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In childhood, if we are exposed to invalidating experiences at a time when we don’t have sophisticated reasoning capabilities, the way we often make sense of these negative experiences is by falsely concluding that we don’t matter. This childhood trauma carries over into adulthood and leaves us feeling deficient and not “good enough,” or lacking worth.
Self worth and self-esteem are often used synonymously but I see them as different concepts. Self-worth is the foundation on which self-esteem is built. If self worth has been internalized then a person’s self-esteem will remain relatively stable in the face of challenge and adversity. Self-esteem will always fluctuate because it is impacted by external factors like accomplishments and failures but if self-worth has been internalized then it will only oscillate within a narrow margin. If it has not been internalized however, then the self-esteem can easily become devastated.
It’s important to realize that having low self-esteem is not a character flaw or a personality defect but rather the unfortunate outcome of the false conclusions that we draw about our worthiness stemming from childhood. Since these conclusions are based on the quality of care we receive from the important people in our lives, if we feel loved, we come to see ourselves as “loveable” and a feeling of positive self-worth is internalized. If we are treated unkindly or with indifference, if our feelings are ignored or minimized, we come to see ourselves as “unworthy”. This internal belief is accompanied with many anxieties, and the way we manage these anxieties often results in behaviors that are self-defeating. We sadly undermine our self-esteem and reinforce our belief of being deficient at our core.
The following are fears that result from failing to internalize self-worth.
There is a self-disparaging internal voice that you suspect is true but would like to believe is false. This critical voice creates an ever-present fear or anxiety that something will happen and you will no longer be able to question whether or not it is true because you will now have proof of your internal defect. In order to defend against this possibility there is often the relentless pursuit of success. Achievement becomes all-important because those who doubt their self-worth use achievement as a measure to confirm their worth. Life therefore becomes constricted and devoid of pleasure since all the focused attention is put exclusively into achieving or put into avoiding situations in which one might risk failure. Since success can never be guaranteed, and the prospect of ‘failure’ is terrifying there is a reluctance to learn new things, and pursue challenges. Failure and success, however, exist on a continuum. There is no such thing as absolute failure because with each failed attempt we move a step closer to achieving success.
Another common self-defeating behavior is that of procrastination because, after all, if you don’t try hard then you can tell yourself that had you put in the effort or completed the task you would have succeeded.
What’s unfortunate about this tendency is that it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy because it increases the likelihood of failure.
Denying weakness is another way that one’s fear gets expressed because weakness or limitation is felt to be a confirmation of the depth of their deficiency. This is unfortunate because none of us is equally strong in all areas, and in fact, if a weakness is denied, the difficulty will become more obvious as time passes, and then one’s fear of inadequacy will become a reality.
This fear is displayed by self-consciousness and a high sensitivity to scrutiny and judgment. There is also a reluctance to disclose thoughts and feelings with others for fear of jeopardizing the relationship if you “true self” were to be revealed. Relationships, therefore, often take on a superficial quality, lacking real intimacy, and resulting in feelings of loneliness and isolation, which is then used as evidence of internal defect.
Since a person suffering from low self worth feels like an imposter and fraud their accomplishments are often not attributed to their hard work and competence but rather to chance and luck. Since chance and luck are unpredictable, and not within one’s control, there exists an ever-present anxiety that their achievements and accomplishments cannot be repeated. This is unfortunate because a capable person afflicted with low self-worth is unlikely to step out of their comfort zone and reach their full potential.
For some people, their anxiety stems from a belief that they are bad, and undeserving of anything good. Filled with insecurity they are likely to reject desirable people and healthy relationships because they are suspicious as to why a desirable person would want them. They believe it is just a matter of time before they will be truly seen and rejected, and so they often sabotage their own relationships so they can silently tell themselves that they were the cause through their own actions.
In order to begin to recover from low self-worth that gets expressed in all the ways discussed, we must recognize the common self-defeating behaviors that produce the kinds of outcomes, and responses from others, that reinforce this negative self-image.
The problem with this heightened state of attention is that the threshold for perceiving danger is so low that you are likely to see threats even when none exist. Imagine you are hiking along a trail and you see signs posted along the way, “Beware poisonous snakes”. In this context, with a heightened sense of danger, you might be more likely to see a stick lying across the pathway in front of you as a snake. If these warnings, however, were absent, you would not be anticipating danger, and in this less vigilant state you would be more likely to see the stick as just a stick. In its application to relationships, a person is likely to be hypersensitive and perceive rejection even if it doesn’t exist.
Since a person with low self worth will see him or her self in a devalued way their feelings get projected and they imagine that others see them in the same diminished way. With this internal belief everything is interpreted through a filter of negativity and so they respond to others as if they have been mistreated. This reaction is likely to provoke a negative or even aggressive response, which once again will sadly be used as evidence that they are being wronged.
For a person with low self-esteem making a mistake is unacceptable. Mistakes are not seen as unavoidable because we are human beings, and not perfect beings, but are rather seen as indicative of flaw and defect. A person afflicted with low self-worth will find it difficult to acknowledge fault. They will have a tendency to blame others and not see their own contribution to the difficulties in their relationships.
Since a feeling of efficacy is absent, a person with low self-worth doubts their ability to be impactful, and believes that the outcome of a given situation has less to do with them, and more to do with chance, and so they feel helpless to change their situation.
There exists a wishful fantasy that doing for others and making them happy will secure their love. They also have this idea that there is a ‘universal’ rulebook that others must treat you in the same manner that you treat them. So, even though people pleasers choose to put the needs of others first, they also unconsciously expect others to do the same for them. This usually creates a conflict in the relationship because it is as if an agreement has been drawn up by one person, and then imposed upon the other. In this way people pleasers set themselves up for disappointment and a feeling of being failed or wronged by others.
Since a feeling of positive self-worth has not been internalized, external validation is needed in order to maintain the self-esteem, just like oxygen is needed to maintain life. Since attention, approval, and admiration become a necessary source of esteem, it is easy for self-worth to be tied to the attitude of others, which gives them power over you and your self-image. This renders them vulnerable to manipulation and abuse.
Finally there is a tendency to engage in controlling behaviors, which are often used to defend against unwanted negative outcomes. Those afflicted with low self-worth mistakenly believe that they should be unaffected and impervious to life’s set backs and disappointments, and if they occur then this is taken as evidence of their unworthiness. The fear of experiencing negative feelings will therefore result in controlling behaviors because, after all, if you are able to control the actions of others then you are able to bring about the outcome you want.
In conclusion, in order to recover from low self-worth you must acknowledge your insecurity without judgment but rather simply as fact, and not evidence of flaw or defect. You must then recognize the kinds of self-defeating behaviors that you engage in to defend against the anxiety of feeling inadequate. It is only then that you can begin to recover from low self-worth because in order for change to happen, there must be a willingness to take the opposite action even if it is anxiety provoking. What is new and unfamiliar is always scary, but fear is not a reason to remain stuck in the same patterns of self-defeating behaviors that reinforce low self-worth.
To learn more go to www.preparetoleavethenest.com, a psycho-educational program for emotional preparedness for college and adulthood and recovery from low self-esteem.


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Google Ads piss you off?
I have found a way to get rid of them once and for all.
Even on this free temp forum we have google ads..
It one of many ad servers by google and the fooking adverts are everywhere, pop ups, embedded objects in java and even basic html iframes within pages.
You cant block the domain googlesynication.com as the domain used by ads is pagead2.googlesyndication.com and this (using the . in the middle of a two part domain) is called a wildcard... it means it can search several servers if one is busy/blocked or down.
The best way is to stop the domain with wildcards from loading... Blocking wont work because as said... wildcards will search for another server to load from.
TELL internet explorer/firefox the I.P address of the wildcard'd domain and its sorted.
Anyone heard of the Hosts file?
Well the hosts file is a list of I.P addresses and domains that windows makes... your browser will always consult this before resolving the i.p address for the requested url by DNS.
So if you were to give the pagead2.googlesyndication.com a false address, then the browser wouldn;t load the adverts!
The only text not inserted between two # will be..
If it wont, save it as a txt file in the directory drivers\etc... and restart to safe mode.
Then open the hosts file, copy the line in and save.
In future when a page try;s to load google ads, it will merely display "internet explorer cannopt display this page" message, no silly flash or ads... just a simple error page.
This is because the hosts file says 127.0.0.1 is your pc (localhost) and we told the browsers to load google ads from the local host (your pc) and not from the google add servers.
Now this can be used to get rid of lots of adware and banners.
Below is a list (freely available) of add servers around the world, and servers that host malicious trojans/spyware.
It will block access to all of them.
If there are entries in there that you are unsure off... post them up and i'll tell you if its legit or malicious..
Beware... malicious trojans/virus sometimes modify this file... and block antivirus websites... which frustrates the average joe pc user.
Re: Google Ads piss you off?
Well as crap as IE is, i'm migrating to firefox... its FREE and far superior.
Theres as pluggin called ad block, that after two block requests will permanently block traffic (adverts/flash/images) from an add server.
It stops pop ups and silly overlay advertising on pages.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Welcoming your new child into the world is meant to be a happy and memorable occasion. When you have spent months in anticipation of the birth, it can be difficult to suddenly face medical complications.
Even though it is not something anyone should have to expect, birth injuries are one of the most common forms of medical malpractice. Doctors and nurses may be certified professionals, but they too can be negligent, harming their patients by making mistakes that could have been avoided.
If you are experiencing the outcomes of birth-related medical negligence, it is important that you speak with a qualified personal injury attorney. While a lawsuit cannot reverse the tragic situation, a skilled attorney can walk you through your legal rights and also help you retrieve compensation. Call established attorney Alan S. Friedman today at 646-569-9896 and get the assistance you need.
New York lawyer Alan S. Friedman has over 25 years of experience in handling medical malpractice cases. While we are based in the Bronx, we cater to clients across all five boroughs in the city and are comfortable taking on a wide variety of birth injury claims.
· Cerebral palsy: A physician may neglect a baby's need for sufficient oxygen, either by unnecessarily delaying or even failing to consider the need for a caesarian section. A lack of oxygen can affect both the baby's brain and body, causing symptoms such as slow cognitive development and limp muscle tones.
· Erb's palsy: When too much pressure is placed on a baby's head, neck or shoulders during delivery, it damages the nerves that stimulate their arms and hands, causing the area to be paralyzed or limited in movement. This happens when a physician does not consider what delivery methods would be most suitable in relation to the baby's weight and size.
Whether you fall into either category or not, attorney Alan S. Friedman is prepared to represent you, no matter how severe your child's symptoms are.
At the law office of Alan S. Friedman, we understand that a financial compensation doesn't quite replace your losses. However, we are committed to recognizing and protecting your rights so that you don't have to deal with the aftermath of your child's injuries alone.
To learn more about how we can help you with birth injuries, you can set up a consultation with us for free. Call 646-569-9896 or email us to get started. When you work with our personal injury firm, there are no financial risks to take. This means that if we can't get you a compensation, you won't have to pay us any fees. Hablamos español.

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A Switch In Time is a 5 reels / 20 paylines slot game released in 2009 by Rival. The theme here is a very 19th century England like something coming out of H.G. Wells books and it will involve a time machine of course.
The Wild in this game is the Hourglass clock symbol which will substitute other symbol to create a winning combination. It will also come with a 2x multiplier and 3x multiplier during Free Spin rounds. Oh and it can also expand during free spins to help you get more wins.
The second scatter is the Time Machine symbol. Landing 3 or more will trigger the Bonus Round in which you’ll be picking several buttons in the time machine. Each pick is worth a prize and will move the time needle towards the past. When the needles gets to the limit the bonus round is over but now you’ll be playing in the past!
After that the only way to go back to your time is landing those 3 scatters again and play the feature all over again.
This is an example of a great game that has both good graphics and a good story. With the bonus features and the very generous free spins rounds you get what we consider an awesome game.
If you’d like to know more about Chinese culture then you should consider playing Panda Party a 5 reel slot by Rival.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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Accorded to DXN Holdings Bhd. for its good reputation and credibility among the MLM industry, DXN has been commended for its company's vision and mission, innovation and strategies, effective human resources management, operations efficiency, and quality products.
DXN International Private Limited (Philippines) has been recognized as the "Top Innovative Marketing Company of the Year”, in view of its significant contributions to the general welfare of the Filipino consumers, during the 2004 Year-Ender Excellence Awards.
DXN International Private Limited (Philippines) awarded the "Most Outstanding Direct Selling Company" under the "Health Care Category" by the Awards and Recognition Association of Philippines (ARAP) and BIZ Business Today Magazine during the "2004 Buyer's Choice Awards" ceremony.
DXN Spirulina has been selected as the best food supplement in Pakistan and bestowed with the Brand of the Year Award 2010 by Pakistan Prime Minister, Mr. Yousuf Raza Gilani (Country Manager Mr. Zarif Ahmed received the award on behalf of DXN Pakistan).
DXN awarded The Most Successful Direct Selling Company in the UAE in the 2nd MALAYSIA BUSINESS AWARDS organized by the Malaysia Business Council UAE. The Award was presented by YB Dato' Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Minister of International Trade & Industry, Malaysia on 18th Dec 2011 in Dubai.
DXN Pharmaceutical has been awarded the Industry Excellence Award by the National Pharmaceutical Control Bureau, Ministry of Health Malaysia for the year 2012.
DXN is a member of CTFA, an association working to promote trust and confidence in the personal care industry and to ensure that regulations are competitive and internationally harmonized.
DXN Marketing Sdn. Bhd. has been elected as a member of the Water Quality Association since 2006 for having clearly evidenced sincere interest in the progress and the development of water quality for all mankind.

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Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
I am often asked, “why are we here?” Occasionally I am asked, “why am I here?” I will attempt to respond to both questions in this short essay. Not surprisingly, my responses align with the paragraph above from Schopenhauer.
With respect to the first question, the obvious response is, “who is we?” I will assume, in this case, that the “we” in question is Homo sapiens. In that case, the response is easy, if one has sufficient understanding of evolutionary biology.
I went to graduate school in Lubbock, Texas. In the process of completing my graduate degrees, I spent a lot of time conducting field work. On dozens of occasions, I defecated in the savannas. On most of these occasions, considering my location, I attracted dung beetles. The dung beetles would fly toward me as I squatted, their size and wingspan making them drone like B-52s. I would bat them away, as well as I was able, and they would crash awkwardly into my head and torso. After I finished the task, I would watch the beetles as they formed my manure into balls a tad smaller than ping-pong balls and then rolled them away. These tiny creatures thus solved a significant problem for human beings. As with carrion beetles, dung beetles saved humans from a lot of life-threatening diseases.
By now it’s probably obvious that the answer to the question, “why are we here?” is rooted in evolutionary biology. We are here to give dung beetles something to do. Dung beetles are here to protect us, thereby extending our lives. Without us, dung beetles will be SOL.
George Carlin promulgated a different idea, one rooted in “nurture” rather than “nature.” As indicated in the video embedded below, Carlin believed our collective purpose had nearly run its course more than a decade ago.
As a civilization, I believe there is another response to the question of our purpose. We are here, as a global society of clever beings, to model ridiculous behavior. In so doing, we provide a galactic warning to other civilizations in the multiverse.
The far-more-difficult question is, “why am I here?” I suspect there are approximately 7.6 billion answers to this question.
I wish nothing but good luck to Bezos, Musk, and like-minded technopians. Well, I wish them good riddance, too.
Some individuals are here to give. In pursuing a life of service, I’d put myself and few others in that group.
Some people are here to take. We all know examples of the ones to whom Daniel Quinn referred as “takers.” I was reminded anew last week when I was robbed of all my cash, nearly all the money in my possession after selling the mud hut. The thief was undoubtedly a friend and co-worker, as has often been the case in the numerous acts of betrayal pointed my way. Among the worst of the many betrayals I’ve experienced was the betrayal of abandonment.
I am asked nearly every day for advice about living. I recommend living fully. I recommend living with intention. I recommend living urgently, with death in mind. I recommend the pursuit of excellence. I recommend the pursuit of love. It’s small wonder I am often derided, mocked, rejected, and isolated by my contemporaries in the scientific community.
In light of the short time remaining in your life, and my own, I recommend all of the above, louder than before. More fully than you can imagine. To the limits of this restrictive culture, and beyond.
For you. For me. For us. For here. For now.
Live large. Be you, and bolder than you’ve ever been. Live like you’re dying. Because you are.
No guilt. We were all born into captivity. No blame. No shame. At the edge of extinction, only love remains.
I know this is a lot to ask. Expressing the best of humanity is quite a task. At this point, though, what have we got to lose?

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday revealed how it would conduct the 2019 general elections.
The revelation was made by Mr. Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner of the Electoral body, while speaking to journalists at a two-day election workshop at the US embassy in Abuja.
He further spoke on what INEC expects from the media regarding election coverage and reporting of results.
“Each voter shall cast his/her vote in person at the polling unit that he/she registered and, in the manner, prescribed by the Commission.
“For the purposes of the conduct of elections, the Commission utilizes both permanent and ad-hoc staff. The ad-hoc staff comprises of Presiding Officersn (PO), Assistant Presiding Officers (APO), Supervisors, Collation Officers and Returning Officers.
“The Presiding Officer shall be responsible for regulating the admission of voters to the polling unit and shall exclude all other persons except candidates or their polling agents, election officials, security personnel, accredited observers and any other person who in his opinion has lawful reason to be admitted and attendance Register in Polling Unit booklet will be signed by these categories of election personnel,” Mr. Okoye, who is also the Chairman of Information and Voter Education, said.
According to him, those who would be granted access to the electoral material distribution centre, polling units, polling stations and collation centres are; “the voters (at polling units only), INEC officials on election duty, security personnel, candidates or their accredited party agents, accredited journalists/media and accredited domestic and foreign observers.
“The accreditation process shall comprise Verification by the Smart Card Reader; Checking of the Register of Voters; and inking of the cuticle of the specified finger. Where the voter’s fingerprint is not authenticated after 4 attempts using the SCR, the APOI shall recapture the fingerprint of the voter in the prescribed manner and continue with the accreditation and voting process.
“However, it is not permissible to violate the secrecy of the vote by attempting to record how a voter is voting or how the voter has voted. Section 125 of the Electoral Act.
“The media are allowed or permitted to record and use the votes scores by each political party as pasted in the Publication of Result Poster EC60(E). The media and accredited observers are not allowed or permitted to make a declaration or announce results of an election as that is legally reserved for the Returning Officer who makes a declaration and a return.
“By section 123(4) of the Electoral Act, 2010(as amended) any person who announces or publishes an election result knowing same to be false or which is at variance with the signed certificate of return commits an offence and is liable on conviction to 36 months’ imprisonment,” he warned.
-Cancel all the unused ballot papers by crossing them.
-Sort out the ballot papers by party and thereafter loudly count the votes scored by each political party in the presence of the polling agents and observers.
-Cross-check the scores according to the prescribed procedure.
-Enter the scores of the candidates in both figures and words in the appropriate forms EC8A/ EC8A(VP) series.
-Enter the result on form EC8A (VP).
-Submit to the presiding officer who shall consolidate the result using form EC8A and attach the EC8A(VP) to form EC8A.
-Take the card reader and the original copy of the forms in tamper-evidence envelope to the Registration Area/Ward Collation Officer, in the company of security agents.
Where the total number of votes cast at a polling unit exceeds the number of registered voters in the polling unit, the result of the election for that polling unit shall be declared null and void, and a report in that regard is made to the Collation Officer.
Similarly, where the total number of votes cast at a polling unit exceeds the total number of accredited voters, the outcome of the election shall be declared null and void, and a report in that regard is made to the Collation officer.
-Registration Area – RA/Ward (collation for all election) including that of Councilor in the case of the FCT.
-Local Government Area – LGA (Collation for all election) including that of Chairman in the case of the FCT.
-State Constituency (Collation and Declaration of State House of Assembly elections).
-Presidential (Collation and Declaration of Presidential election) as stipulated in Section 27 of the Electoral Act, 2010(as amended).
While the announcement of results is made at the Polling Units by the Presiding Officer, the Ward Collation Officer announces the Results at the Ward Collation Centre and the Local Government or Area Council Collation Officer announces the result at the Local Government or Area Council Collation Centre.
By section 63 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) what the Presiding Officer does is to count and announce the result at the polling unit. The Presiding Officer does not make a declaration and does not make a return.
Section 69 and 70 of the Electoral Act, 2010(as amended) gives the appropriate Returning Officer the exclusive right and jurisdiction to make a return in an election to the office of the President or Governor whether or not contested.

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Based on our internal data during the last 12 months Randstad USA (Mergis Group) has published 149,065 job offers and are currently hiring to fill 30,515 positions on JobisJob. The top 3 categories where Randstad USA (Mergis Group) tend to post job openings are IT - Telecomm with 13.1%, Logistics - Distribution with 13% and Finance with 12.7% of all their job offers. The job title with the most openings from this company during the last 12 months has been Forklift Operator.
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Thank you... Lords of Minecraft..
The day is nearing, when LoM will be but a memory, a memory that is full of friendship, jokes, good memories and some bad, but I think the community can all agree... it will be a memory that will last forever.
Here she would make the first ever location of The C4... which after a bit relocated to a cheaper plot in brickton.. and then the barrens for like idk a day? "ANYWAYS BACK TO DWARVEN" she cried. And sooner or later she became very involved with said district, silly roleplay, hating elves, drink ale, and all other dwarven things she would do. However, little ol' Cloud was.. a bit special, she was extremely chatty, often would come to hang out when she was very tired and thus even more silly, and also really liked hanging out with players outside the district, which at the time wasn't very dwarven districty.
So as time passed, CloudPelt would grow as a person and even wind up filling in on the council for the event planner, since well, she liked talking and doing things for others.Which led to her handling the DD affairs with the upcoming Lords Day event in Brickton. However, this taste of the outside... world? City? Whatever you might call it, seemed to call to the dwarf and she decided after much thinking, she would resign on council and take her leave to Brickton once again!
During this event however, Cloud decided to join the costume contest since she had recently made a Pyro costume for a themed meeting... and she won! Though something tells her maybe her costume didn't see through... But she liked the change of things... and long story short she became a dinosaur after wearing the costume around alot idk.
As time passed, she would eventually find her slowly being more creative with her skin and some how became a mafia charity runner? Also an Ink Seller? And some how turn into a cyborg? Honestly I think she stopped caring about making sense such a long time ago as long as she was having fun.
Ok, Ok... Enough rambling... here we are today, roughly 4-5 years later... The once silly 16 year old soon turning in a cranky 21 year old "adult". Someone who wouldn't be the person they are today w/o the people she grew up with hanging out with her and not strangling her no matter how annoying she got.
I just wanted to say, to the LoM community, to Rob, Nisovin, and the other Lords, to the squires and staff who worked behind the scenes, thank you. I appreciate the times I've had with all of you, either in Dong Dank, defending against the never ending hords of zombies, or even doing something else like building a hermit city on an island and screaming about someone stealing their hay bales or being a tractor... I wouldn't trade these year for anything! Whilst I often complain about how I'd have changed things... honestly I wouldn't have! Those moments defined who I'd become today, and without them happening I'd maybe not have made the close friends I have today!
Lords of Minecraft was a unique experience hard to put into words, lords wasn't a server it was a community, it was like an online home to me when the stress of real life was a bit much that I could escape to, either by hoping on the server or enjoying the videos made, or even stalking some of the subreddits. Whilst these videos are unlisted, I've decided to share them here as they do have their place in history. I barely stepped into the memories I made with the LoM community but I just felt the need to atleast express my feelings on them!
I spent a lot of time when Lom was considered dead, made a lot of friends man. Also I always liked your house Cloud.
I had some good times when I last played 3 years ago.


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achieved better jobs and better pay as a result. The war brought the race issue to the forefront. The Army had been segregated since the Civil War and the Navy since the Wilson administration. But by 1940, the African-American vote had largely shifted from Republican to Democrat, and African-American leaders like Walter Francis White of the NAACP and T. Arnold Hill of the Urban League had become recognized as part of the Roosevelt coalition. In June 1941, at the urging of A. Philip Randolph, the leading African-American trade unionist, Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Fair Employment Practice Committee and prohibiting discrimination by any government agency, including the armed forces. In practice the services, particularly the Navy and the Marines, found ways to evade this order — the Marine Corps remained all-white until 1942. In September 1942, at Eleanor's instigation, Roosevelt met with a delegation of African-American leaders, who demanded full integration into the forces, including the right to serve in combat roles and in the Navy, the Marine Corps and the United States Army Air Forces. Roosevelt agreed, but then did nothing to implement his promise. It was left to his successor, Harry S. Truman, to fully desegregate the armed forces.
Following the outbreak of the Pacific War, the War Department demanded that all enemy nationals and Japanese American citizens be removed from war zones on the West Coast. The question became how to imprison the estimated 120,000 people of Japanese and American citizenship living in California. On February 11, 1942 Roosevelt met with Secretary of War Stimson, who persuaded him to approve an immediate forced evacuation. Roosevelt looked at the secret evidence available to him: the Japanese in the Philippines had collaborated with the Japanese invasion troops; the Japanese in California had been strong supporters of Japan in the war against China. There was evidence of espionage compiled by code-breakers that decrypted messages to Japan from agents in North America and Hawaii before and after Pearl Harbor. These MAGIC cables were kept secret from all but those with the highest clearance, such as Roosevelt, lest the Japanese discover the decryption and change their code. On February 19, 1942 Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which ordered Secretary of War, and military commanders to designate military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Roosevelt released the imprisoned Japanese in 1944. On February 1, 1943, when activating the 442nd Regimental Combat Team—a unit composed mostly of American citizens of Japanese descent living in Hawaii, he said, "No loyal citizen of the United States should be denied the democratic right to exercise the responsibilities of his citizenship, regardless of his ancestry. The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry."
Interior Secretary Ickes lobbied Roosevelt through 1944 to release the Japanese American internees, but Roosevelt did not act until after the November presidential election. A fight for Japanese American civil rights meant a fight with influential Democrats, the Army, and the Hearst press and would have endangered Roosevelt's chances of winning California in 1944. Critics of Roosevelt's actions believe they were motivated in part by racism. In 1925 Roosevelt had written about Japanese immigration: "Californians have properly objected on the sound basic grounds that Japanese immigrants are not capable of assimilation into the American population... Anyone who has traveled in the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European and American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results". In 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of the executive order in the Korematsu v. United States case. The executive order remained in force until December of that year.
Some of his closest political associates, such as Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Baruch and Samuel I. Rosenman, were Jewish. He appointed Henry Morgenthau, Jr. as the first Jewish Secretary of the Treasury and appointed Frankfurter to the Supreme Court. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin cites statistics showing that FDR's high level executive appointments favored Jews (15% of his top appointments at a time when Jews represented 3% of the U.S. population) which subjected Roosevelt to frequent criticism. The August, 1936 edition of "The White Knight" published an article referring to the New Deal as the "Jew Deal." Pamphlets appeared such as "What Every Congressman Should Know" in 1940 (featuring a sketch of the Capitol building with a Star of David atop its dome) that proclaimed that the Jews were in control of the American government. Financier and FDR confidant Bernard Baruch was called the "Unofficial President" in the anti-Semitic literature of the time. The periodical Liberation, for example, accused FDR of loading his government with Jews.
In practice very few Jewish refugees came to the U.S. — only 22,000 German refugees were admitted in 1940, not all of them Jewish. The State Department official in charge of refugee issues, Breckinridge Long, insisted on following the highly restrictive immigration laws to the letter. As one example, in 1939, the State Department under Roosevelt did not allow a boat of Jews fleeing from the Nazis into the United States. When the passenger ship St. Louis approached the coast of Florida with nearly a thousand German Jews fleeing persecution by Hitler, Roosevelt did not respond to telegrams from passengers requesting asylum, and the State Department refused entry to the ship. Forced to return to Antwerp, many of the passengers eventually died in concentration camps.
^ Irwin F. Gellman, Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 150.
^ See the on-line exhibit on the Voyage of the St. Louis at the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
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Nothing satsifies a sweet tooth like fried dough. These Mexican Churros are crunchy crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside just like they make 'em on the street corners in Tijuana. I've added a twist to the flavor profile with just a hint of lemon. Try them the Spanish way - dunked in dark a luscious dark chocolate sauce.
Nothing satsifies a sweet tooth like fried dough. These Mexican Churros are crunchy crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside just like they make 'em on the street corners in Tijuana. I've added a twist to the flavor profile with just a hint of lemon. Try them the Spanish way - dunked in a luscious dark chocolate sauce with just a bit of heat.
Exactly when it was the first time I bit into a churro, I can't say. I do remember being preschool age and taking occasional trips to Tijuana (TJ) with my parents and grandparents to shop and bring back kilos of fresh corn tortillas (nowadays, in almost every neighborhood in San Diego you can find a tortillaria but back then, you pretty much had to go across the border for them). The best part of those trips for me was heading home because that meant a wait in long lines at the border crossing with guys carrying huge brown sacks filled with hot churros walking up and down those lines hocking them to the Americans waiting to get home and me saying, "Mommy, can I have a churro?" which of course, I always got.
Also, I remember one time when I was young I was spending the weekend at Grandma & Grandpa's house and Grandpa made churros for us. I couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 years old and I don't remember him making them again. But, Oh! do I remember that time and I remember thinking he was really smart because he could make them just like those guys selling them in the streets in TJ.
As a pre-teen and teenager, my family would make a day of it shopping and site seeing in Old Town San Diego. We could not leave without stopping at the bakery for freshly fried churros and traditional Mexican candy.
It seems lately that more and more places are selling churros. Rewind. They're selling poor imitations of what are passed off as churros to unsuspecting tourists. At the local mall, a store sells nothing but churros that have had their creamy doughy centers replaced by overly sweet fruit flavored pastry creams and custards. Ack!
Even a few fast food places are selling "churros" but they're nothing more than desiccated excuses for a fried stick of dough that they try to salvage with sugar and cinnamon. Ick!
I don't partake of fried dough often. Adult me feels way too guilty to take in all the calories. So when I do indulge, you better believe it when I say the treat better be good and worth it.
Although churro dough is made very similarly to a pâte à choux that is used for a lot of French pastries such as cream puffs, éclairs, beignets, and French crullers, there is a crucial difference: pâte à choux uses butter and eggs while churro dough does not.
You'll find a lot of "churro" recipes on the 'net that include eggs and or butter. But the consistency and texture is very different. I think it's why some of those restaurant attempts at churros wind up so desiccated after a few hours hanging out. The butter and eggs produces a light, very airy dough with lots of holes.
In contrast, a good churro should be crispy and golden on the outside and chewy and dense and creamy on the inside (some might think it's raw but it isn't; it's not supposed to be cake-like either). No eggs. No butter. If you want the light airy texture, then churros aren't for you. Make a traditional pâte à choux and fry up some beignets. Or French crullers.
But if churros are what you're craving, read on and give 'em a whirl. Let me know what you think in the comments or on the 'Confessions' Facebook page if you do. I'd love to hear how it went.
I watched a show in Spanish earlier this year. My Spanish is such that I catch maybe every third word. Enough to get the general gist of the conversation. My grandmother will attest to that. Anyway … It was an interview with a cafe owner in Spain and she made churros. She added lemon zest to the simple syrup. Genius! I remembered thinking. Must try. And I did. And it's just a little hint that brightens this simple dough and it goes great with the chocolate sauce. Feel free, though, to skip the lemon. These are still tasty without it.
You're going to need a heavy bottomed deep pot such as a Dutch oven to fry these babies up. Also, I experimented with variations (my coworkers were quite appreciative!) and depending on the size tip I used, the yield varied. For this batch I used an extra large closed star tip but I've also used an extra large open star tip . The open star will yield less than the closed star. You can also forgo a tip altogether and just snip the end of your disposal pastry bag (or gallon sized resealable plastic food storage bag). Personally, I like the traditional ridges that a star tip gives churros.
This recipe is a doubled version. I figured, if you're going to use a liter of oil to fry, you might as well make enough to share. However, feel free to half this recipe.
1. Pour water into a medium sized saucepan and place on medium heat. Add sugar, salt and zest and oil. Stir to combine and bring to a quick boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for an additional 2 minutes to allow lemon zest to release it's oils. Remove lemon zest.
2. Stir the flour into the sugar water, cooking over low heat for one minute. Remove pan from heat and continue to mix flour until all the lumps are gone. This also acts to cool the flour mixture down a little so that it's easier to handle in the piping bag. Set aside to cool for five minutes.
3. Pour 1 liter of oil into a dutch oven or other large heavy bottomed stock pot. Turn heat to medium high to begin heating oil.
4. Place chosen tip in a large (preferably 16 inch) piping bag.
5. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. If using a large piping bag, add half the dough into the bag. If using a standard 12 inch disposable bag, place a quarter of the dough into the bag. Then pipe a 5 inch long line of dough directly onto the sheet, using a knife or your finger to cut the dough away from the star once desired length is piped. Repeat with remaining dough using a second sheet pan if necessary.
6. Line a baking sheet or large platter with paper towels; set aside.
7. Add sugar and cinnamon for coating to a shallow dish; set aside.
8. When oil has reached 325 degrees, carefully place one churro into the hot oil. Wait 30 seconds to one minute before adding another churro to oil and use a slotted spoon to keep the two churros from touching each other (they'll want to gravitate towards each other in the hot oil and if they touch, they'll stick to each other and you'll get one big blob of fried dough). Cook no more than three at time to ensure you can keep the churros from touching each other. Use a slotted spoon or large handled tongs to rotate churros in oil so they fry evenly on all sides. Fry for 3 - 4 minutes or until just golden all around (don't brown too much or you'll dry out the center). Remove golden churros to the paper-lined platter using tongs, holding the churros vertically over the pot of oil for a few seconds to drain off excess oil first. Allow to drain on the paper towels for 2 minutes then roll churros in the cinnamon sugar. Repeat until all dough has been fried and coated.
9. To make the sauce, place chocolate and cayenne in a bowl. Heat milk in a small saucepan to just before boiling. Add hot milk to chocolate and stir until chocolate has melted and is smooth and glossy. Place in a serving dish. Dunk churros and enjoy!
Note: Allow oil to cool completely, they pour through a coffee filter lined sieve and return to bottle. Grapeseed oil can be re-used several times before disposing.
I love this! I want to lick the computer screen! cannot wait to make these!
Hi Dini! Welcome. :) These are truly delicious. I hope you do make them... Let me know what you think.
what the nozzle tips you used?really nice form..
@Bella Bella, my recipe as printed here doesn't use eggs or butter which is a traditional pate a choux. I have made churros with them and enjoy it but they aren't as chewy in the middle as I like so I use oil and no eggs which is often the way they are made in "poorer" households that can't afford eggs and butter. As for the lack of crispiness, not knowing what else you're doing I can only say that from my experience, when frying, if whatever you're deep frying doesn't come out crispy it's because the oil isn't hot enough. You want to make sure your oil is at least 2 inches deep in the pot. Heat it to between 365 to 375 degrees before adding the dough. Don't cook more then two or three at a time to keep the oil temperature from dipping. Make sure they are golden brown on all sides before removing them from the oil. Use tongs or a wire mesh strainer (like a spider) or slotted spoon to remove from the hot oil to a paper towel lined platter to soak up excess oil. if you don't drain them on paper before rolling them in sugar they will not crisp up. Churros are also meant to be eaten soon after frying. Like french fries or anything else that is fried, the longer time they sit around after coming out of the fryer, the softer and limp they get. Fry up the churros and enjoy them within a 1/2 hour of cooking for maximum crispiness. Hope this helps!
Wow. I need to try this. Definitely. I made churros with butter and egg just now but I don't really think that they have the right texture and taste. I hope this recipe is the one I am looking for. Thank you for sharing!

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Over 400 policemen were deployed at the vicinity of University of Sto. Tomas in Manila where nearly 9,000 law graduates started taking their Bar examinations on Sunday.
National Capital Region Police Office chief Regional Director Guillermo Eleazar said the cops would ensure the safety of the 8,701 Bar exam takers and their families and other supporters for four consecutive Sundays this month.
"This is to ensure that untoward incidents that happened during the previous years will not happen again," he told reporters.
He cited the 2010 bombing incident where 10 people were injured during the Bar exams at the De La Salle University in Manila and the fraternity brawl in 2016 outside UST.
Eleazar said the ban on alcoholic drinks starting Saturday evenings until the whole day of Sundays of November would be strictly enforced.
Meanwhile, Malacanang offered "fervent prayers" to the Bar takers.
"You have survived the taxing days (and nights) of law school and reviewed for several months for the 4-day bar exams. As you take another step on the ladder of your legal career, we offer you our fervent prayers," Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who is also a lawyer, said in a statement.
"All these are, however, only requisites to the practice of law as the real challenge is upholding the integrity and dignity of the profession, amid all fascinations of the legal world, after you've taken your oaths and signed the rolls," he added.


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Just as clearly, labor’s share of the national income has been declining sharply: unearned income from capital is reaping more of the national income as the share earned by labor shrinks.
Politically, I have long commented on the rising political divide not between the “two sides of the same coin” parties but between those who depend on and support the Savior State and those who pay the majority of taxes that fund the Savior State. This has created the divide feared by the Founding Fathers, The Tyranny of the Majority.
According to demographer Joel Kotkin, California has become a two-and-a-half-class society, with a thin slice of “entrenched incumbents” on top (the “half class”), a dwindling middle class of public employees and private-sector professionals/technocrats, and an expanding permanent welfare class: about 40% of Californians don’t pay any income tax and a quarter are on the Federal Medicaid program.I would break it down somewhat differently, into a three-and-a-half class society: the “entrenched incumbents” on top (the “half class”), the high-earners who pay most of the taxes (the first class), the working poor who pay Social Security payroll taxes and sales taxes (the second class), and State dependents who pay nothing (the third class).
This class structure has political ramifications. In effect, those paying most of the tax are in a pressure cooker: the lid is sealed by the “entrenched incumbents” on top, and the fire beneath is the Central State’s insatiable need for more tax revenues to support the entrenched incumbents and its growing army of dependents.
In other words, if the citizenry cannot dislodge a parasitic, predatory financial Aristocracy via elections, then “democracy” is merely a public-relations facade, a simulacra designed to create the illusion that the citizenry “have a voice” when in fact they are debt-serfs in a neofeudal State.
What Murray suggests is not that upward social mobility has ceased, but that it’s become more difficult for the have-nots to join the haves, not necessarily for lack of opportunity but for the values-based reasons he describes.
In my analysis, the cultural upper class has the income and connections to build abundanthuman and social capital, while the lower class has neither the values-tools, income or connections to assemble these critical building blocks of wealth.
This sociological/economic reality is ideologically inconvenient on a number of fronts, largely because it ties “personal choice” issues such as marriage to what appears to many to be a strictly economic issue.
A growing number of San Franciscans are fed up, not just with startups, but with techies in general. With their apps and (company) buses, their gourmet coffee and skinny jeans, their venture capital wishes and IPO dreams. They’re tired of watching rents soar, friends forced to relocate and beloved neighborhoods drained of diversity.I understand the frustration, but wonder: Are we embracing a soft xenophobia applied to a sector rather than a race, to some cohesive elite tech class that doesn’t exist outside of our own minds?
The buses roll up to San Francisco’s bus stops in the morning and evening, but they are unmarked, or nearly so, and not for the public. They have no signs or have discreet acronyms on the front windshield, and because they also have no rear doors they ingest and disgorge their passengers slowly, while the brightly lit funky orange public buses wait behind them. The luxury coach passengers ride for free and many take out their laptops and begin their work day on board; there is of course wifi. Most of them are gleaming white, with dark-tinted windows, like limousines, and some days I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.Sometimes the Google Bus just seems like one face of Janus-headed capitalism; it contains the people too valuable even to use public transport or drive themselves. In the same spaces wander homeless people undeserving of private space, or the minimum comfort and security; right by the Google bus stop on Cesar Chavez Street immigrant men from Latin America stand waiting for employers in the building trade to scoop them up, or to be arrested and deported by the government. Both sides of the divide are bleak, and the middle way is hard to find.
I think Solnit’s point touches on two key dynamics: the shrinking middle, and the casual privilege of those with earning power and the resentment of the increasingly powerless.
These are dynamics that don’t track neat ideological lines, nor do they lend themselves to tidy, simplistic solutions. Before we propose fixes, perhaps we need to do more work on understanding the many interconnected feedback loops in the widening bifurcation of the nation.


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The concerns include the threat of rising tariffs, the appetite of utilities to buy more expensive power, the possibility of circumvention of the tariffs though other Southeast Asian countries and the duties not being high or long enough to actually support domestic manufacturing.
Developed nations including US, Europe, Taiwan, Korea and Japan all come under the remit of the duty while developing countries apart from China and Malaysia are not subject to the duties.
However, given last week’s release of a Parliamentary Committee report revealing that 200,000 jobs in India had been lost as a result of the country’s reliance on cheaper solar imports from China and other countries, Adani had been expecting a higher tariff imposition.
However, there is still one key area of uncertainty at present, in that the Finance Ministry’s order came last night in spite of the Orissa High Court issuing a stay on the duty imposition earlier this month. This has come as a shock to one of India’s largest developers, Acme Solar, the company that recently won 1.2GW of capacity with record low prices of INR 2.44/kWh (US$0.036), that was also behind the Orissa High Court stay.
Shashi Shekhar, vice chairman, Acme Group, told PV Tech that typically a High Court stay in India is honoured, and the company is still uncertain about what circumstances led to the Ministry of Finance ploughing ahead with its Safeguard Duty order. While Acme’s lawyers were briefing the Orissa High Court at the time of writing, Shekhar said one possibility is that the stay has already been vacated by the Supreme Court or there has simply been an error by the Ministry of Finance.
The situation is certainly not clear, with some commentators believing that the stay is still in effect, while others are predicting continued short-term uncertainty on the matter.
For developers, the greatest concern is the effect of the duty on projects that are already under construction or bid out. The order has no mention of a pass-through option or compensation for developers in the case of a change-in-law such as this safeguard duty.
Acme expects its 2.44 rupee solar tariffs to go up to 3.01 rupees (up 60-70 paisa) as a result of the safeguard duty and it is not sure if states and utilities will be willing to bear the additional costs.
Shekhar said that utilities had been particularly keen to buy solar power in recent years as prices had gone well below that of the variable costs of thermal power generation. Solar therefore offered a chance for debt-ridden utilities to “sure up their bottom lines”. However, Shekhar claimed that the duty would increase tariffs to levels much closer to thermal power, which stands at around the 3.3-3.5 rupee mark, and significantly reduce the utilities’ appetite to buy solar power.
He also suggested that government indications of pass-through options had not involved consent from the Indian states and their utilities, causing further uncertainty. As a separate example, he cited previous pass-through promises on the Goods and Service Tax (GST), which the company had still not received a year on. Moreover, legal challenges could take two years to complete, by which time the safeguard duty would have already impacted projects.
Vinay Rustagi, managing director of consultancy firm Bridge to India, said there is no pass-through given for all the projects that had been auctioned up until the last 3-4 months. Bridge to India has itself estimated a 25% duty is equal to around a 40-50 paisa impact on tariffs.
Rustagi said all the projects bid out with tariffs of less than three rupees over the last two years are "at risk of becoming unviable”, even though falling global module prices will help.
The Ministry of New and Renewable (MNRE) has informally stated on multiple occasions that all projects auctioned before the date of announcement of a duty would be given compensation or protection from the duty, but Rustagi said the ministry has never specified how that compensation mechanism will work and who will bear that extra cost.
The ability of developers to hoard modules in advance of the duty imposition was also stumped given that it typically takes 30 days to import modules from China and the final duty recommendations only came out just 15 days prior to the government order yesterday.
Will Discoms buy the power?
The ISMA has submitted its own impact assessment claiming that there will be little impact on solar power tariffs, citing the fact that a bid of 2.44 was already reached more than a year ago and since then module prices have gone down around 30%, Tiwari said.
On another note, the effectiveness of the duty has already been called into question.
PV Tech has already broken down the capacities of Chinese manufacturers that are already set up in Indonesia and Vietnam, which are both exempt from the safeguard duty. Thailand and the Philippines could also play a similar role.
Tiwari has said the safeguard duty alone is not enough to support Indian manufacturing, but he cites a three-pronged action that could be successful. For example, Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has a 5GW PV manufacturing tender out, that is linked with 10GW of solar deployment. This will support end-to-end manufacturing all the way from ingots to modules.
He said: “India has realised the long-term sustainability model of development whereby you have to do the manufacturing in your own backyard to support the solar power development. With this 5GW tender and now all the things have been cleared, I think there will be many foreign companies, including companies from China, who will be willing to put up plants in India thereby generating not only investment but also job opportunities."
The government is also discussing 12GW of solar bidding with domestic equipment supply to be tendered out by government agencies. This policy would not be threatened by a trade dispute at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), unlike India’s most recent attempt, the Domestic Content Requirement (DCR), which was thrown out by the WTO.
C.Narasimhan, president of the Indian Solar Association and chairman of Raasi Group, said: “The export options for China solar modules for Chinese companies are limited and India is their major buyer. This comes after USA and Europe have levied similar duties.
"In this scenario, the Chinese manufacturers will either reduce their prices and sell at the old price levels or may decide to close down. China is also is withdrawing the concessions given to these companies. A consolidation of different companies will happen.
For domestic support, Rustagi said the two-year period of the safeguard duty was simply too short to have any meaningful impact, particularly as it takes more than two years to set up manufacturing facilities.


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The new XF Euro 6 sets the benchmark in terms of efficiency with the new drive line and the completely new, smart chassis design. Smart innovations result in low kerb weight and thus high payload. At the same time, driver comfort has been elevated once again with the new cab interior, first class driving performances, and an even higher level of safety. The new XF: The best XF ever.
With its powerful and elegant appearance, the new XF is the calling card for every transport operator. The impressive front, the distinctive black grille and the attractive styling elements: unmistakably the new XF.
The interior of the cab is the kingdom of the driver. No one knows this better than DAF. So following a long tradition, with the launch of the new XF we introduce a new level of driver comfort. With 12.6 cubic meters of volume, the DAF XF Super Space Cab driver has the biggest cab available to work and live in.
The chassis is a completely new development. It offers high payloads through low unladen weight. The high rigidity ensures excellent driving characteristics. Components are cleverly positioned with a view to the highest efficiency. A perfect base on which to build.

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Poet Christopher was born in the winter of 1971 in Missouri with the given name of Christopher Allen Breidinger. From his early years, his mind was synchronizing poetic gears and constructing mindsets in creative and adaptive poetry, short stories, and lyrics. A difficult childhood led Poet Christopher to develop and nurture a passion for writing and expressing (like all great writers) that the best outlet is paper and emotional ink. Time has only sharpened and refined his mind in its poetic endeavors. His works are topically wide spread and elegantly profound, yet earthly and inspiring. Poet Christopher as a Lyricist and Author is constantly and consistently evolving and fluidly moving emotions like waves bound by only the moon and gravity.
Poet Christopher currently resides in the beautiful town of Winter Haven, Florida with his wife Brenda, his youngest daughter, Cali, and their pug Sadie, where he frequents the ocean coastlines and enjoys spending time writing and hiking. An Inspiration to many and a guide for others, Poet Christopher is striving and moving onward still today with a total of five books published, and countless lives touched. This author continues his quest to enlighten and reach as many people as possible. Poet Christopher’s mind shapes thought into matter and materializes emotions into a legible script of letters, encouraging all minds alike to join together for humanity and love, even if it’s for only a moment to read.

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Award winning comedian and actor Omid Djalili, known for his legendary stand-up performances, has extended his UK tour for the fourth time. We’re lucky that his next performance is just round the corner at Wiltons Music Hall!
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I am currently working on a poem about the kind of grandma I want to be. It is a cute little poem that I am hoping I can read to my grand-turkettes MANY years from now.
I'd like to be a crazy grandma who lives on a farm - and is still out there daily come rain or shine - and talks to her chickens each morning while she milks the cow and makes chutney and soap and strange breads. I'd teach the grandkids about growing tomatoes and lettuce and beans and pumpkins.
Hang on though. Does that mean I have to have kids...??
Hang on though. Does that mean I have to have kids...?? LOL - Nope! You and I have similar views on how we want to be. I'd love to be that funny grandmother who wears colorful mu-mus, lets her hair get long and gray, and wears a wide straw hat while gardening. I also want to have one of those gardens, or back yards where there are fountains and fairy statues and shady places with little benches. :) I'd also like to drive a sporty red convertible!
I'd play catch in the yard, go to the playground and swing on the swings right along side of them. Take them in the ocean. Build sandcastles. Explore the beach for shells and treasure. And read a ton of books to them.
I want to be a grandpa who tells great stories. And a teddy bear.
I want to be the type of grandma who, like my mom with my girls, dotes on her grandkids. Can't wait to spend time with them, one-at-a-time even, and really makes a healthy effort to form a special bond.
That sums it up perfectly for me.
As a possible future grandmother, I want to be like my dad's mom was and the way my mom is now. Absolutely Awesome!
My father, as a granddad, is awesome as well. He and my son were out fishing together over the weekend. I am blessed with family.
I do not think I will come close to being as excellent a grandparent as my parents are. This I figure based on the question my daughter asked me the other day. She asked, "Mom, why are you weird?" To which my reply was, "I don't know."
I reckon I'm going to be a weird grandmother. Not going to do the purple hair thing tho. I tend to stare at people with purple hair. It freaks me out.
I'd probably be a cross between the weird grandma with the purple hair and the little old lady from Pasadena with the hawt car in the garage.
Seriously, I'd want to be the person they could always come to when they had a question, or a problem, or just needed someone to hear them out. The one who's always going to be there for them, who helps them learn to believe in their own unique selves and their dreams.
Actually, I'll have to do this with my grand-nieces and nephews for quite awhile.
That's easy- I just have to look at tpe of grandmother my mother is and do the exact oppisite. I want to go to all their school plays and concerts and sports events and be involved in their lives. I also want to be an active Grammy- I plan on riding my horses as long as I am able- I would share that with my grandkids. I want to sit out in the yard at midnight and look for falling stars and try to name the constellatons. I want to shop for their Birthday and Christmas presents instead of giving their parents money and asking them to buy and wrap that gift for me. I want to know who the are and I want them to know me.
I want to be the kind of grandad who never had kids.
Hmm....I think there's a flaw in that somewhere.
I want to be a cool grandma. You know, the type that's always well-dressed, has an up to the minute hairdo, looks great, has all the answers to everything and is fun!
But I'm not even that now.
From the experience of my father and grandfathers, I'd say being an alive one would be a good start.
I suppose I should give some thought to this, since my son's engaged and all, but I really haven't. I took parenting one day at a time and I figure I'll probably do the same with grandparenting.
I figure as long as I don't get annoyed with the kids (I don't like children much) and send them home crying, we're all ahead of the game.
I want to be the type of grandpa who makes each grandchild feel like he/she is the most special person on the globe each time he/she comes around me. I try to do that with my children, but it's tough to do all of the time due to the challenges of parenting. Grandparenting is pretty much free of those challenges since they are placed squarely on the shoulder of the parents (joy in the relief and in the what-goes-around-comes-around aspect of this).
I take my grandchildren, hiking, swimming, boating, and go on the roller coaster rides with them at amusement parks.
I encourage my grandchildren instead of coddling them.


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On October 2018, our True Mother granted $30,000 scholarships, and we delivered it through the Fervan College and Fervan Campestre School, a school that has stood out for its high level of education and social development, helping low-income families.
On April 9, 2019, in an emotional ceremony, we gave the scholarships to 30 students who were selected based on their academic effort or economic condition.
All those selected families were so happy and showed a great feeling of gratitude to True Mother.
The principle of the school, who is also an Ambassador of Peace, expressed her gratitude to True Mother and the HJ World Peace Foundation, who assured that this collaboration will reinforce and help so that each year more young people and families can ensure the fulfillment of their dreams.

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Dr. Watson E Mills is a member of the Circumnavigators Club of New York having completed three around-the-world journeys. He is the author/editor of more than 130 books including the “Mercer Dictionary of the Bible” and the “Mercer Commentary on the Bible.” He has traveled to 174 of the 193 member-countries of the United Nations during his 140 overseas trips.
My hotels’s bed-side phone interrupted my deep sleep at 3:30 a.m. one August morning in 2012. I had requested the call so that I might get myself to a suburb of Cairo called Giza to watch the sunrise framed by one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – the only one still in existence.
Having heard stories about the horrendous traffic snarls that plague Cairo, my plan was to allow at least 90 minutes to make this 15-mile journey. Even at this ungodly hour, traffic was chaotic as drivers seemed to make their own “lanes” along unmarked roads that were choked with way more cars than they could reasonably accommodate. Horn blowing is a way of life here, if not a required ritual, for all who brave the streets of the city which, including it suburbs, is home to 23 million people. Few of the traffic signals were working, and the few cops stationed at intersections mostly stood around and waved their white-gloved hands while drivers ignored them. My taxi was hit by another car in what turned out to be nothing more than a “fender bender,” and happily we soon resumed the drive to Giza. I began to notice that virtually every car had at least some minor damage to its body! Some were so beat up they seemed to be held together with glue and body compound. Cairo hits you around the head like a sock full of sand. It’s big, it’s busy, it’s dirty, it’s crazy, but it is absolutely amazing.
These ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures are found throughout Egypt; more than 80 remain today. They were built as tombs for the country’s pharaohs and their consorts several millennia ago. Easily the most famous of these are the three Pyramids of Giza located on the outskirts of Cairo, the oldest and largest is called “The Great Pyramid.” It stands as a monument to the engineering achievements of the ancient world.
When I exited the taxi, I found myself at a spot where several tourists had already gathered at just a few minutes before 5 a.m. This area afforded a view toward the East so that the rising sun would first appear behind the Pyramids. A couple from California had researched the official time of sunrise that morning – 5:22 a.m. they said – and they provided a “countdown” as to the number of minutes remaining before the morning sun would become visible.
As the sky began to show just a hint of the coming light, the outline of the Pyramids started to emerge out of the darkness against a brightening sky. The Pyramids of Egypt had been on my wish list of places to visit since my boyhood when my sisters danced with their boyfriends to the old song “You Belong to Me” which contained the line “see the pyramids along the Nile.” I was in the fifth grade at the time, but I was old enough to dream about far-away places though my prospects of ever getting there were bleak! I clearly remember looking in the family encyclopedia about the “pyramids” and the “Nile.” More than 60 years later I am here anxiously awaiting the morning sun to illumine a sight too breathtaking to describe.
The three Great Pyramids of Giza.
Witnessing the world awake to a bright sun with a backdrop that includes the Pyramids of Egypt is something that pulled at my heart strings and reminded me afresh of my own mortality. There were audible expressions of amazement among the onlookers. Soon the morning sun ignited her daily gift of light and warmth, causing shadows from the Pyramids to dance across the desert sands before me. What a moment!
There is certainly no shortage of facts and figures about the pyramids, although some of these numbers tend to be so huge that they border on the incomprehensible, even when you actually stand in the shadow of these gigantic structures. These facts, indeed, give credence to the massive size and scope of these magnificent structures.
The Great Pyramid of Khufu, the largest of the three, stands 481 feet high – as tall as a 35 or 40 story office building but many times more massive – its base is 750 feet square. It was the tallest man-made structure in the world for thousands of years – until it was eclipsed by Lincoln Cathedral in England in 1311 AD. And if that weren’t enough, a second and third pyramid, only a few feet shorter in height, were later constructed adjacent to the Great Pyramid.
The Great Pyramid was constructed about 4,500 years ago, making it one of the oldest surviving structures from the ancient world. It took more than 20 years to construct and required the work of approximately 100,000 people. Approximately 2.3 million stone blocks were used in its construction, each weighing an average of about 2.5 tons, making the total estimated weigh of the Great Pyramid over 6 million tons. Much of the required stone came from a quarry about 3,000 feet from the building site while other stones were mined in Aswan about 525 miles up the Nile from Giza. For these stones, the Nile River became a “highway” for their delivery. After these gigantic stones arrived at the port of Giza, they had to moved six miles across the desert to the building site – a much shorter distance when the Nile River was at flood stage. Some researchers suggest that this was accomplished by wetting the desert sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects long distances with much less resistance. Once these stones arrived at the building site, a wooden ramp of some sort enabled them to be pulled up and set in place. Most researchers conclude, however, we will probably never know exactly how this feat was accomplished.
Sometimes the majesty of the Great Pyramid causes us to forget that, at the end of the day, this gigantic structure is just a burial chamber – the largest of all the tombs built in the ancient world. For the young and strong-willed, it is possible to go inside the Great Pyramid and actually enter the burial chamber. Tourists who buy the extra ticket and endure the tiny passage ways to reach the actual burial chamber are often disappointed to find only an empty room. Grave robbers have long ago removed everything, including the mummified body of the Pharaoh.
Researchers believe that the Great Pyramid was originally, completely covered in white casing stones, creating a smooth surface which reflected the sun’s rays. Today only a tiny section of these stones remains near its apex because almost all of this highly polished white limestone was removed long ago to build mosques and fortresses. I stood transfixed as I tried to imagine how the gleaming white limestone would have made the pyramids an even more dazzling spectacle in ancient times than they are today. In ancient times, people would journey from miles around just to have a look at these gigantic structures that sat, immovable, reflecting the bright rays of the sun.
I’ve done a fair amount of traveling during my life and have been fortunate enough to see famous landmarks like the Sydney Opera House, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall, Victoria Falls, and the Sahara Desert outside Timbuktu, but the pyramids at Giza are in a class by themselves. Why? Because they are so uniquely established in popular culture that virtually everybody knows about them from childhood. As I walked around the enormous base of the Great Pyramid and seeing this man-made mountain slope up close, reaffirmed my decision to travel here. There is simply no denying that this is a place I would have gladly come regardless of the effort and expense required. This awareness makes for a unique sensation if you are ever fortunate enough to make it to Giza. What you have heard about this famous, far-away place coupled with the actual first-hand experience of seeing their enormity and grandeur, drives home their important place in human history. A photo just does not do it because it is virtually impossible to appreciate their immensity with only a desert backdrop and nothing else against which to measure their size. I count my visits to the pyramids among the greatest experiences of my life. Should you ever get there, I wager you will too.

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Azerbaijan became the largest investor of Georgia in the first half of the year with $136.5 million.
The National Statistics Office of Georgia reported that investments in the first quarter amounted to $56 million, in the second - $80.5 million. Thus, Azerbaijan became the largest investor of Georgia in the first half of this year.
The Czech Republic ($77.9 million) and the Netherlands ($97.8 million) were also among the top three investors.
The volume of direct foreign investment in the economy of the neighboring country in the first half of this year amounted to $676.2 million. The largest volume of investments fell on the energy sector ($117.7 million), transport and communications ($87.2 million) and finance ($174.9 million).
“We successfully cooperate in different fields. Azerbaijan is the first among the countries that invest in Georgia. Since 2012, we maintain this position. This shows the best investment climate in your country. In addition, this indicates that our relations are at a high level,” the head of state said.
The trade turnover between the states amounted to more than $584 million in the first half of the year.


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Train-maker Bombardier has held a ceremony to mark the end of production of a train that many workers believe kept the firm’s Derby factory from closing.
At the event, which was held at the Litchurch Lane firm’s test facility – called V Shop – staff both past and present joined Bombardier Transportation’s managing director Richard Hunter to see the final Electrostar carriage roll off its production line.
Since the Derby site starting making the Electrostar in 1999, Bombardier has made 2,805 carriages and delivered them to 12 different customers.
An electric-powered train, it began being made at Derby when the Litchurch Lane site was operated by ADtranz. Bombardier continued production of the Electrostar after it took over ADtranz in 2001.
Today, the Electrostar is the most common electric train on Britain’s rail network since before the privatisation of British Rail.
Variants of the train are predominantly used on suburban commuter routes in south, north and east London. They are also used on mainline services south to Surrey, Sussex, Kent and South Essex coasts and north to Cambridge and Stansted Airport .
The Electrostar is also one of the few trains at Bombardier’s Derby site to be exported, when it was selected for use on the Gautrain system in South Africa, a new railway between Johannesburg, Pretoria, and the Johannesburg International Airport.
For each train, the components were made in Derby and then exported for assembly in South Africa.
But the Electrostar has now been overtaken by a new electric-powered train that has been designed, developed and built in Derby – the Aventra.
In recent years, the Aventra has helped the Litchurch Lane factory win a glut of new orders. It has helped Bombardier win deals including Elizabeth Line (formerly Crossrail) and the new West Midlands Trains, Greater Anglia and South West rail franchises.
At the ceremony, Bombardier staff were also joined by past and present Electrostar customers, as well as Derby South MP Dame Margaret Beckett.
Speaking at the event, Mr Hunter said: “The train has been a stunning success – in production and in operation. That is a tribute to the brilliant and highly-skilled workforce we have here in Derby, but also our services depots across the country.
Dame Margaret said: “If you’re good at what you do, which Bombardier clearly is, you can have a long future ahead of you. There are not so many places that can be as confident of that today.
“The Electrostar is a real triumph for everyone who has been involved at every stage. We are now hoping for similar success and longevity for the Aventra. That train has already got customers lined up from different parts of the country and hopefully one day different parts of the world.
Looking on were many staff who had worked on the original Electrostar design and development programme in the mid to late 1990s.
Neil Shaw, who was a project manager, said: “We started on the Electrostar in 1996, three years before it went into production. I am very proud to have worked on the train, which was quite revolutionary for the time.
Colin Place, who initially worked on Electrostar as a propulsion engineer, said: “The Electrostar has been so important to Derby, bringing important orders in over the years that have allowed the factory to stay open.
The final Electrostar which was on display at the ceremony was ordered by Derby train-leasing firm Porterbrook and is destined for the Great Western Railway.
Greg Moss, Bombardier’s production manager for the Electrostar, said: “I’ve worked on Electrostar since 2011. It has been my baby all that time so it is a bit emotional to know this is the last one.
“But these trains have a 30-year life-span so you can be rest assured that you will continue to see this train on the UK’s rail network for some decades to come.


text: Moderated multiple regression (MMR) has been widely used to investigate the interaction or moderating effects of a categorical moderator across a variety of subdisciplines in the behavioral and social sciences. In view of the frequent violation of the homogeneity of error variance assumption in MMR applications, the weighted least squares (WLS) approach has been proposed as one of the alternatives to the ordinary least squares method for the detection of the interaction effect between a dichotomous moderator and a continuous predictor. Although the existing result is informative in assuring the statistical accuracy and computational ease of the WLS-based method, no explicit algebraic formulation and underlying distributional details are available. This article aims to delineate the fundamental properties of the WLS test in connection with the well-known Welch procedure for regression slope homogeneity under error variance heterogeneity. With elaborately systematic derivation and analytic assessment, it is shown that the notion of WLS is implicitly embedded in the Welch approach. More importantly, extensive simulation study is conducted to demonstrate the conditions in which the Welch test will substantially outperform the WLS method; they may yield different conclusions. Welch’s solution to the Behrens-Fisher problem is so entrenched that the use of its direct extension within the linear regression framework can arguably be recommended. In order to facilitate the application of Welch’s procedure, the SAS and R computing algorithms are presented. The study contributes to the understanding of methodological variants for detecting the effect of a dichotomous moderator in the context of moderated multiple regression. Supplemental materials for this article may be downloaded from brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.

industry_corpus2: Math & Statistics


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President Donald Trump's decision to pull US troops out of Syria has sparked a movement of urgent prayer and fasting.
The fast was initiated by Succat Hallel, a 24/7 house of prayer overlooking the Temple Mount.
"There are some urgent developments in the Middle East that are so important that we believe decisions will be made in these next two months that could affect the destiny—the fate of millions of people in this region and even the future of Israel. These decisions are so important that we are calling for a united time of prayer and fasting in the style of Queen Esther," Rick Ridings, founder of Succat Hallel, explains in a video.
This Esther Fast will take place on March 1-3 and will focus on three issues.
First, is for the protection of a new democratic government called the "Self Administration of North and East Syria" (SANES), which vows to protect the religious freedom of minorities in the war-torn country.
"It is very committed to the protection of Christians and the Kurdish people of that region that there will be no genocide," Ridings explains.


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EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she will go up against controversial anti-pipeline activist Tzeporah Berman in duelling speeches next month.
“I will be going myself to make the case for Alberta and our industry to counter misinformation and ensure that the whole story is told,” Notley said to applause in a speech Thursday to the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association in Red Deer.
“I have no problem with it. It’s a free country. But what I will say is that I will not let it go unanswered,” said Notley.
Berman could not be immediately reached for comment.
She has been an outspoken critic of the oilsands, the oil and gas sector, and pipeline development. She became a political lightning rod in Alberta after she was appointed to a provincial oilsands advisory group early in Notley’s mandate.
“OK, good,” said Kenney on his Facebook page.

industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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The campaign was nasty. Hillary Clinton’s concession speech was graceful.
This was the presidential campaign where grace got lost.
Bear with me while I recap just a few ungraceful low points: Donald Trump admitted on tape that he enjoyed sexually assaulting and sexually pressuring women. He mocked physical disabilities and women’s appearances, all for laughs on the campaign trail. He proved to be quick to anger and established a pattern of insulting, interrupting and badgering Hillary Clinton in live televised debates.
Grace was talked about quite a bit before the polls opened, as in: Will Trump have the grace to concede defeat and let the nation move on from this long, hideous root canal of an election we’ve suffered through?
As it turned out, it was indeed out of defeat that we witnessed the rise of grace; the pundits simply had the wrong person. In a singularly elegant and consoling concession speech, Clinton delivered the warmth to draw us close, the gratitude to make us feel noticed and significant, and the uplifting call to action to prod us out of our shock, anxiety and dispiriting numbness.
It’s an example of grace from start to finish, an example of how to rise above the fray, how to connect deeply with people, how to ease worries with a polished demeanor and a message of hope, delivered with calm command. Most of all, she kept her eye on the big picture: assuring that the democratic process would continue unimpeded, urging the nation to come together, saying that we will need compassion and have work to do.
“I love you all too,” she began, speaking to friends and supporters at Manhattan’s New Yorker Hotel.
“I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans,” she said, without a trace of bitterness, of the man who had threatened to imprison her, who made fun of her collapse from the flu, who attacked her in alarmingly personal ways.


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Plant diseases are a major challenge for greenhouse growers, often responsible for up to 20 per cent in annual crop loss.
But a team of biologists at the University of Toronto is using advanced genomics to develop greater disease resistance in some common greenhouse vegetables. The project builds on research by Adam Mott, an assistant professor at U of T Scarborough, and Professors David Guttman and Darrell Desveaux from the department of cell and systems biology.
The three biologists, who will team up with the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, will receive $2 million to study broad range resistance – genes that can better protect vegetable crops against pathogens.
It is one of two projects involving U of T researchers that will receive nearly $2.8 million in funding from the Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP), which is supported by Genome Canada, a not-for-profit funded by the federal government, as well as provincial governments and businesses.
The goal of the funding is to help connect researchers with companies to develop new gene-based technologies for sectors including health care, agriculture and environmental protection.
A second project led by Samira Mubareka, an assistant professor in the department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology, and Fusion Genomics Corp. will receive $781,000 to help develop monitoring technology for viruses like bird and swine flu.
"We are grateful for the support from GAPP for these innovative projects, which allow researchers to collaborate with industry and develop solutions using gene-based technologies that will benefit society and the economy,” said Vivek Goel, U of T’s vice-president of research and innovation.
The GAPP funding was announced Thursday by federal Science Minister Kirsty Duncan.
“By investing in researchers, we are giving them the opportunity to work with each other and their counterparts in the business, health and agricultural sectors to find the ideas and innovations that power a stronger economy and a growing middle class,” she said.
Mott said previous research by the biologists discovered an uncharacterized family of genes that can give plants broader resistance to diseases when they are removed from the plant.
“We found these genes in an experimental plant called Arabidopsis, but we want to be able to find the corresponding genes in tomatoes, cucumbers and sweet peppers,” he Mott said.
He added that Vineland has a massive collection of seeds from these crops, created through a process known as chemical mutagenesis — meaning they are not genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The ultimate goal of the GAPP project is to develop new varieties of plants that will benefit Canada’s greenhouse vegetable industry, responsible for more than $1 billion in annual sales and exports.
Mubareka, meanwhile, is teaming up with Canadian company Fusion Genomics to help develop a tool for government agencies and institutes responsible for monitoring the emergence and spread of viruses.
“It’s really difficult to tell when a virus risks becoming an epidemic,” says Mubareka, an expert on infectious diseases. Mubareka’s research at the Sunnybrook Research Institute focuses mainly on the transmission of the influenza virus, commonly known as the flu.
The technology, which promises to be highly sensitive and scalable, will use advanced genetic sequencing techniques to predict disease outbreaks more efficiently and can help with timely vaccine design and production.
The U of T projects are among seven across Canada that will receive $21 million in funding from the federal government, some provincial governments, the private sector and other funding partners. Provincial funding for the U of T projects came from Ontario Genomics.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


text: The North Shore 4 Piece King Bedroom Group by Millennium at Furniture Fair - North Carolina in the Jacksonville, Greenville, Goldsboro, New Bern, Rocky Mount, Wilmington NC area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.

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Annett Blechstein is a qualified Executive Coach (ICF accredited); qualified Coach Supervisor and Mentor Coach. She graduated from the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership, Australia.
Annett is passionate about her work as an Executive Coach and its various expressions. In the corporate arena she facilitates workshops on Leadership Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Executive Presence and Story Telling. As a Coach Supervisor she creates a safe space for coaches to engage in reflective dialogue and collaborative learning for the development and benefit of the coach and their clients. As a Mentor Coach she advises and hones the skills of junior coaches. As a Financial Coach she works to empower women (men are also welcome) to feel safe and confident around personal financial matters. For many years Annett has engaged in her own personal growth and development work in the form of workshops, seminars and meditations.
Annett has 25 years client facing experience in international banking. She has over 10 years in leadership roles in financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, ABN Amro, Standard Bank and Clariden Leu. As Head of Private Banking Asia for Standard Bank, Annett built and managed a Private Banking operation spanning Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia. Her success came through successfully acquiring, merging and managing virtual teams of Private Banking Marketing professionals across various cultures.
Annett's coaching philosophy is one of self-realisation of personal and professional potential through reflection. Her primary strength lies in her ability to create a safe atmosphere that allows her client to think and feel deeply, recognise their strength and thus become more authentic.