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Meeting women used to be a real challenge for me. I’m not the most outgoing guy, and chatting up a perfect stranger has never exactly been my strong suit. But that’s all changed now. You see, I’ve always loved cats for their easy companionship, but I wish I had gotten one sooner, because they come with a fantastic added benefit: They’re the best way to get to know women who magically appear in your living room.
It used to be that when an attractive woman materialized in my apartment, I’d clam up completely. I couldn’t just start talking to her out of the blue, and what would I even say if I did? Well, my cat, Oreo, changed all that. These days, when a woman steps out of nothingness into my living room, I don’t have to lift a finger. She’ll come to me—and my four-legged wingman.
I’m telling you, guys, cats are instant conversation starters. Now when a woman who didn’t exist a second earlier is suddenly lying on my couch, I can just wait for her to ask me what my cat’s name is and if it’d be okay if she pet it. Finding that “in” was always my biggest hurdle. Not anymore. Seriously, a cat’s like a magnet for every hottie that spontaneously manifests herself in your home.
There was this one absolutely gorgeous woman whom I’d see under my bed from time to time. But I knew that anything I’d say to her out of the blue would sound awkward, creepy, or just plain dumb. Well, two days after I got Oreo, I saw her again, flat against the floor under my box spring. She crawled right out and said, “Awww, who’s this guy?” Then we were talking and smiling, and after a while we just sort of had to introduce ourselves.
And your cat can work its magic pretty much anywhere—living room, kitchen, bedroom, even a hallway. I don’t brush my teeth or wash the dishes without making sure Oreo’s nearby. I never know if the love of my life is going to be standing right there in the shower or leaning on the counter by the sink, but I’m ready no matter what. I mean, I might bump into several women just while walking to get a shirt out of the closet, and if my cat’s mojo is really working, I might have three or four phone numbers in my pocket before I even head out my front door in the morning.
You only get so many chances to find your soulmate. One day, that girl you always see standing next to your floor lamp might not be there. The beautiful brunette who always seems to be sitting on your nightstand will have moved on, and you’ll wonder if she’s now with some other guy who did what it took to meet her. Well, don’t miss out. Get to the animal shelter and adopt yourself a furry little friend today.
Then just sit at home and wait.


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United Bankshares, Inc., with dual headquarters in Washington, DC and Charleston, WV, is a $7.2 billion holding company. UBSI has 111 full-services banking offices in West Virginia, Virginia, Washington, DC, Maryland, and Ohio that operate under the name United Bank. United Bank offers a variety of personal, business and retail loan services, and has a separate wealth management group. With over 170 years of experience and assets in excess of $4 billion, United Bank’s Wealth Management Group provides a complete range of trust and investment services for individuals, families and businesses.
United Bank is CSDC’s principal banking partner and has provided the organization with a full range of business services, including facilities loans, predevelopment lines of credit and wealth management services.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: Picking the right smartphone can be tricky. Do raw specs, or user-experience matter? Do you prefer an unskinned version of Android, or one done up in HTC’s best? What’s best for one won’t always be best for the other. I’ve spent a decent amount of time with every smartphone in AT&T’s lineup and have compiled a list of the 5 best phones they currently offer. If you don’t see your phone on the list – don’t fret – it means it’s best for you. For those of you deciding which phone is worth your 2-year contract, read on. If you’re not with AT&T, be sure to check out our other Top 5’s for Sprint & T-Mobile. (Verizon is on tap).

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I have a series of rasters showing "time of last fire" over a 50 year time period (one raster per year, values ranging from 0-50). I need to combine these into a single raster showing the total number of fires in each pixel over the 50 year period. I will then need to iterate this entire process roughly 100 times.
I don't think "%timeoflastfire_%i-1%%" is correct syntax, but is there a way to accomplish this? Also, is there a way to specific a different outcome for the raster for time t=0?


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I need a stylish and fun website for my new confectionary company. It needs to give information on the product in general and then details of all the different products/flavours available. It needs to give info on the company including hygiene certificates and information on how to order. The site also needs to enable clients to place orders/buy the products so i need shopping cart facility and payment processing. I will be selling around 15-20 products. I need to manage orders and dispatches once orders have been placed. I would like links to my facebook and instagram and a way of enabling people to sign up to my newsletter.
I already have my company logo designed.
i can make you this website for confectionary... you can trust... i am no noobie... looking forward to get some response... thanks!!

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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As part of Hide and Seek patch 1.0.2.16 I implemented a Light LOD system to drastically improve framerates, especially on the Haunted House. The overhead from very-high quality shadows from dozens of realtime lights was too much and even really high end computers would get bottlenecked by the CPU (in some cases) as low as 45fps.
By dynamically adjusting the shadow quality of lights we can reduce that overhead, or eliminate it all together.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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The Immigration Department is concerned by the recent incidents of fake visas being used by persons to try to enter the territory, and according to Chief Immigration Officer, Ian Penn, this is a threat to the territory’s security.
The most recent incident of two Dominican Republic citizens using fake visas to try to enter the BVI at the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport has resulted in an investigation as to the source of these falsified travel clearances.
However, the Chief Immigration Officer said that the BVI cannot tackle this problem by itself locally, but requires the help of other countries.
“Every incident of fake documents, of visas coming to the territory is treated very serious and the Immigration Department alone cannot solve these problems. There are a number of players in law enforcement that would have to work together, not only here in the territory, but also internationally in order to help combat this,” he told BVI Platinum News.
The latest incident, he noted, is receiving attention.
On October 24, Mady Rodriguez, 31, and Edward Ortiz, 41, tried to enter the territory using fake visas.
The visas bore the numbers of visas recently issued to two other Dominican Republic citizens.
The duo was brought to court and charged in relation to the incident.
They maintain that they paid a large sum of cash to someone in the BVI to have their visas processed legally, but were unaware that they were given fake documents.
If persons require visas to enter the territory then the responsibility should be on the airline to ensure that those persons have necessary visas. If they don’t have the visa then a fine should be imposed on that airline.

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ring light led selfie amazon.
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scalloped roller shade shades premium blackout blinds dunelm.
collar clamps bicycle pipe cycling clamp road bike quick release shaft 3d model.
table lamp repair kit stupendous floor shops near me.
cube pendant lighting stunning mini light embedded with clear crystal squares fixtures.
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A ward in a general hospital for mentally ill patients.
Authorities said staff members in the psychiatric ward saw Mr.
He was subsequently admitted to the University Hospital of North Tees A& E department, then agreed to be transferred to the Stephenson Ward, an acute psychiatric ward of the hospital, for his own safety.
That came after a second public consultation exercise over the proposed closure of one of the hospital's four psychiatric wards ended last week, after the first was branded "inadequate".
On October 2, 2001, while a patient in the hospital's psychiatric ward (where she was receiving treatment for depression) she was assaulted and raped by a male patient.
Presiding Judge Toru Yoshida said the hospital ''should have set aside a safe place for doctors to escape to, as psychiatric ward patients sometimes take unpredictable actions.
O At times 80 to 90 per cent of patients in RavenscraigOs psychiatric ward are drug addicts, chronic alcoholics or ex-prisoners with violent tendencies.
Overall, three psychiatric patients, two formerly addicted patients, two methadone users, and no control patients had to be admitted to the psychiatric ward for reasons that could not be directly associated with psychiatric effects of interferon-alfa and ribavirin.
Yass's subjects are diverse--they include a psychiatric ward, cityscapes, art professionals, and Indian film stars--but one can't escape the sense that content is secondary to style and that this style remains staggeringly unvaried, notwithstanding recent forays into film.
A psychiatric ward, the only in-patients facility, and clinics remained.
When she was 20, the actress checked herself into a psychiatric ward for depression.
Leading the lineup are the dramas "Queer as Folk" and "Psychos," shows about gays in Manchester and life in a psychiatric ward, respectively.

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Jupiter, the mythical god of sky and thunder, would certainly be pleased at all the changes afoot at his namesake planet. As the planet gets peppered continually with small space rocks, wide belts of the atmosphere are changing color, hotspots are vanishing and reappearing, and clouds are gathering over one part of Jupiter, while dissipating over another. The results were presented today by Glenn Orton, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting in Reno, Nev.
"The changes we're seeing in Jupiter are global in scale," Orton said. "We've seen some of these before, but never with modern instrumentation to clue us in on what's going on. Other changes haven't been seen in decades, and some regions have never been in the state they're appearing in now. At the same time, we've never seen so many things striking Jupiter. Right now, we're trying to figure out why this is all happening."
Orton and colleagues Leigh Fletcher of the University of Oxford, England; Padma Yanamandra-Fisher of the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.; Thomas Greathouse of Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio; and Takuya Fujiyoshi of the Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Hilo, Hawaii, have been taking images and maps of Jupiter at infrared wavelengths from 2009 to 2012 and comparing them with high-quality visible images from the increasingly active amateur astronomy community. Following the fading and return of a prominent brown-colored belt just south of the equator, called the South Equatorial Belt, from 2009 to 2011, the team studied a similar fading and darkening that occurred at a band just north of the equator, known as the North Equatorial Belt. This belt grew whiter in 2011 to an extent not seen in more than a century. In March of this year, that northern band started to darken again.
The team obtained new data from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility and the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea that matched up that activity with infrared observations. Those data showed a simultaneous thickening of the deeper cloud decks, but not necessarily the upper cloud deck, unlike the South Equatorial Belt, where both levels of clouds thickened and then cleared up. The infrared data also resolved brown, elongated features in the whitened area called "brown barges" as distinct features and revealed them to be regions clearer of clouds and probably characterized by downwelling, dry air.
The team was also looking out for a series of blue-gray features along the southern edge of the North Equatorial Belt. Those features appear to be the clearest and driest regions on the planet and show up as apparent hotspots in the infrared view, because they reveal the radiation emerging from a very deep layer of Jupiter's atmosphere. (NASA's Galileo spacecraft sent a probe into one of these hotspots in 1995.) Those hotspots disappeared from 2010 to 2011, but had reestablished themselves by June of this year, coincident with the whitening and re-darkening of the North Equatorial Belt.
While Jupiter's own atmosphere has been churning through change, a number of objects have hurtled into Jupiter's atmosphere, creating fireballs visible to amateur Jupiter watchers on Earth. Three of these objects - probably less than 45 feet (15 meters) in diameter - have been observed since 2010. The latest of these hit Jupiter on Sept. 10, 2012, although Orton and colleagues' infrared investigations of these events showed this one did not cause lasting changes in the atmosphere, unlike those in 1994 or 2009.
"It does appear that Jupiter is taking an unusual beating over the last few years, but we expect that this apparent increase has more to do with an increasing cadre of skilled amateur astronomers training their telescopes on Jupiter and helping scientists keep a closer eye on our biggest planet," Orton said. "It is precisely this coordination between the amateur-astronomy community that we want to foster."
The California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, operates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA.

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Pneumocystis jiroveci antibody LS-C528763 is a biotin-conjugated mouse monoclonal antibody to pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumocystis jiroveci. Validated for IF and WB.
Pneumocystis carinii cysts and trophozoites. Recognizes an antigen at ~50kD.

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Or, another way to put it, in most cases, shooting yourself in the foot.
I was not aware that the cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 back in June included a switch that allows you to turn parameter sniffing off within SQL Server. Thanks to Kendra Little (blog|twitter) for letting me know about it (although she let me know by “stumping the chump” during my lightening talk at the Summit, thanks Kendra!).
When I first saw the switch, I thought about the places where turning off parameter sniffing could be helpful. But, as I thought about it, the more I realized that removing parameter sniffing was an extremely dangerous switch. Why? Because, most people only ever hear about parameter sniffing when they run into a problem. Someone says “Parameter sniffing” and you see people cringe. Too many people will take this information in and go, “Hey, I can just switch parameter sniffing off and I’ll have a much faster system, all the time.” But… even when you’re not hitting a problem with parameter sniffing, you’re still getting parameter sniffing. Here is where I see a problem. Let’s discuss what parameter sniffing is.
Parameter sniffing is applicable to stored procedures and parameterized queries. What happens is, when a value is passed to a parameter, the optimizer has the ability to read, or “sniff,” the value of that parameter. It can do this because it knows exactly what the value is when the proc/query is called. This is not applicable to local variables, because the optimizer can’t really know what those values might be, where as it knows exactly what the values of parameters are going in. Why does it do this? One word: statistics. Statistics are what the optimizer uses to determine how queries will be executed. If the optimizer is given a specific value, it can then compare that value to the statistics on the index or table in question and get as good an answer as is possible from those statistics as to how selective this value may be. That information determines how the optimizer will run the query and because it is using specific values, it’s looking at specific information within the stats. If the parameters are not sniffed, the statistics are sampled and a generic value is assumed, which can result in a different execution plan.
The problem with parameter sniffing occurs when you have out of date statistics or data skew (certain values which return a wildly different set of results compared to the rest of the data within the table). The bad statistics or skew can result in an execution plan that is not consistent with most of the data that the stats represent. However, most of the time, in most situations, this is an edge case. Notice that hedging though. When parameter sniffing goes bad, it hurts.
Most of the time we’re going to gain huge benefits from parameter sniffing because the use of specific values leads to more accurate, not less accurate, execution plans. Sampled data, basically an average of the data in the statistics, can lead to a more stable execution plan, but a much less accurate one. Switching parameter sniffing off means that all queries will use sampled data, which creates a serious negative impact on performance. Most of the time, most of us are benefitting wildly from the strengths of parameter sniffing and only occasionally are we seeing the problems.
Unless you know, and I mean know, not suspect, that your system has major and systematic issues with parameter sniffing, leave this switch alone and let the optimizer make these choices for you. If you don’t, it’s very likely that you’ll see a performance hit on your system.


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So here is a working example of what I was talking about in my last blog post- making Photoshop automation possible without needing to use the win32com module.
This specific example is not cross-platform compatible. It relies on getting the Photoshop application through it's registry entry, but the subprocess module is cross platform so it shouldn't be too hard to hammer this into a shape that can be used on Mac and PC. Or just Mac. Or whatever.
Essentially there is no real magic going on here, just lots of string manipulation behind the scenes. Like I said in my last post, the biggest hole in this right now is the lack of feedback from Photoshop, but that's something I'm looking into when I get a few spare minutes here and there.
And the code! This is a particularly long snippet. Hang in there!
Once the string has been assembled, it is added to the _commands_list object, along with any other commands that will eventually be called.
-Calls the Photoshop executable with the jsx as an argument.
Set up the application path, temp file location and our commands list.
# to the temp jsx file.
Find and return the location of the Photoshop exe from it's registry entry.
I do this because its more robust than an assumed absolute path.
# I use Photoshop V12.0 64x. Change this to whatever version you are using.
Generic method to add commands to the list.
After this is done, empty the command list.
print "No commands to compile."
Call this to make sure the command list is clean.
- Call to Compile the commands in the command list.
# This is the magic part. Subprocess calls Photoshop with the jsx as an arg.
# functions begin to take up a lot of lines very quickly.
Adds a new layer set to the currently active document.
# Because it has the option of adding a fill and a parent.
# With this setup, I'm going to make a new document with a new layerSet.
# Clean the command list first.
# Now add a layer set, making My Wonderful Layerset it's parent.
# Execute the lot of them by calling the Photoshop application.


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Kill ‘Em All is a propulsive and entertaining beat-’em-up romp that’s essentially a mash-up of Cube and Saw with a dash of Mortal Kombat thrown in for good measure. Directed by Raimund Huber, the man behind the similarly exhilarating Bangkok Adrenaline, Kill ‘Em All concerns a seemingly random assortment of international assassins who have been kidnapped by some secret organisation and made to fight to the death in something called the “Killing Chamber” – which resembles a high-end Eastern Bloc rec room. To escape this prison, our kung-fuelled captives must duel death-hungry ninjas, murder-masked maniacs and confront the deranged and deadly man who put them there…!
In an attempt to fill the flick’s ranks with colourful characters, writer Ken Miller has bestowed upon the world the likes of Black Scorpion, Carpenter (Joe Lewis (RIP)– in his final role), the Kid (Tim Man), and in a disturbing, and somewhat classless depiction of mental illness, there’s Mickey (Rashid Phoenix), the ever-smiling, child-like assassin who doesn’t know right from wrong. Johnny Messner plays Gabriel, a suicidal assassin with a penchant for bombs and prank phone calls who, at one point becomes the only character seemingly without a death wish. Legendary kung-fu master, Gordon Liu – probably known to most as Pai Mei in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill – makes an appearance here as Snakehead, the Machiavellian ringleader behind the abductions. Here, Liu sits alone in a chair and cackles maniacally into a microphone like Inspector Gadget’s arch-nemesis, Dr. Claw – giving the combatants their instructions on who to fight and when.
Kill ‘Em All kicks off with a montage of assassinations across the world being performed by hired guns, fists and demolition experts alike. However, they soon receive a rude awakening, or sedative rather, as they’re drugged and shipped-off to some crazy man’s torture chamber. They are informed by a Big Brother-type figure, Snakehead, that only one of them will walk out of the chamber alive, as they’re expected to fight each other in one-on-one combat until only a singular assassin is left standing. After some testosterone-fuelled displays of bravado and protest from the captives-turned-contestants, Snakehead introduces them to one another; we have Schmidt (an assassin renowned for his short fuse), The Kid (named so because he committed his first murder at 14), Takab (an ex-legionnaire who betrayed his own legion for greed), Som (a killer with a penchant for knives and guns), Black Scorpion (a tattooed native Thai), Carpenter (a legend among assassins), Gabriel (an explosives expert and classical music enthusiast who’s also inexplicably suicidal) and Mickey (a young lad with no concept of morality!).
Schmidt is the first contestant to make the highly irrational, every-man-for-himself decision, as he challenges The Kid to a duel. Disappointed at the premature punches being thrown, Snakehead fills the chamber with gas, rendering its inhabitants unconscious. The captives wake some time later to find Schmidt murdered in his sleep. Som and Mickey are the first couple to dance with death, as determined by the highly elaborate numbers system masterminded by Snakehead. After Som disposes of mental Mickey, she is permitted to enter the “Weapons Chamber”, wherein she is allowed to choose one device to utilize in subsequent fights. The next two combatants to square off are profanity-happy Takab and in-the-depths-of-despair, Gabriel. The suicidal American proves to be keener to live than we’d come to expect, as he emerges victorious after making use of a stray wire to strangle the unsuspecting Frenchman. The next killer to bite the dust is Black Scorpion, whose plan to murder Carpenter in his sleep backfires spectacularly. However, the unsanctioned battle leaves Carpenter mortally wounded and without access to a weapon.
The next match-up, featuring The Kid and Carpenter, is cut short before a death can be consummated due to some hanky-panky going on in the corner between Som and Gabriel, which turns out to be a surprisingly well-thought out scheme to get the prison door open. This ends the tournament-like solo combat portion of the film and from here, the remaining trio of assassins battle the peons of the organisation that kidnapped them, leading to plenty of slaughter as the team tries to find Snakehead: high lord of the cabal. Som and Gabriel team up to fight their way through numerous undefined levels of death and destruction against masked assailants, while The Kid seems to be stuck on the second stage with an entire army to deal with. Snakehead, dissatisfied with how long his detainees are taking to die, sends his two top stooges to sort out the outstanding captives. The trio reunites a while later, only to instantly split up again, and regroup a second time shortly after – precious screen time one feels could have been used, say, for character development or narrative depth.
Stunt coordinator/action choreographer Tim Man seems determined to ensure that each fight in Kill ‘Em All accentuates the individual martial arts styles of the concerned combatants. Man’s character clearly prefers swooping aerial kicks, for instance, and seems to perform one at any given opportunity. In fact, Man really steals the show in Kill ‘Em All. He goes to an enormous amount of acrobatic effort to lay waste to any foe that has the misfortune to step into his destructive path – flipping off walls and flying through the air to land crushing kicks on his opponents. Furthermore, he doesn’t mind the odd bit of kitchen-fu if they’re wielding cutlery and utensils in his handsome face. Even before the opening title shot, we are treated to Man slaying femme fatales and kung-fu chefs!
The real action begins when the captives escape from the “Killing Chamber”, and are forced to battle their way through hundreds of ninjas, masked men and camo-clad army types. Man employs some incredible acrobatic feats against countless aggressors, displaying unbelievable skill as he kicks off one assailant into two, sometimes three more before hitting the ground. The film’s high-note occurs as Gordon Liu participates in a highly entertaining boss battle that’s reminiscent of the two-on-one showstopper in The Raid. Gordon shows that he can still rock-up a good fight scene and certainly does so here! I’m not sure if this was Gordon’s last film prior to his stroke, but he accounted for himself well here despite his age. And it’s interesting to watch Gordon’s Chinese kung-fu work against Muay Thai moves.
Honourable mention goes to the late Joe Lewis, who also showed, for the last time, that he too could go toe to toe with the young guns. All his fights look down to earth and, while he doesn’t pull off any tricks or jumps, it’s clear that he can kick the hell out of anybody stupid enough to challenge him!
Kill ‘Em All is light on plot and character development, but it makes up for it with well-orchestrated martial arts action sequences. The movie is a lot of fun and if you’re a fan of the genre you should check it out. Furthermore, the film gains massive credibility thanks to the inclusion of veteran martial artists, Joe Lewis and Gordon Liu. However, the all-fighting-all-the-time spectacle that is Kill ‘Em All fails to hide the fact that it’s simply a live-action version of a martial arts fighting game – a concept probably best explained by the character of Gabriel when he declares that the Killing Chamber “Sounds like a really, really good video game”.
Carpenter: “If it comes down to you and me, it ain’t gonna be you walking outta here. Nothing personal”.
Love your review. It is very thorough and entertaining.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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I saw Rich Mullins in concert a couple of times in the early 90’s. Those two concerts were probably my favorite ones ever and maybe I’ll write about that someday. Today is not that day.
One of the coolest things about Rich’s concerts were the things he said. One thing he said once, to paraphrase, was that “Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, but sometimes I want to be about my Father’s business.” I totally get that. Fortunately vengeance isn’t all that God is up to.
I was reading Isaiah 45:7 the other day and saw a couple of things that the Lord is up to at any time.
He is the one forming light. Imagine that. He didn’t just say “Let there be light” and be done with it. He is continually forming light. It doesn’t end. This act is still going on.
He is creating darkness. We might tend to think that before creation there was nothing but darkness. That’s not what scripture says. it says that He is creating darkness. Each night, when the day is done, dark is created again. Tomorrow the same. Darkness is created over and over.
He causes well-being. It doesn’t just happen for us. We aren’t just lucky to have things go well for us. Circumstances aren’t just good for no good reason. God is behind those things that are good.
God creates calamity. Why? The same reason He makes things good. He is the Lord. He does all these things. He is God. He can do that if that’s what He wants to do.
Forming. Creating. Causing. Light. Darkness. Good. Bad.
God is doing these things. He is God. He is our Father.
He is being about His business.
Let’s get busy being about His business.
Forming. Creating. Causing. Whatever field you’re in. Whatever you are called to do. Be about His business.
What or Whose business are you being about?
Matthew 8 begins with Jesus coming down from the mountain. He had just spent a good deal of time teaching and preaching. I might compare it to an outdoor camp meeting/tent revival, but better. After all, it had the Lord himself there, not just those of us who fall a bit short.
It might have been tempting to stay up on the mountain. The folks really wanted to hear Him. They wanted to follow Him. They may have wanted to stay with Him.
But Jesus came down anyway.
We have this common with Jesus.
We can’t stay on the mountain. We want to. We have those mountain top experiences. Everything is wonderful. Everything is fantastic. The problem is that we can’t stay.
For Jesus, it wasn’t where all the work was. The people He needed to reach, the folks He needed to heal weren’t there. The business His Father had sent Him to do wasn’t all on the mountain. It was down in the towns among the sick and the needy.
It’s easy for us to get pumped up about a church service. It’s awesome to experience a fantastic Christian concert. It’s easy to get up on that mountain and want to stay there.
We simply can’t stay there. it isn’t real life. We still have to go to work. We still have to face a world full of people who don’t know the Lord.
Own it. Know that, though it’s wonderful, we can’t stay there.
Use it. Motivate yourself with those times that you spend on the mountain when the times get tough.
Share it. When you have the opportunity to go on the mountain again, try to take someone else with you.
Repeat it. Understand that this cycle will likely happen again and again.
What do you do when you come down off the mountain?
I’ve been a parent for just over nineteen years now. That’s crazy and wild for me to wrap my mind around. I am amazed that God has blessed me with this in my life.
My daughter has a boyfriend. They’ve been dating well over three years now and I’m beginning to think it may soon become serious. I think they actually like each other. The boyfriend keeps coming around despite my best efforts to drive him away. Of course, as any good father does, I attempted this on their first date, but evidently I’m not good enough at driving boys away.
I suppose that they will get married eventually. I’ll walk her down some sort of aisle and give her to another guy. The first person whose umbilical cord I cut will be given in marriage to another man. I’m sure that I’ll cry and weep that day.
There is one benefit that I see coming out of this deal.
I’m looking forward to that. I’m looking forward to being a grandparent. It’s a unique job.
You get to do a lot of parenting things without the pressure that comes with being a parent. Maybe that’s because you’ve already been through it before. You know what is a big deal and what isn’t. You can teach in ways that they don’t realize you’re teaching them. You can love them in ways that are different from parents do.
Most of all I’m looking forward to passing my faith down to my grand-kids. Not that they can inherit it from me. Just that I want to live in such a way that honors the Lord before them that they want it as well. I want them to know Him like I do.
Being a grandparent is an art, one that I’m looking forward to.
I recently read a study that stated that men and women use different parts of the brain to complete the same tasks. Men tend to lean toward the left side of the brain, while women tend to lean to the right.
Literally, when men and women approach the same subject, men are not in their right minds.
I make that statement simply to point out that men and women are different. Maybe you have picked up on that already in life. I certainly didn’t need to read a study to know this. I’ve known it all my life, but noticed it in greater detail watching my children grow up.
My daughter was always, for lack of a better term, feminine. She gravitated toward playing with her Barbies and watching princess movies. She would play some ball with me and she, her brother and I played a unique game of kick ball. Left to her own devices, though, she would play with her dollhouse.
Her brother? He wouldn’t sit down to watch a ballgame with me until he was about nine years old. Instead, he would play with, are you ready, cars and trucks. He would go into his room and shoot basketball into an indoor goal.
Needless to say, they were different. Yet they shared so many similarities as well. They have many common interests. It causes me to think of how this works out in the Church.
There are those out there who push feminine theology. Others push masculine theology. I don’t espouse either one. I don’t really even give any thought to them unless I run across an article here and there.
I simply believe in biblical theology which I believe that says that men and women are different. God made the first woman to be different from the first man. Yet, in Christ, there is neither male nor female. We are equal. Different, but the same.
I wish that all of the angst that some see to have regarding masculinity and feminism within the Church would go away. Let’s celebrate each other and our differences within Christ.
Instead of being in different parts of our minds, let’s become of one mind, one mind in Christ.
How do you feel about the differences in gender roles within the Church?
The thing about dreams is that we don’t want to encounter any resistance. We want everything to be smooth-sailing. Too often, we give up when we encounter the first difficult situation.
This is even more often the case when we have God-given dreams. We somehow expect everything to come easy just because God has given us the dream that is driving our lives.
This isn’t the case. Just by looking at the life of one dreamer of God-given dreams we can determine that.
We all remember the story of Joseph and his dreams. He dreamed that he and his brothers were binding sheaves. His sheaves stood up, while his brothers’ sheaves bowed to his. For some reason, Joseph decided to share this dream with his brothers. Unsurprisingly, they were not thrilled with this dream. They already resented him because Joseph was their father’s favorite. He had even been given a special coat by this father. Joseph was already on their bad side. Telling them they would bow to him one day did not place them in his camp, even if it was the truth.
Later he had another dream where the sun, moon and stars bowed to him. Even Jacob rebuked him for this one. Imagine telling your people they would bow to you. How would you expect them to react? Joseph seems to have been a bit of a spoiled brat. He was Jacob’s pick. He was given things his brothers weren’t. He was a tattle-tale. He probably wore his special coat with pride. He hadn’t done much to win friends and influence others in his own family. It’s no wonder he didn’t get the support he needed for these dreams.
We remember the next step in the story. He goes to where his brothers are working and they decide to throw him in a pit. Some contemplate murder. Finally he is sold into slavery and winds up in Egypt.
In Egypt, he does such a good job that he manages his master’s house. He does this until Potiphar’s wife decides to seduce him. Then he is framed for doing unseemly things with her. What happens next? He ‘s thrown in jail.
He stays in jail for some time, but again rises within the ranks. He is put in charge of the other prisoners. He interprets other prisoner’s dreams. One prisoner is freed and he asks that prisoner to tell Pharaoh about him. That prisoner forgets and leaves Joseph to remain in jail.
Life on the road to your dream being realized isn’t easy.
Joseph was given his dreams for a reason. God had a plan for Joseph’s life.
He put him in a family where he began learning the skills he would need for the eventual realization of the dreams He gave Joseph.
He put Joseph in situations that would humble him on the path to these dreams.
He gave Joseph opportunities to further develop and expand his skills on the way to living out his dreams.
Finally, He put Joseph in a position where his dreams were realized and benefited not only his family, but an entire nation.
God-given dreams are funny things. They will take us down roads that we could never anticipate. They rarely land us where we expect they would. The paths they take us on won’t be easy. However, they will lead us exactly where God wants us to be.
Dale walked behind the pulpit. He couldn’t help but pause and smile. His journey to this point was not the one he thought he would take. He had simply thought he would be an interim pastor for this church for a few months until they called their new pastor. He had no idea when he took this task on that he would end up being that pastor. Now he was about to be a part of one of the most unique services of which he had ever taken part.
Tom Davis stood up, walking to the front of the auditorium. Dale made his way down to stand in front of him. They grinned at each other as they really weren’t 100% sure what would take place next.
There was an uncomfortable pause as several people seemed confused. A few murmurs could be heard. Someone, perhaps they were older and a little harder of hearing, asked why a wedding was taking place. Many people turned around to see what was going on and if the bride was about to make her way.
The doors to the back opened and the traditional wedding march began to play. Coming through the door was Teresa Smith. She was being escorted down to her groom by Fred McGinley. No one was surprised, the least of which were the members of the search team. They had watched Tom’s and Teresa’s romance begin with a small spark, burning until it reached into a raging fire.
Dale began with a few words and then began his wedding sermon.
“They became bone of bone and flesh of flesh. They became one. That is what the two of you are becoming today. We are privileged to witness and share this with you. Are you ready to exchange your vows?” Both nodded the affirmative.
“Yes!!!” Tom said grinning at Teresa.
“Yes!!!” Teresa almost shouted, tears streaming down her face.
With that the entire congregation stood and applauded. Tom and Teresa turned to them, waving and smiling.
You have heard it. You may have said it. It is probably used everyday. Someone comes into a relationship with Christ or their life is rededicated. It’s common within the world of the Church.
I’m going to start living for Jesus now.
The sentiment is right, but I’m going to ask you to stop. Stop it today. Stop it right now.
Instead, let him live through you.
Here is the problem. When we say that we are going to live for Jesus, it sounds as though it is up to us. It comes across as though we have the power to live and do for Him what He want us to do.
I don’t find that in the Bible. Instead, I find the opposite.
Paul says in Galatians 2:20 that he had been crucified with Christ and that it was no longer he that lived, but Christ lived in Paul. Paul saw his life as something he died to in order that Christ would live through him. He didn’t live for Jesus, so that Jesus would live through him.
Paul said in Philippians 1:21 that for him to live was Christ. He didn’t simply try to live for Christ. For Paul, life was Christ. It wasn’t just something for him to attain or strive. Christ was what he ate, drank and everything else in life.
Let’s stop living for Christ. Instead, let’s let Him live through us to the point where He is life.
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The Head of the German Environment Agency (UBA) said that auto manufacturers should be assigned minimum electric vehicle sales quotas.
Maria Krautzenberger said in an interview with the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit that, in order for the country to meet climate change goals, it is necessary to set up a minimum number of EV’s to be sold by manufacturers.
These comments are coming in the light of Germany’s current car fleet situation and the urge to be able to meet climate change goals. There are 42 million cars on the country’s roads, out of which only 25,000 are electric.
Krautzenberger provided the examples of California and China, as they have or will implement a quota system.
The agency has already set non-binding targets, 150 EVs per 1,000 inhabitants. Hamburg has the highest EV fleet up to 426 and is followed by Berlin with 335 cars.
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Does recycling cause you to consume more?
A new study suggests that people who have the option to recycle may end up using more.
March 12, 2013, 9:48 a.m.
A lot of eco-minded people will avoid purchasing items that they know will end up in the garbage. But do they also react in the opposite way by consuming more when they know that something will be recycled? That seems to be the indication from a study published recently in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
The research was conducted by Jesse Catlin, an assistant professor at Washington State University Tri-Cities, and Yitong Wang, an assistant professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. They conducted two experiments to find out how much paper people used if they had the option to recycle their waste. The studies were partially funded by the project was funded in part by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society, which focuses on issues such as health and the environment as they related to community and quality of life.
In the first experiment, two groups of graduate students — who did not know the nature of the study — were given the task of evaluating a pair of scissors by cutting up as much paper as they could, then disposing of the paper. One group had a waste basket for that part of the task, while the second group had both a wastebasket and a recycling bucket. The group that had an option to throw their waste out in a recycling bucket chopped up nearly three times as much paper.
In the second experiment the researchers staked out a men's room for 30 days and monitored how many paper towels were used. For the first 15 days of the experiment the restroom only has a waste basket. For the second 15 days, they added a recycling bin. They amount of paper used per person during the second 15 days was 14 percent more.
The researchers calculated that the restroom would use 12,500 more paper towels per year in the second scenario.
The researchers also asked their undergrads who conducted the scissor experiment to fill out a questionnaire about their "green" behaviors. They linked the answers with previous studies that showed how people who try to behave in an eco-friendly manner often trade off and rationalize their behavior, such as saying it is okay to do a non-green thing because something else they do balances it out. In this case, they concluded that the people in the experiment used the recycling option as a way to allow themselves to use more waste because it was going to be recycled.
As the authors write, "we propose that the ability to recycle may lead to increased resource usage compared to when a recycling option is not available." They say their paper has potential implications for further research and for policy-making, such as whether or not recycling should be available in certain situations.

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This paper has purpose to describe about education and readiness to answer the educational challenges of the 4.0 industrial revolution era in building information technology-based learning systems at Senior High School 5 Prabumulih. The readiness of Senior High School 5 Prabumulih in facing the challenges of education in the industrial revolution era 4.0 is by efforts to improve the abilities and students’ skills through information technology-based education in order to produce reliable graduates as a motor of progress in information technology-based national development to answer the challenges of Industry 4.0 which continues to accelerate.The current education management policy in Indonesia encourages all levels of education, especially at Senior High School Number 5 Prabumulih to take advantage of advances in the digital education technology of the revolutionary era 4.0.Some solutions that can be done include adjusting curriculum and policy in education, preparing human resources to utilize ICT, optimizing the ability of students, and developing the values (character) of students, as well as the readiness of digital-based learning facilities and infrastructure.
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Junaidi dan kawan kawan. 2018. Reformasi Sistem Pendidikan yang Tak Akan Cukup. Riau : Unilak Magazine.
Kirschenbaum, D.S.&Tomarken 0A J.1982. On facing the generalization problem The study of self-regulatory failure. In E C. Kendall (Ed.), Advances in cognitive-behavioral research and therapy (Vol. 1). New York: Academic Press.

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replaced with the concept of "shared parenting."
In an attempt to reduce the adversarial aspects of divorce, the committee recommended that courts no longer grant sole custody to one parent. But it stopped short of recommending that joint custody be a forced solution for every divorce case, leaving the courts to make the final decision on who gets the children.
Enraged by shared parenting's implied message that men play a vital parenting role, feminist journalists aimed their ire at the committee chairman, describing what were calm exchanges during committee hearings as "rough-and-tumble" attacks on feminist witnesses. For example, according to the Parliamentary transcript, Sen. Cools asked Eileen Morrow and Ruth Hislop, lobbyists for the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses, how many women had stayed at their shelters during the previous year. "We didn't do a survey last year because we lost our provincial funding." Ms. Morrow replied. "Okay," said Sen. Cools, "the previous year, the last year." When Ms. Morrow still I did not reply, Sen. Cools said, "Okay, during the last year or when you have data, how many women stayed at your shelter?"
On April 18, Michele Landsberg commented on the incident in the Toronto Star with breathtaking disregard for the facts. "According to witnesses." she wrote, "when representatives of women's services and shelters began their allotted five minutes of testimony, Senator Anne Cools smiled sarcastically, rolled her eyes, and then got up to stroll the room and work the crowd, chatting and joking with the rows of father's rights activists. When Beth Bennet of the Assaulted Women's Help Line began to testify about women recently murdered by their violent ex-partners, these men erupted in noisy laughter, jeers and shouts ...In fact, the men's aggressive and abusive behavior at the committee hearings bears out just how threatening they are."
"That was all a lie," reports Torontonian Dori Gospodoric, who represented Second Spouses of Canada throughout the hearings. "When that came out in the media I w s horrified. I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about. The atmosphere was like a court, very orderly. I could hear a sigh once from the men, but then the gavel came down and everyone was silent as a mouse."
"The mainstream press who attended never saw any of the stuff the female columnists were writing about," adds Liberal MP Roger Gallaway, co-chairman of the committee. "Anne likes a position that certain feminists don't agree with, and rather than debate they want to shoot the messenger."
Two weeks after the Landsberg article appeared, Penni Mitchell published a column in the Winnipeg Free Press which stated, "According to both news reports and verbatim transcripts of the hearings on the Internet, Senator Cools has brow-beaten female presenters who refused to concur that mothers are behind a wave of false abuse charges." In December, the same Ms. Mitchell wrote that, "Non-custodial fathers were given precedence on the list of presenters at the hearing" and some presenters "were threatened by Ms. Cool's with lie detector tests."
None of Ms. Mitchell's accusations was true. "It's disgusting," says Mr. Gallaway, "They're just manure spreaders. But if people read enough of these articles, they start to think there's something to them."
"It's time for us to begin to understand that human beings are flawed, that both sexes are capable of being equally loving and hateful," concludes Sen. Cools. "But, the matter of misreporting is distressing. I'm quite prepared to be criticized and defend and debate, but the truth is not up for debate. Something has to be true. That's my standard."
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T'laizha was tagged in the video "T'laizha Morris's highlights Jay County."
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the loss vs. Homestead.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Homestead.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team lost Saturday's neutral playoff game against Homestead (Fort Wayne, IN) by a score of 63-36.
This game is part of the "2018-19 IHSAA Class 4A Girls Basketball State Tournament - S6 | Homestead".
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the win vs. Muncie Central.
RESULTWin Girls varsity basketball vs. Muncie Central.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team won Friday's neutral playoff game against Muncie Central (Muncie, IN) by a score of 91-43.
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the win vs. Huntington North.
RESULTWin Girls varsity basketball vs. Huntington North.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team won Tuesday's neutral playoff game against Huntington North (Huntington, IN) by a score of 65-35.
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the win vs. Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger.
RESULTWin Girls varsity basketball vs. FWBD.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team won Friday's home conference game against Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger (Fort Wayne, IN) by a score of 82-57.
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the win @ Huntington North.
RESULTWin Girls varsity basketball @ Huntington North.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team won Tuesday's away non-conference game against Huntington North (Huntington, IN) by a score of 80-31.
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the loss @ Carroll.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team lost Friday's away conference game against Carroll (Fort Wayne, IN) by a score of 65-51.
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the win vs. Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran.
RESULTWin Girls varsity basketball vs. FWCL.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team won Friday's home conference game against Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran (Fort Wayne, IN) by a score of 73-49.
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the loss vs. Carmel.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Carmel.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team lost Saturday's home non-conference game against Carmel (IN) by a score of 68-49.
T'laizha's basketball stats have been updated for the loss @ Homestead.
The Fort Wayne South Side varsity basketball team lost Friday's away conference game against Homestead (Fort Wayne, IN) by a score of 48-33.


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As a reminder, this is a study at using high priced QBs compared to saving with quarterbacks and improving your roster elsewhere. Through the first three weeks, we only had one set of scores where the cheaper quarterback lineup performed better. While it's a small sample so far, the gaps have been pretty wide, and it's pointing to high priced quarterbacks being better. If you want the intro piece as an overall breakdown on the plan for this study, click here.
NEW! I'm adding DraftKings and FanDuel sleepers each week to help you build some contrarian lineups and win the big money (and then share it with me!).
Boom. Big week for team high priced quarterback, as Matt Ryan and Julio Jones scored over 60 between them. That's about 20 more than the duo of Philip Rivers and Keenan Allen, who also happened to be a popular pick because of the pricing – more so for Rivers. When you add in the fact that Willie Snead (cheaper/savings receiver) outdid Antonio Brown, you have a great week for the high priced option. Even without the Snead-Brown difference, there still would have been a big gap.
On FanDuel, we saw a boost but not only was it one-third the improvement of DraftKings, on a percentage basis, it was less than half as good (7.5% to 16.9%). Nevertheless, just as with DraftKings, the high priced quarterback team performed better thanks mainly to Ryan and Julio. The difference in improvement wasn't as big though with only about an 11 point gap versus over 20 for DK. The savings at the receiver replacement wasn't as big either with Steve Smith coming close to Brandon Marshall. Overall, it was a better day but still not exceptionally impactful.
DraftKings got a boost in Week 9 and is up to 92.68 more points and 11.59 per game. The standard deviation is 21.9 per week with it all equaling a 7.7 percent improvement in average scores. With FanDuel, we've only scored 29.12 more total, which is just 3.64 per week. The standard deviation is 10.31 over there with a mere 3.0 percent increase in average scores.
A 7.7 percent boost is mildly significant, so we're trending towards high priced quarterbacks being a worthwhile strategy on DraftKings. As for FanDuel, it's looking doubtful that we'll see a significant statistical difference.
Matt Ryan, ATL ($7,100) – I can tell how frustrated Fantasy players are with Ryan just from the number of seasonal, “Should I drop/bench?” questions about him. Ryan has three games of 20-plus points and that same numbers of 14.14 or less. Consistency is not his strong suit. However, Antonio Brown, Steve Smith, Larry Fitzgerald, Odell Beckham, Tavon Austin and James Jones totaled 41 receptions, 783 yards and 6 TDs against the 49ers, or an average of 6.8/130.5/1. Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Joe Flacco and Carson Palmer all threw for at least 311 yards and two TDs. You're telling me Julio Jones and Matt Ryan can't go ape nuts crazy on the 49ers?
Ben Roethlisberger, PIT ($8,300) – Recency bias will have many looking elsewhere already, and Big Ben's price will scare even more away. He's in that range of “why not spend on the top tier or save a decent amount and drop down?” We know Roethlisberger can go off any given week, as Weeks 8 and 9 proved last year. No more Le'Veon Bell means more Big Ben and Antonio Brown, and the Raiders pass defense just happens to stink.
Jonathan Stewart, CAR ($6,600) – No, Stewart isn't going to set off fireworks, but he can guarantee you double-digit points. Three running backs have neared or surpassed 20 carries against the Packers: Todd Gurley (30), Matt Forte (24) and Ronnie Hillman (19). Each one had a good day: Gurley 15.9, Forte 25.1 and Hillman 18.0. JStew isn't as talented as Gurley and Forte, but you don't think he can match a Hillman day with 20-plus touches?


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The Ministry of Justice yesterday condemned the Spanish government’s deportation of two Taiwanese fraud suspects to China, which it said curtails the fundamental rights of suspects.
The case dates back to December 2016, when Spanish authorities arrested 269 suspects, including 219 Taiwanese, who allegedly used telecom scams to defraud Chinese citizens of a total of 12 million euros (US$14.2 million at the current exchange rate).
Spanish media reports at the time said it was the largest joint operation between Chinese and Spanish law enforcement agencies, which raided the offices of telecom fraud rings in Barcelona, Madrid and Alicante.
The families of the Taiwanese suspects hired lawyers to represent them in Spain, hoping that they would be sent back to Taiwan.
However, the Spanish authorities, citing extradition requests by China, on Friday last week deported two of the 219 Taiwanese fraud suspects to China to face trial.
The Ministry of Justice said that together with other government agencies, including the nation’s representative office in Spain, it had offered legal and other forms of assistance to the suspects.
“However, we regret that the Spanish government did not respond and had denied an official request for extradition and joint investigation work by our nation’s judicial and law enforcement agencies,” the ministry said in a statement.
“We have notified the Spanish government about our concerns pertaining to human rights violations in China and its justice system, and asked that it handle the case with prudence,” the statement said.
Madrid’s deportation of the Taiwanese suspects to China contravened the European Convention on Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, it added.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mainland Affairs Council also released statements protesting the move.
The foreign ministry expressed strong regret over the issue, while pledging to continue to provide assistance through the nation’s representative office in Spain to uphold the rights of Taiwanese and help the families of the suspects establish contact.
The council lodged a protest with the Chinese government, saying that the case has damaged trust between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and contravened provisions in the Cross-Strait Joint Crime-Fighting and Judicial Mutual Assistance Agreement (海峽兩岸共同打擊犯罪及司法互助協議).
“It is our consistent stance that Taiwanese suspected of alleged criminal activities abroad be returned to Taiwan. The best way to crack down on telecom fraud operations and to catch the ringleaders is by undertaking mutual collaboration to gather and verify evidence during the judicial investigation process,” the council said.


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Do you know that visiting a physiotherapist during your pregnancy and post delivery can reduce the pain and also helps you deliver a healthy baby? It is now a scientifically proven fact that basic physical exercise in form of physiotherapy can actually keep you more flexible while carrying a baby in your womb. Additionally, your pelvic issues can also be sorted if you visit a physiotherapist once in a week. Followings are the reasons why pregnant women must rely on physiotherapy pre and post-delivery.
During pregnancy, most women find it extremely difficult to continue with their regular jobs. Life comes to a standstill for them. Consulting a physiotherapist will help you go smooth during the crucial change in life. It will certainly help you remain active which is essential for your baby’s normal development. Pain and exhaustion are common during pregnancy but you can take things under control with physiotherapy.
Body weight during pregnancy creates a major posture problem which eventually gives sprain. Retention of fluid plays the vital role increasing your body mass. Pelvic pain is the result of this change. A physiotherapist can help you during the crucial nine months. From reducing your back pain to making your body agile, physiotherapy is the best solution to stay healthy and fit for the delivery.
During the last trimester, the pain often goes beyond control. Normal delivery becomes a challenge for those women. Thankfully physiotherapy teaches how to push the baby correctly while having labor pain. There are certain exercises that will help you give birth to a healthy child. Pushing correctly will also reduce the pain significantly.
For many women, delivery becomes a trauma and that’s why they never want to go for the second child. That shouldn’t be your case if you go for physiotherapy in Ottawa. From boosting up your confidence to making you physically strong to withstand the pain, physiotherapy is undoubtedly the greatest source to remain strong and steady when you are carrying your soul inside your womb.
Trained physiotherapist's job is to assist you throughout the pre and post-delivery period. Women’s pelvic health often gets compromised during pregnancy and delivery. Physiotherapy is the most effective way to connect your tissues, muscles, and nerves. In this way, you can automatically get back to your normal life.
Post-delivery most women complain about the weight that they gain during the span of nine months. Physiotherapy is the best way to shed some extra kilos. It has no side-effects but has a significant impact on your overall health. According to the recent studies, it is the ideal way to beat the post-delivery trauma.
Bones, muscles, and tissues are very tender parts of your body. Injuries in these parts can be minor to major. Medicine can only give you relief for a short period but it can’t heal your injury. On the other hand, physiotherapy is a long-term treatment and it always works to fix any such pain or strain. Don’t hesitate to go for physiotherapy while you are pregnant. It will only leave a positive impact on your body.


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This is the first lesson in a series of videos where I’ll be teaching y’all a ton of my favorite classic country and bluegrass strumming patterns. In this lesson, we’re going to start with the basics and learn one of the most important strumming patterns used in country and bluegrass music. We’ll break down the pattern in detail and then I’ll show you how to use it with several common open chords. After that, I’ll give you some info on the chord numbering system, and finally, we’ll practice the strumming pattern using a really common country and bluegrass chord progression in four different keys.
Hey Devin – I just wanted to say you have some of the best country/bluegrass lessons I’ve seen online, and very nice professional website. I’m glad I stumbled upon your lessons! Looking forward to learning with you.
Wow, always impressed with your lessons, Devin. Great instruction and fantastic video work.
Thank you! This is what I needed.
Great lesson Devin I especially liked the technique comments on the light touch and loose hold on the pick. Would it be possible to get some advise on maybe string gauge or any other equipment issue,s that might help. Any discovery’s you have made along the way or through other bluegrass contacts.
I use Elixer Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze strings in a medium gauge — nicest strings I’ve ever tried. I think medium gauge has a richer tone for bluegrass but the lights of that brand still sound great. Also check out BlueChip Picks. They’re expensive but worth it. I use a TP55 or a TP50 from BlueChip Picks. Between having your guitar set up to lower the action, Elixer strings, and a BlueChip pick, your guitar should sound great for bluegrass.
Is there a way, within the courses, to keep track of the lessons done?
Quick update…now you can complete each lesson in the courses by clicking the button below the video and it’ll update the competed status on the lesson outline. Hope that helps!
Devin, I really like your style of teaching, looking forward to learning even more rhythm styles.
The organization and the way you teach guitar are exceptional. All is well structured and progressive and it’s up to us to take advantage of it…..thank you so much Devin.
Good catch on adding the fifth string C note to the F chord. Actually makes the chord easier to do. Thanks.
I I I I IV IV I I V V I I: regarding the numbering sequence that you have used. Will most country songs be in this sequence of 12 measures?
This could be considered a fairly common progression but it really just depends on the song. I do see a lot of progressions that are 12 measures long or 16 measures long. This seems like a good length for jamming because it makes it easy to repeat over and over similar to the 12 bar blues concept.
Hey Devin, I have seen the video clips of all of your lessons on country and bluegrass Lead/Rhythm music.I appreciate your approach of teaching guitar lessons in an easy to understand step by step method with important tips and techniques that has helped me in learning guitar . I am looking forward to practicing all of your lessons though it’s a long journey for me to become a perfect guitarist.
I would like to learn from you how to play the song “The Long Haired Country Boy” one of my favorite songs..


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This is the original Numberism etching of "3 am", etched by hand on scratchboard, with ink wash. The image is 16"x20" and is framed and ready to hang. It is signed and comes with a certificate of authenticity and a magnifying glass.
Sienna Morris etched "3 am" with the numbers of the clock, 1 - 12, to remind us to appreciate the present. This piece is from her ongoing Evening Series.
This is an original scratch board etching with ink wash. Original illustrations come with a certificate of authenticity and a magnifying glass in addition to the description of the numbers used to create it. This piece is from the series on time and is meant to serve as a gentle reminder for us to focus on the moment we are experiencing.


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The Therapeutic Advertising Pre-Vetting Service (TAPS) is a user-pays service available to all advertisers making therapeutic and health claims to help minimise the risk of breaching the ASA Codes of Practice as well as other industry codes and relevant legislation. Information about TAPS is available at http://www.anza.co.nz.
Medicine’ – Medicines are any substance or article or active ingredient that is manufactured, imported, sold, or supplied wholly or principally for administering to one or more human beings for a therapeutic purpose (see definition below for therapeutic purpose). A medicine achieves, or is likely to achieve, the principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological, or metabolic means.
Only medicines that have been evaluated by Medsafe and have consent to distribute may be advertised in New Zealand. The medicine(s) advertised may be available on prescription or may be purchased ‘over-the-counter’.
A product can be a medicine in three ways.
Advertisers should not rely on the medicines classification schedule to determine whether or not a product is a ‘medicine with consent to distribute’ and is therefore able to be advertised.
Section 3 of the Medicines Act 1981(Meaning of Medicine) is available here www.legislation.govt.nz.
‘Medical Device’ – Medical Devices are devices that have a therapeutic purpose (see definition below for therapeutic purpose).
A product can appear to be a Medical Device by virtue of the way it works or the claims that are made on the label or in advertisements.
Section 3 (A) of the Medicines Act 1981 (Meaning of Medical Device) is available here www.legislation.govt.nz.
(f) investigating, replacing, or modifying parts of the human anatomy.
Only medicines with consent to distribute in New Zealand and medical devices can claim to have a therapeutic purpose in advertisements.
A ‘therapeutic purpose claim’ in an advertisement will likely refer to a medicine(s) or medical device that has a therapeutic effect on an actual or implied medical condition / disease or physiological process (see definition below for disease). A ‘therapeutic purpose claim’ may be accompanied by words such as enhance, improve, prevent, interfere with, terminate, reduce, increase, accelerate, inhibit, boost, treat, relieve and stimulate. For medicines, the therapeutic claims(s) must be consistent with the indication(s) that have been approved for the product.
Disease includes any injury, ailment, deformity, disorder, or adverse condition, whether of body or mind.
‘Natural Health Products and Dietary Supplements’ – Products for the primary purpose of bringing about a health benefit (see definition below for health benefit) to the person who uses the product. May include Natural Health Products, Dietary Supplements, Herbal Preparations and Traditional Medicines.
Health Benefit claims in advertisements for a Natural Health Product and Dietary Supplement must be supported by scientific or traditional substantiation. Only products that meet the definition in this Code of a Natural Health Product or Dietary Supplement may claim a health benefit in advertisements.
‘Health Services’ – Services that offer a method of treatment (see definition below for method of treatment) for a range of medical conditions OR services that offer support for normal healthy body functions. Providers may or may not be registered health professionals (as defined in the NZ Medicines Act). May include (but not limited to), services for Medicine, Surgery, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Rehabilitation, Diagnostics, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Fertility, Sterilisation, Relaxation Massage, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine.
Any method of treatment for reward undertaken, or represented to be undertaken, for a therapeutic purpose.
A health practitioner who is, or is deemed to be, registered with an authority established or continued by the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 as a practitioner of a particular health profession.
When advertising is directed to Healthcare Professionals or Healthcare Professionals appear in advertisements, this definition also includes those who are studying or undertaking research in relation to any of the registered health professions and employees of healthcare professionals.
Note: The Medicines Act does not permit healthcare professionals endorsing a medicine or a medical device in advertisements to consumers.
Advertisers should take care in using the term ‘healthcare professional’ in advertisements. People in advertisements, or who are referred to in advertisements, should only be labelled as a Healthcare Professional (or are studying, undertaking research or are employees of healthcare professionals) if they fit the legal definition otherwise the advertisement may be misleading.
Weight Loss / Weight Management Programme’ – A programme that may include the sale of e.g. food, meals, meal replacement or gym equipment, and may include advice on diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes. Weight is lost or managed through reduced energy intake and / or increased energy is expended. Where there is suitable substantiation, claims for weight loss may be made in advertisements for weight programmes.
Advertisements for weight programmes are NOT subject to the Medicines Act unless there is a medicine or medical device advertised with the programme. Advertisements for weight programmes that include a Medicine, Medical Device, Natural Health Product or Dietary Supplement or Health Service are subject to the advertising requirements of this Code for these products.
Advertisements for Weight Programmes that include a medicine, medical device or health service may only claim ‘weight loss’ if this claim can also be made about the product / device / service. A weight loss claim in an advertisement for weight programmes such as these will infer a weight loss claim on the product / device / service.
This could be misleading if the product / device / service is not able to make a weight loss claim when advertised alone (without the weight programme).
Natural Health Products and Dietary Supplements when advertised alone may not make weight loss claims in advertisements. When included in an advertisement for a weight management programme weight loss claims cannot be made about the product or the programme.
PLEASE NOTE: There are further detailed guidance notes on the Advertising of Weight Management Programmes at the end of this code. These guidance notes assist advertisers to produce advertisements in a socially-responsible manner and so consumers are not deceived or misled.
Therapeutic and Health advertisements shall observe a high standard of social responsibility particularly as consumers often rely on such products, devices and services for their health and wellbeing.
Advertisements shall contain the following mandatory information to encourage responsible prescribing, recommendation, sale and use.
This information shall be set out in a way (legible / audible) that ensures it can be readily understood by the audience to whom it is directed.
Mandatory information as required by the most recent edition of the Medicines Act, Medicines Regulations, Medsafe Guideline on Advertising therapeutic products, Medicines NZ Code of Practice and the Self-Medication Industry Code of Practice.
Always read the label and follow the instructions.
This Medical Device must be administered / applied / implanted by a healthcare professional.
For products that contain vitamins and / or minerals, the following additional statement (or words to this effect).
For products that may be used for a short time, after which the consumer should seek medical advice, the following additional statement (or words to this effect).
Name and address of the advertiser.
The following statements (or words to the effect).
‘Food additional’ or ‘Plus the cost of food’.
Any other mandatory information relevant to products, devices or services advertised with the programme.
The following statement (or words to the effect).
Weight management takes time and effort to be successful. People should seek professional advice on diet, exercise and lifestyle changes.
Including the name and address of the advertiser in advertisements for therapeutic and health products, devices and services allows consumers to determine who is responsible for the advertisement. They are then able to make contact with the advertiser to, for example, ask questions or request more information. Including the name and address of the advertiser is a legislated requirement for advertisements for medicines and medical devices.
The advertiser’s address may be limited to the City name providing the advertiser can be easily located via an online search or in the White / Yellow Pages. Advertisers may also include their company website address.
are safe or that their use cannot cause harm or that they have no side effects or risks.
harmful consequences may result from the therapeutic or health product, device or service not being used.
Advertisements should not portray unrealistic outcomes or prey on or misrepresent vulnerable audiences (e.g. sick, elderly, pregnant women, overweight people).
The use of scientific language in advertisements is acceptable providing that it is appropriate to, and readily understood by, the audience to whom it is directed.
Advertisements shall be truthful, balanced and not misleading. Advertisements shall not mislead or be likely to mislead, deceive or confuse consumers, abuse their trust, exploit their lack of knowledge or without justifiable reason, play on fear. This includes by implication, omission, ambiguity, exaggerated or unrealistic claim or hyperbole.
Advertisements shall be accurate. Statements and claims shall be valid and shall be able to be substantiated. Substantiation should exist prior to a claim being made. For medicines and medical devices, therapeutic claims must be consistent with the approved indication(s) (for medicines) or the listed intended purpose (for medical devices). In addition to the ASA Guidance Note on Responding to a Complaint about Misleading Claims, the following guidance is specific to advertising therapeutic products, natural health products and dietary supplements and health services. Substantiation varies for claims made in advertisements depending on what is being advertised.
i. Therapeutic claims for Medicines shall be those approved by Medsafe and thus would be consistent with the product Data Sheet, Consumer Medicine Information and / or the approved Label.
ii. Therapeutic claims for Medical Devices should be consistent with the ‘Intended Purpose’ noted on the WAND listing and the claims must be able to be supported by appropriate substantiation.
Medical Devices must be listed on WAND within 30 working days after the device is first imported, exported or manufactured (Note: There are some exceptions to this WAND listing requirement).
There is no independent evaluation in New Zealand of the substantiation for claims made about a medical device. The onus to have substantiation on-hand and provide it when necessary, lies with the advertiser.
Please note: The WAND database is not accessible to members of the public or any other party except Medsafe and the New Zealand sponsor.
Note: It is an offence under the Fair Trading Act to make a claim in an advertisement that cannot be substantiated. Advertisers must be able to back up a claim before the claim is made in an advertisement. This Commerce Commission Fact Sheet provides an overview of the substantiation provisions of the Fair Trading Act.
Advertisements shall not encourage, or be likely to encourage, inappropriate or excessive purchase or use. Advertisements for prescription medicines shall not encourage, or be likely to encourage, inappropriate or excessive prescriptions or requests for a prescription.
Comparative advertising shall be balanced and shall not be misleading, or likely to be misleading, either about the product, device or service advertised or classes of products, devices or services, with which the comparison is made.
Comparative advertisements shall not be disparaging and shall be factual, fair and able to be substantiated, referenced to the source and reflective of the body of available evidence.
Comparative advertisements shall not discourage consumers from following the advice of their healthcare practitioner.
Comparative advertisements shall compare ‘like with like’. Advertisements for Natural Health Products and Dietary Supplements shall not include comparisons with medicines or medical devices either specifically or generally.
Advertisements may include reference to the advertiser’s sponsorship of any government agency, hospital or other facility providing healthcare services, provided that sponsorship is explicitly acknowledged and cannot be misconstrued as an endorsement of the product, device or service being advertised.
Advertisements shall not claim or imply endorsement of the product, device or service by any government agency, professional body or independent agency unless there is prior consent, the endorsement is current, verifiable and the agency or body is named.
Patient testimonials and healthcare professional endorsements in advertisements, where not prohibited by law, shall comply with the Code, be authenticated, genuine, current, and typical and acknowledge any valuable consideration. Exceptional cases shall be represented as such. The Medicines Act Section 58 (1) (c) (iii) prevents the use of patient testimonials in advertisements to consumers for medicines or medical devices or methods of treatment where a therapeutic benefit is obtained (Note: Section 60 of the Medicines Act exempts advertisements that are circulated solely or principally to healthcare professionals). This means that an advertisement to consumers cannot include (or imply) a patient (or group of patients / class of people) with a medical condition or disease, taking a medicine or using a medical device or have accessed a method of treatment and showing in some way that they have benefited from it.
Testimonials for natural health products and dietary supplements, and health services to support a normal bodily function are permitted. However, these testimonials should not include any information that implies the product is a medicine or medical device or that the service has a therapeutic benefit. This is likely to breach the Medicines Act. The content of testimonials must be consistent with the claims allowed in the advertisement for these products and services.
The Medicines Act Section 58 (1) (c) (ii) prevents the use of healthcare professional endorsement in advertisements to consumers for medicines or medical devices or methods of treatment where a therapeutic benefit is obtained (Note: Section 60 of the Medicines Act exempts advertisements that are circulated solely or principally to healthcare professionals). This means that an advertisement to consumers cannot include a registered healthcare professional (real or fictitious) recommending (or implying to recommend) a medicine or medical device or a method or treatment for a therapeutic benefit to members of the public.
Healthcare Professional endorsements for natural health products and dietary supplements are not permitted.
Healthcare Professional endorsements for health services to support a normal bodily function are permitted. However, the endorsement should not include any information that implies that the service has a therapeutic benefit. This is likely to breach the Medicines Act. The content of a healthcare professional endorsement must be consistent with the claims allowed in the advertisement for these services.
Other individuals or organisations may endorse a medicine, medical device, therapeutic service, natural health product and dietary supplement or health service in advertisements. The endorsement should be consistent with the claims allowable for what is being advertised. These endorsements should not include or imply a testimonial (i.e. have used themselves and benefited) unless the testimonial is consistent with the statements above in the testimonial section of these Guidelines. To be consistent with the legislation, advertisements for medicines or medical devices that include endorsement by a Government Agency must not state or imply that the Government Agency has approved the content of the advertisement.
Testimonials and Endorsements in advertisements should not breach the Therapeutic and Health Advertising Code, Principle 2, Rule 2 (b) Advertisements shall not encourage, or be likely to encourage, inappropriate or excessive purchase or use.
The advertising for Weight Management Programmes should be conducted in a socially responsible manner and should not deceive or mislead consumers. These guidelines recognise the social and health issues arising from obesity and its impact on society. It is generally accepted that losing weight and maintaining the weight loss is difficult in many circumstances. Consumers targeted by advertisements for weight loss may be unduly influenced by claims for quick or easy weight loss or ‘magic bullet’ solutions. Advertisers should avoid these kinds of claims.
So that advertisements for Weight Management Products and Programmes observe a high standard of social responsibility, the following guidance is provided.
a) Advertisements should acknowledge nutrition and exercise as major elements in individual weight management.
To help comply with the requirement for a high standard of social responsibility, Advertisers shall include reference to the need for a balanced, healthy diet and regular exercise as key elements of individual weight management. See the Therapeutic and Health Advertising Code for suitable statements.
b) Advertisements should not suggest or imply that consumers follow a diet which is not nutritionally well-balanced or include a plan or process that has, or is likely to have, an energy intake less than that recommended by an authoritative dietary expert and specified from time-to-time in the Guidance Notes.
Advertisers shall not promote a diet plan with less than 3500 kilojoules (800 calories) per day on average over the course of one week.
c) Advertisements should not imply that the product or service is a substitute for a balanced diet.
d) Claims for specific weight loss or reduction in body measurement should be realistic and supportable.
e) Advertisements should not promote unrealistic, rapid, or unsafe outcomes.
f) Advertisements should not be directed nor have strong appeal, to people under the age of 18.
g) Advertisements should not suggest or recommend weight loss during pregnancy.
h) Advertisements should not suggest that it is socially or culturally desirable to be underweight.
i) Statements or implications to the effect that consumers of an advertised product or service can “…eat as much as you like…” or “…eat, eat and get slim…” cannot be used.
Please Note: The ASA Complaints Board has regularly upheld complaints about weight loss or management products and services which make claims similar to those above. It is deemed socially irresponsible to encourage those who are trying to lose weight to eat an unlimited amount of food, regardless of the effects of the product or service being promoted.
j) Advertisements for intensive physical activity programmes, products and services should encourage users to check with a doctor or professional adviser before commencing.
Advertisers should take care that models or actors, and any person providing testimonials, should not be underweight and have a generally-accepted weight to height ratio and body-mass index.
In addition, when using permitted testimonials, images should not be manipulated to misrepresent actual results.
Guarantees in weight management advertising must be used with great care. In particular, if a guarantee offered is for your money back, as opposed to in support of the efficacy of the product, this must be clear.


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The Bichat Balls are a greasy accumulation on the inside of the cheeks that is extracted to define the facial oval through more stylized cheekbones that emphasize the faces of the face. Is a procedure widely used by celebrities as it helps remove the cheeks and wore a face aesthetically interesting.
Elsa Pataky, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Cindy Crawford, Tom Cruise and Michelle Pfeiffer are among the celebrities who have done the extraction of Bichat balls.
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In Tim Burton’s whimsical stop-motion 3D response to the Frankenstein myth, Victor’s beloved dog Sparky meets with a tragic end and the young inventor decides to bring him back to life.
Funny, dark and whimsical, this gloriously crafted, stop-motion 3D animation from Tim Burton – the reigning prince of outsiders – playfully turns the Frankenstein story on its bolted-on head. When Victor’s beloved dog Sparky meets with a tragic end, the young inventor devises an ingenious way to bring him back to life, inspired by a science lesson from the brilliant (if decidedly unhinged) Mr Rzykruski. Intuitively understanding that conformity rules the town of New Holland, Victor realises he must keep this incredible feat a secret from everyone, including Elsa van Helsing, the perfectly strange girl-next-door. Gleefully nostalgic – amongst its many cult movie references are a poodle with a Bride of Frankenstein beehive and a monstrous nod to Godzilla – the film returns to the territory of Edward Scissorhands in its theme of the creative loner struggling in alien small-town suburbia and is populated by a multitude of beautifully realised characters (at once unique and totally recognisable) brought to life by the voice talent of Martin Landau, Winona Ryder, Martin Short and Catherine O’Hara among others. A ‘pet’ project in more ways than one, Frankenweenie expands on Burton’s 1984 live-action short film of the same name, constructing in puppet-form characters that have developed in his sketchbooks over many years, the traces of which could be seen in MoMA’s recent Tim Burton exhibition. Filmed at the 3 Mills Studio in London, with hundreds of British craftspeople contributing to the production, the puppets are designed and created by Altrincham-based company Mackinnon & Saunders, who also fabricated the puppets for LFF 2009 Opening Night film Fantastic Mr. Fox and whose previous Burton collaborations include Corpse Bride and the martian designs for Mars Attacks! Stunning design, art direction and music from other Burton regulars Rick Heinrichs, Tim Browning and Danny Elfman round-out this truly wondrous cinematic experience.
Audiences around the UK will have the exclusive chance to see opening night red carpet footage and a Q&A with the film’s creators beamed live by satellite into their local cinema and followed by a screening of Frankenweenie.
American Express pre-sale from 24 – 26 September.
Cineworld, Disney and BFI London Film Festival tickets can be applied for from 27 September.
For full details and participating venues please visit showfilmfirst.com/frankenweenie.
The reason I originally wanted to make Frankenweenie was based on growing up and loving horror movies. But it was also the relationship I had when I was a child with a certain dog that I had. It’s a special relationship that you have in your life and very emotional. Dogs obviously don’t usually live as long as people, so therefore you experience the end of that relationship. So that, in combination with the Frankenstein story, just seemed to be a very powerful thing to me – a very personal kind of remembrance. […] It was just something about the power of creating something out of nothing, which is again why I like stop motion. It is taking basically a lifeless puppet and making it come to life. There’s a beauty to stop motion, and there is something in it that mirrors the Frankenstein story of where you’re taking an inanimate object and bringing it to life. There’s an energy to that, that you can’t quite get in any other form. [...] The black and white is very much a part of the story, the character and the emotion of it, and that was always very important. There’s an emotional quality to black and white; like another character. Seeing this kind of animation that way, there’s a certain depth and a certain way people and objects go in and out of shadows that’s quite interesting, and again very much a part of the story. [...] I’m excited because all the elements – trying to capture the spirit of the drawings, the opportunity to do stop motion, black and white, 3D – all those elements together make it an original creation.
Born in Burbank in 1958, he studied character animation at California Institute of the Arts (alongside classmates including John Lasseter and Henry Selick), graduating in 1979, and taking up a proffered animation apprenticeship at Walt Disney. His personal style proved to be at odds with the studio's, and he took refuge in side projects such as the six-minute Vincent. His kung-fu version of Hansel and Gretel became his first live-action film, and the original Frankenweenie soon followed. In terms of his regular collaborators, he first worked with composer Danny Elfman on Pee Wee's Big Adventure, with actor Johnny Depp on Edward Scissorhands, and with future partner Helena Bonham Carter on Planet of the Apes. He was honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2007. He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation of his drawings, sketches and other artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009.


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I love food, you guys know that. I also love many different varieties of food and rave about certain ones all the time. Pomegranate happens to be one of them. Even when I was unaware of the easy methods to separate the seeds from the flesh, I did the hard labour willingly and quite often just so I could enjoy these juicy bursts of refreshing sweetness in my mouth. In case you happen to be in the dark of the few ways you can easily deseed one of these glorious fruits, I will share them. My preferred method is filling up a large bowl with water. I then cut my pomegranate in quarters and place them in the water. Once you go in to separate the seeds from the flesh, they just effortlessly float apart. All the annoying, floating, break away fleshy particles float to the top of water while the plump seeds sink to the bottom. Ta-da. The other method (which I haven’t personally tried so don’t curse me if it doesn’t work) is just cutting open the ‘granate and hitting the outer flesh with a wooden spoon over a bowl. Apparently the seeds are just easily beaten out. Now that you know a couple techniques, you have no excuse not to be eating these antioxidant rich seedlings of joy.
Another popular fruit that will be booming anytime now is the mandarin orange. Everyone has made or at least tasted a traditional salad with mandarins in it. I wanted something a little more juicy, vibrant, and plantifully prepared. I’m a sucker for the traditional taste of a light balsamic drizzle over a light and fresh salad so I simply just heightened the citrus flavour a tad and came out with an incredible salad dressing. I’m sure it would make for an awesome chicken marinade as well.

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