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Survivor Review: Colton or Kat?Luke Dwyer at .
Thank God for Kat.
Confused? Not sure why I'm thanking Kat when she blew the challenge for her tribe? Understandable, but think of this: if the women had won, we would have had to suffer through the second half of the episode being all about Colton.
So, thank you, Kat, for saving us from 30 more minutes of The Colton Cumbie Drama Hour. Far better to listen to the women squabble with each other and almost make some sense out of their situation than watch Colton break down over one of the least stressful situations ever.
You're surrounded by people you don't connect with or wouldn't hang out with in your normal life. Cry me a freaking river. Perhaps we cannot totally understand his situation, but we've all been surrounded by people we don't connect with before (say, the TV Fanatic offices? Just kidding) and managed the situation. Maybe not for 39 straight days, but we've all managed.
Finally, Colton knew this was possible. Okay, not the all-male tribe that he just cannot connect with for some reason, but based on his reaction, he had to know that it was possible he wouldn't connect with whatever males were on his tribe. His only plan was to bond with the women? And even if it was, he can't adjust?
All I know is that I've had my fill of Colton and it's only the second episode. And he has an idol. And he now has a plan and allies. Kill me now. Hopefully Leif, Jonas, Troyzan and Tarzan are only planning on using Colton to get ahead of the muscle alliance and then get rid of him. It's no secret he's turning to the women when they merge (if they merge, eh?).
Back to those squabbling women. They haven't shown us much in the first three challenges and just when I thought they were turning a corner, they keep Kat. Didn't it really seem like they had turned on Kat and were sending her home? She certainly deserved to be sent home.
I guess I blame myself for falling for a classic CBS editing trick. They always try to build the drama before a vote by presenting small clips of conversations which insinuate another candidate for the chopping block. Often it's obvious that's all they're doing and you know who's going home.
This week I was really fooled. Chelsea and Kim's (more on them later) pre-vote conversation was very convincing. The way ladies were openly talking about the alliance being between the wrong five people was seemingly very telling. Kat even seemed resigned to be going home while Nina seemed confident she was staying.
Unfortunately, any drama was killed when that random third vote for Christina showed up. I assume Monica threw it at Christina because she knew Nina was going home and didn't want to go against the dominant alliance. Can't hurt to try, but it's unlikely to do any good.
As for Chelsea and Kim, I feel like they could make a dominant duo. Readers of my Survivor reviews know how much I preach the power of the duo. An unbreakable pair of votes is so hard to go against. Chelsea and Kim seem like logical partners for each other. Beyond that, they're both level headed and athletic, two crucial attributes for Survivor. The fact that they're cute won't hurt with the guys, either.
The real question is if they'll bond as a duo amidst their current five person alliance. I thought the move this week was for them to grab Sabrina and join Nina, Monica and Christina and get rid of Kat and Alicia, the clear people dragging down the Salani tribe. Alas.
More from this episode:
- The best part of tribal council? Alicia didn't talk. I'm almost as done with her as I am with Colton. Get rid of those two and we have a much better season.
- Is anyone else tired of hearing the phrase 'game on' said by contestants in a reality show? You're constantly playing a game. We know the game is on!
- Jeff killing the women and Kat for their actions was priceless. He gets more and more aggressive each season.
- Did anyone notice that Kat said she'd never throw Nina under the bus mere moments after she threw Christina under the bus?


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I'm sure you know by now that if you want to start eating healthier, you have to eat a small meal with healthy carbs, protein, vegetables and healthy fats every 3-4 hours.
Well, with how busy life is these days, it's kind of hard to cook that many meals every day, isn't it?
And then you hear about all these people who just drink juices all day, smoothies, some eat 2 protein bars, a shake and one meal. It just goes on and on and on.
So, what is the most optimal choice if you want to lose fat and gain lean and toned muscle so that you look fit, lean and feminine?
I guess it depends on your lifestyle, your likes, dislikes, your work schedule, etc.
But first let me tell you that nothing, I mean, nothing will beat FOOD!
Food should always be your number ONE choice.
Here is the order in which I would choose:
1. Food
2. Protein Shake
3. Protein Bar
No matter how healthy the "Protein Bar" or "Protein Shake" can be, you will get your biggest bang for your buck with food. Remember that food is THERMIC. It takes your body a lot of work to break down and digest it, so it actually burns a ton of calories just by eating it.
I will discuss my favorite options when having to eat a protein bar or shake but lets dig deeper first.
You don't get the same "thermic" effect out of eating a protein bar or a protein shake as you do with food. You also don't get the nutrients that you get from food from PROCESSED foods like bars and shakes. I mean, there is a ton of work that has to be done to get food into a protein bar and shake. A lot of breaking down and adding in order to make real food into shakes and bars.
So if what you want is to lose weight and get leaner……. Food is the way to go.
Now, I do understand that life is crazy busy most of the time and that you may not have the time to either cook the food or eat it. You may be super busy at work and not even have time to sit down to eat a full meal every 3 hours.
But, there is always a way around it.
I have had clients that work 15 hours a day 6 days a week, and they have been able to pull it off. If they can, you can too.
And listen, I am a pretty good testimony that you can make it happen.
As a working mom, I have a pretty crazy schedule myself.
Even with a toddler and a newborn, I made time to cook and eat. Even those sleepless nights when I was nursing, burping and changing diapers all day and night long as well as chasing a toddler around, running a booming business, training clients and keeping my house in order without my husband wanting to divorce me is a pretty huge job itself.
But never did I ever stop cooking or eating.
Because I made it a priority!
Did I have the "extra" time to be cooking?
Not really, but I made it!
I knew how much of an impact eating healthy was going to have on my energy level and body so I made it a priority. I put meal planning, grocery shopping and cooking into my schedule.
Yes, that means I actually scheduled it in my calendar. And I do it on a recurring basis. That is the same days and times every week. Only by doing things on a recurring basis will you get into the "HABIT" of doing things like this and only then does it become a "LIFESTYLE".
I always prefer food over a bar or shake or juice.
Not only because its more nutritious and thermic but because it fills me up more. If I have a protein shake/smoothie or juice, I'm literally hungry an hour later and I end up eating food anyways and it's usually nothing really great. It just doesn't hold me over the full 3 hours. So spend the next 2 hours hungry, counting the minutes until I can eat again.
Truthfully, that is no way to spend a day.
Don't tell me you don't do it! LOL
A protein bar fills me up a little more than a shake or juice, but I still get hungry about 1 ½-2 hours later. At which point again, I "pick" at food, because I feel like its not really time to eat a full meal so I don't want to eat again but I'm hungry so I want to shove something in my mouth, so this usually tends to not end well either.
With both of these options, I end up eating more than if I just ate a full meal. So I have realized that I do so much better and can eat so much cleaner without having to feel hungry by just eating REAL FOOD.
It fills me up, makes me feel satisfied, makes me happy and that's just it.
If it makes me happy then I can be consistent with it. If it doesn't, I don't stick to it.
Sound familiar?
So what I do and what I teach my clients to do is to make EXTRA of whatever meal you are cooking for the day. So if you would normally cook 4 pieces of chicken for dinner, I would cook 8-10. This would give me and my family some left over's for the next day for lunch as well as a few extra meals for snacks.
For example, I could have some left over chicken chopped up with tomatoes, avocado and a drizzle of balsamic glaze for a snack.
Its already cooked, I just have to put it away in a container when I'm cleaning up dinner. This way, I have a snack ready for the next day.
I also, take one day of the week and take 30 minutes or so and make some healthy snacks. I will usually go into My Pinterest Page and find a healthy baked snack that I like and I make a batch or 2. This will take the place of grabbing a protein bar or shake when on the go.
It's easy to eat left over's when you are at home or in an office, but when on the go, it's healthy pre-made snacks like these that you can grab and go. And way healthier than any protein bar or shake.
You would be surprised the amount of time you could make if you organized yourself and if you scheduled some time for meal planning, grocery shopping and prepping, and cooking.
I have a client who is very busy. She owns her own business and she always thought she never had time to cook.
I challenged her to get up 45 minutes before she had to 2 times a week to cook.
She did it!
What she said she never had time to do, now she does. She committed to going to bed an hour earlier and wake up 45 minutes earlier a few times a week and now in those 2 days she cooks meals and snacks for the whole week.
Pretty amazing huh?
You can totally do that too.
You just need the meal plan, the shopping list and the scheduled times to do it all.
You can use My Pinterest Page to find inspiration for healthy meals and recipes. Just go there and hit FOLLOW ALL so that you can have access to all of it. You can also download a copy of my Eat To Be Fit Healthy Recipes Book and have over 300 of my healthy recipes right at your computer to choose from right now. They are sooooo yummy!
And listen, if this is all overwhelming for you. And you really just don't have the time or don't want to bother or you are still just not sure how to combine the meals, what foods are best for fat burning, etc. Then maybe you would do really great with my Be Fit Moms Program.
I did all the work for you.
I made the detailed meal plans fit for losing fat for you weekly. Made you shopping lists in order of ingredients so that you can run through the grocery store in no time. Have all the recipes in order for you to find them for each day. I made sure to pick the best combination of foods that are thermic and will help you burn tons of calories as well as ones that are delicious and easy to make. Because trust me, I know I'm busy, so I assume you are and making quick meals is important to me.
Maybe after a few months of following the meal plans, you can get an idea of what you should be doing. They really are amazing.
Now don't think that I don't ever eat protein bars and shakes. I do!
There is a time and place for everything.
Dales Protein Bars are my favorite.
They are the closest to eating real food. They are made of 100% natural ingredients as well as they are organic and have no GMO's. They are also super yummy. But not addicting.
You see, I also love Quest Bars. I'm actually a sucker for the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. OMG, its actually like a drug to me. But I don't like feeling so addicted to anything in life so I quickly had to stop buying them because I felt the need to eat one every day. And though they are "healthy", they are not THE BEST CHOICE if you are trying to get leaner. As I said before, it will never give you better results than eating real food.
So I keep Dales Bars in my freezer and fridge for times where I ran out of healthy snacks that I baked or ran out of left over's, etc. Sometimes, I need to run out to work or errands or meeting and I can just grab one of those. I just don't like to make it a habit.
I do also have Quest Bars sometimes, especially when I go on trips or travel because they don't' need to be refrigerated or anything. So before I go hungry by going too many hours without eating when I travel, I rather have a quest bar.
I also have Quest Bars for when I go to my kids baseball games, outdoor parties, etc. Where maybe my Dales Bar or other baked snack could go bad.
So you see, there is a time and place for everything.
Protein Shakes I have pretty much 3-5 times a week post-workout and without missing. I use Prograde because it is high quality and easily absorbed and it tastes great. I also use it a ton to make my healthy baked snacks.
I have to confess that I recently was totally addicted to Quest Bars, I was basically having one every day. I started to feel and see a difference in my body. So I said, hmmmmm let me stop the bars for a few weeks and see what happens. And low and behold, I dropped a few pounds and felt better again.
Protein Bars and Shakes can never take the place of food. They will never be better for you than REAL FOOD!
So make the time, even if you think you don't have it.
Sit down with your calendar and see what you can cut out, how you can wake earlier or what not to make about 90-120 minutes a week to cooking.
It will be totally worth it. You will see a huge difference in your body!
If you start My Be Fit Moms Program today, then we will be in touch and I will be sending you your first meal plan shortly. I can't wait for you to see how simple and easy to integrate into your life this is going to be!
Let's do it :)
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Nomura Holdings, Japan's largest brokerage, said the country's securities watchdog was investigating an employee on suspicion of insider trading, that a newspaper reported involved leaking details of merger deals.
Nomura stock fell nearly 4 percent to 1,640 yen after the investigation was revealed, underperforming a weak financial sector.
A Nomura employee and two others are suspected of making around 40 million yen ($387,600) in profit from trading on insider information, the Nikkei business daily reported, quoting sources familiar with the matter.
A spokesman at Nomura Holdings declined to give further details, while a spokesman at the regulator, the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, also declined to comment.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said he was unaware of details of the investigation but said the news was regrettable.
"There were many brokerage-related scandals in the past and the situation improved after the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission was formed, but when there is a case like this, confidence of the entire brokerage sector is hurt," he told a news conference.
The commission will investigate how the employee obtained the information used in the insider trading and examine the sufficiency of Nomura Securities' internal management structure, the Nikkei said.
The employee, a Chinese national who had been employed at Nomura Securities' corporate information division, leaked information about merger and acquisition deals and tender offers to two Chinese acquaintances, the Nikkei said.
The employee was now working at a Nomura group company in Hong Kong, it said.
The three allegedly used internal information about M&A deals and bids handled by Nomura Securities to trade shares of two listed companies in 2006 and 2007, the Nikkei said.


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Alzheimer's Award for psychosocial interventions
For four years, the Fondation Médéric Alzheimer and ADI ran the Alzheimer's Awards for evidence-based psychosocial interventions for people with dementia and their carers.
Psychosocial research involves or relates to both the social and psychological aspects of a patient's life. Often this includes the relationship between the personal, internal environment and the wider social world, such as the influence of social and environmental factors on an individual's state of mind or behaviour. This type of research is aimed at supporting and enhancing the quality of life of people with Alzheimer's disease and their carers.
The primary Alzheimer's Award was given for the best evidence-based psychosocial intervention and was intended to be used for dissemination of the research findings to a broad range of organisations and people involved in dementia treatment and care worldwide and in several languages. The amount of the award for the best psychosocial intervention was €18,000.
An Alzheimer's Award was given for the most promising evidence-based psychosocial intervention and was intended to be used to further implement a project that has already shown some results but that needs more thorough evaluation. The amount of the award for the most promising psychosocial intervention was €7,000.
2011 award winners
The Fondation Médéric Alzheimer and ADI ran the Alzheimer's Award for evidence-based psychosocial interventions and most promising interventions for people with Alzheimer's Disease and their carers.
Prof Lynn Chenoweth from Australia was awarded the prize for best evidence-based psychosocial intervention for her project, 'PerCEN : Person-centred environment and care for residents with dementia: a cost effective way of improving quality of life and quality of care?'
The award for most promising intervention was presented to Dr Radha S Murthy from India for her intervention, 'The effect of culture based comprehensive psychosocial care program on outcomes in residential patients with dementia - An Indigenous Model'.
Prof Chenoweth and Dr Murthy were presented with their awards during the 27th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International in London, UK in March 2012.
2010 award winner
Prof Sube Banerjee of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London received the award of €18000 for the best evidence-based psychosocial intervention for his study 'The Croydon Memory Service Model – early and effective diagnosis and intervention for all'.
Prof Banerjee was presented with his award during the 26th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International in Toronto, Canada in March 2011.
2009 award winners
The award of €18000 for best evidence-based intervention was presented to Dr Amit Dias of the Goa Medical College in India. His intervention, entitled 'Effectiveness of a community based psychosocial intervention for supporting people with dementia and their caregivers in developing countries', has been carried out in Goa with people with mild to moderate dementia and their carers.
The €7000 award for the most promising evidence-based psychosocial intervention went to Anne Margriet Pot of the Free University in Amsterdam, Netherlands, for her project 'Mastery over Dementia: an innovative e-mental health intervention for family caregivers of people with dementia'. Mastery over Dementia is an online intervention for family carers of people with dementia.
2008 award winners
Mary Mittelman received the prize for her proposal 'Translating the NYU Caregiver Intervention from Research to Practise Settings'. An additional prize for the most innovative psychosocial intervention was awarded to Danny George for his submission, 'Can Intergenerational Volunteering Promote Quality of Life for Persons with Mild to Moderate Dementia?'


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4 Principles:
Alternative Education, Democratic Administration, Ecological Approach, Unique Financing
Firstly, the group compromising over the basic principles evaluated, investigated and inspired by the existing and worldwide models, sample alternative schools and independent practices with the help of a growing body of the voluntaries to form a model appropriate for Turkey. To create an alternative model suitable for the conditions in Turkey, instead of current standardized, hierarchical and disciplinary system, BBOM model has been developed, involving alternative methods and techniques, being democratic and participative, based on the social justice principle, emphasizing ecological morals and sticking to the four principles: Alternative Education, Democratic Administration, Ecologic Approach, Special Financing.
BBOM Association held various meetings, workshops and advertisements. In the association, members include voluntary parents who believe in the BBOM model and are willing to send their children to this school. BBOM Association is also a civil initiative where over 20% of its educators are experts in their fields. BBOM has thousands of supporters and followers from many parts of Turkey who had their self-actualization mostly through opportunities given by public education, suffered from both defects in the education system and public educational opportunities, put forward the crucial problem of the need for a democratic, egalitarian, qualified education system for all people.
Practices of BBOM are based on volunteerism. The executive committee of the association is open to the participation of the local representatives as a result of the expanding activity area since 2014. The doors of the team have been opened to young volunteers who would like to contribute to the efforts and gain experience in the field of civil society, as it is still open. As a consequence of these changes, BBOM Association aims to have an active and widespread working platform and works considering these principles. Besides, the association finalise their decisions on their agenda about the BBOM model in their workshops by consulting the experts.
Our collaborative efforts still continue to open new schools.
Our association still works in numerous fields intensely both to improve BBOM model and activate BBOM schools. Our priority is to open new schools. The first BBOM school, named Mutlu Keçi Primary School, opened in September, 2013 in Bodrum. By the year 2018, our schools and cooperatives are:
- Ankara – Meraklı Kedi (Curious Cat) Primary School
- İzmir – Renkli Orman (Colourful Forest) Early Childhood Center and Primary School
- İstanbul- Koşan Kaplumbağa (Running Turtle) Early Childhood Center
- Çanakkale- Bilge Leylek (Wise Stork) Primary School
- Eskişehir- Uçan Bisiklet (Flying Bicycle) Primary School
- BBOM Kaş Education Cooperative
- BBOM Ankara Education Cooperative
- BBOM İzmir Education Cooperative
- BBOM İstanbul Anatolia Education Cooperative
- BBOM Çanakkale Education Cooperative
- BBOM Eskişehir Education Cooperative
- BBOM Ayvalık Education Cooperative
Besides our attempts to open new schools, our teacher support programs, initiated with "Başka Öğretmenler Mümkün" project, aim to spread participatory and peaceful learning environments by establishing BBOM Teacher Village in 2016, in Bodrum. BBOM Teacher Village still acts as a community which provides hundreds of teachers visiting the village with cooperative learning and producing opportunities.
Participatory and peaceful learning communities.
Our Aim
With the BBOM Model in the field of education, to create, to inspire to create and to support participative and peaceful learning communities that oversee children's welfare.
Başka Bir Okul Mümkün Association follows the following principles and morals while founding BBOM schools and in every stage of administration.
- Equality
- Social Justice
- Freedom (Thought, speech, action and choice)
- Solidarity
- Pluralism
- Social sensitivity
- Opposition to violence (physical, verbal, psychological)
- Opposition to discrimination (nationality, race, language, religion, sexual orientation, economic, social, physical)
- Ecological Thinking
- Creativity
- Productivity
- Honesty
- Self-control
- Criticism
- Being scientific
- Mindfulness
- Empathy
Freedom in Education!
School is child's the most fundamental living area and it is children's right to determine their life as an individual. Therefore, BBOM education program rests on this maxim: "Each child is unique and has the right to structure the process of his education, as it is a part of his life." BBOM education program is built upon the idea that each child has a right to learn differently. Child-centred education approach that we pursue emphasizes that children's emotions and thoughts, abilities, and interests are different and they have to be identified and cared cautiously. We implement this belief by giving the child the right to speak and the right of choice for every single element of the program (aims, content, teaching methods, teaching materials, assessment) to know the child well.
It is not adequate for BBOM model that the only aim of education program is personal development. Thus, this program not only aims to support children's individual interests, needs and potentials but also aims to educate individuals who are sensitive to realities and problems in life. The school is not apart from life. Therefore, the child should not be isolated from realities of world and his environment during education. BBOM education program is organised by focusing on social solution and child-centred approaches.
The universal objectives that school helps children achieve are common values of the school. It is crucial to protect these values in all processes. Therefore, the children can internalise these values by learning and experience.
•Democratic Administration
The Model, proposed by the BBOM Association, embodies an administrative structure which enables all components of the school (teacher, family, environment etc.) to interiorize all facts of democracy. While it is principally agreed that all components of the school participate in making decisions directly or indirectly about their lives and living areas and have equal rights to speak, sustainable mechanisms are created where children accept this participation as a right and use this right.
All components of BBOM school principally have the right to participate in decision-making through the council and committees. During the implementation of these rules, they also have the responsibility to choose the areas (nourishment, cleaning, administration etc.) which they are inclined to and prefer. All responsibilities and rights go parallel with each other.
Self-determination in BBOM school, which is based on democratic participation, not only aims self-realization but also includes the idea of solidarity and sharing in social and natural relationships and enables children to gain experience as responsible, altruistic individuals.
•Ecological Approach
What is necessary to overcome the ecological crisis is a new value system which reconstructs person-nature relationship and focuses on ecological view. BBOM considers nature and its components not as resources for the people but as other beings. Biological diversity in the nature is an important tool in learning process. Also, by understanding and centralizing this diversity and harmony, it is possible to switch from "competition" that social order imposes today to "collaboration". The children who witness the balance of this diversity and collaboration in nature both adopt the diversity in society and explore the alternative which is radical, permanent, sustainable and self-sufficient, instead of social reproduction process called "development".
In this context, the BBOM model and school aim to provide a different sample which emphasizes on ecologic philosophy in education process. One basic approach in dealing with the curriculum in the BBOM school is to raise ecologic consciousness and awareness by internalizing the subject of "ecology" in the curriculum. Forming new habits which involve adequate use instead of consumption and creating awareness about the idea that all creatures in nature have the right to reach the natural sources equally are our primary objectives of education. Within this scope, the principles about the correct use of energy and natural sources, reducing the consumption at a minimum level and sustainable life will continue to exist in the whole school environment.
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BBOM's unique financing concept is grounded on the fact that education expenses is supposed to be covered by public sources. While they try to spread the idea that the expenses must be met by public sources, they project a school system which meets its own expenses and is beneficial socially before this macro change comes into existence. At the centre of BBOM school finance structure, there is a maxim which says "for everybody's capacity, for everybody's need". Accordingly, some mechanisms will be produced both financially and socially. In this model, school fees are determined basically to meet its own expenses without thinking profit-making. For children at risk and with personal deficiencies and disadvantaged groups who have no chance to have proper education because of impossibilities, quotas will be created without discrimination children with regards to their nationality, race, language, religion, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, physical and social obstacles. Moreover, same mechanisms will be used while building relationships with the locals in the area where the BBOM school is opened. In this school, the education expenses of the children who have financial impossibilities will be met through "gradual accounting" and "support family-second family" models.
In BBOM schools, personal rights of all workers will be supported thoroughly. No discrimination (nationality, race, language, religion, gender, sexual orientation, economic, social, physical) will be made in employment policies and employment of disadvantaged groups will be supported cautiously.
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The first project of the Teacher Village's vision was held as 5 separate meetings and in 41 days.
At the end of the project, volunteers amongst the participants contributed in developing future BBOM Teacher Village projects and activities.
Initial Programs
Initial programs which take place for 10 ten days and as 2 separate meetings aim to empower the participants about Child Rights, Communication without Violence, Positive Discipline.
Focusing Programs
In this program, 24 participants out of the participants who completed BBOMÖK Teacher Support Programs worked on the topics which they choose to focus on to gain strength in their fields.
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2016-Primary School Support Program (2.Generation)
2016-Initial Program-II (3. Generation)
2017– Initial Program -III (4. Generation)
2017– Initial Program -IV (5. Generation)
2016-Focusing Program
2017-Emphatic Communication in Schools with Sura Hart
2017-5 Generation Summer Camp Together
2017-Teacher Village Harvest of Olives
2018– Initial Program 6. Generation
2018– Initial Program 7. Generation
First book of BBOM Publishing "Anne Baba Kumandası" was out in 2016.
The BBOM Publishings aiming to add qualified publications to the literature on Alternative Education and children's books meet with the readers taking into account the values adopted by the BBOM Association.
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Last night the NSLC Habitat Board of Directors gathered for the Annual Meeting. The Habitat Board meets monthly at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Virginia. Volunteers and members of the Events Committee joined us last night to learn more about the affiliate, to report on the progress of the upcoming Winter dinner, and explore a potential position on the board.
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IGNCA has undertaken a major audio-visual documentation of boatman culture of peninsular India to look into the lifestyle of traditional people whose main occupation is fishing.
The Boatmen of Gujarat are called "Mangelas" and they represent the fishing community of this state. The film covers the areas spreading from "Surveda village" in Valsad district to Maharashtra's Greater Bombay. The inhabitants are also known as Dhivars or Tandels.
The film studies the living style of the community –their culture, customs, day to day activities and literacy level. It has been revealed through the film that the fishing profession mainly belongs to the upper cast community and its changing pattern as well.


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The Darkness, taken from "An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen" (2010) by permission of the author, Sarah Bodman. Text and images ©2012 Maureen Piggins.
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ARTIST STATEMENT: Sarah Bodman's project, and the inspiration for BookArtObject's Edition Four, is a collection of writing buried in a northern Danish forest near Doverodde, Denmark. A coincidence, as I happened upon the BookArtObject blog while planning my own trip to Doverodde's annual book arts festival. Once there, I was struck by the natural beauty of the land – the proximity of fjord to countryside – and also by the history underfoot. As I hiked with other artists through forest and heather and over Viking barrows covered in wild blueberries, the wind blasted away conversation and left us each to our own thoughts.
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AKAIITO – ICO Review And Token Sale
AKAIITO – We know that cryptocurrencies today are not widely used by most people, not many merchants are willing to accept cryptocurrency as a means of payment, and have a poor application interface (not user-friendly). Cryptocurrency's users are more likely to use it as a hedge and investment tool, not as a means of payment. Therefore, this is where AKAIITO seeks to solve these problems by creating an application platform that allows everyday users to conduct digital economic activities.
Akaiito is a complex platform based on the blockchain technology, functioning on smart contract and uniting in itself many fields of life. It aims to give everyone the opportunity to buy goods/services, rent cars, and apartments among other transactions, using cryptocurrencies.
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Made in 2009, the principal cryptographic money to be acquainted with the general population was Bitcoin. Since this underlying presentation, the digital currency has advanced immensely and elective cryptographic money alluded to as Altcoins, have been made throughout the years.
It is based on Ethereum network, subsequently, it is putting forth smart contracts and ERC perfect tokens that will fuel the environment.
This innovation is the way that it disposes of exchange cost and enormously decreases different expenses related to such movement. The ascent of cryptocurrency splendidly fits the requests of the newly advanced period. Shockingly, the change-safe conventional saving money framework and absence of comprehension on the innovation make it inadequate. The individuals who have been engaged with cryptocurrency seldom utilize their reserve because of these challenges.
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The platform does not simply offer solace and full compromise of cryptocurrency to a traditional cash system. It is like manner offers an unrivaled market capitalization tries. With grandstand capitalization that is dependably creating, propelled assets are fit for accomplishing rates as high as it is by and by. In any case, its viability has constantly been tended to. With AKAIITO, this is set to change. With respect to publicizing capitalization, AKAIITO gives benefits as recorded in the going with the section:
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- Sales: 75% -> unsold token wont be issued
- Marketing: 7%
- Consultant: 3%
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- Volume: 1,000,000 AIC (maximum)
- Price: 1 ETH = 1,000 AIC
- Minimum purchase: 0.01 ETH (10 AIC)
- Bonus: 60%
- Period: 12–02–2018 to 25–02–2018 (14 days)
- Volume: 21,500,000 AIC (maximum)
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- Bonus: 40% (first 48 hours), 30% (first week), 20% (second week), 10% (third week), 5% (week four), 0% (5th week ff.)
- Period: 10–03–2018 to 15–04–2018
- The ICO has two different funding allocations, with a soft-cap of 1,000 ETH and a hard-stamp of 20,000 ETH
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Plight Of The Penguins: March Of The Eagles
It's not all CKII and EUIV over at Paradox's grand strategy development studio, with another expansion for Hearts of Iron III due at the end of this month and the recent announcement of Napoleonic warmongerer March of the Eagles. It's a smaller game, at least in terms of the time it covers, and the first part of a developer diary from studio manager Johan Andersson contains more information on what it's all about: "It has the war focus from Hearts of Iron, the time frame and visuals from Europa Universalis, and victory conditions similar to those you've seen in Sengoku." I'll be speaking to Johan soon to find out more. In the meantime, here's a trailer because I know that everybody likes to watch maps being maps.
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(CNN) -- Democrats say they have a "dream team" of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama but they might be looking at a nightmare if superdelegates have to determine which one will be at the top of the ticket.
Sen. Barack Obama leads in the overall delegate count, but the race is close.
Usually the superdelegates are an afterthought -- the nominee normally emerges before the National Democratic Convention by winning enough delegates in the caucuses and primaries to capture the nomination.
But this year, Obama and Clinton are running such a tight race that after millions of votes and months of campaigning, neither candidate is expected to have the 2,025 delegates needed to seal the nomination before the August convention.
And the superdelegates, a group of about 800 people who cast their vote at the convention, could set a candidate over the top. Check out a list of the superdelegates »
Superdelegates -- made up of governors, senators, house members and various other party officials or members -- are also known as "unpledged" delegates.
They are free to choose the candidate they like, while pledged delegates are assigned in primaries and caucuses.
Many superdelegates pledge allegiance to a candidate well before the party convention, but they can change their minds. Superdelegates make up around 20 percent of the total delegates.
The idea of a select group determining the outcome doesn't sit well with everyone.
"It's not the most democratic way of doing things," said Maine superdelegate Sam Spencer.
At least two organizations have launched petition drives to have the convention reflect how the vote went in primaries and caucuses.
MoveOn.org, which has endorsed Obama, has a petition posted that says, "The Democratic Party must be democratic. The superdelegates should let the voters decide between Clinton and Obama, then support the people's choice."
The group is trying to get 300,000 signatures by Monday before running the petition as an ad in USA Today.
Similarly, Democracy for America, headed by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean's brother Jim, has a petition that warns the nominee "must be chosen by Democratic voters, not by backroom deals of the party elite."
Obama leads in the overall delegate count and among pledged delegates, but Clinton has more superdelegates supporting her.
Clinton has 235 superdelegates backing her compared to 160 for Obama.
As for the other nearly 400 members, they're either undecided or keeping their decision private for now.
The superdelegate setup was established in 1982 to bring more moderate Democrats back to conventions, where their attendance had been dropping since the 1950s, and to reflect the party's mainstream more accurately.
"[Superdelegates] are the keepers of the faith," said former San Francisco, California, Mayor Willie Brown.
"You have superdelegates because this is the Democratic Party. You don't want the bleed-over from the Green Party, the independents and others in deciding who your nominee will be."
The first campaign to benefit from the roles of superdelegates was that of former Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984. His 1984 campaign went into the party convention with too few delegates to secure the nomination against the campaigns of former Sen. Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson. Mondale had received more votes, but Hart had won more states.
Mondale was able to line up the superdelegates going into the convention and avoid a fight on the convention floor.
The Obama and Clinton camps are trying to do the same thing by actively encouraging the superdelegates to pledge to their side.
While divided over which candidate to support, Democrats are largely agreed the battle over delegates needs to be resolved without a sense that superdelegates are making a decision that opposes what voters want.
"There has to be some agreement between the Clinton and Obama campaigns as to how to handle it," New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a prominent supporter of her campaign, said Sunday.
"We need to win in November and if one side tries to shove down the throats of the other side any rule, so that ... all of her or his supporters walk away upset, we will lose." E-mail to a friend
CNN's Campbell Brown, John Helton, Robert Yoon and Ed Hornick contributed to this report.
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This smaller hotel is located at the edge of Calpe, in a quiet neighbourhood. The walk to the tourist center with its many bars and restaurants takes around fifteen minutes, but several big supermarkets can be found in the immediate vicinity of the hotel.
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See this Pinterest board for inspiration (a curated collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historical games and toys, some recently photographed by Dr. Lake in special collections).
Working in small, assigned groups, you need to design and produce a board game or an interactive toy based on a text, an author, an idea, or a historical event (or some combination thereof) covered in the class. This is an open-ended assignment that invites you to go all out in pursuit of a creative, intellectual project.
The purpose of this assignment is to get you to think creatively and critically about assigned texts, lectures, and discussions. It also encourages you to conduct independent research on the content around which you base your game or toy. You should make thorough use of the talents of your group members (whose good at drawing, or designing, or writing?) as well as of resources at Wright State (did you know we have a 3-D printer you can use in the library?). You should aim to make your board game into an impressive product, one that's clearly inspired by the board games and toys curated on the Pinterest page, and one that demonstrates a strong grasp of assigned texts and course concepts; your board game or interactive toy should be something that we can all enjoy and admire, and one that we can photograph or display for the public.
But above all else, you should have fun completing this project.
During Finals Week, you'll present your project to the class, and we'll rank the projects (anonymously and individually).
Grading Criteria:
All projects that are completed and appear both well conceived and also professionally executed will receive a grade of 100%.
Projects that become mired in problematic group dynamics or which fail to achieve the look and feel of a project well conceived and professionally executed will receive a grade of 85%.
Incomplete projects, projects mired in negative group dynamics, or projects that fall far short of professional standards will receive a grade of 65%.
In addition, all members of your group will receive a range of course bonus points based on the rankings we make (anonymously and individually) in Finals week.
Group members who produce the #1 project will receive a 4% bump to their final grade.
Group members who produce the #2 project will receive a 3% bump to their final grade.
Group members who produce the #3 project will receive a 2.5% bump to their final grade.
Group members who produce the #4 project will receive a 2% bump to their final grade.
Group members who produce the #5 project will receive a 1.5% bump to their final grade.
Group members who produce the #6 and #7 project will receive a 1% bump to their final grade.


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The technology has ever been developing since many years. No doubt, the process would keep on continuing for many years to come. The continuous development of technology brought many favourable changes for mankind. Internet has been one of them. To be more precise, it has become an unavoidable factor of our everyday life. This is one of the prime sources to get the solution for anything. It won't be an exaggeration, if it is said that it has made the world virtually small.
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Put On Your Thinking Cap:This is a fact that when we come across any established web designing company; we get assured to have a distinct website for the campaign. Nevertheless, it could be a misconception too. Indeed an experience matters a lot, but it is not like a short time designer can't provide you the desired web design when compared with an experienced designer. Precisely, never decide on the basis of one's experience alone; look out for the other aspects too.
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In 2015 the Airsoft Surgeon Championship moved to a huge indoor venue and, once again, Nige was there throughout the event. This is his report from Airsoft Action.
3rd Airsoft Surgeon European Championship
Who would have thought that a simple conversation at IWA a few years ago, would lead to the creation of the biggest practical shooting tournament in Europe? It was my first trip to the annual extravaganza that is "IWA OutdoorClassics – the world-leading fair for hunting guns and outdoor equipment" and, if this is the first time you've ever heard of it, you may well be thinking "What was Nige doing there?"
IWA (as it is known) has become one of the biggest and best showcases for airsoft in the World, not even the SHOT Show in Las Vegas boasts as many airsoft exhibitors and it was there that Airsoft Surgeon, Clarence Lai and I got into a conversation about practical shooting. I had been introduced to Clarence at the previous year's Airsoft Arms Fair at The Grange and where he was conducting a series of (sold out) training sessions. The following day The Grange was hosting an AIPSC (Airsoft International Practical Shooting Confederation) event and Clarence did a couple of demo runs. I had seen Mark Hurding shoot IPAS at The East Barnet Shooting Club but this was pretty much the first time I had seen practical shooting in action and I have to say that I was very, very impressed (actually, the truth is that I was completely stunned by the combination of speed and accuracy on display). When I met Clarence on the RedWolf Airsoft stand at IWA the following March, we got talking about the possibility of holding an airsoft practical pistol championship in the UK and maybe, if enough shooters were interested, making it a European-wide event.
That was in March 2013 and the 1st Airsoft Surgeon European Practical Airsoft Shooting Championship took place in October of the same year, hosted by The Grange and followed in 2014 with an equally successful, 2nd event. The only down-side was the weather, which seemed hell-bent on causing problems with wind or rain – and sometimes both together! So for 2015 a new location was sought and, after a couple of others were rejected, one was found not much more than a bb's trajectory away from RedWolf Airsoft's UK HQ – StrikeForce CQB in Gloucester. (If you are into CQB and have not yet tried StrikeForce, you should… You really, really should!)
StrikeForce CQB is a massive 52,000 square feet (bar a few pillars) that has been turned into a labyrinth of rooms, corridors, dark areas and open spaces by Paul Bibby and the guys from Swindon Airsoft. With a concrete floor, glass-panelled roof and lack of wind or rain, it also makes an ideal location for practical shooting and provided Clarence with the opportunity to design Courses of Fire (or "stages") without having to worry about poppers being blown over, or paper targets becoming water-logged – and it was an opportunity he took full advantage of!
I wandered in on the Tuesday before the event to see if I could grab a preview of what was in store and was impressed by the size of some of the stages and although there was no "Wheel of Death" and fewer swinging targets, there was more than enough complexity to challenge even the best shooters.
I have written about IPSC before but just for the sake of completeness and for any new readers, or those of you simply wondering what "Practical Shooting" is, it is a discipline that tests your ability to shoot both rapidly and accurately with a handgun, rifle or shotgun with roots back to "quick draw" competitions in the USA, where contestants would emulate "wild west" gunslingers. This lead to the formation of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) in 1984 and since then it has grown into (what many believe it to be) the fastest-growing international target shooting discipline.
The 1997 Firearms (Amendment)(N0.2) Act banned the private ownership of pistols in the UK and effectively destroyed a very active part of our shooting heritage – that of competitive pistol shooting. However, as the quality and range has improved, an ever-growing number of shooters are using airsoft pistols instead.
In competitions the majority of targets are normally IPSC-type "Action Air Targets", with three scoring zones (A, C and D) surrounded by a 3mm wide non-scoring zone. Other targets may include metal "Poppers", which fall backwards when shot, or more complex targets that require shooter interaction to open doors, release swinging targets or even (as in a recent match) a "rollercoaster car" in which the shooter was sitting! There are also "No-Shoot" targets which must be avoided and attract penalties if hit. Scoring is fairly simple to explain but takes a computer to work out, so I'll try to keep it simple…
The time it takes a shooter to complete a stage is recorded by a timer which signals the start and detects the sound of the shooter's shots, with the final shot being the recorded time for the stage. The points gained by hitting the targets are counted and any penalties (yes, there are those too) are subtracted. The points total is then divided by the time to give each shooter a "Hit Factor" for that stage. The shooter with the highest Hit Factor wins the stage and is awarded the full Stage Points applicable. The rest of the shooters are awarded points according to their own Hit Factor compared to the winner. (Did I say it was "fairly simple" to explain??? Maybe not!) Anyway, once each stage has been calculated for every shooter, the individual scores are totalled and the shooter with most points wins… simple!
Shooters can choose which "Division" they wish to contest:
In "Open Division", apart from a relaxed limit on the amount of rounds per magazine, pretty much anything else can be added to the gun, including sights, compensators, suppressors etc. These are the "Race Guns", fully tricked up, looking awesome and with the ability to knock a large hole in your Bank balance.
In "Standard Division" the guns are much more controlled, in that they must conform to certain size constraints, cannot have sights and other additions, have restricted magazine capacity and must be holstered completely behind the hip line.
The third of the main Divisions is "Classic" and, as it sounds, this division is purely for guns based on a classic design, namely the 1911. With constraints on size, 10-round, single stack magazines and modifications prohibited this is the smallest division but also one that tests the shooter's skill to the limit.
All of these Divisions were contested at this year's Euro Championship, plus Ladies, Juniors and to bring the Championship in line with "real steel" events, two additional categories were added; "Senior" (for shooters aged over 50) and "Super Senior" (for those over 60).
The Competition
Last year's Championship attracted just over 80 shooters and this was well exceeded by the 104 who arrived at StrikeForce. I had previously asked Chris Kong of RedWolf what he hoped the attendance would be and he'd answered that he would be delighted with 100, so he had a big smile on his face as he stood up to do the introductions before the event kicked off. The Airsoft Surgeon and Chris Pun from RedWolf Hong Kong had arrived earlier in the week and with just a few left to arrive, by 11 o'clock the place was buzzing to the sound of old friends catching up, new friends being made and the general hubbub of chatter (and probably a small amount of excitement and nervousness).
Clarence got a huge round of applause but before he officially opened the event he asked for a minute's silence in memory of Malcolm Dowding, who died earlier this year. Malcolm was a much-loved and well-respected shooter and Range Officer and I am certain his family and many friends will appreciate the gesture – and the fact that a Stage will be dedicated to his memory in every Championship from now on. You could have heard a pin drop but then it was down to business as Clarence and Chris gave an overview of the weekend. With the introductions over, shooters went through their final preparations and readied themselves for the 16 stages of competition they would be facing over the next two days.
As StrikeForce is so large, all the stages had been arranged either side of a "corridor" down the centre of the building, pointing towards the outside wall, meaning both shooters and spectators could move freely between the stages in safety. It also meant the chances of "shoot through" from another stage (where shots from one stage carry through to a different one) were largely mitigated. The stage was set for a cracking weekend's shooting and it wasn't long before the first scores were coming in, along with the first Disqualifications (or "DQ" as they are known).
In AIPSC there are essentially two types of penalty; "Procedural" and "Disqualification". A Procedural penalty will gain the shooter minus points, while a Disqualification does exactly what it says, it disqualifies the shooter from the match. However, that doesn't always they cannot continue to shoot and (on appeal) the competitor might be allowed to finish the match (depending on the severity of the penalty offence committed) but will score zero points. DQ penalties are all about safety and include obvious breaches such as accidental discharge, unsafe gun handling and unsportsmanlike conduct. Under "unsafe gun handling" are penalties for dropping a gun, pointing the muzzle uprange (or at any part at any part of their own body), or keeping the finger outside the trigger guard whilst moving – and it was this that seemed to be causing some new (AIPSC) shooters one or two problems.
In AIPSC the Range Officer must be able to clearly see that the trigger finger is outside of the trigger guard and most shooters will have trained themselves to "point" their finger away from the gun as they move. Now this might look odd but remember, the rules come from the world of real-steel shooting, where a negligent discharge could result in something far more serious than a bb-strike! Unfortunately, on the first day there were a number of competitors who simply did not make it clear enough that they had their finger off the trigger and were, therefore, disqualified.
This seemed to cause some consternation amongst some of the more experienced shooters, who were of the opinion that the rules should not have been so rigorously applied and that (obviously) new shooters should "educated" rather than penalised, especially if they are to be encouraged to continue shooting AIPSC. However, the counter-point was that the rules are there for a reason and all shooters have to follow them, regardless of their level of experience and, in any event, who would decide if a shooter is "experienced enough to know better". To be fair, I can see both sides of the argument and maybe a simple solution would be for shooters to be reminded of the DQ penalties as part of each stage briefing? By the end of the weekend a total of sixteen shooters had fallen foul of a DQ offence.
StrikeForce is very close to Gloucester town centre and most shooters were staying in hotels close to the venue, which meant everyone was up and raring to go in plenty of time on Saturday and Sunday. This, coupled with the fact that neither wind nor rain had affected the event, meant that by Sunday lunchtime the majority of shooters had completed all sixteen courses and as the last squads finished, the final scores were already being feverishly worked out (I swear you could almost see sweat on the poor little laptop tasked with the job).
With the tempo winding down and shooters starting to relax, there was time for a raffle with prizes sponsored by Double Alpha and an extraordinary array of Airsoft Surgeon pistols, including gold-coloured 1911s and cerakoted Glocks – all of which were received with big smiles and a lot of "man hugs"! Then it was down the serious business of who the winners were, so I'll hand over to Chris Kong of RedWolf Airsoft to announce the results and do the final "thank-yous"…


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July 12, 2011 MEETING OF THE ELECTRICITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 2011 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT
Location: National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association Conference Center, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia.
The Department of Energy's Electricity Advisory Committee held a meeting on July 12, 2011 at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Conference Center, 4301 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, Virginia. Members of the public were invited on a first-come, first served basis (depending on the availability of meeting room space) to listen to the Committee proceedings and to make comments.
Roadmap 2050: a Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe, Mike Hogan
Comparison Among Three Studies, Larry Papay
White House Grid Modernization Report, Patricia Hoffman
Smart Storage for a Smart Grid, Ake Almgren
The Silver Bullet ... Storage!, Terry Boston
Transcript of July 12, 2011 Meeting