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Have been using the camera for a year- no hook up problems...now my PC won't recognize the camera
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Camera Connection Hi, I am having problems with my camera connection to my computer. It is hooked up via USB, but my computer is not recognizing the problem. Any tricks or ideas I can use to get it going?
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by Storyteller Kiran Singh Sirah
Kiran reveals the experiences of living between two worlds: on one hand, his experiences with racism being one of the few brown boys in his town contrasted with the kindness of strangers as well as the inspiration he received from his storyteller teacher, Mr. George.
- Is there a teacher, a parent, a movie star whose life story inspires you? If so, describe why.
- Recall a story you heard, a folktale or someone’s personal story that influenced you. Why does it matter to you?
- We can all be the stories we want to see in the world. Do you agree with this or not? Explain your reasons and what would your story be?
- Why did Kiran talk about both racism and the kindness of strangers in one story? What do you think was his intention by doing so?
- Website – Telling Stories that Matter Toolkit https://issuu.com/partnersglobal/docs/storytelling_toolkit_final_2__pages
- Asian American/Asians
- Crossing Cultures
- Education and Life Lessons
- European American/Whites
- Family and Childhood
- Stereotypes and Discrimination
- Taking A Stand and Peacemaking

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If ever there were a wedding that I wanted to crawl inside and take a little vacation, it would so be this Santa Monica shindig. You see, I have a soft spot for black and white details and glamorous surroundings that only the Viceroy could display so beautifully. So join me and say YES! to modern, yellow infused decor whipped up by My Bride Story Weddings & Events, YES! to geometrically-inclined paper goods by Paisley Quill, YES! to this entire scrumptious nugget of a wedding captured by Hazelnut Photography. Oh and that lovely polka dot cake by Vanilla Bake Shop? We'll say YES! to that too. Find more perfect details from this glamy-glam wedding in the gallery. And coming up in a bit, a buying guide fit for a modern lover, a yellow lover or any pretty wedding lover for that matter. Stay tuned!
From Hazelnut Photography... Catherine & Stefan wanted a modern & intimate wedding for their 48 guests and The Viceroy created the perfect clean backdrop. It was important to them that this day was simple: one location, no bridal party, plenty of time for every portrait and an amazing evening of dancing & connecting with their closest family & friends.
They really wanted to let The Viceroy shine, it's such an incredibly venue! So, they choose a palette of yellow & brown to accent the beautiful green design aesthetic of the space. Every addition only pushed the whimsical, fun, clean & modern design that The Viceroy already provided!
Wedding Photography: Hazelnut Photography / Wedding Venue: Viceroy Santa Monica Hotel / Wedding Coordination & Event Design: My Bride Story Weddings & Events / Floral Design: Flower Allie / Wedding Cake: Vanilla Bake Shop / Favors: Sweet & Saucy Shop / Makeup: Nicole DeAnne Bridal Hair & Makeup / Wedding Invitations: Paisley Quill / DJ: LSM Entertainment / Wedding Dress: Justin Alexander / Bride's Shoes: Stuart Weitzman

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When/Where: 10:30 p.m., Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif.
TV -- Sun Sports. Radio -- WINZ (940-AM), WEFL (760-AM), WQBA (1140-AM, Spanish).
Scouting report: At 1-2 to start this six-game Western Conference swing, the Heat has lost six of its last eight overall, as well as four of its last five on the road . . . Guard Dwyane Wade is coming off his lowest-scoring game of the season, his 13 points in Monday's 118-89 loss in Utah . . . This is the first game of the two-game season series . . . The Heat swept the two-game series last season and has won four of its last five visits . . . The Heat is averaging a staggering 117.8 points in its last four visits . . . Golden State is going small in its starting backcourt with 6-foot-3 guards Monta Ellis and Stephen Curry . . . Golden State's Don Nelson is 13 victories from breaking Lenny Wilkens' record for NBA coaching victories... The Warriors are 4-4 in their last eight, after losing 11 of their previous 12 . . . Forwards Anthony Randolph (ankle) and Brandan Wright (shoulder) and guards Raja Bell (wrist) and Keleena Azubuike (knee) are out for the Warriors.
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MMiller Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I just started experimenting with an idea to use "threshold" adjustment in PS (I have CS4) for removing large 'dust bunny' sky blobs that are hard to see. I don't know how well this method would work on small spots in the sky, but I think this is an effective way of locating and removing subtle dust bunnies from skies. I make a "New Adjustment Layer" with "Threshold" ie New Adjustment Layer on your image > Threshold In the layers pallet, the threshold adjustment graph and slider appears. I move the slider so the sky appears totally white in that layer. Then I gradually move the slider slowly as to see lots of dark speckles that begin to fill in the sky. At the edge of the advance of those speckles, dust bunnies will soon appear as rather dark globs. Every time I see one of those globs, I then click on the background image layer and simply clone them out. Then back to the threshold layer, and continue to advance that line, repeating the process when other dust bunnies appear. Seems to clear up the sky beautifully for me. Just thought I'd share that in case it may help others. of course cleaning the sensor would help too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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“We made the world we’re living in and we have to make it over.”
—James Baldwin, “Notes for a Hypothetical Novel: An Address”
What can we do?
This question, often asked in a tone of desperation if not despair, is one that audiences around the United States over more than a decade have repeatedly asked, following the many lectures on religion and politics I’ve given at colleges and universities, religious and civic organizations, and other public gatherings. Needless to say, most people are not seeking easy answers so much as pleading aloud for ways to help improve the civic and political culture of the United States and end certain types of suffering or injustice. Whether our discussions have focused on religious intolerance, gender inequality, structural racism, regulations on sexuality, the country’s broken immigration system, the abuse of authority by political and religious elites, voter suppression, or court battles over abortion, American observers have shown themselves to be keenly concerned about the state of this nation, distraught over what they view as the horrors unleashed or exacerbated by Donald Trump’s presidential administration both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and eager to do something constructive to mitigate them. They acutely want, in other words, to make the world better. I expect other public speakers from a range of fields—academia, journalism, the legal profession, and more—have experienced the same longing from audience members fighting a sense of helplessness, some wrestling with their own naiveté or complicity. Knowing my own lecture hall answers have been halting and painfully insufficient, my new book of essays, Making the World Over, offers what I hope is a more articulate and viable response.
“Making the world better” is, however, a lofty goal, and projects that seem promising often prove to be paradoxical. No scene better illustrates the need for caution than one from The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s celebrated dystopian novel. Commander Fred Waterford—a man who helped establish the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian theonomy founded on the ruthless subjugation of women—tries to explain to his captive and maltreated handmaid Offred why he worked to upend so brutally relations between women and men. In the televised adaption of this scene, he goes further to describe the savage mutilation of one handmaid discovered to be a lesbian—a grave crime in this patriarchal world. Seeing Offred’s anguish, he defends himself and his fellows for ousting American democracy in this new state, saying, “We only wanted to make the world better.” “Better?” Offred splutters in livid disbelief. Coldly, the commander rejoins, “Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some.”
U.S. history, it must be remembered, is filled with examples of ostensibly well-intentioned efforts to make the world better that, in retrospect, many judge to have been good only for the few and profoundly destructive to many others. The history of indigenous nations in this country is one looming example that is far too frequently buried below the ground from which non–Native Americans narrate the past. From the outset, we must acknowledge that the founding of the United States was not simply the product of the Revolutionary War, especially the war as romanticized in numberless books, paintings, and productions. The conditions leading up to that war could occur only after long years of settler colonialism became naturalized, part of the ongoing violent process of dispossessing native inhabitants of their land and assuming control over geographies and natural resources that were once home to untold numbers of indigenous people, many of whom the white settlers destroyed with disease, poverty, broken treaties, and war. Settlers no doubt believed they were making the world better for themselves and their kin and kind, but they either did not perceive or did not care about the awful price paid by others for white self-improvement.
Closer to our own time, other examples of mixed consequences abound: Urban renewal efforts to improve cities have displaced hundreds of thousands of people over the years, predominantly people of color. The GI Bill distributed benefits to veterans of World War II in radically unequal terms that also overwhelmingly affected African Americans, who were turned away from efforts to buy homes in suburbs redlined to be “whites only.” Humanitarian efforts of many kinds, including Christian missions, have had negative effects on many of the people they purportedly aimed to help. And U.S. military interventions into the Arab world premised on such notions as saving Muslim women from oppression have resulted in countless deaths of innocent people. All of these efforts, and many others, were backed by people claiming to improve the standing order and professing their own innocent good intentions, reminding us that any assertion about ways of “making the world better” demands scrutiny of the interested parties behind it and the lives they actually hope to improve. Whose lives, that is, matter?
No thinker has probed these problems more deeply than James Baldwin, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his astonishing oeuvre and public lectures, Baldwin called Americans to account for their long habit of forgetting inconvenient truths about the past. In particular, he called white Americans to account for the hypocrisy of what Baldwin’s latest interpreter, Eddie Glaude Jr., simply calls “the lie,” the myth white people have perpetually insisted upon that they are innocent and pure of heart and ever kind to others. The whitewashing of history to strip it from all unpleasantness and unjust, abusive violence toward others has created conditions that have worked to make the world better for a selection of the country’s inhabitants and worse for many others (far more than “some”). In a successfully whitewashed history, the past is quickly forgotten, both its beautiful parts and its evils. We Americans, Baldwin warned, are historical amnesiacs, suffering from a type of dementia that leaves white and Black people alike bereft of both past and future; all has been reduced to survival of the fittest in the now, and the nation will not long survive its own atrocities. Force yourselves to witness the consequences of complacent ignorance, he demanded: How will you now guard against history’s destruction and your own? The challenge, he wrote in one form or another over and over again, was “attempting to tell as much of the truth as one can bear, and then a little more.” Only by facing the past as well as the present could a better world and future emerge.
But in fact Baldwin was not content with the aim of making the world better; he called us to do much more than that. “We made the world we’re living in,” he warned, “and we have to make it over.” Making the world over is a more audacious, more challenging, and possibly more foolhardy goal than making it moderately better. But our collective senility, exacerbated by a grossly underestimated and mishandled pandemic, has brought us to the brink of what seems to many a near collapse of American institutions, political stability, and societal life. Wait much longer, and it may be too late to rescue the norms and practices worth saving, much less improve them in piecemeal fashion. Frankly, I see little choice other than to commit what efforts we can to making our world over in the sense that Baldwin meant, starting with confronting the hardest truths of our own history.
How to discern and preserve the lessons of history is indeed a question of perennial importance and a strikingly urgent one today, as we see repeatedly in our era’s recurring conflicts over public monuments and historical statues: Who gets to be the hero in our shifting narrative of the country’s past? The very telling of history itself is routinely challenged by what has come to be called “fake news.” The Oxford English Dictionary traces that term back to an 1890 newspaper article, whereas the historian Sarah Churchwell associates it with President Woodrow Wilson’s 1915 “America First” speech and his warnings against “the rumors of irresponsible persons” and “coteries where sinister things are purposed” to undermine the nation. “Fake news” gained widespread usage during Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign, in Churchwell’s words, “undergoing a remarkable reversal from a charge levied against him for his brazen lies, distortions and fabrications, to a complaint he turned on his accusers, claiming that any unflattering fact about him was just ‘fake news.’” Others, however, have seen a proliferation of “fake news” across mass media and the internet in some of the very sources Trump would claim to be true (Infowars, Rush Limbaugh, various personalities on Fox News, etc.). As an increasingly splintered digital media landscape has transformed the ways in which people absorb information about just about everything, finding reliable sources and voices to trust has become an exceedingly fraught venture.
Discerning history is, then, a more vital task than ever in the early decades of the twenty-first century, when much of the world’s population still lives under tyrannical government powers that censor their access to information about the past as well as the present. It is not only dictatorships or would-be dictatorships that enact such censorship, however; republics do it too, and if their methods must be subtler than dictatorial decrees and government-censored textbooks, they are greatly aided by the efforts of elites who gain advantage from the historical ignorance of the masses. These issues have been much on the minds of many Americans unnerved by the fact that the populace holds such contrary views about which sources peddle fake news. It’s confusing to sort out: As the philosopher Harry Frankfurt wryly put it in his meditation on the subject, “One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.”
This, then, is the context in which I have tried to give one scholar’s partial answer to the pressing question shared by so many Americans: What can we do? While the American polarization so often decried in recent years is really not new— hostile disagreement and conflict have been part of our fabric from the start—Trump’s presidency truly bombarded us with an unusually dramatic series of crises, from whatever outlets we consult: immigrant parents and children separated from one another at the U.S.-Mexican border and caged in monstrous conditions, with little medical care and no plan for family reunification; restrictions on travelers and international visitors from Muslim-majority countries; Russian espionage and interference in U.S. elections, met with indifference by the Trump administration; systemic sexual abuse; an unconscionably high death toll from the coronavirus boosted by the administration’s greed and magical thinking; and more. But by no means is this the first era in U.S. history when the surrounding world felt perilous. One cannot name a decade over the past half century, or any time in the nation’s past, when some or many Americans did not fear for their safety and for the future of the country; fears of this nature have clouded many minds and pervaded people’s lives throughout history. Whether perceived threats from abroad or alleged internal threats to the nation, the terrors of violence against women and people of color or dread of the wholesale collapse of democracy, fear has been a perennial undercurrent of our history. Witness the January 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol by extremists claiming the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. President Biden inherited the legacy of these fears. So did we.
Even if we came fully to understand all of our cultural and social rifts and why they feel so bitter in the early decades of the twenty-first century, as so many experts across a range of fields have tried to do, it is a tall order to imagine inducements for reacting productively in the hope of making the world better for more than just a very small “some.” But it’s crucial to make the effort nonetheless. As the political scientist Danielle Allen so eloquently writes in Talking to Strangers, “We are all always awash in each other’s lives”: so how can we think more purposefully about that shared life and how to live it? In the end, I have tried to address some of what appear to be the most critical issues dividing Americans over time, consider the imperative to confront them, and deliberate on a few of the values we might cultivate in purposeful ways so as to address these issues most usefully.
To be clear, I am not an ethicist or a philosopher or a theologian or clergyperson, nor any other sort of moral theorizer from whom we more typically hear about the values I discuss in these pages. Rather, I am a historian of American religion who has for some years dug into various conflicts within our country’s past, especially those pertaining to gender, sexuality, and religion, and who has tried to think deeply about why these conflicts and others— particularly race and, if less visibly, class—remain so unresolved and bitter today. There are most assuredly vast literatures on all of the subjects I cover, and numerous thinkers who have influenced my own thinking, highlighting the fact that whatever contributions I make here are part of a wide-ranging conversation that long predates me and will far outlive me too. I’m also aware that most Americans outside of small intellectual circles do not read those literatures and may not have access to many of them, nor are they primarily interested in scholarly arguments about them. My aim with my latest book is not so much to engage in debate with my tribe of scholars (though I’ll certainly be pleased if it is of interest to them) but to analyze some of the burning conflicts that, while rooted in much older historical encounters, events, and legal rulings, today seem ripe to inspire revolt and tear the country asunder. It is to speak candidly to students, nonspecialists, and general readers who care about the state of the United States and the world in the twenty-first century and who may be fighting a sense of helplessness about how to make things better.
In my book, I take readers through four contentious issues in our public life. The first chapter reflects on the legacies of slavery in the United States and perennial conflicts over telling that history and teaching it to new generations of students. Then I turn to immigration policy and our nation’s long series of arguments over which foreigners should be welcomed across our borders. Next I explore the nation’s long struggle over gender roles and the persistent entrenchment of misogyny in culture and politics. The fourth chapter shifts direction to examine the country’s protracted debates over women’s reproductive rights and abortion. A conclusion tries to offer a way forward and addresses the “what can we do?” question that so many people are grappling with today. It is my belief and hope that facing these difficult issues in U.S. history is a first step in making our world over.
Gilead is not a world I ever want to live in. But as philosophers and historians have warned for centuries, it only takes a small army to bring about a totalitarian social order, so long as the majority of the public is indifferent to or ignorant of its possibility. Both The Handmaid’s Tale and the sequel that followed 35 years later, The Testaments, repeatedly illuminate this truth as well. And reading Baldwin alongside the story of Gilead reminds me that, while I may feel a deep kinship with Offred and the other handmaids in this story, I am a comfortably situated middle-class white woman who surely looks much more like the commander’s complicitous, enslaving, sadistic wife to those with less privilege and fewer social advantages than I have, those whose lives have been injured by evils my eyes have missed or have refused to see. There are most certainly authoritarian features to my own world from which I am largely exempt, but which have deeply damaging effects on others. Ultimately, then, these reflections on history are intended to be ethical in nature, to suggest some ways of addressing the questions that many are already asking in striving to understand the conflicts driving the United States today and the past that has brought us to this present.
“Better” should not have to mean “worse for some,” whatever Commander Waterford says and however much social and political programs of alleged betterment have incorporated savagery toward those perceived to be standing in the way. At the very least, it is wrong to be so complacently nonchalant about, much less complicit in, such barbarity. An indispensable part of defeating both complacence and complicity is cultivating the steady habit of facing history and telling “as much of the truth as one can bear, and then a little more,” in service to trying to make the world over. Innumerable people from countless walks of life are attempting to do just that, and with my small book of essays I make my latest effort to join them.
Marie Griffith is the director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and the editor of Religion & Politics. Her latest book is Making the World Over: Confronting Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia in U.S. History, from which this excerpt was adapted and reprinted by permission of the University of Virginia Press, copyright 2021.

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I would love to wake up in the morning with plenty of time to sit down and enjoy a good healthy breakfast, but most days that doesn’t happen. Do I skip breakfast and wait until lunch to eat? No way. I think I would starve to death.
Instead, I plan ahead. When I wrap up a granola bar for myself the night before I keep it on the kitchen counter next to my car keys so I don’t forget it or I make muffins and wrap leftovers individually in plastic wrap so I can defrost them one at a time. As I’m rushing out the door, it’s easy to just grab my breakfast and enjoy it once I get to work.
Here are some of my favorite grab and go breakfast recipes:
Apricot-Walnut Cereal Bars – Crisp and chewy, this bar is a good-for-you alternative to store-bought cereal bars. The secret ingredient, silken tofu, will give your day a protein-packed start. The recipe also works with other fruit-and-nut combinations.
Lemon-Raspberry Muffins – The secret to the sparkling flavor of these delicately crumbed muffins is the strips of lemon zest finely ground into the sugar. Enjoy the muffins warm right from the oven.
Southwestern Omelet Wrap – Folding a flat omelet in a whole-wheat wrapper makes a high-protein breakfast (or lunch) that is totable and fun. If you want to start the day with a hot egg breakfast, but don't want to fuss with cooking in the morning, you can make this wrap the night before. In the morning, just microwave and go.
Tofu-Fruit Breakfast Smoothie – Add protein to your smoothie with silken tofu. Use whatever frozen fruit you have on hand.
Low-Fat Granola Bars – Storebought granola bars sure are convenient, but they’re often loaded with undesirable amounts of fat. These come together in minutes. Try using chopped dates or dried cranberries in place of the raisins.
Do you eat breakfast on the run? What are your favorite grab and go breakfasts? Tell us what you think below.

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Life has changed considerably in the last week for young New Zealand basketballer Jack Salt, and he got a good illustration of that with a brush with Taylor Swift.
Salt returned yesterday from a whirlwind week in the US when he signed with the University of Virginia and also met a handful of players and staff. On top of that, his first meeting with the coach was at a Taylor Swift concert.
"The protocols are very strict about who you see and when so I had to wait until everything had been cleared before I could see coach [Tony] Bennett," Salt said. "Swift was actually playing at the John Paul Jones Arena while I was meeting with coach Bennett in another part of the building, so that was pretty funny."
The John Paul Jones Arena is where the Cavaliers play and train and seats 14,500.
As well as the impressive basketball facilities, Salt said the academic support networks in place at UVA are top-notch.
Each scholarship athlete has a tutor in place to provide help on tap.
"It's nothing like New Zealand over there," he said. "There's so much money. The grounds are beautiful.
"I'm really lucky because the chances are I'll get to play against some really top guys which I'm looking forward to. It's going to be tough, no doubt."
The talented centre, who is 2.09m and still growing, said he would be available to play for the Tall Blacks in the future - that was something he and Bennett saw eye to eye on.
"The Cavs wouldn't oppose that," Salt said.
Salt soon made his way home from Virginia after signing on and has little time to contemplate his big move. Salt has an important exam towards his scholarship today, so the 17-year-old hit the books as soon as he arrived home.


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NASCAR hammers Hendrick team for unapproved louvers (Update)
— Hendrick Motorsports Statement —
On Friday at Phoenix Raceway, NASCAR identified louvers on our race cars during a voluntary inspection 35 minutes after the opening of the garage and prior to on-track activity. NASCAR took possession of the parts approximately four hours later with no prior communication. The situation had no bearing on Saturday’s qualifying session or Sunday’s race.
We are disappointed with today’s decision by NASCAR to issue penalties and have elected to appeal based on a variety of facts that include:
• Louvers provided to teams through NASCAR’s mandated single-source supplier do not match the design submitted by the manufacturer and approved by NASCAR
• Documented inconsistent and unclear communication by the sanctioning body specifically related to louvers
• Recent comparable penalties issued by NASCAR have been related to issues discovered during a post-race inspection
For the March 19 NASCAR Cup Series event at Atlanta Motor Speedway, our organization has made the strategic decision not to request deferral of personnel suspensions. Team rosters for this weekend will be updated as soon as substitute crew chiefs are determined.
March 15, 2023
–by Mark Cipolloni–
How dumb can you get trying to change a single source vendor supplied part and think NASCAR won’t catch it?
Seriously, you come to a race with your own designed front hood louvers?
After the deterrence structure that was put in place with the advent of the Next Gen car in the Cup Series last season, NASCAR made clear – no changes unless previously approved – they they try a stunt like they did in Phoenix.
NASCAR penalized each of Hendrick Motorsports’ four Cup Series teams, along with the No. 31 team of Kaulig Racing, with L2-level penalties on Wednesday for unapproved parts modifications last weekend at Phoenix Raceway. Each crew chief was fined $100,000 and suspended for four races, and each team was further penalized with the loss of 100 team and driver points and 10 playoff points (with the exception of the No. 9, which did not lose driver points because it had a substitute driver who earns Xfinity Series points).
The penalties occurred after NASCAR confiscated the hood louvers from all five cars before Sunday’s race at Phoenix Raceway. The Hendrick teams involved were the No. 5 Chevrolet driven by Kyle Larson, the No. 9 of Josh Berry (subbing for the injured Chase Elliott), the No. 24 of William Byron and the No. 48 of Alex Bowman; the No. 31 of Justin Haley was the Kaulig team involved. The respective crew chiefs fined and receiving suspensions were Cliff Daniels, Alan Gustafson, Rudy Fugle and Blake Harris for Hendrick and Trent Owens for Kaulig.
The NASCAR Rule Book section specifically referenced for the penalties was Sections 188.8.131.52.A, which deals with how the radiator duct is assembled. The teams were found with unapproved modification of a single-source vendor-supplied part.
Bowman, Byron and Larson had been in the top five in points (Bowman had been the points leader). They all fall outside the top 20 in the standings after losing 100 points.
Hendrick Motorsports said in a statement: “We are disappointed with today’s decision by NASCAR to issue penalties and have elected to appeal based on a variety of facts.”
Elton Sawyer, NASCAR’s senior vice president of competition, said the severity of the penalties was in line with the deterrence structure put in place with the advent of the Next Gen car in the Cup Series last season. Sawyer referenced other L2-level penalties handed down last year to the No. 6 RFK Racing team and the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports team for unapproved modifications of a single-source supplied part.
“We, from time to time, will capture parts, we’ll bring them back,” Sawyer said in a Wednesday afternoon video conference with reporters. “And as we continue to investigate and look at parts and comparing parts, it was obvious to us that these parts had been modified in an area that wasn’t approved. This is a consistent penalty with what we went through last year with other competitors — the 6, the 34. So we felt like to keep the garage on a level playing field, the competition level where it needs to be, all the dialogue that went around this car last year working with the owners on what the deterrent model should be, we were put in a position that we did feel like there was no other way but to write a penalty.”
Hamlin also Hammered
Denny Hamlin was fined $50,000 and lost 25 driver points for violating Sections 4.4 in the NASCAR Member Code of Conduct, which cover – attempting to manipulate the outcome of the race or championship; wrecking or spinning another vehicle (in this case Ross Chastain), whether or not that vehicle is removed from competition as a result; and actions detrimental to stock car racing or NASCAR.

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text: Drug addiction is a major public health issue worldwide. The persistence of drug craving coupled with the known recruitment of learning and memory centers in the brain has led investigators to hypothesize that the alterations in glutamatergic synaptic efficacy brought on by synaptic plasticity may play key roles in the addiction process. Here we review the present literature, examining the properties of synaptic plasticity within drug reward circuitry, and the effects that drugs of abuse have on these forms of plasticity. Interestingly, multiple forms of synaptic plasticity can be induced at glutamatergic synapses within the dorsal striatum, its ventral extension the nucleus accumbens, and the ventral tegmental area, and at least some of these forms of plasticity are regulated by behaviorally meaningful administration of cocaine and/or amphetamine. Thus, the present data suggest that regulation of synaptic plasticity in reward circuits is a tractable candidate mechanism underlying aspects of addiction.

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For years, he was a part of my life. I watched him rush to the hospital countless times, his beautiful surgeon hands racing to save lives.
After all this time, I can’t escape the truth.
I want Dr. Lowe.
Lust chokes each moment we’re together. He promises to fulfill my fantasies—every dirty, naughty desire we can dream up.
Only, I can’t have him.
He’s confident. Experienced. Seductive.
And he’s my ex-boyfriend’s father.
When I think of Nikki Sloane's work I think hot and steamy. When I read the blurb for this book I knew she was definitely going to deliver on both of those things. I'm a fan of this Author and enjoyed this taboo tale.
Cassidy is a young woman (19) lusting after her ex-boyfriend's dad. When she realizes he wants her just as much as she wants him? Well, the fun truly begins. The sex here (and there's no shortage of it) is definitely hot, like kindle melting hot. The taboo element just adds a little something to some already spicy sexy times.
I thought this book was written well and it flowed easily. There were moments I definitely chuckled at some issues presented by the age gap, like Cassidy never having seen Dr. Lowe's favorite movies. There were some things I absolutely saw coming, reaction wise from other characters, but it all made sense to me.
This slightly taboo tale was a quick, fun, naughty read. I enjoyed it and look forward to what this author gives us next. I would recommend this title.
There's not a lot of story or character building in this title. But, there is a lot of sex. A lot of it. And, it's hot, scorching, burn up the Kindle hot.
Did I enjoy this one? Well, yeah, I can't lie. I did. But, I went into it knowing that sometimes the taboo stories are those that maybe focus on the taboo without working through a lot of the issues. There is mention of the reaction of his peers, and of his son, but this is a side note to the crazy hot sex.
For what this was, I enjoyed it. The book is well written, the sex is hot and the story moves. I wasn't bored, although I am not able to say I think Cassidy and Greg will be together for the long haul, but I enjoyed this read.
I recommend this title.
Nikki Sloane landed in graphic design after her careers as a waitress, a screenwriter, and a ballroom dance instructor fell through. For eight years she worked for a design firm in that extremely tall, black, and tiered building in Chicago that went through an unfortunate name change during her time there. Now she lives in Kentucky and manages a team of graphic artists. She is married and has two sons, writes dirty books, and couldn't be any happier.

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Extreme metallers of Vulcano are releasing their third alive album called “Live III – From Headbangers to Headbangers.”
Since the holy year of 1981, Vulcano have been a true landmark of extreme metal. It’s not easy to extreme metal band release an alive album, two is a façade, three the band deserves a statue. Not to mention that their first release was “Live!,” an alive album back then in 1985.
The album is available at BandCamp.


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Ok, this one isn't really all that old school, but all this May'n action made me listen to this song all day today. I present to you a live performance of LION with Megumi Nakajima. There's no hiding my love for Macross, I eat sleep, and dream the stuff. I was super skeptical of Macross Frontier when it launched, but as soon as I heard May'n's voice as the singer for Sheryl Nome, I was hooked.
It was one of those anime intro songs that I always looked forward to, and I just love her voice. I'm not quite a Ranka hater, but she never had the same appeal of the Galatic Fairy herself. Man can she sing live!
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Two book reviews today, since I’ve been lazing through a perfectly lovely vacation and got a bit behind. Four days til 2013!
The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus
In this deeply chilling novel, Ben Marcus imagines a world in which children’s speech, and eventually, all spoken and written language, becomes toxic to adults. All of the prose filters through the narrator’s fog of illness, and the profound isolation of a speechless landscape. In grotesquely compelling detail, Marcus reduces people to shades. We feel alongside them as their organs fail and their skin shrinks.
The philosophical questions posed by the concept of toxic language, and the inventive suffering Marcus conjures, are by far the strengths of the novel. Language and communication are central to our concept of humanity. The novel asks what remains when these supports are removed. It also pushes us to consider the fate of parents whose beloved child’s tantrums or teenager’s rebellious rants literally feel like fatal blows.
Marcus’s world and plot are somewhat vaguer. I wasn’t sure whether to even trust the narrator’s own understanding of his surroundings, especially by the time he’s suffered along to the end of the book. Similarly, some of the sources Marcus draws upon, like hidden Jewish underground prayer huts, and other aspects that become conspiracies by the end, were too confusing for me. But I would still recommend it for Marcus’s masterful language use and original take on the apocalyptic genre.
Girl Reading, Katie Ward
This so-called novel is really a collection of short stories, which in turn reads rather like a talented writer engaging in a creative writing exercise. Nevertheless, it’s a pleasant and well-crafted read. Ward has created seven stories that span space and time, each based on a piece of art featuring a woman reading. She sets her chapters in chronological order, beginning in Renaissance Siena and ending in an imagined future. In between, she dips her toes into a 17th century Amsterdam artist’s studio, the widow of an 18th century poet, a Victorian seance, the cusp of the Roaring Twenties, and a bar in 2008. I greatly preferred her historical fiction chapters to the contemporary and science-fiction future pieces, but each one has its nice moments.
There are themes that thread nicely through the chapters, and I do enjoy the conceit of seven paintings and seven moments. Ward develops each setting and cast of characters efficiently in each short piece. I didn’t have to think too hard, and was happy to bound along with Ward as she dabbled here and there. This is a strong first novel, perfect for reading by a window with tea. I expect once Ward chooses a single place to inhabit, she will spin out an excellent full-length tale.


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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal operation of a stone crusher, Senapathipalayam village, Tirupur district, Tamil Nadu, 11/11/2021
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of P. G. Sethuram Vs State of Tamil Nadu dated 11/11/2021. Grievance in the application is against illegal operation of a stone crusher – Erode mines at survey No. 733/2, 734/2, Senapathipalayam village, Kangayam taluk, Tirupur district, Tamiil Nadu, on agricultural land, in violation of environmental norms. According to the applicant, the said unit is functioning close of the residential houses, check dam, temples and causing damage to the environment.
In view of the above, the NGT directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to look into the grievance, take remedial action in accordance with law and furnish an action taken report within two months before the Southern Bench of the NGT.


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Just like this wouldn’t be complete without Minerva McGonagall, it also wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t feature the beardy Hagrid on it. Although there are a lot of fun facts about Hagrid, we prepared the funniest one just for you!
Did you know that Robbie Coltrane, the actor who plays Hagrid’s character, has gotten a fruit bat and mini-fan stuck in his enormous beard? Hilarious! That mini-fan probably fell for Robbie’s beard that it just had to be a part of it.


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This dish doesn't need an introduction. One of the oldest street foods around, bhel started many a street food lari (thela). And most of them, whether they are from Kashmir or Tamil Nadu, say Bombay bhel. As much as I love the street version my home made one is a favorite too. And its really quick and easy to make. Most of the items in the dish have a reasonable shelf life. And chutneys, tomatoes and onions are usually a staple in the pantry and fridge. We usually make it on Sundays when a leisurely lunch takes long to digest.
Kurmura, in the street version are in the raw form. I season them for extra flavor. The sev I use is also of the thicker variety, not the typical nylon sev available outside. Peanuts and anardana add a crunch and sweet, juicy bite to the dish.
A big bowl (6 cups) of kurmura, (puffed rice), about 3 cups per person
1 teaspoon oil
1/2 teaspoon jeera (cumin seeds)
1/8 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
3/4 cup thick sev
1 large tomato, diced fine
1 large onion, diced fine
1 medium potato, boiled, peeled and roughly mashed
Coriander, chopped fine (optional)
1/3 cup pomegranate seeds, anardana (optional)
1/3 cup fried peanuts (optional)
Heat oil in a large wok. Add jeera and when it starts to crackle, add turmeric, chili powder and salt. Then add the kurmura and mix well. The entire batch should be evenly golden in color.
In a large mixing bowl, put the kurmura, tamarind chutney, coriander chutney, potato, onions, tomato, peanuts, anardana, coriander and sev. Save some anardana, sev, onions and tomato for garnish. Mix evenly but with a light hand. You can use a spoon or mix by hand. Taste and adjust for taste. Serve in a bowl and garnish with sev, anardana, tomatoes and onions. Eat immediately else it will get soggy. Enjoy!


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- "The Holy Monsters," set in a hospital, depicts scandals of desire and money.
On a raining night, a car pulls over in front of Okubo Hospital. Someone from the car takes out a pregnant woman from the car and lays her on the ground. Chief nurse (Miki Nakatani) watch from a window. After the car leaves, Yuka Kasugai rushes to the pregnant woman with other nurses. Nurse Yuka tells staff that the pregnant woman isn't a patient at Okubo Hospital. At this time, Kengo Shiba (Masaki Okada) is at the hospital and the only doctor available. Dr. Kengo Shiba is hesitant to perform a Caesarean section, because he has never done such a procedure before. Yet, Nurse Yuka pushes Dr. Kengo Shiba to perform the surgery. The baby is born safely, but the mother dies. Dr. Kengo Shiba will learn that this wasn't random chance, but all part of a plan.
A year earlier, Kengo Shiba works as a surgeon at the General University Hospital. Kengo has a father, who raised him alone, and works as a barber. Kengo's mother died when giving birth to him...

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Srinagar, Jan 5 (UNI) Army and Jammu and Kashmir police arrested four militants and recovered arms and ammunition, including hand grenades in border town of Uri in north Kashmir, an official spokesman said.
He said police today arrested a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militant Javid Ahmad at Chandkote in Baramulla alongwith one AK rifle, three magzines, 88 rounds of ammunition and one pouch.
He said troops of 10 JAK during a routine checking of vehicles at Sultan Daki check post in Uri yesterday recovered 700 rounds of AK rifle.
All the seven passengers, travelling in the vehicle and driver were later handed over to police station Uri He said Sub Divisional Police Officer of Uri, Mohammed Yousuf during the questioning of passengers and driver, detained three suspected persons identified as Mohammad Rafiq Bhatti, Abdul Majid and Mukhtiyar Ahmad Sheikh.
On sustained questioning, they admitted they were smuggling out the ammunition.
Later, police raided house of Bhatti and recovered eight grenades, 235 Pistol rounds, 386 rounds of AK ammunition and 24 rounds of 12 Bore Gun.
Further questioning of the accused was going on, he said.
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Hill Street to see improvements next year, Ann Arbor officials say
Portions of Hill Street in Ann Arbor will see resurfacing next summer as part of $450,565 in planned upgrades, city officials said this week.
Homayoon Pirooz, head of the city's project management unit, said the resurfacing of Hill Street from South Forest to Washtenaw Avenue will include curb replacement where needed and sidewalk ramp upgrades.
Construction is expected to last from June through July 2012. During construction, one lane of eastbound traffic will be maintained through the construction zone and westbound traffic will be detoured via Washtenaw Avenue to South Forest.
Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com
A cost breakdown submitted to MDOT shows $212,448 of the Hill Street upgrades are expected to be paid using federal funds, while $238,117 is coming from the street millage.
MDOT is awarding the contract and the city is acting as the project engineer.
The agreement with the state was required so the project can be performed as a federal aid project.
Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at email@example.com or 734-623-2529. You also can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to AnnArbor.com's e-mail newsletters.


Impact Wrestling has posted the following to their official website announcing they have entered in to a working agreement with Japan’s NOAH:
As announced earlier today in Tokyo, Japan, IMPACT Wrestling and Pro Wrestling NOAH have come to terms on a working relationship. This is an exciting time for both companies with a more formal announcement coming soon.
In a Press Conference held earlier today, NOAH President Masayuki Uchida made the official announcement.
We look forward to making a formal announcement soon in Tokyo and seeing IMPACT Stars compete at NOAH’s Yokohama event on March 12. We are thrilled to build this relationship even further with more details to come.
Stay close to impactWrestling.Com and all of our social media channels for more on this exciting partnership.


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To celebrate the Gold Rush's place in American history and honor Esterbrook's own history, the Esterbrook Estie has been reimagined in two limited edition gilded colors, beginning with the release of the Prospector Black and the Purple Dreamer.
The Premium Gold Rush Estie's will all be available as Standard and Oversized gold-trimmed Fountain Pens with standard Extra Fine, Fine, Medium, Broad or 1.1 Stub nibs. It is also available with the Journaler nib for $50 additionally.
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Camp Quest is a wonderful organization and if you haven’t heard of it, you should look it up! Basically, it’s a week-long summer camp where you do all the typical summer camp things – swimming, playing games, camp fires. But then there is also a focus on freethought, science, and philosophy. For example, there are ‘moments of science’, where a camp counselor discusses some cool science facts, and there is Socrates Café, where the campers learn about philosophy in an interactive way. Most of the campers come from secular parents and the curriculum is built on a secular humanist worldview, but you don’t have to be an atheist to participate! The camp is focused on being a safe space for all religions, genders, races, and sexualities.
I’ve always wanted to volunteer for Camp Quest, but I was always traveling when CQ South Carolina occurred. This summer I was traveling again (I arrived at camp the same day when I flew back from San Francisco), but I was able to make part of the camp! I was invited to speak to the campers about gender, consent, and healthy relationships since I regularly talk about those subjects to adults. However, this was my first time talking to children about it!
I helped run four separate workshops on “consent education” for the campers of varying age groups. Elyssa, a cisgendered woman, and Luca, a nonbibary person, also helped run the workshop. I think it was important for people of various genders and sexualities to talk about these issues instead of it all coming from one source. The first thing we talked about was simply the difference between gender and sex. Gender being what a person identifies as and sex meaning their chromosomes and their sexual organs. The kids seemed to grasp this well, but there was some confusion with the younger kids. And to be fair, many adults still do not know the difference. So it was great to just introduce to them that sexuality and gender is a complicated thing on a spectrum.
The next part was on consent and healthy relationships and I was very interested to see how this would go with children. With the younger children (8-12), we talked about consent in a general sense. What is consent? When do you need it? We used examples of asking if it is okay to hug someone and the brilliant cup of tea metaphor for consent. The younger kids seemed to really understand that you need permission before you can invade someone’s personal space, which was great to observe.
Imagine if all children were able to learn these lessons at an early age without certain religious groups trying to remove sexual education from schools!With the older kids (13-17), we did talk about consent in a sexual and romantic sense. Again, I was pleasantly surprised to see how well and quickly the kids understood the concept. Even when I explained how sometimes you are not owed an explanation or closure when someone says “no” the kids all nodded in agreement.
The part that may have been the most tricky (and potentially most important) was when talking about alcohol. We discussed how sometimes you may not be able to give or receive consent if there is a substance involved which alters cognitive functioning. Again, the tea metaphor was great for illustrating this point. If someone is drunk, would you trust them to receive very hot tea as they could burn themselves? I was so happy to see the children understand how consent cannot be given if a person is not sober. A male camper actually found me after the presentation and thanked me for clearing that up for him as he always wondered how alcohol affects consent.
Overall, I was so happy to be able to help out and share what I’ve learned with the children. Hopefully, they will share what they learned with other kids and we can start to see the horrific rates of sexual violence decrease.
I would highly encourage anyone not familiar with Camp Quest to look into volunteering or sending your kids there! I was only going to help out with the consent ed workshops, but I had so much fun at camp that I stayed the rest of that day and the following day as well. It was great to see how wonderful and curious kids can be before they are influenced by the corrupt parts of society.
My youngest daughter has been to Camp Quest twice, loved it both times. I highly recommend it.
The Unitarian Universalists also have good classes on sex education for different age groups (their program is called OWL for “our whole lives”, including sessions on relationships and consent. When my daughter was in 8th grade, she took a whole year of this class, which included an LGBT panel and a visit from Planned Parenthood. For people who don’t have Camp Quest in their area, this could be a good alternative.
I’m not a parent, but I’m really glad to hear that there are organizations doing this. Also, I’ve seen the tea video before and I love how simply it establishes the concept of consent.


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After a worldwide pandemic and a current shortage of diesel mechanics, it’s safe to say trucking companies need to find ways to be more self-sufficient. Our truck shop opened in 2016, and I can’t imagine going back to a time when we were without it.
Discounts and priority are typically offered to drivers who belong to that specific trucking company’s truck shop. This system provides some additional incentive for drivers to join that company as well. The quotes offered are more easily understood and the work can be completed at one location.
Some repair shops may not be able to perform all repairs by themselves. This means the fees incurred will involve transportation, different shops, a fee for shipping the products and a premium price for labor. When you have stock in the driver, the truck and the revenue generated from the repair, it establishes a value adding business relationship.
“Time is what we want most but what we use worst.” – William Penn
In trucking, if you aren’t moving you aren’t making money. The time it takes to bring in a third-party shop is totally alleviated by having an on-site repair shop. There is no need to take a truck to another location, pay for travel to and from, wait for them to familiarize themselves with the issue and history of the truck, all while sitting still and not making money. It benefits the company and it benefits the driver. It truly is a win-win.
Less downtime means greater access and adaptability for scheduling purposes. Instead of waiting days or even weeks for a call from the repair shop – or in some cases multiple shops – repairs can be done efficiently in-house.
We use an app (Fullbay and Samsara) to schedule repairs and perform inspections. Every time a driver performs an inspection, our fleet and safety departments receive the information instantly. This means our mechanics and shop managers understand the complete history of the truck, trailer and driver.
If a driver makes note of an issue, the necessary people know about it instantly. The same people are always dealing with the same trucks and drivers. This knowledge and experience bring obvious advantages.
The shop will be able to diagnose the problem and prevent future issues with greater clarity in a timely fashion. An outsourced shop would need to collect an entirely new set of details for the repair and wouldn’t have any knowledge of prior work performed unless it was documented.
In emergency situations, it’s a life saver to have a go-to resource to call. An on-site repair shop will have a vested interest in getting drivers back on the road as soon as possible, so they will work harder than an outsourced shop would to help the driver.
When a driver schedules a visit to your shop, they have the added perks of being at your lot. In some cases, if the repair will take some time, you can even offer a different truck for the driver so they can stay on the road. It doesn’t get much better than that.
Trucking companies that have their own repair shops have the flexibility to offer everything a truck driver might need. This may entail complete truck and trailer repair; collision and damage repair; electrical service and computer diagnostics; brake services; welding; tire service; oil changes and preventative maintenance; engine service; emergency roadside assistance; laser HD alignment and more.
If there’s a need, having an on-site truck center can fulfill it. The repair time is decreased, the scheduling is easier, the cost is less for the company and the driver and it’s a good way to make passive income for a trucking company. If, hypothetically, a worldwide pandemic shuts all warehouses and transportation down for a few months, a repair shop can keep trucks in prime shape.
The guys at our truck repair shop do so much to maintain our performance as a trucking company and we can’t thank them enough. Their work is vital to our operations running efficiently and smoothly. Plus, our shop develops meaningful working relationships with drivers, so they both can continue to thrive together.

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Kyle Lamb discusses the idea of Fostering an Earning Mentality in his book Leadership in the Shadows.
This goes not just for leaders seeking to develop their subordinates, but for individuals in striving toward becoming, and abiding as, as high performers. While high performance is it’s own reward, there are many dividends in having earned that place among one’s peers.
Not everyone seems to think this way…
tr.v. earned, earn·ing, earns
1. To gain especially for the performance of service, labor, or work: earned money by mowing lawns.
2. To acquire or deserve as a result of effort or action: She earned a reputation as a hard worker.
earn (one’s) spurs/stripes
To gain a position through hard work and the accumulation of experience, often in the face of difficulties.
“The definition of entitlement is: the feeling or belief that you deserve to be given something (such as special privileges). A sense of entitlement complex is linked with narcissism and borderline personality disorder.”
Now some will say that there is a decided lack of the former – an earning mentality – and a surplus of the latter feeling entitlement, amongst Millennials.
I beg to differ. While I personally do see it with some Millennials, they are simply following in the footsteps of certain of my own cohort that share the same personality traits. Indeed, some of the more credulous Millennials seem to find like personalities among older people to serve as mentors, coaches, and stepping stones to ensure that their careers, their positions, and their self-centered self-esteem are ensured and assured.
Reputation, and the idea of earning one’s place, be damned.
There are some who feel that such people need to be “learned,” that is, that they should be taught through blunt language and hard example that the only real position, status, or esteem is that which is earned.
It’s more likely that these people cannot learn. It is a matter of personality, nothing more and nothing less. “Learnin'” them would be akin to talking someone out of any number of other personality traits. Maybe long term professional counseling can deal with the manifestation of the entitled personality, but it won’t change the fundamental wiring. In many spheres, it works: public service is one which caters to a lack of earning mentality simply because every step of the way is controlled so as to be inclusive, to remove barriers, and to control for the negative effects that being incapable, being incompetent, having earned a poor reputation, or simply never having ever really done anything – or done anything yet – have on careers in other fields. These personalities tend toward public service for exactly that reason. When one no longer has to earn anything, or to prove themselves through actual performance, there are a whole lot more opportunities available.
It has been said that “champions are not chosen from the ranks of the unscarred.”
Is it worth noting that it seems now that in our games we still feel that pride of place should go to those who have earned it, but in our lives, sometimes literally with lives in the balance, we no longer hold to that ideal?

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A wedding collection that’s bold, colourful, and quirky
We caught up with designer Harshita Sultania of Harshita Sultania Jewellery at Bombaim on AJC Bose Road to get a sneak peek into her new wedding collection. You can catch her at 6 Little Russell Street, where the label shows by appointment.
What’s the vision behind the collection?
The vision behind the collection is to create pieces that are more usable. Pieces that you don’t just buy for one occasion and then never use again. All our pieces, therefore, are versatile. For example, our bracelets can be worn as chokers, our studs can be worn as rings, and our earrings can be worn as headpieces. We want to make jewellery more fun and usable. I think people look at fine jewellery as a huge expense and something that they can’t wear all the time. So we’re trying to change that perspective of the people in Calcutta through this collection.
What would you say is unique about this collection?
What’s unique about this collection is that we’ve tried to play around with a lot of gemstones, so we’ve used things like emeralds and tanzanites. We’ve tried to add a lot of colour to our pieces, which is something that I think is lacking in Calcutta. If you take a look at the other cities like Delhi and Bombay you will see these young, fun jewellers doing very colourful and fancy pieces. But you don’t get to see that here in Calcutta. Every time I interact with my clients they’re always telling me that pieces that are wearable aren’t available here. So that’s something that I’ve tried to incorporate in our new collection to fill that gap.
What’s an ongoing trend that you’re loving?
I’m loving the trend of using pastel gemstones like Russian emeralds and fluorites in jewellery. These are a couple of gemstones that we have ourselves used in several pieces. Additionally, the trend of using pastel gemstones for summer weddings is something I’m loving right now. We are working on more pieces that have baby pink and baby blue. Nowadays, people don’t opt for loud wedding colours any more. They just want to look fresh and feel light, so that’s what I try to channel in my collection as well —pieces that are light, wearable, and fun.
If you could describe your brand in three words, what would they be?
Bold, colourful, and quirky! I have a lot of fun making these pieces because we don’t restrict ourselves to the traditional settings. So that’s the message I want the pieces to send out as well. I describe my collection as “candy-coloured” because of how colourful we make them. That’s our signature style. Even this wedding collection is not restricted to weddingwear only. Each piece, including the bridal look, can be worn as separates. A lot of our chokers can be worn at birthday parties or anniversary parties too.
How would you go ahead with modernising traditional Indian jewellery?
We have used meena in a few of our pieces but we try to combine it with fine diamonds or Russian emeralds. So if you contrast a dark traditional colour like dark green with light-coloured stones, it gives it a slightly modern touch. We don’t think that you should be wearing a lehnga from 2021 with jewellery from the 1800s. So that’s a trend we’re trying to instil: With your clothes upgrade your jewellery too!
This one’s specially curated for all the bridesmaids! The elaborate lehnga-choli set by Aisha Rao (courtesy Bombaim) is paired with minimal but big polki pieces to make a statement while keeping things subtle. The necklace is a simple single line of polki, paired with a chunky flower pendant to help the bridesmaid make an impact. The bracelets are unique and can be worn later as a choker, and the pieces are lined with traditional meena work, sporting real emeralds to match.
For the main event, the Jayanti Reddy (courtesy Bombaim) bridal outfit has been paired with layered and chunky neckpieces made of gold, polki and emeralds. The earrings chosen are minimal and light to keep the attention on the neckpiece, and can be paired later with a sari or a Chinese collar. Each piece in the bridal set can be worn as separates. The sister of the bride has chosen another Jayanti Reddy piece, with huge statement earrings to make up for the lack of a neckpiece. The earrings are lined with gold and embedded with pearls and brilliantly cut polki to glam up the look.
This look is for the after-party where the bride can let her hair down in a peacock blue NGB outfit. The bride is styled with a diamond choker embedded with blue sapphires to add to that midnight glam vibe, which is paired with simple diamond studs to match. The bracelets have diamonds and polki and are set in blue enamel — pieces that are simple and elegant that you can easily wear again with any other outfit.
The lemon yellow Mrunalini Rao lehnga (courtesy Bombaim) is paired with green-and-red jewellery to create a subtle contrast. The bracelet worn by the bride is a unique piece made of dark red pearls and dark green meena to create that stark contrast with the outfit. The delicate choker is made with several pearls to catch the light as the bride walks, and is paired with subtle drop earrings that are again made of pearls.
The shimmery peach sari by Jayanti Reddy (courtesy Bombaim) is paired with a polki choker embedded with colourful tourmalines in shades of purple, pink, and green to make for a stunning neckpiece for any bride at her engagement party. Paired with big statement studs to go with the classic updo, the earrings are subtle and light. Complete with a matching bracelet, the bride is ready with the perfect look to start her wedding off with a bang.
This one’s specially made for summer weddings. Pictured here are the bride’s best friends dressed in Rahul Mishra (courtesy Bombaim), and decked with extremely light pieces, high up and away from any interference with the clothes or hair. Both Tanisha De and Samira Grewal are sporting chokers made with fluorites that give it that light green colour, and are paired with smaller earrings perfect for any updo. Tanisha is sporting a statement emerald at the centre of her choker with minimal polki work to bring on that shine.
Pictures: Pabitra Das
Styling: Neha Gandhi Binjrajka
Hair & make-up: Abhjit Paul
Models: Tanisha De and Samira Grewal


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“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” —Warren Buffett
I’ve known Mike since 2006 when he was a partner at Panorama Capital. I was at SVB and responsible for the relationship with Mike’s firm. He and I often spoke about how the startup landscape was changing and, by definition, how venture capital was changing, too. Companies were staying private longer, needed less capital to get to product-market fit, and were growing faster than we had witnessed in the prior decade. He was all too familiar with this dynamic and its downsides.
Mike experienced it first hand when he ran corporate strategy and business development at Ask.com. He joined when it was still a private company and helped drive it through to a successful IPO in 1999. Having architected distribution deals like GoTo.com and acquisitions like Direct Hit, Mike was most always locked up from ever selling shares. So when the dotcom bubble burst, he ended up owing far more in taxes than his shares would ever be worth.
Another example was during Mike’s tenure at JPMorgan Partners (the predecessor to Panorama), one of the first investments he led traveled quite a bumpy road. Like most startups, the path to success was far from a linear one. Years on, the company found its stride in transforming a generations-old industry with a new approach. Having proven the business model and now aggressively scaling the business, the founding team sought some liquidity as part of the financing when Mike invested. However, that conversation was equally bumpy around the JPMP table. The prevailing thinking among VCs then was: “Why are we putting money in while they’re taking money out?”
In reality, neither the founder nor his team were trying to “cash out.” They were simply looking to solve for their particular personal situations. In the founder’s case, he had imposed upon himself a meager salary ever since the company’s founding. He was seeking to provide his family with a little financial security, to make that distraction go away and to get back to focusing on long-term company building.
Upon reflection, those two experiences are what gave Mike the formula for how our new firm could address a variety of financing needs for fast-growing companies, whether that was for the business, the employees, or early investors. However, our market entry would first focus on conducting secondary investing in a way that aligned everyone’s interests — by providing enough liquidity for the team and early financial backers. To release their pressure valve so that all could remain focused on building an enduring franchise.
Another perspective Mike brought to the formation of the firm was his experience with the Alpha Network. Having co-founded Alpha with Eric Chin of Crosslink, which is an early stage networking community of founders and CEOs, Mike learned the deeply meaningful value of “give to get”. That by selflessly and genuinely helping someone, without expectation of getting anything in return, would be the most authentic path to building real relationships with executives. This set of values that would later blossom into The Circle.
The clincher for Mike to create Founders Circle with me was his deep desire to be a founder and build something of real economic and human value. He had enthusiastically helped make other peoples’ businesses–advising as a lawyer and banker, operating as an executive, investing as a VC and angel. Now he was ready to build his own business. To be a founder helping founders. Nothing is more exhilarating for him than to work with the brilliant minds, ambitious drive, and the shrewd instincts of those who see no alternative other than to change a corner of the world.
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Talk about coming in HOT! I’m not sure that lady even noticed what was going on? Good thing she wasn’t 3 steps slower.
This is the dramatic moment that San Diego harbour cruise ship Adventure Hornblower crashed into the pier while trying to dock. The incident, which took place shortly before 1pm on Thursday as a group of tourists watched with horror, caused significant damage to the bow of the vessel and the waterfront walkway.

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While coffee or tea can give you a much-needed boost, too much of it can also affect your health. Caffeine works as a stimulant and can cause anxiety, insomnia, and even heart palpitations. It’s also addictive, so it’s easy to get into the habit of relying on it.
Are you a nurse who feels like you can’t live without your daily caffeine fix? If so, you’re not alone. Caffeine is among the most addictive substances available. But that doesn’t mean you must keep relying on it to get through the day. There are numerous ways to wean yourself off caffeine and kick your addiction to the curb for good. Here are a few tips to help you get started.
1. Don’t go cold turkey
Nursing is demanding, and cutting out caffeine can be tough. Quitting caffeine suddenly can shock your system and lead to withdrawal symptoms like headaches, fatigue, and irritability. You will have an easier time quitting caffeine if you reduce your intake gradually. Start by reducing caffeinated beverages like coffee, tea, and energy drinks. Then, switch to decaf versions of these drinks. Finally, eliminate caffeine and stick to water, juice, and herbal tea.
Many nurses continue their education even after they have completed their schooling and become licensed. To grow their skills and opportunities, they opt for a second nursing career by specializing in an additional nursing field like FNP or DNP. All this extra schooling and effort may require extra working hours, which may lead to greater reliance on caffeine to make it through long work days. While going cold turkey can not only impact the quality of patient care, it also affects their learning and focus during classes. To avoid withdrawal symptoms and still get their career on track, nurses must be mindful of how they are using caffeine and look for ways to cut back gradually.
2. Know your triggers
Do you always reach for a cup of coffee first thing in the morning? Or do you need a caffeinated drink to get through your late-night shifts? If you can figure out what sets off your triggers, you can then work on avoiding those things.
If you know you’re more likely to crave caffeine when you’re tired, ensure you get enough sleep. And if you reach for a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, try drinking water or herbal tea instead. Nursing can be a very demanding profession, so it is essential to find healthy coping mechanisms instead of counting on caffeine.
3. Find other ways to boost your energy
If you’re used to counting on caffeine to get through the day, you may need to find other ways to boost your energy. Workout is a fantastic way to increase your energy levels naturally. Taking a brisk walk, running, or even doing simple stretching exercises can help you feel more energetic. Eating healthy foods is also essential. Make sure to have plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in your diet. And if you’re feeling exhausted, take a nap! All these things will help you feel more energetic and better for your health in the long run than depending on caffeine.
As a nurse, you are consistently on the go. You may feel like you don’t have time for healthy habits like exercising and eating right. But if you wish to kick your caffeine addiction, you need to make efforts to incorporate these things into your life.
4. Drink plenty of water
Many people mistake thirst for hunger. If you’re feeling tired, drink a glass of water instead of reaching for a cup of coffee. You may only need a little hydration to boost your energy levels. Drinking plenty of water will also help you stay hydrated, which is essential when working long hours.
Nurses need to be well-hydrated to avoid fatigue and maintain optimal cognitive function. Make sure to drink adequate water throughout the day by carrying a water bottle with you at all times. You may add lemon, lime, or cucumber slices to your water to make it more refreshing.
5. Consider using supplements
You may consider using supplements if you struggle to kick your caffeine habit. Many herbal supplements can help increase energy levels and improve focus. Some of these include ginseng, green tea, and guarana. There are also many vitamin supplements that can help improve energy levels. These include vitamins B6, B12, and iron. Caffeine addiction can be challenging to overcome, but with determination and effort, it is possible to kick the habit for good!
6. Take breaks
Nursing is a demanding profession. It is essential to take breaks throughout the day to avoid burnout. If you find yourself feeling tired, take a few minutes to yourself to relax and rejuvenate. Listen to music, take a stroll or read a book. Taking breaks will help you avoid consuming caffeine to get through the day. To be the best nurse possible, taking care of yourself physically and mentally is essential.
7. Replace a large coffee with a small one
If you’re used to drinking large cups of coffee, try replacing it with a smaller one. Caffeine provides a quick burst of energy, but it also leads to a crash. So, if you’re drinking multiple cups of coffee throughout the day, you may feel tired and irritable. Reducing the size of your coffee will help you consume less caffeine and avoid crashes. It will also change your coffee habit from one that is unhealthy to one that is more moderate.
8. Avoid sugary energy drinks
Many people who are trying to quit caffeine use energy drinks as a replacement. However, these drinks are often loaded with sugar and other unhealthy ingredients. If you are trying to end your caffeine habit, avoid energy drinks. Instead, opt for water or herbal tea. These quenchers will help you stay hydrated and avoid the sugar crash of energy drinks. Nurses must be well-rested and have a clear head to perform their duties. Consuming sugary energy drinks will only lead to more fatigue in the long run.
9. Avoid drinking caffeine late in the day
One of the most harmful things you can do when attempting to quit caffeine is to consume it later in the day. Caffeine’s half-life is about six hours, which means it takes that long for your body to eliminate half of the caffeine you consume. So, if you drink caffeine at 2 pm, half of it will still be in your system at 8 pm. It can make it difficult to fall asleep at night and lead to fatigue the next day. To avoid this, try to consume caffeine earlier in the day and avoid drinking it after 2 pm. Once you kick your caffeine habit, you’ll sleep better at night and have more energy during the day.
Nursing is a challenging career that requires long hours. It can make it difficult to kick a caffeine habit. We hope that the strategies discussed in this blog will help you break your dependence on caffeine and improve your overall health—best of luck in your efforts to live a caffeine-free lifestyle. If you have any information on how to quit caffeine, please share them in the comments section below. Thanks for reading!

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The Treehouse Hotel, North Sydney – part 2
I know I have already published a post on The Treehouse Hotel, however I have been back a couple of times since then so I thought I would share with you more of the gluten free options available, especially since they now have a new menu!
One lunch time when at The Treehouse Hotel for a client catch-up I decided to order the poached chicken salad. When the salad came out it had a Parmesan crust on top and I was a little suspicious. Since I prefer to be safe rather than sorry I asked the waiter if this crust was gluten free. He said he would have to check as he didn’t actually think it was. He was very apologetic and organised for another salad to be made for me, when he confirmed that in fact it probably wasn’t, without the Parmesan crust.
I absolutely love the way the salad was presented and not only did it look great but it was delicious, full of flavour and just the right amount.
I also went to The Treehouse Hotel one Saturday night for my friends birthday dinner. I wasn’t sure what the atmosphere would be like on a Saturday night as North Sydney tends to only be populated during the week. However I was pleasantly surprised to find there were a lot of people there which provided a great warm and cozy atmosphere (it was a cold rainy night!).
I decided on the corn-fed chicken breast with chickpea stuffing served with baked polenta and soffrito.
The polenta wasn’t as tasty as I would have liked, however the rest of the dish was delicious.
A friend of the birthday girl had organised a huge cupcake for dessert, however because I couldn’t eat it I decided to order a gluten free chocolate brownie. The brownie (whilst looking a little sad) was deliciously moist and the perfect size for a sweet treat after dinner.
I absolutely love the way they have decorated The Treehouse Hotel and I will leave you with some photos to give you an idea of the interior design…
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