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Pentax USA has just launched a $100 instant rebate on the K-3 DSLR, lowering its price to $1199 at authorized dealers.
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Back to the Basics
Recently, someone mentioned that I haven't written a post about the basics of what I believe. That surprised me, because it seems like such an obvious topic: a starting point, really. It can be easy to get caught up in the details of our faith, the specifics and rabbit trails. One of the greatest joys I know is to explore a Biblical topic in depth, because there is always so much to find and apply!
But there is also value in stepping back and capturing the big picture of the what we believe: something that can become so common to us that it loses its rightful awe. Doing this can help us refocus and remember what this life is all about. So that's what we're doing over the next two weeks: going back to the basics.
I've written seven short posts about specific things I (and most Christians) believe, and will post one every few days.
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Donations Pour in to Save Elephant Foundation in Lampang, Thailand
LAMPANG – What is believed to be the world's first elephant hospital has been saved from closure after more than 20 million baht in donations streemed in from elephant lovers all over the world.
Since the founder of the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation, Soraida Salwala, announced the organisation's closure early last week due to inadequate funding, more than Bt20 million in public donations had flowed into one of the foundation's accounts, giving its famed elephant hospital a reprieve.
Soraida Salwala, the secretary-general of the foundation, revealed the news on her Facebook page, saying its Kasikornbank account balance had reached 21.33 million baht, compared with just 1.38 million last Monday.
"I was lost for words, and could not hold back my tears," she wrote. I told Doctor (vet) Ke to tell all staff of the foundation that I thanked them. Because of their work, the people have mercy for us to continue to our work. I would like to express my utmost gratitude to the people."
The Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation runs the world's first elephant hospital in Lampang province, which opened 25 years ago.
The foundation, set up in 1993, has been encountering financial problems for more than 11 years because of falling donations.
Ms Soraida said the foundation needed at least one million baht per month to look after five elephants at the Elephant Hospital in Lampang, owned by the foundation with around 10 staff. However, donations had been averaging only 400,000 baht a month.
The hospital drew worldwide attention in 2008 when it developed the world's first prosthetic elephant leg. At least 15 of its patients have been land mine victims.
The foundation has succeeded in treating 4,651 elephants nationwide. It also campaigned successfully for a ban on elephants begging for food in Bangkok in 2010, and for legislation governing their welfare.
Its office, including the world's first elephant hospital, is situated in Hang Chat district of the northern province of Lampang.
People wishing to help the foundation in its final year, may transfer money to Kasikron bank via its Ramintra branch at 088-2-20983-0 or SCB bank account, Ratchayothin branch, at 111-2-27207-8 or pay cash addressed to Friends of the Asian Elephant at Hang Chat district post office. Evidence of the donation can be sent to the foundation via email [email protected] or by fax 054-829-308.


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Our chapter was awarded "Chapter of the Year" in 2008, 2010 and 2014. In 2015, the Tampa Bay Chapter was awarded the inaugural "Large Chapter of the Year" after the creation of separate large and small categories. That title was held once again in 2016. View our recent submissions below.
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Ami Vegan Cat Food - 1.5kg
A complete Vegan cat food enriched with vitamins and mineral, omega 3 and 6 oils and of course the essential ingredient for cat health - Taurine.
Ami Cat is produced in Italy, where it has been used by vets as a hypoallergenic food for cats with intolerances. Here in the UK it has proved very successful with customers since we started selling it in 2004 - cats love the taste of it!
A number of our customers have raised their cats on Ami since the start, and we often hear great feedback in how they have done at vet visits. Others have introduced the food to older cats, who can often be set in their ways, but have found they will accept it too.
Ami Vegan Cat food is not tested on animals, and is free from all animal based ingredients.
Corn Gluten, Corn, Corn Oil, Rice Protein, Whole Peas, Pea Fibre, Brewers Yeast, Bicalcium Phosphate, Linseed, Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, Potato Protein, Sodium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Rapeseed Oil
Guaranteed Analysis: Moisture 8.0%, Protein 33.0%, Crude Fats 14.0%, Crude Fibre 3.5%, Crude Ash 5.9%, Magnesium 0.09%, Omega-3 Fatty Acid 0.8%, Omega-6 Fatty Acid 6.5%
Additives - Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A 27,500 IU/kg, Vitamin D3 1,600 IU/kg, Vitamin E 270mg/kg, Copper Sulphate Pentahydrate (Copper) 20mg/kg, Iron Carbonate (Iron) 210m/kg, Calcium Iodate Anhydrous (Iodine) 4mg/kg, Sodium Selenite (Selenium) 10mg/kg, Zinc Oxide (Zinc) 100mg/kg, Manganous Oxide (Manganous Oxide) 12mg/kg, Taurine 1,500mg/kg, L-Carnitine 300mg/kg
The declarations above are a mandatory requirement for pet food in the EU. The product also includes Arachidonic Acid, Vit. B1, Vit. B6, Vit. B12, Folic Acid Iron, Iodine, Manganese, Selenium, Zinc and others that are not required to be on the packaging but we details them here to reassure customers that the products are complete.
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Bill Clinton: CNN 'more entertaining now'
Bill Clinton took a slight dig at CNN's falling ratings during an interview with Piers Morgan Wednesday night, but said the network has gotten "more entertaining without becoming more extreme."
"I used to worry CNN was going to lose too many viewers," the former president said.
"No fear of that, Mr. President. Storming ahead," Morgan quickly responded.
"Yea you're doing better, but you're more entertaining now, which is good. But you became more entertaining without becoming more extreme which is important," Clinton said. "Because people are wired when they see all this conflict to get into the fray."
Clinton even showcased some media analysis skills, noting the difficulties in balancing ratings and objectivity.
"And you know what it takes, you gotta have 800,000 viewers in a cable show to break even, and if you get more than that your profits go up. So the good news about the media today is we have more sources of information than ever before," Clinton said. "The bad news, we are all of us prone only to go to the places we agree with. So MSNBC has grown...and Fox news had this big base, it's very carefully done psychologically and substantively and everything is serving to polarize the country."


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Dr Whitaker was a Consultant at Manchester Royal Infirmary and a Past President of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI). He is also a past Chairman of the Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists (ACTA), a past elected member of the Council of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, an Honorary Fellow of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland and an Honorary Member of the European Society of Anaesthesiology.
He currently chairs the European Board of Anaesthesiology Patient Safety Committee and in 2010 he was co-author of the Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology now signed by over 200 anaesthesia related organisations worldwide. He is also a member of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) Patient Safety and Quality Committee and a past member of the Quality and Safety Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA).
Dr Whitaker is particularly interested in implementing safer practices into Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine and is currently promoting better Patient Blood Management, the increased use of pre-filled syringes and more widespread patient monitoring outside the operating theatre, particularly continuous capnography in Intensive Care, Sedation and Resuscitation. He is also working on the joint EBA/ESA/ERC initiative to standardise the Cardiac Arrest Call telephone number in European Hospitals to 2222.
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Success exercise
Lets look at—>self care.
An ingredient that you need to restore, rebuild and to stop an acknowledge where you are in life , set goals, reflect and so much more.
How much time are you investing to take care of yourself so you can get shit done!
What do you do to take care of yourself?
I mean really, you need this to prevent burn out, so you can love yourself, so you can take priority, so you can give back to others. Part of self care is allowing that to happen.
We can take care of to others if we restore ourselves…some self self kindness and…self love time! This could be on Sunday or at least 1 day a week.
We need to allow ourselves some time…it doesn't have to be extravagant!!!!!
I think we think it has to be that….don't we??? So we have an excuse not to give that to ourselves.
Self care doesn't have to be a big thing that you just do not allow yourself to do it.
It could be just the practice of the art of taking care of YOU!
My hope and goal for all of you and wish is for you to let this be a part of a habit, allowing you some YOU time.
This could be a whole afternoon or an hour in the hot bath with bubbles.
Or veg out with a tea and reflection time or meet up with a friend for a $15 chair massage.;D That's what i did today, met a good friend and my bootcamp co-coach. ;D
It doesn't have to be massive… just some good self care.
—–>Here we go homework!<——-
I want you all to look at your schedule this week.
and you decide what your at least 1x a week self care will be. Maybe it's working on your vision board, taking a walk to think about your week, a tea on the deck watching the sunrise..
Come on guys! What's the point of everything else, if you can't take time for you.
Self care is not just about of eating well but also about acknowledgment to yourself. With self care, will come the ability to show up in the world and give our best self.
Doing this will allow you to be more confidence, your less tired because you have done things to take care of yourself. It all builds on each other.
A lot of time my clients say I DON"T HAVE TIME FOR ME!
I am sorry but! i do not believe that.
You can do things that will refiill your own cup, invest in yourself.
What does that look like? that looks different to different people.
The truth may be you are not doing the thing, that you need to do to have that time.
I know… I know… I know …life happens, we have a lot of stuff going on but that does not mean you can't take care of you.
There is still time to make shit happen, part of self care builds you up. You are worth it.
What will your self care be this week? Please feel free to share and G.R clients sounds off below.
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Bloody hell, this transfer window is like pulling teeth. Pulling teeth whilst voluntarily sedated.
No one really cares about buying players because we're winning. Which is fine, but I think the reality bug might bite in at some point and we'll be cursing the lack of movement because I really don't think we have the depth to fight all the way this year.
However, what do I know? The boss will have all the data at his hands and if he deems the squad deep enough, well, all I can do is wait and see.
Amazing what success does to the mind of the average fan. This year has been so much less stressful. When Arsenal are on form, life is on form. Winning at football puts everything in perspective. Fired from your job? Who cares, season ticket renewals aren't for 5 months. Girlfriend dumps you? Who cares, her brother supported Spurs anyway. Crunch your ankle in a Covent Garden pothole so badly you think you might have to miss pilates today? It doesn't matter, you don't need your ankle to watch Arsenal and pilates is for girls.
Life always has a silver lining when we're winning.
The worry is that Manchester City haven't needed to spend big, but Chelsea have added some additional legs to their midfield. Mourinho thinks that his massive squad needs adding to, but Arsene thinks we can push on with our squad… which we've already seen shake when the games come thick and fast.
We'll see though. We're dispatching teams with relative ease at the moment, but we are heading into a very business period. However, we'll have a reinvigorated Nik B to share the work load with Giroud… and look… if he can play like he did against Cardiff for the rest of the season, I'll take that. We also have Ramsey back in the frame and hopefully we'll see some progress from Chamberlain, and some settling for Ozil who I'm waiting to see explode.
Outside the limited Arsenal news, we have Manchester United and Chelsea doing a deal for Juan Mata. I think the move is mental. I'd still prefer Ozil, but I think it's crazy Chelsea wouldn't let Arsenal loan Demba Ba… but they're quite happy to let United, last seasons title winners take on Mata. It's a great signing for United if it happens. Chelsea taking FFP seriously? Or are they lining up Rooney?
Right, that's me done for the day. Catch you in the comments!


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With a third straight Grade 2 Rebel Stakes victory sealed thanks to Secret Circle, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert was eagerly looking forward to the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby next month at Oaklawn.
Secret Circle, a three-year-old son of Eddington, produced a slightly newer running style for the 1 1/16-mile race by stalking the pace from farther behind than he'd ever been in his previous starts. His ability to rate was very encouraging to Baffert as Secret Circle tries to prove he belongs among the top Triple Crown contenders.
"The win was exciting and the way he did it was promising," Baffert said by phone Sunday morning with reports from his assistants that Secret Circle was doing well. "It was a good schooling for him and I think he should get a lot out of it, although my guys tell me he was hardly blowing when he got back."
Secret Circle races for Watson, Pegram and Weitman, the same owners behind the first of Baffert's consecutive Rebel victors with champion Lookin at Lucky in 2010. Baffert followed up last year with The Factor then kept the ball rolling last month when he and jockey Rafael Bejarano swept both divisions of the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes. Secret Circle had the faster of the two divisions and now has the Rebel, leaving little doubt about which race will be next for the five-for-six Kentucky-bred.
"He's run well there and likes that track," Baffert said. "If everything is good over the next few weeks, we will definitely come back."
Baffert will point Castaway, the other Southwest division winner, to the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Derby outside El Paso this week. He also sees things with Secret Circle that need to be worked on back in his California lab.
"He keeps shutting it down too early," the horseman explained. "He kind of pulls himself up and throws out an anchor. I thought he was just going to blow by (pace-setter Scatman), but he waited a little bit. We can fix that with competition and try and work that out of him."
This latest Rebel win brings Baffert's career record at Oaklawn to 13 wins in 21 starts. The Arizona-native has won with four of his last five starters in Hot Springs, Arkansas, with the lone loss coming when The Factor finished seventh in the last year's Arkansas Derby. In the last three years, Baffert is 10-for-13 with three Rebel wins, three Southwest victories, a Grade 3 Azeri Stakes tally and two other six-figure stakes wins.


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Salman Khan would be happy, my dream 'Bajirao Mastani' fulfilled: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Sanjay Leela Bhansali feels superstar Salman Khan would be "happy" that the filmmaker's most-ambitious project till date, 'Bajirao Mastani', has finally released, even though the actor could not be a part of it as the director had envisioned earlier
Sanjay Leela Bhansali feels superstar Salman Khan would be "happy" that the filmmaker's most-ambitious project till date, 'Bajirao Mastani', has finally released, even though the actor could not be a part of it as the director had envisioned earlier.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Pic/Satej Shinde
'Bajirao Mastani', the magnum opus starring Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh Priyanka Chopra, released last Friday. Bhansali had been wanting to make the period romance from past 12 years. The film was originally envisaged with Salman and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead roles. The pair's break-up put the film in crisis.
"I think Salman will be happy to see that I have fulfilled my dream. He is beyond films. He is a cult today. He just stands in a film and the film will do Rs 300 crore (business). It doesn't matter to him if he has done 'Bajirao Mastani' or not," Bhansali told PTI.
"I am sure he will be happy that I have at least fulfilled my dream that I lived for so many years. I don't want to go away from the industry without having done it. I think he will be happy somewhere for it," he said. The "Guzaarish" director says he would like to show the film to Salman.
"I would love to show the film to Salman but I don't know if he would like to see it. Salman is my favourite even if I have not met him or spoken to him in the last five years, but I have a special bond with him. He has done a lot for me and I am grateful to him for many things in life," he said.
"I don't have the courage to call him and say 'Would you like to see my film' because he will say 'Go away, I don't want to see it," he said. The protests against 'Bajirao Mastani' distressed the 52-year-old director.
"I was stressed, strained... I was thinking what would be the reaction... I was not sleeping. There was excitement but I was stressed as well. I am happy with the reaction (the film has got)," Bhansali said.
"Some people jumped the gun without even understanding what the film is about. So that caused a little bit of stress. I did hope it (protest) did not spread as it comes in the way of the release, your spirit and your joy of releasing the film. It is a big screen cinematic experience. Enjoy it, rather than burning my effigies."
The 'Devdas' director said he would never do anything, which could be "insensitive" to Marathi culture. "I am more Maharashtrian than Gujarati. I have lived with Maharashtrians when I was staying in chawl. So I would never do anything insensitive or derogatory," he signs off.
Bhansali first saw 'Bajirao Mastani' with Deepika, Ranveer and a few family members and he fell in love with it. "I had tears in my eyes. I think I made it better than I had envisioned it. Deepika held me for 15 minutes and cried... She was overwhelmed. Ranveer just kept kissing me. It was euphoric. It has a certain magic and power that comes from technicians and great talent," he said.
"It had wonderful screenplay, dialogue, beautiful cinematography, pretty costumes, great action scenes. It felt very well. I am happy with the response. I feel good that it has been loved by people," he said. 'Bajirao Mastani' grossed Rs 12.8 crore in India on its opening day.
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19 Oct Ep12 Nate Leber on "Time Management for 1 Man Shops" and "Local Marketing Tips"
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In the twelfth episode of the Shirt Lab Answer Series podcast, guest Nate Leber and Shirt Lab founders Tom Rauen and Marshall Atkinson answer two listener questions: "Time Management for 1 Man Shops" and "Local Marketing Tips".
In this Episode, Nate and Marshall will discuss:
- What is the biggest thing for a one-man shop regarding time?
- How a schedule helps when blocking off time.
- Does energy in the day reflect the activities you should be focusing on?
- How do you set expectations for clients?
- Read Craig Ballantyne's Book – The Perfect Day Formula
- What is the "meat" of the sandwich for scheduling for a 1-man shop?
- How a set schedule helps you achieve more.
- How subcontracting and using tech can help. Hint: Check out Shirt Lab sponsor Pixel'sHive for sending out art.
- How to build a consistent marketing program for local business.
- Can you differentiate your shop from others?
- What can you provide for your target client that nobody else can provide?
- How to use lists to target potential customers and target customers that matter.
- Using social media such as LinkedIn.
- How samples help.
- What is your unfair advantage?
- How can what you do on the weekends help your business grow?
- What is the best social proof for influencing potential customers?
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The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the CBI to file the final reports in four cases of alleged fake encounters by the Army, Assam Rifles and the police in Manipur in the appropriate courts by July 27.
A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit issued the direction after the CBI's special investigating team (SIT) told the court that they have completed their probe in four cases and the final reports were in the process of being finalised.
The apex court also directed that two officers of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Senior Superintendent of Police Mahesh Bhardwaj and Deputy Superintendent of Police Ravi Singh, be made members of the SIT, which would probe the remaining encounter cases.
The court, which is hearing a PIL seeking a probe into as many as 1,528 cases of extra-judicial killings in Manipur, had on July 14 last year constituted a SIT and ordered lodging of FIRs and probe into the cases of alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur.
The bench also expressed its concern over the lack of adequate staff in NHRC and observed that the officers of the commission were "hopelessly overworked". It asked Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, appearing for the SIT, to urgently take up with the Centre the matter relating to lack of adequate staff in NHRC so that functioning of the commission is not affected.
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Three years ago, Oakland's Rogue Wave seemed to be sitting atop the indie rock world. The band had signed to Sub Pop Records, released two excellent albums, and licensed songs to popular television programs like Weeds, Friday Night Lights, and Heroes. But when its relationship with the label went sour, the group was faced with a tough decision: what next? Rogue Wave landed at Brushfire Records, a small label owned by singer-songwriter and longtime friend Jack Johnson. While Sub Pop carried the esteem of a celebrated independent label, Brushfire offered a different sort of cachet: it's one of the greenest record companies in the world. Johnson's state-of-the-art, solar-powered Los Angeles studio is recognized and admired industry-wide.
"The thing we liked about Brushfire is they're really inspirational," said frontman Zach Rogue. "It was a big part of our reason for going there. They're doing what no one else is doing."
Yet Rogue Wave is just one of many Bay Area bands looking for eco-friendly solutions that won't threaten their livelihoods. In fact, at all points in the cycle — from recording to touring, distribution to merch — Bay Area artists and organizations are finding ways to green their businesses and set new standards for indies and majors alike. In many cases, this new outlook is recognized as essential to their very survival.
Take Berkeley's Fantasy Studios, one of the Bay Area's preeminent recording centers. Early last year, new owners Wareham Development jumped headfirst into a green overhaul of the Saul Zaentz Media Center: eco-friendly paint, carpeting, and energy-efficient wiring were put in; incandescent bulbs were replaced with compact fluorescent; bottled water was outlawed; recycling and proper disposal of electronic waste were enforced. The studio even began purchasing soy-based ink and recycled paper cups, stationary, and cards.
"It's really a state of mind," said studio director Jeffrey Wood. "It's totally an ongoing process. It's a very concerted effort throughout the building." There has even been talk of installing solar panels or wind turbines on the roof. "Because it's a technological environment, it's hard to get away from using a lot of energy," Wood said. But existing efforts to shut down lights and machines when not in use together with alternative energy sources could significantly mitigate Fantasy's draw on the grid. The studio has already become a member of San Francisco Community Power, which organizes energy curtailment days and non-use times.
The beauty of this piecemeal approach is that no studio is too big or too small to apply it. But sometimes it's easiest to build green from the ground up. That's what North Bay musicians Jon and Mimi Fee did with Parks and Records, a two-year-old eco-friendly label home to indie rockers Carcrashlander, Mijuanito, and Shuteye Unison. Parks and Records' mission is to harmonize music with the great outdoors, to preserve the album format and our natural environment at the same time.
"We try to be as sustainable as possible through everything that we do," said Jon. For one, their CD cases are made of 100 percent recycled chip board and hand-stamped with eco-friendly inks. Then there are the organic cotton T-shirts and tote bags. Conscientious promotion and digital distribution, when appropriate, help keep costs down.
Jon, who recently earned an MBA from the University of San Francisco, built sustainability into Parks and Records in the fiscal sense as much as the green sense. A sound business plan means higher costs on certain items won't jeopardize the label's long-term prospects. For bands and labels who can't afford to pay a few more bucks per shirt for organic cotton, finding a local supplier is next best: reduced shipping distances equal a smaller carbon footprint.
Social Imprints of San Francisco satisfies both criteria. A strong commitment to environmentally responsible products means the business is as serious about corn-based plastics for buttons and recycled paper for posters as it is about organic cotton and soy-based inks. "Sourcing things in ways that is conscious of where it's made and who's making it is still a relatively new idea," said Kevin McCracken, a partner in the five-year-old company formerly known as Collective Merchandising. "But we're getting to the point now where if people don't do it, we're doomed."
For many acts, touring amounts to a bigger impact than CD and merch manufacturing. But solutions aren't quite as forthcoming. Biofuels went from cutting-edge to convoluted in just five years, said Erik Yates of San Francisco jam band Hot Buttered Rum. In 2003, his band began touring in a school bus converted to run on vegetable oil. All the way across the country, they'd spent hours scouring towns for restaurants with oil to spare.
The arrangement was romantic, if not a tad trying. As years passed, the involvement of biofuel collectives on one side and big agribusiness on the other only complicated matters. "If you're going to use biofuel, it's important to look at it as you look at food," Yates said, warning that biodiesel created at mono-crop farms can have a footprint almost as big as regular diesel. He recommends seeking out biodiesel that has been responsibly produced — or sticking with straight veggie oil and finding a reliable local supplier. Bands can also mitigate their touring impact by trading single-serve plastic water bottles for reusable ones and encouraging fans to carpool or take public transportation.
Green event production is one goal of San Francisco nonprofit Grind for the Green, which Ambessa Cantave and his wife Zakaya Harris created to teach local youth about the music business in tandem with social and environmental responsibility. This past September, Grind for the Green produced its inaugural solar-powered hip-hop concert — purportedly San Francisco's first — at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, already considered a green facility. Local artists Fiyawata, Queen Deelah, and Jahi, along with two youth acts, entertained a couple hundred fans for nearly six hours on solar power derived from a single panel mounted on a nearby truck.
The final stop in the music production cycle is the bottom line, and even it hasn't escaped the scrutiny of eco-conscious music makers. In addition to green touring and merchandise, Rogue Wave and Brushfire Records embrace green philanthropy, donating part of their annual profits to environmental organizations. Local label Parks and Records gives a full 5 percent to groups including San Francisco's Friends of Urban Forest. "The value of raising awareness is always gonna outweigh the financial amount that we can contribute," said Jon Fee. "The Bay Area scene is hard to pin down musically, but I believe ethically it can be united."
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It is so hard to find a meal that my whole family will eat. With a picky three year old, I will often find myself making a bowl of easy mac avoid that mealtime meltdown. This recipe, however, is an answer to my picky eater prayers! To quote my three year old, "It is like a big, yummy chicken nugget!" I'll take it! 🙂
Serves: 4
Crispy Onion Chicken Recipe
10 minPrep Time
30 minCook Time
40 minTotal Time
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 3/4 cup honey mustard
- 2 cups French's French Fried Onions, crushed
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Dip each chicken breast in honey mustard then coat in crushed french fried onions.
- Place in a baking dish lined with foil and sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
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Eric lifts his blood soaked lips from draining Sookie's godmother and she tells him they need to get down-cubby now before any vengeful fairies show up. Eric, unfortunately, goes Timber! face first to the ground. He gets up with a groan and gives Sookie a stoned "Hey" before advancing on her, asking for more fairy juice. Eric goes to bite Sookie, and she tells him he won't be able to stop, and he'll kill her (so just a nibble would be okay, Sook?). Sookie tells Eric she'll tuck him in, and he giggles and chases after her, goosing her and pinching her butt. He starts a game of tag and begins whooshing about the front lawn like a blurry toddler after a serious amount of red dye. Sookie tells him that it will be dawn soon, but Eric fang-grins that he doesn't care, and whooshes off.
Bill goes to Fangtasia and asks Pam where Eric is. Pam, of course, has no idea, I'm sure. Bill tells her that if she lies to him, it's treason. Pam says the she wouldn't take the chance; all of his subjects are learning how ruthless he is (geez, you decree True Death once and suddenly you're Idi Amin). Bill tells Pam he knows the depth of her devotion to Eric – she'd lie and die for him. He asks why she didn't tell him when Eric went missing, and Pam tells him she didn't want to be redundant, since she kind of figured he had sent Eric to the witches to be killed in the first place. Bill is less narked by Pam's insubordinate tone than he is by her flagrant disregard of protocol and tells her so. Pam sniffs that Bill sure likes the feel of his crown. (Valid, but who doesn't look good in a tiara?)
One of the werepanther girls grinds on Jason, who weakly shoves her away as soon as he reluctantly orgasms. She whines that she wasn't done yet, but Jason finds that he's quite done with the raping, thanks. She sobs and tells him that her brother-husband (nothing I ever write will be as what-the-hell as the actual dialogue on this show) bites her neck and holds her down until it's over and that Jason was the best she ever had. Tears quiver on her lashes, but before Jason can even try to dredge up compassion for that, she turns around and drill sergeants, "Next!"
Becky, who looks twelve, comes in and Jason is immediately in a world of, "Oh, no way." Forced breeding is one thing, but pedophilia is just wrong. Old Uncle-Daddy waves them along and yells, "Breed, Ghost-Daddy, breed!" Becky's one of the kids Jason was kind to in Crystal's absence, and he tells her that he's sick and getting sicker. Becky tells him he has to do it, and then grabs a knife and threatens to cut off his thing if he puts up a fight (which kind of defeats the purpose, but, hey, she's twelve).
Jason asks if she's ever had sex before. She's says sure, lots of times, she does have numerous uncle-daddy-brother-cousins, you know. Jason's not buying it and Becky admits she's lying. Jason tells her that her first time should be special, and that it should be with a boy she likes, who brings her presents and candy. (Presents and candy, Jason? Way to bring back the pedophile vibe). Becky says she doesn't want to have sex with Jason, or at all. He asks her to free him, because he's scared he'll die and he doesn't want to die somewhere that smells like cat food and ass. Becky fearfully cuts him lose, and Jason gets the jump on Uncle Daddy.
Nan Flanagan is in a fine tirade over at Bill's. She's trying to reestablish vampire equality after Russell's news-hour shenanigans and Bill has had the temerity to send Eric after Wiccans? She's in fine voice – she even drops an f-bomb or two from between those lacquered lips. Bill says that it was no ordinary patchouli candle-making Wiccans, but death magic working Wiccans! Bill gravely reminds Nan of the Spanish massacre. She eye-rolls that it was 400 years ago and involved a single witch with a vendetta against vamps, not some sort of vast Wiccan conspiracy. Bill, like the old-timer he is, warns that it could happen again. Nan says yeah, whatever, we were all shaking in our buckle-toed boots over Salem, and it just turned out to be horny, repressed Puritans.
Nan tells him they don't make necromancers like they used to and to get a grip. Bill is still concerned, because if the Wiccans are harmless, where is Eric? (And why doesn't he call like he promised?) Nan says that it's not her problem if Bill can't control his sheriffs and she can't be bothered to take this to the Authority. Bill backpedals that he doesn't expect anything, he's just keeping her informed (because he follows vampire protocol, dammit!). NO DEAD HUMANS, Nan instructs him on his plans to deal with the Wiccans. Appeased, Nan then makes shop talk about the judicious executions before gliding out, reminding Bill cryptically that there are no retired kings.
Marnie lies on her bed, tossing and turning with a vision of a witch about to be burned at the stake. Not realizing that she's in a flashback and therefore incorporeal and ineffectual, she rushes the crowd trying to stop it. As the witch, who is the same spirit in as in Eric's vision, dies, curses and spells fall from her lips. Marnie begins to repeat the witch's words in unison until she wakes with a start. Her eyes flash golden again with the light of the execution pyre.
Alcide shows up at Sookie's to help find Eric. He promptly begins stripping, but slows it down as he goes to unfasten his britches…oh, right, and then he wolfs-out and takes off. Sookie chases after him with one of Gran's handmade vampire blanket covers (not that Gran knew that).
At Merlotte's, Maxine hits the door yelling at Sam for doing something to "her boy." Sam plays dumb about Hoyt, and Maxine tells him she's talking about Tommy, his own brother, whom he shot, as she pointedly reminds everyone. Maxine's worried because Tommy didn't come home, and he never misses Wheel of Fortune! Sam shrugs that Tommy's a big boy, and Maxine tells Sam that there's something wrong with him, he has no family feeling in his soul! Wow, a family smack-down from Maxine Fortenberry – that's gotta be harsh. Maxine tells Sam she's a lioness and Tommy is her cub and Sam better not mess with her, or he'll feel the claws.
At Hot Shot, Felton wakes Becky from her pallet behind the trash barrel. Felton pervs on the perceived loss of Becky's flower, and that sex is kind of gross but it sure feels good, don't it? "Tell Uncle-Daddy Felton all about it." I had to shower repeatedly after typing that. Felton looks into Becky's eyes and uses his kitty senses to suss out virginity. He takes off running and finds Luther chained up and Jason gone, which causes Felton to hulk the heck out, which is wicked funny. Crystal tells him they got Jason's Ghost-Daddy seed and that's all they wanted, anyway (I can't tell if Crystal wants Jason, Felton, Timbo or just some more V – and I don't think she knows either. Yeesh. The crazy is strong with this one). Felton says he's gonna claw him up some Jason, but good, and he rounds up the pussycat posse and takes off.
Jesus asks Marnie if she knows a spell to reverse Eric's memory loss. She says she's too tired and has barely slept and attempts to wave them off. Lafayette warns her that she has no idea what kind of vampire she's messed with. Marnie's still stuck on the fact that Eric broke up a sacred religious service, which Tara has to point out really doesn't matter much to vampires. Marnie says that the Goddess will protect them. Lafayette asks Jesus to brujo some sense into her. Marnie tells them to go away and leave her with the dead; they're all so violent with their f-bombs and vampire realism! Jesus assures her that all she has to do is go to Eric and undo the spell. Marnie admits that she can't, as it wasn't she who cast the spell but "her," the spirit. Jesus, Lafayette and Tara reiterate that the vamps will kill them all after a whole lot of torture and rape: we're talking Hot Shot on a Saturday night, here, Marnie. Marnie finally gets the seriousness of the situation and says she'll try. She prays while Lafayette and Jesus make "praise Jesus" hands. It doesn't work, (possibly because of the "praise Jesus" hands, spirit fingers would have been more apropos) so Marnie gets her Giles on and turns to the books. Ooo! Can Lafayette be Xander?
Sookie jogs after a wolfed-out Alcide, chattering about Eric having daywalker abilities due to the fairy blood and therefore not in immediate danger, but being drunk as a skunk and therefore liable to do something stupid. Alcide stops at a pond and a naked Eric pops up out of the water with a "Hey, Sookie!" grin. It seems that he is Aegir, God of the Sea, and Sookie is Ran, his Sea Goddess! Sookie hollers back, "There's big gators in there, you crazy Viking!" Ahahahaha – that was worth every bad kitty moment of the Hot Shot scenes.
Eric gives the Scandinavian version of, "Here, gator, gator, gator," and Alcide un-wolfs, naked at Sookie's side, to better take in the hilarity. Eric vamps at the sight of a brawnier chest than his own. He threatens Alcide and Alcide's pecs respond with a 'bring it on' flex. Sookie tries to the diffuse the situation and, OMG STFU, Sookie! Naked Eric/Alcide fight! What part are you not getting? The daywalker abilities start to fade, and Eric becomes even more smokin' than usual. Sookie wraps him in the quilt and tells him to head home at vamp speed. Eric doesn't want to leave the light, but he runs. Alcide re-wolfs, and he and Sookie follow.
Jason's making his own mad dash through the woods. A panther growls, and I get Janet Jackson's "Black Cat" stuck in my head for several hours. Jason, however, figures it's incentive to grab a stick and cover his wounds in dirt.
Tommy heads back home to his find his doggie mama. Mama hugs him and tells him she missed him, and Tommy's happier than Christmas morning at the pound. Tommy tells her that he can read now. Mama's so proud she could pee her paper: "Remember when everybody called you stupid and I always said you wasn't?" Pleased with her response, Tommy goes on to add that Sam shot him in leg and wasn't that mean, Mama? Mama agrees and Tommy beams like Maxine after buying the last glittery Halloween t-shirt on HSN.
Sam goes to Shifter Luna's. He gets his game working, but she tells him it's not a good time. Sam scrapes his toe in the dirt and offers, "I was just following your lead." God, Sam, what is it with you and women who don't really want you? Maybe you should give Bill a call. He's open to a good sales pitch. Luna's young daughter, Emma, comes to the door and invites Sam to play Barbies. Sam really wants to – he's comfortable with plastic women who come with a lot of baggage. Sam wins Luna over with his mad Mattel skills, but Luna's still a little antsy.
Jason climbs a tree (uh-oh, and it's not even the full moon!) and whittles his stick to a point. A panther growls beneath tree and Jason get jump on it and stabs it with his now pointy stick. The panther scratches him and then turns into a dying Felton. Crystal runs up and un-panthers and kicks Felton with a blasé, "So long, motherfucker." Jason ignores her "Hey baby" and holds her off with his pointy stick. She tells him Luther and Timbo are coming, but she can handle them, seeing as how she's Big Mama Kitty now. Crystal continues to crazy-cakes how she and Jason are mates for life, and Jason reminds her that she's the worst thing that ever happened to him. Crystal and her ever-present nipples tell him he's going to be her panther man and Ghost-Daddy to their clan, and that Hot Shot is the only place that will take him in, come the full moon. Jason sways on his feet and tells her that if he sees her again it'll be too soon and limps off. Crystal shrugs that off with a smile that's perkier than her ever-naked boobs and waves him off all, "Later! Call me!"
Eric's not sweepy, and he doesn't want to go night-night (sorry, I have a three-year-old). Sookie checks his burns but they've already healed. She tries to tuck him in, but Eric asks her to stay with him (it may be time to think about Ferberizing him, Sookie). She tells him no, Mommy has human stuff to do. Eric looks lost, and you can tell his thumb just wants to find his mouth. Outside, Alcide tells Sookie that it's nuts to keep a vampire in her house. Alcide tells her, "He's a killer; he's still Eric Northman," and Sookie rejoins with a quick, "Well, Debbie Pelt is still Debbie Pelt." Ooo, burn. Alcide sighs and beckons Sookie to his chest and they hug. He offers a wry, "Friends?" Sookie agrees, and Alcide gives a sexually frustrated nod.
Portia takes Bill to meet her grandmother. Wow, I thought they were just doing the benefits thing. But no matter, her grandmother is TV's own Katherine Helmond! Andy attempts to sneak past the drawing room on his way upstairs (hee! Andy lives with Granny!) but is called in to be sociable with the folks. Grandma Caroline suggest Portia serve them tea and Portia offers TruBlood to Bill, and Grandma smiles benignly; however, when Andy changes his order to Red Bull, Grandma informs him that's just vulgar.
Luna and Sam snuggle up on the couch while her daughter heads to the Little Shifters room. Luna says she wants to raise her daughter right, since so many shifter kids are messed up. Sam asks if she thought he would run when he found out that she had a kid, because he doesn't mind shop lifting the pootie from a single mom, really. Luna tells him she has to be careful because her ex is a werewolf, make that a jealous werewolf, who occasionally stalks her. Well, another fine job in the lady department there, Sam.
Research continues at Moon Goddess, and Marnie appeals to the spirits yet again. A book falls off the counter and everyone makes Twilight Zone theme faces. Marnie opens the book to a fortuitously bookmarked spell about the River of Lethe, the river of forgetting. Wow, if this storyline homages Buffy any harder, I'm going have to bust out the Nerf Herder.
Alcide goes home to find Debbie's in the den because this show is literal. She thinks he was working late but gets a whiff of him as they embrace. Note to Alcide: don't wolf-around on a girl who can sniff out more than just perfume. Alcide quickly tells her that Sookie called and he helped her out with a vamp problem, because he and Debbie are living a life of rigorous honesty, whatever that means. Alcide is turned on by Debbie's growth, and they go at it. I don't have to be a Betazoid to know Debbie's hiding something, like intense hatred for Sookie.
Grandma Caroline regales Bill with the genealogy of the Bellefleurs, but Bill's wicked old and likes that kind of thing. Like any southern grand dame, Grandma Caroline calls for the Bible and a whiskey. She and Bill peruse through the begats in the Bellefleur family tree, and they come to the same icky conclusion. Bill bows out like a gentleman, Grandma takes a powder, and Portia is out of the loop. I don't have to be genealogist to realize somebody must be kissin' cousins, and we're a few miles from Hot Shot for that to work out so well. Bill tells Portia they can't see each other again, and she attempts to lawyer herself up to rebut that, but Bill stops her cold by telling her that she's his great-great-great-granddaughter. I think Alan Ball saw the first season of "Game of Thrones" and realized that they really needed to step it up with the incest to stay relevant.
Terry carries Mikey into the family room and shows him his family, Arlene and the other two kids sleeping sweetly on the sofa, and Terry, his daddy, who will teach him everything about being a southern man, including laundry duty. He puts Mikey down with the scary ass baby doll they got from Jessica and leaves the room to add fabric softener. Arlene tosses restlessly on the couch but is immediately awoken as Terry comes back and finds "Baby Not Yours" written on the wall in marker. Mikey beams around said marker as he colors his lips and face with it. Arlene's subsequent freak out is more than valid.
Sookie climbs down to the cubby to see Eric and tells him he's too quiet. She finally gets a malleable Eric, and now she complains that he's not snarky enough. Somebody is protesting too much for comfort. Eric tells her that, if she kisses him, he'll promise to be happy. Her lips say no, but even her Merlotte's apron is saying yes. He leans in to kiss her and then realizes there's someone at the door. It's Bill, because he lives to cockblock Eric. Sookie smiles to see him, but the smile tightens when Bill tells her he is looking for Eric. Sookie breezes that Eric is gone, and not just gone, but so gone that she thought Bill had taken care of it for her, big strong vamp that he is. Bill is somewhat mollified but tells Sookie that they've searched all of Eric's holdings (flat in Paris, plantation in Barbados and he lives in a hole in a bar in Shreveport…hokay). Sookie tells Bill that she doesn't want flat-footed goombahs with guns poking through her panty drawer. Bill says that he will be the only flat-footed goombah in question. Sookie still says no, Eric might own the property, but it's her home. Bill attempts go around her and Sookie asks if she's ever lied to him. Bill realizes that she's got the moral high ground there. Irony! He draws his kingly dignity about him and says good night.
Groaning, Jason stumbles down the roadside and collapses. A car stops, and thankfully it's Hoyt and Jessica and not a passel full of Hot Shot. Jessica presses her wrist against Jason's lips and gives him some of her blood. She wavers in his vision as he drinks.
If Tommy's Mama had a book, she'd sure nuff make Tommy read it. I'm sure he could read the coffee can Joe Lee pees in – go get that. Tommy asks if Joe Lee threw her back in the ring after Tommy left, because she's scarred up all to hell. She says Joe Lee saved her life in a fight with a Rottweiler, and that she's just gotten too old to fight pups (happens to the best of us). Tommy huffs that she's still defending Joe Lee despite everything, and suddenly a shockingly clothed Joe Lee yanks Tommy around the neck with a chain. Mama says they missed him and can't make it without him, but Joe Lee merely tells him that he will learn obedience, loyalty and family (and lucky for Tommy, he can spell them now, too!).
Tara, Marnie, Lafayette and Jesus get chanty in the woods with Pam, in a smokin' hot bustier, playing overseer. Marnie tells them to stop saying fuck, she can't concentrate. Try recapping this without it, witchy woman. Marnie begins the spell, and things seem to be going okay until Pam interrupts with an impatient, "This is bullshit." The golden light comes into Marnie's eyes and, lo she is slain in the spirit and begins to speak in the tongues of men and angels! But evidently vengeful angels, because Pam's face begins to rot, the right side peeling off in chunks as Pam whimpers. It's really, really, gross. I mean really. There's not enough Bactine in the world. Pam flees in horror and I cry for all the lipgloss I'll never see her apply again. Marnie mwahahahas us out. Witches, man.


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Centered headlines dominated newspapers for decades, in the seventies (last century) some newspapers have started to experiment with the flush left alignment in headlines.
One of the first paper that applied this trend and transfer it to captions, leads and some other minor elements is the Chicago Daily News.
To make a comment on what type of headlines is better is pointless because it depends entirely on your own taste.
But either way, selection of style that will be used has an impact on the overall impression of the newspaper.


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text: Kabir Deb was born in Haflong and completed his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Karimganj. After that completed his Graduation and Masters from Assam University, Assam. Poetry has been his passion and a hobby from childhood, and hence submitted his poetry in this magazine. He looks forward to change the society with the power of poetry. His work has been published in 'To be my Valentine' edition of Hall of Poets, Reviews Magazine, Bhor Foundation, Different Truths Magazine. He has recently received The Social Journalism Award from the Different Truths Magazine.


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According to the Australian daily newspaper 'The Age', Sydney Harbour development Barangaroo is not the only casino project on James Packer's radar.
The billionaire has notched up three trips to Sri Lanka in the space of six weeks signaling his interest in the country.
According to 'The Age' Crowns Investments spokesman has declined to comment about potential investments in Sri Lanka it states that there is no denying Packer's growing interest in the country.
He has visited Sri Lanka three times since late February, discussing investment options with ministers.
It is believed that Packer's interest in Sri Lanka has been based on drawing in Indian tycoons.
Currently Casinos in India are only permitted in the provinces of Goa & Sikkim.
Crown sources have denied reports from Sri Lanka that the Packer-controlled casino group has already acquired land in Colombo to build a casino resort.


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Today I'm sharing my morning routine with you. It changed over the past few months but I found some basic rituals I like to do everyday. I first want to describe my daily morning routine and then also my weekend morning routine. I don't really have a fix weekend morning routine. But since I have more time in the weekend, there are a few things I like doing on weekends only.
Daily Morning Routine
I usually get up at 6am. I recently switched my alarm to the iPhone bed time alarm. It has some pretty nice sound options. I like the Birdsong but there are plenty other sounds to choose from. As soon as I wake up I have to go to the bathroom first. At the same time I brush my teeth and heat up some water and squeeze a lemon. After brushing my teeth I scrape my tongue. I don't drink before that, just because I don't want to swallow all the toxins my body got rid of during the night. Once I brushed my teeth, I make myself a warm lemon water with a pinch of Himalayan salt. I take my mug back to the bed and journal in my "five minutes journal" which I got from Amazon. I basically just write down what I'm grateful for and what I'm looking forward to. And I also choose a mantra for the day (I am…). Afterwards I sit for about 5-10 minutes and mediate and then stretch out a bit before getting up. Before getting dressed, I dry brush my body and listen to some daily affirmations or a Abraham Hicks rampage.
This takes me about 20 minutes and sets the tone for the day. I don't check my phone during this time. Getting dressed, doing my bed and eating breakfast usually takes me another 30 minutes. I usually leave the house around 7am.
Weekend Morning Routine
On the weekend I usually like to take things slower. My morning routine is pretty much my "Everyday Morning Routine" but I like to add some fun things such as a face mask and magnesium oil. Also, I enjoy practicing yoga before having breakfast. After my practice, I sometimes add Breath Work or Nauli (which is hard with a full stomach) and meditate a little longer than on a weekday. If I want to treat myself, I take a bath with epsom salt after that and feel absolutely amazing and ready to start the day. This is also a great way to get rid of the magnesium oil on your body.
I don't want to do a whole lot everyday that consumes a bunch of time. Although this works perfectly for me, you might have different things you enjoy doing. Hopefully this inspires you to rethink your daily morning routine and maybe add something to it.
Let me list the things I do every single day again:
What I do everyday:
– tongue scraping
– lemon water
– quick meditation
– journaling (daily mantra and expressing gratitude)
– dry brushing
– doing my bed
– "bulletproof" non-coffee (which I will share in another post)
As always, I hope this was helpful! Leave me a comment or send me a DM @nataliasyoga. I love hearing from you!


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On May 1, television sports giant ESPN broadcast an exposé on gambling in the South Florida Youth Football League -- including a segment of Pompano Cowboys Coach Osbert Small allegedly gambling in the stands of a kids football game.
According to ESPN, Small -- an employee of Pompano Beach for more than 20 years -- was suspended by the league Tuesday, only a few weeks after his embarrassing interview on ESPN's Outside the Lines.
Small, who also owns Easy O.Z. Bail Bonds in Pompano Beach, was decrying gambling at youth football games in South Florida in his interview, saying there was a "zero-tolerance for it."
That is, until he was confronted by a clip of himself exchanging cash in the stands of one of the games.
Here's how the ensuing conversation went down, which you can see for yourself in the video below starting around the ten-minute mark:
ESPN: "This looks like you there; what are you doing?"
Small: [long, awkward pause]..."I wasn't gambling."
Small goes on to explain that he was simply holding the money and continues to attempt to rationalize gambling on kids.
The South Florida Youth Football League also announced that it's going to try to crack down on the gambling in response to the ESPN report -- which includes young football players getting gambling payoffs, a sergeant from the Broward Sheriff's Office belittling gambling concerns, and a guy with multiple face tattoos.
Check out the video of the original report below.
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- You don't have to fear difficult job-interview questions.
- It's possible to re-frame the question and provide an anecdote that showcases your strengths.
- Great questions to reframe include past challenges with clients and what your last boss might have to say about you.
If you're worried about "hard" questions in your next job interview, don't be.
Instead, career expert and resume writer Andrea Gerson says you should think about the job interview as a chance to tell the story you want to tell. She told Business Insider that you can bend the interviewer's questions to suit your purposes by preparing ahead of time, instead of stressing about which questions will come your way.
"Most people think that they go into the interview and that they are at the mercy of whatever question the interviewer throws at them, so they feel like they have to answer the question as it is posed or framed," said Gerson.
"But really, what I advise to my clients is that each interview question is a chance for them to tell a story that highlights an accomplishment or a strength that they have," she said.
You do this by providing an anecdote that not only offers the insight you want to convey, but also answers the question being asked.
Questions such as "Who's the most challenging client you've had to work with?" and "What would your last boss say about you?" provide you with the perfect opportunity to demonstrate your strengths with a personal story.
These questions "become the perfect canvas for narrative examples that showcase a winning moment in a person's career, while minimising the need to think on one's feet," said Gerson.
Other common interview questions that could potentially be re-framed include:
- Why do you want to leave your current company?
- What can you offer us that someone else cannot?
- Why should we hire you?
Gerson advises her clients to brainstorm various anecdotes in order to make the most of these questions. In fact, she will help them come up with a list of about five solid stories that can highlight where a person either succeeded or developed.
"That way, once they have some solid answers, they can practice tweaking each answer to each particular question," she said.
However, showcasing your strengths is different from spinning your answers. Interviewers want to get to know the real you – and it does neither of you a favour to misrepresent your interests, talents, and accomplishments.
Janelle Gale, VP of Human Resources at Facebook, told Business Insider's Aine Cain that she isn't interested in know-it-alls, and asks specific questions to weed out people who think they're the smartest in the room, such as "What would you have done differently?" or "What did you learn in the process?"
"If someone hesitates for a really long time and can't come up with an answer, or if they spin it so that what they learned actually makes them look good, that tells me that they are closed off to learning," Gale said.
In an interview, she told Business Insider, she wants to hear about some difficulties, and she wants to see "a level of vulnerability and reflection, as well as a strong demonstration of intellectual curiosity."
In other words, she isn't looking for you to be perfect – she's looking for you to want to get better.
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In an earlier post, Rachel Stone mentioned a couple of the neighborhood meetings about OneDay Dallas, the city's slogan for its new schedule to pick up trash and recycling once a week. (Here's the complete schedule.) I also heard from a neighbor who attended a recent OneDay meeting. Here's what she had to say:
"The Director of Sanitation Services for Dallas (Mary Nix) gave the presentation. Starting March 1, the City will be picking up trash and recycling one day a week. Right now they are picking up trash twice a week and recycling once every two weeks. This change was planned in 2004 and has been piloted since then as a way to encourage Dallasites to recycle. The pilot results in the northern part of Dallas have been very successful. This is the final phase of implementation, which will involve the last 180,000 households in Dallas not currently using this schedule."
More after the jump …
"The audience seemed to favor the change for the most part. This particular roll-out also involves changing many households from alley service to curb service, involving the homeowner using a roll cart at the curb where they were previously using bags in the ally. This particular issue generated more questions that the change of scheduling.
"I also learned that three sizes of roll carts are available – every home is originally given large, 95-gallon roll carts; blue for recycling and gray for trash. If the 95-gallon trash roll cart is unwieldy or simply too large, you can request a medium roll cart (60-gallon) by calling 311 and they will bring it right out. Also, if you want an even smaller roll cart (45-gallon), call 311 and one can be special ordered for you.
"If you feel like you have more trash than can be hauled once a week, you can ask that an additional 95-gallon trash roll cart be delivered to your house. You will pay an additional onetime charge of $10.50 for the trash roll cart. You can get as many recycling roll carts as you want. Mary asks asks that you try out your current roll cart situation until after March 1, and see how it works before you call in to make a change of any kind."


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Ultrasonic sensors are developed by using the characteristics of ultrasonic wave. Ultrasonic wave is a mechanical wave with higher vibration frequency than sound wave, which is produced by vibration of transducer chip under excitation of voltage, it has the characteristics of high frequency, wave length, small diffraction phenomenon, especially directional good, can become ray and directional propagation.
Ultrasonic penetration of liquids and solids is great, especially in opaque solids, which can penetrate dozens of of meters in depth. The ultrasonic wave encounters the impurity or the interface will produce the remarkable reflection to form the echo, the movement object can produce the Doppler effect. The sensor developed based on ultrasonic characteristics is called "ultrasonic sensor", which is widely used in industry, national defense and biomedicine.


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Sandra Day O'Connor: Self-reliant and ambitious
By Bill Mears
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to serve on the United States' highest court.
(CNN) -- Sandra Day O'Connor grew up possessed with a strong will and ambition, which helped her overcome discrimination against female lawyers and eventually take her to the nation's highest court.
As lovingly recalled in her 2002 memoir, "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest," O'Connor grew up on nearly 200,000 acres of rural Arizona ranchland. The ranch was 25 miles from the nearest town, and she lived without running water or electricity until she was 7 years old.
By then she was roping, riding and repairing fences with the cowboys, and she knew how to shoot a gun and steer a pickup.
She was born March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas, to Harry A. Day and Ada Mae Wilkey Day.
She entered law school at Stanford University in 1950 and was in the same class as fellow justice William Rehnquist. When they graduated in 1952, he finished first while she was third in their class of 102. She also married her husband, John Jay O'Connor III, in 1952. They have three sons.
But after graduating, she was repeatedly turned down by firms that would not hire women, except one that offered her a job as a legal secretary.
A varied career
She eventually found a job -- and a calling -- as a deputy county attorney in San Mateo County, California. The job "influenced the balance of my life," she recalled, "because it demonstrated how much I did enjoy public service."
Her career has been varied, including a stint as a civilian lawyer for the U.S. Army in Germany and running her own law firm. In 1965, she became an assistant state attorney general in Arizona and left that position in 1969 when she was appointed to a state Senate seat.
She was subsequently re-elected to two two-year terms and was elected Senate majority leader in 1972. O'Connor is the only sitting Supreme Court justice who has served in elected office.
She left the Senate to run for a state judge seat, which she won. In 1979, she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals by then-Gov. Bruce Babbitt and served there until she was appointed to the Supreme Court.
O'Connor was surprised when President Ronald Reagan fulfilled a campaign pledge to nominate a woman to the high court and chose her in July 1981 to replace Justice Potter Stewart. Reagan described her at the time as "truly a person for all seasons, possessing qualities of temperament, fairness, intellectual capacity and devotion to public good."
During Senate confirmation hearings in 1981, she was asked about the legacy she hoped to leave.
"Ah, the tombstone question," O'Connor replied. "I hope it says, 'Here lies a good judge.'"
In court, O'Connor's demeanor is serious and studied, her questions spare and pointed on the practical effect of laws. This exchange from the 2000 Bush v. Gore Florida ballot recount is typical: "Isn't there a big red flag out there [saying] 'watch out'?" she asked Gore's lawyer about whether the Florida Supreme Court usurped the role of the state Legislature when it ordered a new recount to commence.
Privately, friends and colleagues all say O'Connor is fun to be around.
"She was a great role model both personally and professionally," says Carolyn Frantz. "She showed me the importance of how to balance all aspects of life. She expected us to work hard, but also cared about us. When I would be there late at night, she might come in and say, 'What are you doing here? You really ought to go home.'"
A stickler for detail
O'Connor is known for her intensity, her desire to be in control, and as a stickler for detail.
Colleagues fondly recall a reunion last year in Arizona of her former clerks, where O'Connor's people skills were on display. She remembered all the names of spouses and children of clerks from years past. For them, she has organized potluck suppers, ski outings, mandatory trips to museums and musical jam sessions in her chambers with friends and colleagues.
Her toughness and her dry wit were on display when O'Connor was diagnosed in 1988 with breast cancer. She was back on the bench within weeks after treatment. After answering repeated inquiries about her health, O'Connor released a statement in 1990 saying, "I am not sick. I am not bored. I am not resigning."
In a 1994 speech, she recalled how she did not like the publicity that the diagnosis brought her.
"The worst was my public visibility, frankly," she said. "There was constant media converge: 'How does she look?' 'When is she going to step down and give the president another vacancy on the court?' 'You know, she looks pale to me, I don't give her six months...'"
O'Connor has not only survived, but thrived in both life and the law. She published her memoir, "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest," in 2002. She followed that up with another book in 2003, "The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice," part memoir and part historical account.
In her latter book, O'Connor writes an open letter to her granddaughter Courtney, telling her, "A nation's success or failure in achieving democracy is judged in part by how well it responds to those at the bottom and the margins of the social order... The very problems that democratic change brings -- social tension, heightened expectations, political unrest -- are also strengths. Discord is a sign of progress afoot; unease is an indication that a society has let go of what it knows and is working out something better and new."
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Term 6 is here!
Hello everyone,
So, here we are at the start of term 6. I know it's an extra busy time for lots of you as it's the time for tests and exams. I really hope they are going well.
If you need extra support, do talk to your teachers and carers, or you can call us at The HOPE for advice. Our number is 0117 903 6282. The most important thing is to do your best – no-one can ask any more of you.
It doesn't seem very long ago since I was writing about an election and encouraging those of you who are old enough, to vote. Now there's another general election ! I will be casting my vote, and I do hope that you will vote if you are able to.
It will soon be time for the Fun Day too. I hope to see lots of you there as it's always such a great time. The HOPE will have a stall so please come to say hello to us.
I hope that you have a good term and a great Summer holiday. It's cold, rainy and windy as I'm writing this so let's hope Summer remembers to turn up!
Rachael Pryor
The HOPE Headteacher