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A facet is a flat, polished surface
on a fashioned gemstone, and cut refers to the facet proportions on the
surface of a diamond.
According to dharamhk, the shape, placement and angle of each facet determines a diamond's
brilliance, a quality which describes the intensity of the internal and external
reflections of white light through the crown of a diamond. The ideal cut creates
a diamond of perfect proportions, angles and finish, which cause it to reflect
light like a mirror.
In addition to brilliance,
dispersion of light, and scintillation (the
flashes of reflective light that emanate from a diamond when the diamond is
moved, also called "sparkle") are also determined by a diamond's cut.
When a diamond is cut to maximize
brilliance, dispersion, and scintillation, it usually loses size since more of
the stone must be cut away. Likewise, when cut for maximum size, the diamond
usually loses some of these beautiful qualities. The experts at
insist that it is best to choose a diamond for its beauty, not size, and that
additional facets will not necessarily create a more brilliant diamond.
A diamond's cut is considered the
most important of the four C's, since this quality gives the diamond that
irresistible shimmer and brightness that makes diamonds the king of all bling.
Cut, therefore, has a major impact on the overall value of a diamond
The ideal diamond engagement ring
is colorless (white) or nearly colorless, the rarest of all
diamond colors. The closer a diamond is to being colorless, the more
valuable it will be.
The Gemological Institute of
America (G.I.A.) grades color alphabetically from D (totally colorless) to Z
(yellow). For a diamond to be considered colorless, the G.I.A. requires that
it be a D, E, or F - the average grade of diamond engagement rings in
North America is G to H.
The colored tint of most diamonds
is the result of minute impurities within the stone; most of these tints are
imperceptible to the untrained eye, however these invisible differences can
affect the value of a diamond by thousands of dollars.
While most diamonds have a tint of
color, a select few exhibit a strong, pure hue. Diamonds come in almost every
color imaginable but the most popular colors are yellow, blue, green and pink.
These colored diamonds are sometimes called fancies and are extremely rare,
making them all the more sought-after.
Even the most beautiful and
valuable diamonds have natural imperfections called inclusions and blemishes.
All gem-grade diamonds receive a clarity rating based on standardized industry
scale: FL (flawless) to I3 (heavily included).
Dharamhk say that a diamond is
categorized as truly flawless if under the 10x power magnification of a
loupe (a strong jewelry magnifying glass) no external imperfections and no
internal flaws are visible. These unique specimens are exceptionally rare and
therefore extremely expensive.
Likewise, for those majority of
diamonds which are not deemed flawless, the smaller and fewer the blemishes, the
more valuable the stone. Many of the blemishes that reduce a diamond's value are
invisible to the naked eye.
Carat is the standard unit of
weight, not size, used for gemstones. One carat is equal to 0.200 grams.
Large diamonds are very rare, and two diamonds of equal weight can have very different
values depending on their clarity, color and cut.
While the diamond industry can
bring essential jobs to hundreds of thousands of paid citizens and enormous
economic value to many countries, the sale of blood or conflict diamonds has
also funded brutal civil wars responsible for violence, slavery and atrocities
in many African nations including Democratic Republic of Congo (formerZaire Sierra Leone and elsewhere.
More consumers and retailers are
exercising their political and ethical beliefs by choosing to purchase diamonds
only from suppliers who certify that they are not endorsing bloodshed.


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"Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses," Alice Korngold's first book, published in 2005
Thousands of business executives serve on boards of nonprofit organizations around the globe. Although they give of their time and energy – are they really making the most of this opportunity? Are they creating the best value for the nonprofit they serve, the corporation they represent, and the community?
In Leveraging Good Will, Alice Korngold shows how businesses can develop tomorrow's leaders by having their executives properly matched, trained, and coached for board service.
- The win for businesses: The company makes a truly meaningful contribution, while their executives engage in vital leadership skills, such as visioning, thinking strategically, persuading, advocating, building consensus, negotiating, inspiring, and mentoring.
- Korngold also shows nonprofits how to attract the most talented business people to their boards, and then focus their attention on key strategic and financial issues.
- The win for nonprofits: Higher functioning boards that will elevate organizations to their greater vision and potential.
- The global win: A far more vital nonprofit sector that provides essential health and human services, education and cultural enrichment for millions of people of all ages and backgrounds.
- The win for individuals: Personal, professional, and leadership development and satisfaction. Korngold is a consultant to corporations and nonprofit boards. She has trained and placed over 1,000 business executives on 275 nonprofit boards.

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Posted Feb 3, 2016
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To contact Mukilteo Little League, please email: firstname.lastname@example.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
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We want to thank our community sponsors who have made contributions for our 2020 season.
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Its very name conjures up magical images of a vast land stretching over the greater part of a continent and its spectacular colorful celebrations. Renewing ties with the brands past, Brasilia is an evocative and predestined name that already fired the imagination of Ebel designers for a watch they once created in the 1960s. Around the world, Brasilia undeniably spells freedom, festivity and passion: exactly the qualities embodied in the design of this high-energy new creation by the Architects of Time.
The new Ebel Brasilia collection is characterized by its rectangular case shape and it interprets all the major brand signature themes such as smooth, sensual lines, sophisticated, timeless design and incomparable bracelet comfort. Contemporary, vibrant and sensual, this new collection marries the brands classic curves with ultra-modern lines, in a clever blend that will guarantee the enduring beauty of this timeless creation.
The collection encompasses Lady and Gents models, both characterized by their well-balanced, streamlined proportions, H-shaped bracelet and sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment on both sides. Nonetheless, each was specifically and separately designed with its future wearers in mind, meaning neither was derived from the other. These genuinely distinct and independent Gent/Lady interpretations belonging to the same collection represent a noteworthy exception within the watch industry, and a sure sign that Brasilia is about expressing your own identity.
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Accelerating Your Microservices Testing with DevOpsCigniti
Organizations across the globe are being forced to evaluate scalable strategies for fast and easy API development, deployment, and consumption, as their customer worldwide continue to increase their adoption of applications on multiple platforms.
Microservices based service architectures help to eliminate complexity, effectively breaking the monolith and enabling organizations to scale their efforts, yet this frequently coincides with the problem of slower deployment.
In this webinar, we will discuss how adoption of microservices and DevOps practices can help you achieve your goal of faster development and delivery of high quality, strong performing APIs. We'll also cover:
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Jaime King's Style Inspired Her Hart of Dixie Character's Look
The always-stylish Jaime King is just as chic on screen as her character Lemon Breeland in Hart of Dixie, which comes as no surprise since her Lemon's look is actually inspired by King herself. "Lemon's style came from an original idea that I had when I was on Jimmy Kimmel," King told InStyle.com backstage before the Lela Rose show during New York Fashion Week. "I was doing an homage to Grace Kelly, and when [the producers] offered me the show, they took a screen shot of that and said 'We would love to design Lemon after this.'" King then began to collaborate with the show's costume designer, Meredith Markworth-Pollack, to create Lemon's wardrobe, which is filled with custom-made dresses along with pieces from Marc Jacobs, Valentino, and Kate Spade. And while Lemon's style may have been inspired by King, it's definitely exaggerated. "We play her up a bit more so you get more of the comedy," King continued. "So she's the heightened version of what I was doing." Be sure to watch an all-new episode of Hart of Dixie tonight at 8/7c on The CW.
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This was my speech for the Storytelling manual – Project 2 (Let's get personal)
The roads were narrow, thick trees on the sides, faint sunlight that you could see between the trees, as we drove under the canopy of trees into dark turns, I sat holding the car seat tightly muttering prayers under my breath.
Good Morning Toastmaster of the Day, my fellow toastmasters and guests.
During the last rainy season my husband and I decided to go on a trip to Hebbe falls. I was super excited and made elaborate planning on what to wear, what food to take, which route to go, the places to visit.
I had many what if's in my mind, what if we miss the way, what if there is a flat tyre, what if the car breaks down, what if we run out of cash, what if the ATM has no cash , what if we had to stay overnight
Saurabh wasn't worried, this wasn't his first trip after all.
We set off at 6 am to Chikmagalur. It was raining heavily, the road wasn't visible clearly but we didn't stop. After a quick breakfast at a tea stall we continued our journey. I followed every single turn in Google map lest we miss our way. Our first stop was the Mulyangiri peak. We took a left turn near Kaimara and reached the Mulyangiri peak. The rains had stopped and the sun was up and the place was too crowded as it was Sunday. But we enjoyed, the climb, the view on the top, and the Charmuri treats.
Our next stop was the hebbe falls. We followed the shortest route to Hebbe falls from Mulyangiri.
My dear friends, for those of you who do not use Google maps too frequently, BEWARE!; Google s shortest routes are quite dangerous. Of course, I was ignorant at the time. After we drove for about 30 minutes, the roads were narrower; the trees were taller and denser.
A bamboo gate forbade us from moving ahead. The road ahead was muddy; we could see some pot holes filled with water because of the rains. A young forest guard, not more than 25 years came over saying " Illa Illa, Restricted area. The road ahead is forbidden".
I had strong faith in Google, I immediately said, "No, this route leads to Hebbe falls. I have been here before".
"Illa , Illa, jeepalli hogbodu. But not in alto car. You have to take a detour", he replied.
The detour my friends would take another 70 kms to Kemmangundi, and again some distance to Hebbe falls , This route is just 13 Kms; it takes us directly to Hebbe falls and driving through mud road and pot holes didn't seem a big deal for me. It is a common sight here in Mangaluru when it rains.
After some bickering and cajoling I managed to convince him. He said, "Don't stop anywhere; you will take around 90 minutes."
I looked at Saurabh, both of us were calculating the formula speed = distance traveled/time taken in our minds. Why would we travel at speed of 10km/hr?
In less than a minute we realized why it is a big deal.
Due to rains, the roads and potholes were all covered with water. We could hardly see beyond the next turn, with dense trees covering on both the sides the branches of some trees were low, just a couple of feet over the alto, the next turn was pitch dark, the streaks of sunlight coming through the thick canopy of trees was just enough to see the way, We had to pause near ever single puddle of water to figure out the safest way to cross on the left or right. Yes, it would take us 90 minutes to cross 13kms
Any other vehicle or even a bike coming from the opposite direction didn't have place to stop and let us pass. Any other vehicle ???
At that time I remembered, huge hoardings at the bamboo barricade where I met the forest guard, huge boards with pictures of tiger that said "Forest Area, Core Tiger Area". 20 minutes in this road and we didn't come across any vehicle, there were no people, no vehicles no birds not even mosquitoes. Just the eerie atmosphere, pin drop silence, and at that point I started muttering prayers.
Weird things came to my mind, the what-if's ,
I started imagining weird things, what if the tyre got stuck in the puddle, what if some animal came by,
What if the tiger was hungry….
Saurabh wanted to turn the music on , because the silence was boring him, I denied out rightly. I didn't want to wake the tiger.
After what seemed like hours, I finally saw another barricade and a couple of forest guards. The gate was open and we drove past it to the familiar sight of people, vehicles, monkeys around, only to realize that I had missed he left turn to Hebbe falls. Google showed we had to go back for another 0.5 km in that dreaded path. Surprisingly, I wasn't scared this time to go back in that route. Turns out, I became a little braver. It wasn't possible to test my bravery because this time the forest guards didn't let us enter , and he didn't believe me when I said we came through that route.
We skipped the Hebbe falls and went to the next destination – Kemmangundi (there's always another time)
This trip has etched into my memory like it happened just a few minutes ago. It reminds of the importance of doing something that scares you.
If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try. Who knows, you may come out effulgent.
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Derek was the quarterback for his high school football team. He had recieved many scholarship offers and he could go to any college of his choice. He was the pride of the town and all the girls in school wanted him. He was the top athlete in the state, but he wasn't exactly the top in his class in GPA. He was struggling in all of his subjects, mainly history. History was his favorite class this year though because of the new teacher, Ms.
Howell. She was two years removed from college and had just recieved a job as the new history teacher. She had gorgeous golden blonde hair that fell to the middle of her back, which led down to her full, perfectly curved ass.
Then came her long, smooth legs that drove her students wild. She had deep blue eyes that penetrated yours when you stared into them and made any man melt. Her lips were full and juicy with glistening red lipstick generously applied.
Her tits were big and a beautiful sight when walking through the halls in the morning.She gave Derek a huge boner the first time he saw her. He had wanted to fuck her since the moment she walked into that classroom and he daydreamed about her frequently. "Derek! Derek wake up!
That's the third time you've fallen asleep this week. I want to talk to you after school today," Ms. Howell yelled as Derek awoke with a start. "I was awake," Derek said in protest, "I was just resting my eyes." "Well you won't be resting your eyes in detention today," Ms.
Howell replied. "DETENTION!? I can't serve detention today! I've got football practice." "Then I guess you'll have to miss it today." "But I can't! We've got a game tommorrow!" "You should have thought about that before you fell asleep." "But I-I-I-" DING DING DING! The bell rang and everyone rushed out of the classroom. "What a bitch," Derek thought to himself as he walked to Chemistry.
After school was out he started to skip detention and walked to practice, then he decided for some reason to go to detention. He didn't kmow why he wanted to go, but something told him to go. He thought that was his concience. He walked to Ms. Howell's classroom and opened the door. "Come here Derek. We need to talk," Ms. Howell said.
"I'm sorry Ms. Howell.
I didn't mean to fall asl-" "No. let's not talk about that. That is in the past," Ms. Howell interupted. "Then what do you want to talk about?" Derek asked. "Let's talk about you. Do you have a date for the prom?" "No," Derek said a little uneasilly. "Wow! I would have thought you would have a date right away. Have you ever had sex?" "What the fuck? Why did she just ask me that?" Derek thought tohimself that was completely out of left feild.
He got butterflies in his stomach and a big knot in his throat. Not only that, but he felt his cock start to harden as he stammered, "Yeah." He didn't know what to think or feel.
"Ow! My back. I always get knots in my back. Could you rub it a little for me please?" Ms. Howell asked in an unusual voice.
It wasn't her normal lecture type voice, but it sounded very sensual. Derek went around her desk to her chair and started to firmly rub her shoulders.
"Ohh yeah. That's it. Mmmmmm, you have such strong hands," Ms. Howell moaned.
Derek's cock began to grow and become stiff. Ms. Howell reached up and grabbed the back of Derek's neck. She pulled him to her and thier lips met. Ms. Howell gently caressed his tongue with her own, then he did the same. The touch of her hot wet lips sent shivers down his spine and to his now fully erect dick.
As they released after about a minute of this, Ms. Howell grabbed Derek's left hand and moved it towards her tit. "That's it. Touch me Derek," she said in a gentle voice. Derek slowly started to touch and gently squeeze the tit over the red sweater she was wearing. He felt her nipple begin to harden and they began to passionately kiss again. He then began to slowly work his right hand to the other hardened nipple and started to rub it.
Ms. Howell then spun around in her seat slowly and started to rub his cock on the outside of his pants. She slowly unbuttoned them and unzipped them. Derek bent down and kissed her while she took off his boxers to expose his 7 inch rod with small beads of sweat beginning to form on it. "Oooo, your'e so big!' She exclaimed. She very slowly began to move ger right hand up and down his shaft. "Yeah big boy. You like that?" She asked.
All he could do was nod. He was still in disbelief that his wildest fantasy was becoming very real. She opened her mouth and started to move the tip of her tongue all over his cock, teasing him.
Then she went for it all as she swallowed his whole dick in her mouth and began to suck it. This was the best feeling he had ever had and he had to concentrate on not cumming before the real action went down.
She was slobbering all over his dick and hot saliva was dripping from her chin as she rose to her feet and kissed him.
Derek reached under her sweater and began to caress her tits again. She took the sweater off exposing the red lingere bra she had on. He kissed her neck and worked his tongue to her cleavage. He reached around her and removed her bra exposing those warm soft tits he had dreamt about for what seemed to be forever. He sucked on her nipple and grabbed her other breast with his free hand as she groaned with pleasure.
He then unzipped her skirt to expose a thong matching the bra. He let go of her tits and grabbed two handfulls of hot ass that you could bounce a quarter off of. "Yeah, that's right. Now smack my ass big boy. I've been a bad girl," she demanded. He obeyed and gave two quick spanks to her right ass cheek.
She slowly fell onto her desk and took Derek with her. They were both lying on top of the desk with Derek on top as he reached down and took off the thong. He stuck two fingers in her warm juicy cunt and went in and out as she moaned. "Fuck me Derek. I want you in me right now." He leaned over her and slowly inserted his cock into her wet pussy. He looked deep into her eyes as he slowly fucked her.
Their chests were together and Derek loved the feeling of her hard nipples on his body. They kissed passionately as he started to fuck her a little harder and a little faster. "Oh yeah baby.
Fuck me harder, harder, harder!" Screamed Ms. Howell. Derek was now fucking her as hard as possible and sweat was streaming down his face. Her legs were in the air and Derek felt her pussy contract. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head. "Oh YEAH! FUCK! OH SHIT! I"M CUMING!
AH! OH! OH!" She let out a loud scream as her raging orgasm hit her. She pulled Derek out of her and stood him up against the desk.
She started kissing him, then moved down his body until she was on her knees. She began furiously sucking his cock and Derek felt a wave rush over him. His knees trembled, his heart raced. She was trying to suck the cum from him. She started to work his cock with her hands, pumping it hard. "I want you to cum all over my face so I can lick it off.
I want to taste you hot cum on my lips." Derek couldn't hold back any longer as he released a huge wad of cum right into her face. She licked it off then went back to suck the rest off of his cock.
As they got dressed, Derek was still having trouble believing what had just happened. "That was the best I've ever had!" Said Ms. Howell. "Me too," Derek said. "It's just too bad it's over." "Well, it doesn't have to be. I hold private tutoring sessions on tuesdays and thursdays.
We could work on those grades of yours. And you can bring a girlfreind if you want." "Okay, I'll see you tuesday then," Derek said happily as he walked out of the room.
"Oh, sorry you missed practice Derek," she called. "I didn't MISS it at all Ms. Howell. Not at all."


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When you look at escort ads, it is obvious that the girls are not at all reticent. The same thing is true on their websites, blogs and social media. Which is wonderful if you are the sort of girl who is comfortable being on display. But what if you aren't? What if you are shy?
by Hannah Jay
For a whole variety of reasons, young women are often socialized to avoid promoting themselves. For every girl who was a cheerleader there were dozens who weren't or didn't feel comfortable with the attention. Shyness can become a problem whether a girl is escorting or simply trying to get ahead in the business world.
What to do? First of all, understand that being a bit shy, avoiding the spotlight, is not always a detriment. For all the talk of alpha males wanting to date – or hire – women who are confident and self-assertive, here's a little secret about them–they are often very happy to see a quiet, gentle and somewhat shy girl.
Making a virtue of a necessity is always advantageous. In the escorting profession, it gives a girl a marketing hook that is light years away from the others who are desperately seeking the spotlight.
Standing Out in the Market
Sounds like a contradiction doesn't it: a shy girl standing out? Although writing about herself is sometimes difficult, an ad which highlights her quiet nature can be very effective:
Shy Girl for You
I'm really not quite sure what to say. I am more than a little shy. But I like to get out of my shell with kind generous men. I take a little knowing but I'm passionate and a little naughty under my quiet exterior. Brunette with a pretty face and a slim body.
This is an ad which whispers and it will stand out amidst the shouting.
A similar reserve, a basic tentativeness, can work equally well with your photographs, videos and website. Emphasizing who you actually are, is a great way to gain attention.
Shy girls can tend to be rather demure. Not for them the neon-coloured thong photograph. Instead, something simple and seductive such as a crisp white shirt with just that one extra button undone to reveal the pretty lace of a white bra will captivate a certain sort of client.
Carrying that theme over to your website and videos is fairly easy. Try to set a mood where you are not the focus of attention. After all, you client is coming to see you to have his needs met, not yours.
We learned about what it's like to be a shy escorts from Leah, who works in a university library in a smaller city on the West Coast during the day and escorts several evenings a week.
"I've always been a bit shy, which is why I love my day job. I get to take a cart of books and disappear for two hours into the stacks. The problem was that while it paid fairly well, it was not a job where I could really afford to do much more than pay my rent and buy a few clothes. I have to admit I pay more rent than most girls my age because I have this wonderful little house that I love. Great location, but it costs a lot. I live alone and value my privacy and solitude. I can't imagine anything worse than a roommate!"
"I'm not the sort of girl who most people would think of as escort material. I never thought of myself as escort material either!" I guess I'm pretty, and I walk and bike a lot, so I'm fit; but I'm a bit of a dreamy romantic. Probably from reading too many novels."
"I got into escorting in an odd way; I've always liked to read the classified ads (don't ask me why), and I always read the personals (you know, "M4F" which are hilarious). But one day there was an ad that caught my attention. I remember it so well, "Gentleman seeking enchanting woman as a muse/mistress."
Although I had never thought of such a thing, the idea intrigued me. So I wrote and we met. He was a wonderful man who was looking for exactly what I was – an intelligent, twenty- something girl who could see him a couple of times a week. He paid me an allowance and it was all very civilized. So civilized that I kept reading the classifieds hoping to find other nice men."
"They didn't seem to turn up so I thought I would try my hand at writing my own ad:
Make Me Your Mistress
Lovely young woman seeks a generous gentleman for conversation and pleasure.
I put the ad up and prepared for nothing, or worse, a hundred pictures of penises. Nothing would have been fine, my original patron was still very much in the picture. The response was gratifying, if not overwhelming. Ten men responded and I arranged to meet all but one.
Because I am shy, I found the meetings a bit nerve wracking, but it was just as awkward for some of them. As it turned out, most of them had never really thought of having a mistress and were just responding to my ad out of curiosity. And it soon became clear what they really wanted. The only one who was actually interested in having a mistress had the charm of a frog (and not the princely variety, either). So when one of the others suggested that he would like to see me "from time to time" and asked what I would charge, I really was taken by surprise. Since I had no intention of being an escort, I thus had no clue about the going rate for such services. So I named a price which I thought would put him right off.
He booked the next night.
I don't think I ever thought to myself, "So now I am an escort". He arrived with flowers and a very nice bottle of wine and we sat and chatted for an hour before anything really happened. I just treated him like I treated my patron and he was delighted. So delighted he left a tip and wanted to see me a couple of weeks later.
My escorting business just grew from there. I had my two regulars who saw me one night a week each, and then I tried to have a couple of other "dates" a week.
Even after five years I still don't really see myself as an escort. But I am a lot more confident than I was, and I have more money. A lot more.
I do a certain amount of what might be called "social dating" where my client wants to take me to dinner or maybe to the theatre. I'm fine with that, but I don't do cocktail or corporate parties where I have to talk to strangers. I'm still not that confident."
Tricia, a twenty nine year old escort in the Middle West, takes a totally different approach
I got into the business through a friend who thought that I'd be great at it. I suppose I was. My friend introduced me to her agency, so for the first year all I had to do was show up for dates. Which was easy but the agency was taking way too much of the money. My friend thought so too.
"We decided to go independent. We sometimes would do duos but she is a very different sort of escort than I am. I like to be a low volume provider. Working for the agency I saw a lot of out of town business guys on an out-call basis. I didn't like out-call at all. Knocking on the hotel room door freaked me out every time. Luckily though, I never had any problems."
"I thought it would be a lot easier to work from my apartment. I had a few regulars who came into town pretty much every month. I didn't feel bad taking them from the agency. I'd paid for them, I thought."
"But there was one issue. The agency had done all the advertising. They had a photographer who shot all their girls. They even had a website where each girl had her own page which the agency set up for her."
"I'm not shy in person. Just the opposite really. I can talk on the phone with clients, but I have a difficult time talking about myself, especially in writing. So I asked my friend to write me an ad which she did. I got responses, but not from the business guys I prefer. Which made sense because my friend wrote the sort of ad she uses for herself. I am pretty nicely put together and the ad was all about my measurements and my long blonde hair. So were the new photographs she chose."
"I really didn't know what to do because I was getting dates with young guys who wanted to get all athletic and pay as little as possible. Not my thing, and not what I am good at."
"I was pretty unhappy and I guess I unloaded a bit with one of my regulars. Jessie – not his real name – is a sales guy. He comes to my city at the end of a sales line and he likes to spend a night before heading home. That's when he sees me. He likes my place because it's private, and it gets him out of the hotel."
"I told him about how I was getting too many of the wrong sort of clients and not enough businessmen. He looked at it as a marketing problem. Who was my market? What were they looking for? In no time he'd written a short ad which didn't mention my measurements at all and described me as a «pretty, blonde, business student». He got out his smart phone and, in five minutes had taken a dozen really classy shots of me just wearing his white shirt. Which he thought was very sexy. Then he used some apps he had to turn the pictures into something which looked a bit vintage. It only took half an hour. He added the words, "discreet, discerning, businessmen" and that was it. I wanted to thank him but he said that I could thank him next time he was in town and I knew whether or not his efforts worked."
"So I posted the ad he wrote and three of the pictures. Now, the funny thing was I posted on a Friday and had the slowest weekend ever. But Monday the phone started ringing and it rang all week. From just the sort of clients I was looking for. Then Friday came around again and the phone stopped ringing."
I tried to figure out the busy week, the dead weekends. I thought about Jessie as the typical business traveller. He always arrived Monday morning and left as early as he could on Friday. Home for the week-end. Suddenly it made total sense. And I didn't like working on the weekends all that much anyway."
"The same pattern repeated itself the next week. Most of the clients were great. A few wanted me to do out-calls and I did a few, but most were really happy to come to my space."
"When Jessie came back a couple of weeks later he had a present for me. He'd built a simple but fabulous website using the pictures he'd taken. He also wanted to take some more, this time with some pretty lingerie he'd bought. He likes really nice lingerie and has really good taste. I looked wonderful and I felt fabulous. The black lace with my blonde hair was stunning. He took a lot of pictures – and some he took in black and white which were so, well, elegant."
"As you might guess, I took quite a while thanking Jessie and he said he was having a wonderful time doing my marketing. And that was all it took. He sort of invented an escort personality for me which was pretty true to life. But his real gift was knowing how to create an escort ad which attracted the clients I wanted."
"I guess the main thing I learned from the experience is that as an independent escort you really do have to do marketing…but you don't have to do it yourself. If I'd known that and Jessie had not come along, I could have put an ad up on Craigslist and hired someone who could have done the same thing."
Overcoming a shy disposition isn't critical, but finding a way to work around or work with your shyness is. Leah and Tricia each found ways to escort without making huge changes in their personalities.
At the same time, they adapted their escorting styles to match their temperaments. For many clients, an evening with a calm, gentle girl is much more relaxing than an encounter with an ubër confident escort. Using advertising and a website to project a somewhat demure escort persona can be a beneficial and effective marketing exercise.
Most importantly, every escort can and should develop an escort persona which is right for her. Trying to be someone you are not will create stress for you, and a disappointing encounter for your client. Just be yourself, shy or not.


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The following is an interview with one-time Anchorage Alaska radio DJ, Jerry Rose (who's real name is Peter Bie).
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
Peter, we'll call you by your Anchorage radio name "Jerry Rose" for this interview OK? - When did you first get into radio?
Jerry Rose:
I had been wanting to do radio since I was 10 years old. It just fascinated me.
In early '64, I had recently turned 16 and was a sophomore in high school. It took me two tries at passing the FCC 3rd Class Radio Operator's license test, but in those days in radio you were required to take transmitter meter readings, so hence the operator's license. I finally passed it.
And when I received my treasured license, it was stamped with the date March 27, 1964. It had been processed at the Anchorage office of the FCC on the same day as the Good Friday earthquake!
I spent that summer in Idaho and when I returned I went to KJNO-AM in Juneau and asked for a job. Which I got!
I was spinning the tunes and getting more and more interested in playing the Top 40 records than most of the middle of the road stuff the station played. More than once I was warned that I needed to stick to the MOR (Middle of the Road) format. But, being the know-it-all guy I was, I kept mixing in more and more Top 40, until the station manager decided it was enough and I could look elsewhere for employment.
So I promptly went down to the offices of KINY-AM (the only other station in town) and signed on for the 7pm-12midnight shift. By now this was the nearing the summer of '65 and for the next year I had the time of my life.
How many people can claim to be a senior in high school during the day and doing a Top 40 radio show at night! I was having a ball.
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
How did you make the move to Anchorage and KENI radio?
Jerry Rose:
I was graduating from Juneau- Douglas High School in May of '66 and my mother and sister were moving to Seward in order for my mom to take a new job.
I was working at KINY-AM in Juneau at the time and asked if there might be an opening at KENI (both stations were owned by Midnight Sun Broadcasting). As it turned out there was a shift available (midnight to 6am) and within a week of graduating from high school, I was at KENI, where I first encountered Ron Moore.
In June, the plane carrying the Beatles to their concerts in Japan was diverted due to a typhoon and they landed at Anchorage International. (Check out this story Face to Face with John Lennon about the Beatles in Anchorage - you'll love it.
It didn't take long for the word to get out and, while the Beatles were sequestered at the Westward Hotel, hundreds of Anchorage kids showed up. I was pulled in to handle the control room while Ron Moore and several other KENI employees were on site broadcasting from the Westward, hoping against hope that the Beatles would be able to come down and meet the fans. It never happened. And their escape from the Anchorage Westward hotel was worthy of a good caper film.
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
What was it like to do the Coke Show for the first time?
Jerry Rose
Doing the Coke Show for the first time was a little nerve wracking, considering you're playing live to an audience in their cars. But it didn't take long for me to settle in and just enjoy playing the hits.
It was fun having people come in and out of the booth upstairs; "the chicken coop" as we called it. And taking requests, in some cases with a short dedication, always made somebody in a car in the lot yell out.. or hide their face. It was a great way to meet your listeners.
Jerry Rose and Mike of Anchorage Memories first met when Ron Moore offered Mike the position of assisting the DJ during the Coke Show. Ron gave Mike the on-air name of "Mighty Michael", check out A Fun View from the Chicken Coop right now.
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
Your radio career was interrupted by two tours of duty in Vietnam. What was that like?
Jerry Rose
I did end up serving 19 months in Vietnam, the first 12 as a military journalist posted near Saigon ('67-68) and the second 6 months as a door gunner on a helicopter with the 1st Cav ('68-69). I am currently the president of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 218, in Santa Barbara, CA.
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
After you returned from serving in the Army, you moved from KENI radio to KBYR. How did that come about?
Jerry Rose
Ron Moore had been in talks with owner Augie Hiebert and eventually cemented a deal in which KBYR would become the rival to KENI.
Ah, nothing like a Top 40 radio war to heat things up.
Ron asked me if I wanted to come over to the station and I took about 10 seconds to say yes. All of us who were involved in that station from 1969 on had a ball… and turned it into the #1 station in the market.
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
You hosted The Varsity Show the last year it was on the air at KTVA channel 11. What are your memories of doing a weekly teen dance program on live TV?
Jerry Rose
One never thinks that what you're currently doing will just "disappear" from the airwaves.
We always managed to produce a fun show and the kids always had a great time on the Varsity Show. Shoot, I was barely a kid myself. And the Varsity Show crew behind the scenes kept us moving along and focused on what we were doing.
When the Varsity Show was cancelled, the end came with a lot of mixed feelings. But times were changing, sponsors were changing and TV itself was changing. Little did we know what was to come over the next couple of decades.
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
You worked in radio in Hawaii for a time, and while you were there, you auditioned for a part on the original "Hawaii 5-0" television series and got the part. That must have been exciting, can you tell us about that. Did you spend some time with the show?
Jerry Rose
Wow, that just brought back a few memories.
Actually, the audition for "5-0" went well but I never got the part.
However, it was fun just being at the sound stage they had built for the show. Maybe I should go back and audition for the current "5-0".
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
What would you like to say to your Anchorage fans that remember listening to Jerry Rose on Anchorage radio?
Jerry Rose
Thank you!
Thanks for being part of a wonderful time in radio, when listening for the next hit from the Beatles, the Stones, or any of the artists of the time was just plain exciting.
I was a mere lad of 18 when I came to Anchorage and KENI, later to be heard on KBYR and even later for a time on KFQD. In that summer of '66 -- and after the Beatles had gone — we auctioned off for charity the sheets, cups, glasses and anything else the Westward hotel would give us from their room. Who gets to do that anymore?
I remember the first time playing Crosby, Stills and Nash (with or without Young) and the phones rang off the hook.
Radio today is nothing like it was then. We had fun on the air, we had fun with the listeners, and we felt we were a part of the culture and the generation of the time.
I was lucky enough to come into Top 40 radio in its heyday in 1966 and ride it for a number of years. We'll never have that kind of era or programming again. Think about it, playing Frank Sinatra (Strangers In the Night) back-to-back with The Beatles (Paperback Writer) or the Stones.
Here's to the Boomers!
Anchorage Alaska Memories - Mike and Mary:
Wow, thank you for all those Anchorage Alaska Memories Jerry Rose. We always enjoyed listening to you on the radio in Anchorage and it was wonderful to "remember when" with you.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Jesus does not ask that people only contemplate his image, but that they also recognize and love him concretely in all people who suffer like he did, Pope Francis said.
Jesus is "present in our many brothers and sisters who today endure sufferings like his own — they suffer from slave labor, from family tragedies, from diseases. They suffer from wars and terrorism, from interests that are armed and ready to strike," the pope said April 9 as he celebrated the Palm Sunday Mass of the Lord's Passion.
In his noon Angelus address, the pope also decried recent terrorist attacks in Sweden and Egypt, calling on "those who sow terror, violence and death," including arms' manufacturers and dealers, to change their ways.
In his prayers for those affected by the attacks, the pope also expressed his deepest condolences to "my dear brother, His Holiness Pope Tawadros, the Coptic church and the entire beloved Egyptian nation," which the pope was scheduled to visit April 28-29.
At least 15 people were killed and dozens more injured April 9 in an Orthodox church north of Cairo as Coptic Christians gathered for Palm Sunday Mass; the attack in Sweden occurred two days earlier when a truck ran through a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15 others.
The pope also prayed for all people affected by war, which he called, a "disgrace of humanity."
Tens of thousands of people carrying palms and olive branches joined the pope during a solemn procession in St. Peter's Square under a bright, warm sun for the beginning of Holy Week.


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A hearing today before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will examine the legal standard that should apply when the government requests Americans' cell phone locational information.
"In the Information Age, cell phones, BlackBerries and other innovative technologies make it easier for Americans to quickly share information, with countless benefits. But, these technologies also create privacy challenges that were unforeseen when Congress enacted federal electronic privacy laws decades ago. The use of cell phone locational information impacts Americans across the nation and from every walk of life. The question of how best to protect these digital communications, while providing law enforcement with the tools that it needs to keep us safe, has no simple answer. But, what is clear is that our federal electronic privacy laws are woefully outdated. Congress must work with the Justice Department, privacy advocates and the technology industry to update and clarify the law to reflect the realities of our times.
"This Congress, I will chair a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee to explore much-needed updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. I hope others in Congress will work with me to address this important issue on behalf of the American people."
Leahy is the chief author of the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which criminalized tampering with electronic mail systems and remote data processing systems, and to protect the privacy of computer users. In previous Congresses, Leahy has introduced legislation to update ECPA to respond to advances in technology.
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PTW Architects' architectural achievement has been recognised repeatedly throughout its history. In 1930, the firm won the inaugural Sulman Medal (the highest honour awarded by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects) for Science House, Sydney. It won this award again in 1952 for the Royal Swedish Legation, Canberra. Our recent awards are listed below: 2016 Gold Winner - Sydney Design Awards + Summit, Architecture - Mixed Use – Constructed, Pacific Bondi Beach 2016 UDIA Excellence in Mixed-Use Development - Discovery Point 2016 UDIA Excellence in High-Density Development - Alexander, Barangaroo South 2016 Urban Taskforce Development Excellence Awards, Development of the Year – Pacific Bondi Beach 2016 Urban Taskforce Development Excellence Awards, Mixed Uses Development – Mascot Central 2016 Urban Taskforce Development Excellence Awards, Medium Rise – City Apartments Development – Alexander, Baranagaroo South 2016 Good Design Awards, Architectural Design, Commercial and Residential – One Central Park 2015 Best Innovative Green Building MIPIM Awards – One Central Park 2014 Best Tall Building in the World by the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) – One Central Park 2014 BPN Sustainability Award for Multi Density Residential, Highly Commended – One Central Park 2014 Leaf Awards Overall Winner and - Best Sustainable Development of the Year – One Central Park 2014 AIA Residential Architecture Multiple Housing Commendation – One Central Park 2014 World Green Infrastructure Congress International Green Infrastructure Award - One Central Park 2014 WAN Façade Award Highly Commended - One Central Park 2014 UDIA NSW Awards High Density Development - One Central Park 2014 UDIA NSW Awards Design & Innovation - One Central Park 2014 Urban Taskforce Development of the Year - One Central Park 2014 Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Best Tall Building in Asia and Australia - One Central Park 2013 AIA Award for Enduring Architecture – AMP Building Sydney Cove


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Break Wall keeps delivering contestable waves for the Port Macquarie Festival of Bodyboarding, in New South Wales, Australia. The Women's division saw a strong team of Japanese bodyboarding girls joining the tour.
It has been a great mix of generations. Years ago names like Aoi Koike and Chigusa Niguiyama were leading the pack on Tour. Today, these names have mentored the youth through their bodyboarding schools, making this newer generation hungrier and and stronger than their own.
So, the Ladies heats were dominated by the Japanese contingent, Hiromi Takake, Mayumi Tone, Miya Inoue and Ayake Susuki, who all won their heats this morning.
Emma Cobb and Nicole Flemming were the sole Australian's in Round 1 and easily managed to stand their ground to advance into Round 2 along side Ruth Parra and Miyumi Kondo.
Round 3 of the Men's saw Port Macquarie's, Nathan Branch, Jones Russell, Sam Bennet, Charlie Holt and Damian King in the drivers seat with stylish and smooth riding to advance.
Heat 6 of Round 3 saw a neck on neck battle between Aussies, Joe Clarke (13.96) vs Nick Ormerod (13.67) who respectively placed first and second.
Other standouts of Round 3 included Ewan Donnachie, Dan Worsley, Hayato Enokido, Alberto Colucci and Canarian's Nelson Mora and Ruyman Rey. Due to a relentless rain squall and deteriorating conditions, event organizers decided to halt competition after heat 2 of Round 4.
Heat 1 of Round 4 saw Magno Passos and Jones Russell advance in 1st and 2nd respectively whilst Sam Bennet and Western Australia's Lewy Finnegan took out Heat 2 of Round 4 in 1st and 2nd respectively.


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Junk Market Stop @ Ecrater.com Marketplace
*ITEM: LIZ CLAIBORNE Black Sunglasses Beach Shades Used
*MANUFACTURER: Liz Claiborne - Frame made in China
*CONDITION: Decent used. There is some wear on the left arm where the sunglasses were handled regularly. The lenses were looked at closely and they looked alright for a used pair. There's some micro scratches but they aren't noticeable under normal lighting conditions. Every dust particle can be seen including my eye pupils reflect when I looked into my sun lamp. One arm is slightly above the other on the reach.
*FEATURES: Black frame. Liz Claiborne quality lenses. These sunglasses will be good for the beach or when you go places you don't want to take your expensive sunglasses to be trashed or lost.
*A picture that can be magnified to full screen will be sent upon request.
*Buyer is responsible for any maintenance or repairs needed if any.
*This item will be sold "as-is" in used condition. No warranties or guarantees come with the purchase of this item.
*Buyer is responsible for making sure all is correct with the item and the item will suit the buyers needs and expectations before purchase. Buyer is responsible for making sure purchase of this item is not a mistake.
*Items sold are inspected and photographed at different angles before being boxed up and shipped to the buyer. Any attempts to return broken items in exchange for what's been shipped to the buyer, make the purchase and exchange parts that are needed then send unit back for a refund, extort partial refunds or get a refund due to a mistake made by the buyer in the purchase of the item will be reported immediately.
The shipping weight will be 1lb USPS. A handling fee is charged to cover the time and any expenses associated with the packing and shipping of packages. Anything left is put towards the selling fee's.
The shipping weight will be 1lb USPS. A handling fee is charged to cover the time and any expenses associated with the packing and shipping of packages. Anything left is put towards the selling fee's.
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After their father's death, a brother and sister prepare to sell the family farm, but a mysterious force beneath the ground attracts unwelcome visitors. Directed by Dylan Harrington
Steven works in the field to fix an old drainage system leading into the house before he and his sister sell the farm house.
Upon the discovery of a myserteous object buried beneath the field, Mysterious Men, disguised as government officials, arrive and make Steven and Julie an irrefutable offer to buy the property. Steven refuses to give up on his family farm, much to the dismay of Julie. However, their father left the farm to the older child, Julie. She, with no regards, sells the property to the Mysterious men, but Steven refuses to leave.
After spending too much time around the object, Steven becomes sick. The sickness grows more and more intense as he attempts to open a radiating hatch he finds on top of the object.
Steven nearly escapes death on several occasions as he battles with the mysterious Men, until the fighting leads to the death of one of the men and the other just barley escapes. Steven finally breaks into the object's hatch and gets inside, but what he finds is far from the resolution he was hoping for.


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The technology can be installed by us, or be connected to a software by a developer. Programming basics are required, but no knowledge of artificial or linguistic intelligence is required. Being an API, Golem.ai can be used from any programming language.
Yes. Golem.ai was thought to not limit the developer in terms of input users. These tools are not provided, but you will have no trouble linking them to Golem.ai. You can even allow a user to use multiple different interfaces for the same Golem.ai server.
Yes. To work with voice, Golem.ai can be connected to a speech recognition tool, or even voice synthesis.
Yes, it is pretty fast to add languages in Golem.ai. We do it on demand. If you want to make a project with other languages, contact us.
The request are not registered in the database. By the console, the Golem.ai team has access to your contexts to assist you in case of need. However, queries are not stored. For complete control of the data that passes through your Golem.ai server, you can install it on your own infrastructure, thanks to licence for embedded
The technology itself was prototyped in 2013, and alpha was launched in testing phase in 2015. The brand Golem.ai has been created in 2016.
The multiplication and the complexity of the software interfaces generate make applications harder to user, with painful learning. This difficulty is present in the industrial world but also more commonly in the servicing of the market, that is to say the explosion in the number of ultra-specialized services, generally based on a mobile application (transport reservations, concierge services, birthday organization, pressing at home, etc.)
By offering a technology adapted to any environment and the rapid evolution of software, Golem.ai invites the centralized development of interfaces by language, textual or vocal, to interact with all your services and devices through a single interface.


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Writing short biographies is becoming more popular with the establishment of company websites. Businesses often include staff biographies on their websites, and publish biographies in newspapers when a new employee is hired.
Make your biography accurate and current. Do research. Interview your subject, as well as people who know the individual well, if possible. Ask where the person has lived, worked and attended school. Inquire about the highlights of their education and professional life, as well as their personal interests and family. Jot your notes on separate notecards in pen, so your notes do not smudge. Use the Internet, library books and other sources to fact check your biography where necessary.
Identify the audience and format in which the biography will be presented. Arrange and rearrange your notecards around until you get them into an ordered arrangement that will make the most sense to your audience. You might choose to write the biography in chronological order, for example, or according to the person's accomplishments. Create an outline.
Use your outline to construct your first draft. Ignore limiting yourself to the 200 word limit in your first draft. Focus instead on getting all the material in a logical order and written well. Type your draft, save it to your computer and print out a copy. Write your word count on the top of the page in pen.
Place your draft aside for a few hours, or even a day or two if possible. Revise it after some time has elapsed. Focus on your content first. Eliminate adverbs and excessive adjectives, making sure your sentences are concise and interesting. Read your draft aloud to catch missing or extraneous words and edit accordingly.
Check your word count to see how close you are to the 200-word limit. Reduce your word count if necessary by truncating quotations and by tossing out excess or minor details. Focus on major achievements and degrees, rather than listing every small award. Make certain your biography is written in active voice, as passive sentence construction is wordy. Delete cliches and reduce lengthy phrasing to fewer words. Avoid redundancies.
Proofread for grammar and punctuation after you've streamlined your content.


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Yes, you can send luggage and suitcases using Packlink.
However, we always recommend to use proper packaging and pack the luggage inside a box, otherwise, the suitcase itself will be considered packaging and in this case claims for damages will not be accepted (broken wheels, handles, scratches, etc).
Also remember that all shipments need to be sent with their own label, and if you don't use appropriate packaging the label can be easily lost (as it happens with the standard luggage surfaces). This might lead to delays or even the loss of your luggage.
If you can't find a proper packaging for its size and/or weight, you might wrap it in bubble wrap and retractable plastic to prevent superficial damages to the suitcase, similar to how it's done in airports. However, this doesn't mean that in case of damages the claim will be accepted, so we always suggest to use suitable packaging for a proper transportation.
We recommend to review the packaging instructions of your carrier of choice, to prevent any incidents during the pick up or transit.
Avoid sending with your suitcase perfumes, shaving creams, or medicines! The shipment of sprays, aerosol cans or medicine is prohibited.


text: Here are 5 easy tips that will save you cut Calories in your diet without trying too hard. We all want to reduce our Calories, but no one likes to restrict their foods, try starting with these hints to change what you eat, without the pain of dieting! 1. Eat Dark Chocolate instead of Milk:Dark Chocolate is lower in sugar and Milk fats, it is also less Moorish, so easier to stop at a few squares instead of eating the whole block. 2. Swap your fries for baked Potato:We all love fries, but the oil adds more calories than we need. A yummy alternative is to cut a potato or sweet potato into Wedges, spray with some coconut oil and season with herbs, garlic, paprika or sea salt and bake them in the oven. 3. Don't drink your calories:500ml of soft drink can contain around 200 Calories, as well having a huge amount of added sugar. Sweetened Fruit Juice, alcohol, flavoured Milk are all calorie dense. Carry a bottle of water with you where ever you go and get into the habit of drinking it throughout the day, if you are not thirsty, you won't be tempted with a Coke mid afternoon. 4. Reduce Bread:If you are having a Burger or even a sandwich, remove the top slice of bread or bun and eat it with a knife and fork. This will reduce the Calories by up to 100 and you will eat slower rather than shoving it into your mouth quickly, so the feeling of fullness will take over before you finish. Don't forget to wash it down with water. 5. Change your snacks:If you are out and about, instead of grabbing a chocolate bar popping in to the bakery for a snack, go to the supermarket. Buy a punnet of Berries or some cut up Carrot or Vegetable sticks. This will save you heaps of calories and you will feel better for it!


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AMAZING photos of a 10ft python eating a crocodile have been captured by stunned residents in northern Queensland.
The five-hour battle between the reptiles at Lake Moondarra, near Mount Isa, drew attention from crowds nearby as they wrestled in the water before the crocodile eventually succumbed to the might of the snake.
Local resident Tiffany Corlis, who bravely moved near enough to capture the struggle, said the snake coiled itself around the crocodile while in the water, managing to keep its head in the air to stay alive.
The snake then dragged the crocodile onto the land and ate it.
Corlis told ABC North West Queensland Radio: "(The crocodile) was fighting at the start, it was trying to keep its head out of water and survive. But as the morning progressed you could tell both of them were getting a little weaker and the struggle was going on, finally the croc sort of gave in."
Corlis said it appeared to take the snake around 15 minutes to eat the crocodile.
"It was just unbelievable," she said, particularly when the struggle was over. "We were thinking that the snake had bitten off a little more than it could chew. But it did. It actually ate the crocodile.
"[Afterwards] you could see the crocodile in the snake's belly, you could actually see its legs and see its scales and everything. It was just amazing."
Corlis, however, insisted that the incident did not put her off from taking a dip at Lake Moondarra in the future, adding: "I think I'll just send someone else in first."
Another witness, Alyce Rosenthal, told local media that the two creatures fought for about five hours.
She said: "It's not something that you see every day."


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Mini Pizza Gift Box with Majestic Labels One!
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Great project. Thanks for the step by step instructions. I like the videos too, but sometimes it's easier for me to follow along if I can see each step so I can make sure I'm doing the project correctly.
Beautiful Sherry. I truly appreciated your step by step, because in all honesty I couldnt figure out quite how these dies worked and now I do. Your step by step and explanation as to why made this crystal clear for me. Thank you.
This is very creative! Thanks for the step by step instructions. That helps a bunch!
I love this, Sherry! Thanks for the great tutorial. I know how much work that was!
that makes for a very elegant box!!
I love how this looks as a box top
Ahhhh, misting with water….. duh me. (I'm die cut challenged) LOVE the step out tutorial….that is exactly what I need. The box is gorgeous!!!!!! I love the white die cuts on top of that black.
Love the black and white combo, Sherry, for the box. Your instructions look easy enough for me to try, so will give it a shot for a Valentine gift! Thank you!
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Winner of the Boulder International Vocal Competition 2014, Ms. Orsi has been invited to sing next May 2015 the title role in Bizet's Carmen with the Boulder Opera Company and Boulder Symphony, under the baton of Maestro Devin Patrick Hughes.
"Singing for the Boulder Music Institute and working with Lauren Sawyer has been a great chance to grown up and share my art and work with great collegues. Lauren Sawyer is an amazing artistic director and the entire BMI family, the musicians and the conductor have been very collaborative, helpful and especially professional. Working with them was a truly opportunity to move forward in my career, especially in a country that is not my own one but that it's giving me such a good response. I'm looking more than forward to work again with them on Carmen's production and I sincerely recommend the entire competition and organization to all singers that are looking forward for a constructive singing experience", said Ms. Orsi in a recent interview.


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Ten More Ways to Lower Anxiety
Skimming through Real Simple magazine at the check out line of the supermarket, I came across Dr. Robert Leahy's article "10 Ways to Cope with Anxiety." Dr. Leahy is the director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy and the author of many books on the subject. His suggestions will help you calm your nerves:
1. Repeat your worry until you're bored silly.
"…take the troublesome thought that's nagging at you and say it over and over, silently, slowly, for 20 minutes. It's hard to keep your mind on a worry if you repeat it that many times."
Dr. Leahy calls this technique "the boredom cure." Behavioral scientists call it 'flooding'. I'm not so keen about this technique for my extremely anxious patients who are having trouble regulating their thoughts and emotions. If your anxiety is on the milder side, however, and you have the courage to do this, I recommend you think about your worries while practicing relaxation techniques to keep your body as calm as possible.
2. Make it worse.
"When you try too hard to control your anxieties, you only heighten them. Instead exaggerate them and see what happens."
This is a good one. When I suggest it to my patients I call it the 'Bring it on' technique or 'Fake it 'til you make it'. By inviting what scares you, you learn on your time that you can survive your fears instead of waiting to be bushwhacked by them.
Sports psychologists use this all the time. When I was terrified my horse would shy and dump me on the ground, my coach told me to stop trying to keep my mare from bolting. Instead she told me expect her to shy, to look forward to it. That attitude helped me relax and so did the horse.
3. Don't fight the craziness.
"You may…have thoughts that lead you to think you'll do something terrible…or that you're going insane… Remember – our minds are creative…every now and then 'crazy' thoughts jump out. Everyone has them."
In the weeks after my first child was born, when I was exhausted, sleep deprived and in the grips of baby blues, I had thoughts of throwing my screaming baby out the window. Those thoughts terrified me. Tearfully, I confessed my horrible thoughts to my mother who shrugged and said, "We all think something like that at some time. You didn't act on it, did you?" She assured me I wasn't crazy. I could relax.
My patients are sometimes surprised when I suggest they allow themselves to imagine doing something outrageous like throwing a banana cream pie at their nasty boss's puss. Unleashing our creative minds may be just what we need to de-stress.
4. Recognize false alarms.
"Many thoughts and sensations that we interpret as cues for concern–even panic–are just background noise. Think of each of them [rapid heart beat, tensing of muscles] as a fire engine going to another place."
5. Turn your anxiety into a movie.
"..imagine that your anxious thoughts are a show… while you sit in the audience, eating popcorn, a calm observer."
This is a good way to exercise 'detachment,' stepping outside of the anxiety just enough to keep your thinking brain working. Another technique I suggest is to imagine the worry happening to a friend, not you. Then imagine talking to your friend. What would you say to them? How can you be supportive?
6. Set aside worry time.
"Try setting aside 20 minutes everyday–let's say 4:30 PM–just for your worries. If you are fretting at 10 AM, jot down the reason and resolve to think about it later. By the time 4:30 comes around, many of your troubles won't even matter anymore."
7. Take your hand off the horn.
"When you desperately try to take command of things that can't be controlled, you're more like the swimmer who panics and slaps the water screaming… Instead, imagine that you are floating along on the water with your arms spread out…It's a paradox, but when you surrender to the moment, you actually feel far more in control."
8. Breathe it out.
"Focusing on breathing is a common but effective technique for calming the nerves."
This a classic, oldy, but goody. If you do it right, deep, mindful breathing is better than Valium.
9. Make peace with time.
"Every feeling of panic comes to an end, every concern eventually wears itself out, every so-called emergency seems to evaporate."
When we are in the midst of a panic attack we feel it will last forever or else we will die. Remembering the fact that panic attacks and anxiety in milder form is finite, usually not lasting more than ten minutes. Dr. Leahy also counsels:
"Ask yourself, 'How will I feel about this in a week or a month?' This one, too, really will pass."
10. Don't let your worries stop you from living your life.
"What can you still do even if you feel anxious? Almost anything."
Not all anxiety is bad. Keep in mind that some highly productive people transform their anxiety into motivation to do better and achieve much, both great and small.
To read all of Dr. Leahy's article click here or look for it in the October 2009 issue of Real Simple magazine.
This article was originally published on Explore What's Next.
For more on anxiety read:
10 Steps to Lower Anxiety and Find Empowerment
What Is Anxiety?
Understanding the Anxious Mind
Aletta, E. (2018). Ten More Ways to Lower Anxiety. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 28, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/ten-more-ways-to-lower-anxiety/
Last reviewed: By a member of our scientific advisory board on 8 Jul 2018
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Continued from yesterday.
Mathematicians sometimes employ the imagery of a three-dimensional landscape to represent the challenge of solving complex problems. Imagine such a landscape, replete with peaks and valleys, stretching to infinity. Now imagine we want to find the highest point on that landscape, but we can only see the points that we've visited.
We're standing on the highest point we've found, but are we as high as we could be? Are we really on a molehill, thinking it's a mountain only because we've not yet discovered what real heights look like? How can we explore this terrain without spending an eternity randomly trying new locations?
Mathematicians have conjured a variety of mechanisms for grappling with this problem. They deploy algorithms, for example, that search for higher ground. They grapple with not only "solving" the problem represented by the theoretical landscape, but of inventing methods that can solve a variety of such problems more efficiently than a random walk.
Human societies face a similar challenge. The practitioners of our arts, sciences, and technical crafts are all constantly searching, in their varied ways, for higher ground. They experiment, they wander, they follow hunches. Sometimes they chart higher terrain and wait for us to catch up (the benefits of anesthesia had been amply demonstrated for decades, for example, before it found widespread use among surgeons).
Other times our explorers find crevices, and in their delusions declare them mountaintops. They rail at the rest of us for refusing to descend. Perhaps a fair number of recent artistic endeavors fall in that category.
The great challenge in this obscured landscape—both for the mathematician and the society—is that we may get stuck in the foothills. We get stuck and lose the capacity to descry higher locales. This capacity will falter, scientist Michael Polanyi warned decades ago, when scientists—and with them citizens—are no longer attuned to truth.
Examples of this include not only fraud and shoddy research, but the deeper epistemological flaws in modern scientism—summarized as the denuding of what we believe about what can be believed.
The advancement of science and culture, Polanyi argued, is driven by the vision and passion of scientists and artists. Their intuitions help them choose fruitful areas to explore. But, if they are no longer compelled by a longing for the beauty of an elegant discovery, those intuitions become clouded. They pursue their appetites instead, in the form of career advancement, notoriety, and whatever pleases their paymasters. They cannot envision great and untapped truths because they are not motivated by the hunger for those truths.
Even if a scientist retains clarity of vision in the face of funders who care only for the technological applications of her research, and university officials who demand that she publish so many papers with "positive" findings per year, she has to be able to trust that the echoes coming back to her, from the labors of her fellow scientists in their various domains, ring true.
We long ago passed the point where anyone can grasp more than a sliver of all scientific knowledge. As knowledge has advanced, the work of scientists has become more interdependent.
What this means, on a material level, is that the erosion of trustworthiness among researchers can have dramatic economic consequences. Entrepreneur Peter Thiel argues that we're witnessing a deceleration of innovation in most technological domains.
Part of his evidence is the fact that, while earlier generations discovered ways to use critical natural resources ever more efficiently, driving down commodity prices and rendering doomsday predictions about overpopulation moot, the real average price of these commodities has been rising since 1993, indicating that our pace of discovery is stymied. The pace of innovation in areas ranging from transportation to biochemistry, meanwhile, appears to be slowing. Thiel blames inept government policies for all this, but could it be that the scientific enterprise itself is faltering?
Even more worrisome, a community's ability to trust intellectual authorities plays an essential role, as Polanyi noted decades ago, not only in the advance of science, but in cultural preservation. When we can no longer trust that the people charged with telling us truths—be they scientists, journalists, politicians, clergy, or teachers—are both truthful and competent at discerning truth, our communities lose what Hannah Arendt called their "factuality."
And when we lose the capacity to mutually agree upon what is true, we risk, at the very least, devolving from the city on a hill to dispersed individuals, each comfortable selecting whatever facts and beliefs suit his lifestyle.
Got strong political convictions? There's a news station for every stripe. Thinking about alleged connections between vaccinations and autism? Whatever you choose to believe, there are people with PhD's standing ready to confirm your choice.
At the very worst, beyond losing the benefits of intellectual advances, we risk tribalism and organized brutality, because absent a trusted community of authorities who honestly hash out what is true and what is false, the determination of facts passes from the hands of the competent to the hands of the influential: to demagogues and thugs, in other words.
One of the most compelling elements of Polanyi's book Personal Knowledge is his recounting how Nazis and Soviet Communists appropriated science for their own monstrous ends, seizing, in the process, the mantle of truth.
So it's a big deal when science is done poorly, because where science is mangled, truth is mangled. There are smart, committed scientists working on this problem. But I suspect they'll only ameliorate the symptoms, because they're after technocratic solutions. Better empirical methods, better fact-checking, better grant-writing and article-reviewing.
The underlying cancer lies not in the methods, but in whatever madness yields so many scientists who could be passionate about anything lower than truth. But I suppose that can be said of all domains, and, maybe, all of us. We are all less than our best selves when we lost sight of beauty, when we lose the gut sense that there is truth beyond ourselves—be we chemists or novelists or accountants.
We become less than our best selves, and the question becomes: can we find our way back again?
Tony Woodlief lives outside Wichita, Kansas, and is the author of a spiritual memoir, Somewhere More Holy. His essays on faith and parenting have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, and WORLD Magazine. His short stories, two of which have been nominated for Pushcart prizes, have been published in Image and Ruminate. His website is www.tonywoodlief.com.
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Los Angeles - Paris Jackson has defended her father Michael after police reports painted him as a "sex-crazed predator".
The 18-year-old aspiring actress has come to the defence of the late Billie Jean hitmaker after a police report from 2003, which surfaced on Tuesday, documented a list of seized items allegedly from his Neverland property.
She wrote on Twitter: "Unfortunately, negativity will always sell. I urge you all to ignore the trash and the parasites who make a career trying to slander my father.
"The most pure people are always torn down. It will continue to be proven that my beloved father has always been and forever will be innocent."
And Jackson's estate has also come to his defence, insisting his name has just been "dragged through the mud" now he was unable to defend himself.
They said in a statement: "Seven years ago this coming Saturday, the world lost an amazing artist and humanitarian devoted to helping children in need in all corners of the world. Michael Jackson's fans, including the Executors of his estate, prefer to remember the wonderful gifts Michael left behind instead of having to once again see his good name dragged through the mud by tabloid trash.
"Everything in these reports, including what the County of Santa Barbara calls 'content that appears to be obtained off the Internet or through unknown sources' is false, no doubt timed to the anniversary of Michael's passing.
"Those who continue to shamelessly exploit Michael via sleazy internet 'click bait' ignore that he was acquitted by a jury in 2005 on every one of the 14 salacious charges brought against him in a failed witch hunt. Michael remains just as innocent of these smears in death as he was in life even though he isn't here to defend himself. Enough is enough."
An investigator on the case alleges they found "disgusting and downright shocking images of child torture, adult and child nudity, female bondage and sadomasochism" at Jackson's home.
Jackson was acquitted of seven counts of child molestation and two counts of giving an intoxicant to a minor in 2005.