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So how was Texas? Hot. Well it was hot the few minutes I spent outside. We were only able to go to dinner once to Underbelly while in Houston, Dallas went Airport – Hotel – Client – Airport. So not much to see there, such is the nature of work Travel. I expect more of the same + exhaustion next week in Phoenix. My flight takes off at six and I will be landing w the time difference at 10:30 after a layover in Detroit. I will deal with it all with a More Knitting Time.
This weekend I wrapped up a few things that I had been getting ready for the shop and started posting, as I caught up with a bunch of the DNC speeches, I started posting a set of earrings I made all around Game of Thrones. It also helps that I finally finished the last bit of A Feast for Crows, I just have to add A Dance with Dragons to the Kindle and get started on that. Also reading the note at the end of Feast For Crows from GRRM, made me try not to think about how long it will be til the next book.
Mother of Dragons Earrings in Green, Black, and Gold. One for each of the Dragon eggs Dany was gifted at her wedding. The red and black beads are fore House Targaryen and their symbol of a red three headed dragon on a black background. "In Fire and Blood" Blood of Dragons, and the blood of old Valyria.
House Arryn earrings, I see these on Lysa Arryn, as she goes about life at the Vale, making use of the sky cells, and the Moon Door. "As High as Honor" a white bird on a blue background is the symbol of House Arryn.
Night Watch Earrings. I took a fitting line out of the oath of the night's watch for this. "I am the sword in the darkness." The first line of defense for the realm from all the mysteries and dangers further north of the Wall.
House Tyrell Earrings. A house whose motto just makes me grin. "Growing Stronger." This is the house of the Knight of Flowers. We meet a quite few members of this family that just remind you just cause their symbol is a gold rose on a green background, do not think them delicate.
As per usual they are all available in the Etsy Store.


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Money can't buy you love? Well, over the weekend in Fort Lauderdale, it bought dates with some of South Florida's most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes.
And among the 20 singles who starred in the 19th Annual Make-a-Wish Bachelor & Bachelorette Dream Date Auction at Sway nightclub was Local 10 noon co-anchor Jenise Fernandez.
Last week, Fernandez, 29, a former Miss Miami and fourth runner-up Miss Florida, told Gossip Extra she worried no one would bid on her and the date package she dreamed up, dinner and a Florida Panthers game in the VIP seats.
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Fernandez made quite an impression, and at auction's the end, she agreed to go on separate dates with two guys who couldn't outbid one another. They each paid $6,500 for the honor.
Ka-ching for the nonprofit: $13 K to add to the tally for the night, a total of $70,000.
Make-a-Wish is known for allowing children with life-threatening illnesses to go on the kind of vacation they couldn't afford on their own.
"The whole thing was really exciting, but I was really nervous," Fernandez said Monday. "But some of my friends and co-workers were in the crowd to cheer me on, so that helped.
"I never thought the bids would get so high."
Fernandez said the actual nights for her dates haven't been picked, but she is waiting for hockey season to start.
As for the guys who tried to outbid one another, they were identified as Scott Alford and Cesar Gutierrez.
For $6,500 per, they'll get the VIP treatment at a Panthers game with Fernandez by their side.

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Right now, Haji Shakil Sb is on Hajj. Before he left, this unworthy soul asked him to make dua' by name. Yesterday morning, I got a message on my mobile from his Saudi number. It said, "Al Salamu Alaikum. Aapke liye dua kar raha hun. Aapse dua ki darkhwast hai." Translation: "I am praying for you. Request for dua".
For a long time I just sat in my office staring at my mobile wondering at the love and mercy of our elders. Out of the hundreds, nay thousands of people who must have requested Hadrat for dua's, the Shaykh remembered me and while sitting in the Haram he managed to get the message across to me and at the same time requested for dua's himself.
Truly, our elders cannot be matched in their love for the Ummah, their humility and their compassion. May Allah protect and preserve our Shuyukh, our Sufiya and our 'Ulema.
Peace and Blessings upon Muhammad al Mustafa, his Companions and his Family.
'Alaikum Salam.


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Murple — Io Sono Murple
by Mike McLatchey, Published 1996-08-01
Murple is one of the countless Italian one-shots who released one rare album and disappeared off of the face of the earth. Their style was typical of the era – a classical/symphonic rock in the vein of Le Orme or Latte e Miele with songs arranged in suite format. There's a lot of good music here with a strong sense of dynamics – parts rock, swing, and softened with the usual Italian flare. The sense of Romanticism certainly dominates and occasionally the album peaks with grandeur. Overall an impressive album, not a classic but worth a listen.
Filed under: Reissues, Issue 10, 2011 releases, 1974 recordings
Related artist(s): Murple
You Can Be Part of an Ambient Electronic Project – The Gesture of History is a new electronic project put together by Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Steve Roach, and violist Sam Shadow. The music started as an instrumental track Rosenthal was working on for a Black Tape album, but took on a life of its own and demanded further enhancements. The majority of the funds raised will go to manufacturing costs for LP and CD editions, as well as other items as detailed on the Kickstarter page. » Read more
Keyboardist Ingo Bischof R.I.P. – Keyboard player Ingo Bischof, best known as the longtime keyboard player of German band Kraan, passed away on January 29th, 2019. Bischof was born January 2, 1951 in Berlin-Kreuzberg and joined Kraan in 1975. » Read more
Jazz Composer Mark Lomax, II Releases Epic 12CD Set – In addition to being a fine jazz drummer, Dr. Mark Lomax, II is a composer in residence at Ohio State University, where he has been very busy on the compositional front. The year 2019 is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first ship bringing African slaves to North America, and in commemoration of this, Lomax has produced 400: An Afrikan Epic, a 12 volume set of CDs featuring a variety of different musical ensembles. » Read more
Chicago-Based Surabhi Ensemble Tours the World in January – Surabhi Ensemble was formed more than a decade ago in Chicago with the aim of bringing together musicians from varying traditions to make music. Saraswathi Ranganathan, who plays veena, assembled a cast that includes Arabic oud, Spanish guitar, and percussion from Africa and India. This month, the group will be sharing their sounds with concert-goers in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. » Read more
Seaprog Festival Seeks Donations – Seaprog is a small festival in Seattle that highlights creative music from many genres with artists from around the world. It's also a US non-profit organization. They're seeking donations to help keep the ball rolling. Starting in 2013, the organization has been growing, and has featured such artists as Free Salamander Exhibit, Jack o' the Clock, Nik Turner, Cabezas de Cera, Miriodor, Thinking Plague, and many more. » Read more
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - 2001 Live Birds – Since the moment I first heard Magnetic Flip around twenty years ago, I've been a fan of this band, and have followed their progress with pleasure, enjoying each new phase as much as the previous,... (2006) » Read more


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Welcome to What Will You Stamp? This week we are highlighting the Happiest of Days Stamp set. I adore the whimsical font, and hand drawn images in this set - it was one of the first items to go on my wish list in the Occasions Catalogue.
I went with a "pink" combination today, Pink Pirouette with Copper, and the focal sentiment looks superb heat embossed! I lightly coloured the flower and gave the leaves a hint of colour before cutting with my most used framelits - the Stitched Shapes framelits.
Next I created my own background by stamping the floral image over and over, Pink Piroette on Pink Piroette - yeah, I just can't get enough of anything pink!
To carry the copper element through the card I wanted a fine layer, but alas not copper foil sheets, never fear - I cut a layer using the cardstock from the sentiment and Copper heat embossed the edge, waste not, want not as my mother would say.
I continued the delicate theme of the card by adding Vellum Oval Scalloped die cut under the sentiment, and finished by adding a bow with Copper Trim - this ribbon is amazing, you can basically move it into what ever shape you desire, fantastic for bows.
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Of course! However, I must make it clear
that any comments I make about UUA are my own personal comments
as a longtime UU and do not reflect the views of the American
Humanist Association.
Tell us something about the current status
of the American Humanist Association. Is membership up? Are there
new AHA chapters? In your estimation as president, what is the
overall "health" of the organization?
The AHA has come a long way since the turn of the century and
since the AHA board decided to move the national office from Amherst,
New York to Washington, D.C. Before we left Amherst, our membership
(once as high as 5800) dwindled to well under 5000 and our processes
lagged far behind those of other organizations: we had two operating
computers, dial-up Internet access, and rotary phones.
Now we use state-of-the-art technology
and have jumped in with both feet into power- brokering in the
nation's capitol. So it's not surprising that our
membership has rebounded and soared well beyond our 65-year high
of 5800. At last count, we had 7400 members and that number keeps
rising. Since moving to Washington, the strength and numbers of
our local groups have nearly doubled, and we've seen similar
improvements in all our program areas.
Not only are we raising a Humanist voice
in Washington, but we are also making a difference. As one example:
we have been an instrumental part of political coalitions that
have prevented Bush from legislating a single piece of his precious
faith-based initiatives program.
The UU Infidels, as an organization, is
concerned with improving the status of Humanists, freethinkers,
atheists, and agnostics within the UUA. Do you share that concern?
First, let me explain that I have a problem
regarding how to refer to non-supernaturalists, because we use
so many different terms to identify ourselves. Since I favor the
term "Humanist," I'll use it in my responses,
but I want to make it clear that, in using that term, I am referring
to atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, brights, non-theists or
any other term we use when referring to our naturalistic lifestance.
As a Unitarian Humanist for 40 years,
I certainly share all of the concerns of the UU Infidels. Shortly
after the UUI was organized, I met Timothy Travis, founder of
the UUI, at the Godless Americans March on Washington, in 2002.
We spoke about our concerns with the UUA and about a need to organize
the UU Humanists to maintain an influential voice aimed at the
UUA. After the Godless March, the UUI focused on this concern
and, with the dedicated assistance of people like you and other
UUI members, we finally have that voice. When the American Humanist
Association convened a summit meeting this past January and invited
the leaders of all national Humanist organizations, the UUI certainly
was included and well-represented by Timothy.
You visit a lot of UU churches and fellowships.
You're probably better in-touch with grassroots' opinion
than many of us. What are you hearing from non-believers about
the UUA's regard for their point-of-view?
Concerns expressed to me reflect the concerns
of UU Infidels. Non-theist UUs feel increasingly marginalized
and merely "tolerated" by the UUA. This has resulted
in many Humanists leaving their UU churches, thus exacerbating
the marginalization of those who remain.
Most Humanists in the UU churches I have
visited throughout the United States believe that the UUA is not
concerned with the discomfort they feel in worship services and
with statements emanating from Beacon Street, which are increasingly
stressing supernatural concepts of a deity. Since Humanists still
comprise a large percentage of UU members, I think the UUA could
easily resolve this discomfort by adopting a statement similar
to the one proposed by Jim Haught, a long-time UU and editor of
West Virginia's Charleston Gazette. Jim's statement,
adopted by the UUI for a petition drive, says that the UUA takes
no position on the existence or non-existence of a deity.
Do you think there is a chance that UUA will issue such a statement?
Not in the near future. But eventually,
with the UU Infidels gaining more and more support, and with Humanists
remaining in their churches and speaking out against the trend
to become a form of Christian Lite, I think the UUA will be obliged
to consider such a statement. Also, the UU Infidels group is a
good foundation to develop support for a Humanist candidate for
the presidency of UUA, when president Sinkford's term expires.
You mentioned at the 2005 General Assembly,
speaking at the UU Infidels workshop, that we non-believers should
present ourselves and our opinions with more positive expression.
How do we walk the line as UUs, between criticism of UU leadership
and positive promotion of our identity?
That's an excellent question and
a subject that should be a major discussion point among UUIs.
We should promote our identity in a positive manner by requesting
more Humanist services in our churches and fellowships and we
should offer to conduct those services. We should volunteer to
serve on minister search committees and have a voice in selecting
our ministers. We should discuss our Humanism positively, not
by attacking the religionists, but rather by talking about the
positive nature of our own philosophy. Our philosophy promises
a good, ethical life without fear of death or an afterlife; it
promises intellectual integrity. The supernaturalists, in contrast,
offer unproven beliefs. Ours is the more helpful and realistic
As for criticism of UU leadership, that
can also be done in a positive manner. An ideal manner of dealing
with the UUA is Jim Haught's request (previously mentioned)
for a definitive statement by the UUA saying that it takes no
stand on the existence or non-existence of a supernatural deity.
The refusal by the UUA to take this stand (so far) seems to demonstrate
that the organization is reluctant not to embrace supernatural
religion. And this UUA attitude will be revealed without our direct
attacks on the UUA.
In a 2003 article in UU World, "Our
Humanist Legacy," former UUA president Bill Schultz expressed
regrets for encouraging Humanists to work for the UUA, while Humanism
struggled "to flourish as a stand-alone movement."
What's your opinion about dividing our energies between
the UUA and organizations specifically for non-believers?
About 20 years ago Bill Schultz expressed
concern that UUs are placing too much stress on rationality. As
with many of his other statements, I really do not understand
Schultz's meaning or motivation for the quote you cited
above. Since I cannot do so positively and diplomatically, I won't
comment on any statements made by Schultz
UUs (or former UUs) are the largest single
demographic of AHA members. Although many of our current members
joined AHA after leaving their UU churches, I don't consider
membership in both UU churches and AHA as a division of our energies.
The two complement each other. We join churches mainly for social
reasons as well as for involvement in local activism. We join
Humanist organizations mainly to support national efforts on behalf
of all Humanists. Many AHA chapters are organized within UU churches
and such local groups are assisted by the national organization.
At this time I think that rather than
Humanism, it is the UUA that is struggling to flourish as a "stand-alone
Some leaders of and members in atheist
and Humanist organizations lament that non-believers are reluctant
"joiners" and unwilling to devote much time, thought
and money toward activism. What is your opinion?
I don't think that most Humanists
are reluctant "joiners." Rather it is because we join
so many organizations that we cannot devote much time to each
of the organizations. I belong to and contribute to every national
freethought organization (Atheist Alliance International, American
Atheists, Freedom From Religion Foundation, Secular Coalition
for America, etc.). I also belong to many secular non-Humanist
organizations (ACLU, Americans United, Planned Parenthood, Scouting
for All, etc.). Because our time, money and energy are limited,
if we want to be active we must choose an organization to which
we will dedicate the majority of our energy. I have chosen the
AHA. But my membership in the other organizations certainly does
not diminish the effectiveness of AHA.
Marilyn, if I may use you as an example,
I know you are an AHA member who is at least active enough to
attend our annual conference. Several weeks after I met you at
the AHA's annual conference, I shared a panel with you at
the UUA General Assembly (at a UU Infidels breakout session) and
I know you are very active in your UU church in Lubbock, Texas.
So you are active in at least four organizations of which I am
aware and, I'm sure, in others of which I am not aware.
I certainly don't think your activism with any of the organizations
has a negative impact on the other organizations.
You mentioned several atheist and Humanist
organizations. Various estimates indicate that membership in all
the organizations combined is far less than the number of atheists
and Humanists in the United States. How do you account for that?
In my local AHA chapter in Las Vegas,
I ask each new member why he or she joined our AHA chapter. Usually,
the person comments about being unaware that there were organized
groups of Humanists. Our greatest challenge is to inform unaffiliated
Humanists that we are organized. They are not alone in their non-belief
of supernaturalism. We must also make the general public aware
that Humanists have many values; our identity is not simply that
of non-belief. We must encourage and make it safe for Humanists
to "come out of their closets" and openly identify
themselves as atheists or Humanists.
How can we do that? How can we change
our society's negative image of atheists and Humanists?
We can all work toward that goal by openly
discussing our non-belief whenever the opportunity arises. For
example, suppose we tell trusted friends and neighbors who respect
us that we don't believe in supernatural gods? They will
then realize that good people hold these kinds of views. That
kind of realization will make it easier for the rest of us to
start acknowledging our beliefs and non-beliefs.
Organizationally, the AHA is currently
the first and only organization to use public media to convey
that message. We currently have full-page ads in various progressive
magazines (American Prospect, The Nation, The Progressive, Mother
Jones, etc.) conveying the message that Humanists have values,
but that the religious fundamentalists ignore our values while
continuing to claim their moral certainty. The AHA will continue
this and other advertising campaigns as long as we have the funds
to do so. Hopefully, we will get the funds to expand into mainstream
publications such as Time and Newsweek, as well as radio and television.
You have been quite concerned, I think,
with fostering a sense of cooperation among various organizations
supportive of non-believers. Do you see improvement in the relationships
and joint efforts of these organizations?
I certainly do see an improvement. AHA is a strong advocate for
coalitions of all atheist and Humanist organizations. That is
why we convened a meeting in Washington, D.C. this past January,
which was attended by the leaders of 24 national Humanist organizations
(including UUI), to discuss issues of common concern and develop
ways to work together to address those issues. This summit meeting
will be held again in 2006 in California and will be sponsored
by Atheist Alliance International.
The American Humanist Association is also
a member of the Secular Coalition for America (a coalition of
five national Humanist organization), which is located on the
Web at www.secularcoalition.org. While none of our individual
organizations had sufficient funds to do so, as a coalition we
have been able to hire the first lobbyist in this country to represent
atheism and Humanism and present our voice to Congress. As a coalition
we were able to get more publicity presenting the positive face
of Humanism than we could ever do as independent organizations.
In the past month, our new lobbying endeavor has received extensive
coverage in USA Today and many other newspapers throughout the
United States and even international coverage in the London Observer.
Our atheist views have also had public TV exposure on FOX news,
CBS, etc. and in her first month on the job, our lobbyist has
appeared on the "O'Reilly Factor" as well as
other national television shows.
The combined effort of our national organizations
has had an extraordinary synergistic effect from which all atheists
and Humanists will benefit.
What upcoming events/activities should
non-believers mark on their calendars? What can we do to help?
I am aware of the following planned activities:
October 9: Freethought Day activities
in Sacramento, CA: (www.freethoughtday.org)
November 4 or 5: Scouting for All demonstration
in Washington, D.C., protesting
BSA's exclusion of Atheists and Gays: (www.scoutingforall.org).
November 10, 11: Atheists in Foxholes
– Washington, D.C. This is an American Atheist
event (www.americanatheists.org) that is endorsed by American
Humanist Association
and various other organizations (www.americanhumanist.org). The
November 11
event will be preceded by a banquet on November 10.
November 11-13 Freedom From Religion Foundation annual conference
in Orlando, FL:
The web sites for the organizations will
provide additional information about each event. There may be
other events I cannot recall at this time. I only listed 2005
If we want to help, we should make every
effort to attend those activities where we need to present a strong
voice—especially the "Atheists in Foxholes"
event. If we appear on the mall in large numbers we will get more
national publicity and let Congress know that we are not an insignificant
In general what can we all do to promote
Humanism in this country and to prevent the United States from
becoming a theocracy?
We can make our voices heard in protest
of violations of the constitutional separation of religion and
government. We should also be concerned with general discrimination
against Humanists. As I said before, the best way to do this is
through organizations and coalitions of organizations. By joining
and supporting those organizations that are willing to cooperate
with other like organizations, we can take advantage of the resulting
synergy and be most effective.
What is your opinion of the UU Infidels?
have nothing but praise for the organization and its dedicated
board. As a longtime UU I feel that I finally have a voice (through
UUI) by which I can express my dissatisfaction with UUA policies
that have been growing progressively anti-Humanist over the past
fifteen years. While I am appreciative of the HUUmanists for providing
an excellent intellectual source for UU Humanists, we also desperately
need a more activist organization that seeks to bring about changes
in the UUA. I think UUI is that organization.


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Title: Devil in Disguise
Author: Jessica Steele
Harlequin Romance
Published: August 1981
Reasons I might actually remember this one: I don't know if I'm just having a streak of fantastically bad luck, or if vintage romance novels really do use rape in their plots so frequently that it's not unusual to grab two at random and get back-to-back nightmares of sexual coersion. But whatever the reason, this one was as disturbing and anxiety-inducing a read as the last one.
I want to be fair here. There were parts of this book I really liked. The heroine, still living at home at nineteen (and neither employed nor in school), had a sort of idyllic family life, with doting parents and two older brothers. Granted they were the teensiest bit smothery, on account of her Traumatic Background Event, but honestly I would rather have been at home myself at nineteen so I felt pangs of envy.
The hero, if you can overlook his one enormous flaw, was broody and inscrutable but also tender, considerate, and given to muttering Endearments in a Foreign language. Those are all things I like.
But then, getting to that enormous flaw, there's the bit where he kidnaps her. See, he thinks one of her adoring brothers has seduced his sister. So in revenge, he's kidnapped the heroine (he lied to her, making her think her brother had been injured, and whisked her off to Greece) and intends that she "suffer the same fate" (his words, not mine) that his sister suffered. If the heroine doesn't come "voluntarily" to his bed, he'll have her brother killed or maimed (he's holding the brother captive on an island).
So…yeah. "Voluntarily." He actually explicitly states that this isn't rape, and that he won't rape her, and I have a sickening feeling that possibly the law would have been on his side on that one. But the thing that pushes this book over into nightmare territory, and had me reading it with a clenched stomach, is that the heroine's Traumatic Background Event was a stranger beating her up and trying to rape her when she was fourteen. So she's not, you know, indignant and angry: she's terrified, shaking, and sick at the thought of any sex. She has night terrors in which she relieves the attack. She suffered trauma-induced mutism for a year after the attack. Even non-kidnap-y consensual sex has been completely off the table for her, and now this.
I'm sorry. I know it was written in a different era, and the past is another country and all that, but it was impossible for me to get past my own horror and relax into this story. At all.
Now, I remember once reading somewhere that one possible function of rape in romance narratives is that they, in a sense, reassure the reader, or at least give the reader a non-brain-exploding way of thinking about rape, because of course in the romance novel the rape victim emerges triumphant: the rapist loves her, so she has power over him, and instead of being shunned or blamed or discarded she achieves social status and what-have-you. It's one of those theories that I find intriguing, but have never been entirely convinced by. But I have to say, in fairness to this book and this author: this book, more than any romance novel I can remember reading, does lend a certain credence to that idea.
The heroine at the outset is still deeply traumatized by her attack, and sees herself as weak and cowardly and "nothing." By the end of the book, the hero has been brought to the point of confessing his love for her, asking her to marry him, apologizing to her and to her brother, and admitting his sister was lying all along; the heroine, in pointed contrast, is buying new clothes, trying a couple of casual dates with her brother's friend, no longer having nightmares or sleeping with the door open, and is newly aware that she has sexual desires (not that she ever uses the word sexual even in internal monologues) and has not had that ruined for her forever.
So in a sense, the book shows you a young woman falling in love and that being a healing experience for her, and that's great. I would just have been a hell of a lot more comfortable if it had all come about throug their being snowed in at a cabin or something, rather than his being a kidnapper and revenge-seducer.
Active Ingredients:
Virgin Heroine
Greek Billionaire
Traumatic Background Event
Kindly Servants
Endearments in a Foreign Language
Seduction as Revenge
Hero Insults Heroine by Refusing to Believe she is a Virgin


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'It's so important to look after diabetes properly', says dad of tragic Graeme
The family of a 24-year-old Dubliner who died after neglecting his diabetes has warned others with the condition to take greater care.
The parents of Graeme Skerrett, of Belgard Heights, Tallaght, believe he lost his life because he was not aware of how seriously ill he was.
"Graeme was a really popular lad. His friends loved him, he is missed," his father, Anthony, told Dublin Coroner's Court.
"We don't want anyone else to die like this. It is so important to look after this condition properly."
Graeme, who loved GAA and worked at a hotel in Newlands Cross, died after his blood sugars rose to dangerously high levels because he was not taking his insulin. He had been diagnosed as an insulin dependent diabetic at the age of six.
In the months before his death, he had been neglecting his condition, the court heard.
"He was managing as he went along," his father said.
"He wasn't consistent. We were onto him, myself and his mother, encouraging him to get the insulin pump therapy, but he didn't want the inconvenience of it."
The court heard Anthony drove his son to a friend's home on September 18, 2016, the last time he saw him alive.
"He was in good form. His plan was to come home that night or the next day, he wasn't 100pc sure," said Anthony.
Graeme was drinking with friends that night and continued the following day. On the Tuesday, his breathing was laboured and he stayed in bed all day. A friend said he thought Graeme had drunk a bottle of coke and some water that day.
Friends tried to rouse him on September 21, but he did not respond.
An ambulance was called at 12.25pm and he was taken to Tallaght Hospital where he arrived in cardiac arrest. He was pronounced dead at 1.07pm.
The cause of death was diabetic ketoacidosis, according to a post-mortem report.
"Diabetic ketoacidosis is a potentially lethal condition, the result of diabetes out of control," said coroner Dr Myra Cullinane.
"In order to use sugar, the body needs insulin. If there's no insulin, the body breaks down fat, and the by-product of this is acid. As your blood becomes more acid, your system begins to break down."
She added that sugar highs are equally as dangerous as sugar lows.
"The problem with insulin dependent diabetes is you have to be disciplined, and it's very hard," the coroner said, returning a verdict of death due to natural causes.


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Bestselling Health & Wellness Authors, Recording Artists, Owners of Welby Street Press
Two sisters, Serene Allison and Pearl Barrett, are self –published and owners of their own publishing company, Welby Street Press. They launched their book Trim Healthy Mama at the end of 2013 and to date it has sold over 100, 000 copies. It is ranked the number one Amazon title for the 2013/2014 Health and Wellness Category, has been a top 10 online bestseller for Barnes&Noble and on The New York Times bestseller list.
The sisters sidestepped the traditional industry models and templates and dominated the health industry purely with organic growth. The message of the book caught on like wild fire with NO advertising or marketing. Its success has been driven only by word of mouth and a strong Facebook presence. Trim Healthy Mama is a faith-based lifestyle and brand with over a 145,000 likes on its Facebook fan page and growing fast with an average of 17,000-30,000 community members talking about it at any given time. Currently there are over 100,000 members in official, private Trim Healthy Mama Facebook groups. The Trim Healthy Mama brand also released a line of natural sweeteners that sold approximately 50,000 units in the first 90 days.
After years of seeking the optimum way to eat and after much trial and error on other diet plans, the sisters arrived at the place they call "done". That place is where they connect with readers and audiences who are diet weary and have lost hope for renewed health and a trim figure. It was crawling out of that place called "done" where the sisters formed a new healthy way to eat and to live life to the fullest potential. The reason this food freedom movement has caught on is because it releases people into a new way of looking at food and health. No more binge and purge but rather daily celebration of food and life. Serene and Pearl have created a beautifully simple way to ensure that you eat the right proportions of the three macronutrients-fat, protein and carbs- for satisfaction, energy and weight loss.
The down to earth and relaxed approach to teaching these life transforming health principles comes across both in the authors' written words and in their inspiring live sessions.
The unique and courageous sisters have found success as: songwriters, recording artists and speakers and now as authors, publishers and entrepreneurs.
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God's food truth versus man's food wisdom comes into conflict, whom do we believe? There is a vast ocean of pounding waves out there called "health advice"- it is extremely confusing, so conflicting that it threatens to drown us with fear. One day meat is perceived good for you, the next day it's dangerous, and only plant based diet is healthy. The same goes for gains, one day they're good, the next day…not so much! Coffee and butter are a big NO on one Monday…hold up, now its Wednesday, they're OK. Tomorrow that may change again, so stay tuned. Man's wisdom is not stable, it changes with the wind; however, God's truth never changes and he generously gave us a blueprint to follow with regards to what is good or not good for our bodies. In this session we share the story of how the Food Freedom movement was birthed. We jumped into the deep end and trusted God rather than in Man's wisdom, once we did that our health turned around and weight issues vanished.
The stumbling blocks that prevent women from better health and trimmer waistlines often begin with, "too".
Too Busy Too Expensive Too Tired Too "Been There Done That" Too Stressed Too In Pain Too Alone Too Hopeless Too Addicted Too Scared
Each of these are real and feel like daunting challenges to overcome. We'll tackle these roadblocks one by one. We'll move them out of the way so a healthy journey can form, then continue on to your personal goals.
The binge then purge mentality is entrenched deeply within us women but it only leads to crash and burn. Diet headlines continue to scream ridiculous promises, "Lose Ten Pounds in Ten Days! The reality of those promise's, none of the tangents are sustainable long term- we seek comfort over misery, especially when the stressors of life hit us hard. Who really has the time to spend a daily hour in the gym or who has the self-control to cut out calories, fats or carbs? It goes against our innate design to punish our bodies by food restriction and over exercising. In the end, those sorts of boot camp approaches fail us… We give up and the pounds pile back on giving rise to the rising epidemic of Type 2 diabetes, inflammation and a host of other diseases.
Is there a way out of the binge then purge trap? Let's all give a big welcome to Food Freedom!
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In a first, a bench of seven Supreme Court judges started contempt of court proceedings against Calcutta HC Judge CS Karnan for levelling allegations of corruption against Madras HC chief justice and other judges repeatedly. The top court has asked Karnan to appear in person before it and explain as to why contempt proceedings be not initiated against him.
The issuance of the notice is historic because this is the first time when a constitutional court has started the contempt of court proceedings against a judge of the SC or HC. A high court judge can only be removed through impeachment by the Parliament. "Issue notice to Justice C S Karnan. Returnable on 13 February. Shree Justice C S Karnan shall forthwith refrain from handling any judicial or administrative work as may have been assigned to him," the bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said.
Seven judge bench of Supreme court issues contempt notice to Calcutta HC Judge CS Karnan, initiating suo moto criminal proceedings
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The Times of India reports, the proceedings were listed on Wednesday by the bench comprising J Chelameswar, Dipak Misra, Ranjan Gogoi, P C Ghose, Kurian Joseph and Madan B Lokur. and led by Chief Justice of India JS Khehar. The Supreme Court said, we must be as careful as we can and it has to be established whether Justice Karnan wrote those communications.
At the outset, Attorney General (AG) Mukul Rohatgi referred to the nature of public communications allegedly undertaken by Justice Karnan and said they are "slanderous" and "disparaging" to the system of administration of justice.
The bench was formed after a bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Amitava Roy, Bloomberg Quint said, last month accepted Justice Karnan's plea to argue his case in person by accepting his initial request to discharge his advocate S Gowthaman.
In 2015, Karnan had threatened contempt of court proceedings against Chief Justice Sanjay K Kaul, whose name has been recommended by for the appointment as a judge of the SC.
According to The Times Of India, Karnan had accused Kaul of interfering in his work and had sought a CBI probe into the alleged forged educational qualification of another HC judge.The judge had gone on to allege that he was being victimised on the basis of caste bias as he was a Dalit and that the Madras HC chief justice was harassing him.
Earlier, the Registrar General of the Madras High Court had said that around 12 files of the high court were still with Justice Karnan and had to be returned.
According to The Indian Express, around a fortnight ago, Justice Karnan had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to take action against what he termed as "high corruption at the judiciary". He had gone onto name around 20 judges of the apex court and the Madras High Court in the letter dated 23 January. Earlier in 2016, Karnan had also sought an answer from the Chief Justice of India's over the decision to transfer him.
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Dr. Demetrios Tselengidis,
Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Firstly, it is necessary to clarify that as Orthodox Christians we believe, in agreement with the Symbol of Faith (the Creed) of Nicene-Constantinople (381 AD), "in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church". According to the unbroken dogmatic consciousness of the Orthodox Church throughout the ages, i.e., according to her self-consciousness, this One Church is the Orthodox Church.
The confession of the Symbol that the Church is "One" means that this is the basic attribute of her self-identity. In practical terms this means that the Church is not able to be divided – to be split apart – because this is the Mystical Body of Christ. Christ as the Head of the Body of the Church is neither able to have many bodies, nor to possess a divided one. In the Body of Christ even death itself is defeated. As such, whoever is placed within this Body also remains alive in it by the divinely-working mystery: the keeping with love of the commandments. They pass over from biological death to the eternal and everlasting life of the Triadic God. Just as the branches of the vine are not able to live and to bear fruit if they are cut-off from the vine, so also the believer – or even entire communities of believers, regardless of their numbers – who are cut-off from the Church, are not able to exist in Christ, nor to introduce another Church [into existence].
The faith of the Church is inspired by God and non-negotiable. In agreement with Her clear faith, many divided churches are not able to exist since 'one' and 'many', or 'one' and 'divided', is a contradiction in terms. 'Divided' refutes, in practice, faith in the reality of the Church, which based on its own Orthodox self-consciousness is only able to be understood as 'one and undivided'. When someone consciously speaks about a divided Church, it constitutes a denial of the Faith of the Church, a denial of Her self-identity and self-consciousness. As such, Orthodox Christians do not have any psychological self-identity complex as a result of the breaking-off of Western Christians from the Body of the Church. Certainly, though, the Orthodox do grieve, pray, and are interested in their repentance and return.
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Heterodox- Members of traditions other than the Orthodox Church, i.e. Catholics, Monophysites, Protestants
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A global engineering firm has been given the backing by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority to build a new facility at Ainley Top.
Cummins Turbo Technologies has submitted a planning application to Calderdale Council to develop a manufacturing facility off New Hey Road, just outside of Rastrick.
The application follows an extensive search to identify a site which would allow the business to maintain and strengthen its presence in the area.
Head of Infrastructure and Investment Colin Blackburn at WYCA said that it backs plans for the development.
"The M62 corridor is a strategic location ideally suited to facilitate access to a wide pool of highly skilled workers and the efficient distribution of goods. This strategic location comprises high quality manufacturing companies in sectors such as digital technology, automotive engineering, and textiles," he said.
"Advanced manufacturing is identified as one of the six key priority sectors in the Strategic Economic Plan, so promoting growth in the manufacturing sector and retaining a major manufacturing business within West Yorkshire aligns with the WYCA and LEPs policy ambitions."
If approved, 400 jobs would relocate to the proposed new facility from its existing site in Huddersfield.
Mark Prior, Huddersfield Turbo Plant Transformation Director, said: "The new plant will allow us to continue our investment in manufacturing and skills in the region, enabling us to enhance our operations and supply chain capabilities, which are critical to the company's short and long-term success. We are committed to keeping our operation in the local community rather than moving jobs to another region or another country."
Following a public consultation last year, Mr Prior says it has amended its original proposals for an 18,600sq metres plant following feedback
Mark Prior said: "The public consultation with the local community provided some useful feedback, and demonstrated a good level of local support for our plans. However, some local residents highlighted a few areas of concern.
"We have taken the time to carefully consider the feedback received and consequently, sought to address these concerns by amending our proposals, where possible."


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Most of my tias are in Mexico and I refuse to go to church until the pope is a woman. So I go to readings to find family and spirit – to find sabiduría and a sense of purpose.
Cherríe Moraga read from the 35th anniversary edition of This Bridge called my Back on Oct. 5th at DePaul.
She talked about how some of the original contributors have passed on early. Some violently. Some due to cancer and other ailments that affect our communities disproportionately. This life as a woman of color, a feminist of color, takes its toll, she said. Theory in the flesh leaves it's mark.
I'm not yet 30 and the acid in my stomach is eating away at my throat. A metaphor in the flesh for all the things I haven't said. I feel it taking its toll on me. Is it taking it's toll on you, hermana?
And so malhablada que soy and that I am sometimes ashamed to be, I take inspiration from her when she says to use my roughest language. It's the stuff they can't appropriate, put on t-shirts, or turn into rhetoric she said. And the truth is dirty. It's the stuff they don't want to see.
And if it isn't hard, you're not doing it right, she said of the most difficult essay for her to write, "La Güera" where she compares the oppression she suffered as a lesbian to the oppression her mother suffered as a dark skinned Mexican woman. She said vomited the entire time she wrote it.
And those of you who are writers can recognize those terrifying visceral moments in your own truths embodied. The stories building in you. The anxiety that haunts you for days before and after you've written something that leaves you feeling exposed. The inopportune moments of sobbing when you've hit on something honest.
No one else can define your courage for you, Cherríe Moraga said. No one. But seeing women like her being brave, being unapologetically themselves, can help us find the courage we need to live out all our dangerous truths, to make the best use of our time in this flesh.
After all these years, that has always been the power of This Bridge Called My Back, the Xicana bible. And you see it gathered in the room full of women at the reading. Women of all backgrounds, young, old and in between.
I leave the reading with a lump in my throat – all my truths bubbling to get out.


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Hole in the Wall
Written by Etgar Keret- Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
On Bernadotte Avenue, right next to the Central Bus Station, there's a hole in the wall. There used to be an ATM there once, but it broke or something, or else nobody ever used it, so the people from the bank came in a pickup and took it, and never brought it back.
Somebody once told Udi that if you scream a wish into this hole it comes true, but Udi didn't really buy that. The truth is that once, on his way home from the movies, he screamed into the hole in the wall that he wanted Dafne Rimalt to fall in love with him, and nothing happened. And once, when he was feeling really lonely, he screamed into the hole in the wall that he wanted to have an angel for a friend, and an angel really did show up right after that, but he was never much of a friend, and he'd always disappear just when Udi really needed him. This angel was skinny and all stooped and he wore a trench coat the whole time to hide his wings. People in the street were sure he was a hunchback. Sometimes, when there were just the two of them, he'd take the coat off. Once he even let Udi touch the feathers on his wings. But when there was anyone else in the room, he always kept it on. Klein's kids asked him once what he had under his coat, and he said it was a backpack full of books that didn't belong to him and that he didn't want them to get wet. Actually, he lied all the time. He told Udi such stories you could die: about places in heaven, about people who when they go to bed at night leave the keys in the ignition, about cats who aren't afraid of anything and don't even know the meaning of scat. The stories he made up were something else, and to top it all, he'd cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die.
Udi was nuts about him and always tried hard to believe him. Even lent him some money a couple of times when he was hard up. As for the angel, he didn't do a thing to help Udi. He just talked and talked and talked, rambling off his harebrained stories. In the six years he knew him, Udi never saw him so much as rinse a glass.
When Udi was in basic training, and really needed someone to talk to, the angel suddenly disappeared on him for two solid months. Then he came back with an unshaven don't-ask-what-happened face. So Udi didn't ask, and on Saturday they sat around on the roof in their underpants just taking in the sun and feeling low. Udi looked at the other rooftops with the cable hookups and the solar heaters and the sky. It occurred to him suddenly that in all their years together he'd never once seen the angel fly.
"How about flying around a little," he said to the angel. "It would make you feel better."
And the angel said: "Forget it. What if someone sees me?"
"Be a sport," Udi nagged. "Just a little. For my sake." But the angel just made this disgusting noise from the inside of his mouth and shot a gob of spit and white phlegm at the tar-covered roof.
"Never mind," Udi sulked. "I bet you don't know how to fly anyway."
"Sure I do," the angel shot back. "I just don't want people to see me, that's all."
On the roof across the way they saw some kids throwing a water bomb. "You know." Udi smiled. "Once, when I was little, before I met you, I used to come up here a lot and throw water bombs on people in the street below. I'd aim them into the space between that awning and the other one," he explained, bending over the railing and pointing down at the narrow gap between the awning over the grocery store and the one over the shoe store. "People would look up, and all they'd see was the awning. They wouldn't know where it was coming from."
The angel got up too, and looked down into the street. He opened his mouth to say something. Suddenly, Udi gave him a little shove from behind, and the angel lost his balance. Udi was just fooling around. He didn't really mean to hurt the angel, just to make him fly a little, for laughs. But the angel dropped the whole five floors, like a sack of potatoes. Stunned, Udi watched him lying there on the sidewalk below. His whole body was completely still, except the wings that were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.


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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Get Yourself Fit!
The Bucks & Milton Keynes Sports Partnership is coordinating an aquatics project to try to encourage adults to be more physically active and to improve their health through aquatic activities.
Activities such as aqua fit, aqua jogging and polo fit are a more sociable way to work out, making exercise a more enjoyable experience. There is also the opportunity to improve swimming technique with adult swim clinics, swimming lessons and swim fit sessions. All sessions are instructor led to help you get the most out of your time in the water.
Water based activities are low impact by nature, so lend themselves well to those who are less mobile or rehabilitating from an injury whilst still offering a good cardiovascular workout.
"Make a Splash" activities have already been established at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Aqua Vale and The Chiltern Pools, with plans to develop many more activities in pools across the county very shortly.
More info here on Learning To Swim and Fitness Classes at Aylesbury's Aqua Vale - but probably nearer for us over the border in Oxfordshire (not part of this project) is the Thame Leisure Centre.


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I've been kicking around a story in my head for about a month now… so I've decided to actually write it. There will be more. It's just in the beginning stages. I hope you enjoy this teaser.
"Are you sure about this? I'm… I'm not so…" I say as I look around the crowded large room.
"It'll be fine. You just need to get out there." He says as he grabs my hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze.
I take a moment and take a deep breath and close my eyes. I let the sounds of everything around me to start to settle in. I can hear loud thumping music… actually, that's all I can hear. No voices, just music. I slightly open one eye and let the bright lights occasionally seep in before going dark again.
I open both eyes and focus on what's ahead of me. It's a large room filled with the aforementioned music. People are writhing in time to thee music. Some are more on rhythm than others. The room feels hot and humid. The heat is being generated from all the bodies, creating an interesting humidifier. I can feel the music through the floor. The bass isn't quite so loud that it's an all-out assault, but it feels like a gentle massage through the air and floor. Off in the distance is the low-lit lifeboat that is the bar.
"Are you sure you can do this?" he asks.
I survey the room once again. I slowly nod.
"You can do this. You have this." I think.
"I… Yeah, I can do this." I say allowed.
I take another deep breath, and take a step forward.


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I think so. A lot of things have happened since the past. I came back in 2003 with Elliott and we had a lot of success. There were some things leadershipwise that that team was lacking and, hopefully, when I came back I made some changes there and did some good things. We won some races and had a lot of success. A lot of things have gone on since then. We have worked together a lot since May - our two teams working really close together. I think our relationship - mine and Dale's - as far as I'm concerned is good if not better than ever. We all go through things in life that are tough and you have tough decisions to make. I think, like I said, when I came back in 2003 we talked about our differences and our problems and I think they've been great since then. - Dale Jarrett
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August 9, 2013
As i went to a hardware store for some paint, i bumped into these two things. The golden nut reminded me of a bracelet i have from COS, so i thought, why not create a necklace out of it? So as i walked trough all what a hardware store has to offer, i came across these chain which is intended for bathroom purposes. A necklace was born.
All you have to do is thread the nut connection to the chain and there is your necklace!
P.s. i came home without paint.
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Update: Skyler has been safely reunited with his owner.
For the last 16 years, Gallery Art in Aventura has been a second home for Skyler.
The 18-year-old rat terrier would strut around the store like he owned it, greet customers and follow them around as they shopped the store with pieces by Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Kenny Scharf, among other artists. Other times, he would sleep in his cushioned bed.
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Skyler's owner, Ken Hendel — who also owns Gallery Art — said his dog, who has had a pacemaker for the last five years, was taken by a stranger after he followed a customer outside. Skyler, Hendel said, didn't have his collar on.
"He's in his senior years, he doesn't go too far on his own," he said. "Someone took him. I was hoping by now he'd be returned."
Hendel said he's retrieved surveillance video from Monday evening that shows a man in a blue shirt and baseball cap carrying Skyler and then loading him into a car near Gallery Art, which is tucked in the corner of the Promenade Shops, 20475 Biscayne Blvd.
He's offered a $2,500 reward for Skyler's safe return. He's reported Skyler missing to police, visited neighboring stores and requested their video, called all the animal shelters and posted on social media.
"I've done everything I can think of," he said. "I just need him back."
Hendel said he's especially concerned because of his dog's quirks — most of which are related to his advanced age.
Skyler can't be walked on a leash because it irritates his pacemaker. He'll only eat freshly cooked meat and chicken mixed in with a little dog food. A bone could break his brittle teeth. His breath smells because his 18-year-old body can't handle the anesthesia to get his teeth cleaned.
"His breath smells, he farts and he sleeps a lot," Hendel said. "I accept him for who he is. I'm not sure anyone else will."
Wherever Skyler is, Hendel hopes he's being cared for.
"He's like my child," he said. "I can't explain the love he gives back."
Anyone with information can call Hendel at 305-439-7422.


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Southgate Hails Kane As Role Model Naming Him Temporary Captain
As Gareth Southgate names Harry Kane as England captain for their match against Slovenia on Thursday, the England manager talked of why the striker is "absolutely the kind of role model you want."
"Harry is the kind of role model I want.
"You're talking about a player trying to maximise his ability and finding every edge. Marginal gains make a difference at this level.
"You want a mindset in a player who wants to become one of the best in the world. For me, that's a mindset that inspires others.
"The more people I have in my squad like that, it becomes a self- fulfilling prophecy with everyone striving for more.
"Then everybody is hungry. They know where they want to be."
Southgate has yet to name a permanent skipper since taking over from Sam Allardyce last year and has so far elected to name his captain on a game-by-game basis.
Kane previously took charge of the national side in games against France and Scotland, but it will be the first time the in-form striker has worn the armband for England at Wembley, when he takes charge in this World Cup qualifier.
The 24-year-old has won the Golden Boot as the Premier League's top scorer in each of the past two seasons and since the start of the new season has netted 11 goals in all competitions for Tottenham.
Through a friend's recommendation, Kane has employed a personal chef who is an expert in sports nutrition to ensure he is in the shape of his life and the form of his life, which he says that is why he is quicker, stronger and leaner than ever now.
If England avoid defeat against Slovenia at Wembley, they can secure their place in Russia. Southgate's squad then travel to face Lithuania in their final match of qualifying on October 8.


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Movies I Love: Event Horizon
Back in 1997 I was (and still am) a die-hard science fiction fan. I prefer sci-fi films in the vein of Blade Runner or the Aliens series. Dark atmospheres, unsettling imagery, protagonists dropped in the most dangerous and unfamiliar environments.
When Event Horizon was originally released it was marketed as a pretty standard sci-fi action-ish movie. Much like the marketing of the first Matrix film, Event Horizon's previews left audiences thinking they knew more about the movie than they really did. Anyone who saw previews for this movie and then saw it in the theatre left with a very similar state of mind: Complete surprise and a very unsettling feeling.
The story takes place in 2047. Space travel has been perfected through nuclear-powered engines and hibernation cocoons that protect the ship's crew from the massive amount (THIRTY G's as quoted in the movie) of initial acceleration. Captain Miller (played by Morpheus, I mean Laurence Fishburne), our main hero, is taking his crew on a journey to recover the Event Horizon, widely known to the characters as the biggest space disaster in the history of the human race. This ship has been missing for years, and nobody knows where it's been, only that it has returned.
Jack Noseworthy, known by many of my generation as the slightly odd-looking hero from MTV's Dead at 21, plays the babyface of the group while Sam Neill plays the lead scientist who designed the Event Horizon, assigned to Miller's ship to assist in the recovery.
It quickly becomes apparent to the crew that there is some type of intelligence at work in the ship. The Event Horizon did not return from its unknown destination alone. Dr. Weir (Neill's character) begins to lose his sanity, and one-by-one the crew is pursued by very life like horrifying imagery from their past.
The creepy highlight of Event Horizon has to be the Core, essentially an artificial black hole used to warp space and transport the ship across huge distances in a very short amount of time.
I mean seriously, look at the thing, doesn't it just bleed evil?
UPDATE: I just remebered. It does. Literally.
While I'd love to reveal the ending and the full story behind where the ship went it's simply too great a movie to give away the unsettling surprise. To give you an idea, ponder this: The "presence" on the Event Horizon drives Noseworthy's character to shoot himself out an air lock… with no pressure suit. To make the situation even worse, he awakes from his trance mere seconds before the lock opens.
Yeah, nasty stuff.
You can pick up Event Horizon at Amazon for $12.99.


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Tardiness has a detrimental effect on the organization. Tardiness is a display of disrespect. Establishing ground rules, documenting violations, using an official discipline process and identifying larger workplace issues can go a long way toward correcting issues with executive tardiness.
Per this noteworthy anecdote from Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo by Nicholas Carlson:
The other factor compounding Mayer's coldness was that she had the awful habit of being late, all the time.
Every Monday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. California time, Mayer's staff would gather for a three-hour meeting with the boss. Mayer demanded all of her staff across the world join the call, so executives from New York, where it was 6:00 p.m., and Europe, where it was 11:00 p.m. or later, would dial in, too. Inevitably, Mayer would show up at least forty-five minutes late. Some calls started so late that Yahoo's executives in Europe didn't hang up till after 3:00 a.m. their time. Mayer had approximately two dozen people reporting to her during her first year at Yahoo. In theory, she was keeping up with each of them in a regularly scheduled weekly meeting. In practice, she would go weeks without talking to people because she was so busy.
For a while, each of those two dozen people thought that Mayer was just picking on them, individually. The people who had been at Yahoo before Mayer joined assumed that this meant she was going to fire them soon. The people Mayer had hired into the company, including HR boss Jackie Reses and CMO Kathy Savitt, were even more puzzled. Why had they been hired only to be ignored?
But then, during one of those long waiting periods after 3: 00 p.m. on a Monday, a conversation unfurled that revealed all. Making small talk, one executive said to another: "Did she cancel one of your one-on-ones again?"
A third jumped in: "Oh my God, she does that to you, too?" It turned out that everyone in the room and on the call had been canceled on by Mayer, frequently.
Mayer was also constantly late to product reviews. The meeting would be scheduled for 2:00 p.m., and around 2:15 p.m., Mayer's assistant, Trish Crawley, would come out and say, "Really sorry. She's going to be late. We're not sure when she'll get here." Then it would 3:00 p.m. and then 4:00 p.m., and then Crawley would come out and say the meeting was canceled.
The standard joke was that if you had a review with Mayer, you should expect not to know when it was going to be and that it would change at the last minute. It was annoying for people who worked in Sunnyvale. It was brutal for remote teams in India and Europe.


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Preface to the Paperback Edition
Sensibility to surroundings matters more, not less, in a life that is ever more mediated by technology. However astonishing the collection of contacts and apps in your pocket may be, it still needs a world outside your life to engage, and for the flood of messages to be about.
Meanwhile some sensibility needs no messages at all. For instance a skillful practice in a specialized context cultivates a hands-on sensibility where you know more than you can say. Presence, engagement, and quiet fascination can reward and restore in ways that perpetual entertainment cannot. Whether in professional work, arts, sports, or simple street smarts, people prize such situational awareness for how it gets them into a zone, into effortless flow. So it is wrong to assume, as perhaps a factory, a classroom, or a world flooded with commercial competition for eyeballs would have you do, that attention is something to "pay." That is the one belief that most reactions to this book have had trouble recognizing. This book does not ask anyone to "pay attention" to their surroundings. Instead it investigates other more effortless kinds of attention, as understood through some interesting shifts in the cognitive science of embodiment. While many books from a variety of fields have inquired into that, this has been among the first to do so from the perspective of the built environment.
Architecture invests great value in surroundings, of course. Yet more people (and especially architects) could value the built environment more from the perspective of everyday experience, and less about impressive novelties in physical form. The increased valuation of environment that planetary imperatives demand begins at home, not far away, and in habits of use, not just changing technology. Design must help appreciate the world instead of conquering it or just tuning it out. This wish for sensibility cannot be dismissed as romanticism. A more complete environmentalism, one in which the built and media-saturated world is environment too, has become the most pragmatic agenda of all.
"Information environmentalism" means a concern for the mediated built environment that one and all must inhabit. This is the one concept that most reactions to this book have been most enthusiastic about. To write an entire book on this would take many more case studies, and deeper knowledge of law. Yet there are some simple observations that have caught on here. While in some ways this concern may seem as normal as the etiquette of not speaking out of place, customs seldom keep pace with technological change. Today almost anyone can witness remarkably low situational awareness in smartphone abuse, for instance.
Yet it is the fixed and persistent abuses that seem more troublesome. There is more than etiquette to an information environmentalism. Whatever the impact of mobile technologies, the environmental concern is more for situated information technologies: the billions of sensors, speakers, and screens being built into the world today. Some call it tangible media, physical computing, or ambient interface. However much mobile communications have been altering interpersonal conduct, this persistent environment also alters cultural perceptions. Indeed the ambient media mix has become an important component of many places. Just try finding a store, a hotel, or a restaurant without it. And to find some silence, you might have to pay extra. This means not only the discipline of architecture but also the discipline interaction design needs to rethink contextual attention. They might sometimes do so together. They might do so for higher aims beyond commerce.
To approach that shared experiential realm as a commons does not make it tragic, and does not make you into a Luddite. You don't have to be against technology to not want it everywhere all the time, and you don't have to be against markets to admit that they cannot recognize and solve all cultural problems. For as information technology enables so many more of the memberships, monitoring, and micro-transactions that make true commons go, less of the free riding that was dismissed as tragic may occur. For the built environment, this means better restraint and recognition of excesses in noise, signage, and screens ever larger or ever smaller in ever more contexts of life. For instance in light pollution, better outdoor lighting design lets everyone see better while reducing glare, doing more with less, so to speak. This was recognized and put into practice first neither by the market nor the state, but by dot orgs and design advocacy. Is that a commons? Is that information environmentalism? Is there any way to curate the flood of media in ever more formats in ever more situations?
So the next time you have a conversation in someplace saturated with ill-considered media, bring up sensibility to surroundings. This is no mere lament, like being against the cold rain. There are culturally positive ways to move ahead. You may yet have a right to be left alone by all that information technology, but the idea is a much simpler one here. Augment the world in remarkable new media, perhaps, but please don't cover it, or know it, entirely with screens!
Thanks to many for generally favorable reviews and reactions to these ideas. Thanks to many for sitting down to a longer read in a world where attention, whether effortless, paid, or stolen, has become even more scarce than time. I hope this paperback edition can get still more readers to sit down and flip old fashioned pages, in a medium that you can read without it reading you back. There is still a role for printed books. Especially when read in quietly fascinating surroundings.


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What's in a Name? Understanding the New gTLD Domain Names Announcement
A web domain name is incredibly important when you promote your web site. If the company name or brand is integrated into the web address, it's easy to remember and easily found by web users. The right-most label of a domain name is called the generic top-level domain or gTLD, such as .com, .net, .ca. edu, etc., and it says something about the nature of the organization that owns the domain. Now there are new categories of gTLDs entering the scene, hundreds of them, and they are going to have a real impact on website branding and web search in the future.


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Checking temperature is done using a thermometer, and it can also be measured under the armpits, where it will be 0.5 degrees lower and rectally where it will be 0.5 degrees higher. It is more usual and safer to measure children's temperature under the armpits, and now modern technology has produced a thermometer that can be placed in the ear.
A raised temperature is normally the sign of fever and infection. Raising the body's temperature is the body's defense mechanism kicking into action, trying to destroy the infection.
Fever makes you feel hot and shivery, and you may sweat. This is the body's way of trying to cool down. It is important that the body is maintained at an even temperature most of the time, as tissues and cells have been programmed to function at their optimum this way.
Some cells and chemicals within the cells will slowly deteriorate if the body temperature remains too high for too long. Energy is used up rapidly to maintain this high temperature, therefore it is important to control or reduce it quickly, to conserve energy to fight off the infection.
Wearing light clothing, taking tepid baths or being sponged is an ideal way of lowering temperature. Sometimes it is necessary to take paracetamol or aspirin to control and reduce a fever.
Fever is usually just one of the many symptoms which accompany an infection for example. If there are no obvious other symptoms and the raised temperature persists for more than 72 hours it would be advisable to seek medical attention as there are other illnesses which may cause a fever besides infections.
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