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Athens, the capital of Greece, is located in the south of the country on the Mediterranean Sea and is the country's most populated and largest city. Piraeus, the country's main port, is just few kilometres from the city.
The urban area of Athens (Greater Athens) is divided into the regional districts of Athens Centre (87.3 km²), Athens North (138.79 km²), Athens South (68.9 km²), Athens West (66.8 km²) and Piraeus (50.4 km²) with almost 4 million inhabitants. The municipality of Athens in the centre of the metropolitan area is relatively small and counts only about 665,000 inhabitants.
Athens is one of the oldest cities in Europe, as the city was continuously inhabited since the Neolithic Age, i.e. since about 4,400 B.C. Athens is regarded as the cradle of democracy and was the centre of ancient Greece, which was an influential culture and a world power in its time. Architectural monuments from the 5th century B.C. shape the image of the city centre. These include, for example, the Acropolis, a city fortress on a temple mount with its ancient Parthenon columned temple.
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Chuck & Buck (2000)
★★★ / ★★★★
Charlie (Chris Weitz) receives a letter informing him that his childhood best friend's mother has passed away. Even though Charlie has not seen Buck (Mike White) for over fifteen years, Charlie, along with his fiancée, Carlyn (Beth Colt), attends the funeral out of respect. However, things turns awkward very quickly when Buck, who seems fixated on acting like a child, gropes Chuck in the restroom sexually when the latter offers an embrace of comfort.
Written by Mike White, it is difficult what to make of "Chuck & Buck" because although humor runs through its veins, it is highly likely that the events that are happening are rooted in a childhood sexual trauma so intense, one of its participants does not know how to make sense of it and therefore unable to make a life for himself. It is easy and convenient to label Buck as weirdo, a walking request for a restraining order. After all, who withdraws all of his money, uproots his life, moves to Los Angeles, and lives in a motel just so he can spy on and stalk someone he believes to be his best friend?
White fits the role like a glove because his natural appearance of vulnerability balances nicely with his character's occasional off-kilter behavior. And while there are times when I was scared for Chuck and Caryln's safety, at the same time I could not help but care about Buck. I was concerned for him not because he acts like a child or he is deserving of pity but due to the fact that during a handful of scenes, we have a chance to understand that he means well.
Since his actions are almost always determined by patterns, the wrong person might stumble upon what he is up to, make a cursory judgment, and take action without the necessary background information. Partly, we wait for this character to be sent to jail or left for dead in a ditch.
Eventually, Buck decides to write and put on a play, in a theater directly in front of Chuck's workplace, with hopes that the images will trigger Chuck's memory and inspire him to want to be around Buck like when they were eleven years old. Buck hires Beverly (Lupe Ontiveros), the theater attendant, to cast and direct his play. Their relationship is arguably the heart of the picture. It is expertly executed because even though Beverly is initially motivated by good pay, a series of small but important scenes allow us to feel her passion for the work as well as the person who put the material on paper.
I appreciated that Buck and Beverly's interactions are able to reach a fluidity and realism to them as would two strangers who want to get to know each other further for the positive things they can offer to one another. Conversely, the scenes that Buck and Carlyn share could have had more depth. While Caryln is likable, admirable even, because of her patience, there are times when I was bored by her. It seems like the script does not want her to come off as "mean." But there is a difference between mean and practical. If someone keeps calling your phone every fifteen minutes and when you answer, he just hangs up, wouldn't you feel compelled to alert the proper authorities?
"Chuck & Buck," directed by Miguel Arteta, is ultimately about healing. It feels genuine because it is unafraid to shed light on the ugliness that one must to go through to take a step forward toward self-esteem and security. It is an uncomfortable experience at times but sometimes so is the struggle in moving on.
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Overview: Work overload
In preparing for the battle for Turn 7, I decided that the workload I was going through was just too much. Here's a brief outline of the workload I've gone through for AdEva.
First year
- Create one Angel and a map
- Have time to run mock battles a few times to finetune threat
- Total time: About 2-3 hours a week
Second to Fourth Year
- Create several enemy units, often Angelspawn or Superheavies
- Create several allied units, primarily a few Evangelions
- Accidentally give everyone too much XP, so go and make new talents
- Make maps, but no more mock battles
- Total time: about 4-5 hours a week, reducing over time
Fifth Year: Grand Campaign
- Create Events and Battlefronts and Investigations
- Create dozens of enemy units (Dysangelions, Superheavies, etc)
- Create dozens of allied units (Evangelions, Superheavies, Hordes)
- Create multiple maps
- Run battles over several weeks
- Periodically update talents
- Redo weapons and upgrades several times
- Total time: About 30 hours a week
Recent Cuts
- Reduce battles to 1
- Use Investigations etc to take more weight
- Still creating dozens of everything
- Battle still gonna take forever
- Total time: Still about 25-30 hours a week
At present, it's still taking a huge amount of time to accomplish basically anything in AdEva. I can set up a Campaign Turn easily enough, with a few events, some Investigations and a few Battlefronts, they can be handled pretty easily. But battles take huge efforts to prepare and take forever to run. We shouldn't be running battles once every few months.
Because of this I'm proposing pretty drastic action designed to make the game easier to mechanically wrangle. They are based on several rationales but the three most important are how easily understood the issue is, how long it takes me to do it and how annoying it is to actually do it.
Change One: Superheavy Simplification
Rationale: Superheavies may be the most miserable mechanical element for me, the GM, right now. Each battle uses a good dozen of them, and each one requires to be statted up to 20,000 XP and have a full Superheavy unit kitted out. I actually think the Superheavy mech stuff works well but right now I hate looking at it because of how much time it takes to put one together.
Proposed Changes:
- With a few exceptions, all Superheavy pilots will be set to run on a standard template which decides their talents, skills and characteristics.
- The Superheavy mech stuff will be unchanged, but instead the pilots will be equipped with 'standard configuration' Superheavies.
- Potentially, a 'training' option might be used where CP is spent to add a talent/skill to the existing templates.
- SOS will be exempt from this, but hopefully their burden will be lessened as well.
Change Two: Upgrade Simplification
Rationale: Upgrades are cool, but not when you have to stat six to twelve constructs every turn. For this I have a proposed change that reduces the workload by a great deal and also completely cuts out XP purchases on Upgrade Points.
Proposed Changes:
- Upgrade Points are gone. You can't buy Upgrades one by one. Saves a lot of XP.
- Instead, Upgrades are bought faction wide, bought with either CP, Reserves or Research.
- Example: Federation buys the Strength 4 Eva Upgrade. All Evangelions now receive the Strength 4 upgrade.
- This means that most units automatically have a list of Upgrades they have (instead of buying them individually), but still have some level of customisation, eg. Picking 4 types of special armour or Superheavy modules.
Change Three: Battle Simplification
Rationale: Remember when I reduced battles from 3 to 1? I then decided to make the one battle a little bigger than a normal battle, but smaller than 3 battles. It's still too much.
Proposed Changes:
- Battles are reduced in scope even further.
- Optimally, a battle will have 1 capital ship, 2 superheavy Hordes, 3 Evas and 3 Superheavies per side, potentially one extra Eva or Superheavy depending.
Change Four: Advances (talents etc) Simplification
Rationale: There are a lot of Advances. A basic count suggests we have around 47 skill/proficiency talents, 120 combat talents, 80 or so Personal talents, 100 Specialist talents and 104 Metaphysical ones for a total of 450 or so talents. AT Power wise there's probably around 65 or so basic ones and another 15 or so Angelic ones. We have probably 20 Formations and another bunch of Tactics. That's a whole lot to keep track of, basically. Throughout this campaign, powers and talents have been flat-out forgotten and I can't really say I blame anyone for that. Apart from making sheets unwieldy, so many talents means forgetting stuff is easier and actually making purchases is harder (i.e. checking details, analysis paralysis). It also means less work if/when I have to update things.
Proposed Changes:
- Talent lists are cut back, either merging some, or removing those that aren't being used.
- Instead of there being Weapon Proficiency (Melee, Bolt, Flame, General) etc, it's now just Weapon Proficiency (Melee, Pistol, Basic, Heavy).
- AT Powers are similarly merged and placed into a more organic system of buying 'sets' of powers instead of buying each one piecemeal
- Formations may be okay.
- Tactics are troubling because we don't have many Hordes anymore and I don't plan for big mass battles that use a lot of them to be a thing either. Tactics may be reduced massively.
Change Five: Career and XP Simplification
Rationale: Current XP levels are at 40,200 for 'main' characters like Eva pilots, Raphael, and ODs. For Auxiliaries it's at 20,200. Simply put: Statting people on 40,000 XP is hugely time-consuming and pretty fiddly as well. Of course, huge XP curves is a big part of why I began tinkering with the game in the first place by putting in new talents and the like.
Proposed Changes:
- Everyone who uses XP has their XP cut back to 15,000. This means there's no more Auxiliaries or whatever, either.
- Backgrounds are simplified: there's no more separate Auxiliary backgrounds either, everyone uses the same set.
- Assets and Drawbacks no longer cost XP. You get a few points at startup to buy Assets, and you can purchase Drawbacks to boost those points.
- Careers are simplified by having all purchases divided into Basic, Advanced and Elite; all talents are also organised as such. All purchases at Basic cost 100 XP, Advanced cost 200 XP, Elite cost 300 XP. This also has the effect of making a lot of things cheaper too.
- Buying Characteristic upgrades is also made cheaper.
- You can still choose Secondaries.


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Venezuela has just taken the next step in its quest to "free" itself from the tyranny of US dollar hegemony. One year after the country said it would stop accepting US dollars as payment for its (ever shrinking) oil exports (saying the country's state-run oil company would accept payment in yuan instead), Venezuelan Vice President for Economy Tareck El Aissami said Tuesday that Venezuela will officially purge the dollar from its exchange market in favor of euros.
While we're sure that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro would love to frame this as his latest gesture of defiance against tyrannical imperialist overreach by Washington, which he has blamed for aggravating the country's humanitarian crisis by waging an "economic war" against the oil-rich nation, remember that the US effectively blocked the Venezuelan government from transacting in dollars last year when it imposed restrictive sanctions on the Maduro regime and the country's state-run oil company, PDVSA. Maduro started the process of moving the country's DICOM system of official tiered exchange rates in September 2017 when he declared that Venezuela would use a "new system of international payments."
"Venezuela is going to implement a new system of international payments and will create a basket of currencies to free us from the dollar," Maduro said in an hours-long address to a new legislative superbody, without providing details of the new mechanism.
"If they pursue us with the dollar, we'll use the Russian ruble, the yuan, yen, the Indian rupee, the euro," Maduro declared.
The sanctions have largely excluded Venezuela from international capital markets and the US dollar-based financial system, forcing Maduro's regime to rely on money-for-oil loans extended by China.
Maduro and many senior members of his government have been personally singled out for sanctions by the Treasury Department, a punishment that Maduro has called "an honor."
To help seed the Venezuelan financial system with euros, the country's cash-strapped central bank is planning to auction 2 billion euros some time between November and December.
The American "financial blockade" of Venezuela affects both the country's public and private sectors, including pharmacy and agriculture, and shows "just how far the imperialism can go in its madness," the vice president said.
Venezuela's floating exchange rate system, Dicom, "will be operating in euro, yuan or any other convertible currency and will allow the foreign exchange market to use any other convertible currency," El Aissami said.
The vice president added that all private banks in Venezuela are obliged to participate in the Dicom bidding system.
Even if it's insignificant relative to Russia and China's plans to create an alternative global financial system based on rubles and the yuan, this move is one more blow against US dollar hegemony, and one more step into the open arms of China, which has helped keep Maduro's teetering regime afloat in the face of an assassination attempt and an aborted US-backed coup.


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The City of Rosario is one step closer to having a state-of-the-art indoor arena to host major concerts, sporting events and the growing number of major conferences and expos that Argentine cities are playing host to annually.
Impulso Negocios says the absence of such a facility was long viewed as a competitive disadvantage for Rosario compared to cities like Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Mendoza, so construction was approved on Thursday with little opposition.
The new US$18 million arena will be able to accommodate 14,000 spectators in a variety of seating configurations for concerts and sporting events like basketball, boxing and tennis matches. The building will also be able to accommodate cars, harvesters and large machinery which opens the door for hosting more agricultural and industrial expos.
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The Ithacan has been named a gold medalist for the fall 2007 and spring 2008 semesters in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's annual college newspaper critique.
Each year the CSPA evaluates member papers on overall content, news, depth reporting, features, opinion/editorial, sports, arts/entertainment, editing/headline writing and design/graphics on the basis of more than 150 specific criteria.
This year the newspaper's scores on the critique's 1,000 point scale were 948 for fall and 948 for spring.
The CSPA consistently ranks The Ithacan as a gold medalist, its highest category.
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We are a welcoming and inclusive junior school located in the village of Denmead, north of Waterlooville, Hampshire and the majority of our children come from Denmead and the surrounding area.
For 2019-2020, our 314 children will be organised into 11 classes; 6 classes in the lower school of year 3 and 4 mixed and 5 classes in the upper school of year 5 and 6 mixed.
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Maximum Maximumble for 2013
Posted on January 8, 2014 at 1:04 pm by Chris
It's always fun to take a look at what you all liked the most. Here's what you liked to click on last year!
10. Thunder
Parenting is easy.
9. Bespin
Finally, the truth is revealed.
8. Fluid
It's important to pay attention.
7. Literally
Literally the best comic I will ever write.
6. Spew
Time is of the essence.
5. Refresh
Is the glass half-full or are we all going to die anyway?
4. Chivalry
Courtesy is dangerous.
3. Fedora
Magic, it is not.
2. Boredom
A child's logic is infallible.
1. Punch
Be careful what you wish for.
What was your favorite? Did it make the list?Tags
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I couldn't manage to pick only one favorite… however, number 10 in your list did make it to my heart… oh, yeah!!
562 – Face. That's my favorite one. I still roar with laughter every time I see it.
I'd somehow missed Chivalry, so thank the stars for year-end best-of lists! Yeah, not a phrase I'd ever expected to type…
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PQC: The assault on cryprocurrencies and the Bitcoin has turned into such a kind of "silly nasty" that any "expert", any government official can say anything about the Bitcoin…If you are confused, you are excused. That's exactly what the assault is all about.
IMHO, If you are a bitcoinner, now it's a good time to collect some more Bitcoin into your Wallet.
Bitcoin either will be the common global medium of exchange or it will be useless and perished by the time the 21 millions bitcoins is reached. The people and the market will decide its fate. Bitcoin cannot be an asset if it does not have an exchange value, or in monetary term, "store of value". Thus any "currency" that does not circulate as a medium of exchange, it will be dead! for it does not store of values at all. Period.
Think about this, Bitcoinners!
Bitcoin to go mainstream & return to its roots as cryptocurrency – expert
Talking to RT on the sidelines of the Davos Economic Forum, he said bitcoin is "no more a passing fad than the Internet was a passing fad."
Over time cryptocurrencies will be "used like credit and debit cards, like payments from PayNow or Alipay. It is very different from what people used to imagine, things always keep changing," Papermaster said.
Bitcoin certainly has the opportunity to be treated like a currency, the entrepreneur said, adding it will "become mainstream in 3-4 years."
The digital currency will be part of how you do any type of purchasing, an everyday thing for an investment vehicle in the next couple of years.
"I think it will be part of the mix of how you invest, how you buy or pay for things. Just over time it will change," Papermaster said.
According to him, it will take time for the regulators, different countries and different financial systems to get used to the prospect of a new type of currency but it "happened many times before and it will happen this time as well."
Talking about bitcoin's price prospects for 2018, the expert said it will go up and down many times and will be tremendously volatile while it's still a new form of asset class. "So, it's only a matter of where it ends up by the end of the year. But I think the overall trend is that there's a lot of capital moving in this market, and fundamentally it will be up."
The founder of Nano, which includes artificial intelligence, has advised investors to look at the cryptocurrencies that are backed by very sound real businesses.
"Wherever you have real value, over time it will be reflected in the underlying investment vehicle. In this case a cryptocurrency backed by building real value will go up," he said.
Bitcoin could hit $50,000 this year & such volatility is normal, expert tells RT
Singh has been operating in the cryptocurrency space for the past 6 years and claims it is common for virtual currencies to fluctuate by 70 – 80 percent or even more.
At the moment there's a speculative bubble in the cryptocurrency market because those who "got there at very late stages are losing money." But it doesn't bother those who've been there for a very long time because they are used to the volatility, Singh explained.
"If you look at Microsoft or Apple when they went public their stocks were very volatile because the market wasn't mature," he said.
Currently cryptocurrencies are used more like a store of value, Singh said, adding that people tend to hold currencies which are deflationary and have more value over time. "There are not so many vendors right now who accept cryptocurrencies but there's huge adoption on the black market." In countries which have huge inflation like Indonesia and Thailand, people are now accepting cryptocurrencies. There's also a high rate of adoption among coffee and tobacco farmers.
"In different countries bitcoin is qualified differently," he said. It is a commodity in the US, a currency in Switzerland "but to me it's more than a currency."
Singh predicted "bitcoin could definitely see $50,000 in 2018" despite the fact that "we will probably go through a suffering period of volatility."
1-Major payment system dumps bitcoin, says it fails as currency
"Over the past year or two, as block size limits have been reached, bitcoin has evolved to become better-suited to being an asset than being a means of exchange," the company said in a statement.
Stripe was the first among major payment systems to support bitcoin, the company noted, and was hoping that bitcoin could become a real alternative in places where credit cards are not widely used.
"Transaction confirmation times have risen substantially; this, in turn, has led to an increase in the failure rate of transactions denominated in fiat currencies. Furthermore, fees have risen a great deal. For a regular bitcoin transaction, a fee of tens of US dollars is common, making bitcoin transactions about as expensive as bank wires," the company stated.
This has led to a steady decline in demand for bitcoin among businesses that are ready to pay and accept payment in bitcoin rather than trade it, Stripe said. The company will stop working with bitcoin from April 23.
READ MORE: Bitcoin becoming hyper-inflated asset but fails to rival US dollar as currency
Stripe added that it remains bullish on cryptocurrencies, naming the most promising projects, including Lightning, OmiseGO, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin. The company will probably include Stellar cryptocurrency in the list of services it provides.
Gaming company Steam dumped bitcoin payments for similar reasons in December.
In 2017, bitcoin's price surged from under $1,000 to $20,000 at one point in December. It has fallen back to around $10,000 this month.
US Fed will kill bitcoin eventually, investor warns
"The currency itself isn't a great medium of exchange, it's not a great store of value. It has a fixed amount so the Fed would have to kill it at some point because they wouldn't be able to engage in monetary policy," Chiavarone said in an interview with CNBC. "But blockchain behind it, we think is more real than people are giving it credit."
Banks have admitted that blockchain can improve the efficiency of clearing and settlement, make cross-border payments faster and cheaper, significantly cut red tape and modernize customer identification systems.
According to Chiavarone, the cryptocurrency market is dominated by greed, and it is the first sign of greed since the economic crisis of 2008, dubbed the 'Great Recession.'
"Investors wanted to be on the roller coaster in the '90s. They wanted high returns. They didn't mind volatility," Chiavarone said.
"The Great Recession put the fear in a lot of folks and they wanted to go on the merry-go-round. Folks really want to get on that risk trade."
Bitcoin could follow the fate of Pets.com – one of the biggest dotcoms to crash when the tech bubble burst in early 2000s, Chiavarone said.
The cryptocurrency market was growing on Wednesday, with bitcoin trading above $11,000. All digital currencies from Coinmarketcap's top 20, and 87 out of the top 100, were gaining after two days of losses.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have fallen as much as 50 percent this year, as investors were scared off by news of crackdowns in China and South Korea. Some analysts say investors just wanted to cash in after prices soared due to the mainstream success of cryptocurrencies.
'I'm coming for you Crypto': May makes a beeline for bitcoin
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister May warned about the dangers of cryptocurrencies… while hardly giving the clear impression that she actually understands the tech at all.
"I think in areas like cryptocurrencies like bitcoin we should be looking at these very seriously precisely because of the way they can be used, particularly by criminals," May said.
"It is something that has been developing. I think it is something that we do need to look at."
In a separate speech, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond reiterated the Prime Minister's reservations about the cryptocurrency, calling for caution and regulation.
"I am interested in bitcoin. The Bank of England, as you know, among the central banks, has been leading on looking at bitcoin," he said.
"Look, it is a very interesting, new development. I think we should be cautious about bitcoin.
"And possibly, we do need to look at the way we regulate this environment before the amount of outstanding bitcoin becomes large enough to be systemically important in the global economy.
"It's not there yet, but it could get there soon.
"What is really important is that in regulating cryptocurrencies, we don't inadvertently constrain the potential of the technology that underlies it, the blockchain technology, which has a wider and more important application."
Following the comments by May and Hammond on Thursday the price of bitcoin plunged, dropping £1,100 ($1,567) in only a day.
It wasn't just bitcoin that the Davos duo have their eyes set on. Theresa May took a swipe at tech companies that she feels should be building back-doors for the government to allow them access to the encrypted messages of criminals.
@theresa_may Bitcoin & cryptocurrency are here if you like it or not. Go on, attack bitcoin & put Britain behind the rest of the world. This country used to innovate and lead. Now it it just restricts and regulates. Sad.
— mauritiusgold (@mauritius_gold) January 26, 2018
"Technology companies still need to do more in stepping up to their responsibilities for dealing with harmful and illegal online activity," May said.
"Companies simply cannot stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern slavery or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.
"These companies have some of the best brains in the world. They must focus their brightest and best on meeting these fundamental social responsibilities."
The agenda is you want people to use cards more than cash and this helps it..Then you will get rid of cash and it will be replaced something like bitcoin that you parasites can control..
— Philip Wright 🇬🇧 (@redphil250505) January 13, 2018
"And just as these big companies need to step up, so we also need cross-industry responses because smaller platforms can quickly become home to criminals and terrorists," May added.
"We have seen that happen with Telegram. And we need to see more co-operation from smaller platforms like this. No-one wants to be known as 'the terrorists' platform' or the first choice app for pedophiles."
What May doesn't seem to comprehend is that software with end-to-end encryption cannot be decoded, even by the app developer. Governments therefore fear that such software can be used by extremists to plot attacks on Western targets without tipping off the intelligence agencies… but on the plus side, it is definitely a safe way to send nudes.
Perth Mint, Australia's largest gold refiner, has announced plans for the development a cryptocurrency backed by physical gold. If successful in developing the altcoin, it will join a long list of virtual currencies seeking to entice cryptocurrency investors to experiment with commodity-backed virtual currencies, including Venezuela's soon to be launched 'petro'.
Also Read: Venezuela Considers Selling Its "Oil-Backed" Cryptocurrency With a 60% Discount
Australian Gold Refinery to Develop Cryptocurrency
The chief executive of Perth Mint, Richard Hayes, states that the company has identified a significant opportunity in "bring[ing] investors back to precious metals after a boom in alternative investments such as cryptocurrencies," the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports.
"I think as the world moves through times of increasing uncertainty, you're seeing people look for alternate offerings," Mr. Hayes stated, adding "And you're seeing this massive flow of funds into the likes of Bitcoin at the moment because people are looking for something outside of the traditional investments."
Perth Mint CEO Claims Metal-Based Crypto Potentially Offers Price Stability
Mr. Hayes explained Perth Mint's decision to develop a gold-backed cryptocurrency, emphasizing the purported benefits of using distributed ledger technology for fast and efficient settlement, whilst potentially affording the cryptocurrency greater price stability than unbacked virtual currencies. The CEO stated that "us[ing] precious metals to back something […] allied to blockchain […] retains its intrinsic value," adding that unbacked cryptocurrencies "rely on everyone believing that there's something behind it."
"With a crypto-gold or a crypto-precious metals offering, what you will see is that gold is actually backing it," Mr. Hayes stated. "So it will have all the benefits of something that is on a distributed ledger that settles very, very quickly, that is easy to trade, but is actually backed by precious metals, so there is actually something behind it, something backing it."
Commodity-Backed Cryptocurrencies Proliferate
If successful in launching the cryptocurrency, Perth Mint's altcoin will join a long list of virtual currencies purporting to be backed by gold. Last year, the initial coin offering (ICO) for Onegram – a purportedly Shariah-compliant, gold-backed, cryptocurrency – garnered significant international media attention for what the company hoped would be a more than $500 million USD token-sale.
At the closure of the first phase of the ICO, Onegram only saw the sale of 16,926 of the 12,400,786 Onegramcoins (OGC) that the company had hoped to sell – comprising less than 0.14% of the company's goal. Presently, Onegram claims that the platform is still in development, and has given its investors the option to resell their OGC for a meager 25% return should they wish to liquidate their holdings.
Venezuela also recently announced that it will launch a commodity-backed cryptocurrency, the 'petro' – a national cryptocurrency purportedly backed by 5 billion barrels of Venezuelan crude oil. In recent weeks, Venezuelan officials have urged neighboring countries to adopt the cryptocurrency. At present, it appears as though the Venezuelan government will seek to sell the crypto in "private placements at a discount of up to 60 percent," with the sale set to start of February 15.
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2018 NACGC/W Scholastic All-American
2018 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
Will miss the 2019 season after suffering an Achilles injury in training at the end of her freshman season.
Did not compete all season … Suffered an Achilles injury prior to NCAA Championships … Named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.
Finished in the top-15 on floor at the J.O. Level 10 Nationals in 2016 … Also finished first in the state on floor and in the all-around in 2016 … Owned multiple top-10 finishes at Region 8 championships on floor and vault … Was a member of the National Honor Society and maintained a 4.0 GPA at Mandeville High School.
Full name is Olivia Colleen Gunter … Born Nov. 16, 1998 … Daughter of Lucien and Colleen Gunter … Has two brothers, Trent and Ethan … Chose LSU because she grew up in Louisiana and knew it was where she belonged … Majoring in mass communication.


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Normally when we think of our dream house, the typical fairytale cottage comes to mind with a beautiful entrance, gorgeous architecture, wood and lots of plants, trees and colourful flowers.
This is not so far from reality however! In fact, today at homify we are going to show you 10 homes straight out of the fairytales, we hope will inspire you to add a little magic to your house.
The key to achieving this end result is to use suitable materials such as wood, bricks or tiles for the facade. Another important element is the right choice of colours, which preferably need to be warm colours or pastel colours. This will illuminate every detail of the entrance.
Lastly, a fundamental requirement is to add a touch of greenery. Plants, trees, flowers and grass play a very big role with it comes to a wonderful, fairytale home.
Without further ado, let's begin our magical tour!
This is a very quaint and understated country cottage that gets it charm in the form of the details incorporated throughout.
The wrought-iron staircase brings a gorgeous touch to the facade, working in harmony with the peach-coloured patterned stone paving and cream walls. The dark wood used for the window frames add a homely touch – just like a fairytale.
If you really want to enhance your facade and add a bit of fairytale charm, add some vibrant colour to it. You can paint the front door a gorgeous colour or the window frames or shutters. This will illuminate the natural tones used throughout the rest of the facade, but will ensure that your home sticks out.
It will be the most charming house on the block!
In this design, by professionals Monica Khanna Designs, we can see how a touch of Balinese style can create a home that looks like it comes out of the Arabian Nights!
Framed by a very exotic and tropical looking garden, this home is absolutely exquisite. The dark wood featured throughout the facade works in harmony with the greenery around it.
If you like this style, you may also be interested in it for your interior design. Have a look at this modern living room with an Asian touch.
Tiling always makes for a very cozy country style. They are also a great material to use because they are durable and last in all weather conditions.
The key to a charming home is the materials that you use. In this design, we can see how the reddish tiles complete the look of this home perfectly.
If there is anything that reminds us of a fairytale house, it is the use of wood.
If you open up any fairytale, you'll find a wooden house featured in it! Why? Because it is a very simple material that is incredibly aesthetically pleasing.
It also naturally insulates the interior and makes the facade look very cozy.
In this design, we can see how a wooden facade works in harmony with the garden too!
You don't have to go for a traditional or typical piece of architecture when it comes to your fairytale home. Why not go for something quite out of the ordinary?
A house can take on all sorts of innovative and unique designs, creating a home that is incredibly attractive and eye-catching as well as cutting-edge.
In this design, we can see how the unusual shape of the roof creates a gorgeous piece of architecture that would turn any head!
Thatch houses also feature in many fairytales including the Three Little Pigs and other stories by Brothers Grimm.
The brick slabs and thatch roof create a distinctly country look and feel, while each detail in the design from the outdoor furniture to the shape of the windows serve to enhance this design.
Thatch is also a wonderful and budget-friendly material to use for the roof of a home. Perhaps this straw-roofed home with all the cozy comforts will inspire you.
What more could you ask for?
If the environment works in your favour, setting the tone for a fairytale home, then all that you need to do is incorporate your home into the surrounds.
These designers built a gorgeous red log cabin that utilizes the surrounding views and landscapes. This creates a very impressive yet small home that looks like it belongs in a real fairytale.
If wood and thatch aren't your favorite materials, go for stone. Stone will create the impression of a castle-like home that is safe, homely and protected.
In this design, by Paola Rebellato Architects, we can see how much fun can be had with stone. You can create turrets and pathways that give a home a very striking effect.
This last design looks like the fairy godmother made all of the residents' dreams come true!
This house not only has characteristics of a cozy cottage, but it also incorporates some modern and contemporary details that place it right here in the 21st century.
Don't you love how the one wall is made entirely from glass?
If you've enjoyed this ideabook, you'll love looking at this family's rustic fantasy home.


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Fit content proportionally
When making a mask with a image, it would be great if there was an option for auto fill the object to the frame proportionally. Like the feature in indesign. There you have different options (screenshot, its dutch hope you guys know what I mean).
The shortcut I use a lot is Fit Content Proportionally when I change the size of a shape.
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Camille commented
I agree, we need a tool like in InDesign.
to be able to switch the content from a grid to fit in the space instead of fill it.
because sometimes the content we want to use can be cropped because of that.
If you drag an image (from Finder or other app) onto a shape in XD, then resizing that shape will indeed fit to the object proportionately.
Are you creating a mask in a different way, maybe? Currently masks created manually don't resize the image to fill the mask -- maybe that's what you're seeing?


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Liv Boeree Age, Net Worth, Bio, Family & Education
Liv Boeree is a British poker player, television presenter, speaker & writer. She was conceived on 18 July 1984 (age 35)in Kent, England. Her full name is Olivia Boeree and nickname is "The Iron Maiden". Her family background is not disclosed on any platforms. She has studied at Ashford School before going on to earn a First Class Honors degree in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.
How much is Liv Boeree Net worth(Salary, Earning) in 2019?
There is no uncertainty that Liv has amassed tremendous total net worth from her inclining career in the poker business. She has effectively collected a total net worth in millions. The payrolls that she got as a TV moderator and as a writer helped her to increase the value of her wealth.
Poker player and a reality star Liv Boeree has expected the total net worth of $4 million dollars from her ability in a poker game. She is a standout amongst the best female poker players, and obviously, a standout amongst the best of constantly. She has earned over $3,500,000 USD from the live competition and she is still dynamic in the poker world.
Who is Liv Boeree boyfriend (Spouse/Affairs/Relationship) in 2019?
It's undeniable to have a joyful love life when your boyfriend is a keeper. Liv is super because of the nearness of Igor Kurganov (age 30) as her sweetheart and partner. Her conceivable future spouse Igor is a Russian professional poker player with whom Liv won the 2017 World Series of Poker bracelets in the $10,000 Tag Team occasion.
The lovey-dovey pair started dating in 2014 and is going more grounded than any time in recent memory following four years of dating. All things considered, they are so smitten in love, which is clear in the photos that Liv shares on her Instagram account.
Liv Boeree Body Measurements
Body measurements are:-
|34-24-36 (Bust-Waist-Hip) Inches
|5 Ft 3 Inch
|55 Kg
|Eye Color
|Hair Color
|Light Brown
|Shoe Size
|Dress Size
Liv Boeree Hobbies, Net Worth, & Boyfriend
Some favorite things are:-
|Drawing, Travelling, Climbing, and Shopping
|Doing Good Better by William MacAskill.
|Inspiration for Travel
|Her father and stepmother
|Music Band
|Infected Mushroom
|Metal and Electronic Music
|Places to Travel
|Rosemary Ravioli
|Net Worth
|$ 4 Million
|Igor Kurganov
Liv's Career as Poker Star
Her poker vocation started from the Ultimate Poker Showdown in 2005. She has earned $3 million from live competitions and her greatest live success is $1,698,300. Alongside her accomplice, Igor Kurganov, they won the champion occasion for $273,964 at the World Series of Poker 2017. On 21st August 2010, she turned into the champ of European Poker Tour event in Sanremo with a bunch of $1,675,260. She is the only female player in history to hold both titles.
Boeree was acquainted with the poker business when she was chosen as one of five participants for the reality television show Ultimatepoker.com Showdown, which broadcasted on Five in autumn 2005. During the show, she was instructed by top poker players Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke, and Dave Ulliott.
Read another Poker Star is Sara Chafak Net Worth
She is a three-time champion of the Globel Poker Index
Boeree is a three-time champion of the Global Poker Index European Female Player of the year in 2014, 2015 and 2016 and as of now sits at #5 on the female all-time live poker rewards list. On May 2008, she won the 2008 Ladbrokes European Ladies Championships for $30,000.
Boeree has been a part of Team PokerStars Pro since September 2010. As of August 2017, her entire live competition rewards surpass $3,500,000. In February 2016, she was declared as the Team Manager of the Global Poker League group "The London Royals".
Liv Boeree Poker Girl as an actress and host
English-brought into the world expert poker player additionally had a profession as a reality tv character and host, showing up on such programs as UK and Ireland Poker Tour and Golden Balls. She is an actress, known for AMS Secrets (2019), National Heads-Up Poker Championship (2011) and A Jester's Tale (2006).
Liv as Speaker
Boeree gave her first TEDx Talk at TEDxManchester in February 2018 on the advantages of speculation in probabilities. After one month she talked at the TED 2018 Conference in Vancouver during their debut "TED Unplugged" session. Her thesis was "Three Life Lessons from the Poker Table".
Boeree showed up as a visitor speaker at Oxford University Union in May 2016, Jesus College, Cambridge in February 2017, the Cheltenham Science Festival in June 2016, Websummit Dublin in Nov 2015 and Effective Altruism Global, Google HQ in San Francisco Aug 2015.
Liv as a Writer
Boeree has written various articles and assessment pieces on different scientific and rationality points. Her productions incorporate a Vox.com article talking about the philosophical ramifications of Future of Humanity Institute's 2018 Paper "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox", a Vice Media article on a found crystalline example in prime numbers and an opinion piece in The Independent on the significance of rational thinking classes in standard instruction.
As of January 2017, Raising for Effective Giving has raised over $6,000,000 for its bolstered foundations. Boeree has raised worries about potential dangers from the improvement of artificial intelligence and supports explore that is aimed at safe AI advancement.
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Hyper about the Sabbath? Sound a little paradoxical?
Yeah, that would be me.
For years, I've thought about the Sabbath and how to honor one of the most glorious and self-rewarding of all the Ten Commandments. By the way, it's the longest because God figured that people would always try to wiggle out of it because it seems like one most want to get around.
Here it is:
"Remember the Sabbath(P) day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,(Q) 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath(R) to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth,(S) the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested(T) on the seventh day.(U) Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." Exodus 20:8-11
Getting back to my idea of honoring the Sabbath and keeping it holy. I really have tried to mellow out on Sundays (my sabbath). I try not to go to stores. Yet, I go to restaurants, which by being open on Sundays, require their employees and themselves to break the Sabbath by working on it. But, by trying to relax and not cook, I cause others to break the Sabbath by sitting down to their tempting panini.
Sunday is garbage night, so I prepare it for early Monday morning. And that's when it happens. One thing leads to another and I find myself shuffling a few things around on the porch while gathering garbage. Then I see a few dead branches on the lawn and the pool needs some chlorine and why not organize the closet because I never get to it during the week and before you know it, it's five o'clock and I'm tired and I missed the chance at that true Sabbath rest.
No, it's not like that all the time. I'm simply trying to explain how easily it is to cross the line of resting in God and sneaking in just a little bit more of personal effort. Resting is psychological. It's acceding that I can't possibly stay on top of everything. It gets back to obeying a command by Someone who can stay on top of it all. The minute we mentally "take over" for God by our endless efforts to clean, conduct business, study, catch up on our sports, and yes, even minister to others in a lot of cases, we do more than break a command. We miss the blessing of rest – exactly like a kid who just won't lay down for his nap.
So, on my most recent Sabbath, I actually found a hammer in my hand and heard the nails going into the wall. But the real pounding was my guilty conscience as it tried to dismiss that it was only two nails. I finally gave into the Sabbath. A tremendous storm then arose outside and as it swept by, I watched an incredible rainbow form. But hyper-me wanted to sit down with the scriptures because it was the Sabbath. But, right in front of me, this intense rainbow kept screaming at me, "For crying out loud, sit down. I am part of your Sabbath TODAY. Rest. Enjoy the rich color and the archway of my glory."
There are all sorts of mind-games we play and the real solution is to rest. The Sabbath will honor us with this much needed rest when we honor her. I finally sat down and simply enjoyed a double rainbow that would have rivaled any I've seen in Hawaii.
Can you imagine any of us slamming the door on the face of a travel agent who knocks on our front door and hands us a couple of free plane tickets and hotel and food vouchers for Maui in our most vulnerable, weary moment? Yet, we turn down a vacation every seven days that is so sacred that God literally had to etch it into a stone because he knew our hearts can be as hard as the rock it was written on.
No, don't bother calling me for my special recipe on the "Secrets of the Sabbath." I haven't discovered it. But I am discovering it. The Sabbath will honor those who honor her. She will take you on a restful ride. She literally unfolds herself like a picnic blanket and adds all the goodies as well. But we have to take the first step.
The first step for me was to acknowledge that this is as important as not committing adultery or murdering someone or having an idol in my life.
God knows why rest is such a critical battle. It's the difference between me "handling" life on my own and "releasing" my life, even if it's just one day a week because it becomes a type or pattern for the rest of my calendar.
Yesterday wasn't a total blowout. I worshipped at church, visited my father-in-law at the nursing home, ate lunch at our daughter's, had dinner with our son and his girlfriend, wrestled with my grandson (not at all restful), and yes, watched the Giants get beaten in a heartbreaker at my daughter and son-in-law's house. It was a good Sabbath.
Ironically, a good Sabbath takes
work; I mean effort.
15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath.(V) Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day. 16 People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath(W) to the people of Judah.17 I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing—desecrating the Sabbath day? 18 Didn't your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city?(X) Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath."(Y)
19 When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath,(Z) I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day. 20 Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem. 21 But I warned them and said, "Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you." From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath. 22 Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.
Remember(AA) me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.
Nehemiah 13:15-22


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TON vs SEC: What Is Telegram's Next Move?
Posted on Monday October 14, 2019
Coinspeaker TON vs SEC: What Is Telegram's Next Move?In an interesting but not entirely surprising turn of events, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked Telegram to halt issuance of its forthcoming GRAM tokens. In a press release dated Oct. 11, the Commission said that it had already "filed an emergency action"
Binance Coin is the Biggest Winner From a Week of Slight Gains
Posted on Monday October 14, 2019
Investors are starting the week with a mix between optimism and doubt. Last week, bitcoin started trading at $7905 and managed to climb all the way up to $8470. At press time, bitcoin is trading at $8310. Most cryptocurrencies are reporting very mild gains, mostly within the range of 1-2%. Without a doubt, the biggest


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Why Writing is so Much Fun!
Writing is fun and those who are doing content writing can surely relate. Writers are imaginative people who possess the ability to pen down their thoughts.
Writers might sound boring to you if you talk to them but in reality they are creative, witty and funny. They observe more than other people do, they are more analytical, and intellectual. Why do I say more intellectual, because they read and write a lot, and yes reading do gives us knowledge and knowledge is power.
Have you ever spoken to a professional ghostwriter? if you have, you would surely know how much wisdom they possess. They produce tons of content for clients and businesses and in return earn handsome amount of money, for producing such content they have to keep their-self updated with book reading or reading of any form. Why do they prefer to keep them self anonymous or you can say ghost? Well, its their choice and that's a different debate for some other day.
Is Writing a Responsibility
Writers know exactly what to talk about and how to keep the users engaged. They know where to pitch the product, or where to start the humor part. They understand reader psyche so in a way you can also call them psychiatrist. There is no doubt writers earn a lot and they have the power of words to influence masses, and at the same time if they write for a newspaper in politics or religion they can cause a lot of trouble with wrong choices of words.
Writing is Fun and Lucrative Industry Period!
If you really want to pursue your career in it than this is really the best industry to step in, having said that you would only succeed if you know how to write well. There is no point in opting this career if you have any doubt you can't go that long in this, or you cant picture yourself as a successful writer after 10 years in this market.


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Mike Astbury is a freelance English teacher working in Brno, in the Czech Republic. He's been making games longer than he's been teaching and is passionate about making effective teaching materials with a focus on learners' needs. So, he's written an article for us, where he combines his love of games with phrasal verbs!
This low preparation game is designed to help students practise a language structure with micro-writing, and create memorable sentences and pictures that reinforce its meaning. In this example I'm looking at phrasal verbs with an upper-intermediate (B2) class but it's highly adaptable and could be used with a variety of vocabulary or grammar.
You need some small pieces of paper, big enough for a single sentence. I use a guillotine to chop up some A4 paper as shown below:
You also need a piece of A4 paper for each student. I always use scrap paper since it doesn't matter if there's something printed on the back.
My class is looking at phrasal verbs with take, give, get and put. I start by writing these on the board and giving students three minutes, working in pairs, to think of as many phrasal verbs as they can that start with these verbs.
We then do a quick board race; I give a few board pens out to the class and they have three minutes to add any participles that fit. Students write a single word, then pass the pen to the next student. When they're finished, I ask them to discuss the phrasal verbs on the board in groups of three and categorise them in terms of how confident they are with using them – from 5, 'very confident', to 1, 'I don't know it'.
This preparation stage isn't strictly necessary to play the game but I would use something like this to quickly check my students' knowledge of, and confidence with, the target language. While students are talking I monitor, interject and give examples where necessary. I also make sure to elicit multiple meanings, such as "take off", which could refer to a plane, removing clothes or a career.
How to play
Students work in pairs, and each pair is given eight small pieces of paper. They are asked to work together and write eight sentences using the phrasal verbs on the board. They shouldn't use phrasal verbs that they rated as 1 or 5 in the preparation stage. When students are writing sentences they need to follow a set of rules. These rules give the sentences a relatable context and help make the sentences interesting to draw for the drawing stage (which students aren't aware of yet).
Here are some examples of rules I've used in the past. You can use any variations of these and make them more or less challenging depending on your class.
- Include at least 10 words
- Include an animal acting like a person
- Include an unusual location
You could also relate the sentences to a topic you're covering at the time, for example: 'every sentence needs to be about the worst holiday ever' if your class are studying tourism.
Monitor and support students while they write, assisting and eliciting corrections where necessary. Ideally every group should finish with eight sentences, but once every group has at least six sentences you can move onto the next step.
Hand each student a piece of A4 paper and ask them to fold it in half twice, and then unfold it, so that it is divided into four equal parts. Then, still working in pairs, they shuffle their sentences and take one each. Students have to quickly draw their sentence in one corner of their A4 page. Once they have both drawn their picture, they reveal them to each other and they have to guess which sentence inspired the drawing.
When they're guessing they should try to be as close to the original sentence as possible. This round is challenging, but achievable since they only have to remember their own eight sentences and even a terrible drawing should help them recall the sentence.
They keep playing until they have each drawn four pictures and they've used all of their sentences.
Follow up
Once every group has finished, they collect their eight sentences and shuffle them. Then each pair passes their sentences and pictures clockwise to the next group so that everyone has a new set of sentences and pictures. Now, each pair has to work together to match their new sentences to their corresponding pictures. This should be pretty quick, and when a pair has finished they pass them along to the next group so that all of the sentences and pictures work their way around the room.
This is a fun way for students to see everyone else's work, be exposed to a lot of memorable language and get some useful context for phrasal verbs they may not be familiar with.
Finally, when the pictures are returned to the students who drew them, students should pass the pictures but keep the sentences. Then, when students are looking at their own pictures, they have to work together to remember their own sentences and write them next to the pictures. When they're done, they can collect the sentences and check their answers.
Collect in the sentences for feedback and corrections next lesson.
Visit Mike's website, Teaching Games EFL, for many more classroom activities. If you want to play some games that include drawing, Mike recommends I wish and Monikers (a.k.a. Celebrities)!
If you found this article interesting, you might also enjoy Michael McCarthy's post where he questions why we should teach phrasal verbs. If you need guidance with phrasal verbs, our in Use series will be able to help!


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Take a moment to go inward, opening to a vision of your life as yet unexperienced, a vision for something born of pure wisdom of one who knows nothing, a vision that awaits the simple, quiet act of becoming absolutely still in the complete presence of love. Seek only to find perfect stillness, remaining in quiet gratitude. For […]
Appreciate the amazing magnificence of all that you are and all you were put here on the planet to do.
You are not trying to be any one else, you are living your life as an expression of love for who and what you were put on the planet to do. This breath represents the fullness of all that you are, every cell of your being alive and awake to who and what makes your heart beat down to the cellular level ingrained in the codes of your DNA.
Love. Yourself. With wild abandon and cherish the moods and rhythms of your sacred sounds. There is only one of you. Complete and healed and whole and in full possession of unending joy, peace, love and presence of self.
Experience all of you and say Thanks God for who you are.
Exactly as you are.
Take your authentic loving self into the world and celebrate each step, each encounter and each expression of your truest self, fully revealed and alive and awake in each moment.
If you get hung up on any part of remembering to love who you are, ask yourself the beautiful question "Why Not take all of me?" and enjoy Willie Nelson singing All of Me a song written in 1931 in a decidedly different era…
Why Not? What do you have to lose? Why not take a chance on accepting yourself and your way of being as perfectly perfect.
Why not?
We never know why we are made a certain way. Who's to say one quality you consider a hindrance isn't the key to your path through. You never know how the gifts you have been given will be received and to what affect. All you can do is give your gifts freely and openly.
In talking to reporters when Walt Disney opened Disney Land he shared, "It's something that will never be finished, something I can keep developing and adding to. It will get more beautiful eve-ry year. And it will get better as I find out what the public likes." The happiest place on earth was built on the spirit of work in progress where adventure unfolded and imagination flourished and the never ending process was cherished.
I gladly give up my fear
I move into eternal joy
Standing in the truth
Balanced and at peace
Returned to full awareness
Celebrating my life
Let my heart rise and flow
expanding through my breath
In its ever radiating glow
Restore my blissful self to its rightful seat
In Love
Inviting my heart space
to unlock the treasure chest of recognition
Prospering in all ways and means
Revealing what is already mine
In service to my magnificence
Striking a tune the likes of which emanates from my soul
The hum of which cascades ever forward
Gently with force
Exploding the crucible of my being
Once crucified and crushed
In Harmony
With Infinite Love and Gratitude


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Monaco: What You Missed
Four meeting records, five world leads and, of course, one glittering world record in the women's mile. It was a stunning evening at the Stade Louis II in Monaco, and one worth watching again even if you didn't miss it.
For those who did, we have your back. From Hassan's heroics to Lisek's brilliance via a chaotic men's 400m, here is everything you missed as the Road to the Final hit the Cote d'Azur this weekend.
Noah Lyles narrowly missed out on victory again in the men's 100m as he came in just a hundredth of a second behind compatriot Justin Gatlin. Lyles remained all smiles despite the defeat, as well he might with 15 points to his name and a place in the Diamond League Final very much in sight.
The same is now true of women's 200m Diamond Trophy holder Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who came into Monaco without any points at all on the board, and under pressure to deliver against the likes of Elaine Thompson, Dafne Schippers and Marie-Josée Ta Lou. She did so with aplomb, clocking a season's best of 22.09 as she sailed ahead of the rest of the field on the home straight.
Miller-Uibo's compatriot Steven Gardiner looked equally cool as he strolled to victory in the men's 400m. His unflappability was particularly impressive after the chaos which had preceded his victory. A handful of athletes failed to hear the klaxon after an initial false start, meaning that young Barbadian Jonathan Jones ran a full race on his own, without realising that it would all count for nothing. A terrible shame for Jones, but one from which we are certain he will bounce back.
Kendra Harrison also recorded her best mark of the season, running 12.43 to win the women's 100m hurdles. Despite two victories so far, Harrison is still yet to qualify in what is a fiercely contested battle to reach the Diamond League final.
It is the same story in the women's 400m hurdles, where fellow American Sydney McLaughlin ran a world-leading 53.32 to pick up her second victory on the Road to the Final. McLaughlin remains just sixth in the standings, but it would be a brave individual who would bet against her making the final.
In the field events, Christian Taylor launched his campaign to regain the Diamond Trophy with an impressive meeting record of 17.82m in the men's triple jump. His victory followed a surprise defeat for Caterine Ibargüen - a six-time Diamond Trophy winner like Taylor - in the women's event the night before.
Diamond Trophy holder Andreas Hofmann booked his place in the final with victory in the men's javelin, but it was pole vaulter Piotr Lisek who really stole the show on the infield.
Lisek, who cleared the six-metre mark outdoors for the first time on his way to a fabulous victory in Lausanne last week, went a centimetre higher this time around, clearing 6.02m at the first attempt to set a new national record, meeting record and world lead.
There was yet another meeting record in the men's 800m, as Nijel Amos hurtled down the home straight in the way only he can to clinch victory in 1:41.89 ahead of Kenya's Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich.
Amos' exploits, though, were not even the most impressive performance in the middle distance races. That accolade, and without doubt the performance of the week, goes to the equally unique Sifan Hassan.
Performance of the week
Asked about the mile world record in the pre-meeting press conference, Hassan gave a knowing grin and attempted to play down the fact that she was eyeing the mark. As it turned out, she needn't have done so, for the Dutch star exploded around the track to clock a new world record of 4:12.33.


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Once the gorgeous Fall season is done, so is our regular busy season. As we are primarily wedding photographers, our off-season starts up basically when winter starts to show up and we have far fewer weddings. But it is always such a nice treat to be able to wrap up our busy season by giving back and supporting one of the many wonderful charities in the area, Make-A-Wish Eastern Ontario, by capturing their annual 3 Wishes Gala.
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Event Photography, Ottawa Conference & Event Centre: Make-A-Wish, Eleventh Annual 3 Wishes Gala, Sneak Peek
If you check out our posts on a regular basis you will know that we love supporting Make-A-Wish Eastern Ontario and have been fortunate enough to cover several of their events and granted wishes over the last (almost) 2 years. We love each and every one of of their events so much, but the 3 Wishes Gala definitely holds a special place on our calendar each year.
Event Photography, Ottawa Conference & Event Centre: Make-A-Wish, 10th Annual 3 Wishes Gala
If there is one thing I have learned while covering weddings and events, it is that events like these don't just plan themselves. There is a lot of time, thought and energy behind that one gorgeous day or night and when it comes to a charity event, it definitely takes an extra special breed of person to be able to pull it off.
Event Photography, Ottawa Conference & Event Centre: Make-A-Wish, 10th Annual 3 Wishes Gala, Sneak Peek
We have been so lucky this year to be a part of Make-A-Wish events already: Wine for Wishes, the 4 Four wishes event and of course, Griffin's wish come true. All three of these were absolute amazing. And being able to capture a wish as definitely one of the highlights of our year, without a doubt.
And just to make sure our year was even more remarkable than it already was thanks to this amazing charity, they asked us to be part of the 10th Annual 3 Wishes Gala!!


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Apoptygma Berzerk (commonly abbreviated to APB or APOP) is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synth pop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop".
Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia.
Apoptygma Berzerk has toured Europe, North America, South America, Israel and Australia with bands such as VNV Nation, Beborn Beton, Icon of Coil and Unheilig.Harmonizer has been described by fellow bandmember Geir Bratland as Stephan's most personal album. Many of the lyrics were heavily influenced by Stephan's divorce with his ex-wife Cathrine and the relationship with their daughter Iben. Stylistically, the album has been described is a highly polished blend of EBM, electronic dance music and synthpop. Harmonizer did well on the German charts, the album's singles "Suffer in Silence", "Until the End of the World" and "Unicorn" fared well on the charts.
This version is the deluxe re-issue from 2008, with all bonus-songs as Side D, vinyl is beautiful gatefold-LP with two heavy vinyls and printed inserts !!!
Recommended if You Like: Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, VNV Nation, Wolfsheim, W_mpsc_t


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The cornerstone of any business community is its chamber of commerce.
It is often the starting point for new residents to get to know an area and serves as the epicenter of intersection for entrepreneurs. The Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce goes even further in the role it plays because of the unique makeup of the county. It is charged with promoting civic and economic progress, but also bringing together stakeholders from the civilian and military communities. Overall, the professional organization exists to make the area prime real estate for starting and growing entrepreneurial dreams in Eastern North Carolina.
1. Increases the bottom line
At the helm of these efforts is Laurette Leagon. She was named president of the Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce five years ago after working in the western part of the state. She says her team's top priority is fueling business.
"It's our job — as a chamber — to make business cash registers ring. So, anytime that a different project or a different issue comes up, that's always in the forefront of my mind. Will this benefit the businesses in Onslow County?" she said.
Chamber team members work as spokespeople for its 800-plus membership base keeping the public apprised of products and services. Members also receive support through education, events, and networking opportunities.
2. A collaborator for citizens
Even though the chamber is a driver of business, it also advances conversation. Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce has a platform to inform the public on important issues facing the community concerning education, politics, and health. Leagon sees these topics as critical to the state of the county.
"We do have certain things that the chamber does that I consider quality-of-life issues. One of them is definitely the Forum Onslows — whether it's for the elections or whether it's the opioid crisis, and things behind the gates, we do one occasionally with the base and it gives an in-depth look at what's going on there," Leagon explained.
Throughout the year, the chamber holds several signature events, like the Oysterfest, Engaged Onslow Bridal Expo, Trades Day, and Business Expo. All events are open to the public.
Leagon adds that events like the annual Christmas Holiday Parade increase morale in the area for the thousands of attendees each year.
3. Advocate for business owners
Membership to the chamber alone does not guarantee success. You get out of it what you put into it, Leagon says, which is why it offers a number of opportunities to step outside of those business walls and engage. From the Ambassadors Club, which welcomes new members, to the Small Business Committee, members have several options to choose to apply for. The specialized committees meet on initiatives relevant to their members.
Plus, the chamber stretches its reach far outside Onslow County through the Governmental Affairs Committee. Legislative matters that happen in the state can help or hurt the livelihood of local businesses, leading this committee to lend a voice to local, state, and national-level issues.
The county's current demographic makes it a great place to do business. With a younger, growing population, Onslow County has become a robust location to attract business growth. That factor, in turn, has helped it evolve into a regional shopping destination, Leagon says. By adding chamber membership to the company's portfolio, she adds it lends a certain status to the business in the eye of consumers.
"It's almost like it's a good housekeeping seal of approval when you can say you're a chamber member," she said.
To learn more about the Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce membership, events, and committees, go to http://www.jacksonvilleonline.org.


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Report calls for a working group to be established to give architects better access to data on cities and people
The government could help to radically improve the design of buildings and public spaces by making data from the planning process more accessible, a report from the RIBA and Arup claims.
The report, published yesterday (Wednesday), calls for a working group to be established to "digitise the planning process". It is one of several measures that the report's authors argue could improve architects' work by providing better access to data on cities and people.
RIBA president Stephen Hodder said: "Lots of the data is available and already being collected, so why aren't more architects taking advantage of it? We need the government to ensure this data is harnessed by local authorities and made available."


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Craig A. Hart is the creator of the Shelby Alexander Thriller Series.
This week, I'm reading Serenity, the first book in the Shelby Alexander Thriller series by Craig A. Hart.
Serenity is described as 'an action-packed read with a lovingly rendered cast, witty dialogue, and a main character who doesn't know when to quit.'
Sounds a bit like Sam Dyke. I wonder how different Shelby Alexander will prove to be. Given that this series is by an American writer, and set in Serenity, Michigan, I expect Shelby will be brasher than Yorkshireman Sam. I'll let you know in my review.
Craig's also the author of Becoming Moon, which is a coming-of-age story about a young man struggling to be himself amid pressure from a repressive family. Following his dream of becoming a writer, he turns from everything he knows, and enters adulthood embittered, angry, and resentful. As he struggles to make a name for himself, he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Although it requires a betrayal of his principles as an artist, he resigns himself to what appears to be fate. The compromise brings money and recognition, but these are fleeting and he soon finds himself caught in a web of depression and financial hardship
You can find out more about Craig and his book at www.craigahart.com


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"Some ideas take more than twenty years to form," sings Nathan Raymond at the hook of "Car in Neutral," track four of Board Games' most recent EP Fruitfly. It's a song about the endless deliberations that come with having a whole life to plan for. Without a career or a confident way forward, every decision feels weighted, "like a little kid worried about whether or not he'll let go of his balloon."
But even while we deliberate and worry, life progresses in the short term, and we end up following a path forward before realizing how it defines us. Fruitfly is about looking in retrospect at the process of growing up, which seems to ignore what we actually strive for at any given time.
It's odd that I get this interpretation more from the guitar than from the lyrics, but Raymond's playing lays out the groundwork of every song. It's his flitty, fingerpicked, string-bending style that defines the album; too messy to call graceful, but there's a nimbleness in his hopscotch melody-rhythms, one that could only have developed from hours and years of practice.
Raymond plays like he's trying to broadcast a thought he hasn't fully worked out in his mind. You can tell his thinking is brilliant, but either he isn't able or he doesn't care enough to fully articulate the idea.
But this is all metaphorical, of course. Obviously his songs must've been rehearsed, and not just spontaneously performed on the recordings. The bass guitar and drums on Fruitfly were performed by Evan Kelley, and in contrast with the guitar, sound choppy and deliberate, like each hit was planned. Kelley plays complementary rhythms to Raymond's parts, as if he's trying to provide some basis to his guitarist's eccentricities.
The planned rigidity of Kelley's playing versus the spontaneous fluidity of Raymond's: one tries to fit a structure around the other, and one seems naturally bound to allude easily discernible melody or rhythm. The songs on this EP are songs about making plans versus what actually happens day-to-day. "Baseball" looks back at how we don't all "grow to be baseball players and astronauts," despite how it might have once seemed. "Car in Neutral" looks to the future, realizing it'll occur despite any sort of planning. It all gives way to spontaneity and everyday moments. – Tom Stevens
For more info on Board Games, visit: www.facebook.com/boardgamesband


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The video is based on one of my drawing diaries and on my participation in the Ayahuasca ceremony. Ayahuasca is an entheogenic brew used in the ceremony and made out of Banisteriopsis caapi vine and other ingredients. The brew is used as traditional spiritual medicine in ceremonies among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin. In the video I scroll through the pages of abstract drawings in the book and recite my psychedelic group experience. The narrative and the patterns in the drawings mimic human inter-dependency and explore the significance of belonging to a group versus individualism.
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Relax and recharge all year round in our self-catered accommodation nestled within beautiful, landscaped grounds. Or enjoy our summer campground (open Oct - Apr) with family-sized sites for tents or motorhome travellers, immaculate facilities and a tranquil haven for those wishing to enjoy a unique seaside camping experience.
Flaxmill's function venue makes an ideal setting for destination conferences, weddings or milestone celebrations and our location is a convenient base from which to explore the stunning scenery and highlights of the Mercury Bay region.


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19 Almont Rd (Bathurst & Wilson)
Price: $1,069,900
Status: For Sale
- Tax: $5,102 (2020)
- Community:Clanton Park
- City:Toronto
- Type:Residential
- Style:Detached (Bungalow)
- Beds:2+1
- Bath:2
- Basement:Apartment (Sep Entrance)
- Garage:Attached (1 Space)
- Age:51-99 Years Old
- InteriorFireplace
- ExteriorBrick
- HeatingForced Air, Gas
- Sewer/Water SystemsSewers, Municipal
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Amazing Opportunity To Renovate, Build Or Invest In This Great Lot In The Heart Of The Clanton Park Neighbourhood. Property Is For Sale With Plans And Permits To Build A Custom Home, So You Can Begin Construction Right Away. Plans For New Approximately 3200 Sq Ft, 4 Bedroom/ 5 Bathroom Home With Large Principal Rooms And Great Family Friendly Layout On Large Lot With Huge Pool Size Backyard. Walk To Schools, Parks, Shopping, Restaurants, Ttc And More
2 Fridges, 2 Stoves, Washer/Dryer, Propane Bbq, Wood Burning Fireplace, All Electric Light Fixtures. Hot Water Tank Is Rental. Property & All Chattels Being Sold In As-Is Condition. Measurements To Be Verified By Buyer's Agent.
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Are chromodoris willani poisonous?
And if yes, what can be done to treat it?
Normally when people think of the word slug, they think of something slimy and undesirable, but that's not the case when it comes to the underwater world. Nudibranchs, kind of like a sea slug, come in virtually every color and combination of colors and are extremely beautiful. Although most of the time they are quite small, they are so awesome that this makes up for what they lack in size. Here are 10 pretty cool things you might not know about nudibranchs.
- Nudibranch comes from the Latin word 'nudus' and the Greek word 'brankhia,' meaning 'naked' and 'gills' respectively. This makes sense because the little flower-type protrusions on the back of the nudibranch are the exposed (naked) gills.
- There are over 3,000 species of nudibranchs, from very shallow to depths of 2,500m. They are found in tropical and temperate seas as well as Antarctica, although they are most common in the shallows.
- Some nudibranchs are poisonous while others pretend to be poisonous, which is evident by their vibrant colors. They feed on stinging cells of hydrozoids and store them in the rear of their body for protection. They can also ingest toxins from sponges and become toxic and inedible. Some nudibranchs even produce their own chemicals. Baby frogfish have taken advantage of this and mimic nudibranchs when they are small and vulnerable. Way to go, nudibranchs!
- At least two species of nudibranchs can actually make sounds that are audible to humans! A scientist in 1884 reported sounds from two species in an aquarium that sounded like wire tapping the side of a jar, repeated at intervals. It is unknown whether these sounds are for defense, attracting a mate, or other reasons.
- Nudibranchs are hermaphrodites! That's right, each one is simultaneously a male and a female – they possess reproductive organs of both sexes. While mating they fertilize each other, although a nudibranch cannot fertilize itself. They then both lay eggs in a beautiful spiral.
- Some nudibranchs are solar-powered. These species harvest algae from plants or coral and house this algae inside of their bodies. This algae derives its energy from light via photosynthesis, which is then used by the nudibranch.
- Most nudibranchs are benthic, meaning they crawl on the seafloor, but there are a few species that are pelagic and live in the water column or on the surface. One of these species digests the stinging tentacles of a Portuguese Man-of-War, transferring them from its gut to the surface of its skin as a defense mechanism.
- The two 'horns' of a nudibranch, on top of the head, are actually called rhinophores, which comes from the Greek words 'rhino' meaning nose and 'phore' meaning carrier. These are basically chemical receptors that allow the nudibranch to find food and mates. Having these two horns sticking out of their bodies makes nudibranchs more visible to predators so they have the ability to withdraw them into their bodies when in danger. If you look closely, they are almost feather shaped, which increases the surface area of the rhinophore, giving them a greater ability to detect chemicals.
- Cannibalism exists in the nudibranch world. Some species eat other nudibranchs, as well as nudibranchs of their own species! This can be done with actual teeth or with digestive enzymes.
- Some humans actually eat nudibranchs. Chileans and some islanders in Russia and Alaska roast or boil sea slugs and sometimes eat them raw. It has been described as "chewing an eraser."
19 thoughts on "10 things you did not know about Nudibranchs"
Are chromodoris willani poisonous?
Wow! I learned a lot about about nudibranchs. I absoloutely love them. They are so colorful and have a lot of amazing properties. I have always wanted to see one. Do you know where i might be able to find one in fremont, california?
i had learned a lot
Hi, Dan, long time, no see! Just heading home from Coron Lagoon, some very active nudis. Good to see you got in a mention for frogfish. Which reminds me; I reckon nudi eyes are about as easy to see as frogfish antennae. Now I need to find an explanation of that torsional thing in nudis and maybe a decent labelled diagram…
nudibranch fun!!!!~!
humans eat nudibranches?!?!
Hi thanks for this article. I have a saltwater nano cube that is approximately 3.7 gallons and it has an orange nudibranch inside of it. lt has been established for almost a year now and tonight I was cleaning the glass where the nudi was eating and I tried to move it off of the glass and it broke in two pieces. It is very much still alive but its tail broke off. I'm thinking it will grow back right? And also the tail is still moving, will it grow into another nudibranch??
I am an animal lover and this article is so interesting! They are such beautiful creatures!
Neophyte nudibranch nut here. Thanks for this fun
article. Glad to see people using images from seapics.com!
Hey guys. i found your article very interesting. Im running a marine life blog on instagram and have a question. Where did you get the info from that humans eat nudibranchs?