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Neilcorp Homes believes in supporting local businesses in the community and we are proud to call each of these businesses our partner and an important part of our team.
Let us introduce you to our excellent team of professionals who will guide you through this exciting process of buying a Neilcorp home.
Tanya will assist you in selecting the perfect home-style for you and your lifestyle. After preparing the Agreement of Purchase and Sale she will discuss the building process as well as finalize all working drawings with you. Her creativity and understanding of design and colour will assist you in selecting the various design options for your home. From coordinating your appointments with our suppliers to preparing orders for upgrades, Tanya will suggest selections that best match your preferred colour-scheme and way of life.
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My home buying experience was efficient, smooth and professionally done. A very pleasant experience. Thank you Neilcorp for building a perfect home for me.
I can't begin to tell you how very much we love our new home. After living 44 years in Orleans we decided a complete change of pace, some serious downsizing and a calmer lifestyle would suit us just fine. We had heard such good things about Neilcorp we decided to check them and Almonte out! The attraction was instant.
We just wanted to let you know we did not submit any year end report to Tarion Warranty Program as we had nothing to report.
Thanks. Still loving our home. Best house ever.
I had never purchased a new home before this and I must admit it was a bit scary. No one I spoke to – real estate people, bank people, lawyer had any negative comments about NeilCorp which was reassuring. Thanks to Tanya for her patience answering my many questions. Thanks to Grace and Jody and the construction people for their attention to detail to make this house something I am very proud to "show off". Best decision I ever made.


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The Syndicate Announcement Trailer
Okay, here it is: the first Syndicate trailer. Heavy on the dubstep and men in trenchcoats. Gosh, this makes me realise that the original Syndicate came out in the era before there were generally trailers for games.
– No waving policeman?
– HUD elements at 0:34 look interesting.
– Gosh, they meant that "breaching" enemies thing, at 0:40.
– 0:50: wubwubstep!
– 1:03: a boot stamping on a human face. Forever?
– I like the casually shooting people at 1:16.
– Some men certainly get shot.
– No sign of co-op yet?
– Logo is a bit weak. Looks like Any Old Action Movie font.

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text: The titanic twin forces of Jacob and Esav begin their epic battle which rages till today. Three times does Jacob nip at the heal of Esav his brother – at the birth, at the soup, and at his father's blessings. Is Jacob a trickster, or does he learn a thing or two from his hunter brother? Rabbi Yishai is in Brooklyn, on the way to Toronto, on the way to the Land of Israel. Join him on the road for the war's play by play!


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The biggest concern among agents is, the Government thinking about eliminating the double-ending of sales in real estate. Double-ending occurs when the same agent lists and then sells the property to a buyer. On the surface, it seems to make sense, but in reality, it does not work.
What we are telling a buyer, is that he can no longer choose his own agent, that sounds like a dictatorship to me. Think about it, you've used the same agent for three straight transactions and you have trusted them. They list a property, which is exactly what you want to buy. You contact them, and they tell you, "go find another agent". To get around the law, they refer you to another Realtor®. They know the agent and they'll earn a referral fee too. You just make the problem more complicated than it needs to be.
I know there can be problems with an agent on both sides of a transaction, but that occurs in a multiple offer scenario, and we've already talked about just disclosing the contents of all offers to all buyers and you'll solve the problem.


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If you are going to choose a natural sweetener, then raw honey is about the best option you can choose and in this podcat you'll learn all about the health benefits of raw honey.
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Firmy naszych studentów: 1000 Hills Products
I also have a subsidiary company in Rwanda also named 1000 Hills Products. This company works closely with the coffee farmers, collects the coffee, makes different checkings testings and screenings for this coffee, packages it in export bags and then ships it to 1000 Hills Products - Poland.
My vision is to create a strong B2B and transparent trade system between East Africa and Central and Eastern Europe. This trading system will be consistent in quality of the products and customer relationship both in Africa and Europe. Mainly through strong connection between my Country Rwanda and my second home Poland.


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Documentation is not really up to scratch.
The documentation needs a significant uplift with some better examples. It also needs to be reviewed for consistency as the URLs are different on different pages.
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In the above photos, the Home Expressions Modern Romance Quilt Set is shown with the JCPenney Home Jasmine Chenille Coverlet layered on top of it. Both are available exclusively at JCPenney.
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CLS Legal Staffing can provide you with quality temporary legal and project staffing during your permanent candidate search. Our independent contractors are pre-screened and well-qualified to meet your requirements. With our Skills Evaluation Testing, we use the latest technology to confirm the skills represented on candidates' resumes.
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For tropical vacations, the Bahamas are legendary. By opening an Account with Islandluck, you agree to the terms of this PRIVATENESS COVERAGE. The west coast of the Big Island is characterised by white-sandy shoreline and secluded aqua coves. If time permits a visit to just one island, the Massive Island shouldn't be passed up. This island has everything and more to offer guests to Hawaii. In such circumstances Islandluck shall be beneath no obligation to refund to you any monies that could be in your Islandluck account at such time.
Earlier than the crash of the nation's three largest banks, Glitnir , Landsbanki and Kaupthing , their combined debt exceeded approximately six times the nation's gross domestic product of €14 billion ($19 billion). Set in Baa Atoll's beautiful UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, this spectacular, secluded 50-villa island retreat is just a 35-minute seaplane flight from Maldives Worldwide Airport.
It is about twice the dimensions of all of the islands combined with it is land mass of 4028 sq. miles, about the measurement of the State of Connecticut. "I am discussing designing my own island in Dubai on the World Islands," Lindsay stated on the show Friday. Islandluck defines an "Unfair Benefit" as any occasion by which a Consumer accesses or compiles info on other gamers past that which the User has personally noticed by way of the User's personal sport play.
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Samsung Galaxy S5 pre-orders have arrived with Verizon Wireless. The carrier opened the pre-orders this morning, and perhaps more important for some — this means the pricing and availability date has been confirmed. The handset will begin shipping on April 11th, and it sits priced at $199.99 on a new two-year agreement.
We should also clarify how that $199.99 price point comes after a $50 mail-in rebate. Otherwise, those looking to avoid the rebate and the lengthy contract have the option to go full retail, which in this case is $599.99. Similar to how Verizon launched the HTC One (M8), they also have the Galaxy S5 sitting with a buy one get one offer. Those opting to go the BOGO route will be able to grab a second Galaxy S5 for free. Or alternatively, getting an HTC One (M8) is also an option. Naturally, a two-year agreement will be required for each of those devices.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 feature set includes a 5.1-inch Full HD display, 16GB of internal storage, a microSD memory card slot, 2800 mAh battery, 2MP front-facing camera and 16MP rear-facing camera. The handset is running Android 4.4 Kit Kat and sporting other features to include an IP67 rating for water-resistance, a built-in heart rate sensor and integration with the Samsung S Health setup.
We spent a bit of time with the Galaxy S5 during Mobile World Congress, which did includes some hands-on time. We also took a look at the specs for both the HTC One (M8) and Samsung Galaxy S5 — just in case anyone has been trying to decide which way to go. And nicely, Samsung had also confirmed the "Galaxy Gifts Package" for those who are looking for some extra goodies to push them over towards a purchase.
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Ben Folds Covers Ke$ha's "Sleazy" [VIDEO]
Musician and not-Merton Ben Folds recently recorded this cover of Ke$ha's "Sleazy," giving us an intriguing glimpse into what the world would be like if all pop songs were sung by people who could actually sing.
This may be just what we need to tilt the world back on its axis following Miley Cyrus's performance of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Or maybe it's just another tumble down the rabbit hole. Either/or.
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76010 Batman: The Penguin Face Off is a DC Universe Super Heroes set released in 2014.
The set features a duck-like vehicle and a Bat-vehicle that resembles scuba equipment. It also features a block of ice with a jewel sticking out of it.
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Help Scuba Batman™ defeat The Penguin in a battle on the water!
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Performance Coach, Business Leader, Veteran Fitness Professional, and Mountain Athlete, Jarod Cogswell, has led his teams to produce over $13 million in annual revenue and $1.5 million in yearly personal training sales. As a Todd Durkin Mastermind Coach, he helps fitness professionals all over the country maximize the potential of their businesses, as well as, their personal development. Jarod serves also as a Keynote Speaker for some of the top companies in the world and develops memorable long lasting Team Building experiences. Besides fitness, his passion is climbing and snowboarding mountains and is the author of WORK like an Athlete.
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HTC has been steadily making good on its promise to unlock the bootloader of its more recent models -- first came the EU Sensation, followed by the EVO 3D. Continuing along this same path, today HTC updated the unlock portal on HTCdev.com to include the T-Mobile variant of the Sensation.
Keep in mind that if you plan on making use of this process that it will likely void your warranty, so tread with caution.
With that said, you can head over to the official HTC Dev site now and officially get your unlock on.


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Local Craft Beer
No, Really. We Mean It.
We're so committed to locally sourcing ingredients we've harvested our own wild yeast from right here in Saxapahaw. And then, we brewed beer with it. That's right: it's yeast from our very own backyard.
Our beer is rooted in Belgian history because it's a centuries-long basis for great beer that doesn't follow too many parameters or distinct styles. So, we're continuing the tradition—by being a bit non-traditional. From field to glass, our founders, Ben & Dawnya Woodward, use country ingenuity to cook up new ways of brewing. Just like Belgian farmers have done for generations.


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Put Some Colour In Your Life TV Show Sponsored by Chroma
Chroma is a proud sponsor of this fantastic new television show that promotes arts and education across Australia
The TV series Put Some Colour In Your Life brings Art, Education and the Environment into Australian living rooms, promoting Artists via television and the web.
The series goes to air Sunday the 18th of March at 7.00pm, on the channel 4ME.
Going Green!
With spring just around the corner here in the USA, I thought it was a good time to address the subject of "green" in regards to colors. As a landscape painter, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of greens out there. But with careful observation, and a few general guidelines, it's easy to get the green you need.
Don't Get Glazed By Glazing
The colors found in the Atelier Interactive Professional Artists' Acrylics and Archival Oils paint lines are classified as opaque, semi-transparent or transparent. You may wonder just what opaque, semi-transparent or transparent mean, and why should I care? It's important to understand what these characteristics of the color are, because how opaque or transparent a color is plays a big part in getting certain effects. And because Atelier Interactive and Archival Oils paints offer more paint in the tube than leading national acrylic or oil brands, you have more paint with which to explore new techniques.
Varnishing 101
Atelier Interactive dries without a "plastic" look, with very low sheen yet high color saturation. But it is important to protect any painting with a finishing varnish and furthermore, you can choose to alter the final sheen of your Interactive painting. Chroma offers two types of varnishes – water-based and solvent based. The advantage of using water-based varnish is that it is water-based, but it is non-removable. The advantage of using a solvent-based varnish is that it is removable with mineral spirits, but there are fumes involved, which some artists chose to avoid.
Archival Oils' Lean and Fat Mediums
When you first start painting with oils, one of the "rules" you hear about is to follow "fat over lean." What does fat over lean mean anyway?
Mixing Skin Tones
Colours for skin tones vary immensely between the home value of a person's skin as there are areas of high light and shade and subtle changes in colour around various parts of the body. When painting skin it's very common to find that you use a lot of different colours.
As these are perennial questions we thought we'd start off a discussion because there are many different ways to produce skin colours and one person's recipe is different from the next.
During the year Chroma has supported the National Art School in Darlinghurst, Sydney, in various ways. As it has done for many years, Chroma joined other businesses and patrons supporting the art world, by offering a painting prize to a graduate at the end of year Degree Show.
Hanna Paine won the Chroma Paints Award with a triptych, one of her works exploring the mystery of experience from a child's perspective.
Chroma Art Award
Earlier this year Chroma ran an art competition in conjunction with The Art Scene. Competition entrants had to use Atelier Interactive, Jo Sonja's, Archival Oils or A2 brands of Chroma paint in their works. The competition ran throughout the year and closed on 30th November 2009.
Creative Canvas "Sisters" by Vicki Nicholson
Vicki Nicholson sent us in this innovative "altered art" project and we liked it so much that we created a magazine ad based around it. Vicki also agreed to share the entire step by step project with the Paint Talk community. I hope that this piece inspires you all to get creative with Jo Sonja's paints and mediums and if you follow the steps below and complete your own "creative canvas" why not add a comment with a photo of your work.
Paint Talk Gallery 2009
The Paint Talk Gallery topic has been extremely popular and I would like to thank everyone who has shared their work with us. The topic has grown so large that I have decide to start a fresh one for 2009, if you have not had a look a last years you can find it by clicking on the following link Paint Talk Gallery 2008
The old gallery topic is closed for comments, please add your new images and comments to the 2009 Paint Talk Gallery.


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What Makes Young Women Prone to Addiction?by baladmin | August 12, 2014
Women are suffering with drug addiction and alcoholism for reasons significantly different than men. This is why gender specific treatment is the most successful when considering addiction rehabilitation for women.
Women Abuse Substances for Different Reasons than Men
A 3 year study revealed that girls and young women use addictive substances for reasons different than boys and young men. The study showed that the signals and situations of higher risk among women are different, and that girls and young women are more vulnerable to abuse and addiction. Females tend to get hooked faster and suffer the consequences sooner than boys and young men.
The Formative Years study identified characteristics of girls and young women who abuse substances and when they are at the highest risk of doing so. It assessed the impact of such use–including the likelihood that experimentation would become addiction–for girls and young women.
The study found that risk factors such as low self-esteem, peer pressure, and depression make young women more vulnerable to substance abuse and addiction. The study also showed that females become dependent much faster and suffer the consequences sooner when compared to males.
Marketing Directed Towards Women
For decades, the for-profit marketers, including the tobacco, alcohol and entertainment industries, have recognized the importance of shaping campaigns to influence girls and young women. For decades, cigarette companies have cleverly manipulated young women. The 1925 Lucky Strike cigarette advertising campaign, "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet," was associated with a 200 percent increase in market share. Capri cigarette ads claim, "There's no slimmer way to smoke" and call Capri cigarettes "the slimmest slim in town."
Who Gives Young Women Alcohol & Cigarettes?
Girls are more likely to be offered drugs by a female acquaintance, a young female relative or a boyfriend, whereas boys are more likely to be offered drugs by a male acquaintance, a young male relative, a parent or stranger. Girls are likelier to receive offers to smoke, drink or use drugs in private settings, whereas boys are likelier to receive these offers in public settings. Girls are less likely to be asked to show proof of age when buying cigarettes.
How Substance Abuse Effects Young Women
- Girls who abuse substances are likelier to be depressed and suicidal–increasing the risk for substance abuse.
- More than one-third (34.5 percent) of high school girls report regular feelings of sadness or hopelessness (compared to 21.6 percent of boys). There is a relationship between girls' sense of hopelessness or depression and their smoking, drinking or using drugs.
- High school girls who smoke or drink are nearly twice as likely to report feeling depressed as those who have never smoked (47 percent vs. 25.3 percent) or drank (38.7 percent vs. 20 percent). Those who use marijuana are likelier to report feeling sad or hopeless than those who have never used marijuana (42.9 percent vs. 29.7 percent).
- Girls who engage in unhealthy dieting behaviors drink significantly more alcohol than nondieters.
- Although alcohol is high in calories and contributes to weight gain, only half (56 percent) of the girls surveyed were aware of this; 5.7 percent thought that drinking alcohol helps one lose weight.
- Girls are likelier than boys to have been physically or sexually abused. Such girls are at increased risk for substance abuse. 17 percent of high school girls have been abused physically (vs. 12 percent of boys); 12 percent of high school girls have been abused sexually (vs. five percent of boys).
- Girls who have been physically or sexually abused are twice as likely to smoke (26 percent vs. 10 percent), drink (22 percent vs. 12 percent) or use drugs (30 percent vs. 13 percent) as those who were not abused.
- Among teens who move frequently from one home or neighborhood to another, girls are at greater risk than boys of smoking, drinking and using drugs.
Ref:The Formative Years: Pathways to Substance Abuse Among Girls and Young Women


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…telling it like it is. Is that a good thing, I wonder? My family and friends certainly know where they stand with me, but sometimes I think maybe I'm too much of an open book. Is a little mystery a good thing? "Familiarity breeds contempt" crosses my mind. I'm pretty sure those closest to me […]Read the rest of this entry »
Special: An Interview with… Main Street
This third installment of the "Interview With…" series is all about three of the most important people in my life; ShaMoo, J-B, and Knarf. Together, the four of us make up the group Main Street. L-R: Jenn (me), Knarf (Frank), J-B (John), and ShaMoo. Photography by Leah Kirin I've known these characters for about 5 […]Read the rest of this entry »


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B. Braun Medical Ltd is a member of the B. Braun Group, one of the world's leading healthcare companies. B. Braun manufactures and distributes on a global basis, employing more than 50,000 people worldwide.
Our global message – Sharing Expertise – clearly identifies our philosophy of the transfer of knowledge. In 175 years of development, we have acquired a wealth of knowledge that we can share with those who bear the responsibility for healthcare and associated services.
B. Braun offers healthcare professionals and hospitals an outstanding range of products, from our world renowned surgical instruments to our innovative implants and intermittent catheters, these are all matched by a comprehensive range of high quality services. Our ability to develop innovative products, services and systems, in partnership with healthcare professionals, hospitals, universities and other specialist bodies reflects on our commitment and promise of Sharing Expertise.
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Coloplast develop products to support people with intimate healthcare needs such as SpeediCath, Conveen Optima, and Peristeen whilst providing the service Charter- Care Delivered, which together provide support to thousands of people every day.
ConvaTec is a global medical products and technologies company focused on therapies for the management of chronic conditions, with leading market positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence and critical care, and infusion devices. ConvaTec's products provide a range of clinical and economic benefits including infection prevention, protection of at-risk skin, improved patient outcomes and reduced total cost of care. ConvaTec has 8,500 employees and does business in more than 100 countries.
iMEDicare Ltd is a dynamic and rapidly growing Medical Device Distributor (established 2004) offering an exciting range of unique and market leading medical products for patient use in the fields of Urology and Continence Management / Treatment throughout the UK and Ireland.
Our motto is Pelvic Health Naturally – premised on the ability of living tissues to react positively to clinically approved therapeutic measures in a pelvic health context.
We offer a unique blend of professional and patient product training in Clinical and Home environments which are designed to improve individual product customizability, user uptake and long-term patient compliance and satisfaction.
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medac Pharma is a privately owned, pharmaceutical company specialising in the development, diagnosis and treatment of diseases within the key areas of urology, oncology and autoimmune.
The company was originally founded in Germany in 1970 and the UK operation was established in 1993. Since then we have become known for developing innovative products from standard cancer chemotherapy to niche speciality medicines.
We launched our Mitomycin kit in 2017 which contains a unique closed system and fast dissolving formula for the treatment of non-muscular invasive bladder cancer.
Optimum Medical are specialists in healthcare lubricant gels and urology products. We're proud to say that our products are trusted by clinicians across every NHS hospital in the UK and sold into over 60 countries around the world.
Our range of catheterisation jelly syringes gives clinicians a choice. Created due to clinician demand, the newest addition to our range is OptiLube Active CHG Free (with Lidocaine 2%). OptiLube Active CHG Free is the ideal choice of gel for patients who are sensitive to Chlorhexidine but can still benefit from the inclusion of Lidocaine 2%.
In addition to our catheterisation gels, our patient-focused Ugo Urology range provides a selection of catheter drainage and fixation devices – all designed to reduce the risk of pain, trauma and infection.


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Monroe Community College will be the nationally recognized leader in championing equity, opportunity, innovation, and excellence while transforming students' lives and communities.
Monroe Community College, through access to affordable academic programs, leads excellence and innovation in higher education, inspires diverse students to transform their lives and communities, drives regional economic development, and builds global engagement and understanding.
MCC is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the unit of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools that accredits degree-granting colleges and universities in the Middle States region, which includes Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Curricula are registered and approved by the New York State Department of Education and the State University of New York.
MCC is a member of the League for Innovation in the Community College. The League provides direction and leadership for experimentation and innovation in two-year colleges. Its members are recognized as the best community colleges in the United States and Canada.


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"Mad Men" is a prestigious television show with devoted fans who fit into a desirable demographic, and so its broadcaster, AMC, likely has little trouble selling the advertising spots. One can even imagine meetings in which men and women talk breathlessly about the opportunities for "synergy" in advertising for a hip and intensely fashionable show that is itself about advertising. And yet, there is a built-in challenge to placing commercials adjacent to the fictional ad world of Sterling, Cooper, et al. What digital-camera company would have wanted to come blaring into the gaps in the action after Don Draper had just defined nostalgia and conjured the Kodak Carousel? And yet, over the years, agencies and the companies that hire them have taken on the challenge, mostly to unmemorable dramatic results. But viewers of Season 6, which has its finale this Sunday, may have taken more notice of the ads this season, most obviously, because the faces and voices are so familiar.
The American Airlines ads that accompany the show feature the voice of its star, Jon Hamm, who is clearly playing a version of Don Draper in full-on closer mode. A recent one introduces American's new lie-flat international seats:
The observation that it has become all to easy to forget that "you're flying five hundred miles an hour on a chair that just became a bed" is a classic Draperism, highlighting the magnificence of technological innovation, and the ways in which it connects to deeply held, timeless notions of adventure and comfort. The tagline, "We're putting the wonder back into air travel," could be a shorthand for all of Don's best pitches, and even suggests a tagline for the character himself: "Don Draper, putting the wonder back into consumer products since nineteen-fifty-something."
In another American Airlines ad that has run this year, Hamm tells jaded airline passengers, "There's a change in the air. Things feel different. New. Better. And tomorrow, they'll be better still." That, too, may sound familiar; it's a version of the line that Don, in better days, spun out to all the company flacks who met with him. Hope. Change. The future. It's so familiar because Don Draper said a version of the same thing about American Airlines, back in Season 2, when Sterling Cooper was angling to sign them as a client:
Next up, the ever-present spot for Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky, which features a maddening little jazz number and a very famous female silhouette:
The subtext here—though to call it that insults both the concept of text and subtlety—has Christina Hendricks seducing insecure male drinkers into believing they can assert some lost ideal of masculine power by ordering a drink. This sell is akin to the Jaguar campaign from Season 5, which settled on the tagline: "At last, something beautiful you can truly own." In this case, it's a drink, not a finicky sports car, but in both ads we are told that what men really want to own is a woman.
While the ad connects with "Mad Men"'s often misogynistic sense of a women's power, it also undermines the hard work that Hendricks and the show's writers and directors have done to reveal that there is much more to the Joan character than just her near-terrorizing sexual allure: that people misjudge and underestimate her at their own peril. Even worse, the ad violates "Mad Men"'s own sometimes lofty definition of advertising as a kind of art. In Season 2, when Peggy tries to impress Don with her savvy by citing the aphorism that "sex sells," Don shoots back, with a line that must have heartened modern ad people everywhere: "Says who? Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that monkeys can do this."
From a dramatic point of view, let alone one of artistic integrity, it seems bad practice to have the ads feature the same actors that star in that show. "Mad Men," with its soliloquies about the glories and pitfalls of the industry, has made lay ad critics of us all. But that constant prodding at the meaning of advertising in American culture has also made us especially attuned to the ways in which the show operates as an ad itself, selling nostalgia for all kinds of slightly unsavory things: an age of carefree smoking, drinking, and littering; rigorous attire; absentminded parenthood; retrograde class and gender roles. It is a show about marketing and artifice and the power and allure of the superficial—and whether "Mad Men" is a critique of these things or simply just another hedonistic luxury product is a reasonable question. It might be both. In a recent episode, Don Draper pleaded for an audience with Chevrolet, explaining that "the timbre of my voice is as important as the content." You might say the same thing about "Mad Men," at its best and worst.
In some ways, worrying about whether the advertising of real products diminishes the fictional world of "Mad Men" is wasted energy at this point. It either ceased to be a problem for viewers, or permanently became one, when an entire episode in the second season was structured around Heineken, which had made a placement deal with the show's producers. And why not? The show is about selling products, and it has far greater resonance when those products are real. So why not help pay for the craft service at the same time? Following a high-profile contract dispute with the network, Matthew Weiner, the show's creator, defended the limited use of product placement, and said that most of the real companies portrayed had not paid to appear. "I don't want the audience to feel they are being sold on the show," he said. But, of course, we are being sold something—all television is an extended dramatic pitch for our attention.
Central to that sales transaction have been the fictional ad campaigns that drive the show's plot. In earlier seasons, "Mad Men" presented ad campaigns that were not only innovative for their historical period but more interesting than most contemporary ads. But as the real ads around the show have become homages to the most popular campaigns on "Mad Men," the show's newest ad pitches have turned lifeless and dull, shadows of the better ones that preceded them. Fans disappointed in the latest season who find themselves asking, "When was the last really good episode?," might just as easily ask, "When was the last really good ad campaign on the show?"
The lacklustre ads fit into the general motif of dissolution and decay that has blanketed the season. Don's disappearing-man ad for Royal Hawaiian was as bad as the client said it was, and the most recent pitch, in which Peggy attempts to market a health-care company by recreating a scene from "Rosemary's Baby," is downright loony. "Mad Men" has always been at its most entertaining when the creative professionals portrayed are making exciting things. It seems unlikely that Sterling, Cooper, and Partners will be leading any more real-life marketing trends based on their recent work. And that, finally, may be a good thing. Seeing the professional lives of the characters on "Mad Men" finally align with the rot of their personal lives has made the show a darker and less desirable cultural object, but perhaps a more truthful advertisement for a lifestyle that no one would want to buy.


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Enjoy these gluten-free pancakes for breakfast or dinner topped with butter and drenched in maple syrup. Whole-grain corn flour gives them a cakier texture and adds some fiber, too.
How to Make It
Weigh or lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flours, brown sugar, and next 4 ingredients (through allspice) in a medium bowl; stir with a whisk. Combine pumpkin, almond milk, oil, vanilla, and eggs; stir with a whisk. Add to flour mixture, stirring until smooth.
Heat a nonstick griddle or large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Pour 2 tablespoons batter per pancake onto pan; cook 1 to 2 minutes or until tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked. Carefully turn pancakes over; cook 1 to 2 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Serve with maple syrup.
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Catching Fireworks
Waterloo Sunset and the Power of Visioning
|Posted on 20 June, 2018 at 5:00
"But I don't feel afraid
As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset
I am in Paradise"
Ray Davies
© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
How do you keep yourself focussed and on track when you are working towards a goal?
One method I have found extremely powerful is visioning, having a clear image of what you want to achieve and keeping this in your mind regardless of any ups and downs along the way. The vision which keeps you going could be the opening night of your first solo exhibition; opening the cover of your debut novel; reading your profile in The Observer...
As a creative person, you can build up a clear picture for yourself – where you are, who is there with you, how you are feeling, what you are thinking. Make it as rich and full a vision as you want and remind yourself of it every day. You can use an image as your computer wallpaper or use a mood board, or use music.
The best example I have of using visioning in my own life comes from a few years ago, when I was living in Chester where I had been for 9 years. I like Chester very much, but I really wanted to get back to London, a place I love. On 1 January 2001, I told my friends that by 31 December 2001, I would be back in London.
I had no idea where in London I would be living, whether in a flat or house, or what sort of job I would be doing. So I created a quite simple picture for myself as my vision for my hoped for new life. On the day after I moved back to London, I would stand on Waterloo Bridge with my CD player and as the sun went down over the Thames, I would listen to Ray Davies's mini masterpiece, "Waterloo Sunset". At that moment, I would know that my goal had been achieved.
During the next few months, I had several near miss job interviews and "almost" opportunities, with all the emotional highs and lows which go along with them. But every morning, without fail, I would refocus my efforts and my intentions by playing "Waterloo Sunset".
On the late afternoon of 18 December, 2001, I could have been found on Waterloo Bridge huddled against the chill air, wearing earphones and a silly big grin on my face as I watched the wintery sun slide behind The Houses of Parliament, listening to this wonderful song, before going home to my new south London flat. It was a bit of a close run thing, but I made my goal with a few days to spare.
And even better, whenever I need to focus on a goal, I can go back to the song and know, "Well, I made that goal, I can make the next one."
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A fairly big play to help small businesses grow fast launches today in the form of Smarta, an attempt to create a one-stop shop for setting up and growing a business. You'll be hearing a lot about it in the press because it has a bunch of people behind it with high media profiles, namely two Dragons from the BBC's Dragons Den TV show. But will it cut the mustard?
It will if the tenacity of CEO Sháá Wasmund is anything to go by. She made her name during the last boom as a director of travel company, Deckchair.com and Mykindaplace.com, sold to BSkyB. Most recently she has been at BrightStation Ventures, an investment vehicle, but has since extracted herself to work full time on Smarta, which has nothing to do with BrightStation.
Smarta's private backers are Simon Woodroffe (Founder of YO! Sushi), Bebo founder Michael Birch, David Saul (Business Environment Group) and Dragons' Den panelists Theo Paphitis (also owner of Ryman Stationery) and Deborah Meaden. There is up-front sponsor money from NatWest, RBS bank and Vodafone, as well as from law firm Mishcon de Reya and serviced office provider Business Environment, which will both be providing services to users. Smarta is due to be launched today by Minister for Digital Engagement and Parliament's first blogger, Tom Watson MP.
Get the picture?
So, Smarta is not unlike a sexier, private sector version of Business Link, the government-backed initiative to support small businesses which has been disappointing to say the least. Word on the street tells me they spent £20m on their useless web site, much of it on management consultancies to tell them they were fulfilling their brief. Sounds like your average government department, no?
But with Smarta you will be able to do a number of practical things: Legally register a business online with almost as much ease as you would buy a domain name; actually buy domain names; use the in-built social network to promote your businesses and yourself to other entrepreneurs; watch video tutorials and interviews with entrepreneurs; read how-to editorial features for businesses; ask questions; get financial and legal advice. You can also apply for a business banking account from RBS or NatWest.
They aim to have 200,000 users by the end of 2009. Revenue will be from sponsorship/advertising and transactions (domain name sales, business planning software etc).
Apparently there is a market out there. Here's their maths:
The 2007 UK Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report found that roughly 2.8 million people in the UK are thinking or have thought about starting up a business. Figures from the Department for Business, Enterprise Regulatory Reform also show that only c.400k business actually start up each year. So therefore roughly 2.4m million people who are thinking about starting a new business never do.
The reasons are simple: professional services and infrastructure are expensive; paperwork; hard to find other entrepreneurs to network with; lack of mentoring. Smarta aims to address all these.
Thus, if Smarta gets 1% more of the 2.4 million to start up a business, that's 24,000 additional start-ups. If each one has an turnover of £225,028 (according to the UK Dept for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform estimate for UK private enterprises with 0-49 employees in 2007) then the figure that pops out is £5.4bn.
Of course Smarta itself isn't going to get all that. But it might be able to hook into the market if it's quick, and, er, smart enough.
However, although the site shows plenty of promise, a couple of things ring alarm bells for me. The site was not built in-house but by digital agency Public Zone and designed by How Splendid. That's fine, but real tech startups control their own tech. Perhaps they'll address this later.
The videos of entrepreneurs are good, but you can't share/embed them. It's on their to-do list but I do wonder why they needed to build their own video player for this. Also, events don't have calendar feeds (also on the to-do list).
Smarta will also be hard to scale across national boundaries beyond the UK (but perhaps not impossible?).
Lastly, their biggest challenge is in not becoming Ecademy. And there are other sites out there that purport to do the same thing. Two things help them on this: Smarta is not out to be a personal cult for it's founder, although the media profile of the backers is going to go some way to differentiating the site from similar-sounding ones. All they need to do is execute on the tech a bit better.
Assuming all the above can come together, Smarta should be a very welcome boost to the UK's entrepreneurial scene.


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"I've heard WinXP removed the cmd/command prompt."
No, Microsoft didn't remove the CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM prompt from Windows XP. But Windows XP has reduced functionality, in many ways, not just in the command line. The command line is a big embarrassment because of its limited capabilities, but at least in Win 95 it worked. With every version since then it has worked less well. (There are two kinds of command prompt, and, according to Microsoft employees, the differences between them are not documented.)
The command line prompt sometimes begins to display short file names. Microsoft employees say that Microsoft has no fix, although someone not connected with Microsoft did make a work-around.
Cutting and pasting into a command line program often puts successive extra spaces before each line. Microsoft employees say that there is no plan to fix this.
The fast paste mode that is in Windows 98 is gone in Windows XP. Microsoft employees say there is no plan to fix this.
When using the command line interface, Windows XP doesn't always update the time. After several hours, the time reported to command line programs can be several hours in error.
There is a DOS program called START.EXE that can be used to start other programs. But it does operate the same way as in other versions of Windows. It starts a program, but cannot be made to return control to the command line program as previous versions did. There is no technical reason for this; it is just one of the shortcomings that are allowed to exist.
People often say that DOS has gone away. But Microsoft still calls the command line interface DOS, and in Windows XP Microsoft has added new programs for configuring the OS that work only under DOS.
Sometimes when you press a key while using Windows XP, it is seconds until there is any response. Apparently there is something wrong with the CPU scheduler in XP, because there are a lot of complaints about this in the forums and MS people have said that they are working on it. On one particular fresh installation of XP, on an Intel motherboard with either a Matrox G550 or an ATI Radeon video adapter, it requires 18 seconds to display a directory listing of 94 items. This is apparently related to a bug in the video software, not the adapter drivers.
Something is wrong with the Alt-Tab display of running programs under Windows XP. If there are a lot of programs, not all of them are displayed. The order jumps around in a seemingly random way.
Although articles often say negative things about Microsoft, I've never seen an article that fully documents how bad the situation really is. Microsoft's management is so bad that the company has become self-destructive. For example, Windows XP is spyware. Here is a list of ways Windows XP connects to Microsoft's servers:
These are just the ones I know. There may be others.
So, if you use Windows XP, your computer is dependent on Microsoft computers. That's bad, not only because you lose control over your possession, but because Microsoft produces buggy software and doesn't patch bugs quickly. For example, as of July 7, 2002, there are 18 unpatched security holes in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This is a terrible record for a company that has $40 billion in the bank. Obviously, with that kind of money, Microsoft could fix the bugs if it wanted to fix them. Since the bugs are very public and Microsoft has the money, it seems reasonable to suppose that top management at Microsoft has deliberately decided that the bugs should remain, at least for now.
It seems possible that there is a connection between all the bugs and the U.S. government's friendly treatment of Microsoft's law-breaking. The U.S. government's CIA and FBI and NSA departments spy on the entire world, and unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft software help spies.
Windows XP, and all current Windows operating systems, have a file called the registry in which configuration information is written. If this one (large, often fragmented) file becomes corrupted, the only way of recovering may be to re-format the hard drive, re-install the operating system, and then re-install and re-configure all the applications. The registry file is a single, very vulnerable, point of failure. Microsoft apparently designed it this way to provide copy protection. Since most entries in the registry are poorly documented or not documented, the registry effectively prevents control by the user.
Note that Microsoft does not support making functional complete backups under Windows XP. Look at Microsoft's policy about this: Q314828 Microsoft Policy on Disk Duplication of Windows XP Installation. Only those who work with Microsoft software will understand the true meaning of Microsoft's policy. Since almost all programs use the registry operating system file, if you cannot make a functional copy of the operating system you cannot make a functional copy of all your application installations and configurations. There are other software companies that try to fix this, but they don't work well, and Microsoft can, of course, break their implementations, as they have often done with other kinds of competitors.
Because the configuration information for the motherboard and the configuration information for the are mixed together in the registry file, the registry tends to prevent you from moving a hard drive to a computer with a different motherboard. That's another implication of the above Microsoft policy. So, if you have a motherboard failure, and a good complete backup, you may not be able to recover unless you have a spare computer with the same motherboard.
Note that Windows XP Professional can support only ten simultaneous incoming network connections. If you want more than that, you must use Windows 2000 server, and pay much, much more. (There is no Windows XP server yet.) Many businesses have very light network traffic; they just move files from staff member to staff member; they really don't need a dedicated server computer. The staff computers could easily handle the load except for this artificial limitation.
Apparently because the Windows XP GUI comes from Windows 98, Windows XP has the same problem with desktop icons that Windows 98 has. The icons sometimes flicker. Sometimes they move themselves around, particularly after the user switches monitor resolutions. Also, sometimes the taskbar settings un-configure themselves, as they do in Windows 98.
Only technically knowledgeable people know how to avoid signing up for a Microsoft Passport account during initial use of Windows XP. The name Passport gives an indication of Microsoft's thinking. A passport is a document issued by a sovereign nation. Without it, the nation's citizens cannot travel, and, if they leave, won't be allowed back in their own country. In Microsoft's corporate thinking, the company seems to be moving in the direction of believing that they own the user's computer. Most people are both honest and intimidated. Apparently about 95% do whatever they are asked on the screen. They give their personal information to Microsoft. They don't realize that, if they feel forced to get a Passport account, they should enter almost completely fictitious information, since the real question is not "What is your name and address", but "Can we invade your privacy". The honest answer to this is "No, you cannot invade my privacy", and the only effective way to communicate that is to give completely fictitious information. Since it is the educated people who have computers, Microsoft is building a database of the personal lives of educated people. Microsoft knows when they connect and from what IP address (which tends to show the area), what kind of help they ask, and information about what they are doing with their computers, including what music they like. It is not known, and there is no way to know, how much Microsoft or other organizations make use of this information, or their plans for future use.
Not only has Windows XP definitely gone further in the direction of allowing the user less control over his or her own machine, but with Palladium, Microsoft apparently intends to finish the job: Microsoft will have ultimate control over the user's computer and therefore all his or her data. Even now, under Windows XP, a recent security patch requires that the user agree to a contract that gives Microsoft administrator privileges over the user's computer. The contract says that if a user wants to patch his or her system against a bug which would allow an attack over the Internet, he or she must give Microsoft legal control over the computer. See this article also: Microsoft's Digital Rights Management-- A Little Deeper. You may need to be a lawyer to take apart the crucial sentence. "These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and (my emphasis) use other software on your computer" legally includes this meaning: "These updates may disable your ability to use other software on your computer." Note that the term "security related updates" is meaningless to the user because the updates have no relation to user security. So, the sentence effectively means that Microsoft can control the user's computer without notice and whenever it wants. That kind of sentence is known in psychology as "testing the limits". If there is no strong public complaint about this, expect to see more and stronger language like this.
This Register article shows the direction Microsoft is going: MS Palladium protects IT vendors, not you. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and Microsoft is well down that road. See this ZDNet article, also: MS: Why we can't trust your 'trustworthy' OS.
Microsoft's self-destructiveness does not mean that the user should be self-destructive. There is no need to apologize for using Microsoft software. The correct solution to abuse is persuading the abuser to stop being abusive. Once I posted to a Slashdot story a link to an article on a web site of mine. By far the majority of visitors from the Slashdot story used Microsoft operating systems. Rather than feel embarrassed because Microsoft is abusive, action needs to be taken to prevent the abuse. If you are against Microsoft abuse, you are not against Microsoft; you are more pro-Microsoft than Bill Gates.
These Microsoft policies mean that any government which wants to be independent of the United States government, and any government which represents itself as controlled by the people, cannot use Microsoft operating systems, or other Microsoft proprietary systems.
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Attorney Profile
Robert C. Alston was born and raised in Dade City, Florida, where he attended Pasco High School and graduated with honors. At a young age, he learned the value of hard work while growing up the son of a farmer. Through long hours of working cattle and harvesting citrus he developed a strong work ethic and the desire to help others. After high school, Robert worked in the Dade City area while attending Pasco Hernando Community College where he graduated with Honors. While at PHCC, he served as president of Phi Theta Kappa, a national honor society. He then attended the University of South Florida and St. Leo University, graduating with Honors and earning his Bachelors Degree in Management.
After college, and prior to attending law school, Robert worked in banking, retail management, and insurance sales. Robert applied for and was accepted as a student at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, where he was actively involved with campus activities. He was a member of the Moot Court Board; Justice for Phi Alpha Delta,; placed third in the Opening Statement Competition; and won the Freshman Closing Argument Competition. During his time at Stetson he also worked as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Lynn Tepper; participated in a law practicum with the West Coast Regional Water Supply; and served as a Certified Legal Intern with the Office of the State Attorney where he participated in the prosecution of criminal cases.
In 1999, Robert graduated from Stetson, Cum Laude, with a Juris Doctorate. After graduation, Robert worked as an associate at Newman, LeVine and Metzler, P.A. in Tampa, where he represented local and national companies in workers' compensation matters. In 2002, Robert combined his past business experience and his legal experience and opened a solo practice in Zephyrhills.


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T-ara's Hwayoung Gets the Boot, Contract Extinguished
So it appears that the rumors going on in the music industry were right, T-ara's Hwayoung is leaving the group!
On July 30 the official statement that the CEO Kim Kwang Soo made was the following: "After getting the opinions of T-ara's 19 staff members." He continued, "Because Hwayoung is a rapper that has a lot of potential we have decided to end her contract without any conditions. We firmly believe that she will be able to grow as a singer at a different place as a free agent singer."
When explaining the reason behind ending Hwayoung's contract he stated, "I would like to repeat that the T-ara's bully theories are not true," "Because I consider teamwork more important than each individual member of T-ara I have decided to respect the opinion of the 19 staff members. I decided to make this decision after thinking that there should be no staff members that are having a hard time anymore," and "I thought for a long time if this was the right decision, although I know it hurts as much as your skin being pierced I made this decision for T-ara's future and continued existence. With the staff members I have helped the T-ara members come to an understanding all-night until 7am this morning."
Lastly he apologized to T-ara's fans and then to T-ara by stating, "Once again I relay my sorry heart to T-ara and hope that Hwayoung becomes a great rapper."


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Purchase from Amazon Dark Days: The Long Road Home
Dark Days: The Long Road Home by L M May
Book Description
How long would you survive?
Gemma thought she'd seen the last of Christopher Daley. She was wrong. When she ends up trapped in the city after an event that devastates society, Gemma has to trust the man who broke her heart as they set out on the long journey back home in a world that will never be the same again.
GEMMA: before her best friend died, Gemma made her a promise. Leaving four-year-old CJ with his grandmother, she catches the train to a law firm in the city to fulfill it.
Book Review
"An electromagnetic pulse, also known as an EMP will bring about the end of the world as we know it. EMPs can be caused by solar storms or by nuclear weapons detonated high in the atmosphere. When it happens the power grids will fail. There will be no electricity, water, heating, gas or sanitation. The EMP will burn out computer circuits. Airplanes, cars, computers, phones, pacemakers and anything with computer chips will stop working. In the first few minutes in America, between 250,000 and 500,000 people will be dead." – –Dark Days
Wow! Could this really happen? Am I prepared? What would I do? L M May will have you asking yourself these questions as you read Dark Days, a post-apocalyptic story combining romance and suspense in the aftermath of an EMP attack.
The story centers on Gemma and Christopher who struggle to survive a week-long journey to reunite with their families. A promise to her recently deceased best friend, Caroline, has forced Gemma Rockwell to travel 300 miles from her hometown to see her old love, Christopher Daley. She is going to inform him that he has a four-year-old son that he unknowingly conceived with Caroline. Learning the true identity of CJs father after Caroline's death has left Gemma feeling shocked and betrayed, but she is determined to fulfill her promise.
Christopher Daley, now an attorney in a larger city, has never forgotten Gemma and the love they once shared in high school. Although it's been years since they've seen each other, he realizes he's never completely gotten over her when she unexpectedly arrives at his office to meet with him.
As the point of view switches smoothly back and forth between Gemma and Christopher, readers are able to understand that there are still unresolved feelings between them that begin to resurface during the discussion over CJ. Believing that he is sterile, but refusing to admit it to Gemma, Christopher denies that he is CJs father. Before this conflict is resolved, however, the attack occurs without any forewarning. Everything…just…stops.
To Get a Better understanding of the magnitude of an EMP attack, watch this YouTube video:
"What about the government?…They'll help."
"It's every man for himself now. Survival of the fittest. It won't be long before people will be killing each other for a can of food or a bottle of water."
As Gemma and Christopher exit a chaotic metropolitan area and head toward suburbs and smaller towns, readers begin to see more organized efforts to help each other by banding together to share their resources and provide some semblance of law and order to keep each other safe. It is heartening to see that people will turn to each other for support.
Gemma and Christopher are pushed to their physical limits as they travel the harsh terrain and battle the weather. Along the way, they encounter dangerous individuals determined to take advantage of others through violence. I had expected more antagonistic situations with others than actually occurred in the story, but I also took into consideration that the attack is so recent, the majority of people are still trying to process their new reality. The conflicts that do occur throughout the story provide suspense and motivation to keep turning the pages to find out what will happen next.
Besides the physical barriers, the author makes us consider the emotional challenges as well in a fallen society. Christopher and Gemma are conflicted as they realize that they cannot stop to help everyone they encounter. Is hardening ourselves to the plight of others moving us a step away from our humanity?
On a more personal level, the EMP attack is the catalyst for rekindling Christopher and Gemma's relationship. At first they are awkward and tense with each other, but as they spend more time together, they find the long-lost comfort that they once had. Their desire and longing for each other emerge stronger than ever, even though they both try to fight these feelings.
Through each character's point of view, readers are given sprinkles of clues about the mystery behind what ended their relationship. I was able to piece together that they were once in love and planned to spend their lives together until something traumatic happened that wedged them apart. Revealing bits and pieces of their past over the course of the story was effective in keeping my interest. However, I was disappointed that, by the end of the book, their full history was never revealed.
I expected the author to unify the plot by tying together all aspects of the story.
What I most enjoyed about the book is the creative story angle, the unpredictability of the plot, and the suspense found throughout the story. Will Christopher and Gemma make it home unharmed? Can they revive their romantic relationship? Can Christopher accept CJ as his son? How will their lives change as a result of the EMP attack?
I do want to point out that after the story ends, the author kindly provides a sneak peek of the next book in the series. When I read the excerpt, I realized that Christopher and Gemma's story will continue, and more pieces of their past are revealed, so their entire story, hopefully, will emerge as the series continues.
Although there are some minor grammatical errors, and I felt the story could have been more fully fleshed out, Dark Days is a worthwhile read because it will no doubt make readers consider the reality of such an attack occurring in the future.
I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Songs to Complement Dark Days
The significance of this song is obvious:
R.E.M. "Its the End of the World"
I found this song to encapsulate the depth of Christopher and Gemma's relationship:
Hurt: "Assurance"
(Thanks to SoulMusik69 for this music recommendation)
Soundgarden: "Fell on Black Days" (This song just kept popping up in my mind as I read the book)
L M May recommends watching this video on how an EMP works
Read Chaos from the Sky: Why The EMP Threat is Real
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Title: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Vintage International
288 pages
Genre: Fantasy/Sci fi
Synopsis: Hailsham is a British boarding school for special students. The reminiscence is told from the point of view of Kathy H., now 31, whose evocation of the sheltered estate's sunlit rolling hills, guardians, dormitories, and sports pavilions is imbued with undercurrents of muted tension and foreboding that presage a darker reality. As an adult, Kathy re-engages in lapsed friendships with classmates Ruth and Tommy, examining the details of their shared youth and revisiting with growing awareness the clues and anecdotal evidence apparent to them even as youngsters that they were different from everyone outside.
Review:I couldn't put this book down. It isn't until about 1/3 of the way through this book that you start to have a glimmer of what it is really about and since I don't want to spoil it my review is going to be fairly cryptic and for that I apologize. If the little I reveal peaks your curiosity or if you like moral questions this is a book for you.
Ishiguro reveals the true horror of this book slowly after you get to know the players involved. Little by little like peeling the layers of an onion you are slowly shown the fate of the main characters of this book. It makes you think, it makes you want to scream, it makes you want to shake them and scream "run" or "what are you thinking!". Is this what our future holds? I hope not. Maybe this is a cautionary tale, one that shows what could happen, and investigates what makes one person more important than another.
This is a more personal book but it reminds me of the out of print book World Enough and Time by James Kahn, which blends science and fantasy but asks some of the same questions, such as just because we have the technology to do something should we really do it and what are the consequences if we do?


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Network analysis on JASP
Hello everyone!
I am writing to ask about network analysis on JASP. I and my research group have performed a behavioral study collecting data from three groups of 50 participants (150 in total). Our data consists of accuracy and response time values, which are not normally distributed. What type of estimator do you think that is better to use for our analysis? Is it possible to compare the network plots?
Many thanks in advance,
Hi Elisa!
Is your data continuous or ordinal? If you have continuous non-normal data you could try using the nonparanormal transformation to deal with non-normality (i.e., after selecting the EBICglasso estimator in JASP, you can select "npn" under correlation method). If your data is ordinal you could try using polychoric correlations, I believe this should be done automatically when you use the EBICglasso estimator in JASP with the "auto" correlation method – notably your sample size is quite small, so you may or may not run into problems when using polychoric correlations depending on how many nodes you have.
You can compare the networks using the Network Comparison Test, but you can only compare two groups at the time. This is also not yet implemented in JASP and can only be done in R at the moment.
Hope this helps!
Hi Adela!
Many thanks for your help, I'll try this method!
Hi everyone,
I had performed a systematic review about medications use for a specific type of surgery.
Each article cited the medications names, and for each article there are at least 2 medications that were compared. Thus, I would like to perform a Network metanalysis of these drug combinations.
I had created a spreadsheet with 3 column (author's name, group 1, and group 2), I put the medications categorized as codes. I have tried to do the network analysis on JASP software; however, when I chose the Network option, the data was not processed.
Is there anyone who coud help me?
Best regards,
Hi Fábio,
I think what you are trying to do is something completely different. The network module as currently implemented in JASP aims to estimate markov random fields and does not really perform network analysis from a graph theoretical point of view.
Hi Adela,
Thanks so much for the answers!
I have an additional question, is Likert-7-scale data considered as continuous data?
Best, Xin


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Joeline is our Client Manager at our Kirwan office where she specialises in taxation and business support for small family businesses through to large enterprises across the state. Joeline has a vast level of knowledge of taxation and business service experience.
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Increase your Vitamin D with this Frittata Dish
8 eggs
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh oregano
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup sliced red bell pepper
1 bunch scallions, trimmed and sliced
1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese
1. Position rack in upper third of oven; preheat broiler.
2. Whisk eggs, oregano, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Heat oil in a large, ovenproof, nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add bell pepper and scallions and cook, stirring constantly, until the scallions are just wilted, 30 seconds to 1 minute.
3. Pour the egg mixture over the vegetables and cook, lifting the edges of the frittata to allow the uncooked egg to flow underneath, until the bottom is light golden, 2 to 3 minutes. Dot the top of the frittata with cheese, transfer the pan to the oven and broil until puffy and lightly golden on top, 2 to 3 minutes. Let rest for about 3 minutes before serving. Serve hot or cold.
Per serving: 179 calories; 13 g fat (4 g sat, 7 g mono); 286 mg cholesterol; 4 g carbohydrates; 11 g protein; 1 g fiber; 326 mg sodium; 200 mg potassium.
*Add a half cup side of raspberries to increase fiber!
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In August 1914, Germany invaded Belgium and Great Britain entered the war to uphold the obligations it made in the 1839 Treaty of London. Some of the deadliest fighting seen throughout the First World War occurred on the Western Front, as military trenches were dug from the Belgian coast, south into France and all the way to Switzerland. This occurred after the first Battle of the Marne which resulted in heavy losses and a stalemate on both sides. On the outbreak of the war, a young Scottish woman, Mairi Chisholm, joined a friend and trained nurse Elsie Knocker as a volunteer dispatch rider in London. Both were keen motorcyclists and were able to put their skills to good use working for the Women's Emergency Corps. This organisation was training women doctors, nurses and motorcycle messengers to assist with the war effort (Fig. 1).
Figure 1: Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm, circa 1916; © National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 137849)
Dr Henry Munro, a British medical doctor, asked both women to join his Flying Ambulance Corps in Belgium, which was rescuing and treating injured soldiers on the western front of the war. Here, Mairi and Elsie worked for several months picking up wounded soldiers and transporting them to a field hospital to help nurse them back to health. As many soliders died en route, both women felt they could save more lives by working closer to the front lines. Hence, Elsie and Mairi set up their own first aid post in the cellar of a vacant house in a town called Pervyse, only 100 yards from the trenches. From the end of 1914 onwards, they spent the next three and a half years treating wounded British, Belgian and German soldiers, some of whom they rescued from the battlefield (Fig. 2).
Figure 2: Mairi Chisholm with Belgian orderlies, loading a wounded soldier into the Wolseley Red Cross van in Pervyse, 1917; © IWM (Q 105943)
Figure 3: Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker tending to a wounded Belgian soldier in their First Aid Post at Pervyse, 6th August 1917; © IWM (Q 105938)
However, in March 1918 a German bombing raid and gas attack struck their first aid post in Pervyse. Both Elsie and Mairi became very ill and were taken to a hospital in London. A few weeks later, Mairi returned to the front lines, but Elsie was too ill to do so. As the German army were frequently bombing west Belgium, Mairi eventually abandoned their first aid post a few months before the war ended in November 1918.
After the war Mairi returned to Nairn, Scotland and became a poultry breeder on a friend's estate due to poor health. She lived in Jersey for a period and eventually settled in Oban, Scotland for the rest of her life until she died in 1981, aged 85. A statue commemorating these two great nurses was erected at Ypres, Belgium to honor their courage and commitment during the First World War (Fig. 4).
Figure 4: Statue of Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker at Ypres, Belgium; credit: Great War 100 Reads
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is hosting a free public exhibit exploring nursing during the First World War One, which will feature both women. This will be located at their offices on 22-26 George St, Edinburgh from Monday 5 to Friday 16 November 2018. A storytelling session with Dr Diane Atkinson, who authored a book on Elsie and Mairi, will be held at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Friday 9 November 2018. Sign up to attend the event.
The RCN exhibition 'Journey of a Wounded Solder' will be on display as part of a free public exhibition Remembering the Great War at the Royal Society of Edinburgh until 12 November. Curated by the RCN History of Nursing Society and the RCN Library and Archive Service with help from First World War historian Christine Hallett, the RCN exhibition tells the journey of a wounded soldier, from the front line to back home, and the vital role of the nurse at each stage of that journey. Find out more


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The Micromax Yureka carries a 5.5-inch IPS LCD multi touch display with a resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels (HD) and a pixel density of 267ppi. It offers clear viewing from angles as wide as 180 degrees and resists scratches easily with the Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. Despite being so big, it deserves applause due to its thickness of just 8.5mm. Moreover, the first of its kind polished moonstone finish at the back radiates a nice appeal.
Processor and OS
Sandwiched between the two panels of the Yureka, there is a 64-bit 1.5GHz octa-core processor based on Qualcomm MSM8939 Snapdragon 615 processor which utilizes the capabilities of the phone efficiently and guarantees powerful performance. It is aided by a 2GB DDR3 RAM for smooth multitasking. Rich graphics is ensured by Adreno 305 GPU.
The main attraction of the handset is the Cyanogen OS 11 platform, a modified version of Android v4.4.4 KitKat OS. Micromax promises to give timely OTA updates with the update to the latest Android v5.0 Lollipop expected soon. The CyanogenMod allows you to tinker with the platform according to your needs without worrying about the warranty.
Camera, Storage and Multimedia
The Micromax Yureka flaunts a 13MP autofocus camera with Sony EXMOR CMOS sensor, wide angle lens, f/2.2 aperture, Blue Filter architecture and LED flash. It is fluent in recording 1,080p videos at 30fps and 720p ones at 60fps. It dons a 5MP front camera for selfie lovers. The phone houses 16GB of internal memory which is further expandable up to 32GB.
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The Micromax Yureka is fuelled by a sealed 2,500mAh Li-Po battery and can be connected through 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth v4.0 and USB port. It also supports 4G LTE Cat4 networks to ensure high speed web browsing experience.
Micromax will have a lot of hopes with the Yureka thanks to its brilliant specs, affordable price tag and most importantly intuitive OS. The big phablet looks appealing with its sleek and unique styling and has the power to provide seamless performance. It will definitely attract tech savvy people who love to have a high level of control on their gadgets.


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Concern at inflation
15 February 2011
Inflation could lead to homelessness for people who are already struggling to pay their housing costs, Shelter said today.
In response to today's Consumer Price Indices (CPI) report which shows inflation has risen to four per cent, Campbell Robb, Shelter's Chief Executive said:
'This rise in inflation means basic living costs such as food and utility bills are soaring at a time when many people are either having their wages frozen or are losing their jobs.
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National Museums Liverpool's horology collections are extensive, containing over 12,000 items and are of international significance.
The clock and watch collection of some 1,200 items includes clocks of high quality such as:
The collections include a number of observatory clocks and regulators; turret clocks; chronometers (including maritime) and precision watches; cylinder watches; and special industrial clocks and watches.
Another highlight of the collection is the large number of horological workshop tools, including gear-cutting engines and complete watchmakers' workshops. It also holds the Lancashire Watch Company's archive, parts of the Mercer archive and is supported by a very fine horological and history of science library of national importance. The collection also includes a scientific and horological makers database of 45,000 records.


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ZF-169 Wireless Bluetooh 5.0 Audio Receiver & Transmitter Music Adapter RTH-572050
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|Product Features:
- 1. Model: ZF-169
- 2. Technologies: BT5.0, A2DP, AVRCP (receiver mode only)
- 3. Operation Range: Up to 10m / 33ft (without any blocking objects)
- 4. Pairing name(Receiver mode ):ZF-169
- 5. Transmitter mode: red LED light is on
- 6. Receiver mode: blue LED light is on
- 7. Dimensions: 32mm*17mm*8.5mm
|Product Specifications:
- 1.This extremely portable, lightweight wireless audio transmitter & receiver is an ideal wireless audio solution for a wide range of situations and uses
- 2.Transmitter mode:wirelessly streams audio from your non-Bluetooth TV, home stereo system, or CD player to your Bluetooth headphones or speakers
- 3.Receiver mode: wirelessly streams audio from your Bluetooth-enabled phone, tablet, or computer to your wired stereo, speakers, or headphones
- 4.Mode switching:
- 1) If the device has been in a mode for a long time, it needs to be re-energized twice to switch to another mode.
- 2) If the device has just switched mode, you want to immediately switch to another mode, you only need to re-energize once.
- 5.Pairing method
- RX mode: Pairing name: ZF-169, find it in the Bluetooth settings of the phone to pair. The blue light flashes during the pairing process, and the blue light stops flashing after the pairing is successful. Connect the product to the audio device with a 3.5 audio cable.
- TX mode: TX mode will automatically search for other Bluetooth receiving devices (such as Bluetooth headset, Bluetooth speaker, Bluetooth receiver, etc.), the red light flashes during pairing, and the red light stops flashing after pairing succeeds. Connect the product to a device such as a TV with a 3.5 audio cable/RCA audio cable.
- 6.Super-Portable Audio-Streaming Power
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- The ZF-169 just 18mm across and weighs only 18g , but has got powerful wireless audio streaming capabilities. Slip this transmitter & receiver into your backpack or laptop bag and take it on-the-go without the slightest effort.
- 7.Broad Compatibility: With the included 3.5mm cable, this Receiver Transmitter adapter can widely be used on your computer, laptop, home stereo system, headphone, smartphone, Mp3 player, CD player, etc.
|Package Contents:
- 1 x Bluetooth 5.0 Audio Transmitter/Receiver Adapter
- 1 x 3.5mm Aux Cable
- 1 x User Manual


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For quite long time I have been using my "so called" smart home system based on Z-Wave device (around 20 pieces) with RazBerry and software from its web page. Additionally I used several plugins and mobile phone app on iPhone. How was it? Not bad – I could monitor house parameters, active some scenes… But I missed like hell a few features:
- diagrams/charts – there is no a build-in solution in z-wave.me smarthome supporting chart preparations. There is an interesting IntChart plugin but it missed some features like easy elimination of invalid readings from chart, describing properly source of device.
- integration with other sources of events – it was possible, there are several plugins for HTTP devices and so on. But it wasn't straightforward. Of course I was using mostly Z-Wave and it was working fine (with exception of some cheap items from China which missed certain features – but it is device related problem). As I started playing with ESP32 chips it started being more and more interesting for me however.
- Finally during last months of 2017 I started having problems with getting access to my home device from Internet. Probably z-wave.me service was overloaded and I could use smarthome only from internal network.
- Missing notifications to mobile phone
I was thinking also about implementing some features myself… but I am not JS person unfortunately.
All above made me to look for something new.
Finally my steps lead me to openHAB. Solution looks at first very promising, developed in Java. And it was great that it allows for integration with Z-Wave in two ways – using Z-Way and Z-Wave binding. Installation of my Raspberry was quick and during Christmas break I started testing what I could do.
First of all I have added mySQL database to keep data persistence – and from start I knew I will be able to reprocess data if needed.
Z-Way binding
In order to connect to devices (Things) binding must be installed. From the list I chose first Z-Way as it allowed for seamingless integration with my existing smarthome software using REST API shared by smarthome. Additionally in parallel I kept original software talking to RaZberry board.
All devices from RaZberry were listed quickly – both physical and virtual and I let system run without much changes. I played with my Christmas lights at the front door and it was fun… Until I notice that responsivity of system was getting poorer in time. On average after 10 hours I could not switch lights using openHab – RaZberry software was still running. A few retries and monitoring of Raspberry showed that CPU load of java process was jumping often above 100% and binding had problems with parsing some JSON structures read from Z-Way API.
Advantage of having nice charts using HABadmin UI, notifications was lost as if system is unreliable with readings then it is useless.
Z-Wave binding
The good news is that there is second binding and after quick look at GitHub I have found it is still developed and much more active. Z-Wave binding works differently – it talks directly to serial port on Z-Wave controller (RaZberry for me but can be also USB).
First step was to disable original software and configure serial port for binding. There is good documentation on it – and I started the system again.
Unfortunately not all devices were found properly – mostly the cheap devices with which I had problems with old software.
But… I was a little shocked when I found that responsivity of whole network – plugs, light switches – improved a lot! Earlier switching stairs light or dimmer right to the controller were talking even 5+ seconds… now it was without noticeable delays. It made me very happy, really.
What about CPU load? It is below 3%… and I monitor it easily with System Info binding which displays on UI necessary information (also I can chart it 🙂 ).
With Network binding I put periodical pinging of mobile phones to investigate presence detection of my family – all results are in database so I can make some conclusions and turn of lights and heating in my son's room 🙂
Access from outside is via openHAB cloud. There is instance available for anybody but no SLA is guaranteed – it is slow, really. But this cloud software is available for personal installation so diversity is possible – installation of it is on my task list.
New system is much more flexible, these days it requires some more work with building nice UI (with sitemap) but tools are under development and editing text file to adapt UI is easy. It does not require from user deep technical knowledge however some skill. But results are very impressive.
I will assemble some notes and share experience with some advice.


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Investigation of redox couples for the batteries are being carried out in the labs of the Chemical Engineering Group in Aarhus, whereas photoanodes and cathodes will be investigated in Porto. The photo shows PhD Fellow Kristina Wedege in the laboratory (photo Lars Kruse, AU)
As the need for large-scale energy storage increases with the development of renewable energy sources such as wind power or solid state solar cells, research into redox flow batteries has increased dramatically.
In these batteries, redox couples in two separate chambers are charged electrochemically by changing their oxidation states. During discharge, the reverse redox reaction takes place and charge balance is kept by ion-exchange through a selective membrane between the chambers. Lately the development of commercial redox flow batteries have been successful and pilot plants are being build. State-of-the-art redox flow batteries are based on aqueous solutions of various Vanadium-species and uses carbon-based anodes and cathodes.
Direct solar charging of redox couple
In one hour the radiation from the sun supplies about the total annual energy consumption on Earth, which naturally causes enormous interest in finding ways to harvest this energy. The possibility of direct charging of redox couples using solar energy has been explored earlier, mostly with a well-known redox couple: Water. Termed photo-electrochemical water splitting, this idea is similar to the objective of the current project, but as water develops hydrogen and oxygen gas upon electrochemical reaction, other redox couples have to be found and investigated, if such a capture of the energy of the sun are to be used in a battery.
Photoanodes and cathodes: Harvesting solar radiation
Solar charging of chemical species requires either a photoanode or a photocathode, which are semiconductors that facilitate electron transport to and from the solution of redox couples upon solar radiation. If the right combination of energy levels in these semiconductors and the energy levels of the redox couples are made, so-called photocurrents can be observed, meaning that the solar energy has been captured and stored.
At the Engineering Faculty of University of Porto another research group is working on developing stable, cheap and effective photoanodes and cathodes to be used both for water splitting, and with redox couples that are being investigated in the Chemical Engineering Group in Aarhus. Thus, a close collaboration is needed between the two groups to develop and optimize the necessary parts.
Responsible energy storage
In traditional battery technology, toxicity has not always been considered, and batteries generally have to be collected and destroyed responsibly after their lifetime. By careful choice of redox couples that can e.g. be derived from rhubarb, it may be possible to create a safer technology. In addition to this, the materials must be relatively cheap and all process parameters optimized in order to answer the research question: Is it possible to experimentally show high efficiencies (hc > 10 %) of solar charging of redox couples?