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Certainly one of the most anticipated albums of 2015, “Book Of Souls” is the first double album in the stellar career of these British heavy metal champions.
Recorded in the same Paris location as their hugely successful comeback record, “Brave New World” (2000), this monumental piece of work collects 11 songs for 92 minutes of music in which almost every second sounds essential; a stunning artistic achievement for sure, and one of their finest hours and a half.
What really sets apart Iron Maiden from the rest, is their strong will to evolve, to look for new paths without repudiating their roots and their defining style, to not compromise; and all this really gave them the position of supreme kings of metal they have today and shines throughout “Book Of Souls”.
But beware, this double album will take repeated listening and a good deal of your precious time, like those old masterpieces used to do, like when we were kids and we were hungry for dreams and shivers.
“If Eternity Should Fail”: The opening track of disc 1 is so well conceived you almost don’t notice is more than 8 minutes long; from the atmospheric intro, through the melodic cathedral built up by the three guitars, it delivers one of the best chorus of the records and a nice acoustic guitar final that brings us back to the “Seventh Son” era.
“Speed Of Light”: The first single is a fast rocker with a huge guitar riff, courtesy of Mr. Adrian Smith, and an amazing vocal performance by Bruce Dickinson who channels all his love for Ian Gillan on this flaming nugget of a song. The twin guitars riffing is so precious it makes this track a real gem in its simplicity.
“The Great Unknown”: There are two tracks on this double album that sound to me a little bit like leftovers from previous albums, and this is one of them; from the usual slow intro, the song builds up to the usual tempo changes and usual hooks. For sure, the performance of the band is overall competent and the guitar department does a nice job but, in this collection of killer songs, “The Great Unknown” sounds a bit…not killer enough.
“The Red And The Black”: Luckily, everything changes with this 13 minutes monolith: written by Steve Harris, its development surprises at every turn.
With almost no recurring part, it’s a melodic guitar fest, with tons of riffs and melodies weaving together, underlining the vocal parts or exploding in full flight in the final six minutes; again reminiscent of “Seventh Son”, in this case the song, it is for sure one of the highlights of “BOS”, and of their career, and it leaves you with the desire of listening to it again and again.
“When The River Runs Deep”: A break in the intensity set by the previous song, “When The River…” is a short n’ fast number starting with a great riff and counting on a great performance by Bruce Dickinson delivering some really memorable lines; the idea of slowing down the chorus somehow makes it even stronger and catchier. Thumbs up once again for the guitars of Smith, Murray and Gers that didn’t sound this inspired since 1988.
“The Book Of Souls”: It’s time for the title track and it’s time for another classic: sit down, relax, put your headphones on and let Maiden guide you through this fascinating musical journey; part “Dance Of Death”, part “Losfer Words”, Gers and Harris conceived an epic that will rivet your ears for infinite listening. Magniloquent in the using of keyboards parts, what really shines throughout is the almost endless inspiration that sets the guitar riffs alight. The fact that Dickinson was suffering from what the entire world now knows, makes its performance even more astonishing: these guys are getting better and better with every passing year, and for a singer, well, it’s not human.
“Death Or Glory”: The opening salvo of disc 2 is another fast paced rocker that will go down extremely well in the forthcoming tour, and probably the best one they wrote since “Aces High”. If this was chosen as debut single, I think a lot of people would have approached “Book Of Souls” with different attitude, but we all know that Maiden don’t care much for the obvious choices.
“Shadows Of The Valley”: This is simply…perfect. All the best elements of new century Maiden are here, flowing fluid and inspired; again an almost 8 minutes song that sounds like it’s 4 minutes long, since every element is in the right place, without worthless repetitions. You will find yourself waving your arms in the air for the crowd in your living room. Epic!
“Tears Of A Clown”: Written about the death of actor Robin Williams, this is another great song with an even greater chorus, simple as that.
I can see this becoming a live favourite.
“The Man Of Sorrows”: There must be a reason why Dave Murray wrote so little in the history of the band, and this is a good example. A song that was not particularly necessary, in a second disc that is exclusively made of classics this sounds even more “by numbers”. Anyway, the man is a killer guitar player and I’ve got to praise his fluid and consistent guitar leads, saving the song somehow.
“Empire Of The Clouds”: There’s been a huge debate about this one, even before hearing a single note. An 18 minutes long epic? Are you nuts? I don’t have time for that!…this pretty much summarizes the common cultural and social landscape we live in; these are the years you’ve got just to pass through the void, possibly faster.
Well, take your time ladies and gentlemen, because this is a Masterpiece, and is going to haunt you since first listening.
When lyrics and music merge together to create a visual, almost cinematic result, that’s where songs like this are born; with all the sections flowing naturally one after another, linked together by Dickinson’s piano playing and orchestral arrangements, Its almost impossible to describe with words what the band creates in this mastodon of a song.
One of their crowning moments, for sure, this is Art, not just rock n’ roll.


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Today’s post comes to us from Joseph Elfelt from MappingSupport.com. Last week Joseph presented his list of 50+ Federal GIS open servers. Both these lists are great resources!
Below is a link to a PDF I put together with a list of state ArcGIS servers with open data. If you know of other state ArcGIS servers with open data then please let me know and I will add them to the list. Whenever I edit the list I will post the updated list the next morning. The heading will always include the date of the last update.
And if you know about a similar list that anyone has assembled please point me in their direction so we can compare notes.

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At Solar Panels Guys, trained and experienced solar panel installers will perform the Solar Panels installation very quickly and efficiently. The solar energy costs less than the traditional source of energy. You can depend upon solar energy financing options as well so that there will not be any financial burden on you. The Solar Panels can be installed at home or office as per your convenience. If you have a good roof, it is possible to install home Solar Panels very easily. Solar Panels Guys in Protection, KS will let you make the most of your investment.
You will get access to licensed, bonded and insured solar panel installation services in Wyoming. In addition to the efficient installation services, you will also get access to 24/7 monitoring solution. You can go through the ‘Solar Panels for sale’ placed by others in Protection, KS before utilizing our services.
Structural analysis of your home will be done before giving options for the deployment of Solar Panels. Solar panel systems installed by Solar Panels Guys in Protection, KS are highly reliable.
You can buy Solar Panels from Solar Panels Guys in Protection, KS so that installation and maintenance will also be carried out by at best price. The best Solar Panels which can withstand harsh environmental conditions can be installed. There are number of solar panel companies. When you choose the best solar panel installer, you will not want to worry about solar panel manufacturers. Solar power panels that are energy efficient and compatible to your residential and commercial buildings will be recommended by experts.

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Are you a Joint Admissions Student or Transient Student?
Joint Admissions - A Joint Admission student is a student attending one of our partner community colleges with plans of transferring to Sam Houston State University within the next year to complete a bachelor’s degree. A student wishing to apply as a Joint applicant should complete the Transient Student application at applytexas.org and answer the custom questions accordingly.
Transient Student - A Transient Student is a student attending a college or university that is needing to take one semester (one or more courses) at SHSU to transfer back to the home institution to complete degree requirements. A student wishing to apply as a Transient student will complete the Transient Student application at applytexas.org, submit official transcript from home institution, and complete and submit the Transient Student Form.
The following colleges and college districts have Articulation Agreements (course transfer agreements) with Sam Houston State University providing for 66 hours of transfer credit plus Kinesiology for over 50 majors. Please select your transfer institution from the following list followed by the major or majors in which you are interested. After reviewing the transfer page, if you have specific questions on course transfers email the Student Advising and Mentoring Center at samcenter@shsu.edu. For question on admission requirements/status, please contact Undergraduate Admissions at (936) 294-1828 or email admissions@shsu.edu.

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Heads up, gamers – actor Kiefer Sutherland just upgraded your “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" experience.
Konami brought Sutherland on to play the iconic role of franchise hero, "Snake," the game developer said Sunday. On Thursday, Konami released a behind-the-scenes video of the process, with interviews of series creator Hideo Kojima and Sutherland.
I’m not a gamer and even I knew about this game,” he added.
It won’t just be the “24” star’s voice that appears in the game. Konami also captured Sutherland’s facial movements for the game‘s animation – the first time the actor’s been through the process.
It is hard to say whether Sutherland’s voice is more or less recognizable to Konami’s audience than voice actor David Hayter‘s, who’s worked as Snake since the first “Metal Gear Solid” game in 1998.

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White Fence is not a new album from Tim Presley's solo project but a reissue of the very first White Fence album, originally released in 2010. It serves as a journey through the mind and influences of Presley and is a solid listen for fans of lo-fi psychedelic rock.
White Fence is not a new album from Tim Presley's solo project but a reissue of the very first White Fence album, originally released in 2010. Presley has been a member of the bands Darker My Love as well as the Strange Boys and recorded a collaboration album with Ty Segall, 2012's essential Hair as Ty Segall & White Fence. Presley records prolifically as White Fence, having recorded four White Fence records in as many years. He makes warped lo-fi psych pop songs that can go anywhere and everywhere. The fidelity changes from song to song, sometimes even during a song. A lot it sounds vaguely like Syd Barrett channeling Northwest garage rock legends, The Sonics. Another sonic reference point would be early Ariel Pink records, if Pink had an obsession with '60s psychedelic rock instead of '70s AM pop. The songs also have a relaxed, meandering quality, almost like brief thought bubbles and ideas that fade in to being for a few moments with a pretty melody and offbeat instrumentation before stopping abruptly after a minute or two.
This is the work of a solitary man or rather a solitary alien transmitting rock songs from a parallel dimension. Mr. Adams kicks the album off with harmonized, reverbed, extremely laidback vocals that sound like they're floating through the air as opposed to actually being sung. The song melts in to a drum break that goes right in to the "Who Feels Right" where guitars provide a soft backdrop that roar in to a psychedelic solo. "Slaughter on Sunset Strip" is a Rubber Soul-era McCartney song filtered through a chillwave haze and played with first take chops before coming to a sudden end. "I'll Follow You" is a soft acoustic track propelled by a shaker with a Schoenhut toy piano that fades in and out of the background throughout the song. Most of these songs sound like brief daydreams that flow gently before either fading in to the next track or ending abruptly. They remind me of spacing out in class back when I was in grade school before my teacher called my name and tersely forced my mind back to reality. The extremely loud "Baxter Corner" follows the pretty "Sara Snow" with the sound of Syd Barrett channeling Damaged-era Black Flag.
Although White Fence is 16 songs, most of them are short and the whole thing goes by quickly. Not every song here is worth the cut though and "The Gallery" and "Sick Doctor Blues" just kind of warble their way forward without any real melodies to grasp on to. The album ends with the best song on the record, "Be Right Too" and serves as an awesome sign of the songwriting chops that Presley has continued to develop with each successive White Fence album. Interestingly enough, it is also the best sounding, as if Presley had finally figured how to properly use his four-track. These songs take repeated listens to sink in but once they do, Presley's melodic gifts and penchant for interesting instrumentation begin to shine through. The album is spotty and not every song is a winner but the good definitely outshines the bad and nothing overstays its welcome. White Fence serves as a journey through the mind and influences of Tim Presley and is a solid listen for any fans of lo-fi psychedelic rock.

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Ecommerce Templates provides a powerful shopping cart software solution integrating into the main HTML editors and CSS layouts. It is also possible to use our Generic version to integrate into your existing site or our WordPress integration to add a shopping cart to your Wordpress site or theme.
The price is $159 (approximately £100) for all the shopping cart software. (We sell in US dollars). The software behind all the versions is the same, only the front end changes. The purchase price is a one time fee, there are no monthly costs as you are free to choose where you want to host your store. The purchase comes with 6 months of free support and updates which can be renewed if required.
The idea here is very simple, you select the design you want to work from or use the Generic Template to integrate into an existing design and you will be ready to make design changes in your favourite HTML editor. You then upload the files to your server, make the database connection and you are ready to start adding products and categories to your store.
You will need to be able to process orders through your store and the software integrates with the top payment processing companies. It is also possible to take credit card information and process it offline using our capture card method.
All the default store generated language can be edited and you can also change from showing US States to UK Counties on checkout.


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Funeral program for Mrs. Jewel K. Crutchfield, born October 25, 1917 and died October 12, 1998. The funeral was held October 15, 1998 at St. Philip's Episcopal Church.
Creator: Unknown. October 15, 1998.
This pamphlet is part of the collection entitled: Texas Cultures Online and one other and was provided by San Antonio Public Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 113 times . More information about this pamphlet can be viewed below.
[Funeral Program for Jewel K. Crutchfield, October 15, 1998], pamphlet, October 15, 1998; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth226039/: accessed April 18, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting San Antonio Public Library.


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If you own an Android device, it is important to set up your Google Account so that you and your phone are protected in the event of an emergency, theft or loss.
Your phone manufacturer may offer alternate features to those available in your Google Account.
For example: with a Samsung account you will get the additional options of retrieving your call log, perform a new backup, disable the device from powering off etc.
I recommend getting both the Google and the Manufacturer specific accounts setup correctly.
These are Apps with account access and less secure app access.
If you access your Google Account with a product that is deemed as “less secure” then you should set the “Allow less secure apps” to be ON.
A less secure app can be a product such as Windows Live Mail or Microsoft Outlook. If you want to continue to use a less secure product to access your Google account then you must leave “Allow less secure apps” to be ON.
In “Your devices”, Turn on app & device protection on your …‘Phone name’.
Google Play Protect checks your device and prevents or warns about potential harm.
Set up your recovery email address and recovery phone number. This information helps you to get back into your account if you forget your password or cannot access your account.
Backup is one of essential services, should your phone be lost, stolen or damaged.
Select Backup and check that the following is backed up.
Backup to Google Drive is set to “On”.
Switch individual sync items on or off as required.
Click on Find Your Phone (4th item in the list).
Go through the verification TEST by typing in your Google password.
You now have a collection of options depending on the circumstances of the loss.
Whether or not you have locked your phone, you can now do so with a password, enter a contact no and a message.
Consider erasing your device (this provides an ERASE button).
This erase procedure may also erase the contents on your memory card. After an erase you will no longer have remote access to your phone.
The finder is still able to access the Emergency information (ICE contacts and personal medical information) by tapping EMERGENCY. (See https://martinshelpdesk.com/ice).
Once retrieved the owner will have the ability to enter a PIN or password and unlock the phone.
For the third time in six months Martin has sorted out problems with my pc. On the last occasion he verbally smacked my wrist for attempting to do something beyond my competence; but still only …More charged me the half hour the job should have needed instead of the full hour he spent correcting my mistakes.


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Inspiration for design can come from surprising sources. This video from Foscarini reveals the unusual mix of influences behind their Spokes lighting collection.
Working with Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini, designer Luca Nichetto reveals in this film how he was inspired by his Venetian heritage to create the Plass lamp.
Moooi CEO and co-founder Casper Vissers revealed the inner workings of the company he founded with Marcel Wanders in 2001.
Speaking with Marcus Fairs in London, Rolf Fehlbaum shared the philosophy behind Swiss furniture group Vitra: stay small, be crazy about design and balanced with business.
Celebrating 10 years in design, textile and product designer Donna Wilson makes knitted ‘creatures’ that she manufactures in her East London studio and dispatches to the world.
Philippe Starck has created the largest single-moulded polycarbonate armchair for Italian furniture maker Kartell – meet ‘Uncle Jack’.
Domaine de Boisbuchet in the French Poitou-Charentes region is a coveted design destination each summer when it hosts workshops led by designers who this year included Patricia Urquiola.
Designer Werner Aisslinger recently constructed his take on the “Home of the Future” during Berlin’s DMY design show. A series of familiar items ‘re-designed’ the show looked at some very interesting and sustainable ideas.
Torbjørn Andersen and Espen Voll first gained recognition after co-founding Oslo-based Norway Says, a Norwegian design outfit that along with Swedish groups including Front and Claesson Kolvisto Rune, has helped to define Scandinavian design.
Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Louis Ghost chair by Philippe Starck, German publisher Taschen launches a new book Kartell – The Culture of Plastics.

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I’m a seasoned research lead with a deep knowledge of methods and a proven track record for impact and influence with teams, product managers, and executives.
If you’re here, that probably means you’re interested in my work, maybe you want to know more about me or houssian.com.
Here’s my Resume, or if you prefer connect with me on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter.

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I started by choosing papers from the Fairy Belle collection, distressing the edges with scissors and Black Sooth ink (Ranger).
I used a crackle stamp (Prima) with jet black ink (Stazon) on the gray paper.
I applied some pink chalk (Prima) on the last paper, then Platinum crackle paste (Prima) over a damsk stencil (Prima). When the paste was dried, I rub some silver gelato (faber-Castell) over the paste.
The metal embellishments were gessoed, then cover with Platinum crackle paste, and silver gelato too. I just add some pink chalk over it.
The resin frame (Prima) has gelato on it, it makes the design pop up.
Flowers are from different collection by Prima. I assembled the pink one from 4 hydrangeas. The gray poinsettia is cut out from one Fairy Belle paper and decorate with platinum paste over a crackle stencil (Prima Marketing).
Some lace distressed with black ink and pink chalk, Say-it-with-Pearl swirls (Prima) and my card was done !
I almost forgot the sentiment ! It's a stamp from the Julie Nutting Merry Nice stamp set.
So, this shabby project make my 15th Christmas card !Waoh ! We are half way ! You have 15 days left to comment on any of my Christmas 2016 cards to enter my giveaway. Don't forget to follow my blog to validate these entries !
Thank you for stopping by and reading my blog. See you tomorrow for another card !
What a beautiful creation !!
Thank you for your kind comment AND for following my blog, Doris !

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EUCLID has its origin in a cooperative academic program hosted by the University Bangui in 2006-2008, during the tenure of Professor Faustin Touadera (later on Prime Minister Touadera and more recent President of the country) as rector of the university.
In late 2010 and during 2013, the “elegant” (coquette) capital city was affected by political and civil instability. for this reason, EUCLID’s operational headquarters were relocated to The Gambia in West Africa in 2013, Gambia being a country noted for its stability and touristic appeal.
iN 2015, Constitutional order and safetyreturned to the capital city of Bangui in 2015, and the situation is quite normal as of 2016, owing to a large extent to the work of President Touadera’s government with the support of the international community. Today, downtown Bangui is a much safer that many other Western cities such as Miami or Marseilles, and many investors and visitors are returning to the capital.
EUCLID liaison officers can help arrange a successful visit.
Photo above: EUCLID’s historic offices in the Prime Minister’s tower known as Tour Pétroca. EUCLID’s offices are now located in the ENAM buildings (Ecole Nationale d’Administration et de Magistrature).


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During an audit we found a one commit pushed files from one folder into two repositories. The commit occurred following a successful switch. It appears the switch was still running in the background so files were split across the two branches.
Next message: Banani Banerjee: "strange problem running svnserve server with -d"


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Rock band MUCC announced on May 21st that they will be switching record labels from DANGER CRUE RECORDS to Sony Music Associated Records.
The announcement was made during MUCC's concert in the�Nippon Budokan, the last stop for their live tour, "TOUR 'Chemical Parade'". The news immediately caused the audience to go into a frenzy. In addition, the band also revealed that a live DVD will be released for "TOUR 'Chemical Parade'" and that on June 9th (a.k.a. "MUCC day"*), they will hold a livetitled "Maniac Parade 97~11" in Tokyo's STUDIO COAST.
Both the live tour DVD and MUCC's 1st single with Sony will be released in the fall. The June 9th live tickets go on sale starting May 29th.
The announcements caused the audience to go into a frenzy.
Tamurapan tries dancing for the first time in her PV for "Shinpai"


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The inevitable question after the wedding. I’ve gotten this question a few times, though curiously enough, not from my immediate family. Still, I’m a planner, and as Zach will admit, I’m always thinking about the next step. We don’t have many friends starting families yet, which make it seem further away. However, we started planning a visit to the first baby among our college friends. That visit brought this topic to the forefront of our minds.
Our wedding ceremony was a seamless incorporation of both of our faiths, and I was so happy with the outcome. It didn’t feel like a compromise, but when I think back on it, there was a lot of compromise! I gave up my dream of being married in a Catholic church with a mass, but was able to secure a priest to co-celebrate the ceremony. Similarly, Zach on his own may have selected a ceremony with less ritual, but he met me in the middle and we created something beautiful. To trust that having children will work out similarly seems both naive and incredibly freeing.
I entered our marriage with a careful combination of research and trust. Will the same combo serve me well in starting a family? Is it irresponsible to not have it all “figured out?” The nuances of our differences seem debilitating in some ways. Zach’s spiritual life relies much less on ritual and education than mine does. Our questions go beyond “Do they get a baptism or a bris?” We are raising fundamental questions about what our spiritual life will look like for our children, beyond holidays and into life cycle events, weekly services and religious education.
For example, how will our child learn about our faiths? Will we rely on traditional religious education in one or both of our religions, join a community like Interfaith Families Project or rely on instruction at home? Religious education gave me the religious and spiritual foundation for a healthy adult life. I worry that less structure will mean my child has less to fall back on in times of doubt, fear or sadness. Zach has a different view of religious education and celebrates personal spirituality and growth over group structure and rules. In my spiritual life, one begot the other; Zach worries that one will preclude the other.
What does this mean for us? First of all, in no way am I doubting that my decision to marry Zach was what God intended for us, or that I made a decision without considering all of these things. On the contrary, I made that decision in careful prayer and consideration. Zach and I discussed these things before we got married and saw a willingness to share and compromise. Second, it means that the time frame for thinking about kids might be longer for us. We might want to start considering what our family faith life, religious observances and education plan looks like before we start talking about actually having a baby. Looks like my research skills will continue to come in handy for our family, even after the wedding!


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Journal of Virology (JVI) continues to be the premier virology journal, with over 89,000 citations in 2017, making JVI the #1 cited journal in Virology. In all, 856 manuscripts were published in JVI in 2017. We have introduced two new initiatives in 2018. The journal is now format neutral for the initial submission to allow authors to submit to JVI from preprint sites or other journals. Starting in 2019, there will be a new section, Meeting Reviews, with reviews from different conferences. Conference organizers can contact a JVI editor whose expertise is within the topics of the conference and the editor will coordinate with the organizers and session chairs. Meeting Reviews will be in the Minireview format.
The editors and reviewers are to be commended for their hard work to ensure that the review process is constructively critical, fair, and objective and that turnaround times are prompt. The average time from manuscript submission to the editors’ first decision letter now stands at 25 days. I would like to thank all of the JVI reviewers over the past year. The publication of the very best science depends upon expert reviewers being willing to devote their time and effort. We are grateful to the 1,571 reviewers who accepted the invitation to review for JVI during the past year. I would especially like to thank the following 25 reviewers, whose service to JVI during the past year was exceptional in the total number of manuscripts reviewed, submitting reviews in 14 days or less, and accepting the invitation to review more than 80% of the time.

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Alice has made a startling discovery. She can’t afford the life she is living.
Her income changed severely after the legal wrangling of last year, followed by the associated drama with her car.
When her 10-year-old car blew a head gasket, she had to get another one. Car to Alice is spelled with a capital C. While her newer 5 year-old car brings her much pleasure, the monthly payment is hard to swallow.
Other necessities include things that make life more fun. A designer handbag. Pretty rings. The annual trek to the Oregon Coast. Presents for her grandchildren.
Let’s not forget fingernails! Alice still has pretty hands, so she has her nails “done” once a month. She has pretty hair, too. Left on its own, it would be tinged with grey … which can be such a drab color. So she pays big bucks to have it trimmed, touched up, foiled and styled. But one can hardly get out of a Caddy with ragged nails and bad hair!
Then came the dog, rescued from a bereft life after her person died. And with the dog came the Groomer, the Vet for check-ups and shots, healthy food, leashes, bed, car seat, and the must-have first photo with Santa.
Staying healthy is the cornerstone of getting older, so Alice has periodic appointments with a variety of medical professionals. Her insurance premium went up this year. She didn’t get any additional benefits; she just pays more.
Then there are, of course, the tiresome things: fixed bills for mandatory living expenses; along with discretionary expenditures for tasty crab and lobster tails, boneless short ribs and cage-free eggs, Grey Goose, organic salads and veggies. All a source of both healthful necessity and pleasure.
Alice views life as finding the balance between quality and quantity … with far more emphasis on the quality of her life rather than how long she hangs around the planet. If she can’t walk on trails and beaches, fish and crab, read the latest books, have fun with her family and friends, and drive over Stevens Pass in a car that “corners like it’s on rails” … then, for Alice, what’s the point?
Quality of life also means doing special things once in a while. This year it is immersing herself in the music, drama, and emotions of “The Phantom of the Opera” one more time.
As soon as the tickets went on sale, she bought one for a great seat in the Loge of the Paramount Theater. Since this would no doubt be the last time she saw that glorious chandelier plunge from the ceiling, no point in skimping on her view.
The bottom line is Alice’s income is fixed and her outgo is on an upward trajectory. She knows from Business 101 this is not the ideal situation. Yet it is here that she finds herself, along with a dwindling IRA.
Thankfully her financial advisor understands YOLO … You Only Live Once … and sends the “bail-out” funds when she needs them.
Alice is now trying to calculate how long she can afford to live, given her current lifestyle. There’s no doubt that one day she will be forced to cut back on the French perfume, foiled high-lights in her hair, and buying “simply must have” art.
In the meantime, we leave Alice with a spring in her step and a smile on her face, walking faster and farther as the money dribbles out of her pockets.
So much war, pain and suffering in the world at large. Too much to take in and make any sense. More fun to find distractions; focus on pretty words; savor sweet images.
It’s easier for us who have no skin in the game. When we don’t even know the men and women fulfilling their missions, following orders for someone’s Game Plan. The people who enlist have their own reasons. They make a choice, knowing little about what they’re signing up for, but still … making a choice.
But then there are the dogs that are part of the rank and file. They did not choose. They are there to work. Loyal, trustworthy, talented, with super skills and senses, and tireless energy and stamina. Ready to serve.
The latest favorite canines for battle are the Belgian Malinois, smaller with more stamina than their predecessor the German Shepherd. With short hair and intelligent faces. Unlimited energy. Amazing strength and endurance.
Even as puppies, the faces of the Belgian Malinois are so intent, eyes lit by intelligence, probably expecting there will be sheep to herd when they are older.
If one is a non-violent pacifist, with no personal investment in what has been decided, it is hard to be touched by the remoteness of it all. Troops all dressed the same in deserts or rocky mountainous terrain, fighting enemies who all look alike. It is hard to become engaged.
But then … the dogs. They are another matter. Those sweet intent faces. Those willing spirits, filled with unconditional love for and trust in their human handler.
Searching out danger fearlessly, tirelessly. Dropping from airplanes at unimaginable heights. Never asking why. Never doubting the importance of the “work” they do.
I cannot relate to the camaraderie among buddies in this group or that one. Sharing stories, smokes, snacks sent from home. Have no idea what goes through their minds as they travel on roads riddled with IEDs, closed up in armored vehicles.
But animals are different. They know not what the ultimate mission is or why it matters. They trust … protect … out-run, out-last … eyes open, ears alert, senses on high.
They fearlessly lunge into battle: into the water; into the crowded marketplace; even falling through the sky attached to their handlers. Without religious convictions or political opinions, their devotion to their handler and the assignment is pure.
And like their handlers, only some of them come home after a job well done.
"I wish that I could make you see that Heaven indeed is real.
You'll step out of the darkness, and meet me in the light."

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As an objective measure of global retinal function loss and recovery,1-2 flicker electroretinography (ERG) provides information that helps inform treatment decisions in a number of pathologies including diabetic retinopathy (DR),1,3 branch (BRVO) and central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO),4,5 and uveitis,6 among others.
Gain insight into this fundamental test for your patients. Download the ebook today.
1. Holm K, et al. Peripheral retinal function assessed with 30-Hz flicker seems to improve after treatment with Lucentis in patients with diabetic macular oedema. Doc Ophthalmol. 2015;131:43-51. 2. Yasuda S, et al. Flicker electroretinograms before and after intravitreal ranibizumab injection in eyes with central retinal vein occlusion. Acta Ophthalmol. 2015;93:e465-8. 3. Pescosolido N, et al. Role of Electrophysiology in the Early Diagnosis and Follow-Up of Diabetic Retinopathy. J Diabetes Res;2015:319692. 4. Noma H, et al. Association of electroretinogram and morphological findings in branch retinal vein occlusion with macular edema. Doc Ophthalmol. 2011;123:83-91. 5. Noma H, et al. Association of electroretinogram and morphological findings in central retinal vein occlusion with macular edema. Clin Ophthalmol. 2014;8:191-7. 6. Moschos MM, et al. Electrophysiological examination in uveitis: a review of the literature. Clin Ophthalmol. 2014;8:199-214.


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As the world continues to struggle in its effort to find a solution to the ever growing threat of Islamic fundamentalism, a very simple reality is very often overlooked -- and at times deliberately neglected.
In the years leading to World War II, the appeasement policy advocated by the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain vis-a-vis the fascist regimes of Europe forced him to declare war on Nazi Germany after Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland, and the rest is history.
Decades later, we are literally witnessing history repeating itself as the West, spearheaded by the Obama administration in Washington, has once again embraced the appeasement/engagement policy. This time, it is with a fascist regime in Iran. The objective is to encourage the emergence of moderates from within the mullahs’ establishment. This misguided policy has unfortunately led to the de facto rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
The regime in Iran is relying on three main pillars and platforms to safeguard its ruling system: domestic oppression and harrowing human rights violations, perennial support for international terrorism, and the all-out effort to obtain nuclear weapons by any means possible.
Long before Daesh -- the Arabic acronym for the self-proclaimed Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL -- ever came to existence, the mullahs sitting on the throne in Iran claimed having the prophecy and manifestation to rule over all Islamic countries under such a caliphate.
For nearly four decades, Iran has literally posed the first and foremost threat for peace and security for Middle East and beyond.
The Obama administration sought to tame the regime in Iran through an outreach effort to seal an agreement over Tehran’s ongoing differences with the international community regarding its suspicious and clandestine nuclear program.
After years of overt and covert talks, the P5+1 finally closed an agreement in July 2015 for Iran to cooperate in curbing its emblematic nuclear program in return for certain concessions.
The international community expected Iran to at least principally alter previous methods, and remedy its menacing behavior.
However, the mullahs in Tehran – under pressure from their dismal base – built on this naïve expectation and continued wreaking havoc by meddling in the region, test-firing a string of ballistic missiles despite the U.N. Security Council denouncing such measures, and launching massive waves of executions in prisons across the country.
"Decades later, we are literally witnessing history repeating itself as the West, spearheaded by the Obama administration in Washington, has once again embraced the appeasement/engagement policy. This time, it is with a fascist regime in Iran. The objective is to encourage the emergence of moderates from within the mullahs’ establishment. This misguided policy has unfortunately led to the de facto rise of Islamic fundamentalism."
Interestingly, despite all these undeniable facts, the West, and the Obama administration in particular, simply refuse to accept the reality that Iran will not budge to denounce its past or welcome any change whatsoever, nor will it allow its already tenuous hegemony be tethered.
We have to accept the fact that any talk of “moderates” and “hardliners” in Iran is merely playing into Tehran’s hands.
The mentality of all factions inside Iran is founded based on Islamic fundamentalism, denying freedoms for all and most importantly, strict gender segregation and discrimination.
Iran under its “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani is known to have executed more than 2,400 people from June 2013 onward. Recent startling reports indicate Iran sent 23 prisoners to the gallows in the span of two days of May 17th and 18th, and placed in solitary confinement 10 young inmates aged between 21 and 25, all in preparation for their executions.
Further disturbing news from Iran show how dozens of high school graduates were arrested and lashed 99 times each for throwing, and dancing at, a graduation party. This should provide a clear insight about the mullahs’ temperament.
This complex, defiant threat was first unearthed more than two decades ago by the Iranian opposition in a book titled Islamic Fundamentalism: The New Global Threat. It precisely evaluated the very foundation of this mentality.
Nor would Bashar al-Assad, following the footsteps dictated by Iran, have massacred the Syrian people in a turmoil enduring for more than five years now.
The regime in Tehran is the epicenter of provoking this multi-layered misery, and offers a safe haven for terrorists.
Four decades of their onslaught against the Middle East and world over has proven the international community has been neglecting the mainstream solution to this major dilemma.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, symbolized in the leadership of Maryam Rajavi and her 10-point plan for Iran, presents a democratic alternative for Iran to dislodge the mullahs.
He added: “At the core of all these problems is the regime in Iran. It should be changed, it must be changed, it has to be changed…There should be support by the United States government for an opposition in Iran. The United States government should support the opposition groups, Mrs. Rajavi's being the most prominent, and the biggest."

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Stress. Everybody has to deal with it, some more than others. Some cope better with stress, while others simply cannot handle any stress, and then there are individuals who experience chronic stress. In fact, chronic stress is the worst type, which is known to make you fat. Let's face it, stress is everywhere - at home, at work, financial stress, and so on. You can't escape it, so you have to learn to deal with it, make the best of it, and most importantly, avoid falling into the vicious trap of chronic stress. Many research studies have found is a direct link between stress and chronic stress with weight gain and visceral obesity.
So exactly what is stress and chronic stress?
The researchers also stated that "chronic stress is associated to derangement of metabolic homeostasis that contributes to the clinical presentation of visceral obesity, type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis and metabolic syndrome... Notably, indices of stress in the modern western societies correlate with the increasing incidence of both obesity and the metabolic syndrome which have reached epidemic proportions over the past decades." There are some stress that you can work to remove from your everyday life, but there are also other stress that you just have to deal with. But when you're feeling stressed out, there are stress relief supplements you can take such as Relaxzen.
Relaxzen relaxation beverages are designed to help reduce stress, and help you feel relaxed.
Disclosure: I was contacted by Mike S., a representative of Relaxzen regarding their product line. A request for reviews was made, and I was happy to oblige. Please note, however, no payment or compensation was received in any way, and you can be sure that this review, like all other reviews on the site, are free from bias and free from manufacturer influence. For this review, I received one box (12 bottles) of Relaxzen daytime formula.
So, how did I make out with my samples of Relaxzen? It was excellent, indeed. It certainly tastes good. The day formula is called "mellow berry' flavor, and it tastes great. I almost wish that they made it in to a 355ml can or bottle type of drink.
Before I tell you more about how Relaxzen worked on me, I need tell you a bit about my background and situation, so you have a better understanding of the stressors in my life, and the current situation I'm in while I tested it out. I have two beautiful kids, 3 and 1 at the time of this writing, and let me tell you that going through the birth of both of my children are probably the two most stressful events in my entire life.
I was very receptive when I was contacted to do a review on Relaxzen, and have to admit that they sure picked a good time for me to try out their product.
When I received the samples in the mail, I did not hesitate to try it out. When I felt stressed out due to the pregnant sister-in-law, I'd have a relaxzen. On the night (11pm) when she was about to go into labor and preparing to head for the hospital, boy was I stressed out - to the point where I have to tell myself to take a deep breath (LOL). So I grabbed a bottle of Relaxzen. It works! And shortly after, I told my sister-in-law that she's welcome to have as many babies as she wants at that point in time, since I was feeling pretty darn good. =) I was not feeling stressed.
The wonderful thing about Relaxzen is that you never realize that it's doing what it's supposed to do because, honestly, when you are feeling perfectly fine and good, you're not going to be paying much attention to your state of well-being. So when I'm stressed out, and take a Relaxzen, I have to pause for a moment, and actually put some thought into how I was feeling at that particular moment in time, and it's not until I've made an effort to evaluate my state of well-being that I realize and say to myself: "Hey, this stuff works! I don't feel stressed out right now."
I was relaxed and calm, and things that might normally bug me or drive me up the wall seemed rather trivial, and having 2 kids in the house surely tested those limits on a constant basis.
Relaxzen seems to start working almost right away - at least within the first few minutes of taking it. But, your state of feeling and relaxation is such a subjective assessment that it's hard to pinpoint when relaxzen is working, until you realize, and say to yourself: "hey, I'm not feeling stressed right now! And that's making me feel pretty good."
There you have it, my experience with Relaxzen, and I commend Mike on his impeccable timing for sending me product samples.
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Reductions in occipital cortex GABA levels in panic disorder detected with 1h-magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
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FORM: Self clumping with light green fronds and yellow coloured stems. Flower stalks are yellow. Suitable as a screening plant.
MAINTENANCE: Moderate - trimming of old fronds.

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THE Philippine market is sorely lacking its very own locally produced cat food, but that could change if the first set of trials spearheaded by a doctoral student succeeds.
Five cat food flavors, all using squash as major ingredient, are undergoing market tests and could be the start of a local brand that can help farmers and give cat owners an alternative to imported cat food products.
Hazel Alfon, who is taking up Doctor in Business Administration from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, developed her own kitty fare for her research project in functional strategy and business ethics.
A cat lover herself, she wanted to cook up something inexpensive but nutritious for cats and at the same time create an opportunity for squash growers to sell more of their crop.
Counterclockwise: Pre-packed wet cat food, dry kibble in pouches, Hazel Alfon with her cats and a box of her cat food.
“What prompted me to do the study is the surplus of squash during harvest time. Lugi yung farmers, halos ipamigay na yung kalabasa nila. (Farmers lose...almost giving their squash away).
With both the cats' and farmers' welfare in mind, Alfon set about baking her first handmade dry kibble. She soon, however, switched to wet cat food as she believes cats need it more to supplement their water intake.
A licensed chemist, Alfon told MetroPets that she did extensive research on the kinds of food that are good and bad for cats. She also took samples of her squash-based cat food to the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) for analysis. In addition, she consulted with veterinarians to make sure her cat food is safe. Later on, she used social media networks to invite cat owners to try her products for free.
“My cat food are all-natural, human grade and with no salt and chemical pre-treatment,” Alfon said.
Alfon added that she uses from 80 to 90 percent fish, beef, chicken breast, liver or gizzard. The rest are vegetables, particularly squash.
Not your everyday wet ingredients for a cat food, but MetroPets' cat taste testers didn't seem to mind.
Sealed silver pouches, each containing 85 grams of any of the five flavors, were shipped to market testers who volunteered to feed it to their cats for seven days. Alfon said the most common feedback she received pertains to cats' poop becoming less stinky or even stink-free!
MetroPets' resident cat reviewers tested Alfon's homemade cat food and while they showed indifference at first, they soon acquired the taste and feel for it. The top hits were the squash with chicken and squash with beef. Used to the texture of paté, the cats set aside morsels of ox tripe. They ate the fish variants with no complain but also with less gusto.
Meanwhile, Alfon told MetroPets that she has started work on another cat food specifically for lactating cats.
If all goes well with her cat food, Alfon said she plans to turn it into a business and share her revenues with animals shelters.
I intend to get a cat  as my pet. This cat food is a must try.


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Teaching in Vietnam was not part of my life plan, but the Spirit clearly had other ideas.
The beginning of this story is really the arrival in the USA of the Vietnamese refugees in 1975 and the rapid growth of their presence and importance in the SVD. Since I was a formator at the Chicago Theologate in the late ‘80s, I got to know all of the early Vietnamese to come through their formation in the USA. So when I was Vice-Provincial in the 90s they pushed me to request action on the part of the Superior General and his council to rekindle the connections made earlier with the Brothers of St. Joseph in Vietnam. Instead of sending a member of the general council, our superiors encouraged us to make a visit, consult with the Brothers, and see how things looked for the SVD to possibly engage some mission in the country.
It was that visit, made in 1993 with Frs. Joseph Tri and Joseph Vu that led to me becoming an advisor to the Vietnam province in 2014. Some of the former members of the Brothers of St. Joseph remembered my earlier visit and suggested I might be helpful with some policy development in line with their ongoing transition to the SVD. By this time of course, all the former members of the Brothers’ congregation had become SVDs and were working hard to adopt practices fully consonant with the rest of the Society.
After making a series of short visits to Vietnam, and as I was approaching the end of my service at Divine Word Theologate, it was a natural next step to spend longer periods of time in Vietnam. The great need that stood out to me as something I might be able to assist with was a lack of strong English skills as candidates went for their Overseas Training or their first assignments as SVDs. The newly elected Superiors in Vietnam agreed with this assessment and my request to teach here. They had observed that arriving in a foreign country with only Vietnamese language and very limited English made the orientation and entry processes extremely difficult for our young Vietnamese candidates and members.
The inevitable cross-cultural challenges were compounded by the scarcity of contact with other cultures while in Vietnam. It was all very new and strange, so not having better skills for communication intensified the isolation that all missionaries experience in the early stages of entering a new culture.
I arrived in the Vietnam province for a kind of six month trial period in January 2015. Next came six grueling months of trying to get the Vietnamese to stick in my brain and come out in intelligible words (I confess with very limited success!). After an evaluation of the trial period, we agreed to continue with the plan for teaching.
So, I travelled to Nha Trang where fifty-one postulants welcomed their new English teacher. Now I teach eight periods of English language each week. The periods last for 45 minutes, so the two halves of the postulants’ group, Year I and Year II, each get four class periods a week from me and additional English classes from local teachers. I enjoy this ministry and hope my students are gaining something that will serve them well for the future.
In the meantime, I am happy in this lovely coastal town with an SVD community that has welcomed and supported me these last few months. Much remains uncertain about how long I will be able to continue this mission, but for now I am confident I am in the right place and doing something of value for our future Vietnamese missionaries.
It still amazes me that I am even here and I thank God for the mysterious and wonderful ways of the Spirit at work in our lives.


text: Balance Training Equipment as well as gym apparatuses by stilum have been developed in cooperation with physicians and physiotherapists. A special emphasis has been placed on the demands of elderly people on these apparatuses. This is why they promote and challenge body and spirit alike. Balance apparatuses in the usual high-quality stilum design encourage users to intuition training.

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Neville has lived here for fifty years and Alan is from Australia but wants to move to New Cross.
Talk To Me London!!! We are at the Bus Stop on New Cross Road SE14. Come and start a conversation with a complete stranger. You may have fun.
This young man was stabbed by a gang of twenty. He's lucky to be alive.
The Pastor and Delara. She is not a believer.
Portugese speaking gentleman taking part in, Talk To Me London.
Dede says in Africa people speak all the time.
Daniella from Scilly have just arrived in Lewisham and love it here.
Derek's mother killed herself and his nan brought him up. She died last week, in the seventies she was attacked and had ammonia thrown in her eyes.
Neil says I have early stage memory loss ha ha he could be right. He survived early stage lung cancer over 40 years ago.


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In recent years, artificial reefs have contributed significantly to the growth of recreational scuba diving in North Carolina waters. The diversity of fish and the interesting assortment of material types make North Carolina artificial reefs favorite areas for divers to visit. North Carolina offers world-class diving opportunities and is often hailed as the top wreck-diving destination in North America. Besides sight-seeing, sport divers visit artificial reefs to explore history and enjoy underwater photography, videography, spear fishing and more.
Diving conditions on North Carolina's artificial reefs vary greatly, but water temperatures, visibility and weather conditions are most favorable between June and October. With summer water temperatures hovering in the mid-80s and visibility of more than 100 feet, North Carolina artificial reefs can offer Caribbean-like diving without the lengthy travel. However, conditions are not always this favorable. Currents and visibility are dependent upon weather conditions, water depth, distance offshore, tidal stage, time of year and many other factors. Divers should always use caution when planning trips, as water temperatures may be as cold as 50 degrees in the winter, visibility may be reduced to a foot or less and currents may be strong. Choose days wisely and enjoy.

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During a recent visit to see my sister in Australia, she announced that we were going to the Blue Mountains to stay in an old colonial hotel, the Carrington, in a time warp of Edwardian stained glass and heavy brown furniture. It was a delight. In the heat of February we had afternoon tea indoors rather than on the verandah, and were entertained whilst eating our sandwiches, scones and cakes, by a pianist who looked strangely familiar. At the grand piano sat a rather scruffy individual in a very stained suit, his tie covered with the remains of many meals. He smiled, to reveal buck teeth, and his shoulders were decorated with drifts of dandruff. The crowning touch, on closer inspection, was a distinct whiff of something unpleasant.
His repertoire was amazing. He knew songs from the great days of musicals, the classics from Mozart and Chopin to great opera arias, and would play requests of anything from any era.
The sniggering as we compared him with the great character created by Barry Humphries, Sir Les Patterson, ‘Australian Cultural Attaché’, gave way to admiration. He was a modest kindly man who had seen better times. Could Barry Humphries have been inspired by him to create his memorably odious character? We could hardly ask!
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As of January 22, Belarusian 3GSM operator BeST has 1 570 subscribers. BeST, a stet-owned company, launched its services on December 21, 2005.
83% of BeST clients are men, 17% - women, the youngest BeST subscriber is 16 years old and oldest is 80 years old. The average age of BeSt subscribers is 27, 96 years old. 76% of subscribers are under 34 years old.


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I am new to this. Online I can only find census records up to 1930. Are later records available in county courthouses?
you might check the state web site for records or if your close to the state capital go into the local library or the capital.
the 1940 census will be the next to be publicly released in April of 2012. As soon as it is indexed, it will be online.
Thank you both for taking the time to answer this. I just figured I was not doing it correctly. I will take up your suggestions. I am still trying to organize what I have learned and get it on paper. We were excited to find some of the earlier census records told us the address of some relatives and we were able to find some of the houses still being used. This could easily become very time consuming – BUT so much fun! I am sure I am not telling you anything new. Thanks again.


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Here in New England, fall is beautiful; the leaves start turning, the air is crisp and there is always a lingering smell of cinnamon and spices. After a day of mulling cider on the stove, I love to curl up with a good book or listen to an audiobook in the background.
With Halloween approaching, I am trying to get my hands on everything vampire! The Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris is one of my favorites. They have everything from vampires to werewolves, shape shifters and fairies. I love holding the much treasured books in my hand. I get so excited to flip onto the next page to see which supernatural creature is waiting for me and what the next big scandal will be in Bon Temps, Louisiana. As some of my top books, I was delighted to find out they were already on audio. Narrator Johanna Parker confirms everything that I imagine when reading the series. Her southern drawl for Sookie and her emotions really bring my visions to full force. Listening to the audiobook brings my imagination to a whole new level, and I enjoy the story much more. I listened to the first three books in the series in one week. That is a record!
It is great when one of your favorite books gets made into an audiobook. What is your favorite book that you love even more on audio?
The Sookie Stackhouse series is available on audio from Recorded Books.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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The castle dates back to the 15th century, and is one of the oldest in the Waasland. It is built of white sandstone, in Flemish Renaissance style.
For centuries it was in the possession successively of the Triest, Goubau and de Brouchoven de Bergeyck families.


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Our eCommerce client is looking for a truly talented, cheerful designer to help re-brand one of their websites. This isn't about being ‘just good enough,” you have to want to deliver on nothing less than excellence-- in sprints. You will have an important role in raising the creative bar for the site and helping cross-functional teams understand and meet that standard along the way.
Basic Qualifications • Minimum of 5 years design and branding experience, with 2+ years of digital experience • Experience working with cross-functional teams across platforms, and with partners including UI, UX, and APP designers and developers • Strong portfolio demonstrating a deep understanding of brand identity.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


text: Umbrella Stands are fantastically useful objects, perfect for holding all those stray walking sticks, rackets, bats and umbrellas. This one is generously sized, made from solid porcelain and comes hand-decorated with our beautiful Iznik design. Keep it by the back door or in the hall and you'll never forget your umbrella again!.


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LCA provides wastewater collection service for about 600 residential and commercial properties in the he villages of Slatedale and Emerald, and other areas surrounding the Borough of Slatington in Washington Township. Due to the location of this system, this is a stand-alone system and is not connected to our regional system of interceptors. However, it is connected to the Borough of Slatington sewer system, and the borough provides treatment services at its wastewater treatment plant.
This sysem is owed by Washington Township, and LCA is operating the system, including providing billing and customer service, based on a long-term lease agreement with the township. LCA’s services in his community are focused on managing the sewer system in a cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner, and collaborating with the Borough on the treatment services it provides.

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Hampshire Mezzanine Floors undertake the design, supply, installation & construction of mezzanine floors & racking systems within the Alton area, plus carry out the complete mezzanine flooring fit within your premises. HMF often undertake refit & partitioning work in offices, retail outlets, factories and warehouses located in Alton. Specialising in Mezzanines for over 25 years HMF also supply and fit Dexion warehouse racking and pallet shelving, racking inspections, building works, mechanical and electrical installations.
We are also able to undertake mezzanine flooring work in other areas of Hampshire in addition to Alton, so please do contact us for more information and a no obligation quote.

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Social Vision pays close attention to healthcare, with a special focus on the developing world. Innovations in healthcare help to combat poverty and malnutrition eventually impacting on economic growth.
Diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, placing a substantial burden on healthcare services. Historically, diabetes was considered a disease confined to developed countries and affluent people. However, recent estimates suggest that the prevalence of diabetes is rising globally, particularly in developing countries.


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text: I was very nervous about receiving a drawing of my characters, but I need not have been. He has captured them beautifully and I am so pleased. It’s incredible to see them there in front of me and not just in my mind.


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industry_corpus2: Media & Journalism


text: Content: "This is the High Priest's treasure chamber. His pet dragon, Sphinx, peers at you hungrily. 'Sphynx eat now,' it growls."


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RIT physics professor Michael Richmond took a different route to work this summer. Instead of the familiar commute to campus and the RIT Observatory on John Street, he navigated the narrow mountain road to the Kiso Observatory in central Honshu, Japan. Richmond stayed for a month in Agematsu, the small town at the base of the mountain, during the second half of his fellowship with the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
Before traveling to Agematsu, Richmond spent the first four weeks of his two-month fellowship working with students and professors at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Astronomy in Mitaka, a suburb of the capital. His colleague Mamoru Doi, a professor at the institute and a collaborator, sponsored Richmond for the fellowship, his second extended research trip to Japan since 2008.
The tragedy of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown on the east coast in March hung in the background of Richmond’s trip. He arrived in Japan for his two-month visit in June in the midst of a slow-moving recovery effort. Richmond notes, however, that the events had little impact on his time in Tokyo or at the Kiso Observatory.
“This region [Nagano] has been spared most of the ills from the big earthquake and nuclear problems,” he says.
Richmond concentrated on helping his Japanese colleagues write software to process raw images captured by the new Kiso Wide Field Camera on the observatory’s 1.05-meter Schmidt telescope.
Large scans of the sky are maps to the universe. Astronomers use them to look for, among other things, bright super novae, or exploding stars, that act as markers for measuring distances to far away galaxies.
Prior to joining RIT in 1997, Richmond wrote software to clean up raw data captured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious effort that began mapping the sky with sensitive electronic detectors in the early 1990s.
Conversing with his colleagues about science and software has been challenging for Richmond, whose grasp of conversational Japanese language—handy for ordering food and asking for directions—doesn’t include technical vocabulary.


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Mark Allinson in the Department of German researches in the area of political culture and everyday life in postwar East Germany; Debbie Pinfold in German explores the relations between modern German politics and literature, and is the co-investigator on an AHRC-funded Network ‘After the Wall: Reconstructing and Representing the GDR’. These two researchers have attracted a Leverhulme Research Fellow, also working on the GDR.
Russianist Claire Shaw specialises in the formation of Soviet identity and the history of marginal groups. Her current research focuses on the history of the deaf community in Soviet Russia, contemporary Russian fashion, and Soviet public space including parks.
Martin Hurcombe in the Department of French specialises in the interface between politics and literature especially French representations of the First World War and Spanish Civil War. Hurcombe is Editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. Paco Romero Salvado in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American (HiPLA) is a political historian of the Spanish Civil War. Caragh Wells in HIPLA specialises in post-war Spanish narrative and urban fiction in Spain and Catalonia.
Ruth Glynn in the Department of Italian works on trauma, terrorism and the anni di piombo. Gino Raymond in French researches the politics of France with particular focus on the political parties and contemporary political issues.
Research in Germanic linguistics in the School of Modern Languages is represented by Nils Langer in German, who writes on historical socio-linguistics, focusing recently on non-standard (‘bad’) German, the fruit of an AHRC-funded project. Langer is co-founder of the international Historical Socio-Linguistics Network (HiSoN).
Research in the transmission of language and culture is foregrounded by the AHRC French in Russia Project, which runs from August 2011 to July 2014. Its aim is to produce the first large-scale, multidisciplinary history of the French language in Russia. The research team (Principal Investigator, Derek Offord, with Vladislav Réjoutski and Sarah Turner) is exploring the impact that French had not only on the use of Russian, but also on Russians' thinking about their own language and, more broadly, on Russian social and political attitudes and on the formation of a sense of national identity. Their findings have resonance in the fields of social, political, cultural, and intellectual history as well as sociolinguistics. The project will also contribute to a field of historical scholarship which is still in its infancy: by treating language as not merely a useful tool for historians but also a subject worthy of historians' attention in its own right, the team will demonstrate that language is itself an aspect of culture, a social institution, a key factor in the conceptions that peoples or groups have of themselves, a political instrument, and a potent force in national life.

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WTI recovered some of the losses of the previous two sessions on Tuesday, with the front future settling $1.52 higher at $47.85. Rumours of a production strike in Norway could take some significant supply offline in the short term.
After the settle APIs were announced with a draw of 3MM with a draw of 1MM at Cushing, we will see if the EIA confirms those numbers later this morning.

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This modern aesthetic is all about mastering that extra bit of shine without feeling run-of-the-mill and sans an exceeding amount of sparkle—it doesn’t always take a cascading chandelier earring or flashy pendant to feel extraordinary. High-shine metals, whether gold, silver, or a mix of both are entirely eye-catching; innovative settings give glittering diamonds new life; geometric shapes are striking in the daintiest form; and pearls appear current with nuanced details.
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The Patrol unit consists of six Sergeants supervising 34 Patrol Officers, five part-time Officers, four Community Service Officers, and one police services specialist. Basic responsibilities include all calls for service and assistance, constant patrols of the community, and traffic enforcement.
The Police Department has divided the Village into four areas called "beats." The formation of these beats was based upon the balancing of call loads within certain obvious geographical markers. Each beat has a Sergeant to coordinate officers assigned to assist the residents in their beat. The beat officers meet to discuss the needs and issues concerning their beats, such as methods that can be utilized to reduce crime, identification of problem areas, meeting and talking to the residents, recommendations for physical changes to a neighborhood (additional lighting, changes in traffic flows, parking changes, etc).


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For someone who dropped out of piano lessons after a single year of laziness and ineptitude, "2 Pianos 4 Hands" sometimes seems as arcane as a computer language or Sanskrit. The distinctions between diminished chords and sevenths and ninths, the talk of time signatures and mnemonic devices for remembering rules, make it clear that pianists belong to an alien species, separate and superior.
Yet if the two-man show that opened Wednesday at Hartford Stage as the second attraction of its Summerstage program proves daunting at times, it adds up to a performance of many colors. Richard Carsey and Tom Frey, its dueling keyboardists, come across as true renaissance men, masters of low comedy as well as digital dynamics. The musical drama by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt opens up a world that is at once familiar and Olympian. Learning an instrument seems difficult enough, but over the course of the play, a more painful moral emerges. Mastering the piano proves a sheer impossibility for most mortals, however talented.
Directed with wit, variety and growing poignancy by Greenblatt, "2 Pianos 4 Hands" opens with a dumb show, played out by two men in tails who take their places at two facing grand pianos that sit beneath two large gilded picture frames. Carsey and Frey, who have taken over for Greenblatt and Dykstra, the Canadians who originated the roles, whisper uncivilly to one another, then change pianos and swap benches. As they are wearing black tailcoats, Groucho Marx comes to mind, but they are more like more dignified variations on Harpo and Chico, those two immortal musician clowns.
The music begins with the First Movement of the D Minor Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach, which soon degenerates into a fiendish race, then falls apart. Briefly, the players sweeten the night with something less difficult, Hoagy Carmichael's "Heart and Soul." The two extremes of the keyboard are thus advanced, and over the two acts, after the men have stripped for action by removing their jackets, the concert/comedy/drama contrasts the demands of "serious music," as its highbrow practitioners are wont to call the realm of Bach and Mozart, with the siren songs of popular music, from John Lennon to Richard Rodgers, Billy Joel to Vangelis.
Both performers have reached middle age. Frey, bald on top, is the sillier of the duo, mimicking a runner in "Chariots of Fire" under a strobe as the famous Vangelis rhapsody drums along in an homage to unserious music. Carsey, with salt-and-pepper hair, has a sad look about him, vaguely Keatonesque. His comedy arises largely from sardonic sideways glances. But both piano men throw themselves into various roles, even impersonating women and adopting accents.
One lesson of the evening hangs on the old Carnegie Hall punch line: "Practice, practice, practice." At one time or another, both Frey and Carsey play boys, forced to give up the joys of hockey to labor over those 88 black and white keys. When one acts a struggling lad, the other acts a parent, a father in one case, a silhouetted mother in another. To start with, the parents, especially the domineering male figure, threaten the sons with terrible things for failing to practice. At one point, Carsey's father, who seems to have failed as a prodigy himself, offers Frey's defiant boy the chance to end it all, even calling the teacher. The boy caves in, and the torture goes on and on.
Carsey and Frey become rivals in competitions, attempting to one-up one another. They also play even more dreadful father figures, the pedagogues who wound with their pronouncements and who harshly demand perfect pitch and flawless identifications of various note configurations.
The early jokes of the whispered dialogue and physical comedy ultimately give way to glimpses of the failure that await those who cannot measure up to the demands of the keyboard tyrants. Playing Joel's "Piano Man" in a gin mill is one humiliation. Giving lessons - and therapy - to a talentless matron with a straying husband is another. One of the students elects to switch to jazz and renders an ornate variation on "My Funny Valentine," decorated with many an arpeggio. This trifle gets a harsh dismissal - though the house applauds it eagerly.
Most of "2 Pianos 4 Hands" requires no deep sense of music appreciation and, in fact, offers some tutelage in the rarefied world of concert music.
To an untrained ear, both players seem masters as they ripple out bits of Beethoven, Mozart, Grieg, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert and Liszt. Mozart's Sonata Facile in C Major seems not to be so easy, after all, and Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" gets murdered. But in the end, after it seems that all is lost for the two boys, now middle-aged, a recording of Vladimir Horowitz's playing Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz" delivers an epiphany. And as Steve Lucas' magical lighting fills an upstage scrim with blue-and-white skies, Carsey and Frey end as they began, with Bach, this time rendered flawlessly.


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Being someone who deals with clients in offshore back office solutions, you’ll see that some content managers find the best opportunities while others poorly perform in their marketing efforts.
Remember that even if you think you are doing things on point – from building engaging content to being aligned with the marketing plan of your client – there are still things that you may be missing out on.
As a content creator, blogger or even a social media influencer, you may want to look at these tips to succeed in the game.
Your Instagram game should be on point.
One of the biggest things that happened to social media marketing last year is the launch of IG stories. In 2018 alone, Instagram Stories hit 300 million, beating Snapchat in the platform it pioneered. Social media marketing experts foresee that Instagram Stories will grow even more popular with brands in the remaining half of 2018, as its cool features are known to encourage higher engagement and conversion. As for now, we are seeing a growing consistency in the content created by influencers. If you have been quite lax about your content style, my advice is that it’s about time to be more strategic in your approach. Maximize the use of filters, as well as analytics tools and see how your IG performance will improve.
Be extra mindful about analytics.
A lot of famous social media influencers have achieved their almost celebrity status by ways of brand feedback. When in doubt, always follow up! Ask your audience for feedback on what content works well with them, and look at your insights to identify which content has driven clicks to your Facebook page or website. Build your own or partner with a developer to have a tracking and measurement tool to check how your content fares, and regularly check your Google Analytics to see if your efforts are performing. Afterward, look for areas for improvement.
By using Instagram Insights, you will be able to track and see which among your posts are hardworking. You will also be able to identify who is your key target market and find ways to increase your traffic.
With more social media influencers looking for brand collabs and potential clients, analytics will be your best tool to leave a powerful impression.
Build an audience through organic means.
Remember people, this is 2018. If you’re still using old tactics like the follow/unfollow game you may need to step back, return to the planning room and re-evaluate your digital marketing strategy.
Technology is fast evolving, which gives brands the opportunity screen bloggers, content creators or marketers who are not fit for their marketing strategy. If last year bloggers and content creators could just pay for post boosting and likes to increase their audience, this year will be the end to this madness.
Aside from that, it is a time proven formula that the best social media influencers have one important trait: the desire to learn and evolve. Social media apps and platforms will come and go, present algorithms will eventually be obsolete, and website designs will always change, but influencers who are creative and savvy are aware that to keep the lead, they must evolve with the times and continue learning. Read industry news, attend digital marketing workshops, and keep an open mind— these are the only ways for you to stay relevant.
By executing your social media and digital marketing strategy with a brand-savvy state-of-mind, you may have a greater impact on your client’s bottom-line in 2018.


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Oil pulling. It sounds like an environmentally friendly activity, doesn’t it? And it is. For your internal environment, that is. It’s an Ayurvedic detoxifying/purifying technique involving swishing sesame or sunflower oil (ideally cold-pressed, although refined works, too) in your mouth for 15 to 20 minutes, first thing in the morning, until it turns white and foamy and, essentially, toxic. Then you spit it out. It’s purpose is to pull out toxins before they can cause problems, as well as getting rid of the ones of which we’re already aware. One nice outcome is the balancing effect this has on the endocrine system. According to EarthClinic.com, it has also been used to heal “mouth & gum disease; stiff joints; allergies; asthma; high blood sugar; constipation; migraines; bronchitis; eczema; heart, kidney, lung diseases; leukemia; arthritis; meningitis; insomnia; menopause (hormonal issues); cancer; AIDS; chronic infections; varicose veins; high blood pressure; diabetes; polio; cracked heels.” A client told me about it. I thought it seemed like a fairly easy way to detox, with the possibility of some very favorable results, and I’m always interested in finding simple ways to feel better, for me and for my clients, so I decided to try it out.
Day One. Swishing oil around my mouth for 15 minutes wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I think I even managed to avoid swallowing any. My teeth feel amazingly clean, like I just came from the dentist. I’m reluctant to eat, lest I get them dirty, but somehow I manage. An interesting side effect: my mouth has been shooting out saliva all day. I’ve clearly started something happening. All I want to do is spit. Why are there so many people around all the time? Why didn’t I pay attention when my older brother was learning to hock a lugie with flair? Maybe I could carry a little cup with me, be discreet about it…oh the images that just popped into my head. Scratch that. I think I must be a little giddy. With any luck, this will be a temporary thing.
Okay. I accept and honor my saliva. Let the detoxifying begin!
So far, so good. Given the amount of sleep I’ve not had in the past few nights, I’m feeling great. Ordinarily, I would be much foggier. This little experiment is truly bringing home to me how inflammation/imbalance in the mouth can have a profound and powerful affect on your total well-being. In fact, in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda both use the tongue as a mirror for the rest of the body, dividing it up into sections representing different organ systems. So stimulating your tongue every morning must have an effect on the rest of the body as well. Day three has gone well – I remembered to drink water first. It really does make a tremendous difference. There has also been some, um, movement shall we say, a bit further down. All part of the detoxification process… What hasn’t really happened yet is any sort of internal, getting-in-touch/clearing kinds of things. But I’ve been extremely busy (though I have had incredible luck in finding just the right gifts for people). I think journaling needs to be added to the process.
I’ve heard that some people experience sinus irritation and/or exacerbated sinus issues when oil pulling. I haven’t noticed any sinus problems, but they aren’t usually an issue for me. I did notice a little extra phlegm in the back of my throat today. In my research into the process I remember reading that some conditions will worsen before they get better – as in any detox.
Today was a work-at-home day for me, and I managed to get much more done than I usually do. Maybe it’s just the frame of mind that started me oil pulling the in the first place, but I got through my to-do list, took a walk in the snow, saw clients, and still had the concentration left to send some Reiki before hitting the couch. Oh, and I got a great night’s full of sleep last night – first night in a couple of weeks!
Well, I pulled through the holiday eating. As my body lets go of unnecessary stuff, I’ve been hungry a lot. I’ve also been doing a lot of running around, for which, thanks to the oil pulling, perhaps, I had the stamina. I think my teeth are whiter. It’s definitely putting me in the frame of mind to take really excellent care of myself. Which means that I’m glad the holiday eating is almost over. I’m good at making healthy choices in restaurants, and bringing healthy options to parties, but when someone cooks for me, I accept the love with which it was made and eat. I’m going to keep going with this and see what happens. It certainly isn’t doing any harm. I have more energy, whiter teeth, and, if nothing else, it’s fifteen minutes every morning where I get to relax and concentrate on me. That’s definitely worth it.
My chiropractor noticed that my adjustments have been easier, and are lasting longer.
I am glad to report that I will be entering the new year feeling better. My digestive system is really getting on track. I’m much less volatile, more regular. For someone who’s been diagnosed with IBS, that’s saying a lot. I’m also 95% sure my teeth are whiter – without resorting to chemicals!
I have the flu. In fact, yesterday I had a really high temperature. Today it’s almost gone. Yesterday I could barely move off the couch. Today I’m planning to leave the house. My husband was sick last week with the same thing. His lasted the whole week. I think there’s something to this oil pulling thing. 1/25/08 Well, it’s been a little over a month now. I’ve noticed improvement in several things – some subtle, some a little more major. For instance, my teeth are less sensitive, whiter, and my gums are healthier. In fact, I skipped a day yesterday, as an experiment, and I really noticed a difference in how my mouth felt. It was less fresh, less clean. I missed my fifteen minutes of swishing. It’s a meditative part of my morning. It helps me to wake up. Also, since I’ve been doing it I just feel cleaner. Lighter. I think I have actually lost some weight (I don’t own a scale). My nails are stronger, too. My hair a little glossier. And I’m noticing that, now that I’ve added this simple, healthy routine into my day, it’s been easier to add in others, like more regular exercise, and healthier food choices. (Hey, even a health counselor gets tempted by those “healthy” cookies and chips at the natural foods store.) Baby steps, I always say, are what get us to our goals.
I am impressed that something so simple could make all of these differences. I plan to keep oil pulling as part of my daily routine. I think there’s much more that I can achieve with it.

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