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According to a 2006 police report, Joshua Duggar, the Duggar's oldest child, has been accused of hild molesting underage girls when he was a teenager. As a result of the unearthed police report and the ensuing scandal, the show 19 Kids and Counting has been pulled and the show's future is up in the air. Joshua Duggar's scheduled speaking engagements to profamily, Christian, and other conservative groups have been cancelled in light of the accusations. To many, the Duggar family represented the true Christian family who was unblemished by scandal. What are your thoughts?
I am just glad I do not watch TV.
BTW - who is the young woman in the pic? Her and Josh look like twins.
She's his wife.
Could it be his Sister Wife?
...no, wait... that's a different show.
His wife, her name is Anna. All the Duggar kids' names begin with a "j". Strange family. The Duggars epitomizes the insular, dysfunctional, fanatically religious, and/or large/very large family. If one wants to study dysfunction for their abnormal psychology class, study the Duggar family. Ugh, this family sickens me(heaving as I speak)......
I have never seen the show, though I've heard about it. A long time ago, a classmate of mine told me the real reason why some religions prohibit birth control. It is to enlarge their population. She was a Catholic, and the number of whole countries that are Catholic support what she said. Smaller religions, like Mormons and Sikhs, promote the same thing. They glamorize these large families by teaching girls from Day One that it is their highest privilege - even their duty - to give birth and care for children.
When I first moved to the Big Island of Hawaii 14 years ago, I started listening to a Christian radio station, but was turned off by the fact that it played very little music; instead, it promoted the idea of "letting the Lord choose the size of your family". Nothing was said about how the Lord would supply the emotional energy and finances to support such a large family. One woman had 4 babies, one right after the other, and the couple wondered why she was tired all the time.
Ultimately, it really is up to mankind to solve its problems. Birth control has been around since antiquity, and people have discovered it is best to space their babies and limit their number to how many you can feasibly care for. After all, what happens if the parents die? Who will care for the babies then???
Only a fool would fall for propaganda like this.
Exactly, besides religious exhortation regarding the supposedly positivity of large families. Not so long ago, many psychologists, educators, and social scientists proposed "the benefits" of the large/very large family. It was purported that in such families, children learned to share, develop empathy, and social skills. They even believed that the large/very large families was the true family. Well, thankfully times have changed. Intelligent and educated people are having small families because such families have proven to be immensely beneficial for the children.
It is only the uneducated, illiterate, and unintelligent who are having large/very large families. Even religious people are opting for small families. Something has to be psychologically amiss for anyone to want large/very large families in this age of advanced contraception. What these people are doing is inhumane. God did not intend for children to be brought into the world in want, poverty, and struggle. God gave us a brain to use contraception in order for children to be wanted, loved, and receive the best of parental time and attention. Large/very large families are symbols of less enlightened/modern times.
I'm just glad that they've been yanked off the air. First Honey Booboo's mama falls for a child molestor and now this guy. Do the initials "TLC" stand for "Touching Little Children?"
Probably. The show 19 Kids and Counting is beyond disgusting. It glorifies large/very large families which are detrimental to all parties involved, particularly children. The oldest daughters are little more than chattel slaves while the "mother" keeps cranking out kid after kid ad infinitum.
I gotta tell ya, gm -- knowing how you feel about the Duggar clan, you were the first person I thought of when this news broke a day or two ago, i.e. "Ohhhh boy, gmwilliams is gonna have a field day with this!" Hahaha
You're so right, FatFreddyCat. When I first saw this, I thought old boy karma is a........................! The Duggars are dysfunctional beyond any type of logical belief but then so is the typical large/very large family but perhaps not to that extent.....Every large/very large family I have encountered from childhood on had some type of aberration and/or dysfunction: teenage pregnancies, juvenile delinquency, children raising themselves/each other, uninvolved parents/parents in name only, children being the adults in the family while parents are more like children, teen marriages- FatFreddyCat,NEED I SAY MORE-large/very large families exist in a world different from the rest of the normal population!
I've never cared much for them but mostly just didn't pay attention to them/ignored them as best as I could.
But this new information makes me absolutely despise the parents. Firstly because they didn't actually get the kid help, they spoke to the church and then they sent him away. A teenager who molests his siblings needs help in the form of actual therapy. They failed him, and most of all they failed their poor daughters who were the recipients of the abuse.
Secondly, because the program they follow regarding sexuality and sexual abuse is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. They treat boys like they're animals incapable of resisting temptation and they treat girls like they're at fault when someone sexually abuses them. It's disgusting. No wonder this kid (and probably others) are maladjusted and have problems with their sexuality.
And lastly (and this literally makes my blood pressure shoot up when I think about it), that these people have the balls to say that homosexuals pose a threat to children when they knew THE WHOLE TIME that their son had molested multiple children. It's just so, so abhorrent and hypocritical and I have absolutely zero sympathy for the parents. They screwed up, they're hypocrites, they subjected their kids to unhealthy views on sexuality, and they deserve every single bad comment aimed in their direction.
The kids are a different story. I really, really feel for the girls who were abused. Just as I feel for anyone who is abused. But to live in such a repressive environment where you're led to believe that being sexually assaulted was even somewhat your own fault, and then to have your abuser simply sent away to live somewhere else for a few months and then be totally forgiven without a second thought because he was sorry, or he repented, or WHATEVER... I just can't imagine.
I can't respect a guy who molested his very young sisters, I understand that he's owning up to it and that it was a long time ago, but 15 is old enough to know what you're doing in that situation. I might be a bit more sympathetic if he didn't participate heavily in a church that condemned other people for their sexuality. He, of all people, should not be judging anyone else on that topic.
I'm waiting for the inevitable porn parody starring a Josh Duggar lookalike. I'll bet they call it "19 Chicks And Counting."
keith.....I had every intention of replying to Grace in a quasi serious manner, THIS, I find is impossible when I read your posts! LMAO.....It's gotten to where I start laughing when I see your face! (no offense intended!! LOL)
Grace, I'll return when I can straighten up and ignore our resident comedian....
"19 chicks & counting".......ROFLMAO....!!
Grace......Have to admit that I'd not heard a word about this. I guess I've paid little attention to the news the past few days. I googled and read up on it just now.
Oops....just goes to show.....no person, no family, can possibly be flawless or living examples of "perfect," despite the herculean attempts to portray the role of such a group. Perfection is nonexistent as we know.
Jim Bob and Michele appear to be completely devoid of reality and common sense, as demonstrated with their insistence to continue to breed their own tribe......It's no secret that the vast majority of at least the American population see the Duggars as a bit looney and way off the charts.
Basically, the only thing that prevents them from being totally ostracized and berated constantly is that they do support their massive brood on their own, without "OUR" assistance in any form.
Actually Grace....this may just be the tip of the iceberg? Who knows what skeletons lurk in the Duggar home?
I've never done any research on how MANY extra large families we have in our country. I can't help but believe there are few......except perhaps for the terribly ignorant, poverty-stricken and unscrupulous......This begs the question, "Just what is the Duggar's excuse?".....Good post, Grace.
As I have reiterated, there is something aberrant about large/very large families. I have seen this aberration myself from childhood. Large/very large families have a diametrical different psychology from the rest of us. They also have a different mindset and consciousness. Parents of large/very large families are seemingly devoid of any logic. You are right fpherj48 that very few people have large/very large families.
Such people know that with large/very large families, there is a higher incidence of poverty and the pathologies that goes with it. They also know that in large/very large families, older children are either cast aside, pressed into indentured servitude a/k/a slavery, and/or neglected altogether. I have witnessed as a child how so many precious children in large/very large families suffer and endure conditions that would make POW and internment camps seem like paradise.
Such children are on their own far too early, rising themselves and each other as their parents are parents in name only. Yes, the Duggars are the atypical large family in that they support themselves. However, the average large/very large family DOESN'T- they have to depend upon SOME TYPE of aid from more affluent relatives, charities, religious organizations, and of course, the government.
It is IRRESPONSIBLE and SELFISH to have large/very large families in this age of birth control. Whew, I am digressing a bit. Yes, the Duggar "parents" are strange. They do not care about their children at all. All they want to do is to quiver. I find parents of large/very large families to have that incessant need to have children, regardless of the ramifications on the rest of the family. This is narcissism at its highest order. It is analogous to a 5 year child wanting a doll collection.
Yes, many mothers of large/very large families want that doll collection. Michelle Duggar is not the only one. There is a Michigan mother Kateri Schwandt who has THIRTEEN sons THUS FAR. She wants a.....DAUGHTER and will try again......again......and again until she gets that daughter. There is something totally insane about this.
Again, off on a verbal tangent. I really can't wait to see what is really under the surface in the Duggar family. Someone has informed me that there are so many pathologies in large/very large families. Somehow large/very large families and abonormalites go hand in hand. It is the POOR CHILDREN in large/very large families that I feel sorry for. They have very little to no opportunities in life because of their "parents". Birth control should be mandatory after 1-4 children.
P.S. I have read books about large/very large families and its pathologies and studied it in college. I also had parents who came from anaconda sized families i.e. very large families. I have a branch of first cousins who came from large families plus a few classmates from large/very large families. It is a WHOLE DIFFERENT world there. To quote the series, Hell, the Devil's Domain- it is a place where one DEFINITELY DOESN'T want to go.........Same here with large/very large families- I definitely DON'T want to be there.......oh HELL to the NO!
by Grace Marguerite Williams 8 years ago
(6 or more children per household) in the postmodern, 21st century United States, being fully cognizant of the fact that they will be subjecting their children to an extremely rudimentary and primitive socioeconomic living standard, even socioeconomic penury and poverty? Countless studies...
by Grace Marguerite Williams 8 years ago
What are ten ways that the large/very large family is abusive to children academically,emotionally, mentally,physically, psychologically, and socioecnomically?
by Christian L Perry 4 years ago
What is the root cause of poverty in the world?
by DinoMommy 6 years ago
I'm just wondering what people thought about them....
by Nichol marie 4 years ago
Do you know someone who is prejudice of larger families?Why do some people have an ignorant belief that moms of large families cannot be the same as moms with one or 2?
by H C Palting 4 years ago
Do you believe that poorer and/or less educated people have more children whom they can't support?Do you know any ill effects to the child(ren) born to these families and society? If so, what are they?
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I'm a little late on this one, but I was certainly surprised to see that the local fave and long-standing branch of the classic American restaurant chain Daily Grill has closed its doors at 11677 San Vicente Blvd. in Brentwood. No word on a replacement yet, but you can read more and find another branch here.
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The fair has something for everyone in the family, including live concerts, rodeo, contests, shopping, a kids' zone, a carnival, food and more.
This year's music lineup on the Budweiser main stage includes: The Randy Rogers Band, Stoney LaRue, Moe Bandy, John Arthur Martinez, Jake Hooker, Rich Otoole, Max Stalling, Kevin Fowler, and Mark Chesnutt.
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Guests can also check out the North Star Bank Rodeo Queen Pageant, BBQ & Chili Cook-Offs, Youth Art, the DATCU Kid Zone and more.
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An Interesting Travel Hack
Hilton Diamond
Until recently I was of the impression that 'earning' Hilton Diamond through anything other than lots of hotel stays was more or less impossible. Even in the case of a status match, I assumed you'd need to have enough hotel stays to progress to a top tier. However, it seems I missed one route…
I covered ways to achieve Hilton Gold through: American Express Platinum, gifting and status matches here. With Hilton Honors Diamond however, in addition to the Gold benefits, you get:
– 100% Bonus Points
– Availability Upgrade (potentially up to a suite room type)
– Executive Lounge Access
– Premium Wi-fi
Of course, you can also expect to come above Gold in the pecking order for upgrades if availability is tight.
Based on fairly regular hotel stays the total value of all the Diamond benefits could potentially be £100's. So I was interested in hearing how self-confessed new travel hack enthusiast John, achieved Hilton Honors Diamond based almost entirely on spending alone!
IHG Rewards Club Premium Credit Card
John started with the IHG Rewards Club Premium Credit card, issued by Creation. This card has a £99 annual fee and, as with most reward cards at 41.5 % APR is one you'd want to pay in full each month.
It's benefits include:
20,000 Points Bonus after just £200 Spend
Free Night Certificate after £10,000 Spend in a year
Platinum Elite Status – offering 50% bonus points, room availability upgrades, extended check out and 'guaranteed room availability'
2 IHG points earned per £1 spent
If you do stay at IHG properties, this makes it a decent card in its own right. IHG points are worth about 0.4p, so with minimal card spending for £99 you get about £80 in points plus mid-tier status. If you do then decide to use it as your primary card, like John, you're also getting a free night at £10,000 spend, and another 20,000 points from your spending. The free stay could potentially be worth £200 plus if used at top end hotels (e.g. Intercontinental), and that's another £80 of points earned on the spending too. In contrast the previous Hilton Honors credit card (no longer open to applications) required £10,000 spending to obtain mid-tier Gold status.
IHG brand hotels include Intercontinental, Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza.
The Interesting Bit
Here's the interesting bit (and where John comes in!)… unlike some other reward cards, points earned on spending on the IHG credit card count as 'base points' towards status, in just the same way as points earned on stays. So John identified that if he spent enough on the card, plus some stays, it would actually be possible to achieve the 75,000 base points needed to obtain IHG top tier 'Spire Elite Status'.
John told me:
'I have tried hard to put all spending on it over the last few years, to get points for free hotel stays to enjoy with the family; we have had several long weekends in London for free with IHG hotels as a result.
I also put all my work expenses on it; company car fuel, and any travel costs. I average about 14 work hotel stays per year and made sure all of them were IHG hotels in the past, to maximise points. Plus I signed up for all their Accelerate promotions in the last few years to earn additional points.
To achieve Spire status our family spent just under £30,000 in the 12 months from Jan to Dec 2018, including 2 family holidays to get as many points as possible. The rest of the qualifying elite points were from hotel stays, mainly work stays.'
In order to earn Spire Elite Status on spending alone, with no hotel stays, John would've needed to spend £37,500 on the card! (Although that would also be a further £300 points earned…).
IHG Benefits Chart:
Status Match to Hilton Diamond
So, having put all that effort into earning IHG Spire status – John then decided that actually he preferred the Hilton Diamond benefits instead, so he contacted Hilton and secured a status match! He then decided he liked it enough to book the required 8 stays in 90 days in order to retain this status through to 2020.
John puts a conservative estimate of £200 on the value of perks and extras he'll gain from Hilton Diamond.
I must say, I'd tend to agree with this choice and evaluation of the two. In particular Hilton's Free Breakfast and Lounge Access stand out as worthwhile perks – I also highly value the fact Amex points can be transferred to Hilton Honors (but not IHG) and Hilton have more top-end properties.
You can find Hilton's status match info here
I was impressed at John's approach here – which is why I asked him if I could write a post about it! Hilton Diamond requires 30 stays or 60 nights, which makes it difficult to obtain for many people. John's approach meant he was earning points and getting perks and free stays with IHG en route to Spire Status, and he now has Hilton Diamond AND IHG Spire.
Obviously you have to be spending enough to put £30,000 on any card, and you could argue that spreading some of this onto other cards could have earned some healthy welcome bonuses along the way (for example on Amex Gold). However, without any need for card churning or organising spending, John got a number of free hotel stays with status perks, and two top tier statuses without masses of stays. Given that the majority of people earn little, or nothing, back on their every day spending, I'd say that's a decent outcome for minimal effort.
Big thanks to John for sharing this with me!
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Oh yes, today I am getting into a completely new area, an area which I have never written about.
Though writing about the corporate world is not in my area of interest (despite being in the corporates for my entire working life, 35 years to be precise), however, when I read about this, I felt that given that the impact of such seemingly small thing is huge, and it is something which is and will impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, I changed my mind and decided to write about it.
Hence the sudden interest to write…so as always, please do read, like (hopefully), give your comments and share…..
Let me first set the stage, one of the consequences of Covid 19 has been that there has been a worldwide lockdown. Offices have closed but since the business cannot stop, employees have been asked to "Work from Home" (WFH).
Sounds quite harmless…but this simple small looking thing has many many issues hidden under it.
So, here goes:
If you are the employer or the boss your response to the topic, most likely, will be sort of as follows:
Of course, I pay them money…shouldn't I am allowed to know what are they up to and in my experience, if I don't watch and monitor them they will have a grand time doing nothing and collecting fat paycheques.
On the other hand, if you are an employee or the junior, your stance would be:
I hate it, I feel used, bl……. Hell….as if my boss does not waste his time at all
Recently, I was reading somewhere that one of the big fours has been in the news due to their installing of software on their employee machines for not only monitoring their employees but even recording their videos.
BTW (for people who are not very tech Savy), there is software available, which, once installed, can track what websites employees are visiting, measure mouse movements, and even monitor keystrokes.
Nowadays companies are even using software's which take continuous screenshots of employees' computers, producing a video of everything they're doing, they also monitor for specific keywords on employees' screens, to check if they are looking for a job, mishandling confidential information etc.
It's like the Big Brother is watching you, not only during the working hours but during non-working hours also if you happen to use the company laptop etc.
Let's first try to understand why this happening:
- For managers who are used to walking past their employees' desks, monitoring software restores some access to what their workers are up to.
- An average Manager tends to manage his/her team by inputs things like, how much time did the employee spent in the office, out of that how much time did the employee spent working and how much away from desk etc.
- The situation has come to a stage where software's are being used to give scores to employees on a daily basis.
- The root cause here is that a lot of managers are deeply insecure about whether employees are going to rip them off if they stop swinging the whip (these software are the feeder to the whip)
While the discussion has been on for many many years that is input based management the right way to manage or output/result based managed the right way. For whatever reason, when it comes to discussions more and more managers have started to agree that output-based management is the right way but when it comes to doing it in practice they still prefer input based command and controls. Even when it comes to appraisals and their structure very heavy focus is on inputs rather than outputs or results.
While this discussion used to come and go and somehow never became very serious but, like many other things, have become very serious in this era of Work from Home (WFH) and Covid 19.
The fact that the employees are not in front of the Manager's eyes is a reality. They are also not with their peers is also a fact. Therefore to some extent, this feeling of insecurity is understandable and justified.
However, this approach has some serious implications. Many pieces of research, in the past, and done recently have begun to show the downsides of this approach of continuously looking over the shoulder of the employees.
The reason why Managers do that because most of them have still not learnt to do output or result-based management.
Let's have a look at the other side of the coin:
- Researches are clearly showing that this approach is highly counterproductive, it is showing to be causing the sinking of employee morale
- Although there are a few managers who may only be interested in information in broad strokes but there are quite a few (as we have bad employees, we also have bad managers) who use the information gathered to take advantage of the employees.
- A manager that's only able to monitor inputs is incompetent. Good managers measure outputs, whether that happens from the office or home.
- Employees start feeling that they are being treated with suspicion by default. There is nothing worse than that.
Evidence is beginning to show, that surveillance software is beginning to cause:
- Likelihood of quitting their jobs
- Greater employee tension and less job satisfaction
- Higher turnover intent.
- Reduction in their intrinsic work motivation, which in turn could harm creativity.
- More importantly, employees are less willing to go above and beyond for the company when they start losing trust and motivation.
On one side, there is the very real issue of how does one monitor an employees work when you can't see him, can't meet him and he is at home. On the other side are the issues of motivation, initiative and feel-good feeling.
The reason why one needs to think is because:
- It is such an important issue that if not handled well can result in seriously damaging a company's ability to sustain itself (it's all about people after all).
- This Covid 19 situation has developed so fast that no one got time to plan, think and prepare for how to manage it…delicately and effectively.
- It is also expected that this situation will last for a long time (till the time vaccine comes, becomes available everywhere and people are inoculated). We are talking about WFH continuing for more than a year at least (if not more)
- Since suddenly businesses have realised that this is a great way to build cost efficiencies into the business (by cutting rentals, real estate and administrative costs) many may like to see this continuing, at least partially.
However, things cannot go on like it is happening today (the big brother approach).
Where is the balancing line? Here are my recommendations (would love to hear yours):
- Discourage out of working hours including weekend working (give confidence to the employees)
- Do understand the employees are human and not machines. Many studies have shown that in any working day, typically people work (billable or productive work) for not more than 70 to 75 % of the time. It is impossible to work beyond that I would hazard to say that is in-human to expect people to work beyond that.
- Treat them well, don't start by doubting everyone. Remember they are not working from home by their choice, the business or the circumstances have forced them into it. In other words, stop the Managers should STOP thinking; oh they are having a "good" time due to this WFH. Remember, they didn't choose it. The Manager (due to the company policy) asked them to.
- The Manager may choose to watch some people more than others based on performance and results and NOT because they are WFH.
- Management by Objectives was a buzz word long time back, and then it lost its sheen. It's time for it to make a comeback in a modified version. Set goals of everyone from top to bottom (measurable) and measure their work against them.
- Learn and train your Managers to look at the quality and quantity of work that your employees are putting out rather than watching every keystroke on the computer and the time spent in front of the computer.
Of course, not every company cares about treating their employees well and compensating them fairly—in which case, surveillance software is just a symptom of larger problems. I am not talking about such companies here.
Over time, though, companies would be wise to wean themselves off the Big Brother approach and find ways to measure employee performance in other ways.
It might seem difficult at first, but there's always a way.
If you start with the premise that you don't trust people, then you have already lost the battle
Well, those were my thoughts and solutions. Please do give yours, I like to learn from diverse opinions.
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The first impression makes an everlasting impact!
And in case of photography, the first moment of something never been done or experienced before truly preserves that special moment in a frame.
And so, allowing us to revisit that special moment through framed captures.
For this week's topic of Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Special Moments by Tina Schell, I'm sharing few first special moments from my photographic journey:
First ever floral capture.
First ever air trip. Both mind and heart were in an indescribable state then.
First ever up and close encounter with an aged giant. Wonderful creature.
First ever river boat ride. The peacefulness on this ride is a bit hard to explain in words.
First ever double banana. Yummy!
First ever thunder storm lightning capture. Part excitement and part scary 🙂


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In today's Rewarding Moments In Redskins History presented by Maryland Lottery My Lottery Rewards, we look back at when the Redskins signed Dave Butz ahead of the 1975 season.
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As the fifth overall pick in the 1973 NFL Draft, Butz made an immediate impact with the Cardinals by being named to the NFL's All-Rookie team. He only played with the Cardinals for one more season, though, because Redskins head coach George Allen made one of the biggest trades in league history at the time by offering two first-round picks and a second-round pick to acquire Butz.
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The Municipality of Lamut, Ifugao garnered the 2nd Place LGU Luzon winner of the "Red Orchid" achievers award held on June 18, 2014 at Hotel Elizabeth, Baguio City . The Red Orchid AWARDEE presented to the Municipality of Lamut for the distinction as a Red Orchid Awardee having garnered a total score of 103% based on the Department of Health's set criteria for implementing a 100% Tobacco-Free Environment and following the World Health Organization's "MPOWER" Framework. The certificate of recognition was signed by the Honorable Enrique T. Ona, Secretary of Health.
The "Red Orchid" Achiever's Award is given to cities and municipalities enforcing their anti smoking ordinance. The Municipality of Lamut under the leadership of Mayor Mariano B. Buyagawan, Jr. immediately after he took hold of the reign of authority as Mayor of Lamut implemented the dormant Municipal Ordinance no.1, series of 2011, otherwise known as the Anti Smoking Ordinance sponsored by Councilor Brenda M. Sawad. Mayor Buyagawan issued Executive Order no. 17 creating the municipal implementing task force for a smoke-free municipality. With this, he organized the Peace and Order Safety Aide (POSA) and deputized all Barangay officials, Government Officials including Job Orders, Security Guards and other civic minded citizens to implement the anti smoking ordinance. At press time POSA was able to apprehend 398 anti smoking violators with penalty amounting to PhP43,800.00 , 179 hours community service and issued 219 citation tickets.#


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I had bought Split/Second on May 18th and ever since, it has been unplayable. The frame rate is jumpy… It will bounce from 2 – 15 frames per second on the menus and on races, it will go from 9 – 2 FPS. Disney/Blackrock have been baffled at this. I had a help thread open with them since the release of the game (5/18) and the trail of help seems gone cold…
With Blur, I noticed something very similar to Split/Second where the game will take forever to load and in the races my frame rate suffers. However the frame rate is slightly playable with occasional frame rate dumps to 2-5 FPS and then jerks up to a stable frame rate. I haven't measured the changes with Fraps, so I can't give a measurement…
However, on browsing both the Steam and Bizarre Creations Forums I have noticed that some people have been saying that they are noticing that their processor are being strained yet the graphics cards are barely in use. Below are 2 threads making mention of this:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1283846– Steam Community Bug/Request List
http://www.bizarrecreations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=18793&sid=8962bc1bd4b78dee5249b4bb69d056b5– Blur PC Performance thread, Second reply by Benetti32
My machine is no slouch and can crunch other games pretty hard… Specs can be seen at the link here:https://www.zeroxr.com/?page_id=2
Would it be too much to ask for you all to look into this as a news story? I'd hate to think I spend $80 on 2 games that should run at a stable rate. Even more so to think that $40 is completely down the drain as I can't even enjoy Split/Second at all and feeling like Disney/Blackrock have done silent on helping me.


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If you rarely feel in the mood, you're not the only one. Studies overwhelming show that Americans, and especially young people, are having less sex than they were even a decade ago. Experts say we're in the middle of a sex recession.
That's right, we're in the middle of a full-blown, nationwide slowdown in doing it.
Now, I'm the first to admit there are likely many (many, many) reasons why we're having less sex, from the screens that go with us everywhere (including bed) to emotional problems in our intimate relationships that pave over our desire to be intimate. There are even very, very positive reasons we might be having less sex: young women (and men) are feeling more empowered to say no or to set better boundaries around what they want—and what they don't—in the boudoir.
But, for many women, low libido is directly related to imbalanced hormones—a fact that this recent article on the sex recession completely ignores. Hormone dysfunction is at epidemic levels, thanks to common environmental triggers and lifestyle choices. And if we don't address these underlying hormone issues by adjusting our environment and lifestyle, we will never be able to reclaim our libidos.
So if you're having less sex than you would like to—if you're never feeling "in the mood"—the fix starts on the inside.
Yes, a whole bunch of factors might be at play, and they all need to be addressed, but the starting place for women with low libido is hormones—and the very first step every woman should take to balance her hormones is by changing what is on her dinner plate.
From the Kitchen to the Bedroom
Sex is often the first thing to get de-prioritized in our busy lives. I think that's a shame because not only is sex fun, it's also great for your health. Sex and orgasm play important roles in regulating your cycle and sustaining your fertility.
You're not always going to feel like tearing your partner's clothes off, of course, because sex drive and desire ebb and flow with your natural 28-day hormone cycle. When you are tracking your cycle and paying attention to the changes you notice each week, you'll find that you have natural shifts in how you feel about your partner, how interested you are in sex, and how much energy you have for gettin' it on. This is to be expected! You're likely to notice more desire during the first half of your cycle. That usually peaks at ovulation. Then during the second half of your period, desire slowly wanes until you find yourself less interested during your period.
But if you're interest in sex during the first half of your cycle has disappeared, or if your desire during this time is lackluster at best, you can reclaim your sex drive by cycle syncing what you eat and when you eat it. Matching your food to your unique needs during each phase of your cycle will support hormone health and boost sex drive.
Click here to find out which foods to eat (and when) to help reclaim your sex drive, and for more help with cycle syncing your diet in general click here. New moms who are struggling to reclaim their libido can find support here.
Although a new, so-called "female Viagra" was released a couple years ago (with much fanfare), prescription numbers have stayed low—and thank goodness. That's because we know women's sexuality is not as simple as taking a pill—and that any kind of pill that wants to mess with our libido is going to have a lot of unwanted side effects. What women need doesn't come in a bottle. We need to be nourished from the inside out, and that starts with what's on your dinner plate.
Food is the single best way to reset your hormones and rediscover your sex drive. Make hormone-friendly eating your first step on the path to a more libidinous life.
The Best Supplements for Boosting Sex Drive
Supplements offer fantastic support for hormone balance and overall hormonal health, but supplements alone, without any other lifestyle changes, will have limited impact. That's why I never recommend supplements in isolation. Food first, and then if you need more support, you can look to herbs, adaptogens, and essential micronutrients.
Here are the supplements I recommend if you are looking for more support in addition to your nutrition changes:
The 4 best supplements to boost your sexual health
(1) Rhodiola
- How you feel now: You have symptoms of adrenal fatigue with moodiness, PMS, and low-level depression.
- How rhodiola helps: Rhodiola supports the adrenal glands by preventing the breakdown of too much dopamine and serotonin during stressful times, leaving enough for us to remain buoyant and energized. A bonus benefit of rhodiola? It can work fast to change your energy levels (in as little as 30 minutes), so take one if you sense a romantic interlude in your near future!
(2) Zinc
- How you feel now: You are experiencing symptoms of estrogen dominance, which include weight gain, severe PMS, cramps, bloating, acne, infertility, fibroids, cysts, and irregular or heavy periods.
- How zinc helps: Zinc helps to boost your testosterone production and blocks the enzyme that turns testosterone into estrogen.
(3) Evening Primrose Oil
- How you feel now: You may feel sexual desire, but the sex itself doesn't feel as good as it used to and you're not getting big orgasms like you did before.
- How evening primrose oil helps: Evening primrose oil will balance out your progesterone and estrogen levels, increase dopamine, and help you produce more nitric oxide. This is absolutely essential for the dilation of blood vessels and tumescence that leads to bigger and better orgasms.
(4) Magnesium
- How you feel now: Symptoms of magnesium deficiency include muscle cramping, facial tics, restless legs, migraines, poor sleep, fatigue, and PMS. You can ask your doctor for a test for your magnesium levels.
- How magnesium helps: Magnesium makes it harder for your testosterone to bind to proteins and allows for more of it to remain "free" in your bloodstream—which is exactly how you want it to be for a higher sex drive. Higher levels of free testosterone make for more desire. Magnesium also combats anxiety and promotes a positive mood, helping you enjoy yourself more. Magnesium promotes good sleep, too, and studies show that getting enough high quality sleep is essential for healthy sexual desire and genital response.
If your magnesium levels are very low, I recommend taking 360g a day in the form of a supplement. If your levels are within the optimal range, keep them there with a daily serving of dark chocolate (!) and greens.
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Literally! Men can benefit just as much from these supplements as women do, especially magnesium and evening primrose oil. In fact, these two supplements can help men with issues like premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction.
Bonus! What Food to Remove From Your Diet for Better Sex
All this talk of what to add to your nutrition and supplement routine brings me to the opposite: what you should remove from your diet right away.
For Women: Canola Oil. It's in everything and it raises your levels of omega 6 fatty acids, which crowds out room in your cells for health-promoting omega 3 fatty acids. Studies suggest that boosting omega 3s can increase sexual desire and response in women. So stick to clean fats like olive oil and coconut oil and you'll feel sexier pronto!
For Men: Soy. Soy is full of phytoestrogens, which can dampen male sex drive. An ex-boyfriend and I experimented with this when he decided to become vegan. He ate and drank soy products for a month and by the end of that time he had zero libido. Within two weeks of stopping all soy, he was back to normal.
Always remember, that once you have the right information about how your body really works, you can start making health choices that finally start to work for you! You can do this – the science of your body is on your side!
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JHipster release 2.15.2 Permalink to "JHipster release 2.15.2"
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Weird and Delicious Tofu Skins! (vegan)
If I didn't know better, at first glance, these things remind me of some kind of tubular deep sea creature that makes it's home around thermal vents at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. In fact, they are made from tofu, more precisely, the skim from soy milk. Bean skins (or tofu skins) are chewy and delicious.
When I lived in New York City's Chinatown, I was in an apartment above the world's best (cheap) Cantonese buffet. There were many exotic delicacies. You were allowed 3 choices from the buffet with a bowl of rice for $2.50. Though, at that time, I was a full on carnivore, I loved it when they brought out the steaming stainless steel pan of fresh bean skins with veggies and brown sauce.
In many towns with a decent population, there will more than likely be an Asian market tucked away in a back alley or in a strip mall with all the fixings for a fantastic meal.
This is the base recipe. I often add ginger and chile pepper, but I was serving 4 people, 2 of which were teenagers who liked neither.
1 pack of Tofu Skins
6 green onions
1 8oz pack of Mushrooms
1 tbsp of coconut oil
1 tbsp of rice vinegar
1/cup white wine
1/4 tsp of toasted sesame oil
2 tbsp of dark soy sauce (more or less according to taste)
1 tbsp of unrefined or coconut palm sugar
1 tbsp of powdered cornstarch
2 yellow squash or zucchini
- Place the tofu skins in a square baking pan or casserole dish next to each other. Pour hot water over the skins ( I use my electric kettle.)
- Make sure they are covered in water. Set aside for 10 minutes. In a pan heat the coconut oil. I keep the heat on Medium high or thereabouts for the first part of this recipe.
- Add chopped garlic and green onions.
- Add mushrooms. Stir and add Rice vinegar.
- Add wine. Let simmer for 1 minute.
- Chop and add tofu skins. Stir.
- Chop and add squash. . Turn down heat, cover and simmer for 1 or 2 minutes.
- In a small cup or bowl mix a few tablespoons of water with the cornstarch until you have a small amount of liquid.
- Make hole in the middle of the pan and slowly add the cornstarch mixture. Stir until it thickens.
- Add coconut sugar.
- Add sesame oil Mix it in the dish.
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desire to displays whether he felt it or not, a perfect impartiality; so when the delegates from the Consistory were presented to him, not only did he receive them most graciously, but he was the first to speak of the interests of their faith, assuring them that it was only a few days since he had learned with much regret that their religious services had been; suspended since the 16th of July. The delegates replied that in such a time of agitation the closing of their places of worship was, a measure of prudence which they had felt ought to be borne, and which had been borne, with resignation. The prince expressed his approval of this attitude with regard to the past, but said that his presence was a guarantee for the future, and that on Thursday the 9th inst. the two meeting-houses should be reopened and restored to their proper use. The Protestants were alarmed at, having a favour accorded to them which was much more than they would have dared to ask and for which they were hardly prepared. But the prince reassured them by saying that all needful measures would be taken to provide against any breach of the public peace, and at the same time invited M. Desmonts, president, and M. Roland-Lacoste, member of the Consistory, to dine with him. The next deputation to arrive was a Catholic one, and its object was to ask that Trestaillons might be set at liberty. The prince was so indignant at this request that his only answer was to turn his back on those who proffered it. The next day the duke, accompanied by General Lagarde, left for Montpellier; and as it was on the latter that the Protestants placed their sole reliance for the maintenance of those rights guaranteed for the future by the word of the prince, they hesitated to take any new step in his absence, and let the 9th of November go by without attempting to resume public worship, preferring to wait for the return of their protector, which took place on Saturday evening the 11th of November. When the general got back, his first thought was to ask if the commands of the prince had been carried out, and when he heard that they had not, without waiting to hear a word in justification of the delay, he sent a positive order to the president of the Consistory to open both places of worship the next morning. Upon this, the president carrying self-abnegation and prudence to their extreme limits, went to the general's quarters, and having warmly thanked him, laid before him the dangers to which he would expose himself by running counter to the opinions of those who had had their own way in the city for the last four months. But General Lagarde brushed all these considerations aside: he had received an order from the prince, and to a man of his military cast of mind no course was open but to carry that order out. Nevertheless, the president again expressed his doubts and fears. "I will answer with my head," said the general, "that nothing happens." Still the president counselled prudence, asking that only one place of worship at first be opened, and to this the general gave his consent. This continued resistance to the re-establishment of public worship on the part of those who most eagerly desired it enabled the general at last to realise the extent of the danger which would be incurred by the carrying out of this measure, and he at once took all possible precautions. Under the pretext that he was going to-have a general review, he brought the entire civil and military forces of Nimes under his authority, determined, if necessary, to use the one to suppress the other. As early as eight o'clock in the morning a guard of gens d'armes was stationed at the doors of the meeting-house, while other members of the same force took up their positions in the adjacent streets. On the other hand, the Consistory had decided that the doors were to be opened an hour sooner than usual, that the bells were not to be rung, and that the organ should be silent. These precautions had both a good and a bad side. The gens d'armes at the door of the meetinghouse gave if not a promise of security at least a promise of support, but they showed to the citizens of the other party what was about to be done; so before nine o'clock groups of Catholics began to form, and as it happened to be Sunday the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages arriving constantly by twos and threes soon united these groups into a little army. Thus the streets leading to the church being thronged, the Protestants who pushed their way through were greeted with insulting remarks, and even the president of the Consistory, whose white, hair and dignified expression had no effect upon the mob, heard the people round him saying, "These brigands of Protestants are going again to their temple, but we shall soon give them enough of it." The anger of the populace soon grows hot; between the first bubble and the boiling-point the interval is short. Threats spoken in a low voice were soon succeeded by noisy objurgations. Women, children, and men brake out into yells, "Down with the broilers!" (for this was one of the names by which the Protestants were designated). "Down with the broilers! We do not want to see them using our churches: let them give us back our churches; let them give us back our churches, and go to the desert. Out with them! Out with them! To the desert! To the desert!" As the crowd did not go beyond words, however insulting, and as the Protestants were long inured to much worse things, they plodded along to their meeting-house, humble and silent, and went in, undeterred by the displeasure they aroused, whereupon the service commenced. But some Catholics went in with them, and soon the same shouts which had been heard without were heard also within. The general, however, was on the alert, and as soon as the shouts arose inside the gens d'armes entered the church and arrested those who had caused the disturbance. The crowds tried to rescue them on their way to prison, but the general appeared at the head of imposing forces, at the sight of which they desisted. An apparent cam succeeded the tumult, and the public worship went on without further interruption. The general, misled by appearances, went off himself to attend a military mass, and at eleven o'clock returned to his quarters for lunch. His absence was immediately perceived and taken advantage of. In the: twinkling of an eye, the crowds, which had dispersed, gathered together in even greater numbers and the Protestants, seeing themselves once more in danger, shut the doors from within, while the gens d'armes guarded them without. The populace pressed so closely round the gens d'armes, and assumed such a threatening attitude, that fearing he and his men would not be able to hold their own in such a throng, the captain ordered M. Delbose, one of his officers, to ride off and warn the general. He forced his way through the crowd with great trouble, and went off at a gallop. On seeing this, the people felt there was no time to be lost; they knew of what kind the general was, and that he would be on the spot in a quarter of an hour. A large crowd is invincible through its numbers; it has only to press forward, and everything gives way, men, wood, iron. At this moment the crowd, swayed by a common impulse, swept forward, the gens d'armes and their horses were crushed against the wall, doors gave way, and instantly with a tremendous roar a living wave flooded the church. Cries of terror and frightful imprecations were heard on all sides, everyone made a weapon of whatever came to hand, chairs and benches were hurled about, the disorder was at its height; it seemed as if the days of the Michelade and the Bagarre were about to return, when suddenly the news of a terrible event was spread abroad, and assailants and assailed paused in horror. General Lagarde had just been assassinated. As the crowd had foreseen, no sooner did the messenger deliver his message than the general sprang on his horse, and, being too brave, or perhaps too scornful, to fear such foes, he waited for no escort, but, accompanied by two or three officers, set off at full gallop towards the scene of the tumult. He had passed through the narrow streets which led to the meeting-house by pushing the crowd aside with his horse's chest, when, just as he got out into the open square, a young man named Boisson, a sergeant in the Nimes National Guard, came up and seemed to wish to speak to him. The general seeing a man in uniform, bent down without a thought of danger to listen to what he had to say, whereupon Boisson drew a pistol out and fired at him. The ball broke the collar-bone and lodged in the neck behind the carotid artery, and the general fell from his horse. The news of this crime had a strange and unexpected effect; however excited and frenzied the crowd was, it instantly realised the consequences of this act. It was no longer like the murder of Marshal Brune at Avignon or General Ramel at Toulouse, an act of vengeance on a favourite of Napoleon, but open and armed rebellion against the king. It was not a simple murder, it was high treason. A feeling of the utmost terror spread through the town; only a few fanatics went on howling in the church, which the Protestants, fearing still greater disasters, had by this time resolved to abandon. The first to come out was President Olivier Desmonts, accompanied by M. Vallongues, who had only just arrived in the city, but who had immediately hurried to the spot at the call of duty. M. Juillerat, his two children in his arms, walked behind them, followed by all the other worshippers. At first the crowd, threatening and ireful, hooted and threw stones at them, but at the voice of the mayor and the dignified aspect of the president they allowed them to pass. During this strange retreat over eighty Protestants were wounded, but not fatally, except a young girl called Jeannette Cornilliere, who had been so beaten and ill-used that she died of her injuries a few days later. In spite of the momentary slackening of energy which followed the assassination of General Lagarde, the Catholics did not remain long in a state of total inaction. During the rest of the day the excited populace seemed as if shaken by an earthquake. About six o'clock in the evening, some of the most desperate characters in the town possessed themselves of a hatchet, and, taking their way to the Protestant church, smashed the doors, tore the pastors' gowns, rifled the poor-box, and pulled the books to pieces. A detachment of troops arrived just in time to prevent their setting the building on fire. The next day passed more quietly. This time the disorders were of too important a nature for the prefect to ignore, as he had ignored so many bloody acts in the past; so in due time a full report was laid before the king. It became know the same evening that General Lagarde was still living, and that those around him hoped that the wound would not prove mortal. Dr. Delpech, who had been summoned from Montpellier, had succeeded in extracting the bullet, and though he spoke no word of hope, he did not expressly declare that the case was hopeless. Two days later everything in the town had assumed its ordinary aspect, and on the 21st of November the king issued the following edict:-- "Louis, by the grace of God, King of France and of Navarre, "To all those to whom these presents shall come, greeting: "An abominable crime has cast a stain on Our city of Nimes. A seditious mob has dared to oppose the opening of the Protestant place of worship, in contempt of the constitutional charter, which while it recognises the Catholic religion as the religion of the State, guarantees to the other religious bodies protection and freedom of worship. Our military commandant, whilst trying to disperse these crowds by gentle means before having resort to force, was shot down, and his assassin has till now successfully evaded the arm of the law. If such an outrage were to remain unpunished, the maintenance of good government and public order would be impossible, and Our ministers would be guilty of neglecting the law. "Wherefore We have ordered and do order as follows: "Art. 1. Proceedings shall be commenced without delay by Our attorney, and the attorney-general, against the perpetrator of the murderous attack on the person of Sieur Lagarde, and against the authors, instigators, and accomplices of the insurrection which took place in the city of Nimes on the 12th of the present month. "Art. 2. A sufficient number of troops shall be quartered in the said city, and shall remain there at the cost of the inhabitants, until the assassin and his accomplices have been produced before a court of law. "Art. 3. All those citizens whose names are not entitled to be on the roll of the National Guard shall be disarmed. "Our Keeper of the Seals, Our Minister of War, Our Minister of the Interior, and Our Minister of Police, are entrusted with the execution of this edict. "Given at Paris at Our Castle of the Tuileries on the 2lst of November in the year of grace 1815, and of Our reign the 21st. "(Signed) Louis" Boissin was acquitted. This was the last crime committed in the South, and it led fortunately to no reprisals. Three months after the murderous attempt to which he had so nearly fallen a victim, General Lagarde left Nimes with the rank of ambassador, and was succeeded as prefect by M. d'Argont. During the firm, just, and independent administration of the latter, the disarming of the citizens decreed by the royal edict was carried out without bloodshed. Through his influence, MM. Chabot-Latour, Saint-Aulaire, and Lascour were elected to the Chamber of Deputies in place of MM. De Calviere, De Vogue, and De Trinquelade. And down to the present time the name of M. d'Argont is held in veneration at Nimes, as if he had only quitted the city yesterday.
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LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech is up six spots to No. 19 in the Associated Press Top 25 after four straight weeks at No. 25. The Red Raiders (11-3, 1-1 Big 12) are coming off a week where they earned a win over No. 6 Kansas following a loss at No. 11 Iowa State where only seven players were available to play.
No. 1 Baylor (15-0, 3-0 Big 12) remains atop the rankings going into a matchup against the Red Raiders at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Ferrell Center in Waco. TTU is 1-7 all-time against No. 1-ranked teams with its win coming against a top-ranked Louisville team at the 2019 Jimmy V Classic. Along with Baylor and Tech, the Big 12 is represented by Kansas which fell back to No. 9 after its loss to TTU, No. 15 Iowa State and No. 22 Texas.
No. 2 Gonzaga, No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 Auburn and No. 5 Southern Cal round out the top-5 while Houston is up a spot to No. 11. Oklahoma and West Virginia continue to receive votes but are just outside the Top 25 in the Week 10 poll.
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The new model has a number of advantages over its predecessors. The most obvious of them are a power electric drive replacing a hydraulic transmission, automatized unit control, a single digital channel used for data processing, remote monitoring of technical status and on-line operation control, which are unparalleled among the Russian-manufactured equipment.
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After the cloud expanded her wings at a rapid pace we just can't refrain ourselves.
Coming back to the topic although this is not too technical I just want to share how we can generate alerts for common scenarios like Deadlocks for Azure SQL Database.
I don't have a subscription to carry out testing even though I am very eager; however we can do a few things with a free subscription.
We just need to select alerts section under Azure database
Click on Alerts and select new alert we nearly have 33 signals and out of which I selected Deadlocks as shown below.
upon selecting we need to specify the condition just like performance counter alert in perfmon. We do have static and Dynamic alerting mechanism.
A Dynamic threshold uses advanced machine learning to automatically determine the threshold value using the metric's historical values and the sensitivity has been classified in to High, Medium and Low.
For a counter like Deadlocks we can go with Static and set the threshold value accordingly.
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