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Discover What Hungary Offers Outside the Capital
If you think you've had enough Budapest buzz, leave it behind for a while for day trips to see a bit of the countryside.
We'll recommend you several excursions out of the city, starting with the nearest attractions. Within 50 km you'll find plenty of sights and natural treasures.
- For some artistic atmosphere visit Szentendre, or
- learn more about Hungarian history in Visegrád and Esztergom.
We'll help you plan your excursions with tips on travelling and sightseeing. On these trips you'll learn more about Hungary, its history and culture, and perhaps you'll understand our nation better.
Esztergom, Visegrád, Szentendre
One of the most spectacular and scenic part of our country is the Danube Bend, 40 km north of Budapest.
In fact, it is the most beautiful stretch of the river's 3 000 km course from the Black Forest to the Black Sea.
We regularly go for excursions to this wonderful area on weekends.
Just after Esztergom, the Danube turns sharply south before it reaches Budapest. This is where the Danube Bend starts.
The three small towns,
- Esztergom,
- Visegrád and
- Szentendre are like pearls on a string.
Each is worth at least a half day visit. You can easily access them from Budapest by coach, train, or even by boat.
Expert, English-speaking local bike enthusiasts (and lisenced tour guides) will show you parts of northern Budapest then cycle with you to the cute artist town of Szentendre sitting in the Danube Bend.
Return is by boat.Details & Booking
Plan Your Daytrips
Getting to Esztergom, Visegrád, Szentendre
Hungary is a small country, and you can get to anywhere within a couple of hours by
- bus,
- train or
- by car.
Travelling by train and bus in Hungary is affordable, and the service is quite reliable.
I don't recommend driving for foreigners; it is very troublesome just to get out of Budapest on weekdays.
Hungarian driving culture is not a thing we're proud of. Reckless overtaking, sudden changing between lines, exceeding speed limit; you don't need these to ruin your excursion.
Almost all major highways are under construction during summer.
If you're still more comfortable to get to these destinations by car, you'll find several car rental services in Budapest.
By Bus
Buses depart to the three cities from Árpád Bridge (M3, blue metroline, or tram 1 Árpád Híd station).
Take the bus that travels through a town called Dorog. To Esztergom the journey takes about 75 minutes.
Another option is to take a bus to Esztergom via Visegrád.
This journey takes 2 hours and the ticket costs more.
In Hungary bus fares are determined by the kilometres of the route, and the bus route to Esztergom via Visegrad is longer than via Dorog.
You can purchase your ticket in advance at the Árpád Bridge Bus Station up until half an hour before the departure of your bus.
You can buy ticket from the driver too when you board the bus.
Find exact information about departures on this website.
By Train
To Esztergom
About 25 trains depart to Esztergom daily from Budapest's Nyugati Railway Station (M3 metro line).
The journey takes about 1,5 hour. The ticket costs 1 100 Ft.
You can buy your train ticket at the ticket offices at the station.
For exact information on departures and ticket prices visit the official website of the Hungarian Railway Company.
To Szentendre
The best option is to take the suburban railway (HÉV in Hungarian) from Batthyány tér (M2 metro line, Batthyány tér station).
Trains leave every 20 minutes or so every day.
The trip takes 40 minutes. A one-way ticket costs cc. 600-650 Ft.
You have to buy your ticket in advance at the ticket office at the HÉV station.
If you have a valid Budapest public transport pass you only have to pay for the distance between the boundary of Budapest and Szentendre.
For exact information on HÉV ticket prices and timetable visit the BKK's website.
To Visegrád
There's no direct train service to Visegrád from Budapest. Alternatively you can take a train to Nagymaros from Nyugati Railway Station, and from Nagymaros a ferry (rév in Hungarian) will take you across the Danube to Visegrád.
The ferry dock is a few minutes walk from the train station and a ferry leaves in every hour. The train trip to Nagymaros takes less than an hour.
By Boat
The most spectacular and enjoyable way to get to these three towns. Boats run between Budapest and the cities of the Danube bend from April to September.
Boat Cruise to Szentendre by Silver-Line, 01. May – 30. SEptember
- Dock No. 11, 1052 Budapest, Jane Haining rakpart (tram 2 Március 15 tér stop), at 10.45 every day (May – Sept) or
- Batthyány Square in Buda (M2, red metro line): at 11.00 every day (May – Sept).
A really good-value 2-hour boat cruise with e-guide to Szentendre during the summer season.
- Arrival to Szentendre is at 12.45.
- Return trip: 17.20, arrival to Batthyány tér: 18.20, to Dock No. 11: 18.30.
- one-way: full price: 10 EUR, children (ages 3-14): 9 EUR,
- return ticket: full price: 15 EUR, children (ages 3-14): 13 EUR.
Mahart Passnave Crusies
The Mahart Passnave company also offers boat trips to Visegrád-Szentendre. Boats depart from Vigadó tér in Pest between Erzsébet Bridge and Szabadság Bridge.
The travel time to Szentendre is about 2 hours, 3 and half an hour to Visegrád, and 5 hours to Esztergom.
For exact information on schedule and ticket prices visit the boat operator's website.
By Car
If I haven't discouraged you from driving, Route 11 will take you to all three towns from Budapest.Related: Visit Budapest – Budapest in A Day – Danube Cruises – Budapest Airport – Downtown Budapest


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Last year on my birthday I wished for another baby. I got pregnant a week later. This year I wished for a rotating Belgian waffle maker. Once again my birthday wishes came true.
The past week has been a glorious celebration of waffles. I made a big container of waffle mix and whipped up all kinds of waffles whenever my heart desired, breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert. Waffles know no clocks.
Waffle Mix (big batch- makes 4-5 batches)
6 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup baking powder
2 teaspoons salt
What else you'll need
1 cup milk
1/4 cup oil
Combine 1 1/2 cups of mix with milk and oil and stir well. I had a little helper who was very excited about the prospect of waffles.
Pour the batter into the preheated waffle maker.
Cook until golden brown
Because of our egg intolerance, these waffles are egg free. It's a little known fact that many baked goods (especially waffles and pancakes) don't actually need eggs in them at all. I also omitted the powdered milk from this mix (unlike my pancake mix) to give people the freedom to use dairy free milks. We're currently using almond milk in our house, and it makes some lovely waffles.
Some of the variations I experimented with that had fabulous results...
As a healthy topping I blended defrosted frozen blueberries to make a sauce. It also works well with strawberries or raspberries.
As a dessert treat one night I wanted to make chocolate chip waffles- but we were out of chocolate chips. So I smashed up a bar of dark chocolate in a bag using a hammer and the results were amazing.
Another time I put the blueberries IN the waffles and then topped them with syrup. Delicious!
This mix means making waffles is so easy that we even have time for them in the morning before my daughter goes to preschool, despite how rushed we are. They are much cheaper and much tastier than boxed cereal!


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|Opuntia engelmannii var. linguiformis
Cactus - Cow Tongue
Uses: Pads, flowers, fruit
I acquired this cactus from Goodie, a friend I met on the ForageAhead foraging group on Yahoo. I planted them outside under the eaves of my house, near my banana tree. It is hot and dry in this location. The desert location in California where these came from is colder (-4F) than my place in winter. Goodie recommends a recipe for napolitos with the cow tongue pads from a cookbook by Diana Kennedy called "My Mexican Kitchen." She is an expert on traditional Mexican cuisine -- the real stuff from Mexico, not the Taco Bell version. He followed her directions for sauteing napolitos, which included sauteing for up to 15 minutes until all the goopy fluid disappears. He found them quite tasty and edible this way, especially when sauteed with some garlic and onions.
According to Merriwether's Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Texas and the Southwest:
Closely related to prickly pears, cow's tongue cacti pads and fruit can be used in the same manner as other Opuntia species. The pads can be peeled then sliced and cooked like green beans though much slimier. The peeled pads can also be sprinkled with your favorite beef/venison jerky spices and then dehydrated into "vegan jerky".
The fruits are usually mashed, boiled, and then strained through a fine mesh such as cheesecloth to release their delicious juice. This juice can be drank straight, made into jelly or wine, or slightly sweetened (it's already quite sweet) then boiled down to make a syrup.
Before doing anything with the pads or fruit you must remove their tiny, almost invisible needles called glochids. Use a barbecue tongs to harvest the pads/fruit and then burn off the glochids with a torch or gas stovetop.
Peel the fruit (tuna) then mash it up in a saucepan. Add just enough water so as to cover the pulp then boil for about ten minutes. Let the resulting juice cool a little then filter out the pulp and seeds through cheesecloth or other fine filter.


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It is with great sadness that we share the news that James Yang, Graduate from the Full-Time MBA 2011 Class passed away on Monday, July 11th, after several months' battle with cancer.
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Experts express incredulity over Bushs emphatic backing of MusharrafNovember 21st, 2007 - 3:05 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Nov.21 (ANI): Several outside analysts and a key Democratic lawmaker have expressed incredulity over U.S. President George W. Bush emphatic support to and backing of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.
Bush yesterday said that Musharraf "hasn't crossed the line" in so far as declaring an emergency in his country, and "truly is somebody who believes in democracy."
The comments, delivered in an interview with ABC News anchor Charles Gibson, contrasted with previous administration statements — including by Bush himself — expressing grave concern over Musharraf's actions.
The Washington Post quoted experts and analysts as saying that Bushs comments were a sign of how personally invested he has become in the U.S. relationship with Musharraf.
"What exactly would it take for the president to conclude Musharraf has crossed the line? Suspend the Constitution? Impose emergency law? Beat and jail his political opponents and human rights activists?" asked Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a presidential candidate.
"He's already done all that. If the president sees Musharraf as a democrat, he must be wearing the same glasses he had on when he looked in Vladimir Putin's soul," Biden added.
Tom Malinowski, Washington director of Human Rights Watch, said: "It's hard to imagine how the administration will be able to achieve anything in Pakistan if the president is so disconnected from reality."
"Almost everyone in Pakistan who believes in George Bush's vision of democracy is in prison today. Calling the man who put them in prison a great democrat will only discredit America among moderate Pakistanis and give Musharraf confidence that he can continue to defy the United States because Bush will forgive anything he does," Malinowski added.
Husain Haqqani, who now teaches at Boston University, said Bush's comments yesterday suggest that, "the president of the United States does not grasp the situation in Pakistan correctly."
"Musharraf's support and significance to the United States is overestimated by a White House that is bogged down by other concerns," he warned.
The shift in stance, according to the paper, appears part of a broader strategy to ease the crisis in Pakistan.
Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte carried a terse message to Musharraf during talks last weekend, urging the general to step down as chief of the army.
Now, after this strong personal show of support from the president, the Bush Administration expects the general to shed his military uniform before the end of the month, an administration official said.
Bush was asked in the interview if there is any line Musharraf should not cross. "He hasn't crossed the line. As a matter of fact, I don't think that he will cross any lines."
Bush has closely linked his administration to Musharraf since the weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when the Pakistani president sided with the United States in its drive to oust the Taliban from power in Afghanistan.
Although the current crisis has prompted the administration to launch a review of its aid to Pakistan, officials said yesterday that they are looking favourably at continuing most economic and military aid, which has surpassed 10 billion dollars since 2001.
Musharraf has provided extensive assistance to the United States in its efforts to seize high-profile al-Qaeda suspects, but his devotion to the fight has been increasingly questioned by some U.S. officials and outside experts.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said in an e-mail message that the president does believe that President Musharraf believes in democracy, and there is evidence to that fact based on the reforms he'd put in place over the last several years."
Some officials indicated that the view among many in the administration is that Musharraf may be able to survive the crisis and remain in power.
"Unless the opposition parties can mount some kind of street campaign, it looks like Musharraf will stay in power for the near future," said Stephen P. Cohen, a Brookings Institution scholar and an authority on South Asia.
"It is now up to the generals. When you have no effective state, no rule of law, it's only people with guns, who can remove a leader — and that means the generals," he added. (ANI)
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James Christopher was born and raised in Houston, Texas, graduating from Houston's St. Pius X High School. His fascination with movies can be traced back to the womb when his mother went to see Jaws. From then on, he remembers thrilling at the sight of Superman flying, Indiana Jones' whip, laughing at the Ghostbusters and being both intrigued and terrified of Darth Vader. As his love for movies grew, James dove into acting as a medium to express himself. He felt most alive on stage, trying to move an audience. It wasn't until he saw The Crow, however, that he started to think he could actually make a movie himself.
Before entering college, James served in the United States Army as a Fire Support Sergeant. During his seven years of service, James deployed to Bosnia as a member of Operation: Joint Guard.
After serving, James attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Radio, Television and Film and a Bachelor of Arts in History. It was at UT that James started to focus on writing and directing as his career path. It was at UT that he wrote his first three feature length scripts, Littlefield, Eden's Valley and Falling Home. The latter two are still looking for a studio home. James' writing has been recognized by several writing competitions and film festivals.
In 2007, James, Chris Copple, Jessica Bybee-Dziedzic and Nathan Bybee formed Twitchy Dolphin Flix, a micro budget film company in Austin, Texas. They work hard to deliver movies of all genres, using the creative freedom that comes with their autonomy and helping to develop a viable indie film industry in Austin, Texas. In that capacity, he's written and directed 12 feature films.
Currently, James resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Jessica, daughter Jourdan and their two German shepherds, Colt and Vader. James spends his time writing and working on new projects. He's always looking for the new challenge to take and a new story to tell.
- 1) Jaws
- 2) The Empire Strikes Back
- 3) Raiders of the Lost Arc
- 4) The Godfather
- 5) The Dark Knight
- 6) Star Wars: A New Hope
- 7) Back To The Future
- 8) Man of Steel
- 9) When Harry Met Sally
- 10) The Crow
- 11) The Goonies
- 12) Ghostbusters
- 13) Almost Famous
- 14) Christmas Vacation
- 15) Vacation
- 16) Gold Finger
- 17) Halloween
- 18) The Exorcist
- 19) Pretty in Pink
- 20) Die Hard
- 21) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- 22) Return of the Jedi
- 23) Annie Hall
- 24) Grosse Pointe Blanke
- 25) Rocky
- 26) Saving Private Ryan
- 27) The Outlaw Josey Wales
- 28) The Graduate
- 29) Scream
- 30) Blazing Saddles
- 31) Say Anything
- 32) The Big Lebowski
- 33) Batman 89
- 34) The Last Picture Show
- 35) Airplane
- 36) Lethal Weapon
- 37) Psycho
- 38) Casino Royale
- 39) The Omen
- 40) Caddyshack
- 41) Dazed and Confused
- 42) History of the World Part 1
- 43) American Pie
- 44) 6th Sense
- 45) Planes Trains & Automobiles
- 46) The Untouchables
- 47) Miller's Crossing
- 48) Perks Of Being A WallFlower
- 49) Young Guns
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Quarry-Man is our first ever short film and everyone at White Tingle Media is very proud of it. The scale of the production was vast; organizing people and places around over commitments was a tall ask – but we got there in the end.
We decided to frame the film in the Ultra-Panavision 2.76:1 ratio for its submission to the Widescreen Festival at the National Media Museum. What a ratio this is… Historically this ratio was used solely for classic Hollywood epics like Ben-Hur (1959), but we believe in pushing ourselves to the limit so this was our first and only choice. All looks great on the surface but this ratio cost us a lot of time in production. With shots nearly twice as wide as normal and cinematic space a-plenty we we're unable to use a conventional boom pole throughout the majority of the shoot. This caused issues which I'm currently attempting to iron out, but still – I couldn't be happier with the end product.
For a first time Director, this was a tall ask and the cast and crew did as required – put the paper on the screen. I cannot wait to start the next one, which is already in Pre-Production, but in the meantime please enjoy Quarry-Man: A Brief Journey Through Time (2015), dir. Matthew Tingle.


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In two dimensions, many self-interacting processes are described by the Schramm-Loewner Evolution SLE(kappa), a family of random fractal path joining two boundary points of an underlying domain D. These continuous paths arise as the scaling limits of various discrete self-interacting paths, such as loop-erased random walk.
A self-interacting process has the locality property if it does not "feel" the boundary of its domain D until it hits the boundary. Among the two-dimensional processes known as Schramm Loewner Evolution SLE(kappa), it is known that only one, SLE(6), satisfies the locality property. In this talk, I will describe the key properties that identify SLE(6) - the Domain Markov Property, conformal invariance, and the (classical) Locality Property - and introduce a "non-local" form of locality also satisfied by SLE(6), describing the behaviour of the process when it first encloses a target set.
We consider an instance of the phase-retrieval problem, where one wishes to recover a signal (viewed as a vector) from the noisy magnitudes of its inner products with locally supported vectors. Such measurements arise, for example, in ptychography, which is an imaging technique used in lense-less X-ray microscopes and in optical microscopes with increased fields of view.
Starting with the setup where the signal is one-dimensional, we present theoretical and numerical results on an approach that has two important properties. First, it allows deterministic (rather than random) measurement constructions, which we give examples of. Second, it uses a robust, fast recovery algorithm that consists of solving a system of linear equations in a lifted space, followed by simply calculating an eigenvector. We also present extensions, including to the two-dimensional setting.
What if we could imitate spider silk glands to produce biodegradable materials with properties similar to rubber or plastic? In our interdisciplinary team of fluid dynamicists, chemical engineers and material scientists, my role as mathematician is to try and answer this question from the numerical perspective. In this context, I am working on a problem of multiphase flow that includes advection, diffusion, chemical reaction, osmosis and viscoplastic behavior.
When it comes to the numerical solution of such a model that is based on a real-life problem, I am a strong advocate of so-called mimetic methods, i.e. discretisation schemes which preserve the physical properties of the system also at the discrete level. Following this philosophy,
* the transition between viscous flow and plastic creep is treated in a genuinely nonsmooth fashion and not simply smoothed out,
* the discretisation of the Navier-Stokes equations is pressure-robust,
* conservation of mass and momentum are respected,
* maximum principles are preserved,
* numerical diffusion is limited to an absolute minimum.
Additionally, the algorithm should clearly be stable, efficient and accurate for both steady and unsteady flow problems.
In this talk, I will show how we can couple fast algorithms from convex optimisation, a finite-element discretisation and algebraic flux correction to attain these objectives. Some videos of various flow configurations are included as well!
Run a Brownian motion on a torus for a long time. How large are the
random gaps left behind when the path is removed?
In three (or more) dimensions, we find that there is a deterministic spatial
scale common to all the large gaps anywhere in the torus. Moreover, we can
identify whether a gap of a given shape is likely to exist on this scale, in
terms of a single parameter, the classical (Newtonian) capacity. I will
describe why this allows us to identify a well-defined "component" structure in
our random porous set.
Quasisymmetric maps are fruitful generalizations of conformal maps. Quasisymmetric uniformization problem seeks for extensions of uniformization theorem beyond the classical context of Riemann surfaces.
The goal of this talk is to show that quasisymmetric uniformization problem is closely related to random walks and diffusions. I will explain how the existence of quasisymmetric maps is equivalent to heat kernel estimates for the simple random walk on a family of planar graphs. The same methods also apply to diffusions on a class of fractals homeomorphic to the 2-sphere.
These ideas will be illustrated using snowballs and their graph approximations. Snowballs are high dimensional analogues of Koch snowflake.
Many types of large cells have multiple nuclei. In long muscle cells, nuclei are distributed almost uniformly along their length, which is crucial for cell function. However, the underlying positioning mechanisms remain unclear. We examine computationally the hypothesis that a force balance generated by microtubules positions the nuclei. Rather than assuming what the forces are, we allow for various types of forces between pairs of nuclei and between the nuclei and the cell boundary. Mathematically, this means that we start with a great number of potential models. We then use a reverse engineering approach by screening the models and requiring their predictions to fit imaging data on nuclei positions from hundreds of muscle cells of Drosophila larva. Computational screens result in a small number of feasible models, the most adequate of which suggests that the nuclei repel each other and the cell boundary with forces that decrease with distance.
This suggests that microtubules growing from nuclear envelopes push on neighboring nuclei and the cell boundary. We support this hypothesis with stochastic microscopic simulations. Using statistical and analytical tools such as correlation and bifurcation analysis, we make several nontrivial predictions: An increased nuclear density near the cell poles, zigzag patterns in wider cells, and correlations between the cell width and elongated nuclear shapes, all of which we confirm by image analysis of the experimental data.
This is joint work with Mary Baylies, Alex Mogilner and Stefanie Windner.
We derive a universal criterion for the preservation of the lake at rest solution in general mesh-based and meshless numerical schemes for the shallow-water equations with bottom topography. The main idea is a careful mimetic design for the spatial derivative operators in the momentum flux equation that is paired with a compatible averaging rule for the water column height arising in the bottom topography source term. The resulting numerical schemes for the shallow-water equations are called well-balanced.
Based on a well-balanced RBF-FD discretization of the shallow-water equations, we develop a meshless tsunami propagation and inundation model. The moving wet-dry interface between the incoming wave and the shoreline is handled using RBF generated extrapolation, yielding a truly meshless tsunami model. Several numerical results are presented that demonstrate excellent agreement of the resulting model with standard one- and two-dimensional benchmark tests.
This is joint work with Rüdiger Brecht, Scott MacLachlan and Jörn Behrens.
PDE models can be a powerful tool for understanding emerging structures and patterns, such as aggregates and traveling waves formed by large populations of cells. As a specific example, I will discuss myxobacteria, which, due to their co-operative nature, lie on the boundary between uni- and multicellular organisms. I will present a novel age-structured, continuous macroscopic model. The derivation is based on simple interaction rules and set within the SOH (Self-Organized Hydrodynamics) framework. The strength of this combined approach is that microscopic information can be incorporated into the particle model in a straight-forward manner, whilst the continuous model can be analyzed using mathematical tools, such as stability and asymptotic analysis.
It has been suggested that myxobacteria are not able to react to signals immediately after they have reversed their direction. Our analysis reveals that this insensitivity period is not necessary for wave formation, but is essential for wave synchronization. A more mathematical focus will be the existence and stability of such traveling waves moving in two opposing waves frames. Fascinatingly, while the wave profiles do not change, the wave composition does, and the fractions of reversible and non- reversible bacteria form waves traveling in the opposite direction. I will discuss the explicit construction of such waves and show simulation results.
This is joint work with Pierre Degond and Hui Yu.
I will present a new quantitative genetic model of adaptation to a changing environment. The mathematical analysis will use small variance asymptotics introduced by Diekmann et al in 2005 to derive information on the equilibrium. The framework can handle sexual and asexual reproduction. Heuristics can be made to guess the lineages of the population inside the equilibrium, as shown by numerical simulations.


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Ponies clipped and shiny
Starting at 6.30am, D clipped them before work. They were both angels to clip. Mac likes being clipped nearly as much as Remi. They were so good – standing peacefully.
Both boys are sporting very smart blanket clips and look gorgeous. Got hot clothed, and look beautiful.
Mac got lunged whilst Remi was being clipped and he was not bothered by his exposed areas (saving his expressiveness for the windy warm up arena tomorrow. Both have gone back out in their Red PE trios with necks,and with 100gm liners underneath.
Strangely they aren't eating as much haylage all of a sudden, had loadsleft this morning, and where half way up hill under tree when I arrived with wheelbarrow of more, and not interested. Odd have been "starving" for haylage since mid September and now aren't as bothered.
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Cash For Oscars.
James Mangold
There's no such thing as 'just a horror movie'. Horror films can be incisive examinations of the societal fears that hover just below the surface of group consciousness, ready to be unearthed through allegorical films of the fantastic. There is also no such thing as 'just a comedy', because sharp satire can illuminate important issues and arguments that are perhaps ignored in civilized and staid debate. There is such a thing as 'just an action movie', because most of those are made to keep the brain-dead Kill Bill fans alive and passive long enough to be organ harvested, and there is certainly no category other than 'just' a bio-pic. Bio-pics are overlong, saccharine, and so reliant on familiar cues and scenes that there's generally no point to even watching them, unless you feel the need to use 'rags to riches' in a sentence immediately thereafter. I don't need to see Johnny Cash buying his first guitar, or writing a song in an airplane hanger or someplace suitably lonely, or an inanimate object triggering a flashback scene. And I certainly don't need to a revelatory look pass over a bored record executive's face as he hears the birth of a brand new sound. It's trite, it's been done, and it's not necessary.
The problem usually is that screenwriters try to force a person's life into a three-act structure, when life doesn't really work like that. Granted, there's a beginning, a middle, and an end to life, but I'm generally not interested in seeing a woman's distended vagina popping out a slime-caked baby head, followed by a lot of nothing ending in a slow death from complications arising from diabetes. Yet, the filmmakers inevitably try to force a character arc and narrative structure onto lives that never had those constraints. Most people don't live their lives in a gradual parabolic curve that can be plotted out with color-coded scene cards and a bulletin board. For example, I was born an asshole, am living my life as an asshole, and will die an asshole with stomach cancer, which doesn't make for a very interesting story. The same, it seems can be said for Johnny Cash. Essentially, the message I got from this film was that Johnny Cash was a big prick addicted to speed for most of his prime. That's not to say that his story isn't an interesting one; it is. But they force a life story into a two-hour film without a point, other than that Cash made some good music. It's two hours of exposition, followed by a quick anti-drug message and a lot of bad singing.
That said, the film isn't horrific. Occasionally, Joaquin Phoenix disappears into his role long enough that one forgets he's a hair-lipped simpleton riding the coat-tails of his dead brother, though the role he inhabits isn't really Johnny Cash, it's Johnathan Rhys-Meyers in that bad Elvis TV movie. He doesn't really look or act like Cash, mainly because Cash looked like James Dean made out of beef in his younger days, and a heap of clay in his older years. That's OK, though, because he does sounds like Cash, in that he can't sing in the same atonal, unnecessarily deep way that Cash did. Reese Witherspoon, however, is surprisingly good as June Carter, playing up the peppy sock-hop beauty queen act so hard it's occasionally unclear which of the two characters is intended to be juiced up on meth-amphetamines, and which one is just retarded. Her Dolly Parton meets Danzig roar is spot on, too. The essential problem with the film, however, lies in their relationship. So much time is spent telling us the facts of Cash's life, and dwelling on his pill-popping, that the romance between the two leads is left unmotivated. I can understand why Cash lusted for Carter, because everyone wants to do the class president in the pooper just so you have something to scrawl on the locker room wall, but I'm left confused as to why she would want to live her life with a mumbling dimwit. The film tries so hard to force his drug addiction and romance into a Hollywood movie format, but life doesn't work that way. Walk The Line fails because it tells us the facts of Johnny Cash's life, but it doesn't tell us a story, or at least not one that I can believe.
Favorite Bio-pic? Mine's Frida, but the original, not the Julie Taymor version.


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In 8th grade fashion, one of my friends told me that one of her friends has a crush on me. I appreciated the compliment and was so surprised by this that I laughed out loud.
I spend so much of my time running from crisis to crisis that I stopped thinking about dating. I moved to a space where I worry about my level of intelligence more than I do my beauty. I look at my body as a vehicle for me to do more work–not as an object of desire.
I love both Knowles sisters, but right now I'm a bit more Solange and less Beyonce. I've always thought Solange did her own thing w/ regards to fashion while Beyonce is beholden to a particular standard of beauty. S. seems to dress for herself; B. for audience members and the male gaze.
I am taken aback at any sign at at all that a man might be interested in me. When I meet a man, I am genuinely interested in who he is and what he does, not in whether or not we will ever date.
I think I stopped living in the "what will be" and started living in the present moment.
Because who has the time to worry about whether or not a man is going to call you? Or what his text meant? Or when he's going to ask you out? Who has the time to worry about super high heels and hair + makeup that looks just right and if he'll like it? Who has the time to panic about which date you'll be on this upcoming weekend?
I don't. I don't have time for the games. I don't have time to wonder about whether or not he's being honest with me, or what I'm going to do when I get a job somewhere far away from here, and whether or not Skype-dates will cut it.
So I dress in a way I think pleases God, and also makes me happy. I don't try to make myself seem any less smart to make a man feel better, nor do I flaunt my intelligence to chase men away. I just…am, and I believe that I'm enough.
The culture in which I live demands that I worry about all of this stuff. It wants me to believe that who I am is not good enough for a man.
But when I worry about those things, it takes my attention off of everything else God wants me to do with my time. When I buy into the injurious myth that I am not good enough, I insult God's creation, as well as Jesus' work on the cross.
I stopped doing things to get a man's attention and started doing things to please God.
If we all just were the men and women that God wanted us to be, without any concern about the people around us, I am sure that we would be able to accomplish mighty things for Him. When I do fall in love, I want it to be with a man who is real with me. So in the meantime, I practice being my authentic self for everybody, even if that means not being liked.
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Over the past few weeks Charlestons Mayor J. Pericles Riley has made a Herculean effort to convince citizens of the Lowcountry that his $1 billion wish list of pork barrel projects is the only way to save Greater Charleston from the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. Both he and Governor Sanford have been dueling via a string of Palter and Chatter commentaries in vain attempts to claim the visionary high ground in a war of words reminiscent of two spoiled brats kicking dust at each other during recess. Unfortunately for our city, state, and nation, our Governor and Charlestons mayor represent the polar-opposite political extremes in a national debate that is now shaping our economic future for the next several decades. One can only hope that the outcome of the coming congressional stimulus debates will result in an effective, measured response that will slow the downward economic spiral without triggering the unintended consequences of stag-flation, a return to the misery index of the Carter administration, or worse.
To his credit, Governor Sanford is one of a few in the national spotlight that understands the oxymoron of trying to spend our way out of debt. The undisputable logic of his closing comments in his January 9th commentary, Borrowed stimulus accurately summarize the current quandary issuing debt on top of debt to solve a problem created by too much debt threatens both the financial strength and the sustainability of our country. Isnt this the same death-spiral that brought down Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the largest brokerage houses on Wall Street? What makes congress, the future president, and even Riley think that spending what we dont have to build a lot of things that we dont need or cant afford will save our national economy?
As for Riley, his sputtering attempts to legitimize his $1 billion shovel ready project list of earmarks with flapping gyrations and little-boy foot stomping are comical at best and tragic for the future of Charleston. Try as he might to discredit and belittle Governor Sanford, theres one fact that still haunts Riley, Sanford is governor and he never will be that brass ring was snatched from his scrawny grasp years ago by a much better man than hell ever be.
Apparently Rileys recent name-dropping laundry list of ultra liberal, secular progressive national politicians proudly touted in his January 8th commentary was intended to impress someone the only two he missed were Barney Frank and Ted Kennedy. Then theres his contention that Charleston would set priorities through a transparent process and public hearings and that direct funding to local communities is the most transparent process This from the same hypocrite that orchestrated an unannounced, secret meeting with several other local politicians to solicit support for his $45 million Johns Island Cross Island Parkway to be funded with Washington Candy while gaining him political status and influence on Seabrook and Kiawah Islands. Given his past track record with public white elephants and financial rat-holes including the Aquarium, Maritime Center, Ball Park, Majestic Square, the Calhoun Street Drainage Tunnel, and countless others, Charlestonians cant possibly have much confidence in his ability as a transparent, financial visionary.
One can just imagine what Riley would do if he got a pot of Washington Candy as a Community Development Block Grant. His deal-estate development cronies and political gadflies would be so thick at City Hall that his political side-kick, Louie Lightfoot, would have to pass out numbers for the pay to play queue to Rileys office.


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The force of buoyancy exerted by the atmosphere on the balloon is B in the upward direction and remains constant. The force of air resistance acts opposite to the direction of the velocity and is proportional to it. The ballon carries a mass M and is found to fall down near the earth's surface with a constant velocity v. how much mass should be removed from the ballon so that it may rise with a constant velocity.
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SC Freiburg
We wanted to play to win today. To go into the international break with a defeat would have been very bitter pill to swallow. We can build on this game today. We generally play courageously and try a lot, but we keep on conceding stupid goals.
Eintracht Frankfurt
I think that we've had two points stolen from us today. We clearly dominated the game at times and should have led 1-0 or even 2-0 early on. A crazy moment then allowed them to level right at the end.
Such a heated atmosphere is normal in Freiburg, with these fans. The red card against me was unjustified in my eyes. Neither of them were fouls in my opinion. The result is fully deserved in the end, of course, because Freiburg pushed in the second half.


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Athletics to Start Wrestling Program in FallDecember 20, 2013
St. Catharine College Athletic Director, Tom Bystrek, has announced that Wrestling will be added as a new sport in the fall of 2014. The addition will be the 20th varsity sport for the Patriots and the 10th men's varsity sport at the college.
"We are excited about the possibilities," mentioned Bystrek. "Not only will the competition be exciting, but the college will add an additional 30 plus athletes to our athletic and campus family."
The Mid-South Conference offers Wrestling and currently there are four schools that have programs, Campbellsville University, Cumberland University (TN), Lindsey Wilson College and The University of the Cumberlands. Just three of those schools are in the state of Kentucky and those are the only colleges or universities that offer collegiate wrestling.
"We wanted to start a sport that gave us a chance to compete quickly," stated Bystrek. "There are over 100 high schools in the state that have wrestling and only three universities in the state that have wrestling - our chances to fill a competitive roster right away are great!"
There are 10 weight classes that the NAIA uses for its meets. The weight classes range from 125 up to heavyweight. Each team has to have a wrestler at each of those weight classes. The Mid-South Conference, like many of the other sports, is one of the top wrestling conferences in the nation. Currently, the MSC has all four teams ranked or receiving votes for the NAIA poll.
As of December 30th, the athletic department has announced the hiring of the current Taylor County High School wrestling coach Spencer Adams as the head coach for the new program. In addition, joining Adams mat side will be former Larue County Head Coach Gary Canter. "Both coaches bring a plethora of experience to our program" said Bystrek. "They've already hit the ground running, by grabbing some quality recruits and are looking to add to, what could already be, a great start."


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Yep… this is the latest Round Table feat. Nino's album
Distance includes 5 tracks from their previous singles + 1 song originally sung by Makino Yui for Aria the Origination sound track, and 6 original tracks + intro & fade out track.
Dont know why, but still their music color so refreshing in my ears…. Round Table keep their music pace on this album, but yet all the songs sounds fresh as it newly released… Even if you already listen to Atashi datte onaji koto omotteru yo, or Koi wo Shiteru for thousands time… well for me, the most outstanding song is Yokogao, it gives me deja vu… and yes, the song was originally used as insert song on Aria the Origination, but it was performed by Makino Yui… Unlike Symphony, which is re arranged. Yokogao performed without any changed… But you know, Nino's voice gently calming the atmosphere up here… eh…. the list 01. Long Distance 02. Koi wo Shitteru 03. Sayonara 04. Atashi Datte Onaji Koto Omotteru yo 05. Sunny Day 06. Toki wo Koete 07. Nemurenai Yoru 08. Akane iro no Sentimental 09. Oh Yeah!! -New Year's mix- 10. Futsu no koto 11. Nagareboshi 12. Yokogao 13. Takaramono 14. Long Distance -reprise-


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On any given day, I am likely to experience the short-torso struggle at least once. From barely being able to see over the steering wheel in my husbands car, to the serious struggle of finding a one-piece that fits, the struggle is real for Reb over here. When I picked out this "top" in my first Le Tote, I had planned on pairing it with a nice pair of flare jeans, but to my surprise (well, kind of surprise) upon trying it on, it was clearly long enough on me to be a dress. Sure, its a taaaaad short, but who doesn't like rocking a baby doll dress every now and again?
That being said, this piece is pretty amaze and whether you suffer from my short-torso problem and can wear it as a dress, or whether you want to wear it as a top, its preeeetty fabulous -- and its only $54. No doubt, it'll get some serious wear. Cold Shoulder + LBD in one? What more could you ask for? I've linked some of my other favorite LBD + Cold Shoulder Pieces here >>
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Historical Sketch
Author(s): G. R. Turrentine
Year: 1962
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Awarding body: Edexcel
Level: 3 BTEC National Diploma (18 units) – equivalent to three A levels
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4 GCSEs at grade A*-C or equivalent (GCSE PE or BTEC First Diploma in Sport is required). Your track record in PE should be exemplary as should your appearance and attendance.
You should provide evidence of a commitment to competitive sports performance and coaching.
The course includes:
As a vocational course it is essential for our students to gain various additional qualifications that make them appealing to both employers and universities. These qualifications include the FA Level 1 Coaching Award, National Pool Lifeguarding course and CSLA. Students will also have the opportunity to experience an International work experience. As well as Guest Speakers from Lucozade Sport, USA Sports Scholarship advisors and a trip to the Career in Sport and Leisure Conference.
Summary of content and learning:
The full qualification gained is the BTEC National Extended Diploma in Sports Coaching, Development and Fitness. The course comprises of 18 units, providing a broad and balanced view of sport. Units include Fitness Training and Programming, Sports Coaching, Practical Team Sport, Sports Nutrition, Psychology of Sports Performance and Physiology of Fitness.
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Each year, Year 12 students will spend 1 week at La Manga Club in Spain. This elite training facility provides our students with an incredible opportunity to complete a European coaching experience in a variety of sports on the complex. This does come at a cost to students. The students shadow professional coaches in a range of sports and use their observations to develop their own coaching expertise.
The PE and Sport Faculty deliver the following additional courses.
Level 2 Community Sports Leaders Award: This is an advanced level and well recognised leadership course that progresses from the level 1 course by further developing leadership skills that can be used to deliver sports and activity sessions in the community. It is a practical based course that takes place one lesson per week throughout the year and involves spending time working in local primary schools and in the wider community.
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Happy Wednesday :)
Had another full day of running around and I'm only just getting to my post now (9:36 pm!) "One of those days" .. you know the kind ... when you only do the breakfast dishes at 4:50 pm!! I have another full one tomorrow but it has more "fun" things on the list ... like shopping for some light weight pants for my holiday - now THAT'S my kind of errand :)
As promised, here is the "Thank You" treat my club members will find in with their orders tomorrow. I cased the idea from fellow Demonstrator Linda Gutierrez in Cypress, California (http://www.stampingyearround.typepad.com/). I love this quick and easy little thank you. I made few extras for hostess gifts.
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I looked into it. Thought I was sold. I wanted a switch from Apple, but the thought of having a Samsung doesn't sit well with me. But from what I read the Pixel2 still seems to be a step behind the big 2. So I'm probably just going to upgrade to the latest Apple thing again when the time comes.
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There's a bit of concern around the screen quality that LG is currently producing, some issues with blue tint or something, but anyway Apple/Google went with LG to try and invest in having them make better screens so Samsung has less of a monopoly on the best screens.
I like that with the Pixel it is not full of bloatware like samsung comes loaded with. But I think both phones are great options. We got my wife (who always had a iphone) a Pixel XL a few months ago and it is a great phone. I dont think you can go wrong with either.
I'm still rocking a oneplus 3. I think cell phone prices are fucking ridiculous these days and refuse to pay anything close to what samsung or apple are asking.
I always wait a couple years for the latest and greatest to drop in price.
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New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox MLB Pick, Odds, Prediction - 9/4/14
Boston Red Sox (61-78) at New York Yankees (71-66)
MLB Baseball: Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 7:05 pm (Yankee Stadium)
Brandon Workman (R) (1-7) (5.131) vs. Chris Capuano (L) (1-2) (4.008)
The Line: New York Yankees -149 / Boston Red Sox +139 --- Over/Under: 9 See the Latest Odds
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The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees play a rubber game on Thursday night.
The Boston Red Sox have split their last 10 games and are 17 games below a .500 record. The Red Sox pitching staff has fallen off a bit, allowing four or more runs in 10 of their last 12 games. Overall, the Boston Red Sox have an ERA of 3.95, which is 22nd in the majors, and they've lost 11 of their last 14 games when allowing more than three runs. Offensively, Mike Napoli has nine RBIs in his last 10 games and Brock Holt has hit safely in seven of his last 10 games. Brandon Workman takes the mound, and he's 1-8 with a 4.93 ERA and has 56 strikeouts in 73 innings. Workman is 2-2 with a 5.23 ERA in five career games against the Yankees.
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The New York Yankees have lost five of their last eight games and are five games above .500. The Yankees have scored nine runs in this series and four or more runs in seven of their last 10 games. The Yanks have won seven of their last eight games when scoring more than three runs. Jacoby Ellsbury has hit safely in eight of his last nine games and Derek Jeter has hit in seven of his last nine games. The New York Yankees have an ERA of 3.85, which is 20th in the majors. Starting is Chris Capuano, who is 2-3 with a 4.24 ERA and has 70 strikeouts in 74.1 innings. Capuano is 0-2 with a 4.76 ERA in two career starts against the Red Sox.
The Red Sox are 1-5 in Workmans last 6 road starts and 0-8 in Workmans last 8 starts overall. The Yankees are 7-16 in their last 23 vs. American League East and 3-9 in their last 12 games vs. a right-handed starter.
The Red Sox can't buy a win when Workman is on the mound, and the Yanks need to keep winning for the sake of the playoffs. I like the Yankees here.


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March 1, 2016
Three Desal Options for the Monterey Peninsula
By George Riley
Few realize that we have three different desal options, two of which, the People's Project and DeepWater Desal, would be publicly owned and far less costly than Cal Am's proposed project. All three are moving ahead. All three have spent millions so far. All three are still far from the finish line. All three have hurdles. All three expect completed state CEQA and federal NEPA environmental evaluations in later 2016. None have coastal development permits for construction.
Cal Am's water supply project has finally settled on two major supply sources, plus pipeline upgrades. The smaller desal project includes intake, production, discharge and the pipeline to get product water from Marina to Seaside. Cal Am had decided to pursue the smaller 6.4 mgd (million gallons per day or 7,175 acre feet per year) plant and combine it with a new Ground Water Recharge source (3500 acre feet per year) using reclaimed waste and wash water. The pipe upgrades are required on the Monterey Peninsula to handle new water volumes from supplies north of Seaside. Previously most water came from the Carmel River to the south. According to a recent Cal Am update on costs, the 6.4mgd desal project increased from $296 million to $338 million. Scheduled for early 2019, the project is a full two years behind schedule. The cost estimate is very firm since Cal Am recently sought construction bids. Here is the picture:
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|*Cal Am est $/acre foot
|*MPWMD est $/acre foot
|Peninsula pipeline upgrades
|6.4 mgd desal (mil gal/day)
*Neither Cal Am nor MPWMD have broken down the costs to show a potential comparison to the other two desal projects at Moss landing. This breakdown is based on the relative costs for the new pipeline and the desal.
DeepWater Desal would produce 25,000 acre feet per year for the Monterey Peninsula and other communities. It offers creative seabed screened ocean intake at a depth of about 100 feet, proven technology, has Moss Landing power plant cooperation, no water rights issues and a traditional brine discharge plan. Completion is targeted for 2019, at a cost of about $2200/acre foot (including estimate for transfer pipeline), but is without commitments for financing and public ownership structure
The People's Project would produce13,400 acre feet per year for the Monterey Peninsula and north Monterey county. It has existing infrastructure entitlements and prior permits at Moss Landing industrial park, can use proven screened ocean intake or variation of seabed intake, pressurized discharge of brine and no water rights issues. Completion is targeted for 2019, at a cost of about $2200/acre foot (with estimate for transfer pipeline), but without commitments for financing or public ownership structure.
Main Differences / Issues
Cal Am has a protected track within CPUC procedures. Has political support from the Mayors Water Authority. Has commitments and plans for using public financing for about 75% of its costs, but will own 100%. Cal Am has no water rights. Still has problems with its testing protocol for the unproven slant wells, which are also burdened with conflict of interest, interrupted data collection, no continuous pumping test, a mid-course change in modeling design, and delayed release of key data for evaluation. Its location of intake wells interferes with Marina Coast Water District plans for its service area. Slant well extraction from 180 foot aquifer is controversial and may exacerbate sea water intrusion in the Salinas Basin. Cal Am is pressing for speedy decisions that undermine a valid evaluation of the feasibility of the unproven slant wells. The project is in conflict with a County Ordinance requiring public ownership. More recently the excess of freshwater in the test well led to a tentative agreement to send that excess to Castroville for agriculture use. But there are no financing or design plans for delivering this water, which could be a schedule problem.
DeepWater plans to serve a larger regional need, including Salinas, south Santa Cruz County, and to pass the economies of scale savings on to all customers. Its plans are tied closely to another plan for a computer data center that will preheat desal water via cooling of data center operations, thus reducing energy costs. It uses local entrepreneurial development financing with some financial help from Monterey Peninsula Water Management District.
The People's Project has grandfathered rights for ocean intake and discharge easements and entitlements, existing infrastructure for pipes and storage. The site is zoned properly. In 2002 the California Public Utilites Commision concluded that this Moss Landing site is the most appropriate location for a desal plant. It relies on local entrepreneurial development financing.
Cost Comparison from Extrapolation of Known Date
With such stark differences in cost, only the stubborn will not open their minds to a discussion. Ratepayers deserve that discussion. Will the various politicians and water professionals conduct their own cost comparisons? We must demand that they do so.
Furthermore, two thirds of Cal Am's local water revenue leaves our community to enrich Cal Am's parent company American Water Works, their shareholders and other communities. Virtually all of DeepWater and The People's Project water revenue would stay local. We could have lower cost water and an economic boost with either DeepWater or the People's Project.


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Bismillahir rahmanir raheem
The Prophet (saw) was an expert communicator and an amazing example for us all.
38% of communication is dictated by the tone of your voice whilst 55% is physiology. From studying neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) I can totally agree with these figures. One of the greatest indicators that someone is being truthful, lying, are uncomfortable or excited is by their body language as well as their speech.
But what about the sunnah way of communicating?
Aisha (ra) narrates that the Prophet's (saw) speech was not quick and continuous but he spoke clearly word for word. Anas ibn Malik (ra) also narrated that Rasulullah (saw) sometimes repeated a word three times so his listeners understood well what he was saying.
Not only are these techniques we can emulate, they are techniques already used by public speakers, presenters and politicians the world over!
Take a deep breathe, find your speaking rhythm and put emphasis on the points that you want people to remember most.
If there's only one person talking and the other isn't listening is it still called a conversation? There are many who learn the art of talking but a rare few that learn the art of listening.
The Prophet (saw) was a master at the art of listening. How many people came to him for advice and truly felt like the were connecting with him when talking about their issues? More than you could ever imagine!
The Prophet (saw) used to turn his whole body towards a person when he was talking to them, not just his head, so they knew they had his full attention. How many of us actually do this? Even when it comes to our own children, do they really have our full attention when we communicate with them? Children more than anyone else are sensitive to this and it's something we should all consider.
Non verbal and verbal communication need to be aligned so misunderstandings can be kept to a minimum (hopefully).We interact with people everyday, often on a short time scale due to busy lives, so we owe it to ourselves to make the most of those communications when they happen and never let an opportunity go astray.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Do not belittle any good deed, even meeting your brother (Muslim) with a cheerful face" [Muslim]
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The parent corporation of Household and Beneficial finance companies has agreed to pay about $12 million to settle regulators' allegations that it routinely overcharged Californians on small loans, Department of Corporations officials said Tuesday.
Regulators initially sought $8.5 million in penalties from Household International Corp., but the company wound up paying $8.9 million on Monday after an independent audit found more overcharges, department spokesman Andre Pineda said. Household also will repay $3 million in overcharges to consumers.
The suit, which the Department of Corporations filed in November in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleged a "pervasive pattern of abusive lending practices" by Household and Beneficial, including routinely imposing $75 administrative fees on loans of $2,500 or less. The maximum permitted by state law is $50.
Household International acknowledged that overcharges occurred but denied any intentional wrongdoing. The settlement requires the Prospect Heights, Ill., company to pay Arthur Andersen to regularly audit its California operations; to create a special office at a Household facility in Pomona where regulators can review electronic images of loan files, and to establish "technological and human controls" to prevent overcharges.


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