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SolNet sales and marketing director John Hanna says "track record" is what matters. The agency would have to be known to him or his peers, and if the agency was new he would ask his peers what they were like. Hanna says he would also spend time with its bosses, to understand where they came from, their history and their knowledge of his business.
But while agencies are responsible for vetting people and taking pressure off employers in the recruiting process, Hanna says "the buck stops with the employer" as it is they who makes the final appointment.
Paul Osborne, general manager of Auckland software company RPK New Zealand, says when he set up the business he sought recommendations from contacts in the IT sector. He "vetted" recruiters by telephone and invited five or 10 to send CVs for the positions he had to fill. The agency that sent the best CVs succeeded in placing jobs for its candidates, as well as gaining the work from RPK.
Linda Harper, operations manager of telecomms equipment supplier Rocom Wireless, says her company has "closely aligned" itself with Cooper & Osborne (which was recently taken over by IT@Manpower). Harper says Rocom asked other IT companies which agencies they used and how good they were. Rocom also spoke with people who had been employed through those agencies.
Rocom says Cooper & Osborne is very professional in understanding its business and the importance of getting the right staff. The recruiter, for instance, made follow-up enquiries to appointments to avoid teething troubles. Harper says employers "must do their homework" and be explicit in seeking feedback from other companies and agencies. They must also realise it is as important to have a good relationship with an individual consultant as with the agency overall, she says.
Computer Associates finance director Paul Wallace says when his firm uses agencies it usually uses a couple rather than one. That way companies can get more coverage for their vacancy, he says. They must also set clear requirements as to what they want from an agency, he says.
Phil Holliday, director of mobile products specialists iTouch, says it is essential to create a "close relationship" with agencies, with them understanding your needs. However, iTouch prefers not to use agencies, claiming job boards and press advertising offer better value.
For their part, recruiters say selecting an agency should be even more thorough than choosing a staffer.
"You should do due diligence on an agency to assess their suitability as you would any key supplier," says Barry O'Brien of Enterprise. "History, structure, ownership, financial viability and soundness, qualifications of staff, experience of the people who will be servicing your account." Reference-check the agency's key clients in the same field, he says.
Candle's Auckland manager Christine Fitchew says a formal selection process should be used, perhaps in the form of a tender. Tender requirements should include things like the organisation's quality processes, the tenure and experience of staff looking after the account and the recruitment methodology of the agency.
Pinnacle recruitment's Ross Turner says "relationships" are what matters. The recruiter must understand your needs, your industry and where to find staff, otherwise clients are wasting their time.
Sally Breed of IT@Work touts boutique agencies, saying they tend to have lower staff turnover. This means employers can develop a rapport with a consultant who remains with the firm a long time and is often a working director. These agencies also tend to attract experienced recruiters who, after working for one of the big firms, decide that small is best.
Hugh Lloyd of Recruitment Solutions says a major agency may have a large and global database, with strong branding and advertising power and have many candidates coming through their doors. But their payment plans may be less flexible and service levels are lower than at the boutiques because staff tend not to stay so long.
Specialist agencies are best for finding specialist skills, Lloyd says, as those agencies "know the industry back-to-front and can offer sound advice on the market". They have a profile in the industry and their databases are exclusive to the industry. But a specialist cannot be used as a "one-stop shop" for all your recruiting needs, he says.
Greenwood is Computerworld's HR and employment reporter.


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Fogia will participate at the world's most important design fair –Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan the 12-17th of April. A selection of Fogias collection will be presented to a large international audience at the Swedish pavilion. At the fair we will for the first time show the neat little shelf Archetto designed by Note for Fogia. We will also show the new and popular Ceramics by Carina Seth Andersson, Bollo armchair and Tiki 3 seater sofa in leather by Andreas Engesvik, Arch shelves and Tabula table by Note and armchair Tondo by Stefan Borselius.
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Alexandre Aja's controversial Haute Tension is drawing understandable comparisons to some of Dario Argento's best work. There's a voyeuristic feel to Aja's slick, ever-gliding camera, and there's a set piece in the film that calls ghoulish attention to a cornered character's psychological and physical sightlessness, recalling a similarly fabulous death sequence from The Cat O' Nine Tails. Aja, though, is a product of his time and Haute Tension is horror for the Irréversible generation. Which is to say, the film's disturbingly lurid, sometimes riveting (dare I say fun?), but often offensive spectacle of violence says less about the world than the filmmaker's own personal hang-ups and aesthetic obsessions: This a film by someone with a major hard-on for lesbians and an even more disturbing fixation on gimmicky Hollywood productions.
Baby dyke Marie (Cécile de France) and her nubile friend Alex (Maïwenn Le Besco) go to Alex's country house for an unspecified holiday period, and it's there that a psycho killer murders Alex's entire family. Hog-tied in the back of the killer's rusty van (courtesy of Jeepers Creepers), Alex can do nothing but wait until Marie rescues her from the clutches of the film's lascivious killer, who's introduced via a distasteful sequence during which he's receiving a blow job. Despite the troublesome fact that Marie's implied lesbianism more or less permits the spectacle of gore, Aja directs a good show for some 60-odd minutes, repeatedly inventing ways to corner Marie in one enclosed space after another, only to then pull an Identity sleight of hand. (Those wanting to preserve the film's last-act revelation should probably stop reading here.)
When the killer enters Alex's house, he kills her parents and little brother but still senses there may be someone else in the house despite everyone in a family portrait having been accounted for. That Marie so easily taps into this hyper-awareness makes for some of the film's more riveting moments (knowing the killer would check the sink and lift one side of a mattress in her bedroom hideaway; using the sound of a self-serve gas dispenser to hide the sound of her running feet). We don't know it yet, but the director is playing us, and he subverts the occasional horror trope (when Marie lifts her face to look into a gas station mirror, the killer's reflection isn't there to greet her) to both throw us off the track and once again set up the logic for the stunt he's about to pull.
Haute Tension opens with a dream sequence: a bloody Marie runs through the countryside, an image that anticipates and reworks itself for the film's final showdown. Marie wakes up and tells Alex that she dreamt she was chasing herself, the first of many references to the identity crisis that motivates many of the film's images. When it's revealed that Marie is really the film's killer, Aja opens a major can of worms. This revelation retroactively adds a certain psychological weight to some sequences; indeed, if you are bothered by Aja's refusal to humanize the film's killer (he never lingers on the old man's eyes), one can now make the case that the entire film is shot from Marie's distorted perspective and that she was too afraid to look at the beast within.
When Marie hides in a closet and watches the killer slice into Alex's mother, she's essentially watching herself commit the crime. The woman falls forward and her body closes the closet shutters as it slides down to the floor. It's a great moment: Marie is cornered once again and this completely random act (both the murder and the positioning of the falling body) limits the killer's sightline, thus saving her. But when you discover that Marie is the killer, what does the closet door represent but a split between selves? When the shutters close, they represent Marie's refusal to look at that part of her she wishes she could ignore or destroy. Aja successfully works the film's identity punchline into his self-conscious aesthetic, but the gimmick does not excuse the film's moral shadiness.
It's easy to explain away something like the van in the film as never having existed, but what's to be made of the collection of female headshots the killer collects and pastes on the rearview mirror? Has Marie killed before or are these relics indicative of all the girls she wishes she could kill? Don't bother trying to figure any of this out. Aja is so concerned with setting up a shot that he can scarcely be bothered to offer moral or emotional clarity. Like Identity, Haute Tension is a film with a ready-made alibi: It lazily asks the spectator to accept anything with a plot hole as a mere figment of the killer's imagination. Haute Tension is really two films in one, and it works better as a diabolical, no-holds-barred evocation of a girl who just happens to have lesbian tendencies trying to save her best friend from a supremely random act of terror. Post-twist, it becomes something entirely more shameless.
It's obvious Aja has issues with women—par for course for anyone so obviously indebted to Lucio Fulci and Wes Craven (his next film is a remake of The Hills Have Eyes—but you can't ignore the unaddressed identity politics that retroactively work their way into the film's images. Aja dangerously likens girl-on-girl desire to something sinister, and it's something that can't be ignored. (Somewhere Vito Russo is spinning in his grave.) There's something ugly about the scene where the killer receives a blow job from a severed female head. Assuming Marie and Alex had yet to arrive at the country house, perhaps the scene is another embellishment. But what does it say about Marie that she represents the evil inside her as a skeezy old man played by Gaspar Noé regular Philippe Nahon? Blow job. Cunnilingus. Man. Woman. They're all the same for Aja as long as it keeps us in the dark.
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Promote "circular migration" by providing re-entry visas for migrants on renewable short-term contracts, reducing transactions costs for remittances, providing policy incentives for migrants to use their contacts to set up companies in their home countries, and policies to enable developed countries to pay for the training invested in migrants for poor countries.
This is an effective response to the "brain drain," which often deprives developing countries of their human capital and has serious consequences for the delivery of key services such as education or health care. Circular migration can be supported through re-entry visas for migrants on renewable short-term contracts, portable pensions, and other social benefits.
"Ethical recruitment" practices and measures to improve working conditions, infrastructure and career opportunities for high-skilled personnel in developing countries should accompany the acquisition of professionals from sectors exposed to the brain drain. On-the-job training and skill acquisition schemes affecting migrants' employability and knowledge transfer can also support circular migration.
The number of professionals could be increased through a trade-off with developed countries. For example, a developing country trains four nurses: a developed country takes one while the developing country retains three. Countries who take on skilled professionals from developing countries should pay for the skills and the training that have been invested in them.
Remittances will contribute more to job creation if policies help to create stronger incentives to save and invest in migrants" countries of origin—particularly in community development projects and small-scale labor-intensive business.
Policies should seek to create incentives to use more of the remittances for productive investments. Expanded access to money transfer institutions, a reduction in transaction fees and improved safety of money transfers should also be promoted. Remittances can counterbalance the deficiency of local insurance systems and function as social safety nets.


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Several Carlock Copeland Attorneys in Attendance at Claims and Litigation Management Alliance's (CLM) 2017 Claims College
September 06, 2017 / Location: Baltimore, MD
Angela Kopet was named to the CLM 2017 Claims College faculty, which Carlock Copeland sponsored. Claims and Litigation Management Alliance's (CLM) 2017 Claims College was in Baltimore, MD, September 6-9, 2017. Angela taught in the School of Leadership – Leading Through Change & Adversity, on Friday September 8, 2017 and the School of Casualty Claims – Level 2: Case Resolution: Development of Negotiation Strategy, also on Friday September 8, 2017.
Patrick Norris attended as our sponsor representative and Lee Weatherly was in attendance, as a member of CLM Claims College's Medical Malpractice and Health Care Sub-Committee.
Melissa Bailey, Will Farley and Andy Yoho all attended as students. The CLM Claims College features more than 80 collaborative educational sessions and keynote presentations designed by industry professionals to help attendees gain the knowledge they need to be on the forefront of the industry.
Pictured are Patrick Norris and Andy Yoho, both attorneys in our Charleston office, at the Carlock Copeland sponsor table.


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The royal wedding fast approaches and the central story line about the big day, somewhat improbably, is about Meghan Markle's father's side of the family, as there is a major question mark as to whether or not Thomas Markle will be attending the wedding to walk his daughter down the aisle. While it increasingly appears that Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, will be the only member of her family present in London for the ceremony, this felt like a very appropriate time to map out exactly who these characters are, and what their roles actually are in the future royal's life.
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A goiter is an enlarged thyroid gland. It can range from an enlargement that is slight and unnoticeable to a lump that is visible and pronounced. In some cases a goiter is not associated with thyroid disease, and in other cases the presence of a goiter can be a sign of hypothyroidism. If you have a goiter, your healthcare provider can use tests to determine what may be causing it.
Thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer
Thyroid nodules are lumps that may develop on the thyroid. They can range in size, and they can appear as a single nodule or as many nodules. If you have many, it causes a goiter—this is called a multinodular goiter.
Most thyroid nodules are benign, which means they are harmless. But in about 5% of cases, these nodules can be cancerous.1 This risk might be higher for you if you have a family history of thyroid cancer, or if you have a history of radiation exposure, particularly to the head or neck.2 Because thyroid cancer is a possibility, it is important to share with your healthcare provider if you think you see or feel nodules on your thyroid.
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• Feeling of fullness in the throat
• Pain in the neck or ear
If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, see your doctor right away for a proper diagnosis.goiter, thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer
Diagnosing thyroid conditions
Your doctor will evaluate your symptoms, perform a physical examination, and use tests to determine if you have a goiter, thyroid nodules or thyroid cancer. And since these conditions can be associated with hypothyroidism, your doctor may use a thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) test to determine if you have hypothyroidism, too.
TSH is produced by the pituitary, a small gland in your brain. TSH is a hormone your body naturally produces if it senses that your thyroid is not releasing enough of its main hormone, thyroxine. A healthy thyroid receives the message and responds by producing more thyroxine. This helps to keep your hormone levels within a normal range.
If you have hypothyroidism, your TSH levels will often be elevated because your thyroid is not able to produce enough thyroxine. This overproduction of TSH can enlarge the thyroid, causing a goiter.3
A TSH test can help determine if your thyroid is underperforming, and if you may have hypothyroidism. It is recognized as the most reliable test of its kind.3
Your healthcare provider may also use other tests to determine the nature of a goiter or thyroid nodule. These may include other thyroid function tests or scans, an ultrasound or a biopsy. A specific biopsy called fine needle aspiration is often used to determine the nature of a goiter or thyroid nodule.3 This procedure can be done in a doctor's office under local anesthetic and can determine if a thyroid nodule is cancerous or benign.
Treatment for thyroid conditions
If hypothyroidism is causing your goiter or thyroid nodules, your healthcare provider will probably prescribe a medication that replaces the thyroid hormone your body needs but is not producing.
If you are prescribed a thyroid replacement treatment, it is important to keep taking your medication, even if your goiter or thyroid nodules disappear. Your healthcare provider will carefully monitor your TSH levels regularly. Over time, your treatment strength may need to be adjusted.3 Generally, thyroid replacement therapy is to be taken for life.
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A DePaul University bake sale, mocking affirmative action, has exposed the student who organized the sale to an investigation on the grounds that he discriminated against and harassed other students.
The Chicago-based school is investigating whether senior Michael O'Shea may have violated the school's anti-discriminatory harassment policy with an "affirmative action bake sale" he organized with the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA).
Affirmative action bake sales, in which white and Asian students are charged more for baked goods than blacks and Hispanics, are popular among conservative activists on college campuses. They are designed to criticize affirmative action policies, not to raise funds.
After the DCA protest sparked what the school's student weekly newspaper called "a heated conversation" among students, university officials told organizers to shut down the bake sale. On Jan. 20, O'Shea received notification that the event was under investigation.
University spokeswoman Denise Mattson told Cybercast News Service that the review was launched because "there was a question about what the application for the event read and how it was characterized, versus how it unfolded."
But the investigation is being led by Cynthia Summers, vice president for student affairs, who investigates "concerns regarding the DePaul Anti-Discriminatory Harassment Policy and Procedures," according to a letter she sent to O'Shea.
Mattson declined to comment on whether the investigation, which she said the university prefers to call a "review," would examine charges of harassment. "I'm not that privy to exactly what they're reviewing," she said.
The DePaul anti-discrimination policy defines harassment as "any behavior (verbal, written, or physical) that abuses, assails, intimidates, demeans or victimizes or has the effect of creating a hostile environment for any person based on any of the above protected characteristics."
The wide-sweeping policy states that the university "values the free and open exchange of ideas within an academic community," but that it "will not tolerate the harassment of and/or discrimination against any person or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, parental status, family relationship status, physical or mental disability, military status, or other status protected by local, state, or federal law in its employment or education settings."
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a group that promotes free speech on college campuses, is urging DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider to apologize for stopping the bake sale and end the investigation of O'Shea.
In a Jan. 23 letter to Holtschneider, FIRE Program Manager Robert Shibley defended the bake sale as "a form of satirical political protest" and criticized the "dismaying disregard for freedom of expression and open debate at DePaul."
Shibley told Cybercast News Service that organizers of the bake sale "were expecting controversy to arise among students," but that he did not think "any student really expects the university to bring charges against them … for having what's effectively just a protest."
Although Shibley declined to predict the outcome of the DePaul investigation, FIRE has successfully convinced four other universities to allow affirmative action bake sales to continue. Administrators at the College of William and Mary, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of California-Irvine all allowed the bake sales to continue after public pressure from FIRE.
A March 2005 affirmative action bake sale at Grand Valley State University in Michigan ended with three officers from the school's chapter of the College Republicans being forced to resign. The College Republicans chapter also issued an apology to students who were offended by the protest.
Mattson, the DePaul University spokeswoman, said she expected the review to be completed "sooner rather than later," but is "not sure yet" if the findings will be made public.


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France honoured at 68th Cannes Film Festival
Cannes 2015: Taiwan celebrates Hou's best director award.
Taiwan celebrated on Monday after Hou Hsiao-hsien took the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival, with the country's president saying the prize had helped bolster the island's image on the world stage. CRITICS' NOTEBOOK: Jacques Audiard's 'Dheepan' proved a surprising choice for the Palme d'Or, not least because of the riches to be found elsewhere in the selection. Hou's film The Assassin, a slow-burning drama set in ninth-century China, cost Tw$450 million (Dh54.2 million) and took the Taiwanese director 10 years to make. But the fact that the film's win comes as refugee boats set off across Asian waters and the Mediterranean – the same sea lapping at glittering Cannes and its super-yachts – inevitably means it will figure in that context. "It's important to reflect on the situation," the movie's director, Jacques Audiard, admitted to reporters insistently raising the question. It sees a trained female killer, played by Taiwanese actress Shu Qi, sent back to her home province to kill its governor — who is also the man she loves. "The innovation and its colourful way of telling the story has inspired a new trend in the arts of film and shone in international skies, vying glory for Taiwan," he said.
Woman's footwear, of all things, was thrust to the forefront of Cannes after several women were turned away from a premiere because they weren't wearing high heels but flats. In what feels like a twist ending — one that leaves me feeling a bit like Tim Roth at the end of "Chronic" — the Cannes jury has awarded the Palme d'Or to "Dheepan," a movie that lags among my least favorites in the competition, and the weakest in Jacques Audiard's filmography.
The jury, led by American directors Joel and Ethan Coen, handed three prizes to French winners, including the top prize for Jacques Audiard's migrant drama Dheepan. People have been throwing the word "weak" around a lot this week, grousing that the official selection doesn't measure up to that of previous years. Or, as in this case, he walks down to help Jane Fonda, who appears in the film "Youuth," navigate the climb. (Photo: Bertrand Langlois, AFP/Getty Images) But the winners, and the celebration, are much more widespread. Taiwan is currently recognised by only 22 countries, as China considers the island part of its territory and demands that all diplomatic allies cut off official ties.
Francois Hollande said the prizes demonstrate "the effectiveness and originality" of French film financing "which I absolutely want to preserve and defend on a European level". I defer to you, Scott and Justin, since you've each been attending Cannes for longer than I have (this is only my fifth time on the Croisette), but if there's one thing I've learned in my time here, it's that Cannes critics always like to complain that the present year's crop feels meager by comparison to past editions, when in fact, there are exceptional films every year, and the biggest challenge facing those who cover the event is being able to recognize greatness at the moment it is unveiled to the world — to stick their necks out and call a masterpiece "a masterpiece" when it's revealed.
Two of the films which made the biggest noise — Pixar's Inside Out and George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road — were not even eligible for awards due to out-of-competition status. Hollywood heavyweight Martin Scorsese filmed his forthcoming drama Silence on the island, to be released in 2016, while Taiwan-born, US-based director Ang Lee also shot his 2012 Oscar-winning 3D adventure Life of Pi in the country. Though summer blockbusters usually only supply the festival a flashy red carpet distraction, George Miller's ''Mad Max'' sequel-reboot was perhaps the most-lauded film in Cannes, rivaled only by a far more serious sensation: ''Son of Saul,'' a tracking close-up of a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz who believes he's spotted his son in the camp's gas chamber. I'll be the first to admit to seeing it under less-than-ideal circumstances, at an 8:30 a.m. press screening, immediately following the all-nighter spent reviewing Gaspar Noe's midnight entry, "Love.") At the very least, the film brings a fresh angle to the French immigrant genre, focusing on a Sri Lankan "family" — related not by blood, but a desire to escape their war-torn homeland for a better life — who are confronted by violence and injustice in their new home (I never quite bought those crime-movie elements, undermining everything that unspools from there). And the reaction of the vocal French audience made clear that Hollywood films do not have to play it safe, or pander to the lowest-common-denominator.
For me, the clear masterpiece of the competition (and there are several) is "Son of Saul," a debut film from Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes which tells a powerful story of moral ambiguity, centered around a group of Jewish prisoners tasked with aiding the Nazis in their extermination work. As the glow of Cannes fades, here are the films from the festival that may sustain the buzz they earned on the Riviera: Premiering just days before Ireland legalized gay marriage, Todd Haynes's ''Carol'' is grippingly contemporary despite the lushness of its period drama. Thousands of Bangladeshis and ethnic Rohingya leaving Myanmar are also posing a challenge for Asian nations, especially after a Thai crackdown early this month on human trafficking threw the illicit trade into chaos. "Dheepan" keeps its action centred on its central character, a former Tamil Tiger fighter who escaped the mayhem of his war-ravaged homeland and teamed up with two strangers, a woman and a girl, to pretend to be a family to win refugee status in France. Some have accused the result of being "torture porn," but to me, it sounded like pure torture — which is one of many reasons I was ultimately so impressed by the film's thoughtful, self-aware engagement with the challenge of depicting its own subject, typically pushing the horrors off-frame or out-of-focus while the characters themselves struggle to convey the atrocities happening around them.
The actor, Anthonythasan Jesuthasan, brought authenticity to the role, having actually been a teen fighter for the Tamil Tigers who escaped to Thailand, made his way to France in 1993 and eventually got political asylum. Sicario, starring Emily Blunt as an FBI agent pulled into the drug war, left my hands raw from clapping during the ovation it received at its world premiere.
Mara shared in the best actress award at Cannes, but Harvey Weinstein, who is distributing, will ensure that's not the last honor for ''Carol.'' Also look for the tender Pixar tale ''Inside Out,'' Cotillard's empathetic Lady Macbeth, and the veteran stars of Paolo Sorrentino's ''Youth'' (Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel) to find some award season attention. SCOTT FOUNDAS: Well, Peter, you may not have been coming to Cannes as long as the rest of us, but it sounds to me like you've got it pretty well figured out. The idea that women premiere attendees were supposedly stopped from hitting the red carpet because they were not wearing heels, though denied as a policy by the festival, actually spurred on discussion about the role of women in filmmaking and challenged the perception of glamour on the famous red carpet.
Some of the other awards handed out at Cannes by a jury headed by the Coen brothers and including Jake Gyllenhaal nodded to different perplexing real-world issues. Outside of the festival, ''Dheepan'' may resonate better for its tale of Sri Lankan refugees posing as a family in order to gain asylum in France. That's understandable, I suppose, if you (or your editors) presume that Thierry Fremaux and the selection committee who choose the films for the competition are incapable of making mistakes. No matter how much the chattering journalists love to complain about the yearly slate, the schedule is maddeningly full with movies and discussions that are truly rich. Few filmmakers capture transformation like Audiard, the director of ''Rust and Bone'' and ''A Prophet.'' Cannes isn't known for its genre thrills.
But take one look at the elegant trailer that plays before every screening at the Fortnight and you'll see an impressive roll call of major international auteurs — Michael Haneke, the Dardenne brothers, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, et al. — who got their starts there before eventually becoming regulars on the festival's main stage. And the best actor trophy went to Vincent Lindon, the star of another French movie, "The Measure of a Man", which presents a jobless man struggling to maintain his dignity. Late at night, I often notice ruefully that crowds are watching festival-sponsored classic films on a giant screen right on the beach, the type of thing that would be a must-do any other time of the year. But just as the cinematic horror hit ''It Follows'' drew raves at the festival last year, ''The Green Room,'' by Jeremy Saulnier, should be marked by thriller fans.
Joel Coen, sitting next to his brother Ethan in a post-awards press conference, said of the jury duty: "Any experience as intense as this changes your life and your perspective." "We watch three strangers, forced to travel to a foreign land, essentially learn to love each other, which is something I've never really seen done in the way it is in that film," he said. In his second film following the lean revenge film ''Blue Ruin,'' Saulnier steps confidently into a bigger production, costarring Patrick Stewart, about a touring hardcore punk band that runs into trouble at a backwoods gig for Neo-Nazi skinheads. In addition to being a discovery zone, the Fortnight can also be a rediscovery zone where, in recent years, a number of notable filmmakers from cinema's past have staged notable comebacks. The third-placed movie was "The Lobster", a Greek-directed dark comedy set in southern Ireland and starring Colin Farrell that imagined a society in which single people must find a mate or be transformed into animals.
This year the Fortnight could lay claim to standout works by two maverick French directors: Philippe Garrel, whose elegant relationship drama "In the Shadow of Women" screened on opening night; and Arnaud Desplechin, whose unanimously well-received "My Golden Days" is a rapturously involving memory film centered around the youthful exploits of Deplechin's cinematic alter ego, Paul Dedalus (once again played as an adult by Mathieu Amalric, and this time as a teenager by newcomer Quentin Dolmaire). Instead Blanchett's co-star, Rooney Mara, and an actress in a French relationship drama called "Mon Roi", Emmanuelle Bercot, ended up sharing the trophy. The Fortnight was also where you could see all three volumes of Portuguese director Miguel Gomes' audacious "Arabian Nights," an alternately playful and angry, hugely imaginative refracting of the titular folk tales through the prism of Portugal's recent social and economic woes; "Mustang," the very well-received debut feature by Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven; and "Beyond My Grandfather Allende," a very moving portrait of controversial Chilean president Salvador Allende made by his granddaughter, Marcia Tambutti Allende.
A harrowing Holocaust drama set among the Jewish workers of a concentration camp is precisely the kind of film many feel obligated to see, rather than enthusiastic to watch. But Cannes wouldn't be Cannes without a lot of bellyaching from critics and reporters who seem to crave some impossibly euphoric cinematic high morning, noon and night. In Yorgos Lanthimos's ''The Lobster,'' middle-age, unmarried singles (Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Reilly) gather at a remote Irish hotel where, if they don't couple up, they're turned into an animal. That said, certain past years do stick out to me as having been truly exceptional — none more so than the festival's 60th-anniversary lineup in 2007, which at one point seemed bent on unspooling a new masterpiece daily: "No Country for Old Men," "Zodiac," "Secret Sunshine," "Flight of the Red Balloon," "Silent Light" and "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days." Next to Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner, plus the seven others that followed in its wake, "Dheepan" feels like particularly thin soup — a proficient but indecisive blend of genre thriller and immigrant character study that has sociopolitical consciousness and superb acting to burn, but little of the singular artistry we come to Cannes looking for.
And at an awards ceremony whose inexplicable musical numbers brought it perilously close to Oscarcast territory, Audiard's victory certainly seemed to fall in line with the dubious Academy tradition of honoring overdue talents for by far their least impressive work. Perhaps we shouldn't have been too surprised by the compromise choice that "Dheepan" undoubtedly represents, insofar as the film fit nicely with one of the festival's dominant running themes; its victory made it a fitting bookend to Emmanuelle Bercot's opening-night entry, "Standing Tall," another tough-minded yet accessible inquiry into the social, legal and moral heart of contemporary France.
That these issues and subjects are weighing heavily on filmmakers, programmers and audiences is hardly surprising at a festival that is unspooling in the very long sht adow of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, and which has thus become an understandable opportunity for a collective act of national self-reckoning. DEBRUGE: I don't know how you found time to squeeze "jury duty" into your busy Cannes schedule, Scott, but then, your viewing habits have always struck me as superhuman.
Certainly, the widespread use of non-professional actors, as seen in everything from "Standing Tall" (whose teenage lead, Rod Paradot, took a break from carpentry school to make the movie) to "Land and Shade" (to say nothing of the two courageous young women who agreed to star in Noe's sexually explicit "Love"), carries on a doc-driven tradition that dates back at least as far as Italian Neorealism, while Italian helmer Roberto Minervini's "The Other Side" brings such an elegant eye to its marginal Louisiana characters' low lives that you can't help but wonder if all the drug use, gun play and candid (mis)behavior he witnesses is somehow being "directed." Ironically, for arch, distractingly unnatural performances, one need look no further than the three big Italian contributions to this year's selection: Sorrentino's prize-robbed "Youth," Garrone's English-language "Tale of Tales" and the melodramatically acted mush pot that was Moretti's "Mia Madre." Of the three, Sorrentino's film strikes me as the most successful — a bit too similar to his Oscar-winning "The Great Beauty," perhaps, but a ravishing personal statement on the frailty of the flesh, versus the enduring power of great art, wherein it's possible to achieve a lasting perfection that nature simply doesn't allow. During the press conference that immediately followed the awards, Joel Coen remarked how seeing so many grand auteur works in such a short time has already changed the way the jury will see movies going forward. That's the power of Cannes, and especially films like "Youth," Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Lobster" and Hou's "The Assassin," which flip the equation so often seen in Hollywood: Instead of trying to anticipate what audiences want from a movie, these films directly reflect the confident (and often confusing) vision of the artists responsible. In the case of "The Assassin," I found the experience too impenetrable to appreciate, and no amount of beautiful landscapes and immaculately appointed sets could compensate for the lack of narrative coherence in my mind.
In the foyer of the Grand Theatre Lumiere, where the film premiered, the festival displays huge portraits of its competing directors, and the photo of Haynes depicts him posing the dolls in the background of the toy-department scene where his Sapphic couple first meets. Way back at the beginning of his career, in "Superstar," Haynes retold Karen Carpenter's tragic life story via stop-motion Barbie figurines, and all these years later, he still seems to manipulating actors as if they were dolls. I missed Carol's personality, so vivid in Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt," and felt as if Therese had fallen in love with her fabulous overcoats, lipstick and hair, rather than the woman behind them. FOUNDAS: "Mon roi" reduced me to tears as well — tears of agony, that is, as I watched yet another unbearably histrionic melodrama a la Maiwenn, the unidentifiable filmmaking object previously responsible for 2011's Cannes competition entry "Polisse." In that movie, Maiwenn focused on the detectives in a special child-protection unit of the Paris police department — every one of them an unstable basket case unable to keep his/her private life from bleeding over into the workplace.
In "Mon roi," the director (and I use that term loosely) narrows her focus to just a single couple, but ratchets up her special brand of emotional exhibitionism to previously unimaginable levels. We then see a therapist explaining to "Tony" that said knee injury is symbolic of her relationship woes — specifically, her volatile marriage to Vincent Cassel's unrepentant jerk Giorgio— because, in French, the word for "knee" ("genou") sounds like a mash-up of the pronouns "I" ("je") and "we" ("nous"). Around that point, I suspected we might be in for something uniquely terrible, but I'll be damned if, over the next two-plus hours, "Mon roi" didn't keep surpassing even my own wildest expectations. Also traveling this shopworn road was "Valley of Love," in which Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert play two actors, named Gerard and Isabelle, who arrive in Death Valley to mourn their late son, who has promised to reappear to them in spectral form.
Huppert and Depardieu last shared the screen in the powerful erotic drama "Loulou" in 1980 (directed by Maurice Pialat, whose widow, Sylvie, is a producer on "Valley"), while Depardieu himself lost a son, actor Guillaume, in 2008 — context that gives "Valley" a handful of oddly touching moments, though not enough to prevent it from ultimately seeming like a pretentious French film buff's companion piece to Gus Van Sant's roundly dismissed "Sea of Trees." Last — and in some ways least — was Sorrentino's "Youth," another movie whose charms (whatever they may be) eluded me as it plunged us into life at an elite Swiss resort spa where the clientele includes an aging composer/conductor (Michael Caine) and his equally over-the-hill filmmaker friend (Harvey Keitel), who is putting the finishing touches on a new screenplay intended as a comeback vehicle for an aging Hollywood diva (Jane Fonda). Rachel Weisz co-stars as Caine's daughter, whose husband (Ed Stoppard) dumps her early on for British pop star Paloma Faith (playing herself), while Paul Dano drops in as a vain Hollywood movie star researching a part. (He's unmistakably modeled on Johnny Depp, with a dash of Sean Penn, who starred in Sorrentino's previous English-language feature, the disastrous "This Must Be the Place").
CHANG: I responded to the Maiwenn and Sorrentino films with neither love nor loathing, and indeed found myself generally absorbed and carried along by stray currents of genuine feeling in between all the emotionally incontinent moodswings of "Mon roi" and the visual/musical indulgences of "Youth." What I find interesting, as ever, is the glaring difference in critical sensibilities we're presented with here: Peter, you clearly welcomed Maiwenn's direct, even pushy emotional engagement and Sorrentino's extravagantly cinematic approach, whereas in both cases Scott recoiled as surely as if someone had come along and vomited into his steak tartare. What strikes one critic as a film with blood running through its veins strikes another as a grotesquely pornographic wallow — and by comparison, a very different film like "Carol" can seem like either a marvel of emotional restraint or a stilted, bloodless dollhouse of a movie. Yes, Haynes' filmmaking is not without a certain formalist detachment, and at times you can sense his inner semiotician attending to every carefully studied detail.
But style is meaning, don't we know by now, and in "Carol" all those suggestive noir shadows, the richly enveloping atmosphere, the expressive ellipses in the acting and the piercing refrain of Carter Burwell's score serve to bridge the gap beautifully, wordlessly conveying thoughts, feelings and insights that a more on-the-nose screenwriter would have felt compelled to spell out. A calm, fastidious surface can conceal deep and tumultuous reservoirs of emotion — which brings me naturally back to "The Assassin," and specifically to the charges of Impenetrability, Incoherence, Inaccessibility and various other capital-I insults that are routinely hurled at our greatest slow-cinema artists. I saw "The Assassin" twice in Cannes, and both times I was utterly mesmerized — and all but certain that Hou and his genius d.p., Mark Lee Ping-bing, had somehow managed to devise shades of gold, green and vermilion never before glimpsed by the human eye.
Crucially, the beauty in Hou's films isn't a stylistic affectation or a Baz Luhrmann eye-candy distraction; it's a means of engagement and a way of making meaning. What matters is that we feel so fully absorbed into the film's reality that we perceive, on an intuitive level, the momentous political, historical and emotional shifts that are taking place behind every suggestive silence and whispered exchange.
Remarkably, the subtlety of Hou's storytelling works in concert with the perfection of his mise-en-scene, making history seem at once concrete and evanescent — like something we feel we could almost reach out and touch it, only to watch it slip like silk through our fingers. Regardless, he isn't the sort of filmmaker who likes to manhandle his characters emotionally, or to enlighten us with flashbacks to the early life of his protagonist, Nie Yinniang (the breathtaking Shu Qi).
That's why he shoots in long takes (because life doesn't come at us in easily digestible bits and pieces), and why he maintains a scrupulous distance from his characters (because like most actual people, they're in no hurry to reveal themselves). But if you can get on his wavelength, and sense not just the rigor but also the tenderness with which he films every gesture, there arises from every frame an entire world of feeling. There's no shame in having an indifferent response to all this, and I'm not at all surprised that most of the boredom and contempt for "The Assassin" came from journalists with precious little familiarity with Hou's cinema and the unique way in which it works.
They're free to dismiss it, of course, though they shouldn't pretend they've given it anywhere near their full consideration; nor should they suggest (even more noxiously) that just because they couldn't find anything of value in it, surely no one else could, either. Indeed, it's hardly an accident that "The Assassin" is an action movie whose heroine spends far more time observing and eavesdropping on people than she does killing them; the more she watches, the closer she listens, the better she understands. As such, she's a perfect stand-in for Hou Hsiao-hsien the filmmaker, and a seriously instructive one for audiences at arthouses, multiplexes and festivals everywhere, from this Cannes to the next.
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The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -0.86% charged forward 2.9 percent to another new high of 621.21.
Chip equipment maker Applied Materials AMAT, +0.86% soared 5 1/16 to 97 13/16, an increase of 5.5 percent.
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The recent Paris Game Festival saw Final Fantasy XV producer Hajime Tabata share a few details on the game's current development.
Speaking with French video game website Gamekult, he said that the game's warm reception at Tokyo Game Show 2014 was a great boost to the team.
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Although I post a lot of pictures of expensive items of clothing or accessories, I myself am a bit of a frugal fashionista. The most expensive item of clothing in my wardrobe cost me $219 and this was for a black winter coat from Zara. I know that's not a lot of money to some people and I'm not saying it's a lot of money to me, but I just can't justify spending too much money on clothes whilst I'm still a student. Also, I actually enjoy hunting for fashion bargains!
I particularly enjoy shopping at Target. I've noticed Target has upped their ante in the style stakes lately as their clothes are more stylish than they used to be. It appears Hot Options has undergone a little re-branding or re-imaging; it's new logo, label and some of the clothes remind me a little of the T by Bettina Liano range for teenage girls. I've noticed they've also increased their prices for the range targeted towards young adult females and above, but I've found that despite this, it is still cheaper than other stores such as Sportsgirl or Witchery. Target clothes are generally good quality; they're not the best out there but they're still good and they're generally cut pretty well; unlike the often ill fitting and mass produced clothing found at Zara (yes I know just dissed Zara but I still REALLY like the clothes there and will continue shopping there).
I recently made a post that featured a pink winter coat from Zara that I liked. Today whilst taking a break from doing my uni work I decided to take a geez at the Target website to see if they have any new clothes are on offer. The first image I encountered was the one of a pink winter coat that looks similar to the jacket I was eyeing from Zara, yet this jacket was less than half the price of the Zara one. I went to my nearest Target to see if it was there, but it wasn't. I'm really hoping I get to try it on soon because I've been daydreaming about pink winter coats lately.
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Author: Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture". Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave – 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams' – wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all we have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think ). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
" What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?"
This was the question that Randy had, when he was asked to give the Last Lecture. Like other professors, he didn't had to imagine it as his last, because it was his last as he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Those who doesn't know, Randy Pausch was a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. In August, 2006 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During this time he was approached to give 'The Last Lecture'.
Randy wanted his children to know who their father was. He wanted to pass on all the wisdom he collected from his father and his own experiences. Being a professor, he felt this is the only way he can leave a print, for his children, by giving a lecture. The lecture he gave was full of optimism, hope, inspiration and humor. He tried to give the lecture full of snippets of stories and experiences from his own life, providing moral and inspiration. He had that charm to add humor to even a very serious topic. Some of the advises may make you feel that, he was from upper middle class family and he always got the support from his family and friends around. He was a person who had a very clear picture of what he expected and learned from life and what he was willing to share with the world. He always lived by the principles he believed and shared in the hope that others would benefit from it.
Many books dealing with terminal illness become famous because of gaining sympathy from readers. But this book is different. It's not about dying or the emotional roller coaster the family undergoes when one member of the family has terminal illness. This book is about living. After knowing about his cancer, Randy didn't brood about it, instead faced moment very optimistically. He was thankful to God that he had got some time to prepare about what he wants to leave as a legacy.
The book is full of inspirational quotes and inspiring stories. He talked about honesty, integrity, gratitude and the things that are dear to him. He lectured about the joy of life and how much he appreciated life, even with so little time left. He mentioned about living the childhood dream, how to achieve the childhood dream and how to enable the dream of many others.
Being a Computer Science lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, he set up a virtual reality lab, where he taught 'Building Virtual Worlds'. In 1998, along with Don Marinelli, he set up the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), to focus on educational goals and creative development in students. Randy also started Alice. Alice is a free download, innovative software tool that allows students who have never programmed before to easily create animations for telling stories, creating interactive games etc,.
You might not agree with all of Randy's lessons, but you will be left with choosing to live with fun and optimism.
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand'.
" There's a decision we all have to make, and it seems perfectly captured in the Winnie-the-Pooh characters created by A.A.Milne. Each of us must decide: Am I a fun-loving Tigger or am I a sad-sack Eeyore?"
After reading the book, i watched the video of his last lecture. I would suggest everyone to watch this video.
" The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough."
About the Author:
Randy Pausch was a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and a best-selling author, who achieved worldwide fame for his "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon University.
In August 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He pursued a very aggressive cancer treatment that included Whipple procedure surgery and experimental chemotherapy; however, in August 2007, he was told the cancer had metastasized to his liver and spleen, which meant it was terminal. He then started palliative chemotherapy, intended to extend his life as long as possible. At that time, doctors estimated he would remain healthy for another three to six months. On May 2, 2008, a PET scan showed that his cancer had spread to his lungs, some lymph nodes in his chest and that he had some metastases in his peritoneum and retroperitoneum.
On June 26, 2008, Pausch indicated that he was considering stopping further chemotherapy because of the potential adverse side effects. He was, however, considering some immuno-therapy-based approaches.
On July 24, 2008, on behalf of Pausch, his friend (anonymous) posted a message on Pausch's webpage indicating cancer progression further than what was expected from recent PET scans and Pausch becoming more sick than ever. It was announced that his family had sent him into a hospice program — palliative care to those at the end of life.
On July 25, 2008, Diane Sawyer announced on Good Morning America that Pausch had died earlier that morning.


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29 July 2015
The family of Doug Davis recently reached out to the CSCCa to express gratitude to all those who contributed to the Doug Davis Family Fund. The money will go toward the "Doug Davis Memorial Scholarship" at Pickerington High School Central, where Coach Davis graduated in 2000. This award will be given to the most dedicated and hard working student in the weight room. We thank all of you again who donated to this fund!
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Jimmy Fallon Ride
It's been a rumor for a couple months now, but it was just confirmed last night. Universal Studios Orlando will be getting a new ride to replace the lackluster Twister! attraction. Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon is coming to the theme park and I must say that this is some of the most exciting news I've heard in my entire life! Originally thought to be a trip through Fallon's mind, it is now confirmed to be a hectic trip throughout New York City complete with plenty of celebrity guests, Fallon-esque fun, and "smoke," as Jimmy declared. He compared it to Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, which is over at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure, the sister park of the one Fallon's ride will be located. He said that, instead of Harry Potter and Hogwarts, it's him and New York City. I'll be riding it for sure!
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Lysa TerKeurst is a NY Times best-selling author, national speaker, and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries
Lysa is active on Facebook where the following statements and encouraging words have been found.
April 7th
If you had an unglued mama moment today, let me encourage you with 3 simple mothering perspectives you must hang on to:
1. Don't take too much credit for their good.
2. Don't take too much credit for their bad.
3. Don't try to raise a good child. Raise a God-following adult.
April 4th
Though I've been a Christian for many years, I can't ever coast on my past good choices. I must realize – it's the first time I've lived this day. And today is so very rich with possibilities.
Since it's the first time I've lived this day, it's an option for me to be the kind of wife and mom I desperately want to be.
It's an option for me to be the kind of friend I desperately want to be.
Today is not just another part of a long string of days past. Today is a first. A true, true first. So, how will you make good use of this first day?
April 3rd
I don't want to train my kids to only turn to me for solutions. I want to help them think in Biblically and emotionally healthy ways, so they can learn the fine art of becoming a solution finder. I want to help them learn to process life choices in grounded, mature ways.
If I only tell my kids what they can and can't do, I'm establishing rules for them to follow. This is a part of parenting for sure- but it can't be the whole part.
If I teach them how to think, I'm establishing healthy processing patterns that will serve them when they're no longer under my immediate watch.
Easter 2013
Writing my Easter prayer this morning from the words the angel spoke to the women at the tomb…
"Do not be afraid,"- God, I hand over to you this morning, those things that make me so afraid. Resurrect the parts of my faith squelched by fear.
"I know you are looking for Jesus,"- God, when my soul is searching help me know the answer to every longing can be found in you.
"He is risen,"- God, the fact that Jesus is risen should lift my head, my heart, and my attitude. Help me to live this Easter day shining this truth with every part of my life. He is risen indeed.
Deny myself. Take up my cross. Follow Him. Follow who He is and how He is. It's hard. But it is the way with Jesus.
March 30th
Jesus has never ever asked for us to be perfect. He simply wants us perfectly surrendered. I often pray, "Oh Jesus… I am such a mess but I am Yours. Show me… help me… forgive me… reassure me… and pour your tender mercy upon me."
And He does. And He always will. My imperfections are safely tucked within the reality of His perfection.
If any of these resonate with you, hop on over to her Facebook page, visit her website, or Proverbs 31 Ministries.


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I apologize for the delay of this post buutttt I just recently had my baby shower and we were running around trying to make sure things were perfect for that day.
I'm currently 37 weeks and 4 days and getting even more impatient and anxious by the second.
As I stated, I JUST had my baby shower and everything turned out great.
Not only did we get a bunch of stuff for Harper but it was great to spend time with family and friends.
I don't have many pictures from the event because I was mingling but here are a few that I do have.
The theme was Elephants…because I'm obsessed with them & hopefully Harper will be too.
I was able to sneak in a quick maternity shoot as well as get pictures of family and friends but once they are finished being edited I will share them with you all.
Updates on Harper:
She's driving me insane.
We had a little pregnancy scare this past Monday due to my high blood pressure.
I've had preeclampsia with Dhani so my doctor has been monitoring my blood pressure pretty consistently throughout this whole pregnancy.
I haven't been diagnosed with it yet but this girl definitely acted as if she was ready to enter the world yesterday.
I've also never experienced period cramps.
I KNOW. I'm quite lucky.
But I think I was having some mini cramps last night that never really amounted to anything.
I'm hoping that once I go back on Thursday that I will hear
"We are admitting you."
Hahaha no seriously.
I'm over being pregnant. I'm just ready for this little girl to come already.
I'm back to 170 pounds and this belly just keeps rising and falling.
I'll catch you up on what's in my hospital bag on Friday.
Peace and Love ❤


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V3 Fights 66 kicks off the Tennessee promotion's 2018 calendar, as they'll head to Minglewood Hall in Memphis on Jan. 20 for their latest offering.
The main event features Bellator veteran and Arkansas native Dawond Pickney (13-9) taking on the returning Taylor Callens (5-0) in a lightweight clash.
Pickney looks for his third win in his last four outings, as he comes in off of a win over Aaron McKenzie at Primus FC in Oklahoma in December. The 39-year-old competed once for Bellator, where he came up short against Treston Thomison at Bellator 166 in 2016. He's also competed for other notable regional promotions like CFFC and CES MMA.
Callens fights for the first time since June 2015, when he topped Drew Kennedy at Valor Fights 23. That fight itself was a return from a layoff of two years, as he's competed just five times since turning pro in 2010.
Also at V3 Fights 66 will be a featherweight matchup pitting the red hot Reggie Adams (3-0) against Seth Anderson (1-0), and welterweights Kevin Henry (0-5) vs. Terry Johnson (0-0).


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The Road Warrior: It is here! It is finally here!
The new version is finally complete! And it can be downloaded from the link below:
Road Warriors V. 1.0!
(Just right click the link and select "Save As")
That's right, I finally completed all of the text in the main document. An updated layout is well underway, with snazzy pictures and definately something that's going to chew up your printer something fierce! So I figured, why not just upload this preliminary printer-friendly version for all those who are interested in playing gang skirmishes in the wasteland!
In other news
Well, other projects have slowly resurfaced, and some of those corresponds directly to this project. The proposed idea, by yours truly, about adding gang traits to the Road Warriors mod was vetoed by myself - and play balance. See, it's fine and dandy if every player picks a Gang Trait, but doesn't allow for the same kind of freeform gang creation as the normal rules.
This has meant that I've now split up the project and I'm going to focus on creating a - uhm - sub-mod I guess, for Road Warriors called: Road Warriors: City Limits.
The Idea for City Limits is to write up some of the fluff I posted earlier, add the gangs that I was going to create by the Gang Traits; thereby giving them even more colour than they would have gotten if they had stayed as gang traits. And finally, for a dash of variety, there's going to be new scenarios in the rules as well.
In essence, then it's a setting-booklet for the Road Warriors mod.
That's all for now, till next update:
Cheers, and happy gaming!


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- ITV Report
Cleaner jailed over driving test fraud
A cleaner who tried to get someone else to take his driving test for him has been jailed.
The plot was discovered when the impersonator was turned away from the test centre in Birmingham after staff became suspicious.
Investigators were waiting for the real Mpinga Mfumu when he later turned up to take the test himself, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
Father-of-two Mfumu, 27, of Lozells Road, Lozells, who had previously been found guilty of attempted fraud by false representation, was sentenced to six months in prison.
Patrick Sullivan, prosecuting, said the driving test system in the UK played a crucial role in safety on the roads.
Having a driving licence also had consequences concerned with getting credit facilities and obtaining benefits.
He said that, on June 30 last year, Mfumu had booked a theory test at a test centre in Worcester online, using his email.
"A man arrived at the test centre claiming he was the defendant," said Mr Sullivan.
But checks were made because it was believed he was an impersonator. Photos were taken of him and the provisional licence he had presented. The man was not allowed to take the test but Mfumu then booked another test in Birmingham for November 5.
"This time it was Mfumu himself who turned up, and they were there waiting for him," said Mr Sullivan. Mfumu protested his innocence at the time.
When showed a picture of the man who had previously attended, he said it was his "brother" but would not name the individual. Rupert Jones, defending, said:
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County: Jefferson
Presiding Judge: Truman M. Hobbs
Referring Judge: Susan Russ Walker
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so after spending the probably (but hopefully, not) laaaast day at the beach, i ended up with a... lobster face....... even though i am a preacher of skin cancer prevention and sunscreen, i somehow end up being... weeell too lazy to put it on. just staying out of the sun completely, and rocking the porcelain skin (the method i stuck to the last couple of years) was definitely the healthier and, yes, smarter tactic......
so, of course you know to moisturize, and cool, and soothe, and..... well, everyone has their own remedies. but what is done is done. and the next day i didn't want to make it thaaat obvious that i was simply to lazy to protect my skin. my red nose was the most prominent part of my face and my lips were pretty much the exact shade of the rest of my face. it was going to be a lazy sunday (running errands and bbg-ing), so i didn't want to spend too much time on my make-up.
skin: evening out the skin with tinted moisturizer, or light foundation, to take away most of the red. powder against the shine. no blush (even though i am addicted to blush... it didn't feel right to put more red on my skin..... for obvious reasons) just let the natural redness come through on your cheeks. illuminating shimmer on the cheek bones create a sunkissed glow.
eyes: soft shimmering shadow on the lids (pretty much up to the brow). gold shimmer at the inner corners and in the centre along the upper lash line. mascara on those (sun bleached) lashes. that's it.
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TrainTool is a member of the professional organisation NRTO (Dutch Council of Training and Development) and offers students possibilities for internships and research. TrainTool has won prizes (E-learning Award, Accenture Innovation Award, Learning Technology Awards, amongst others) and is regularly featured in the media (Dutch).
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After 10 years of being a management consultant at, amongst others, PWC, Marijn ran a successful assessment agency for years. From practice, he developed the idea for TrainTool, where he gives form to the vision of soft skill development as co-founder and CEO. He publishes on the field and has multiple advice and board positions.
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Where technology meets humans, Peter's heart beats faster. He was marketeer at two fast-growing organizations and graduated with honours from RSM Erasmus University. He founded TrainTool with Marijn, where he is responsible for growth in and out of the Netherlands and he is interlocutor in large-scale trajectories.
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Talk to Ken Crawford, one of the doctors who saved Michael Patterson's life, and he'll tell you this: "I can't imagine anyone being as close to death as he was. He was right on the edge."
"Right on the edge," concurs Geoff Ling, the neurologist on duty at Johns Hopkins Hospital the night Michael came in.
Talk to the kid's father, Ted Patterson, and he'll recall what an emergency room doctor told him early in the evening of his son's trauma: "There is nothing we can do." He'll quote the nurse who said: "The hearing is the last thing to go so, if you want to say goodbye. . . ."
That kind of testimony has led plenty of people familiar with this story to conclude that, if miracles walk among us, Michael Patterson surely must be one of them.


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JL Glass - motivational speaker
About JL
JL travels across the country
as a motivational speaker for corporations and
associations. From Connecticut to California he's
entertained audiences such as California Banker's
Association, Department of Agriculture-AR to Aurora Health
Partners (Wisconsin's largest employer).
Where Does He
Come From
Glass, President and owner of Leland & Associates, has
developed a client list over the years that includes: SAM'S
Club, Genmar, Texaco Lubricants - Houston, Texaco Xpress
Lubes - MN, Billy Graham Association, National Association
of Parents & Educators - MN, Next Media, Mercy & Unity
Hospitals, ACE Hardware - MN and REMAX associates plus, just
to name a few.
He Like?
JL is
known to possess a very positive and outgoing personality.
His humorous approach to life is well known amongst his
clients, business associates and friends. As an entrepreneur
who has owned several businesses over the last 20 years, JL
has had countless opportunities to live out the experiences
that provide credibility to his message.
Listens To Him?
JL is
a sought after speaker for youth organizations, schools,
chambers, corporate events, conventions, seminars and even
churches. These include University of MN - Carlson School of
Management, Columbia Heights, MN Police Dept., Spring Lake
Park High School, Northeast State Bank, Michigan Credit
Union League, Emmanuel Christian Center, Oklahoma Credit
Union League, Twin Cities North Chamber of Commerce, Twin
West Chamber of Commerce, Hoo Hoo International Conference
(no really-they're on the web), Scott County Employees and
many others.
Doesn't Listens To Him?
daughter the "grumpy princess - His mom the "matron of
grumpy princess's - on occasion the IRS, and his daughter's
cat, "Mischief" whose tail doubles as a handle. (just
Many People Have Died Listening To Him?
3- not counting the guy who died just before he got there.
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Oftentimes, sensational stories come out about men and women working together in the military. If you follow the stories, sexism, sexual harassment, and assault apparently run rampant. Here is a story that will shine a new perspective on things.
Captain Sarah Cudd decided to complete an elite medical badge with her unit. It is a grueling event, and usually only 20% of those who attempt complete it.
Here is the description from a training report:
The Expert Field Medical Badge is an honor given to military medical personnel who can complete a series of exhausting and tiring tests, some written and some physical. It is so difficult to attain that it is estimated that up to 80% fail the examinations.
Cudd was nearing the end. In the last leg, the test required hopefuls carry seventy pounds of gear on their back for twelve miles. Morevover, there was a time limit of three hours. Captain Sarah was close, but suddenly her knees gave out from underneath her.
While her unit was unable to physically help Sarah, they did the best they could. On the viral video, men and women shout out words of encouragement. They coax her to get back up and keep fighting to the finish.
Even better, soldiers run up close to Sarah and cheer her on. It is inspiring to watch these men and women come together to help one of their own.
The story has a great ending, too.
The cheers from Cudd's troop inspired her to pick herself up not once, but twice. The words of encouragement gave her just enough energy to cross the finish line in time. Thus, Captain Sarah Cudd joined the elite few to earn this badge.
Way to go, Sarah. And way to go to all the men and women that stood by her side when it seemed like she couldn't go on.
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