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I remember thinking a few months back that August my birth month was still very far. I woke up today realizing it's only a month away. Whoever made the statement 'time waits for no one' couldn't have said it in more appropriate words. The past 6 months have been a real ride! For me, I like to think it had all the elements; the good, the bad, the normal, the ugly, the bleh, the great, the infuriating, the nerve-racking, the fearful moments, and you just name it. Like I said, it was a real ride, and you know what? It was okay. Today's post isn't really like the usual #mondayinspiration you're used to. This is what I can call a reflection; a look back and forward. And trust me, this is not some 'fake deep' stuff, this is what I believe individuals with an intentional mindset should do every now and then.
Now I think it's safe to say Happy New Month! Welcome to July.
The interesting thing about time Is that it is life itself. Everything you do each day is what makes up what your life becomes. Failure to allow yourself put your time to good use allows for all forms of time wasters to creep up on you and land you on a journey of self sabotage.
While I'm totally not a fan of putting one's self under unnecessary pressure in the name of goal attainment, I am however a fan of accountability and self evaluation.
If you had to look back at the last six months, would you say that you are moving in the direction of your goals? Now of course, your goals can change. You may not want the same things you wanted in March, that's fine but the most important thing is that your daily actions are taking you to that place of fulfilment.
One of the goals I'm actually very committed to right now wasn't even in my goals for the year, most definitely didn't even make it to my vision board , it just sort of came up along the line. But I can say gladly that I have made great progress, and it's only a matter of time before I come back to tell you guys that I finally achieved that goal.
Of course, this is not me trying to toot my own horn, this is me asking;
What have you been committed to in the last six months?
What intentions are you moving with going forward?
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Last year December, I had an epiphany and I just made up my mind that 2019 really had to be different. Despite the fact that some times, I'm distracted, unmotivated and tired, I breathe, give myself sometime to reconnect with what I want, and everything I need to do to be on that track again because I am fully aware of how uneasy and exhausting the whole thing can be.
But you know, I look forward to what the next half is going to bring. Not because I have it all figured out, far from it but because I have decided to let go of any self limiting beliefs I may be harbouring towards myself and I've decided to just go for it. Whatever 'it' may be.
Last week, I read an article on these self limiting beliefs , and I had a new understanding regarding how I see myself and how it can affect the eventual outcome of my decisions and actions. Your perception of yourself does more than you can imagine, trust me! And so, if you really want the next half of the year to be much better than the last, you need to do a little evaluation to get rid of any negative directive and destination beliefs you have about yourself.
I know that in my hands, I have the power to mould my year the way I want it to be and that's exactly what I'm going to do. You know why? It's because Fortune favours action.
I'm confident that the next couple of months are going to be filled with excitement and notable achievements for everyone of us.
You are amazing, brilliant and you have all it takes to unlock that which allows you to live the life that you deserve. I believe in you and I will always root for you.
Stay inspired and keep going.


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Credit score is the ghost of home acquisition for many homebuyers who are seeking to finance their home purchase through a mortgage. Lenders use a borrower's credit score to determine how risky an individual is and hence determine their eligibility for the loan. Credit score is calculated using an individual's length of credit history, payment history, debt-to-credit utilization ratio, credit mix, and new credit. Current credit score rankings entail:
850 = Perfect credit
720+ = Excellent credit
680-719 = Good credit
620-679 = Fair credit
580-619 = Poor credit
579 and lower = Bad credit
People with a credit score above 620 have more opportunities in terms of the number of financial institutions willing to provide them with loans and better interest negotiating power. Worry not if your credit score is bad or poor since the financial industry offers you a few chances to bag that dream luxury condo Seattle.
Pay higher interest
Lenders offer mortgages to people with bad credit but at a higher interest than those offered to people with good credit. For example, a person with good credit may easily get a 30 year mortgage at an interest of 3.77% while one with bad credit will get the same loan at 5%. A high interest rate results in high monthly payments for the homebuyer but this is a sensible price to pay especially if your current income enables you to do so. Lenders charge people with bad credit more since such people have a recorded history of making late payments or defaulting payments. It is a means of financial protection for the lender in case your old habits come back.
Apply for FHA loan
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) offers loans to homebuyers who need minimal requirements to qualify in comparison to traditional lending institutions. FHA loans with a 3.5% down payment are accessible to people with bad credit scores of at least 580. A credit score lower than 580 will attract a higher down payment requirement of about 10% of the total price of the home. Of notable interest is that FHA loans come with a price tag of mortgage insurance, which increases the monthly payments that one has to make.
Pay a large down payment
Another option of combating bad credit when buying a home is to put up a large down payment. To achieve this, you should create a financial plan that allows you to save for a couple of months or a few years before settling down to buy a house. Lenders will accommodate a borrower with bad credit but is willing to pay a large down payment for a home since this reduces the risk they undertake when they provide the loan. A down payment of at least 20% and/or more may be sufficient to convince the lender of your ability and willingness to pay the loan. This factor may also help you avoid mortgage insurance.
You will need to be pre-approved for a mortgage when looking at homes for sale Beacon Hill Seattle and other neighborhoods in order to know the budget to work with when house hunting with our real estate agents.


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Frantzis Sigalas
Frantzis has been a lawyer since 2003 with broad experience in Commercial Law and Public Tenders, Administrative Law and Educational Law.
He has been experienced in working on public procurement and tenders, European law with specialization in corporate matters, commercial law. He is experienced in distribution systems and representation and real estate management.
Mr. Sigalas has contributed to the publication of the book "Rival Securities in Europe and Beyond", as well as the book "Governance as Security. Individual, Market and Techniques of Power in the European Union", Nicholas Scandamis, Kosmas Boskovits, Ant. N. Sakkoulas- Bruylant, Athens, 2006.
Frantzis is a graduate from the postgraduate program in International Studies of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Business for Lawyers dept. of ALBA University. He has an excellent command of English and French (Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University, Certified by the Langue Française 1er Degré-Université de Paris-Sorbonne).


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Despite being cautious after so many recalls of Chinese goods recently, I realize there's no way we would be able to eliminate Chinese products without a great deal of hassle or expense. Buying locally raised foods helps keep that concern to a minimum. But besides that, you don't always know what ingredients are in the foods you purchase, as I was reminded by a segment on ABC World News.
They interviewed Sara Bongiorni, author of A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy. She convinced her family to go cold turkey on Chinese goods for a whole year, which meant giving up a lot of conviences and stocking up on Lego for the kids.
I'm not sure that we could do it. We'd probably go a little scatty before long. Though in a strange twist, despite things being more expensive on an individual basis, I'm guessing we might save money because of the limitations on the products we could actually buy. Hmmm...I think I'll start taking a closer look at the "made in ..." sticker to see the viability of this project.
On that note, I wonder where the book was made.
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There is one lady sent an email propose a business proposal. She want to pay me a certain amount to put links on this blog. I was skeptical and thinking this was another spam email. But I did reply. Then she show me sample of her links. When I agree about the terms and deal, she just never replied. Maybe its a scam anyway : )
So I just wonder why suddenly someone interested to advertise on my blog. I just rarely update and my Page Rank is not stable. Today can be 0 tomorrow it can be 3. I heard that Google is updating page rank.So I check. Tadaaa. My blog is PR4. I didn't expect that my blog page rank will be increase to 4. Hahaha. Wow!. Just 2 thing here:
1- I don't know how Google calculate this Page Rank but as you know I left this blog for about a few months. Just recently update my blog. So how come my blog can be PR4. This is not funny Google.
2- Maybe this PR4 thing just a mistake. We can call it PR glitch hehe. So I put PR status at my sidebar just to see how long this PR4 will last. You know what, back at those days, if you have a blog with PR4 you can make a lot of money by selling links, paid post and even selling advertisment space.
My advice, if you want to get higher PR just keep updating your blog and don't copy paste. kEEP IT ORIGINAL!


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Pack of Jacks are lively bunch of red-hot ratters
Pack of Jacks are lively bunch of red-hot ratters
Jack Russells – you either
love them or you hate them.
says Jeremy Hunt, who met
a farming family with their
very own pack of these
characterful terriers
DORIS, Walter, Muffin, Legs, Austin, Morris, Jake – Helen Smith tries to achieve the impossible and count a seething mass of Jack Russell terriers spinning and leaping with excitement in the farmyard.
"There are about 11 here but we have another seven," says Helen as she fails to prise some of the older members of this tribe from the warmth and comfort of her kitchen at Moss Farm, St Helens.
But the promise of a mouse hunt in the straw stack next to the farms livery stables is enough to create frenzied yapping among the rest. The short walk to the stack sees the pack tearing up and down the lane investigating every clump of grass, every hillock of earth. Even newly pushed up mole hills are excavated with verve as tiny yet powerful front feet send soil flying in all directions.
"They are just such a fun breed and so intelligent," says Helen as the wind blows a newly discovered plastic football across the fields and sends another pair scurrying off in hot pursuit.
* No puppies sold
Helen acquired her first Jack Russell 13 years ago. Her name was Ginny and she is now the matron of the family. Over the years several litters have been bred but no puppies have ever been sold.
"Its a family that has just grown," says Helen whose position as leader of the pack is evident as they loyally follow her on her daily chores around the farm.
Ginny is the mother of many of the present day pack. At one point she was not going to be allowed to have another litter but one night something happened to change her owners mind.
* Baby rabbit
"I stopped the Land Rover to let her out to chase some rabbits. She came back with a baby rabbit, still alive, laid it down on my lap and tried to get it to nuzzle her for milk. I knew I had to let her have one last litter."
Mick is probably the most streetwise of the gang. Tan and white and stronger than most he has left his mark as a sire. But alas, since he was
"hijacked" his
days are over.
"We had
a horse box stolen from the yard and he was in it. They dumped him on the main East Lancs road and he was handed in to the RSPCA. I appeared on the regional TV programme Crimefile and
made a plea
for his
return but
by the
we had traced him he had been castrated!"
Only two dogs live outside. Every evening the pack moves indoors with Helen. "I know its sounds like insanity but they have become part of the family. Numbers just kept increasing. I remember getting to 12 and thinking, well, another two wont make much difference."
The matriarchal Ginny is still "top dog" but there is a definite pecking order lower down the scale. Helen believes Jack Russells have an uncanny level of intelligence. Jake, a dog born with only three viable legs, has been known to significantly exaggerate his limp when he craves extra attention.
"Life can get a bit hectic," Helen admits. "Everytime you move towards the door they think we are off an another ratting adventure. But we discovered that when we tell them on Sunday morning that we are "only going to church" they dont bother to get up. So now, anytime we want some peace and quiet we just tell them we are off to church again."
The highlight of the day is when the doors to the straw stack are opened. Like a whirlwind of white and tan torpedoes the pack hurtles towards the bales, clambering to the top of the high stack, squeezing in between bales, scratching furiously at the slightest whiff of vermin.
Suddenly a mouse leaps out from beneath a bale and starts to scramble in panic up the wall; its escape route is spotted and Woolly, a broken-coated athletic-type, leaps two feet up the wall to grab the mouse in his jaws with the precision of an exocet.
* Growling defiance
"Thats what they are best at," says Helen as Woolly struts off triumphantly carrying his prize and growling in defiance to quell the jealousy of the rest of the pack.
Every day some of the terriers are taken down to another steading on the farm where there has been a particularly severe rat problem this winter.
"Its more effective and safer than using poison or shooting. The dogs can get as many as 12 rats in one session and there are plenty who bear the scars of viscious scraps with defiant rats."
Unlike many Jack Russells the Moss Farm pack are tolerant of cats. They have a particular favourite named Liberace, a large tabby and white cat that seems convinced it is a terrier and often accompanies the rat-pack on its forays around the farm.
Over the years Helen has not only enjoyed having her Jack Russells as companions and as an effective vermin control team, but she has studied the behavioural patterns of such a large "dog family".
"You can actually watch the older dogs teaching the younger ones how to catch rats. This is very much a pack that is dependent upon me but still retains many natural instincts that would not be evident if we had just two or three terriers."
* No litters planned
Helen is not planning any more litters which means keeping a very close eye on the bitches. But her sister, Margaret Francis, has a house on the farm and has her own three Jack Russells including a dog called Shrimp.
To ensure the amorous Shrimp doesnt take it upon himself to extend the dynasty even further she has adopted her own way of tapping into terrier intelligence.
Margaret says: "When there is a bitch that may be coming in season I just take one look at Shrimp and say sternly: "Dont even think about it. He looks up at me and, with his eyes, grudgingly agrees to curb his adour. Thats whats so great about Jack Russells – they know ever word you say."
Main picture: Helen Smith with Woolly, one of her 18 strong pack of Jack Russells. Helens sister Margaret (right) shares her interest in the breed. They are great vermin catchers and like nothing better than to go on a mouse hunt (above).


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The board is made up of volunteer parents and community members. The board meets on a monthly basis on the fourth Wednesday of every month. During this time if you need child care for your children we provide this as incentive, and a light meal for the parents and children. We are always looking at ways to involve our parents and this is the one of the most beneficial ways to contribute to our Primrose community.
Leopold McGinnis
Brian Smerdon
Vice Chair
Scott Lister
Carla McLean
Ashley Morgan
Human Resources Chair
Lyne Koenig-Crick
Member at Large
Sylvia Harte
Member at Large
Brett Spady
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Location, Location, Location by Shackleton
Posted by shirleycurran on 22 July 2011
Numpty despair! Why? Well, a couple of reasons. I have completed the solving of Shackleton's Location, Location, Location and don't have one more single fabulous clue to glow over – in the end, I was getting up and walking away in order to spin out and savour the last few (with a sneaking hope that he might put a foot wrong, or at least a little toe – just to make the rest of us feel less inferior!)
There's the next reason for despair. How can hopeful compilers ever compete or to rise to anything like that standard of cluing?
Well, there was at least one source of delight. This one absolutely confirmed my conviction that there's a thriving oenophile community of Listener compilers. It was simply oozing out of the clues. 'In depression (he says, predicting how we lesser setters and solvers might be feeling) there's time for a whiskey – single malt?' Well, I nipped off and enjoyed one before realizing that I was actually being offered a 'single male' – a STAG (so we get sTag in the place of sWag).
Dare I admit it, I am actually beginning to enjoy the cartes blanches. Those four thirteen-letter words around the perimeter were a gift, then the grid made sense with only four rows left to sort out before I had slotted in a single clue. Splitting the across clues in the centre suggested that 7 and 31 down were going to share that centre letter (as they did, ARAGORN – R in Aragon, taking the upper half of the ultimate N and LANOLIN, 'LA' and 'lin' around 'no' fitting in below). The two letter clues were surprising, but clearly the reason would emerge for an obvious TA ('return last couple of meat shanks – for 'thanks') and MO ('Way of working ' – Modus operandi' – a pit – for 'bit').
Those two illustrate the reason for my sheer joy in the solving of this one. The surface reading was flawless and completely deceptive. What about the Lake poet? 'Coleridge, essentially (ERI – his middle letters) English (E) lakeside poet' – gives ERIE, a lakeside port. This magic went on and on with every clue producing a new burst of laughter. 'Spread feed around pig' (3) The grid was telling me that SOW was the answer but could I see the misprint? (Of course, that's to 'spread seed'!) This is what Listener solving should be like! I just wonder how many hours (months? years?) have gone into honing down these gems.
Once Havana and La Floridita had appeared, it was clear that we really were in alcoholic company with none other than Papa Hemingway and it was a short step to the Ritz Bar in Paris and Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West. I like it when there is a penny drop moment half way through the solving that renders the rest of the unsolved clues easier to find. For example, 'Agent's seen to load of things' looked like HOOFER, GOOFER etc. but that Y solved the clue. A DOOFER is a 'thingy' (for things) so we were going to load OF into DOER.
Full grid and a title to hunt for. It was going to be 'resonant' so I didn't waste time looking for The Snows of Kilimanjaro or even The Old Man and the Sea. Do I get my knuckles rapped for saying that I really dislike just about everything Hemingway wrote – just a load of repetitive, self-indulgent maundering. I can hear howls of protest but bet none of the defenders have waded their way through The Old Man and the Sea half a dozen times with bored tenth graders. Even Listener numericals are light relief in comparison.
F,H,B and S in those leftover lights made For Whom the Bell Tolls. And disappointment set in. Was that all there was to it? A bit of a Shackleton letdown? (Well, numpty blogs will have to cease if we ever have a clear ride!)
Shackleton has done it again. Many thanks for all that enjoyment.


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Here we are again, November 1st. If you have anything to do with the adoption world, you know that this is the month that was chosen to focus on all things ADOPTION. For me, it is the month I was born into the world and when my story began.
In my life, my STORY has become my truth, my most precious gift, the weirdest book I have ever read, and the part of me that is also the whole of me.
During this month of NAAM, I hope to share some of my story through my writing here on my blog. It has been a long time since I sat down and shared my thoughts through my writing. I missed my brain and finger connection on the keyboard. I feel rusty.
November 2018, I had this grand idea to write EVERYDAY for 30 days about adoption. Then….. My dad fell. Then he moved into our home. Then he took all my time, worry, attention and love. Then, on July 17, 2019, at 93, he died and my story had a new chapter. I will write about this later this month. There is much to say about losing a dad when you are an adopted daughter.
Over the past 2 and 3/4 years, I have grown into a new adopted person. This is generally called, "Coming out of the Fog," by those in the adoptee community. I did not just "come out" of the fog, I was grabbed and yanked out by the truth of my own story. This was a jarring experience. I am still, at times, jarred, but more steady and than ever these days.
I decided early on not to let the story of how I began define me. I decided to be open, be honest, be forthright, be genuine about myself. In short, I have chosen authenticity. I decided my story could help another, so I began to write. I began to speak. I began to look upward and not downward.
In the year of my reunion, 2017, I would have never thought that 2018 would be the year of such changes and metamorphosis in my life. And then, 2019 became such a year of professional and personal growth.
During 2019, I have spoken at 2 Nationwide Conferences (AAC an NACAC) and shared my story and thoughts. I have spoken to a local foster / adopt parent group. I have attended retreats for adoptees. I now have a close circle of dear friends who are also adopted. I co-facilitate and attend a monthly Adoptees Connect group in Las Vegas. I have been on he Adoptees On podcast.
I have not been shy about speaking up and speaking out with my adoptee voice. This is a voice I never knew was inside of me.
I will continue to build a Therapy Practice in Las Vegas for the adoption community so that the Adoption Constellation has access to Adoptee / Adoption competent therapy. Look out 2020.
And, all of this has taught me about myself. My inner strength. My deep compassion for adoptees. My desire for self compassion. My need for connection. My love of life, despite life's difficulties.
What can you do to support adoptees during November (and beyond)?
- Listen without interruption or correction
- Support them, wherever they are in their journey
- Don't say "well meaning" statements – such as "you must be so grateful, you are so lucky a good family took you in, who are your real parents?well, at least you she didn't get an abortion….." (Yes, I have heard all of these statements)
- Don't make "Gotcha Day" shirts for your family to wear when a child is bring adopted into your family. That child is not a possession and they lost everything to be part of your family.
- Seek out Adoptee blogs and websites to
- Listen to Adoptees On podcast http://www.adopteeson.com
- Read Dear Adoption letters – http://www.dearadoption.com
- Be a friend to an adoptee – everyday.
- Come back and read this blog often
- Just listen (did I mention Listen?)


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Generally, when the binding site of a protein is known and a molecule is similar to known ligands, traditional docking methods are rather accurate in the prediction of the interaction. Unfortunately, when the binding site is unknown, the blind docking analysis requires large computational resources and the results are usually not accurate.
What's new
Yada is a new tool for molecular docking that is capable to distribute efficiently calculations onto general purposes computer grid and that combines biological and structural information of the receptor. Yada is available for Windows and Linux.
Piotto, S., Di Biasi, L., Fino, R., Parisi, R., & Sessa, L. (2016). Yada: a novel tool for molecular docking calculations. Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 30(9), 753-759.


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Thanks to your support 446 cats and kittens from our North Melbourne and Campaspe shelters are now spending these cold winter days with their new families. Since the beginning of the Share the Warmth campaign we have seen:
According to North Melbourne Shelter Manager Alisa, the response from the community to the campaign has been fantastic, but there are still a large number of cats and kittens waiting to find their forever home.
"Despite the great response from the community we are still finding that the moment a cat or kitten is adopted, there is another waiting to take its place.
"On top of this, we also have a number of cats who have been up for adoption for 100 days or more, including Lion King from North Melbourne, who has been available for adoption for 100 days and Dudley from Campaspe who has been looking for his forever home for 231 days," said Alisa.
Even if you are unable to adopt a cat or kitten from the Home, there are still ways you can help us continue to find new families for the cats and kittens in our care, including advocating for the animals in our care.
"Spreading the word through social media, or word of mouth, is a great way to let people know about the benefits of adopting a companion animal through a shelter or rescue group.
"We want the community to continue to spread the word so the animals in our care can go on to find loving homes and receive the love, care and attention they deserve," said Alisa.
To view all the cats and dogs up for adoption visit dogshome.com
Even though Share the Warmth has ended, you can still help us find homes for the cats and kittens in our care.
Adopt: View our terrific range of cats and kittens awaiting adoption at dogshome.com/cat-adoption. You can also come down to our shelters at North Melbourne and Campaspe to meet our fantastic felines in person. Our staff are keen to find you your perfect match!
Foster: We are always on the lookout for foster carers to care for our cats and kittens for an average of two to four weeks. This is a terrific way to give a cat some much needed time out in a normal home environment, while creating vital space at our shelters. All expenses are covered and successful foster candidates will be notified within two weeks of applying. For more information visit our foster care page.
Advocate: Can't adopt or foster? Why not advocate for an adoption candidate currently seeking a home? Share adoption candidate profiles via your Facebook page, email or via good old word of mouth.


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The London Sperm Bank has banned donors with dyslexia as well as other neurological conditions so that it can "minimize the risk of transmitting common genetic diseases." Critics slam this as 'eugenics'.
The largest sperm bank in Britain is facing eugenics accusation after refusing to accept donation from dyslexic donors to 'minimize genetic diseases or malformations' in new born children.


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Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Thoughts on Page 3 and 'No More Page 3'
One of the primary ideas of feminism is that men and women are equal. In practice people can have loads of arguments about whether or not this is true, but usually people who argue men and women aren't equal are confusing the word 'equal' with 'exactly the same'. Broadly speaking there are quite a few differences between men and women, some related to biology and some perhaps influenced more by social factors, although it's unclear to what extent this might be so.
For example, in the UK most football fans are male. To what extent this is because football is 'naturally' more appealing to males than females is unclear. It may be that throughout childhood boys are encouraged to take an interest in playing and watching football to a far greater extent than girls to the point that this could totally explain the disparity. Or perhaps it's other factors - as a male-dominated space football might be openly hostile to women, or maybe men like being given the opportunity to run around being a football hooligan.
Even if you think those suggestions are totally wrong and the only possible explanation is in hormones and brain chemistry, it would be hard to argue that men and women aren't of equal worth as human beings. Not exactly rocket science.
Another obvious difference between men and women is apparent in their bodies. In many ways men are similar: they both have arms and legs and heads and shoulders and bums, but there are a few differences. Men tend to have a cock and balls, and women have something between their legs too terrifying to describe . Women also have long hair on their heads, and men have short hair - oh wait a minute, I think that might be one of those social factor things I was talking about earlier. Maybe. Men and women both have nipples, women with breast tissue underneath and men without, although some men can develop a sort of chest cleavage of their own if they go to the gym loads. (See below.)
Because they've developed to feed babies with milk, women's nipples are generally a bit bigger than men's I think, but they basically look the same otherwise. So why, how can it possibly be, that women's nipples are more offensive, or sexual, or for the eyes of adults only, than men's?
Let's just imagine a male version of page 3:
I don't know who this guy is, but I just found him on a Google image search for 'man in underwear', with the highest level of safesearch on. Looking at this, it reminds me of an image I saw plastered all over billboards a while ago.
Oh yeah - an advert for pants. That we're happy to see plastered on shop windows and billboards, without provoking hysterical responses that these were supposed to be 'family shop windows' or 'family billboards', or that perhaps the seductive look in David Beckham's eye will lead to excessive horniness in adult women and the early sexualisation of young boys who will think they have to get loads of awful tattoos in order to emulate him.
Like I said, Page 3 is sexist. Defending it as 'a celebration of the beauty of youth' or something doesn't excuse the very obvious fact that if you choose to only celebrate the beauty of one gender then you're being sexist.
But porn it ain't.
Categorising women's nipples as more obscene than men's does not help women. And if anything, makes life a lot more difficult for a subset of women: those with young children who wish to breastfeed in public. Women are routinely harassed for this by members of the public, or even by political columnists on Twitter.
Everyone knows print and broadcast media are still very sexist. If you want to get into the papers and you're a woman you have to be Kate Middleton or Madeleine McCann. Or Mary Beard, but only so that they can report the fact that people on a messageboard had photoshopped your face onto a vulva. TV comedy shows routinely have no women on a panel of six. Or congratulate themselves for occasionally having two women on a panel of six, despite the fact they also have a male host. BBC Radio Four regularly has more male guests than female ones. Even with Woman's Hour on six days a week, there are still far more male voices than female.
In this climate I can see why lots of women don't like Page 3. To them, it symbolises what's wrong with British media. The No More Page 3 campaign is gaining momentum, picking up media attention and even Rupert Murdoch has said maybe it's had its day.
Well, fine. As someone who only very rarely pays actual money for a print newspaper, and has probably been on holiday to Dorset more times than I've bought a copy of The Sun, I can't exactly say I'll miss it. Maybe some of its readers will, and they'll have to move to the Daily Star. Maybe for a while some feminists will make a point of buying The Sun to congratulate old Rupert on finally joining the sisterhood.
Will the nation have lost anything? No. But to me, this whole thing seems as much like puritanism as it does feminism.
I'm reminded of the scene in the pilot of Malcolm in the Middle, when a topless Lois opens the front door to a startled reaction from one of her son's teachers. "They're just boobs, lady," she says. "You see them in the mirror every morning, and I'm sure yours are a lot nicer than mine."
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What you fail to factor in is the response of men to the images on page 3 and the impact that has on women.ReplyDelete
Every day, as they read the Sun, a crowd of builders would shout obscene comments at me and my fellow female students as we went in and out of college for the three years it took them to build an extension in Kensington Gore.
I had to stop taking a particular route to college at Cockfosters because the tube train driver (with his copy of the Sun folded up on the dashboard) harassed me every day when I got off the train at the terminus.
There are hundreds of anecdotes by women about how page 3 has a detrimental effect on them. Whether it's men openly leering at the images, masturbating underneath the newspaper or flashing at schoolgirls.
Basically it's soft porn served up in a publication that is acceptable to look at in the workplace and in public. It's the everyday nature of these images sandwiched between what the Sun likes to call news that's so offensive. And it makes some men behave as if all women are pieces of meat available to be groped, pawed, verbally abused and humiliated. I very much doubt that men would suffer in the same way if soft porn pictures of men were put into the Sun. In general women just don't behave that way, and if they do they're just as disgusting as men who do.
Also the text and ethos accompanying the pictures is very patronising about the models and about women in general. So a woman raising objections to the images is vilified in the most horrible way – described as fat, ugly, sour, jealous.Replies
I just don't think you can say that the men who harass women do so because they read The Sun. What you're saying reminds me of the hysteria surrounding violence being related to people playing video games or listening to rock music.Delete
Anpther blogger wrote about page 3 today and I've just been reading the comments, and here's something I've stolen. "page 3 is a symptom of sexism, not a cause."
The images are there for the purpose of sexual titillation, it is categorised as soft-porn. Mens chests and women's breasts are different. I would compare a woman showing her breasts to a man showing his balls (but not his dick). Also the campaign has no problem with Nipples or nudity just the daily objectification of women, they are simply questioning the appropriateness, or not, of having such images in a Newspaper. Have a look at the everyday sexism project and hopefully you will see what happens when we tolerate casual forms of sexism in our daily press.....the little things add up to a big problem.ReplyDelete
The Sun is not the cause of an environment of sexism and sexual harassment, but it contributes to it by the juxtaposition of soft porn and the every day, and so giving 'permission' to men to shout 'look at the jugs on that' to any passing woman. I don't know how men would feel if they were on the receiving end of that kind of humiliation, but I can tell you that as a woman it felt awful. So it seems to me that getting rid of page 3 would be one small way to show that this way of regarding women is unacceptable in this day and age.ReplyDelete
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We started off our Saturday getting stuck at the boat launch (which is just a gravel bar) because my 4 Wheel Drive went out in my truck. With prideful heads, we tried every attempt we could think of and just continued to dig ourselves deeper. We tried reverse, using boards to drive on, pushing and even jacking it up and putting a MATTRESS under it to hopefully gain traction (that was a bad fail and we ended up sling-shotting a mattress from under our wheels). We finally swallowed our pride and decided to ask a couple others that were launching if they could pull us out.
After asking a couple people with "trucks too small" and "transmission problems", we came across the kindest group of anglers ever! James Mitchell and his friends assured me that they would get me out. No questions asked, no hesitation, they forgot about the rush at the launch, the others that may be before them and came right over to help out some fellow anglers. They got us out easily with one try and I felt so blessed and grateful that I had to fight back my tears of joy. I know how anxious we can get at the launch at daylight and how hard it is to stop what you're doing and help someone else but they did it without question.
My expectations of the day were different now and I didn't care if I even landed a fish. I had just encountered a rare form of generosity that was greatly needed and I was able to fish instead of sitting and waiting for a tow truck that I couldn't afford. The fishing and weather were terrible, but our boat was all smiles and laughs. There were some positive vibes with us and as we neared the end of our drift with no fish in the boat and soaked to the bone, we decided to pull plugs in the last hole.
within a few minutes, we were hooked up! Back to it, hooked up again! One more try and one more king to get our limit on kings! It was clear which side was getting hit so I swapped seats with Jake and when we were just getting ready to call it quits, BAM! Taking me out 130ft TWICE, we limited on kings just as we got to the takeout.
With all the rain, we were forced to take out the sled on Sunday and hit a different coastal river and weren't quite as lucky. The weather was awesome, company just as good, but no fish. We fished near some awesome high school boys that were doing exactly what teenage boys should be doing and having a blast. It was refreshing to see good 'ol fashion kids playing and fishing outside and hey! We made it both in and out of the boat launch today!
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We had one last hoorah before we go in full force for hunting season! We'll be gone for 2 weeks and we might come back to do a little salt water fishing, but I'm glad we got to squeeze in one day for fishing before we re-gear our minds for animals
It was an awesome bite in the morning but it quickly died off and with a lot of other angler pressure, we struggled to find places to fish that w=had fish in them. We released about 5, 2 in the box, and lost who knows how many!
It was a great day none the less and we had a lot of laughs and got to spend the day with a good friend we haven't seen in a while. My first passion is definitely fishing and all the preparation that goes into hunting has left me aching for some more time on the water and I couldn't have asked for a better day today.
Good luck to all you ladies fishing the next 2 weeks and hopefully the next time I'm on here, I'll have a freezer full of Elk
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After seeing everyone else catch huge Buoy 10 fish and limits by 8 AM, we finally got to get out of the mountains (elk scouting) and hit the water!
Saturday morning we trolled above the Astoria bridge and got 4/6 of our kings. Once the tide slacked out, we headed down river and fished below the bridge to find 2 more kings and hopefully a few silvers! Since there are so many native silvers and they can't be retained, we don't target coho and most of the time, head for the launch after we get our kings. With the water so warm, coho have a very difficult time surviving period let alone after being hooked, landed, netted, de-hooked, and then released. We tend to find wild coho floating down the river because their mortality rate is so high. So, we really just needed 2 more kings and we were done
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The Serpent Is Still Crafty
Holy Watchfulness
As you begin the new year, it is wise to look back at last year to see areas of success, failure, and the need for improvement in your spiritual life. Regardless of how great your year was, you have sins that need to be repented of. There are temptations that need more diligence in guarding against.
Being watchful against sin means knowing when temptation arises and having a plan for how to fight. One way is to look closely at the cycle of temptation in order to develop a battle plan. Since temptation is a part of the fabric of life for the believer, it is wise to understand a general pattern for temptation.
5 Steps In The Path of Sin and Temptation
In Genesis 3:1-7, we see Eve faced with temptation from the "crafty" serpent who is later called "the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan" (Rev. 20:2). Taking a closer look at his tactics will reveal a lot about the process of temptation. As you read, consider how you've seen this progression in your own life.
1. The Word of God is twisted and contradicted. (Gen. 3:1-4)
Satan asks Eve tricky questions to trip her up and bring confusion: "Did God actually say?", "You will not surely die". Sometimes—because our flesh is weak—Satan doesn't even have to prompt such twisting. Men often twist the scriptures to their own destruction (2 Peter 3:16). This first layer of temptation is especially dangerous for those who are lax in their devotional lives, especially Bible reading and prayer. If we don't have a steady diet of daily bread, we will be anemic Christians in times of temptation.
2. A convincing argument is made against God and the meaning of His Word. (Gen. 3:5)
Satan offers a convincing argument for his contradiction and paints God as keeping something from Eve. This happens so often and so subtly. For example, "Be angry and do not sin" gets turned into, "you have the right to be angry, so your response can't be sinful! Even Jesus turned over tables and beat people with whips!". See how assumptions turn into facts and allow us to justify sin?
You can also see Satan sneakily throw shade at God: "For God knows that when you eat...you will be like God." It's like Satan said, "See Eve! He's keeping something from you! He doesn't want you to be happy or live your life to the fullest! Break free from this bondage and really find out what it means to be in the image of God!" Again, craftiness at it's best.
3. The contradiction and argument are embraced. (Gen. 3:6)
Eve thought enough about Satan's argument to change her mindset about the tree. She set her mind on the flesh (Rom. 8:6). She began to covet what she didn't need rather than appreciate the forest around her, leading her into idolatry (Col 3:5). The fruit appealed to the flesh, eyes, and pride of life (1 John 2:16).
How often are we settled in our convictions about a sin only to conjure up some strange reason for why we might not have to fight it after all. For example: "It's only lust if you look twice, right?". We hear the lie, consider the serpent's logic, and then embrace the contradiction.
4. The sin is committed. (Gen 3:6)
Eve took of the tree and ate. She embraced the lie of Satan so much that she threw away God's command like yesterday's trash. When we get to the point of committing sin, it may not always be as conscious and certainly not as willful, but we all still take this step and make this choice. We can never say, "the devil made me do it!". James 1:14 is clear that when we sin, it is due to being "lured and enticed" by our "desire". Eve demonstrated this clearly when she saw that the tree was "to be desired to make one wise" (Gen. 3:6).
Sadly, we often sin with that anxious feeling in our stomachs because we've wrestled with it, but ultimately saw fruit that seemed more glorious than God. We must fear this lest we be "hardened by the deceitfulness of sin" (Heb. 3:13).
5. Others are invited to partake in, or are supported in, their committing of the sin. (Gen 3:6)
Finally, Eve gave some fruit to Adam (who was with her!), and he ate. Even in our "secret" sins, we often try to convince others that it's not such a big deal, or we partake in sins that involve others. In turn, we "give approval to those who practice them" (Rom 1:32).
Consider the sin of gossip. You've heard more than you should have, or you know about a situation more than others. You know you shouldn't ask for more details or get into the nitty gritty of what you know. In that moment you could be honest and say, "You know, this is moving into gossip, I'm sorry. Please forgive me." Instead, you give the details with a perceived sense of concern or righteous anger, but you really just enjoy the conversation. Now you've brought others into sin with you. Replace with gluttony, along with many other sins, and you can see the same outcome.
A Beam of Hope
While some Bible readers spend much time trying to determine what the fruit was, what it meant for Eve to talk to the serpent, what the nature of her sin was, etc., it is more important to realize that we are weak and need help in the time of temptation. Jesus, our great High Priest, was "in every respect, tempted as we are, yet without sin" (Heb. 4:15). As we behold the glory of Christ, we are being transformed into His image (2 Cor 3:18). We are only able to fight temptation if we have trusted in Christ as our Savior and are walking in the power of the Holy Spirit.
In your temptation, rely on the Spirit and look to Christ. Before your temptation, behold Christ's glory by drinking deeply from the rich well of scripture. If you fall into sin, trust that He is interceding for His sheep and has paid for sin once-for-all for those who have placed faith in Him. Christ is the headcrusher of the serpent, and He is our very present help in time of need (Ps. 46:1).
Next time, Lord willing, we will look at fighting temptation the way that Jesus did.
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In a few hours from now, in less than two hours to be precise, Apple will launch the iPhone X along with the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus. These will be the Apple phones for this year, competing with the high-end Android phones like the Galaxy S8 and the Google Pixel. Apple will unveil the phones at an event in its newly-minted campus in Cupertino at a theater named after its iconic co-founder Steve Jobs. At the iPhone launch event, Apple is also expected to reveal a new Apple TV that supports 4K content, a new Apple Watch 3 that supports LTE connectivity and even an iPod Touch if a credit card website is to be believed.
As it is common before the launch of new Apple products, the Apple online store is already offline. It is supposed to come back online after the iPhone X event comes to a close around 12 midnight. The new iPhones -- iPhone X, iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus -- are expected to come to India in October, before Diwali on October 19.
As India Today Tech wrote earlier, the star of today's Apple show is likely to be the iPhone X. This is the phone with which Apple is going to mark the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. The original iPhone was launched in 2007. It was game-changing device, which brought the large-screen smartphone revolution in the market. Now Apple will be hoping that the iPhone X will do the same, although in what way is something that needs to be seen. So far every indication is that even though the iPhone X will be a special iPhone, it may look fairly similar to other high-end Android phones like the Galaxy S8 and HTC U11 in its feature set.
In terms of specifications and features nothing is final yet. But a lot of information has trickled from usual sources. Some of this iPhone X related information has appeared on websites like Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal. While some of it has been revealed by Apple analysts such as Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at KGI Securities. More information about the special iPhone has come from Apple's own iOS 11 software that contains clues about the upcoming device.
The information revealed so far paints an intriguing image of the upcoming iPhone X. Although the phone is going to be a special-edition iPhone, and without doubt the most high-tech iPhone ever launched, it is likely to come with many features that have already become common in the world of Android. Of the particular note is going to be the new screen technology and cameras in the iPhone X.
iPhone X specs
The iPhone X is going to come with AMOLED display measuring 5.8 inches, reveal the leaks that have surfaced on the web so far. This will make the iPhone X the iPhone with biggest screen so far. The other big iPhone, the iPhone 8 Plus, is likely to come with the 5.5-inch screen.
The screen in the iPhone X is going to be edge-to-edge, although it may not reach the kind of bezel-less looks that Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, which was launched just yesterday in China, sports. Yet, it is possible that the iPhone X will have a display that has bezels thin enough to be comparable to a phone like the LG V30 or LG G6. The iPhone X screen may have a resolution of 2436 X 1125 pixels that will make it an iPhone with the sharpest display ever.
Along with new display technology -- for an iPhone -- Apple's latest phone is also likely to come with a new design. The phone will have an all-glass design supported by a metal frame. This means both the rear cover and the screen (obviously) will have a layer of glass. The iPhone X is said to come with features like Face ID, a fancy Apple term for 3D face scanning and wireless charging.
The iPhone X is also expected to be powered by Apple's A11 processor, with four cores inside it (although there is talk of six cores too) and the iOS 11, which has some special software features related to augmented reality. The iPhone X will have a dual-camera system with a 12-megapixel sensor.
iPhone X India launch, prices and variants
Currently, there are no details about the iPhone X India launch. After tonight's unveiling in the US, the iPhone X is likely to go on sale from around September 20. In India, the phone is expected to come before Diwali, although rumours have already started floating that it may even come in the month of September itself.
There are going to three variants of the iPhone X, or at least that is what has been rumoured. The iPhone X 64GB is likely to cost $999, the iPhone 256GB will cost $1099 while the most expensive variant with price of $1199 could be the iPhone X 512GB. In India, the price of the iPhone X is will be definitely around Rs 90,000 and chances are that it may even cross Rs 1 lakh.
It is expected that the iPhone X will have a limited availability, at least in the beginning. Kuo has estimated that Apple's manufacturing partners in China are making 10,000 units of the iPhone X per day. But given the demand for iPhones, that may not be enough. This time around it is also looking like that Apple will bring -- or rather will have to bring -- the iPhone to India far sooner after the global launch than it traditionally has. Usually for the iPhone launch, the company chooses time around Diwali. This time Diwali, which is on October 19, is just weeks away.
iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus for masses
Although much information has been leaked or revealed about the iPhone X, the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus remain somewhat mysterious. Not much is known about their specifications but the chances that are that these two phones, which replace the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, in the company's lineup will be cheaper than the iPhone X.
In fact, the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus may cost similar to what the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus do, which is between Rs 60,000 and Rs 70,000.
It is expected that the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus will have core hardware similar to that of the iPhone X. But the design and screen will be the major differences between the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X.
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Nearly half of registered voters say "the economy and jobs" is the most important issue in their decision about whom to support for president, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds.
Forty-eight percent of these voters cited "the economy and jobs," an increase of eight points from one month ago. That's more than 30 percentage points higher than the second most cited issue, "terrorism and national security," cited by 14 percent of registered voters. Another ten percent pointed to "gas prices and energy," while an equal number pointed to health care. Just 8 percent of registered voters cited the war in Iraq.
The poll was conducted between September 12th and 16th, a period of days that was witness to the collapse of Lehman Brothers - the largest bankruptcy in the history of the country - followed by the largest one-day stock market plunge in seven years.
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Americans have a slightly more optimistic view of the economy than they did a month ago, but they remain extremely pessimistic. Only 22 percent of Americans say the condition of the national economy is even somewhat good, and six in 10 think the economy is getting worse, not better. About a third of all Americans say they are worse off now than four years ago, and one in five say they are falling behind financially.
Barack Obama rates slightly higher than John McCain in voter confidence in handling the economy, though most voters are at least somewhat confident in both candidates. Sixty percent of voters are very or somewhat confident in Obama's ability to handle the economy, while 53 percent say the same of McCain. Forty-six percent say they are not too confident or not at all confident in McCain, while 39 percent have that opinion of Obama.
Thirty-nine percent of Americans describe the state of the economy as "very bad," down two points from August. Sixty-one percent say it is getting worse, up three points from two months ago.
One in three Americans says their family's financial situation is worse than it was four years ago. Twenty-nine percent say their family's financial situation has improved, while 36 percent say it hasn't changed.
Thirty-seven percent of Americans say they are making enough to save or buy extras. But 44 percent are making just enough to get by, and 17 percent say they are not making enough to pay their bills and meet their other financial obligations.
The unemployment rate has risen steadily over the past year and a half, and in August it rose above 6 percent for the first time in five years. Twenty-nine percent of Americans say that someone in their household has been out of work and looking for a job at some point within the last twelve months. This percentage has been generally consistent over the past twenty-five years during periods of recession and economic hard times.
One in five say they are very concerned that someone in their household will be out of work in the next twelve months, and another one in four are somewhat concerned. More than half are not concerned at all.
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1133 adults nationwide, including 1004 registered voters, interviewed by telephone September 12-16, 2008. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample and registered voters could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.


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"I was just tremendously confused," said one Tinder user who saw Richard Leonard MSP pop up while she was searching for a date.
Richard Leonard, one of two contenders to become the next leader of Scottish Labour, is searching for support on Tinder.
The MSP, who's up against Anas Sarwar in the election to replace Kezia Dugdale, has been surprising Tinder users across Scotland by popping up on the dating app to encourage them to sign up as Scottish Labour members and back him.
Alice Eyre from Glasgow told BuzzFeed News she was "tremendously confused" when she saw the trade unionist appear on her Tinder app while she was looking for a date, but said the bold advertising move worked.
"I was just tremendously confused," said Eyre. "Like, Richard Leonard doesn't strike me as a man looking for support on Tinder so seeing his campaign advertise him on there was definitely odd.
"I can confirm I did swipe right. I used to vote Conservative but will happily vote Labour if he were to become leader – he seems honourable and fair."
However, she added: "The person I was speaking to saw I posted [about Leonard] and has now stopped talking to me because I was on Tinder while we were talking. So Richard Leonard has ruined a potential relationship."
When contacted by BuzzFeed News, the Leonard campaign said: "We have paid for Facebook advertising, this automatically places the ads onto the apps that people are most likely to see it, including Instagram and Messenger.
"It shows our campaign is firing up plenty of enthusiasm, with the majority of Labour CLPs [constituency Labour parties] swiping right to choose Richard as the next leader of Scottish Labour."
A source on the Anas Sarwar campaign said: "The only date we're interested in is the date we remove Nicola Sturgeon from office and elect a Scottish Labour government that will rescue our NHS, lift 50,000 kids out of poverty, and fight to keep the UK in the single market."


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In this podcast we get deep into our newest member's modality and specialty – Rapid Transformational Therapy with Rolisa Camille, the only RTT Therapist and Coach in Bermuda. The team has received many questions, such as: What is RTT? How does it work? What does it feel like? and What makes it so transformative? So we took this opportunity to answer some of those questions, with a very cool twist, through the vantage point of someone who has experienced a session – our own Beth Hollis. Beth gets real about her session on wealth and abundance, sharing details about her unique experience. She also gives powerful advice about what you can expect to experience as well. We also dispel some of the common myths about hypnosis and explain what makes this therapy so transformative. We know RTT is taking the world by storm as it transforms and heals people's lives! You won't want to miss this if you are considering having an RTT session or if you want to finally let go of old, limiting beliefs and start to live the life you truly desire!! Enjoy 🙂
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"As a new website communication channel for us, we wanted to try out live chat without making a huge commitment," said Karen Silvers, social media director for Surfaces USA. "I'm the primary person interacting with our clients through chat at this point, and the web client enables me to access the program from the office or home. In just one month, we've seen the value of offering chat to our customers and prospects."
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The web client is now generally available to Bold Software customers using any version of the live chat product, including BoldChat Basic, Pro or Premier and all versions of BoldCCM. In just a few simple steps – even fewer for existing customers – website owners are up and running, ready to view website visitors and chat with them via the web client.
The interface was specifically designed to reduce training costs even though it includes all the powerful features offered by Bold Software. Agents have all the chat tools they've come to rely on including auto-spell checking, push page, and real time supervisory coaching. A limited set of administrative functions are also supported including the creation of new agents.
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Shifting Perspective: The Kairos Blanket Exercise
Yesterday I, and approximately 40 of my colleagues, attended a Kairos Blanket Exercise at our work place. The activity moved me deeply and, although I am still processing my feelings, I can state unequivocally that it was time well spent. My personal and professional life will, I hope, never be the same.
The Blanket Exercise is an interactive journey through the history of colonization in Canada, with the participants becoming completely immersed within an indigenous viewpoint. The presenter, an aboriginal person, takes the role of the European colonizer.
I thought I knew the history of Canada pretty well, and I have a great many friends and a few relatives who are aboriginal, so I did not think I was going to learn anything new. But I found myself gasping out loud as new pieces of information were given. The audacity and the cruelty of my country stunned me.
But it was not the new knowledge that impacted me the most. It was the realization that my world view was skewed. You see, I am a child of the '60's. When I was growing up, many of my friends and adopted relatives were aboriginal. They had been taken away from their families in what is now known as the '60's Scoop. At the time, it seemed like the right thing to do. The kids I knew had loving, caring adoptive families. They had, according to what I was told at the time, been taken away from abusive situations and "saved" by being placed into white foster and adoptive homes. Wasn't that the right thing to do, for the child? Who wouldn't want to leave a life of poverty, dysfunction and hopelessness for a chance at succeeding in the larger world? Wasn't it better to assimilate? I read those words now and they give me a sick feeling in my gut. What my people – settlers and descendants of setters had done: years and years of purposeful attempts, official and unofficial, to commit genocide, to destroy families and whole nations. I felt ashamed, embarrassed and angry.
Recently I was back on the prairies, visiting my sister and her friend. The friend had a Dutch last name but was, as far as she knew, the only aboriginal person living in our town. She spoke of the loneliness, the sense of not belonging, the realization that she had no one to turn to when she wanted to find out more about her culture. She felt lost. Now, in her fifties, she is finally beginning a healing process and receiving assistance in finding herself. I thought of her as I meditated during the Blanket Exercise. What was wrong was not that she had been saved from abuse. What was wrong was that she was not allowed to stay within her culture. What was wrong was that her adoptive family, like many other foster and adoptive homes, was not a happy, healthy family and she suffered because of it. What was wrong was that her aboriginal parents had never been given a chance to learn how to parent within their own culture, as they themselves were taken away from their parents, abused and neglected in residential schools, then put back on reserves, broken inside and out. What was wrong was that their parents were forced on to reserves and had their land stolen from them. What was wrong was that before those parents, whole communities were intentionally wiped out by accepting the gifts of blankets infested with small pox. What was wrong was that the children of the '60's were robbed of their culture as much and as cruelly as their parents before them, as their parents before them, as their parents before them...
I have learned Truth. Now I must do what I can, in work and personally, to Reconcile. If you hear of a Kairos Blanket Exercise, please take the opportunity to participate. You will be glad you did.
Hope Taylor, 4th-year BCR student


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Have you ever wanted to piece a quilt block with many pieces that needed to go in a specific order? Until I started to make a pixelated quilt, I had mostly been able to remember where pieces went and sew them together. Not as easy when your block is comprised of all 2 1/2" squares! Now that I've made quite a few of these blocks, I wanted to share one way to chain piece these blocks while keeping them in order.
First, it is crucial to check your 1/4" seam allowance before you start piecing and anytime you have to come back to the project. Since I need to adjust my needle position to achieve a consistent seam allowance, I have written down my specific settings on a tiny piece of paper taped to my machine so I don't forget.
Step 1:
Layout your pieces according to the pattern. Please take care to check your layout a couple of times. It's the same principle as measure twice, cut once.
Step 2:
I take my block and set it next to my sewing machine. Initially, I put the block on top of a white project board (as seen below) to keep the block together but it got a bit bulky. Now I use my rotating rotary cutter.
Step 3:
Sew together the two left side pairs by placing the top left square right sides together with the second column square and sewing them together. Without cutting your threads, sew the second fabric in the first column to the second fabric in the second column. Don't cut your threads between the rows. Continue sewing the entire column and cut your thread at the very end of the column.
Step 4:
Repeat with the third and fourth column pair to create the center column. (I'm starting my center column in the picture with my sewing machine.) I also don't press between steps. I make all of the columns and then iron after they are done.
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Repeat with the fifth and sixth column pair to create the third right column. Each new column should consist of a pair of squares together. By keeping the threads together, you know what order the squares should stay in. You should have three columns.
Step 6:
Now you are going to sew the columns together. Take the first newly made column and place it right sides together with the second column. Sew together. Again, do not cut the threads in between the squares. The thread is holding together the squares so you know what order they should stay in.
Step 7:
Sew the newly formed column (made up of four squares) to the third column (made up of two squares).
Step 8:
I now press my columns. To illustrate the thread holding together the columns, I took this picture on top of my ironing board. You could press your seams to alternating sides to help piece them together without bulk.
Step 9:
Sew together the newly made rows together like the columns in steps 3-7. Start with the top row right sides together with the second row to make a new row consisting of the top two rows. I also pin together where the seams meet. It's a matter of personal preference but it helps me keep the pieces together as I'm sewing.
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Continue making three rows and then sewing together until all of the rows are sewn together. Make sure to not cut the thread in between each row. You should have a finished block and in the correct order!
I hope you enjoy this tip for chain piecing your quilt blocks! If you would like to see the other fantastic tips in the series, here is the lineup:
Day 1 – August 15 – Sam Hunter: How to spray baste a BIG quilt – www.huntersdesignstudio.com
Day 2 – August 16 – Mandy Leins: Thread Dread: removing stray bits after quilting – www.mandalei.com
Day 3 – August 17 – Nancy Stovall: The Sweet Creamy Filling – www.justquiltingpdx.com
Day 4 – August 18 – Ebony Love: 7 Indispensible feet for your sewing machine – www.LoveBugStudios.com
Day 5 – August 19 – Michelle Freedman: Machine throat plates – www.designcamppdx.blogspot.com
Day 6 – August 20 – Teresa Coates: Edge/Under/Top stitching – www.crinkledreams.com
Day 7 – August 21 – Kelly Cole: Ten ways to regain your sew-jo – www.vintagefabricstudio.com
Day 8 – August 22 – Megan Dougherty: Choose to Fuse: tips for working with fusibles for applique – www.thebitchystitcher.com
Day 9 – August 23 – Kim Lapacek: Tricks to being productive while hauling your kids around – www.persimondreams.blogspot.com
Day 10 – August 24 – Yvonne Fuchs: Circuitboard quilting on Domestic and Longarm Machines – www.quiltingjetgirl.com
Day 11 – August 25 – Sandi Hazlewood: Chain Piecing Quilt Blocks Tips – www.craftyplanner.com
Day 12 – August 26 – Juliet van der Heijden: Paper-piecing with children – www.thetartankiwi.com
Day 13 – August 27 – Maddie Kertay: Fabric folding for any storage solution – www.badassquilterssociety.com
Day 14 – August 28 – Cath Hall: Working with Lawn fabric – www.wombatquilts.com
Day 15 – August 29 – Tracy Mooney: Tips for the perfect seam – www.sewmuchcosplay.com
Day 16 – August 30 – Teri Lucas: How to bury thread – www.terificreations.com
Day 17 – August 31 – Debby Brown: Securing machine quilting knots – www. higheredhands.blogspot.com
Day 18 – September 1 – Flaun Cline: How to put some sparkle in your fabric pull (part 1) – www.ipleadquilty.com
Day 19 – September 2 – Jessica Darling: How to put some sparkle in your fabric pull (part 2) – www.jessicakdarling.com
Day 20 – September 3 – Trish Frankland: A bigger blade really IS better?! – www.persimondreams.blogspot.com
Day 21 – September 4 – Lynn Krawczyk: Build a simple design with hand stitching – www.smudgeddesignstudio.com
Day 22 – September 5 – Jane Davidson: How to make scrappy HSTs – www.quiltjane.com
Day 23 – September 6 – Linda Pearl: Low cost tips for organizing your sewing room – www.onequiltingcircle.com
Day 24 – September 7 – Christa Watson – Top 10 tips for quilting on a domestic machine – www.christaquilts.com
Day 25 – September 8 – Sarah Nunes: To Starch or Not to Starch – www.berrybarndesigns.com
Day 26 – September 9 – Suzy Webster: Testing fabric for bleeding – www.websterquilt.blogspot.com
Day 27 – September 10 – Sarah Goer: Machine bind your quilts like a pro – www.sarahgoerquilts.com
Day 28 – September 11 – Vanda Chittenden: Beginner paper-piecing tips – www.chittenden.co.za
Day 29 – September 12 – Cheryl Sleboda: Needle threading tips – www.muppin.com
Day 30 – September 13 – Kim Niedzwiecki – Different thread weights and when to use them – www.gogokim.com
Day 31 – September 14 – Sandra Healy: Conquer Your Fear of Machine Appliqué – www.sandrahealydesigns.com
Day 32 – September 15 – Sandra Starley: The Basics of Antique Quilt Collecting – www.utahquiltappraiser.blogspot.com


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I'm just going to say it: It drives me up the wall how many people talk to me about health, hoping I have a magic bullet to offer them for why they are suffering with chronic ailments, who haven't ever bothered to organize a comprehensive health test for themselves. Here's the magic bullet: Go and find a quality physician who will help you get those tests ordered. By all means get your standard labs done with a GP, but I'm talking about tests that can give you a far more complete story of what is happening in your body.
That reaction is probably just a reflection that there are a number of people in my life whom I really care about, who despite an obviously urgent need to make that happen, simply do not do so... for seemingly endless numbers of years. It sounds cold - the truth is I relish opportunities to help people feel better, who wouldn't? I've got a well of energy for people who are all in on themselves if there's something I can offer. If they're just looking for a shortcut and don't really want to help themselves, though, for me that's both energy-sapping and very frustrating.
The regrettable truth is that especially in the years when I was most unwell, there've been people in my life that I effectively weighed down by being that way. I tried not to as best as I could, but to some extent it was inevitable – particularly my family and some people I was very close to. It might feel good to remind yourself of the times you made those people laugh, or the intimate moments you shared, but to do that is to deny reality. As I see it, in a way you can only be one of two things to someone you spend time with: a spark, or a drain. If you don't feel like you're offering a spark, then there's no way around what that means.
Does this mean you should avoid all people until you are full of vitality? Of course not; that's a fatal trajectory to take. In my eyes it means you have an unending responsibility to do the best you can. To share your difficulties, to be open, to be positive. If you show people that getting well matters to you, they'll care about you in return; in the moments where your determination to improve shines through, you'll have the opposite effect to weighing people down.
I rest peacefully now, knowing that throughout the struggle, I've given everything I've had in attempting to heal, and to bringing good energy to those around me. In truth, the relationships that suffered were between two people, neither providing spark to the other. It's easy to overly blame ourselves when we're at our lowest, assessing our presence as a burden to others – however, with those in my life who presented a spark, the relationships stayed fantastic.
To try your hardest is all that can be asked. Not to, to me, seems egregiously indecent.
One of the main tests my doc has had me regularly getting done is the 'NutrEval Plasma' with Genova Diagnostics (far from the only good option). I understand that tests like this are regrettably expensive, but what could possibly be more important? With the vast amount of information that they can give you, saying that even getting it done once could be life changing should be too obvious to mention. Of course, it's just as important to have a quality physician who can assess the results with you, as it is to get it done in the first place.
I had a test done in August after the WSOP, and although many markers were far from ideal, many were in fantastic shape - hugely improved on a year previous. That figures, given that I'd enjoyed myself a lot throughout the WSOP, and felt it was the best level that I had performed at.
From there began a more intensive dedication to fitness and tennis back in Melbourne, and as mentioned in a previous article, I progressively seemed to struggle with it more and more. Whilst there were so many exciting changes and improvements, I was concurrently having confounding issues with sleep (something I've poured so much energy into over the years), mood, energy levels, injury niggles not healing and so on. With so many new variables and moving parts to my treatment and fitness program, I probably blamed 15 things as the culprit causing the symptoms... only to then rule them out and be blaming something else the next day.
No doubt everything is multifactorial, but I'm certainly glad my doc suggested getting another NutrEval done in December. Given that I was pinning the blame on other things, I wasn't sure it was a necessary expense just a few months after the most recent one... but of course it was. When you have so many question marks about how you're feeling – when things aren't quite adding up – there's one solution: test. Get data for heaven's sake.
We went through the results together a week ago and many things stood out, but one in particular: my folate (Vitamin B9) had gone from a healthy level to extremely low. I'd rapidly become anaemic! Perhaps this should have been on my radar given it's not the first time, but as I'll keep saying: it's too hard to know what's going on without testing. Having been outdoors so much in the summer sun, pale skin hadn't shown up as a symptom, so it wasn't on my radar. Unsurprisingly, there are links between anaemia and all of my symptoms, including insomnia (it's multifactorial again though, of course!).
It's a bit frustrating to have 'lost' some time in part because of something like this, but it's cool; there's always growing pains with a radical life change, so I'm just excited to see what sort of difference our new supplement plan will make. Given that my diet is far from terrible and not short in folate, and I already supplement with folic acid in a B Complex, it figures that my body is having some enzymatic difficulty converting it to the active methylfolate form... not having a colon really complicates some of these things. It's going to be so valuable having this insight about how my body reacts to intense exercise moving forward.
It's time for me to get back to training. And perhaps it's high time for you to go and get bloody tested!
Signing off,