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For the record, Details reports: "He's also, just as predictably, been the subject of speculation that he's gay. He's said on the record that he's not. He's also said he doesn't mind people's thinking he is. He knows they'll talk either way." Oh, yes, I'll talk all right, Mr. Christensen. And I'll keep on talking until you impregnate me—and like it!

India is a warm country for the most of the year and it is very difficult to cope with heat. Sometime even fans do not give much relief. A hot day in summer is a curse. The heat becomes unbearable especially in the afternoon. Most of the people keep indoors unless it is very necessary to move out. They feel thirsty every now and then and quench thirst with water and cold drinks. The rich are lucky. They take shelter under coolers and air conditioners. The poor use hand fans. Farmers and labourers who have to work in the open take shelter under the sandy trees. Traffic on the roads is scenty. People cry for rains to fall. Many people fall prey to heat stroke; some of them even die.

I have been babysitting for about5-6 years I love to work with children. I have my cpr certificate and first aid. I can work with children of all ages and I have a very flexible schedule. Hello! I am a former college volleyball player and I am currently taking classes in Midlothian for the year. I plan on transferring to Texas Tech next fall to complete my degree in Environmental Engineering! I am a complete animal lover, and wouldn’t mind helping out your furry friends! I can help with homework for all ages whenever you need. I have experience with household chores, and I can also help out around the house. I can prepare meals, and assist in the kitchen if you need me too! I have babysat ages 3-12 in the past, and have watched groups up to 4 children. In high school I took a class doing volunteer work at the local childcare center (ages ranged from newborn to 4 years old), and I love toddlers! I have also helped mentor students at a local elementary school and assisted in the classroom with the children! I have a clean reliable car, that can fit car seats! I am available for short notice sitting and I currently have very open availability so feel free to contact me with whatever you need! I'm a high school graduate , graduated two years ago from Midlothian Heritage. I'm great with young kids and I have lots of free time on my hands, and I have a car available. I am 18 years old, I have a little sister who is 9 and a nephew who lives with me and my parents who is 4. I have been watching my sister since I was about 14 years old because both my parents work. And I have been watching my nephew since he started living with us. I am currently going to college to get my doctoral degree so i can be a pediatric doctor and eventually get my own firm. Working with kids brings me joy because each kid has a different personality and a different way of viewing things and expressing it in their eyes just brings a smile to my face. Hi! My name is Shelby Davis! I am 20 years old and have a beautiful little boy named Jace who is 1 years old! I live in royse city Texas. I have a lot of experience in watching kid, as I used to baby sit my little cousins for family whenever needed, I'd love to make date nights possible for you and your loved one!!!

"You are at home all day", Isha complained, "you can do some of the house chores that need doing. Especially, as we are all away working." "I don't want to", Rosh said angrily and moved out of the room. She left him alone. He had been grumpy like that for months now. "Let him be", she admonished Hosh as he stood up to follow his father out, "He'll be all right. Just leave him alone." Rosh heard her as he walked up the stairs to his conservatory. The sun was setting behind dark clouds that threatened to drown the world today in pain. Soon it would be cold. Soon he would be cold too. He wanted to be cold. So cold, the heat from no sun could penetrate his body or mind. Man became a burden on society, family and friends when he could no longer lift his own weight. A utilitarian object in a world that had no use for the old or infirm. A farmer had gotten so old that he couldn't work the fields anymore. So he spent the day just sitting on the porch. His son, still working the farm, would look up from time to time and see his father sitting there. One day the son got so frustrated by this, that he built a wooden coffin, dragged it over to the porch, and told his father to get in. Without saying anything, the father climbed inside. After closing the lid, the son dragged the coffin to the edge of the farm where there was a high cliff. As he approached the drop, he heard a light tapping on the lid from inside the coffin. He opened it up. Still lying there peacefully, the father looked up at his son. "I know you are going to throw me over the cliff, but before you do, may I suggest something?" "Throw me over the cliff, if you like," said the father, "but save this good wooden coffin. Your children might need to use it." The sun had vanished. Rosh sat alone in the dark conservatory. Finally, he could bear it no more. A solitary tear rolled down his cheeks. As if on cue, the dark clouds opened their hearts and wept with pain all night.

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I’m dragging and I can’t figure out why. My blood sugars aren’t right, and I feel like I have overcommitted on some projects. But this is different, not something that can be addressed with more sleep or caffeine. I know this because I am getting 8-9 hours every night and I have tried caffeine, which I don’t really drink unless I need it to not fall asleep at my desk. No, this is a long-lasting fuzzyheadedness that is affecting my productivity. I probably would have spent last weekend in a Game of Thrones watchathon anyway, but I shouldn’t have felt like I needed to. And on Monday, I was tired enough to trip over a free weight right in front of me, and I think I sprained my pinky toe. Even if it’s not sprained, it did bleed all over my off-white carpet. Recently, I spoke with someone who pointed out that it’s not that simple. He told me a story about a woman who had migraines – some of the worst pain a person can experience. She minimized how difficult her condition was to the point that her teenaged son, someone who lived in the same house with her, didn’t understand how her condition impacted her life. He thought they were just headaches and didn’t understand why she couldn’t just get over it. I have avoided addressing this subject for a long time because I was afraid of offending. But lately I have been watching a channel that runs the St. Jude’s commercial on every break, and all I feel is the overwhelming urge to change the channel. So I’ll just say it. No matter how bad the disease, no matter how tragic the circumstances, young patients aren’t heroes. I went on a long car trip this weekend, four plus hours each way. I enjoyed the drive. My brain goes into driving mode on those trips – half focused on the road and half free to wander. I get a lot of thinking done that way. This weekend I was thinking about an event I was going to miss and how not upset I was about it. One of my closest friends was hosting a board game night with several other friends I’d met many times over the last decade or so. Thinking back to the last time we had all gathered, I remember thinking I was happy to be there for my friend’s event, but could have done without all the rest. But my friends obviously enjoyed their friends’ company, so why couldn’t I? Some of you may be familiar with the difficulties I’ve been having with my very expensive, cutting-edge Class III medical device. In a nutshell, I discovered the first month that the cutting-edge tech, which was supposed to act as an intuitive pancreas, did not work for me. I called the manufacturer and they had no solution for me. I asked to talk to someone who knew more about how the algorithm worked, an engineer, but of course, there was no one like that available. All they had was the customer service reps who knew less than I did. I had to turn that part of it off. Once upon a time, there was a woman whose large employer violated reasonable accommodation laws, which had a severely negative impact on her health. So, she left the large employer for a much smaller one. It wasn’t perfect, but it was much better. Then, after just a year, another large company came along and ate the smaller company. The woman was not encouraged by her first interactions with the large company, and she dreaded the change of health insurance – the second time in two years. Resilience and self-sufficiency are defining American values. From the reverence shown for revolutionaries and homesteaders to the pedestal on which we put entrepreneurs and small businesspeople, it is hammered into our cultural consciousness that a primary goal of our lives is to stand on our own. It is an admiral goal, certainly, but not easy, and not always achievable. When it isn’t, the people who need assistance are often judged as needy and less than. I am a rule breaker. I believe that the best way to know how something works is to learn how to cheat, at least medically speaking. Listen to the “rules”, test them, and then figure out something that works better for you. That’s how I learned how my body works with each diagnosis. I suspect that most chronic patients do this.

The Arkansas Medical Society is seeking a few more physician volunteers for the 2018 Fiscal Session at the State Capitol. The doctor of the day should plan to arrive at the State Capitol Infirmary around 9:00 a.m. The daily session usually concludes about 2:30 p.m. (or sometimes earlier.) Please contact Laura Hawkins at the AMS office by phone at 501-224-8967 / 800-542-1058 if you would like to volunteer or have questions about the program.

If you are planning to sell your property, then you should know that the front yard and backyard would determine how much you fetch from the sale. You might spend time and money on the insides of the property, but if the outside screams for attention, then potential buyers will look away. One way to give life to your backyard and front yard is through bush regeneration. However, merely uprooting invasive weeds and planting native plants will not cut it. Trees That Laugh in the Face of Wind: Which Trees Fair Best in High Winds? Australia is no stranger to powerful storms, especially between November and April. In fact, the strongest gust of wind ever recorded, at 408km per hour, swept across a tiny island off the north-west coast of Australia, on the 10th of April 1996. Though your trees are unlikely to encounter wind speeds of that strength, they may still be at risk in the storms to come. When a tree falls in a forest, there is no one there to see it. If you are in charge of a commercial operation that uses a fair amount of water on a daily basis in order to function, you have a community responsibility to use as little of this precious resource as you possibly can. You may think that you have initiated various procedures to cut down on the water intake at your facility, but you may be thinking about going the extra mile and doing something with your waste water, as well. Many of the failures that occur in air conditioning systems can be avoided if proper preventive maintenance is carried out. Below are some critical air conditioning maintenance activities that you should ask an AC technician to perform. Crankcase Heater Inspection A crankcase heater helps to prevent the migration of the refrigerant due to differences in the temperature of the various AC components. A maintenance professional should check the crankcase heater and confirm that it is working properly before you turn on your air conditioner when you need to restart it during winter or summer. If you are converting a space into an auditorium, it is likely you will need to make some modifications to improve the acoustics of the space. Below is a guide which will help you to consider the actions you need to take. Take sound readings The first task will be to set up microphones in different locations around the auditorium. These microphones can be used to record music which is being played live on stage during a rehearsal. We can all build a better world. Once upon a time, I didn't believe this. However, my eyes were opened by my niece who came to visit me last summer. When she saw me throwing trash into the bin without removing the metal tins and the plastic bottles, she went crazy. What followed was a long lesson on how we can all do our bit to build a better world. I did some more research on this topic and since then, I have been doing all I can do to protect the environment and to improve the world for future generations.

Hi! I'm looking for a serious and steady virtual assistant. I have hired a few in the past and they've always been lacking seriousness. Please only bid if you plan on working with me on a steady basis and have a quick turnaround. Here are the skills that I'm looking for in a VA. You don't have to be an expert in every field to get the job. These are only guidelines. Please note that I'm looking for someone who's willing to work at USD $2/hour. I will not hire anyone at another rate. Please place your bid at $2, we'll work out the details later on. Please add the word MASSIVE to your application so that I know that you read this project description. Please note that I need someone who's going to be a serious worker. I'm looking to hire someone at about 5-10 hours per week with possible peaks of work when needed. This is a long-term, steady job. In your application, please list the skills you're more comfortable with and the ones you don't know very well. Hi, I`m developer with 9 years expirience in web development and design (specially wordpress). I can do your job, and u can contact me on private message to talk about it. Thank you!

It's one of those days when you want to tuck in there a bit longer in your sheets. Want to wake up to no one but to yourself. It's one of those days when you want to do nothing...but nothing. It is irrelevant if you are a loner or not... It you have human existence around you at the moment or otherwise. Immaterial if you enjoy your own company or need a soul or two to make you feel alive. It is one of those days when you want to drown yourself in the feeling of your own survival, existence... And by all means your own self. It is one of those days when narcissism does not seem like such a bad 'ism' after all. Not for the love of yourself, but for the overwhelming over dose of others around. It is one of those days when your body, soul, and mind in themselves feels like three different individuals, unable to handle the crowd within themselves. One of those days when you succumb to your bed without 'Good Night'.

"Life Groups" at Women's Church is a place for women to do life together as they study the word of God. We have our time of corporate worship where we are in a large group together, however, our "Life Groups" are more intimate so there is an opportunity to get to know a smaller number of women well; as we look at what the Bible means and learn how to apply it to our lives. Our life groups are safe places where we can learn, laugh and share - that is doing life together!

Amy Purdy was an inspiration to people around the world long before her bronze medal performance at the Paralympic Winter Games Sochi 2014. She was just 19 when she lost her legs in a battle with meningitis, which also led to a kidney transplant less than two years later. An avid snowboarder before her life-altering experience, she returned to the sport and won three medals at the 2001 USASA National Championships just three months after receiving the kidney donated by her father. At 37, Purdy continues to be one of the top ranked adaptive snowboarders in the world and the only female double leg amputee competing at the world class level. She also is an accomplished motivational speaker, a New York Times best-selling author, a runner-up on Dancing with the Stars, and co-founder Adaptive Action Sports, a non-profit organization that helps those with permanent disabilities get involved in action sports.

Weddings. Summertime is the season for weddings. That’s how I happened to be in Jackson, Michigan over the weekend. My nephew tied the knot and my sister and I went to join in in the festivities. Of course, one of us had to run around picking up last minute items and toiletries that one of us forgot and shoes to match the dress that one of us found instead of the outfit that one of us brought with us. It was during all that running around that I saw it. Meijer Branch of Jackson District Library is in Jackson, Michigan. Of course, I had to check it out. I only had a few minutes because my sisters needed to get more errands ran and it was wicked hot out. It is a lovely library. It was very busy while I was there, so I didn’t get to speak with any of the staff, but it was obvious, Meijer Branch is important to its community. Where have you been? Have you visited any other libraries? Email me and let me know. Send pictures too! My email is tplstaff@topshamlibrary.org. I love my sisters. And of course, I love my own Topsham Public Library.

Jen and Carter's Journey Thru Life and Infertility! Praising God for our Miracle.: Surgery (Laparoscopy)! Bear with me as this is very hard for me talk about,as it has been a testing of our faith and trust in our creator(God).As some of you know that my husband and I are trying to start a family it is going on 16 mo now that we have been trying and we have come to a bump in the road. I was diagnosed with PCOS(Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome)which does not help the situation, and now they are thinking that I have Endometrosis which is why I might not be getting pregnant either. I have been having really bad cramping and abdominal pain around aunt flo time. So I will be having the surgery in about 2-3 weeks, so by the end of the month.They usually do the surgery at the beginning of the cycle, so I am waiting for aunt flo to start, so we can get the date scheduled and we can move forward. The plan is that if I am not pregnant by May then we will be having an IUI(intrauterine insemination)in that month. I am praying and hoping that I am pregnant before the end of the summer. It is and has been a frustrating roller coaster ride over the past 16 months. I am thankful that I have a caring and supportive husband along with family and friends through this rough time. Please keep us in your prayers. * Update: I found out today that my surgery is scheduled for March the 25th in the afternoon at 1pm. hey...i'll be praying and you know my phone number, so whenever you need to use it, do so. i'll make sure to call you before then as well. Hi, Jen. Stopping by to see how things are going and see that you have surgery scheduled for the 25th. You'll be in my prayers. I'll be back next week to see how you are doing.

This morning is full of “divisive words” as a result of the outcome of election of our 45th president of the United States. I see it differently. I see it, that this is now the time to come together. More than ever. I see it as that this is what it is meant to be and what is meant to happen. I see it as a call to commitment rather than apathy. I see it as a call of community rather than disagreement or “us versus them”. I see it as a call for communication rather than criticism. Let me explain the call to commitment. Do you know who your Senator is? Who your Congressman or Congresswoman is? I bet you don’t. When was the last time you reached out to them? Probably never. If you want to have a say in what is going on in the House – you certainly can call, e-mail and write to your own representatives of your district. Are you aware that they make the time to visit their district? That is the time for you to get to know them, and for you to share your thoughts, concerns and support in the White House. Now is the time to step up your commitment to the White House – to your community – to your future. I know who my Senator and Congressman is of my District is in MY STATE. I have made the commitment – now, it’s your turn. Let me explain the call of community. We’re all brothers and sisters on this beautiful, abundant planet Earth. I do not care if you are African American, Purple or Blind, we are brothers and sisters. According to my God, you are. It is our responsibility to care for one another and for this planet earth. In my backyard, I am making efforts to get to know my community and as a “sister’ I care for those who are in my community and will do what I can within my resources, my power, and my prayers to help. I would only hope that they would help me when I make the call. No more of this “us versus them” – there is none of that up in the Heavenly Gates. So, let’s have more of a community down here on this earthly terrain. This planet is the only planet we have. It is certainly the most beautiful planet – the times I have spent behind the motorcycle certainly has shown me the beauty of this world we live in. We don’t respect it enough. Let’s explore the new technology and thoughts that are out there that will protect and endure this planet as well as help take care of our future generations. The call for communication; we certainly need to communicate better. Now is the time for better communication rather than criticism. Rather than complain about the government. My suggestion is now – say something. No more standing by on the sidelines. Educate yourself, reach out to the representatives in the White House, and communicate your concerns and collaborate towards a solution. If it is something that you are not happy with that is happening in your own backyard – I say the same, do your homework,, reach out to the city council, communicate and collaborate towards a solution. Rather than complain, criticize, reach out instead. Communicate and collaborate. It took 116 days to write the Constitution of the United States. I will end this with this from the preamble that is from our Constitution . . . again. . .

We live in modern times when the strategies of promoting a company have evolved a lot. This is the reason why, in order to create a better image, a large number of corporates appeal to innovative and modern methods such as video production services. The power of image is greater than one may think and sometimes it can say more than a thousand words. Also, according to specialists, in the last period, people have been more impressed by those who use video content on their materials. A relevant proof of this fact is the large number of video bloggers who appeared and who have millions of views on the Internet. They also have fans that make them feel like some real celebrities and they make continuous efforts to improve the quality of the materials. Appealing to a video production company can come with a lot of advantages for those who decide to choose this method. For example, we can talk about the fact that those who are interested in hiring new employees for their corporate can post a video on their website where they can give to the future candidates some important details related to new job. These details can include mangers’ expectations when it comes to the candidates or some information related to job activity and tasks. On the other hand, a company can use video clips in order to present to its employees how to handle the aspects related to a new project. This is that type of video content that can be called “how to” and it always brings good results. But those who are part of a corporation should see also the funny side of things: using video production services can help them create memories. For example, if they organize a party they can film the whole event and then, after some time, they can watch it again. The same thing applies when it comes to team buildings or team events. But don’t forget to make some back-up in case something happens with the content. Firstly, you should take into consideration the quality of the video content. Nowadays, thanks to modern technologies, the high definition (HD) filming can be easily achieved by using proper video equipment. So, make sure that your video company has the necessary materials to obtain best results. Secondly, take into consideration the quality of the sound and lights too. It doesn’t help you if the sound doesn’t fit the video. Thirdly, act like a real director! Talk to the filming team in order to find solution for creating the video content. You should consider these types of services as a marketing strategy that will help your company image become more appreciated. Last but not least, look for the best offers! In order to find the best prices, you should take advantage of promotions. If you want to know more about a video production company or video production services, please follow these links!

Peck on the cheek: it's time to make up! Kiss and Make Up Day is celebrated on August 25, 2019. The day is a good opportunity to end a spat and become friends again. No matter what it affects and why: it's time to kiss and make up! Studies show that people who forgive are happier and healthier than those who hold resentments. Kiss and Make Up Day is not a day for discussions and talk the struggles and problems over. The kiss proves that we like the other one and we are willing to let it be for the sake of our friendship. Kiss and Make Up Day concerns friends, lovers, families and literally everybody. Making up is such a nice thing to do: leaving all the troubles behind and have a great time.

Liberty Bank refuses to pay Barbara Papunashvili`s family the money collected as charity. The reason for this is that the family is spending a pension loan in advance. The money is being collected for operation of a 6-year- old Barbara - it is about 1,000 GEL accrued within three days that the family needs for pre-operation procedures. 7-year-old Barbara has a spine problem and she is unable to move independently.

This session was filled with so much love! The boys loved exploring the forest floor and it was a bit of a challenge trying to keep them clean for the entire session but it was worth the little bit of mud for the beautiful backdrop. I’m so glad we managed to sneak our session in before the hail (yes hail, in October!) started. It was such a fun way to end a busy day of Fall sessions.

In an effort to align the goals of the city of Pontiac with the common vision of its residents, Pontiac Community Heart and Soul, a citizen-led group of individuals focused on helping local government plan for the future, is going out into the community to gather the stories of local residents. "The concerns and values of a businessman, a high school student and a senior citizen are going to be different, but once you identify them, you can start to see the similarities and that's what we're looking for," Marlon Eilts, co-chair of PCHS said. "Once we've collected a large pool of information from a variety of people, we can begin to figure out the interests and concerns of the majority." Throughout the month of January, PCHS team members will be set up in a few local restaurants around town in an effort to gather and listen to the stories of local residents of all ages and walks of life. On Friday, from 7 to 9 a.m., members will be at Pub 13. On Jan. 18 and 23, the team will be at Edinger’s Filling Station from 7 to 9 a.m. Then, on Jan. 25, the team will be set up at the Boys and Girls Club of Livingston County from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. "We're informally calling this our breakfast clubs tour," Sara Solberg, the other co-chair of PCHS said. “We had our 'Rock the Block' ward meetings, which we informally called the ward tour, but we didn't feel like we had heard enough voices. So, we wanted to figure out a way to reach more people." As local government begins to plan for the future, PCHS will serve as the voice of the community. By visiting local restaurants and attending community events, PCHS team members hope to meet people in a comfortable setting in an effort to encourage them to voice their opinions. "It would be great if people were to walk up to us and ask to set up an interview, but it never works that way," Eilts said. "So we are setting up these booths in an effort to seek input from the people who aren't typically heard." On Wednesday, PCHS was set up at Pontiac Family Kitchen. After conducting a few interviews, Eilts found that people are initially a little reserved, but once they understand what the group is about, they begin to open up. "For some, I think the fear is that we will take your information and misuse it, but everything that we collect during the interview stays anonymous," Solberg said. "We take some demographic information during the interview, but that's only for our purposes. We want to map out where we are getting our feedback from, to make sure we are getting feedback from the entire community. We want to reach out to as many people as possible." In addition to seeking the feedback of local residents, PCHS is also working with Pontiac Township High School to gain feedback from local students. "Paraprofessional Tammy Audia is coordinating about 20 kids that we are going to interview and then have them listen to each other's stories," Eilts said. "As the future of this community, our goal is to gain insight into their wants and needs, too. A lot of times, students feel like they don't have a voice. So, we are giving them that voice." During the brief interviews, team members have a list of six or seven questions to ask. Typically, they start by asking, "what are the things that you like about your hometown?" The responses typically prompt the next question, "what would make your hometown better?" Or, "what would you improve?" From these questions, a conversation usually develops. "If I could sum up the responses that we've had so far in one word, I would say 'refreshing.'" Eilts said. "There are some concerns, but the positives outweigh the negatives at this point. When we first started this process in April, it happened to coincide with the Humiston Pool situation, so we had a lot of input about that. However, as we've continued to gather input, we've found that the variety of topics people are discussing is expanding." One thing that the PCHS team wants to make clear, is that it doesn't have the authority to authorize any changes. Eilts said they are simply gathering information to present to the decision makers in the community. "We recognize that there are a lot of great ideas out there," Solberg said. "We can't accomplish everything, but if enough people in the community really believe in something enough, I think people might be surprised by what we can accomplish. We are really trying to align the community's hopes and dreams." If someone doesn't feel comfortable being interviewed in person, there is also an option to fill out a questionnaire. For more information, contact the PCHS leadership team at heartandsoul61764@gmail.com, or call or text 815-419-7015.

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After cooking a delicious breakfast, I headed to Bellingham, Washington. I needed to get my blood drawn to monitor some of my medications and just for some general health check-ups. I had to get this done now so the labs were ready when I got to Los Angeles a few weeks later. One of the borders in the US is in Abbotsford. Occasionally I’d drive about one mile from it when I was just driving around the city. Even though the border is so close, crossing it is another story. I also made an appointment with a chiropractor because the day before it felt like I had pulled a muscle in my neck and the pain was now moving into my back. I arrived to the US border and told them I was just going to Bellingham for a chiropractor appointment and I was staying in Abbotsford. Thankfully, my car was mostly empty so it didn’t look suspicious. I got through the border and it would be about 40 minutes to Bellingham. The road winds its way through farms and fields. The speed limit is only about 35 MPH. I arrived at Labcorp to get my blood drawn and the guy at the front was dramatic and entertaining. Once that was complete, I drove to the chiropractor office. There was a 2-½ year old golden retriever lying behind the counter. The woman behind the desk told me the dog might be pregnant and they were anxiously waiting for the results. Once I got into the adjustment room, I noticed a black lab lying on the ground. The office reminded me of the office I visited in Fairbanks, Alaska. (LINK) The chiropractor made an adjustment, but he also used a hard vibrating tool on my spine to try and loosen the muscles. It was painful and felt like it made things worse. That night, the pain in my neck and upper back was so severe I had a hard time getting into bed. I couldn’t move my head around and the pain was increasing. I took ibuprofen, but it wasn’t helping. As the night went on, I could not find a position that relived the intense pain. Turning over took about 30 minutes and made me scream. I lied there all night, unable to sleep, in the worst pain I’ve ever experienced. I knew there was no way I could load my car in the morning and drive north, but I had to check out of the house and the owners were flying in that day to stay there. At 6:00 am, I wondered how I’d get out of bed. Should I call 911? Does 911 work in Canada? I couldn’t move. I thought through my options and realized the frozen muscles were very similar to what I experienced a couple of years ago in my lower back. The muscles froze so much, I couldn’t stand straight or roll over in bed. The only thing that helped me was getting muscle relaxers from an Urgent Care. I realized Bellingham wasn’t too far away and I could go to Urgent Care there, where I knew my insurance would work. I painfully forced myself out of bed and got dressed. I packed up all of my stuff and left it in the kitchen. I didn’t want to cross the border with a full car or they wouldn’t believe I was just going for a quick visit. I made it to urgent care and was told the wait would be at least an hour wait. I sat in the chair and the pain wouldn’t stop. I couldn’t turn my head and couldn’t stand or sit up straight. After about 30 minutes in the chair, I hobbled up to the counter and told the woman I was in an immense amount of pain and begged to be seen. The woman said she couldn’t get me in sooner, but she offered me some water and a room so I could lie down. It was a little better than the chair. Finally after being there for an hour and a half, the doctor came in. He said he didn’t think I needed x-rays and it was likely muscular. He gave me a prescription for some muscle relaxers and pain medicine. I went to Rite-aid to fill the prescriptions and it was a 30 minute wait. I messaged the Airbnb host and let her know what was going on and that my stuff was still in the kitchen. She was very understanding and said they’d just set their stuff down and go to lunch. I took a pain pill, but couldn’t take the muscle relaxer because it causes drowsiness. I drove through the country roads again back to Canada and got through the border. Just past the border was the Costco where I had ordered contacts weeks earlier. I have very bad eyes and they said it would take a couple of weeks to get them in. I went inside, did a quick eye exam, and paid for my contacts. The guy helping me was very nice and pointed out that I was smart to buy contacts in Canada, where I get a 30% discount. I drove back to the house and painfully loaded my car with my bags in the sprinkling rain. I started my two and a half hour drive to Whistler, leaning my head against the headrest, trying not to move it. Despite my discomfort, the foggy and rainy drive to Whistler was beautiful! The road climbed through the lush mountains, at times overlooking the ocean. When I arrived at my Airbnb, I parked in front of the condo and followed the instructions to get inside. It was evening and Ash, the owner, left me a message saying he was out, but would leave the door unlocked for me. I’ve gotten very used to walking into stranger’s homes. The condo was cozy and had a mountain cabin feel. I ate some of the food I brought with me and put the rest in his refrigerator. Ash told me I was free to use and eat anything I’d like. He lives there and rents out two of the rooms, but the other room wasn’t occupied. I was exhausted and desperately wanted to sleep. The cloudy, rainy weather was perfectly suited for napping. I took a muscle relaxer and while I was still in pain, I was able to find a decent position and fall asleep. At 10:15 pm, I woke up and could hear that Ash was home. I was embarrassed that he must think I’m a lazy weirdo who was asleep so early. I walked out of my room to the living room and Ash was watching TV with headphones on. I said hello and he waved. I walked back to my room, still exhausted after navigating so many obstacles to find pain relief, and decided I would talk to him in the morning.

"Delphina, up for a challenge?" No, we didn't actually say that to her, but I wish we had some footage of the few minutes before the shoot. Her face when she saw the toy, well, you had to be there. Didn't stop Delphina from having fun though. And we're all the happier for it!

This looks like you had a great weekend :) I love spending time with my sisters (I have 3). I love your blog and just started following along with you on bloglovin. I would love a follow back! Thanks for stopping by, Nicole! Totally following you back! Hope you're having a great Hump Day! OMG, I can't believe your Mom was like, "Surprise!! Dentist time, ladies!" But at least that was followed up with the beach - I for one love Galveston. I know it's not very pretty, but I'm never going to complain about being a 45 minute drive from the water. We thought about buying a house on the island, but the commute would've been too much to handle for Dennis. I'm glad she followed it with a family adventure, otherwise I don't think we would have been to pleased with her, haha! I used to love Galveston growing up! My parents loved taking our camper to the Island state park and posting up many weekends in the Summer. I guess I just become to concerned with the water and the people that I haven't really been there in a while. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm terrified of flesh eating bacteria!!! Statistically it's rare, but it's always in the back of my mind, lol.

“I am thrilled! Thank you so much… My reality is that awards and praise have never been my motivators. Good work (from my perspective and respected others) and results, and the friends and colleagues I have made along the way, have been. And, yet, I have been in my chosen field for 40 years, and, for those years, and years before that given the family I grew up in, I have been involved with advocacy in one form or another, in one area or another. And, now, to be recognized by my peers, and such illustrious ones at that, means something very real and important to me. I have worked hard, struggled with lots, been successful at much. And this recognition is important to me. And means a lot on many levels.

A handful of billionaires have renewed their warnings of a global recession – with one legendary commodities trader even predicting something worse than the Great Depression. In this week where 20 tons of gold have mysteriously disappeared from Venezuela’s vaults, Tesla has another $920 million in debt payments due, and a value investor just dived into an iconic fast food business, Dan Ferris makes sense of it all. Its content features exclusive interviews and presentations from the world’s best hedge fund managers, independent analysis, geopolitical strategists, and economists. Guests have included Jim Grant, Kyle Bass, Mark Cuban, and Jim Rogers. Grant is also the publisher of Things That Make You Go Hmmm, a newsletter combining history and humor, along with keen financial insights to help investors make sense of a misunderstood and ever-changing financial landscape. Grant is full of stories to tell from the powerful investing personalities he’s interviewed, from legendary short sellers to reclusive value investors. And because it’s on everyone’s mind – Dan has to ask him what he thinks markets have ins tore for investors after the worst December since the Great Depression, and the wonderful (ephemeral?) recovery since. Grant Williams is Author of Things That Make You Go Hmmm… and Co-Founder of Real Vision Group. He has more than 30 years in finance, during which time he held senior positions at a number of investment banks and brokers in London, Tokyo, New York, Sydney, and Singapore. 21:21: Dan brings on this week’s podcast guest. Grant Williams is co-founder of Real Vision Group and has more than 30 years of experience in finance during which time he held senior positions at investment banks in London, Tokyo, New York, Sydney, and Singapore. Real Vision TV, the world’s only video on-demand channel for finance and has been described by some as the “Netflix for Finance Geeks.” Guests have included Jim Grant, Kyle Bass, Mark Cuban, and Jim Rogers. Grant is also the publisher of Things That Make You Go Hmmm, a newsletter combining history and humor, along with keen financial insights to help investors make sense of a misunderstood and ever-changing financial landscape. 23:25: Dan asks Grant about some of the most powerful investing personalities who have appeared on his show, and Grant tells the story of a legendary short seller who only targeted companies he viewed as fraudulent. 29:14: Another guy Grant has interviewed, who Dan would love to meet “because he is kind of a legend” is Leon Cooperman. Grant explains how he secured an interview with the man known as “the hardest working man in Wall Street” and how he, as a young man, found the audacity to walk from Goldman Sachs to start his own fund. 35:55: Grant tells the story of an investor friend named Tony who disregards P/E ratios, EBITDAs, and other metrics to just focus on “good companies run by good people.” He likes to hold companies forever, but when they deviate from what they once were, he’ll dump them in 30 minutes. No one’s ever heard of Tony… and that’s just the way he likes it. 54:20: Dan reaches into the mailbag with a question Jacob H., who wonders whether Dan’s forecast of the markets as being “the most expensive in history” is really just a relative term. Dan explains how his assessment comes from five key metrics. To follow Dan’s most recent work at Extreme Value, click here. To check out Grant’s newsletter, Things That Make You Go, Hmmmm, click here. Recorded Voice: Broadcasting from Baltimore, Maryland and all around the world...you're listening to the Stansberry Investor Hour. Tune in each Thursday on iTunes for the latest episodes of the Stansberry Investor Hour. Sign up for the free show archive at investorhour.com. Here is your host, Dan Ferris. Dan Ferris: Hello, everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Stansberry Investor Hour. I'm your host, Dan Ferris. I'm the editor of Extreme Value, a value investing service published by Stansberry Research. Okay, let's get to it. Now this week we are going to start with something a little different, which I hope to do every week. And I call it my weekly rant. So from now on we'll start each episode with a weekly rant. And I'll try to help investors entertain different perspectives with the rant and, you know, try to cover a wide array of topics from, you know, top-down market viewpoints to analysis of individual businesses and maybe even individual securities – and everything in between. Right? Nothing is out-of-bounds as long as I think I can shed some valuable and – sure – entertaining light on the matter. Now today's topic – the first weekly rant – might seem like a bit of social commentary, but I think you'll agree that there's clear investment implications here. And I've certainly been talking about them for about a year-and-a-half now. And I think you'll also agree that there's no way we could have ignored this event. And that event is: Facebook is 15 years old this week. Current chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and four of his friends at Harvard founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard on February4, 2004. Now by all accounts Facebook is one of the most successful institutions in human history. They continue to report 2 million monthly active users. That makes it bigger than Islam – yeah, the religion, Islam – with a reported 1.6 billion followers. It's bigger than communism, with 1.5 billion people living under that system. It's bigger than Catholicism with a reported 1.2 billion followers and Hinduism with reported 1.1 billion followers. So it's bigger than anything humans have ever done. So Facebook has gotten a lot of negative press in recent years from studies showing social media is bad for your physical and mental health, to the scandals involving Facebook's clandestine and, I believe, unethical use of your personal data. But perhaps nobody has gotten to the heart of the matter more succinctly than a member of the U.K. parliament who last year told Facebook's chief technology officer, quote, "I remain to be convinced that your company has integrity." Unquote. I remain to be convinced that your company has integrity. And Zuckerberg and his top lieutenants of Facebook don't appear to understand the problems people have with the way they do business. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, Zuckerberg wrote plainly and rather naively, "When I started Facebook" – sorry. Quote. "When I started Facebook, I wasn't trying to build a global company. I realized you could find almost anything on the Internet. Music, books, information...except the thing that matters most – people. So I built a service people could use to connect and learn about each other." End quote. I mean, it sounds like some kind of just – there's almost like a pastoral naivety and innocence about it. "That's all we were doing. We were just connecting people." I think it's kind of a euphemistic representation of the truth, besides sounding naive. You know, it's just not true. We all know Facebook was founded on the back of Mark Zuckerberg's pervious idea called, "FaceMash." And FaceMash allowed users to rate the attractiveness, the physical attractiveness – you know, hot or not, pretty, ugly, handsome, not – of fellow students at Harvard. Zuckerberg hacked the data for FaceMash. The pictures and names...stole it, apparently, from the school's records. That's the real birth of Facebook. It was born of a desire to get control of your identity without your knowledge – just removing it from your control, really. And Zuckerberg wants us to think it's all about how you keep track of your friends and your family. And, yes, you can do that on Facebook. But the much bigger and more important purpose, the one that brings more than 55 billion in annual revenue in the front door of Facebook, is for you to help Facebook keep track of you. And there are tens of millions of people out there, including 87 million whose information was harvested during the 2016 election, from Facebook by British-political consultants Cambridge Analytica who will have no trouble agreeing with me on this point. And as of right now, Facebook has no intention of letting anyone unlucky enough to have and regularly use a Facebook account ever be allowed to move beyond the company's prying eyes. First of all, there's no way to get a complete report on everything that Facebook knows and stores about you. There just isn't. If there was, I promise you the outcry – what they know about you and how they categorize and exploit you would be long and loud. And if you could get such a report – and here's the really important point. Would there be any way to order Facebook to totally delete that information from existence and never allow them to record and store information about you again? No way. According to a recent article on Techcrunch.com, you can't get Facebook to delete the information about you that it's gathered – even if you delete your Facebook account, they still keep the info. Facebook seems to believe it owns your identity, simply because you joined its website to keep in touch with your friends. So besides being bigger than Catholicism and other major religions and communism, it's also one of the two biggest surveillance operations in human history – second only to Google, which we'll talk about another day. So if you have a Facebook account as things stand now, you'll never ever have control of your data, which for practical purposes on the Internet is you. It's your identity. Apple CEO Tim Cook had it right when he said – he was actually talking about Google. But he said, "When the service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product." That's true of any free Internet service. It tracks your information and does something that generates revenue. And what about this mission to connect people? How is that going? Well, turns out the mission isn't really the way Facebook implies. And I'm not talking about, you know, the teenagers who have committed suicide after being harassed online, or the terrorists who've tried to influence elections through Facebook. I'm just talking about the fact that Facebook is not great for relationships – especially among young people. A 2017 Forbes article cited studies suggesting quote, "Rather than enhancing well-being, as frequent interactions with supportive offline social networks powerfully do, the current findings demonstrate that interacting with Facebook may predict the opposite result for young adults – it may undermine it." End quote. And we've all heard these things, right? I'm sure podcast listeners like yourself could cite at least one of the alleged harmful effects of too much social media usage. And yes, once again, I'll thank you for your patience as I tried out my own bearishness on Facebook, starting in September 2017 and continuing right up to the present. I warned stocks like Facebook and other big, popular tech names like Google, Amazon and video et cetera...could drop 20% or more in an instant. Which, of course, Facebook did last July when it dropped nearly 20% after-hours in seconds, obliterating 125 billion in market cap: the largest single one-day market cap loss in history. I don't think much has changed with Facebook yet, despite all the bad news and, you know, Zuckerberg testifying in front of Congress. I think we're early days in the growing outrage over what that business really does and its true mission to harvest your data, remove it from your control and turn it into ad dollars and other sources of revenue. Company reported 3 to 4% of users were fake, but a recent New York Times article suggests it's probably like 35 or 40%. So I'm not willing to risk owning the stock here. It's probably best, I would say, to let more shoes drop. Which I think will cause the stock cost to continue to drop for the next year or more. And since it's a great cash-gushing business I expect to be a buyer at some point as long as it looks like the basic business model can hold up. But I'd rather see a new management team among other things...and for the stock to become a true, cheap bargain. So I'll discuss Facebook on future podcasts, but for now let me leave you with the following thoughts. I just want to encourage you to get off social media for a week or two or longer if you can do it. Read more books and long articles. Stop trying to keep abreast of everything, and dig deep into one very important thing. You know? Your spouse, your kids, your career, art in real museums, music in live venues – you know, all that stuff. Connect with real human beings, like, right in front of them. That's the only way I know to really connect with other human beings. And I'm willing to bet most of those people won't be spying on you while you're talking with them. And, hey. You can't get your data back. But maybe, just maybe, the less you interact with social media over time the less-accurate a picture they'll have of you in your activities, likes, dislikes, et cetera. I'm willing to bet the antidote to getting on social media too often is just getting a life every day. So that's the weekly rant. And by all means, let me know if you have anything to say about Facebook. If you think I'm on the money, if you think I'm off the mark, write in. Let us know. Let's look at some news items now. Interesting things going on lately. I didn't catch this one last week. eBay. eBay, right? The online auction platform. eBay is going to pay its first dividend ever to shareholders, and it'll be $0.14 a share due around March 20. And they decided that they would pay – they're going to pay about 5.5 billion to shareholders this year. They added 4 billion to a stock repurchase program. So, you know, most of that is going to be share purchases. But I saw the news and I was like, "Well why now?" I mean, the thing IPO-ed in, like, 1998 I think and it's about a 40 to 45-bagger since then. You know, if you've held it all that time. But it turns out that the folks at Elliott Management...this is a firm run by Paul Singer. They have about $44 billion under management. They're well-known activist investors. Okay? And they have sent eBay a letter they own...I think they own about 4% of the stock. And they've sent eBay a big, long letter. And you can actually go online, and I recommend you do this. Okay? There's a website that Elliot Management has put up. It's called enhancingebay.com. This website is really a great resource for investors, because, you know, it's got their big, long letter that they wrote to eBay. And they make these five points of what they want to do at the company and how they want to break it up, and how they think that there's, like, 75 to 100% upside within the next two years if the company does all these things they're suggesting. Actually, the stocks were at 35 and they said they could get it up around $55 to $63 per share by the end of 2020. Which would be great. That'd be incredible. And they've had plenty of success in the past. But what I recommend you do is, if you ever wanted to learn something about eBay, this is your chance – all in one place. You've got this great investor with lots of experience just kind of laying out what the business is, and what it does, and how they think about it. And you'll learn a lot about eBay. That's the real goal here as far as I'm concerned. And you'll learn a bit about Elliot Management too and how they operate. It's always good to learn how a great investor thinks and operates. So, you know, that's the first news item. Go learn something about eBay. And another one, I think, was the chief operating officer. And he had been there, like, a month or so and just is gone. You know, it's the classic, "Rats leaving the sinking ship." And the CFO leaving Tesla at this moment is a little rich too, because they've got a $920 million debt payment coming up on March first. So it kind of looks to me like the CFO's been there quite a while, sees this $920 million dollar debt payment coming up on March first and the company is proposing, I think, exchanging the note for a mix of cash and stock. [Laughs] So maybe the CFO is looking out beyond that, or maybe he's just looking to that debt payment of something and he doesn't like what he sees. And I have to tell you, I met a kind of a die-hard Tesla fan who had a really weird experience. He bought a Model 3, and he didn't like it and he returned it and bought a new Model S. But on his app he was able to continue tracking the Model 3. And it's sitting somewhere in a parking lot someplace with the trunk open. So who knows what sort of precipitation might be flowing into this thing, or what kind of condition it's in. And they obviously can't resell it. And I noticed too, during the Superbowl...I think we saw at least one commercial for electric vehicles – I think it was from Audi. And, you know, the competition's going to come out of the woodwork and these guys are going to have real problems. And it appears maybe the CFO just wants to get ahead of [laughs] all that and skipped town. So one more thing that I wanted to talk about before we get to our guest; our billionaires issuing terrifying warnings. You know, it's funny. I kind of almost hesitate to mention it, but I always want to know what the best investors have to say. And one of the billionaires I'm talking about is Seth Klarman, who put out a 22-page-letter recently. And this is a guy – he's not trying to get your money. He's giving money back. So he's not trying to scare you into investing in his fund. And he's normally a pretty private guy, but he put this letter out like he's genuinely worried. And he's telling investors...for example, he says, "The seeds of the next financial crisis, or the one after that, may well be founding today's sovereign debt levels." And I know I've been kind of sounding the warning of sovereign debt, because I looked at all the negative-yielding sovereign debts issues about a year-and-a-half ago, in September of 2017. And I thought, you know, "They've done it again. They've taken something again that supposed to be the safest thing in the world and turned it into toxic waste" – just like they did mortgages in the 2008 crisis. Every now and then sovereign debt does become a problem, but it's kind of a rare thing. So for this guy to go record on this – he must really be worried. And he says, "There's no way to know how much debt is too much. But America will inevitably reach an inflection point whereupon a suddenly more skeptical debt market will refuse to continue to lend to us at rates we can afford." I don't know how that really works if we have the ability to print money to pay the coupons, but certainly, you know, printing lots of money to pay the debt cost isn't a good thing either and can lead to its own set of problems. Klarman goes on. He says, "It's not hard to imagine worsening social unrest." This is a value investor. This is, like, in the tradition of Warren Buffett and this guy's talking about, "It's not hard to imagine worsening social unrest among the generation that's falling behind economically and feels betrayed by a massive national debt that was incurred without any obvious benefit to them." Now that is something that you hear a lot, because – investors who focus on such things will often cite the "growth in the federal reserve" balance sheet from, you know...I think $800 billion or something to $4 trillion today. And we know where a lot of that went, you know, just kind of into the market to ease and to make everything easier for...basically what Klarman is saying – most people think are rich folks. Okay? He says, "By the time such a crisis hits, it will likely be too great to get our house in order." Yeah. That's the way crises work. Ray Dalio was another one – founder of the world's largest hedge fund. Bridgewater Associates. He thinks that we're headed for something worse than the Great Depression. These guys are saying this stuff with a straight face. And Davos in Switzerland recently, you know... Dalio said – again, like Klarman. He said, "The problem comes down to too much debt." And Dalio was well-known as a guy who tracks debts cycles, and keeps track of long and short-term debt cycles. And he says, "The biggest issue is that there's only so much one can squeeze of a debt cycle; and most countries are approaching those limits. You know, lowering interest rates is one thing you do in a crisis. You know, and rates are negative still in some of these sovereign issues. I mean, how long can you go, I guess, is a reasonable question. It's the, "how much ammo does the central bank have in a crisis when interest rates are really low," question. And I don't know the answer. I tend not to think much about macro things. I tend to want to just prepare my portfolio and tell others to prepare others for bad times. And we'll actually talk a little bit about this sort of thing with our guest today. But that's what the world looks like. That's just a few news items that are going on right now. And I think it's time to get to our guest. The audio quality on our interview is not ideal today, but I think you'll agree that the interview itself is well-worth listening to. So let's introduce our guest and get him on here, because he's a really smart guy. And he's talked to a lot of really-smart people in his life in addition to having his own really-interesting opinions on things. So let's get to him right now. Okay. It's time for our guest. His name is Grant Williams, and he is the co-founder of Real Vision Group. And he's been in the markets for more than 30 years. He's been in finance for more than 30 years. And I can't think of anybody I want to talk to more right now than you, Grant. Thanks for coming on the program. Grant Williams: Well, listen. You need to broaden your circle of friends out. Thanks for having me anyway. Dan Ferris: All right. Well I assure you folks, Grant is very modest as you're about to find out. So I want to talk about a couple of things today. One of them is this theory – I tell you, Grant. You're what I want to be if I ever grow up. [Laughs] You've got this theory called, "In Conversation With," on Real Vision TV, which I'm a happy subscriber to. And you've interviewed all kinds of people that I would love to talk to. I mean, you talk to 'em for an hour or two. And if I could get five minutes I'd probably pay money to do it. Starting with Marc Cohodes, who is an absolute fascinating guy. I'd like to name a few of these folks who you've had conversations with on Real Vision. And just give me some real impressions on what you learned from them. How does that sound? Grant Williams: That sounds great. Yeah. I'm happy to talk about these guys. All along they've been just fabulous. Dan Ferris: Yeah. So what about Cohodes? He strikes me a as a really fascinating guy. I've never met him. Grant Williams: Marc is one of the most remarkable men I think I've ever met. He's a shorter, and I wanted to talk to a shorter to try and dispel this really negative impression that markets have of short-sellers. You know, we talked about short selling and the pressures and the strains of it all and how difficult it is, and short sell's place in the market. But he brought up a company that he was engaged in a battle with. And to be clear, Marc doesn't short things because they're overvalued. He shorts them because he thinks they're fraudulent. And he'd just gotten sucked into this battle with a company called MiMedX, MDXG was the ticker. And after that interview I stayed in the story with Marc. He was keeping me informed on what was going on for the next year. And I went out and filmed a second piece with him a couple of weeks ago. You know, subsequently the company has said it said it couldn't provide financials. They fired the CEO and the CFO for cause. It's a complete disaster. So Marc is relentless, he's a crusader. His heart's absolutely in the right place and he does the work of many men. Sadly, to deaf ears from the SEC, the DOJ, the VA, the – I can't think of all the other list of acronyms – FDA, who he sent incredible amounts of proof to and they just ignored him. So Marc is a remarkable human being. And that first interview is actually up on the web. If you just search for my name and Marc Cohodes you'll find – it's up there, and it's worth watching. Dan Ferris: So during the Cohodes interview, there's a moment when this guy, who's been around for a long time and shorted all kinds of stuff, looks at you with a straight face and says, "I've never seen anything like this." Dan Ferris: That blew me away. That blew me away. Grant Williams: You know, Dan, that to me is symptomatic of the world that we've built around ourselves around the last decade. To me, I feel the same about Tesla. I've never seen anything like it. You know, never seen anything like it. And that has yet to play out. Marc was talking about this as, like, the biggest fraud he'd ever seen. And he'd shown me the proof he's got. I mean, it stands 3 feet high – the proof. And if you haven't seen the story or read the story, it's worth looking at because you'll find the trail of events that beg of belief. And the fact that it could go on for so long, given all the proof that's out there, is remarkable. But as I say, I think it's symptomatic of the world we live in. Dan Ferris: I couldn't hardly have said it better myself. Another guy that you spoke with, who I would love to talk with, is Hugh Hendry. For our listeners, Hugh Hendry formerly of Eclectica Asset Management – he closed Eclectica up a while ago. And I didn't get a chance to look at one minute of this particular interview. What do you talk about with the guy who's – I mean, is he retired? Grant Williams: Well Hugh's someone I've always been fascinated with. He's a lovely guy, he's incredibly smart. He just thinks differently to other people. He just has this amazing brain that thinks in a way that, you know, I wish I was capable of. And I wanted to go talk to Hugh because he had just closed Eclectica. And I wanted to talk to him about his story as a hedge-fund manager – the rise and fall of the hedge-fund managing and the rise and fall of a fund – as a kind of proxy for the hedge-fund industry as a whole. You know, we saw hedge funds become stars of the financing industry through late-mid 2000s, and then kind of the last seven or eight years been in decline – as Hugh's own career by his own admission. And to have him tell that story, and really be candid with me and talk about the pain and the pressure of doing it – he's, again, a remarkable guy. Fantastic company, brilliantly smart, searingly honest. And just to hear someone who's been at the very top of that business and then ended up closing his fund talk about that journey, and the highs and the lows and the kind of demons that you have to wrestle with – it was eye-opening for me, and he couldn't have been more candid. He couldn't have been more generous with his time. And I think about it often still. And Hugh and I are in touch, and I think about him often. And I hope that, you know, he's now at peace and looking for perhaps the next thing to do. Whether it's back in the finance industry or not, I don't know. But I do know, whatever he decides to do, he will be good at it because he's a remarkable guy. Dan Ferris: He is. And, you know, one of the things – I did see of an earlier interview that you did with him. He said a lot, or he gave a general impression, of what happened to his particular bailiwick – which is global macro. And it sounded – you know, if I had just sort of bleeped out the words global-macro, I feel like as a value investor I could have inserted the words value investing. Dan Ferris: And it's all the same complaint. And, you know, it just struck me that the chain goes all the way out. It goes global macro, value, similar problems. You know, they've underperformed since they performed like gangbusters. They've underperformed for the past decade, after having done really well. And really it's kind of like the whole active space, I think, is what we wind up talking about...but those two areas in particular, global macro and value. And, you know, I think of you as a global macro guy and I'm a value guy. You know, sort of sitting here lamenting to one another. [Laughs] Another guy you talked to who I'd love to meet, just because he is kind of a legend, is Leon Cooperman. Dan Ferris: Yeah. You had a great conversation with him. What was that – what is he like? Grant Williams: Well, look. He was introduced to me by a mutual friend of ours. And he said, "Look. Leo's got a heart of gold." He said, "He can be a bit gruff, but he's got a heart of gold. So, you know, call him up and tell him what you want to do and it'll be fine." So I called him up. And he had this gruff voice, answered the phone. And sure enough, you know, very short. "Yep. Who are you? What's this about? Yeah. OK. Fine. Yeah. Fine. Fine. Speak to my assistant." So we hooked this thing up. And I was a little bit nervous, to be honest, going down there. 'Cause as you say, he is a legend. And he's widely known as the hardest working man on Wall Street, so I know he hasn't got a lot of time. But when we got down to his home in Florida, he could not have been nicer. He was an absolute sweetheart. He gave his time, and he was open, he was honest and he shared his story. And you know that this series was all about just sitting down with people and getting them to tell their stories. Because, you know, I'm a great believer, and I follow this and things that make you go, "Hmm. The lesser are right." I'm a great believer that we as human beings, we connect through stories. You know, stories are how we pass on ideas, they're how we predict the future – they're so important. And the art of storytelling has kind of been lost to a large extent because people don't have time to listen to stories anymore. They just want soundbites, and they just want stock tips. So I wanted to sit down with these guys, get them to tell these stories and try and learn lessons from their successes and their failures. And people don't talk about failure enough. You've got a lot of successful people who – whatever failures they’ve had, they got past them. They fixed 'em, they moved on. And for the most part they're happy to talk about that, because they are a success. They know that you know that their failure didn't break them. It was a temporary thing. And so, I just believe that we can learn so much from other people's mistakes and, more importantly, how they cope with them. And so, that's what I try and do in these conversations, is to just talk to people about their lives and their careers, and some of the things they got right and some of the things got wrong. And hopefully the people watching take something away from that and can either avoid making mistakes of their own as soon as those they've heard about or incorporate a very successful investor's process into their own framework. Dan Ferris: Yeah. Boy. More people need to talk about their mistakes. This is one of my gigantic complaints with, you know, run-of-the-mill finance TV, is they're bullish and bearish on Tuesday, and on Wednesday they forgot, you know, the last two days. And they never go back and talk about anything they got wrong. It's kind of one of the things I'm trying to change by doing the podcast here. So anyway, do you have a favorite, you know – and you could start with Cooper. Do you have a favorite Lee Cooperman story? Grant Williams: Do you know what? It was listening to him talk about his days in the business and, you know – the early days in the business when he just got into Goldman Sachs, and he was selling up Goldman Sachs at management. And, you know, how he wanted to start a hedge fund. And the company said, "No. You know, that's not the business we're in. We don't want to do that." So just to hear, what was a young guy then, had the guts to said, "You know what? That's all right. I'll walk away and do it myself." It's those kinds of decisions that, when you're confident in your ability and you're confident in your business and you're confident in what you think you can achieve – having the guts to take a leap and do it is a hard thing. It's a hard thing to do. You know, he'd already had some success, but nothing like the success like he had with the subsequent business he founded. Which was, of course, Omega Advisors. Dan Ferris: Right. So did he talk about, you know, the last few years, underperformance of value, et cetera? Grant Williams: Yeah. We spoke about that, and he's at the point where, you know, he's going to close his fund and run the family money for all of these above reasons. I mean, if you're a value guy, you know that value just hasn't worked. And if you think about that statement for a while – how could value not work? Value is value. That's what it is. And so, for a value investing strategy to not work, something isn't right. And, you know, he's kind of fed up with that and wants to be able to manage his own money in a way he's more comfortable with. Which is with a longer-term view without being chased up and down without, I guess, having clients, you know, calling up at the end of the month with, "Hey. We missed the S&P Benchmark by 15 basis points. You know, what went wrong?" Nothing went wrong. We missed it by 15 basis points. It happens. But everyone's so short-term nowadays and chasing returns that a lot of money managers – not just Lee – but a lot of money managers I've spoken to...seasoned guys who've been around a long time have just had enough. They've had enough of short-term. They've had enough of being judged day-to-day. And a lot of them are either raising lock-up capital for three, five, some of them 10 years in a private equity-type structure. Or they don't take any more investment. And I totally understand why. Dan Ferris: Yeah. You know, you did talk with Rick Rule at some point I saw some video you did with him. And he's been locking up people for 10 years for a long time. Grant Williams: Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Dan Ferris: He's way ahead of that curve. Grant Williams: I was thinking in his chosen part of the world – the commodity space – you have to think about the 10 years it takes to get a project online, it makes a lot more sense. And I think people will understand, if you're going to be in the money space, why you would need that lock-up capital. But I spoke to another investor, a friend called Tony Deden, who lives out in Switzerland. And nobody's ever heard of Tony and that's just the way he likes it. He'd hate me for talking about him now. But he's a remarkable guy, and a remarkable investor. And he buys stakes in companies that have been in business for 100, 150, 200 years. And his time preference is infinite. He's not interested in daily movements of markets. He wants to buy good companies that have a proven track record and do good things very, very well. He doesn't pay an undue amount of tension to, you know P/E's and EBITDAs. He wants a good business run by good people. But he's very particular about the people that run the companies. And he told me a great story. He had a position in a company called Sadia, which was Brazil's biggest chicken farm. It was a big, global supplier of chickens. And he said, "It was extraordinary good business. A really good business. I just farmed chickens and sent the meat all around the world." And he went to see the company and the CEO was away. He spoke to the CFO who said, "You know, if only we could find a bank to work with. You know, we think we can foresee the foreign exchange markets, and we'd be able to increase our profits 'cause we'd be able to hedge our currency exposure from all the chickens we sell overseas. And Tony thought this was a strange thing. And he made a note of it. And two years later, he saw a headline come across the tape that this company, Sadia, had bought 60%stake in a Brazilian bank. This was two years after they had that meeting. And this guy said that one sentence to him, and Tony said, "Within 30 minutes he'd sold his entire stake in the company." And within two years, the company was bankrupt – out of business. And, you know, it's remarkable that he would do that, because Tony buys companies to own forever, essentially. If they're good companies doing good things, he'll own them forever. But if they change, if they start to do things that weren't the reason he bought the company or they're doing things that you shouldn't be doing if you're a chicken farmer, then – the whole thing gone in 30 minutes. And so, to hear those stories about how great investors think about how they invest their money, about how they, you know, manage those positions after they've got into them is just a real privilege for me to have the time to spend with these guys. Dan Ferris: Nice. Nice story. Grant Williams: Look. Their interview is also up – we put that up in Folice. You know, this is a two-and-a-half hour interview. When you think about that, in this day and age...who wants to sit down and watch two-and-a-half hour interviews? I think people stop me in the street all over the world to talk about that interview. And people who've watched it multiple times, because of all the wisdom in there. So if you just Google my name and Tony Deden, DEDEN, you can find that interview up there. And, you know, if people are really interested in value investing and just wisdom, this is a remarkable conversation with a remarkable man. Dan Ferris: Yeah. Long-form anything is frequently a tough sell. And frankly, it's more valuable by comparison today. You know, just the ability to turn off the Internet and read a book instead of reading a bunch of little snippets and just sit through an interview like that. It's like listening to Beethoven's Ninth or something, which hardly anybody does anymore. Grant Williams: That's a great analogy, because it's – you talk about sitting through it. I mean, no one I've spoken to felt like they were sitting through it. They were sitting there at the end of it and they were kind of upset it isn't finished. It's that kind of conversation. And it's nothing revolutionary. He's not re-inventing the wheel. But to hear someone talk about principles, and scarcity, and permanence and all these core values of humanity which has sadly been lost in the modern day and age...we've chased instant-gratification. It's a real wake-up call for a lot of people. And I was talking about it to a guy yesterday. We had a small conference here in New York. And without any exaggeration, this guy actually started to cry as he talked about this interview and the effect that it had had on him, and his wife and their business, and how they wanted to leave their business to their children, and some of the things Tony had said to me – it's amazing how powerful real intelligence and real wisdom can be in a world where we are so filled with information and so lacking in knowledge. Dan Ferris: Well-put, Grant, as usual. So look. There's a lot of folks – I could sit here and go through a list of, you know, probably 10 more names. But, you know, I'm not going to have Grant Williams on the program without asking him what he thinks about what's going on the in the world. And I saw...I was looking on Real vision, and I saw a piece that you did – I think it was two or three years ago. And you put up a bunch of charts and kind of described the macro environment. But of course with the unpleasantness of late-2018 just behind us, I want to know what everybody's – I want to know what's on everybody's mind right now. So, you know, do you think – what do you think? Do you think, for example, in U.S. stocks...was that the beginning of the end? Was that the beginning of the bare market? Grant Williams: Well look. It certainly felt like it at the time. And I think people who really aren't really up to their waist in the markets probably don't have a true appreciation of the kind of level of disruption and panic we saw in December. It was pretty brutal, actually. It only lasted a short period of time, and things have stabilized. And clearly the Fed saw something, for Pal to flip-flop like he did. So I think that was the beginning of the end, but that's not the say that the end plays out in linear fashion. That could be the beginning of the end, and now we have a battle between the Fed trying to assure everybody that liquidity's going to be maintained, and rate hikes are off the table, and QT may be put on pause – and everything they need to do to try and not scare the horses. But the simple truth is, after a 10-plus year expansion, the U.S. is heading into a recession. Now I don't know when that's going to happen. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. And I suspect if we get through 2019 without it happening we'll find out in 2020 it happened – because obviously these things are always backward-looking. And that's the point where it doesn't really matter what the Fed do. It doesn't really matter what these guys say. That's the point in the business cycle where reality is returned to the forefront. And to me, everywhere you look around you, that reality is difficult to see when you look at some of the levels that you're trading at. You look at the buildup in credit and debt just around the world – it's just remarkable. And, you know, I think people sitting at home who are listening to this perhaps...and this is another thing I talked to, I guess, on the In Conversations With. You know, stress-test your portfolio. You don't have to believe there's a recession coming. You don't have to believe there's a stock market crash coming. But at least now you've seen what happened in December. Now you can see how quickly things can get really ugly. Stress-test your portfolio. And if you couldn't stand another recession or environment, think about lighting up on your portfolio. If you're positioned well, great. But don't just sit there and kind of hope everything is going to be okay and hope that someone else fixes it for you...whether it's the Fed or someone else comes in and rescues the markets. Have an understanding of what economic downturn would mean for your portfolio. And also, do it in dollar terms. My friend David Hay talked about this in our conversation. Do it in dollar terms. It's fine to say, "You know, I could weather a 30% downfall." But if that 30% is, I don't know, $700,000 of real money – as David said, "Well you do that, you see the blood drain out of people's faces." So be realistic about this. Be realistic. Be prepared, and just at least understand what your potential risk is and then decide for yourself. If you think the people who are calling for recession or calling for the market are going down are talking nonsense, okay. Fine. We're all guessing about the future. None of us know anything. Right? We're all trying to take our best guess. But if it would hurt you beyond pain that you could just kind of just shrug off, then you need to do something about it. To me, it's that simple. Dan Ferris: So when you say stress-test, are you saying take a look at how ugly it got in December and ask yourself if you can go through that again? Or are you just looking at individual positions? Grant Williams: Well take a look at December. We've had this position between October and December of last year – or September and December last year. You've got a period there where you had some real volatility for the first time in a decade, essentially. And you can see what your portfolio did. Now at that time in December everybody was panicking. Now everything is stabilized. Just don't sit there and think, "Well hopefully we get back to those highs again." Take a look at the damage that was done. You've re-clawed some of it back between then and now, which is great. But take a look at the damage that was done, and realize not only has that happened but it can happen again. Now if it happens again, can you rely on the markets bouncing? You know, I don't know. I suspect not. But that's an individual decision for people to make. But to not look at it and then make the calculation, rather than just breathe the sigh of relief that everything seems to be back to normal again...I just think it's just a very short-sighted approach to managing your money. Dan Ferris: Yeah. [Laughs] Did you hear that, everybody? I couldn't have said it better. Ever since 2008 or 2009, you know...back then, we found out that all kinds of stuff correlates when things get bad enough. Right? Everybody said this or that asset didn't correlate. But people sell what they can sell when the excrement is really hitting the fan. So besides cash, maybe some gold...I mean, personally I've been telling people to hold plenty of cash for about a year-and-a-half now and, you know, some gold too every now and then I mention. But, you know, what else is there? Grant Williams: Well look, it depends. I mean, people would tell you that you should be looking at high-quality bonds...everybody is different. And this is one of the big problems, is that, everybody wants a cookie-cutter response, a cookie-cutter idea of what they should do. People get fixated in profits in numbers. The simple truth is – a lot of us – we're asking people we've never met to give us their best guess about the future. And to blindly follow that is...if you do that, it's on you. Because if you ask me what the weather is going to be like tomorrow, and I tell you it's going to be sunny and you go outside without an umbrella and get rained on, it's not my fault. Right? I mean, you asked me what I thought. I told you. And I may have looked at all kinds of proprietary little models I had to predict the weather. It wasn't anything on my part that was designed to be a bad outcome for you. You asked me for my opinion and I gave it to you. And that's one of the problems we have today, is there are so many people who want advice. There are so many people willing to give them advice. But ownership of this ultimately has to come down to the people making the decisions. And so, take the time. Weigh up the opinions, but don't just take those red. If you like it – if your opinion on what may be about to happen appeals to you, that's the first step. That's not the end of it. At that point, "Okay." Start checking. Are there other people saying the same thing? Are they as credible? Find someone who disagrees with it, and then hear the counter-case and then weigh up your options. But to kind of say, "Well I'm going to be 85% in stocks and 15% in bonds 'cause I saw a guy on CNBC say, "That was the way to be," – it's just dereliction of duty I think. Dan Ferris: I want to transcribe that and print it in every newsletter I publish for the rest of my life. Grant Williams: Well you can claim it as your own. Dan Ferris: [Laughs] Yeah. Every now and then you try and tell people that. But, you know, if you're the guy who thought X, Y, Z stock was a good bet they'll just never let you live it down. But I am. I'm going to write something like that in my next issue. Grant Williams: I think it's important. I really do think it's important, that people understand this. And I just think as a _____, with all this information, that it's hard to find the knowledge. And the knowledge, as I said, has the be the start of the journey. Not the end of it. It's somewhere you begin and then something you just build up over time. Dan Ferris: Well people are impatient to begin with. And then when you hit the, you know, human brain with the 24/7 news cycle that we have today...and, you know, mobile devices and the rest of it it's just like a recipe for making the worst possible decision about the most important things in your life. You know, your health and your money, et cetera. Grant Williams: That's exactly right, Dan. That's exactly right. It's a shame, and it's a real problem. And I think the same way you do, at Real Vision that's what we've set out to try and do; is to try and give people the tools and the ability to listen to people who aren't necessarily giving them investment advice. But they're just talking about their own investment careers. And you know that tale, teach a man to fish, right? "You give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. You teach a man to fish, you'll feed him for the rest of his life." And that's the simple truth, a stock tip in isolation. It could be a winner, could be a loser. You may not, you may make some money out for it. But real investment wisdom, real experience, real knowledge and understanding success with failure – that's something you can apply to every stock you can buy for the rest of your life. Dan Ferris: Right. I heard something, Grant, that makes me think of you guys now and then. It really is – so, I forget who it was who said this. He said, "Most people" – I think it was something I saw on Twitter, actually. He said, "Most people want to know about track record first, and then they want to know a little bit about process. And then they'll be patient about listening to your philosophy. And then they want to know about the people." And what you should really do is, prioritize it exactly the opposite. You should learn about the people, the philosophy, their process and then look at what they've actually done with all of it. Grant Williams: You know, Dan, that is so, so true. And when I talk to allocators... I was down in Florida last week, and I talked to some big-time investors. And they all said the same thing. You know, you bet the jockey. You bet the jockey and find out about the people. Because look. As I said, we're all guessing. We're all guessing. The finest money majors on planet Earth is on guessing about the future. It's their experience and their successes and failures that enable them to make a better, more educated guess than the rest of us. But without understanding those people, without knowing their stories and knowing how they've accumulated that experience you're not really going to know. So to try and understand the people you're giving your money to, or the principles – have they bounced back from failures? Anyone in this business can theoretically have a gangbusters year. You know, your returns could be amazing this year. But if you look under it, they may have got one hot Internet stock that went up 10X and distorted their returns. Can they do it over the cycle? Well you have to wait and see. But it's a painful lesson to learn. It's like art. Dan Ferris: Yeah. You need to know – that's right. To pick a manager, or a fund, or even a company you have to get an idea of how the people involved are going to behave full-cycle. Right? Dan Ferris: Yeah. Yeah. I have a couple of stocks in the Portfolio – my newsletter – where I'm just in for the long-haul. There are no protect...we're not going to sell if the thing is down 40% or anything like that, because I know the people and I'm confident of how they're going to behave over time. Listen, Grant. We've actually run out of time already if you can believe that. Grant Williams: No, I can't. Time flies when you're having fun, Dan. Dan Ferris: [Laughs] Yeah. So I can't remember. I think I spoke to you once briefly two years ago when I was having a drink with Tim Price in Las Vegas. I hope it's not another two years. So we'll have to make a point of not waiting two years, I guess. Grant Williams: That would be great. I'd love that. Dan Ferris: All right, Grant. Thanks so much, and hopefully we'll talk to you really soon. Grant Williams: Dan, you're welcome. Thanks for having me. Dan Ferris: All right, now it's time for the mail bag. And remember, your feedback is important to the success of our show. You can simply e-mail us with a question or a comment at [email protected] We read them all, and we try to respond to every single one. Okay. We have two of 'em today, and here's the first one. [Laughs] It's really short, but it's really sweet. It says, "Great work, Dan. Loved the info on gold. Been looking for this." So just so you know, what he's talking about here – and it's anonymous. It's just...there's no signature. That's all we got, was this one-line e-mail. And the info in gold that he was talking about is our interview with Fraser Buchan last week. Fraser Buchan of Tradewind Markets. And I won't give it away, actually. Just listen to that episode, if you haven't already, and tell me that that's not the best way you've ever heard of to buy and sell physical gold and own physical gold. And I'll leave it at that. But thank you, anonymous, for your e-mail. We have one more. It says, "Hey, Dan. I like the Investor Hour with you hosting. Over the past few weeks I heard you say many times that the market a few weeks ago was the most expensive in history. Now I think expensive is relative. Just because the market was at its highest levels doesn't mean it's most expensive. Based on which metric was it the most expensive in history? If Walmart sold apples for 99 cents a pound for the past 50 years and sells it now for – a five-pound bag for $3, it's not the most expensive apples ever sold." I'm not quite sure about that example. And then he just finishes up by saying, "It might cost the most, but it actually is less expensive. I'm sure you get where I’m going. Thanks so much in-advance. Jacob H." Okay, Jacob. You're right. I'm not talking about the market hitting new highs. I'm talking about five metrics that are tracked and followed by a guy named John Hussman at Hussmanfunds.com. And the things like price to sales and cyclically-adjusted P/E ratio, adjusted also for margins, a couple other things. And you put these five things together, and Hussman reported that they hit their all-time highest level the last week of August. And then, he put that report out in early-September. But then, of course in September later that month we went on to hit a new all-time high. And I know the data didn't change that much. So I'm saying that that all-time high in September – around 29, 30 on the S&P500 – was the most expensive moment in history. In terms of valuation, not just the highest price. In terms of the valuation. And you can see this...the easiest one of these things to look at is price-to-sales of the S&P500. So the all-time high just in that one metric price-to-sales...that was actually back in January. Okay? But any time it's above two, two-times sales, it's really expensive. And it's never been above two-times sales without, like, crashing [laughs] shortly thereafter. Okay? And it hit 2.24 at the top of the Dot-Com Boom. And it hit 2.36 – actually, just about a year ago. Yeah, just about a year ago. So then, of course 2018 turned to the worst year of stocks since 2008. So that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about valuation, not price. And you're exactly right. Highest price doesn't mean most expensive valuation. Good question, glad you asked it and that is it for the mail bag this week. And that concludes another episode of Stansberry Investor Hour. So be sure to check out the revamped website, and you can listen to all the episodes there and get transcripts of the shows. And you can enter your e-mail to make sure you get all the latest updates. Just go to that same address, www.investorhour.com. That's it for this week, folks. We'll see you next week. Recorded Voice: Thank you for listening to the Stansberry Investor Hour. To access today's notes and receive notice of upcoming episodes, go to investorhour.com and enter your e-mail. Have a question for Dan? 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A couple of weeks ago I went for a pedicure with a friend. We often go together, and have a package of 10 pedicures so that we can sit and chat and drink coffee while our feet are made flip-flop ready. OK, this is sounding wrong already...Hmm. How to explain? Can I explain? No, I won't, I'll just leave it there as it is, think what you will. While we sat getting dead skin shaved off our feet, and picking a nail varnish colour, we returned to a topic of conversation that is often on our minds. Helpers. Like her, we never expected to have a helper / maid / amah, we didn't budget for one, we didn't choose where we lived with that in mind. Then one day near the beginning of my pregnancy, we went for an ultrasound scan and the technician asked "Can you count them?" THEM?! So all the umming and ahhing about whether we would need a helper was over. In fact, many people said that we would need two helpers, and indeed quite a lot of my friends with twins do have 2 helpers. Anyway, the point is that we were complaining about our helpers. Well, not complaining but discussing the best way to manage certain things. For example, when the boys were ill, our helper (V) had very strong opinions about how to look after them, and her 9 years' experience with a Chinese family meant that her opinions did not match ours. V is a fantastic helper - she's kind, patient, imaginative, discreet, cheerful....I could go on. In short, I am thankful every day that we found her, and that she said yes! So we were sitting talking about our helpers, and I realised ow uncomfortable I felt. I think this stems from the fact that helpers do things that I did myself once upon a time (badly, grudgingly and not very often, especially when it came to cleaning the bathroom!) It's hard to find the right balance - helpers are doing a job. They are paid for it, and it's not immediately obvious why I still feel wrong when V makes me a cup of tea, or sweeps the floor while I check my emails. She hates it when I try to do things myself - if I go to make myself a cup of tea, or clear the table, she quietly but firmly interrupts me, and says "I'll do it ma'am". I try to remember that if my boss kept arbitrarily doing things that were part of my job, I'd be pretty narked. So I try to let her get on with it, while making sure that on her day off I am still capable of caring for myself, my husband and our boys. It's all made harder (and easier, depending on how you look at it!) when you consider that there's a legal requirement that helpers live with their employers. V is wonderful, so far I have very rarely found it annoying or intrusive to have her in our home - I think I am so grateful for all she does for us that I couldn't possibly be irritated. We are lucky that we have 3 bedrooms, so she has the spare room rather than a helper's room (often to our eyes, these are little bigger than cupboards) She is definitely part of our family, in a slightly removed way. I know that things may change - we had a helper previously - we really rubbed each other up the wrong way, so we terminated that contract. I suppose that experience has made me all the more grateful for V. Mothers of older kids have told me that their needs from a helper change a great deal as the children get older, and of course that may happen. I wonder how things will evolve as the boys get old enough to be disciplined for example. But for now, all is well. And I hope that no one who overheard our conversation at the salon formed a bad opinion of us. I fear that I would have done, pre-babies, pre-V, if I had heard people like us, getting pampered and complaining about their full-time, live-in, low-salaried maid.

Dutch student Joanneke Jansen (23) was part of the Oxford women's rowing team that beat Cambridge University in the world famous boat race along the River Thames in London this weekend. "I'm so happy. This is what you do it for", Jansen said after the race, NOS reports. This was the 162nd edition of The Boat Race between the two English universities, and the 70th edition that included a women's race. The race attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators that watch along the banks of the Thames, and millions of people worldwide watch the race from BBC's live broadcast. Sunday's race was particularly difficult, with rough waters, winds and rains. But that worked out in Jansen's favor, she said before the race. "If the water is very flat, then it's more about power. I'm not the strongest and have to count more on my technique." she said. "The higher the waves, the harder it is. That's an advantage for me." While The Boat Race is a very much British event, an increasing number of rowers from other countries participate. But only on the condition that all participants study at one of the two universities.

This past weekend we had the opportunity to host our Sister in-law Jill at our house for two nights. She travelled here from upstate New York to spend time with her sister and brother an to attend my wife's 50th birthday party. She has a busy schedule as a teacher and swim/dive coach for her local high school. What I came away with after spending two days with her in my house is how much I appreciate my sisters-in-law. I have four of them, Jill, Jane, Patty and Deb, and they are all unique in their own ways. We've had the privilege of staying for long weekends at a couple of their houses over holidays in Minnesota and at Jill and John's in New York. They treat us like royalty and, by staying in their homes all those years when the kids were young, our kids have grown up together and have come to love their cousins. When we woke up yesterday morning, we had a casual breakfast and then the three of us, Jill, Donna and I, sat around and talked for nearly three and a half hours. None of us had to be anywhere and at the time the most important thing was just catching up. We talked about our extended family, our kids, our jobs, our futures and our pasts. And on several occasions we laughed HARD. Leading up to my sister in-law coming to visit we worked hard to get the house in shape and deep cleaned. So, when she was here we concentrated on just being present with her and not distracted by the other duties of life. We all realized that we had less than 72 hours together, so we all made it a point to be present and just enjoy each others' company. When the party finally rolled around, my sister in-law seemed to have a great time meeting many of our friends that she'd heard so much about. It was so great seeing her interact and laugh with people she barely knew and despite their only common connection being Donna. And when the night was done, her and I got to laughing so hard on the way to the car that I could barely breathe. Now some people have less than stellar relationships with their in-laws. I am fortunate to say that I truly love all of them. And while there is no blood between us, they are as much sisters as my real ones. I would stand up for them and treat them with the same respect I would my own. I invite them into my home, I love them and their kids and I am glad they are part of my life.

Igor Chastin, the Head of World Wildlife Fund in Russia, commented to Russia Today on the tragic accident of a bear killing a man, and such cases in general, in Russia. Russia Today: How often do you see this sort of attack, when a bear actually attacks a human taking care of him? Igor Chastin: In Russia on average, I would say, there are about a hundred registered cases of bears attacking humans. Normally people do not die, but they are either scared or injured. There are essentially more which people simply do not report. I would say it is not too much, taking into account that there are about 140,000 bears and brown bears in Russia and people, especially in rural areas, are very keen on going into the forests for different reasons. RT: What are the causes of a bear's attack on a human? I.C.: I would classify the major reasons in the following way: First of all, the most dangerous case is when people go hunting bears, say when the bear is wounded but not killed immediately than it will almost certainly attack. That is the most dangerous situation. However, people are normally prepared for that, they are equipped with guns and they are prepared to be attacked. But the most common way of being attacked by bear is when people simply go out to the forest for picking berries or mushrooms, for picking wood, and somehow they approach a bear. And when the bear gets scared and it starts running away trying to escape as fast as a bear can. And if a person is in its way – he can be attacked. Normally the bear will not stop. It may simply throw the person down, without killing him or biting him. Then there is also when bears really hunt people, especially in the Siberian regions. I do not think it was ever registered in the European part of Russia, but in Siberia in some years, when there is an especially poor crop of major food sources, and bears cannot accumulate enough fat to go into the winter hibernation, they start wandering around settlements trying to get some food. And some bears turn into real predators against humans, but that is an extremely rare case. It does not happen every year but it can be a real problem for some settlements. In 1961, in just one village near the Baikal Lake, thirty bears were killed in one month, coming to the village for humans, looking for food, and, of course, posing a big threat.

- I'm Ismael, I'm from Afghanistan and I'm 14 years old. - What happened on that day? - I got off the metro in Attiki station and I was going home. Three men came behind me, they tapped on my shoulder and asked where I am from. I said I'm from Afghanistan. When I said I'm from Afghanistan, they started hitting me. One of them hit me in the face with a bottle of beer. I fainted. A passer-by found me and took me to the hospital. And there, because I have no [residence] papers, they gave me first aid and told me to go. Then I went to Médecins du Monde and they helped me. Because my mother is in another European country, Médecins du Monde promised that, in collaboration with the Greek Council for Refugees, they'll help me with family reunification. - Do you have stitches? Does it hurt? - I'm in pain all over. I have 5-6 stitches to my nose and 10 to the head. Is this the country that's famous for its sense of hospitality? What is this? Now they hit me, something must be done so they can't hit others. - Can you describe the people who beat you? - I wasn't able to see them very well. As soon as I turned my head towards them, they started hitting me. They were all wearing the same black clothes with the same sign. - Can you describe the sign? - I don't know this sign exactly. It's two branches of bay [laurel] tree that link at the bottom and in the middle there was a sign but I didn't understand what it is. - What language did they speak? Twitter user @MavriMelani reports that the recently established anti-racism unit of the police has taken over the investigation into the attack. Readers who wonder about the sign on the attackers' clothes are advised to check Google images for Golden Dawn's logo.

Mental health - like physical health - is something we all have. Like physical health, it can range from good to poor, and can also change over time. With good mental health, children can feel confident and be more open to trying and learning new things. Mental health doesn't mean being happy all the time. Mental Health Tips for Children - Healthy: Inside and Out! One in four adults will experience a mental illness at some point each year in the UK. 75% of mental illnesses start before a child reaches their 18th birthday, while 50% of mental health problems in adult life (excluding dementia) take root before the age of 15. In an average class of 30 young people, three will have a mental health problem. Figures show 10% of children aged 5-16 have been diagnosed with a mental health problem. There has been a rise in the time children are having to wait to receive treatment for complex mental health conditions, and children with depression and anxiety are often not being identified or given help. This year, Sebright is learning about mental health and how important it is to not only look after our physical health but our mental health too. On 15th March 2019 we celebrated World Mental Health Day and discussed how it is important to talk about our feelings and what to do if they become overwhelming. At Sebright, we have been learning the benefits of meditation. This term Year 4 are taking part in a 6-week breathing workshop. The Sebright Children's Centre regularly runs workshops to improve health and wellbeing for both parents and children.

i don't know what it was about this woman but she reminded me of a character from the film, Pans Labyrinth. She had a very strange way of moving, probably from years of toil and a tough existence. The climate wouldn't be easy either. WhenI was there it was quite warm, probably in the very high twenties but I imagine that it gets very very cold in this part of Vietnam during winter.

When dating a single dad, it’s important to acknowledge that the mother exists.Don’t ignore her and don’t automatically dislike her for being involved with your boyfriend.As the mother of his children, she may very well be a part of his life forever.It’s especially important not to say anything bad about the mother in front of the kids. Respect your boyfriend’s need to speak with his ex-girlfriend or ex-wife.And they will probably have ketchup stains when they show up there, too.You see, to come see you, they had to feed their kids corn dogs for dinner because they were already running ten minutes late. It’s because between homework, and stories, and karate lessons, and parent teacher conferences, and mandatory work meetings that go late, and shopping, and cleaning… He may not be able to spend every waking moment with you.On that same note, single dads may not get back to you as quickly as you like. If you always need a text back within 30 seconds, a single dad is not right for you.If you need a text back within three hours, a single dad might not be right for you. If you need a text back the same day, a single dad might not be right for you.However, you can rest assured that a man who has taken the responsibility of caring for his child/children has good qualities like commitment, responsibility, and love for his kids. You may not be able to spend as much time with him as you would someone without kids – unless you decide to accompany him to his kids’ school and sporting events. texts sit unread and unanswered on our phones for a while. Next, single dads will over-evaluate just about everything that makes you, well, you as they decide if you’re someone that would be good in their kids’ lives. He is, however, interested in finding someone that will enhance and add important flavor and spice to his children if it ever gets that far. He may not be able to be everything that a twenty year old guy can be when it comes to meeting and falling in love.

If you are looking for a great book, one that will tug at your heartstrings then look no further. This is a story that could have been ripped right out of the headlines. It is told through three points of view. First we have Teddy, the son and survivor of a horrible accident. He is dealing with survivor’s guilt because he was at the wheel when a drunk driver hit them killing his father. Then we have his mother Mary who is trying to hold it all together for the sake of her three children, help her son “deal” with the accident while feeling she is being guided by her husband to make decisions that will affect them all. Finally there is Rosetta, the girlfriend from the past, a past that frowned on blacks and whites dating. All three of them deal with grief in their own way. There are several things I found amusing. Whenever Teddy comes upon a situation he immediately sees a headline. His first friend is a girl he has to share a locker with. Mindy is very unusual. She had one best friend who moved away. She remembers the weirdest, random facts and they seem to pop out at the most inopportune times. But Mindy really was a character I loved. The author did a great job of showing realistically how death can tear a family apart, while at the same time showing that it doesn’t mean we lose our memories of the one who died. She also showed the process that grief takes and how it is different for each person. The steps to getting back on their feet and learning to live life again was so realistic. I have only one warning for you. Do NOT go into this book without a box of tissues. This is a great way to start off my new year of reading. Definitely a book I will recommend to everyone. There are life lessons for all. It is such a clean read that I believe it is a book I will put on my shelves at school, because it seems every year I find one student who experiences a death in their family and maybe what they learn by reading Teddy’s side of the story will help them.

The passage of time can bring about unexpected and often unwelcome changes. One day the simple act of leaving the house to post a letter is part of our daily routine, the next such a straightforward activity suddenly becomes fraught with uncertainties and anxiety; will I be able to find my way home? What would happen if I were to fall? Our approach is based on long term experience. We believe that every person is different and has their own requirements and so your care will be planned concentrating on your specific needs. We have learnt that the small things can make a big difference like greeting with a smile or making the tea just as you would like it. We achieve our goals with the principles of your fundamental values upmost in our minds with a constant emphasis on comfort and consideration. Each client is valued as an individual and the aim is to enable them to reach their full potential, to live life as they choose.

To those of you who wrote to me about James Pollard: I have deleted him from our membership. Thank you all for bringing the problem to my attention. I try to weed out these people when they try to sign up. I catch most of them. But occasionally a clever one can figure out how to get past me. It doesn't happen very often, and I usually catch them within a day or 2 of their joining. If you see problematic messages, especially ones with links, don't click on ANYTHING in the message, don't reply to their message, just post a comment to me. I will look and deal with the problem.

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When I think of 'giving up' I always think of it in bad terms. Those are the things that come to mind first. Today I have decided that some things you can give up on and it is O.K. I'm giving up worrying, or at least trying to. will it make a difference in the morning? Nope, it's going to happen whether you worried about it or not. the situation twice; once in your head and once in real life. I never thought of it like that! I'm a worry wart, I'll admit it. I worry about everything, big or small. and if it doesn't, it's all my fault. Who gave me all the responsibility? No one did, I put it on myself. trying to control and worrying endlessly about. If it's going to happen, it will happen. I could go on and on with quotes I've found about worrying, they're all so true! Tiny Buddah does it again with this blog. This website has been a serious life-saver for me the past few months. from this website and it always seems to calm my mind. I had a big jump in readers yesterday, thanks for not forgetting about my little website! As always, feel free to think of your own questions to ask me! put your brain into overdrive every once in a while.

Women, to be more precise, mothers have always had the key role in the upbringing of children; in fact it is in their genes. Ever since ancient times women took care of the children and home, and the men were in charge of bringing food through hunting, and later on taking jobs in order to provide for their family. Women stayed in their homes and did everything what was necessary to raise their children and keep the household. This situation was the same more or less until women obtained the right to work earning their own salary, and this happened only a few centuries ago. In fact, most of your great-grandmothers and grandmothers did not have a job, but stayed at home to take care of the children and house, while their husbands were working and earning salaries. So, we may say that women have it in their genes the capability of training or parenting their children which is never an easy task, and never has been. In modern times aside the taking care of their children and house, which should never be underestimated as that is a full job, they also need to work. Every stage of children’s development is a hard task, there isn’t an easy stage of their growth, each one is challenging and very demanding, but mothers seem to have higher strength as they show great love and dedication to raising their children. We are living in a modern age where husbands should or are already participating in the upbringing of children, but the question always appears: how can they efficiently participate? Even though by all standards the parenting part needs to be done by both involved parties, the mother and the father, it seems that the harder tasks and the higher responsibility falls on the mother. In fact, as per many conducted studies, the husband can stress out more than a child, which was confirmed by 45% of the mothers that participated in the studies. It is a normal thing for the loving couple to have aspirations to form their own life together like having children, buying the house of their dreams, and lead a fulfilled life. However, it seems that many women do not ask the most important question when they are entering the marriage, and that is if their partner is willing to put everything on them, and to accomplish the plans they have put together. Many women think that that will come naturally, and the surprise is even bigger when that does not happen. Therefore, most women confirm that their stress in raising the children is because they do not get enough support from their husbands in this difficult task. However, when this was stated to the involved men they claimed that even if they offered help, the women refused believing that they will mange by themselves to solve all the problems with the child alone. But that is not the case as in this modern way of living every help is welcome for the mothers, today’s parenting needs to be done by both parents as that is sound parenting where every involved party gets benefit from it, including your children. If there is a proper communication among both parents, any problem and misunderstanding can be solved, and in that way you can eliminate the stress at least the one in your home. Stress is not healthy, and it is not good for parenting.

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The minister said that the free ambulance service, was made possible by the people of India, was one of the largest grants India ever made outside the country’s assistance to build 50,000 houses in the north and east of Sri Lanka, and the Indian help in rebuilding the country after the 2004 Tsunami. “I wish to thank Prime Minister Modi and the people of India for this wonderful gift. People of Sri Lanka will be ever grateful to you,” de Silva said. Are we a beggar nation to accept handouts?

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences examined data from more than one million residents of Toronto and concluded that people who lived in less walkable neighborhoods were significantly more likely over time to develop diabetes. The effect was particularly strong for immigrants to the city, many of whom live with a high-risk combination of genetic predisposition to diabetes, poverty and poor walkability. In the most startling finding, the study found that a new immigrant in a less walkable neighborhood was more than 50 percent more likely to develop diabetes than a long-term resident of Toronto living in one of the most walkable areas, regardless of neighborhood income.

Between the ROG Phone and the Razer Phone 2, 2018 is shaping up to be an awesome year for gaming smartphones. So with both of them on the desk at the same time, why, I think a good old-fashioned comparison is in order. First up we have the Razer Phone 2. Now, a couple weeks ago, we were able to get our hands on this, but it was a very brief hands-on, whereas this, this is going to be a little bit more of an in-depth feature comparison review gaming benchmark. Are there other words I can put in the title? Do you see how shiny this glass is? It'll never be this shiny again the second I put my dirty fingerprints on it. Not only do we have a fast charger included in the box, something that a certain fruit-themed company might want to take note on, but we also have a series of cables and dongles. But what's actually kind of interesting about the Razer Phone is that we have a USB-C headphone adapter. Now this might not sound impressive. In fact, it's included on most phones that don't have a headphone jack, which is basically everything at this point. But this actually does support full hi-fi audio and supposedly has a pretty good DAC inside. Next up we have the ROG Phone, and I actually don't know to open this box. (Velcro crackling) Oh, wow, okay, that's, all right, that's a box. All right. (chuckling) First up, we have the phone itself. So the ROG Phone's kind of unique in that not only does it have a USB-C and a headphone jack on the bottom, but it has two more USB-Cs on the side which are meant for accessories. So the last time I tried the ROG Phone, it was still a fairly early prototype, and I've gotta say, immediately, this feels really nice. We do have that, actually, is that aluminum? That's gotta be aluminum. It's incredibly heavy, though, wow. It really feels nice, and it's got such a heft in the hand, and unlike the Razer Phone, which is basically a giant squared-off brick, this is much more rounded and a little bit more of a hand-friendly shape. Something unique about the ROG Phone is that unlike basically every other gaming phone out there, there's a wide range of accessories that are either included in the box such as this fan, or other things that'll be available for purchase. You know what I feel like right now? I feel like ROG is trying to make the ultimate ROG Phone, right? Like, when we do Building the Ultimate, we try to find the ridiculous and crazy accessories, but they're just selling all of the accessories. You could literally get everything you need to build the ultimate ROG Phone straight from the store. Not only does it have the RGB, but it also has a fan, USB-C, headphone jack, all that stuff, which is rearranged to the bottom. This is cool. I really appreciate that they put this in the box. I don't want to get too into the dock right now, but the idea is that when you're using the phone in landscape mode, your hand is naturally covering up not only the headphone jack but also the USB-C, so in addition to be able to get a little bit of cooling, you also have those ports on the bottom of the phone so you can easily plug it in, plug your headphones in, and you won't get in the way of your hands. (box thumping) Wait, what'd you, what are you doing? A Black Shark? Wait, are you trying to add another phone to the comparison in the middle of the video? "You're Gamer, Let's Shark!" Oh boy, this looks exciting. What's the deal with this? Oh. Oh, this is not the original Black Shark at all. Okay, this is an unprecedented move in that there's a brand-new unreleased smartphone on my desk and I literally don't know anything about it, except that it looks kind of cool! That's something to know about it, right? So it's got a kind of combination of aluminum on the sides but it still does have that glass back panel, and I'm assuming that looks kind of like an RGB logo? Oh, wow, that's quite the gamer skin, and, oh yeah, we do have a RGB logo on the back. I like how we have this great comparison: look, it's the ROG Phone versus the Razer Phone. It all makes sense. And now, I'm like, wait a minute, there's this totally new phone that I have no idea about. I have to figure it out on the fly. This is cool, though. I guess they've definitely upped the RGB game. I mean, that's a look right there. So it looks like you can individually change not only the logo color, but also the little Shark Mode thing on the side. "By pressing the Shark button, "your phone will become a game console." What, a game console? In a smartphone? That's crazy! So after spending some time with the Black Shark, a few things come to mind. First of all and probably the most important for the video is that this is not a final phone and it's certainly not final software. There's definitely some tweaks that are going to need to go on before this is released. And also, a lot of the benchmarks and stuff don't even work yet, so we're gonna take some of this with a grain of salt. There's also the controller, which actually doesn't attach to the phone. It attaches to the case that comes with the phone, so it's maybe not the most elegant way of doing it, but it's sort of like you would expect with a Joy-Con. The only problem is that the controller only works wirelessly, so even though you can slide it on, something like this, it actually doesn't attach with any kind of wires or whatever, so you still need to separately charge not only the controller but the phone itself. The big problem is that this is a Chinese market phone, which means that here in the United States, well, it doesn't have the Google Play store, or any kind of Google apps at all. Now there will be a global version of this phone, and hopefully that will include, you know, the fundamental apps that you would expect like YouTube, but for now, it's kind of hard to get apps on this, unless of course you wanna play a little bit of Fortnite by chance. All three phones have the very familiar Snapdragon 845 inside. So the ROG is slightly clocked higher, but the main difference between the three is that the Black Shark has an optional 10 gigabyte of RAM option, whereas the others only top out at a measly eight gigs of memory. Coincidentally, they all have the exact same size 4,000-milliamp hour battery, which is a good thing for gaming, but from here, the differences start to stand out just a little bit more. The first big difference is with displays. The Black Shark has a perfectly respectable six-inch 2160x1080p panel. It's good but nothing spectacular, especially when you compare it to both the ROG Phone as well as the Razer Phone. Move over to the ROG Phone, and while it does have that same size as well as resolution of the Black Shark, it is an OLED panel running at a full 90 Hertz. Now as far as I know, this is the first time that any phone has hit 90 Hertz with an OLED panel. The Razer Phone has a slightly smaller 5.7-inch display, but it is a much higher resolution at 2560x1440, and importantly, it runs at a whopping 120 hurt refresh rate. Hertz, not hurt. It doesn't hurt to refresh, it Hertz to refresh. The only real downside is that this is a very wide phone, specifically when you put it side by side with the Black Shark and the ROG. It's just not quite as comfortable to hold, but that screen is really well-optimized for video. Let's talk about these screens for a second. The ROG Phone has a very accurate OLED panel, and even though it's not the most well-calibrated thing in the world, it looks nice to the eye. The Razer Phone thankfully is much, much brighter than the original version of the Razer Phone. Again, it's not quite 100% there, but it is a lot better than the previous generation. And the Black Shark looks nice, but again, it's not quite final, so it's hard to run any kind of real tests. It looks goods, but I really feel like the winner here is the ROG just purely based on the looks. Where these phones really shine is with the higher refresh rate, so it's really hard to show on video, but even the 90 Hertz of the ROG Phone really does make a big difference in small things like scrolling through a webpage or moving between menus. It really does seem a lot more fluid, and that definitely does apply to the Razer Phone. Now, to my eye, I actually can't really see a major difference between 90 Hertz and 120 Hertz. Theoretically, this is a little bit smoother, and I will say it looks maybe a little bit sharper when you're moving between things, but realistically, both these phones are a big step up over the Black Shark, or, well, every other 60 Hertz phone out there, which is basically all of them. All three have dual front-firing speakers, but there's a clear winner as far as which one sounds best. - [Phone] Hey, guys, this is Austin. The Microsoft Surface line has been growing a lot lately, with everything from a desktop all-in-one with the Surface Studio all the way down to the cheap and tiny Surface Go, there's a lot to like. - I guess the ROG Phone wins by default here. That's not what I was expecting. So the problem with the Razer Phone is at least with my specific unit, even though it is very loud and very clear, there's definitely a little bit of distortion on the very high volume. Something the ROG Phone definitely does right are the extra features and accessories that come along with it. One of the main ones is the squeeze feature. This is somewhat to what you'll find on the Pixel where if I squeeze it, what happens is it turns into ROG Gaming X Mode. The thing with X Mode is you actually can customize it to do whatever you want, but I just like going X Mode, not X Mode. X Mode! It's just kind of fun to do. But it's not only just for show, so if you flip the ROG Phone over, on the top are the AirTriggers. This essentially adds physical controls to the top of the phone, giving it a little bit more of a controller kind of feel. The way it works is that each of them can be mapped to a specific button on the screen. The way it works is that inside the X Mode software, you can adjust the actual touchpoint of where you want it, so for example, my right trigger is the actual trigger in the game, and my left is to go on to the sights. You can do it however you want, but the thing is, this is a really, really nice addition to give you a little bit more of a physical control on a phone without having to carry around, like, you know, a controller, or accessories. One downside to the ROG Phone is that this is one of the hottest devices that I've ever tested. Now it doesn't get uncomfortably warm, but after a few minutes of gaming, it does get a little bit toasty, which is where the included fan comes in. So what you do is snap this on to the USB-C ports on the bottom of the phone. As soon as you clamp it on, not only will the RGB logo light up, but it will start a pretty easy little fan which will cool the back of the phone. Now in testing this doesn't make a massive difference to performance. What it does do is cool off the back of the phone to make it a lot nicer for when you're, you know, doing extended Fortnite gaming sessions and not sweating your fingers up. Can you sweat your fingers up? Is that, I can't say that, can I, that's weird. So what's the best gaming phone of 2019? Well, I really like a lot of what Razer has done with the Razer Phone 2. I gotta give it to the ROG Phone. Not only does it have great performance, it looks nice. It's got a lot of really cool features, but really, what kind of sells this to me over everything else is this is the first gaming phone that's not only good at gaming, but it's also good at being a phone, and that, that kind of means a lot. 0 Response to "The Best Gaming Phone In 2018"

There is a good chance you’ve recently seen, or at least heard about, the Kony 2012 video. It’s part of an effort by a group called Invisible Children, to raise awareness about the evil doings (and I think we can use the word evil here) of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army, a group that terrorized the people of Uganda for many years. In fact, though the video has gone viral recently, the LRA has been active since the 80s, and the situation in Northern Uganda actually began improving around 2006. Everyone seems to agree that it’s an incredibly powerful piece, and that it’s a great thing that people are finally paying attention to this part of the world. However, there has been some controversy about the actions called for in the video and about whether this organization is the best one to donate to. What to do if your kids see it or hear about it and want to help? First, you might consider a trip to World Vision headquarters in Federal Way. Just outside their door is an interactive visitors’ center that takes you through some of what life is like for children in Africa. It’s free, and I think it would be a great, educational opportunity for kids old enough to appreciate it. World Vision has been working in this part of the world for many years, and also has some specific suggestions for how to help children there. World Vision is a Christian organization, so if that doesn’t fit with your faith traditions, you might consider another one. I’ll have a post later in the week with some suggestions. If you’re looking for inspiration for your week, What Sounds Fun This Week is just one post down, or celebrate this weird weather and make lion snacks. Ugly but tasty!

I just got the new Entertainment and RPG pages published. I think they both look fairly decent, despite the fact that I'm not exactly pleased with either. Technically, however, they are both far more stable. Speaking of which, I also dug into the main Index page, which had some glaring technical issues I wasn't even aware of. I think I must have stopped in-media-res the last time I updated it because there were some pretty obvious gaffes there I simply overlooked, but they've since been fixed. It's been a very (too) long time coming, but some of the more obvious, overreaching aspects of the site are finally starting to fall into place (he said hopefully). I just need to keep-up with the updating and all, and have a more specific plan and plan of approach in mind the next time I decide to make changes.

As we all know, transitions can be really hard, but you can always learn something. I have experienced a lot of transition since college. I’m originally from Pittsburgh, and I've moved between Pennsylvania and South Carolina a bunch of times for my career. The first big move for me was my first job at Kimberly Clark. I made Huggies Snug n’ Dry Size 4 diapers, and at 19, I did not think I would ever know as much about diapers as I did when I worked at that plant. But the good thing about that transition is it taught me that I had the independence and the confidence to move far away from home all by myself even though it was really scary. One of the other things it taught me was I wanted nothing to do with Huggies Snug N’ 4 diapers as part of my career. So while I learned a bit, my first internship was a little bit of a bust because I didn't find my big passion, which is what everybody wants to find in their first job. The next year I had the opportunity to work for Boeing in Charleston, which is right on the beach. That summer, I was a design engineer, and design and I did not get along. But I knew I loved the company; I found a culture I loved; I found a place I loved to work, and I had great friends, so I knew I wanted to go back. The following summer, after talking with my manager, I went back and I learned that I loved stress engineering. Stress engineering is just straight math, all day, every day. At the time that was all I wanted to do, to use my technical degree. I got to work on airplanes, which is really cool, and I got to live eight minutes from the beach. I learned a lot, in those transitions, about informal education and how I could learn at my job. After I graduated from Penn State, I returned to South Carolina to start full-time at Boeing. Continuing to work in stress engineering, I started a rotation program. The one thing that motivated me to pursue this program was that I didn't know what I wanted to do forever, and I wanted to explore my options. In the rotation program you can develop professionally, and you can keep getting better at transitioning as you start new jobs and assignments. My first role was a delivery center engineer. I worked where we deliver the 787, and I worked directly with the customers to make sure that their brand new plane was exactly what they wanted. But then as I decided what to do next, I thought I wanted to go back to Pennsylvania. I wanted to learn more about living up north again, and I wanted to be closer to my family. So I moved to Philadelphia, and the ECFP (Early Career: Rotational Program) was nice enough to let me continue with three rotations there. I worked in data analytics on the Chinook program, which is the helicopter program that the Army uses. Then I did obsolescence management, which was a huge transition for me because I had no idea what obsolescence management was. Now I work on the V22, which is a tilt rotor aircraft. And through all of those transitions, I found the ideal job for me, which is being a project engineer on the V22 where I work directly with operations. But despite all of that informal learning, I realized something was still missing. I realized I wanted to learn more. I've got this hunger to learn inside of me, and I wanted to be able to develop it. Boeing had a program developed with MIT, so I started an online program for systems architecture and engineering at MIT. Soon after, I looked at some of the other partnership programs that Boeing has for continued education. I decided to start at Michigan State, which had another online program that I decided would be a good start to see if I wanted to get into the business world. I started a certificate in Strategic Management from the Broad School of Business at Michigan State. What I learned directly from that program was that the MBA is where I need to go, so I took the GMAT. I went from 0 to 60 and it was a very fast transition. What that taught me was, if you put your head down just like you're in school, and you study really hard, you can prepare for that exam even when only have three days. I looked at a few schools and ended up choosing Villanova. Villanova appealed to me because it had an in-person, cohorted program. I developed really great relationships, teamwork skills, and I got to learn about all the different careers of people in my cohort. I work in aerospace, but some of my really good friends in school work for a pharmaceutical company. Someone else works for Exelon and does acquisitions and mergers, while others are financial planners. And these are all career paths that are open to engineers because engineers are taught how to think, and all companies love that. Your education is an asset if you ever want to make a big transition like that. Ashlee Palm is a rotational engineer in The Boeing Company’s Engineering Career Foundation Program. The program rotates new engineers through 4-six month rotations across the enterprise. She is currently a project engineer supporting CC-RAM, a V-22 modification program. Ashlee is a 2015 graduate of Penn State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is currently an MBA student at Villanova University. ASME FutureME Blog Series: Transitions was derived from the Mini-Talks program at 2018 ASME E-Fest West and East, which covered different perspectives and best practices on transitioning from school to work. Watch a new video series on career development.

The new Pirates movie, while it was good, didn't seem quite as good as the first one. I'm still looking forward to the 3rd one, though, to see what they do with the story. A Scanner Darkly, on the other hand, was very good... even if it had its weird moments (but, hey, given the message of the movie those moments fit right in). This weekend is a toss-up between Clerks II and Lady In The Water, unless I luck out and can fit two movies in a weekend again. Anyone up for joining me? I mentioned the acceptance of the verbal offer before, but now it's solid... both the agreement between the buyer and Prudential (which acts as a middleman in this deal to make things easier on me) to buy the place and between Prudential and myself to sell it. Well, my end will be more solid as soon as I get the official sales contract (received today) signed. Thanks to helixblue for the use of his eyeballs and signature in that department. Compared to the post office in High Point, the one down here is kind of odd in the fact that, while they have the postage kiosk out in the hall, it's only turned on during office hours. After this week, when I start commuting to the office, it'll be harder for me to get over there to take care of postage for packages and the like. For that reason, I set up an internet postage account and bought a scale and other things to get that up and running. The last of the stuff arrived today, so I set that up and tested it, and got a package ready to ship that I had waiting on this day (hey, if you're going to test something, do it right). ...getting that program pretty close to done and allowing me to work on other projects that I have on my list, including the installer that I wrote and am now using with it (I need to get a WM5 PDA to get some problems ironed out before I can sell that one, though).

I am not very good at sports generally. I don’t really like to exercise, so I’m usually not very good at running around. I’m also not very good at complicated physical movements, like shooting a basketball. Finally, I get nervous in team sports because I am too worried about causing trouble for my teammates. Despite all these problems, I found one sport that was perfect for me. I’m good at sailing. In high school, I was on the sailing team. We raced small sailboats, only about 5 or 6 meters long, with two people in each boat. That was the perfect sport for me, because on a sailboat, you sit down the whole time. No running around! The movements on a boat are important, but they aren’t complicated like other sports. If you throw a ball wrong, that’s it, it’s too late to fix it. If you pull the rope on a sailboat too far, you will know, and you can let it back out a little, and there’s no problem! In a race I usually do have a teammate, but that was ok for me too. On a boat, there is a captain and a crew. The captain makes all the decisions and the crew does what the captain says. It’s a clear system, and I’m ok with that. I’m happy to have people tell me what to do, and I’m happy telling other people what to do. I’m just not good at team situations where people work together as equals. I really loved sailing. I love the sound of the water, the feel of the wind in my hair, and the crash of the boat against the waves. I love the feel of the boat pulling away. A sailboat always wants to turn downwind, so in a race the captain is always fighting the boat to make it go upwind. I also love the strategy in a race. I’m not very good at complicated physical movements, but I’ve always been good at strategy. I can look at the water and see the path where the wind is. I can see the other boats and imagine their speed and the path they will take from where they are and where the good wind pockets are. I also understand the traffic rules in a sailboat, and am good at using the rules to force my opponents to go on a different path. I did really well on the sailing team. Sailing is more than just a sport, though. I love just spending a day sailing around. When I was young, that was my main summer activity. Two or three times a week I took the family sailboat out with my friends, and we just relaxed and explored the ocean. After high school I took a test and got my official captain’s license, so I can work as a sailboat captain for tour groups or private boat owners on vacation. I never actually did any of that work, but I was happy to get the license. Can I rent a sailboat near Hitachi?

KWCardDesign : Thank you for everything. Happy Friday! WHEW! Glad we made it to Friday!! It has been a rough and long week, but another weekend has come around and I am happy about it. I am back to share with you a card I made for my cousin who we stayed with when my hubby and I went to Chicago for vacation in May. I wanted to make her a card, and thank her for the wonderful stay we had. This card has some bright and cheerful colors to it. I added glossy accents to the windows of the house, but don't know if you can tell from the photo. This is one of the stamp sets from Fiskars called Outdoor Fun. It was one of the many sets I bought on Ebay from one of my favorite sellers. She always has great deals. Everyone have a nice weekend, and Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!!

I went to a very large state school and took a reasonably challenging program in mathematics and accounting. One of the few reasons that I managed to survive and finish both degrees was that I skipped most of the general business classes and showed up and took the test. It was easier for met to learn on my own rather than spend the time in class. On the other hand, I found the major courses in math very challenging and would routinely attend all of those lectures. So I suppose I ended up with a hybrid model, which was good for me. Of course there's the old yarn about if you want an education, go to the library; if you want a degree, go to college.

You’ve probably already read (or heard about) studies that show plants tend to grow healthier and faster when in a musical environment. I’m not completely positive how this works. Some theories suggest that the vibrations of the sound encourage the flow of nutrients. My own theory is that plants simply like funny jokes and musical entertainment. It was the first time to put them to use in a live show. And although I had a quick live presentation (a few days prior) and a video tutorial to help me construct it, I’ll admit, we fumbled a bit when it came time to construct. Not a big deal. Driving to Columbus is a bit of a drive. Coming home, I did close to 12 hours of non-stop driving. In any event, we planned on arriving a few hours early, just because of the fact that we were using shells that we did not have experience with. Planning an early start was a good thing, because after I thought I had it all ready to go, I realized I left something important in my car, which was conveniently parked a 1/4 mile away in a parking garage. So, after the long drive, and rushing to set up, and my jog (and a bit of sprinting) to the car and back, we were set! OK… so it was a bit of a big deal at the time. But all that was suddenly put aside at showtime. The show was a blast! And oddly for myself, it was the first time to actually play “Brick House.” It’s a request that comes in all the time, but the request slip never seems to land in my own lap. In fact, I’m not sure this one did either. Emily sang it, and I played it on the piano. We really pulled it off with the perfect groove and energy, and the crowd loved it. I have to say, it was my first time to explore the city, and I can’t wait to go back for another event. In fact, two of our other players have since made the travel for a Columbus, Ohio show. What can I say, our name gets around! Book Felix and Fingers for your event today!

It's crazy to think that Arrow has actually gone for seven seasons! This is one of the DC shows that lost me after Season 4, one day I'll catch up, but I keep hearing from people that it's not worth it. For those of you, who are still on board and enjoy ing the show, here's the trailer for Season 7 that premiered at Comic-Con. I will say that this trailer looks good and it does make me what to get caught up.

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She stood statue-still, waiting, her creased face emotionless as bees swarmed around her body. I felt drawn to her, as if she was the reason I was there. Bonnie here, again, coming to you with one last tale of adventure from our Travel Writing Expedition in India. Summers are hot and bone-dry in the Rajasthan region of India. Hundreds of years ago, the best way to beat the heat was to head to the well, which was constructed of zig-zagging steps and provided plenty of room for the villagers to relax in the shade near the water. But before I could walk around to the other side of the well to take a picture, I spotted an old woman standing at the edge of a tiny temple. Tucked away in the cracks of the structure, she stood waiting to give blessings to passers-by in the form of a bindi (an orange or red dot just above your brow line). She stood there patiently, practically in the middle of a swarm of bees coming from a hidden hive somewhere nearby. As I asked to take her photo, she smiled and asked to give me a blessing in return. It turned out to be one of my favorite photos — and interactions — from the trip. Margot told us that a good narrative travel article — that is, an article in which you tell a story, rather than simply suggesting where to go and what to do — always has a “second story.” You may go to a place expecting to see a thing… but it’s what you don’t expect that makes the story good. And it’s even better if that thing changes you somehow. It can be turned into the best travel story from your trip. Not only will your travel articles be better for it… but it will change you as a person, too.

In addition to popular music and classical music, there is also a lot of friends like listening to rock. As one of the most rebellious consciousness type of music, rock and roll with its free and uninhibited, adhere to the original, uncompromising spirit, she won the favorite of young people. Of course, do not rule out there are some to install X for the purpose of man, that listening to a rock on the ordinary, such people can be called "pseudo-shake." So what kind of headphones to rock the selection of it? Most people think that must be the low-frequency strongHeadphone. Yes, rock is a strong emphasis on low frequencies, but too much is bound to cover the high-frequency low-frequency performance, in fact, the high-frequency rock is equally important, especially IF, since the guitar is the main instrument of rock and roll, but it is IF-based, so a good IF can make rock charm full. March has been the spring, the maximum daytime temperature are generally climbed to about 20 degrees, many people began to busy to put off the winter light spring, the beauty of the girls have even put on a skirt. But before you put spring, we have not considered after a winter sea binge drinking, weight soared, but also after the heavy winter clothes to show off a perfect body it? There is a saying that good, do not lose weight in March, April beggar. Not taking advantage of the full heat up, and quickly began a new round of fitness sports bar, do you really intend to make strong beer belly walked into the summer elephant legs it? Of course, easier said movement can act is not so simple, people need to be able to stick with it considerable perseverance. If you feel boring, you may choose aSports headphonesLet the music be with you easily exercise, give yourself a good mood. AEP-9072 headphones are a movement to do a special optimized to easily match phone. Their appearance and style are very fashionable for young people to listen. Here we went to look at it that several headphones.

You've reached Malia's giving page with Modern Day. Please click on the "Donate" button above. You will be asked to set up a secure giving account. Your donations on this site are tax deductible through Modern Day. Thank you for partnering with me and investing in this vital work. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of marginalized women and girls, and see lives transformed by hope. The streets of the Tenderloin are cruel to everyone, but they are particularly unsafe for women, who often have to resort to selling their bodies for money for food and shelter. The lady in this picture came in off the street at our holiday outreach. The beautiful hand-made blanket, donated by ladies in Tennessee, was immediately put to good use, perhaps the only comfort she received that day.

Arkasha Stevenson is a photojournalist currently based in Los Angeles. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina in December 2010. While attending school, she documented issues in the rural South, such as drug addiction and prostitution in Durham, N.C., and child care in Elizabethtown, Ky. For the last year and a half Stevenson has worked as a photography and video intern at the Los Angeles Times. During her internship she has had the opportunity to photograph a wide variety of subjects, including the Occupy movement, the remote desert squatter camp of Slab City and the Coachella Music Festival, and has been sent internationally to follow the Stanley Cup. For six months, Stevenson had the privilege of documenting 19-year-old Jesus Garcia’s battle with terminal cancer. In 2011 Stevenson won first place in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program National Photojournalism Championship. She was named the 2011 College Photographer of the Year by the North Carolina Press Photographers Association and was awarded first place for multimedia in the College Photographer of the Year competition.

1. PATIENCE – Practicing meditation is a great way to learn patience! When you force yourself to sit still for a few minutes every day, while focusing on your breath and simply observing the thoughts in your mind without judgment, you will be able to tolerate waiting for your slow friends or siblings without getting stressed out. In fact, you can meditate any time you are waiting for someone or something! 2. JUDGMENT – In meditation we train ourselves to simply observe our thoughts without judging them as good or bad. They are just thoughts. Actions on the other hand can have positive or negative impacts on our lives. By learning mindfulness we give ourselves that split second where we observe what we are thinking before deciding what action we are going to take, this is called good judgment! When we see our friends doing things that are going to hurt them or others we can be compassionate for them, because maybe they don’t know how to be mindful and are just acting on their thoughts without seeing what the consequences are going to be. 3. ACCEPTANCE – In meditation we learn to see our thoughts without judgment. We simply accept ourselves as we are with all our wishes fears dreams strengths and weaknesses. We understand that we are simply doing our best in every moment. Practicing mindfulness gives us a tool to help us see what our best action is in any moment. We can be accepting of people like our friends, family, teachers and coaches who may not have this skill. 4. SELF AWARENESS – Being self aware simply means being aware of what you are thinking, how you are feeling and paying attention to what you are actually doing. When we practice Mindfulness we learn to pay attention to what we are thinking, and how those thoughts make us feel. As we go through our days after our morning meditation we will start to notice how people places and things make us feel. Does one friend always bring you down? Does eating junk food at lunch make you too tired to go to your team practice after school? By becoming self aware we can learn to make decisions that will help us get to our goals and avoid situations that are taking us away from where we want to be. 5. PEER PRESSURE – Our friends can be a source of guidance help and inspiration, or sometimes not. By becoming self aware we can begin to pay attention to how we feel, our feelings are a pretty good indicator of what we should or should not be doing. If a friend suggests that you do something and you feel your stomach getting upset at the thought of it, that is a good indicator that you are being pressured to do something stupid. We are often afraid that if we don’t conform we will lose our friends and that is very scary, but we all have different people in our life. Learn to be mindful of how you feel around certain people and choose to spend time with the ones who want to do cool stuff, stuff you would be proud to tell your Grandmother you did. 6. APPROVAL SEEKING – this is the other side of peer pressure, doing things to get attention, to get likes on a post or shares of an instagram. Now, this is important, doing things that are good for others out of the kindness of your heart is the goal, sometimes that can get confused with other motivations. By learning to be mindful we can start to notice when we are doing things just to get attention versus when we are being genuine honest loving in our actions. 7. PLEASURE SEEKING – Have you ever had a bad day at school or got in an argument with your mom and just wanted to run to your room and eat a whole tub of ice cream? This is typical pleasure seeking behavior. Often times, we don’t want to feel our feelings when the feeling is ‘bad’. As we learn and practice mindfulness through our daily seated meditation practice first we learn to just observe and accept our thoughts, then we can begin to observe and accept our feelings as well, as they are often linked. When we learn to accept our thoughts and feelings we wont be as tempted to do things that we later regret just to make the pain go away. 8. PAIN AVOIDANCE – Have you ever made a big mistake that you were sure you would get in trouble for? Then hid the evidence, blamed someone else or somehow not taken responsibility because you were afraid you would get in trouble, this behavior is called pain avoidance. It makes sense at first glance but as we have seen, when we meditate we build a safe place inside us where our thoughts and feelings don’t have a powerful a hold on us. So you can admit what you did wrong and then simply observe how the authority figure is reacting and you can simply accept what is going on without judgment. Yes you may still get in trouble but you will be in WAY LESS trouble if you admit your faults than if you hide them and get caught later. 9. RESPONSIBILITY – As we learn and practice Mindfulness through our daily seated practice we realize that our thoughts come and go and we don’t have much control over them, but when we insert that layer of mindfulness into our lives we realize that we do have control over our actions. Thoughts come in and we can choose to dwell on them or let them go and consciously think about something else that makes us feel good, and just like that we can do the same with our actions. When we make this HUGE realization we no longer can blame our friends or our parents for stuff that we clearly chose to do. This is very empowering because it shows us that anything we want in life we have to work towards, this makes us very powerful because we will start to choose our actions more carefully rather than just blaming everything that goes wrong on someone else. 10. COMPASSION – As you can see, the practice of Mindfulness Meditation can totally change our lives for the better. As you grow and change you will likely start to notice that you have less and less in common with some friends and you might want to start to find some new friends who also practice meditation! Think of the quality of life you can have when you are all taking responsibility for your own actions and outcomes! Now the flip side of that is having compassion for people who don’t have this skill. When you see someone freaking out, sad, crying, sick or suffering you can understand that they probably have no idea how to separate themselves from their thoughts. You can think back to how that used to make you feel. You have developed an amazing skill that helps you literally create the life you want to live, without it, life can be very challenging. So as you go through your day, look around you and choose to be grateful for what you have and have some compassion for people around you who clearly do not have this gift in their lives. Maybe you will even want to teach others how to meditate? Have you meditated before? What do you do to reduce stress? Comment below!

As a little girl, the opportunity to start a family of my own was a dream. Now, it is a reality. I’m married to a loving husband and we share a beautiful little girl. After giving birth, I never had felt so important in my life than at that moment. Through a complicated process, my body had allowed me to give life. From then on, all I wanted to do is be with her, smell her, listen to her, and just love on her. And, I did just that during the next 10 weeks of my maternity leave. Returning to work was a horrible transition for me. I missed my baby so much! People were so excited to see me return. They would immediately greet me and ask how the baby was doing. With watery eyes, I would just nod my head. As time passed, it didn’t get easier for me. I didn’t cry as much, but I still missed her like crazy. It wasn’t easy, but after nine long months…I came home to be with my baby. But by then, I had missed her first steps, first words, etc. But, now she would be my priority and I would be her primary influencer. Fast forward to now and I have to tell you that being a stay at home mom is not easy. In fact, some days I am miserable. I would day dream at work about days that were full of crafts, naps, snacks, and mommy play dates in addition to blogging part time. And, then I get home and life is far different than what I imagined. While, most days I am counting down until the time my husband can walk through the door and help, I do not regret the decision I made to come home. Motherhood is not easy and it’s not always as pretty as it appears in the movies. But, I love it. My corporate job was stressful, but I’ll take caring for my tiny ankle-biter any day. To cut down on my stress, I know that I need to work on creating a routine and being consistent. And, patience! God, please help me understand how to effectively employ patience. Some of my old coworkers tell me that they could not be a stay at home mom. They need to be in the field working and that they can’t just be sitting at home. Well, just know that stay at home moms actually sit very little and we use our voice… a lot. While this transition is not for everyone, it was the best one for me. No doubt it’s stressful, but I am learning to manage. In the end, I am rewarded with the opportunity to raise her and watch her grow into a beautiful person. Amandela is a happily married stay at home mom from South Carolina. She writes about parenting and married life on her blog, Meet the Harris Family. She enjoys traveling, reading, crafts with her daughter, and baking vegan sweets. You can learn more about Amandela and her family on her blog!

The young ones have officially joined the fashions club, they want to look like their parents, elder siblings and their friends. This has proved to be a market changer with designers now being forced not to ignore the upcoming market. Kids nowadays also want to be heard they want to choose what they wear. They want shoes or tie that match their dress code of the day. This is a factor that the current parent has to consider. Fashion designers are fighting to make a statement with their current designer clothes for children they will use them as public figures to showcase their brand. There was a lot of untapped potential in the Kids fashion market that is why now fashion designers are rushing to bridge the gap with demand increasing every day. With the realization that technology has taken over the world, the children’s stores have now invested heavily in online stores where they showcase their various products for sale and deliver them to their clients. This has made it easy for buyers who do not need to visit physical stores. There are hot, warm and cold seasons each of this period we need different modes of dressing. That is why the kids need not be left out they should have beautiful clothes for themselves. We shape the future of the kids by the things we introduce them to as they grow up. That is why Luxurious Children’s fashions industry will make a huge statement in the years to come. While we are focusing on impressing our peers and making fashions statement, we should not forget to uphold morality in the designs that are made. Our children may embrace a culture that will be difficult to change in future. As much as we may want to impress the world we have to ensure that the future will not be hostile to us. When creating brands and designs we have to consider the various factor that will make it stand out. This can be deeply analyzed by the designer so that they come up with the best product. the kids are a true reflection of the parents that is why we should make them look in a way that represents us best.

All of the staff at Shelby Public Schools are excited to start the new school year and we welcome the return of your students. As everyone is busy getting their classrooms and buildings ready for the school year in anticipation of returning students, I wanted to take an opportunity to share a journey Shelby Schools will embark on starting this school year. This journey, and part of our work this school year, will involve the development and creation of a district-wide strategic plan for Shelby Public Schools. The overall goal of developing a strategic plan would be to create a vision which would allow us to create a framework with which our district will use to do the right work for our students and build the learning environment they need for the future. We recognize this plan involves our community, and we want involvement from the Shelby community to help this plan take shape. As the saying goes, it “takes a village to raise a child” and we want to make sure all stakeholders are invited to participate in this process. Please consider this letter as our invitation to all of you to become an active member in the development of our strategic plan.

Hello there! Here is my new project - letter in a bottle. It was sent to the person I do not know on a letter SWAP. Yes, it was realy difficult to write a letter to a person I do not know, but it was fun although challenging to do this project. The main idea was to write a letter and to send it, but I wanted o do it more interesting, more exciting! So, here it is. I hope that person will like it, he he... Otherwise, she can send it back to me, he he.. Inside of a bottle there was such a letter hanging on a thread. That's how the letter looks from a closer look. This is a simple paper I use for printing. I used distress ink from Ranger (Tim Holtz) to make it look like very old. The begining of a text I covered as it is a little bit personal, he he. WOW!!!! Na ir laiskas!!! Fantastika!!! WOW!!! Can you imagine receiving that or finding it washed up on a beach!! It's amazing!!!! Thankyou so much for joining my new challenge blog...I have posted your gorgeous layout and put it on my normal blog I hope you don't mind.

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What do millennial sales reps learn from their boomer colleagues? I think if you go back to the selling essentials and you say "All right, here are some things that are always going to be. Thing Number One: People buy from people they like. It's always going to be that way. People don’t buy from people they don't like. It's always going to be that way. That "first impression" piece still exists. We make our first impression on somebody in 30 seconds. We've always done that. The baby boomers understood that pretty well; the Gen Xers understood that pretty well. And I think they can blend that expertise of good engagement [and communicate it] to the millennials. Presentation skills are a big deal. If I'm a skilled presenter … I think it's important that [a baby boomer or Gen Xer] can teach the art of communication as it relates to personal relationships. As baby boomers, we like to work more one on one, more personally, whether it's a phone call or whether it’s a physical presentation. We, as boomers, get that better.

A brave pair of visitors to the Grand Canyon stand on an a cliff overlooking the magnificent vistas of one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World. The magnificent Grand Canyon is located in the US state of Arizona. This massive gorge was created by the Colorado River.

In an earlier post, Ever Have One of Those Moments? , I spoke about light bulb moments, seeing things that have been there right in front of you for a very long time. I didn’t get into much detail about it, but I think now it’s time that I did. Wow, what a statement! We talked about this for a while. I wanted to know exactly what she meant by this. She went on to say that it must have been beautiful and scary to see the world for the first time when you’re born because all you could see before was the inside of your Mommy’s belly. So, with this I knew that she was very aware of what she was saying, and contemplating. I became even more honoured to have been chosen to be her Mom. I lay awake in bed that night for a while, thinking about what my darling daughter said. She is a very curious, and contemplative little girl, and has a deep desire to discover new things. Such wonderful characteristics to have. And while thinking I realised just how many opportunities we are given to see things for the first time, just like when we are born. I was reminded of a book I read by Elizabeth Lesser called Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow. In her book, she talks about how you need to be broken open in order to make the changes to really live, to find the courage to choose life. She describes what it takes to break open and what the result of it is. She explains that we go through many Phoenix Process’ in our lives to achieve this. For those of you who don’t know the story of the mythological bird, the Phoenix bird realises that he has reached an impasse with his life. He built a pyre and sat in the flames to burn to death. Then he rose from the ashes as a new being, yet ever more himself – authentic, vibrant and especially at peace with himself and the world. Theodore Roethke says “In a dark time the eye begins to see.” What this means is, like the Phoenix bird, you can emerge from the fires of frustration, depression, false starts, disappointments and self-lies and become the real you, the person you are meant to be. You begin to realize that things do not need to be this way, and there is a possibility to change. But to go through a Phoenix Process we must make the conscious choice to turn our misfortune into insight, instead of becoming bitter, reactive and cynical. I have been broken open many times , and as a result have CHOSEN to go through many Phoenix Processes at once – my divorce, work, living arrangements, raising a daughter as a single Mom and even contemplating the dynamics of relationships with other people. Not an easy feat, but I wouldn’t change this for the world. I absolutely am beginning to adore the person I am becoming as I rise from my ashes. Every single one of us is a Phoenix bird, and during our lifetime we will die and be reborn every single time we feel stuck or resist change, whether it is a life catastrophe such as a death or divorce, or while asking every day questions such as “Is ____ fulfilling my purpose in life?” The reason why the Phoenix Process is difficult and painful is because our egos get in the way and try to prevent us from burning in the fire. Our ego doesn’t like change or death, and it is a control freak. However, deep down, on the spirit level, we know that with every ending, there is a brand new beginning. We can make whatever we want with that new beginning. We can see the world for the first time again, just like when we were born. ← Kids, Christmas, Giving – Oh MY! PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern “small hot bird.

A bit about me. I work for myself. I like to travel. long term is the most fun. i like to go for a few months or even a year if I could. I rather blend in as a local then pop out as a tourist. I am pretty easy going, emotionally balanced and good natured. I treat people with respect. I�m an old soul. I seem to get along better with old souls. Honestly and Integrity go far with me. I think its important to be kind to one another. I'm a minimalist. Im an introvert who at times pretends to be an extrovert. I�m clumsy and forgetful. he kind of man I am looking for is ............a man who is a gentleman to everyone in his life. Someone who really wants a relationship...a partner. Someone i can call a genuine friend. He is emotionally balanced. he argues by having a conversation and he listens to understand. he is a positive energy. he makes an effort to have a day filled with laughter and fun. He cares about our animals and our earth, a protector. He compromises. He speaks his mind. Someone playful, someone who would build a fort with me and eat pizza / watch a movie in it. A romantic. a man who likes to take care of his woman . I believe in equality...therefore I take care of my man right back. A naturalist, someone who prefers the outdoors, gardening, animals, trees, the ocean, beach and sunshine to city life. But a man who also enjoys the city, food, wine and maybe even a night out dancing in the weirdest way possible. Someone who doesn't care what other people think. Someone who is affectionate.

How do I know if changes were made to the programs I am interested in? The quickest way to find changes is to go to the Addenda page. On this page you will find a list of every program that has changed since it was first posted on eINFO in August. You can search for changes by university. The changes are organized by the date that they were made. If you are viewing a program's details, addenda items will also appear in the "Overview" tab in the "Program Summary" section.

Joseph Guy was born in Logansport, Indiana. He is the third child of Robert & Debra Guy. It has always been his passion to sing. He is now breaking into the music business with a zeal. Joseph Guy has been singing from a little child, when he would sing with his family. Music always interested him, in how it worked and delt with the heart. Joseph has had a wide range of opptunity opened to him, from singing in a group to a solo he has done it. Now Joseph wants to go into the music business with such a zeal that he has never had before. So book him at your next big event. Remember it is not how big a project is, it is how important that project is. So if your event is important to you, it is important to us.

I think I can sleep in/on anything that has wheels and is moving. The number of wheels the vehicle has, doesn’t seem to bother me. I have fallen asleep within minutes on a bike, in a car, in auto-rickshaws and buses all the same. I think I could fall asleep even on a bicycle, if I ever tried taking the pillion seat on one. I was asleep even before the bus reached the Gachibowli flyover, which is at a distance of just 5-7 mins from the office. I could blame it all on my cold (it is supposed to make you feel dull and drowsy), but I won’t, because my track record would prove otherwise. Not sure of how much time I spent sleeping, but when I woke up I realized that I was in some other part of the city, in a direction that I have never travelled before. I had taken the wrong bus home and I didn’t know where I was going. “Excuse me.. Excuse me”. It was four times before the girl sitting next to me realized I was trying to talk to her. My voice, which wasn’t any louder than a hoarse whisper, fell on deaf ears till I literally waved my hands in front of her. “We are approaching Krishna-Nagar”, she said giving me a ‘are-you-drunk’ look. I was lost. Unsure of what to do and where to go, I asked another girl who helped me recognize an area where I could get down and go home from. God bless her! On my way back from the township swimming pool, I got into the wrong bus. This time I had read the bus number, only the number, not the letter following it. Wrong bus, wrong route = a tour of the entire city. The bus conductor and driver were having a gala time, laughing at my expense. I had proudly proclaimed that I will get down where I want to, after paying the fare for the entire journey to and fro because I didn’t know where I wanted to get down, when the bus had started a return journey!

We are a group, ages 18 to 30 year-olds, committed to Jesus, His plan, and His family. We believe that in the Gospel, we are saved by Jesus, to His family, and for His mission. We are a community of university and college students, singles and marrieds, and people from all walks of life. We would love to have you become part of our always-growing family. Planning a visit? We meet every Monday night at 7pm in the front Lobby Cafe at Parkwood.

Katie Toms writes about music, books, theatre and art among other things, sometimes for The Observer where she worked for two years. She also writes about gender. A double-bill of plays set in the American South.

It is a known fact that: After all, China continues to be a communist country to this very day. As this takes place, Starbucks was certainly up for a challenge before it would achieve any of its results in business here in China. In fact, many believed that this specific aspect of being a communist country could affect the business sector almost instantaneously. At this very moment is where networking and making business friends became very important. Starbuck needed to associate themselves with local businesses in the country to get a hang of politics and business, so, they did just that. As a result, this would prepare Starbucks to stand alone in the future with confidence.

In Letters to the Church, which released just a few days ago, Chan challenges his contemporaries to embrace the hard, authentic journey of committing to Christ. He spoke with Charisma News earlier this year about his new book and more. Below is Part 2 of the interview. Click here to read part 1. How does the message in Letters to the Church compare to the letters Paul wrote to the church? And then just explaining that in our day and age, it seems like it'd be the same message to us because it's like consider this, this and this. That's a tough question, because I definitely don't want to say just as Paul wrote to the Colossians, I'm writing to the Americans. No, no, no far from that. I'm just more reminding people what Paul wrote and what Jesus wrote. Is there any sort of caution you might give the church? Just understand that we are in a time where people are very quick to speak, and we value our opinions so much, and to really take some time to listen to consider before responding. Understand that that's a biblical command from God: be slow to speak. And we feel the pressure. That's why we have Twitter, 'I want to get a message out immediately to all of these people right away because I just had this thought three seconds ago.' And I understand that's the way the world is, but it's still not biblical. Let's just take some time, let's not get angry. The Bible says we should be eager to maintain the spirit of unity. I tried to write it what that in mind; I'm not trying to bash anyone. I'm trying to look at myself and look at Scripture and compare myself to Scripture and see where I fall short and think, Gosh, I need to change this. Have you guys ever struggled with this? And let's change this together. But I just think people are very eager to throw their opinions out there, and we don't think through the consequences of how I might've hurt the church, I might've slandered God's anointed. That's a scary thing. And we see a lot of that in Scripture where people acted too quickly or spoke too soon, and it didn't just hurt them, it hurt those around them. I was just reading yesterday in Chronicles about David's census again. Seventy thousand people died, and David's like, 'Gosh, Lord, please have mercy! I'm the one who messed this up!' And I'm reading here going, 'Yes, he's the one that messed that up. You just killed 70,000 people.' That's a lot of people, and it shows us that it's always been this way, that my actions don't just affect me. They can really hurt a lot of people. I tried to very carefully write and speak, because we live in a world where there's not a lot of caution. How would you respond to the #MeToo movement as women call out pastors who have allegedly abused them? I would say a couple of things. We have to be very sensitive to people and their hurts and their abuses. I'm grateful that the church is doing that now and listening. We do have to hold people accountable to their actions. The one thing I would say, too, I really wrestled in the book, because I write a chapter to pastors, there's the one side where not many of us should be teachers because we're held to a higher level of accountability by God himself, we're going to be judged more harshly, and there's a truth to that. So I'm writing that to pastors, saying, "Hey, let's really look at our lives." But then there's a flip side to this where people are expecting so much from their pastors on the other side, that there's no forgiveness, and to really look at every individual situation, every person as a person, and go, "OK, what really happened? How was it dealt with? Let's deal with it right. Let's show grace and look at our own lives. Think, OK, what have I done?" Just be mindful of everyone that's involved. I think sometimes, let's take our president for example. It's very easy to point out faults and everything else, and I can do that, as well. But there's a flip side, too, where it's like, OK, he's a human being, and I'm going to pray that the grace of God be upon him. I cannot imagine having to make some of the decisions he has to make. In other words, just remember he is a human being, too. Pray for them, seek God's mercy and grace upon their lives. Would the model you discuss in your book—smaller congregations with distributed responsibilities—help prevent abusive situations? Yeah, definitely. In some ways, first of all, getting realistic, like how many people can a person truly shepherd? If you give me 100 people, I just promise you I will fail them if I'm called to shepherd them all. It's not fair to them. It's not fair to me. They should have more time with their shepherd. But if I have 100 people, how am I going to do that, much less 5,000? It's not fair to them. They really need someone to walk alongside of them and disciple them. Jesus did that well with his dozen guys. There just needs to be more of that. Then obviously there were the crowds of the thousands [where] everyone was unhappy with Him because they all wanted something from Him. They all wanted something different. There's something beautiful about being able to shepherd a group and know that these [people] really are my responsibility. Sure, I can teach the masses, but I'm really going to shepherd this group of people. I think it helps the situation because you just have to do the math and realize we only have so much time in a day. I'm only going to be able to dig deeply into a few lives. If I do that well, then we can multiply this. But if I'm expected to care for so many people, I'm going to frustrate them, and they are going to frustrate me. What has the big-C Church lost in its pursuit to grow? I would say individual responsibility; that's a big one. I don't see people expecting God to be doing immeasurably more than they can ask or imagine, according to the power that is at work in them. They don't take it literally. Like, God wants to do this through me. He wants me to make disciples. It's a lot easier to hide behind a successful teacher and say, "I'm one of his sheep." Oh, OK, you're automatically good, like you're part of a winning team rather than individually saying, "Gosh, I shepherd this group of people. And I disciple them well, and I take this seriously." I would say that's a big one, their own gift to the body has been lost. At the end of the day, I think of Colossians 1:9 where Paul says, "From the day we heard, we've not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding." Paul's prayer for the Colossians was that they would be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. He wanted them to be able to know God deeply and know His will, and that God would give them spiritual wisdom and understanding. Too often, we're looking to other people for that, like, 'Hey, tell me what God's will is for my life,' rather than really believing that we ourselves could be filled with the knowledge of His will and with spiritual wisdom and understanding. I'm appealing to people to believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, believe that they themselves, because the blood of Christ can go right into the presence of God themselves, and seek Him and know Him and to enjoy that. It's only as you do that that you will benefit the church. Otherwise, you're going to hurt the church when you father with them. If you don't know God, you yourself are not overflowing, because the Lord is your shepherd and your cup is overflowing and you're constantly just needing that from someone else. I guess my prayer is that anyone who reads this is just to get alone with the Lord. He is your shepherd. Your cup can overflow with just you and Him and then you'll actually be a blessing to the church rather than coming as this critical spirit whose needs aren't met. Then you can actually show up and be a giver of life to those around you.

It's such a good feeling: Too good to be true. It's been a while since I've felt up to writing a post about love. But today I lay on the floor and listened to my roommates singing. I think that a lot, actually. Because that's how love feels. just can't be that way. I'm here to tell you that life is really that good.

For me, the event videography, especially the one related to weddings and baptisms, is a lifestyle. Even if at first it was just a passion for a new style of visual expression, today, this passion is a full time job. I am a husband, father and visual artist with background in painting and photography. I'm located in Bucharest and I'm always interested in new opportunities and experiences, whilst meeting people with beautiful stories. There is no pattern that can describe the unique experiences each relationship goes through. The beautiful adventures, but also the difficult moments that you've been through, they brought you together, here and now, at this point in which you have committed to joining your lives forever. My interest in knowing you and building a relationship with you will allow me to express your story better than anyone else. I would like to find out not just how you first met, but also your perspective on life, what passions drive you and what you like to do, whether it's traveling, concerts or time spent with friends and family. I encourage you to dare and wish for a genuine and exciting movie that represents your wedding experience. I want you to feel in every frame the emotion and the passion invested in creating the film. I wish that whenever you will watch the artistic rendering of your story, it will remind you that nothing in life is more important than the love you share. I'm Aurelian Mirea and I want to know your story.

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She sprung off the bed taking the key in her hand from...well it was hard to say where she was keeping it. "Of course. I didn't lock the door to keep you in but to keep others out. A girl can never be too sure." She walked over to the door, her shoulder brushing by his. Before she put the key in she answered his question. "Who said anything about requirements? I simply do not have the clearance. I think if you knew it would encourage you to join with us. I'll see what needs to happen or whom you need to speak with. I'm not sure how high up it goes. It might be you need to speak with the Lord General himself." She then turned the key to unlock the door. "Good luck with your assignment. I hope it give you time to think about what we've talked about. It'd be nice to have someone interesting around the camp." People bored her easily. There was no change in his demeanor as Sorcha brushed past him to get to the door. His eyes followed the movement of her hands as she stuck the key into the door handle, holding it there while she addressed his question. The 'Lord General'? That would be their leader then, which meant that that's what his father would have been to them all and likewise, that's what he would be come to them if he chose to take that path. And of course they'd want him to see their leader in person -what better person to sway him. Especially if it were someone who'd known his father. The thought kept coming to him that this person would be able to tell him everything, or at least more than the Captain of the Blood Moon Squad had ever offered, and Yeoun wanted desperately to remember more of his own forgotten past. If the Chorong waited too long to make contact with him again though, it was likely that he would find some way of making a visit to the camp he'd grown up in, taking it into his own hands to find out everything their Captain knew but wasn't sharing with him. Perhaps Yeoun would even go so far as to doing something regrettable to find out just what had transpired on the night of his father's death. For now though, it would all be left to question. Yeoun would consider his options carefully and then decide what to do. It was such a sweet sentiment she offered after him, but he didn't think he'd need her well-wishes or good-luck to complete a successful assignment. For now, the Blood Moon member reached into his pocket and removed a couple of the smallest fractions of a mark that he just happened to have with him, dropping them onto the end of the bed as she turned the key in place and then opened the door for him. Perhaps it was of equal complement of her 'services' that he left the smallest mark pieces there as her payment, "It wouldn't be realistic if I didn't leave something with you in payment." He seemed to ignore the rest of what she'd said, moving past her and into the hall to leave. Shortly, he was gone from the establishment, making his way back to the trainees barracks.

Once we all got home, we just hung out and eventually decided that dinner would be a good idea. Of course, our Smalls were run ragged by that point and their wheels began to fall off. There was not a great amount of relaxation had – particularly, of course, by the mothers… But a wonderful and long overdue day. And now Small DB has improved in the car, we might actually be able to return the visit! Rockin picture of M in his surf gear he looks so happy and also beautiful picture of your friend with her little one.

If you are a woman who lives dreaming about the future, who tries not to think about the past and do not attach much importance to this, than a man Aquarius is perfect for you. Aquarius men do not live in the present. They always like to plan and dream about what they will have in the future. By the way, in a new book Aquarius Man Secrets by Anna Kovach you will discover a lot about men Aquarius. These men are always keen to achieve something, and after achieving the desired, immediately rush in the race for a new dream. Men Aquarius love to explore all around and solve the unknown. By nature they are very curious and thoughtful. On their face a thoughtfully dreamy expression is constantly seen, and this is because the head of Aquarius at this time is busy pondering some clues and secrets. Aquarius females for men, as well as all that surrounds her, is an interesting mystery, he wants to solve. He is able to fall in love with any woman and knows about it. These men have the ability to charm, but themselves forget about it very fast. Aquarius man likes, when a woman likes him, but can not stand it when she wants to conquer or seduce him. He must constantly feel the freedom and only then he can be a long time with a woman. Aquarius men are very charming and talented people. They confidently move up the career ladder, their possibilities have no boundaries. In life and in communication, they are very open. Aquarius has many friends and he is willing to listen to each of them carefully. To achieve mutual love of an Aquarius man and make him marry is like trying to catch the wind and keep it. But if you read the book Aquarius Man Secrets, you will discover many secrets that will help you achieve the love of man Aquarius.

The pasta of the day was amazing!! It was packed with bacon and mushroom. We got our food pretty fast but it wasn't too busy so I guess you'd hope that would be the case! Sometimes it takes a while to be noticed by staff but other than that I always enjoy coming here for a meal.

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Ah the joys of parenthood. Caile is at that age, really she’s been there for a while, where she realizes her Parents don’t know everything, but that’s OK because she has a solution. Today she brought home her musical instrument from school that she will be playing in the band. She decided early on she wanted it to be the clarinet and that’s what she ended up with. Jen and my sister both played it when they were younger, and even though I played the trumpet she wanted nothing to do with it. Her younger siblings were in the car and asked her if they could see it when she jumped in, she told them it wasn’t together but she would show them the pieces. Joking around with her I asked if she knew how to put it together. She said she didn’t but would figure it out. Mom will know how to put it together, well she should, but if not that’s OK because I’ll just use YouTube.

My images have been used for a wide variety of media and purposes. The following samples are designed to show what I do when there's little or no style direction, and I'm allowed to simply be myself. I'm into crazy/cutesy characters, hand-scrawled type, texture, flat black paint, noodley appendages, and wild parties in your eye holes.

Jamie grew up on a farm in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. She graduated from St. Mary’s Catholic High School in 2014. After graduation, she went on to attend college at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. Currently, she is pursuing a degree in Business Economics with a minor in Human Resources. In 2016 she decided to further her knowledge by obtaining her Real Estate License through Kaplan University in St. Paul, MN. After graduating from South Dakota State University in December of 2018, Jamie looks to move back to her hometown area. In her spare time she enjoys being outdoors as well as spending time with her family, friends, and pets. She is very excited and eager to get into Real Estate and learn the ins and outs of the business.

MARXISM 101: What do socialists say about parliament? Debates about how to relate to parliament and parliamentary elections have been a constant feature of the left and socialist organisations. For many people, parliament represents ‘politics’ and elections are the main way to express your political beliefs. On the other hand, parliament is a body that is tasked with running capitalism in the interests of the ruling class. So how can these contradictions be resolved by socialists? What lessons can we learn from the history of socialists inside and outside of parliament? Todd Chretien - Revolutionary parliamentarism?

In case you missed it, we have a guide on solving idiom-related issues in GMAT Sentence Correction questions. The creators of the GMAT have been decreasing their testing of idioms (the subject tends to put non-native speakers of English at a disadvantage) but we still advise that you learn as many idioms as possible. Therefore, here's a list of the most commonly tested ones.

When I do dishes I think. When I am having a hard time I like to do the dishes. It is like a mini spa for my hands and brain. I had to draw a sad Hunny cartoon because I am sad. I miss her like mad. I need to get it out of my brain and on paper. I started one and could not finish it. Not yet anyhow. I was doing dishes today and said this out loud. "I miss 'that' kind of love.." The kind of love Hunny gave me. I could do no wrong! She was never angry with me, disappointed in me or judged me. She LOVED me. Was always there. SHE was like my little shadow. Literally. I realized today it is so quiet because I do not here the little clicks oh her nails as she follows me from room to room. She is not jumping on the bed trying to lure me to nap and snuggle, she is not litting between my legs as I read my book in the living room, she is not under my feet as I draw, she is not following my every step out in the back yard while we look for balls in backyard for Tequila. She is not downstairs with me while I clean my baby's apt. She is not here. I AM MISSING HER. I know this is an old post for you...and I hope I don't stir negative/sad feelings, but this little blog piece touched my heart. I read it a few months back, but wasn't sure I should post anything, but the last few weeks have been a "doing dishes" kind of weeks.

Sunday was Mother's Day. I found myself thinking that I probably owe my atheism, at least in part, to my mother and the mistakes she made when I was a child. While she has been a great mother by most counts, she insisted on dragging me to church into my early teens out of an unfortunate conviction that it would be good for me. I certainly did not enjoy this experience, but it sometimes occurs to me that I might still believe in gods if not for having been through it. To be fair to both my mother and to myself, I suspect that I would be an atheist today regardless of whether she had imposed church upon me. The way my mind works and my love of science from an early age probably would have led me away from superstition regardless of my church experience. Still, I do think it is quite likely that being forced to attend church over my objections helped me to escape religion at an earlier age than I would have otherwise. Sitting in church and observing my surroundings amplified the hypocrisy of it all. I remember thinking things like, "That woman seems so pious, but I'm pretty sure she's the one who's been having an affair." But most of all, I remember how nonsensical my mother's emotional reasoning seemed when I begged to be exempt from church. No matter what I said, the response would be the same: "But its good for you!" She never bothered to explain how doing something I hated and that did not benefit anyone else could possibly be good for me. I've never been much for regret. It isn't that I don't have my share of regrets, but I suppose I've always understood that dwelling on them merely wastes what time I have left. We are all shaped by our experiences, and I wouldn't be who I am today without going through much of what I went through.

"I don't know, I just feel... supercharged or something." That's what I said to my bestie last week as I told her how different I felt lately: my excitement for the podcast, my enthusiasm during workouts, my clarity in relationships, etc. "I can tell you're on a high. I feel like you and August are friends." She's right, of course. I'm on the best kind of natural high, but it's not because we're in the month of August. But my "mood" isn't happenstance or due to the position of the moon. It isn't because of my birthday, either. A natural high is a direct result of taking creative action. I'm feeling this natural high because of what I've been doing over the past month or so, and the kind of action I've committed to. And guess what? It's clearly working! "I think I'm ready. To do what? I'm not sure. But I've got the itch." When I thought of what I might do, I considered various options. Should I write? Should I explore this photography I'm being pulled to? Should I try something entirely new? The thought of creating excited me. But I also was hesitant about how much time to spend on something that may never see the light of day. It's not easy to make time to create when your efforts may fall on deaf ears. Create anyway. At some point, the itch got so bad that I decided to scratch. I decided to start expressing myself. I decided to do a little bit of everything I felt called to do—write, take photos, brainstorm other projects, what-ever-I-want. So, I do exactly that. Even if I nobody's paying me to do it. Even if I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. Once I knew I wanted to express myself creatively, I knew it had to become a habit. "Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink." If creating is free, what was holding me back from scratching the itch? A plan. I sat down and made a list (a public one!) of what creative activities I wanted to accomplish. I even journaled a bit about why I was struggling to get it done and how I might re-organize my time to make it happen. I came up with my list of commitments. These are not commitments to the outside world. These are commitments to myself. Nobody is holding me accountable but my own self. By creating commitments to myself, I'm honoring and prioritizing that which my soul feels need to be created. It felt great to see on paper what I needed to get done. It made me feel like creating what I committed to wasn't as outlandish and impossible as I'd imagined. It made these lofty ideas of mine concrete and tangible. Which is, you know, hard. Because does life looooves to get in the way of my art. But, most of all, my inner lazypants that wants to scroll through shiny pictures on Instagram instead of getting work done. "Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not." It's through our actions that we create our feelings. For example, I sang my heart out during a traffic jam so the baby and I could get home more calmly or I decided to go on more adventures as a family so I could enjoy my photography more. Taking creative action creates a natural high that kills all inner resistance. I could easily get caught up in a downward spiral of "imposter syndrome" with my photography, but my commitments and my daily action don't give me a chance to even think about my lack of training. Doing the work every day takes the pressure off my technique and measuring up to anyone else and puts the focus on expressing myself, as whimsical and self-taught as it may be. So yes, August is most definitely a beautiful month for my family, but there's nothing like the natural high of self-expression and creative exploration. PS. Podcast going live in a few days. So pumped!

When the time for graduation comes, everyone is happy since they no longer have some deadlines to beat and the exams are over. As you prepare to graduate, you know you would get a diploma for all your hard work for the time you were a student. If you are chosen to give a valedictorian speech on that day, you need to know how you would go about it and where you ought to start. The first thing you do is to ensure you get into the spirit of the occasion so that you don’t speak something that doesn’t concern it. It’s critical to ensure you read through or listen to some inspiring valedictorian speeches since this would keep you excited. Even though the speech you found online inspired you greatly, you should be careful to remain unique to yours since your exceptional story and voice need to inspire others as well. Never start your valedictorian speech or prepare it before you have identified who your audience is. The audience in most cases includes the fellow students, professors, and the families of the students graduating. It’s likely to be excited during the graduation day, and this may influence just to tell others about your personal achievements, but you need to prepare something for the general audience present. Have your listeners in mind and find out what is good for them to hear and what is helpful to take away as they go home. A good valedictorian speech is usually a summary of good things about your student life and how the positive things you had would impact the lives of the other students. You can also inspire and elevate the feelings of the students present by citing a few struggles you had and how you overcame them. Ensure the speech rhymes with the theme of the event if you want to make a difference in the lives of the listening students and leave them impacted. Ensure the speech encourages the students to take risks in life, be brave, and be the change the world must have. Your valedictorian speech would be well rated if you are careful to remind the students that they should always be passionate in life, dream big, believe in who they are, and think big. Ensure you show your personality through your speech and be you. You need to make your authentic speech humorous since this makes most people happy and rejuvenated. Ensure you are keen on time since a lengthy speech would not be effective.

Pinay WAHM: To Quit or Not to Quit? Yep, that is the question! One of the firs things I 'discovered' when I started looking for ways to make some extra money while I stay home with the little was home scanning. For those not familiar with it, it's when you scan the groceries or any products you buy in stores using one of those barcode scanners similar to what they use in stores. The information gathered by the scanner is then sent to the company I scan for through the phone where the transmitter is connected. The main aim of this is to help research companies like the one I'm scanning for in determining prices in different stores from different places. Anyway, I've been contemplating in quitting this 'sideline' for a couple of reasons. The original company I did this for was bought out by a bigger company a few years ago so a lot has changed already and I'm not particularly happy with the changes. The other reason is my busy schedule. My main aim when I joined was the extra income. It does not pay a lot but every little bit helped during the time I started doing it. Actually, it's very time consuming but I enjoyed doing it. But now that I have regular paying gigs, I can't find the time to do it regularly anymore. I also don't enjoy it as much as I did when I first started. I guess I'm just waiting for that perfect time to throw in the towel and just concentrate on my regular gigs.

I like the care at this community. The staff is outstanding and caring. The menu is very good and they are pleased with the variety of choices. I like knowing that my parents are active with the other residents. I would highly recommend this community for the care and the value for other families wanting a good community for their loved ones. This is a good community, and my mother is doing well since her move here. She is safe, and receiving great care. They have a very good staff at this facility. They have been great with keeping me up to date on information about my mother. The food is good, she is pleased with the meals. The location is convenient for our families to travel too. Overall this community has worked out well for my mother, and I would recommend it. Loved this place for its warmth & staff. The rooms were also very nice. We originally looked here for respite care & eventually permanence, unfortunately, the situation has changed somewhat & they do not have a Memory Care community. I wished it could have worked for us! My mom is getting good care from this community. She loves the food the care they provide. Everything is wonderful and the staff are too. There is plenty for her to do here. She has tried socializing. I am now taking her back home where she will be more comfortable. Some of the staff go above the normal duties.

Have Fun & Create An Impact! Don't underestimate the value of volunteering! By giving your time not only can you contribute to the community but you will gain new skills and experiences, which will in turn enhance your personal development and can make an impact on your CV. We have various opportunities to suit. We look forward to working together with you to bring about impact to the community.

How would you like to get paid almost $130,000 to travel the world? Well if you're interested in a nanny position we have the job for you! A family on Childcare.co.uk is looking for a nanny for their 4 kids with ages ranging from 2-15 years old. The nanny will travel around the world with the family as well as help with their education for the home schooled children. However you aren't expected to teach the kids as they have their own teachers. They're looking for a nanny with over 15+ years of experience as well as a degree in child psychology and no children of their own. So far over 300 people have applied but no one yet filling all the needs of the family. Oh not to mention as you drive the children around town you can choose from any of the families Porsche, Range Rover or Maserati's. The family will travel around to their different homes located in London, Barbados, Cape Town and Atlanta. Click HERE to apply!

Singapore may only be a small island, but transport has always been an issue especially when it comes to choosing a location to buy new launch condo or resale property, either for investment or to live in. Over recent years, and with many new developments either nearing completion or underway, this has ceased to be such an issue. More and more of the island is now open for business and that perfect location is no longer restricted to the few traditional areas.

According to the report below which published by the American Patient Organization, the global medical tourism market has a total consumption of more than 30 billion US dollars, and medical visitors are more than 4 million, it is estimated that the future will be 25% annual growth rate. Visitors can enjoy medical services, also travel or visit relatives. As far as Hong Kong, it should be possible to develop the medical tourism industry on its own merits and achieve a win-win situation indeed.

Read below in order to identify the most appropriate solutions for air duct system repair and maintenance. Do you know when air duct repair and cleaning are needed? Can you read the signs of a troubled HVAC unit? You will find the posts below very useful! How would you like to walk in a restaurant and sense bad odors coming from the kitchen? Will you be able to have one bite of food if you know that all the grease produced in the kitchen drops back into the frying-pan? Are you wondering what results air quality testing done in your home will produce? Most homeowners are surprised when they discover that the quality of the air in their home is far from perfect despite the fact that they perform complete house cleaning and maintenance.