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Arizona Short Sales
What are Arizona short sales and should I consider them?
Arizona short sales are like other transactions in many ways. Let's focus on the differences between a regular real estate listing and a short sale listing.
A "Short Sale" is when a homeowner and a bank cooperate and agree to sell a piece of real estate for less than what is owed on the lien or mortgage. Usually this takes place when there is a good reason why the current owner can't continue to make the payments or pay the difference between the mortgage and the selling price. Why would a bank take, as a payoff, anything less than what they are owed? The same reason credit card companies do, some money is better than less money down the road. If a bank were to say no to a Arizona short sale and decide to play hardball, their only other recourse would be foreclosure. This would mean:
1. More time not getting paid.
2. A house that is empty and not being taken care of and possibly vandalized.
3. Lawyer and trustee fees
4. Holding cost to upkeep the property
5. Closing costs, and they still need to pay the Realtors, title agencies, cleanup crews, rehab costs, etc.
Arizona short sales can be a big no-brainier for banks, however, some banks get the concept better than others and try to streamline the process. While other banks bury their head in the sand and foreclose. Obviously, we don't see the entire picture. I'm sure banks have their reasons for not doing Arizona short sales. Even with streamlining, short sales can take months to get approved as the bank must qualify the seller for the short sales, approve the asking price by getting an appraisal, and dot all the I's and cross the T's. Not all Arizona short sale agents are the same. Call us at RCP.
Should you buy Arizona short sales?
What should you know about Arizona short sales?
If you are looking to buy a home or an investment property in Arizona, where do you start? First of all, you need to identify what type of property you want. If you decide on a single family home versus a four-plex, then your next step is to decide what type of sellers do you want to deal with. Here are a few different types of sellers.
1. Regular seller- just a normal scenario home owner who wishes to sell his/her house and hires a Realtor.
2. Arizona Foreclosure Sale (Trustee sale)- These are banks auctioning off foreclosed properties to the highest bidder.
3. Arizona REO properties- These are properties that did not sell at the auction and the bank then hires a Realtor to sell the home.
4. Arizona Short Sales– These are home owners that want to sell, but they owe more than the house will sell for. They need the banks okay to sell at this low amount.
If you decide you want to pursue a short sale option, there are a few items you will want to know.
A. The short sale process takes a while to complete–typically 3-6 months.
B. A few months into the process the bank could reject the purchase price.
C. The values could change during this process.
D. The asking price is arbitrary unless it is approved.
If you are a person who can wait and are flexible on price, these Arizona short sales may work for you. Otherwise, RCP can help you filter out Arizona short sales in your homes for sale search. Arizona short sales can be tricky. Let us explain in detail all about Arizona short sales! Call us at RCP.
Scottsdale Land for Sale
Scottsdale Land for Sale: Lots and Acreage
Scottsdale land comes in many shapes and sizes. There are Scottsdale waterfront lots, Scottsdale horse property or equestrian properties, acreage parcel and subdivision lots, lots backing parks, and lots touching roads. With zoning and land uses coming into play, your Scottsdale land transaction will need a professional.
Scottsdale land is desirable and there are lots available. You may be searching for land to build your dream home, or to find a place to build a shop, maybe develop a commercial project, or just need a place to play. Scottsdale, Arizona land can fit your needs.
Here at RCP, we can assist you in your Scottsdale land search. We can assist you in finding what areas are in Superfund sites or have other external obsolescence issues. In short, whether you are looking to sell your land or by more land, call us here at RCP for a free consultation.
Do you want to explore how cheap Scottsdale land can actually be? No problem! We can provide you with some current listings in minutes. In addition, if you have any questions about land in Scottsdale or land in Arizona in general, give us a ring!


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Will & Grace may have ended years ago, but a real-life version happened this week. Eric McCormick and Smash star Debra Messing dined at A Voce Columbus, which is definitely a place Will and Grace would've dined, right? Plus, Jason Segel and Michelle Williams — who are absolutely adorable and totally in love right now — apparently found themselves snuggling at the Five-Year Engagement after-party at MoMA. And Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mevinsky checked out recently Platt-reviewed Alison Eighteen. It'll be hard to top these perfect dates, but we'll try. See more of our weekly celebrity-dining roundup straight ahead.
A Voce Columbus: Eric McCormick and Debra Messing — aka TV's most famous couple that's not a couple — enjoyed a quiet dinner on the Upper West Side. [NYP/Page Six]
Alison Eighteen: Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky had dinner in Chelsea. [Page Six/NYP]
Almond: Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin shared a nice evening with another couple. [Page Six/NYP]
Bella Blu: Jets quarterback — no, not that one — Mark Sanchez lunched with a few teammates. [Page Six/NYP]
Cafeteria: As Ice-T and Coco waited to be seated, she touched up her makeup. [Page Six/NYP]
Mariah Carey is a huge fan of Cafeteria, or at least it seems that way. The singer dined at the establishment twice within 24 hours. [People]
And last Saturday, Topher Grace, Sophia Bush, and Kimbra shared some breakfast there. [Grub Street]
The Lion: Apparently dressed in her best There's Something About Mary getup, Cameron Diaz cheerily socialized with her friends. [Page Six/NYP
MoMA: Jason Segel and Michelle Williams were inseparable at the after-party of Five-Year Engagement, and Michelle even pulled Jason to the side behind a curtain in the middle of the party. [People]
Serafina: Lebron James dined with his fiancée after the Heat defeated the Knicks this past weekend. [Page Six/NYP]

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First ladies from nearly 20 African countries have announced the creation of a new alliance to fight AIDS on the African continent. The Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS was launched in Geneva.
Representatives from 35 African countries, including 18 African first ladies, are attending a three-day U.N.-sponsored conference in Geneva to set up the structure and define the goals of the new organization.
The group has strong backing from a private anti-AIDS organization chaired by former South African President Nelson Mandela and former President Bill Clinton.
The First Lady of Zambia, Maureen Mwanawasa, told journalists in Geneva she was confident the new anti-AIDS organization would receive strong support from the newly formed African Union. "We are here with the blessings of the heads of states, who happen to be our husbands and who happen to be members of the African Union," she said. "So, canvassing on those lines will not be a problem. They know why we are here and they respect the cause of the conference."
Though AIDS is a worldwide problem, it has hit Africa the hardest. The U.N. Global Program against AIDS says 28 million people in Africa are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
According to U.N. figures, more than 60 percent of new HIV infections are among women and girls, and girls are five times more likely than boys of the same age to get infected. It is for this reason that members of the First Ladies' alliance say a primary focus of the group will be teaching women and girls how to protect themselves from the disease.
U.N. officials say 22 percent of Zambia's population is infected with HIV. But Zambia's first lady says prevention and education programs are bringing down the rate of infection in her country.
Ms. Mwanawasa says one of alliance's goals is to have all the first ladies of Africa begin national programs to fight AIDS and to expand these programs throughout the continent.


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One midsummer evening not long ago, I rang the buzzer of a Holland Park mansion, wedding-cake white with black railings. The lady of the house, barefoot in a floral-print dress, opened the door and politely held out a hand for me to shake. (It was her left hand, but it's the thought that counts.) "Hello! I had a party," she said. "It was so good. It was my birthday. And now we've got goldfish. Have you got goldfish?" And with that Harper Beckham, three, hopped on to her lilac scooter and led the way into the sitting room.
This is not how interviews with fashion designers usually begin. But Victoria Beckham has built a label which last year took £30 million in sales by doing things her own way. She is the ex-Spice Girl who took on the fashion industry and won them over; the Wag who became a player. Let other designers play the eccentric artist; Beckham is the multitasking modern woman, seating her children next to Anna Wintour at her last fashion show.
Which is how I come to be in the Beckhams' sitting room holding a glass of white wine while Harper helps herself to the olives and crackers and pours us doll-sized cups of water as tea. "She usually goes to bed at seven," says
Victoria, scooping her daughter up for a cuddle, "but I've been at work all day, so I have hardly seen her."
The Victoria Beckham story is a post-modern fairytale. First, she was famous for being famous; then, she became – against all expectations – famous for actually being good at something. There is, of course, a prince in this story (more of him later) but the glass-slipper moment in the fable of Victoria Beckham is not her Vera Wang-clad wedding 15 years ago, but the morning nine years later when she presented her first collection to fashion editors and buyers in a New York hotel suite to rave reviews.
What makes the Victoria Beckham story so compelling to the women who buy her dresses is that Victoria Beckham is living, breathing proof of the transformative powers of fashion. We buy clothes because we believe they will help us become who we want to be. It is the dresses with her name on the label – yours for around £1,500 a pop – which made Victoria Beckham who she is today. That is one very powerful sales pitch.
The sitting room where Victoria, Harper, Natalie the PR and I sit on a trio of neutral-toned sofas, runs the full width of the house, opening on to the garden. Victoria is a great deal more beautiful in person than she looks in paparazzi shots. You expect the glossy mane, the perfect nails, the caramel skin; it's the almond-shaped, dark-chocolate eyes which take you by suprise. She usually keeps them hidden behind enormous sunglasses.
Her decor is a cheerful mix of grown-up taste and family life: one table holds a vast white orchid and tomes of fashion photography; another bears half of a Frozen-themed cake, leftover from Harper's party. Ana and Elsa – the goldfish – are on the dining room table. ("They're supposed to be in Harper's room, but the bowl is too heavy for me to carry upstairs so it will have to wait till David gets home.") David and the boys – Brooklyn (15), Romeo (12) and Cruz (nine) – have left to spend the holidays in LA. Victoria has more work to do on the collection to be shown in New York on 7 September before she and Harper fly out to join them.
Being Victoria Beckham is a number of overlapping full-time jobs: mother, designer, brand ambassador, businesswoman. I met Victoria a few times over the summer in an attempt to get a 360-degree picture of the woman behind the brand. It became clear that she makes her schedule work by doing several things at once. We talked about the future of her company sitting on her sofa while she cuddled Harper. On a site visit to her London store, she took calls from Brooklyn – the first time he had forgotten his lunch money, the second he just called to check in. One afternoon at her Battersea headquarters, she showed me around her two ateliers and stopped to point out, hanging on a rail outside her office, the dress she had picked to wear to the Wimbledon men's final: a priceless piece of publicity for her label, which saw that dress on TV screens and websites globally.
At home on her sofa, she reflects that "I know that I'm lucky to be in a position to plan my diary around the kids' assemblies and sports days. I never miss those. But on the other hand, I don't ever watch TV. After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes."
The best new year resolution Victoria ever made was "to start going to the gym. That was nearly four years ago, when we were in LA and I was pregnant with Harper, and I've never stopped. Once I get into something, I do it properly." Her daily routine begins – six days a week, at 6am on weekdays – with a 90-minute workout with a trainer. (Harper shows us a set of professional-looking bicep curls with a set of pretend dumbbells she has made from twists of craft paper: clearly, she has observed a few.) Victoria runs (eight miles around Richmond Park with Tana Ramsay the other day) and in LA attends the ferocious SoulCycle classes. She eats lots of fruit ("the most popular thing I make in my kitchen is a mango carved into a hedgehog. I do that and the kids tell everyone I'm an amazing cook"), fish and vegetables.
On a school day, after training she will "get the kids up, do breakfast, check if there are any spelling tests or maths tests, if they need football boots. It's complicated because two of the boys go to the same school, Brooklyn goes to a different school, Harper goes to another school, so usually David and I each do a school run." These days, the paparazzi mostly leave them in peace. "I can walk to Marks & Spencer or to the park with the kids and I probably won't be photographed."
The Victoria Beckham label has undergone an intriguing evolution in its six-year lifespan. Where the first collections of dresses were all about structure, using corsetry to sculpt a silhouette, within two years the aesthetic had loosened up to include draped parachute-silk. The business expanded with the more accessibly priced "Victoria Victoria Beckham" line, and flat shoes, trousers and oversized coats appeared alongside the hourglass numbers she calls her "signature dresses". The new collection centres around lean but easy shapes: a high-neck sweater with a simple skirt, a silky tunic over slim trousers, a fluid sleeveless coat.
If you were to psychoanalyse the clothes, you could say that they have become less about a perfect body and more about personality. The Victoria Beckham woman has a shape to her as a person, which is no longer defined by her waist size. I put this to Victoria. She is sceptical – "there was more corsetry at the beginning because we were a small team, with a smaller skill-set, as the atelier expanded we've been able to try more things" – but agrees that the way she herself dresses has changed. "Because I'm coming to work every day, I tend to wear things that are a little looser; if I want to look dressy, I put on my sunglasses. I used to wear clothes which would make me stand out and now I don't so much because I don't feel I have anything to prove." Her day look seldom swerves beyond navy, black, cream and grey; as well as her own label, she wears Céline, Saint Laurent, Comme des Garçons.
Her personal heroines are "Hillary Clinton for a start. I love her, don't you? And Sheryl Sandberg. And Michelle Obama. Strong women, that's who I really respect." It is nearly two years since I last spent significant time talking to Victoria and she has changed a great deal. That was Victoria Beckham 2.0, transformed from pop star to promising designer. Victoria Beckham 3.0 is much more comfortable inhabiting the role of the boss and talking business, less inclined to crack jokes to lighten the mood.
Success this time around feels different from her pop star life, she says. "First time around I felt famous, but now I feel successful." She wears her power lightly – she speaks softly, has flawless manners, and returns several times to the importance of being "respectful" (of her team's talents, of other people's time) – but "the final decision is always mine. It's really important that every aspect of what we do – the clothes, the swing tags, the shelves, everything – represents my point of view, because that's what the brand stands for."
Two years ago, Victoria Beckham had one floor in the Battersea HQ; now her 100-plus team are sprawled over several floors, with two in-house ateliers. "I went to Net-a-Porter the other day," she says, as we tour her scattered empire criss-crossing endless staircases and courtyards, "and their office is my dream. I called Zach [Duane, her CEO] and told him, 'I want an office like that'! But basically, he said no. Not yet."
In her office – grey sofas, white-shuttered windows and a huge black and white photograph of her children – she talked through her day's schedule, which included a meeting about rebranding and castings for a fit model, and I asked if she thought she'd still be working this hard in 10 years time, when she turns 50. "Probably, yes, knowing me. Although my mum can't understand why I'm working this hard now, to be honest." There is no financial need for Victoria to work and, for this reason, critics have been inclined to call into question whether she "really does anything". (One notices that this is a logic seldom applied to successful men.) "The thing is," she says, "I've always worked. The Spice Girls had a crazy schedule. I can't imagine what I'd do all day if I didn't work. I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career, and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable."
This autumn sees the opening of a 7,000 sq ft boutique on Dover Street in Mayfair. For a site meeting with Farshid Moussavi, the architect, Victoria arrives in skinny jeans, black flats, a black sweater and her own-label Liberty tote. She initially balks when handed a hard hat – "are you serious? I just had a blow dry" – but is soon posing in it, and posting the pictures on Instagram. The meeting covers rail fittings – should the clothes be held static (looks neat) or have flex to be rotated on the hanger (useful for customers)? Then it's on to carpet for the fitting room – grey or green?
Victoria makes quick decisions, often pushing for the purist design option. She wants the store to be "sophisticated, a bit conceptual. It's not just about selling. I want it to work for someone who isn't necessarily going to buy anything, but who wants to experience the brand through my eyes." She leaves for a meeting, dipping into her bag for powder and lipstick before walking out to find her driver while taking a call – David, presumably – who rings to suggest dinner. Love to, she says, do you want to pick me up after work?
"The part of the puzzle I find difficult," Victoria told me, "is having a social life. Because I work and then go home to be with the children." I sympathised, agreeing that with a career, kids and a marriage, something has to give. That's just how it is, I shrugged. She gave me one of her delicate little frowns, and softly chided my defeatist point of view. "I don't see why it has to be like that," she said. "You know what I think, Jess? I think we need to try a little bit harder."
For more exclusive interviews, shoots and fashion news from this season, pick up your copy of The Fashion with the Guardian on Saturday. For more from the Guardian on fashion, visit theguardian.com/fashion.
- Stylist: Priscilla Kwateng. Makeup: Zoe Taylor at Jed Root using Chanel Le Lift serum and A/W14. Hair: George Northwood using Pureology and Redken. All clothes by Victoria Beckham.


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Group Exhibition
»People in the City«
Opening: Friday, January 20, 2017, 18-21h (Facebook Event)
Exhibition: January 21 – 29, 2017
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 14-19h, Sat & Sun 14-20h
Admission free
"People in the City" will present works of 400 photographers from over 50 different countries, each with their own unique interpretation of the interaction between people and an urban setting. The photographies will be shown as prints as well as on screens.
Bridge-building between the virtual and the tangible world, the exhibition is concepted by GuruShots, a online platform that connects and inspires hundreds of thousands of photographers from around the world. The GuruShots platform provides themed challenges (in this case: "People in the City") in which photographers can participate with their pictures, at the same time vote for the pictures they like best and by receiving votes climb the platforms ranking system. GuruShots is using a combination of crowd-sourced curation and a special GuruShots expert panel to select the best images, which are now shown in the Berlin exhibition.
The exhibition also features some Berlin photographers as: Daniel Anhut, Isabelle Bommes and Lukas Proszowski.
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Knowledge, Wisdom & Understanding
Saints Academy &Jr. College Information Page
Tribute to:
Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory, L.L.D.
(b. December 28, 1904 - d. May 8, 1977)
"Dr. Mallory was the first black woman to head a major institution in the deep South; to be elected to the Holmes County Board of Education; to receive the Governor's outstanding Mississippi award; to have a day proclaimed in the entire state of Mississippi in her honor; to have the board of supervisors of Holmes County name a road in her honor; and to have many more honors that are reflected in Chapter 10." (Exerpt from book; "Down Under The Sun": The Story of Arenia Conelia Mallory") (Actually it is Chapter 12).
Dr. Mallory provided education through Saints Jr. College Elementary, High School and College for many students, through the Church of God In Christ school, throughout the United States (dormitory students), and the Holmes County, Mississippi Community (community students) for fifty years from 1926 to 1976.
She also provided employment, basic needs, religious advice and encouragement throughout Holmes County and beyond. She worked diligently within the community and with community leaders to improve the lives of many impoverished and uneducated people. Those who could not afford an education were never turned away, and Dr. Mallory made sure their basic needs were supplied in order for them to pursue an education without the worries and stresses of providing for their families.
Dr. Mallory's goal was to provide an education, instill pride, confidence, and self-sufficiency in every individual and family within Holmes County and beyond. She also provided spiritual guidance in order to instill faith and belief in God within everyone with whom she came into contact. Her life was and is a living testimony of her strong faith in God and her Christ-like dealings with others. No person who was hungry, without clothing, shelter and, or lacking an education was turned away or denied help if they came to her or she heard of their plight. She ALWAYS found a way or ways to make room for them, or assigned someone to them, or their families to assure their needs were taken care of until they could do so for themselves.
"Honors and Accomplishments":
1940: Twice selected by the National Council of Negro Women as one of the Outstanding Women of America.
1948: Selected by the National Council of Negro Women as one of the 12 most outstanding women in America.
1956: Citing her contribution as an education and leader of women, the Utility Club of New York designated her as Woman of the Year, sharing honors with Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the Utility Club's Man of the year. She received this award in the presence of 1,500 guests assembled at ceremonies in New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
In the 50s: -Became Chairman of National Education Association of Mississippi Teacher's Human Relations Council and held that position until 1972.
1960: -One of the first Americans to visit Ghana after it attained Commonwealth status.
1961: -Invited to return to Ghana to attend the Conference for African women and women of African Descent.
1963: -Received the Sojourner Truth 1963 Award for Meritorious Service in the Development and Advancement of the Status of women from the Nation Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs.
1965: -Received National Council of Negro Women's 1965 Tribute Award and the Scroll of Honor for being a symbol of the accomplishment of Negro women in advancing education in the rural areas.
1966: -Honored among the top 12 women in Government by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
1967: -In January, her biography appeared in the ROYAL BLUE BOOK, Leaders of the English Speaking World, London, England.
1968: -Her biography appeared in THE PERSONALITIES OF THE SOUTH.
-Honored in April by the Chicago Alumni of Saints Junior College at the Dunbar Vocational High School Auditorium.
-Cited by the Church Civic League of Cleveland, Ohio, as being among women of achievement at the Manager Hotel.
-In November, she was the first person of color and the first woman to be elected to the Holmes County Board of education in
1969: -She was cited by the NAACP, and the Church of God in Christ International for outstanding work.
1970: -Received the Merit ward from Mississippi Teacher's Association.
1971: -She became a member of the Southern Conference of Human Relations.
1972: -Her biography appeared in WHO'S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN, published by Marquis Who's Who, Inc., Chicago, Illinois; THE WORLD WHO'S WHO OF WOMEN, published by Melrose Press Ltd. International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England.
1973: -Her biography again appeared in the WORLD WHO'S WHO OF WOMEN, published in Cambridge and London, England.
-On September 30, she was award a certificate acknowledging her as the most important and valuable Human Resource of the United
States of America living during the closing decade of the first American Bicentennial and, as such, was selected for inclusion in the
Library of Human Resources of the American Bicentennial research Institute.
- On October 30 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humanities by Southwestern University, Greenville, South Carolina.
- In November, during their convocation, she received a citation for her outstanding achievements from the Church of God in Christ
1974: - The Holmes County Board of Supervisors changed the name of Castalian Road in Lexington, Mississippi, to Arenia C. Mallory Road."
- She was re-elected for a six-year term to Holmes County Board of Education.
Miscellaneous: - Projecting her career from the Mississippi Delta to the national and international scene, Dr. Mallory became affiliated with many professional, religious, and civic organizations. These included the Academy of Political Science: American Teacher's Association; National Education Association; Administration of Rural Education; Southern Conference on Human Relations; The Women's Organization of Higher Education; and the National Society for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (served as Vice-President) .
- Her travels throughout the world began with her election in 1952 as the only woman delegate. of the Church of God in Christ to the World Pentecostal Convention in London, England.
- A charter and life member of the National Council of Negro Women, Dr. Mallory was Regional Director for eight years, during which period she organized the Southern Regional meetings for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. She was first Vice-President on NCNW for four years. In 1954 she was the delegate of the Council at the Convention of Women in Helsinki, Finland, and immediately following this occasion, she was the guest of the Swedish Council of Women.
During many years of service to the National Council of Women of the United States (with which the National Council of Negro Women is affiliated and which, in turn, is affiliated with the International Council of Women), Dr. Mallory has on several occasions represented this organization at the international level. She became a Vice-President of the NCW of U.S. in 1956. As its delegate and member of its Educational Commission of the International Council of Women in Montreal, Canada, in 1956 and 1959, she was among the Women Leaders of the Free World who participated in the policymaking program of the International Council of Women at its Executive Board meeting in Vienna, Austria.
International Council of Negro Women:
-In 1955 she was a delegate to the Tenth Celebration of the United Nations in San Francisco, where she spoke on the program of the Merchandise Mart - an occasion significantly marked by the presence of many foreign delegates.
-In the International Council of Women she held one of the highest offices, Vice-Convener of the Educational Commission. She was nominated to this office, by the Canadian Council in 1960 during the triennial meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, where she attended as a delegate of the National Council of Women of the United States.
-In 1962 she attended the Executive Board meeting of the International Council of Women in Rome, Italy.
-In 1963 she was re-elected as Vice-Chairman of the Education Committee of ICW in Washington, D.C.
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- Her participation in many state, national, and international conferences included the White House Conference on Children and Youth and the White House Conference on the Aging.
- She was the subject of a biographical sketch in "Eve," a Scandinavian periodical. - WHO'S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN - a biographical dictionary of notable living American women, published by A. N. Marquis Company of Chicago, Illinois. - WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION; WHO'S WHO IN THE SOUTHWEST; THE INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF NOTABLE PRESIDENTS, all published in London, England.
"Down Under The Sun": The Story of Arenia Conelia Mallory)


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Published on November 6, 2014
EXFO Inc. has joined others in Canada's telecommunications industry to make sure this country maintains its position as a world leader in next generation network technologies.
QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, November 6, 2014 — EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF) has joined others in Canada's telecommunications industry to make sure this country maintains its position as a world leader in next generation network technologies.
The Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) was officially launched today in Ottawa. It brings together the entire industry supply chain—leading multinationals; scores of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); start-ups; service providers; research scientists and academics.
CENGN provides an essential link between fundamental research and the commercialization efforts needed to get communications products to market before the competition. CENGN will foster "co-opetition" between member organizations which are responsible for 90 per cent of Canada's telecommunications R&D.
"EXFO is proud to be a founding member of CENGN. This provides us a great platform to work collaboratively with other CENGN participants to drive innovation and deliver highly differentiated solutions for the communications industry," said Germain Lamonde, Founder Chairman and CEO at EXFO.
With its headquarters in the Kanata Research Park in west-end Ottawa, CENGN will have satellite offices across Canada and it will partner with CANARIE—Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network—to connect with researchers right across the country. The centre will also be linked to regional innovation centres to ensure start-ups get the business support they need in order to grow.
The centre will provide testing facilities, business support, mentoring and help in finding financing, while promoting the development of cloud-based applications in areas such as healthcare, energy, education, financial services and the environment.
"The CENGN partnership creates a unique environment and a one-of-a-kind facility that will spawn new technologies, new services, new skills, new businesses, new jobs and new international investment," says Ritch Dusome CENGN executive director.
About EXFO
Listed on the NASDAQ and TSX stock exchanges, EXFO is a leading provider of next-generation test, service assurance and end-to-end quality of experience solutions for mobile and fixed network operators and equipment manufacturers in the global telecommunications industry. EXFO's intelligent solutions with contextually relevant analytics improve end-user quality of experience, enhance network performance and drive operational efficiencies throughout the network and service delivery lifecycle. Key technologies supported include 3G, 4G/LTE, VoLTE, IMS, video, Ethernet/IP, SNMP, OTN, FTTx, xDSL and various optical technologies accounting for more than 38% of the global portable fiber-optic test market. EXFO has a staff of approximately 1600 people in 25 countries, supporting more than 2000 customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.EXFO.com and follow us on the EXFO Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube.
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A man came home from work and found his 3 children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and candy wrappers strewn around garden.
The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house…there was no sign of the dog and walking in the front door, he found an even bigger mess.
A lamp had been knocked over, the throw rug was against one wall, in the front room the TV was blasting the cartoon channel loudly and everywhere he looked toys and various times of clothing were laying over every piece of furniture.
In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, next to broken crayons and a pile of colored paper and crayon books and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.
He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over more toys and more piles of clothes, frantically looking for his wife. He was worried she might be ill, or that something serious had happened to her.
When he reached the top of stairs he heard a faint trickle of water and made his way to the bathroom door as fast as he could. Terrified of what he may see on the other side, he opened the door slowly finding only wet towels, scummy soap and more toys on the bathroom floor. Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap in the toilet and beside it and toothpaste had been smeared on the counter, cabinet walls and the floor.
Desperately he rushed to the bedroom, flew open the door and there on the other side was his wife laying in bed. Curled up in her favorite comfy pajamas, reading a novel she looked up at him and smiled, "Hi! How was your day?"
Mouth wide open, he couldn't speak. Just looking at her for a moment he finally said, "I…I…I….What…Are you okay?! What's going on…? What happened here today?"
Reaching across to the night stand table to set down her book, she arched her back like a cat getting up from it's nap and said, "You know how every day you come home from work and say, "What in the world do you do all day?'"
"Yes," he replied still worried.
"Well, today I didn't do it."
I wish I could end on something really funny or insightful, but…well…there's really nothing more to say!
Except, if you work full time and someone else takes care of your house and your kids….whatever you pay them, it's not enough.


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Town v Bury
Town: 1 Jayson Leutwiler, 2 Joe Riley, 3 Matt Sadler (19 Andy Mangan 90), 4 Ryan McGivern, 8 Abu Ogogo, 9 Ivan Toney, 10 Louis Dodds (22 Moha Chaulay 65), 14 Jack Grimmer, 18 Gary Deegan, 24 Adam El-Abd (c), 29 Sylvan Ebanks-Blake ( 7 Shaun Whalley 56)
Subs: 21 Mark Halstead, 5 Olly Lancashire, 16 Antoni Sarcevic, 27 George Waring
Bury: 1 Ben Williams, 3 Greg Leigh, 6 Anthony Kay (c), 7 Zeli Ismail (24 Hallam Hope 77), 10 Danny Mayor, 11 Tom Pope, 12 James Vaughan, 18 Jacob Mellis, 19 Tom Soares (17 Kean Bryan 90), 22 Niall Maher (2 Craig Jones 54), 25 Leon Barnett
Subs: 15 Anthony Dudley, 20 Scott Burgess, 21 Paul Rahubka, 23 Tom Walker,
Ref: Mark Haywood
Assistants: Barry Cropp and Michael D'Aguilar
Fourth Official: Paul Newhouse
Attendance: 2990 (with 360 from Town)
Micky Mellon makes two changes from the side that started in last weeks away from at Oldham Athletic, Junior Brown has an ankle injury picked up in training so in comes Mat Sadler and in Ryan McGivern returns from international duty so Olly Lancashire drops to the bench.
The first good chance of the game came minutes in when Ismail got into the space down the right to get a good cross in, El-Abd was there with an important header and then Leutwiler was out quickly to collect before Pope could pounce.
At the other end Town were looking dangerous and when Dodds looked to push into the box and was sent sprawling for a Town free-kick. It was Toney who stepped up and he went for precision rather than power and tried to lift the ball over the wall but it did its job and blocked the danger.
Bury had a great chance to get in front on 15 minutes when they found the space down the right, the ball was cut back into the Town box to find Maher but his shot was into the side netting with some of the home fans thinking they had taken the lead.
The home side had another good chance and it was again Ismail down the Bury right where the danger came from, he cut in back into the Town box and Vaughan looked odds on to slot it home but Grimmer slides in for an important block.
Town were also creating chances and a quick break saw Toney driving in on goal with options of Ogogo and Ebanks-Blake to his right, Toney kept his run going and drove in low shot that was just wide of the near post, but a pass to the others might have had a different outcome.
On the half hour mark the ball was played to Toney just inside the Bury half, he had his back to goal and collected the ball but Mellis went through the back of Toney and picked up a booking. Toney looked to be in discomfort and was ok to carry on after treatment from physio Chris Skitt but was still hobbling a little when he came back on.
With 10 minutes to go a Bury attack ended with the ref giving a free-kick, then followed a bit of pushing and shoving and players coming together which ended with El-Abd and Vaughan picking a yellow card apiece. While Bury were setting up for the free-kick ref Haywood called Ivan Toney over and showed him a yellow card.
Minutes later the ball was going towards the touchline with El-Abd coming over to clear, he did that and then Vaughan came in later and sent the Town captain flying, ref Haywood was straight across and produced a second yellow card and sent the Bury man off.
With the half-time break approaching Sadler tried to get the ball forward, it was blocked and then fell to Ismail who drove down the right, Sadler was looking to get back and then McGivern came across, Ismail went flying and ref Haywood was again reaching for his pocket to show a yellow card for McGivern.
The half ended with the players going down the tunnel and this was then followed with an altercation that couldn't been seen, it carried on for a few seconds with the ref and officials looking on and then everyone finally disappeared down the tunnel.
Half-time: 0-0
The second half started with a hostile atmosphere from the home fans and Town needed to keep their cool and calm the atmosphere down. There were some interesting challenges going on and the ref was doing his best to let things flow.
On 52 minutes it was 10 men apiece when Danny Mayor picked the ball up and ran at the Town defence, El-Abd was there and attempted the challenge but Mayor went flying and the ref was quickly over to produce a second yellow card to give the Town captain his marching orders.
On the hour mark there was an almighty scramble in the Town box after the ball was chipped back in to the Town box, there were shots that were blocked, saves from Leutwiler and a goal-line clearance from Riley but the ref was right on the spot and didn't see it cross the Town line.
It was Bury who got the first goal of the game and it came after Mayor got the ball out on the left, he cut inside and then curled a shot beautifully into the far top corner to make it 1-0 to the home side.
Bury were on top but Town were still looking to create and attack and as the half wore on they started to build more and try to get the wingers into the game. Chaulay was a willing runner and he did well to win a corner, Riley took the kick to the back post and found the head of Toney, he put it back across goal and it found Ogogo, he turned and fired in a shot but it was just over the bar.
Town were back on level terms on 77 minutes and it was a nicely worked goal, the ball was played around looking for the opening and then Deegan played it out wide to Whalley, he hung a cross up to the back post and there was Ivan Toney who jumped the highest to head the ball home with a brave header that put the ball into the net and left him in a heap on the ground.
A Town corner was cleared and went out wide to find substitute Hallam Hope, he got his head down and started a run that ended with him cutting into the Town box but Leutwiler was equal to it and was down to put in an important block.
Town continued to push and the ball was wide with Whalley, he put the ball back into find Toney, he chested it down and then turned before driving in a shot that had a little too much on it and it flew over the bar.
Bury grabbed a second goal right on the stroke of the 90 minute mark, Town failed to clear the danger and the ball rebounded back to Mayor who smashed the ball home from close range to make it 2-1 to the home side.
Full-time: 2-1


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I've been reading
recently about beauty.
What is beauty?
How do you know
when you see it
or hear it?
What are its signs?
What is its purpose?
In the midst of my readings
I came across this quotation
from the French writer Blaise Pascal:
In difficult times you should always carry
something of the beautiful in your mind.
My initial response to his advice,
well over three hundred years old,
was mild surprise.
The paying of attention to beauty,
I had tended to think,
was for other sorts of times.
Times of leisure, for example.
Or when we're feeling particularly creative.
Or when we've become inspired.
But Pascal says,
"Be sure to maintain a connection with beauty
when times are tough."
I believe his words must have arisen
from the truth of his own life.
He was in frail health
most of his adult life,
and often in physical pain.
He lived his last years without much companionship
and in relative poverty.
He died when he was only 38.
For some of us, this may be a time
of great difficulty.
Even if that's not entirely the case,
we each have those moments that try us,
those days that wear on us.
Those are the times, Pascal says,
to carry something beautiful within,
in our minds, in our hearts.
Such are the times to let beauty shine its light
on our spirits, in our souls.
We're encouraged to allow
what is lovely to see and hear and touch
to be close enough to us
that we can see it and hear it and touch it.
How close?
As close as our own minds, our own hearts.
The reason is simple.
When we carry something of beauty within,
that beauty will carry us.
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6 month old kitten is drooling, crawling around in circles and thumping tail.
My 6 month old little guy, Jinx, is laying on the floor crawling around in circles and thumping his tail around. the local vets are closed and we can't afford emerg! anyone heard of this before and think this can wait until the morning to make an appointment? he has other weird health issues as he is a feral runt of the litter and we have had him to the vet before with no conclusion. he has 'spells' of 4-6 hrs where he is lazy, drooly and has slow breathing. he always comes out of them and devours food and plays with his brother like crazy. he's very small, only about 2.5 lbs. thanks for any info you can help me with!
Sorry but it sounds like he needs to see a Vet immediately.
[QUOTE=Longblades;1047983]Sorry but it sounds like he needs to see a Vet immediately.[/QUOTE]
I agree 100%.
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Story by Tamara Tiethoff, News Intern
Photo courtesy of TheDailyCaller
After just listening to the safety precautions and learning what to do in case of an emergency, a plane full of passengers is ready to settle in and decide what they will order from the flight attendant when she walks by. Everything changes, though, when only 23 minutes into the flight, the plane drops off the radar. In a split second, the plane goes down and all 224 people aboard the plane are killed.
On October 31, the Russian Metrojet flight Airbus A321 crashed over Egypt's Sinai peninsula while on its way to St. Petersburg.
"It is believed to be the deadliest air accident in the history of Russian aviation," said the Russian news agency RIA, according to USA Today.
After much confusion regarding the cause of the crash it became clear that the plane was taken down by a bomb that was snuck on board and it is suspected that that the crash was on account of ISIS, who later claimed responsibility.
"The photograph shows a soft drink can and two components that appear to be a detonator and a switch," said explosives expert Anthony May, reports CNN.
Based on the investigations, the metal should have set off any alarms through security. However, since the bomb was so simple researchers say that it would have been easy to separate the bomb into individual parts and then construct it on the other side of security.
"The volume of the can means it could contain a half kilogram, or 500 grams, of an explosive 'which is just sufficient to bring down an airliner'," said explosives expert Chris Owen, from Alford Technologies, according to CNN.
Due to the tragedy, airports are planning to increase security. Currently, the process is basic TSA, Transportation Security Administration, screening. It is said that there will be increased "seen and unseen" measure of screening taking place, reports The Washington Post.
"Transportation Security Administrator (TSA) Peter Neffenger and I, out of an abundance of caution, have identified a series of interim, precautionary enhancements to aviation security with respect to commercial flights bound for the United States from certain foreign airports in the region," said Jeh C. Johnson, secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, according to The Washington Post.
Since the airports can't tell passengers that they are not allowed to bring a carry-on bag, they are doing what they can to keep everyone safe.
"We work closely with our airlines, TSA, rental car companies, parking operators, etc. There are many team players here at the airport to ensure flights are on time and safe," explained Tara Hernandez, Marketing and Communications Manager of the Gerald R. Ford International Airport.
Before any final decisions are made, consultations happen between the TSA agents and TSA equivalents around the world. This is to ensure that the airports are taking similar precautions to prevent events like this in the future.
"In most airports worldwide, passengers and their carry-on bags are subject to x-ray machines, metal detectors and, in some cases, bomb-sniffing dogs," said a DHS official reports The Washington Post.
Investigations are still happening to find out exactly who the bomb came from and if ISIS was in fact the cause of the crash. The Russian government is offering a $50 million reward for information about those who brought down the plane. All that can be done now is wait.
For those of you flying home from the Gerald R. Ford airport during the upcoming months know that your safety is of the utmost importance. The workers are thrilled to experience so many loved ones be reunited each day and always want the best for the traveler.
"We can connect people to almost anywhere in the world right from our own backyard. It's exciting to know that someone may be taking their first flight or their 150th and we hope each time it's a memorable experience. I love being around so many great people, seeing reunions with grandmas and grandkids or military members with their family. Really, we connect people, and that's a wonderful experience to share," explains Hernandez.
About the Writer…
Tamara Tiethoff is a nursing major in the UDM/Aquinas program. In the future she hopes to become a neonatal nurse and continue writing on the side. She enjoys staying busy, but in her free time she loves drawing, spontaneous adventures, and coffee shops.
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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
This week's book: The Last Star by Rick Yancey
Author: Rick Yancey
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: May 24, 2016
The enemy is Other. The enemy is us.
They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.
But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves.
In these last days, Earth's remaining survivors will need to decide what's more important: saving themselves…or saving what makes us human.
I am so, so, so excited for this one! I absolutely loved the other books in The 5th Wave series, and have been waiting for this final instalment. I am certain that this will be the perfect conclusion to the trilogy, and I can't wait to experience it for myself!


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After a great Gnomon Live weekend seminar, I'm back into my sketchbook:
It's about time. I have lots and lots of catching up and learning and work to do. Iain McCaig is a very inspiring guy, as are Craig Mullins and Dan Milligan, who were also there.
So there will be more of these since I'm going to draw in my sketchbook every day, or else.
I'm working on the Hellboy sketch cards now, which will be filling up my evenings and weekends until Xmas. After that I will be able to just power thru my Eon Challenge piece, and then I can relax.
Don't worry, the comic will be up too. Draw draw draw!!!


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In this episode of ProfitEngines, PracticeBloom CEO Matt Coffy discusses the importance of online reviews in today's marketing and walks through the customer journey. If you aren't getting reviews from your customers or patients, you are missing out on an opportunity to acquire new business.
Okay, welcome to another episode of the Profit Engines. We are going to talk today about reviews. So what we've found is that there is a propensity of people to really overlook the importance of the review criteria. There are four main things to think about and why reviews are important. We're going to go through them quickly but really think about the most important one which is the customer journey.
No matter what you do, the psychology is that the customer is going to make almost 7-10 different hops between review sites to the website to social media to a video. There are so many different hops involved in the customer journey now. And if you haven't set yourself up to have the proper positive reinforcement from your customer base, real customers that is. You're challenging your own integrity as a business. And that's where things get competitively interesting. You see when people make decisions because of the hyper-connectivity today.
They are going to be on their phone. They're going to be looking around. They may have even have gone to a computer, gone to a tablet multi-modalities but they're always going to be looking for a thread of what they want is integrity from the company. There's a lot of different ways for that to happen. But today it really involves looking at things that are happening in real time especially with Google reviews, Facebook reviews and in some cases Yelp reviews. For medical professionals, there are other medical places such as the health environment depending on which healthcare service you're providing.
But really those types of things like RealSelf and some of the other doctor related review sites, those are really important because they're actually reading what the patient is saying and not just looking at the number of stars or a number of reviews. They're actually looking at what has been the experience. So we really want to talk about the customer journey and the experience of the clients or if you want to call them the customers of the company.
So what they really want to look at is what other people are saying. There's always going to be one bad apple in the bunch. We know that that's that's pretty much the world. But if they can see consistency in a very true review. Meaning that there are very easy ways that people can tell if these reviews are faked or they are let's just say sort of plant. The reality of the situation for most people is that they can read right through if it's a true review because the authenticity comes through. So really think about that as the most important thing about this.
The number 2 thing is really what's happening now in the space with SEO as well. So for a lot of people, if you do a search in Google. Especially for local businesses. And you get the three pack which is the three map listings and there are three different candidates to choose from, whether you're a plumber, whether you're a spine surgeon, whether you're an electrician, whether you're a small manufacturing company, anything that's out there they're all the same. People are looking locally and they're going to look for an experience from previous customers.
A lot of people haven't taken the time to really start to format that process. So if someone on top you has 55 reviews and you have none. Obviously, the eyes are going to gravitate towards the stars. That is causing Google to seek clicks go to those people who are listed with the greater amount of reviews. So that's always going to be an important thing in SEO because people are people and Google is trying to figure out why someone would go to a particular business based off of click through. So think about that.
Number 3, This is more of a psychological impact and something that you can take to sort of think through the process of why. We look at the top, best, number one and on and on and on. There is a body of people who are searching for a relative winner in the market. They're not looking for near me. They're looking for a number one top best and just think about it. Most people are looking for the primary candidate in their market to service them.
Again doesn't matter what industry you are in. So all of the searches that are top, best, one, are buying ques. Those are people who are in buying mode. They're past the information stage, now they're into I need to find the number one person who provides this service. So think about this number three as the psychological winner in the space.
The last thing and this is for you, is consistency. So consistency allows you to have a follow-up mechanism to your customer. So especially what we've been doing in the medical field and even with any of our other businesses, consistency of getting back to the client who purchased from you or has had service from you, whether you're in the medical industry or you are in a contractual industry or even manufacturing or any of these in areas where there is a transaction involved. You have to think about consistency of getting back to that customer client and getting a review. That way you're actually reinforcing and saying to that customer "Hey you're important. I would like to have your feedback." It's going to help you get better. And it's also going to make the customer recognize that you're looking for something positive from the relationship and those even lead to testimonials.
So these are four things to think about a review. customer journey, SEO, top and best, and consistency.
Hope this helps. We'll see you in the next episode.


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This is a Strain of Mitragyna Speciosa from Australia. I am about to get a rooted cutting from a guy i am talking to about this tree. He said it came from Africa. I will try to get some more information soon. It looks like my rifat but with wider leaves.
**EDIT** ( i thought he said Africa but now he is saying Australia so i guess i was wrong.)


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Hey guys, how are you all doing? I hope you're enjoying my blog posts! First, before I get into the new post:I have set up an email solely for this blog: email@example.com, so feel free to email me if you have any questions, comments, or just want to reach out! Don't be shy! I don't bite, I pwomise!
I know that my post about what it's like to have an epileptic seizure received a lot of attention (well from my end of things) so I hope for those of you without seizures, it gave you a really strong sense of what it's like to have seizures. Most of the seizures we hear about are Grand Mal seizures (also known as Tonic clonic seizures). I have only had maybe three of this type of seizure, (let me knock on wood for good measure) yet I can only imagine what it's like to have it on a regular basis. However, I feel like my post brought to post the other types of seizures that people with epilepsy experience. When I wrote that post, I was in a pretty good head space, and I was doing pretty well. Seizure wise, I hadn't had any in about 8 days, which is pretty good! If you want to know more about Grand Mal seizures, click this link: http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/aboutepilepsy/seizures/genconvulsive/tonicseizures.cfm.
I went to the Epilepsy Support Group, which was really great. I can't really tell you much detail about the actual meeting, due to the confidential nature of the group, but at the meeting I was feeling really well. I wasn't feeling tired or worn out. After the meeting I hung out a bit and talked to some of the members as well as one of the volunteers. I was standing by the doorway, right by the hallway where there were more meeting rooms (our meeting room was closest to the lobby) and I suddenly felt a buzzing feeling inside my chest. When I am with people I don't very well and I feel a seizure coming on, I have this automatic response to leave the room. It's like I can't control it. Well, needless to say, that didn't go very well. I took one step out of the room and then SPLAT. I did a face plant, and all the pressure went to my left knee. As if I would have a seizure at an Epilepsy Support Group! Everyone knew what to do. People knew not to crowd me, so only some people helped out. Thankfully my Mum was waiting for me in her car outside, so someone went outside and grabbed her, so she was right by my side. Thank god for mums, right?? Once the seizure was over, two people helped me up, and since it was so quiet, I said to the group, "Well that's a wrap!" We all had a good laugh. It lessened the tension in the room at least. After the seizure, my mum and someone from the support group helped me to my mum's car, and then my mum drove me home. I probably should have sat in the back seat as I seized on the trip home, but we made it, and my mum tucked me into bed. Basically, this seizure was the catalyst for feeling completely rotten, if I am going to use plain English here.
I went to see my Neurologist the next day and I am starting a new medication soon (Vimpat) which is a relief. Maybe these "Splat" seizures will end soon. (Splat Seizures are my own terminology. Maybe I'll coin the term!)
This seizure, plus some other stuff thats going on, just made me feel so depressed. I generally feel pretty positive and optimistic about life, but once I processed everything, I couldn't help but feel the impact of the news that I heard. I couldn't stop crying, and I couldn't help but feel alone. I know I'm not alone but you know what? I am only human.
I spent most of my weekend in bed, reading and watching videos. Due to the seizures and the other stuff, I had to miss a weekend long workshop that I was really looking forward to, so that made me really bummed. Thankfully my mum bought me a book while I was in my Epilepsy Support Group Meeting. It's "The Truth About Style" By Stacy London. I have wanted this book forever, but just never got around to buying it. I read almost all of it in one weekend. If you love What Not to Wear and Stacy London, I would highly recommended it! I have been watching What Not to Wear for years so Stacy London is a role model and fashion icon of sorts for me. Her book helped take my mind off all the emotional turmoil that was going through my mind. Today, while browsing facebook, I came across something my friend's little sister had posted. It was a list of positive distractions! Check it out: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_marxrgmoHM1r0mbpqo1_500.jpg Someone had commented: "what is this- a list of how to procrastinate?" Okay, at first glance, maybe it seems like a procrastination list, but if you really need to get your mind off something, it's a pretty good list. I looked through the list and realized that I already do some of the things! I like to make tea, make to-do lists, think of things that make me happy, and I try to realize that everything will be okay. I can't say I am actively putting this list to use today, but I will definitely tucking it in my back pocket. I've been listening to uplifting music all day. It's not doing a ton, but more than if I wasn't listening to anything. My brother once teased me that my room sounded like a club. Haha that memory still makes me laugh. Do you have anything that you use that helps you get your mind off of rotten things?? I would love to hear them! Maybe over time we can compile a Life at Full Volume list! That would be pretty cool!
Anyways, send good vibes my way! The weather is grey and icky here, and there are only so many cups of tea that I can drink. Love you all. xox
Also: The list of positive distractions comes from this blog: http://inspirinquotes.tumblr.com/
and my friend's little sister's blog is this: http://butterflydive.tumblr.com/


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George Enescu – Rapsodia Romana Nr. 1 (completa) dirijor Sergiu Celibidache
George Enescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe eˈnesku] ( listen); known in France as Georges Enesco; 19 August 1881 – 4 May 1955) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher, regarded as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century[1][2][3][4] and Romania's most important musician.[5]
Enescu was born in the village of Liveni (later renamed "George Enescu" in his honor), in Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu began experimenting with composing at an early age. Several, mostly very short pieces survive, all of them for violin and piano. The earliest work of significant length bears the title Pămînt românesc (Romanian Land), and is somewhat pretentiously inscribed "opus for violin and piano by George Enescu, Romanian composer, aged five years and a quarter".[6] Shortly thereafter, his father presented him to the professor and composer Eduard Caudella. On 5 October 1888, at the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory,[7][8] where he studied with Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr., Robert Fuchs, and Sigismund Bachrich. He was the second person ever admitted to this university by a dispensation of age (there was a regulation that stipulated that no person younger than 14 years could study at the Vienna Conservatory), after only Fritz Kreisler (in 1882, also at the age of seven), and the first non-Austrian.[9]
In 1891, the ten-year-old Enescu gave a private concert at the Court of Vienna, in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph.[10]
Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., one of his teachers and the director of the Vienna Conservatory, hosted Enescu at his home,[when?] a place where the child prodigy met his idol, Johannes Brahms.[11]
He graduated before his 13th birthday, earning the silver medal. In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works by Brahms, Sarasate and Mendelssohn. In 1895 he went to Paris to continue his studies. He studied violin with Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony with André Gedalge, and composition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré.[citation needed]
Enescu then studied from 1895 to 1899 at the Conservatoire de Paris. André Gedalge said that he was "the only one [from his students] who truly had ideas and spirit".[this quote needs a citation]
On 6 February 1898, at the age of only 16, George Enescu presented in Paris his first mature work, Poema Română, played by the Colonne Orchestra (at the time, one of the most prestigious in the world) and conducted by Édouard Colonne.[12]
Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music, his most popular compositions being the two Romanian Rhapsodies (1901–2), the opera Œdipe (1936), and the suites for orchestra.[citation needed] He also wrote five symphonies (two of them unfinished), a symphonic poem Vox maris, and much chamber music (three sonatas for violin and piano, two for cello and piano, a piano trio, two string quartets and two piano quartets, a wind decet (French, "dixtuor"), an octet for strings, a piano quintet, and a chamber symphony for twelve solo instruments). A young Ravi Shankar recalled in the 1960s how Enescu, who had developed a deep interest in Oriental music, rehearsed with Shankar's brother Uday Shankar and his musicians. Around the same time, Enescu took the young Yehudi Menuhin to the Colonial Exhibition in Paris, where he introduced him to the Gamelan Orchestra from Indonesia.[13]
On 8 January 1923 he made his American debut as a conductor in a concert given by the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and he subsequently made frequent returns to the United States. It was in America, in the 1920s, that Enescu was first persuaded to make recordings as a violinist. He also appeared as a conductor with many American orchestras, and in 1936 he was one of the candidates considered to replace Arturo Toscanini as permanent conductor of the New York Philharmonic.[14] In 1935, he conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris and Yehudi Menuhin (who had been his pupil for several years starting in 1927) in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major. He also conducted the New York Philharmonic between 1937 and 1938. In 1939 he married Maria Rosetti (known as the Princess Cantacuzino through her first husband Mihail Cantacuzino), a good friend of Queen Marie of Romania. While staying in Bucharest, Enescu lived in the Cantacuzino Palace on Calea Victoriei (now the George Enescu Museum, dedicated to his work).[citation needed]
He lived in Paris and in Romania, but after World War II and the Soviet occupation of Romania, he remained in Paris.[citation needed]
He was also a noted violin teacher. Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Ivry Gitlis, Arthur Grumiaux, Ida Haendel and Joan Field were among his pupils. He promoted contemporary Romanian music, playing works of Constantin Silvestri, Mihail Jora, Ionel Perlea and Marţian Negrea.[citation needed]
On his death in 1955, George Enescu was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Today, Bucharest houses a museum in his memory; likewise, the Symphony Orchestra of Bucharest and the George Enescu Festival—founded by his friend, musical advocate, and sometime collaborator, the conductor George Georgescu[15]—are named and held in his honor. Recently, Bacău International Airport was named George Enescu International Airport.[16]
Selected works
- For a complete list, see List of compositions by George Enescu.
- Œdipe, tragédie lyrique in four acts, libretto by Edmond Fleg, Op. 23 (1910–31)
- Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 13 (1905)
- Symphony No. 2 in A major, Op. 17 (1912–14)
- Symphony No. 3 in C major, with chorus, Op. 21 (1916–18)
Other orchestral works
- Poème Roumain, symphonic suite for orchestra, Op. 1 (1897)
- Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 (1901)
- Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D major, Op. 11 (1901)
- Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, Op. 9 (1903)
- Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major, Op. 20 (1915)
- Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major Suite Villageoise, Op. 27 (1937–38)
Chamber works
String Quartets
- String Quartet No. 1 in E♭ major, Op. 22, No. 1 (1920)
- String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 22, No. 2 (1950–52)
- Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 2 (1897)
- Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor Op. 6 (1899)
- Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor dans le caractère populaire roumain, Op. 25 (1926)
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 26, No. 1 (1898)
- Cello Sonata No. 2 in C major, Op. 26, No. 2 (1935)
Other chamber works
- Octet for Strings in C major, Op. 7 (1900)
- Cantabile et Presto, for flute and piano (1904)
- Dixtuor in D major, for wind instruments, Op. 14 (1906)
- Concertstück, for viola and piano (1906)
- Légende, for trumpet and piano (1906)
- Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 16 (1909)
- Impressions d'Enfance in D major, for violin and piano, Op. 28 (1940)
- Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 29 (1940)
- Piano Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30 (1943–44)
- Chamber Symphony, for 12 instruments, Op. 33 (1954)
Piano music
- Piano Suite No. 1 in G minor, Dans le style ancien Op. 3 (1897)
- Piano Suite No. 2 in D major, Op. 10 (1901/1903)
- Piano Suite No. 3, Pieces impromptues Op. 18 (1913–16)
- Piano Sonata No. 1 in F♯ minor, op 24, No. 1 (1924)
- Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major, op 24, No. 3 (1933–35)
Three songs setting Lemaitre and Prudhomme Four songs setting Fernand Gregh In German: Various settings of Carmen Silva (Queen Elisabeth of Romania) In Romanian – 3 songs
- Trois Mélodies, Op. 4 (1898)
- Sept Chansons de Clement Marot, for tenor and piano, Op. 15 (1907–08)
- Trois Mélodies, Op. 19 (1916)


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That's a myth though innit? Happened weeks later or summin?
Not to bring the Wrath of Little Stephen upon us, but the revelation of June 16 would not have been the sensation of hand-on-knob but the existence of a young Irish woman who was interested, straight-talking, fast-walking, and not a prostitute. What burned (in a good way) seems to have been her keeping true to a last-chance assignation, no matter what particular form of consummation might have taken place there — the unexpected unconventional humanity of it.
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Although I don't think the filthy parts of Joyce's letters hold more inherent interest than the financial parts of Joyce's letters (i.e., not much), both sides usefully correct the early tendency to treat him as pure satirist: like some other favorite writers, he genuinely loved dirt; dirt moved him. It's also reminds us that it used to be difficult for a writer to draw upon sexual experiences other than his or her own. Pace Wyndham Lewis (yeah, good luck with that), Joyce tried to make Bloom a not-Joyce and therefore the not-Stephen, but here he inadvertently created a link between them all.


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