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Information Advice and Support Service for SEND (IASS) in Northamptonshire (previously Northamptonshire Parent Partnership Service (NPPS) is an impartial and confidential service which gives free information, advice and support about matters relating to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. The service operates at arms length from the local authority and clinical commissioning groups through independently trained staff.
The service is for parents or carers of children aged 0-25, and young people up to 25 with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They can self-refer or with their permission someone else can refer on their behalf. Young people (aged 16-25) can ask for support separately from their parents or carers if they wish.
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Westside Montessori School is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. As with virtually all successful, independent schools, tuition and fees fund only a portion of actual expenses, opening many opportunities for private and corporate support. We depend on community participation in our giving programs throughout the year. Here are some of the ways you can contribute:
- Annual Fund Campaign: The campaign begins in October of each year. Through your direct donation, Westside Montessori School can offer support to our teachers through continuing education classes, help families with financial aid scholarships or direct a portion of your gift towards the growth of the school. You may give online by visiting our PayPal page. Please e-mail or call 281.556..5970 for more information on how to participate.
- Matching Corporate Gifts: Corporate matching gift programs help employees maximize their philanthropic contributions. Many of the corporations in our area will match a parent's financial gifts to the school and/or provide volunteer grants to organizations where their employees volunteer. We accept matching gift donations at any time. Please consult with your company's Human Resources department to find out if WMS qualifies for a matching contribution.
- Annual Gala: Parental participation is a crucial ingredient to the success of our Annual Gala. All proceeds go directly to the children's programs, classrooms, and care of the school environment. The event is held each Spring with the whole school participating in some way.
- Store Rebate Programs: WMS participates in the Kroger Neighbor to Neighbor Program, Randall's Good Neighbor Program, and Box Tops for Education program.
- Amazon Smile Contribution: When you name Westside Montessori School as your charity of choice for your Amazon purchase, we receive a percentage of the payment.
- eBay for Charity: You can help support the mission of Westside Montessori School when you shop on eBay. Click the link to get started!
The school welcomes gifts, large and small, of funds, materials, equipment, etc. Our staff is happy to provide forms for tax purposes. All contributions to Westside Montessori School are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
The greatest gift of all is one that has no price tag; the time, talents, and dedication of our families, freely given in the spirit of helping to attain the goal of Montessori education for their children.

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Honig Bartolucci Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
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Rich, broad fruit characters. Cherry cobbler and blackberry notes with underpinnings of French oak. Silky mid-pallet is balanced by firm tannins. This age worthy wine will continue to develop through 2027 and longer.
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The Honig Family purchased their 68-acre vineyard in Rutherford in 1964, and sold the grapes they grew to neighboring wineries. In 1980, the family tried their hand at producing their own Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc, to great acclaim. Michael Honig took over management of the winery in 1984, at the age of 22. In 1987, the Honigs made their first Cabernet Sauvignon. Under Michael, Honig's direction, the winery has grown from a small "garage winery" to a 25 person operation. Using solar power and sustainable farming methods, winemaker, Kristin Belair focuses on two varietals: Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon. This focus allows her to produce handcrafted wines that are a true expression of the vineyard.
St. Helena is in the heart of the Napa Valley, nestled between Calistoga to the north and Rutherford on its southern border. On its western side, the Mayacamas Mountains guard it from the cooling effects of the Pacific Ocean; to its east stand the Vaca Mountains. In conjunction, these mountain ranges serve to lock in summer daytime heat. But in the evening, cool air from the San Pablo Bay funnels up through the valley, creating very chilly nights. It isn't uncommon for temperatures to drop 50 degrees, a shift that promotes a balance of sugar ripeness and acidity in wine grapes.
St. Helena contains a plethora of different soil types in a small area, which have been enhanced over centuries by rain runoff from both mountain ranges. Its vineyards cover a variety of terrain, spreading across the bucolic valley floor and its benchlands.
These ideal topographic and climatic growing conditions easily caught the attention of early winemaking pioneers. In fact, St. Helena is the birthplace of Napa Valley's commercial wine industry. Dr. Crane founded his cellar in 1859, David Fulton in 1860 and Charles Krug in 1861.
Today there are no less than 400 separate vineyards planted within the 12,000 acres that make up the St. Helena appellation.
Revered most for its red wines based on Bordeaux varieties, namely Cabernet Sauvignon, the St. Helena appellation is also a source of superior Syrah, Zinfandel and Sauvignon blanc.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, 'Cab' is responsible for some of the world's most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after "cult" wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.


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Third-Party Audit of public-authorities in respect of RTI
There is a provision of third-party audit of websites of public-authorities. But in practice, no such audit is being done in respect of most public-authorities. Most public-authorities are not clear about institutions/persons authorised for third-party audit of public-authorities. There is no audit-fees prescribed by Central Information Commission. Firstly, Central Information Commission should prominently place details about possible third-party auditors, and fees prescribed for any such third-party audit. Known experts in the field of RTI including retired Commissioners can be included in a panel of auditors which can be authorised to do third-party audit on a prescribed fee, rather than some institutions only. Audit-fees should be reasonable so that it may not disturb budgets of public-authorities. For example, it may not be practically possible at least economically to get third-party audit done for more than 170 departments/public-authorities under Government of Delhi at an exorbitant fee of rupees3-4 lakhs for each of the department etc. Fees should be reasonably fixed keeping in view average man-hours spent by the auditor for a website.


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Popular Bhojpuri actress Rani Chatterjee says she is thrilled to be a part of the Hindi TV serial, Gudiya Humari Sabhi Pe Bhari, because she gets to execute dialogues in a comic style. This is something she has not done in the past.
"The makers of 'Gudiya Humari Sabhi Pe Bhari' approached me. I did not go through any audition. We did put in a lot of work during the look test, along with the creative team, the channel and director. It was integral to the role to get the look absolutely right. I was approached for something similar along the lines of comedy before, but I never went ahead with them. With this show, I felt confident that I have chosen the perfect fit for myself," she said.
The former "Khatron Ke Khiladi" contestant feels great to be a part of the show.
"I haven't exactly done a fiction show on TV, I have mostly done reality shows. When I first arrived on the set and met all the actors, and saw them in action, I truly understood the comedy aspect behind the show. Gudiya's (actress Sarika Bahroliya) performance was brilliant, everyone has done exceptionally well," she said.
"I am thrilled to be a part of the show as I have never executed dialogues in a comic style before. This is the first time I will be seen in a role like this," she added.
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So it's been nearly ten years now since I graduated from college, all ready (or not?) to enter the, uh, real world, or something like that. And with all the experiences I have had during that time, I thought it might be fun to reflect on how my college experience might have better prepared me – and anyone in the program, for that matter – for a career in horticulture.
I fully acknowledge that I might have made some better school and work choices along the way, but that is not really what I want to emphasize here. I am just trying to offer some helpful feedback. Additionally, it should be noted that I mostly enjoyed my experience at WSU. If I sound snotty or cantankerous, it is only because of the topic I'm choosing to emphasize in this particular post. I learned many valuable things in each of my courses and feel that it certainly benefited me greatly compared to not going.
As best as I can remember, my course work broke down something like this.
ornamental horticulture (25%)
fruit/vegetable horticulture (20%)
botany/plant physiology (10%)
related sciences (including chemistry, entomology, soils) (15%)
Gen Ed and electives (30%)
As I look back I think two major things are missing from the horticulture program that fail to prepare students for the (ahem) "real world." I mean if you're going to pay all this money for a four-year education rather than a community college you might as well get as many relevant industry skills as possible out of it. If you don't, at best you have an excellent chance of landing a mediocre job with associates' degree pay; at worst employers will pass you by thinking a four-year degree means you're simply an over-priced know-it-all who still (usually) lacks the right experience.
The first thing horticulture programs should add would be extensive course work in business management. Of course, it is possible to get a business minor, and many hort students do. But I am thinking something that operates within the hort program might be in order. This is because the hort industry has, I think, many specialized needs differentiating it from most other kinds of businesses. It should be as extensive as possible including everything from the financial management of the business, to managing employees, to marketing, to everything else – but all tailored to the uniqueness of the hort industry. Is that a tall order or what? Most importantly, it should be mandatory. It's hard to imagine how this could not be relevant even for someone who ends up with an academic or government career. If you're not into the business end of things you might as well get a botany degree with a horticulture emphasis.
The second would be to offer an emphasis or minor in one of two choices (perhaps we could think of more?), which might be called systems managemen and public relations. A college graduate should either have the ability to plan, construct and develop nursery infrastructure and fix things when they break; or some great public relations skills which might include anything from public speaking (including rhetoric), to volunteer and docent coordination and tours (think botanic gardens), communications, and marketing. For certain jobs, having both sets of skills doesn't hurt!
So with that in mind, a better mix might be something like
ornamental/environmental hort 20% (5% for a fruit/veg hort major)
business management, including accounting 15%
systems management/maintenance OR public relations 15%
botany/plant phys 10%
landscape design 5%
fruit/vegetable horticulture 5% (20% for a fruit/veg hort major)
related sciences 15%
Gen Ed and electives 15%
The only way I can see justifying bypassing some of the business, systems and public relations courses would be if a student has a decided interest in research only and pursues a career within academia. But I think to do so would only further isolate academia from the real world, something I see quite a bit of and really don't like.
I would also note that ornamental hort majors have better things to do than spend too much time studying fruit and vegetable horticulture, and vice versa. Perhaps about two courses in the non-emphasized area would be good but there just isn't a whole lot of overlap in those areas in the real world.
I still consider botany, plant physiology, chemistry, entomology, soils, and related sciences to be very important. Botany in particular I would not change much except perhaps to add a systematics course or two as required (I took one as an elective). It seems a lot of people in the hort. Industry are unaware that plants exist in the wild and have degrees of relation to each other, and these subjects have profound implications throughout the field of horticulture.
Gen Ed courses are great but there was too much redundancy with high school and among the courses themselves. If you were to eliminate all that redundancy it might drop off almost to my 15% from that alone.
But perhaps the most worthless class I had (with apologies to Dr. Hillier – he was a nice professor) was a one-credit course called "Preparing yourself to enter the field of horticulture" or something like that. We had mock job interviews and discussions about how to find a job. The problem was that the course assumed a 1960's production-based economy which is long gone. I did not recognize that at the time, and if anyone thinks things haven't changed since the 1960's perhaps they should ask themselves why so many college graduates can't find reasonably-paying work. The world has changed. If I had better ideas for how to develop a similar course today, I'd give them to you, but honestly it's still not easy for me to figure out even now.
One last idea would be to strongly encourage or reward multiple internships during or even after college. I was only required one summer's worth of "interning" which was actually a job at a nursery I didn't particularly like, and didn't really do much for me. To push this a little harder might improve students ability to make better career choices having discovered what kinds of things they like and are good at, as well as providing the experience they need to make themselves more marketable. (Here I should mention that at the Desert Northwest we are very open to providing internships for seriously aspiring horticulture students. We hope you like it, but if you find out you don't; well, you don't have to come back, and you will have learned something.)
I know a college education is something where you get out of it pretty much what you put in. Some of my fellow graduates are employed with companies that sell soil or other products I can't imagine getting excited about. I recognize that the difficulty of creating a helpful and focused college horticulture program reflects the fragmentation of the horticulture business in general. Combine that with the vastly differing goals and interests of students and a very small program overall, and you can see why it would be difficult for a college horticulture program to please everyone. But those are my thoughts: what are yours?
In other news…
I have produced yet another plant hunting trip report. This one is loaded with pictures of our native manzanitas, and will be my last such expedition for 2011. Check it out!


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Deepest condolences on having to put down your cat. I know how painful it is. Best wishes to you and your family.
Thanks for taking time to blog during this difficult time. Your commitment to the PW community is appreciated.
In this post we take a quick look at the new version of ProFields Repeater Matrix, yet another new version of FormBuilder, and a new version of the GoogleClientAPI module.
I'd planned on a more extensive blog post today, alongside several core updates. But found out today I've got to put my cat to sleep, and now don't feel like doing much, so going to keep this blog post short. While we won't get into core updates, I do have some good module updates to mention here though.
We had a new version of FormBuilder last week, and next week we're going to have another. My biggest project of the week was getting the save-to-GoogleSheets (spreadsheet) action working in FormBuilder. And it's now up and running, plugging along beautifully on a project already (a client needed it right away). Being able to watch live form submissions get submitted, process in Stripe, save to the server, and then get a copy inserted into a new row in a Google Sheets spreadsheet makes me smile. I think this is a great new feature for FormBuilder, and since it's all functional already, I thought I'd go ahead and release it in the FormBuilder board next week.
Related to the above, I've got a new version of the GoogleClientAPI module ready as well. It is required in order to have FormBuilder talk to Google Sheets. The updates are ready but I'm still working on the documentation and setup guide, so that'll be coming out next week alongside the new version of FormBuilder. The GoogleClientAPI module is not a commercial module—this is instead an update to the existing module originally released in 2016, but now getting a major update, which I'll post next week.
The module now includes a fairly extensive API to Google Sheets. Future plans for the module include expanding the existing Google Calendar API and adding an API for Google Drive as well. Google's API client already provides access to dozens of their services, but the problem is that their API is kind of difficult to use and extremely verbose and technical. So the goal of the ProcessWire GoogleClientAPI module is not just to take care of all Google authentication stuff, but also to build much simpler-to-use ProcessWire-like APIs on top of Google ones.
Finally, a new version of Repeater Matrix (v5) has been posted in the ProFields board today. Here's a summary of what's new:
Added support for changing the matrix type of an item. To change the type, click the gear icon that appears in the header of each item. A box will open where you can select the new matrix type.
Added support for importing types from other RepeaterMatrix fields. To use, click the "Import Matrix Type" button to the right of the "Add Matrix Type" button. It will give you a select box where you can choose which to import.
Added support for field/template context enabling you to select which matrix types are shown for a Matrix field on a per-template basis.
Added detection of when a Matrix type name can collide with a field name.
Plus 5 new API methods have been added to the FieldtypeRepeaterMatrix module. See the ProFields > Repeater Matrix support board for more details.
Configuring Google Sheets settings in FormBuilder:
ProFields Repeater Matrix: Clicking the gear icon at the top of the repeater item slides down a "Item type" selection, enabling you to change the type:
On the Repeater Matrix field configuration screen, you now have an Import button, enabling you to add a new type by importing from any other Repeater Matrix field. After clicking the button, a new item with label "New Matrix Type (Import)" appears:
You can now also configure what matrix types are shown on a per-template basis (known as field/template context). To access this, you would edit any template that has a Matrix field (Setup > Templates > Edit), then click on the Matrix field in the list of fields and it opens a modal, enabling you to configure settings for the field in the context of that template. Click the Input tab, and you'll see this option:
That's all for this week. Have a great weekend and hope to see you at ProcessWire Weekly.
Deepest condolences on having to put down your cat. I know how painful it is. Best wishes to you and your family.
Thanks for taking time to blog during this difficult time. Your commitment to the PW community is appreciated.
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about your cat. I know all too well how painful that can be.
Thank you so much for providing an update, even when you are having a difficult time. Looks like some terrific new features in FormBuilder.
Hi Ryan, sorry to hear about your cat. Exactly one month ago, I had to do the same with our 19 years aged cat.
Since this week there is a new one living in our home. For us, especially for the child, it was best not to wait a long time to find a new one.
Sorry to hear about your cat Ryan. And thanks for the quick update at this trying time. All the Best!
In this week's post we'll shift focus a bit and take a look at the latest version of FormBuilder (v38) just released today. It ends up being a fairly major release with a lot of new additions, optimizations and updates. This version of FormBuilder is now ProcessWire 3.x native so likewise requires… More
This week I'm happy to report we now have WEBP image support in ProcessWire thanks to a GitHub pull request from Horst Nogajski. This enables you to have highly optimized image output in PW and I think you'll really like the difference it makes. Read on for all the details. More
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The high cost lending industry continues to push for deregulation despite all the damage
Quick simply just just take: Predatory, high expense loan providers have reached it once more. Despite its intimate participation using the ongoing overall economy, the high expense financing industry is staying real to its tradition of shameless profiteering by pressing legislation in Washington and Raleigh that could loosen the legislation of varied customer loan services and products. People who worry about preserving new york's proud, pro consumer traditions should pay close attention.
Audacity, nerve, chutzpah, mpudence, shamelessness, unmitigated gall : No, they are perhaps maybe not excerpts through the editorial page that is latest ratings of Mark Sanford, John Edwards or Sarah Palin. They are really and truly just a number of the descriptive terms that can come to mind as you contemplates listed here very nearly unbelievable facts:
Despite most of the horrific harm that their predatory greed has inflicted upon scores of families therefore the economy in general in the past few years, the underside feeding, high price financing industry is once again pressing aggressively for brand new rules in Raleigh plus in Washington that could damage state and federal legislation of the techniques.
some of those bills are now actually being advanced level by new york lawmakers with moderate to modern qualifications.
When it comes to better section of ten years, of course, America's predatory lenders helped drag the U.S. and globe economies to the ditch. Through the aggressive advertising of dangerous, doomed to fail high expense mortgages, the lending industry and its own Wall Street backers assisted produce the infamous «housing bubble.» by doing this they changed exactly just what had for ages been the foundational bedrock associated with economy that is american molten lava.
Today, we continue to witness and feel the after ramifications of this foray that is national «get rich quick,» casino capitalism. Skyrocketing unemployment, record house value deflation, and empty public coffers all stay as effective monuments to your «vision» of an accumulation snake oil selling parasites who convinced the US public to abandon good sense and embrace the ridiculous proven fact that the path to broad based wealth had been paved with huge, unaffordable unsecured debt.
Luckily, the financial collapse of history 12 months has at the least convinced our elected officials to tune down, forever, the seductive siren songs of this high price financing lobby. Forget about will we need to worry that supposedly intelligent public servants will fall victim towards the temptations of too advisable that you be real claims in regards to the advantages of financing deregulation and assuring that poor people have «access into the credit they want.»
Based on customer advocates monitoring Congress and also the new york General Assembly, both organizations are now actually well stocked this season with brand brand brand new and nervy proposals from high price loan providers. Listed here are two that deserve widespread derision and an instant visit to legislative oblivion:
«The Payday Lending Reform Act of 2009»
This bill is mostly about «reform» into the way that is same the Bush Administration's «Healthy Forests Restoration Act» had been about preserving the surroundings. Unfortunately, because had been frequently the outcome whenever lending that is payday had been nevertheless trolling the halls associated with vermont General Assembly about ten years ago with fat checkbooks, some people of Congress whom need to understand better may actually have dropped for the industry's tired old scam including new york's Heath Shuler.
Shuler is co sponsoring the balance along with his other new york congressman, Patrick McHenry constantly an apologist that is stubborn the payday sharks during his brief tenure when you look at the North Carolina home and a few other legislators in the behest regarding the industry. Its purpose that is overriding guaranteeing that predatory payday samedayinstallmentloans.net/payday-loans-oh loans are appropriate atlanta divorce attorneys state in the united states.
For folks who might have forgotten, payday «lending» is an abusive Ponzi like training for which scores of customers have grown to be caught in current years. The «loans» feature the usage of post dated checks and bi weekly turnarounds that end up morphing into 400 to 500per cent apr loans.
Eight years back, to its everlasting credit, the new york General Assembly banned the sordid training and kicked the payday predators away from new york, thus saving customers vast sums of bucks. In tandem utilizing the state's 1999 anti predatory home loan financing law, the work marked new york being a nationwide customer security frontrunner. Now, in a remarkably reactionary work, two associated with the state's congressmen would reverse that action by having a legislation that seems to preempt any state ban. In line with the Shuler McHenry bill:
«No supply with this part could be construed as preventing a situation from managing a pay day loan, except that any State regulation shall perhaps maybe not dramatically interfere with all the ability of a payday lender to provide an online payday loan that fulfills the buyer security requirements in this area.»
While no body in Washington expects the balance to advance extremely far any time soon, the reality that this kind of politician that is ambitious Shuler would lend their title to it is rather disheartening and a strong reminder associated with requirement for vigilance amongst consumer advocates.
«An Act to Modernize the NC customer Finance Act»
An equally unpleasant state level relative regarding the Shuler McHenry payday bill is a bi partisan proposition now surviving in the North Carolina House finance institutions Committee. This bill could be the latest industry effort to secure higher interest levels much less strict legislation on so named «customer finance loans» i.e. high price, short term loans (with formal interest levels up to 30 or 36% and effective prices dramatically greater) of from a hundred or so to a couple thousand bucks. For many years, the new york consumer finance industry has tried to get the type or sorts of lax treatment it enjoys in states like sc and Nevada.
One of the conditions associated with «modernization» proposition: a supply to permit the training of earning customer finance loans within the shops that are same make home loans (new york has very long prohibited this training to avoid $2,000 customer finance loans from quickly evolving into bigger deals that put individuals's domiciles in danger). Conditions to permit bigger loans, longer terms and greater prices and charges. These modifications would end in effective yearly loan prices more than 100% APR. a supply to permit loan providers to garnish the wages of borrowers to pay for straight right back loans a thing that North Carolina has constantly avoided for some personal financial obligation.
The proposal is a veritable fantasy the «wish list» of a disgraced industry seeking to turn back the clock to a time in which it operated below the radar screen like the federal payday bill. Regrettably for that industry, the blend of a earth shattering financial collapse bearing its fingerprints along side contemporary interaction and use of information should make this type of return to your shadows very difficult. Let us hope therefore anyhow. If lawmakers keep their minds securely rooted in today's, they must be in a position to resist also an audacious and shameless attempt to reverse the clock.


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"Product and market are important, but in the end, everything hinges on the team" says Cédric Waldburger, parallel entrepreneur and investor.
We talked to Cédric about what makes a great team depending on your business model and company lifecycle stage. Here is what we found:
You can listen to the full interview with Cédric here.
Team roles and processes undergo fundamental changes as your company grows. Roughly every time you triple the number of employees, you have to fundamentally rethink the way you work together. Therefore, it is a good idea to keep roles and titles flexible as long as you can. Defining roles on a project-to-project basis may be a good approach. At an early stage, approximately up to 10 people, you will need mostly generalists, that are able to take on tasks as they present themselves. After you have passed this stage, specialists will become more important and with them, a certain structuring of your core business units.
Meetings, when done wrong, can become a waste of time for both you and your team. Therefore, it is worth investing some time and effort to get them right from the beginning. You don't have to come up with everything yourself though. Try for example crowdsourcing ideas for effective processes and protocols with your team. A good way to minimize time spent in meetings is to establish certain documentation practices that allow everyone to stay in the loop by following the relevant document stream. This way, you can use meetings to discuss problems instead of merely giving updates on everyone's progress.
Your first team members are obviously going to be your co-founder(s). There are many things you should be considering when choosing who to start your company with. What it boils down to though, is that you and your co-founder(s) should share similar values and complement each other in your skills and ambitions. Holding similar values is crucial because it will allow you to find common ground even if you disagree on certain decisions. Complementary skills and ambitions will enable each of you to grow your own way without stepping on each other's toes. No matter how well aligned you are with your co-founder(s) though, there are also going to be tough times to navigate as your company matures. In these situations, the only way forward is to communicate openly and to stay on the table until things are sorted out.
Nowadays, the odds are high that you will have team members across different parts of the world. Decentralizing your team comes with with the advantage of being able to hire from a geographically larger talent pool. It also makes it more difficult, however, to build company culture and solve problems face-to-face. Choosing how decentralized your team can or should be will to a large degree depend on the type of product or service you are building. Highly complex and research heavy products or services do not lend themselves to decentralization, for example.
If you do chose to have a strongly decentralized team structure, it may be a good idea to bring everyone together on a quarterly or half-yearly basis. These meetings can serve to align on the roadmap, solve any difficult problems that have arisen and most importantly, to forge connections and build culture. Again, the importance of communication cannot be overemphasized. Getting regular feedback from employees and speaking to them face-to-face will help you to recognize potential problems early on.
Hard Things About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
Thinking Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Outliers — The Story of Success — Malcolm Gladwell


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Volume one covers the years 1986 - 2000. Retrospective singles collection of the one and only Primal Scream. Titled Maximum Rock'n'Roll, the record features releases from across their lifetime as a band. "Right from our 1985 debut All Fall Down onward we've approached singles as an aesthetic choice, a statement of where we are as a band," says Bobby Gillespie. "We grew up with Suffragette City and Metal Guru flying out of the radio. The four Sex Pistols singles were great. Public Image by PiL sounded like nothing else. Prince and Madonna made amazing hits. That has been our approach. I've always loved Top 40 pop radio, I love greatest hits albums like The Who's Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy. I remember Alan McGee saying of Higher Than The Sun: it won't be a hit, but it will be a statement. Great singles can get out into the world and show people an alternative way of thinking. They make you feel less alone."


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text: When it comes to the question of agency in "Lilith's Brood," the one example that I think of is the part about Lilith wanting paper and writing utensils. She is not allowed to have either since the aliens have decided that this is not allowed. This for me brings up the question of how much Lilith can make choices and have those choices impact her new world. The ability to write is for us such a basic right. Every day we can choose to write something or draw something or choose to do something else. To not have what to me seems to be a very basic choice causes me to question if the aliens really know what is better for Lilith than she. She says that it is the best way for her to learn new things but that is just brushed off and she is just flat out denied her request. The aliens tell her that she will remember and learn using their method and not the way that she is conditioned to learn and remember. This then leads down a whole new avenue as she is pretty much being forced to merge her genetics with the aliens. She will not be able to remember without writing things down and since that option is off the table her only other option is the one forced upon her. So she is now in quite the pickle since she is expected to learn and teach but not allowed to do it any other way than merging herself with the aliens. Her consent to this is one out of necessity and not out of free choice. It's either their way or the highway and that does not to me feel like she has any agency at all in her new world. Sure she can choose not to merge but then her learning curve is going to be impeded. This causes a false sense of agency since her choices in this world are more or less forced upon her. Any choice that she makes does not appear as if it will have any impact on the world around her. If her choices are already determined for her, how can she impact the future in her own way when the aliens have already decided how they want the world to be? Lilith is handcuffed into pretty much doing exactly as the aliens say even if they coerce her more complexly than just a simple "We say, you do. Period." Any time she does question the way, it seems their only other offer is to kill her. I guess if your option is to fall in line or die most will choose life.


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With nowhere to run or hide, complete the mission in the sea base, Bethesda, deep down in the abyss!- Features○ Easy and intuitive weapon selection○ Weapon boost feature maximizes the satisfaction in hitting enemies○ In the midst of defeating the monsters, use the repair bot to repair the base with a looming sense of tension and thrill.○ Unease as sea creatures can appear at any moment in the flooding base.○ Able to select the difficulty that best suits you.- StoryYear 20XX.Humanity polluted the Earth's environment and created the sea base, Bethesda, to research about potential deep sea resources and lifeforms. However, the quickly constructed base's nuclear reactor was unstable, causing problems on a frequent basis. Recently, there has been a sharp increase in the reactor's instability. One day, Bethesda picked up a strange, low frequency nearby and communication with the base was simultaneously lost.The land-based headquarters decided to dispatch a rescue team to Bethesda under the name Operation: Under Water. However, a message from an unknown source was received right before the team arrived."Oh… God… We'll all die in the end…"Read more . . .


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The fragile world recovery
The world's finance ministers are meeting in Washington against a gloomy economic backdrop: global recovery is under way, but a period of slow growth seems to be the best that most big economies can hope for—provided nothing else goes wrong
AMONG economists and policymakers, it is no longer the subject of much debate. The world economy has been blown off course. Nor has this year seen the sort of smooth, rapid recovery that so many economists were predicting even just a few months ago. The latest projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), published on September 25th, show a gloomier assessment than that produced in April.
It is not just a question of revising growth forecasts downwards—though most of them have been. The IMF is also concerned that the balance of risks has shifted. As Kenneth Rogoff, the IMF's chief economist, acknowledged when commenting on the forecasts, most of the risks are now on the downside. Horst Köhler, the IMF's managing director, said on September 26th that he was by nature perhaps slightly more optimistic than Mr Rogoff, but even he noted the considerable uncertainty which currently affects the global economy.
Economists can—and frequently do—argue about the specifics of economic forecasts, sometimes behaving as if it were possible to fine-tune these with any great degree of accuracy. Some think the IMF is too downbeat, others that it is, even now, too optimistic. But for the policymakers in Washington for the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, and the many smaller, but often more important, meetings which take place at the same time, the challenge is a different one. Given the prospect of, at best, sluggish growth in the next year or two, what can they do to improve the situation and reduce the risk of things turning out worse than expected?
Ultimately, it is the performance of the big industrial economies which will determine global economic performance. And it is the meeting of the G7 finance ministers which could, in theory at least, nudge economic policies in the right direction. The recent record hardly encourages great expectations, though. There are those, especially some former policymakers turned academics, who hanker after the old days, when the finance ministers of the big economies would get together and agree on detailed policy objectives.
So they look back fondly to exchange-rate agreements such as the Plaza Accord of 1985 and the Louvre Accord in 1987; those with greyer hair even cast their minds back to the Bonn Summit of 1978, when Germany agreed to shift policy to increase its growth-rate target by one percentage point. The days of co-ordinated policymaking begin to look attractive, especially to old hands in Washington who believe Europe and Japan should play a bigger role in global recovery.
But it is one thing to think Europe and Japan should do more: quite another to think policy co-ordination currently offers a way forward. In the first place, it is hard to see how, even with goodwill on all sides, it would work. Even in the 1980s, when foreign-exchange markets were much smaller and less liberalised, exchange-rate co-ordination had limited success, not least because agreements which set national interest in conflict with international commitments were prone to unravel. And the Bonn Summit deal, which helped fuel inflation in Germany and which the Germans came to regret, was not an experiment policymakers wanted to repeat.
There is a second, more immediate, obstacle to such co-ordinated policymaking: there is simply no appetite for it among the key policymakers. The Bush administration has shown no enthusiasm for it and indeed, Paul O'Neill, the treasury secretary, is known for his dislike even of discussions about current-account imbalances, for instance. The IMF has, on several occasions, noted that these imbalances pose a threat to global economic stability—sudden corrections could lead to large and potentially painful exchange-rate realignments. Mr O'Neill, though, sees no point in everyone rehearsing their views when there is no prospect of a meeting of minds.
So stubborn
The Europeans and the Japanese can be equally stubborn in their own ways. The Japanese never want to appear unco-operative: but for more than a decade they have, to the despair of their economic partners, managed to ignore most of the advice offered on how to free their economy from deflation and recession. The result in their case has been three recessions in ten years and, as Mr Rogoff put it, without far-reaching reform "there can be no guarantee against a similarly bad decade".
Persistent attempts to persuade the European Central Bank to cut European interest rates to stimulate growth have been met with fierce protestations of the bank's independence. On fiscal policy, too, euro-area governments have been reluctant to ease the requirements of the growth and stability pact, despite a widespread view that some fiscal loosening would give a much-needed spurt to European growth. Only now that Germany and France (along with Italy and Portugal) look set to breach the budget-deficit limits imposed by the pact, does the EU look ready to admit defeat and delay the deadline by a couple of years.
American frustration with Japan and Europe is understandable. For the past decade or more, the world has relied on America as the engine of global growth. Japan, the world's second biggest economy, has been sidelined because of its persistent failure to push through the fundamental reforms needed to overcome its problems—reforms in the banking sector, and in fiscal and monetary policy. Europe, too, is not just suffering from an excess of counter-inflationary zeal (at a time when deflation is also a risk) and inappropriate fiscal restraint: fundamental reforms are needed to labour and capital markets in several countries if domestic demand is to grow significantly.
Nowhere in Europe is the need for change more urgent than in Germany, now the sick man of the continent. The negative reaction of the financial markets to Gerhard Schröder's re-election on September 22nd reflects concern that Mr Schröder does not have the stomach for, or commitment to reform. Yet the Bush administration may have undermined its potential influence on German economic policymaking with its decision to snub the German chancellor because of his views on Iraq and the anti-American comments of a minister he subsequently sacked.
In the short-term, at least, much of the burden on combating slow growth and the threat of deflation about which some economists are now seriously concerned, falls on the central bankers. Until recently, they were the new heroes of economic policymaking. Disillusionment has set in with the end of the boom years. A readiness to respond to further signs of economic deceleration by cutting interest rates might help them recover some of their popularity among economists, as would signs that the central bankers recognise that they need to be on their guard against deflation as well as inflation. But the central bankers can't work miracles. Political leaders, too, need to show they are ready and willing to deliver structural reform—even when it is not popular.


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Act of terrorism has perpetrated in the name of Jihad, the holy battle, and has been responsible for the death of thousands of innocent children. Those of sane mind condemn any riot or attack of the terrorist nature. However, what has infiltrated isn't condemnation of these attacks but a constant fear of death. Consider the countries like Iran, Iraq, Istanbul or even Pakistan; such attacks have become a part of public's daily life. 'Inane how people get so fundamentalist that they consider bombing and open firing as the only option! Recently when an army-run school in Pakistan was attacked we all took to social media condemning the attack. Not that protests can help or social condemnations can make a difference. However on January 7th when a newspaper office was attacked, it attracted attention from all corners of the globe. The attackers with the hatred for a weekly, Charlie Hebdo, which published satirical posts about their prophet, gunned down 12 people in the office. They let go a lady who was visiting the office but not before dispensing a threatening that she ought to convert to Islam and read Quran!
Charlie Hebdo, the magazine had been embroiled in some such attacks way back in 2011 as well. During that attack there was a case of open fire and the newspaper website was hacked. The 2011 attack was proposed to be provoked by the newspaper makers as said by the terrorist outfits. Since the newspaper had carried a special edition called as "Charia Hebdo" in reference to the Sharia Law and which was said to be edited by "Muhammed." The issue guaranteed laughter however fundamentalist outfits considered it as provocation. Something similar was repeated in 2012 when a series of nude images of Prophet were published in the newspapers and the newspaper was lashed from all sides for publishing provocative matter. In response to such attacks newspaper's editor said, "We do caricatures of everyone, and above all every week, and when we do it with the Prophet, it's called provocation." However, when the newspaper was attacked on 7th January 2015, the attack earned the wrath of the entire globe.
The world was critical of this attack on freedom of speech. While the aim of the attackers was to forewarn other institutes from publishing such anti-religious matter, the attack did the exactly opposite! Within few hours of the attack the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie (I am Charlie) trended on Twitter. It appeared more than 3.4 million times and was used nearly 6,500 times per minute. By Friday the hashtag had been appeared from more than 5 million times! In fact the trend of Charlie Hebdo still continues to be amongst top most trends on Facebook as well. Cartoonists, celebrities even the cartoon shows had the placards put up saying #JeSuisCharlie. An image comparing the power of gun with the power of free speech was released by cartoonist James MacLeod. Soshy put out an image depicting blood-dripping Je suis Charlie in front of the French flag! Profile pics across the social media profiles changed within hours and there were protests from around the globe.
On January 8th musician JB Bullet performed a song called Je suis Charlie which garnered over By 12 11 million views on Facebook and 2.5 million views on YouTube. On the same day a rapper Oxmo Puccino performed the rap of Je Suis Charlie. Similar was seen in the performances of Grand Corps Malade and French reggae group called Tryo.
On the television, The Daily Show concluded Je Suis Charlie depicted in a cartoon. In The Simpsons' episode Bart's New Friend Maggie Simpson is showed holding a banner that read the slogan.
The slogan became a rage post 71st Golden Globe Awards. Solidarity was definitely seen in the event since it was one massive entertainment event post the attacks. To make sure that solidarity is maintained throughout the event Harvey Weinstein, film producer penned an open letter to Hollywood in Variety speaking about the attacks and the importance of freedom of speech. The phrase got used multiple times as celebs like George Clooney, his wife Amal, Kathy Bates, Helen Mirren, Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson and William H. Macy pinned it to their suits or handbags and used it in their red carpet interviews. While accepting his lifetime achievement award, Clooney wasquoted saying, "Millions of people – not just in Paris but around the world, Christians and Jews and Muslims, leaders of countries all over the world – they didn't march in protest, they marched in support of the idea that we will not walk in fear. We won't do it. So Je suis Charlie"
While this was entertainment, sports and technology too voiced condemnation. During the pre-game warmup two NBA players wore the T-shirts reading out the slogan. Italian football club S.S. Lazio had the slogan embellished on their uniforms. Even the name of a place was changed to Je Suis Charlie in France. A public square was renamed after the Paris attacks. The phrase became so famous that there were number of merchandising manufactured overnight. eBay displayed over 5000 items dominated by the slogan. An android and iOS app was specially made to jot down the supporters for the cause in and around your vicinity. The world didn't stop at this, there were several websites registered with the slogan name on the day of the attack.
While many presume that social media is but an insignificant asset, the trend of this slogan proves otherwise. However with this post we merely don't condemn the attacks but also condemn the commercialization of a sensitive issue!


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Pamela Cunningham
Co-Founder of We Bring H.O.P.E. Network, a Little Rock native, and an active community member. Pamela graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University with master's degrees in Leadership and Management. She worked as an affiliate of Girls Inc, helping young women realize their full potential and understand their own value. Her defining quote: "People may not remember what you did for them or what you said to them, but they will remember how you made them feel." Pamela's goal is to emphasize the importance of making connections for personal and professional growth. In her free time, she loves travelling, meeting new people, and reading poetry.


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Follow Romey Christo:
Life can be hard
Life can be fine
Losing my mind
Won't stop me cry
Stuck in a riot
Lonely, and tired, Good night
Wish I could find
thoughts that abide, Oh why?
I'm Lost In This Fight
I'm losing my life
Takes me back to the nights
I laughed and cried alone
Some days are bright
I can't see why
Trying to smile
Still dead inside
I don't know why
I want to hide, all night
Please don't come searching
For my life, alright?
I'm Lost In This Fight
I'm losing my life
Takes me back to the nights
I laughed and cried alone
All I want is to be fine
Waking up to the blue sky
All my mornings could just shine
Everything's fine
Everything's right
That's what my therapist says to me, why?
Why? Can't I see me in the eyes
Dark is they can be all time
Time is what keeps me alive
Life is no joke
I cannot fly, high!
Why don't I wrap up this story,
And bid you all a big and sweet Goodbye!
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Synthetic methods and biological applications of nitrogen heterocycles to compounds of biological interest.
Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph. D.
Degree Program
Chemistry, PhD
Committee Chair
Luzzio. Frederick
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Handa, Sachin
Committee Member
Handa, Sachin
Committee Member
Grapperhaus, Craig
Committee Member
Schultz, David
Author's Keywords
thalidomide; teratogenesis; amino acids; protecting groups; DAST; Isoindolinones
Thalidomide analogues were synthesized utilizing optimized click conditions from 3-azidoglutarimide and an array of arylacetylenes or N-ethynyl/N-propargyl phthalimide derivatives. The intermediate, 3-azidoglutarimde, was pivotal and yielded a new and scalable synthesis. The reaction conditions utilized a copper sulfate/sodium ascorbate system in aqueous tetrahydrofuran to propagate the dipolar cycloaddition reactions between the azidoglutarimide and the alkynyl coupling partners. The first explored substrates were substituted arylalkynes to optimize the click reaction. Arylalkynes selected were to exhibit similar electron deficient rings to mimic phthalimide. Along with the synthesis of click thalidomide analogues, click analogue of the antiangiogenic and more potent teratogenic thalidomide analogue EM-12 was prepared. The isoindolinone group can act interchangeably with the N-phthaloyl nitrogen protecting group in amino acids. Amino acid intermediates using the N-isoindolinone group are used to make natural and unnatural a-amino acid derivatives using a two-carbon synthon. Selective benzylic oxidation was performed with the N-isoindolinone group being converted to the N-phthaloyl group (65–98%), which could be conveniently removed with hydrazine. For preparation of N-isoindolinone protected amino acids, an array of side chains was installed on the isoindolinone-protected glycine equivalent. This was accomplished through selective deprotonation to demonstrate the utility of the N-protected isoindolinone synthon (51–93%). Selective oxidation is employed on the benzylicN-isoinodolinone with OxoneÒ/KBr and successfully converted the N-isoindolinone group to the N-phthaloyl group in simple substrates, but substrates bearing unsaturated or electron-rich side chains respond poorly to the oxidation. The alkoxylation of chiral N-phenethyl hydroxyisoindolinones were synthesized with diethylaminosulfur trifluoride and an array of primary and secondary alcohols. The mechanism by which synthesis alkoxyisoindolinones are synthesized is through generation of an N-acyliminium ion to allow alkoxylation. The alkoxylated product exhibits a diastereomeric ratio influenced by the chiral N-phenethyl with a favored diastereomer. The stereochemistry and mixture of diastereomers were observed through this reaction.
Recommended Citation
Ronnebaum, Jarrid, "Synthetic methods and biological applications of nitrogen heterocycles to compounds of biological interest." (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3152.


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A New General Atlas of Hungarian Dialects is Forthcoming
Author(s): Jenő Kiss
A New General Atlas of Hungarian Dialects is Forthcoming
Subject(s): Language studies, Geography, Regional studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies, Philology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: dialectology; dialect atlases; new dialect atlas of Hungarian;
Summary/Abstract: The author presents the New General Atlas of Hungarian Dialects which is in progress. We get a short review about the necessity of a new general dialect atlas in Hungary. The main reason is the radical decrease of dialect words which was effected by the end of the traditional agricultural way of life. The other reason is that the data of the first general Hungarian Dialect Atlas was collected between 1949 and 1964. The author presents the aspects of the research and the content of the questionnaires; the character und the number of the lexical, morphological, syntactical, and sociolinguistic questions; and the sociolinguistic aspects of the informant selection. The collection was started in 2007 and will be finished in 2011.
Journal: Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 55/2010
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 303-306
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English
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Perhaps the best part about this Turtle Beach Recon 200 Gaming Headset is that not only is it compatible with current gen consoles like PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, but it will also work on next-gen consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Additionally, the Turtle Beach Recon 200 can deliver high-quality game audio along with a solid microphone. However, don't expect anything too crazy. Considering the Turtle Beach Recon 200 is only $29.99, you shouldn't expect a premium experience.
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How to Choose the Right Genealogy Researcher
For one reason or another, people want to dig down into their history or of that of another. Others desire to know their family tree or trace their biological family. Whatever is your genealogical cause in there, it is important to find a genealogical researcher whom you can trust. There might only be a few number of options available but that does not give a way to an excuse of getting the first one you meet. To experience a quality service and successfully obtain your needed research information, you must consider evaluating any potential genealogical researcher. Check out below three points in choosing the right genealogical researcher for you.
Pleasant Business Reputation
1. Of all the aspects that could be taken into account when hiring a genealogical researcher, this one is among those that matter the most. You rarely work with a genealogical researcher, especially for the events and concerns of your ordinary day. That is why it can be a highly challenging think to find one that you can truly rely on to help you with your historical queries. Finding a genealogical researcher who comes with a pleasant reputation in the community where he or she operates is like winning the battle halfway. Good reputation is a sign the researcher is ideal to work with.
Good Workmanship
Because that you do not interact with a genealogical researcher every now and then, like most people out there, you hardly have the time to get to know them. So at your first meeting with a potential genealogical researcher, you should see to it that you are able to carefully observe his speeches and manners. That point should enable you to determine if the person you are talking to is the right one to confide your delicate (maybe controversial or confidential) historical tracing concerns. By all means, you have to partner with a researcher who understands his or her position and displays professionalism at all times. This includes his or her commitment to the project, of course.
Positive Attitude for the Job
Maybe the thing that you want to dig down in history or in your family's genealogical is something that comes with complexity. It really matters that from the very start you are able to earn a guarantee that the genealogical researcher you are eyeing at can do the project successfully. You know you can acquire the confidence that your information gathering pursuit will end up positively if your researcher tells upfront he or she can carry it out. A positive attitude that your researcher displays give you a ray of hope, and which is really essential in keeping you keeping on. Amidst your options for genealogical researchers, consider looking for someone who can promise you he or she can find out what you are looking for from the times past.
These three tips should help you find a genealogical researcher to hire for whatever type of historical information gathering pursuit that you have at hand, especially one that has something to do with genealogy.


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I made this Medium Outdoor Pallet Bar with three pallets, some corrugated scrap tin, and had a little fun with some rope lights to decorate. This is an easy bar to make in your spare time.
Add some fun to your backyard, outdoor area, or add to your party decor with this Medium Outdoor Pallet Bar!
I made the top and the base using a pallet for each. Then I framed the sides using the third pallet after I broke it down into pieces. I added some tin to the front and secured it from the inside. Next, I created the top by using some plywood I had left over. Then it was torch time to create the wood burned designs on the outside. I temporarily attached the metal stencils to the sides and carefully applied flame with a torch to Woodburn the designs in. Now it's time to fill it up and have some friends over to "test drive" it. :)
How about adding a Grilling Shelf, so you're ready for any reason to have a party?


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Season 8, Episode 10
Season 8 Episode 12 | 55m 10s | Video has closed captioning.
WB Cartoons:This box of cartoon drawings and cels tells an unexpected story about animation's early days. Galvez Papers: Why did a regional governor care enough about a slave to sign her emancipation papers? Mussolini's Dagger: Did this dagger once belong to Benito Mussolini?
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I was talking on Skype this morning to an old Fleet Street friend about rumours of further Newscorp recordings that might damn the Dirty Digger further. She was one of those four years ago who dismissed the blogosphere's (and to be fair, the Guardian's) terrier-like certainty that it was all true and worse as "liberal conspiracy obsession syndrome", but even this doubting (albeit nice) person now thinks Wriggly Rupert is damned.
The revelatory confirmation today from Exaro (easily the most successful old to new media breakaway thus far) that a second secret recording reveals Newscorp senior management to have been lying for Australia about just how endemic corruption there was/is – and how expensive it could still be – could yet seal Murdoch's fate.
CEO Tom Mockridge damns himself as a wannabe accessory to justice perversion by saying during the sessions that "we should never have been so compliant with the police". Yet there are still journalists in the room saying that to hand over evidence of illegal privacy invasions "was a betrayal". As I sometimes remark, "These people are ill".
Likely to be very ill indeed are all those Japanese citizens within striking distance of the Fukushima plant. After all the denialist hype about how there was no danger from a nuclear accident I still judge will go down in history as a near-diabolical cover-up, I have been fascinated to read the scales falling from Establishment news bureau Reuters' eyes today. Some extracts might serve to make the point:
'Tetsuya Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of 2012. Instead, when he turned up for work, he was handed off through a web of contractors and assigned, to his surprise, to one of Fukushima's hottest radiation zones….He was told he would have to wear an oxygen tank and a double-layer protective suit. Even then, his handlers told him, the radiation would be so high it could burn through his annual exposure limit in just under an hour….When Hayashi took his grievances to a firm on the next rung up the ladder of Fukushima contractors, he says he was fired….Hayashi found a second job at Fukushima, this time building a concrete base for tanks to hold spent fuel rods. His new employer skimmed almost a third of his wages – about $1,500 a month – and paid him the rest in cash in brown paper envelopes….In reviewing Fukushima working conditions, Reuters interviewed more than 80 workers, employers and officials involved in the unprecedented nuclear clean-up. A common complaint: the project's dependence on a sprawling and little scrutinized network of subcontractors – many of them inexperienced with nuclear work and some of them, police say, have ties to organized crime…'
You see, I don't like heavy-handed, ignorant bureaucratic regulation either. But when featherweights like Dan Hannan say the only solution is to stop all regulation, I want to expose him in string vest and Y-fronts for ten minutes at the Fukushima epicentre: you know, just long enough to give him a nice suntan, and a sense of humility.
Humble is the last word I would ever use to describe Goldman Sachs graduate Mario Draghi, but an excellent piece at Zero Hedge today does finally vindicate all those of us who have been saying for months that the flight of investment capital from the eurozone is nothing short of Apocalyptic.The European Central Bank reported that money supply growth (M3) in the euro area decelerated further in September, dropping to an annual rate of 2.1% – well below the ECB's 4.5% target: the total amount of credit to corporates plunged by 4.9% year on year in Italy, 7% in Portugal, and an alarming 19.9% in Spain. Now we can see why the figures relating to ClubMed were studiously avoided in Draghis "analysis" of the situation last week.
Yesterday, increasingly confused but still fundamentally sane Daily Telegraph columnist-cum-guru Ambrose Pritchard-Evans finally spotted this in what was something of a return to form for him. AEP at last acknowledged that 'Greece continues to be a catastrophe. The alleged stabilisation will prove to be a false dawn. The economy will contract by a further 2.9pc in 2014, and 1.4pc in 2015, pushing unemployment to 32.4pc, and the debt to 201pc of GDP'. He still hasn't accepted my path analysis exclusive of yesterday, but give the lad time: I'm sure he'll come round.
I see glimmers of hope in all this. It has been my experience in life that – just when you think a certain collection of Black Hats are unassailable – their hubris goes just that bit too far, and it turns out to have been not their victory, but rather a descent into the nadir.
I am beginning to think that Gove's rape of education is finally becoming clear, and Hunt's cancerous injections into the NHS veins are now so flagrant, folks are beginning to notice. I hope so. In Churchill's words, we must "keep on buggering on", in the hope that this is true.


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Do we stand properly? If we don't, we need to, especially from a breathing standpoint. So many American's stand with hunched shoulders that restrict the breath from getting the needed long slow inhalation into the belly.
With hunched, rounded, or slouched shoulders we are preventing the breath from dropping into the belly.
This happens when the shoulders are hunched, setting up for the lower ribs to press into the belly, preventing the diaphragm from dropping down to bring air into the lower belly on the inhalation. This also is compressing the belly preventing large amounts of air to enter.
which add to being tired, wore out, and fatigued since the muscles are holding us up and not our bones.


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Insurance for High-Risk Drivers in Texas
Are you a high-risk driver? Are you concerned about how much you are spending on auto insurance or have you avoided getting the best coverage because you think it will cost a lot? You are not alone. A lot of high-risk drivers fret over insurance coverage. Some even go without because they think the risk they are taking is worth the savings.
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An omega elven king finds his alpha. Unfortunately, he's human.
Casersis Ardal, the former Sun King, is a First Generation elf of over three million years. He meets his match in Dustin Juniper, a twenty-year-old human construction worker.
Dustin has been in charge of his whole life since he was sixteen. But when he meets Casersis, destiny strips all his control away. His body, his heart, his whole world change when he comes into contact with a magical amulet and starts changing species. And falling in love with an ageless elven king makes him question everything.
Casersis has been alone on earth for millennia. Having a burgeoning elf around brings feelings he isn't comfortable with. But he can't let Dustin go. If the humans find out Dustin isn't human, Dustin would become a science experiment. The only option Casersis has is to keep Dustin captive. He must protect Dustin from himself as the young man fights Casersis—and fate—every step of the way.
If they want to be together, Casersis and Dustin must find a way to compromise. Once in a lifetime takes on new meaning when you live forever.
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Title: The Elven King's Captive
Series: Fated Elves, Book 1
Author: Devon Vesper
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My heart pounded as I raced to Dustin's side. I could not be too late. I would not be too late.
Even with all of my magic pushing me forward, I felt like I was not moving fast enough. I was running out of time. I heard a snarl, the snap of ravenous jaws. The beauty of the forest around me held no allure as I maneuvered around trees, between trunks and through the thick underbrush. Twigs and branches ripped at my hair, at my clothes, scratched my face and hands, but I did not care. Nothing mattered except getting to Dustin in time.
Voices up ahead signaled that I was close. I slowed myself down, not wanting to startle Don, knowing he had his gun with him. If I startled him when he fired, he could hurt Dustin.
Or kill him.
The wind changed direction, and I could smell my beauty's fear mixed with Don's. The scent of polished metal mingled, making my stomach roll. I had to make it in time. I had to.
Erastus's feral growl grew louder. As I rounded another tree, I saw them. Dustin had fallen face-first onto the ground, the side of his face covered in dirt, moldering leaves clinging to his cheek. Erastus stood over him, his front paws in the center of my beauty's back.
And Don had his gun drawn.
I stopped as suddenly as I had moved, right beside Don. As his finger squeezed the trigger, I shoved his hand up so the bullet went into the air.
Deafening silence fell, and all I could hear were four sets of heartbeats on the breeze, and the gentle rustle of falling leaves.
With a breath, I released Don's hand and stepped in front of him. "Put your weapon away."
I stared Erastus down, looking him directly in his golden eyes. "Put the gun away and head back for the house. Now."
"But, sir—"
"Do as I say, Don."
The man sighed and I felt him back up, heard the click as he re-engaged the safety, the slither of metal against leather as he holstered his weapon. With each sound, the tension in my shoulders and back eased.
As I felt his presence recede, I backed up a step, spoke low and with a tone colder than Dustin had ever heard from me, that I had hoped he would never hear from me. "Erastus. Get off of Dustin."
The wolf snorted and narrowed his eyes at me as if to say, "Make me."
I'm a mother, furbaby spoiler, and a girl who can't get enough of pretty, pretty boys. As a kid, I traveled the world, too young to appreciate the gift I was given, but now those adventures spur on stories that my brain just can't keep up with. Well, my brain tells me it keeps up just fine, but my fingers are the slow ones. I'll let you decide. But the boys, man. The boys I remember make my heart sizzle looking back on them. Being a kid at nude beaches, I never cared, but looking back on those memories of Sicily, WHEW! There are some really great childhood images that I wish I could have been an adult to savor.Home is some place I call "rustic". I'm used to large cities, stores everywhere, gas stations on every corner. Here in rural Pennsylvania, it's rustic and beautiful. And quiet. Too quiet. With all this quiet, all there is to do is write stories, and let the hot men in my head out to play. We all benefit, yes? I like this development. The only thing I dislike about this rusticness is the fact I can't find a coffee shop that sells a proper chai latte. They make it from powder. Ew. This makes for a disgruntled Dev. Ugh. I miss my chai.
Most of all, I am a down-to-earth southern girl at heart from spending 16 years in Florida. If you chat with me, you'll hear endearments like darlin', sweetheart, and hon/hun/hunnie. It's who I am, and if we chat, you're almost instantly family, so get used to it.
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This weekend at HonFest
We had such a blast this weekend at HonFest! This year's HonFest marked our first ever adoption event and we're proud to note that we received a great deal of applications for kittens that were with us at the event. The event not only gave us the opportunity to meet fellow cat and dog lovers in the community, but it also served as a foundation of many more successful adoption events to come.
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Eighth graders wrote a blog post a day last week and then made an index to share them. Below you will find links to their indices.
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Courage is commanded Worry and fear can sometimes cause us to be apathetic to our faith and the people around us. Apathy often leads to destruction. Looking at the Church in the United States of America today, it's easy to see that apathy has crept into the minds of many believers. Barna conducted a survey … Continue reading It's Time for Christians to be Courageous
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The Silence of Good Men
Good men are distracted Many good men - especially Christian men have become relatively silent when it comes to speaking up in regards to current events and politically related discussions. Many good men avoid doing anything politically related for various reasons. One obvious reason is that we have become too easily distracted. Distractions can be … Continue reading The Silence of Good Men
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This list has not been an easy one to write, which is why instead of trying to write a general fantasy list, I decided to hone it down a wee bit to teen fantasy. And believe me, it will still be hard work then. :)
So let's begin, shall we? Oh, I should say, these aren't in order, because, my God, that would be impossible for me to do. Oh, and if you haven't read most of these novels... Well... chances are you weren't born until after 1995.
- CS Lewis -This is the first fantasy I ever read, as I think with most people my age. Yes, I admit it, I was born before the age of Harry Potter. I am officially old, because let's face it, that will be the first fantasy book most kids read now. Anyway, my mom read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe when I was about 9, I think. Up until then I'd read a lot of Nancy Drew and Louisa May Alcott. I hadn't even read Alice and Wonderland. That book is still one of my best memories. It's not the same, reading it now, but there is a special place in my heart for Lewis. He is one of the reasons I fell in love with reading. Favorites of his books: LLW, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Horse and His Boy, and The Magician's Nephew
- Tamora Pierce -She was the second fantasy author I'd ever read. I can't say enough good things about her, especially as a woman. Her character in the Alanna series taught me, as a young girl, that I could do anything and break any boundary. It sounds sappy, but those type of books, combined with parents who were the supportive people they were, led me to go on and major (and succeed) in a field that was less than 10% women. Favorites: Alanna series, The Immortals series, and Trickster's Choice series.
- JK Rowling -Yes, yes, of course. Fabulous, imaginative. I read these as a 22 year old and I was still enchanted enough to buy the whole series. Rowling is the reason both of my brothers read now, and I bless her for it! I am excited to introduce my son to the series when he gets old enough (Alas, it won't happy for several years yet. *sigh*). Favorite: Order of the Phoenix I always come under fire for that one, but really, it's the first time that Harry realizes that he is ready to fight Voldemort and his Death Eaters. It's when the DA is founded. It's when Harry starts to realize that this will be a battle he ultimately fights alone.
- Anne McCaffrey -A classic writer whose work is found mostly in the adult section, but many of her books feature teenagers. The Pern series has several teenagers featured as main characters. True, many of them grow up, but it doesn't change the fact that they are all about finding yourself and overcoming hardships. Side note: When I was a teenager and my parents went through their whole, "Let's take a road trip to see Mt. Rushmore" phase, I packed a TUB full of her books and I read them from California to South Dakota while my siblings watched Aristocats over and over on the little TV in our van. Good times. Favorites: Dragonsinger, Dragonsong, Dragon Drums, Dragons Dawn, The White Dragon. Excellent, all.
- Robin McKinley -You can't tell from some of her new books, yes, I think she has faltered, but she did for fairy tales, what Gail Carson Levine has tried to do. I can't remember the first time I read Beauty. It might have been the third or fourth fantasy book (or series) I've read. I was enchanted. I devoured every other book she wrote, with mixed results. Not of a fan of The Outlaws of Sherwood. And even though I enjoyed Rose Daughter, I still wonder what the heck she was thinking. Favorites: Beauty, The Blue Sword, The Hero and The Crown, The Door in The Hedge, A Knot in The Grain.
- Philip Pullman -I didn't read these until I was an adult, but wow. The story is so wide in scope, reaching across worlds and beliefs and at the center is this poor little girl who's been abandoned by both of her selfish parents and then used brutally by them, as well. I also loved the idea of a soul that could be seen. I wish it were like that here and you'd know what people are like when you meet them. Favorites: probably the first in the series, The Gold Compass
- Diana Wynn Jones -I can't remember how I stumbled across these books. I think it must have been when I was working as a nanny for two little boys. I was in the children's section a lot, and read The Christomanci Quartet. Then I found out that her books were in the YA section and I was thrilled! Favorites: I think my favorites would be Howl's Moving Castle (also one of my favorite Animes of all time) and The Game -which is a novella she wrote that uses Greek Mythology.
- Piers Anthony -Another adult writer whose books feature mostly adolescents. To read these books, you must like puns and you can't mind some goofiness. I think he was the first writer I read and realized, fantasy can be funny! That's a big deal. Favorites: A Spell for Chameleon, Heaven Scent, and The Color of Her Panties
- Christopher Paolini - I was blown away when I first read Eragon. I couldn't believe it was written by a 16 year old, although I was less surprised after I found out he was homeschooled. (Shout-out to my fellow house prisoners!) Though it is obvious to me that he was strongly influenced by Tolkien, there is no denying that his story and characters follow their own design. The first two especially, I could not stop reading. Very good. I wish I could say the same for Brisingr. *sigh* That book DID remind me of Tolkien, in that I would have liked to trim about 300 pages out of it. Seriously, the dwarf wedding? A waste of paper! I'm hoping for redemption in the next book. Favorites: I'm still quite partial to the first, Eragon. It was so nice meeting Sapphira.
- Stephenie Meyer -I debated whether or not to include Meyer, especially when I'm not including Cassandra Clare. But in the end, I couldn't help myself. You can hate vampires, you can hate teen fantasy, heck, you can even hate Meyer's writing, but you can't deny her story grabs you. That is why I put her here. Even though I thought her books were badly written (editors, where are you??), her story had me buying book after book, and let me tell you, I don't spend money on new books. I'm the cheapest reader on the planet. :) Favorite: New Moon, hands down, because Edward is such an asshat in most of the books. If a man ever tried to "protect" me like that, I'd kick him in the balls.
How I decided on what to include. Well, I picked authors that have a large body of work, because I think that's how you can properly judge how good they are. That is why there are a lot of "older" authors on the list.
Why I didn't choose some of the obvious... well, Tolkien bored the crap out of me. Those books were written for boys, no question. I think there are girl characters in about 4% of those books, compared to all the men warriors and travelers. That's fine. They were written for boys. They didn't do it for me, and this is MY list after all. Cassandra Clare... ah, Cassandra, I have a whole entry about her and some others (entitled "Where are all the Writers???") First of all, the whole, "I might be sexually attracted to my brother" thing is just gross. And your writing is subpar. The story was interesting enough to carry me through to the end, but then the ending was SOOOO predictable. The Bartimaeous Trilogy... well, read that entry I just listed. The Lightning Thief... I just couldn't get past the first chapter. I can't give a personal opinion about that series, but I obviously can't include them in my favorite books.
I have a lot of new authors that I would love to include, but they have only 1 or 2 books out as now, so I'm going to give it some time and see how they end up.
The inevitable question comes up... why don't I have any indies on my list? Even Amanda Hocking has 2 series out. They cost money and right now, I'm unemployed, so I've only read a couple of them(the super cheapies). The only books I read come from the library. I could pirate her books, I'm sure, but how is that supportive of an industry I'm involved in? So, until the library has her books or my book starts raking in the dough, it's not going to happen yet.
That being said, if ANY indie author wants to send me a digital file of their work to read, I'll do it, for sure!
Hope you enjoyed my list. :)


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