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Are repairs needed on your vehicle? Even if this isn't something that you need, you probably know how it feels. You also know how it feels to not be sure you are making the right decisions. How will you know that you're making the right decision? Read further to gain knowledge regarding all of your auto repair needs.
Be sure that you have an A.S.E. certified mechanic before they are allowed to work on your vehicle. This certification confirms the the mechanic has a lot of experience working on cars. This will ensure that you have the cream of the crop working on your vehicle.
Check your radiator frequently. You should let your car run for a few minutes, shut the engine and open your hood. Don't open your radiator cap if your car is on. With a dipstick, check your radiator fluid. Before adding more coolant remember to mix it with water.
Keeping your car washed will help prevent rust. All cars are going to rust, so make sure that you wash your vehicle at least once a month. Waxing your car helps protect the paint.
Your repair person should be upfront and honest with you. If they do not answer you directly, you may want to find someone else. Having a mechanic you can trust is extremely important; don't waste your time with one who can't make you confident in his skills.
Replacing a burnt-out headlight or taillight is much cheaper when you do it by yourself. It is simple to do on some cars and can save you a lot of money. If you are not confident, ask a friend or family member if they can help you.
Consider finding someone who repairs cars in their own garage. If they're experienced then they probably can do quality work and they don't charge a lot either. You could save a lot of money this way.
Prior to picking an auto repair shop, speak with people you know regarding their experiences with shops. They can help point you in the right direction if so. Don't rely entirely on what your friends tell you, though; do your own research. At the minimum, take a look online to see what others are saying about the shop as well.
The labor rate should be posted in your repair shop. If it is not, ask. Also ask the price of a repair, including parts. Make sure you're asking questions if you're not sure about the shop's rates. You have to figure out what you're going to get billed with and how to pay. A lot of places will give you an estimate of how long this will take that they were given by various manufacturers. Some minor repairs might be considered as an all day job by some manufacturers.
Remember you don't need to use a mechanic for car problems. There are great technicians everywhere, whether you take your car to the shop ten minutes from your home or whether you go on in to your dealer. If you're comfortable with a local mechanic, don't be afraid to use one.
You should apply these tips to take good care of your vehicle or find a mechanic who can do it for you. As always, you must stay informed on this topic. You can feel good now that you know more about auto repair.


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A Satyr was a minor god of the countryside and woods in Greece.
Satyr:black or brown hair,strong and big,human mixed with an animal, hides in woods and hills. Satyrs are brothers with Nymphs.
Nymphs:they are females,they hide in water when they see someone comes,they have long ears and live in woods. According to some sources satyrs were children of goats and mountain nymphs.
A satyr is a half human and half animal,strong,tall,fast and vert good at hiding.

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In this episode of Shades of Intimacy, when you are aware that you are getting stuck in a rut and believing the stories your mind and body tell you, it may be time for a pattern interrupt. Pressing yourself into your stories, so you can see them gives you the opportunity to change, to knock you sideways and let you own your emotions, instead of them owning you.
Topic #1
Warrior Queens
- Jennie has just returned from Laguna Beach, Ca from a Warrior Live Event that was a one day Warrior Queens acceleration event. Physical training for Warrior Women who are completing the coaches training pods. Jennie was joined by 30 other strong women, fighting for their lives, for their "why," and reclaiming their power. Somewhere along the line women were told they don't go into beast mode, they don't fight, and that is utter bullshit; women are brute force fighters.
- When you put people in a corner, they will more often than not, respond. Jennie put herself in that corner by going to that event. The two types of events, first the training where you are there to learn something to teach others and the second being a pattern interrupt, where you learn something about yourself. This was a pattern interrupt for Jennie more than training; this was a choice to put herself into a corner and fighter her way out. Putting yourself into a situation, plucking yourself out of safety, out of your safe box, and creating a sense of unsafety in your body; I conscious decision to fuck stuff up
- To do this at home put yourself into a chair pose and sit up against the wall, and see how long you can hold it. If you have someone urging you to hold it longer, you're going to come up against a story of how long you can and what it means to hold it. When your muscles start to heat, that's when the stories of your going to fail, you can't do this, why am I here begin. At that moment you have a choice to choose stories about pain or stories about pleasure.
"This was a pattern interrupt for Jennie more so than a training; this was a choice to put herself into a corner and fight her way out." Jason
"This was a pattern interrupt for Jennie more so than a training; this was a choice to put herself into a corner and fight her way out." Jason
Topic #2
Knock the Dust Bunnies Off
- People who suffer from chronic pain are trained to switch the story from this is pain to this is heat. The study was done to see if they could reroute from this is pain to this is heat; that's what a pattern interrupt does to you, presses you into your stories so you can see them.
- There is a saying of dying before you die; the universe will bring us a crisis to kill us slowly. There is a freedom and a power that is gained when you put yourself into these crucibles that free you to live a better life worth living.
- The predator experience with their daughter Amethyst that threw them for a loop; they were in a way though energetically and mentally prepared for the difficulty. When Jason and Jennie made a decision years ago to change the way they were doing life. They went out and paid for a pattern interrupt, and it worked for them. Some people need to be knocked sideways; burning away the stories and gaining power. Stories tend to collect dust bunnies and when you put yourself into a pattern interrupt or the universe does it for you, the dust bunnies get knocked away.
- Last spring Jennie started to notice that she was bitching and complaining a lot; she began to feel like a miserly old woman. Within that, she noticed the language she was using, which she didn't have time, or she had a job and couldn't do that. She chose over the summer to put herself into a pattern interrupt, and she went to Colorado and worked with a mentor of hers who is also a yoga instructor. Jennie is in the middle of a Yoga class and crying her eyes out, a full class, and the words that came to her were that she was a giant, living, breathing complaint.
- It's physical, heat and intensity; she didn't get this revelation sitting on her back porch, sipping a glass of wine. She went to an instructor that rubbed her nose in it, and in return, Jennie got a gift; a clarity that she was a giant living complaint. It was profound and what Jennie did was take a picture of herself and put those words across her body, and that is the screensaver on her phone.
- She isn't shaming herself; it was an AHA moment for her, the way she was showing up was a giant living complaint. The beautiful part was Jennie didn't shy away from it because it was something about herself she didn't like; we tend to shut the shit down we don't like, and it will continue to pop up.
"It was profound and I took a picture of myself and wrote the words, Giant Living Complaint, across myself and made it the screensaver on my phone. " – Jennie
"It was profound and I took a picture of myself and wrote the words, Giant Living Complaint, across myself and made it the screensaver on my phone. " – Jennie
Topic #3
Victims and Roadmaps
- Commit to wrestling with these places in your life, to those things you don't like about yourself and start to notice how it becomes a roadmap in your life. You may not know what the gift inside of it is at the moment, but don't shame and bury it. Jennie has moved through it and complained a lot less.
- Once the couple took care of the things they needed to take care of Jennie was able to relax much quicker. That is a big piece of the process when you start to own it, instead of it owning you. That is why pattern interrupts are so important; we don't know that our emotions and patterns are owning us, instead of us owning them. When Jennie got into it further, she realized that she had a victim pattern, and that was hard for her to say.
- Jennie would go into victim mode, and Jason would want to help her, and she would get what she wanted. The reality is that if she didn't go into victim mode and just looked at Jason and said," Jason will you help me?" He would have done the same thing. It shows up in your relationship and takes a toll on it, that's the piece that Jennie has owned over the summer; the victim is still alive but at bay.
- All of these pieces, from childhood as well, affect us at multiple levels, your victimhood has ramifications and ripples out throughout your life. Even looking at sex as a burden, something else you have to do rather than viewing it as a pleasurable experience with your spouse.
"All of these pieces, from childhood as well, affect us at multiple levels; your victimhood has ramifications and ripples out, throughout your life."- Jason
"All of these pieces, from childhood as well, affect us at multiple levels; your victimhood has ramifications and ripples out, throughout your life."- Jason
Closing Thoughts
- There are moments in your life where you have to say what you want; if you want sex, you need to ask and not be afraid of being denied. Your story may tell you if you have to ask, then your partner doesn't love you. Jennies victim gear of she doesn't have time turns Jason's victim gear into not being loved. Your stories and patterns start to feed each other.
- When the couple first got together and things started to go sideways, and they made a commitment to change; they were aware and were not going to lie about it anymore. They went into a crucible, and it worked because it cuts down to the bone what matters; they could have left that intensive workshop and decided to end it. After three days they had the tools, they were going to stop lying and get clear.
- More than a year ago Jason started doing Warrior, and Jennie began to getting pissed because he was doing a pattern interrupt and she was doing nothing. Jennie began to look to her pattern interrupts because you get your nose rubbed in it and you get to decide what stories to keep and which ones to drop. It sets you up for success. If you do one of the couples 90 -day courses that will set you up day-by-day, they work better with a pattern interrupt because they set the stage for getting to the bone about you want.
- When the predator came after their daughter, Jennie went into fight mode, and when they were resolved, she didn't feel she had anything to fight for; she forgot she had herself to fight for. Going to the Live event was a reclamation of that fighter, not for the sake of fighting or struggling but the blood lust for life. Every woman there was a fighter, and it showed up big time.


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When Dr. John H. Kennell was a hospital pediatrician in the 1950s, newborns were typically whisked away within minutes of delivery, washed, weighed, blood-tested and plunked into bassinets under the nursery's fluorescent lights. Their mothers would not be permitted to hold them for 12 hours, sometimes longer.
At University Hospital in Cleveland, where Dr. Kennell was the staff neonatologist, nurses bottle-fed infants every four hours. Mothers could visit, but not for very long.
Dr. Kennell, who died on Aug. 27 at 91, liked to say that it was the full-throated complaints about this state of affairs by his patients that led him to undertake a research project in the 1960s that helped change the world on which most newborns now open their eyes.
His findings, published in "Maternal-Infant Bonding," a 1976 book written with Dr. Marshall H. Klaus, a fellow professor of pediatric medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, were considered a prime catalyst for changes in hospital procedures that gave new mothers more private time with their infants, let fathers into the delivery room and allowed young children to visit new siblings in the hospital.
The book's central claim was that infants and their mothers were hormonally primed in the first hours after birth to form crucial bonds, but that under hospital rules then commonly observed, that process was not allowed to happen.
"Babies were ready to eat right away after being born, but they didn't get to their mothers for 12 hours," Dr. Kennell said. "No one was paying attention to what the baby wanted."
The doctors' ideas were well received by developmental psychologists who ascribed to attachment theory, which links the relations newborns have with their first caregivers to their ability to have healthy relationships in adulthood. Relatively quickly, "bonding" became widely adopted as part of maternity ward routines.
But "Maternal-Infant Bonding" came under severe criticism. Fellow researchers said its conclusions were based on too small a case sample and put too much stock in the mother-child interactions in the first hours. Adoptive parents complained that the theory left them out of the picture. Some feminists saw it as just another way to place child-rearing responsibilities solely on women and to blame the mother if a child grew up troubled.
Dr. Kennell and Dr. Klaus acknowledged mistakes in their findings and published a revised version of their book in 1982, "Parent-Infant Bonding." Though it stuck to the original premise, the new edition was less specific about a bonding timetable. The book has been updated several times since. In an introduction to the 1996 edition, the noted pediatrician-author Dr. T. Berry Brazelton defended the authors.
"Despite criticism by some that 'proof' of a sensitive period for bonding between parent and baby has not been shown, the authors have continued to fight for a more humane atmosphere in hospitals at the time of delivery," Dr. Brazelton wrote, "including time for early attachment behavior between a new parent and baby. We now realize how important it is to create this atmosphere."
The sea change in hospital childbirth practices drew on many social currents of the 1960s and '70s, including the natural childbirth movement, the women's movement and an anti-authoritarian climate, said J. Kevin Nugent, the director of the Brazelton Institute, a child and family research center founded by Dr. Brazelton at Boston Children's Hospital.
"Maternal-Infant Bonding," he said, struck a chord with a broad cross section of women, many of them nurses and hospital administrators who were also mothers and were receptive to the changes it proposed.
"Hospital procedures were geared to the efficient running of hospitals rather than to the needs of mothers and babies," Dr. Nugent added. "John helped change that."
John Hawks Kennell was born on Jan. 9, 1922, in Reading, Pa., to Doris Hawks and Carlyle Kennell and grew up in Buffalo. His mother was a high school English teacher, and his father an insurance salesman.
After medical school at the University of Rochester and two years in the Navy, Dr. Kennell did his residency at Harvard Medical School. He was the chief resident at Boston Children's Hospital before he moved to Cleveland in 1952 to teach at Case Western Reserve and serve as the attending pediatrician in the neonatal unit of the university hospital.
Dr. Kennell, who died in Cleveland, is survived by his wife, Margaret Lloyd Kennell; a daughter, Susan; two sons, David and John, who confirmed his death; and five grandchildren.
Dr. Kennell went on to study the bonding process from another perspective, looking at parents of infants who die in delivery or soon after being born. He was one of the first neonatal experts to recommend that the grieving parents hold their newborns, and his insights about the emotional benefits such physical contact can provide parents have been incorporated in the standard procedures of most neonatal intensive care units.
Dr. Kennell also became an advocate of doulas, trained nonmedical professionals who help women during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. With Phyllis H. Klaus and Dr. Klaus, he wrote "The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier and Healthier Birth," published in 2003 and now in its third printing.
The great question of his work, however, was the mystery of the chemistry between children and parents.
"What is the process by which a father and mother become attached to an infant?" he asked in "Bonding," a 1996 book he also wrote with the Klauses. "We have developed ever-greater respect for the complexities of the process. It is our continuing quest."


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The conglomerate of brands as Louis Vuitton, Céline and Dior promoted one of the most coveted competitions of the fashion world, aiming to reward the best today's "New Designers".
This time who pocketed the prize worth 300,000 euros was the Portuguese duo Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida who represented the brand Marques' Almeida. In addition to the prize money the duo won an experts consulting that will help in the development of the brand, from the creative side to the bureaucratic.
Not only was the Portuguese duo who was awarded, Jacquemus won a special jury award worth 150,000 euros.
It really should not have been an easy task for the jury to choose the winners, after all among the competitors were just extremely competent designers as French Faustine Steinmetz, the duo of Caperni, the English Craig Green, Virgil Abloh, beyond of Arthur Arbesser and the Vetements of Demna Gvasalia. Among the jurors were the designer Nicolas Ghesquière, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Humberto Leon between other masters of the fashion world.
What prompted the brand Marques'Almeida to the winning post was its entire collection made with jeans, which started in 2011. With shreds bars and silhouettes inspired by the "Grunge" universe, the pieces will parade on the London fashion week.
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After leaving the RV campground the trail continues on the reservation for another 10 miles – first on the main road then onto dirt roads along the canals. My feet do not enjoy the roadwalks. There are some nice birds though – lots of herons and egrets, kingfishers, and a few sandhill cranes. Saw a red-shouldered hawk having an afternoon snack – he was so into his meal he let me pass by quite close.
The trail next passes through a stste-designated "stormwater treatment area" – a man-made wetland area built to filter water before it makes it's way to the Everglades. The trail is on dirt roads running alongside wetlands and canals. There's water everywhere but because it's basically agricultural runoff from the sugarcane and cattle fields it's not advised that you drink it, even after treating it. Volunteers kindly set out gallons of water during the prime hiking season at a few spots to help those hiking through. It is immensely appreciated!
Due to some construction the trail is slightly re-routed through this stretch and currently passes alongside the Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area. There are birds everywhere: herons, egrets, ibises, stork, moorhen, vultures, anhinga. Red-shouldered hawks and peregrine falcons. I saw a single roseate spoonbill, pink wings glowing in the light of the sunset.
I walked through this area on Sunday morning and there were hunters everywhere. There must have been ducks hiding out in the wetlands but I couldn't see them from the road. By noon most of the hunters had left and the last few miles to the next water cache were quiet. The cache marked the end of the wetlands area as the trail began to pass by ranches then sugarcane fields, still on dirt roads alongside dikes. Camping alongside the canal I heard coyotes in the middle if the night.
Monday was more roads, more dikes, more canals. Meadowlarks singing in the fields. Halfway through the day I came to the next water cache which was at a lovely roadside picnic shelter. A truck hauling corn had spilt its contents and traffic was backed up in both directions waiting for the road to be cleared. It was wonderful sitting in the shade for lunch – resting the feet and setting out the tent to dry. It hasn't been raining, but condensation inside and out has the tent thoroughly soaked each morning. I have to be careful packing up in the morning to not bump my head on the roof, sending a shower down on all my gear. The joy of a single-wall tent in humid climes.
Spent the night on the dikes – a train passed by a few times, blaring its horn as it passed. The mosquitos show up at dusk but are thankfully gone the rest of the time. My feet are in pain – I think there are 11 blisters in various stages, and I've run out of bandaids. I'm duct taped together at this point.
After a few miles the next morning I have a choice. The trail takes 17 miles to make it's way to the town of Clewiston, heading east and north along the sugarcane dikes for 8 miles, then 9 mile northwest along the Lake Okeechobee dikes. The road, however, takes just 9 miles to go directly north into town. My feet tell me take the road, and after a mile or so I get a hitch into town.
My first stop is a drugstore where I buy many many bandaids.


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Santa Barbara County Bar Association Annual Bench and Bar Conference
January 26, 2019 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Santa Barbara Club
1105 Chapala Street
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Santa Barbara County Bar Association Annual Bench and Bar Conference Presents:
Legal Haze: Cannabis in California
Keynote Speaker: Das Williams
Featuring: Tava Ostrenger, Esq.
Bill Makler, Esq.
Jennifer Duffy, Esq. and
David Secrest, Esq.
Hilary Bricken, Esq.
Amy Steinfield, Esq.
Brian Marblestone
Renee Fairbanks, Esq.
P. Joseph Frawley, MD
Sherif Elasyouty, MD
Sherif Elasyouty, MD
Distinguished panel of Santa Barbara Superior Court Judges
When: Saturday, January 26, 2019
Where: The Santa Barbara Club
1105 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara
MCLE Credit: up to 6 hours General credit, including mandatory subject credits; The judges' panel will offer an ethics credit (pending approval).
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Attached below are all materials for the event:
Santa Barbara County Supervisor, 1st District, Das Williams – Keynote Speaker
William Makler – Elements of a DUI/Cannabis, testing
*Note – A specialty credit of competence will be offered.
Tava Ostrenger at the City Attorney's Office – Implementation of the state law at city level, compliance, permitting, etc.
Renee Fairbanks – Family Law
Brian Marblestone – Insurance Perspective
Jennifer Duffy and David Secrest – Employment law
Hilary Bricken – Regulations, Business, Mergers and Acquisitions
Amy Steinfeld– Land use permitting and how the new industry will impact our landscape
Judges' Panel – (Moderated by Hon. Patricia Kelly, including Hon. Thomas Anderle, Hon. Von Deroian & Hon. Kay Kuns)
- https://www.sfbar.org/ethics/opinion_2015-1.aspx?print=1#
- SBCBA Bullet Points
- SBCBA Outline 2019
- Bench Bar Judges Panel – Marijuana Law (1)
- ag_marijuana_enforcement_1.4.18_0
- prop64-title-summ-analysis
- Los Angeles County Bar Association ethics-opinion-527-rev
- cjeo_formal_opinion_2017-010
- Rule_1.2.1-Exec_Summary-Redline
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Marking George Town Competition
CHORD studio and PAB obtained Honourable Mention for proposing a comprehensive design based on three layers of interventions; from small to medium to large interventions. The small intervention was regarded as least intrusive, Coins would also be embedded in the main streets leading tourists from one landmark to another. Also included in the small interventions were regulated trishaws that would run at regular intervals along old tram tracks. Information kiosks set up at various locations were also regarded as small interventions.
For medium interventions we proposed the creation of landscaped oases throughout the site. The programmes for the interventions consisted of various functions ranging from tourist information and tea houses to budget accommodation and contemporary townhouses. Its large intervention consisted of turning the main thoroughfare of the area, Chulia Street, into a tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard. The new pedestrian boulevard is supposed to remember the nostalgic past and 'becomes a catalyst for the renewal of streets'.
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To profit or not to profit off of someone else's heartbreak, that is the question at the core of The Goodbye Girls, a new YA novel by Lisa Harrington. The book's high school characters have come to depend on technology to aid them in the dreaded task of breaking up with someone. Instead of putting themselves through painful face-to-face conversations, they're relying on texts.
This may not seem that devastating in comparison to, say, ghosting or finding your significant other has changed their Facebook status to single, or that time Matt Damon broke up with Minnie Driver on Oprah – but text breakups are still pretty cold. When 16-year-old protagonist Lizzie and her best friend Willa hear about a classmate who dumped his girlfriend over SMS, Lizzie comments, "It's too bad he couldn't have hired a trained professional to break up for him." And a business idea is born.
Willa and Lizzie will offer termination services to the student body of Halifax West High and in the process earn the money Lizzie needs to go on a class trip to New York City. Using the anonymous moniker the Goodbye Girls, the friends advertise breakup baskets, tailor-made for each dumpee, intended to ease the ensuing shock and pain. All a dumper needs to do is send – to the Goodbye Girls' email account – a list of items their boyfriend or girlfriend likes and the address of where to drop off the basket. Then mail an envelope of cash to a P.O. box at Shoppers Drug Mart.
Business is booming and the girls are able to keep their identity secret, but the job is more complicated than they anticipate, especially when they start dropping off baskets to friends and siblings. And even more so when revenge baskets, filled with cruel notes and ironic items, start showing up on people's doorsteps. The Goodbye Girls aren't responsible for the mean baskets, but they end up taking the blame.
As if this is not enough to make Lizzie feel guilty, she's come to realize that she's falling for her older sister's boyfriend – and he feels the same. Neither the business nor the requited crush end well. In fact, that's one of the best things about Harrington's story: Lizzie's actions have consequences and all the relationships she compromises are not repaired by the end of the book.
There's a lot to like about The Goodbye Girls. It's topical, doesn't take any easy outs, and it's a fast, unsentimental read – whether you're in high school or just remember it well.


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If you are a doctor, consider your non-medical friends and relatives
How many of them believe in or have participated in some form of alternative therapy?
80% or even 90% maybe?
Then consider the nurses you know.
How many of them believe in or have participated in some form of alternative therapy?
50 – 60% maybe?
What about the doctors you know – medical practitioners or scientists with say PhDs? How many of them believe in or have used some form of alternative therapy?
5% maybe? 10%? 20%?
Who knows if these figures are correct…. They are just off the cuff. But they feel just about the right percentages for The Witch Doctor's neck of the woods.
What does The Witch Doctor believe regarding alternative therapy?
Well, she swears by The Book of Spells and her Tussie Mussie Garden, and she has dabbled in auto-hypnosis although she has never practiced the technique on patients.
Does that make her a Woo Woo Wibbler?
At the time when it was thought that polyclinics were going to be forced on every English town and city, The Witch Doctor said something along these lines:
"The Witch Doctor has often considered how easy it would be to become a very, very, very rich Witch. Not by using The Book of Spells and The Cauldron, of course, because these are old fashioned, a bit scary, and not politically correct.
No, The Witch Doctor would have a beautifully designed consulting suite in a good area of town or maybe even a few towns, where many clients (not patients) live. The "medicine" would be dispensed in dear, dinky little blue and green miniature bottles that would contain concoctions from her Tussie Mussie garden. She would call them "The Dandelion Remedy" or "The Buttercup Rememdy" or "The Wild Bergamot Remedy," or "The Grape Hyacinth Remedy," This would appeal to the female variety of The Humankind who are rather more crazy than the males when it comes to alternative therapy.
The place would be pristine and there would be fresh flowers everywhere. The Tussie Mussie Garden would be renamed The Peaceful Physic Garden (organic) and clients would be encouraged to wander around in contemplation as part of their therapy.
For good measure, The Witch Doctor would do something most of the alternative practitioners cannot do – throw in a good helping of some sound medicine too when required. And even make a decent diagnosis every now and then. That would put The Witch Doctor's practice, head and shoulders above the other alternative practitioners.
This would ensure her millionaire status.
Most doctors, if they were so inclined could cream off the alternative medicine market for themselves.
But most don't.
Why not? Probably for the same reason that The Witch Doctor is not a rich witch.
It is dishonest, because members of the medical profession are educated in these matters and know better. They know that most of the population at some time or another dabble in woo and they know, understand and may have sympathy for the reasons why. However, this knowledge, understanding and sympathy is no reason for medical practitioners to turn their backs on evidence based medicine in order to gain a quick buck from vulnerable patients, the worried well, or clients.
If doctors become the bed-fellows of the cranks and the Woo Woo Wibblers, then it is the end of medicine as a profession.
And so, when The Witch Doctor's moral compass stopped spinning it pointed 180 degreees away from the Woo pathway.
And that is one reason why medicine has not made The Witch Doctor a rich witch.
And it is one reason why The Witch Doctor is still contemplating whether it is wise to scan the horizon for a husband who is a millionaire.
The Witch Doctor may or may not continue with this story.
A warning:
If she does, it is liable to become serious.
Very serious indeed………
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Help – My dog is stubborn!
Help – My Dog Is Stubborn
By Gordon Banks
Dip CABT (NOCN UK) / CABT SA Practitioner / IMDT
DogtownSA Trainer & Behaviourist
Is your dog really stubborn or are you making some fundamental errors in his training. In most cases it is the latter. When our dog is not performing the way we want him to, the problem can usually be laid squarely at our feet!
Let's look at some of the basic and more easily identified mistakes that we all too often make when training our dogs and at ways we can correct the problem.
Regular reinforcement. Remember, after you have taught a behaviour and your dog is performing that behaviour well on cue, this does not signal the "end of school". The common mistake made here is failure to randomly practice and regularly reward him for following the cue. This lack of practice often results in a shabby or total non-response to a previously well executed behaviour.
So if for example you have taught Spot a sit stay, then give him the cue before giving him his food bowl, going out the gate or if a visitor arrives etc. Most importantly, always reward (reinforce) the behaviour. A simple "good boy" or a "tickle" behind the ear is sufficient but remember to randomly reward him with a nice tasty treat – obviously when making him sit for his dinner the food bowl is a good "reinforcing treat".
Long training sessions. Keeping your dog's attention and focus on you is very important during training so it is imperative that you do not bore him with lengthy training sessions – this is particularly important in puppy training. A number of shorter sessions are far better than one long session. Equally important is to end the training with a good result. As soon as he shows a positive response to the new behaviour you are teaching him, reward and end the session. If he shows signs of disinterest or lack of focus on the training then go back to a behaviour you know he will perform well, reward him and finish. You can start the new behaviour again in the next training session.
"Echo" cues. We are all guilty of doing this! We give our dog's a cue and he fails to obey, possibly due to a distraction or the dog being confused and not understanding what he is required to do. So we repeat the cue a number of times until he finally decides to obey at which time we praise and reward him. This often happens when the original behaviour was not fully reinforced.
A good example is the typical sit cue. The dog is given the "sit" cue but he fails to respond so the cue is repeated – "sit", again no response and again the cue is repeated adding an extra one or two for good measure. The cue now resembles and echo – sit,.. sit,… sit sit sit…… until he finally performs the sit. Inadvertently we have taught the dog that he only needs to sit after hearing the cue five or six times.
A useful tip is to give the cue "sit", wait a moment for a response. If he does not perform the behaviour, take a step towards him. Often this will get the required response from him –immediately praise/reward him.
If the dog consistently fails to respond to the first cue then that particular cue needs to be re-taught and reinforced by making sure that you reward him for peforming the behaviour on the first cue.
Training area. A big mistake we often make is to do our training in only one area. If we only train our dog on the front lawn for example, he quickly learns that the front lawn is the "classroom" where he needs to behave and peform the behaviours . Anywhere else he can do as he likes. Make sure you train him in a variety of locations – all around the house/garden, at the park, while out walking etc. Also remember to randomly practice and reinforce the behaviours you have taught so when he hears a cue he will immediately respond irrespective of what he may be doing at the time.
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With a week left until we are plunged into the dark heart of Election night 2015, LUC recommends that if you must remain engaged in the political process for the next seven days then you should do it through the medium of cinema. Before you go to vote, watch this ace selection of politically flavoured movies, selected as the best by an entirely non-democratic process by our re-education committee earlier today…
Fifth Place: In The Loop
Although it isn't quite up to the level of the series that spawned it, In The Loop is a brilliant, cynical and far too feasible examination of the petty careerists that run things. The overarching thesis that the country is at the whim of a small number of psychotically angry scots could end up to be bizarrely prophetic. In a week or two Sturgeon could be screaming abuse at Miliband and storming out with a "Fuckity Bye".
Fourth Place: Paths Of Glory
Often under-represented in discussions of the Kubrick canon, this bleak portrait of military discipline in the first world war is fantastic both as a literal anti-war film and figurative tale of power and politics. The generals in their chateau are the entitled 1%, lording it over the masses in the trenches doing all the actual fighting. Like certain governments we could mention they use the machinery of social hierarchy and a rigged legal system to keep everyone in line.
You could argue that the character of Colonel Dax, played by a stoic Kirk Douglas, is a kind of tragic proto-Clegg. All his men seem to like him, he certainly acts like he is on their side, but when it comes down to it he is powerless against the aristocratic generals and falls into line.
Third Place: Election
George Orwell created Animal Farm in order to satirise the totalitarianism of the Russian Revolution in a kids book about a bunch of animals. Alexander Payne pulled a similar trick by making this outstanding dark and nihilistic movie about the horrors of politics and corruption masquerading as a high school comedy. Also noteworthy as one of the very few worthwhile things that MTV Films has ever produced, seriously, look at the state of this list.
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Siege of Mafeking: Conclusion February 11, 2014Posted by Jenny in Boer War, history, military history.
Tags: Angus Hamilton, Col. Robert Baden-Powell, Lady Sarah Wilson, Siege of Mafeking, Sol Plaatje
The story of the siege starts here. For background on the causes and major events of the war, go here. To see all the posts in the series, go to the "tag cloud" in the column at right and click on "Siege of Mafeking."
The day after the siege was lifted, the Mafeking garrison turned out for a memorial service at the cemetery. They stood at attention in a hollow square formation as a preacher slowly read the names of those slain in the defense. Three volleys were fired over the graves, the buglers played the "Last Post," and everyone sang the national anthem.
Colonel Baden-Powell dismissed the remnants of his force, passing them in review and addressing them with a few words of thanks. That afternoon Colonel Plumer's column departed to repair the rail line to Bulawayo before heading off to see action in the eastern Transvaal. Colonel Mahon's column remained in town another week, then moved south to join the massive army of Field-Marshall Lord Roberts as it crossed the Vaal and approached Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Far away from this small town on the edge of the Kalahari, celebrations burst out in all parts of the Empire. "MAFEKING RELIEVED" blared the headlines. Parades, fireworks, commotion: the public rejoiced so enthusiastically that a new word was coined to describe the exuberance—"mafficking." The reaction was much more intense than what followed the relief of Ladysmith and Kimberley back in February.
Why the mass hysteria? Two reasons stand out. First of all, the British public had a suitable hero to worship—B-P. Second, the war was finally going the way folks in England had expected. The army of Lord Roberts stood nearly on the doorstep of Pretoria, having marched inexorably across the Orange Free State. With the capture of the Transvaal capital, surely the war would be over quite soon.
B-P's heroic image
The newspapermen in town had filed reports throughout the siege, keeping the public informed about the small garrison's stubborn resistance to the enemy. At the siege's start, a surprising five correspondents were posted in the little town far removed from the main action of the war. (That was reduced to four after a soldier of the garrison murdered one of them in a dispute.)
From their reports the people back home learned of how B-P responded to Boer acts of aggression with the cool-headed politeness valued so highly in Victorian times. For instance, Angus Hamilton of the Times wrote that when the enemy first shelled the town, "Commandant Snyman presented his compliments to Colonel Baden-Powell, and desired to know if, to save further bloodshed, we would now surrender. Colonel Baden-Powell received this message with polite astonishment, and while not telling the deputy of Commandant Snyman that his shell had only spilt the blood of a fowl, and knocked small pieces out of three buildings, replied, that so far as we were concerned, we had not yet begun."*
B-P's calm demeanor intrigued Hamilton: "Outwardly, he maintains an impenetrable screen of self-control, observing with a cynical smile the foibles and caprices of those around him…. He seems to close every argument with a snap, as though the steel manacles of his ambition had checkmated the emotions of the man…. " Hamilton accompanied B-P on one of his nocturnal spying missions into Boer territory: "As he makes his way across our lines the watchful sentry strains his eyes before him, until the undulations of the veld conceal his progress…. He goes on, never faltering, bending for a moment behind some bushes, crawling upon his hands and knees…. In a little while he moves again, his inspection is over, and he either changes to a fresh point or startles some dozing sentry as he slips back into town."
And yet this was a man of peculiar talents. He could draw caricatures simultaneously with left hand and right, sing comic songs, and appear on stage in a wig and a girl's dress. Lady Sarah Wilson observed that in the theatricals B-P assumed different roles with "Fregoli-like rapidity." She was referring to the Italian actor Leopoldo Fregoli, who had entertained London audiences on an 1897 tour with his quick-change act, exiting stage left as a street musician and reappearing moments later as a woman stage right.
But if the town alarm bells happened to ring during such a performance, B-P instantly put aside the masquerade and calmly took charge. Quite an interesting personality: full of earnest patriotic fervor one moment and indulging in whimsy the next. Whatever his contradictions, the important thing for the British public was that B-P had held the town during those long, hard days.
The "glorious" phase of the war
The Empire entered the war October 1899 thinking it would be over by Christmas. But the ragged Boers, with their unkempt beards and dirty hats, proved a tougher foe than expected. They used their deadly Mauser rifles to win a major victory at Ladysmith, and in mid-December the British suffered the crushing Black Week defeats at Stormberg, Magersfontein, and Colenso.
The picture stayed grim in early 1900. General Sir Redvers Buller experienced so many setbacks along the Tugela River that he became known as "Sir Reverse." But shipload after shipload of fresh troops poured into Cape Town and Durban, and Piet Cronje's February 27 defeat at Paardeberg marked a changing of the tide. Lord Roberts' huge army of 30,000 pushed aside the outnumbered commandos that opposed it, steamrolling northeast to capture the Free State capital of Bloemfontein and press on toward Pretoria.
The relief of Mafeking came just two weeks before Roberts captured Johannesburg. Six days later the British flag flew over Pretoria, Paul Kruger and his Government officials fled in a railcar, and it seemed victory had been achieved. Many of the war correspondents went home, never suspecting the war could continue until May 1902.
Two years of guerilla warfare lay ahead. General Lord Kitchener came in to wage war with scorched-earth tactics, burning down the Boer farms, forcing the commandos against barbed-wire fences in gigantic "drives," and putting the women and children into concentration camps. When the Boers finally surrendered, they were wearing grainbags for clothing and subsisting on game and handfuls of plundered corn.
Postscript: Sol Plaatje
The adroit young African Sol Plaatje stopped keeping his diary at the end of March, too busy with his work as a court interpreter and freelancing work he did for the British newspapermen—he had access to information unavailable to the white community.
When the siege ended, town officials paid tribute to the residents of the Stadt. The blacks had contributed much to Mafeking's defense, in organized units such as the "Black Watch" and more informally, as when they prevented Sarel Eloff's men from escaping through the Stadt.
The Africans who'd arrived at the Stadt as refugees to live alongside the resident Baralongs were promised their own farm as a reward, and all were promised protection from the Boers.# But British authorities disarmed them after the siege. The blacks therefore found themselves defenseless against a raid in January 1902, when a party of Boers carried off all their livestock. Meanwhile, the promised farm never materialized.
Mafeking's Civil Commissioner, Charles Bell, commended Plaatje as "a faithful interpreter" and praised the reports he drew up on "the Native situation." This emboldened Plaatje to ask for a raise, and he did receive a small increase in salary. In December 1900 Plaatje went to Cape Town to take a civil service exam, but his ultimate ambitions lay higher. He started a bilingual newspaper, The Bechuana Gazette, aimed at advancing black interests. He became a prominent spokesman for African opinion and went on in 1912 to become the first secretary of the South African National Congress, forerunner of the ANC. But his hopes of equality for blacks were never realized before he died in 1932.
His diary of the siege, contained in a dilapidated leather scrapbook, was given by his grandson to a researcher named John Comaroff in 1969 and first published in 1973.
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*Angus Hamilton, The Siege of Mafeking. London: Methuen & Co., 1900.
#A discussion of Plaatje's later life can be found in Sol T. Plaatje, Mafeking Diary: A Black Man's View of a White Man's War. Edited by John Comaroff with Brian Willan and Andrew Reed. Cambridge, UK: Meridor Books, 1990.
- 1. Gary Howell - February 14, 2014
I enjoy learning a bit about the Boer War. Last year I was helping a grad student from Bulawayo ? now in Zimbabwe. She showed me pictures of the market in her mother's home village. Bulawayo shows up in your narrative as a place to which troops come and go.
One of her stories here was of her roommate, who after being bitten by a dog, went to an emergency room. After the 10 thousand dollar bill, he realized he should have just flown home to Europe and taken a bit of a holiday.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India has successfully test-fired an anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile and shot down a live satellite.
a. Mission Antariksh
b. Mission Khagol
c. Mission Shakti
d. Mission Aakash
- The project named as Mission Shakti was led by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and was aimed at strengthening India's overall security.
Details about Mission Shakti:
- DRDO-developed A-SAT system successfully destroyed a live satellite in the Low Earth Orbit.
- India is only the fourth country after the U.S., Russia and China to have the A-SAT technology.
- The PM Narendra Modi in his address has made clear that the intent of DRDO's "Mission Shakti" is to defend India's space assets and not to start an arms race in space.
- The indigenous development of the A-SAT technology will have many spin-offs that India can exploit for civilian commercial use.
- The test was carried out from the Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam Island launch complex off the coast of Odisha by the DRDO.
- Since the test was done in the lower atmosphere, whatever debris that is generated will decay and fall back onto the earth within weeks.
- Mission Shakti does not violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty of which India is a signatory.
- The treaty prohibits only weapons of mass destruction in outer space, not ordinary weapons.
One must know:
- The ASAT test was not directed against any country.
- India's space capabilities neither threaten any country nor are they directed against anyone.
- But as an added advantage the capability achieved through the anti-satellite missile test provides credible deterrence against threats to our growing space-based assets from long-range missiles and proliferation in the types and numbers of missiles.
Question:Q. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India has successfully test-fired an anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile and shot down a live satellite under which Mission?
a. Mission Antariksh
b. Mission Khagol
c. Mission Shakti
d. Mission Aakash
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This is not an article but rather an honest appraisal for all them Mirage Studioz komix I been writin' about. As much as I continue to like the TMNT comics currently published by Mirage, they don't really hold a candle to the CLASSIC stuff. Even the later comics from the original Mirage era doesn't compare. There are a few things that made the 'classic' Mirage stuff (1980s/very early 1990s) so special but primary among these is the immense attention to detail, largely thanks to the greytones and shading. This technique has still very rarely been used to this day and it really MADE many of these comics.
Most of the issues were pretty long. There was no artificial limit on page numbers like you find in DC or Marvel Comics. Even mainstream comics from 1980s all-stars like Alan Moore and Frank Miller and underground kings like Dave Sim were typically held to specific page counts. In Mirage's case, the stories were as long as they needed to be, sometimes up to 50 pages. Most of the issues were self-contained. This all resulted in single issues feeling like an event. TMNT was never a monthly 22-page comic with a regular creative staff – until 1992.
Another thing that made the classic era Mirage stuff so great was the high level of creativity and freshness. You can just tell while reading these comics that Eastman and Laird were caught up in something much bigger than they ever expected. Their greatest strength was ideas and they just poured out. Then, just when things started to slow down, Eastman and Laird handed over the reigns to other artists. For a couple of years, this worked really well, with many artists presenting wildly varying takes on the TMNT. Some of these issues were complete farces or parodies, even featuring Mad Magazine artists. Now-legendary artist Michael Zulli portrayed the TMNT in a very realistic way, complete with beaks and claws and unhumanlike speech.
I now feel that the sum was much greater than the parts and one of those parts was FRESHNESS and EXCITEMENT. When TMNT Volume 4 started back in 2001 it tricked me. The first couple of issues had a lot of frenetic action and an incredible attention to detail in the greytones but it seems the new freshness wore off quickly because BAM with issue 3 the greytones were scaled back considerably, the pencils became more rushed and the inks rather sloppy. I love Mirage artist Jim Lawson like I love my own child (Park) but his current work doesn't excite me like his stuff from say 1989 did (but hey, at least his style has dramatically evolved unlike so many comic artists). The good thing about the current Tales of the TMNT series is that there's a lot of fresh blood involved – either underrated professionals or soon-to-be estabished up-and-comers. These guys have the freshness but maybe not the style of the CLASSIC issues.
I believe I will compile a list of the really classic Mirage/TMNT stuff. Mirage is actually very slowly posting each issue of TMNT Volume 1 on their site to view for free. Most of the classic Eastman & Laird issues are already up but none of the guest issues are available yet. Here's a sequence for you to eyeball – pages 23, 24, 25 and 29 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #10 from 1987, which came out right as the stupid kids cartoon was hitting the air.
In this sequence, the Foot Clan have beaten Leonardo to a pulp and invaded the building in which April O'Neil lives and operates an antiques store. Casey Jones, familiar at this point only to Raphael, decides to intervene. You may recall that this whole scene made it into the 1990 TMNT movie, but in that version Raphael received the beatdown and Shredder was not present, replaced by a bald geek named General Tatsu. I would like to call attention to the inkng and the tones. Most of these panels appear to have been inked by Eastman. His lines are so harsh and jagged. There are few curves or soft lines. The greytones are not overwhelming still really complete the art. The panels themselves are unique, with jagged, scratchy lines instead of the typical straight lines. I'm surprised more artists don't do this as it's probably easier and doesn't look any worse. Perhaps the strongest aspect of these pages is the general layout. Notice that three of the pages have spaces that are not covered by panels at all. On the last page, there are two panels that Casey Jones spills out of as if he's escaping them. The arrangement of the panels shows real foresight and creativity. Even today, there are very very few artists that work this way. Even the Mirage guys have largely forgotten this art.
related posts:
- Mirage Classics Part I: TMNT Comics by Eastman & Laird 1 of 2
- The History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comics Part I: Mirage Studios (1984-1995)
- Mirage Studios Miscellanea Part 1: Non-TMNT Publications
- The History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comics Part II: The Kids' Stuff – Archie, Welsh, Creators (1988-1997)


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1.I'm loving the #TimesUp movement. It's high time that women stood up for themselves and sexual harassment wasn't an accepted part of a womans life. Perpetrators need to understand that this behaviour will no longer be tolerated and women need to be able to report such behaviour safely without fear of being labelled a liar or losing their job.
Time's Up people. We are women, we are strong and we will not back down. Your days of threatening, harassing and intimidating us are over.
2. I really hope that Australia will get a Time's Up Now fund set up.
3. Tiger bought an X Box this week. I don't think it'll be a good thing. Another screen for the boys to get addicted to.
4. Since the end of last year I've been in declutter mode. The junk room is no longer a junk room, my wardrobe is significantly smaller and I'm constantly getting rid of things I no longer need/use. I've donated four boxes of clothes so far, given away two boxes of baby stuff to a friend and I'm still going. The beauty stash is next.
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On August 3, 2011 Jeff Clark, professional surfer and surf shop owner, had been surfing at the South end of Montara State Beach. It was 9:45 AM and he had been in the water for about 90 minutes. Air and water temperatures were estimated at 57 degrees Fahrenheit. The water was 10 feet deep over a sandy bottom with about 4 feet of visibility. The ocean floor at this location drops off to a depth of 100 feet within ¼ of a mile from shore. The sky was clear with a SW wind at 8 – 10 knots. The ocean swell was 5 feet at 7 – 10 seconds. Marine mammals were observed at Montara, Pescadero and Mavericks outside of the rocks. Clark reported; "I had been surfing for 1 1/2 hours when my leash came off my ankle and I swam in. I decided not to go back out even after I had re-attached my leg rope. Got to the parking lot and was watching the surf when I saw the shark. I saw about 10 feet of the shark's back exposed, out of water. It was very distinctive."
As it turned out, Montara probably wouldn't have been a good choice anyway. With a steady WNW breeze, the exposed beaches were all on their way to being blown out, except for the semi-protected Jetty. After surf-checking other spots in Half Moon Bay, that's where Manabu and I met up. Steve joined us later in the water.
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I was blowing waves at first, but realized that the inch forward on my board had crept into more, and pulled my paddling position back. I ended up with three solid rides before the shivers drove me out of the water. The backside ride in came with a mogul for a second little drop. Low expectations + friends = fun surf!
Surfline: A blend of NW windswell, small SW-SSW Southern Hemi energy and some SSE-S tropical swell has exposures seeing knee-waist high+ surf. Top breaks get occasional sets around chest-shoulder high. Conditions are a bit funky with onshore wind and a full tide, but generall rideable nevertheless. Buoy 46012: (Wave) SWELL: 3.9 ft at 7.7 s NW 63 / WIND WAVE: 5.2 ft at 4.8 s NW / WVHT: 6.6 ft / APD: 5.9 s / MWD: 320° (Met) WSPD: 16 kts / GST: 19 kts / WVHT: 6.6 ft / DPD: 8.0 s / WDIR: 310° / ATMP: 55.8° F / WTMP: 56.5° F. Tide: +/-3'.


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Born in Maputo, the art and culture-rich capital of Mozambique, Albino Mbie is an multi award-winning musician, guitarist, singer, composer, and sound engineer. Fueled by the resourcefulness and determination that have always characterized Mozambicans, Mbie built his first guitar from a 5 liter can of oil, scrap wood, and electric cords -- at the tender age of 16. Drawn to the street music of his native Maputo, Mbie soon started playing with bands in the local scene.
Aditya Prakash
Aditya Prakash is an award-winning, American-born Indian classical vocalist best known for his powerful and emotive voice. Although firmly rooted in South Indian classical (Carnatic) music, his style is heavily inspired by North Indian classical music, Sufi music, Western classical, jazz, flamenco, and hip hop, which he brings out in his collaborative projects. While pursuing his ethnomusicology degree at UCLA, Aditya studied composition under award-winning jazz musician, Tamir Hendlemen, and Hindustani vocal under Ustaad Shujaat Khan. Both forms greatly inform his present musical style. Aditya has worked in cross-over genre music, touring and performing throughout the USA, Europe and Canada as lead vocalist with Anoushka Shankar, Karsh Kale, Salim Merchant and MIDIval Punditz. Aditya is the founder of performing groups Aditya Prakash Ensemble and J.A.S.S. Quartet which create original compositions inspired from the styles of Indian classical, folk, jazz, funk, blues and hip hop. Aditya regularly composes for acclaimed dancer Mythili Prakash's productions, the most recent of which was MARA, amongst other collaborative music projects.
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Streetlight Cadence is an alternative folk pop quartet. Jonathon (violin), Jesse (accordion), Brian (cello) and Ben (guitar, drums) began as street performers in 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii, playing for tourists while earning grocery money as college students. The band had a strong desire to stand out from other music groups, thus Streetlight Cadence has always moved towards unique instrumentation and arrangements in their music. The group takes inspiration from and has been described as a cross between Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers and One Direction. In addition, the classical instruments, family-friendly brand and storytelling-songwriting style attracts older audiences, making Streetlight Cadence a group enjoyed by people of all ages. Jonathon, Jesse, Brian and Ben can be described as fun-loving, energetic and demonstrate an enormous love for music and friendship in their live performances.


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Digi and PETRONAS Dagangan (PDB) have inked a comprehensive, exclusive digital partnership to combine marketing and rewards programmes, as well as explore touch-points to digitise and enhance benefits to businesses and customers.
This partnership strengthens Digi's network of 15,000 customer touch-points and enables PDB to offer a wider range of services to Malaysians who patronise their stations. PDB's spokesperson declined to reveal the monetary value of the partnership when asked by A+M.
As part of the partnership, there will be a cross-marketing collaboration between Digi's intelligence commercial fleet tracking solution iFleet and PDB's corporate fleet card programme, PETRONAS SmartPay. Digi will also subscribe to PETRONAS SmartPay exclusively for its fleet management solution, providing it greater convenience, savings and value monthly.
Plans are also underway to look into the reward programmes of both partners and explore ways in which customers and subscribers of both programmes can benefit. This is expected to activate further into the partnership in H2 2018.
Meanwhile, consumers will be able to enjoy selected services such as subscribing to a Digi line or credit reload at more than 200 PETRONAS stations in Klang Valley, providing added convenience to customers. Digi pop-up booths will also be set up at selected PETRONAS stations to make it more convenient for motorists who wish to perform the selected services. Additionally, Malaysians can also make payment with the e-wallet app vcash at PETRONAS stations nationwide.
Aadrin Azly, PDB's head of retail business division, said the partnership will not only improve the customer experience at its petrol stations, but also aid in its own digitisation efforts as it strives to bring more digital products and services to consumers.


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"Turtles Can Fly" is the third feature film that Bahman Ghobadi, a Kurdish director from Iran, has made about the suffering and resilience of his people, who have the bad luck to live spread across the often volatile borders of several nation-states, including Turkey and Iraq.
While the status of the Kurdish nation remains perilous, Mr. Ghobadi has set out to give the Kurds a national cinema, and to bring their traditions and their language, as well as their troubles, to the attention of global audiences.
His new film arrives garlanded with awards from international film festivals. Like its predecessors -- "A Time for Drunken Horses" and "Marooned in Iraq" (also known as "Songs of My Motherland") -- it presents a harsh account of war, displacement and deprivation that is saved from utter bleakness by a tough, earthy lyricism. Like many other Iranian filmmakers, Mr. Ghobadi often uses children in his movies, for their guilelessness and vulnerability, and also because they are scrappy, stubborn and naturally funny. Adults are fairly peripheral in the world of "Turtles Can Fly," which is set in a mountainside village in Iraq that incorporates a swelling refugee camp. The time is early 2003, and the villagers wait, with a mixture of hope and trepidation, for the Second Gulf War to begin, and try to find news of its arrival. The chronology makes it a kind of sequel to "Marooned in Iraq," which took place just after the Persian Gulf war of 1991, when Saddam Hussein attacked the Kurds after his defeat by the American-led coalition. The war-weary Kurds in this film, foreseeing the end of Mr. Hussein's rule, also worry the American invasion will bring a new round of violence.
Mr. Ghobadi filmed "Turtles" in Iraqi Kurdistan shortly after the end of major combat was declared, and he appears agnostic about whether the American intervention will improve daily life. Daily life, in any case, interests him more than politics, and his camera pushes through scenes of bustle and confusion, looking for moments of clarity. The people in the film, meanwhile, are impatiently searching for information. Among the first images we see is a hallucinatory vista of makeshift antennas propped up in a field, like lightning rods or windmills. Atop one of them is a lanky, nerdy boy, with oversize glasses and a backward baseball cap, whose nickname is Satellite (Soran Ebrahim). He is the village's main source of technical know-how, and later he lives up to his name by acquiring a dish that allows the local elders to peruse "prohibited channels" full of music videos before settling on Fox News, which Satellite pretends to translate for them. He serves as the de facto mayor of the local children, many of them orphans, who gather spent artillery shells and defused land mines to sell in the nearby town. Satellite's best friend has been maimed by a mine, as has Satellite's new rival, a boy who has lost his arms and who shows up one day with his sister and a baby whose parentage is mysterious.
The hardships these children have faced are horrifying, and Mr. Ghobadi neither sweetens nor sensationalizes them, which makes "Turtles Can Fly" all the more painful to watch. It is a heartbreaking film, and cruelty sometimes seems to be not only its subject but its method. Like the child on a high cliff that is one of its recurring images, the film walks up to the edge of hopelessness and pauses there, waiting to see what happens next.
'Turtles Can Fly' Opens today in New York and Los Angeles.
Written (in Kurdish, with English subtitles), produced and directed by Bahman Ghobadi; director of photography, Shahriar Assadi; edited by Moustafa Khergheposh-Hayedeh Safiyari; music by Housein Alizadeh; released by IFC Films. At the Lincoln Plaza, Broadway at 62nd Street. Running time: 93 minutes. This film is not rated.
WITH: Avaz Latif (Agrin), Soran Ebrahim (Satellite), Saddam Hossein Feysal (Pasheo), Hiresh Feysal Rahman (Hangao), Abdol Rahman Karim (Rega) and Ajil Zibari (Shirko).


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The Last Mortal Bond
Book 3 of the Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne
by Brian Staveley
Part of me is at a loss for words as I struggle to describe how fantastic this book (and series) is yet the other part wants to gibber madly in a futile attempt at it. To put it succinctly, this book was excellent!
The story picks up almost a year after The Providence of Fire. So as a reader, there's a bit of disorientation as we try to understand what all has transpired between books. At first I found it frustrating that so much had been skipped, but I later realized that had Brian tried to fill in that gap with actual story-telling, the final book would have probably been split in two. And honestly, most things that transpired in that period probably would have slowed the overall pace down.
Instead, in just a few short chapters, Brian masterfully tells us what all has transpired in the lives of each character and in the world around them. Some of the backstory was a bit of a shock, others teased at additional, future plot twists, and others took glimmers of hope I had and doused them with cold water. He then spends the rest of the 800+ pages taking us on a rollercoaster of events. Things you had believed to be true become suspect by a single question being asked. Good, heroic characters are morphed into broken, twisted people by a series of inevitable choices, and villians become victims before becoming self-sacrificing heroes.
When their father called them his Blades in his battle against the Csestriim, Valyn, Adare, and Kaden were untempered steel. And in book 1, they were obviously young adults, making young adult decisions. But by the time of book 3, the steel has been tempered. The Blades have been put to use. They've been bloodied, broken, mended, sharpened, and used. In the past books, they've been wielded by others, but in this book, they each come to a point where they make a decision to wield themselves. I have to say that the character development in this book is absolutely phenomenal. As I look at the arc of each character and see how they have matured and changed, I am simply amazed. These are truly three-dimensional characters. The characters at the end of The Last Mortal Bond are not the same characters from the beginning of The Emperor's Blades. They've grown and adapted, and the voice Brian gives to each of them reflects that!
I will definitely be reading this series again….and probably again after that. It is giving fierce competition for my favorite fantasy series, and for good reason!
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For our office in Luxembourg, we are currently looking for a Junior Application Support Engineer.
We offer a young, dynamic, and international corporate atmosphere as well as the benefit of customized training adapted to your needs throughout your career.
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The successful candidate will focus on providing support to internal stakeholders, on several applications, including in-house made.
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