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About this talk
We all have biases and blind spots, unconsciously affecting the way we collaborate with others. In this talk, Black Girls Code founder Bryant shares how pervasive these biases are in our society and how that hampers our careers and our culture.
“We must take into account this disparity between our intentions and our actions,” she says sharing the story of her own bias while dropping her daughter off at a male-dominated engineering club, worrying about whether she’d be accepted. “That [situation] drove me to look at how that bias impacts how we work in the world,” Bryant said. If we’re to do our best work as individuals and as a society, she says, we must recognize and combat these inclinations.
Kimberly Bryant, Founder & Executive Director, Black Girls Code
Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls CODE, a non-profit organization dedicated to “changing the face of technology” by introducing girls of color (ages 7-17) to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts.
Kimberly has enjoyed a successful 25+ year professional career in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as an Engineering Manager in a series of technical leadership roles for various Fortune 100 companies such as Genentech, Merck, and Pfizer.
Since 2011 Kimberly has helped Black Girls CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international organization with seven chapters across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Black Girls CODE has currently reached over 3,000 students and continues to grow and thrive.
Good morning, everyone. It’s a pleasure to be here with you this morning. And I must say, coming from San Francisco, I had a bit of shock coming uptown in the taxi this morning. And I’ll have to say that there is nothing to give you that message that, Dorothy, you’re not in Kansas anymore. They’re riding in a New York City Taxi in rush-hour traffic. So I almost feel like I– and I have done a few of those Amy Cuddy power poses in the back this morning to calm my nerves. But it’s a pleasure to be able to kick off the conference this morning and talk to you a little bit about the work that I’ve down with Black Girls Code and some of the things we’ve found.
One of the reasons I really wanted to come to this conference after Sean and the team reached out– because I really resonated with this whole theme of the conference of 99U, that whole concept of success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Because, as many of you may also live this yourself, I can relate as a startup founder to that 99% perspiration part. That is my life with these 60-plus hour weeks that we do to bring an idea of the life. But other than being a startup founder and a social entrepreneur, one of my main roles is what I like to call a momiger. And a momiger means that when I’m not doing that 99% perspiration in the office, I’m focused on helping this person that is my 1% or more inspiration, my daughter Kai, who’s 16– figure out what she needs to do on a day-to-day basis. And I wanted to tell you a story about– one day, after one of these 60-hour weeks, my daughter tells me, Mom, I need you to drop me off. She’s in a robotics team and she needed me to drop her off at practice. I’m telling you, after a Friday in the office, my mind is pretty much brain-dead. And I just go into automatic mode. I was like, sure, just get your stuff. Let’s get in the car, let’s go. And I’m driving up from San Francisco to the Oakland Hills to drop her off at this practice for robotics. We finally make it. I’m not really thinking about anything. As she gets ready to jump out of the car, tells me bye– I just happen to glance over at the garage where her teammates are and have a moment of shock. Because Kai, my daughter, who is a young, 16-year African-American young lady was going into the garage. And all I saw was five other young Caucasian boys tinkering around on something in the garage. And I was like, wait. Are you OK? I mean, are they nice? Are they welcoming? And she looked at me with this surprised [INAUDIBLE] on her face and said, Mom, of course. What do you mean? They treat me well. They treat me fine. They’re perfectly nice. They’re very friendly. But I was like, well, are you sure? And she said, yes. And so she gets out of the car and she starts to walk away. And I still slowly drive away, because I really don’t know if I believe her. So I almost want to park the car and go around and listen at the side of the garage. And as I drove home, I realized at that moment that what I was experiencing was my own bias.
So that dirty little four-letter word that we’re now hearing so much more about– because in my mind’s eye and based on past experiences myself, as an engineer and as a woman and one of the only women of color often in these engineering spaces– when I experienced what I experienced, it was probably and perhaps in that moment a bit different than what my daughter was. I immediately thought, this is not an environment that she would be comfortable in, because often they are not. But in this particular case, it was different. So I recognized at that time, which I already knew, even as a woman of color who talks about these issues from time to time all the time, I experienced bias myself. We’ve all experienced bias. And that drove me to look a little bit more in how that bias impacts how we operate in the world. And I love this quote that says biases are the invisible world we walk through exerting their influence outside of their conscious awareness. There is a fantastic book that came out about two years ago called “Blind Spot.” It’s by two professors, Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald. And it’s about the hidden biases of good people. And in the book, they start out with this example from a professor named Roger Shepard. And it’s called turning the tables. And as you look at this picture, raise your hand if you think the tables are the exact same size. Very few people. But what if I was to show you this? These tables are exact, size is the same. But how your mind is registering this picture and translating it from this flat 2D image to a 3D one changes the perception of how you see it. Another example will be similar– look at these two faces. The smaller, upside-down on one versus the others. But are they different? Look at the eyes. They’re exactly the same eyes, but because there is a change in one element, the change is your perspective of what these two pictures are telling us.
So this really demonstrates in these examples how the eyes receive, the brain registers, and the mind interprets visual information. In the context of the table tops, our collective minds in most cases are unable to perceive these pair of objects as they really are. And the professors Banaji and Greenwald called this a mind bug or a blind spot. So for me, in the example with my daughter, my blind spot was that, based on past experiences that I had, I felt without a doubt these fellow teammates would not be treating her in an equal or fair fashion. And I made a judgment of those people and how they interacted.
One of the reasons that we as individuals and humans perceive these things this way is because our brain unconsciously and automatically and even unintentionally tends to pull from experiences that we have to make us see things different than they may actually be in reality. And this is what implicit and unconscious bias– this is what it looks like. But it’s not just in looking at an example like this, where an unconscious bias comes to play. As you can see from my own example, unconscious bias affects every area of our lives. We unconsciously tend to like people who look like us, think like us and come from backgrounds similar to ours. And everyone thinks they’re open-minded and objective– I think that. But the research has shown that we have beliefs that are gained from family culture in a variety of lifetime experiences that heavily influence how we evaluate others as well as ourselves. So we’re fighting in the unconscious bias– both effects that we have gain from evolution as well as from socialization.
But I want to ask– why does this matter as startup funders? And why is this something that we need to be aware of as we build our companies, as we run our companies? This is important, because bias creeps up on us when we least expect it and in many, many contexts, from design to business through society. In the design world, there’s a fantastic professor of sociology named Ruha Benjamin at Princeton University. And has done some groundbreaking work around discriminatory design. She has an essay that she wrote a while back called “Playing The Game Or Hacking The System”. And in this essay, she talks about how studies have shown that there’s implicit racial bias that predicts the amount of shooter bias in a video game. In these video games that most of our kids– maybe even some of us– play, more than half of the African-American characters in the games are unaffected by any violence they actually receive. So you shoot an African-American player in a video game, nothing happens. He dies, but he doesn’t feel or show any emotion. Now, if we look at the intersectionality when you put both race and gender together, the outcomes are even worse. Nine out of 10 African-American females in these same video games are always victims of violence and far more apt to be victimized. Women in general in these videos are never the protagonists– never the protagonists.
So how do these virtual worlds reflect our unconscious bias? How do we bring that into the game? And how do they reinforce our imaginations and trigger and reflect these perceived realities? There’s even examples in business. I think everyone now is probably familiar with the resume tests, where you put two candidates’ similar or exact qualifications, different names. And how much different the response is when there’s a primarily white, Caucasian male name on an application versus one that is more ethnic or even female. I think the most– I don’t know what the right word is for this. But the most shocking examples of how this unconscious bias plays out is when we look at society. In society, there have been studies that show that white people, including police, see black children as older, less innocent than their white counterparts. There’s a UCLA psychological study that actually showed this out in reality. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and California State University at Northridge reviewed decades of empirical evidence and found that cops an implicit bias, extends to the work that they do. And they found that police officers seem to possess implicit bias that might make them more likely to shoot black suspects rather than white ones. So let’s think– it’s been less than a year now that Tamir was killed and shot by a police officer that thought this young man– this kid, this child– was an adult with a gun. He had a play gun. Do you remember this example? This is what a hoodie looks like in Silicon Valley on one of the most successful, I would saying and most recognizable startup funders. But what does a hoodie look like when an African-American young man wears it? What did that hoodie represent when Trayvon Martin donned it? I pulled this from an article that Cheryl Contee wrote which is titled, “The Difference In Two Worlds of Hoodies”, one with Mark Zuckerberg and one with Trayvon. They even did an article, I believe in “Bloomberg News,” where they asked everyone, what do they feel the impact of marking this trademark hoodie? You see, some people liked it, some people were for and against it. But look at the comments, just take a minute to reflect on these comments, where 4% comparison to Trayvon Martin. And the questions that brought up for people. Mark Zuckerberg wears a hoodie. Is he considered a thug, too? I wonder if Zuckerberg looked as threatening in his hoodie as Trayvon Martin did.
When we look at these different issues, I think we see the same thing that I represented in my own personal example of my daughter Kai and her robotics team. The effect of this implicit bias that we build from these different experiences and social contexts that invade our mind and cause us to see reality different than it is. One of the things that I always like to point out in our work with Black Girls Code when we started– we were really surprised by the numbers of representation of students in computer science, especially women and women of color. And so often, we hear that there’s an issue with the pipeline, that’s why there are no women, there are no minorities in computer science. And if you look at these numbers on the right, that would tell you that it is so. However, let’s look at the left. If you talk to middle school girls, over 50% of them are interested in computer science. But by the time they enter high school, fewer than 2%– 2% from 50%– have that same interest. So I’m inclined to think something is happening between middle school and high school. And I don’t think it’s all about the victims. I don’t think it’s all about the girls. I think that part of it is the implicit and unconscious bias that they encounter each and every step along their path that tells them, this is a place that they don’t belong. This is a place that they should not exist. This is not a place where they can be successful.
So, how do we change these perspectives? How do we change this bias? How do we break it? Fortunately, for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. I think the first step is recognizing how pervasive these biases are in our society and how we all own them– we all do. There have been efforts, some successful efforts based on this data. There’s a website called Project Implicit that I highly recommend you take a look at, by Professors Greenwald and Banaji, that actually has a bias-taking test in there, that you can actually test– what is your bias? And it uses this test– an IAT test or an implicit association test, where you really compare different images with words. And it assesses how much bias you actually possess as an individual. One organization that’s done a fantastic job of taking that same research and flipping into a cultural perspective that’s really, I think, pretty darn slick, is MTV, with this Look Different project that they did about two years ago. And if you look on YouTube, you’ll see a series of videos where they really smash these stereotypes that often people encounter based on others’ bias and unconscious biases. This is one. And how it feels when someone says, oh, you’re different from a black guy. Or they have one from a Latino student, where his counterpart says, oh, you speak really good to be Hispanic. And they show the student saying, well, I should, because I was born and raised in New Jersey. But there’s so many instances of where this bias comes into play. And it absolutely has an impact. So I really applaud MTV for this work that they are doing to expose that. So if you think of the possibility of what happens when there’s intersectionality, what happens when we bring in race? What happens when we bring in gender? What happens when we bring in sexual orientation to these conversations? And all of the different mind pings and mind bugs that could possibly come into play at that time.
Another way that we have found, as an organization, to counteract this bias is really by building new associations to expose people to a counter-stereotypic image. Because even though there is this tendency to create this meritocracy effect, as Banaji says– in the valley, how perceptions are made about people and their competencies. And so you tend to group people that are in your in-group, those that you relate most closely to, as most competent. But there’s also an impact of the same unconscious bias to people that are on the out group. So in this case, these girls of color who hear images that they do not belong in the IT industry and the technology industry will tend to internalize that themselves. They become a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. We counter that by showing them that they can. So when you see an image of a computer scientist, you see images that look like this. Dr. Ruha Benjamin calls this breaking the cultural codes and flipping the script– changing the narrative that’s dominant in our society.
Now that I’ve told you all about all the statistics, all the research, I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer first thing in the morning. Because there’s also research that shows that these biases can be broken. These biases can be changed. But I really, truly believe the first step is that we acknowledge that we all have them. We all have them. And look at ways to create a change– a change in that perception, a change in how we respond based on that knowledge. As we go forth and we’re building these companies, I think we have the potential to change the world and make it a better place. And in our country, even though inequality, it no longer looks quite the same as it did 50 years ago and there are no clear vestiges of Jim Crow that remain, there are undeniably instances of inequality that continue to persist. But understanding the effects of the unconscious and implicit bias that we all carry will help us to accept this disparity between our intentions and beliefs– or ideals– and our behavior and actions. I think it really takes a leap from moving from sympathy to empathy to transcend our tendency to other– and to look at those that don’t really look like us and that we don’t really relate to as different. It takes a conscious decision to deflect and block our unconscious bias and a bit, I would say, of bravery to admit as humans, even with the best intentions, we are undeniably but not irreparably flawed.
Diversity, inclusion– in a fair society, it belongs to all of us. And this is a shared humanity that we must stop looking at others outside of ourselves as the cause of the problems or the people that need to change so that we can create a more fair and just society. Diversity and inclusion belongs to all of us. And I strongly believe that the most effective revolutions will start when we address these issues that occur in our mind. I think MTV, this last video, pretty wraps it up quite well. Eyes up. Don’t shoot. Eyes up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Thank you.

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What You Need to Make a Set Exactly Like Ours:
Flesh colored craft foam (or white painted flesh colored like I had left over)
Yellow craft foam
Red craft foam
Four very small googly eyes
Four small googly eyes
Yellow yarn (about two feet?)
Red yarn (about four inches?)
Bear cookie cutter
Light brown felt
Three tiny black pom poms
Fine tip marker
Paper doilie (like you use for Valentines)
Thin white ribbon (about a foot?)
What to do:
Goldilocks was harder for me to make than the bears. I didn't have a template, so I had to draw her pieces by hand. I first made a circle for her head on the flesh foam. Then I drew her shoulders, chest, and arms on the flesh foam. I drew her dress being careful that it matched the size of her arms. Lastly, I made her boots. Once all the pieces were cut out, Natalie helped me glue them together. She then helped put on her face. My husband drew the smile. I cut out her hair and glued it on, then glued on the little red bow. If Natalie was a bit older, I would have had her help with the hair.
The bears were much easier since I traced our large and small bear cookie cutters. Baby Bear is the small cookie cutter traced along the inside. Momma Bear is the bigger bear cookie cutter traced along the inside, while Papa Bear is also the bigger cookie cutter, but traced along the outside to make him just a bit bigger. I cut out a lighter shade of brown to make their muzzles. Natalie glued these on along with their noses and eyes. I made the tie for Papa Bear out of a scrap of felt. I then made the apron out of a Valentine doilie. I made the apron by holding the heart up to Mama Bear with the curve of the top of the heart as the bottom of the apron. I then just cut it to be as wide as her body and trimmed it to the length I wanted. I wrapped the white ribbon around from behind her and glued it in place before making the bow. I then made the little bow for her ear and glued it on.
Substitutions and Alterations:
First of all, the colors can all be changed. I let Natalie pick Goldilocks' dress, nose, and boots. I would suggest keeping her hair yellow, since her name is Goldilocks, but otherwise all the colors can be changed. You could use all felt, all craft foam, or all construction paper. I chose not to use paper to make them more durable. I liked the felt for the bears to make their texture closer to fur. Pom poms or small buttons can be substituted for googly eyes, or you could draw all the elements of the faces. You could skip the clothes on the bears or alter them. Barton's bears don't wear clothes, but Cousin's do.
As I said, I made these with / for Natalie because she really enjoyed reading this story. It was one of the first books of which she could recite huge sections. I had planned for her to use these as dolls to play with and act out the story, but she really only took to Goldilocks and Baby Bear.
- You can use the dolls while you read the story and act it out.
- You can use the dolls on a felt board. Just make Goldilocks out of felt, mount her on felt, or put Velcro on her back. If you do this, you could also make the other items in the story, namely the bowls of porridge, chairs, and beds.
- You can use your bear cookie cutter to make bear cookies. We made these to use up a can of frosting that was going to expire, and Natalie still talks about them over a month later. I used a gingerbread girl cutter to make Goldilocks. You can also decorate the bear and girl cookies in detail; we didn't because we don't have the supplies.
- Play with the dolls using a dollhouse's furniture and / or dishes.
- Use the bears to talk about sizes. Have your child put them in size order or put them in the correct size bowl.
- Use the bears to talk about opposites, depending on how you tell the story. Barton's vesion uses hot / cold, fast / slow, and hard / soft. You could have your child sort the bears and other objects that fit these categories.

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- Viola Carpet 'White with Yellow Eye'
There are many whites in both pansies and violas, and they vary to a surprising extent - in whiteness and habit, how well they hold their flowers and how many they have. This stood out as unusually good for all these characteristics.
- Pansy Carrera 'Deep Orange'
Orange colours used to be a nuisance, flowering later and erratically, and with blooms that faded or were wishy-washy. This one - part of a new series from breeder Rudy Raes - ticks all the boxes for colour and size, and it holds flowers well.
- Pansy Baby Bingo 'Red-Yellow'
A new variety in the Pan-American series, it has spectacular colours that would stand out wherever it was grown. It has a good plant habit and with its pedigree we would expect it to give a good garden performance.
- Pansy Delta 'Fire Surprise'
A new colour in the long-established and deservedly popular Delta series from S&G, it is another of the bright bicolours that can't help but attract attention. It looks good at this time of year but should be a good autumn performer too.
- Panola XP Sunburst
This pansy/viola hybrid has flowers more pansy-like in size but has more of them than the very large-flowered series. It is a bright orange-red with a yellow flash in the centre, living up to its name. A very attractive colour and a stunning overall effect.
- Pansy Maxi 'Yellow-Purple Flash'
This Maxi series from Sakata is under development and comprises pansy/viola hybrids, which of course means they have lots of flowers like violas but more pansy-like in size. It is a bright, free-flowering plant that is likely to sell well.
- Viola Rocky 'Violet Blue'
Another good colour from S&G's popular established series. This cultivar displays an excellent bicolour effect with lots of flowers and is early into bloom. On the day, they were making a very attractive potful that could be just the job for times like Mother's Day.
- Viola Valentine 'Black'
Like many "blacks", it is actually a very, very dark velvety blue, which is a joy close up. If it sells as well as the original Valentine this will be popular with the public. It is certainly very different from the conventional range of colours.
- Pansy Maxi 'Little Miss Sunshine'
This is a delightful bright two-colour mix from Sakata's Maxi series, and this year is an exclusive to Meadow Croft. The mix should be generally available next year, but perhaps under a different name.

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For the past 8 years, Obama did everything he could to strengthen our enemies while crippling our military and stabbing our allies in the back. While we are thankful that he is finally out of office, something very disturbing has gone missing from the White House, that President Trump just noticed. And it is leading everyone to believe there was a massive coverup on behalf of the Obama Administration to bury the unfortunate truth about Obama’s treasonous ties to one of America’s most dangerous enemies.
Before the rise of ISIS, America’s main goal was to rid the planet of Al Qaeda. Obama might have fooled Americans for a while by thinking he was on our side as he used the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound as a way to prop up his foreign policy success. However it now appears now that Obama’s “war on terrorism” was just a huge facade for the plans he was secretly making with Islamic terrorists behind our backs.
After our Navy Seals delivered the kill shot on bin Laden, over 1 million documents were recovered in Osama bin Laden’s compound that were immediately turned over to intelligence officials within the Obama Administration. Within a 6 year span, Obama would release 571 of these documents, but the the remaining documents remained locked away, with intel experts asserting that the information contained in them was invaluable to America’s war on Islamic terror.
In the last 24 hours that Obama was president, 49 additional documents that were captured during the Bin Laden raid were released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), along with Obama’s statement that this was everything that he had. Along with the documents, a statement was included that was titled, “Closing the Book on Bin Laden: Intelligence Community Releases the Final Abbottabad Documents.”
But the night before Trump’s inauguration, the remaining documents numbering close to 1 million that were being stored at Office of the Director of National Intelligence suddenly went missing. The documents should’ve been handed over to the Trump Administration, but now horrifically, there is absolutely no trace of where they went.
While Obama asserts that everything was released, 49 plus the previously released 571 documents hardly adds up to 1 million. So it begs the question: What was in those documents that Obama was so desperate to keep hidden, that he would be willing to actually steal from the National Intelligence office? There is obviously a damning connection between Obama and al Qaeda that Obama is frantic to keep buried. But now with these documents missing, it looks like President Trump will have his work cut out for him to get to the truth of just Obama’s big secret is.


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Astrology Based on Handwriting: Know What your Handwriting Says About Youlineology_admin
As the saying goes, your handwriting reveals a lot about you. Whether we write a short tale, an argumentative op-ed, or a snappy email, we all have different ways of expressing ourselves. A person’s personality, character traits, and future can be predicted using their handwriting and signature through Indian graphology, also known as handwriting analysis.
Given that each sign of the zodiac has distinctive communication and creative traits, astrology, through graphology handwriting analysis and with its insights into our personalities, holds some hints about the varied writing styles we employ.
Which sign represents what personality? Let’s find out. However, let’s first take a brief detour into history to gain some additional insight.
History of Graphology
For the first time, about 3000 BC, Sumerian traders recorded their deals in a legible script. ‘Beware of a man whose writing sways like a reed in the wind’, advised Confucius in 500 BC. It was one of the first times a person’s personality was inferred from his handwriting.
So, you see handwriting personality analysis dates back from centuries. The Chinese made a similar discovery on their own about the relationship between writing and character.
Similarities in Ceaser’s handwriting were discovered by C. Suetonius Tranquillos in the 2nd century. Saint Samarth Ramdas Swami, an Indian saint and Chatrapati Shivaji’s guru, wrote in great depth about how handwriting may reveal a person’s character traits and how poor handwriting, in turn, impairs a person’s psyche.
Despite the fact that there were other works on the subject, Abbe Jean Hippolite Michon, who also wrote the influential books “The Mysteries of Handwriting” and “A System of Graphology,” is credited with coining the term “graphology” in 1875. His successor, Crapieux Jamin, later divided the handwriting into seven distinct forms using 175 samples. These classifications are still used by graphologists today.
Zodiac Sign Handwriting
Graphology, the science of analyzing handwriting is widely used in astrology as well. Using your astrological sign as a guide, let’s learn more about handwriting styles and its meaning:
Aries are renowned for being fiery, independent, and not afraid to express their opinions. Aries tend to write quickly and carelessly, and if it is right slant mostly, handwriting astrology claims the person is one who prefers solitude, avoids social interaction, and lives in the past.
Taurus people have a reputation for being jovial and loyal. In handwriting graphology Taurus zodiac signs typically favor small, slant writing. These people are known to be quite sociable. But if it leans slightly to the left, you are focused and stay concentrated.
Geminis are sociable creatures. They easily become distracted and are unable to maintain sustained concentration in one spot. They typically choose writing that is childlike. The science of handwriting analysis claims them to be a nonconformist who is unsure of who he is and wants to stand out from the herd. They have an impetuous nature and are disorganized.
Cancers are known for being extremely sensitive, temperamental, and vindictive. Cancers are zodiac signs that frequently write in pretty cursive, this indicates that you are emotionally intelligent, pragmatic, and mature. Further Cancer’s calligraphy analysis states that you are a perfectionist.
Leos are self-assured, accustomed to being the center of attention, drama-loving, ambitious, and devoted. Big letters in Leo’s graphology personality traits imply you are outgoing, people-oriented, talkative, and adore attention.
As befits their zodiac sign, Virgos are modest, self-effacing, industrious, and rational. They are methodical, sharp thinkers, and a lot of times anxious and stressed. Virgo handwriting is usually straight and neat. This indicates a person who is very logical. They are quite balanced individuals.
Study of handwriting analysis states that, Loopy, curly handwriting is a sign of someone who is emotionally aware and empathic toward others. Sensitivity is not generally associated with Libras. As members of the air sign, they are relaxed, amiable, and highly gregarious, yet their excessive attention on emotions is evident in their handwriting.
Graphology and handwriting analysis for Scorpio; Scorpios are discrete, secretive, and enigmatic. Bold, passionate, inventive, and utterly devoted. Due to the intensity of their handwriting, it is clear that they are highly emotional people who experience tremendous, long-lasting emotions.
Cursive handwriting analysis; Similar to how Sagittarians are regarded as being vivacious, passionate, intelligent, and philosophical. Utilising a messy cursive writing style in graphology, indicates many things. They are seen as being more intelligent or it may also indicate that the individual is carrying emotional baggage.
Capricorns are noted to be exceedingly ambitious, diligent, and hardworking amongst all zodiac signs. You are a deep thinker. For you Capricorns, a quick cursive writing style reflects your personality traits of curiosity and ambition.
Aquarians value independence and are very intelligent and creative. According to handwriting studies big handwriting is a sign that you are gregarious, people-focused, vocal, and attention-seeking. This also entails putting on a front and pretending to be very confident.
Pisces personalities are known for being among the most empathetic of all the signs of the zodiac, as well as being innovative and creative. According to graphology, Pisces prefer sloppy and slanted handwriting and tend to bottle up their emotions and suppress them.
Graphology is an index to personality. Looking for handwriting analysis online? Lineology Global provides its customers free graphology online. Additionally, we offer a huge range of services. Visit lineologyglobal.com to make a reservation for our services, or download our app from Google Play or the App Store.


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With the National Lacrosse League hitting the halfway mark of games after Week 13 (61 games
played out of 117), I wanted to take a look at some of the good and bad of what has been a wild
season so far.
Here are some of the biggest storylines as well as the best moments and players from the first
half of the 2019-2020 NLL season.
The New York Riptide beating the Georgia Swarm in overtime is the biggest upset of the season
so far and is a great example of how anybody can beat anybody in this league. The usual
suspects of Buffalo (6-3), Saskatchewan (6-2), and Toronto (6-3) have led the way, but the play
of New England (5-3), Philadelphia (7-4), and especially Halifax (7-2) has shaken up the
2019 Playoff teams like Colorado (5-6), Calgary (4-4), San Diego (4-6), and Georgia (5-4) have
struggled, but there is still time to make a push for the playoffs in the new 3 Division format.
The Rochester and New York expansion teams have struggled, but both have shown they are
capable of winning. Knighthawks 2.0 is probably farther along and have been so close to getting
more wins in 1-2 goal and overtime games.
In the second year of Bleacher Report Live streaming, the quality has been much improved
across the board in terms of improved camera angles, interesting halftime segments, and
pregame shows. There have been a few small hiccups, but it has been a good platform for fans to
watch games on.
It wasn’t until this past weekend at the end of the Georgia vs Calgary game that there was a
major problem. In one of the most exciting finishes of the season as the Swarm and Roughnecks
traded goal after goal to send the game to overtime, the feed cut out completely for the overtime
period. I found out who won by refreshing the Calgary and Georgia social media accounts.
Whatever went wrong needs to be addressed immediately so that it hopefully doesn’t happen
The NLL’s attendance is one of the most highly debated topics and for good reason. Strong
attendance across the league should translate to continued growth.
Looking at the numbers, average attendance across the league is currently 7,831, which is down
considerably from 2019’s final average of 9,596. This is due in part to expansion, but also to
attendance actually being slightly down in a few of the usually bigger markets like Buffalo,
Saskatchewan, and Colorado. However, Saskatchewan has only played 3 home games and
Colorado has only had 4 so it’s still too early to say that they won’t get back to their 2019 levels
as attendance generally picks up in March and April.
New York had a home game with only 2,351 fans, which is not sustainable especially in an arena
like the Nassau Coliseum, but a team like Halifax is a bright spot with an average of 7,522 in
their first year.
The game in Las Vegas drew 4,821 fans, which is encouraging especially if the league hopes to
come to Sin City in the near future.
The league is still on track to break the 1 million mark for the second year in a row.
Midseason Top Plays
There have been dozens of amazing goals and plays so far so it’s hard to choose just a few.
Several have made it to Sportscenter’s Top 10 Plays and helped showcase the skill and creativity
of lacrosse to a national audience. Here are three of the best so far and I’m sure there will be
dozens more in the next half of the season.
Kevin Crowley’s Behind the Back Catch and Finish
— Philadelphia Wings (@NLLwings) January 11, 2020
Dillon Ward’s Amazing Save Against The Rush
— Colorado Mammoth (@MammothLax) February 10, 2020
Mark Matthews’ Swim Move and Shovel Shot
Still thinking about this goal from @markmatthews222 😲
It has everything you could want in a goal!
— NLL (@NLL) February 20, 2020
Saskatchewan beats Halifax 16-15 in OT on 2/15
I tuned into this game in the 3rd Quarter as the Rush were up 12-3 and part of me thought the
game was over, but part of me also thought if any team could come back from that deficit it
would be the T-Birds. Lo and behold they stormed back to send this game to overtime and
definitely created some lacrosse fans out in Halifax.
Two guys dropping the gloves and taking off their helmets to actually fight is becoming rare, but
it’s still an important part of holding players accountable. Usually most “fights” that happen now
are just guys shoving each other, grabbing facemasks, and tackling them to the ground.
There have still been a few good tilts though and I know that when I watched Ian MacKay fight
Chris Willman in person at the KeyBank Center the whole arena was on their feet. The NLL is in the entertainment business and two guys squaring off at center is still a big reason 11,000 fans
come to watch.
The best scrap so far goes to Zach Currier and Logan Schuss throwing down in Week 1.
Midseason Award Winners
NLL scheduling is pretty funky this season as 3 teams have played 11 games, 2 have played 10,
5 have played 9, and 3 have only played 8 so purely looking at stats makes this a bit unfair at this
Once everyone has played 18 games there will be a much clearer picture of who the front runners
are for awards, but it’s still fun to pick these if the season ended right now.
Zach Higgins (Next Up: Mitch Jones, Callum Crawford, Kiel Matisz, Graeme Hossack
Philadelphia Wings’ Goalie Zach Higgins has had the biggest individual impact on a team’s
performance so far. The Wings lacked a strong goalie last season and had a losing record
because of it. Higgy has been the backbone of Philly’s impressive 7-4 start.
Defensive Player of the Year
Graeme Hossack (Next Up: Robert Hope, Brodie Merrill, Brad Kri, Matt Gilray)
Graeme “The Cyborg” Hossack has been a huge reason for the T-Birds success.
Transition Player of the Year
Kiel Matisz (Next Up: Joey Cupido, Challen Rogers, Shane Simpson, Trevor Baptiste)
Matisz logs more minutes on both ends of the floor than anyone else at an average of 28:51. He
is a playmaker on offense and one of the smartest players on defense.
Goalie of the Year
Zach Higgins (Next Up: Dillon Ward, Warren Hill, Nick Rose, Doug Jameison)
The members of the Goalie Union have been playing out of their minds across the league and
with so many games left it will come down to the wire to see who can keep it up for 3 more
months of lacrosse.
NLL Midseason Storylines, Best Moments, and Awards Rookie of the Year
Connor Fields (Next Up: Clarke Petterson, Andrew Kew, Nick Chaykowsky, Tyson Gibson)
Fieldsy played in 3 games in 2019, but is technically classified as a Rookie for the 2020 season.
He has been spectacular for the Seals scoring from a variety of spots on the floor and making
things happen with his aggressive play style.
With about 50 regular season games left and the playoffs, I’m excited to see which teams will
turnaround their seasons, which players will find their second half stride, and who will raise the
NLL Trophy in May.


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Electricity distribution companies have said they lose over N30bn of their monthly revenue due to cases of energy theft, meter bypass, vandalism and unpaid electricity bills by consumers.
Speaking under the aegis of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors on Thursday, the Discos said over 40 per cent of power consumers do not pay their bills, while indulging in illegal connection of electricity.
The Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, ANED, Sunday Oduntan, said these challenges formed the major part of Discos’ Aggregate Technical, Commercial and Collection losses.
The power firms called for effective legislation against energy theft to safeguard revenues and improve performance in the power sector.
Oduntan said, “There is a need for effective legislation by the National Assembly to checkmate energy theft in the country as the practice is costing the power sector billions of naira monthly.
“The power sector is currently grappling with a liquidity shortfall of over N1.5tn occasioned by a combination of adverse conditions among which is the high rate of energy theft.”
In a presentation by the Discos during a Senate public hearing earlier this week, the Discos showed an instance where out of the N27.7bn that was billed for energy consumed in 2019 by unmetered customers, only N5.2bn was recovered.
Oduntan said, “On average, each Disco loses about N3bn every month on these challenges and for the 10 Discos who are our members, the monthly losses are over N30bn.”
He said the power firms were working hard to ensure the availability of meters so that there would be greater transparency to build customer confidence.
In another development, the power distribution companies have said the tariff hike scheduled to come into force on July 1 will be based on the hours of electricity supply available to the customers.
The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, had said last week that the planned increase in tariff which was delayed by three months in April due to the COVID-19 outbreak and customer apathy would take effect next month.
Two of the Discos, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc and Kaduna Electric, in separate statements on Thursday, informed customers that a new tariff regime would be implemented starting from July 1 in a bid to improve service delivery.
The Chief Operating Officer, IBEDC, Mr John Ayodele, said the objective of the review “is to ensure that IBEDC adjusts its tariff in line with the current economic realities.”
He said, “In order to provide more efficient and reliable service to customers, cost-reflective tariffs are required to cover the cost of critical investment in infrastructures and other parameters necessary for improved service delivery.
“This new tariff design is based on the quantity of power supplied as customers will only pay based on the availability of supply. Those receiving 20 hours’ supply daily will pay more than those getting 10 hours.”
Ayodele said although the firm was very mindful of the challenging economic situation occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic, rising inflation rates and a volatile foreign exchange market compelled the implementation of the new tariff design.
“The tariff review is to reflect macroeconomic indices in Nigeria and the global harsh economic realities facing the power sector,” he said.
He said with the new tariff, IBEDC would be in a better position to roll out more meters, upgrade aging infrastructure and be more responsive to the complaints of its customers.
Kaduna Electric said the new tariff had become necessary to enable all players in the Nigerian electricity supply industry cover the costs of their operations and ensure improved service delivery.
It said, “Under the new tariff band, customers will be charged based on service levels. The more hours of supply they enjoy, the more they are expected to pay for it.”
The company added that the new pricing regime was not all about tariff hike but a deliberate and systematic march towards putting the nation’s power sector on the path to sustainable growth.
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The 9 Best Fashion Moments From 2020’s Most Stylish Films
While 2020 may have disrupted the entire landscape of entertainment, few corners of the creative industries underwent as high profile a reckoning as that of film. With many of the year’s biggest blockbusters postponed, theaters around the world shuttered indefinitely, and studio lots put on pause due to Covid-19 restrictions, the industry was plunged into an unprecedented state of limbo which saw the future of cinema itself come into question.
What it did mean, however, was that many smaller-scale and independent films—which may otherwise have been overlooked—emerged as some of the year’s most widely watched, and now most hotly-tipped for awards. Within this eclectic line-up, the costuming highlights proved to be equally unexpected: whether the trench coats and tailoring of late-1970s London in Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, the lavish period costuming of Autumn de Wilde’s whimsical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, or the high fashion spectacle of Black Is King, Beyoncé’s musical film celebrating the breadth of visual culture across the African diaspora. Where the world of cinema might go next is anyone’s guess, but it’s clear that the future of fashion on film is in safe hands.
Here, find Vogue’s selection of the most inspired on-screen fashion moments of the year—and what to look out for when the costume design nominations roll around in 2021.
While all five parts of Steve McQueen’s epic exploration of Black British history, Small Axe, showcased the filmmaker’s keen instinct for costume, the most pin-sharp eye for style came by way of the second instalment, Lovers Rock. Charting the course of a night out at a Lewisham community center in 1977, the clothing served as a rarely-seen window into the impeccable sartorial turnout of the postwar Caribbean community in London, with spiffy patterned shirts and flared trousers for the men and gloriously colorful party dresses for the women. It was a joyous ode to the style culture of McQueen’s upbringing, brought to vivid life by costume designer Jacqueline Durrant.
Given David Fincher’s notoriously exacting approach to constructing the visual worlds of his movies, it’s little surprise that the Hollywood Golden Age costumes of Mank—his retelling of screenwriter’s Herman J. Mankiewicz’s laborious journey to writing the script for Citizen Kane—should serve as one of the film’s standout features. Aside from the retro suiting sported by Gary Oldman as Mankiewicz, the true stand-out looks came courtesy of Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, and Tuppence Middleton in a series of delicate pussy-bow blouses and glitzy draped gowns. The costuming cherry on the cake? An early scene at a party thrown by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst at his infamous Hollywood mansion, at which Seyfried shows up dressed as a majorette in a marabou jacket and feathered hat.
No expense was spared on Disney’s epic, $200 million retelling of the story of the legendary Chinese gender-swapping warrior Hua Mulan—a fact which radiated through its lavish costumes. Whether it was the elaborate armor and battle wear sported by Liu Yifei in the titular role and her fellow fighters, or the medieval Tang Dynasty-inspired robes and wrap dresses worn for the matchmaking and courtly set pieces, the dazzling costuming served as an undisputed highlight of a film that otherwise proved divisive with critics.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
From the opening scene of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—featuring Viola Davis singing the blues to a rapturous crowd in 1920s Chicago sporting a swishy beaded gown and a flapper-style headscarf—it’s clear the audience is in for a rollercoaster ride of opulent Roaring Twenties fashion. Overseen by the 89-year-old legend of Hollywood costume Ann Roth, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom impresses not just for the gorgeous crushed velvets and brocaded silks of Davis’s wardrobe, however, but also for the razor-sharp tailoring worn by the film’s male cast—in particular Chadwick Boseman, who, in his final turn, has never looked better in a charcoal grey three-piece pinstripe suit. It’s a fabulously realized deep dive into an underexplored corner of Black fashion history that deserves to see Ma Rainey sit at the front of the pack for costume nods come awards season.
With director Autumn de Wilde at the helm—known best for her music videos, but perhaps most familiar to fashion followers for the dreamy romanticism of her lookbooks for Rodarte—this year’s Emma adaptation was always going to be a treasure trove of flouncy, Regency-era style. Yet it proved to be all that and more, with costume designer Alexandra Byrne (the mastermind behind Cate Blanchett’s meticulously researched Tudor regalia in Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth) dreaming up a pastel-hued, delightfully playful chocolate box of costumes that brought to mind the freshness and modernity of Sofia Coppola’s idiosyncratic take on period costuming for Marie Antoinette. It helped, too, that the star was Anya Taylor-Joy, who seemed to relish every moment promenading around gardens and mounting carriages in her kaleidoscopic line-up of coats and gowns, bringing this centuries-old tale to vibrant life once again.
Black Is King
Released in July as a visual album to accompany Beyoncé’s soundtrack album for Disney’s The Lion King remake, Black Is King was the thrillingly escapist, Afrocentric fashion fantasia so many of her fans were yearning for this year. Working alongside her regular stylist Zerina Akers, the film featured everything from the crème de la crème of European high fashion by way of Balmain, Valentino, and Versace, to insider labels like Marine Serre, Area, and Molly Goddard. At the heart of Beyoncé’s sartorially ambitious vision, however, was her celebration of both African designers and those across the diaspora: from a striped bodysuit by Ivorian-American designer Loza Maléombho, to a black-and-white houndstooth gown by the Senegalese label Tongoro, Beyoncé and Akers firmly trained their spotlight on the continent’s often untapped design talent. Worn by Beyoncé and her costars with carnivalesque flair, the costumes were the most fashion-forward cinematic spectacle of the year.
Birds of Prey
Few on-screen looks in recent memory felt as instantly iconic as Margot Robbie’s turn in 2016’s Suicide Squad as supervillainess Harley Quinn, topping lists of the most popular Halloween costumes every year since. But while the signature get-up of Robbie’s deranged antihero is now well-defined—dip-dye pigtails, a ripped tee, fishnet tights, and a baseball bat slung over the shoulder—this year’s Quinn-centric follow up, Birds of Prey, allowed her to show a little more variety. With costume designer Erin Benach finding inspiration in everything from comic books and Japanese street style, the fashion of Robbie and her gang served as a wilfully gaudy outward manifestation of the anarchic chaos they wreak across the course of the film.
While Robert Zemeckis’s syrupy take on the Roald Dahl classic, The Witches—starring Anne Hathaway as an imperious and deliciously campy Grand High Witch—may not have won over fans of the notably darker 1990 Nicolas Roeg adaptation, it didn’t disappoint in the costuming stakes. Designed by Joanna Johnston, the nods to style icons like Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, exaggerated proportions, and hypersaturated colors made for a gloriously eye-popping joyride through mid-century fashion history. (A special shoutout to the powder pink, 1950s-inspired opera coat worn by Hathaway as she begins a speech to her witchy coven, which she slides off to reveal a slinky, snake-detailed purple dress—a note-perfect shift from sweet to sinister that Dahl himself would surely be proud of.)
While the bonnets and crinolines of a British period drama are always catnip for awards voters, Francis Lee’s moving lesbian romance Ammonite offers something a little more nuanced. Starring Kate Winslet as the 19th-century paleontologist Mary Anning, who finds herself foisted with Saoirse Ronan as a new assistant, the pair stalk the gloomy beaches of England’s south coast on the hunt for fossils, when an unexpected romance strikes. Though their wardrobe may initially seem austere, it’s a reflection of the balance between conventional feminine dress and the practicality Anning would have required to do her job—an approach to costuming which neatly reflects the film’s broader resonances, as they find their love suffocated by the moral strictures of Victorian society. Designer Michael O’Connor’s name will be another to keep your eye on as awards season rolls around.


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|1||cup broccoli slaw|
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- Mix cabbage and broccoli and place in colander; rinse and drain. Place olive oil and sesame seeds in large skillet, over medium heat. When oil is hot, add cabbage mixture. Cook and stir 3 to 4 minutes; reduce heat to low and add salmon. Steam fish and vegetables about 4 minutes. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
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Bicycling is a clean, green and healthy mode of transportation. It keeps you fit, saves money and reduces our fossil fuel consumption. In order to inspire urban commuters to go green and make their biking experience even better, there are a number of eco friendly gadgets on the shelves. Five of them are given after the jump.
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Taeyang of Big Bang and actress Min Hyo-rin will get married on Feb. 3.
Taeyang’s agency has confirmed that the wedding will take place at the church the couple attends in a private ceremony. The after-party is scheduled to be held at Paradise Hotel in Incheon.
The couple will not go on a honeymoon because Taeyang plans to begin his mandatory military service soon.
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Some leftover sights, sounds, and observations from the Celtics’ 112-88 romp over the 76ers in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series …
▪ Tipoff times shouldn’t affect game conditions, considering everything takes place indoors. But Celtics guard Marcus Smart might beg to differ.
About an hour before Sunday afternoon’s game was set to begin, Smart sat at his locker and looked over at Jaylen Brown, who had just returned from his on-court warm-up.
“JB, you shot?” Smart asked.
“It’s cold out there?” Smart asked.
Brown smiled and nodded again.
“I knew it,” Smart said. “The only thing about an early game is it’s cold. And can’t blame the ice.”
Someone in the room affirmed to Smart that the ice under the court had, indeed, been melted after the Bruins season ended.
“Exactly,” Smart said. “It’s just straight AC.”
If it was a bit chilly out there, the Celtics seemed unaffected. They made 45.5 percent of their 3-point attempts and won by 24 points. The Eastern Conference finals games against the Heat, for what it’s worth, will start at 8:30 p.m.
▪ As Jayson Tatum sat at his locker after crafting his 51-point masterpiece, he summed up TD Garden’s general vibe succinctly and accurately.
“That joint was rocking,” he said. “That was fun.”
▪ Speaking of the atmosphere, Brown’s plea for Game 7 crowd support really seemed to resonate. When a clip of his message, delivered after the Game 6 win, appeared on the video board before tipoff Sunday, the fans erupted before Brown even started speaking. They knew what was coming. Celtics fans may be hard on their team sometimes, but they definitely pay attention.
▪ It didn’t end up mattering, but the final result of the second-quarter incident involving Brown and Sixers wing Georges Niang just didn’t add up.
Midway through the quarter, Brown ended up in front of Philadelphia’s bench after chasing down a loose ball and tipping it to Robert Williams. Niang was sitting on the bench when he reached out and grabbed Brown’s leg to slow him down.
Brown, unsurprisingly, had an issue with this. He stopped to yell at Niang and received a technical foul from referee Scott Foster, who had missed the initial transgression. After review, Niang received a technical foul, too, simply offsetting Brown’s. And the whistle had stopped a Celtics fast break, so the 76ers actually came out ahead.
It could be hard to legislate, and there would always be some gray area, but officials should have the ability to rescind a technical foul in real time.
Brown’s was officially rescinded Monday, at least saving him the $2,000 fine and acknowledging the misstep. But the Celtics would have preferred the free throw that was wiped away.
▪ 76ers center Joel Embiid moved pretty well in this series considering he had a knee sprain that probably should have sidelined him for at least two more weeks. But he did most of his damage defensively in the post, wiping away Celtics attempts at the rim and registering 18 blocks in the series.
But those plays primarily require verticality. Tatum did well, especially in Game 7, drawing Embiid to the perimeter on switches and forcing him to operate in space. It rarely ended well for Embiid. Tatum was 4 for 4 from the 3-point line with the MVP guarding him Sunday.
▪ Is there another pro sports owner who gets the same raucous ovations that Patriots owner Robert Kraft receives when he’s shown on the jumbotron during Celtics games?
▪ Amid all of the strategies, adjustments, play calls, and lineup choices, coaches often point out that success ultimately boils down to one simple truth: Teams need their shots to go in, especially when they are open.
Shotquality.com calculates the expected value of every shot taken during a game, taking into account each player’s situational shot profile and adjusting for game situations such as heavily contested shots. Based on the expected results of the shots taken in Sunday’s game, according to the site, the final score should have been 109-109. Instead, it was a trouncing.
▪ My younger brother Dan’s girlfriend, Isabel, hardly knew what basketball was two years ago. Since then, Dan has turned her into a huge Knicks fan, and she now follows the team more closely than anyone I know.
Moments after the Knicks were eliminated by the Heat in the other conference semifinal Friday night, I received a text message from Isabel, who was in an understandably crummy mood.
“If the Celtics win please cover Adebayo’s illegal screens rarely getting called,” she wrote.
She was referring to Heat center Bam Adebayo. On Saturday morning, the NBA’s Last Two Minute report revealed that Adebayo had gotten away with a pair of offensive fouls, including an illegal screen, in the final two minutes of Miami’s Game 6 win. Isabel has her eye on you, NBA refs.

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Description: View of a metal commercial building with a house, probably a farm house, immediately to its left. These buildings lay on the planned route of the Wausau B...
Description: View of downtown Wausau looking east from the Scott Street Bridge.
Description: This map of Wausau distributed by the Wausau Chamber of Commerce was originally published in July of 1940 and shows the Wisconsin River. The map includes a...
Date: 1905 ca.
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Date: 1904 after
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Date: 1930 ca.
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Date: 1900 ca.
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Description: View looking North up Third Street near Market Square. There are five boys and a horse in the middle of the road.
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Description: Third Street and Scott Street, the Hotel Bellis is at 420 Third Street facing the Court House.
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Description: Elevated view of Wausau from the edge of town looking toward residences and businesses. Hills are in the far background.
Date: 1954 ca.
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The blog serves to show current projects and everything DEMORIE currently creating.You'll also get information about digital artist applications and helpful tips.
Death Stranding - Concept Art - FanArt by DEMORIE. Death Stranding is a brand new Video Game by Kojima Productions.
Portrait Drawing from "Hodor" from Game of Thrones. Kristian Nairn is best known for his portrayal of Hodor in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
A quick sketch by Gabriella Wilde from the movie "The Three Musketeers". Rough portrait drawing with soft details here and there. This work is still in progress.
I've been thinking about it for a long time and i'm going to put in a stronger painterly style. I don't know where the trip will go but i'm going to try a lot of new things.
A small study for experimenting with some brush effects. The texture has been left very rough.
After Rose I+II comes of course III and I'm currently working on it and try to implement new techniques there.
Demorie is a digital artist since 2013. Mainly portraits are painted and various minimalist and oil colors oriented works are created.
Here my next work. Like in "Fade Away" I try to use soft colors and create a melancholic undertone.
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The sounds are described as ringing, buzzing, roaring, hissing or whistling
Scientists believe they are a step closer to curing tinnitus after they have found what could be the root cause of ringing in the ears.
Studies show hearing loss can go hand-in-hand with over-excitable nerves within brain areas that process sound.
This uncontrolled nerve activity causes the noises that plague people with tinnitus and appears to be down to gene changes, Neuroscience reports.
And it raises the hope of treatment by silencing nerve activity, experts say.
Although the studies carried out by the Australian researchers were in guinea pigs - the animal rather than the human variety - they believe their findings will ultimately help people with tinnitus.
Indeed, Belgian neurosurgeon Dirk De Ridder has tried implanting electrodes directly into the brain of sufferers to permanently normalise the overactive neurons.
He has had some successful results, although one of his patients repeatedly reported an out-of-body experience as a side effect.
In the latest study, researchers at the University of Western Australia studied what was happening inside the brain and found increased activity in nerves in the auditory brainstem where sounds are processed.
And this was linked to changes in the genes involved in regulating the activity of the nerve cells.
This meant pathways that normally keep a lid on nerve signal transmission were blocked and others were more excitable than usual.
Lead researcher Professor Don Robertson said: "Identifying genes associated with spontaneous nerve cell activity is crucial.
"It means that it may be possible to use drugs to block this activity and treat conditions such as tinnitus in the future."
Dr Ralph Holme of RNID, which funded the work, said: "Tinnitus affects seven million people in the UK, yet there are no safe or effective ways of alleviating this stressful condition.
"It has remained an enigma for scientists and clinicians alike and we are extremely excited about the significant progress this research has made into understanding its causes."
Vivienne Michael, chief executive of Deafness Research UK, said: "The new research gives us a better understanding of how and why tinnitus and hearing loss so often go hand in hand.
"Tinnitus is a blight on the lives of millions, and any new research that may offer hope for tinnitus sufferers is both exciting and warmly welcomed."
Over a third of the UK population will suffer from tinnitus at some point in their lives and about one in 100 will experience serious problems with long-term, established tinnitus.
Tinnitus is often associated with some degree of hearing loss.


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Comment: Nationalisation and private banks – not such a good fit
Now that swathes of the British and Irish commercial banking sector are in the hands of the state, or close to being so, their wealthy clients need to ask themselves whether their private banking arms can possibly function as government-controlled institutions.
Royal Bank of Scotland, for example, is set to become 70%-owned by the UK government. It also happens to own an impressive array of wealth management assets. Its biggest brand is Coutts & Co., bankers to the Queen, and one of the most venerable names in private banking. It also owns Child & Co., Drummond & Co., Natwest Private Bank and Adam & Co.
These wealth subsidiaries manage £50bn in client assets – small by international standards but big in the context of the UK.
Many of RBS’ big wealth management initiatives have been funnelled through Coutts, which grew rapidly in the UK and abroad in the boom years.
But future growth for Coutts and the whole of RBS’s wealth business must now be questionable – not only because the rich are feeling poorer due to the worldwide downturn, but also because of the state will be out to control the animal spirits of RBS bankers.
Data released alongside UK government’s latest bailout package for RBS has revealed just what a parlous state the former second largest bank in the country is in. Its losses for 2008 are expected to total between £22bn and £28bn.
To judge by his track record at Abbey National and British Land, RBS chief executive Stephen Hester can be relied on to clear out any assets that will fetch a good price, on behalf of his new masters. RBS has already started the process by offloading its stake in the Bank of China.
RBS’s wealth units must be high up the list of valuable family silver that can be sold at a pretty good price.
The UK government is likely to encourage the sale of non-core businesses like private banks, not least because using tax payers money to effectively bailout the parent company of a wealth management operations might not seen a popular move, particularly as Coutts has a thriving offshore business.
To grow, Coutts needs to entertain its clients, and entertainment is not the kind of activity that the government would want to be seen financing. For their part, offshore clients are likely to be worried about scrutiny Coutts’ new sister organisation – HM Revenue & Customs – although the private bank has consistently argued that there are no formal or informal links between the two.
Nor need the government worry about an absence of buyers for wealth management units of ailing commercial banks.
Permira, the private equity group, has recently set up a specialist financial unit to target buys in the wealth and asset management world. EFG International, one of the most acquisitive of wealth managers in recent years has hinted that it wants to make a big acquisition.
A Coutts spokeswoman said: "Shareholders are not entitled to seek access to client information. As the government becomes a larger shareholder in our business, we would expect no change to the rules and principals of banking and confidentiality."
She added: "The government have made it clear that the banks would continue to run as commercial organisations and that they will have have no involvement in the day to day running."
But then many will know, especially potential buyers, that in the history of private banking, which give or take a few decades goes back to the Napoleonic wars – it would be difficult to find one example of a private bank managing the money of the rich owned by the state.


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In the hunt to beat hedge funds, big returns don't come easy, says Bloomberg Gadfly columnist Lisa Abramowicz. "If investors want to win big in the current market, they need to be prepared to do a lot of work. Otherwise, they might as well just go to Las Vegas and try their luck at the tables," Abramowicz says. Good returns this year have come at debt-focused closed-end funds, which have shares that trade daily, pay dividends and use leverage to buy fixed-income securities, she says. Those funds delivered returns of about 9.5% on average in less than three months. "That's remarkable in an ultra-low yield world, especially when macroeconomic strategies have been hammered by unpredictable market swings." The reason closed-end funds have gained so much is that they are also "a hotbed of activism from the funds' shareholders," Abramowicz says. Such funds spotlight the fact that big returns don't come easy at this point, but require diligence, effort and sometimes intervention, she says.
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Urine is sterile when it leaves the body.
It's only when it's been exposed to air for a while that bacteria develops and, if it's been sitting in a catheter bag, that's unlikely.
a) He had blood or a disease that can appear in urine (unlikely) AND
b) The pee went into one of your mucous membranes (which it sounds like it didn't)
... you really shouldn't worry.
Sorry about the poo situation though. That would have really grossed me out.

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As David versus Goliath battles go it is hard to imagine a more uneven fight than the one about to play out in front of the US supreme court between Vernon Hugh Bowman and Monsanto.
On the one side is Bowman, a single 75-year-old Indiana soybean farmer who is still tending the same acres of land as his father before him in rural south-western Indiana. On the other is a gigantic multibillion dollar agricultural business famed for its zealous protection of its commercial rights.
Not that Bowman sees it that way. "I really don't consider it as David and Goliath. I don't think of it in those terms. I think of it in terms of right and wrong," Bowman told The Guardian in an interview.
Either way, in the next few weeks Bowman and Monsanto's opposing legal teams will face off in front of America's most powerful legal body, weighing in on a case that deals with one of the most fundamental questions of modern industrial farming: who controls the rights to the seeds planted in the ground.
The legal saga revolves around Monsanto's aggressive protection of its soybean known as Roundup Ready, which have been genetically engineered to be resistant to its Roundup herbicide or its generic equivalents. When Bowman – or thousands of other farmers just like him – plant Monsanto's seeds in the ground they are obliged to only harvest the resulting crop, not keep any of it back for planting the next year. So each season, the farmer has to buy new Monsanto seeds to plant.
However, farmers are able to buy excess soybeans from local grain elevators, many of which are likely to be Roundup Ready due to the huge dominance Monsanto has in the market. Indeed in Indiana it is believed more than 90% of soybeans for sale as "commodity seeds" could be such beans, each containing the genes Monsanto developed.
Bowman, who has farmed the same stretch of land for most of the past four decades and grew up on a farm, ended up on Monsanto's radar for using such seeds – bought from a local grain elevator, rather than Monsanto – for year after year and replanting part of each crop. He did not do so for his main crop of soybeans, but rather for a smaller "second late season planting" usually planted on a field that had just been harvested for wheat. "We have always had the right to go to an elevator, buy some 'junk grain' and use it for seed if you desire," Bowman said.
To put it mildly, Monsanto disagrees. The firm insists that it maintains patent rights on its genetically modified seeds even if sold by a third party with no restrictions put on its use – even if the seeds are actually only descendants of the original Monsanto seeds. To that end it sued Bowman, eventually winning a legal settlement of some $84,456 (£53,500) against him for infringing the firm's patent rights. Monsanto says that if it allowed Bowman to keep replanting his seeds it would undermine its business model, endangering the expensive research that it uses to produce advanced agricultural products.
On a website the firm set up to highlight its arguments in the case, Monsanto insists a Bowman victory at the supreme court could "jeopardize some of the most innovative biotechnology research in the country" in industries that range from farming to medicine. It says protecting patent rights fully is vital to preserve a commercial incentive to develop and refine new products.
But Bowman has numerous supporters who believe his case could help reform aspects of commercial farming – that is now dominated by huge corporations rather than small or family-run business – to vital reforms. Bowman's legal team intends to argue that the case could open the industry to greater anti-trust scrutiny, arguing that large corporation's vice-like grip on farming and control of seeds needs to be loosened. "It opens up these transactions (buying seeds) to greater anti-trust scrutiny by the Department of Justice. Right now they are sheltered by patent trust protection," said Bowman's lawyer Mark Walters.
Campaign groups are also eager to back the case. This coming Tuesday, farming campaign groups the Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds will release a joint report examining the modern seeds industry. The organizations are enthusiastic backers of Bowman's cause. Debbie Barker, a program director for SOS, said a Bowman victory at the supreme court could nudge the industry towards opening up and treating seeds as a common resource, not a fiercely fought-over commercial battleground. "It would help with wider reforms," Barker said. SOS believes Monsanto and other major firms are less concerned with protecting interests in research than in their lucrative business model. After all, just three firms now control more than 50% of the global seed market.
Yet, despite the vast sums of money involved in modern farming, it is ironically Bowman's own lack of cash that has seen the case end up at the supreme court. Monsanto has a long record of reaching settlements with commercially pressured farmers it targets for patent infringements. But when the firm sued Bowman, he was already bankrupt after an unrelated land deal went wrong. Thus, he had little to lose. "I made up my mind to fight it until I could not fight it anymore," he said. "I thought: I am not going to play dead."

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Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Andie Anderson covers the "How To" beat for "Composure" magazine and is assigned to write an article on "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days." They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made.
When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguised as him, and proceeds to fall for his school's star soccer player, and soon learns she's not the only one with romantic troubles.
In Manhattan, the lawyer Liv and the school teacher Emma have been best friends since their childhood. They both are proposed to by their boyfriends on the same day and they plan their wedding parties in Plaza Hotel, using the services of the famous Marion St. Claire. However, due to Marion's secretary's mistake, their weddings are scheduled for the same day. None of them agrees to change the date and they become enemies, trying to sabotage the wedding party of the rival.Written by
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When Deb is drinking wine at Marion's office, the bottle changes between shots. See more »
Marion St. Claire:
A wedding marks the first day of the rest of your life. You have been dead until now. Were you aware of that? You're dead right now.
Marion St. Claire:
Angela, for example, will die dead.
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The UK cinema version was cut for a 'PG' rating. The cuts were: An aggressive use of 'bitch' to describe a female character. A character saying 'Mother F' when she hears her wedding date has been double booked. See more »
Written by Duffy (as Aimee Ann Duffy) and James Hogarth
Performed by Duffy
Courtesy of Polydor Ltd. (UK) / The Island Def Jam Music Group
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises See more »
The movie tells a story of two childhood friends who had a dream of a perfect wedding ceremony in a Plaza Hotel. When the girls are already young and beautiful women and the day comes that they are both engaged, they start to plan their perfect wedding in Plaza. Thereby the are confronted with different problems and even try to ruin each others wedding.
"Bride Wars" doesn't really stand for movies I usually watch. Although I wanted to watch it, mainly because of Anne Hathaway. I was told she is a good actress and is playing quite good in that movie. Well I can partly agree with that. Her performance in "Bride Wars" was surely satisfactory, however I believe her role was not really challenging. For the rest, I have to confess that the story of the movie is quite poor. It is obvious that the idea of the movie is to show us how two childhood friends deal with their friendship when their most desired dream seems to come true. However this appears unrealistic in the movie. Two best friends who know each other for over twenty years wouldn't try to spoil each others lives. "Bride Wars" appears also not that funny as it probably should be. The jokes are even a bit dumb and absolutely not funny.
Summing up I think that "Bride Wars" is a motion picture made more for girls who also have bright thoughts about their wedding.
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