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NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market edged mostly lower on Wednesday, easing back from its latest all-time highs.
The markets barely budged following the midafternoon release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s January meeting. The transcript showed that policymakers were less likely to raise interest rates in June than investors previously thought.
The decline follows two straight days of record closing highs for the Standard & Poor’s 500 index.
“The market had really gathered steam around a June tightening date, the minutes seem to have walked that back a bit,” said David Lafferty, chief market strategist at Natixis Global Asset Management.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 17.73 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,029.85. The S&P 500 eased 0.7 point, or 0.03 percent, to 2,099.68. The index closed at an all-time high of 2,100.34 on Tuesday.
The Nasdaq composite rose 7.10 points, or 0.1 percent, to 4,906.36.
Major stock indexes opened lower early Wednesday. Energy stocks declined as the price of oil fell amid speculation that a recent rally in crude was excessive.
The price of benchmark U.S. crude, which had been rising last week, fell $1.39 to $52.14 a barrel Wednesday. The price of oil has jumped 16 percent since bottoming out at the end of January after a seven-month slump.
Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils used by many U.S. refineries, fell $2 to $60.53 a barrel.
Investors hammered Fossil Group’s shares after the retailer issued a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report and outlook. The stock fell the most among companies in the S&P 500, shedding $15.63, or 15.7 percent, to $83.69.
Stocks continued to drift lower ahead of the release of the meetings from the Fed’s January meeting.
But the declines eased after 2 p.m. Eastern time, when the minutes appeared to ease any concerns that the central bank would raise rates anytime soon.
The minutes revealed that officials were concerned about the impact on financial markets of dropping the word “patient” from their communications, when describing how long they were willing to wait before raising rates.
Officials noted that wage growth has remained weak even as the unemployment rate has declined. Inflation remains below the Fed’s 2 percent target. The Fed’s benchmark interest rate has been at a record low near zero since December 2008.
Government bonds rallied after the release of the Fed’s minutes. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, fell to 2.08 percent from 2.14 percent late Tuesday.
All told, four of the 10 sectors in the S&P 500 ended lower. Energy stocks slumped the most, declining 1.5 percent. Utilities notched the biggest gain at 2.4 percent.
The S&P 500 has bounced back after a weak start to the year, as a rebound in the price of oil has boosted energy stocks and returned the index to all-time highs. Strong reports on hiring and company earnings have also encouraged investors. The gains have come, even as a strengthening dollar has curbed overseas earnings for companies in the index.
Most companies in the S&P 500 index have now reported their results for the fourth quarter. Earnings are forecast to rise 7.6 percent after all the results are in, according to S&P Capital IQ. That compares with growth of 9.2 percent in the third quarter and a rate of 4.9 percent in the same period a year earlier.
In metals trading, gold fell $8.40, or 0.7 percent, to $1,199.70 an ounce. Silver fell 11 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $16.27 an ounce and copper rose 3 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $2.61 a pound.
The dollar gained against the euro, pushing the currency down to $1.14. The U.S. currency fell to 118.71 against the Japanese yen.
Investors also had their eye on developments in Greece, where the government is set to ask its European creditors to extend a 240 billion-euro international loan agreement — but without the deep spending cuts and income reductions from the country’s austerity program.
Greece’s bailout program expires after Feb. 28 and there are worries that a failure to extend it may force the country out of the euro, and potentially damage the global economy. Investors are optimistic, however, that Greece will reach a compromise with its creditors.
In other energy futures trading, the price of wholesale gasoline fell 2 cents to $1.574 a gallon. Heating oil slipped 2 cents to $1.959 a gallon. Natural gas rose 7 cents to $2.831 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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Advice For Designers by Hartmut Esslinger, the founder of the legendary design firm Frog Design: what motivated him to start frog and five key lessons from his legendary career.
Products are not for themselves, products are for us.
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It’s about real life, improving real life.
People want to be convinced by emotion not by rationale.
I think you should always do more than what people ask for.
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Preheat oven to temperature recommended on cake mix box.
Combine oil, cake mix, eggs, water, & ¾ of the coconut. Mix well but it will be lumpy. Pour into one large cake pan. Bake for 30 min.
Remove cake from oven, & while still hot, poke holes in cake. Pour the cream of coconut over the entire cake. Allow to cool.
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An air conditioner's refrigerant usually plays one of the most important roles in the system's cooling process. This is because it is the liquid refrigerant's change of state – from a liquid to a gas – that causes the cooling effect responsible for cooling the air passing over the evaporator coils. Having too little of this liquid is therefore bound to affect the functioning of the air conditioning system. Here are some of the ways through which having a low refrigerant charge can lead to premature air conditioner repairs.
When there is too little refrigerant in an air conditioning system, there is usually a reduction in the efficiency with which the unit cools a given space. This is mainly because of the effect that too little refrigerant has on the evaporator coils.
Under normal operations, the liquid refrigerant is usually under low pressure when it arrives at the cooling coil area. The low pressure usually forms an environment that is conducive enough for the refrigerant to absorb heat from the air passing over the cooling coils, a process that then causes it to change from a liquid into a gas.
However, when the air conditioning system is low on refrigerant, the refrigerant usually arrives at the evaporator coil region at too low a pressure. The resulting cooling effect given off by the refrigerant under these circumstances is usually enough not only to condense moisture from the air passing over the coils, but also to freeze it. This then leads to coil icing complications that eventually reduce the efficiency with which your system will cool your home.
Reduced cooling efficiency usually means that the air conditioning system dumps into your home won't be as cold as it should be. The system will therefore have to take longer in order to get your home's temperature to the desired level. This overworking of the system will accelerate the rate at which the unit's parts deteriorate, something that will have you worrying about repairs way earlier than you should.
While it usually takes time for a homeowner to feel the financial heat of accelerated wear and tear, compressor motor damage is something that he or she may have to deal with early on.
Low refrigerant usually causes compressor motor damage in air conditioning systems that rely on the refrigerant to cool the motor. This is because having too little of the refrigerant in the system leads to a cooling system that is too ineffective to cool the compressor motor. This then causes the motor to overheat. And if the system continues to run under these circumstances, the compressor motor may end up getting completely damaged. Replacing it may then be the only way of getting your air conditioning system running again.
For air conditioning repair, contact a company such as American Heating & Air.

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Past the enormous overdose toll across the country, the thousands of children being raised in foster care due to their parents drug abuse and the life expectancy lowered; innocent creatures under the sea are now being affected by the influx of opioids in the country.
Mussels tested by researchers of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife found trace amounts of Oxycodone in the Puget Sound, an area of the ocean nearly 125 miles below the Canadian border, closest to the northern Washington State. Scientists have found traces of oxycodone in shellfish specifically near Bremerton and in Seattle’s Elliott Bay.
The study was started in 2013, where Scientists and science volunteers who put the mussels out in low tide during the winter, then retrieved them three months later, recorded the research and gave it to the department to analyze.
The researchers say the mussels are filter feeders, meaning they absorb contaminants from the surrounding water into their tissue. The mussels are absorbed through human waste such as urine after ingesting the drugs, or in higher amounts from when people flush pills down the toilet.
“It seems like the prescriptions for opioids are high enough that it’s starting to come out in the waters here at least in the really you know, dense urban corridors,” Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Jennifer Lanksbury told Global News in Canada.
The mussels likely don’t digest the drug due to the fact that the mussels don’t have livers and therefore are unaffected by it. But the fish in the area such as juvenile Chinook salmon do have livers and do ingest the drug and it could have harmful effects on the survival of the species.
Opioids are not the only pharmaceuticals found in native mussels. Over the years scientists have found shellfish testing positive for chemotherapy drugs, heart medications, antidepressants and antibiotics in the past as well. A 2016 study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated that close to 300 pounds of pharmaceuticals and personal-care products enter the waters of Puget Sound each day.


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Higham Ferrers is a market town in the Nene Valley in East Northamptonshire, England, close to the Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire borders. It forms a single built-up area with Rushden to the south and has an estimated population of 7,145. The town centre contains many historic buildings around the Market Square and College Street.
The first Charter of 1251 was due to the Lord of the Manor, William de Ferrers, who created the Borough in order to promote a prosperous community at the gates of his castle, where people had begun to settle in numbers and to trade in the ancient market.
Henry Chichele (c. 1364 – 12 April 1443) was born in Higham Ferrers. He was Archbishop of Canterbury and founded All Souls College, Oxford.
In 1422 Higham Ferrers School was founded.
The second Charter was granted in 1556 in the reign of Mary Tudor. For many years the town provided a safe seat in Parliament for a supporter of the Crown nominated by the Duchy of Lancaster, the biggest landowner. When James I came to the throne the town obtained a confirmation and further extension of civic powers and liberties by the Charter of 1604. Again after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the passing of the Corporations Act of 1662 the liberties were confirmed and extended.
The town was a rotten borough and sent one MP to the unreformed House of Commons until it was stripped of its representation by the Reform Act 1832.
After the Municipal Corporations Act of 1882, the modern Charter of Queen Victoria reorganised the composition of the Corporation on modern lines to conform to the pattern of local government laid down in that Act. This Charter is the only one of the town's charters written in English: the earlier charters were in Latin.
The castle is thought to have been built not long after the Norman Conquest in 1066. However towards the end of the 15th century the castle suffered years of neglect. It was finally demolished in 1523 and the stone removed to build Kimbolton Castle. A grass bank and a pond are all that remain of the defensive earthworks and moat. In the garden of the Green Dragon Inn, formerly within the area of the outer ward of the castle, are the remains of a rectangular dove-house.
Higham Ferrers is twinned with Hachenburg in Germany.
Historically, the town was at the crossroads of the A45 east-west route from Northampton to Cambridge, and the A6 north-south road from London to Leicester. It was a busy junction as both were long-distance transport corridors. The A45 bypassed the town in the early 1990s with a dual-carriageway, the former route (through the narrow, but beautiful streets of Kimbolton) becoming the B645. As the A6 carried less traffic, a bypass around Higham Ferrers and Rushden came later, opening on 14 August 2003, with the old road through both towns becoming the A5028.
Higham Ferrers railway station was the terminus of a short (5.25 mile) railway branch line on the Midland Railway from Wellingborough. There was an intermediate station at Rushden. The station closed to passenger services in 1959 and closed completely in 1969 with the end of goods services. Nowadays, the nearest operational railway station is at Wellingborough about four miles away, but there is no bus route connecting Higham Ferrers to Wellingborough station.
However Rushden station still stands and is completely preserved and the RH&WR plan to extend the line to the old station site and eventually to Wellingborough (which would make the heritage railway one of only a few heritage lines in the UK to operate a whole branch line in its original format).
The town is unusual in the UK if not Europe in having been a centre of short-run footwear production along with its neighbours of Rushden and Northampton. This trade was much reduced in the 1980s-2000s by a high exchange rate, but specialised firms and individual trades people remain in the area.
Higham Ferrers Farmer's Market is held on the last Saturday of each month, except in December when it is moved to the last available day before Christmas. Higham Ferrers Farmer's Market is a Certified Farmer's Market, and is part of the FARMA organisation.
Higham Ferrers Public Library is on Midland Road. The Town Hall is on The Market Square and was built in 1808 to replace an earlier building.
Rushden & Higham RUFC was founded in 1951 and is currently based on the Bedford Road in Rushden with a 1st XV, 2nd XV, 3rd XV and Colts XV.
Rushden and Higham United Football Club, the successor to both Higham Town and Rushden Rangers clubs, are members of the Hereward Teamwear United Counties League and have their ground at Hayden Road.
Higham Ferrers Town Cricket Club, based at the recreation ground on Vinehill Drive, was established in 1881 and has a 1st XI and 2nd XI as well as an under 17s XI and under 15s XI.
Higham Ferrers Town Bowls Club was founded in 1946 and is also at the recreation ground on Vinehill Drive.
Alpha Pre-School on Westfield Terrace is a committee-run community school and has been running for over 40 years, providing part-time nursery places.
Higham Ferrers Nursery and Infant School on Wharf Road has a Nursery unit with 52 part-time places for pre-school children and 3 classes of about 25 pupils per year group: Reception and Years 1 & 2 (roughly ages 3 to 7). This is a feeder infant school for Higham Ferrers Junior School.
Higham Ferrers Junior School on the corner of Wharf Road and Saffron Road has classes for Years 3 to 6 but 3&4 and 5&6 share classes (roughly ages 7 to 11).
Henry Chichele Primary School is on the new estate to the north of the town on School Lane and has a single class per year for Reception, and Years 1 to 6 (roughly ages 4 to 11).
The Ferrers School is on Queensway and caters for Years 7 to 13 (ages 11 to 18).
The Council consists of 16 elected Councillors and elects a Mayor and Deputy Mayor at the Annual Meeting of the Council in May of each year.
Chichele College was founded by Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1422 as a college for secular canons. The College had provision for 8 priests, 4 clerks, 6 choristers and a song and grammar master. In later times the college became an inn, and then later a farm. Only ruins survive today, save for one hall now used for artistic exhibitions.
About the year 1422, when planning his college at Higham Ferrers, Archbishop Henry Chichele founded "In a place adjoining the Vicarage and the Churchyard", his Bede House or Hospital to be a dwelling place for 12 men over 50 years old to live "in close company", with one woman to look after them. It consisted of a common open Hall. Each man had his little cubicle with its locker, divided off by a screen from his fellows, and the rest of the Hall formed a common room with a fine open fireplace, itself a relic of even older times. On the South, a sheltered garden was added by taking part of the land of the Vicarage.
^ H. S. Bennet. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose. Clarendon Press. p. 224. ISBN 0-19-812201-2.
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With the foundation of our organization being: CHARITY, UNITY, FRATERNITY and PATRIOTISM...Learn more of why the Knights of Columbus is one of the largest lay Catholic organizations in the world!
The Knights of Columbus provides its members with opportunities to strengthen their faith and serve their community. Learn more about why you should become a Knight!
In Service to One...In Service to All. The Knights mantra that describes the commitment we have to serving Jesus...our Pastor...and our community. Here is just a snapshot of our council's many projects!
Knights of Columbus 14620 makes its home at St. Ann Parish, Hawaii's second oldest Catholic community, founded in 1841.
Our council has over 50 members and our council's efforts help to support a variety parish and school projects, service oriented programs that span such areas as the homeless, veterans transition from active duty to the private sector and much more.
Our council provides an opportunity for lay Catholic men to find a way to give back to their church and the community. With an emphasis on family and faith, members find their path to support the council and its many projects.
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Long-term investments to address the social determinants of health are essential interventions to curbing the addictions crisis in Indiana.
According to new figures from the Centers of Disease of Control and Prevention, the number of drug overdose deaths in Indiana in 2017 totaled 1,808. That represents a 15.1 percent increase from 2016. The data show a flattening of the death rate nationally with some states even showing modest decreases in their death toll. However, there is little to cheer for those of us in the upper Midwest and Southern regions where the opioid overdose epidemic maintains its tragically strong grip.
These differential effects of the overdose crisis should not be a surprise. Overall the states hardest hit exhibit poverty, inadequate health care, and marginalized populations; the progenitors of death from suicide, chronic substance use, and overdoses, collectively what we call diseases of despair. Indiana is one of the unhealthier states, particularly with regard to health behaviors and health outcomes. The state’s public health infrastructure is underfunded and we underperform most states in terms of infant and adult mortality rates, obesity, and tobacco control.
Indiana is not one of the poorest states, yet 32 percent of Hoosiers are poor. The state ranks in the bottom third for education and sees high disparities in the employment gap by race and gender. These conditions — income, education, employment, among others — are recognized as social determinants of health. Poverty, housing insecurity, and lack of education are correlated with poor health outcomes, including substance use disorder. Long-term investments to address the social determinants of health are essential interventions to curbing the addictions crisis in Indiana. Until remedied, these problems will cause higher than average addiction and death rates not only during this crisis but in the crises that inevitably will follow.
In Washington, D.C. there is growing optimism that opioids legislation will be considered by the Senate the week after Labor Day. In June, the House passed a substantial package of direct federal interventions and dollars for various state programs that should better fund and expand options for treatment and care coordination. As the Senate takes up consideration of its own proposals our Congressional leadership must continue to press for additional funding for states like Indiana that have been hit particularly hard by the opioid overdose epidemic and also ensure that the horizon for state spending of these federal funds is sensible, giving us time to build up infrastructure and make long-term improvements in preventing and treating substance use disorders. Federal funding also is needed to improve housing and education to ensure these social determinants do not exacerbate the next addiction crisis.
There are also steps we can take immediately to reduce the death toll in Indiana. At our Statehouse, members of the General Assembly are beginning the process of formulating legislation that will be considered in the new year. At the state level the overwhelming priority must be harm reduction, making overdoses less likely and saving lives when they do. This summer’s decision by Marion County to institute a robust syringe exchange program is of great importance. The program will include HIV and hepatitis C testing and offer referrals for those seeking substance use disorder and mental health treatment. Hopefully the example of Marion County and others around the state will persuade more communities throughout Indiana to embrace an evidence-based program proven to improve health outcomes without increasing addiction.
However, for such public health harm reduction strategies to work the General Assembly needs to make some changes to Indiana law. If persons in harm fear arrest for themselves or their loved ones, they are less likely to seek help. As a result, we need legislation that better aligns our laws prohibiting the possession of drug paraphernalia with the goals of syringe exchanges. We also need to modify our “Good Samaritan” law to provide additional protections for those involved in risky behaviors so that they will call for help from first responders. We should also provide more resources for members of law enforcement who have been forced into the front lines of saving lives. For example, there is good evidence that law enforcement programs such The Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (PAARI) that enable law enforcement to divert at risk persons into treatment services are effective.
In the long-term, and hopefully backed by federal dollars, Indiana must invest in building far greater resilience to public health crises. In the short term, our state and federal representatives must act this fall and provide the tools to save lives. If not, we risk losing another 2,000 Hoosiers over the next year.

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Application developers now support unprecedented rates of change – functionality must rapidly evolve to meet customer needs and respond to competitive pressures, while user populations can grow and shrink dramatically and unpredictably. To address these realities, developers are increasingly selecting NoSQL databases for schema-free, scalable and high performance data storage. Learn about the business goals and technical challenges faced by real-world customers, why they chose Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, and the design patterns they used to achieve massive scale.
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What comes to mind when you think of McMaster University? Great med school? Decent football team? Large, sprawling campus? Whatever image you have of McMaster University, you probably weren’t aware that, more than anything else, it was the thing that drew baptists in central Canada together, and then split them apart. Understanding how is an important part of the history of our church tradition. Last week I attended a workshop by church historian, Dr. Michael Haykin, and learned about the history of the Fellowship, our church association.
While Ontario baptist churches thrived in many ways throughout the 1800s, it was a centre of theological and literary studies called the Canadian Literary Institute that would give unity to them. In 1860, Robert Alexander Fyfe, who had pastored what is now known as Jarvis Street Baptist Church became the school’s first principal and it thrived under his leadership. After his death though, it was relocated to a building in Toronto, funded by a millionaire baptist senator named William McMaster, and renamed Toronto Baptist College. When McMaster died, he left sufficient funds to start a baptist university. Toronto Baptist College thus became McMaster University in 1887. The unifying force of the university and the theological education it provided, gave the baptists in Ontario and Quebec the unity and motivation they needed to come together and in 1888, the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec was formed.
McMaster University provided for the theological education of many young pastors but in the 1920s, it fell prey to what is known as the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy. A popular professor named Laurance Henry Marshall was at the centre of the storm. He voiced his belief in evolution, rejected the infallibility of God’s Word and the belief that Jesus in dying on the cross bore the punishment for our sins to satisfy God’s righteous anger. While there were Bible-believing men leading the McMaster administration, many of the university’s donors supported the new liberal theology and so it seemed to them fair to give voice to liberal teachings in the classroom. Many were convinced otherwise.
At the forefront of opposition to Marshall and the liberal teachings that had crept into McMaster was a gifted preacher and pastor named T.T. Shields. He led Jarvis Street Baptist Church, the largest baptist church in the country at the time, and his newspaper, the Gospel Witness, reached 30,000 subscribers in 16 countries. He was vocal in his criticism of liberal theology and McMaster University, and in 1926 was eventually expelled from the Baptist Convention. Seventy churches followed his exit and a year later, he opened a new school, Toronto Baptist Seminary, which became their symbol of unity. In 1928, the Union of Regular Baptist Churches of Ontario and Quebec was formed with 77 member churches.
The newly-formed group had high hopes for growth and unity but these hopes were short-lived. In 1931, T.T. Shields insisted that the youth association and the women’s missionary society needed to be under the authority of Union churches and when some of the other pastors disagreed, they were expelled from the Union. Nine churches were forced out and two years later, the expelled pastors joined with other evangelical baptist churches which had never been a part of the Union and they formed the Fellowship of Independent Baptist Churches of Canada. They were baptists united in their opposition to liberalism, but also in their dislike of the abrasive and often authoritarian leadership of Shields. From 1933 to 1950, the Fellowship grew from twenty-seven churches to one hundred twenty-four.
Meanwhile, T.T. Shields caused more and more dissent within the Union. The final straw came when Shields fired the President of Toronto Baptist Seminary, W. Gordon Brown. Shields was against allowing students from Fellowship churches into Toronto Baptist Seminary while Brown actively developed greater cooperation. Upon Brown’s removal, a majority of teachers as well as fifty of the seventy-five students left Toronto Baptist Seminary and in 1949 formed Central Baptist Seminary, which would later become Heritage College and Theological Seminary. Frustrated with the dissent, Shields pulled his church out of the Union and a small group of churches formed the Association of Regular Baptist Churches, a group which dwindled to ten or so churches in the early 2000s and eventually disbanded.
In 1953, the Union of Regular Baptists (now free from the leadership of T.T. Shields) and the Fellowship of Independent Baptists (which had originally been expelled from the Union by T.T. Shields) formed the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada. They were joined in 1965 by the Regular Baptists of British Columbia and the baptist congregations in the Prairie Provinces Convention and became a national fellowship.
Jack Scott, then pastor of Forward Baptist Church in Toronto, summarized well the spirit of the Fellowship’s founders: “There should be a spirit among the churches of evangelical Baptists that we should go out and preach the gospel, build churches, get souls saved, get involved in missions and not spend our time wrangling.” May that spirit characterize our witness today!


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These officials are awesome. I remember last year in washington state about football refs using pink whistles for breast cancer awareness month and were suspended without pay, that was ridiculous.
Hi Shannon! Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review the book! I'm curious when you bought the book because there were a few edits made to the ending recently.
Otherwise, let me know if you have any questions! Would be happy to offer a free paperback to a reader of your blog.
Thanks again, and look forward to reading more of your blog.
Thank you for stopping by! I bought the book a month and a half ago. It was a major plot point that didn't work for me, so I doubt that has been changed. Of course, just because the ending didn't work for me doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the book!


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When it came to the sixth season of Game of Thrones, the fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels no longer had any leverage on the fans who only watch the show, as the HBO series moved beyond George R.R.Martin's last novel in the series and into totally uncharted territory.
Nevertheless, that has not stopped fans all over the internet from speculating and coming up with their own theories as to what could possibly be coming up in the seventh and eighth seasons of the show, which will be the series' last. But among those popular fan theories, there are some massive and very correct spoilers out there, according to series star star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister.
In an interview with the Huffington Post (via IGN), Coster-Waldau said that since there are a metric ton of spoilers about each new season reported every year all over the internet, a lot of them inevitably turn out to be true, but "because there's 10,000 other spoilers out there, what's actually true just gets lost in the shuffle." With the end soon upon us, it seems several fans have correctly guessed how the epic saga of Westeros will come to a close. Having said that, Coster-Waldau did allude to finding the correct spoiler to being akin to finding a needle in the proverbial haystack, adding "it's all out there... if you can find it."
So there you have it, Game of Thrones fans. If you really want to know how the show ends, just take a deep dive into reddit and YouTube, and do your best to decipher the spoilers from the BS. Or, you know...you can just wait till summer when the show premieres like the rest of us. That's always an option. Game of Thrones season seven will premiere on July 16 on HBO.
Are you willing to wait till Game of Thrones premieres, or are you going to go on a spoiler hunt? Let us know down below in the comments.

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Why Learn Excel 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts?
There are people who believe that Microsoft Office Excel is just for balancing your personal budget or your checkbook. While it's true that you can use Excel for those tasks, there are so many other things that Excel can do! The implications for storing meaningful data in an office setting are obvious. Any time you need to create a graph of sales numbers for last quarter, Excel is the first place you turn to, right?
However if you do some searching for novel Excel uses, you will turn up some very interesting results. How about using Excel to track your new diet? Maybe Excel is what you need to help you keep up your New Year's resolution this year?
At any rate, Excel 2007 can be a great tool for getting things done and it is the most popular spreadsheet application around. If you're dealing with numbers, dates, or any large amounts of data, Excel is the place to go.
As with one of my previous articles: 11 Best Keyboard Shortcuts for Outlook 2007, I am going to mention 13 of the most useful (and perhaps most under-utilized) keyboard shortcuts Excel 2007 has to offer.
Use them to keep both hands on the keyboard and navigate faster, creating charts, workbooks, and data groups with all the ease of some kind of super-calculating super-computer. Well, maybe not, but you can still make funny "beep boop" noises while you do it, right?
Mastering Excel 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts?
Without further ado, let's get on with the shortcuts, shall we?
ALT+F1 - This creates a chart out of the data in the current range (selected cells). This is the most well known feature of Excel, and now you know a new way to use it!
ALT+SHIFT+F1 - This inserts a new worksheet into the workbook.
F6 - This switches between the worksheet, Ribbon, task pane, and Zoom controls. This is probably the most useful shortcut of all. This cool shortcut is also the most beloved to the all anti-mouse users out there.
SHIFT+F6 - This does the reverse of the F6 shortcut.
CTRL+F6 - This switches to the next workbook window when multiple workbook windows are open.
CTRL+SHIFT+$ - This applies the currency format to the selected cells. Great for those times when dealing with monetary data.
CTRL+SHIFT+# - This applies the date format with a default order of day, month, and year.
CTRL+; - This enters the current date in the selected cells.
[email protected] - This applies the time format with the default value of hour, minute and AM/PM.
CTRL+SHIFT+: - This enters the current time in the selected cells.
CTRL+` - This alternates between showing the value of a cell and the formula in the worksheet. Great for complex worksheets.
CTRL+D - This uses the fill down command on the selected cells. Fill down copies the content and format of the topmost cell into the cells below.
CTRL+R - This uses the fill right command on the selected cells. Fill right copies the content and format of the leftmost cell to the cells to the right.
There you have it. Not quite a top-ten list, but since there are more than ten shortcuts listed here, consider the three extras as a bonus just for you! These shortcuts will have you well on your way to charting, calculating, and organizing your data like the pro that you are.
Hop to it, but don't forget to hop back here to TST for more Excel articles, coming real soon. And while you're here, why don't you tell me your favorite shortcut or feature in Excel 2007? Have you ever used it for novel purposes? Discuss in the comments.
... What's that you say? Didn't see a shortcut for the action you need to perform? Well you can click here to see Microsoft's official list of all the keyboard shortcuts in Excel 2007, and see if you can find it.
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The scene played out like this. A 2013 NCAA D1 indoor conference meet. Women’s 55m Finals. Starting blocks were being adjusted. Practice starts being completed. What I witnessed next is something I hope I never see again while either officiating (as I was this particular day) or spectating a track and field event.
A particular athlete set her blocks, assumed a starting position, and then proceeded to accelerate out of her blocks. Nothing unusual about this – so far. Most sprinters take full advantage of the time allowed to fine tune preparation prior to the start of their race. Typically sprinters practice their starts and run full tilt out of their blocks out to about 20 – 30 meters. But not this athlete. She blew out of her blocks, reached maximum sprint speed and continued to run full speed down her lane. Trouble brewing at 60 meters where a track official stood in this athlete’s lane -with their back to the athlete. Remember this is a warm-up. I can’t recall ever witnessing a runner using the full competition distance to practice before a race.
This runner made no attempt to shut it down or step one half step to her left, but proceeded to run directly forward, clearly and visually able to see the train wreck fast approaching – and levels this official with a forearm to the shoulder that any linebacker would have been proud of. Athlete ok, official down. It was not pretty. Ten minutes later, first aid rendered, official up and off the floor of the track. Competition resumes.
What bothered me about this scenario (in addition to a safety concern for officials) was the athletes’ attitude. Bad. Really bad. Confirmed by observation of body language, facial expressions and a re-play of a conversation between the injured official and this athlete later in the meet. Big ego. Big head. Poor sportsmanship. Not the typical posture of most track and field athletes I have personally encountered.
I left the meet that day with a gnawing thought of; “I didn’t like what I witnessed today”. I had to ask myself, “what are we teaching, allowing, and promoting in our sport?” How far have we allowed the bar to drop to if we condone such behaviors?
Fast forward a few months. I accepted the invitation to officiate a two day state high school track meet. Had to be the most fun I have had officiating a high school meet. Ever. Period. Mix great track weather, talented athletes, a full stadium and two days that exploded with stellar performances. I lost track of the number of records set (stadium, meet, division and state all class).
What I witnessed at the finish line renewed my faith in sportsmanship typically found in track and field. For example – a collision in a boys 800m race sent one athlete down on the track at the 200m mark. He hit the track hard. The track rash sustained looked ugly. By the time he got up and finished his race his pace was reduced to a jog while his peers continued their speed towards the finish line. Upon crossing the finish line, three competitors found this athlete, shook hands and exchanged encouragement with each other. The support between these strangers – who minutes before were engaged in a state final race brought a smile to my face. One of the very big reasons I continue to be involved in the sport.
Fair competition. Support for competitors. Encouragement for each other. Respect for officials and coaches. I celebrate your success. You celebrate mine. I pick you up when you fall. You pick me up when I fall. This is typical for our sport. Witnessing what I did at this state high school meet helped assure me that true sportsmanship is indeed alive and well in track and field. Maybe that is why the NCAA D1 sprinter with the big ego stands out. An anomaly? Let’s hope.
Thank you to all the 2013 Montana High School Athletes who competed and supported each other at the state meet held in Bozeman, Montana this past weekend. Job well done! Thanks to the coaches for their hard work and leadership getting athletes to this event. Thanks to the parents for supporting the athletes – even those from other schools. Lastly – thanks to the other officials who contributed hundreds of hours of work. It was a privilege working with you.
Next up – the 2013 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon. Track Town or bust!
Until then – enjoy the run!
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Sections of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge will close periodically for routine maintenance and inspections this week.
Monday though Thursday this week, one lane on the bridge's eastbound span may be closed from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., weather permitting, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.
Crews will switch traffic patterns to let drivers cross in both directions.

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Femme et chats is a print of an original work in pencil, watercolor, and gouache by Isabelle Arsenault. Each archival quality giclée print is a signed and numbered limited edition, printed with pigment-based inks on acid free cotton rag fine art paper.
This illustration is currently available as a 5x7 inch print or an 8.5x11 inch print (sold out). This is a limited edition print run of 25 prints per size – once the print run is sold out, this print will be retired forever. So if you love it, buy it now! Unframed. More info on our prints here.


text: Jacksonville, Florida has its list of noteworthy artists and musicians like any city does, however if you manage to dig a bit deeper you’ll find an entire thriving ecosystem of bands like when you used to turn over a stones behind your elementary school when you were a kid. Amongst these many creative and talented groups is a band called Sea Cycles made up from the minds of Brian Squillace, Landon Paul, and Josh Wessolowski. Sea Cycles formed in late 2011 and released their brand of ambient synth pop via their debut and self released EP entitled ‘What We Came For’. After catching the attention of Other People Records, the band will release their debut LP ‘Ground & Air’ via the Los Angeles based independent label in the summer of 2015. Drawing positive comparisons to indie favorites such as Broken Social Scene, Yeasayer and M83, Sea Cycles has proven the timeless adage that a good band is a good band and theres no arguing with that.


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Christa is such a loving and gentle person and absolutely perfect for Rover. She is extremely responsible and will treat any other dog as her own meaning like family.
Christa is our next door neighbor. She not only takes care of her dogs with great care, but she treats our dogs the same way. Whenever we are out of town, we know we can text Christa. She will come over, feed them, and let them outside just like they were her dogs. It is so nice to know that your dogs are being shown great love!
Christa is fantastic with dogs! My dog is particular about people and she was extremely patient with him. He adores her! She is my go-to person when it comes to trusting her with my dog.
Christa watched my dogs multiple times and did an amazing job. She was very responsible and on top of things. She is my favorite! i would recommend Christa to all my friends.
I’ve lived with a furry sibling since infancy! My first dog quickly became my best friend. Since my first dog/friend (is that sad or sweet?), I’ve cared for three others, ranging in size, breed, and age. I’ve also had the privilege of caring for neighbor’s, friend’s, and family member’s dogs! (references by request) Since moving to the big city, I’ve missed my dogs too much. My mom wouldn’t allow our puppies to move with me (she couldn’t bare losing another baby to NYC), so I sought out Rover in hopes that I could share my energy, love, and care with your dogs until you get home from work! As your dog walker, I promise that your dog’s needs, health, safety, and fun are my priorities!
I’m a relatively new NYC transplant, still infatuated with Central Park, so if Central Park is nearby, your puppy and I will definitely enjoy a stroll there! We can walk wherever you and your puppy like best though.

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So I have started and stopped writing here on several occasions. I have had big plans. Now I lay those plans to rest and I purpose just to write. Honestly when I write for viewership, or what I think will be of interest to others it drains me. On the other hand when I write for myself it refills me. I think part of my problem with starting this blog back up again is not understanding the difference.
Today was a day full of run, run, run. From the moment I got up I knew I had a list that was extensive that I needed to get done. Still I stopped this morning and had a few quiet moments alone with God. In those moments, I found the peace I needed to step forward into my day.
I so appreciated that peace by lunch time, because by then I had done almost a comically long list of tasks. I had set up my five year old with ABCMouse so she could get some school in today. I collected eggs, folded some laundry, found my almost 2-year old eating toothpaste. I think the girls and I picked up the same mess 3 different times. I made breakfast, and had lunch in the works, while I was trying to get us out the door.
See today I had an appointment with a maternal fetal medicine doctor. (Due to personal and family history my OB wants to follow me a little more closely, but did not feel I was high risk.) This appointment meant that not only did I have a 40 minute drive to go see the specialist, I also had to get the kids to the babysitter’s place. Well between my attempts to keep moving us along and mostly I think due to the grace of God I made it to my appointment on time.
In fact when I finally arrived today, they asked if I would mind pushing back my appointment by 15-20 minutes. A lady who had the appointment right after mine, had her husband going into surgery at the same time as her appointment and wanted to be there for him when he went in. I said no problem. I understand. In fact the extra time gave me time to read and breathe.
Overall, my appointment went well. Baby is looking healthy, but is bigger than they were looking for to run some of the tests. So I will need to go back in two weeks so we can run some different tests that look for the same thing, but in a different way. I also received some really exciting news. The ultrasound tech and the doctor both agree that my newest little one will be a boy. The tech said it is still a little early to say with 100% certainty, but she felt that there was, “too much between the legs,” for her to want to say girl.
So finally after three girls our family will be welcoming a little boy. We are excited, because he will be a welcome change. I love the pink and girly but I am ready for something different. Rusty is excited that he will no longer be quite so out numbered. In the end though if for some reason the doctor and the tech are wrong we will be still happy to welcome more pink into our world.
The rest of my day was a flurry of getting the kids, going to speech therapy, making dinner, bed time routines, and fussy babes. So then for me to say at this point I am exhausted and thankful for stillness, feels like an understatement.
This entry was posted in Life on January 7, 2015 by Sara R.


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We welcome our second guest blogger today. Hugh Esco describes how he turned to Docker and Weave for his hosted applications, sites and services… all while focusing on migrating not re-architecting existing services. Hugh has also published a Puppet module for deploying a Docker network with Weave.
I started looking for ways of working smarter, rather than harder somewhere between the first and second dozen servers I had systems administration responsibity for. I discovered puppet two or three years ago and have been working to automate more and more of our infrastructure and that of our clients ever since. Folks are also using chef, ansible, salt and other tool chains for this purpose. But I started with puppet and continue to use it to good effect.
At this point I am dangerously close to that ‘Automate Everything’ standard in my own infrastructure. But of course that is an ongoing effort, as business requirements and customer demands are always changing.
I’m in the midst of a migration of our services from a third party hosting provider to our own servers at a local data center. We host a bunch of drupal sites against a mysql backend; plus a handful of (usually perl) applications, some open source, others developed in-house against a postgresql backend; plus our internal infrastructure (LedgerSMB for accounting, RT for ticketing, a mediawiki site for a knowledge base, a jenkins CI server, a gitolite installations, etc). I’m eager to replace a collection of bash and perl scripts with an honest monitoring system soon (likely will be Sensu from what I have read).
In our bare metal inventory, we have machines allocated as a file server, a telephony server and a handful of compute nodes. Originally I was looking at using OpenStack for this project. But I attended a presentation on Docker at the 2014 YAPC in Orlando.
Mark Allen told us that Docker was now considered production ready. That turned my attention in this direction.
I had been reading up on docker for a while. But after the Orlando gathering, I gave a day to a proof of concept project. That day showed promising results and within two or three days, I gave up on the OpenStack plans in favor of a Docker implementation.
A couple of weeks ago, our work ground to a halt when I had filled up our first compute node with many of our paying clients’ sites. The idea of replicating the haproxy installation on every node did not seem quite right, and promised to complicate DNS configuration. I did not want to have to run every container on every compute node (as appealing as that might be as a fail-over strategy), and our older servers (24gb of ram and smaller) would not have the capacity to support such a topology anyway.
I am not a network engineer, though I have had to play one on all but a handful of jobs I have worked. I’ve learned quite a bit about networking over the years for ‘just another perl hacker’. I’m a developer at heart who has worked as much on the operations side of QA, as I have on the other side. I had been reading up on SDNs since I began investigating the OpenStack project a year or so ago. But now I was faced with having to come up to speed on a practical implementation and quickly, or see our work grind to a halt, our architecture become hopelessly complicated with manually applied snowflake configurations and manual orchestration recipes, or this migration project get abandoned altogether.
Seeking advice on the #docker IRC channel gave me a short list of options for bridging networks across docker hosts. A day’s reading narrowed the options suitable for my installation down to open-vswitch and Weave. Weave seemed to present the less complex, more intuitive interface, hiding more of the details of the network plumbing from this devops engineer who only plays network engineer at gunpoint (meaning when no one more qualified is around to handle the details for me).
A few more days of investigation and testing gave me confidence that Weave would do the trick. Had I simply followed the recipe published in the README, I would have seen a successful test sooner. But with that gun to my head, and the stability of the services I host for clients at stake, I gave the weave script a code review, with man pages open to the network configuration tools used deep in its guts to handle the plumbing details. I started testing and soon thereafter offering back patches to bust a bug here, make the script more maintainable there and contribute to the documentation.
Soon enough I was crafting a puppet module to manage my interactions with weave to build and maintain the bridged network I need to leverage a short stack of servers into a functional cluster to serve my business’ clients.
I’m still wrapping my head around the concept of micro-services. And with our goal at the moment still focusing on migrating not re-architecting existing services, I’ve been using docker containers as one would a virtual machine, postponing the dive into the new architecture micro-services seems to demand. One step at a time in the tradition of a careful refactor, saving both baby and bath-water.
I continue to use puppet to configure the containers as I have done with VM’s in the past. But rather than replicate our previous design where a single apache configuration served nearly every site we host, I’ve been devoting a single container to a single site, and using haproxy to route requests to a sinlge public IP’s port 80 to the appropriate container. I’m also using attached volumes to persist client data, logs and configurations.
The name-space isolation docker provides has untangled the dependency conflicts which had mired our legacy infrastructure and made it impossible or costly to test or deploy new services we were not already hosting. Bringing the hosting inhouse has permitted me to trade the overhead painting our books red for my labor and my mounting the necessary learning curves. It seemed like a good investment: one which would make us more valuable to our clients, permit us to operate more leanly and provide a competitive edge in the market.
* I remain focused on completing this migration, and our last legacy server gets shut down this week.
* Yesterday was spent refactoring the docker_cluster::db_servers::pg sample code published in the README.md for the hesco-weave puppet module as a defined type, so that it can be reused for multiple container types.
* Last night I built yaml data structures to (1) substitute for a dhcp daemon, assiging fixed IPs to my containers with the hope of avoiding the down time experienced in orchestration tasks every time the docker daemon goes down; and (2) to relate an image type (key) to the `docker run` options (ports, attached volumes, etc) (values). The image type is assigned to each hostname in my dhcp data structure.
* Today will be focused on refactoring and testing the puppet profile which calls the weave::run defined type, so as to use those data structures to automate the deployment of client services on my cluster, including wiring up their network connectivity, so that an haproxy container on one docker host can serve sites hosted on another docker host; and with the hope of saving me from manual re-orchestration tasks on every daemon restart.
* once I have a stable infrastructure to offer, I intend to start bringing in-house clients who have been hosting their services at hosting vendors I have recommended to them. The largest of those clients has an extensive audience and a need for a high-availability deployment (which will demand an SDN I trust will be managed by weave), plus a development and QA environment. So I will continue to sort out how to leverage weave to our purposes and to automate what I learn so I don’t have to do these tedious tasks manually.
Docker and Weave are both still young technologies. Weave has been on github for less than two months and shows fewer than 400 commits as this is written. They are still a bit rough around the edges, and their use (or rather my use case which is served by them) has demanded mounting several new learning curves.
Its been a long road from my first hello_world.pl script to edging up to a comfort level with automating a software defined network. But I have found the teams developing docker and weave, and the communities growing up around them particularly helpful and responsive to well-framed questions, appreciative of feature requests, bug reports and patches. With their help, I find I am quickly gaining confidence in my ability to administer these new technologies and to use them to reliably serve my customers.


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We are having the Black Rock Regatta on Wednesday night of Burning man.
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Fall 2016 registration is here for the Central Coast Children's Choir (CCCC). They’re looking for new singers from 5 to 17 years old, and if you sign up by Oct. 18, there’s a special discount.
If you’re a newbie, CCCC has a choir for that. If you’re an aspiring professional, CCCC has a choir for that, too. With the Concert Choir, Premiere Choir, Young Men’s Ensemble, Apprentice Choir, Debut Choir, and Music Makers, there’s something for every talent level.
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Personal Journals and Diary’s are known to be a private place to write down our inner most thoughts and feelings as a helpful release to sort out things going on in our minds by putting it on paper. It is a common courtesy that others know, not to read someone else’s personal journal out of respect for their privacy. Just like a personal journal, shared journals should also be respected and kept very private. In a shared journal, we are able write about our feelings, not only for our own personal release, but to also share these thoughts and feelings confidentially with another person who we truly trust. It is so important that this communication and self expression shared between journal partners is kept private, so the trust that is shared is never broken.
We recommend that you always keep what is written in your Tell Me Anything Shared Journals just between the two of you, unless your journal partner gives you permission otherwise, or unless there is a significant danger to someone, and it is truly necessary to share with another source to help someone at risk, even if that someone is your journal partner. If there is ever a time you feel it is necessary to tell another person, we recommend you talk with your journal partner about why you need(ed) to do this, explaining the serious risk or reason associated with your decision to share.
In most everyday cases though, it is really important to keep the trust and sanctity of the journal in tact, so your journal partner will know they can trust you with their thoughts and feelings. There are times my daughters will write something to me in their Journals, that is very thoughtful, or even funny, and sometimes worrisome, that I would love to share with their Dad. However, I am very conscious and careful not to share, and be respectful of the fact that they shared this with me only, with the understanding it would stay just between us in our journal. I try to assume if they want their Dad to know, they will share with him too. Even for silly things that seem harmless to share with another person, it is still a good idea not to share with anyone else (unless you have your journal partner’s permission) so they know whatever they share…silly or serious, it will always be kept just between you.
Another good idea for keeping your Journals private, is to make sure you find a safe place to keep the Journal so nobody else has the opportunity to open it and to read what’s inside, without your permission. Our Shared Journals are meant to encourage trust, not break trust, and a big part of the fun is knowing this special book is shared just between the two of you, so keep with that fun and keep what is shared private.
Find a safe place to keep your Journal, where only you and your Journal Partner know where it is, and can read it.
Don’t share anything that has been expressed in the journal to others, even if it seems silly or harmless to share.
If you ever need to share because of a serious risk to someone or something, be honest and communicate this with your Journal partner so they are aware and can better understand your need to help, not your intent to hurt their trust.
Be conscious and respectful of the idea that this Journal is there to encourage trust, not break trust.
Encourage the fun of your Shared Journal by treating it as your very own private, unique, shared place to talk, create, express, and document memories together.
We hope this month’s Journal Tip was a helpful reminder and you continue to enjoy using your Tell Me Anything Shared Journals while growing your relationships in this fun, special, and unique way with your journal partner!
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We hope you all are enjoying your Summer! Happy June, friends!


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Here you’ll find the official podcasts of Crit Hit as well as locally produced podcasts about gaming.
A magazine style podcast with industry professionals discussing a wide array of topics and a behinds the scenes journal about the making of Crit Hit and it’s smaller events. Raw, real and insightful.

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David Garden Phlox features bold fragrant conical white star-shaped flowers at the ends of the stems from early summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its narrow leaves remain green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.
David Garden Phlox is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. With its upright habit of growth, it is best suited for use as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the center of the pot, surrounded by smaller plants and those that spill over the edges. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden. Be aware that in our climate, most plants cannot be expected to survive the winter if left in containers outdoors, and this plant is no exception. Contact our store for more information on how to protect it over the winter months.


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Where Do You Fit Best in the Legal Market?
Slow down. We encounter this a lot. Sometimes these thoughts start occurring in the first year, but for many we see it happen in the first five years. Nine times out of ten, you’re just in the wrong practice area. You may have taken a job due to other factors like compensation, location, or because you were familiar with the firm and already knew some of their attorneys. Few attorneys are allowed to cherry pick exactly what they practice right out of law school. Where you fit best in the legal market is a process of discovery.
Start by asking yourself: Litigation or Transactional? Sometimes I hear attorneys call this the “front end of the deal” (transactional) verses “the aftermath” (litigation). Transactional lawyers tend to get satisfaction from watching deals come together, working on teams, and helping their clients achieve business goals. Litigation attorneys tend to enjoy solving complex problems and don’t mind when things get really stressful. They like debate and enjoy competition. I have also seen attorneys who find that they like both. Litigators who start handling transactional work once they go in-house will tell you that their litigation experience serves them well in drafting contracts and other deal work. Once attorneys see things come apart, they understand the fault lines and can avoid them from the beginning.
Here’s the good news: there are steps you can take to work towards a legal career that is fulfilling and right for you!
Start by asking yourself what you like about your practice and research areas of law that allow you to do more of that work. Then, start seeking out attorneys in those practice areas. Take them to lunch and pick their brain. That way, when they hear about opportunities, they will likely reach out.
Communicate your desires to your firm. Most firms need that feedback! Lawyers who aren’t enjoying their work likely won’t stay and develop their practice into partnership. This is your leverage, so look long-term and use it by communicating with your firm.
Consider obtaining an LLM to direct your education in a specialty that will give you better exposure to that area.
Set alerts on your job feed to look for keywords that will help you identify new opportunities in your desired practice.
Reach out to recruiters and let them know what you’re looking for. A good recruiter might help you get a foot in the door even when there is no job posted – we’re here to help you find your path and navigate it too!
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"I'm the sole crazy cook in the land," flounder-ed Miguel.
Feeling a bit nervous, Alastair?
Our chefs tentatively present their dishes to the judges, AKA three fishermen from Sydney Fish Market.
What was that? You'd like a closer look?
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We purchased this book and complained to Amazon about its sale.
This message is especially for Ms. Cat. I was on Amazon looking though books on hoodoo and I came across a third party seller who was selling your correspondence course textbook.
I thought it was best I brought this to your attention.
No problem Miss Aida, it made me so upset.
Obviously a student decided to dispose of his or her copy. Or perhaps a student died (i know of several who have passed) and the family is selling off his or her possessions. I cannot stop that.
The asking price of $370.00 is MORE THAN THREE TIMES as high as i charge for a brand new, unusued copy of the book, and the person who buys this over-priced copy cannot graduate, since he or she is not actually a student with a student ID number.
I don't think there is anything i can do about it, as holdng the copyrights does not mean owning the exclusive rights to sell used copies of the book.
This is a great introductory to hoodoo. The lessons are simple and short.I breezed right through them. I have had home work in middle school much harder than this any one can learn this and this book will change your life. My luck started improving right after lesson two and continues to grow... :O I'd never sell my copy. I wonder if this person graduated.
Well if it's any consolation, it's still for sale. I would never sell mine, the historical information within alone is worthy of a place on my shelf! Plus as a graduate I refer to it often if I need help.


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The car moved to Spain where it was acquired by Edward Victory a pharmacist who imported the car to Gibraltar in 1989 and commissioned a mechanical overhaul.
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But lately, Huawei’s setbacks have come on multiple fronts, from Canada and New Zealand to Australia and Britain. China sees the company as a pivotal driver of its ambitions for global technological leadership. Increasingly, much of the rest of the world sees it as a potential conduit for espionage and sabotage.
The Canadian government said Wednesday that it had detained Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on Saturday in Vancouver, while she was transferring flights. The United States is seeking Meng’s extradition but has not said what prompted the arrest.
At a daily news briefing Thursday, Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, said it had asked U.S. and Canadian officials to give a reason for the detention and to immediately release Meng.
In response, Huawei focused its business efforts elsewhere. Its success in wealthy places such as Europe has helped it become the largest maker of telecommunications equipment, as well as the No. 2 smartphone brand. Of the more than $90 billion (U.S.) in revenue it earned last year, more than a quarter came from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
In April, the Commerce Department banned ZTE from using components made in the United States after saying the company had failed to punish employees who violated U.S. sanctions against Iran and North Korea. The move was effectively a death sentence because ZTE relied heavily on American microchips and other technology.
In building its case against ZTE, the U.S. government began investigating Huawei as well.
When the Commerce Department first announced its findings against ZTE in 2016, it released an internal ZTE document illustrating best practices for evading U.S. sanctions.
Eventually, the Trump administration decided to ease its punishment of ZTE, in an effort to cool tensions with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, before a historic North Korea meeting.
But the power that Washington wielded over the fates of Chinese tech companies had been made very clear to people on both sides of the Pacific. In October, the Commerce Department imposed export controls on Fujian Jinhua, a state-backed semiconductor company that has been accused of stealing American chip designs.
Still, American firms supply other kinds of chips in Huawei’s gear as well as optical equipment for its fibre cable networks and other specialized parts.


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Using “Miswak” ( a stick to clean the teeth) not just in the morning but whenever arising from sleep.
Note: Using “Miswak” while performing Wudhu (ablution) and using “Miswak” after rising from sleep are tow separate sunnah.
when relieving oneself specially in a place which is not private (an open field or in the woods where other people may be close-by) bend down as low as possible before removing the necessary garments.
Neither one’s face nor back should be facing the qibla (the direction of the Ka’bah) when using the toilet (Tirmidhi).

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Since launching our premieres section on Bolting Bits, we have done our best to relentlessly share with you some of the best underground dance music from around the world. It has required a lot of blood, sweat, and sleepless nights, but we would not change it one bit. For those that have been with us since the beginning, you might remember that our first premiere ever was of UK producer Franc Spangler, better known as Jimpster.
Now, several premieres later, things have come full circle. Once again, Jimpster will mark another huge milestone for us, giving us his latest original, Lightshine, to put us at 300 premieres that we’ve shared with you to date. Coming out on Suol on June 8th, this track will be accompanied by tunes from Till Von Sein, Quarion, Zepherin Saint, and Chopstick & Johnjon – rounding out Part. 2 of the Hallo Montag compilation series. The compilations are extensions of the weekly Monday open air parties (Hello Monday!) hosted by Suol where a multitude of guest DJs play their sunniest tunes in the fresh air.
Lightshine, the standout for us from this compilation has that signature bouncing bass from Jimpster which particularly reminds us of his standout tune English Rose. Lush pads fill the air while some congas flutter about until a sampled “Hey!” and dissonant jazzy rhodes signal that it’s time to transition into the meat and potatoes. The groove on this is straight out of Jimpster’s recipe book, meaning dancefloor-ready heat. As always, he manages to incorporate some fantastic melodic pads and even a flute-like solo that really carry the composition and give it a sense of a continuous development, more like a short journey than just another track. Serious summer heat perfect for those open air parties, certified.


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Player Wins €3.3 Million Joker Millions Jackpot.
While the rest of us were busy sifting through pairs of festive socks, vouchers for shops that we’re never likely to visit and instantly forgettable novelty items, one lucky player got everything he wanted for Christmas and more after winning €3.3 million on Yggdrasil’s Joker Millions slot machine.
Although the player understandably decided to remain anonymous after his big win, what we do know for sure is that the jackpot payout is the biggest amount of money ever issued by a Yggdrasil Gaming slot and that the seven-figure sum was scooped at a German mobile casinos called sunnyplayer.com.
While such a destination is unlikely to appeal to the bulk of our mobile-orientated readership, the good news is that you can find Joker Millions at the far more recognisable Mr Green Casino, meaning you too can attempt to follow in this lucky player’s footsteps and set a new Yggdrasil Gaming record.
For those who are currently unfamiliar with Joker Millions, the game is one of only a couple of jackpot titles released by Yggdrasil Gaming, with the other being Holmes and the Stolen Stones. The slot is a remarkably simple five-reel, 25-payline title that boasts a sticky wins mechanism – a popular feature that sees bonus respins occur after any win so long as new icons are added to the sequence.
It is via this very mechanism that Joker Millions’ jackpot can be hit, as should a player land a joker icon on each of the game’s five reels, they’ll be treated to a Jackpot Spin. Here respins will take place as normal, with every subsequent joker icon that is added to the board moving players one step closer to landing the game’s progressive jackpot prize, which is awarded when all spaces are filled.
This is precisely what happened to our lucky player earlier this month; and in actual fact it only took him three respins to trigger his seven-figure payout. While Joker Millions’ progressive prize pool may have been plundered for now, a new jackpot has already started seeding on the slot and if you seek it out and start playing at Mr Green, you could be the next player to celebrate a game-changing win.


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How Does Vitamin E Prevent Wrinkles?
Wrinkles occur naturally as people age, but many people develop wrinkles at a young age because of lifestyle factors. Heavy drinking, smoking and -- the most damaging of all -- excessive UV light exposure are to blame. Sun damage can explain why we develop wrinkles in the face, neck and hands, which are exposed to it daily. Vitamin E may offer some protection against wrinkles caused by the sun.
Vitamin E is fat-soluble and is widely regarded for its antioxidant properties. It comes in eight different organic compounds, but one form -- alpha-tocopherol -- is the most active in humans and therefore most beneficial as a remedy or supplement, according the University of Maryland. Vitamin E supplements are available in synthetic and natural remedy forms.
University Of Maryland notes that the antioxidants present in vitamin E can destroy free radicals, which are harmful compounds in the body. These free radicals are thought to be one of the primary causes of aging. Vitamin E can also protect the skin against toxic chemicals and pollutants in the air. It also has regenerative effects that help produce red blood cells and make use of vitamin K.
To prevent wrinkles, ''Reader's Digest: 1001 Home Remedies" recommends an avocado face mask because avocados are a good source of vitamin E. Olive oil is another natural source with a high concentration of vitamin E, and can be applied as moisturizer, added to food or taken in supplement form. Pure vitamin E oils are available in health stores, and many cosmetic skin-care lotions include it as an ingredient.
Natural remedies can cause skin irritation for some users, so consult a doctor before using them. Although vitamin E is highly regarded as an antioxidant and for its ability to prevent health conditions, like aging of the skin, there is little scientific evidence behind the uses and true effectiveness of vitamin E, says MayoClinic.com.
One of the best ways to prevent wrinkles is protect yourself from the sun and, in particular, UVA rays. Wear sunblock with a high SPF daily, stay out of the sun during the middle of the day and wear sunglasses to avoid squinting. Don't rely on foundations and moisturizers as sun protection. The SPFs in these products are often too low to offer sufficient protection.
Medical News Today: What Are Wrinkles?


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The first was a talk built especially for the event entitled "Experiences with Exploratory Testing in Agile, Testing, Dev and QA".
I was asked to share my experiences and lessons learned with exploratory testing across multiple disciplines because the audience included QA, Testers, Developers and Agile team members.
An overview of my expectations of Exploratory Testing and the characteristics I expect to see and mentor people in adopting.
Start to break down the beliefs about specialist roles by pointing out that some of the things we say deserve to be T-shirt slogans, rather than beliefs. With examples as to why 'Developers' can, should and do, test.
Reasons why exploratory testing is 'natural', and we can train and enhance our 'natural' skills. And we should build on 'natural' skills.
A few notes on how Agile invovles all of the above with shorter feedback cycles.
The second was a slightly updated version of a talk that I previously presented at TestNet 2013 "My Quest for Silver Bullets".