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Grapevine: Majesty and modesty under the bridal canopy
Thousands of haredim flock to Jerusalem over the past week and a half to celebrate the wedding between decedents of prominent rabbis.
Published: MAY 21, 2013 21:10
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Thousands of haredim – most of them Belzer Hassidim – flocked to Jerusalem over the past week and a half to celebrate the wedding of Sholom Rokeach, the eldest grandson of the Belzer Rebbe, to Batya Paneth, the daughter of Rabbi Yehiel Meir Paneth of Bnei Brak.
The wedding ceremony took place last night in the courtyard of the magnificent Belz Synagogue, which stands out on the horizon on the highway approach to the capital. Roads leading to the synagogue were closed to traffic from 3 p.m. After the ceremony, the sea of black moved in the direction of the Jerusalem International Convention Center where the wedding banquet was held.
It is difficult enough at a regular wedding to see the ceremony under the huppa, but with so many people, even members of the family would have missed out – but for the many video screens placed in the area around the synagogue. This enabled the hordes of well-wishers to see the continuation of what many in hassidic circles consider a post-Holocaust miracle.
The Belzer Hassidim, a sect that gave rise to many great Torah scholars, all but disappeared in the atrocities of the Holocaust – as Belz was occupied by the Nazis from 1939 to 1944. The previous Belzer Rebbe, Aharon Rokeach, who had a reputation as a miracle worker, and his half-brother Rabbi Mordechai, managed to subsist with the help of funds smuggled into Poland by Belzer Hassidim living in the US, England and what was then Palestine. The two brothers fled from one ghetto to another, eventually escaping from Poland. A gentile sympathetic to the plight of the Jews drove them to Hungary in a wagon, disguised as Russian generals who had been captured and brought to Budapest for questioning. After eight months in Budapest, the brothers received certificates that enabled them to go to Palestine, and they left Budapest in January 1944.
The Nazis invaded Hungary two months later, and began rounding up Jews and deporting them to Auschwitz. The two brothers were the only members of their families to survive. Their wives, children, grandchildren and in-laws were all murdered or perished as a result of the conditions to which they were subjected.
Both brothers remarried, but only Rabbi Mordechai sired another child. Though 22 years younger than his brother, Rabbi Mordechai died at age 47, when his son Yissachar Dov was only a year old. Rabbi Aharon cared for the child and groomed him to be the next Belzer Rebbe. Yissachar Dov was "orphaned" yet again at age nine when his uncle died. At age 17, the boy married Sarah Hager, the daughter of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager. They were childless for almost a decade until the birth of their only son, Aharon Mordechai Rokeach, the father of the groom.
The pre-wedding festivities began last Saturday when the bridegroom was called to the Torah, and the post-wedding festivities will continue until next week. According to Yeshiva World News, the groom and his father went to the home of Shas spiritual mentor and former Sephardi chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef to personally hand-deliver the wedding invitation.
In some hassidic circles, including Belz, the bridegroom receives a shtreimel (fur hat) on the day he is called to the Torah. Thus, before going to synagogue, the groom and his father first went to the home of the Belzer Rebbe, who presented the groom with a fine shtreimel and placed it on his head.
The Belzer Hassidim are known to be very musical, as the groom proved to be at his bar mitzva five years ago. But the favorite Belz composer, conductor and musical arranger is Rabbi Yosef Moshe Kahana, who composed 22 new melodies for the wedding.
■ IT'S A strange thing with journalists.
Although they give themselves license to invade the privacy of everyone else – including people who are not public figures – when it comes to their own lives, they will go to extraordinary lengths to protect themselves from fellow scribes, and most importantly from the paparazzi.
This was the case last Thursday, when Israel Television's hard-hitting current affairs interviewer Geula Even wed Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar in a private ceremony conducted by Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz.
The 60 or so invitees, comprising relatives and close friends, were sworn to secrecy about both the date and the venue.
Few things remain secret for long in Israel, and at more or less the last minute, noninvited members of the fourth estate got wind of what was happening – though some were led on a wild goose chase before finally discovering the north Tel Aviv venue.
This happened to be the villa of leading political campaign strategist Tal Silberstein, who has been an adviser to both Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert.
Even and Sa'ar have been conducting a sizzling romance for the past six months and took up residence together in Tel Aviv some time before the nuptials. At one stage, they were contemplating a Jerusalem wedding at the Western Wall, but when word got out that they were exploring such a possibility, they promptly decided on another location.
Paparazzi arriving at the villa were denied entry by a security guard, and risked life and limb climbing on a tree in an attempt to photograph the newlyweds. The branches, in fact, could not hold the combined weight.
Even, when interviewing people on television, is blunt, merciless and often resorts to accusatory tactics, as if she were judge and jury. Yet she took every possible precaution to keep her wedding under wraps. Sa'ar's two daughters from his former marriage, and Even's two daughters and son from hers, were in attendance for the ceremony that made them step-siblings to each other.
The newlyweds, who did not take time out for a honeymoon, may have further cause for celebration by the end of this year, when their family may be extended even further.
Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes, who is married to Minister Silvan Shalom, speaking on a panel show on Channel 2, congratulated the couple and said she was glad that yet another minister now had a celebrity journalist as his wife. Sa'ar's wedding brings the count to three: Finance Minister Yair Lapid, a former journalist himself, is married to journalist and author Lihi Lapid.
■ FOR THE fourth consecutive year, women will be swimming across Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee), in a swimathon to raise funds for Sadnat Shiluv b'Emuna. This unique school for mentally challenged youngsters works to educate and integrate special-needs children and young adults within the local community of Gush Etzion. The swimathon, a fund-raiser initiated by Vivienne Glaser, attracts participants from a broad age group, from teenagers to those in their 90s. Several of them have placed online announcements about their participation, asking Internet surfers to sponsor them and thus help them to help others.
Every swimmer is asked to raise at least NIS 2,000, and several manage to raise a lot more.
The event is a fun challenge which generates competition and friendship, but most importantly demonstrates concern for the less fortunate. Glaser hit on the idea when she saw what Sadna does for her son Elchi, who has been attending the school since its inception 13 years ago. "The happy smile he wears all day is shared by his schoolmates," says Glaser, who is also the coordinator of the swimathon.
Funds collected at this year's swimathon on Thursday, May 23, will go toward the expansion of the Sadna's Holistic Animal Therapy Center and petting zoo, which will be available for both Sadna residents and the neighboring communities. The center provides employment for Sadna alumni, in addition to tools to enable them to integrate into the community at large. Elchi Glaser, now 22, works with the animals and is pleased to be able to continue to live in a warm and nurturing environment.
The swimathon attracts not only enthusiastic swimmers but also their families and friends, who cheer them on. It starts with the trip up to the Kinneret, includes dinner and evening fun, and ends with a closing ceremony for the swimmers and their supporters.
Anyone who would like to be there as a swimmer or sponsor should contact Vivienne Glaser at: 050-747-7530, [email protected] swim4sadna.org, or [email protected] Registration for the swim is NIS 350, and each swimmer is responsible for bringing in NIS 2,000.
■ GUESTS AT weddings, bar mitzvas and funerals are often surprised by the number of famous people who are friends of the honoree or to whom the honoree is related, and are amazed that they have never met these people before. Much the same happened at Jerusalem's Ohel Itzhak Synagogue, the oldest Sephardi synagogue built outside the Old City, at the memorial tribute to Carmen Weinstein, the president of the Jewish community of Cairo who died last month. At the synagogue, which was built by her great grandfather Itzhak Itzhaki in 1882, relatives representing some of the most veteran Sephardi families of Jerusalem mixed with numerous Israeli diplomats who Weinstein had befriended – from the arrival of the first Israeli mission in Cairo in 1980, to those serving in Egypt today.
Among them were Nitza Ben-Elissar, the widow of Israel's first ambassador to Egypt, Efraim Douek, who was the fourth ambassador; Zvi Mazel and his wife Michelle, who were members of the first mission, with Mazel returning in 1996 as the sixth ambassador; later ambassadors Gideon Ben-Ami, Yitzhak Levanon and present incumbent Yaakov Amichai, who all came along with diplomats of lower rank; and Profs. Emanuel Marx and Gabriel Rosenbaum, past and present directors respectively of the Israel Academic Center in Cairo, run by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Among the relatives present were Yoav Ginai, head of the programs division at the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Channel 1, along with his mother Miriam, an extremely knowledgeable 12th-generation Jerusalemite who revealed some of the family's history to whoever wanted to listen.
Memorial plaques for her two grandfathers adorned the wall, one of whom was Nissim Binyamin Ohana, who was born in Algeria to Jerusalem parents – emissaries there who returned when Ohana was five years old. He subsequently became chief rabbi of Cairo, and his Jerusalem-based children and grandchildren used to travel to Egypt each year to spend Passover with him. Ohana returned to Jerusalem in 1946 and was subsequently chief rabbi of Haifa.
Another relative was eminent legal expert Prof. Ruth Gavison, who took her son Doron to Cairo soon after his bar mitzva at the Ohel Itzhak Synagogue – and of course they had spent a lot of time on the Cairo trip with Weinstein.
Yet another relative was Dr. Nahman Oron, one of the people who makes sure that the synagogue continues to function on a daily basis. The closest relative to the deceased was her sister Glorice, who came from Switzerland for the occasion.
The number of people who wanted to share their impressions of Weinstein testified to the high esteem in which she was held.
She was both a proud Egyptian and a proud Jewess, and was even described by one of the speakers as an "authentic Zionist." Weinstein was a highly educated synthesis of East-West culture with a Sabra personality, in that she was hard on the outside and sweet on the inside. Several speakers noted her marvelous sense of humor, and all spoke of her fierce determination to preserve what was left of Cairo's Jewish heritage. She had maintained her relationships with Israeli diplomats after their terms in Egypt were over, and had called to wish them well on Jewish holidays, met with them on her annual visits to Jerusalem and entertained them when they visited Cairo.
Even though there is a new president of Cairo's dwindling Jewish community, she cannot match the tenacity and pedigree of Weinstein, who in the Egyptian-Jewish sense was the "Last of the Mohicans."
■ FORMER CHIEF of protocol at the Foreign Ministry Yitzhak Eldan, like many retired diplomats, continues to keep his finger in the diplomatic pie. He is the founding president of the Ambassadors' Club of Israel and also teaches diplomacy to "young ambassadors" at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
Eldan believes that diplomacy should be a compulsory subject in the final two years of high school education. With increasing student exchanges between countries, it is essential that all seniors in Israeli high schools know how to defend Israel against verbal attacks, and how to state their country's case when traveling abroad, he says. Towards this end, Eldan took an 11-member group of 12thgrade students from the Herzog High School in Kfar Saba on a four-day visit to Prague. The visit was coordinated with the Foreign Ministry, the Education Ministry and Ambassador to the Czech Republic Yaakov Levy.
The group met with radio and print media representatives; toured the Czech parliament, sat in on a session and met with legislators; met with the director of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry; and subsequently met with members of their peer group at the International School of Prague, where they made a presentation.
The young Israelis also visited places of specific Jewish interest, such as Terezin and the Old-New Synagogue.
On the first day of their visit, Levy invited them for coffee and cake at his residence, where he spoke to them about Israel-Czech relations – which go back to before the establishment of the state – and then participated with them in an intensive Q&A session.
The big surprise at the reception was the presence of Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, who had just returned from a visit to Israel.
■ THE TELEVISION contest Dancing with the Stars, which is based on British series Strictly Come Dancing, partners celebrities with professional dancers for competition in various dancing styles – and takes on a whole new meaning with regard to the Hebrew University.
The show, which has been exported to more than 40 countries including Israel, proves that with determination and a good teacher, even someone with two left feet can learn the intricacies of the waltz, the tango, the foxtrot, the samba, the salsa and the rumba. Hebrew University president Menahem Ben-Sasson has not yet appeared on the show to demonstrate his fancy footwork, but he is figuratively – if not literally – dancing with the stars.
This was the case in the first week of May, when Ben-Sasson was in Toronto to present Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman with the Jake Eberts Key of Knowledge Award at a gala reception hosted by the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University.
The award was in recognition of Freeman's dedication to combating racism and promoting knowledge and education worldwide.
The gala event at the Toronto Center for the Arts was attended by more than 700 guests, and raised $2 million for the Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, one of the leading facilities for scientific cooperation between the two countries. Through IMRIC, Israeli and Canadian scientists are working together to find solutions and better treatments for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and heart and brain disorders.
Among those present were Dr. Amir Amedi, renowned IMRIC brain scientist, and Dr. Josephine Ojiambo, Kenya's Ambassador to the UN and a Hebrew University alumna. The award was named in honor of the late award-winning film producer Jake Eberts, who produced many feature films such as Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Driving Miss Daisy and Dances with Wolves, as well as documentaries including Prisoner of Paradise, Journey to Mecca and Oceans. His final project, Jerusalem, is an Imax 3D production due for worldwide release later this year.
Next month, Ben-Sasson will present an honorary doctorate to legendary singer and actress Barbra Streisand, who like Freeman is dedicated to the promotion of education and human and civil rights. Streisand has a 30-year history with the university, having established the Emanuel Streisand Building for Jewish Studies on the university's Mount Scopus campus in memory of her father in 1984. Streisand, who has supported many pro-Israel events in the US, will be in Israel both to honor President Shimon Peres on his 90th birthday and to perform in Tel Aviv.
■ IT MAY have been purely coincidental, but at the sumptuous reception for Cameroon's National Day, hosted by Diplomatic Corps dean and long-term Ambassador of Cameroon Henri Etoundi Essomba and his wife Esther at their residence in Kfar Shmaryahu, the playing of the national anthems of Cameroon and Israel featured Streisand singing "Hatikva."
In mid-October of this year, Essomba will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the presentation of his credentials to president Ezer Weizman, who took up his position as head of state 20 years ago this month. Throughout the years, until this week, the government had never sent a female minister to represent it at the Cameroon National Day festivities.
On Monday night, Essomba was particularly pleased to welcome Health Minister Yael German, who is well-known to the residents of Kfar Shmaryahu and Herzliya Pituah as the former mayor of Herzliya, in which capacity she attended many diplomatic functions and hosted members of the diplomatic community at municipal functions.
Essomba, speaking extemporaneously, recalled what German had done for the development of Herzliya. "We are welcoming not only a minister but a leader, and we are very proud," he said, also congratulating the government of which German is a member for making the resumption of the peace process one of its priorities. In wishing the government success in promoting this objective, Essomba said: "Without peace, nothing is possible."
Referring to bilateral relations between Cameroon and the State of Israel, Essomba said that they go back to the 1960s. Israel was among the first countries to support Cameroon when it gained independence from France in January 1960, he recalled.
However, Essomba did not mention the 13-year period from 1973-1986 when Cameroon was one of several African states that severed diplomatic ties with Israel. In August 1986, Peres, then prime minister, traveled to Yaounde to meet with Cameroon's President Paul Biya. After two days of talks, they announced the restoration of diplomatic relations in a joint statement.
At the time, Biya predicted that other African states would follow Cameroon in restoring relations – and he was right.
Cooperation between Cameroon and Israel has been based largely on agriculture and health. Essomba said that he would like to see greater cooperation on health issues, and with German as health minister, he was confident this would occur. He also called on Israel's business community to invest more in Cameroon, pointing out that economic growth in his country rose by 4.2 percent in 2012, and that the economic growth forecast for 2013 is 6% – indicating that such investment is a secure risk.
German, who was extremely appreciative of Essomba's remarks, noted that Israel attaches great importance to relations with Africa in general – and particularly with Cameroon, which she said is one of the most stable countries in West Africa. Israeli experts have worked in Cameroon to assist with irrigation and water management issues, she said, and each year 100 trainees from Cameroon come to Israel to study under the auspices of Mashav, Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation. Mashav also sends experts to Cameroon on a regular basis.
German also thanked Cameroon for supporting Israel at the UN.
■ DIAMONDS MAY be a girl's best friend, but Nathalie Mimoun, a prominent figure in Netanya's diamond industry, is prepared to temporarily turn her back on all that glitter in favor of a career in the French parliament.
She is one of at least two Israelis who are also French nationals and are running for election in the eighth constituency of the French parliament.
French expatriates were permitted to elect a representative for the first time last year, and surprisingly, French expatriates from eight Mediterranean states – Israel, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, the Vatican and San Marino – elected an Israeli, Daphna Poznanski-Benhamou, a lawyer living in Tel Aviv. What was truly amazing about Poznanski- Benhamou's victory was the fact that only 8% of some 80,000 bi-national Israelis eligible to vote exercised their democratic right – meaning that most of her votes came from outside Israel. Poznanski-Benhamou's triumph was short-lived, however. Irregularities in her campaign funding resulted in the nullification of the election by the Constitutional Council of France.
Mimoun, who dresses with style and looks as if she just walked out of the pages of Vogue, was in Jerusalem last week to meet with potential voters. Many of them know her through her voluntary work as a counselor and troubleshooter with the French Consulate, where over the years she has helped solve the problems of many French immigrants.
Mimoun chose to have her campaign meeting at the Matsart Gallery, which is just around the corner from the French Consulate.
The gallery's extensive collection includes a number of internationally acclaimed artists, who though not born in France, rose to fame in Paris – among them Marc Chagall and Moise Kisling. The choice of venue was deliberate, said Mimoun, in that most French people know of Israel only in terms of conflict – and she wanted them to know Israel as a place of culture.
Because of her volunteer work at the consulate, Mimoun believes that she is best suited to represent the interests of French citizens living abroad. She understands their concerns and also wants to fight for their rights. Some of the laws related to French citizens living abroad are unfair, she said, citing higher taxes on assets than those paid by residents of France, as well as lower pensions based on salaries earned while they were living in France. The first voting round is on May 26 and the second on June 9.
■ WHO WOULD have a imagined a Shavuot celebration in Britain's House of Lords? But last week, on the eve of the festival, Lord Adrian Palmer, Lord Stanley Fink – who inter alia is vice president of the Jewish Leadership Council, and is director of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies – Baroness Julia Neuberger and Lord Parry Mitchell entertained their peers with the traditional cheesecake and a lecture on Shavuot's essence. It was the third time in House of Lords history that Jewish peers had shared something of their religious traditions with fellows of other faiths. There are several Jewish peers among the vice presidents of the JLC, and they previously held two successful Peer teas during Purim.
Neuberger observed that the Jewish community can take pride in what its members have done in public life as well as the coming together on Jewish festivals, which unites peers regardless of political and religious differences.


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Who is Beeple: the secret to the success of the richest NFT-artist
Despite the fact that Beeple's NFTs won't be the envy of other collectors, the demand for them is growing. People are willing to pay millions to buy Beeple's work. So, who is it?
Who is Beeple or Mike Winkelmann?
Mike Winkelmann or Beeple is an extraordinary person. This seemingly unremarkable man with glasses is more like an office worker than one of the most expensive NFT artists of our time. His NFT token EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS and its went under the hammer at Christie's for $69.35 million.
Beeple works in the style of digital art, where it raises important issues for society – politics, ecology, tolerance and others. His Instagram has 2,5 million followers and he collaborates with Louis Vuitton, while Winkelmann's paintings were broadcast during the Super Bowl. Despite such popularity, his work is not found in classical galleries or exhibitions. But at the same time, his Twitter account is in the TOP of the best NFT Twitter accounts according to the NFTMetria team.
But first things first.
Instagram – 2.5 million followers
Twitter – 700 thousand subscribers
Facebook – 622 thousand subscribers
YouTube – 63 thousand subscribers
Own site
Mike Winkelmann is 40 years old, married to a school teacher, and has two children. Beeple grew up in the family of an electrician and nursing home worker. By education, Mike is a programmer, and at first he developed design for websites. This is an ordinary family, of which there are millions in the United States. But his success story strikingly sets him apart from everyone else.
Beeple success story
The idea to create paintings came to him after meeting a British artist who painted one study every day. Winkelmann decided to try this approach using Cinema 4D. Collage «Everydays: the first 5000 days», which Mike Winkelmann started 14 years ago, are drawings that were drawn every day: they were drawn on a computer every day since 2007 and then no one, let alone Beeple, knew about NFT, about blockchain. And even more so, no one yet knew who is Beeple.
Beeple products are very popular. In 2018 fashion house Louis Vuitton offered him cooperation. Together they created a collection of clothes with prints of Winckelmann paintings, the presentation of which took place at the Louvre.
Despite such success and the cost of the work, he himself never planned to sell his creations. Only in 2020 NFT-platform Nifty Gateway contacted Mike and offered to sell NFT's of his work. The first 3 paintings exhibited at the electronic auction simply collapsed the site – the site was not ready for so many people who wanted to buy the Beeple creation.
NFT – works Beeple
Mike Winkelmann has not always been such an expensive artist. Previously, his paintings were sold from hundreds of dollars apiece. After all, then no one could answer the question, who is Beeple.
In December 2020, the artist earned $582,000 for Crossroad. At the end of February 2021, an NFT with the image of Donald Trump was resold for $6.6 million. And the idea of the work is very interesting: if Trump had won the presidential election, then the image would have crowned new president walking through the flames. But, as you know, Biden won the election then. Therefore, in the animated image, Trump is lying in a pile of garbage.
Further in 2021, Beeple auctioned NFT, which features a collage of 5,000 paintings drawn by the artist. Bidding was carried out by auction house Christie's and started from $100. As a result of the auction, NFT was sold for a record $63.35 million. Collage «Everydays: The First 5000 Days» has become the most expensive NFT token item ever sold, and Winkelmann himself has been named one of the most expensive living artists. The buyer turned out to be Vignesh Sundaresan, hiding under the pseudonym Metakovan.
The popularization of NFT had a positive effect on the artist's income: last year he sold several of his works for tens of thousands of dollars, one for $3.5 million. Buyers also managed to earn money: the buyer of a series of digital paintings for $66,666 resold it four months later for $6 million.
Also, in 2021 NFT «Human One» was sold for $29 million, just think about those numbers!
All of Beeple's work on his Instagram.
Where can I buy NFT from Beeple?
The author is hosted on the NFT marketplaces Nifty Gateway and OpenSea. And this is not surprising, because NFT artists with well-known names in the community are published on these sites. By the way, we also did a review of the NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway and OpenSea, you can read and understand the features of the sites, and why Beeple is located there.
Well? After such a review, you wanted to figure out how to sell my works in the form of NFT? And note that the artist actively creates his own community and actively maintains social networks. It was about such ways to become a popular NFT artist that we talked about in another article.
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Demystifying Life: how to live it, love it and have it. The Big 7 in your life – Part 4.Your Emotions.
Whether any experience seems to us bitter or sweet - depends on us: bitter and sweet are just two sides of the same coin called life journey. We define our experiences ourselves, and we decide whether we like them or not. Our perception and our reactions summarize our experiences, giving them meaning and the emotional feel.
Some Emotions are involuntary, as for instance the anxiety we experience in response to a perceived harmful event, attack or threat to our survival. Such reaction is called by psychologists "fight, flight, freeze or fawn response" and it's due to our natural biological wiring: our ancestors needed to defend themselves when they, for instance, met a lion on their path. There is no need however, to give in to prolonged stress, when we are simply dealing with difficult life situations. Most Emotions can be monitored and modulated.
Our Emotions can be compared to the clouds in the sky. They can flow, coalesce, or quietly pass by. We can identify with the clouds, being dependent on their status. Or - we can identify with the sky, which remains calm, no matter what kind of clouds (Emotions) are passing through it. It means that we can sometimes be in an emotional hole, but still not suffer from it.
If we distance ourselves from our Emotions, we realize that we can interpret experiences in various ways: we can appreciate everything that we experience, or we can chose to be selective, and either love, hate, like or dislike what we are experiencing.
Even when we are feeling down, we can remain happy despite of it. Happiness is not the thrill or pleasure we experience when we're having fun. Happiness is a state in which we are always comfortable in our own skin, enjoying life regardless of any circumstances. Our own perception of the world and ourselves has the largest impact on how we feel about life.
The difference between our conscious and unconscious experience of life is huge: when we live life more consciously, maintaining our distance to each experience - without automatic responses, without trying to avoid at all cost what we perceive as "bitter or unpleasant" - we are able to reach the natural state of happiness and joy of life. We are able to develop faster, while making conscious choices as to HOW we react to each experience.
Your Emotions can become Your Choice. They can be wise, mature and helpful. And healthy, mature Emotions can guide you in situations that are not clear for your logical Mind.
Some people call it "intuition", some people describe it as "having a good nose for something" – for instance in business, yet others call it "emotional intelligence".
Your Emotional Intelligence comes to surface when you remove fearful judgments from your Life. It will tell you what to do when Your Mind can't figure it out.
Your Emotional Intelligence will help you and guide you toward fulfillment, happiness and success. Both in your private and professional life you need your Emotional Intelligence to truly succeed.
Where to start? Begin with deleting from your Mind old programming, conditioning from the past that no longer serves you today. Look into your Heart and bring to your Mind its Vision. Tell your Mind to listen carefully to your Heart. Imagine your life according to your Heart's Vision. Then you'll know what you feel when you're aligned with your Heart's Vision. Now, these are your truly healthy, mature Emotions. This is how it feels. This is how it will always feel when what you think or do is in alignment with who you truly are.
Your Emotional Intelligence will always tell you what to do, when your logical Mind can't figure out what's best for you.
There is a wonderful feeling to a great life. Now that you know it, you'll know how to find it.
Have a beautiful day. Feel it, love it and enjoy it.


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I wanted to change up things a bit, and post an about me tag since I've never really done a tag about myself.
What is your favorite song at this moment? It's an oldie but I do love Grenade from Bruno Mars. And Sam Smith: Not the Only One. I know its sad, but I still love it.
What is your favorite food? Sushi!! but then again anything savory.
Favorite movies? Casablanca, Love Actually, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I just love their insults!
Can you cook? Yes I can. I love cooking enchilladas, and I'm slowly learning how to cook some Arabic food. Ooh and baking too!


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51 Q: Can Parsons, Matthews get healthy, lift Dallas to the playoffs?
By Kurt HelinSep 30, 2015, 12:09 PM EDT
Can Wesley Matthews and Chandler Parsons get healthy enough to lift Dallas into the playoffs?
There was a time, just a few years ago, when the answer to this question was "it doesn't matter, they have Dirk Nowitzki."
It's not anymore. Nowitzki is still good — he averaged 17.3 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 1.9 assists a game last season — but he has slipped from the ranks of "top-5, can carry a team all by himself" status. If you watched him last season, you saw him miss more open looks than anyone remembers. According to the shot tracking stats at NBA.com, Nowitzki hit 47 percent of his open looks on two-pointers last season — when the defender was 4-6 feet away — which is well down from 52 percent the season before. He hit just 42 percent of his open jumpers inside 10 feet. He missed more of his isolation jumpers. The shots just were not falling at the same rate as they did with the Mavs title team in 2011 or the next couple seasons, and at age 37 the slide is likely to continue.
Nowitzki needs help. And that's where the health of Wesley Matthews and Chandler Parsons will decide the potential playoff fate of Dallas. (The health and play of Deron Williams will be the other key part of any playoff push.)
If healthy and playing near their peaks, Parsons and Matthews provide quality wing scoring and defensive options that Rick Carlisle would deploy brilliantly to space the floor and exploit mismatches. If D-Will and Nowitzki run a pick-and-pop, Matthews is spacing the floor at the arc and Parsons makes a smart cut to the basket, it's not going to be easy to defend.
But will Parsons and Matthews be healthy enough to make that a reality?
Dallas went the full Bill Belichick on Parson's injury, trying to keep secret what was actually done for reasons only they and the Illuminati know. It turns out to have been a hybrid microfracture surgery on a non-weight-bearing part of his knee, which is a good thing for Mavs fans. Parsons still is not cutting and jumping at full speed, but he should be able to play at the start of the season, if not very soon after.
Matthews is recovering from a torn Achilles and his timetable stretches out further. What Rick Carlisle said the other day seemed slightly misconstrued, he said Matthews will be back on the court by Christmas, but that is likely sooner. Matthews has tried to push for the start of the season, but Thanksgiving may be more realistic.
The bigger question is can these guys return to peak form quickly following their return?
History says no. Guys coming off microfracture tend to take some time to fully trust that knee again (as with other knee injuries) and they can be somewhat limited for a while. That timeline stretches out even further with guys coming back from a torn Achilles —most players are never quite as explosive or quick again, and even the few that have gotten the full measure of their athleticism back have taken a while to reach that point.
Dallas does not have much depth behind these two guys — Justin Anderson and John Jenkins are your primary backups. Williams can play some at the two if J.J. Barea is at the point (and I expect we will see a lot of guard-heavy lineups early in the season from Dallas), but none of these options are particularly threatening to opponents.
The other problem for Dallas is they are in the West — if they get off to a slow start without their two best wing players, it may be hard to dig out of the hole in the second half and get back into playoff contention.
Dallas likely will battle Utah and Phoenix for the eight seed in the West (this assumes that the Warriors, Clippers, Spurs, Rockets, Thunder, Grizzlies, and Pelicans will make it and fill in the top seven seeds in some order). It's likely going to take 46 or more wins to make the cut.
If Dallas is going to get to that number, they need a lot of things to go right. Nowitzki can't decline much, D-Will needs to bounce back, someone has to step up as a defensive stopper in the paint, and they are going to need big seasons out of Parsons and Matthews. I think those two will play well together and lift this team, particularly after the All-Star break when they are healthy and recovered. That should have Dallas in the mix for the playoffs in the West.
But I've got a feeling it will be too little, too late to earn an invite to the postseason dance by beating out younger, healthier teams.
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Some distinctive–and quirky–instruments have come through here over the decades. Sorry to say that we don't have a photographic record of all of them. Nonetheless, we've gotten photos of some and have put together a little photo gallery. The Instrument Photo Gallery is for reference and amusement only, since these instruments are no longer available.


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Es endémica de Brasil.
Sus hábitats naturales incluyen bosques tropicales o subtropicales secos y a baja altitud, montanos secos, praderas parcialmente inundadas, pantanos, marismas intermitentes de agua dulce y pastos. Está amenazada por la destrucción de su hábitat natural.

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 Potsch de Carvalho-e-Silva, S. & Gonçalves da Cruz, C.A. 2004.  Dendropsophus berthalutzae.   2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.   Consultado el 21 de julio de 2007.
 Bokermann, W. C. A. 1962. Cuatro nuevos hylidos del Brasil. Neotropica. La Plata 8: 81-92.

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Author: Adrienne Young
Publisher: Wednesday Books
First Published: 3 September 2019
"Eye of the gods. Give me sight."
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Wednesday Books and NetGalley!
For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.
For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have again—a home.
I am so ridiculously glad that we got another book in this world. This is all ever wanted since I finished Sky in the Deep.
This book takes places 10 years after the events of Sky in the Deep and follows Halvard, who is the younger brother of Fiske and Iri. The Aska and Riki clan have found peace and formed a new clan called, Nadhir. I adore that this isn't a direct sequel and does stand-alone. If you're not interested in reading the first book you don't necessarily have to — but also do read it because it's all kinds of awesome.
The story is told in dual perspectives from, Tova and Halvard, which means that you get to see the events from both sides. It's told in both the present day with a few flashback chapters. I adore the addition of these flashbacks. They provided extra context — how Tova, a Kyrr girl, ends up casting runes for the Svell and how Nadhir people have come together. They are only introduced when it's relevant to the narrative.
Adrienne Young has this stunning way of bringing the Viking culture to life. Their belief and gods are effortlessly woven into every aspect of this story. There is an atmospheric quality to the writing and I can't help feeling like I'm living it. The battle scenes had my heart racing. They are messy, chaotic and, much like I imagine a real battle would be like, quickly become just a matter of survival.
Through Tova, we see more of the religious side of the Viking culture. She is a truthtongue, a kind of seer, from the Kyrr clan and uses runes to forecast the future. Tova's history is heartbreaking. She's lead to believe she was abandoned and is used by the Svell's religious leader to help cement his power. She is hated by them and is often under threat, but she wants desperately to fit in. She fights tooth and nail to stay alive and is conflicted about where her loyalties should lie. Is it with the people she's known her whole life? Or those the Spinners of fate are drawing her towards?
I am thrilled that we get to see more from Halvard. He was one of my favourite characters in Sky in the Deep. He's now all grown up and heir to the Nadhir clan. He's struggling with the weight of ruling with the huge fallouts of his decisions and how they affect the people he's responsible for protecting. There is the relatable fear in him — the fear of not being good enough ¬— which hit me in the chest.
I will say that I felt like the story wrapped up quickly, especially in comparison to the pacing of the rest of the book. I would've loved a few more chapters, but that might just be me being selfish because I didn't want to leave this world.
Overall, I love how this world expanded and shows other facets of Viking history. I loved the addition of the Kyrr and their magic and hope that we see more of them. I think Young has become one of my auto-buy authors. I love her atmospheric writing, the way she crafts characters, her world and just everything really. I cannot wait to read her next book.
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This talk is about pure E4 testing. It will remind you the basic principles of the E4 runtime and architecture regarding the application model and the contribution with fragments, and it will introduce the E4 tester tooling to help you in your test management.
UI Testing is usually a big issue and often the global application must be globally tested. With the E4 tester, it will be possible to combine your E4 views and/or handlers and check the expected behaviour.
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Attempting B2B marketing optimizations without accurate analytics is like flying blind. But which B2B analytics platforms are best equipped for certain types of measurement? And especially when a marketer is focused on down-funnel results, which optimization practices can help to achieve those revenue goals and KPIs?
We'll discuss nine methods that B2B analytics can be used to optimize marketing strategies. All of these optimizations rely on accurate, granular data that serves to educate marketers' decision-making practices.
Marketing automation platforms often provide some sort of lead scoring feature. This is an algorithmic value that can fall within a specified numeric continuum. The more a lead engages with a company's marketing activities (at least those measured within the marketing automation platform) the higher their lead score.
Note: Do keep in mind that these scores are typically only based on user behavior, not necessarily on persona or firmographic fit. For instance, an unqualified lead could spend a lot of time interacting with your content and be associated with a high lead score, even though their firmographics or technographics don't fit your persona profiles. While lead scores are a helpful tool, they're not a foolproof.
When the lead score reaches an agreed-upon value, it will trigger other activities. The lead might be automatically included in a lower-funnel workflow sequence that includes heavier content offers or stronger messaging. Or, it could prompt a sales representative to reach out with a personal email or phone call.
However the company configures their lead scoring paradigms, it's the automation of the process that provides the most benefit. Rather than evaluating readiness on a lead-by-lead basis, lead scores allow the automation system to think for you. This is a prime example of how B2B analytics can make a huge difference within a marketing org.
Landing page conversion rates are far more than just fancy numbers -- they have the ability to reveal strengths and weaknesses and to infer additional needs for optimization.
Let's say you send 100 prospects each to two landing pages, and one page converts at 5% and the other converts at 10%. At the end of the day, the second page will have generated double the leads even though an equal number of prospects viewed both pages.
This is the power of increasing conversion rate -- you don't necessarily have to attract more prospects in order to generate more leads. Hence, you can use landing page conversion rates to prioritize your content offers. If one landing page is yielding significantly lower leads than another, you should consider removing the offer from your marketing workflows or outreach sequences.
Especially if you're sending paid traffic to a low-converting landing page, it would behoove your team to either swap the offer, switch off the campaign, or make changes to the page that could/will increase conversion.
By making necessary changes based on actionable B2B analytics data, you're allowing the numbers to make you money.
In the previous section, we touched on making changes to a page or page element that could/would increase conversion. A/B tests are an excellent systematic method by which to accomplish this. There are numerous ways to create and run A/B tests, but at its most basic level, marketers create two versions of the same page and send traffic to both pages. After a set period of time, or when the page reaches a certain traffic number, the conversion rates are analyzed to see which page generated better results.
By changing isolated variables one at a time, you're able to create a page that converts at the highest rate possible. It may take more time to test variables one at a time, but it's well worth the patience and effort in the end. A systematic method for running these tests includes the formation of an A/B test hypothesis -- which Optimizely explains in fuller detail in their article.
Also, you can run A/B tests on more than just landing pages -- check out this comprehensive, detailed article from Optimizely on 71 things to A/B test.
Up to this point in our discussion, we've talked about how B2B analytics can impact top and middle funnel activities -- how they can generate more leads, or optimize the process of marketing & sales outreach. B2B analytics also have a deeper and more impactful function when applied to all stages of the marketing funnel.
As the trend toward revenue marketing continues (the idea that marketers are equally responsible for bottom-line impact as their sales team), full-funnel touchpoint tracking has become a key and coveted ability for B2B marketing teams. Full-funnel touchpoint tracking is the ability for a B2B analytics platform to assimilate the granular behavioral activities of individual users from the top to the bottom of the funnel.
If an analytics platform can follow the exact buying journey of a prospect (which ads, clicks, keywords, emails, content, landing pages, outbound calls, events, etc.) were responsible for moving a customer through the funnel, it has incredible optimization potential. B2B marketers can see precisely which activities generated leads, opps, and revenue (and which ones didn't). This type of B2B analytics answers a marketer's most pressing question -- what's working?
The most powerful, comprehensive tool for this job is advanced B2B marketing attribution that provides net new data tracking at a touchpoint level. For the remainder of the discussion, the optimization tasks we examine will be based on this type of full funnel tracking capabilities.
Most B2B marketers choose to optimize their paid search keyword bids based on click-through rate and lead conversion. However, granular touchpoint-level tracking solutions (like B2B marketing attribution) can track a website visitor from their first click through their entire funnel experience. So, a paid media manager can optimize their keyword bids on down-funnel conversion data.
When evaluating results based on these full-funnel B2B analytics, marketers often make unexpected discoveries. A common example is when a given keyword has a lower CTR or lead conversion rate, but it actually generates higher quality leads that prove more likely to convert to opportunities and revenue -- ultimately adding to the bottom line.
By looking at the down-funnel conversion data of top-of-funnel activities (like keyword bids) marketers can see whether they're only paying for clicks, or whether they're actually paying for customers. As Matt Heinz from Heinz marketing likes to say -- you can't buy a beer with a lead.
Win rate is easily one of the most exciting metrics. While leads, MQLs, and opps still have a long journey ahead of them, win rates represent actual closed revenue. As such, the win rate metric can be used to optimize campaigns and activities targeted toward opportunities.
Ad campaigns, email workflows, direct mailers, outbound calls, and other activities can be directly compared against the win rates affected by those activities. This is a simple task when you're equipped with the right B2B analytics tools, such as B2B marketing attribution. Each touchpoint caused by one of these down-funnel activities is represented in the overall customer journey, so revenue credit is attributed accordingly.
Revenue analytics track all touchpoint (both online and offline) directly to revenue and show how those activities contributed to the bottom line. In the case of events, these conferences, trade shows, and field marketing ops are huge investments, so it's critical to show direct revenue impact. While events can generate huge numbers of leads, it's questionable whether or not those leads are qualified, or have reliable potential to become customers.
As a result, revenue marketers can use B2B analytics to justify good event sponsorships and rule out options that haven't proven to generate enough ROI. For example, our team at Bizible ran this analysis after we attended a large set of events in 2016. This year, we've considerably limited our sponsorships, and you can read more about why.
While lead-to-account mapping is primarily useful for account-based marketers, even demand generators can see significant benefits from using B2B analytics to organize their leads according to an account. Especially when leads are handed over to the sales team, if the representative can see that four key personas at the company have engaged with marketing initiatives (ads, content, emails, etc) they can optimize their plan for sales outreach. However, if sales reps are separately contacting leads who sit next to each other, it's often a waste of everyone's time.
And, if your team is implementing an account-based marketing strategy, mapping leads to their accounts are a huge part of the process moving forward. For more information about lead-to-account mapping in Salesforce, download this step-by-step guide that outlines both the technical and strategic requirements necessary to make the switch.
Predictive account engagement scoring is an algorithmic metric generated by advanced B2B analytics platforms that support ABM orchestration. Predictive analytics take past engagement patterns and assign a score to that account. The score helps marketers and salespeople predict the best time for further outreach. In essence, (much like a lead score) the predictive account engagement score can serve to trigger marketing or sales activities.
To learn more about these types of predictive B2B analytics, you can take a look at this article. Or, to understand more about comprehensive ABM orchestration strategy, check out this ebook.
Advanced, B2B marketing attribution solutions can also offer forecasting analytics that help to predict future performance based on past data. These analytics features can help marketers reliably reach their goals and accurately predict future spends and the associated return on investment. This is one of the most complex forms of forecasting because it relies heavily on accurate data that follows very specific modeling structures.
For more information about how to use these types of forecasting analytics, take a look at this post about How To Forecast Revenue, Hit Revenue Goals, And Look Smart In B2B Marketing.


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Bromley council could lose £1.23million warns Lib Dem candidate
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Julie Ireland complained of "complacency" at Bromley Council
Bromley could potentially lose more than £1million from a government bonus if it fails to provide a local plan.
The council has been consulting on the local plan, which all councils across the country have been asked to make, since 2013.
The government is currently considering proposals that councils who have failed to provide a local plan by early 2017, could lose out on a new homes bonus.
If approved, Bromley could lose out on its £1.23million bonus.
The local plan was set up for planning authorities to map out the future objectives of an area.
The plan can be made up of more than one document, as it aims to guide the development of the borough including residential and commercial aspects.
More than 80 per cent of councils have published a plan, but as Bromley continues consultations, one Lib Dem campaigner has branded the council as "complacent".
Julie Ireland, Bexley and Bromley's Lib Dem London Assembly candidate, said: "Local residents are furious that while the council is cutting services that we depend on, councillors are too complacent to get a local plan together.
"And now it looks like their complacency will cost us money.
"They've been consulting for years now, what have they got to hide?"
Councillor Peter Morgan, executive councillor for renewal and recreation said: "Councillors and officers have been working for many months on the new plan.
"The Government has asked us to deliver it by 2017 and we are confident of meeting this.
"The first round of consultation was in 2013, the options and preferred strategy, then in 2014, the draft policies and designations, which included a call for sites, an invitation for people to put forward sites for development and most recently, the draft allocations and further polices and designations consultation.
"This occurred last autumn with the plan to publish the draft local plan for formal consultation later this year followed by submission to the secretary of state.
"We shall then be in the hands of the planning inspectorate and expect to have an adopted plan in the 2017 which is within the government's timetable.
"Thus we do not expect to lose any money."
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The wind howled through the crack in the window pane, and a crackle of lightning illuminated the room as a cat hissed and fled from the encroaching storm. There was spilled Diet Dr. Pepper on the large cardboard box filled with retro video games, temporarily framed by the flash from the approaching storm. Actually, none of that happened. I just wanted to begin this tale with an over dramatic intro. Everything else here is factual, though.
I was filled with self disgust as I feverishly cleaned up the very small spill which I was sure would get me labelled as "that guy" by the employee who would have to go through the box later on and tell me what pittance they would bring for trade in. We all know who "that guy" is, the disgusting loser who at the age of 35 is trading in over a decade's worth of gaming detritus so he could justify getting a new console that was clearly manufactured with a younger, more attractive audience in mind. Of course I thought I was that guy, but I didn't want anyone else to recognize that fact. So I checked every single game to make sure there was no telltale brown dot of diet soda that would out me as a loser. That was my mindset as I left my condo.
I noticed a special for 50% extra trade in value for any game turned into toward a new Nintendo Switch game. So that is why I was digging through my mostly disc-only collection of rag tag Dreamcast games. These were thrift store and garage sale games from the banner years of 2006-2008. Back when you could get Dreamcast games for $4 each and games that would go on to be well out of my price range were $20 at most in the game stores. These were games that I carefully resurfaced when I had access to a disk cleaner and put into generic heavy plastic cases designed for archives. As I was digging through my collection I discovered that I had far more than I realized. Here was a random motorcycle game I had found in a junk CD pile at a flea market. Here was a copy of Silver I found randomly in a thrift store. Here was a forgotten stack of Dreamcast demo discs.
I would keep most of my Dreamcast games of course. How could I give away the copy of Powerstone 2 I got for $3 from a stack of PlayStation games, or my thrift store complete copy of Dynamite Cop 2? However, I couldn't justify the vast collection of VMUs I owned and the multiple copies of games that I knew I would never get around to playing.
The trade in incentive was less money than I would have gotten from selling games on eBay (with the exception of the VMUs). But, let me give you a couple of examples of recent eBay transactions I had to deal with. I had sold a perfect condition copy of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance for the Nintendo Gamecube. I shipped the disk in one of the aforementioned hard plastic archive disk cases. The buyer claimed it didn't work and eventually returned it. In an envelope...without the case. I had recently also tried to sell some mint condition Xbox 360 games. The buyer informed me that they were broken and dirty. When I refunded his money he then informed me that he didn't have a proper PayPal account and that he wanted me to refund his debit card directly. That isn't something I can do through eBay since he used a PayPal account to transfer the money through a debit card not attached to the PayPal account. After you sell stuff online you start to wonder why PayPal and eBay have strange rules such as allowing a PayPal user to have multiple eBay accounts.
With that in mind you can understand why I would rather lose 30% more "potential" money by trading the games into GameStop for credit.
As I proceeded to walk into GameStop I was greeted warmly, and the person who started trading in my games seemed legitimately pleased to have a break from asking people for pre-orders. It was a lengthy process and the computer software he was using was clearly harder to work with than the website I had used to look up all the games in the box. I had low-balled myself in terms of how much credit I was going to get. Almost all the games and accessories were taken. Tragedy struck as a computer error stopped the process and a manager had to restart the computer. Luckily my trade in info was saved but I had to ask why the amount was lower than expected. It turns out that the computer didn't recognize most of the retro game trade ins as part of the 50% deal. The manager returned and fixed that issue as well.
I pre-ordered Mario for $5. (I will have to make sure that I remember to cancel that. Due to the weird management at GameStop the employees encouraged me to do it. It apparently doesn't matter if people actually buy the game. Management just cares about people pre-ordering. Maybe that sort thinking contributed to 50% of GameStops shutting down).
My total amount of Credit was over $300. There was no Switch in stock at that time. So I still carry a gift card around with me.
That box literally contained the detritus of my collection. I can't imagine the hours I wasted driving to thrift stores and looking around dusty shelves for some of that stuff. On one hand it saved my sanity when I was at my lowest point, on the other hand I gave up other activities that would have been more enriching than what is in these boxes. And my living room is still stacked to the ceiling with boxes of video games. I still have the hard work of trying to let go of more of this stuff. Most of the Dreamcast games I have left I will keep for retro video games at the public library and tournaments, but the bulk of my collection needs to be sold and considering the outrageous prices right now it should be easier than it is. One thing that keeps me going is selling to someone who is legitimately excited about what they are getting. One person profusely thanked me after buying the Philips CD-i I found in a thrift store back corner, and I found that oddly touching.
Do I suggest that anyone else take advantage of a similar deal and sell your Dreamcast games and VMUs? I can't imagine that there are many collections out there like mine that were bought so dirt cheap. If you happen to have as many capless VMUs as I did then yes you should do the right thing and trade them in. They are $6 new on eBay right now. There is no reason to be "that guy" and have a box of VMUs in your condo like I did.
Yeah I really obsessed over getting garage sales and thrift stores for a bunch of years.
The Dreamcast stuff I use for tournaments and events are used frequently but my collection needs to be seriously trimmed down.


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In 1865, Britain and Bhutan signed the Treaty of Sinchulu, under which Bhutan would receive an annual subsidy in exchange for ceding some border land to British India. Under British influence, a monarchy was set up in 1907. A treaty was signed whereby the British agreed not to interfere in Bhutanese internal affairs and Bhutan allowed Britain to direct its foreign affairs. This role was assumed by independent India after 1947.
The first local stamps were issued for Bhutan in 1953 and the first internationally recognized Bhutan stamps appeared in 1962. Bhutan stamps are noticeable for their innovation of three-dimensional stamps and stamps as CD Rom disks. Innovation from coin stamps to exotic designs and embossed stamps were the work of early philatelic pioneer promoters and have been accepted in the collecting community.
Fantastic designs and innovations including all the topical stamps for Disney stamps, aircraft stamps, butterfly stamps, records as stamps, dog stamps and so many other themes predominate Bhutan philately.
Bhutan stamps are hard to obtain and new issues must be bought from the post office in Phimthu or through dealers.
To see the latest Bhutan new stamp issues please see the New Issue Listings at Herrick Stamp Company website.


Here is a game where AFC Wimbledon will have their work cut out to breach the defence of this Burton Albion team who we think might score one, at least. Our tip is therefore for a very competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Burton Albion when the referee blows for full-time. Looking forward to watching this one unfold. Our predictions, user poll and statistics for AFC Wimbledon v Burton Albion can be found here - as well as the best betting odds.
While we have made these predictions for AFC Wimbledon v Burton Albion for this match preview with the best of intentions, no profits are guaranteed. Always gamble responsibly, and with what you can afford to lose. Best of luck with your selections.


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Aditi Rao Hydari And Beau Siddharth Were Spotted Outside A Mumbai Hotel
On Siddharth's birthday on October 28, Aditi shared a love-filled post.
Aditi kept her look simple with black denim and a sleeveless top. She rounded off her look with effortless hair and black shades.
Actress Aditi Rao Hydari is rumoured to be dating Siddharth of Rang De Basanti fame. The lovebirds are often spotted together. Earlier this week, Siddharth and Aditi Rao Hydari were seen stepping out from a hotel in Mumbai. The paparazzi spotted the two and started clicking pictures of them presumably after their date. Aditi kept her look simple with black denim and a sleeveless top. She rounded off her look with effortless hair and black shades. Siddharth opted for a casual look with a blue T-shirt and jeans.
On Siddharth's birthday on October 28, Aditi shared a love-filled post. The Bhoomi actress wrote "Happy birthday my pixie boy. To always chase dreams and unicorns! Always be magic, mad, and full of laughter. Always be you. Thank you for the unending laughter and adventures! You better know how loved you are Mmmmmmmmmmmwah (sic)."
Siddharth became upset earlier this year when the media tried to take pictures of him just as Aditi was leaving a Bandra salon. He has said, "All of these bother me. I am not from here. Arriving at this site. I'll be very polite when I say that I don't like everything and that I'm not from around here. Come over here. Photos of locals are taken by you. Next time, I won't be so courteous."
It is said Siddharth and Aditi started dating after meeting on the set of their movie Maha Samundram last year. The Ajay Bhupathi film also starred Sharwanand in a prominent role.
Aditi Rao Hydari and Siddharth haven't confirmed their relationship yet. Last year, the duo was spotted together at the wedding of Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa in Chandigarh.
The last time we saw Aditi Rao Hydari on the big screens was in the Tamil movie Hey Sinamika. She is currently shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming Heeramandi Netflix series. Aditi will feature in the silent movie Gandhi Talks. Arvind Swami, Vijay Sethupathi, and Kishore P. Beleka are part of the dark comedy, an AR Rahman musical. In 2023, Gandhi Talks will be made available to fans.
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This story is of resilience, patience, entrepreneurial spirit and hard work in the face of betrayal and heartbreak. This is about the daughter of a renowned Pakistani film-maker MA Rasheed – Rafia Rasheed; who is forced to run a roadside food stall to support herself, her only daughter and grandson.
Via Diva Magazine
From a glamorous and comfortable life of riches to a life of struggle!
Rafia at the age of 55 runs a Dhaba near Islamabad, struggling to make ends meet. What happened to the daughter of a famous director and writer, who changed the Pakistani film industry for the better? Rafia explains how beautiful her life was when her father was alive. She was the most loved among her siblings and always stayed by her father's side. However, soon things went from bad to worse, after his death.
"Maybe this was my fate"
She recalled, saying, "Maybe this was in my fate. Or maybe it's just a phase. But when I was a baby, my father was the king of the Pakistani film industry. The name MA Rasheed was like a golden ticket for aspiring actors. And I clearly remember the days I would visit him on film sets and the greatest producers, directors and actors Lollywood has ever seen would carry me around on their shoulders,"
"I used to be a wealthy lady. But the fact is that now, I am on the roads. I am not begging, though. I'm the daughter of a big man and prefer to sell food to earn a living, even though it is anything but easy."
'Money' destroyed everything.
After the passing of MA Rasheed, Rafia's siblings changed and soon, left her on her own devices. There have been so many cases in Pakistan, where siblings even take each other's lives over property disputes. Her hardships were just beginning after her only daughter was diagnosed with a bi-polar disorder, life became difficult; as she started to run out of money for her diagnosis. After exhausting all her savings, she now has to run a humble stall, to keep a roof over her head and food on her table.
Via Samaa TV
Rafia's appeal to PM Imran Khan and other party leaders.
In an interview with a local news channel, she requested Imran Khan for better loan policies for people in their 50's. In addition, she also asked to focus on mental-health treatment and facilitate all the patients who cannot afford a decent treatment and are reduced to mad-men, especially women; as their dignities come in danger since they are not in their sound minds and mindlessly walk around on roads with no one to take care of them.
Listen to her amazing life story and mission in her own words.
Rafia Rasheed; A Visionary.
She spoke about her goal in life. Speaking about a shelter and rehabilitation center for the mentally ill, she said if she ever managed to gather enough money, she would open a center where mentally-challenged women and children will be cared for.
Ending her interview, she left a message for all the women struggling to find the courage to step out in this society and earn a dignified liveliood. Pakistan has many examples of women who are forced to fend for themselves and family; one such example is that of a mother in Lahore who disguises herself as a man, running an almost-empty shop.
We hope Rafia Rasheed's request reaches the ears of the leaders of Pakistan and they devise policies that assist the needy of this nation.
Categories: Must read, Pakistan, Social Issues


Trusted travel deals website, Simply Holiday Deals, has released an infographic highlighting the notorious hotspots for London's pickpockets.
Compiling information and statistics from The Telegraph, Transport For London, Metropolitan Police Service and British Transport Police, the Simply Holiday Deals infographic, found at http://simplyholidaydeals.co.uk/travel-blog/beware-londons-top-tube-stations-for-pickpockets-infographic/, reveals that King's Cross St Pancras station is the worst spot for London tube station thefts. Between January 2015 and February 2016 alone, passengers reported 215 pickpocketing crimes.
Other hotspots for crime include Victoria Station, Oxford Circus and Liverpool Street, further emphasising the need for travellers and local commuters to remain vigilant with their belongings.
Statistics advise that the average value of each crime is over £400 and that women are more likely to be targeted than men. Further to that, passengers are more likely to be pickpocketed at the end of the work week, on Fridays.
Following a complete rundown of alarming statistics, the infographic provides detailed instructions for beating pickpockets. These include installing tracker applications, best practices for monitoring belongings and where to report a crime.
"We have seen British staycations grow in popularity due to many factors, including the weakening pound and terrorism threats throughout the world," said Brian Jones, Managing Director of Simply Holiday Deals.
Simply Holiday Deals, http://simplyholidaydeals.co.uk/, is a comprehensive online travel destination, providing UK members with the best holiday deals from across the web, holiday guides and up-to-date travel advice.


The development began last August with the installation of purpose build beginner, improver and family slopes. This first phase was completed in November 2016.
The second phase of the development, due to begin in September 2017, will see the construction of the purpose built ski centre building which will provide an improved café and catering offer for the public.
The centre will remain open as usual during the redevelopment.
The centre now attracts over 30,000 visitors every year who come here to get lessons and practice their skiing techniques. We also host corporate adventure and team building days and so it's vital we have high quality facilities to give the public the best possible experience.
Ski Rossendale plays a vital part in attracting visitors from outside the borough into Rossendale bringing with them revenue and helping to create jobs. The facility also further enhances Rossendale's reputation as 'Adrenaline Valley', where families, groups and thrill seekers can come to try something new, learn new skills or just have fun.
We are supportive of the continued development of the Ski Rossendale site.