Can You Really Trust Those Online-only Banks And Lenders?
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We sometimes sit in amazement when we think about the massive changes that the Internet has made in our lives. We once worked for a company that was almost literally destroyed by the Internet. On the plus side, the Internet has made our lives much easier in a number of different ways. Many people, us included, have stay-at-home jobs made possible by the Internet. We can comparison shop for thousands of different items including our auto and life insurance without ever leaving the comfort of our homes – again thanks to the Internet. And now, there are online-only banks that can seem very attractive because of the interest rates they offer. You can even borrow money online through a process called peer-to-peer lending where there is no bank involved. But can you really trust those online-only banks?
The reason these online-only banks can offer higher interest rates is for the same reason that companies can sell products online cheaper than through brick-and-mortar stores. These banks simply have lower overhead. They have no buildings that must be maintained, no branch banks and many fewer employees. Of course, the interest rates they offer are still fairly paltry as they typically range from 0.84% to 1% – but that's due to today's low prime rate as set by the Federal Reserve and not because of anything those banks are doing or not doing.
If you decide to use one of these online-only banks and want to protect your money and personal information, there are some tips you should follow.
The FDIC or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects your money in the event that your online-only bank fails. However, do keep in mind that this protects you only up to $250,000 in deposits for each account holder. You can see if the online-only bank is FDIC insured by checking its website. Or you could go to the FDIC web site and click on the link titled Help – First Time Users.
As you may know, there are a lot of scammers out there that will attempt to trick you by creating sites that look to be those of real financial institutions. Keep in mind that just because the site looks like it's that of a popular bank, it doesn't mean that it is. You should always make sure that you type the correct web address into your browser before doing any transaction. Also, don't ever click on any link within an email. This is because con artists often send fraudulent messages in an attempt to get your personal information.
Before you use any online banking tools, whether it's through an online-only or physical bank, you need to ensure that it's encrypting your information. There should be a lock or key icon in the web address window of your Internet browser. If so, you'll know that your information is being encrypted and that it's unlikely that a thief will be able to steal your identity.
Whatever you do, don't use a password associated with your birthday, street address, Social Security number or some other number that would be easy for a thief to guess. Your password should be at least eight characters long. At least one of those characters should be a number and one should be a capital letter. If you have a problem remembering passwords, you might create one associated with a school or event that only you would know. For example, if you graduated from South High School in 1984, you might create the password 1984_SHS_99x.
You should also use a password that's different from those used with other accounts such as your email. And, finally, try to remember to change your password regularly.
A second way to use the Internet for your banking is through what's called peer-to-peer lending. This is where you borrow money directly from a person or group of people to consolidate debts, buy a car or for any other worthwhile cause and where there is no third party such as a bank involved. There are a number of these lenders available online. Two of the most popular are Lending Club and Prosper. Both of these offer unsecured loans at a variety of interest rates that range from 6% to 29.99%, depending on your credit score and situation. One of these loans can be a good way to pay off credit card debt because you should be able to get a much better interest rate than what you're currently paying on those debts.
If you think you might like a peer-to-peer loan, here are some tips that might be helpful.
Here's a short video explaining more about peer-to-peer lending and how it helped one Army vet.


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Secondary shines for unbeaten Cavaliers
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, November 2, 2016
By BNI
HOGANSVILLE – Callaway's Courtney Williams relished the challenge.
Most of the teams the Callaway Cavaliers have played this season have kept the ball on the ground, but in last week's game, the Spencer Greenwave didn't shy away from going to the air with talented quarterback Khalil Thomas lining up behind center.
The Cavaliers were just fine with that.
A strength of Callaway's team is its secondary, and one of the men who plays in the defensive backfield is Williams.
Williams, along with fellow defensive back Dominic Copeland, had an interception during the Spencer game, and he made a number of other plays as well, breaking up passes and making tackles.
Williams said he and his teammates in the defensive secondary were looking forward to facing a team that threw the ball.
"We prepared all week for that challenge," Williams said. "Every time they were throwing, we were reading the keys."
Williams and Copeland both made their interceptions in the first half as Callaway surged to a 29-8 lead.
Williams' performance was particularly impressive considering he was injured and had to take it easy in practice leading up to the game.
"Courtney Williams played a heck of a game," Callaway defensive coordinator Dusty Hubbard said. "He was hurt all week, and we didn't know if he was going to play. He left the game in the third quarterback (against Temple) and didn't come back. He had a chest bruise, an abdomen bruise or something like that. But to his credit, he practiced all week. He pretty much practiced in a helmet, and that was it. But he didn't sit out. Courtney was ready to go tonight, and he looked physical making tackles."
Hubbard felt the secondary would be a strong suit for Callaway considering the experience and talent the team had returning at that position.
Williams, Copeland, Kobe Jackson and DQ Wilkerson were all starters at times last season, and that group has been bolstered by the presence of a pair of freshmen, MJ Robertson and Cartavious Bigsby.
Senior wide receiver Braylon Sanders also gets some playing time on defense, and he made a handful of plays against Spencer.
"I feel like since I've been here, this is the best back end of the defense we've had," said Hubbard, Callaway's defensive coordinator since 2005. "The biggest thing is, we've got three guys back there that have started for two years. That helps a lot, and their skill set is good. That group has a chance to be really special."
Those players have helped the Cavaliers win their first nine games, and they won the Region 5-AA championship with the win over Spencer.
"It feels great," Williams said. "We put a lot of hard work into this. Hard work pays off."
RECEIVING SKILLS: Junior running back DJ Atkins has found the end zone on numerous occasions this season, but coming into the Spencer game, all of his touchdowns had come on running plays.
That changed last week.
In the first half, Callaway quarterback Dylan Johnson threw a backward pass to wide receiver Braylon Sanders.
The defense converged on Sanders, and nobody noticed as Atkins started racing downfield.
Sanders threw a perfect pass to a wide-open Atkins, and that turned into a 57-yard touchdown.
For Sanders, it was nothing new.
Although Sanders is mostly known for his exploits as a wide receiver, he was the quarterback for the first half of the 2015 season before he went down with an injury.
Sanders has been strictly a wide receiver this season, but he has thrown three scoring passes, one to Atkins, one to Courtney Williams, and one to Johnson.
For Atkins, it was the continuation of what has been a big first season as a starter.
Atkins is closing in on 1,500 yards, and he has 15 touchdowns, 14 of them on the ground.
GOING FOR 10: If Callaway beats a winless Jordan team Friday night at Callaway Stadium, it will be a milestone win for the team.
The Cavaliers would not only complete their first perfect regular season, but they would reach 10 wins for the sixth time since 2008.
Callaway went 10-2 in 2008 when it won the first playoff game in program history, and it followed that up by going 10-3 in 2009.
The Cavaliers went 10-2 in 2012, and they've won at least 10 games in every year but once since then.
Callaway set the school record for wins in a season when it finished 12-2 in 2013 and reached the final four, and it went 10-2 a year ago.
Overall, Callaway has won 19 of its past 20 games, and it is on an 18-game winning streak in the regular season.
LOOKING AHEAD: Callaway will be at home for the first round of the state playoffs next week.
Who Callaway's opponent will be has yet to be determined, though.
Callaway will play the fourth-place team from Region 7-AA, and at the moment, that team is Model, although that could change this week.
Model is in fourth place with a 4-2 region record, but it is only one game out of second place.
One of the two teams in second place, Rockmart, hosts Model on Friday, so those two could end up swapping places.
Pepperell is in first place in Region 7-AA with a 6-0 record, but it faces a big test this week against Chattooga, which is a game back at 5-1.
The four playoff teams from Region 7-AA will be Pepperell (6-0), Chattooga (5-1), Rockmart (5-1) and Model (4-2).
If Callaway wins its state opener, it would host the third-place team from Region 1-AA, or the second-place team from Region 3-AA.
If Callaway reaches the quarterfinals, it would be at home if it is the higher seeded team.
If it faces another number one seed, those teams would flip a coin to determine homefield advantage.
The semifinals will also be played at a team's home stadium, and the championship game is in the Georgia Dome.
Reach Kevin Eckleberry at (706) 884-7311 or on Twitter @lagrangesports
Callaway defensive back Courtney Williams makes a tackle during last week's win over Spencer that secured the region championship. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
http://lagrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2016/11/web1_CHS2.jpgCallaway defensive back Courtney Williams makes a tackle during last week's win over Spencer that secured the region championship. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
Callaway's Dominic Copeland had an interception in last week's game against Spencer. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
http://lagrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2016/11/web1_CHS1.jpgCallaway's Dominic Copeland had an interception in last week's game against Spencer. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
Kobe Jackson is part of a talented and experienced defensive backfield for Callaway. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
http://lagrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2016/11/web1_CHS-kobe.jpgKobe Jackson is part of a talented and experienced defensive backfield for Callaway. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
Callaway's DJ Atkins had a touchdown catch during the Spencer game. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
http://lagrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2016/11/web1_CHS-atkins.jpgCallaway's DJ Atkins had a touchdown catch during the Spencer game. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
The Callaway Cavaliers will be at home next week against the fourth-place team from Region 7-AA. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
http://lagrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2016/11/web1_CHS19.jpgThe Callaway Cavaliers will be at home next week against the fourth-place team from Region 7-AA. Kevin Eckleberry | Daily News
Defensive backs excel in big win over Spencer

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All members who are 18 and under (as per their Triathlon NSW registration), will start off scratch, regardless of whether they are doing a long or short course.
All competitors should check their handicap on the board before our next club race begins. We will trial this wave handicap system for the remainder of the club races this season and then the committee will assess what will work best for next season.


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Jeff Augustin's play Little Children Dream of God received its world premiere at the Roundabout Underground, where he was the inaugural Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. His plays have also been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Cry Old Kingdom, ...
Jeff Augustin's play Little Children Dream of God received its world premiere at the Roundabout Underground, where he was the inaugural Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. His plays have also been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Cry Old Kingdom, 2013 Humana Festival; That High Lonesome Sound, 2015 Humana Festival), and Western Washington University (Corktown). His work has been developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, La Jolla Playhouse, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Augustin is the Shank Playwright in Residence at Playwrights Horizons, and a member of The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm as well as the Rita Goldberg Playwrights Workshop at The Lark. He is the recipient of the Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwriting Award and Lorraine Hansberry Award, and was a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellow. Augustin is currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club and Roundabout Theatre Company. He holds a B.A. from Boston College and an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego.
Plays by Jeff Augustin
Cry Old Kingdom
Humana Festival 2013: The Complete Plays
That High Lonesome Sound


Picture yourself a 10-year-old student in my Grade 5 class in Singapore just 4 years ago learning Math. I am your teacher and we are learning about fractions and decimals. Instead of using traditional forms of teaching Fractions and Decimals I issue you a challenge and you embark on the journey of creating a board game (project) to show your learning and justify your understanding of concepts. Here is that exact lesson from my class and here is another PBL specific example from my classroom that helped my students understand the concept and share their learning in an engaging way.
I genuinely feel the way I taught at that time was excellent, however, could I stay in the moment and teach like that now? NOT AT ALL! As educators, we must adapt with the times or we are doing our students a disservice in the ever-changing world we live in. What would I change? I would use the latest technology to give students engaging learning experiences (like Virtual Field Trips) and connect them with more experts via Video Chat. I would also make the sharing of learning to a global audience a compulsory part of the rubric and the assessment of learning. Having an authentic audience is key!
In Hong Kong, Tim Evans is taking Augmented Reality to a new level by integrating it into PBL lessons at his school and encouraging students to learn by being engaged in an augmented learning environment. Click here for more on this.
As a global connections and collaborations expert in the field of education, I have been involved in many engaging and exciting learning opportunities where I exposed my students to educators, students and experts from every corner of the globe for FREE via Video. This engagement allows students to genuinely inquire and engage in learning that is owned by them. It allows them to ask questions and learn first hand, rather than from a textbook.
If we are to make genuine change in the education world, we MUST adapt the way we teach and connect with the best of the best.
For more information about my work in schools around the globe click here.


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Шамси Ахмедова, другой вариант имени — Шамшинисо (1918 год, кишлак Гулакандоз, Ходжентский уезд, Самаркандская область, Туркестанский край — 11 мая 2003 года, Джаббар-Расуловский район, Таджикистан) — звеньевая колхоза имени Ленина Пролетарского района Ленинабадской области, Таджикская ССР. Герой Социалистического Труда (1948). Депутат Верховного Совета Таджикской ССР 6-го созыва.

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Родилась в 1918 году в крестьянской семье в кишлаке Гулакандоз Ходжентского уезда. В 1935 году вступила в хлопководческий колхоз имени Ленина Пролетарского района, председателем которого был дважды Герой Социалистического Труда Абдугафур Саматов. Трудилась рядовой колхозницей, звеньевой хлопководческого звена. В 1941 году вступила в ВКП(б).

В 1947 году звено Шамси Ахмедовой собрало в среднем по 86 центнеров хлопка-сырца с каждого гектара на участке площадью 3 гектара. Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 1 марта 1948 года удостоена звания Героя Социалистического Труда за «получение высокого урожая хлопка при выполнении колхозом обязательных поставок и натуроплаты за работу МТС в 1947 году и обеспеченности семенами зерновых культур для весеннего сева 1948 года» с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Этим же указом звания Героя Социалистического Труда были удостоены труженики колхоза имени Ленина звеньевые Абдуманон Латыпов и Абдухамид Умаров.

Избиралась депутатом Верховного Совета Таджикской ССР 6-го созыва (1963—1967).

Вышла на пенсию в 1970 году. Персональный пенсионер. Проживала в Джаббар-Расуловском районе. Умерла в мае 2003 года.

 Награды
 Герой Социалистического Труда
 Орден Ленина
 Орден «Знак Почёта» (17.01.1957)
 Медаль «За трудовую доблесть» — трижды (29.12.1946; 17.04.1957; 26.04.1953)
 Почётная Грамота Президиума Верховного Совета Таджикской ССР.

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Grammy Awards 2022 Set To Be Postponed Amid COVID Fears
By Afrobeatsglobal
According to Billboard, the 2022 Grammy Awards are likely to be postponed for the second time in as many years due to concerns over the new Covid-19 version. On Monday, January 3rd, 2022, this was published on the Billboard website.
Last year's Grammy Awards were also postponed in a similar manner on the 5th of January. Due to an increase of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles, it was postponed until March 14th. The awards event was also relocated from the Staples Center to the Los Angeles Convention Center, which is less packed.
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Despite the fact that the Grammy Awards 2022 has been postponed by the Recording Academy, the new Covid-19 variation is on the increase, and it is becoming a more likely direction. Wizkid, Burna Boy, Tems, Femi Kuti, and Made Kuti, all Nigerian celebrities, have been nominated for honors in this year's showcase. Calls to the Recording Academy to confirm the news have so far been unsuccessful, according to Billboard.
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Jack Roskopp, Digital Content Editor, Graham Media Group
Published: March 9, 2020, 4:10 PM
Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, health, wellness, illness, CDC, germs, prevention
How exactly does coronavirus spread?
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This newest coronavirus, COVID-19, has been making headlines nonstop ever since it arrived in the United States.
The virus has infected 110,000 people worldwide and killed around 3,900 — even though in the U.S., those numbers are much smaller, according to The Associated Press.
At last check, the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus was at 24, CBS News reported Monday, and the number of infections swelled to just more than 600, the AP said.
There's a lot to know about how to protect yourself from the coronavirus, but one of the most important things to know is how it spreads.
This virus was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The first infections were linked to a live animal market, but it's now spreading from person to person, health officials said.
"It's important to note that person-to-person spread can happen on a continuum. Some viruses are highly contagious (like measles), while other viruses are less so," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote on its website.
The CDC recommends keeping infected and possibly infected people quarantined so that the virus can't spread anymore.
On the bright side, the CDC said, "There is no evidence to support transmission of COVID-19 associated with food."
The organization does recommend washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after eating, as well as after you go to the bathroom.
The CDC said the best way to avoid getting COVID-19 is to steer clear from people who may have been affected, as well as refraining from touching your eyes, face, nose and mouth.
If you are feeling sick and you're having flu-like symptoms, the CDC suggests covering your mouth when you sneeze or cough and staying home from work or school so you don't spread your illness to anyone else.
It may seem overwhelming to think about the spread of this potentially deadly virus, but just being aware of your surroundings and keeping things clean will help put your mind at ease. They're seemingly little things, but they could make a lot of difference.
Learn more: CDC FAQ page
Graham Media Group 2020
Jack Roskopp
Jack is a Digital Content Editor with a degree in creative writing and French from Western Michigan University. He specializes in writing about movies, food and the latest TV shows.


I enrolled in an online continuing education course called "The Uses of Silence" taught by Maggie Ross (aka Martha Reeves) for the Center for Anglican Living and Learning at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.
I've taken several courses through CDSP, most of them in the Anglican Studies category. I latched on to this program many years ago when I signed up to read Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk.
For the most part, my classes have been stimulating and rewarding. The idea of going through six weeks of study with people whose faces I never see is a bit disconcerting, but it has advantages, too. No one gets bogged down in fashion, as it were, and most people have to think before they communicate (mostly by Blackboard messages and e-mails). At any rate, I'm using the course as an excuse to write something for this blog.
I've always been convinced that most of us–especially those who spend their lives in the media–are challenged by silence; in fact, many are frightened and made anxious by it.
Certainly, Maggie Ross is not one of those. She recently placed "Silence" in the Museum of Curiosity, a clever, comical, and conspiratorial BBC radio program. I say it's conspiratorial because under its guise of comedy and light-hearted banter, it weighs heavy in its considerations. Of course, it is restricted by the superficiality it presses into 30 or so minutes.
Stop back here for further reflections.
This column was originally posted on January 2, 2005, as part of a collection of columns at a now retired site.
Remember the time you turned to the dictionary to look up a word and got sidetracked by another word or words along the way, eventually closing the book before finding the word you sought in the first place?
There's a subtle pattern in this activity that's important to understanding the modern mind of adolescence, and especially the mind of the adolescent reader.
That you are reading this column indicates, I suspect, that you are one of those persons who picks up a newspaper or goes online for leisure, sits, and relaxes by scanning some generally innocuous words. O.K., so you're doing so now with a computer, but, admit it, you still like to read the newspaper.
Modern adolescents are far less likely to engage in such activity.
A study of young readers and where they get their news—a study now almost a decade old— indicates that young adult readers claim to read the newspaper about three times a week, and that's the high reader group.
You've heard it from many quarters, no doubt, especially from educators, that today's teens simply do not read. It's wrong to call them illiterate, but they may be a-literate; that is, they know how to read but prefer not to.
That assertion, however, needs careful elaboration. High school students do not read the things they are assigned to read by teachers.
They are indifferent—notoriously indifferent—to reading anything that they are assigned to read or ordered to read by others.
They choose to go against most things intellectual that have an adult flavor, and that includes the adult habit of keeping up on the news through newspapers. Most teenagers, faced with the prospect of a fresh newspaper newly delivered and still encased in its plastic wrap, will pull out the comic section or the sports section–just as most adults did when they were learning to read the newspaper.
Nevertheless, the assertion that teenagers do not read is blatantly untrue!
Reading on the Internet is, I think, much like getting caught up in the exploration of words while looking up a specific word in the dictionary. One just never knows where the trail is leading, and while one has some control over which hyperlinks to follow, there is a path that becomes almost irretrievable once the first two or three links are opened.
In the old days of newspapering, the rigid principal of the inverted pyramid guided journalists, and while that principal is still at work in many news stories, its rigidity has been greatly relaxed. According to the inverted pyramid model, the most important elements of a story must appear in the first few paragraphs; in fact, the opening paragraph is to contain most of what is determined to be "new." Second and third paragraphs become supporting or buttressing paragraphs of what was introduced in the lead. For many people confronting the daily newspaper, reading beyond the first few paragraphs is unnecessary.
By virtue of its physical presentation to readers, the Internet also demands a "lead" and supporting information below. Many of the popular search engines charge a premium for the upper echelons of their listings; thus, one sees "sponsored results" topping off many search listings. These essentially are nothing more than paid-for leads.
Similarly, most news sites on the World Wide Web provide simply a lead to the story, often with a headline that is a hyperlink. One reads the lead and clicks the hyperlink to get to the story in its fullness.
The point of the matter is this: What we have known as "browsing" a newspaper (or even the library shelves, for that matter) has been revolutionized by the Internet and the Web. Browsing is no longer a leisurely scan or a chance glance; instead, it has become a kind of electronic hopscotch, a multiple checker game jump on an unlimited board with no squares.
The reading skills of a newspaper reader and an Internet reader are essentially identical, but the dynamics are miles—and generations—apart.
Hyperlinks, virtually unknown two decades ago, have become commonplace, not only in advertising and popular literature such as magazines but in scholarly research. Look at a bibliography on a scholarly paper that's been written in the past five years. There's a good chance it has more hyperlinks than references to books.
Teenagers haven't stopped reading; they've simply stopped reading the way most adults were taught to read. Once we grasp this, we may recognize that the hyperlink is as revolutionary as the double helix.
The other side—perhaps the frightening side—of this sort of reading, of course, is that it tends to randomness and disorganization; some might even say to chaos.
Nevertheless, there are those who argue that genuine learning emerges more from chaos than from organization! But that's another avenue to explore, and I haven't reached that hyperlink just yet.
So, you wanna be a writer!
So, you're a writer wannabe!
I'm almost 14 and want to start a serious writing career. Can you please help me decide the best courses to take in High School to help me get a head start on my career? I would really appreciate it alot.
You ask a difficult question because "courses" are tough to choose to plan a specific career. Sometimes a course that seems least likely to help you turns out to be the best course for what you need or want. Even math courses can help a writer!
Step 1: Read everything you can get hold of or are assigned to read at school.
Step 2: Read some more.
Step 3: Read even more. Don't eliminate any area.
Read in science, literature, religion, computers, sports, geography, poetry (especially poetry), business, economics, political science, world history, journalism, romance (go easy on that one), science fiction, psychology, medicine. Read style books and grammar books (and don't use words such as "alot"). Make the dictionary the most important book you own, after The Holy Bible, and learn how to truly read both books.
Read lots of magazines. Learn your way around your school library, the public library, and any college libraries close to where you live. Learn your way around the libraries with sites on the World Wide Web. Browse in every library. Read the magazines in the library. Become a friend of librarians; they may be the most valuable teachers you'll have at school.
Read when you're in the doctor's office; read in the dentist's or orthodontist's office; read when you're waiting to have your hair cut. Read in the bathroom. Occasionally, you can skip the shower and take a bath, just be sure to read when you're in the bathtub.
Learn a foreign language (several, if you can), and read about the countries where that language is spoken. Don't let anyone tell you there is such a thing as a "dead" language. Books keep languages such as Latin, New Testament Greek, Ancient Hebrew and Ugaritic alive. Learn other "languages" such as Morse code and American Sign Language. Study Native American languages, lots of them are hidden in the names and places you may travel to in the United States. Learn the languages of computers and especially the language of statistics.
At those tough times when you've got "nothin' to do," and you're tempted to drop into a soft couch and watch TV — don't! Read instead. Make it a habit that you read before watching television. Read cereal boxes; read junk mail; read billboards; read road signs; read CD and DVD cases; read movie credits. Reread books you read in grade school. If you have younger brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces or neighbors, read to them or read with them.
Read maps. Oh! Please read maps, and don't just read them when you have to find directions to get somewhere. Study them, memorize them, and keep them close to other things you are reading so you can understand expressions such as "the road to Mandalay," and "the snows of Kilimanjaro," and "a shooting in Sarajevo." You never know where maps may lead you.
Send your poems, short stories, essays, plays or news and feature articles to contests (you can find them listed in magazines such as Writer's Digest, The Writer, or Poets & Writers) or to magazines that might publish them. Write for your school paper. Write for your school yearbook. Write for your school literary magazine. Write for your church or club or team.
Never, never, never pay to have someone read your writing or to publish your writing. Publications are supposed to pay you for your writing, even if they pay only in copies of what you write. At your stage, don't write with an eye on getting paid. An old adage applies to writing careers: Do what you love to do, the money will come later.
Don't worry about special courses. Concentrate on the courses you're required to take and read everything you're assigned. Write personal reactions in your journal to what you read. Go back over your reactions every so often and write later reactions to how you reacted the first time you wrote about a particular topic in your journal. Write poems and short stories based on your journal reactions. Take your journal everywhere you go and write in it about everything that happens to you or that you observe.
Make every conversation a kind of interview. Try to learn as much as you can about the people you meet. Make notes on what you see and hear and understand about them.
If you can afford it, take a summer writing workshop–one sponsored at a local college is best, I think–but don't spend a lot of money on this and don't worry if it's filled with old people. You can interview them and write about them. Two books that were written as a result of chance conversations are Schindler's List and The Life of Pi, last year's winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize.
When it's time for you to go to college, don't look only at writing programs. Get a good general liberal arts education in a subject field you love, and if you still want to be a writer, think about getting a master's degree in writing.
Remember that a writer emerges from a group of people who write much more frequently than from a group of people who only study writing. Even if you don't wind up becoming a professional writer, you'll be better at what you do because you write carefully and well.
Pray! Not that you'll become a writer, but that you'll grow in wisdom and grace as you grow in years. Try writing prayers. Read others' prayers.
Show this email to a teacher or some other mentor that you trust and find out if they agree with what I'm telling you. This is what I would do if I were about to turn 14 and wanted to become a writer.
Don't stop thinking. Don't stop writing. Most of all, don't stop reading.
My best wishes to you and your future.


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In researching and writing my new book, The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases, I came across a community of novice detectives tackling cases as thorny as those in any James Patterson novel. What makes some of these real-life cold cases even more perplexing is that the victims are unidentified.
The National Institute of Justice estimates that some 40,000 unidentified remains—the population of North Miami Beach—are stowed in the back rooms of morgues or crematoriums, or buried as Jane and John Does in potters' fields. No one seems to claim the Does as they get passed among coroners, medical examiners and overworked detectives.
Yet the bodies often belong to missing people whose loved ones are actively searching for them, and the amateur web sleuths who solve their stories are motivated by a genuine desire to bring closure to families.
When the Internet was still in its infancy, civilians started compiling details—where and when a body was discovered, scars or tattoos, items of clothing or jewelry—in homespun databases. Then organizations such as the Florida Unidentified Decedents Database and the National Unidentified and Missing Persons System (NamUs—yes, like "Name us") began to provide crowdsourced fodde, allowing volunteers to link a body in, say, Idaho to a person reported missing in California.
From The Skeleton Crew—a streetwise Massachusetts police dispatcher, a one-time pig farm manager from West Virginia, a chain-store employee in Mississippi—here are a few tips on how to start cracking cold cases.
1. Leave no digital stone unturned. I was struck by how thoroughly the web sleuths scoured the Internet for information, and how willing they were to run with a lead, no matter how improbable. One of the most prolific sleuths swears by a geographic approach: She starts with the location of the body and painstakingly works her way outward in concentric circles, checking multiple sources for reports of missing persons. That's how she paired a forensic reconstruction of a skull found embedded in a bucket of cement in Missouri with a photograph of a missing Iowa man.
2. Invest in for-fee services. Although free options abound—Google News, for instance—paying fees gets you access to tens of thousands of public records and links to county and state databases. Subscriptions to SearchSystems.net, NETR online or Ancestry.com offer access to census, voter, and military records, marriage and death certificates, property titles, business permits, and bankruptcy and criminal files.
When a web sleuth mentioned her reliance on Ancestry.com, I was mystified. How can you search for someone's relatives without a name? It turns out sometimes you do have a name, or part of a name. A woman's bones found in Baltimore in 2000 were clad in white tennis shoes, jeans, and a T-shirt commemorating the "Wynn family reunion." A sleuth tracked down the family members whose names adorned the shirt, and while they had no connection to the dead woman, one of them recalled the T-shirt being given to a friend of a friend who attended the reunion, and the trail led to the identification of Brenda Wright.
3. Develop a tolerance for rejection. Nobody loves the web sleuths: not the cops, and not fellow web sleuths. Online communities abound with competitive drama. Some users on these sites hide behind screen names to ratchet up the vitriol. Early on, law enforcement lambasted the "Doe nuts" as time-sucking nuisances, although a handful of detectives now say they welcome the help.
4. Have a strong stomach. Many of the sites are truly disturbing, and carry warnings ("may be uncomfortable for some viewers"). Even the ones that Photoshop out the more distressing details and replace closed lids with staring digitized eyeballs can't really gloss over the fact that these people are dead. And many of them did not die in pretty ways.
5. Think visual. Depending on your level of commitment, be prepared to scan a mind-boggling number of images. Being visual can backfire: Some web sleuths become fixated on a perceived similarity between the deceased's nose—or eyebrows or jawline—and that of a missing person. Photos can be deceptive, and features change in death. It's often more productive to note an abdominal scar or a distinctive tattoo on the victim's body. Recalling a missing woman's kangaroo tattoo helped Tracie Fleischhut of New York identify a young female victim found dead in Maryland.
I've tried web sleuthing myself and found it fiendishly difficult—the proverbial needle in a haystack. But resourceful web sleuths have indeed solved cold cases that had stymied law enforcement for decades. With determination and time, you could be one of them.
Deborah Halber is a Boston-based journalist and member of the National Association of Science Writers. She has chronicled breakthroughs in neuroscience, molecular biology, energy and technology at MIT and Tufts. The Skeleton Crew is her first book.


Water Play – 15 Water Activities For Kids!
Do your kids love to play in water? Are you looking for some great water activities for kids! These 15 water play activities are easy, fun, educational, and will keep your child busy!
My kids love to play in water!
I mean, what kid doesn't?!
But why not kick it up a notch!
Why not make water play even more fun as well as educational!
Here are 15 great and easy water activities for kids!
Water Play – Water Bead Activities for Sensory Fun!
Water beads are so much fun!
This is a great activity for water play on a rainy day.
This Water Bead Sensory Fun Activity from Everyday Chaos & Calm is definitely a water activity that my kids will love!
Water Play – The Ultimate Fish Tank Sensory Bin!
The Fish Tank Sensory Bin is a water play activity that I created for my kids.
Its full of bright colors, lots of different textures, and of course WATER!
They loved having a fish tank that they could actually put their hands in!
They both had a blast!
Kids love to pretend to cook and bake!
My kids have a play kitchen that they love to pretend cook in.
Pretend baking with water is definitely something they will love!
Check out how to make this water activity as fun as possible over at Mess for Less!
Water Play – Paint with Water and Colored Ice!
What a great idea for a hot summer day!
Kids will love to paint sidewalks and the driveway with this paint ice.
Find out how to make this fun water play activity at Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails.
Water Play – Antarctica Sensory Bin!
The Antarctica Sensory Bin is a great summer water play activity because it involves ice!
What better way to stay cool than by playing in the arctic?!
This activity can be played either indoors our outdoors.
It's not only loads of fun but a great way to teach your child about the animals that live in icy Antarctica!
Glowing Galaxy Water Play Sensory Bin!
This activity is not only fun and wet, but it glows in the dark!
Find out how to make this super cool water play activity at Fun-A-Day!
Color Sorter Water Play Bin!
What a fun way to teach toddlers and preschoolers their shapes and colors!
They will have so much fun with this colorful water activity!
Find out how to recreate it at Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds.
Water Play – Pool Noodle Water Wall!
Pool noodles are great for more than just floating in the pool!
Make this pool noodle water wall for kids of all ages!
A super neat and creative water activity for kids to do this summer!
Learn how to make this water play activity at Teaching Mama.
Dino Dig Water Play – Melting Ice With Salt and Water!
My kids, especially my boys, love dinosaurs!
They had a blast with my Dinosaur Dig Sensory Bin that does not include water, so I know that they will absolutely love this dino dig!
And what a great learning experience to learn how to melt water with salt!
Find out how to make and do this super cool Water Play Dino Dig at Happy Hooligans.
Sidewalk Chalk Water Play Painting Activity!
Sidewalk chalk is always a hit!
But combined with water?! Loads of fun!
My kids had a blast making these Water Chalk Easter Eggs for easter, so I know that they will love this fun outdoor summer water play activity!
Found out how to do this fun water play activity at Happy Hooligans.
Water Play – Water Wall!
This water wall is similar to the pool noodle water wall but contains lots of items that you probably already have on hand.
This is sure to be a hit and loads of summer fun!
Find out how to make this water play water wall at Happy hooligans.
Fine Motor Water Activity For Toddlers!
This fine motor water play activity is a great developmental tool as well as lots of fun!
And it only requires materials that you probably already have on hand.
Check out everything that you need for this fine motor water play activity at Playdough to Plato.
Painting Water Activity For Kids!
What a great way for kids to get to paint like a grown up!
Painting with water is a super easy yet super fun activity that will keep your kids entertained for hours!
Encourage imagination and creativity with this water play activity!
Find out the best way to let your kids paint with water at Happy Hooligans.
Lego Water Activity For Building Dams & Exploring Water Flow!
Legos are a big hit in my house!
But legos with water?! How creative!
This is a great educational and fun way to teach kids about water flow and how dams work!
Learn how to do this super fun water play activity at Little Bins For Little Hands.
This is a great water play activity to teach your kids about colors and how colors mix together!
Have fun creating your own color combos with this coloured water activity!
This is such a great summer time activity!
Find out how to make colored water for this fun water play activity at Happy Hooligans.
Those are 15 super fun water activities for kids!
I can't wait to do all of these with my kids over the summer months!
Which one's are your family's favorites?
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Q: Redirect url_for won't redirect me after sending a post request my problem at the moment is that my redirect won't reload the page.
I send a post request to my web server to get my informations. On the server site like "/wait" i wait until i get a post request. The post request will be catched in another route like "/request". And here it should be reloaded with a redirect to the "/wait" url but don't work and i don't know why.
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A: You have only defined 'data' in the local scope of the function request(). If I were you, I would probably use the Flask session variable to store the data. Session is a dictionary that is unique to each session on your website, so it will be different for each person if they are using your website concurrently.
One way to do this might be:
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request['data'] = load_csv(received_data)

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if session.get('data'):
    return redirect("https://google.com")
else:
    return render_template('wait.html')

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Home / Adviart Blog / Survivingly soulfully beautiful.
"Evan after all…you just survive and your soul is beautiful." The adviarter took inspiration from Finley Quaye's song Even After All (watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=214cQIpcCIc). When I look at this shell, the words boldly written across the top in the adviarter's favorite color, I think about the contrast between the boldness of the beautiful soul and the perspective of surviving. Is surviving an approach to life? Perhaps I can remember times when I had the attitude of just needing to survive (to get through something, to get over something) but most of the time, I see surviving as a mechanism of looking backward. I noted that this advice is from a quote from a song. Is there meaning to the fact that the artviarter looks to music as inspiration? The post name, Survivingly soulfully beautiful, is reflective of the melodic peace that the shell provides. The question is, how can you keep your soul beautiful throughout life?
Don't let your past determine your future.
Relax. Focus on priorities and tasks.


This is part three of a three-part series exploring my travels in Asia.
If you want the background on the travel series, visit my earlier posts on Thailand and Malaysia and Indonesia. The last post in this series highlights Vietnam.
Our entry into Vietnam was rather eventful. We discovered that while we had our Visa's, we did not have the special fee due upon entry. There were no ATM machines and the patrol guards didn't much care about our financial dilemma. So we turned around and humbly started asking for money and graciously paid the good Samaritans back once we accessed ATM machines.
Once we dropped our bags in our homestay, we headed into the streets of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Zim's friend, Đào Thu Hằng, accompanied us and introduced me to Hanoi street food: Bánh mi (Vietnamese word for bread) stuffed with pork, cucumbers and chili sauce.
Hang graciously shared her city home. We took in the memorabilia at the Hanoi War Museum and strolled the streets in the Old Quarter and the French Quarter. Turns out, there is a big French influence here, particularly in the architecture. The highlight was attending a traditional water puppet show.
Hearkening heaven on Ha Long Bay.
Zim Ugochukwu, founder and CEO of Travel Noire, put the Awesome in the Awesome Asia journey. (Follow the organization on Twitter and @travelnoire on Instagram). Zim is foremost, my friend. In addition to this gift, she is a crazy amazing entrepreneur and a traveling goddess guru. We navigated Asia with smiles and surprises due to her cultural brokering and friendship.
Now its your turn. Do you have a trip, either stateside or abroad, that continues to inspire you? I welcome your shared memories in the comments section.
I have enjoyed your 3-part series each time. I think you should build on your writing skills and do something with your talent. When I visited Japan, I will have to admit that I had difficulty with the fish stew. I tried very hard to show the respect that I felt inwardly and which I think is so very important when traveling in another country. I think it is so exciting to experience other cultures and only serves to broaden our perspectives on life.
Thank you for sharing your perspective Martha. I also appreciate you reading and commenting on the posts in the series. I think everyone should travel abroad to experience being lost and (most often) not able to speak the language fluently. Once you negotiate this, there's not much in life that proves to be daunting. These situations provide great lessons in courage and fortitude.
It's so nice having my name in your post. I still remember that was Zim's birthday for your strip to HaLong Bay. I am at sunny Lisbon but I do miss Hanoi a lot. Who knows we might have chance bump into each other again some day ;). Keep up your good writing Debbie.


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import com.github.mustachejava.MustacheFactory;
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import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

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import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;

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Sitemap > Media > Press releases > German federal government bolsters neutron research in Garching
300 million euro for the Garching research neutron source:
German federal government bolsters neutron research in Garching
Research neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the scientific use of the neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) by German and international researchers to the tune of 198 million euro over the next ten years. The Helmholtz Centers Juelich, Berlin and Geesthacht are contributing a further 105.2 million euro from their budgets. The basis for these grants is the cooperation between the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) as operator of the FRM II and the Helmholtz Centers leading to joint scientific use of the neutron source.
The framework for this cooperation is set out in an administrative agreement between the German Federal Government and the State of Bavaria. The head of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Rothenpieler, and the head of the Department for Basic Research at the BMBF, Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher, signed the agreement today in Garching. The cooperation contract itself was also signed today by TUM President Professor Wolfgang A. Herrmann, Member of the Board of the Forschungszentrum Juelich Prof. Ulrich Krafft, Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht, Prof. Wolfgang Kaysser, and Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Center Berlin Prof. Anke Pyzalla-Kaysser.
The contract stipulates that the German Federal Government will finance the scientific use of the FRM II via the Helmholtz Centers with 19.8 million euro per year. In addition, the three Helmholtz Centers under the auspices of the Center in Juelich will invest 10.52 million euro annually for neutron research. The contract will run over a period of ten years.
Neutrons are used to conduct research on the functions of complex materials such as proteins, superconductors and materials for energy storage. "The multifaceted capabilities of the Garching neutron source will attain a new quality through the cooperation between the TUM, as the responsible operator, and the three Helmholz Centers," says TUM President Professor Wolfgang A. Hermann. "The foundation for this cooperation is the unrivaled performance spectrum of our neutron source, which attracts researchers from across the globe. A joint chair with the research center FZ Juelich in the field of neutron research would round things off perfectly."
Pursuant to this agreement, the TU Muenchen and the three Helmholtz Centers will operate the FRM II jointly for scientific uses in the future. The Technische Universitaet Muenchen remains the sole operator of the neutron source itself. That is why the State of Bavaria will continue to fund reactor operation and research with 25 million euro annually.
FRM II Scientific Director Professor Winfried Petry is proud of the awarded grant: "The involvement of the Helmholtz Centers and the BMBF is the best evidence that we are already performing exceptionally well. The FRM II provides researchers with neutron beams of the utmost brilliance and its instruments lead the pack. This grant will provide us with the opportunity to exploit the potential of the neutron source even better in supporting top level German and international research."
Concretely, the grant will be used to build new instruments, to upgrade existing instruments and to increase technical and scientific staff. New office and laboratory space will also need to be created for the additional personnel. Currently, 24 instruments at the FRM II are already at the disposal of guest scientists from around the world. The number of large-scale instruments will rise to over 30 in the near future. Measurement slots at the FRM II are in high demand. They are overbooked at more than twice the available capacity and are awarded via an application system based on scientific excellence and run by independent experts.
The cooperation contract is an extension to a cooperation agreement from 2004 with the Research Center FZ Juelich, which has set up its own branch at the FRM II. The Helmholtz Centers Juelich, Geesthacht and Berlin have been involved in the development and operation of large-scale scientific instruments at the neutron source in Garching. FZ Juelich is leading the way with five instruments in operation at the FRM II, and five more to follow. The Centers Geestacht and Berlin have two instruments and one instrument respectively. The Max Planck Society also has two instruments. The TUM will operate 14 instruments, with a further instrument run jointly with the FZ Juelich. Furthermore, groups from seven other German universities are participating in the instrumentation. Their commitment will also be funded by the BMBF in the context of collective research.
Prof. Dr. Winfried Petry
Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
Lichtenbergstr. 1
85748 Garching, Germany
Tel.: +49 89 289 14704 Fax: +49 89 289 14995
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Bloody Clever > Stories > Engineering
by Bernard Thompson | Engineering
Nancy Bird Walton | Our Spirit in the Sky
Nancy Bird Walton | Our Spirit in the Sky At the age of 4 Nancy was balancing on a six-foot back fence with her arms out stretched and as her mother remembered, she called herself an 'eppy plane'. Australia and the world were in awe of those amazing young men in their flying machines and little...
by Bernard Thompson | Engineering, Sport
Sir Jack Brabham | A Knight's Tale
Sir Jack Brabham | A Knight's Tale Sir Jack Brabham was a three-time Formula One World Champion Driver and two-time Formula One World Champion Constructor, becoming the first driver to win the title in a car of his own design and construction. 'Black Jack' Brabham had all the pre-requisites...
Bernard Midget Farrelly | First Man (1944 – 2016)
Midget Farrelly was the 'first man' to win the first official surfing world championship at Sydney's Manly Beach in 1964, and dominated the sport throughout the decade. Midget was a 'water baby', craftsman, leader and visionary. He grew up and lived in paradise on the Northern Beaches of...


July 30Th: UK Sharia March!
This is an update to last night's "UK Muslims: The Islamic Emirates of United Kingdom" post. Since last night Muslims Against Crusades has changed the photo bit. Check out the upper right hand side.
In the closing session of the 2010 Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) conference, slave to Allah, and Islamic Law expert Dr. Zainab Alwani clearly shows us where her loyalty lies. Her being a doctor, does not mean she stands for our way of life over Sharia.
Here is another video from the July 3rd Hizb ut-Tahrir Conference which took place in Australia. The video is about the recent Muslim uprisings in the Middle East, and how they will lead to a Sharia ruled Middle East. Whether non-Muslims like it or not.
Not only are Muslim men in Europe calling for Sharia. Muslim woman are calling for it as well. Watch the video and see the Women4Shariah talk about "racism", say the English Defence League (EDL) is no threat, and their never-ending movement.
Muslims to Fight Anti-Sharia Bills on Capitol Hill!
The good news is that there has been a recent uptick of anti-Sharia legislation being written across the country. The bad news is that Muslims are using our freedoms against us to fight the legislation. Tonight we learn that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), will be holding a forum on this issue on Capital Hill.


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admin Interior Design, 2017-12-06 08:20:18.If you don't like that pattern and design, you can choose Mediterranean flair for your stair risers. You can use small, square tiles featuring different colors, patterns and designs and arrange them in rows and alternate them. It is okay to mix and match the tiles to create a random pattern. The other patterns such as something a bit playful and cute can work well in a feminine decoration or for the staircase that leads up to the kids' rooms.
admin Chairs Design, 2017-12-07 14:58:03.A leather chair might be a really awesome piece of furniture to be in your house regardless of the rooms where it is placed. You like it so much that you are talking about it very often with your friends. Yet, do you really care about it by doing all appropriate things to it every time? Surprisingly there are several things that are considered to be the don'ts related to the use of leather chair furniture. Pay attention to these things if you want the chair to last long in its beauty.
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admin Chairs Design, 2017-12-06 13:39:51.Surprisingly a bathroom is also a place where you can use a slipper chair. Just in case that you want to add more warmth into your bathroom, the use of this particular type of chair is a great idea. The cold atmosphere of bathroom due to tiles and metal surfaces of the appliances means that you definitely need a warmer appeal in it. Yet you have to make sure the appropriate size of your slipper seating since a bathroom is usually small in size.


It's a knitting blog! It's a mommy blog! It's two mints in one!
1. Son's Nintendo DS. The Mario keyfob was sticking out of my purse and looked very fetching.
2. A pair of preschool-size cotton socks, worn.
4. Minutes from two meetings last week that I should have already typed up and sent out.
5. My recently-expired AAA card.
6. One small yellow rubber duck.
the "worn socks" is the best.


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An ice cream in summer sounds good, very good, a nice companion to a hot afternoon stroll in Barcelona. September marks the return to normality, we´re already back in the Monday to Friday routine, living the weekends like it´s still summer, as an extension of the month of August.
These are the 5 ice cream parlours that are absolute musts if you are visiting Barcelona or, if you are lucky enough to live here, it´s also a good list to visit and revisit ice cream. Jot them down and you will enjoy the best ice cream in the city, just like a native.
An authentic Italian ice cream parlour, whose strong point lies, as its name suggests, in its creaminess. Their specialty is seasonal ice cream, the menu varies depending on the time of year and the available raw materials, you can find fruit flavors, the classic nut flavors or some varieties of sorbetto.
We´re referring to the famous ice cream parlour of the younger brother of the Celler de Can Roca, you won´t find traditional flavors here, quite the opposite, it´s the perfect place for the bravest among us opting for unexpected flavors. We recommend trying the Panets (briox with toppings) and the Bamboleques (almonds with pralines). Its intriguing decoration is one reason more to visit it.
You immediately sense that the product is made with love and passion, Gocce di Latte is an ice cream parlour that offers different and exquisite flavors with alternatives for those who are intolerant to gluten or vegan. The biggest addicts recommend not missing out on the pistachio…delicious. They take care of the decoration and service down to the tiniest detail.
An emblem of the city, this parlour opened its doors more than a hundred years ago, in 1912, and was the first of the entire neighborhood. Apart from the best horchata in Barcelona, you can find ice creams, slushies and turrones (nougat) in winter. Even if you are celiac, you too will be able to lick your lips!
The vegans are in luck, Bodevici is an ice cream parlour whose motto is "ecological pleasures". All its products are made with organic food, respectful of nature and animal welfare, containing no chemical additives, dyes, or preservatives. The ice creams with the best conscience are in the neighborhood of Gracia.


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The first school of thought is that Twitter is strictly for genuine relationships. If you can't show up in person, then you're wasting everyone's time. Twitter is for engaging conversations with people who think like us and creating dialogues with people who don't. Twitter is about sharing ideas and building credibility. There is no room for sales or automation on Twitter.
The second point of view – the one held by the owners of millions of pages promoting Twitter automation – is that a business can earn millions of dollars by fully automating a Twitter profile. This means that follows, unfollows, direct messages upon following, and even tweets throughout the day are automated. In some cases, a human being rarely, if ever contributes to the profile. All that said, as true in many other aspects of business, often the middle ground is where reason lies.
While fully automated Twitter profiles really do defeat the purpose of Twitter, it's completely unreasonable to expect a successful and busy entrepreneur to spend 10 hours a day researching, following and posting on Twitter. While it's true that businesses can hire someone to handle their Twitter profiles, this can sometimes cause an even bigger mess. The compromise: Automate some tasks, but make sure you participate as well.
Automatically DM those who follow you – but not with a sales message. Ask them a question, simply welcome them to your Twitter universe – but don't sell!
Automatically tweet a great blog post, an inspirational quote, or a survey question – but only a 2 or 3 times in one day. And balance that with 5 to 10 spontaneous tweets.
Use software or assistants to "listen" for mentions of you, your company or your product, but always respond to comments or inquiries personally. This will show your followers that you care.
Plug your blog into your Twitter feed, but blog about topics of interest that provide value to your followers.
People on Twitter tend to be socially savvy – at least online. They can sniff out a spammer or automated profile from a mile away. When you attach inauthentic profiles to your company name, you immediately tell potential followers something about your business. You're sending a message that you care more about numbers or money than about what they think or feel. On the other hand, spontaneous interactions with your followers will build your credibility and show them that you are interested in who they are, not just what they can do for you. This goes a long way, especially on the Internet where everyone's guard is up automatically. While excessive automation can damage your businesses' credibility, no automation at all can leave your potential connections on the table. It's best to take the middle ground and balance your automation with spontaneous interactions to get the most out of your Twitter experience.
I'm all for the middle ground. don't really have enough time to keep up with Twitter on a daily basis, but don't want things to look bare.
I agree John. I like to have my posts shared to Twitter automatically, but then I log in to see what people are saying about the posts, and to see what they are saying in general.
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Садикова Мукарама Хафізівна (, нар. 25 травня 1931, с. Єрмекеєво) — письменник, драматург. Член Спілки письменників Республіки Башкортостан. Заслужений працівник культури Башкирської АРСР

Біографія
Садикова Мукарама Хафізівна народилася 25 травня 1931 року в с. Єрмекеєво Єрмекеєвського району Башкортостану.

У шість років залишилася без матері, батько зник безвісти на війні в 1943 році. Дівчинка виховувалася у рідних. У 1947 році Мукарама Садикова як сирота потрапила до Белебеєвського дитприйомника. Через рік направлена на роботу в Уфимський лісозавод.

У 1949 році поступила в театральне училище в Уфі. Навчаючись в училищі, за сумісництвом працювала диктором в радіокомітеті Башкортостану. Отримала освіту також на заочному відділенні Літературного інституту при Спілці письменників СРСР.

Працювала в редакції газети «Піонер Башкортостану», начальником Бюро пропаганди літератури у Спілці письменників Башкортостану.

Писати вірші почала в 50-х роках. Друкувалася в місцевих газетах і журналах. Пізніше перейшла писати прозу. Перша її збірка оповідань «Знайомі» видана у 1959 році. М. Садикова працює також у галузі драматургії. Її драми ставилися сцені Цілинного театру Башкирської АРСР (м. Сібай), п'єси «У пошуках щастя», «Руда» і «Журавушка» йшли на сценах театрів Башкортостану і Татарстану.

Садикова Мукарама Хафізівна — автор книг «Дві п'єси», «Клятва на Алтинтау», «Знайомі», «Зірка і квіти», «Поклик Жар-птиці», «Юлай вчиться читати». Книга «Письменники сміються. Сто десять байок» заснована на дотепних висловлюваннях або забавних епізодів з життя її колег: Мустая Каріма, Дініса Ісламова, Ангама Атнабаєва, Гайнана Амірі та багатьох інших.

Твори
 Садыкова, М. Знакомые: Рассказы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1959. — 88 с.
 Садыкова, М. Звезда и цветы: Рассказы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1963. — 50 с.
 Садыкова, М. Первые находки: Рассказы. Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1969. — 44 с.
 Садыкова, М. Две пьесы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1970. — 168 с.
 Садыкова, М. Две ели: Рассказы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1973. — 158 с.
 Садыкова, М. Клятва на Алтынтау: Повесть / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1975. — 88 с.
 Садыкова, М. Зов Жар-птицы: Повесть / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1979. — 224 с.
 Садыкова, М. К вершинам: Повесть / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1981. — 288 с.
 Садыкова, М. Юлай учится читать: Рассказы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Баш-книгоиздат, 1985. — 32 с.
 Садыкова, М. После распутицы: Рассказы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Башкнигоиздат, 1986. — 296 с.
 Садыкова, М. Поздравительное письмо: Рассказы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Баш-книгоиздат, 1987. — 72 с.
 Садыкова, М. Журавушка: Пьесы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Китап, 2001. — 240 с.
 Садыкова, М. Через границы: Повести и рассказы / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Китап, 2006. — 456 с.
 Садыкова, М. Писатели смеются / М.Садыкова. — Уфа: Издательский Дом «Чурагул», 2006. — 96 с.

Література
 Ғəтиəтуллина, Н. Тыуған яҡҡа мəҙхиə / Н.Ғəтиəтуллина // Ватандаш. — 1999.
 Гареев Р. С подножия Алтынтау — к вершинам творчества / Р.Гареев // К новым победам. — 2006. — № 37(4 мая).
 Камал, Р. Башҡорт прозасы мадонналары / Р.Камал // Ватандаш. — 2011.- № 3. — С.131-133.
 Ҡотлогилдина, З. Бəлəбəйҙең «Илһам шишмəлəре» — Шиғриəтте кескəй инештəре / З. Ҡотлогилдина // Йəншишмə. — 2011. — № 30 (15 апр.).
 Ҡотлогилдина, З. Изгелек юлында / З.Ҡотлогилдина // Башкортостан. — 2011. — № 105 (25 май).
 Садыкова, М. Йондоҙға яҡынайғанда / М.Садыкова // Етегəн. — 2008. — № 3.
 Садыкова, М. Х. Энциклопедия. Ермекеевский район. Республика Башкор-тостан / М. Садыкова. — Уфа: Гос.унит.предпр. РБ Уфимск. Полиграфкомбинат. — 2010.
 Султанова, Р. Славный праздник Сабантуй / Р.Султанова // Республика Баш-кортостан. — 2011. — № 111 (8 июня).
 Шарафлисламов М. Д., Гареев Р. В. Ими гордится родная земля / М. Д. Шара-фисламов, Р. В. Гареев // Земля Ермекеевская… / Под ред. В. Я. Бабенко. — Уфа: полиграфкомбинат, 1999.
 Шарафлисламов М. Д. Без бер җирнең газиз балалары / М. Д. Шарафисламов // Күңел балкышлары, Уфа. — 1999.
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Нагороди та звання
Лауреат премії імені Фатіха Каріма (2011).
Медаль «За доблесну працю у Великій Вітчизняній війні 1941-1945 рр.»

Посилання
 http://libmap.bashnl.ru/node/584
 М. Садыкова «Писатели смеются»
 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023101/http://www.gorod-ufa.com/ufa/community/16442-v-ee-knigax-prizyv-k-dobru-i-dushevnoj-krasote-k-80-letiyu-so-dnya-rozhdeniya-pisatelnicy-mukaramy-sadykovoj.html

Башкирські письменники
Персоналії за алфавітом
Народились 25 травня
Народились 1931
Уродженці Єрмекеєвського району


A biryani consists of curried meat, poultry, fish or vegetables combined with basmati rice to make a complete meal. Here chicken curry is layered with the rice and baked, then served with a fresh cucumber raita.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the onion and cook gently for 5 minutes or until softened. Add the chicken and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes until browned all over.
Stir in the ginger, chilli, cardamom, cumin, coriander, cloves, cinnamon stick, bay leaves and peppercorns. Cook for 1 minute, stirring all the time to ensure the spices do not burn.
Add the tomatoes, the stock and sultanas. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat, cover and cook for 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 160°C. Place the rice in a saucepan, add 600 ml water and the turmeric, and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer very gently for about 7 minutes or until the rice is almost tender. Drain off any excess water.
Layer the chicken curry and rice in a casserole dish. Cover and cook in the oven for 25 minutes, checking after 20 minutes and adding a little more stock if needed (there should be enough liquid for the rice to complete cooking).
Meanwhile, make the raita. Stir together the yoghurt, cucumber and mint. Season with pepper.
When the biryani is ready, stir it well, then scatter the toasted almonds on top. Serve with the raita.
Eaten without the skin, chicken is low in fat and the fat it does contain is mostly unsaturated.


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Anything in your life is possible.
Xander is inspired by the world around him. His brand reflects his love for nature using elements of wood, rattan and natural stones. Check out the full collection over at Lookagain.co.uk.
Xander firmly believes that: Anything in life is possible. No matter what your background, you just need to focus on what you want, believe you already have it and then you will create it.
Sound interesting?!
He'd love to hear from you! DM him @XanderKostroma on Instagram.
MEET THE CENTRAL TEAM
Xander - Company Founder
Lydia - Jewellery Production Manager
Tory - UK Warehouse Manager
All the design and development starts in Xander's home studio in Portugal. Once a style is finalized, production is passed over to his friend Lydia, who's based in Handen City, where she begins the process of making all our jewellery. Lydia manages everything from start to finish which includes sourcing all raw materials prior to production to exporting the final packaged goods to Tory, our Warehouse Manager based in Swansea, Wales. Tory receives all product and it's from the adjoining office at our warehouse, that all orders are packed and shipped out.
Xander and Tory are good friends for more than 15+ years! Funny story, they met and bonded in a bush at a day festival in Swansea. Tory was dressed as a butterfly while Xander (as he usually is) was lost trying to find the stage.
Xander was born into a single parent, working class family in Swansea, Wales. Aged just 16, he found himself homeless. Thick skinned, he knew that his first priority was to find a way to earn money. He got a job working nights as a pot washer at a restaurant, and during the days he continued his studies in school. A year later, he got accepted at a more stable job working in Marks & Spencer's on the weekend where he was assigned to the coffee shop.
Around a year later, Xander was promoted to store Visual Merchandiser which was where his interest in fashion began. Moreover, he realized he loved jewellery and accessories and became almost obsessed with learning everything he could about the brand "Per Una".
At 19, he left M&S and started his first business selling ex high street clothing on eBay. Aged 21, Xander got accepted into Swansea university studying Surface Pattern Design wanting to develop his fashion technical skills further. He completed his HND before going on to launch his first label Emi Jewellery in 2009.
His interests continued to grow.
Late 2010, Xander decided to move back into corporate. Using the skills he had acquired from his eBay business, he got offered a job working as an Assistant Merchandiser in Head Office for JD Sports in Manchester. He lived in Manchester until 2012 after receiving a job offer from Vans, the company that ultimately brought him to Switzerland. He worked at VF International until 2014 before going on to found his company Xander Kostroma Fashion Ltd in 2015. In the spring of 2018 he launched his "Xander Kostroma" collection. During the 2020 global pandemic Xander relocated from Switzerland to Lisbon, Portugal where he works until today.
Xander's "concentrating face"
The finished sample before production
Xander working with recycled plastic


We are the IEEE Student Branch at NJIT, part of the North Jersey Chapter. We became formally incorporated on January 2nd, 1963.
One of our main goals is to provide students with the means to succeed at NJIT as well as in the future. We have a history of doing countless activities over the years, such as our 'Pulse' Newsletter for students, and our annual 'Focus Series' where we ask Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering professors to present an informative seminar on different degree specializations offered here at NJIT. Our most recent effort is in the building of a solar car. Visit the solar car site via the projects tab to learn more.
One of our main goals is to provide students with the means to succeed at NJIT as well as in the future. We have a history of doing countless activities over the years such as technical workshops, company tours, lectures/seminars, and more! However, we do not limit ourselves to only technical contributions--we are proud of our social presence as well, ensuring that ECE students are not only productive colleagues, but also wonderful friends!
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#200. Force of Evil (1948)
Published December 9, 2018 by Alex Sorondo
Got super flustered watching Force of Evil because, like with The Big Sleep and Out of the Past and Maltese Falcon, this is another film noir where I couldn't follow the plot, couldn't trace the threads of motive and betrayal — except it might have almost been worse than those earlier flicks because, in this case, I kept thinking I could kinda follow what was going on, like I was so close to grasping it, if only I could focus a little bit harder…
So there's this perpetual inferiority thing and questioning. With The Big Sleep it's easy to just laugh because it's so ridiculously convoluted. Here, though, there's this vibe like it all does make perfect sense, and I'm just not rising to the occasion. (Although, frankly, as a bookish 27-year-old cinephile I should have more confidence at this point about my ability to understand shit. Should maybe consider whether the director is being coherent before giving myself a hard time for not understanding.)
John Garfield, who last popped up on the List in The Postman Always Rings Twice as a pretty odious dude (which I know should be a sign of an actor's strength, that they were persuasively odious, but his scumbaggy performance there really has left a bad taste in my mouth, and I have a hard time sympathizing with his face), and here, again, he plays a duplicitous douchebag — albeit a more esteemed stripe of douche. He's a lawyer now, as opposed to a drifter.
Garfield's character, Joe Morse, is in cahoots with the mafia on a numbers racket. I'll do my best to explain it here but, whatever I understand, I only learned it from reading essays and reviews here and there. While watching the actual movie I picked up on probably 40% of this.
What's happening is Joe's a lawyer helping the mob to set up a local numbers game on July 4th that everybody in town will end up winning. Or most of them, since people tend to play the number 776 as like a joke. This will somehow end up crippling the local banks so that, going forward, the mob will be the local source for loans.
The movie achieves a great vibe of desolation and hopelessness near the end — just before ending on what's supposed to be a redemptive note but feels totally false.
Pretty much everything having to do with Joe's mafia involvement went over my head. But that's fine. It's all a MacGuffin anyway, I guess. The heart of the movie resides in the relationship between Garfield and his bookie brother, Leo (Thomas Gomez), who's guzzling milk to combat his ulcers and he's overweight, sweaty, flustered and he resents his brother's duplicity, his pomposity, his self-satisfaction and fancy suits, etc.
Joe's tryna get Leo to close up shop the next day (July 4) so that he doesn't fall victim to the bankruptcy that's gonna sweep the whole racket. But he can't reveal why he wants his brother to close up.
Tricky negotiations ensue.
Leo refuses to close up shop, claims an obligation to his customers, and so Joe does some clever shit by making sure that Leo's place gets raided by cops that night before he can fall victim to the enormous payouts that'll be due the next day. Leo spends the night in jail. Joe gets what he wants.
And it's an interesting part of the story cuz it complicates our view of Joe: is this a portrait of how far he's willing to bend over backward to save his brother's business? Or does he not really give a shit about his brother's well-being? Is he jsut doing this to ensure that the mob's new racketeering thing (as TCM's summary puts it) can be "consolidated" under his brothers' shingle.
Staging a kidnapping.
Trickery ensues. Betrayal, death. It's a noir.
Force of Evil was surprisingly difficult to find. If you look for it on YouTube you'll find a video introduction that Martin Scorsese recorded in the '90s, talking about why the movie's so great and how it influenced him — which, given his clout as a filmmaker and historian, you'd think this video along might be incentive enough for some streaming service to wanna host it, or for some cinephilic pirate to've uploaded it somewhere. It wasn't as hard to track down as The Crowd or Ossessione, I didn't have to order it from overseas, but no retail story had it for miles around me and I couldn't find a dependable-looking online vendor who had it. Ultimately I just tossed $15 at a guy online who claimed to have several copies and I lucked out. He did indeed have it.
Can't say I'm much a fan of the movie. I think it's well-made and smart but also kinda tedious (no point in even complaining about the convoluted plot, as it's so germane to the genre). I definitely wanna applaud it for being it's own kind of noir, though. The world in Force of Evil isn't one of shadow-dwelling killers in fedoras and private dicks who know the score. It's a frazzled lawyer who's in over his head with a major criminal element whose cruelty he's underestimating (I'm realizing suddenly that this might have been an influence on Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor). While it seems like the real world, as it appears in earlier film noir, takes shape in the mood of the thing, and the dauntingly cerebral plot that only masks a heartbroken simplicity of theme, the realism of Force of Evil is fairly up-front. The heroes are conflicted and succumb to their weaknesses. The criminals are self-aware, they're not poetic about what they're doing. They're just brutal.
I can see it's a special kinda movie. Just doesn't ring my bell.
Tags: acting, actor, bankruptcy, cinema, crime, directing, directors, extortion, force of evil, john garfield, mafia, numbers
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One night in a Lancaster Bomber
Artwork by Bob Baldwin
I have written a play with Max Kinnings called Wireless Operator which has its premier in at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.
My father Sergeant Joe Baldwin, a joiner by trade and a pacifist by instinct, was a Wireless Operator in 630 Lancaster Squadron based at East Kirkby. Like others my dad rarely talked about his war and I grew up with a lovely but burdened man, who struggled to process his feelings. From what I've read I don't think anybody could. What they were asked to do was so absurd, so hideous, that it just didn't make the kind of sense that could be explained; they were muted, repressed into silence. It's now understood that this is part of the destructive long term impact of PTSD.
Our story is just one night in a Lancaster Bomber and is told through the eyes and ears of the wireless operator as he, with his crew, some just 18, hurtle through a terrifying frenzy of violence and destruction. He becomes an innocent participant in utter slaughter and, one of the most contentious strategies of WW2. It's estimated that in Hamburg, more people, civilians mostly, were killed than died in Nagasaki.
It's hard to imagine the enormity of what ordinary people were asked to do…. obliterate entire cities. And it's hard to imagine what it felt like to carry out these merciless acts without anger or hate. They were not cold hearted killers, yet they were expected to kill, cold heartedly, and probably die. The statistics are shocking. These young men were not expected to survive more than 10 missions. A tour of duty was 30. If they survived physically, they could never escape the memory of seeing friends blown up or of dropping bombs that burned entire communities.
After he passed away I read my Dad's log books and a beautifully written and revealing short story he wrote called "1 + 5 More To Go". It provided the seed for this play as I realised how much more emotionally complex my Dad's war had been, more than he would, or could, ever have shared.
Wireless Operator is a thrilling and nail-biting drama. Operatic in its ambition with a soundscape crafted from deconstructed recordings of the iconic Merlin engines. It's an exciting and moving story that takes us deep into the terror of the battle and to the very heart of a personal struggle for sanity.
By Bob Baldwin May 29, 2019
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