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Some Things Should Remain Private: What Not To Share On Facebook
Ah, Facebook. The grandfather of all social networks, where we all share all sorts of weird things without a second thought. Despite its horrible reputation when it comes to privacy, Facebook still manages to lull us into a comfortable and safe feeling, in which many of us forget ourselves, the world, and the fact that absolutely anyone can see what we post on Facebook.
What is it about Facebook that makes it so easy to forget? Ask anyone on the street if they like Facebook, and most people will answer in a resounding "no". They're tired of the frequent interface changes, they don't like Mark Zuckerberg, and they absolutely hate how it hurts their privacy. No sooner had they said that, will they be posting something private on Facebook without giving a second thought. And it's not only "they" that do that. We all make these mistakes, at least from time to time.
Although it should be pretty obvious by now what you should or should not share on Facebook, it never hurts to refresh your memory. Perhaps you've forgotten yourself again in the heat of the moment, or haven't quite decided what you want your Facebook account to be about. It's time to clean up your act. Follow the tips below, and make sure you're not putting your privacy, job, and security in danger.
Decide: Is Your Facebook Private Or Professional?
This is a very important decision to make, and one you should take the time to think about. Is your Facebook account a place to stay updated with friends and family, or is it a professional account you want prospect bosses to see, and use to interact with colleagues about work? Unless you're going to be extremely careful about it, your private life and professional life is going to clash.
It doesn't even have to be something obvious like complaining about your work or boss and having it reach the wrong eyes. It can also be sharing inappropriate links or photos of yourself, and having them wind up in the wrong places. In his article about why you shouldn't integrate Facebook, Twitter, & LinkedIn Why You Shouldn't Integrate Facebook, Twitter, & LinkedIn Social networking is a huge part of the Internet, providing the means for us all to connect and communicate quickly and easily. There are both positive and negative aspects to the very act of social... Read More , Dave tells all about why you shouldn't connect all your social accounts, especially if they're used for different purposes. Nevertheless, many of us do that, and have inappropriate links from Facebook wind up on LinkedIn. Awkward.
Since Facebook is geared into sharing with friends, the best thing to do is to keep work-related things away from it as much as possible. There are other networks for that. If you must use your Facebook account for work-related things, or show it at a job interview, make sure to clean it up Clean Up Your Facebook Account Before You Go Looking For Work By now we're all aware that it's important to be professional online, that employers have the ability to do background checks based through our social media accounts. And also that many people, though they know... Read More first and make it more professional.
Anything Work Related (Unless It's Positive)
This is an extension of the previous point, but its worth reiterating. Do NOT use your Facebook account to complain about your work, your salary, your boss, or even things such as the long drive to work, how tired you feel while in the office, or how you'd rather not get up from bed today.
Are you supposed to be at work from 9 to 5? Posting five status updates and 4 photos during that time might not be the brightest idea, especially if you have colleagues (not to mention bosses) in your friends list. People tend to forget this, but other people can see when you posted things.
If you must share something about work, you can share interesting job openings, share your actual work, if possible, and even tell your friends how much you like your job. Don't go to far with that one, though, or it might start to look weird.
I Have A Job Interview/Date/Ultrasound Tomorrow!!!!!!
Exciting things are fun to share. When something exciting is going to happen, you want the world to know, even if it's against your better judgment. Think twice (or more, if necessary) before posting anything of this nature. Is this exciting thing going to happen for sure? Is the outcome necessarily positive? Does everyone really need to know about this right now?
Being disappointed is bad enough as it is without having to share your disappointment with the world and explain why it happened. Some job interviews and dates don't go that well, and you might not want to share that you're pregnant before you're 100% sure everything is going to be OK. In addition, not everyone on your friends list should know about these things. Your workplace might not appreciate you having a job interview tomorrow, for example. Use your common sense to figure out the rest.
Don't Make It Too Easy To Break Into Your Home
Your Facebook profile and account might be hidden from the public (as they should be), but this doesn't mean information can't get out. No matter who is supposed to see it, you shouldn't share information that can put your security at risk. And this is surprisingly easy to do.
Did you share your full address on Facebook? Everyone knows where you live. Did you just check-in with Foursquare into the mall? Did you just share that you're going on a week long vacation? Now everyone knows your house is going to be empty or is empty right now. No matter how you look at it, this is not good. It might sound paranoid, but better safe than sorry.
Don't Make It Too Easy To Break Into Your Account
This follows the same idea as the previous point. Don't ever underestimate people's ability to connect the dots, when they really want to. Do you use your child's or dog's name as your password? Well, you shouldn't, but if you do anyway, it's not as hard for people to guess as you might think. If you've share password hints on Facebook, or even the passwords themselves in the form of names or dates, don't be surprised if someone manages to put 2 and 2 together.
Full Birth Date & Location
This is a no-brainer, but some people still forget about this. Sharing your full birth date and place on Facebook can lead to privacy breaches, and in extreme cases, even identity theft. I'm not saying you should become super paranoid about everything, but this kind of information does not belong on the Web, where anyone at all can see it. If you'd like to get birthday wishes on Facebook, a day and a month are enough, a year is not necessary.
Be Graph Search Ready
Have you heard of Graph Search Cool Things To Search For With Graph Search [Weekly Facebook Tips] Facebook Graph Search recently made a huge splash on the search scene, allowing all Facebook users to mine data that is either public or visible to them via their friends. The result is that regular... Read More ? Despite the uproar it created, Facebook's new search finds nothing you didn't put there yourself. So don't click like on inappropriate things or things you don't really like. Don't add random things to your hobbies as a joke. Don't add life events that never happened. These things can backfire badly with Graph Search.
To get a better understanding of this, check out Angela's tips on preparing your account privacy for Graph Search Prepare Your Account Privacy For Facebook Graph Search [Weekly Facebook Tips] Every time Facebook releases a new feature to learn more about our friends, many people realise that their privacy settings are not adequate anymore. Their latest new feature, Facebook Graph Search, is no exception -... Read More .
The (Should Be) Obvious: Anything You Don't Want The World To See
There are many more things one should never share on Facebook, and they all fall under this heading. You must get it into your head that anything you share on Facebook can be seen by anyone. Your privacy settings How To Hide Your Personal Information On Facebook In the age of the Internet, privacy is a luxury and you have to constantly be on your heels to maintain it. Facebook makes it particularly hard for users to guard their personal data. Despite... Read More , while extremely important, will not save you from embarrassments every time. Don't post photos if someone should not see them. Don't say where you are if someone shouldn't know. Don't post photos of your child with their full name. Don't complain or gossip. And for crying out loud, don't talk negatively about your significant other, even if they don't have a Facebook account.
Facebook can be great for keeping up with friends and family, but it can easily become a potential trouble source if you go too far. Keep it simple and fun!
Need more tips? Here are 5 more things you should not be posting Facebook 5 Things You Need to Stop Posting on Facebook We've discussed things that annoy Dave on Twitter, and we've even talked about how you may have compromised your security on the Internet. However, it seems as if Facebook brings both of those topics together.... Read More , and 7 things you should be posting on Facebook 7 Things You Should Be Posting On Facebook [Opinion] On one of my last articles, 5 Things You Need To Stop Posting On Facebook, I received a comment from a certain Smumdax that basically begged the question, "Well. What should we post on Facebook?"So... Read More . You can also take your knowledge to the next level with our free Facebook privacy guide The Complete Facebook Privacy Guide Privacy on Facebook is a complex beast. Many important settings are hidden out of sight. Here's a complete look at every Facebook privacy setting you need to know about. Read More .
Do you have tips of your own? Is there something that should NEVER be posted to Facebook I didn't mention? Did sharing on Facebook ever backfire on you? Share in the comments below.
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Curtains are typically made from a lightweight material and are unlined to give a bedroom an easy-going, casual feel, whereas draperies are often lined and created from heavy fabrics to promote a sophisticated, formal atmosphere. When you're choosing a curtain style for a bedroom, dress your windows to enhance the room's existing furnishings and color scheme. Choose a curtain that also provides the level of privacy you need and creates the atmosphere you desire.
Select a color for your curtains to enhance the existing decor in a bedroom. For example, in a kid's bedroom, acquire curtains in a print to match your little one's bedding ensemble. Create a monochromatic look by opting for curtains in the same color family as the existing wall color, such as light gray curtains against a dark gray wall. Stimulate visual interest by hanging curtains in a bold hue -- apple green, tangy tangerine, luscious lime, lipstick red -- adjacent to neutral-colored walls. If you have decorative wallpaper on your bedroom walls, balance out a busy pattern with solid-colored curtains, or ramp up the aesthetics in a room without patterns with a lively curtain design, such as a stripe, floral or geometric print.
Choose a curtain fabric that delivers the mood you desire for your bedroom, such as feminine, breezy, masculine, modern or traditional. The curtain material should also reflect the room's current decorating style. For example, pick out a lacy fabric to convey feminine undertones with simple country-cottage appeal. Translucent sheer fabrics allow natural light to permeate a bedroom to keep the space feeling light and airy. Faux silk adds design drama, while thicker polyester and cotton blends fashion a warmer look. Open-weave fabrics, such as linen, suggest a laid-back ambiance with an organic feel. An easy-care curtain fabric -- cotton, polyester or a blend of the two -- makes a practical option for a child's bedroom.
There are several types of curtains to choose from when you're selecting a style for a bedroom. Rod-pocket curtains have been around for a long time. They are a simple design that suits almost any bedroom style, from youngsters to adults. Tab-top curtains have small fabric loops, or tabs, sewn across the top hem of a curtain. The tabs slide easily over a decorative pole rod to provide a neat appearance. Grommet, or eyelet, curtains generate a modern flair. These curtains are designed with metal rings permanently inserted into the fabric for weaving a pole rod through the top.
Because curtains are made from lightweight fabrics, sometimes they don't deliver your desired level of privacy or insulation. A quick solution to this design dilemma is to layer the curtains with another window treatment. For example, install wooden blinds underneath sheer curtains to offer a stylish layered look that allows you to control the amount and direction of natural light entering the room. Or, hang eco-friendly bamboo blinds behind the sheer curtains for an organic, earthy feel. Layer your child's curtains with simple, budget-friendly roller shades to provide a darker sleeping environment.

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Dear Internet/Newsgroup Reader !
This year Hungary celebrates the 1100th anniversary of the settlement of
its ancestors in the Carpathian Basin. The Hungarian Embassy in
Washington D.C. is planning a comprehensive series of events
commemorating this outstanding jubilee. In connection with this ,
we seek to utilize the opportunities offered by the Internet in
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Central European region as well. At the same time we intend to sound
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> Toth means "Sloven" in hungarian.
> Tothorszag means "Slovenia".
> I don't know the origin.
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The question would be:
How the Slovaks/Toths called themselves
400 years ago
700 years ago
1000 years ago
When they formed their national identity in the collective memory,
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Mar 24th, Indian local officials confirm that Apple is to start manufacturing iPhones in Bengaluru within a few month. The factory jointly set up by Apple and Wistron will be makng iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE.
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iPhone Not the Best Seller in China
For the Year of 2016, the best selling smart phone is OPPO R9, which sold 170 million units, taking 4% of China's smart phone market. The second place is taken by iPhone 6s at 2%.
TSMC to Offer 12nm Process
TSMC is upgrading its 16nm process, likely to 12nm. Presently the best process on the market is 10nm by Samsung in making Snapdragon for Qualcomm. TSMC will also provide 10nm process for iPhone this year. 12nm will be TSMC's answer to over-order on 10nm and counter measure to 14nm from competitors.
SHARP building OLED Factory in China
SHARP is building OLED production line in China and is expected to start mass production in 2019. iPhone 8 will use OLED screen from Samsung, but is likely to buy from SHARP once it can provide supply to factories of Foxconn, the maker of iPhones in China.
TSMC to Make 7nm Chip
TSMC is to adopt 7nm FinFET manufacturing process in chip making since Q2 2017, to prepare for A series processor to be used in iPhone and iPad.


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When Prole1 was six we hung a set of planets from the bedroom ceiling, spiralling out from one of the down lighters which served as the Sun.
They had looked at Planets at school and he had brought back a book from the library and went through them all until he could recite the in the right order.
About a week later we saw the set for sale in town.
Prole1's eyes lit up with the special fire that scares me so I bought them.
Me: Ok, we all have jobs, Prole1 finds the planets and hands them to Prole2 who hands them to me and I will attach them. Got it?
Proles: GOT IT!
Me: Ok let's go.
Prole1: Mercury!
Prole2: Mercury!
Me: Messenger of the Gods. Mercury.
Prole1: Venus!
Prole2: Venus!
Me: Goddess of Love. Venus.
Prole1: Earth!
Prole2: World!
Me: Whole World in his hands. Earth.
Prole1: Mars!
Proel2: Mars!
Me: God of War. Mars.
Prole1: Jupiter!
Prole2: Jupiter!
Me: King of the Gods. Jupiter.
Prole1: Saturn!
Prole2: Saturn.
Me: God of wealth, wearing rings. Saturn
Prole1: Uranus!
Prole2: Uranus!
Me: UUuummmm…Uranus.
Prole2: What was that one?
Me: Sorry?
Prole1: Uranus? What God is Uranus?
Me: I have no idea. Sorry.
Short silence. Prole1 was silent. Prole2 picked his nose.
Don't judge me. I still don't know.
I will have to google it one day.
Prole1: Neptune!
Prole2: LOOK AT THAT!
Me: Neptune! Don't worry, I will get the planet. Wash that off. Neptune God of the sea.
Prole2: What is that?
Me: I think you should wash your hands…..
Prole2: No, that!
There was a small blue round shape in the bag.
Prole1: That is Pluto. It's not a planet. It has been classified as a rock or something.
Prole2 was still in a phase which meant that the reclassification of planets, the loss of crucial toys or a bread stick breaking in the wrong way could trigger a complete emotional and physical shut down. This proceeded to happen right in front of us.
Me: Can we hang it anyway?
Prole1 (passing it over): Ok. But I will know…
The planets looked great. Prole1 was very pleased with this.
A few days later he was sitting on the top bunk staring at the planets.
Me: You Ok?
Prole1: Did science make the Planets? Or did God?
Me(instantly stalling): Why do you ask?
Prole1: Well God made the world in a week but the planets took millions of years and the World is a planet so did God make the world after science made the planets?
Me: …..um…..
Now I know what I believe about this.
I also know this is not a view shared by everybody in the world.
Do I tell him what I think is right, therefore setting him on one course for the rest of his life?
I mean, I tell him all sorts of things about the world like crossing the road and which fork to use and toilet training and so on which, to be blunt, I don't want to get into a philosophical conversation about. I want him to accept some things point blank, no questions.
There are some things, the bigger questions that I feel I have answered to myself but which are part of the journey of life.
Brutal didacticism stamped so much joy out of my life I'd rather the Proles ran freely through the meadows of discovery and not have my belief system yoking them for their early years.
I would rather he figure these things out for himself.
So I gave him the guff answer:
Me: Well some people believe one thing and some people believe another. It really depends which one you think is right.
Prole1: Yes, but which one IS right?
There followed a lot of guff.
Guff is good for a bit.
Fortunately the cavalry was about to arrive. A man who manages to balance Science and Logic with Theology in the most perfect manner. A man who would be able to put both arguments forward with decades of experience in this field.
He is a Christian, he is also a scientist and best of all he likes people to make up their own mind.
Every family should have one.
A Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral came to stay.
For the most part he is known as Grandpa but for the purposes of this story his qualification as Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral is most pertinent.
On arrival in the house the Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral was primed on Prole1's questions over existentialism and planetary formation.
The Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral is an old Pro. He nodded in a business like fashion.
Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral: I shall tread carefully.
I spoke to Prole1.
Me: Hey, why don't you take the Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral upstairs and show him your planets?
They went up stairs and chatted for a long time while Prole2 and I mucked about in the living room and did play fights.
After a while the Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral came downstairs.
Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral: Well that was VERY interesting. We had a long chat but I think we got somewhere. I told him all about the formation of the universe and how long it has been here. We talked a lot about stars and black holes. It was very interesting.
So we sat and had a cup of tea and a bit of a chat and me and Prole2 did some more play fights and the Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral read the paper.
I suddenly became aware that Prole1 was not with us and all was silent upstairs.
That either meant he was crying or thinking and neither is ideal in my view.
I went into his room and he was lying flat on his back, his glasses on his chest, the pillow was stained with his tears. He was silently crying and could hardly breathe through the sobs.
Me: Are you Ok?
Prole1: No.
Me: Why?
Prole1: Well, once our Sun has gone Supernova I know by that time the human race may have the technology to make spaceships and stuff to go to another solar system. But what happens….what…..what happens…
He lunged over for a hug and it was a while before he got back to the point.
Prole1: What happens when all the Suns go Supernova and the Galaxy is dead? Everything. Everything will be dead!
I went back down stairs.
Cannon Emeritus of Salisbury Cathedral: Is everything all right? Any problems with him?
Me: I think you had better go up again, he has another question.


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The Peabody Named Among "South's Best" by Southern Living
The Peabody was named #2 in the South's Top Hotels and the #1 Hotel in Tennessee for 2017!
The honor as one of the "South's Best" by Southern Living magazine bests hotels like Jekyll Island Club Hotel in Georgia, Watercolor Inn & Resort in Florida, The Roosevelt in New Orleans and The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville. The Biltmore in North Carolina was the only hotel to finish above The Peabody.
As well as being #2 in the South, The Peabody was named the #1 Hotel in Tennessee!
Southern Living's list celebrates the "spectacular sights, inspiring destinations, and cultural institutions that define the South in 2017." To create the first-ever "South's Best" list, Southern Living surveyed more than 22,000 readers on the best-loved places in 13 categories: bars, breweries, cities, hotels, inns, islands, museums, resorts, restaurants, shops, small towns, tailgates and barbecue joints.
Known as the "South's Grand Hotel," The Peabody is famous for its charm, elegance, generous hospitality, and the five resident Mallard ducks who march daily through the Grand Lobby at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. The luxurious downtown hotel opened in 1869 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Want to book your stay in the South's Grand Hotel? Check out The Peabody Website or call 1-800-PEABODY and make a reservation.
You can do much more at the Peabody than you think.
Get a fabulous dining experience at Chez Philippe, Capriccio Grill, or the Peabody Corner Bar. Shop at Lansky at the Peabody, Lansky126 or Lansky The Accessories Shop. Plus, get a relaxing massage at Feathers Spa at The Peabody.
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Bhutan #Bhutan
Bhutan Country in South Asia information and photo #Bhutan – Bhutan flag, maps, people, coloring pages and more. Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom on the Himalayas' eastern edge, is a land of monasteries, fortresses (or dzongs) and dramatic topography ranging from subtropical plains to steep mountains and valleys. In the High Himalayas, peaks such as 7,326m Jomolhari are a destination for serious trekkers. Taktsang Palphug (Tiger's Nest) monastery, a sacred site, clings to cliffs above the forested
Paro Valley.
Capital: Thimphu
King: Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Population: 753,947 (2013) World Bank
Currencies: Bhutanese ngultrum, Indian rupee
Official language: Dzongkha


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I looked at my phone this morning, bleary-eyed, and couldn't believe it: May 1st....is it true that we're already 5 months into 2012?! (By the way, I keep my phone by my bed at night, and I realized that I've been checking my email in my sleep. Seriously, problems right there! Who does that?) It's another reminder of the passing of time. How it flies by without asking us "can I keep going?" and how sometimes, the passing of time holds a sadness with it, because as hard as we try to hold onto it, it slips quickly and surely out of our hands like sand. Yet time passing can also be sweet and happy. And I've found that to be true lately... because this little blog had a milestone this week - reaching 400 followers! And though it is certainly not about numbers or stats to me - it's about hearts, souls, and relationships - it is still a fun step in this blogging journey (Which will be celebrated at the end of this week with one AMAZING GIVEAWAY including some of my favorite blog sisters!! Keep checking back!) And with this milestone, I remembered how it all started. Two summers ago, I started a journal of things I wanted to write about someday, and I scribbled - "I want to blog brilliantly and beautifully.... but I just can't." I began writing down ideas of names for my imaginary blog.
And one day, I wrote down three little words: "Sweetness Itself Blog." I was on a short break from work; I sighed and looking down at the words on the white paper... I dreamed, "What if I could start a blog?" The very thought made me smile... but it also made me scared. A hundred questions (or rather, doubts) flooded my mind. "I don't know how to design a blog... what if no one reads it? What if my friends think it's dumb?" And the biggest one of all ... "What if no one understands what I write? What if I really am the only one who thinks this way and believes these things?" So, I didn't do it. Months and months went on, and I often thought about the idea of blogging and writing. I toyed with ideas, thoughts, themes. I journaled about it, I even questioned the title. The next Spring, I finally started a fashion blog. And I called it "Pink & Polos."
It was my first attempt at this thing called blogging, and it was half-baked. Honestly, it was my "I'm too afraid to jump in the water so I'm just gonna stick a toe in." It was fun, but I made no meaningful connections with it and I didn't share who I was...not really. Oh, I shared the side of myself that loves Marchesa and Chanel gowns, pink Lily Pulitzer shifts, and boys who wear Ralph Lauren polos. But I wasn't being real, and I knew it. I never shared my heart, my struggles, or most importantly - my faith. Now, I'm definitley not saying that there is anything wrong with fashion blogs or just sharing one slice of your life on a blog - being true to ourselves and what we know we are supposed to do looks different for each person. Yet for me, somewhere deep inside my heart, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I needed to write about more... and that fear was holding me back. So late in 2011, I deleted "Pink & Polos" because the Lord clearly whispered to my heart to do it. He also told me to start a new blog, to start from scratch and do something I was scared out of my mind to do. Really. But I did, hesitantly and with fear and trembling.... and here I am tonight, blown away by the beauty of this process and the community I've found.
Not only have I found my "voice" and seen lives changed, the most amazing community of women has encircled me. At times, it just takes my breath away. I've met life-long kindred spirits and the best of friends. People I can tweet or email, and beg "I'm having a bad day, prayers please!" And prayers are sent up. I used to believe I was the only one who had strong convictions about purity and waiting - but I've been proved wrong, by dozens upon dozens of emails, stories, and hearts who share the same convictions I always have. And I've learned so much from each and every blogger. I remember when I first started Sweetness Itself, somebody told me (with a negative tone in their voice) "Blogging is ridiculous, it's just a bunch of people who have nothing to say, all saying the same thing. Why do we all need to say something? There are a few good writers out there who write books, let's leave it at that." But that opinion has been proved wrong. And so have all my former fears.
Not only have I been encouraged and uplifted by the blogs I've found, I have learned so very much. And I firmly believe that every person has a story to share. Every single individual has a voice that is begging to be used. And I've found a wealth of wisdom in the unique and different perspectives of beautiful people, walking totally different walks of life.... living all around the world. And what moves me is this: You've made me think. You've challenged me. You've brought me a whole new, fresh perspective. It's been like traveling all around the world and meeting the most incredible people out there - and learning from them lessons that shape who I am....I've learned so much from all of you. Kelle Hampton teaches me how to write well, how to accept differences in others, and how to embrace unexpectedness in life. Casey Wiegand taught me to be brave and pursue my big crazy dreams, even if that means making sacrifices... and how to love your babies like crazy. L teaches me to serve others and love Jesus. Ashley teaches me how to be honest and real. Chantal showed me how much God loves His daughters. Rae is encouraging me to pursue unimaginable dreams. Kerri shows me how to trust the Lord and make amazing DIY projects, while Meg teaches me how to be real with the God and how really love a husband!And there are so many more of you who have a big impact on my life every day.
So my dears, all of that to say (kudos to those of you who lasted through that whole long rant, haha!) go out there and take a risk. You know that big, crazy dream you have? The one your big toe is sticking in but you're way too afraid to let go and take the plunge? From a once-fearful dreamer to another, I say - go for it girl. Because it might be scary and uncertain, doubters might doubt and haters may hate - but friend, it might turn into something amazing and it might take your breath away.
This blog is living proof.
As we're talking about being brave, I bravely stepped out in the spirit of being fearless - and I finally started the Etsy shop I've been yapping about for about a year. Go check it out if you fancy :)
Sweetness Shoppe - www.etsy.com/shop/SweetnessShoppe
I found paper dolls cut out of fashion magazines from the 1800's, by my precious great-great grandmother who had little and made do - and now, they are treasures in my family. My grandma copied them, and I print them out and make pretty, funky, sweet, and romantic cards out of them. It's my hobby. And now I'm sharing it with you.
So I encourage you to go.... Go out and be fearless. Pursue those crazy, insane dreams - even if you're scared, I dare you to jump. Because it just might turn out to be all kinds of awesome!


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I am taking today's theme from our colleague Rabbi Phyllis Sommer and her #BlogElul topics.
I drive a lot in my job. As much as I try to plan my days so that I visit places and patients who are geographically close to one another, it only takes one crisis, one new patient, one dying patient to make me throw my carefully planned schedule away, turn the car around and go off in the opposite direction. When you drive a lot, there are days when you reach your destination with little to no memory of how you got there.
I do notice traffic, but some days I have a podcast or book on cd playing while I drive and the miles fly by as I am caught up in the words and stories. These are the days where I get to where I'm going with no sense of how much time has passed. It's not always a bad thing. I had an on-call day this past weekend when I drove 129 miles. Without something compelling to listen to, the day would have been interminable.
But when you drive on "auto-pilot" you miss many wonderful things. You may be awake to the traffic and to the words coming through the car's speakers, but are you awake to the world around you? This weekend, as I drove to my on-call visits, I tried to be awake to the world I drove through.
I saw the trees beginning to change color. The roads I drove don't look like autumn yet, but there are hints that it is not far away. I saw two different high schools holding car wash fundraisers. I passed several farm stands I didn't know existed and discovered an orchard just a few miles from my house on a road I don't normally travel. I saw flowers grown tall and raggedy, but bright with pinks and yellows and purples. I saw geese who seemed to think that they owned the road (and I was not stupid enough to challenge them.) I saw a rabbit. I saw ponds and rivers and the ocean.
It's easy to miss all this when I drive, but I try to be aware of the world beyond the road, beyond my windshield. Especially in Elul, as we rush toward the Holy Days, I want to see – really see – the world. I want to reawaken to the awe and wonder that creation evokes. Next week, as I sit in the pews of the congregation listening to the music of Yom Tov and reflecting on the words of the mahzor, I want to be awake to the world, as once again we come together to celebrate its birth.
Rabbi Julie Wolkoff, D.Min, CT, is a hospice chaplain in Massachusetts. Find her at: https://fabricfiber.wordpress.com/ Cross posted from Kol Isha, the WRN Blog


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What is a Realtor?
The Realtors function is to provide real estate services to their clients and facilitate legally binding arms length transactions in real property. Unlike typical sales people, Realtors are bound by fiduciary duties that legally bind us to act in a clients best interests as well as provide an honest duty of care to clients and customers. We become your agents through a legal principle of agency representation.
Why use a Realtor?
More and more people today learn about the real estate market and have become saavy to the nature of it. Many individuals seek to minimize the fees associated with real estate transactions, some even choosing to act on their own! Your home is your greatest investment and the amount of liabilty present is a great risk to the most important financial asset you have. When you engage a Realtor and you pay the related fees, you are engaging a machine of protection for yourself, your assets and investments. You are covered safely under the umbrella of the Realtors insurance, governing bodies, related boards, provincial as well federal statutes and experience. We are all mandated to protect you and the real estate marketplace. Your fees keep this machine running and when mistakes or misrepresentations occur you are covered.
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With Right at Home Realty LTD, you are dealing with the largest independently owned brokerage in Canada. We have over 2200 Realtors active in the GTA, with 110 Realtors in the Whitby Branch Alone! Right at Home Realty is a full service Brokerage and member of the Toronto Real Estate Board, the largest Board in North America. With six offices spanning the GTA We are a highly integrated Brokerage with a powerful network aimed at serving your real estate goals. The whitby branch is lead by Tony Slavin, a real estate and financial sector expert with decades of experience. He also brings high level advertising experience and is an expert at creating exposure through multiple media sources. Together with over a hundred agents, with hundreds of years of combined experience, we believe we have the strongest team in the Durham Region.
My services specifically.
Regardless of the support behind me at my office, I bring many great values to the table that will assist you in getting the most value for your property. I am youthful and energetic. I cannot be intimidated or bullied , I have years of experience in negotiations. My friends, family and clients have always known me to be a individual that can negotiate good value. I maximize all resources available to me. I would likely be described as genuine, helpful, confident, goal oriented and intelligent.
When you retain my services, I provide a dedicated service from the moment we meet that extends beyond the closing date of your home.
Value: I can accurately price your home and will do so in an effort to sell your home in an appropriate time frame, with the most value possible. You house shouldn't necessarily sell in day, it shouldn't sell in month either. I seek a balance between value and time based on your time frame.
Preparation: I will help prepare your home for listing. I have a good grasp of staging. To me its about making homes appear as big as possible, and creating the image that your home could easily be a customers home as well. I also have a network of professionals available to me: certified home stagers, interior decorators, photographers and pre-listing home inspectors. I have a dedicated service and can help in the smallest ways. If I Have to pick up a paint brush, move a couch, clean a garage, I will make sure your home is at its best.
Sale Phase: I use an aggressive marketing plan and you dictate whats included. I typically use lawn signage, MLS listings, newspapers listings and open houses to sastify classic techniques. I am also heavily involved in social media strategies. I use facebook, twitter,kijiji, my personal webpage, the Right at Home network and my personal networks to promote your property. I will have just listed fliers printed and will canvass the neighbourhood to get your neighbours involved by using word of mouth to sell your property. On all offers, I will put your best interests forward, I will not be talked into a lower value than what your property can support.
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After care: I invite all of my clients to add me to my facebook page and stay in touch as well as provide feedback on their moves. I am always available to help with problems or decisions involving real estate, our relationship will not end when the sale of your property is concluded.
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Re: Irritated with Hasbro and Shout! Factory >:(
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If it isn't broken don't fix it.ironrod prime wrote:to you maybe but to someone who never saw the original subbed episodes they might work just fine
maybe this is hasbros way of mixing it up a bit
Why can't the dialogue be judged by its own merit rather than by someone else's reworking of it?
Plenty of other toyetic children's anime get accurate subtitles for their DVD releases. Why should these be denied the same treatment? Why settle for less than the best possible quality?


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Free the Grapes is a website dedicated to bringing direct shipping of wine to consumers in all states. They've declared this month Grape Liberation Month in honor of the May 16, 2005, Supreme Court ruling on Granholm v. Heald that changed the laws for wine shipping and led to changes in direct-to-consumer shipping in many states.
Since that date, the number of states that allow direct shipping has gone from 27 to 37, and Free the Grapes is dedicated to seeing that number increase. This Sunday, on May 16, Free the Grapes is asking wine lovers to toast grape liberation with the following official toast.
In 2005, we were on the brink
Of being told what wine we couldn't drink.
But when the Supremes voted 5, we stood tall
Since grape liberation is good for us all.
To the winery who makes the wine
To the grape grower who walks the vine
To every wine lover from coast to coast
We raise our glass to Free the Grapes and toast!
You may want to know why I'm telling you about a wine shipping movement. Wouldn't it be better if I encouraged you just to support your small, local winery? Isn't that more eco-friendly than shipping wine all over the country?
Direct-to-consumer wine shipping is important to your small, local winery. Take here in New Jersey for example. A bill has been passed in the state Senate supporting direct shipping to consumers and is waiting to be heard in the state assembly. Right now, my New Jersey wineries cannot ship to my home. If I want to get a bottle of wine from a winery an hour away, I have two choices. Drive to the winery or wait for a wine festival that winery is attending and stock up. Some local liquor stores carry a limited selection of local wines, but the closest one to me that carries bottles I like is a half-hour drive.
If New Jersey's grapes are freed, I'd be able to have the wineries ship directly to me. They could ship to anyone in the state or out of state. This would open up the entire country to the fabulous wines that many of my state's wineries are producing and allow them to expand their customer base.
This isn't just a New Jersey, cause, though. If you remember back in January, I had the opportunity to visit a couple of wineries in D.C.'s wine country. The wines that I brought back from my visit are long gone, and at the moment, I can't have them shipped to my home. Opening up direct shipping in my state would mean that I could support small wineries in other states that are producing good, sustainable wines.
Wine consumers in all states should have the opportunity to support local, sustainable wineries in any state by having the wine shipped directly to their homes, and the wineries should have the freedom to get their wines to those who love them. It's time to free the grapes.
I wrote about the New Jersey bill in more detail on my South Jersey Locavore blog, and if you are a New Jersey resident, I encourage you to head over there and to Free the Grapes to see how you can support this bill.
Also on MNN: Grape-loving moths invade California wine country


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Scientists Just Discovered Vaccines That Are 1,000-Times Better
Ever wonder what is the most advanced bioreactor for creating disease antibodies in the world?
Of course you didn't. But if you guessed the human body, give yourself a gold star.
Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as just DARPA, just caught on to something brilliant: they can use the human body's ability to quickly create antibodies as a new vaccine-making method.
The problem with current vaccination production is that it just takes too long. Right now, on average, it takes at least nine months to produce vaccines in large enough quantities to treat major outbreaks.
To give you an idea of how ineffective this method is, scientists crunched the numbers for the 2009 influenza outbreak to see the effect vaccinations had.
The results were startling. Of the 60 million-plus Americans who got the flu shot in 2009, only 1.6% were truly protected.
This result was a combination of the slow production process, and limited vaccine effectiveness. The scary part is that this particular vaccine was the fastest ever produced according to Col. Daniel Wattendorf, a clinical geneticist with DARPA.
So this new method of using the human body as its own antibody factory is a god-send. Essentially, once a body overcomes the virus, it contains antibodies that can then be transferred to another patient.
In fact, this is exactly what scientists did last year during the Ebola crisis. This method essentially jump-starts the immune system by giving it the exact antibodies to replicate in order to fight specific diseases.
The problem is: how do you do this on a large enough scale to battle an outbreak?
Right now, a method is in production that will copy the best gene from recovered patients. Basically, scientists will replicate the DNA of a patient who survived the virus, then go from there.
So far this technique looks promising. Some in the industry think it will be 1,000-times more effective than the current method of production.
I am tracking this technology via my social media collective intelligence system. In the past we've been able to get a jumpstart on the rest of the market by targeting and tracking disruptive technology similar to this.
I'll advise BioTech Intel Traders if we start to see an uptick in this technology's momentum across publicly traded companies.
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Saturday, 2 April 2011
Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003) - Sylvain Chomet
Quirky yet beguilingly beautiful debut feature from Chomet. Packed to the gills with the strangest characters this side of a Miyazaki film, with an equally oddball plot to boot. It's hard to say just what this is about really since the plot is at best wafer thin, but let me give it a go anyway. Three Tour de France cyclists are snatched and shipped off to Belleville by some underworld types. Why? Well that would be telling. The important thing is that one of these cyclists is Champion, and it's his orthopedic shoe wearing grandmother and dog (Bruno) who set off from France to rescue him. On the way they come across a myriad of strange characters (including a literally spineless maitre d) and of course the titular trio.
As I say it's a strange one this, being quite dark and grim in places although in contrast to that it is a beautiful film to watch, although it's probably not best suited to preschool nippers. The animation style is an odd mix, computer aided animation rubbing shoulders with the more traditional style to achieve a look that is very much Chomet's own. Belleville itself is based on New York in much the same way as Gotham City is. The streets heave with overweight people, but Chomet is equally viscous with his fellow countrymen. So lardy arse Americans are contrasted with frog eating Frenchies, the later turning up in one of the films most memorably queasy scenes.
Another thing that really sets Les Triplettes de Belleville apart from your average animated film from the past ten years is it's sublime soundtrack. With the musical highpoint being the trio of crones playing a vacuum cleaner, fridge and newspaper, kind of like an OAP version of Einstürzende Neubauten. Best of all for me though is just the sheer variety of characters that are wedged into this. Doddery old Bruno who barks away at every passing train is easily my favourite, the scenes where we're allowed into his subconscious are the best in the film for me. Nice to see a nod to Tati too, since like his films the dialogue in this is not at all important.
It's films like this that you want to ram down the throats of the dullards that constantly hark on about the death of ye olde fashioned animation. The same people I'd imagine that have told me for the past 15 years that vinyl is dead, and yet… Highly recommended.
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Realizing that the low representation of women in science and engineering is a major hindrance to global capacity building in science and technology, the IAC formed an Advisory Panel on Women for science with the mandate to review previous studies, provide examples of effective projects already implemented, and issue a set of actionable recommendations addressed particularly to the world's science and engineering academies.
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Extensive sociological research has identified many of the factors that contribute to the low representation of women in science and technology. They include girls' limited access to education, the demands of women's roles as mothers and caregivers, the lack of mentors and role models, and the lack of leadership training (Etzkowitz et al., 2000; Glover, 2000). These culture-based norms and prejudices create pervasive, intangible barriers that hinder the inclusion of women. Moreover, even when women do manage to enter science or engineering, they often drop out early in their careers. Reasons vary from culture to culture, but the drop-outs are usually caused by lack of provision for combining professional work with the family duties traditionally assigned to women. Such barriers are then heightened by institutional climates for women that are less than hospitable and sometimes outright hostile.
These problems are increasingly being recognized out of concern about another, overarching problem. In the past 30 years, governments, scientific organizations, business enterprises, and others have become more and more aware of the looming shortages in S&T skills needed for building and maintaining an innovative S&T base. Prosperous countries are particularly concerned about the low appeal that science and technology appear to hold for young people. An obvious strategy for addressing this supply issue is simply to make better use of available resources—to open the doors wide to girls and women for careers in science and engineering.
This strategy has been articulated in numerous national reports, such as the United Kingdom's SET for Success (Roberts, 2002), the United State's The Land Of Plenty (CAWMSET, 2000), and the Republic of South Africa 's Women in Science, Engineering and Technology in South Africa (Bailey and Mouton, 2004). Meanwhile, several countries and international entities, including India, China, Japan, and the European Union (Osborn et al., 2000), have launched initiatives to address these shortages by expanding women's membership in the S&T community. The United Nations has a core objective in its 'Education for All' programme that encompasses girls' education and regional chairs for women in science (UNESCO, forthcoming).
These efforts are increasingly stressing the need for change in organizational culture so that gender diversity is accommodated, and they highlight the necessity of developing management practices that encourage all employees, women and men alike, to work to their full potential for the benefit of the organization. Still, while some institutions are taking steps in the right direction, women's exclusion from prominent S&T careers largely persists, as documented by a number of influential reports (MIT, 1999; Osborn et al., 2000). Moreover, women at the grassroots levels, particularly in developing countries—where S&T capacity building is most needed —continue to be denied access. It has been hypothesized, however, that the high-level aptitude that characterizes top scientists and engineers might not be commonly found in women (Summers, 2005). Yet although there is a substantial body of psychological and brain research that verifies some differences between men's and women's mental processes, these differences have not been linked conclusively to S&T aptitude (Hyde et al., 1990; Leahey and Guo, 2001). That being the case, the clearing of existing, well-documented hurdles appears to be a more practical approach than speculating on women's innate aptitudes.
A more interesting and fruitful question might be: What, if any, are common characteristics of the outstanding women who have risen to the pinnacles of science throughout the past century, notwithstanding the enormous obstacles they faced? Biographies of women Nobel Prize winners (McGrayne, 2001),interviews with women members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (Wasserman, 2000) and the biographies of women health-sciences trailblazers from the Philippines (Padilla and Santos Ocampo, 2004) unearth some of these common factors: an early fascination with science; independent thinking; early rejection of the cultural limitations imposed on girls and women; support from parents, particularly fathers; a good education, not infrequently in an all-girls environment; having been fortunate in finding mentors; marrying a supportive husband; and having access to reliable childcare. Women's colleges, such as those established in the United States in the 19th century, have been exceptionally successful in producing female scientists and leaders. However, the number of schools with all-female student populations has been dwindling.


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Until now, your options were:
- Move to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI, Terminal Services) such as Citrix and Microsoft provide – This is not how the applications were designed to run and is more expensive than many think (see this interesting article on the cost of VDI. And end-users tend to really dislike VDI.
- Install WAN accelerators such as from Riverbed – These are great if you have six months and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's also like using a sledgehammer to do a screwdriver's job. Here is an article by Pinal Dave on that very subject.
- Add more bandwidth – Now you are adding additional recurring monthly costs for each site and more bandwidth is not always available. What happens to remote or mobile users?
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By Steven Lienert
The Phanatic Magazine
The Dark Horse Cafe got an unexpected influx of Happy Hour bar-hoppers on Thursday afternoon.
That's where the Sons of Ben -- Philadelphia's soccer fans -- took their after-news conference party.
They were at the news conference in Chester in droves -- all wearing blue and gold (the city's colors), all singing and chanting -- as Major League Soccer officials announced that Philadelphia will get an MLS franchise starting in 2010.
But that didn't stop a bunch of SoBs from treating it as if Philly had just won an MLS Cup.
"We are thrilled to welcome Philadelphia to Major League Soccer," MLS Commissioner Dan Garber said. "Philadelphia brings in one of the most passionate sports markets in the country and provides a natural rivalry with the New York Red Bulls and D.C. United."
Especially since there was a supporters' group already in place.
The Philadelphia club will be owned by iStar Financial CEO Jay Sugarman, Swarthmore Group Chairman James Nevels, Philadelphia attorney William Doran, veteran sports executive Nick Sakiewicz and Christopher and Robert Buccini, founding partners of The Buccini/Pollin Group.
The team will play in a new 20,000-seat stadium in Chester, which the government hopes wil stimulate economic growth in the area.
"Major League Soccer is truly a league with the wind behind its sail," Sugarman said. "I am very excited to join the distinguished list of existing MLS owners and to help guide the League's growth into one of America's great sports cities. We're going to build a first-class organization on and off the field and we will create a development that makes the community proud."
Despite not having a name, colors, or a logo, there are 2,500 fans already signed up on the season-ticket waiting list and, as of Thursday, a new web site has been launched : www.MLSPhilly2010.com
The first post on the message board said it all.
"It's about time," a guy named Lenn Dogs posted. "Hopefully the passion of the Philly sports fans will carry over to the MLS."
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I have written a children's book titled,"Fishing and Almost Fishing with Grandpa is Fun." I have the book published but need a literary agent to sell it. Can you help me?
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by Nicolas Georges Trad, Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder, Reputation Institute
Davos is a small village in the Swiss Alps, popular to many as a ski destination but even better known as the conference site of the World Economic Forum, a global foundation that convenes some 2,500 world leaders every January since 1988 for four days of discussions about the most pressing issues facing our planet.
In November 2018, Reputation Institute (Ri) was invited by the British consultancy Brand Finance to participate on a panel that their Founder and CEO David Haigh was organizing at Davos. The session would be sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services and address "The Evolving Role of CEOs in Shaping Brands and Reputation." We saw this as an opportunity to showcase some of Ri's RepTrak® intelligence technology and gain first-hand insights from encounters with the world's foremost political, business, and cultural elites. So, Ri CEO Kylie Wright-Ford and I decided to go—and Ri was represented for the first time at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
During our sponsored session, Haigh presented Brand Finance's ranking of the world's most valuable brands, one that incorporated CEO RepTrak® 2018 data. Kylie represented Ri, and three other panelists participated: Cathy Bessant, Chief Operations and Technology Officer at Bank of America, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of TATA Sons, and Jonas Prising, CEO of ManpowerGroup. The session was well-framed and well-attended.
Although we had very little time to prepare for the Davos meeting, we took advantage of the setting to meet and greet as many people as we could. We eavesdropped and participated in many casual conversations that took place in the corridors of the main Congress Hall, where large audiences went to see and hear world leaders and celebrities discuss pet projects.
More enjoyable, however, were the intimate forums of 50-200 people that were organized around topical concerns, where we had the opportunity to listen to fascinating debates about emerging issues. There was plenty of informal chatter also as we mingled with attendees over coffee, snacks, lunch, and drinks at the bar.
Because of our late registration, we ended up staying in a last-minute booking of Airbnb rooms some 20 minutes away from Davos, in the village of Klosters. (Pro Tip: Advance planning is recommended for a trip to Davos, especially for access to the more convenient accommodations of the posh resort or to avoid the snowy drive by staying closer to the conference center!)
What I learned at Davos
Here are two key takeaways from conversations we joined or overheard. They confirmed a number of macrotrends Ri has already described in our own published research. They also suggest some key opportunities for us to explore further for ourselves and with our clients.
1. Companies should act as agents of global change.
Many plenary discussions over the four days stressed the important role that corporate leaders play, not only within their own communities but on the global stage. To me, the message came across loud and clear: Governments are failing us, and now is the time for companies to step up to the plate and become change agents, tackling key global issues like climate, poverty, and equality.
The world is increasingly looking to big companies and their executives to address global problems. It's consistent with the results reported by the global PR firm Edelman on the eve of Davos. In their 2019 Trust Barometer, they indicated that people have shifted their trust from countries and governments to "relationships within their control." Specifically, only 25% of people believe in their economic, political, or social systems. But some 75% trust their employers to do the right thing, followed by NGOs (57%), businesses (56%), and the media (47%).
This shift in trust is nothing new. In fact, Ri pointed to this in our recent Global Reputation Macro-Trend insights. It has also been a hallmark of millennials since they came of age. Millennials expect major companies now more than ever to practice social responsibility, sustainability, and transparency. They want companies that actively invest in the betterment of society and the solution of social problems, prioritize "making an impact" on the world around them, are open and honest about their efforts, and are public about their social initiatives.
2. Companies can build reputation by addressing key social themes.
In session after session, we heard a clear message: Governments are not moving fast enoughand politicians are too focused on their own home-market problems. This leaves it up to companies to pick up the slack—to take responsibility to do what's right rather than just focus narrowly on their products and services.
By implication, given the disappointing lack of performance by governments of all stripes and flavors, businesses have the opportunity to distinguish themselves and build reputation through actions that demonstrate that they are good global citizens by addressing three initiatives: the environment, diversity, and societal influence. In other words, the Citizenship, Workplace, and Leadership pillars of our RepTrak® scorecard.
The environment
Even before Davos began, the scene was set for environmental issues to take center stage. The Global Risks Report 2019 declared that humanity was "sleepwalking its way to catastrophe" as extreme weather, failure to act on climate change, and natural disasters topped the list. On the topic of the environment, organizations are expected to take action and do what they know is right. Younger generations expect it. They don't stop and think about whether to take action, "it just comes naturally, like breathing."
Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg joined Davos with a heartfelt, urgent, and candid message: "I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic and act as if the house was on fire."
An example of an Ri client that has taken the environmental topic to heart is toy company LEGO. CEO John Goodwin attended the 2018 Davos forum and used the opportunity to announce that LEGO would begin using sustainably sourced sugar cane to create their plastic bricks.
Gender equality and diversity
Many conference sessions and participants indicated that improving gender equality and diversity are responsibilities that companies must own. Global companies like JP Morgan Chase—also a client of ours—indicated that they are leading the way in gender equality in the workplace. In a panel interview at the Female Quotient booth, CEO Jamie Dimon claimed that more than 50% of his direct reports are women.
"I think the most important thing when you run a company is to have trust and respect for everybody. Otherwise, no one thrives and people hate their company. To me, the exemplar is you walk in the door and you know you're going to be treated like everyone else, whether you're a man, woman, gay, black, white, Jewish, Muslim….and there's equality to that."
As Kylie pointed out in a forum session on "Influencing Culture: The Role Leaders Play as Change Agents," which addressed both workplace diversity and the need for work flexibility, "Demographics and technology have changed the workplace forever. The idea that millennials and the rising generations are not going to have an overpowering influence when they're already almost 50% of the workforce is just folly."
Societal influence
Microsoft, another Ri client, discussed its efforts to advance economic equity across the world as the next phase of globalization begins. Just a week before the Davos summit, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a $500 million project to build affordable housing in Seattle, where the company is headquartered.
At "Shaping Globalization 4.0," Nadella spoke about the challenge the world faces to ensure both equity and global economic growth. "Markets work, but there are limits, and the question is, in order to drive economic growth in an equitable way, how to deal with the decoupling that's happening, the decoupling between economic growth and productivity growth and jobs and wages."
Nadella also stressed the importance of looking internally as a company to take care of its own people, and to drive economic growth and fairness in the local communities in which the company operates. He said, "At Microsoft, one of the things I recognized is, instead of just talking about all the things that we do outside, we have to start with our own employees, their own benefits. Are we doing the right thing with parental leave, with sick leave?"
My personal takeaways
In the end, I came away with two more personal topics I think companies like ours and those of our clients will have to focus on in the coming years—empathy and flexibility.
In a digital world where everyone is ever more closely connected, everything moves faster. People who grew up as digital natives expect change to come quickly and expect to be treated as more than economic contributors to their employer's bottom line. They want closer relationships with the companies they work for. And that requires more empathy from the C-suite—empathy for employees and their families, for their work-life balance, for fulfilling their income requirements, yes, but also their ambitions and dreams.
And that implies flexibility. Now is the time for businesses to fully grasp and integrate expectations of customers, employees, and the broader stakeholder universe into the way in which they do business. Companies have to be flexible to respond to local expectations if they are to make a difference to their key stakeholders and the world around them.
Corporate reputations, like that of Reputation Institute, must be built not only on the quality of the work we do but on the quality of the relationships we build with our clients and employees and the actions we take in the communities around us.
Nicolas Georges Trad
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder
Reputation Institute


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Emily and Adé put some serious effort into organising their wedding.
They travelled to France to collect the bubbly, they flew to Vietnam to have outfits custom made for the wedding party, they both changed into traditional Nigerian dress during the reception. Adé even wrote a poem for their ceremony.
They pulled off an absolutely gorgeous wedding and clearly had loads of fun along the planning journey. And their efforts were sooo worth it, as their guests had loads of fun at the wedding too!
Enough Rooms For The Wedding Party
Emily The Bride: We chose the local church in the village Emily grew up for the ceremony. The reception was held at Rectory Farm as it was absolutely stunning and had a relaxed feel. We loved that they gave us the freedom to add our own touches and decorate the venue before the wedding. We also loved that the venue had enough bedrooms to accommodate our wedding party who were coming from London.
Surreal Skies
I used an Estee Lauder palette called Surreal Skies to create the natural, shimmery look I wanted. We used our usual scents; mine "Coco Mademoiselle" and Adé "Allure Sport" both by Chanel.
I had natural pink Shellac nails that lasted all through the honeymoon too! We used a local freelance hairdresser who created a look that was natural and not too neat. My bridesmaids chose their own hairstyles that suited them best.
Layers Of Lace
I found my dress in a bridal boutique called Fleur de Lys, in a small town close to Cambridge. My dress was by Benjamin Roberts. I utterly loved the classic style of the dress and thought the different layered lace was so beautiful. I purchased a really pretty embellished belt that I had sewn on so it looked part of the dress.
For the evening we changed into traditional Nigerian clothes. I chose the fabric with Adé's mum and sister, and then we commissioned a local seamstress to make it in the style I had chosen.
Something Borrowed
I wore my sister's absolutely amazing veil. It was full length, with a thick lace edge. My earrings were from Whistles.
Truly Bespoke Wedding Party
Adé and I went to Vietnam in October, and spent 3 days in a small seamstress town called Hoi An. We had 3 piece suits, and shirts made for the best men and ushers and made the bridesmaid dresses in the style of a Tibi dress that I already owned. We had everyone's name and the wedding date sewn into the clothes. We spent around 5 hours choosing fabrics and bartering on price!
The ties and handkerchiefs were made in a similar colour to the bridesmaid dresses. I collected vintage beaded clutch bags as gifts for my bridesmaids. Each design represented their style perfectly and I loved that none of them were exactly the same. Adé and I both picked out some quite quirky multi-coloured socks for the groomsmen and it was a lot of fun deciding who was going to wear which style.
Shades Of The Prettiest Pink
I've always loved peonies so this was the basis of our colour theme. I had seen lots of pictures of peonies in blue Mason jars and wanted to incorporate this somewhere. I ended up painting my own jam jars with blue glass paint and Adé's aunties and uncles followed the blue colour for their outfits and head ties. Blush pinks were used for the flowers with flashes of raspberry colours. We looked for the palest pink lanterns we could find and teamed these with various white sized lanterns for the marquee.
My bridesmaids helped to put up of the lanterns and we found these great interlocking fairly lights that we attached the lanterns to. My mum made lace bunting for the long walkway leading up to the marque, which really lent itself to the romantic vibe. One of my bridesmaids did an incredible job of making all of the hessian table runners, which worked brilliantly with the flowers.
Lots of friends and family collected jam jars and I found some vintage pharmacy bottles, which were wrapped in lace and used for tea-lights and flowers. We used an old whiskey box that we owned as our card box, and I spray-painted the wooden letters in front of box in gold paint.
Peony Perfection
I found lots of my inspiration for flowers from Pinterest. Elizabeth from Mulberry Flowers completely understood what I wanted and created beautiful floral displays. Peonies were the basis of the flowers. My bouquet was a slight cascade of peonies, hydrangas, delphinium pips and raspberry lisianthus.
The bridesmaids had a gathered bouquet of blush pink peonies in different shades. For the table decorations I hired mercury glass vases from RVH prop hire. We used a collection of vases in different heights. They were filled with peonies, bells of Ireland, roses, delphinium pips and lisianthus with each one looking slightly different.
Mulberry Flowers also supplied us with gypsophilia which Emily's mum and some friends tied with lace onto the pew ends. She also created two large floral displays in the church, using green foliage from a friend's garden, pink peonies and ivory lily's.
Music And Poetry Filled Ceremony
A retired priest and a family friend married us, which was really lovely. We walked down the aisle to Amy Winehouse, To Know Him Is To Love Him. The lyrics and tone of the song were very overwhelming for both of us! We had three worship songs in the church, How Great Thou Art by Carl G. Boberg and R.J. Hughes, One Thing (Love Never Fails) by Brian Johnson and Everything by Tim Hughes that Emily's brother-in-law led acoustically. We had two readings, the bible passage Ephesians 5:25-31 read by Adé's brother and a poem that Adé had written called Together read by one of Adé's ushers.
We could see flashes of their socks as they walked up to the pulpit! When we were signing the register Emily's brother-in –law Steve sang a version of Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender and Emeli Sande, Next To Me. Steve sounded absolutely incredible in the church and really made it feel like a celebration! We danced out of the church to My Baby Just Cares For Me by Nina Simone. After some mingling and photos we drove off in a 1968 Porsche Speedser 356, which is one of Adés favourite ever cars.
Intimate And Fun
During the drinks reception we hired Juma Steel Band They really helped in setting the fun, relaxed feel of the day and fitted in perfectly with the glorious sunshine we had! Our first dance was You and Me by Penny & The Quarters. We love the lyrics and soul tone of this song.
Adé took the lead for our first dance; it was intimate and fun, and felt like no one else was in the room! Our friend Cooks DJ'ed in the evening and played some great classics; he literally had everyone dancing all night.
Du Vin
Adé and I went to France to pick up the champagne, prosecco and wine we used for the wedding. The Cambridge Dining Company provided the delicious food on the day. Our canapés were duck parcels, cucumber cups and mozzarella roulades which were accompanied with fresh lemonade and free flow prosecco and raspberries.
The Cambridge Dining Company supplied us with a gorgeous BBQ that included a selection of meats and fresh salads. We had champagne for the toasts and we chose someone from each table to serve it. Just before the speeches Adé asked everyone to look under their chair for an apron and then put it on. They then followed him to the bar to collect the champagne and posed for a few photos. It was so amazing to see our friends and family enjoying themselves so much and really getting into the spirit of the day!
Chin Chin
We had a sweet table that included some Nigerian biscuits, Chin Chin which we both absolutely love! We used vintage whiskey decanters on the sweet table that were filled with flowers. Our favours were painted chopsticks that we had bought from Vietnam. When tied with Kraft tags they also acted as place names, which Emily had stamped with 'To have and to hold'.
We also supplied flip-flops as 'A treat for your dancing feet!' and provided the ladies with a collection of cosmetics in the bathroom. We had different coloured sunglasses that were used 'To protect everyone from our love!' which were great on such a sunny day.
Classic And Elegant
We had commissioned a family member of a friend in Singapore to design the wedding stationery. She completely understood the look we wanted and created something really classic and elegant. Emily collected vintage glass candlesticks that we used to hold up the table numbers with a cork and a paperclip. We used a wooden clotheshorse for our table chart, with the names written on different kraft tags. The kraft tags and bakers twine was bought from Etsy. We used blackboard paint and chalkboard pens to write messages on old frames.
Incredible Light
Helen and Camilla were unbelievable on the day and during the build-up. They were wonderful at making everyone feel at ease and it really came through in the photographs, as they are just so natural. They were really unobtrusive but still captured all the intimate moments.
The light in the photographs is really incredible. We honestly don't think the photographs could better capture the day, when we first viewed them we felt like we had lived it all over again.
Enjoy every second of the day, have fun and relax! Take your time walking down the aisle so you can take in that incredible moment!
Click here & view all images from this wedding
Bride's Gown – Benjamin Roberts at Fleur de Lys
Earrings – Whistles
Bridesmaid's Gowns – Made in Vietnam based on a design by Tibi
Florist – Elizabeth at Mulberry Flowers
Vases – RVH Prop Hire
Caterers – The Cambridge Dining Company
Band – Juma Steel Band
Venue – Rectory Farm House
Photography – Millie & Belle
See – how happy does everyone look??
The table plan is v original too – and easy to recreate for not too many pennies.
You know how much we all love a swing at a wedding too!
Lots of love,
Fern x


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Perhaps the most familiar of globular star clusters, Messier 13 is found in the constellation of Hercules and contains more than 100,000 stars that are bound by gravity into a spherical configuration.
Visible: DSS and Near-Infrared: 2MASS (right)
The density of stars near the core of the cluster is so great that the visible-light and near-infrared images all become a bright central blur. The near-infrared image is a mosaic composed of small individual photos stitched together, each of which is less than 8 seconds of exposure time. We see many stars in the 2MASS image because near-infrared light is particularly useful for identifying old stars, and globular clusters are comprised primarily of old stars.
Mid Infrared: IRAS (left) and Far Infrared: IRAS (right)
Now shift your attention to the longer wavelength IRAS infrared images. In the mid-infrared, the relatively poor spatial resolution of the IRAS detectors results in the smearing of the light from M13 into a central blob. Note that this emission is not spherically symmetric like the underlying star cluster itself. This is an artifact resulting from the rectangular shape of the IRAS detectors. [If these detectors were square instead, the image would be circularly symmetric.]
Now turn your attention to the far-infrared image taken with IRAS. Messier 13 has vanished! Why? Far-infrared light, with wavelengths longer than about 30 microns, is often a product of dust and young stars. The stars emit ultraviolet and visible-light photons that are absorbed by the dust particles. The light is then re-radiated at far-infrared wavelengths, with the energy difference going into heating the dust. Globular clusters have no young stars and very little dust. Therefore, it should not be a surprise to find that there is no measurable far-infrared light from M13.
Radio: NVSS (left) and X-Ray: ROSAT (right)
Now examine the radio image (above left). Once again, the cluster itself is virtually invisible. The blue blobs are primarily random electronic noise, similar to static, introduced into the radio receiver. Radio images often reveal synchrotron radiation, resulting from fast-moving and electrically charged particles (such as electrons) in a spiral motion about magnetic fields. The environment of globular clusters is essentially devoid of strong magnetic fields and fast-traveling electrons, and therefore we should not expect significant synchrotron emission from M13. The only obvious sources of radio emission are individual peaks (red blobs) found in the upper right and lower left corners of the image. To unravel their identity, it is useful to consider the X-ray image first (right).
At these high-energy wavelengths, Messier 13 appears as a weak and concentrated core of emission (yellow/green), coincident with the core of the globular cluster. However, this image alone cannot provide any useful information on the distance to this weak x-ray source, so little can be said about its nature based on this image alone. The emission might be associated with the cluster stars, or it could be associated with nearer (foreground) or more distant (background) objects.
The strongest source of x-ray emission in this image roughly coincides with
brightest source in the upper right (northwest corner) of the radio image. It
turns out the distant
or quasi-stellar sources, can be significant
emitters of both X-ray and radio radiation. It is likely that the mysterious
radio/x-ray source is an un-cataloged quasar in the distant background,
far outside our Milky Way Galaxy. The radio emission emanating from the lower
left (southeast corner) of the NVSS image does not have a clear association in
the ROSAT x-ray image, and hence its identity remains uncertain.


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While reading Luke last night, I was struck by the request of the thief on the cross: "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
Jesus was hanging on the cross, dying. Who expects a dying man to "come into" a kingdom? Those who have kingdoms relinquish them at death yet the robber, who had mocked Jesus just a bit before**, suddenly realized Jesus was no ordinary man. This man, Jesus, would gain a kingdom with his death. Curious, that.
Regardless of how the insight came to him, it took a great deal of faith to make that request to a dying "criminal."
God, I want to have faith like that thief.
*Luke 23:42
**Matthew 27:44


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A Glimpse of A Celebrity
I managed to get a few images of favourite personality Gordon Pinsent during his recent book launch at Winnipeg's McNally-Robinson Booksellers. He wwas interviewed by Thin Air's Charlene Diehl and I, along with the capacity audience, found his stories most interesting.
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When the renowned saurian Species Archivist to the Powers that Be summons young wizard Kit Rodriguez to participate in an urgent off-planet intervention intended to save many millions of lives, Kit's hardly going to say "no."
He soon discovers that not only he, but his wizardly partner Nita Callahan and her sister Dairine, his friend Ronan Nolan, and tens of thousands of other wizards from Earth have also been drafted in to intervene on the distant world called Tevaral. There the planet's single huge moon Thesba has become tectonically unstable and will very soon break up, its massive fragments raining down onto the surface of Tevaral and completely destroying it. The wizards' mission: to extract Tevaral's hominid population and "raft" them off-planet to new homeworlds before the apocalyptic disaster begins.
There's only one problem: millions of the people of Tevaral don't want to go.
Kit, Nita and their thousands of fellow Earth wizards must now race against time to find a way to save the Tevaralti despite their near-symbiotic relationship with their beloved world and its unique life forms. As doomsday inexorably draws nearer, hope is fading fast, and it seems like it's going to take a miracle to keep the people of Tevaral from being wiped out. True, wizardry is all about miracles. But will one turn up in time?…
Young Wizards: Lifeboats is a 90,000+ word canonical work in the Young Wizards universe, and is set in February 2011, shortly after the events of the YW novelette Not On My Patch and YW novella How Lovely Are Thy Branches. These three works together constitute a "transitional trilogy" following the events of A Wizard of Mars and preceding the events of the forthcoming Games Wizards Play.
Young Wizards: Lifeboats is now available as a standalone ebook at Ebooks Direct in all the major ebook formats, DRM-free, and also at Amazon in Kindle format. A compendium volume, Young Wizards: Interim Errantry, will contain this new novel as well as its companion novelette and novella, and will be published in both ebook and print formats at Amazon.com in mid-October 2015.
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Last Monday for my birthday, I decided to go with something a little bit more healthy (but definitely not giving in on flavour!) so I opted for a Banana Bread, that yes, is one-hundred-percent just a delicious, fragrant CAKE :)
There are many, many versions to find all over the web. But I'll give you the version that worked best for me and gives that moist, rich cake taste, without the use of any added sugars, wheat or diary. Let's go:
What you'll need :
- 150 grams almond meal
- 3 (ripe) bananas
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 50 grams pecan nuts (any kind will do)
- 50 grams of dark chocolate ( I used 85% Lindt)
- 30 grams shredded coconut
How it works :
- Preheat the oven to a 160 Celsius or 320 Fahrenheit.
- Use an immersion blender (or fork, it just takes a little more work ;) to mash up the bananas.
- Now mix the eggs in to the mashed bananas, one by one.
- In a separate bowl, mix the almond meal with the baking powder and salt and add it to the banana/egg mixture.
- Chop up the nuts and chocolate and stir them into the batter, together with the shredded coconut.
- Line a bread/cake pan with baking paper and pour in your cake batter.
- Now place it in the middle of the oven for about 45 minutes. Check if your screwer comes out clean, then you know it's ready. (if you find the cake getting too dark, while not being ready yet, put some aluminium foil over the cake pan and bake for the rest of the remaining time)
The whole house smelled delicious while baking this and it actually lasts up to 5 days if you wrap it up tight in aluminium foil! If you haven't tried baking one of these before, you should definitely give it a try. It's super easy and dare I say, quite the healthy kind of cake, but damn tasty.
You know "treat yo self!" ;)


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"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." ~ Albert Camus
Times Change, Principles Don't
"...the libertarian critique of government is not contingent on or tied to time and place, one that can be abandoned when the moment seems to call for government action. The libertarian critique of government is foundational. It says that in all times and places, the coercive power of the state violates rights, and this compulsive rights-violator cannot and should not be trusted to guard our security."
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Suverans2, posted on August 02, 2012
At last, someone has stated it correctly, "...the coercive power of the state violates rights...", instead of all the ridiculous, nonsensical and endless versions of "the state has a monopoly on violence" diatribes.
And, this article can be summed up with this lovely little quote, reportedly from Benjamin Franklin.
- "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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