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This Summer the family split off in different directions. Shaun finished off backpacking in Europe, while Jay was in Corning, New York doing a summer internship and hanging out on the Finger Lakes with his good friend Miller. We headed to St. Thomas to visit Rajjina's brothers and their families. Both her brothers are making an effort to make St. Thomas their hideaway from the hustle and bustle of NYC. We spent a great deal of time their paddle boarding, diving, golfing and doing some nice hikes on St. Thomas and St. John's. It's a beautiful spot with great weather year round and plenty to keep you occupied.
When we came back from St. Thomas, we celebrated Shaun's 18th and Grandma's 85th birthday. She is still keeping mentally sharp and still has a lot to teach the boys. Shaun was getting ready to go to college in Chicago, and his friend Brett and cousin Jeremy visited him for a week as a final celebration prior to heading off to school. This was part of his weeklong 18th birthday celebration. A week later, Grandma had a special dinner at our favorite Thai restaurant with many of her friends ("The Card Party") in attendance.


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The development of a country can be visualized and judged by various parameters, out of which, one is construction and infrastructure. The living standard of people has been showing the progress of the country, that is why there is more focus on this sector. That is why Bahria Town is playing a key role in the development of Pakistan, by providing world-class facilities to its residents. It is the place which is developed following the international standard and building codes.
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As far as, sizes of plots are concerned, almost all the sizes are available in Bahria Town Karachi. One of the most demanding ones is 125 square yard plots, they are mostly demanded by families consisting of four to five members. For this range of plot size, Ali town is also known as Precinct 12. The location of this zone is very ideal, as it is situated only 8 to 10 kilometers away from the main gate. It is an ideal opportunity both for residential and investment purposes. It is one of the most heightened precincts of Bahria Town Karachi. Opposite it, there is a Main Jinnah road, while on the front, precinct 14 and 15 is there.
Upside Ali Block, London Bridge is there, and after crossing it Bahria Golf city is there. While its left side is occupied by precinct 11A and Bahria Hills are present. This is the brief geographical location of Ali Block, making it the most appropriate location for living.
The Present Situation of this Block:
Right now, so many people are constructing their luxury houses there. Some of them are keeping them while many are selling them at much higher rates, sale and purchase of plots are also happening there. The construction work has been getting momentum. Everyday construction of two to three houses start. And those houses that have been fully developed, are being sold and purchased.
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One of the main advantage of this block that it is situated on heights, that is making distinct from others. And more importantly, the new campus of Iqra University has been inaugurated just a few miles away from this block. Thus it will be a great opportunity for residents of this town, they do not have to move too far areas to get an education.
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Rates for the plots in Ali Block can experience a raise because of the Iqra University campus. Especially the residential villas as people who need the facility of university will always prefer home near to the campus. The normal range of plots in Ali Block is varying from 3.5 Million Pakistani rupees to 5 Million Rupees. In some cases, the price can go beyond this limit, as in the in the case of corner plot or of the plat present along the main road. This price is for the 125 square yard plots, while for 250 square yards plots may be available in approximately 4O to 50 hundred thousand Rupees. It should be noted here that 125 square yard plots are present in height while 250 square yards are on the level of Main Jinnah.
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The Antonio Gramsci house is in the historic centre of Ghilarza, a city of about 4,500 residents in the mid-valley of the Tirso River in the Oristano Province, in the historic and geographic sub-region of Guilcer.
Antonio Gramsci lived here from the age of 7 to 20 years, 1898 to 1911. He was born in Ales, in the Province of Cagliari, on 22 January 1891. After a few months, his family moved to Sorgono and then to Ghilarza, the town his mother, Peppina Marcias, was from. After elementary school, from 1905 to 1911, Antonio attended first the junior secondary school at Santu Lussurgiu, then the senior secondary school in Cagliari.
He would return home often, from Santu Lussurgiu every Sunday and less frequently from Cagliari. He always spent his summers at Ghilarza. At age 20, in the autumn of 1911, he left for Turin, where he had been awarded a scholarship that allowed him to attend the University, where he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters. He returned again to Ghilarza during the summers of 1912 and 1913, and then for two short visits in 1920 and 1924. From his move to Turin until the end of his life – he died at 46 – he lived in furnished rooms, hotels, hospitals, pensions and jail cells. This house in Ghilarza was the only real home he ever had.
The property was then owned by Grazia Delogu, Antonio's mother's unmarried stepsister. During his childhood and adolescence, ten people lived in this house: his aunt Grazia, his father Francesco, his mother Peppina and the seven children: Gennaro, Grazietta, Emma, Antonio, Mario, Teresina and Carlo.
The house was built in the early years of the nineteenth century of basalt, a volcanic rock often used in houses typical of central Sardinia. Of a simple and dignified appearance, it consists of two storeys, with the only decorative element on the front being the balcony and its wrought iron railings.
The interior, which has been well preserved, has 6 bedrooms, 3 on the ground level and 3 on the upper level, and is now used as a museum. The connection between the two storeys is still a stairway in its initial position, and the series of rooms remains almost entirely faithful to their original use as living quarters. In the rear courtyard, which still has its cobblestones with flower beds marked off with stones and tiles, there is a small building called the sa 'omo 'e su forru (the oven house).
Renovation measures that were done over time did not much alter the structure of the property, which as a whole has kept its original appearance.
The house, the city of Ghilarza and the surrounding area were, for Antonio Gramsci, places full of memory and affection to which he returned many times with notes of aching homesickness. These environments were described in Letters from Prison and Prison Notebooks or in the records by his early biographers.
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Spotify, SoundCloud, and the Race Up the Value Chain
It's no secret that the music industry is a tough nut to crack. Spotify, Soundcloud, and a host of other music industry startups all struggle to reach profitability despite their vast consumer networks. Spotify has a staggering 70 million subscribers to its service, and yet it still has a cost of revenue of 79%. For every dollar of revenue it makes on its subscription fees, it has to pay 79% of that to record labels (and other assorted costs). This is in large part due to the price setting power of music suppliers. Compared to other aggregators Spotify has to pay far more for its content and has much less negotiating power. Netflix is at a cost of revenue of only ~66% and Zillow has been able to strong-arm its suppliers (Multiple Listing Services) into submission because of their fragmented nature. Spotify, on the other hand, takes virtually all of its supply from only 3 firms; Warner, Sony, and Universal. These firms have huge negotiating power and only recently have generously re-signed their contracts with Spotify to reduce its costs. This type of generosity cannot be relied on forever, however, and eventually Spotify will have to revolt if it wants to see profitability.
A Brief Primer on Internet Aggregation Markets
To understand the position that Spotify is currently in it will help to look at the general trajectory many similar markets have followed over the course of the internet boom. Over time the internet breaks down traditional barriers to competition by democratizing key business processes.
Over time markets disrupted by the internet tend towards perfect competition. This does not mean that a market will touch every stepping stone but that rent-seeking behavior becomes more difficult to defend.
The travel industry and AirBNB show a good example of this. The travel lodging industry was in a phase of monopolistic competition for decades. Ultimately what AirBNB did was to democratize the supply power of these hotels and unlock vast amounts of wasted value. While this industry is not quite in perfect competition the rise of AirBNB significantly moved the industry to the right of the chart.
The music industry is currently in an oligopolistic phase because its source of pricing power has not yet become decentralized. Where AirBNB disrupted the pricing power of traditional hotels by dumping huge amounts of supply onto the market, Spotify will have to find a way to democratize the core functions of record labels, or simply become one themselves.
Spotify interestingly enough had previously been in talks to acquire SoundCloud near the end of 2016. The reason these talks broke down is that Spotify thought it may negatively impact its IPO listing by angering the record labels. Ultimately it seems that Spotify timed this perfectly. They recently negotiated a deal to reduce their costs, and are planning on completing their listing in 2018. This financial positioning gives Spotify the leeway to start to make a run at real profitability. There are a number of ways they could go about this:
Copy Netflix — Netflix is competing with content producers directly by developing its own shows. Spotify could take this approach by essentially creating its own record label. Frankly I don't know if this is possible. Record labels are protected in the same way insurance companies are, risk pooling. Record labels sign artists up front and pay them significant amounts of money for rights to future profits, which is why every deal is risky. This fact makes it quite difficult to simply 'break into' the record label market, though Spotify's vertical integration may be the final piece of the puzzle.
Diversify — Spotify has discussed simply branching out into other, more profitable forms of content distribution such as podcasts and audio books. This would leverage Spotify's huge user base successfully, but also has limited scope. If Spotify were to break even on all of its music distribution it would be a massive lost opportunity and ultimately signify a surrender to the record labels. I think this is the most likely possibility, because as of yet we have seen little to no bold strategic positioning by Spotify.
Acquire SoundCloud — This is my favorite of the possibilities if for no other reason than how audacious it is. Bear with me because it may seem a bit farfetched, but realistically it is the only way I see Spotify ever skimming an ounce of sustainable profit from the music industry. To truly achieve profitability Spotify has no choice but to get rid of the record labels. As mentioned before becoming a record label is unlikely, so I instead propose an AirBNB-esque democratization of the music industry.
Soundcloud and the Democratization of Record Labels
Soundcloud is in a unique position in the music industry. Its value proposition really doesn't have anything to do with aggregation like Netflix or Spotify, instead it seems to be this odd oasis of free music. This has been costly to Soundcloud, and it seems they have no route to major profitability alone. They do however possess a significantly undervalued network effect that has yet to be leveraged, musicians. This is the key to unlocking decentralization of the music industry that Spotify has been looking for. The insight here is that musicians are far more powerful than content creators on other networks. Netflix can replicate cool TV shows by making their own. You can't engineer musicians in the same way (or at least it has yet to be done). Record labels don't make their own content, they mooch content created by musicians and provide ancillary services that musicians don't know how to perform themselves. With this network of music creators that Soundcloud has, they are only one step away from creating their own AirBNB, all they need is to add record label professionals to the platform.
If Soundcloud were to create a network of support professionals to allow individual contracts to be inked between service providers and musicians directly, this would make life easier for everyone. Low overhead in contracts, more individual service provider freedom to choose acts they personally enjoy, and fewer restrictions on artists in the form of creative control. Unfortunately this may have the added side effect of reducing negotiating power of musicians, which is why it's a good thing that Spotify has competition in Apple Music.
The fact of the matter here is that Spotify is one of the least profitable aggregators of the new internet age. Like all of its predecessors (Zillow, Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, etc.) it will eventually have to make the move into producing its own content or be destined to a life of mediocrity. I think the best way of doing that is to acquire Soundcloud and upend the record label business, but a far safer solution would be to simply diversify their content. We will see which pill Spotify ultimately decides to swallow.
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Bangbae-dong is a dong, or neighbourhood of the greater Gangnam area Seocho-gu district of the South Korean city of Seoul. Bangbae-dong is divided into 5 different dongs which are Bangbaebon-dong, Bangbae 1-dong, 2-dong, 3-dong and 4-dong. The origin of Bangbae-dong is derived from the name Bangbae, meaning "dong-ri with my back to Mt. Myeon-ri," which rises on the border between Gwanak-gu and Seocho-gu. Bangbae-dong was Bangbae-ri, Sangbuk-myeon, Gwacheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do until the end of the Joseon Dynasty, but became Bangbae-ri, Sindong-myeon, Siheung-gun, Gyeonggi-do in 1914 when the area was confirmed during the Japanese colonial period. It was incorporated into the Seoul Metropolitan Government following the expansion of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's zone in 1963, and became Bangbae-dong to this day. The location is Dong at the western end of Seocho-gu, and it is an area from the intersection of the road from Seoul to Gwacheon City and the southern circulation road to Umyeon Mountain.

Education
 High Schools
 Seoul Electronic High School
 Dongdeok Women's High School
 Sangmun High School
 Suhmoon Girls' High School
 Middle Schools
 Dongdeok Women's Middle School
 Suhmoon Girls' Middle School
 Isu Middle School
 Elementary Schools
 Bangbae Elementary School
 Banghyeon Elementary School
 Bangil Elementary School
 Isu Elementary School
 Seorae Elementary School

Transportation
 Bangbae Station of
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 Naebang Station of
 Isu Station of  and of

See also
Administrative divisions of South Korea

References

Neighbourhoods of Seocho District

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The start of a new year is an exciting time for new beginnings for every family, and it is particularly special for those who earn the distinction of "Baby New Year."
The team members and medical staff at T.J. Samson Community Hospital are delighted to welcome the first baby of 2021, Jessie Sloan Turner. She was born at 6:25am on January 2nd, weighing 6 pounds and 10 ounces and was delivered by Dr. Malisha Baldwin. Jessie is the daughter of Kailey and Jake Turner of Burkesville.
The family was presented with a gift and balloons from the T.J. Gift Shop, and they will receive a case of diapers every month for a year from the hospital. They also received a $75 gift certificate provided by Edmonton State Bank
Jessie arrived four weeks ahead of her due date, and she is the firstborn child of Kailey and Jake.
"This is such a special and exciting event, and we are delighted to celebrate with this family," said Neil Thornbury, CEO of T.J. Regional Health. "Jessie will always be able to say that she was the first baby of 2021 at T.J.!"
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The gem of this great effort by Josiah Bancroft is that you have no idea what to expect. I will not spoil the narrative of the yarn with spoilers, all I can say is prepare for an imaginative roller-coaster. Or should I say steam-roller?
Senlin Ascends starts slow, continues on with a simple task, drops a quoll in a pit of vipers, picks up the pace with alarming alacrity and then leaves you wondering…wait? What?
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Lyla Wilder is done being the shy, chemistry nerd extraordinaire. So she creates a "College Bucket List" with item #7 being a night of uninhibited, mind-blowing sex...But she needs some help from her man-whore best friend
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Lyla Wilder is done being the shy, chemistry nerd extraordinaire. While every other college student is out having fun, Lyla is studying. With her cat. Well, she's played it "safe" quite enough, thank you. So she creates a "College Bucket List"?with item #7 being a night of uninhibited, mind-blowing sex…
But she needs some help from her man-whore best friend.
Hockey player Beck Davenport thought Lyla's transformation would be subtle. Man, was he wrong. With every item she ticks off, Beck finds himself growing seriously hot for his sweet, brainiac best friend. And if he's not careful, he'll end up risking their friendship in order to convince Lyla that he might just be her lucky #7…
"I laughed until I cried, and I swooned until I fell in love. With a hero who is a true hero and a heroine you'll want to be friends with, Cindi Madsen has written one of the best New Adult romances of the year."- Megan Erickson, author of the Bowler University series
"Cindi Madsen's Lyla and Beck are witty, sweet and lovable. Getting Lucky Number Seven is one of the most refreshing and heartfelt New Adult romances that I've come across. Love it to pieces." - Lia Riley, Author of Upside Down
"I laughed, I teared up, and there was definitely swooning involved. Getting Lucky Number Seven had me reading late into the night, unable to put the book down. And sexy, hockey player Beck! Need I say more?" - Stina Lindenblatt, author of Tell Me When
Whitney Porter is done with men. She's focusing on her first assignment at the college newspaper: Posing as a sports writer for an exposé on the extra perks jocks receive. But Hudson Decker, the bad boy of the hockey team, is about to test her no-sex rule...
I just met the girl of my dreams. Megan Davenport is funny and smart, and she's as much of an insomniac as I am. She's also my team captain's little sister, which I only found out after our passionate kiss......
Confession #1:I used to be a puck bunny.
But after a hockey player broke my heart, I gave up all things hockey. Unfortunately, if I want to graduate college, I'll need the help of Ryder "Ox" Maddox—my sexy, hockey-playing tutor. The closer...
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Release Date: Apr 28, 2015
Imprint: embrace
Genre: contemporary, new adult, sports romance
Tropes: friends to lovers, ugly duckling
By Chelsea ❤Peril Please❤ February 21, 2018
I couldn't even talk to my best friend about the guy I was having sex with. Because, silly me, I'd gone and made them the same person.
Ya know, once again I'm plagued by the reviews stating this is the same old same old, there's nothing new, it's cliché, etc…and yet again I find this to b ...more
By Didi May 14, 2015
I really liked this, it was a combo of sweet and serious that never became over-dramatic or overly angsty. It did have some emotional angst but with the subject being friends to lovers, it's expected. I thought Beck was a great guy. He was so supportive and accepting of Lyla when almost everyone was ...more
By Mandy April 19, 2015
4.5 stars! I really enjoyed this story! Lyla and Beck have been best friends ever since they met in a chemistry class. Beck is a popular hockey player who doesn't really do relationships and Lyla is a nerd who dresses in layers and covers herself up. After a night out with a sort of blind date who s ...more
By Ash June 30, 2015
It's over already!? this book is super cute!!! and it's definitely a rec for anyone wanting a carefree, lighthearted, silly and beautiful story :) ...more
By Wil Loves Books! November 06, 2016
What an awesome friends to lovers, NA, sports romance! Loved everything about this one! ...more
By Michelle January 25, 2016
ARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review
She's a nerd and has a hot hockey man whore best friend. SOLD!!! So if you love those best friends to lover romance, then I think you might enjoy this sweet and fun book of a young woman crossing off her bucket list of reinventing herself. S ...more
By ✨ Lucy ✨ June 21, 2020
I think this is the third time I read this book, so maybe now is the right time to write a review about it.
It's obvious I loved this book.
it's so much fun seeing how a nerd take the world and shows that she can be a genius but at the same time sexy and breath taking.
I loved the "the college bucket ...more
By Sheryl C. Nash March 07, 2015
*4.5 stars*
Was it wrong that I wanted MORE angst and for Beck to be a BIGGER man-whore/douche???
Review to come...
*ARC courtesy of Netgalley and Entangled Publishing* ...more
By Cyndi December 05, 2018
A cute friends to lovers romance. Our heroine has decided to climb out of her protective shell and discover her sexuality. So she goes to her best friend who happens to be a rich, handsome jock. As someone who was often friend-zoned by the cute guys, I can relate.
After she does the whole make over ...more
By Jamie April 26, 2015
4 Perfect Chemistry Stars!
I really enjoyed this one! A sweet story about a cute nerd girl ready to do things she's never done before and her sexy hockey player best guy friend that's going to help her open and enjoy life.. one bucket list item at a time...
Lyla is kind of a nerd girl.. and she h ...more
By ✦ Maica ✦ August 06, 2018
After being called fugly and boring during a group date, Lyla Wilder has had enough. College is one of the best times of her life and she is done wasting it being the nice girl with the perfect grades and the boring personality. To help with her transformation, she creates a list of things she needs ...more
By Michelle April 28, 2015
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Getting Lucky Number Seven is my favorite kind of new adult contemporary romance. I love the flirty nature of the friends to something more trope, I love the URST, I love nerdy humor, and I love a good colleg ...more
By Ivy May 13, 2016
Lyla Wilder, chemistry major and nerdy awkward girl, is best friends with Beck Davenport, hottie hockey player and closet nerd. Lyla's tired of being seen as just the nerd, and decides to create her own college bucket list of things she wants to do, to be bold and enjoy herself. And Beck's liked her ...more
By Nadine May 12, 2018
I know it's not fair to compare two books but "Getting lucky number seven" reminds me a lot of "The Deal" by Elle Kennedy.
'The Deal' is a all around (nearly) perfect NA novel and a hard competition for every other book in this genre.
'Getting lucky number seven' is a sweet story about a n ...more
By XxTainaxX March 22, 2015
A naughty list and a hot best friend to check off items with. Lyla wants the "college experience" and Beck is just the man to give it to her. This adventure is great. I'm picky with new adult and this one was fun and interesting. Let's just say she makes up for lost time in a spectacular way! ...more
By Valerie April 30, 2015
Here's the thing, I read a lot and it's a new and wonderful thing when a book does something different. Yeah, I love those falling for your best-friend books. Who doesn't but it's almost always about one of the other who's been in love forever with the man/women whore other one. Something happens an ...more
By Nancy❤The❤Bookaholic April 19, 2015
~~4.5 HEARTS~~
Aww this was a great book. I really enjoyed it. Both the hero and heroine were very likable and the story just flowed easily. This is one that I would definitely 're-read'. I did want more though. It did feel like it just ended so suddenly. Overall a solid 4.5 stars. ...more
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Wow, Cindi Madsen just popped me right out of my book reading slump with Getting Lucky Number Seven! Yes this falls under the New Adult genre as these characters are in college but they are more mature than normal college students for different r ...more
By Alyssa May 05, 2015
***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***
Getting Lucky Number Seven by Cindi Madsen
Publisher: Entangled Embrace
Source: Kindle copy bought from Amazon
What's your lucky number?
Lyla Wilder is done being the shy, chemistry ner ...more
By ABookLover73 April 20, 2019
My first friends to lovers book and it was perfect 😊. ...more
By A_Ryan December 27, 2015
A very sweet friends-with-benefits romance filled with humour and warmth.
Lyla and Beck (Beckett) became fast friends after working on a Chemistry Lab assignment together. Their lives were very different. Beck was a hockey star with many secrets and Lyla was an introverted study nerd who loves her c ...more
By Lisa April 26, 2015
Lately I have been getting tired of the same old, overly angsty New Adult Romances...so GETTING LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN was just what I needed to get me out of my funk! With a geek to chic heroine, Lyla and a total book boyfriend in the making, Beck...you will find yourself dazzled by this sweet, emotion ...more
By Jessi May 26, 2015
ARC kindly provided by Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.
This is the perfect friends to lovers story! Becks was everything there is to love about a sexy hunk of a hockey player who falls for his nerdy sweet friend.
Lyla Wilder is your typical nerd. Even though she dresses like a hippie art st ...more
By Maria Rose April 03, 2016
The classic romance trope of sexy athlete and shy nerdy girl is featured in this new adult romance. I loved both characters in the story - Beck is a playboy but a nice guy all around, and his friendship with Lyla is important to him. When she wants to stretch her boundaries by making a so-called buc ...more
By Angie February 19, 2016
I've hit the jackpot lately and read some fantastic books. Oddly enough, every one of them has been in the New Adult genre, which doesn't always click with me since I'm almost 40 years old. This book delightfully fell into the unexpected surprise category. I can't recommend it enough or think of eve ...more
USA Today Best Selling Author
Cindi Madsen is a USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance and young adult novels. She sits at her computer every chance she gets, plotting revising, and falling in love with her characters. Sometimes it makes her a crazy person. Without it, she'd be even crazier. She has way too many shoes, but can always find a reason to buy a new pretty pair, especially if they're sparkly, colorful, or super tall. She loves music, dancing, and wishes summer lasted all year long. She lives in Colorado (where summer is most definitely NOT all year long) with her husband and three children.
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Ever notice that drunk people are, like, the worst whisperers ever? The guys were in the kitchen, getting more drinks and discussing my roommate's nice ass in what I'm sure they thought were hushed tones, while she and her friend, Kristen, were in the hallway behind me, whispering about condoms.
And I was sitting in the middle of the couch, feeling like I totally didn't belong, as usual.
I wished Einstein wasn't a scaredy-cat who'd taken off for my bedroom at the knock on the door. At least then I could pull him onto my lap and keep my hands busy petting him, although I was pretty sure focusing on my adorable gray and white puffball wasn't the kind of thing I should do while on a first date.
When Whitney and Kristen had first burst into the apartment and told me we were going to have a group date tonight, I'd begged off. My research paper comparing generic and brand name drugs wasn't going to write itself. But then Whitney had made a compelling argument.
"Come on, Lyla, you haven't even been out, much less on a date, since your boyfriend dumped you two months ago. It's getting pathetic."
I'd wanted to say that, one, the breakup was mutual and amicable, and two, I'd been out lots of times. Not to parties, or clubs, or bars, or… Okay, so the past several weeks had gotten away from me, but they'd been spent studying, either here, the coffee shop on campus—which was technically out, in my opinion—or the library. Also out. I wasn't pathetic, I had a full course load, and if I didn't get stellar grades, I'd lose my scholarship. But yeah, technically speaking, the dating side of my life was non-existent since Miles and I had broken up over Thanksgiving break, and I could see how that might be the tiniest bit pathetic.
"There are three of them, too," Kristen had added. "It'd be super weird if you weren't here. Don't worry, we'll watch a movie or something, and it'll be totally chill. Nothing to be afraid of."
Afraid—I really hated that word, mostly because it so often drove my decisions. Tried and true were highly
preferable, but more and more, clinging to the familiar made me feel like I was stuck in a rut. Everyone had moved on and changed, including Miles, and I was still the same.
The three boys who showed up at our apartment were cute, although there didn't seem to be much going on between the ears or underneath the muscles. Then again, since my brain had frozen up every time I tried to say anything to Colin, the guy I was supposed to be on a date with, I couldn't really talk. Literally. I use the term "date" loosely, too, since so far there'd only been a lot of drinking with the other two couples cuddling and flirting and me doing the struggling-for-words thing. I had nodding down to a science, though.
Kristin and Whitney erupted in giggles as they stuffed their pockets with condoms they'd retrieved from the bathroom, and then I heard Colin say, "Why'd I get stuck with the fugly, boring one?"
The smile I had plastered on my face turned to glass and cracked. I gripped the cell phone I'd just been checking my assignment to-do list on, the hard case digging into my skin.
"Be nice," one of the guys whispered at a drunken decibel level of stealthiness. "Maybe she'll let you get to second base. Who knows what she's hiding underneath all those clothes? Sometimes the quiet ones are the kinkiest."
Everything inside of me shriveled up and died, and I stared at the coffee table where my notebook and research articles still were, Colin's awful words echoing through my brain. It wasn't the first time I'd been mocked about my clothes or called something less than flattering—"nerd" and "weirdo" had been faux-whispered under breaths as I was passed by in high school halls plenty of times. For some stupid reason, I thought college would be different.
Wasn't this supposed to be where I met mature guys? Where people thought smart was sexy?
I nearly jumped when Colin sat next to me and offered me a cup. "Sure you don't want one?"
A lump rose in my throat, along with tears. Whitney and Kristen were already draped across their dates, tongue-action seconds from recommencing.
"No thanks." I looked down at my phone. "Oh, I'm getting a call. Guess I didn't realize it's on silent. I really should get it." I held it up to my ear. "What? You need me to come get you? Where are—"
My ringtone suddenly blared into my ear, and I dropped my phone. It tumbled slowly, catching in the scarf around my neck for a moment before sliding down my long skirt and clattering against the floor. It continued to vibrate against the hard wood, and I scrambled to pick it up. Hardly anyone called me. I lifted it and stared at the display.
My mom.
Heat flooded my face, and Colin was looking at me with his eyebrows scrunched. Actually, everyone was looking at me with pretty much the same expression.
"I guess the call dropped, but I didn't realize, so…" I lamely gestured at the phone. I couldn't answer and talk to my mom, and I couldn't stay here. "Anyway, I have to go. Sorry."
I grabbed my keys and rushed out the door. The icy Boston air slapped me in the face, reminding me I should've grabbed my coat, but it was too late for that now. As soon as I made it to the safety of my car, tears broke free. It was bad enough to be called fugly and boring, but I, Lyla Wilder, couldn't even make a smooth exit. No, I had to go and take awkward to the next level.
Times like these were when I really missed having a boyfriend who was also slightly awkward. Miles had made me feel normal, and when I was with him, it was easier to ignore insults and to keep from thinking about how few friends I had. I understood why it'd been time to break up—long-distance was just too hard, especially when he and I were both slaves to our studies. I thought about calling him now, just to have a friendly shoulder to cry on, but that'd only make missing him—and the way things used to be—worse.
I glanced at my apartment door on the second floor. Who knows how long they'll be up there? Knowing my roommate and her equally boy-crazy friend, it'd be a while. No way can I go back inside tonight.
Maybe not ever.
Ugh. I am pathetic.
More tears blurred my eyes as I fired up my car and cranked the heater to high. There was only one place I could think of going. I knew it was a long shot that he'd even be home on a Saturday night. And if he were, there was even less of a chance he was alone.
That was the downside of having a friend who also happened to be a hot, man-whore hockey player.
My lips hovered over Monica's as I debated my next move. I'd ignored my ringing phone, because, well, I had my hands full with Monica. The knock on the door wasn't quite as easy to ignore, especially when accompanied by Lyla's voice.
"Beck, are you home? I'm having a bit of an emergency."
As soon as I sat back on the couch, Monica's eyes flashed. "Are you kidding me?"
Was I? Shit, I was as revved up as she was, but what was I supposed to do? Leave Lyla out on my doorstep? When it came to her, "a bit of an emergency" could be that she'd gotten a B, there was a cat in need of saving, or a slasher was after her. She really only spoke in one level, and that was "quiet." "Give me just a sec."
Monica gripped my shirt and ran her tongue over my jaw, which I'm sure she thought was sexy, but left me feeling like I'd been licked by a Labrador. "Don't keep me waiting."
Much-needed cool air hit me as soon as I opened the door. Lyla stood on the walkway, arms wrapped around herself.
She didn't have on a coat, just a long-sleeved shirt and one of her multi-colored scarves. "Hey, I'm kinda busy," I said. "Can we—"
I froze at the sight of her splotchy tear-streaked cheeks. "What happened? Did someone hurt you?"
She shook her head and blew out a white puff of air. "Not physically, anyway."
I glanced from her to Monica, who was draped across the couch, wearing only her bra and jeans. Damn, she was gonna be pissed.
Lyla glanced inside and her eyes went wide. "You're obviously busy—I knew you would be. It's nothing, really. I'll just see you tomorrow for movie night, 'kay?" She turned to go, and I reached out and caught her arm.
"Come on inside." There was no way I could focus now. Sure, it'd only take a few minutes to get back into things with Monica, but I'd worry about Lyla off and on all night. Somewhere along the way, I'd started to feel responsible for her, and if anyone hurt her, I'd personally hunt them down.
After I closed the door behind us, bringing this Saturday night to a three-way kind of sitch—and not the good kind—I ran a hand through my hair. "Uh, Monica, we're going to have to catch up another time."
The girl looked Lyla up and down with a disgusted scowl on her face that screamed You're choosing her over me? and it suddenly got that much easier to say good-bye.
"In your dreams, asshole," she spat at me as she walked past. So no love lost there. I still walked her out, even though my thighs burned from tonight's game, and it involved too many stairs, because I like to think I'm at least half a gentleman.
When I got back inside, Lyla looked up from her spot on the couch. "How'd the flavor of the week take it?"
I flopped next to her, flinching when I bumped the side where I'd been checked earlier tonight. Dude thought he was real tough, but I ended up with the puck and the score—it made any resulting bruises worth it. "Actually, I met her three weekends ago, thank-you-very-much."
"Ooh, a repeat offender. I'm impressed."
"I can hear you judging me. Pretty harsh after the cock blocking. Guess I'll just have to make do with you." I leaned toward her, mouth open as wide as I could get it, tongue out.
"Ew!" She laughed and shoved me away. Good. She was smiling now. The sad face was killing me. But all too soon, it was back. If it were anyone else, I would run as far as I could go to keep from discussing emotions or getting into whatever had made her cry. But Lyla was my girl, and like I said, I felt responsible for her. Probably because hanging with her was always easy—the break from life I occasionally needed—and I didn't have many close friends who knew me as well as she did. I liked it that way, and honestly, I wasn't sure how she'd managed to get in so easily.
"Spill it."
She ran her palms down her thighs, focusing on the motion. "I got set up on a date tonight. Or more like I was the sixth wheel pity-date option."
"Sixth wheel?" I asked.
She told me about the set-up, the drinking, and when she looked down and whispered the part about some asshole calling her fugly and boring, I clenched my fists, wanting to find the guy and use them on him. "I just don't think
I can go back tonight." She wiped the tears from her cheeks. "Can I crash on your couch?"
"You know you can. Anytime." Over the past few months I'd forgotten how fragile she could be. She had no problem speaking her mind around me anymore, but it'd taken a while, and sometimes I worried people would take advantage of her. I'd never expected someone to go out of his way to be outright mean, though. "That guy was wrong, Lyla. He's clearly a giant douche."
She unwound the scarf from her neck and tossed it aside. Then she pulled her light brown waves into a messy bun, took a pencil off the side table, and shoved it through her hair to secure it in place. "I don't think I'm quite as bad as fugly, but I am plain. And I am boring. All I ever do is study. Just like I did in high school. I thought I'd go to college and live in a big city, and things would be different. Only everyone else is different, and I'm as awkward and nerdy as ever. That whole things-get-better-after-high-school is total crap."
I didn't even know where to start with that. Seemed like a lot of landmines that could explode if I said the wrong thing.
"I'm sick of it, Beck. I don't want to do the safe thing anymore just because I'm too afraid to try anything else." Resolve set into her features—it was the same look she got when we were solving difficult chemistry equations last semester, or when one of our labs didn't go quite right and we needed to figure out why. She got scary-focused sometimes. "It's time for a change. Time to let loose a little. I'm in my second semester of college, and I haven't done anything you're supposed to do. Like get so drunk you puke and don't remember the rest of the night."
"Overrated, I swear."
She looked at me, that deadly look on her face, and I held up my hands. "Fine. You wanna get drunk and puke, I'm not gonna stop you."
"But I want to do, like, more than just drinking." Her brow furrowed and I could practically see the wheels in her brain spinning. "I should make a list and outline a plan."
I was going to point out that list-making wasn't the best way to let loose, but I decided to let it go.
She leaned forward and glanced around. "Don't you have any other pens or pencils?"
"I'm surprised I had the one you put in your hair. If you really need something to write with, I can grab a pen from the kitchen."
"And a piece of paper?"
As if she'd ever use just one—another thing I'd learned when we'd shared a class. So instead of the kitchen, I headed into my bedroom, grabbed a mostly blank notebook and pen, and handed them over. She tapped the pen to her lips. "I'm thinking I start with a new look—like one of those extreme makeovers. It'll get me in a new mind frame, so I can be a whole new me. What do you think? Would I look okay super blond? Or should I go dark? Or maybe streaky highlights?" Her eyebrows arched as she looked up from the blank paper.
Girls loved these kinds of trick questions, and I'd learned to tread carefully whenever they came up. "I think you look fine the way you are."
She tilted her head and sighed. "But what did you think when you first met me? You can be honest. I'm sure you were a little disappointed when you found out I was your assigned chem partner."
"Well, yeah," I said, "but that was because with how damn cute you were, I was sure you'd be stupid, and that meant
I was going to end up doing all the work." She rolled her eyes, and I smiled, unable to keep from adding, "Then I caught your scent, and your blood smelled so good, I was afraid I'd kill you and eat you. That's why I was all broody and denting the table the first day."
Lyla laughed and shoved my arm. "You're stupid."
"I am. I let you talk me into that Twilight marathon last Sunday. Clearly a mistake."
"Hey, I watched that dumb prank movie with the gross bathroom humor. And we still have two Twilight movies to go. Now, be serious."
"Okay. Serious." I draped my arm behind the couch and met her gaze. "Changing your look because of what some asshole said is stupid." I wasn't lying when I said she was damn cute—she had a sweet, innocent look about her, and I'd always liked that she was unique. "And doesn't it go against your feminist values?"
Her lips turned into a pouty frown. "It's not against feminism to look my best. And I'm not changing it for him. I'm changing it for me." She put a hand over her heart. "I want to try new things. I spent high school playing things safe. Being the perfect girl with perfect grades that my parents wanted me to be so I could get into a great college. But here I finally am, and I don't want to be the nice girl anymore. I want to be the hot girl. I want to be bolder. Do something completely crazy. Dangerous, even."
The glint in her eyes was definitely dangerous, and there were alarm bells going off in my head. "I don't want to look back and have all these regrets," she said, her voice firm and louder than usual. "And if I don't do it this semester, before my classes get even more difficult and I'm totally set in my boring patterns, it'll be that much harder." She pulled one corner of her bottom lip between her teeth, looking vulnerable again. "But I'll admit I'm completely out of my league here. In order to do this, I need your help."
I stared into her hazel eyes, so full of hope and determination, and my heart tugged. One day we'd been partners for chem lab, and then before I knew it, she was the girl who talked me into watching chick flicks and interrupted make-out sessions with no repercussions. She'd looked so harmless, too, with her hippie style and messy bun with a pen or pencil forever stabbed through it.
"Please," she added, putting her hands up in prayer position.
If it was what she really wanted, of course I was going to help her. After all, what were friends for?


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By Caitlyn McElroy News November 17, 2016
Q-Group to host talent show
This year the Q Group (Photo by Brenna Lane)
The Q-Group at Stevenson University is preparing to host a talent show that will feature the many talents the group has to offer. The event will take place on Dec. 3 and will be hosted by senior Kara Stone, president of the Q-group.
Students will perform a variety of acts at the annual Queer Talent Show. This photo is from last year's performance. (Photo from the Q Group Facebook page)
The show provides a safe space for all performers and attendees to express themselves without feeling judged or disliked. The show will also be featuring talents from outside of Stevenson since the group offers spots to additional supporters of the club, explained Stone.
"This is the second year the event has been going on, and it was originally a replacement for our gala because it was less formal, and it gives the students a chance to show they are not just who they identify as, but also that they have talent to expose to the world," said Stone.
There will be singers, dance groups and comedy routines that aim to defy the stereotypes of sexual orientation and gender roles. The event offers a spot for people to open up about any emotions that they are feeling, in a healthy way in front of their peers.
"Queer talents is a time for all of Stevenson to watch gay take over talent," said Savanna Breslin, a member of the group.
The group is currently reaching out to other schools in the area to include them in the audience or as performers.
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Гусевской охотничий заказник № 1 — упразднённый государственный охотничий заказник регионального значения во Владимирской области.

История
С целью сохранения и увеличения охотничьих богатств области Решением исполкома Владимирского областного совета трудящихся от 28.09.1972 № 1149 на территории Гусь-Хрустального района был организован охотничий заказник площадью 14000 га.
Преутверждён решением исполкома Владимирского областного совета трудящихся от 30.01.1976 № 76 в границах от 28.09.1972, сроком на 10 лет.
В 1998 году на месте бывшего охотничьего заказника «Гусевской № 1» в тех же границах образован государственный природный зоологический заказник «Гусевской № 1».
В настоящее время территория бывшего заказника относится к Гусевскому охотничьему угодью, которое находится в пользовании ООО "Гусевской арматурный завод «Гусар».

Физико-географическая характеристика территории заказника

Расположение
Государственный охотничий заказник «Гусевской N 1» регионального значения располагался на территории Гусь-Хрустального района к востоку от г. Гусь-Хрустального, на границе с Судогодским административным районом.

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С севера — от селения Семёновка по просёлочной дороге до села Губцево и далее на восток по просёлочной дороге до деревни Язвицы.

С востока — от селения Язвицы на юг по просёлочной дороге до селения Прокшино и далее да селения Лесниково.

С юга — от селения Лесниково на запад по просёлочной дороге через селения Нармочь — Починки — Селимоово и до селения Никулино.

С запада — от селения Никулино по просёлочной дороге через селения Вешки — Федотово и до селения Семёновка.

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ONEUS to make January comeback with "DEVIL"
'Rape-revenge' films are changing: they now focus on the women, instead of their dads
Netflix introduces Straw Hat cast for 'One Piece' live-action series
How Phil Collins became cool (no, really)
Is The Matrix a trans film? Revisiting the Wachowskis through a trans lens
Park Hae Jin takes home the 2020 MBC Drama Awards' top prize plus the list of winners
Why Nollywood is obsessed with remakes of classic movies
'My Hero Academia' chapter 297 release date, spoilers: Midnight is dead and the worst has yet to come
Dune – a prophetic tale about the environmental destruction wrought by the colonisation of Africa
Lee Min Ho continues charity works especially in this time of giving; Actor donated 50 million won for abused children
'The Matrix Awakens' movie tie-in could launch on PS5 soon
BTOB's Ilhoon leaves group; Cube Entertainment announces his departure
Blackpink's Lisa and Rose confirmed to debut as soloists
Will 'The Elder Scrolls 6' be released before the franchise's rumored TV series?
Kim Go Eun was chosen to play the lead in the upcoming webtoon-based drama 'Yumi's Cells'
'DOTA 2' anime adaptation premieres March 25 on Netflix
'Godzilla vs. Kong': Monster movies evoke adventure but also 'dangers' of tropics
Daft Punk: how the mystery music masterminds used their robot disguise to take over the world
By Daniel Cookney
Friday, February 26, 2021 2:52 PM UTC
While Daft Punk's break-up may have been unexpected, the enigmatic nature in how the public were notified was predictable. Announced via the electronic duo's YouTube channel, an upload titled Epilogue turned out to be a scene lifted from their 2006 Electroma film, alongside a vocal borrowed from a track on 2013's Random Access Memories album.
The pivotal desert scene features a prolonged trek by the duo in their instantly recognisable helmets and culminates in one self-destructing while the other walks away. Continuing then what is the pair's time-honoured preference for ambiguity, it indicates a finale while refraining from disclosing the explicit details.
Over the past 28 years, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (the men behind the helmets) developed a complex and counterintuitive communication strategy. It was an approach that saw the pair hiding behind their alter-egos but going on to conquer the world of electronic music at the same time.
As the more vocal of the two, Bangalter has indicated that this method was fundamental to Daft Punk's self-preservation. "If you can stay protected and get noticed then it's all good", he told journalist Suzanne Ely in 2006. What began with Bangalter and de Homem-Christo using various masks to hide their discomfort within photoshoots – obscuring rather than projecting a specific image – was eventually resolved when they reinvented themselves as androids.
Robot rock
Like the electronic group Kraftwerk before them, these cyborgs further celebrated the electronic, automated characteristics of their music, while at the same time orchestrated a mythology in conjunction with technology's all-pervasive influence.
Bangalter even presented an origins story in which he claimed that the duo's appearance was the result of an accident. Specifically, that the explosion of an electronic music sampler in 1999 had transformed them into their robot alter egos. Yet alongside this superhero version, Daft Punk also cited the conversion as being their response to fame.
"We don't believe in the star system," Bangalter stated. "We want the focus to be on the music. If we have to create an image, it must be an artificial image. That combination hides our physicality and also shows our view of the star system. It is not a compromise."
Anti-celebrity superstars
In this sense, I believe Daft Punk have become an example of an "anti-celebrity celebrity". Yet despite what they might have claimed, with arena tours and cameos in Disney movies, Bangalter and de Homem-Christo were far from being "anonymous".
Theirs was a stance fraught with contradiction – and one maybe familiar to many working in arts and culture who find their rejection of consumer culture operating within the same market-driven constraints. In Daft Punk's case, it resulted in often uneasy relationships such as the robots' involvement in global advertising campaigns, and many Daft Punk interviews issued by media outlets that repeatedly assured us that they rarely give interviews.
The pair's press engagement has been particularly cultivated to maintain this "media reluctance" narrative. And it became a mutually beneficial arrangement, perpetuating Daft Punk's anti-stardom position while also enabling publications to claim they had an exclusive.
Got lucky?
For an audience that may similarly be suspicious of media saturation – and what it can indicate in terms of "selling out" – this notion of Daft Punk's interaction being rare, intimate and indifferent to the supposed demands of industry may also have been attractive.
Perhaps French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had it right when he said that profits can be derived from "disinterestedness". Indeed Daft Punk's marketing succeeded because of its highlighted rejection of the most obvious, unromantic mechanisms of commerce.
The Epilogue video message is then a fitting end, highlighting remoteness and attachment, anonymity and familiarity, and all delivered by a self-destructing robot with no accompanying press release. It aptly concludes Daft Punk's legacy of technology-assisted public engagement. Over and out.


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require 'mongo_mapper'
require 'omniauth-identity'
require_relative 'build-your-own-sinatra/ext/omniauth-identity/model'
require_relative 'build-your-own-sinatra/ext/omniauth-identity/secure_password'

ENV['RACK_ENV']    ||= 'development'
ENV['MONGODB_URI'] ||= 'mongodb://localhost:27017/byos'
MongoMapper.setup({ ENV['RACK_ENV'] => { 'uri' => ENV['MONGODB_URI'] } }, ENV['RACK_ENV'])

require_relative 'build-your-own-sinatra/models/Identity'
require_relative 'build-your-own-sinatra/models/Package'
require_relative 'build-your-own-sinatra/models/Purchase'
require_relative 'build-your-own-sinatra/models/Screencast'
require_relative 'build-your-own-sinatra/models/User'

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Local author pens book on therapeutic benefits of improv
'It's this total freedom from our own inner critic, harsh voice and censorship,' says Lauren Stein about how improv helps with well-being
Ariel Deutschmann
1 / 1 Lauren Stein, author of Fun at Work.Adam Zimerman
Acting is usually associated with theatre, but a local author is exploring the role of improv within our personal and work lives in a new book.
"I think one of the things about improv is that we're deliberately accepting any answer, like more ridiculous is better, in some cases," says Lauren Stein, an improviser extraordinaire and the author of Fun at Work: Transform Your Career with Improv, talking about the appeal of improvisation.
"It's this total freedom from our own inner critic, and harsh voice and censorship, so that freedom allow us to say whatever we want and then be accepted as we are and get positive feedback, and when you have that experience, that's going to lead to more safety in your skin and a fearlessness to say whatever you're thinking, and that's one way to build confidence."
Fun at Work follows Stein's work with eight employees at a Toronto tech firm as she leads them through a series of improvisation, from games to multi-level character plays, like long-form improv. The participants were asked to write journal responses to these events, which are combined within the book with the writer's own reflections on the effect of improvisation has had on her own life.
Having a love for acting since the age of five, Stein says she didn't know about the therapeutic benefits of improv until after university.
"When I was teaching it for a few years, I kept getting all this feedback about people being more confident, being able to speak in groups, having more social skills," Stein recalls, "And then I found out that expressive art therapy is a field that is dedicated to the therapeutic uses of arts, and I got my Masters in that."
Seeing an opportunity to combine her passion for improv and helping others, Stein enrolled in a masters program for art therapy. Noticing there wasn't much of a focus on improv in her Masters program, this is when she decided to study the benefits of long-form improv, becoming the basis for her book.
"They talked about theatre and they talked about clowning and they talked about story-telling...all those things that I love," says Stein, "But improv theatre, especially the long-form, that's the part where I was like, 'We need research on this.'"
After conducting this research with the tech firm, Stein says two employees who participated in her program went on to apply and receive promotions at their work.
"Some of them started out shy and doing this deliberately to push themselves and at the end, they became more confident," she says, "One or two people actually applied for promotions and got them, as another example."
"I think it's really gratifying and powerful... it was always combination of factors what role my improv played in everything, but over time I've gotten a lot of positive feedback, so I have this overall sense that improv does make a difference."
With workplaces changing due to the pandemic, Stein says this is an opportunity to change the way we think about productivity and participate in corporate culture.
"In our day to day life there are high risks all the time," she explains about the current corporate culture, "We're told in messages that we're not enough, our ideas will get shot down, and people's egos get in the way all the time."
"There are a lot of people at a business meeting who won't speak up because they are so afraid that they will give a 'bad idea' and everyone will hate on them."
Stein mentions the book provides a lot of exercises that workplaces can use and experiment with during virtual meetings to help people feel more confident and comfortable in their own skin.
"Doing improv exercises online, and even just injecting that into meetings, gives people a chance to break the ice," she says on how improv can benefit employers and employees as they work from home, "Think outside the box."
As her improv work gains traction, Stein is putting together a class which will focus on mental health.
To learn more about Fun At Work, go to slightlybetter.ca.
About the Author: Ariel Deutschmann
Ariel Deutschmann is a feature writer and reporter who covers community events, businesses, social initiatives, human interest stories and more involving Guelph and Wellington County


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What a colourful reign, Ma'am: The highs and lows of Her Majesty's unprecedented 70 years on the throne
'Ready for conflict': Putin's threat to the West is laid bare in new footage showing build-up of troops and military convoys on Ukraine's border as Kiev warns it could be provoked by Russian 'aggression'
New footage claims to show inside of Russia's massive deployment on border
Ukraine estimates there are now a staggering 85,000 Russian troops in the area
There have been mounting tensions in the country's eastern Donbass region
Andrii Taran, Ukraine's defence minister, issued a statement earlier today
US is to dispatch two warships to sail through the Bosphorus on April 14 and 15
Washington continuing to fly reconnaissance planes to monitor Russian activity
But it comes as Russia claims to have intercepted an American RC-135 spy plane
By Raven Saunt and Will Stewart For Mail Online
Published: 05:27 EST, 10 April 2021 | Updated: 10:02 EST, 10 April 2021
Putin's threat to the West has been laid bare in new footage showing a build-up of troops and military convoys on Ukraine's border as Kiev warns it could be provoked by Russian 'aggression'.
The clip, with the caption 'ready for conflict', appeared to show Vladimir Putin's armoured vehicles ploughing through the mud to manoeuvre into position.
The latest images to leak of the vast military build-up are evidently shot by Russian troops involved in the controversial deployment which has sparked deep worry in the West.
Some show a train convoy of military vehicles moving through Baltaysk in Russia's Rostov region within striking distance of the international border.
Others are said to be in Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh regions - all areas where a massing of Russian military might including tanks and missiles such as the notorious BUK has been seen in recent days.
Ukraine estimates there are now a staggering 85,000 Russian troops between six and 25 miles from its frontier and in Crimea.
It comes after Ukraine warned that it could be provoked by Russian 'aggression' in light of Putin's colossal build-up of military hardware.
Andrii Taran, Ukraine's defence minister, issued a statement on Saturday amid mounting tensions in the country's eastern Donbass region.
He said Russian accusations about the rights of Russian-speakers being violated could be the reason for the resumption of armed aggression against Ukraine.
'At the same time, it should be noted that the intensification of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is possible only if an appropriate political decision is made at the highest level in the Kremlin,' he said.
New footage has emerged that claims to show the inside of Russia's massive deployment on the Ukrainian border amid mounting tensions
The clip, with the caption 'ready for conflict', appeared to show Vladimir Putin's armoured vehicles ploughing through the mud to manoeuvre into position
Russian figures have warned that Ukraine could be destroyed as a state in a new war but the West remains unsure about Putin's exact motives in shifting military hardware and troops several thousand miles from Siberia into the conflict zone.
More than 13,000 have died since Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine, and sent in troops to back rebels in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
Some experts believe the vast military movements are simply a warning by Putin to new US president Joe Biden and the West, rather than a sign of an imminent war.
'Russia is testing everyone's nerves and declaring its position: It should remain an important player for other countries, both the United States and Ukraine,' Ruslan Leviev, an analyst with the Conflict Intelligence Team, told The Washington Post.
'They are trying to show that Russia will not tolerate any sanctions or other actions put in place to pressure them to return Crimea to Ukraine or to change the course of things in Donbas (eastern Ukraine).'
The latest images to leak of the vast military build-up are evidently shot by Russian troops involved in the controversial deployment which has sparked deep worry in the West
Others are said to be in Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh regions - all areas where a massing of Russian military might including tanks and missiles such as the notorious BUK has been seen in recent days
Some show a train convoy of military vehicles moving through Baltaysk in Russia's Rostov region within striking distance of the international border
Others fear Moscow is on the point of a full-scale invasion, and see the Ukrainian authorities led by President Volodymyr Zelensky preparing for this possibility.
'What is quite clear for me is that Zelensky and the people around him are seriously concerned about a possible invasion,' said Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the New Europe Centre think tank in Kyiv.
Putin's deputy chief of staff Dmitry Kozak wanted this week that Ukraine faced 'disintergration' if it pushed Russia into war.
'I support the opinions that also exist inside Ukraine that the start of military action would mean the beginning of Ukraine's end,' he said.
Kyiv raised the alarm over the buildup of Russian forces and a rise in violence along the line of contact separating Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed separatists in Donbass.
The Russian military movements have fuelled concerns that Moscow is preparing to send forces into Ukraine. The Kremlin has denied that its troops are a threat but said they will remain as long as it sees fit.
Instructor speaking to reservists of the 130th battalion of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces during military exercises on outskirts of Kyiv earlier today
Andrii Taran, Ukraine's defence minister, issued a statement on Saturday amid mounting tensions in the country's eastern Donbass region. Pictured: Reservists of the 130th battalion of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces attend military exercises on outskirts of Kyiv
Meanwhile, the United States is to dispatch two warships to the Black Sea next week in response to Putin's colossal build-up of military hardware close to the front.
Washington is also continuing to fly reconnaissance planes over the sea to monitor Russian activity and flew two B-1 bombers over the Aegean Sea earlier this week.
But it comes as Russia claims to have intercepted a US spy plane with footage that is said to show a MiG-31 fighter jet intercepting a US RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft the Pacific coast.
Senior Kremlin official Dmitry Kozak last week said Russia would be forced to defend its citizens in eastern Ukraine depending on the scale of the military conflict there.
But a number of cheerleaders for Putin have called on him to take military action inside Ukraine.
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of state TV channel RT is on record as demanding: 'The people of Donbas want to live at home and be a part of our great, generous motherland. And we must give them that opportunity.'
Brittany Stewart, US defence attache in Kyiv, on Friday travelled to the eastern Ukrainian war zone to assess the situation on the ground.
But Russia hit out at Stewart's for 'wearing Ukrainian military insignia' during a visit to the Donbas frontline.
Ukraine has warned that it could be provoked by Russian 'aggression' as Vladimir Putin surrounds its borders with troops, tanks and missiles launchers
Kyiv has raised the alarm over a buildup of Russian forces, including troops, tanks and missiles launchers, near the border between Ukraine and Russia - some of them are believed to be staying at this field camp in the Voronezh region
Andrii Taran (pictured), Ukraine's defence minister, issued a statement on Saturday amid mounting tensions in the conflict area of the country's eastern Donbass region
Stewart was seen wearing on her shoulder sleeve a 'Ukraine or death' skull insignia, the patch of the 72nd Mechanised Infantry Brigade, complained state-funded Sputnik news agency.
'It is totally inappropriate and I am surprised it is being tolerated. The 'uniform' means uniform and I have never heard of a soldier taking liberties with what they wear with it,' said former US Army Military Intelligence officer Phillip Giraldi, according to the agency.
'It is definitely a political statement in this case, showing solidarity with the Ukrainian defence against the 'Russian threat.'
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his French and German counterparts have called on Russia to halt a troop buildup and reaffirmed their support for Kyiv in its confrontation with Moscow.
Previous footage showed tanks, missile trucks and howitzers being freighted to the Crimea and the border of the disputed Donbass region in eastern Ukraine which has been occupied by Russian-backed separatists since 2014.
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Satellite and social media images have revealed new Russian encampments and artillery batteries in the provinces of Voronezh and Krasnodar which lie to the east of Donbass.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said yesterday the situation in eastern Ukraine was 'very unstable' and warned it risked leading to 'full-scale combat operations.'
Putin insists that his actions are purely defensive, but Washington has said it is 'increasingly concerned' by the largest Russian military presence at the border since the conflict began.
Amid soaring tensions, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy donned body armour and a helmet to tour trenches along the frontier on Thursday.
But footage has emerged of tanks, missile trucks and howitzers being freighted to the Crimea and the border of the disputed Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. Pictured: Nuclear-capable 2S4 Tyulpan self-propelled mortar system moved in Krasnodar region
The notorious Buk missile system (left) was spotted being transported in the Voronzeh region close to the Ukrainian border as other footage showed military trucks (right) being freighted to the region
Amid soaring tensions, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy (pictured) donned body armour and a helmet to tour trenches along the frontier on Thursday
One of Putin's top aides yesterday warned that any assault by Kiev on Russian 'citizens' in the region would be 'the beginning of the end of Ukraine.'
Deputy head of Russia's presidential administration, Dmitry Kozak, said that Moscow would not act first, but if Kiev did move against it, the response would be 'not a shot in the leg, but in the face.'
It was announced on Friday that the United States will dispatch two warships through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea in an attempt to head off Russian aggression.
Joe Biden sought permission from Turkey to transport vessels through the Bosphorus after his press secretary said the US is 'increasingly concerned' by Russian movements at the border.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry confirmed the American ships will pass through the narrow strait on April 14 and April 15.
The official said the US notified Turkey 15 days prior to the ships' passage in line with a convention which gives Ankara control of the straits.
Such visits by the US and other Nato ships have vexed Moscow, which has long bristled at Ukraine's efforts to build up defence ties with the West and its aspirations to eventually join Nato.
Vladimir Putin (pictured yesterday) insists that his actions are purely defensive, but Washington has said it is 'increasingly concerned' by the largest Russian military presence at the border since the conflict began
Russia claims to have intercepted a US spy plane with footage that is said to show a MiG-31 fighter jet intercepting a US RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft the Pacific coast
The American plane is seen from the cockpit of the Russian warplane off the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, reports claim.
'To identify the air target and prevent violation of the Russian state border, a MiG-31 fighter from the air defence forces of the Eastern Military District was scrambled,' said the Russian National Defence Control Centre.
'The crew of the Russian fighter identified the air target as a strategic reconnaissance aircraft RC-135 of the US Air Force and escorted it over the Pacific Ocean.'
The statement said the Russians acted 'in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace.
'Violations of the state border were averted.'
Russia claims NATO has in recent months intensified aerial reconnaissance near the Russian border with such flight posing the 'risk of an accidental escalation'.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is to visit Brussels next week to discuss Russia's military build-up near the Ukrainian border.
Putin's threat to the West is laid bare in new footage


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A method for measurement of soil thermal resistivity that is based on the theory that the rate of temperature rise of a line heat source is dependent upon the thermal constants of the medium in which it is placed is given. This information will enable the user to properly install and load underground cables. The aim is to provide sufficient information to enable the user to select useful commercial test equipment, or to manufacture equipment that is not readily available on the market, and to make meaningful resistivity measurements with this equipment, in the field or on soil samples in the laboratory. Designs for both laboratory and field thermal needles are described.


REFLECT: How do we learn to "approve what is excellent?"
2 - Identify something you have approved as excellent due to its connection with the Creator.
3 - List other items, people, or activities you once saw as excellent but can not be approved as excellent.
I associate excellence with high standards, outstanding quality, positive attitudes, and sincere efforts. Tithing is an excellent activity as it allows us to give back to the Lord what is His in the first place. I do not see it as an obligation but as a way of thanking the Lord for blessing me and also as a way to help my church community in its mission to serve others. It is a humbling experience because it is a personal exchange between God and myself. No one sees how much I give; therefore, there is no glory given to myself.
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New Holland Tractors
Jonathan Whitlam
This book tells the full story of one of the newest and most successful tractor manufacturers, which has roots in the classic Ford and Fiat brands of years gone by.
From 1991, when Fiat acquired Ford New Holland, the New Holland brand tractors have been at the forefront of the latest tractor designs. Les mer
From 1991, when Fiat acquired Ford New Holland, the New Holland brand tractors have been at the forefront of the latest tractor designs. The technical sophistication in medium to high horsepower tractors has changed beyond all recognition. The book covers early models such as the 40, 70 and 80 series, as well as current models such as the T4 to T9 models, to provide full coverage of the cutting edge of tractor development.
The author examines the latest generation of tractors, from small speciality tractors to giants of nearly 700hp, and also looks at the future, including the development of tractors powered by alternative fuels such as methane.
As New Holland tractors continue to go from strength to strength, this book is a timely expert guide to one of the world's foremost tractor brands
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Traktorer og landbrukskjøretøy


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Q: WPF Datagrid perform action when row is selected with data associated with that row Got a list of objects which is currently being displayed via a datagrid.  What I need to do is when a user double clicks on a specified row it opens up another window which is a model showing the data associated with the object of the row that is currently selected.  I can't figure out how to a) detect when the user double clicks and b) how to know which row the user double clicked on.
The XAML:
    <DataGrid x:Name="BlueprintsDataGrid" Grid.Row="0" IsReadOnly="True"
              ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Game.Blueprints, ElementName=uc}"
              AutoGenerateColumns="False">
        <DataGrid.Columns>
            <DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" Width="80*" Binding="{Binding Name}"/>
            <DataGridTextColumn Header="ME" Width="30*" Binding="{Binding MaterialEfficiency}"
                                HeaderStyle="{StaticResource HeaderRightJustify}"
                                CellStyle="{StaticResource ColumnRight}"/>
            <DataGridCheckBoxColumn Header="BPO" Width="30*" Binding="{Binding IsOrginial}"
                                    HeaderStyle="{StaticResource HeaderRightJustify}"/>
        </DataGrid.Columns>
    </DataGrid>

A: You could do something like the following:
<DataGrid x:Name="BlueprintsDataGrid" Grid.Row="0" IsReadOnly="True"
              ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Game.Blueprints, ElementName=uc}"
              SelectedItem="{Binding CurrentSelection}"
              AutoGenerateColumns="False">
        <DataGrid.Columns>
            <DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" Width="80*" Binding="{Binding Name}"/>
            <DataGridTextColumn Header="ME" Width="30*" Binding="{Binding MaterialEfficiency}"
                                HeaderStyle="{StaticResource HeaderRightJustify}"
                                CellStyle="{StaticResource ColumnRight}"/>
            <DataGridCheckBoxColumn Header="BPO" Width="30*" Binding="{Binding IsOrginial}"
                                    HeaderStyle="{StaticResource HeaderRightJustify}"/>
        </DataGrid.Columns>
    </DataGrid>

Note: CurrentSelection must exist in your ViewModel-class. This property has to implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface and must be the type of object your ItemsSource is holding!
For recognizing the mouse double click you can extend the above xaml to something like
 <DataGrid x:Name="BlueprintsDataGrid" Grid.Row="0" IsReadOnly="True"
              ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Game.Blueprints, ElementName=uc}"
              SelectedItem="{Binding CurrentSelection}"
              AutoGenerateColumns="False">
 <i:Interaction.Triggers>
            <i:EventTrigger EventName="MouseDoubleClick">
                <i:InvokeCommandAction Command="{Binding DoubleClickedCommand}"/>
            </i:EventTrigger>
        </i:Interaction.Triggers>
        <DataGrid.Columns>
            <DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" Width="80*" Binding="{Binding Name}"/>
            <DataGridTextColumn Header="ME" Width="30*" Binding="{Binding MaterialEfficiency}"
                                HeaderStyle="{StaticResource HeaderRightJustify}"
                                CellStyle="{StaticResource ColumnRight}"/>
            <DataGridCheckBoxColumn Header="BPO" Width="30*" Binding="{Binding IsOrginial}"
                                    HeaderStyle="{StaticResource HeaderRightJustify}"/>
        </DataGrid.Columns>
    </DataGrid>

Note: You therefore need a property DoubleClickedCommand of the type ICommand in your ViewModel. There you can check for your CurrentSelection.
public ICommand DoubleClickedCommand { get; set; }

In your ViewModel constructor:
DoubleClickedCommand = new RelayCommand(DoubleClick);

And the method itself:
private void DoubleClick()
{
    if(CurrentSelection == null) { return; }
    // Do stuff in here
}

A: You could handle the MouseDoubleClick event and cast the DataContext of the source of the event:
private void OnMouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    var fe = e.OriginalSource as FrameworkElement;
    if (fe != null)
    {
        var blueprint = fe.DataContext as BluePrint;
        if (blueprint != null)
        {
            //open window...
        }
    }
}

XAML:
<DataGrid x:Name="BlueprintsDataGrid" Grid.Row="0" IsReadOnly="True"
          ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Game.Blueprints, ElementName=uc}"
          AutoGenerateColumns="False"
          MouseDoubleClick="Dgm_MouseDoubleClick">
    <DataGrid.Columns>
        <DataGridTextColumn Header="Name" Width="80*" Binding="{Binding Name}"/>
        <DataGridTextColumn Header="ME" Width="30*" Binding="{Binding MaterialEfficiency}"
                            HeaderStyle="{StaticResource HeaderRightJustify}"
                            CellStyle="{StaticResource ColumnRight}"/>
        <DataGridCheckBoxColumn Header="BPO" Width="30*" Binding="{Binding IsOrginial}"
                                HeaderStyle="{StaticResource HeaderRightJustify}"/>
    </DataGrid.Columns>
</DataGrid>

Change BluePrint to whatever the name of your class is.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange