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Hello, my fellow Swords and Lasers! It's been a while, but I wanted to share the squee about the fact that Hexomancy
HEXOMANCY, the fourth Ree Reyes story, is now available.
Some of you may know me from the interview I did for S&L last year
It usually takes me a little while to get used to present tense in a novel, maybe ~20 pages, but then after that, I don't tend to notice. I get that for some readers, it makes things less certain, less concrete, but for me present tense is a very valid narrative choice. Looking at film/TV and comics, all of them tend to default to present tense, which no one questions.
Ann Leckie cites C.J. Cherryh as an influence rather than Iain M. Banks, so I'd probably point you at Cherryh.
And if you're looking for something equivalently boundary-pushing in Fantasy, I can't help but shill The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley.
SHIELD AND CROCUS is the Kindle Daily Deal for just $1.99.
You can also add on the audiobook narrated by Luke Daniels for just $.99 more.http://www.amazon.com/Shield-Crocus-M...
Today is the launch day for Shield and Crocus, available now in print, ebook, and audio.
Conveniently, today is also the day that my interview with the fabulous Veronica and Tom is live in the newest ep of S&L! It's like they planned it or something. :)http://swordandlaser.com/home/2014/6/...
You might know me as the author of the Ree Reyes series (Geekomancy, Celebromancy).
I've got a new book coming in June called Shield and Crocus
, which combines the New Weird (ala China Mieville's Perdido Street Station
) with the Superhero genre.Right now, my publisher has a Goodreads giveaway going on, with 20 copies available.
And if you're an audio reader, the audiobook version (narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal) is now available: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fant...
Hello, Swords and Lasers! Some folks have been interested in the previous books in the series (Geekomancy
, so I wanted to share the news that Attack the Geek: A Ree Reyes Side-Quest is now available world-wide on all ebook platforms.
A side quest novella in the bestselling Geekomancy urban fantasy series--when D&D style adventures go from the tabletop to real life, look out!
Ree Reyes, urban fantasy heroine of Geekomancy, is working her regular barista/drink-slinger shift at Grognard's when it all goes wrong. Everything.
As with Geekomancy (pop culture magic!) and its sequel Celebromancy (celebrity magic!), Attack of the Geek is perfect for anyone who wants to visit a world "where all the books and shows and movies and games [that you] love are a source of power, not only in psychological terms, but in practical, villain-pounding ones" (Marie Brennan, award-winning author of A Natural History of Dragons).
Lots of Angry Robot books forthcoming (and a couple from me at the end):Peacemaker
by Marianne De Pierres (April 29th)Morningside Fall
by Jay Posey (April 29th)Company Town
by Madeline Ashby (September 30th)The Mirror Empire: Worldbreaker Saga 1
by Kameron Hurley (August 26th)The Blasted Lands
by James A. Moore (June 24th)The Buried Life
by Carrie Patel (July 29th)Night Terrors
by Tim Waggoner (May 27th)The Shadow Master
by Craig Cormick (June 24th)The White Towers
by Andy Remic (June 17th)Attack the Geek
by Michael R. Underwood (April 7th)Shield and Crocus
by Michael R. Underwood (June 10th)
The Younger Gods by Michael R. Underwood (December 15th)
I wanted to pop back in and make sure folks knew that CELEBROMANCY is a Kindle Daily Deal today. You can get all of the geek-tastic-ness for just $1.99http://www.amazon.com/Celebromancy-Mi...
And if you do, the audiobook (narrated excellently by Hugo Award Winner Mary Robinette Kowal) is only $1.99 as well! http://www.amazon.com/Celebromancy-Re...
And because two deals isn't enough, GEEKOMANCY, the first book in the series, is still $1.99 as a Kindle Big Deal. http://www.amazon.com/Geekomancy-Mich...
So you could get all three for the price of a burger or a fancy latte.
I'm really happy to see more honest-to-goodness Science Fiction on Network TV in the USA. I only hope that the ratings justify the (likely substantial) special effects budget.
I listened to Rachel Aaron when she was on a podcast, and then picked up the ebook (2K to 10K). I've been using some of her suggestions, including tracking writing productivity/time, and in outlining more.
This year has been a success in increasing my production rate, for sure. I've had the most success when I'm able to summon a high degree of focus, shutting out the whole world, and knowing enough of what's coming ahead to not have to stop and plot as I go.
I'd love an extra excuse to read Ancillary Justice. I picked it up on Kobo the week it came out. All review buzz is extremely positive.
You have my sword...and laser.
1) What's your process like for developing the interconnected civilizations of your fantasy worlds? Any tips for other writers looking to do sophisticated worldbuilding inspired by real history?
2) What one thing does every fiction writer considering doing a Kickstarter to support their work need to know?
3) What has podcasting taught you about being a writer and/or publishing professional?
I took the challenge of seeking out and reading 50 books by authors of color as soon as possible - always making sure to consider a work by an author of color when deciding what to read next. It's already encouraged me to pick up books I might have ignored otherwise, and as a reader, I've found it has brought me several breaths of fresh air.
Turbo's pie is based on my favorite deep dish pizza toppings, and goes for pies in the tradition of Lou Malnati's, though I make my own deep dish pies.
Burger Bin is inspired by Shake Shack, a chain in NYC and elsewhere on the east coast.
And the crack fries are based on a dish served at Farm Bloomington in Bloomington, IN. You can find the recipe for Crack fries in Farmfood: Green Living with Chef Daniel Orr
I've not played Lords of Waterdeep, but I've heard very good things, so I'll have to give it a shot sometime!
More games for everyone. :)
You can enter to win one of two copies of Celebromancy here: http://www.talkingsupe.com/2013/07/br...

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Cancer Insights Panels
About the panels
Our Cancer Insights Panels bring the experience of people affected by cancer to the heart of our work in an accessible and informal way which benefits both panel members and teams across the charity.
Panel members provide feedback during meetings where teams come along to discuss projects or through online surveys, these are called consultations. By taking part in consultations at the early stages of projects, supporters can make sure their voices are heard as decisions are made.
During a two-year term, we develop a strong relationship with our panel members, and they may choose to get involved in other opportunities such as speaking at staff events and helping us promote our invaluable network to ensure we are getting more people affected by cancer involved in our work.
The panels represent people from all over the UK with a range of different backgrounds and lived experiences, including patients, carers, and loved ones. There are four Cancer Insights Panels, each made up of people affected by cancer. We ask for their feedback in a variety of ways.
Steve was diagnosed and treated for metastatic testicular seminoma over 30 years ago. Steve’s sister had ovarian cancer but sadly passed away in 2017 following a recurrence. He joined our panel to use his personal experience of cancer, and as a family member, to provide valuable feedback via short, quick-response surveys. He shares why he decided to join.
Sarifa joined our Research & Strategy Cancer Insights Panel after being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer 10 years ago. She has lived experience of disability, and English as a second language. She's also a member of the Asian community and with it brings a fresh perspective to our meetings. Find out what motivated her to apply.
Musical theatre lover Ellen is a member of our Children & Young People Panel and lives in London with her dog Bella. Ellen joined the panel after being diagnosed with leukemia when she was young. She wanted to give something back and share her experiences and voice for future projects and research.

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Over 450 killed in Iraq 2-month protest
Over 450 people have been reported to have been killed since 1 October in Iraq during protests demanding a change in system and a new government.
Thousands of people took to the streets once again in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and in many southern cities of the country.
A large crowd gathered in Tahrir square in Baghdad on Sunday. Twenty activists and four policemen were killed in the same square on Friday. According to the authorities, the armed attack was carried out by unidentified persons.
A 23-year-old female activist named Aysa, told AFP: "They want to scare us using any method, but we continue to stay in Tahrir, our number is increasing every day."
Activists also met in the large city of Nazareth in the south of the country. A delegation of powerful tribes from the region also took part in the action. A student named Ali Rahim told AFP: "We are ready to continue our actions until the regime falls."
Protests took place in many cities in the south were strikes and blockade actions were promoted. The protests took place in El Hilla, Amara, Diwaniye, Kut and Najaf.
According to AFP quoting health and police sources, at least 452 people have been killed and around 20,000 wounded since 1 October.

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Welcome to projecteducate's Digital Art Week!
This first week of december will be dedicated to the digital art community, so keep an eye on this space for updates and annoucements. Here is a glimpse of what you'll get to see this week:
- The return of SketchMatch! (in #CommunityRelations at 7:00 PM PST)
- Digital Art live critique session (in #CommunityRelations at 10:00 AM PST)

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chrisg at care4free.net
Sun Feb 14 07:40:15 PST 2010
I've been going through building and testing all the games in the
autobuilder on my Beagleboard. I've found a lot of the games default to
full screen mode which causes them not to work. Would it be ok to default
them to windowed mode? It's just a simple change to the !Run file.
Here's a list of all the games with their working status. It seems any
game that tries to load a jpeg file fails. The error is something like
'libjpeg.so.62: SDL_LoadObject() not implemented' even though the
executable is statically linked.
I've also got the game !Flobopuyo working.
Once I've got it building properly in the autobuilder I can add it. This
also suffers from the jpeg loading problem which I worked around by
them to png but not ideal.
!Airstrike Works but no sound
!Alephone Error parsing mml files starting a new game (!M1A1)
!BumpRace Error loading jpegs
!CivClient Locks up
!CivServer Wimpslot grows until runs out of memory
!Edgar Quits on load
!GLHack Quits with 'dungeon description not valid'
!Lincity Quits with error creating (null)/.lincity
!Noiz2sa Build error
!OpenTTD Build error
!PengCmnd Error loading jpegs
!PipeNight Error loading jpegs
!RS Works but sound stutters alot
!Statagus Not tested (No game data)
!SuperTux Error loading jpegs and Crashes with stack backtrace
!TuxMath Error loading jpegs
!Wargus Not tested (No game data)
!Wesnoth Build error
!Xconq Build error
!XJig Locks up
More information about the gcc

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Public Sector Undertaking Punjab National Bank's total business turnover has crossed 11 lakh as of 4th of January, 2018, reported PTI. The bank reportedly said that it would be focusing on profit-making going forward.
Being the country's second largest public sector lender, it is in line with the rationalisation call by the government, currently processing its branches for the same.
The bank's capital adequacy stands above 9% against the required 8%. It also increased its fixed deposit rates on select maturities by 1.25% on 1st of January.
It has fully waived documentation and processing fee requirement for housing, car and two-wheeler loans as a part of New Year Bonanza Scheme. The offer is available until the end of the current fiscal.
PNB stocks closed 5.97% higher at Rs 176.75 on BSE on 4th of January.


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Make this New Year the most unforgettable by sending special, handcrafted greeting cards to friends and family. Handmade with meticulous love and utmost care by in-house artists at MadCap & The Wishing Ink, each card is unique and bespoke in nature - making you a truly one-of-a-kind gifter! Nothing says 'special' like handmade cards, embossed in gold and silver options for you to choose. Wait no more, send your wishes with a card that will be cherished throughout the year.
As part of the package, our in-house hand lettering artist, will hand letter your message that needs to go inside the card for your loved one.

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Terps boast nine seniors as they look to capture a fifth straight ACC title
Maryland faces Northwestern for chance at third straight championship game appearance Friday on ESPN3
Maryland plays host to #6 Loyola at noon Saturday in the NCAA Quarterfinals
Maryland welcomes A-10 champion UMass at 2 p.m. in first round action
Maryland plays host to #15 Georgetown at 7 p.m. at the FH & Lax Complex
As a Sophomore in 2013:Contributed to the defensive play to help the Terps top Richmond 20-7 in season opener (2/10)... saw playing time against Penn State (3/9)... earned one draw control against William & Mary (3/20).
As a Freshman in 2012: Has seen action in eight games...tallied a ground ball against Richmond (3/13).
Prep: Three-sport standout in field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse at Bullis...All-Gazette, All-League, All-Metro honorable mention and team MVP in lacrosse at Bullis in 2010 and 2011...All-American in 2011... also played for Capital Lacrosse Club for three years...captain, All-League, and All-Gazette honorable mention in field hockey... captain in basketball in 2009 and 2010.
Personal: Born March 9, 1993... daughter of Jon and Longma Aust... has one sister, Alex, who also plays lacrosse for the Terps... won distinguished honors as an Academic All-American in 2010...also earned a spot on high honor roll and in the National Honor Society... lists her biggest sports thrill as going to Washington Redskins games... came to Maryland to "be close to home and because her family has always been huge Terp fans"... undecided on major.


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Added Nov 18, 2010
The splatter print is a cotton/lycra blend and the solids are rayon blends. The skirt is lined with some really weird ribbed dot print nylon blend fabric (the same as the too tight dress lining) that works out well as it’s smooth and heavy. But would have looked crap as a dress. Or anything really.
The top is SO easy to make (Quick & Dirty tutorial here. And the skirt is just a front and back attached to a double fold waist band. Super easy, especially on a serger.
I also made these peacock feather earrings. Which provided some comic relief when one went rouge from the earwire and got stuck to the collar of my coat. Lol, I am not an experienced jewelry maker.
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I lost my mother almost 2 years ago to ovarian cancer. We were the best of friends. It was normal for me to go by and vist her 2 or three times a week because I truly loved her and enjoyed her company. I am now 45 years old. I never really thought about my age before she died. Now I feel like I am getting a bit old. I wish we could have a cup of coffee together and visit like the old days. I can watch TV show or hear a song and it takes me back to a memory with my mom. I miss her very much. For example, I saw an episode of the Brady Bunch and it reminded me of being a kid and the pleasant memories of my mom. I also heard a song from the 80s overhead in Home Depot that my mom liked. It put a smile on my face but I sure miss her. This happens to me quite frequently. I am sure this happens to others. Could you share a pleasant memory of your loved with me?
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We walk into town along the canal path towards Tramlines, a swanky converted warehouse with bars and coffee places looking out onto a car park!
We stop for a caffeine shot, Guy has a cold brew, chilled and fruity.
We carried onto the waters edge and walked around Blackwattle Water, past the cement works.
Onto the Sydney fish market which was full of tourists enjoying fresh seafood and the odd glass of white wine. We join in with calamari, soft shell crab, seafood kebab and chips.
Another walk into Sydney CBD and we are going through QVB (Queen Victoria Buikding) which is photogenic and full of expensive stores.
We carry on through Hyde Park and onto the Botanical Gardens.
It was getting late and feet were aching so we went home by bus and relaxed back at our apartment.
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25 Saskatchewan reserves miss midnight transparency deadline
Pelican Lake First Nation filed just before deadline, officials withhold money from non-compliant bands
Reserves across Canada had until before midnight yesterday to show Ottawa the money.
As of yesterday, 26 of 70 First Nations in Saskatchewan had not yet published financial information, including on-reserve business transactions and salaries for elected chiefs, councillors and band office staff.
But that changed Wednesday morning when the number of First Nations that had yet to report their records dropped to 25.
Pelican Lake First Nation waited until the final hour to publish its financial information and made it just in time for the midnight deadline.
It is one of six reserves in Canada that vanished from the list this morning.
Disclosure became mandatory last year under the First Nations Financial Transparency Act.
"Canadians expect transparency and accountability from their government and we are committed to ensuring that First Nations community members have that same level of transparency and accountability," said Kelly Block, a Saskatchewan Conservative Member of Parliament.
Accountability and transparency'
Block first brought the law before Parliament five years ago as a private member's bill.
"We'd hope that First Nations chiefs and councils would see this as another tool in their toolbox to keep their community members informed about the business that is going on in their communities," she said.
"Ensure that there is accountability and transparency for their members when making decisions around who they would like to see leading their community as well as the kind of business that is transpiring on their community," Block added.
Block could not say how much money Ottawa has withheld from reserves to date.
Several bands, including the Lac La Ronge First Nation and the Buffalo River Dene Nation, were slow to file financial information after mass evacuations due to forest fires earlier this summer. Officials say they'll extend the deadline for them as well as other reserves intending to file.
But Ottawa has already withheld money from the Onion Lake Cree Nation, Ochapowace First Nation and Thunderchild First Nation for refusing to publish financial documents last year.
The matter is now before the courts.
Onion Lake's chief has also written to the United Nations arguing the law violates longstanding treaty rights. Chief Wallace Fox said the Conservative government, "is trying to impose their misguided agenda on our peoples."


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The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue estimates that it will lose $380 million in uncollected sales and use tax to the e-commerce industry in 2012. So the state is being more aggressive in trying to collect from businesses and individual taxpayers.
For the first time, 2011 state personal income tax returns use tax forms that include a page instructing individual taxpayers to report and remit use tax — which is essentially sales tax that was not collected by online merchants. Prior to this year, taxpayers were supposed to obtain and then submit PA1 forms to the Department of Revenue whenever making a purchase that should have but did not include sales tax.
Elizabeth Brassell, a Revenue Department spokeswoman, said the change was made to raise awareness about use tax obligations and encourage voluntary compliance. Brassell said when consumers do not pay use tax for online merchandise, it puts brick-and-mortar businesses at an unfair disadvantage.
But she was quick to point out that with 6.1 million income tax returns, the Department of Revenue cannot audit them all for use tax discrepancies. It will, however, assess tax with interest and penalties if it learns someone was less than truthful about reporting online purchases on tax returns.
“We are doing this because Internet merchants have and will continue to grow,” Brassell said. “Our hope is educational outreach with consumers will help, but it would be better if retailers with a nexus paid sales tax.”
The Revenue Department collected $386 million in use tax during fiscal year 2010-11, only a fraction of the total sales and use tax figure of $8.6 billion. It said it recognizes that it is problematic for consumers to keep track of online purchases and that it would be more efficient and less burdensome for the tax to be collected from vendors at the time of purchase. The state is trying lean on e-commerce merchants to collect and remit sales tax by asserting tax nexus.
In a December bulletin on sales and use tax, the Revenue Department gave online retailers 60 days to comply with pre-existing state tax nexus. The definition of nexus in Pennsylvania includes having or using, either directly or through a subsidiary or representative, some type of operation in the state. Brassell said because the Pennsylvania tax nexus is so broad, there is little need for legislation like there has been in several other states.
Online retailers were told to comply with tax nexus law by Feb. 1. But Brassell said the department extended the deadline to Sept. 1 after being contacted by online retailers who said they would need more time for technology and administrative reasons to implement the change. The 2012-13 state budget has $42.8 million budgeted for sales tax collected from e-commerce retailers.
Tom Frascella, director of Smart Devine’s multistate tax practice, said Amazon.com has fought similar attempts to assert tax nexus in other states. California enacted legislation saying any online retailer with affiliates that have locations within the state must charge sales tax. Frascella said Amazon responded by telling affiliates it would end its relationship with them unless they relocated out of California.
Grant Thornton tax practitioner Jerry Glynn said many online retailers find complying with 50 different sales tax rules to be too burdensome. That’s why there is a push in Congress to enact the first-ever national sales tax which would bring some predictability. Amazon supports such legislation but it has languished on Capitol Hill despite bipartisan support, causing many states to get frustrated and enact their own laws.
New Jersey has gone a different route from Pennsylvania. The state legislature recently produced a bill designed to encourage major online retailers like Amazon.com to move operations into the state by giving them a holiday on collecting sales tax until September 2013. Retail merchants oppose the legislation because it continues what has been a sales exemption for online competitors. Amazon is considering putting two warehouses in New Jersey, one near Philadelphia and one near New York.
Glynn said brick-and-mortar businesses see enforcement of a national sales tax as leveling the playing field, as consumers would be more willing to shop in stores if they couldn’t purchase the same product online minus the 6 percent or more in sales tax. But until a federal law is passed, states like Pennsylvania will have to fight with online retailers over nexus and individuals will have more of a burden with use-tax remittance.
Frascella advises individual taxpayer clients in Pennsylvania to do their best job recalling online purchases that were not taxed but knows some of those returns will not be exact. Many small business clients who buy products online are now just learning they too must pay use tax.
“It’s a new line and people are not familiar with use tax,” Frascella said. “Just because you bought something online it doesn’t mean it’s taxable. This is why many states don’t want to rely on consumers to pay use tax. They really would like retailers to collect sales tax. If they went after people for use tax, the public outcry would be too great. So for now, even if they just get $60 from a taxpayer, that’s $60 more than what they were collecting. But there is no initiative to go out and audit people. They just made it easier to comply.”
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Tim helped Adelaide create a precious Mother’s Day gift for me. Adelaide’s first painting on canvas is already hanging in my office at work.
Since Tim’s birthday is on Wednesday, we took the opportunity to celebrate both Mother’s Day and his birthday with a date night. Well, I guess it was more of a date “afternoon.” Adelaide’s Aunt Adrienne came over to babysit (thanks Adrienne!), and Tim and I went to see The Avengers 3-D. We hadn’t been to a movie since Christmas, and this was the first time we had been to the theater just the two of us since Adelaide was born.
After the movie we topped our day out by eating at Chifa, Iron Chef Jose Garces’ Peruvian/Cantonese restaurant. It’s a small plates restaurant, so we ordered five dishes to share between us.
Pork Belly Bao Buns
hoisin glaze, pickled daikon & carrot, togarashi mayo
sriracha, pear, wasabi mayo
Chaufa with Scallop
stir fried rice, chorizo, mango, edamame, scallop
charred corn tamale, bacon, mushrooms, aji cream
There was also a special, but I can’t remember what it was called. It had clams, chorizo, white bean paste and panko bread crumbs baked into the clam shell.
For dessert we had chocolate cake, but it wasn’t any regular chocolate cake. It was a porter chocolate cake with raspberry compote and a banana-stout ice cream. My mouth is watering just typing this. It was an amazing meal with the best of company.
Then, I came home to this smiley little bug. Yes, a happy first Mother’s day indeed.

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President Maithripala Sirisena has apparently rejected to give nominations to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, sources said.
The President has come under pressure against his leaning to give nominations to Mr. Rajapaksa, compelling the faction led by the latter to conduct round the clock meetings to sort out the matter at least by tomorrow.
A group of SLFP leaders including former President Chandrika Kumaratunga has exerted pressure on the President against any move to accommodate Mr. Rajapaksa on board to contest the General Election or to spearhead the election campaign.
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Congratulations Sir, you did the rite thing at the rite time future generations will be thankful and grateful to you you just saved the nation hats off for this decision
You did the right thing without creating a precedent for outgoing Presidents to come back into p[olitics once their tenure of office is over. Let some other potential, clean and educated politician lead the campaign. There has to be a change of leadership at Prime Minister level and that is good for the country.
This is the one and only correct thing he had to do otherwise he would have been cast into the dustbin for breaking the trust of the people
Welldone sir.he deserves it.
well done sir, you had a good job.


LONDON — Being ejected from your own workplace while an interloper takes occupation is nobody’s idea of fun, but John Stephenson is philosophical about it.
“It’s the Olympics. It’s different and it’s a one-off. We’re all up for it and more than ready to embrace it,” said Stephenson, a former England cricketer who as assistant secretary, cricket and estates, of the Marylebone Cricket Club has been one of the key figures in readying the sport’s historic Lord’s ground for the Olympic archery competition.
Stephenson, along with a number of senior MCC staff members, vacated his office at the beginning of July and won’t get back into it until after the Olympic competition has finished on Aug. 3. He will have to carry personal identification to show Olympic security and watch the erection of temporary seating for 5,000 people in the outfield of a venue that has been staging big cricket since 1814 and has held more five-day test matches and World Cup finals than any other ground in the world.
Once the Games are over, there will be less than two weeks in which to get the ground ready for a five-day test match between England and South Africa, which starts on Aug. 16. Lord’s will not be unmarked by the experience.
“There will be some scarring on the outfield,” Stephenson said. “It won’t look great and it won’t be the pristine Lord’s we like to present to the world on these occasions.” But he promised that “we will do everything that we possibly can to patch it up, and there’s no question of it not being fit for play or in any way risky for the players.”Continue reading the main story
The entire ground will be returfed during the next close season.
The Lord’s employee who is still working normally, as much as possible, is Mick Hunt, the chief groundsman. He is in charge of preparing the field for the test and for all 70 days of cricket played at the venerable venue each season. His chief concern is the square, the closely mowed central section, where batting and bowling take place.
“The archers shoot over the square and it will be cordoned off, so that nobody goes on to it,” Stephenson said. “And we’ve been guaranteed that the ground staff will have full access to the square.”
Groundsmen are famously and rightly protective of the spaces they tend.
Unsurprisingly, Lynne Evans, a former chair of Archery GB, the British governing body for the sport, and committee member of the British Olympic Association, who has been one of her sport’s key planners for the London Games, reports, “Our people have developed a special relationship with the head groundsman.”
Ensuring that the most important areas of the playing surface are fully protected has been one of the key issues in a planning process that goes back years. Evans recalls the first feasibility study of archery at Lord’s taking place in the late 1990s and discussion of it as a possible venue starting before that.
“It fits perfectly with our policy of wherever possible taking our major events to distinctive, memorable and iconic venues,” said Evans, who recalls that the purpose-built archery venue at the 2008 Beijing Olympics “ticked all the boxes and did its job very well. But there was nothing about it that said you were in China. You might have been anywhere.”
Competitors at Lord’s will shoot against the backdrop provided by the late-Victorian Pavilion, perhaps the most famous building on any cricket ground. They will change in the locker rooms used by the world’s best cricketers over more than a century before walking through the Long Room, sanctum for members of the MCC and down the Pavilion steps onto the playing area.
“Archers from cricket-playing nations were totally blown away by Lord’s as a venue,” recalls the British competitor Larry Godfrey of the test event held there in October. “Those from India, Australia, South Africa and so on were weak-kneed as they walked down the famous steps and onto the field, a walk they’ve watched cricket heroes take for test matches.”
But those from non-cricketing nations were also impressed.
“This is the first cricket ground I’ve ever been on, or even seen, apart from television,” said the American archery competitor Brady Ellison. He will be among the medal favorites at a venue he called “absolutely amazing.”
“I like it,” Ellison said. “The field reminds me of a well-kept golf course and it’s like walking on the greens. It is one of the nicest archery venues I’ve been on.”
The world’s leading archers are becoming accustomed to distinctive venues. Over the past decade they have shot in Central Park in New York, across water in Copenhagen, on a beach in Antalya, Turkey, and, most memorably in Olympic terms, at Athens in 2004 at the stadium used in 1896 for the first modern Games.
“We found that many people came in order to see the stadium, but then returned because they had enjoyed the archery,” said Evans, who shot for Britain when archery was restored as an Olympic sport in 1972 and who is well in tune with the need for her sport to make the most of its limited moments in the limelight.
“The great advantage we have is that archery can take place anywhere where you have a space which is 150 meters long and wide enough to accommodate spectators safely on either side of two targets,” she explained.
Competitors are, she says, “a pretty tough and hardy lot.”
“They’ll cope with rain, hail, wind and anything else the weather throws at them,” she added. “They’re the hazards of the sport, and you get on with it.”
The British competitor Simon Terry was disconcerted by wind at the test event: “We’ve trained here quite a bit this year, but we’ve never encountered winds like this. I was shooting in the main field, and there’s no major indicator where to aim. It’s been quite tricky.”
At the same time, South Korea’s men’s team, gold medalists at the last three Olympics (the women’s team has won six in a row) recorded a world record score to suggest it will be in hot contention again this time.
“Seeing lots of people around gives you a buzz, and interaction with the crowd gives us a lift too,” said Godfrey, anticipating excited crowds at the Games.
At least one British competitor, however, thought the crowds at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi were a little too animated.
This led Archery GB to the novel course of holding its final selection trials in front of an audience of several thousand children bused in from schools near its headquarters at Lilleshall, in Shropshire in the English Midlands. The children were instructed to make as much noise as they could.
“The cheering of the crowds, and the row, motivates the archers,” Godfrey said.
“In the G.B. team,” he added, with the confidence of a man steeped in experience, “we can’t wait.”Continue reading the main story


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Costa Rica could reduce its poverty rate by 8.5 percent if all employers paid the legal minimum wage and poor families could find work, according to a new report from the United Nations Development Program released Monday.
Social programs, including non-contributory cash transfers, have shown success combating poverty, but jobs are needed for significant long-term reductions in Costa Rica’s 20 percent poverty rate, argued the UNPD report’s authors. Costa Rica’s poverty rate has stagnated at roughly 20 percent of the population for the last 20 years, despite regular economic growth and a growing population.
The report’s authors, investigators Pablo Sauma and Juan Digeo Trejos, said that non-contributory pensions, scholarships and assistance to poor families with children and cash transfers from the national welfare office, IMAS, reduced poverty by 2.9 percent for families living in extreme poverty, and 2.5 percent for poor families between 2000 and 2011. The researcher, however, stressed that these gains were based on receiving assistance from the government and did not represent long-term gains in the country’s fight to lower persistent levels of poverty.
The investigators recommended Costa Rica pursue an enforcement policy that guarantees workers get what they’re owed and improve the productivity of small businesses.
Unemployment was the most important factor for those living in extreme poverty. Costa Ricans living in extreme poverty have an unemployment rate of 36.7 percent, compared to 4.5 percent for those not living in poverty, according to the report.
Sauma told The Tico Times that businesses are not hiring enough to start to close the 20 percent poverty gap in Costa Rica.
“Costa Rica has grown at an average rate of 4.5 percent during the last 20 years. With average growth at just 4.5 percent, we can’t hope for more [reductions in poverty]. To lower the poverty rate we’d have to see growth over 6 percent,” Sauma told The Tico Times.
Many poor Ticos who do work, don’t make the minimum wage. Over 67 percent of the poor here make less than the minimum wage. The figure jumps to 87.3 percent for those in extreme poverty. Many poor Costa Ricans work in the informal sector (65.6 percent), where they do not receive health insurance or other benefits. Over 91 percent of these informal jobs involve unskilled labor.
UNDP Resident Representative Yoriko Yasukawa said the coffee-producing country should better focus its famous social assistance programs and work toward universal coverage for public services like education. The UNDP representative noted that some 24,000 children who should be in primary school are not. This number has slightly increase during the last decade, according to investigators.
“It’s important that Costa Rica continue strengthening the impact of its social programs, even more so for a country that has demonstrated a commitment to the rights of the less fortunate, principally in education, health and social assistance,” Yasukawa said.


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The Lightning hit the road for the first time this season, traveling to South Florida to take on the Panthers for the second straight game at 7 p.m.
The Bolts were winless in two trips to Sunrise last season. Tampa Bay did manage to secure on point at the BB&T Center, falling 2-1 in overtime in January.
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Game 2 - Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers
When: Saturday, Oct. 7, 7:00 p.m. ET
Where: BB&T Center - Sunrise, Fla.
TV coverage: FOX Sports Sun (check local listings); pregame starts at 6:30 p.m. ET
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LAMENTATIONS 3:22-33; PSALM 30; 2 CORINTHIANS 8:7-15; MARK 5:21-43
There are two very interesting lines in today’s gospel text. The first come from the disciples when they say to Jesus, “You can see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, ‘Who touched me?’” The second comes when Mark is describing Jesus’ reaction to the news that Jairus’ daughter is dead. A better translation than what we have for this verse is “Ignoring what they said (or disregarding the message), Jesus says to Jairus, a leader of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
Let’s think about the settings of those two lines for a minute. Jesus has come back to the land of the Jews after being with non-Jews. There are crowds that are waiting for him. Most likely, there are people who have camped on the lakeshore, awaiting his return. As soon as he gets out of the boat, there are people around him- full of requests, desires and hopes for what he can do for them. The crowd parts a little to allow a leader of the synagogue to come through. They would have recognized the quality of his clothing and his official status. Jairus cares enough that he doesn’t send a messenger for Jesus- he comes himself to ask for aid for his daughter.
In the same crowd is a woman who is elbowing her way through the people- one crowded layer at a time, probably with her face covered so no one will recognize her,. She doesn’t want people to see her and know who she is because, according to Jewish law, she is unclean and anyone who touches her is as well. She sees Jesus as her last hope and she is determined to get to him and just to touch him.
Both Jairus and the woman are commended for their faith and urged to hold onto it. They have claimed their gift from the Spirit, this gift of faith, and the Spirit is using it within them. It would have been easier for Jairus to stay with his daughter and send someone else. It would have been easier for this woman to decide her life was over and would never improve. However, from within them, their faith cried out, moved their feet and pushed them through the people to Jesus’ side.
Then we find the disciples, who can’t believe Jesus would know that someone had touched him and want to know who that is. Let’s keep in mind that by this stage in Mark, which is only chapter 5, the disciples have seen Jesus cast out demons, heal Peter’s mother-in-law, heal a paralytic, heal a leper, calm the storm on the seas and respond to the pleas of Gentiles, non-Jewish people. That’s just the stories for which we have details. I would say it’s safe to assume there was much, much more.
Nevertheless, when Jesus lifts a hand to silence the crowd and ask who touched him, the disciples deride him. “Lord, people are constantly touching you. Why bother asking?” However, Jesus knows who has approached him with faith. Jesus knows that someone has come to him, not with the desire for magic, but with the desire for genuine healing that only he can offer. He has felt that healing leave his body and he seeks a relationship with the recipient.
Many times in our world, people who do not believe look at those of us who do try to live lives of faith with similar derision to the disciples. To these people, our prayers, our expectations and our seeking of answers makes no sense. Clearly, if God wanted people to believe, God would make them. They would say, “People are constantly asking God for things and telling him about the world’s situation. Why would God listen to you?”
However, we see in this story, and throughout the Bible, that God is pursuing us with goodness and mercy, that God is fighting for us, that God is sheltering us, and that God desires a relationship with us. God as the Trinity is constantly initiating and re-initiating relationship with us, so that we are constantly presented with chances to respond, to strengthen our faith, to participate in the coming of the kingdom.
Jesus felt that kind of response in the woman, who risked everything, one more time, to reach out and touch him. God in Christ felt the presence of that faith and responded so that the relationship could be deepened. The disciples are still unable to see that and, often, the world is watching us to see if we will give up or if we will push through, again, to ask for the impossible and to believe we can receive it.
Which bring us to the second line, “Disregarding the message that was reported, Jesus says to Jairus, “Do not fear, only believe.”” Servants have come to report that the leader’s daughter is dead. There is nothing more that Jesus can do. There is a fear in Jairus’ eyes that this message is true. There is nothing more that Jesus can do. However, we are never called to decide when Jesus’ abilities have run out, when he can’t help any more.
His constant breaking of barriers, touching unclean people, offering new interpretations of scripture, welcoming outcasts and disrupting the comfortable, reveals to us that we are not the determiners of when and how God will work. Jesus shows us that these things do not, cannot and will not affect our relationship with God.
In the face of cancer, disability, war, poverty, exclusion, hopelessness, and so many other factors that are present in this world, we are called, like Jesus, to disregard the message that has been reported. The message that God is dead. That God does not care. That there is nothing that can be done. That no further healing is possible. That the end is near.
Disregard the message that has been reported. We don’t believe in a magic God whose healing is a presto-chango elixir. We believe in a healing God, whose mercy and grace are restorative, who delivers in ways we do not expect. We have come to know this does not always mean we get what we want or even what we think we need, but we do receive what God knows we need in a measure that we can handle.
We are called, through our faith, into that relationship with God, wherein we can say, “This is not what I wanted. Where are you? Help me to see you. Forgive me. Please be with this person. Give us your promised peace.” And we can ask for these things with the same level of expectation that caused Jairus to leave his daughter’s side and the woman to leave her home and try one more time for healing.
When people ask how we manage in difficulty, we can respond with faith, “I know who has touched me.” Through faith, we are able to disregard the message that life ends at death, that there are no more miracles, that physical well-being is the only desirable outcome and that God is not active in the world.
Many people who do not believe want faith to prove something. They want to have God’s presence proven to them. God’s action obviously revealed to them. However, faith is that hope in things unseen. Who touched me? She is only sleeping. This mustard seed can grow to a great plant. God’s gift of faith to us doesn’t prove anything. But it does everything.


North, SMNW softball players named All-Sunflower League
It was a city softball showdown of epic proportions when Shawnee Mission North edged rival Shawnee Mission Northwest in the bottom of the seventh inning of the Class 6A regional championship game.
The victory propelled North to a third-place finish in the state tournament and a 19-6 record.
Four Indians were recognized after the season by rival coaches as All-Sunflower League performers. All of them played key roles in the regional championship victory, as well as in the season as a whole.
Senior pitcher Mary Pat Specht — a longtime staple on the All-League squad and a four-year starter for North — was named to the first team. She pitched a complete game in the regional final, as well as all three games at the state tournament.
Her sister, sophomore Barbara Specht, was tapped to the second team for her reliable glove work in center field.
Junior first baseman Alyssa Lee — who stepped in to play catcher after an injury to regular starter Lauren Preator in the first inning of the regional final — was an honorable mention selection, as was junior Katey Cowan who hit the walk-off single that propelled SMN into the state tournament.
Northwest, which struggled mightily early in the season before rallying to finish with a 9-13 record, also had numerous players lauded by league coaches. Many of those recognized were faces that will make up the future of the program.
Senior outfielder Rachael Zdeb and senior infielder Loryn Goebel both were named to the All-SFL second team, but the other three Cougars recognized were freshmen. Cierra Carbajo was voted as a second-team catcher, and pitcher Katt Cooper and shortstop Emily Utech were honorable mention selections.
Olathe Northwest junior pitcher Jacinda Ramos was named the league’s Player of the Year and Lawrence Free State freshman Courtney Parker was the Newcomer of the Year.


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Yet another leak on Xiaomi Max! This time, Xiaomi Max case leaked on Weibo. As from the recent rumor, we all came to know that Xiaomi Max is all set to launch on May 10 in Beijing, China, but the microblogging community – Weibo was always on high to leak every possible feature of Xiaomi Phone & this new leak also revealed a new feature.
As seen on Weibo, the protective casing images of Xiaomi Max depicted a stunning new feature – Infrared port which is located at the top beside the headphone jack. This is not another infrared port that is used to transfer data like in old Nokia & Samsung phones. This port will act as a remote control for the devices such as Televisions, Air-conditioners, mp3 players etc. One interesting thing is most of the Redmi series phones & the recent flagship – Mi5 have already got this feature, and Hugo Barra himself told on Facebook that he generally uses his smartphone to control the devices without an additional usage of a remote control.
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From the alleged case leak, we can also see that the fingerprint sensor is in the middle, below to the camera & is just like in the Redmi Note 3. Though the case seems to be made of TPU and is very thin, we feel it is durable.
From the previous leaks, we have seen the alleged photo of the Xiaomi Max & the front-panel. In both the cases, we come to know that, the device will surely be a phablet. As per the rumors, the phone will sport a 6.4′ screen, powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 650SoC, running on Android 6.0. It may sport a 4500mAh battery & the price would fall somewhere around $200.
All these leaks may or may not turn out to be true, but on May 10 everything will be revealed because the Phone, Xiaomi Max will be launching.
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A woman in Florida says her 55-year-old “medically fragile” father was falsely accused of theft at a Florida grocery store last week and then seriously injured in a violent encounter with police. Now, she says, he’s hospitalized and has lost the ability to speak.
The incident occurred Tuesday at about 8 p.m. at a Save-A-Lot in Lakeland, according to an arrest report and the man’s daughter, Anjelica Lee, who spoke with her father before his condition worsened.
She said she was doing laundry at a laundromat near the Save-A-Lot with her father, Joseph Lee, when his arms and legs began to cramp up from an infection. He walked a couple doors down into the Save-A-Lot grocery store to get some bananas because potassium would help relieve the cramping, Anjelica Lee said. She said he told her he picked up four bananas, one of which he ate on the way to the register, but he told the cashier that he needed to pay for four bananas even though she only scanned three. Anjelica Lee said her father told her he was followed closely while shopping by a white female employee who she said accused him of stealing the banana he ate.
He told the woman he had not stolen anything and that he had paid for four bananas, but she followed him outside and continued to falsely accuse him of stealing, Anjelica Lee said her father told her. When she noticed the commotion, she said, she confronted the woman.
“At first, I was trying to ask her what happened and she was like, ‘People like you and him shouldn’t come into the store if you don’t have money to pay for things,’” Anjelica Lee said. “My mom is white and my dad is Black. So I’m mixed. So I think she meant Black people. And it just escalated from that and she went to cussing me out.”
She said she feared for her father’s safety so she got a bat from her car, approached the woman and told her to “pick on someone her own size, someone able-bodied.” She said she did not threaten the woman with the bat. Still, she said, the woman, called police.
Eight cars responded to the scene, with six officers and two sergeants, a police spokesperson said. When they arrived, Angelica Lee said, she was sitting in the driver’s side of her car with the door open and her father was standing outside of the vehicle, as they waited for her laundry to dry.
“The police got out with their guns drawn, repeatedly saying, ‘Get out of the effin’ car,’” Anjelica Lee said. “My dad said to me: ‘Don’t get out of the car until they can fully see you, because they’re going to shoot.’ And after he said that, nine or 10 of them jumped on him and then they slammed him on the car.”
She said she could hear her father screaming: “You’re hurting me. I can’t breathe.”
“After that, I stepped out of the car because the police were on the driver’s side,” she said. “They told me to shut the f— up. Handcuffed me. Put me in the back of the car and as they were driving me away, my dad was no longer on the sidewalk.”
She said she could see him laying in the middle of the road and that several officers were on him. “And as they’re driving me away, the last thing I heard was my dad screaming, ‘Help, help. I can’t breathe. You’re hurting me,’” she said through tears.
A separate affidavit states that when officers arrived, Joseph Lee was standing outside of the store, directly in front of the vehicle that his daughter was in. The affidavit quotes police as saying Joseph Lee was asked “multiple times to step away from the vehicle as he was interfering with the officers’ investigation,” but he refused and allegedly told police, “I’m on a sidewalk.” He was then detained, according to the affidavit, which says he was arrested on a charge of resisting officers without violence. He was issued a notice to appear on Feb. 29 at 8:30 a.m.
A police spokesperson said Monday that, after Joseph Lee was placed in the backseat of a patrol car, at some point he began to complain of chest pain and requested medical assistance due to a “previous medical condition.” The spokesperson said officers “quickly called for medical assistance” and first responders arrived within a few minutes.
The spokesperson said he was “alert and responsive” when an ambulance arrived.
Anjelica Lee said that her father, who already had a pacemaker, sustained an acute kidney injury in the encounter and is undergoing dialysis. She also said he can barely talk and is disoriented and confused. “He’s waking up panicked,” she said. “He doesn’t know where he’s at. He can no longer feed himself. We have to do that for him. They’re saying that some of the injuries could be long term.”
She shared photographs of her father in the hospital with NBC News but has not been able to make medical records on his condition available.
“My dad could have died in the parking lot,” she added, her voice breaking as she spoke.
She was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a law enforcement officer, according to the arrest report obtained by NBC News. She said she doesn’t recall hitting anyone and that she is trying to obtain surveillance footage from the Save-A-Lot, as well as police body camera footage, to prove so. She has not yet retained an attorney. Her next court hearing is Feb. 27. A police spokesperson said Monday that the body camera footage would not be released until the cases are resolved.
Her arrest affidavit says police responded Tuesday night to a report of a female armed with a bat causing a disturbance inside a store, alongside a male subject. According to the arrest report, an officer “gave a lawful command” to Joseph Lee and he ignored it. When an officer moved in to detain him, the arrest report says, Anjelica Lee approached an officer and “stuck him in the arm against his will.” She was then detained, according to the affidavit, which also states that the woman who called 911 told police that “after an incident with Joseph inside the store,” she encountered Anjelica Lee waiting outside with a metal bat in her hand. The woman told police that Anjelica Lee, while holding the bat, had told her to “clock out cause I’m gonna whoop your ass,” according to the affidavit. Anjelica Lee said she remembers telling the woman to meet her outside, but not using that phrase.
Afterward, the affidavit says, Anjelica Lee put the bat back into her car, went inside the store and proceeded to knock items off the shelves. Anjelica Lee denies having done so. The woman told police she “was placed in a well-founded fear that” Anjelica Lee was going to cause her harm while she was holding the bat outside the store, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit says that Anjelica Lee told police that she got her bat out of the car because her father told her that the store employee had put her hands on him. Anjelica Lee is alleged to have told a police officer that the employee was “talking junk” and admitted to threatening her with the bat, according to the affidavit. Calls to the telephone numbers listed in public records for the employee named in the police report went unreturned Monday.
Lakeland is a city in Polk County, about 45 minutes from Tampa and less than an hour from Orlando. It has a population of about 120,000 people, about 65% of whom are white and 20% Black.
An assistant manager at the Save-A-Lot declined to comment when reached by phone on Monday, and referred NBC News to the store’s corporate office.
Save-A-Lot spokesperson Sarah Griffin said in a statement that the store is “aware of a confrontation between customers and store team members” at the Lakeland store on Jan. 23. “The local owner/operator of the store is working with local authorities and the store team to investigate the incident,” Griffin said.

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Many factors contribute to stress – lost income from a "real" job, diseases that wipe out your savings, natural disasters, a bad credit report, and an assortment of other stress-causing circumstances.
As the saying goes, "When it rains, it pours," and when you become drenched in debt and/or worry, you have to challenge yourself to overcome the obstacles before you. If you are also raising children, your stress is compounded, and the decisions you make now will affect you and them for years to come.
Whatever stressors have contributed to your current situation, writing while under stress adds only more stress, especially when you have deadlines to meet. While you attempt to work through your day, surprises (and not the good kind) sometimes occur behind the scenes. For instance, creditors have been known to turn clients into collections with absolutely no warning whatsoever (happened to me) and the minimum payments they require are so high you almost have to get three jobs just to break even.
With no transportation because you lost your car, and with no electricity, gas, or water, because everything has been turned off, your stress level skyrockets. You are now even more ill than you were before the initial stressors occurred.
Don't allow stress to devour you whole, though. Figure out how you can release it. For writers, writing can be a powerful tool in releasing stress.
Writing is actually one of the better forms of release when it comes to alleviating stress, because writers can use this art form to release pent-up anger, frustration, and hostility. Or, we can slam a humorous spin on our disadvantages and attack them in a blog.
Of course the optimum way to avoid stress is to work proactively to prevent it. Alleviating all stress is impossible, but one way to help yourself deal with stress is to ask yourself if you can afford your current lifestyle. If you can't, consider downsizing.
You need money to stay afloat, but ask yourself, can creditors trust you enough to lend you money for a smaller home or a less expensive automobile? Request a copy of your credit report and get a free credit score so you will know where you stand financially.
As writers, we keep track of our ideas and our plans, but we also need to keep track of our income and our expenses. If one of your clients pays late, will your mortgage payment suffer? When will you get paid? Getting paid on time is an ongoing problem for many writers. You'll have to learn how to factor that in when budgeting.
If writing seems to be a lonely occupation for you, gather troops of supporters around you. They may not be able to support you financially but they can offer you hope and possibly instill in you a little faith in yourself when none seems to exist anywhere else.
As a writer, creative or otherwise, you have at your disposal your mind, your emotions, and your words. Break your projects into little bits. Learn how to divide your days into easily digestible bites. I know, it sounds like a computer program, but as writers, we need to be as efficient as computer programs. We have to know our strengths and our limitations, though, too, and not take on more than we can handle. And we need to set achievable goals for ourselves, so that when we meet that deadline, we can congratulate ourselves on a job well done.
As in any profession, we need to take breaks throughout the day and stretch our legs, our back, and our minds. Though this next step doesn't work for those of us incapable of napping (like me), taking a nap may replenish the spirit and refresh the soul. Exercising and meditating helps too.
Alleviating stress is difficult, especially when deadlines – self imposed or demanded by others – loom before you, but rewarding yourself with enjoyable tasks will help to lessen your stress level, and it will give you something to look forward to. We cannot always be prepared for everything that happens to us, but we can learn how to alleviate our stress and alter our circumstances.
"Circumstances – what are circumstances? I make circumstances." – Napoleon Bonaparte


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|Ghost IMPERATOUR 2022 - ATL|
Got to see the Ghost IMPERATOUR last night in ALT - worth every penny!
Setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/spiritbox/2022/gas-south-arena-duluth-ga-bb0a542.html. At just six songs, this opening set was about 2-3 songs too short. Could have used more here. All the set was great, but the performance of the industrially-tinged song "Rotoscope" really worked with their light show and was the highlight.
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Setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/mastodon/2022/gas-south-arena-duluth-ga-13b0a54d.html. Rekindled my love of ... Crack the Skye. "The Czar" easily destroyed all the other songs, both visually and aurally, and was the highlight of their set. They played great for a hometown crowd, but could have trimmed the set by about two songs and ended with "the Czar", and I would have been punch drunk happy.
Setlist: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ghost/2022/gas-south-arena-duluth-ga-3b0a543.html. An incredible headlining show. Papa Emeritus IV's stage presence and banter was standout. The dueling guitarists were a highlight of the night, as well as the performance of Miasma (see the video on YouTube). The light show was sick! Only wish they had played "From the Pinnacle to the Pit", but otherwise a perfect set.
|saw them on the pre-imperatour and seeing them on the imperatour next week. should be great. they played pinnacle last time|
|Yeah Tobias’ stage presence and banter with the crowd is genuinely the best I’ve ever seen live, he’s incredible.|
I saw him at Sonisphere about 8 years ago before many people knew who they were and he had about 50k people smiling, laughing and loving the music for the whole set.
I only saw them on their first tour, it seems their venues have increased a bit since then.
|South gas arena was the perfect size. Holds about 13,000 people total and was nearly full. Still bummed no Pinacle…|


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Vintage stretched glass millefiore trumpet vase with crimped rim. Clear base with pulled canes up the sides to the trumpet. Bright colors with mostly white inner layers and a colored center. Unmarked, but likely made in Italy.
SIZE 12" tall, base is 4.25" diameter
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What is your disordered eating making you miss out on?
While on our trip, I started reflecting on similarities I see among my eating disorder clients. One thing that stuck out to me was the number of clients who cook their oatmeal in water. (Stick with me here. I promise I’m going somewhere with this.)
One of first changes I encourage ED clients to make is to switch from cooking their oatmeal in water to cooking their oatmeal in milk. When I first see a client, they are all eating oatmeal because it’s a “safe food” for them because society has deemed it as one of the few carbs that is acceptable to eat. The reason I make the water to milk switch is to 1) help the client move towards not undereating at breakfast, 2) increase the protein content of their breakfast, 3) help them get in some calcium, and 4) because holy heck it just tastes better.
Once the client has made the water to milk change, they come back and tell me something along the lines of, “holy crap why haven’t I been doing that all along? I’ve been missing out! It’s delicious! Such a game changer!”
When they say this (clients tell me on a weekly basis!), I always think/say, “if you think adding milk to your oatmeal is a big deal and it brings you joy…what else have you been missing out on because of your disordered eating?”
Milk in oatmeal is such a small switch to make. If that rocks one’s world, holy cannoli just think what is waiting for you when bigger switches start to happen. What’s gonna happen when your entire mindset moves away from disordered eating and body hatred? What’s waiting for you when your mindset is one of taking care of your body instead of trying to manipulate your body’s natural size?
For me, two of the things that I was missing out on due to my ED/disordered eating were 1) feeling like I’m flowing with my body’s instincts and 2) feeling at home in my body.
(psst. she the below photo? I bought a turtleneck sleeveless sweater thing and I love it!)
Here’s a little more explanation on two of the many things I was missing out on…
- Feeling like I’m flowing with my body’s instincts: The majority of the times nowadays, I feel like I’m in such a rhythm with my body. I listen to my body’s instincts by honoring my hunger and fullness cues. I don’t overthink eating when I’m hungry any more than I would overthink going to the bathroom when I have to pee. I’m hungry…I eat something that sounds satisfying. I have to pee…I go pee. I feel very engaged and connected with my body. I’m very mindful of what it needs and how I can take care of it best. When I was in my ED, I couldn’t have cared less about what my body was asking me for. (If you’re interested in learning about the 2 types of hunger and how to discover what your body needs, read this You have two kinds of hunger post.)
- Feeling at home in my body: I finally realize that being healthy doesn’t guarantee thinness. In recovery I felt like there were parts on my body I was dissociating from. In a podcast I listened to recently (I don’t remember which one!:/) it talked about how we can choose to not embody parts of our body. So if you hate your arms, you could choose to dissociate from them. You’d do your best to not think about them. For me, my arms and stomach were the parts of my body I choose not to embody. I mentioned in this video I started embodying and connecting to the natural size of my belly my resting my hands on my belly after yoga and feeling my belly rise and fall.
If the idea of touching your stomach overwhelms you, that is okay. Be patient. Body image is the last thing to improve with ED recovery, but I do think it is worth starting to practice good body image now. I don’t believe you recover from disordered eating by first making your food normal. Then making your exercise habits normal. Then thinking about working on body image. A lot of this work needs to happen simultaneously.
I’d love to hear from you. I’d love to get a conversation going in the comments section from those who are in their eating disorder/disordered eating and those who are recovered from disordered eating. What do you think your disordered eating is making you miss out on currently or made you miss out on in the past?

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Fire chiefs criticise plan to scrap maritime 999 team
A plan to discontinue a 999 team set up to tackle fires on board ships at sea has been criticised by fire chiefs.
They say only a relatively small sum of money will be saved while public safety could be jeopardised.
The team is paid for by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), which is facing budget cuts.
The arrangement is due to come to an end in December and after that the crew of individual vessels will be expected to deal with any incidents.
The parliamentary under secretary of state for transport, Mike Penning, said the review of the service was carried out as part of the UK Government's Spending Review.
It was set out by the UK Government last October and has seen a number of coastguard stations under threat of closure.
The coast of north and west Wales coast is covered by fire fighters from North Wales Fire and Rescue Service and Mid and West Fire and Rescue Service - although they could be called out to anywhere in the UK.
Paul Claydon, the assistant chief fire officer for north Wales, said the relatively low call-out rate in the past could not be used as a guide to the future.
"More cruise liners are coming into the port of Holyhead, and the port itself is being developed," he said.
The Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) is also campaigning for the service to remain, and its president Lee Howell said he is "extremely concerned" about the situation.
"We are a nation of seafarers and to end an arrangement that has successfully provided a co-ordinated approach to fires on board ships off our coast is shortsighted and may put the public at risk.
"In the event of a major fire or emergency at sea, it is essential that we have a robust and effective response.
"Ending this arrangement will save a small amount of money but will leave a gap in our ability to protect people on board ships," he said.
The Department for Transport must reconsider its position on the issue, he added.
A spokesman for one ferry company which uses the Irish Sea, Stena Line, said: "Stena Line would consider any withdrawal of essential service that potentially could affect safety at sea to be a retrograde step."
The parliamentary under secretary of state for transport, Mike Penning, said: "Since it was established in 2006, the Maritime Incident Response Group (MIRG) has responded to just six fire incidents and has not had a significant impact on the outcome of any of those."
The consultation with the fire and rescue services which provide the MIRG capability has been ongoing since February.
"Feedback from the shipping industry suggests that the most valued service provided by the MIRG is their initial fire assessment advice," he added.
Initially it had been hoped that the fire and rescue services which provide the current MIRG capability would be able to provide such a service "but agreement on this has not been possible", he said.
So when the group comes to an end on 14 December "alternative arrangements for such a fire assessment and advice service using commercial salvors", will be set up.
Under the new arrangement "professional personnel" will be deployed to an incident to make an assessment.
"They will then provide advice on the best course of action and - as in many cases today - reassure port authorities that a ship can be safely accepted into a port so that shore based fire fighters can attend to a fire.
"This approach recognises that international legislation already requires all ships' crews are trained and equipped to fight fires on ships,"he added.


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The title and the video say it all, really. The video is courtesy of Education is not a Crime.
Not that I support this Bahá'í religion, from what little I have read, it's more or less the same as other monotheistic religions (one creator, loving god, a source of all creation, blah blah ...) and I really don't care for any religion whatsoever. They're all false, and none of the religious stuff is true, is my belief.
But the point is that once again, religion is used as an excuse to discriminate against a group of people and this is wrong, plain and simple.
Bahá'ís continue to be persecuted in Islamic countries, as Islamic leaders do not recognize the Bahá'í Faith as an independent religion, but rather as apostasy from Islam. The most severe persecutions have occurred in Iran, where over 200 Bahá'ís were executed between 1978 and 1998, and in Egypt.
The rights of Bahá'ís have been restricted to greater or lesser extents in numerous other countries, including Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iraq, Morocco, and several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
To deny somebody an education based on an interpretation of a book written thousands of years ago is simply appalling. To deny an education is a mild consequence because the penalty for apostasy from Islam is Death.
The bad thing is, this is just one example of this religion and Islam. People are still discriminated against based on their beliefs (or lack of beliefs) and every case like this should get as much publicity as possible, because every time somebody is discriminated against, we all lose. Go and spread the word. Go.
Sometimes I feel the world really needs a reminder that it has problems, so I'm going to spell out a few of them here. Generally it helps if you have problems spelled out, as humans tend to forget what things are important and just focus on the newest, shiniest phones and apps. Even as a developer, I must admit that apps are not going to change the world. Not really. Not in any REALLY, I mean REALLY important way.
OK, this was a gross generalization, as our precious phones and apps all help us to lead better and more comfortable lives in some way. You can connect with your long-lost friends. You can send messages to people more cheaply. Of course, sometimes these wonders of technology will save somebody's life. This is all great. But I sometimes feel that humanity in general has lost sight of the fact that there are REAL, bigger problems in the world.
1. Water Crisis
Water crisis or water scarcity means that there's a huge amount of people (even as high as 2 billion) that don't have access to clean water. There's a huge amount of people that don't have enough for their daily needs. "One in five people in the developing world lacks access to sufficient clean water (a suggested minimum of 20 litres/day)" (source - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations).
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Projections of population growth predict that by 2024 world population will reach 8 billion and 9 billion by 2040. (wikipedia). Humanity must work hard to ensure that there will be enough clean water for everyone.
Currently, there doesn't seem to be a global scarcity as such, but there are regions that are very short on water. So, basically, humanity is currently simply unable to govern properly all the water resources on this planet. For example, one in five people in "developing world" don't have access to enough clean water, while citizens of Europe and US have access to more than necessary.

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Patients that would definitely recommend
13% higher than the national average
UAB Hospital is a medical facility located in Birmingham, AL. This hospital has been recognized for Outstanding Patient Experience Award™, America's 250 Best Hospitals Award™, and more.
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Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ (2021, 2019)
Top in the nation for overall patient experience based on nine measures related to doctor and nurse communication, hospital cleanliness and noise levels, and medication and post-discharge care instructions
America's 250 Best Hospitals Award™ (2020)
Top 5% in the nation for consistently delivering clinical quality
Specialty Clinical Quality Awards
America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery Award™ (2021, 2020, 2019)
Superior clinical outcomes in heart bypass surgery and heart valve surgery
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Would definitely recommend
13% higher than the national average
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Very thorough and concerned about patient's health.
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Dr. Fisher basically saved my life when I went into anaphylaxis during a "simple" brain procedure. He was amazing, caring, and after over a week in ICU I bounced back quickly. Him and his staff eased my poor mom's mind and was with her while I was knocked out waiting to wake up. They are great!
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Very understanding and great staff.
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He does not participate in "aesthetic flat closure" technique recognized by the National Cancer Institute. All plastic surgeons should be willing to provide breast cancer patients with what they want, even if it does not include breast reconstruction. There are insurance coding options although I...
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Words can not express how grateful we are to Dr. Selph. My daughter had a torn ureter and was in an extreme pain when she arrived at UAB. Dr. Selph was amazing! He gave my daughter her life back.
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For lunch, the Harvard Square restaurant is offering a 3-course menu for $20 --$10 of which will go PIH. In the evening, there will be a party from 6:00-9:00 on both floors of the restaurant. The suggested $25 donation will get you passed Haitian hors d`oeuvres. There will also be a cash bar, with all proceeds benefitting PIH.
"With 10 hospitals and deep roots in Haiti, Boston-based Partners In Health has became one of the pillars of the worldwide response to the January 12 earthquake," reports the Boston Globe in an article published yesterday. The piece details how PIH has been orchestrating its efforts to help relieve and rebuild Haiti--on the ground as well as at its administrative headquarters in Boston. Read the article.
Learn more about Partners in Health's Stand With Haiti campaign.


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When you are seeking a show stopping addition to your backyard, you may
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TradeStation is a great choice for serious investors who want professional trading experience. There was a time when the Broker only catered to the professional brokers and traders. Now as per the TradeStation Review 2020, regular investors can get access to the platform’s tools as the firm has cut down the cost to $0. Here are the trading products available on TradeStation:
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TradeStation offers access to crypto markets by allowing traders to easily move between all the trading platforms offered by TradeStation.
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