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Angry Birds is a physics based demolition game that puts you in control of the Angry Birds who must destroy the green pigs that stole their eggs. Lay waste to the pigs and their protective construction as you take control of several different types of birds with their own unique abilities. In order for you to be successful, you will need to use each's skills to your advantage both logically and strategically. Angry Birds is as fun as it is strategic and you're rewarded with high scores and bragging rights over your friends.
The goal of Angry Birds is extremely simple; you must destroy the green pigs as fast as possible while also causing as much destruction to the construction that protects them as possible. The more you destroy alongside the assassination of the pigs with the Angry Birds, the more stars you will get and the higher your score will be. The three stars are a general indicator for how well you did during the mission, however your numbered score is a tally of all of the points that you gained. Each pig is worth a certain amount of points – and the points vary. Each piece of the green pigs' construction is also worth points. You can see these points quickly pop up on the screen near the last location of the element before it was destroyed/killed.
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The other birds include a white bird that explodes in the landing area and a black bird that explodes all around it causing damage in all directions.
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In fact, in a speech days before the New Hampshire primary, Trump even that "A lot of people have laughed at me over the years... Now, they're not laughing so much."Here's Seth with some more Trump larffs. This video is from 2011:
That's his goal - to not be laughed at. Which is why we can't stop.
It is possible to take him seriously and also remember he's a clown. Yes, he's a dangerous clown. He's a clown with a knife, but at the end of the day, he's still a fucking clown.[Note: the penultimate word was bleeped. I included it for emphasis.]
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- Donald Trump has saying that he'll run for president as a republican which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke. (1:49)
- Donald Trump often appears on Fox which is ironic because a fox often appears on Donald Trump's head. (2:04)
- Gary Busey said that Donald Trump would make a great president. Of course he said the same thing about an old rusty birdcage he found. (3:02)
- Donald Trump said recently he has a great relationship with "The Blacks" though unless "The Blacks" are a family of white people, I bet he's mistaken. (3:28)
Oh, and there was more violence at a Trump rally yesterday:
USA! USA! USA!VIOLENCE at another Donald Trump rally, this time in Tucson, AZ. Man hits and kicks protester: pic.twitter.com/7FWuSeE0Jt— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) March 19, 2016


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Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Remarks
January 21, 2013
Good evening! Welcome to Colorado College!
Please join me in thanking the choir for those beautiful selections. What a wonderful way to begin this special evening!
Tonight, we gather to celebrate the life and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And as we celebrate this national holiday, we are called by Dr. King's legacy to continue working together to realize our nation's commitment to freedom and human rights in the twenty-first century. As Dr. King said, "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday bill into law on November 2, 1983, but not without controversy, and almost 20 years after the passage of the landmark Voting and Civil Rights acts. Some members of Congress opposed the King Holiday. North Carolina's Jesse Helms tried to derail the bill by claiming King had ties to the communist party. Other opponents argued the fiscal cost of creating a national holiday in King's name would be too high, to which Senator Bob Dole rejoined: how do you calculate "the cost of 300 hundred years of slavery followed by a century or more of economic, political, and social exclusion and discrimination."
What those opponents failed to acknowledge, and what is critical to remember today – the inauguration day of our nation's president as well as MLK Day - is Dr. King's commitment to human freedom, with its deep-rooted connection to the values and obligations established more than 200 years ago by America's founders. The new nation forged out of thirteen British colonies in the late eighteenth century championed human rights and liberty. Dr. King, and the civil rights advocates before him, embraced this important tradition, speaking the language of freedom and equality that is at the heart of America's founding and the ideals of the Enlightenment.
This was the American dream that Dr. King reminded 250,000 people about on a baking summer's day in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. America's future, in 1776, in 1963, and today in 2013, the 30th anniversary of the King holiday, will always be full of promise when we embrace human freedom and respect human rights.
Tonight we come together to celebrate Dr. King's legacy and we celebrate with an internationally known artist and leader and with dance! We welcome Cleo Parker Robinson and the Cleo Robinson Dance Troupe.
Cleo Robinson is the founder, executive artistic director and choreographer of this wonderful company. She has conducted master classes, workshops and performances all over the world, and equally importantly, has been a community leader in Denver for more than 40 years, where she has made the highest caliber of dance accessible to the local community.
Acknowledged worldwide as a dance pioneer and legend, Cleo Robinson has received numerous awards and recognitions including the Colorado Governor's Award for Excellence, the Denver Mayor's Award, and induction into both the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and the Blacks in Colorado Hall of Fame.
She has also received the Civil Rights Award of the Anti Defamation League, the Metropolitan State College of Denver's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Award for Service to the Community, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / William "Bill" Roberts Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from the Urban League of Metropolitan Denver.
In 2005, Ms. Parker Robinson was awarded a Kennedy Center Medal of Honor and in 1998 she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the National Council on the Arts, on which she continued to served until 2005.
Ms. Parker Robinson has also received a number of honorary doctorates, including one (the best one) from Colorado College.
Ms. Parker Robinson often says that her work reflects her philosophy of "one spirit, many voices". In many ways, that philosophy is reflective of Dr. King's philosophy. Our spirit - that of our country, our state, our city - is stronger when many voices are heard.
We are fortunate to have her with us on this special day. Please join me in welcoming Cleo Parker Robinson.


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It is a pleasure to announce the seventh Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). The workshop will be held together with the 38th Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (CSBC) which is the official event of the Brazilian Computing Society. The goal of the meeting is to provide a valuable opportunity for multidisciplinary groups to meet and engage in discussions on social network analysis. The conference will be held in Natal (RN), on July 2018.
The study on social networks has its origins in social, educational and business communities. Academic interest in this field has been growing since the mid 20th century. The recent growth in the number of Web users stimulates the interaction among people, data dissemination and exchange of information, and also increases significantly the available data, provided by people, their interaction, logs and web servers. With big data sets, the analysis can be more accurate and also brings the opportunity to evaluate and develop new techniques for social network analysis and data identification and mining. This has raised the interest of a wide range of fields – such as academia, politics, security, business, marketing, science – on social network analysis.
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With the recent advances in biblical archaeology and in the study of the ancient Middle East it is now possible to provide a reasonably accurate visual representation of the world of the Bible. Based on painstaking research and a careful reading of the biblical text, the recreations of Biblical cities offered serve as a backdrop to many important events recorded in the Scriptures...
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"I did not verify this on Snopes but it rings true to me."
Naturally, snopes calls bullshit.
Sentences written like the one above are just a confirmation of the daily, casual, kneejerk racism in the United States. Everything that is fucked up about this country can ultimately be traced back to the fact that we were a slave country. And that, relatively recently.
I thought the echoes would fade after the Civil Rights movement, but, if anything, they're getting louder.
Snopes calls bullshit and does not support the racist narrative, therefore Snopes/Mikkelsons must be ultra liberal supporting commies funded by George Soros...however had they agreed they would be a credible source to be believed. These RW morons crack me up.
I did not verify this on Snopes...
Why did you CHOOSE not to verify this? It takes, like, 10 seconds to search this on Snopes.
...but it rings true to me.
Because you're a flaming racist asshole jerkwad. Figures.
For the record, this tripe was on Facebook. The man in the top photo is actually Michael Brown's biological father. Brown, Sr, and Michael Brown's mother appear to have a cordial relationship, apparently often appearing together in interviews about this tragic murder of their son, Michael.
It appears that Michael grew up, like many kids of divorced parents (his parents never married but did separate), living with both parents. He did spend time with different grandparents, most notably during his Senior year in high school. That was because his mom moved, and Michael stayed with his grandmother to continue attending this same school. The grandmother he stayed with was not Pearlie Gordon.
There was a conflict over the T-shirt sales, but it's not depicted here accurately, of course.
The murder of DeAndre Joshua was terrible. It's hard to say, though, if it was retaliation. Certainly possible.
"Why don't Sharpton, Jackson, Holder, and Obama focus on the need to rebuild real, solid family units and values in the Black Community..."
Michael Brown was born "out of wedlock," as many white kids are these days. It appears that Michael was raised in a loving family, and by all reports, he was a respectful, good kid. Of course, white racists immediately depict his family life as negative and a failure without having any real facts at hand.
Obama (no fan, but still) HAS a very good and stable family life. He and his wife Michelle present a very good model of a stable black family with good values, but of course, rightwinger seek every opportunity to diss them in every conceivable way.
I'm no fan of Al Sharpton and wish he scuttle back under some rock, but the truth is, rightwingers don't want any AA leaders to emerge to provide positive role models for their community. Better for white racists to cast stones constantly, and like this nastygram, gin up a racist false picture of what this family was like.
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Agree that the Obamas have presented a very positive role model for the AA community. And every time that either Pres or Mrs. Obama have reached out to the AA community to provide support, etc, they are castigated, yelled out and called all kinds of names by these very same judgmental, negative, racist conservatives.
Obama is not my favorite, but in terms of him attempting to provide a role model and offer support to the AA community to gain in strength and alleged "family values" - there is no winning for Obama. It's all lose-lose all the time no matter what he does, as far as rightwingers are concerned.
I'm not clear on what role Eric Holder should play in terms of this particular issue. Holder went to Ferguson and attempted to calm down the community there, which is his role. Not a huge fan of Holder, either, but in this regard, unsure what other steps Holder should be taking.
I think it would be somewhat inappropriate at this time for Holder to take some bigger "role" for the AA community, given his job.
Just more complaints from rightwingers with no end in sight. Not helpful at all.
Perhaps African Americans should use someone like Sarah Palin and her brood as role models for family values, family unity, not having kids out of wedlock, not taking drugs, obeying the law, leading life in a morally correct way? Oh wait...


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Results from IDC's latest Global Delivery Index- Asia/Pacific (GDI-AP) v2.0 indicate changes in the market for global delivery locations, with notable movements since 2007. Changes in scores are the result of a number of factors which are primarily linked to changes in economic circumstances - either directly, or by way of changing buyer and investor behaviour.

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The GDI enlists the full resources and insights of IDC's capabilities in depth and breadth of coverage: Analyst presence across 12 countries in Asia/Pacific that are conducting ground research and have local insights and expertise. IDC analysts frequently visit the global delivery centers throughout Asia/Pacific, which gives IDC direct insight into the facilities and the capabilities of the centers.

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The website of TopWheelie would inform the readers that there are different types of scooters available in the market to cater to the driving needs of the people of varied age groups. One can also find kid's scooters that have distinct features and unique design when compared to the adult scooters. The two wheeled scooters are of different types, such as Kickbikes, large foldable scooters, stunt scooters and folding scooters. To know the history of these scooters, just click on their official website at https://topwheelie.com. The site will also inform the readers that the scooters are offered as gravity or human powered type and motorized type to add a bit of convenience while driving the scooters.
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by Zaffar Khan, currently in Kolkata
With Khelo Rugby bringing such great results bringing so many communities together and uplifting them we thought we would like to do something new, something fresh, something for the girls especially. We always believe in stretching ourselves and challenging our limits and capabilities and so we thought of taking up a game which was a bit out of our skill range but of course for a better cause and goal. So we have taken up the Netball challenge!
This definitely meant we needed some professional help and that's where The Netball Development Trust (NDT) come in. Their team led by founder Monica landed landed in Kolkata on Friday and got to work on Saturday with a first Coach the Coach session with a group of 20 Jungle Crows boys and girls. We are very excited that they are supporting the Jungle Crows Foundation in introducing the sport of netball to the kids we work with and also to some new schools in Kolkata and our new hunting ground, Siliguri.
We're starting out with mixed netball but we'll look longer term to provide opportunities to play and compete just for girls. We now have a two week coaching programme to come and it will be divided between Kolkata and Siliguri. We already have four schools and two communities signed up in Kolkata and four schools in Siliguri.
Our very own Mitra one of our coaches participating in the coaching session who is also a very handy rugby player said, "I like the sport, I have just spent an hour trying to learn it and looks good. We sometimes play rugby-netball so we know some of the basics but there are quite a few rules to learn. It's great we have an all girls sport now".
Khelo Netball is looking forward to encouraging take up of the sport and seeing how we can use netball within our community programmes. Netball like our tag rugby is a very safe and generally non-contact sport and hence to gives us the bridge to take it forward with boys and girls playing together and delivering it in areas without good facilities and grounds.
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Work on crucial bridge completed ahead of schedule
PUBLISHED: 14:47 20 February 2018 | UPDATED: 14:47 20 February 2018
Essential maintenance work on a town centre bridge has been completed nearly a fortnight ahead of schedule.
The Bascule Bridge in Lowestoft has been closed overnight between 8pm and 6am while work to replace the lifting mechanisms has been taking place.
In the meantime, drivers have had to plan ahead for a longer journey via a diversion route, while pedestrians were provided with a temporary bus service.
Work was due to be finish early next week but the maintenance was completed on Thursday, February 15, meaning the overnight closures will no longer be necessary.
The important bridge carries around 13,600 vehicles a day through Lowestoft along the beginning of the A47, which then stretches towards Norfolk. The recent work will help to keep journeys over the bridge safe and reliable.
Highways England service delivery manager Ajith Nair said: "The Bascule Bridge is a crucial part of the A47, which is a key road for not just East Anglia, but for Britain too. It also provides access to the Lowestoft Port, making it a key commercial spot for Suffolk's fourth largest town.
"By working closely with our partners, we managed to complete the work without delay. We needed to close the Bascule Bridge every night, so we are pleased to be able to finish the work early to enable the bridge to remain open."
Highways England have been replacing the bridge's four lifting mechanisms at various intervals in order to minimise traffic disruption, with one changed each year. Three of the mechanisms have now been replaced and each is expected to last for at least two decades.
Only one lifting mechanism is needed on each side for the bridge to open; the second is in place to provide a back-up and ensure the bridge can still open and close if there are any technical problems.
The £230,000 work on the Bascule Bridge is part of a wider £18 million package of essential maintenance work to maintain the A47, which consists of around 70 different schemes on the road.
Among the additional work taking place along the A47 is resurfacing, renewing signs and road markings, drainage repairs and replacing street lights.
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Twitter is one of the world's most popular social networks which mostly outstrips Facebook and Google+ due to its informative value and quick messaging. The most convenient way to read a Twitter feed will be via mobile clients that are many and varied, which will let any person find something that they like. And try checking out the official service client since it improved a lot recently. Read the reviews, test the apps, and see for yourself.
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What do Probationary Members receive for their membership?
- Membership Card
- Certificate confirming Financial Membership
- The ability to enter students for examinations and competitions at all levels (scholarships not included)
- The ability to attend State meetings, vote at State level, hold office at State level and participate as a member on sub committees
- Quarterly Newsletter
- 20% discount to all ticketed events on display of membership card not transferrable
- A comprehensive ATOD Teachers manual
Should successful application be made within or prior to the 12 months Probationary period expiring the fee already paid will be transferred over to the Affiliate Membership for the duration of the Probationary period.


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Ever get tired of just "Liking" something on Facebook?
You may be in luck — the social network is developing "Actions," buttons that let users do all sorts of things other than Like, from clicking "Own" on a product page to "Read" on a book's Facebook Page.
As Facebook unrolled these new features, anyone looking to brush up on an obscure fact, learn a history lesson, or read a biography on Wednesday suddenly found that Wikipedia greeted them with a foreboding black screen.
Fortunately, food was unaffected. Foursquare users who wanted to know the location and cost of all nearby tacos — or any other kind of food — discovered they could now use the "Explore" feature of the popular mobile service.
Read on to find out more about these topics and more in this week's news roundup.
1. Do You Like Like Something? Or Do You Want It?
Facebook Actions were originally announced at Facebook's f8 developer conference last year, but they're finally coming to life. In San Francisco this week, Facebook announced that a number of partners are using Actions instead of the simple Like. E-Commerce sites can benefit from "Own" and "Want" buttons; blogs, books, and more will benefit from a "Read" button; and that's just the start of Facebook's growing vocabulary.
Bottom Line: More buttons means more opportunities for social media marketers to learn about customers. It's important to note that these buttons won't be replacing the Like, just supplementing it. Now your fans won't just be able to Like your Facebook Page, they'll be able to clarify why.
2. A Wiki-Less Wednesday Means Broken Senate Websites
Wikipedia and other sites attracted national attention by going dark this past Wednesday, in order to protest SOPA and PIPA legislation, bills being considered as an effort to combat online piracy. One of the main conflicts is the sweeping language of the bills, which opponents say will impede online innovation and creativity. Wikipedia invited users to find their local representative's website to protest the bills; as a result, a number of contact links for Senators had "technical difficulties."
Bottom Line: Thanks partly to the protests, SOPA and PIPA are now looking more and more unlikely to pass in their current forms — but online piracy isn't going away, either. The entertainment industry is understandably concerned about illegal streaming of music, TV shows, and movies, but until lawmakers find a way to tackle those issues without infringing on the internet's freedom of expression, this debate will continue.
3. Time Spent Watching Online Videos Rises by 58.9%
Is the computer your new TV? If so, you're not alone. In an ironically timed release, given the SOPA controversy, new findings from comScore Video Metrix showed that, among the 182 million U.S. internet users across the country, the average user watched 23.2 hours of online video in December, marking a 58.9% uptick from the same time last year. While TV shows and movies are prominent, so are music videos: Sony's VEVO service, which hosts all the most popular music videos on YouTube, had 53.7 million viewers in December 2011.
Bottom Line: If you're thinking about how to market your business or organization, the future —or more accurately, the present — is in video. So concentrate on making your own videos that show off your products and services, your team, or your customers, clients, and members and get them up on YouTube. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a video is worth even more!
4. Hungry? Now You Can Browse 13 Million Different Dishes
Anyone who has wandered from restaurant to restaurant in search of an enticing menu may be relieved to find that their aimless quests could be at an end. Foursquare has teamed up with start-up SinglePlatform on a feature that helps diners find the meal that's just right for them. Explore will find the menus and prices of nearby restaurants that serve the food of your choice. That means if you type in "ice cream," for example, you'll get all the scoop shops located near you.
Bottom Line: With Yelp and Foursquare growing so popular, it's becoming ever more important for restaurants and other businesses to establish themselves online. This new feature can be a valuable way to connect to diners, especially if your business is off the beaten path.
5. 56% of Employers Check Social Networks of Potential Employees
Businesses are increasingly relying on social networks to find out a little bit more about any would-be employees. OPP, a U.K. business psychology firm, found that 56% of employers look at would-be worker profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to screen them before making hiring decisions.
Bottom Line: As the line between professional and personal life blurs thanks to everything from the Like button to the everyday tweet, privacy has become an even bigger issue — even as there's less and less of it. This recent study highlights the need for everyone to remember that anything they post to a social site can (and often will) be seen.
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Remnant 1248
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Comprised of materials and processes unique to our age, "Remnant 1248" is a compilation of various elements – processed wood, plexiglass, laser-cut closed cell PVC, aluminum, acrylic paint, urethane polymers – and other art techniques to form this unique piece. This ultra-modern work captures a fragmented vision that occurred at exactly 12:48 as the work seeks to define a fleeting moment and its place in time. WIN THIS ARTWORK FOR FREE! View the artwork at the DeVos Place and visit www.graftart.com for details.
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What are Breaks, Fractures & Sprains of the Foot and Ankle?
- Most stress fractures occur in the weight-bearing bones of the foot and lower leg
- Rest is the key element to recovery from a stress fracture.
- A stress fracture is an overuse injury
A stress fracture is a small crack in a bone. Stress fractures often develop from overuse, such as from high-impact sports like distance running or basketball.
Most stress fractures occur in the weight-bearing bones of the foot and lower leg. Studies show that athletes participating in tennis, track and field, gymnastics, dance, and basketball are at high risk for stress fractures. In all of these sports, the repeated stress of the foot striking the ground can cause problems.
Rest is the key element to recovery from a stress fracture.
A stress fracture is an overuse injury. When muscles are overtired, they are no longer able to lessen the shock of repeated impacts. When this happens, the muscles transfer the stress to the bones. This can create small cracks or fractures.
The most common sites of stress fractures are the second and third metatarsals of the foot. Stress fractures are also common in the heel (calcaneus), the outer bone of the lower leg (fibula), and the navicular, a bone on the top of the midfoot.
Our Treatment Approach
If you suspect a stress fracture in your foot or ankle, stop the activity and rest. Ignoring the pain can have serious consequences. The bone may break completely.
Apply an ice pack and elevate your foot above the level of your heart.Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicines like ibuprofen or naproxen may help relieve pain and swelling, but may inhibit bone healing. Try not to put weight on your foot until after you see a doctor.
Nonsurgical Treatment
Treatment will vary depending on the location of your stress fracture and its severity. The goal of any treatment is to help you return to all the activities you enjoy.
Rest. Take a break from the activity that caused the stress fracture. It typically takes 6 to 8 weeks for a stress fracture to heal. During that time, switch to aerobic activities that place less stress on your foot and leg..
Protective footwear. To reduce stress on your foot and leg, your doctor may recommend wearing protective footwear.
Casts. Your doctor may apply a cast to your foot to keep your bones in a fixed position and to remove the stress on your involved leg.
Surgical Treatment
Some stress fractures require surgery to heal properly. In most cases, this involves supporting the bones by inserting a type of fastener. This is called internal fixation. Pins, screws, and/or plates are most often used to hold the small bones of the foot and ankle together during the healing process.
Stress fractures usually occur when you increase your high-impact activity by:
- Frequency (how often you exercise)
- Duration (how long you exercise)
- Intensity (your level of exertion)
People who do not exercise can also have stress fractures. If osteoporosis or other disease has weakened bones, normal daily activities may result in a stress fracture. This is called bone insufficiency. It is one of many factors that can increase your risk for stress fracture.
Doing too much too soon is a common cause of stress fractures.
Equipment and Environment
Improper sports equipment or a change of surface, such as going from a grass tennis court to one of clay, or a change from an indoor to an outdoor running track, can also increase the risk.
Errors in training or technique are another cause of stress fractures. Anything that alters the mechanics of how the foot absorbs impact when it strikes the ground may increase your risk for a stress fracture.
Bone Insufficiency
Insufficiency stress fractures result when the bone itself is weak. Conditions like osteoporosis reduce bone strength and density. This increases the risk of fracture.
- Pain that develops gradually, increases with weight-bearing activity, and diminishes with rest
- Pain that becomes more severe and occurs during normal, daily activities
- Swelling on the top of the foot or the outside of the ankle
- Tenderness to touch at the site of the fracture
- Possible bruising


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NPD has released a report that cites mobile games as a big driver for digital downloads overall. Digital game consumption has been growing in leaps and bounds lately, and according to the latest report, nearly half of all of those digital game downloads come from mobile game platforms, of which, we already know, the iOS platform makes up a huge part.
Of course, iOS and the App Store can't be given credit for all of the digital game download trend — while the App Store certainly has its share of popularity, there are other platforms, such as Xbox Live, Steam and Nintendo's WiiWare and DSiWare, that are also driving game downloads forward. But Apple's App Store is still the mobile standard, and given that many people downloading apps are people who don't necessarily own other consoles or may not have downloaded apps before, iTunes is one avenue for the growing trend of purchasing games and other software.


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CODY — Annie Oakley has been portrayed in popular culture as everything from a rough tomboy to a preening princess, but 150 years after her birth, one historian says a more nuanced look at the famed sharpshooter shows her to be a complex woman who defies categorization.
Oakley was a clever and resourceful woman who wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty, but who also enjoyed embroidery and sewing her own dresses, said John Rumm, curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
Few people realize that Oakley, whose real name was Phoebe Ann Moses, started her show business career as a trick-shot artist at 16. Within a decade, she had reached stardom as one of the most famous women in the world, he said.
"She was arguably the biggest draw for Buffalo Bill's Wild West next to Buffalo Bill himself," Rumm said Friday during a lecture commemorating her 150th birthday. Oakley was born Aug. 13.
"So many people were amazed at the sight of this little girl, no older than 16, when she was first performing," he said.
Oakley's father died when she was about 8, and she learned to shoot so she could sell squirrels, rabbits and other small game to help support the family, he said.
"What a kick that old gun had. I got the rabbit, but my nose was broken," she wrote in her autobiography, describing how she had borrowed the gun to go hunting, without telling her mother.
At 21, Oakley beat famous marksman Frank Butler in a shooting contest, and the two soon married. Butler helped promote Oakley's career, recognizing her obvious crowd appeal. By 25, she was performing with Buffalo Bill Cody.
Spectators and reporters who wrote about Cody's show were taken with the 5-foot Oakley's astonishing shooting skills, and she continued to tour with the Wild West for the next 16 years.
In what might be one of the first major celebrity endorsement deals, Oakley only used her sponsor's brand of gunpowder, Rumm said. When that brand was unavailable because of trade restrictions during her tour of France, Oakley relied on a quirk of womens fashion to sneak some in.
"Bustles were quite the rage in those days, and though I never wore one, we used them to bring the powder in without any trouble," she wrote.
Oakley and four other women in the Wild West show filled rubber hot water bladders with her preferred gunpowder and hid them in their bustles, smuggling more than 200 pounds of the stuff, Rumm said.
Even Oakley's hat made headlines, as a reporter in 1900 described how her wide-brimmed, but unfashionable, headgear helped keep the light out of her eyes while shooting.
"It was evidently selected more for its usefulness than its elegance of appearance," the newspaper account stated.
During their only head-to-head shooting competition, "Oakley beat Cody hands-down," Rumm said.
Cody, who was apparently having a bad day with the targets, threw his gun down halfway through the contest and claimed to have suddenly remembered a prior engagement, and then ran off.
Cody had great respect and personal regard for Oakley, but the two were never romantically linked, Rumm said.
After seeing a Wild West show in France, the king of Senegal was so impressed with Oakley that he sent a letter to Cody offering to pay the showman 1,000 francs for her, Rumm said.
"I want to take her back with me. My people are not safe in the little villages. Man-eating tigers carry them away," the king wrote. "I beg of you, release her to me."
Rumm said Oakley was an "exercise fanatic" who walked an average of four miles every morning before taking long rides on horseback and ending her day with a round of fencing and a workout with dumbbells.
Though married for 45 years until her death in 1926, many suitors assumed she was single, based on her stage name, Rumm said.
Among her colorful methods of declining the many marriage proposals she received, Oakley is known for shooting one hopeful's photograph through the head, and returning it with the inscription "respectfully declined."
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Simple yellow bands have become a hot commodity — and they're getting hard to find
October 6, 2004
Pet rocks, snap bracelets and mood rings have all gone the way of the dodo, evidence that a cool trend can quickly become an embarrassing memory.
But if the fad also carries meaning, odds are it will last.
A growing group of people worldwide are gobbling up Live Strong bracelets, the hottest thing to surround a human wrist since the invention of the watch.
There's a three- to four-week wait to order the bright yellow wristbands from the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a support group for people with cancer, founded by six-time Tour de France champion Armstrong.
Yellow is the color of the jersey won by the Tour de France leader in each stage of the bicycle race. Armstrong won his first Tour de France after battling testicular cancer.
Those touched by cancer aren't the only ones sporting the wristbands, however — they've become this fall's must-have item among exercise enthusiasts, politicians, celebrities and almost everyone else.
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All the fuss is about a half-inch-wide yellow band emblazoned with the motto "Live Strong."
Wristbands are selling on the Internet auction site eBay.com for as much as $25 a pair, although the foundation charges $1 each. And good luck finding one at a Greeley sporting goods or bicycle shop:
n The Bike Peddler, 3820 10th St., ran out of them about three weeks ago, said salesman Tony Farro. The store sold a couple thousand, but probably won't get any more, he said.
"Everybody seemed to want them — we got everything that we could," Farro said.
When the wristbands first appeared, the demand wasn't that great, he said.
"But then about three or four weeks after the (Tour de France), then it really took off," he said.
Bike Peddler employees have been telling customers to order the wristbands on the Internet, where there's a waiting list several weeks long.
* At Gojo Sports, 2547 11th Ave., it's a similar situation. Store manager Aaron Silvey said the 150 wristbands the store ordered were gone within two days of their arrival. That was about a month ago, and since then, Silvey has been waiting for a back order from Nike, which produced the wristbands.
"We don't expect to see them, to be quite honest with you," he said. "As much as we would hope so, we haven't heard anything."
Plenty of customers have been clamoring for the bands in the past few weeks, and all Silvey can do is point them to the Internet.
* Mark Bowles, manager of the Garretson's sporting goods store at 3817 W. 10th St., ordered sets of 100 wristbands three or four times before finally running out last month. Demand, however, is not diminishing.
"We get asked pretty much daily," he said.
He's also waiting on a back order from Nike, but doesn't expect to hear anything.
Bowles has one theory about why the bands are so popular: "I think mainly, honestly and unfortunately, it's turned into a fashion statement," he said, adding that he got a few for his family for more personal reasons.
"When I first heard about it, before the craze hit, I just thought it was a great idea."
Benn Rocha, a Spanish interpreter for Weld County Courts, wears one on his right wrist in memory of his mother. She succumbed to stomach cancer six months ago.
"My friend gave it to me because of my mom," he said. "It gathers money for cancer research, and that's really neat."
Rocha said his friend got it at the Conditioning Spa about two months ago, and he's been wearing it since.
Politicians have gotten on the bandwagon, too. At a recent rally at Colorado State University, Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, displayed her own wristband, and her husband reportedly never takes his off.
Dozens of athletes at the Athens Summer Olympics wore the bands, and "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno gave each audience member a band every day in July, while Armstrong raced to his sixth Tour de France victory.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation hopes to raise $5 million from wristband sales. By the end of September, more than 12 million had been sold, according to ESPN.com.
Bowles of Garretson's also noted that nobody is making a profit off the bands — it cost Garretson's $100, plus shipping, to order 100 bracelets.
"It was more just the idea, and the convenience to customer," he said. "You don't see that very often, where people will sell something if they don't make a profit."
Armstrong was diagnosed with an aggressive form of testicular cancer in 1996. He founded the organization that bears his name in 1997, as a place for cancer survivors to "find the practical information and tools you need to live strong."
Armstrong proceeded to win the Tour de France, professional cycling's most grueling and most prestigious race, from 1999 through this year.
A quote on the foundation's Web site explains the inspiration for the bracelets.
"Before cancer I just lived. Now I live strong," Armstrong said.
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Grasslands National Park and the Black-tailed Prairie Dog
The Black-tailed Prairie Dog only in Saskatchewan!
The Black-tailed Prairie Dog . . . you are probably saying to yourself "who cares . . . it's just another rodent"! These little guys are no ordinary rodent, they are amazing creatures with an amazing story to tell. Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan is the only place in Canada where you can now find these little guys and that is only after they were reintroduced into their natural habitat.
Prairie dogs are considered a "keystone" species because their colonies create islands of habitats that benefit approximately 150 other species. For example, the endangered burrowing owls use abandoned Prairie dog burrows for a nest as well as the black-footed ferret (which was also reintroduced to the Grasslands National Park). The Black-tailed Prairie Dogs are very social creatures, they live in groupings usually consisting of an adult male, one or two adult females and their offspring. Their burrows are much like colonies living together in groupings which are part of larger towns. They communicate with each other making high-pitched sounds and give off warning signals of potential dangers with sounds that are similar to barking.
If you ever have an opportunity to watch Black-tailed Prairie Dogs in their natural habitat you would be amazed at how social, fun and entertaining they are. When I photographed these little guys in Grasslands National Park, I could have watched them for hours. From bounding around to barking sounds and warnings to each other they are so much fun to watch. Grasslands has a viewing area where you can watch the Black-tailed Prairie Dog in action without disturbing them in their natural habitat. There is a viewer available to be able to magnify your view and watch the activity in the colonies. We were able to find two separate colonies in the park but I am sure there are others in the area as the colonies seem to be expanding.


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Whether you're planning an anniversary or birthday – or a banquet to celebrate your club, group, or church — The Fez has menus to fit any budget. Our menus encompass choices that range from lavish offerings to create-your-own packages designed to allow you to pick the food you like best. Our three distinctive rooms will accommodate groups that range from 50 – 650 guests. So no group is too large, or too small.
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Last Updated on April 20, 2020
To put it simply, urban decay is the process of disrepair and decrepitude. What was previously a fully functioning city, or part of a city, is now an abandoned piece of space.
A famous example of this is Chernobyl, Ukraine. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western USSR and Europe.
Chernobyl was recently opened to adventure hungry tourists and journalist. Personally I'll pass on the radiation, however seeing the images of the disaster brings swift sadness to the viewer and spreads sorrow through their nerve system.
Also mysterious images of abandonment reminds most people of what a post apocalyptic world, let's knock on wood it never happens, would look like.
For photographers, taking these types of photographs gives them an adrenaline rush. The is just something sceptical about visiting places that haven't seen a living soul in quite sometime.
Most photographers use urban exploration to their advantage to illustrate hope or gruesome terror. As the title suggests, here are forty chilling photographs of urban decay. Enjoy!


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Mozart's best-known horn concerto, No 4 – K495, the one with a famous last movement, is heard at this Saturday's concert from the BBC Philharmonic in the Sheffield International Concert Season at the City Hall.
In chronological order of composition, No 4 was, in fact, the second of the four concertos Mozart wrote for his friend Joseph Leutgeb between 1783 and 1791. No 2 was the first and No 3, in reality, the third.
Long thought to have been the first, No 1 was actually the unfinished last, although Süssmayer had a not particularly successful go at completing it.
Here's an interesting fact unearthed by Mozart's first biographer in 1793, Friedrich Schlictegroll: the composer had an acute aversion to the horn until he was nearly a ten-year-old.
A Mozart family friend from the composer's childhood years told Schlictegroll: "He had an insurmountable horror of the horn when it sounded alone without other instruments; merely holding a horn towards him terrified him as much as if it been a loaded pistol."
Happily for posterity, and Leutgeb, or he would have been merely a historical statistic as the finest horn player of the time in Vienna instead of being forever immortalised, Mozart grew out of his aversion.
By the way, the popular, often cited tale that Leutgeb was also a Viennese cheese-maker when he was not engaged in horn playing is pure mythology.
Another long-held belief that the manuscript for the K495 horn concerto, written out in red, green, blue and black ink, was one of Mozart's many pranks played on Leutgeb is losing its jocular edge in the face of a growing belief that it is in fact some kind of colour code.


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If you are following my work you are aware that I am proponent of raw foods. Simple observation showed me the relation between dead (processed, cooked) foods and chronic diseases. In several articles I have painted the relation between dietary glucose and chronic diseases. Dietary glucose not only opens the door for uncontrolled sugar absorption into our blood but it creates genetic changes. It changes genome expression of ADF gene or as it was renamed the "sweet 16 gene" or the "longevity gene". Here we can see how chemistry is being changed not under the direct influence of one chemical on to the other but rather one chemical influencing genome expression change and cell changes and adapts its chemistry.
When we are eating vegetables (starches, carbohydrates, complex sugars) in a raw state they are trapped inside of vegetable cellular membrane. This membrane is composed of complex sugar called cellulose. Animals do not produce enzyme cellulase that is necessary to dissolve cellulose and expose the cellular content to further digestion by animal body. We are animals so by eating raw vegetables we do not have access to those nutrients and they just pass through our body untouched. This is why we can eat as many raw bananas as we want without getting fat but if we cook them all Hell breaks loose because we get flooded by carbohydrates.
Here I recommend that you watch this video. In it Mr. David Noakes explains the marvels of Gc MAF, the protein that triggers immune system and activates macrophages to protect us from diseases including the cancer. A lot of health professionals involved in using this product were killed lately and this signifies the healing power it provides. Big Pharma cannot stand the losses of revenues from the people being healed.
Mr. Noakes is reveling the curative action of Gc MAF but he is also carefully hiding the culprit that prevents Gc MAF synthesis calling it Nagalase and explaining that diseased organ produces it and more diseased you are the less chance your body has to help itself. This means that in chronic cases there is no way that you can heal without Gc MAF that he is manufacturing and selling. I Support Mr. Noaks work and recommend Gc MAF to some of my clients but let us tell the truth the way it is.
When carbohydrates appear in our digestive tract enzyme is produced to deal with them, to break them into simple sugars glucose and fructose. This enzyme is glycoside hydrolase. In humans synthesis of this enzyme is triggered by a gene called NAGA so scientists to camouflage the culprit for its production call this enzyme NAGALASE when they are referring to it as the cause of immune system inhibition. The more of this enzyme is present in our body, the weaker immune system will the body have. This is another link that connects dietary carbohydrates to chronic diseases since strong immune system is crucial for the body to be able to fight of diseases.
To have strong immune system we have to have immune protein called Gc MAF. This protein stimulates macrophage to attack and destroy unwanted intruders including cancer cells. It appears that increased activity of NAGA gene suppresses Gc MAF protein production and this way suppresses the immune system.
Here I have explained that Nagalase is not produced by cancer cells but it is present there because cancer cell can only utilize glucose for energy production since it cannot process fat for lack of oxygen. Nagalase is present everywhere there is carbohydrate so there will be a lot of it in cancer tissue and in general people that thrive on carbohydrates will have suppressed immune system and predisposition for variety of chronic diseases. Switching to raw diet will reduce Nagalase to a minimum. A lot of people do not want to stop eating dietary carbohydrates and for them Gc MAF is real life saver and it is a criminal act of Pharmaceutical industry and their tugs the government and police to prevent this life saving protein to be available for public.
It is time for health professionals to realize the harmful action of carbohydrates and stop using glucose drip and stop giving patients food in hospitals that contains this toxic substance.
I have to express gratitude to Mr. David Nokes for his contribution to help humanity and how sorry I am to hear of his troubles. Pharma days are numbered no matter what they do and we can speed this up by waking up and changing the way we conduct our business. Let us present things as they are, without hidden agenda. We are in time of awakening and secrets are no more. Let's join together and make this World a fabulous place to experience.
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Jul 13, 2016 - 14:29
Dallas VDL became ex-aequo winner of the Puissance class at the Falsterbo Horse Show. Dallas VDL and Jur Vrieling jumped the high wall of 1.90m high.
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Dallas VDL jumps 1.90m at Falsterbo Horse Show
VDL Glasgow vt Merelsnest ,also ridden by Jur Vrieling, became 3rd with the Dutch Team in the Nations Cup of Falsterbo.
Cardento's son Cyklon had a very successful show with his rider Shane Sweetnam. They won two 1.45m classes and placed 2nd in the Falsterbo Derby.
Malin Baryard-Johnson won a 1.45m class with an offspring of Carolus II: H&M Cassius Clay.
In the finals of the Open Scandinavian Championship for 4 year old jumpers the Carrera-mare Cara vd Tojope Hoeve Z, (ms Indoctro), ridden by Malin Akerstrom placed 3rd.
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SIMSBURY — A local teacher and swim coach will swim a mile Saturday to raise money for cancer research alongside her father — a cancer survivor.
Brooke Haynes, who teaches at The Ethel Walker School, will participate in Swim Across America's Nantasket Beach Swim in Boston, Mass. Swim Across America is a non-profit organization that runs events from Boston to San Francisco to support cancer research.
"At the end of the day, it's an amazing, fulfilling experience to come together with all sorts of people; some survivors and some who have been affected by cancer," Haynes said.
A minimum fundraising pledge of $1,500 is required for individuals to participate, and Haynes said she has raised $300 so far.
Haynes said she has been participating in Swim Across America since 2007, but her favorite memory was finishing the swim at the same time as her father two years ago.
"Battling cancer was such a battle for him," Haynes said. "It was so draining and taxing and he was privileged enough to make it through to the other side."
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Many past Olympic athletes also participate in the swim, Haynes said.
"The swims are a great way for people to come together and participate in a sport they love alongside Olympic swimming legends while raising critical funds for pediatric programs at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and at MassGeneral Hospital for Children Cancer Center," 1988 Olympic silver medalist Janel Jorgensen McArdle said in a statement.
Proceeds from the Boston-area swims benefit the David B. Perini, Jr. Quality of Life Clinic at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, according to a press release. At the clinic, experts help cancer survivors with issues including long-term effects of treatment, social and psychological concerns and the risk of second cancers.
Proceeds also benefit the MassGeneral Hospital for Children Cancer Center for cancer care and research initiatives that "enhance the quality of life for the hospital's youngest cancer patients," according to the release.


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The new camp, Al Salamiyah 1, which has capacity for around 11,000 individuals, was funded by the Iraqi government's Ministry of Migration and Displacement (MOMD) and handed over to UNHCR and its partners, ISHO, ACTED and Samaritan's Purse, for upgrading work, including fencing, installation of electricity and the improvement of water and sanitation facilities.
The new camp, which is located about 30 kilometres south of Mosul, on the east bank of the Tigris river, will be managed by UNHCR's partner, ACTED.
At the same time, the first tents are also being pitched at Al Salamiyah 2, the UNHCR-constructed camp adjacent to Salamiyah 1. Al Salamiyah 2 is also managed by ACTED and will have eventual total capacity for up to 30,000 people.
"We lived in fear, hunger, thirst and pain under their control and we had to deal with that," said 66 year old Hayat Muhsin Sultan who was displaced from her home in the Islah al-Ziraii neighbourhood in west Mosul
"There was also a lack of health services," added the elderly woman who suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems.
"Our staff and partners have been working around the clock to make more shelters available as we have been seeing large outflows coming out of West Mosul, in the last few days, and expect more mass displacement in the coming days and weeks in what might be the final stages of the offensive" said UNHCR's Representative in Iraq, Bruno Geddo.
"Recent arrivals are clearly exhausted and traumatised, often with no belongings with them, apart from the clothes they are wearing. Many have survived eating just one meal a day – often only flour and water, or boiled grass and leaves. When they arrive, they are provided with a hot meal, a tent, mats, a cooking stove and the basic household and kitchen essentials necessary to live in the camp."
UNHCR has built 12 other camps in order to respond to the large-scale displacement from Mosul and surrounding areas. One camp, Hasansham U2, opened earlier this month.
According to the latest government figures, more than 657,000 people in total have been displaced from Mosul and surrounding areas since October, when the military offensive began, including more than 480,000 individuals displaced from western Mosul since mid February. An estimated 141,000 people have since returned to their areas of origin.
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Ambition London appoints Matthew Gardner as associate director of BD and marketing
Ambition London is delighted to announce the appointment of Matthew Gardner as Associate Director of the Business Development and Marketing division.
Matthew has enjoyed a long career with Ambition. He initially joined the London office as an Associate Consultant and rapidly progressed to Senior Consultant in the Legal Finance team.
In 2012, he transferred to Ambition's Singapore office into a Senior Consultant role in the Sales and Marketing team and built out the company's proposition across the Banking and FS sectors as well as Pharma, FMCG and Retail. He was then promoted to Divisional Manager taking overall responsibility for a Sales and Marketing team that covered Digital, eCommerce, Agency, Industrial and T&T in addition to those industries mentioned previously.
At the end of 2013, having established Ambition as one of the leading Sales and Marketing recruiters in Singapore across several industries, he was given the additional responsibility to build out a specialist team covering Supply Chain and Procurement which has now grown to a team of 3 consultants.
Director of Professional Services, Nicky Acuna Ocana said; "Matthew has made a significant contribution to the growth of the Ambition Singapore business over the past few years and is a well-regarded and integral member of the leadership team. We are therefore delighted to welcome him back to London and I'm sure he will make a fantastic contribution to the Business Development and Marketing division."
Gardner said, "It's great to be back and to be part of the largest professional services Business Development & Marketing team in London. I'm really looking forward to meeting many of our clients and candidates over the coming weeks and months and building on what has already been a successful year for the team. With an uncompromising focus on providing the highest levels of quality and speed of service and delivery to all our partners I'm very excited and confident about what the future holds".


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Hello! My Name is Bridgette and I am the founder of Stripped Fitness, health for people who rock! I love lifting weights, cooking new healthy recipes, my dog bruce, crystals, a good brownie, god and helping others.
To give you a little insight on what led me to where I am today:
In college I had a tough time balancing life, trying to stay on top of hard classes, partaking in
extracurricular activities, and maintaining a social life made things feel BUSY, leading me to believe I had little or no time to enjoy a "healthy" lifestyle. When I stopped making my health a priority and focused more on the superficial aspects of my life I realized that everything else around me was being negatively impacted. I gained weight, had a lack of energy, and a low self-esteem. These feelings are what pushed me to lose weight and so I began working out twice a day and eating a strict 1400 calorie diet. When I finally lost the weight after restricting myself for so long I still felt unsatisfied. No matter how much weight I lost I was constantly worried about everything I ate, being skinny felt TOO hard.
I eventually put all my college weight back on and slipped back into my old habits. It was on my graduation day when my dad came to see me that realized that I needed to make a change or that I would soon be trailing in his footsteps. My dad was a textbook example of a "crash dieter". Once he was a well known body builder and gym owner, and now he was more than 330lbs at 5'7. Seeing my dad like this pained me and I knew that I wanted to help him and others like him change their lives and get healthy the right way. When I graduated from Washington State University I decided to start fresh and begin to live the life that I had always dreamed of having, one that left me feeling energized, healthy, and free of stress. No more calorie counting, no more crazy diets, no more 2 hour gym sessions, I wanted to create a LIFESTYLE that would help me to become the best version of myself. When I lost my father in June of 2013 my whole world was rocked, I thought that my life would never be full again. I now use my loss to motivate and fuel me to help others from facing the same struggles as my dad. I know I can help YOU and the rest of the world lead healthy, happy lives. I didn't get a chance to save my fathers life but I know that I can make a change in YOURS.


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The efforts by young fishermen engaged on fish culturing on the Uwa Sea, west of Ehime Prefecture, may offer an example of a new direction that Japan's fishing industry should take in making itself vibrant. In 2009, the Ehime Prefectural Government started a system of certifying fishermen younger than 45 years old who have completed a course to learn the latest fish culture and sales techniques.
So far, 45 people have been certified and 29 of them have established their own fishing cooperative called the Ehime Nintei Gyogyoshi (certified fishermen) Cooperative Union.
About 50 years ago, the culturing of young yellowfish and pearls started in the Uwa Sea. Because of its conditions — a deep sea, long coastline of narrow inlets, nine islands and the Kuroshio Current's inflow from the Pacific Ocean, the area became Japan's center of fish culturing. But its future became clouded with the deterioration of the sea environment due to accumulation of feed and the formation of red tides. Following the burst of the economic bubble, even prices of red sea bream, a highly prized fish, started tumbling.
The aim of the certification system is to nurture fishermen who not only produce fish but also have the ability to actively engage in the distribution and selling of their products so that they can get the added-value that used to be monopolized by professional distributors and distributing companies.
Four years have passed since the establishment of the Ehime Nintei Gyogyoshi fishing cooperative. Mr. Yoshiaki Matsumoto, head of the cooperative, said fishermen want consumers to pay prices that match their fish culturing efforts, and that to fulfill their dream, fishermen must sell fish on their own.
In the past, wholesale fish markets had the upper hand in the distribution of fishery products. But these days, high volume sales companies have the upper hand. Even if fishermen ship high-quality fish, these companies may beat prices down.
In these circumstances, it is important that fishermen develop markets and distribution routes through their own efforts.
The Ehime Nintei Gyogyoshi fishing cooperative has opened its own website and registered its own trademark and is carrying out marketing surveys. It directly sells fish to consumers after receiving orders by fax.
Japan boasted the world's highest fish catch 30 years ago. But in the past 10 years, the number of fishermen has decreased 30 percent to some 200,000. People aged 65 or older account for about 40 percent of Japan's fishermen.
Fishing is not popular with young people. Working conditions are hard and the annual average income of fishermen engaged in coastal fishing is low at about ¥2.5 million. To attract young people, it is important to turn fisheries into an industry in which fishermen can earn decent incomes. Fish stocks must also be built up.
Japan should take advantage of the fact that its total coastline is 1.5 to two times longer than that of the United States and China. The government should work out measures that will help strengthen fish culturing and even develop it into an export industry like the car and electronics industries.


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Within the Glass by Anna Chatterton has been nominated for the 2017 Governor General's Award for Drama.
Roland Vandal is Our Manitoba Hero 2017!
Congratulations to Roland Vandal on being one of Our Manitoba Heroes for 2017!
"Our Manitoba Heroes recognize individuals in our province who make an impact in our communities and our 2017 Heroes are no exception…Thank you to our Heroes for all that they do. Your selfless efforts continue to inspire us all to make a difference!"
Off the Ropes: My Story eBook is available through Signature Editions, or click here to purchase our paperback copy!
Trish Cooper wins Best Play by a Manitoba Playwright!
Trish Cooper wins the 2017 Chris Johnson Award for Best Play by a Manitoba Playwright for her play Social Studies.
Elspeth Cameron, A Tale of Two Divas featured in The Hamilton Spectator
The power of suggestion
Jean Forsyth and Edith J. Miller seemed doomed to obscurity but for a willing biographer and a tenacious champion of promoting women
By Tiffany Mayer
Elspeth Cameron is open to suggestions.
In fact, the career of one of Canada's most prolific biographers can be credited largely to others planting seeds of ideas that compelled much of her work.
Take writing biographies as the genre of choice for becoming a published author. The decision to write about other people's lives happened during an epiphanic moment at an academic conference in 1974.
Then a young professor at Concordia University, Cameron saw an opening in the literary category when poet and critic Frank Davey told the crowd gathered before him that biography was missing in Canadian critical literature.
"I took him at his word and I said, 'I would like to do that,'" Cameron recalled. "It's not my idea. I'm very open to suggestions."
Five years later, Cameron published her first book, Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life and was nominated for a Governor General's Award for her work. But even choosing MacLennan as the subject for her literary debut happened by way of capitulation.
Cameron had her heart set on writing about Canada's other ink-stained statesman, Robertson Davies.
Problem was, Davies was in Toronto. Cameron was teaching in Montreal and MacLennan was nearing the end of his career at McGill University. Getting access to him would be easier.
Soon after A Writer's Life was published, Irving Layton contacted Cameron and suggested she write about him. So she did. It was a proposition he regretted, she recalled as she sat in the sunlit living room of her cottage-like home in Port Dalhousie.
In an effort to paint a fulsome portrait of the Canadian poet, Cameron interviewed Layton's three ex-wives and partner at the time for her book.
"Irving Layton got crazy mad at me," she said.
When she was challenged by readers at talks she gave mid-career for not having documented lives of any women, Cameron devoted her next five volumes to them. She even turned her biographer's eye inward and penned her own story for No Previous Experience: A Memoir of Love and Change.
Her latest homage to important — and often overlooked — Canadians doesn't stray from the common theme that threads her career. A Tale of Two Divas: The Curious Adventures of Jean Forsyth and Edith J. Miller in Canada's Edwardian West landed on bookstore shelves in February thanks to someone suggesting Cameron write it.
The idea came by way of an email from a woman named Gail Kreutzer in Winnipeg. Kreutzer, whom Cameron had never met, sat on the board of the Winnipeg Humane Society and to honour the organizations history, she wanted a book written about its founder Jean Forsyth.
It turns out Cameron is just as welcoming of persistence as she is of suggestions, however. Two years later, she finally dug into Kreutzer's emails piling up in her inbox and the envelopes filled with information about Forsyth stacked in her living room, and starting piecing together the story of a woman who would be her next book.
Cameron had something resembling a manuscript nine months later when she flew to Winnipeg to finally meet Kreutzer, by then a friend. But throughout her research, another name kept turning up alongside Forsyth's. It was Edith J. Miller.
Forsyth was Miller's voice teacher in Winnipeg in 1894.
Their paths would continue to cross throughout their incredible careers. Cameron tells how each achieved success. She also brings their stories to life through dialogue, some of it inferred based on her research.
The book, which entertains as much as it informs, also provides insight into the lives of Western Canadian women at the time and their roles in society. Cameron describes it as a book of women's history, social history and cultural history.
Special to the Hamilton Spectator.
View the article here : The Power of Suggestion, May 11, 2017
Liberation Days launches in Edmonton – May 8
Join us at Audrey's Books to celebrate the release of Liberation Days by David van Belle!
Where: Audrey's Books, 10702 Jasper Avenue
When: 7:00 PM. May 8, 2017
The Enterprise
Click the link below to read our excerpt of The Enterprise's article, page 13:
Roger Newman's interview with Gail Kreutzer, who researched material for A Tale of Two Divas: The Curious Adventures of Jean Forsyth and Edith J. Miller in Canada's Edwardian West in collaboration with author Elspeth Cameron.
Page 13 of The Enterprise- New biography details the lives of adventurous pioneer singers
Mary Vingoe shortlisted for Governor-General Literary Award!
Congratulations to Mary Vingoe for the Governor-General Literary Award shortlist nomination!
Refuge by Mary Vingoe has been shortlisted for the English-language drama category.
Check out the play here: https://www.jgshillingford.com/shop-books/refuge/
Katherena Vermette
For Katherena Vermette, Winnipeg's North End is a neighbourhood of colourful birds, stately elms, and always wily rivers. It is where a brother's disappearance is trivialized by local media and police because he is young and aboriginal. It is also where young girls share secrets, movies, cigarettes, Big Gulps and stories of love—where a young mother full of both maternal trepidation and joy watches her small daughters as they play in the park.<--more-->
"In North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette's love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us." – Joanne Arnott
"From a mixed-blood Métis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It's a story of death, birth, survival, beauty and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you." – Duncan Mercredi
Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs. Vermette is of Métis descent and from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was a MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
Her children's picture book series The Seven Teachings Stories was published by Portage and Main Press in 2015. In addition to her own publications, her work has also been published in the literary anthology Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water. She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba, and edited the anthology xxx ndn: love and lust in ndn country in 2011.
Vermette has described her writing as motivated by an activist spirit, particularly on First Nations issues. The title of her book refers to Winnipeg's North End.