But the thing I liked the most is the way Destefano treated Rhine's husband, the House Master. Even though Rhine was being forced into an unwilling marriage, it was very clear that her husband was not the one to blame. He may have been clueless and guilty by association, but it was very obvious that he should not be considered "the bad guy." The one to watch out for is the Governor. That man is not only evil, he's downright creepy!
I thought I loved The Mortal Instruments series. I was wrong. While I liked TMI, the term love should have been reserved for Clare's newest series, The Infernal Devices. What can I say, I've come to love steampunk!
It wasn't the fact that this was nominally Steampunk that made me love this one though. In TMI the thing I most had to suspend disbelief for was the whole "secret society" bit. I loved it, because it was extremely well done and explained, but I think I will always be a little skeptical of a secret society in this information age. It's almost impossible to keep something like that out of the papers and off the internet. Put the Clave in Victorian England though, and suddenly you have an extremely believable scenario (with pretty dresses too!
I also loved the characters in this one. While Will felt like a repeat of Jace for most of the book, Jem, Tessa, Jessamine and Sophie were all wonderfully new. I'm not saying the repeat is a bad thing – this lifestyle does things to a person and it is perfectly believable that Jace is not the only one who ever acted the way he did. And I have to be honest – while there wasn't any one character I valued over the others in TMI (sorry Team Jace or Team Simon or whatever you call yourselves) I've finally found my character to love!I absolutely loved the character of Jem and I would never get tired of him!Oh and I've changed my mind since my City of Glass post – Darren Criss can't be Magnus, because he would make an AMAZING Jem and Magnus is in both!


"Brown University has been a leader in the study of Brazil in the United States since the 1970s, and particularly since 1991, with the establishment a self-standing, interdisciplinary Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, with its own bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs," said Luiz Valente, department chair and. "Brown has long and deep ties to various Brazilian institutions and boasts hundreds of Brazilian alumni from both the College and the Graduate School. Vice President Matthew Gutmann's timely visit to Brazil strengthens old connections and opens avenues for exciting new collaborations and partnerships."


Why I Will Be the Most Content Person I Know On Valentine’s Day (and why, perhaps, you should be too) – INAM (It's Not About Me)
Simply a beggar that knows where to find food.
Updated as often as I remember to... (Last Update: 4/14/2019)
The last thing I would consider doing with an opening sentence of one of my blog posts is to reference a contemporary Christian song, the likes of which are played ad nauseum on KLOVE. Don’t get me wrong, contemporary Christian music, and radio stations like KLOVE and the HouseFM have been used by God in the lives of many people… just not really mine. But here I am, about to quote Francesca Battistelli, since her song came to mind when I thought of reasons why I will be the most content single on Valentine’s Day. So maybe God has been using contemporary Christian music for my benefit; regardless, I hope you’ll stick around for my thoughts.
“Free To Be Me.” That was it. That was the song. Some of the lyrics go as follows:
“Sometimes I believe that I can do anything
That I’ve got all You seek, oh …
But on Your shoulders I can see
I’m free to be me and You’re free to be You”
I get it. They’re cheesy. They’re cliche, but oftentimes things are cliche for a reason. In this case, the cliche that rings true for me and for you is the truth that when we have properly understood who we are in light of what God says about us, we, as singles and couples, can honestly and freely seek out who we are meant to be, or in Battistelli’s masterful lyrics, “I’m free to be me and you’re free to be you.”
But what does this have to do with singles and those in relationships on Valentine’s day?
As Valentine’s day approaches, most people, according to his or her current station in life, experience a growing sense of dread/anxiety that increases in intensity as Valentine’s day draws closer. Why? Because there is an outward/cultural expectation put on all kinds of people, whether in a relationship or not, to be something or to do something that they may not necessarily feel like doing. Or let me put it this way: Valentine’s day causes everyone to consider their position in life and forces them to do something about it. You’re single? Try to find a romantic relationship, or wish you were in one. You’re in a relationship? Do something nice for the other person, or wish you weren’t with the other person.
These are all outward forces, or forces exerted on an individual from outside of himself or herself, and outward forces pushing against what a person feels never seems to produce happiness or contentedness (at least in my own experience). Valentine’s Day, for many, is a day filled with anxiety, loneliness, and frustration, instead of a day filled with love for others. I think that’s kind of sad. But there’s a truth for Christians, I think, that can radically flip the script when it comes to Valentine’s Day expectations.
Here it is: As Christians, we are completely free because of what Jesus did on the cross. No seriously. Don’t underestimate that truth. It has radical implications for every area of our life, even on days like Valentine’s Day. Allow me to repeat it. We are free in every way because of Jesus’ trampling of sin and death at the cross and his subsequent resurrection. Did you know there’s absolutely nothing you can do to make Jesus love you more? There’s also nothing you can do to make him love you less, and that includes sinning. We have been set free from the law of sin and death. Or as Martin Luther King Jr. might say it, “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last!“
Now what does this wonderful truth have anything to do with my being the most content single on Valentine’s day, and what does this truth mean for you, dear reader?
For a long time, I believed that marriage was indeed a necessity for the Christian, that is to say, as a Christian, I needed to be married or actively seeking marriage in order to experience all that God had for me. So whenever Valentine’s Day would roll around, immense pressure, anxiety, and a discontented-ness would always build in my mind. But when I realized that God had so much in store for me than just marriage, I was able to be set free from cultural expectations, and set free toward something else, namely the full expression of who I am in who God is.
Because of this wondrous truth, I no longer feel the pressure to go and find a romantic relationship at this stage in my life, because that’s not what I need right now to be who I was made to be. In fact, while marriage is a wonderful institution used by God to sanctify those who commit to marriage, Jesus was never married and he fully and completely did what God called him to do on this earth.
And because Jesus fulfilled his mission on Earth, I am able to be absolutely content with singleness. On Valentine’s day, I will be reminded that I am exactly where God intends for me to be when it comes to relationships. And that’s why I will be the most content single on Valentine’s Day.
As a practical exercise, I would like to re-imagine Valentine’s day as a time for reflection on where we are in life, and an opportunity to thank God for putting us exactly where we need to be in order to become all that we were meant to be.
So you are in a relationship? Thank God for that! He is using the relationship, whether dating or marriage, to sanctify you, and you are absolutely free to do something special or nothing at all for your significant other. Remember, God will not love you any less for any action you do or do not commit, although your significant other may think otherwise! In fact, you are free to do something spectacular for him or her even though you don’t feel like it, because after all, you are free from being constrained by a lack of feelings!
So you’re single? Thank God for that! He is using this time in your life to sanctify you wholly and completely, and nobody else on planet Earth can do that, not even a spouse. Only God can sanctify. You are free to actively and wholeheartedly pursue romantic relationships, or to not even text that guy or girl back.  Do you long for a spouse? Why? Do you really think that the best thing God could ever offer you in this life is a beautiful wife or a handsome husband? I believe that who God says we are in Christ Jesus is so much more than a mere relationship status.
To finish: I realize I’m saying a lot of “easy” truths that don’t always apply well to people’s individual situations. Maybe you do truly understand that singleness is not a curse, and really all you want is to share your life with someone, but for whatever reason, nothing is happening on the relationship front. Dear reader, I don’t know what your specific situation is, but I do know someone who does, and He is more than willing to give you good gifts if you ask for them. Just be aware that your idea of a good gift may not be His idea of a good gift.
If you are deathly afraid of being single for your whole life (as I once was, and still am to some extent), I would argue there’s a misunderstanding of the gospel in the center of your life. But don’t freak out that you are believing wrongly, because God is not going to love you any less for doing so. Once you can grasp onto the wonderful truth that God loves us regardless of what we do or what our current relationship status is, everything else seems to fade from view and lose it’s glitter. After all, it was never about me, or my relationship status. It’s about the God who has radically changed my life so that I truly can be content and I truly can be free to be me, even on a day like Valentine’s day.
Do you agree? Is there truly that much freedom found in Christ? Or am I forgetting to emphasize what Paul says about being a “slave to righteousness.”
As someone who may not believe in Jesus, what pressures do you feel on Valentine’s day? What pressures do you feel from the church? Do you feel genuinely free to express who you are?
As always, I’m down to talk about these things over some coffee, schedule permitting! If not, shoot me your thoughts via email or text message!
As a final side note, the background art for this post is Gustav Klimt’s Tree of Life. In the portrait, on either side of the tree are two frieze panels, one entitled Expectation, the other Fulfillment. There’s a lot going on in this work, so I’ll leave the interpretation up to the observer. For a good picture of the work, and a decent interpretation, click here.


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Wizards lose 125-124, but it was really a hard-fought game!
And boy did Washington still have the momentum in the third quarter!They were able to reclaim the lead, being up by as many as eight points!Westbrook continued to go off, dunking the ball like this as an exclamation point!
Ultimately, this game was decided in the fourth quarter which was a thriller. Dallas was able to reclaim the lead with a 111-109 lead with a bit over five minutes to go after a ball ricocheted off Westbrook for an own goal!


The Student Employment Office would like to thank all students, faculty, and staff who participated in this year’s National Student Employment Week. We were blown away by the number of responses and by the quality of the nominations. We had a blast meeting everyone and going through the entries!
The winners for 2019 are listed below. Forty-three student employees and 87 supervisors were nominated. Thank you to everyone who took the time to write about all of the ways you appreciate your student employees and supervisors.
Jose Garcia, Library Technology Support Assistant, Galvin Library
Nominated by Tim Fluhr and Alison Fukuchi
Excerpt: “Even if he didn’t really know how to fix something, he studied and researched to the point that he became an expert.”
Sofia Martinez, Maker Lab Assistant, CYC-Elliott Donnelley Youth Centers (EDYC) Maker Lab
Excerpt: “When Sofia comes to work she is prepared to give her best. She is always prepared for planned tasks. She is thorough, thoughtful, and full of ideas. She is highly skilled and efficient with administrative tasks, at helping us to maintain technological devices and solving technical problems.”
Karthik Jayaraman, Student Assistant, Enrollment
Nominated by April Welch
Excerpt: “The job that Karthik is doing requires a lot of skill, problem solving, and determination. He is interacting with many different departments and with many different people who have asks and expectations of him.”
Rachelle Fox Bowers, ROTC
Nominated by Marina Eraas
Excerpt: “She works tirelessly behind the scenes, and although seldom recognized for her work, she truly is the glue to our program.”
Faries Tadros, Office of Residence Life
Nominated by Yuexuan Zhang, Jackson Conlon, and Chirag Rao
Excerpt: “I love being treated with respect and feeling like I have an impact on the everyday lives of my classmates. I feel empowered by the fact that Faries puts his trust in me.”
Gavin Waits, Undergraduate Admissions
Nominated by Grace Wischmeyer
Excerpt: “He is a wonderful, empathetic boss, and is constantly producing new opportunities to help us grow as young professionals.”
Laurentina Zamudio, Office of Residence Life
Nominated by Jessica Park, Iris Uwizeyimana, Elizabeth Bremer and Saksham Malik
Excerpt: “Laura is literally the heart of ORL. She does a lot for the office and is really kind and nice! We all really rely on her especially with the high turnover we have been having in the ORL office.”
Steven Willis, Community Service Supervisor, CYC-Elliott Donnelley Youth Centers (EDYC)
Nominated by Steven Willis
Excerpt: “My supervisor regularly sits to listen to my ideas and gives me feedback on how to implement them or how to make them better.”
Event Services: Winner of gift basket for the best decorated office.
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This year's Believe Art Walk event is amazing! The children havyear and it has come together to create a beautiful collection. For some pieces, the children learned about different artists like Picasso and Monet, and then created art that evokes the "feel" of those great masters. For others, the art ties in to their studies such as the recycled object fish they made while studying oceans. So many different mediums were used to create the art, from finger paint to oil pastels to chalk to clay and more! They were so excited to show their parents and other guests their masterpieces! The show continues this weekend after each of the Masses.


"Our goalkeeper Mike Bisland returned to action after missing the first two sessions and performed heroics to help us take six points from the final games before the summer break. Hopefully we can retain that form in the Kelso tournament next Sunday."
"We play every Monday and Thursday at Netherdale between 2.30pm and 4pm and newcomers will be made welcome."


Wearable tech has been growing consistently in popularity. In the early days, smart watches and fitness bands were designed with clunky interfaces and limited functions, but now, the designs are contemporary and stylish as well as intuitive and practical.
The Misfit Vapor is due to hit the shelves later in the year, after Misfit announced release just a couple of days ago. For the price, we don’t think you’d be able to find another smart watch with this level of contemporary design and functionality.
Coming in at just $200 (The UK price has yet to be confirmed), the Misfit Vapor features a high-resolution cleanly designed screen that is sharper than an iPhone. Featuring 4GB storage, the Vapor allows you to store your music straight into the watch, so you can run without having to carry your phone with you. Built in GPS tracking and a heart rate monitor also gives you complete freedom to run, map your route and monitor your performance whatever activity you do – it’s even waterproof so you can take it for a dip in the pool.
The new Withings Steel HR blends traditional design seamlessly with smart functionality. At the push of a button, the watch displays steps, calories, and distance, and is complete with a heart rate monitor. It’s also waterproof up to 50 meters. Smartphone notifications give you a buzz if you’ve got a call so you can stay on top of your fitness and social life.
One of the major pluses of the Withings Steel HR is its battery life and activity tracking. No matter you’re swimming or running, the watch automatically tracks different activities. You can also enjoy up to 25 days of battery life on just 2 hours charge.
The Huawei TalkBand B2 is clean, stylish and functional. Featuring long lasting battery life, the TalkBand B2 gives long lasting step and activity tracking.
A truly innovative development in this fitness tracker is its hybrid design. The tracker can be removed from the band and places in the ear. Bluetooth connectivity allows you to make hands free calls with crystal clear sound.
The tracker can also double as a remote control for your camera, allowing you to place your camera anywhere and take group shots by tapping your wrist. This functionality only works with Huawei smartphones, however.
The Samsung Gear 3 is designed to support both your personal life and your fitness regime. Using Bluetooth connectivity, the Samsung Gear S 3 allows you to text and answer calls straight rom your wrist with a built in microphone and speaker – a function not offered by many smart watches.
If you’re a bit of an adventurer, the Sasmung Gear 3 is built to withstand tough conditions, including serious heat and rain, and in-built GPS can track your distance, pace and route.
The TomTom Spark 3 features a durable design that covers a whole variety of smart functions. Featuring in built GPS and a heart rate monitor, the TomTom Spark 3 tracks your pace, distance, steps and calories burnt.
Different activity modes can be selected on screen – so whether you’re lifting weights or heading out on the bike you can keep track of your progress. The waterproof design is also ideal if you like to swim to keep fit. Like to stay motivated with music? The Spark 3 comes with Bluetooth wireless headphones and can store up to 500 songs – so
Don’t miss a minute of the action here at CES 2017. Catch up on all the latest updates from the show here.


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Chinese New Year is a time for happy family reunions and massive get-togethers, abundance of food and entertainment, bright and beautiful new clothes and decorations, and for some, fascinating family traditions. Would you like to know how your favourite local personalities celebrate the lunar new year?
Favourite CNY song: Gong Xi Gong Xi. Thanks to my parents …
What is special for CNY this year?
How do you plan to spend the coming CNY?
Favourite CNY movie: Steven Chow's movies. They make everyone laugh, that's the whole point of new year ...
Favourite CNY movie: Any movie with Louis Koo, the HK actor, in it!
Most memorable CNY moment: Back in 2005 when I first returned from the US and was celebrating my first CNY as an adult. I saw things in a different light, and realised just how important family gatherings were when everybody had been working hard providing for their families. Some don't even take holidays throughout the year until CNY!
Best childhood memory of CNY: Running around the field with my cousins playing with firecrackers and watching colourful fireworks. Making CNY albums was also very meaningful to me. It was fun to record songs in the studio and shoot music videos with a big group of friends!
Preparations for CNY: Shopping for new dresses, bags and shoes to wear on the first day until the last day of CNY!This would make me feel like a new me during the new year!
We also organised a team to visit various orphanages, senior homes and community centres for charity work. My happiness is seeing the people around me happy!
What is different for CNY this year?
Verdi by Janell Cannon is about a young python who dreads growing up because he doesn't want to be like the seemingly lazy adult snakes he sees around him. Verdi starts off bright yellow, which suits him just fine as it's a sign that he's still a young python. He loves exploring the forest, slithering all over the place and flinging himself off tree tops. When he notices a green stripe extending down the entire length of his body, Verdi tries his best to get rid of this sign of impending adulthood – with near-fatal results. Will Verdi realise that getting older isn't all bad?
Madame Bodot is a teacher so of course Crictor goes to school and is a great favourite with the students, who use him as a slide and a skipping rope. Crictor also helps the boy scouts learn their knots and is a pro at twisting his body into the shapes of letters and numbers – what a useful snake!
In a celebrity-obsessed world where success is often gauged by follower numbers on social networks or YouTube views, Hitler soon becomes the star of an entertainment show with a Turkish host. "You're golden my dear!
"The fact is we have too much of a stereotype of Hitler," he told German media. "He's always the monster and we can be comforted by the fact that we're different from him. But in realitys he did back then, when people liked him enough to help him commit crimes."
Germany, it adds, "has a Hitler fixation which has taken on almost manic proportions. Hitler poses in reliable frequency on magazine covers, wanders like a ghost ...through the TV channels. ...Vermes satirises this 'Hitleritis', but his novel draws on it as well and even lends it a new dimension, that of not laughing about Hitler, but with Hitler."
The children are fascinated by Uncle Monty's Reptile Room and are even set to go on an expedition to Peru with him. What's the unfortunate turn of events?
What The Snakes Wrote by Hazel Hutchins & Tina Holdcroft: The children's literary world seems to have a thing for literate snakes. Here we get not just one but dozens of clever snakes who together form a jumble of words in a farmer's field. Or maybe they are not just a jumble of words. Rufus the farmyard dog takes notice of their little activity and becomes curious. What can the snakes be trying to tell Rufus?
"I felt that Chow's Monkey King (A Chinese Odyssey) was already so deeply entrenched in the audience's memory. Everyone loved it, and it would be very challenging for anybody to take on the role. People would compare your performance with Chow's."
"He asked me how I would interpret it (if I did it), and I shared my thoughts with him. He then told me, 'Good idea, better than mine. Come and just act in the way you described it!
Chow, who is no stranger to mixing up comedy, action and a memorable love story, said: "Only tragic love stories are touching. There's nothing to write about if it's a happy love story. I personally think that the love story in JTTW is more touching (compared to the relationship between Joker and Zixia in The Chinese Odyssey)."
Huang Bo plays only one form of Sun Wukong. We had a few other actors for Sun Wukong too. Some are not even actors. For example, there's a beast. So Sun Wukong can be a human, monkey or even King Kong. That's how versatile he is."
"After so many years of doing movies in Cantonese, I find this to be an entirely different experience – of course. Ultimately, it's still the same and the language barrier didn't stop me from writing what I wanted in the script. I think it came out well despite this being my first time writing in Mandarin."
"I think audiences want to see more thrilling, exciting things in movies. They want to go through a variety of emotions, and I think this movie gives that feeling of fun, thrills, scares and relief at the end of it all."


Home Newswire 130 British MPs demand extra security amid spike in abuse, threats
Aug 9, 2016: 7:55 am
Almost 130 British lawmakers have requested greater security for their homes and offices in response to a surge of online abuse and threats, it has emerged.
At least 126 parliamentarians, about a quarter of all MPs, haveto cover the costs of the added protections.
In July, Lar to her home after reporting being sent a threatening photograph and "hundreds" of threatening messages online.
Labour MP Paula Sherriff said she had to upgrade security after a man threatened her staff in March, saying he was planning a killing spree with an AK47.
A spokesman for IPSA told the Telegraph: " the House of Commons since last year to improve and enhance the security support available to MPs.
"We have recently streamlined the way we provide this support, responding to the security needs of MPs as defined by the police, while continuing to provide robust assurance about the public money spent.
"Parliament and the police to ensure that MPs, their families, and their staff remain safe."
MPs have also urge A group of MPs met recently with Twitter and Facebook, which have come under fire for failing to take stronger and swifter action to block abuse.


Once again this season the Grizzly defense is among the top in FCS. Among Big Sky teams the Griz has given the fewest first downs and are the top defense against third and fourth conversions.
Brady Gustafson and Jerry Louie McGee are among the top 6 in the Big Sky in all-purpose yards.
Kentucky Transfer Reece Phillips had a busy day along with being a defender on special teams and being in on a couple of tackles he also got in for a few snaps and a couple of pass attempts at quarterback.
Remember to wear pink Saturday as the Griz coaches and cheerleaders will join with the crowd in saluting those battling cancer.
If the ten teams in the Major League baseball playoffs only two have won World Series titles in the last 20 years, The Giants and Red Sox have each won 3 Series titles since 2004.
The Washington Nationals haven’t won a play-off series since moving to DC in 2005 and their former team the Montreal Expos won just one play-off series in their 36 years of existence.


And then how does that mega-threat make its way into what you describe in the paper as "embodied threat"?
So what does that look like?How does carrying this threat affect how people show up in a workplace context?
So you end up having these negative emotions, you're on your social media, you're scrolling, you're seeing people talk about racism and white supremacy and the dangerous consequences of it. And then you run into a colleague in the morning, and the question is like, 'Hey, how are you doing?' And you're struck with this moment where you end up having to pause. Do you say to this person, 'I'm actually not doing well. It's not a normal day for me. I have all these negative emotions and thoughts, and I'm worried about whether I and my family members are going to be targeted in the same way as what happens to those victims in Buffalo'?Or do you just decide to say, 'I'm fine, how are you?'
Can you say more about what that withdrawal looks like?If I'm a manager and I want to keep a pulse on how my employees are doing in the wake of events like the Buffalo shooting, what are some things that I should be looking out for that might signify that they need more support?
I asked them survey questions about the climate of inclusion in their workplace. How much is there a celebration of differences?Are you included in decision-making?Are you feeling like you belong at your organization?
[To measure that,] we asked employees this open ended question of, 'Have you felt comfortable talking about these experiences at work?Why or why not?
So my advice to managers would be to really examine whether you've created an environment in your teams and with your employees where you are having identity-based discussions, where you're not ignoring the fact that you are different from your work colleagues, but instead you're talking about those differences and they're being highlighted in conversations before an event happens. And so when this event happens, your employees can say, 'When my manager asked me how I was doing, I told them, I'm not doing well. Did you see the news?
Sure, managers could check in with their employees right after an event happens and send them an email or a text, or have a short conversation with them where they ask them, 'How are you doing?Is there anything that you need that I can support you with?
We no longer live in workplaces where we don't talk about the things we do in life. People talk about, 'What did you do this weekend?' Or we talk about sports or the weather or whatever. When you think about those conversations, people tend to focus on things that are similar or safe topics. And so even when I'm telling you what I did this weekend, I may say, 'Oh, I watched the game,' or something like that, but I might not mention the fact that I went to a church function at my predominantly Black Baptist church in my community that I'm super active in. That may never come up in my conversation with my manager. But ify off time, or things that are connected to my identity, then how am I going to Outside of the context of calendar events or other things to pin these identity conversations on, what can managers do in daily life to make sure that those conversations are happening and employees are comfortable having them?Is it about modeling?
One thing to keep in mind is that these things are always easier said than done. When I go back to my data, for both Black respondents and white respondents, in the wake of a shooting of two Black civilians at the hands of police, for both groups there was this sentiment that you could make people uncomfortable. So for the Black participants, it was, 'I didn't want to make people uncomfortable by bringing up this negative thing when everybody else seems to be in this positive headspace. I didn't really want to highlight this identity or this experience that other people weren't having.' In the wake of police shootings, there is a bit more of a sentiment of, 'I could bring this up and my colleagues could say something that feels insensitive, or feels like it's not the time to really talk about.'
We all kind of operate in this realm where you're worried about making people uncomfortable. And so as a manager, [especially] if you're a white manager thinking about whether you should approach your Black employees after the shooting in Buffalo, you might come to the conclusion of, 'I should check on my employees,' but realize that when you go to do that, there naturally may be some feelings of, 'I don't know if I should do this. Am I going to make them uncomfortable?Is this going to turn out the way that it should?
But the more that you do it, the more that you'll likely get evidence that it actually doesn't make people that uncomfortable to bring this thing up. And even if you make people a little uncomfortable, it's okay. There are things that make people uncomfortable all the time. The price of not bringing it up when your employees feel like you should have, or that no one is really understanding their experiences—it's much greater than the cost of, 'Oh, I just brought this thing up and it made someone momentarily uncomfortable.'
How should managers think about walking that line, of really communicating that this is an okay space to talk about uncomfortable things without talking about them in a way that feels performative?
We've talked about what managers can do in their relationship with their reports, but is there anything that managers can do to cultivate that same sense of safety between employees on the team?
I would think of the strategies that you use in the team setting as really just building on what you've done one on one. Create space so that your employees are talking as a team once a week or twice a month and sharing issues that they're having, both with work tasks and important things coming up outside of work, and having opportunities to really connect and bond. Both informal gatherings of the team, but also formally saying, 'We as a team are going to get together and have this time once a month for 30 minutes to really check in with each other and get to know each other, and talk to each other mos.'
Could something like Slack be a useful tool in cultivating psychological safety?Or is this something that really needs to stem from, if not face to face, then video or phone conversations?


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Believe it or not, I used to be a huge Genesis fan. In fact, several earlier incarnations of this blog were built on top of the Genesis framework. I was originally drawn to the Genesis framework because I was looking for a lightweight and minimalist theme to use as a foundation for a custom child theme. Back then, the two contenders were Genesis and Thesis. After testing out both frameworks, I liked Genesis a lot more.
The idea of having a foundational layer that took care of basic WordPress housekeeping items was appealing to me. I only wanted to focus on my blog’s looks. I didn’t have much interest in making sure itw as SEO-compliant. Genesis excelled at staying out of the way, and I really liked that.
Since WP Engine’s acquisition of StudioPress, I’ve lost interest in using Genesis on my WordPress sites for a few reasons. The Genesis community doesn’t feel the same anymore. Back then, things felt very grassroots and I liked that. Brian Gardner, the founder of StudioPress, was constantly in touch with users and customers – that kind of interaction is irreplacable. Lastly, there was a huge focus on minimalism which appealed to me – this was mostly the work of Brian Gardner who now runs a minimalism blog.
The post-acquisition direction of Genesis goes against its core values. Features like a variety of page layouts, permissions systems, and a large library of Gutenberg blocks isn’t something that’s needed in a framework that preaches minimalism. The fractured vision of the product gives off mixed signals, and it makes consumers uncertain about what they’re buying into. If feature bloat is going to be StudioPress’ new product strategy, I think a site redesign to move away from minimalist ideals is in order.


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Our kitchen is large and has a big granite topped island. We even won a contest and had one of the 'Top Chefs' perform and prepare in our kitchen!It is completely stocked with everything!We have extra linens ,towels, hair dryers, and and iron. We have white plush robes to lounge in, and especially nice in the mornings while sipping your coffee and sittOur favorite review from one of our many guests is.. 'our grandchildren loved your condo,. they call it THE CASTLE IN THE SKY'!
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Begin the ritual in the way that suit's your family's practice (eg: casting a circle, asking spirits and ancestors to attend, etc.).
Light the candles and incense. Allow your family to sit in silence for a few moments, remembering your loved one.
Starting with the youngest person, ask everyone to describe your loved one. How did they make you feel? What were their best and most endearing qualities? Write all of these things down on a piece of paper. Keep going until everyone has said everything they need to say.
If it is spring or summer, carry the seeds/sapling and the envelope outside. Dig a hole and place the envelope at the bottom. Plant the seeds/sapling on top of the envelope.
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“Breaking and Entering” is as messy and, at times, as rambling — as the lives and the city it so realistically explores.
W his acclaimed romantic epics “The English Patient” and “Cold Mountain.” “Breaking and Entering” sees him returning to the type of small romantic drama he started his career with, in 1991’s “Truly Madly Deeply.” It also features his first original screenplay since then.
“Breaking” is an epic writ small. The setting is intimate, but the themes bear a close resemblance to those of “The English Patient.” Here again, Mr. Minghella reminds us, the borders on our maps can create borders around our hearts.
Jude Law (“Cold Mountain”) stars as Will, a London architect who’s watching his relationship with his Swedish live-in girlfriend, Liv (Robin Wright Penn), drift away. Liv’s daughter from a previous marriage, the 13-year-old Bea (Poppy Rogers), is mildly autistic, bringing more conflict into this unconventional family unit.
Will has just moved his firm’s offices to the slowly gentrifying area of King’s Cross. It’s a show of support for his own ideas; his firm wants to transform the area, adding green space and imaginative buildings to the run-down neighborhood. He may have made a bad bet. Almost immediately, his offices are broken into, his laptop and other equipment stolen — twice.
Desperately searching for control over something, Will becomes obsessed with finding the thieves. He stakes out his office, with help from a feisty Russian prostitute (Vera Farmiga, “The Departed”) who warms up in Will’s Land Rover. He soon catches the thieves in the act, and follows one home (Rafi Gavron in his debut). He’s just a boy, though, and Will doesn’t have the heart to call the police. Instead, he satisfies his curiosity about another side of London, and embarks on an affair with the boy’s mother, a Bosnian refugee named Amira (Juliette Binoche, who starred in “The English Patient”).
Amira could be the English Patient when she declares, “Names in my country are like flags. People live or die because of their names.” Will may be too wrapped up in his own pain to recognize hers.
“Breaking and Entering” is a deep and funny film, with pitch-perfect performances all around. One often forgets how humorous Mr. Minghella can be; even an emotional drama like “The English Patient” had plenty of wit.
Miss Farmiga, completely transforming herself, provides much of the comic relief here, but not all. When she tries to get serious with Will, he retorts, “They’re putting fortune cookies in with the crack now?”
Her character is the most unlikely element of the story. The rest plays out quite like life, with many quiet moments interspersed with the arguments. A loud family scene, with everyone talking over everyone else, reminds us of how utterly scripted most films are, with each character always allowing the others their say. That’s not how we, the living, fight.
Mr. Minghella’s literate film is bursting with a generosity of spirit at the end. His hope makes you want to forgive the film’s flaws: It’s overstuffed with characters and theses, sometimes making it feel like a hodgepodge of ideas.
But then, so is the London, in place of a cinematic desert, that Mr. Minghella caresses so lovingly with his camera.
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This site has been covering the formative rounds of the FA Cup for some years now, both in a Havant & ‘Ville context, as well as a neutral ‘ain’t non-league wunnerful’ bent. There is a danger with this though, that one might start to repeat oneself, creating one’s own clichés in the attempt to avoid others. So, for a change, let’s keep the flannel to a barest minimum and simply say this: FA Cup 1st Round Proper. Non-league side at home. League side visiting. You know how it works by now.
Wealdstone were winning the Conference twenty-five years ago this season, two years before that came with an automatic right to a leg-up over the wall, but within four years they were relegated and have not been back since. They lost their old Lower Mead home in 1991, and shared before taking the opportunity to take over Grosvenor Vale, from Ruislip Manor.
From afar, one gets the impression of Rotherham United’s support as being quite down to earth, despite their club’s problems with administration and being locked out, seemingly permanently, from their ground. Perhaps you need to live in Yorkshire to get a true impression but as a group they appear as inoffensive as a Postman Pat plotline (if we ignore the one where Mrs Goggins joins the National Front).
Having stood strong for half an hour, Wealdstone eventually gifted Rotherham the lead, keeper Sean Thomas aiming his clearance straight at the prowling arse of Adam LeFondre, whose charge down caused the ball to ricochet into the back of the empty net.
Sounds like another vintage cup occasion. Love the pics of all the fans pressed up against the barrier and the Wainwright-type geezer with his pipe.
It was so much simpler when it was us in the 'propers'!


Grieman, as a senior vice president with Right Management, was an original corporate sponsor with Go!
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Earth Hour day was founded by the World Wildlife Foundation in the year 2007. Earth Hour day 2019 will be celebrated today all across the globe. A lot of nations will dim their light to support to planet earth. The day was designed to spread awareness about energy consumption and climatic changes that are affecting human species.
The theme of Earth Hour Day 2019 is Reduce, Reuse, change the Way We Live. Notably, it was started as a symbolic light out event, but now, it has become one of the biggest grass root movements for the protection of the environment. Notably, we are witnessing the biggest shifts in the environment. The World witnessed some extreme weather conditions in the year 2018-19. In that case, better present and future.
What all is happening in India?
To observe the importance of this day, last year 12 monuments all across the globe went dark. Earth Hour Day 2019 will also witness some amazing events. India has also geared up for the celebrations of this day. There is a Facebook Page with the name Earth Hour Day 2019 which is creating awareness for the same and asking people to join the good cause.
It is important to save the environment. Let us all contribute to make this planet a better place. As an individual, you can join this good cause. Apart from it, you can also plant trees to help in combating effects of global warming.


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Nixon has not indicated what he will do with the bill, which still faces the Senate, but the second-term governor already has the distinction of being the Missouri chief executive with the most veto overrides in nearly two hundred years. While Republicans tallied up ten veto overrides during a single session in 2013, the bigger issues of a GOP tax cut and the state's interposition on federal gun regulations fell short of an override.


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September 2017. There are three categories of Trigger Marketing: expected, unexpected and predicted. Expected includes such things as birthdays. Unexpected could be things such as a house move. And predicted includes activities such as a car purchase.
A house move, for example, should be a major trigger for companies. Think of all the things that change when you move house. Your home and contents insurance, your utilities, your broadband provider. There can be locational effects too. You might be a typical loyal Tesco customer, however when you move 20 miles from your nearest Tesco, your shopping habits are likely to change.
Today, when circumstances change – both predicted and unpredicted change – people reach for their mobile or laptop to do research. Smart companies will recognise the customers who are on their website, and figure out what they are doing. They can use this data to start predicting the unexpected, and fine tuning their response to the predictable.


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4. If we can't find any examples of people getting their sins forgiven by rejecting the new covenant, when did this practice start?Did it start with the Watchtower society?
7. Why does the bible teach that we will all be personally judged AFTER we die in Hebrews 9: 27 while the Watchtower teaches that we all get a clean slate when we die?
8. If we are judged after we die, does it concern you that you reject the new covenant which specifically states that it is for the purpose of "forgiveness of sins"?
11. If not only our sins, but also all of our good deeds are as filthy rags, how does a person achieve a righteous standing in the sight of God?By works or faith?
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Although realtime technology is still in early development, companies should begin to think about how these solutions could enable more accurate decision making for contact center agents and provide easier access to information for customers.
The urge to squeeze every drop of productivity and efficiency out of technology is something that’s hard-coded into the DNA of most contact centers. But these days, with operations thoroughly professionalized and optimized, where will future improvement come from?
Some companies are looking at realtime data as one possible route to better performance. The streams of data that are available for use at the moment of a customer interaction are varied, often siloed, and potentially powerful. Some vendors are proposing to unite those streams, add sophisticated analysis to understand an interaction’s context, and deliver actionable guidance to the agent desktop.
The most sophisticated offerings tackle wider-scale problems of process management, with solutions that scale across hundreds of predictive models and data attributes to present planners with full-bore automation of systems that go well beyond the contact center: multiple channels, points of view, internal departments. They function as adjuncts to CRM and Business Intelligence, and are really designed to unify the many data silos that exist within a company. The downside, of course, is that the more sophisticated the attempt to untie silos, the more a project starts to look like an expensive (and long running) professional services engagement.
RTD engines process input from systems as varied as back office applications (billing and fulfillment), CRM and cross-channel analytics (customer data), knowledge management (product usage) and social/Web mining systems. They then pass the output to the contact routing infrastructures, either through agent desktop screen pop-ups or to online systems in self-service situations. Many of the data sources come from systems owned by different internal departments. Organizations must decide which team or department owns the RTD project, and find a way to integrate data from across departments.
RTD Combines WFO, CRM and Customer Analytics
As customer care morphs into something more akin to customer experience management, processes will emerge that encourage the use of data from a wider pool of sources inside and outside the contact center. So, realtime decisioning will be a key catalyst in driving integration and collaboration across customer care, marketing, finance, and product development departments.
The rationale for investing in RTD comes from a need to better understand and influence the customer experience across different touch points. Today’s more demanding customers expect realtime updates online (even if they don’t call it that, or even know what that means) and agents need to match and exceed customer knowledge. The barriers to adoption mentioned above will be overcome as vendors realize they have an opportunity to capitalize on the need for realtime information within the enterprise.


AJHP (the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy) invites the submission of abstracts for a future AJHP theme issue on substance use disorders (SUD). Emergency medicine clinical pharmacists, Drs. Nicole Acquisto (University of Rochester) and Zlatan Coralic (University of California San Francisco), will serve as the guest editors for this theme issue. The editors are interested in abstracts that describe programs or interventions used to address SUDs in healthcare. Abstracts should (1) be limited to 500 words, (2) describe an innovative program related to SUD with measured clinical, safety, economic and/or humanistic outcomes, (3) describe pharmacists' and other healthcare provider roles, and (4) provide an overview of strategies used to overcome barriers to implementing such programs. The editors are interested in abstracts that refer to substance use disorders as they relate to opioids, stimulants, street drugs, or prescription drugs (but not alcohol). The programs described can focus on prevention, harm reduction, identifying SUD, treatment, management during hospitalization, ortreatment centers.
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Selective Feature Learning with Filtering Out Noisy Objects in Background Images
In this competition, we propose a selective feature learning method to eliminate irrelevant objects in target images. We applied a Single Shot multibox Detection (SSD) algorithm to
select desired objects. The SSD algorithm alleviates performance degradation by noisy objects. We trained SSD weights with annotated images in task 1. The refined dataset is fed into a traditional MobileNet classification network. We summarize our next research points through this competition in future works.
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Dynamic Neural Network for Incremental Learning
We present our solution for the data-incremental problem in the openLORIS competition. In this competition, we develop a combined method of knowledge distillation and network expansion. Without using previous data, our method still achieves good performance and low time latency.
<NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME> and <NAME> (Hikvision Research InstituteHIK_ILG-oralkvision_dnn-abstract_v2kvision_poster.pdf)
Learning Without Forgetting Approaches for Lifelong Robotic Vision
Recent advances in deep learning have achieved exciting results in the ares such as object detection, image recognition and object localization. However, robotic vision poses new challenges for applying visual algorithms due to varying distribution of images from real world and it requires that the model is able to learn knowledge continuously. This competition is about developing lifelong learning algorithms which can be applied to the robotic vision system. This work describes the approach that we submit to this open competition.
<NAME>, <NAME> and <NAME> (Dublin City UniversityPresentation_IROSDublin_zhengweiDubin_zhengwei.pdf)
A Small Step to Remember: Study of Single Model VS Dynamic Model
When sequentially training a series of tasks, the deep neural networks (DNNs) will suffer from the catastrophic forgetting problem. There are many lifelong learning methods proposed to tackle with this problem recently. Elastic Weights Consolidation (EWC) is a method that prevents the DNN from
forgetting the previous task while learning the current task by measuring the importance of parameters in DNNs with the Fisher Information Matrix that senses the second derivatives of the loss function. However, EWC also limits the learning ability of the network with only a single network. If there are new tasks required to be learned, the dynamic graph will be a more powerful option because of its capacity of preserving more information about the old tasks. LwR is one of the most typically dynamic models for learning multiple tasks sequentially. Moreover, the sampling of old tasks for new task training is also superior in preserving the memory of previous tasks.
<NAME> (CUHKSZ_LiguangCUHK_liguangzhou.pdf)
Modified ORB-SLAM with learning-based and odometry-aided relocalization
Multi-Level Sparse Feature Optical Flow Tracking Based Visual-Inertial SLAM with Fast Relocalization
In this work, we present a new approach for the robust visual-inertial localization under various challenging conditions, including day/night change, different illumination, moving objects and long-term scenarios. In order to solve the problem of very fragile front-end data association, we propose a new multi-level sparse feature optical flow tracking algorithm, which achieves high accuracy and robustness tracking within very sparse concise features. Unlike the existing methods that are costly to deal with a large number of redundant features and 3D map points, which are inefficient for improving positioning accuracy, we focus on the concise visual cues for high-precision pose estimating. Moreover, the lifelong SLAM is more focus on the relocalization in the same coordinate system, so we further improve the fast relocalization module by refine the efficient keyframe based 2D features to local 3D map points matching. Our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art VIO/VI-SLAM systems on the challenging OpenLORIS-Scene challenge datasets. The results effectively verify that the proposed method has better localization accuracy and real-time performance.
We proposed a Visual-Inertial Navigation System(VINS) which consists of a wheel odometer-enhanced visual-inertial localization module and a map management module.  The localization module fuses poses from both a wheel odometer-enhanced Visual-Inertial Odometry(VIO) system and relocalizations from map. This module acts as the front-end of VINS. The map management module has been used to build and merge maps, which acts as the back-end of VINS.  Benefited from both modules, the proposed VINS has capabilities of performing real-time localization and building consistent map. Furthermore, to make the proposed system more robust for illumination variation, we embedded deep-learned features in map merging and relocalization parts. The proposed method has been evaluated on Lifelong SLAM Challenge benchmark datasets


Week of Afghan violence reduction holding on 6th day of deal
There continue to be some reports of violence in Afghanistan but Afghan civilians have said that there clearly has been a reduction in violence and that any casualties from the conflict have dropped significantly.
Tomorrow a peace deal should be signed
Tomorrow will mark a successful end to the seven-day deal a of violence. On Saturday a peace deal negotiated by the US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad with the Taliban over many months should be signed in Doha-Qatar where the talks have been taking place. This is the sixth day of a seven-day deal, and it looks increasingly probable that it will hold until Saturday, when it is to be replaced by a formal peace treaty between the US and the Taliban.
Incidents of violence have been mostly minor. Although a few have been killed or wounded the Taliban have claimed not to have had anything to do with them. The incidents may be caused by more radical jihadist groups not under Taliban control. Taliban officials have even suggested that some incidents have been manufactured by Afghan intelligence agents who do not favor peace talks between the US and the Taliban. However, the Afghan public on the whole seem pleased with the reduction in violence and are anxious that there be talks and a peace agreement.
Peace agreement would be followed by talks between Taliban and other Afghans
While the Talibant as it considers it a puppet of the US, it will no doubt sit down with members of the government in an unofficial capacity and other Afghans in an attempt to come to a power-sharing agreement. This may take some time and no doubt the Afghan government will be reluctant to negotiate. However, the US will no doubt pressure government members to reach an agreement so that it can extricate itself from the long-lasting costly war.
In spite of the reduction in violence there were 8 different incidentsreported on the sixth day of the week of reduction. Nevertheless, Tahmina Aryan a woman's rights activist said that she hoped that the week of reduction in violence would be followed by a permanent peace treaty.
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884 theaters, 'Moonrise' only lost 13% of its audience and could conceivably play for a long while. 'Rome' was somewhat less successful in its third week -- its $3 million tally is solid, though the per-screen averages suggest this anthology won't come close to matching Woody Allen's "Midnight In Paris." Sam Raimi Deserved Better (Sony) - $65 million ($140 mil.)
2. Ted (Universal) - $32.6 million ($120.2 mil.)
3. Brave (Disney) - $20.2 million ($174.5 mil.)
4. Savages (Universal) - $16.2 million
5. BEEFCAKE (WB) - $15.6 million ($72.8 mil.)
6. Tyler Perry's I WIll Keep Making These Whether You See Them Or Not (Lionsgate) - $10.5 million ($46 mil.)
7. Madagascar 3D (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $7.5 million ($196 mil.)
8. Katy Perry: You Won't Remember This In A Year (Paramount) - $7.2 million ($10 mil.)
9. Moonrise Kingdom (Universal/Focus) - $4.3 million ($27 mil.)
10. To Rome WIth Love (Sony Pictures Classics) - $3 million ($4.8 mil.) </s> Your article (7/9, Local, “New Grand Boulevard quickly not so grand”) on Grand Boulevard’s asphalt overlay being torn up after recent laying points out a significant lack of cooperation between the permits and public works department. To us this just shortens the life of the overlay by cutting it out. The replacement usually will not last as long.
Hope they get their act together so this does not occur again.
The ongoing problem is that you have to pay to get enforcement. Even the most sensible rules don't enforce themselves, by and large. I wish KCMO the best in all their future endeavors, but they're in Missouri, where taxation is regarded with as much favor as child molestation and testicular cancer. Too bad, nice city, lived there a while, won't make that mistake again.
Oh. Coordinating several hundred projects with several thousand permits and updating them daily is something that a Vaterott College IT student could build in Excel, without cracking the VB module, in about a week.
Sorry Pub17.
That should be "typically" and "separate". Does that ease your mind?
Good news, though. Since KCMO regulations require private contractors to repair the street to its previous condition and require a sizable fee to boot, KCMO will get an acceptable street AND a few dollars for the coffers.
Dammit, Marctnts, use your spellcheck...
JoCo seems to do OK, though, with a similarly-sized polity; someday Missourians may get over being mesmerized by politicians who promise lower and lower taxes, and don't worry about basic services. Probably not, though.
Posted by: Pub 17 | July 14, 2008 at 09:13 AM
It is illogical to require the public works department to check every one of the their projects (which typicaly total several hundred at any one time) against every one of the private projects managed by the permits division (which typically total several thousand at any one time). It is logistically infeasible. Additionally, the coordination of two seperate construction schedules, which are constantly changing, would make the actual coordination of work almost impossible.
Posted by: Marctnts | July 14, 2008 at 08:28 AM </s> - Commentary
I get a lot of great Scutify scuttles and emails from readers of The Cody Word, and here are some of the highlights of what you’ve been asking me along with my best attempt at answering your question. By the way, the Scutify iPad app is now available and it rocks.
Q. How far up do you think Tesla will go, and when would you consider shorting it, as you mentioned?
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A. JDS Uniphase /quotes/zigman/103123/delayed /quotes/nls/jdsu JDSU is a “stealthy” way to play drones (hahah!) and the optical component business is finally rationalized and in a serious upswing cycle as carriers work to upgrade their networks. For more check out the recent Revolution Investing newsletter all about this topic called The drones are coming — and we’re gunning for them.
A. Micron’s /quotes/zigman/75433/delayed /quotes/nls/mu MU ability to improve margins and grow profits by having rationalized their industry with rolling up their competitors, they make a good test case for what the potential of RF Micro Devices/Triquint merger (see: Taking profits on two winners) will have. Certainly Micron has gotten profitable and the outlook is better than it has been in years. I think it’s too late in the cycle to try to catch it up here and I don’t like $MU as much as I like, say, SanDislong-term anyway (See why I’ve liked $SNDK for years in New trade in the RI portfolio from back in June 2011).
A. Interesting point about the “should be grown indoors to keep people from stealing plants.” Thank you!
Q. I saw your comment “I think there might be one last manipulated trashing of gold prices and silver prices by the big banks and the metal exchanges, maybe over the next month, to try to get one more panic in the gold holders to puke out some physical gold into the markets. Mid- and long-term I think gold is headed to $3,000 and then at least onto $10,000 before I die.” Do you mean we can start scaling into GLD, SLV, and the other ETFs like those?


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And then this argument is really naive for someone with a legal degree:
Here's the rub: no, I really don't. As I've written and said a thousand times, my position is simple. If you're 18 years old, you should be able to make a living pursuing your chosen talent. The only people who can't in the entire United States are college football and basketball players. For some reason, we require that they serve an apprenticeship at college that makes universities a ton of money.
BobbyPentz says:
Grits - if it is proven that his dad did request money, even only from miss state, then auburn would be vacating wins. By NCAA rule a player is ineligible for competition if they or a family member requests pay for play. Even if they never received a dime, the asking makes them ineligible. Auburn would have to vacate wins for fielding an ineligible player. You can say that's unfair to them, and I'd listen for a second, but a school is required to do due diligence when evaluating a player and there was already a ton of smoke around him.
If this is proven to be true, they gambled and lost.
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Firares. Here's how: When you pick up the same class of shares, say, common on common, simply divide your new total number of shares into the original cost of your old shares. This gives you the adjusted cost basis per share.
When you pick up a different class of stock, it's trickier. For example, say you originally paid £10,000 for 100 common. You now get 20 preferred as a tax-free dividend. Ex-dividend, the common is worth £150, the preferred £250. Thus, your 100 common are worth £15,000, and the 20 preferred £5,000 total £20,000. To get the cost basis, allocate in the same ratio: that is, 75% of cost, or £7,500, to the 100 common, and 25%, or £2,500, to the 20 preferred.
Note: When you sell split or dividend shares, you get capital gains - up to 35% maximum.
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Speaking of taxes in relation to handling a portfolio, there's much confusion in the average stockholder's mind over the question of investment-related tax deductions. A recent local court case, for instance, points up the frequently forgotten rule that if you spend money to inspect a possible investment - as opposed to one you already own--you cannot deduct the expense. In this case, the taxpayer tried to deduct his travel expenses. All he could do, it turns out, was to add these items to his cost basis - if and when he actually paid his money to make the investment.
It's understood that you can deduct the cost of a safe deposit box - but you can go further. Fees for investment advice are... see: 2012 Woes: Investors' Deductions


we of G-d, he can easily lose that inspiration unless he does something to contain and preserve it. The only way to contain this type of positive inspiration is to put it in a worldly receptacle and store it there. Fulfilling a mitzvahimmediately after experiencing such an inspiration can serve as the incarnation of such a vessel within which the inspiration can be contained. That said, when the Jewish people experienced the revelation of G-d at Mount Sinai they did not yet have any mitzvot to perform that would ensure their ability to preserve the inspiration seen there. Nonetheless, they did have the commandment to refrain from touching the mountain. By fulfilling that commandment, the Jewish people fashioned for themselves a vessel by which they can eternally store the inspiration from Mount Sinai. All of this is alluded to in the word Atzeret,which means both “stop” (as in refrain from touching the mountain) and “gather” (as in gathering the inspiration inside a proverbial container).
* NOTE: The word shavua in Hebrew has two meanings: It refers to a seven-day period (a week), and it also refers to a seven-year period (a shemita cycle). In Biblical Hebrew the plural form of the formeris shavuot, while the plural of the latter is shavu’im. Nonetheless, for some reason, Rashi in his commentary to the Talmud sometimes uses the word shavu’im when referring to weeks. </s> Quote: "… the efficiency of tagging on del.icio.us has been decreasing over time… and conclude by suggesting that current tagging interfaces may be at fault, through a positive feedback process of encouraging popular tags."
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Stuff the Squad for Antigo Food Pantry
Here are the results of the Stuff the Squad event at Pick ‘n Save on Saturday, June 1st:
Number of Pounds including “un-bagged” donations: 1191.26 lbs.
Value of bagged product: $1395
We are so gratefulOrganizers for this event were: B&G Club members and Corrie Zelazoski, Officer Nathan Zirngible, Andrea Knauer and Becki McKinnon from Pick ‘n Save.


Proper dog nutrition should contain all the nutrients and vitamins needed by the dog, instead of just having what you think the dog should have, or what you can afford. The good news is that fruits and vegetables will rarely pack many calories onto your diet, so overindulging in this group is allowable and even recommended in some cases. Sportspersons will attest to often becoming victims of the dreaded plateau, which stops them from reaching higher levels of fitness. Feeding ones body the correct fuel is a necessity that is sadly overlooked in many cases. What may have once been perceived a very unhealthy food (such as chocolate) can now be proven in scientific studies to be an antioxidant if consumed in the dark form. You will be basically seeing a consultant that specializes in dealing with your eating habits.
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Healthy pediatric nutrition begins with what not to include in a childs daily diet. Thousands of children are growing up in their formative years on little more than a diet that is totally void of any nutritional value. Processed foods and fast-foods compose the worst type of food you can give to a youngster. These foods contain chemicals and other ingredients that are detrimental to the childs health on many levels. The immune system is weakened by a constant bombardment of dead foods. Eventually, there is a breakdown that will weaken the childs body and cause a plethora or autoimmune conditions, including asthma and digestive diseases. Taking out these processed foods is the first step in helping to sustain proper pediatric nutrition for your child.
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One of the most annoying mobs; the spider runs and attacks the player at a much quicker pace (pauses a lot - take advantage of that!
- The common animals of the snow biome, the polar bear and arctic fox, are EXTREMELY dangerous!The arctic fox has the same stats of a wolf and they are quite dangerous!


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All these years later, and now living next to a woman who knows nothing about sharing space or how to train her 5 dogs, I am becoming more like how you described yourself.


Draw a large outline of the human body on the board or on chart paper. Hand out post-its or small stickers. Then ask students to think about fear. Where do they feel it in their bodies and how?
Ask students to think about a time recently when they experienced fear. What happened?How did you respond?What was the end result?
Ask students to think about a fear that they used to have but don't have anymore. What changed?
Send the talking piece around, inviting students to share: What have you done or could you do to overcome a fear you have?
You can also use "self-talk." Think through what it is you are afraid of and why. Is the thing you are fearing really likely to happen?If it did happen, would it really be as bad as you are imagining?What strategies could you use to handle it?
What did you tell yourself about the thing you feared, back when you were still afraid of it?Did the things you told yourself increase or maintain the fear?(Or, if you are still fearful of this thing, what do you tell yourself about it, and does that increase or maintain the fear?


Nevertheless, there is the "dead-line," with its well-defined edge of corpses--those of the bravest. Where both lines are fighting with-out cover--as in a charge met by a counter-charge--each has its "dead-line," and between the two is a clear space--neutral ground, devoid of dead, for the living cannot reach it to fall there.
Miller finally comes to his senses and resumes his responsibility as a commanding officer. In this part we believe we are given a real insight into the true horrors of war. The slow motion also gives us a chance to come to understand what's happening.


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‘Earth Defense Force’ stands the test of time
Photo courtesy of Sandlot
O few even seemed dated. This movie merely presented a decidedly peaceful future with several technological advances.
In contrast, many other works of fiction show a version of the future that it would be odd, if not expressly concerning, to look forward to. As with Hill Valley’s hoverboards and flying cars, humanity and the planet has eked by many a fictitiously predicted cataclysm and well into 2017.
Civilization has refused to collapse in any of the wide array of ideas presented. Los Angeles has not become a crime-infested anarchist island disavowed by the United States, and a potential cure for cancer never wiped out most of humanity, changing some into vampire-like creatures along the way. Surely, the Earth must be due for an alien invasion.
In Sandlot’s “Earth Defense Force 2017,” this hostile encounter does occur. Aliens, who have aptly been named Ravagers, begin attacking the Earth, quickly wiping out several major cities. Fortunately, humanity as a whole, and Japan in particular, happened to be ready for just such a contingency, so the recently formed Earth Defense Force, or EDF, springs into action.
Originally released for Xbox 360 in 2006 (and in English a year later), “Earth Defense Force 2017” was re-released for the PlayStation Vita. Although the third in the Earth Defense Force series, this game was the first to be released in North America. The first two games have since been given the alternate titles “Monster Attack” and “Earth Defense Force 2: Invaders from Planet Space.”
“Earth Defense Force 2017” has a straightforward plot: aliens invade while humans defend and retaliate. This simple premise allowed for the creators to focus on other aspects of game making, which is evident in the expansive and realistic level design.
Players are dropped into Tokyo as well as other areas of Japan, and each mission showcases the environs in painstaking detail. If players decide to simply ignore the enemy and wander around, they can climb stairs and examine the texture of the roof several floors above or walk determinedly in a straight line and be hard pressed to find the level’s end.
While the area might look and feel like a real Japanese city, the enemies are lacking in textures. The enemies start out as giant ants then grow to include giant spiders, mechs, dino-mechs, gunships and several others. However, the enemies have more texture compared to the item and health drops. Their sprites would be perfectly at home in the original “Doom.” Once a player is trapped under a horde of angry ants, lassoed by countless spider webs and looking down the yard-wide barrel of a giant laser cannon, these jarringly pixilated health drops are thankfully easy to spot. Perhaps the game’s artists knew what they were doing.
The controls are simplistic yet sufficient; however, this might not hold true for those well-versed in third-person shooter games. Despite having several free buttons remaining, there is notably no way to reload before firing all of the bullets. When compared to “Gears of War,” an iconic third-person shooter released just a month before the original release of “Earth Defense Force 2017” in 2006, EDF falls flat in its chosen genre.
The game, however, is far from beyond redemption. It seems as though the game’s designers tried to come up with the most epic battle they could imagine and then made that their game.
Of course, in order to take out the wide variety of enemies, the player is constantly collecting various firearms. “Earth Defense Force 2017” decided to opt for a more realistic representation of guns than most games have. Anything shot in the game – friend, foe, tree or building – will be damaged. This realistic design feature allows the player to feel guilt for accidentally murdering his entire squad or destroying most of the city.
Ultimately, only victory matters: with barely any health left himself, heroically slaying the last alien creature provides emotional payoff for the player. The journey to victory is more satisfying in the game’s well-executed co-op mode. In this mode, a player is capable of killing her friend, who is sitting right next to her, when one of the many identical soldiers wanders haphazardly in front of a well-aimed shot at a jumping spider.
Perhaps the most entertaining part of the game is the random dialogue heard in the background. While most dialogue is innocuous reloading announcements or enemy warnings, all is performed by dedicated voice actors who took it upon themselves to overact everything to giggle-worthy effect.
In nearly every single one of the game’s 53 missions, a soldier will despairingly shout “The Captain is dead!” This repetition raises the question of why the captains are so terribly inept and if they truly need to be on the battlefield. The other soldiers, whom the captains were presumably leading, seem to proceed effortlessly without the aid of their lifeless leader.
EDF itself seems to have come to this conclusion and adjusted accordingly since in subsequent games, those with the rank of captain are no longer foot-soldiers on the front line. Despite this change, many other soldiers are still willing and able to battle the Ravagers and structural stability.
In 2011, “Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon” continued the fight, introducing several new enemies and updated graphics along the way. Strangely, these updates seem to have only been for the enemy graphics: the EDF soldiers look quite similar, and the environment was an unquestionable leap in the wrong direction. Fields of untextured gray never being particularly favored by video game enthusiasts.
Unfortunately, this newer edition of the game tried too hard to be a serious third-person shooter, and its voice acting was not as so over-the-top as the previous iteration. Despite this sobering choice, the game was not entirely without humor: occasionally, upon starting a mission, a soldier would immediately proclaim that he was out of ammo. The game still provided entertainment alongside innumerable chances for collateral damage.
In 2014, “Earth Defense Force 2025” was released in the US to generally contented consumers, and plans for a fifth installment in the series were announced at last year’s Tokyo Game Show. The game is titled Chikyû Bōeigun 5 or Earth Defense Force 5.
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