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I'll be completely honest with you—I'm at work right now.
And while some of my caveman ancestors probably made their living bum-rushing mastodons off a cliff, part of my job is to write blogs in an office.
The point is this: from where I'm sitting, working at home sounds pretty great. And I'm sure you agree.
The question is: how do you convince your boss to let you work from home?
Here's a few reasons I've come up with. And while I'm waiting for "my moment," there's no reason you shouldn't march into your boss's office right now plop this blog down on their desk.
What you do is more important than where you do it
Not all jobs work well with telecommuting. I mean, a plumber is probably going to need to be at the job site to work their magic properly. But if your job entails work done mostly on the computer then there is a pretty good chance that it could be done remotely.
So let's say you have a job where you're online already. Why should the boss let you work from home? Well a lot of studies have been done and the consensus seems to be that a home-based worker is often an effective worker.
Why? Because telecommuting employees feel that they have a greater level of autonomy when it comes to establishing their workflow patterns. Every person is unique and functions best when they can fit their jobs to their particular strengths.
Another employer-based benefit of working from home is that absentee rates plummet.
You'll have a hard time selling the old "I'm snowed in" excuse when you're working out of your home-office.
You're an adult, gosh-darn-it!
Nobody here is advocating for child-laborers to work from home. They should be in school!
But for adult would-be-telecommuters, the main reservations that a lot of employers might have about allowing employees to work from home are pretty weak.
Is someone watching you every second of every day? I certainly hope not. But despite not being under constant scrutiny, you somehow manage to do your job. Why kind of witchery is that?
It probably has something to do with the fact that you're an adult, and probably have been for some time. You know what you need to do and, more importantly, you know how you need to do it.
And while an employer might imagine that home-based employees will be playing video games and building forts from pizza boxes, the truth is that the productivity rates actually increase when an employee telecommutes.
The workplace is full of people and the more people that are around, the more likely you are to be distracted. If you've ever worked in an office, I'm sure that you're familiar with the concept of a "fly-by." Those bizarre conversations that begin by discussing quarter-to-quarter sales growth before wildly derailing into huge plot spoilers for HBO's "The Wire."
A happy employee is a good employee
Some people love the fast paced environment of their workplace and they like having a clear, physical barrier between their work-life and their home-life. Some people don't.
There's never going to be a one size fits all solution to keeping your employees happy, but flexibility seems to be key to preventing employee turnover. And employee turnover is a huge drain on a workplace in terms of morale, productivity, and profit margins.
Even offering the possibility of telecommuting to employees might have positive effects. Kind of like knowing there are donuts in the kitchen—you might not eat one, but it's the thought that counts. Some workplaces have found a lot of success with offering employees the opportunity to work from home for certain days of the week.
The important thing is that flexibility ensures that a company will always be at the top of the list for the best talent in their industry.
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ASTRO's mission is to advance the practice of radiation oncology by promoting excellence in patient care, providing opportunities for educational and professional development, promoting research and disseminating research results and representing radiation oncology in a rapidly evolving health care environment.
Approved by the ASTRO Board of Directors June 2017
A strategic plan is essential to help guide ASTRO in the coming years and outline measurable goals for our specialty as a whole. Over the past year, ASTRO membership, Board of Directors and staff looked at the most pressing issues facing the field of radiation oncology and provided input for the development of our new strategic plan, outlined below.
Advance the field of radiation oncology.
Radiation oncology is the recognized leader in quality, innovation and value in multidisciplinary cancer care.
How will successfully achieving these strategic goals shape the future of the specialty?
The majority of Americans will have a positive perception and awareness of radiation oncology. Radiation oncologists will be regularly quoted in mainstream media. Cancer care will be characterized by molecular and genomic typing (personalized/precision medicine), and the significant role of radiation oncology in this evolution of care will be well understood by the House of Medicine. The ASTRO Annual Meeting will be the preferred venue for cutting-edge research presentations. Cancer patients will look to radiation oncology as the leader of their oncology team. All patients who could benefit from radiation therapy will receive it. Radiation oncologists will provide direct patient access and will be consulted prior to treatment about decisions guiding cancer care, and radiotherapy utilization will increase in underused disease sites.
Integration of multidisciplinary care will be established by evidence. We will continually measure improvements in radiotherapy value using metrics focused on cost, outcomes, and patient satisfaction. Our research will be transformative and published in high impact journals. We will embrace public reporting of objective quality metrics and price transparency. We will be recognized for having directly bent the oncology cost-curve. We will be a primary participant and deeply involved in oncology policy development. Other cancer and research specialists are inspired to join ASTRO based on its effective collaboration with government agencies and policy stakeholders.
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Bach flowers mix 14: Bereavement
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Bach flowers mix 14 helps to:
- Deal with the shock of the death of a loved one *
- Soothe the grief *
- Reduce anger and aggression *
- Combat dejection *
- Accept the death of the loved one and let go *
- Overcome and prevent possible hallucinations and fears *
How many bottles do you need?
- 1 bottle will last you about 1 month
- The first results will start to show after a few days or weeks *
- In my experience to get lasting results a period of three months is advised *
- The dosage is 6 x 4 drops per day, put directly on the tongue or dissolve in water
- Hint: Trickle your daily dose (24 drops) in a bottle of water and drink it throughout the day
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- Handmade according to the instructions of Dr. Bach
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- Ingredients: Water, alcohol, Bach flower extracts
Bach flower essences can give strong support during a bereavement.
Even when you know that one of your loved ones will die soon, the actual moment of death is always a shocking experience. In the case of a sudden death for example by car accident, it is a complete shock. Bach flower essences help to neutralise this shock so it will no longer block day to day functioning. *
The grief over the loss of a loved one can be enormous. Certain people can't cope with this and will push it away. Others will suffer for months, sometimes years of heartache. Bach flower essences help to deal with this intense grief so the physical effects are kept under control. *
The loss of a loved one can bring a lot of anger or aggression to the surface. This is often to compensate for the terrible grief being experienced. This anger can be expressed towards the deceased, their partner, their friends or their colleagues at work. Bach flowers mix 68 helps to diffuse this anger and help you see that anger doesn't change anything. *
Sometimes a person feels a void after the loss of a loved one. Life has no meaning they experience constant fits of crying, neglect themselves and retreat. In order not to let it get this far Bach flowers will help you to remain interested in life and prevent you from getting down. *
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Life is no longer the same after the loss of a loved one. The deceased meant a lot to their partner, friend or child. He/she can no longer be there for them so the people that got left behind will find themselves in a totally new situation. Letting go and adjusting to this new life can be supported through Bach flower essences. They will make the person feel at home in this new life pattern. *
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For most of us, obtaining a diploma is already a big honor. The greatest and most memorable piece of paper we worked so hard for four years in college. After such, we often find jobs and make our own little places in the busy working world. But for some, they still want to obtain a higher level of education. This leads one to pursue further education from a masteral to even a doctoral degree of their chosen course.
Many do not choose to continue study as it not only demands more time and money. Pursuing a higher degree could also mean extra effort and therefore more hardships than an undergraduate course. While we dwell only on a few research papers on college, a higher degree can mean thesis papers and dissertations which are very difficult to accomplish and only few can even pass among those who can finish one. Many jobs also do not require higher degrees of education so few really see it as a necessity. These are the reasons why few even consider obtaining a degree.
A masteral degree comes after an undergraduate course. Attaining this can be done in two ways -masters in art or masters in science. It usually takes two to four years to accomplish and basically involves a deeper study on your chosen course and accomplishment of a thesis work which then goes through a panel for approval. Many universities today already offer a masteral degree.
A doctoral degree is the peak of education an individual may attain. It comes after a masteral degree. Like masteral it has different types from doctorate of the course per se or a doctoral in philosophy of a course.
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LIVE Birds of Prey Demonstration during Bald Eagle Watching Days on Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. at the River Arts Center, 105 9th St Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin (encore demonstration at 3:30 p.m.) presented by the Raptor Program of the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center of Milwaukee, WI.
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center founded its Raptor Program as a way to help educate the public about these dynamic birds, and their importance to the ecosystem. Their premier collection of birds of prey emphasizes raptors (hawks, owls, eagles and falcons), but also includes other birds of prey such as a Turkey Vulture and an American Crow. Each of their resident birds are not releasable to the wild and are in our permanent care. They have taken up the mantle of "feathered ambassadors" and are dedicated to providing information about their wild relatives, habitat concerns, and issues facing raptors today.
These powerful and graceful birds, each with their own story, make an enormous impact, providing a true connection and appreciation for all wildlife and the habitat we share. Nothing is more thrilling than meeting a bird of prey up close and personal. Each of their live demonstrations provides an unparalleled experience designed to enthrall audiences of all ages. Visit their website for more details and to see more pictures of the majestic birds.
Stop by the River Arts Center Box Office this Saturday morning to get your free entrance ticket to this and all of the presentations during Bald Eagle Watching Days in the River Arts Auditorium. First come, first serve for seats/tickets. For more Bald Eagle Watching Days events, visit www.ferrybluffeaglecouncil.org.


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Creating An Introduction For A College Essay About An Influential Person
To have inspiration in your life is really important, especially when you are a teenager. This will help you achieve your dreams and work hard to get wherever you want. To write an essay about an influential person can be truly inspiring, and you will not feel it like a difficult task. Naturally, the introduction is the first element that you have to think about, so here is how to create it in good way:
- Mention who are you writing about. This influential person can be anyone, from a director to an actor, so you need to be explicit. You have to give some details about him and his activity, and how he reached to have so much influence. The difficult part is that you have to say all this in only two sentences, so you can also have time to introduce the rest of the information without making your introduction too long.
- Say why did you choose this person. This is very important because it will make your colleagues pay more attention to your content. At the same time, it will give you the chance to present your preferences to other people. For example, you can say that you wrote about this person because you want to follow a career in this niche and he inspired you. It's a simple sentence with many meanings!
- Mention the goal of your composition. Ok, you want to present this person to everyone else, but what more? What are you trying to prove through your essay? You want to show them how important hard work is or how far you can get with ambition? Your goal is important because it will not only make your classmates interested, but it will also help you keep on track and focus on the most important ideas.
- Make it exciting. No one wants to read a dull, boring essay, especially from the very beginning. To make sure that they will actually want to listen to your composition, you will have to make them curious and excited. You can give some interesting and new information about this person, but without revealing too much. At the same time, you can mention that you actually took an interview from this person and they can read it all in the body of the text. With some luck, everyone will adore your essay!
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Late music legend Carl Perkins would have been proud! The Blue Suede Dinner, Auction & Concert to benefit the Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse was a complete success. Auctioneer LeRoy Van Dyke talked $130,000 out of the tuxedo-suited crowd that filled Jackson, Tennessee's Civic Center recently. The concert starred such greats as Billy Ray Cyrus, Baillie & The Boys, Sylvia, T. Graham Brown, Razzy Bailey and Skip Ewing. A definite highlight was when 84-year-old Nell Googe and her 54-year-old daughter Jansen Googe Smith joined Cyrus on stage to sing "Achy Breaky Heart." Cyrus had promised the two ladies earlier that if they'd attend the concert, he'd invite them on stage to sing the song -- a number they sing themselves at family gatherings.


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Hudson Mini-Skein Sets
Not gonna lie: some of these colors don't even have names. They're just little arias from the color opera that is Jill Draper's imagination. A dozen skeins of the richest hand-dyed merino, in a weight we are calling light worsted. What you do with these mini skeins is pretty much our definition of fun.
Specs & Details
54 m each; 658 m total
4.5 - 5.5 mm
There are two things you may already know about us: we love mini skeins, and we adore Jill Draper's custom-made, US-grown yarns that she dyes by hand in her Hudson Valley studio.
So it's only natural and right that we have prevailed upon Jill Draper to cook up mini skeins in her soft, beautiful Hudson superwash wool yarn. (Hudson is a perfect gauge match for Jill's Windham yarn; the only difference is that Hudson is superwash.)
The individual colors don't have names, although in a few cases they may match standard colors for Jill's yarns. Dyeing these skeins for MDK was a romp for Jill Draper, who had free rein to cook up—and by cook up we mean dye by hand in her Hudson Valley studio—bunches of mini skeins in delightful colors.
Hudson is a worsted weight merino with a light hand and color that shifts in that lovely way that hand-dyed yarns do. The 4-ply construction adds strength and durability to the fine Merino fibers, so it's great for picky wool wearers that you knit for.
Hudson is treated for superwash, so it's machine washable. (We never machine-wash our precious wool handknits, even if they're superwash, but it's nice to know that you can.)


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"The situation in Yemen is catastrophic and rapidly deteriorating" - Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. humanitarian coordinator
* Famine now a real possibility for 2017 - UN aid chief O'Brien
* Yemen economy collapsing, imports dried up, malnutrition "rife"
* 7.3 mln people "don't know where their next meal is coming from"
* Saudi-led coalition imposes "strict restrictions" on ports
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Wednesday that 12 million people in Yemen faced the threat of famine brought on by two years of civil war and the situation was rapidly deteriorating.
It appealed for $2.1 billion to provide food and other life-saving aid, saying that Yemen's economy and institutions are collapsing and its infrastructure has been devastated.
"If there is no immediate action, and despite the ongoing humanitarian efforts, famine is now a real possibility for 2017. Malnutrition is rife and rising at an alarming rate," U.N. emergency relief coordinator Stephen O'Brien told a news briefing.
"A staggering 7.3 million people do not know where their next meal is coming from," he said.
Yemen has been divided by nearly two years of civil war that pits the Iran-allied Houthi group against a Western-backed Sunni Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia that is carrying out air strikes. At least 10,000 people have been killed in the fighting.
Nearly 3.3 million people - including 2.1 million children - are acutely malnourished, U.N. figures show. They include 460,000 children under age five with the worst form of malnutrition who risk dying of pneumonia or diarrhoeal disease.
About 55 percent of Yemen's medical facilities do not function and the health ministry has no operational budget, said Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Yemen.
"Many of the people never make it to the feeding centres or the hospitals because they can't afford the tranport," he said.
"Many people die silent and unrecorded deaths, they die at home, they are buried before they are ever recorded."
In all, nearly 19 million Yemenis - more than two-thirds of the population - need assistance and protection, the United Nations said.
"Ongoing air strikes and fighting continue to inflict heavy casualties, damage public and private infrastructure, and impede delivery of humanitarian assistance," it said.
"The Yemeni economy is being wilfully destroyed," it added, saying that ports, roads, bridges, factories and markets have been hit.
Yemen's main port at Hodeida is badly damaged and lacks cranes for offloading, leaving 30 ships offshore at any time and delaying deliveries, McGoldrick said. The Saudi-led coalition imposes strict restrictions on the ports which it controls.
An estimated 63,000 Yemeni children died last year of preventable causes often linked to malnutrition, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said last week.
"In Yemen, if bombs don't kill you, a slow and painful death by starvation is now an increasing threat," Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said in a statement as the U.N. plan was launched.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Tom Miles and Angus MacSwan)
"In Yemen, if bombs don't kill you, a slow and painful death by starvation is now an increasing threat," Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said in a separate statement as the U.N. plan was launched.
A military coalition led by Saudi Arabia entered Yemen's civil war in March 2015 to try to reinstate President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after he was ousted from the capital Sanaa by the tribal Houthis, who are fighting in an alliance with troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The United States has sent the Navy destroyer USS Cole to patrol off Yemen's coast to protect waterways from Houthi militia aligned with Iran, U.S. officials last week, amid rising tension between Washington and Tehran.
Oxfam accused Britain and other powers backing the Saudi-led coalition of "political complicity" in the Yemen conflict.
"The UK Government's calculated complicity risks accelerating Yemen towards a famine, putting millions of lives at risk and making a mockery of their global obligations to those in peril," Mark Goldring, chief executive of Oxfam GB, said in a statement.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Tom Miles and Tom Heneghan)
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Blogger Earning Series SponsoredReviews
After 8 years of blogging in various platforms, I thought out to start this Blogger Earning Series sharing my experiences on how to earn money online blogging and various websites which can help you earn money online. This is the first of the series where I start with one of the best websites to earn money blogging which is SponsoredReviews.
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SponsoredReviews is the website where you can earn huge (I earned around 500$ from this website). But you should maintain your website or blog standards and only bid for advertisers who pay well and who have quality products. Don't go for each and every advertiser just because you are earning money. A strict no.
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For many students and their families, getting a higher education means getting federal student loans. To help you decide how much to borrow and understand what repayment would look like, the U.S. Department of Education's office of Federal Student Aid provides a loan calculator called Loan Simulator. Loan Simulator can help current loan borrowers estimate
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Make a Gift in 3 Easy Steps
Not everyone wants to commit to making a gift in their wills or estates. Some prefer the increased flexibility that a beneficiary designation provides by using:
- IRAs and retirement plans
- Life insurance policies
- Commercial annuities
It only takes three simple steps to make this type of gift. Here's how to name Stoneleigh-Burnham School as a beneficiary:
- Contact your retirement plan administrator, insurance company, bank or financial institution for a change-of-beneficiary form.
- Decide what percentage (1 to 100) you would like us to receive and name us, along with the percentage you chose, on the beneficiary form.
- Return the completed form to your plan administrator, insurance company, bank or financial institution.
An Example of How It Works
Robert and Carol treasure the financial help they've been able to give their children and Stoneleigh-Burnham over the years. The couple recently updated their will to leave stocks and real estate to their kids. They left Stoneleigh-Burnham a $75,000 IRA to be transferred following their lifetime. Because Stoneleigh-Burnham is tax-exempt, all $75,000 will help support our mission.
If Robert and Carol had left the IRA to their children, approximately $18,000* would have gone to pay federal income taxes—leaving only $57,000 for their family's use. Robert and Carol are happy knowing they are making the most of their hard-earned money thanks to their updated estate plan.
*Based on an assumption of a 24 percent marginal income tax bracket.
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- Contact Susan Mattei at 413.774.2711 x247 or firstname.lastname@example.com for additional information on beneficiary designations and how they can help support Stoneleigh-Burnham with our mission.
- Talk to your financial or legal advisor to learn which assets will or will not trigger taxable income when paid to a beneficiary.
- If you name Stoneleigh-Burnham in your plans, please use our legal name and federal tax ID.
Legal Name: Stoneleigh-Burnham School
Address: 574 Bernardston Road, Greenfield, MA 01301
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The film that chronicles the race to light the world has had a twisty road to release. In fact, THE CURRENT WAR – DIRECTOR'S CUT that moviegoers will see in theatres starting October 25 is not the same film that screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017.
"There were times that this film left me shattered for so long that sometimes I couldn't see the light," director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon told Deadline. For a laundry list of reasons we won't get into here, Gomez-Rejon's vision almost didn't come to fruition, and a different version of the film — with his name attached, but not his support — was almost released overseas.
But then, like a superhero putting on his suit, Martin Scorsese stepped in to save the day.
Scorsese executive produced THE CURRENT WAR – DIRECTOR'S CUT and has been a mentor of sorts to Gomez-Rejon, who interned at his office and aided in a handful of his projects. The original contract gave Scorsese the final signoff, and he seized the opportunity to give Gomez-Rejon and his team another chance to cut the film as they wanted. Within one day, they finished the reshoots, which added five new scenes.
Gomez-Rejon explained to Deadline, "Everything missing is there now, including the right pacing that escalates the tension between these two men. The heart of the film is restored: Edison's relationship with his wife, and the explanation of her fatal illness and what it did to him. You feel her loss deeply and it carries you through as he goes to a dark side without her there to humanize his ambition. Westinghouse has been humanized without making him a saint, and there are now layers and complicated performances so that instead of spoon-fed emotion, everything is earned. The music heightens the tensions of their war. There are new scenes with Tesla, who was never meant to be a lead character but now you see his genius and vulnerability. He doesn't feel forgotten in this movie, and he gives heart and clarity to the clash between these two men and what drives them to go to such dark places."
We can understand why Gomez-Rejon felt it was important to include DIRECTOR'S CUT in the film's title, as THE CURRENT WAR is now a property he can be proud to attach his name to. A thank you to Scorsese is in order, not only for his contributions, but also his integrity in ensuring the film was the best it could be.
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written by levy lee simon based on the play "the last revolutionary" by levy lee simon
MAC PERKINS: "...We promised that if the political climate ever got to situation HYENA again we'd have to get back together and go back out into the streets."
DIRECTOR: Michael Brewer
SCREENWRITER: Levy Lee Simon
STARRING: Levy Lee Simon, John Marshall Jones
FEATURING: Marla Gibbs
GENRE: Dramedy
Mac Perkins (LEVY LEE SIMON) is in his Los Angeles throwback hideout, plotting to stop anti Obama sentiment from the far right and racist groups around the country. In the neighborhood where Mac Perkins is holed up, his only friend is an older woman named Millie, (MARLA GIBBS.) When his old ex revolutionary buddy, Jack Armstrong (JOHN MARSHALL JONES) whom he has not seen in over 10 years, finds him, Jack challenges Mac's political stance and his notion that there is a need for a, so called, revolution. The two men hash out political ideas and ideology as Jack attempts to make Mac see that his methods are archaic and his plans old fashion. During the dramatic and humorous interchange between these two old friends whose lives have taken much different paths, secrets are exposed about both men personally and politically that lead to a life and death confrontation.
The making of The Last Revolutionary - Genesis
In 2011, HBO produced Sunset Limited, a film by Cormac McCarthy, based his play by the same name. The film starred Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones. It took place in one location, an apartment and was about two men exploring the meaning of life. One man, (Tommy Lee Jones) was about to attempt suicide because he felt he had nothing to live for. The other, (Samuel L. Jackson) had been to hell and back and found reason to live and have joy in life. It's an exploration of the spirit in many ways. It was a compelling film to me for many reasons. First, it was an adaptation of a play. Second, it took place in one primary location. Third, it was beautifully shot and staged. And lastly, it depended on the script, actors' performances, and directing to pull it off. Well, of course, you cannot go wrong with Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Not only are they both great actors, but they brought star power with them.
When I wrote The Last Revolutionary in 2010, I was not aware of Sunset Limited, or playwright, Cormac McCarthy. A friend brought the play to my attention when she asked me to do a reading of it the year before the film was made. Well, immediately, I saw the possibility for The Last Revolutionary as a film. I am sure Sunset Limited may never have been made without Sam and Tommy Lee, but it showed me that making the The Last Revolutionary film, was possible and doable.
Enter Michael Brewer. When I met Michael Brewer in the summer of 2015, at the National Black Theatre festival, he invited me to see his documentary film, In Full Bloom. It's a film about the transgendered experience in Los Angeles, conceived and written by "Jazzmun," someone I happened to know. I thought the film was excellent, and Michael's cinematic efforts were extraordinary. I loved his choice of shots and use of lighting. It was the kind of art that I gravitate to. After he saw the stage production of The Last Revolutionary, he approached me about making it into a movie. The stars seemed to be lining up. Of course, we'd make a movie!
Michael Brewer is one of those cats who's labored in the business for a long time as a camera man, while making films when opportunities presented itself. He's worked with everyone and has traveled all over the globe. A true professional, Michael Brewer, has a special gift when it comes to knowing and using cameras. With The Last Revolutionary he will finally get a chance to showcase his talent to the world in a narrative. What's needed in the film like this, is a director who can make the camera dance. I cannot wait to see what Michael is going to do.
Adding to the mix is, actor John Marshall Jones, who many of you know. JJ, as he likes to be called, is simply one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. Being called underrated is not a bad thing, so to speak. In fact it's a high compliment. What it does mean, is that other people are not seeing the true value of the actors talent. JJ is a huge talent. He simply has not had the plumb roles, that challenge his immense talent and skill level. He proved it to me when he came to NY in 2007, to act in my play The Guest at Central Park West, and blew everyone away with his portrayal of Terrence, the homeless drifter. His performance earned him a prestigious Audelco Award for "Best Actor." In the Last Revolutionary he will bring the complex character of Jack Armstrong to life. Who is Jack, and why is he there? We need to find out in The Last Revolutionary.
Rounding out our team is, Madeleine Liebert. Madeleine's producing credits include 2 feature length documentaries, one completed, In Full Bloom: transcending gender, one in post-production, Politics of Rhythm, which she also wrote and directed, and Spratling, a documentary in the making about the late Renaissance Man, William Spratling. She produced a travelogue and short film Panicale, and the pilot presentation Photofinish. Madeleine brings a tenacity and determination to her work that we truly need in this process. She is a woman that won't be denied.
We can make this movie with your help. It's timely, relevant and important, if I say so myself. By the way, Sunset Limited was a compelling film and recognized critically. We have that kind of potential with this film.
Levy Lee Simon - Actor/Writer/Producer


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It took a lot of thought about moving from a large condo to a much smaller house. We wanted to have the opportunity to home school Henry and that meant I had to put my nursing career on hold. That meant cutting out a lot of our income, but it would be well worth it. We just had to make some sacrifices and one of them was to move into a smaller house that would be half the payment we were making. The problem with moving all of your 2,000 square feet worth of stuff into a 1,000 square foot home is where to put it all! I have had to get pretty creative and come up with unique places to store our things. One of my favorite is the beautiful storage solution I found from Safavieh Home.
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AA calls on government to scrap VAT on electric cars
The AA is calling on the government to scrap VAT on both sales and leasing costs of electric vehicles to encourage uptake.
Research of 17,500 AA members found that over 60% would be more inclined to buy an EV if the sales tax was scrapped. More than a quarter (28%) of low income households said removing VAT would be very influential in helping them switch.
Young drivers aged 18-24 (74%) are the keenest to make the switch if VAT is scrapped, as are those living in London (67%).
Furthermore, more than half (51%) would like to see a scrappage scheme introduced to further encourage the up-take of EVs.
40% of those polled also said that VAT should be removed from leasing prices as it would give consumers as many opportunities as possible to make the switch to zero-emission driving.
The research comes following a previous study by the AA which found the biggest barrier to opting for an EV was the initial purchase price.
Along these lines, the AA also believes the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) rate should be removed from EVs with a list price in excess of £40,000. These models, such as Jaguar I-Pace and Tesla Model S, currently incur a £320 a year tax in years two to six of the vehicle's life.
Edmund King, AA president said: "A combination of the climate change emergency and local councils setting up vastly different Clean Air Zones, means that many drivers feel under pressure to change but can't no matter how much they try.
"With EVs making up just 0.2% of the nation's cars, there is a long way to go to meet the official target of at least half new car sales to be ultra-low emission by 2030. Our proposal would help to achieve that goal more quickly.
To find out how much electric vehicles would be to lease without VAT, you can compare business lease deals on EVs here.


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Our accomplishments in 2020
2020 was a challenging year for countless reasons, but here at Bikepacking Roots, we have continued to expand our capacity to have a positive impact on and for the bikepacking community. Here's a quick look back at just some of what we accomplished this past year with the support from our many members and business partners.
Creating the BIPOC Bike Adventure Grant Program
• We created this grant program as a first step to help address inequitable access to the bikepacking experience. Together with our members, we raised more than $50,000 for the grant fund.
• Hired BIPOC adventure cyclists for a panel to guide the application process and select the first round of recipients Nearly 100 applications were received for this first round.
• This program will continue to grow in 2021 with new initiatives.
Enabling More Kids to go Bikepacking
• We partnered with the National Interscholastic Cycling Association's (NICA) to create an extensive curriculum for their new Bikepacking Camps program
• Camps will begin nationwide in 2021!
Release of the Bears Ears Loops Network
• 700 miles of exceptional riding through one of the Colorado Plateau's most threatened landscapes
• Our 100-page route and landscape guide connects riders to the stories, culture, sociopolitical background, and uniqueness of the Bears Ears Region and confidently and safely experience the Utah desert
Continued on other Route Development Projects
• 40+ Route Test Team volunteers were out on the Northwoods Route providing feedback, building awareness of the new route in communities along the way, and identifying cyclist-friendly businesses
• The Orogenesis Route is entering a new phase of development to fill small gaps in the 3,500-mile-long route. That involves coordinating with regional mountain bike advocacy groups and land managers to resurrect old trails and build several new singletrack connectors.
• The Intermountain Connectors between the Western Wildlands Route and the Great Divide MTB Route are nearly complete!
• Jan Bennett continues with final refinements to the Pony Express Route
• We are supporting Navajo Y.E.S.' work on the new Chuska MTB Route on Navajo Nation with grant funds received from the Mountain Bike Association of Arizona
Advocating for Bikepackers, Public Lands, and Wild Places
• In 2020, we engaged in widespread advocacy efforts and contributed to maintaining backcountry mountain bike access to the Lionhead area of Idaho
• We also launched the Undivided educational advocacy column for The Radavist
Positive Impact Bikepacking Stewardship Campaign
• BPR launched this collaborative project with the Conservation Lands Foundation and the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, supported by Salsa Cycles
• Educational outreach to the bikepacking community begins in early 2021
We're Continuing to Grow, Diversify, and Engage the Community!
• Our first Go Bikepacking! event filled up almost immediately but was canceled due to the pandemic
• Let's Go Bikepacking! We have three Go Bikepacking! events planned for 2021, tentatively planned for Idaho, Arizona, and Arkansas: community, education, stewardship, and fun!
• Membership grew by approximately 50% in 2020 to more than 6,000 individuals
• We've added a small group of policy and cultural advisors
• Our Board of Directors expanded with an emphasis on increasing diversity; 50 applications were received!
Join or donate today! Help us continue to support the bikepacking community and the places through which we ride in 2021 and beyond . . .
August 2022
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Street fight with bats and chains? Vanderbilt vs South Carolina sounds like a wild game
Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason called Saturday's game against South Carolina a "street fight" and even referenced former MMA fighter Kimbo Slice in previewing the SEC opener.
Does that mean a dirty game? An overly physical game? The imagination can run wild, especially after Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly accused Vanderbilt of "bad football," a charge Mason vehemently denied.
"This isn't a sanctioned fight; this is a street fight," Mason said about the South Carolina game. "This is a backyard, no gloves, you throw a punch, I throw a punch, you hit me, I hit you, for fourth quarters, 60 minutes, every play."
There was less clarity, albeit vivid imagery, added when wide receiver Kalija Lipscomb contributed to Mason's metaphor.
"A street-fight week, that's what it's going to be," Lipscomb said. "We're going to pick up some chains and some bats, and we're going to go in the back alley, and we're going swing."
Mason never disappoints in painting a figurative picture for a game, and sometimes he leaves the meaning up for interpretation. For this game (3 p.m., SEC Network), there are various messages behind his "street fight" tagline for the game, some less obvious than others.
HOW TO WATCH:South Carolina at Vanderbilt: TV, radio, streaming, odds, game time
Offense will run to the 'street fight'
Vanderbilt needs to play a physical style, especially in its SEC opener. Mason has often called the SEC a "line of scrimmage conference."
Offensively, that starts with establishing the run game and sticking with it long enough.
In last week's 22-17 loss at No. 8 Notre Dame, Vanderbilt rushed for only 94 yards and relied on Kyle Shurmur's 326 passing yards to rally in a near upset.
On Thursday, offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig wondered aloud if he abandoned the run game too early in his playcalling.
"(Notre Dame) did a nice job stopping the run," Ludwig said. "At some point, you think, 'Did I abandon it too soon?' But the passing game made up for that slack."
Ludwig wants balance in his offense against South Carolina, which means "running the ball efficiently on early downs because … then you're throwing the ball because you want to, not because you have to."
Vanderbilt expanded its running back rotation from three players to four at Notre Dame, giving junior Josh Crawford a few snaps in the two-minute offense as a receiver out of the backfield. But if Saturday's game is as physical as the Commodores expect, Ke'Shawn Vaughn and Khari Blasingame should monopolize the carries.
"It's going to be a very physical football game," Ludwig said. "South Carolina plays that way on defense. We have to be prepared to play 60 minutes of very violent football."
Defense prepares for sucker punch of unknown
Defensive coordinator Jason Tarver's take on the "street fight" theme goes a little deeper than just a physical style of play.
Sure, he wants better tackling than the Commodores showed in the first half at Notre Dame. But Tarver is also preparing for a figurative sucker punch, warning his players to expect the unexpected from South Carolina.
"In a street fight, you don't necessarily know where you're going to get hit from," Tarver said. "Sometimes it's going to look like what was on video, something that you prepared for. Sometimes it's not. So what? Use your rules, do your job and fight through it."
South Carolina may have a few unexpected wrinkles in its offense because it's played only two games, a 49-15 win over Coastal Carolina and a 41-17 loss to No. 3 Georgia.
The Gamecocks' game last week was canceled by Hurricane Florence.
Tarver said Vanderbilt must adjust to the different tempos that South Carolina will utilize, especially if quarterback Jake Bentley gets into a rhythm. All-purpose playmaker Deebo Samuel is also a major concern.
Samuel is a dangerous receiver, runner and returner. He'll line up in the backfield, at wide receiver, in the slot, or virtually anywhere the Gamecocks can get him the ball.
Samuel missed South Carolina's 34-27 win over Vanderbilt last season because of a broken leg, which adds to the mystery for this game.
PREVIEW:South Carolina at Vanderbilt football: Five things to watch
PREDICTIONS:Vanderbilt will snap losing streak to South Carolina
BIG GAME:Once again, Vanderbilt must turn a moral victory into a real win
Reach Adam Sparks at firstname.lastname@example.com and on Twitter @AdamSparks.


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I have articles that are almost ready to shown to the world. But with the possibilities as to what exactly I want to do with the aforementioned articles, I was overcome with fear and doubt as to whether, if I spoke with the local newspapers, with journalistic websites, etc, I would be laughed at, ridiculed… rejected…
And yet something occurred to me. I had heard tell of many of my idols, my inspirations, having that same fear, but "stepping up" and pushing through it. I have decided that I too will push onward and upward, no matter how lost hope feels. I will make those calls, send those emails, and yes, I may be rejected, but "if at first you don't succeed, try, try, again"…
You know all the great writers. Authors, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, journalists… Many household names have suffered the same setbacks that we, the unpublished, have. They too received their fair share of rejection, and today I share some of these rejections with you, as a reminder that perseverance really does "pay off". I, too, and those of you also seeking to join the ranks of professional writers, can overcome adversity and share our words with the world if we truly put our minds and our hearts to the task.
The girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the 'curiosity' level.
Some fifteen publishers rejected the timeless, true accounts of The Diary Of Ann Frank.
We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias. They do not sell.
Stephen King received dozens of rejection letters for his first book, Carrie. Clearly they feared his controversial, dark imagination…
It is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.
One publisher regarding George Orwell's Animal Farm.
I'm sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language.
Said the San Francisco Examiner of one of Rudyard Kipling's (The Jungle Book, Just So Stories) short stories.
There certainly isn't enough genuine talent for us to take notice.
Said one publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Sylvia Plath.
Steven Spielberg was rejected from film schools twice before he was finally accepted and went on to become one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Tim Burton was hired but then shortly thereafter fired by Walt Disney Studios for his writing being "too dark" for children but he has since written and directed dozens of popular children's films. Some sources suggest that Jack London (White Fang, Call Of The Wild) had his short stories rejected hundreds of times. Even Shakespeare was insulted and rejected by his more educated fellow playwrights in his early years.
Even J.K.Rowling, one of the best selling children's authors of all time, who famously penned he best selling book series ever published, Harry Potter was rejected frequently, before the (then) small publisher Bloomsbury finally said "yes" after the child of one of their Editors practically begged him to, and thank goodness she did.
Remember, the next time that you are feeling life's rejections of your creativity, that there is always always hope.
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Halloween: The American Holiday
The American version of Halloween: The Brits don't like it?
Damian Thompson: Britain is sick of the American cult of Halloween
This is the only time of year when I become seriously anti-American. Our national media, retailers and brainwashed children have all been sucked in to the American cult of Halloween, which demands that shops deck out their windows with feeble pumpkin displays and your doorbell is rung every five minutes by infants dressed as vampires, demanding presents. The modern Halloween was created by Americans. Over in the States, an entire nation throws itself into a fancy dress party with a naive enthusiasm that comes naturally to Yanks. We, on the other hand, have only recently adopted Halloween, and we do it self-consciously, like embarrassed guests forced to play charades by a tyrannically cheerful host.
Ryan McMaken: All Hail Halloween!
I don't fault Thompson and his fellow Brits for hating Halloween at all. The dreary streets of London suburbs simply don't mesh with the spirit of Halloween, and I'm reminded of the one Halloween I spent in Rome where tiny children wandered through the streets (all dressed in identical witch or ghost costumes) and begged shopkeepers and restaurateurs for some kind of treat that I couldn't identify. So no, Europeans don't know a good Halloween any more than they know a decent hot dog, so I don't begrudge Thompson or his brethren on the continent.
But what a magnificent American festival it is. The smell of candles burning inside pumpkins, the sound of crunching leaves beneath our feet, and the chance to dress up and beg for free candy are all a recipe for childhood memories that easily rival the fun of even Christmas. It's the trick-or-treating that the Brits seem to hate the most, but in America, the act of going door to door to beg for treats is as American as candied apples and pumpkin pie. Indeed, going door to door for treats was once considered the thing to do on numerous holidays. Thanksgiving especially was once considered a day for treat-hunting throughout the neighborhood, and for impromptu and raucous parades of strangely dressed citizens looking for a fun time.
Halloween has never been a government-sanctioned holiday, so it is all the more encouraging that trick-or-treating thankfully survives in spite of all the efforts of fear-mongering suburbanites and crazed religious devil-fighters who do their best to ruin the holiday every year. If foreigners can't appreciate the sheer fun and exhilaration of such a festival, so be it. I can't stand it when Americans act like there's no such thing as a uniquely American culture. While the idea of the jack-o-lantern may come from an Irish version made from turnips, the modern jack-o-lantern, made from pumpkins, which are native to the Americas, is as American as they come. And when we think of the elements of Halloween with its dark forests and headless horsemen and gothic freaks and menacing ravens, we are taking a page from the works of writers like Washington Irving and the inimitable Edgar Allen Poe who is the undisputed father of the American horror movie, the ghost story, and the American folklore behind haunted houses and masquerade balls. Yes, tales of werewolves and monsters, and even Dracula and Frankenstein's monster come to us from Europeans, but that unique feel of Poe-ish gothic creepiness within a chilly North American autumn is what we all strive to re-create every 31st of October. What Halloween is complete without a recitation of "The Raven?" And who would let a Halloween go by without carving a jack-o-lantern? Hopefully few of us would be so thankless as to let such a great American opportunity pass.
Pumpkins and Halloween
Throughout Britain and Ireland, there is a long tradition of carving jack-o-lanterns from vegetables, particularly the turnip. Not until 1837 does the jack-o'-lantern appear as a term for a carved vegetable lantern, and it doesn't become associated with Halloween until 1866, in North America. In the United States, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween.
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This is what some of our guests had to say after staying at Casa Santa Ana.
This is a perfect B&B for birders. Birder-owned, with Valley specialties on the property and in ideal proximity to the best locales, it offers just a few quiet , comfortable rooms. A community kitchen has all the comforts of home, and self-selected foods from a variety of fresh sources await each party in labeled containers, available for a pre-dawn breakfast. There is no extroversion requirement.
I can't guarantee that every visit will be rewarded, as was ours, with a list that includes Green-breasted Mango, White-throated Robin, Crimson-collared Grosbeak, and Social Flycatcher, but I can guarantee restful, beautifully appointed rooms-furnished with John's fine museum-quality woodworking. No more cheap Valley motels! Before and after a long day in the field, don't we deserve this luxury and comfort-or if we don't think we do, don't our partners? Everything about Casa Santa Ana is perfect, and Lynette and I plan to stay there every time we return to the Valley.
This was great--the place, the food, the information, Pauraque tour and the lovely bird feeding station. We'd love to come back!
What a wonderful, pleasant, clean, comfortable home base for wildlife spectacles ranging from garden Buff-bellies to last evening's kettles of THOUSANDS of Mississippi Kites....
We just love this place. Great room, great breakfast, and the butterfly gardens just got better and better! Of course, they are so distracting we can't tear ourselves away to go to other places.
What a lovely oasis from the formula hotels along the highway. We enjoyed your hospitality, your feeding station, your expertise, and your perfect location.
Alan and Jackie K.
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Excellent. Should be on every birder's top ten accommodations list for the world.
J and A
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Written by Elliott Morss, Morss Global Finance
Under pressure from the US and EU countries, The IMF has just thrown Ukraine a bailout "lifeline". But there are strings attached. In what follows, I intersperse (1) quotes from Nikolay Gueorguiev, the IMF Ukrainian Mission Chief for Ukraine, following negotiations for the bailout with (2) my comments.
Gueorguiev: Ukraine's macroeconomic imbalances became unsustainable over the past year. The (until recently) pegged and overvalued exchange rate drove the current account deficit to over 9 percent of GDP, and a lack of competitiveness led to the stagnation of exports and GDP. With significant external payments and limited access to international debt markets, international reserves fell to a critically low level of two months of import in early 2014. The 2013 fiscal deficit was 4½ percent of GDP, and the government accumulated sizeable expenditure arrears. The 2013 deficit of the state-owned gas company Naftogaz reached nearly 2 percent of GDP, driven by the sharp increase in sales at below-cost prices. Without policy action, the combined budget/Naftogaz deficit would widen to over 10 percent of GDP in 2014.
Elliott: This is chilling. Aside from the country running out of international reserves, the Naftogaz deficit of 2% of GDP reflects subsidies that make energy cheaper for citizens. And now that Russia has annexed Crimea, it will longer offer Ukraine a price break on energy. It follows that the higher Russian energy price Naftogaz will have to pay will increase its deficit further.
Gueorguiev: Fiscal policy will secure priority spending during the coming months and implement deeper fiscal adjustment over the medium-term. The initial stabilization in 2014 will be achieved through a mix of revenue and expenditure measures. For 2015-16, the program envisions a gradual expenditure-led fiscal adjustment—proceeding at a pace commensurate with the speed of economic recovery and protecting the vulnerable—aiming to reduce the fiscal deficit to around 2½ percent of GDP by 2016.
Elliott: In earlier postings, I have noted how the IMF pulled away from the Greek austerity program promoted by Germany. Why? Because it saw what impact lower government deficits were having on unemployment – it soared to 27.5%! In place of austerity, the Fund is pressuring the EU to forgive more Greek debt, now standing at an unsustainable 177% of GDP.
So how about Ukraine? What does the IMF by "a mix of revenue and expenditure measures?" It means lower expenditures and higher taxes. Lower expenditures will lead to a reduction in aggregate demand; higher taxes will reduce purchasing power and this will also reduce aggregate demand.
Gueorguiev said: "The 2013 fiscal deficit was 4½ percent of GDP, and the government accumulated sizeable expenditure arrears." Put the arrears together with the stated deficit, and FocusEconomics estimates that Ukraine's fiscal deficit now exceeds 5%. Cutting the deficit in half over the next two years is an "austerity" program. And as a result, unemployment in Ukraine will rise. FocusEconomics estimates the unemployment rate in Ukraine is a modest 8%. Implementation of the IMF agreement will cause it to rise. This will mean serious problems for a new government trying to curry favor from its citizens.
Gueorguiev: Energy sector reforms will focus on reducing this sector's fiscal drag, while attracting new investment and enhancing efficiency. A key step is the commitment to step by step energy reform to move retail gas and heating tariffs to full cost recovery, along with early action towards that goal.
Elliott: Reducing "fiscal drag" will mean much higher energy prices. Higher energy prices will have the same effect as higher taxes: it will absorb more disposable income and result in more unemployment.
Gueorguiev: Reforms to strengthen governance, enhance transparency, and improve the business climate will be central elements of the program. Policy measures in these areas will include adoption of a new procurement law to close loopholes allowing evasion of a competitive procedure; measures to facilitate VAT refunds to businesses; and an independent quarterly audit of the Naftogaz accounts. Moreover, the IMF will prepare a comprehensive diagnostic study that will cover the anti-corruption and governance framework, the design and implementation of laws and regulations, the effectiveness of the judiciary, and tax administration.
Elliott: It sounds great. We will see. I predict the IMF program will cause riots in the streets and political chaos. One has to wonder why the West is so eager to increase ties with this corrupt and broken country on Russia's border.


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Anime Movie Review – Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Detonation
It feels like it's been forever since we reviewed Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection, but it's finally time to complete the story that started in that movie. So was it worth the wait? That depends… 😛
Yuri News Update: June 2019
Since it's been a while since our last Yuri News Update, there's a lot to cover this time around. Let's get started~
First up, some much-needed
good great news in this yuri anime drought we're suffering from.
Looks like we have another anime adaptation to look forward to, come November. That's when Flag Time will grace us with its presence in Japanese theaters, a few years after the manga finished its run. The OVA comes courtesy of Tear Studio, and it reunites the director, animation director, and composer of Asagao to Kase-san., so needless to say, it appears this OVA is in good hands.
I think we can all agree that we NEED some more yuri anime this year, so even though November seems far off, this is still very welcome news. This seems like a bit of an odd choice to adapt into an anime—considering what other great stuff is out there—but at least the story is interesting, so my hopes remain pretty high that this will turn out to be one of the yuri anime highlights of the year~
My Top 10 Yuri Anime [Updated]
Just as I updated my Top 10 Favorite Yuri Characters, I'll continue with this one that I originally posted many, many years ago.
In this case as well, quite a few things changed, and we have some newcomers as well. Please enjoy, and tell us about your Top 10 in the comments as well~
Admittedly, Cross Ange didn't end the way we all wanted it to. Hilda didn't get her much deserved girlfriend, and Ange ended up with Tusk, a male character. In terms of yuri, this couldn't have gone any more wrong. Though, the yuri we got through the rest of the show probably made up for the horrible outcome, if only a little.
So, basically, the whole show involves some steamy yuri sex scenes, some kisses, and even some true romance, despite the fact that Cross Ange often didn't depict the yuri taking place as something happening out of the characters' love for one another. In the end, there were still enough yuri characters left, and if we now add the fact that the whole plot of this show, as well as pretty much all of the important characters, were pretty damn awesome, then this makes for a damn great anime, if you ask me.
My Top 10 Favorite Yuri Characters [Updated]
Oh man, it's been a while since I made one of these. Well, instead of posting an all-new Top 10 list, I thought about updating all my existing ones, starting with my Top 10 Favorite Yuri Characters. As it turns out, quite a few of my picks from years ago still stay in my Top 10. However, there are quite a few newcomers as well. I hope you enjoy, and if you feel like it, leave your own Top 10 in the comments~
The award for the hottest lady-killer definitely goes to Shizuma. And even though I absolutely can't stand people who play with the feelings of others, I can't really get myself to dislike her. Also, it's thanks to her that we got to see so many yuri kisses, or at least all these great moments in which kisses almost happened.
Anime Movie Review – Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection
After the mediocre Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, we finally return to the main Nanoha series with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection, so NanoFate fans rejoice! But should they rejoice? Hmm…
Yuri Anime 2018
Just like our Yuri Anime 2013, Yuri Anime 2014, Yuri Anime 2015, Yuri Anime 2016, and Yuri Anime 2017 lists, this one will also feature all the yuri shows that will air in 2018. Since it's not even 2018 yet, this list is still in progress and will be updated whenever there are new shows to add. If you feel like we missed something, feel free to name your additions~


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A few weeks ago, in my vegetables for breakfast post, I mentioned the fact that I have been experimenting with dropping whole grain flours and all sugars (except for the occasional date in a dressing or sauce) out of my diet. I said that it was a story for another day, and that day has come.
This is going to be a very long blog post, so if you are interested, I recommend that you get comfortable!
First a review of my recent dieting history and inspiration for starting the Healthy Girl's Kitchen blog. Five years ago, a college roommate of mine asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding. I was thirty nine years old and I had recently had my third child. I had a long history of yo-yo dieting, with many successful weight loss journeys, all to be followed up by weight gain horrors. I made up my mind that I would NOT be the fat bridesmaid, and I went back to a national weight loss program that had worked for me many times in the past (if you consider working to mean losing the weight and gaining it all back). One of my friends told me that I could possibly try Liposuction in Plano, Texas to permanently get rid of stubborn fat cells that might not be possible to remove with dieting and exercise.
The program worked again because I was hell-bent on weighing and measuring my food, tracking it all and staying within my allotted calories. I made a lot of really nice friends in that program who I miss to this day. The camaraderie was amazing. I also used supplements similar to carb c6 to help combat my cravings whilst being able to limit carb and fat absorption. I think it has worked well so far compared to all of the other diets I've tried. The Ketogenic diet is another where you have to limit your carb intake to a very minimal amount – it can be especially difficult as you have to get your body into Ketosis before you start to lose any weight. More info on that and comparisons of the supplements involved can be found via online resources like keto diet school reviews that specialise in that very diet, as opposed to giving vague information on a variety of approaches.
Shortly after I entered those meeting rooms again, one member had mentioned to me an online support group for people who follow all different diet plans. It's called PEERtrainer and it was in that support group that I first heard of a whole food plant based diet. The idea appealed to me immediately. First, from an ethical perspective, because I had been a vegetarian for ethical reasons for eleven years. But second, from a health standpoint, learning about the negative impact of processed food, dairy and meat on our bodies suddenly and forcefully hit home for me. So while I was on the "counting and measuring" program, over the course of a few months I was really BOTH on the counting plan AND on a whole foods plant based plan.
I was also lucky enough to happen upon a book and program called The Beck Diet Solution. It's basically cognitive therapy for people who want to lose weight, and the changes in my thought patterns from doing this work were radical. I began to think like a naturally thin person for the first time in my life. I stopped beating myself up over eating food that was off my plan, amongst many other healthy habits.
The combination of the three things worked magic for me, and over the course of a relatively short period of time, I lost 50 pounds. More weight than I had ever hoped to lose.
I was officially on maintenance, and I was officially burned the f out on weighing, counting, and tracking my food. I longed to simply sign up for a pre-prepared healthy meal delivery plan, which does all the hard work for you (check out this dinnerly everyplate comparison if you're looking for companies that offer this) but I was determined to finish what I'd started. I read the promises of a whole food plant based diet and I believed that if I just stuck to those foods, that I would be able to maintain this fifty pound weight loss. I needed that to be true, because I was so tired of planning and counting my food and all that went along with it. I was like a wild stallion and I wanted to be free. Not free to eat anything and everything, but free to eat until I felt full and satisfied (while losing the 50 pounds on the eat-anything-you-want-but-count-calories plan, I was hungry pretty much most of the time). And free to feed my cravings for sugary sweet foods.
That was a big thing for me. Sweet food. Desserts. So many books and blogs out there with the promise that if you just eat all of your food raw, you can eat sugary, fatty, raw desserts every day and be thin, thin, thin like this beautiful blogger.
I tried that. It didn't work for me.
It didn't work for me to the tune of 15 pounds.
So I bagged the raw food diet and focused my efforts on a different plant based plan. One with delicious comfort foods and whole grain flours. A plan that works for so many people, just not me.
What the hell was wrong with me?
Fifteen more pounds, back.
And then the promise that if I just ate enough of these particular vegetables each day with some nuts, but limit the amount of starches that I consumed, that this would be my magic formula. For some reason, this didn't work for me either, no matter how much I tried to be perfect! Not only did I not lose weight, I gained weight. Not because the plan doesn't work for a lot of people, it just doesn't work for me! I ended up craving sugar as badly as ever, not being able to walk by some junk food on the kitchen table at work and not grab some. And the table at work is oven covered in junk food. And the weight slowly came back.
Those last twenty pounds. All. Back.
I was fat again. Officially.
None of my clothes fit. All of the money that I had spent on beautiful new clothes when I had lost the fifty pounds, wasted. I bought all new clothes, again.
(Please understand that this is not a criticism or a condemnation of other plant based diets. I firmly believe that each one has an important place in this space, and simply because one didn't work for me, doesn't mean it is not a perfectly amazing plan for someone else, or even for someone temporarily while they are transitioning away from a SAD diet. A Vegan comfort food plan is particularly important in those circumstances.)
Then Chef AJ came to stay with me in my home. We had been acquaintances from the Internet, and she was coming to Cleveland for a gig. I can't remember the exact details of it all, but I think when she first came, she had lost a considerable amount of weight. AJ told me that she had gone to TrueNorth and had experimented with leaving nuts out of her whole food plant based diet. She encouraged me to try it too. I thought she was nuts. Why? Because nuts are not my "thing." Why would nuts be causing me to gain weight?
And AJ came to visit a second time, and this time she was even thinner, and she told me that she had started to eat one pound of vegetables for breakfast each day and that her unwanted weight just kept falling off. She informed me that she ate potatoes and brown rice as well, beans and fruit too. But no nuts. That was a really big problem food for her.
So I ignored her, because like I said, nuts are not my thing, and I hunkered down with the plan I was on. I committed to ONLY eating out of the cookbook for the plan and blogging my review of every recipe in the book. I thought FOR SURE this was going to work. How could it not?
And my cravings for sugar grew and grew and grew.
And something about what Chef AJ was telling me made me think that there was more to her story for me than just losing the nuts. But I didn't know what that was, I couldn't put my finger on it yet.
But at the end of April 2014, I threw my hands up in the air and begged the universe for mercy. How could I, a person so dedicated to the principles of a whole food plant based diet, just keep getting fatter and fatter and fatter? What the heck was wrong with me? I was ashamed, embarrassed and very down.
I called AJ and I told her that I was done with every other version of a plant based diet that I had ever tried. I was not giving up on a plant based diet, but I needed to know everything about how she ate and I needed to follow it exactly. I hired her as my coach and over the course of many months, I pieced together all of the information that I learned from AJ, along with about 75 compliant recipes that appealed to me, into my own "Chef AJ's Ultimate Weight Loss" book. I printed it out and put it all into a notebook. I cooked only from those recipes and I logged my food every day and e-mailed it to AJ.
I began losing weight.
Shortly after beginning my work with Chef AJ, I was out one night at a work function with my husband. I stupidly imagined that there would be something at the event for me to eat, and I was wrong. So I walked a few blocks to one of the few Vegan restaurants in Cleveland and had dinner out by myself for one of the only times in my life (is it just me or does this make you really uncomfortable too?). I did my best ordering off of the menu, but as you know, Vegan restaurants often have absolutely no oil-free and processed food free offerings. I ordered a veggie burger and asked for a whole wheat bun and thought it would be a nice treat for myself that evening.
I sent AJ my food log and I got a phone call shortly after.
"I cannot coach you if you are going to eat ANY flour or any sugar, EVER. I will be done as your coach. It would be like me trying to sponsor someone in AA who is still drinking!"
I was thinking, "What the f?" What was she talking about? It was just one whole wheat hamburger bun. I'm not sure that I was even fully aware of the fact that on AJ's plan (which is the plan from True North Health Center by Dr. Alan Goldhammer and closely resembles Dr. John McDougall's Maximum Weight Loss plan), there was a rule about absolutely no whole wheat (or really any grain, bean or nut) flour.
But I was scared, because I didn't want to lose AJ as my coach. It was the FIRST time in the three-and-a-half years that I was on a plant based diet that I actually began to lose weight instead of gain it. It was slow and steady weight loss and I was really, really ecstatic about that.
I promised her that I wouldn't eat any sugar, including zero calorie sweetenters like stevia, and sugar alcohols like erythritol, which go through the same refining processes as drugs and alcohol. Nor would I eat any flour, which ended up including oat flour that you grind yourself from rolled oats. For a total of six months I was on a great path.
For the first time in years I could clearly see that my brain chemistry was deeply effected by the food I ate. Vegetables? Of course these are great. But potatoes and unprocessed whole grains? I was scared of those for so many years because one smart doctor that I trusted said that eating too much of them would cause me weight gain. But what I saw when I began incorporating more and more potatoes and unprocessed whole grain into my diet, and eliminating all refined flours and sugars, was that not only did I lose weight, I lost my cravings for sugary foods almost 100%.
Something in my body and mind began to radically change. I was healing.
And then Halloween happened.
I have no idea why, or what stress I was under (aren't we all under a lot of stress all of the time?), but I brought Halloween candy into my house (with the idea that it was for giving out only) and on the night of Halloween I indulged in more than a few pieces. I really don't know what the hell I was thinking, but I certainly didn't fully comprehend what had been going on with my brain chemistry and my healing process. I thought I would be just fine and that I would go back onto my Chef AJ plan 100% the next day.
And mostly I did, I really can't remember now. But what I do remember is that over the course of the next eight weeks, I continued to make all of these little allowances in my diet. It was holiday time at work, and all of our best customers and vendors ship us beautiful packages of sugary, processed treats. And I was working my tail off during the day and going home to my family with no energy even to prepare a healthy meal, and everything started to crumble. I indulged in many of those "gifts" on the kitchen table at work. I made allowances about even the healthy food I was still getting in–a little oil and salt is fine in this bag of frozen vegetables because I don't have the time or energy to make food from scratch right now. I stopped weighing myself at the time, as I am someone who goes into immediate denial when I fall of the wagon.
But I knew, deep down inside, that this was just a temporary problem. I knew that the moment the holiday was over, the moment when I go on my first and only vacation for the year, that I would have the mental energy to refocus on what I knew I had to do, and refocus I did.
Beginning on December 24, 2014 I went back on "The Ultimate Weight Loss Plan with Chef AJ and John Pierre," I went back to healing my brain, and I went back to losing weight.
It's been ten months since I contacted AJ and asked her to be my coach. In that time, my body has released 25 of those 50 unwanted pounds. I am completely confident that in another 10 months, I will release the other 25 unwanted pounds. Why? Why am I so damned sure of myself this time?
Because I know the difference. The difference between a brain on crack and a brain that is healing. And flours and sugar are like crack for me. They mess with my brain and keep me craving more, more, more. They put my hunger drive into over drive. And no amount of vegetables, beans and fruit can fix a brain chemistry that is being altered by drugs. Make no mistake about it, processed flour and sugar are no different than cocaine and heroine for those that are susceptible to their effects (not everyone is, just so you know!). The starch from potatoes and brown rice? They raise my brain's serotonin naturally, are satiating in a way that no other food is, and have been essential in my weight loss. How did I learn all this super sciency stuff about hunger and cravings and brain chemistry? I started reading and watching everything that I could that AJ recommended from pioneers in food addiction like Joan Ifland, Kathleen DesMaisons and Susan Pierce Thompson. I'm so into this stuff now that I could explode with excitement!
In a nutshell, here's the formula that finally worked for me:
Whole Food Plant Based Diet (volumes of veggies, whole fruits, beans, potatoes, and unbroken whole grains)
– refined carbohydrates (no flour (no pasta, bread, muffins or cakes) and no sugar)
+ vegetables (and potatoes or rice) for breakfast
– smoothies (they give me a sugar rush and an insulin response that is not favorable to my weight loss, I can tolerate a banana soft serve or pineapple whip really occasionally)
– nuts/seeds/avocado (simply, although healthy, these foods are too high in calories for my volumetric eating needs, activity level and metabolism)
– salt (it makes the food hyper-palatable and keeps me in a cycle of overeating)
– oil (just a darned waste of calories at 4000 calories per pound)
= weight loss (finally!) and FREEDOM FROM FOOD ADDICTION
Which is all I ever wanted, so my work here is done. Not!
I started this blog in the hopes that I would maintain my initial 50 pound weight loss. I knew that doing this publicly was the only thing that would break me of my yo-yo dieting cycle. I never imagined how bumpy this road would be! Or how difficult. Or that I would be on paths that led me astray.
I'm just grateful that I finally found my mojo.
And if you haven't found your mojo yet, I pray that you do. It is like a freedom that I have never known. I am happy, (almost) thin and free!
I'm here for you. In any way that I can help, I am open to it. We are really on this journey together, and you have been there for me every step of the way. For that, dear blog readers, I am eternally grateful.
Thoughts? Questions? Let's talk in the comments below!


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Today is December 1. The very first day of the last month of the year. 2015 is coming to a close and 2016 is almost here. How do you want to remember this year?
Regardless of how the last 11 months turned out for you, today marks the beginning of a new month, a fresh start and the ending to this one chapter in your life. We have 31 brand new days, 31 fresh starts, and 31 new and exciting opportunities to be the very best versions of ourselves.
You have a choice. You can let the bad, the hard, and the difficult outweigh the good, or you can take this new month and make the most of it. Give yourself a fresh start. You deserve it. Here's to finishing out our year strong and striving each day to be better at being better.
What will you do, starting today, to create the best ending for this year?


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The 23-year-old was as affected as anyone by the Ducks' lack of an American Hockey League affiliate last season. The 6-foot, 199-pound goalie appeared in 16 games for Laredo of the Central Hockey League (10-3-3, 2.31 GAA, .919 SV%), five for Bakersfield of the ECHL (2-3-0, 3.63, .903) and 25 for Springfield of the AHL (8-16-1, 3.59 GAA, .896).
Levasseur was a seventh-round draft pick by the Ducks in 2005.


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