded by long term potentiation. Another option opened up is that the CA1 and Schaffer collaterals provide access to the subiculum for further encoding, using the rich perceptual information provided by the sensorium, namely the tertiary association areas, and so the encoding and heteromodality of this process enriches learning and memory. I hope that summary is accurate, and helps demonstrate the value of what Hasselmo is describing.
Hasselmo examines the value of using drugs that can modify the dynamics of encoding and retrieval, looking at acetylcholine blockers and inhibition enhancers respectively, and how these work in relationship to other studies and to his modeling of the physiology of memory. The value of the models here is in solving the problems of the impairment or enhancement of memory using drugs that influence the acetylcholinergic and GABA receptors, and alter the Theta oscillations. The next two chapters examine then how the mechanisms of encoding and retrieval of episodic memory can be used for memory -- guided behavior in behavioral tasks, and also the mathematical models of memory that kind of prove his points, as an appendix.
By now, in my superficial glide over the book chapters you will have sensed that there is probably no more serious work on memory than this book, and not for the layman or undergraduate, not any more than say Gazzaniga's New Cognitive Neurosciences, or Kandel, Shwartz and Jessell's Principles of Neural Sciences are. This is dense, complex physiology that requires expert analysis, clearly written but requiring intense and detailed appreciation of the area in science, and an awareness of the literature and science evolution across the 2000's until now.
A very comprehensive volume that takes a lot of time and effort to absorb, but worth it for the serious researcher, and the knowledgeable neuroscience, but a tough read for those with little knowledge of the area. The ramifications of this book are unclear, apart from its role in educating those who want a detailed knowledge, and intend to study it further, but throughout are interesting, state of the art tidbits for the clinician, or those with a fine eye for diagnostic detail who are trying to make sense of complex presentations.
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Roy Sugarman PhD, Director of Applied Neuroscience, Athletes Performance, USA.
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VANDALIA — The Vandalia Cultural Arts Advisory Committee has announced its 2016 Grant Program.
Priding itself on providing Vandalia residents with opportunities for a variety of art and cultural experiences, members of the Committee are hopeful that a wide array of projects will request support in the 2016 funding cycle.
Current VCAP members include Vandalians Guustie Alvarado, Paul Courtney, Sandra Deardorff, Kim Hyatt and Joanne Townsend. Vice Mayor Candice Farst serves as the city council liaison to the group.
The Vandalia Cultural Arts Endowment Fund was formed in 2002 to advance and support artistic and cultural activities, programs, performances and organizations for the benefit of the citizens of Vandalia. Vandalia City Council appoints five citizens to an advisory committee to oversee the fund and determine where resources might best be placed.
To be eligible for 2016 grants, artistic endeavors must take place between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. Most importantly, projects must directly benefit the City of Vandalia and its residents; sponsoring organizations must be non-profit. Grant applications will be scored based on the project's impact on Vandalia, quality and appeal, among other factors. Up to $7,500 in all, will be granted in 2016. Individual grant size will depend on the number of applications. Grant applications are available in the City Manager's Office at the Vandalia Municipal Building or online at www.vandaliaohio.org beginning December 1. The deadline for submission of applications is February 5.
In 2015, the Advisory Board awarded $4,000 to the Vandalia Youth Theatre for its summertime productions and $1,000 to Muse Machine for its annual student musical.
Those seeking more information about the Vandalia Cultural Arts Endowment Fund, membership on the Advisory Committee, or the grant process may call Julie Trick at the City of Vandalia, 415-2256.
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Wellness tip: green brings balance, provides peace, safety and security. The soul is placed in positive vibrations. Green stands as a source for creativity and leaves you wanting new things. A greener room seems relaxing and revitalizing.


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The Connecticut River marks the western border between New Hampshire and Vermont and the road through the valley on the New Hampshire side (and on the Vermont as well) makes for a scenic drive. And for History Tourists, it has the added advantage of being lined charming towns with small but worthwhile historic sites.
Old New London Village
On our way from our home base in Manchester to the Upper Valley — though not quite there — was the hill town of New London and it's 19th century doppelganger, Old New London Village.
Old New London is a recreation of New London as it was 150 years ago. Someone donated land to the New London Historical Society, and the Society moved it's headquarters there. Then, through the years, they started bringing old buildings (although a few are new builds crafted in the 19th century way) from around the area to the site. Next thing you know, they've got a village.
Its star attraction is the 1835 Scytheville House, the first of the buildings to be brought to the museum site. Originally located down the hill in the town of Elkin (called Scytheville in the mid-19th century), it was a home for workers from a scythe factory. Dismantled and moved up the hill, it has been restored and furnished with period pieces.
There's an exhibit space — in a large restored barn, if I'm remembering correctly — with objects donated by local residents. The objects aren't heavily curated or labeled, but they're charming and I got the sense of community from the exhibit.
I think it usually has an array of reenactors staffing various buildings. On the day that we were there, at the end of its season, there was one man being the blacksmith, and one volunteer docent in the museum.
Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
As we left the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, we passed the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, that travels over the Connecticut River from Cornish, New Hampshire to Windsor, Vermont. It's the longest covered wooden bridge in the US. The current iteration was built in 1866 and is approximately 449 feet long and 24 feet wide.
The Fort at #4
About 30 minutes south of Cornish, in Charlestown NH, is the Fort at #4, a reconstruction of a French and Indian War fort.
The original was built in 1740 and was home to about 10 families. I'd never seen a fort configured like this: all the living space was in one connected building that crawled along the inside of the exterior fort wall. The center was left for communal activities. They cooperatively farmed and ran businesses.
Unfortunately for those settlers, the French and their Native American allies started a campaign against them, around 1746. Their mill was burnt down and people were killed whenever they ventured out of the settlement. So the civilians left and the military came, to fight the French and Indian War.
The fort closed and disappeared after the Revolution. Today, the recreated fort is a living history museum with reenactors portraying townfolk and soldiers. Again, because it was the end of the season and attendance was low, there was only one man portraying a soldier and answering questions.
Burdicks of Walpole
Not a history site, but I have to give a shout out to one of my favorite chocolate shops: Burdicks of Walpole, a few miles south of Charlestown. Walpole is a cute little town whose claim-to-fame is that it's headquarters for the production company of Ken Burns, the documentary film-maker.
It was October, so they had this Halloween display out. Next door to the candy shop is a related restaurant, which served the tastiest quiche I've ever had.
Fall in New Hampshire
I had, in part, chosen October for my New Hampshire trip because I was hoping to catch some fall colors along with the historic sites. Unfortunately, fall was late in New England last year and colors hadn't peaked yet. But on our way back to Manchester from our Connecticut River Valley drive, we finally passed what I'd hoped to see.


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Ideal Sno Toys Sno-Shovel is the perfect companion on a snowy day. Clear snow from the sidewalk or gather it up, to make a fort, castle or snowman! The bright and fun colors come in various combinations, so everyone will know which shovel is yours. This handy snow tool measures 25in. tall and the scoop is 10in. wide by 9in. tall. Includes a shovel in random colors. Recommended for children 5 years of age and older.


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Faudi dp-SWITCH
The dp-SWITCH conversion kit fully complies to JIG 58 bulletin requirements. It is stated there that all Hydrant Servicers with Filter Monitor vessels should be retrofitted by end of December 31th 2013.
Different versions of dp-switch conversion kits are available:
• Safe Area conversion kit
• Hazardous area approved conversion kit
All kits consists about stainless steel proximity switches to be retrofitted on existing dp gauges, sensor cable to inter connect with related electronic with safety relay and key operated switch to reset the safety relay when activated. There is no additional need. FAUDI Aviation Sensor GmbH dp-switches adapts to all refueling vehicles anywhere across the globe independent of manufacturers / year of construction or dp gauge manufacturer.


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Timothy Bertch to leave for private employment
As the city of San Diego enters a critical phase in its bid to secure a third Clean Water Act waiver, the director of the San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department is leaving after about one year on the job.Timothy Bertch, chosen to help Mayor Jerry Sanders decide whether to upgrade the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant or request another waiver, joined the city in December 2006. Bertch had formerly served as a Navy engineer and official for Lockheed Martin San Diego.San Diego's City Council agreed with Sanders this November to seek exemption from pollution rules. A treatment plant upgrade would cost at least $1 billion, and the city hoped to avoid this costly retrofit.The mayor's office said that Bertch announced in December that he would step down to assume private employment. He is expected to serve in his position through Dec. 28; Water Department Director Jim Barrett will take over Bertch's positions in addition to his current duties thereafter.


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bimbo, erotica, lawyer sex, Lesbians, masturbation, mutual masturbation, nude man, nude woman, oral sex, orgasms, penis, public sex, pussy, sex, sex positions, sex with strangers, slut, vagina, well-hung dwarf
E-Read Erotica Reviews: "…it just gets more and more absurd as the story goes on, which is a good thing since you can't hit super absurd right from the start because it's too much of a shock. The book eases us into it, and I will always say that writing comedy is also very hard, but K.C. Cave manages to pull off this satirical farce quite well, and keep the heat going through the entire episode…Is it silly? Hell yes it is silly…Don't take this too seriously, laugh along at the craziness, and have fun."
The set-up: Remy reads the demand letter from her ex's lawyer saying she owes more money, and she's fuming. Then she hears an ad on the radio: "Does the legal profession owe you one? …you may qualify for a new and free legal service." Later that day, the young beauty is strapped to a chair, nude and ready for a bizarre and erotic examination by 5 lawyers, a demented, over-endowed dwarf, and an audience of law students. Remy's ex is claiming she's frigid. This nude deposition will prove she's not. [MF, submission, well-hung dwarf, public sex, lawyer sex, bimbo, public sex with strangers, MF sex, squirting]
Warning: This is my raunchiest, most off-the-wall erotica yet. It's got sex with strangers, exhibitionism, lesbian fingering, a delicious libation that goes straight to your clit, a frisky dwarf with an eight-inch cock, law students humping in the gallery while Remy gets deposed. In the nude. Strapped down. Her pussy on multiple screens in hi-def. Oh, and squirting.
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The door opened, and a young woman entered the office. Remy couldn't believe her eyes: Wearing a red, skin-tight micro-dress and six-inch heels, she was all curves. While her breasts weren't as large as Remy's, her neckline plunged nearly to her waist. A push-up bra did the rest. Remy's shock at the sight of the provocatively dressed woman evaporated as she began to speak.
"Miss McClintock, I'm Professor Slutz. Will you come with me? We have a special conference room reserved for depositions."
"Gosh, I've never seen a law professor like this before," Remy thought as she followed Professor Slutz' rocking hips and swinging globes down the hall.
Followed by: "Well, actually, I've never seen any kind of a law professor before. Aren't they like school teachers? But, but … this chick is hotter than anybody I ever had in high school."
The conference room, only a few doors down the hall, occupied a corner of the tall building and offered a stunning view of the city. In the center, a large walnut conference table was surrounded by upholstered chairs. Another white china pitcher and glasses sat on a sideboard inside the door.
"Please help yourself," said Professor Slutz, nodding toward the pitcher. "I'll join you."
Remy had forgotten about the creamy, cool liquid, as distracted as she was by her steamy meeting with Professor Balzac and this unexpectedly gorgeous woman. The delicious concoction was even smoother and tastier than she remembered. After downing a glass, she poured another.
"Miss McClintock, I understand you've never been deposed before," Professor Slutz said, settling her firm, round behind into one of the chairs. "Let me explain what's about to unfold. Are you familiar with the term 'juris doctoris'?"
Remy shook her head. She was having a little trouble focusing.
"That's what it says on my law school diploma," the professor said. "What it means, Miss McClintock, is that I'm a doctor of law. For you, that means you have to remove your clothes. You must be nude for the deposition."
A vague thought that something wasn't right flitted through Remy's head. She took a long pull of the refreshing liquid, and the concern disappeared. "Now? Should I undress now?"
Professor Slutz nodded. Remy stood and began removing her clothes. Undressing was easy. The flimsy top slid right off. She wiggled out of her skirt and pulled off her thong.
"Is this okay?" she asked, her arms on her hips and turning to give the professor a full view of her not inconsiderable charms. Remy knew she was gorgeous and enjoyed showing off.
The professor shook her head. "Nude means everything, Miss McClintock. Boots, too."
In a moment, Remy was completely and spectacularly nude, her firm, curvy, twenty-two-year-old body on full display. Her breasts were two perfectly rounded domes. Her nipples were tiny and perfect, the way they reached up all perky and creased.
Remy cocked a hip, tilted her head, and ran a finger from between her breasts down to her navel. She fanned out her fingers and dropped her hand to her freshly waxed pussy.
"How's this, professor?"
The other woman smiled and stood up. "Follow me, dear, and I'll make the final preparations here in the witness prep room."
Remy followed the slinky law professor through a door and entered a small, windowless room. In the center was a large chair. It look just like a chair you'd find in a dentist's office.
"Please be seated, Miss McClintock."
Remy swung her hips and settled in. She was prepared for the shock of cold leather on her bare skin, but was pleasantly surprised by the chair's warmth.
"Due to the nature of the complaint filed against you, Miss McClintock, this deposition has, ahem, special requirements," Professor Slutz explained. "Please relax as I make some adjustments. Oh, can I interest you in more to drink?"
Remy nodded her head enthusiastically. The professor returned with another glass of the delicious libation, filled to the rim.
"Drink up, dear. Now, where was I? Oh, yes, the complaint filed against you. You're not a lawyer, is that correct, Miss McClintock? I didn't think so, but it's always best to ask. I'll do my best to explain without the legalese. Basically, your ex-husband is asking the court to order that you pay him additional damages on the basis that during your brief marriage, you were frigid.
"I want to ask you now, before the formal deposition begins, are you frigid, Miss McClintock? And, just to be clear, by 'frigid,' I mean, are you abnormally averse to sexual intercourse?"
"Gosh, no, professor," Remy gushed. "I mean, I love to fuck." Shocked at her use of the obscenity, Remy blushed.
"It's okay, dear, that's what we need to know. I appreciate your frankness. The legal issue that we need to establish for the court is that you, to use your words, 'love to fuck.' And that's what we're going to do this afternoon. I mean, establish that you're not frigid."
"Will…will it hurt?" Remy stammered.
"No, it shouldn't. In fact, it should be pleasurable—extremely pleasurable. Now, let me get you ready."
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This past weekend we celebrated little dolly's birthday!
We knew it was going to be at home with just us four because all of our distant family is in Texas and the weather has been soo cold in the teens that we really just wanted to snuggle at home.
My little one has been obsessed lately with Cinderella and that is the cake she chose this year. Of course I began decorating last minute while my husband took her to pick out any toy she wanted at the toy store. I started rummaging through my stash in my craft room to try to figure how to make it look "Cinderella" themed! Since she's only 3 I knew she would be pleased with anything!
I began by making her a homemade banner on the wall with some blue washi tape and balloons.
I just so happen to have blue vintage pillowcases which I thought would be a cool to make into chair covers. I just slipped them right on!
With left over vintage fabric I made a scrap garland.
I just blew up some blue balloons for her to have a ball with and that was pretty much it! Sometimes when you are in a time crunch everything just seems to come together!
She loved the balloons and seeing her name on the wall. Big sister had fun helping me decorate and couldn't wait to help her eat her cake;)
We ate pizza and ate cake. Ran around the house with balloons and really appreciated our little one that makes our family whole.
It was a good day.
She was a happy happy happy girl:)
Thanks for visiting!


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If you read our last trip report, you'll know that we met nearly 100 people on the trail the first day of hiking in the Emigrant Wilderness. That's a lot, for us. We like to backpack where we seldom see anyone at all--often going a day or more without seeing another soul.
And then we met another thirty or so people on the second day. And we began to think, "Was Yogi Berra right? That nobody goes there anymore, because it's too crowded?"
Of course, we were hiking on the main drag in Emigrant--Gianelli Trailhead, heading East. And as soon as we got a bit further into the forest, we found ourselves a lot more isolated. From Emigrant Lake to Bucks Lake on the return trip, we saw a total of two people. That's about 13 miles and two days of hiking.
The rule is always the same in the backcountry. If you want solitude, head off-trail or more than one day in. Either way, you will lose about 85% of the people who backpack. And if you do both, as we did in our trip up Conness Creek in Yosemite last year, you won't see anyone at all.
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Archive for June, 2010
A Ray of Hope
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 – Fenway Park, Section 40
Red Sox 8, Rays 5
After a sweep of the Dodgers, the road wasn't as kind to the Red Sox. They went 3-3 on a trip through Colorado and San Francisco, but their record wasn't what everyone was talking about. The day after a 5-hit, 3-homer "laser show", [...]
Beating L.A.
Friday, June 18, 2010 – Fenway Park, Section 39
Red Sox 10, Dodgers 6
It's always fun to go to Fenway two days in a row. It makes me feel like a season-ticket holder, like no matter what goes on – good or bad – I'm going to be there for it. So even though a lot [...]
It's All Relative
Thursday, June 17, 2010 – Fenway Park, Section 43
Red Sox 8, Diamondbacks 5
The Red Sox won the first two games of their series against the Diamondbacks in convincing fashion, and my next game was on Thursday as they went for the sweep. In four straight series they had taken the first two games but had [...]
A Lost Cause
Sunday, June 13, 2010 – Fenway Park, Section 36
Phillies 5, Red Sox 3
As the calendar turned to June, the Red Sox kept up their winning ways. They took 2 of 3 from the A's, won 2 of 3 in Baltimore, and split a 4-game series in Cleveland. When they returned home, they won the first [...]
Welcome Back, Daubach
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Red Sox Team Store's Fan Appreciation Day
During the week I received an email from the souvenir store across the street from Fenway (I've always called it by its original name, Twins, but in recent years it's changed to the Yawkey Way Store and most recently the Red Sox Team Store) about their [...]
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 – Fenway Park, Section 36
Red Sox 9, A's 4
The Red Sox had Memorial Day off, and I spent the day keeping my sprained ankle elevated and watching other baseball games on TV. On Tuesday, I had to be at work in the morning, but I was able to take the afternoon [...]


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"Madlib Medicine Show No. 3: Beat Konducta in Africa will be released March 23 as the third installment of the producer's one-release-a-month music series for 2010. Beat Konducta in Africa will be released on CD and double LP, with the first limited editions of the double LP packaged in individually screen printed sleeves and a bonus 45.
Beat Konducta in Africa is a 37-track instrumental hip-hop album produced & mixed with Madlib, featuring J. Rocc. This album bases itself on the obscure vinyl gems from the afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul movements of African countries as diverse as Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana and Ivory Coast.
Madlib's Beat Konducta instrumental series - created from Madlib's raw beat tapes - began in 2006 with Movie Scenes, an imaginary movie & TV soundtrack with the feel of Blaxpoitation soul, afro-psychedelia and moody progressive rock. Beat Konducta in India (Vol. 3-4) and A Tribute to J Dilla (Vol. 5-6) followed in 2007 and 2009. Pieces of these albums have been reworked by artists such as Talib Kweli and Mos Def, who used Beat Konducta in India on his 2009 album Ecstatic." (Stones Throw Website)


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Partial Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Vince Russo has always be a supporter of Andrew "Test" Martin, and felt he got the shaft in WWE. Believe it or not, Paul Heyman was actually high on Martin at one time. Problem being? He never developed any charisma.
TNA talent relations manger Terry Taylor offered Ron Killings a raise, the elimination of the 20% booking fee, and the ability to continue to work in AAA if he returned to TNA.


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US tightens security on phones and shoes
Smartphones and shoes are the focus of increased airport security checks, United States security officials said yesterday.
Airports and carriers with direct flights to the US have been told to intensify screening of phones because of intelligence reports that al-Qaeda's master bombmaker has created a hard-to-detect device.
Officials singled out Apple iPhones and Samsung Galaxy mobiles, saying that they would be closely examined.
Officials claimed the intelligence also pointed to a new type of shoe bomb, much more sophisticated than the one that Richard Reid tried to detonate on a transatlantic flight in 2001.
Airport security was stepped up this week after the US received intelligence of an alliance between al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen, and the al-Nusra Front in Syria.