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As soon as I stepped foot in church today there was an electrical charge. I recognized it as the signal that the Holy Spirit is on the move. "Stop. Listen. Pay attention." He whispered. "I am here. I am moving, watch and see." The first words out of the mouths of the men's chorus caused goose bumps up and down my arms. My heart beat faster and warmth spread over my face. I have learned to pay attention when this happens. Basking in the Glory of God is one of my favorite past times. There was power this morning. A male choir, fresh from a men's conference was worshiping with all their hearts. Caught up in the moment, I lifted my voice to join theirs. When God's presence is tangible I allow him to envelop and carry me. I wait and listen for his message to my heart.
The worship was glorious, but God's message for me was not in the worship. The topic of today's sermon was humility, based on Philippians 2, one of my favorite passages. But today God's message for me was not in the sermon. No today, God moved in my heart during baptism. Tears were in my eyes as I watched a former student rise to newness of life. The water rushing over her to show a recent commitment to the Lord was like a balm to my soul.
You see, this student is not a church goer. She has had a rough road, an unbelievable road. While I taught her a couple of years ago my heart ached. I could see her need for the Lord each day. But I teach in a public school, so sharing my faith was not an option. As with all of my students I try to reach out and show the love of the Lord in my actions, but there are situations where that doesn't seem to be enough. This was one of those. I had to pray to ask God to give me his love for this child. Her attitude was not easy, her wounds festered anger just beneath the surface which regularly bubbled up in contempt towards others…especially teachers. Yet God placed her in my classroom. So I prayed to see her with his eyes. Over time God was able to soften my heart towards her, and in the process he softened her heart towards me. I tried to teach her how to get along with others, as well as how to read and write. We forged a relationship that was strained at times, and productive at others. In the end, I was saddened when it was time to send her on. I was attached by the bond of prayer.
Soon I saw her at our church. I was in disbelief when I began to see her every week. She always had a hug for me and I had a smile for her. I found out that a woman in our church had taken the girl under her wing. This was not an easy task. People at church did not welcome her. While I was ecstatic that God had brought her here others were not so much. But the woman did not give up on the girl or the church. She continued to show her the love of Christ, until one day, the little girl recognized her need for a savior. She told the pastor, "I am lost. I need Jesus." When he asked for her family to stand before she was baptized there was no one there for her. There were a few of us that happily stood to our feet to welcome our sister in Christ. Teachers, mentors and others that had met her on occasion and it was an honor.
The message for me today? God spoke to my heart and affirmed what I do. It is my ministry to be in the public schools for girls like this one. He showed me clearly how he works even when my tongue is tied by laws. He is soooo much bigger than the government. He gave me his eyes to see how he is using my life in the midst of the world around me. Even as I plant seeds of prayer for my students, he will reap them in his time and in his way. I cannot stop him…neither can the schools…or the church. The fields are ripe for the harvest. The message is that he is moving with life changing, Holy Spirit power…watch and see what he will do.


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Missouri Tigers
2015 record: 5-7, 1-7 SEC East
2016 schedule:
Sept. 3 at West Virginia
Sept. 10 vs Eastern Michigan
Sept. 17 vs Georgia
Sept. 24 vs Delaware State
Oct. 1 at LSU
Oct. 15 at Florida
Oct. 22 vs Middle Tennessee State (Homecoming)
Oct. 29 vs Kentucky
Nov. 5 at South Carolina
Nov. 12 vs Vanderbilt
Nov. 19 at Tennessee
Nov. 26 vs Arkansas
With issues on and off the field, the 2015 season proved to be a tumultuous one for the Missouri Tigers.
The retirement of Gary Pinkel (health reasons) and the dismissal of starting quarterback Matty Mauk leaves question marks going into 2016.
First-year coach Barry Odom will have a lot on the agenda, highlighted by finding a consistent presence at quarterback.
Players To Watch For- Sophomore quarterback Drew Lock:
With Eddie Printz's departure to Texas State and Mauk's dismissal, the keys have been given to Drew Lock to bring Missouri back to the conversation as a contender in the SEC East division.
Lock split time with Mauk in 2015 and fared pedestrian at best with 1,332 yards through the air, to go along with four touchdown passes and eight interceptions.
Redshirt junior defensive tackle Harold Brantley:
A key factor, which played into the Tigers losing seven of eight games in conference play was the loss of Harold Brantley for the 2015 season.
Brantley suffered multiple injuries in a car accident in June 2015, but should be on track to return in time for fall camp.
Notable coaching addition:
With Odom at the helm, Josh Heupel joins the ship as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach. Heupel served as the OC the last five seasons at Utah State and his alma mater, Oklahoma.
Key Game- Oct. 1 at LSU:
Believe it or not, this will be the first time Missouri and LSU meet in SEC play as they are in different divisions. This game will likely serve as a great indicator as to where Missouri's season could go.
Believe it or not, this will be the first time Missouri and LSU meet in SEC play as they are in different divisions. This game will likely serve as a great indicator as to where Missouri's season could go.
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VocShop is a software company that has developed a suite of billing and time management software products. The software products developed by the company have been custom designed to meet the needs of the rehabilitation industry and have been available for use since 1986. The company is owned by a Kansas-owned technology firm named TBC, Inc.
The VocShop software incorporates all the Department of Labor (DOL) wage regulations pertinent to the rehabilitation industry. This includes, but is not limited to, such concerns as piece rates, commensurate wages, and special minimum wages. Any good management software suite should be well equipped to handle all the intricacies of compensating employees working for rehabilitative organizations such as sheltered workshops.
Software programs can also be used to stay on top of an organization's production costs. For sheltered workshops this is particularly important, especially considering how most of these rehabilitation agencies are contracted to perform assembly line type work. As such, many are compensated on a per unit completed basis, thus the need to have a definitive measure of their costs in relation to their output.
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Quality software will also provide regularly updates to their products. This gives the user the added reassurance they are complying with all of the DOLs rules and regulations. Since all information can be stored centrally in the software, it can easily be retrieved in the event that they must undergo a DOL audit. There are a number of software providers on the market, however, and it can pay to look at the options. Some programs offer more integration, and some are simply better suited to specific industries.


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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
|What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Theatrical re-release poster
|Directed by
|Woody Allen
Senkichi Taniguchi
|Produced by
|Charles H. Joffe
|Written by
|Woody Allen
Louise Lasser
Len Maxwell
Julie Bennett
Frank Buxton
Mickey Rose
Bryna Wilson
|Woody Allen
Louise Lasser
The Lovin' Spoonful
|Music by
|The Lovin' Spoonful
|Kazuo Yamada
|Edited by
|Richard Krown
Benedict Pictures Corp.
National Recording Studios
|Distributed by
|American International Pictures
Release date
|‹See TfM›
Running time
|80 minutes
|United States
What's Up, Tiger Lily? is a 1966 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen in his feature-length directorial debut.
Allen took a Japanese spy film, International Secret Police: Key of Keys, and overdubbed it with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original film.[2] By putting in new scenes and rearranging the order of existing scenes, he completely changed the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world's best egg salad recipe.[3]
During post-production, Allen's original one-hour television version was expanded without his permission to include additional scenes from International Secret Police: A Barrel of Gunpowder, the third film in the International Secret Police series,[2] and musical numbers by the band The Lovin' Spoonful. This experience helped convince Allen that he should secure creative control for all his future projects.[citation needed] The band released a soundtrack album. Louise Lasser, who was married to Allen at the time, served as one of the voice actors for the "new" dialogue soundtrack, as did Mickey Rose, Allen's writing partner on Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971).[3] In 2003, Image released the film on DVD, with both the theatrical and television (called "alternate") soundtracks.
The plot provides the setup for a string of sight gags, puns, jokes based on Asian stereotypes, and general farce. The central plot involves the misadventures of secret agent Phil Moskowitz, hired by the Grand Exalted High Macha of Rashpur ("a nonexistent but real-sounding country") to recover a secret egg salad recipe that was stolen from him. The recipe, in the possession of gangster Shepherd Wong, is also being sought by rival gangster Wing Fat, and Moskowitz, assisted by two female Rashpur agents, temporarily teams up with Wing Fat to steal the recipe from Wong.
The movie has an ending credits scene unrelated to the plot, in which China Lee, a Playboy Playmate and then-wife of Allen's comic idol Mort Sahl who does not appear elsewhere in the film, does a striptease while Allen (who is also on-screen) explains that he promised he would put her in the film somewhere.
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Phil Moscowitz, a secret agent and self-described "lovable rogue" (other people call him "amiable zany")
- Akiko Wakabayashi as Suki Yaki, a beautiful woman who has escaped from prison; she seduces Phil and later works alongside him as a spy
- Mie Hama as Teri Yaki, Suki's sister who helps Phil as well (cf. sukiyaki, teriyaki)
- Tadao Nakamaru as Shepherd Wong, an evil gang leader and egg salad addict who has stolen the recipe for the world's greatest egg salad.
- Susumu Kurobe as Wing Fat, an evil gangster who teams up with Phil to steal the recipe from Shepherd Wong, but plans to then sell it back to him.
- Sachio Sakai as Hoodlum
- Hideyo Amamoto as Cobra Man
- Tetsu Nakamura as Foreign Minister
- Osman Yusuf as Gambler
- Kumi Mizuno as Phil's date
- Woody Allen as Himself / Dub Voice / Projectionist
- Julie Bennett as Dub Voice
- Frank Buxton as Dub Voice
- Louise Lasser as Dub Voice
- Len Maxwell as Dub Voice
- Mickey Rose as Dub Voice
- The Lovin' Spoonful as Themselves
Soundtrack album[edit]
|What's Up Tiger Lily?
|Soundtrack album by
|September, 1966
|Folk rock
|Kama Sutra
|The Lovin' Spoonful chronology
The soundtrack album to What's Up Tiger Lily? was released in 1966. It contains music by The Lovin' Spoonful. The audio engineer at National Recording Studios was Fred Weinberg, who went on to produce and engineer many other films and albums. It was re-released on CD along with You're a Big Boy Now, the Spoonful's soundtrack for the 1966 film by Francis Ford Coppola.[4] It reached No. 126 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.
Track listing[edit]
- "Introduction to Flick" (2:14)
- "Pow!" (2:26)
- "Gray Prison Blues" (2:04)
- "Pow Revisited" (2:26)
- "Unconscious Minuet" (2:05)
- "Fishin' Blues" (1:59)
- "Respoken" (1:48)
- "Cool Million" (2:02)
- "Speakin' of Spoken" (2:41)
- "Lookin' to Spy" (2:29)
- "Phil's Love Theme" (2:23)
- "End Title" (4:06)
The reviews were mixed upon the film's release. Expressing disappointment in the movie, The New York Times stated that "the peppery English sound track wears thin as the action churns around in absolute chaos."[5] Variety wrote, "The production has one premise — deliberately mismatched dialog — which is sustained reasonably well through its brief running time."[6]
Aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 81% approval of the film from 26 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10.[7]
The film is considered Woody Allen's directorial debut, although Allen himself in a 2020 interview distanced himself from it.[8]
See also[edit]
- ^ B is for Low Budget and Big Box Office Bucks, So Sam Arkoff is Proud to Be Called Hollywood's King of the B Pictures. People Magazine. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
- ^ a b Mavis, Paul. "What's Up, Tiger Lily?". DVD Talk. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ^ a b "International Secret Police". Tokyo Street Report. April 16, 2009. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. "What's Up, Tiger Lily? / You're a Big Boy Now". Allmusic. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
- ^ "Screen: Woody-Allenized:'Tiger Lily,' Innovation of Sorts, Is Here The Cast," The New York Times, Friday, November 18, 1966. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ "What's Up, Tiger Lily?". Variety. December 31, 1965. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ^ "What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jTaatIyGeE&t=744s
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One of my most asked questions is how to set up an Action File. I decided to create a video so you can see it.
Want more help decluttering papers and the rest of your home? Join the Declutter Group in January or April.
In a recent Weekly Simplicity Tips, I mentioned having "places for books, papers, mail, and stationary supplies." Tracy wants to know where those places are for you.
For me I have a bookshelf in my closet for health and home books. A shelf in my office is for books I am currently reading. The bedroom has a bookshelf for spiritual and relationship books. The bookshelf in my office has creativity and business books. The big bookshelf is upstairs and holds novels, personal development, hobby & reference books.
For papers: when they come in the house they go to the inbox on my desk. After sorting they either go in the action file for papers to do, reference files or shred/recycle/trash.
Mail goes in the inbox.
Stationary supplies go in a box in my office. Cards are sorted by type ie birthday, sympathy, etc. And I have general note cards in there.
Where do you store things like these?
In the Declutter Group we were talking about paper and what to do if you aren't at home. You know those plastic or paper Accordion folders like for bills?
Before leaving home I threw a pile of papers that needs sorting in the front pocket. Then I have little labels – to read, to do, to pay, to file and any other project papers I end up with.
Then when I was waiting for kids or when I worked outside the home, I did quick sorts and a lot of time I could do the "to do" papers or pay bills. This really helped my paper piles.
This weekend I wanted to open more space up in my office. The first thing I did was put a bunch of books into the bookshelf in my closet, and other books in a container in the closet.
The second thing I did was combine two file areas – my financial folders and my action file. I realized I didn't need the monthly folders that only had 1-3 pieces of paper in them each. Instead I created a yearly file for the pay stubs and bank statements.
I also didn't use most of the tax files. See I input my receipts every couple of weeks and have them in categories on a spreadsheet. So I didn't need the different tax categories in file folders. Now I have tax to be inputted and tax 2011.
Which left all sorts of room for my action files (to pay, to do, to input, kids school stuff.)
Do you have any file folders you aren't using?
I loved reading everyone's questions from the giveaway post. Debbie asked what papers, receipts, bills should she keep and for how long. And then she wanted to know what to do with all those papers.
Bank Rate has a great article on how long you need to keep certain papers:
What financial records to keep
I use the Freedom Filer System myself for keeping things organized. I've been using it about 2 years now and I never have a stack of things to file now, since filing is so easy. It is a self purging system. Your file system is divided by:
Green folders: Monthly files
- receipts you get
- little papers you don't know what to do with
- bank statements
- paid bills
There are 2 years of files with the current year up front. A binder clip can keep your place. So at the beginning of each month you can empty out the folder which would have papers from 2 years ago – and most can be pitched. It's a fast way to file and most of these you will never need again.
Blue folders: 2 years worth of tax info
- W2's, 1009's etc.
- tax receipts sorted by category if you have a lot of deductions
- tax return
Fool.com has a good list of what you need to keep for taxes: Which tax records to keep. The tax folders are odd year and even year. So once the odd year comes back around you can file all the old papers by year in an archive box in the basement or storage. So right now I have tax files for 2008 and 2009 in the file section and the rest of my tax files are in a box in the basement organized by year.
I keep the monthly files and the taxes in the same file box.
Grey folders: action
- to pay
- pending
- open projects
- data entry
This is where most of the mail you go through ends up if it isn't thrown out. If you regularly do an action that you get papers for – create a folder. Usually these papers are what create piles around the house. I have the action folders on my desk in a lovely white basket with green fabric. It's about half the size of a regular file box. Some people put these in their top file drawer, but I like to be able to see it. And it makes mail time sorting even faster.
Orange folders: Remove/Replace
- insurance papers
- book club list
- credit card policies
- 401K statement
These are for all those papers you get new documents from time to time. So when the new insurance policy comes in, I can throw out the old one. We get a book club list yearly so I don't need to keep all the old ones. Credit card policies come in every few months so I get rid of the outdated papers. Same with the new health insurance booklet. I love this folder section. I don't ever have to worry about, "Should I keep this?" These files fit in one file drawer for me.
Red folders: Permanent
- medical documents
- mortgage papers
- genealogy records
- education papers
These papers fit in one file drawer for me. Titles, marriage license, and important documents like that should go in a safe deposit box or fireproof safe.
optional Purple folders: interests
- health articles
- scrapbook design ideas
- home decorating articles/ideas
- inspiration
If you ever wanted to know what to do with all your articles and clippings, this is where they can go. An alternative if you have lots of papers is to use binders. The easiest way to tell if these need purging is if you run out of space. When you have no more room you either have to purge some folders or get a new cabinet. I suggest going through those folders or binders. I have one file drawer for interests. Since I own my own business I also have a file drawer for my business papers.
Until papers are sorted, they are in my in box which I try to clean out every other day or at least weekly.
If you have lots of papers to go through, read my post: Conquering the Paper Pile Up.
And this post will help you create a tickler file. What to Do with the Daily Papers.
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If you've been at a loss as to where to engage in work or hobbies, it's time you created your very own dedicated workspace, whether you need a spot to do your arts and crafts, carpentry or even auto work. Here are some ways to make space for your hobbies now matter how small a space you're given.
Keep it Hidden
Don't have the space for a full office? Keep things out of the way of the main house by hiding your workspace behind a rolling barn door that you can open and close as needed. You can even paint the exterior of the door with chalk board paint so you can write daily chores and reminders for what's going on that day. From business meeting to after-school activities to dinner menus, keep everything displayed neatly.
Sleek, Small and Modern
Got an unused corner in your house that you don't quite know what to do with? Build a desk right into the wall to give yourself a sleek, modern workspace that isn't too imposing. Go with chrome and glossy red that leaves one side sans legs for more maneuverability, suggests Cool Mom Tech. A white board overhead keeps your schedule in plain view so you can easily follow it.
Shed as Office
If in-home space is at a premium, convert your shed into an office for complete privacy. Add a large window to open up the space, and perhaps a garden to look out at when you need some inspiration.
Convert a Closet
Do your kids need a dedicated space to do their homework? Try building recessed desks into an unused closet space. A divider in between provides some separation from the kids, while floating desks eliminate the need for cumbersome legs and slatted folding doors allow you to close off the mess when you need to.
Kitchen Table, Desk and Bookcase in One
To create a double desk, combine a workspace for two adults or kids yet keep them separate with a bookcase as the centerpiece. With just two legs each, with the desks facing the bookcase in the center, you have an instant workspace with quaint skirted chairs and wicker baskets on the side for storage or magazines, bills, and important papers.
Pull-Out Desk and Loft Bed
Try a built-in sleeping space with pull-out desk where you can store a laptop and other supplies along with a docking and charging station. A few steps lead up to a loft bed for the ultimate in storage solutions.
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There are three methods to castrate beef cattle: physically, hormonally, and chemically. Castration of beef cattle requires that certain regulations are strictly enforced and exercised, some of which are for the overall health and safety of the beef cattle. Each country has a set of regulations in which most of the content is similar amongst the countries, but each country may/does have slight modifications for various reasons
In some countries for instance, application of anesthesia is required before performing the operation. This is because pain mitigation is essential to successful castration. There are several medical factors such as age and weight which must be considered when determining the best method to keep the pain levels under control. For instance, it is best to castrate a beef cattle at a very young age (one to three months) because they are easier to keep under control, and experience less pain and stress. However, they may be castrated up to potentially twelve months old. Post operation care varies depending on the castration methodology and set of regulations that must be abided. It is up to the Vet to determine what is required to maintain successful post-operative care. Anti-biotics are a post-operative option if the animal has swelling, an infection or a raise in body temperature.
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Honoring the heritage of Durant, also known as the "City of Magnolias," the annual Magnolia Festival of Oklahoma began in 1997 and features a variety of activities perfect for a fun-filled family weekend.
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Special to KyForward
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's appearance in Covington Thursday was a study in contrasts.
Hundreds of demonstrators filled Seventh Street, carrying signs and chanting slogans, such as "Ditch Mitch" and "This is what democracy looks like," in unison.
Inside the Hotel Covington, things were much more reserved.
McConnell was the keynote speaker at a Federal Issues Luncheon attended by 150 people and hosted by The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce & the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.
McConnell seemed at ease, despite the protests that have accompanied his public appearances in recent days and the crowd gathered outside. He started his address by saying "I have a lot more fans than I used to have."
"Protesting is about as American as apple pie," McConnell said. "We've been protesting for 240 years.
He was briefly interrupted a few times by protestors who managed to make their way inside the Eva G. Farris Ballroom.
"Senator, we're not protesting the election," said an unidentified woman. "We're protesting right-to-work. We're protesting losing our health care. We're protesting election interference in White House. We're protesting the fact to get in front of you, we have to pay dollars."
She was quickly ushered away by police, as were two other men who interrupted McConnell a few moments later.
The Senate Majority Leader seemed prepared for the possibility of interruptions and made light of it.
"I didn't realize there were multiple speakers," he said.
McConnell spoke on a number of issues, including the decision to block President Barack Obama's selection of a Supreme Court Justice to replace the deceased Antonin Scalia until after the presidential election.
He said, at the time of the decision, he thought Hillary Clinton would be the next president, so partisanship was not a factor.
"The first thing that came into my mind was, (what) if the shoe was on the other foot," McConnell said. "If the vacancy had been created in the middle of a hotly contested presidential election and there had been a Republican in the White House and a Democratic senate, there was not chance that vacancy would be filled."
Closer to home, McConnell acknowledged the recent announcement by Amazon to invest $1.49 billion in an air hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and the impact it would have on the region.
He also praised the Kentucky General Assembly for its efforts in the first weeks of the short session. He mentioned the repeal of the prevailing wage, the passage of right to work, as well as the work on charter schools and tort reform.
"I wish I could experience a one week stream of successes like they had in Frankfort the first week they were in," McConnell said. "It's like putting an open-for-business sign in Kentucky. It really changes our image."
MConnell even made light of his new role as Senate Majority Leader, comparing it to being a groundskeeper at a cemetery.
"Everybody's under you and no one is listening," he said.
McConnell addressed the November presidential election as well, acknowledging that President Trump did not win the hearts of voters.
"It's no secret that neither one of these candidates was popular," he said. "In the end, I think what the American people decided was this, 'If you were happy with the status quo, and you thought America was doing just fine, in the end, obviously you voted for Hillary Clinton.' But if you thought the country needed to go in a different direction and was underperforming, I think that was the fundamental issue that brought about the Trump election."
Outside, demonstrators had a much different view.
"What we are not seeing is the reflection of our Democratic and American values coming out of our State Houses and out of Washington," Linda Nesbitt, one of the event organizers, said. "We're here today to send a positive message to Senator McConnell and the other legislators, that things like health care, clean energy and the environment and inclusiveness and diversity are important to our economy. He's speaking to a chamber of commerce group today, so we thought the message of promoting and growing our economy is very important."
Somewhat overshadowed by the clamor surrounding McConnell's appearance and the protest were a panel of experts that spoke on some of the regions pressing federal issues.
Andy Aiello, general manager of the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky (TANK) discussed transportation, while Frank Julian, vice president of government and legal affairs spoke about taxes. Newly installed University of Cincinnati president Dr. Neville G. Pinto, who most recently serves as acting president and professor of chemical engineering at the University of Louisville, spoke on acquiring talent.
Obviously the demonstration was not anticipated when the luncheon was planned, and it clearly diverted some of the spotlight from the scheduled program.
Despite the protest, Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce President Trey Grayson said he was very pleased with the event itself.
"Doing this with the Cincinnati Chamber, is helpful to get the region together," Grayson said. "A lot of the people here from Cincinnati have never been to the Hotel Covington before. Maybe we will do this next year with (U.S. Sen.) Rob Portman."
A primary goal was to help promote and generate interest in the Joint Chamber Washington DC Fly-In in late May.
The annual Fly In provides an opportunity for the region's leaders to travel to the nation's capital to deliver a message to lawmakers about issues of importance to Northern Kentucky and its communities.
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Quick Action Needed: Koroilavesau
Quick action needs to be taken by concerned authorities on oil spills similar to what occurred at Fiji Ships and Heavy Industries Limited's dock and repair berth, last Saturday.
Minister for Fisheries Semi Koroilavesau said the effect of the oil spills depended on the effect of damages.
A Chinese fishing vessel Shi Dao was caught pumping out oil into the sea at the FSHI dock last Saturday in Suva.
"I have not received any reports on the oil spills that happened last Saturday at the Walu Bay dock and repair berth," Minister Koroilavesau said.
"The immediate effects of toxic and smothering oil waste may be mass mortality and contamination of fish and other food species, but long-term ecological effects may be worse.
"Oil waste poisons the sensitive marine and coastal organic substrate, interrupting the food chain on which fish and sea creatures depend on, and on which their reproductive success is based, commercial fishing enterprises may be affected permanently.
"I have not received any reports on the expand of oil spills but I am sure relevant authorities are working together on the containment of oil.
"During a spill response, sensitive locations threatened by an advancing oil slick can be protected with various kinds of equipment and tactics- booms are floating, physical barriers to oil, made of plastic, metal, or other materials, which slow the spread of oil and keep it contained," he said.
He said any oil spill from ships wil not be condoned and should be dealt with effectively by the relevant agency responsible.


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(from release) at the Electronica 2006 event in Munich, Germany this week, Analog Devices Inc. announced it is expanding its capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) and iSensor intelligent sensor families with new devices that deliver a combination of high sensitivity, low power, low cost and small size for sensing applications.
The new CDC device provides superior power efficiency, sensitivity, response time, and robustness in proximity sensing applications, such as automotive remote keyless entry systems. Based on Analog Devices' iMEMS inertial sensor cores, the highly integrated, and pre-calibrated, iSensor intelligent sensor devices provide a simplified programmable interface and are designed for embedded motion analysis and control applications.
"Discrete sensors have a history of being expensive and difficult to implement," said Mike Britchfield, product line director, Precision Signal Processing, Analog Devices. "ADI's CDC and iSensor device families break down the barriers that have kept designers from adding sensing functions to their system designs due to cost and excessive power consumption."
CDC Proximity Sensing Fits Power Budget and Provides Higher Sensitivity
Expanding its portfolio of CDCs for sensor systems, ADI is introducing a new family of ultra-low-power devices specifically designed for highly sensitive proximity sensing applications. Leveraging ADI's capacitance technology, the AD7150 delivers a complete signal processing solution for proximity sensors, offering such features as electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), adaptive environmental calibration, small package, low power consumption and fast response time.
Unlike existing solutions that use optical sensors, which can be unreliable and power hungry, the AD7150 consumes just 90 uA, resulting in a 70 percent power savings. The AD7150 is ideal for use in portable and battery-powered products in automotive, industrial and even consumer applications, such as entry and security systems, remote detection and contact-less switches.
The AD7150 has undergone extensive EMC evaluation, making it particularly suitable for use in the harsh environments experienced in today's demanding automotive and industrial applications. In addition, ADI's patented CDC front-end architecture makes the AD7150 tolerant of input parasitic ground capacitance, leakage currents and power supply noise.
The proximity sensor system is further enhanced by the on-chip adaptive environmental calibration feature. This enables the device to automatically recalibrate and adapt to capacitance changes due to shifts in environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity, and the gradual build-up of dust and dirt.
In addition to the AD7150, which has two channels, Analog Devices is announcing the availability of the AD7151, a single-channel CDC that consumes only 50 uA. Both devices are specified over a -40 degrees C to +125 degrees C temperature range and communicate over an I(2)C serial interface. Automotive qualified models will be available on release.
The AD7150 CDC is sampling now, with full production slated for May 2007. Available in a 10-lead MSOP (mini-small-outline package), the AD7150 and AD7151 are priced at $1.35 each in 1,000-unit quantities. For more information, visit the company's Web site.
iSensor Devices Deliver Performance, Size and Power Advantages
The ADIS16204, says Analog, is the industry's first fully integrated and programmable high-g impact sensor, providing a greater than 90 percent size advantage over existing solutions. The ADIS16204 provides dual-axis inertial sensing, with +/-35-g or +/-70-g full-scale range, and embeds all required signal conditioning and processing. Programmable features, including peak sample and hold, shock-profile recording, filtering, trigger points and power management, make the device in-system tunable and can reduce time-to-market by six months or more.
Impact sensors have multiple industrial applications but often are used in condition monitoring, safety controls and crash detection, or to monitor finished goods in the event they are damaged as they move through the distribution channel. In the past, expensive, brick-sized impact sensing solutions were not suitable for many embedded industrial applications, while less integrated alternatives created a barrier for many designers, given the complexity and diversity of the technologies involved. The result was that impact sensing was often left to less accurate and less reliable inspection methods, such as vision-based approaches.
Analog Devices today is also introducing the ADIS16251 and ADIS16255 iSensor gyroscopes, which provide angular rate sensing in applications that include vehicle navigation, factory controls, and robotics. The ADIS16251 provides digital range scaling across a +/-20 to +/-80 degree/second, with bias stability of 0.016 degree/second, and sensitivity precision of +/-1%, which is five times better than that of competing devices. The ADIS16255 calibrates the bias and sensitivity over the full temperature range, via embedded temperature compensation, and provides a wider dynamic range of +/-80 to +/-320 degree/second. Both iSensor devices require less than half the design space of existing multi-component solutions, while providing programmable interfaces and calibrated digital outputs.
The ADIS16204 is sampling now with full production slated for February 2007. The sensor is available for $20.95 per unit in 1,000-piece quantities and is packaged in a 9.2 mm x 9.2 mm x 3.9 mm laminate-based LGA (land grid array) package.
The ADIS16251 and ADIS16255 are sampling now, and will be available in production quantities in February 2007. The sensors are priced at $44.95 and $55.90, respectively, in 1,000-piece quantities and are packaged in an 11 mm x 11 mm x 5.5 mm laminate-based LGA package. For additional information, visit the company's Web site.


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Blockbuster movies have always been an incredibly hit or miss affair, as many of them have to balance the massive crowd-pleasing moments and the smaller character-driven stories they typically embody. Some of them live up to the hype (like Captain America: Civil War, for example), while others fail miserably (looking at you Battleship).
With only a few big blockbuster films left to release in 2016, eyes are beginning to turn to what the next year could bring us. There are numerous blockbuster movies set to release next year, so narrowing it down to our top ten was quite difficult. When judging the list we not only took into consideration the possible quality, importance, and our just general hype level. Obviously, this list is only our opinion, but if we could only get 10 blockbusters, these are the ones we'd love to see.
Note: This list is in no particular order.
1. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Release Date: May 5th, 2017
Starring: Chris Pratt, Kurt Russell, Bradley Cooper, Sylvester Stallone, Zoe Saldana
Guardians of the Galaxy is arguably one of the best, if not the best, Marvel movie to ever come out. There's no doubt we are extremely hyped for this film because of how fantastic the humor and characters were. However, with this next installment, it will be interesting to see what direction they take our lovable band of misfits in and how much they will develop. We can only hope that the sequel gets a better villain than the original.
2. War for the Planet of the Apes
Release Date: July 14th, 2017
Starring: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Sara Cunning, Judy Greer
War for the Planet of the Apes is the second follow-up to one of my favorite remakes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Each new installment seems to deepen the connection between the characters, specifically the ape leader Caeser. The stories have always been genuinely compelling and it has been a great example for how to balance action and storytelling effectively. One can only imagine what this film will be like when "War" is the principle concept, one that most of the apes have been trying to avoid. War for the Planet of the Apes is one of our most anticipated summer blockbusters of 2017.
3. Alien: Covenant
Release Date: August 4th, 2017
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterson, Danny McBride
The sequel to the rather mediocre Prometheus, we are interested to see where the Alien franchise is headed next. This has always been one of science fiction's greatest series, so going back to the world is always welcomed. While the previous film wasn't that great, there is a lot more to mine in the Alien mythos. Hopefully, this is the Alien movie we have been waiting for.
4. Power Rangers
Release Date: March 24th, 2017
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Naomi Scott, Bryan Cranston
It's hard to not get excited when we hear more about the new Power Rangers movie, as it seems to be taking the franchise in an interesting new direction. This is one of those properties that is hard to balance the nostalgia fans have from the 90s and the current iterations of this children's show. However, with a solid cast and interesting character designs we can hardly complain. Also, Bryan Cranston is Zordon, which is pretty freaking cool.
5. Wonder Woman
Release Date: June 2nd, 2017
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Lucy Davis
With Wonder Woman having limited screentime/a poor showing in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, our interest in a Wonder Woman film has only grown. This is mainly because Gadot genuinely appears to be a solid Wonder Woman and the overall supporting cast is incredible. Wonder Woman hasn't had a ton of live-action love over the years, so it will be interesting to see how this showing fares. It's quite possible that Wonder Woman could own the summer, which is why it's one of our most anticipated summer blockbusters of next year.
6. Justice League
Release Date: November 17th, 2017
Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller
While the last DC live action film was essentially a big marketing advertisement, it's going to be interesting to see what the payoff is. Balancing all of these colorful personalities and whatever villains get thrown in will be incredibly difficult. Batman v Superman strained under such a script, but the prospect of seeing the entire team on the big screen is too awesome to pass up. Just, for the love of Darkseid, if the film is three hours long just release it as is.
7. Blade Runner 2
Release Date: October 5th, 2017
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling
The sequel to one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made, Blade Runner 2, has a lot of weight already on its shoulders. While Harrison Ford is returning, we are still skeptical about what a follow up to the original could even look like. Considering the original wrapped up the story in such a concise manner, it will be interesting to see where exactly this sequel takes place. We can hardly resist going back to the world, and hopefully, it can live up to the tremendous hype surrounding it.
8. The Dark Tower
Release Date: February 17th, 2017
Starring: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey
Okay, Steven King's The Dark Tower's previous adaptations have been really mediocre at best, so we are excited to see what a big budget version of this book series will look like. It will be interesting to see what the movie balances since it will be pulling from all eight novels. We can only suspect this will be a long movie, but if it's even half as good as the books, The Dark Tower will be one of the best fantasy/horror films ever.
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9. Uncharted
Release Date: June 30th, 2017
Starring: TBA
This is probably one of those films that will get pushed back due to the sheer production of it all. Uncharted is one of the best game series ever produced, and its most recent release, Uncharted 4, has fans on a high. Naturally, bringing it to the big screen is the next step, and next year feels like the right time to do so. However, it will need to take some serious precautions so that it keeps the same charm and doesn't come off like a cheap Indiana Jones rip-off. With no real cast to speak of and a rather close release date, one has to wonder if this will even release in 2017. Here's to hoping we even get to see Nathan Drake's movie next year, because it has serious potential to be one of the better summer blockbusters of the year.
10. Star Wars: Episode VIII
Release Date: December 2017
Starring: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher
It's a new Star Wars, come on… Do we really need to say anything more than that? I didn't think so. For more on Star Wars: Episode VIII, check out our round-up of all of the upcoming Star Wars movies.
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The work presented in this thesis investigates the properties and internal mechanism of novel soil blocks made with three different agricultural waste fibres in two different soil types. Experiments were conducted and the main variables include: three fibres (bagasse, coconut and oil palm), three soil samples (Brown, Red and Horsea Island), five fibre content (0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1 wt.%) and five fibre aspect ratios (25, 50, 75, 100 and 125). Tests conducted include density, compressive, tensile, erosion, wearing, SEM, CT scan, optical microscope analysis and pull-out. Initial tests on small cylindrical specimens produced to determine the effect of compaction rate for producing soil blocks on the strength properties found that, although the low rate of compaction achieved slightly better performance characteristics, there was not a statistically significant difference between the soil blocks produced with low and high compaction rates. Investigation on the effect of aspect ratio of the fibres on the mechanical properties of soil blocks revealed that, in general, an increase in fibre aspect ratio has a positive effect (20-25% improvement) on the strength of enhanced soil blocks. Fibre lengths of 50, 80 and 38 mm for coconut, bagasse and oil palm fibres, respectively, produced maximum strength, only bagasse showed an optimum. Another investigation on the properties of soil blocks reinforced with different fibre contents found that, the inclusion of fibres, enhanced the properties of soil blocks (16-57% strength and 20-70% durability improvement), with optimum performance generally at 0.5wt.% fibre content. Furthermore, the high clayey soil performed better in all the properties of the fibre reinforced soil blocks than the low clay soil. The study on the internal mechanism of fibre-soil matrix interaction established that fibres in the soil matrix are randomly distributed with gaps between the fibres and matrix due to fibre shrinkage. It also found that natural fibres in soil matrix can either be pulled out or break under load. In addition, fibres in the soil matrix undergo changes in size when wet and at its natural moisture content state. In general, the work concludes that the fibre reinforced soil blocks are suitable for use as a building material especially for less economically developed (LED) countries, particularly Ghana, because of the abundance and low-cost of the selected fibres.
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In the immortal words of Star Wars jedi master Yoda — if he were interested in mobile products, that is — "Begun, the IFA product onslaught has."
ASUS today kicked off what's sure to be a bevy of new hardware announcements with the introduction of its first Android Wear offering. Dubbed the ZenWatch, the wearable features a 1.63-inch 320x320 AMOLED display covered by 2.5D curved Gorilla Glass 3.
Under the ZenWatch's hood lives a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, 1.4Wh battery, Bluetooth 4.0 support and a 9 axis sensor. The ZenWatch is IP55 rated for water resistance and features a silver body with gold layering and a brown leather strap. When it comes time to charge the ZenWatch, the unit includes a charging cradle with a microUSB port.
Finally, ASUS has added a few software goodies to its first Android Wear offering. Those include Remote Camera, Cover to Mute, Find My Phone, Presentation Control and more.
ASUS also took the wraps off of a new tablet today. The MeMO Pad 7 (ME572C) is an Android 4.4 slate features a 7-inch 1920x1200 IPS display and a 1.83GHz quad-core Intel Atom Z3560 processor at its heart. Also included is 16 or 32GB of storage, 2GB of RAM, 3G and 4G connectivity and a pair of cameras: a 5-megapixel shooter on back and a 2-megapixel camera on the front.
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Gravel Series Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
"Growing up at Round Pond, my brother Miles and I played in the vineyards and learned respect and appreciation for the land from our mother and father. Today, as owners, we are proud to continue their hard work with an eye to the future. Offering a second generation of energy and dedication, we have focused on the creation of our family's estate wine program, and the production of artisan gourmet foods from the abundance of Round Pond's orchards and vineyards. Our goal has always been to coax the purest and most unique aspects out of the soil and into our wines, and ten years into this endeavor, in 2012, we vinified a new series based exclusively from three unique gravel streaks running throughout our Rutherford Home Ranch and Oakville M-Bar properties. Today, these designated superior vines – picked for their ability to yield powerful yet elegant wines – and superlative winemaking have come together in the Round Pond Gravel Series."
- Ryan Bracher MacDonnell
Secret Garden
The Secret Garden is a hidden oasis and historic vineyard, MBar Ranch, that sits at the base of the Mayacamas Mountain Range in Napa Valley's famed Oakville bench. This wine's remarkable pedigree and the opportunity to share it amongst family and friends led us to seek out this special vineyard. Wonderfully gravelly earth and meticulously farmed grapes produce a wine of complexity, nuance, elegance, and femininity.
We dedicate this wine to our Mother – an incredible role model for all the women in our family – whose strength is legendary and eye for beauty remarkable.
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Scholar's Gate
Traditionally a mark of respect to honor the accomplishments of the first family scholar, the Scholar's Gate is a tribute to perseverance, determination and the power of hard work. This wine applauds the success of all who strive to achieve great things, overcome challenges, and be extraordinary.
Selected from microsites in the northern corner of our Rutherford vineyards, this wine is big, bold, structured, intense and beautiful.
We dedicate this wine to our Father and his belief that through hard work you can achieve anything.
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The Vow
Composed of the finest selections from Round Pond Estate, the Vow is sourced from a narrow strip of gravel that runs through the South East corner of our Rutherford vineyard. This wine is well structured, expressive, dark and serious. The Vow represents our commitment to past and future generations, to Rutherford and its place in producing outstanding Cabernets.
We dedicate this wine to our siblings, with whom we walk through life and strive to make a difference for the next generation.
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The wines produced under the Gravel Series label are a collaborative effort between the MacDonnell family and Consulting Winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown. The MacDonnell family's 40-year tradition of growing world class Rutherford Cabernet combined with Thomas' skillful palate and exceptional blending, result in a very special series of wines.
Thomas Rivers Brown built his career consulting for outstanding Cabernet houses in the Napa Valley, including Schrader Cellars, Maybach, and Outpost and has received numerous accolades including Food & Wine Magazine's Winemaker of the Year award and multiple 100-point scores from Wine Spectator and the Wine Advocate.
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Secret Garden
The soil of our Oakville site lies on a gravelly base overlaid with alluvial soils washed down from the Mayacamas mountain range. The gravelly foundation provides excellent water drainage, while a subtle slope allows excess water to flow into the Napa River; a perfect combination for growing Cabernet Sauvignon. This site experiences more maritime influence, with the fog layer lingering later in the morning and arriving earlier in the evening, leading to slightly cooler days and nights. These mild conditions produce wines with an elegant flavor profile and structure.
Scholar's Gate
The northeastern section of our Rutherford property, the Red Barn Vineyard, features a gravel streak meandering through three blocks. In these microsites, less water is retained during the growing season, creating stress in the vine. This "hydro stress" starts very early in the spring, forcing the vine to focus on ripening the fruit, not on the vine growth itself. Meticulously farmed and delivering lower yields of tiny
berries, these blocks produce beautifully concentrated flavors, rich aromatics, and ripe tannins.
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The southeast portion of our Rutherford property, Block 11B, has a gravel riverbed running throughout, with soils that are extremely porous and retain less water during the growing season. The stress in the vine (called "hydro stress") starts very early in the spring, forcing the vine to focus on ripening the fruit, not on the growth of the vine itself. We farm these individual vines with great care throughout the season to produce this deeply concentrated and intensely structured wine.
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Gravel Series Membership offers access to the highly-allocated, small-production Gravel Series Cabernet Sauvignon's while they are still in barrel, through an automatic, recurring futures reservation.
Futures allocations occur three times annually in Spring (Secret Garden), Summer (The Vow), and Fall (Scholars Gate). Wines ship upon release in October of the following year.
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opportunity to lay in a stock of underclothing. As I emerged from the lazarette I heard sounds in Wolf Larsens state-room. I crouched and listened. The door-knob rattled. Furtively, instinctively, I slunk back behind the table and drew and cocked my revolver. The door swung open and he came forth. Never had I seen so profound a despair as that which I saw on his face,--the face of Wolf Larsen the fighter, the strong man, the indomitable one. For all the world like a woman wringing her hands, he raised his clenched fists and groaned. One fist unclosed, and the open palm swept across his eyes as though brushing away cobwebs. "God! God!" he groaned, and the clenched fists were raised again to the infinite despair with which his throat vibrated. It was horrible. I was trembling all over, and I could feel the shivers running up and down my spine and the sweat standing out on my forehead. Surely there can be little in this world more awful than the spectacle of a strong man in the moment when he is utterly weak and broken. But Wolf Larsen regained control of himself by an exertion of his remarkable will. And it was exertion. His whole frame shook with the struggle. He resembled a man on the verge of a fit. His face strove to compose itself, writhing and twisting in the effort till he broke down again. Once more the clenched fists went upward and he groaned. He caught his breath once or twice and sobbed. Then he was successful. I could have thought him the old Wolf Larsen, and yet there was in his movements a vague suggestion of weakness and indecision. He started for the companion-way, and stepped forward quite as I had been accustomed to see him do; and yet again, in his very walk, there seemed that suggestion of weakness and indecision. I was now concerned with fear for myself. The open trap lay directly in his path, and his discovery of it would lead instantly to his discovery of me. I was angry with myself for being caught in so cowardly a position, crouching on the floor. There was yet time. I rose swiftly to my feet, and, I know, quite unconsciously assumed a defiant attitude. He took no notice of me. Nor did he notice the open trap. Before I could grasp the situation, or act, he had walked right into the trap. One foot was descending into the opening, while the other foot was just on the verge of beginning the uplift. But when the descending foot missed the solid flooring and felt vacancy beneath, it was the old Wolf Larsen and the tiger muscles that made the falling body spring across the opening, even as it fell, so that he struck on his chest and stomach, with arms outstretched, on the floor of the opposite side. The next instant he had drawn up his legs and rolled clear. But he rolled into my marmalade and underclothes and against the trap- door. The expression on his face was one of complete comprehension. But before I could guess what he had comprehended, he had dropped the trap-door into place, closing the lazarette. Then I understood. He thought he had me inside. Also, he was blind, blind as a bat. I watched him, breathing carefully so that he should not hear me. He stepped quickly to his state-room. I saw his hand miss the door-knob by an inch, quickly fumble for it, and find it. This was my chance. I tiptoed across the cabin and to the top of the stairs. He came back, dragging a heavy sea-chest, which he deposited on top of the trap. Not content with this he fetched a second chest and placed it on top of the first. Then he gathered up the marmalade and underclothes and put them on the table. When he started up the companion-way, I retreated, silently rolling over on top of the cabin. He shoved the slide part way back and rested his arms on it, his body still in the companion-way. His attitude was of one looking forward the length of the schooner, or staring, rather, for his eyes were fixed and unblinking. I was only five feet away and directly in what should have been his line of
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Actually I wrote down 'break out of the comfort zone ' recipe 8 months ago on Dünya Kaç Bucak?'. Now it's time to go back and refresh, add some and maybe adjust. It's another time of changing the shell, breaking out the comfort zone again…
It's very important to look our life from outside, even if the things go well… Cause either you believe in karma or just destiny, there are some occasions that we cannot manage, they're meant to happen. And yet when these circumstances happen, there is something that we can manage is our attitude! Yes, our attitude makes us, us, makes me, me. So, for this look the person shouldn't wait long-term. No need to wait for a case of every 10-year climacteric, death or birth news or a big change. We need to break out of the comfort zone and shake ourselves from the root!
What Corporate Life Has Done to Us?
Thinking corporate life responsible about the things happening to us is just like the control of our life is not in our hands and yet playing the easy or escaping from the reality. Yes our parents get ourselves in to trouble because of their insecure feelings of the future. However, it is again our choice. We need to remember that the control is in our hands and waiving to accuse others. Here and now!
Seeing the Big Picture
It's essential to look at the big picture. 1.5 years ago I did something crazy to most of the people, still I can' believe and I left corporate life, my home, family and Turkey. I gave a 1 year trip as a gift to myself that I could live my life according to my feelings. The 'can't believe' part is that I can't see anything impossible. In the beginnings of my 30s, just about to earn 5 digit numbers, how come I could leave my shining, brilliant future?
Please leave all these aside! Everyone knows that I am not Einstein, even if I would be it is my business, isn't it? So what are you or not, is just your business. What to do with your life is also your business.
Although going back to corporate life was just like a very dystopic future idea, after 5 months of coming back home it didn't seem like a horrible thing to me. After all I could do any job to earn money. What else we expect of a job? Please don't order things like personal improvement and such stuff. I have been learning a language, learning how to play an instrument and reading tons of books for 5 months. So a human being can improve theirselves without a need of money. In this case yes, there is only one thing left; money. Of course unless you find 22 people trying to catch one ball ridiculous. To catch the ball and kick a goal is a very small possibility that I can't calculate even as a Statistician:)
Well what I was telling is if I need the money, why I don't open my little store again instead of trying to make in a place somewhere on earth. So I said, to feed myself and do what I can do. After all with this minimal lifestyle, I could save more money easily. However some interviews showed me that the system doesn't want the awakened ones. What if I don't work until the end of my life? What a big deal! (If you need more about making money for traveling, visit 20 Creative Ways To Make Money For Traveling)
So in brief I am trying to say is: career is nothing, freedom is everything! Whatever you do as a job, if you have freedom to step out of the door anytime- it's not because of 100ks of savings or you are a house holder- I bow before you in respect. Cause the important thing is to be free in our life. Free from everything! If you are aware that before system makes you attached to itself, you make it attached to you, you will solve the big equation. It is as big as e=mc2, I'm not joking… Because your life can be shaped in a complete different way.
If we come to why I wanna be a part of the system again… I still have some sort of BIG dreams:) I write below in bold. There are still many places in the world that I haven't seen.
Dreaming of Traveling Around the World and Breaking Out the Comfort Zone…
A Long While Before Saying Bye Bye
- First, no installments for your credit card expenses and no loans
- Search alternative ways of saving money even if you make a good amount of money. For instance, if you live alone, have a homemade or rent your room on Airbnb.
- No need for meaningless shopping and for short trips that you spend a lot. Cause you're preparing for Big Bang.
- There should be a journey behind this riot. Otherwise it's not a riot. Either against the system, nor you. Especially not against you.
- So you need a purpose, an intention so that you can buy a ticket one way, and go to a journey with no plans at all. Just going with the flow, surrendering what universe brings you.
- One by one you need to get rid of your old habits, the pleasures based on the system. You will break walls of any kind of comfort.
- Meanwhile, you will reveal this plan to your mom, brother, sister, girl-boyfirend or your spouse. You should spread some seeds for emotional preparation process. Cause eyedrops can't help you either.
- If you tenant as I used to be, there are two options: either you leave the house permanently to a trusted friend or you just take everything outside and find a way of storing or selling your stuff.
Are you ready now? Do you have a purpose or intention? Then it's time to say good bye to your boss
Time to say 'I'm going'
- If you can, you shoul take your compensation (I couldn't).
- Before leaving, it's better to move somewhere you don't have to pay for rent, like moving to your parents' house. So you can save some more until you go.
- If there is some stuff that you can sell, you will sell them. You never know multiple times of 5s bring you big amounts.
- So you get rid of your stuff, extra clothes, problematic relationship if you have:) There is only a fear of missing family and close friends left. You can make it, no worries!
So the date of your start is in the gate now. The new start; ask now
What does economy class life require?
Of course you get used to spend all your money for short trips, in the first place everything will seem cheaper. But nooo, you should be vigilant from the beginning. I'm ranking one by one:
- You will use indirect flights, don't be sad! My favorite web sites are www.momondo.com.tr and www.tickets.com.tr or https://www.kiwi.com/tr/
All of them offers you some filters like how many layovers you will have or how many hours it will take. So you can filter easily and have your cheapest ticket. After 1 year of traveling, taking 22 flights I can say they are the cheapest options.
- Hostels will be your home, you will find the cheapest ones. It will not matter to you to sleep in a mixed dorm. For the best hostel search engines www.booking.com , www.hostelworld.com and https://www.agoda.com/tr should be visited. If you search for "backpackers hostel"s, there is a chance to meet people like you.
- You can eat cheap but healthy food. So you should listen people you meet at the hostels or just cook for yourself.
- You have to bargain hard! You have to present your price. Trust me, it works!
- If you don't feel insecure, you can couchsurf.
- You don't have to buy sim cards everywhere you go. Just settle down with the wifi.
- If you have to take a taxi, share it!
- You can also work voluntarily. Take a look at workaway and woofing. Isn't it the best way to discover new cultures to interact with locals? And it's good resting a bit in one place after traveling here and there.
- You can also hitchhike of course. Napoleon said:'Budget! Budget! Budget!':)
- If you need an equipment, you will try to find a sponsorship for your needs. You are giving inspiration for free, so there should be something in return, right?
- Hmmm, and also you need to eliminate some cosmetic stuff and use less. Like I use coconut oil for almost everything:)
- You have to find a way to ease your bag. Less heavy bag, less heavy life! You can wash your stuff anyways.
Like this, you will find another person in your place:) You beat your comfort zone, by the way what was comfort zone? Ahaha! You are the king! You can survive wherever you go, whatever you do! Welcome to the kingdom of yourself!
PS: I am saying with capital letters that if you don't have a power of trusting yourself don't do it! Cause being on the road is not easy, especially when you are alone. If you are ready, brave enough and you have a strong intention to leave the lifestyle you have, just do it! Then good luck!
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- Alvaro Morata revealed that he's been watching tapes of Didier Drogba playing football
- The secret behind the Spaniard's heading ability stems from his childhood days
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Alvaro Morata has used highlights of Didier Drogba as guidance to help him on the pitch, the Standard reports.
Both strikers' ability in the air is second to none as Morata has scored 10 goals for Chelsea this season, the majority behind headed strikes.
Of course, we all remember the days when Drogba would tower over his marker and score, the equaliser in the 2012 Champions League final being the prime example.
Morata confirmed that he used to practice heading a football on a trampoline as his father would teach him. However, the Spaniard asked for some DVDs of Drogba so that it would help him with adjusting to English football, as the Standard reports.
The Standard quotes Morata saying:
"I put it on at home so I improve with Didier."
Drogba a role model for all strikers
It's no surprise that Morata has watched the Chelsea great to help him improve. Many centre-forwards in the Premier League like Romelu Lukaku have also done this.
Morata isn't the most physical striker in the world but he's by no means easy to shrug off the ball. Scoring headers has given the 25-year-old a new dimension to his game. There's no better player to learn from in this part of the game than Drogba.


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August 19, 2019
Quick reflexes can be the difference between a close call and a tragic accident. Whether it's a mom grabbing her child before he falls off a balcony or a school bus driver keeping a student from walking into traffic or a man catching a kid from dropping off a counter, many heroes are just people who can move fast.
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Our best shots of 2016
Celebration. Loss. Building. Discovery. Growth. Hope. 2016 was a year of extremes. Here we share some of our favourite photos that capture the events—and the sentiment—of the year that was.
Who knew that thousands of insects taking up residence on the roof of Building 5 would generate such buzz (and oh, so many puns)? People can't seem to get enough when it comes to the university's colony of bees—and their honey. The spoils from the hives' first harvest sold out in 23 minutes flat.
Each November the university invites thousands of prospective students to Open House to check out its programs. This year, a stellar sunrise lit up the university's iconic towers and added to the warm welcome offered by hundreds of university students, staff and faculty. #nofilter
In May, MacEwan Residence transformed into a temporary home for 784 evacuees from Fort McMurray. In the weeks that followed, students, staff and faculty members rallied to help our new community members who had been displaced by devastating wildfires.
Old friends share new beginnings during the Annual Downtown Campus Block Party.
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Elaine Beltaos, mathematics associate professor, shared her passion for pie and pi in March for Pi Day 2016.
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Samuel Mugo, associate professor in Chemistry, (above) and Anna Pienkowski, assistant professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences, joined eight other MacEwan researchers who have received funding through NSERC since 2014. In total, university faculty members have to date received $710,000 in Discovery Grants in addition to two smaller Discovery Development Grants.
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Obama's Watergate
By Joan Z. Shore (bio)
There's terrorism and there's state terrorism. We must finally admit that the real threat to our freedom and civil rights is not from Muslim extremists or Communist fanatics but from our democratically-elected government operating under a shroud of secrecy, and in conspiracy with private industry.
Obama's stealthy expansion of the Patriot Act, his egregious program to collect billions of phone calls and internet messages, and his approval of a plan (the Presidential Policy Directive 20) to launch cyber attacks around the world "to advance U.S. national objectives" (and attacks at home, too, if deemed necessary) puts him in a class beyond Richard Nixon and just short of Erich Honecker.
The FISA court, which is said to judge and oversee the secret NSA operations, is a sham. Its hearings are held at undisclosed locations with only government lawyers present, and whatever the court approves is highly classified. So far, the court has approved every surveillance proposal put before it.
That many of our "democratically-elected officials" in Congress knew of these programs (and were silent) does not absolve the President. As a much-touted scholar of the American Constitution, he knew exactly what he was doing: flouting the very principles that put him in the White House, and trampling on the rights of citizens that he twice swore to protect and uphold.
In retrospect now, Watergate seems like child's play. Bill Clinton's sexual scandal looks like freshman hijinks..
There are many commentators trying desperately to defend the NSA programs, but their excuses ring hollow. They would do well to remember Ben Franklin's words: Those who would trade liberty for a little temporary security will lose both and deserve neither.
Obama's secrecy and complicity have plunged much of the nation into total confusion: shock and anxiety, distrust and disbelief. Except for the U.K. — which as usual is playing co-conspirator with America — most of our allies are stunned, for they now realize they can easily be targeted and spied upon by America's global dragnets. And perhaps have been caught already.
Clearly, Obama has grossly overstepped his executive powers, he has usurped the Constitutional rights of citizens to privacy, and he has waged a global war that is no less real for being an intangible weapon of cyber-technology.
These are the facts; it is time to impeach him.
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