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Pediatric Dentistry
As the proud father of four young men, Dr. Timothy Sluser knows how to put even our youngest patients at ease. Dr. Sluser understands that a patient's first dental experience is important in establishing lifelong healthy habits. We have a toy box to keep our younger patients occupied while they wait, and our friendly hygienist will show children the equipment, explain their treatment, and teach them about healthy brushing and flossing during their appointment.
Geriatric Dentistry
Dr. Sluser knows that senior patients have specific needs, and we can provide them with specialized treatment. By offering sedation options, including intravenous (IV) sedation, we ensure that all our patients can remain comfortable during their treatment, even those with painful medical conditions like arthritis. Our practice offers a wide range of restorative dentistry services to meet the needs of our senior patients, including bridges, crowns, implants, and dentures.
TMJ Disorder Treatment
If you suffer from temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder, you may experience pain in your jaw and face, shoulder tension, discomfort when eating, and a number of other bothersome symptoms. Knowing the serious affect that TMJ disorder can have on your life, Four Seasons Dental offers effective treatment for mild to moderate cases of the disorder. Dr. Sluser will most commonly prescribe an occlusal mouth guard, which can reposition your jaw and prevent you from clenching your teeth. Orthodontics offer an effective solution in some cases.Learn More About TMJ Disorder Treatment
Root Canal Therapy
In instances of severe decay or a fractured tooth, the inner pulp of a tooth can become infected, and root canal therapy may be the only way to save the tooth and treat the underlying causes of your discomfort. During root canal therapy, the dentist will remove all infected tissues, thoroughly clean the inside of the tooth, and fill the tooth with a rubber-like material for support. Lastly, a customized dental crown will be placed to protect the weakened tooth against further decay.
Sensitivity Treatment
If you have very sensitive teeth, it can cause discomfort during dental treatment. Dr. Sluser offers a powerful desensitizing agent that can allow you to receive your necessary treatment with minimal discomfort. Your comfort is important to us, and we will take the necessary measures to make your visit to our office as pleasant as possible.
Preventive Dentistry
Patients of all ages need regular cleaning and maintenance to prevent decay, gum disease, and other dental problems. Dr. Sluser encourages patients to come in at least twice a year to receive a thorough cleaning and examination. He offers regular oral cancer screenings, and for our younger patients, fluoride treatments and sealants to prevent cavities and decay.


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Wednesday, Aug 23, 2006
Depart: Friendly Cove, 9:00
Breakfast: Porridge
Weather: Overcast, thin fog, light wind
10:00 49° 31′ 56 N 126° 36′ 19 W, light S, light SW swell, motoring
11:00 49° 26′ 56 N 126° 36′ 43 W, light S, 2′ west swell, motoring
12:00 49° 23′ 18 N 126° 36′ 02 W, – , 1 m W swell, motoring
13:00 49° 21′ 39 N 126° 30′ 30 W, 5 kt W, 1-2 m W swell, motoring
14:00 49° 21′ 16 N 126° 24′ 47 W, 5 kt W, 2′ W swell, motoring
Motored out of Friendly Cove in light fong and active mist. Winds were light as we weaved through the fish boats in Nootka Sound. We passed Estevan Point and tried to sail with the wind behind us. We made 2-2.5 kt, but decided that speed was the better option and returned to motoring. As we approached the entrance to Hot Springs Cove, we saw the sailboat we'd been following all day – the first sailboat we had seen on the West coast.
We entered Hot Springs Cove and docked next to the sailboat. After a stay at the nearby hot springs with Richard, the other sailboat's singlehanded skipper, we returned to Wai Whare.
We went over to Richard's boat for a potluck supper with Nick and Jenna from a junk rigged boat anchored out in the cove. All of our dinner companions were also sailing around the island. We discovered that Wai Whare was the smallest of all these relatively small vessles – Richard's boat is 27′ and the three masted junk is 26′ overall and 28′ long on deck.

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Saydia from Sidi Bou Said (ICBM) is a volleyball club based in Sidi Bou Said (Tunisia). It was created in 2012 after the breakup of Saydia Sports. It currently competes in the main volleyball league of the country, Division Nationale A, after its promotion during the 2012-2013 season.


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What inputs are required for the production of goods and services? All modern economics textbooks agree that labor and capital are fundamental factors of production. Some textbooks also include land which is usually a shorthand for all natural resources including agriculture, minerals, fuels, and sometimes environmental resources like clean air and water. Modern growth models typically ignore natural resources and include technology as the third factor of production. Other growth models include human capital, a measure of labor quality that is mainly determined by education.
But the cult of the entrepreneur has infected some economics textbooks. This tradition ignores human capital and technology and glorifies entrepreneurship instead. For example, Wikipedia, the Fed, and several textbooks list four factors of production: Land, Labor, Capital, and Entrepreneurship.
Why elevate the status of entrepreneurship to be a fundamental means of production when technology and human capital are more important? Karayiannis is a member of the cult of entrepreneurship who traces this tradition back to J.B. Clark in the late 1800s. Karayiannis laments that the study of entrepreneurship was mostly abandoned by economists by the middle of the 20th century. But there is good reason that economists de-emphasized entrepreneurship. It is clearly less important than technology or education for explaining economic growth and there is no evidence that entrepreneurship was ever in scarce supply anywhere.
Entrepreneurship is also just a small fraction of another factor: labor. For example, Roland Mortimer drew a picture of the four factors of production, but both 'labor' and 'entrepreneur' are embodied in the same person.
Mortimer's definition of entrepreneurship is also an odd departure from the dictionary definition. What he describes is really more like technology and/or human capital both of which really are important determinants of economic growth.
Some economists think that barriers to entrepreneurship were the main impediment to economic growth. This is one reason why Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping encourage millions of entrepreneurs with microloans. Unfortunately, his huge boost to entrepreneurship did not increase wages nor prosperity. He succeeded in creating millions of entrepreneurs, but they just ended up competing with each other in low-profit businesses that didn't increase productivity.
Similarly, when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was an explosion of entrepreneurship because most entrepreneurialism had been illegal under communism and the huge state-run enterprises laid off millions of workers who then became entrepreneurs. Small businesses sprang up everywhere to fill market needs. But this flourishing of entrepreneurship was part of an economic catastrophe. Production and incomes fell and the economic depression was so bad that it even caused life expectancy to collapse. As the graph below shows, it took eighteen years for incomes to recover back to where Russia had been in 1989 before the flourishing of entrepreneurship and even longer for life expectancy to swing back up. No doubt an important part of Russia's recovery has been the rebuilding of large organizations that have reduced entrepreneurship again by turning former entrepreneurs back into employees.
The big problem for devotees of the cult of the entrepreneur is that countries with a larger percentage of entrepreneurs are poorer and have lower economic growth. This is because in economics, small is ugly. The more entrepreneurs, the smaller the businesses and smaller businesses have lower average productivity per worker which means lower wages.
If anything, we need fewer entrepreneurs and bigger economic organizations with better central planners (managers), but nobody has figured out how to optimize central planning for society. Economists should shift their focus from entrepreneurship to venerating the effective management of large organizations instead.
My list of the most fundamental factors of production is simpler:
- Labor & human capital.
- Natural resources (such as land, & energy)
- Technology including social technologies like management, debt (financial capital), & governance.
- Capital goods.
Entrepreneurship is just one aspect of management skill. I wouldn't make it a separate category because it isn't as important as management nor as scarce relative to the need. Nations with more entrepreneurs are poorer than nations with more managers. Almost everyone is an entrepreneur in the poorest nations.
When immigrants leave countries with poor governance and go to countries with better governance, their entrepreneurial abilities suddenly become far more productive because good government is required to make entrepreneurs productive. And nations with good government don't need as many entrepreneurs because large organizations are more efficient when a society is good at producing bureaucrats. So there is no shortage of supply of entrepreneurs that holds back any nation. A much bigger problem is developing quality management & governance.
Management is also the key skill for an entrepreneur to get rich. Most entrepreneurs are poor and the most successful entrepreneurs that the business press admires are the ones who succeed in transitioning from being an entrepreneur to becoming a good manager of bureaucracies. That is much more difficult than just being an entrepreneur and very few entrepreneurs succeed at the transition.


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Southampton take on Man Utd on Wednesday 17th May, 2017, with kickoff at 19:45. This match is currently being shown LIVE on Sky Sports 1.
United have put all their eggs in one Europa League shaped basket, this much we know, and as a result this is a chance for Southampton to pad their stats before what is likely to be another tough summer for the Saints. Keeping key players will be the main challenge, and United could well be one of the teams looking to prise a player or two off the south coast club.
With that in mind, feel free to tune in, as you know the United second eleven is still a worthwhile watch, but don't be surprised if it's heartless.
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Feeling disheartened- was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism in October 2017, started on 100mg levothyroxine and started feeling very unwell a week later, weak, faint and shaky. I insisted on taking a lower dose in new year so now on 50mg. I don't feel as bad as I did but I still feel exhausted and have to force myself to do things. I have aching joints and have gained over a stone in weight since taking them. I've also been diagnosed with Diabetes and fatty liver recently too. I feel sure it's all linked. I've asked my doctor for NDT but he won't prescribe it because he says it's unregulated. I tried giving up the medicine completely for a week but I felt even worse with thyroid symptoms.
I do feel like it's the medicine that is causing a lot of my problems but the GP doesn't agree. I've seen that I can get hold of NDT myself but don't want to operate outside of NHS unless it's a final resort.
Does anyone know of an alternative medicine or a list of Doctors in the South East who prescribe NDT?


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A NASA-designed artificial intelligence helper called AUDREY (Assistant for Understanding Data through Reasoning, Extraction, and sYnthesis) could help firefighters to make split-second life-or-death decisions. This AI collects data on temperatures, gases and other vital signals, using the collected data, it guides firefighters when they're tackling a blaze.
It uses sensors mounted on the firefighters' clothes to monitoring their GPS position, the heat level in surrounding areas and also tells if there is any dangerous gases or chemicals are around.
Because of all this data the sensor sees, firefighters won't run into the next room where the floor will collapse
AUDREY has been in development for nine months and is backed by the US Department of Homeland Security, and could also be used by police officers and other first responders. It will be tested in the field next year.
According to Edward Chow, the program manager: "When first responders are connected to all these sensors, the Audrey agent becomes their guardian angel. As a firefighter moves through an environment, Audrey could send alerts through a mobile device or head-mounted display."
He also added: "We use complex reasoning to simulate how humans think." According to him, this would allow for the provision of more useful information to firefighters than a traditional AI system.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
Established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science, NASA science is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System, advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program, exploring bodies throughout the Solar System with advanced robotic spacecraft missions such as New Horizons, and researching astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the Great Observatories and associated programs.


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Thursday, January 27, 2011
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Past Present - Revelation 150
This is an exciting new Record featuring songs from early Revelation releases redone. A lot of songs that I haven't listened to in quite some time redone, some with a new twist. I highly recommend.
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1. Sick Of It All - As One (Warzone) 2. Bold - Searchin' For The Light (Supertouch) 3. Damnation A.D. - Hold Your Ground (Gorilla Biscuits) 4. Terror - Friends (Side By Side) 5. Triple Threat - Without A Reason (No For An Answer) 6. Backlash - Wise Up (Bold) 7. Death By Stereo - Break Down The Walls (Youth Of Today) 8. ON - Through These Eyes (Chain Of Strengty) 9. Ambitions - Running Like Thieves (Bold) 10. Set Your Goals - Forgotten (Gorilla Biscuits) 11. Down To Nothing - Where It Went (Judge) 12. Ignite - Disengage (Youth Of Today) 13. The Twilight Transmission - Clean Slate (Quicksand) 14. Countdown To Life - Burning Fight (Inside Out) 15. Capital - Out Of Time (Burn) 16. The Mediam - Et Tu Brute (Civ) (CD only bonus track) 17. This Is Hell - Do Something (Civ) 18. Mikoto - Back And To The Left (Texas Is The Reason) 19. Good Clean Fun - No More (Youth Of Today) (CD only bonus track) 20. The Scare - Brand New Place (Battery) (CD only bonus track) 21. This Is Hell - I Hope You Die Soon (The Movielife) (CD only bonus track) 22. Ignite The Will - For The World (Shai Hulud) (CD only bonus track) 23. Walter Schreifels - Pushed Too Far/Friends Like You (Sick Of It All)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
New Year - New Project!
With the new year upon us, I am getting ready to make a one of a kind Monkdeth bi-deck Snowskate. Using a flash deck, an old Burton subdeck picked up on ebay I plan to have this puppy running sometime soon. Rocker trucks fresh in the mail today.
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Venus is the other side of Artemis; she is the softer side of the huntress. All of the Goddess archetypes are present in all women; but they all ad up to one Great Goddess, just as one great woman expresses her many Inner Goddesses through her daily life or at different times in her life she may express one Goddess more strongly than others. The injured Venus exists in many women today; the woman with the Inner Injured Venus is sexually inhibited by religion and the sexual repression put on women to be nice; to be good girls. Many women are sexually injured due to sexual harassment, rape and slut shaming..and so their Inner Venus is like a seed inside of them that has yet to take up root, grow and bloom.. many sexually injured women must first heal themselves by finding the root cause of the sexual injury..and then they have to give themselves tender loving care.. healing starts with self love and self acceptance.. many women have yet to embrace their own flesh and sexuality past social stigmas so that they can let their Inner Venus rise like the phoenix.. as women we need to feel and be safe to express our Divine Feminine.. so it is that we need men to rise into their Divine Masculine and protect and honor; respect and uphold the Inner Venus in each woman so that she may rise into her Divinity..and with that he rises also.. because the archetype of Venus is so buried and shamed in modern day patriarchial society.. the world has become a brutal, ugly and cold place.. we need her; her love and beauty to bring us to grace.
From the book ~ The Goddess an Expression of the Divine Feminine~ Available on Amazon.ca
Goddess of love and beauty; she represents the feminine charm and emotions. Venus is the queen of seduction; with the magic of her charms she turns animal lust into romance and love. She takes a man's heart with her innocence and sensuality. To the cold hard world she brings softness and tenderness.
She is the Goddess that rings in the spring; she represents fertility and joy; the joy that only love can bring. She is born from the foam of the sea; this shows that she is deep with emotion and quite unfathomable to the male understanding. She is an emotional mystery.
Venus is proud and dignified; the Golden Goddess as she shines with her attractiveness; charming men so intensely it is as if they have been filled with venom; filled with a sweet seductive poison. The poison of her charms arouses men, causing them to be won over in spite of themselves. This is the man struck with love; like the love of Cupid's arrows, struck so hard he walks in circles, this is what sweet Venus does to him.
She causes men to become aroused with one look or just one sound; the smell of her perfume drives him wild and with one gentle touch he is brought down. Venus needs him to worship her; she needs him to swoon at her touch; she loves his love and his lust.
She seeks a man that is her direct opposite; as she is soft she needs a man that is a strong masculine man; to her, his masculinity makes her feel even more feminine and desired; she loves to watch him make love to her. Venus loves to temper his lust; as she fills life with her beautiful touch. She loves beauty so much that she surrounds her world and his with art; music and good food. Venus thrives in the differences of the sexes.
As a woman she has a very open heart and a gentle touch; she loves sex so much. She loves to play it up, to build the momentum throughout the day; teasing him and pleasing him and herself. She sets the scene for love. She lives for love and loves to live; Venus is in love with love.
Make Love to Me
Take me with one look, across the room, I see you
My heart speeds up, my breath quickens, my knees feel weak, my blood peaks
Make love to me
Kiss me, softly, firmly, hotly
Make love to me
Throw me down, crush me with your body, I taste you and you taste me, I smell your scent all over me
Make love to me
Penetrate and thrust, beg me not to stop, pull my hair, and roll around everywhere
Make love to me
I want to hear you scream, I want here your release, I want to know I please, when you please me too
Make love to me
Sweet and tender flesh
How I love the feel of a soft caress
To watch the candle light dance
To taste the finest wine
The flesh it is divine
My soft round breast
I hold my babe close
I nurture life from my own
Little one drink from me
From my soul
My breast they hold you
I hold my lover within them
I hold his head so gently
Within the warmth of me
Lovingly I expose my vulnerability
My supple body brings forth life
I feel it take up inside
The quickening of tiny feet
I feel the fluttering deep in me
Nothing more could feel so right
I love the sunlight on my skin
The green grass beneath my bare feet
The wind it touches me
The sweetness of abundance nourishes me
All is right
Velvet skin holds my soul in
Satin hair crowns my head
My delicateness is wonderful
My existence is bliss
Oh how I love my skin.
The beauty of a woman's nature is in her strength,
It is in her way to fight the good and true fight,
It is in her way to listen to her heart.
To quiet the suffering soul,
It is in her nature to nurture and put love first,
This is the beauty of a woman's soul.
She makes the brutal world a beautiful place
She makes beauty from her grace,
She is the tree that bends in the winds of change
She is soft strength, she doesn't break,
Somehow she finds a way to make it all ok,
She is the soft and tender heart,
She is the place to rest your weary head,
She brings you sweet love from nothingness
All of this lives within her heart,
A heart so boundless and abundant that she makes love from hopelessness,
She is a Goddess
She is in your dreams and in your wakefulness
She is the reason you exist
She brings her heart to you wide open
And it is her body that you crave
It is her soft sweet skin and the smell of her silky hair that you can't resist
To not have her is to have nothing at all but emptiness
She is the one to come to when you need to cry
She will meet you with arms wide,
She is all that is wonderful to you,
To not have her is to have ugliness
To not have her is not to have a reason for life
To not have her is to have the world cold and hard,
She is the softness,
She is the tenderness,
She is the sweetness,
Her sensuality,
Doesn't seem to matter what a woman does, it's just not good enough for many men. It seems to me many guys have this make-believe perfect, weird science bitch living in their heads. I think she is different for most men; but she has similar traits expressed by most men. First off she is calm and kind ( a push over ) and she has the perfect body type. She isn't too tall or too short; she isn't too muscular or too thin.. and she never ages. She never gets mad and she does what he expects her to do without having to be told what to do.. she just knows exactly what he wants ( mind reader ) she is a lady in public but a sex freak in private for him.. but not too freaky least she should make him feel insecure ( that she may of had better than him or that he isn't enough to satisfy her ). She doesn't ever upstage him.. she gives him all the glory and the limelight .. she worships him and treats him like a GOD.
I am not her. I have my good moments I guess ???…but I have a temper..my temper is like a summer storm; it's hot, fast and then it blows over just as fast.. makes you wonder if it even happened at all. I am short, I can be shy and then I can be a show off. I like the little bit of fat on my tummy.. it's just a little bit..but I find it feminine. I am fit and I think fabulous but I am not a bodybuilder chick.. I train for strength and conditioning..but I am the one who will save us all from the zombies when they attack. I am not going to starve myself or go on ultra strict diets to please men or any man.I like my curves and my muscle.. I am aging and I am going to do that gracefully. I am not going to lie about my age and I am not going to feel shame about my body changing.. I am not going to compete with other women for a man's attention of affections.. I have too much dignity and self-respect to jump through hoops like a trained poodle to coddle some guys ego.I am strong willed and strong minded.. I don't want some guy in my head taking up all my intellectual space .. I have better things to think about then what the fuck he might be thinking about..
It's so ironic that people preach about being authentic when they are too chicken shit to be truly authentic..being authentic means accepting your imperfections.. if they be physical or personal..
I just cannot imagine ever being in another relationship with a man who has to pick me apart to feed his own fragile ego.. I was married to a guy like that.. always looking over the fence to see how much greener the grass was.. because he wasn't taking care of our relationship or putting his full intentions into our relationship..and I find that most of the single divorced men my age still haven't taken full ownership of doing that themselves in their last relationships.. yet they say " My ex wife was a bitter angry woman " my thoughts on this " Yes I bet she was since you were always comparing her to that make-believe, weird science bitch that lives in your head.. and you were always comparing her to every perfect looking or seemingly perfect woman that walked by.. yes I bet she was right pissed off at your shit " I am thinking as he sits beside me on our coffee, meet up date..and he weighs and judges me with his eyes.. seeing something or hearing something from me that just doesn't look or sound perfect enough.. because I am too short.. or my hair is the wrong color or length.. my boobs are not perky enough.. my teeth are not strait enough and I have a blemish on my chin… I am bloated because it's the first day of my period..and no, I don't want to body build and shred my body fat to look like the bitch in his head…
I wonder how many men have passed up some pretty damn amazing women because they can't get past their own bullshit and insecurities..because they are getting older, and fatter and shorter.. because things are sagging on them…and their male hormones are making them softer..they just ain't as hard as they used to be.. I think if they came to their own acceptance and grew the fuck up.. they would find that imperfections are uniqueness ..and character.. imperfections are endearing .. and imperfections are sexy ..
So I guess I need man who just as fucked up as I am… I am sure he going to be sexy as hell.
It's so simplistic; something we are told to be from grade school and up .. yet so difficult to do.
People project their insecurities onto you; but also we learn through other's, being our mirrors where our strengths and weaknesses are.. the difficult part is figuring out which is which.
The only way to be successful in life is to take responsibility for yourself; your issues and weaknesses. Taking responsibility leads us to possibilities; the possibilities lead us down the right path to success and discoveries. But unfortunately we have to go through the trial and error process; or learning it the hard way. Learning the hard way is the best way, the most painful way seems to nail home the lessons.
My lesson has been that I have been attempting to promote a controversial book; the controversy of educating the public about the sexual repression of women by religion, by stepping out of the paradigm by being sexually liberated and by expressing this feminine sexual liberation in my book and on this site, I have exposed the lack of it in society. Simply I have learned that I cannot function within the paradigm .. ( that is also within the media or business world ) since I am setting up or living within the new or more functional paradigm. My lesson is that it was silly to try. How could I have thought even for a second that I could be in that world when I am basically not of that world..but attempting to lead or show that world the way to the new society.. a world of true equality? Since women who are sexual or sensual are not to be taken seriously, seen as immoral or even evil in the old existing paradigm I am not justifiable. Until my book or message hit mainstream media or it is somehow excepted in mass it and I will remain on the fringes of society..
You see society says " be yourself just not that way"
And so to stand my ground ..to just be myself.. I have to be by myself.. to see myself through my own eyes.. not to allow the old paradigm concepts of behaviors drag me down into the old and dysfunctional. To truly love myself and to have others in anyway accept me I have to totally accept and love me. So now I am flying solo.
This time of being just with myself is a time of great introspection .. a time to sort through the recent past.. to keep the lessons that were mine and to let go of the lessons that belong to others.. that were projected onto me by them.. it's a unpacking..an organizing of the heart, mind and soul.. time to lighten the load.. let go of what has held me back.. find the doors that are locked shut.. to move onto open doors that maybe available now or in the near future..
When someone is being or doing something dramatically different they are usually pushed to the fringes of society out of fear and ignorance.. it is my responsibility to accept this for what it is..and to do my best to make the best of it.
My weakness has been to bash my head against doors that will not open.. my strength has been to dare to do so..
But now it is time to quietly gaze within.. to quiet my own fears.. to relax and wait upon the still voice that speaks in silent places..
I will just be myself now..
This is the dream I had last night.. I am writing this while drinking my first cup of coffee at 6 am..while my kids are still sleeping.
In my dream I am with my ex husband.. he has a little black kitten.. he carelessly buts the little black kitten by a big hungry dog's bowl while the dog is eating..the dog starts to growl in protest at the kitten being by his bowl.. I tell my ex to please pick up his kitten before the dog's instincts kick in and the dog attacks the little kitten.. my ex says to me full of arrogance that the kitten is his and that it will be fine.. just then the dog pounces on the little baby kitten, grabs the little kitten by the scruff of the neck and violently shakes it nearly to death.. I scream and pick up the little kitten off the floor..the baby black kitten has a open wound in the back of her neck.. I can see teeth marks and blood..she is barely alive.. I show my ex what he has done out of his carelessness and arrogance.. he says the little kitten will be fine..and he wants the kitten back.. I run from him crying with the little black kitten in my arms.. I will not give the baby black kitten back to him.. I nurse the little baby kitten back to health.. I take her everywhere with me.. I feed her from a bottle..she sleeps with me at night.. I take her shopping with me in my purse.. she heals and gets stronger.. her fur gets thick and shiny..she purrs all the time..and she wants to play..to get down out of my warm loving arms and play..but I say to the little kitten… not yet little one.. soon though.. your getting stronger..
Then I wake up.. and I remember the dream as clear as this..then fall back to sleep and dream this as my little 6 year old boy sleeps beside me..because earlier in the night he has crawled into my bed to cuddle..
I dream of a little girl of about 5.. I hear her bare feet on the hard would floor..as she patters over to my bed.. just like my son did earlier.. but she is me..at 5.. she has come to cuddle..and I let her in with a big warm hug..
I dreamed these dreams..because last night an old high school girlfriend messaged me..she said she was worried that I was becoming hardened by attempting to promote my book.. from all the adversity that I have faced..all the names I have been called..all the rejection..all of the court cases with my ex.. having my brother and sister reject me..all of the social rejection..she noticed me purging negative people off my facebook..she noticed me fighting back..and she was worried that they were winning and hardening my heart..
Yes sometimes they do win.. sometimes I have to walk out of my house with a very thick skin..to protect my many wounds..because I am that little black kitten.. I am me taking care of me.. I am that little girl..that no one cuddles but me..and I am a single mother with no family..and I have to keep these pieces of me for my children..to be present for them.. I have not been able to date..because many men treat me like my ex husband..they are careless of my feelings..the will put me in harms way because they feel like I deserve it for my website and book..because I use my own sexuality with my topless Goddess photography to teach about sacred sexuality.. and so I take myself in my arms..and nurture myself..and protect myself from this adversity.. until I am strong enough to brave it and face it alone..again.
But I have learned many do not deserve me..


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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Gallatea..... things I say to myself while running
Well Gallatea is the new name I have for my gluts! That's right everyone I have named my butt! Oh yes I did..... you see today while on a 5k test run my friend Gallatea really really got on my nerves! She jiggled and wiggled like she always does but she simply could not push me as fast as I wanted to go... I then said the following things to her...
Dear Gallatea,
You are one of the largest muscles in my body! You are also one of the largest anythings on my body, in fact your HUGE! Is there a reason you can not pick up your friends Thunder thighs and cankels and make them move faster? Oh what was that you said, Lenny lungs simply won't have it? and Hedi head cold simply thinks your dumb to think you can move this body any faster! Well come on Gallatea prove them wrong pleeeeasse.
I know over the years I have not been so great to you Gallatea, but I am trying my hardest right now to make you a popular girl (i.e. Hot ass) but you have to do your part too, now let's pump it out together and by the way could you stop jiggling around so much it is really making me loose my self confidence!
Thanks and yours truly,
Erica (aka the rest of the body your supposed to be pushing)
I did my 5k run through today, it was much slower than I wanted it to go but I figure I have to jump off somewhere and poor Gallatea I did not feed her right today, yes you read that right I did not feed my butt right today in fact all I had was a double cheeseburger! I know completely disgusting, so when I was loosing steam at the halfway mark I really only had myself to blame!
I have been trying to pace myself but finding this a challenge, I also apparently in my 26 years of life have not figured out how to drink from a water bottle and at one point stopped because I managed to choke myself.
Ok so that's enough talk about my rear end friend! 5k-36 minutes....must get faster!
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I had to laugh when I read about running and drinking at the same time. I can't manage to do it either! I always have to stop first! :)ReplyDelete
I just found your blog. I enjoy running too and have set a goal to run 1000 miles this year. Good luck on your goal of one 5K per month. Are you doing races or just on your own?
Funny! I often think my butt and the other large parts of my body should be able to move faster, too. It will be nice when I don't feel them jiggling anymore. Good job on your 5K! Keep it up, you will get faster!ReplyDelete
I read this earlier today and cracked up, but didn't have a chance to respond. It just cracked me up again. :) Love it!ReplyDelete
I am laughing my 'Gallatea' off. Wait isn't that a brand of tea? You're not alone in the choking on water dept. I still do it.ReplyDelete


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Does Spasticity Reduction by Botulinum Toxin Type A Improve Upper Limb Functionality in Adult Post-Stroke Patients? A Systematic Review of Relevant StudiesDomenico Intiso1*, Valentina Simone2, Filomena Di Rienzo1, Andrea Santamato3, Mario Russo1, Maurizio Tolfa1, and Mario Basciani1
1Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit, Scientific Institute, Hospital 'Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza', Italy
2Foundation rehabilitation "Gli Angeli di P.Pio", San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
3Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, "OORR Hospital", University of Foggia, Italy
- Corresponding Author:
- Domenico Intiso MD
Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit
Hospital Scientific Institute "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza"
Viale dei Cappuccini, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
Tel: 039 882 410 942
Fax: 039 882 410 942
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Received date: July 02, 2013; Accepted date: October 09, 2013; Published date: October 15, 2013
Citation: Intiso D, Simone V, Rienzo FD, Santamato A, Russo M, et al. (2013) Does Spasticity Reduction by Botulinum Toxin Type A Improve Upper Limb Functionality in Adult Post-Stroke Patients? A Systematic Review of Relevant Studies. J Neurol Neurophysiol 4:167. doi:10.4172/2155-9562.1000167
Copyright: © 2013 Intiso D. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Objective: Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) use reduces upper limb (UL) spasticity in stroke patients, but the effects
on functional recovery remain uncertain. The aim of present review was to ascertain if the reduction of spasticity by
use of BTX-A was linked to a functional gain of UL or in activity of daily living in post-stroke patients.
Data source: Search of relevant studies was conducted on MEDLINE, the Cochrane Central Register of
Controlled Trials and EMBASE (1995 to July 2012).
Study selection: Only randomized studies (RT) treating patients with UL post-stroke spasticity by BTX-A injection
were included. Prospective open label, case series, cohort studies and case reports were excluded.
Data synthesis: Thirty-four RTs were individuated, but only 16 were considered in the analysis. Trials varied
widely in methodological design and measures used in assessing UL ability. Benefit in UL functional recovery was
reported in 13 studies, but only in six the result was significant.
Conclusion: some oriented-focused movements of UL unequivocally improve after reduced spasticity by BTX-A
treatment, but evidence that arm functionality in adult post-stroke patients significantly benefit from this intervention is
still doubt. No improvement in global functionality of activity daily living was observed.


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I fell off the wagon again, but that's not the point.
Do you know what it's like, to struggle with addiction? It's not easy. It's so easy as someone on the outside to point fingers, to say that addiction is not really addiction, that it's not a disease – that the problem drunks like me have is not the drinking itself but a weakness of character.
I fell off the wagon again and there was nothing to catch me.
"Susie," I stammered, standing on the concrete stair of her building's doorstep as the cold rain poured down around me. "I love you." The cold wet of the rain trickled down my cheeks, around my mouth, mixing with the salt of my tears. "I love you. I love you more than anything and I haven't stopped thinking about you since you told me I had to go." I felt stupid now. I felt stupid standing here on the stoop of her building and pouring my heart out to her as the rain poured down around me.
"Thomas!" She was upset, livid. "Why are you doing this to me?! You can't do this! You can't show up like this and say these things after all those horrible things you did to me. Get out of my life! You need to go. Go! Now!"
I knew she was right. I knew that the past was the past and I needed to get on with my life. But that didn't stop me from swinging the bat I'd hidden in my jacket hard towards her head, and hearing the sickening crack it made when the aluminum connected with her skull. I watched her crumple onto the steps of the stoop.
The rain poured down all around us and I dragged her limp body back to the car. I drove on into the night, far outside of town, far away from the city lights and all the claustrophobia they induced.
My shovel bit into the wet earth, and made a scraping sound. Still the rain poured. I noticed, almost in passing, that I was soaked to the skin and cold. I looked at her crumpled body next to me, laying in a heap. I thought about all the feelings I had over the years, about all the things I'd wanted to tell her but never could, until that moment the aluminum bat connected with the bone of her skull, but by then it was too late.
My shovel bit into the earth again. Some feelings are best left where they belong, buried far beneath the surface. I pitched a clod of wet earth aside.
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Do you know about zip lines? Should you ever want to test your mettle, hop a plane to Costa Rica and sign up for a rainforest canopy tour. Several years ago, my daughter and I travelled there on vacation. Having watched nearly every documentary about rain forests that the Travel Channel or National Geographic had produced, I was very interested in doing the canopy tour. Little did I know what was in store! The ones I had seen before were people walking on wooden walkways, or being carted up into the trees in large wire buckets.
We reserved our spaces and were told to meet the tour vehicle in the front of the hotel at 10 am the next morning, wearing long pants and mosquito repellent. I was determined not to catch malaria or any other mosquito-borne disease, so I slathered Deep Woods Off all over me. We boarded a small bus with about 6 other people and set off on the 20 minute ride into the jungle, where we met up with tours from other hotels, totaling about 14 people altogether. The guides were 5-6 young Costa Rican men who all spoke English well enough, and they set about telling us what to expect on the tour and showing us the gear we would be donning shortly. The harnesses and zip-line connections looked like things I had seen on mountain climbers, so I began to wonder what I had gotten myself into.


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As reported here, the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced that derivative warrants with 5-digit stock codes would begin trading on Monday, April 7.
This is another area for potential high-value development of NNNNN.com's. If you want to check your NNNNN.com's against any of the stock codes listed, look here. Numbers 10000-29999 are reserved for derivative warrants. 10000-19999 are reserved for derivative warrants with underlying assets listed outside Hong Kong, basket warrants, and exotic warrants. Numbers 60000-69999 are reserved for CBBC (callable bull/bear contracts) to be listed on or after November 3, 2008. It looks like 00000-09999 are currently in use for various stock codes, and the other NNNNN's are reserved for future uses.


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Well I did not get my laptop back like I should have last week. I am still super bummed about that, as it means I still do not have access to all my Shounen Club episodes plus other things. But at least I had an Osaka episode of SC to review this week to look forward to.
I am so glad to be on the Osaka episodes right now. They always provide a bit of a break when the Tokyo episodes start feeling too monotonous. If anything there is at least different faces to watch.
But this is a solid episode and one where you can start to see things shape up towards the current status of the Kanjuu. I think the Osaka episodes for the following year will have more to show for that. But it is still rather clear which Kanjuu get priority and start to see glimpses of the next generation of Kanjuu.


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Gold prices fell and precious metals shares closed mixed Thursday while palladium futures rallied, lifted by a strong demand from the car-manufacturing industry.
Despite news of the impending delivery of palladium from Russian sources, "the market remains buoyant," said Ross Norman, director at TheBullionDesk.com in London.
The market for the metal is being "aided both by the weaker dollar and by good vehicle sales, particularly for palladium-laden, gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles" in North America, he said.
On the Commodities Exchange division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, December palladium rose $23.30 to $763.30 an ounce and October platinum fell $4.60 to $606.50 an ounce.
Meanwhile, December gold fell 20 cents to $277.70 an ounce, continuing a four-day decline. December silver shed 4.5 cents to $4.982 an ounce.
In the equities market, the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index ($XAU) fell by 0.4 percent and the CBOE Gold Index ($GOX) gained 0.3 percent in mixed trading.
Within the indexes, shares of Placer Dome Gold (PDG) gained 56 cents to close at $10.19 and Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold shares (FCX) slipped 31 cents to $9.63.
Comex gold warehouse stocks, as of late Wednesday, fell 2,411 ounces to 1,953,111 ounces. Silver stocks were up 596,788 ounces to 97,729,378 ounces.
In other metals highlights, September copper rose 0.45 cents to 90.60 cents a pound. Comex copper stocks rose 125 short tons to 62,851 short tons as of late Wednesday. The London Metals Exchange said copper supplies, as of early Thursday, slipped 2,350 metric tons to 442,851 metric tons.


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Nataya Grekova, right, and Jen Trahant pick up pine needles and dead leaves during the 16th Annual Earth Fest Lynn Woods Clean Up on Saturday.
By MICHELE DURGIN
LYNN — Despite gray skies and rain, more than 150 enthusiastic volunteers arrived early Saturday morning for 16th Annual Earth Fest Lynn Woods Clean Up.
Sponsored by Friends of Lynn Woods, the event is an effort to pick up litter and plant trees on a portion of the forest in West Lynn.
"This is my ninth year here," said Susan Downey, a volunteer. "Folks come together because they care, plain and simple. I like to participate and see people uniting to accomplish a goal, and keeping Lynn Woods beautiful is a wonderful goal. Oh, and I also love meeting new people."
Lynn Woods Reservation is a 2,200-acre, city-owned forest off Walnut Street. Created in 1881, it provides North Shore residents an opportunity to get away from the city, yet still be close to home. It's open year round, from sunrise until sunset. There are marked hiking and bike riding trails. Horseback riding and dog walking are permitted. There are also several attractions including the Rose Garden, where weddings are held, along with Dungeon Rock, Stone Tower and two picnic areas.
Karen Searles, a member of the Friends of Lynn Woods board of directors, said she is committed to preserving the reservation and hopes people continue to make its upkeep a priority.
"People come here from all over the world," she said. "Three years ago, I was here on Clean Up Day and I met two young men from Great Britain who were biking through the reservation. They were very impressed with the surroundings. As they were leaving, one of them turned to me and said, 'This place is brilliant.' I was so proud and happy to agree with him."
There was a large contingent of volunteers from North Shore Community College, led by Brian Falter, assistant coordinator of student life.
"I'm hoping that today is a positive, giving back to the community event for this group," he said. "It's important that we are a part of Lynn, not just located in Lynn."
Becky Jones, youth coordinator for the New American Center, which assists immigrants new to the area, came to clean-up with a group from the nonprofit. The 10 volunteers, who range in age from 13-19, are from Nepal, Sudan, and Uganda. They expressed enthusiasm to be at Lynn Woods for the first time.
"I think this is a wonderful opportunity for these teens who are new to the city of Lynn," Jones said. "This will help to make it feel like home and it's a chance to give back in a meaningful way."
Overseen by the Department of Public Works, Park Commission and Lynn Water & Sewer Commission, the Lynn Woods encompasses nearly 20 percent of the land area of the city.
"It's a nice turnout and I'm really enjoying the day," Small said. "It's not about how many people come. It's about how much actual work they get done, and this has been a hardworking group today."


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hoozyu on Facebook
hoozyu is a project that was first launched in August 2009. Exactly 2 years later, we are about to launch hoozyu as a Facebook app. This blog is for users, mentors and facilitators – anyone who wants to make best use of the hoozyu package.
hoozyu is a profiling package for those just setting out on life, although it can be extremely powerful for anyone. (It is NOT meant to be used by businesses or government organizations, use the full version of Birkman please. We would also advise not-for-profit organizations to use the full version if they can afford it, hoozyu is deliberately limited for cost reasons to a subset of the Birkman data).


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A new study by Pew finds some interesting trends on religion and values across the last 25 years.
The United States continues to be a highly religious nation. Most Americans say they belong to a particular faith and large percentages agree with statements about key religious beliefs and behaviors.
About three-quarters of the public (76%) say prayer is an important part of their daily life, while an identical percentage agrees that "we will all be called before God at the Judgment Day to answer for our sins." And eight-in-ten say they never doubt the existence of God.
The percentage of the public agreeing with all three statements has shifted little since the first Pew Research values survey in 1987. That year, 68% of respondents agreed with all three statements; this year 67% do so.
Nonetheless, there are some demographic and partisan differences over religious values. In the current survey, 68% of Millennials say they never doubt the existence of God, a decline of 15 points since 2007. Over this period, the proportion of older age cohorts expressing firm belief in God has remained stable.The partisan gap over the three religious values questions, while substantial, has not increased much in recent years. Currently, 81% of Republicans agree with all three religious values statements, compared with 62% of Democrats and 61% of independents. In the 2007 study, there was a similar gap. In the first political values survey in 1987, however, there were only modest differences in the percentages of Republicans (71%), Democrats (69%) and independents (64%) who agreed with all of these statements.
The gap between Republicans and Democrats increases dramatically when only white non-Hispanics are considered. African Americans, who make up about a quarter of all Democrats, are more likely than whites to hold more traditional religious values (82% of non-Hispanic blacks agree with all three statements vs. 65% of whites.)
Just half (50%) of white non-Hispanic Democrats agree that prayer is personally very important, never doubt God's existence and express belief in a Judgment Day. That compares with 60% of white independents and 83% of white Republicans.
There's much more, including more insight into the partisan differences dividing the country. Read on.


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[B]Last Week[/B
St. X 28 Manual 7
Coming off a loss to Male, the Tigers looked to rebound with a win over Manual. It has been a long time since Manual has knock off the Tigers and many thought this was the year the Crimsons would be able to walk off the field with a victory over the Tigers; it may have been a new year, but it was the same outcome.
The Tigers started quick, which has been key to their success in their district wins, and the defense played with the same intensity and execution they have displayed all season. Senior QB, Noah Houk lead the Tiger offense to 313 total yards. He was 8-10 for 105 yards passing and 2 TD, in addition to 45 yards on the ground and 1 score. The Tiger offense rushed fro 208 yards in a collective effort, but leading rusher for St. X was senior running back Taijon Smith, with 74 yards. Manual penalties and the St. X defense allowed great opportunities for the St. X offense to score early and often, when these opportunities have presented themselves it has lead to the Tiger offense being very effective and efficient.
The Tiger defense did what they have done all year. They limited the Manual offense and created turnovers. St. X allowed Manual to gain only 236 yards and Manual scored their only points late in the contest. Manual is the fourth opponent the St. X defense has held under 10 points this season. St. X was not only limiting Manual in the yards they could pick up, they were also being opportunistic. The Tiger defense forced 4 turnovers, interceptions by Jackie Arnold and Michael Ervin, and Clark Campbell and a host of Tigers recovered the fumbles.
The third phase of the game that often gets overlooked is special teams, and the Tiger's special teams played great with field goals (Michael Bennett), returns, and blocks. When all three phases are playing together great things happen!
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The Tigers finished 2-1 in district play, which is good for 2nd place. Finishing second guarantees at least one home playoff game.
A needed break at the end of the season should help the Tigers get back to fundamentals and an opportunity to heal up before the Tigers travel to Cincinnati to take on the Bombers of St. Xavier.
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I like their chances to win it all in 6A.
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I like the fact they don't have to see Male/Trinity until the 3rd round if they can get there.
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Thanks LTR for the recap. Would like to see the offense start to put up some impressive numbers ( over and above where they are at now... ). Should be a very exciting 6A Playoff. I look for good things ahead!!!!
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The Alliance of Artists Communities is thrilled to release the publication of "Surviving to Thriving: Sustaining Artist Residencies." This report, with generous support from The Kresge Foundation, is the result of two years of research into the capacity, challenges, and successful practices of artist residency centers.
While the study addresses issues that are particularly relevant for nonprofits based in the U.S., we believe that other arts organizations operating under different structures and/or outside the U.S. will find much of the data, examples, and essays in this study compelling as well.
Organizational sustainability is often focused on finances, though we approached this work with the belief that sustainability is also deeply connected to an organization's culture, constituents, and community. In addition to information and examples from 157 organizations on funding, personnel, governance, programming, property, environment, and priorities, the report includes case studies of four very different artist residency centers – 18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica, CA), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE), Escape to Create (Seaside, FL), and Hedgebrook (Whidbey Island, WA) – conducted by the Urban Institute, with principal investigator Maria Rosario Jackson.
This report is an attempt to capture a snapshot of a thousand living organisms, a collection of individual stories and statistics that celebrate the richness of our differences while still offering the possibility of shared lessons. And this report is just a beginning – an invitation to our colleagues to explore together how the organizations we steward can do more than just survive, but truly thrive.
Our thanks to The Kresge Foundation for their partnership and support of this project, and to the dozens of collaborators who have contributed to date.
Download the report or purchase print copies at www.artistcommunities.org/sustainability.


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Unhappy with purchase of windchime. It was priced 178% higher than the same item online!
Do not buy anything at Topka, 25 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY. Things are overpriced.Edited: 20 September 2013, 02:45
Unhappy with purchase of windchime. It was priced 178% higher than the same item online!
Do not buy anything at Topka, 25 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY. Things are overpriced.Edited: 20 September 2013, 02:45
I feel for you. I have also,noticed the shops on tinker st to be more even for the same item than manhattan!And we all know that nyc isn't cheap. You should call the owner and get a store credit
Store Credit is all Topka offers. Since I didn't want to buy anything else from them I emailed them asking for a full refund or for them to match the price I found on line. After receiving no response from them, I printed my email and mailed it to them with a note to "please respond". Over a week later the owner called, said she'd been on vacation and said she would give me a refund but not a price adjustment. Not wanting to risk further delays by mailing it back, I drove back to Woodstock (an hour drive) and received a full refund.
I then ordered the same windchime online and saved $23.57. It cost me my time and gas, but gave me a substanial savings.
It's too bad I'm left with bad feelings for the way this was handled by Topka, but I am so happy with my windchime.
Everything on Tinker Street is overpriced, except maybe at Houst's. Woodstock a tourist destination, with homes for the quiet, but well heeled. If you want online prices shop online.Edited: 06 February 2014, 14:20
Topka has a lovely selection of jewelry, all beautifully made by different artisans, and all priced within reason. I'm not a wealthy resident of Woodstock, but when I want something special as a gift or for myself, I go to Topka, and I always find something nice that I can afford.
If you're looking for online prices for things available online, shop online! Topka is a small store, beautifully kept, pleasant to shop in, lovely items for sale.
I've been making a lot of notecards that are for sale individually packaged at Topka, a shop owned by Bonnie Pass, who worked for years at Clouds Gaiiery before it changed ownership and who has lovely taste. In fact, most of the time that I deliver cards, I find something unusual at Topka that I just 'have' to have......and there goes my profit.....but heck, it's a great payoff.
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The Times - July 23, 2012
The sun has got its hat on, at last, and many are about to luxuriate in all that lycra at the Games. It will be a distraction, of sorts, from the economic gloom that surrounds us, what with the euro-zone recession, figures for British growth on Wednesday which may well look bleak, slowing economies in China, India and Brazil, and slow, Obama-threatening job-creation in America. Yet gloom is anyway not the right thing to focus on. The right thing is risk.
On the face of it, this is obvious. People, especially corporate bosses, often spout empty phrases about how theres lots of uncertainty about, as if there had ever been a time when we could be certain about the future. Yet there is a bit more to this right now. Perceptions of risk affect the way in which companies and investors behave. And currently this is making both managements and financiers ultra-cautious, which is itself weakening economic activity.
A small historical comparison might help. The new, gloomier forecasts put out a few days ago by the International Monetary Fund were rather reminiscent at least to this data nerd of ones it put out a decade ago. Then, as now, the IMF said global growth promised to be slow-ish, at around 3.6% in the year ahead. The prospects were gloomy.
Reporting this, as in those days editor of The Economist, I put on our cover a becalmed sailing ship representing the world economy, with a title of In the doldrums. Sure enough, during the next five years global growth was actually the fastest it had been in more than 40 years.
It would be nice to think that could happen again, and that forecasters would all turn out to have been much too pessimistic. It isnt impossible: the emerging economies are probably only in a temporary slowdown, caused by their efforts to reduce price inflation, and the United States has a remarkable ability to reinvent itself, as it is now doing with its oil and gas boom.
Yet lets be realistic: it isnt likely. And the big reason doesnt lie in China or in the United States. It lies in risk, or rather in the feelings that companies and investors now have about risk. Even though a war had started in Afghanistan in 2001 and was going to start in Iraq in 2003, companies in those days did not feel that in their businesses, in their markets, in their investments, the risks were large. But they do now.
Thanks to Donald Rumsfelds talent at producing nice soundbites even while he was grossly mismanaging the wars, such risks are now often described as known unknowns or even unknown unknowns. The problem is that the risks that worry managers and investors are really known knowns. It is just that it feels impossible to work out how to adjust the business, or the investment, to deal with them. Except by just sitting on cash.
The Arab Uprising, with civil war now under way in Syria, is one example, especially when combined with the tension over Irans nuclear programme: this makes the price of energy even more unpredictable than usual. The welcome and helpful fall in oil prices that occurred in recent months has been partially reversed, as a result.
Concerns about Chinas economy, and about its political stability following the scandal and murder accusations surrounding Bo Xilai, former mayor of the Chicago of China, Chongqing, fall into a similar category. The worry about China is probably exaggerated: the governments capacity to support growth through monetary and fiscal policy remains strong. But at a time of general nervousness about risk, some companies do seem to be holding back their investments out of worry about Chinas future.
Even so, we all know that the biggest source of worry is much closer to home. It is Europe. The problem is not simply the fact that government debts are huge, that growth is non-existent and that there is a basic disagreement between the debtor and creditor countries about how the euro should be run. Those things are important. But the real problem is that the range of possible outcomes looks so wide.
How can a company take into account the possibility of Greek withdrawal from the euro? What percentage probability should it give to the chance that the currency might collapse altogether? What should companies think about the next Italian elections, for example, with Silvio Berlusconi scheming a comeback and thinking aloud about whether Italy should leave the euro?
The intellectual answer may be that the chances of Greek exit are high, but that the chance of a complete collapse are low. The chance of Italy leaving the euro and defaulting on its debts is virtually non-existent: every Italian bank would immediately collapse, for they are stuffed to the gunwales with government bonds.
However intellectual answers are not enough. Corporate boards and financial institutions have to make decisions. So what they are doing, increasingly, is not to invest at all. They are cutting debts and accumulating cash, or putting it in low-yielding, seemingly safe places such as German Bunds.
Much of this sentiment is outside the scope of governments to deal with. They are not psycho-therapists, and cannot conjure certainty out of nowhere. But what governments should do, especially in the euro-zone and in Britain, is to reflect hard during their holidays about whether there are ways in which their own policies are feeding this nervousness.
An obvious case is America, where failure to deal with the fiscal cliff of mandated tax rises and spending cuts currently due after the November elections is causing jitters. And naturally the euro-zone needs finally to decide how to get Greece out, keep Italy and Spain in, and to manage collective liability for debts in a way acceptable to German voters.
It is also true in Britain, however. What can businesses make of an energy policy that keeps changing every five minutes? Or of a transport policy that is unsure whether Heathrow is to be abandoned or expanded? Or of financial regulation that one minute wants to protect financial institutions in the City from those beastly European regulations, the next minute is shown to have overlooked scandals and the minute after that wants to put bankers on a shorter leash? Or, sorry George Osborne, of a budget for business that created more uncertainty than ever?
There is plenty of cash around. It is just that it is not being spent. And no wonder.
Bill Emmotts latest book, Good Italy, Bad Italy has just been published by Yale University Press


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Abstract: The dynamics of an oscillated sessile drop of incompressible liquid with thefocus on the contact line hysteresis is under theoretical consideration. Thesolid substrate is subject to transverse oscillations, which are assumed smallamplitude and high frequency. The dynamic boundary condition that involves anambiguous dependence of the contact angle on the contact line velocity isapplied: the contact line starts to move only when the deviation of the contactangle exceeds a certain critical value. As a result, the stick-slip dynamicscan be observed. The frequency response of surface oscillations on thesubstrate and at the pole of the drop are analyzed. It is shown that novelfeatures such as the emergence of antiresonant frequency bands and nontrivialcompetition of different resonances are caused by contact line hysteresis.
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While the ceasefire in Syria that was agreed on by Russia and the US is being successfully implemented, the possible Turkish intervention in Syria that at some point seemed imminent is being gradually pushed aside from the front pages of international media. Yet, everyone understands one thing – without Washington's approval Ankara would never dare to intervene even if it was supported by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. Yet, those three states have found themselves in no position to embark on a new military adventure due to the dire internal conflicts provoked by the Saudi oil dumping strategy and aggravated by their involvement in the protracted bloody conflict in Yemen.
Under these circumstances in the last few days Erdogan's rhetorics has been getting less and less aggressive, which is of little wonder since he has managed to spoil Turkey's with both the US other NATO states in a nick of time. Moreover, there's a growing dissatisfaction within Turkey with Erdogan's undeclared war on Kurds that constitute over 30% of Turkey's population. In fact, a full-scale war on the Kurdish population is being waged now in south-eastern Anatolia, where Turkish soldiers and policemen are getting killed by dozens, while the Turkish president is still trying to deal with Syria's Kurds who have gained enough power to respond adequately to most any threat. Erdogan's bet on the Syrian Turkomans has also failed, since they preferred to make peace with the government of Bashar al-Assad, instead of fighting the legitimate Syrian authorities as Turkey's President demanded them to. Thus, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has put the country he was entrusted with on the brink of disintegration.
And that's exactly where the effect of Russian sanctions got kicking in, that were imposed by Moscow against Ankara in response to the downing of the Russian military aircraft over Syria. With the vacation season approaching rapidly Turkey will found itself deprived of 3.5 million Russian tourists that were visiting Turkey every year. The panic in the tourism sector of the Turkish economy has been on the rise recently with countless hotels in Antalya, Bodrum, Marmaris and Fethiye being put for sale. After all, Russians are not the only one that won't go to Turkey this year, since Europeans are going to be repelled as well by the massive exodus of migrants from Syria and Iraq that are being shipped by the EU by the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. It's just too dangerous to go to Turkey these days. And the fact that ISIS has been planning new terrorist attacks in Turkey doesn't make it any more attractive for foreign tourists. The agriculture is in a shady state too, since it tasked with feeding tourists and exporting its products to Russia, and none of these options are no longer available. If the political and socio-economic crisis in Turkey will be getting worse, it won't take long for Erdogan to be impeached. But he will be most certainly be replaced by his faithful ally – Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu or his old contender – the former President Abdullah Gül that is being heavily supported by the US.
Under these circumstance Ankara decided that it will be betting on the EU and Germany in particular. Experts, however, perceive the agreements signed by Turkey and the EU on the way that those actors will be settling the migrant crisis as a case of shamelessblackmail. Yet, it's unlikely that the proposed solution is going to help, since the silly stubbornness of German Counselor Angela Merkel has alread forced certain EU states to commit a gross violation of international law. Slovenia has almost completely closed its border for illegal immigrants. Now only those in dire need and those who seek asylum directly from the Slovenian authorities will be allowed in. Thus, one of the main transit routes from the Middle East to the EU has been closed. Immediately after the announcement Serbian authorities stated that they are going to close the border with Macedonia and Bulgaria for all those who do not have visas or other documents authorizing their stay in Serbia.
The harsh steps taken by Slovenian and Serbian authorities have become the response to the preliminary plan that was agreed on by the EU authorities and Ankara on March 9. According to this plan, all migrants that will be coming to the EU from Turkey by the sea are going to be returned back, while the EU makes its visa regulations as loyal towards Turks as it can possibly can along with handing over up to 3 billion euros to Ankara. One of the pivotal aspects of this plan is the "one for one" agreement which implies that each illegal migrant in the EU will be replaced by a legal one that will come from Turkey. The influential British Financial Times journal notes that there's a number of challenges that could jeopardize this part of the plan: the dubious legal grounds, the possibility of a sharp opposition that some EU countries may present, the technical complexity of its implementation and the dire absence of optimism among Europeans at the prospects of accommodating at least 75 million Turks legally swarming the EU states.
Yet, the most serious challenge Erdogan has to face is Russia and its attitude towards him. Can Turkey just lose a country that has literally been feeding it for over 25 years due to the loony fantasies that Erdogan has? The number of those that are going to lose their jobs due to the recent rift in Russian-Turkish relations is estimated in millions. But at this state it's hard to imagine that sooner or later those two state will sit at the negotiating table. Turkey has not only underestimated the power of Russia in Syria, but has also made a strategic mistake of pushing all in on the West. Now Turkey has an extremely limited range of steps it can make in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and has nothing up its sleeve to apply pressure on Washington. Unlike Erdogan, Putin is not going to lose his support in the Russian Federation any time soon, since he is perceived as a strong leader that has managed to establish equal footing with the United States.
Of course, it is too early to say anything about the Syrian crisis ending any time soon and to declare Russia the "winner" in this conflict. Moscow was forced to get involved in the war in Syria at the moment when it couldn't calculate the consequences of this step. It had to bear the burden of the economic crisis, restore Crimea's economy, deal with the events in Ukraine. But Western experts got it wrong this time – it remained standing strong.
It is no accident the US will keep trying to keep its allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia away from Syria even if the ceasefire fails. After all, NATO and the majority of its leaders have no guts to get in a fair fight. Western powers do fear the escalation of the conflict and a possible clash with Russia, especially against the background of Saudi Arabia is rapidly losing any influence of the situation Syria, while the influence Iran enjoys in the region is increasing daily. The crumbling Wahhabi state is running the risk of provoking a new Arab Spring wave with its fall, but this time it will be directed against the West and its allies.
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Today's session (2009/11/5) revealed Rori's full name, Rori Ragnar Richard Repis the Fourth. It's uncertain if his last name is "Fourth" or if he has a family full of people burdened with such a name.


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Sorry for silence from Blonde Moment and crew, but we've been very busy, don't know where the time goes! We gybed at least 4 times in the last couple of days, trying to find these stronger NE winds and also almost catching 3 fish!!
The problem we have on board is that one crew member doesn't like fish and 2 others feel sorry for them and, although love the thought of fresh Mahi Mshi for dinner, hope the poor little things will get away! We had the full detailed tutorial by Mark from Mad Monkey on lures, how to make them, how set the hook up with feathers and hair (thankfully not mine! ) and how to catch a fish . Today 3 fish got away and one lure has been half eaten!..........this fishing is becoming much harder and the successes of the first couple of days must have been luck rather than skill ..... or are we just sailing too fast now?


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We believe that a teahouse is a curious place to go for an ear cleaning. However, two of the teahouses we visited in Chengdu featured a resident ear cleaner.
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Yeah, I know, war and such is always about religion. But, to help you, I think this page will come in handy. It's pretty long, and might take a while to read through, but it's pretty good, and I'm just trying to get to 50 words so that I can post this reply. Here's the page:
They just killed about 200 people in Paris. They also killed a Japanies repoter. They are just total dumbass manics I can't think of anything to say, or else I am going to use bad words. In the case, they are just total morons that kill people for fun. F##K
Isis believe that their religion is only right. They are also muslim extremists that believe that everyone that isn't a Muslim should be killed. They believe in the Shariah Law and anyone (including other muslims) that don't adhere to their beliefs should be killed. However, they also appear to be creating their own laws and do basically the opposite to the Islam Bible. For example, they rape women, behead people, crucify people, burn people alive and have their own Yazidi sex slave market. They are sexist, barbaric monsters that enjoy what they do. They even post executions on social media and blow themselves up.
Isis feels that we are bullies. The killing of innocent woman and children they are tired of. So they are retaliating it seems. I watched this video, it is disturbing but now I see why they are so mad. Honestly I wish all the killing , wars, hate crimes would all stop. They are wrong for what they do, but on the other hand why are we killing people too?
Just my thoughts.
Mad in a way.
ISIS is very clever they seek out the disenfranchised and others with no future or a job.
They give them guns and girls and authority over others.
Of course this works and is hard to fight.
In arab countries these kids are sitting around with no job no future and no girls.
This is bad combination any which way one looks at it.
It is all to easy to see there effective propaganda in action.
Give these kids guns girls and authority over people and watch what they will do.
Make no mistake ISIS must be crushed but only by a long term strategy and a real coalition of nations which must include sunni
If its not religion then truth is no one has any idea why they're so mad @ the world & even the millions of the "peaceful majority" of Muslims around the world have failed to explain, let alone stand up against the violence & actually speak to & defend the peace & non violence the Quran supposedly preaches
Death sentences of innocent people by the government of a country, military intervention by super-power nations to "IMPROVE"the conditions of a country, all are just anecdotes to what ISIS is doing*.
Politics was all about leaders and money, until ISIS intervened. Now everyone cares about security and lives of the citizens, atleast pretending to*.
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Angelina Stevens with the Pro 1/2 Women's NCCX Overall Series win!
Em Shields just made the podium with the minimum number of required race starts in the series:) She spent many weekends away racing UCI cyclocross races and Collegiate MTB events. Kath won the final event and Em was 2nd.
Wes Haggstrom took the win in the last race Jr 9-12 race of the season with new guy Matthew Salazar Garcia in 3rd!
Kath just before the start of the Elite Women's race. 3rd race of the weekend for the girls. The twins probably put more time on the course than any other racers at Nationals.
Dylan Knutson and Kath made the Collegiate Relay podium for Wake Forest, 4th place with just two riders!
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Em was 7th in the D1 race after a disastrous start with pedal issues 🙁 But, she showed her integrity by pushing on and clawing her way back into the race.


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