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My mama loves to cook. As a little girl, I really couldn't be bothered with helping in the kitchen. Sure I'd help mix up cookie dough, but only so I could lick the beaters. And homemade pizza night was fun as my older brother and I stood on kitchen chairs, fighting over who got to wear the vinyl Santa Claus apron my mom has had for who-knows-how-long while we dumped copious amounts of cheese and pepperoni on our make-your-own pies. But no, cooking was not one of my hobbies. Only once, that I can remember, did I volunteer to make dinner on my own (with the help of my older brother). Dad was deployed over Mother's Day, so we made chicken parmesan (with those pre-breaded nasty chicken patties you used to get on Wednesdays in the school cafeteria that were advertised as "Crispy Chicken on a Bun" which may or may not have been accurate), green beans (in which we found a worm...after we started eating them), salad (made from produce that my brother did not prewash), and blueberry muffins (which go so well with Italian food, right?)...
As time went on, I learned my way around the kitchen inasmuch as it was my chore to set the table and later to unload the dishwasher. In high school I'd sometimes help with dinner prep, but I was usually at track practice or an after-school job. In college I became a little more active in helping my mom cook, but really I'd just scurry back and forth fetching ingredients, mixing bowls, and other mysterious utensils my mom needed to create that evening's masterpiece. Once I graduated and found my own apartment, my mom bought me my first cookbook (Rachael Ray!) and helped me outfit my first kitchen with the bare essentials and from there on out, I was pretty much winging it. I ate a lot of nachos, and the canned ingredients I bought the first time I ever went to the grocery store stayed in my pantry for well over a year, when I moved into my first townhouse.
Yes, I started to cook more and more often. I bought myself a nice set of pots and pans that my mom actually joked she would trade me for her older set. I still have those pots today, and have added to my collection, even venturing into cast iron! I started cooking for my parents every so often, and even invited their good friends over for brunch at my new apartment after Mass one Sunday. When I started dating my husband, I'd cook for him, and since he's still alive and kicking, I guess I have yet to poison him!
Now I have a whole cabinet of cookbooks (not quite the Cookbook Closet that mom has), drawers and crocks full of my own mysterious utensils (some of which my mom threatens to steal when she visits), and four full sets of dinnerware, to include two sets of china...all of which I use (ok, well maybe not my grandmother's china that's been handed down for several generations).
While I've graduated from making recipes exclusively from the 30-minute meal variety and my spice rack has exploded well beyond the bare essentials, I still maintain a few "tricks" up my sleeve. Let's face it, I'm a busy mother of two small boys, working on a second degree (in nursing, which is no cake-walk), who, while I can now admit that I do enjoy cooking, I also enjoy some relaxation at the end of the day. And that is where these little secrets come in to play!
There are a slew of amazing products out there now that make the household cook's life so much easier. Things that while they are prepared, still enable you to make your family a homemade meal with your tastes and preferences in mind. Things that are versatile and can be changed according to the menu du jour. Things that I use on a regular basis and have no problem justifying the cost of something I could make on my own simply because they same me at least ten minutes of chopping. And with that, I present my five favorite time-savers!
Stocks (I always have boxes and boxes of chicken stock on hand, but I also keep some seafood and beef stock too). I use stock exclusively when making rice or couscous in order to add flavor to an otherwise bland side dish. Stock is also wonderful as the base to a broth-y soup and even for homemade baby food. I never buy "broth" as I find it to be watered down and only buy the more flavorful stocks available. I typically do not cook pasta in stock since the liquid is drained off, but for dishes where the liquid is retained (rice, couscous, quinoa) or mostly retained (orzo), I will use the stock.
Prepared pasta sauces. I use marinara as the base to spaghetti sauce, and for just about any Italian dish that requires a tomato sauce. Remember that chicken parm I "made" my mom? Now I use Prego as the starter to my much improved version of that recipe! I use it on pizza. I use it in homemade vegetable soup that just needs a little more flavor (I'm not a big fan of large chunks of cooked tomato in soups).
Couscous. This is a favorite starch in our house. I almost always buy a flavored variety that includes a seasoning packet, but I never "make as directed". I have several staple recipes that have couscous add-ins, so I mix and match according to my mood or the main course I'm preparing. I add shallots and onions of every variety, fresh mushrooms, herbs and spices (both fresh and dried) that complement the flavor of the featured protein, nuts, dried fruit (cherries, currants, raisins, apricots) and more. And, of course, I use chicken stock to cook my couscous.
Flavored olive oil cubes. I recently discovered Land O Lakes Saute Express and fell in love! These are great little patties of olive oil and butter seasoned with a variety of popular flavors (herbs, teriyaki, garlic, etc.). They're a little bit on the pricey side, considering I am never without olive oil and fresh garlic in my kitchen, but they're fabulous for adding flavor to an otherwise bland chicken breast. Pop a cube of this into a hot skillet and you're ready to saute about a pound of meat! I usually add extra olive oil and garlic and depend on these just for the boost of butter and herbs. So far I've tried the Garlic & Herb and Lemon Pepper and both are divine!
Seasoned breadcrumb kits. I've sung the praises of Kraft Fresh Take before on my blog, and I'll do it again! These 6-ounce kits are lifesavers for busy moms everywhere. Use them on chicken, pork, fish, and even vegetables and pasta dishes. Check out the recipe booklet on the website I linked above and tell me what you make! I've tried almost all nine varieties. Unfortunately, the one that intrigues me most, Chili-Lime, appears to have been discontinued since I've never been able to find it in a grocery near me. Regardless, these kits take Shake 'n' Bake to a whole new level. Recommended to me by my mama, I've passed on my stamp of approval to both my mother- and sister-in-law as a great stand-by when you just don't have a lot of time to spend on dinner.


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Facebook will hand over contents of 3,000 adverts to congressional investigators looking at claims of interference in the US presidential election.
Mark Zuckerberg said he had told his team to provide details of the ads, which are believed to have originated from fake accounts linked to Russia.
Facebook is "actively working" with US investigators, added Mr Zuckerberg.
His decision to release the ads comes after growing pressure from Congress for the social network to comply.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has also been pushing for Facebook executives to give evidence since the company revealed the existence of the ads two weeks ago.
The social network said $100,000 had been spent on the 3,000 ads in the run-up to the 2016 election.
Many of the adverts promoted 470 fake accounts and pages, spreading divisive social and political messages, Facebook revealed.
Topics included immigration, race and gay rights, although they did not express support for a particular candidate.
"I don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. That's not what we stand for," Mr Zuckerberg said in a Facebook broadcast on Thursday.
"It is a new challenge for internet communities to have to deal with nation states attempting to subvert elections," he added.
"But, we are committed to rising to the occasion."
Congressional investigators and special counsel Robert Mueller are looking at the claims of interference – something Moscow denies having orchestrated.
The Kremlin says it has never placed adverts on Facebook to influence the US presidential election.
US President Donald Trump has also criticised the claims.
"The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook," he wrote on Twitter.
"What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary?"
The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2017
As well as handing over the adverts, Facebook has also agreed other changes to help improve transparency.
The site will now make it possible for anyone to see any political ad that runs on the site – no matter who it is aimed at.
Academics and campaigners have long been calling for the change.
Mr Zuckerberg also said it would make political advertisers disclose who is paying for the ads – a current requirement for TV ads but not social media.
"Not only will you have to disclose which page paid for an ad, but we will also make it so you can visit an advertiser's page and see the ads they're currently running to any audience on Facebook," said the Facebook CEO.
Expanding partnerships with electoral commissions around the world, and systems to deter political bullying are also part of its nine-point action plan to stop potential election meddling.
But Facebook's boss warned the site would not be able to catch all undesirable content before it is published.
"I'm not going to sit here and tell you we're going to catch all bad content in our system.
"We don't check what people say before they say it, and frankly, I don't think our society shouldn't want us to," Mr Zuckerberg said.
"If you break our community standards or the law, then you're going to face consequences afterwards.
"We won't catch everyone immediately, but we can make it harder to try to interfere."
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The cut and paste style flyer reads:
"Pins, Punk, And People:
A not-too-serious zine about buttons and why we like them so much.
Call for submissions:
Do buttons play a role in DIY or punk culture? What is your strategy for arranging pins? Why do you like pins? What is your favorite button and why?
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Submit photos of you wearing buttons! Illustrations of your button arrangements! Scans of your favorite pins! Buttons you see on your pals or other people. Any other good stories/facts/weirdo information about pins and your relation to them!
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The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus are two of the best devices available for taking those professional-looking photos. With snazzy optics, a sapphire coated lens and revolutionary focus pixels that create speedy, detailed shooting experiences, we love snapping away on these devices.
But, if you're like us and wanted to get even MORE out of your iPhone 6S camera, you've come to the right place. Here's our quickie guide for taking even better pictures with your device.
#1: Always use the camera grid
When shooting casual photos with your iPhone, it's easy to produce jilted photos, with the horizon accidentally tilted at an angle. Switching your grid lines to the 'On' setting is the easiest way to avoid this and make your shots appear to be photographic gold. The grid lines superimpose a series of lines on the screen of within your Camera app, making it much easier to compose your snap. Go to your Settings, and scroll down to Photos & Camera. Switch the grid 'On,' and use it to line-up the horizon properly, giving you straighter-looking shots.
#2: Enable auto HDR
One of the easiest ways to improve image quality in your iPhone photos is to experiment with HDR, a mode that you switch on and off at the top of the Camera app. You can't miss it.
HDR stands for high dynamic range, and is a setting that artificially enhances dynamic range by merging together three different light exposures: a bright one, a normal one and a dark one. HDR prohibits the light from becoming overexposed or crushed into blackness, finding that perfect medium for beautiful shots.
#3: Avoid over-zooming and flashing
If you're looking to photography-worthy shots on your smartphone, it's best to avoid two things: the zoom and the flash. The iPhone 6S uses digital zoom, which crops the image (usually unevenly), throwing off what's called the 'noise algorithm' of the resulting photo. This results in soft-looking images, instead of sharp ones. Instead of using the zoom function, crop your photo and zoom in afterwards when you have a full size image to play around with.
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Next, the ruiner of night time shots – the flash! Pictures taken with the flash turned on are easy to spot, as they lack detail and are often over-exposed.
Even though the iPhone 6S boasts a TrueTone duel LED flash, it is best left off. Instead, try to use any natural light around you or play around with the settings in an editing app.
#4: Be careful with 'Live' photos
A new feature for the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, 'Live' photos add a few seconds of video to the start and end of the pictures.
By default, Live photos are on all the time. We recommend switching this off by pressing the circular icon at the top, and then manually tap it on and off when you're looking to use the function. Moving vehicles or sports look great, but snap of your moving dinner… less so.
Also, Live photos take up double the space in case you have a 16GB iPhone!
#5: Utilize 'Exposure' for photos at night
We already mentioned that we advise against using the flash on the iPhone 6S, but that doesn't mean you have to ditch the device completely after hours.
One handy tip is adjusting the 'Exposure' slider Apple introduced in iOS 8. It will appear when focusing the image, allowing you to slide it back and forth. Increasing the exposure will brighten the photo, as the shutter will stay open longer and let more light hit the sensor.
And, as always, if you find yourself with a damaged iPhone camera- we can fix that. Just head over to iCracked.com/repair and schedule your on-demand repair in seconds.
There you have it! Now go forth and take beautiful iPhone photos!
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South elevation, Mann House, Raleigh, North Carolina
Mann House (Raleigh, N.C.)
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- Title:
- South elevation, Mann House, Raleigh, North Carolina
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- Subjects:
Second Empire
- Original Format:
Measured drawing
- Extent:
- scale: undetermined; 483mm x 610mm
- Item identifier:
- bh030407204
- Delineator:
- Chipman, Joseph A. more info on Chipman, Joseph A.
- Created Date:
- circa
- Description:
- 7 of 13
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Architectural drawings
Elevations (architectural drawings)
- Location:
Raleigh (N.C.)
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Built Heritage
Source information
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- Special Collections Research Center at NCSU Libraries
- Collection:
- Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041) held by Special Collections Research Center at NCSU Libraries
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Building: Mann, J. H. House (Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina)
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- Community:
- Raleigh
- State:
- North Carolina
- Provenance note:
- Mrs. J. H. Mann, Sr., mid-twentieth century owner.
- Architectural note:
- The building gained a new front porch and one and a half rooms to the rear in 1906.
- Historical note:
- The delineator estimates that the home was constructed in the mid- to late nineteenth century.
- Location:
Raleigh (N.C.)
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This week's best dressed has Alia Bhatt doing a back-to-back appearance and Tapsee on the list! Continue reading for more! Alia Bhatt: Alia Bhatt did a blazer-denims look during one of her promotional events for the movie, Dear Zindagi. She picked a white Mango blazer and teamed it with a black top from Topshop and blue denims by the
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The last time someone spit in my face was in eigth grade, and we were having a heated discussion by the gym. He got in real close to me and as he was yelling, he was slobering on me like a drunken St. Bernard. I got right back in face and said through my teeth, "Don't spit in my face." I hit the sibilants real hard, making sure he got some of his own medicine. I was pretty hot-headed in my youth, so I got into several of these confrontations throughout my middle school career, and generally didn't think too much about the consequences of my actions. He responded to my growled request by spitting a loogie right in my face. I punched him in the chest and he fell down a short flight of stairs. He got up, charged me, and the whole thing deteriorated into a good old fashioned middle school donnybrook that was quickly broken up by various classmates.. What a difference 17 years, fifty bucks and a wedding makes, huh?
My wife and I filmed a spit video yesterday. It was one of many aggressive/dominant videos we shot. Most of the day I was playing the role of foot sub, mostly doing foot and sock worship. The photographer asked if I would be okay with doing a spit video. The photographer had been trying to get content for a spit video request for almost two years. My wife would say degrading and humiliating things and spit on me for 6-8 minutes. The requester of the footage is almost always interested in the most extreme aspect of the fetish, which in this case would be Mrs. Marvel hocking a loogie and dripping it into my mouth. The noises are pretty much for the sake of the camera, she wasn't really trying to bring anything up, and she was drinking root beer to make them look worse. I made it a goal to not shy away from things on this trip, and to at least give it a shot. We swap spit all the time, and various other bodily fluids, how bad could it be?
Pretty bad, when that's all the mental barricades you set aside in advance. We did a dry run(not really the best descriptor when spit is involved, but we'll roll with it) with no camera rolling, and when it dripped into my mouth, I was okay. At first. And then I started to gag. I came pretty close to hucking right then and there. I took a minute to regather myself, and the photographer grabbed a teeny little vase to catch my forthcoming involuntary protein spill. Mrs. Marvel lost it at this point, the thought of her large husband trying to contain a large quantity of vomit into a tiny little vase too much for her sleep-deprived brain, and collapsed into giggles. At that point, I didn't think I would be able to continue.
I told them that I needed a minute to reset, and they assured me that if I didn't do it, that it was okay, Most people aren't able to shoot spit fetish, it was why she hadn't been able to shoot it for almost two years. I went in the next room, took some time, checked myself and reminded myself that it was okay, went back in and did the shoot. I took it like a champ, about 10 minutes of verbal beration and a whole lot of spit, mostly in my face. She dripped a couple of long ones into my mouth, and I pretended to swallow them. The photographer wrote a message on her phone that I could spit them out as she panned away, but I was okay. Thoroughly drenched in spit, I went to change my shirt and wash my face off, and they were laughing and high fiving that I made it through and pleased I was able to do it.
It has been a lot easier doing some of these things than I previously thought. You just kind of get in this zone and stay in character, and then when the camera clicks off, you're you again. It's almost like it happened to another person. When she talks to me, I know that she is acting, I know she isn't really the things she does, and she uses a different tone of voice than when we normally interact, so that makes it easier to keep the separation as well.
Maybe the next person who spits at/on me won't get knocked down a flight of stairs. I definitely feel like these experiences are giving me thicker skin, and that my wife and I are closer than ever. Tomorrow, she pulls and twists my ears, walks on me, and maybe a few other surprises as well. Who knows what the next day will bring?


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Joan La Barbara - Tapesongs
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Tapesongs is the second of two crucial Joan La Barbara reissues on Arc Light Editions, following Voice Is The Original Instrument (ALE005). The original artwork is an incredible shot: Joan buried to her neck in reel to reel tape. It includes two essential pieces: John Cage's Solo For Voice 45, and a burning take-down of Cathy Berberian in "Cathing".
Originally released in 1977, Tapesongs makes use of early electronics, and multi-tracked tape techniques to manipulate La Barbara's signature extended vocal techniques. In 1977, La Barbara was living in NYC, playing concerts internationally and performing regularly with John Cage, who she described as a mentor. "I began working with John Cage in 1976 and we had done several performances of his "Solo for Voice 45" from Song Books in concert," says Joan. "Cage determined the 13-minute version for this version, overlaying all 18-pages of the score so that one hears the entire work in layers. Hearing it again after all these years is wonderful and brings back many memories."
"Cathing" uses a recording of a radio interview Cathy Berberian did during the intermission of one of La Barbara's concerts at the Holland Festival: "She basically trashed those of us doing extended vocal techniques," she says. "She used the interview for her own self-promotion rather than taking on the mantle of the 'mother' of vocal explorations. Rather tragic, I thought. So I created a work exploring extended vocal techniques and manipulating her spoken voice."
"Thunder" is for six tympani and voice, using electronic devices (the same as used in "Vocal Extensions" from ALE005), and explores patterns through instruments and real-time composition with two jazz improvising musicians.
Solo For Voice 45 (From Songbooks)
Joan La Barbara is a composer, performer, sound artist and actor, renowned for her unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques, which have influenced generations of composers and singers. She has released on labels including Lovely Music and New Albion, and undertaken numerous commissions for chamber ensembles, theater, orchestra, chorus, interactive technology, soundscores for dance, video and films, including composing and performing the electronic/vocal score for Sesame Street's signing alphabet.
She was Artistic Director of the multi-year Carnegie Hall series "When Morty Met John" and is the co-founder of performing composers-collective Ne(x)tworks. "73 Poems", her collaboration with text-artist Kenneth Goldsmith, was included in The American Century Part II: Soundworks at The Whitney Museum. She also acted in Matthew Barney's film project "River of Fundament" and Aleksandar Kostic's film "Parallel Dreams". La Barbara is on the faculties of New York University and Mannes/The New School. Composer and publisher member of ASCAP, and member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
Awards and prizes include: John Cage Award (2016) from Foundation for Contemporary Arts; DAAD and Civitella Ranieri Artist-in-Residencies; Guggenheim Fellowship, 7 NEA (US National Endowment for the Arts) fellowships; numerous commissions and performances at Brisbane Biennial, Festival d'Automne à Paris, Warsaw Autumn, MaerzMusik Berlin, and Lincoln Center among others. She is composing a new opera inspired by Virginia Woolf and Joseph Cornell, exploring the artistic process, interior dialogue, and sounds within the mind.
Tapesongs, has been taken from original tapes and remastered by Rashad Becker & Dubplates and Mastering.


text: March 18, 2017 MSA National In The News 0 0 Source: WSFA MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) – Hagir Abdelmagid and Abdalaziz Herzalla lead the Muslim Student Association at the Auburn University Montgomery, and they believe President Donald's Trump's newest executive order on immigration makes their organization more crucial than ever. "We try to promote Islam as a 'what it is as a religion?' instead of what people view it as, these days, which is quite negative," Herzalla said. Despite the fact that the revised order drops Iraq from its temporary travel ban list and excludes people who already have visas and green cards, they think the order is still discriminatory. Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Syria are all Muslim-majority countries and remain on the list. Continue reading here… Comments comments


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Morsi´s first PM
An interesting choice with some pros , but also with some clear cons.
The pros as i see it , it shows the importance that Morsi gives to the Nile Bassin issue , it's a top priority and having someone as the head of Government who has in-depth knowledge of the issue is a clear plus. If Qandil proves to be a good diplomat, then this issue can be solved in a way that will benefit Egypt , and the region for years to come.
I like the fact that Qandil is young , that's also a big plus.
The cons is the fact that he's one more technocrat , what Morsi needs is a strong government with a political agenda that will work day and night for the wast majority of Egyptians. Dealing with the basics , starting with giving priority to the basic demands of the Jan25 demands , bread , freedom , and social justice. This might only be symbolic firsts , but at least the issues has to be adressed in a manner were people feel that the government cares about the Egyptian people. I doubt that Qandil has the political clout to take on this task head on.
I also have problems with the fact that Morsi seems to prefer a weak government , after having complained over the Ganzouri government for monthts. It's only a strong government that has the confidence not only of the president , but also of the people that can make a difference at this point, and the appointment of Qandil indicates that the government will be nothing of the sort , it looks to be one more goverment of mediocracy.
Bellow is an interview with the new prime minister , whom i wish all the best , God knows he will need it.


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Spend a day at the Computer History Museum. Find out why computer history is 2000 years old. Learn about computer history´s game-changers in our multimedia exhibitions. Play a game of Pong or Spacewar! Listen to computer pioneers tell their story from their own perspective. Discover the roots of today´s Internet and mobile devices. See over 1,100 historic artifacts, including some of the very first computers from the 1940s and 1950s.
Even if you have been to the Computer Museum here is what you will be missing if you don't attend: FREE food/drinks and the opportunity to mingle with 100+ of Silicon Valleys finest. And this just in: There will be 5 raffle prizes at the event: iWatch, iPad mini, Kindle, Drone, Amazon Echo. Personally I would go for the Echo. We have one and it is a very nice piece of technology:
About the Seminar:
SK Hynix, Inc., Amkor Technology, Inc., eSilicon, Northwest Logic and Avery Design Systems have joined forces to offer a complete High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) supply chain solution. HBM is a JEDEC-defined standard that utilizes 2.5D technology to interconnect a SoC and a HBM memory stack. Many companies are already using HBM to create very high-bandwidth, low-power products. This seminar will present a complete HBM supply chain that is delivering and supporting customer HBM designs now.
It's kind of unique to have five companies all present how they contribute to one solution. Here are the speakers and what they will cover:
- 3D memory stack, Kevin Tran, Senior Manager, Technical Marketing, SK Hynix
- Interposer & assembly, Paul Silvestri, Director of TSV Product Development, Amkor Technology
- 2.5D package, silicon die & HBM PHY, Bill Isaacson, Director, ASIC Product Marketing, eSilicon
- HBM controller, Brian Daellenbach, President, Northwest Logic
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One of the spoken communication that became extremely favourite in the 90s is co-dependent. Initially it was utilised to label the spouses of chemically leechlike general public. The permanent status leisurely expanded to shroud society who let the mental state and travels of different feeling them to the level that they misplace dominate done their own lives.
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I am really excited to announce that I am now a featured RAW artist!
RAW is a worldwide indie arts organization. Their mission is to provide independent artists, such as myself, with tools, resources and exposure. They're not limited to fashion design, but expands to support a wide range of creative genres.I first discovered RAW through my sister-in-law, Danielle. She designs swimwear and is currently a semi-finalist RAW artist. Danielle has shown her collection in our small Tennessee hometown as well as Canada. I've gained a lot of insight from her competing. I feel that this organization will allow me to finally gain exposure on an international scale with connects within the industry too.
I am so very honored to have the opportunity to be apart of this.
For my first RAW event, my garments will be showcased in the Awakening runway show in Baltimore, MD on Feb 6th 2014.
Please check out my RAW page here:
This event is free for me so long as I can help sell tickets for the event. My goal is to sell 20 tickets. They're $15.00 each. Hey followers, if you can buy a ticket and attend, I would love to see you there. I'll have new garments that'll sure to be worth the attendance. Heck let me know you're coming and we can take pictures together! ;P If you're unable to attend and would like to sponsor me by buying a ticket, that would be super awesome also. :D
Thanks in advance for your support and encouragement, for my designs, shown here on my blog. If you can't attend, or sponsor I still love you guys anyway.


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Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren islike Moby-Dick, Naked Lunch, or Chocolate Rainan essential monument both to, and of, American craziness. It doesn't just document our craziness, it documents our craziness crazily: 800 epic pages of gorgeous, profound, clumsy, rambling, violent, randy, visionary, goofy, postapocalyptic sci-fi prose poetry. The book is set in Bellona, a middle-American city struggling in the aftermath of an unspecified cataclysm. Phones and TVs are out; electricity is spotty; money is obsolete. Riots and fires have cut the population down to a thousand. Gangsters roam the streets hidden inside menacing holograms of dragons and griffins and giant praying mantises. The paper arrives every morning bearing arbitrary dates: 1837, 1984, 2022. Buildings burn, then repair themselves, then burn again. The smoke clears, occasionally, to reveal celestial impossibilities: two moons, a giant swollen sun. To top it off, this craziness trickles down to us through the consciousness of a character who is, himself, very likely crazy: a disoriented outsider who arrives in Bellona with no memory of his name, wearing only one sandal, and who proceeds to spend most of his time either having graphic sex with fellow refugees or writing inscrutable poems in a notebooka notebook that also happens to contain actual passages of Dhalgren itself. The book forms a Finnegans Wakestyle loopits opening and closing sentences feed into one anotherso the whole thing just keeps going and going forever. It's like Gertrude Stein: Beyond Thunderdome. It seems to have been written by an insane person in a tantric blurt of automatic writing.
When I mention this to Delany, he is pleased. It is, he says, exactly the effect he was going for. And yet, he tells me, the actual writing process was deliberate and precise. I wrote out hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of sentences at the top of notebook pages, he remembers. Then I would work my way down the page, revising the sentence, again and again. When I got to the bottom I'd copy the sentence out to see if I wanted it. Then I'd put them back together again. It was a very long, slow process. It took him five yearsnot long by epic-novel standards, but a lifetime for an author who once wrote a book in eleven days to fund a trip to Europe.
In the 35 years since its publication, Dhalgren has been adored and reviled with roughly equal vigor. It has been cited as the downfall of science fiction (Philip K. Dick once called it the worst trash I've ever read), turned into a rock opera, dropped by its publisher, and reissued by others. These days, it seems to have settled into the groove of a cult classic. In a foreword in the current edition, William Gibson describes the book as a literary singularity and Delany as the most remarkable prose stylist to have emerged from the culture of American science fiction. Jonathan Lethem called it the secret masterpiece, the city-book-labyrinth that has swallowed astonished readers alive.
Delany, meanwhile, with his restless mind and his giant white cyberpunk-Santa beard, has become a science-fiction icona grandfatherly figure without any visible grandfatherly tendencies. He first emerged as a prodigy in the sixties, one of a loose band of young writers sometimes referred to as sci-fi's new wave, whose work helped to push the tradition away from robots and spaceships toward deep questions about race, sexuality, and identity. His characters had explicit sex but also gave each other lectures on metalogic. By his mid-twenties, Delany had written a career's worth of novels and won a career's worth of major awards. He managed to fuse, unapologetically, qualities that few had ever thought to combine: He was pulpy, literary, lusty, academic, prolific, and meticulous. He was also, in a genre dominated by white guys writing heteronormative fantasies, African-American and openly gay. From 1968 on, he once told an interviewer, I was pretty much the black gay SF writer. (He was also married, for years, to lesbian poet Marilyn Hacker; they have a daughter.) Delany is a living refutation of the fixity of genre and identity boundaries. He has written memoir, film, historical fiction, pornography, theater, Wonder Woman comics, literary theory, and urban historyhis Times Square Red, Times Square Blue is a classic account of what New York lost when it turned midtown into a shopping mall.
Among all of Delany's many projects, Dhalgren is still his best known. At its core, it's a meditation on the nature of cities: how they live and die, cohere and fracture, nurture and consume their citizens. Delany grew up in Harlem, where his father was a successful undertaker. He started writing Dhalgren in the East Village and finished it in London, stopping along the way in a smorgasbord of major and minor cities: New Orleans, Toronto, Seattle, Vancouver, East Lansing, and Middletown, among others. The result is a stew of different urban vibes. Not long after Dhalgren was published, someone wrote Delany a letter saying it seemed to have drawn its exteriors from New York and its interiors from San Francisco. I thought that was a remarkably astute observation, he says. This was a woman who lived in Indianapolis.


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President Trump's alleged 'shithole countries' comment has caused quite the stir. The usual suspects in the mainstream media, and establishment political commentators are real mad about it. But are they mad because Trump said something offensive, or because he said something that exposes leftist views on immigration as logically inconsistent in a fundamental way?
After all, if some of these countries are not shitholes, then there is no problem sending illegal migrants back to those pristine lands. If they really are shitholes, then we should be pretty wary about bringing them in by the boatload. The funny thing is those from those 'shithole countries' will be the first to tell you that those countries are, in fact, shitholes. The outrage on their part would stem mostly from the fact that an outsider like Trump was saying it as well. This is a common thing among people. You can disparage your own, but he second an outsider does it all hell beaks loose.
On that score, our self-proclaimed betters on both the left and right love nothing more than to disparage huge swaths of America as shitholes, to the point where New York Times columnists cannot fathom any reason why small cities and towns are relevant to anything anymore. None of these people would lift a finger to defend, say rural West Virginia, from an attack by a smarmy foreigner, particularly now that it is Trump country. Yet they are vociferously standing up for 'shitholes' across the world.
Importantly, all of this exposes normies to the truth that our cultural betters deem it reasonable to import more and more of the entire world at random into the US on the basis of the lie that all cultures are equal. And despite the sanctimonious outrage, most will see through that lie, particularly when the likes of Rich Lowry are dispensing the rope with which the liars can hang themselves (money quote at 3:50).
In a similar vein, this clip of Stephen Pinker, speaking at a Harvard panel discussing political correctness and Trump's victory, went viral over the last few days;
What was interesting was that while he admitted that there were certain truths that have become verboten in polite society (men and women are different, Marxist countries are terrible compared to more capitalists ones, etc), he saw their suppression as a problem more because it meant that leftist explanations for those hatefacts could not be drilled into the would-be discoverer of truth.
Project Veritas dumped an explosive video yesterday exposing the fact that Twitter actively censors, sometimes in secret, those who it deems to be bad people. That is to say, anyone with political views to the right of Mao
Now, we all knew that shadowbanning existed. But it is another thing when it is right there on camera in your face. A couple side notes: a few of these guys were clearly honeypotted, goaded by an attractive sounding female in a bar setting to divulge their deepest secrets. Fantastic setup work. Particularly of note is the one guy who tried to 'game' the PV journalist by acting as though her asking the most basic of basic questions revealed her to have the critical thinking skills necessary to be a programmer or engineer.
The other, more insidious note is that pretty much all of the Twitter marks were non-white, and perhaps foreign born. These are your new overlords, talking about those who proclaim their Americanness must be silenced. It's an affront to the idea that immigrants are all desperately seeking to assimilate, as well as the H1B visa question, with regard to the immigration problem as a whole.
Related to that, we've got this anecdote from a Heartiste about how the Trump effect might be improving IT.
In other Tech Giants Are Communist Dictatorships news, James Damore filed his suit against Goolag this week. The Federalist thinks that at worst, it will shine a very negative light on company practices.
During discovery, the plaintiffs will have the ability to request every document, email, and text concerning politics or political issues involving Google's decision-makers. In a class-action lawsuit, the number of decision makers will be in the hundreds, if not thousands, including the high-level executives involved in Damore's termination.
Further, evidence that the decision-makers held an anti-conservative bias, even if not tied to a specific employment decision, is typically admissible circumstantial evidence of discriminatory intent. What might that evidence be? Well, consider The Daily Caller's article this week that exposed Google's display of "fact checks for conservative publications in its results, [but] [n]o prominent liberal sites receive the same treatment."
As Eric Liberman continued, "not only is Google's fact-checking highly partisan — perhaps reflecting the sentiments of its leaders — it is also blatantly wrong, asserting sites made 'claims' they demonstrably never made." That the world's largest search engine targeted conservative sites such as The Federalist—and fraudulently so, as David Harsanyi established—and no liberal Web sites isn't likely happenstance. Discovery will tell that and maybe much more—that is, if Damore's lawyers succeeded in sidestepping the secrecy of arbitration.
By all accounts, the lawsuit is cleverly constructed to inflict max pain on Goolag. It's development will be extremely interesting to keep an eye on.
A double blast from the Audacious Epigone. First, our cultural betters want us to elect nothing but women this fall, and especially Jewish women:
From the official, blue-checkmarked account of the Democrat party (red markings are my own):
Jeremy Grantham's quarterly letter is a must read
As is Jeff Gundlach's start of the year presentation
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I agree with Clay Travis that if you're betting on the NFL games this weekend you should take Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Tennessee and Atlanta against the point spreads they're getting:
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Big Bird's big move: Beloved icon of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital settles into new home
Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com
You can still meet at Big Bird. You just have to meet in a slightly different location. The beloved bright yellow "Sesame Street" character, who's long served as icon and meeting place at the University of Michigan's children's hospital, is back in a place of honor.
At 9:30 Thursday morning, Big Bird took a ride through the halls of the new C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital. He went lying on his back, the way many of his young admirers at the hospital might ride on their way to surgery.
Big Bird, sporting a brand-new coat of bright paint, rode on top of a box on a cart, his head and legs protruding, in a somewhat undignified manner, over either end. But once workers had righted him and set him on his newly designed red tile platform, his dignity was restored.
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Mott's beloved Big Bird statue, newly refurbished, now stands at the entrance to the new hospital from the Taubman Center, not far from his original location in the main lobby of the old hospital. His placement in his new home was part of U-M's preparation for the opening Dec. 4 of its new $754 million hospital.
Big Bird, long a favorite with youngsters being treated at the hospital, came to Mott via a donor. Years ago, a man called the hospital's child-life department to say that a store at Briarwood Mall was getting rid of a giant Big Bird statue and wondering if the hospital would be interested in acquiring it, Warner said. When hospital officials said they wanted it, he purchased it and donated it.
He stood in the lobby of the old hospital for many years, greeting families and visitors and eliciting smiles from sick children who didn't have much to smile about.
When U-M decided to build a new children's hospital several years ago, discussions about what to do with Big Bird soon arose.
There was never a doubt that he would have a place in it, Warner said.
"He is the icon for the hospital," she said. "Everybody likes Big Bird."
The spot he now occupies in the corridor connecting with the rest of the hospital system is fitting, given his longtime role as a gathering place, Warner said. "I'll meet you at Big Bird," people planning a visit to the University of Michigan Health System have long told each other.
Those who gather at the Sesame Street character's feet in the new hospital may not notice, but Big Bird is now looking quite a bit younger. He recently returned from a major refurbishment. He got a bath, a coat of primer and a new coat of paint. All his original colors and details were restored.
"We kept him clean," Warner said. "But after years he got dull and his face wasn't so bright."
Some children who witnessed him going away for the refurbishment were distressed, Warner said, crying "Don't' take Big Bird!"
But they needn't have worried. Big Bird is back, better than ever.
"Big Bird just has a place in many people's hearts," Warner said. "We're just glad he's back and rejuvenated."
Fri, Oct 28, 2011 : 3 p.m.
Yahooooo, the bird is back! What would Mott be without Big Bird??.. I would be sad if he were to be evicted from the premises. Gosh, what would it be like without him. Big Bird for president.
Fri, Oct 28, 2011 : 2:08 p.m.
Thank you for sharing this story. For us Mott families, Big Bird is a huge part of our child's experience. I am glad to see that he will continue to be a part of the Mott tradition.


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That's not what little boys are made of. That doesn't even make any damn sense. Still, girls are supposedly made of sugar and spice and everything nice, and God help that poor little girl who has a will to stand up for herself. "She's bossy and feisty and mean." Meanwhile, she was just practicing her own autonomy. There are countless myths we teach our young children that force them to white-knuckle their way through childhood, seeking approval at only the right, precise times and squashing their authentic "no's." Kids will tell you if they are uncomfortable, verbally or physically. But we are so consumed by maintaining appearances and politeness and gender norms, that often we do a disservice to our children.
"Go kiss your aunt and uncle goodbye, or you will go in time-out." From toddlerhood onward, we force children to kiss or hug their relatives or family friends hello and goodbye, despite the children's clear discomfort. What parents fail to consider is that either there is a legitimate reason for discomfort, such as boundaries being crossed that a parent may not be aware of, or the child is simply uncomfortable showing affection to people they do not know. Regardless of the root cause, when forced to follow through with physical signs of affection toward a person they do not want to hug, the child is taught that their feelings and boundaries and consent do not matter. They should instead force themselves to stifle their "no" and let someone else cross their boundaries, often facilitated by those meant to protect them. Parents often forget that much of children's lives are decided for them by their parents. It is the parent's responsibility to keep the child safe but also to prepare them for life in an unsafe world. To do this, the child must be accustomed to using their own voice and forming their own opinions. Small opportunities to make choices that have minor consequences teach children that their voice, and thus consent, matters. Conversely, if a parent never asks a child their opinion on their clothing, food they would like to eat, or activities for the day, the child will have a very underdeveloped sense of bodily autonomy and self-value.
An insufficient sense of autonomy and a low self-worth make way for malleable boys that are susceptible to toxic myths perpetuated by media, peers, and authority figures alike, such as, "Boys do not cry; do not act like a sissy." William Pollack describes the boy code as the necessity for boys to act stoic, independent, macho, athletic, and phobic of anything deemed feminine, such as warmth, empathy, and sensitivity. If boys do not align with these traits, they are wimpy losers, ridiculed relentlessly not only by their peers but often even their own fathers express disappointment in effeminate sons. A demand for perpetual strength and stoicism forces boys to suppress their emotions. Extremely corrosive, boys lose the opportunity to develop adequate emotional intelligence, because they feel pressured to not fully experience and indulge in the full range of human emotion. Sadness, hurt, and disappointment are all valid aspects of the human existence, but due to societal pressures, boys are taught to channel those feelings into aggression and anger instead.
That inappropriate processing of aggression can lead to perhaps the most damaging and toxic belief we feed to our young children: "He is teasing you/hurting you/pushing your physical boundaries simply because he likes you." First of all, wow okay how insulting to that little boy. Secondly, perpetuating this myth makes boys believe that inapt processing of emotions and outward displays of physical violence will go unpunished. "Boys will be boys," after all. This is not just a boy's issue, however. It teaches girls to expect violence and inappropriate displays of affection in their relationships. From grade school onward, young girls are taught that boys will take advantage of them and tug their ponytails and steal their pencils and kick sand at them, and all of it ultimately gains the boy respect. We as a culture do not value the discomfort of females, from the playground to the boardroom.


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Evolve is a cooperative multiplayer shooter from the team that created Left 4 Dead, and it's coming to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One near the end of 2014. The game is a product of Turtle Rock Studios, the same team that created Left 4 Dead for Valve. Evolve was originally set to be released by THQ, but 2K Games nabbed it when the publisher shuttered in 2013. It's been shrouded in mystery for many years, but the cover story in an upcoming issue of Game Informer promises to bring the first details.
We know right now that Evolve is a sci-fi multiplayer shooter in which a team of four player-controlled alien hunters takes on a monster, also player-controlled, that "grows larger and more powerful" over multiple matches. The four hunters are differentiated by a variety of tools and special abilities, and the monster is built with an eye toward keeping the pursuing foursome challenged. The upcoming GI feature focuses specifically on the game's 4v1 "hunt mode," though it's not clear if that's the only play option in the game.
That's about the extent of what's revealed so far. You can see an a snapshot of the cover art up above, featuring a red-eyed creature that we can only assume is the monster at the heart of the game as well as a first glimpse at the four hunters. Turtle Rock definitely knows its way around a cooperative shooter, and the addition of a player-controller alien beast to oppose the four hunters should lend a competitive layer that L4D only ever flirted with.
Stay tuned for more when we hear it, but PS4/Xbox One early adopters should start saving those dollars now – between this, Destiny, a new Halo, and any number of other, unannounced offerings, fall 2014 is shaping up to be an expensive season.


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Sunday, 5 February 2012
snowy daffodils!
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Loved this posting... from the too-welcome sight of bright yellow daffies in their blue pot all the way through the wintery scenes to where the lads have called it a day!ReplyDelete
Lots of glimpses of heaven.......
Oh I love the last picture! We got the snow too, so I now have two very tired kitties, one curled up at each end of the sofa -worn out from all the excitement!! :)ReplyDelete
What lovely pictures of your snowy pusses! Marmalade wont venture out most of the time let alone when it snows.ReplyDelete
We love the way the boys are all stretched out after their frolic in the snow.ReplyDelete
What great pictures! In Holland it was -22 in some places yesterday night! We are not used to those kind of temperatures! Momzz want it al to be green and bright and not al white.ReplyDelete
Purrrs Lars and Odin
pee ess We saw you were the boss of the naughty kitty club, wel I (lars) want Odin to be a member! He izz so naughty it izzn't even funny anymore!
Holy moly! Look at all that white stuff! And you guys are very brave to venture out into it!! The weather has been so wacky lately. We usually have snow at this time of year, but lately we've had mild temps and sunshine! We're not complaining.ReplyDelete
Lovely shots, at least it looks like the "perfect" winter, we think. Fluffy snow, all clean and pretty. :-)ReplyDelete
Oh dear, you poor things - that is a LOT of snow !!!!!!ReplyDelete
Stay cosy and warm. Drink plenty of Hot Chocolate (humans that is!) and I hope you can stay sane whilst being housebound !
I love the daffodils in the beautiful jug :-)
OMC someone spilled sugar at your house too!!ReplyDelete
We love the last picture of you two exhausted from your day playing in the sugar.
Remember to not eat yellow sugar!!
Hugs Madi
Same weather in Sweden now too and very cold. This morning it was -19 Celsius = BRRRR !!!ReplyDelete
I guess we have to wait a long time before we see Daffodills here :(
Me too have been out in the snow for a short moment :)
We're still waiting for snow, and waiting...the last picture really made us laugh. You two are so cute! Its a good thing to have fluffy tails when its cold enough for snow.ReplyDelete
this weather is so odd its like the hokey cokey here...thermals on, thermals off...I wish they'd give a Thermal Forecast!ReplyDelete
have a good week
Wow! Here is summer... and we are suffering with the hot time!ReplyDelete
We have snow too - if anyone would like it we are giving it away!ReplyDelete
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Wow, that is a lot of snow, Darcy and Bingley! That last picture just about says it all ... exploring out in the cold is exhausting, isn't it? Stay warm, dear friends!ReplyDelete
We love all you bird houses as they appear especially inviting surrounded by crisp snow.ReplyDelete
Boys, you may be part polar bear with your ease in snow and camouflage ability!
the critters in The Cottage xo
P.S. We love the last picture of the two explorers after a full day...
Incredible as it seems, it is the same here! Thanks very much for entering my giveaway.ReplyDelete
From a very snowy household including a dog with snow balls along her whole underside, not just in her paws,
We don't know what's more impressive: explorer polar kitties or those floofy tums!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 February 2012 at 17:53
We think Mr. Bingley had the perfect place underneath the chair seat to sit and enjoy the snow. What terrific pictures you got of the cats in the snow. Hugs and nose kissesReplyDelete
That is a lot of snow you had. We are having warm weather but the forecast said it'll be cold this weekend. Maybe not too cold to have snow though.ReplyDelete
I love the last photo..it looks like Mr Darcy and Mr Bingley are enjoying being inside, relaxed and warm :-)
You two are so adorable. I would be jealous but no, my mommy loves me very much but you two are tops in her heart too. She thinks you are so precious.ReplyDelete
They are very brave gents. My cats were having none of it!ReplyDelete
Wow you really got a load of snow!!! I especially love the last pic of the boys relaxing :-)ReplyDelete
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Inglorious Basterds won at the box office and dominated Twitter conversations this weekend. In addition to grossing nearly $37 million, Quentin Tarantino's World War II-themed saga has been afixed to Twitter's trending topics list since Friday.
Word of mouth referrals are nothing new to the movie business. But, as Simon Dumenco (@simondumenco) points out in Friday's AdAge, Twitter brings an element of speed and reach that is entirely new – and, he argues – potentially threatening to Hollywood. To better understand Twitter content about new releases, Dumenco speculates that 'someday soon, someone's going to get a PhD in the statistical parsing of Twitter data streams'
Well, Mr. Dumenco, let us humbly assert that someday is today. Crimson Hexagon turned its algorithm (created by a Harvard PhD professor) loose on this weekend's Twitter conversation about Inglorious Basterds.
We performed the PhD magic on a sample of over 4500 Tweets from this weekend and found that:
- 40% of all Tweets on Inglorious praised the film, with an additional 9% hailing it as classic Tarantino
- Anticipation was still high, with almost a quarter of all Twitters talking about the movie still eager to see it
- The critics? Quiet so far, with only 8% of Tweets expressing disappointment at Tarantino or the film
- Finally, 14% want to know othersàopinions about the movie: Glad we could help


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What is Bitcoin? and How do you mine it? Well, this video will go over Bitcoin mining and show you how to set up Bitcoin Mining Software on your computer. Bitcoin is a digital currency, which is supported by a P2P network of computers across the internet that act as servers to process the financial transactions of this currency. Some believe Bitcoin is a Scam, or Ponzi scheme, but once one understands the concept of Bitcoin, it is clear that it is not. While the uses for Bitcoin are virtually infinite (paying for goods, services, or money laundering, gambling and drug smuggling) it's structure remains concrete and open source. However, the VALUE of each Bitcoin is disputable. In theory, Bitcoin becomes harder and harder to mine, which means it takes more and more energy (electricity for your computer/"mining rig" to run) to process Bitcoin and solve "Blocks" of data. Therefore, the price of Bitcoin may be related to the price of energy and the cost of maintaining this network. While it is easy to assert that there will be additional computers added to the network daily, which would ease the work load on the initial nodes, one can only speculate that the price of Bitcoin MUST increase over time. Especially when power costs in the foreseeable future will be rising.
Currently, only 21,000,000 Bitcoins can be created, but that I guarantee will rise, as many are hoarding the coins and there just simply wont be enough to go around and not enough work, or transaction data, for the increasing number of miners out there.
Specialized computers and "Mining Rigs" are becoming available from companies such as Butterfly Labs and others, which harness ASIC technology. ASIC means application-specific integrated circuit- so these devices are engineered to mine Bitcoin and only mine Bitcoin. This creates an extremely powerful, and efficient machine, over 100x times more efficient than current setups. These machines are said to be able to mine Bitcoin up to 50 GH/s (if that means anything to you, but it's A LOT) extremely efficiently! More efficient than any desktop computer rig. None of these super computer miners have been shipped/received and it is still extremely uncertain whether these companies are scamming people or not. (I wouldn't PRE-order a $3,000 machine promising me all the money in the world, but many are)
SO – If these machines come to market, they will truly dominate all others and render most other PC's/Rigs worthless. Anyways, enjoy the video!
how to bitcoin with cloud mining
Welcome to Bitcoin For Beginners Part 4! In this part we will cover Cloud Mining, also known as Cloud Hashing to some people. Cloud Mining allows a person to purchase mining power without having to purchase the actual mining rig. Bitcoin Mining equipment and software can confuse people and be extremely costly! Since the "difficulty rate" for mining Bitcoin is increasing, more and more mining power is needed to keep up with the ever more challenging blockchain. Cloud Hashing is offered by quite a few companies, typically in a yearly contract form.
Please be careful as some people advertise "Cloud Mining" on eBay and other places where nothing is guaranteed and they might promise you more than what you'll get. I recommend going to a major cloud mining website and only invest what you are willing to lose. I conclude at the end of the video that cloud mining is not very profitable. Since people are still very interested anyways, I may get involved just to share the experience with you.
Remember, the key to cloud mining is the price of the mining speed/power (GH/s)
I hope you like the video and thank you so much for watching!
BitCoin For Beginners – Cloud Mining & Cloud Hashing
The easiest way to mine Bitcoins
GENESIS MINING DISCOUNT CODE : RfngHm
Bitcoin Wallet
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My first 2 months Bitcoin mining experience with BitClub Network – by Ryan Conley
BITCOINS verdienen mit Biteminer 22%. Bitcoin mining Anleitung deutsch. Bitcoin miner Doku. Konto
Ethtrade presentation. Ethereum trading
OXbtc.com – китайский облачный майнинг + бонус!!!


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Type: Full Time
Location: Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
2018 Summer Retail Banking Intern- Philadelphia
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Job Description
The Retail Intern assists new and existing clients of the Bank with account transactions and uncovers opportunities that can help improve clients Financial Wellness. In addition, he/she acts as a resource in identifying and resolving client servicing issues. The Retail Intern is a part of the branch team and through conversations with the clients uncovers financial needs, communicates opportunities and transitions clients to the branch relationship management team. Retail Intern Functions Welcome clients, build rapport and provide outstanding service while performing account transactions. Participate as an active member of the branch team, following the Branch Playbook. Accept and accurately process all financial service transactions Maintain responsibility for cash drawer and follow proper balancing procedures Act as a resource to identify and resolve client servicing issues Build Client Rapport Provide excellent customer service to all KeyBank clients Greet and welcome every client as they enter the branch; acknowledge by name, if known Accurately process all financial service transactions Participate in client appreciation events Take ownership of client issues when possible, with the assistance of the branch management Help create and establish a business relationship between the Personal Banker and the client Review and maintain knowledge of product guides, fees and policies to stay current on offerings Provide answers and assistance for client questions/concerns, utilizing resources within the branch Coordinate time between Personal Banker and client for business meetings as necessary Fulfill Client Needs Have a full understanding of Key s Financial Wellness strategy Continue to build the client relationship by viewing client accounts when performing transactions and identifying potential needs Participate in branch huddles to better understand specific client needs Follow-Up Maintain relationships with Personal Bankers and Branch Managers and notify them of client sales opportunities Ensure more complex sales activities/opportunities are handed off to the Personal Banker Ensure compliance with security and audit procedures REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: -College student in their junior year pursuing a Bachelor s degree, minimum 3.0 GPA is preferred all majors considered - Relevant work or internship experience in sales, service or finance role - Ability to learn quickly and take action in a fast-paced environment - Effective sales skills (professional, assertive, confident, driven) - Strong analytical and decision-making skills - Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills - General understanding of PC with Windows based applications and calculator. - Ability to work branch hours to include weekends and occasional evenings. - Physical Requirements: Prolonged Standing (5- 8 hours per day), frequent use of hands to manipulate/grasp objects, occasional bending and lifting from floor height, frequent forward reach, frequent lifting of 1 - 10 lbs., occasional lifting of up to 30 lbs. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: - Cash handling experience. - Sales experience with established goals. COMPETENCIES: Operating: Keeps on point, plans and organizes, gets work done, uses time management skills; follows work processes and focuses; manages workload; organized; exhibits an openness of new ways of doing things and an adaptable, continuous improvement mindset; understands and applies Key s risk management philosophy in day-to-day interactions Energy/Drive: Action oriented; drives for results; pursues work with energy and focus; drives for completion; client relationship focused; acts with honor and character Personal/Interpersonal: Open, receptive, accountable, and approachable; keeps promises, honors, commitments, and demonstrates open, honest communication; exhibits positive behavior People Management: Understands the value of excellent client service and demonstrates a commitment to client satisfaction for internal and external clients while balancing organizational profitability; actively listens to internal/external client feedback and delivers appropriate solutions; embraces an inclusive team and diverse perspectives to reach best outcomes; escalates issues to manager when appropriate; apply judgment within established guidelines to resolve client issues and needs Results: Dedicated to finding solutions, resolving problems, and fulfilling client needs; takes personal responsibility to see that every client is satisfied; proactively shares knowledge to help others develop and to improve the performance of the team; consistently exceeds and/or meets goals; bottom line oriented; pushes self and others for results Technical and Functional: Exhibits the technical and functional skills to perform the job In addition to the competencies specific to the Retail Intern role, all Key employees are expected to exhibit Key s Leadership Behaviors (Accountability, Managerial Courage, Drive for Results, Lead Change, Client Focus, Effective Collaboration, Develop Self, Staff and Others, Business Acumen, Manage Vision and Purpose) as outlined in Key s HR Online system.
About the Business
Key Community Bank serves individuals and small to midsized businesses from Maine to Alaska through our 15-state network of over 1,200 branches, 1,500 ATMs, telephone banking and robust online and mobile platforms. KeyBank s Consumer/Business Banking segment provides consumers and small business owners with straightforward banking solutions and personal finance expertise that helps them make confident financial decisions today and plan for tomorrow. Key Private Bank offers wealth planning that follows a consistent, disciplined approach guided by objective advice based on each unique situation. KeyBank Commercial Bank offers midsize business financial services that drive growth and profitability and help business owners identify new opportunities with products and services including deposit, cash management, investment services, commercial lending, equipment leasing, and asset-based lending.
About Key
KeyCorp's roots trace back 190 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Key is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $134.5 billion at March 31, 2017. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, insurance, and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of more than 1,200 branches and more than 1,500 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications, and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
KeyCorp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer Min/Fem/Vet/Disabled.


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Handel's Acis & Galatea - Dunedin Consort - San Francisco Classical Voice
Nymphs and shepherds, unite! Georg Friedrich Händel's path to pastoral bliss beckons in two distinct directions. You can take the composer's original English road of 1718, titled Acis & Galatea, or Mendelssohn's newly resurrected, considerably different German straße of 1828/29, aka Acis und Galatea. Either journey brings rewards, but only one may lead you to paradise.
Thankfully, with the evil Polyphemus disinclined to stray too far from the concert platform, the choice between two recently released recorded versions of Handel's pastoral entertainment is hardly one of life and death. Depending on your preferences, you may even choose both, thereby honoring both spellings of the composer's name: the original German cited above and its English transliteration, George Frideric Handel.
From former Bay Area early music specialist John Butt and the authentic instrument Dunedin Consort & Players of England comes Handel's Original Cannons Performing Version of 1718 (Linn Records). Physically available as a high-resolution SACD (super a compact disc) that will yield multichannel sound on systems so equipped, and state-of-the-art stereo on the rest, this absolutely delicious, irresistible performance also exists as a high-resolution music file downloadable from the label's Web site. Sung in English, with a one-person-to-a-line chorus composed of Handel's five soloists, it purports to reflect the latest research into the scoring that the composer used at the premiere at the palace of Cannons in Middlesex, the country estate of the Duke of Chandos, near London. By referencing a surviving manuscript from a copyist who helped prepare many of Handel's performing scores, Butt deviates from the supposedly latest authoritative edition to change orchestration and instrumentation when he believes that Handel did the same.
From the Bay Area's beloved Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, and FestspielOrchester Göttingen comes a far weightier, German language arrangement by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Dating from 1828/29, it was rediscovered by the Handel Society in Göttingen as late as October 2005. This version, recorded for the first time, was probably performed at the first English presentation of Mendelssohn's version in St. James' Hall, London, in December 1869. The recording, issued by Carus in SACD format, uses four soloists rather than Butt's five, a separate chorus 10 times the size of Butt's, and a sizable orchestra in which authentic instrument sonorities are smoothed over by the sheer mass of sound.
I think you already know where my preferences lie. All you need play is the opening Sinfonia and the start of Galatea's first innocent Air, "Hush, ye pretty warbling choir!" to hear the difference. Butt's woodwinds burble away, chirp, and dance with delight. The contrasting sonorities are delectable.
Irony of ironies, as much as you might expect our Nick to render Mendelssohn's edition as fleet as Peter Pan, there's simply no way to convert 12 violins into four, let alone erase Mendelssohn's violas and other instrumental additions. This isn't a simple case of apples or oranges; Mendelssohn was wheeling a weighty shopping cart around, while Handel was dancing his little picnic basket through the Express line. Not even the presence at Göttingen of such Philharmonia Baroque indispensables as Elizabeth Blumenstock, Lisa Weiss, Phoebe Carrai, and Hanneke van Proosdij can lighten Mendelssohn's far-denser monument to paradise.
Besides the obvious language difference - the Cannons version's clearly enunciated English, which was Handel's language of choice, makes the work far more accessible - there's a huge difference between the vocal soloists. Butt's sound is far more natural and unspoiled. The voice of his Galatea, soprano Susan Hamilton, is kissed with youth. Who would cast off her marvelous "Heart, the seat of soft delight" in favor of the more perfectly sung but far more studied operatic soprano of McGegan's Julia Kleiter? The latter may be the type of voice that Mendelssohn expected to hear. But we, blessed with historic hindsight, need not be limited by such a revisionist vision.
Neither Hamilton nor Butt's Acis, tenor Nicholas Mulroy, has a perfect instrument. Nonetheless, their occasional faltering only adds to the innocence of the presentation. (Butt's Damon, tenor Thomas Hobbs, takes the "flawless tenor" prize.) McGegan's Acis, veteran tenor Christoph Prégardien, is a world-class artist, though he lacks innocence, and his occasional stress on top betrays his age (or at least his limitations).
Butt's hilarious Polyphemus, bass Matthew Brook, is like none I have ever heard. This demon is a paper tiger, a melodramatic terrorist whose cardboard pistol fires off flawless runs rather than piercing rounds. Listen to his entrance, "I rage - I melt - I burn!" and see who falls over first, you from delight or Acis from evil. Want to hear a version of "O ruddier than the cherry" that is so filled with melodramatic mirth that you'll forever scoff at singers who take the character's menace at face value? Brook's Polyphemus is Handel via Gilbert & Sullivan by way of Anna Russell.
You can have your cake and eat it, too. Run, don't walk, to your keyboard or local surviving classical CD vendor and grab Butt's recording. His Handel is fit for paradise.


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Anthony Vega
Camp Fun City Director
Facts at a Glance
2018 Program Brochure
2018 Registration Form
*Current & Updated Physical and Immunization Forms are due at the time of Registration
2018 Authorization of Medications
Physical Form
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
6:00 am – 7:30 am
7:30 am – 9:00 am
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
A one-time Facility Maintenance Fee of $10.00 will be charged to each camper upon their initial registration. The fee will go the general up keep of the camp property, which in turns helps to keep program fees down.
Camp Fun City will utilize the Downtown Springfield Family Center at 275 Chestnut Street including the classrooms, Buxton studio, gymnasium, outdoor play spaces, pool and local parks. Weekly field trips and specialty choices will allow the campers to visit local water parks, beaches, local attractions and more.
Camp Fun City has a wolf theme!
Timber Wolves (Ages 6-8):
Our more experienced campers will enjoy new challenges and new excitement. Emphasis in this unit is on increased self-confidence, encouraging others, responsibility, and cooperation within the group team.
Grey Wolves (Ages 9-12):
This unit features a specially designed program for our oldest .The camp day is filled with specialized activities that are designed to be progressive and challenging, as well as fun and entertaining to the Grey Wolves.
Each session at Camp Fun City offers a different specialty option (or mini-camp) in the morning and a traditional camp experience in the afternoon. Campers are grouped according to age and activity choices. Campers remain with their counselors throughout the day.
Typical day
Arrival and pre-camp activities
Morning announcements/welcome/singing/group checks
9:30-12:00 Specialty mini-camps
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 All Camp Enrichment
2:00 – 3:45 Activity Choice
3:45 – 4:00 Wrap up/Camp closing
MINI CAMP – Specialty options at Camp Fun City
Each session at Camp Fun City offers a different specialty option (or mini-camp) in the morning and a traditional camp experience in the afternoon. Campers are grouped according to age and activity choices. Campers remain with their counselors throughout the second half of the day.
Wet & Wild: Do you love the water? Wet & wild will offer a daily opportunity to get wet! Visit area water slides, water parks, beaches and swim in the pool. Learn the basics of swimming and water safety all while keeping it cool in the summer!
Dance: Turn up that spotlight! Flash mobs, group dance routines and sing alongs! Dance and sing to your favorite movie and television music. Learn all the current dance moves and routines! Put on performances to "wow" your families and friends.
Sci-Madness: This camp promises to be explosive, electrifying and fun! Get excited to be in Science Madness Camp! Create crazy experiments like Gak, Goop and Slime, and some edible fun along the way! Trips to the science museum and other out of this world places will make your inner MAD scientist crazy with excitement.
PC/Video Games: Are you a gamer? Do you love technology? If so, then have we got a camp for you. In PC/Video games you'll be able to play some of the latest video games, consoles and tablets right at camp. Learn how PCs work and what makes them tick. Build your own PC and watch it hum! With visits to area arcades and a visit from the arcade bus, you can get your technology fill all summer long!
Planes, Trains & Outer Space: Create, build and explore anything from helicopter drones, to race cars, boats and rocket ships. Campers will focus primarily on field trips to museums around New England! See real vehicles from the past, present and the future! Campers will build, design and create as well as explore all there is to do with planes, trains and spaceships!
Arts & Crafts: Craft a creation! This unique, hands-on camp introduces young artists to a variety of art media that may include drawing, painting, clay creations, plaster of Paris, paper mache and more! Please send campers in appropriate clothing or with a smock to allow for freedom of expression.


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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Alabama's business recruiters plan to lead trade missions to countries in Southeast Asia, South America and Europe this year.The Alabama Department of Commerce and the Export Alabama Alliance are inviting representatives of local companies to participate in the trips, where they can meet with international companies and possibly find new markets for their products and services.
Export growth tends to fuel job growth. In 2012, the latest year available, the value of Alabama's exports reached $19.5 billion, a 9.4 percent improvement from the previous year.
This year's trade mission schedule includes Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore in March, Peru and Uruguay in June and Belgium and the Netherlands in the fall.
See the Commerce Department's website for more information on how to participate.


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Participatory PD in your PJ's
Twitter chats with leadership from Michigan educators
Hashtag & Topic
#MichED- Michigan education
#MSchat- Middle School education
#21stedchat- 21st C. learning
#LivEDchat- Livingston Co. Edu
#UrbanED- Urban Education
#CollabED- Collaborative Edu
#COLchat- Cultures of Learning
#titletalk- Promoting reading
#UDLchat- Universal Design for Learning
Day & Time
Wednesdays, 8pm
Thursdays, 8pm
Sundays, 8pm
Wednesdays, 9pm
1st Sunday, 9pm
Mondays, 8pm
Mondays, 9pm
Last Sunday, 8pm
Wednesdays, 9pm
Educator Handles
@bushjms, @techsavvyed & many others
PD By The People
Eureka McCormick, a 4th grade teacher from Swartz Creek, loved the EdCamp model so much that she's traveled with colleagues to events in Battle Creek and Novi. "For me, it's a great way to hear from other teachers who are in the classroom. I've met 4th grade teachers and picked up strategies for implementing the Common Core and integrating technology. I don't think I could get this anywhere else".
Dozens of Michigan events have been hosted since 2011 and many local districts are starting to take note and change the way PD is offered. After attending EdCamp Detroit, teacher Jason Sproule and Technology Director Carol Tinney helped Livonia Public Schools start to offer their own 'LivCamps' . "We saw the true value of teachers teaching teachers" said Tinney. And so did many others. Over 200 educators showed up for the first optional Saturday morning event that included food, prizes and lots of meaningful conversations. According to Sproule, many teachers relate better to discussing their practices with peers and those who understand the culture and unique challenges. The format has even spread to Jason's building, where staff meetings are transformed once a month into mini EdCamp-style breakouts led by teachers.
Listen to the voices of Michigan Edcampers on the recent #MichED Podcast episode "PD By The People":
On-Demand and On-Air
Dan Spencer, an EdTech Consultant for the Jackson County ISD, believes Hangouts On Air can be a way to break teachers out of the silos of their classrooms. "It has the potential to be a great connector. They can hear and see what other educators are doing without having to travel. We can bring out some of the great things happening into an accessible place and give the teachers a way to connect with each other."
View the #TeamJXN On Air PD playlist
PD In Your Pocket
State of Opportunity: Documentaries and shorts from Michigan Radio "examining the impact healthcare, schools, family, the local community, and public policy have on child development…from cradle to college." stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org
#MichED Podcast: Thematic stories produced by capturing student & teacher voices miched.net/miched-podcast
Two Guys Show: A light-hearted chat featuring interviews with EdTech rockstars and tips for tech integration: www.twoguysandsomeipads.com/p/the-two-guys-show.html
Middle School Matters: News and conversation on relevant topics for middle school education: middleschoolmatters.com
Podcasts for Leaderful Schools: Exploring aspects of educational leadership at all levels "through critical conversations": oakland.edu/podcasts4collaborativeleadership
Panthers Podcast: Hear the stories of local educators from the Western School District in Parma, Michigan. http://www.podomatic.com/profile/ben-gilpin


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Sorry for missing in action for a while. I wasn't feeling too well so didn't update the blog. I am back in action now!
A friend ordered Bob the Builder with Scoop the machine design cake for her son's birthday. This is my 2nd time doing Bob the builder but enjoyed it. Hope you like the cake Jaden!
I didn't manage to capture some good photos of the cake, just a few bad angle and lighting photos. Sorry!
Birthday boy's name on Bobby's sign
Last but not least the two main characters.


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Black doctoral students have been encouraged to "break new ground" and "forge a path" for young scholars who come behind them.
Hakim Adi, a professor of history at the University of Chichester, told a group of early career researchers from minority ethnic groups that they are "pioneers" in their subjects and should not be discouraged by any difficulties that they come across.
Professor Adi was speaking at the first meet-up event of the Black Doctoral Network UK, a support group for PhD students, which has grown to 200 members since its launch less than a year ago.
The network, which is affiliated with the US-based Black Doctoral Network, is the first of its kind in the UK and was launched by two PhD students who felt isolated in the academy. The network has a Facebook group where members can exchange information, support each other and flag up calls for papers and conference opportunities.
Founders Monique Charles, of the University of Warwick, and Antoinette Kwegan, of the UCL Institute of Education, hosted its first meet-up for members in London earlier this month.
At the event, four academics from ethnic minority backgrounds talked about their experiences in higher education and gave advice to about 40 attendees who are starting out in their careers.
Professor Adi, who says he may be the first and only history professor in the country from an African background, said: "It took me 11 years to get promoted to professor from reader."
He added that many of his non-minority colleagues secured similar promotions in three to five years. "It may take a while but eventually you will get there," he said.
He continued: "We are breaking new ground and we have that responsibility to break into these fields for those who come behind us…It is our responsibility to forge a path for a critical mass to emerge. Don't give up, don't be demoralised by all these difficulties that can appear in front of you."


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Hair: Magika~Dara Ears: PE~Elflorn Eyes: Lithium~Creation::Death Mask Piercing: HOD~Agony
Sooo ok, i was able to post a blog tonight!! WOO!!! haha i've been in like a crazy awesome stompy type of phase recently..don't ask why. I think it's cuz i was always a little dark..in my style and what not..even irl.who knows!! haha But i do know i am working on trying to be a dj in sl, so yeah HAHAHA!! But ANYWHOOLZES!!! I bought some new things, I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! my eyes they are soo awesome and creepy, just love them to death....haha get it death??..oh ok..you didn't...well that stinks =P but yeah the creature does some awesome eyes, and I am about to gobble up some more sometime today!! woot!!! I hope all of your lovely's out there in the sl world..or rl world. Have a wonderful christmas! I have to work tomorrow night poo =[ soo i will try to put up a christmas bloggie blog blog on maybe..umm christmas??


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Ten years after it disappears beneath the icy waters of Starvation Lake, a beloved hockey coach's snowmobile is found in another lake.
Jack Blackburn had it all. His players adored him, and his success in bringing them closer and closer to the Michigan championship put his adopted town on the map, brought a welcome influx of new investment capital and made him the first citizen of the hockey-mad hamlet. Now the snowmobile on which his assistant Leo Redpath watched him sink into Starvation Lake has turned up five miles away. Did it drift there through an underground tunnel, or is there a more sinister explanation? Gus Carpenter, the former goalie who blew the state championship game for Blackburn's finest team, would seem the logical person to investigate. But Gus's experience digging up juicy stories for the Detroit Times has come at a high price, and not even his secluded gig as associate editor of the Pine County Pilot can prevent his scandalous past from resurfacing. Gus's struggle with this new mystery is complicated by his old rival Teddy Boynton's attempt to put Soupy Campbell, Gus's best friend, out of business, and by his painful discovery that all the people he's been closest to, from his mother to his old girlfriend to his society columnist, have been hoarding secrets that have made them strangers to him.
Gruley's debut is generously plotted and rewardingly solid on character and atmosphere, though most readers will be ahead of Gus every step of the way.