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1 The key skill of bitcoin day trading is the ability to hear others.
3 Strategy and bitcoin day trading.
The key skill of bitcoin day trading is the ability to hear others.
The most important thing in the bitcoin day trading is the ability to hear your opponent or opponents. It does not matter if your opponent sits at a table opposite or thousands of kilometers away on the other side of the computer. If you own this skill, then know that you will definitely succeed in bitcoin day trading.
Strategy and bitcoin day trading.
The question – how do we act when trading? – meets the trading strategy. There are an infinite number of trading strategies. Here are some of them: averaging strategy, earnings on falling prices, distribution strategy and many others. The names of the strategies already speak for themselves, but for a deep understanding of each strategy it is required to study it. In bitcoin day trading, all of these strategies can also be applied.
Only an experienced person can show over the results in the bitcoin day trading. You already know what you should be skilled in.


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Spoiler alert: The following text contains spoilers relating to the story of Living World Season 4.
Rifts are portals into and from the Mists created by the Elder Dragon Kralkatorrik.
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Download an Armstrong Biggs Valuers standardised general valuation request here. The more clear and concise information is provided to us at the time of instruction, the quicker the valuation process often is. You can upload your instructions directly to us here.
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If you haven’t noticed yet, over the past year I have begun using my blog to write about different interesting and unique products that I use and figure that people would want to hear about, and today I have another one for you. I’m not sure if any of you all out there are coffee drinkers like me but if you are today’s post will certainly interested you. If you are an everyday general coffee enthusiast it will excited you, however if you are a coffee purist then I’m certain you will soon be headed to the comments sections to tell me all about how Keurig brewers don’t make ‘real’ coffee.
Keurig brewers seem to be taking an interesting turn in their functionality. The recently-released Keurig Vue V700 Brewer not only lets you make many of the same coffees, teas, and hot chocolate drinks that you have been able to prepare in previous brewers, but now it lets you make specialty cafe-style beverages, like vanilla lattes and cappuccinos. This requires a two-step process with a frother Vue Pack, and a coffee Vue Pack, but I think it is well worth the money you’d save over going to a chain coffee shop!
I’ve used various Keurig brewers in the past, but now have the Vue V700, since it lets you make custom drinks, which is the company’s response to people who like their drinks served their way. For previous Keurig brewing systems, all you had to do was put the K-Cup in the brewer, and brew the drink. With the Vue V700 Brewer, you put the Vue Pack into the brewer, and select the size, strength, and temperature of the drink you want on the easy-to-use touchscreen display. This lets you make a 4 – 18 oz. drink in the strength, and temperature, that you like. With some other Keurig brewers, you had to refill the water reservoir each time you wanted a drink. Not that this is a huge deal, but the new Vue V700 has a 74 ounce water reservoir, so you don’t need to refill it nearly as often. This is a great feature. And the best thing about this little guy is that I can have my single cup of coffee brewed and ready for me in just a couple minutes if not less. I really do love my Vue V700.
Like I mentioned earlier, the new Vue brewer comes with many of the same coffees and teas that have been used with the original Keurig brewers. Some of the top flavors are from Barista Prima, Caribou Coffee, Celestial Seasonings, Coffee People, Emeril’s, Gloria Jean’s, Green Mountain Coffee, Newman’s Own Organics, Timothy’s, Tully’s, and Van Houtte. Some of these companies even produce Vue Packs that are specifically designed to be used with travel mugs, which is great news for me, since I’m always drinking coffee and tea in the car. Overall, I’m very excited with the direction this new line of brewers from Keurig is going. Since the Vue V700 is the only brewer out, I can’t be sure that the company will continue to produce these custom brewers, but with numerous models of the previous edition, I think the company will continue to tweek its design to make the best brewer possible. For more information check out the video that I have provided below.
Blogging has become a big deal over the past several years initially as a way to express ones self to the world but more recently as a way to make a living. In fact blogging has become such a big industry for those looking to get their share of the Internet advertising market that there are thousands and thousands of people who are making a perfectly comfortable income by just sitting at home and blogging about various things.
With the explosion of the blogging industry and the ability to make a buck off of your site visitors fake product reviews have become a HUGE problem. Sure, now more than ever you can find accurate and legitimate reviews of products from real users through platforms such as Amazon. But also now more than ever it is difficult to tell the real reviews from the fake ones. It’s easy if you go to a site like Amazon but what happens when you want reviews on products that aren’t sold at Amazon and you are forced to look toward the little guys site. More often than not you are forced to sift through a bunch of crap in the search results in order to find the real reviews, if you do find any at all.
You see with the incentive to make money off of site visitors there are many bloggers these days that write reviews of products without ever actually seeing the product in action or knowing whether it is of high quality or not. The idea for these bloggers is to write a glowing review and slap up some few affiliate links and most of your site visitors will believe your review, click through and eventually buy, thus making you money. These types of blog owners never intend to provide any real information about the product and are simply out to make a buck. What’s it to them anyway? They aren’t the one that is getting falsely deceived into thinking a crap product is good, they aren’t the ones blowing $50 on something that doesn’t work right.
Enter YouReviewIt.com, an all new reviews website where the site owners don’t ever review a product themselves. Yes, the site owners do have ads on the site and they do make money however they have left all the reviewing to users like you because they know there is a conflict of interest, and they also know that there is no possible way they can review thousands of products themselves. Instead of trying to piece together information from the web and pass it as a review, or worse, these guys have left all of the reviewing to real users just like you and me.
I’m not sure if this site will make it big or not but I felt they deserved a mention after I stumbled across their site and saw that they were doing the noble thing, the proper thing, the thing that will certainly make them less money, but just the sort of thing that we need. Now we can only hope more and more mega sites like this start popping up and perhaps we can save the Internet from greedy people who make their money at another’s expense. For more info check out the You Review It About Page.


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Anyone do concrete lifting/repairs and asphalt?
Our homeowner association needs some work done. Nothing too major. Please post or PM.
Doesn’t @Vogz do this as well?

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A compact, ultra-sturdy, high-security lock. Secures a bike to an immovable object. Rubber-coated shackle and lock body to protect the paint on your bike.
VolumeShackle length 16 cm. Secures a bike to an immovable object.
Unlike what many people may think, a tamper-proof locks do not exist. A bike lock is there to make stealing the bike more complicated, to delay the thief and therefore act as a deterrent. A good lock has an anti-picking lock mechanism and is made out of materials requiring specific tools, therefore making theft more difficult.

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Read our Brazil news written specifically for expats. Our news and opinion is written to let you know what's going on in Brazil and how it might impact your expat life.
Since the start of mid-May, truck drivers in Brazil have blocked the main motorways in the country, demanding a reduction on diesel prices.

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Team Whiteman's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response: Sexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARCs) and Victim Advocates are available to assist victims (survivors) of sexual assault. The SARC serves as the single point of contact for integrating and coordinating sexual assault victim (survivor) care for members of the Team Whiteman. The SARC office is also responsible for providing Sexual Assault Prevention training throughout the Wing.
If you are in need of urgent medical care get to a safe place and CALL 911. If you do not need immediate medical assistance contact the Whiteman Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, Tony Axton, at (660) 687-7272, or call SafeHelpline.org at (877) 955-5247.
The Team Whiteman SARC office provides a 24-hour, seven-day a week sexual assault response capability for all victims on the installation, and assigned geographically separated units. Anyone who feels they have been a victim of sexual assault may contact the SARC office at (660) 687-7272 .
After you contact the SARC office, you will be offered a trained Victim Advocate. Your Victim Advocate will explain reporting options, and may meet you at the hospital for a medical evaluation, treatment and examination. It is your option to accept or decline victim advocacy .
The Air Force has instituted new avenues for reporting sexual assault in the form of Restricted and Unrestricted Reporting. Restricted Reporting allows a victim to report a Sexual Assault without triggering an investigation.
It is intended to give the victim (survivor) time and control over the release of their information. Further, it also empowers the survivor to make an informed decision about participating in the criminal process.
Restricted Reporting is available to all Team Whiteman members above the age of 18.

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What are Platformer Control Blocks?
This is a category of Platformer Code Blocks designed to work with key pressed events. Players can use them to create custom controls for their Level Editor Characters.
"Already Jumping?" returns "true" or "false" depending on whether an actor is already in the air. Use it with conditional statements to know if an actor is already jumping.
"Attack" makes an actor perform a close-range attack in the direction that the actor is facing. This block works best when used with a key-pressed event.
"Block" makes an actor perform a close-range blocking motion in the direction that the actor is facing. This block works best when used with a key-pressed event.
"Double Jump" makes an actor perform an alternate type of jump. The block will work best when attached to a key-pressed event.
Height: set this value to how high the character will jump - use negative number (negative gravity) to go up and positive number (positive gravity) to go down.
"Fly Down" makes an actor fly downwards while a key is pressed.
Speed: this value determines how fast the character will fly.
"Fly Right" makes an actor fly to the right while a key is pressed.
"Fly Left" makes an actor fly to the left while a key is pressed.
"Fly Up" makes an actor fly up while a key is pressed.
"Jump" will make an actor jump up or down. The block will work best when attached to a key-pressed event.
"Shoot" makes an actor shoot out a projectile in the direction that it is facing. The block will work best when attached to a key-pressed event.
"Slam" makes an actor fly towards the ground and damage anyone that it lands on. The block will work best when attached to a key-pressed event.
The "Walk Left" block makes an actor walk left while a key is pressed.
Speed: this parameter determines how fast the character will walk.
The "Walk Right" block makes an actor walk right while a key is pressed.
What are Platformer Automation Blocks?
This is a category of platformer blocks used to make Level Editor Characters work automatically. Players can use them to create scripted behavior.
"Change Health When Collected" block makes an actor animate in place until a good guy touches it. The block will change the health of the actor who touches it. An actor using this code should also use the "Setup And Run Collectible" block.
Amount: set this value to how much health will be changed for the character.
"Change Score When Collected" block makes an actor animate in place until a good guy touches it. An actor using this code should also use the "Setup And Run Collectible" block.
Amount:set this value determines how much score will be changed for the character.
"Fly Attack Enemies" makes an actor automatically fly towards and attack nearby enemies. The actor will pause any other movement code it has in order to attack.
Range: this value determines how far an enemy needs to be before attacking it.
Speed: this value determines how fast the actor will fly towards the enemy.
"Fly Down Distance" makes an actor fly down a fixed distance at a fixed speed.
How Far: this value determines how far the actor will fly.
Speed: this value determines how fast the actor will move.
"Fly In Place" makes an actor fly in place for a fixed amount of time.
Time: this value determines how long it will fly in place.
"Fly Left Distance" makes an actor fly left a fixed distance at a fixed speed.
"Fly Right Distance" makes an actor fly right a fixed distance at a fixed speed.
"Fly Up Distance" makes an actor fly up a fixed distance at a fixed speed.
"Make Invincible When Collected" block makes an actor animate in place until a good guy touches it. The block will make the actor who touches it invincible for a fixed amount of time. An actor using this code should also use the "Setup And Run Collectible" block.
Time: this value determines how long the actor will be invincible.
This block makes an actor automatically run towards and attack nearby enemies. The actor will pause any other movement code it has in order to attack.
Speed: this value determines how fast the actor will run towards the enemy.
"Shoot At Enemies" makes an actor automatically shoot projectiles at nearby enemies. The actor will pause any other movement code it has in order to attack.
"Walk Left Distance" makes an actor walk left a fixed distance at a fixed speed.
How Far: this value determines how far the actor will walk.
"Walk Right Distance" makes an actor walk right a fixed distance at a fixed speed.
What are Platformer Basic Blocks?
This is a category of platformer blocks that change the properties for level editor characters.
"Become Good Guy" makes an actor become a part of the good guy team. Good guys will only attack bad guys. Only members of the good guy team can pick up collectibles like coins or health.
The "Set Properties" block changes the core properties of Platformer characters.
Lives: this property determines how many times a character can die and respawn.
Max Health: this property determines how much health a character can have at a time.
Max Power: this determines how much power a character can have at a time.
Health: this property determines how much damage a character can take before it dies.
Power: this property determines how much damage an actor does when it attacks.
"Setup And Run Character" block is needed to make level editor characters work correctly. It allows them to animate and react to events. It will run for as long as the character has health and at least 1 life.
"Setup And Run Collectible" block is needed to make level collectible actors work correctly. It allows them to animate and react to events. It will run until the actor is collected.
"Become My Avatar" block makes the actor become the avatar of the player. Using this block will let people play as their own avatars when you share your game.

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Cheesecake Tam Tam Chocolate 10"
A baked caramel and white chocolate cheesecake set into a chocolate biscuit base with a milk chocolate drop off. Then topped with white and dark swirls.
Note: These cakes are decadently large and glamorous.
Perfect as an impressive birthday cake, and able to serve more than 20 slimmers' pieces or at least 14 cake lovers!

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text: The Beyond Blue™ Bouquet is a wonderful way to send peaceful wishes to your special recipient. Bringing together gorgeous white Asiatic Lilies, white roses (in Deluxe and Premium versions), and white mini carnations accented with blue statice, cream spray roses, and lush greens, this stunning bouquet captivates at every turn. Presented in a dark blue glass vase to contrast with its bright white blooms, this beautiful flower arrangement will make an excellent thank you, get well, engagement or sympathy gift.


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Come together under the wings for a festive brunch, and then explore the 41 masterful paintings inside Bouguereau & America.
Coffee, tea, soda, juice, water included.
Bloody Mary, mimosa, wine, beer available for purchase.
Image: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Madonna of the Roses (La Madone aux roses), 1903 (detail). Oil on canvas. On loan from Lyndhurst, a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.


text: The 2008 Rattlers Purple Team will be holding tryouts March 19th @ 7pm, March 22nd @ 7:15pm and March 23rd @ 3:15pm. 08 Rattlers - Purple team is beginning our second year together as we move into PeeWee A travel hockey. Building on a successful 2018-19 season, we look forward to adding a second goaltender and additional talent to our roster. All positions are open.

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my husband was sick and got well the next day!
I just find out about this way of liver cleansing. It was very surprising to me.
My husband got cold and he was very sick. I did this Liver Cleansing on him and he is feeling fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did not butter myself to check what was in the toilet but all I know horsness gone (voice), sneezing gone, coughing gone. I wasn’t expecting to seen such a quick and dramatic results.
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Of the many impressions and conclusions that I derived from a full week of intensive tastings in France’s Rhône Valley last month, the most important one is this: The relative merits of the leading appellations in the Southern Rhône have changed so dramatically during the past two decades that all of us need to reconsider our notions of how they rank in relation to one another. To be more specific, generations of wine writers and consumers have regarded Châteauneuf du Pape as running so far in front of other appellations in the area that they can be lumped together as “Also Rans.” For a very long time, this presumption was not incorrect. But it is incorrect now, and appellations such as Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Lirac are currently turning out wines that are highly competitive with the more expensive wines of Châteauneuf. Read on to learn how this change came about, and how you can benefit from it.
Let me make this short and simple--I love a great Châteauneuf du Pape. For nearly 20 years in my wine journal, The Wine Advocate, I have proselytized the virtues of the best wines from this sun-drenched region of Provence. In the first edition of this book…I said ‘Châteauneuf du Pape has the potential to consistently produce some of the finest and longest-lived red wines in the world.’…Like hunger, fear, and lust, Châteauneuf du Pape, when it is great, has an almost addictive attraction to one’s basic instincts. In spite of having an amazingly diverse taste for so many different kinds of wine, I drink more Châteauneuf du Pape than any other type of wine.
I have been visiting Gigondas for nearly twenty years, each year doing a tasting of virtually all of the estate wines, as well as selections from the village’s cooperative. In one sense this has been frustrating, because so often the stunning raw materials that emerge from the vineyards are spoiled by defective upbringings in old, musty Gigondas cellars. Too many wines begin life with fabulous potential, great purity of fruit, and an unmistakable character that would give them great international appeal, but are (1) spoiled in part by unsanitary cellar conditions, (2) bottled too late, and/or (3) excessively fined and filtered at the command of oenologists whose only objective is stability, without any regard for the consumer’s search for pleasure.
Parker was right to draw this contrast in 1997, and I can verify this because I was tasting a lot of the wines in question at that time. There really were a lot of musty, dirty renditions of Gigondas, as well as a lot of rather thin and unsatisfying efforts from producers who weren’t striving to make the most of the potential of their vineyards.
However, there’s been an important development since 1997, and it will be useful to mimic Parker’s 1-2-3 account to set it forth: (1) Parker was right to see a vast quality gap between Châteauneuf and Gigondas at that point; (2) that gap has been closed very impressively in the intervening years; (3) most consumers still regard Châteauneuf as being vastly better than Gigondas when this is no longer true. Consequently, and lamentably, wine lovers continue to miss out on Gigondas wines that show quality exceeding their reputation, and value exceeding their price.
As I alluded in my opening, this isn’t true just of Gigondas, but also of Vacqueyras and Lirac (with Rasteau and Beaumes de Venise also showing signs of readiness for the Big Leagues).
I’ll review a slew of excellent wines from Vacqueyras and Lirac in an upcoming column (along with ones from Cairanne, the south’s newest AOC) to provide evidence for my broad point, which you can then test for yourself by trying some of the wines. I have little doubt that they’ll change the way you regard these appellations in terms of their merits relative to Châteauneuf.
But still, an interesting question persists: How can it happen that these other appellations could catch up to Châteauneuf so quickly, when it was regarded by almost everybody for decades as being vastly superior to them?
The answer is actually surprisingly simple when measured against the curious reality that it explains. It can be introduced with a time-tested maxim: Nothing succeeds like success. In this case, what that means is that--for decades on end--producers in Châteauneuf du Pape were able to charge higher prices for their famous wines, and could consequently afford to buy better barrels and newer winemaking technology, hire more talented consultants, and decrease yields from their vineyards to make more concentrated wines.
Conversely, because consumers long regarded everything besides Châteauneuf in the south as little more than Côtes-du-Rhône With Lipstick, this became a self-fulfilling prophesy: Producers couldn’t get much money for their wines, and consequently couldn’t expend what was required to update cellars and lower yields to actualize the potential of their vineyards.
It seems clear to me that the natural potential of Gigondas, Vacqueyras, Lirac and a few other terroirs has always been much closer to Châteauneuf than was evident from the actual quality shown by the finished wines. Now, however, that gap has closed dramatically, and savvy consumers who aren’t overawed by Châteauneuf’s reputation can take advantage of this fact (at least until the fact becomes more widely known...and the price gap closes as well).
We might ask how and why the quality gap closed so rapidly during recent years, and here again the answers are pretty simple. One is that growers in Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Lirac eyed the selling price of Châteauneuf enviously and decided to invest to get serious as challengers. Another answer is that Parker had a hugely beneficial influence by (1) praising the potential of the fruit material produced in these appellations; (2) criticizing producers for not making the most of it, and (3) encouraging consumers to break the vicious cycle and buy the wines of exemplary producers.
Parker has plenty of detractors, and they are not always mistaken. In this case, however, the fact is that his influence is responsible in part for erasing much of the quality gap to which he pointed himself (in passages such as the two quoted above).
Domaine Brusset Gigondas “Les Hauts de Montmirail” 2015: Dark, dense and firm, yet still fresh…which is an accomplishment of note for such a big wine from the 2015 vintage. 94. As an aside, those who aren’t afraid of encountering frustration when seeking out small-production wines should have a look for this producer’s “Les Secrets de Montmirail” bottling from 2015, which is the first edition since the 2012. It shows a lot of wood influence and is obviously built for cellaring, which will likely yield a wine meriting 95-96 points. The color is astonishingly dark and concentrated, and I don’t doubt that the fruit will integrate the oak. At some point, more is too much, but I believe this will wind up on the right side of that line.

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Adding a collaboration room to their school was not only smart for learning, but shows heart.
This Newfoundland grade school looked to instill passion and creativity in their awesome kids.
Together with atWork, we were able to plan a fun, comfortable environment.
It echoes native connection and forward-thinking learning.

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text: Basildon (Great Oaks) is a shop forming a part of Carphone Warehouse chain. It is open on: Monday 09:30 - 18:30, Tuesday 09:30 - 18:30, Wednesday 9:30 - 18:30, Thursday 9:30 - 18:30, Friday 9:30 - 18:30. At weekends its opening hours are: on Saturday 10:00 - 18:00, on Sunday 0:00 - 0:00. This store's address is: Unit 2, Great Oaks Retail Park, Broadmayne Road, SS14 1GB, Basildon. To reach the customer service directly please dial the number 08435 380 156.


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Since Instagram announced the change to its newsfeed algorithm, marketers and business owners are looking for ways to step up their game. While this network is engaging and influential, managing it adds a few more lines to an ever-growing to-do list.
What can help you grow your Instagram presence and check some of those tasks off of your list are apps. Apps designed specifically for Instagram management.
It’s easy to snap an image and mindlessly upload it to Instagram. Don’t do it. Don’t post any more sloppy, low-quality pictures. Instagram is all about powerful visual content, which attracts more and more artists to it. Your content has to be up to par, or you’re ruining their experience and your chances of landing a sale.
Be diligent and mindful in your image choices and their quality. Evaluate your overall digital branding and ensure that Instagram presence fits nicely right into it. Take advantage of all the filters and settings native to Instagram.
However, stop slapping that Lo-Fi filter on everything; instead find your unique filter that will give a custom, recognizable look to your Instagram content. Some filters will warm up the colors in the photo, while others will make them cooler, unifying the look of the content. If your brand employs colorful imagery, find a filter that will accentuate colors in your photos (consider Clarendon, Lark or Juno for intense hues). If your branding is based on a few key colors, try Pepretua for accentuating blues and greens, or Valencia for enhanced yellows.
Also, check out gorgeous free and paid VSCO filters. They add a little more sophistication and individuality to images. To create a completely unique filter for your Instagram photos, use Canva (free and premium). Once you found that ideal balance of saturation, brightness, contrast, hue, and other options, save the filter code you get in the settings window. Now you can apply a uniformed filter to all your images by simply pasting the code.
If you’d like to mix things up a little, create collages with tools like Frame Swagg or PicStitch (both are free), or record fun short looped videos with free Boomerang from Instagram.
TakeOff app (free and premium), one of the offers of CrowdFire app, will send a push notification to your phone when it’s time to post. TakeOff suggests the best times to publish and the most effective hashtags to use. It also evaluates your captions.
Latergramme (free and premium) is a similar offering, but it allows searching for existing posts in the Instagram universe and reposting them. This is a pretty hefty feature for those who want to be an active part of IG community and engage with other handles.
Finally, Schedugram (premium) is one of the very few third-party apps that can actually natively post to Instagram. What’s even better, the app makes it possible to schedule updates on both mobile and desktop versions, making the life of those of us with fat fingers a little easier. You’ll also get alerts every time a scheduled image is posted, ensuring smooth operation and the absence of hiccups.
You can also compare those figures against the free data provided by Union Metrics account checkup to truly dig in to your best performing hashtags and engaging photos. This app also suggests what types of content work effectively for your handle.
Although your choices of Instagram apps are limited compared to those for other networks, there are still quite a few free and premium options; so there are no more excuses to run ineffective Instagram marketing strategy.

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Together with new evidence about the human Y-chromosome phylogeny, it seems inescapable that something very big was taking place all over the world around the same time, something quite akin to the spread of a new people and not only to a spread of a new technology or way of thinking.
No Y-DNA or mtDNA lineages dated to 40-50 kya indicate a connection between the ancestral Khoisan and Eurasians. Within Eurasia, Y-DNA CF does fit the time frame. But I don't see an African connection, unless we go back to Out of Africa.
Lank, the variation autosomes does not have to travel attacked to an Y-DNA lineage. And if it was completely necessary... this "out of Arabia" model brings up an ocean of new possibilities. What if haplogroup E had really originated in Asia? in Arabia?
"No Y-DNA or mtDNA lineages dated to 40-50 kya indicate a connection between the ancestral Khoisan and Eurasians".
The paper actually claims, '(v) the process of change began sometime after 56 ka'. So not quite true if we accept the dates Dienekes gets in his previous post. E1 and E2 split at 57,703 years ago. Although on the face of it that looks perhaps a little early to be involved with the Khoisan maybe the haplogroup didn't reach them for a couple of thousand years.
"Together with new evidence about the human Y-chromosome phylogeny, it seems inescapable that something very big was taking place all over the world around the same time, something quite akin to the spread of a new people and not only to a spread of a new technology or way of thinking".
"ii) the 44–42 ka cal BP assemblages are based on an expedient technology dominated by bipolar knapping, with microliths hafted with pitch from Podocarpus bark, worked suid tusks, ostrich eggshell beads, bone arrowheads, engraved bones, bored stones, and digging sticks"
"reanalysis of organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa, shows that the Early Later Stone Age inhabitants of this cave used notched bones for notational purposes, wooden digging sticks, bone awls, and bone points similar to those used by San as arrowheads. A point is decorated with a spiral groove filled with red ochre, which closely parallels similar marks that San make to identify their arrowheads when hunting. A mixture of beeswax, Euphorbia resin, and possibly egg, wrapped in vegetal fibers, dated to ~40,000 BP, may have been used for hafting".
All these technologies are associated with men and would most likely have been passed from father to son, or uncle to nephew. That would explain the sudden Y-DNA expansion.
"(i) at Border Cave two assemblages, dated to 45–49 and >49 ka, show a gradual abandonment of the technology and tool types of the post-Howiesons Poort period and can be considered transitional industries"
"(iv) the LSA emerged by internal evolution"
The fact they are 'transitional industries' would explain the survival of A and B haplgroups.
Sorry to "intervene", but I see there is an issue that many people tend to neglect in these discussions (both in this and the previous post). As a linguist (well, an aspiring one, at least) I’m perhaps biased to think that some of these numbers are always just way TOO OLD. There are just too few recognizable language families, particularly in Africa and West Asia, for, say, 100kya or even 56kya to make sense, considering the low diversity there.
I mean, even if we split Niger-Congo/Nilo-Saharan and include the isolates we know went extinct in those areas, the numbers don’t fit! Other traditional areas had a lot more diversity before contact, and even after massive reduction in diversity are still several orders of magnitude more diverse than Africa (or West Asia).
And it isn’t just in the linguistic phylogeny, synchronic characteristics too. Even "Khoisan" languages, apart from their phonetics, are boringly uneventful in their linguistic typology.
Clicks are the only really “peculiar” thing there – but then, every other language family/area similarly has one odd “peculiar” thing that stands out. And the Pygmy languages are, currently at least, all “Niger-Congo”, with no obvious substrate. These two groups of languages don’t look too detached from the others at all, and certainly not “archaic” in any sense.
a) There has been massive language replacement in most of the world and particularly Africa and West Asia, in a scale more massive and more complete than anything we have witnessed in recorded history (but then WHAT would have caused something that not even modern warfare and long-range spread of diseases could cause ?).
b) Africa and West Asia are the wrong places to look for the origin of modern humans.
c) The place is right, but the older estimates are wrong: our immediate ancestors came later.
d) The numbers are right and the place is right, but language came later as a cultural toolkit and spread (clearly unevenly) throughout the world, maybe post-40kya. Some linguists would dismiss this based on the standard Chomskyan assumptions, but, if the other hypotheses fail, we may have to face this possibility.
Origin of modern humans?..the one place everyone tries to avoid....South Asia.
I think the diversity of the languages in an area is more connected to isolation than to how old are the human settlement there.
I show you a modern example: Caucasus vs. Southern part of the Middle East. Based on any origin theory that is in the game, the latter is inhabited by modern humans for a longer time, yet the language diversity is higher in the Caucasus. Because it is more isolated.
The effect of (long term) isolation surely played a strong role in the development of high language diversity in ancient times too.
Also, when we talk about events 40 kY BP or so long time ago, linguistic becomes increasingly a fantasy genre.
Y-DNA E1b1 has nothing to do with the ancestral Khoisan population. The E lineages they carry are all related to recent admixture. E-M2 and E-M75 came with Bantu admixture, and E-M293 with the pastoralist East Africans. It's a bit dubious to try to connect the LSA people living in southern Africa 44 kya to Y-DNA E populations, when their only technological/cultural connections lie with the Khoisan.
It all seems to fall back on the assumption that the LSA is of Eurasian origin, for which there is no evidence, and the resulting conclusion is that E or DE must then be of Eurasian origin. Sure, Hofmeyr apparently resembles Europeans, but there is no indication that this is a result of a migration into Africa. On the other hand, there are genetic signs of an Out of Africa migration that predates the LSA Border Cave findings by less than 20,000 years.
If anything, assuming Dienekes' Y chromosome age estimates are accurate, Y-DNA CF would be the best candidate for a Eurasian Upper Paleolithic marker. DE would either represent an Out of Africa remnant, or a very early back migration. But I don't know if the latter scenario makes much of a difference, considering its age (DE is very close in age to CT, and somewhat close to BT, and closer to either of them than to CF).
Yes, I know macro historical linguistics does raise some eyebrows, but it will have to be done, eventually. We may not have the ideal methods in place, but it doesn't prevent us from provisionally extrapolating from the tried and true methodology of traditional historical linguistics – you know, of the sort that brought us PIE and without which nobody here would be having any discussions about linguistic groups.
On the issue of diversity/origin, it doesn't always work that way, and there are some notable exceptions, but it generally does work, and so it is a sound working hypothesis.
But, now, let's assume for a moment that you are right about the isolation/diversity ratio: it would require the San area to be EXTREMELY NON-isolated in comparison with Eurasia! The problem is, we have no reason whatsoever to assume that, quite the contrary.
Besides, if we're forced to accept that the San carried on a technological tradition dating from before 30kya, then, it becomes almost imperative to presume that they had been ISOLATED to some extent for a long time – and yet their languages don't seem to reflect that at all, either in phylogeny or in features.
Not only that, sub-Saharan Africa as a whole is extremely undiverse and there doesn't seem to be any good reason for that. Just compare it with New Guinea, which supposedly was populated long after Africa: NG was certainly not that isolated, either, having had contacts with groups from east Asia and Australia. And yet, NG is immensely more diverse than Africa. In a small stretch of land running the northern half of the island alone you can find more language families and isolates than in the whole of Africa (even accounting for further splits there). Has SS Africa been such a hotbed of cross-contact in comparison with NG – or much of Eurasia, for that matter? I don't think so.
So, again, either there was a “mass language extinction” event on a scale never seen again, or there is something very strange here. The linguistic assumptions may be wrong, the genetic assumptions may be wrong, or both. The four hypotheses I mentioned earlier.
I completely agree with your reasoning. Africa must have been colonized by behaviorally modern humans around 40,000K to explain its low linguistic diversity (20 stocks in the revised version of the African language classification) compared to PNG, the New World and parts of Asia.
Since they admixed with some local hominin populations (mislabeled as "anatomically modern humans") who lacked our symbolic capacities, they ended up carrying some divergent genetic lineages. It's possible that Y-DNA A and mtDNA L0 are precisely these archaic introgressions.
1. I am not sure that Sub-Saharan Africa was colonized much earlier that New Guinea.
2. I am a bit confused, because linguistic articles (admittedly "for the public" types) I read earlier stated that the Sub-Saharan languages are very diverse. Now you just say it is actually the opposite. I have no time and resource to double check this.
What you've read, probably, is that Africa has a largish number of languages. That is true. However, the number of phyla is very small. As German said, the maximum is 20, and even that requires a radical “splitter” view.
15 or 20, when we look at the size of the continent and the presumed antiquity of human occupation there, is an exceedingly small number. What's more, the linguistic diversity among the supposedly most divergent human groups is even smaller than the overall diversity of the continent. It's all very odd. And this is a severely underrated problem.
That is not to say Africa or its neighbouring areas can't be at the root of human dispersals. They can be, and so far appear to have been. But we need an explanation for the above situation.
The biggest problem is, very few people appreciate the issue (IIRC, I've seen it occasionally discussed in this blog, though). On the top of my mind, I remember just two or three major papers on this topic, and their solutions didn't seem very convincing.
I enjoy the discussion of linguistics. However,it seems to me the larger question is whether this change in technology and behavior as revealed in the record is the result of cultural changes or genetic/biological changes. Is this great leap forward the result of the expansion of a small population with new skills or something that happened everywhere as a result of other pressures (like climactic change or intensification of populations)?
It seems that the comments here lean toward an expansion of a small, behaviorally modern population. But it seems to me the most parsimonious explanation is the other one. Didn't native Australians and other similarly isolated groups display modern behavior, like abstract artwork left on stone surfaces, before admixture of populations is credible? Isn't the most conservative explanation that we all behave in the same way and have the same capabilties because we inherited the same "software" from a common group of ancestors?
Geology and climate have thrown challenges at humans many times; but apparently humans did not adapt in the way they did in the UP/LSA when that happened.
Also, if different groups of humans independently adapted to some big shock (what would that be?) during this transition, then we would not see the proliferation of modern skull forms and the coalescence of Y-chromosome lineages on a global scale. Rather, we would see a transformation of regional populations (e.g., Neandertals in Europe) in response to the new challenge.
There are no Pygmy languages, but there is strong evidence for a shared substrata of unknown origin, relating to forest specific vocabulary.
Most of Sub-Saharan Africa was ethnically cleansed during the Bantu expansion by the migrating Bantus. The non-Bantu parts of SS Africa too show strong signs of recent population and language expansions. Pre-Neolithic SS Africa must have been immensely more ethnically and linguistically diverse than today's SS Africa. Same for Europe and West Asia.
"Is this great leap forward the result of the expansion of a small population with new skills or something that happened everywhere as a result of other pressures (like climactic change or intensification of populations)? It seems that the comments here lean toward an expansion of a small, behaviorally modern population".
Some sort of combination of the two is not impossible, and I think likely to be the explanation. The haplogroups were carried originally by a small population with new skills but the expanding population mixed with the local inhabitants as they expanded.
That idea is still controversial, and views differ wildly. Although we could expect such a substrate, the evidence I've seen so far is not very clear. But maybe you know things that I don't. I'm certainly no expert in Niger-Congo.
Obviously the Bantu expansion must have wreaked linguistic havoc (just like the neolithic expansions in Europe and SE Asia), but it still doesn't explain the scale of what happened. If human presence in SS Africa was so old, we'd expect the pre-Bantu diversity to be huge everywhere (certainly much higher than, say, New-Guinean levels or South American levels) and that even with a major replacement event like the Bantu expansion there would be some hint of the former diversity left.
However, with a few exceptions, there is no trace of that. Either it wasn't there in the first place, or the changes caused by the Bantu expansion in Africa must have been something so catastrophic that nothing of that scale is visible anywhere else.
And btw the European case is different, because that is not where the deepest genetic clades are, or where the alleged most divergent populations are. It is not supposed to have been as diverse as Africa in the first place, if the “mainstream” assumptions are/were right.
Also, not all major agricultural expansions necessarily wiped out indigenous languages/populations. In New Guinea, for example, there have been many such expansions (the main ones associated with Trans-New-Guinea and Austronesian), and yet most of the diversity is still there. Huge diversity! So the question is: what the heck happened with the languages of Africa? Or perhaps nothing happened and our assumptions are wrong?
The substrata of several pygmy languages is debated, but not in terms of whether it exists, as to whether it is Pygmy or the survival of another non-pygmy isolate. But it must be recognised that the substrata is very limited in extent, not covering even a 5th of pygmy range.
But pygmies by no means exclusively speak Niger-Congo, various groups speak central Sudanic. And those that do speak Niger-Congo speak dialects from different branches of that family, depending who their neighbours are.
All this evidence points to language replacement following the migration of larger statured populations, especially the Niger-Congo expansion.
The impact of the Bantu expansion was catastrophic in the regions it occurred. It not only almost totally wiped out the pre-Bantu languages of those regions but also almost totally wiped out the pre-Bantu peoples there with their genes. The Bantu expansion was not the only recent language expansion in Africa, as the other Niger-Congo branches, the Nilo-Saharan language family and the Afro-Asiatic language family also expanded in Africa during the Neolithic and the following periods. As a result, today's Africa is linguistically immensely less diverse than pre-Neolithic Africa.
Thanks. Of course, even if they did speak other, pre-contact languages, that doesn't mean these had to be fundamentally different from Niger-Congo or Nilo-Saharan. If they were already related to begin with, btw, that would explain why finding an exotic substrate appears to be so hard. But we really have no hard evidence either way, and their languages may indeed have been very diverse and then were wiped out (but see my reply to Onur below).
I don't deny that is possible at all. That is apparently what happened. But then we need an explanation. Again, the question faced by linguists and anthropologists is, why was this replacement so much more severe in SS Africa? Because this was no trivial language replacement.
Other areas that experienced similar traumatic effects during post-neolithic expansions did preserve a lot more linguistic diversity. The Americas suffered one such catastrophe, with the aggravated circumstances of modern warfare and disease, and yet even today in, e.g., Peru alone there are way more linguistic phyla than in the whole of Africa.
To sum up the issue, at the risk of becoming repetitive: why SS Africa, of all places, an area which, given certain assumptions at least, was supposed to harbour more linguistic diversity than everywhere else during pre-neolithic times, is precisely where diversity appears to have been most ruthlessly culled?
Africa is not alone in losing most of its linguistic diversity beginning from the Neolithic revolution: Eurasia too lost most of its linguistic diversity beginning from the Neolithic revolution. In fact, the Americas and New Guinea are unique in remaining linguistically diverse even after the Neolithic.
I still keep my opinion that New Guinea is an extremity and mainly because of isolation. You say there were migrations too, but the Austronesian migration did not wash trough the mainland New Guinea. Combine this with the archaic human admixture results (Denisovan admixture remained intact only here) and you have to deal with possibility that the human population was mostly continuous and berely disturbed here in the last 40kY or so. So far you can't say the same about any part of Africa.
At the other hand Peruvian language diversity proves more my point that yours in a sense. We know that Peru was populated less than 20kY ago. If this time was enough for such a diversity to rise then other diverse regions does not need to be especially ancient either.
This is one of the reasons why I said that 40k+ Y is too much time for linguistic.
And I agree with you on this, Belenos. But that is not the standard assumption of many anthropologists and linguists. I was only saying that, under those assumptions, we'll have a lot of trouble explaining linguistic diversity. Something is not right.
As for the New Guinea example, yes, Austronesian was literally a ripple on the water, although even in the coastal areas reached by it it did not lead to the extinction of most phyla. Even at the supposed cradle of Proto-Oceanic there are Papuan languages to this day. But anyway, the real test is Trans-New-Guinea, which is associated with a sweeping agricultural expansion throughout the region that nevertheless left behind a lot of linguistic diversity.
a) Eurasia had multiple neolithic “bursts” and the resulting crops and herds are easily adaptable from one end of the continent to the other under most climatic conditions, so a general “wipe-out” and a series of sweeping expansions (IE, Turkic, Sinnitc etc.) are not unexpected. I'm not sure the same is true of SS Africa. Even if there were pre-Bantu expansions, they don't seem to have been as numerous or as successful as the multiple Eurasian ones.
b) Again, if language as we know it was an early phenomenon, the diversity in Africa was supposed to be much much higher than elsewhere pre-Neolithic, so that even a wipe-out should leave at least some hint of that former diversity intact in isolated pockets. We see very little of that. Why did the “linguistic culling” have to be so complete?
The Eurasian situation is supposed to be an already smaller diversity reduced to very little after countless Neol. Expansions for a long time, whereas the African one is supposed to be huge diversity reduced to very little after a handful of expansions (certainly fewer than Eurasia, and beginning later). Why? That is what is unique and requires explanation.
Sorry, I read your reply again and in the first part of my latest post I believe I misinterpreted your point. You were talking about linguistic methods, I was talking about data on linguistic diversity. My opinion on the issue I mention is the same, though.
Oh my! And on top of the previous slip, I realise now I mistook Slumbery for Belenos in my reply. Sorry to both. I think that just means I need some sleep - and some time off this debate for a while heheh.
Why do you assume linguistic diversity always increases in pre-Neolithic contexts? By now, it should be clear to you that many regions of the world, including Africa, have experienced multiple population replacements whether pre-Neolithic or post-Neolithic. Today's SS Africans are vastly different from the SS Africans of just a few ten thousand years ago; they are even racially totally different.
"we'd expect the pre-Bantu diversity to be huge everywhere (certainly much higher than, say, New-Guinean levels or South American levels)"
Not necessarily. New Guinea and South America are heavily forested (and mountainous). Such regions lend themselves to linguistic (and genetic) diversity. Much of populated Africa was more open woodland although it is interesting that where populations have moved into jungle they seem to have adopted neighbouring languages. Africa linguistically is probably more akin to Australia where I don't think there is the linguistic diversity of New Guinea in spite of it having a larger area.
"you have to deal with possibility that the human population was mostly continuous and berely disturbed here in the last 40kY or so. So far you can't say the same about any part of Africa".
"the diversity in Africa was supposed to be much much higher than elsewhere pre-Neolithic, so that even a wipe-out should leave at least some hint of that former diversity intact in isolated pockets. We see very little of that. Why did the 'linguistic culling' have to be so complete?"
Perhaps because contact across much wider regions has always been possible in Africa (outside jungle and desert) than in most other regions.
"The Eurasian situation is supposed to be an already smaller diversity reduced to very little after countless Neol. Expansions for a long time, whereas the African one is supposed to be huge diversity reduced to very little after a handful of expansions (certainly fewer than Eurasia, and beginning later). Why? That is what is unique and requires explanation."
Your point is well taken, and it's true that there were more language extinctions going on outside of Africa than in Africa in the past 40,000 years, including LGM, Neolithic replacements, not to mention the most recent, post-1492 language loss in the New World. PNG, the New World, Caucasus are the refugia that have retained ancient levels of linguistic diversity and population fragmentation. There are no comparable refugia in Africa.
There's a very simple explanation for this: Africa is not as ancient, as a behaviorally modern human occupied region, as Papua New Guinea, the New World or parts of Asia. As we can see from the distribution of the Y-DNA DE clade, it's not found in America or Papua New Guinea suggesting that they had been colonized before the expansion of this clade in Africa and parts of Asia. Also, it's precisely in the New World and PNG that we see the highest frequencies of Denisovan alleles. May be a coincidence or an artifact, but could be a systemic property related to the linguistic diversity phenomenon.
Broadly speaking, East Africa has the largest linguistic diversity in Africa, with all major language families represented there via their most divergent branches (Kordofanian, Hadza, Sandawe, etc.). East Africa must have been then the route by which Africa was colonized by behaviorally modern humans.
products of admixture with "anatomically modern humans" who, as Richard Klein would confirm, didn't have languages and other aspects of modern human behavior.
There may be other explanations (cycles of genetic divergence followed by admixture in Africa, increased mutation rate in Africa, selection, relaxation of inbreeding depression, etc.) but archaic admixture may be the easiest to visualize.
In all the refugia areas outside of Africa (New World, PNG, caucasus), we observe reduced levels of genetic diversity. In Africa, Hadza also show reduced genetic diversity. All of this may suggest that African diversity is a product of both a) archaic admixture and b) intraspecific admixture among various human populations. Hadza is an isolate that maintained the original high inbreeding rates, low heterozygosity, etc., while all other African populations absorbed a lot of gene flow.
Yes. There could be other explanations, but it seems increasingly likely that the “cultural phenomenon of language” (as opposed to the biological capacity that allows it) came later to much of SS Africa. I doubt Hofmeyer-type people or their immediate successors left any linguistic descendants, either. It could be even more recent, perhaps a lot more.
I just finished a blog post in which I discuss Joseph Jordania's hypothesis that low linguistic diversity in Africa and Europe vs. the New World, Papua New Guinea, etc. comes from the fact that in Africa and Europe humans shifted to articulated speech (from a "musical protolanguage") later than in the New World , PNG and Asia. I argue against Jordania's theory but it's a very clear way to explain a pattern that others dismiss as epiphenomenal.
Thanks, German. I've checked the post. I'll just reinforce one point here.
I think we should be careful not to confuse the human capacity for language with its physical manifestation(s).
I think it's perfectly possible that the capacity for language evolved only once and then began to be explored universally through prosody and music (as well as gesture), whereas articulated speech as we know it evolved later out of these previous uses, and then spread through cultural diffusion.
This is anathema to orthodox Chomskyans, but certainly not as far-fetched as it seems. Some phonologists, such as April MacMahon, have expressed similar views.
"I think it's perfectly possible that the capacity for language evolved only once and then began to be explored universally through prosody and music (as well as gesture)"
To me it is very likely that the capacity for speech involves far more than just a single gene. There were probably a series of genes that sprang up in different places and at different times, to spread from those separate regions through the human species.
"articulated speech as we know it evolved later out of these previous uses, and then spread through cultural diffusion".
I agree that the final capacity for speech as we know it probably came to fruition in a single region and spread from there. At the moment we have no way of knowing when that happened, or where. However we are all free to guess.

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Shred all vegetables. I used the shredding attachment on my food processor.
Mix vegetables with almond flour, eggs, garlic cloves, basil, parsley, and salt and pepper with your hands.
Make 6-7 patties and flatten them out.
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Google is letting a few users test AR navigation.
Facebook buys a visual search technology company.
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Gulf Air has appointed of Captain Suhail Abdulhameed Abdulaziz Ismail as the airline�s new chief operating officer, effective February 2018.
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It would be pretty remarkable if images of all 20 of the numbered CDr’s were uploaded.
If the original release was a CD-R. This Vinyl sounds like a direct transfer from this CD-R.
Sorry, but this is a lifeless ear-bleeder. Annoying.
If that's the first time it's officially released on vinyl, should it be called a "reissue"???
Does this bad boy come with a download code?
Every now and again, something comes along which is a true masterpiece, and this is one of them. The kind of thing which makes it all worthwhile. The rough edges and unpolished brilliance only add to the overall effect. Thankyou to every person involved in making sure this was released to the masses, it would have been a real shame to be left wallowing in obscurity. Massively recommended.
Awesome to finally get an official release. Great looking alpine green vinyl, I am picking up a little static here and there though. Brilliant material and nice packaging, love it!!
Before the Gig in Feldkirch in August i talked to the Singer of UAatDB and he told me they are planning to release Vol. 1 on Vinyl but have to remaster the Tapes first, all after this Tour so not before early 2017!
As this is the "official" CDR published and sold by the band the sound is fine, THIS release (other rthan the "greek vinyls") is NO bootleg.


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PREDOMINANTLY Catholic Philippines is gradually expanding its limited inventory of halal travel products to capture more of the small yet steadily growing Muslim market.
The Department of Tourism (DoT) and the Philippine Travel Agencies Association regularly conduct seminars, trainings and meetings with their Middle Eastern counterparts on meeting the needs of this high-yielding market, while DoT supports the Islamic Da’Wah Council of the Philippines (IDCP) to grant more establishments halal accreditation.
IDCP president Abdul Rahman Linzag said there are only a “handful” of halal-certified hotels and restaurants in Manila, the latest being Makati Shangri-La, Manila, but the number is increasing.
To woo this market, DoT launched Eid Play Love travel packages on July 14 in Saudi Arabia and the UAE for the long holidays after Ramadan this month and the Eid al-Adha in October.
A take on the popular book and movie Eat Pray Love, the packages promote Philippines, heretofore known as labour export market, as a “Muslim- and family-friendly destination”, said Verna Buensuceso, DoT’s overall in charge for market development group.
Partners in the packages will be asked to send reports to DoT to gauge the success of future promotions planned for the Middle East.
The Philippines is still slowly beefing up facilities needed by Muslim travellers. Manila’s airport has a Muslim prayer room and footwash, while hotels such as Fairmont Makati and Raffles Makati include Qurans, prayer spaces, and Arabic-language TV channels.
The underserved Muslim market is estimated to have been worth some US$130 billion in 2013 (TTG Asia e-Daily, November 26, 2013), and the world's first international conference on Muslim tourism will be held this September in Spain, bringing together the global travel industry to share how it can cater to this fast-growing segment (TTG Asia e-Daily, July 1, 2014).
It is high time the Philippines to promote more to Muslim tourists. By introducing halal food outlets in the archipelago\'s major tourist destinations it will soon pay off when more and more Muslims feel at ease visiting the Philippines.

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Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin interviews activist Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles “Chic” Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 that was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon in 2001.
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Yes, marrying a dead person is a real tradition in some places.
Weddings are often filled with fun traditions.
But when you actually look into the history of certain rituals, you may find they are anything but sweet.
From evil spirits, to lonely ghosts, to kidnapping, there are some seriously unnerving wedding traditions that should stay in the past.
Wedding traditions are pretty weird. Under any other circumstances, flinging garters into a crowd, asking your best friends to dress the same, or publicly pointing out your single buddies would be unthinkable. But if you think that's unusual, the unnerving history behind certain wedding traditions will terrify you for life.
From evil spirits, to lonely ghosts, to kidnappings, these horrifying traditions make modern weddings seem positively tame by comparison.
Women in China cry the entire month before their wedding.
For the Tujia people of Zhangjiajie, China, brides traditionally cry for an hour a day the month before the wedding, according to Zhangjiajie Tour Club. In the final days leading up to the wedding, a bride's mother, grandmother, and sisters join in the crying too.
Why such sorrow? It dates back to the Warring States Period in which a Zhao State princess's mother fell to her daughter's feet in tears when the girl left home to be married, according to China Daily. Later, other brides copied the practice as a way to express their sorrow at leaving home for marriage — and perhaps imitate a princess' bridal customs. (Hey, people have pretty much always looked to the rich and famous for wedding inspiration.) In this way, the practice of crying before a wedding is an expression of a bride's love and gratitude for her family of origin.
But a different explanation for the pre-marriage crying exists as well. Because arranged marriages were the norm in China for a long time, young girls approached marriage with a tremendous sense of fear. "Girls cried for their destiny because they cannot freely choose their husband," reporter Jiangli Tian told Skedline.com. The idea of marrying a stranger, and having no say about your future, is scary stuff indeed.
Wedding veils have a dark history.
Apparently, certain ancient traditions ensured veils "wrapped brides from head to toe to represent the delivery of a modest and untouched maiden," according to wedding historian Susan Waggoner in BRIDES.
OK, so veils are a symbol of virginity — that isn't so terrible, right? Well, there's another potential reason they're used.
Several sources claim wedding veils were used in the case of arranged marriages, so that the groom was forced to marry his stranger bride sight unseen, as noted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It seems veils are a holdover from a time in which weddings were more about financial transaction than love matches.
Bridesmaids used to have a horrifying job.
Originally, bridesmaids did much more than serve mimosas and carry backup bobby pins. By dressing in a similar style to the bride, bridesmaids would confuse any evil spirits who intended to curse the bride on her wedding day, according to BRIDES. But if they could be confused by similar dresses, just how bright were these spirits anyway?
"Giving away the bride" used to be a literal transaction.
For many brides, a wedding would not be complete without her father walking her down the aisle. Although the current version of this tradition is a way to honor dear old dad, its history is much less sentimental. A father giving away his daughter in marriage was once just literally that: a transaction.
These days, the tradition has more sentimentality.
Fathers would give away their daughters as brides to square up debts or settle disputes, according to Southern Living. Modern brides are not being offered up to the groom's family as a bribe — at least one would hope not — so the tradition remains as a gesture of goodwill toward the father.
For some couples, death is the start of a happy marriage.
As it turns out, posthumous weddings play a role in certain cultures and traditions. For instance, ghost weddings have been practiced in China for 3,000 years, with the kindly intention of helping deceased single people find a companion in the afterlife.
Recently, though, the practice has led to some sinister crimes in China. In 2013 four men were imprisoned for unearthing dead women from their graves in order to sell the bodies for ghost marriages, according to TIME. The associated crimes don't stop at grave robbing, however. In 2016, a man was charged with murdering two women with the intention of selling their bodies to be used in these ghost weddings, according to the BBC. The demand for dead wives is high enough to drive some people to commit terrible crimes.
'Corpse Bride' may not have been too far off from reality.
Ghost marriages aren't the only cases of living people wedding the dead. In countries such as France, Sudan, and China, posthumous marriages are legal, although the reason for their occurrence is often heartbreaking. In 2017, CNN reported on a person posthumously marrying their partner who was killed in an April terror attack. Although rare, these marriages between a living and dead person are sometimes performed when great tragedy prevents them from wedding in this life.
The origins of the bouquet and garter toss are surprisingly raunchy.
On her wedding day, a bride was considered to be especially lucky, and guests would sometimes tear at her bridal attire in the hopes of obtaining some of that luck for themselves. Clever brides would toss their bouquet as a distraction, hoping the guests would claw at the gathered herbs and flowers instead of her gown, according to Seaquins Ballroom. At least modern wedding guests are content to wait for the bouquet toss while bopping to "Single Ladies." Tearing at a bride's gown today would be unthinkable.
The garter toss likely originated from the medieval bedding ceremony, a tradition that would make most modern people blush. Old-school couples didn't wait long to consummate their marriage: they were expected to do the deed soon after exchanging vows. In some cases, witnesses were required to witness . . . things. The whole process was a likely a bawdy, loud, and chaotic affair. In time, the groom was allowed to remove his wife's underthings and fling them to the waiting crowd as evidence of their successful consummation, according to Mental Floss. The whole event was pretty creepy, to be honest.
Kidnapping likely served as the origins of honeymoons.
In a time when marriage by capture (AKA kidnapping) was common, the groom would hide his bride away for several months, until her family gave up the search or she fell pregnant, according to the New York Post. Being taken from your family and stuck in an unknown location was probably a far cry from relaxing on a Hawaiian beach.
Don't worry — there's also a happy story.
The origin of the specific term honeymoon is a little more fun. Newlyweds would traditionally enjoy mead, a type of drink made from honey, during their first moon (AKA month) together, according to Country Living. Out of all the traditions, this is the one I want to keep going. Sipping sweet wine every evening would not be the worst way to spend those first few weeks of marriage.


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SHAWL STRIPES, ideal as a gift.
Pretty stripes shawl with marine tones. Made of 100% cotton.


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Piso grande con tres habitaciones, dos baños, cuatro balcones y buena cocina. Este apartamento es cómodo y el silencio es bueno para dormir y estar en familia y con amigos.
Big Flat with three room, two bathroom, four balcony and good kitchen. This flat is comfortable and silence good to sleep and stay in family and with friends.


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Award-winning composer, Dr. Mark Dal Porto, has had his works performed by numerous instrumental and vocal ensembles throughout the United States and abroad. His commissions include those from the Orchestra of Southern Utah, the College Orchestra Directors Association, and the Pemigewasset Choral Society of New Hampshire.
Dal Porto has been awarded certificates of excellence in band, choral, and orchestral composition from The American Prize organization. He was also awarded first prize in the CODA (College Orchestra Director’s Association) International Composition Contest for his orchestral work Song of Eternity.
Dal Porto serves on the faculty of Eastern New Mexico University as Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory and Composition, and frequently serves as a guest composer and conductor. A former student of Donald Grantham, Dal Porto received degrees from California State University, Sacramento, and the University of Texas at Austin.


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The New York Times has revealed the steps it takes to protect its journalists’ privacy and online security. Speaking to Vice on the CYBER podcast, Runa Sandvik, the newly-instated senior director of information security at The New York Times shed light on the tools and practices employed by the media organization to maximize safety for its staff.
Securing information stored on computing and smart devices is a much-discussed topic.
In just 2018 alone, there were over twenty serious data breaches with millions of people’s personal details affected. The organizations targeted ranged from travel sites, social media websites, and online retailers. Sensitive personal data and financial information belonging to millions of people were compromised in the breaches.
In the cryptocurrency world, the importance of information security cannot be overstated. As a novice, the first piece of advice you will receive will be creating strong passwords for any accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges and private keys and seed phrases safe. Despite the oft-cited infosec pointers, there are still numerous accounts of users losing their digital assets.
Additionally, while security is a challenge for individual members of the digital asset community, more centralized parties such as exchange platforms or even blockchain-based startups have not escaped unscathed. It seems like a daily occurrence that a report about a theft or a data breach emanating from an exchange hack or negligent infosec practices emerges.
The media sector is no different. However, in the cryptocurrency sector, and most other industries, the stakes are mostly financial in nature, meaning that hackers resort to this sort of behavior to acquire some revenue stream or financial leverage. In journalism, such behavior is usually motivated by more sinister reasons and with more important objectives at stake.
For journalists, such as those working at The New York Times, the actions they take in the course of their work may expose them to dangerous situations where they are targeted either for merely reporting the happenings in their media pieces or for exposing previously unknown information.
For instance, an American NYT journalist, Kenneth Vogel, was threatened with bodily harm while a Mexican journalist, Javier Valdez, was shot dead after which his family and friends were targeted for a hack in the days following his death. While unfortunate, it is safe to say that most journalists go into their line of work with the knowledge that they may, at some point in their career, be in danger while discharging their duties.
However, for the sources who provide the sensitive and explosive material to journalists, the reality of a dangerous future is not one they had expected nor prepared for. Moreover, the danger is likely higher, if the information pertains to large organizations with money, influence, powerful people or governments.
For whistleblowers, their revelations generally expose them to heightened levels of danger and may even result in death. Therefore, for journalists, keeping the information on their devices secure can mean the difference between life and death for their sources.
Speaking on the CYBER Podcast, Runa Sandvik espoused the importance of infosec as part of a journalist’s duty to their source.
The New York Times is no stranger to attempted hacks.
The media organization revealed that Chinese hackers had targeted it for months in 2012. Following their investigation into the riches amassed by relatives of the country’s prime minister Wen Jiabao, the media organization witnessed a barrage of attacks designed to infiltrate the system and allegedly gain access to data regarding the case.
Following the 2012 revelations, the organization has been more intentional with its security. The organization has put in several practices in place to maximize cybersecurity. The biggest of these is employee education. The organization has an onboarding process for new employees where best practices with regards to infosec are discussed.
She further explained that greater defenses are mounted for journalists.
Sandvik is somewhat a celebrity in the information security world, because of her work at Tor, the fact that she once hacked a smart gun, and her most recent appointment to the newly created position at The New York Times.
She reveals her personal safety tips which she uses to protect herself and her data.
Lastly, Sandvik reiterated the importance of staying informed on how to judge apps and other services or even hardware before purchasing them. In the cryptocurrency world, this is called DYOR, or “Do Your Own Research,” and it looks like the reiterated advice is sound across all sectors.


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Most of you would have seen several Royal Enfield-based custom motorcycles that have more than a passing resemblance with a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The modified Royal Enfield Electra we have on this page, however, looks almost exactly like the real deal. Basically, the following video shows how a bone-stock RE Electra has been converted into a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy replica. This modification has been executed by Delhi-based GM Customs.
As explained in the video, the first step in the modification process was to strip the motorcycle completely. Even the front forks were removed and only the engine, rear shock absorbers, rear wheel, and the frame were left. Next, the Royal Enfield was given a set of new wheels shod with wider tires. A custom swingarm was put in place to extend the wheelbase. The motorcycle also got a set of beefier front forks and an extended rake angle for the front suspension. Next, the front and rear fenders were installed. Also, the motorcycle was given disc brakes at both the ends. The twin rear shock absorbers were replaced with a monoshock. Suitable modifications were made to the frame to accommodate the new bodywork.
A custom fuel tank was installed. The new teardrop fuel tank looks a lot like the one on the real Fat Boy. The motorcycle also receives a new headlight, new side panels, and a custom engine cover that tries to mimic a V-twin motor in terms of appearance. Next, a slim, low-set seat was installed. The original exhaust has been replaced with a faux twin-exhaust setup. Of course, one of the two pipes isn’t connected to the engine and is there purely for cosmetic purposes. Finally, some more minor visual tweaks were made and the entire motorcycle was given a custom paint scheme.
As can be seen towards the end of the video, this Royal Enfield Electra looks absolutely nothing like what it used to be. Instead, it can easily be mistaken for a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy, which is one of the most well-sorted American cruiser motorcycles on sale today. The modification has been executed so well that only the most trained eyes will be able to notice the disparities between the original Fat Boy and this RE-based replica.


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A study to understand the impact of climate change on migration has been initiated by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements in Siliguri. This initiative is also supported by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the results from the same will complement the ongoing work under the CapaCITIES project in the city.
As part of this initiative four wards - 20, 24, 4 and 46 have been identified for detailed studies. Focus group discussions in slums of wards 4 ad 24 were carried out this month. These discussions focused on separate interactions with men, women and the elderly. An overview of the prevailing situation has been documented.
In the next visit, similar interactions will be carried out in wards 46 and 20. One to one discussions will also be carried out with some people in each of these wards. Detailed discussions to understand the policy and governance level issues have also been carried out with the mayor and other officials in Siliguri Municipal Corporation.
The final report will aim at better addressing the issue of migration in the city of Siliguri.


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What a beautiful day! Days like this make those nasty rainy & cold days more tolerable. I hope you are able to get outside & soak up some much needed Vitamin D & fresh air!
The “W.O.W.” is RESULTS! At the end of each day, this is what brings a sense of purpose to our actions. We all want RESULTS! Keep your eye on the RESULTS, and you’ll stay on track to accomplishment. Keep the end RESULT in mind, and you’ll avoid getting sidetracked into activities that don’t accomplish anything. This week – step up your game to get RESULTS in at least one area of your life that feels stagnant & non-productive! Decide what RESULTS you want, and then adjust your actions to get them.
Write out your TOP 5 for the week ahead! These are the 5 most important goals you need to achieve this week to see RESULTS! Putting your goals (big & small) on paper make them real & gives you accountability. Sharing them with someone gives you even MORE accountability.
CLASS UPDATE: 6am & 6pm Functional Fitness on Monday! Who’s ready to start the week STRONG & FOCUSED on getting RESULTS?! Let’s DO IT!!!
Get ready to CREATE greatness this week folks!


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I sometimes am not able to use my main cracking rig while traveling but still require a decent amount of compute. I picked up a Razer Core X eGPU to test using hashcat with a eGPU connected via Thunderbolt 3. Does anyone have experience with this? After just plug and play the card (old AMD card) is detected by the OS (Mac OS), but the card does not appear in hashcat -I. Would be willing to be a test case if anyone has idea on how to make this work.
I'm currently running a Lenovo T-series laptop with The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) and the Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 GamingBox - works like a charm! I know it's not the same as your setup, but I just wanted to put it out there if anyone else was intrigued by this eGPU-thing.
From what I remember - you need to be careful when selecting the eGPU, OS and PC hardware configuration. It might be useful to the community if you supplied further details. One thing you could do is to check whether or not the eGPU works for other applications - or is it just Hashcat that wont work? You could also try using another OS.
EDIT: I'm a newbie - what distro is better at handling OpenCL?
I did consider recompiling hashcat? I didn't know if there was a build process that might compile something specific to detection all connected opencl devices.
For me, I'm running an AMD RX580 in a Razer Core X and it Just Worked.
* Device #1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2140B CPU @ 3.20GHz, skipped.
* Device #2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 Compute Engine, skipped.
First, yes the picture I posted is an eGPU, NOT onboard. Its in a Sonnet eGPU chassis.
As was mentioned, I chose a GPU only from the list of supported devices on Macbooks, that being the RX570 in my case.
2. Mac is running Mojave 10.14.3.
3. I downloaded source code from hashcat.net and extracted it.
5. I can run ./hashcat -b and it begins a benchmark showing 3 devices : the CPU, internal Intel GPU and the External e-GPU RX570. I can then crack by just specifying the GPU device.
As an added bonus, cracking is one of the workflows where Thunderbolt is absolutely fast enough for checking some low hanging fruit - at least in the context of up to 2-3 eGPUs attached. Benchmarks identical vs. cards housed on an internal PCIe bus.
RX580s are on Craigslist for $100 all day long.


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Eight memory modules, 30-pin Single In-Line Memory Modules, for PCs, each being 0.5Mb.
Grandstand Adman TV 3000 computer game, with original box.
Amstrad PPC640 portable computer in original case. Serial number 532-8840049. With supertwist LCD screen. Overall (closed): 235 mm x 500 mm x 110 mm; overall (deployed): 410 mm x 500 mm x 80 mm.
Video cassette recorder, made by Samsung, Model S17220, Serial No 004200486,1994.
Small brown vial containing Dr Melavax, stem-cell anti-ageing skin treatment, conditioned from human bone marrow, made by BIO-FD&C Co., Ltd, Korea, c2010.
Keyboard for Amstrad PCW 9512 computer.
Audio cassette recorder by Tandy, 1975-80.
Disposable blood donor set in plastic package by Hesung Medical Supply Co., Ltd.


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Sarah Goodall, born in 1964, joined the staff of the Prince of Wales in 1988 and left in 2000. She quickly rose to become one of his Lady Clerks (personal secretaries) at St James's Palace, and was awarded the prestigious MVO (Member of the Victorian Order) in 1999 for her loyalty and discretion.
Traveling the world with Prince Charles, often on his private plane, while dealing with his personal correspondence, she has been in a unique position to witness both the public and personal sides of various royal lives and the pressures and privileges they experience. Now, after having left employment within the royal household, she works as a personal assistant.
The Palace Diaries is her first book, written with Nicholas Monson.
Nicholas Monson, born in 1955, is an established social commentator and has written for Harpers & Queen and the Tatler, as well as most British newspapers including the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Express, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday. He was once the librarian to the former Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman. His first book, The Nouveaux Pauvres, 1984, is a sociological critique of British nobility and their lives under reduced circumstances. He lives in London and is the present Lord Monson.

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After an exhilarating opening round, the teams are in for round two of the NRC.
Here are each of the teams, along with how you can watch each and every match this weekend.
The 23 named for each side are subject to change, with some aligned Wallabies not in the squad to face the Springboks expected to play at the weekend.


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The Pedal Exerciser is a convenient alternative to conventional bicycle exerciser. This portable upper and lower body exerciser is easily mobile. The pedal exerciser can be used sitting in your favorite chair, the side of a bed, a wheelchair or on a table top for arm exercise. Regular use of a pedal exerciser improves cardiovascular health and muscular strength. It is economical and easy to use.
Use when exercise bicycle is not available or is contra-indicated. Wide leg spread and rubber non-marring feet keep exerciser stable even when patient has little muscle control. Wrap around adjustable foot straps for use with or without shoes. Turn the tension knob to adjust the pedal resistance. Turn clockwise towards “High” to increase the resistance (makes pedaling more difficult) or counterclockwise towards “Low” to reduce the resistance (makes pedaling easier).


text: Fourwinds Ravi’s Gypsy Rose, aka Rosie, was born into my hands on June 17, 2006. She left this world, and the loving circle of my arms , July 22, 2018. Twelve years, one month, five days was not nearly enough time to spend with my furry red girl. She was my constant companion from the time she learned to climb over the top of the puppy pen and toddle after me. She was a Canine Good Citizen. She was Boo Bear’s loyal service dog. She did hospice care and gave comfort to those about to pass from this mortal coil. Robert said he had never seen an animal who was so unequivocally my dog. She left paw prints on my heart and in my soul, nose prints on my windows, fur on my clothes, and still, even from the other side of the veil, has managed to spirit away one of my shoes. She leaves a bereft family whom she used to boss around mercilessly. I can only hope that she is now playing with Zuli, her mother, and Rodeo, her brother, who passed before her. They are running free in a land where cancer and pain can never touch them. Our lives were enriched by her very presence and we are not less for her absence. Run free sweet girl, until we meet again. Your loving mama.


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Interested in receiving piano lessons?
The mission of the J Lester Piano Studio is to provide your child with the best piano education. It has been my experience that given the proper amount of encouragement and praise along with high expectations, the students will excel in their endeavors.
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Hi everyone! It's Monday...again. My goal for today is to make lists of things that I need to do, since I seem to be forgetting things right and left. Maybe it's pregnancy brain...or maybe it's not. Either way I need to get organized.
Also, make sure to check back tomorrow for a giveaway that I'm super excited about!
P.S. You should make these doughnuts tonight...We made them last night and they were delicious (just as yummy as last year)!
One last thing...hot dog mummies are great! We made these over the weekend after trick-or-treating downtown.

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Tommy Wallace plays the ukelele. Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg.
It’s most instructive when you can’t find the right word — it can prove that you’re truly envisaging a mental fact, and not a ghost from a dictionary.


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As we neared the hospital an overwhelming feeling of fear came over me that something was wrong. I became very worried. I told my husband to turn the car around and go back home! Of course, he did not do that and instead; he said what he could to alleviate my fears.
I was in the operating room when the nurse told me the anesthesiologist’s name. The moment she said the name, “Michandra”, I knew my fears were justified. I worked as a substitute teacher at the time and one of my coworkers told me about an anesthesiologist whose name was Michandra that almost killed her during her C-section. I wanted to scream, “Get me out of here!!!” But I knew I had to go through with this to have my baby. What else could I do at this point? She obviously was keeping her job, so she must be doing something right.
My husband was allowed to come into the room following my epidural. Because of my anxiety, I was given additional medication in my IV, which caused me to hallucinate. I was reaching for my husband’s face and talking out of my head! The anesthesiologist offered to give me additional medicine to help my situation but my husband emphatically said “No! You are killing my wife!” The medication had me so dizzy and out of it that I did not really know what was happening around me. The surgery continued Jaden was born; but he was not breathing and his fingers were clenched in fists. This was very alarming to say the least.
The doctors worked on Jaden until he started to breathe. However, they thought it would be best to life-flight him to Iowa City hospital for some tests. They brought him into my room so I could see him and say goodbye. I was unable to hold him but I held his precious little hand. My husband drove over to Iowa City hospital so he could be with Jaden. I prayed and prayed constantly that my son would survive this ordeal and be Okay.
When my husband arrived at the hospital he told them not to give Jaden any more anesthesia–but unfortunately, they did not listen. Jaden was given a light sedative in order to get an MRI. He died in the MRI tube for several minutes-his heart stopped. Two days later I joined my husband and Jaden at Iowa City Hospital. The doctor told us that Jaden would most likely have cerebral palsy and would probably never walk or talk. I was heartbroken and devastated. But I never, ever gave up hope.
Jaden was in the ICU for three long, arduous weeks. Finally, the day arrived that I was able to take my son home! From that day on I dedicated my life to caring for Jaden. I quit teaching school to have the time for my son. I researched everything I could to educate my self on Cerebral Palsy. I was determined that my son would walk and talk someday. I ordered all of Glen Doman’s books “How to Heal Your Brain Injured Child,” and began applying everything that I had learned. I prayed day and night that God would heal my son.
As time went on, I saw one miracle after another. Jaden began drinking from a bottle a few days after being released from the hospital. He started talking at 18 months-old! When he turned 2, he took his first step … Jehovah had listened!!! Jaden would go on to learn to read as well as accomplish many other things in his life. He enjoys playing on his hand-held DS and he has become a computer genius! We can truly see our son’s wonderful personality, his humor and wit! He tells jokes, he likes to make people laugh and feel good and he does and says the most interesting things just to get our reaction! We love it! I remember I was on the phone with Amy once and he could tell that she was feeling down. He said, “Mommy, I am going to sing Amy a song so that she can feel better.” When Amy heard him say that – she was so touched by his desire to make her feel good. It opened her eyes to the caring side of him that is just so sweet.
The journey with Jaden has not been easy but it has been well worth it! Jaden is always happy and smiling regardless of his disabilities. He makes everyone around him laugh. People cannot wait to see him in the store or on the street. He makes their day with his funny ways and the crazy things he says! He has brought so much love into our home and has taught us many valuable lessons!


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When I was young, the basement in our house once flooded quite badly. I don’t remember all the details but I do remember that so many important things were ruined, from personal documents to papers from my parent’s law practice to cherished memorabilia. For years after that, if we needed something and couldn’t find it, the assumption was that it had been destroyed when the basement flooded.
That event really helps me understand now, as an adult, why it’s so important to protect valuable and important items from the unexpected. A flood is only one of the risks that can threaten a house and I want to know that our most cherished possessions are safe from harm no matter what. So I was thrilled when I was given the chance to review the SentrySafe Alarm Safe.
I used to enjoy Christmas shopping in malls and department stores when I was younger, but with two boys to bring and the challenge of trying to hide whatever I’m buying from their inquisitive eyes, I’ve started to do as much of my shopping as possible online. It took me a little while to really embrace the online craze, but now that I have, I’m hooked. Having everything I need for Christmas come right to my front door is so much easier than braving crowds!