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…and lots and lots of cheese perfectly describe our time together in Mongoliaaaa. If we bonded over anything, it was the inconsistent bowel movements and our unwavering gratitude for the experiences we had (including those moments in two tents with a roll of toilet paper and the steppe, which was much better than any magazine). To be honest, I wasn't expecting to be swept off my feet by the beautiful landscapes, hospitable locals, and genuine connections made with my traveling companions. In the only way I could describe it, Mongolia had some big shoes to fill after my experiences and memories from Baja + Guyana, and it did just that. As comfort levels between individuals rose and the cheese kept coming, I realized how important this place and the people were going to be (and still are today).
Connection is something that I cherish deeply and have found myself seeking on each EE over the years. I have learned from my traveling experiences that the people you meet can enhance the memories and enrich your life in ways you never thought possible. Mongolia provided us with an incredible group of caring, memory-making, adventure-seeking people who are easily considered my second family. I was genuinely surprised by how bonded we became within the first few hours of meeting each other, which was a beautiful feeling. Our in-country hosts were some of the most kind and welcoming individuals I have met, and opened our eyes to their world of music, nature, and culture. They were more than willing to answer our questions and were similarly curious about our lifestyles at home (as well as the ladies' relationship statuses).
With the cohesion of a familial unit came an abundance of "rhubarb moments", happy tears, and open hearts. I tend to consider myself an "extroverted introvert", keeping to myself initially and warming up to others over time, and find more enjoyment in listening than sharing. As challenging as I sometimes found it to open up and express my thoughts with others, there was something about the friendships we cultivated that kept pushing me to trust and open up. They were authentic, true, and special connections. While everyone shared their stories and emotions in different ways, we supported each other just the same, and found happiness and laughter with each other.
Even though we didn't act on our tattoo plans in that beautiful country, the connections and moments we made together are permanently engrained in my memory and close to my heart. We may physically be apart, but remain together, bound by our love for the steppe and each other.
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September 4, 2018 | By: Anthony Ferrier
Over the past few months I have been spending time with a range of Australian companies, getting to better understand their business models and approaches to innovation.
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The increased focus of mature organizations in developing a more innovative culture and set of actions is a crucial opportunity for HR / Talent leaders to play a leadership role. This whitepaper examines a range of actions that HR / Talent leaders can take to drive this strategic imperative.
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In the modern age, we're arguably more obsessed with wealth than ever before. This probably has much to do with the fact that it's becoming increasingly difficult to save in the current climate.
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In the context of business management and economics, innovation has mainly been considered as a source of profit and growth. But innovation can also have a transformative role and recently more and more innovators and entrepreneurs are not only considering the financial returns of their projects, but also the societal impacts that they might bring with them.
January 23, 2018 | By: Eugene Ivanov
Everyone seems to agree that innovation is a risky business: it involves a lot of experimentation, which often ends up in failure. High tolerance for failure therefore can be considered as a major prerequisite for any successful innovation program.
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Just like oil became a valuable commodity in the 20th century, data is also proving to be priceless to companies and business organizations in the 21st century. Data analysis specialists have projected that by the end of 2020, business enterprises will have data amounts equivalent to 44 zettabytes, or 44 trillion gigabytes.
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Medical technology is without a doubt the biggest innovation to the healthcare industry. It can be called the largest driving factor and is a key role in virtually every aspect of healthcare. It's becoming more and more clear that medical technology is influencing the way we are thinking about healthcare—especially patient care and efficiency—and will continue to shape the industry for the foreseeable future.
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It is no secret that Amazon is a titan of industry. Given their tremendous success, they are quite obviously doing more than a few things right. While there are undoubtedly a myriad of different reasons that this company has become the giant that it now is, today we will be taking a look at five of the lessons that other companies can learn from Amazon.
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The real estate industry has always been quite static while facing its own set of challenges and obstacles. However, technological innovations will reshape every industry eventually, real estate included.
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So if this is fun, I have been having a ball most of my life!
True to the game, like most of us I really slammed myself with the deeper belief If I am me, I am going to get in to trouble! Most of my childhood was dedicated to creating that limiting belief!
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Knowing that my human nature is naturally designed to BE pretty much everything I attempted to stop it from being gave me a huge advantage of hiding myself from me. So, for the bulk of my life I have been winning the game of hiding!
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Enter The KoB... without getting into a whole... "this is the story of how we met, etc...," he was the only person I actually knew who had ran the race (Actually, he still might be. haha). I can remember being at a party at Coach Bitch and Cheryl's house in September (of 2010, I think?) and The KoB was there (having just ran the race in August) and I pretty much spent the entire party asking him questions (and getting one word responses back)
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At GD Osteopathy & Sports Massage Enfield we use Kinesio tape to help patients with numerous injuries. The Q and A below will give an insight into Kinesio taping, along with its uses and benefits.
Q. What is Kinesio Tape?
A. Kinesio tape is the coloured sports tape (Black, pink, blue, beige) which is applied to both Athletes and non- Athletes. Kinesio taping was founded in 1973 by Japaneses Chiropractor Dr Kenzo Kase.
Q. What is its purpose?
A. Kinesio tape can help:
- Increase joint motion
- Helps to reduce swelling
- Helps to increase the brain to body connection
- Helps to increase or decrease muscle, ligaments, tendons or fascia tension
- Helps to correct posture
- Increase blood circulation
Kinesio tape is now used more often than traditional rigid tape. Kinesio tape provides "flexible support" that allows the Athlete to move while the tape attached to their muscles and joints. Kinesio tape is elastic, 100% cotton, latex free.
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It is a common thought that bigger penis makes sexual life better and it is true to great extend as it not only make men feel confident physically but emotionally as well. Men who have increased their penis size using penis enlargement techniques have found that their self confidence has also increased. Before you jump into the foray to increase your penis size, you need to know some important facts about penis enlargement.
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- Enlargement pills help in getting hard erection by rushing the blood into the penis, this makes the penis hard and looks longer than normal erections but they do not guarantee permanent growth of you penis.
- Vacuum devices creates vacuum in the penis and pulls the blood into it. However to maintain hardness with this penis enlargement device, you need to put a ring at the base of the penis. Once you start using this device, you will get addicted to it as you will not get erections on your own.
- Weight hanging penis enlargement device uses hanging technique to pull the penis. This system is not recommended because it can be injurious to your penis it not used properly
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Chinook Up But Still Well Below Normalby Greg Johnston
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - April 14, 2005
The question is whether preseason forecast was bad or fish will run late
Spring chinook fishing on the lower Columbia River is finally heating up, with the best catch rates of the season reported over the past several days in the area from Camas upstream to Bonneville and downriver in the Cathlamet area.
However, it might be too late. Officials from Oregon and Washington were scheduled to meet yesterday afternoon to update the run-size forecast and ponder possible fishing restrictions because of continued miserable counts of the fish at the Bonneville dam fish ladder. Through Tuesday, only 199 spring chinook had passed the dam, way below the 10-year average of 26,510 for that date and possibly the lowest count on record. At press time, however, no restrictions had been announced.
Anglers are finally reporting fair to good catches in at least two areas of the river.
"The water did clear up on the lower end, and fishing at Cathlamet has picked up," said Joe Hymer, biologist the Vancouver Department of Fish and Wildlife office. "On Friday, the catch average was about a fish a boat down there, and there have been decent reports the last few days. The (Columbia River) Gorge has been good, too. The gorge and Cathlamet have been about neck and neck."
The dismal counts at Bonneville, however, have prompted concern from fish managers.
"There's quite a bit of internal debate as to whether there's a bunch of fish yet to come or whether the run has been over-forecast," Hymer said.
The preseason forecast is for a solid run of 254,000 fish. The counts are evidence of either a much smaller run or a late run.
Any restrictions should be posted promptly on the agency Web site, wdfw.wa.gov.
At any rate, the tributaries typically stay open even when the main river is restricted, and springer numbers are building in the Lewis, Kalama and Cowlitz rivers. The Kalama reportedly was good last weekend, and it and the Cowlitz both are also producing fair numbers of steelhead, too. With the low dam counts, it is not surprising the key upriver tributaries, Wind River and Drano Lake, are not yet producing fish.
In saltwater salmon fishing, blackmouth seasons are winding down fast, with marine area 9 in north Puget Sound locally closing at the end of the day tomorrow. Over the weekend and through Monday a few fish, including a couple of nice chinook in the 15-pound plus range, were taken at Point No Point. Area 13 in the south sound is open through April 30, but it's been pretty quiet.
In other fishing news:
Halibut season opens today on most inland marine waters, three weeks earlier than in recent years, and it is generating some excitement. Anglers argued for the earlier opener based on the notion, which data reportedly supports, that the big flatfish often move out of the sound and into the Strait of Juan de Fuca in early spring. Marine areas 6-13, basically all of the inland waters east of Low Point in the strait, will open tomorrow, and area 5 in the western strait opens May 26.
"We're hopeful it will be a more successful season," said Bob Ferber at Holiday Market sporting goods in Burlington. "A lot of guys are gearing up for the (offshore) banks like Partridge, Hein and Eastern. I think there is more enthusiasm because of the earlier opener."
Other spots anglers will be hitting, weather allowing, include Useless and Mutiny bays, and the Bombing Range and Fort Casey on the west shore of Whidbey Island.
Ocean halibut seasons open May 1 off Ilwaco and Westport and May 10 off Neah Bay and La Push.
As for other bottomfish, lingcod fishing opens Saturday in area 4 off Neah Bay, and prospects are good. People out fishing for rockfish lately have reported good incidental catches of lings.
Ocean charters off Ilwaco and Westport are also out bottomfishing, weather allowing, and doing well on rockfish and fairly well on lings (which opened in most ocean waters in March).
Trout fishing has been up and down with the barometer, but during stable weather anglers are reporting good catches on most of the eastside quality waters, including the Yakima River, Lake Lenore (for post-spawn but willing Lahanton cuts), and lakes Beda, Dusty, Leniece and Nunnally. Roses and Fish lakes in Chelan County, regular waters with five-fish limits, have also been decent. On this side, many recently planted lakes have been fair to good, including Blackmans and Flowing in Snohomish County. Up north, Pass Lake has been off and on with the weather, and Campbell has been fair.
Steelhead fishing remains open in several north coast rivers and good, while the local catch-and-release fisheries on the Skagit and Sauk also are providing decent catches, although not spectacular. Note that the Hoh, Queets and Upper Quinault close after tomorrow; yesterday the Hoh was high and dirty, and the Queets likely was, too. That will leave the Sol Duc, Bogachiel and Calawah open, all worth the effort.
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Cleanliness drive at Five Gardens area of Matunga, Mumbai
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As a part of the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission and the instructions received from council F.No. 21-46/2014-CDN (Vol.I), Dated 13/09/2017, a major cleanliness drive was arranged at Five gardens, a tourist spot in Mumbai with the special emphasis to remove the non-biodegradable materials. The drive was undertaken in all the five gardens located in the area. In this drive, the staff members of CIRCOT removed the polyethene bags, used water bottles, small polyethene wrappers of gutkha, chocolate etc left out by the tourists. All these non-biodegradable polyethene materials were segregated and disposed properly. The foot path area in the five gardens was also cleaned with broomstick.
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Wisconsin River - The source, Lac Vieux Desert
This is the source of the Wisconsin River at Lac Vieux Desert in Vilas County on January 9, 2012.
And that she goes for the long trek to the Mississippi River.
Lac Vieux Desert is a 4017 acre lake that straddles Wisconsin and Michigan. It is fed by springs in the surrounding swamps. The Wisconsin River drains from the Lac in the southwest corner.
The initial map I showed is a little deceiving, because of its scale, making it look like the river immediately heads to the south. It does not. It's a little hard to see on this satellite image, but once the river flows out of the Lac, it heads to the north-northwest for just less than three miles, then turns to the southwest for a little over two miles, and then to the south, and late in the game, near the Wisconsin Dells, she turns to the west to meet the Big Guy, the Mississippi. She flows through the state for roughly 430 miles.
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This half term we have a new topic, 'Up Above and Down Below'. We visited Greenwich Observatory to explore the topic. Our class friends, Harry Hornbill and Monkey, had told us they would meet us there!
We enjoyed our time in Greenwich learning about Space, and observing our surroundings from 'up above' and 'down below'. Thank you to all of the parents who helped us have a fantastic day!


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NIMH awarded the order through the National Institutes of Health CIO-SP3 IT services contract vehicle. The order covers one base year with four one-year options.
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NIMH is one of 27 institutes and centers within the overall NIH organization.
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Four hours. That's how long, if you're an average Brit, you spend watching television every day. And, if you're not watching the BBC, that means one whole hour of adverts every day.
There's a popular misconception that you don't pay anything when you're watching ITV or one of the free satellite channels. This is bollocks since you pay what amounts to a television tax at the checkouts when you buy the products you see advertised on television. Of course, if you subscribe to Sky you're not only creating the very adverts in the first place, you're also paying for the privilege to watch adverts: a double whammy that seems to be strangely overlooked by licence-fee whingers.
So, an hour of advertising every single day that you're paying for and also paying someone else to watch. Imagine allowing a door-to-door salesman into your home for an hour a day - and you pay him for the privilege. Or standing in front of a load of billboards for an hour every day - you bought them. Or switching on a television channel for the express purpose of being brainwashed by advertisers for an hour every single day - at a fiver per half hour. 365 hours a year. 16 days. Two weeks. Half a month. Every Sunday you might as well go to the cinema for seven hours just to watch adverts and pay for the privilege. Insane.
I wrote this after a walk through Hartlepool's town centre - a north-east conurbation that has been shat on from a great height by government policy, town planning and profiteering private landlords grown fat on the benefits of the feckless, ill, terminally unemployable or luckless.
Shorn of any meaningful industry or trades much of the north-east produces virtually nothing of value these days. Jobs mainly exist to service people and in this environment the requirement to sell stuff - necessarily goods of little or no value bought by people with no money on tick - becomes even greater, because without even this meagre trade even the hellish shopping centres and retail parks would be turned into rubble-strewn £2.50-a-visit parking lots.
Pound shops, value marques, charity outlets and even food banks make up much of the town centre. A friend of a friend runs one of those shops that sells food supplements and herbs. Recently his main supplier told him that he couldn't sell to him any more as he'd become an approved supplier to Holland & Barrett, a place whose clients are nothing if not eclectic, seemingly consisting solely of doormen seeking muscle protein and arthritic pensioners buying St John's Wort. The whey-protein vendors told him that he would not be allowed to supply anyone else within a certain radius. So another independent retailer is crushed into the dirt, the town becomes a little more homogenous and what little money there is is concentrated in the pockets of multinationals and spirited out of the town.
A job for a job, you might think. But that really isn't the case. Some jobs generate less value, per capita, than others and it's the big beasts who create the least value. An indie might generate, say, £20,000 a year. A McJob might create only £15,000. So when one of these places boasts of creating 20 new jobs the chances are there's a net loss in value to the region. Remember that, next time Tesco comes a-calling.
Why is this relevant? Because this system we live in relies on buying more and stuff. Stuff that we don't need. Stuff created abroad by miserable people for buttons, of material that's designed to become obsolete within months, requiring us to replace it with more shit. That the end of the line for these 'goods' is a place like Hartlepool, full of people with no money, is particularly perverse but it's become one of the prime money generators in our utterly fucked economy. Buying shit. It's a little like the last days of Rome, but with a TOWIE onesie instead of a Bacchanalian orgy.
The fuel for this ghastly engine is, of course, advertising. It's become utterly imperative that we keep purchasing, well beyond our needs or even meaningful desires. Thusly television adverts take on a greater significance. They must make us buy things we neither want nor desire. Our out-of-control demand drives down prices, which means everyone along that chain earns a little less. In doing so we perpetuate a system that destroys jobs, money, value and choice. We're all racing to the bottom; a fevered, insane dash to pay ourselves less, rob ourselves of hard-fought rights and salve our bruised personalities with holidays, cars and cheap shit - palliatives to block out the horror of it all.
Look around you the next time you're in a shopping centre, a supermarket or fast food joint. If you're particularly unlucky you might experience a chilling moment of clarity; a horrible insight into what lies beneath the facades. The Amazon warehouse, the Asian sweatshops, the palm oil plantations, the mines that provide the precious metals for electronics, the vast mechanised slaughterhouses. We're all complicit in this; we're born complicit. But we don't have to like it.
Adverts are the devil on our shoulder, whispering that we deserve it, that it's Christmas; a can of pop, a smartphone, a 12-month subscription to Netflix will complete us. Only adverts are done whispering. Adverts will mislead, pester, guilt-trip and annoy in their efforts to encourage us to cough up, barely stopping short of a metaphorical skull-fucking in terms of the aural assaults adverts increasingly lob at us. Adverts will inveigle and batter their way past your personal spam settings. They're not simply unskippable on a DVD these days, they're unskippable in your head. As a concept I find that objectively sinister.
Advertising doesn't have to be bad. It's just that advertisers have cottoned on to the fact that bad adverts frequently work better than good adverts. Remember that old maxim about a bad meal, and how you'll tell ten times more people telling their friends about a negative experience than a good one? We're wired to remember those details: the slap in the face, the finger in the door, the hair in the soup and that bloody awful tune that we can't get out of our heads. To be in your heads in what advertisers want, cooing that you deserve a new satnav or imprinting their url on your mind like cattle being branded.
Advertising pretends to be your friend. It is not. I can't tell anymore whether it is a symptom of our slavery to the worst excesses of the market or something more sinister: something that is leading us further down to the road to our own anaesthetic stupor; a wanton shoulder-shrug, idle channel-hop and a listless wank.
Ads may sometimes be a bit of fun, they might even be amusing and cheering occasionally. But they are not benign. They are precision-guided missiles aimed directly at your sense of guilt, unhappiness, esteem, self-image and alienation.
You choose to watch them for an hour a day while they try to fuck you up.
In that context, they're all bad. But these are the worst. Merry Christmas.
Diet Coke
Women get wet while humiliating a man.
• Read the original Diet Coke AdTurd
Oh, hai rapey man with a modern-day Swatch Watch. Even though you look, sound and act like a twat I'm going to give you access to my vagina cos I like your wristphone.
Costa Coffee
Bean vendors try to convince us that the minimum-wage slaves they employ give a fuck about your Americano that you actually want milk in.
• Read the original Costa Coffee AdTurd
A bank makes stalkers live with sportspeople. Most of them seem to have some sort of alarming crush on said sportspeople now; at the beginning it was the other way round. There's some relationship dynamics right there. Expect Jessica Ennis' head to be found in a bucket soon.
• Read the original Santander AdTurd
Simply the worst advert of all time. Or, if you will, a shit ad.
• Read the original Andrex AdTurd
Emotional blackmail with your sugar-flavoured gakburger, sir? Nah, you're alright.
• Read the original McDonalds AdTurd
"I'm sorry to say the tests show you have a zingy, Mr Brown. You've got six months before your eyes fall out."
• Read the original EDF AdTurd
Celebrity cunts tell lies for money.
• Read the original Sky AdTurd
The 'ordinary voice' meme is, perhaps, 2013's most aggravating. No doubt it's relatable. It's also horrible.
A rap about a Vauxhall Corsa. KRS-ONE would turn in his grave, if he were dead.
• Read the original Vauxhall AdTurd
So try-hard you can imagine an ad exec wanking in the background while this got shot.
2013's most annoying noise - another appearance for the 'ordinary voice' meme - has returned for Christmas to mop up any viewers who may have luckily escaped thus far, like a battlefield executioner dispatching wounded soldiers with a bullet to the head. Oo-wack-a-doo-what-a-loada-crap.
This carnivorous fish was vaulted a long time ago but watching these once-amusing adverts devolve into late-era Only-Fools-And-Horses drivel has been painful. The only sane response is to hope for a cobra attack on the whole troop followed by twitching deaths, like when Flower got offed in Meerkat Manor.
Enough to make one pray for the second coming just so Christ can twat the money-lenders again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
You might not think there's much that's particularly hateful about this, apart from its syrupy, sickly chicken-soup-for-the-soul bullshit and that awful kids' choir. But look closer - this is the Irish version of the advert and it's more notable for what it doesn't include than what it does. Compare it with the UK version below, which features a happy - and gay - couple. Seems Coke can conquer anything - apart from homophobia. And tooth decay, obviously.
• Want more? Read the lists from previous years...
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Diet Coke Advert Frotters Finger Their Ringpulls
I've no great issue with Diet Coke adverts, which have made a virtue of women damply watching male hardbodies carry out some hard, sweaty labour with their shirts off.
The arousal of these women is clearly conveyed using a number of none-too-subtle visual metaphors, which see wet lips parted and ring pulls fingered - and only just about stop short of seeing nipples hardening under blouses and hands heading downstairs for a surreptitious fiddle. The coda to all of these ads is quite obviously the gaggle of ladies running to the closest toilets for a furious bout of lavatorial frotting.
All of this is undercut here by a bit of Etta James, the kind of rumpy-pump music that indicates that these women are Liberated and In Touch With Their Sexuality, but also that the ad is A Bit Of Fun. Which, arguably, it is. I don't really care much about them; for obvious reasons, as a straight man, I have very little interest in any Diet Coke advert.
Just imagine a load of blokes leering over a woman who's going about her daily routine, though. And then they roll a can of soft drink towards her in the full knowledge that she'll sprayed with its contents in a manner not wholly unlike a cumshot. Look! It did! Hahahahaha! She's humiliated! And wet! Dumb slut!
Wait, no she's not! She's going to take off her t-shirt! Fuck! YOU CAN SEE HER TITS AND EVERYTHING! The men gulp down their carbonated vegetable extract in sexual hunger, their eyes telling terrible stories about their intentions. She's asking for it, the dirty little whore! Look at her pouting and posing - she's loving it!
There's something deeply ambiguous about the power dynamic here: the narrative of the ad suggests that the man turns the tables on the group of women, but the girls' delight at the their plan working and the glances of sexual desire from them make this rather troubling.
Do they intend for the gardener to become soaked in coke when he opens the can? In which case do they intend for him to remove his clothes? Or, as seems to be suggested, are they just happy that he coated in gooey gak? Either way it's not especially benign.
The obvious response to all this is that there's plenty of objectification of women in the media and, indeed, there is. But not so much in advertising. Generally the only sexism you'll see portrayed in adverts these days is directed at men, who are frequently portrayed as stupid, ugly and emasculated. While women got a bad rap in advertising - absurdly so - until the 90s, this is a trend that has all but died out.
No doubt this ad is being forwarded to email addresses all over the country and gawped at by ladies enjoying the sort of washboard not seen since The Waltons was last on television. Fair enough, but transpose the genders of all involved and it's slightly grubby and a bit sad.
Meanwhile I'm left to ponder why the protagonists in cola adverts are all boorish twats - lest I mention the Pepsi Max dicks. The Diet Coke witches seem fairly interested in dicks, perhaps they're made for each other.


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Welcome, new friend! My name is Whitney, I'm the mother of a precious 5-year- old daughter, Iris Danielle. I'm the Photographer/Owner of Native Iris Photography est. 2010, Curator of Tupelo House, a creative workspace and venue in downtown Loveland, Oh.
I reside in the happiest town on earth, Loveland Ohio, where Terry and I raise our child to be a music lover, tiny ninja warrior and all around hippie. We spend our spare days swimming in our pool, biking on the trail or dreaming of our next camping adventures. We find our peace and our state of being when we are camping, all three of us thrive in the wilderness! Iris is now 6 and she loves being an 'adventure girl' and is obsessed with American Ninja Warrior. She loves watching Bob Ross Joys of Painting and enjoys dragging a string around for our cat Sharon. She's a sweet girl that will shock you with really adult like humor. She's an absolute dream, I bring her with me on gigs from time to time.
I believe kindness can cure much of our Nation's problems. I've never met a dog I didn't like. And I am a HUGE supporter of our Cincy Girl Gang members ... we even have t-shirts and leather bracelets! I believe there's been wonderful progress in our community regarding the discrimination of race, class and gender, but I also think we have a long ways to go. I believe in open conversation weather it be about health, depression, anxiety or ones love for ice cream. I believe we are stronger together than divided, I am counting down the days until we have a new president and am hoping we make a change for the better.
Life is good and beautiful for me and Iris. It's a thrilling life I live as a single mom as well as a business owner. It's stressful at times, but thrilling nonetheless. So it's Iris and I against the world!
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Chapter One
Watching a Surging Tide
|Shariff Salim Abdallah Salim
aka Sal Davis
When I was born my father named me Salim which was his father's name. But today I am known as Sal Davis a name I picked for the stage when I began my carrier in
. That was 1959. My real
name is Salim Abdallah Salim and if you wish you can call me Shariff Salim
Abdallah Salim for we are from the lineage of the Prophet (May Peace be Upon
Him). I will begin to tell my story from
Kongowea a small village a few miles from England Mombasa
where my mother was growing up as a young Christian African girl attending the
local . The year is 1940 and my mother
was in upper primary. The inhabitants of Kongowea were mainly the Giriama,
Warabai and Wataita who form the Christian community at the coast. My mother
was a Rabai. The Second World War in Europe was still raging and it must have
affected life in Mission School Mombasa, for my hometown is a
port in the Indian Ocean.
Mombasa being a port it could not help getting involved in the war whether it was a British colony or otherwise. African askaris from the King's African Rifles (KAR) boarded war ships at Kilindini,
Mombasa which took them to Burma, Indian and Ceylon
to fight and die for King George of Great Britain
so that the sun would never set in the British Empire.
These African askaris were from Tanganyika,
Uganda, Nyasaland and others far from lands not in the British domain like
Belgium Congo who were at that time were allies of the British. There were also
askaris from Kenya who went
to serve abroad the most famous being the famous musician Fundi Konde who like
me hails from .
Mombasa was not
without the hardships associated by a country at war. Mombasa
There must have been the shortages and the never-ending curfews. This must have disturbed the life pattern of the people of
who as is the tradition of all coastal people, observe certain indulgence like
drinking coffee with halua in the
evenings in coffee shop or relaxing over a game of dominoes mostly played after
l'asr outside hotels. These games
always went along with lots of cups of black coffee or tea. Arabs mostly owned
these hotels from Mombasa . The war
suddenly ruptured this easygoing life. It must have been a very difficult time
for my people both in Hadharamut,
town where my father had his residence and in Kongowea where my mother was
living with her family – the Saburis. Mombasa
How my mother then a young Christian girl still in school met my father Shariff Abdullah Salim a prominent personality in the Arab community of
and respectable Member of Parliament in the Legislative Council (Legco) and got
married to him is a story in itself. The story or rather the saga is easy for
any African to understand but difficult for someone outside Muslim or African
traditions and culture to comprehend. My mother attended the same school as my
elder sister Shariffa bint Shariff Abdullah Salim. It goes without saying then
that the two, my mother and my sister Shariffa were of the same age. This means
my mother could be her daughter. Later in life Shariffa was more of a mother to
me than a sister. Mombasa
It was while my father went to school to collect my sister that is when he saw my mother at the school and fell in love with her. My mother was attending a Christian Missionary school in Kongowea the same school which my sister was attending. For my mother to attend the
Mission school was not surprising. What was surprising
was for that little Arab girl, my sister, the daughter of Shariff Abdullah
Salim not to enrol in a Muslim school in
but in mission school in Kongowea, miles from town. The answer is simple. My
father was a modern man much as he was a Muslim of pure Arab blood he had taste
of western life. Shariff Abdullah Salim was an educated man. I really had never
gotten down asking his academic qualification but he was fluent in English
which in those days was a qualification in itself let alone that he served as a
member of the Legislative Council for thirty-two years. My father realised that much as Sharrifa was
an Arab girl, which in itself was the reason for modesty, which could be
inculcated into her if she is kept indoors typical of any Arab girl at that
time, the only way she could progress in life and be equipped to encounter male
chauvinism was through education. Mombasa
Many Arab girls in those days were burdened by the prejudices and obstacles, which were traits in the conservative Arab community, be it in
Mombasa or . It was this
vision which my father had over all his children, that to make a head start in
the world they should go to school and get proper education that made my father
take my sister to the mission school and later send me at the age of sixteen to
England to study. Mission schools in colonial Zanzibar by then were known for
excellence, providing good quality education. She must have been the only Arab
and Muslim girl in the whole school. This is how my mother and my elder sister
came to attend the same school in Kongowea. Kenya
When my father married my mother, my father was already married to Shariffa's mother, Bibi Dada bint Suleiman Al Mazrui. Shariffa's mother therefore was from the Mazrui - a prominent family in
. When my father sent me to school in Kenya England it was Ali Al' Amein Mazrui who later
came to be world-renowned political scientist who received me and I stayed with
him in .
At that time Ali Mazrui was an undergraduate student at Manchester . My father wanted me to stay with Ali Mazrui
for two months to acclimatise before I began school. As fate would have it, I
began my singing career while in the custody of Ali Mazrui. But, the iron of it
all were Ali Mazrui would rise to be an intellectual of high repute in academic
circles, I would excel in quite an opposite direction, that of show business. Manchester University
(Excerpts from unpublished manuscript, ''The Life of Sal Davis.'' by Sal Davis as told to Mohamed Said)
Sal Davis With Me Chef Pride Restaurant Lumumba Street, Dar es Salaam
(Excerpts from unpublished manuscript, ''The Life of Sal Davis.'' by Sal Davis as told to Mohamed Said)
|Sal Davis in Germany in 1960s
|Sal Davis at Nairobi Air Port 1963 Returning Home to Kenya
for Independence Celebrations of which he Composed a Song ''Nyimbo ya Kenyatta,''
Sal Davis Listening to the Song watched by Phillips Manager
|Working on Sal Davis' book at his house in Nyali Beach Mombasa 2009


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During the month of October, the Indiana Historical Society shares 'A Perfect Likeness,' a traveling exhibit that focuses on caring for and preserving 19th and early 20th century photographs. This exhibit is appealing to photography lovers of all ages, and is displayed on the art wall and throughout the DeMotte Library. Call the library for info.


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Here at Smart Chicago, we've always had three areas of focus:
- Access to technology and the internet
- Digital skills for all
- Meaningful products from data
This focus keeps us on the right path— one that requires us to lay practical groundwork before delivering cool apps— to put people first. We've done this since day one.
On a personal note, I've been a worker in community technology for a long time. I love it. In the early 2000s, I started a side business to help people get an internet life. I learned that nearly no one goes beyond default configurations, or even knows they can.
In 2004, I conducted bilingual computer training at my church to teach people how to post to our blog. I learned that everyone has a thirst to express themselves.
In 2006, I taught a 6-week course in websites for small businesses. I learned that people love certificates.
I've also been a part of a parallel path, which started taking off right about this time: the open data and civic tech movements. As a co-founder of EveryBlock, one of the earliest examples of a site that sought to use civic data in communities, I helped shape and build things like the 8 Principles of Open Government Data and Open Gov Chicago, a gathering of technologists in the field started in 2009.
We like to think these worlds— those of community technology, grounded in the needs of the people, and civic technology, driven by the most technical people, are aligned. When we're at our best, they are. Very often, however, they are worlds apart.
This is why Smart Chicago exists. Our mission, grounded in our areas of focus, situated directly in the community (as we work here at the region's community foundation), based in community technology research (lead by the MacArthur Foundation), and fully engaged with the governments and institutions that serve the people (including the City of Chicago, one of our founders)—this is us. This is why we're here today.
We designed this project to fit under a larger area of work that Smart Chicago: the Knight Community Information Challenge grant awarded under their Engaged Communities strategy to the Chicago Community Trust "as it builds on its successful Smart Chicago Project, which is taking open government resources directly into neighborhoods through a variety of civic-minded apps".
Materials for today:
- Here's all of the research and synthesis that led us to this meeting in one handy PDF.
- Here's live meeting notes— follow along starting at 9AM Saturday, April 4, Central time.
- Here's the form we'll be using in our Case Study Sprint: https://smartchicago2012.wufoo.com/forms/diy-case-study-civic-engagement-in-civic-tech. Fill it out!
There is no other organization in the country that is more qualified to lead this thinking. I am proud of where we are, and steeled for the work ahead.


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Members of Philippine Exchange Elect a New Board of Governors
MANILA, Philippines -- Members of the Philippine Stock Exchange Saturday elected a new board of governors that will determine the exchange's policies over the next 12 months.
Harry Liu, owner of Summit Securities Inc. and treasurer of the previous board, was elected exchange chairman. Mr. Liu is the exchange's fifth chairman since the Makati and Manila stock exchanges' unification into the PSE.


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The little notice kept appearing in various knitting publications, and Linthicum resident Eloise Vaughan said she couldn't ignore it. She didn't want to ignore it.
A Wisconsin woman was starting a project to aid the homeless, a project that was perfect for Mrs. Vaughan.
Warm Up America! collects yarn and swatch donations and assembles them into afghans or quilts. Then the quilts are given to organizations including the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army or directly to the homeless.
Mrs. Vaughan, who runs the Knitting Loft from her Linthicum home, has more than enough yarn and has students, friends and customers who were eager to donate swatches for a good cause.


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2008 XDL Sportbike Freestyle Championship Round 3: Pomona
Pomona marked the halfway point of the 2008 XDL season and it showed how, more and more, the series is exhibiting all the traits of a mainstream motorcycle sport: a solid field with a high level of competition, international participation, a five-way battle for the series championship, new talent, and even a formal protest by one of the competitors. Well have more on that later in the report.
With three events in the books the battle at the top of the national rankings is extremely close. Shifts Alex Flores and Nick Brocha are tied for first with 115 points each, followed closely by Rick Hart, Bill Dixon and Red Bull rider Aaron Colton. But because of the bye system that allows athletes to drop their lowest score, the race is really more open than the ranking suggests, with eight riders still in solid contention for the title. Of course this assumes the top riders keep winning, and if they dont the championship will start to open up even more.
Round 3 took place on the hallowed asphalt of the NHRA drag strip, offering the riders some of the best traction of the season. XDL organizers moved the competition to the drag strip after the proposed parking lot location posed some safety issues. As a result, Friday practice was rescheduled for Saturday morning. The weather was hot, but unlike Nashville a few weeks ago, it wasnt humid and a steady breeze helped cool down the competitors. Several top riders took a bye at Pomona due to injury or transportation issues, including Chris McNeil, Ernie Vigil, Joe Dryden, Luke Emmons and Dan Jackson.
Qualifying served up no major surprises and Aaron Colton, back to his regular form, earned the bonus point by taking the top spot. In the main event Colton thought he had the competition covered for his first win of the season but ended up a disappointing third.
After qualifying and after riding (my run) I thought I was going to win it, says Colton. Im not trying to be like a Mladin here or anything and complain about everything, but when I heard the results I felt like I got royally shafted.
XDL is a judged sport and as with every other judged sport competitors disagree with the results from time to time. Colton filed a protest and video of the run is being reviewed to see if any changes are merited.
Alex Flores, who predicted a Pomona win after Nashville, couldnt deliver but still leaves tied for first in the championship.
I had a little crash in practice at the spot last night and had to replace the whole stator cover and that always messes with your head, but that is no excuse, says Flores. I just need to ride harder next time. Im happy with the results. Fourth isnt bad. Im still in the points chase.
Flores is expecting a better performance in Indianapolis.
Im bringing everything Ive got, says Flores. Im going to train all month and ride my best.
Florida resident Bill Dixon repeated his solid second place finish from Nashville, putting him in the thick of the points chase.
I came here, drove 2,600 miles so I wanted to do well enough to pay for the trip, says Dixon on his expectations for Pomona.
Despite the solid finish, it was far from an easy day for Dixon.
I had a tire problem and I dont know why I definitely could have rode better, says Dixon.
Dixon added to his paycheck by also taking Target Stoppie by less than three tenths of a second, one of the closest finishes in XDL history.
It is a timed event so you have to go fast everywhere you are not doing a stoppie, says Dixon. I do my stoppies as low as I can to keep my speed up and hit all my points.
Nick Brocha came back from a tough Nashville outing to take his second win of the year.
I was so disappointed with how I rode at Nashville Which was good because then I did what I always do, says Brocha. I get mad, I go home and I ride every day for hours and hours in the 106 degree Vegas heat. So my expectation was to come here and do well.
Well as in first? Maybe not. But well as in top 5. Top 5 is always my goal. Its not like you can look at this field and think anything other than, success is being in the top 5. All the top 5 competitors are friends first, incredibly gifted riders second and most importantly the people that can hand me my a_ _ at any second.
As if winning the main wasnt enough, Brocha also took Circle Challenge by breaking Andy Niles win streak.
Any time I make money Im ecstatic, but beating Andy Niles in Circle Challenge is something I thought I would never do.
Nick Hernandez took Sickest Trick with a seven hit acrobatic combo that went from one end of the track to the other.
On a scale from 1 to 10 I thought I rode about a 6, says Hernandez. What was going through my head was that I wanted to win something. I figured that would be my best chance to do it. Im surprised I pulled it off I was a little bit wobbly.
Pomona saw the emergence of some promising talent in the form of Arizonas Jeromy Spann who finished 14th, high enough to vault him into 17th in the national rankings. We also saw Japanese rider Shin Kinoshita pull off possibly the best crash recovery ever. He went over the handlebars in the warm up to his Individual Freestyle run and as if that wasnt enough, the throttle stuck on his bike and it continued in a circle, scraping the asphalt, back to where he had crashed, where he does an impression of a rodeo rider and picks the bike back up and starts his run.
Now the focus is on Indy, the biggest event of the year. All injured riders expect to be there fully recovered, nobody will be taking a bye and everyone will be practicing hard leading up to the event. For complete XDL results and too keep up with the series, visit XDLshow.com
Related Reading
2008 XDL Sportbike Freestyle Championship Round 1
XDL Sportbike Freestyle Championship Round 2: Nashville


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Third Fine Accuser to File Lawsuit Against Former Syracuse Assistant Coach
PITTSBURGH – The alleged third sexual abuse victim of former Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine has filed a civil suit against him on Thursday.
Zachary Tomaselli, 23, of Maine went public earlier this month and held a news conference with his attorneys on Thursday in Pittsburgh where the incident allegedly took place after filing the complaint and is seeking over $25,000 in damages.
"I am taking this action to support the other men that have gone public and to do everything I can to protect other kids from harm by Bernie Fine and powerful men like him," said Tomaselli in a prepared statement.
To read Zachary Tomaselli's prepared statement click here
The filing alleges that Fine sexually abused Tomaselli in 2002 at Pittsburgh hotel and that he was 'too young to have given any consent" and that he has suffered severe emotional distress and mental anguish since the incident.
His attorney, Jeff Anderson, also filed a civil lawsuit last week for an alleged abuse victim of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Tomaselli claims he was in town after Fine had invited him to come along for a Syracuse game.
"At the time I wasn't even able to understand and process it as abuse, but now I know what harm he has done to me and others," Tomaselli said in a statement who claims he never saw the incident as abuse until trusted friend told him so in 2008.
To read the complete civil court filing click here
Local authorities in Pittsburgh were not aware of the incident until last month when Tomaselli came forward.
The filing comes despite comments on Wednesday from Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick that school attendance records from the day of the alleged incident do not back up Tomaselli's claims.
The accuser's father has said he believes his son is lying about the incident, according to the Associated Press.
Tomaselli has also been charged in Maine with sexual molestation on a teenage boy and says he will eventually plead guilty in that matter.
"I know I have done harm to a child as an adult and for that I am deeply sorry and need to be truthful," said Tomaselli in his statement, "I need to get better and I am getting help."


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Read Watch Listen No. 3
READ: "The Sellout" by Paul Beatty
Given our country's current political climate, satire is the literary genre we need the most, for both its critical perspective and its comedic relief, and Paul Beatty's "The Sellout" should be the satirical novel at the top of your to-read list.
The protagonist (a.k.a The Sellout), an ingenious black farmer born and raised in Dickens, a Southern California city described as an "agrarian ghetto," tells the story of how he ended up in front of the Supreme Court. After his father is killed by the police and his city is inexplicably taken off the map, he makes it his mission to put Dickens back on the map and finds himself in the awkward position of becoming both a slaveholder and segregator in the process (hence the whole Supreme Court thing).
To put it simply, "The Sellout" is a laugh-out-loud satire about race in America today, which is a description that fails to fully convey it's comic genius. Trust me, you just need to read it.
Read more about "The Sellout." Buy it here.
WATCH: Dave Chappelle's Netflix specials, "The Age of Spin" and "Deep in the Heart of Texas"
In his New York Times book review, Dwight Garner describes the first one hundred pages of "The Sellout" "like the most concussive monologues and interviews of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle wrapped in a satirical yet surprisingly delicate literary and historical sensibility." In "The Age of Spin" and "Deep in the Heart of Texas," Chappelle broaches racial inequality with his signature irreverent sense of humor, which will satiate any Beatty fan's desire for socially conscious comedy.
Watch "The Age of Spin" and "Deep in the Heart of Texas" on Netflix.
LISTEN: "To Pimp a Butterfly" by Kendrick Lamar
Like Beatty and Chappelle, Kendrick Lamar offers sharp social commentary tinged with humor on "To Pimp a Butterfly." To give just one example, on the track "Hood Politics," Kendrick compares the hill to the hood, referring to congressmen as gang members (a.k.a. Demo-Crips and Re-Blood-licans). Throughout the album, Kendrick masterfully confronts serious social issues like racial inequality, police brutality and economic disparity with a poignant sense of humor, making it the perfect musical pairing for "The Sellout."
Listen to "To Pimp a Butterfly" on Spotify.


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Everyone (nearly) vies for selection by either H or M who are supposed to choose their own staff - and all JAG employees are fair game! M "psychically" said they will be 5489 miles and 10.5 hrs flying time apart. Co wanted to "stay the same" until coaxed by V to be "adventuresome." T congratulated H on making captain & his appointment. Surprised, H said "It sounds like you mean it"; then "you were qualified too." T replied "the captains board didn't think so. But perhaps I'll be JAG after you." M sublet her apt to Vereese, who was moving to DC to see how it worked out with T. B commented that the Hs new position is a "straight shot into JAG" then fumbled when Cr advised he "didn't plan on retiring anytime soon." H told Mattie he "wouldn't go anywhere without her" & Tom isn't contesting custody.
H asked B to go to London with him as "Assistant Force Judge Advocate!" (wow). He excitedly accepted saying Ht would be fine w/ it. Then M asked B to come w/ her as a "Blue Suit XO" & he said that he had already accepted Hs offer. BUT- Ht was NOT happy at all! She jumped on B then wangled him to back down! Then B told H that it was HIS decision to "stay put." Ht had lunch w/ M & explained ("Bs not to know") that he "still needs monitoring" (just like her controlling mother!) H observed "once Ht makes up Bs mind for him then that's pretty much it!" Cr asked Mikey what the "set to" was that he had with his daughter Cammie. Mk said he was in the right but they worked out their differences & she would make a great lawyer - "She has a way of interpreting the rules to her advantage, bending the facts." Cr told him that when it came to his daughter he had "rules of engagement, do you get my meaning?" Mk tried to talk to B about loving Cammie but he said "you can't!" "You crazy?" - "fall OUT of love!" - then refused to talk to him about it. Mk then asked H who said "are you crazy?" then: "talk to Cammie, & explain your feelings openly and honestly" (interesting coming from H).
V asked M for San Diego as well but was turned down flatly. "You are not the kind of lawyer that I want on my staff - period." He argued with her throwing up her mistake w/ Farrow so M threw him out of her office. Then Cr assigned V to marine corps recruiting depot at Paris Island to handle a recruit twice found muddy outside barracks having been in swamp to "kill the enemy." V questioned why he had to go & Cr bristled "The general asked me and I agreed!" Recruit Walter Evans, 16 y/o, falsified a birth certificate, HS diploma & mothers signature to join Marines. His mother told V that "she was loosing him." After his father was killed in Afghanistan Walter withdrew, became obsessed & ran away. She put out an amber alert. He refused to go home w/ her. V called Cr for advice who said "think out of the box, that's your specialty" & hung up on him! The Gen held an award ceremony (not Vs idea) for Walter stating he "knew his father Sgt Maj Silers Evans, how proud he was, etc." then made Walter an "honorary marine" & ordered him to go home w/ mother & "come back when ready." V didn't know that Gen knew Siler; "didn't want it known, that's why I asked for JAG." V counseled mrs Evans to seek "stress help" & told of his childhood: Father died when 15 y/o. tried church, street gangs, booze, girls. Too much for mom so sent to live w/ uncle. "He told me things I didn't know about my dad - things mom didn't want to talk about him. That got me better."
AND M & H FINALLY, ACTUALLY TALKED! Through many 'flashbacks' they gave insight to their unusual emotional dillema.
H- "I forgot how beautiful you are." M- "You resigned your commission, came 5,000 miles to find me and were nearly killed. Why?
H- "I think you know why."
H- "Five years from this moment, if neither are in a relationship we'll go halves on a kid." Then it showed them kissing @ M & Brum's engagement party!
M- "Eternity, is that how long we're going to wait? You still can't let go can you? H- "not yet" M- "you're just this way with me aren't you?" H- "Yes, just you"
H- "If you want to have a baby in the future, the offer still holds. We could do it together like we planned."
M- "Cmdr Rabb is the kind of man I would want for my child."
M- "So much more to talk about than just W" H- "then when you're ready let me know."
FINALLY M came to Hs apartment the very night before their departure!
M- "Lets talk about you and me, neither of us wants to be the first to say goodbye."
H- "I don't think that I'll ever feel about anyone else the way I feel about you."
M- "That's flattering, but don't tell that to your future wife, whoever she may be, she won't understand."
H- "Do YOU understand?" M- "No, I don't understand why we can't make it work, why we've let FATE decide our futures."
H- asked Mac what it was of all men that attracted her?
M- "They wanted me & they let me know it."
H- "I wanted you & you knew it."
M- "No woman wants to be a mind reader. With you there are always complications, another woman, work, searching for your father."
H- "That's all past. We've got 12 hours."
M- "Is it, we've had 9 years."
H- "I guess maybe I've just needed a deadline."
M- "Well you've got one now sailor boy!" After kissing, M- "Are you proposing?"
H- "Yes, I'm proposing. Let's get married."
M- "This has always been the 500# gorilla in the room. If we get married, one of us has to give up our navy career."
H- "I love you. I don't want to give up my navy career & you don't want to give up the Marine Corps.
H- "Do you believe in fate?"
M- "Fate put us together, sort of."
H- "Fate could keep us together forever."
They invited T, Co, Ht, B, & Cr to McMurphy's Tavern (where all important events have taken place) to announce their engagement. Co felt she needed to lie to Cr to get him there. They explained their impending marriage and their dilemma about neither wanting to give up their career. Then H said "We've decided to let fate decide." B showed the "JAG coin" that Adm Chegwidden gave him when he retired. The "future bride" called - "tails" (the same as she always has in the past & lost). B flipped the coin into the air and it turned into slow motion. The scene froze w/ everyone looking up at the coin which showed "JAG - Judge Advocate General 1995 - 2005" (on the "tails" side.)
Friday, April 29, 2005
Fair Winds and Following Seas - 227
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- I started FPU on Sunday. And, have high hopes that this is the ticket I need for reaching (or at least starting) my financial goals!
- I was able to coach two employees on reaching new professional goals for themselves!
- I attended 2 middle school basketball games to see Austin play.
- I found out that Austin has all As, and Bs in school.
- I watched Jocelyn play for hours, and use her imagination to the fullest!
- Seeing Jocelyn's facial expressions makes me laugh ( and I am similing now thinking about them) :0)
- Steve, gave me lots of HUS, and kisses this for no reason at all
- Steve started cooking dinner one night when I was running late with the kids
- I talked to my Mom and Dad more than normal
- I am surrounded by great friends that would do anything for me
Life is good. I just need to slow down, and see the little things that mean so much to me.
Here is to another great week ahead, Cheers!


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This wonderful initiative, started in Dalston in East London and now spreading around London and further afield, utilises and spreads awareness of food waste and celebrates the power of community by bringing together a team of volunteers to transform food that was heading for landfill into beautiful cooked meals that are served on a "pay what you can afford" basis.
The food supply system is in a precarious situation. Prices are rising and in some areas food shortages are already a common theme. More than one billion of the world's people are hungry and as the world's population rises through the 7 billion barrier, the problem looks like it can only get worse. Yet we throw away tonnes of food every year. Annual estimates of the food waste in the UK alone exceed 20 million tonnes.
All food takes energy, time and resources to create. The People's Kitchen aims to "ambush" this food surplus before it becomes food waste which is destined to clog-up already overfull landfill sites. The Kitchen also celebrates People power. Many hands make light work. And many bodies and minds make for a beautifully social atmosphere both in the kitchen and its later transformation to a dining room.
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After their joyous reunion with Scales and Graimwum, the party heads back to town to pick up the halfling and those pesky dwarves.
Aurin and Scales go on a tour of duty to sort out some town admin issues; they visit Brilla, then Stanton Goodman, and then some other people of import. Scales arranges to send word to Aelford and other places in an effort to recruit a new baker and priest from outside, and provide trading opportunities for the town. Scales pays runner 10g for tools plus 20g for future baker's wages, and extra for transport costs of priest.
Satisfied that the town will be glad to see the back of us, we hit the road again… heading towards Tosca but planning to divert around it. On our first night of camping, Bree witnesses a very large dragon fly overhead, heading in the direction of Bluenail Falls. Damn dragons.
The next day, we come across a battle taking place between some humanoids (including a tough looking leader in shiny armor, and a mage of some sort), and some scaly dudes Taelden eventually successfully identifies as lizardfolk, but not before Scales mistakenly assumes they must be his own kin and charges into the fray in spite of Taelden's heavy-handed (haha, Bigby's Grasp, gettit?) attempts to restrain him. The lizardfolk had a bunch of eggs and littl'uns a little way away, and the humanoids looked like they came specifically looking for a fight, so we take the side of the lizardfolk and start caning the humans. While most of us were taking on the guys at the front lines, Scales was taking on the mage at the back, which sees him turned into a squirrel, burrowing into the dude's pants and biting him, and then suddenly resuming his proper form and knocking out the mage in the process. Quite a spectacle. When it's all over, Scales tries to make himself Lord of the lizardfolk, ripping out the mage's throat and all that, but they prefer to choose their own leaders. So of course Scales challenges the most dominant of them to naked fisticuffs (or vice versa… doesn't really matter!), wins, and gets his Lordship. (Tally of things Scales is Lord of = 3)
Scales takes his new lizardfolk peons and leads them off to his new kobold settlement, with the intention that they will be good protectors of his smaller scaly mates. Also he takes a bunch of leather armour with him.
The rest of the party find some neato Barkskin armour for Arghblargh, and then they set off up the road again.
After some time, the party approaches crossroads where a pile of people covered with white glueye stuff and pepper with arrows are lying piled up. One dude on top appears to be still alive but seriously injured. A rank of kobolds are unsuccessfully hiding along the road, so Taelden sends them a critically horrifying column of fire and a volley of tough talk, which succeeds in sending then pissbolting away. Aurin and Bertil give chase, Taelden and Bree show off their ranged expertise and then hang back to help Shalenior save the injured dude with splooge on his face and an arrow through his neck. With their combined knowledge And some advice from the ranger (who has much experience with arrows), they save the man (Cameron) and then head off to find his daughter Grace.
We follow the tracks of the cart that grace was reportedly hiding in, and eventually find it abandoned in the middle of the road… nearby the sound of squabbling alerts us to the location of the kolbold attackers, and we all ride off at a fast pace to bring them to justice.
Aurin gets clothes-lined by tree branches twice, before deciding to walk Palimo the rest of the way.
However, the rest of us come across a group of 25 kobolds closely gathered around a large pile of loot. Taelden, always taking initiative, draws on the special power contained within her new staff and launches a massive fireburst… 24 out of 25 kobolds (and a record 576 total damage) agreed that it was a blast, alright! Some of the surviving singed kobolds ran like the clappers, and the rest got finished off by those other party members Taelden brought along to carry stuff.
Amazingly, (by the grace of the gods) we found the little girl Grace alive under a couple of other barrels, shielded from the magical firey doom. Also we find a magical chest with a biometric locking system well ahead of its time. We return Grace and the magic chest to Cameron, who generously rewards us with a valuable pair of green sending stones. We then set to the task of rebuilding a desecrated shrine to Avandra on the side of the road.
Meanwhile – when Scales makes it back to his new-found community he figures its time to start getting some rules down on how shit is to be done in his absence. So he gets the Kobolds to whip up 2 big stones with a flat side and using the good old acid etching skills writes some stuff down.
A short summary of the contents of the stones: Lord Scales is the one true Protector of the Draconic races Lord Scales is the one true voice for the future and eventual ascension of The Draconic races The Draconic are to assist each other in all things The Draconic are to avoid humans Scallium is the holy beginning of the Draconic Rennaissance
Everyone gets 1100 XP (except Arghblargh and Aurin who got a 100XP bonus) and 250g goes into party kitty.


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A very, very, very college student populated town in Maine, with a smaller amount of rich local business owners.
"Last week I visited Joe in Orono, and we got wasted at a hockey game and then ate at the local tavern. We also bought a windchime."
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I am an Indian Muslim arrived in the UK in February, 1972, during Ted Heath premiership, miners strike, power shut down and three days of working week.
Aiming to become a plastic surgeon I had to settle down as a GP at Hastings in September, 1973, against an alternative glittering prospects in USA.
Later, my patients persuaded me to accept this fate happily.
I have always been keen on the world history and politics.
My deduction is that the power and domination of the west is based upon a tripod, the name of each leg starts with the letter 'M' – military, money and media.
Every one leg has become so high that the stool is now becoming unstable.
It is anyone's guess on which side it will fall.
One thing is pretty sure that there will be a lot of human suffering before the next phase of stability will start.
Evolutionist and religionists define the history differently.
Among the religions Jews deny Christ and both Jews and Christians deny Muhammad.
May Allah's peace and mercy be upon all the Prophets and Messengers.
Currently the followers of the latest monotheistic religion are firmly in the dog house.
But the history has an old habit of revolving like the planet earth itself, shining the day light on one side while the opposite side is dark.
This happens with such a regularity that the chaotic evolutionary philosophers are unable to explain. Cutting short, I wish to remind every thinking soul of the local population that the Hastings Mosque at 12 Mercatoria St Leonards is opening its door on Sunday, February 7, between 2pm and 5pm in keeping with a national campaign by Muslim Council of Britain.
The visitors will have full opportunity of asking questions, watch the displays and a video.
This is a chance to sort out facts from fiction and historical misrepresentation.
Informative books, leaflets and Qur'an will be given as a gift without obligation.
There will be light refreshments.
Everyone is invited to clear his/her doubts without worrying about being PC.
My personal belief is that only blunt question and answers bring about a worthwhile clarification.
So, please honour us as your fellow human beings by your kind presence and allow us to extend our point of view without being dressed up or bias by the politicians and corporates.
Wassalam (May Allah's peace be upon you).
Dr Tariq Yusuf Rajbee
Pett Road
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Yesterday the Big Bang update appeared in several news articles.
A lot of people are worried if their skill points will be reset or not. Rest assure, you will not have to pay nor do anything to get your skill points reset.
When I patched to version 1.2.323 I saw a new file added to my MapleT folder called "Opening".
I didn't bother looking because I already knew what it was, but whenever you launch MapleStory a short opening movie will appear.
When I logged on my character a notice appeared saying I received SP reset scrolls. ()
You get three scrolls and the scrolls I got today will expire in one week.
When you double-click on one scroll, it will ask if you're really sure you want to reset.
Everything gets reset to zero. Everything except for Beginner skills.
So let's say that you used one scroll and allocated a skill point in the wrong skill. Oops… You can use the second scroll. So don't worry about that.
Since there is a SP reset, you might wonder if Ability Points (AP) will be reset, but I don't think Ability Points will be reset to zero. I also don't want my AP to be reset because it's going to be a pain in the ass to click so many times. >_<;
I noticed that the UI of the stat window was changed to the new one.
I prefer the old one. I don't like this… T_T
Only six days left until the first Big Bang update~! But there are again skill changes. ▼
Skill data courtesy of Fiel @ Southperry.net
- Damage of Brave Slash decreased from 205% to 190%.
- Skill duration of Enrage decreased from 240 to 180 seconds.
- Damage of Advanced Charge Blow decreased from 500% to 460%.
- Damage of Blast decreased from 740% to 700%. At a certain success rate Blast can deal critical damage and instantly kill monsters.
- Cooldown of Sanctuary increased from 20 to 40 seconds.
Dark Knight:
- Defense reduction of Dark Force reduced from -60% to -30%.
F/P Mage:
- New variable added: subProp. Stun probability of Teleport Mastery reduced from 100% to 50%.
I/L Mage:
- New variable added: subProp. Stun probability of Teleport Mastery reduced from 100% to 50%.
Cleric, Priest:
- Weapon and Magic attack of Bless increased from 15 to 22.
- New variable added: subProp. Stun probability of Teleport Mastery reduced from 100% to 50%.
Ranger, Sniper, Marksman:
- Animation of Mortal Blow changed.
- MP cost of Sniping at Lv. 1 is 300 MP. Per level the MP consumption decreases by -10 MP. Cooldown increased from 5 to 10 seconds.
- Greed's damage bonus to Meso Explosion increased from +30% to +40%
Dual Blade:
- Final Cut's damage reduced from 2100% to 2000%
- Chains of Hell attack count reduced from 12 to 10
Infighter, Viper:
- CSB changed from 3 mobs * 150% damage * 3 times to 3 mobs * 460% damage * 1 time
- Damage of Fist decreased from 360% to 342%
- Demolition damage reduced from 400% to 380%
- Snatch's stun duration increased from 3 to 4. Now attacks 6 mobs.
- Success rate of Mind Control decreased from 100% to 94%