This will sound a little mysterious, and a little bit redundant as I don't want to say what I am up to yet, but I have set myself some goals in my personal life and I am so excited to be going about them. I am trying to focus on me a little more as I have been lacking in self care and lacking in motivation to better myself. So I have set myself a few goals and I am ready to smash them! I will be sharing more about them when I have completed and achieved the goal as I feel like if I talk to much about it before its complete it may never come together.
I find it so important to take care of yourself and really take time out to have little self care rituals, for me its taking a long hot baht with either a book to read or a film to watch to allow me to relax and float away into another world. I love using a bath bomb and seeing the colour unfold and using s face mask to draw out the impurities in the skin. I am really getting back into doing my nails at the minute I used to paint them all the time and then I got bored of it and never made time to do it, so I am making a point, now I have decluttered the nail polishes I own to paint them more, so do let me know if you want me to do nail art videos on my channel here as I would love to get back into doing my nails.
The goals I have set myself are slightly educational based, they focus on expanding my knowledge and widening my abilities and I was surprised how much I knew about the area I have started learning about, I knew I had an interest but hadn't fully explored it before. I am so pleased with how well it is going and I am excited for something to develop from it all.
I have also set myself some fitness goals, I aim to continue improving my fitness and looking into what I can do to improve my strength, flexibility and my stamina when running or using an exercise bike. I can tell I am getting better and improving my fitness and we have been going to the gym for quite a while now which has helped, but I still have a while to go before I reach some of the goals I want.
In terms of my blog and YouTube, I am really happy with the direction they are taking at the minute, I am gaining followers and growing my YouTube channel, so if you don't follow my blog and you enjoy my content be sure to give it a follow, and if you didn't know I did YouTube why not pop over to my channel, you can find it here, and check out my content!
I'd love to know what you're goals are at the minute and how you are finding things, I have so much planned for the coming months, Lots of videos, one every other day in October, and a video everyu day of December! So I have my work cut out keeping up with it all but I hope you are looking forward to seeing what I have in store as I hope you will enjoy it all.


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Country's King of Heartbreak: Tyler Farr talks songwriting, standing out, and Suffer in Peace
By Madison Vain Updated April 28, 2015 at 04:31 PM EDT
Credit: Courtesy of Columbia Nashville
"I've busted my ass a lot and fell and had to get back up. I've made bad decisions and learned from them. I've had good moments and bad moments, and bad break-ups—been cheated on—and had good relationships, drank too much, paid for it the next day, you know? Been evicted from apartment complexes—that was when I first moved to Nashville and I didn't have a dime." That's 31-year-old country singer Tyler Farr describing, in his characteristic growl, how to be a songwriter on the eve of his sophomore release, Suffer in Peace (out now).
"All of that breeds song ideas," Farr continued. "And I'm not telling everybody to go out there and get strung out on heroin and just go nuts, but you have to live as much as you can, otherwise you won't have any stories to tell that no one's already told."
Peace, over its 11 tracks, has plenty to tell. There's less of the jukebox stompers that shaped his 2013 debut, Redneck Crazy, but replacing those tracks is further proof that Farr is country's king of heartbreak, "Not everybody can be a ray of sunshine, or it would be a boring, boring world," he says with a laugh. "But we are singing country music. If you listen to a Hank Williams record from back in the day there's a lot of sad there."
There is also, perhaps relatedly, more of Farr on the record. "You know the first album, you're always a little timid—your first record deal, first album—you're just happy to finally put food on the table. On this one, we'd had a little bit of success, so I felt more relaxed doing it. I felt like I knew myself better and who I was as an artist."
The album's lead and still-chart-climbing single, "A Guy Walks Into a Bar" (written by Melissa Peirce, Jonathan Singleton, and Brad Tursi), has a chorus of barroom heartache as well worn as your local joint's corner booth. "A guy walks into a bar / Orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye / Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers / They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while / Then one night her taillights fade out into the dark / And a guy walks into a bar."
The title track is a ballad in search of seclusion: a "cabin in the hills, in the middle of nowhereville," where the singer—or song's lead character—can hang up his heart a while. It along with "I Don't Even Want This Beer" (about reluctantly drowning sorrows in the bottom of a barrel) and "Withdrawals" (about losing the high of your former lover), make you wonder where Farr has been. (In response, he says, "I don't date," making air quotes around "date"—"I've only been in a few serious relationships.")
Farr, who broke through in Nashville as a songwriter, co-wrote three of the 11 tracks ("Poor Boy," "I Don't Even Want This Beer" and "Why We Live Here"), but believes in singing what he knows. "It has to be something that I have lived. Or might live in the future—something that I could live," he said. Farr also wants to make sure each song sounds distinctly his own. "We try to pick songs that as soon as I start singing and hit the first note, people can tell its Tyler Farr. I pride myself on that."
From Garden City, Missouri, Farr is a classically trained vocalist ("No one thought it was cool growing up, I got a ton of crap from my friends, but luckily I was actually good at it") who went to Missouri State University on a vocal performance scholarship. His signature is that gravel-ridden baritone — it's as prevalent in his speaking voice as his singing — but the track he's most excited to share, "Withdrawals," shows the full scope of his range. "My voice, I think is what brings the country to it. The demo was piano and a drum loop and then you hear the track and it's just rocking…I have to use the timber of my voice sometimes to make it country. You have to live it and believe it, and then it turns into a country song because it turns into a story," he said of the track, which will be the album's next single.
He's right, and quick to point out that the whole album isn't sad. Songs like "Raised to Pray," "Better in Boots" and "Damn Good Friends" (a duet with tourmate and good friend Jason Aldean) all beg for live performances. He's also reached his country music milestone, adding a track that pays homage to the U.S.A with "Why We Live Here."
Farr tours almost constantly, playing roughly 250 dates in 2014. He'll play New York City's Irving Plaza on Tuesday night as his album-release party. And says he structures set lists and performances around each specific crowd. "I do whatever feels right when it feels right. If the crowd wants to hear a rap song and the girls want to dance, I'll bust something out," he said. "And if the crowd's rocking and rowdy, raising hell, I'll do a Foo Fighters song. You have to just be yourself." Farr attributed a quote to Merle Haggard about how stars can walk on the stage and walk off without ever changing his or her personality.
"And that's kind of how I am," Farr said, stopping short of calling himself a star. Soon he'll be the only one acting so modest.
Farr is currently opening on Jason Aldean's Burn It Down Tour, with select headlining and festival dates strewn within. A full list of dates can be found on his website. Suffer in Peace is available for purchase on iTunes.

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16 Breakthrough Notebooks: A Look Back
From the first prototype portable computer in 1968 to the OLPC XO (an inspiration for netbooks) to the CrunchPad Web tablet of the near future, these 16 notebooks mark important stages in the progress of laptops.
By Ian Paul, PCWorld | PT
Milestones in Laptop Development
The Dynabook
Portable Teletype
Osborne 1
Grid Compass 1100
IBM PC Convertible
Compaq SLT/286
PowerBook 100
The TouchPad
The Lithium Ion Battery
The Rugged Laptop
The iBook G3 and the Birth of the Wireless Card
The Built-in Camera
Ultraportables
Since 1968, when a designer at Xerox PARC conceived of the first prototype notebook--the Dynabook--the computer industry has witnessed a breathtaking succession of innovations in mobile computing. This year, for the first time, laptops sales will exceed desktop sales, according to market research firm iSuppli.
In this slideshow we look back at the biggest technology breakthroughs in the evolution of laptop computers since geeks first dreamed of taking their beloved desktops with them wherever they wanted to go.
Don't miss these other slideshows focusing on laptops and desktop PCs:
• The Laptop in 2015: Not Your Daddy's Notebook
• Laptops With Epic Battery Life Keep You Working
• 10 Must-Have Netbooks, from Super Expensive to Bargain Basement
• Evolution of the PC
• The Computer Hardware Hall of Fame
• World's Most Outrageous PC Cases
And for an interesting alternative take on laptop milestones, written a couple of years ago, check out "The 10 Most Important Laptops of All Time."
This device mock-up is widely considered to be the inspiration for the modern portable computer. Conceived by Alan Kay in 1968 at Xerox PARC, the device was envisioned as "a personal computer for children of all ages."
Kay wanted to create a thin, portable device that weighed about 2 pounds and had a display whose size approximated that of a real page (Kay figured he would need a screen with 1 million pixels to accomplish this). Unfortunately, the technology required to produce such a device didn't emerge until fairly recently--and even today the Dynabook as envisioned by Kay has not become a reality.
Photo credit: Dynabook IEEE Computer Society
The computers of 40 years ago filled entire rooms and yet had less computing power than today's smartphones. But the dream of portable computing was already alive. PC World contributing editor Harry McCracken recently uncovered evidence of that aspiration in the annals of Google's Computerworld archives. In March 1968, you couldn't carry a computer around with you--but you could take your Teletype interface, thanks to the Teletype Corporation's KSR-33. This little number dented the scales at 65 pounds, but it let users connect to a Teletype machine--a device for sending typed messages from one location to another--far from their home base. You can watch (and listen to) a KSR-33 terminal at work in this YouTube clip.
Photo credit: Portable Teletype John Davin
Geeks on the run rejoiced in 1981, when the first truly portable computer appeared. The Osborne Computer Corporation's Osborne 1 was a gigantic piece of machinery equipped with a 5-inch diagonal screen, and its own carrying case. The machine, which also had two full-size floppy disk drives, sold for $1795 (software included) and weighed 23.5 pounds.
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The 12-pound Grid Compass 1100--the first computer to use a fold-up, clamshell case--brings us closer to a modern-looking laptop design. Originally designed for NASA and available to consumers in 1982, the Compass 1100 carried 340KB of memory and cost about $8000 including software and a mandatory maintenance agreement. Despite its place in laptop history, the Grid didn't survive long in the marketplace because it wasn't IBM compatible.
Photo credit: Grid Compass 1100 public domain
By 1985, many tech watchers wondered whether the laptop concept would survive. In a New York Times article, Erik Sandberg-Diment asked, "Whatever happened to the laptop computer?" Sandberg-Diment noted a decline in the number of laptops he saw on airline flights to the Comdex computer show in consecutive years between 1983 and 1985, and asked if this "latest fad" was on its way out. But everything changed in 1986, when the IBM PC Convertible hit store shelves. Priced at $1995, the PC Convertible was the first commercially successful laptop--and the first IBM device to carry a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive.
The IBM PC Convertible weighed 12 pounds--2 pounds more than the Grid Compass 1100. It came configured with 256KB of memory, two 3.5-inch floppy drives, an LCD display, printer ports, and a basic software suite.
Photo Credit: IBM PC Convertible Fred Jan Kraan
In October 1988, the Compaq SLT/286 debuted. The first computer to use VGA (640-by-480-resolution) graphics, it revolutionized portable displays. The SLT/286 weighed 14 pounds and had a 20MB hard drive, a 12MHz processor, and a keyboard that you could detach from the main body of the machine. It was one of the earliest computers compact enough to fit properly on a (sturdy) airline tray.
Photo credit: Compaq SLT/286 Kiberpipa.org
The next big jump in laptops following the Compaq SLT/286 came in 1991, when the Apple PowerBook 100 arrived. Made for Apple by Sony, the PowerBook 100 featured a trackball to serve as the mouse, and a palm rest to make working on the computer more comfortable; soon palm rests became a standard feature on laptops from many other vendors.
Photo credit: Powerbook 100 Danamania
In late 1992, IBM took the compact design of the PowerBook's pointing device a step further in its new ThinkPad series--most notably the $4350 ThinkPad 700C, which ran Windows 3.1, had a 120MB hard drive, a 25MHz 486SLC CPU, and a large and lovely 10.4-inch color TFT active-matrix panel.
As operating systems advanced and their interface's became more graphical, the need for a mouse increased. Prior to the PowerBook 100, users had to go through the hassle of attaching a mouse to their laptop's keyboard. IBM's solution: a little red stick embedded in the keyboard and dubbed the TrackPoint.
Photo credit: IBM ThinkPad André Karwath
George Gerpheide invented the capacitance-based touchpad mouse in 1988, but the technology didn't appear on a laptop until 1994, with Apple's PowerBook 500 series. Apple called its version the trackpad, and other manufacturers soon developed copycat input devices. The touchpad helped laptops become easier to use and more compact.
The PowerBook 500 series consisted of four models: the 520 (which PC World named as one of the ten most important laptops of all time back in 2007), the 520c, the 540, and the 540c. The basic specs for the PowerBook 500 series included 4MB of RAM with capacity for up to 36MB, a 25MHz processor, and a 9.5-inch grayscale display. Models in the PowerBook 500 series also sported up to 320MB of hard drive space--impressive for the time, but less than one-twelfth the storage capacity of Apple's smallest iPod today.
Early in 1994, a year and a half before Windows 95 debuted, Toshiba came out with the first two models in its Portege T3400 series: The $2599 T3400 carried a monochrome screen, the $3900 T3400CT sported an active-matrix color screen, and both ran Windows 3.1. Advertised as subnotebooks, the new Porteges had a slim look, a fashionable gray case color, and a high-powered lithium ion battery--considered "the latest in mobile energy technology."
Thanks to the new battery, Toshiba asserted that the T3400 would provide up to 6 hours of computing time on a single charge. The battery could fully recharge in 3 hours with the machine switched off, or in 8 to 10 hours with the machine in operation.
The Portege T3400 series models weighed 4 pounds and packed a 486SX processor, 4MB RAM (expandable to 20MB), and a 120MB hard drive. They also featured a PCMCIA expansion slot for extra memory. A contemporaneous Toshiba brochure [PDF] covers the essential points of the machine's appeal: compactness, usability, mobile power, status. Nothing much has changed on that front over the years.
Photo credit: Toshiba T3400 Ian Johnston
In 1996, at a time when most computer makers were training their efforts on slimmer and faster models, Panasonic aimed for thick-skinned and break-resistant. The result was the Toughbook CF-25--the first model in a line of rugged Panasonic Toughbooks that continues to this day. The CF-25 was designed to survive 2-foot drops and to withstand dust and humidity. The original Toughbook came in an aluminum alloy case, and came loaded with a 166MHz Intel Pentium I processor, up to 96MB of RAM, and (typically) a sub-1GB hard drive. Though the laptop's internal specs didn't match its burly appearance, the original Toughbook did enable people to operate a computer at disaster scenes, on battlefields, and in other places where regular laptops might easily expire.
Photo credit: Toughbook via eBay
The iBook G3 was one of the many innovative ideas Steve Jobs brought with him when he returned to the helm of Apple in 1996. At the 1999 Macworld Expo in New York, Jobs wowed the crowds by taking the iBook for a spin across stage as he surfed the Internet, debuting the first laptop with a wireless card. At its debut, Jobs described the iBook G3 as the second-fastest portable computer in the world (he claimed that the PowerBook was the fastest).
The 1999 iBook G3 also freed computers from their boring, square boxes with candy-colored designs. Our sister publication Computerworld recently hailed the iBook as one of the "top 10 standout Macs of the past 25 years." Check out this YouTube video for the wireless revelation (it occurs at around the 5:15 mark).
Photo credit: iBook G3 James C. Benedict
Apple thrilled the world with clean styling and wireless networking, but the iSight camera found in today's MacBook has a Windows 98 ancestor. In 1999, Sony unveiled the $2299 VAIO C1 PictureBook. The laptop weighed less than 3 pounds, was quite compact, and included (just above the display) a built-in camera that could capture still images and up to 60 seconds of continuous video.
The PictureBook also represented an early stab at what would become known a decade later as a netbook. It was only 1.45 inches thick, and it came without an external floppy or CD-ROM drive. PC World's reviewer complained that the PictureBook's keyboard was "too cramped for any long-term, comfortable typing."
Photo credit: Sony PictureBook Sean from Livesmallbag.com
As the 21st century dawned, laptops were getting much faster, with bigger hard drives and better graphics. In the third quarter of 2008, laptops surpassed desktop PCs in sales for the first time, and the push was on for ever-lighter, ever-faster machines. The ultimate expression of that movement was Apple's MacBook Air, unveiled in early 2008.
True, the Sony VAIO X505 of 2004 was an impressive achievement in thin-and-lightness, but the Air reshaped the public's idea of how slender a computer could be. Sporting a newly designed chip from Intel and a nonremovable battery--but no optical drive--the Air delighted the crowds at Macworld 2008. Newsweek technology columnist Steven Levy discovered just how slim the Air was when his test machine (on loan from Apple) disappeared one day. At first Levy thought that someone had stolen the machine, but ultimately he concluded that his wife had accidentally tossed the superthin device into a trash compactor amid a pile of newspapers. No doubt that particular Air ended up even thinner.
Photo credit: MacBook Air Apple
The Asus Eee PC is widely recognized as the computer that sparked the netbook craze in late 2007. But in 2005--long before the Asus Eee PC came out--Nicholas Negroponte was touting his concept of a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum (a Swiss nonprofit foundation) in Davos, Switzerland. Negroponte's dream eventually became the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO, which sells for $200 and is meant to put an Internet-capable computer in the hands of every underprivileged child in the world. The public responded positively to the idea of a laptop with a hand crank that would sell for so little money. When OLPC offered the XO in a give-one/get-one scheme in late 2007, the enthusiasm for this little computer skyrocketed. Intel and Microsoft quickly followed the XO down the supercheap, superportable path, and suddenly the netbook was the fastest-growing segment of the computer market. The Eee PC may have reached market first, but the XO is the machine that caught the public's attention.
Photo credit: OLPC's XO One Laptop Per Child
The Web tablet looks to be the next major evolutionary stage in portable computing. Such tablets have yet to emerge, but at least one real product, the CrunchPad, is getting close.
Reportedly the device is a dead simple Web tablet with a custom-built Linux OS, an Intel Atom chipset, two USB ports, a Webcam, and microphone. The CrunchPad could arrive as early as this summer. Apple is rumored to be working on a tablet of its own, the Apple Tablet, rumored to be set to debut in October 2009.
The Web tablet returns us to the Dynabook. Conceivably these devices will someday be as powerful as regular laptops. And though we aren't there yet, Alan Kay's vision might finally become a reality with Web tablets, albeit without a physical keyboard. If so, perhaps one day we'll be discussing milestone Web tablets in a retrospective slideshow.
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ShopBack, the leading rewards and discovery platform in Asia Pacific, enables shoppers across the region to shop "The Smarter Way." It provides users a one-stop rewards platform to earn cashback, while delivering performance-based marketing to merchants. ShopBack has experienced remarkable growth since its launch in Singapore in 2014, having expanded its reach to Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, Vietnam, and Korea. ShopBack partners with leading e-commerce merchants to reward its users with cashback across a wide range of categories including general merchandise, travel bookings, fashion, health and beauty, groceries, and food delivery.
The company relied on Amazon Web Services (AWS) from day one to build a flexible and highly secure infrastructure. But as ShopBack expanded, it ran into some issues with scalability. To meet growing demand, ShopBack needed to evolve its IT architecture from single instances of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). "Each time we moved into a new market we had to deploy a new stack more or less manually," says David Chua, engineering manager at ShopBack.
The challenge was magnified each time a large retail sale took place across Asian markets, which often resulted in a tenfold increase in ShopBack's web traffic. "We had a lot of problems trying to scale up," says Chua. "If you aren't sure you can scale to meet a big bump in traffic, you either end up throwing money at the problem or accept that your data will process slowly. Neither is sustainable or conducive to business growth." Large spikes in traffic could bring the entire ShopBack site down, resulting in disappointed customers and merchants.
In 2018, the company adopted Kubernetes and containerization using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), which helped ShopBack scale more effectively and improve resilience, but the startup still required greater cost-efficiency. "As we gained traction, expenses followed the growth curve quite closely. We needed to bring costs back down," says Chua.
Lowering Costs While Boosting Scalability with AWS
Looking for further cost reductions as well as improved scalability and reliability, ShopBack discovered Amazon EC2 Spot Instances in 2019. Using Spot Instances for various stateless applications allowed the company to increase scalability and reduce its infrastructure costs by 60 percent. Being able to scale out at drastically reduced costs enabled ShopBack to process more customer transactions concurrently within budget, helping customers get their cashback faster. This translated to happier customers and busier merchants, improving the company's profitability. ShopBack can now process customer cashback faster using fewer internal resources. "The amount of money we have to spend on server costs to generate cashback for our customers is significantly lower with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances," says Chua.
Today, when ShopBack's ecommerce partners launch flash deals or participate in large sales, ShopBack can scale up to meet spikes in demand while keeping costs in check. "Now I just buy more Spot Instances, and I can clear our queue much faster," says Chua. And once a high-traffic event is over, ShopBack engineers can easily scale resources back down. That enables ShopBack to sustain strong growth while keeping infrastructure costs low, which in turn means ShopBack can free up time and budget for engineers to focus on more strategic tasks.
Spot Instances were also easy to launch and manage. "Using Spot Instances doesn't change the way we view applications, so moving from On-Demand Instances to Spot Instances was an easy switch to make," says Chua.
During the transition, ShopBack leaned on AWS Enterprise Support to ensure the most efficient use of infrastructure as it grew. "AWS Enterprise Support helped us make further tweaks to our infrastructure and gave us a better sense of how much we should scale up so we didn't overspend," says Chua. "Once we got through the busy season, the support team helped us focus on sustainable long-term growth."
Evolving and Expanding
Because ShopBack has shifted most of its workload to Spot Instances, the company no longer experiences site outages related to spikes in traffic. And when it wants to launch in new markets, expansion is now easier to accomplish. Since making the change, ShopBack has dramatically grown its active customers, resulting in about four times higher use of the app and the site. Today, ShopBack serves over 20 million users across its nine markets, supports over 3,000 merchants, and has distributed US$100 million in cashback to its users.
Going forward, ShopBack plans to use AWS to manage expansion cost-effectively when launching in new markets. "If you buy services from different vendors, it gets difficult to integrate everything. With AWS, the managed services all work together, and security is built into it all. That means we can focus less on the technology and more on growing the business," says Chua.
Chua says ShopBack plans to add more AWS services. For example, the company is working to provide more personalized user experiences, and it will explore AWS machine learning capabilities in products like Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Personalize. "We want to provide a customized experience for every user, including content and recommendations about what to buy based on user preferences, browsing history, or location," says Chua. "We want to offer our users the kind of personalized content that they will enjoy and keep them coming back."
To learn more, visit aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot.


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64 propels Lexi Thompson to share of Kraft lead
By Golfweek Staff Writer April 4, 2014 9:14 pm
By Golfweek Staff Writer | April 4, 2014 9:14 pm
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – There's been a lot of talk about confidence this week. A pair of 6-foot superstars – Lexi Thompson and Michelle Wie – are kicking up dust here at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, and golf fans can only hope that bravado carries over to the weekend.
LPGA founder Shirley Spork, a Palm Desert, Calif., resident since 1954, had this to say about confidence: "The Babe was always the best in her mind. She would always say, 'Well, the Babe's here, who's going to be second?' "
The tour's bigs aren't taking it quite as far as Zaharias, but the swagger is back.
Thompson's bogey-free 8-under 64 is the lowest second round in Kraft major history. On a calm, cloudy day at the Dinah Shore Course, Thompson took advantage of easier pin positions and vaulted from a tie for 29th to a share of the lead with veteran Se Ri Pak at 7-under 137. Consider that when Pak won her first major in 1998, Thompson was 3 years old.
The difference between Thompson's first two rounds? 10 putts.
"In the last six months I went through quite a dramatic change," Thompson said of her putting. "I had moved really close to the ball . . . Even as a little kid I stood far away from the ball and took the putter inside. So I just went right back to that."
Thompson calls the Kraft her favorite week of the year. The 19-year-old bomber has been playing in majors since age 12, and said the biggest thing she has learned is how to stay patient.
"As long as you're hitting it well and you get those looks," Thompson said, "you just have to tell yourself that they'll fall eventually and just go out with a confident attitude."
Wie, meanwhile, is taking a more aggressive approach. Swing coach David Leadbetter said she's no longer simply trying to play away from trouble. Wie three-putted the par-5 18th after reaching it in two. She hit a tree on the par-5 second that managed to keep her from going out of bounds and went on to birdie from there. Major victories usually require a little luck.
Wie has only two bogeys in 36 holes.
"It's the worst she could've shot," Leadbetter said of her Day 2 71.
As for the putting, Leadbetter said Wie's self-taught approach, which he's now calling "the draw bridge," works because it creates a unit between her shoulders, arms and chest. It doesn't break down.
In an effort to be more of a feel player, Wie stopped looking at her golf swing on video. Since last October, she reckons she has seen it twice on tape.
It was hard at first, said Wie, who started feeling like a swing-tape addict. But as time went by, the desire to look for perfection began to wane.
"I like don't even want to look at my swing anymore," said Wie, "just because I don't want to start relying on my eyes again. I just really am starting to rely on my body and how it feels. I think I've really gotten in tune with how I'm moving."
Angela Stanford played two rounds with Wie and said she looks more in control of her golf swing. Because Wie can do things with the ball that only 5 percent of the tour can do, Stanford said, she can get to pins that most players can't.
Stanford has seen Wie "take a beating" over the years and is happy for the 24-year-old's recent success.
"I think she's growing up and being herself," Stanford said. "Once people see there's more to Michelle than just a golf swing, they'll like her even more."
Wie traveled to a tournament for the first time in her career without her parents earlier this year in the Bahamas. Leadbetter said she enjoyed it, and while that may happen again this season, he made sure to emphasize that the Wie threesome is a tight-knit crew.
It's true, Michelle genuinely enjoys her parents. And anyone who has watched B.J. and Bo spectate knows for certain that they live to watch her play.
"Until they get ShotLink on the LPGA," Leadbetter said, "I think they'll be traveling."


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Effect of Rosa gorenkensis Besser aqueous extracts on germination and early growth of native plant species
Agnieszka TATOJ Pedagogical University of Krakow, Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Podchorążych 2 St., 30-084 Kraków (PL)
Katarzyna MOŻDŻEŃ Pedagogical University of Krakow, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, Podchorążych 2 St., 30-084 Kraków (PL)
Beata BARABASZ-KRASNY Pedagogical University of Krakow, Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Podchorążych 2 St., 30-084 Kraków (PL)
Anna SOŁTYS-LELEK Ojców National Park, 32-045 Sułoszowa, Ojców 9 (PL)
Wojciech GRUSZKA Poznań University School of Physical Education, Faculty of Physical Culture in Gorzów Wlkp., Department of Biological Sciences, Estkowskiego 13, 66-400 Gorzów Wielkopolski (PL)
Peiman ZANDI Yibin University, International Faculty of Applied Technology, Yibin 644000, China (CN)
alien species, allelopathy, biomass, electrolyte leakage, invasion, seedlings
In Europe, Rosa gorenkensis Besser is considered an invasive species. However, its negative impact on native flora components or other habitat components has not been described so far. In the experiment, the germination reactions of mono- and dicotyledonous plant seeds to the aqueous extracts of R. gorenkensis were investigated to determine the allelopathic potential of this plant. Seeds of common plants – wild-growing Festuca rubra L. and cultivated Raphanus sativus L. var. radicula Pers. cv. 'Rowa' were treated with aqueous extracts from the roots, stalks, leaves, and flowers of rosa at concentrations of 1%, 2.5%, and 5%. Along with the increase in the concentration of allelochemical compounds in the extracts, the negative influence of the extracts on the germination capacity of the tested seeds species was found. Regardless of the type of extract, inhibition of the growth of the underground and aboveground parts of seedlings was also observed. Changes in biomass and water content, depending on the concentration and type of the extract, were found. The greatest differences in the electrolytes leakage in seedlings watered with 5% extracts were revealed. The study showed that the aqueous extracts of leaves and flowers of this species had the greatest allelopathic potential.
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TATOJ, A., MOŻDŻEŃ, K., BARABASZ-KRASNY, B., SOŁTYS-LELEK, A., GRUSZKA, W., & ZANDI, P. (2022). Effect of Rosa gorenkensis Besser aqueous extracts on germination and early growth of native plant species. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 50(1), 12668. https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha50112668
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This graph shows that time spent on Facebook is flatlining, with no growth in sight
Mary Hanbury
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
A new report from eMarketer showed that Facebook users in the US are spending less time using the social network.
The average daily time spent on Facebook fell by 3 minutes last year to 38 minutes a day, and is expected to drop to 37 minutes in 2020.
Facebook has also seen user growth rates stall in the US in recent years.
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People are spending less time on Facebook.
That's according to a new report from eMarketer, which found that the average daily time US adults (those aged over 18 years old) spend on Facebook fell by 3 minutes in 2018 to 38 minutes a day.
eMarketer is expecting this number to flatline in 2019 and drop to 37 minutes by 2020.
"Facebook's continued loss of younger adult users, along with its focus on downranking clickbait posts and videos in favor of those that create 'time well spent,' resulted in less daily time spent on the platform in 2018 than we had previously expected," said Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer principal analyst.
A spokesperson for Facebook did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
It supports a gloomy trend for Facebook. The platform had its slowest 12 months of user growth since its 2012 IPO last year, with the rise in daily active users falling below 10% for the first time. Facebook had 2.32 billion daily active users in 2018.
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Meanwhile, a set of charts that were shared its most recent earnings showed how daily active users in the US and Canada have flatlined for the past two years; monthly active user data followed a similar pattern in 2018. Most of the growth during the quarter was reserved to countries outside of the US, Canada, and Europe.
It was not all bad news for Facebook, however. Instagram was a bright spot for the company after users spent more time with the social network, according to eMarketer. It is also taking share from its competitors such as Snapchat.
"Features like Stories, influencer content and video are all contributing to more engagement and a slow but steady uptick in time spent on Instagram," Williamson said.
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Q: generate go files based on protobuf via import I have two git repositories:
common
this repository contains protobuf files (.proto), these files should be fetched via git submodule init from other vendor repository. There are also go files with directive: //go:generate protoc --proto_path=a/xxx --go_out=. --go_opt=paths=source_relative a/xxx/b.proto
main
this repository contains main project, which imports the package from common. Then I call git submodule update --init and the go generate. After generate i can see the log: go: finding github.xxx.com/xxx latest
but the main go file shows some problems:
build github.xxx.com/main: cannot load github.xxx.com/xxx/proto: module github.xxx.com/common@latest found, but does not contains package github.xxx.com/xxx/proto
It seems that the go generate command doesn't generate proto files. I think if I import something then these files are somewhere in cache. I'm not sure if my approach is possible.
Could you tell me if this solution is feasible or what I should change.

A: ok, my solution is project layout like this: https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout
there I have more main.go files inside cmd folder. In this way I have only one module and inside the module I can have different applicaions. I think it's very cool solution.

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Scottish hotel asks to be stripped of Michelin Star due to 'enormous stress'
The Boath House is one of just 13 Scottish eateries to hold the accolade.
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The Boath House has asked to be stripped of their Michelin star. (Image: Boath House)
A Scottish country house hotel has followed a celebrated French chef by asking to be stripped of its Michelin star rating.
Boath House, which has held a Michelin star for the past 10 years, said the dining guide's expectations were "at odds with achievable profit margins".
The hotel at Auldearn, near Nairn, said customers wanted a "more informal and relaxed" experience.
Last week, Sebastien Bras asked for his eatery to be dropped from the guide.
His restaurant in Le Suquet, France, has held three stars since 1999, but Mr Bras said he wanted to be dropped from Michelin's 2018 roster in order "to start a new chapter".
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In a statement, Boath House owners Don and Wendy Matheson said they too wanted to "re-evaluate their relationship" with the Michelin Guide, after deciding to "move Boath House in a new direction".
Mrs Matheson said: "Whilst we are extremely proud of the Michelin star we gained 10 years ago and it undoubtedly enhanced our reputation, our restaurant has consistently made a loss.
"We believe that the expectations from Michelin are at odds with achievable profit margins and put an enormous stress on a small family-run business like ours.
"The feedback we are hearing time and time again from our customers is that they want an experience that is more informal and relaxed and this extends to the restaurant, the food and even how it is served."
According to the current Michelin Guide, Boath House is "an elegant oval dining room in an early 19C mansion. Well-balanced modern menus showcase the chef's skill and understanding.
"Cooking is accomplished, with vivid presentation and interesting flavours - and much of the produce is from their garden or orchard. Sit at bespoke oak tables and take in the lake view."
Responding to Boath House's move, the editor of the Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland, Rebecca Burr, said: "It's obviously up to individual restaurants how they want to run their businesses, and there is absolutely no formula for winning or retaining a Michelin star.
"There has certainly been a trend towards more informal dining over the past 10 years or so, and in fact Michelin has been at the absolute forefront of recognising and celebrating that."
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Boath House's decision to walk away from its star rating comes as it continues a major overhaul of its operations.
The hotel is to open a "casual and rustic" cafe in its walled garden next year, having already made changes to its dining room to allow for "more approachable and less expensive options".
A major refurbishment of the hotel's rooms is also taking place.
Mrs Matheson added: "The aim is to provide a warm, comfortable touch of contemporary luxury combined with homely charm.
"Using local artisanal suppliers, the interiors of this design-led restaurant with rooms intends to deliver a Highland experience without undue formality.
"We are confident that this is where the accommodation and dining market is going and that we will have a more sustainable product.
"It will be interesting to see whether this will be reflected in subsequent reviews of our restaurant with rooms by industry bodies in the hospitality sector."


Spent this afternoon teaching some teachers how to do fashiony things with leather – like the hole-punch corsage and cut-work suede cushions below. They had some great ideas themselves, like weaving strips of fabric through the leather and layering and cutting away in contrasting colours. It certainly inspired me to try some new things, and seemed to give them lots of ideas of what to do with their pupils. A very enjoyable and creative session.
Also sent a package off to a new stockist – Platform Gallery in Lancashire – including felt bags and purses.


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Q: C# parse html with xpath I'm trying to parse out stock exchange information whit a simple piece of C# from a HTML document.  The problem is that I can not get my head around the syntax, the tr class="LomakeTaustaVari" gets parsed out but how do I get the second bit that has no tr-class?
Here's a piece of the HTML, it repeats it self whit different values.

12:09

MSI

POH

42

64,50

12:09

SRE

POH

156

64,50

My C# code:
{
    HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
    HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = web.Load ("https://www.op.fi/op/henkiloasiakkaat/saastot-ja-sijoitukset/kurssit-ja-markkinat/markkinat?sivu=alltrades.html&sym=KNEBV.HSE&from=10:00&to=19:00&id=32453");

    foreach (HtmlNode row in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//tr[@class='LomakeTaustaVari']"))
    {
        Console.WriteLine(row.InnerText);
    }
    Console.ReadKey();
}

A: Try to use the next xpath //tr[preceding-sibling::tr[@class='LomakeTaustaVari']]:
var nodes = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//tr[preceding-sibling::tr[@class='LomakeTaustaVari']]");

It should select nodes that have preceding node tr with class LomakeTaustaVari.
Just FYI: if no nodes found, SelectNodes method returns null.

A: If you manage to get a reference to the
 element, I see two possible solutions.
You can navigate to the parent and then find all its
 children:
lomakeTaustaVariElement.Parent.SelectNodes("tr"); // iterate over these if needed

You can also use NextSibling to get the next
:
var trWithoutClass = lomakeTaustaVariElement.NextSibling;

Please note that using the second alternative you may run into issues, because whitespace present in the HTML may be interpreted as being a distinct element.
To overcome this, you may recursively call NextSibling until you encounter a tr element.

A: This will iterate over all  nodes in document. You will probably also need to be more specific with starting node, so you will only select  that you are interested in.
foreach (HtmlNode row in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//tr"))
{
    Console.WriteLine(row.InnerText);
}

A: Probably I don't understand something, but the simplest XPath for any tr element selection should do the work:
doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//tr")

Otherwise, in case you would like to select elements with specific class attributes only, it could be:
doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//tr[@class = 'someClass1' or @class = 'someClass2']")

A: If you do not like to load the page and want to use a ready html string, e.g. from a WebBrowser element, you can use the following example:
var web = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
web.LoadHtml(webBrowser1.Document.Body.Parent.OuterHtml);
var q = web.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("/html/body/div[2]/div/div[1]") //XPath /html/body/div[2]/div/div[1]


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After 15 minutes of play, I paused the game, picked up my phone, and called my oldest gaming friend. Once he picked up, I screamed like Janine in Ghostbusters "WE GOT ONE!!!" Evil West is a downright straight-to-the-point action-adventure game, reminiscent of early Gears of War and God of War.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm still a fan of both said franchises and the new directions they've evolved into. However, it's not often that we get a game like Evil West with these steampunk weapons, a crazy story, relentless frantic gameplay, and gore-Palooza visuals.
You play as Jesse Rentier, a badass gunslinger whose sole goal in life is to hunt down vampires and every other monster that's infesting the west. Jesse is part of the Rentier Institute which his father started right after the Civil War. They are tasked with hunting and killing the evil creatures that roam their lands. He also has a friend named Edgar Gravenor who's recently retired but just can't stop himself from going out on hunts with Jesse.
I'm avoiding story spoilers and yes, Evil West actually has a rather deep story that not only is told via the cut-scenes but also in the documentation and other collectibles you find throughout the game. OH! And they are all voice-narrated. Some Jesse will read and others will be narrated by the author of the document which is fantastic. This is something we rarely encounter in modern game releases. During a major meeting at the Rentier Institute HQ, they are attacked and all hell breaks loose. Literally, the entire area turns into Dante's inferno, everything on fire, disembodied screams, and monsters. A whole lot of monsters.
Evil West looks like a western with its bright sun beaming light reflecting off mountains and casting shadows down creepy pathways. The twist is these vampires and monsters have also been here for some time so they have established locations that are downright horrifying. One minute you are shooting vampires which are shapeshifting on the fly into some un-godly creature and the next you're walking down a tunnel leading to a location out of the film Van Helsing.
I love the fact that each location has differences and doesn't all take place in abandoned ghost towns. Evil West doesn't have any side missions but there are plenty of hidden paths to explore and find cash, weapon upgrades, cosmetic items, and other collectibles. There are also some light puzzle elements. For example, you need to reach a ledge but there is no way to climb up. So you'll need to find a chain to shoot down or something you can pull and use to climb up. All these interactive points have a glow to them so there easy to spot.
Evil West combat is in a 3rd person close over-the-shoulder perspective. This feels very much like Gears and even more so once the slaying of monsters begins. At first, Jesse will just have his fist and trusty gauntlet. Holding RB which dish out a super uppercut that will send almost all enemy types (excluding bosses) into the air. At this time, you can button mash (RB) to unleash a flurry of punches or press in on the right thumbstick to perform a spartan-type kick and send them flying.
Some locations will have spiked-filled walls so if said moves are performed the enemy can and will be empaled. You will quickly unlock the ability to use the gauntlet to zip toward your targeted enemy at the same time electrifying it and then button mashing (RB) to rain down punch combos. Like in modern DOOM titles when an enemy is near death they will glow/blink and you can then perform an execution.
Regardless of the execution by weapon or hand, the outcome will be a bloody mess with body parts everywhere. Some locations will have TNT barrels and when shot they will explode along with all enemies near it. You can also use the gauntlet to pull weakened enemies toward you to finish them off. This is extremely useful in later stages in which there are snipers on high ridges.
Another two weapons you will get early on will be a revolver and a rifle. As you progress and find more cash and level up more upgrades and weapons will become available. There is also a perks system so you can better adjust Jesse's combat style to your liking. You will need to utilize all of these tools as some areas can be downright ridiculously challenging.
What adds to the challenge is that as you're performing a combo of any sort other enemies are still attacking you. So, at times I had to stop or not perform the combo at all since I knew there were too many enemies around and I would take damage in the process or even die. You gain health from fallen enemies and can heal but pressing the (B) button.
One of the key features of Evil West is the ability to play the entire game in online co-op (no couch co-op). Unfortunately, I was unable to try this feature during the time of the review. What I can confirm from the developer (Flying Wild Hog) is that the host of the co-op session will obtain campaign progression however the person who joins will not. So if you do plan to pick this up with a friend just keep this in mind. I always found this baffling as it makes no sense NOT to have shared progression, especially since the achievement or trophies will still unlock which means the game is recognizing you completed the mission yet it's not reflected in the save file.
Playing Evil West takes me back to a simpler time in gaming, where I didn't have to stress out if I'm using the correct loadout or strategizing my point of attack. All I had to do is move forward, kill every hideous creature I encounter, and continue to the next area. The story and weapons are right out of a "What if" scenario and I'm all in. I can easily see a sequel, streaming show, or movie. Honestly, if you are a fan of those types of action games, then this is a must-have for your collection.
This review was written based on a digital review copy of Evil West for Xbox Series X provided by Flying Wild Hog and Focus Entertainment.
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Who Got the Gig? Re-thinking George Parker
George Parker. Photo by Emanuella de Ruiter
The Big Idea writer Emanuella de Ruiter gets behind the free-thinking mind.
George Parker, the new Artistic Director for the Christchurch Arts Festival, has some big ideas for the festival's future. The self-proclaimed dreamer and schemer spoke enthusiastically about the role of the arts in Christchurch and its ability to bring people relief after the trauma of the earthquakes. "The city has gone through many different cycles since the earthquakes and the initial period, while immensely challenging, was creatively very interesting."
We are going to down-scale the programme and upscale the sense of spectacle
Fresh ideas and new possibilities
George says that the creative energy that manifested soon after the earthquakes has plateaued in recent years, and he is on a mission to see that energy reinvigorated. He speaks of a strong desire within the community to support the Christchurch arts scene and bring some life back into the city, and hopes he can aid in this process through the change of direction he has planned for the Christchurch Arts Festival. Big things are happening, George tells me excitedly: "we are going to down-scale the programme and upscale the sense of spectacle and experience through interesting collaborations and new initiatives."
Only one month into the gig and George is already busy planning and meeting with key figures in the local arts scene. He says, "at the moment there are lots of meetings, lots of sharing a sense of where we are heading and seeing how people are going to respond to it. I'm speaking to artists, producers, musicians and various organisations to get some feedback on the plans and sort out the logistics of putting it all together."
Locals have been overwhelmingly supportive of George's proposed change in direction for the festival and are keen to contribute their own ideas. He says, "it's invigorating being given the chance to rethink how a festival might be and how it might work in relation to the city at the moment. People want to engage with the local arts scene and explore what it means to be from Christchurch."
As a foodie and supporter of local restaurants, George hopes to be able to incorporate this element into the festival. "Just this morning I had a wonderful conversation with Giulio Sturla from Roots restaurant in Lyttelton and he's really keen to play a key role in the festival. Dining can be a thrilling experience — it can be akin to theatre."
Free Theatre
Theatre is something that George has always been very passionate about and it's something which has always played a large part in his life. He is currently an actor in Christchurch's Free Theatre and in the past has also been a producer and a manager for the company. Free Theatre is the longest running supplier of experimental and contemporary theatre in New Zealand. George believes his involvement in Free Theatre is an important aspect of what he offers to the festival: as a working artist himself, he is better able to understand the challenges faced by artists and how he can successfully incorporate them into the mix. He says, "I bring an artistic angle to the table — the artist's ability to work collectively or collaboratively. It enables me to think about how I might involve different people, different groups, or organisations into the development of the festival."
A production by Peter Falkenberg with the Free Theatre set in motion a major turning point in George's career and his view of New Zealand theatre. He saw it at a time when he was trying to raise money to pursue an acting career overseas because he didn't believe he could have a future in theatre here. "When I saw Peter's production it was an experience… it really raised a lot of questions about what you could do with theatre and that was thrilling to realise. Eventually I discovered a whole artistic history that I had never really engaged with. While our cultural identity might be quite young in comparison to other countries, it's enthralling when you uncover a Whakapapa or lineage of artists that have been trying to stand upright here."
Listen to your gut
George explains that in order to succeed in this type of gig you have to be brave enough to listen to your instincts and take chances. He says, "a lot of the time you need to listen to your gut and see where it takes you. My gut is that people are really searching for experiences that engage them with the world; that take them beyond their everyday life, to be reconnected and to return home to their community. There's a sense of dissatisfaction with the way the world is and a sense that many people want to find experiences that challenge that dissatisfaction and give voice to them."
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Emanuella is a documentary photographer and writer based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. She enjoys writing about people and their unique life experiences — especially when those experiences involve the arts!
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Fishing is becoming more popular with people over the world. It is a great way to relax and get to know others as well as put some food on your table. Not everybody decides to go fishing for food because a lot of people decide to practice catch and release. In order to be outfitted for a good fishing trip you're going to need to know about fishing reels, the types of reels that you should use, and more useful information about fishing gear. Here's a little bit more information about the fishing gear that you will need to be outfitted with to be prepared for your next fishing experience.
The first thing that you have to be well aware of before you decide to go on a fishing trip is the real that you're going to use for your fishing reel. Many different manufacturers make great reels. The best one of the market is going to be little bit more expensive than you think but you have to compare the quality in which one you would like the best before you make a decision.
There are fishing reel's that are made with ball bearings for the glide as you bring in your fish. As easy as you can turn the crank on your fishing reel you'll be able to notice the difference with the amount of tension if the manufacturer has put their heart and soul into the reel. Before you make your final decision on the fishing reel that you want to purchase you better check out a couple of things that is different between all reels.
The first thing that you want to check is the tension when you crank the fishing reel. This will give you a better indication of what is going on or when there is a fish on the line. If the crank is hard to turn it might just be because the drag is set too high but it could also be there is not enough grease in the ball bearings to make a smooth revolution. The action of the reel has to be easy enough for a child to use.
You also need to look at the spool when you're trying to choose the right fishing reel for you. The spool will determine how fast you have to turn the crank in order get your line in. News like this is a little bit shocking to many people because they do not factor in the size of the spool on your fishing reel to determine how fast you have to turn. This also determines the amount of string or fishing line that you can have on your reel.
Maybe the last thing that you have to determine when you're trying to choose the right fishing reel for you is how it feels when you hold it on your fishing pole. Comfort is a very big issue that many people overlook because they want to see how well it is going to work in the real world under pressure. If you're not comfortable holding the rod and reel you might decide or try to look for a different one.
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Whether you have smelly pets or microwave just smoked up, it's time for you to grab a room refreshing spray. Just be nice to your room and make it smell better with your DIY Recipe. Add 1-Cup of water and one Cup of cheap plain vodka and then 20 drops of your favorite essential oil. Pour it in a clean spray bottle, give it a good shake and then just use your nose & spray accordingly.
You know about the soap scum right! It's that sticky grayish brownish build up that you get on your shower walls as well as in your tub. Soap scum comes from dead skin cells, body oils, hard water deposits and obviously any soap remains that are left behind. And then, it all mixes up together forming scum. If you are willing to go for the store-bought stuff, great. But since we are more focused on the DIY, here's the simple recipe.
Add ½ Cup of baking soda to ½ Cup of dish soap to a little bowl. Then you'll be adding 5-10 drops of citrus-based essential oil. When you have the solution ready, just apply it to the surface carrying soap scum. It's truly effective. Once you are done scrubbing and cleaning, don't forget to give it a good rinse.
When you are up for glass cleaning, you need the best item to get along with. Now it's all your choice whether you buy it from the store or go for the DIY solution. You have tons of options for the store-bought products but the homemade one, here's how you do it. Add 1-cup water and 1-cup vinegar, mix it well in the spray bottle, and you have the solution ready. Make sure to use the 'S' pattern while cleaning it.
Save money making your toilet bowl cleaner that's a bit more health and environmentally conscious. Grab a little squeeze bottle and fill it with the following recipe. Add water, ½ Cup of baking soda, ½ Cup of dish soap and ¼ Cup of hydrogen peroxide. Give it a good shake over there. If you want, try adding some essential oils. Apply it to the toilet the same way you would using any other commercial toilet bowl cleaner. Make sure to give a good scrub and flush it all.
When moisture and dark, damp areas meet, they end up forming mold and mildew. And Congratulation! You have one too. So how you get rid of it?
Add a ½ Cup borax and ¼ Cup vinegar. When the solution is ready, just give the surfaces with mold or mildew a good scrub. Rinse it thoroughly and polish it up with an excellent old microfiber cloth. The best cleaning company Dubai suggests this tip.


From Being Open About Stuttering to Attending Camp Shout Out!
To all those who read my last blog entry, I'm sorry for not posting sooner. After my piece on being open about stuttering, I was fortunate to fly out to Muskegon, Michigan (on a 20 hour flight!) to attend Camp Shout Out. For me it was the perfect opportunity to see everyone be open about their stuttering in a safe and supportive environment. The courage each camper showed in being proactively open and meeting others who stuttered was inspiring!
This year there were 36 campers aged between 8-18 with a new Leaders-In-Training program for the older teenagers. Out of this year's 36, about half had attended last year proving that Camp Shout Out is truly a life changing event. Staff members included SLPs, grad students and volunteers with faculty members Kristin Chmela, June Campbell and Dr Kevin Eldridge leading the way in ensuring that everything went smoothly.
Day one was filled with a mixture of nerves, excitement and anxiety, though it seemed like it was harder for the parents than the kids to say goodbye. Days two to five were filled with recreational activities such as swimming, fishing and rock climbing as well as speech modification practice in small teams. Brekkie, lunch and dinner was a communal affair with campers and staff hanging out and getting to know each other. At night, campers slept in shared cabins with a camp counsellor supervising to make sure that everyone went to bed on time.
Highlights from this year included watching campers grow in confidence as the week progressed (a camper directed wrote and directed a skit in front of the whole group), improvements in fluency and communication skills, increased verbal risk-taking (such as telling a joke in front of 50 people) and reduced isolation. Friendships were made, laughter was shared and tears were shed at the end when it was time to say goodbye.
For more information and photos of Camp Shout Out head to www.campshoutout.org SLP's, if you decide to enroll you get 5.4 hours of ASHA CEUs under your belt! Parents, your child will come back completely different with more confidence in their communication. Plus, they might even teach you a thing or two about being attentive, confident, assertive, effective and proactive communicators!
Finally, a couple of big shout outs...To Julie Raynor – the driving force behind Camp Shout Out. It is because of you children and teens who stutter get to meet others who truly get what it's like to be them. To the kids I got to work with (you know who you are), keep on being the best communicators you can be and don't forget to keep talking no matter what! To my wonderful SLP grad student (and partner in crime) Olivia Hazelden, good luck for your final semester.
I'll always cherish the fond memories of Camp Shout 2012 and will send positive vibes all the way for New Zealand for bigger and better camps each August!
We were so happy to have you! Thanks to the Stuttering Foundation for their continuing support for this program.
What a great blog! My son, Caleb, a 2nd year camper, is still is talking about Voon, Olivia, and of course the entire life changing experience.
Thank you to all the SLP's & grad students for helping our kids have such an amazing week.
Good luck Voon and thanks for coming to Michigan, and making a difference in my son's life.
Voon, I enjoy reading your blog and becoming more informed about stuttering. Keep up the great work!
A truly life-changing experience, one I hope to experience again!
Michelle - once again, thank you for letting us meet your family, they are kind and wonderful people. E for president!?
See you all in the future!
I don't know you, but I participated in Illinois with Julie and the faculty staff of Camp Shout Out when they operated Camp Speak Up. It is not only a life changing experience for campers, but professional and graduate staff as well! I am considering trying to get involved next year in Camp Speak Up now because you sparked that excitement in me. My student here went to camp 2 years and it was definitely a positive and rare experience for him. Thanks for making the trip and spreading the word.
Carly Simon began stuttering severely when she was eight years old.


To many people, the idea of making a bodyweight exercise harder means adding more reps, taking less rest or performing the exercise quicker.
However in the world of progressive calisthenics, we use bodyweight to gain strength and build muscle.
This means that we have to apply progressive overload and make the exercise more difficult.
For weightlifting, this is easily done, just add a few more Kgs and you're good to go.
So how do we do this with bodyweight strength training?
Here are 13 possible ways to progress a bodyweight exercise.
Our legs are a lot stronger than our arms, so it makes sense if we shift more of our weight to the arms, it's going to get more difficult.
For example, to make a push-up harder, we may elevate the feet and perform decline push-ups.
In a decline push-up more of the weight is through the arms as the feet are elevated.
As this gets too easy we eventually progress towards handstand push-ups, where the legs are now taking none of the weight.
We can utilise leverage to increase the difficulty of an exercise.
Imagine you're carrying a heavy log, you'd hold it in the centre of the log to make it easier to carry; holding it at the end would make it much more difficult.
The same applies to your bodyweight.
We can shorten the length of your body by bending the knees or even straddling the legs.
For example, with hanging leg raises we can start by doing them with bent knees.
As they get too easy, we start to straighten the knees, making the length of our legs longer thus increasing the difficulty.
The obvious progression when you think of making a bodyweight exercise more difficult is to do it with one arm or leg.
However, often we may need to shift more weight over to that limb first.
For example with our push-up, we can do archer push-ups where we alternatively put more weight through one then the other.
To increase the difficult further, we simply put more weight through the working arm by moving the other arm further away or elevating it.
Full range of motion is more difficult than just performing a partial rep.
This is why with pull-ups, we always encourage our students to pull as high as they can, rather than stopping once the chin passes the bar.
By working off an unstable object, we can make exercises significantly harder; this means the smaller stabilising muscles will have to work a lot more.
For example, try performing push-ups with both hands on a basket ball, once this is too easy, try a smaller ball.
If you perform a standard push-up, it will work the chest, triceps and front delts (plus stabilising muscles).
If we want to make this more difficult we can make adjustments to emphasise one of these muscles more.
For example, close hand push-ups will emphasise the triceps more, pseudo planche push-ups will work the front delts more and wide grip push-ups will work the chest more.
Performing any movement slowly will increase the difficulty as it requires more time under tension.
You can also add pauses at difficult points of the movement, for example add a pause at the top of a pull-up or the middle position.
On the other end of the spectrum, if you perform a movement as fast as you can and usually try to take yourself off the ground/bar, this will also add difficulty.
Clapping push-ups, superman push-ups, squat jumps are all an example of an exercise performed explosively.
With bodyweight leg exercises, the exercise can be made more difficult by moving the hand position so that it causes less counterbalance.
For example a regular bodyweight squat is harder if we put our hands on our head or behind our back as the weight is now shifted more to the back and provides less counterbalance to our squat.
Adjusting your grip of the bar or the ground can make a big difference to the difficulty of an exericse.
For example you can do push-ups on your fingertips.
Pull-ups have many grips we can use to adjust the difficulty.
When most people get their first pull-up, they tend to kick their legs a little to help them up.
As they get stronger they may find they no longer need to do this.
This is an example of improving the form to make the exercise harder.
Using momentum at the bottom of an exercise can make it a lot easier.
If you work on reducing this you will require a lot more strength.
A good example of this is the muscle-up; for most people when they first do a muscle-up they will have to kip.
As you get stronger you can clean-up your muscle-up making it more difficult.
Not always a necessary option but if you want then why not add some weight to a bodyweight exercise.
At MP Calisthenics we use weighted dips and weighted pull-ups to test everyone's max strength at the MPC Games.


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AirAsia: Did the fatal airplane ditch before submerging into the raging waters?
New scenarios for the fate of the fatal airplane of Air Asia see the light of publicity, while rescue teams continue investigations to locate and retrieve the remains of 162 passengers from the Sea.
Despite the bad weather conditions aggravating their work, so far they have collected eight bodies, of which only one has been identified to belong to a 47year old woman traveling with her 10 year old daughter.
Meanwhile, many believe that the aircraft commanders managed to ditch the aircraft successfully, before submerging into the raging waters causing the death off passengers and crew.
According to a report of "Mirror" newspaper, experts claim that if a danger signal was not recorded then that means that the pilots managed to make an emergency landing on water before the storm brought the tragic end to all 162 passengers.
A similar opinion was expressed by the head of Air Force in Indonesia, who stated that the plane was not exploded nor crashed, because if something like that had happened, then the bodies would have been found dismembered.
At the same time, according to the former Minister of Transportation, the fact that the door of the aircraft was found, indicates that someone might had attempted to open it.
It is worth mentioning that as all takes place, the hotel that the victims' relatives were staying asked them to leave. According to a hotel member of staff, the decision was made after consultation with AirAsia.


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Test animals' bodies naturally absorb chemically coated ceramic implants used to promote regrowth of missing bone, according to researchers at NYU School of Medicine and NYU College of Dentistry.
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AngelMed Guardian System
The AngelMed Guardian System provides certain cardiac patients with warnings about signs of serious cardiac events, including coronary artery occlusions.
The FDA-approved device, implanted under local anesthetic, can detect rapid ST segment changes,...


Mark Hanley has practiced labor relations and employment law since 1982. He has extensive experience in litigating class action and single plaintiff suits brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). He also handles whistleblower and retaliation claims. In addition, he has also mediated over 2,000 employment disputes.
Mark also spends significant time advising management clients on identifying potential legal issues and resolving day-to-day employment related matters.
Mark is a frequent lecturer on a local, state, and national level on all areas of labor and employment law. He has authored and coauthored numerous articles on labor and employment law. He is a former adjunct professor at Stetson University College of Law, where he taught the Advanced Employment Discrimination Seminar. Mark has served as Chairman of several local bar committees, including the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Fee Arbitration Committee, 13-F Grievance Committee and Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.