I awakened half-an-hour early this morning due to hearing violent rattling and thumping sounds of gale-force winds tearing at the old sheet-metal awnings on the house. Already, the muscles of my back and abdomen remain tense as a reaction to the sounds of the awnings and the roar of the wind blowing through the tall, elderly elms. There was no leisurely stretching out in bed before arising today. The calamity of the arrival of a strong arctic front is here.
NOAA had predicted that the storm was certain two days prior. High wind warnings were posted for winds gusting to 60-miles-an-hour from midnight until noon on Monday. I became worried about the oldest trees with branches that arch over my little frame house. If a branch became torn off, it might land on the roof or onto the electric power line to the house. I pushed the worries to the back of the mind by acknowledging there was nothing I could do to stop the wind.
The severe weather is the result of the transition from 43 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday to sub-zero temperatures predicted for later today. Indeed, as I write the rough draft for a blog entry to be posted two-weeks hence, I glance at the thermometer and watch the reading drop another degree. Norfolk, Nebraska has gotten five-degrees colder within the span of half-an-hour.
Transitions are physically ever-present across the Universe. A pithy saying attributed to the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus says, “The only constant is change.”  The translation of his actual statement is more vivid and eloquent. “Upon those who step into the same rivers flow other and yet other waters.  All things . . . are in flux like a river.”
Just as the streaming of time is constant and irreversible, so is the nature of our lifeline as earthly creatures. The severe arctic cold front will pass through the area and there will be the stark, calmer winds and sub-zero chill. The extreme cold will pass days later and be largely forgotten in a week or so. The same can be said about the frustrated fight or flight response of my endocrine system to the noise of the weather’s transition.
Of course, I’ll be reminded of the events when I read this post when WordPress publishes it later. Otherwise, the thoughts of today will fade away as life continues along the way.
The world and its creatures are systems in constant states of change. We can fret over this inevitability or we can choose to ponder and celebrate it. My initial resistance and fear of the wind storm can be converted to fascination through mindfulness. I observe the storm as the physical manifestation of the swift movement of heavy frigid air displacing the lighter warmer air that was present a few hours ago. It is part of the constant process of atmospheric flux. While thinking about this, I wonder, How long ago did this air depart from Canada?
If you are an adult human reading these words, you have experienced many transitions. Some have been quite gradual and others have been more abrupt. You have been a helpless infant. You transformed into a toddler, then a school-age child. You were an adolescent, then a young adult. The process of living progresses on and on.
We’re all in transition at this very moment. We will be trying to figure out how to deal with the changes we will encounter as our lives continue to unfold. Are we open to change or are we resistant to it?
As the old wise philosopher insisted, transition and change are fundamental everywhere for everyone. By insisting upon rigid obedience to tradition or by forcing something or someone to remain the same, might we be destroying the very fabric of life? When we resist transitions and change, are we committing acts against nature?
The Blue Jay of Happiness quotes actor, comedian, personality, producer Mickey Rooney. “Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder when it truly began.”
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Forget buy-to-let, dividend stocks have never been cheaper
Rupert Hargreaves | Sunday, 2nd June, 2019
According to my research, investors entering the buy-to-let market today can still achieve yields in the region of 5% — if they know where to look. Although, after including all the additional costs and taxes of operating a buy to let property, I’m not really sure it’s worth the effort.
Indeed, right now the FTSE 100 supports an average dividend yield of 4.6% and owning this index requires no additional input on your behalf. Furthermore, you can own an, which means you have no further tax obligation on any dividends received.
A Brexit problem
However, Irs all over the world. You see, the FTSE 100 is an international indexSo even in the event of a messy Brexit, I am confident the index will continue to distribute a healthy level of income to investors.


“Our editors absolutely love this, because they are able to sift through millions of potential titles, and they know that they are all good ideas,” Kydd says. And profitable ones — nothing is assigned unless the algorithm predicts it can cover the costs of production. Demand’s freelancers can make around $15 or $20 per item. “The funny part is, sometimes we’ll ask people who work, say, in newspapers or magazines, ‘How much did that article cost you?’ ” Kydd says. “They literally have no idea.”
That’s changing. Though journalists tend to shudder at Demand Media’s approach, mainstream publishers are starting to co-opt portions of its model. USA Today, for instance, has contracted Demand to supply the content for its Travel Tips Web page, while AOL recently started a Web site called Seed, edited by Saul Hansell, a former New York Times columnist, which generates story ideas from search data. More generally, there is a growing appreciation among those who practice journalism of the Internet’s capacity to tell them what readers want to know.
“For traditional journalists, this is a difficult concept for them to grasp, and one reason it’s difficult is because it’s scary — it’s scary to actually have that data in front of you,” Dvorkin said. “It’s scary to say, wow, this is the audience, and now all of a sudden I have to respond to the audience because this is what they’re interested in.”
Dvorkin and Coates Bateman, a former book editor who runs True/Slant’s daily content operations, showed me around the site’s “dashboard,” the back office of its virtual newsroom. There was a dial, like a digital speedometer, which showed the volume of page views on the site and a list of trending topics on Google and Twitter, topped by the confection of the moment, the teenage-pop sensation Justin Bieber. (Sure enough, within an hour or so, a Bieber-related True/Slant post appeared.) There was a list that ranked the most-viewed items and metrics that tracked how they got their traffic — maybe via a link from a popular blogger, or the recommendation tool Digg. Most eerily, there was a little algorithm-driven display that showed contributors what other people were saying about their work out in the blogosphere — eavesdropping, in real time.
True/Slant structures its compensation to give writers an incentive to hustle for readers’ attention. Contributors are paid a monthly retainer and scaled bonuses based on how many people read their articles. The money isn’t enough to live off — the entrepreneurial journalist has many gigs — but True/Slant is reasonably generous in comparison with, say, the Huffington Post, which pays its nonstaff bloggers nothing but esteem. Most writers make a few hundred dollars a month if they hit their traffic targets, and a few big names, like the professional controversialist Matt Taibbi, make quite a bit more. In fact, if you break it down, True/Slant pays its writers more than the amount of revenue their work generates at the current online advertising rates. Stripped down as it is, the start-up isn’t yet turning a profit, and it’s now e capital.
I asked Bateman, as a matter of raw economics, how much an individual article is worth to True/Slant’s bottom line, on average. He told me he calculated it out: around $10.
Sam Apple and I were sitting in a hushed and crowded cafe, amid the soft glow of open laptops. “I thought at the beginning that if I could create a top-notch journalistic outlet, and if I could do that at a small fraction of the cost, maybe advertising could cover it,” he told me. The Faster Times was now eight months old, and Apple was wiser about online economics. The summer before, the site charged out of the gate with a 24-hour posting schedule, a large and enthusiastic staff and guest posts from famous writers like Gary Shteyngart. By the fall, it had acquired a monthly audience of around 200,000 readers, according to the tracking site Quantcast — small compared with the Huffington Post’s but a pretty impressive return on $20,000, in Apple’s opinion. But the revenues that were coming in from Google AdSense, the ad-placement service he was originally using, were so paltry that Apple wondered, when he gave writers their 75 percent share, whether he was actually driving them away.
“I have a friend who is a behavioral economist,” he said. “He says that if you pay people tiny amounts, it’s worse than not paying them at all.” The Faster Times’s first round of payments ranged from $5 to $75. Revenues have increased substantially since Apple switched to another ad service, but the writers’ shares still don’t amount to much. Whether it was because of that, or fickleness, or the attractions of better-paying opportunities, many of the original Faster Times contributors gradually drifted off. Apple was now trying to hatch ideas for alternate sources of revenue, to ease the site’s dependence on advertising. “I still feel like there’s a lot to try,” Apple told me. “We can kind of be a testing ground for the latest experiments.”
Many other publications, confronted with the painful math, have reached the same conclusion: the business needs alternate schemes of support. Some have adapted tried-and-true formulas. The Daily Beast is backed by a generous billionaire, Barry Diller; others are mimicking NPR’s nonprofit model; Politico makes the majority of its revenue from, of all things, advertising in an offshoot print newspaper. Most familiar of all, there’s the subscription route, which  followed with success. The New York Times has announced that early next year it will institute a fee for frequent users of its site. Many analysts are doubtful that the subscription approach will work for everyone — surveys suggest that few consumers are willing to pay for news online. But some start-ups are experimenting with a variation on the idea, premium memberships, which give readers who sign up special access and perks. GlobalPost, an online publication for international news, is currently implementing such a program, offering subscribers the chance to participate in conference-call briefings by freelance correspondents stationed in more than 50 countries, and to vote on articles they’d like to see’s.
The new journalistic entrepreneurs fall into two distinct categories. There are the proprietors, people like Charles M. Sennott, a foreign correspondent who took a Boston Globe buyout and became a founder and an executive editor of GlobalPost, or Alex Balk, Choire Sicha and David Cho, who were cut loose by Radar, a dying magazine, and decided to start the Awl, a smart and idiosyncratic commentary site. Then there are the small-scale entrepreneurs, the journalists who, having found themselves dislodged from a salaried way of living, are now scrambling to piece together a freelance income while building their personal brands. Since one group pays the other — or doesn’t, as the case may be — the two sides are engaged in a symbiotic dance around the issue of valuation. .
The question of how journalists should be paid is of intense interest to journalists, obviously, but it matters to readers too, in ways they may not realize. Structures of compensation affect the end product, especially when salaries or bonuses are tied to the pursuit of traffic, a model that many online start-ups follow. Established publications — some of which are instituting or contemplating similar schemes — are watching the experiment with curiosity and trepidation. Writry. They have to decide whether to work around that or to embrace it as a fact of life.
One of the loudest proponents of the latter perspective is Henry Blodget, the editor in chief of Business Insider, a gossipy start-up. His talented staff breaks plenty of news and turns out the occasional high-prestige feature, but Blodget is unapologetic about mixing in a lot of eye candy and isn’t above illustrating articles about A.I.G.’s woes with unrelated photos of attractive women kissing. A former star stock analyst who was banned from the profession amid accusations of securities fraud — he paid $4 million to settle — he says he sees himself as a journalistic outsider, unencumbered by the weight of conventional wisdom. In March he wrote: “Perhaps it’s time to float a new theory: We’re already in the gutter.


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standardized approach that Wal-Mart (which, by the way, opened their first store in India last year, stocking 90% of its shelves with local favorite brands and some nationally-produced products) is attempting to put together could benefit from a culturally influenced one that differs and adapts by industry and product?
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Language </s> RPR doesn’t like competition.
Mr. Ross is a bit perplexed on why many MLS providers have not chosen RPR or continue to use their competitors for what he calls “short-term gains.” He references a widely distributed blog post written by Kim Prior of OnBoard Informatics, called “MLSs Taking Control of Destiny – a Plea, an Observation, a Call to Arms“. (Sound the trumpets!) Her post is a bit naive but does lay out challenges many industries face including the MLS.
When RPR launched Mr. Ross stated their plan was to have RPR break-even in 3 years. It’s been a bumpy road since then as many MLS providers challenged their value proposition. In his post Mr. Ross repeated RPR’s value proposition as this:
“What RPR seeks to offer NAR members is REALTOR® control of property data, analytics and valuations. At the core of the RPR system, the licensed data provided to the MLSs by brokers is aggregated with the additional licensed parcel-centric data. RPR then seeks to return valuable tools to REALTORS® designed to bring national and local information as well as agent and broker support systems directly where they are needed the most, at market level to benefit the consumers, but provided by REALTORS® to reinforce REALTOR® value. “
The linchpin to this strategy is how “valuable” the tools RPR is providing. In a recent blog post Brian Larson asks many MLS providers to consider this before resigning with RPR. Reports have suggested that usage of RPR’s toolset are very, very low even by 3rd party software standards. Recently RPR has refocused efforts to improve this.
1. Stop complaining. NAR has committed 20 million dollars to you and ponied up another 12 million to buy assets to get you started. Add to that you also have a rock star team that includes Marty, Mona, Reggie, Ohan, Kristen and others. Nobody gives a shit about your problems, implement.
4. It’s NOT the data stupid. Data, data, data is all I ever hear from RPR. It should be User Experience, User Experience, User Experience! I’ve had a few off the record conversations with trainers at MLS providers tasked to train on RPR. The feedback has been the same, it’s “too complicated”, it does “too much”. So how about introducing a stripped down version that offers less flexibility but gives the agents something quick and easy. Your data means dick if nobody can figure out how to get at it or how to use it.
Greg, nice post but you really have! 😉 But I do agree with you.
Except regarding the API to RPR data- what’s the point? They all license the same crappy data from the same company I think.
Greg, the team you mentioned is top notch but somehow the job is not getting done…..I appreciate the need to initially focus on signing up new customers but the quality of our rpr implementation leaves much to be desired and getting an early adopter’s attention now is a little too late. We have stopped allocating our time and resources to promises not kept….for almost a year we have been told the data will get better, be more accurate and be updated in a timely fashion etc etc to no avail The private FIND product from REALTOR.COM is blazing fast, more current and more complete than our implementation of rpr….in my opinion NAR rode the “wrong horse out of the barn”…. even the best marketing team can’t sell the proverbial “pig


An Integrated Approach for Understanding, Correcting & Preventing Unsafe Acts
Charmaine Mullins-Jaime;
Charmaine Mullins-Jaime
Samantha Case;
NIOSH Western States Division in Anchorage
Jan K. Wachter
Mullins-Jaime, Charmaine, Case, Samantha, and Jan K. Wachter. "." Prof. Safety 66 (2021): 20–27.
Most organizations adopt a primary approach to designing and implementing their safety programs, typically either system or behavioral approaches.
No single safety management approach seems to be entirely successful for understanding the causes of unsafe acts in the workplace in order toither safety management system or behavioral approaches.
To better understand the causes of unsafe acts and perform appropriate corrective and preventive actions, a more comprehensive and integrated model based on system, behavioral and human performance approaches should be adopted. A recommended model is presented in this article.
The human performance approach can act as a bridge for using both system and behavioral approaches for understanding the cause of unsafe acts in an organization.
A review of the history of the safety field reveals an apparent tendency to change how safety is managed according to whatever approach is in vogue (e.g., regulatory-based safety, human performance). Each approach promises to be the cure-all for understanding the causes and elimination of unsafe acts leading to incidents. This also has led to many organizations adopting only a singular approach to managing their safety function and addressing unsafe acts and their impacts within a limited scope (Wachter & Yorio, 2014; 2018).
This strategy has not likely been successful over the years. Although incident rates have decreased over the past century, the rates of severe and fatal incidents have remained fairly constant in recent years (BLS, 2019). The majority of incidents are still being attributed to human error as was true at the start of industrialization (Reason, 1990). For example, in industries such as rail transport and airlines, human error is the top cause of incidents (Koen, 2015). Approximately 80% of airplane incidents are due to human error (e.g., pilots, air traffic controllers, mechanics), while 20% are due to equipment failures (Ranking, 2007). Human error has been implicated in 94% of motor vehicle crashes, due to violations and the presence of error precursors such as speeding, fatigue, and drunk or distracted driving (Brown, 2017).
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Utilizing Human Performance Techniques in Incident Investigation
How to Sustain Involvement in Occupational Safety: From Research-Based Theory to Real-World Practice
Prof. Safety (October,2011)


The pre-release event for Vijay Deverakonda’s upcoming supernatural thriller, Taxiwaala, concluded on a grand note tonight. The film has been produced by Allu Arjun’s PRO turned producer. SKN’s speech at Taxiwaala’s pre-release has become the talk of the industry.
In a speech that was filled with punchlines and heartfelt gratitude, SKN first thanked his mentor and veteran producer Allu Aravind for grooming him to become a producer. He then talked about his association with Allu Arjun over the last 15 years. SKN said that Bunny is the reason for him standing where he is today and thanked him for being a pillar of support throughout his career.
Talking about Taxiwaala, SKN said that he and his entire team were not disappointed when the film was leaked online, as they had total confidence in its content. Taxiwaala is slated to open in cinemas on November 17.


in the fresh air and sunshine. Bel fresco is one of the most wonderful benefits of warm summer weather. Because of this, the outdoor living space has become an integral part of the home and an extension of interior style. Outdoor living should be both comfortable and stylish, reflecrough good design and an eye for style, the best of both worlds can come together in a way that won’t compromise comfort or elegance. By utilizing design resources and adding a personal touch through fabric and trim selection, you can create a stunning custom outdoor space that reflects your personal style. Incorporating a customized palette of color, pattern and texture gives you the ability to bring life into any outdoor space, creating a unique design that’s truly your own. When it comes to custom outdoor seatingour favorite ways to customize an outdoor space to reflect your personal style.


1 | 11 August, 2014 By Mary | 4 Comments
I’ve never been much of a salter. I don’t put extra salt on my food unless it’s tragically under-salted, which I find to be a rare occasion! The same goes for ketchup — I almost never put ketchup on food. Up until a few years ago, that included fries! I’m much more of a mustard…
1 | 7 July, 2014 By Mary | 5 Comments
We’ve been in Vietnam for more than two months now, and are just past our halfway point before returning to the States for a visit. All of a sudden, we’ve both become a bit travel-tired! I suppose you could even say we’re homesick. It took us both by surprise, especially since it hit us both…
6 | 24 April, 2014 By Mary | 6 Comments
Today is a big day! I made a huge “to-do” (more like “to-cook”) list a few months ago, and was pretty nervous I wouldn’t actually be able to finish it. Yesterday I cooked my final four (!!) recipes on the list, and finished photographing the last one this morning. Woohoo! I’ve definitely had some ups…
1 | 17 April, 2014 By Mary | 1 Comment
Baked Raspberry Almond French Toast
Two weeks until we move to Asia! LESS THAN TWO WEEKS! Holy cow. {this post was supposed to go up yesterday, but my site was down all day… sorry ’bout that!} I can’t even really grasp that as a reality right now. Get ready for two weeks of OMG OMG OMG as I (likely daily)…
1 | 14 April, 2014 By Mary | 5 Comments
I have a bunch of springy recipes all ready for you guys, but felt like I needed to keep it simple today. I had an experience last night that I haven’t been able to put out of my mind, and have been wrestling with the suitability of discussing it here. I’ve been sitting in front…
2 | 20 March, 2014 By Mary | 1 Comment
Blackberry Almond Coffee Cake
I’ve been super excited to share this recipe with you guys! It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, and I finally made it happen — and it totally exceeded all expectations. It was ADDICTIVE. Seriously addictive. I love all things almond, and the topping on this was absolutely perfect, which made for…
1 | 10 March, 2014 By Mary | 3 Comments
0 | 22 February, 2014 By Mary | 4 Comments
Spinach Soup with Rosemary Garlic Croutons
It’s been two weeks and I’m pretty sure I haven’t even mentioned the Olympics yet. WHAAT!? I LOVE the Olympics!! I’ll admit, I’m much more a fan of the summer Olympics, but the winter Olympics still fascinate me. Slope style?? CRAZY. How do you even make your body do that!? Speed skating? Terrifying. Watch your…
1 | 1 February, 2014 By Mary | Leave a Comment
Cheesy Garlic Herb Pull-Apart Bread
I’ve been avoiding all Super Bowl everything (is Super Bowl even two words? or one? SuperBowl?) because, frankly, I couldn’t care less about football. I am just not a football watcher, nor have I ever been, and therefore: the SB (can we abbreviate?) has always been a day too close to my birthday to be…
2 | 30 January, 2014 By Mary | 9 Comments
I’m feeling really proud of myself this morning. Oh, you ask why? Well, I’m basically the best snow-remover there ever was in the history of snow-removers. I would say snow SHOVELER, but I actually have not been using the shovel much lately. Our house has a SNOWBLOWER. It’s in the garage, there for our use,…
I feel like Montana is getting away with a serious weather crime right now. Everyone else is suffering crazy cold temperatures, and we’re here in balmy 20-40 F weather! I didn’t think it was possible for Atlanta to be colder than Bozeman… but apparently it is! Crazy polar vortex! I have a few cold-weather soups…
1 | 22 December, 2013 By Mary | 4 Comments
I know it’s almost Christmas, and many of you have fallen off the pumpkin-train. I’m here to tell you to GET. BACK. ON. Seriously, there is no reason pumpkin needs to be shunned after Thanksgiving. It’s still totally delicious! For those of you in less-than-arctic climates, you might even still have IN SEASON PUMPKINS. Oh…
4 | 21 December, 2013 By Mary | 1 Comment
All I can think when I say/write/think “challah” is “HOLLA!” Yes, I am embarrassed about that. CHALLAH! My mom went to a wedding recently that had fabulous challah, which she then got the recipe for, and here we are! I’ve never made challah, and it’s been a long time since I’ve made anything yeasty besides…
0 | 25 November, 2013 By Mary | 3 Comments
Yeaaah Portland!! Can you tell I’m excited to be home? A little bit? If you follow my instagram, you’ve probably noticed we aren’t in Montana anymore. West coast best coast! Now that we’re here at my Mama’s house, I’m seriously considering making these cinnamon rolls again. I made them a few weeks ago because, just…
Light and Fluffy Baked Apple Pancake


Did you ever think that you could fall in love with a fish? Chef Dan Barber did just that, not once but twice. Once he realized the truth about his first love, however, he quickly lost his passion for the unsustainable fish. Later on in Spain, he discovered the real deal – his kindred spirit so to speak. This fish was impeccably delicious (even though it was overcooked, twice) and Dan made it his mission to discover what or who was responsible for cultivating such a beautiful and delicious creature. Hear his entertaining and enlightening story:
This next talk illustrates the difference natural living makes in one of the most despised yet prized foods in Western Culture: foie gras.
The controversy surrounding this delicacy has to do with the force-feeding method employed called ‘gavage’ and is considered by many to be a gross form of animal abuse. Once again in Spain, Dan discovers a farmer, Eduardo Sousa, who raises his geese in a traditional method passed down through generations where the geese are not only treated with respect but carefully catered to. This way of raising animals is a sharp contrast to how the majority of animal farms currently operate and is so in sync with nature it could bring one to tears. Ask Dan Barber.


Yesterday the World Health Organisation declared red meat consumption". For our own health and yours, we looked deeply into this allegation. In our search for the truth of the statistical data, incidence reports, and quantities referenced, we are comfortable stating that the WHO must have fallen on its head. The reasons Continue Reading...


On Is Tropical's 2011 debut album 'Native To' there appeared to be this constant buzz that took to the stage in every track. After a while, it was like a bumblebee - or, even worse, a wasp - was burying its pesky self into the inner crevices of your ear holes. There are still scarce occasions where the buzzy reverb returns on 'I'm Leaving' but, for the majority, it sounds more sophisticated with bigger anthems.
'Lovers Cave' and 'Leave The Party' have sparkling electro sections that are sparky enough to start a kindling fire, for real. 'Sun Sun' sounds like something from a breakfast commercial; "Sun sun, you're the only one", beams through, happy and bordering on cheesy, with the addition of a xylophone. The clap-enticing 'Toulouse' has a muffled, skuzzy undertone, the opposite of the cutesy words, "Clementine Clementine, your lifeline flickers but we're out of time".


I wanted to help you learn the English term, elbow grease.
it's nice and slippery.
hard work that you do by hand.
with sandpaper and paint it.
oh, it just needs a little bit of elbow grease.
Maybe you've bought something that needs to be fixed up.
or a little bit of electrical work.
and it will be working again.
that you put on your elbows.
usually with your hands.
is the term elbow room.
So elbow room is simply the amount of room.
We almost always use this in the negative.
there wasn't very much elbow room.
and there were so many people there.
There wasn't hardly any elbow room.
So elbow room is simply the room that you have around you.
you don't have a lot of elbow room.
So to review, elbow grease is simply hard work.
with just a little bit of elbow grease.
you can get them clean again.
With a little bit of hard physical labor.
you have around you.
it started raining, for some reason.
So I will try to slow down.
This comment is from Andres Padrón.
And the comment is, thank you, Mr. Bob.
I like the introduction.
That's upside down, isn't it?
I had my little paper upside down.
what happens at the farm when the winter arrives?
of all kinds of flowers and wheat?
in the heavy Canadian winter?
and watch the snow fly on the farm.
Yes or no, I don't know how to say this.
No, we do not grow anything on the farm in the summer.
no, I'll stick with no.
In the summer, in the winter.
I'm not even answering the question properly.
where we take a little bit of time to relax.
Now I still go to work, I still teach every day.
but definitely winter is a time where the farm is at rest.
And Jen gets to rest a little bit as well.
are very, very busy months on the flower farm.
I should have done this video out in the flower field.
But I think you've seen enough of it.
as winter begins.
to make YouTube videos in the winter.
simply too snowy.
Sometimes there's a blizzard.
wonder why I do that.
Why I make videos outside?
and I do like going outside, too.
Anyways, thanks for watching this little English lesson.
I'll see you in a couple of days with another one, bye.


Dubbed the "First Lady of the World" by Harry Truman, come celebrate President's Day with us by meeting Eleanor Roosevelt.
Mrs. Roosevelt was an early user of the media and Mr. Schermer will recreate her last press conference before leaving office.
Eleanor Roosevelt held the post of First Lady of the United States from March 1933, when her husband until April 1945 when he died during his fourth term in office. She was thus the longest
As First Lady she transformed that role from social hostess to an active political partnership with her husband. She was a champion of civil rights, an advocate for women, and supported government funded programs for the ar Reserved seat tickets are $20 and may be purchased at our Box Office or online.


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A Miss USA’s Purity Vow
In Inspiration, Love by Kristen Dalton WolfeMarch 22, 20173 Comments
I’ve never written completely on my purity story. It’s a topic I’m asked to speak on a lot and am very passionate about. Recently, my husband Kris and I did an interview on TBN about our love story, sexual purity and whether or not we feel it blesses a marriage. I thought it was an interesting question to ask: Does sexual purity bless a marriage? It caused me to think. You can watch my thoughts in the clip at the end.
My purity quest began in the 7th grade. I dreamt to be a light for God. I asked Him to give me a big platform to direct eyes to Him…specifically the platform of Miss USA. My other dream was to marry a Prince Charming one day. I was raised on fairytales and Disney princess movies. I believed happily ever afters were possible for everyone with God.
There is a Bible verse thatwatch over you and guide you.” Psalm 32:8. If we really believe He wants to give us His best, why would we take any distractions or detours?
That night, I decided to believe what God said about me rather than what the mirror reflected. I decided to make a vow that agrees with God’s Word that I am set apart for good works He has prepared in advance for me. I decided I didn’t want any distractions or detours to take me off God’s best path for me.
So that night, I wrote a letter to Him that said:
I folded it up, put it in an envelope and addressed it to God. After that, it was a done deal. Absolutely no turning back. My resolve was final.
I remember people doubting for years I’d be able to stay true to it. When I went off to college, everyone I talked to said there was no way I’d get through one semester without giving in.
I never did. I paid the price and said goodbye to a “normal” social life. And don’t get me wrong, I had many lonely nights where I cried myself to sleep. But ultimately, I kept my eyes on the goal. I wanted to be a Miss USA one day who could tell other girls they could do it too. I wanted to stay the course and show other women they don’t have to do what’s cool, or normal to earn love or acceptance that only leads to emptiness and regret.
His mercies are new every morning, every moment of the day. Despite past decisions, you can have a new start at any point with a sincere, repentant heart. If you’re ready for the love of Jesus to fill you to overflow, mending your broken heart and giving you a fresh vision, that is available to you right now.
Click here to book Kris and Kristen to speak. Related posts:
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March 22, 2017 Reply Pratiksha Jawanjale I resemble to what you have shared here.. At times its difficult to live this way but its only possible with the love of God… Thankyou for inspiring me more
March 22, 2017 Reply Stephanie Guerrero Wanic Such a beautiful testimony, Kristen! My daughter is 10, and I am going to share this with her very soon. Thank you!
April 5, 2017 Reply Lydia Kurniawan Thank you for sharing. I’m blessed.


Will This Last? Part 2 of 6
There was no real blowup at the family reunion, but she did notice that othery while keeping their distance from him. Also, when he wasn’t around her, she got along well with his family members and everyone seemed to feel more at ease. It put her in a tough position because he got along great when it was just the two of them, but with this family, there was a clear challenge. She asked whether I thought the two of them would last. Here’s the thing, if your partner doesn’t get along well with biological family members, that might be a major indicator of their ability to get along with you for the long haul.
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These 6 words can shut down a person’s feelings and block further conversation. This is usually said when an issue is unresolved and one partner keeps bringing it up. “Getting over it” doesn’t solve anything. In most cases, it makes things worse by leaving issues unresolved only to stack up over time. This is an inappropriate phrase to use no matter the size of the problem. It is perceived that your partner’s feelings are unimportant or that you are not interested in or working through the problem.
Practice intentional communication! Sometimes, hurtful phrases can “slip” in frustration. If you care about your partner, you can ratify the way you speak to them. If this is something you struggle, it isn’t uncommon. Contact me for a 15-minute consult.
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3. Try activities that will bring you closer together – Sitting at home stewing over and arguing about the same issues all the time? It might be time to get out and have some fun for a change! This isn’t about running away from your problems but about finding activities that can bring you closer together, help you to enjoy each other’s company again, talk more and just have fun! Date nights, working out together, taking up a new hobby or taking a vacation are a few good places to start. All of these activities will get you out of your daily grind and could help bring you closer together again. Related: 5 Things Happy Couples Always Do
4. Go to counseling alone – You do need your spouse’s help to improve your relationship but you can be the one to take the first step. The tools and techniques you learn in your individual coaching sessions can enable you to help your partner feel more open to sharing thoughts, feeling and fears. Everything is a process and it can start with one person - you.
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Master the Art of “Give & Take” in Your Relationship
You may have noticed that marriage is a lot of work. Like most couples, you may not have known how much work it actually takes to build and sustain a healthy marriage. And by work I mean communication, sacrifice, and commitment to name a few! Even when things are going smoothly, there will always be something or someone that requires more attention from either you or your partner. I’m not talking about infidelity; that someone could be a new baby, family member in need or a demanding new boss. No matter how much work you put forth, it’s important to learn how to master those uneven times in your relationship – times when you must master the art of give and take.
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4. Check in with your own emotions – Even though you’re not keeping score doesn’t mean you don’t have needs that deserve to be met. Speak up, ask for help and share your needs.
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Don’t fight over money. By all means, discuss finances and discuss them regularly. However, do not let these discussions reach the point of a heated argument. Have systems and routines in place to keep each other in check so that neither one resorts to nagging to “correct” the other. [Related: Resolve Conflicts Before Bed]
Never seek to humiliate one another. It is surprising how often this comes up. It seems like common sense, but don’t embarrass your spouse by telling a story or revealing information that will demean him or her to family or friends. Avoid pointing out each other’s flaws in public at all costs. Be mindful of wandering eyes! When you stare at other men or women, others (including your partner) will definitely notice.
Put each other first. Keep the date nights going and try to be as spontaneous as you were when you first started dating. Use time management and mediation so that work or other priorities don’t overshadow intimacy or time with your significant other. [Related: Become More Romantic]
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According to the Bible, heretics are people who claim to believe in God but do not keep God’s commands, being tempted by man-made rules and theories (2 Pe 2:1–3).
Whether a belief is heresy or not can be determined by whether it is following the commands of Jesus Christ.
In the days of the early Church, too, there was a warning against heresies (Tit 3:10). Since then, paganism entered the church and settled down as if it were authentic Christian services. In the process, theories and creeds against the Bible took the form of Christian doctrines and have been observed up until now.
In this sense, the Bible points out that today’s churches that do not keep God’s commandments while claiming to believe in God are following heresies.
The Church of God is the only true church that obeys God’ (Rev 14:12).


Was The Government’s Divestment of GM Stock Insider Trading?
And though Grassley’s criticism could be read as mere partisan gamesmanship from a leader of “the party of no,” there are a number of very good reasons for opposing the deal.
Recently, it’s become popular to believe that when a zombie loses its head, it dies. With today’s resignation of Fritz Henderson, the reanimated corpse of General Motors is testing that theory. Henderson was the latest in a line of GM lifers to hold the company’s reigns, hand-picked by ousted CEO Rick Wagoner and put in place by a presidential task force that couldn’t say no to another insider. In theory, Henderson’s resignation shouldn’t come as a surprise, let alone a disappointment. In practice though, the move leaves the zombie GM in a precarious position at a challenging moment. For the first time since (your guess here), GM is in the hands of an outsider.
GM’s first post-bankruptcy financial data has arrived, underscoring in red ink the folly of the government “investment” in the shambling zombie once known as General Motors. Bankruptcy-driven improvements in cost structure have not prevented GM from turning a non-GAAP-certified loss since emerging from Chapter 11, and GM is already warning that 4th quarter results will be even less attractive. More importantly, beneath all of the interpretation of this latest batch of weak results, rests the biggest lie of all: GM will be paying back the taxpayers. GM has simply defined the terms of its debt as $6.7b, or about half the amount remaining in its $16b bankruptcy-present escrow account. The plan is to have the taxpayers pay off GM’s debt to the taxpayers, and collect the remaining $6b or so for operating cash. When called on the ruse, GM CEO Fritz Henderson has only one defense: Taxpayers will receive their just reward only when GM’s IPO relieves them of their 60 percent equity stake. But even with the goalposts moving up in hopes of a PR win, there’s little evidence that GM will come close to paying off their full bailout bill.
OK, so, GM is a nationalized automaker. I know, I know: nationalization is for third world dictators. But there it is. Thanks to outgoing president George Bush, the feds used $50 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Fund to bail out General Motors, in exchange for majority ownership. So no matter what W’s political successor says about his administration’s “hands off” non-management of Government Motors, he who owns the gold makes the rules. And when it comes to running a federal-funded organization, Uncle Sam plays by different rules than, say, any private enterprise extent. The bottom line is that there is no bottom line. Amtrak, the U.S. Postal Service, Medicaid—they’re all run at a tremendous, ongoing loss. Which means there’s zero sense of accountability. Which means they will never, ever be able to fully and fairly compete with privately held corporations. Why should GM by any different? Answer: it isn’t.
General Motors is a nationalized automaker. But it can’t stay that way forever. Its federal taskmasters have decreed that GM must return to public ownership before the Congressional mid-term elections in 2010. Makes sense. If GM is still on welfare at election time, GM will be an enormous political liability. A symbol of Big Government gone bad. But GM can’t possibly achieve profitability within that time frame. Even if it had the brains, it doesn’t have the time or money to build what needs building, to fix what needs fixing. The new car market sucks and GM’s product planning, reputation and branding are in tatters. So New GM’s doing the only thing they can do: putting lipstick on the product pig and sending it off to market. This “May The Best Car Win” advertising strategy will backfire. Badly.
I have no idea how Lutz seized on the idea that perception and reality aren’t part of a feedback loop. For someone who never saw combat, he has an extremely cynical view of human nature. Less perplexing: why New GM is allowing Lutz to bet the entire company on Maximum Bob’s belief that carpet-bombing consumers with “enlightenment” will somehow save the day. Again, GM has no choice. They don’t have the time to create the incremental improvements they need to build, market and sell the genuinely competitive products which would generate a profit in the North American market.
Speaking of loops, Lutz would say that my assessment of GM’s competitiveness is just my [biased, GM-hating] opinion. But it’s also the opinion of millions of American consumers over the last three or four decades, who’ve been abandoning GM for other car companies. I mean, ipso facto, right?
Nothing. GM’s “May the Best Car Win” head-to-head ad campaign completely glosses over the fundamental question that a real bankruptcy forces a company to face: “Well, how did I get here?” With a few not-so-notable exceptions, the products that GM is about to present as class-leading are the same products that ushered the company into [its first] bankruptcy. Discount the idea that customers are to blame or the competitors suddenly got worse, and you’re left with an inescapable conclusion: same as it ever was.
This is no small point. GM’s fall from grace is not about its products, per se. It’s about the company’s ongoing and abject failure to create compelling brands that sell products (and services) that embody the brands’ promise. Never mind the LaCrosse vs. the ES350. Who would buy a Buick instead of a Lexus? Or a Chevrolet instead of a Honda? The people who would are, and the ones that don’t, won’t. No head-to-head model throwdown is going to change the overall dynamic, and/or the minds of people who vote with their wallet.
There’s only one way Lutz and Co. can win this “debate”: frame it in the context of a battle of the brands. But first they have to create four tightly-gathered, clearly expressed branding concepts (e.g., Cadillac as the “standard of the world”), then build products and services that realize that promise. Until and unless New GM grasps that nettle, potential customers will see “May the Best Car Win” as bilious bailout braggadocio, while existing customers will see it as an invitation to jump ship.
General Motors Zombie Watch 16: The Russians Are Coming!
Ron Bloom is a Harvard MBA grad, investment banker and former advisor to the U.S. Steel workers. He’Automobiles, now that Steve Rattner is busy defending his investment firm against bribery charges. Over the weekend, the Obama administration added Manufacturing Czar to Car Czar in Ron Bloom’s portfolio of power. “Bloom is to work with government departments including Commerce, Treasury, Energy and Labor to deThe White House said Obama, invest in the skills of American workers, and help manufacturers prosper in global markets by promoting exports.” In other words, after nationalizing GM, Obama’s mob are now looking to screw up all the other parts of America’s manufacturing base. A quick joke . . .
As GM headed for oblivion, the executives shielded themselves from responsibility by blaming everyone else. The contention that the American automaker was on the cusp of recovery (again, still)—only to be waylaid by the entirely-out-of-its-control global economic meltdown—was only the final excuse for their epic mismanagement. Before that, GM had an entire litany of alibis for their slide into Chapter 11. Number one on the “it wazzunt me” hit list: Washington.
The counter to the “Uncle Sam killed the creative cluster” contention: if the feds hadn’t stepped in, automobiles would still be gas-guzzling, toxin-belching, rickety baby killers. The government HAD to sort out the chaos of competition for the public good.
Whether you’re talking about making things or providing health care, President Obama’s “public private partnership” is not new, nor will it do anything.negative effects of excessive government control of/interference with the private sector. In this I refer you to Jonas Goldberg’s rambling rant, Liberal Fascism. And point my finger at GM.
It’s been a while since I’ve written a General Motors Zombie Watch. Time keeps on slipping, slipping . . . into the future. Only when you’re dead, there is no future. You’re dead. Oh, I know: New GM’s got new plans for new cars with new advertising that will win new (old?) customers.  But they haven’t, as their farrago of product plans and the botched launch of the new Buick LaCrosse prove. In fact, the current crop of GM suits will be fired. And?hat GM will burn through ALL of its taxpayer loot within two years. Or less.
Nothing much. While GM has shed a mountain of debt, restructured its labor contracts, dumped dealers, paid lip service to cultural change, and found another sucker to foot the bills (thank you, America!), it’s still taking in less money than it spends. And we all know how that picture ends.
When the IPO time rolls around, real investors (as opposed to taxpayers dragooned into paying for GM’s nationalization) will not want to own GM stock. Why would they? So the government will have to subsidize THAT boondoggle as well. In other words, papers will be shuffled once again, the taxpayer will still be on the hook, and GM will continue wandering through the wilderness.


I fell into engineering completely by chance. I have science based A-levels, including maths, and I’d graduated with a degree in geography. I found a graduate role with a consultancy firm that happened to offer me a role in transport planning, and the rest is history!
I’ve also done things like acting as a public inquiry witness, where the numbers really, really do matter as other people are scrutinising them as you’re trying to put your case across, and there are big decisions made about whether your projects can or can’t go forward. An awful lot of that boils down to numbers, in some way, shape or form. Again, it’s about common sense – what sort of number am I expecting here?Does it make sense?If not, what’s wrong?
As time has gone on, I’ve had a lot more involvement in budgeting and the more commercial side of things in terms of actually doing business and bidding for work. At this stage, it’s about how to put together a cost proposal to ensure you meet the clients’ needs but also make a fair return, which is clearly important in a consultancy business!
There’s a wealth of material out there from a perspective of STEM careers, and from an engineering point of view there’s potentially an advantage that everything you see all around you has been shaped by civil engineers in some way. But somehow, we don’t seem to have made the link back to the people with relevant skillsets beyond pure engineering, in terms of saying: “You’re exactly the sort of person who could do well in the industry.”
We know what doctors and dentists do because we visit them from a very early age, so we understand the context in which we might need one, but I’m not sure that many of us have had many times in our lives where we’ve had to say: “Wow, I really need a civil engineer!”
There’s no lack of material out there, and if only we could get better at curating it we could do a lot better for people who are trying to make more informed choices about careers. I suspect that there is too much, in fact, possibly to the point that it’s overwhelming for those who try to find out more. How on earth do you know when you’ve found the good stuff?
“With the help of my family and many years of R&D…over three additional years, we had a product that worked.”
After searching, I couldn’t find anything close to it on the market!
Fast forward five years and I’m running on the treadmill – this is my daily workout. Don’t we all hate doing that?I know I do, but it’s not the treadmill that’s the annoying part. It’s the headphones that kept coming out of my ears while I ran. The worst (and embarrassing part) was getting them caught on the handlebars and almost falling off the treadmill. It was a constant pain in my…
Then it hit me and I went straight to my office, and started looking through my notebook again. Determined to make it happen this time around, I looked at it as – “Okay, so I know how I want the overall design to be, and I know what the functions should be. All I need is to surround myself with the right people.”
One of my team members emailed me a project that was on a site called Kickstarter – “The Elevation Dock”. I’m sure everyone is familiar with it, but at the time I remember Michael saying “Nance, your project would do great on this site!
Although I agreed with him, I had my reservations about Kickstarter for my project as I had my patents pending. But I was curious and started exploring project after project…
Two days later, we got a generic email back from Kickstarter stating, “….Please note that our Guidelines for Design projects require information on how and where you will make your project…”I responded yes, I can supply you with all the necessary info needed. I asked how they would like the info, was it needed in the body of the project page, or was it something additional I needed to submit to them?
Kickstarter was changing everything!Restrictions on quantities (which they had already done once, the limit was ten per pledge when I submitted). Now it came down to one per pledge!Their headline read: Kickstarter is not a store. Can you imagine Pebble being restricted, or OUYA not being allowed to use renderings?Which if you look at it the majority of their page was renderings. How would that affect the total overall funds raised?
When I received the email (the day after my birthday), I was nervous and excited. I couldn’t even read the email so I had my sister-in-law read it back to me. I saw the look on her face and when she said, “They denied you?”I thought she was just playing around. Then I knew it was real when she didn’t laugh and just handed me my phone back. I read the email, “….We review projects to ensure they meet our Project Guidelines (guideline link was inserted which was the same when I submitted), which define how Kickstarter can be used. They express our commitment for being a platform for projects in the creative arts….”
We didn’t get a reason why we were denied for our Kickstarter campaign. Was it our pledge levels, was it our project info?Who knows?
After the Kickstarter campaign ordeal, what was I suppose to do?
Having a positive impact on millions of people’s daily lives has been my mission with every company I’ve started…
If I can give any piece of advice that I’ve gained from my journey to fellow entrepreneurs who are starting projects, in the middle of funding, or just had a dream, I would say, believe in yourself first. Once that foundation is set, you can achieve anything you have a passion for!
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I remember vividly the day that I walked away from my safe, comfortable 9-5 paycheck. And the immediate question from my friends and family of “What happened?”?Do you have creative, innovative ideas you want to pursue?


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By virtue of its positioning Okpella has been strategic in more ways than one. It does not only serve as frontline town between Edo and a sister state, Kogi but a vital border on the Southern axis of Northern and Southern Nigeria and has hence helped safeguard these territories despite ceaseless attempts at encroachment. The third largest kingdom in Edo State, Okpella, with a population of over half a million (500,000), is a vibrant participant in democratic dispensation and boasts a respectably 40% literate middle-class with the rest famously known for their contribution in agricultural and related ventures. Beside this geo-political pertinence, Okpella is perhaps better known as hub of cement production for the better part of the past six decades or thereabouts. Consequent upon discovery of limestone in Okpella, the defunct Mid-Western region began mining and subsequently commenced cement production on industrial scale in 1964. This effort has been sustained except for a couple of years when the state government suffered lapses in the company’s management and had to shut down. But the company has since bounced back with its acquisition by the BUA Group in 2011 and as it stands the BUA Cement Plant at Obu is estimated to be the largest non-oil and gas related investment in Nigeria’s South-South geo-political zone.
Though the BUA Cement currently operates two production lines, work has recently commenced on a proposed third line. The cumulative economic effect of this robust industrial expansion is that with the exception of Benin City that teems with service industries Edo state generate more of its revenue from Okpella than any other constituency in the state. In fact a rival and bigger cement producer, Dangote Cement Company, still in Okpella, has since completed the test-run of its plant and on the verge of kick-starting cement production. The hosting of the two biggest cement magnates in West Africa sub-region is a mouth-watering prospect for Okpella in particular and Edo State in general.
A little research Sir and the following were our findings: From the general assessment of aviation experts, airports are capital intensive both in construction and maintenance and except when they are under the tutelage of private investors most end up being unsustainable white elephants. Hence, an Edo-North bound airport/aerodrome can only be sustained now and in the future if taken on by big time investor/investors that have committed hefty investments in the region and thus consider an airport a spill-over of their overall investments. In these circumstances the investors that readily come to mind are the BUA and Dangote Cement in Okpella. Logically then, the provision of resources for the proposed airport/aerodrome shall likely fall squarely on any or both of these investors whose mining activities have not only subjected a chunk of Okpella land into all manner of defacement but renders it permanently uninhabitable and inhospitable for cultivation. Expectedly though out of naivety, there are some out there with the erroneous misconception that Okpella must be awash with compensatory money for giving up their land for mining purposes. But if they’ve ever known that the soon-to-be-exhausted monetary compensation, no matter how handsome, is non-commensurate with the irreversible impact on Okpella’s environment then perhaps they’ll begin to appreciate the invaluable price and sacrifice Okpella is making for economic buoyancy of Edo state. Your Excellency will agree with me that not even the glitz and glamour of an international airport will do justice to the environmental degradation Okpella has had to put up with for the past decades and decades more to come. So, an aerodrome would not even serve as a drink but a sip for the thirst of Okpella——a soothing balm for a broken bone, if you like. Unfortunately, our neighbors are benighted of this reality and hence accord our plight a cold indifference. Little wonder then that like a baby-hungry- spinster who has never conceived and hence ignorant of labor pains the Uzairues/Auchi merely await the arrival of the baby so as to wrest it away from its mother. How grotesque! Their contest for the airport/aerodrome can still further be likened to that of a raider who has set out to displace the farmer and then reap what he sowed not—–it’s insensitive, inhuman and ungodly.
In spite of the above Sir, we are not unaware of the nasty aspects to politics where, except for men of conscience, truth can be subjugated to play subservience to falsehood. So, while the Uzairues/Auchi have got a formidable representation in the person of the Deputy Governor, Hon. Philip Shaibu, Okpella, on the other hand, is non-represented in Edo State’s corridor of power and hence voiceless. It’s therefore without doubt that the Deputy Governor must, in this regard, be creating mountains and filling up valleys on behalf of his kinsmen. But Okpella counts itself on no one else but Your Excellency as the final arbiter on issues of this relevance and we’re aware that irrespective of human aesthetics Your Excellency’s famed impartiality does come to bear on matters of moral dispensation. Yes, the proposed airport/aerodrome in contention has become nothing short of a gamut of morality and so, Sir, as we attempt to appeal to your sense of justice our plea is that Your Excellency take a critical gander at this saga and as usual be guided by your moral fiber in arriving at your final choice of site.
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Leasing a phone may seem like the cheaper way to get hold of the latest smartphone, but it is not necessarily the smartest thing to do.
My Smartphone Lease Cost Me Big Time
There it was: the sleek, shiny new iPhone 6 on display at the Sprint store. I had picked out the color and model well ahead of time, and its smooth, metallic surface felt right in the palm of my hands.
The memory on my old phone was at capacity, and I had grown tired of deleting photos and music off my phone like it was 2012. And last spring, after waiting a good half a year or so – after the iPhone 6 was first released – I was ready to make my move.
I didn’t know if I wanted an older (and definitely cheaper) model of the iPhone, or the latest brand, which I had fondled briefly, and which cost roughly $800. I could even jump off the Apple wagon and opt for an Android, instead. But I really, really wanted the new iPhone.
Then I discovered what a reasonable compromise seemed at the time: my brother had an unfortunate accident with his phone, and after failed attempts at resuscitating it, opted to lease an iPhone 6. He told me the lease was a mere $25 a month.
So I could either pony up the 800 clams for a brand-new smartphone, or opt into a lease. It would cost $20 a month for two years. At the end of two-year lease term, I had the choice of either getting a phone upgrade or paying the difference on the phone, which would have amounted to roughly $200.
I knew it was Sprint’s version of a contract, and I knew I’d be better off not leasing, but I really wanted a new iPhone 6.
And paying $800 out of pocket seemed quite steep. So I was sold on leasing. I had a nagging feeling that it was something I would later regret, and I was right.
Fast-forward to one year later, and I am itching to jump ship and try out a shinier, more exciting smartphone plan: the Google’s Project Fi. With Project Fi, you only pay a $20 flat fee, plus $10 per gig of data. The awesome part is that Google will refund you the difference on any data that goes unused at the end of each billing cycle.
The one major caveat was that only certain models of the Google Nexus phone were available with the plan.  But after hearing my gadget geek friends raving about Project Fi and hearing that Google was offering a generous rebate on one of their older models, I wanted out from Sprint. Unfortunately, in order to leave my plan, I would have to pay a painful $200 early termination fee. Ouch.
I know that paying for the new phone, an insurance plan, and the hefty termination fee would put a dent in my pocketbook.
But if I get out, I will have many more options. So at the moment, I’m currently in limbo. There’s a good chance I’ll stick to my current smartphone plan, but not without a bit of remorse for having leased.
For me personally, one thing is for sure: next time, I'll be ponying up the full cost of the phone up front.Click To Tweet
If you’re considering leasing, here are some pointers to make the best choice for you:
You aren’t just limited to just two or three choices. You can check out online marketplaces such as Swappa or Glyde to shop for used cell phone. You’ll also need to look at all the costs involved, such as insurance. On my phone, I purchased a two-year warranty for $80 through SquareTrade . Thankfully, I have yet to use it (knock on wood).
I think my unwillingness to go for something other than the latest model was to my detriment.Click To Tweet
I also refused to opt into a two-year contract at the time, in which the carrier would provide a subsidy so you can get a free phone or a significant discount. And while it turns out that quite a few smartphone owners lease their phones, jumping on the bandwagon has its consequences. Of course, it’s a matter of priorities and preference, but take the time to see what’s out there. If you can get it for a lower cost without any strings attached, those are big bonus points.
Plan For the Year Ahead.
Are there any other big-ticket items you’d rather spend your money on? Can you wait a little longer before getting a new phone? Or try to find a less-expensive cell phone plan? Think about where your purchase plays into your goals for the near future.
While it doesn’t make for the most exhilarating read, it’s best to know what’s in there. While I did know the general terms of my lease, I didn’t bother to check what the penalties were if I ended my term early. I know, shame on me. Ask as many questions as you need to when talking to a sales rep so you don’t put yourself in a bind.
Consider buying an older phone from eBay , Swappa or Glyde.
Instead of committing to a contract, consider a pay as you go plan. Ting Wireless offers a great deal for people who want to use Apple Products, but don’t want termination fees.


Background/Objective: Hepatitis B is a public health problem and is the commonest aetiology for chronic liver disease in Nigeria. Many published works allude to the fact that hospital workers constitute a “special group at risk” owing to occupational exposure to HBV among other infective of hepatitis B virus, its routes of transmission and vaccination uptake among hospital workers in south west Nigerdifferent cadres of hospital workers across different occupational cadres of health care facilities. Knowledge score was calculated for each respondent. Associations between variables were tested for using Student’s t test and ANOVA.
Results: A total of 1,018 health workers comprising 383 (37.6%) Nurses, 220 (21.6%) hospital Maids, 90 (8.8%) Pharmacists, 80 (7.9%) Laboratory Scientists, 63 (6.2%) Health information Officers, 56 (5.5%) Laboratory Technologists, 46 (4.5%) medical officers, 39 (3.8%) Pharmacist Technicians, and 41(4%) other hospital staff participated in the study. Almost all the respondents,998 (97%) knew about hepatitis B, only 557 (60%) and 449 (44%) knew hepatitis B could be transmitted through needle prick and from mother to child respectively. Mean knowledge score was 12.53 ± 3.83 and was significantly related to cadre of the health workers (p=0.00) and the level of the hospital where they work (p=0.01). Eight Hundred and forty-one respondents (82.6%) knew their HBV status while, only 688 (66.8%) respondents reported having been vaccinated.
Conclusion: While a majority of the hospital workers in south west Nigeria seem to be aware of the hepatitis B infection, many are still either not aware of some important routes of transmission and many are yet to be vaccinated against the virus.


Since 2003, SunLED has focused on manufacturing of Grow-lighting, from house garden Little fields to plantation around the globe.
A) We can adjust the color spectrum in order to exactly match the requirements your plants need
B) UV and IR are available to be added
C) Our light intensity is 3-4 times stronger than 90% of other LEDs in the market (high lumen output rates). For example: Our 300 watt LED grow light can produce the same effect of a 1000 watt from most other companies
D) Our lights are dimmable, so that you can adjust the luminous intensity
E) Our lights have a timing system, in order for users to program automatic on and off, simulating real outdoor environment
Usually LEDs are less intense but because SunLED has good experience with high power lights, we are able to produce high power grow lights to ensure plants have denser buds.
Not all LED lights are good for plant growth. So, you should chose your supplier carefully. We can blend the right color-spectrum with the accurate LED light intensity, which will help the plants invigorate and fully develop


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Anatoly “Sladkiy” Malykhin will fight Championship at ONE: BAD BLOOD, but he sees nothing temporary about the title.
Instead, the Russian star believes the winner of this mixed martial arts clash on Friday, 11 February, will become the undisputed king of the division.
“I don’t consider this belt interim. I will be the real champion,” Malykhin says ahead of this co-main event matchup at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
The 34-year-old is referring to, who could not agree on a contract to defend his crown.
For months, “Sladkiy” had been training to challenge the Canadian-Indian titleholder, and he believes Bhullar is running scared.
“I was already at my peak. I was ready to destroy him for the ONE Championship belt,” Malykhin says.
And while he has no animosity toward his new opponent, the Golden Team representative does not expect to be seriously threatened inside the Circle.
“I see that Kirill is a good guy, a good fighter, but I’m at an absolutely different level in terms of skills and attitude,” he says.
Despite his confidence, “Sladkiy” has spent time preparing for the Belarusian’s skill set.
And while he sees some interesting qualities in the 30-year-old, he does not believe Grishenko owns the firepower to earn the gold.
“As a fighter, he is non-standard with unusual strikes – backfist, spinning elbow. He has a good physique since he is a classic wrestler. But I don’t see anything special he could stop me with,” Malykhin says.
Though both men come from wrestling backgrounds, they have shown powerful striking in their time on the global stage, and Grishenko has stated his desire to finish Malykhin on the feet.
“Sladkiy” also envisions a highlight-reel KO, but he has no doubt that it will come from his own side of the Circle.
“He has no knockouts and his strikes are weak. He lacks speed and timing in his striking,” he says of Grishenko.
After so much uncertainly leading up to this return, “Sladkiy” is ready to impress with the biggest prize of his career at stake.
He’s become a dangerous knockout artist – including his most recent finish of Amir Aliakbari – and that’s how he intends to prove that he is ONE’s greatest heavyweight – whether Bhullar returns or not.
“Kirill will be knocked out. That’s it. First or second round at the most,” Malykhin adds.
“When I’m in the Circle, I will show what I’m capable of. I will stage an eye-catching fight, I’m sure of that. Many will enjoy it. In the end, I will become a champion and rule the division for a long, long time.


It is with great sorrow that we announce the untimely demise of Mrs. Arvinder Kaur Arora, on May 29th 2022, at the age of 59.
She will be forever loved and remembered by all who knew her as a courageous, vibrant and caring person, who was full of life and a contagious smile.
She was born to Balvinder Kaur and Rajinder Singh Bawa in Amritsar, Punjab, India on August 18th 1962. She was the eldest of 4 siblings (Bobby, Robby and Manu), whom she helped raise like her own children. She completed her Bachelors’ in India.
She met and married Amarjit Singh at the age of 22. She was blessed with 2 children, Hardiljot and Simranjot whom she proudly raised.
She emigrated to Canada in 2009 and went through all the usual hardships of a new immigrant. She learnt to drive at the age of 51 and was proudly working at Walmart.
She loved mountains, going out for drives (long or short), cooking amazing meals for her family, abreast of latest fashion & technology, and above all, she made sure everyone who met her left with a big smile on their face.
She’s survived by her husband, her sons and their wives Neetu and Harsimran. We would like to express our family’s deepest gratitude to the doctors, nurses, staff and all the team members at FootHills Hospital.
In lieu of flowers, we ask you to consider making a donation to the Canadian Cancer Research society for preventing future untimely loss of life and suffering.
Funeral Ceremonies will be held at COUNTRY HILLS CREMATORIUM & FUNERAL SERVICES, 11995 16 Street NE on Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 1:00 pm.


On Launchpad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in florida this week, engineers and technicians were at work on the space shuttle Challenger, preparing for its planned April 29 launching of the Spacelab 3 research module. This will place the event only 17 days after the liftoff, from the same pad, of the shuttlecraft Discovery (and only 10 days after Discovery's landing), making it the shortest time between launchings in the shuttle program's history.
No spacewalks had been scheduled for the mission, and shuttle officials were reluctant anyway to send an astronaut across to hand-flip a lever that would ignite a rocket motor, particularly if the presumably faulty timer might set it off with no 45-minute getaway time. Instead, planners at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston (the mission's ground-control center) proposed using the shuttle's remote-control arm to reach out and flip the switch, even though neither the arm nor the switch had been designed with such a task in mind.
NASA sets shuttle launch date, schedule.
Back to the Max: the salvation option.
First Soviet shuttle flight.
Rejuvenating observatory: green light given for space telescope repairs.


There are numerous categories for people who are visiting the U.S. or seeking permanent resident status who wish to work here. If you have your Green Card, you are automatically qualified to work here. Tourists are not eligible to work but some undocumented aliens may apply under special government programs.
A work permit, or Employment Authorization Document (EAD), is a photo ID card issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency to those immigrants who qualify and have obtained work-based visas. These include individuals who are being sponsored by U.S. companies or who are employees of a registered treaty trader or investor.
There are many different types of work visas depending on your skill and purpose for working in the U.S. Here are a few of these visa classifications:
H-1B: Specialty occupation, need equivalent of US college degree in relevant subject
H-2B: Temporary non-agricultural worker
H-3: Trainee or special education visitor
O: People with extraordinary ability or achievement
P-1: Team athlete, individual athlete, member of entertainment group
Q-1: Participant in international cultural exchange program
E Treaty trader or investor: If company is registered as such; may be renewed indefinitely
E-3: For Australian nationals and their families
J: Brings exchange students to acquire skills; for 18-months with 2-year home residency requirement that may be waived
Your potential employer may have to obtain approval from the Department of Labor before you file a Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker, Form I-129.
For many of these visas, you may have to wait from 6 to 9 months to obtain your visa, but it does depend on your country of origin. In some cases, if you pay a fee of $1,000, you may be able to get it within 15 days through INS Premium Processing.


Concerning the inexorable tendency of modern architecture to be boring
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So, when you build a big new building in a city, the one thing you really do not need is a world that one day decides that you or whoever you sell it to must, from now on, become the curator of this building, a building which neither you nor anybody who ever owns it may at any time in the future destroy, and replace with something bigger and more profitable.
There is, in short, an inexorable tendency for “modern” architecture (by which I simply mean all architecture since The Kink in that graph) to be ugly, by which I simply mean what is widely considered to be ugly.
There are lots of other reasons, aside from the above reason, why “progress”, “modernity”, and so on, are often so disagreeable to contemplate. And I still think that The Kink was and is a wonderful thing, from which much beauty of other sorts has resulted. But progress and modernity are not as pretty to look at as many of us might like, and I think that what I’ve said in this posting goes some way to explaining why.
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Monday 17 August 2020 at 9:47 pm
Monday 17 August 2020 at 11:39 pm
I think my first “LATER” is part of the answer. “Ugly” is the wrong word. Which is why I changed ugly to boring in the title. Sorry for the muddle.
Tuesday 18 August 2020 at 7:59 am
Tuesday 18 August 2020 at 10:54 am
I think my instant change of tune, in my first “LATER” is important. What counts is strength of feeling. People feeling strongly means that some will feel strong that it shouldn’t ever be knocked down and replaced.
Consider Brutalism. Lots still consider this a totally ugly style. But a significant and vocal minority now thinks some Brutalist buildings ought to be preserved. (I agree, but that’s a personal opinion of mine, and personal opinions only count in this argument if they are more widely shared.)
The biggest problem with my theory is the sheer unpredictability of public taste. Who can guess which buildings will, as and when the time comes, arouse a preservationist frenzy, and which can be destroyed with no fuss or delay?
However, when it comes to less big buildings, like urban housing or medium sized office blocks not in the high cost centre of big cities, more in the inner suburbs, I suspect my theory does make quite a bit of sense. The last thing you want there is a smallish, yet “iconic” building, standing slap bang in the way of a much bigger building, in what is then the expanding city centre. And that sort of thing could happen quite soon.
It is noticeable how many big and boring blocks have been demolished in the ever-expanding edge of the City Cluster, to make way for the current wave of really Big Things. You forget their names, in the nature of things, because when they were demolished nobody cared. And I’m thinking also of things like the biggish and rather dreary blocks that got removed to make way for the Shard.
Blah blah. Enough. I await the comments of others with interest, but will confine myself to thinking more on this.
Which of these clusters is going to be considered more distinguished by critics of the future? I have no idea.
think that one consequence of the events of 2020 is that the need for posh city centre (or thereabouts) office space is probably about 50% of what it was a year ago, so I am not sure what these buildings are going to be good for going forwards. I guess we will find out.
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What are my chances in D.C. or wherever?
I am recently Java certified (with the help of this site!) and will be looking for work as a Java programmer in the Washington D.C. area. I've worked with Oracle (some dba, lots of pl/sql and sql, some Perl) for a small college over the past year and a half. My past background is academic in the humanities (Ph.D., ancient Greek and Roman literature).
In the last couple of months I've written several JDBC applications interfacing with Sybase, Oracle, and MSSQl server systems, including a Gui application that can also be loaded as an applet. I'll soon complete a Jsp/JavaBean combo to enable student address updates, and I hope soon to finish some of those Sun tutorials in EJB and corba, with perhaps another little EJB/Jdbc project to show for it. I've also read a little book about UML. I have, however, no other programming experience, and have taken no Java courses, seminars, etc.
What are my chances of getting a job as a junior member of an OO team using jsp, servlets, or ejb in the D.C. (or any other) area? Should I hold out for the better job, or should I jump at the nearest opportunity?
And what, in these last hurried couple of months, might I profit best from learning? The basics of XML? More HTML than I currently know (a personal webpage written on Notepad)? UML by means of TogetherJ or Rational? Or more Java?
Java Blend: More information, please.


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Lela Alice Zawadzki & Dan Whieldon
1Black Nile04:01
2Naima04:53
3Tenderly05:33
4Lela05:58
5Coralie04:35
6There at the Turnpike05:16
7Basin Street Blues03:19
8Para Ti04:37
9I'm Gonna Leave You03:55
10Lascia Ch'io Pianga04:46
Info for Lela
Celebrated jazz singer Alice Zawadzki and pianist Dan Whieldon have a powerful musical affinity which is palpable throughout this album. Alice describes their connection as “some kind of telepathy”, a synchronicity which brings stunning musical results.
This collection of songs pay tribute to the styles which have influenced these outstanding musicians. Jazz is at the heart of the disc, but there are nods to classical and continental folk styles as well. The prevailing mood is one of serenity or, in Alice’s words, “heartfelt simplicity”, accentuated by the creation of a spacious sonority combined with the luminosity of Dan Whieldon’s piano playing. Alice has said that she wishes “that anyone listening to our music will be able to take a moment out of their busy life to breathe, and to ebb and flow with us.”
This album invites listeners to share the musical intimacy of this exceptional creative partnership. As Alice says: “Some of the first songs I ever learned are on here, and it feels like going home.”
“Whieldon is particularly imaginative… a dazzling contribution” (Jazz UK)
Recorded in March 2013 Mixed and mastered by Thomas Vingtrinier at Sequenza studio, Paris
Alice Zawadzki & Dan Whieldon
, and to support inclusive community-wide music making.
As an in-demand interpreter of new and unusual works, Alice has had the privilege to premiere several new large-scale pieces, including Daniel Cohens Reciprocity at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, as well as performing exciting virtuosic works for the voice including.

Whilst there, he discovered Jazz and got more and more into that (and maybe spent less time on his Rachmaninov preludes than he should have…)uisy.
Some of Dan’He still loves chords.


Needed carpet for bedroom, about 18 months ago, so went to carpetrite. Browsed in the store for a few minutes while "assistant" gossiped with her friends. Asked for help and she said to them "its just a time waster, wont be a minute". She then advised me to come back in a few days in the sales. I did this as the interest free credit was tempting but did not notice a sale. We purchased a bedroom carpet at the cost of £1800.00 and agreed to pay the fitter cash. He duly arrived and grumbled all the time that he hated fitting carpets in Glossop; go figure?
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Thor Halvorssen	Thor Halvorssen is Quickly Becoming the Face of Human Rights Activism
Posted on May 27, 2017May 29, 2017 by JackSmith	If your said the name Thor Halvorssen a few years ago, not many people would have known who you were talking about 39 year old Pr has made some waves lately. This Venezulan born half Swiss activist has been profiled in Buzzfeed and has appeared on such varying programs as Fox News and in Forbes and the Huffington Post .
Thor Halvorssen: Tireless Advocate of Human Rights
Posted on April 14, 2017April 15, 2017 by JackSmith	Human rights activist and film producer Thor is no stranger to controversy. Although pigeonholed by many for his willingness to expose cruelty on the part of leftist regimes, Halvorssen actually began his career as an organizer against apartheid in South Africa. The Venezuelan activist of Norwegian ancestry is the President of the Human Rights Foundation. Halvorssequickly became known for inquisitive nature and perspicacity.


Really awesome!I am envious. London!My dream!
Defending too needs a slight beef up. With Gallas on his way, and Sol too maybe…Koscielny is a good signing…
And what do you mean?Do you honestly think Arsenal would not be able to attract/acquire Vincent Enyeama?Actually, Wenger had made a bid for him two years ago for like 1 or 2 million and then decided not to buy him. And fair enough, he was brilliant in the first two games but made a blunder in the third, when Nigeria could've gone through. So that's 1 in 3, much lower than almunia wouldn't you say?
Sorry, meant "much higher rate than Almunia"!
Why employ young goalkeepers at all. The third choice goalkeeper could be young. Why the first and second?


with you to Antarctica or you're not getting the magnum, which makes the final boss much easier to handle.]]
* GunFu: Claire and Steve went to Creator/JohnWoo's school at one point.
* HijackedByGanon: Wesker, having returned from his death in the original game. True to his word, he's looking to steal Umbrella's best-kept secrets and enrich himself.
* KarmaHoudini: Suffice to say, Wesker went on to star in more ''Resident Evil'' games.
* LateToTheTragedy: Chris only makes it to Rockfort Island ''after'' Claire and Steve have already left and the self-destruct has already occurred.
** You know that extinguisher you used early in the game, and then might have left in the security box? Well you better go get it before the island's self destruct sequence starts, otherwise, you're not going to get the magnum.
** If you don't give Rodrigo the hemostat, then trade your lighter for a lockpick, and finally have Chris fight the SkippableBoss Gulp Worm, you won't get the lighter back. It's needed to unlock the submachine guns.
* {{Minigame}}: The Battle Game available upon completing the main story mode.
* NakedOnArrival: Alexia, upon awakening as an adult from her cryogenic tube.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Steve's haircut in ''Code: Veronica X'' was altered to lessen his likeness to Leonardo [=DiCaprio=]. Ironically, Steve's hair was likened to Leon S. Kennedy's, to the point that some fans initially thought that Steve was Leon.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Wesker brutally manhandles Claire in their first encounter. He later gives Chris an impressive beating [[spoiler: in the ending of ''Code: Veronica X''.]] Both times, he's interrupted before he can finish them off.
* NostalgiaLevel: Fittingly, Chris and Claire finally reunite in a facsimile of ''[=RE1=]''[='=]s great hall. This is also where Wesker does battle with Alexia.
* OneWomanWail: Heard during Alexia's boss themes, and during Alfred's death.
** Wesker's battle against Alexia. While ''wall running'', no less. Only in ''Code: Veronica X'' though.
** Chris's escape in both versions.
* SkippableBoss: With the exception of the first Tyrant fight, [[HopelessBossFight Hopeless Boss]] [[spoiler:Steve]] and FinalBoss [[spoiler:Alexia]], every other BossBattle is skippable to some degree:
** The Gulp Worm can be skipped not once but twice; the first time by Claire, the second time by Chris. However, doing so the second time results in a couple of items being lost forever (assuming [[spoiler:Claire gave Rodrigo the hemostat earlier]]; otherwise there's no point in fighting it).
** Chris can fight the adult Albinoid from a safe distance and afterwards fetch the Eagle Plate unharmed. Or he can just jump in, absorb some damage from the electrified pool and leave with the Plate without even firing a shot.
* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: Don't take any big guns when you switch back to Claire, or you won't be able to get them back as Chris.
* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:Steve is forced to kill his father after the latter becomes a zombie.]]
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Chris is in a S.T.A.R.S. uniform, despite them being disbanded for months.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Steve, wannabe Lothario with connections to Umbrella, shares a few characteristics with ''Resident Evil 3''[='=]s Carlos. He's even wearing fatigues. His haircut in ''Code: Veronica X'' makes him look similar to Leon.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: In the original version, Chris kills Alexia, triggering the self-destruct which he barely escapes. ''X'' includes


"Many developers need standard of-the shelf modular products to be able to focus on their core activities: creating algorithms and applications. Nallatechombine modular reconfigurable hardware for different platforms with standard available I/O" says Frank de Bont, Manager of the Arcobel Design Centre and responsible for support of the Nallatech products. "Our own experience with reconfigurable systems and the availability of advanced tools with the Arcobel Design Centre enable optimum support for customers, especially when outsourcing development and education."


I am an integratively trained counsellor which, to the layperson, simply means I can work with a  This flexibility allows me to select the approach most suited to each clientÕs needs.We all have our own individual style of communicating, listening and conveying how we feel and what we are thinking. Understanding the personal life-view and values of each client is what makes for a powerful experience in the counselling relationship and allows real shift and freedom to take place through the work.Decades of working in industry, training, support and counselling have taught me to value every single person I encounter as a unique individual.At nÕf ÔstucknessÕÐ with non-judgemental guidance Ð u back.


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Print the coupon for the $99 special.
The floor plan looks very nice, but I did not see a picture of the laundry room. Will it accomodate a high efficiency washer/dryer, or only traditional styles?
It will accommodate side by side. There is plenty of room for the larger units, but that would be a great question for Amber. Call her at (903) 569-1300.