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WASHINGTON (CNN) - John McCain's campaign is denying an account by staffers on Barack Obama's team that the rival campaigns had been involved in discussions over whether or not they would accept public funds.
Obama counsel Bob Bauer said Thursday he had met with Trevor Potter, his counterpart on the McCain team, on June 6 to discuss a possible joint townhall appearance later in the month, and that the two discussed the public funding issue for 45 minutes.
"I asked him to address a [series] of issues of concern to the Obama campaign–the McCain campaign's active raising and spending of private money since February for a general election campaign, including for media, while we were still in the middle of a primary contest," said Bauer in a statement. "He gave me his perspectives–the best arguments he could offer for an agreement on both sides to accept public financing–and it was clear to me that these offered no basis for any further exchange."
McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker flatly said Thursday that Bauer "never negotiated with Potter about public financing."
Others in the McCain camp said that Obama's staffers are "libeling" their attorney, and lying about the discussion – that the two counsels were meeting on a separate topic entirely, and that there were no negotiations on public finance.
(UPDATED with response from the McCain campaign, after the jump)
UPDATE: Trevor Potter disputed the Obama campaign's account, telling CNN Thursday that he had met with Bauer on a completely unrelated subject, and that campaign financing had only been discussed in an abstract way.
"We then spoke in general terms about the public financing system, with Bob outlining reasons it could be considered 'broken' or irrelevant in 2008, and I explaining why Sen. McCain remained committed to it and thought it was good for the country," said Potter.
"Other than this informal discussion, there have been no contacts between the two campaigns on the subject, and this discussion contained no negotiations or even offer to hold negotiations. I cannot begin to explain how the Obama campaign could twist my reiteration of Sen. McCain's support of the system, and hope the two candidates would participate in it, into what they said today," he added
"...An attempt to imply otherwise by any representative of the Obama campaign (and an attempt to turn an informal conversation between Bob Bauer and me into a discussion of negotiations between the campaigns) is a complete misrepresentation of the facts"
oops meant 2000
I'm sorry... but John McCain looks like he's about 102 years old in this picture.
Obama lying? What a SHOCKER that would be – NOT!
After all, he's the guy who denied all knowledge of what his preacher, honorary uncle and spiritual mentor of 20 years was screeching at the top of his lungs....oh, but then he did kinda remember......
Washington insiders in the know on this one say McCain is correct. The Obama story is fiction and meant to leverage Obama om campaign finance. So, the Democratic dirty tricks begin, and it appears that Obama is no rookie at this dirty game.
"Speechless" sure talks a lot about Obama. As for the litany of frail jabs that the McCain team is throwing at Obama's Campaign, I would like to once again introduce the teacup to the storm. Such a non-issue.
In a statement Thursday, a McCain spokeswoman said that the Democrat "revealed himself to be just another typical politician who will do and say whatever is most expedient" and accused Obama of undermining the public financing system.
"The true test of a candidate for president is whether he will stand on principle and keep his word to the American people," said Jill Hazelbaker, McCain's communications director
3 Words: George Walker bush:
Post Script: No-one died when Clinton lied....
You can bet that if the McCain campaign had the ability to out raise Obama two or 3 to 1 then they'd opt out as well. What about that suit regarding McCain's opting in and then out of the primary funding?
I am sure this issue will get resolved within few hours.... Obama campaign hasn't responded yet!!!
Obama has my vote...I just wish he were pro-life.
If you feel it is libel, SUE.
If you aren't taking actions against libelous remarks made in such a public manner, you can't expect us to believe that the remarks aren't true.
Obama doesn't lie....
HE just does complete turnabouts : Rev Wright, talking with our enemies without preconditions etc- and the media just goes right along with it.
The media just encourages his flip flopping by praising/presenting his shifting positions for political posturing as integrity.
McSame as Bush! You are the liar and cheater.
Obama is a lie. A fake. A PUPPET.......
Obama people are so vindictive and such haters! Precisely why I will vote McCain in November!
Hillary 2012!
McCain the idiot that he is not wanting to surpress the 527's just handed Obama an early Christmas present.
To every one posting hear.
Both sides lie. In politics every body lies to say they don't is just stupid.
every one saying that dems don't lie. Bill Clinton
every onesaying that repubs don't lie. Bush
John McCain is a good man, but he is not the man for the country right now. We are moving in a different direction and he can't be our leader.
What about the issues of the American people? Lets get back to the basics.
NOBAMA has a reputation as a LIAR. No doubt his team is spinning lies, they are very very desparate.


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A Kelowna Secondary School student got more than expected while attending a career fair.
Braeden Lambert attended Okanagan College's 36th annual Career Fair to learn more about post-secondary education and won the grand prize of $2,500 tuition credit.
"I want to open my own business one day," said Lambert. "That's why I went to Career Fair, to check out the program and its possibilities. I've heard good things about the College and the business school and really liked what I saw, so I decided to apply for it on the spot," he added.
The College's Career Fair is one of the Interior's longest running fairs and has attracted hundreds of students each year. Students were treated to tours, activities, and draw prizes. Anyone who applied for a program at the Fair was entered to win the grand prize.
"It totally took me by surprise when I got the phone call telling me I won the tuition money – I felt like I won the lottery or something," said Lambert.
"It's like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders because I don't have to stress as much about my job or how I'll pay for tuition – I can just focus on my school now," he added.
Lambert is currently completing his final year at K.S.S. and will start classes at the College in September 2018.

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Advances in Numerical Analysis
Volume 2009, Article ID 370289, 13 pages
Research Article
Enhanced Physics-Based Numerical Schemes for Two Classes of Turbulence Models
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
Received 29 June 2009; Accepted 5 August 2009
Academic Editor: William John Layton
Copyright © 2009 Leo G. Rebholz. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Leo G. Rebholz, "Enhanced Physics-Based Numerical Schemes for Two Classes of Turbulence Models," Advances in Numerical Analysis, vol. 2009, Article ID 370289, 13 pages, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/370289.


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Chile-based architect Alejandro Aravena has won this year's prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture, intended to honor a living architect who demonstrates talent, vision, and commitment, and who has produced significant contributions to architecture. As part of the award, Aravena will receive a $100,000 grant. Aravena is the 41st recipient of the prize, the first from […]Continue Reading →
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By now you've heard that the arts community has suffered a devastating loss after David Bowie succumbed to cancer. Though his past was not without controversies, Bowie made a number of significant contributions to the worlds of acting, music, fashion, and fine art. An avid collector, Bowie's art collection was large, boasting mostly smaller names […]Continue Reading →
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I brought a new mug recently and I had to share it with you! How pretty is this mug, and it was in the sale – bonus!
It was from one of my favourite shop, Whittards. I love the shot on the bottom left, shoes of my new pretty nails 🙂 gold and sparkly, although I will admit it's a little early for festive nails.


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Sweet Krissy Zipset #21: Pink Fishnets & Big Toy
1 Video (14:51) & 60 Pictures
Say hello to my new favourite toy! Its so realistic looking and feeling mmmm. Watch me go down on it and get it nice and wet ready for my pussy. Then I fuck myself silly with it untilI cum!
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Saturday, 20 April 2013
Boston: What we learn from tragedy
The bombings in Boston remind us that just believing passionately in something doesn't make it right. We don't yet know who carried out these bombings or why but somebody or a group of people obviously thought it was the right thing to do.
As we've been working through the book of Revelation in our sermon series I've been struck again by the way mankind is prone to being led astray and to being intoxicated with things that are not just bad for us but plain wrong [Rev 17:2; 18:3]. We are prone to delusion. We worship the wrong things.
It calls for regular self-examination in the light of the what God has said. The other thing that I've been reminded of was Jesus' word about the tower that fell on a bunch of people and killed them. He pointed out that those who were killed were no more deserving of death than the rest of us; it was not God's punishment for any particular wrong. [Luke 13:1-5]
However, things like this should make us all think about our forwarding address when this life is over. It should drive us all to making our peace with God through repentance and faith in Jesus.
- Bruce Dingwall
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As I watched the footage of this tragedy mostly taken on mobile phones it seemed, I was struck by how many time I heard people say "O God, O God".ReplyDelete
Maybe I'm wrong but I don't take this as blasphemous. Instead what I hear is humanity at its most vulnerable crying out to a higher authority. One whom may ignore or deny for most of the time until tragedy strikes. Those other causes we can become so passionate about disappear quickly and are replaced by a desperate plea for someone far greater to intervene when all else falls away.
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Police charge man with Brunswick bank robbery
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Police charge man with Brunswick bank robbery
Held on $20,000 cash bail
PORTLAND, Maine —
A Brunswick man remains at the Cumberland County Jail following his arrest in connection with a bank robbery.
Police arrested Benjamin Lamphere, 20, on the charge of class A robbery on Tuesday morning, Detective Sgt. Martin Rinaldi of Brunswick police said in a release. Lamphere is accused of robbing the Bank of Maine branch on Maine Street last Wednesday.
A handgun was displayed during the robbery, Rinaldi said.
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(my boss reads).
I will try however to make more of an effort to keep you all abreast...I said breast! Yep, not a lot of adult stimulation around here.
First off my feet look great! Pregnancy sucks when your only body part you can be proud of is your feet and they looked like potatoes with nubs on the end.
Secondly...I love being a mom. I love it all and will be back on the baby making train before you know it.
I really had no idea of what being a parent was going to entail. I knew about the pooh and the puke, but I wasn't perpared for the insane love that you have for your child. It is just amazing.
Here is an update on baby girls progress.
- She is 5 months now...ick closer to going back to work.
- We have had 2 rounds of shots and she took it like a champ, just a little lip quiver.
- She was 15lbs, 5ozs at her last visit at the end of August so I bet is she around the 18lbs mark. Keep in mind that she was almost 10lbs at birth.
- Foods we like are rice cereal, peas, green beans, squash, sweet potato and pears
- Not so much for the applesauce, peach(causes a whole body twitch) and carrots
- Toys we like are the mobile, her crinkle bear, teething ring, jumper, mirrors and the dog
- Toys that scare the living crap out of us....the new extreme tickle me elmo (thanks memere)
- Milestone: smiling, laughing, cooing, chatter, reaching, rolling over, sitting alone for a few minutes, pulling herself to sit up, sleeping through the night, almost ready to cut teeth, and starting to cry when mom leaves the room (goodtimes)
Little thumb sucking to get you through your day.
Standing alone.
Not so much for the tickle me elmo...he scares me too. 50 bucks well spent.
Lounging at the cottage.
Who said a happy meal wasn't fun for adults too.
Signing off
Totally jeaslous of everyones new Skins!!!!!!!


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Butterfly bush, a perennial flowering shrub also known by its scientific name, Buddleia davidii, is native to warm areas of Africa, Asia and the Americas. In the United States, the shrub thrives in hardiness zones 5 through 10. Gardeners value butterfly bush for its colorful, fragrant flowers that appear in summer in shades of white, pink, red or purple. The plant also attracts butterflies, making it a popular choice for butterfly gardens. The short-lived shrub may only last a few years in the landscape, but it grows quickly and flowers abundantly while it's there.
Plant butterfly bush during late spring or early summer to allow the root system time to establish before the onset of winter. Choose a location that receives full sunlight throughout the day for optimal flowering and growth. Space butterfly bush plantings 4 to 5 feet apart.
Apply a 2-inch layer of mulch over the soil surrounding the plant to reduce problematic weeds, insulate the root system and improve moisture conservation. Allow about 3 inches of space from the base of the plant to the beginning of the mulch band to allow air circulation.
Water butterfly bush when the top 4 inches of soil are dry to the touch, about once every week. Place your finger in the soil to check if the plant needs water. Reduce the frequency of watering to once every 10 days during winter, when the plant is dormant.
Feed butterfly bush once each year, beginning with the second year of growth. Apply a balanced 10-10-10 NPK fertilizer during early spring, just before the plant begins actively growing. Follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer for correct dosage.
Use pruning shears to cut butterfly bush to within 6 inches of the ground in late fall, just before the onset of winter, to protect the shrub from unnecessary cold damage and induce dormancy. Continue to water it regularly, about once every 10 days, and new growth will appear in the spring.


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In Reply to: Re: New Boiler posted by John on August 13, 2008 at 22:56:21:
: I took your advice and used the heat loss calc. from Slant/Fin. I got a total heat loss of almost 50,000 BTU/HR. Is this correct? I'm not sure.
: Just to give some info about my house: It is located in central Connecticut where the average overnight temp falls into the teens and 0'F isn't that unusual in the middle of winter. It's a 2500sq.ft colonial, 1st floor has 9 ft. ceilings, double hung wood windows, 14 years old, full unfinished basement.
: Some of the values for the heat loss calc were: Infiltration Factor .012, Door and Glass factor .65, the System Design Water Temp was 180 degrees (I think this should have been 120F since that is the temp I have set for the 40 gal. SuperStor hot water tank.)
: The calc never asked if the boiler makes the hot water for the superstor as well, which of course it does.
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Bob Mould - Live
Going to see Bob Mould at the Oran Mor this weekend.
Anybody seen him lately? Thoughts?
Youtube footage of recent US shows seems to point to a heavy dose of old Husker Du classics in the set as well as plenty Sugar stuff.
Haven't been this excited about a gig in a while.
Looking at his most recent setlists...
He seems to do about 15 covers that consist of an even split between Sugar and Husker Du material, plus about 5 or 6 tunes from his most recent album. Sounds pretty ace!
Might have to get tickets for his London show now...
Aye, that's a pretty good setlist
Although would be deliriously happy if he made the following changes (on a songs from the same album basis)-
Come Around - out / Tilted - in
Your Favourite Thing - out / Gift - in
I Apologise - out / New Day Rising - in
Hate Paper Doll - out / Divide And Conquer or Games - in
But really can't argue with a Husker/Sugar heavy set.
Go and get tickets - it's Bob Mould!!!
saw him last year, round this kind of time, before Silver Age came out
he was doing a full 'Copper Blue' set which was totally fucking boss, as expected. then the solo material, much of it from Silver Age, went down really well. an older mate of mine and I agreed it was surprisingly good...that record was probably top 20 of last year for me in the end. plus some Hüsker classics
yeah basically he rocked. was triumphant and well worth it
basically this ^
the Copper Blue show at Shepherds Bush was awesome, one of my favourite gigs in recent years. Jason Narducy, Jon Wurster & Bob mould = power trio! As soon as they went into "The Act We Act" everyone had a big grin on their face and the energy didn't let up throughout...
I need a ticket for Glasgow,
Any spares?Knightboat this'd this
Will there be anyone selling tickets around Oran Mor on Sat?
I'm thinking of coming from Edinburgh chancing it to see if I can
get a ticket? My mate doesn't live too far away so all is not lost if I can't get one....
What a fucking show!!!
Prior excitement duly rewarded.
Opened with what was basically a mini best-of Copper Blue set, then did some songs from the Silver Age album (which were all great) and then piled in with a mix of Sugar/Husker Du tunes.
Encore finished up with Something I Learned Today and In a Free Land.
Absolutely awesome performance.
If you get the chance then don't miss out on this. Oh, and take some earplugs cause it was fucking loud!!!


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In the spirit of my recent trek to The Bakery in celebration of the #PowertothePolls event sponsored by Georgia Alliance for Social Justice, I googled "social justice poetry" to see what would be kicked up. It didn't take long before I spied the name Yusef Komunyakaa. A dim bulb in my memory suddenly luminesced. Yusef Komunyakaa! I remember him from that wonderful poetry course taught by David Bottom I took at while studying at Georgia State in the mid 80s!
I dug out my old textbook, The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, (1985, ed. Dave Smith & David Bottoms) which I discover has held up well over the intervening 30 or so years since I took the course, and sure enough, there is Mr. Komunyakaa. And what do you know, he just happens to be from here:
For a good bio of Komunyakaa, go here. He was in his late 30s when The Morrow Anthology was published. Today he would be 71; Yusef is about a year and a half younger than my husband. I've discovered that many people born 1943ish through 1949ish are super cool; maybe it's because they were the forefront of the Boomers.
At any rate, today's google search returned Yusef's recent poem, "Ghazal, after Ferguson,"(2015, The Emperor of Water Clocks) which just happened to contain a few lines of poetry that nicely reflected my adventure down in Atlanta this weekend.
Wishing to further engage my brain cells, I next looked up "ghazal." I thought it might be a city.
(Pronunciation: "guzzle") Originally an Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love, medieval Persian poets embraced the ghazal, eventually making it their own. Consisting of syntactically and grammatically complete couplets, the form also has an intricate rhyme scheme. Each couplet ends on the same word or phrase (the radif), and is preceded by the couplet's rhyming word (the qafia, which appears twice in the first couplet). The last couplet includes a proper name, often of the poet's. In the Persian tradition, each couplet was of the same meter and length, and the subject matter included both erotic longing and religious belief or mysticism.
From the bio, I learned that Komunyakaa's poems in his 1988 collection Dien Cai Dau, have been described as relying "on a predicable though powerful set of literary conventions." That sounds rather dull, but really, it just shows Komunyakaa's willingness to play with established forms. Apparently he is still studying literary conventions three decades later, because his 2015 "Ghazal, after Ferguson" is a wonderful contemporary example of that particular literary convention.
Enjoy the first few stanzas of "Ghazal, after Ferguson." For the entire poem, go here.
Someone go & ask Biggie to orate
what's going down in the streets.
No, an attitude is not a suicide note
written on walls around the streets
Twitter stays lockstep in the frontal lobe
as we hope for a bypass beyond the streets,
but only each day bears witness
in the echo chamber in the streets.
So. In closing, I'll just say: GO VOTE. It's the right thing to do.


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Rav, Baltimore, MD
d. 20 Kislev, 1887 (5648)
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Rabbi Hirsch Zvi Margolis Levin was born in Lithuania in 1807. He was the son of a rabbi and the descendant of a long line of rabbis which included Rashi in the 11th century and Yomtov Lipman Heller ("Tosfos Yomtov"), the great 17th century commentator and Chief Rabbi of Prague, Vienna and Krakow. Rabbi Levin received his ordination from one of the great Lithuanian yeshivot and settled in his wife's hometown of Wirballin.
Rabbi Levin's brothers-in-law, Samuel, Moses and Benjamin Winstock had immigrated to Charleston in the 1830's and he decided to follow them to America. Rabbi Levin arrived in Charleston in 1852 and immediately organized an Orthodox Ashkenazic Congregation, "Brith Sholom". This synagogue still exists today as "Brith Sholom Beth Israel" and is located on Rutledge Avenue. The congregation was made up of poor immigrants whose meager contributions (12 cents to $1.50) were recorded in Rabbi Levin's notebook (still in the family). The notebook also includes sermons and blessings, written in a fine Hebrew hand. The entries reveal a profound knowledge of Torah, Talmud, and mystical texts, which indicates that Rabbi Levin was among the most learned of American Jewish religious leaders.
Rabbi Levin continued to shepherd his flock throughout the War Between the States and the eighteen months of the daily bombardment of Charleston, the longest siege in military history. During the siege, the congregation met in rented quarters on St. Philip Street, the heart of Charleston's Jewish quarter, just out of range of Union shells. The Rabbi's son-in-law, Harris Levin, served with Confederate forces as did his brother-in-law, Moses Winstock and several other family members. His daughter, Dora Amelia, volunteered as a nurse and cared for Confederates wounded in Virginia.
Rabbi Levin served for 20 years as spiritual leader of Brith Sholom until the early 1870's when, in the dark days of the Federal occupation of Charleston, he moved his family to Baltimore. He continued to function in that city as "rabbi and teacher in Israel." When he died in 1887, he was eulogized in the Baltimore Press as "The Jewish Patriarch of Maryland".
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Very interesting.
Rabbi Hirsch Zvi "Margolis" Levin – was Margolis his original name…?
Can someone translate the following:
1st line: אבי (singular?)
2nd line: ויא (???)
Margolies was his original name, see here:
perhaps he had only one child, or he was only survived by one, or the its an abbreviation for
אבינו = אבי'
the ויא is an acronym for וירא אלקים
Thanx Miller!
According to the GENI link, he was survived by a few children. Hard to tell if it's meant to be abbrevitaed.
Line 4: does it read ימים ארורים (cursed days)? – can u kindly read me that complete line – interesting nusach. Did he pass away somewhat tragically or else 80 years old in the 1880's is considered 100+ in our day in age.
From what Ive found online, He was on a wagon and it was getting close to Shabbos, so he jumped off so as not to be riding on Shabbos. He was run over by the wagon and died of his injuries a few days later
(why not halt the wagon and get off… bit strange this story, nevertheless, somehow he slipped under the carriage)
On the bottom part of the marker, there's a name etched in (C. E. ?????)
CE Ehmann is the signature of the stone carver. This signature is found in other Baltimore area cemeteries such as the Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery or the Oheb Shalom Cemetery.


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Job Stress: Finding Life's Direction
Published Date 6/19/2012
Category: Career And Finances
Sometimes when life lessons happen along our journey, it's difficult to understand why. One gets so wrapped up in the stress surrounding the situation that the focus on awareness is lost. Almost every situation has a lesson with it that can bring with it healing and spiritual growth. Try to step outside of the immediate reaction to the situation and observe what would help the situation. Is it the path that you have chosen that needs to take a different direction? Is it a temporary storm that you just need to handle differently in order to survive with an inner peace and confidence?
When the question is career or finances, the first question I ask the universe is – is this person truly following their heart's mission? Often times, if you follow your heart's natural talent, the money in time will follow. Job stress happens everywhere, but when the bottom line is contributing to a work that you love, it seems more worthwhile. When it feels unbearable to continue often it's because that person has for one reason or another, stepped away from doing what they are best at, what they most wish to do. I'm not saying there can't be jobs in the meantime to support you towards your goal, but if you lose sight of the goal itself, you will not be satisfied with the result. Always remember to follow your dreams.
The other key to what I see as the root of financial success, may sound simpler, but it in actuality it can be the biggest challenge to overcome. Our biggest enemy can be our own lack of manifestation. Once you are determined to follow your dream you must believe that dream is possible. Free will is a wonderful thing -- you can control the path that you take, but it is much easier to achieve that path when you know the thing you are asking the universe for is absolutely possible. If you have a talent but you do not manifest the possibility of growing the dream into reality-- then the universe may hold it for you always as simply an unreachable dream. Firmly understanding that something WILL happen for you is as important, if not more so, than having a direction to believe IN. Once you have a clear idea of what you want, and then ask the universe specifically for that intention, state that goal daily in your mind, remove all doubt, and live as if it IS your reality. Do something daily towards that goal and speak of it as if it has already happened.
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Moody's Investors Service said Nigeria's economy remains resilient in the face of falling oil prices even as the currency slumped to a record low and growth in Africa's largest crude producer is set to slow.
Nigeria economy, the continent's biggest, will probably expand 5 percent next year, Aurelien Mali, Moody's senior analytical adviser, said today in an e-mailed statement. That's in line with forecasts from the International Monetary Fund and the government's revised estimate of 5.35 percent.
The West African nation's government relies on crude exports for about 70 percent of its income and 95 percent of foreign exchange earnings, leaving it vulnerable to price and quantity shocks. Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is seeking to cut spending in next year's budget by 8 percent to 4.36 trillion naira ($23.9 billion) as revenue plunges.
"Nigeria benefits from a resilient economy and robust fiscal position, although the recent drop in oil prices will likely put pressure on public finances and could lead to the widening of fiscal deficits," Moody's said. Spending cuts and taxes on non-oil industries may help to close the gap, it said.
Moody's rates Nigeria's debt at Ba3, three levels below investment grade, with a stable outlook.
Oil prices have slumped 45 percent in the past six months, eroding foreign-currency reserves and forcing the central bank to devalue the currency for the first time in three years. The naira fell 1.3 percent to 182.35 per dollar on the interbank market as of 4:10 p.m. in Lagos, the commercial capital.
Nigeria's government debt, which is "very low" at 13.2 percent of gross domestic product, will probably increase to 14.6 percent in 2015, Moody's said. As a proportion of government revenue, debt is set to rise to 130 percent from 121.8 percent, it said. Both ratios are low compared to market peers rated Ba3, according to Moody's.


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Kami & Jim Buy a Two-Flat!
Our friends Kami and Jim recently bought their first place. Their excitement is contagious; their stress and workload heavy. We went over to help out with some initial stages of
turning the house into their home, and began by tearing up the linoleum floor in the kitchen. What we found were neatly stacked layers of newspapers (from 1967 and 1972, but no years in between) separating the linoleum from the hardwood. Apparently this is one old method of insulation…
Ripping down wallpaper, fixing plaster walls, replacing space heaters with central heating: we think Kami and Jim will be near expert status at the end of it all. The 1908 building is approaching its 100-year anniversary, so they're aiming for a centennial celebration house party in 2008.
They started documenting their progress here on day one, and we'll be checking in regularly to see how it's going. Anyone else doing (or have you done) a major overhaul and have questions or advice to share with these ambitious new kids on the block?
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Well it's now nearly nine months since my I Hate Google Instant!!! post and things are no better. In fact, if anything, it seems to be getting worse.
I've now given up trying to use Internet Explorer (IE) to do Google queries as I'm sick of having my browser freeze up completely as Google tries to constantly update my screen with interim premature results that have no relevancy to what I'm looking for.
No IE bashing follows…
Now, I know the populist view might be to blame Internet Explorer as an inefficient browser, but I'm sorry to disappoint you all by telling you that it works fine with everything else.
You'd almost think it was a conspiracy though. Are Microsoft trying to force me onto Bing or is Google trying to get me to use Chrome? Well, I'm happy to disappoint both of them. I'm now on Firefox using Google, which still slows to a crawl unnecessarily, but at least doesn't hang completely.
Sadly, like many other people I can't ditch Google as despite its recent pointless and irritating improvements, it is still the best search engine for results. Sorry Bing, but you need a lot more than a new name if you want us all to switch.
But what is it for?
Exactly! As per the last post on this subject, we return to the question that has been on everyone's lips for quite some time, "what exactly is Google Instant for?"
If I wanted the results for half the word or phrase I'm looking for, then surely I'd only be typing half the word or phrase in the first place?
For Example
Let's take the role of a potential customer for the company of Swap yer for a driveway? fame. So I'm looking for someone who does concrete driveways in the Blackpool area. Here goes:
- C – pulls up Currys. Er, no I don't need any electrical equipment thanks..
- Co – brings up Comet. Hmmm… Didn't I just say I don't want any household electrical items?
- Con – gives me Congestion Charging. Well, it might be useful if I ever go driving in London, but right now I'm in Lancashire..
- Conc – results in Concorde. A Wikipedia definition? I know that the cost of a new driveway might be equivalent to what it used to cost to fly on Concorde, but I hardly see how it is relevant. Keep trying Google…
- Concr – after a brief screen freeze, I get the Wikipedia definition for Concrete. Well, we're getting somewhere I suppose. Did you know that the word originates from the Latin word "concretus" (meaning compact or condensed)?
- Concrete D – gets me one of those awful internet directory sites promising to get me the best pattern imprinted concrete installer in my area, whilst bombarding me with Google AdSense adverts…
- Concrete Driveways – I now get Paving Expert, a very interesting site with a forum, faqs and more about paving and pattern imprinted concrete created by former installers who now do consultancy work for large urban projects. Not much use for my humble dwelling!
- Concrete Driveways B – and next is a local patterned concrete supplier for the Bristol area
- Concrete Driveways Bl – and finally Blackpool! Wahoo! We're there.
Okay, so that's eight wholly unnecessary screen refreshes before I get to what I was after, namely Concrete Driveways Blackpool.
And was it faster? Nope!! In fact, the slow down and occasional freeze means that it takes longer. So what's the point?
No better than spam…
And here's a thought. Spam (unsolicited email, not the meat of Monty Python fame) gets a bad name for a number of reasons, one of them being that worldwide it accounts for significant unwanted network traffic, making servers work much harder for no reward.
Well, could Google not be said to be doing the same? We're not talking about advertising here, but worldwide, Google Instant must be using exponentially more bandwidth than is necessary and for little result.
Even customers I've spoken to whose browsers do not freeze have said that they largely ignore what's happening on the screen until they've finished typing!
No solution in sight…
And after all this time, and the internet awash with blogs posts like this one, Google still hasn't taken the hint and provided a foolproof way to disable it.
It can be disabled using Google's settings screen, but that means it gets stored in a cookie which is lost as soon as internet savvy individuals like myself clear down their temporary internet files. i.e. every time my browser closes.
C'mon Google, please, please, please either get rid of this useless irritating gimic or give us a querystring value that we can pass to turn the damned thing off.
And relax…
Right, rant over. Time to get back to work.


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Imagine that you're out hiking in the mountains and you decide you want to visit the highest peak in the park. You decide to start by heading toward the peak nearest you. Following the path, you get to the top and see that another nearby peak is higher. How many times would you climb the nearest peak without direction, hoping you'd land in the right place eventually? Do you think you'd ever find what you were looking for? Or would you collapse in a pile of sweaty, panting defeat three hours before sunset?
Unfortunately, the latter is probably closer to the truth. If you'd managed to get up higher and get a better lay of the land, or even if you had a map that laid out all the options and paths to your goal, you would have been able to work toward your solution without nearly so much suffering.
Well, in ideation, all those hills surrounding the peak would represent the local maximum, whereas that distant, lofty peak would be the global maximum. When you experiment with an eye only to the local maximum, you're working with a refinement approach. This approach can give you a better result than you had before, but the problem with that approach is that, as you refine and refine toward an ultimate hoped-for solution, it's possible that you will miss actually arriving at the best solution. An approach that embraces exploration is often more likely to get you closer to the best solution, and the best way to get the lay of the land is to take risks and experiment with more possible variations that create significant changes.
This is one important reason why you should employ multiple possible solutions that test your hypothesis in each experiment. When you experiment on many possibilities, treat each component as its own variation. Each one is a road that could lead to the best solution, and that solution may not be what you expected going into the experiment. The organizations most successful at optimizing find that their experiments reaching statistical significance often have four or more variations.
But this doesn't mean that you should just throw out the refinement approach, especially after you've done some exploration experiments and might be close to finding a solution that works, or if you're attempting to optimize smaller components of your site or app. Honing your experimentation with refinement can also elicit useful results in the right context. But it's important that you not be afraid to think big and explore even drastic or surprising ideas. The beauty of experimentation is that you can always go back, with solid data and confidence, if an experiment reveals that your changes weren't useful to your visitors.
Even if you change "enough" in your experiment, it's important to set expectations realistically, since any experiment may not give you what you expect. Eddie Hartman, Co-Founder and CPO of LegalZoom.com, explains that accepting this failure early is important. He says,
"Look, not all experiments are gonna work. If all your experiments are working, you're not being bold enough. Optimizely is what allows me and my team to be bold. To take the risks we need to take in order to achieve the success we wanna achieve."
As you begin to imagine the changes you'll make in experimentation, be focused, but don't be afraid to be bold. Bolder changes are more likely to achieve statistical significance, and experimenting with a radical change may elicit some surprising results you couldn't have anticipated simply by testing variations on a theme.
Remember that failure is a part of experimentation. With a good hypothesis, you will get closer to an understanding of why and how an experiment failed when the inevitable happens.
Once you form a hypothesis and begin your experiment, measure your macro conversions, which are your primary conversion goals (such as purchases, revenue per visitor, or leads created), but don't forget to keep track of your micro conversions, too. These are metrics related to your conversion goals that show you're headed in the right direction. You can consider using, for example, the pageviews for each page in your conversion funnel, whether a visitor watched a product video, newsletter sign-ups, or the number of clicks on your CTA. Micro conversions often precede the macro conversion, so it's helpful to follow this information to find out if you got an uplift in attention from the experiment, even if it didn't result in a full-fledged conversion. More attention still indicates that the experiment had an impact, so even if it doesn't give you the significant response you wanted, following micro conversions can at least tell you if you're on the right track--and that's good!
Also, as you move into this phase of building your hypothesis and begin thinking about running experiments, consider which changes are going to make the biggest impact in the shortest time. Your ability to take experiment results and use them to quickly implement a meaningful change should influence where and what you start to experiment with. Those changes that are high in both potential impact and ease of integration should be highest on your priority list. We'll talk about this in a little more detail in the Planning course, but it's worth considering at a high level now.


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We are delighted to welcome Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone to our team as our Communications Director. Nicole has the unique perspective of being both a communications professional and a performing artist. She grew up watching performances of Pickle Family Circus and San … Continue reading
How does social circus prevent youth violence?
Guest Blogger: Charlotte Byram, Circus Harmony CWB-USA and CWB-Brazil have partnered with The Ministry of Health Psychosocial Support Programming in San Salvador. The tour specifically focuses on leading workshops for youth in gang-controlled neighborhood. You may be wondering, what do … Continue reading
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The first week of July, Clowns Without Borders participated in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. It was the 50th anniversary of the festival, and this year's theme was Circus Arts. The National Mall was transformed. For a week, the iconic view … Continue reading
Introducing Kaitlin, our intern extraordinaire!
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Sunday, 19 June 2016
Caterpillar ID help needed
Edit 21st June: I've found a similar caterpillar (V-pug) on this site but it doesn't match the description in Porter - any thoughts?
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I have been through all the Blackthorn feeders on ukleps with no success. Here's hoping someone out there can throw some light. There is always the possibility that it is not a Blackthorn feeder and just passing through so to speak.ReplyDelete
It looks very distinctive! Annoying!!
Thanks for trying. I agree, it's quite possible it wasn't a Blackthorn feeder. Hope someone recognises it.ReplyDelete
I can't spot it in a borrowed copy of Porter. I thought I'd be clever and checked the list of species not illustrated, None of them seem to be Blackthorn feeders.ReplyDelete
Thanks for having a try, David. I have a copy of Porter but it still hasn't helped!ReplyDelete
V Pug was the closest I could find, but didn't look exactly the same. Double-striped has also been suggested but cannot find a similar photo of that one.ReplyDelete
V-Pug seems most likely - see edit in original post for web link. Thanks for all the help.ReplyDelete


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I didn't really feel like I was an adult until I was 28...I regret not making the most of the "youthful" days now!ReplyDelete
Christmas feels like a good time to switch off from adulting for me too, and I wish more of us did it all year round! I hate the expectation that being a responsible adult means life has to be boringReplyDelete
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I can't even say what age you turn into an adult. It's a bit sad that it's a thing and it makes me even sadder when I see people fretting about turn anything from between 25-35. So what. It's just a number! Some people say having kids makes you an adult.. However I disagree. I mean, I obviously look after my child, but I also am a child when I'm with him. They just bring that out of you and I love it.ReplyDelete
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'Eastenders' shows Muslim eating during Ramadan, causes controversyOctober 3rd, 2008 - 2:11 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 3 (IANS) British TV show "Eastenders" has stirred controversy by showing a Muslim character eating during Ramadan. The character Masood Ahmed, played by Nitin Ganatra, was seen eating a chapatti in his shop. The BBC has about 107 complaints from viewers who found it offensive to Muslim values.
During Ramadan, which ended earlier this week, Muslims are not meant to eat or drink between sunrise and sunset.
Dailymail.co.uk reports that the show's producers claimed it was meant to depict the character's "fallibility" but it seems to have backfired with a number of the soap's loyal viewers.
After the controversy BBC has been forced to issue a statement saying it did not mean to cause any offence by the storyline.
"Although Masood is a practising Muslim he is not intended to be representative of the British Muslim experience. He's a fictional character with flaws who realises he has let himself down in a moment of weakness," a BBC spokesperson said.
The soap showed the character being repentant for what he had done.
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(Second in a Three Part Series)
Contributed by Eileen Zollinger
The Diets:
A quick Google search of migraine diets comes up with 523,000 hits. With those kinds of numbers, where exactly is a person to start and in which ones are you supposed to put your faith and trust? Without the help of my headache specialist (HAS) to guide me, I think I would have been where most people are, lost and overwhelmed. He gave me a place to start and I took it from there. What I realized pretty quickly is that there is some good information out in the world of Google and some not so reliable information as well. Trial and error in the world of chronic migraine and elimination diets is very painful.
The idea is low -amine diet, as in low tyramine as well as several other -amines, that can cause havoc with your already over sensitized brain. That seemed easy enough. Until I realized that I had been eating a pretty steady diet of all of these -amines. This meant a significant overhaul of my diet. At this point I stood on a precipice. I could continue to eat the foods that gave me comfort, but also contributed to my migraines, or I could decide to commit to a three to four month program of trying to get my life back and see if the diet really worked. I really had nothing to lose. My migraines had caused at least one stroke that we knew about and they were continually disrupting my life and the lives of my husband, children and other family members and friends. I wanted my life back. This seemed like my best chance…I went for it…all in.
Even after understanding what was required with the elimination diet, I looked at the diet and couldn't really wrap my head around what to eat or not eat. I needed specificity and simplicity. I needed to have two lists that were simple and straightforward. Foods that were ok to eat and foods that I needed to avoid. This was what my broken brain needed to be able to take to a grocery store to shop. Individualized sheets like these made it easier for me to know what to shop for and what I could eat when I was dining out in a restaurant.
Four to Six weeks after going 'all in' on the diet, I had an amazing 22 days without a migraine. I thought I was cured!! My HAS assured me I was not. That I would continue to have migraines, but that if I stuck with the diet, I would have more control over how often they disrupted my life. He was correct, as always. I did get a migraine shortly thereafter and I didn't really understand why. I had done everything right. I hadn't cheated. I was sleeping right, exercising and not doing anything 'off plan'. I'm embarrassed to say almost gave up. It was hard to make these changes and if I was still going to have these migraines, what was the point. Luckily, my husband was there and reminded me that I had made a time commitment to stick with the plan. Four months was going to pass regardless. I could potentially be better, or back where I was…what was there to lose? So, in essence, he talked me off the ledge of giving up. I stuck with it. And for 18 months, my migraines continued to get better and better. I was averaging 2-4 migraines a month with no daily head pain. Towards the end of the 18 months, I was down to 1-3 migraines a month.
Ever the scientist at heart, I presented a theory to my HAS that maybe the diet was controlling my migraines and we didn't need the Topamax anymore. So we planned an experiment to wean off the Topamax and test the efficacy of the diet alone…that was not a success. By the time we got to no Topamax, my migraines were building in force and frequency. We added the Topamax back to the mix, but it was a confirmation to me that as great as the diet worked for me, I most definitely needed a preventive as well. At least for now. Don't miss Part 3 where I discuss the next part of my diet experiment…the ketogenic diet.
What would you be willing to modify in your diet to achieve migraine remission? If you would like to have individualized safe lists to shop from and know which foods to enjoy and avoid, please contact us.


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- AudiosureAsked on June 08, 2015 at 07:00 AM
RE: 51382493860561 - I'd like to set an automatically set start date and time in the date & time fields for appointments. I've tried all the variations I can think of but none come out on the front end.
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You can try this:
You can also do this through the properties by:
I hope this helps. Let us know if you have any further questions. Thank you.
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On behalf of my colleague, Mike, you are welcome.
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Future talents from City of Portsmouth were recognised during a presentation evening hosted at the Mountbatten Centre supported by BHLive.
The under-17, under-20 and elite squads were rewarded as Jan Saidy and Sally Chudley, of sponsors Southern Co-Operative (under-17, under-20) and Paul Jones Private Hire (elite) presented tracksuits and met some of the stars of the future.
Andrew Vincent, chairman of City of Portsmouth, said: 'There is a real importance in bridging the gap between youth and senior athletics and our schemes aim to support this development.'
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The joy of exploration is further minimized when one ugly truth rears its head: Flames of Vengeance almost entirely eliminates your dragon form, and completely negates the purpose of your Battle Tower. These two factors were the very things that made Ego Draconis stand out: the latter because it served as a base of operations where you could brew potions and enchant weapons, and the former because, let's face it, getting to be a dragon is every fantasy fan's dream. Your Battle Tower does still exist and it serves as a dumping spot for your herbs, gems, and other crafting materials, but all its other services can be found in Aleroth itself. It turns the second-coolest part of Divinity II into a glorified storage unit that takes a couple loading screens to access.
Removing your dragon form from the equation is a much more impactful, painful decision. There is a storyline reason for your being crippled, but it's about on par with Superman 64 ("That mysterious green fog stops your powers and prevents you from seeing 99% of Metropolis!"), and Larian doesn't have the excuse of low-quality hardware to fall back on. To be fair, the one time you actually do get to switch into a dragon is absolutely epic. You get involved in a fight against insanely impossible odds, dodging enemy attacks from several dozen sources at once with a time limit, and with increasing difficulty the longer it lasts. Plus, Larian just automatically gives you all your dragon abilities to their maximum level, and a new uber-power on top of it to handle the chaos. The whole sequence actually feels like it would be more in place in an Ace Combat scenario, except your dragon is infinitely more responsive than an aircraft due to your ability to stop and turn on a dime. That one fight was almost worth the price of admission alone, and it showed how incredible Divinity II could be if it exploited its unique features.
Despite the dragon sequence initially feeling impossible in those opening moments, one extremely striking improvement showed itself in the process. Every fight in Flames, from the first encounter to the final boss, is perfectly in balance on the standard difficulty level. In fact, at first I was afraid Larian had swung the balance too far, because I was able to cut through the fodder enemies like they were… well, like they were fodder. But then I encountered the first of about a dozen boss battles, and I realized that I was simply experiencing a fantastic balance that downplays the strength of the minions while putting more weight to the bosses. Make no mistake, there were several game over's, but in every single instance, it was either because my tactics were wrong, or I didn't get to those health potions in time. The final boss will absolutely test the extent of your character, and you'll have to whip out every ability at your disposal to finish out the game.
That said, despite the balance being fantastic, combat itself is still pretty dry. There is no way to defend yourself other than dodging, so fights pretty quickly break down to you running around like a headless chicken. The problem is even worse for any ranged attacker, be it an archer or mage, who basically will spend 90% of every battle strafing to dodge return fire. It's inelegant and chaotic for the wrong reasons, and it feels more glaring because there is no dragon combat (save that one exception) to break up the monotony. The aforementioned quests don't help either, considering almost all of them are fetch quests; your character's increasingly cynical attitude about them doesn't forgive the fact that you are a glorified postman for most of the game.
Worse still is the lack of quest markers, yet another problem carried over from the core game. Look, I'm all for exploration and discovery, but not everyone wants to go pixel-hunting in an action RPG. There is one particular main quest that tasks you with finding five buttons spread throughout the streets of Aleroth that you must press to continue the story. Never mind that the game doesn't bother to tell you that two cannot be accessed until much later—which in itself is annoying—but one button in particular is hidden behind a bush in a corner of one street that the camera has no reason to look at. You basically would only stumble on the button by exploring literally every inch of the city or having eyes like a hawk (and seeing a tiny red glow through the leaves of the bush). Good and great RPGs—Fallout: New Vegas, Fable 3, Dragon Age: Origins, and Mass Effect 2 just to name releases from the last year—reward players for exploring with special quests and unique loot, which is fine. However, forcing players to look in obscure spots with no help due to storyline quests with absolutely zero information is just overkill. (One main quest, which is divided into five parts, has the horrific description in the quest log of "I need five clues to continue, but I don't know where they are, so I guess I better just look around.") Perhaps some players like the "challenge," but many—the ones only interested in the story and not collect-aholics—have better things to do than waste time looking for glowing buttons.
Ultimately, none of the quests break any rules established in Ego Draconis: the core game featured quests that could not yet be completed when you got them, as well as required objects or objectives in obscure areas with no hints to the fact. So for better or worse, if you dealt with it already in Ego Draconis or you have the patience for it in general, Flames of Vengeance doesn't do anything radically stupid in comparison. The expansion does bluntly tell you when the game is about to end, allowing you a last chance to make sure you've completed everything you want to complete, which is always appreciated.
Like the quest format and third-person human-to-monster combat, music and graphics are completely unchanged. Other than added voice acting for the new lines of dialogue, there are no new sounds to experience. There are no new powers (other than a special dragon power), and no new effects for the ones already established. However, there are a few new item sets, including three sets you get immediately in the core game to help you blitz through it, but nothing epic or particularly interesting.
The Verdict
Divinity II, when it works and shows off its best features, does offer a solid experience in the action RPG world. Flames of Vengeance sadly chooses to show off the best features in only a single (albeit incredible) sequence, while downplaying what made the core game work in the first place. Although the combat balance was fixed, other parts were slashed, and the total package feels like the opening half (i.e., the worse half) of the core game. Still, Divinity II isn't a bad game. If you haven't played it at all, you might want to consider picking up the package deal (called "Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga"), which also reworks some of the content from Ego Draconis. However, if you've already played Divinity II, remember that Flames of Vengeance will test your patience; consider that before deciding on your purchase.


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Brittany Monk is in jail connected to the death or Robert Noce. Noce was found dead, stuffed into a 55-gallon drum in the kitchen of his home in Zachary.
Last week, a judge agreed to lower Monk's bond from $400,000 to $149,000. Records from the hearing where the bond was reduced, indicate the judge agreed with the reduction so Monk could get medical treatment and attend school. It was not immediately clear what her medical condition is or where she would enroll in classes.
If Monk is able to post bond, a hearing must be held before she can be released, the judge ordered.
Monk's fiance, Jace Crehan, is also implicated in the murder plot.
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WBRZ first reported in July, court filings indicate Noce abused Monk for years when he was her stepfather. The pair lived together after Monk's mother left them and two younger children. According to the court records, Monk's mother left after being raped by Noce.
While in jail, Monk gave birth to a child she shares with Crehan. The child is in the custody of Crehan's family.
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The LEK Labs Wild West Adventure app is a fun, location-based quiz designed specifically for the LEK staff to play while at a corporate getaway.
The app is presented as a wild west-themed treasure hunt, with a hand-drawn map containing a series of latitude / longitude waypoints. Players log in and begin the countdown for a 90-minute game clock. By running from waypoint to waypoint, players trigger riddles, company trivia questions, or dastardly traps.
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I travelled to Polegate from Eastbourne by train on my birthday, March 18. I was with friends and we got up in reasonable time at the station, but didn't press the door button in time for it to open. I bashed frantically away at it and the train guard refused to help. He refused to let me pull the emergency cord, probably with good reason. We all ended up in Berwick and had to call an emergency taxi to Polegate, with a 10-minute wait. The taxi driver charged us £10 from Berwick to Polegate, which we thought was a bit unreasonable. Do I have a case for complaint here?
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Currently only available for Glock 9/40/357 for right hand shooters (worn on the left side of the body. Available as either a belt clip (49.99) or a paddle model (59.99).
The Comp-Tac Twin Magazine Belt Pouch provides a rigid material that is custom fit to each magazine and maintains its shape even with the magazine removed. The smooth low friction surface allows for a fast magazine removal and easy one-handed insertion of the magazine. The Kydex body will not bend or stretch over time and is impervious to sweat and solvents. Each magazine pouch is tension adjustable allowing for a perfect fit for each magazine.
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The Twin Magazine Belt Pouch is IDPA, USPSA and IPSC legal.
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The Paddle attachment is the fastest attachment system available. The paddle allows you to slide the holster on while you belt is already threaded through the loops. The paddle backing curves over the belt and pants so the paddle portion sits inside your waistband. There are two forward curving tabs that "grab" on to the bottom of your belt to help stabilize the magazine pouches keeping the pouches in position while removing the magazine. The paddle can be worn with any pants regardless of where your pants loops are. Quick to put on or take off the paddle can also fit belts up to 2" in width.
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Thread: Not Masturbating.... Does it help girth that much??
- 01-25-2013 #11
I can't stick out for more than a day...i bate almost every dayCurrent stats:
NBPEL: 7.6''(19.2 cm)
BPEL: 8.1'' (20.5 cm)
MSEG: 5.9'' (15 cm)
Short term goal: BPEL: 8.3''(21 cm) MSEG: 6''(15.3 cm)
Long term goal: NBPEL: 8.3''(21 cm) BPEL: 9.1''(23 cm) MSEG: 6.5-6.7"(16.5-17 cm)
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I have not masturbated this year yet! I am doing the 90 day challenge with another forum just to try to remained focused and more alert in other aspects of my life. I am 25 days in from the 90 days and have experienced amazing results. Whether they are just placebo effects I am not sure. I will try to make this short as it is not directly answering the question. I am far more alert, I can sleep faster and wake up eariler, I am more talkative and social and generally feel better about my life. Perhaps this is because I am on holidays and it is the summer but I cannot be sure. Having a small degree of psychological ED, no porn/masturbating has made my sex life far better apart from a few mistakes. In terms of girth gains, I have gained about 1/4 inch from about 8 weeks ago. Unsure if any of that was due to no masturbation. On a sidenote and thankfully, I have sex regularly!Start
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This helped out a lot actually thank you. I just wanted to make sure I wasnt crazy for trying this idea out, but yah if it has helped you out with the following things you mentioned then I am going to continue. Sex is the exception to this rule of course, I'm not that insane haha
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I went 4 days then splat, lol... I'm not wanting to go a full 90 days without MB, but maybe about every 5th day I'll release. If I wait too long and let it build up, it drives me crazy and I have trouble thinking about anything but cumming. NO PORN, DAY 7 thinking though... should I go more than 5 days without MB since I'm trying to heal my dick? as in, the pain and throbbing, cold head and shitty EL...smaLLer than beFore
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Nice man, right on. You down for the 90 day challenge haha?
- 01-26-2013 #18
Yeah I'm kicking the porn also, but not the sexStart date: 1/16/13 NBPEL 6.2' EG 5'
Short term NBPEL 7' EG 5.5' (Using Bathmate, Extender, Jelq)
My Log
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The AP90 is for quitting porn not for quitting masturbation, anything from 2 - 5 times a week of masturbating is healthy and should not be eliminated. It is quite helpful is correct doses for prostate health. You dont want a load of old fluid building up in your prostate going nowhere it really isnt goodStarting Point: September 2010: 6.5" x 5"
Goal: 8" x 6"
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Trying to spread PE to a bigger audience, money off some Penis Devices too!
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Much more to life
Everything you've ever accomplished has been done using just a small fraction of your capabilities. What if you could make use of just a little bit more?
All that you've experienced has come from just a tiny corner in the universe of your possibilities. Imagine growing your awareness, your thinking and your actions beyond that corner.
If something seems impossible, that's because you're looking at it from a limited perspective. Consider that there is so very much more to life than what you have thus far encountered.
What you have and what you know are extremely valuable. Yet there also is infinitely more value to be found by exploring the possibilities that exist beyond where you already are.
No matter how many sunrises you've experienced so far, the next one brings with it a whole new world. No matter how far you've already come, this moment now is a new beginning.
Life is constantly reinventing itself while at the same time holding true to timeless values. Allow the very best possibilities to take you ever higher.
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