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There has been some general discussion of 'the sunbeam' lately, that unused knife or fork or plate that will not trouble the washer-upper but can go straight back into the cupboard. The consensus is that it is an Australianism which the older generation recognise but which the younger generation does not.
I think that is easy to explain. In a world where dishwashers rule, the sunbeam is devalued. No one cares whether they are saving on washing up or not when there is a machine to do it.
The sunbeam itself seems no longer to please popular fancy in the way that it did in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Then things were bright as a sunbeam or radiant as a sunbeam. Women and girls were sunbeams around the house. Smiles were like sunbeams. As the song goes, 'Jesus wanted me for a sunbeam'. Sunbeams were a good thing.
Perhaps we no longer have houses that entice sunbeams into them to light up the dust. We certainly no longer feel that it is the role of women and young girls to light up the house.
I suppose that if a smile was so commonly likened to a sunbeam, then the transfer to the thing that makes you smile is reasonable. An item that doesn't add to the burden of the washing up can cause that smile like a sunbeam to brighten your face.
I have not been able to find a single citation for this word – it is one of those small domestic items that never turn up in written texts, it would seem. There is no doubt that it has existed – whether it will continue to exist is another thing.
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housing, health care, vocational and supportive services,
creating lasting solutions to homelessness.
Our integrated housing approach combines high-quality housing for homeless families with affordable homes for individuals and families with lower incomes.
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Cheers to 10 brilliant years with the Academy Awards
Before the film industry's greatest talents take the stage to accept their awards at the annual Oscars ceremony, there must first be a set worthy of Hollywood's finest. For Swarovski, this means providing hundreds of thousands of crystals to construct the most radiant stage that the Academy Awards have ever presented on. To celebrate a decade of astounding collaboration though, the bar must be raised.
At the 89th Academy Awards, over 300,000 sparkling crystals coalesced to produce Swarovski's most sensational stage to date. Teaming up with Academy Award Production Designer Derek McLane for the fifth year in a row proved to accomplish magnificent results. The four-time Tony Award winning set designer incorporated the crystals into more than 30 set pieces, with a focal piece comprised of 11 crystal statuettes which featured approximately 150,000 crystals. The sparkling décor did not stop there as additional set pieces were given a glittering makeover with over 162,000 crystals. The proscenium layered 37,000 crystals over a gold backdrop while a 320 strand shimmering curtain supported 80,000 crystals. A closedown wall composed of 149 distinctive panels held 22,200 crystals and 18 fully covered Dolby Theatre opera boxes flaunted 23,500 crystals.
Adding even more sparkle to the evening, in an eco-friendly initiative between Atelier Swarovski and Red Carpet, Green Dress, the crystal house debuted its first fine jewelry collection on the red carpet. Acclaimed actresses Emma Roberts and Priyanka Bose wore exclusive new pieces from the collection to raise awareness and spread the importance of responsible business procedures in the fashion industry. As a certified member of the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), Atelier Swarovski commits to employing sustainable social and environmental practices with its product.
The 2017 Oscars saw a profound display of luxury both on the stage and the red carpet. After a decade of collaborations, Swarovski has contributed over a million crystals to the annual Academy Awards. No stranger to the entertainment industry, Swarovski's crystals have been used in films since the 1930s, most popularly appearing in films as classic as The Wizard of Oz, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Breakfast at Tiffany's, to modern meccas like Dreamgirls, Moulin Rouge!, and Cinderella.


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At Lelli Law Firm we believe our clients are always our priority. We are able to talk through each step of your case, ensuring only the highest quality service. We pride ourselves on a deep tradition of excellence. Dependable, calm, and well spoken, our legal professionals add the personal touch our clients deserve while approaching each new case with the attention it needs. Attorney Debora Lelli is committed to assisting her community. Ms. Lelli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has experienced first hand the Immigration process of this country. Ms. Lelli was raised in Arizona, she attended Camelback High School and has maintained her home in this community. Ms. Lelli graduated from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Justice Studies. She earned her Juris Doctor from Arizona Summit Law School in 2015. When you hire Ms. Lelli you will know that her life experiences and professional background will make her a dedicated and effective legal counselor.
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Trip Overview
This July we're inviting 8 circus enthusiasts to join us on an unforgettable 7-Day retreat. We will be traveling to experience the city first-hand while exploring the fundamentals of Russia's premiere circus artists, athletes and coaches who will guide you through the world of Russia's claim to fame.
Defy gravity and stretch your limits during 5 daily hours of hands-on, interactive workshops with the guidance of the most experienced coaches in the circus world. You will have the opportunity of a lifetime to safely test your skills with the masters of circus and enrich your cultural experience with the ancient Russian heritage.
You'll explore the beautiful St. Petersburg with your retreat team led by Tonya, your Russian-native bilingual guide, throughout the course of the trip to ensure you have a productive, memorable and safe experience. In addition to the first-rate circus training, you will explore the beautiful cityscape with the group on guided tours to key landmarks and points of interest as well as on your own during your evening free time.
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Tonya was born and raised in Russia but currently resides in Washington, D.C. She has more than 15 years of competitive rhythmic gymnastic background, a Master's in Sports Coaching and years of coaching experience in Russia and USA. She's been hired to perform around the world in productions from some of the largest most recognizable international brands.
St. Petersburg
Often referred to as "Venice of the north" and affectionately by the locals as simply "Piter," Europe's 4th largest city is stitched together by the Neva River and a network of beautifully constructed drawbridges. St. Petersburg boasts some of the richest cultural amenities and most stunning architecture in the world. During the summer solstice, the streets of the city are lit by over 19 hours of sunlight which marks the famous White Night Festival.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, Research Scientist at NEU's Department of Psychiatry, and Research Neuroscientist in the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also a lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Barrett's research focuses on the nature of emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives and takes inspiration from anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics. Her lab takes an interdisciplinary perspective approach and incorporates methods from social, clinical, and personality psychology, psychophysiology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and visual cognition. Current projects focus on understanding the psychological construction of emotion (i.e., how basic affective and conceptual ingredients provide the recipes for emotional experiences), age- and disease-related changes in affective circuitry within the human brain, how language and context influence emotion perception, how affect influences vision, and sex differences in emotion.
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About TGM
TGM was established in 1997 by co-founders and co-owners Keith & Sue Ellis. Since their very first purchase order (from a National PLC retailer), their joint vision and ultimate aim was to always exceed Client's expectations and to never cut corners. Keith and Sue built up the Company to where it is today, wanting to produce an honest Company that could be passed down for generations. They achieved their dream when in July 2014 the Board of Directors appointed Managing Director Brett Ellis.
Over the years we have experienced huge changes in safety legislation as well as the changeable economic climate. These situations have been challenging but we have survived and are stronger as a result. That TGM has continued to grow despite these challenges is testament to the strength and solidity of the Company.
Our high standards have resulted in many quality and safety accreditations.
TGM Employees
Over the years, TGM have employed and retained a group of talented & experienced personnel. We are proud of our team and their achievements, goals, and qualifications. We are also delighted that we have many employees that have been with us for 10+ years.
TGM Directors
Continuing with co-founders Keith and Sue's aims. TGM's Managing Director Brett has many ideas to take the Company to new realms. With unique skills he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the company. Having already made remarkable changes to the technology used and number of contracts that we work on. TGM board members are excited at what Brett will bring in the future.
Working alongside Brett is our Finance Director, Samantha Williams. Samantha is Keith's eldest daughter and has been with the Company since the inception. She too has a wealth of experience and her role in supporting Brett enhances the way we work and maintains a high standard of delivery from all of our employees.
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Philadelphia Police officials gather at the scene after a 40-year-old man was wounded during a shooting incident in the Olney section of Philadelphia early Wednesday, just shortly after midnight. Photographs for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek.
According to investigators, the victim was sitting with a woman in a parked car on West Rockland Street near 13th Street when and armed man approached. A scuffle ensued and the gunman opened fire.
The victim's friend drove him to Einstein Medical Center where he was reported in stable condition with a leg wound.
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Pro Breast Enhance Enlargement Augmentation Spray Vacuum Beauty Salon Machine
Item: Pro Breast Enhance Enlargement Augmentation Spray Vacuum Beauty Salon Machine
Item ID: D-227P
Color: White
Voltage: 220V ONLY
Size: 35x29x30 cm
Weight: 4.3 kg
Treatment Area: Breast, Face, Whole body
1. Main Unit X 1
2. Air Hoses for Vacuum X 4
3. Spray Bottles X 2
4. Nipple Care Glass Tube X 4
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* Physical therapy that stimulates pituitary to excrete hormone
* Exercising elasticity of muscle tissue and fabric function
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* Breast enlarging, breast lifting, sunken mammilla rectifying
* The cupping therapy drains excess fluids and toxins by opening lymphatic pathways
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This instrument is the most effective and direct breast building instrument, which develops under the basic principle of physiology and physical sucking theory. And its slight but concentrated effect could exercise the muscular tissue (breast muscle develops—-next to neural tissue—-finally reach hypophysis) and stimulate hypophysis to excrete hormones, thus exercising muscular stretchy tissue and fibre function, enlarging breast naturally and effectively. It suits Eastern feminine physiology and is proven by years of clinical confirmation that it does no harm to the human body. This machine also adopts spray and vacuum therapy in order to achieve a better result.
Spray and Vacuum
Vacuum suction treatment is applied to the surface of the skin tissue causing lifting and stimulation of the under-lying structures. Vacuum and Spray help with a refreshing mist used after a treatment. It helps close pores and soothes the skin. This is usually done after vacuum suctioning, calming down the skin after suctioning. The skin is sensitive after vacuum treatment, so the spray procedure is necessary. It can be used with scented water or essential oils for a refreshing feel. Vacuum Suction can be used, not only to treat dry skin, but also stimulate a sluggish lymphatic circulation. More importantly, it can remove dead cells on the skin surface.
The vacuum and spray function operates using air pressure. It is typically used for blackheads, cleansing, dirt extract, and hydration treatments. Moreover, the machine is not complicated to operate, and it can be used in a salon or home. It is a convenient way to ensure your skin is well-cleaned and hydrated.
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All the product comes with a full one year warranty against manufacturer defects. It does not include damage caused by misuse, accident, abuse, neglect or other external causes. Buyer pay for the postage on the return item and we pay for all resend postage costs. If the item defect within 30 days, we will also responsible for the return shipping fee.
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A scprt file extension is related to the Surfcam 3D format.
Software that open scprt file
SCPRT file extension - Surfcam 3D format
What is scprt file? How to open scprt files?
File type specification:
The scprt file extension is associated with Surfcam, a tool that delivers efficient, reliable toolpaths on even the most complex of surface geometry.
The scprt file stores 3D model in 3D format used by the Surfcam.
The default software associated to open scprt file:
Company or developer:
Surfware, Inc.
SURFCAM CAD/CAM Systems provide cutting edge technology for NC programming of 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-Axis mills, lathes, wire EDM, laser plasma and water-jet machines.
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So what if you're not casting a creature spell? Could I short circuit a forcefield by DIing a Forcemaster, since both the caster and the target will have moved even though they're the same creature?
To do this it is turn 1 teleport 2 then move 1 and cast DI on other mage. If you have initiative for round 2 you then QC a Nullify. I did not to tell people about this until it got noticed. Took you all long enough .
Is this just me? Is anyone else as flabbergasted, exasperated and angry by this as me?


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The pure-gold Natura series, having ended the 'Noctrurnal Hunters' theme in 2016, honours the golden jubilee of the Krugerrand with original springbok designs created by South African sculptor Coert Steynberg (7 January 1905 – 28 July 1982) in 1946/47. Steynberg's springbok designs were used for the final – and current – design we have come to associate with the springbok.
The reverses of the 2017 Natura coins bear conceptual drawings which were originally submitted for the 5 shilling coin from 1947, over five coins. The full springbok- South Africa's national animal- is depicted in various states of motion, while a pair of springboks are depicted on the coin.
Order this beautiful gold coin at LPM today!
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Local collectible orders are shipped for free.
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All shipments sent by LPM are insured, however orders are only covered while in transit. Coverage is terminated upon arrival of the package (marked as delivered or notice of signature from carrier).
What if I have a mixed collectible and bullion order to ship?
Collectible orders will be shipped for free if they meet the minimum requirements but the bullion portion of the shipment will need to be paid by you.
Can I track my shipment?
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You know the symptoms all too well. You never seem to have enough energy. Many days are sad days, but some days you just don't feel anything at all. You tell yourself, "it will be ok," but deep down you know that's not true. You know something is wrong, but you just don't know what it is. You've blamed yourself and sometimes you get angry at yourself because you just can't make it better. Maybe you feel disconnected from other people – even people that you love. Maybe this quote sums it up for you… "I'm exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel."
A friend of mine has a phrase we use whenever technology problems start to overwhelm. He calls it the Swamp of Sadness. This is also a good description for depression. You trudge along looking for the path that will lead to somewhere else, anywhere else, but you can't ever seem to find the road that leads out. When prolonged sadness won't leave you alone it's time for help.
While exercise, rest and eating healthy are good steps to take when trying to make your way out of the swamp, one of the biggest steps you can take is to be around people who care for you. It's so easy to isolate when you feel this way, but now is the time to be around people who love you. You need to be around people who can remind you how special you are and the significance and meaning that you bring to others. As Solomon wrote, "Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up."
If you need another reminder of your value check out the words of our Lord in Matthew 11.
28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." –Matthew 11:28-30
Rest is waiting for you. A rest that also reminds you of your value and significance. But you'll need to reach out. You need to take the first step. You need to connect with other people. God made us for connection.
If you find the sadness still lingering even after all this, you may want to find professional help. If you need help finding a counselor, please check out www.newlife.com or call 1-800-NEW-LIFE.
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How to Thin Carrot Seedlings
Tiny carrot seeds are difficult to space at planting, so thinning is often necessary to allow the edible roots to fully develop. You can sow seeds for this cool-season vegetable once the soil temperatures reach 40 degrees Fahrenheit, although germination isn't as fast in cool soil. As the carrot tops begin emerging from the soil, you are able to see the spacing and make adjustments through thinning. The carrots you pull are edible despite the small size. The seedlings left behind can grow to the mature size with less competition from the thinned carrots.
Sow the carrots seeds 1 inch apart with rows at least 12 inches apart. Cover the seeds gently with 1/4 inch of soil.
Irrigate the carrot seeds as they germinate to keep the soil moist. Pull weeds that appear so the carrots are able to grow well.
Grow the carrots until the green tops reach about 1 to 2 inches tall. Inspect your rows to see where the carrots are clumped closely.
Pull out carrots with tops that look unhealthy or that are growing slowly. This naturally thins the rows so the healthiest carrot seedlings are left.
Remove additional carrots as necessary so there is at least 2 inches between the remaining plants. Leave 4 inches between plants for large carrot varieties to allow enough room for growth.
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The atirw.exe is a ATI Remote Wonder.
Atirw.exe is developed by ATI Technologies Inc. It's a hidden file. Atirw.exe is usually located in the %PROGRAM_FILES% sub-folder and its usual size is 188,416 bytes.
The atirw.exe process is safe, and you can safely disable it.
Author: ATI Technologies IncProcess: ATI Remote WonderPart Of: ATI Remote WonderCommon path(s): subfolder in %PROGRAM_FILES%Keywords(s): hiddenFilesize(s): 188,416 bytes, 192,512 bytes, 1,622,016 bytes, 167,936 bytes, 1,482,752 bytes
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Set in the late 18th century, A Royal Affair is a romantic drama of sumptuous proportions. While including all the intrigue of Court, the story is really about three people caught in a love affair which has a huge impact on their country.
The story follows 15-year-old Caroline Mathilde who is married in absentia to Christian VII, King of Denmark. Expecting her new husband to be all she's been led to believe, Caroline soon discovers Christian isn't quite 'all there'. After doing their Royal duty and conceiving a son, Christian takes his leave of his new wife and embarks on a year-long tour of Europe. However, it soon becomes clear Christian needs help and two recently exiled Noblemen conspire to install their own man as the King's doctor. German-born Johann Struensee is a freethinker who gains the King's trust by quoting Shakespeare with him. Struensee soon becomes the King's right-hand man, even managing to dissolve the governing Council and become co-head of state. He also begins an illicit affair with the Queen which of course eventually leads to their downfall.
I'm not really giving too much away there, the film begins with Caroline writing a letter to her children to explain the reasons as to why they do not know their mother. I almost wish Arcel had chosen to begin his film at the start of the story. It takes a little of the dramatic tension away when the audience has a pretty good idea where the story is headed.
As I said, at the heart of this story is the love affair, not just between Caroline and Struensee but also between Christian and doctor – the King begins to look at Struensee as a father figure. And while the doctor is able to manipulate the King to his way of thinking, it's never done with malice but with a conviction that what he is doing is for the good of Denmark.
All three of the leads are on excellent form. Mikkelsen of course is known to Western audiences and Vikander will be seen in Joe Wright's forthcoming Anna Karenina. For me, the revelation is Følsgaard as Christian. You're never quite sure how much the King knows – does he realise what's going on around him or is he really mad?
It's a hugely enjoyable film with fantastic production values – if there's any justice, the costume designers will get some kudos come awards season. While it is a little to guess where the story is going the film is still utterly absorbing and is well worth its two-hour plus runtime.


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Drive A Car Early Reader Book
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This beginner reader, interactive book focuses on sight words, color words, and environmental print. You can use this book 5 different ways and is differentiated for different learning levels. It is created with book rings so you can change the order of the book or remove pages.
Book includes:
6 color-coded pages with Velcro for interactive pieces
6 color words printed in color (red, blue, green, yellow, purple, black)
6 color words printed in black
6 color Matchbox car images
6 environmental print words and pictures (park, grocery store, Burger King, movie theatre, grocery story, Target)
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I seem to be getting quite some gadget problem lately, especially with my 3 year old MacBook Pro.
First the battery went dead. That was my fault for abusing the battery. So I got it replaced at the local Apple authorised service centre.
Then something went wrong with the Battery Indicator display light. It refuse to turn off. It was so bad that it is draining 10% of the battery even when the power is turned off. Even resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) doesn't help. Eventually I decided to let the battery drain completely and that solve the issue.
Just when I thought all my hardware issues were solved, the MacBook Pro decided to crash on Start up. Somewhere some file registry or something must have been corrupted. Even Disk Utility can't fix it.
So I'm left with no choice but use the ultimate fix for MacOS devices: hold Command-R during startup. This bring the MacBook Pro into OS X Recovery. Yes, I format the harddisk and reinstall MacOS on my MacBook Pro. It is amazing how easy and straight forward the process is.
Luckily for me, I don't have any important data in my MacBook Pro. All important files have backups somewhere. I should have turn on Time Machine to make the process less painless. But it doesn't matter. Now I have a brand new MacOS install. Good to restart and reinstall all the required app. And I notice something…… actually I don't use a lot of apps on my MacBook Pro. Most of the stuff that I use are online. The most frequently used app is actually Chrome Browser.
So yes, just remember: When all things fail, hold Cmd-R during start up. Someone should print a T-Shirt for this. And if only everything in life is so easy to fix.
When all things fail, hold Cmd-R during start up
I seem to be getting quite some gadget problem lately, especially with my 3 year old MacBook Pro.


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Kasargod, Oct 3, 2017: Clashes broke out between CPM and BJP cadres in Kasargod district ahead of BJP national president Amit Shah's visit to North Kerala. Police sent in reinforcements after stone pelting and fisticuffs were reported from Pallikkaram in Nileshwaram on Tuesday morning.
The saffron party alleged that on Monday night around 20 CPM workers attacked its workers as they were setting up flags and buntings at the Market Junction on the national highway as part of the Janaraksha Yatra to be flagged off by Amit Shah later Tuesday.
The BJP leaders said its Trikaripur mandalam secretary Vijayakumar, Nileshwaram municipality president Sukumaran, BMS zonal president P Krishnakumar were injured in the attack which took place around 9.30 pm Monday. Krishnakumar suffered injuries to his head and fell unconscious, the party said. A motorcycle was also vandalised.
The injured were admitted to a private hospital in Mavungal. Leaders of the DYFI, the youth wing of the CPM, Anoop, Pranav and Sanoop led the assault, the BJP alleged.
Earlier, the BJP's mandalam secretary of Kaliyassery in Kannur Sajeevan was also assaulted, it said.
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|Siddique, Kasargod
|Tue, October-3-2017, 4:25
|We do not want our politicians to move-to any place for protest march or anything else because whenever thay come they invite trouble. Common public never interfere in these rallies
|Nagesh P Nair, Kannur
|Tue, October-3-2017, 4:22
|Just cannot understand what o they get by doing so ? destroy Peace of the particular pace ?


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NSFW: See How Ryan Reynolds Hilariously Shuts Down Sexually Harassing Tweets
It's not easy being the Sexiest Dad Alive.
While many celebrities experience their fair share of trolls on Twitter, the type of harassment Ryan Reynolds receives is somewhat different -- as is the way he handles the comments.
WATCH: Ryan Reynolds Gives Wife Blake Lively a Hilarious -- and Sweet -- Birthday Greeting
The 39-year-old actor has found himself on the receiving end of quite a few explicit tweets requesting various sexual acts, and while many stars would block inappropriate tweets or simply ignore them, flying under the radar just isn't Reynolds' style. The Deadpool star seems to have instead taken a note from his superhero alter ego in hilariously brushing off his followers' advances.
Sometimes Reynolds is just too busy taking care of family to fulfill some users' requests.
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Other requests can be negotiated.
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Superhero Costumes are always a favorite on Halloween.
On Halloween night look around your neighborhood and count how many superheros you see. You will find that they are everywhere. There's not a boy about there who hasn't as some point donned a superhero costume at least once in their lives. You may even know a neighborhood kid who often wears his favorite outfit any day of the year and his om has probably told him once or twice that he can not wear it to school.
There is something about transforming into a being with awesome super powers that we love. Maybe it's the fact that we wish we could solve the worlds problems and if we had superpowers, maybe we could. What ever the reason, it's fun and popular. And it's not just the boys having all the fun either. There are plenty of female heroine for our daughters to dress up as. Wonder Woman is probably one of the most popular along with batgirl, and supergirl.
The popularity of certain costumes always coincides with the release of a new movie. This year, 2011, we saw the release of the movie "The Green Lantern" and guess which costume will be one of the top sellers this Halloween. Captain America came out this year as well, a hero we haven't seen on the big screen. Neither of these movies got exceptional reviews, but they were a fun and exciting escape and great entertainment for kids. And it's the kids who get excited about the costumes. Once they get an idea in their head that they want to be Captain America, that costume choice is pretty much locked in.
Another movie that came out this year was "Thor" a movie about the Norse God of Thunder. Again this movie wasn't great but it didn't take long for costume companies to start designing it and put it up for sale. Many of these costumes are ready to purchase right when the movie is released in anticipation of early season costume sales. Remember, kids don't need it to be Halloween to wear their costumes.
The Transformers saw the release of a new movie and this means more transformers costumes sales. What kid doesn't live stomping around the neighborhood on Halloween night dressed up as a car that transforms into a robot. Or is it the other way around.
Many of these costumes come in all sizes for both kids and adults and most of them also come in a deluxe theatrical design. So, if you've got the money, as they can run anywhere from $300 to $1,000, you can go all out for this year's costume party and wear a realistic Batman The Dark Night ensemble.
Of course, it doesn't always take a movie to make a costume popular. There are superhero costumes that will always be a favorite with kids young and old. Superman and Spiderman to name just a couple, are such a part of american comic book culture that these costumes will be popular year after year. However, look for sales of these two heroes to skyrocket in the next couple of years. "Spiderman Reboot" is scheduled to be released in summer of 2012 with a brand new Spiderman character due to the untimely death of Peter Parker in the comic book series. His powers will be passed on to a new superhero. Also, a new Superman movie, "Man of Steel" is scheduled to be released in June of 2013 and Superman's outfit has gone through a complete makeover giving him a new, updated look.
Movies come and go and some are forgotten sooner than later, but Superhero Halloween costumes will always be a popular choice for kids both young and old. Who wouldn't want to save fight crime for at least one night?


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Shoppers will score bargains and find many artists selling their newest designs as a test market for the upcoming holiday craft fairs.
"Back by Popular Demand!" is another feature of Clean Sweep, in which old favorite establishments such as Gallery EAS and Iida's, that no longer have retail operations, will bring offer assorted wares at the fair.
Other highlights: The non-profit Hawaii Potters Guild will offer functional and decorative ceramics made by its members, and Paké and Julie of Antique Alley will open suitcases filled with silk and cotton kimono.
Admission is free but sellers pay $75. TEMARI members can start shopping at 8 a.m.
Artists can also bring their work at 9 a.m. for screening for TEMARI's "Trash and Treasure" fair on Nov. 11.
Pieces from Persis, former owner of the Honolulu Advertiser, were used to found the Contemporary Museum. Works by significant artists, including Hiroki Morinoue, Jules Tavernier and David Hitchcock, will be offered. Both two- and three-dimensional works will be available, including a bronze bust of "Lili'uokalani Regent," by Marianna Pineda (pictured).
"It is very rare for a large and extensive collection such as this to be presented for auction," said auctioneer Marty McClain. "This may be one of the biggest collections ever offered in Honolulu."
An open preview takes place from noon to 6 p.m. today. For information, visit www.McClainAuctions.com or call 596-3900.


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Last month, my sweet-sweet friends here in Montana showered me the most AMAZING and ADORABLE baby shower! I couldn't believe my eyes when I walked into my in-laws house, where the party took place. AMAZING and ADORABLE are the words that kept coming out of my mouth…..over and over.
Carrie and Jennie hosted the shower with the help from some very crafty elves…..and what little investigators they are! They came up with the theme "LITTLE BRAVE MAN" from a few of my Pinterest Boards! Love it! Im all about BOWS + ARROWS, TEEPEE's, LITTLE INDIANS, TRIANGLES ect….these days! These girls captured this theme perfectly and left me so inspired.
I feel so loved by the ladies in my life. What a blessing they are to me…and my growing family. I'm still blown away by the richness of relationships that I have here in Montana….only being here less than 2 years! Words can't describe my thankfulness for Gods provision.
Below are a few of my favorite images from my baby shower, but you can see the full gallery over on ON TO BABY! So excited to have this baby shower of mine featured today…..the girls did a fabulous job and I am so happy that their ideas, hard work and creativity are being recognized! Thank you so much, friends!
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The Riding Ones and the Ridden Ones!
Published in January 2, 2008
Translated by: Ahmed Fathy
NOTE: We have received this email message and we publish its whole text while omitting the name of its Egyptian male sender; we will NOT comment on it. We leave the mission of writing comments to our readers this time.
The entire message:
(Dear Dr. Mansour, I am ......, you would not be able to remember my name; I was one of your students at Al-Azhar University. You were my teacher at one point in time. Within my third year in the Azharite Faculty of Osol-Eddine (i.e., theological sciences), you taught us the subject called (History of Islamic Societies). At the time, I felt impressed by your Quranist line thought; I used to attend most of your lectures in other Azharite faculties. I never forget your lecture about refuting the Sunnite myth of the intercession of Prophet Muhammad on behalf of people on the Last Day. Your ideas changed me and shook me to the core at the time. After you left Al-Azhar University and got incarcerated and then released, I felt like visiting you at your house in Cairo, but people warned me that you were under probation and watched closely by the policemen who arrest all those who dared to visit you. Months later, I came across you in a bus, and I rushed toward you to hug you (you might recollect this incident, I suppose), and once I hugged you, I wept bitterly, and you were surprised and asked me about who I am. All people inside the bus watched the scene in amazement. I myself consider this moment as the happiest and purest one in my entire life. You must have remembered me now; you have invited me to your house and gave me as gift copies of your books. You are my favorite teacher; do you remember when I told you not to take too much upon yourself and stop your writings that incurred your persecution so as to avoid being imprisoned once more? I advised you at the time to write about other positive, harmless items instead of controversial issues that stir trouble and inflict persecution on your person and your family members and other Quranists. Your reply to me will never be erased from my memory especially that I failed the test of life and never applied your reply in situations of my life, until now. Your reply to me was that the cursed ones are those who know the Quranic Truth and remain silent about it and never preach it. You told me that such people remain cursed until they become vociferous and outspoken in preaching the Quranic Truth, and if they preach it, God will accept their repentance. I never saw you after this last time; I kept reading every single word of your articles in magazines and newspapers in Cairo, Egypt, and then on many websites and finally on your Quranism website. With the passage of time, I have changed to the worst! You are my teacher but I failed to apply what you have taught me! Let me tell the story from the very beginning when I was appointed upon graduation as a preacher in Egyptian prisons. At the time, when I was a young man filled with enthusiasm, a beardless preacher who did NOT wear the Azharite uniform, who was bent on spreading Qurnaism and all your views of True Islam, especially about negating the myth of intercession on behalf of sinners on the Last Day, a corrupt notion that caused Muslims to commit more sins, evil and immoral behavior, and many heinous crimes while assuming they would enter into Paradise anyway via the so-called intercession of Prophet Muhammad. I began to preach in prisons to reform prisoners; I talked to them at first about refuting the myth of intercession and conditions of the real, sincere repentance, while quoting your books titled "Prophets in the Quran" and "The Sinning Muslims: Would They Be Removed from Hell and Made to Enter Paradise?!". Few prisoners were convinced with my argument and Quranist views of yours that I preached; yet, the vast majority of prisoners rejected my preaching and protested vehemently. Soon enough, the administration of this prison rebuked me severely, and the bureau of inspection of Waqfs Ministry (i.e., the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments, responsible for appointing and inspecting preachers) sent for me to investigate the matter, and I debated with them and defended my stances and views (actually yours) by quoting Quranic verses. This 'debate' ended when I found myself being detained for one week in the detention chambers of The Egyptian State Security Apparatus. This was my week in hell; though I was never tortured, I witnessed the torture of some of the inmates inside the detention chamber, and I saw blood trickling from their weak bodies. I was intimidated and terrified; I was released out of detention and I found myself transformed into another person; I disobey God and obey State Security Apparatus men as if they were my gods! Upon their commands, I had to grow a beard and to wear the Azharite uniform of preachers. I had to preach sermons in mosques as per what will please the State Security Apparatus men who watched me closely to see that I tackled the topics they prefer from the Sunnite Wahabi religion. I obeyed their orders to the letter; I became one of their trusted servants/slaves. Soon enough, I settled as the preacher of one of the grand mosques in one governorate that caused troubles for security forces; I managed to apply plans of the State Security Apparatus men and made people there trust me and listen to my words. I am now a famous and rich preacher in the Waqfs Ministry; do you know why? Because I betrayed True Islam (taught to me by your books) by filling my sermons with lies and falsehoods; i.e., hadiths ascribed to God and to Prophet Muhammad as well as Sufi poems, anecdotes, proverbs, etc. as per command of those who watched over me. Of course, most preachers in most mosques do the same, but I copied in my sermons ideas from some of your books, only the type of the ideas that stirs no trouble for me, such as your articles about Quranic stories and historical narratives that make listeners draw moral lessons from lesser known historical facts. I copied so many ideas from your website; no one within the governorate where I work knows anything about PCs or internet; inwardly, I mock them when I see their awe and admiration regarding my deep knowledge. The more I screamed in my sermons about the Hereafter and Hell, the more people respect and fear me, and the more I issue extremist and erroneous fatwas, the more they hold me in high esteem and I enjoy high stature among them; most of the people there now blindly obey me! When I desired to control them more, I talk to them about the intercession of Prophet Muhammad, asserting this myth to them! I feel pangs of remorse and my conscience is killing me! You cannot imagine how people in the mosque would weep and express admiration loudly; they even compete for kissing my hands; as if I will intercede on their behalf on the Last Day! With the passage of time, I grew very famous and people flocked in herds to hear my sermons; even high-rank men of the State Security Apparatus began to respect me and talk reverently to me as if I were a holy man! I deliver lectures now on Fridays at noon and by night beside every Monday night. My office inside the mosque is filled on a daily basis with tens of people asking for my fatwas and that I interfere to solve their problems (marital, financial, social, and familial ones). You were my teacher once; I write this to ponder on the contrast of my being rewarded and respected for lies I spread, while you receive daily hate mail and verbal abuse because you are spreading the Quranic Truth. People now stand before me in awe, deep respect, and reverence as if I were a judge who can grant them life or sentence them to death with my fatwas! Typically in such situations, I would be sitting or lying on my side on a settee, talking to them disrespectfully and sometimes I shout at them to get out of my sight; yet, they admire me more for it, thinking as if I were a holy man! When I smile at them, even in mockery, they feel so satisfied as if the whole world smiles at them! They never feel the fact that my fatwas are all wrong and meaningless and contradict the Quran most of the time; I copy these fatwas easily from famous Salafist websites. I know that these fatwas are wrong when I compare them to yours that I read on your website. Frankly, I fear to copy your fatwas to them within the same topics so that they would not take me lightly and my stature and wealth be threatened. This is why I compare my state of misery to your state now; you were my teacher at one point in time, and I used to follow Quranism, but I rejected it because of my stature, wealth, and high rank, beside my fear of being persecuted by the State Security Apparatus men! My conscience is killing me! I feel the deepest sorrows. You are being verbally abused in hate mails because of your courage to spread the Quranic truth, while the likes of those who verbally abuse you beg me for fatwas that are wrong and follow their whims. I fear that if I have the courage one day to tell them the Quranic Truth and talk to them about Quranism, people will be my enemies and that the police might arrest and torture me in detention rooms, after being accused of denying Sunna and hadiths; I might be then incarcerated when accused of showing contempt of religion! I never forget the scenes of torture I saw in earlier years when I was detained for one week; I cannot think that this might occur to me one day! This will smash my image of an innocent young man who hugged you in the bus 20 years ago, who was your former student. You were my teacher once; I would have hugged you if I ever see you again in Egypt, but not out of sorrow for your being incarcerated in 1987, but to cry and weep over my despicable conditions; I despise myself very much. people think I enjoy the best things of life and its luxuries; I am very affluent now; I live in a luxurious villa and I am now building a grand bloc of apartments on a piece of land I bought with little money, using my high connections and authority. My ill-gotten money comes from my being a partner with some well-off people who established a company that stole lands of the Egyptian State and the Waqfs Ministry by buying them with cheap prices and re-selling them with exorbitant prices. My presence in the company as a clergyman, along with other Azharite sheikhs in uniform, gives the false impression that the company deals are being legally done! The well-off ones assume that their sins are forgiven and they are being absolved because of the myths of intercession and other hadiths I utter and propagate! Those sheikhs and myself receive little shares of the profits, while the other well-off partners take the larger part of the cake; we cannot protest so as to avoid being incarcerated with or without accusations; they might frame us to get rid of us if we pose a threat to them! You were my teacher once; please do not advise me of stepping back and leaving all this. How come that I leave all my power and authority in the mosque and my high connections all over the State sectors?! How come that I cede my huge bank accounts?! How can I escape the wrath of the affluent ones and the State Security Apparatus men? How could I ever deprive my wife and children from luxuries to which they got used? My children are being taught in the best expensive schools. Some people advise me to nominate myself to be a member of the Egyptian Parliament to protect myself. I grow filthily rich also because of huge donations coming to the mosque and I confiscate them to myself! I am a thief! If I turned my back to all this now, I will be imprisoned and tortured! I cannot stand this! You were my teacher once; I feel ashamed of myself and I relieve and ease my conscience a little by confessing all this to you. I am very rich now and I have every luxury you can think of; yet, I lost my innocent soul of the young man who once hugged you in the bus. Please do not get angry with me; I desire to retrieve my lost innocence by confessing all to you. I abnormally fear being tortured, insulted, and imprisoned if I dare one day to be outspoken about the Quranic Truth; this is why I cannot repent and reform myself. I am not defending my stance; I know that I am a sinner and deserve God's punishment and curse. I remember your words about those cursed ones who stifle the Quranic Truth and never show it to people. Yet, the bigger curse must befall the unjust ones who control us within the military regime and police state; men of the regime intimidate and force preachers in mosques to praise Mubarak and his rule and to make people forget about their citizenship rights and real justice. Thus, the Mubarak regime men ride clergymen and clergymen in their turn ride ordinary people in Egypt! All clergymen utter nothing but lies; they never talk about rights and the Truth! My dearest teacher, the expression of the riding ones (thieves and tyrants) and the ridden ones (like donkeys) is not of my own phrases; this is the expression fashioned by my senior and supervisor in the Waqfs Ministry, who is a funny man who jokes all the time. By the way, this man is married to two women who never stop fighting each other and who are not very pretty women; to get rid of his problems with the pair of them, he secretly married a third and younger woman in niqab, about whom he says she is like a belly dancer and a 'pro' in bed! This supervisor takes Viagra pills to cope with her insatiable sexual desire; he once took the black-seed to increase his sexual ability (as per silly Sunnite hadiths) but it caused him to have diarrhea during ejaculation while having sex! This man tells me, and tells other preachers, a lot of blue jokes and tales about sexual adventures. This man was your colleague in the secondary school; he told us that you used to mock and ridicule hadiths and Abou Hurayrah and how you refuted views of Azharite teachers and how they could not refute your views. He told us about the silly hadith you invented and ascribed to head of Al-Azhar: "The Head of Al-Azhar was asked about his favorite type of Egyptian women, he said Cairene women, then Alexandria women, and then women of Tanta, and he was reclining on a settee, and he sat solemnly and said reverently, but the best of them all are women of Al-Mansoura! And he ejaculated at once, without touching himself, by merely mentioning this!" This funny many talked a lot to me about you, Dr. Mansour, and he swore to me that Quranism is the True Religion of God, and that your views are right; there is no thing in Islam called hadiths at all. This man asserted to me that most clergymen know this fact but they never talk about it to preserve their high-rank posts and because they fear being persecuted, incarcerated, and tortured; and they fear to suffer the persecutions in inflicted on you in the 1980s and the 1990s. This funny man told me once that all wealth of all clergymen will double no doubt if the MB group would rule Egypt instead of Mubarak, because the Wahabi MB members will need more clergy that will ride citizens so that the MB would ride clergymen and Al-Azhar to control the whole of Egypt. This man hoped that Mubarak would be ousted one day so that the MB would rule Egypt! He told me to join the 'winners' and be among the riding ones instead of the ridden ones among ordinary citizens! From that day one, he and I joke constantly about the ridden ones and the riders! You were my teacher at one point in time; I know you agree with me that the real criminals are the unjust cronies of the Mubarak regime who terrorize and intimidate all citizens and they ride both citizens and clergymen. Every clergymen who would step back and reject riches and high-rank posts for the sake of the Quranic Truth and to retrieve his self-respect and dignity was either tortured to death or tortured and persecuted till he would come back to his 'senses' and regain his title and rank under the control of the State Security Apparatus men! Thus, these tortured clergymen serve as examples to terrorize all the rest of us! I am to choose between two things: either to get incarcerated, tortured, persecuted, fired, insulted, and humiliated, or to blindly obey these oppressors who ride all clergymen, willingly or unwillingly. Please do not tell me to seek immigration; the West does no need to the scum of the earth like me; the Arab countries suffer worse conditions of oppression and persecution of citizens (for religious reasons) more than the case in Egypt. I have no existed from this hellish existence and my pangs of conscience are killing me still! I have no option but to stay in Egypt to be ridden by those in authority and in my turn, I ride thousands of citizens. I suffer insomnia now; even if I sleep for a while, I see terrifying nightmares; I fear I will enter into Hell in the Hereafter if I do not repent as soon as possible! I read your article about the inevitability of God's tormenting the likes of me (sinners and disobedient ones who repel people away from the Quran) in this life before their being tormented in the Hereafter in Hell forever. I am extremely worried and terrified that this may be my fate. The torment of this life to me is now in nightmares of my being put to death, dying in a car accident, my being paralyzed because of a car accident, suffering cancer or tumors, hepatitis, or AIDS or being terminally ill by any other ailment. My nightmares include that I see my children gone astray and lost forever and I cannot help them as much as I need their help while I suffer in silence in a wheel-chair! These hellish nightmares are torturing me! What is to become of me?! Other nightmares I see include the affluent well-off men in authority sacrificing me to cover their crimes and violations of the law, and I find myself imprisoned for life! Or that the regime men take their flight out of Egypt, while leaving us to the wrath of revolting citizens who tear up my body to death! All the affluent ones among the regime cronies practice money laundry and smuggle their $ billions abroad, while all my bank accounts are here in Egypt. I fear that I might be incarcerated if Gamal Mubarak is not appointed president to succeed his father! I fear that a bleak future lies ahead of me, in this would and in the next. I cannot step back and take flight! I fear that the coming president, Gamal Mubarak, might sacrifice corrupt clergymen like myself and imprison them to beautify his image! I live tortured now by constant worry about the present and the future. My pangs of conscience are still killing me! I know that I have betrayed Quranism (God's True Religion) and I feel that I have betrayed everything you taught me; you were my teacher once. Fear and worried make me suffer insomnia and nightmares; this is why I write this letter to you as confession might make me feel a little better. Please do not scold me or even reply to this message! I only seek some temporary relief from my pains by writing this confession to you.)


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August 2005
As thousands of civil rights advocates celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in Atlanta last weekend, most media coverage conveyed the Act's importance in protecting minorities' political rights. Yet many of those same stories helped perpetuate a dangerous illusion by asserting that a right to vote is guaranteed by the 15th Amendment.
The trouble is the Supreme Court doesn't see it that way.
In its 2000 ruling, Alexander v Mineta, the Court decided the 600,000 or so (mostly black) residents of Washington D.C. have no legal recourse for their complete lack of voting representation in Congress (they have one "representative" in the House who can speak, but cannot vote). The Court affirmed the district court's interpretation that our Constitution "does not protect the right of all citizens to vote, but rather the right of all qualified citizens to vote." And it's state legislatures that wield the power to decide who is "qualified."
As a result, voting is not a right, but a privilege granted or withheld at the discretion of local and state governments.
True, our Constitution explicitly prohibits discrimination in granting the franchise based on a person's race, sex, or (adult) age via the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" href="http://circle.org/jsource/15th-amendment/" target="_blank">15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments. The 24th Amendment also bars disenfranchisement via poll taxes. But those protections are like a house with no foundation. States and other governments can and do disenfranchise individuals and groups of citizens, and so long as they do it without provable bias, it's entirely legal.
Washington, D.C. residents are not the only victims. Without an affirmative right to vote, Americans repeatedly are disenfranchised or otherwise deprived of their political voice and denied a legal basis for retrieving it.
Just months after the Alexander decision, a 5-4 Court majority in Bush v. Gore denied Florida citizens a right to ensure their votes were counted, saying "the individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote [for presidential electors]." Tens of thousands of Floridians who were purged wrongly from the voting rolls were denied recourse against Republican state officials who, in the name of preventing felons from voting, disenfranchised them.
The Bush v. Gore ruling also meant Florida 's legislators could have followed through on their threats to simply disregarded citizens' votes and choose electors themselves.
Our lack of a right to vote also weakens legal arguments for challenging anti-democratic structures that routinely prevent citizens in several states from enjoying a choice other than Democrats or Republicans at the polls. Georgia, for example, has institutionalized a two-party duopoly, devoid of outside competition, by requiring independent or "third party" candidates for U.S. Representative to gather signatures from 5% of registered voters, a feat not accomplished since before the VRA.
Worse, Georgia and Indiana recently passed laws requiring government photo identification to vote, despite an absence of evidence that people are impersonating others at the voting booth. Georgia's law must first be approved by the Department of Justice under a provision of the VRA requiring jurisdictions "with a history of discrimination" to gain approval from the DOJ before changing voting laws.
If these laws take effect, a disproportionate number of minority, poor and elderly people who lack ID will be dissuaded from voting. This is exactly the kind of discriminatory scheme the VRA was created to stop, but so long as voting is a state-granted privilege rather than a right, courts are likely to let the law stand.
While we speak of "spreading democracy" globally, the U.S. is one of just 11 nations among 120 or so constitutional democracies that fail to guarantee a right to vote in their constitutions.
Although many constitutional scholars reject the Supreme Court's reasoning in denying such a right, blaming the justices will not solve our problem. It's time we caught up with our own rhetoric by amending our Constitution to transform a right to vote from myth to reality.
At the time of writing, Jeff Milchen directed ReclaimDemocracy.org , an organization working to revitalize American democracy and restore citizen authority over corporations.
- The Center for Voting and Democracy has several more detailed academic and strategy papers on the topic indexed here.
- So what is the Voting Rights Act?


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Online dating over 50 is exploding in popularity right now, fuelled by the realisation that not online is online dating acceptable, it's by far the best way for a single over 50s to meet each other.
Indeed, the over 50s segment is one of the fastest growing in the whole online dating sphere, and that's led to a huge increase in the number of over 50s going on dates and finding love. Websites like Maturity Dating have been helping the cause, connecting people from all over the UK.
All of those customers have meant that there's more data about senior singles than ever before, and that's led to some fascinating studies, revealing some amazing facts.
One such study was completed by OurTime, and we think you'll be suitably intrigued by their findings, which is why we've decided to share them with you below. Let's get started:
77% of over 50s say they'd kiss a partner within the first week of dating
Over 50 daters might have a reputation for being reserved, but that's clearly not the case. 77% of us said we'd kiss within the first week, compared to just 66% of younger daters. We clearly know what we want!
24% of over 50 daters said they'd be happy to take their clothes off with the light on within the first week
Body shame, what body shame? 24% of those asked said they'd happily strip down with the lights on for a new partner within the first week, leaving the younger generation in the dust. Just 9% of young people said they'd do the same.
25% of us said we'd sleep within a new partner during month one
Keeping the subject of sex alive, a quarter of us said we'd sleep with a new partner within the first month. That's far more than the 18% of 18-24-year olds who said they'd do the same.
47% of over 50 daters likely to go 'exclusive' within the first 6 months compared to 21% of younger daters
Commitment clearly isn't an issue for us, because 47% of us are likely to become exclusive with our new partners within the first six months.
Mature daters take much longer to say 'I love you' than their younger counterparts
It takes 164 days, 22 days longer than the younger generation for us to declare our love for our partner. Call it old-fashioned or maybe it's just caution, but we're less likely by far to utter those three big words.
More than one in ten of over 50 singletons have asked their kids for online dating picture advice
There's nothing wrong with enlisting the help of our kids when it comes to making our online dating profile, and one in ten of us admitted to doing just that. Alternatively, you can just read our guide on creating the perfect profile (and picture!)
A third of over 50 daters have asked their kids for dating advice
Sticking with the kids, a third of us revealed that we've spoken to our kids for dating advice – maybe that's why over 50 online dating has picked up so much steam in recent years.
We're far less likely to be addicted to online dating
Online dating is a fantastic thrill, so much so that the younger generation are reporting feelings of 'addiction' regarding it, though it's not addiction in the traditional sense. Nevertheless, they're 125% more likely to feel it than us over 50 singletons, so spare a little thought for the younger generation.
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Senior Associate, Digital Investment
- 205 Hamilton Row, Birmingham, MI 48009, USA
- Full-time
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Starcom is the Human Experience Company. A world-renowned media communications agency, we believe the alchemy of people and technology creates experiences people love, and actions brands need. With more than 5,000 employees worldwide, Starcom partners with the world's leading marketers and new establishment brands, including Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Kellogg Company, Kraft Heinz, Samsung, Visa and more. Starcom is part of Publicis Media, one of four solution hubs within Publicis Groupe [Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC40], and has offices within Publicis One.
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- Manage digital planning and activation with heavy collaboration on biddable tactics
- Own tactical plan development, recommendation building, and negotiations across their respective channels
- Collaborate with key partners including clients, internal teams, and leadership
- Lead strategic planning initiatives including deck writing, budget and channel allocation, and audience development
- Analyze data to inform purchase and channel allocation
- Develop guidelines & budget allocations
- Lead strategic planning initiatives including deck writing, budget and channel allocation and audience development
- Oversee day-to-day campaign execution and is responsible for ensuring campaigns deliver on KPIs
- Support development of strategic approach and experience design by delivering channel ideas and providing the link to reality of historical performance and in-market opportunities
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, communications, applied mathematics, consumer insights or related field preferred
- 1-2 years of related experience
- Knowledge of digital channels
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to detect and translate a story behind numbers/data
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to translate and present complicated ideas in a simple, and easy to understand yet creative style
- Willingness to learn and create solutions that challenge the status quo
- Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving abilities with the ability to think unconventionally in proposing solutions
- A proven ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects effectively and work well under pressure to deliver high-quality work within tight deadlines
- Strong process development skills
- Proven experience in effectively coaching and developing others
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel and PowerPoint as well as other equivalent programs and as appropriate specific industry tools and technology
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Evan is the Editor in Chief of Inland Empire Weekly, Culture Magazine, and Rogue Art Research & Writing (RARW). Raised in Los Angeles, Evan received her M.A. in Art History from Cal State Fullerton in 2011 and her B.A. from Loyola Marymount University. Her writing specializes in localized burgeoning art, feminist theory and contemporary art with an emphasis in low brow and new media work. Evan also writes freelance for many publications including OC Register, Artillery, LocalArts, Laika, OC Art Blog and United4:Good. She has also written for Juxtapoz, Art Ltd., ArtScene, and many more. Evan cannot stay still for very long, and traverses across the LA, OC, and Inland Empire counties regularly, exploring and enjoying all that her SoCal home has to offer.
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As pervasive as Microsoft Windows is, the operating system is rarely used as a platform for Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions. That's a problem. CTFs provide real-world experience for modern security researchers' education. What's more, only the Russian CTFs seem to release Windows challenges; none of the large American CTFs do.
As a contest organizer, securing your infrastructure is the biggest priority. If you don't, one team may harass the software that underpins the competition, and interfere with other teams.
Prior to Windows 8, securing your infrastructure for running a Windows CTF competition was very complicated. Microsoft didn't make it easy to sandbox applications. You'd have to configure in-depth internals that were easily overlooked. It required deep knowledge about Windows tokens, access control lists, and mandatory integrity levels.
Finally, Microsoft introduced AppContainers in Windows 8, an effective way to segregate processes, much like iOS's sandboxes. But the Microsoft Developer Network didn't provide any documentation about AppContainers. So we reverse-engineered the part of Internet Explorer that spawns an AppContainer'd process. Then we made them easy to use with AppJailLauncher.
AppJailLauncher keeps CTF infrastructure secure. It puts the application into a restricted token sandbox which prevents CTF players from accessing anything outside of the immediate challenge. The code's repository includes everything needed to isolate a Windows TCP service from the rest of the operating system.


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Mali takes 8/45 as Railways bundle out Baroda for 176
Medium pacer Ranjitkumar Mali produced a dream spell that saw him take eight wickets for 45 runs, as Railways bundled out Baroda for 176 in their Group B Ranji Trophy match here today.
Opting to field after winning the toss, Railways rode on the 25-year-old Mali, who hails from Tezpur in Assam, to run through the Baroda line-up in their first innings.
This is Mali's best figures in first-class cricket, having made his debut in 2008. At stumps on the first day, Railways were 24 for one in 16 overs.
For Baroda, Aditya Waghmode made 33 while Yusuf Pathan and Murtuja Vahora contributed 32 each at the Moti Bagh Stadium.
Brief scores: Baroda 1st innings: 176 all out in 69 overs (Aditya Waghmode 33; Ranjitkumar Mali 8/45).
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These beautiful creatures are white tigers. As you can see from the black stripes, these tigers are not albinos. Researchers in in China's Chimelong Safari Park sequenced the genome of white tigers and their normal colored relatives. They found a variation in just one gene, SLC45A2, that makes the difference, and makes white tigers white:
The SLC45A2 gene makes a protein of the same name, which consists of 560 amino acids. A single mutation in the gene—a change in just one DNA letter—switches one of those 560 amino acids from an alanine to a valine. This distorts the protein's shape, and potentially prevents it from taking part in the creation of red-yellow melanin. Every white tiger has two copies of this mutated gene, and can only make the distorted protein. That's all it takes to change their coats from orange to white.
Read more about the research, the white tigers, and the plight of tigers in the wild at National Geographic's Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science.


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One of MG Technology Group's founding partners and a solutions architect, Grant Thompson, has published the 3rd article in a four part series offering guidance, hope and solutions for IT professionals, MSPs and VARs looking to make money reselling and helping organizations with cloud services.
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Mobile travel booking trends in 20160
There is no denying the fact that mobile is indeed an inevitable and imminent part of the travel industry and those who have invested in it earlier are reaping huge benefits. The mobile bookings are on a steady rise and although travel agents and suppliers and a few customers prefer booking on a desktop, most users have embraced the mobile boon and are slowing performing most of their transactions on mobile, be it buying clothes to booking their yearly vacation. Criteo, a digital advertising solutions provider analyzed billions of pieces of information to provide the following report on mobile travel booking trends in 2016.
Mobile travel booking in 2016 –
- Mobile accounted for about 27% of all the travel bookings performed worldwide in the Quarter 1 of 2016 and about 29% in the United States. These bookings were calculated only on mobile travel sites, excluding apps. The year 2016 is not only seeing an increase in bookings via mobile devices in general but also a boost in travel bookings made via mobile applications.
- Mobile booking has been growing steady since the past 18 months and account for 57% of the total bookings made in the first quarter of this year. Mobile travel booking trends also show that mobile bookings are significantly higher than tablet bookings (roughly accounting to 81% of the total bookings done on mobile devices) although bookings made on tablets for annual holidays or vacations are slightly higher than mobiles because of the amount of time and efforts devoted in researching it.
- Per a recent study from Fuel, 31% of North American leisure travellers have used at least one mobile app in planning travel, and 52% would also use a mobile app to purchase additional services while travelling.
- The data analysed on bookings done on apps of individual hotels compared to OTA apps specializing in hotels is a bit surprising. The bookings done on individual hotels' apps account for only 11% while the bookings done on hotel specialized apps accounted for almost one third of their total bookings.
- Those who invested in in-app tracking and advertising are seeing a surge of bookings made from apps. In-app tracking technology allows businesses to learn users' behaviour like their browsing and booking patterns thereby giving them a clear indication of what more to offer to their customer and when, to gain their loyalty and maximize bookings. Almost all the companies today are investing more and more in mobile and tracking technologies but those who realized this trend and invested earlier definitely have an upper hand and will continue to do so if they continue investing in them.
- Criteo's data also shows some astonishing stats. Of all the last-minute bookings made by customers in March 2016, almost 60% were done on mobile phones. On the contrary and quite surprisingly, the mobile bookings done on supplier systems accounted for only 30% of the total bookings which indicates that suppliers are lagging in terms of mobile adoption.
Conclusions from the study –
The study explicitly concludes the following –
- App bookings are definitely on the rise and businesses who invested in and promoted apps early are now reaping the benefits of the same.
- As mobile generates majority of last-minute reservations, a fully optimized mobile environment is a must-have for every travel business, be it OTAs or suppliers or individual hotel chains.
- Comprehensive cross-device tracking is vital, as 33% of user booking decisions are influenced by multiple touchpoints.
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Factions, Friends and Feasts
Anthropological Perspectives on the Mediterranean
Jeremy Boissevain†
320 pages, 8 illus. & 7 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-844-5 $135.00/£99.00 Hb Published (March 2013)
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"Although these essays have been published before, many are important contributions to the discipline, while others have been updated and revised, making this an important contribution to this field… Highly recommended." · Choice
"Jeremy Boissevain is undoubtedly amongst the most qualified and distinguished researchers of Mediterranean societies: this book chronicles an exemplary intellectual path from a methodological, theoretic and empirical standing…the author was one of the major innovators of the anthropology of Mediterranean societies." · Christian Giordano, University of Fribourg
"Professor Boissevain has been among the most prominent social anthropologists since the 1960s, and this collection does justice to his vast and important research and scholarship…Moreover, since we are able to see the development in Boissevain's thinking, we can see how the discipline has changed over the last fifty years, and how world changes as well as academic transformations have forced anthropologists to rethink their theories and methods." · Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Harvard University
"…a well integrated collection covering a wide range of interrelated regional subjects… [that] is also admirable for its close attention to ethnographic details and their place and meaning in wider social, cultural, and historical contexts." · Anton Blok, University of Amsterdam
Drawing on field research in Malta, Sicily and among Italian emigrants in Canada, this book explores the social influence of the Mediterranean climate and the legacy of ethnic and religious conflict from the past five decades. Case studies illustrate the complexity of daily life not only in the region but also in more remote academe, by analysing the effects of fierce family loyalty, emigration and the social consequences of factionalism, patronage and the friends-of-friends networks that are widespread in the region. Several chapters discuss the social and environmental impact of mass tourism, how locals cope, and the paradoxical increase in religious pageantry and public celebrations. The discussions echo changes in the region and the related development of the author's own interests and engagement with prevailing issues through his career.
Jeremy Boissevain† was Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and also taught at the universities of Montreal and Sussex and held visiting appointments in Malta, Britain, the United States, and Poland. His books and co-edited works include Saints and Fireworks (1965), Hal Farrug (1969), The Italians of Montreal (1970), Friends of Friends (1974), Beyond the Community (1975), Coping with Tourists (1996), Contesting the Foreshore (2004) and Hal Kirkop (2006). Translations of his work have appeared in Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Japanese and Maltese.
Subject: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
Area: Southern Europe
Jeremy Boissevain talks of his education, his move into anthropology and his career. In particular he describes his work in network theory and Malta. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 6th July 1983. Lasts about 30 mins. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
List of Tables
List of Plates
Preface and Introduction
Chapter 1. Seasonal Variations on Some Mediterranean Themes
Chapter 2. Unhealed Scars: Religious and Ethnic Diversity Around
Chapter 3. Factions, Parties and Politics in a Maltese Village
Chapter 4. Poverty and Politics in a Sicilian Agro-Town
Chapter 5. The Italians of Montreal
Chapter 6. The Place of Non-Corporate Groups
Chapter 7. Towards a Sociology of Social Anthropology
Chapter 8. Beyond the Community
Chapter 9. Of Men and Marbles: Reconsidering Factionalism
Chapter 10. When the Saints go Marching Out
Chapter 11. Ritual and Tourism: Culture by the Pound?
Chapter 12. Revitalizing European Rituals
Chapter 13. 'But we Live Here': Perspectives on Cultural Tourism
Chapter 14. Insiders and Outsiders: Mass Tourism in Southern Europe
Chapter 15. Tourists, Developers and Civil Society
Chapter 16. On Predicting the Future: Second Thoughts on the Decline of Feasts and Patrons
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