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I had planned to do a stand-alone post about this after I watched the episode, but I just saw this tweet and I guess this is happening now. [Might update this or add to it later once I've seen the episode.]
Ok, a few things right from the start:
- It's a rape. Call it that.
- The fact that they're tweeting this and they haven't tweeted stuff like this before the other rapes on the show means they've seen fan reactions to the scene. Just like they've probably seen fan reactions to the eleventy billion other instances of rape and sexual assault in the show. So tweeting it for this one comes off more as a mea culpa than just a content warning. "We know y'all are *really* sick of watching people get raped in this show, but at least we're giving you a heads up this time."
- I know the people who run the twitter account are completely separate from the people who make the show. But the fact that the producers did an interview before the season even started airing where they tried to justify including this rape means they too are very aware of public sentiment toward seeing yet *another* scene like this. And they chose to include it anyway, because "historical accuracy" (which is bullshit) and "the book."
- This show is an adaptation. There are ways to do the story that don't involve this rape. They shouldn't have included it.
- Art doesn't exist in a vacuum. Shows, movies, plays, etc., are all partly reflections of the time in which they are made, maybe even moreso than the time in which they are supposed to be portraying. Art is inherently political. The inclusion of this rape tells me that the showrunner and producers took a look at the current state of society and feelings about this kind of subject matter and thought it was a good idea to include it anyway. Which tells me that these are people who I would never truly feel safe around.
- Other prestige drama's have gotten a lot of heat for doing something similar to what this episode does even before the #MeToo movement had the national spotlight. But why listen to and learn from what audiences are willing to tolerate in their media consumption? ಠ_ಠ
So now let's get down to the actual problem: Bree's rape was never about her. Or a ring. She was raped to set up a dilemma for Roger. Will he stay and accept the chance it's not his kid? Or will he leave and risk that it is?
This plot line is unnecessary on every conceivable level. Rape is already overused in the story. They've already done multiple story lines with children being raised by people who aren't their biological parents and/or the truth about the child's parentage was hidden.
Unplanned pregnancy, and the decisions to be made in response to one, is a big deal on its own. Making the choice to stay in the past and raise a child is a massive decision, for both Bree and Roger. The child maybe not being Roger's as some sort of character test is unnecessary when the "love vs. obligation" question can still be played out when it definitely is his child.
This is the part when I put on my same old broken record and maintain that Jamie's rape at Wentworth was the only one that should have been included in the show. Jamie's rape by Geneva could have been avoided by having him sleep with her voluntarily (honestly the way they shot it was gross given it was a rape, but would have worked well if he had been there by choice), as it'd been years since he'd slept with anyone and she's smokin' hot and he could sympathize with her wanting to have sex on her own terms. Willie would still be conceived. You don't need rape to get Willie. Young Ian's rape was completely pointless, he'd been through enough trauma to change him as a person and leave him with some PTSD with the kidnap and captivity in Jamaica. Mary and Fergus could also have been easily omitted. Jamie would have understandably snapped and challenged Black Jack to a duel at even the hint of a threat toward Fergus. The rape itself didn't need to happen to get from point A to point B. Mary's rape is literally just to get her out of the arranged marriage so she can be with Alex Randall. That is the dumbest possible reason to rape a child. Claire has been through more sexual assault and attempted rape than anyone else on the show yet is not given the same space as Jamie or Young Ian to process her trauma.
There is absolutely no reason to include Bree's rape.
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Good Lord, how delicious! I wanna do that! The next time I'm in a cathedral, I'm doing it.
As she stood inside an ancient and empty church in Montefrío, Spain, Malinda Kathleen Reese belted out one of the best Christmas carols of all time-"O Come, O Come Emmanuel" and the end result was just heavenly.
I'm obsessed with this because A. Victorian Christmas Carols B. European Cathedrals C. It's gorgeous and fuckin choristers are my favorite
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Sunday, 23 December 2018
I can't even understand how this episode falls under the banner of Outlander. It is possibly the worse ever episode of Outlander, if Wilmington can still be called Outlander. The sexless sex scene – Roger and Bree – was purely gratuitous. I cringed at the non-existent chemistry and prolonged torturous scene.
We get crumbs for Jamie and Claire this season; lack of affection and passion, as well as fade-to-black scenes. When we see them, they are either on the verge of dealing with another conflict, be separated, too busy with others, etcetera. When they are together, their dialogues are choppy, their connections are awkward, and their intimate scenes (two of them) are too brief and unsatisfying. But we get endless nudity and sexless sex scenes with the couple that will go down in the history of television as the most uncharismatic couple? It's embarrassing if it's not so maddening that this is what we are getting now.
Claire has nothing to do but look surly and matronly, be dismissive of Jamie, and perform yet another surgery. Jamie has nothing better to do but indulge in political scheming to save his kin – Murtagh – and those he are loyal to. Outlander has no other storyline but drama, conflict, sexual violence, more drama, more conflict and more sexual violence. The essence of the show – Jamie and Claire Fraser – is lost. Enter everyone and everything else to fill the time.
The theatre, George Washington, and the Regulators – these are scenarios that could have taken a back seat to Jamie meeting his daughter and Bree being reunited with her parents. This could easily be the episode for the Fraser family reunion.
The rape was what it was. There is nothing to say about it.
This episode was pointless. Weak storyline, mediocre acting, lack of coherence and continuity, and more. I don't even see how production can put out such as episode for the 50th anniversary. I do not see Jamie and Claire Fraser as they should be in Drums of Autumn.
This is not the Outlander that I have been devoted to. This is not the Outlander that I became Obsessable about. I do not recognize this show anymore.
I lay the blame squarely on the writers and producers. It's clear that they are hiring a motley crew of inexperienced writers (IMDB and LinkedIn call tell you) and those in charge fail to steer them in the right direction. They have lost the vision and the decline in quality from S1 is soul crushing to witness.
@pissedoffsoka13 Yes. Apart from no understanding of Jamie and Claire's characters, they all seem to be cynics of love. Toni Graphia has said conflict makes good tv. Matt seems to be the only romantic in there but we are not seeing a hint of that.
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Ok so the official NPR account has now tweeted the story my local affiliate posted a few days ago, and now I'm just wondering if we're ever going to get a follow up piece about how for every consensual scene there's a rape or assault… Yeah, I didn't think so.


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16-year-old Greta Thunberg, the new face of climate activism, has made calls for governments to achieve net zero emissions by 2030. Thunberg and 15 other young activists recently filed a lawsuit against five of the biggest carbon polluters in the world (Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey), on grounds that their failure to adequately reduce emissions violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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- Conservative Party: require investment in private sector research and development of green technology from major emitters producing more than 40 kilotonnes of CO2e per year.
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I don't write about dreams much, because I don't have them very much. Or at least don't remember them very much. And way too often, I probably shouldn't share them with the public anyway. But anyway, here's what I remember of the one from last* night…it was wierd, because there was actual dialog in it, which is exceedingly rare for my dreams.
It started out that I was following some poorly hand-scrawled directions….no street names, just "left turn, right at the next intersection, right again at sort of a T"…which seemed to sync up with what the intersections actually looked like, so I knew I was headed in the right direction; so far, so good. (And it definitely wasn't in Boston, because it was always no more than 2 streets intersecting at once, and they were all named.) I came to some little commercial/industrial park, containing a huge sprawling apartment complex and a few other assorted buildings…now I just had to find Apartment 3B. OK, now I remember what I'm doing here. I'm meeting up with No* for the first time. Here's where I realize the directions I poorly transcribed don't specify any kind of an address or building name of any kind, just an apt. number. But I figure this sprawling apartment thingy has to be it, because I've run out of directions. But it looks like this area might have several different apt. buildings, this one seems to continue back into the landscape indefinitely (it's very low twilight, nearly nightfall by now, so I can't really see it well, but next to it is a different, unrelated, non-apartment-looking building, which the street/parking lot continues around.) For some reason, presumably to see if there's more than one building I'll have to search for this address, I continue around the corner where, sure enough, beyond the unrelated building there are rows and rows of apartments, but it appears to be all part of the same building from the other side, physically connected.
Here's where it starts becoming a canonical Tim-dream. We jump instantaneously from me driving around and finding this other piece of building to (me presumably parking, getting out of the car and walking toward the only open door I see on this part of the building) while at the same time (I'm running as fast as I can toward that first piece of building, realizing I've almost certainly overshot the entrance / main doors, if any. That piece of building looked more "main" than the segment the other instance of me parked at. Running only because it's a long way back around to that part. Next thing I know, running-me is starting to wonder why he's running, when he drove here, after all. Running-me doesn't remember parking and doesn't know why he's running, only that he should still have a car, and as far as he knows, still be in it. Running-me then starts wondering why he's running toward this other segment when it's all the same building anyway, and starts running back the way he came, toward where walking-toward-the-door-me is walking toward the door. Now, a little bit of reality is starting to trickle in from the world of non-sleep; running-me is realizing that I have known No* for quite some time now, and therefore wouldn't be having to follow bad directions to meet her for the first time, and that she definitely doesn't live here.) (That's another rare thing, for the sleep- and non-sleep worlds to intermix like that.)
Walking-me walks through the door and into the hallway, looking for Apt. 3B, but the first door I pass is unmarked. The first thing I notice about this place is how poorly and eerily lit everything is…shouldn't the hallways in apartment buildings be reasonably well-lit, and shouldn't the light diffuse somewhat uniformly off the narrow, off-white walls and low ceiling? It was more like in my first attempt at creating my own Quake level, where the lighting parameters were a little goofed up and all sources were rendered as a radius of bright bright flickering light around the source, fading to almost total darkness within the span of maybe a foot outside that radius. The second thing I noticed was the carpeting. I'm not exactly an interior decorator extraordinare, but the carpeting together with the lighting made all the hairs on my neck stand at attention and gave me the feeling that I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. If you brought the paint-mixing machine at Home Depot home for the evening, fed it some bad clams and it yuked all over your carpet in several gaudy, vomitrocious seventies-remnant colors, that's kind of what this carpet looked like, a full-body dinner exorcism in reddish-brown, vibrant orange and bile green.
Against my best judgment I continued onward (not far) and found myself in a dead-end, my eyes beginning to adjust to the lighting and make out the detail in the dark corners; there was a small bunk bed here and some college-student furniture. And a guy behind me, who came seemingly out of nowhere, welcoming me to his place. Apparently this narrow thing wasn't a hallway at all; somebody actually lived here. Middle-aged, balding and undefinably but unmistakably not-all-there. I didn't recognize the guy, but he claimed to have known me for quite some time… and was so glad that I had come here to be his friend. This man struck me as someone who didn't have a lot of friends…and the ones he did have might well be cut up neatly in pieces and stored in Formaldehyde in a box of underneath his bed. It felt like he would be delighted to make me one of them.
This thread kind of ended there, but meanwhile, another me (how many of me are there?) had just finished climbing to the top of a tall hill on the other side of the parking lot, to find him(my)self standing in front of some kind of (in dreamland) unmistakably DOD building. Overengineered, full of superfluous glass and unnecessary angles. The architecture kind of reminded me of a stealth bomber made out of glass, wood and concrete. The scene was in the colors of the DOD's SBIR site, with a blue, pink and gold sunset in the background criscrossed by an unlikely number of contrails. Interestingly, it seemed to be getting earlier and earlier, because it was pitch-black night when I was driving, barely twilight on reaching the apartments, and now brighter still. (The trivial explanation is that it was actually morning, not evening, but it really "felt like" evening, in the way that only dreams can feel like something.)
Same night, different segment, I dreamed that my BRAKE boards had come in at work, sometime when I was out (on vacation, or some kind of short trip). While I was gone, someone had carefully cut all the chip footprints out of the boards, leaving them full of neat little square holes where ICs would normally go. (Maybe this is the overworked engineer equivalent of the dream where you're taking a final and realize you're in your underwear.) There was a footprint for a huge Zoran Camera On A CHip, also neatly cut out and laid aside, making it pretty much useless. (Double bad, because having such a layout on the BRAKE boards to begin with means I would have been doing some extreme, employment-jeapordizing goofing off on project funds…)
*"last" night being defined relative to the datestamp I gave this (7/16/05)…now that I'm getting around to blogging stuff. Date on LJ may not be valid.
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Last weekend I celebrated my birthday. 21 again peeps. I am going to be rocking that age until I am into my 70s. Yes, age is only a number but I have a husband who likes to tease me on a daily basis about the fact that I am very much into my thirties. I refuse to accept it *sobs into tissues*. I do accept it really as my twenties were car crash so I much prefer my thirties. Anyway, I am waffling and believe me there is a point to this post. I have been thinking about how MY birthday is very different now that I have children:
- Pre-children a birthday meant that you had a lovely long lie-in. Post-children your birthday means that you are woken up by two children jumping up and down on your bed screeching "HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY".
- Pre-children you would have a leisurely soak in the bath before breakfast. Post-children you rush a shower while your children bang on the cubicle demanding that you hurry up as they want to open YOUR presents.
- Pre-children you would have a pile of impractical presents – presents that you requested. Post-children you have a measly pile of very sensible presents. This is your fault as you forgot about your rapidly approaching birthday and besides you now rather like sensible presents.
- Pre-children you would take your time opening your presents, savouring the experience, dragging it out. Post-children you turn round to take a sip of your coffee and turn back to find your children have opened all of your presents.
- Pre-children you would have a leisurely lunch in a swanky wine bar. Post-children you find an establishment for the children. You settle on a pub with soft-play. You then wince at the price of food. As a result, the children eat whilst you share a packet of crisps with Mr C. It's ok though because you didn't really fancy any of the beige food on offer.
- Pre-children you would go for a romantic stroll somewhere. Post-children you realise that soft-play has not tired the children out. You then take them to the beach for a mammoth walk. This does not tire them out either and the children declare they are hungry again. You still haven't eaten since breakfast.
- Pre-children you would go out somewhere flash for dinner. Post-children you let the children choose your birthday tea. This means you end up eating crackers and cheese in front of the T.V.
- Pre-children you might treat yourself to a beautiful chocolate cake. Post-children you have a cake that the children chose. You don't know whether you should be offended by the fact they have chosen a cake that is a pig.
- Pre-children you would be counting down until you can get your glam clothes on and go out. Post-children you are counting down until your children are in bed and therefore you can get into your PJs.
- Pre-children you would paaaaaaaaarty hard and possibly fall asleep in the nightclub toilets, with a lipstick penis drawn on your forehead (oh, just me then?) Post-children you fall asleep on the sofa and wake-up to find that your kids have covered you in Teletubbies stickers.
- Pre-children you find yourself in the kitchen in the early hours of the morning talking deep and meaningful "stuff" whilst stuffing toast into your mouth. Post-children you find yourself in the kitchen in the early hours of the morning with a threenager who wants to talk deep and meaningful "stuff" about Paw Patrol. Such as, why does Skye have no gadgets? Is it because she is female dog? I don't know Youngest, just let me eat my toast in peace.
- Pre-children you lied about your age and people tactfully pretended to believe that you were 21 again. Post-children and your kids inform you that "you can't be 21 as you look 70". Thanks.
Can you think of any ways your birthday has changed since having children?


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The star that was to announce the Savior's birth had been predicted for many generations. Countless years they would've spent reading the skies and studying the prophecies passed down through the years.
Suddenly, there it was. No doubt about it. The Star. 🌟
All their hope, their faith, and the evidence of their dedicated study was right there...shining bright before their eyes. What else could they do but rejoice?
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What is email deliverability
What is deliverability?
A proper definition of email deliverability is quite simple: it's the capacity of an outgoing message to reach its intended inbox.
Unfortunately, in fact, not any sent email is always delivered: a lot of troubles can happen during the travel from your mail client or software or webmail to the recipient. That may sound very odd for a newbie, but around 10% of mass mailings just never gets to the inbox: because of bounces (wrong addresses), antispam filters (that reject the message without even store it in the junk folder), and other technical issues.
To put it simply, deliverability depends on a series of factors that can be both internal to the message itself (general aspect, images, subject line, text percentage etc.) or external and relative to your database or your delivery mechanism (a clean list and a reliable SMTP server). So normally, email marketers talk about "improving deliverability" as any technique that tends to maximize the total rate of correctly delivered emails.
Here are some:
- Write a light, coherent and compelling content. The maximum weight of an email should be around 90Kb. Don't exceed with images and keep a good balance between them and pure text.
- Always provide a direct unsubscribe link in the footer. So that the user can opt out easily from your newsletter, without labelling it as spam (which will hurt your deliverability). Also, write short subjects without abusing of critical words like "free", "click here" or "cash".
- Use a professional SMTP service like turboSMTP, that will send your messages using only IPs with a high reputation (that is, only reliable protocols: not shared with spammy users or that risk to end up in a blacklist).
- Always send emails to a permission-based list. Never buy databases or collect addresses casually on the web: your communication should always be directed to people who opted in.
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The World No 1 cell phone maker, Nokia, has announced that it has made the famous internet communication system, Skype telephone services, available on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is the successor of Nokia N770 and it features internet applications which allow users to browse the internet, send and receive e-mail and instant messages and download audio & video. (Read more about Nokia N800)
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Remembering Don Klein
By Chris Szwedo
From any direction, the roads that we travel to Lime Rock are both beautiful and personal. After the hypnotic winding of forest one enters a space of passionate dimensions. It's a place that brings out the best in others, giving rise to relationships that are reflective of common dreams, and powered by the engines of uniqueness.
One valuable friend in our space of racing was Don Klein. Don was one of those successful guys in life. A New Jersey native who made it happen in Manhattan, but ultimately made western Connecticut his home-- a place in the woods with a tall grassy pasture to watch deer pass through on late afternoons. On occasion the light filters in through the pines, and the wind whips the grasses into a bright waving form. It is magical. It is rare and alive, and he knew it.
Don Klein could switch on creativity, humor, and zest for life as good as anyone. He made you laugh with the full bravado of words, and those words carefully consoled you when he knew that you were down. He was generous, loving to his wife and family, and when the grandchildren showed up he was the biggest kid in the room.
Don was a Car Guy who crashed the Italian Language, and was proud of the yellow and black "horses" in his own garage. As an automotive writer he could nail it as well as anyone because he felt it. I knew him for a fast ten years, and we often shared the stories of trying to make our love for our work of seeing racing as "art" into something others could appreciate. These are the words of real friends, and they become irreplaceable.
Along the way were the early signs of an illness that seemed at first too small to be noticed, but then roared through his lungs without mercy. He faced it squarely from the power of courage and honesty, and on the good days he fought for short rides in his quick black Audi R8, where the sensation of his hands on the steering wheel must have felt refreshingly normal.
It might be argued that racing, for all its speed, slows us a little. It places you in the moment and allows you self-control, with clear sounds and smells, the blinks of the eyes, the clicks of the stopwatch, and then, a final line to cross. When it's over something must stand out to help us know permanence. We give it a value and call it a memory, and then it becomes valuable because it's rare, and it gives us joy and hope for more trips around our own lucky circuits. Friendship is one of these rarities that we gather from our special places, and special places like Lime Rock surely know it when someone is missing. In Don Klein we have lost a great friend, one we'll need to remember, and who waits out there by the tall, waving sunlit grasses.
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The Winter Soldier: When S.H.I.E.L.D. is attacked, Captain America (Chris Evans) becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens the future of mankind. As the conspiracy deepens and trust is destroyed, Cap, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the Falcon (Anthony Mackie) must join forces to battle their insidious enemy's most mysterious and powerful weapon yet – the Winter Soldier
Civil War: An explosive rift rocks the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the game-changing epic, Captain America: Civil War. When government pressure to rein in the Avengers drives a deep wedge between Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), best friends are turned into bitter enemies. Against a backdrop of divided loyalties, mysterious villains and new allies, the ultimate battle for the future of the Avengers and all humanity erupts in this spectacular adventure!
BONUS FEATURESThe First Avenger:
- Marvel One-Shot: A funny thing happened on the way to Thor's hammer
- The assembly begins
- 6 featurettes
- Deleted scenes
- Commentary by Director Joe Johnston, Director of Photography Shelly Johnson and Editor Jeffrey Ford
- Commentary by Joe and Anthony Russo, & Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
- Gag Reel
- Deleted scenes: In Pursuit of Captain America, Hill and Sitwell Talk Loyalty, Nick Fury's Circle, Widow Reveals Her Past
- Featurettes: On the front Line: Inside look at Captain America's Battlegrounds, on set with Anthony Mackie: Cut the Check! Steve Roger's Notebook
- Audio Commentary By Anthony & Joe Russo And Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely
- Featurettes: United We Stand, Divided We Fall - The Making Of Captain America: Civil War - Part 1, United We Stand, Divided We Fall - The Making Of Captain America: Civil War - Part 2, Captain America: The Road To Civil War, Iron Man: The Road To Civil War, Open Your Mind: Marvel's Doctor Strange - Exclusive Sneak Peek
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There are a number of different training opportunities for your student organization. Whether these trainings are to help you manage your organization efficiently, or to access resources on campus, this page will share information and links to those tutorials and trainings.
Wisconsin Involvement Network Trainings & Instructions
The Wisconsin Involvement Network is supported by a company called Campus Labs. Check out the Help Center on their website for instructions documents and videos to help you navigate the website!
Additional RSO Trainings
Audio/Visual (AV) Equipment
Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) may use the Audio/Visual (AV) equipment available in select classrooms at no cost after completion of the required online training. Reserving a classroom with AV To reserve a classroom with AV, …
Sober Monitor Training
This information relates to the required training for Sober Monitors. Sober Monitors are an aspect of the Student Organization Alcohol Policy. At any event where the consumption of alcohol is allowed, each sponsoring organization must …
RSO Orientation
As a step in the application, all organizations will be given a link to the Student Organization Orientation video to watch online Back in the application, you will need to take a quiz and …
Workshops for RSOs
There are a number of resources available to student organizations to help build a strong organization whether that means developing a team or developing members. Two of those resources are CfLI sponsored student organizations: Adventure Learning Programs and Student Leadership Program. Visit their websites to learn about their workshops and to fill out a request!
The mission of the Adventure Learning Programs (ALPs) is to challenge people through adventure-based learning to discover themselves and understand those around them. We are a leadership organization that operates under the philosophy of Experiential Education where learners are purposefully engaged in direct experience and focused reflection in order to learn new skills.Read more
The Student Leadership Program (SLP) is a registered student organization that serves as one of the most active leadership groups on the University of Wisconsin campus. SLP believes the leadership process begins by strengthening individual leadership skills through involvement and reflection. The program offers opportunities to develop fundamental skills that are necessary to maintaining successful personal relationships, contributing to campus organizations and participating as citizens in our community.Read more


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Professor of Economics
PhD, MS, BS, Florida State University
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 305-628-6791
Office: O'Mailia Hall, Room 118
Since 1999 Maria Dolores Espino has been Professor of Economics at St. Thomas University in Miami, Fl. From 1985 to 1994 Dr. Espino was Assistant Professor of Economics at Florida International University. In 1994 she received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. After concluding that, she stayed on the Universidad of the Andes with a joint appointment in the Faculty of Economics and at the Center for International Studies.Dr. Espino is strongly involved in the community: She serves on the board of Citizens for a Better South Florida, a non-advocacy environmental education non-profit whose main purpose is increase environmental awareness among South Florida's minority communities. In 1994 Dr. Espino was appointed by Governor Chiles to serve on The Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida, tasked with recommending strategies to ensure a sustainable South Florida economy that could co-exist with a healthy Everglades ecosystem.
In December of 2003 Dr. Espino was appointed by the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Taskforce to serve on the Combined Structural and Operating Plan Advisory Team to provide recommendations to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for critical Everglades' restoration projects. She also serves the Social and Economic Development Council to which she was appointed by the Miami Dade County Board of Commissioners.
- "Diaspora Tourism: Performance and Impact of Nonresident Nationals o Cuba's Tourism Sector", in Cuba in Transition, Vol. 23, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Washington, D.C. 2013, pp 416-422.
- "The Cuban Tourism Sector: A Note on Performance in the First Decade of the 21st Century", in Cuba in Transition, Vol. 20, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Washington, D.C. 2010, pp 364-369.
- "Cuban Tourism: A Critique of the CEPAL 2000 Report", in Cuba in Transition, Vol. 11, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Washington, D.C. 2001, pp 343-349.
- "Human Resources Demand for the Management of Natural Resources and the Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean", with Sergio Ardila in Environmental and Natural Resource Management Priorities for Latin America and the Caribbean, A.D. Tillet and Carlos Sere ed., LACRO Discussion Series: 4, Montevideo, Uruguay, July, 1995, pg.131-144.
- "Tourism in Cuba: A Development Strategy for the 1990's?" in Cuban Studies, Vol. 23, Pittsburgh, PA; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, pg. 49-69. Also in Cuba at the Crossroads. Jorge Perez-Lopez ed. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1994, pg.147-166.
- "Environmental Deterioration and Protection in Socialist Cuba." Cuba in Transition, Vol. 2, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy Conference Proceedings, LACC, Miami, FL, 1993, pp. 327-342.
- "Tourism in Socialist Cuba" in Tourism Marketing and Management in the Caribbean, Dennis J. Gayle and Jonathan N. Goodrich, ed., Routledge Press Publishers, London and New York, June, 1993, pp. 100-110.


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Effect of Mutation and Recombination on the Genotype-Phenotype Map
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The effect of genetic operators other than selection, such as mutation and recombination, on the genotype-phenotype map is considered. In particular, when the genotypic fitness landscape exhibits a ``symmetry'', i.e. many genotypes corresponding to the same phenotype have equal fitness values, it is shown that such operators can break this symmetry. The consequences of this ``induced symmetry breaking'' are investigated. Specifically, it is shown that it generically leads to an increase in order or self-organization in the system and to the phenomenon of orthogenesis. Additionally, it is shown that it potentially leads to a more robust evolution circumventing some of the problems of brittleness. The above points are supported by explicit, analytic results associated with some simple one and two-locus models and also by some much more complicated numerical simulations.


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Even noteworthy celebrities such as Madonna, Christy Turlington, David Beckham, Adam Levine and Ashton Kutcher enjoy the benefits of maintaining their health and youthfulness by practicing Yoga.
Yoga Instructor, Caroline Klebl developed 200 and 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training Programs, which she conducts in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City and in beautiful tropical retreat locations around the world. Her certification courses are registered with the Yoga Alliance and surpass the international 200 and 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training standards. Graduates of her course have opened Yoga centers and teach Yoga all over the world.
Caroline Klebl's comprehensive Yoga Teacher Training programs are open to current and aspiring teachers and yoga practitioners all over the US and internationally. The combination of the high standard of practice of the Ashtanga Vinyasa System and the development of teaching skills are the fundamental components of this yoga teacher training. It introduces students to yoga practice safely and effectively. By learning the Ashtanga Yoga method, it is possible for participants to teach Vinyasa, Power and Ashtanga Yoga classes. For additional information please visit www.sourceofyoga.com
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In addition to instruction in the practice and method of teaching of the over 70 yoga postures of the Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga, the training includes instruction in meditation, Ayurveda, Anatomy and Yoga Philosophy. The practice of Ashtanga Yoga quickly builds strength and increases flexibility. It eliminates toxins from the body, improves overall health and maintains youthfulness.
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Thank you to CBC America (Computar) for taking the time to visit RMA Electronics, Inc. recently. From left to right, Terry Sekiya, Ilias Levis, Kan Saito, Ron Massa Jr., Ron Massa Sr., and Nick Kushiro.
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By Randy J. Maniloff, White and Williams, LLP
New York Federal Court Holds That September 11th Was An "Act Of War"
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Like most of us out there, this year I have been completely taken with the HM Spring collection, and this yellow, floral, floaty, frilly, dreamy maxi skirt is one of my favourite pieces.
I have found this beauty in store ages ago, and it is now finally available online here. I fell in love with the colour as soon as I saw it and all the other details were just the cherry on the top! I have a few other skirts from HM's Spring Collection, but I have to say this is hands down my favourite! Had to get it in a medium even though the small fitted me just fine, I just prefer having some room to breath. 🙂 What I'm saying is that it runs big, as I'm definitely a 12 or medium.
The loose cream cardigan is last season's New Look, now unfortunately sold out, however I found a gorgeous alternative from Pretty Lavish here. I have recently discovered a life changing trick when it comes to tucking in chunky cardigans/jumpers without adding an extra roll to your tummy area :), and that's to tuck it under your bra! It's genius!! lol The stylish tucking effect with no bulk and, you can control how much skin you have on show, if any! 🙂
Basket, bamboo, raffia bags are still so much in trend this season, and I'm so here for that! 🙂 Although my collection is quite substantial as it is, I just could not resist adding this little number from Accessorize. It's pretty much the exact replica for the Cult Gaia small Arc bag, but with a stylish and very practical round handle detail, it is just perfect! 🙂
Round sunglasses are still one of my go to styles, and whenever the outfit is a bit boho/relaxed, there's no other choice as far as I'm concerned! 🙂 This is an old pair from Topshop, but have found a pair that look similar on Asos.
Hope you all have a great week and are prepared for the huge episode of GOT tonight!!! Fingers crossed for our favourites! 🙂
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Digital Bookmarking and Annotation Sharing
The electronic book has any advantages over its print counterpart. But one area where print still has the advantage is in the creation and sharing of bookmarks and annotations. It's difficult to reference a quote from page 157 of a particular e-book, because in an environment where text is reflowable and reformattable based on screen size, device orientation, or user preference, the concept of "page 157" is meaningless. likewise, if a user of one e-book platform creates an annotation in her copy of Pride and Prejudice, there is no easy way for her to share this annotation with a user of a different e-book platform.
For both casual readers as well as professional and academic researchers, such pointers and sharing capability needs to work across reading systems to enable social uses of books, articles, and grey literature that range from personal memory aids to citations and critical analysis, as well as deep inter-linking. the ability for social sharing of bookmarks and annotations represents a huge potential opportunity in the e-book marketplace.
At present, no standards exist in this space although a number of proprietary, platform-specific solutions exist for some, but not all, pieces of the problem. Some community- specific efforts have also proposed solutions. One of these, the Open annotation Collaboration, has defined a distributed architecture for annotations based on a customizable resource Description framework (rDf) syntax; however, other functionality such as location (bookmark) syntax has not yet been specified. the International Digital Publishers forum (IDPf), who developed the open EPUB standard, is exploring a syntax for locating a text location within a file, based on some work initially done by Adobe.
To address the need for cross-platform standards in this space, NISO and the Internet archive, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, held two standard incubation workshops in October 2011 in conjunction with the Frankfurt Book fair (Frankfurt, Germany) and the Books in Browsers meeting (San Francisco). representatives from major stakeholders in all areas of the e-book supply and delivery chain discussed requirements, critical components, and possible approaches.
Following the meetings, NISO initiated a new working group to use the meeting output and develop a syntax specification for how bookmarks and annotations are located in digital books. a preliminary goal has been established for a trial use standard in late 2012.
An interest group e-mail list has been established for anyone interested in following the group's work.
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E-book Annotation Sharing and Social Reading Meetings
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Open Discovery Initiative
A new generation of library discovery services has entered the marketplace in the last few years. unlike their federated search predecessors, the new services follow the web search engine model of creating and searching their own aggregated index of the relevant content. By indexing the content in advance, discovery services have the ability to deliver more sophisticated services with instant performance.
In order to create effective indexes, these discovery services depend on the cooperation of the information providers to provide access to metadata and often to the full-text of information resources. Often, the indexes have been built based on private agreements and ad hoc exchange methodologies between information providers and discovery service creators.
Libraries increasingly rely on these index-based discovery services as the strategic interface through which their patrons gain access to the breadth of information that is available to them. the content for these services comes from a range of information providers and products including licensed, purchased, open access, and local institutional sources. libraries need a clear understanding of the degree of availability of that content in their discovery service of choice. unfortunately, it is often not clear what specific information is available; whether it is indexed in full text, by citations only, or both; and whether the metadata derives from aggregated databases or directly through the full-text.
At the 2011 ALA annual Conference in New Orleans, Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt University), Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris), and Jenny Walker (Ex Libris consultant) convened an invitational meeting to gauge interest in establishing a more standard set of practices for the ways that content is represented in discovery services and for the interactions between the creators of these services and the information providers whose resources they represent. representatives from the major stakeholder groups—libraries, information providers, discovery service providers, NISO as a standards development organization, and NFAIS whose members were also discussing discovery services—were overwhelmingly positive about working together on standards or best practices. NISO agreed to launch a new Open Discovery Initiative to pursue the proposed work.
Among the areas proposed for the new working group to address are:
- A standard way for information providers to provide content to discovery service creators
- Clarity in the business rules that apply to the content once indexed
- A standard exchange of data describing what rights to the content apply within the discovery service
- Models for fair linking from the discovery service to the publisher content
- Clear descriptors regarding the extent of indexing performed for each item or collection of content and the level of availability of the content
- A standard approach to exchanging data in support of usage reports
An interest group list for this project is available for those who would like to receive updates on the working group's progress and provide feedback to the group on its work.


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Dan Haar: Why the tribes' ploy makes no sense, ever
You've got to give credit to the tribes for trying to pull a fast one on Bridgeport and the taxpayers of Connecticut.
What a brilliant ploy: Approach the desperate city's mayor and legislative delegation, who had no hope of progress on a casino development coming out of the General Assembly. Persuade them to turn their backs on a 3-year partner in MGM Resorts International, whose plan would create thousands of jobs.
The numbers — $100 million from the tribes for gaming assets — point to basically a glorified OTB parlor with maybe a few slot machines, a poker game in the corner and a bar-grub joint with fancy white columns.
And for this, the taxpayers would kick in $100 million! With no locked-in source of added money for the state! Look at the document circulating around the Capitol — it shows no increase in the $175 million annual minimum the tribes are now obligated to pay the state, and no set payments for slots or table games.
Say what? Nothing for the state.
House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, showing his strength and weakness in one move, declared the transparent power-grab worth a look at the last minute, though, to his credit, he didn't endorse it. Thankfully, Gov. Ned Lamont acted like the adult he was elected to be and said no, certainly not in the waning hours of this session.
But the idea lives on as fodder for a special session, and that's troubling. Forget the last-minute rush; even if we had 10 years to think about it, the terms of this deal make the Red Sox sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees a century ago look like Ford's rollout of the Mustang in 1964.
Coming as it did on the last day of a five-month legislative session, this nutty concept perfectly illustrates the frenetic way Connecticut and many other states make laws. It's got fatal flaws in logic on the financial, legal and strategic fronts, any one of which would blow up the deal for anyone who's ever played Monopoly.
Let's start with strategy. If the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes wanted to build a casino in Bridgeport, they'd have already stepped up with a plan in the nearly two years since MGM unveiled its $675 million concept for Bridgeport Harbor. Attention Connecticut: The tribes want no part of a casino along the Long Island Sound for the simple reason that that's the main source of customers for their massively overbuilt resorts in New London County.
We don't know how badly MGM wants to build in Bridgeport, as the company owns the Empire City Casino in Yonkers, but at least the MGM proposal — if it happened — would change the landscape in a better cash deal for taxpayers.
If the tribes were to win this license for Bridgeport, they'd build first in East Windsor, then, years down the road, if ever, they would turn their attention to downstate.
Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun offer very attractive destinations and the tribes have spent billions keeping them up with new amenities. Credit them for that. Trouble is, they need New York, Fairfield and New Haven counties — exactly where Bridgeport would draw — for their current operations because they're now boxed in.
Their small local market to the south is fine. But to the north and east, the Rhode Island casinos and the soon-to-open Wynn resort in Everett, near Boston, present a growing lure for gamblers. To the northwest, up Route 2 to central Connecticut, MGM Springfield pulls in a lot of customers. That's why East Windsor makes sense for the tribes.
The tribes will build something truly meaningful in Bridgeport on the day oceanic explorer Bob Ballard surfaces and rebuilds the Titanic.
Now we turn to the legal picture. MGM already has a federal lawsuit over the no-bid East Windsor license, based on U.S. Constitutional claims of equal protection and interstate commerce, which the Las Vegas company withdrew and can refile anytime it wants. As Lamont suggested in a statement Wednesday, this new development would greatly boost that legal claim.
How? No tribe has ever moved forward with a state agreement based on a new, commercial venture, away from tribal land, that involves — as this deal would — an outside partner coming in with more equity than the tribes themselves. Yes, the outline has the unnamed, unsecured outside partner owning only the hotel for $150 million, but why would anyone do that deal without money from gaming?
And even if they did, how could the development — presumably in one building — have separate ownerships for lodging and gaming, enough to satisfy the famously persnickety U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, which regulates agreements between tribes and states?
It couldn't.
Now let's look at the finances in the outline, which show no change in that minimum payment the tribes must make to the state. We're looking at $230 million, maybe $240 million this year from 25 percent of slot revenues, and that will, of course, drop after Wynn opens in Boston. Credit the tribes and their well run operations for keeping the numbers as high as they've been, but the cash train runs into the roundhouse sooner or later.
Without a new, higher floor, the state is looking at nothing in the outline that shows more money from slot machines and table games. Eight percent for sports betting is fine, slightly lower than New Jersey but still in line with the industry. But that's not where the money is, for the simple reason that sports betting margins are about 3 percent, compared with 8 percent for slots.
Here's the math: The state would get about $2.50 for every $1,000 bet on sports, compared with $20 for every $1,000 dropped into slot machines.
As I said, and as anyone can see, $100 million for gaming operations isn't enough to add up. By the time Bridgeport rises up, even without a lawsuit and environmental cleanup of an old industrial site, 1,000 video slot machines alone would cost $30 million or more, even without a building.
So where are the jobs for Bridgeport? Nowhere, mon frère. Just building East Windsor, a midsize casino that would not transform the state's largest city, is proving a legal, logistical and financial burden on the stretched-thin tribes, especially the Mashantucket Pequots.
That's why the delegation and Mayor Joe Ganim showed themselves to be useful idiots, as the Russians call dupes. The rest of us, neither desperate for a casino win nor sleep-deprived from weeks of late-night sessions at the Capitol, can see the deal for what it is: An admirable try by the tribes but hardly anything to take seriously.


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The Outlaw Sippin' Band
Outlaw Sippin' is a 6-piece, country/rock/pop band based out of Dickinson, North Dakota. You'll get a lot of everything with this band. From Lady Antebellum to Lady Gaga, Jason Aldean to Neil Diamond, Zac Brown to Guns n Roses, they can do it all... Combine that with some of their members' experience; opening for Poison, Sawyer Brown, John Michael Montgomery, Montgomery Gentry, .38 Special, and many others, or playing in cities such as Nashville, Austin, Minneapolis, Billings, and many many more, this band is easily one of the top acts in the Midwest.
Brady Paulson - Guitar/Vocals
Jessie Veeder - Vocals
Ty Taylor - Lead Guitar/Vocals
Emil Anheluk - Fiddle/Mandolin/Keyboard/Accordion
Beni Paulson - Bass/Vocals
Chad Heidt - Kick Drum/Hi-Hat/Snare/Toms/Cymbals
"oSip," as fans call them, also has top-notch sound and lighting, with a professional to run each, Kirk Olson and Josh Jacobson. So you'll know you're getting a big show when 8+ people are on the road with Outlaw Sippin' and they arrive to a venue near you.
These guys usually only book 3-6 months in advance and they always have limited dates available.
Example Set 1
If You're Gonna Play In Texas - Alabama
Lookin' For Good Time - Lady AntebellumSideways - Deirks Bentley
Hillbilly Shoes - Montgomery Gentry
Pontoon - Sugarland
Winters Sweet - Jessie Veeder
Green Grass - Jessie Veeder
Alabama - Cross Canadian Ragweed
Bartender - Rehab
Dust On the Bottle - David Lee Murphy
Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyd
Race Is On - Sawyer Brown
Hometown Band - Jessie Veeder
Boomtown - Jessie Veeder
Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show
Long Hot Summer Day - Turnpike Troubadours
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
All for you - Sister Hazel
Mama's Broken Heart - Miranda Lambert
Jiggity Jig - Jessie Veeder
Dirt Road Anthem - Jason Aldean
Baton Rouge - Garth Brooks
Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Ban
dChicken Fried - Zac Brown Band
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Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Wear My Ring - Bart Crow Band
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
What I Got - Sublime
Beverly Hills - Weezer
What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
Ho Hey - Lumineers
Keep Your Hands - Georgia Satellites
Fast As You - Dwight Yoakum
Perfect Country - David Allen Coe
Royals - Lorde
Pilgram - Jessie Veeder
Cruise - Florida Georgia Line
Fishin' in the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Save a Horse - Big & Rich
Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Locked Outta Heaven - Bruno Mars
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
Ain't It Fun - Paramore
Party Rock Anthem / I'm Sexy & I Know It - LMFAO
All About The Bass - Meghan Trainor
Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke
Timber - Pitbull ft. Ke$ha
Shippin' up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Shook Me All Night - AC/DC
Jenny (867-5309) - Tommy Tutone
Jessies Girl - Rick Springfield
Boondocks - Little Big Town
Born To Boogie - Hank Williams Jr
.Friends Low Places - Garth Brook
s3am - Matchbox 20
Ain't Going Down - Garth Brooks
Bulls on Parade - Rage Against The Machine
Fever - Garth Brooks
Gin & Juice - The Gourds
Goodbye Says it All - Blackhawk
Lousiana Sat Night - Mel McDaniel
My Kinda Party - Jason Aldean
Stuck Like Glue - Sugarland
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Wait so long - Trampled by Turtles
Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
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Best accessories for Windows 10 laptops [2020 Guide]
A laptop by itself is already a highly convenient and handy device. However, you can further increase it's usefulness by complementing it with various accessories.
Now, there are a wide variety of laptop accessories, ranging from USB ports to laptop backpack. Wondering what the best laptop accessories are? Check out the list below!
Note: Deals are subject to change. Sometimes, some of the deals listed in our guides may no longer be available by the time you hit the buy button. So, hurry up and grab them while they're hot.
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Laptop bag
Perhaps the most important accessory of them all is the laptop backpack.
Why is that? Well, the convenience and portability of a notebook computer is somewhat undermined without a proper suitcase or backpack to carry it around.
Basically, a laptop is pretty much incomplete without a proper bag.
So, what is a great laptop bag to get for 2019?
Well for starters, this one is ideal for both students and businessmen/businesswomen constantly on the go.
Why is that? Well, the bag is both affordable and attractive. Furthermore, it is Eco-friendly and is made out of water resistant materials.
Finally, you can conveniently charge your laptop as well as other mobile devices through the charging cables integrated into the bag.
Who says you need to sacrifice practicality for good looks? With this laptop bag you can have both.
Now if you are looking for a more traditional laptop bag, then you will want to check out the AmazonBasics 15.6 inch laptop bag.
This laptop bag is incredibly cheap and it offers enough space and compartments to make it a great buy. It is great for people who are looking for a bag that offers just the basics.
If you are looking for something that is ideal for your business trips and meetings, then we recommend the Kenneth Cole Reaction Colombian Leather suitcase specifically designed for laptops.
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Modern, durable, and aesthetically very pleasing, this laptop bag is perfect for professionals who travel a lot. While it is the most expensive bag in this article, it is certainly worth it.
UPDATE: this product is currently unavailable.
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Laptop Wireless Mouse
Arguably the next most important accessory for a laptop is a wireless mouse. Now of course you can always buy a mouse with a cord, but these tend to be far less convenient than wireless mice.
The reason behind this is that you will have to untangle the wires of your cord mouse every time you take it out of your laptop bag.
Furthermore, constantly moving your accessories around can damage the cord that is connected to the mouse.
Typically, cord mice are ideal for stationary desktop computers, while wireless mice are best for portable laptop computers.
OK, without further ado, let's get started.
If you are looking for a highly popular wireless mouse that is both affordable and comfortable, then we recommend the Logitech M510.
The mouse has a long battery life of 2 years and is designed to fit very comfortably in your hand.
There are also a few extra buttons on the mouse that you can program to switch between windows, turn the volume down, and more.
I highly recommend this wireless mouse for both students and professionals.
On the other hand, if you are looking for a laptop wireless map that is designed for gaming, then we recommend the Razer Lancehead (Tournament Edition).
The gaming mouse has advanced optical sensors, great exterior design and form, light customizations, DPI buttons, and much more. It is the perfect esports-level mouse for gaming.
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External Hard Drive
Typically, buying a laptop with a lot of integrated memory is quite costly. Therefore, purchasing an external hard drive usually goes hand in hand with purchasing a new laptop.
Even if you do not need the extra space, a HDD allows you to transfer large files of projects, reports, etc from device to device.
This external HDD from Seagate is a favorite among many. This is not surprising as the HDD is fast, ultra slim, looks great, and is available on Amazon.
Another good option for an external hard drive (with USB 3.0) is the Toshiba HDTB410XK3AA Canvio Basics. It comes in four capacities: 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB.
It is easy to use and doesn't need a software to install. Therefore, it quickly adds more storage capacity to your laptop.
USB 2.0 is compatible with no external AC power cord needed.
At an affordable price, this is a reliable and easy to come accessory for your laptop.
- Editor's Note: If you're interested in other laptop accessories, check out our wide collection of guides.
USB Flash Drive
If you are looking for a portable device to transfer your files that is even smaller then a portable HDD, then check out the SanDisk Extreme.
This Flash Drive is capable of reading up to 245 megabytes per second and writing up to 100 megabytes per second.
This basically means you can transfer a large file, like a full-length film, in a matter of seconds.
However, perhaps the most unique thing about this USB drive is that it comes with security software from SanDisk that allows you to encrypt your files with 128-bit AES encryption.
Interested to learn what are the best flash drives to buy in 2019? Check out this list.
Port Hub
Laptops, specifically ultra-thin ones, tend to provide very few ports. Therefore, buying a multi-port hub for your laptop is typically a good idea.
Which one should you get?
Well if you are looking for a port hub that offers just USB 3.0 ports, then you should check out the Sabrent USB Hub.
This devices allows you to connect four more 3.0 USB devices and transfer data at lightning fast speeds. The only downside to this port is that you will need to plug in the adapter to make it run.
However, if you do not mind this small inconvenience then this USB port is ideal because it is both cheap and fast.
Want a Port hub that is more professional looking? Check out this Satechi product.
While this port hub certainly is more expensive, it is more attractive and functional.
You have a type C port, two USB 3.0 ports, and a 4k supported HDMI output. You also do not need any software or adapters for this port hub to run.
These best laptop accessories will certainly improve how you use your laptop.
They can make it more convenient to move your laptop from one place to another, they can make your work easier, improve your gaming, and much more.
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Editor's Note: This post was originally published in February 2018 and has been since updated for freshness, and accuracy.


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Created on the windy Outer Banks of North Carolina and made in North Carolina, this unique drawstring will make your hoodie awesome!
Bend it, shape it and brim it to work like a hat or hold its shape in place in the wind. While you are biking or skating it stays. Bend back the sides so you can see what is next to you.
HoodieWire in action on a windy day!
Shape it how you want
Up until now there were only 2 ways to wear a hoodie. Up and down. (I guess you can also count pulling the drawstrings tight a third way?)
NOW you can bend it and shape it any way you want! Stop wearing a limp hoodie!
brim it down and pull back the sides to improve your vision
wear wide to keep it off of your face
Shape it close and it will hold
The HoodieWire replaces most drawstrings easily.
If you order 2 HoodieWires, we will include a drawstring threader so you can easily install and change out your drawstrings.
Hoodies with metal grommets may not be compatible.
Hoodiewire is patent pending
Threader included!
We will include a drawstring threader with the purchase of 2 or more Hoodiewires. This is a $5 value!
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text: Basics 10 Things to Consider If You Want to Lose Weight By Malia Frey facebook twitter linkedin Malia Frey is a weight loss expert, certified health coach, weight management specialist, personal trainer, and fitness nutrition specialist. Learn about our editorial process Malia Frey Reviewed by Reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS on January 30, 2020 facebook twitter linkedin instagram Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS, is a licensed psychologist, clinical assistant professor, speaker, wellness expert specializing in weight management and eating behaviors. Learn about our Review Board Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS Updated on March 03, 2020 Print More in Weight Loss Basics Procedures Nutrition for Weight Loss Exercise for Weight Loss Diet Plans Medications Supplements In This Article Table of Contents Expand Specific Diet Types Unrealistic Goals Making Excuses Isolating Yourself Calculations "Healthy" vs. "Unhealthy" Sitting All Day Compensating for Exercise What's Best for You View All Back To Top If you feel frustrated by your weight loss journey, don't panic. If you need to lose weight, it is important to do it healthily and to perhaps reevaluate some of your existing habits in order to safely shed pounds. There are many common weight loss mistakes or misconceptions that might be preventing you from getting results. Read this list to discover if there are tips you can adapt to your lifestyle. Most importantly, remember that everyone's weight loss journey is their own, and be sure to consult with your doctor for best practices that are right for you, and to determine your healthiest weight as well. Here are ten things to consider if you want to lose weight. Are You Choosing a Specific Diet Type? How often have you chosen a diet because it worked for a friend? Perhaps you were inspired by a celebrity diet or celebrity spokesperson. A diet might be perfect for someone else, but their needs, their lifestyle, and their food preferences could be completely different from yours. Try This Instead Ask yourself five important questions about your diet history, medical background, and emotional support. The answers will help you to identify your specific needs and help you to choose the best weight loss plan for you. Are You Setting Unrealistic Goals? People are often highly motivated and full of excitement at the beginning of their weight loss program. It is often during this phase that they set unrealistic goals for weight loss. But high expectations can cause weight gain when lack of progress leads to a lack of motivation. Try This Instead Learn how to set small goals that you'll actually reach. These smaller steps provide a roadmap for your weight loss journey. As you reach each small goal you get a boost of confidence and you stay motivated on the way to your ultimate goal. Are You Using "Lack of Time" as an Excuse? One of the most common barriers to weight loss is the belief that you don't have enough time. One study found that 41 percent of women said "lack of time" was the reason that they didn't eat better and 73 percent of women said they didn't exercise because their schedules were too busy. The bottom line is that if you want to lose weight in a healthy way, it's best to find a way to make time for healthy activity. You'll most likely find that once you make time for these healthy lifestyle changes, you'll feel better in both your body and your mind. Try This Instead Get out an old-fashioned paper calendar and find windows of time that are not consumed by absolute necessities. Then create a schedule for healthy weight loss activities. Pen in the most important tasks and schedule everything else around them. It helps to treat them as if they are medical appointments. You wouldn't necessarily cancel that type of appointment. Don't cancel activities that are part of your self-care and will help you feel better. Don't be afraid to put other priorities on the back burner or ask for help (see item #4) so that you can take the time you need to make your health a top priority. Are You Isolating Yourself? Many people consider themselves alone in their weight loss journey, or that it's something to be ashamed of or to be done in private. If you are trying to lose weight to better your overall health, remember that you don't have to be alone. Your friends and family may be willing to help you through her weight loss journey, or you could join a support group, in person, or online. Try This Instead Learn how to get diet support from family and friends. Take the time to identify your needs for yourself and then approach others for help. That way, you'll be clear about defining specific ways in which they can help. Find friends at work, at the gym, or even in your neighborhood. How Are You Calculating Your Nutritional Intake? It can be difficult to keep track of your daily nutrients. Remember, it's not all about calories. There's fat, protein, fiber, and many other daily nutrient levels we need to be receiving to not just help us with keeping our weight on track, but with living our healthiest lives. Try This Instead Use a food tracker app. You can even try making your entries more accurate by purchasing an inexpensive food scale. The tool will allow you to report the exact size of each portion you consume. Are You Viewing Foods as "Healthy" and "Unhealthy?" Several studies have shown that people are more likely to overeat foods that they perceive to be healthy. One study at the University of Michigan found that when a food was labeled "organic," people ate more of it. The bottom line? Remember that moderation is key to a healthy lifestyle. So it's okay to eat organic (or not organic) cookies, but remember the nutritional information on the back of the box is that best bet for evaluating how a particular type of food will fit into your diet. Try This Instead Remember that (barring any health circumstance that prevents you from eating certain foods), it's helpful to keep everything in moderation but to remember that even "healthy" foods may have more calories or fat in a given serving. Avocados, for example, are full of healthy fat but are also very high in calories. Keeping this in mind can help you (and your doctor or nutritionist) find a way to fit foods into your healthy diet. Are You Sitting All Day? Non-exercise activity thermogenesis, or NEAT, is a fancy term for all of the non-exercise movement that you do every day. It can account for up to 15 to 30% of your total calorie burn. If you spend your day sitting at a desk and your evenings lying on the couch, the calories you burn from NEAT will not be as much as if you utilize time throughout the day to do some moving! Try This Instead You can burn calories without exercise. Boost your NEAT all day long. If you have a desk job, get up every hour and walk to the restroom on a different floor, refill your water, run an errand on foot, or climb the stairs in your office building. If you like watching television at night, fold laundry or dust furniture instead of just lying on the couch. All of these "small" things can add up to better health. For when you plan workouts, you can even try investing in a heart rate monitor to get a more accurate estimate of your workout time. Are You Compensating for Exercise by Eating More? It is normal for your appetite to increase when you begin to exercise. But one of the most common weight loss mistakes is to indulge in extra snacks and treats as a reward for the workout. But eating those treats may cause weight gain. Try This Instead Plan a healthy, low-calorie snack to eat right after you exercise. Combine a healthy lean protein with a carbohydrate to satisfy your hunger and replace nutrients lost during the workout. A glass of skim chocolate milk works well and tastes decadent enough to feel like a treat. Are You Sticking to What's Best for You? Of course, you'll see ads for popular weight loss pills that claim to help you lose weight without any effort. And many trendy fad diets make the same promises. But those products and plans usually do not work. Always be wary of a "quick fix" to weight loss. In reality, it can be a slow process to adapt to healthier lifestyle changes. Remember the saying: "Slow changes make lasting changes." It's frustrating when results take a long time, but that usually means they will endure. Try This Instead Embrace the truth that weight loss is hard, but don't let the difficulty of the process deter you. If you need to lose weight, you can do it in a healthy way. It will be uncomfortable to change your habits. But, celebrate small accomplishments to stay focused along the way. For example, if the scale isn't giving you the weight loss results that you want, then celebrate the fact that you ate a well-balanced diet during the day and remind yourself about the health benefits you gain from eating well. Your exercise plan may not be resulting in weight loss yet, but it will probably help you sleep better at night and feel better during the day, which are both incredibly important elements to living a healthy life. Look for and acknowledge the little perks along the way. A Word From Verywell Considering why you want to lose weight can be very helpful throughout this process. Knowing your "why" is often a huge motivating factor, and it's something you can refer to when you face frustration. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Looking to lose weight? Our nutrition guide can help you get on the right track. Sign up for our newsletter and get it free! Sign Up You're in! Thank you, {{form.email}}, for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. 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I always thought that all sled dogs in Alaska were huskies. To find out that most of the dogs in the racing circuit up here in Alaska are mutts sometimes found at the dog shelter. Even poodles have been raced in the Iditarod. Here are some of the dogs in this year's race.
Yes, those are some of the poodles from a few years ago. (photo stolen from the web)


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Dear President Albright,
I had just been transferred to my new area in North Carolina. I was excited to meet my new companion and be able to counsel with him about how the work was going. We drove back to our area and one of the first lessons we taught was to an amazing part-member family.
The husband had been a lifelong member but had gotten involved in with the wrong crowd in his teens and ended up drifting away from the Church. The missionaries were going through the ward roster one day and felt impressed to go to his home to see how he was doing. He invited them inside to meet his wife of 2 years, her two children and a new daughter of their own. The wife was not a member but had recently been asking her husband about the LDS Church because she felt that it might be good for their new family.
When I first met them, they had been meeting with the missionaries for about 2 months. They were the happiest family and were making leaps and strides in the gospel. They mentioned that they wanted to be baptized, but circumstances always came up on Sunday that kept them from attending church. We taught them about the commandments and helped them prepare to make covenants with God.
Two weeks after I arrived, an unexpected tragedy occurred. The husband was an adventure seeker and always wanted to know where he could get his next thrill. One beautiful Sunday, he took his beloved motorcycle out on the back roads for a ride. He was going too fast around a corner, drifted into the other lane, and was hit head on by a car and killed instantly.
As anyone can imagine, this was a devastating loss to deal with for his young wife. Many people were offering his widow comfort, support and hope, but nothing would satisfy her emptiness. My companion and I went over the day after to express our love for her and to share our testimonies with her about the Plan of Salvation and life after death. She later told us, "You missionaries saw me at my worst, but you lifted me to be my best."
The Plan of Salvation truly brings happiness, joy, peace and comfort in the hardest of times. People who do not understand the gospel often feel lost in times of trouble, but true and lasting peace are only found in the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. As the wife continued on the path of righteousness, she was eventually baptized with her two older children. She is now preparing to enter into the House of the Lord to receive the fullness of God's blessings intended for his children on earth– being sealed to her family for time and all eternity.
Heath Andreasen
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Milford Senior Center calendar: April 15-21
The Milford Senior Center, 9 Jepson Drive offers a variety of programs, activities and services for Milford residents age 55 and older. Membership dues are $15//year for residents and $25 for nonresidents. For more information, call 203-877-5131 or visit milfordctseniorcenter.com.
Tax preparation
The VITA program will be providing free income tax preparation for all ages and low income families on Sundays, from noon-4 p.m. and Mondays, from 4-8 p.m., through April 15. Participants are required to register by calling 211: choose option 3 then option 6 or online at uwc.211ct.org/taxhelp/.
Ahrens program
The Ahrens program provides recreation, nutritional and educational activities for older adults with cognitive impairments. The program also enables caregivers to have several hours of respite while the participant is being supervised by staff members and volunteers. For details, contact Rita Whiskeyman, Ahrens program coordinator or Social Worker, Christine Lyas at 203-877-5131.
Night time programs
The Center will be open Mondays, from 6-8 p.m. for cards, pool and games.
Senior calendar April 15-21
Monday, April 15 — 9:30 arts and crafts; laughter yoga; 10-noon iPhone class for beginners; 10:30 ballroom aerobics, low vision; 11 zumba gold; 1-3 super bingo; 1 bingo, mahjongg, scrabble, art class; 4 stretch, strengthen and stabilize, line dance; 6:30 model railroad group.
Tuesday, April 16 — 9:15 beginner's line dance, chess group; 9:30 stretch, strengthen and stabilize; 10 gospel choir, ceramics; 10:30 osteoporosis preventative exercise class; 11 MSC book club April 30, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towels; 1 Drinking to your Health — Smoothies to Boost Your Brain Health, Social Security Explained, Club C meeting followed by bingo, tap dance, quilting; 4:15 yoga.
Wednesday, April 17 — 9-1:15 AARP safe driver course; to register call Ed Berry, 203-549-9629; 9:30 a.m. intermediate tai chi, beading group; 10 MSC band rehearsal; 10:30 country western line dance class, beginner tai chi; 1 French, bingo, Wii bowling, Happy Hookers knitting group.
Thursday, April 18 — 9:05 yoga; 10 Writers Unlimited; 10:30 line dance, qi gong; 11 Italian cultural class; 1 Wii bowling, knitting, bingo.
Friday, April 19 — Center closed in observance of Good Friday.
Sunday, April 21 — Center closed in observance of Easter.
Lunch is offered Monday-Friday, from noon-1. Lunch tickets may be purchased at the lunch window from 9:30-noon. A complete dinner is $3, and includes soup and dinner; Sandwich only $1.25; Soup $.50. A vegetarian meal is offered: tossed salad or peanut butter and jelly sandwich, $1. Salad of the day is available as a cold plate for $1. All meals include hot coffee or tea, rolls with butter and dessert.
Lunch menu: April 15-19
Monday, breaded fish with lemon and tartar, cole slaw, roasted potatoes; Tuesday, chicken casserole, rice pilaf, broccoli; Wednesday, sliced ham with pineapple, sweet potatoes, green beans; Thursday, meatloaf and gravy, mashed potatoes, buttered corn; Friday, the Center is closed for Good Friday.
Travel schedule
Broadway at The Bushnell — Fiddler On The Roof, Nov. 10 and Hamilton, Dec. 26, were released Sept. 10. Pickup details on the travel wall.
Coach tours — Open to members and nonmembers. Longer days may be out of state, and bit more expensive.
April 27 West Point Dress Parade, $116 includes lunch at Hotel Thayer, guided tour; May 1 Music Man at Goodspeed, $92; May 6 Mohegan Sun $27; May 12 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? at Ivoryton, $70; May 14 Bronx Zoo, $97; May 16 The Full Monty at Downtown Cabaret, $50; May 19 Sound of Music, $98; May 23 Motown Revue at Nelson Hall, $55; May 29 My Name is Ben at Norma Terris, $82; June 18 New York Botanical Gardens, $115; June 23 Waitress; Aug. 4-7 The Finger Lakes; Aug. 19-22 A Journey Through History, four day shared coach with tours of Philadelphia, Gettysburg.