Ash Barty has spoken in a press conference where she held back “no secrets” following her shock retirement announcement on Wednesday, March 23.
The tennis star announced her retirement on social media ajust two months after winning the World no.1 title.
Speaking at her press conference on Thursday, March 24, the 25-year-old said she had “no regrets” about her retirement.
Barty said she had reached her limit in the tennis worldfor them,” she said.
Barty denied her decision was a cover-up for an injury that saw her pull out of major US tournaments.
“No, that was an old injury that we repeatedly over my career had to manage, and that was the truth,” Barty said.
“After the Australian Open, it just didn’t heal quite as well as I would have liked and I didn’t get to get back on court until a few weeks ago.
“That’s what I mean – we were never hiding anything.
“I’m absolutely spent and had nothing more to give.
Speaking with The Today Show, tennis great Pat Rafter commended Barty for “going out on her own terms”.
“She’ll be sorely missed,” Rafter said.
“I just loved watching her play, to me it’s like watching your favourite rock band finish – you’ll never get to see them again.
“Her finesse and the way she played was rather unique and the girls didn’t know how to play against her.
Rafter said Barty would ease into her retirement compared to stars who are forced into it from things like injuries.
“They struggle with that transition. Ash won’t. She’s gone out and knows what was she wants,” he said.
Many high-profile figures took to Twitter to farewell the tennis star.
Barty is currently the 14th highest-earning female tennis player, earning a whopping total of $31,920,112 throughout her career.


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Last fall, when our daughter, Valerie, went away to college in Southern California, she decided not to take her car with her. She said she didn't want the responsibility that went along with having a car at the same time she was getting adjusted to living away from home.
But when it came to my own daughter, the thought of her having a car in LA scared me. In the year and a half since she had gotten her license, her driving experience was pretty much limited to a five mile radius in Petaluma between home, work and school. I imagined her trying to navigate her way among a sea of cars on the Golden State freeway where no one goes below 75 mph or it's totally congested stop-and-go traffic and any driver who is the least bit indecisive gets a raised middle finger. In short, I was sure she would get eaten alive on the LA freeways.
But those were my thoughts, not hers. Because when it came time to discuss how she was getting back to school in Orange County after Christmas break, she said that she had been thinking about it, and she wanted to have a car for the rest of the school year.
For the first semester, she had done her best to get around on public transportation or to hitch a ride with friends. I was very proud that she gone to Target on the bus a couple of times and she had even made a four-hour trip on trains and buses to UCLA to visit her friend. But she said it took forever to get anywhere on the bus and she really wants to get a part-time job off campus which will be nearly impossible to do if she doesn't have a car.
It's times like this that I am especially grateful that I am not raising my children alone; if it were solely up to me, I would have let my fears and overprotective nature undermine Valerie's desire to take another step of independence.
So the plan was made that she would make the seven hour drive to Chapman in Orange County early on New Years Day "" hopefully traffic would be fairly light at least for the beginning of the drive "" and Steve would ride shotgun to navigate. And once they got to Orange County, Valerie would drop Steve off at John Wayne Airport so he could fly back the same day. Of course, she would have detailed directions about how to get from the airport back to campus.
Steve and Valerie made the trip safely with Valerie doing almost all of the driving. When we talked with her on Skype after I picked Steve up from the airport, she looked totally exhausted from the drive "" and we were all a little teary over saying goodbye to her after a really nice Christmas break "" but the important part was that she had made the drive and now had her car with her so she can start the semester with a new sense of freedom.
This Christmas I really enjoyed seeing what our children bought for their siblings and Steve and me now that they can do their own shopping. Each gift showed that they thought about what the person likes and then combined it with their own interests.
So'don't take it personally that he chose "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," after all, it's's a book of lists such as "7" and "15 really good bands with really bad names." He'.
Valerie, 17, avoids malls (unless it's the gleaming, upscale San Francisco Centre) but loves antique stores. Fortunately, Petaluma has plenty of them so that's where she headed for her Christmas shopping. She bought Steve a 1950's 35 mm Argus range-finder camera. Although still functional, she brought it because she knows it would make her dad happy to look up from his computer and see this well-crafted old piece of technology.
Jennifer is the only one of the three who isn't "" a brand of bake-able clay.k"¦One reason I struggle with the Christmas letter is because I want to represent the year with the right tone. I want to balance the reality of what we have struggled with in business this year"¦"it sucked""¦with the greater truth that we are still very blessed to be in excellent health, have great kids who are growing into vibrant adults, and the hope that each day holds something wonderful. After all, that's why we celebrate Christmas.
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On Saturday, we made a post-Christmas outing to San Francisco Centre. I think this trip into the City may become as much of a holiday tradition for our family as making cookies, decorating our Costco gingerbread-kit house, and PhotoShopping my wrinkles out of the family photo.
In case you're not familiar with it, San Francisco Centre on Market Street is anchored by Bloomingdale's and Norde's' sh's fun to shop for but that won't wour first trip to San Francisco Centre a couple of years ago, it was difficult to focus anything besides the opulence of the mall itself. Between the curved escalators in Nordstrom's, the glare from the highly polished black-and-white floors in Bloomingdales, and the huge glass and steel dome overhead, I found myself blinking like a camera flash had just gone off in front of my eyes. But I wasn't too blinded by the light to see that the people shopping there were much better dressed than the mall crowd I'm used to rubbing shoulders with While t"What Not To Wear" on TLC, you'lt "I'm" wasn'.
And by far, the biggest style cue that we saw were scarves"¦casually yet fashionably twisted, draped or looped on both men and women. Although we had "dressed up" in our least faded jeans and best jackets to go to San Francisco Centre, we started feeling underdressed without a scarf. Steve joked that he missed the "No shirt, No scarf, No service" sign on the way in."¦if you're not at work or church. And I don't thk it'ng.
As I mentioned in last week's blog, the moment I hear the opening downbeat of the music for the Nutcracker ballet, I'm instantly taken back to when I performed in it. I have memories from every role, starting when I was a "little girl" in the Act 1 party scene.
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Now that I have a few decades between me and my misstep, I have some perspective on it. The way Mr. C reacted to my mistake really wasn't all that unusual for him; it happened fairly often in rehearsals. It was probably his artistic temperament combined with a quest for perfection from his dancers. Really good dance companies don't get that way because mistakes are let slide. Mr. C's vision was to build one of the best companies in the country. And by all accounts, he succeeded.
One of the pleasures of attending plays, concerts, or ballets in a small community like Petaluma is knowing some of the young artists who are performing. My daughters and I had that experience when we attended the Petaluma School of Ballet's "Nutcracker" on Friday night. I certainly enjoy the spectacular scene changes and professionalism of San Francisco Ballet's version, but given a choice, I prefer a local production; it's much more meaningful to me to attend a show when I have a personal connection with the performers.
We were particularly looking forward to seeing one of Jennifer's best friends dance the role of Clara. And when we settled into our seats and started studying the program, we recognized other dancers who we know from school or who danced in the Nutcracker when Jennifer was in it five years ago or even when Valerie was a flower presenter ten years ago. My daughters moved onto other activities, but these girls stayed with ballet and now, it's a joy to see how they have grown up and improved as dancers.
I also appreciate the performance because I know the sacrifice that that both the girls and their parents make in order for them to perform. I don't know the specifics of how many hours a week the girls rehearse prior to the performances, but I would guess it's probably 20-plus hours a week. This has got to be especially tough on the dancers who are in high school and have finals week following an exhausting weekend of five performances. And the parents have to get them to rehearsals and put in their volunteer hours on top of the usual busyness of the holiday season.
As I mentioned earlier, Jennifer had a brief dancing career, so my stint as a Nutcracker parent was limited to one year. However, because I danced in about ten "Nutcrackers" in Salt Lake City starting when I was eight-years-old until I was 19, whenever I hear the music I'm immediately taken back to the experiences I had in each role.ar's latest home décor items for Christmas, I enjoy looking at the wreaths, ornaments, and table decorations but I don't feel the urge to purchase anything new; I look forward to getting out the same decorations every year. The continuity from year-to-year is very reassuring to me; even though I've added a few wrinkles in during the last twelve months, the face on our nutcracker looks just as cheery as when I packed him away a year ago. And even though the bow on the wreath has gotten a little flat, I enjoy thinking back to when I made it twent and wondering what life would be like after his arrival in the coming year.
And thankfully, I also haven't felt the need to buy any new Christmas decorations in order to make a fashion statement. That takes off some of the pressure of decorating for the holidays. After all, it's not like red and green ever go out of style at Christmas. I'm glad that unlike changing styles in clothing, I don't need to be concerned that the hemline of my tree skirt looks so 1980's.
Unpacking and hanging the ornaments on the tree is a part of the Christmas celebration that my daughters always want to be included in; wrestling with the strands of outdoor lights, well, they're fine letting Steve have all the fun. Each year, as Valerie and Jennifer take the tissue-wrapped ornaments out of the storage box, they love finding the ones that they picked out and remembering the circumstances around buying it, like the souvenir candlestick ornament from an outing to see "The Nutcracker" or the poodle dressed in a poodle skirt that we found while we were window shopping on Kentucky Street here in town.
So when the girls and I launched into decorating the tree this year, I expected to continue with our tradition of hanging all the same ornaments, most of which I have had since before Steve and I were married. However, after the girls found their favorite ones and hung them on the tree, we unpacked the rest and lined them up on the sofa. As we surveyed the assortment and tried to decide which ones to hang on the tree next, one of the girls commented, "These just aren't very cute." And she was right.
Some of these were ornaments that I had spent hours crafting before we had a family: hand-crocheted snowflakes and stuffed and embroidered little angel figures. Others were ornaments that seemed very unique when Steve and I bought them "" such as little stuffed bears and carved wooden animals "" but that was more than 25 years ago.
You just have to walk into a Target to know that the variety of merchandise available today is overwhelming. I can buy a dozen different ornaments for $4 each that are adorable. Only 10 or 15 years ago those same ornaments would have been very expensive"¦if you could even find ones with such good design or charming detail.
This is especially the case with ornaments that are meant to look handmade. The craftsmanship of pieces manufactured in China astounds me. And it has raised my expectations of how decorative objects should look to such an extent that my hand-crafted soldiers and angels look shoddy by comparison.
As I discovered this year, the fun of decorating the tree for my daughters is appreciating each ornament as they hang it. We decided to put the remaining ornaments back in the box and to stop by the Hallmark store so Jennifer could pick out a new ornament. She chose one that is a little tiny tin of cookies that is made to look like it was crafted out of Sculpey "" which is bake-able clay. Amazing that it can be designed, manufactured, and imported and still only cost $6.
At times, I've certainly lamented the early arrival of Christmas on the retail scene. You see it in Costco in October when the Halloween costumes bump up against the lighted snowman lawn decorations. And I'm probably not alone in wondering if next year, "Back to School" and "Pre-Season Christmas" sales are going to run side-by-side in the same newspaper ads.
But in the last couple of days, I have started changing my mind about early-onset Christmas. I think the early arrival of all things Christmas should be embraced and relished "" not bemoaned. If the decorations and music and other elements that are part of celebrating Christmas make me feel better, why not start enjoying them sooner "" whether it is in a store or at home "" even if it's before the "official" holiday shopping season starts. And this year especially, a strong dose of holiday cheer"¦so what if it is ahead of the calendar"¦would really help counteract the prevailing economic gloom.
Why did I start to see this differently? It happened because our daughter, Jennifer, wanted to watch "A Christmas Story" DVD. Usually, that's one of the movies that we save to watch during Winter Break, along with "A Bishop's Wife" (the Cary Grant version), "Christmas Carol," and "Miracle on 34th Street." Once we've watched them they are packed up with the ornaments and decorations and stowed in the garage until next December.
I enjoyed "A Christmas Story" more than I ever have before because so often when we finally get around to watching it, the pre-Christmas shopping, baking, wrapping, and shipping have left me feeling burned out on the whole Christmas experience. But last night, it was easy to focus on the sweet story of a Christmas wish coming true.
In the past, it's always seemed a little strange to me that around the first of November, Steve asks me to get out the Christmas CDs. In my rigid thinking, I've thought that the window between Thanksgiving and New Year's is the only appropriate time for listening to "Carol of the Bells." But now I get it. Christmas music lifts his spirits and he wants to extend that feeling for as long as possible without overdoing it to the point that it's not special anymore.
But that makes me wonder, is there any point to putting limitations on little things that make a person feel good? There's no law and after New Years. What would be wrong with listening to Christmas music in March? Ok, so it would be strange to have Dean Martin singing "Let It Snow" in July, but "Joy to the World""¦that's a message of Good News that would be uplifting 365 days a year. I might give that a try.
Even though I love having a Christmas tree, I don't plan to have it up year-round. I'm talking about being happier, not crazier. But I'm with Jennifer…why wait to enjoy the things I like about the Christmas season? Bring on the eggnog and when does Costco get their shipment of trees?
If I  decorating the tree, baking the cookies, and wrapping the presents, I would power through those pre-Christmas tasks with such determination and efficiency that the gingerbread men would be saluting me by the time I set them out on Christmas day. That kind of attitude is great when I'm cleaning a bathroom and my objective is to get it done as quickly as possible; lingering over the over the toilet bowl doesn't really enhance the experience.
But getting ready for Christmas? That should be more meaningful than checking chores of'rs"¦sThat's why I am so thankful that Valerie and Jennifer participate in all of the preparations for Christmas. They get pleasure out of everything they do because unlike me, their objective isn't to get it done as quickly as possible. Whether it's putting gumdrops on the gingerbread house or piping frosting onto cookies, they don't want to rush through it. To them, it's an opportunity to experiment and use their creativity "" and to savor the enjoyment they get from doing it.
n "getting it done" and instead participate in the "doing," and I make a shocking discovery"t'ey'n as they start, they start playing around with the shapes. After cutting out a few, Valerie notices that the shape that's left in the scraps of dough resembles a Celtic cross and she adds that to the cookie sheet. Then as Jennifer is lifting one of the gingerbread men off of the cutting board he sticks a little, so she exaggerates the curve of his arms and legs and turns him into the AOL running man icon. Then one of the cookies arms accidentally gets folded, so Jennifer folds the other one so he becomes a praying gingerbread man.
And when it comes to decorating the cookies, if I were doing it, it would turn into an assembly line: trees all get green frosting, red for the bells, snowmen of course are white. Very literal and boring. But Valerie and Jennifer use their imaginations; each cookie becomes a little work of art. I just stand back and enjoy watching what they come up with. We mix up a little black frosting, and Valerie stripes a camel with green and black and then drags a toothpick through it to create a herringbone pattern. Then Jennifer picks up on the idea and starts making a snowflake out of blue and white icing on a circle cookie. A snowman doesn't just get sprinkles dumped on it, Jennifer gets the tweezers so she put sprinkles on one at a time to make a silly angry snowman faceI'm I can't help myself. I interject, "You know you could do that a lot faster if you"¦"I'm beDid decorating cookies with the girls take longer than if I had done it by myself? Absolutely and I'm so thankful that it did.
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“Filament” might sound like scraggly radiative dandruff interspersed throughout a solar neighborhood, but galaxy filaments are actually the largest structures that astrophysicists have identified. Also known as great walls, filaments are strings of galaxies that connect larger galaxies. If galaxy complexes were neurons in the brain of the universe, large galaxy clusters would be the sparse but heavy nuclei, and filaments the long, spindly neural axons trailing from cluster to cluster.
Fraser-McKelvie studied the X-ray counts emitted by different filaments, which she translated into the surface brightness and electron densities of the filaments. Initially she thought that her data did not indicate any dark matter, but a reanalysis by Lazendic-Galloway, an X-ray astronomy expert, proved otherwise.
The Monash team hails from a relatively short intellectual family tree, one that begins with Fritz Zwicky’s experiments in the early 1930s. Ever since Isaac Newton, scientists have known that two bodies, whether they are sun-sized plasma spheres or pint-sized Chihuahuas, exert a gravitational force on each other. Increasing the mass of either body causes a proportional increase in their mutual attraction, while separating them makes their attraction flag.
This concept, when applied to planetary orbits, leads to a relationship between the orbital velocity of a galaxy’s elements and how massive the galaxy is. Zwicky tried to calculate the mass of the Coma galaxy cluster in two ways: first, he applied the gravitational principle to deduce mass by orbital velocity, and then he added up the light output of the visible bodies to deduce mass by luminosity.
Instead, the mass he calculated using the first method produced a number about ten times larger than the galaxy’s luminosity would suggest. Thus, Fritz postulated a mysterious “dark matter” that was transparent to everything except gravity. In the Harry Potter analogy, most wizards and ordinary people cannot see Harry in his cloak, but Mrs. Norris with her feline sharpness discerns him in the dark, and so does Mad-Eye Moody with his magic eye. Mrs. Norris and Moody represent the gravitational force.
Australia, having elected a scientific-frontiers reputation over the cowboys-shooting-kangaroos image some time ago, pours the majority of its education money into the physical sciences, according to LSE. Reuters ranked the country ninth internationally for scientific output during 1998-2008, just behind the Netherlands and in front of Taiwan. Dark matter research is in its infancy in Australia and elsewhere, though, with models still dominating over actual observations.
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Especially woman who have little ones and desire to be involved, completely submerged in ministry, in serving, in been all sold out for the Lord, in any or all events at their Church....
Why Heartbreaking?
And its heartbreaking because you DESIRE to contribute your talent, your time.....
But when we hear words that ask us to make a choice between what woman were naturally designed to be and what we desire to do...
Now I'm not stating that because woman were designed to be mothers we cannot "do."
Since when do we have to choose between been a mother and serving in an event that God had stirred a desire in us, to do so?
When did serving and motherhood separate?
When did it become two whole entities?
I Have enjoyed watching my children grow form infants, to toddlers to child...
I Have enjoyed been able to witness their "First" smile, their First Laugh, their First time sitting, first time standing, first time eating, First time walking, First tooth, First word, First complete sentence, First Everything, Milestones, All Beautiful Moments Every Mother should be able to witness and enjoy....
The NERVE!(right?...
Which in turns leaves the rearing, the raising, and caring of our children, sometimes solely on me, for days at a time...
At first I resented my husband, then the church (people in particular most of the time.. and yes IM BEEN TRANSPARENT for the sake of Gods Glory!) then Finally all those inglorious feelings fell my children...
I began to have resentment towards them!
To my little innocent kids who had no fault in any of this!
Why had he Chosen for me to be home bound taking care of children?
There was SO much Harvest and Such Few Workers....
Above all I wanted to show God Through Works...
See let me back track a few...
I couldn't simply feel Grateful and say so....I had to show it....Continually...
And yes There HAS and IS Good fruit out there...
I was given the privilege to stay home with them...to nurture them...
He Saved me for them, for their Calling...
And we do have Fighting Woman, they are out working.. struggling to provide financially for her and her children, from sun up to sun down.....moms forced to take the financial responsibility...
not because she wants to, but because the circumstances in Life have forced her hand with the cards dealt to her...
Mothers are the last stand, the remnant, for the Battle of the home....
So Saturday Morning we loaded everyone in our Jeep to go meet and see if "Jondo" would be a good match for us...
Isn't He just adorable?
He Loves the open back yard and runs endlessly in all Directions...
We all had something different in mind....
As a joke I said we should call him "Crazy"...
"Don't make me get CRAZY on you!"
So We thought about all the cool underdog super heros...
I think both me and my husband thought about it at the same time....
I remembered growing up playing games where I was always "Rogue"
She was such a bad chick. She was Strong, Fierce, and Beautiful, Plus she had the coolest Red Hair with the White Hi-lite!
If you out of no where said "Gambit"
We both grew up liking the most unlikely of characters. and in which, the characters were actually an item!
Isn't the cutest sweet next to geeky thing you've ever heard?
Of course given the fact that Gambit isn't as cool as the other X-Men we had to introduce the character to our son, which he actually quite liked, because he could throw cards as explosives...
Naturally I have already had the thought of finding him his "Rogue"...?
Enjoy!
SO I know I know i been MIA for A VERY VERY long time....
So First things First Since my last entry I've gone through a whole ups and downs and arounds...
you know LIFE...
First New Cars...
and the way the light just shines off the car...
There was NO way we would end up paying more than 31,000 for a Used Honda...
so we test drove 2 other vehicles before i was like "alas we come down to the only other decent car i Might be interested in...."
And when i drove it.. It was Love at First Drive...
My heart was set and i Wanted the Jeep....
SO Yeah Two New Cars in one Year...
Then came the dreaded bills, diapers, and all kid expenses that pretty much put all your Wants Not just in the Back Seat BUT somewhere Buried in the trunk Along with any Dreams and hopes you had for the Near Future...Enter Newlywed Life and Parenthood.. "dunn dunn ddduuuuuunnnn" ....(Get it.. Belt from the Croods..?
I also decided to kick up my life by getting active as much as my body would allow...And I have almost Reached my ideal weight.. Its those darn last 10lbs you always have trouble with...
Yes I did do the whole jumping in the jeans to get them to go up and shaking the legs and even laying down on the bed to zip it up..LOL.. Pretty Sad huh?
The Jeans On top is what i wear i wear now.. that's almost about an inch!
I've decided to burn off as much Fat as possible and if i don't loose more weight Ill be fine with it as long as its muscle weight...
Also Really Quick We are Homeschooling!
Yes we have crazy days and now i find myself visting the park the library and the Malls Play area often to help keep my sanity!
SO here's what to do.. Comment Below what your favorite Book is and a Very short Why...
(Updated 12/15/13 Note: If you are having trouble commenting below just follow the "A Beautiful Life Facebook Icon At the top of this blog and comment there....
So Happy Winning!
I went home and tried the liquid version...
It was actually already on her blog (she has this whole page dedicated to Laundry Detergents, DIY Shout stain remover, DIY bleach pen...The Works!
Well dun dun DDUUUUUNNNN!
However the ONLY down Side (whomp whomp whomp) is that I don't Have a powerful blender or a food processor so I HAVE TO GRATE (AAAAHHHHHH!
Okay so here is what you need ...
Pour them into a container....
I SUBSTITUTE FOR "ZOTE" THE WHITE ONE (i love the smell...
(id love to hear if you did and what you thought!
***And to be completely honest...
4-7r—126 pounds of it!
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(im thinking really?no one did nothing?
SO then Davids dad goes and tells him to take some food to his brothers ...
David is repulsed!
V4 44 "CoSo what does David Do?.!"
"I come at you in the name of the God Of The Angels Armies!"
That's His Weapon, His Shield, His Tactic ...
Then some young misfit takes the challenge AND ends up having More Courage than the experienced warriors?
So the story goes he hits in the head with a smooth stone so hard The Giant Falls to the ground And David Runs over To him takes THE GIANTS Sword and Cuts OFF His Head...
Anyway i shared that because we are doing a campaign called "Kill The Giant 2013"
Why an amount we dont know we will fulfill?


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I think you have argued this point before about HMRC duty of confidentiality, but given the history of tax avoidance/ evasion by football there will be circumstances where it is to HMRCs advantage to be able to share information with national associations and if a taxpayer has consented to enquiry as a club does under FFP then HMRC are more likely to respond positively if it helps them get paid.
On the other hand if they think they have a better chance of payment by remaining silent, possibly assisting in fraud by doing so, they will have to weigh up the consequences of a refusal.
In fact the whole tax overdue rules in UEFA FFP depend on an open interchange, otherwise a club could say what they like to a national association with no fear whatsover of discovery.
So as rule HMRC confidentiality to taxpayers is sacrosanct, but there are exceptions to rules and dodging tax using confidentiality as a cloak is surely one where the wider tax payer base considerations takes precedence?
“There is no question of dishonesty corporate or individual” by LNS now rings hollow in light of what is now known.
Indeed if the findings are RFC lied to obtain the licence then a fraud took place. If the SFA failed to do their job then they owe the club’s some form of compensation and they might wish to sue Grant Thornton who enabled them to be misled.
JOHN CLARKOCTOBER 7, 2017 at 00:45 14 0 Rate This ______I spent an hour or two this evening,C1, reading through the SFA’s club licensing manual (2017).
If a club knowingly misrepresents the true position with regard to any of the licensing requirements then club licensing is as useful as a chocolate fireguard.
However it may go further. That failing, that dependency on trust, blows a massive hole in UEFA’s FFP, which might explain Traverso’s response to Celtic shareholders’ lawyers as to why UEFA did not wish to investigate, although the door was left open for a member club to pursue.
That wee sword of Damocoles still hangs over the current CompOff investigation, where Tony McGlennan is gathering evidence. It is possible some of which may never have reached the public domain and could change the narrative, although had any existed it would surely have come out by now.
So it’s wait and see if some Brysonesque explanation is pulled out of the SFA magic rules hat.
Had proper club licensing been conducted by professionals sInce 2000 then RFC would not have been enabled to act as they did in debt and improper tax terms.
Those who are secure having to put up with those who are not, because without them they have no one to play.
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2.1.3 Does using Olive oil mean you have to smell like it?
Why use Olive oil?
You start by cleaning your face with drying products that leave your skin wanting moisture.
Then, you put on moisturizers that are mostly made of chemicals, that leave you feeling refreshyour skin feeling supple and refreshed. The problem is with your skin requiring (and becoming hooked on) this refreshing feeling after using chemical based products. This dependence can lead to some other issues, such as overgeneration of your own natural oils, or sebum, which can result in breakouts and oily skin.
The oil has many vitamins, like A, D, and K, as well as vitamin E that give it its various antioxidant and anti-aging traits.
After you have showered, massage the olive oil onto your face while it is still a little damp.
Wait for about 15 minutes, and then clean it off with some lukewarm water.
Massage your face with a bit of the olive oil. Mix the remaining oil with sea salt to make an exfoliant and add the lemon juice for a refreshing sensation. Rub this mixture onto the parts of the face that are dry, rough, and scaly.
As the most popular variety, it is a popular cooking oil with a surprisingly low acid content percentage. It is ideal for those who would like to enjoy the perks of olive oil without spending a lot.
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Design calculationsfor overshot waterwheels
(For good background information for this article, the reader should read "Waterpower for personal use" in Issue No. 16 and "Design calculations for overshot waterwheels" in Issue No. 17. -- Editor)
This is the type most familiar to people where the water is introduced to the top of the wheel by a chute, known as a flume. In spite of the public impression that these machines are low technology, they were actually quite extensively studied by academicians. The first to study them was a Roman named Vetruvius, who wrote what is considered to be the earliest known engineering treatise. The work on waterwheels by Lazare Carnot' in the early 1700s not only advanced fluid dynamics, but his study was the groundwork for the study of thermodynamics.
As we discussed in previous articles (Issues No. 16 and 17), the most important thing to determine when utilizing a waterwheel is "head", or how far the water falls.diameter of the wheel. Ideally, the wheel diameter should should be 90% of the "head". For convenience we choose some even number, in feet, that is nearly 90%. Unless the wheel is unusually large, we choose a diameter equal to the "head" minus two feet. This two-foot difference will be the depth of our flume.
Spouting velocity
We will now return to the concept of "spouting velocity." The water in the flume will flow to the end where it will fall two feet. We must determine how fast it is moving horizontally "and" vertically. You see, once it reaches the end of the flume, it begins to fall again, and gravity causes its downward speed to increase.
The answer is in the equation for spouting velocity, which is the equation that describes the speed of any falling mass: "velocity squared divided by two times a gravitational constant", which is expressed mathematically as <$EV sup 2>/2G. The gravitational constant (G) is 32.2. We used this last time to convert a velocity into a head. Now we will use it to convert a head into a velocity.
Instead of the <$EV sup 2>/2G=Head, we will use the form: Head x 2G = velocity. It is the same equation; we re-arranged the terms to solve for a different variable.
If our water falls 2 feet the feet, the equation tells us the velocity will be 11.35 feet per second. At the same time, gravity is pulling the water down as it is moving horizontally.
If we plot several points on a graph (see Figure 1) showing how the water travels horizontally as it leaves the flume, then vertically as gravity pulls on the water, we will get an arcing line. This line is very important. It will be the curvature of our buckets. By curving the buckets this way, the water enters smoothly and without splashing. It is then possible to make use of the velocity energy. Figure 1The next step is to compute the working diameter. This is equal to the "total head" minus the depth of the flume. We will use a hypothetical head of 12 feet. This means our diameter will be 12'minus 2'= 10'. Now, multiply this number times "PI" (which is the mathematical constant equal to approximately 22/7 or 3.14) to get the working circumference. The answer will also be in feet: 31.4.
The number of buckets is relatively easy to determine. They should be approximately one foot apart, more or less, depending on the diameter. I recommend that it be an even number to simplify construction. Therefore, for our example we use 32 buckets. It is an even number and they will be almost one foot apart. The buckets should be around one foot deep.
The power you will get depends on the width. For our example, let's assume you have a design flow of 50 cfs (cubic feet per second). When you divide this by the design speed of 10 feet per second, you see you need a bucket area of 5 square feet. If our buckets are 1 foot deep, the wheel should be 5 feet wide, "plus" one foot extra on each side to ventilate the buckets. As the water comes in, the air "must" get out"flow" times "head" divided by 11.8. Therefore, we have a "flow" of 50 cfs "times" a "head" of 12' dilowatts.
These calculations apply to "any" overshot waterwheel. The only thing that changes among the various designs is the speed or dimensions. Materials should always be a good grade of steel. A36 or B36 works very well. 20 gauge or thicker is good. We always use 1/8" and ours have withstood direct hits by ice flows of more than a ton. If you use "corten", a weathering steel, it will not need painting and will acquire a reddish color that resembles wood.
Staticly balance the wheel before installation. No matter how tempting, never use wood. It rots and holds water unevenly. This unbalances the wheel and makes it unsuitable for any use except grinding grain. Be very accurate in all your measurements, especially those concerning "flow" and "head". If they are wrong, everything is wrong."wick" action that maintains uniform lubricantRudy Behrens


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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas that has been cooled down to approximately −162 °C (−260 °F) to liquid form. LNG is mainly used to transport big amounts of natural gas over long distances that are not connected by pipelines. Usually it is done by ships using specially designed cryogenic carriers or by road using cryogenic tankers that keep the gas at the right temperature. When LNG reaches its destination, it is regasified and pushed into the local pipeline for distribution.
Liquefied natural gas can also be used as fuel in natural gas vehicles. The technology for that is rather new and continually developing. But LNG is already used in trucks and also ships and trains. Since liquified natural gas and compressed natural gas (CNG) both consist of the same thing, the advantages and disadvantages for using them are mostly the same. The difference is that the energy density of LNG is higher than that of CNG, meaning that the storage cylinder of LNG can be smaller. But since LNG needs to be stored at the temperature of −162 °C, the cylinder still has to be cryogenic. This means that CNG and LNG are directly competing in the world of natural gas vehicles.


I’d use the money from your taxable account for a down payment, but I wouldn’t buy a single family house. So if 3beds, 2 bath is $900k, perhaps you could find 4-6 beds, 3-4 bathroom with at least 2 units for $1M-1.2M, you’ll live in 1 units and have tenants pay for most of the mortgage. That way you can rebuild your passive income stream.
The best way to tackle high cost housing, is probably buying a fixer upper, and put in some Swear Equity. It’s like a side hustle, but you could buy a duplex or a triplex or a quad plex at 20-40% off. You’ve already made a “profit” at the time when you buy, not when you sell. That way you don’t feel bad when the housing market sink because it might just come down to the level where you bought it.
Ahh….you are a better person than me! Congrats on the super purchase and thanks for dropping by!
Apologies for the delay…was out of town for work for a week and wanted to do some home work before replying.
Familly of 4, we needed at least 3 bedrooms flat, with the living room and the kitchen, and based on this requirements we were 25% above our budget.
So we calculated thing in another way : we bought 100 square meter (1 000 fs ?) flat, for very attractive price – because it’s arrangement was crazy : only one bedroom (20 m2), kitchen (20 m2), entrance hall (20 m2) and double living-room (40 m2). Because of this arrangement the price of the sqm was lower, almost 20% under market price. OK, for 2 years kids was splitting the room and we camped in the leaving room, but 2 things happened :
2. we were able to put some money aside and rearrange the flat, with help of smart architect, and to create 3 bedrooms, an office, kitchen opened to the living room etc. I know that the living space in US is usually huge compared to France, but considering a rearrangement of “smaller” house into living area with european dimensions for all you family members could be a hint ?


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Contact your Senators and ask them to Support S. 422, The Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017
For over a decade, Vietnam Veterans of America has sought legislation to restore presumptive Agent Orange exposure status to members of the Armed Forces, who served in the territorial waters of Vietnam.  With passage of H.R. 299 in the House by a vote of 382-0 on June 25, 2018, we are approaching our goal.  The bill will now go to the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee for further consideration.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has introduced companion bill S.422.  The bill has 50 cosponsors in the Senate.  When enacted into law, “Blue Water” veterans who served off the coast of Vietnam, veterans who served near the demilitarized zone in Korea, and certain veterans who served in Thailand will again be eligible for compensation for service-connected, disabilities related to their exposure to Agent Orange.
VVA believes Congress should recognize that these veterans were exposed to Agent Orange and should authorize presumptive status for VA disability claims associated with this exposure. Now is the time to contact your Senators to ask them to support this bill.  Take Action enter your zip code, and send the prepared letters requesting your Senator to cosponsor S.422, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2017, as amended and passed in the House.
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News - : VVA Calls for More Action on Military Base Toxic Exposures
Posted by Finn on 2018-05-06 19:10:27 UTC
“While we are deeply disturbed to learn that the water at over 100 military installations might have potentially harmful levels of perfluorinated compounds, which have been linked to cancers and development delays for fetuses and infants, we are not surprised,” said John Rowan, Vietnam Veterans of America National President. “It has long been VVA’s contention that many of the bases in the United States are polluted, causing serious health risks for those who have lived there.”
“We applaud Secretary of Defense Mattis for his initiative in releasing the March 2018 report, ‘Addressing Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoi Acid (PFOA),’ which outlines the full magnitude of the presence of PFOS and PFOA in drinking water and groundwater on our military bases and identifies 401 active and Base Closure and Realignment installations in the United States with at least one area where there was a known or suspected release of perfluorinated compounds.
News - : Vietnam helicopter monument at Arlington
Posted by Finn on 2018-04-25 16:40:15 UTC
WASHINGTON – If there was any doubt left about the significance of the new monument at Arlington National Cemetery honoring Vietnam War helicopter pilots and crewmembers, it was quashed Wednesday by the number of people who traveled from across the country to attend its dedication.
Arlington officials estimated 3,000 veterans and military family members were there to witness the unveiling of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and Crewmember Monument – a moment that was the result of a four-year fight initiated by a group of Vietnam veterans.
“This monument was a long time coming,” said Frank Lafferty, 75.
Lafferty, an Army helicopter crew chief in Vietnam, traveled from Florida for the ceremony, which quickly developed into a reunion. Lafferty spotted several friends he served with in the 1st Cavalry Division.
“It’s a brotherhood,” he said. “These are the same guys we flew in combat with. It’s a bond that’s not broken easily.”
Veterans wearing hats, vests and jackets emblazoned with their military units filled the sun-drenched Arlington Memorial Amphitheater on Wednesday afternoon for an hourlong service. Afterward, with bagpipes playing, the crowd walked in a slow procession along Memorial Drive to get a glimpse of the monument for the first time.
News - : 13News Now Investigates: FDA trial uses Ecstasy to treat PTSD
Posted by Finn on 2018-02-23 22:11:50 UTC
An illegal drug that is popular in the club scene may offer hope for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
News - : How a Father’s Exposures Might Affect his Children
Posted by Finn on 2018-02-23 21:15:40 UTC
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Scientists have long known that when it comes to harm from environmental exposures, the youngest children often face the greatest risk.1 Chemicals and pollutants that pass through a woman’s placenta into her fetus can interfere with the child’s normal development and cause health effects lasting into adulthood.2 Newer research is examining the role a woman’s prepregnancy exposures may have on the fetus. What has gotten far less attention, however, is how the biological consequences of a father’s environmental exposures before conception might affect his unborn children.
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News - : VVA Joins Protest Over Staff Shortages at VA
Posted by Finn on 2018-02-18 13:07:07 UTC
By NIKKI WENTLING | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 13, 2018
WASHINGTON — About 200 federal workers marched by Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, protesting staffing shortages and what they argued were attempts by President Donald Trump to dismantle the VA health care system.
The crowd -- people shaking noisemakers or carrying signs that read, “Staff the VA” and “Hire, don’t fire” -- was organized by the American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing about 230,000 VA workers.
“We want to march on the VA,” said AFGE National President J. David Cox. “We want the secretary to hear our voices loud and clear.”
The march was prefaced by speeches from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif.; Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz.; union leaders; and Rick Weidman, executive director of Vietnam Veterans of America. They addressed recent firings of VA workers and Trump’s proposed fiscal 2019 budget, which targets federal employee pay and benefits. The speakers also expressed fears that Trump was attempting to shift more public funds to private entities to undermine VA health care.
Their main point of contention was VA staffing shortages. As the crowd approached VA headquarters Tuesday afternoon, they faced the main entrance and shouted, “Staff the VA.”
The union has said over the last several months that the agency has 49,000 job vacancies, but the VA argues the true number is about 13,500 fewer than that.
As of Nov. 3, 2017, the VA had 35,554 unfilled full-time positions, said agency spokesman Curtis Cashour. He added that it was “significantly less than the 49,000 AFGE cites time and again.”
When questioned about the vacancies on Capitol Hill, VA Secretary David Shulkin has cited challenges with hiring doctors and nurses, particularly mental health care professionals. The agency set a goal to hire 1,000 mental health care workers in 2017. The VA hired 900 last year, but lost 945.
Weidman argued the shortages would lead to low morale and employee burnout.
“It’s burning out our best folks, and it’s unfair to them and unfair to the veterans,” Weidman said. “We need full staffing.”
Union leaders criticized the VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act that Congress passed last spring, which lowers the burden of proof to fire VA employees. It also gives Shulkin the authority to skip a lengthy hiring process to directly appoint regional leaders.
In his State of the Union speech last month, Trump praised the bill and credited it with leading to the removal of 1,500 VA employees last year.
When the bill was mentioned Tuesday, the crowd of federal workers booed loudly.
“It’s perhaps the biggest trampling of civil-service protections we’ve seen in decades,” said Randy Erwin, leader of the National Federation of Federal Employees. “Now the White House and some in Congress want to make similar changes government-wide. To them I say, ‘Hell no.’”
The rally was part of AFGE’s “legislative week,” during which union members travel to Washington for workshops and events. It aligned with the release Monday of Trump’s 2019 budget proposal.
Though the union criticized Congress and Trump’s administration for not fully funding or staffing the VA, Trump’s requested VA budget for 2019 totals nearly $200 billion and would be another in a series of significant increases for the agency over the past decade.


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Patricia Humphrey, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Georgia Southern University, will present "Modeling – It’s harder than you might think" on Friday, January 17, at 4:40 p.m. in room 339 at the Baltimore Convention Center.
In addition, Sue Schou, Assistant Professor at Idaho State University, will present "Data Visualization Using Minitab, Google Fusion Tables, and Tableau" on Friday, January 17 at 1:0Brandon Theiss, an industrial engineer who has worked in the field for over 10 years, will present "A Starbucks Coffee in less than 5 minutes?" on behalf of Rutgers University. Theiss’s presentation, which is scheduled for 8:20 a.m. in room 345 at the Baltimore Convention Center, will discuss research that first attempts to define and parameterize the wait times that a customer experiences for a cup of coffee at the local Starbucks and then explores the performance of the retailer to meet customer expected wait timesJoint Mathematical Meetings, as well as during the event’s expo, January 15 – 18 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Attendees are invited to visit the Minitab booth (#401).


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The Australian-delivered Subaru Liberty B4. Few vehicles have been so eagerly awaited yet so disappointing. Well, here's the fix that so many disgruntled owners have been waiting for!
The biggest advantage of a sequential twin-turbo system is the generous spread of torque that it delivers - the primary turbo gives strong bottom-end and the secondary turbo chimes in to help achieve the 190kW top-end.
Unfortunately, as discussed at Subaru Liberty B4 Twin-Turbo, the standard Australian-spec B4 is plagued by a significant mid-range torque drop-off that occurs when the secondary turbocharger is being brought up to speed. It's not unusual to see boost fall away by about 4 psi or more during this stage. For the driver, this means the rate of acceleration is far from linear - something completely at odds with what is otherwise a very refined vehicle.
In terms of outright performance, the standard Australian B4 is also no ball of fire. Sure, it holds a definite low-rpm torque advantage over its single turbocharged 2.0 litre stablemates but at no point does it really feel fast. Subaru claims 6.5 second 0 - 100 km/h performance - but only with an ideal launch, 98 RON fuel and favorable conditions.
Up until now, the only way we've heard of tackling the B4's mid-range torque drop-off is to fiddle with the pneumatics of the twin-turbo actuation system. But now there's a much more elegant and effective approach - an EcuTeK ECU reprogram.
We recently visited Sydney's MRT Performance where we had the opportunity to back-to-back test a Liberty B4 in standard and EcuTeK reprogrammed guise. The only modification to this car was an atmospheric venting blow-off valve.
Flashing the new program to the ECU is a 5-minute operation. A laptop (which must contain EcuTeK software) is plugged into the OBD-II connector and the check connector is bridged. Both of these connections are under the dash – there's no need to pull away trim panels to access the ECU.
When off-the-shelf maps are being loaded (which is usually the case) the tuner enters the EcuTek Utility Mode via the laptop. Once the appropriate file has been selected from the laptop hard-drive, the tuner clicks 'Program ECU' and the new data is transferred into the ECU. Once this is completed, the ECU is the reset.
Next, the car needs to be taken for drive and - within an hour - the ECU will have fully learnt its new parameters.
Interestingly, the EcuTeK program also allows the tuner to alter the rpm at which the B4's active rear muffler switches into straight-through mode. By moving this activation point forward from about 3500 to 2000 rpm, the engine feels more responsive.
But what about the B4's mid-range hole? Well, in short, it's 90 percent gone. You no longer feel yourself falling forward as the secondary turbocharger tries to come up to speed - all you get is a firmer push in the back from about 4250 rpm.
Outright performance is also improved massively - the B4 now accelerates the way we always dreamed it would! Our guess is 0 to 100 km/h performance in flat 6s - and that's without being too brutal on the gearbox. The only on-road deficiency that remains is a lack of torque for the first few metres off the line - even the little primary turbocharger needs some engine rpm before it can give boost.
This dyno graph (obtained from MRT's DynaPack hub dyno) shows the gains achieved. The black and red plots represent 'before' power and torque respectively, while the green and blue plots represent the 'after' power and torque curves. Each run was conducted in fourth gear. As you can see, torque is increased by a massive 30 percent at just 3000 rpm. At the top of the rev range, peak power has been elevated from 150 to 183kW at around 6000 rpm. That's a 32 percent gain.
Another graph (not shown) reveals that the primary turbo now comes on boost earlier but peaks at just 11.5 psi - 1.5 psi less than standard. When working at high rpm, the primary and secondary turbochargers now combine to give up to around 16 psi boost - a modest 3.5 psi increase over standard.
At AUD$1550 the MRT reprogram is not cheap, but we can certainly recommend it t reprogram and the B4 is (finally!) a car that we'd be happy to own.
We hope to test these products in the future - visit the MRT website for more details.


WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The city of Wichita has seen a big boost in the amount of capital investment in Wichita in 2016.
Wichita city councilman James Clendenin says when he was elected to the council in 2011, the city was struggling.
Looking ahead to 2017, Clendenin says the new $30 million downtown library is set to be completed.
“The library should be finished sometime by the end of 2017, you know it is one of those projects that is a quality of life project that is going to mean
something for the city,” said Clendenin.
While those are set to be completed, Clenden says there are several projects on the horizon the city is hoping to kickoff in 2017.
It’s these types of quality of life initiatives Clendenin says, are pushing the city in the right direction.
This includes a 750 space parking garage to be built in conjunction with the new Cargill building.
Bill would allow walking about with alcohol in hand


public collections; two remain in private hands. Like thrones, such chairs tended to be commissioned by men of means to denote their social stature, explains Gronning, adding that very few were made as only the very wealthy of the society could afford them. He also notes that they would likely have been accompanied by a matching side table.
“,” says Gronning. The chair currently on offer is tagged at $300,000 to $500,000.
The sale of important books and manuscripts takes place January 17; the sale of American furniture and decorative arts will be offered in seven sessions between January 18 and 21. </s> Food Truck Rodeo at the Public Market
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by Ann Aguirre. This book is just WOW! I'll be posting a review on the blog, which I have already posted on Amazon for this book. It took me 1.5 days to read, overnight to digest and try to put into words how I felt about it, and 2 hot seconds to ask myself, "Why did I stop reading YA books?"
So, what are you loving this week? A new book? A new movie? Perhaps a new place to hang. </s> Just a reminder that Norman Records in the UK is selling Romero Records stuff – just got some copies of The Tango Saloon ‘Suspicion’ in, and most of our other releases are in stock too, check it out!
Advertisements </s> Unless you’re in a mega church where you have a high level of specialization within your role, you probably find yourself struggling to juggle all the elements and ‘hats’ you wear as a pastor. One of the main things you have each week is preaching the Sunday sermon and yet you find that sermon preparation can easily get pushed to the back burner in any given week.
7 Rhythms to Develop for Better Sermon Prep
1. Plan What You Will Preach Ahead of Time
Whether you plan a year of preaching or a few months ahead, the results are the same: you’ll greatly benefit by knowing ahead of time what you will be preaching. The rest of these rhythms are predicated on you knowing a few months, half a year, a year, or more in the future of what you will be looking to preach on.
If you preach in sermon series – topical or expository – you’ll find that this approach will allow you to get way ahead on research. If you’re looking for more discussion on how to create a compelling sermon series, give this a read.
2. Have a Plan to Compile Your Research for Each Sermon or Series
You’ll need Evernote for this (big surprise if you’re a regular reader here)… Here’s my workflow on research:
- Create a Research Notebook Stack (think of it like a stack of notebooks related to research)
- Create notebooks called, Articles, Bible Insights, Quotes, Illustrations, Random Insights and Statistics (and whatever other elements of research you intend on finding far in advance)
- Use tagging to organize the things you put into your notebooks (if your sermon series is on the book of James, tag everything you find that would relate with the tag Book of James)
I use Evernote because it is searchable, taggable, and integrated with my web browser of choice: Google Chrome. More on this in the other rhythms…
3. Regularly Read the Bible Through YouVersion and Bible.com
When you are reading your Bible, make it a regular practice to take advantage of the “Notes” function through YouVersion (on your tablet or phone) and Bible.com. When you are reading and a thought comes to mind, click on the verse or passage and take some notes on that verse or passage.


“Have you got gas?” my mother just called and asked very seriously. All I could think of was intestinal gas and started to laugh giddily – never letting a good bathroom joke pass me by. “Thankfully, no,” I replied. “I don’t have gas.” “Not that kind of gas, silly!!!” mom exclaimed. “Your father is going to fill up his car and I thought you might need gasoline as well.” I met dad at Fat Albert’s. He was surly and serious. “I am worried about you,” he said. “This bulimia deal is driving me nuts!!!” It pissed me off. There is always some kind of drama involving me and my father and it gets old. I quietly got in my car and drove home without getting gas. Dad called me on his cellphone. “What happened???” he asked cluelessly. “I am tired of that kind of shit every time I see you,” I replied. “I am tired of these emotional and mental games you play with me. I came home to go back to bed.” He hung up the phone and I am going back to bed. Posted by
I know it takes time to adjust to new meds, but maybe the Zyprexa dosage is to high and will need to be adjusted. I can't imagine sleeping my days away and just eating and purging in my waking hours. I am curious to know if your have spoken with your dr. about the side effects and what he says. I know it can be hard to find the drug that works best for you and it may take weeks or months. I have missed your daily musings, but I understand you being quiet lately and I am glad to know that you are status quo for now at least. Take care and I hope things are better soon.
I am sorry to hear that you are at odds with your father again. I know how that affects your moods.Plz know I am thinking of you and don't blame you at all for not wanting to sleep all of the time.I had no idea that George was back in jail. That sucks for him. He was doing so well there for a bit after he came home. His mom must be very sad.Take care Andrew.
(((Andrew)))I am so sorry that you're having a tough time of it. I'm thinking about you.In the meantime, enjoy the weather. We're having a lovely storm here right now.
Why haven't you written this past week? Did your dad force you to go to a psychiatric ward to get you stabilised on your new meds? Is that why you are so irrationally angry at him? Look on the bright side- at least he still allows you to drive your car!! He could legally sell it and buy you an adult tricycle instead. Then you wouldn't have to depend on him for gas any more. Now I realise why he still lets you drive!
I am so sorry that the Zyprexa has led to the bulimia again -- I was afraid that would happen, and I hope you're talking to your psych doc about it. I believe that your dad is afraid for you -- the long-term effects of bulimia are devastating and very serious, and will undermine your efforts to get better. He wants to keep you safe above all, I believe, and is desperate in his attempts to do so. Doesn't mean he's right to talk about a home, but I understand the desire for less drama and safety for the people he clearly loves. I'm glad you called him on it, regardless. And I hope you will talk to the doc about your meds and their effects. It is such a crap shoot to get the meds adjusted and right.One day at a time.
He's worried about you. All he said was that he was worried about you and it was driving him nuts. Your readers are worried about you too.
My nephew is in prison and I am pretty much the only one who writes to him. Try to type George a letter once a week or so! :)
If you are not up to writing to George, why not print your blog posts and mail to him?Please comment again on Abilify. Someone with whom I speak on the phone is taking it and doing fairly well with it.Most of us care about you and all those in your world there.
Sir:I sadly figured you were under the "spell" of the Zyprexa. You will grow used to sleeping all the time, as it seems your mother has (at least from what you have stated before). It is going to be a difficult challenge to "wake up from your sleep" as you learn to enjoy the bliss of sleep. Most people in a sleep state such as this will remain in it for a long, long time because they are not awake for a long enough to want to get it changed. I suspect that you and your mother will remain sleepy and content for a very long time now. Try to resist the temptation to engage in bulimic behavior. Weight gain/loss is not an issue. If you eat the food, let your body digest it.PipeTobaccohttp://frumpyprofessor.blogspot.com
His father isn't worried about him, are you nuts? If his father really cared, he's show it in his actions. He continually tries to drug this man with meds. Andrew even called him on the games he plays. His father hung up because he knows it's true. His father can't control him and THAT IS WHY it's driving him nuts. That and it's costing him more money to buy more groceries.As far as "asking his doctor" anything, his father SITS IN on the conversations he has with his doctor! Andrew cannot confide in his own doctor and even if he could, I'm sure the doctor would tell his father.If you all cared as you say, you'd write to social services and have his father removed as Andrews guardian. I get sick at the way you all sugar coat everything! Why doesn't this sh*t make you angry?!But I'm sure you all will just continue to pacify him and "wish him well" and "worry" about him.Andrew can't help himself. His family is hurting him. It's time we all step in.I'm writing a letter. What will the rest of you do?
Ananoymous, walk a mile in his Dad's shoes and then see how you'd react. We know his Dad's controlling nature hurts Andrew but bravo for him sticking up for himself. However, even Andrew would admit that based on past history his Dad's afraid things could get as bad as they once were. Andrew has shared some of that with us, but I'm sure there's more we're not aware of. As much as we hate to see his Dad trying to control him the flip side is that his father most likely feels helpless and that's part of why he acts the way he acts. I'm not making excuses for his Dad's behavior, I'm just saying that unless Andrew asks for help, all that's appropriate for us to do is to remind him that we care and are worried about him, and let him reach out if or when he feels he needs to.
Anonymous, Here's what I will do. I will continue to visit Andrew's blog and wish him well. I wish the dad well, too, and believe me, I've been in his shoes far longer than I want to be. I think I'm probably 10 years older than Andrew's dad, but "it" gets old and I'm getting old. You hope things settle down before you kick off, but these illnesses go up and down and round and round. It's a horrid merry-go-round, but it is what it is. I agree with Sharon. You don't know the half of it. Good luck with getting social services to do anything. They have bigger fish to fry--cases of gross neglect and abuse, for instance. This ain't it.
i so miss your gratitude postings..watching you come up w/things to Be grateful about....it was very inspiring
Sleeping all days not the answer matey i think this drug is not the one for you, although i'm sure you know this better than anyone. Perhaps your perfect drug is around the corner, eh? And yes i think there's a selfish reason for my writing this... I love to read your daily posts, and i miss them.
This IS The Fun Part!
Hi Andrew!We need some input from ya! We're getting so desperate, we are actually starting to talk to each other through comments!Love ya & miss ya,Grannie
Even control freaks need a break now and then........give your dad a break, Andrew. Sounds like he needs one!If your friend George called you today to come over his mom's house for a free Big Mac and fries, you'd make it. Wrtie your friend a letter, Andrew. Quit using your mental illness to excuse your character defects.I wish you well.....and I hope that someday you grow up.


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, although since 2004 it has occupied space in Friends House.[2] It is owned by The Friend Publications Ltd., a trust which also publishes Friends Quarterly. The Trustees of The Friend are appointed from members of Britain Yearly Meeting..[3]
The Friend Online[edit]
In recent years, The Friend has begun offering all its content online to subscribers. It is intended to make the issues for the period 1914 to 1918 available as a digital archive.[4]
The printing of The Friend[edit]
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Between 1892 and some time after 1931, the magazine was printed by The Orphans Press, Leominster [3]
1843-1849 Charles Tylor[7]
1849-1852 Joseph Barrett [8]
1858-1859 Alfred William Bennett[9]
1859-1871 John Frank [10]
1878-1891 Joseph Stickney Sewell [11]
1892-1912 Henry Stanley Newman,[12][13].[14][15][16]
1932-1949 Hubert William Peet [17]
1950-1965 Bernard Hall Canter [18]
1993-1997 Deborah Padfield [19]
September 2004 - April 2010 Judy Kirby
April 2010 - November 2018 Ian Kirk-Smith [20][21]
January 2019 onward - Joseph Jones [22]
^ Street of Ink by H Simonis (1917) p.310. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-13.
^ a b The Friend Vol. 71 (1931) p.1183 <p.1180 – 1183, “The Friend – retirement of the Editor”. portrait, “Contributed without permission of the Editor”
^ Appeal notice inserted in The Friend 9-05-2014
^ The Friend vol 175, No.25, page 3 "Thought for the Week: Change and Continuity" by Ian Kirk-Smith
^ Charles Tylor 1816-1902
^ Joseph Stickney Sewell 1819-1900
^ A brief biography of H S Newman at Stumbling blocks to Stepping Stones blog by Gil Skidmore
^ Edward Bassett Reynolds 1864-1934
^ E.B.Reynolds attended Ackworth School, leaving in 1874
^ He assisted the previous editor, H S Newman for the whole period of his editorship
^ Hubert William Peet 1886-1951. A pamphlet biography is Hubert W. Peet by Winifred M. White (1952)
^ Ian Kirk-Smith wrote a farewell editorial in the 2018-11-02 edition of The Friend
^ The Friend, 23-11-2018, p.5
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They hired a director who’s a super fan of the Turtles, they figured out the tone of the movie should be funny. This isn’t Turtles in Gotham City, that’s the wrong way to take it.
So basically, this movie has something going for it that the previous film did not: a director who genuinely reveres the source material. According to Fox, they seem to have found that in the form of David Green. Megan Fox most certainly has a point when it comes to the tone offeel like. Studios in general seem to be catching on to this trend, handing off beloved properties to lifelong fans that will treat the material with the respect it deserves. For example, J.J. Abrams’ handling of the new Star Wars, or Joss Whedon’s take on The Avengers have both definitively proven that someone who has a prior relationship with the source material is generally the person with the best creative vision for big screen adaptations.
Only time will tell of Fox’s assessment of Green’s vision is accurate. Overall the trailer for the film that recently hit the web seems to showcase a considerably lighter tone, with more familiar faces from the source material than the last outing could have ever hoped foStephen Amell; it will hit theaters on June 3, 2016.
Brian Austin Green Shares Proof That Megan Fox Makes Beautiful Babies


As the field lined up for their 40-lap main event, Speedway officials treated the fans to a fireworks and pyrotechnic display that was likened to a bonafide rock concert!
In a post race interview, Paller raved about the immaculate condition of the racetrack (as many of the competitors did). Paller stated, "I couldn't really get a bite off the bottom groove, like I thought I might. I tried the middle and high grooves and found quite a bit of speed up there. I was surprised there were no 'marbles' on the top groove…just a clean, first-class facility."


But have you ever considered the motivations behind this discourse?Why do certain politicians, scientists, businesspeople, and environmentalists adopt the rhetoric they use?
Media experts and science communicators have long studied these questions. But until recently, we never really considered how climate change discourse differs due to…


1 A barrier to the expansion of Heathrow has been cleared after the government refused to review its. Ministers have faced pressure to scrap approval for a new two-mile runway at the airport — granted in 2018 — because of escalating concerns over climate change.
2 Rail bosses have signalled the end of the first-class carriage with plans for the first all-standard intercity train service between London and Edinburgh. The budget service will start on the east coast mainline operated by FirstGroup on October 25.


Mining a spy in the sky: Govt unveils satellite surveillance to curb illegal mining - The Economic Times
02:45 PM | 17 Feb
By PTI | Updated: Oct 15, 2016, 06.54 PM IST
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NEW DELHI: In a path-breaking move, the mines ministry today came out with mining surveillance system (MSS), a pan-India surveillance network using latest satellite technology, to check illegal mining.
Launching the system, Mines Minister Piyush Goyal hoped the technology will ensure sustainable utilisation of the country's mineral resources.
"MSS will trigger an alarm whenever there is an instance of illegal mining outside permitted areas. Karnataka, which saw large instances of illegal mining in the past, stands to gain tremendously from this technology," he added.
This technology will help design planned development of mining as also provide complete data of labourers working in the sector online, which will lead to better safety standards, the minister noted.
The Indian Bureau of Mines, on behalf of the mines ministry, has developed MSS, in co-ordination with the Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG), Gandhinagar, and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).
The system checks 500 meters around the existing mining lease boundary to search for any unusual activity relating to illegal mining. Any discrepancy is flagged off as a trigger.
Automatic software leveraging image-processing technology will generate automatic triggers of unauthorised activities. These triggers will be studied at a remote-sensing control centre of IBM and then transmitted to district-level mining officials for field verification.
There are in total 3,843 mining leases of major minerals in India, of which 1,710 are working and 2,133 non-working mines. Most working mines have been digitised. Efforts are on to complete digitisation of non-working mines and will be completed in 3 months.
In the initial phase, a total of 296 triggers have been generated in the MSS software across the states, which covers a total of 3,994.87 hectares under the system.
State-wise data for successful triggers can be summarised as Madhya Pradesh (46), Goa (42), Karnataka (35), Gujarat (32), Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu (29 each), Rajasthan (23), Odisha (20), Himachal Pradesh (11), Maharashtra (8), Meghalaya (7), Chhattisgarh & Telangana (6 each) and Jharkhand (2).
Under enigmatic Urjit Patel, Indians failing to decode central bank's policy
India revives passenger plane project Saras as China, Japan race ahead


Q: nestjsx-automapper profiles not found in nestjs test modules Im trying to make unit testing for some features in my NestJS API.
I have managed to replicate the error in this test:
  let userServiceInterface: UserServiceInterface;
      imports: [AutomapperModule.withMapper('user')],
          useClass: UserService,
    userServiceInterface = app.get<UserServiceInterface>(
    it(`should return user with name 'pipo'`, () => {
      const user = userServiceInterface.find('pipo');
A: I figured out how nestjsx-automapper load profiles.
As you can't provide profiles in modules, you depend on that the application runs the profiles first, and it is handled by AutomapperModule from nestjsx-automapper.
To tell Test Modules to load AutomapperModule (as they don't by default) on init, use:
moduleRef.get(AutomapperModule).onModuleInit();


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As someone who is guilty of procrastination I decided to give this a go. If you are short of time then watch from the 6 minute mark to the 9 minute mark only. If you want to procrastinate, watch it all!


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are the service users’ property to keep. The books will help them to reflect upon their experiences and lives. They are being regularly updated. We liked this project as it seemed to really grasp the ethos of Talkwell – making people feel really listened to and understood. Well done to Emily, Tracey and Marie who win a special afternoon tea for the Core Activity Centre staff and service users. They were presented with their award by our Inpatient Services Managers Hugh McCreedy and Elaine Murray.
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2:31 a.m. Officers received a call about a stolen vehicle in the 1800 block of Bear Drive. Officers later located the unoccupied vehicle on Oak Street. Officers are investigating.
4:44 a.m. Officers received multiple calls from residents on Missouri Avenue who said they had items stolen from their vehicles.
9: two dogs running at large in the 27000 block of U.S. Highway 40 in Steamboat. Deputies could not locate the dogs.
12:33 pf Spruce Street. Officers believe it may be connected to the earlier reported incidents andto 17four </s> The Race to Digitize
That was in 2015 and, in typical digital speed, much has happened since then. Amazon delivered a package an. Artificial Intelligence, digital storage and hyper-speed mass transportation all lept forwardpartnership with Microsoft reports 84 percent of respondents have either already had their industry disrupted by digital trends or will by 2020. In less than three years, nearly half . Yet, most organizations are still forming digital strategies. According to The Case for Digital Reinvention, a report by McKinsey, less than 40 percent of industries are digitized. The race has really just begun.
“Information technology as we used to know it is dead,” says Luis Palacios, technology director at Cisco Spain. “It’s all about people, helping people transform, use and consume technologies in a natural and transparent manner.”
“As digital transformation takes shape, business leaders must rethink how to empower employees.”Rimes MortimerGeneral Manager, Applied Innovation, Microsoft
“Instead of being there at the end when the problem has been identified and the plan has been created, we’re getting involved in the upfront design thinking. What problem are we trying to solve? What customer are we trying to help? That really changes the skillsets you need to be successful,” says Terry Lenhardt, CIO at Steelcase.
Now, there’s a need for more than traditional technology skills. Information technology teams need communicators, collaborators and creators. People need to have emotional intelligence to empathize and respond to a customer. The fervor to attract and keep this topgrade talent is greater than ever as competition in the digital realm grows exponentially.
“Digital transformation at its core is business transformation enabled by IT,” says Mortimer. “Furn the modern IT pro into a ‘chief collaborator’ working across many groups.”
The Journey to Agile
Customers today expect fast development and frequent updates—just look at your smartphone: its software updates every few months. Cisco’s Palacios describes an example of Agile development:
“Inck.”
“It’s a meld of culture, human


One hot summer afternoon Nick took out his photo album to remind himself of his adventerous childhood. He remembered that on a similar hot afternoon his friends Molly, bear Ted, squirrel Vicki, Rosa the bunny and he found a big, heavy chest that was full of different things. There was a ball, a robot and lots of toys, but there underneath it all there was also a map. They were very much interested in the map so they decided to follow it.
At the same time an evil scientist called Robert was up to no good. He was old, he had messy, grey hair and he worked in a laboratory. Robert was very clever and he invented a machine that could change weather just by clicking a button. If he wanted sunny weather every day, there could be sunny weather every day or just the opposite. That hot afternoon while Nick and his friends were following the map and discovering new things, Robert wanted snow so created snow. While admiring some flowers the gang suddenly heard wind blowing from far away. Nick took his telescope to see what was going on. After a few minutes Nick opened his mouth in surprise and said : 'That's snow!'. Molly thought he was just kidding with them but it was really there. Real snow. They were surprised because it was summer but then they started to play in the snow. It was so white and fluffy. Vicki and Ted were making a snowman while Nick and Molly were having a snowball fight and you coluldn't even see Rosa in the snow. After a happy day full of play they went home. A couple of days later the gang went back to the same place but they weren't happy with what they saw. The forest was cut down. They were sad and angry especially because all of their forest friends lost their home but they knew whose fault this was. They all shouted at the same time: 'Robert!'. Nick was so angry that he wanted revenge. He had a plan, they could all dress up and attack Robert. They dressed up as a Dragon, an Indian, Batman and a pirate and went to Robert's lab. They kicked down the door and took their revenge on Robert to make him pay for his evil actions.