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Finals week is over and Spring Break is here! That means I get my husband back from the entanglements of seminary – you know – exams, papers, reading and such! I’m just kidding. My husband is very good at ensuring he spends plenty of time with me even during the quarter! But it is always nice when a break comes and none of those things are looming over his head!
Friday night we celebrated the end of the quarter by going out to dinner at PF Changs – one of our favorites, followed by a walk, some fro yo and then a Redbox movie at home. Saturday morning we set off for the coast! We started at Santa Monica Pier and wandered our way down the bike trail through parks (yes, we stopped to swing for a bit) to Venice Beach.
Let me just say, I’d heard about Venice Beach…but wow. Culture shock! It’s like a disorganized circus. There’s so much to take in – man on roller blades playing the electric guitar, man with “Got Pot?” sign, frozen popcorn, kangaroo jerky, a man holding a dog on his lap like a person, people selling medical marijuana everywhere you turn, people chasing you down with headphones to have a listen to their music (right…like I’m really going to put those on my head…). Quite the experience!
We stopped for some lunch and had the most amazing french fries! Yum!! Then we wandered down to the beach and strolled a couple of miles back to Santa Monica by the water’s edge. High tide was just starting to come in producing some gorgeous waves splashing against the rocks!
Like any good newbies to Cali, we forgot that the sun is really hot in March and returned home with a little sunburn. Lesson learned. We topped off the night by blowing up the air mattress in the living room and watched a movie (Argo) – one of our favorite ways to spend an evening at home!
It can be hard work being married to a student! I stand firm to the fact that I deserve some kind of degree at the end of this! At least a proofreading certificate or something! Let’s be honest. Finals week isn’t really all that fun for anyone! Being on a quarter system, that means we have 4 finals weeks per year rather than 2 or 3 like you do on the semester system. I like to look at Finals Week as an opportunity to show a little bit of extra love to my dear husband.
I also get bored easily, so little projects are good for me since I don’t have my husband to entertain me. And out of my boredom came the following inspiration!
I thought he was telling me a joke. It started like this…. “Last Saturday I went to a funeral…” Don’t be shocked that I thought it was a joke. He’s always waiting each week with a a joke, a piece of trivia, or a completely bizarre bit of information. The “joke” went on… “Last Saturday I went to a funeral. I didn’t know the person.” See – that’s why I thought it was a joke! Why did this man attend a funeral of someone he didn’t know? I was baffled. So I asked, still wondering if a punch line was coming my way. His answer – “For the sermon. Immediately the words “funeral crasher” popped into my head, but those thoughts were quickly replaced with awe.
There’s just something about filling the last page of a journal. It makes me all nostalgic thinking about all that has happened from the time I penned that first word on page one. It’s incredible to look back on all that has happened. The ups and the downs. The challenges. Overcoming those challenges. Prayers. Praise for answered prayers. Funny moments. Exciting moments. Sad moments. Confused moments. All bound together between two leather flaps. Today I finally reached the last page of a journal that I started before we were even engaged! Talk about a lot of moments held within those pages! Engaged…married…a move across the country… What can I say! It was an eventful year!
I remember when I was younger I’d write almost daily in my “diary” about every single thing I did that day. Looking back, I think that has really helped me find joy and appreciation for the little moments in life!
I find that journaling is a way to remember. Whenever I read through the Old Testament I see how the children of Israel were so quick to forget the Lord. How often I am like that too – I forget so quickly! I don’t want to forget what God has done and writing it down helps me remember!
1. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself! Just start writing and see what happens!
2. Don’t turn to your journal instead of to God in prayer. While a time of self reflection is very beneficial, it is no substitute for turning to God in prayer. I sometimes find that my journals because an ongoing mix of reflection and prayer all in one. Do not neglect the prayer part!
3. Don’t worry about grammar, neat handwriting, sentences that make sense, etc! No one’s going to be reading it except yourself! This is not a paper you’re turning in – this is for you!
4. Don’t give up if you miss a few days. Just pick back up and start writing again. Don’t feel like you have to fill in all the gaps for the days you missed. Just keep writing!
5. Don’t limit yourself to what so-and-so does for their journal. Find something that works for you! Write about your day. Write our your prayers! Write a list of 1000 Gifts to help you savor the moments of life! Write about the people you meet who inspire you. Find something that works for you and energizes your soul!
Pour a small amount of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in the bottom of a bowl. Scoop ice cream on top of the cereal. Sprinkle your cinnamon and sugar mixture over the ice cream. Pour more cinnamon toast crunch over the ice cream. Swirl chocolate syrup over the top. Add whipped cream and a cherry if you have them on hand and dig in!
You know me – always looking on Pinterest for a fun new recipe. I rarely make the same dish twice, though I do keep track of everything I make in a spreadsheet. Here are a few things I’ve tried recently – why not add one or two to your weekly menu?!
French Toast Dumplings – These are incredibly rich, gooey and delicious. Even a non milk drinker will want to wash this down with a cold glass of milk. Their very simple to make and a fun twist on a breakfast favorite!
Bacon and Pea Mac and Cheese – I had half a bag of frozen peas in the freezer that I was just itching to get rid of. I’m not a huge fan of peas but this was good – I felt much better about eating mac and cheese with peas in it! We substituted cheddar for the gruyere because that’s what was in the fridge!
Spicy Sausage Pasta – This was a hit! Think mac and cheese meets pizza and mexican food. All of which are favorites at our house! Now I must admit, as usual I didn’t follow the recipe exactly. We had some leftover, browned spicy sausage from making lasagna and so I substituted that for the turkey sausage. That’s probably what gave it the pizza flair. While it wasn’t as pretty as the photo it was still mighty tasty! Also, if you don’t use low sodium chicken broth, be sure not to salt it any extra or you’ll be guzzling several glasses of water with dinner!
Sweet Chicken Bacon Wraps – These were a hit – very simple and a great sweet/salty combo.
Beef and Barley Soup – We love soup. Paired with homemade hummus and homemade pita chips this made a great Sunday night dinner. I cooked ours in the crockpot and added in some mushrooms, boullion and a little creole seasoning. We liked the added saltiness – without our added boullion or creole seasoning I think it would have been a little bland.
Ham and Cheese Pockets – Sadly the extra ones didn’t last long enough to make it to our freezer – next time I’ll definitely make more. It’s definitely more tasty than an ordinary ham and cheese sandwich!
Thai Style Beef Stew – I added a few extras – some ginger and a bit of Thai curry paste, then served it over stir fried snow peas and bean sprouts, then a little Sriacha because I love extra heat! The green onions and peanuts sprinkled on top are the perfect touch!
Healthy Cookies – Than says I can’t call these cookies, though he’s certainly in favor of me making them again. They’re healthy enough that I felt no guilt eating them for breakfast today with my morning coffee! We added coconut, golden raisins and chocolate chips. The original blogger mentions eating them warm – we actually prefer ours refrigerated, but they’re good either way!
Broccoli Cheese Bites – Please ignore the fact that it says they’re for kids. Who doesn’t love some broccoli and cheese?! A yummy and filling side. Served it tonight with pan fried tilapia!
Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray – This book is a classic. I like to re-read it every couple of years. The short chapters are a perfect addition to some time spent with God and always leave me with something thought provoking. You can even read it for free here.
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas – When I was in college I attended the Focus on the Family Leadership Institute and we read this book. It talks about the purpose of marriage being more for our holiness rather than our happiness. A great book, whether you’re single with hopes of getting married, engaged with plans to get married and of course also for those who are married.
New Zealand Frenzy (North Island) – Did I mention that we’re going to New Zealand?! We are BEYOND excited about this trip. Sometimes the excitement keeps me up at night (wish I was kidding!).
New Zealand Frenzy (South Island) – And not only are we going to New Zealand, we get to go to both the North and South Island! I can’t get enough of these travel books with recommendations off the beaten path!
It’s hard to believe we’ve been living here for 6 months already! In some ways I feel like we’ve lived here forever while in other ways it’s all still so new!
Here’s our 6 months in review…in no particular order and with varying levels of significance. All those things you probably imagine and believe about living in California…yeah, I’m probably about to confirm them as myths.
I’m completely ready to re-arrange our apartment. When you work at home, you spend a LOT of time in the apartment each week. No wonder I’m bored with it so much faster than usual. Just wait – one day Than will arrive home to a completely new look for our living room, followed up by a blog post “What NOT to do While Your Husband is at Work”.
We’ve been to the beach precisely 1 time. I know, I know. We’re working on it. I always thought it would be amazing to live near the beach and now that it’s a reality – who has time for that?!
No temperatures below freezing, but we get to see snow from a distance capping the mountains outside our windows. That’s my kind of snow!
I officially can’t remember how I ever survived winter in Chicago let alone how my husband survived Canada!
We are in no way ashamed of our monthly trips to In ‘N Out. Yum.
The ethnic diversity of this area never ceases to amaze us. Sometimes you forget you’re still in the US, driving through areas where signs are entirely in other languages.
We have yet to experience an earthquake (apparently there was one but we were sleeping and didn’t feel it).
If we have children who take piano lessons and we have neighbors, I solemnly promise NOT to let them practice with the windows open and subject the neighbors to hours on end of Mary Had a Little Lamb. And don’t get me started about the kid learning the harmonica… Oh and did I mentioned these “neighbors” aren’t even in our building but the next building over?!
I love living in a place where we are within walking distance of virtually everything we need. We are getting some good exercise and we rarely fill up our as tank – WIN!
I don’t think we had any idea when moving out here how God would provide a job for Than at our church allowing us such an opportunity to engage with the community here in Pasadena. We’ve met an incredibly wide range of people from so many different walks since moving here and I’m so glad for the perspective that offers us, protecting us from the bubble we could find ourselves in.
So there you have it. “Working at home” really doesn’t meat that I’m sitting on the beach working while surfing on my lunch break. It’s not always 70 and sunny, but we have no complaints about the weather. Los Angeles isn’t constantly shaking from earthquakes and about to fall into the ocean (but if you never hear from us again..well…I suppose that could be what happened!).
It’s been a good 6 months. Who knows how long we’ll call this place home but each day we choose to enjoy and embrace the journey!
For two nights in a row I could barely sleep due to the excitement of booking our plane tickets to New Zealand! When I finally drifted off my dreams were filled with beautiful scenes of the mountains and the seas and the anticipated adventures that will come while camping through the North and South Island in December. There’s something special about traveling. The colors are more vivid, the scenery more beautiful, the moments more intense, the people more fascinating and the experiences more memorable. But the reality is, there are beautiful mountains outside my window. There are amazing people all around me. There are moments to cherish every day. There’s beauty to behold each and every day. So why is it so hard to see it? I don’t know about you, but I want to live like a traveler every single day!
Here are my 5 ideas for living like a traveler – at home!
1. Capture the moments. Jetting off to a foreign land strips away the cares and concerns of the day to day. You know, those cares and concerns that tend to blind us from the special moments. But we don’t have to live like that. Maybe you journal or perhaps you like to snap photos. For me, I love both! Why not try a Photo-A-Day challenge? Journal about your day. Blog about the funny things that happen. Keep a gratitude journal. Do something intentional that will help you be on the lookout for those moments. Before you know it, it will no longer be intentional but the norm.
2. Try new things. There’s absolutely no reason we can’t try new things in our day to day lives. Buy something random in the produce section at the grocery store. Take a new route to work (oh wait…there’s only 1 way to get to the living room from the bedroom for me…). Try a new workout. Find an ethnic restaurant you’ve never been to before. (Than and I are on a mission to visit all the ethnic restaurants on Colorado Boulevard while we live in Pasadena – there’s everything from Argentinian, Japaneses, Afghan and so much more!).
3. Simplify. When you travel, you fill your suitcase with the necessities. Ok, maybe some of us include a little more than that… But regardless, we take a lot less than we have at home. Sometimes stuff just gets in the way. I’m not suggesting we all start living out of suitcases, but perhaps it’s time to purge… Start small. Maybe with shoes. Or clothes. Or a hall closet.
4. Take a break from media. Traveling means time away from the constant bombardment of emails, texts, phone calls, social media, apps, etc etc! As hard as it is to pull away from those things, it sure is refreshing. Limit your time. Set boundaries. Do a media fast. Allow yourself a break and enjoy the benefits!
5. Share experiences. Traveling alone can be great, but there’s certainly a special bond that forms when you travel with other people. The experiences you’ve had together are often priceless! The same is true in the day to day. Our lives are enhanced when we have a community of people we’re sharing life experiences with. Not just people who are similar to you. People who live and think differently. In the same way that travel provides us with new perspective as we experience new places and new cultures, relationships with people who are different from us help keep things in perspective.
Disclaimer: This post is in no way intended to discourage you from traveling and seeing the world. It’s simply advice for travelers at heart to sustain that spirit in the day to day.

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A car show that's open to all makes of cars built before 1976.
Big rigs also welcome (no trailers). 60+ trophies along with great raffle prizes.

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At the intersection of application delivery trends like agile methodology and abstracted development languages, lies an interesting byproduct: adaptive apps. The days of enormous enterprise systems cast in code are over – light-weight, light-risk apps that evolve with business needs are here.
The cloud is a given, as is mobile, and we’re getting to the point where IT departments can produce results (read: enable change) at the same speed as their consumer counterparts – security and integration included.
Enterprise apps are living organisms genetically [and literally] programmed to create business value. The moment they stop producing an ROI, they die – and in order to keep producing an ROI, they have to grow, expand, and evolve. In today’s landscape of fast, light-weight apps – “maintaining” an app isn’t just processing and deploying change requests on a quarter-by-quarter release schedule. Maintaining an app means creating a continuous feedback loop between end users (those truly responsible for weaving value from an app) and the project team responsible for enabling that value.
If you’re initial response to this is: “Well, wouldn’t that be great – but we’ve invested eight figures into our technology and it’s no longer cast in code, it’s cast in spaghetti because of all the changes we’ve made to it. Keeping this system alive by employing a small city off-shore is cheaper and faster than rebuilding the whole thing and sprinkling it with plant food. Now what, Eric?” – Stay calm. Keep reading.
Ripping and replacing software isn’t the proposed solution here – in fact, there’s probably some value living in that pile of spaghetti that you can still make use of. The data layer for instance – it usually doesn’t need to evolve with business needs the way logic and presentation layers do. So keep your gargantuan implementation intact, just stop throwing money and bodies at it. Start thinking lean and smart about your enterprise app ecosystem.
While all of this may sound very Zen to some, we work with companies that are living out this philosophy in their technology strategy today. It takes some getting used to – as do the previously mentioned trends that make this strategy possible – but the market shift to ‘build for change’ is measurable. More and more research suggests that end user organizations (non-tech) have caught up to tech organizations in agile adoption. Companies in all industries see value in adaptive apps just as tech companies must evolve their products and services to compete – does yours?

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If you are thinking about extending your home’s interior beyond the obvious four walls, a pergola is a great way to add style and panache. The pergola has been around for quite a few centuries now. So terming the renaissance of this classic as a comeback might be going a tad bit too far. At its core, the pergola is simply a row of vertical pillars that usually supports additional cross-beams on the top. Creating a bridge between a completely closed exterior and an open patio or deck space, the pergola is a wonderful extension of your contemporary home.
Picture-perfect pergola offers ample privacy – You might never want to leave this one!
Many will tell you that building your own pergola is pretty easy and can be done with basic carpentry skills. Since, some of us are not that gifted, we cannot actually vouch for that either way. But the most simple pergola designs are not all that hard to replicate and with many DIY projects and custom-designed pergola kits around, you are never short of options.
Browse through some of these fabulous pergola models and you might be well tempted to add one to your backyard or terrace as well. Adding drama and a sense of sophistication, it might be the one missing link that turns your patio into a soothing and luxurious little personal getaway!
Breezy vinyl pergola is a perfect match for homes next to the beach!
When we talk of stunning pergolas, the free-standing design next to the pool is the one that deserves a mention right at the top. While the style of the pergola and its canopy might vary, the visual of a beautiful and open structure with possibly some comfy fabric added to it brings the images of an exotic luxury retreat in a far away land! The cool Mediterranean style in pristine white is becoming especially popular in this regard. A pergola can be crafted from wood, stone or other artificial material. But make sure that the design of the structure is a continuation of your home and its general vibe.
Looks like a postcard from a trip to Europe!
Hot tub under the pergola – For a revitalizing dip!
The trim work on the pergola gives it its unique appeal. Add stylish canopy fabric to induce a more breezy and trendy appeal. If you love the sight of hanging vines and are a gardening aficionado, then a green canopy top surely has a charm of its own. If you are short on space, a simple structure that extends from your home’s exterior works as well.
How about adding a few sprinklers to the pergola?
Pergola designs vary immensely and you can always opt for a new look by combining individual elements of different styles. A modern sunroof pergola is a simple extension that gives additional shade to your home and keeps it cool on hot summer days. The standalone Tuscany pergola lies on the other side of the spectrum with intricately carved stone pillars, plush wooden trellis and décor that match the structure to perfection. Borrowed from Italian Renaissance gardens, the more classic designs also double up as beautiful walkways with a curved and vine-covered top.
Modern pergolas go well beyond the simple stone and wood creations, Savvy designs crafted in vinyl, aluminum and other lightweight materials are quickly gaining popularity. Amalgamating a casual and contemporary atmosphere with the magic of a traditional pergola outline, these are both easy to install and maintain.
Simple patio pergola with fireplace at its heart – For those romantic evenings outdoors!
There are a seemingly unlimited number of pergola styles and designs available. With each home owner having his own specific pergola demands, a ‘one size fits all’ solution is definitely not the ideal choice. Even with a basic pergola structure, one can easily alter its theme and mood by changing the decor, accessories and lighting.
Casual outdoor lounge and dining spaces are all the rave currently. Since most of our parties seem to start after sun-downer, the pergola with smart seating, a warm fireplace and a dining table setup doubles up as a cool and convenient outdoor party area. Simple pergola designs can be added to terraces and deck area next to the pool without too much hassle. Remember that the pergola need not cover the area in entirety. This actually helps craft a multifunctional and ergonomic space that is both aesthetic and useful.
Contemporary fireplace next to the pergola reminds us of the Olympic spirit!
There is nothing like adding a sleek modern fireplace to the pergola. This instantly becomes the focal point as you arrange your outdoor furnishings around the fireplace. Pergolas are not designed to provide complete shelter. It is in fact, this sense of openness that gives them their exclusive appeal. Yet, for those concerned about additional privacy, lovely fabric drapes or even customized shutters get the job done.
Exquisite pool and pergola design with some amazing lighting!

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Tesla chief Elon Musk reserves his Twitter account to stoke the flames of public sentiment, and his latest endorsement in 140 characters or less was for the implicit endorsement of Autopilot by a top federal regulator.
Speaking at a conference in Detroit on Friday, Mark Rosekind, administrator of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), nearly sided with Musk’s sentiment that its semi-autonomous system’s benefits could outweigh potential drawbacks.
“We lost 35,200 lives on our roads last year. We are in a bad place. This is a bad situation, and we should be desperate for new tools that will help us save lives,” Rosekind said after noting an 8-percent increase in U.S. traffic fatalities last year.
NHTSA is otherwise still investigating incidents involving crashes by Tesla vehicles in which Autopilot was in use, and the court of public opinion has weighed in from a variety of perspectives for or against Autopilot.
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Be sure to contact your local Dade County Probate Court well in advance of the wedding to find out on what days and during what hours the Clerk will be in the office. Some locales may require an appointment.
The fees for obtaining a marriage license in Dade County iare $56 without Premarital Education completed. $16 with Premarital Education. There is a $10 charge for the certified copy of the marriage license, which is mailed to the applicants after recording, and a $10 fee for the certified copy of the license application for the Social Security Administration. (Please see GA code 19-3-30.1); the certificate must be signed and dated.
It is important that you verify all information with your local Dade County Probate Court before making a trip to purchase your marriage license.
Please Note: State and county marriage license requirements often change. The above information is for guidance only and should not be regarded as legal advice. For more information regarding Georgia marriage license laws please visit the Dade County Probate Court website.

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George Best remains one of the most naturally gifted footballers the world has ever seen.
Famously called the best player in the world by Pelé, Best galvanised Manchester Uniteds five-year recovery from the tragedy of the Munich air crash in 1958.
Now a new film titled George Best:All By Himself will bring the magic of The Belfast Boy to a whole new generation of football fans.
Commissioned by the BBC and made by Fine Point Films (the acclaimed team behind Bobby Sands: 66 Days), the biopic will deliver a heart-breaking portrait of one of the worlds truly great sporting talents.
You can watch the new trailer for Best (George Best: All By Himself) by clicking on the following link.
The film will have its Irish premiere in conjunction with the Belfast Film Festival on Thursday 16th February in Movie House Dublin Road.
This will be followed by a screening at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday 18th February in Cineworld Dublin.
Director Dan Gordon and producer Trevor Birney will attend both screenings and will take part in post-screening Q&As. The film will then go on general release in Ireland and the UK on Friday 24th February.
The documentary which had its world premiere at the BFI London International Film Festival in October, was produced by Trevor Birney, John Battsek and Brendan J. Byrne for Fine Point Films, Passion Pictures, VeryMuchSo Productions and ESPN Films, with support from Northern Ireland Screen and BBC Television.

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General the Jaguar will be unavailable for requests from May 6 through May 14 as he will be studying for and taking his finals.
The Office of Recreational Sports is happy to help your organization or event with a mascot appearance. The following are the policies with an appearance request. We cannot guarantee that your request will be filled. Once you have submitted your request, you will be contacted concerning your request.
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Submission of this form does not guarantee General the Jaguar will be able to fulfill the request. We reserve the right to cancel an appearance due to illness, inclement weather, personal emergency, and/or scheduling conflicts.
A private and lockable changing room must be made available for appearances. No public rooms or restrooms are acceptable. This is meant to protect the anonymity of the mascot. Additionally public restrooms are often too small for the mascot to change in.
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Looking after your heart is essential if you want to have a long and healthy life. And the best way to keep it pumping is with a quality diet, plenty of exercise and avoiding things like smoking and drinking. While all physical movement will help your heart, there are some workouts that are better to strengthen it and improve your cardiovascular fitness. Whether you want to do something high impact or take it easy, there’s a heart-healthy exercise for you. You can run, swim, lift weights and even do yoga to get your heart pumping and make your feel more alive. Try out one of these fantastic sports to keep your heart healthy for longer.
Going for a jog is one of the best ways to get your blood pumping, and running in intervals is even better. You can go hill running or do sprints in 10-second bursts, putting all your effort in to get you out of breath and then taking a short break to get your breath back before you do another. This type of training is something that you should do at the start of your workout so you can give it your all. Of course, other types of running are healthy for your heart too. If intervals are a bit too much for you, a slow jog on the treadmill (or even a fast walk) will keep your cardiovascular fitness in shape too.
Running isn’t the only thing you can do at high intensities to give your heart a workout. Circuit training is a workout when you do quick bursts of exercise, with minimal breaks in between. You do circuit training in a class, where different stations are set up for different exercises. You could spend anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes for each exercise, and then you move on to the next one (hence the name). These high-intensity workouts get your blood flowing hard and fast, making your heart work as hard as it can.
For a form of exercise that can be either intense of gentle, get your swimming costume one and jump into the pool. You can do some intense lane swimming, but it’s just as easy to have a relaxed swim that’s gentle on your heart and cardiovascular system. People with heart disease often use swimming as part of their rehabilitation. It can reduce your heart rate, as well as improve your breathing, blood pressure and circulation. You can read all about swimming and heart health for more information on its benefits.
Another gentle way to exercise your heart is through yoga. It might not get you breathing hard, but toning and strengthening your muscles through yoga poses is excellent for anyone who might be out of shape. It doesn’t put too much pressure on your heart, but it will help to make it healthier. And when you’re ready to take it up a notch, there are forms of yoga, like Bikram, that require a bit more energy.
Any exercise will help your heart to stay stronger for longer, but these are some of the best. Whether you just want to improve your general fitness, or you’re treating an illness, getting involved with these activities will get you pumped up.

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A new Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining study has found that using ethanol from corncobs for energy production may help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in China, if used instead of starch-based ethanol.
China has committed to limiting its emissions by 2030, and biofuel is considered the key to lower emissions from transportation. The authors note that corncobs are abundant agriculture residues, and the government should provide stronger incentives to encourage the industry to invest in corncob ethanol.
"Our life-cycle assessment suggests that corncob ethanol emits about 50% less greenhouse gas than corn ethanol," said co-author Dr. Yu Wang, of Iowa State University.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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You cannot have a healthy relationship without boundaries. Since you read Part 1 and know how to decide what your boundaries are, it's time to implement them. Expressing your boundaries can be tricky. There's usually a push-back from people who are used to you allowing them to do X, and the push-back isn't usually comfortable. The resistance to your new boundaries usually happens not because the people in your life are trying to be provocative or unsupportive, but simply because they're genuinely confused by the change in your behavior. Perhaps the most difficult type of resistance people who are trying to set new boundaries encounter is within themselves.
People are going to think I'm selfish, or cold, or both.
It's hard to prioritize your needs, but as we went over in part one, protecting your time, energy, health and emotional safety is part of your job as an adult.
Start setting simple but firm boundaries with a graceful or neutral tone. This will feel uncomfortable at first, but as you take care of yourself, the personal power you gain will make it easier.
Be sure to have support in place before and after each conversation. If you can't find support from a friend or family member, you may be successful finding a friend online.
Vent any strong emotions with your partner before having your boundary conversation.
To set a boundary with an angry person: "You may not yell at me. If you continue, I'll have to leave the room."
To set a boundary with personal phone calls at work: "I've decided to take all personal calls in the evening in order to get my work done. I will need to call you later."
To say no to extra commitments: "Although this organization is important to me, I need to decline your request for volunteer help in order to honor my family's needs."
To set a boundary with someone who is critical: "It's not okay with me that you comment on my weight. I'd like to ask you to stop."
To buy yourself time when making tough decisions: "I'll have to sleep on it, I have a policy of not making decisions right away."
To back out of a commitment: "I know I agreed to head up our fundraising efforts, but after reviewing my schedule, I now realize that I won't be able to give it my best attention. I'd like to help find a replacement by the end of next week."
To set a boundary with a person who borrows money: "I won't be lending you money anymore. I care about you and you need to take responsibility for yourself."
When setting boundaries, there is no need to defend, debate, or over-explain your feelings. Be firm, gracious and direct. When faced with resistance, repeat your statement or request.
Back up your boundary with action. Stay strong. If you give in, you invite people to ignore your needs.

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I See the World Through Pain Goggles, and You Refuse My Visual Voice.
Graphic devices already constrain the landscape of our knowledge- making endeavors. Our work is haunted by assumptions about type, architectures of content, the visual conventions of a genre, the way we privilege masculinized logos/word over feminized eikon/image (Wysocki, 2008; Drucker, 2008; Lee, 2014; Mitchell, 1996). These same normative, ableist assumptions about the scholarly page — Times New Roman, double-spacing, 1” margins, paragraph indentations, established style guides — erase me, my authorial presence, and my research goals (Dolmage, 2012). Fibromyalgic, I am in constant pain, normalized through chronicity, inapparent to the unpracticed eye. I have to perform myself into visibility in the clinic and the academy, both of which attempt to impose a one-size-fits-all pedagogical standard on my body in the form of numerical pain scales and dissertation defaults.
What I mean to say is, at the hospital in 2014, months after my appendix began perforating, a surgeon rooted around the calcifying ruin of my abdomen and dug out a psoas, a fallopian tube, a uterus-and-colon, glued, from all that septic rot.
It took so long to receive care because I looked so well, even when my skin was turning gray.
I am tired of composing in ways that look well.
I could say it’s not fair. That conforming to your formats limits my ability to create opportunities for an embodied understanding of my experience, a sensory world that is always undergoing rupture. I could argue that chronic pain literally alters how I see things, shifting my visual midline, changing how I process and filter internal and external events, from peristalsis to a bump on the subway.
At my follow-up, the surgeon drew me a picture of the procedure. Both our bodies leaned into it as he talked me through what happened while I lay in twilight: black dots for laparoscopic incision, the nested noodle of my intestine, and a turgid appendix, colon, uterus, fused in septic matter.
Jarod Rosello (2017) remarks that “when we draw, we use our entire bodies.” I’m more writer than visual artist, but when I draw, for a little while, my attentional bias towards pain is reduced.
I have so many reasons, personal and bodily, to value graphic social science. Drawing, considering layout and arrangement and interface, like Chris Ware’s Building Stories, it lets me make scholarship that doubles as respite and privileges the way I have to think (Chen, 2014); it lets me use the visual and haptic to question ocularcentrism.
Pain is an extralinguistic confrontation with shadow, and chronic pain begs synesthetic activity in its expressions to be better understood. “Images force us to recognize the chasm between our different individual perspectives and the limits of language available to cross this space,” says Deborah Padfield (2011: 242) in her study of pain interpretation and the doctor-patient dyad. She’s referring to patient-created photographs that provoke a co-creation of meaning around the patient’s experience of pain. But drawing is engaging and embodied too, and admits something that photographs can’t: perspectives, positions, experiences, events that could never exist in reality.
I conduct autoethnographic research on fibromyalgia. I share field notes and research findings in multimodal forms, including photographs, augmented reality tattoos that, when triggered, reveal something as visceral as blood on skin, pencil, pen, and charcoal drawings, scratchboard and guitar strings, Curious Skin cardstock. You say this work lacks theoretical rigor, but where’s the ready answer when I ask you if it’s because comics is a medium more willing to restore the body to the Ivory Tower, as infatuated as it is with the appearance of order, linear argumentation and agonistic logos/word, which add up to a picture of Western masculine rationality, which tells us pictures are feminine, irrational, unworthy of being called academic praxis (Lee, 2014).
Pain wants to be worthy. Like so many mangaka with tendonitis or hand injuries, I too have bound my hand with tape and a pen to make a deadline. But unlike comics drawing, where the tremors and scratches of pain are preserved and affectively felt by readers, this bodily chaos can’t translate into the typed words demanded by institutional repositories and publishers.
The exclusions are never fair.
Pain bursts through all the containers I build for it with words. Comics and visual art might be considered a less than rigorous format, but they offer possibilities for sense-making that traditional scholarship doesn’t. Nonlinear, ergodic, extralinguistic, navigable in multiple ways, comics and non-sequential art permit me to visually express or complicate ideas, to world-build across genre conventions. In Cynthia Selfe’s (2009: 30) words, “We need a full quiver of semiotic modes from which to select.” I want sympathetic response. Pages that touch back. Images to vex the relationships between word and image, body and text, cognition and flesh, theory and practice, knowledge, understanding, empathy.
Chen, M. (2014). Brain fog. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 8(2): 171–84.
Dolmage, J. (2012). Writing against normal: Navigating a corporeal turn. In K. Arola and A. Wysocki (Eds.), composing(media) = composing(embodiment): bodies, technologies, writing, the teaching of writing (110–126). Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.
Drucker, J. (2008). Graphic devices: Narration and navigation. Narrative, 16(2): 140–62.
Lee, M. (2014). The melancholy odyssey of a dissertation with pictures. Pedagogy, 15(1): 93–101.
Mitchell, W. J. T. (1996). Picture theory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Padfield, D. (2011). “Representing” the pain of others. Health, 15(3): 241–57.
Rosello, J. (2017). How we endure writing, drawing, and remembering. International Review of Qualitative Research, 10(3): 242–51.
Selfe, C. (2009). The movement of air, the breath of meaning. College Composition and Communication, 60(4): 616–63.
Wysocki, A. (2008). The multiple media of texts. In C. Bazerman & P. Prior (Eds.), What writing does and how it does it: An introduction to analyzing texts and textual practices (123–157). New York, NY: Routledge.
The Graphic Social Science Research Network was established in June 2017 to help advance the practice of Graphic Social Science.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Pinochle Rules for Beginners - How to Play Pinochle Game!
Pinochle, also known as pinocle or penuchle is an Ace-Ten card game for two to four players. This game is played with 48- cards deck. This game is derived from bezique, a 19th Century French melding and trick-taking card game for 2 players. Therefore, it is considered as a part of ‘trick-and-meld’ category. Here we have shared the basic pinochle rules.
The below rules are for pinochle rules 4 player.
The Deck consists of 2 copies of each 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace cards from all 4 suits (Aces always rank higher). It follows a non-standard ordering of cards. The standard order from highest to lowest is Ace, 10, King, Queen, Jack and 9. This game can also be played with this standard ordering with a simple change to scores.
The game is played with 48-cards deck and four players. One is the dealer. After the shuffle, the dealer will offer a cut to the player to his right, he then distributes the cards. All the cards are played in partnership. For odd numbers like three, there remains a ‘widow hand of cards’. The deal is given clockwise, with a group of three to four cards at a time. It starts with the player to the left, ending with the dealer. As the deal rotates clockwise, dealer’s left-hand player will deal next.
Melding means displaying specific combinations of cards to all players. Traditionally, this is done by arranging a combination of card, all faced up until all players have had an opportunity to look at them. After then, all players meld after the bid winner shows their meld first. There are different types of melds like “around”, “marriages”, “pinochle” and “flushes”.
As these values are multiples of ten, one can arrive at simplified values by removing trailing zero from each point values.
Players bid to see how many total points can be made by their team from the melding and playing their cards. In a four-handed game, the first player to dealer’s left will be in for 250 points and then proceeds further to left. It usually takes place in increment of 10 points.
The game begins when all the cards are picked up. The bidder (with an Ace) leads. The game continues to the left until everyone has played a card. Players must follow the suit until they are out of the suit. If they are out of the suit, they must trump. If a player has no trump, then any card can be played. A player should beat the previous high card as well. If he cannot beat the previous high card, he must follow the suit.
If there are no trump cards, the high card in the suit wins the trick. If trump cards were played, the highest card wins the game. The order of the cards to be followed is Ace- 10- King- Queen- Jack- 9. If two same high cards were played, the first player to play the card takes the trick.
After the play, both the teams count their cards. Each counter card is worth a point. Queens, Jacks and 9s count nil. If a team hadn’t pulled in any tricks with the counter cards, it loses any meld it had on that hand. And if a team that took no counters melded 9s, that points from 9s can be counted.
So these were the pinochle rules, kind of complicated but fun to play. Now you know how to play pinochle. There are different versions of this game available which can be played using 2 players, three players and even four or more. They are called two-handed, three-handed, four-handed and larger pinochle with different decks.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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This show was taped at the annual blues barbeque music festival hosted by the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Also appearing on the bill for this show were the Robert Cray Band, Bonnie Raitt, and Dave Edmunds. Omar & the Howlers may never have made it to platinum superstar status, but they did make a number of exceptional blues-rock albums on Columbia Records, and built a sizable audience of devout fans, who never seem to get enough of their funky swamp-drenched R&B.
Opening with a great guitar romp, "Mississippi Hoo Doo Man," the group slides effortlessly into a more conventional pop track, "You Ain't Foolin' Nobody." Without missing a beat, they next launch into the very Allman Brothers-influenced, "Don't You Know." The rest of the show is just as exciting, with a full platter of great up-tempo blues tracks, including "Hoy Hoy," "Same Old Grind," "Don't Rock Me The Wrong Way," and several others. They close the show with a one-two punch that included the LP title track, "Hard Times In The Land Of Plenty," and the gospel-fused finale, "Rock N' Roll Ball."
Omar & the Howlers have always had the distinct ability of sounding like several familiar musical acts while maintaining a fresh vibe all their own. Depending on the song, Omar can sound like John Fogerty, Brian Johnson of AC/DC, or even radio legend, Wolfman Jack. As a guitarist, he is firmly in the Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughn camp. All this makes for some exciting music.
Dykes grew up in rural Mississippi and cut his teeth at blues clubs on the city outskirts. It was that background that gave him the credibility to adapt a musical groove and vocal styling not unlike that of the great Hound Dog Taylor. In the early-1980s, he relocated to Austin, Texas, where he found the blues scene kicking into high gear. Omar Dykes performs today as both a solo act and with a new version of the Howlers. He continues to record and release albums from his home-base in Austin.


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The project “Un Cuore in Stazione” was born in 2008 from the commitment of Enel Cuore and FS to contribute to the recovery and social integration of homeless people in and around major Italian railway stations.
The project “Un Cuore in Stazione” – “A Heart in the Station” was born in 2008 from the commitment of Enel Cuore and FS (the Italian railway network) to actively contribute to the recovery and social integration of homeless people in and around major Italian railway stations.
“Un Cuore in Stazione” promoted the opening of shelters and support centres near Italian railway stations and the expansion of existing ones, in order to aid those in need and guide them in their process of reintegration into society.
FS offered spaces within major Italian railway stations, while Enel Cuore provided funds for the project (3 million Euros in three years), renovating the spaces in order to hold social initiatives, listen to and support individuals in need, direct them toward local facilities, host socialisation activities and offer a night shelter.
The creation of the partnership has greatly reduced the fragmentation of efforts against homelessness, thereby defining a National Action Plan in order to identify critical issues that require intervention, possible solutions, and the resources and responsibilities held by each partner organisation.
The requalification of the Don Luigi di Liegro Hostel in Via Marsala, which has provided support and guidance in the process of social reintegration for the past 26 years, as well as shelter and a warm meal in the adjoining cafeteria.
Expansion of the “Binario 95” Day Centre through the creation of the “Centro Polivalente” multipurpose centre, featuring an Emergency Night Shelter with 18 beds, doubling the number of the individuals that receive shelter from 27 to 45-50 per day.
The restructuring of a space within Milan’s Central Station in order to create a new Caritas shelter. The Rifugio Caritas is a low-threshold shelter that offers homeless men an immediate response to an urgent need: to find shelter for the night. The centre is open from 6 p.m. (from 7 p.m. during summer months) to 8:30 a.m. and is open to men only (both Italian and foreign). The building was renovated to host 64 beds, laundry facilities, a dining area and a clinic.
Funds provided by Enel to build a clinic, laundry facilities, bathrooms and clothing collection points, as well as a cafeteria offering 20,000 meals a year.
The creation of the “Centro Polivalente” multipurpose centre with an emergency night shelter that can accommodate up to 30 people.
A motor home was purchased and equipped to host a “Mobile Help Centre”, in addition to a van to provide transport service to the actual centre for people in need.
The collaboration between FS, Enel Cuore and national associations has given way to the implementation of similar services in Catania, Messina, Turin, Melfi and Florence.
The project “Un Cuore in Stazione”, which received the patronage of the Vice President of the European Commission, has been presented in numerous international public events as an excellent example of partnerships within the territory.
Brochure Ostello "Don Luigi Di Liegro"


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Mumma Walker's 7 Years of Pregnancy by CharlieBeth: I is NESTING!
It's been a busy weekend! Yesterday I finished vac-packing the kids clothes that fit currently fit neither of them (but will soon fit either Tom or Smudge), and I put the crib up - only to find it wont fit in our bedroom until the drawers have been moved so it's staying in the nursery for a bit. We also took delivery of our new dishwasher.
Today I've done a tip run, bought more vac-pac bags, and tried to get some of the bits Mark needs from Screwfix, only they didn't have exactly what we needed. I've emptied the drawers in our room and Mark has mended them, but they cant be moved until the filler-foam has set in the gap he found round the window........ that had better be today or we have no where to sleep! All the drawers and their contents plus the telly are on our bed! Meantime he is trying to mend the old teak drawers in Jack's room - which will soon be Jack & Tom's room so we need use of the larger set of drawers asap.
The bits from Screwfix would have had him be able to mend the bunks, but that's not happened so it could be at least another WEEK before I can get Jack in that top bunk. I really need him used to the top bunk before I move Tom out of the nursery and into the bottom bunk. I don't want to try to get them both used to so big a change at the same time because they'll wind each other up and make any problem so much worse. And I really really want them both settled before Smudge comes (due in 81 days....).
Ideally, by the end of today I want to have the crib in our room, have made a start on vac-packing the clothes me n Mark aren't using at the moment (summer stuff, my non-preg work clothes), and to know that the drawers in the boys room work (ready for some good weather when they can be sanded and oiled back to their former glory, or at least not smell musty).
Next week.... finally finish fixing those damned bunk beds!!!!!!
After that, it's just decorating for the foreseeable.


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Which Conference to attend... and why?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Meredith Anthony May 17, 2007.
I'm the author of 5 detective novels in the Hannibal Jones series - Blood and Bone, Collateral Damage, The Troubleshooter, Damaged Goods and Russian Roulette, plus two action adventure novels, The Payback Assignment and The Orion Assignment. I'm active in several local writers organizations and I'm a past president of the Northern Virginia chapter of the Virginia Writers Club. I teach writing courses at Anne Arundel Community College. By day I'm a public affairs specialist for the Defense Department. For more than a decade the American Forces Network carried my radio and television news reports.
Anything David Morrell, Elmore Leonard, Ken Bruen, Libby Hellman, Bill Pronzini, James Ellroy, Laura Lippman, Lee Child, Harlan Corben or Paula Woods.
In BLOOD AND BONE - An eighteen-year-old boy lies dying of leukemia. Kyle's only hope is a bone marrow transplant, but no one in his wealthy Virginia family can safely supply it. His last chance lies in finding his father, a man who disappeared before he was born. Police and private investigators can find nothing on a trail eighteen years cold.
Kyle's family has nowhere to turn until they learn of a certain troubleshooter, a self-styled knight errant in dark glasses named Hannibal Jones. He has two weeks to find the missing man, but his search turns up much more: A woman who might be Kyle's illegitimate sister, the woman who could be her mother, and the man who may have killed Kyle's father.
Hannibal follows a twisting, winding path of deception, conspiracy and greed, from Washington to Mexico, pursuing the truth. But with each step closer to it he gets, the danger grows.
I explain why I feel I need to attend Thrillerfest today on my blog, Another Writers Life.
New praise for The Troubleshooter!
But when you need a break, come hang out at Uppercut Avenue.
May I call you Austin?
I have been working away from my computer and out of town. Thank you for your friend request., I am honored. I am also going out to get your book, "BLOOD & BONE". It sounds like a book I will enjoy. That of course, will lead me to your other three.
Hope to have the honor of meeting you in the near future.
(The WRITER . . . NOT the good looking-kid with all the Gold).
Forgive me if I remember this incorrectly, but wasn't THE TROUBLESHOOTER originally self-published? There's a current discussion here about the pros and cons of self-publishing you may be uniquely suited to participate in, were you so inclined.
Did you come up with Hannibal's given name before or after Harris's Hannibal Lecter? I ask only that Harris's villain's name casts some rather dark aspersions on any other character attempting to overcome the cannibal's stigma.
Oh, most assuredly a good thing. I guess the stories left her in a very pleasant mood when they were finished.
Thanks. It was reassuring seeing at least one familiar face besides Geneva's. Otherwise, it would have been weird, Hollyweird or not. Nice reconnect.
I'm happy to discover your work, too. Best wishes for your continued success.
You sound incredibly busy...and successful. Congratulations.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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The 18th Vienna Summer University was held on July 2–13, 2018.
Are thought experiments epistemic miracles that enable us to learn about the world merely by reflections from the comfort of our armchairs? Or are they merely picturesque devices for clarifying and revealing to us what we already knew? Or should we conceive of their role in some other way? This summer school examined thought experiments and their role in science and philosophy. It considered general problems of principle concerning thought experiments as well as the place and function of exemplar thought experiments largely drawn from physical sciences, but from philosophy and mathematics, as well.


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Few seem to have remarked the great importance of the Judgment issued by the UK’s High Court of Justice on Monday this week in the Mastercard private litigation case.
This case is the most relevant instance of practical application of the legal criteria set out by the ECJ in its two leading cases so far on multi-sided platforms. It constitutes highly relevant guidance for the future, including for several high-profile ongoing cases (in some of which I disclose to be involved) (for more on this see in particular prior discussions on Pay-TV and Android, here and here). It also fits exactly with the arguments Pablo and I developed in our piece on The Notion of Restriction of Competition regarding the key importance of the counterfactual assessment (see particularly section 2.1.1 of the piece).
As you will remember the ECJ’s Judgments in Cartes Bancaires and Mastercard –issued on the same day- converged in the message that multi-sided considerations should not play a role at the tail-end of the analysis, but rather be considered as part of the economic and legal context prior to examining whether a restriction exists in the first place under 101(1) (see Cartes Bancaires, paras. 73-99) and Mastercard (paras. 179-182). Importantly, at this stage the burden of proof lies on the Commission.
What this means in practice is that one cannot examine a practice that affects one side of the market in isolation; one also needs to look at how it contributes to balancing all sides of the platform. In other words, would the business model be viable in the absence of the practice at issue? That is the counterfactual assessment.
In the Mastercard Judgement the ECJ actually used this analytical framework for the analysis of the counterfactual (para. 161, also distinguishing it from ancillary restraints at para. 173). And it also identified an error of law in the Commission’s choice of the counterfactual in the absence of the agreements, as it had failed to consider whether it was a “likely” counterfactual. (para. 169). Importantly, the reason the Court ultimately did not annul the GC’s ruling and the decision was because Mastercard had failed to “claim” that its scheme would have collapsed in the counterfactual scenario (para. 173). The ECJ did therefore rule that the MIF at issues was restrictive of competition in the sense of Art. 101(1) and could not be exempted under 101(3) [for our comments on the also very interesting 101(3) leg of this case, see here and here].
Several large retailers decided to initiate follow on actions in the UK on the basis of the Commission’s decision as confirmed by the ECJ Judgment. It may have seemed like a home-run.
On Monday, however, the High Court ruled against them concluding, contrary to the ECJ, that the MIF was not restrictive of competition in the sense of Art.101(1) relying precisely on a counterfactual assessment.
There seems to be some surprise at this apparently diverging outcome but, frankly, it is not that surprising. Why? Because Mastercard did learn the lessons from the ECJ’s Judgment. As I explained before, para. 173 of the Judgment explains that “it was not in any way claimed before the General Court that MasterCard would have preferred to let its system collapse rather than adopt the other solution” and the key para. 180 says that the counterfactual argument had only been invoked by an intervener too late before the ECJ but was not part of the arguments submitted before the General Court. The ECJ therefore did not consider it.
As you will notice, this is exactly what the ECJ said Mastercard did not do before it. In the damages case, by contrast, Mastercard did put all the eggs in the basket of the counterfactual argument, and it won.
Actually, the word “counterfactual” is used about 190 times in the High Court’s Judgment.
And the winning argument was indeed what the Court refers to as the “death spiral” argument, pursuant to which in the counterfactual scenario other platforms would have killed Mastercard, whose scheme “would not have survived (…) in a materially and recognisably similar form“.
For an analysis of how this analysis was conducted on Monday’s (pretty lengthy but excellently written) Judgment (including on important issues related to the burden of proof or the differences with the notion of ancillarity), stay tuned for the second part of this post.
First and foremost thank you for an excellent blog.
Since the topic of this post is counterfactual assessments, I figured it might be the right place to ask you this. How differently do you think the MasterCard-decision would’ve panned out if MasterCard had invoked the ‘legal and economic context’-argument in time?
In addition, do you think it helps redeem the current imbalance in the burden of proof for multi-sided platforms v. competition authorities, that you touched on in the articles below, by imposing stricter requirements on the authorities to show harmful effects across the platform as a whole?
On your second question: glad you asked. I’m supposed to write a piece for the Antitrust Bulletin in the next few weeks touching precisely on that point. Give me a bit of time and you will have a very detailed response!


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Paintings at the museum show the art and history side of things.
Welcome to the most extravagant, the most amazing, the most daring, the most exciting…Museum on earth?
The Ringling Museum in Sarasota is one of Florida’s greatest attractions. One can dive into the life of John and Mable Ringling, by walking around their extravagant property. You can experience the many great works of art that Mr. Ringling collected and the circus museum that puts you back into your childhood.
The combination of silly antics and sophisticated masterpieces creates almost an overwhelming variety of activities. The hardest part of the day is choosing what you want to do first. You can go on a tour of their nineteen twenties era mansion and see the luxuries of the day, or take a trip through the late 19th and 20th centuries in circus entertainment. “ I always found the circus to be intriguing and I cant wait to go again,” said senior Timothy Warner.
The property has been there since nineteen twenty seven and was taken over by Florida State University in two thousand. The mansion or Ca d’Zan which means house of John was only inhabited for five months at a time. The illustrious mansion was the Ringling’s winter home. “I always wanted to go to the Ringling Brothers Museum, I’ve heard it is a good time,” said senior Richard Kallay.
The entry fee for students is 5 dollars and for adults it is 20 dollars. There are many different tours that you can add to your day featuring the mansion and the many galleries of 16 to 20th century art in which Mr Ringling was most proud of. The tours run every thirty minutes of every day. There are 66 acres of landscape that Mrs. Ringling cared for during her stays, that still exist and flourish today.
The property is a magnificent way to spend the day with no possibility of boredom. The recent additions include an interactive section in the circus museum. There are many Banyan trees and a large rose garden to make your acquaintance. There are restaurants on site and tons of things to do.
Throw on your walking shoes and take a stroll through a historic place. One that has made Florida an even more remarkable place.


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About shares traded. Trex Company Inc (TREX) has risen 51.54% since June 15, 2016 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 60.97% the S&P500.
Stockman Asset Management decreased Microsoft Corp (MSFT) stake by 7.76% reported in 2016Q4 SEC filing.
As of quarter end Columbia Partners L L C Investment Management had acquired a total of 4,429 shares growing its position 1.0%. State Street Corp now owns 318,681,830 shares of the software giant's stock valued at $20,988,383,000 after buying an additional 2,552,473 shares during the last quarter. Microsoft Corp now has $549.28B valuation. The stock declined 0.44% or $0.31 reaching $69.96 on the news. The target implies a 118.02% spike from where the shares are now trading. More interesting news about Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) were released by: Seekingalpha.com and their article: "Reuters: Microsoft wins Xbox Supreme Court case" published on June 12, 2017 as well as Livetradingnews.com's news article titled: "Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Releases Security Updates To Fight WannaCry" with publication date: June 15, 2017. It has outperformed by 17.82% the S&P500.
Digirad Corporation provides healthcare solutions. The company has a market cap of $2.30B and its 12 month revenue was nearly $8.68B. Analysts have placed a $74.34 price target on Microsoft Corporation, suggesting a 5.79% gain from recent close.
Investors sentiment increased to 0.92 in 2016 Q4. Its down 0.46, from 1.7 in 2016Q3. The stock carved out a 52-week low down at $48.03. Susquehanna Gp Ltd Liability Partnership reported 1.79 million shares. Intrust Bancorporation Na holds 1.32% in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) or 55,947 shares. (NYSE:LUK). New York State Common Retirement Fund owns 1.44M shares. The New York-based Spirit Of America Management Corp Ny has invested 0.16% in the stock. Gofen & Glossberg Llc Il owns 0% invested in Amyris Inc (NASDAQ:AMRS) for 40,000 shares. Virginia Retirement Et Al reported 36,300 shares. Motley Fool Asset Management Limited Liability Corp has invested 0.27% in Leucadia National Corp. F&V Cap Mngmt Limited holds 5.04% or 129,003 shares in its portfolio. Hilltop Holdings Inc., a Texas-based fund reported 23,966 shares. Waters Parkerson Communication Ltd Liability Company invested in 254,230 shares. Another trade for 6,183 shares valued at $150,927 was sold by Swanson Todd. Adzema Kurt also sold $1.26M worth of Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ:FNSR) on Monday, February 13. CLARK JOHN H sold $179,047 worth of stock.
04/28/2017 - Microsoft Corporation had its "strong buy" rating reiterated by analysts at Raymond James. Therefore 71% are positive. Inc. had 36 analyst reports since August 13, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. Morgan Stanley reissued a "buy" rating and set a $72.00 price target on shares of Microsoft Corporation in a report on Thursday, April 20th. Piper Jaffray maintained Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) rating on Tuesday, November 10. On Tuesday, October 6 the stock rating was maintained by Wood with "Market Perform". Microsoft Corporation now has an average rating of "Buy" and an average price target of $69.77. As per Wednesday, July 22, the company rating was maintained by Wunderlich. Needham maintained the shares of FNSR in report on Monday, September 19 with "Buy" rating. Drexel Hamilton initiated Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE:RGC) on Thursday, January 14 with "Buy" rating. The company was maintained on Friday, October 21 by Nomura.
Since January 30, 2017, it had 0 buys, and 14 sales for $2.55 billion activity. GATES WILLIAM H III sold $207.65M worth of stock. The insider DUNN GREGORY W sold 26,050 shares worth $577,008. FMR LLC increased its position in Microsoft Corporation by 11.0% in the fourth quarter.
Microsoft Corporation reported its EPS as $0.69 with the analysts projecting the EPS of the stock as $0.58. The software giant reported $0.73 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.69 by $0.04. During the same period a year ago, the firm earned $0.62 EPS. On average, equities analysts predict that Microsoft Corporation will post $3.03 EPS for the current fiscal year. The value of the investment in MSFT went from $26,628,000 to $28,514,000 a change of $1,886,000 for the reporting period. Therefore 82% are positive. Looking at the stock's movement on the chart, Microsoft Corporation recorded a 52-week high of $72.89. The firm earned "Outperform" rating on Friday, October 23 by FBR Capital. The rating was upgraded by Tigress Financial to "Buy" on Monday, January 23.
On November 17 the stock rating was upgraded from "Neutral" to "Buy" and a price target of $68.00 was set in an announcement from Goldman Sachs. Gradient Investments Limited Liability Co reported 7,047 shares stake. The firm has "Buy" rating given on Wednesday, December 16 by Deutsche Bank. Stifel Nicolaus maintained it with "Hold" rating and $58.0 target in Wednesday, November 9 report. The rating was maintained by Jefferies with "Underperform" on Friday, January 29.
The weekly performance is -2.93% for Microsoft Corporation, while the monthly performance measure stands at 2.69%. Denver Investment Ltd Liability Com invested 1.04% of its portfolio in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT).
Investors sentiment increased to 0.95 in Q4 2016. Its up 0.11, from 0.84 in 2016Q3. It increased, as 49 investors sold MSFT shares while 897 reduced holdings. 53 funds opened positions while 113 raised stakes. Thompson Davis And Incorporated stated it has 23,065 shares or 2.37% of all its holdings. BidaskClub cut shares of Microsoft Corporation from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Saturday, June 10th.
This change led market cap to move at $26.14B, putting the price -37.12% below the 52-week high and -0.92% above the 52-week low. Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD raised its stake in Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation by 0.3% in the third quarter.


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We don't stand in line.. foreign shoes hurt your feet!
So, it’s errands day and you just wanna throw on your fav joggers and slides. Skrrrrtt! How about putting on a cute and comfy fit since you’ll be out and about all day?
Whenever I’m going to be in the field, I loovveee to throw on a dress. They’re just so breezy and can be easily dressed up or down. For this look, I decided to pair a black dress with my fav booties and bomber jacket. Snake skin and olive green? Get into this color palette, honey! My last additions were my go-to Chanel bag and Prada sunnies.
Tip: Looking for ways to dress up a simple bomber? Add your fav pins or patches! So simple but details can make an outfit.


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A ONE News bulletin included an item on politicians' attendance at the Big Gay Out festival. The newsreader said, 'The community makes up to 10 percent of New Zealand's population and MPs were keen to show their support'. The Authority did not uphold the complaint that this statement and in particular the figure of 10 percent was inaccurate and misleading. It was expressed as an approximate figure only. There is no data available showing the exact size of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LBGT) community against which to assess the accuracy of the statement.
The importance of the gay vote was evident today as a pack of politicians joined thousands at Auckland's Big Gay Out festival. The community makes up to 10 per cent of New Zealand's population and MPs were keen to show their support.
 Terry Wallbank complained that the statement, 'The community makes up to 10 per cent of New Zealand's population' was inaccurate and misleading.
 The item was broadcast on TV ONE on 8 February 2015. The members of the Authority have viewed a recording of the broadcast complained about and have read the correspondence listed in the Appendix.
 The complainant argued that there are no statistics to support the quoted figure for the size of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LBGT) community, as Statistics New Zealand has never conducted census questioning of population sizes by sexual orientation. He maintained that the 10 per cent figure was misleading as research estimates the size of the LGBT community to be between 1 and 5 percent of the population.
 TVNZ agreed with the complainant that there is no census data about the population size of the LGBT community in New Zealand. It said this was why the phrase 'up to 10 percent' was used as it covered all the best estimates, ranging from 1 to 10 percent. TVNZ argued that the statement was not materially important to the understanding of the message that politicians attended the Big Gay Out to show their support for the LGBT community.
 In our view, this statement was material to the item, as it lent to the reason politicians wanted to show their support for the LGBT community by attending the Big Gay Out. However the percentage quoted by the newsreader – 'up to 10 percent' – was not presented as precise or exact and this would have been clear to viewers. Both parties have accepted that there are no definitive statistics available indicating the exact population size of the LGBT community in New Zealand. The figure was not so far removed from available estimates that it could be said to be misleading and there is no concrete information available against which to assess its accuracy.
 Accordingly we decline to uphold the complaint that the statement breached Standard 5.

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In a slow changing of the seasons we have seen winter outstay its welcome in the northern hemisphere. Likewise, summer has been reluctant to leave some areas south of the equator.
Sydney, Australia continues to bathe in summer-like warmth. As of Monday, the temperature here reached 26 Celsius for the fourth day in a row.
It has now been 45 years since the city has been as warm this late in the year. Indeed, in the past 150 years Sydney has only once seen such heat this late in the season, and that was back in 1968.
This pleasant taste of late summer did make for a lovely Anzac weekend and final weekend of the school holidays. Temperatures look set to stay in the mid-twenties until later in the week, when a typical autumnal weather front will move through the region by Thursday morning.
Rain or showers are expected across parts of New South Wales as the front goes through. Some parts will see their first rainfall so far this April, bringing a close to what is likely to be their driest April in more than a decade.
Away from here, there is some very heavy rain around, and its not too far away. Just to the north of the Coral Sea, we are watching for the possible formation of a late season tropical storm. This could bring flooding to the Coral Sea Islands as it edges away from the Solomon Islands.
Elsewhere, until recently, the South African Weather Service has been issuing warnings for dangerously hot and humid conditions across the country. It has taken some time, but the uncomfortably sticky weather is only just starting to fall away.
Meanwhile, Brazil is still struggling to cope with the worst drought in 50 years across the northeast of the country. The seasonal rains have arrived in some parts here, but many of the driest areas remain in a state of severe deficit.


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Ink managing director Mike Smith says his priority is to make money for the new capacity providers coming onboard at the managing general agency (MGA).
Ink expects most current capacity providers, such as Faraday and Zurich, to continue to commit capital when the panel arrangements are sealed soon.
The Giles-owned MGA also has new carriers coming onboard to provide capacity for its expanded product range, Smith said. Ink is negotiating with new providers because its current three-year contract deals need renewing.
Smith strongly refuted the suggestion that Ink had requested that insurers pay high commission or profit-sharing rates in comparison to rivals for the new deal.
Smith said: “We’ve carriers that have been with us for the last three, five or 10 years without a change on commercial, so it shows something about the quality of the business.
Meanwhile, Westinsure Group managing director Norrie Erwin said he wanted to see the Ink-owned network grow from around 180 members to 200 over the next 12 months, and was aiming for 225 members.
The network signed up 22 members over the last year, Erwin said.
Westinsure members placed around £320m of gross written premium in that period, 75% of which was in commercial lines. This had increased from around £280m since Ink bought it, Erwin added.

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Anyone on here keep tortoises? I’ve had these two for 6 months and I’m wanting to make sure they are growing right and are healthy! Why would this happen to his shell, would attaching photos of both help? Also they seem really small just barley larger then they were when hatchings and they are now approaching 6 months, they eat great any ideas?
How's your uvb and what are you feeding?
hmm.... I haven’t tried cuttlebone I’ll try to add some is it the same as the cuttlebone you buy for parakeets and cockatiels? Or is it some special type just for tortoises? Also I do have some calcium powder with vitamin D3 but I forget to sprinkle it on there greens so they rarely receive any should I try giving it to them more? If so how regularly? I’m sorry to change up my questions now but also how can I help these guys grow faster I feel like they are way behind the size they should be!!!
I picked up a cuttlebone made for turtles and tortoises and put it in there enclosure yesterday. They haven’t shown any interest in it so far but I’m just gonna leave it in there and they can use it to crawl over if nothing else. Also I have been taking them outside all summer they’ve rotated between indoors and outdoors and gotten at least 2-3 days a week outside, they are in a open bottom pen I built when they are outside so they do have some natural sun light and time to graze. I know protein isn’t required for these guys like it is recommended for redfoots. Would giving them a option to have some cause any harm if I did so in moderation? I just don’t know why these guys aren’t growing!!

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Bring side dishes and desserts to share. The UM Men will supply hamburgers and hotdogs. It will be a day of celebrations! The Volunteer of the Year will be announced and we will also recognize our high school seniors and award the Carol Millwood Scholarship that day!
Worship begins at 10:30am in the arbor (weather permitting) followed by the picnic in the back parking lot (or in the fellowship hall if it is raining).


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Knowing what you need to do to lose weight with a Chicago personal trainer is only part of the answer. Tracking your progress is the other.
Below is a real example of weight loss accountability. This personal training client, Tim, has lost nearly 8 lbs between 10/07/14 and 11/07/14. Although this is right on pace, he was curious why he didn't lose more. Take a look and see what trend you find.
Losing weight with a personal trainer in Chicago....and Excel!
Based on the data, my personal training client showed inconsistency in his numbers over the weekends (which Tim has noted as eating things he normally doesn't choose during the week). Overall, though, Tim is on the right track and has been more consistent with his weight loss trend with this new weekend awareness.
"Besides eating a vegetarian diet [this doesn't mean pasta time, folks] and cutting out alcohol, consistency and only focusing on what I want to put in my body (instead of what I don't want) are the reasons for my success"


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After travelling up into in the cable car, walkers will already be able to see the restaurant at the Kammerköralm. However, before they have the chance to sample the culinary delights that await within it is time to explore the educational Triassic Trail. Leading through the Triassic Park, this trail takes walkers not only to some of the finest mountains in the Steinplatte region but also on a journey back in time all the way to the Triassic age when much of the Earth was covered by the huge Tethys ocean. Traces of this ancient body of water can still be found at the Steinplatte and are a fascinating experience for both children and adults alike. The best place to reflect on an action-packed day is in the mountain restaurant at 1,666m above sea level. I recommend trying the homemade specialties such as Tiroler Gröstl and Kaspressknödel," says Kathrin Siller, editor at the regional newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung and mother to three adventure-hungry children.
This short walk begins at the top station of the cable car and starts by leading past the Kammerköralm restaurant, the final destination of our hike. Follow the signs for the Triassic Trail (suitable for buggies and pushchairs), which takes walkes on a 4km journey through the Triassic Park. After passing the reservoir the trail heads in a southerly direction to the western and eastern summits of the Steinplatte mountain with fine views. The route back leads in a north-easterly direction down the "rote Wand" ("red wall") and the northern side of the mountain to the top station of the cable car and the nearby Kammerköralm restaurant.

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MarketPress is subtracting the tax from the product price rather than adding it. Any body have a clue why it might do this?
Thanks for creating a separate thread on this, will help us to isolate this one.
Could we get a bit more detail on this to start with though, perhaps a screenshot of your tax and currency settings at Products > Store Settings? And also maybe of the cart where you're seeing the tax being taken?
I've just tested this once again in a test site and am not seeing it work that way so any extra details that might help us to replicate the issue would help.
Just looked at my last post and screen shots don't seem to be there so will try that again.
3. Shopping cart 2 - tax has been subtracted from total.
Thanks for the additional details on this. I can see what you're referring to and it's just really strange, not something I've seen before. Could you please try setting the "Enter Prices Inclusive of Tax?" option to "No"?
EDIT: Actually, I think I do see, that option should be set to No if you're looking to get the taxes added in, otherwise they won't get added. They're not getting subtracted as far as I can see though, and I've just tested this as well on your site.
Also, could you try updating to the latest version?
I set the tax option to "no". I then purchased a book with my wife's account (here in the same state) so taxes should have been charged. NO TAXES showed up in my final bill.
As far as the taxes getting subtracted, something was subtracting 5 cents (i.e., 5% of the price). If it wasn't the taxes then something else is really strange.
Starting over with a new install of WP and getting the tax settings correct has resolved all the tax issues.
I know it's kinda hard to wrap your head around, but this is expected behavior. When tax inclusive pricing is on, then the cart previews and such until they enter their shipping address will show estimated tax based on the entered rate. In your case the customer checking out had a shipping address in a different state so tax was subtracted from the order on all screens after the point they entered their address.
In the USA it's not recommended to use tax inclusive pricing, customers aren't used to that so it causes confusion. In many other countries though it is a legal requirement to have that on.

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Sharanya is a versatile performer who has studied dance since she was four. She started learning Odissi under the tutelage of Nandita Behera and later went on to train with Aruna Mohanty, Manoranjan Pradhan and other teachers from Orissa Dance Academy. In India, Sharanya has performed at Vasantotsav, New Delhi, Dover Lane Dance Festival, Kolkata, Konark Dance and Music Festival, Konark. She performed at the 1st and 2nd International Odissi Festivals in the USA, Banga Sammelon, California, Rhythms of India, Hawaii, LA Dance Kaliedoscope and UCLA. Sharanya has also trained in other dance styles like flamenco, hip-hop, Bollywood, Korean dance and African dance. She trained in taekwondo and uses the martial art form in her performances. In 2005, she choreographed Sinbad, with eight dance sequences in different styles. Sharanya has performed at various charity events in the Los Angeles area and has performed Odissi at various talent pageants she participated in. She has now started teaching Odissi with the objective of spreading the dance form. Sharanya is also a graduate of UCLA.
Here, she performs Ardhanariswara, where Shiva-a is invoked as half-man, half-woman. This is a piece choreographed by Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.


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Things got a little cheesy in Brooklyn court on Tuesday.
When a federal judge gave Gregorio Gigliotti an 18-year sentence for his role at a family restaurant that served cocaine along with slices, the pizza pusher tearfully asked the judge to show mercy while sentencing his wife and son, who were also busted in an international drug trafficking operation.
"You truly have my life in your hands and God's hands," Gigliotti, 61, said as he choked back tears. "I understand I made a mistake in my life."
Gigliotti asked Brooklyn Federal Judge Raymond Dearie to be lenient sentencing his son, Angelo, 36, and wife, Eleonora, 56.
Jurors convicted Gigliotti and his son for the smuggling operation, which had links to Italy and Costa Rica. Prosecutors said they used their restaurant in Corona, called Cucino a Modo Mio, and a produce import company as a front for the scheme. The counts included plans to distribute some 50 kilos of cocaine discovered in shipments of yucca in 2014.
When authorities searched the restaurant in 2015, they found a cache of firearms, brass knuckles, more than $100,000 in cash and a ledger detailing drug deals.
Eleonora Gigliotti pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
Gregorio Gigliotti denied any mob ties on Tuesday, and jurors never heard about any mafia links during the trial.
But prosecutors previously said in a memo that the Gigliotti family had "close business ties" to the infamous Calabria-based crime organization the 'Ndrangheta. The memo cited Italian authorities who learned Gigliotti was negotiating a cocaine sale with members of the clan. Feds also claimed Gigliotti and his son had ties to the New York City-based Genovese crime family.
Gigliotti's attorney Elizabeth Macedonio painted a different picture, saying her client came from Italy to America in 1973 as a young man and worked hard to succeed. Before opening his restaurant, the name of which means "I cook it my way" in Italian, Gigliotti owned and operated several construction businesses.
"Somewhere along the way," Macedonio said, Gigliotti got mixed up with drugs and alcohol, which caused his decline. She asked for a 15-year sentence, the required minimum for his conviction.
Prosecutors pressed for a 35-year-to-life sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Gandy noted Gigliotti went to trial and "at no point fell on his sword in any public way." Gandy said Gigliotti was the one calling the shots in a large-scale operation that imported at least 120 kilos of cocaine since 2012.
Dearie said he couldn't understand why Gigliotti had done legitimate work so hard for so long only to end up in front of him.
He wasn't "some fat cat sitting in a hotel suite" dealing drugs, the judge said.
"You just decided to add one more business. It's hard to figure out why, other than money, as the expression goes."
Dearie called Gigliotti a family man, but there was an "ironic twist to that."
Gigliotti's sentencing came a day after his birthday.
"Under these circumstances, I can't say happy birthday," Dearie said.

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Escape to a natural sanctuary among Virginia’s verdant foothills and rediscover the peace within during Yogaville’s annual Spring Silent Retreat.
With its ups, downs, and demands, daily life can make us lose perspective. We can easily get out of sync with our inner calm and balance.
On a silent retreat, we take a few days to step back from our regular routines. We lift the spirit and refresh the body and mind. Through stillness, silence, and Yoga practices, we become reacquainted with our true nature of ease and peace.
All around it was a great experience—mentally, physically, and spiritually. This was a wonderful chance to get away from the cares of the world and soak in solitude in a relaxing countryside environment with peaceful, kind, and compassionate people. — Elle D.