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Justification for serious lack of blogging...
Summer is now here, and usually thats where life gets more exciting for people; but for me it means full time work! I was lucky enough to get a job at the DFDS call centre in Dover Eastern docks, as well as still keeping some dates at the Cruise Terminal, but this means not having much of a life...and therefore nothing to blog about!
Playing with UV
My boyfriend is a complete photography nerd, and he has been getting some pretty cool stuff out from uni lately to use with his work (he studies Photography & Digital imaging - so basically the Sciency stuff behind photography)! Last week it was an Infra Red camera which made everything go blue, which me and my housemates had some fun with! This week it was a UV flash and a UV camera; so I thought I was post some of the photos as I haven't had much to blog in a while!
I found it quite fascinating to begin with that peoples hair doesn't glow, but mine does :| We then realised what it might be; I use platinum shampoo on my hair once a week to keep it a fresh blonde colour, and had literally used it the night before, and it most probably has a fluorescent chemical in it to help it glow blonde!
The first cool thing I got shown was seeing sun damage with the UV camera and flash, which was freaky to see, but again we don't fully understand it, for instance I'm not really one to be in the sun, I always have SPF 20 foundation on and have never been to a hot country, yet it showed up my skin as being more damaged than all of my boyfriends housemates, so it could just generally be my freckly skin!
Here is my potentially sun damaged skin (excuse my non make-up face)!
So freaky...
We also played around with sun cream - which obviously stops sun damage - so it makes a really cool effect with the UV camera as seen here:
Kind of looks like I just have a face mask on though, as I couldn't stand the smell near my eyes! Here is some more of Thomas; before, showing just the sun damage:
And with half his skin covered in sun protection (SPF 50+)
One thing it's creepily good at is showing up bacteria! Callum had a UV pen so Joe attacked the cupboard with it (can you tell they hate their house?) :P
They need to clean their cupboards...
We also soaked a pink highlighter in some bubble mixture for a few hours and then blew bubbles with it, using a UV flash and normal SLR camera;
This made some amazing effects!
Tonic water has a fluorescent chemical in it, which makes it have the bitter taste, so therefore is fluorescent under UV light. Thomas had a go at doing the Mentos trick with it!
Then Joe progressed to throw it all over Callum...
So yeah...would definitely recommend playing with UV if you ever get the chance, it may seem nerdy, but was actually so much fun!
Photos taken by Thomas Langley
Charity shopping
Growing up my Mum would always take my into charity shops, not because we were poor, but because she could always find a bargain, usually things you might not find in shops, or something better made for the same price as a cheap or mid range product in shops. I used to feel embarrassed going in the shops, looking back now I feel embarrassed that I felt that way! A few years ago I started charity shopping, I don't know what made me, but I did and ever since I'm hooked! The past year has been incredibly successful for me and them; annoyingly now that I want to write this blog post I have absolutely no idea where my bags are; so I've found some images online, then when I find them I may update this post! I found a Coach satchel seen below last Summer in a Canterbury charity shop, it's well made and ideal for university days and the gym...best of all... for £5!
But my favourite buy I have ever found in one, and probably ever will is my Miu Miu bag, I got it whilst it was still in season, and even saw Khloe Kardashian wearing it a few weeks later! I love it, the stitching is wonderful, and it's made so strong... I got it for £4...then when I found it on the website it was selling at almost £1,300!
I have taken a picture of a few of my other buys, these aren't even half of them, the post would hog my entire blog if I was to post them all!
Next 1990's dress - £2 - Harrow.
1990's sparkly top - £1.50 - Dover.
Topman blazer - £2 - Harrow.
Ronit Zilkha cardigan - £1 - Epsom.
Vintage Marks & spencers silk shirt - £2 - Epsom.
H&M blazer - £3 - Folkestone.
Reiss denim high waisted shorts - £3.50 - Canterbury.
Burberry shirt - £7 - Canterbury. (Excuse the creases!)
Helmut Lang jumper dress - £2 - Harrow.
As much as I hate Primark I loved the River Island look bags they had out last season, but hated the thought of even spending £10 on something that might not last five minutes. But found it, whilst popular in store for £2 in Canterbury Oxfam, presumably an unwanted Christmas gift! That I could justify...
I thought I would write this post to show people that snob at charity shops, that they're actually a great place to find designer buys and some really nice clothing and accessories. Not only that, but what you spend goes to a good cause, the amount you spend over time could really make a change to someones life, the most you're doing when you buy something on the high street is keeping a business running.
Pastel love
I've got so into this pastel look lately. At first I wasn't sure, but since all the shops have started getting the look in I've suddenly grown this strong love for it, and everything I see that's pastel; I want! I had a lucky moment the other day where I found €40 in my bag left over from Berlin; and thought it was a sign to treat myself. I had fallen in love with someones jacket I saw a few weeks back which was a coral shade, and then got told about how you can also get it in mint green! So when I found this beauty in the Epsom New Look I knew I had to get it!
After Easter break having been spent back home in Kent, where quite frankly nothing ever really happens apart from rain and fog; I couldn't wait to get back into London and have a day out exploring again! Camden always has and probably always will be my favourite place to go in London; so it was my first stop on my first day out there since. I have loved the 'Jesus' bracelets for ages now, and when I first discovered them they were rare, and I got my first brown one at a market in Amsterdam. I sadly lost it, and then they had come over here, but quite often at an expensive price! I came across a box full of all different coloured ones yesterday in Camden for 69p! So I got a pastel (of course) pink one!
I also had a go with fake nails the other day, but never again! After getting fed up of them after about two days I took them off, and three nails have had actual nail be ripped off! But I did love the look whilst I had them, and painted them these gorgeous new Collection 2000 pastel colours which I purchased the other day from Boots.
Pastel sunnies!
Having a play around with bleach on denim!
I have been seeing a lot of bleached denim jackets around lately and I adore the look of them, but being a student I can't really just go and justify buying one... So I thought why not try and make one myself! It hasn't gone to plan, but I thought I would post what I have had happen anyway!
I managed to pick up this dark denim jacket from a charity shop in Dover for a cheap price of £1.99! I had been raiding the Folkestone ones in hope of a nice find, as generally speaking although they are more expensive, Folkestone charity shops are far nicer and always more successful! Whilst I was in the area visiting friends I had a little time to kill before meeting them so killed that time raiding the charity shops; and I'm glad I did as it's how I found my jacket! It's not a pleasant shade of denim, it's rather dated, which made me even more excited to start the bleaching process!
You cannot see the overall look in this image here as it's a phone picture (being my blonde self I left my SLR & point and shoot in Epsom over easter...)!
I read online that you have to soak the object in warm water with a cup of bleach for five minutes, so I did this, but it did absolutely nothing! I wondered if it was because my Mums bleach was 'citrus bleach with limescale remover', so I headed down to Sainsburys to pick up some usual bleach to try it out!
I left it to soak for an hour, and then washed and rinsed it a total of five times in the washing machine afterwards (not by choice, just because the bleach kept causing a dangerous amount of bubbles in the machine)! Still not much has happened to the jacket, but it has made a really cool blotchy effect, and in some areas, especially the sleeve as seen below, it has actually somewhat worked!
I have since been told that using bleach on synthetic fabrics such as polyester will not work, so I am wondering if this might be the case here...!
As the Easter holidays are coming to an end, some of us are running out of things to do with ourselves, and definitely for some of us, the concept of not having work for the first time since September seemed to strangely bore us! So as we all live near each other, Chhimmi, Thomas and I decided to do a shoot together, a last minute decision!
Chhimmi decided on the theme of the shoot; inspired by M.I.A - Bad girls.
Here are a few of the photos from today:
Photography - Thomas Langley
Make-up & hair styling - Chhimmi Gurung
Styling - Amy Johnson
Model - Selina Rai
Locations - Old Folkestone train station, studio & an abandoned farm in the outskirts of Dover.
Grey cliffs of Dover...
Yesterday there was finally nice weather and it was lovely and hot with no wind! So Thomas and I went for a cliff top walk and relaxed on the cliff edge in the sun. Here are a few photos I took for a bit of fun!
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Taste:8/10(Good. Tender lamb and rice taste good. However the sauce which comes with this set was too spicy for me. It taste like salsa sauce but its too spicy. Overall I do recommend to have dinner here).
Price:7/10(Moderate. The lunch/dinner set of mutton rice at MYR13.99 exclude GST. It comes with huge mandi rice, lamb, Arabic gravy, spicy sauce and hot pull tea. Portion wise were big and can easily satisfy any big eater).
Internal deco of the restaurant.
Dima Restaurant - The real Arabian taste.
Mandi rice set. Tender and juicy lamb.
The dinner set comes with pull tea, Arabic gravy and spicy sauce like salsa. The sauce suits well with the rice.
Spicy sauce. In their menu they called this as sahaweq.
Arabic sauce.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Reflections upon Teaching Statistics Again
This semester I find myself again in the enviable position of teaching statistics to psychology graduate students. My cohort is over age 30 and has not studied math for more years than we can count. So how do we teach them? I can tell you what not to do! First, don't assume they know anything, even what an average is! Assume no knowledge until proven otherwise! We don't currently have a placement exam, though I have recommended one now, since the assumption that undergraduate statistics has been retained has proven false. I am finding myself teaching basic ideas, dividing cake, flipping coins, telling them that statistics has to do with proportionality. Second, assume no interest, either! My second surprise was to learn how uninterested my students were in statistics. I suppose I should have known better since anyone with any interest would know something and these students largely knew nothing. To know nothing about statistics, as common as it is in modern life requires an active effort to avoid learning. I should have suspected this. We all have stories to explain our behavior and avoiding statistics is no exception. These stories included "I don't do numbers"; "Knowing statistics has nothing to do with being a good psychologist"; "I can't do math"; "My brain can't comprehend math"; and "I don't have time for this", among other good summary lines. Math education in North America is seriously flawed and biased against women. We know this. Malcolm Gladwell explored math education in Asia and discovered that most of the advantage that Asian students have in understanding math over their North American counterparts comes from their going to school around the entire year and not taking a summer vacation in which they forget what was learned the preceding year. Apparently Asian students didn't have to stop school to help their family with the planting, growing, harvesting, butchering, and other farm chores. Math education has changed, however, even if summer vacation is still observed. We now teach math visually and kinesthetically. We use Lego - to model probability distributions. We cut pieces of pie to teach children about fraction and percent. And, we try to make it interesting. To be most successful, science education has moved to problem-based learning. Except in the most conservative bastions of pre-med student screening in which courses are designed to fail more students than pass, we've abandoned rote memorization as a technique. One, there's too much to memorize. Two, no one remembers what they memorize after the test. Studies have shown that lectures using power point and other visual aids result in 15% the retention of knowledge that occurs when students work together in small interactive groups to solve a problem. Therefore, statistics is being approached as learning how to solve problems together, interactively. The problem solving approach more closely mirrors how science and math are really done and how they arose. The neat linear textbook with tight principles and theorems that people of my age encountered in high school geometry and algebra is an artifact. It's a story made up years later to explain what happened in a way in which it clearly never happened. Statistics, for example, was born in the gambling dens of France. Noblemen were losing their shirts (and estates) at the gaming tables. They came to mathematicians like Pascal and de Moivre to solve their problem. A famous initiating problem was, "what are the odds of rolling 4 sixes in a row with a die?". No one had thought about this before, so experimentation was required. The mathematicians rolled dice and collected data. They didn't actually go into a state of deep meditation and receive the answers from another dimension (though that's been known to happen in science and math as in the solution to the problem of the structure of the benzene ring or a recent development in the theory of black holes). They collected data and examined their results for patterns. This is what we humans do very well. They counted the number of times that each combination of dots on the dice appeared. Pascal invented a triangular table for predicting the number of times any number would occur given successively increasing numbers of rolls of the dice. Of course, it's called Pascal's table. In that table the expected number of times that a "3" for instance would appear in 20 rolls would be the sum of the two numbers above and adjacent (to the right and to the left) of the desired number. Wow, who knew that would happen! Then they could really inform the noblemen what their odds were of success. And, of course, we all know the answer -- don't gamble; odds always favor the house. This is one statistical result that almost everyone in North America has heard; though not many follow its advice. And, actually, there's another way to interpret the results, which I follow. If the odds of winning the lottery are quite small, then buying enough tickets to make a difference would be prohibitively expensive. Therefore, buy one ticket and ask the spirits (Forces, God, Ancestors, Lady Luck, etc.) to rig the game and help you win. This is my approach each week. It hasn't worked yet, either, but then, neither have I lost much money. The Gallup polling organization uses a similar approach. Instead of increasing the number of people they poll over 4,000, they work at reducing the bias and the error from how they select the people which they poll -- a much less expensive strategy. Statistics, then, was discovered as a way to answer practical questions. At the Guinness Brewery, for example, a statistician named Gossett invented a way to reduce the number of beers that had to be sampled (drank!) to do quality control. Apparently, the makers of Guinness were so incensed that anyone would suggest that any of their beers were not perfect, that they demanded that Gossett publish his results under a pseudonym. He chose the name Student -- hence, Student's t-test. Using the t-test and it's t-table, Guinness could waste fewer beers on their employees and still achieve an acceptable degree of quality control. The problem, I discovered with my students, is that they wished certainty. They wanted to know exactly how things worked including the basic principles for going from a to b to c before they attempted to solve any problems. I suspect this is a function of age. My younger acquaintances handle problems very differently. If given new software, for example, my son tries everything to see what it does. He'd never consider reading a manual. He just plays until he feels like he knows what it does. He doesn't have the belief that many people my age have -- that we will somehow screw up things. He comes from the generation that simply knows that pushing the "reset" button will solve everything and we just start over again. My generation is not so sure of that. Nevertheless, teaching statistics has generated some philosophical ideas for me. First, we live in a probabilistic universe as much as we try to avoid thinking about it. The future is not determined. In fact, the most parsimonious theory of quantum physics predicts that every time we make a decision our universe divides into two copies -- one in which we leave New York to open up a restaurant in Santa Fe (see the musical, Rent) and one in which we don't. The possibilities are endless giving an almost uncountable number of parallel universes arranged in some probability distribution. Some parallel universes are more likely than others. For example, there can't be too many parallel universes in which I won the lottery since it hasn't happened yet. For every parallel universe in which I do win the lottery, there must be many in which I don't. Some occurrences are more likely than others. Here's where probability enters. I say to my newest client, what are the odds that your Toyota Camry is not a hovercraft and won't stay afloat if you drive it over a cliff. He has to think about this for some time because he was quite convinced of its anti-gravity drive and its cosmic multi-dimensional nature. Finally he agrees that there might be some parallel universes in which it's only a car and that it might behoove him to be aware of which universe he's in when he turns on the ignition. (Seeing more than one dimension at a time is often problematic for those without the training of a holy person or a culturally sanctioned inter-dimensional traveler.) So, many of the forces in our lives are random and we do what we can to rig the outcome. We do this through visualizing the probable future in which we wish to arrive, through prayer, through taking action when we can envision what to do, and more. Many of my patients are patients because they spend much of their time visualizing the most negative outcome that could happen. As Mark Twain once said, "Now that I'm old, I've lived through countless disasters, most of which never happened." Many of my patients spend hours each day imagining probable futures in which the direst events transpire. My job is to help them redirect their attention. I do believe that their visualizing in this way increases the likelihood of negative (from their value system) events happening to them, but I don't know how much. I also believe that prayer increases our likelihood of being pulled into the probable future into which we hope to arrive, but, again, I'm not sure how much. It's uncertain. I'm more certain that exercise increases my likelihood of staying healthier for longer, but it's certainly no guarantee. A myriad of other random forces could intervene. That's why it's important to me to express gratitude each day for my life and my health and all my many blessings and to not dwell too long on what I don't have but to focus on what I do have. Mark Twain also said, "The easiest way to be happy is to be content with what you have." I'm not a statistician though I enjoy learning. I have used statistics extensively in my research work and I appreciate the beauty of numbers and equations. I confess to not know fully the basis for every technique that I use. I know enough to get by, and, actually, learn more and more every time I teach statistics and every time I read about statistics. Learning, it turns out, is a life-long process. We've done a disservice to students by assisting them to feel that they can actually know a field or a subject. Just when we think we know something, the rug gets pulled from beneath us and all of the old concepts are null and void. Many of us avoid this by pretending that the rug is still there. For example, nearly everyone I meet believes that low levels of serotonin in the synaptic cleft in the brain causes depression even though we've known for years that this isn't true and the drug companies get fined regularly for implying it in their ads. Yet, it's a story that simplifies the complex, generates an air of certainty, and certainly sells drugs, so it remains part of the general knowledge base. It's a story that serves regardless of its lack of validity. What I can't do, apparently, is to give my students an interest in numbers. I've tried such things as using the Beastie Boys in calculating confidence intervals, discussing probability from the standpoint of the Cat in the Hat, and analyzing a database with them of meditators in Los Angeles trying to affect the growth rate of bacteria in Oakland through intent. I thought this last exercise would be really exciting, but no one even came to that lecture (since it wasn't part of the homework). It does, by the way, turn out that meditators in Los Angeles can influence the growth rate of bacteria in Oakland, and, thanks to the need to entertain my students, I will get to be part of a publication about that finding, so boring statistics students isn't all bad. What worries me, however, is how rigged research is. The knowledge generating empire is set to crank out certain kinds of knowledge that matches its biases. Funding will go to those who comply with the invisible rules for what you can study. Some of us at the margin find ways to do small studies to challenge this status quo. We don't typically score the large grants to do big randomized controlled trials because the questions we ask are too weird. Good questions related to drugs' effectiveness compared to placebo or sometimes the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy for specific (and relatively minor) conditions, but a study of psychotherapy and healing for psychosis, for example, is probably not going to get funding. Nevertheless, I can do small studies at the margins and even publish them as I have been doing and thereby support a small, but hopefully growing number of people who think like me. I wish my graduate students had this desire and interest, or even the interest to critique the available research to understand how it's rigged. My favorite example currently of this rigging is the study that facilitated the FDA's approving the drug, quetiapine, for monotherapy for bipolar depression. The study requirements meant that to be a suitable candidate, the participants could have never considered suicide, never used a substance of abuse, have no other mental health or medical problems, and so on. It took 43 academic centers to recruit just under 250 patients with bipolar depression that met this description. I believe we could help this population with almost any intervention and show better results than placebo, including gluten-casein free diets, reiki energy healing, or homeopathy. They certainly don't match virtually any of the patients I routinely see in my office who do misuse substances, consider suicide, and have a host of other problems. Just like my clients, my students feel only average and believe that they would do better with a great teacher. Unfortunately, I'm an average teacher looking for great students in the same way that I'm an average healer/clinician looking for the best patients. Because I'm not the one to change! Effort must be made and many students, like many patients, don't want to make that effort. We'd all prefer to be passively entertained and just learn or heal without having to show up and do the hard work of focusing and shifting our attention and trying things that are outside our comfort zone. One of my current patients believes he's invisible and will not do anything to increase his visibility. Consequently, he spends a lot of time sitting in his mother's basement -- one way to become invisible. The hard work, in teaching statistics or doing healing or medicine is inspiring people to believe that they can make a difference in their lives, their learning, their outcomes, their level of suffering, and to take action to do so. Here is where story emerges. We need good stories to help people move outside their comfort zone. I'm looking for better stories for motivating students to learn statistics. I'm thinking that quantum physics and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle coupled with the Quantum Zeno Effect is the way to go. Mystical physics is usually a good source of inspiration as we say in the movie, "What the bleep"". Maybe this will work for clients as well. Therefore, I conclude, that we should all learn more quantum physics, and that's all I have to say about that.
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Randomized Phase II Study of Recombinant Human Epidermal Growth Factor (rhEGF) on Oral Mucositis Induced by Intensive Chemotherapy for Hematologic Malignancies
Oral mucositis is one of the most common adverse events during chemotherapy and affects
quality of life of patients receiving chemotherapy in relation to the dose of drugs.
However, there is only one drug (palifermin) approved by the US FDA for the prevention of
oral mucositis and the other methods to prevent or treat oral mucositis are just empirical
and lack evidences. The results of recent study demonstrated promising efficacy and minimal
toxicity of recombinant human epidermal growth factor (rhEGF) as a preventive drug of oral
mucositis in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy (Wu HG, et al. Cancer
2009;115(16):3699-3708). This clinical trial is a double-blind randomized prospective
single-institutional phase II study to evaluate efficacy and toxicity of recombinant human
epidermal growth factor (rhEGF) as a preventive drug of oral mucositis during intensive
chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation in patients with hematologic malignancies.
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Prevention
Incidence of oral mucositis of grade 2 or higher (NCI CTCAE 3.0)
Assessed daily during application of study drugs
Sung-Soo Yoon, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Seoul National University Hospital
Korea: Food and Drug Administration
February 2009
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Choosing a big collision insurance deductible helped you save money on car insurance premiums. But you can't help but wish the deductible would disappear after a wreck.
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Some body shops promise to put the money back in your pocket with a deductible waiver or cash back on collision insurance repairs.
Too good to be true?
The key is to understand what you're getting in return before you jump at any offer.
Competition is fierce in the auto-body repair business. Offers like these are one way some independent shops fight for customers with "preferred" shops, which have relationships with insurers. Preferred shops agree to meet certain insurance company requirements, and, in return, insurers steer customers with collision claims to them.
That makes it tough for other shops to compete, says Robert Woods, owner of Pro Autobody in San Jose, Calif. "It's totally unfair," he says of the system.
His shop doesn't use the term deductible waiver, but the website says it can offer cash back on most insurance repairs. Woods says the cash back constitutes a discount on parts and labor.
Insurers hate deductible waivers and occasionally have reported shops that offer them to fraud investigators.
So are the deals legit?
Unless states have specific rules against them, then the offers in many cases are perfectly legal, says E.L. Eversman, chief counsel for Vehicle Information Services Inc. and founder of the Automotive Education & Policy Institute.
"It's only been an issue in the last 15 years or so because insurers have jumped in and are trying to control and monitor the collision repair process," she says. "There's a great deal of confusion coming out of the insurance industry about where their rights and responsibilities begin and where they leave off."
Here's how a deductible waiver deal could work legally, according to Eversman. Say, for instance, you wreck your car and the shop estimates it will cost $2,000 to restore the vehicle to its pre-loss condition. You have a $200 deductible, so the insurance company writes you a check for $1,800 for the repair.
The shop could decide to eat some of its profit and give you a 10% discount when you pay the bill, which would essentially put the money for the deductible back in your pocket. It has every right to make the business decision to give the discount, Eversman says.
Or you could opt for the minimum of repairs to keep the car running safely, but not the full extent of repairs necessary to restore the vehicle to its pre-loss condition. Say, for instance, you decide you don't care if the paint matches, so the shop knocks off a few hundred dollars from the price. Instead of an A-plus repair, you get a B or a C-grade repair.
Shops that offer deductible waivers on insurance repairs are marketing to people who can't afford deductibles, Eversman says. "They're basically being the Wal-Mart of the collision repair world."
What counts as fraud?
What's illegal is for a shop to inflate a repair estimate enough to cover the repairs plus the customer's deductible, Eversman says.
Some body shops steer clear of deductible waivers and cash-back offers.
"We don't endorse them," says Dan Young, senior vice president of CARSTAR Auto Body Repair Experts, a national franchise network headquartered in Overland Park, Kan. "We don't believe it's the right type of marketing strategy. If you advertise giving back the deductible it can be problematic for insurers."
A personal auto insurance policy is a contract between the insurer and policyholder, and the deductible is the portion of a loss the customer agrees to pay first.
"Any marketing program that involves an offer to pay the insured's deductible can cause issues for the shop and the consumer," Young says. "It's a marketing program that can be misunderstood and can lead to difficult discussions for all involved."
Young says CARSTAR has a variety of customer-referral marketing programs. Customers who refer others to CARSTAR for car repairs can receive marketing incentives such as a free car wash, oil change, car detail, or small gift card.
The insurance industry, meanwhile, wants states to ban deductible waivers. Some states have made it illegal for contractors to offer home insurance deductible waivers for home repairs.
"That's an easier sell" from a lobbying standpoint, says Howard Goldblatt, director of government affairs for the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. A lot of consumers have lost money to fly-by-night roofers who lure storm victims with deductible waivers.
But state legislators are more hesitant to ban auto insurance deductible waivers.
"There is a sense among a lot of legislators that (a collision insurance deductible waiver) sounds like a good deal for consumers," Goldblatt says.
But he adds, "A consumer has to ask him or herself, 'Why would a body shop need this incentive for me to use them?'"
The original article can be found at CarInsurance.com:Will the body shop cut you a deal?


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Since that ill-fateful, frankly disastrous E3 video there's not been much revealed about Too Human - a game that, for a long time, has had bad news written all over it. Burdened by an ever-increasing development time and a stack of 'issues', it's become an unkempt black hole; swallowing vast quantities of cash and giving almost nothing in return. The only news has been Silicon Knight's court case with Epic, and it's a tale that's eclipsed any interest in the game's languishing production. Until now, that is.
Much has been said about the Nordic adventure's unique story. The sci-fi twist is a left-field approach considering the Norse mythology inspirations, and playable flashback sequences crop up with some regularity to deepen the tale. But although the story is a crucial part of any RPG, this game can't be pigeonholed so easily. Too Human isn't simply about stats and numbers.
Spread over four levels, you'll take your character Baldur and turn him into the man you want to play as. Five classes - that's Commando, Defender, Bio-Mechanic, Berserker and Champion - are on offer to cater for every taste, and after making that decision you can tweak every move, weapon and armour piece to your heart's content. In fact, aside from Baldur's physique, you can customise absolutely anything you want.
Four levels doesn't sound like much, and it wouldn't be by conventional thinking. But despite itsat-first-glance generic design, Too Human is far from conventional, and as it shares more in common with Phantasy Star Online (another game with four 'levels') than anything else, we're confident that there's plenty of gaming to be had. These are not four point-to-point sprints, where you can see and do it all in the first visit; they're sprawling worlds to return to time and time again in the search for ever-better item drops. Extra locations make an appearance, and you'll also be able to explore an area known as cyberspace - a different plane of existence that shares parallels with the 'real world' and focuses on puzzles rather than combat - all mixing things up a little bit.


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a full-length (74,000 words) romance novel certain to tug at your heartstrings, available for only 99 cents this June.
When wealthy playboy Aaron Hudson makes an appearance in the relatively unknown restaurant run by Chef Bree Myers, she believes his presence will be great for business. Little does she realize Aaron is about to change more than her profit margin. He sets his sights on having her and Hudsons always get what they desire. As a somewhat rocky start quickly escalates to a full-blown passionate affair, she finds the upscale world of fame and fortune increasingly difficult to endure and worries that she will never be enough for the charmingly roguish billionaire, the object of her passion and the only man her heart has ever longed for.
CEO of Hudson Cosmetics, Aaron Hudson shoulders more than his family's business and reputation. His playboy status weighs heavily on him as, after years of not caring about the ramifications of it, he's found a woman he truly wants. Resistant to his advances, Bree confounds him and he delves into her background, certain more than his reported miscreant ways cause her uncertainty of him. Finding more than he bargained for, Aaron is determined to help her in any way he can and have her as his. A shocking event forces him to pit family and business loyalties against his love for Bree and, in the eccentric world of the Hudsons, matters of the heart rarely win.
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From the back cover:
From the Palace of Eternal Dusk, the Warlock-King holds his realm in thrall. His tyrannized subjects live in perpetual fear, for they know their evil monarch can see into the minds of others and slay them in their dreams.
Only outsiders from beyond the boundaries of Wyrd may slay the tyrant - and they will need all the courage and skill that mortals ever can possess.


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That delectable and oh so sweet temptation called chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, just may rank higher up on the scale of goodness right along with fruits and vegetables than what most people may think. The positive effect that dark chocolate has on overall health, certain diseases or ailments in many ways supports what the ancients knew so long ago, that chocolate has medicinal importance. Driven by promising results of different studies, utilizing modern technology, researchers are able to better understand just what makes chocolate good for you, a sweet surprise known as flavanols. Flavanols are powerful antioxidants, which are heavily concentrated in dark chocolate and cocoa, the same compounds nature provides in fruits and vegetables.
Cacao Tree Fruit
Few really think about what the foundation of chocolate is, preferring to merely indulge in the sweet delight. The cacao pod is a rather large berry that grows on the cacao tree that is primarily cultivated in tropical, wet, humid climates. The pod, which is actually the tree fruit, typically contains many cacao beans. The beans are harvested, and then put through a fermentation process. The fermentation process helps to reduce the natural bitter taste, and once dried, they are washed, unacceptable beans purged, they are then graded, and inspected prior to shipping for processing. The beans that make it through the initial processing are then roasted and shelled to draw out and capture the nib, which is the cacao kernel. The cacao kernel, or nib, is ground with very big heated rollers in high-speed mills. Nearly 53% of the nibs are cocoa butter, which is the natural fat of cocoa beans. This process converts the cacao kernels into a dark-brown, thick, pasty substance, known as chocolate liquor, and it is this liquor that is the foundation for all chocolate delights and cocoa products.
Chocolate Liquor
The chocolate liquor combined with various amounts of sugar or other sweeteners, pure or artificial vanilla or other flavorings, cocoa butter, whole milk or other milk products, or any other desired or creative product or ingredient will produce several varieties with different degrees of flavors and textures of that tasty treat coveted and enjoyed by so many.
It is well-known that flavonoids offer many health benefits, and in particular, flavonols, which are a special or distinct set of flavonoids, that are found in chocolate, and it is the same powerful antioxidants that researchers have seen in red wine and green tea. It is this aspect of chocolate that has caused science to take a closer look with further research and studies. What is known is that chocolate has several hundred natural chemical compounds, some which fall in the category of elevating the mood, and is a natural source of a very mild stimulant, called theobromine. Though there may be a feel good factor, theobromine does not affect the central nervous system, and studies have shown that it has been effective in reducing coughs. Research has also shown that dark chocolate has heart healthy benefits, keeps blood vessels healthy, and plays a significant role in reducing the bad cholesterol (LDL) by as much as ten percent. The flavonols in dark chocolate and cocoa helps to produce nitric oxide, which has been shown to help the arteries relax and maintain flexibility, allows the blood to flow, and therefore helps to reduce high blood pressure. The serotonin in dark chocolate also is up-lifting and can be beneficial as an anti-depressant. Under a controlled study, researchers saw lower blood sugar levels and the restoration of normal cell function.
Essential Minerals
Unknown to so many who enjoy an occasional chocolate treat is the fact that since dark chocolate and cocoa are plant-based, the beguiling sweet treat contains several essential minerals that are fundamental for overall good health, such as magnesium, copper, and potassium, and calcium. A small chocolate bar can provide as much as 10 to 12 percent of magnesium, the deficiency of which can lead to cardiovascular disease, as well as hypertension. Copper is very necessary for the proper function of the heart, it helps with the absorption of iron, and plays an important role as one of the significant elements of the enzymes that make collagen, which supports and sustains the skin. Dark chocolate can give you, on the average, ten percent of that much-needed mineral. Studies have shown that a diet weak in potassium, a key element that affects blood pressure, can put you at risk for stroke, and research has also shown that chocolate and cocoa is a natural source of this very essential mineral. For those that prefer their chocolate a little bit sweeter, milk chocolate can give you up to eight percent of calcium, a much-needed mineral for bones and teeth.
With all the good news out there about chocolate, that does not mean you should suddenly start eating chocolate by the pound, or even start indulging if it is not part of your regular diet. As with most things, moderation is the key, and always consult a health care professional before introducing anything new or different to your diet, as each individuals situation is uniquely their own.
Whether you indulge in bittersweet, semi-sweet, dark, milk, white, unsweetened, cocoa powder, or the special delightful treat called truffles, or any combination of chocolate, there is much to be said about the powerhouse of antioxidants that naturally occur in chocolate. What is known about cocoa and chocolate warrants further study, and emerging science and research thus far seems to support the findings of the special role that chocolate can play in overall health.


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Using weekly regional networking slots on Twitter to join the conversation, find other local businesses, share your own news and updates. Getting involved and sharing updates from others means they are more likely to then share your tweets. No-brainer, isn't it.
– @Chichesterhr – Networking for the Chichester area every Tuesday 8 – 9pm and every Thursday 12-1pm. Post a simple tweet introducing yourself and your service(s) and include the hashtag #chichesterhour
– @Bognorregishour – Networking for the Bognor Regis area every Monday 7.30pm – 8.30pm. As above, post a tweet and include the hashtag #bognorregishour
– @SussexhourUK – Sussex-wide chat every Thursday 8.30pm – 9.30pm. Include the hashtag #sussexhour
Follow the accounts and add a reminder in your phone for the day/time.
You can also save a feed based on a hashtag, which will update in real-time for you to review whenever time allows if the evening networking slots aren't great for your own schedule:
Type in the hashtag you'd like to save a search for
View results – you can toggle (switch) between Top, Live, Photos etc. Click on More Options and select Save this search:
To revisit your saved search, click in the search box and you'll see a quick link there:
List of Twitter networking groups, compiled by 87Tangerines – correct as at April 2016
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The long awaited Imperial Survey of the Church Worlds. I got a look at the actual book at Spiel and the PDF is every bit as good! I could not contain myself any longer I had to buy the PDF while I await the arrival of my hardcopy from Lulu.com.
So how does it rate? Well the artwork is by far the best of any of the Fading Suns books and I hope that this will continue with future releases. The writing is excellent and highly polished, though this little book is only about 60 pages (the original IS books were half that) the team behind this have expended every effort to ensure satisfaction.
There is only one minor glitch... The chapter on Pentateuch refers the reader to the existing map and write-up in the Weird Places book rather than provide everything in one place. Given the obvious beauty of the new look full page world maps I think this is an opportunity missed.
That said I would still have liked to rate this book as 6 stars! Alas 5 is all the feedback system will let me give.
Brilliant... a great addition to the Fading Suns line, buy it now!


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Good Day
I receive an order to create items for a Baby Shower, which included
- 20 (which later turned out to be 40) Thank You cards
- 40 Gift Tags to place on gifts and
- 40 cards for guests to write the Baby a special wish and
- 40 folded tent cards for the food table
I thought a book would be a better option instead of giving each guest a card to write their wish on, as Mommy-to-be could then page through the book afterwards and present it to the baby at her 21st. I suggested this to my client and she was quite happy for me to go ahead with the idea. As there are more than 40 pages in the book, I thought the guests could also share some advice for the new parents-to-be and sign who they are in the family tree. So I typed out instructions to place in the inside, so that each guest can read what is expected of them. I unfortunately did not take a photo of that inside cover.
Here are a few photo's I took in preparation for what I made. The theme was Pink/Silver/Grey and the white offsets those colours perfectly. For non-crafty people visiting my blog, the process starts with a design in your head or you may need inspiration and that's when you browse Pinterest. Once you've decided what you want, you need to create that with paper. I usually create one as a mock-up and if I like what I've created, then it's full steam ahead. Then it's a flurry of typing, printing, cutting, punching, layering, sticking with glue and double sided tape.
Here I have printed the message for the Thank You card. My mock-up card is on the left.
Cutting all the cards and then having to resize and cut again
Same process all over again
Punching out all the Thank You sentiments
And finally we have our perfect 3x4 card
I really love the colour and design. So pleased I took the pics as it will be nice to
refer to later on should I need to do something similar.
Here follow some more photo's of the other items I made:
The tent cards for the food table
The Baby Wish Book which has been recovered and decorated.
I added a triple layer of butterflies, adding some lovely sparkly gems down the centre
Here are the gift tags, as I believe each guest will take home a small gift
And here's the final presentation, all gifted and ready to hand over to the client
and proud to say, everything is HAND CRAFTED!
[Just received an sms from my client, she is very happy with the result.... yay!!!
That makes me so happy too!]
It took me 6.5 hours to complete this task and I ended up going to bed at 02:00 on Sunday morning. The increase in quantity threw me a bit, but these things happen and you just roll with the dice... lol... which meant that the project took a lot longer than I had anticipated.
After this project I have the greatest respect for those artists who do this for a living. It's time-consuming and if you're a bit of a perfectionist like me, even more so, as you check every detail. After all, it's only held together with paper and glue !
I've said this on more than one occasion. I just love working with a blank canvas, initially not knowing what I'm going to create, but once the creative juices start flowing, then I'm on my way. It is so rewarding sitting back at the end of each project and admiring what you've made with your own 2 hands. The compliments are confirmations that you've nailed it!
Later that morning, I decided that it was a good time to clean out all the drawers, move my beautiful Planners (another hobby of mine) to another side of the room, etcetera. I had a cute little companion to keep me company. This is my neighbour's beautiful daughter and she's a regular visitor to our home. This is her special time with us, when Boetie (Brother) is not around. She has her own box of craft goodies, which we keep for her for when she pops around to play. Such a special girl and so well-mannered (well done Lilian). It a pleasure having her around !
That's it from me. I hope my little project will inspire you to create something of your own today. Thanks for popping by, I appreciate every visitor.
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By Turnagain Times
Alaska-based Glacier City Snowmobile Tours has put together a training course that certifies Navy Seals in survival and safety training in the Alaskan backcountry using a snowmachine. This certification will enable the Seals to be issued their own military snowmachine in the future.
Glacier City recently just finished its second group of Seal training and has had a very positive response from all of them.
Owner/operator Chris Roberts "Twirl" is using his 21 years of backcountry snowmobile experience to pass on every bit of knowledge to help the Seals deal with a vast array of infield problem solving using a snowmachine.
The Alaskan backcountry can throw a lot of dangerous situations if one is not prepared. Twirl and his guides Matt Moscosso and Ryan Belanger discuss with the Navy Seals their own experiences from route finding techniques, avalanche awareness, engine trouble shooting, getting unstuck in deep snow, how to properly tow a broken down snowmachine, ice safety, checking weather, what to carry in your backpack and how to use it.
Aggressive riding techniques for deep powder, sidehilling, water skips and more are covered out in the field while on their own snowmobiles.
"We try and show them every McGyver trick that we have ever learned to better adapt them to any situation out in the backcountry," said Twirl. "This training course makes all of us at Glacier City proud to be a small part of something as big and as important as the Navy Seals."
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Highlights of Clark's:
- They host the largest private taxidermy collection in America, which is displayed throughout the dining areas. I'm talking lions, tigers, giraffes, and a multitude of other animals--some of which I couldn't even identify. (I'm pretty we spotted at least one honey badger though!)
- Their menu boasts everything from Southern basics like fried shrimp and grits to exotic selections including llama, python and kangaroo.
- A recently added large aquarium features a 5 foot alligator named Lilly.
- Beautiful location on Julington Creek--when the weather is nice you can sit outside and enjoy the view.
Clark's is always my choice when I have friends visiting from out of town, and it never fails to please.
Last night we started with BBQ Chargrilled Gator Toes:
You can see I was a little skeptical, but they actually were pretty good. Just like chicken. Even better when dipped in the accompanying Toe Jam sauce!
Next we sampled fried Kangaroo. I don't know how I feel about eating kangaroo, but it was delicious! I'm usually not a huge fan of "gamey" meat. I'll eat venison but it's not my favorite. The kangaroo was impressively good though! Next time, we plan to try the llama, python and antelope.
For dinner we stuck to more commonplace choices. I had delicious coconut shrimp, while Josh, of course, chose the largest steak on the menu:
Yes, folks, he finished it all. And ate his black eyed peas and macaroni and cheese, too. My husband is impressive.
If you're looking for good food and a good time, I highly recommend Clark's Fish Camp. It's always an adventure!


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Artisan Blocks
Clever Laura...she must have cut the sentiment to use it horizontally. The sentiment is from our new Many Thanks stamp set. I love the pattern she created with the striped stamp - beautiful colors (great masculine card)
Karolyn's card reminds me of little napkins or placemats, which makes a nice hospitality card. I am sure that wasn't her intention, but that's how I see it :) Fabulous card!


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Harry Reid Changes Beat-Down Story – Brother Larry Still a Suspect, Arrested for Assault
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (WND)
Senate Minority leader changed his story today on his "workout accident" that caused multiple broken bones on the right side of his face, damage to his right eye, bruising down the side of his face, a concussion, and several broken ribs.
Previously Harry Reid has said he suffered the broken bones and loss of sight when an elastic exercise band broke, causing him to fall over.
Today Harry Reid told anchor Jorge Ramos that the exercise band "slipped," rather than "broke."
Ramos: You said recently that the accident had nothing to do with your decision to retire.
However, we are seeing the consequences of what happened. What really happened? Was it really with an elastic band?
Reid: Yeah, I had a big, that thick (Reid gestures with his hands), that I had been using for about four years and I was, you know, trying to maintain my, uh, firmness, and, uh, that was my weight training. I was doing that in my new home here in Nevada and a big metal hook that came out from the wall that was hooked there that the strap had no handle on it, slipped, spun me around, uh, about, oh I guess four feet (Reid points with his right hand to the wall of the interview room) and so I smashed my face into a cabinet so hard that uh…
Ramos: It looked like somebody had hit you.
Reid: I am so fortunate that, um, it wasn't over just a fraction of this way and hit me in the temple.
Ramos: How's your eye?
Reid: I am sightless in my right eye.
Meanwhile, the Capitol Police, which had a security team on duty with him in his Henderson, Nevada home, is refusing to release the internal reports it has on the timing of his treatment for injuries.
And, Harry Reid's brother, the main suspect in his brutal beating, was arrested drunk assaulting a police officer earlier this week.
Larry Reid was arrested about 12:30 p.m. Monday on U.S. Highway 95 near the edge of Boulder City city limits. (Daily Mail)
Larry Reid is reportedly the prime suspect in Harry Reid's beating.
Power Line reported:
On Monday I got a phone call from a man named Easton Elliott. We talked briefly on Monday, and have had additional telephone conversations since then. Elliott* is a businessman who lives in the Las Vegas area, and he thinks he knows what really happened to Harry Reid. This is the story as he related it to me:
Elliott spent a portion of last New Year's Eve at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Henderson, Nevada. His AA group has meetings every hour on New Year's Eve, along with a pot luck supper. There were approximately 20 people present at the meeting during the events described below.
Some time between 10:00 and 11:30 p.m., a man entered the meeting. His appearance was striking: there was blood on his clothing, beginning around his midsection. His left hand was swollen. He appeared to be somewhat intoxicated and was visibly agitated. He introduced himself as "Larry."
In a group discussion that was heard by a number of people, Larry said that he had just had a fight with a family member. Larry said he had been at a family get-together, and he didn't remember much about the fight because he had blacked out. When he came to, he was rolling on the ground, fighting with a family member, and his clothes were bloody. Now, he said, he was frightened that the Secret Service would come after him.
** What Really Happened to HARRY REID'S FACE? How Does Workout Accident Cause Concussion, Broken Ribs & Busted Face?
** LEAD SUSPECT in Harry Reid's Beating – His Brother – Is Arrested for Assaulting Police
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Sony's Gamescom press conference began with Shuhei Yoshida, President of SCE Worldwide Studios, walking out onto the stage, sitting down in an armchair, and playing on his PlayStation 4. It was a neat way to show off the PS4's user interface, which as you'd imagine is slick, fast and oh so pretty.
Free-to-play games are all the rage these days, and now one of Sony's most popular franchises is getting in on the action. That's right; LittleBigPlanet Hub is coming to PS3 as a free-to-play title later this year.
Did you miss the livestream of Sony's Gamescom 2013 press conference?
Well, don't worry, because the kind folks at Sony have just uploaded the whole thing to YouTube. You can watch it at your leisure right here on PS3 Attitude, below.
In a surprise announcement during Sony's Gamescom conference, it was been revealed that Gearbox Software's critically acclaimed role-playing shooter, Borderlands 2, will be coming to PS Vita.
Mike Bithell, creator of the excellent Thomas Was Alone, has just announced his latest project. Volume is a top-down stealth game with an emphasis on user-created content, and it looks – in a word – awesome.
PlanetSide 2, Sony Online Entertainment's long-awaited sequel to the popular MMOFPS, was originally released as a free-to-play game on PC last year. It was extremely well received by both critics and fans, and Sony has consequently announced a PS4 release for the title.
Without a doubt, the most welcome news to come out of Sony's conference was that the PS4 will support used games, and won't require an internet connection. But almost as good as that was the fact that PlayStation Plus subscriptions will incorporate PS4 games and features at no additional cost.
Rather than show a quick trailer and leave it at that, EA has been streaming live footage of Battlefield 4's online multiplayer throughout E3. Here's a 6-minute video that includes some of the best moments.
Another big announcement during Ubisoft's conference was The Crew, a new racing IP developed by Ivory Tower with assistance from Ubisoft Reflections.
Telltale Games' critically acclaimed The Walking Dead will be receiving a new DLC chapter entitled 400 Days that will introduce five brand new characters to the episodic franchise.
During their press conference, Sony presented a teaser for a tech demo created by Quantic Dream, running in real time on PS4. Well now the full 12-minute video is available online, and it's pretty awesome.
Let's be honest; the reveal of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain in March was undermined just a bit by the fact that everyone had already made the connection between The Phantom Pain and MGS back in December. For this reason, it's vital that the game is presented in a positive light at E3. Well, we've watched the trailer, and Kojima doesn't need to worry.
Undoubtedly the biggest surprise to come out of Ubisoft's conference yesterday was the announcement of Tom Clancy's The Division. The publisher arguably stole the show at E3 2012 with Watch Dogs, so could it be possible they've done the same this year with The Divide?
Judging by the first footage, they just might have.
Yesterday evening, Sony announced the future of Gran Turismo at the franchise's 15th Anniversary event at Silverstone, the home of the British Grand Prix. It turns out that its future is in Gran Turismo 6, which (as has been widely reported across the internet over the last few weeks) is coming to PS3 this winter.
The inventive puzzle-platformer Thomas Was Alone has been described by its creator, Mike Bithell, as 'a game about rectangles and friendship'. However, as you may have guessed from the somewhat melancholy title, there's a lot more going on here than that.
Rockstar Games have released a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, or should I say three new trailers showcasing the game's three main playable characters; Michael, Franklin, and Trevor.
Guacamelee! is the latest title from DrinkBox Studios, the Toronto-based developer behind the awesome Tales From Space series on PS3 and PS Vita. Available for both consoles, the team's latest project is a Metroidvania-style 2D platformer that stars a Mexican farmer named Juan Aguacate, who finds himself in a bit of a pickle when he is killed five minutes into the game.
Fresh off the smashing success that Far Cry 3 enjoyed at the tail end of 2012, Ubisoft aims grow the series' ever-swelling wave of admiration with a DLC expansion that speaks to a nostalgia for all things gloriously 80's. Leading up to the expansion's May 1 target release, Ubisoft sought the help of Corridor Digital to bring some of the main themes to life.
It's crazy, it's ridiculous, it's awesome. Check it out.
The international release of Vita-exclusive RPG Soul Sacrifice is just a few weeks away, so to whet your appetite Sony has announced a massive demo will be coming to both the North American and European PS Stores next week.


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Emperor Claudius Dressed as Pharaoh in Newly Uncovered Carving
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
SWANSEA, WALES—A recently uncovered carving on the western exterior wall of the Temple of Isis at Shanhur shows the Roman emperor Claudius, dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh, raising the pole of a tent to create a cult chapel for Min, a god of fertility, in what was even then an ancient ritual. Min, in return, is depicted giving Claudius control of southern lands, perhaps the mineral-rich deserts surrounding the Nile River. In another engraving on the temple, Claudius is shown giving an offering of lettuce to Min to ensure Egypt's continued fertility. "Although we know that Claudius, as most Roman emperors, never visited Egypt, his rule over the land of the Nile and the desert regions was legitimized through cultic means," Martina Minas-Nerpel of Swansea University and Marleen De Meyer of KU Leuven University wrote in the journal Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. Because the image is dated, the scholars surmise that such a ritual actually took place, using a stand-in for the emperor and a statue for Min. "What we see depicted on the temple scene is the ideal scenario," Minas-Nerpel explained in Live Science.
Scottish clan memorabilia, a conquistador shrine, Neolithic nutmeg, Maya sea salt harvesters, and a Chinese model house
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Come to think of it
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It's been a long time since I last took my picture!
I say, my skin looks very light.
I lost weight a little bit, due to the summer heat.
I just can' t stop loving tank tops of AMEAPA. They make me wanna buy more of them in different colors.


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Michael Kors
With a successful career in fashion and a flourishing fragrance collection under his belt, Michael Kors has earned a reputation as the master of laid-back luxury. From stylish designs combining American practicality with European glamour, to chic signature scents, Kors creates and tempts us with a taste of the good life, exuding a feeling of carefree elegance that is both coveted and celebrated around the world.
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With Max Vanderwoude Gross as its new creative director, the Supreme Fall collection is one of the brand's most unique in recent times.
This is achieved with patterns that range from all-over modern branding, to nostalgic floral and reinterpreted plaid prints. The latter is shown on a hoodie that sports an all-green colorway -- with different hues making up the plaid print and a fuzzy fabric complementing it. This gives the piece a strangely luxurious look, thwarting expectations and complementing the style of any unconventional wearer.
Also included in the Supreme Fall collection is a jacket that shows the iconic brand name within a large comic-like illustration, a long-sleeve that's covered in Renaissance art, a hoodie made entirely of miscellaneous fabric patches and a few more traditional camouflage pieces.
Oddly Patterned Streetwear
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Grungy Military Streetwear
Luxe Experimental Menswear
Boldly Patterned Menswear
Sophisticated Athletic Wear
50s-Inspired Japanese Streetwear
The Supreme Fall Collection Uses Reaissance Art, Playing Cards and More
- By: Riley von NiessenAug 16, 2016
References: supremenewyork & highsnobiety
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Education and Income
in a Growth Economy
WE have described education as the factor which makes possible technical progress and growth. But, as we have also seen, in an environment of "unbalanced growth" an activity such as education can be penalized in budgetary terms by the very growth that it creates. Over time these interactions in an unplanned system tend to inhibit growth, particularly the mythical sort of growth in which the pie is supposed to grow in order to provide a large slice for redistribution. The projection of decay in the growth impulse is obviously controversial and the phenomena involved require close examination and study. There are other reasons for controversy as well. In particular, the analysis of educational choice presented here differs substantively from the standard treatment of the problem—that which derives from the concept of "human capital" as refined by Becker and Blaug. 1
According to conventional applications of the human-capital approach, education and skill development are looked at as ways of augmenting the basic productive capabilities of a worker. Implicitly, the human-capital analysis starts with the notion of a "minimal" man, a worker with the


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Paul Wunderlich: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper From Six Decades
- Alex Hetherington
- 16 April 2009
Compass Gallery's museum-style six-decade retrospective of this German-born octogenarian visual artist is a voice from the past, articulating the development of style, technique and medium across the last century and into this, and includes references to numerous art movements along the way: surrealism, abstract expressionism, superrealism and touching on impressionism and the Renaissance, all of which witnesses an agitated but abundant desire to make, create, draw, record, cite. The show is packed with works: paintings, sculptures, etchings and print editions with little regard given to chronology or context, which is both frustrating and appealing, giving a sense of an insatiable appetite for creativity.
Where Wunderlich comes undone in this creative propulsion is his one-dimensional representation of women and femininity – all youth, naked, perfect and unattainable. Beautifully painted they may be but they do suffer from an over-simplification to his perspective on women. Wunderlich has a mastery of technique, of mark-making which often lacks substance or insight given the historical and political turmoil he has lived through. Where his strengths do lie are in his graphic language and his mistakes, traces of his experimentation, his senses of doubt and hesitation beyond his talents with paint and ink. The final impression of this worthwhile, plentiful show is someone in love with art, nourished by the labour of making, which clearly works as he continues his prolific endeavours well into old age.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Dandelion - Weed or Delicacy?
Monday, April 21, 2008
My Spring Babies
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Madison's Ice Cream Parlor
Don't these look yummy? Annie's best friend Madison made these a few days ago on a warm early Spring day with only one ingredient - chalk! I had just recently made some Raspberry Frozen Yogurt and taken pictures but I wasn't sure which ice cream looked yummier - mine or Madison's. Here's a photo of the frozen yogurt I made:
This was my first attempt to make frozen yogurt and it was really good! It was infinitely easier to make than traditional custard-type ice cream. The flavor is a little different- a little tangier- and we all enjoyed it. All you do is combine plain whole-milk yogurt, sugar, vanilla, and raspberry puree and freeze it in an ice cream machine for 20 minutes. My Cuisinart ice cream machine from Costco only requires that you pre-freeze the canister and the rest is automatic - no salt to mess with. I got the basic vanilla frozen yogurt recipe from 101cookbooks.com. Oh- and aren't Gerbera Daisies pretty? I'm having fun taking pictures... Happy Spring!
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Farm Fresh Eggs
My good friend came up behind me in my car the other day. We were both late taking our girls to school, but she flagged me down and jumped out of her car to hand me a package. Since our kids play together often, I figured the package would be perhaps a pair of little girls' socks left behind at a playdate or maybe a plastic container being returned. But it was something much, much better. It was a dozen eggs from her parents' farm! As any serious baker knows, you can hardly put a value on eggs fresh from the farm. I have considered having my own chickens just to have great eggs but it is almost certainly against the covenants set forth in the housing plan to which we belong and I do not know the first thing about having chickens! And undoubtedly, my neighbors would have something to say about it. Martha makes it look so great to have chickens although I'm sure she has staff members looking after her chickens and gathering their eggs! Fortunately, I have this wonderful friend who thinks of me and brings me these little treasures every week. Thank you!!


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The other thing I just finished was a bit out of left field. Just before Cancon the good folk at War and Peace Games sent me some bits and pieces I needed to finish (sort of) my German paras, namely a pair of Kettenrads, anti-tank gun, flamenwerfer etc, etc. After starting putting these together I noticed amongst my WWII German stuff was a Tamiya 1/48 scale Hanomag half-track model that had been sitting on the shelf for well over a year. I had two half-tracks but was having the devil of a time matching them with a third vehicle for a full squad. The equivalent such as that produced by Warlord is actually 1/56 scale - way too small for the ones I had, as I discovered after buying what I thought was a matching model. By sheer luck I happened on a 1/48th scale model in a hobby shop that usually only stocks either 1/72nd or 1/35 models. Just the one but exactly what I was after - expensive little bugger too - but I thought 'how hard could it be?' Well, once I decided to make it I was gobsmacked at the amazing detail in the model. My hat goes off to model makers as this one really tested my very, very rusty model-making skills.
|The Tamiya model contains fantastic detail
|The Tamiya model is the same size but appears to be a different vehicle make
The half-tracks were known as 'Hanomags' for the very good reason of it taking too long to pronounce the full title: Mtl.SPW.Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D. Interestingly, the differences between the Tamiya model and my others are noticeable - particularly at the back. The model info tells me that the final version of the Ausf. D was made in 1943 to include fewer panels - thus making it easier to manufacture. That and the air intake at the front being located under the armoured panels rather than on top have me thinking its the later version. A minor annoyance given the earlier versions I already have but that said, I'm quite happy with the way it turned out. Room for 12 men and their kit (very squeezy in there tho) and two MGs for a bit of added firepower.
|Rear of the Ausf. D - note the green case hanging on the back side panel - its full of grenades! That and the Jerrycan on the other side would be great targets! I'm sure they removed them going into action.
|More rear detail of the Ausf. D
Well that was certainly a diverse two weeks - also done was the building and base coating of about 150 Perry's and Warlord Austrians and Russians. The new Perry's plastic Austrians are fantastic. The detail is amazing - as sharp as the Tamiya model I just built - but mercifully a helluva lot easier to put together! The only disappointing aspect was the Warlord plastic Russians that come with a metal command. The plastic figures are OK and easy to assemble but the metal ones are pretty ordinary and badly cast. The officer figure is animated but in an awkward pose that does not match that of the marching flag bearer's and drummer. But that is all by-the-by as I now have over 200 figures base-coated on painting sticks awaiting me! And its back to work Monday... [sigh] I guess I'll just have to retire to get them done!


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Once the royal capital of Chalukyas, today, Badami is a quaint town nestled in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka. The town is full of cave temples, fortresses, carvings and entrances. It is the site of the 6th and 7th
century Brahmanical and Jain Cave Temples and that's why it is often referred to as the "Cradle of South Indian Architecture'. These temples are carved out of solid rock and speak volumes about the art and architecture of that period. These 4 cave temples are linked to each other via stairs.


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The author has traveled widely on all continents and is still keen to visit new places and to meet new people. He has lived and/or worked in Europe, Africa, Australia and U.S.A. and has visited Asia frequently. He has moved from country to country frequently often with the whole family when the children (2) were young, under five, and when they were older. Children are flexible and adaptable and their education loses nothing from wide and varied experience. Over one period the family had made an international or intercontinental move every eighteen months. The reasons related to employment, political/social conditions and simple preference but there was always an eye on safety and the future of the children. Given the university and career successes of the children travel has been a great educator. The author is always looking for further adventures in different places meeting more friends.


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A 96-unit apartment building just south of Becker College in Worcester has sold for $9.7 million.
The 10-story building at 11 Sever St., known as Fruit Sever Apartments, was built in 1965 and was last assessed by the city at $4.6 million.
The sale closed on Nov. 27.
The building was sold for $9,727,982 by TCB Sever Street LLC to Sever St. Development LLC. TCB Sever Street bought the site in 2016 for $8.7 million, according to city records.
The sale was the second seven-figure residential property sale to close in November in Worcester. A 36-unit apartment development in Worcester's Quinsigamond Village neighborhood sold for $6.9 million.
A sale of a commercial building at 285 Main St. in downtown Worcester also closed last month. That building, which houses the restaurants deadhorse hill and Rice Violet, the salon Friendly Nails, and offices, was bought by Worcester Railers owner Cliff Rucker for nearly $2.7 million.
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|Janice's Weightloss Progress May 2014 to February 2015
My travel lifestyle as a flight attendant impacted my health negatively. My colon expanded from all
the take offs and landings. Every time I would take off in the air, my colon would expand and
whenever I would land my colon would contract. This caused my intestines to become packed with
waste and made it difficult for me to eliminate. In May 2014, I stopped working as a flight attendant
because I was unable to move my bowels. My stomach looked as if it was 7 months pregnant.
I began working out 5 hours a day 5 to 6 days a week for three months just to get my bowels to
move. The photo above of me showing my "sugar roll" belly was taken in June 2014.
On December 30, 2014 I was told that I had cervical cancer, it was quite an unpleasant New Year's
surprise. Most people were making New Year's Resolution, however I was forced to change my
eating habits to a vegan lifestyle. I went into survival mode. There are various cancer deaths in my
family. I lost my mother to second hand smoking cancer, one aunt to cervical cancer, and
grandmother to breast cancer. I had one other aunt die to cancer as well, but I don't remember
what type. I am not ready to give up my life to cancer.
I overcame fear and remained positive. God placed the right people in my life to help with my
healing. One of my daughter's gave me a visit to King Spa and Sauna for a Christmas present. It is a
wellness retreat that has over 30 hot and cold healing rock saunas. The biggest help was the
V Steam Herb Woodworm Sitz Bath which is known to prevent uterine cancer. My daughter and I
and I had an one hour and a half treatment by God's divine plan. We were visiting with three of my
daughter's friends who sitz baths were not working properly. The treatment is normally 30 minutes
but we received an additional hour because we were waiting for my daughter's friends. After the sitz
bath we spent time in the various sauna rooms, detoxifying and healing our bodies.
|Janice Working Out
Another factor which helped cure me from cancer was my employment at L.A. Fitness as Personal
Trainer Fitness Assessment Counselor that gave me access to a spa and whirlpool. I continued to
detoxify my body. I also began working with a personal trainer who encouraged me to eat organic
fruits and vegetables and change to a vegan lifestyle. My working out with Personal Trainer Lance
Dillon of Truth Fitness 2020 led to a 17 pound weight and building lean muscle mass during the
month of January.
Being employed at L.A. Fitness has helped change me into a fitness person as I now workout about
6 days a week. My job as a Personal Trainer Fitness Assessment Counselor requires that I workout
with clients about 3 to 4 times a day in addition to my regular workout routine. A health and fitness
lifestyle has changed my travel lifestyle. Although I have hung up my wings as a flight attendant, I
decided to combine passion to travel with health and fitness by creating Black Girls Fitness
Getaways. Please comment by sharing your weightloss journey and your dream wellness getaway


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Dr. William H. Frist is a nationally recognized heart and lung transplant surgeon, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, and chairman of the Executive Council of the health service private equity firm Cressey and Company. Senator Frist, representing Tennessee in the U.S. Senate for 12 years where he served on both Health and Finance committees, was elected Majority Leader having served fewer total years in Congress than anyone in history. His leadership was instrumental to the passage of the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act and the unprecedented funding to fight global HIV/AIDS. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt University and Clinical Professor of Surgery at Meharry Medical College. He serves as Senior Fellow and Co-Chair of the Health Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center. His board service includes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, as well as multiple public and private health care companies.
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Oakdale's second match of the day saw them face a well organised Risca team, who started the game well which required some good scramble defence from Oakdale, Risca almost went over in the cormer but a good tackle from Gethin Tudbull prevented them from taking an early lead. Oakdale turned the ball over which led to a break from Ollie Penny to score the opening try of the match.
Oakdale were high in confidence and Gethin Tudbull got his hands on the ball and raced to the line to score the second try.
Risca responded quickly and scored their opening try of the match to get themselves back in the game. However, after some superb passing and offloading by Oakdale Brayley Williams-Price dived over for Oakdales 3rd try.
Oakdale were hagain on the attack and Gethin Tudbull again made a break through the Risca defence to score his second try of the match and Oakdales 4th to keep the scorer busy.
Some fine defence from Oakdale prevented Risca scoring and this pressure made off as Gethin Tudbull made his way over the line to score Oakdales 4th try, this was quickly followed by another from him.
Risca were not going to lie down and bravely fought back and were rewarded with a try just before half time to make the score 5-3.
The second half again saw Oakdale change their line up making sure everyone had a run out and again the fresh legs seemed to pay off as Tyler Symmons caught the Risca defence off guard to score in the corner.
Risca would not give up and began clawing their way back into the game putting pressure on Oakdale which saw them score two unanswered tries which set up the match for an exciting climax.
Oakdale made a good break and with some slick passing saw Jacob James score in the corner to make the final score Oakdale 7 - Risca 5.
It was a marvelous effort from both sides who really entertained the watching parents well done both teams.
At the end of the game man of the match was given to Joseph Bonnici for his defence and passing
Next up for Oakdale U8's sees them hitting the road to travel to Rhymney.
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Press Release
For Immediate Release
Jul 31, 2013
Contact : Donna Sellmann, Public Relations Manager
(732) 840-3279
Southern Ocean Medical Center Foundation to Hold Family Fun Day at Calloway's
Manahawkin, NJ - The Southern Ocean Medical Center Foundation is partnering with a local business for an evening of family fun that will benefit the hospital. Family Fun Day will be held on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.at Calloway's Restaurant and Bar at 597 Route 9 South in Staffordville, NJ.
Special day passes can be purchased in advance for this event at a discounted price. Day pass certificates for Family Fun Day cost $14 per person and are valid for wristbands for family fun for the entire day for children's activities and rides.
Additionally, Calloway's Restaurant and Bar will donate 20 percent of all food purchases made with a coupon on the day of the event. Members of the Meridian Health "Pawsitive Action Team" will be present from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. to teach children about good health and exercise.
Proceeds will benefit pediatric services at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin, NJ.
To purchase certificates, call the Southern Ocean Medical Center Foundation office at 609-978-3081 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
About Southern Ocean Medical Center
Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin is a member of the Meridian Health family, which includes Jersey Shore University Medical Center and K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital in Neptune, Ocean Medical Center in Brick, Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, and most recently, Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel. Southern Ocean Medical Center is home to a wide range of clinical services and programs specializing in cardiovascular and stroke care, maternity and women's health, orthopedics and joint health, bariatric surgery, and wellness and prevention programs. Part of Meridian Cancer Care, Southern Ocean Medical Center provides comprehensive cancer services, including radiation oncology, surgery, and clinical trials, and is connected to specialized programs and services throughout Meridian Health. For more information, visit www.southernoceanmedicalcenter.com.


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Alexander the Great discovered sugarcane in 327 BC.
Sugar is use as a vehicle for supplying vitamin.
A fortification can significantly reduce the risk of a permanent form of child
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Repair manuals for Maytag stoves are available on the Maytag website as of 2015. Manuals are searchable by model number, which is printed on a plate affixed to the burner box or underneath the cabinet. In some double-oven models, the plate pulls up from behind the controls.
From the Maytag home page, click on the Service and Support drop-down menu. Select Manuals and Literature. Type the model number into the search box, and click Search. Manual choices for repair include the owner manual, installation instructions and a parts list. Click on the appropriate manual to download it as a PDF file.


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Talented Anglia Ruskin judokas win three medals at London Area championships
Judokas from Anglia Ruskin University won two gold medals and a silver at an area championships on Sunday.
Five Anglia Ruskin competitors, ranging from international medallists to a beginner, took part in the London Area Universities and Colleges Senior Open, held at the University of East London.
The judokas will all be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Danny Williams, the third year BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching student, who won gold at this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Serbian international Mateja Glusac, a first-year undergraduate student studying Computer Science, took gold despite fighting a weight group up from his normal level. He won all his fights by a maximum score of ippon.
Gold also went to the youngest member of the team, Ben Caldwell, who studies a BTEC in Sport at Suffolk New College. Ben, 17, from Felixstowe, combines his BTEC with an Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence, led by the British Judo Association, at Anglia Ruskin.
After the contest, Ben said:
Paulius Gumbrevicius, who studies Criminology, won silver in the under-73kg weight group. Adam Hughes, who studies Sports Coaching and Physical Education, fought for the first time and finished fifth, whilst third-year Optometry student James Bayliss finished ninth in the 66kg category.
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Telemarketing, inside sales, business development… Whatever you may call it, outbound calling to generate sales appointments is difficult, time-consuming and often highly inefficient.
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