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Protein shakes for women | Womens Fitness
Protein shakes are often associated with bulging, muscly men who've just left the gym after a session of god knows what.
But actually, women need protein too, and if you're an especially active one, chances are you need a fair amount of the stuff.
You might find it tough to get enough protein through food if you exercise a lot, or your busy lifestyle might not allow you to prepare as many of your meals as you'd like. This is where protein shakes come in. You can chug one back immediately after a tough session to get the protein to your muscles quickly, and you can carry it in your bag until you need it. It's like they were made for us.
There are a lot of options on the market these days, so make sure you opt for a high-quality one that tastes good, too. You want to look forward to your post-exercise treat, after all. Here are our picks of the best protein shakes.
The Organic Protein Company's Organic Whey Protein (£22)
For an organic option, look no further than The Organic Protein Company's Organic Whey Protein. It's additive free, gluten free and testing shows it contains the lowest measurable levels of heavy metals, which is especially reassuring if you're pregnant or breastfeeding. The neutral creamy taste makes it great for recipes, too.
Protein World Slender Blend (£32)
Featuring a unique blend of whey protein and fat-fighting nutrients such as raspberry ketones and green tea, this weight loss-based protein drink comes in four yummy flavours. It's also vegetarian and gluten-free.
Maxitone Definity Protein Plus (24.99)
Not only is this shake packed with protein making it perfect for a post-workout meal, but it also boasts 21 vitamins and minerals, ensuring you're getting the nutrients you need on a daily basis.
PhD Woman Support & Recovery (£21.59)
It's not just the fact that this shake can be used before and after exercise, or that it's full of vitamins and minerals perfect for women that makes us love it. It's the to-die-for Chocolate Cookie flavour that we just love.
Solgar Whey To Go (£15.31)
With no artificial sweeteners and extracted using a low heat and no chemicals, this is definitely the health-conscious woman's choice. The hydrolysed form that the whey takes also makes it super-absorbant.
Nature's Plus Ultra Energy (£23.86)
For those who need to steer clear of dairy, this blend of pea, rice and soy protein is perfect. It also boasts a low GI and can double up as your daily multivitamin.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite is now official
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After we've covered the news about the leaked picture of Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite through manual book recently, is now we have a news that the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite tablet is offvcially launch as the low end tablet device in the market.
AS wen mentioned on the previous article, the tablet is equipped with 7 inch screen size with 1024 x 600 pixel resolution, powered by dual-core 1.2 GHz processor and sports with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage with microSD card support.
This tablet is also has 3.600 mAh batteru capacity and running on Android 4.2 Jelly bean with MagazineUI, rather than using Android 4.4 KitKat. And the Magazine UI is the new user interface that already introducing by Samsung on CES 2014 to replace their TouchWiz UI.

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This publication is about empowerment of the individual. It is our hope that this publication may help provide people with the knowledge they need to help them refuse alien abduction.
The authors, the Lightside UFO Study Group, have released this document freely into the public domain with no limitations on the reproduction and distribution of the material contained herein EXCEPT that when this document is reproduced, it is reproduced in its entirety. We feel that no part of this document stands alone; all parts work together for the goal of empowering people with the knowledge of "How to Refuse Alien Abduction".
Source; www.thelightside.org
This document draws mainly from three sources. The first source is the gifts of the Creator; namely free will choice, intuition, and faith. The second source is our extraterrestrial contacts and the knowledge they have shared with us. The third source is the experiences of successfully refused alien abduction by other peoples accounts, both verbal and written and our own experiences.
We wish to thank the many positive beings that are working very hard to help this planet and its inhabitants through these troubled times.
We would like to express a special thank you to Maurice Osborn whose booklet titled, "Alien Abduction Resistance" inspired us to compile the information for this booklet.
Thanks to Heidi Hollis, author of the book, "The Secret War – the Heavens Speak of the Battle" for her expertise on the shadow beings.
Thank you to all those who have the courage to speak up about their alien experiences both positive and negative.
Alien abductions have been increasing rapidly over the past few decades. The negative aliens are responsible for most of the abductions on this planet. Hundreds of thousands of people are being abducted against their will. Painful experiments are being performed on them. Devices are being implanted into humans for tracking and/or mind control and possible other unknown reasons. Sperm or eggs are being extracted from some of these abductees and human/alien components are being used to create hybrid children.
We are not here to prove that aliens exist. There is ample testimony from contactees and abductees. Many abductees wake up with physical evidence on their bodies such as scoop marks, punctures or bloody noses, etc. Most people reading this booklet have taken the next step into the alien existence scenario and are asking themselves, why are they here, what is their agenda, and how does this involve humans?
The greatest hope we can share with readers is that there are spiritually advanced extraterrestrial races out there that are ready and willing to help us help ourselves. These races of spiritually advanced extraterrestrial beings do not abduct, cause fear, implant devices or do experiments on humans. They respect our free will and the laws put into place by the Creator. Thus, they are responsible for the positive contact humans have had with alien/ET beings. The Commander and Chief of the positive extraterrestrials has walked our planet on several occasions.
Abduction is a very difficult subject to explore and deal with. Those in the Lightside UFO study group have not experienced alien abduction however, this is not to say that there have not been attempts to abduct us on several occasions. Through our contact with benevolent beings and their gentle guidance, we have come to understand what works to refuse alien abductions. In the following pages, we will share with you the tools for refusing alien abduction that have been explained to us by our contacts.
To those who are being abducted: knowledge is power. The truth shall set you free.
Alien Contact verses Alien Abduction: There is a Difference
In the early years of the UFO phenomenon, the terms alien contact and alien abduction were used separately and distinctly. Through the years, the terms alien contact/contactee and alien abduction/abductee have generally been replaced by the terms alien experience/experiencer. It does seem suspect that this would occur. By using the words experience or experiencer, there could be less distinction between a positive contact and a negative abduction. Who started this trend or how it began is not important. What is important is that it has happened and we need to be aware of it.
We have recently heard a new term being used to describe an alien abductee's experience. The abductee described himself as a "participant". This person had so much fear he felt empowered when he said he would participate only on his terms. Somehow this person came to the conclusion that by giving in to the abductors he was still free to choose to participate or not. Did this person give away his power to the negative abducting aliens to continue to abduct him?
In talking with abductees over the years, many say that once they get beyond their fear, they feel special or chosen while others feel powerless and hopeless. Discernment needs to come into play in determining whether one is dealing with a negative alien being. The tools for refusing alien abduction that our positive contacts have shared brings hope. The Creator has given everyone the power (through Him) to say "NO" to alien abduction.
ALIEN ABDUCTIONAn alien abduction is the negative act of paralyzing a person and taking them against their free will; causing fear and harm, performing painful experiments, not allowing some to remember the actual experience and even implanting devices and memories in the abductee to block them from remembering the horrific experience. Many alien abductors tell abductees that they made an agreement to be abducted before they came to this planet. Even if this is true, what they don't tell abductees is that they have the right to break the agreement and stop what is happening.
ALIEN CONTACTContact with positive extraterrestrials is a situation wherein an alien and a human agree to work together. The agreement is made before the human comes to this planet. Contact is made for a specific purpose and only when the time is right and the contactee is ready. There is every effort by the positive aliens to avoid causing fear. At no time is the contactee's free will in jeopardy as the contactee may end this agreement at any time.
Different Alien Beings behind the Abductions
There are three alien species that we know of that are abducting humans namely, the mantis, the grays and the reptilians. However, before we continue there is something very important that needs to be stated. Not all of these three species are negative. Some of them have chosen to walk in the Light.
The following is a general description of the negative abducting alien beings:
The mantises are named after Earth's praying mantis because of their insect-like appearance.
According to our sources, some of the mantis alien race are here experimenting on humans.
The grays are from the Orion system. They are usually between three to five feet tall with a large head and large black eyes. Their lips, nose and ears are not very pronounced. Their bodies are usually very slender with long, thin arms and legs. As far as we know, communication is done telepathically.
Our alien contacts say that as far as the grays are concerned, the grays believe that the planet belongs to them. About 90% of the other alien races are in agreement with the previous statement and respect the grays not because they are positive but because of the power and technology they have. The grays came to planet Earth under the influence of the reptilians in the early 1880's because the reptilians gave the grays some of their technology in exchange for which the grays agreed to do some work for them.
Most of the grays that are on the planet destroyed their own planet by mismanagement; they are technologically advanced with no spirituality. They are playing God when they create and destroy at will. The abducting grays are creating the alien/human hybrids for several possible scenarios, one being they want an army they can have complete control over. Being half-human gives the hybrids the strength and physical stamina that they need to fight… to make war… to take over.
ReptiliansThe reptilians are snake-like in appearance. They stand upright between six to eight feet tall. They are varying shades of color from green to tan and have scaly skin. They have yellow to gold eyes with vertical slits like snakes. They are very strong and muscular in stature. The reptilians are physically more powerful than the grays and don't have as large a presence on Earth; they don't need to because the grays do most of the dirty work.
The reptilians have been on Earth many times. Their first contact with Earth was 110,000 years ago. They left and came back about 27,000 years ago. They left again because the planet had nothing they could use. They became very interested again with this planet about 10,000 years ago and did stay for a while because the change in life forms on Earth piqued their interest. They stayed for a while and tampered with human's DNA by inserting their gene in our gene pool, then they left again. There were serious repercussions for mixing the genes of humans and aliens namely; the beginning of negative humans and God was angry!
The shadow beings are dark shadow-like figures that may be seen head on or more commonly through one's peripheral vision. Shadow beings are shape shifters who do so for deception. They have been known to take the shape of a cat, a huge spider, a streak, a cloud, a ghost-like figure with no neck and a male wearing a cape and a hat with a wide brim and flat crown (Spanish style).
The shadow beings made a pact with the abducting grays and reptilians to work together on this planet. The shadows are the most evil and powerful of the negative beings and they have dominion over all negative aliens. Shadow beings are what is known as demons or devils and are under the command of Satan and Lucifer.
For more information on the shadows refer to the book, "The Secret War – the Heavens Speak of the Battle", by Heidi Hollis (pages 41 – 57) or visit her web site at: www.shadows.ufo2u.com .
Satan, who works under Lucifer, is a commander of negative entities. He is an adversary to God and Jesus The Christ. His mission on Earth is to deceive and influence souls to fall to the dark side.
Our extraterrestrial contacts use the term satan to describe the negative beings that are working for their own agenda against the forces of Light. Their job is to cause chaos, destruction, fear and confusion. They have no qualms about breaking God's Universal Law of Non-Interference.
USING THE LIGHT | MEDITATION | BALANCE POLICING YOURSELFThis chapter covers the tools for refusing abduction as has been described to us by our contacts. We have used these tools successfully in refusing alien abduction.
Each one of us has been given a gift from God. It is that spark of light in all of us, God's light. This light is a protective shield from negativity. To find this light one must reach inside themselves, believe in it, and mentally expand it out from the heart. To use the light effectively, one should practice using it often throughout the day. The way to practice using the light is by imagining oneself in a "bubble" of light. Then stretch it out to include those we love. One can stretch out the "bubble of light as far out as one can imagine. Realize that we can send out the light to protect those around us, but it is each one's choice to accept or to reject the light.
If one uses the light with the proper motivation, always keeping in mind that it is a God-given ability, nothing in this universe can penetrate it. Negative things will try to penetrate it from time to time, just waiting for us to let our guards down. The more one uses the light, the stronger it becomes. If done properly one can almost see the bubble of light, and one can definitely feel when it is sent out correctly, with love.
Here is an example of using the light to refuse an attempted negative alien abduction:
"It was late and I was just about to fall asleep, which is a very vulnerable time (the time between
wake and sleep). I felt myself paralyzed. In my mind, no one has the right to invade the space
(mind, body, spirit) of another person. I was upset at this act against my free will. I knew that if I
could will any part of my body to move I would be free. It took every ounce of strength,
concentration and belief to move my head. Once I moved a part of my body, the beings left.
They tried another time but this time I was armed with a little more truth. The scenario started out the same: it was late and I was almost asleep when I felt paralyzed. I began to pray and ask God for help but I have to admit I was upset and angry with the abductors. One of our benevolent alien contacts "spoke" to me in my head saying, "It's not working because you are not saying it calm enough or kind enough." I stopped my struggle; finished the prayer, sent out love and light, then rolled over and went to sleep. There has been no more abduction attempts like that. The negative beings do influence our dreams so we must be alert to that too. I have learned that fear and anger are negative emotions and when I was feeling anger it only served to "feed" the negative beings making them stronger as I gave them my power."
Before one even gets out of bed, send out the light. Before one goes to sleep at night, pray for protection and send out the light. When one meditates, first ask for guidance and protection and send out the light. Using the light is a practice that can become second nature if practiced often. It is a very important tool for spiritual survival. The more one uses the light, the more one realizes that a person cannot live without it. We cannot do it alone. Trust in the gift that God has given you.
The sound of silence is so seldom heard that many times it is forgotten. Meditation is a tool that can be used to bring peace and balance back into our lives. Meditation is also one of the weapons on our coat of spiritual armor that when practiced consistently and joyfully can help to refuse negative alien encounters. When used together with the white light of protection and balance, meditation brings about attunement with the Creator, which allows one to resist negativity much better. This includes unwanted negative alien abductions. If one is in balance and standing in the light of the Creator, negative aliens cannot step into one's presence as they are of a negative vibration and repelled by the light.
One can recognize when they are becoming out of balance as it can be felt in one's physical being and in one's thinking process. This is where shorter periods of meditation or mini meditations may be used more frequently during the day. These shorter meditations may be used to help one focus and bring oneself back into balance. One may simply close their eyes for a short period of time and take in deep cleansing breaths. The white light of protection should be sent out before beginning a meditation, and ask for the Creator's guidance and protection.
There are different ways to meditate and everyone uses a method, which feels right to them as long as attunement with the Creator is achieved. Longer periods of time are necessary to achieve a deeper state of meditation. Meditation may also be achieved with one's eyes open, perhaps while sitting on a shoreline looking out over a body of water, or peacefully watching a sunset or doing whatever brings peace to one's soul. It may also be done while doing a simple household chore as long as the mind is in focus and the body is peaceful.
When one feels vulnerable to negativity from the pressures of everyday living or if one feels the need to be protected from a negative alien, close intimacy and attunement with the Creator may be desired and needed. It is important to call upon the Creator and use the tools He has provided as no one can refuse abduction on their own.
BALANCEBalance is a characteristic needed to refuse abduction. Balance is also very useful in identifying an attempted abduction and having the conviction that you have the right to say "NO!" The first part of balance is to know yourself well enough to recognize when and how you become unbalanced. Recognizing this helps one against negative alien intrusion. The next part is to make a plan to change the actions that lead to a state of unbalance. You may want to divide a sheet of paper into three columns and label them: PROBLEM - STEPS TO CHANGE- SOLUTION. Realize that change cannot occur unless you first realize you have a problem and then think about how to solve the problem.
The first step of thinking about what causes unbalance, means you have to figure out which traps such as: TV, books, sleep, sex, alcohol, drugs, infatuation, etc., which distractions such as: hobbies, family, spouse, children, grandchildren, sports, surfing the net, etc. or which "hot button" items like: road rage, teasing, politics, religion, etc. cause you to slam from calm and centered to unbalanced. By thinking, daily, about what causes unbalance and then discussing it with a trusted friend, you will be able to identify areas that need work. Realize there is no quitting of old habits "cold turkey"; the change will be gradual but will happen with persistence. It helps to look at your own life and compare where you are today spiritually to where you were in the past and then compare where you are today to where you would like to be in the future.
One visible sign of change could be a calmer demeanor. You may be less likely to be drawn into argumentative "hot button" issues as in the past. Compassion for others will increase as you witness the struggles others have to make to succeed. You may have a hard time letting go of old thought patterns but realize that God is not finished with anybody yet. Also, please avoid taking someone else's karma as your own, and allow them to make their own choices and reap the consequences. You can warn others about the bad aliens and encourage them to refuse abductions, however if they choose to leave themselves open to negative experiences, it is their free will choice.
POLICING YOURSELFAs the years went by we decided that we wanted to become better people. We discovered we needed to be balanced, loving and compassionate and not let ego control our lives. Policing ourselves is the tool that we discovered worked best for protecting us from negative aliens and from the negativity on the planet.
Deciding to make a change was the easy part, now we had to figure out how to keep on the path we had chosen for ourselves. Realizing that we needed to know ourselves better, we worked on analyzing ourselves for months. We could see each other's weaknesses, addictions and problems but rarely could see our own. It took a long time to figure out that we lie to ourselves, make excuses for our behavior or just do not want to put in the effort it takes to become a better human being.
Once we faced ourselves, we realized we needed a plan and came up with these guidelines:
- Be truthful and honest with yourself.
- No justifications
- No exaggerations
- No illusions about self or others
- Examine yourself at the end of each day, if not more often.
- Admit your problems, screw-ups and faults. Take responsibility for all your actions and
- thoughts.
- Analyze any problems you are having, be it at work or at home and be honest.
- Try to see everything from the other person's point of view.
- Own up to the part you play in a problem situation and do not worry about the part other people play.
- Ask for God's help, then meditate on it.
- Once you have learned from these experiences, take conscious action to correct the problem and work on not letting it happen again.
Policing yourself is not an easy thing to do and we often fall back into old patterns of behavior. When this happens, we go back to the policing guidelines and start over. Go out into this big beautiful world and spend less time thinking of only yourself. Try to maintain balance in all aspects of life and take responsibility for all actions.
In conclusion, using the Light of God, meditation, balance and policing yourself, when used together as a daily maintenance program, helps one refuse negative alien abductions. Through trial and error, we have discovered that these tools do work when used with 100% faith and belief. Once armed with that knowledge, we came to the realization that personal change is an endless process
Glossary of Terms
• Abductee-An individual who is taken against their free will by negative aliens
• Alien Abduction-The act of taking a person against their free will; paralyzing them, causing fear and harm, performing painful experiments, not allowing them to remember the actual experience and even implanting devices and memories to block the abductee(s) from remembering
• Alien Contact-A freewill, prearranged meeting(s) with benevolent aliens to bring light back to this planet, an organized mission to help the people of Earth return to the Creator. Contact may be ended by the contactee at anytime
• Bad alien-an extraterrestrial that chooses service to self rather than service to others and does not follow the rules put in place by the Creator
• Balance-A state of being calm, focused and centered in one's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being
• Contactee-An individual that has benevolent contact with aliens
• Experiencer-A term sometimes used to blur the definitions of alien abduction and alien contact; This term makes it easier to justify the acceptance of alien abduction.
• Good alien-an extraterrestrial who chooses service to others rather than service to self
• Meditation-A time of listening to God in order to receive enhanced knowledge, balance, intuition and instruction
• Participant-a new term sometimes used by abductees to fool themselves into believing they are willing participants, in control of the event
• Satan-The commander of Lucifer's forces that have combined to work against the forces of good
• Universal Law of Non-Interference-God's law prohibiting any being from interfering in another being's freewill choice and their natural course of evolution
• White Light of Protection-The soul essence, God's light, which emanates from the heart when sent out mentally with 100% belief and love, is used for protection against negativity and harm
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This day last year I was living in Florence and celebrating Thanksgiving for the first time ever with all of my American roommates. We don't celebrate the holiday here in Ireland by how I wish we did as there's nothing I'd love more now than a big slice of pumpkin pie! So happy Thanksgiving to all of you, my lovely followers!
Cleanse, tone, moisturize, Cleanse, tone, moisturize.. I've been through so many skincare regimes in my life but now I've found the one! I had never heard of Lush's Fresh facial cleansers until I got my job there, after seeing how they're freshly cut and potted in store and after sampling a few different ones Angels on Bare Skin was the one I loved most. I don't have a lot of trouble with my skin, I don't suffer from acne and am only bothered by a couple of spots when Tom comes around so I wanted something mild, that would help with my deathly complexion, dark circles and balance out my skin tone.
Angels on Bare Skin
If you don't already know, the face and body cleansers have a gloopy, bally consistency, to use simply grab a little bit, add some water to it and create a milky little paste. You really don't need a lot, my sample pot lasted me the best part of two weeks and now that I have the large tub it still looks almost untouched! Rub it all over your face, Angels has a lovely light scrub thanks to the almond shells which release the lovely almond milk when mixed with the water. This is great for toning and brightening! I like to leave mine on for a minute before washing it off so I can really feel the effects! Other ingredients include Kaolin which absorbs grease and gives a gentle cleanse, A sprinkle of lavender which activates, balances and is a little natural antiseptic, and topped off with some essential oils and vegetable glycerine for a face as soft as a babies bottom. The idea behind this fresh cleanser is that it's 'As gentle and beautiful as being kissed by Angels'. 100% natural ingredients leaves no room for chemicals and by taking away the water content preservatives could be dismissed! I'm in love with the earthy, lavender scent and the way my skin feels afterwards! I've been looking much more refreshed, my skin tone is lovely and balanced and I don't even feel the need to wear foundation to work anymore, yep you heard me, the girl that once refused to even go to the supermarket without foundation has stopped wearing it! A little bronzer, blush and mascara and I'm ready for my shift.. And the lack of face painting has meant more time in bed in the mornings or time for a nice cuppa before I run after the bus!
Breath of Fresh air Toner Water
Other toners used to be way too harsh for me, they irritated and dried out my skin a lot, so I wasn't too keen on buying one, but upon learning more about Lush's range I fell in love with them not only for their refreshing scent and ability to lock in moisture, but for the multiple things you can use them for!
-Breath of Fresh air, like any toner, can be used after cleansing to lock in moisture and remove any excess cleanser you might have left behind. It's also great after using a face mask to again remove any excess. For this I spray it on some cotton pads and massage into my face.
-You can use this toner any time throughout the day to waken or freshen yourself up. It contains sea water which makes your feel brand new!
-Continuing on from the last point the toner would be great for freshening up on a long flight when cabin pressure is drying out and dehydrating your face.
-It contains Patchouli, which is hated by bugs so it can also be used as a bug or mosquito repellant during the hot summer months.
-It also contains lavender which is great for helping you sleep, a few sprays on your pillow and you'll be on your way to the land of nod.
-It's also great as a pillow cleaner, A lot of people don't realize that a buildup of saliva (guilty, I drool like a bulldog!), dirt and makeup (because who takes their makeup off when they can hardly make it up the stairs) on your pillowcase can easily cause breakouts! So if you haven't had time to throw your pillowcase in the wash this week you can spritz some of this on as a light antiseptic.
-It's also great for cooling down sunburn and giving some extra moisture to the area.
-And lastly it contains the amazing ingredient that is Aloe Vera, so it's great for gently healing up acne scars or any scars you may have for that matter!
So not only is this a fantastic everyday cleanser with zero stinging, itching or irritation, it's also a great product to have for travelling!
Cosmetic Lad Moisturizer
This moisturizer was made with men in mind. It's great for lads to shave with or use after shaving. Despite it seeming very manly many girls swear by the stuff, and upon hearing the ingredients you'll see why! Aloe Vera again, any product that contains this cooling ingredient is a want for me, Fresh wheatgrass which is an antioxidant, Lavender water and honey which moisturizes and is a natural antiseptic and African marigold which has anti-redness and regenerative powers. The moisturizer isn't heavily scented but some tangerine and sandalwood essential oils give it a mildly zesty smell. I'm not a big fan of extremely heavy moisturizers and this one absorbs well into the skin without leaving a greasy layer. Oh, and did I mention that it's the cheapest of the bunch?
You can see these products and more on the Lush website here!
It's a little less than a month that I've been using these products and I have to say, my skin has never been better, I'm starting to remember why I became such a Lushie all those years ago, because products that give me satisfying end results like this are so worth a trip into the wonderful smelling realm that is Lush!
Have you ladies used any of the fresh cleansers, toner waters or moisturizers from lush? If so tell me all about them, how did you find them on your skin? Were your results as impressive as mine?
Also if you're thinking of splashing out on some and are not sure which to go for I can be of assistance! I've had to learn all about the products to sell them so just pop a comment with your skin type (Oily, dry, acne..) and I can give you some great recommendations on which to choose!
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What an exciting day it is! Today THE GINSENG CONSPIRACY (A Kay Driscoll Mystery Book 1) has been released in Paperback! And just in time for autumn!
I am incredibly grateful to my readers and for the many, wonderful reviews I have received for this mystery and all of the novels in the Kay Driscoll Mystery Series. Thank you so very much! :)
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As the demand for spicy condiments grows, Hellmann's has released a piquant version of its organic mayonnaise. By combing a bit of heat with the brand's new USDA-certified Organic Blue Ribbon recipe, Hellmann's gives consumers a new way to enjoy its famous sandwich spread.
Hellmann's new Spicy Chipotle Organic Mayonnaise is a flavorful condiment with a mild heat. The brand uses spices such as smoked paprika and chipotle chili pepper to give the spread a taste that is both smoky and slightly sweet. The mayo is made from organic ingredients, including cage-free eggs and expeller-pressed oil. Furthermore, there are no artificial flavors or preservatives added to the spread.
With a growing number of consumers looking for unique flavor combinations, Hellmann's new spicy mayo puts a contemporary twist on a classic condiment.
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Inspired Action Radio with Jennifer Becker: Key Secret to Success...Mastering Your Expectations. Guest Michael Becker
06/19/2013 12:00 pm PST
Disappointment is the killer of a success mindset. We far too often take for granted the skill of setting fair expectations. We all have expectations for ourselves and others. If we pay attention to distinguishing between what's a fair and unfair expectation, we would minimize disappointment and become masters of maintaining our success mindset. Critical decisions on the road to success are littered with unfair expectations. Some are easy to see and some are not. This is one of the key secrets to highly successful people. Learning to master your blueprint of successful expectations can balance and re-focus your life on the path of success.
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Sam Laidlaw
|Sam Laidlaw
|William Samuel Hugh Laidlaw
3 January 1956
Kensington, London, England
|Kensington and Chelsea, London
|Eton College
|Alma mater
|Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
|Years active
|CEO of Centrica plc
|Sir Roy Gardner
|Deborah "Debbie" Morris-Adams
William Samuel Hugh Laidlaw (born 3 January 1956, Kensington) is the former Chief Executive Officer of Centrica, the British natural gas and electricity company.
Early life
He is the son of Sir Christopher Laidlaw (1922-2010), former Deputy Chairman of BP. Sam Laidlaw attended Eton College and studied Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, gaining an MA in 1977. He qualified as a solicitor in 1979 with the Macfarlanes law company. He obtained an MBA in 1981 from the INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France. His father was Director of the Management School for seven years.
He was with U.S. oil company Amerada Hess (1981-2001) building their North Sea business before running their worldwide Exploration & Production business and becoming President and Chief Operating Officer (1995-2001). He was Executive Vice President of Global Business Development of the California-based Chevron Corporation from May 2003 and became Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Oil in 2002 (which was bought under his leadership by Shell in 2002 for £3.5bn). Enterprise Oil also faced a hostile takeover from Eni, the Rome-based oil company.
In January 2008, he was appointed a non-executive director of HSBC Holdings plc and in December 2010 he was appointed as the lead non-executive director on the board of the Department for Transport. He was also a member of the UK Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group (2010-2012). Until August 2007, he was a non-executive director of Hanson plc. He is a trustee of the medical charity RAFT.
He has been Chairman of the Petroleum Science and Technology Institute, based in Aberdeen, a Director of the National Engineering Laboratory and President of the United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association. He chaired a report on Business and Higher Education for the CBI in 2010 and led the inquiry into the West Coast Rail Franchise in 2012.
He joined Centrica in July 2006 taking over from Sir Roy Gardner. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Disclosure Committee. In 2013, Laidlaw received around £4 million in bonuses, exciting critical comments from Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC and Caroline Flint, the shadow energy secretary.[1]
Personal life
He is married with three sons and a daughter. He lives in Kensington and Chelsea, London. He married Deborah (Debbie) Morris-Adams in Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire in April 1989.
See also
External links
News items
- Daily Mail December 2009
- Low carbon future in December 2009
- Scotland on Sunday May 2009 discussing nuclear power
- Guardian February 2009
- Times August 2008
- Telegraph July 2008
- Times June 2008
- The Sun March 2008
- Telegraph February 2008
- British Gas makes £571m profit in 2007
- Becoming boss of Centrica in March 2006
Audio clips
Video clips
- Prince's Rainforests in November 2009
- Corporate responsibility at Centrica in June 2009
- Centrica's profits decline 20% as seen on the BBC in July 2008
- ↑ Rankin, Jennifer (27 March 2013). "Centrica bosses split £16m pay pot as customers face 6% gas price rise". The Guardian.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>


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A lost voice for a person who sells wine over the telephone really does equal lost sales. My husband however has found my ailment highly amusing and keeps trying to get me to talk dirty to him over the phone because my voice has gone through various stages from falsetto to guttural. (I think it was the guttural he enjoyed most!)
I have spent a whole week unable to make a phone call… even now I am a little squeaky! If I have failed to call you and you were expecting a call then I will get round to you soon. (You can always call me and take the mickey!)
There are various illnesses that impede some jobs and not others and a second list of some jobs are enhanced by certain illnesses… please add to the list if you think there are any more you can think of.
An illness that impedes.
- A telesales girl (or boy) losing their voice
- A lone worker with a tummy upset
- A mountaineer with vertigo
- A banker with a concience (That's not really an illness but hay ho)
- A dentist with Odontophobia (Scared of teeth)
- Chimney sweep with asthma
- Brain surgeon with hic-ups
- A sign writer with dyslexia
- A pirate with an amputation
- A sewage operative with anosmia
- A female circus performer with a beard
- A night watchman (or woman) with insomnia
- A cleaning lady (or man) with OCD
I am sure you can think of some more
Talk to me
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In his immortal Tao te Ching, Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." It could be said, too, that even a hundred-thousand word novel starts with a single . . . letter? Word? Sentence? I've thought about what comprises the first step of a novel, and actually started writing this about the first sentence, but quickly changed direction.
It might be fair to say that the first line is essential to a short story, but I sincerely doubt readers begin judging the comparative worth of a full-length novel by a single sentence. That's not to say that the first line doesn't matter. The sooner and more thoroughly you can hook your readers in the better. But if you're setting out on the long journey of writing a novel, you need to start with a paragraph. Let's start by looking at the first paragraph of three books that appeared on my list of favorite fantasy novels of all time, and three from of my all-time favorite works of science fiction. In no particular order . . .
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Don't call me a fairy. We don't like to be called fairies anymore. Once upon a time, fairy was a perfectly acceptable catchall for a variety of creatures, but now it has taken on too many associations. Etymologically speaking, a fairy is something quite particular, related in kind to the naiads, or water nymphs, and while of the genus, we are sui generis. The word fairy is drawn from fay (Old French fee), which itself comes from the Latin Fata, the goddess of fate. The fay lived in groups called the faerie, between the heavenly and earthly realms.
So what does this first paragraph tell us about The Stolen Child? What's established here?
Just on the surface, we get that the book is written in first person, which is unusual for contemporary fantasy novels but de rigueur in classics by past masters like Burroughs and Lovecraft. The intelligent, well-read, articulate, straightforward, and opinionated narrator identifies himself as something akin to a fairy—anyway, he isn't human, or doesn't think he's human. And apparently he's one of a community of such creatures: We don't like to be called fairies anymore.
From the first paragraph we get that The Stolen Child is, at least at first (and as we discussed on the subject of cover copy, initial assumptions can be turned on their heads by the end of the book), a novel about a community on the fringe of reality. That should mesh nicely with the information we've already received from the cover copy (and reviews, etc.) that we've bought a book about a boy kidnapped by hobgoblins and replaced by a changeling.
Not bad for 98 words.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.
Here, in only 36 words, Ms. Clarke establishes this enormous work's setting, and hints that there is a sort of magic peculiar to England. She judges the study of English magic as "dull," or at least that "some years go" it was dull. As was true in the first paragraph of The Stolen Child, no characters are named and there is no dialog. Still, from these three dozen words we can tell that we've begun to read a book about a historical England in which magic is real. I may be jumping to the conclusion that it's historical, but I get that vibe from the fact that she told us this was "some years ago" and that the magicians are reading papers. The urban fantasy version would have had them blogging. And again, from the cover copy, reviews and suchlike, we know we've bought a book about a personal feud between powerful wizards, so immediately have the anticipation that English magic isn't going to be dull for much longer.
I won't whine about the word upon appearing twice in the same sentence. She's English. Maybe they get to do that Over There.
My fingers are like spiders drifting over memories in my webbed brain. The husks of the dead gaze up at me, and my teeth sink in and I speak their ghosts. But it's all mixed up in my head. I can't separate lines from lines, or people from people. Everything is in this web, Esumi. Even you. Even me. Slowly the meat falls from the bones until only sunken cheeks and empty space between the filaments remind me that a person was there, in my head. The ghosts all fade the same way. They fade together. Your face fades into the face of my husband and the dying screams of my daughter. Esumi, your face is Seth's face, and the face of the golem.
These 124 words grabbed me right away and said in no uncertain terms that this was not your garden variety fantasy novel. Though the editor in me (I acquired this book for the painfully short-lived imprint Wizards of the Coast Discoveries) was skeptical that this previously unpublished author could maintain the risky choice of second person, present tense, much less the highly metaphorical language of the unreliable narrator, it kept me reading, and floored me when I found that he could chew every bit of what he'd bitten off with these choices.
Factually, we know that the narrator is a woman (she refers to her husband, still a reasonable assumption that this is a hetero relationship), and she's speaking to or writing to someone named Esumi. We know she had a daughter who died, there's mention of mythological creatures both metaphorical (ghosts) and maybe actual (golem).
From this one paragraph it might be reasonable to assume that Last Dragon is a book about the unreliability of painful memories, and indeed I think the heart of the book is the near-futility of efforts to reconcile past and present, and live with a series of difficult choices. But most of all the paragraph sets a tone, and a rhythm to the language that is this book's peculiar genius.
In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.
It's interesting that this short, 32-word paragraph, like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell's 36, introduce a huge, sweeping epic. It might be fair to say that this is a credit to the finely considered core themes that both Herbert and Clarke preserved at the centers of their masterpieces.
Dune's first paragraph assigns special significance to one particular place (Arrakis), and one particular person (Paul). Though two other people are mentioned (the old crone, and Paul's mother), the fact that they are not yet given names, shifts the emphasis to Paul. It may seem as though this is a simple, quickie set-up, but a look just under the surface reveals that these 32 words are a statement of purpose. Dune is a book about a young man challenged by the old order. The boy Paul grows up to be the man Muad'dib and challenges every assumption of the older people and even older customs and institutions around him. That's the emotional core of a story that plays out as a pastiche on the dangers of a single-resource economy.
Emotional core? I'll get back to that.
My name is Robinette Broadhead, in spite of which I am male. My analyst (whom I call Sigfrid von Shrink, although that isn't his name; he hasn't got a name, being a machine) has a lot of electronic fun with this fact.
If I give Susanna Clarke a pass for two upons, I'll forgive Pohl for the semi-colon within parentheses. I know copy editors who would be moved to physical violence by that one, but Pohl is a Grand Master, and long ago earned a pass from the likes of me.
Anyway, this paragraph immediately introduces us to the first-person narrator's underlying insecurities. He's a guy with a girl's name and if for no other reason (of course we learn over the course of this brilliant book that there's a very good, very tragic reason) it's why he's in therapy.
This is a science fiction novel we've started reading. I got that from the fact that Robinette lives in a world of computerized psychoanalysts. But there is no mention of the Gateway asteroid. It's almost as though all that stuff about ancient starships doesn't matter compared to the POV character's inner neuroses. This is a book about a future man struggling with his own insecurities, and only from the cover copy do we know that it's also a story about exploring the galaxy in dangerous pre-programmed starships.
It's almost as though Frederick Pohl is at least a little more concerned with the Who of his story than the What—and that in a work of hard science fiction. Hmm.
And last but not least:
The Runaway Robot by Lester Del Rey
It was an exciting day. A rocket was due from Earth, and I guess nothing more exciting than that ever happens on Ganymede. Well, maybe when a manned spaceship comes in, it is more exciting, but a rocket is pretty important too.
I guess I like books written in first person.
This time our narrator lives on the Jovian moon Ganymede, and Ganymede is a pretty dull place. We must be so far in the future that living that far out in the solar system is considered routine, but there's still a frontier quality to life there in that not too many people come and go. For a book called The Runaway Robot, it's interesting that there's no mention of a robot in the first paragraph. Instead, we learn the difference between a rocket and a manned spaceship.
But it isn't until the seventh paragraph that we realize that the narrator is the robot. This isn't just a computer with legs. This is a "living" "person" capable of complex emotional responses.
What we've learned.
I can't tell you how many times I've sat in a circle with other editors bemoaning the low quality of the writing we were getting in the slush pile. I think it was Mark Sehestedt who finally identified the inevitable elements of the bad first paragraph: weather report/fashion report.
The first paragraph of so many well-intentioned manuscripts begins with the author either lovingly describing the weather or other physical conditions of the setting, or describing in equally loving detail what the hero is wearing. Truly bad attempts managed both a weather report and fashion report in one opening paragraph.
Note that none of these six books do that. Not a single one of them tells you it was a dark and stormy night—and believe me I've read every variation of weather conditions and times of day. The Runaway Robot tells you it was an exciting day—and there is a really huge difference between a physical description and an emotional response. And none of these six first paragraphs tell you that the hero's long blond hair fluttered in the dark, stormy wind, and that he's wearing a forest green tabard with thread-of-gold trim.
Only half of these six (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Dune, and The Runaway Robot) specify locales at all. And only half (Last Dragon, Dune, and Gateway) mention even one character by name. Obviously all of these books feature detailed settings and fully realized characters, but all six personalize the story up front. They all make emotional appeals:
The Stolen Child: We don't like to be called fairies anymore.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: long, dull papers . . .
Last Dragon: But it's all mixed up in my head.
Dune: . . . the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy . . .
Gateway: . . . has a lot of electronic fun . . .
The Runaway Robot: It was an exciting day.
In a massive, sprawling epic like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, all we know in the first paragraph is that English magic used to be boring. From there we find out just how exciting it gets, just as we find out how universe-changing Paul's move to Arrakis will be, how the sui generis fairy came to know all this about the fey folk, and so on.
Where is your character (and for Clarke, English magic was as much a character as Strange or Norrell) at the beginning of your story—not physically, but emotionally? Details may be sprinkled in, but all of these paragraphs are about feelings.
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Oscar De La Hoya, the unbeaten World Boxing Council welterweight champion, is accused in a lawsuit by a woman of rape two and a half years ago in Mexico, when she was 15 years old.
Lisa L. Maki, lawyer for the unidentified woman, said yesterday that we have ample evidence.
The lawsuit, filed a day earlier in San Bernardino (Calif.) County Superior Court, alleges that De La Hoya raped the woman, who turned 18 in September, in a hotel room in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in June 1996.
Bob Arum, De La Hoya's longtime promoter, said that he was absolutely outraged by the suit. Arum said from his Las Vegas, Nev., office: Two and a half years after the alleged event, this complaint is filed. There never, ever, ever was a complaint made to the authorities in Cabo or to the hotel where the incident allegedly took place.
De La Hoya, who grew up in East Los Angeles and has a 29-0 record with 24 knockouts, is scheduled to defend his title against Ike Quartey of Ghana on Feb. 13 in Las Vegas.Continue reading the main story


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Monday, March 29, 2010
Loosen Bros. "Dr.L" Riesling 2008 wine review by (PB)
Dr. Loosen has long been a producer of fine German Mosels (for the Mosel River) and this table quality wine although very inexpensive, is very well made. Very nice rich pure fruit aromas on a pale straw glow. Bouquet highlighted by sweet, slightly powdery perfumey sweet spice.
Palate--semi-sweet, not as acidic as I would like but purely made with genuine flavors of light yellow apple, light citrus and tropical notes. Nearly elegant and at $9, a superbly made aperitif or try with more difficult to pair foods like oriental and possibly even mid-eastern.
I believe Bruce Sanderson at the esteemed Wine Spectator gave this wine 90 points. Experiment and raise a glass!
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I absolutelly loved this wine. I had it for dinner with some suchi and fell in love to the point where I googled it and found your review. I recommend it myself and I'm glad to hear it will only cost me 9 dollars.
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Florida Genetics 2013
The University of Florida Genetics Institute will host its ninth annual symposium, Florida Genetics 2013, October 9-10, at the Cancer/Genetics Research Complex. The program will include distinguished guest speakers and UF faculty presenting on important topics of contemporary genetics research, as well as two poster sessions, a reception, and an art exhibition – CODIFIED III Art + Genetics.
Registration, Abstract Submission, and the Program will be available here mid-August, 2013.
Sessions and speakers include:
Translation of Discovery
- William E. Evans, PharmD (keynote), Director and CEO, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Elaine A. Ostrander, PhD, Chief and NIH Distinguished Investigator, Cancer Genetics Branch, NIH
- Gary F. Peter, PhD, Professor, Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida
- Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center
- Arthur S. Edison, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
- Clint Chapple, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Purdue University
- Alisa Huffaker, PhD, Research Molecular Biologist, Agricultural Research Service, USDA (invited)
Evolutionary/Population Genomics
- Michael Lynch, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biology, Indiana University
- Michael M. Miyamoto, PhD, Professor, Biology, University of Florida
- Gunter P. Wagner, PhD, Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
- Stuart F. McDaniel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Florida
Keynote Speaker – William E. Evans, PharmD, Director and CEO, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Dr. Evans is Director and Chief Executive Officer of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH), and is a Professor of Pediatrics & Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy.
For the past 36 years, his research has focused on the pharmacogenomics of anticancer agents in children, for which he has received three consecutive NIH MERIT Awards from the National Cancer Institute (1987-2015).
He has authored over 300 articles and numerous book chapters, has received several national awards for his research, and is recognized by ISI as a "Highly Cited Scientist" in pharmacology.
Dr. Evans has served as CEO of SJCRH since 2004, during which time St. Jude has been ranked annually in the top 10 best places to work in academia, ranked #1 children's cancer hospital by Parents Magazine (2009) and US News and World Report (2010), and listed by Fortune magazine among the top 100 companies to work for in the US (each year since 2011).
FG2013 is sponsored by the University of Florida Genetics Institute and a number of other University of Florida partners, including:
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine
- Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine
- Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research
- Center for Epigenetics, College of Medicine
- Center for Pharmacogenomics, College of Pharmacy
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Florida Agricultural Experiment Station
Silver click on this link
- Emerging Pathogens Institute
- Health Science Center Libraries
- Animal Molecular & Cellular Biology Graduate Program
- Plant Molecular & Cellular Biology Graduate Program


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Since 1916, the American people have entrusted the National Park Service with the care of their national parks. With the help of volunteers and park partners, we are proud to safeguard these nearly 400 places and to share their stories with more than 275 million visitors every year. But our work doesn't stop there.
We are proud that tribes, local governments, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individual citizens ask for our help in revitalizing their communities, preserving local history, celebrating local heritage, and creating close to home opportunities for kids and families to get outside, be active, and have fun.
Taking care of the national parks and helping Americans take care of their communities is a job we love, and we need - and welcome - your help and support.
Andersonville NHS has three main features: the National Prisoner of War Museum, the historic prison site, and the National Cemetery.
Andersonville National Historic Site is the only park in the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war.
Congress stated in the authorizing legislation that this park's purpose is "to provide an understanding of the overall prisoner of war story of the Civil War, to interpret the role of prisoner of war camps in history, to commemorate the sacrifice of Americans who lost thier lives in such camps, and to preserve the monuments located within the site."
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When you have a back and forth partisan debate, what should be key within that debate, what gives you a sense of the legitimacy of the competing arguments, independent analysis. On that score, we've had a slew non-"left wing" organizations weigh in, namely CD Howe, Conference Board of Canada, telling us substantive EI reform is essential during an economic downturn. We also have the TD Bank, according to Harper, one of the beacons for the world economy, arguing essentially the same point as Ignatieff the "absurd":
The federal government could accomplish the double aim of improving the equity of the system and increasing coverage rates by reducing the regional discrepancy in eligibility criteria and benefit duration. More specifically, we urge the government to immediately ease the VER (and extend benefit duration accordingly) in regions with unemployment rates of less than 10% from the current 560-700 hours to the lower floor of 560 hours. For all other regions, criteria would be unchanged. This measure would cost approximately $500 million per year.
Alternatively, the government could standardize the criteria for all EI contributors at 420 hours, which is the current minimum, or even reduce the bar for all, to 360
The federal government could opt to standardize the VER on a
temporary basis.
Pretty much verbatum Liberal proposal, and it speaks to the fact that Ignatieff didn't pull these ideas out of thin air, they're rooted in sound thinking.
What's truly "absurd", the way in which Harper catergorizes well founded reforms in such a dismissive manner. It's for that reason, the Liberals should call Harper's "bluff" (according to the press), because when the dust settles, Harper will find himself isolated, with virtually no non-partisan support for his stubborn refusals.


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2013 was a truly horrible year for my family. I will write in more detail about this at a later date. The one bright spot, at the very end of the year was the paperback publication of my first book - The Balloon Man In Edinburgh - a comic novella set in Edinburgh. It was out as an ebook some months ago but there is something specially exciting about holding your own book in your hand. Hope this becomes a long lived piece of Edinburgh Fiction
It got excellent reviews on Amazon and I am now busy thinking of strategies to promote its sale in bookshops. After the sorrows of last year its good to have something positive to think about so, perhaps you will forgive me for blowing my own trumpet. Am hoping this is the start of a real writing career.
At the moment its available through Amazon in the U.K. Once again sorry about the shameless p-lug and happy New Year to you all
If I haven't tried your patience too far click on the code below and read the reviews and the first two chapters for free. Thank you.
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"This Is Bigger Than Race:" Attorney For Walter Scott's Family Speaks On Police Shooting
A White police officer in North Charleston, SC has been charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Black man.
Walter L. Scott was pulled over by Officer Michael T. Slager for a broken tail light on Saturday, April 4th, 2015. According to Slager's account of the traffic stop, Scott grabbed his stun gun, leading the officer to say he was in fear for his life. Slater eventually opened fire on Scott, killing him.
On Wednesday, Scott family attorney Chris Stewart joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now via FaceTime to discuss the shocking and tragic murder.
Stewart told Martin that without the video captured at the scene of the shooting, Slager would not have been charged.
"I don't believe that we would be where we are right now if it wasn't for this video, which told the truth and once again just totally contradicted everything that was reported by the officer," he said.
Slager also reported that he gave Scott CPR, but the video does not show that ever happening. The officer never told Scott to stop running or freeze, either. But what the video does show is Slager picking up an object and dropping it near the body after the shooting.
Video captured at the scene by an unidentified witness contradicts the officer's report.
In the cell phone footage, the officer fires eight shots at Walter Scott as he runs away. The video also shows the officer drop an object on the ground, which could actually be the stun gun that the officer says Scott took from him. Later in the video, the officer drops an object near Scott's body.
Steward said, "The video shows him [Officer Michael Slager] picking up the taser and planting it near the body."
"He legally never should have shot, he never should have continued to work, he had prior complaints about him and then for the officer to take those actions and for the police department itself down here to come forward and publicly regurgitate what he said happened, I think was irresponsible."
Stewart told Martin, "In society today as human beings, we just rush to judgment very quickly. We just want to believe what an authoritative figure says immediately and take it as is, combine that with preconceived notions, biases, and stereotypes."
"It's easy just to write this one off without the video tape as another African-American male doing something, attacking a cop, and you will see comments that he got what he deserved, but it wasn't the truth," he added. "That's why stereotypes shouldn't be believed, preconceived notions are wrong and, in this situation, it highlights it. Which is why this is bigger than just race. This shows what happens when people step forward with evidence when they know what's right — even risking their own life because they know that injustice is going on."
The Department of Justice has already gotten involved in the case, which Stewart said usually doesn't "happen this quick." He also stated that an independent agency called SLED (South Carolina Law Enforcement Division) is conducting an investigation and the South Carolina Office of the Solicitor is "pushing the case." Steward did express concerns "with the city and with the police department involved." He also said a civil suit may be filed.
Stewart explained that he does not want this case to turn into a circus. If Civil Rights leaders, politicians, or activists want to contact the family, they need to reach out to him.
"This is not going to become a circus as long as I'm involved. The family is close-knit, the family relies on myself and my co-council heavily and this won't become a circus, because a man's life was lost. This won't be used as something for publicity or to move a cause or whatever it is — I'm fighting for the family that I was brought here to fight for, period."
USPS Unveils The Maya Angelou 'Forever' Stamp
To great fanfare, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new limited edition "Forever" stamp to honor the late poet, author, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou on Tuesday. Luminaries such as First LadyMichelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and others attended the unveiling ceremony.
Historic Ferguson Election Adds 2 African Americans To City Council
The racial make up of Ferguson's city council changed significantly on Tuesday, with two African Americans, Ella Jones and Wesley Bell, elected to office
Home Depot's 'Retool Your School' Grant Program To Reinvigorate HBCUs Through Campus Improvements
Melissa Brown, Sr. Manager of Marketing at Home Depot, joined Roland Martin Wednesday on NewsOne Now to discuss their HBCU "Retool Your School" grant program. More than $250K will be awarded to nine HBCUs to reinvigorate their schools through sustainable and lasting campus improvements.
According to Brown, since the "Retool Your School" program launched in 2010, Home Depot has awarded nearly $1 million to HBCUs. This year, Home Depot will "award an additional $255K" to the winning institutions.
Brown explained that Home Depot does not just hand over a check to the HBCUs, "we actually provide the sweat equity as well," she said.
"We team up with our local Home Depot stores, partner them with the school that has won the grant in their community, and we go out to the college campuses and we roll up our sleeves … we help the campuses realize the projects that they told us that they wanted to do."
All HBCUs are eligible to apply for the grant; the only criteria is that the school must be accredited.
From RetoolYourSchool.com:
For the first time in program history, The Home Depot will award THREE (3) Tier I $50,000 grants! This year, we've designed a new to way increase participating schools' chances of winning $50,000. Check it out . . .
- New Cluster Structure — increases your chances of winning $50,000. AllHBCUs competing for a grant will be placed into one of three clusters, based on student enrollment. The clusters are identified as follows:
- Cluster 1: 4,000+ students
- Cluster 2: 1,200-3,999
- Cluster 3: less than 1,199 students
With the incorporation of clusters, participating HBCUs are now only in competition with those schools similar in size based on student enrollment.
- New Grant Structure — $255,000 will be awarded across 9 HBCUs! This year EACH of the three (3) clusters will award a
- Tier I Grant – $50,000
- Campus Pride Grant – $25,000
- Tier II Grant – $10,000
The Campus Pride Grants will go to the school in each cluster with the most online votes and social media activity.
For more information about Home Depot's "Retool Your School" campus improvement program, visit www.RetoolYourSchool.com.
All that and more in this special edition of the "NewsOne Now" Audio Podcast.
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Pointless, lame and boring.
So, they have so little originality that they even copy themselves?
Clearly overpriced and boring. For far less you get an XperiaP with better screen, 8mpx camera with xmorR sensor with great light sensitivity and a much fresher design.
Oh, and by the way, the P Is several months old.
This galaxy is nothing than a poor excuse of a high end phone only bought by people who can't afford the normal one. Not worthy of the galaxy SIII moniker or the title of "high end"
Motaz, 11 Oct 2012$480?! I would buy an HTC One X with that!Ok, that was taking it a bit too far, wasnt it? A HTC can never be worth $480, #1 requirement for a cellfone is still that it must work. HTCs fast declining revenue and even faster declining profit speaks a universal language: their phones do not work.
For people complaining about the price, Do you remember when Ace 2 and Mini 2 were announced? They were announced with a heavy price tag. When they got released and became sold in stores, there was a good drop in their price.
But, this is a slight upgrade from the S Advance, chipset is almost identical, the S advance and SIII Mini will get/have Android 4.1 respectively, the camera is the same, etc...
The only things I like compared to S advance is that S III mini has 1GB of ram compared to 768MB on S advance (not a big difference), supports HTML5.
Dont wait, get the S advance if you want a phone with the exact same screen, and sells for a bit more than something like Xperia Go as an example. S advance is really awesome!
OMG, this is dirty business. Demand for smaller high end units says samsung, but where is the high end unit? I see a high end price and a few software specials, and midrange specs with a lowrange screen resolution. The entry level $270 Xperia J has higher resolution 4 inch screen (FWVGA), and it is not pentile (= much higher perceived resolution).
If any Samsung fanboy come and tell us now how evil Apple is to make so high profit on their products becoz of their name after this... Backfired, didnt it? Tell us again how evil and greedy apple is now? Lower midrange at $480, how evil is that?
Anonymous, 11 Oct 2012Samsung is positioning this device in the S3 family based in software specs, not hardware spec... moreWell said
Samsung is positioning this device in the S3 family based in software specs, not hardware specs. Remember that when they launched the S3 they made it very clear that features like S Voice and Smart Stay will remain exclusive to their flagship devices. You may not like it, feel cheated that instead of doing a firmware upgrade to your old device they launched a phone with the same hardware but with the new software features, but it's a valid strategy from Samsung (although Apple might sue them for copying their strategy of launching same the iPhone 4 with Siri and calling it an iPhone 4S). If they succeed or not, time will tell.
Formiga, 11 Oct 2012"Nokia? Who buys Nokia these days?" I do. I had a Motorola Defy and an HTC One S.... moreLol wp has no multitasking, now lumia 900 won't get any support with its useless wp versipns while ace plus will enjoy smooth jellybean and lumia and sgs 3 are made from same polycarbonate
name is misleasing though best specs at best price i think, until now happy with sony ericsson live with walkman on official ics, android is the best in midranges while lumia midranges cannot even run angry birds and wp 8 which is quite like android with no widgets nd live wallpapers and mulyitasking needs dual core to run lol people wake up do not be fooled! btw ace plus and xperia 2011 will enjoy full smooth jb while lumia 900 won't get wp8 lol
AnonD-26314, 11 Oct 2012£298? I wouldn't pay more than £150, and that's being generous. I'm pretty sure th... moreTrolls please understand, it is a real powerful smooth unlimited cheap one with best stuff and os and price
looking to your Youtube video,
GsmArena,are you promised not to show this phone until it goes official,
Responsible Journalism
=/, 11 Oct 2012Except it isn't cheap, nor powerful.Lol troll, unlimited cheap jellybean powerful one is better thAN l920
AnonD-24171, 11 Oct 2012Nokia? Who buys Nokia these days?
WP consumes more battery than Android
http://blog.gsmarena... more"Nokia? Who buys Nokia these days?"
I do. I had a Motorola Defy and an HTC One S. I'm pretty happy now with my Lumia 900, it rocks.
"And Nokia make the worse camera ever otherwise why they did fake Lumia samples and video?"
They didn't. The lumia 920 optics wasn't done at the moment they did the footage. BTW, there's nothing in the video saying they took it with a Lumia 920. It's just a simulation of the technology, every single manufacturer does the same with their products. Don't be so naive.
"And BTW Nokia is the one use cheap build quality from WP source they build their phone in Foxccon and Compal which both known for their human's right violation and low build quality"
Oh yeah, you're right... Nokia phones are cheap built, I can clearly see it when I compare the built quality of my lumia with the plastic GS3... And yeah, Samsung factories are the best place on earth to work, as you can see right below:
"And WP phones are always laggy and buggy too although WP phones doesn't support multitasking i don't know they lag?"
I can see you are really familiar with Windows Phone. Big roll eyes here.
I will never buy an Android phone again, since Windows Phone does every single thing I need and does it better than Android devices. It's all about people choice and need here, and not your opinion that matters.
£298? I wouldn't pay more than £150, and that's being generous. I'm pretty sure those prices will drop once they realise that people aren't THAT stupid.
Anonymous, 11 Oct 2012What, , this is a midrange cheap powerful one, one of the best smooth jellybean powrrful chea... moreExcept it isn't cheap, nor powerful.
What, , this is a midrange cheap powerful one, one of the best smooth jellybean powrrful cheap packages!
and....they organised an event to launch this piece of ****, sammy are just doing what nokia used to do in its prime time, release new phones with minor tweaks everyday...! god knows what market they are targetting with this dumb phone, only selling point for this will be to reduce the price within £200.00 after a month of release date...!
sgs3 owner!
i would rather buy Sony Xperia P which is cheaper n better than S3 mini. Xperia P cost US $320 (25000tk) apprx...


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There are more than a half million bugs at the University of Central Florida that owe their existence to Stuart Fullerton.
A lover of natural history, Fullerton founded and endowed the "Bug Closet" at UCF, home to mounted specimens of arthropods, including two new species named after Fullerton himself. He worked to establish the center as a world-renowned source of information on Central Florida insects.


text: Hey everyone! I am new to the t-mobile service and have a G1. My G1 battery is draining really, really fast! Does anyone know why? I only have running an IM program called "ebuddy" which I downloaded from the g1 phoe market. Is there a program that show's all applications running in the background??? Like that i can see what is draining my battery so fast??? Thanks! p.s. I'm at work with a dead phone! I haven't even talked on my phone since 6am. HELP!!!


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One of the best things about summer is when "eating local" means going up to my garden to pick fresh veggies for dinner.
So in no particular order, here are notes from the garden.
- I always plant mostly roma tomatoes and make and freeze tomato sauce that I use all year in sauce, soups, chilis, and anything that calls for tomatoes. This year I planted San Marzanos for the first time and they are doing fantastic. I made my first batch of sauce last weekend. Here's the recipe for Tomato Glut that I use.
- For last weekend's batch of tomato glut, just about everything came from my garden--the tomatoes, onion, garlic, carrots, thyme, basil, and parsley. The only ingredients from my pantry were the salt and pepper, oregano (not sure why I didn't have a pot of it this year!), balsamic vinegar (the secret to the wonderful depth of flavor in the sauce), and celery (which I've never tried to grow).
- Potatoes! Finally I have a decent crop. Where we live in Colorado has very dense, claylike soil so potatoes typically don't do well. I've tried bags (a disaster). This year we redid our raised beds, making them 18 inches high, instead of 12. The result is that we have 18 inches of gardening soil in which to plant potatoes, and I dug up 6 beauties for potato salad two nights ago. Victory!
- Peppers - for some reason we didn't plant my favorite anaheims but have lots of poblano and jalapeno peppers, which I use in various salsas. Here's a link to my favorite summer dish, corn mango salsa.
- No apples this year. Our trees are on a every-other-year cycle, so last year we had so many apples we had to prop up the branches to keep them from breaking under the load. We made lots of applesauce, which we ate all winter and still have a few jars left, and we even had so many apples we made a press and pressed them into juice.
- Wildflowers - we are into our second year of beekeeping and planted a mini-meadow next to the hives that has been blooming all summer long with a profusion of color. It's starting to look bedraggled now and the bindweed is choking some plants but it's now one of my favorite parts of the garden and I'm hoping that it will reseed itself and come back strong next year.
- Sunflowers - we have multiple birdfeeders that we keep stocked with sunflower seeds. Under two of the feeders, along a south wall, we have a hedge of volunteer sunflowers that sprouted with the leavings of messy birds. Now, we have a pair of goldfinches plus a lot of insects and other less vibrant birds who feast on the sunflowers outside the living room window.
|Mr. Goldfinch has breakfast
- Perennials - I made a concerted effort to fill in my flower beds with perennials, leaving the annuals for the containers on the deck. Bee balm is my new favorite perennial--spiky, bright, and exotic looking. The lavender I planted last year is finally blooming, and I finally got around to adding phlox to the beds with their pretty party dress colors.
|Bee Balm
- Peaches and corn - I don't grow either, but Colorado produces some of the best in the world. If you ever come to Colorado, make sure you treat yourself to peaches from Palisade and Olathe corn. It's what we live on in August and September!
- Less lawn, more mulch - we tore out big sections of the "natural" lawn around the garden, which was really mostly weeds that we mowed, and replaced it with bark mulch. The result is cleaner, neater, and easier to take care of. We found an organic weed killer, Avenger, that we use to keep the weeds from taking back the land from the bark mulch. It works great.


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Roman Stadlmair, a consultant from rconsult in Austria, shared this great demo video with me of a solution that he built for self-service automated IT asset management using SCSM, Orchestrator, and the Provance IT Asset Management MP.
Check it out! Thanks for sharing Roman. Nice work!
Definitely go full screen and 720p HD on this one.


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"Sound Table is an amazing experience that has helped me get present in my body and let go of tensions I'm holding onto. The soothing music and subtle vibration of the table gently hold the mind's attention allowing the body to relax and feel the beauty and peace of the present moment.
Each session has felt a little different. One time, a deep comfort arose and a feeling of love and holding surrounded me. Another time, a stillness so expansive took place so that I felt one with the universe and connected to everything in it. Seriously.
Similar to experiences with meditation, yoga, and dancing I tasted freedom. Who knew it was possible to experience this just by surrendering to this moment of being alive on a table? Amber's healing room feels safe and calm. I come out after in a different state of being, re-energized, look into the mirror and see myself, more true, more whole."
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text: I'm thinking about getting the 'E207WFP 20-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD" to hook up with my 17" powerbook. any advice? is it easy to do? i would like to see pictures of a set-up if anyone has any. i guess i want to know how they look next to each other. thanks!


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TORONTO: A young Indo-Canadian couple living in Brampton near here have hit the jackpot by winning nearly $18.8 million.
Jaspreet and her husband Gurbhej Sran, who migrated to Canada from India four years ago, won the Lotto 649 with a free-play ticket on March 22. This free-pass ticket won the couple $18,799,377.90 jackpot from the March 22 LOTTO 6/49 draw.
Gurbhej is a truck driver and Jaspreet is studying to become an accountant.
Since the couple rarely play lottery, they went to the lottery rpize centre in Toronto to check if their ticket had won any prize.
Gurbhej said, "I had a feeling we should go to the store and check our ticket. The self-checker said 'Big Winner, see retailer,' so we thought maybe we'd won $10,000. We were so surprised to find out it was much, much more!"
The lucky couple welcomed their first baby just a week ago.
They said they want to buy a home first and bring their parents to Canada.
Gurbhej said he would buy his own truck and continue with trucking.


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Value Based Silviculture :Value based silviculture is win win, with greater generation of wealth and less negative environmental impact than the dominant silvicultural paradigm with its moderate stocking, short rotations, and no thinning. Read about the many benefits of value based silviculture, including growing high quality wood, storing more carbon over longer time periods.
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As promised last week, I'll be regularly presenting some of the world's flags. This week I've picked the flag of the United Kingdom. I consider this to be one of the world's most attractive flags. Some of my readers might accuse me of being biased, since this is the country where I was born, but it's not true. I'm fast to admit that Albania's flag is more attractive.
The flag, which has been in use since 1801, is a combination of three previously existing flags.
|The flag of England, St. George's Cross
|The flag of Scotland, St. Andrew's Cross
|The old flag of Ireland, St. Patrick's Cross
If the three flags had simply been super-imposed on one another, the white of the Scottish flag would have been lost and the result would have looked like a star, removing all similarity to the three original crosses. For this reason all three of the original flags were modified.
The St. George's Cross was given a white border.
The blue of the St. Andrews Cross was made darker.
The St. Patrick's Cross was made thinner, and its four lines were each shifted anti-clockwise.
This leads to the lack of symmetry that makes the flag so appealing. It also makes the flag difficult to draw. It's the world's misrepresented flag, often drawn symmetrically on web sites. I refuse to give any examples. Look for yourself if you're interested.
There's an urban legend that the flag should be called the Union Jack when it's used on a ship, and the Union Flag when it's used on land. It's uncertain when this myth began, but it's been perpetuated by being repeated in an episode of "Doctor Who".


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Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Media
As the year draws to a close and a new one begins, we reprint a commentary from September to remind us that we must continue to fight the atrocities of Planned Parenthood. In this coming year, let us resolve to never let up, to never lose sight of our goal, and to pray fervently for all preborn babies.
Planned Parenthood is worried about the media finding out that it is actually marketing the body parts and cells of preborn babies once those children are aborted.
Yet, according to one professional news monitoring organization, the media are staunchest allies Planned Parenthood has in this public relations struggle to bury the truth exposed in these videos. Media Research Center's president, Brent Bozell, recently made this statement:
A Planned Parenthood official repeatedly refers to the aborted fetus as a "cadaver." Webster's defines "cadaver" as a "dead body." Are the news media so pro-abortion that they will refuse to report that this Planned Parenthood official is admitting unequivocally that this baby was alive before he or she was killed?
"The failure of the network news media to cover the latest grisly video of Planned Parenthood is outrageous. . . . Everything from babies being stuffed into containers inside freezers to lab techs picking through a dish of baby body parts like they would a salad, is a taxpayer funded monstrosity and the so-called "news" media have a responsibility to cover it. Possible illegal acts are described and perpetrated on video and no one in the network media is curious enough to report on it? They are gutless wonders who are helping to cover up abominable, diabolical, Nazi-like medical procedures on the tiniest members of the human family.
And that's not even half of it. Investigative journalism is at the heart of David Daleiden's work, as evidenced in the Center for Medical Progress' video series that currently numbers 10 episodes. The mainstream media has been brutal toward Daleiden. One writer defines his work as mere "anti-abortion propaganda," telling his audience: "One of the underreported aspects of the current smear campaign against Planned Parenthood is the coarsening and polarizing of our civil discourse that usually accompanies discussions of the culture wars. This has been especially glaring because the ongoing barrage of false and inflammatory language directed at Planned Parenthood and its staff by anti-abortion groups."
Note the buzzwords he uses to reject the truth as if it were a disease. Arguing with language like "smear campaign," "false and inflammatory language," and so on, the writer reveals something as plain as the nose on his face. He dislikes Daleiden's work because he is threatened by it, yet he cannot find factual reasons to support his negative attitude so he resorts to name calling—an activity as old as the serpent himself who deceived Eve in Garden of Eden.
Having said that, I am grateful to at least one fair-minded writer who reminded us that Daleiden needs our prayers. In fact, his column's title shared that very sentiment: "Pope Francis, Please Pray for the Gutsy David Daleiden."
Maybe the media cannot bring itself to honestly report the facts because so many members of the elite press know that telling the truth would bring Planned Parenthood down in a heartbeat.
While the deaf, dumb, and blind media bury their heads in the sands of moral bankruptcy, the good guys will persist.
Truth offers no apology and is never cowed by the evil it confronts.
Support David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress by praying for them and by spreading the truth that those videos have shown.
Planned Parenthood will end. Its war on women and babies is doomed.


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CIBN hosts global bankers next week
All is set for the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) to host all the global banking institutes, including more than 1000 banking and finance professionals in the world at the 22nd edition of the World Conference of Banking Institutes (#WCBI_2017) due in Lagos from April 24 to 28, 2017 at Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island.
The global event, with the theme: "Re-Thinking the Future of Banking and Finance: Life Long Learning," is a biennial forum that brings together, a large number of chief executives, senior executives, professionals and other stakeholders engaged in banking and other financial services, education and training.
The event, which promises to be intellectually enriching and impactful, will also provide a platform for networking, business opportunities and an avenue to brainstorm on how to get ahead of the challenges associated with the future of banking.
Already, distinguished speakers, panellists and paper presenters from the Americas, Australia, Asia, Europe and other parts of Africa have confirmed their participations.
Nigeria's Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, is expected to be the Distinguished Guest of Honour at the opening ceremony of the conference. The Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has also lined up the conference as part of the activities to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the creation of the Lagos and a platform to promote financial tourism.
According to the Governor, the conference will be an avenue to showcase the rich cultural heritage, hospitality and investment potential of Lagos whilst attracting more foreign direct investments into the State.
Similarly, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunusi, Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife, and the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnanyelugo Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, in separate fora, said they would personally leverage the event to advance the culture of the African race.
The conference will have in attendance renowned speakers like the distinguished thought leader and author of the Future of Banking, Adjiedj Bakas; Director, Global Business Development, Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI, U.K.), Kevin Moore; Executive Director, Australia New Zealand Institute, Kay Luan Tay; President, European Banking and Financial Services Training Association, Collin Morrison.
Others are His Highness, Muhammad Sanusi II, Sarkin Kano, and former Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria; Vice President, Advocacy for Management Accounting, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, Ms. Samantha Louis; and Chief Executive Officer, Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB), Ms. Tanya McCartney, among others.
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I enjoy changing the pages of my calendar, and especially so when I can welcome February and say good-bye to our longest, coldest month. :-) On my daily walk a few days ago, I captured a few scenes from the neighborhood to commemorate this new month, in which we begin to see and sense the beginnings of Spring!
"February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March."
- Dr. J. R. Stockton


text: Encountered a problem with my newly bought 5750 - I get no display upon boot up. Uninstalled my Nvidia drivers, still doesn't work. All cables including the 75W six pin are connected - the card spins up but still no display. System Specs: Gigabyte M61PME-S2 4GB RAM 650W PSU Any suggestions? I've browsed other forums but that has been inconclusive.