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9 Things You Don't Know About Steve Jobs Life….
Steve Jobs leans against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs
For all of his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure — even in his death. Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer — a disease that ultimately,at the age of 56.
While the CEO and co-founder of Apple steered most interviews away from the public fascination with his private life, there's plenty we know about Jobs the person, beyond the Mac and the iPhone. If anything, the obscure details of his interior life paint a subtler, more nuanced portrait of how one of the finest technology minds of our time grew into the dynamo that we remember as of today.
1. Early life and childhood
Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was adopted shortly after his birth and reared near Mountain View, California by a couple named Clara and Paul Jobs. His adoptive father — a term that Jobs openly objected to — was a machinist for a laser company and his mother worked as an accountant.
Later in life, Jobs discovered the identities of his estranged parents. His birth mother, Joanne Simpson, was a graduate student at the time and later a speech pathologist; his biological father,Abdulfattah John Jandali, was a Syrian Muslim who left the country at age 18 and reportedly now serves as the vice president of a Reno, Nevada casino. While Jobs reconnected with Simpson in later years, he and his biological father remain estranged.
2. College dropout
Reed college
The lead mind behind the most successful company on the planet never graduated from college, in fact, he didn't even get close. After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California — a town now synonymous with 1 Infinite Loop, Apple's headquarters — Jobs enrolled in Reed College in 1972. Jobs stayed at Reed (a liberal arts university in Portland, Oregon) for only one semester, dropping out quickly due to the financial burden the private school's steep tuition placed on his parents.
In his famous 2005 commencement speechto Stanford University, Jobs said of his time at Reed: "It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."
3. Fibbed to his Apple co-founder about a job at Atari
Jobs is well known for his innovations in personal computing, mobile tech, and software, but he also helped create one of the best known video games of all-time. In 1975, Jobs was tapped by Atari to work on the Pong-like game Breakout.
Breakout for the Atari
He was reportedly offered $750 for his development work, with the possibility of an extra $100 for each chip eliminated from the game's final design. Jobs recruited Steve Wozniak (later one of Apple's other founders) to help him with the challenge. Wozniak managed to whittle the prototype's design down so much that Atari paid out a $5,000 bonus — but Jobs kept the bonus for himself, and paid his unsuspecting friend only $375, according to Wozniak's own autobiography.
4. The wife he leaves behind
Like the rest of his family life, Jobs kept his marriage out of the public eye. Thinking back on his legacy conjures images of him commanding the stage in his trademark black turtleneck and jeans, and those solo moments are his most iconic. But at home in Palo Alto, Jobs was raising a family with his wife, Laurene, an entrepreneur who attended the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Wharton business school and later received her MBA at Stanford, where she first met her future husband.
For all of his single-minded dedication to the company he built from the ground up, Jobs actually skipped a meeting to take Laurene on their first date: "I was in the parking lot with the key in the car, and I thought to myself, 'If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman?' I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town and we've been together ever since."
In 1991, Jobs and Powell were married in the Ahwahnee Hotel at Yosemite National Park, and the marriage was officiated by Kobin Chino, a Zen Buddhist monk.
5. His sister is a famous author
Later in his life, Jobs crossed paths with his biological sister while seeking the identity of his birth parents. His sister, Mona Simpson (born Mona Jandali), is the well-known author of Anywhere But Here — a story about a mother and daughter that was later adapted into a film starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon.
After reuniting, Jobs and Simpson developed a close relationship. Of his sister, he told a New York Times interviewer: "We're family. She's one of my best friends in the world. I call her and talk to her every couple of days." Anywhere But Here is dedicated to "my brother Steve."
6. Celebrity romances
In The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, an unauthorized biography, a friend from Reed reveals that Jobs had a brief fling with folk singer Joan Baez. Baez confirmedthe the two were close "briefly," though her romantic connection with Bob Dylan is much better known (Dylan was the Apple icon's favorite musician). The biography also notes that Jobs went out with actress Diane Keaton briefly.
7. His first daughter
When he was 23, Jobs and his high school girlfriend Chris Ann Brennan conceived a daughter, Lisa Brennan Jobs. She was born in 1978, just as Apple began picking up steam in the tech world. He and Brennan never married, and Jobs reportedly denied paternity for some time, going as far as stating that he was sterile in court documents. He went on to father three more children with Laurene Powell. After later mending their relationship, Jobs paid for his first daughter's education at Harvard. She graduated in 2000 and now works as a magazine writer.
8. Alternative lifestyle
In a few interviews, Jobs hinted at his early experience with the psychedelic drug LSD. Of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Jobs said: "I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
The connection has enough weight that Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who first synthesized (and took) LSD, appealed to Jobs for funding for research about the drug's therapeutic use.
In a book interview, Jobs called his experience with the drug "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." As Jobs himself has suggested, LSD may have contributed to the "think different" approach that still puts Apple's designs a head above the competition.
Jobs will forever be a visionary, and his personal life also reflects the forward-thinking, alternative approach that vaulted Apple to success. During a trip to India, Jobs visited a well-known ashram and returned to the U.S. as a Zen Buddhist.
Jobs was also a pescetarian who didn't consume most animal products, and didn't eat meat other than fish. A strong believer in Eastern medicine, he sought to treat his own cancer through alternative approaches and specialized diets before reluctantly seeking his first surgery for a cancerous tumor in 2004.
9. His fortune
As the CEO of the world's most valuable brand, Jobs pulled in a comically low annual salary of just $1. While the gesture isn't unheard of in the corporate world — Google's Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt all pocketed the same 100 penny salary annually — Jobs has kept his salary at $1 since 1997, the year he became Apple's lead executive. Of his salary, Jobs joked in 2007: "I get 50 cents a year for showing up, and the other 50 cents is based on my performance."
In early 2011, Jobs owned 5.5 million shares of Apple. After his death, Apple shares were valued at $377.64 — a roughly 43-fold growth in valuation over the last 10 years that shows no signs of slowing down.
He may only have taken in a single dollar per year, but Jobs leaves behind a vast fortune. The largest chunk of that wealth is the roughly $7 billion from the sale of Pixar to Disney in 2006. In 2011, with an estimated net worth of $8.3 billion, he was the 110th richest person in the world, according to Forbes. If Jobs hadn't sold his shares upon leaving Apple in 1985 (before returning to the company in 1996), he would be the world's fifth richest individual.
While there's no word yet on plans for his estate, Jobs leaves behind three children from his marriage to Laurene Jobs (Reed, Erin, and Eve), as well as his first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
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The Festival Of Lights-Diwali !!!!
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Here's wishing all my fellow bloggers and friends….."A VERY HAPPY DIWALI AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR"…..May this festive season bring in lots of success and happiness in your life…..
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Love on Facebook!!!!
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Ever seriously thought about this….Are we really on such a big time generation leap and so very technologically developed….that now even the most beautiful feeling in the world….LOVE…has to rely on social networking…..Gone are the days when pigeons were messengers of love….Now the latest trend is get committed on YAHOO MESSENGER:P…..
Ahem….Whenever I think about this….I feel that we human beings are on the verge of becoming robots….If the current scenario continues….Soon enough we might be romancing gadgets instead of live human beings….So, actually how and when did this happen….Can we do anything to stop the human race from becoming emotional wrecks…Lets see….
1) The first and foremost problem which comes into the scene when a guy wishes to propose to the "Girl of His Dreams"….is literal insecurity….not about her answer…But about himself (This happens more often if you are unfortunate enough to fall for the college bombshell)…..The guy will scrutinize and keep thinking of all the ways to make his proposal so exciting that the gal cannot deny it….But in all this thinking process….Some other guy will walk away with the cake:P….So,actually social networks like Facebook solve this problem outright….You can just make your profile interesting,add up things about yourself that may not be even remotely close to the REAL YOU….wins the gal within record time…..
2) The second reason for the popularity of these sites is the social rise that they give to your quite bruised status….You might be all time loser in reality but on Facebook…You become over-night Star….Gals die to meet you…while in reality even the gal next door would not care to look at your face for hell's sake….
3) You can actually get hooked up with anyone who might be miles away…..Chances are that you might even fall in love with them…..Dream about marriage,kids and having secure future for both of you….Voila,at times all of this planning happens within just one week of interaction:P (No wonder India's population is on Rise)….
These are just some of the many reasons of why we are so badly hooked,booked and cooked up with Facebook…..It defines our life and makes us wonder if we can really survive without are online virtual IMAGE….Ok,so lets burst some bubbles about the latest trends of falling in "Love on Facebook"
1) The concept of sweet old "Puppy Love" is today out of date….The sweet nothings….the promises….the long wait for each other after separation and then the joy and ecstasy of meeting up with your LONG LOST LOVE….How can you ever experience all this on social site….I mean fine…you can chat and know about the person….But you can never be sure that the person you are talking to is real or imposter….There are so many fake profiles on Facebook…..So why take a chance and wound your little heart….Puppy Love may be out of date and not in sync with today's generation like Facebook is….But there are less chances of you getting your heart broken if you know that the person you are falling for….is real….and will hold onto You forever and forever…..(never let you fall:P)
2) The next thing is why to create a fake image of yourself just to impress someone….Why can't we be the "ORIGINAL"…..If one has to fake things to gain Love….then how can that Love be true…if foundation is on lies….How will the relationship sustain….Some day….Some how that person will know the Real You….So then why take the risk of becoming a imposter for that one….Whom you love the most…..If the person truly loves they are bound to accept you with your Good and Bad qualities….If they can't….then be happy….because You just saved yourself all that pain and heartache…..Which is bound to happen once the other person finds out the truth about you…..Let your Love know the real person that you are…..That spells a stronger relationship…..
3) Last but not the least….Your gal will never be bothered about what your social status on Facebook is or how you sound to the world….The only things that matter to her are your love and affection…which but obvious can never be shared on Facebook….Here's a complete list of things that your gal might just expect…but would never ever say so….
Actually talk to her…. Share secrets with her…. Give her your jacket….Kiss her slowly….Hug her….Hold her…Laugh with her….Invite her somewhere….Hangout with her and your friends together…. Smile with her…. Take pictures with her……When her friends say "I love her more than you", deny it. Fight back and hug her tight so she can't get to her friends. It makes her feel loved….Always hug her and say I love you whenever you see her…..Kiss her unexpectedly…. Tell her she's beautiful….Tell her the way you feel about her.
Open doors for her, walk her to her car – it makes her feel protected, plus it never hurts to act like a gentleman….Tell her she's your everything – only if you mean it….If it seems like there is something wrong, ask her – if she denies something being wrong, it means SHE DOESN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT – so just hug her….. Make her feel loved…..DON'T cheat on her….Take her ANYWHERE she wants….Text message or call her in the morning and tell her have a good day and how much you miss her…..Be there for her whenever she needs you, and even when she doesn't need you, just be there so she'll know that she can always count on you…. Hold her close when she's cold so she can hold you too….. When people diss her, stand up for her…. Look deep into her eyes and tell her you love her….When walking next to each other grab her hand…..Call or text her at night to wish her sweet dreams….Comfort her when she cries and wipe away her tears….Take her for long walks at night….Always remind her how much you love her…..
So,friends….Think about it….Romance is something that is tied up to the heart….don't tie it to your computer's keyboard…Let your computer be used ONLY for the official work….and go and find out that one person…who is just made for you….Share the most precious moments in your life with your Love….Gift her flowers (although we don't mind diamonds at times)….You can never do that on Facebook…..Trust me all you can do is sent her farmville and cityville requests and add to her anger……Fall in love….IN REAL!!!!!
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Traveling with kids is hard for the same reasons raising kids is hard—plus jet lag. Expectations aren't met. Plans veer off course.
And kids, it turns out, are their own people. In trying times, moments of positive thinking can help tremendously. Read on for mindfulness tips.
Low-tech trips: In an effort to disconnect, author Megan Baxter puts down her iPhone and uses a Polaroid camera to snap pictures on family vacations.
I never practiced yoga until I got pregnant. After my first trimester, I was a downward dog regular, and loved my class as much for the therapy—we spent at least 30 minutes going over our physical aches and mental pains—as I did for the exercise.
I also learned about affirmations and matras, simple strings of words that, when repeated, aimed to get us through difficult times. In this case we were talking about the ultimate difficult time—childbirth.
After all of my chanting, meditation, and stretching, I ended up having two planned c-sections, so the power of morphine quickly overwhelmed my well-practiced matras. Still, the exercise in mindfulness came in handy: See, it turns out they don't dole out morphine on family road trips, so the idea of the affirmation came roaring back on one of my first highway hauls with a wailing one-year-old in the back seat. We had a nine-hour commute and thanks to a cold that wouldn't go away, my son was one miserable kiddo—and travel companion. "This too shall pass," became my matra, my new drug of choice.
Below, Baxter shares her family travel-focused affirmations with Half Pint.
Baxter's Tour de Midwest: Peoria, IL Milwaukee, WI, and Shawano WI.
I can make and break rules with equal authority. I choose my battles.
There are times when ice cream at 10 am works and times when it doesn't. Saying out loud what is flexible and what isn't helps to set everyone's expectations and make those breaking-the-rules-moments more special. What child isn't excited to do something they don't always get to do?
I control my outlook, the weight of the suitcase/stroller/car seat does not consume me.
It's not all going to be fun. Between the stroller, the portable sound machine, the bag of toys, the bag of snacks, baby milk, car seats and the all-important iPad and child-sized headphones, moving all the items from place to place is a chore. I try to not let that control my mood. I am mentally stronger than the stroller.
I am not an extension of my phone. Life is here with me.
I make it a priority to disconnect from technology when on a trip. The irony of viewing what other families and friends are doing instead of spending that time with my family is not lost on me.
I share ownership of our plan. It is not mine and mine alone.
If I don't share the plan, I become the director. I'm used to my seven-month-old and my toddler looking to me for everything from snack requests to potty breaks, but when my husband is right there alongside them, something's out of whack. Sharing ownership of the plan ensures that I have a partner in the tough times. I wonder if sharing ownership of the plan with the kids would have a similar effect?
I celebrate each moment of our trip from the second we leave the house.
Seeing how excited my daughter got when we piled into the car with all our bags before the sun came up really helped to drive this home: The trip wasn't a series of bullet-pointed destinations, it was the space in between. Changing my mindset to recognize that the "getting to the destination" was a part of the vacation was critical.
I will see the newness of each moment through your eyes.
For some reason, I'm always compelled to push us onward to that grand destination, but my three-year-old was honestly as happy playing with the cheapo fifty cent horsey ride outside the national park gift shop as she was actually seeing majestic views of Big Bend National Park in Texas. That won't always be the case, and I want to appreciate it in the moment (or at least until I run out of quarters).
My vacation success is not measured in the number of photos I capture.
I'm a paparazzi mom with the best of them but we have made a tradition of taking a cheap Polaroid camera with us on our vacations. It forces me to not document every moment with 50 shots of the same thing but instead take a single shot. Instead of beating myself up for not grabbing my phone quick enough to get that perfect shot of my kids doing something, I am more present in the moment. Bonus: Polaroids instantly transport you back to a moment when you view them later.
I place my needs and wants alongside my families. I don't compromise my happiness.
I try to not be a victim of mom martyrdom and remember it's my vacation too. If I spend the vacation sacrificing my needs or wants for those of the rest of the family I don't return home recharged. Remember, you have to put on your breathing mask first before you can help anyone else.
How do you recharge on family vacations? Tell us Below.


What is Cleveland doing? Making a mess, and that's why Adam Silver needs to take action on Dan Gilbert. Here are the five biggest questions that have yet to be answered this summer.
Summer League is over, and now the NBA can finally wind down after a whirlwind month following the Finals. This has been a memorable off-season so far, marked by blockbuster trades, an exciting draft class and a Lakers' revival being led by a Lifetime-movie version of Rob Lowe. Even with all that's happened so far, the dust hasn't exactly settled across the association. Here are the biggest questions remaining as we head into a quieter segment of the summer.
What the f@#! Is Cleveland doing?
Adam Silver should be allowed to put owners in timeout, and the first owner who needs sit the next couple plays is Dan Gilbert. The Cavaliers are a mess, and Gilbert is on the verge of driving away LeBron for a second time thanks to his mercurial managerial style. What the hell is this team doing trying to catch the Warriors without a general manager? At this current point in time, I just don't see how LeBron signs on to stay with this franchise for the end of his career.
Cleveland was certainly hamstrung by its massive payroll this summer, but adding guys like a creaky Jose Calderon and the never-quite-fulfilled-his-potential Jeff Green aren't going to help the Cavs achieve their ultimate goal, which is winning the Finals. And frankly, James deserves a tiny bit of the blame for what's happened to the team this summer. He publicly pressured Cleveland to bring back guys like Tristan Thompson and J.R. Smith, but it's deals like those that have put the Cavs in a poor position to improve the roster. Still, the Cavs lack imagination or ingenuity. The Golden States and Houstons of the world can manage to add talent to their teams seemingly out of nowhere. Meanwhile, the Cavs keep piling on to LeBron's burden as if they are blissfully unaware he is a free agent next summer. There's been a lack of strategy in Cleveland this off-season, and as presently constructed, there is no shot the Cavs could beat the Warriors in a seven-game series.
Cleveland's turbulent regular seasons the last three years have been overshadowed by a pitiful conference that can be dominated in the playoffs and the most improbable Finals comeback of all time. Basically, there is a very fine line between James's homecoming being the heartwarming success it is or an abject failure. We'll see if the Cavs have any big moves up their sleeves as the season approaches. But for now, they are a rudderless ship that can't pretend to be surprised in the slightest if James wants out in 2018.
Actually, no! The Lakers are riding high after Lonzo Ball's summer league performance, but this team is still going to be mostly bad next year. Los Angeles is counting on signing marquee free agents next summer, when Paul George and James could theoretically team up in Hollywood. But isn't there an alternate scenario in which George enjoys his partnership with Russell Westbrook and James doesn't want to play in Kobe's shadow?
I'm just saying, people should maybe turn the volume down on the Lakers one click. I fully believe Ball is going to be a star, but this team is still very far away from the heights Magic Johnson has promised. And L.A. still has to go out and get free agents, something they've struggled with in recent years. It doesn't feel great to be the wet blanket here, but the Lakers need to make sure they don't get ahead of themselves.
Will Russell Westbrook and John Wall sign their extensions?
Russ and John Wall are eligible for massive, supermax contract extensions, both have been offered those extensions, and neither has signed it. Westbrook's decision is almost a little more surprising, considering his fierce loyalty and the Thunder's willingness to make big moves this summer. Wall is smart to be skeptical, as he has to be wondering to himself if a three-max core of himself, Brad Beal and Otto Porter is enough to contend for a championship.
As long as these two drag out their decision to sign, they are welcoming speculation that they may not be in their current cities for the long haul. Could Russ be considering his own move to L.A.? Is Wall trying to team up with other Kentucky alums elsewhere in the league? I hope neither signs any time soon, because the conspiracy potential is very high here.
San Antonio has had a quiet off-season after briefly entering the Chris Paul sweepstakes. Patty Mills is back, which good. Jonathon Simmons and Dewayne Dedmon are gone, which is weird. It almost feels like the Spurs are happy to tread water next season, and maybe jump back into the arms race in 2018. Kawhi is spectacular, but San Antonio needs another star to pair with him. Counting on guys like Manu Ginobili and Pau Gasol is getting riskier by the day, Meanwhile, threats are emerging in Houston and Oklahoma City that could bump the Spurs down a few spots in the uber-competitive West. San Antonio will likely win a lot in the regular season, but the Spurs have fallen behind a little bit this summer, and they seem weirdly fine with it.
Which stars are still available?
Some big-name players could still be on the move between now and the trade deadline. Is OKC committed to Paul George? Is there any truth to the Anthony Davis rumors?
Will Boogie Cousins want out of New Orleans? Do you still think Carmelo Anthony is a star?
Most of the moves made the rest of the summer will occur in the margins, but if any of the aforementioned players are moved (or moved again) the league could be in store for one more shift.


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Home Media Action Alerts2013 CBC Ombud Upholds HRC Complaint: AIH Radio Headline was Misleading
CBC Ombud Upholds HRC Complaint: AIH Radio Headline was Misleading
by Mike Fegelman May 31, 2013
On May 28, CBC Ombudsman Esther Enkin upheld an HonestReporting Canada complaint regarding a CBC As It Happens radio headline which erroneously claimed that Qatar's bid to move ICAO, a UN aviation agency from Montreal to Doha, was due solely to "Canada's Middle East policy" which this program unequivocally declared was "the reason" such an effort was undertaken by the Qataris.
In her review, Enkin found that the CBC's May 2 headline "failed to capture the nuance" and was "misleading".
As we argued in our May 3 complaint, were Qatar's efforts to strip Canada's hosting of a major UN agency in Quebec, ICAO, due exclusively to Canada's stalwart and principled support for Israel?
While Canada's Mideast foreign policy may have played some role in Qatar's determinations, it may/may not have been "the (only) reason" despite As It Happens saying so. Such claims, we pointed out, were unsubstantiated. It's more likely that Qatar and other Arab nations may have been exploiting the Palestinian cause to advance their own interests. As a footnote, on May 24, Qatar withdrew its proposal to become ICAO's new permanent location.
At the time the CBC's report went to air, Qatar stood to gain from housing ICAO as it would have brought $119-million annually to the local economy. As we told CBC, other business and political factors may have precipitated Qatar's actions. Qatar deemed Montreal too far a location from Europe/Asia and with its cold winters, wasn't a desirable location. Qatar also claimed its delegates had difficulty getting visas in Canada and were frustrated with high Canadian taxes. Oil rich Gulf nation Qatar, run by a ruthless dictatorship that sponsors terrorism and are serial human rights violators, appeared unable to cope with harsh Canadian winters, taxes, and bureaucracy rather than being frustrated with a coffee John Baird had with his Israeli counterpart in east Jerusalem.
It was reasonable to conclude that Arab anger directed at Canada for its laudable pro-Israel policies could have been just a smokescreen for Arab nations trying to manipulate Palestinian grievances to advance their own domestic pursuits. Either way, it was wrong for the CBC to conclude as if it was a matter of fact that "Canada's Middle East policy is the reason" why Qatar campaigned to move ICAO.
On May 6, Robin Smythe, Executive Producer of As It Happens defended the program's report. Unsatisfied with Smythe's reply, we asked the CBC's Ombudsman to arbitrate our concerns and reiterated our request that an on-air correction be issued and for the report hosted on the CBC's website to be amended.
We are pleased to report that on May 30, the program commendably issued the following clarification on its website following receiving the Ombudsman's report: "We have clarified the headline for this story. The original headline incorrectly suggested the reason for Qatar's campaign to move the ICAO headquarters out of Montreal was Canada's Middle East policy. We should have said it was one of the reasons. Corrected from '…is the reason.'" Likewise, the erroneous statement was amended online per our request, but as of this writing and to the best of our knowledge, an on-air correction has not been issued. We are hopeful that such a corrective will be broadcast on-air by As it Happens to remedy the CBC's error.
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I've been giving a lot of thought lately to the idea of divination. Actually, I've always given this idea a fair amount of thought, since I tend to see symbols everywhere, not just in books but in real life, and then I try to plumb them for some meaning I can use. Recently, though, I've started ASKING for symbols. I've been learning about the colorful characters of the tarot—The High Priestess! The Hermit! The Sun!—and I've taken to doing a simple one-card reading for myself every morning. It's a nice practice, a piece of quiet, thoughtful time that twinkles with a bit of magic, somewhere between the wisdom of a therapy session and the sudden secret bolt of truth that hits you in the moment you make a wish on your birthday candles.
On Friday I read that the comics artist Lynda Barry, whose work I sincerely love, has started an advice column for The Paris Review. The second question, and answer, are frankly bizarre (though the answer is also generous and funny, as all of Barry's writing is) but the first one is Lynda Barry at her latter-day best, if you ask me. Though the letter writer is seeking advice in dealing with boredom, Barry's answer is really about writing; writing via tricking yourself into writing, by doing oddball experiments and fun stunts that aren't writing first.
Barry, if you don't know, has put out three big beautiful books about writing over the last 10 years—What It Is, Picture This, and Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor— that are almost mystical in the ways that they advise the reader on how to begin this often difficult task. Every page is covered completely by a painting or a collage, and in this swirling, heady atmosphere, Barry tells us how she finds her way into creating, even when she's stuck. In response to that question about boredom, Barry recommended elaborate project that involves chucking your cell phone out of sight, belting down a couple of stiff drinks, and going for a long and epic walk, during which you will undertake to answer some question in your mind by making symbols of three things: (i) something you see above eye level, (ii) something you find discarded or forgotten on the ground, and (iii) a person.
My husband and I went away this weekend, for a wedding in the countryside of northeast Pennsylvania near the New York state border, and we had nothing to do but loaf the day after the event. I figured this expanse of quiet Sunday would be a good time for me to try Barry's experiment. The only changes I made were to do it throughout the course of the day, rather than during one focused walk, and I didn't get drunk first. The question I asked the universe-slash-myself was: How should I focus my time and attention this fall? Let's see what the universe, aka me, came up with.
i. On Sunday morning Joe and I drove up the road from where we were staying to the nearest small town, which is where my friend who got married lives. I've tried to imagine this town many times because my friend is also my pen-pal, and I think about the place where she lives every time I write her address on an envelope. I've always pictured an autumnal sort of place because of how much my friend loves Halloween, and I wasn't totally wrong. The town turned out to be a very pretty and sturdily functional place in the manner of many towns, small and large, in this part of the state, with painted brick Victorian-era storefronts and lots of old shade trees. We walked all the way up and back its long main street, and my eyes were drawn to the spires of several churches. The one I liked the most was nestled on the top of a hill a few streets back, a big stone and stained-glass Catholic jawn that was built during the first few years of the 19th century. We followed a narrow walkway and bridge to get closer to it and just look. I haven't considered myself Catholic, or indeed Christian, since I was released from my parents' house 20-ish years ago, but I must say, I've become more interested in spirituality in recent years. Or—if not spirituality exactly, then connectedness. That's why I'm always looking for symbols; they remind me that nothing is disconnected from anything else, even if I don't understand why. I'm okay with not knowing why.
ii. Lynda Barry's guidelines were pretty obviously written for a city dweller like me, but I wasn't in Philly yesterday; I was in this small town, where very few people throw crap on the ground, or else someone is quick to clean it up if they do. I didn't find anything meaningful to me discarded on the sidewalk during our walk, but later in the day, Joe and I got permission from the owner of the hotel where we were staying to borrow one of the rowboats to take out on the small lake. As we picked our way along the lake's sandy shoreline near the dock, I felt dreamy with the heat and my experiment, and I saw a face in the arrangement of a few stones and a piece of wood under the water. I see faces in things pretty often, usually when I'm very tired or about to get a migraine. Seeing a pattern in something random is called pareidolia; it is commonplace and not abnormal (and apparently it's most common for people to see faces in particular), but I experience it as slightly disturbing and maybe meaningful when it happens to me. This time, I saw the face not because I was getting a headache (thank god) but because my mind was relaxed and open and searching. I read this lake-face to mean that I should try to be in this state more often.
iii. In the evening we went back into town in search of some dinner. Only a few restaurants were open past 4:00 or 5:00 on a Sunday, and one of them was a little bar that we chose because it looked comfortable. When we walked in, I thought of the Lobo from Roseanne because of the place's laid-back, rural vibe and prominent pool table. We took a tall table next to the bar, and sitting at the bar by himself was an old man I couldn't take my eyes off of. He was skinny and wiry, and was wearing a black button-down shirt tucked into dark, belted dungarees, both of which were oversized on him. The jeans could properly be described as hitched up. He had a huge hawk nose and stooped shoulders, was probably in his 60s but seemed somehow ancient, and had a full head of dark hair, neatly parted. He sat at one end of the bar, facing forward, not morose or hunched over but content and bright eyed over his mug of beer. I hope someone paints his portrait in oils before he dies.
At first I felt awkward in the bar since we were from out of town and looked it, but the music playing in there was good, and after we ordered beers and I had a few sips I relaxed into being there. It only takes one drink for me to be convinced of the romance of the barroom all over again. I'm a huge cheeseball that way. "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac came on the jukebox and I crooned it to Joe. Then "Ashes to Ashes" came on and we both tapped our feet and sang along. At one point the old guy walked past us to his spot at the bar and settled back down, and Joe gestured toward him with his head and said, "He's the one starting the music back up every time it gets quiet in here," and I died. My favorite person at the bar liked Fleetwood Mac and David Bowie, too! Obviously he was the person I'd been looking for all day. But what should he symbolize to me? I guess the reason I lit up with delight when I saw him was because he was so completely himself, right? That's the message I'll let him give me, then, to be myself completely, and to remember how much fun it is to be yourself in a world that, for some reason, would like you to be something else instead. It's the only way to live, really. At the very least, it's a reliably good way to pass a pleasant Sunday evening at the bar.
p.s. If you're looking for recommendations, I've been reading an excellent book about tarot by one of my all-time favorite writers, Michelle Tea, who just put this one out a few months ago. The book is called Modern Tarot and it's thick, thorough, and easy to engage with.
p.p.s. The title of this post is another piece of advice I got from Lynda Barry, sort of. I saw her speak at the Free Library a few years ago, where she told a very funny story about getting her makeup done at a department store makeup counter, and how before she did this, she visited a street food truck and did what she always does when she's nervous, which is "eat a hot dog really fast." I laughed hard at this, and so did a man sitting near me, and his voice is what I remember when I think of that story. A stranger sounding happy.
I saw these pretty painted symbols on my walk through town, too.


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'The Young and the Restless': Fans Are Sick of Billy
01/07/2021 The Young and The Restless, tv
Soap opera fans are a loyal bunch, tuning in every day to see what their favorite characters are up to. Creating engaging soaps isn't easy, because there are so many episodes. It's no wonder that some plots might seem like they've already been done (because they have) or sometimes fall a bit flat.
The Young and the Restless has a few fans who feel like the show's recent storyline involving Billy is fairly dull. They are done seeing so much of Billy, and they are bored with his constant feud with Victor and Adam.
How long has Billy Abbott's character been on Y&R?
Billy Abbott has been a main character on The Young and the Restless since 1999. The character has been portrayed by several actors during the series. Billy was 16 years old when his character first appeared on the series, and was originally played by David Tom. Since then, five different actors have played Billy–he is currently portrayed by Jason Thompson.
What is Billy's latest storyline?
Most people will agree that Billy lands himself in trouble far too often. It's usually his own fault, although he does seem to have a way of attracting bad luck. His marriages are no exception–things didn't end well with Mackenzie or Chloe, and who knows what will happen with Victoria.
Billy's on-again, off-again romance with Victoria has survived two divorces, but the couple called it quits again in 2020. Judging by their history, however, no one really believes it over.
The latest mess Billy's found himself really takes the cake. He's wiggled his way out of charges for illegal drug trafficking, rape, and embezzlement–he even bought a baby on the black market. This time, it looked like he might not be able to talk his way out of it.
Billy's obsession with Adam led him to the wrong place at the wrong time. He was present at the crime scene when Chance was shot, and of course, the police had an eyewitness. With some help from Lily, Billy discovered that Alyssa Montalvo was the witness. He still couldn't avoid being arrested, but was later released when Alyssa confessed and was arrested.
Why do fans want to see less of him?
Fans weren't super psyched when Billy was arrested and the show focused primarily on him. They are getting tired of the amount of screen time Billy gets, and they're bored with his story lines.
The Young and the Restless recently tweeted about how Billy's absence will affect his family, which led to a barrage of comments from fans. They thought "absence" was a funny choice of words, since Billy is on the show constantly.
One fan tweeted incredulously, "His absence? He is on every damn day!" Another fan just wasn't interested at all, "BORED TO DEATH. How many times you going to do these stand alones???"
It seems that the continuous battles between Billy and that infamous father/son duo, Adam and Victor, are getting tiresome. Their feud has been endless, with Billy nearly killing Adam in the past, and Victor's numerous attempts to frame Billy for crimes.
The bad blood has been around for decades, and fans think it's time to move on to something a bit more exciting — "We would really like less Billy. His feuds with Adam and Victor are tired."
Whatever The Young and the Restless has in store for Billy in 2021, one thing is for certain–it better be a lot more exciting. If the writers are paying attention to the overwhelming majority of fans' opinions, they might want to get creative.
Some fans are going to start abandoning the show all together–"Most pointless episode of the year. I turned it off and deleted my DVR halfway through."
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Germany wins World Cup; Messi takes Golden Ball
Germany will take the 2014 World Cup trophy home as they beat Argentina yesterday 1-0. Germany's Mario Gotze scored in the second half of extra time, 113 minutes into the game, for the win. Gotze had been subbed in in the 88th minute for Miroslav Klose, the most prolific scorer in World Cup history.
Argentina's Lionel Messi won the Adidas Golden Ball trophy as the tournament's top player. Many people did not think the award was deserved. A Spanish newspaper conducted a poll of its readers where Messi finished third. James Rodriquez of Colombia, the Golden Boot winner with six goals in five games, was the player many thought should win. Diego Maradona, the Argentina legend and former National Team coach, called awarding Messi the trophy "part of a marketing plan".
St. Louis Cardinals one game back in National League Central at All-Star break
The Cardinals got pounded by the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday 11-2 in their last game before the All-Star break. A 10-2 Cardinal win on Saturday at put the teams in a tie atop the division. The Cardinals' recent play, the team had been 6 1/2 games out of first place on July 1, has stirred excitement among the fan base and led St. Louis Post-Dispatch scribe Bernie Miklasz to write a column titled "The sky isn't falling"
Cardinals manager Mike Matheny will manage the National League team by virtue of the Cardinals winning the pennant last season. It was announced today that Adam Wainwright will start the game vs Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners.
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2014 MLB All-Star Game festivities in Minneapolis
The 2014 MLB All-Star Game festivities yesterday in Minneapolis. Taco Bell All-Star Sunday featured the Futures Game and the celebrity softball game. Actors like James Denton competed with personalities like Andy Cohen, athletes from other sports like Jennie Finch and Kevin love, rappers like Nelly and former big leaguers such as Ozzie Smith and Mike Piazza. Although played yesterday, the game will air on ESPN tonight after the Home Run Derby. Spoiler Alert: Cardinal fans Nelly and David Nail both showed some power at the plate.
In the Futures Game, is was U.S. 3 – World 2. Joey Gallo of the Texas Rangers was the MVP and 17-year-old Julio Urias was pretty darn good in his one inning of work for the World team.
With the All-Star Game at Target Field in Minneapolis, the 29th Home Run Derby will be held in the same city as the first Home Run Derby in 1985. Giancarlo Stanton with 21 homers on the season, has the most of the Derby field. The event, with a new bracket-style format, will air live tonight beginning at 7 pm on ESPN. In St. Louis, you can head over to Ballpark Village and participate in their Home Run Derby to benefit Stray Rescue. It'll be played outside on the Busch II Infield, which sits directly where the infield at the old Busch Stadium stood.
Horse-drawn carriage rides on the outs in St. Louis?
St. Louis health director Pamela Walker was out walking her dog Saturday night when she noticed a carriage horse that appeared to be struggling and "showing classic signs of heatstroke." She stopped riders from getting on that carriage and another that was going by. Police, the Humane Society and Animal Control were called to the scene as well Jerry Kirk of Brookdale Farms,which owns the horses. There was a disagreement between Walker and Kirk about when horses can be worked on hot days downtown. A veterinarian brought in by Walker has since diagnosed one of the horses with a chronic lung condition. Kirk disputes that diagnosis and says that his own vet says otherwise.
Walker says she will try to get the horse-drawn carriage rides banned in the city. I just really want to know who in the world takes those anyways?
Nike release RE2PECT video honoring Derek Jeter
The video was released by Jordan Brand, a subsidiary of Nike, and it features a slew of regular folks and stars.
Immigration surge continues
Then immigration surge that has been highlighted in this post in recent weeks is continuing. Now there are reports that dead children are washing up in the brush alongside the Rio Grande. It's all but assured that these children died while trying to cross the river into the United States. Border Patrol Agents are being exposed to diseases that haven't been seen in decades here in the U.S. The leaders of Mexico and Guatemala recently agreed to a "Regional Visitor Card" program that will make is easier for immigrants from Central America to travel to the United States border and attempt to enter illegally. A Border Patrol Agent told Fox News that as many as 70% of his agents were being forced to handle paperwork from the surge rather than be out protecting the border. 200 immigrant children were recently sent to Nebraska. Over 400 unaccompanied children have been sent to the Chicago area since June.
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes pulls in $73 million
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes exceeded expectations in its opening weekend, blowing past the $70 million mark. Rise of the Planet of the Apes opened just shy of $55 million back in August of 2011. Transformers: Age of Extinction dropped to second place with $16.5 million in its third weekend of release. Tammy finished out the top three with almost $13 million in its second weekend, a 40% drop. While Melissa McCarthy's project has performed below expectations, its has still brought in more than $50 million on a $20 million budget. 22 Jump Street and How to Train Your Dragon 2 rounded out the top five with $6.7 and $5.5 million, respectively. Look for a more in-depth look at the box office, as well as new releases on Redbox on Thursday in our Weekend Movie Guide.
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The entertainer tweeted the following yesterday afternoon
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Q: identify the rows with the lowest values in an array based on identical values in a column of that array I have an array of product data which includes code, description and cost. code is unique, cost is numeric and description is non-unique. Please see example. How can I select the cheapest of each product based on the description and price?

This is the result of using the MIN formula.

A: Add this array formula as a new "Lowest" column (adjusting range for your actual range), and copy down:
={IF(B2=MIN(IF($A$2:$A$9=A2,$B$2:$B$9)),"Y","")}

A: I wrote the following VBa for you
    Dim hasRows As Boolean
    hasRows = True

    Dim currentRow As Integer
    currentRow = 2

    Dim previousProduct As String
    Dim currentProduct As String
    Dim rowOfProduct As Integer
    Dim lowPrice As Integer
    lowPrice = -999 ' dummy number
    Do While (hasRows)

        currentProduct = Range("A" & currentRow).Value

        If (previousProduct = "") Then
            previousProduct = currentProduct
        Else

            If (previousProduct <> currentProduct) Then
                lowPrice = -999 'dummy again
                Range("B" & rowOfProduct).Interior.ColorIndex = 36
            End If

        End If

        If (Range("A" & currentRow).Value = "") Then
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        End If

        If (lowPrice = -999) Then
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        End If

        previousProduct = currentProduct
        currentRow = currentRow + 1
    Loop

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Lafayette home sales drop big in June, but still on track to beat 2018
Despite a poor performance in June, 2019 Lafayette home sales could top 2018's record numbers.
Lafayette home sales drop big in June, but still on track to beat 2018 Despite a poor performance in June, 2019 Lafayette home sales could top 2018's record numbers. Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/money/business/2019/07/09/acadiana-june-home-sales/1684248001/
William Potter, Lafayette Daily Advertiser Published 12:48 p.m. CT July 9, 2019 | Updated 6:37 p.m. CT July 9, 2019
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Home sales in Lafayette Parish in June fell short of last year's impressive numbers, but sales for the broad region of Lafayette and surrounding parishes are still on track to beat record-breaking numbers from 2018.
The regional growth in sales is attributed to strong activity in areas outside of Lafayette Parish, according to the analysis by William Bacque of Market Scope Consulting. Bacque's report includes year-over-year numbers for the following parishes: Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, Acadia, Iberia, Vermilion and Evangeline.
Mid-year sales have been strong outside Lafayette Parish, up more than 13 percent from midyear 2018. This despite a 21% drop in sales in June from May and a 16% year-over-year drop from June 2018 in sales for Lafayette and surrounding parishes.
Lafayette Parish saw 1,669 homes sold from January to June of this year, just below 3% less than the 2018 midyear total of 1,714. Sales for homes worth less than $150,000 and between $150,000 and $299,999 fell by 4.2% and 4.5% from last year, respectively, though sales for homes worth $300,000 and more were up by just over 7%.
Of the areas outside Lafayette Parish, St. Landry Parish had the most reported sales during the same six-month period with 243, up 21.5% from 200 during the period in 2018. Iberia Parish had 234 sales, an increase of just more than 25% from 187 last year. Acadia Parish saw 124 residential properties sold, a rise of almost 15% from last year's 108.
Vermilion Parish has had 162 home sales this year, up almost 9% from 2018's 149. St. Martin Parish sales grew by nearly 5%, from 161 in 2018 to 169 this year.
Both St. Mary and Evangeline Parishes saw total home sales decline from midyear 2018 by 4.8% and 5%, respectively; St. Mary Parish has seen a 7% increase in total dollar amount.
Despite a poor performance in closed sales for June, there was a sharp increase in pending home sales for the region. Pending sales are up by 15% from June 2018 and almost 5% from last month.
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Insecurity: Zulum under fire over attempts to blackmail Nigerian troops fighting Boko Haram
The Coalition of Friends and Supporters of Buhari has described as absurd several attempts by Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State and his aides to blackmail the Nigerian troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents.
The group said the two instances where Zulum tried to ridicule the Nigerian military but turned out that he was wrong on his assumptions and was compelled to eat back his words are well documented.
It also recalled another recent instance where Borno Governor accused the military of abandoning their posts at Auno, where travellers were killed, only for him to find out that the military had not abandoned the travellers to their fate, but had only gone on another operation when the incident happened.
Audu Atumeyi, Director of Media of the coalition, in a statement on Thursday, said Zulum's aides were following his footsteps to demonize the troops with disparaging comments, a development he described as "very uncharitable."
The statement, therefore, called on the Borno State Governor to stop all the baseless allegations and collaborate with the military to find solutions to the problem of terrorism ravaging his state
His statement read below.
His histrionics done in full public glare, however, failed to elicit the kind of attention the Governor was craving for because of the way it was poorly stage managed.
But the Borno Governor it seems was not embarrassed enough with his failed attempts to ridicule the military, and has decided to hand over the task to his deputy, aides and his other appointees to carry on from where he had failed.
For instance, the Commissioner for Information in Borno State, Alhaji Babakura Jatau, came on national television weeks after his principal made the unsubstantiated allegations against the military, to allege that Nigerian troops are now involved in fishing business in Baga, Borno State and for that purpose have refused to let the war on insurgency end.
Before the commissioner crafted that allegation, the Deputy Governor of the state, Usman Kadafur, also acted his own part of the script by engaging in an unnecessary squabble with the military over the insistence of the Covid-19 team which he heads, to screen commuters at the point of entry into Maiduguri.
To give the allegation by the commissioner a modicum of integrity, a similar claim was planted in a national daily in the guise of a news story, to say that troops have abandoned the fight against insurgency to trade in fish.
Part of the report reads, "The real problem is that some top officers and troops have turned Baga into a cash crow by engaging in fish and livestock business. It is from the business that they are getting a lot of money.
"Baga produces 45% of the dry fish being consumed in Nigeria. It also has one of the robust fertile land in the country where tomatoes and vegetables are grown.
"Some of these officers have bought all the livestock in the area.
"Directly opposite the military barracks in Baga is a huge farmland which a top military officer admitted belongs to him."
Why the allegations do not hold water
But as the discerning could see, this is the most asinine, callous and infantile allegation that anyone can make against the military.
It is disheartening that whilst the troops are in the trenches, having sleepless nights and giving their all to secure the country, some vested interests in the comfort and luxury of their homes should be concocting wicked tales against them while trying to demonize these patriots.
To imagine that these allegations would be coming from the Borno State Government however, is the height of insenstivity, ingratitude and wickedness, as no state in Nigeria has ever benefitted from the sacrifice of the Nigerian military like Borno.
Several times, the military has come to the aid of Borno State right from the 80s, when some Chadian soldiers killed some Nigerians on the border community with Chad; to the Maitatsine uprising when soldiers moved and liberated Bulumkutu, to the Col. Buba Marwa anti-crime operation which cleansed Borno of high calibre criminals to the ongoing operation to fight Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorism in the state.
While hundreds of soldiers and their families bear the marks of these sacrifices, what has the Borno State Government done in all these years to end the terrorism on citizens?
Apart from being unable to nip the violent group in the bud, a former governor of the state even appointed a known financier of the Boko Haram as a commissioner in his cabinet.
The terrorists were also paid N100 million said to be compensation for the kiling of their leader and an unreserved apology was tendered to them by the former governor.
The Boko Haram were also used by some politicians to eliminate the governorship flag bearer of the then ruling party in the state.
The Borno State Government was also the first to deride military operations against the terrorists when the then state governor said the Boko Haram were better equipped than the Nigerian military.
The current Governor who from all indications, craves publicity more than strategic planning has however decided to push the stake in the heart of the military with fiercer meanness than his predecessors hence most of his actions seem tailored towards achieving that.
The allegation about troops engaging in fishing business is totally untrue as no military top commander control their postings and therefore cannot afford the luxury of investing in ventures like fishing when they know not when they'll be removed from such stations.
Secondly, only a foolish officer would abandon the task of fighting Boko Haram with all the inherent danger, and engage in buying and selling when he knows that going by the callousness of the Boko Haram members and their desperation to hit at Nigerian troops, they could spring surprises at any time if guards are lowered.
Thirdly, most of the officers and military men posted to these stations are from other battalions whose knowledge of the fishing terrain are technical but not to the extent of taking over the businesses of residents and indigenes.
There are for instance, said to be about 200 permanent and semi- permanent fishing communities in Baga town and over 40,000 fishermen on the Nigerian side of the Lake Chad which is shared by Nigeria, Chad, Niger republic and Cameroon.
How the military can take over the business of dealing in not less than seven fish species with over 40,000 participating interests who have been involved in it for years remains a puzzle.
The truth that Zulum is trying to hide
That Boko Haram activities has lingered only in Borno State while it has abated in other states should serve as the worst point of curiosity.
The simple answer is that while states like Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe and Bauchi have been serious about ending the insurgency the political leaders and elites in Borno State are not sincere.
The truth is that many politicians from Borno State do not want the insurgency to end because they are making money as the terrorists activities linger and it serves their political interests to sustain their nefarious activities.
The elites, elders and stakeholders in Borno are perpetrating the violence because they are benefitting from it and that is why they never condemn the atrocities commited by these terrorists.
These elites are also involved in big time smuggling across the border and take advantage of the absence of paramilitary forces to up their games.
Rather than the military, it is this group of people that engage in the fishing business in Baga where they have supplanted both the middlemen and wholesalers.
These are some of the factors that have made it difficult to stamp out terrorists activities from Borno State.
Our demand:
We, as well as other well meaning Nigerians therefore totally reject the attempts by the Borno State Government to ridicule the military.
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I've been torn about writing anything about James Ray for weeks. The initial tragedy that happened during Spiritual Warrior back on October 9th, resulting in 3 deaths was horrible enough. I had friends there. It was an event I planned to take part in at some point. I tried not to rush to judgment. I heard from people there who said it was an amazing experience until everything went so horribly wrong in the sweat lodge. But the reactions of James himself (leaving the scene, not contacting families...) left me very disappointed and wondering who was this man I thought I knew.
More disturbing to me personally, was discovering two weeks ago (via comments on my own blog) that the suicide I saw while at the Creating Absolute Wealth event in San Diego in July was actually a participant of the seminar. Somehow knowing Colleen was a participant like I was, made her death hit home much more. It made me question what I thought I had learned that day, made me want to rip the "Grateful" tattoo from my flesh, gave me nightmares that kept replaying that day, had me doubting everything I thought I knew about my own growth and what to believe. It had me feeling betrayed by James because I spoke to him, his staff, even the entire group of participants later that day about what I had seen. I don't know when anyone with JRI found out about Colleen's death but it had to have been many hours after the fact. It is quite possible James himself wasn't told until the weekend was over, but that is just conjecture. JRI staff did know she wasn't on the bus bringing us back to the hotel from downtown, but we had been told that people have missed buses in the past so it wasn't portrayed as any sort of issue to us. Nobody had IDs for that particular experience (we were wandering San Diego like homeless people), we only had cards with a number to call if something happened and we missed the bus.
In the last couple weeks I've had various bloggers and reporters contacting me and have seen people posting comments across the net accusing me of covering things up, working for James Ray; even implying I had something to do with Colleen's death. It has been very hard not to get caught up into defending myself, searching the net all day for what people are saying. I finally realized it doesn't matter. Nothing can change what happened in San Diego or Sedona. Investigations are underway to make sure it doesn't happen again.
I do believe James and his staff are good people with high intentions of helping others. This has been a time when I've needed to be able to separate the teachings from the teacher, for much of what James teaches has been taught by many before him. I'm very glad that he seems to have stopped listening to PR firms on how to handle the mess he's in.
I was attracted to James' events because of the adventure and surprise. The immersion experience, having no idea what you are in for or what comes next. But I now realize, those can raise lots of issues that people (including myself) might not be prepared to deal with. After lots of discussion, Lori and I had decided to continue with James' next event which we had already paid for - Quantum Leap, this November in Las Vegas. I had flip-flopped so much on attending - in fact since Creating Absolute Wealth had left me so confused and lost in the weeks following it, I was concerned about what Quantum Leap was going to do to me. The only description we had was that it was going to strip away our limiting beliefs and blocks. So, on Oct 28th when James finally decided to cancel all his remaining 2009 events, I was actually glad. I hope he is now truly cooperating with authorities and helping all those who've been hurt. Four deaths at his two most recent events is something that can't be and shouldn't be ignored.
So for everyone wondering... I do not work for James Ray International. I have not spoken with anyone from JRI since all these issues came to light (though I have tried to reach them repeatedly). I did not know the woman I saw jump in San Diego was Colleen Conaway or that she was in the seminar with me (there were about 200 people). I didn't even know she died -- cops at the scene told me she was alive and I saw her leave with an oxygen mask on her face. I did speak with San Diego police at the scene and I've also provided the Arizona authorities with a statement. I had never been to San Diego before and didn't know the name of the mall where she jumped, which is why my own searches for information came up empty once I was back home. I do not doubt that it was a suicide, but I also don't doubt that the event itself raised issues she couldn't deal with. And that is why my heart still breaks every time I think of her.
After 3 countries, 5 flights, 8 lodges, dozens of gorillas, and a whole lot of fun, our African odyssey ended a couple weeks ago. The trip was a blast but it did feel long and it took many days to recover from once we were back home. We thoroughly enjoyed our three gorilla tracking days - which was the primary reason for the trip. The big surprise to me, was the beauty of the Ugandan and Rwandan landscape and people. Everybody was so outgoing and friendly, this is such a great time to be an American visiting Africa. They just love the US now.
I had so much fun just driving through Uganda and Rwanda waving at kids. They were all so thrilled to get a wave back. I've never seen so many smiles. It was such a treat to see so much joy and happiness in people that you might judge have nothing.
Other highlights; spotting a leopard on our very first game drive, two rare sightings of hippos out of the water, and a tree climbing lion.
Also met some fantastic fellow travellers along the way, which we've always been so fortunate to do, and had outstanding guides and service at every stop. Can't recommend Volcanoes Safaris enough if you want to visit the mountain gorillas yourself.
With over 2,000 photos and hours of video, it could be quite awhile before I get details posted. For now, here is an online album Lori put together and a smaller collection I put up on Facebook.


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I think the current lifecycle status is a mix of good and bad.
For the high-level parts (Application/Layer/Module we depend on Activation.
On each level it is possible to add activators in the assembly.
startup or on first "usage").
> 1. Should Initializable.initalize() be invoked on prototypeFor()?
invoking mixin#initialize in the "prototype-phase".
and the same for destruction.
I think it should be kept that way - finalize() is not a good idea.
jdk-annotations - annotations that are widely used and understood.
something before/after all mixins will be rare.
annotations than putting those in the core.
> Mixin at this point.
> 2. Do we have a solid object lifecycle story at all??
> is severely flawed, and possibly not easily fixed here and there.
> that the Fragments and the Composite need to be separated.
> "bad" to use it in programs??
> @OnCompositeDestruction    // called via finalize() or UnitOfWork teardown.
> @OnMixinCreation      // Called after Mixin constructor call.
> And in the process "fix" the ServiceComposite story as well, i.e.


Located in Prague's neighborhood of Žižkov is the popular Bisos Tapas Bar & Restaurant. This charming establishment boasts an attractive modern interior that is both hip and cozy. Bisos serves Mediterranean cuisine as its main fare; made from fresh high quality ingredients the food at Bisos is simply put, amazing. Bisos serves up breakfast, lunch and dinner; breakfast includes traditional British and French breakfasts, as well as an omelette with shrimp and tomato sauce that is to die for, while lunch is a pre-made affair with the choice of a warm meat or vegetable dish, or a salad should you prefer something crisp and fresh. The dinner menu includes such fine dishes as Fregola frutti di mare (mix of seafood with Sicilian Datterino tomatoes – known world round for their delicious sweetness) and Seared steak of Yellowfin Tuna with asparagus and onion jam. If the mention of the dishes listed above does not have you reserving a table by now (and you should, Bisos is very popular – you can do this on their user-friendly website, which is listed below), then the daily offer of tapas made with fresh seasonal ingredients surely will. It is also worth mentioning the dessert at Bisos: Chocolate lava cake covered with warm extra virgin olive oil and baked red pepper, Chestnut cake with pistachio ice cream - can you say delicious? We sure can. It is also of interest that Bisos does family style Sunday brunch (11:30 – 17:00) with baked fish, meat, homemade pasta, salad, seafood, fruit, homemade cakes, etc. The price for brunch is 750,- Kč / person; children under 6 years of age are free. Bisos gets our vote as one of Prague's best little known culinary secrets – visit this charming tapas bar and restaurant today and enjoy the finer things in life.


Shannon plans to make punch using a family recipe. She mixes 5 parts orange juice with 2 parts lime soda. For example, if she uses 5 cups of orange juice, she uses 2 cups of lime soda. Shannon makes a chart so that the other members of the class can help her make different amounts of punch.
Write the ratio of orange juice to lime soda with a colon.
Write this ratio as a fraction.
Describe any patterns you see in the table.
If Shannon uses 20 cups of orange juice, how many cups of lime soda does she use? Write your solution as a proportion.
Shannon can also use a graph to help her make different amounts of punch. Make a graph of the data in the table.
Plot the amount of lime soda on the horizontal axis. Scale the horizontal axis from 0 to at least 30.
Plot the amount of orange juice on the vertical axis. Scale the vertical axis from 0 to at least 40.
Decide whether Shannon should use a point graph or a bar graph.
If you graph points that form a line, use your ruler to fit a line to the points. Extend your line in both directions.


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Максим Васильович Куций ( 21 грудня 1982, Київ) — український підприємець, голова Одеської обласної державної адміністрації з 11 жовтня 2019 року по 5 листопада 2020.

Життєпис

Освіта
Закінчив Ліцей міжнародних відносин № 51 (1990—2000), Національну академію внутрішніх справ (2000—2004).

Трудова діяльність
Працював у банківському та інвестиційному секторах.

З 2004 по 2005 рік — в системі органів внутрішніх справ Голосіївського району міста Києва.

З 2006 по 2007 рік — в міжнародній аудиторській компанії «Baker TillyУкраїна».

З 2007 по 2008 рік — у міжнародній аудиторській компанії «Ernst & Young Global Limited».

З 2008 по 2014 рік він обіймав керівні посади в структурі інвестиційно-промислової групи «Євразія», «БТА Банк».

З 2015 року Куций був директором ТОВ «Сервіс та менеджмент».

Особисте життя
Одружений, має сина.

Примітки

Посилання
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 Президент представив новопризначеного голову Одеської обласної державної адміністрації Максима Куцого  president.gov.ua (11 жовтня 2019)
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Уродженці Києва
Випускники Національної академії внутрішніх справ України
Правники XXI століття
Правники Києва
Підприємці XXI століття
Українські підприємці
Політики XXI століття

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The conventional scientific paradigm – called Newtonian, Cartesian, mechanistic, and materialist – sees the universe and humans as fundamentally physical matter, and consciousness (thoughts, emotions, images, expectations, memories, dreams, subjective states in general) as not real but only a by-product of physical and chemical processes.
According to the materialist/mechanistic paradigm, the mind is what the brain does.
At Continuum Center we are convinced, by the research and the field reports, that the mechanistic model of the universe and humanity (actually all of life), has caused great harm along the continuum of life; though some have benefitted greatly.
The view that we are just physical/chemical machine-like animals fit well with the launch in the late 1920's of the first cartel – pharmaceuticals.
After Rockefeller joined forces with Farben, large donations were made to universities and subsequently their medical curriculum changed to teach pharmaceutical science. A report was made to congress about the odious impact of such money and influence on the whole of education; the committee making the report was immediately disbanded.
Foods, attitudes, exercise, diaphragmatic breathing, stretching, emotions, focusing, all profoundly impact brain chemistry. Meaning – the transcendent kind – and optimism are central ingredients for a healthy mind but the current paradigm describes a vast cold inhospitable and meaningless universe, with so much to be worried/ anxious about and feel overwhelmed, victimized and depressed by. We are but cogs in the grinding wheels of the accidental, meaningless machine…set in motion randomly. Indifferent to your dreams and visions, heartache, and disappointment. That's what the mechanistic/materialist paradigm was bound to deliver.
The Dangerous World theory http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10943-009-9247-9# states that psychological states can be adversely affected by negative world views, and the resulting anxiety affects attention. Instead of providing a conceptual framework and internal resources for mastering internal states and personal transformation, kids (and adults) are given ADD medication.
Converging fields of science, dovetail many time honored teachings which paint a picture of a universe far more like a mirror than a machine…responsive and unpredictable…magical and friendly. Where internal states of consciousness are not only real, but can – and do – influence the world that quantum physics (and ancient cultures) tells us is not as it appears. It is a world run much more by emotion than logic, a universe where we can make dreams come true rather than feel trapped in boxes. We are led to believe that emotions aren't real. We understand them as merely chemicals, so how could we possibly know how to deal with them as something FAR more.
There is evidence that "mental illness" is a relatively new labeling for symptoms and behaviors resulting from emotional pain that is not properly addressed. The mechanistic/materialist model of "emotions aren't real" and "the problem must be with the brain" was the perfect partner for the chemical approach to therapy.
It has now been shown that changing your thoughts and emotions changes brain wiring and chemistry. Consciousness can even affect gene expression.
Instead of the brain producing consciousness as the materialist/mechanistic model has insisted, the new interpretation of brain science (according to Nobel neuroscientist Roger Sperry), "instead of renouncing or ignoring consciousness, gives full recognition to the primacy of inner conscious awareness as a causal reality." "Causal," not to be confused with "casual". Just because stimulation of the brain can cause certain emotional reactions, does not mean the brain is always the cause of emotions and consciousness.
Come and explore evidence for a new understanding of your brain and your mind…of consciousness and a new, meaningful, universe of possibility.


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The Bent County High School, in Bent County, Colorado at 1214 Ambassador Thompson Blvd in Las Animas, is a historic school that was built in 1913 or 1914.  It has been deemed notable for association with former U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson (who served John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis), Ken Curtis (actor in CBS's Gunsmoke who graduated in 1935), and author James Michener's wife, Mari (Sabusawa) Michener, all of whom attended the school, as well as for "its imposing, three-story, massive-columned architecture".  It was designed by Swedish architect James Larson.  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2010.

The NRHP listing includes what has also been known as Las Animas Middle School and as Las Animas Junior High School.  The property includes Classical Revival, and Moderne architecture.  The listing includes two contributing buildings.  Both Walter Dubree and James Larson are architects identified with the project.

The property was identified by Colorado Preservation, Inc., in 2004 as being one of the most endangered historic places in the state.  As of October, 2009, the school building had then been empty for 10 years but was in good condition.  Plans were then being discussed by the school board to renovate and re-use part of the property, the Works Progress Administration addition to the building, but in that plan the 1914 Classical Revival portion was slated for demolition.  In 2013 the posted status for the site was "Alert".

The original classic revival-styled high school, built in 1914, was designed by La Junta architect Walter Dubree.  It was expanded by an addition in 1939, funded by Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration grants.  The addition, with Art Moderne and Art Deco elements, was designed by Pueblo architects Walter DeMordaunt and John Gray.

It is shown as an NRHP-listed property by the Colorado Historical Society.

Las Animas is currently served by the Las Animas Senior High School, at 300 Grove Ave. in Las Animas, and other schools of the Las Animas School District.

See also
Columbian Elementary School, also noted endangered in 2004, subsequently demolished

References

External links

2004 - Bent County High School, News 4 story on YouTube video
Schools in Las Animas: Bent County High School, with photo

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
Neoclassical architecture in Colorado
Streamline Moderne architecture in the United States
School buildings completed in 1914
Buildings and structures in Bent County, Colorado
Defunct schools in Colorado
1914 establishments in Colorado
National Register of Historic Places in Bent County, Colorado


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This summer Sega and Glu will release two games for mobile phones focusing on the Olympic games in Beijing. The games are Beijing 2008 which is the official mobile phone game of the Olympic Games and the famous Sonic who will take part at the Olympics in a game entitled Sonic at the Olympic Games.
The Sonic game will definitively feature spins and speed and the Beijing 2008 game will have four events.
Glu is involved in publishing these games as they have a long-standing development and publishing agreement with Sega in Europe.
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This component is a bit complex. If you're going to read the source code, you might find yourself going deeper and deeper into other various components and classes. I'll try to make it a bit easier for you to understand it with this tutorial.
Before we look into how this components is used or how we can use it as well, let's learn about the properties that it accepts. I am going to take the Tags field here as a reference.
placeholder – if passed, the input field will show a placeholder if there are no tags selected.
SuggestionsList – list that shows the tags.
All of those components can be found in files from the Form Token Field repository folder.
Let's now see how this component is utilized in Gutenberg to create the Tags field. The Tags field does not use the Form Token Field directly, but it actually implements it into another component. That component is FlatTermSelector from the PostTaxonomies component.
messages – object with messages for added, removed and remove.
The value is populated from the variable selectedTerms. These terms are retrieved from the state. If there is a property terms passed to the FlatTermSelector, it will use those. Otherwise, it will fetch them from the taxonomy rest route for the post (or custom post type) that we are using.
When the terms are fetched, they are stored in the state of the component as availableTerms. This is done like that because we want all the information on each term so we can manipulate them.
Then, the property selectedTerms is populated from the availableTerms so that the property becomes an array of term names.
The onInputChange is also a function that will fetch the terms based on the value in the input. The function fetchTerms will then again populate the suggestion list.
The property suggestions is populated from the variable termNames. That variable is built from the availableTerms.
To save the tags, the FlatTermSelector component uses the property onChange. The function used here receives the selected term names.
Since the database relationship between the post and taxonomy is through IDs, that function is building an array of term IDs based on the (previously stored) availableTerms property from the state.
Then it passes all those IDs on the function that will update the terms (through the REST API).
Let's now use the Gutenberg Component FormTokenField to load posts and choose some of them. We won't save them to any database, we will only use the local session storage of your browser. You can then refactor that method to do what you need it to do.
First, start a new React App using the "Create React App" by typing this in your terminal (command prompt). Be sure to position yourself in a folder you want to build this.
We will need lodash for a part where we save our posts that we retrieve. The other WordPress dependencies are what we need to use this component. The ApiFetch dependency is going to be used to retrieve the posts from your site.
Let's add our dependencies first in that file.
Our component will be called SearchPosts and it will initial have a state with tokens and availablePosts. Both are arrays where the first one will hold post titles of selected posts and the second one will hold the data of all available posts that were retrieved from the site.
We will need a method that will be called when the input has changed and that will search for posts.
We are also binding this method in the constructor so we can use this inside of it. For this tutorial, I've used my own site to retrieve posts but you can put any other site that has the REST API enabled.
This method will be passed on the onInputChange property.
We will save posts when a new post is selected. This method will be passed on the onChange property. We also need to show the saved posts on each page load.
The selected posts (tokens) are going to be saved in the state of the component and also in the local session.
When the component is mounted, we are checking the local session for stored post titles and then we are setting that as an array of tokens. In a real application, you would also fetch all the posts with such titles and store it in the state of this application (in availablePosts for example).
Now we need to finish our component with a render method and export it by default so we can use it in other places of our application.
For the suggestions, we are building an array of post titles from the availablePosts array. Then we are using the FormTokenField component and set the properties as we need them.
We can now render our component in the App. Open the App.js inside of the src folder.
This is just a small tip on how to load the posts and keep the component from loading more until the initial load is finished. We will utilize the disabled property for that.
The Gutenberg component Form Token Field is a great component if you're looking for something more than just an autocomplete solution. This field can be used when you want your users to pick up some categories, interests and various data that can be seen as a tagging data.