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Dear Liberty – At the time that I got saved, I was sexually involved with someone I felt I was in love with and wanted to marry. Shortly after receiving Christ, God literally removed this person from my life. It took a long time for me to heal from this relationship. I understand that we cannot be together, but I care about him as a person and I just want to be a part of his life. It's been a year since I last saw him and it's so strange, because just when I think I'll be able to forget about him, he'll call, email, or write me. He's confided in me many hurtful things he said he could never talk about with anyone else, giving me such a burden for him because I wanted him to be happy. Hearing from him brings back so much pain to the surface, pain I thought was gone. But he is so special to me, I cannot bear the pain of losing him again. What should I do?
Liberty's Answer – You still have a soul tie to this person that needs to be broken. Anytime you enter into wrong agreements with someone that promise some sort of personal benefit for you, you are immediately vulnerable to forming a soul to that person. Fornication is definitely a wrong agreement that promises some sort of personal benefit to each person involved. Breaking off a relationship does not automatically sever the soul ties that we may have formed with that person. Our souls are not yet completely renewed and healed and they will try to hold on to things that we know God wants us to let go of. This is especially true when the soul has memories of another person that were at one time comforting and supportive.
You need to pray and bind your will to the will of God, bind your mind to the mind of Christ, and loose (cut, sever, break) any and all effects and influence of wrong agreements you have entered into and the resulting soul ties that were formed. You not only need to pray this with regard to this man, you need to pray it with regard to any other person you have ever entered into a wrong agreement with seeking mutual benefit, support, or satisfaction from in an ungodly manner. Christians even do this by getting other Christians to agree with them on prayers that have nothing to do with God's will. You may need to pray this way more than once. Especially if he contacts you right after you pray and break soul ties with him. He may sense he has lost something that is comfortable to him.
That is what you are to him, something comfortable from his past that he knows he can turn to and pull on whenever he feels the need. I strongly urge you to immediately begin to pray and break all soul ties with him. Do not contact him. If he seeks contact with you, tell him that you are praying for his marriage, his family, and for him to know God in a deep manner. Tell him that you wish the best for him, but you don't feel it is right to have personal conversations with him any longer.
Do not maintain this relationship even in your mind. God has much more for you, but He won't give it to you if it has to complete with a memory that should be laid to rest as part of your past. When you allow your past to keep invading your present, you are compromising your future. These old memory will retreat into the archives of your mind when you stop tending and nurturing them in your mind and through this soul ties you have with him. I will be praying for you. Liberty


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Austin Housing Market Remains Strong, Suggests Trend Toward Pricing Stabilization
After a strong first quarter, real estate sales in the Austin area remained strong in April, with sales surging 16% when compared to the same period in 2018. Median sales prices, however, increased by a much smaller number, suggesting a stabilization in market prices might be imminent, according to the Austin Board of Realtors.
"In the first quarter of the year, the median price of a single-family home in the Austin-Round Rock MSA increased by just 0.2 percent, which is a much smaller margin compared to previous years. Between 2012 and 2015, we saw price increases as high as 9 percent," said Kevin P. Scanlan, president of the Austin Board of Realtors. "These narrower margins are a strong indication that market prices are starting to stabilize."
After a five-year — from December 2013 to December 2018 — median home price hike of 33 percent, the time might be right for a stabilization. The median home price in Austin jumped from $226,000 to $301,391 during that period. Statewide, this increase was bettered only by Fort Worth, which saw a 52 percent increase.
In the Austin metro area, the median home price increased to $320,000. Home sales increased year over year by 14.9 percent to 3,035 sales; sales dollar volume increased 14.1 percent to $1,207,238,711. During the same period, new listings decreased 1.8 percent to 4,018 new listings, while active listings increased 1 percent to 6,217 active listings. Pending sales jumped 14.3 percent to 3,588 pending sales. Housing inventory in April remained unchanged at 2.4 months of inventory.
A slight dip in new listings one month "isn't indicative of a larger trend," according to Scanlan. "We expect to see listings increase as we enter the summer selling season."
Over the last 12 months, the average sales price of Austin-area homes was $388,553, a very slight decrease from a 2018 average sales prices of $388,786, and higher than the 2017 average of $372,492. Meanwhile, the average number of days homes spent on the market was flat in the last twelve months as compared to 2018, at 57. That's up slightly from 2017, at 54. The number of houses sold in the last 12 months was 31,406, up from 30,867 in 2018 and 30,572 in 2017.
Within Austin proper, the median home price in April increased year over year by 1.1 percent to $394,450, while single-family home sales increased by 3.6% to 889 sales. Inventory dropped by 0.2 months to 1.5 months of inventory.
North of Austin, the high-growth area of Williamson County saw single-family homes sales increase by 22.6 percent, to 1,122 sales, possibly as a result of the median home price seeing a small, .5 percent dip and a decrease of 3.7 percent in new listings. Pending sales were up 13 percent.
In also-booming Hays County, home sales increased by 17.2 percent to 341 in April, despite the median price for a single-family home in this area increasing year over year by 18.7 percent to $296,500. New listings increased in April by 10.1 percent to 458.
Here are additional Austin metro area home sales figures from April 2019.
Median Price for Single-Family Homes in the Austin Area — $320,000.
Single-Family Homes Sold in the Austin Area — 3,035
Average Number of Days on the Market — 50
Total Dollar Volume of Homes Sold in the Area — $1.2 billion
Months of Housing Inventory Available — 2.4
New Listings — 4,018
Active Listings — 6,217
Pending Sales — 3,588

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'Hey Mom!' Soldier surprises West Jordan woman after 4.5 years away
WEST JORDAN, Utah (KSTU) -- A soldier from Utah who hasn't seen his mother in 4.5 years surprised her recently when she walked into her kitchen, and her enthusiastic reaction was caught on camera.
Specialist Kyle Kracht, U.S. Army, recently surprised his mom, Cheri Hancock, at her West Jordan home. He said he was blown away by her emotional response.
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"I didn't know what to expect," he said. "I've gone over it in my head what she might do. I didn't think she was gonna scream and then yell at me and ask me why I was here. I didn't think I would have to chase after her to give her a hug, but it was way, way more than I expected."
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Kracht said he has seen several videos of soldiers surprising loved ones, and he said he wanted to do something similar, but simple.
"I didn't want to like walk into her work," he said. "I just wanted to be sitting here casually, and just have her walk in and be like, "What's up mom? Hey.'"
Despite the unassuming set-up, Cheri was still shocked.
"I never thought that anybody would do that to me, and so when I walked in I felt like I was in a dream," she said. "I couldn't believe it, I really couldn't believe it."
Cheri said Kyle is moving to Georgia soon, and she has been saving up money to take a trip to visit him. She said she has Skyped with him a handful of times after she received a computer for Christmas last year. Kracht said the surprise visit came thanks to his grandparents.
They gave him a call as he was sitting at home, "And they had said that they had some reward points, and if I wanted to use them, and I said, 'Yeah, let's go surprise Mom!'"
Kracht said while Skype and other digital methods of communication are OK, nothing beats a visit.
"It gets to be a point where it's just, there's nothing like human contact with the ones you love," he said.


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Teachers are always looking for ways to improve education for their pupils – and one of the fundamental ways of doing this is parental engagement. Learning shouldn't finish when the child leaves school at the end of the day, and with parents on board it is much easier to help students reach their potential.
Of course, it won't always be easy to engage parents: they may be very busy, or have a first language other than English. So what advice is out there for building better partnerships?
Make homework collaborative
Try setting homework that involves parents' or a carers' participation. Teacher Rob Faurewalker got his year 7 geography class to ask their parents to take them out into the park to see the stars.
"Working in central London, many kids haven't seen the stars," he says. "But seeing them and gaining an appreciation of their place in the universe is a vital starting point to a geography curriculum that teaches them about the world from a global to local scale." At parents' evening, mums and dads said they enjoyed the chance to get involved.
Give them good news
A note from school shouldn't be a source of dread for parents, so make sure you regularly feedback good news as well any worries or concerns. "Positive communication is rare in schools as children get older, but as a parent it fills me with a lot of pride," says Thomas McCarthy, who has three daughters, and works as a learning mentor in a primary school in Lewisham.
Positivity can also help win over the trust of new families, adds Robert Kazandijan, a learning mentor at Oakthorpe Primary School. "Emphasis on positivity is the key to generating interest. Celebrating something brilliant that a child of a 'hard to reach' parent has done can be a wonderful tool."
Get parents through the door
Many schools now provide services such as food banks and language classes to students' families. This doesn't just help plug the gap in local services, but helps to build a sense of community within a school.
Nasser Mockbill, community liaison officer at Ark St Alban's academy in Birmingham, explains. "At St Alban's we have a food bank and we speak to our parents – confidentiality – to see if they need to access it." The school also runs weekly literacy lessons for parents, as well as sessions to educate them on issues such as healthy eating, safeguarding, e-safety, FGM, sexual exploitation and radicalisation.
Another way to get parents through the door is to set up a reading cafe, where parents and children choose from a menu of books and read them together, says Kazandijan. "Reading cafes are a nice example of this, where parents can join the class, listen to children read, read aloud to children themselves if they feel confident to do so, and enjoy a positive collective experience."
Use social platforms
Parents are busy and might not have time to attend workshops during the day, but social media can provide an efficient way to keep mums and dads in the loop. There are more ways than ever before for teachers to send updates home – from Classdojo, a service which keeps busy parents in the loop with their child's education, to Facebook.
In terms of what can be sent home to parents, it could be anything from photos and videos of projects being done in class, to announcements or one-on-one messages can be sent home to parents. "It breaks down those barriers to communication so parents and teachers are able to work together, which ultimately means a better learning experience for every child," says ClassDojo's Lindsay McKinley.
Try a home visit
A home visit is time-consuming, but it has real benefits, says Mockbill. He sees them as a way of informing parents about their child's education and building relationships: "It's not a bad idea for schools to visit the year 6 students and their families before they join their school".
Tackle language barriers
Parents who don't have English as their first language can find it hard to interact with teachers, and may end up feeling distanced from their child's school life. Some schools run literacy sessions to help build parents' confidence or use other parents and colleagues as interpreters. "This helps foster the sense of community and positive collective experience," says Faurewalker.
"It is important that schools employ from the local community so that these language skills are present, but this is not always possible – I once worked in a school with 57 home languages," he explains. "In this case, the children should be encouraged to translate for their parents and this helps the language skills of all involved."
If at first you don't succeed...
Sometimes parents aren't responsive – perhaps because they're busy juggling work commitments or because they've had negative experience with schools in the past. Don't be put off.
Jonathan Bailey, assistant head of Malvern College in Egypt, says it's important to persevere because getting parents involved means they will have more conversations about learning at home. This then "equates to an improved attitude – and hopefully a more determined and successful individual".
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Just because Imran is flailing around doesn't automatically have to mean that a better frontman can never be unearthed. It could just be a question of more skilfully looking in the right place at the right time. A regime frontman with the skills of a technocrat, the savvy of a traditional politician and the sleight of hand of a populist. See the problem there? In Pakistan? You may as well be looking for a unicorn snuggling up to leprechaun at the end of a rainbow.


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Islamabad (AFP) - With a tagline suggesting "if she won't make you a sandwich we will" and menu items named after unsavoury celebrities, one cafe in Pakistan's capital Islamabad thought it had the perfect ingredients for clientele with an appetite for sexist humour.
Instead, Table No 5 restaurant was forced to eat its words on Thursday after a roasting on social media and a visit by city officials - a small victory for feminism in this conservative Muslim country where women's rights activists are becoming increasingly vocal.
The brouhaha began when the cafe, which opened last month, began uploading images to its Facebook account that were deemed "misogynist" by critics.
Their tagline was followed up by a menu of sandwiches named after the likes of US singer Chris Brown, who was convicted of beating his former girlfriend Rihanna, and convicted rapist Mike Tyson.
Other celebrities featured on the menu included Bill Cosby, who has been accused by dozens of women of committing sexual abuse.
One picture "defined" the word sandwich as "an edible form of happiness, usually served by women to men as a holy offering", and described it as being synonymous to "Men rights".
But the jokes left a bad taste in some people's mouths.
"Poor you, this reeks of insurmountable insecurity. I hope you boys find some love in your life and manage to grow up a little bit," said commenter Rabayl M. Mirza on the restaurant's Facebook page.
Some male users hit back. "Feminazis!" declared user Sajjad Ali.
The fierce debate spilled over offline, with one female lawyer who asked to remain anonymous telling AFP that a heated discussion in her office had divided workers along gender lines.
The furore has also roiled city officials, who are investigating if the campaign was offensive.
A visit to the venue in the city's outlying F-11 neighbourhood revealed a chic establishment styled along the lines of a Parisian cafe with a price range that caters to city's well-off middle and upper classes.
The owner, a woman named Nadia Ali, was out of Islamabad on business though her husband said she may comment on the issue later.
The cafe issued an apology in its latest Facebook post, adding: "So you've undoubtedly won this round and we've decided to change the names of all our sandwiches on an emergency basis!"


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Channeling Spirit Communication through Trance Mediumship
Spiritual Book: Spirits Speaking from the Heart - Inspiring Communications through Trance MediumshipThe following is the first of a number of spiritual books and ebooks given to us through spirit communication. Our second book "Unfolding the Lotus - Spirit Reflections on Mediumship" focuses mainly on guidance and exercises for psychic awareness /development. It also offers a number of meditations to facilitate psychic and spiritual development and the development of mediumship. Our third book "Walking the Path - Spirit Reflections on Earthly Life" is now published.
Book - Spirits Speaking from the Heart - Inspiring Communications through Trance Mediumship, 268 pages approx. (Revised Second Edition Published 2006)
The original book has been redesigned in this second edition with a considerable amount of new information included. In particular it includes contributions from new Guest Speakers and information on architecture and how buildings are "constructed" in the Spirit World.This book has also been published in German: Geister, die aus dem Herzen sprechen - Inspirierende Kommunikation durch Trance-Medium
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"Spirits Speaking From The Heart" is a book that bridges the divide between two worlds. It is about the communications from an evolved Spirit Guide, Hai, and his group of spirit friends. The material is stunning in the variety and depth of its subject matter, ranging from everyday life and relationships, to the big social issues of our time. The spirit communicators have provided a picture, of what we can expect when we return to our spirit home. They give guidance on how to develop our own psychic faculties, bridge the communication divide between our worlds, and develop our spiritual character. Here you will find spirit communications from a wide cross section of humanity: People who were rich and famous, but also, at the other end of the spectrum, those who led a simple and humble life. What comes over consistently in this book is the natural and "human" feel to the communications. While openly sharing their own experiences and profound reflections on the human condition, the spirit communicators do nevertheless, show a profound sense of fun and are never far away from a laugh and a joke. The Spirit Group chose the title for this book. They wished to convey their love and concern for those of us on the earth plane and to express the enjoyment they obtain through their contact with human kind. This is a book to inspire and to reflect upon. It is also a book of hope and encouragement.
Paul McGlone is a trance medium through whom the "Phoenix Spirit Group" has been communicating for many years. Eileen teaches Reiki and co-ordinates the regular meditation/development groups at their Stockport home. Many years of trance work and facilitating development groups has given them vast insight into the subject.
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The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston) featured a story on Sukkot programming and additional entertainment provided by USC Leonard Davis School student David Markovich, who traveled from Los Angeles to Houston to help with Hurricane Harvey-recovery efforts. "I've seen a lot of resilience in this community," Markovich said. "Even
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Is fasting the secret to a longer life? (Men's Health)
Men's Health cited research by Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School about the health benefits of intermittent fasting.
Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Honors Paul Irving
The Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI) will host Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and distinguished scholar in residence at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, as the second DCI annual lecturer and the recipient of the DCI Life Journey Inspiration Award on October 24, 2017 on the Stanford campus.
Intermittent fasting may help fight obesity (United Press International)
United Press International cited research by Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School on the benefits of intermittent fasting on reducing cardiovascular risk factors.
How to keep older adults safe in emergency situations (KPCC-FM's Take Two)
KPCC-FM's "Take Two" interviewed Donna Benton of the USC Leonard Davis School about how to better prepare older adults for crisis situations.
PhD Student Honored for Minority Health Research
USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology PhD student Lauren Brown was recently honored for her poster presentation on telomeres, aging, and minority health by the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science.
USC Leonard Davis Faculty Member Honored for Service
Donna Benton, Director of the USC Family Caregiver Support Center, named as a 2017 "A Call for Boldness" Biddy Mason Unsung Shero Legacy Honoree by the Women's Group of Greater Los Angeles County.
Students Map Out Ways to Make L.A. a Friendly Place for The Elderly
City officials, professors and seniors address housing, transportation, engagement and other issues that affect the quality of life for older adults.
Influencers in Aging 2017 (PBS Next Avenue)
PBS Next Avenue named USC Leonard Davis School Dean Pinchas Cohen and alumnae Gretchen Alkema and Kathy Black to its 2017 list of the top 50 "Influencers in Aging." The gallery noted that Cohen is one of the leading researchers in the biology of aging
USC Leonard Davis Dean, Alumnae Recognized as Top Influencers in Aging Field
A list of the nation's leading voices in the field of aging published in Next Avenue includes USC Leonard Davis School Dean Pinchas Cohen and alumnae Gretchen Alkema and Kathy Black.


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The Orange Order has received a grant of almost £900,000 from the European Union to help address the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Communities at sectarian interfaces and border areas which suffered disproportionately during the Troubles will benefit, the organisation said. The Stepping Towards Reconciliation in Positive Engagement (Stripe) project will be based in Lurgan, Co Armagh.
Drew Nelson, chairman of the Orange Community Network, said: "The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland believes there is an imbalance of weak community infrastructure, low confidence and low levels of participation within the Protestant community, particularly in interface and border areas in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
"Grand Lodge also believes the Protestant community in interface and border areas had suffered disproportionately during the Troubles."
The £884,022 was received from the Special EU Programmes Body. Dr Jonathan Mattison will be the project manager, one of seven staff financed until December 2014.
UDR soldier Joe Gaston lost a leg when the IRA blew up his tractor at his farm in Glarryford, near Ballymena in Co Antrim, in 1977. He has had an artificial limb since then but said he is now barely able to walk because of problems with his other leg.
"I was very dissatisfied with the artificial limb - the quality of it was not of the same standard that you could see now, but they are very expensive," he said.
He paid £1,000 for it then and he had to travel to Basingstoke in England for repairs, making it quite expensive. He was a dairy farmer and his job was badly affected by his injury.
William McKeown, grand treasurer of the Lodge, said the funding represented an opportunity to enhance confidence within the Protestant community.
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Rubber Duck Regatta: And the winners are …
Geraldine Berchtold, 83, selected as winner
More than 165,000 rubber ducks were dumped into the Ohio River Sunday afternoon for the 22nd annual Rubber Duck Regatta.
A crane hoisted a semi-trailer over the Purple People Bridge, and dumped the thousands of yellow ducks into the water along Cincinnati's Serpentine Wall.
Event organizers plucked seven ducks out of the bunch, selecting them for prize winners.
Watch: 165,000 rubber ducks dumped into Ohio River
Geraldine Berchtold, 83, of Loveland, won the grand prize – a 2016 Honda Civic LX Sedan, courtesy of Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Honda Dealers.
Grant Hesser, of Mount Lookout, won $5,200 in groceries from Kroger, which can be spent $100 per week for a year.
Helen Diehl, of Park Hills, Kentucky; Sandra Ausdenmoore, of Green Township; Christopher Towe, of Madeira; William Wade, of Cleves; and Standford Seto, of Loveland each won $500 cash from Kemba Credit Union.
The Rubber Duck Regatta is the Freestore Foodbank's largest fundraiser. Each duck cost $5, which translates into 15 meals for children in need. The sponsors of the event pay for all of the expenses — meaning 100 percent of the donations goes straight to those meals.


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Why Don't Smaller Businesses Have Mission Statements?
Corporations Have Mission Statements but Smaller Businesses Don't
Every week I meet with the heads of publicly held corporations and they all have a Mission Statement. I also analyze smaller businesses, private ones, including Mom & Pops. And none (well almost none) have a Mission Statement. Why is this?
Why do Smaller Business Lack Mission Statements?
The quick answer is "Who Knows?". But it's not hard to take some educated guesses. Before I give those guesses, let me define mission statements. In our performance enhancement strategy Your Mission Statements are Impressive, we discuss the merits of 5 mission statements, including the traditional Mission Statement. Here, I will use Mission Statement to denote the traditional one, and mission statements to denote the class of 5 possible types of mission statements. Incidentally, those 5 are Mission Statement, Profile Statement, Corporate Mantra, Vision Statement and Statement of Social Values. But we won't be going into those.
Why Should Smaller Businesses Have Mission Statements?
For a few reasons smaller businesses should have mission statements.
- Much of the time your customer doesn't know what you can do for them. Having a mission statement helps clarify why you are in existence for them
- Your competitors don't have them. You'll immediately seem special compared to the rest.
- You increase your Corporate Presence. In general, people trust larger companies better than small ones. Since large companies have mission statements and small ones don't, the logic is simple
- It helps you grow. At Performance Business Design we never say small business. Thinking small results in stagnation. Thinking big can result in growth. So, acting as the larger businesses do will help you become large yourself. Similar to "think and act like a skinny person will help you lose weight".


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|Monahan, Pamela
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|Raetzman, Lori T.
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|Raetzman, Lori T.
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|Bagchi, Milan K.; Bahr, Janice M.; Nardulli, Ann M.; Yao, Humphrey H-C.
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|The pituitary is plastic organ whose hormone cell number can fluctuate depending on physiologic need. Alterations in pituitary cell expansion can lead to disorders such as pituitary hyperplasia or tumors, which have a high prevalence in the human population. Precise control of cell cycle progression is the molecular mechanism by which pituitary cell expansion is regulated. We have investigated signaling pathways active during development, a time of rapid organ growth, to understand the process of pituitary progenitor cell division. In development, progenitors choose between proliferation and cell cycle exit, followed by differentiation. Notch signaling has been shown to promote progenitor preservation, both through repression of differentiation as well as by directing proliferation. We show that the activated Notch pathway, through HES1, serves as a proliferative signal that promotes progenitor expansion, with its loss resulting in a severely hypomorphic pituitary. HES1 transcriptional repression of Cyclin Dependent Kinase Inhibitors (CDKI) is the mechanism by which HES1 promotes cell cycle progression. Loss of Hes1 in the developing pituitary, results in increased expression of the CDKIs p21, p27 and p57. We hypothesize that this aberrant increase in expression may be a molecular mechanism contributing to progenitor pool depletion. Increased expression of CDKIs has been shown to be a hallmark of differentiating cells and loss of CDKIs has been shown to potentiate tumorigenesis of the pituitary in adult life in humans and rodent models. Studies by other groups have shown that p57 and p27 are CDKIs that modulate proliferation in the growing embryonic pituitary. With our studies now show that these molecules are not the sole contributors and that p21 may also be responsible for controlling pituitary proliferation. To uncover the individual and overlapping roles of CDKIs in regulating pituitary cell number, we examined the pituitaries of mice lacking p21 and p27 alone, as well as double mutants. Loss of both p21 and p27 drastically increases proliferation throughout the developing pituitary, indicating that expression of these molecules is crucial to controlling pituitary progenitor cell expansion. Taken together, these studies suggest that Notch regulatory pathway activation is necessary for fine-tuning a balance between proliferation and differentiation by modulating CDKI expression during embryonic pituitary and that CDKI action is needed to restrain proliferative signaling preventing excess proliferation or even tumor formation.
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5th March 2019
We have now launched ESIS, available directly through our website.
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text: Up and Down El Rio Blanco: "Thanks" February 25, 2011 Bobby Gutierrez Opinion 0 Listen to this post More than 20 years ago in Steamboat Springs, Father Tom Dentici gave my all-time favorite sermon. I don't remember it verbatim but the bottom line was: "The ultimate prayer, is a prayer of thanks," Father Tom said. I think of this sermon almost daily but the last time I mentioned it out loud was five years ago, at my niece Natasha's funeral. The other night at the candlelight vigil for James Sizemore, Pastor Johnny Arrington used the same word as Father Tom. "Thanks," Pastor Johnny told the large crowd of family and friends gathered on the courthouse lawn, before offering his prayer. I'm saddened when people so young and so full of life leave us before we are ready for them to go but I'm still thankful. I'm thankful for my job. My favorite part is getting to watch kids grow up. I remember James as a little red-headed kid, always smiling, always with friends, always said "hi" and always lived life to the fullest. I'm thankful he left doing what he loved to do. Like my niece, James will be missed but never forgotten. Thanks Natasha. Thanks James. I'm thankful I got to attend another state wrestling tournament last week. It's fun to follow kids through the season and competition in the "big show." Wrestling is the oldest sport in the world, possibly the most humbling and the lessons learned can be the most rewarding. As a former wrestler and fan of the sport for more than 30 years, it's fun to see friends and watch kids try to accomplish their goals. I got to speak with Olympic champion Henry Cejudo and his brother Angel. Both have been to Meeker to give wrestling clinics and both are living in Colorado Springs, training at the Olympic Training Center for the 2012 Olympics. Henry is the youngest American to ever win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling. Thanks Henry. Thanks Angel. I'm thankful I also got to watch one of our own and although Rangely senior Cole Barlow did not accomplish his goal, I know he will accomplish much in his life. After years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, Cole lost in the state championship finals. Instead of hanging his head, Cole stood on the podium, received his silver medal, looked right at my camera and smiled. When I reviewed the picture and saw him smiling, I knew he got "it." Thanks Cole. I'm thankful for our servicemen and women. Like Sergeant Brice Glasscock of Meeker, who is currently serving in Bagram, Afghanistan. Sergeant Glasscock left Ft. Lewis, Washington, Jan. 14 and will return in December. His address is: SGT BRICE GLASSCOCK TF-MEDE 928th ASMC BAF APO, AE 09354 Thanks Brice. Thanks God. Opinion


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Sherwood: The Survivors Club
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Ben Sherwood, The Survivors Club : The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2009. xvi + 383 pages; illustrated; includes bibliographical references and index.
Intrigued by an National Public Radio interview with the author, I wanted to read about the characteristics and traits survivors share. The author interviewed people who survived some kind of physical or intense emotional trauma in their lives ranging from POWs, cancer survivors, plane crashes, accidents of an appalling variety, and even the Holocaust. Some of the stories are uncomfortable to read but each illustrates an important aspect of how and why some people survive when others don't.
Interspersed with their stories are interviews with scientists who have studied survival from diverse perspectives. They share their findings on what it takes to survive a plane crash, how the body responds physically to accidents and stresses, whether attitude or faith makes a difference in survival, how to create your own luck, the genetic basis of resiliency, and why fear and adversity can be good for you.
In the second part of the book, Sherwood discusses the five types of personalities that survivors display: Fighter, Believer, Connector, Thinker, and Realist. Twelve psychological strengths emerged most often in interviews with survivors and discussions with the experts. These include adaptability, resilience, faith, hope, purpose, tenacity, love, empathy, intelligence, ingenuity, flow, and instinct. The author worked with a leading psychometrician – she studies the science of psychological measurement - to develop an Internet-based Survivor Profiler test. Readers of the book may take the test online to discover their Survivor personality and three dominant strengths (as well as the three weakest ones). By knowing your strengths, you can "exercise and build them like muscles, and mobilize them in a crunch."
The test was interesting but I wasn't terribly surprised at my dominant strengths. Returning to the book, however, left me wanting. Each of the five survivor types and twelve psychological strengths were described briefly but there were no recommendations on specific means to go about the exercising and building of them. For some clues on how to do that, you have to return to the beginning of the book to review the three rules of the Survivor Club:
First Rule: Everyone is a survivor. At some point in life, everyone faces some kind of hardship. A survivor is defined in the book as "anyone who faces and overcomes adversity, hardship, illness, or physical or emotional trauma." They keep going, whether only for a short time or for years, no matter what they face. They understand that their life may be changed forever and never return to "normal." They accept and move on, building a new "normal."
This bit really resonated with me, as many who learn about the devastating impacts of climate change and peak oil on our current way of life go through emotional trauma. The steps to dealing with the realization that life will not continue as we know it are similar to those in dealing with any sort of loss.
Second Rule: It's not all relative. Whatever adversity comes your way, whatever crisis you face, is your challenge to deal with at that moment. It may appear to be a less severe crisis than someone else went through but comparisons don't matter and they don't help. You have to deal with what you've been dealt and not waste time or energy comparing your crisis to what others have gone through. You have every right to be overwhelmed even if it, superficially, seems like it should be easier for you.
Third Rule: You're stronger than you know. When facing adversity, survivors find that they have strengths and abilities they didn't know they had. The desire for survival is strong and crises force people to pull on all available resources, whether physical, mental, or emotional. Dig deep!
I would recommend giving the book a read, whether you have faced a significant crisis or not, although I suspect those who are already in the "survivors club" may get more out of it than I did. You can also explore the website where additional survivors share their stories.
-- Notes by CC


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Several Texas A&M University-Kingsville students will receive awards after their performance of Annie Baker's The Flick in the Little Theatre last weekend.
A representative from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival attended the all-student production and responded by awarding the students, TAMUK Theatre Program announced.
The play was produced by Alpha Psi Omega, a national drama fraternity, and directed by Laurie Guajardo.
Students registered the production as an associate entry into the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, a national theater program involving students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States.
Two students, Etta Enow and Robin Machuca, are recipients of the Irene Ryan Acting Award. Ensemble actors and Lexi La Cour were given Meritorious Achievement for Performance and Caroline Dietz received an award for Makeup design.


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AList is proud to announce our partnership with Advertising Week New York, the world's largest annual gathering of advertising, creative, entertainment, marketing, media and technology industry leaders. Taking place October 1 – 4 2018 at AMC Loews Lincoln Square, this year's AWNewYork will feature speakers from across media and marketing. AList's very own panel will be taking place Tuesday, October 2nd at 10:20 am where our panelists will be exploring the topic of recovering from failure.
How a marketer emerges from missteps and mistakes can massively influence future success and opportunity. This panel of marketers will have a frank discussion about attitudes around failure, how to pivot when you sense things are going awry and provide practical advice for those at any stage of their career on recovering from a failure.
Monica Halpert, CMO, Sundance Institute
Vimla Gupta, CMO, Equinox
Gene Foca, CMO, Getty Images
- Dara Treseder, CMO, GE Business Innovations & GE Ventures, General Electric
Moderator: H.B. Duran, Reporter, AList
About Advertising Week
Since it began in 2004 led by co-founders Matt Scheckner and Lance Pillersdorf, Advertising Week has evolved into the number one business-to-business event in New York cutting across all industries and has expanded rapidly across the globe replicating its signature formula blending thought leadership on the business of the business by day and show business by night. The Week now enjoys a global footprint with editions in London, Tokyo, Mexico City and Sydney and via AW360 has extended the thought leadership platform beyond the events onto smartphones and tablets the year-round.
Advertising Week is produced globally by New York-based Stillwell Partners.
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Recommended Amount of Unsaturated Fat per Day
Managing your cholesterol plays a crucial role in keeping your heart healthy and warding off heart disease, which is the number one cause of death in the United States. Watch your saturated fat intake, and get your fat from mostly unsaturated sources; these are among the best ways to keep your cholesterol in check.
Importance of Choosing Unsaturated Fats
Cholesterol on its own isn't inherently bad. In fact, your body needs a small amount of this fat-like substance to function properly. It's an essential component of cell membranes and plays a role in producing vitamin D and digestive acids. However, when too much cholesterol accumulates in the blood, it can lead to hardening of the arteries and eventually heart attack or stroke. Saturated fats in your diet raise bad cholesterol in the blood, making it healthiest to choose fat from unsaturated sources a majority of the time. The good news is, taking action to modify your diet can lower your risk of heart disease.
Unsaturated Fat Recommended Intake
Every five years, the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Department of Agriculture, releases nutrition recommendations to help guide Americans toward healthy food choices. Instead of recommending a low total fat intake, the guidelines recommend a low saturated fat intake. It's recommended that you limit saturated fat to less than 10 percent of your daily calories, according to the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. If you're aiming to keep your total fat intake between 20 and 35 percent of your total calories, that means 50 to 65 percent of your total fat intake should come from unsaturated sources.
Figuring Your Unsaturated Fat Goals
If you're just getting started in determining your unsaturated fat goals, start figuring out how much unsaturated fat to aim for. As a rule of thumb, if you're sticking to a 2,000-calorie diet, your total fat intake should account for 400 to 700 calories, which is 20 to 35 percent. Of that amount, the goal is to get 50 to 65 percent from unsaturated sources. Using a 2,000-calorie diet as an example, that equates to 200 to 450 calories from unsaturated fat. Make adjustments if you follow a diet that is higher or lower than 2,000 calories, and use it as a guideline when making your food choices.
Choosing Unsaturated Fats Sources
Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated are the two primary unsaturated fat groups found in your diet. Of these two groups, polyunsaturated fats have the most potent influence on lowering levels of bad cholesterol. Most saturated fat comes from animal foods, while most plant oils supply a mixture of mono- and polyunsaturated fat, with one group often dominating the fat profile. Foods rich in monounsaturated fats include avocados, certain nuts like almonds and pecans, and pumpkin and sesame seeds. Meanwhile flaxseeds, walnuts and fish provide rich sources of polyunsaturated fat. Additionally, fish supplies crucial omega-3 polyunsaturated fats, the most heart-healthy fats found in your diet. Aim to eat two servings of fatty fish like salmon and mackerel each week, recommends the American Heart Association. Doing so will help you get your omega-3 requirement and take advantage of heart-health benefits.


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Supplier Diversity Best Practices
Best Practices for State Agencies
For a printable version (pdf) of this list of best practices, click here.
Below are some best practices to increase participation of minority, women, and veteran owned firms. The Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises (OMWBE) is happy to discuss how these strategies can be used in your agency. We can include appropriate staff from the Department of Enterprise Service (DES).
For questions or help, please contact email@example.com or 360-359-6219.
1. Proactively identify your contracting and procurement needs. Early planning is the key to supplier diversity.
- Identify your agency's schedule of planned procurements for the biennium.
- If a schedule isn't available, review historical data to identify general categories of goods and services your agency regularly purchases. Your agency's response to questions one through four of the Procurement Risk Assessment report submitted to DES can help.
- Break down your needs by type of procurement:
- Spend on master contracts using the master contract sales database.
- Spend on internal contracts.
- Spend on direct buy purchases.
2. Review your procurement practices.
- Review how purchases are bundled and whether unbundling these contracts will create more inclusion opportunities.
- Understand your agency's direct buy purchasing authority.
- Is it likely bidders will subcontract work? Consider requiring bidders to submit an inclusion plan, where the contractor is responsible to set goals, identify small and diverse vendors, and report on subcontractor spending with diverse vendors.
- Write solicitations and contracts in plain talk, which assists all bidders.
- Review your agency's standard contract language and reevaluate any requirements that may be barriers for small businesses.
3. Identify diverse options for each category of spend.
- Use this search tool on DES' website to identify master contracts with diverse vendors.
- Use WEBS to identify all firms registered with DES. WEBS includes all certified veteran owned businesses. Businesses are able to self-identify as minority or woman owned, check OMWBE's directory to see if they are certified.
- For help, review these instructions or see the WEBS Vendor Search tutorial.
- Try starting your search with broad commodity codes.
- Search the OMWBE's directory of certified minority and woman owned firms.
4. Other Market Research and Outreach
If you cannot find a certified firm in your area of work, early planning will allow you to conduct market research and targeted outreach. Agencies should conduct outreach consistent with their submitted inclusion plans whether it is targeted for a specific contract OR future needs.
- Contact OMWBE and DVA to identify other options for utilization of small businesses that are not certified.
- Identify businesses that you are currently contracted with that may qualify for OMWBE or DVA certification.
- Develop a communication strategy to engage small businesses owned by minorities, women and veterans. Assess how your agency does outreach and whether it is effective (e.g. partner with other agencies and distribute the connections, leverage the trade show costs)
- Know where to refer a business that wants to be certified by the OMWBE or the DVA. See this multi-agency fact sheet for more information.
- Contact certified minority, women, and veteran owned businesses and encourage them to bid.
- Host, sponsor, or attend trade shows to inform small businesses of contracting opportunities. Check OMWBE's web site or the DVA for upcoming events or call us.
- Advertise contracting opportunities on OMWBE's web site, your agency site and other organizations that distribute contracting opportunities (e.g. commission newsletters).
5. Monitor.
Monitor your agency's spend with certified businesses throughout the year so you know what is working and can adjust your strategies as needed. You can access your agency's Supplier Diversity Report through Enterprise Reporting.


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November 11, 2018 10:23 PM
The man shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer on Friday has been identified by his roommate.
Thirty-six-year-old Travis Jordan was the man shot in the front yard of a home on the 3700 block of Morgan Avenue North about 2 p.m., according to his friend Paul Johnson.
RELATED: Police: Man Shot and Killed By Officer in North Minneapolis
Jordan was living with Johnson and Johnson's wife. Jordan and Johnson also worked together in the hospitality industry.
Sunday, Johnson stood outside his home, looking at the spot where Jordan fell.
"Why are tasers not pulled out, why is that not what's in their hand?" he said. "Why is the lethal form of de-escalating the situation and ending it in their hands and not all the other ways that could've been done?"
A press release from the Minneapolis Police Department said the man was armed with a knife. Two officers from the 4th Precinct responded to a welfare check at the home. Both are on administrative leave.
According to a 911 transcript released by police Sunday, a caller told dispatch Jordan had been "having a lot of suicidal thoughts because, um, depression, anxiety, but he's not taking any pills for that. Um, he's just taking alcohol for it."
The caller told dispatch they had spoken to Jordan earlier and he said "he doesn't want to live, he doesn't even think about his future anymore."
"I told him I was gonna call the cops, 'cause I was really worried about him, and he threatened me and said go ahead and call the cops, I'll talk to them when they get here," the caller told dispatch.
At one point, the dispatch operator asked the caller if weapons were involved or mentioned. The caller said no.
Later in the conversation, the caller said, "I've looked through his text messages before and he's asked for like to find him a gun for him from someone. And then I confronted him about that a long time ago and he said he wasn't gonna do it."
Also Sunday, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner said Jordan died from multiple gunshot wounds.
John Elder is the spokesperson for the Minneapolis Police Department and said the officers' body cameras were on, recording both audio and video of the shooting. Plus, Elder emphasized every officer on the street has been through state-mandated training on how to safely handle people in crisis. Of the 376,000 calls for service citywide this year, more than 3,200 of them involved reports of emotionally disturbed persons.
"It was a wellness check and now our friend is dead instead of alive and getting the help that he needed," Johnson's wife Allison Reinke said.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the officer-involved shooting.
Updated: November 11, 2018 10:23 PM
Created: November 11, 2018 06:50 PM
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Tony Time: Nominations for Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Photos)
From a murder mystery to a rock hall to a fighting ring to grand ole Broadway itself. Scenic designers have the ultimate task of bringing to life the unique environment of a Broadway production on stage and in the theatre through their designs. While audience members only get to see the finished product, a lot of pre-work including research, sketches and creating a model go into the process long before the Broadway audience ever sees the stage. Luner on Theatre is offering you a look behind the scenes before these works every made it to Broadway and received a Tony nomination for their outstanding design. Today, Luner on Theatre brings you a first look at the Tony nominated best scenic designs for this year's musicals!
All of this year's nominations are incredible and outstanding works of art. Congratulations to all of the nominees! We hope you enjoy this new and different look at The Tony Awards! Luner on Theatre's Tony Time is in full swing as we are now less than one week away from the 2014 Tony Awards! Stick with us all week-long as we count down and bring you nonstop coverage! For more information, visit The Tony Awards Official Website! And of course, check out the rest of Luner on Theatre for all your theatre news you don't only need but want to know and so much more!


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I have two reviews due on Friday; one I haven't listened to at all, so that's something I'll have to do this week. I haven't written a single word of fiction in well over a week. But I'm headachy and body-achy, so I may spend a good part of the evening laying in a hot tub and getting ready to go back to work tomorrow.
I have decided I'm going to Albuquerque; it looks like I can get a pretty good deal for a round-trip flight for rahirah and I for just overnight, and it'll save us about 28 hours of driving time (both ways). The prize money for even first place (which I'm not expecting, just hoping for) won't cover the cost of the plane tickets, but what the hey.
I cannot even begin to say how highly I recommend Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I have about six chapters to go, but wow, what a great story. It started slow, but once it gets going, it's hard to set down (even in Las Vegas).
My mom found my bag in the trunk and I have everything back now, hooray. The bad news is I gained six pounds this week; and dang it, it takes more than one week to lose it all again. Phooey. Back to the diet, and really seriously, until my birthday.
On that topic, Cinnabon is making cookies now. They're really good.


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Barry Hickey is the new development director at serviced apartment chain Staycity.
Joining the job with a strong property backgroumd, Hickey's main task will be to advance the company's growth in Europe.
Hickey said: "Staycity is a growing brand in an expanding sector.
"I'm delighted to be joining the company as we embark on a strong expansion programme over the next 12 months. We are actively seeking sites both in the UK and in key cities across Europe."
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WA Partnership Limited, Consumer and personal finance education consultants
Having created the original brand for WA Partnership, and original website, there was now a need to have a complete overhaul, to rebuild the website in order to create a content management system that the client could control themselves and to create a new and modern look for the company, to communicate their offering more effectively.
I developed a fresh image to fit with the demands of modern audiences. A new cartoon-like illustrative style was developed to use on the website, to present a more approachable friendly image. Other illustration was done for the team portraits and icons for signposting. A new content managed website was built with a fresh layout design and with a responsive layout which also responds to different platforms – tablet, mobile phone etc. This enables the site to appear consistent in any environment.
A 'how to' guide manual was written to assist the client in self management and further training given.
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Temp house buying system brings flexibility to buy a new house: the users can change their home whenever they want with the Temp service.
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Understanding the Millennials
Millennials have lower rates of home ownership than their parents. One of the barriers to buying a house is having uncertain future plans and mobile lifestyles.
Access, not ownership
"It's not just homes: Millennials have been reluctant to buy items such as cars, music and luxury goods. Instead, they're turning to a new set of services that provide access to products without the burdens of ownership, giving rise to what's being called a 'sharing economy'." Jeremy Rifkin, Author and Economist
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Millennials want to be mobile so a house buying system which supports mobility and flexibility will suit them. A house buying system which enables the user to change the house easily and which offers flexibility in the payment plans will offer maximum mobility. Thus, users will not have any doubt when buying a new home.
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Users collect the membership points which stand for "the right to own a proper house". After they collect enough point to own a house, the user will stop paying for the house. Users can upgrade the level of the house by paying for more points. Moreover, users can combine or transfer these points in cases like marriage or having a child.
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"making it easy to move" When users want to move, Temp offers some companies that offer services like home moving, furniture, decoration, interior design services with discounts.
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English Economist, Critic, Businessman, Essayist, Social Darwinist and Journalist who wrote extensively about Literature, Government and Economic Affairs
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English Economist, Critic, Businessman, Essayist, Social Darwinist and Journalist who wrote extensively about Literature, Government and Economic Affairs
Author Quotes
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay.... The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.
A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Free government is self-government. A government of the people by the people. The best government of this sort is that which the people think best.
Life is a school of probability
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
Woman absent is woman dead.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.


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Isla planted lettuces and gave the seedlings a stress-free head start by soaking them in a bath of Sealsol. Mix three capfuls of Seasol with 9 litres of water and soak the punnets for 10 to 20 minutes before planting.
Fruits or Vegetables, Exotics or Natives, Seasol will help promote vigorous growth and better health in all types of plants and in all conditions and it's a 100% Australian product made from a sustainable resource.
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eBusiness leverages our US product categories and supply chain with the majority of revenue generated through Build.com.
Key products and services
eBusiness sells home improvement products directly to professional trade customers and consumers online predominantly using the Group's existing product lines and distribution network. The majority of eBusiness is conducted through the brand Build.com, which is supported by a call centre. The call centre is staffed with knowledgeable consultants who deliver expert advice across all product categories. This differentiation gives us a competitive advantage against the other large competitors in the space.
eBusiness continues to evolve to support both professional trade customers and consumers driving a best-inclass experience through an improved website, mobile app and call centre. During the year we have created a tool on the website allowing customers to envision and design their projects in a simple, user‑friendly way. Our mobile Build.com app has been enabled to support augmented and virtual reality for thousands of plumbing and lighting products, achieving nearly half a million downloads.
Our supply chain at Ferguson enables us to deliver to more than 70 per cent of the US population in one day, which we are now promoting on the website. We will continue to integrate across Ferguson's branch network to support a more robust omni-channel experience for the customer.
During the year we continued to consolidate pay-per-click advertising spend around fewer trading websites and really focus on Build.com due to its excellent customer experience, well-known brand and search engine optimisation. Our dynamic pricing strategy and own brand penetration meant that gross margin held up well in the year.
The market is predominantly comprised of large competitors with the top four businesses holding an estimated 67 per cent of the market. Ferguson is estimated to be number four, down from last year as we consolidated pay‑per-click advertising spend around fewer trading websites.


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Boys Varsity Volleyball · Durango Falls to Sierra Vista
The Durango Men's Volleyball team put up a fight at a home game against Sierra Vista Tuesday night. Vista dominated in the beginning of the game during the first set, but Durango came back fighting harder. At the end of the first set, we were left with at 15-25. However, our Blazers came back during


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Poland were a surprise package in the qualifying phase of the Euros, losing just one of their ten games as they topped Group G with relative ease.
With world class attacker Robert Lewandowski on their books, it was already an uphill battle for most of their opponents throughout qualification, as the 31-year-old netted six in ten appearances.
Drawn into Group E of the finals alongside Spain, Sweden and the winner of path B of the playoffs, things will get far more competitive for
(4-3-3): Kepa; Carvajal, Martinez, Ramos, Alba; Saúl, Busquets, Fabian; Asensio, Isco, Rodrigo.
The next opponent in Group E for Poland will be Sweden, who - with 21 points from their 10 fixtures - finished second to the aforementioned Spain in the qualifying rounds.
As a side lacking any real standout stars, it is all about team spirit and work ethic for Sweden. Head coach Janne Andersson tends to set up his side in a flat 4-4-2 with wingers feeding
Jordan is in fact the son of legendary attacker Henrik Larsson, and at the age of 22 he is just at the start of what could be quite an exciting career - if he's even a tenth of the player his dad was.


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what a strange thing
life, my life
these few weeks were tiring
life, oh life
it will always be tiring
i miss here i miss writing
even though they are simple
i know, i need to improve
but i am peaceful enough to give a smile to my friends
life, life i am waiting for the next surprise
what will be your next surprise for me? will it be good? i hope so
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Awesome look into the world of food politics and nutrition as Nestle leads us down each aisle in the grocery store to break down what those confusing labels mean and why they're there. Each chapter ends with a recap of how she recommends you proceed (e.g. for produce, the priority order is 1- organic and locally farmed, 2- organic, 3- conventionally grown and locally farmed, 4 – conventionally grown).
This reinforced a lot of common sense ideas about shopping the perimeter of the store for the best unprocessed foods (produce, dairy). I also learned how milk is broken down into its various categories (skim, 1%, 2%) through separation and reconstitution, including whole milk. This is done to remove the cream from the watery whey. Skim milk has the same amount of calcium as whole milk.
The politics surrounding rbST labeling (FDA won't make the call that rbST is bad for cows/humans, but ultimately cows that are injected with rbST have higher incidence of infection and thus antibiotics that get into the milk) involve evil Monsanto.
Yogurt is simply a desert- 12g of sugar, but there might be favorable results from the friendly bacteria.
Fish higher up in the food chain (predators) generally have higher mercury levels. Smaller fish like tilapia and salmon are better than tuna. Imitation crab meat (surimi) is lacking all nutritional content, made up of smaller fish rinsed and pressed into a block and liquefied.
Whole grains are good for you (shocking!), and when the whole grains are sold in most breads, they're just disguising white bread.
Stay away from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Juices are ok, but high in calories. Ones with pulp are best, since pulp is where the nutrients are.
Solid vegetable oils are high in saturated fats. If it's solid, it's saturated.
Vegetable oil that's not specific about its origin is usually soy oil.
Further resources:
USDA Food Composition Tables
Safe fish list
Marion Nestle's blog
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Heather Bussing is an employment attorney who writes a lot, teaches advanced legal writing and is the Editorial Advisory Board editor at HR Examiner. Full Bio »
Firing At Will
by Heather Bussing
Jay Shepherd is no ordinary employment lawyer. Sure, he has the license and lots of experience using it. But he's really an entrepreneur who thinks like a designer.
Q: How many designers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Does it have to be a lightbulb?
Shepherd believes light bulbs are useful, but never the complete fix.
You may know Jay Shepherd from his employment-law blog Gruntled Employees. I found him through a tweet by William Tincup quoting Shepherd's response to the question: "Who owns an employee's social media contacts?" Answer: "Shut Up."
Shepherd is also the creator of the two-word social-media policy: Be Professional, and the two-word employment-policy manual: Respect Others.
His new book about termination of employment, Firing At Will, begins: "I love baseball."
Shepherd is no ordinary employment lawyer.
When I finished the book last week, it dawned on me that if CEOs and VPs of HR followed Shepherd's advice, employment lawyers will be obsolete.
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Here's why. Shepherd puts business first. He cares about how the company works, what makes financial sense, and whether employees want to work there. "Disgruntled employees sue their employer. It's better to have gruntled employees."
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Instead of trying to manage risk, he talks about how to manage people, including the managers.
But Firing At Will is not for the timid. Shepherd recommends that you throw out your policy manual, get rid of progressive discipline, and (gasp) treat people differently.
And when it's time to fire someone, which is usually earlier than you think, Shepherd guides you through the questions to ask, what to say, and what paperwork to use. More importantly, he teaches how to handle a difficult, emotional situation both professionally and respectfully.
Firing At Will is a smart and common-sense approach "to the riskiest thing you can do at work with your clothes on."
You can get the first chapter for free and order it here. Better yet, call your local bookstore.


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The Magic of the KonMari Method: Cleaning Out the Closet
Decision-making skills are put to the test with the KonMari method's first hands-on exercise. Are you ready?
Most women (including myself) complain that they don't have anything to wear, even if their closets are stuffed with perfectly usable clothes. I was curious to find out if the KonMari Method held the answer. Author Marie Kondo states that starting off with going through your clothes will hone your decision-making skills, to get you ready to decide over the harder stuff.
How do you set the stage for the first challenge?
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A prostitute is a person who provides sex or sexual services for money, generally to many different customers. (A woman who provides sex and companionship on a long-term basis to a man for money is generally called a "mistress" rather than a "prostitute"). Prostitutes can be of either sex, but female prostitutes are more common in most cultures.
Prostitutes and spanking[edit]
It is not uncommon for basically straight prostitutes to be willing to enact spanking scenes with themselves as the spanker when requested by the client. This service is most often requested by submissive men. It is less common for a prostitute to be willing to play the role of the spankee, partly because of fear of excessive severity on the part of the client. Much the same applies to BDSM scenes, except that most prostitutes are not willing to engage in the more severe or extreme forms of BDSM, or to play the role of submissive or bottom in such scenes.
Many Victorian-era brothels in England offered spanking or what would now be classed as BDSM scenes among their varied services, with the prostitutes taking on a variety of roles. For more, see flagellatory brothel. Prostitutes who make a specialty of providing spanking or BDSM services, or both, often call themselves "Dominatrix"/"Pro-Domme" or "Slave"/"Pro-Sub", as the case may be. However it is important to note that many Pro-Dommes or Pro-Subs are not prostitutes as they do not provide sexual intercourse, and their services may not fit the legal definitions of laws on prostitution.
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You are viewing the results for Irsta Blixten 2019. View the current results for Irsta Blixten 2020 here.
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In addition to the two Eskilstuna Guif teams, 54 other teams from 3 different countries played in Flickor 12 år. They were divided into 14 different groups, whereof Eskilstuna Guif 2 could be found in Group H together with Borlänge HK 2, Åkersberga HK and Årsta AIK HF.
Eskilstuna Guif 2 continued to Slutspel A after reaching 1:st place in Group H. In the playoff they made it to 1/8 Final, but lost it against Skånela IF with 7-19. In the Final, Skånela IF won over Lödde Vikings HK 1 and became the winner of Slutspel A in Flickor 12 år.
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Enjoy Donut Delivery from Shipley Do-Nuts If you love Shipley Do-Nuts, then donut delivery is perfect for you! Times have changed – you no longer have to wrench yourself out of bed if you're craving donuts, coffee, and kolaches from Shipley Do-Nuts. The Internet has given us the power to do so many things – and one of them is making your life easier and your breakfast more convenient. Don't want to change out of your pajamas? No problem. You Read More


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From my personal standpoint as an archivist, what is crucially important regarding such archives is how the data should be utilized in the future.
When you compare the timeline which was mapped after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and the one for the recent Great East Japan Earthquake, the timing for the necessary projects becomes visible. The two earthquake disasters were different in the degree and nature of damage, yet brought similar mental impacts to the victims. One can visualize in both the physical and mental aspects, when the victims needed something and when the actual launching of projects took place; such as when temporary housing was needed, and when to relocate to permanent housing.
Although not directly related to critical infrastructure, art events can be considered an important element as mental liberation for the victims.
Establishing consistency between the time axis of basic human desires and external projects has a great utility value in the future launchings of projects after earthquake disasters.
On the other hand, the semantics of the projects visible from the timeline of the archive are also important. There are long lasting projects. There are short projects that last a long time, repeating periodically, and those that end quickly.
We must especially investigate the reasons of the short lived projects. Did the project itself have a purpose only in the short term? Or did it have to be terminated for a reason such as a budget issue? Or maybe it was an idea that did not convey itself to the victims but was just a self-serving on the part of the organizers to begin with.
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Steps to build a shed: Know the lay of the land Draft your up your plans Finalise plans and mark out area Excavate the slab hole Install wooden forms around excavated slab hole Pour basecourse and compact it Add in layer of sand Lay a sheet of polythene Lay reinforcing mesh Pour and cure concrete (one of the hardest and most tedious steps) Organise shed frame Install and secure shed frame (fasten/fix to slab) Install shelving, furniture, and decorRead more here
How far is Boddington from Perth? Boddington is a gold and copper mine situated 120 kilometres south-east of Perth, near the town of Boddington in Western Australia.Read more here
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I race toward the finish line. I run out of time.
Still, it's a happy day. At least I finish the line drawing for Creative Tuesdays. Tweet! That's the first reason.
Lame, I know.
The second reason this mama, her two little twitters and I tweet is because it's Canada's 148th birthday. Tweet, tweet. Okay, so we're a day early.
Third, we're proud to live in a country whose Canadian national motto (inscribed on Canada's Coat of Arms below) is based on the verse found in my trusty guidebook.
"Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare,
et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae".
"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
and from the river unto the ends of the earth".
Psalm 72:8 (AKJV)
Now that school is out, it wouldn't hurt to remind the kiddies how fortunate they are to live in our great country Canada. A country where we can still express our opinions and beliefs.
Before I dismiss my class, your kiddies will want to print off another FREE coloring page (shown below) over at "Kids' Corner".
As the kiddies scribble or color, sing our national anthem—O Canada. And don't forget to point out the words in the anthem, "God keeps our land glorious and free!".
Now, please flitter over to Creative Tuesdays' blog and whistle at the other creative twitters.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CANADA! (Tomorrow)
P.S. To receive my free posts by email, just enter your email address in the box under "Sign Me Up!" or check off the box after you leave a marvelous comment. That will definitely start my summer off quite nicely.
P.P.S. How will you celebrate your country's birthday?
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