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USC Annenberg alumnus Sam Olstein is on the 52nd floor of New York's iconic skyscraper 30 Rock, overlooking Central Park and thinking about big things. Specifically, really big things: like wind farms, jet engines, gas turbines, and power generator test facilities.
It's the first part of a new General Electric (GE) engagement initiative on the video live-streaming app Periscope. Olstein's going to engineer a drone to carry an iPhone, filming aerial flyovers of five test sites and inviting viewers into the beating heart of GE technology from July 20-24.
"Think of it like GE's version of Shark Week," Olstein said. "It'll be kind of like industrial porn."
Olstein, B.A. in Journalism '06, is the director of innovation for GE. He's the man behind GE's new-age marketing campaigns, like Snapchat with Buzz Aldrin, the Emoji Table of Experiments with Bill Nye, and a barbecue research center with a 14-foot-web-connected brisket smoker that premiered at SXSW.
If he looks young, with his messy brown hair and his round face, that's because he is. At 31 years old, Olstein's been leading the charge on a communications revolution for one of the oldest and largest industrial companies in the world. Referencing what he calls "disruptive technology," Olstein said his job is to keep a 123-year-old behemoth of a company on the forefront of emerging media and new social media platforms. In other words, connect with younger audiences, who associate GE with their grandparents or the lightbulb they just bought.
"As a company who's been around for so long, people have their perception of what we're about," Olstein said.
Olstein and his team set about to change that, using the same social media apps as Millennials and featuring familiar faces in their campaigns. They're betting that texting emoijs to Bill Nye the Science Guy, and watching him do experiments assisted by celebrities like Rosario Dawson, will resonate with the same age group they want to recruit.
GE needs developers; the same developers that want to work for Google, or Apple, or Facebook, Olstein said. So his job is to translate GE's work in a simple, accessible way.
"I can understand how the industrial internet is going to make my barbecue taste better. I can understand what a hologram and the power of light is all about when Bill Nye explains it to me with emojis," Olstein said. "So all of these things that we do in our marketing and in social media are messages meant to help us tell our story and connect with this next generation as we kind of evolve as a company."
Where other companies' failure at awkwardly adopting younger generation's technology results in tone-deaf and painfully obvious marketing ploys, Olstein has a talent for making GE's antics seem organic to the platform they're on.
The key, he said, is the story-telling skills he learned by studying journalism at USC Annenberg. In his junior year he was assigned a reporter's beat in Long Beach, where he was tasked with simplifying a complex story about the construction of a power plant in the harbor.
Olstein remembers the frustration he felt trying to shape the story into a series.
"I don't even think I got a good grade in the class. It was really challenging," he said. "And I look back on that time, and I think that's just one of those experiences that pays off so much in the long run."
Olstein said he uses his USC Annenberg skill set every day in his work.
"I always come back to just keeping it simple," Olstein said. "Journalists have to tell stories in such a short period of time, and cover a lot of information."
His hard work is paying off. In December of last year, Olstein and his GE team won Digiday's Best Innovation in Publishing award for their work with Mic on neuroscience. Olstein's trajectory for GE jives well with Mic, a millennial news website that's gained both credibility and a Goliath-size social media presence.
Mic partnered with GE on BrainMic, which includes content like a personality quiz that compares the user's brain to historical figures', the science behind dogs' love for their owners, and how altitude might contribute to Utah's comparatively high suicide rate. The quiz features a discreet GE logo when a mouse hovers over the headline, but the written work contains no mention of GE, which supplied their neuroscience research to Mic.
"We gave [Mic] access and really tried to get to the center of what they wanted to talk about journalistically with this new section of brain science, and the stuff that we already do as a company," Olstein said. "So it was totally new territory, and I don't even know if there's an industry term yet that appropriately defines it."
The origin story of this industrial New York wunderkind, running the social media account of a $150-billion-dollar business, begins in Minnesota. Olstein grew-up in a well-mannered Midwest town, the kind where people would have once tipped their hats to one another on the street. And it's his Midwestern sensibility that may be the key to Olsterin's success.
When asked if he had any childhood talents that might have led to his quick climb up the ladder, Olstein demurs. "My parents would probably list off all the things I did as a kid. Like I was a solo magician for a while," he recalled. Try to pin down his individual accomplishments and Olstein repeatedly credits the team of people around him, calling himself lucky. It's a touching humility almost entirely at odds with the city and industry Olstein works in. "You have to be true to who you are," Olstein said.
His emphasis on relationship-building over ego served Olstein well when by happenstance he was seated on a plane next to his future boss at GE.
"I think I popped up on her radar for the right reason at that time," Olstein said. "And it's just there are moments where doors open, and you have to be conscious of when that door opens and be confident enough to walk through it."
Olstein carries a clear-eyed optimism about the future, believing that doors are wide open for young people just graduating.
"I think youth is such an asset today. It for a very long time was seen as a hurdle … but in the world that we live in today, if you're working in digital media, that is your best asset," Olstein said.
"Your youth is something that no one else who's maybe has more experience, who's been in the workforce longer, can compete with you on. And the people who are graduating Annenberg today have a leg up on people like me," Olstein continued. He said that by growing up with the same technologies GE is trying to harness, younger generations have an advantage.
"I think the power is shifting," Olstein said. "I mean Snapchat is one of the most influential media companies today. And it's run by a 24 year old." That's why, Olstein said, big companies will have to embrace youth in leadership positions, or fold in a future populated by bright young stars.
Olstein's advice for those entering the workforce is to be as disruptive as the platforms he plays on. "I think always challenge the norm. Always, always challenge the norm," he said. But, he admits, young USC graduates don't have to do it alone.
"I love USC. The Trojan family is real. When I started, I'd heard all about it, and I was like, 'Oh that's cool. When I'm an alumni, I'd like to be in that family.' But it's actually the real deal," Olstein said, "I owe so much to Annenberg and to the school."


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If I'm a good example I don't usually IM my friends on Google Talk unless I have something to say. No bland "How's the weather out there?" questions.
Can't say much about Gmail since I don't use it enough. There must be a default setting in it to keep yourself offline when using it. If not complain to Google because I'm sure others would like that feature.
You can sign off of chat by clicking the "Set status here" button.
We all knew they would invent a method of communication that didn't involve the brain. Someone should write a program for a random answer generator so that anyone over 18 doesn't have to really participate. Nobody will ever know.
But it isn't that I mind other people knowing when I'm online. It's that I find it strange that gmail wants me to know what people like James Joyner and the Ace of Spades are doing.
I guess, strictly speaking, it's no weirder than the fact that my neighbors used to know how late I was staying up reading because of when the lamp went out in the living room, though. So perhaps it's a matter of geographical proximity--or lack thereof.
I feel like I can see into other people's living rooms, and I have no way of knowing whether they want me to.
People close the blinds when they desire privacy. Besides, computer can do things when their "human companions" are not around. For example, I'm taking a shower now before going to bed. 7AM Mass comes so fast you know, and tomorrow's is a long one.

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Toronto, Ont. – An experiment released today and conducted by Environmental Defence shows that cashiers are exposed to significant levels of hormone-disrupting bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S (BPS) by handling receipts on the job. These same thermal paper receipts are suspected of contributing greatly to Canadians' daily exposure to bisphenols.
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I have two ADSL connections that are currently on separate OpenWRT routers. They are both with the same provider and both have the same subnet and Next-Hop router. I primarily use one for work and one for family by pointing different hosts at different OpenWRT routers via DHCP.
I'd like to be able to configure everything on one pfSense box and give preference based on source host, but also have fail-over in the case of one ADSL connection going down.
In scanning the forums I only found one reference to this situation from 2012 implying that I would need to choose different next-hop routers for Multi-WAN. Is that still the case? Will this configuration otherwise work OK with 2.4.x?
Is there any way to use an SG-1000 with this configuration or would I need to move up to an SG-3100?
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im saying this as a experienced linux user with multi-wan implementations with loadbalancing (round robin connection) or failover. It doesnt matter if you have the same subnet and gateway on each wan interface you had, as long as each wan interface have their own unique IP then you will be fine.
not sure about freebsd (or pfsense if you want to call it with that) im only using my pfsense for a single fiber connection i had, in the past I used to have 3 DSL connections which is actually much cheaper to have instead of getting a speed upgrade and they do all work fine on OpenWRT.
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Well the production team made good on the teasers this week and left me utterly speechless. I knew Swan and Black were the end game but I am a bit surprised by the sudden turn around. However the excitement doesn't stop at the romance, the revenge plotting was absolutely fun, it was like watching a 3 way chess game where, in my opinion, 2/3 of the players were better than a certain frenemy.
Black audits Sun Woo group
Was I the only one who heard shots fire when Black said "Let's begin the audit," it was a declaration of war and Seon Jae knew full well. During the audit, in which Black questioned him about his time in Thailand, Seon Jae was clearly upset, but remained stoic. Black however seemed to be having fun toying with Seon Jae, taunting him with the fact that he knows everything but continues to play innocent. Seon Jae is of course displeased by how Black has infiltrated the company and sucker punches him, Black quickly subdues him and feigns ignorance. I love how Black distracts him by acting as though his sole target is Baek Eun Do. I find it funny how Black pulls Seon Jae in, making him think they are a team, as if they are resuming their friendship of old. It just reminds me of how fake Seon Jae has been and now we are watching Black repay him in kind.
Black feigned innocence helps to take the brunt of the heat off of him, but Seon Jae still has Black and his crew under surveillance, which ultimately means nothing because Black already knows. Black was also able to successfully predict that Seon Jae would arrange for Baek to be freed from prosecution in order to create a buffer zone between him and Black, keeping the chairman position in his hands. Ultimately everyone has their own best interest in mind, and at the moment none of them can easily rid themselves of the other.
Frankly due to his predictability it is hard to see Seon Jae as a worthy opponent for Black, but the fact that Seon Jae had the foresight to get Baek's confession on tape gives me a glimmer of hope in the adept villain department. Aside from that, he doesn't come off as the overly calculative type, he is a schemer, but his hot head works against him. It's interesting how Seon Jae used the reporter against Baek only to be a pawn in Black's game without even knowing it. Black is employing a divide and conquer tactic, which Baek has already seen through, but it may very well be of no consequence to Seon Jae because he plans to use Black and kick him out the company regardless. Mr. Baek feels more like the mastermind type that always has at least one trick up his sleeve, yet I wouldn't count Seon Jae out so early in the game.
Baek targets Swan
Although he didn't end her life, Baek tried to end her reporting career. While at Sun Woo group, Swan spots Mu Tong, and confronts him about his association with Black. The encounter was photographed by one of Baek's henchmen and used to frame Swan for reporting in return for bribes. Baek takes the incident as an opportunity to railroad Black and Seon Jae by halting the MRB audit. The simple fact is, Seon Jae needs an investor for the casino deal, and no one will deal with him except for Black. It is quickly revealed that the other board members are on Baek's side, and most notably Seo Jin Tak is playing both sides. Jin Tak suggests to Seon Jae that he should remove Baek from his position, then reports back to Baek that the removal plan was Seon Jae's idea.
Despite Baek's attack, Swan doesn't back down, she doubles down and reports about a list of important political figures involved in Baek's illegal gambling ring, which ruffles a few feathers. Baek abducts Swan and meets her at his house. He tries to intimidate her, but instead she pulls out a recorder and attempts to get his statement (this girls balls could eclipse the sun LOL). The only person who seemed to care about her safety at that point was Black, who came in like an action hero. The dramatization was a bit much when he held out his hand like she was standing on a crumbling cliff, but it doesn't change the fact that Baek could have had her killed and dumped her in the Han River.
Baek is clearly not done with this duo now that he has picture evidence of them being together in Thailand, but I'd like to know more about Swan's connection to Baek. Is he her father or grandfather? The elephant portrait on the wall, which Swan recognized, indicates some type of relationship with her family, and I am so curious to find out what. If there is a family or parental connection, than there is a good chance it will be used to separate Black and Swan and/or be looped into Baek's potential redemption arc.
Swan and Baek kiss
After pulling her out of Baek's study, Black, whose adrenaline was still on overdrive, chastises her for putting herself in danger, she acts in kind reminding him how this screws with his plans. Black makes it a point that she understand she is far more important than any of that, and orders her to never to leave his side. Of course she agrees, and she gives him a peck, he in turn shows her what a real kiss is like LOL. This is just so much to take in at once, part of me is squealing with joy, but the other part of me is like, "writers, how did we get here." It really feels like Black just did a total 180 and now he is magically in love with Swan, but I don't believe that is completely the case.
One sure challenge the writers faced was how to make a guy who seemed so focused on his love with Ma Ri, so much so that he made Swan feel like she had no chance, all of a sudden leave that behind and start anew with Swan in a believable manner. However, it is worth noting Black's reaction to Ma Ri's announcement of her pregnancy (which apparently was only confirmed today, although I thought we went through this already.), her remaining feelings, and the end of their relationship. The reaction we viewed was not one of a man who had broken up with the woman he loved. As she spoke, he was sympathetic and accepted everything, but he did not reflect the sorrow that she was clearly feeling. Even as he sat in the car, it simply appeared as though he was just trying to process what occurred, but emotionally he had moved on. Although he may have thought otherwise, his heart had already gone to Swan, whom he goes to watch get off from work, soon after leaving Ma Ri. The loving look in his eyes as he watched Swan makes me wonder if his attempts to seek out Ma Ri were purely out of loyalty or just a desire to protect her from her husband. Their talk served as the closure they needed to finally end the relationship, but it is hard to believe the two will be totally free of her. Now that Ma Ri knows the one who attempted to kill Black had a gunshot wound similar to Seon Jae's, I am almost certain she suspects him. Question is what will she do from here?
With regard to his feelings, there has been a subtle shift in Black's priorities as Swan takes supremacy in his heart. When the wooden compass made a reappearance at the end of episode 7, it signaled Swan's influence on him. The compasses hold the same weight a couple ring would, because it is a symbol of them finding their way back to each other. In addition to this we have Black's reaction to how hurt Swan felt when she learned that Mu Tong and co. were working together and she was left out of his inner circle. To stop her from leaving, he holds her in a back hug, which takes Swan by surprise (you and me both LOL). This scene demonstrates how he was transitioning from pushing her away in order to spare her feelings to letting her in in order to stop hurting her. Swan has been steadily making inroads to his heart, but he could only realize her significance in his life when he thought he could lose her. When the two kissed we saw Black in his full out emotional state, we know he wasn't thinking straight because he decided to make out with Swan in Baek's hallway haha….Unless of course he was planning to make Baek blush to death.
Ji Soo's return
Coming back from the dead must be a Cha family specialty, because Ji Soo makes her reappearance at the end of this episode, and she may be meeting Baek. I really hope her memories are intact because I'm more intent on seeing Ji Soo get her revenge without the extra side drama of the amnesia cliche. Ji Soo would be an effective tool against Seon Jae due to the fact that he has his position, because he stole Ji Soo's shares. All she needs to do is take them back, though I doubt it's that simple. I won't be surprised if Baek uses her a a secret card to prevent his dismissal as president.


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A lot more personally rewarding than supporting Kerry…
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In the meantime I'm helping out on the Kerry campaign. Aviva got a job on it and I've just been offered one as well. Outrageous. It'd be $2000 a month but about 12 hours a day and no days off. Yikes! I'm not sure how much I really believe in Kerry or how good I'd be at organizing people. It'd be stressful! I'm kind of happy just volunteering with Aviva as my boss, especially if I'd be collecting unemployment. Heck! I'd be a sucker to work!
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i left lesotho on the 4th in a combi taxi (or black taxi as they're called). the idea is that they cram 15 people into a minivan, luggage and all, and make a 6 hour journey. going to lesotho from durban was fine (cept for the bends paranoia) but returning to joburg was a different story. first of all the taxi was a wreck. second of all everyone was very upset to begin with because the price had been raised from R100 to R110 (from $15.38 to $16.90). At some point a fellow passenger was complaining that we were driving too slowly. Being near the front a decided to check the speedometer, which turned out to read zero because it was broken. Speed was the least of my worries: I got to sit next to the drunk guy. This particular drunk guy was released from prison after a year and a half where he'd been for not having the correct paperwork to be in South Africa and also assaulting a police officer (i gathered). He raved to his captive audience that in his absence his wife had run off with an arab and that he was on a mission to find her. the masutu kid next to me explained that this is a very common thing because most marriages in lesotho are not legally done and many people simply walk away from them (so much for being a last bastion of family values). I promptly turned to the kid on my right and played a 5 hour game of Casino until we finally dropped the guy off at some lonely junction in the middle of nowhere. I am shocked that Casino is such a universal game and it turns out that it is mostly popular in southern africa where each country has its own variations.
so it seems as if i misjudged my flight out of joburg and got back a couple days before i'd planned. however, time seems to fill out quite nicely. i am staying at michael's house still but i am having lots of family interactions which are excellent. i will miss my family when i go back and you can't ask for much more than that.
the day after i got back i went to an AWESOME african jazz show. it was a free show in the park and there were thousands and thousands of people. i've never been to a free show where literally everyone was dancing (cept me maybe). the attitude here is really different. i figured it was a good time to sit down and write a letter back to the states. first this guy comes up to me and asks what i'm writing, then he reads the letter, then he compliments it and walks off. another two guys do the same thing. people here are really into eachother's business – that stuff'd never fly in the states.
After that i finally got up the courage to call my grandpa who had apparently been very upset that i hadn't been around to help him with his autobiography. turns out that he has no work for me to do at all and hasn't brought up the book once in the last 4 days of hanging out with him. instead he has talked mostly about mental illnesses and then also a lot about biblical theories. he combines them whenever he can.
In the Tekweni hostel in Durban one of the folksies I met was Luke, a Peace Corps volunteer who is stationed in Lipringh, a village of about 400 or so. He invited me to come after he had finished with his semiannual check in so I occupied myself getting SCUBA certified in Durban. Lesotho is a mountain kingdom and I had just finished a double dive the day before and the whole way up I found myself being completely paranoid about ascending to altitude so soon after a dive. I kept getting cramps in my hands and consulting my dive table. Needless to say, nothing came of it. Luke had given insanely complete directions and I found myself on the doorstep of a fellow volunteer, Jeremy (a.k.a. Ntate Stabu), around 4 o clock. I was the first visitor that Luke has had in a year of being there. Coincidentally Jeremy was getting his first visitor, also named Nathan, the same day.
The next day the 4 of us set out on a little camping expedition for a few days. Now it's hard to give a sense of Lesotho without saying that JRR Tolkein lived in neighboring Bloomfontein and based his idea of The Shire on Lesotho. Every hour or so we would come to a new village and subjected to conversation by bemused locals. In Lesotho no business can be conducted without the chief and inevitably we sought him out to ask his permission to pass through his area. Our main concern was camping near an initiation of young men. During these initiations a couple hundred boys 15-? live in the mountains for six months, fast and take all kinds of drugs, learn about sex from an old woman, and get circumcised. In Lesotho, people throw stones at tents because they don't know what they are. The last thing you want to do when camping there is to get discovered by an group of half crazed initiates. Luke and Jeremy had gone camping a few months back and hadn't notified the chief. They were sitting around their campfire when they were suddenly surrounded with armed men ready to shoot them for being cattle thieves. Motto: check in with the chief.
From what I could gather the Basutu people migrated from the North when they ran from Shaka and his Zulus. They sought refuge in the mountains and found cannibals. After having a few members of his family eaten, Moshoeshoe, the leader of the Basutu, plied the cannibals with cattle and after tasting the delicious meat they were converted and were cannibals no more. The head Cannibals who ate Moshoeshoe's family lived up in a cave and it was there that we camped the first night.
We were awakened by a Masutu man shouting down to us from the top of the cliff. "How are you this morning?" he called. "Cold," replied Nathan. "Why don't you build a fire?" the Masutu responded. "Because there's no wood," called back Nathan. "You are crazy!" shouted the Masutu man and within 3 minutes he had scrambled down the hill and built a fire for us. "Now I must take care of my goats!" he said and he ran off and disappeared up the mountain.
The next day of hiking was easier and we caught a lift on a truck filled with beer. We bought beers off the driver, who was also drinking, and drank them as we bounced along dirt roads. There were a few other people in the back of the truck. An older man asked us for a cigarette. We didn't have any but then he told us he was the chief so we gave him some beer and took his photograph.
Wherever we went people asked us for candy, even adults. I figured that old missionaries once gave them candy and they never forgot. They never asked for money, just candy and photos. These guys were big suckers for having their pictures taken. Everywhere we went people would ask for us to take their picture. They didn't care if they never actually see the photo, they just wanted one to be taken of them.
White people there are treated like a cross between a martian and a movie star. Peace Corps volunteers come from middle class American backgrounds and are a little embarrassed to become celebrity millionaires. They deal with it in different ways but for all of them the status change is a bit difficult. The begging irritates them as does their wealth as percieved through alcohol consumption. Beer here costs $1.20 for 1.75 Liters. While that's not that expensive by Lesotho standards (the same as a single can of tuna) buying two for yourself is dropping a lot of cash in a place where there is no real economy to speak of. Going to the store in itself is considered a luxury. A "store", there is one every other village, sells maybe the top 20 most useful items that a gas station would sell: some fruit, some canned stuff, some flour, and soap. Beer and cigarretes = superstore. No chocolate, no exceptions. A few years back the Chinese paid the Lesotho government a lot of cash for free immigration rights. Now there are Chinese stores and sweatshops everywhere. The stores are cheaper and better stocked than the Basutu stores but there is a lot of resentment towards them and they are frequently robbed.
As we walked through the country many of the more isolated villagers would greet us with total astonishment. These people had literally lived their whole lives in a 3 mile radius. When those folks heard of our travels they would fall over laughing: "you came from over THAT mountain? WOW! What's there?" Many of these guys were over 40. It was The Shire to a T.
We arrived back at Jeremy's and had a wonderful little party that night with a couple of Basutu people. It was interesting how the volunteers felt completely uncomfortable with natives around them. They clammed up and it was only after dinner that any real talking began. We played poker and I quickly discovered that I was the only person who knew the rules. Our Masutu guest, Bam, quickly cottoned on and was the big winner for the night. In 2 hours I won 2 hands and lived on borrowed cash alone.
While I was there Luke suggested that I teach some of the classes. One interesting thing about Lesotho is that while not so many people speak it, English is the official language. Consequently the students are all taught their subjects in what amounts to a second language. If this isn't already a hindrance, their schools are not quite up to American standards. First of all their classrooms are simply concrete and brick buildings with half the windows missing. Also there are not really any books. This can all be overcome by good teaching but that leads us to the worst part of the whole thing. By law these kids all pay about $200, a huge sum, a year to go to public school. Because of this most families choose only one child to send on to the upper grades. This is great and attendance is excellent, at least among the students. The teachers are another story altogether. There are 5 teachers on staff. Of the 3 days I hung around the school, there was always one who had gone to town on some pretext and 3 in the staff room. For the most part they felt no particular motivation to help their students in any way shape or form. When they were in the classroom they would beat their students with a stick for getting answers wrong. I saw with my own eyes teachers having students bring water from the pump to their houses as well as teachers having students wash laundry free of charge. Many students paid extra at the beginning of the year to get lunches at school. The principal embezzled and spent all the money on his drinking problem and, needless to say, there are no lunches. There is little a student can do in this situation because they are NOT going to get refunded. The teachers are aware that no one will pass the standardized tests at the end of the year so they let everyone copy off each other to ensure a higher pass rate. Outrageous….
Talking to some of the students the subject of witches came up. The students had taken me on a two hour hike up the local mountain and they were trying to tell me that witches lived there. Apparently while the guys have their one big secret circumcision rite, the women have a plethora of insane secrets. These range from the notion that eating dirt and blackboard chalk helps prevent pregnancy to deep dark witch secrets. Witches do lots of nutty things ranging from making voodoo dolls that kill you to kidnapping you and replacing your body with that of a dead monkey that looks just like you. I asked why witches do these things and the only response I got was, "I don't know, I'm not a witch." They guy who told me this did not believe in witches but then later we got to talking about the pot trade. When we were hiking around we saw fields upon fields of marijuana being grown. And when I say fields, we're talking like 20 acres. So this guy tells me that it's shipped over the border and sold in South Africa. I asked him if the South African Police Service (SAPS) caught a lot of the people. He said that what the smugglers did was put traditional herbs in with the pot and the police would think it was something else. I misunderstood at first and asked what happened if the cops looked below the herbs and saw the drugs. "No no," he exclaimed, "the herbs have a magic and the cops will never see anything!" I asked if this always works. He replied that, yes, it always works as long as you completely believe in it. If there's any doubt at all it won't work out.
This made me think of a story I'd read about in the news. Three guys in South Africa had robbed a store and made a hurried getaway. They had a terrible road accident and two of the guys were killed. The police arrived and arrested him. The conversation went something like this:
COP: Put out your hands so I can put handcuffs on you.
ROBBER: You can't put handcuffs on me. I'm not here.
COP: I can see you.
ROBBER: No you can't. I've rubbed myself with magical herbs so that you cannot see me.
COP: How come I can see you then?
ROBBER: You can't. I am not really here. My friends and I are invisible.
COP: You mean your two dead friends lying by the side of the road over there.
ROBBER: Yes, you can't see them.
COP then cuffs him…
You hear a lot about AIDS in Africa but it never really hit home until I got there. When I was teaching the high schoolers about argumentative compositions I decided to use the topic: "Should you get tested for HIV? Defend your answer." No brainer I thought… not so. I decide to go back and forth with pro and con arguments. One student says that if you do not know if you will die you are like an animal, you cannot decide about your future. "Good" I say. "Anyone have a reason not to get tested?" A girl speaks up: "Maybe if you are tested positive you cannot live with yourself and you will commit suicide." I validate her response but point out that if you want to commit suicide if you have HIV then shouldn't you at least have your answer so you can get on with it? Then another student suggests "But if you know your status then you can take steps so you don't spread it. You have a responsibility to get tested." I write that on the board. Then the girl pipes up again saying, "But if you know you are going to die maybe you will try to spread it so you know that you will not die alone." "But everyone in this room will die", I say "If we will all die one day then no one will die alone." One student adds that it's important to always use a condom to which another student says that they always use two condoms… Geez. Do you know that in Lesotho it's considered sexy for a girl to have a dry pussy? No really! Some girls rub themselves with stuff to make them drier. One of the biggest reasons guys don't like condoms there is that they feel it makes the girl wetter!
All this would be funny except that in Lesotho 1/3 of the total population and 1/2 of the population between 18 and 25 are infected with HIV. This is really staggering. This means that half of the students I taught were infected. You want to make a difference in someone's future but how seriously should they really be taking all these subjects with the kind of future they will have? This is a country that will simply be missing a whole generation.
One of the big themes of my interactions was about what it's like in America and how Basutus could get there. One thing people wanted to know was how much housebuilding materials cost. First of all they could not believe that we in America make houses out of wood. "How do you make a house out of wood?" they would ask incredulously. I told them that we had big trees that we would slice up. The consensus was that they would believe it when they saw it which would most likely be never because even if they got a visa (which is improbable in the extreme) the USA is screening for HIV in visitors now… But I digress. I was telling them that most people don't make their own houses but buy preexisting ones and that the most expensive part was buying the land. This was a difficult concept because in Lesotho, get this, you don't buy land at all; you simply go up to the chief and ask him for some land and he gives it to you. No money changes hands at all.
I love this crazy country and it makes me want to go all through Africa. Unfortunately it is only possible to tour the country this way because my friends speak Susutu. Without that there would be no talks with chiefs, etc. I felt lonely in Durban but in the middle of nowhere I feel surrounded by friends. I feel like I could travel for years.


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During a recent radio interview for his new album "The Massacre", rapper 50 Cent announced that up-and-coming rapper, The Game, was no longer a member of G-Unit. "Every record he's selling is based on me being on his record with him," he said. Reports claim that a shooting occurred shortly after this statement to a member of 50 Cent's entourage - the man, who was shot in the thigh, is now in stable condition.
More shots were also fired outside of 50 Cent's management office two hours later. Police have speculated that The Game's associates may have heard the radio interview and gone to the studio, where they confronted 50 Cent's entourage. Odd, isn't it that we can't picture Britney breaking down Avril's door with a machete. A suggestion to management, don't let your kids play with guns anymore.
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hehe this is funny, cuz The Game is a very good rapper and so if 50. If some kind of feud breaks out, then Aftermath records will be destroyed and there wont be a Dre anymore.
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The Game is raw!! If 50 cent don't wanna mess with him that would be cool with me. The Game got tru lyrics. He didn't come out trying to prove himself by raggin on other people. I'd get The Game cd over 50s any day!
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Electric Lines
From his synthy contributions for Hot Chip to his rich production on 'Gabriel' featuring Valentina, it was impossible to anticipate what Joe Goddard's new album would sound like.
What Goddard has produced has little semblance to either of these styles, but manages to bridge the gap between the two. Easy listening, pop, house, disco and 2-step rolled into one, Electric Lines isn't exactly cohesive, but Goddard's broad collection of genre-spanning tracks are likely to attract the attention of a wide range of fans.
The album opener, 'Ordinary Madness', is reminiscent of M83's 2016 track 'Go!', where synth meets sweet vocals. The spaciness of 'Lose Your Love' then builds quickly into 'Home', the standout of the album, a house track interspersed with disco interludes.
From there on in things get a little more serious and mellow. Even the 2-step rhythm of 'Truth Is Light' is dreamy and relaxing. The penultimate track, 'Electric Lines', is the only place where the Hot Chip sound is prominent through Alexis Taylor's magical vocals.
You could argue that Goddard's work peaks too early, but the distinctive story of each track is more significant than the motley album structure. In a recent interview with Talkhouse, Goddard acknowledges that his emphasis on music being 'the answer' may come across as idealistic, particularly coming from a white male, born and raised in an affluent city. Goddard is undeniably successful, however, in easing us through our most difficult times via his expansive repertoire.
Jennifer Martino
One of the most distinctive sounding oeuvres in electronic music, the GAS albums of the 90s married the peerless production of Wolfgang Voigt's other projects with the Germanic Romantic tradition of Goethe and Wagner, creating a dense and melancholic techno-pastoral.
With a hand adept at balancing tense discordance with somnambulant beauty, Voigt layered atmosphere upon atmosphere over a heartbeat of muffled kick drums and noise in loops that seemed to catch echoes of something sinister lost or buried in our millenial consciousness.
Fast forward 20 years, and a time in which Voigt could evoke muted disaster as a sinister relic of the past seems itself a saccharine memory of a more hopeful era. From something that caught a dark history before it faded, his music has evolved into something full of ominous foreboding, a sense that the worst is ahead of us. The new album, while unmistakably sharing a sonic lineage with the older material, has eschewed the loop for more orchestral arrangements. Instead catching the listener in a moment, Narkopop is at its best when it creates a sense of forwards propulsion, a scary pitching into the unknown.
This album looks to the future, not the past, but with its echoes of previous works - both by GAS and its musical forebears - Voigt gives us the uncanny sensation that we have been here before. A crucial and unsettling piece of music for our times from the man who has always insisted on electronic music being something more than 'pop'.
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Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
It's been a while since British Sea Power released a studio album, so when whispers of a crowdfunded record were heard towards the latter half of 2016 excitement began to brew. BSP fans were invited to help out by purchasing treats that ranged from pre-orders and bundles to a rather expensive tattoo which would serve as free admittance to all future headlining shows.
Having had the joy of listening to their new creation for the last couple of weeks, I can confirm that good things come to those who wait. Let The Dancers Inherit The Party is packed full of emotive and invigorating anthems, with rock, indie and pop tones laced throughout.
Though lyrically diverse, each track has a strong compatibility with its fellows, making for a consistently enjoyable piece of art. Personal highlights include 'International Space Station', which screams to be played in a grand, typically BSP-esque venue, late at night under the stars. I'm not sure whether it's the connotation of space, but it feels reminiscent of Bowie's big numbers, particularly 'Heroes'.
'Keep On Trying (Sechs Freunde)' is another great poppy number which has a matching Dada-esque video. 'Want To Be Free' and 'Alone Piano' are really beautiful slower tracks which stir up your emotions and demonstrate the layered soundscaping which BSP do so well.
This 12-track album is truly delightful from start to finish and I can't wait to hear it performed live, adding that final element of intimacy.
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Fujiya & Miyagi
It's impossible to quantify the number of successful – let alone unsuccessful – rock songs built on the simple foundation of the 12-bar blues. As that boilerplate chord sequence has been the starting point for guitar bands for nearly a century, the respective root for electronic
musicians is the driving, pulsing keys-and-drums rhythm that begun around the time of Trans-Europe Express and has continued to be used up through the neon lights of Cliff Martinez's Drive score. Fujiya & Miyagi's self-titled sixth album is in thrall to this rhythm, embracing the teutonic influence of Tangerine Dream, where previous records were more indebted to the motorik rhythm section of Neu!
The lyrics mostly imitate the sparse repetition they accompany ("Keep on pullin' / Keep on pushin'") or else are standard torch song platitudes ("I will love you 'til the last beat of my heart"). The moments which disrupt the routine are the ones that stick, like the casually cruel refrain of "When I kiss you I no longer care," on the four-to-the-floor dance beat of 'Solitaire'.
They go full 'Losing My Edge' self-analysis on 'Extended Dance Mix', bemoaning in spoken word semi-lyricism that "on social media platforms the general consensus is / our popularity has declined since 2006." Then they compare the kick drum dependency of the more rote of their peers to sending an electric current through a dead frog to make its legs move. There's life in it yet.
Tom Baker
More known for delivering the uneasy listening side of electronic music, CPU Records imprint Computer Club slips into more comfortable sounds with its seventh outing by AB2088. Available on digital and cassette, a format receiving a renaissance, it's a journey through experimental techno that's not only submersive but also highly thematic. Unlike most electronic LPs that are unstructured and invariably a collection of 12" A and B sides, Sagittarius very much works as a unified piece. With definite nods to the underwater sounds of Detroit legends Drexciya, Andy Brown's debut album is of a very high quality, both production and ideas wise.
You can almost conjure up the imaginary sci-fi visuals as mellow openers 'Lacu' and 'Permafrost' make way for the more Germanic sounds of 'Subsurface Ocean I'. 'Hydrocarbon' returns this conceptual release to the deep sounds of space, which at times feels like it could be a rescoring of the sci-fi classic Dune. 'Subsurface Ocean II' picks the pace up once again with bleeps and hypnotic loops akin to Hood, Banks and Mills' seminal X102 release in the 90s.
In amongst the fierce, foreboding rhythms there are moments of pure electro funk, as 'Bokglobules' drifts in and out of focus, before 'Cogen' submerges us once again into a deep cinematic landscape. The entire album feels like it's part of an interstellar journey and one that's yet to be completed. With any luck, Brown will take us on another trip into space sometime very soon.
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Future Islands
The Far Field
Dancing is inherently embarrassing. It requires a transcendence of social reserve, which is why most of us only ever do it when we're off our faces.
There's plenty of dance-worthy tracks on this album and the band's debt to New Order is now way overdrawn. Michael Lowry drums with a Stephen Morris syncopation, William Cashion's bass cribs the tunefulness of Hooky, while Gerrit Welmers's synth washes are comparable to the 7" mix of 'Temptation'.
Frontman Sam Herring's voice soars through lyrics as courageously, wincingly sincere as his dance moves. The album is full of frank admissions of emotional weakness, including but not limited to the "I can't take it, I can't take it" refrain of standout single 'Ran'. Yet it feels like something is being held back.
All at once Future Islands broke through to the mainstream and became a meme. The last time the synthpop four-piece played Sheffield, the most rapturous reception came not in response to the music, but to any time Herring broke into the loose-limbed dancing seen during their performance on David Letterman's talk show. That performance went viral, which was perhaps inevitable.
But it's a shame that, amidst the ironic gawping, Herring is reduced to a novelty. It diminishes the riches of his unusual voice, as prone to soulful crooning – utilised wonderfully during a recent BADBADNOTGOOD collaboration – as to throat-shredding howls. New album The Far Field is consequently a little more reserved in its ambitions, a little more one-note, as if on the defensive.
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Katie Pham and The Moonbathers
Parent's Evening
When writing about music, the word 'sedate' used to be a perjorative tag, until laid-back bands like Stereolab and Beach House claimed it as a positive musical attribute that unfolds its charms at a different pace.
Add to that list Katie Pham and her two Moonbathers, whose sound is so sun-drenched it could've been recorded in a greenhouse. This four track EP, the Sheffield group's first on new label Cosmo Spring, finds them mining a similar vein as on their debut split for Delicious Clam, but with stronger tunes which show an increased confidence in the group's songwriting.
Guitars chime through a thick cloud of hash smoke on opener 'Constant Comment', which showcases Pham's way of writing vocal melodies that suit her breezy, care-free voice perfectly. What makes the group's music so consistently engaging is that below the sunny surface a meloncholic current flows, such as on 'Sweet Potato', with a guitar line that sways gently back and forth as Pham reveals that she's "trying to be detached but that's not me".
The undertones of bittersweet self-doubt that creep into their songs neatly curb tendencies towards any mumblecore tweeness that the title might imply. "I'll always be here, until I'm not", she sings on 'Guinness Paltrow', a propulsive highlight. On closer 'Feels Pretty Real', Pham tells us that she's "waiting for her life to start" as her own voice swirls beneath her in eddies of reverb. On this evidence, it'll be something special when it does.
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Nafissatou Thiam is a Belgian athlete, who broke the indoor junior world record on the women's pentathlon on 3 February 2013. This record could not be ratified, because the compulsory anti-doping control could not be organized in time.
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Nafissatou Thiam was born in 1990s. The 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during that decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web.
She finished in 4th place in the heptathlon at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics. Education details are not available at this time. Please check back soon for updates. You can also learn about Nafissatou Thiam's dating history at CelebsCouples.
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At the age of 25, Nafissatou Thiam's height is 6 feet 0 inches (183 cm) or approximately 1.8 meters or 72 inches.
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Not only is Henry cruisin a lot now, he cruises on top of toys.
Henry got up there all by himself.
Dan orderd Julio's Chips over the phone, a mainstay of anybody who has lived in Del Rio, Texas.
Charlie and Jane were not getting along, so we made them sit in a chair together.
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Tim Hecker "Black Refraction" (video)
Published Sep 26, 2013Ambient music master Tim Hecker has slid us another sneak preview of his impending Virgins LP with a grainy VHS-quality video for its "Black Refraction."
Directed by Sabrina Ratté, the video seems to take place in a chapel and features some sort of ceremonial urn swinging majestically from the rafters. The footage is fairly distorted and blown out, though, and occasionally drifts into blobs of incandescent light. Regardless, the arc of whatever that thing may be is pretty hypnotic and pairs nicely with the fluttery piano taps and eerily mucked-up, speaker-panning acoustic guitar textures.
You can check out the trance-inducing experience down below.
As previously reported, Virgins is out October 15 through Paper Bag/Kranky.


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ORNL Review Archive
Science in Sync
- Editorial: Transformational potential
- Features: Multi-faceted forecasting ... 3D printing rises to the occasion ... Tag-team R&D ... Hunting for hydrogen ... Diversify, replace, recycle ... Potent partnerships ... Better biofuels
- A Closer View: Ben Preston
- Research Horizons: ORNL research reveals new challenges for mercury cleanup ... ORNL finding goes beyond surface of oxide films ... New algorithm enables unprecedented sampling, modeling of Arctic
Disruptive Materials
- Editorial: Driving innovation in the 21st Century
- Features: Disruptive materials ... Nanotech toolbox ... Materials for measuring the universe ... Growing graphene ... Heavy-metal fishing ... Rethinking nuclear fuel design ... Blood, sweat and serendipity ... Something new under the sun
- A Close View: Kinga Unocic
- Research Horizons: 'Zoomable' map of poplar proteins offers new view of bioenergy crop ... ORNL scientists solve mercury mystery ... Mobility and risk
Titan Rising
- Editorial: Driving R&D through supercomputing
- Features: Solvable problems ... Moving to Titan ... Programming Titan ... Virtual reactor ... Joining forces for biofuels ... Behind the data ... Climate models for a changing world ... Modeling material defects
- A Closer View: Jeff Nichols
- Research Horizons Oxygen-23 Loses Its Halo ... ORNL/UTK Team Maps the Nuclear Landscape
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- Features: Creative synergy ... Vascular voyage ... Better batteries from the ground up ... Probing nanopores ... Designing materials for the future ... Speed-reading DNA ... A closer look at catalysts ... Molecular machinery
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- Introducing Methanol-Fueled Vehicles
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- Technical Capsules. EPA adopts ORNL test to determine hazardous-waste toxicity; ORNL computer model demonstrates learning; antibody-laser technique may detect toxic chemicals; five Oak Ridge developments win 1987 IR 100 awards.
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Teamleader users take the floor: Cheyns Technics in De Pinte is an installer of technologies for new constructions and renovations. We spoke to Co-Business Manager Ruben Van den Bossche!
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Teamleader users take the floor: Cheyns Technics in De Pinte is an installer of technologies for new constructions and renovations. With plenty of individual areas of expertise: sanitation, heating, electricity, ventilation … Or automated sound and lighting. And Cheyns Technics handles the entire building process, as a total contractor, from floor to roof, with just as much expertise. Not your traditional construction company, and that shows in their house philosophy—a high-quality finish combined with intensive quality and service. Ruben Van den Bossche, co-Business Manager, calls himself a generalist: "I know something about everything, and my specialist colleagues are the opposite (laughs)."
The ideal man to direct communications & administration via Teamleader. "That's right, but the sales facet is another of my areas, so I maintain close contact with the customers right from the start." After our launch, 4 years ago, Teamleader seemed like some kind of an unreachable dream. Ruben explains: "As a result of the crisis, the building sector needed to quickly become more professional. We already had a robust structure, but unfortunately we also had a pile of loose Excel sheets. We could not find a customized system anywhere. We did find typical software for large companies—restrictively simplistic, yet needlessly complicated and, on top of that, extremely unattractive. Plus a lot of attention to things we had no use for, such as inventory management and HR administration.
Feedback for all
The breakthrough came in 2013. "The demo experience was very close to what we ourselves had wanted to develop. A mouldable package with permanent room for adjustments, including the lay-out of the quotations, a very sensitive point for a marketing man (smiles) … So we designed a handsome cover page which we adapt as needed in Teamleader." And we frequently color outside the lines. "Our quotations are not some vague list of materials but state exactly what the customer is paying for, without forgetting the broad outlines." Cheyns Technics also quickly became a fan of the feedback button. "A stroke of genius, because together we can perfect the entire system. We also embrace that transparency with our customers."
But that deserves a word of explanation: "Two examples. First, these same customers have access to their projects. They see the progress that is made and the invoicing, or they can update their contact details. Teamleader also displays graphic info—timelines, photo updates … Second, the customers give us feedback by way of an evaluation form." Ruben and his team, though, are also able to take a critical look at themselves. "Self-evaluation is just as important. Think, for example, of the recalculations, which keep the estimated price quotations and the actual work orders in line with one another. Why all the effort? Well, we tremble at the thought of unpleasant surprises later on. For the customer and for ourselves."
Maintaining an overview
Cheyns Technics is growing from strength to strength, and that is an understatement. "In just 4-years' time, we have doubled both our turnover and our personnel. Yet we continue to manage the administration without adding extra personnel. Due in part to a detailed project monitoring system with 'milestones' and accompanying budgets, an interactive agenda with access for the whole team … In other words, satisfied personnel, and … customers. But, of course, even Teamleader has limitations. I would like to have the incoming invoices in the system, because that way there is more control over the cash flow." As an all-around installer, Cheyns Technics ultimately has great need for oversight. "That also applies to Teamleader, as a growth enterprise, that is. Standing by our original values and vision, while striving toward our ambitions with passion."


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MICHÈLE FLOURNOY is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors. From 2009 to 2012, she served as U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.
MICHAEL SULMEYER is Director of the Cyber Security Project at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Director for Cyber Plans and Operations in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Cyberspace has been recognized as a new arena for competition [1] among states ever since it came into existence. In the United States, there have long been warnings of a "cyber–Pearl Harbor"—a massive digital attack that could cripple the country's critical infrastructure without a single shot being fired. Presidential commissions, military task force reports, and congressional investigations have been calling attention to such a risk for decades. In 1984, the Reagan administration warned of the "significant security challenges" of the coming information age. And just this year, Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, said of such threats, "the lights are blinking red. [2]"
Yet the Internet has always been much more than a venue for conflict and competition; it is the backbone of global commerce and communication. That said, cyberspace is not, as is often thought, simply part of the global commons in the way that the air or the sea is. States assert jurisdiction over, and companies claim ownership of, the physical infrastructure that composes the Internet and the data that traverses it. States and companies built the Internet, and both are responsible for maintaining it. Actions taken in the public sector affect the private sector, and vice versa. In this way, the Internet has always been hybrid in nature.
So, accordingly, is the real cyberwar threat. It turns out that for all the increasingly vehement warnings about a cyber–Pearl Harbor, states have shown little appetite for using cyberattacks for large-scale destruction. The immediate threat is more corrosive than explosive. States are using the tools of cyberwarfare to undermine the very foundation of the Internet: trust. They are hacking into banks, meddling in elections [3], stealing intellectual property [4], and bringing private companies to a standstill. The result is that an arena that the world relies on for economic and informational exchange has turned into an active battlefield.
To reverse this development, the United States and its allies will have to recognize what China, Iran [5], North Korea, and Russia already
[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-america/2018-07-19/next-cyber-battleground
[2] https://www.npr.org/2018/07/18/630164914/transcript-dan-coats-warns-of-continuing-russian-cyberattacks
[3] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2018-07-25/how-washington-can-prevent-midterm-election-interference
[4] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-03-22/how-us-can-play-cyber-offense
[5] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2017-10-31/electronic-republic


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Add a pop of color to your collection! Gemstones, including natural amethyst, citrine, peridot, rhodolite garnet, and Swiss blue topaz, in a variety of cuts make up this unique owl pendant, all set in sterling silver with a 14K gold accent along the body. Piece measures 13/16 by 9/16 inches. Comes with a sterling silver 18-inch rope chain with a spring ring clasp.
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Five Things You Should Do Before Giving Her Your Grandma's Engagement Ring
If you are lucky enough to have possession of your grandma's engagement ring and are thinking of passing it on to your girlfriend when you propose, it's important to slow down and weigh this decision carefully. While giving your girlfriend your grandma's ring is a good way to pass something valuable onto the next generation, it's not always the right choice for your relationship with your girlfriend or with the rest of your family members.
Before you get down on one knee and offer her the antique ring, make sure you complete these steps to ensure that you're going about it in the right way.
Get the ring appraised.
Surely, the ring has a lot of sentimental value,and it means something to you no matter how much money it's worth. Still, it's nice to know whether you're giving your girlfriend a $200 ring or one that's worth thousands. Having the ring appraised is also important for insurance reasons. You'll want to insure the ring, either with separate jewelry insurance or through your homeowner's insurance company, and they'll need to know the value of the ring to give you a policy that covers it in case of theft or damage.
It's essential to have the ring appraised before you give it to your girlfriend, so she does not have to take it off once you present it. It's up to you whether or not you tell your girlfriend how much the ring is worth. If you want to remain focused more on the sentimental value of the ring, it may be best to just keep this information private, unless she asks.
Make sure the other male members of your family are okay with it.
Do you have brothers who may also want to give this ring to their future fiancees? Going behind their back and using the ring without their blessing will strain your relationship, and it will also place strain on the relationships between your new fiancee and your brothers. Discuss your desire for the ring with your brothers before you present it to her. Try to come to some compromise. For instance, maybe you could give your brother some money towards his engagement ring in exchange for the use of grandma's ring.
Subtly gain some insight into her jewelry tastes to make sure she'll love the ring.
The ring likely means a lot to you because it was your grandma's, but it's important that your girlfriend also finds it meaningful and beautiful, since she'll be wearing it daily. Try to get an idea of her tastes, so you can determine whether or not the ring is her style. You can do this by browsing jewelry stores or jewelry websites together and having her point out things she likes. If she looks at rings similar to your grandma's, then you can count on her loving it. On the other hand, if she turns up her nose to that style of ring, you might be better off letting one of your brothers or cousins use the ring.
Ask a jeweler about your options when it comes to resetting the stone.
If you're set on using your grandma's ring, but you don't think your girlfriend will enjoy its style, visit a jeweler to see if they can incorporate the stone of your grandma's ring into a new setting. This way, you'll have your grandma's memory preserved in a way that makes your fiancee feel beautiful.
You don't have to have the ring reset before giving it to her; just find out what your options are. When you do present her with the ring, let her know what her options are as far as having the stone reset if she does not like it the way it is. Make sure she knows you won't be offended if she chooses to have the ring reset.
Giving your grandma's ring to your girlfriend when you propose is a meaningful gesture, and it's one you should take time to plan. Ensure your other family members are on board with your decision, and learn about the ring's value and resetting options before your proposal day.
For more information, contact a local jewelry shop that provides jewelry appraisals and customized setting options.


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I've to admit, I have turned into an eyelash extension addict. I've had a session every month for the past 4 months. I love how they looked but I definitely didn't love how time consuming they were. I also felt like my eyelashes kept shedding due to the weight of the extensions. So finally after […]Read more
The Holy Grail of All Primers: BECCA Cosmetics Backlight Priming Filter ✨
I've tried it all, from high-end to drug store brands and I have found my No. 1 when it comes to primers. I've been using Pixi Beauty and Laura Mercier primers for years but I noticed it did little to nothing to my pores. In fact, with Pixi Beauty's primer I tend to look like […]Read more
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At times, you will see beauty brands that are being marketed as "edible" or "food-grade" ingredients. The idea is that these ingredients, whether preservatives or glycerin would be safe for you even if it were on your plate. This is because we end to ingest a lot of the ingredients in our personal care products. […]Read more
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From highly anticipated pregnant clues to new products drop, the Kar-Jenner clan sure knows how to stir up a media frenzy. There have been so many things happening of late, from the birth of Chicago West, the Kar-Jenner Calvin Klien ad to the latest news of Kim K's perfume debut. Meet BFF, Bae, and Ride or […]Read more


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Suspicious package sent to Kamala Harris in Sacramento
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Authorities are investigating a suspicious package at the Colonial Post Office in the 6000 block of 44th Street, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said.
The Sheriff's Department hasn't said who the package was addressed to. However, Rep. John Garamendi's Office told KCRA the package was addressed to U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.
LATEST ON NATIONAL BOMB SCARES: Documents show bomb suspect has criminal record
The post office is closed during the investigation, KCRA reporter Vicki Gonzalez reports.
It's unknown if this package is related to the 12 suspicious devices that were mailed to CNN and Democratic Party figures, including former President Barack Obama, earlier this week.
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3 new classes added so can choose from 15 in the year, these classes all come with full Notes and we will tour the collection of over 1000 fruiting varieties here to assist with learning the skills to manage your own trees using Organic and Biodynamic methods so NO chemical use needed, most management of weeds, pests are done by the system reducing 90% of the workload By Design.
Classes are suitable for Beginners, seasoned growers and for those who have completed a PDC somewhere in the world this can add real skills to fit with what you have learnt already.
Any class can be done for $95 each with class times 10-4pm onsite in Monbulk, we also have special deals so if you pay up front for 4 classes you get the 5th one free, (we let you upgrade after one single class too) you can also upgrade to the certificate level with a second set of 5 classes, once you have completed any 10 from the 13 fruit classes offered you will receive a certificate of Organic Orchard Management, or if you have a PDC this becomes an Advanced PDC level 3.
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