Other companies in your industry don't always have to be seen as solely your competition, they can also be allies in growing your business if you have a similar target market. I spoke with numerous entrepreneurs who have had success building their startup through partnerships with larger businesses and they shared the strategies that worked for them.
Network, network, network – both online and offline.
Preparation is key to maximizing the results you can get from networking. "Research brands and people before attending conferences and events, and put them into a Twitter list so you can follow their tweets," says Kelly Ann Collins, Founder & CEO, of Vult Lab, a social media agency. She recommends engaging with them on the social platform by liking, commenting, and sharing their posts, prior to the event to help make a connection.
Collins has previously partnered with Wix in Tel Aviv, a web development platform with 110 million users, using this exact strategy. She advises that not only are Twitter lists a great way to keep tabs on the people you want to collaborate with, but also a great way to learn more about their likes and dislikes, making your in-person meeting more advantageous. "A pre-event tweet to someone is a great way to break the ice in real life," says Collins.
Highlight the benefits you bring to the table.
"Use your networks and target people or businesses with shared goals and demographics," says Jarra Campbell, Founder and Creative Director of The Bondi Alchemist, a sustainable and ethical swimwear company. Campbell, who used to work on corporate partnerships for Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), says it's important to make sure your collaboration idea is a win-win for all parties involved.
"Look for possible challenges the other company may have and propose a solution. Highlight the benefits for everyone involved and keep it simple by making sure it will bring them money, not more work," she adds.
Reach out to brands who have a similar message.
A partnership between Reebok and findSisterhood, an anonymous social network for women, came about because of a mutual goal. Reebok launched their #BeMoreHuman campaign weeks before findSisterhood launched their new app, making it the perfect time for a collaboration between the two companies since both brands focus on empowering women and showcasing their strengths. Reebok's campaign slogan says "we're celebrating women who are transforming themselves and the world around them", which aligns perfectly with findSisterhood's company mission.
CEO and Founder of findSisterhood, Ana Pompa Alarcon Rawls, received a warm introduction to Reebok's team which led to the partnership. "I'd recommend asking your friends, investors, or mentors if they know someone they can introduce you to, and check LinkedIn to see if you have any connections to the company you're seeking a partnership with," says Rawls.
Research pitch competitions or incubators.
"It can take a long time to get visibility with large companies, so look and see if the company has any pitch competitions, incubators, or investment opportunities for startups," advises Allison Monaghan McGuire, Founder & CEO of Walc, a walking navigation app based on visual cues such as landmarks or popular destinations, rather than the four cardinal directions: north, south, east and west.
No matter how you make the connection with a larger business, it's important to clearly outline the benefits you bring to the table as a startup. "Ensure values align. Research the other company's products and their competitors, then offer value and know exactly what the value or offer is for them," says Campbell.
Key factors that can give startups some negotiating power are the fact that small and newer businesses tend to be more nimble and most innovative ideas come from startups rather than from large corporations. Also, smaller companies can be much more in tune with the needs of their target consumer and quick to act on those needs.


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Angry 'Game of Thrones' fans are Demanding HBO do Something Unprecedented With the Final Season
Don't worry; the "Game of Thrones" final season train has almost passed through.
This Sunday marks the finale of the final eighth season of the big-budget fantasy show, but most of the show's loyal fans are furious with how the story and character arcs played out.
And that's why angry "Game of Thrones" fans are demanding HBO do something unprecedented and ludicrous with the hit show's final season.
The disappointment through the first five episodes of "Game of Thrones" thus far is one of the truly unique things to have happened to a television show since probably the controversial ending to HBO's "The Sopranos."
People are usually satisfied with their shows endings like for instance, "Breaking Bad," which arguably had one of the best conclusions for one of America's most infamous fictitious crime lords in Walter White.
ABC and JJ Abrams' "Lost" also had a divisive conclusion to the series because instead of explaining whether the island's makeup was rooted in religion or science as they went back and forth with throughout – they made an ambiguous thematic point that it was about the journey and the characters rather than the aforementioned.
Some of the things fans have been disappointed by in "Game of Thrones" were how anti-climatic and easy it was for Arya to kill The Night King in "The Long Night," the rushed conclusion of Jaime Lannister's arc, the lack of catharsis and convenience of evil Queen Cersei's death, and the (arguable) abrupt shift from Khaleesi into The Mad Queen.
Fans are so furious, a petition is floating around urging for HBO to "remake" the entire final season and it has already reached over 500,000 signatures (at the time this article was written).
It was launched on Change.org – where petitions are rarely taken seriously and also go to die – after "The Bells" episode ran on Sunday night and garnered over 16,000 signatures within hours.
But would HBO be willing to consider it?
A rumor has spread over the past week that HBO was willing to back up a truck full of money and give showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss more money for more episodes so they could wrap up story and character arcs effectively – so they wouldn't feel they were rushing it. But they said, "nah we're good. We'll stick with six episodes."
The petition, started by Dylan D. bluntly says, "David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material (i.e. the books) to fall back on. This series deserves a final season that makes sense."
They really, really hate how this season has played out.
But would HBO entertain this idea? There's zero chance it happens. And even if HBO did want to fork over the $200 million-plus bill to recreate the last season, it's likely there are some actors vital to the show that would never go for it.
Actor Kit Harington who plays Jon Snow has already said he won't play another character like that again. They're actors and they want to do something different.
This is just wishful thinking if these angry fans think this petition will have any effect.
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Author : Matthew Quick
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
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A New York Times bestseller, The Silver Linings Playbook was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It tells the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his wife's betrayal. During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia Eagles keep losing, making his father moody; and his new therapist seems to be recommending adultery as a form of therapy. When Pat meets the tragically widowed and clinically depressed Tiffany, she offers to act as a liaison between him and his wife, if only he will give up watching football, agree to perform in this year's Dance Away Depression competition, and promise not to tell anyone about their "contract." All the while, Pat keeps searching for his silver lining. In this brilliantly written debut novel, Matthew Quick takes us inside Pat's mind, deftly showing us the world from his distorted yet endearing perspective. The result is a touching and funny story that helps us look at both depression and love in a wonderfully refreshing way.
Author : Maggie Osborne
Publisher : Ivy Books
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Hailed as "one of the best writers in the business" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, multi-award-winning author Maggie Osborne delivers hilarious and heartrending tales of resilient women full of grit, pride, and dignity who shine through hard times. Now meet the most irresistible and independent heroine of them all, a woman called Low Down, who never had anything good happen to her until the day she asked for the one thing that only a man could give her. . . . As scruffy and rootless as the other prospectors searching for gold in the Rockies, Low Down wanted nothing in return for nursing a raggedy bunch through the pox. But when pressed to reveal her heart's wish, she admits, "I want a baby." Not a husband, not a forced marriage to the proud man who drew the scratched marble and became honor bound to marry her. To be sure, Max McCord was easy on the eyes, but he loved another woman and dreamed of a different life. Yet they agreed to a temporary marriage that could end only in disaster. But can this strange twist of fate lead to the silver lining that both have been searching for?
Author : Hollye Jacobs
Genre: Health & Fitness
The Silver Lining Excerpt :
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As a healthy, happy thirty-nine-year-old mother with no family history of breast cancer, being diagnosed with the disease rocked Hollye Jacobs's world. Having worked as a nurse, social worker, and child development specialist for fifteen years, she suddenly found herself in the position of moving into the hospital bed. She was trained as a clinician to heal. In her role as patient, the healing process became personal. Exquisitely illustrated with full-color photographs by Hollye's close friend, award-winning photographer Elizabeth Messina, The Silver Lining is both Hollye's memoir and a practical, supportive resource for anyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer. In the first section of each chapter, she describes with humor and wisdom her personal experience and gives details about her diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and recovery. The second section of each chapter is told from Hollye's point of view as a medical expert. In addition to providing a glossary of important terms and resources, she addresses the physical and emotional aspects of treatment, highlights what patients can expect, and provides action steps, including: What to do when facing a diagnosis How to find the best and most supportive medical team What questions to ask What to expect at medical tests How to talk with and support children How to relieve or avoid side effects How to be a supportive friend or family member How to find Silver Linings Looking for and finding Silver Linings buoyed Hollye from the time of her diagnosis throughout her double mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, and recovery. They gave her the balance and perspective to get her through the worst days, and they compose the soul of the book. The Silver Lining of Hollye's illness is that she can now use the knowledge gleaned from her experience to try to make it better for those who have to follow her down this difficult path. This is why she is sharing her story. Hollye is the
Author : Debbie Macomber
Publisher : Ballantine Books
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Set in Cedar Cove's charming Rose Harbor Inn, Debbie Macomber's captivating new novel follows innkeeper Jo Marie and two new guests as they seek healing and comfort, revealing that every cloud has a silver lining, even when it seems difficult to find. Since opening the Rose Harbor Inn, Jo Marie Rose has grown close to her handyman, Mark Taylor. Jo Marie and Mark are good friends—and are becoming something more—yet he still won't reveal anything about his past. When Mark tells her that he's moving out of town, Jo Marie is baffled. Just when she is starting to open herself up again to love, she feels once more that she is losing the man she cares about. And as she discovers the secret behind Mark's decision to leave, she welcomes two visitors also seeking their own answers. Best friends Kellie Crenshaw and Katie Gilroy have returned to Cedar Cove for their ten-year high school reunion, looking to face down old hurts and find a sense of closure. Kellie, known as Coco, wants to finally confront the boy who callously broke her heart. Katie, however, wishes to reconnect with her old boyfriend, James—the man she still loves and the one who got away. As Katie hopes for a second chance, Coco discovers that people can change—and both look to the exciting possibilities ahead. Heartwarming and uplifting, Silver Linings is a beautiful novel of letting go of the past and embracing the unexpected. Praise for Silver Linings "A heartwarming, feel-good story from beginning to end . . . No one writes stories of love and forgiveness like Macomber."—RT Book Reviews "Macomber's homespun storytelling style makes reading an easy venture. . . . She also tosses in some hidden twists and turns that will delight her many longtime fans."—Bookreporter "Reading Macomber's novels is like being with good friends, talking and sharing joys and sorrows."—New York Journal of Books
A Cup of Silver Linings
Author : Karen Hawkins
A Cup of Silver Linings Excerpt :
Discover the "sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing" (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series with this novel that explores the magic in the tea leaves—from New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins. Ava Dove—the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove's Landscaping and Specialty Teas—is frantic. Just as her new tearoom is about to open, her herbal teas have gone haywire. Suddenly, her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her anti-anxiety tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Ava is desperate for a remedy, but her search leads her into dangerous territory, as she is forced to face a dark secret she's been hiding for over a decade. Meanwhile, successful architect Ellen Foster has arrived in Dove Pond to attend the funeral of her estranged daughter, Julie. Grieving deeply, Ellen is determined to fix up her daughter's ramshackle house, sell it, and then sweep her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Kristen, off to a saner, calmer life. But Kristen has other plans. Desperate to stay with her friends in Dove Pond, she sets off on a quest she's avoided her whole life—to find her absent father in the hopes of winning her freedom from the grandmother she barely knows. Together, Ava, Kristen, and Ellen embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family in a "cozy, big-hearted read" (Booklist) that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen.
The Little Book of Silver Linings
Author : Sky Banyes
Publisher : Castle Point Books
The Little Book of Silver Linings Excerpt :
Sky Banyes's The Little Book of Silver Linings will help you see beauty in even the messiest moments of life. No matter where you're beginning or where you want to go, start right here, right now. There is hope and healing hidden in every challenge, no matter how difficult! Every day isn't 100 percent clear and sunny, but when the inevitable dark clouds come into our lives, we can choose to focus on the glimmers of light peeking through all around us. The Little Book of Silver Linings brings you encouragement through art and words that meet you right where you are—without dismissing all the difficult feelings you may be going through. You need not linger in a dark place when there is shelter just ahead. - Find space to see possibility in the dark and growth through the rain - Take first steps toward healing from recent or past traumas - Discover all the strength you hold inside and the joy waiting for you in the world
Author : Jayne Ann Krentz
Love burned them once -- now they're twice as hot! Silver Linings Successful but shy, Seattle art dealer Mattie Sharpe fell hard for handsome, outspoken, professional adventurer Hugh Abbott. When he broke her heart and returned to his South Sea island home, Mattie vowed she'd only meet him again over her -- or better, his -- dead body. When they do meet again, it's over someone else's dead body -- and now they're running for their lives through a tropical paradise. Hugh's talking fast to make up for his mistake. Mattie's not listening...until his gentle touch ignites a white-hot fusion, and she gives in. But Hugh's past is catching up with them, and Mattie must stake her very survival on the man she loves -- the only man who ever let her down! If there is a silver lining to a broken heart, Mattie's about to discover it -- when love storms back into her life and sweeps her off her feet! Passion is an adventure -- and seduction an art -- in Silver Linings, from beloved New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz!
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Publisher : St Pauls BYB
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Author : Florence Littauer
Publisher : New Hope Publishers
Genre: Religion
Writing on her own experiences, Littauer addresses women suffering from any level of depression. Whether it is feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, or inferiority that keep women from living fully, Littauer offers suggestions for things to do to overcome depression.
Author : Beth Fehr
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Blue Skies and Silver Linings
Author : Bruce Babington
Publisher : Manchester University Press
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Author : Mina Parker
Publisher : Conari Press
In Silver Linings, Mina Parker and Daniel Talbott present an array of ways of looking at that old cliche: every cloud has a silver lining. Parker writes, "It doesn't take much to shine up your old outlook or try on a new one. One of my grandfather's favorite sayings was 'Into each life a little rain must fall'. Recently I've started to think maybe you don't have to spend your days and nights constructing mental rain shelters in preparation for the great flood that may or may not ever come. Maybe, if you can see the positive, even in the worst situations, that outlook can be its own rainy-day relief." Silver Linings offers quotations and meditations to help lighten the darker moments and revel in the brighter ones that might ensue. It's about making the best of unexpected situations, celebrating the sun in the midst of a dark day, finding a new opportunity when an old way no longer works. Daniel Talbott's photographs the beauty all around us all the time: the momentary reflections in shop windows, quiet moments, and flowers bursting out in unlikely cityscapes. Thriving in all seasons and all places, flowers are the best symbols of silver linings: the products of bright, sunny days and heavy, dark rain clouds.
Author : Jon A. Hanning
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
The contents of this book had their beginnings in 2001, not with the expectation that they would be published, but that they might be a source of comfort to a small group of friends. Administered in a one-a-day fashion in connection with a daily devotion, it quickly became manifest that their would also serve as a source of therapy for their writer. Since their beginning on that early spring day I have spent the quiet moments of my late evenings and/or early mornings in silent meditation and prayer, and then the words would come forth.
Author : Leaha Mattinson
Publisher : Balboa Press
When a Dark Cloud Hangs Over You, How Do You Live a Life That Shines? When Leaha Mattinson tested gene positive for Huntingtons diseasean incurable genetic illness that attacks the mind and bodyshe was devastated. Suddenly, her life as a busy working mother of two was turned upside down, and the future was terrifying. But Leaha knew she had a choice to make: either exist in a perpetual state of fear or take charge of her own destiny and make the most of every day. Drawing from her experience as a life and executive coach, as well as her background in fitness, Leaha developed a plan to keep her brain and body in peak condition, halt the onset of HD, and live each day to the fullest, no matter what. So far her efforts have paid off, and she is enjoying vibrant health. In Silver Linings she shares her amazing journey in a way that showcases her courage, wisdom, and quirky sense of humor. Every human being will experience life-changing trials that provoke anxiety and worry. Leahas story, written in a coffee shop over a series of icy nights in Canada, resonates with all readers and reminds us of the universal challenge to persevere without letting our circumstances define us. Silver Linings will encourage anyone facing illness or any other type of hardship to live consciously and joyfullyhowever daunting the future seems.
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Publisher : Tor Books
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What Thanksgiving Says About America
A comparison with Canada's Thanksgiving reveals the national traits embedded in this secular holiday.
By Jeet Heer
For many Canadians, the end of November is a puzzling time of year, because we start hearing from American friends about the stresses of Thanksgiving, which include arduous travels to see quarrelsome relatives. Both the timing and the argumentativeness of Thanksgiving seem baffling. In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October, not the fourth Thursday in November. More importantly, Thanksgiving in Canada is a relaxing, lazy holiday, not the ordeal of overheated consumption and forced family togetherness that seems to be the case for our unfortunate neighbors to the south. Family feuds undoubtedly take place over some Canadian dinner tables, but the stereotypical yelling match with a racist uncle or aunt isn't a ritual here.
At first glance, these differences would appear to be superficial. But they actually provide some insight into the very distinct national identities of the two countries.
Thanksgiving in both countries is rooted in ancient European harvest festivals, and in both countries it didn't properly become a national holiday until the 19th century, when the two fledgling nations strove to create institutions of national unity. The idea of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in the United States was the handiwork of one woman, the astonishing novelist, editor, and cultural impresario Sarah Josepha Hale. Starting in the 1840s via her editorial perch at Godey's Lady's Book, the most widely read American magazine of the day, Hale launched a relentless campaign to make Thanksgiving, then celebrated in different days in different states, a fixed national holiday.
Fatefully, the origins of American Thanksgiving were tied up with the very divisions that led to the bloodiest war ever fought on North American soil, for Hale was motivated in no small part by worries about national unity. As slavery continued to fester, cultural mavens like Hale hoped that in creating national holidays, the country could unite in celebration and overcome regional differences. While some Southern states did go along with her proposal, there was also resistance. In the words of historian Diana Karter Appelbaum, author of Thanksgiving: An American Holiday, An American History, the idea of a national feast celebration was seen as a "Yankee abolitionist holiday." In 1856, Virginia Governor Joseph Johnson thundered, "This theatrical national claptrap of Thanksgiving has aided other causes in setting thousands of pulpits to preaching 'Christian politics' instead of humbly letting the carnal Kingdom alone and preaching singly Christ crucified." The "Christian politics" Johnson disliked was abolitionism.
Within the very DNA of American Thanksgiving is an argument about national identity. Even the food consumed on that holiday contains an implicit message about the origins of the country. As food writer Robert Moss noted in a shrewd essay for Serious Eats, "Thanksgiving was a Yankee holiday, birthed in New England and adorned with that region's symbols and traditions: pilgrims, turkey, pumpkins, and cranberries." In 1863, during the very heart of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, at the behest of the redoubtable Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed Thanksgiving as a national holiday, thus solidifying its status as the day when a fractious nation tries to unite.
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more nebulous. While earlier folkloric accounts credit the holiday to figures like the foolhardy 16th-century explorer Martin Frobisher, in fact it has its origins in the hegemony of Protestantism in 19th-century Canada. As the historian Peter Stevens argues in the forthcoming book Celebrating Canada, the earliest seeds of what Canadians now celebrate came in 1859, when a Protestant clergyman in Ontario carved out the day as a religious feast. Canada formally became a country in 1867, and even though it had a large Catholic population of both French Canadians and Irish immigrants, Protestantism enjoyed cultural dominance. The holiday became an annual event in the 1870s.
"Where Canadian Thanksgiving is concerned, the figures who were most responsible for establishing the celebration on an annual basis were Protestant clergymen in Ontario," Stevens notes in a forthcoming article. "Their interest in the holiday was primarily a response to two great challenges that faced them, as Canadian church leaders, beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century. Particularly after Confederation, ministers felt a moral and historical obligation to chart Canada's course.
Canadian Thanksgiving didn't start shedding its sectarian origins until after the First World War, when it was celebrated in early November and fused with Armistice Day.
The link with the war gave the holiday a new emotional resonance, as a solemn time for reflecting on the sacrifice of soldiers. Canada had suffered unusually large casualties during the war: about 60,000 deaths, roughly half that of the United States, even though Canada had less than one tenth the U.S.'s population.
The association between Canadian Thanksgiving and Armistice Day ended in 1931, when Thanksgiving was moved to early October so that veterans could have their own holiday. Still, the decade when Thanksgiving and Armistice Day were one had a lasting effect, setting the tone for a quieter, more reserved Canadian holiday, one not associated with either consumption or political arguments.
Aside from these historical causes, the very nature of the two nations makes the holidays different. Canada is geographically larger but the population is much more tightly concentrated in a few urban centres. A third of Canada's population is found in just three cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. This means Canadians are much more likely to live near their immediate family and not have to travel great distances to visit relatives. The sheer hassle of holiday travel is surely a factor adding to rising tensions in American Thanksgiving and Christmas (which have the added problem of being absurdly close together).
Finally, we can't discount differences in national temper. As former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell noted on Twitter, Canadians "have better manners—don't argue with our mouths full!" But perhaps another way to look at it is that, in the United States, national disputes are argued out, while in Canada they are are left to fester as different groups refuse to talk to each other except in passive-aggressive sullenness. Despite the transformations of World War I, Canadian Thanksgiving never really completely lost its origins in Protestantism. To this day, Thanksgiving still has a WASPish tone in Canada and is less likely to be celebrated by religious and ethnic minorities. In the United States, Thanksgiving is a time for a divided nation to argue, in Canada for a divided nation to avoid fighting.
Jeet Heer is a contributing editor at the The New Republic.
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The project's second phase is designed to mirror an existing raised access floor area. The new raised access floor space is built for the Peopling of America Exhibit. Along with adding raised access floor within the Exhibit space, ARI also built two new raised access floor ramps. The raised access floor ramps are accompanied with custom wood and steel railings to match the existing area. The raised access floor provides much needed under floor access to the kiosks. The kiosks are used to official visitation certificates and learning how to search family records.


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Q: Android Neon Tubing I want to know that is this possible to create neon affect in android as shown in image below

I want to draw text using this affect in different colors is it possible

A: It is very easy to create it in bitmap images using glow effect with bright colours and placing it on a dark background.
Also it is easy to add glow like shadow to text using code like this
paint.setShadowLayer(float radius, float dx, float dy, int color)
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Android - shadow on text?
However after experimenting, the text effects in android such as shadoLayer or
glowPaint.setMaskFilter(new BlurMaskFilter(20, Blur.NORMAL));
are not strong enough for a good neon effect, hence other apporaches may be needed. One is to create text as images in Photoshop, another is to process the text by drawing it into a separate bitmap and using various effects, scaling, alpha and Xfermodes to create a better neon effects.
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The way to do this is to create two paints:
1. neon bottom paint which should draw a blured line
2. neon top paint which will draw a white semi-transparent line of smaller line width than the bottom one.
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Review by Roger C.
Nothing sways them from their habit, not illness, not the sacrifice of all earthly goods, not the crushing of their dignity, not the fear of dying, the drive is that relentless. (p. 28)
Dr. Gabor Maté derives the title of his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction from the Buddhist mandala, the Wheel of Life, which revolves through six realms, one of which is that of hungry ghosts. "This is the domain of addiction," he writes, "where we constantly seek something outside ourselves to curb an insatiable yearning for relief or fulfilment. The aching emptiness is perpetual…" (p. 1)
Dr. Maté knows of what he speaks. At the time of writing the book, he was the staff physician for the Portland Hotel Society, which provides housing and medical care to addicts in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside.
The book is a massive and ambitious undertaking. It runs to some 450 pages and is broken down into seven parts.
There are many solid reasons to read, and recommend, this book. I will discuss just a few that especially helped me to better understand the affliction of alcoholism and addiction.
Part I of the book is called Hellbound Train. It is ninety pages long. Reading it is a bit like relocating: all of sudden the reader finds herself on East Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver, loitering with those bereft of a home, family or a reason to live, other than drugs. Reader beware: Maté will take you along to the funeral of a (former) heroin addict and patient, Sharon. That chapter is called "The Lethal Hold of Drugs."
Make no mistake, there are no recoveries portrayed in this book. Not one. Maté is dealing with addiction in its late stages. The Portland Hotel Society operates Insite, the only supervised injection site in North America. In 2009, the site recorded 276,178 visits (an average of 702 visits per day) by 5,447 unique users. (Wikipedia)
It is rare that the plight of addicts is portrayed as poignantly, and as honestly, as it is by Maté. In his review of the book, Bill White (author of Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America) writes: "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts achieves many things, but its greatest emotional impact is as an ethnographic study of urban addiction." It is a motley crew that is portrayed here, and that with great empathy and compassion. I read this section partly in shock and partly with a sense of gratitude and relief that I had survived my own "close encounter with addiction" and had, somehow, gotten off the hellbound train.
Maté goes somewhere few in the field of recovery dare to tread, and that is a discussion of the various ways in which society exacerbates the problem of addiction.
For Maté, social defects are perhaps more important to understanding alcoholism and addiction than "character defects."
Part VI of his book is called Imagining a Humane Reality: Beyond the War on Drugs. In a chapter entitled "Dislocation and the Social Roots of Addiction," Maté identifies "dislocation" as a primary social factor leading to a dependence on drugs and alcohol. He bases his argument in part on the works of Bruce Alexander, author of The Globalization of Addiction, and Robert Dupont, the first director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the author of The Selfish Brain: Learning From Addiction. Both argue that in premodern times alcohol abuse was rare and it was only with the coming of the industrial age and the dominance of the free market system from 1800 onwards that alcoholism "became a raging epidemic." Maté writes:
With the rise of industrial societies came dislocation; the destruction of traditional relationships, extended family, clan, tribe and village. Vast economic and social changes tore asunder the ties that formerly connected people to those closest to them and to their communities. (p. 261)
Although all individuals are prone to addictions enabled in this manner, Maté suggests that nowhere are the destructive results of the market approach to human interaction more graphically illustrated than in its impact on aboriginal cultures around the world, including in Canada. The rate of death due to alcohol abuse is 43.7 per 100,000 among Aboriginal peoples, nearly twice that of the general population (23.6 per 100,000) and the death rate due to illicit drugs is approximately three times higher than the rate of the general population in Canada. (Addictive Behaviours Among Aboriginal People in Canada, p. 25) "In the case of drug addiction, the sins of entire societies are visited unevenly on minority populations" who are especially vulnerable to the dislocation that is its result, Maté writes. (p. 261)
He is especially critical of the so-called "War on Drugs." He calls for a "rational and humane" approach to drug users and the decriminalization (not legalization) of substance dependence. Maté writes that the war on drugs unnecessarily creates criminals and, inadvertently, greater addiction. "Recall that uncertainty, isolation, loss of control and conflict are the major triggers for stress and that stress is the most predictable factor in maintaining addiction and triggering relapse. These are also precisely the conditions that the demonization of addiction and the War on Drugs (deliberately!) impose on hardcore substance users." (p. 300) He calls for the creation of an "island of relief" for addicts and in one of the more challenging statements in the book, he suggests that it is not the role of society to change addicts, but rather to change itself: "If we are to help addicts, we must strive to change not them but their environments." (p. 299)
Dislocation – of some sort – is considered a precursor to addiction by Maté. In French we have an expression, "Il n'est pas dans son assiette." The literal translation is, "He is not in his plate." The French better captures the experience of dislocation. (Bruce Alexander also calls it "anomie," "identity diffusion," "alienation" and, again in French, "désarrois.") Unless the feeling of dislocaton goes away on its own or is dealt with and corrected, trouble is on the way.
Perhaps the most popular sentence in the whole book, certainly the one most often quoted by reviewers, is a short one: "The question is never 'Why the addiction?' but 'Why the pain?'" (p. 34)
Consistent with the notion of dislocation as its precursor, Maté argues that addiction invariably has its origins in childhood trauma.
Maté briefly outlines several of the traits that make an individual prone to addiction. These include poor self-regulation (the ability to maintain emotional balance and stability), a lack of differentiation and self-identity (the capacity to hold onto a healthy sense of self, especially while interacting with others), impaired impulse control ("A salient trait of the addiction-prone personality is a poor hold over sudden feelings, urges and desires") and a sense of deficient emptiness (the addict believes that he is "not enough"). (pp. 226-228, 335)
All of these traits inherent in the addictive process are developed, or not, in Maté's view, as a result of early childhood neglect or trauma. Of course, "not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma," Maté acknowledges, "but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours." (p. 36)
To illustrate his point(s), Maté tells the story of a Toronto police officer, Paul Gillespie, who rescued children after scanning graphic Internet videos of them being raped and molested. He couldn't, even in retirement, get over the sounds of their crying and the sight of their "dead eyes." If he hadn't retired, Maté writes, he might have seen them years later, no longer "heartbreakingly sweet," instead now hungry ghosts with ravaged faces, thieves, drug pushers and shoplifters sick, dying, addicted. But the irony and the insanity hardly stop there: detective Gillespie's drug squad colleagues, foot soldiers in the war on drugs, will be frisking them, arresting them again and again, putting them in jail, these "criminals" now, grown up haunted victims victimized yet again. (pp. 267-268)
When I first started reading In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts I couldn't help but share my admiration of the book at AA meetings I attended.
After one meeting, Naomi came over to me and said, "It is a great book. Can you guess what part I liked the most?"
I confessed that I couldn't. It's that kind of book. There are lots of different parts, with different appeal to different people.
"The part about the brain," she said.
Maté's book has two sections devoted to the brain. I glanced through them but I have to confess that the neurophysiology of addiction is not my strong suit. When I read about dopamine I turn into a dope, no doubt a result of my own deficient brain chemistry. I sort of understand that body and mind are connected but, to be honest, when I die I think it will be like a house burning down. Everything inside will go with it but less because of connection and more as a result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nevertheless… I understand that these parts of the book are very well researched and presented. Maté certainly acknowledges the interaction between brain and behaviour and their complicity in producing addiction but argues that behaviour has more impact on the brain than the brain has on behaviour. The two sections on the brain are Part III: A Different State of the Brain and Part IV: How the Addicted Brain Develops and they cover some eighty pages.
At the beginning of this review I noted that there are no stories of recovery in this book.
That is true. But Maté's main goal in writing the book has everything to do with recovery. To begin with, recovery will always be next to impossible unless addiction is understood. This book is a treasure trove of wisdom about the nature and origins of alcoholism and addiction.
Maté is not interested in blaming "genes, parents, God, the weather" for addiction, as one reviewer put it. But he does want to assign responsibility where it belongs and change what can be changed. "It makes sense to focus on what we can immediately affect: how children are raised, what social support parenting receives, how we handle adolescent drug users, and we treat addicted adults." (p. 203) For 12-Steppers in recovery, it is also perhaps worth pointing out that Maté shares his understanding of the 12 Steps in Appendix IV of the book.
"I cannot begin to tally how many revelatory, shocking and reassuring words, lines, paragraphs and whole pages I have highlighted in this astonishing book." (Susan Musgrave, author and poet) Gabor Maté's book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, originally published in 2008, is an important work in the modern history of addiction treatment and recovery.
For more information about Dr. Maté, and his other books, you can visit his website here: Dr. Gabor Maté.
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Amazing that you talked about this book in a 12-step meeting. I've tried it a few times and ALWAYS am met with people interrupting and telling me they only use, talk about, think about "conference approved books."
Conference approved since 1936 in many cases. A closed shop and also a captive market. How much money do these people (the anonymous "conference") make on out-dated publications anyway?
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is the best thing I've ever read about addiction. I go to alanon, try to understand the alcoholics in my life but DO NOT. But I'm beginning to thanks to, this wonderful book.
Jeremy M says:
I loved this book. It helped me be spiritual without a god.
I read the book and Mate is to be commended for his suspension of judgement and the compassion he shows those consumed by addiction. Nevertheless the book also illustrates how even the most open minded and learned among us continue to struggle with the chicken/egg origins of the problem and its subsequent manifestations. Looking at an addict whose been at it for a long time, all theories appear to be true. Socially dislocated, spiritually bankrupt, physically dependent, neurologically reconfigured and so on. But I still hold with the folks who are examining the neurology of addiction and how certain people are born predisposed. Unlike the author, I am fascinated and fulfilled when I read books like, Memoirs of An Addicted Brain by neuroscientist Marc Lewis, himself a recovered addict. He uses his own story to illustrate and explain the complex neuro-physiology of addiction.
Addicts generally have fewer neuro receptor sites, which means common pleasures don't produce the same degree of satisfaction in us as they would regular people. We're suckers for the first drug or drink that over stimulates the production of dopamine and floods those sites, answering the perennial question, "Where have you been all my life?". Still there are many questions that remain unanswered meaning a clear path to relief from addiction has yet to be mapped out. Those of us who have gotten sober are the minority. And I think anybody who is sober, if honestly probed as to how and why they got sober, would have to shrug and admit uncertainty.
As for the War On Drugs, how could it be anything but a failure? On one hand addiction is now recognized as a pathological brain disorder and largely beyond the control of the afflicted. On the other, the addict is demonized and prosecuted for succumbing to what medical science and government recognize as an illness. Kind of like making insulin illegal while still acknowledging that diabetics need it to survive.
Thanks for your comment, Brent. It covered some of the areas in which my review of Maté's book was admittedly deficient. I have a copy of Memoirs of an Addicted Brian and it's at the top of my reading list.
This just in: Bill Clinton says War on Drugs a Failure.
Not having read the book, I can only comment on the reviews. It would seem that Mate concentrates on the psychological and societal aspects of addiction, which is fine. Does he also address the physical aspects?
I still consider "Under The Influence: A guide to the myths and realities of alcoholism" by Dr. James R. Milam and Katherine Ketcham to be the best. Dr. Milam was a pioneer in advocating the "biogenic" (as opposed to "psychogenic") approach to alcoholism. In a nutshell, the biogenic approach holds that "Alcoholism is a physical addiction — not the symptom of a psychological problem." (Blurb on back cover of paperback edition)
It's a matter of emphasis. AA considers alcholism to be a three-fold disease: "body, mind and spirit" (or is it "physical, mental and spiritual"?). Being skeptical of the "spiritual" bit, I'd prefer to say: "physical, psychological and societal".
At any rate, I've requested the Mate book from a library, and look forward to reading it.
Roger,I really like how you organized the sections of Mate's book for the reader and your highlighting of significant issues from the text was focused and clear.
You address the sections of Mate's book which emphasizes the social dimensions of addiction, the dislocation that many individuals and groups experience for various historical reasons.
Science knows that genetics plays a part in addiction but, thankfully, many scientists, neurobiologists, psychologists and medical practitioners, like Mate, are now well beyond the old "nature" versus "nurture" debates. They recognize that biology and "the social" are ineluctably linked. Mate's books is so good because it comprehends addiction from a multifaceted perspective.
Thanks so much for your review.
For those interested, John M. has written an excellent review of Maté's book which can be accessed right here: Gabor Mate: The Hungry Ghosts.
10 points for "ineluctably!!"
Any discussion of addiction MUST begin with the acknowledgment of the physiology of addiction in which it is conceded that the primary factor of addiction is a bio-genetic inherited susceptibility.
I am not at all sure you are right, but I can tell you are CONVINCED. Thanks for sharing, David.
Wayne M says:
It may be a factor but is not neccessarily the prime factor.


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I have learned and witnessed that kids are naturally egocentric. This doesn't mean that they can't or won't think about others. As a parent, I know it is important to teach my child(ren) how to be kind and care about others. Currently it seems that the focus in this country is about bullying and hatred. I was thinking about how we could turn that around and make it about kindness and character, so I came up with a list of acts of kindness that every child can do. Even if he/she can't write yet, these acts can be modified to their level.
1) Make cookies or a treat and deliver them to the neighbors. Include a handwritten note.
2) Make a craft (or 2 or 3) and deliver them to the local nursing home.
3) Write their former teachers a note. Have your child write down one special memory or something they learned from that particular teacher.
4) Donate unwanted/unused toys and clothing to The Big Brothers or Goodwill.
5) Write thank you notes to the veterans and deliver them to the local Veterans Hospital.6) Do a chore for an elderly friend or neighbor such as pulling weeds, sweeping their porch (just be sure to ask them first).
7) Do one nice thing for each family member (pack a lunch for a sibling, make a sandwich for daddy, help find a toy for the baby).
8) Write a thank you note and include it in a small gift (from the dollar store) for the mail man/woman. Your child can place it in the mailbox by him/herself.
9) Let your child pick out a couple cans of food either from the store or your pantry and take them to the food bank.
10) Write a letter or draw a picture for the grandparents. Let your child put it in the mailbox.
11) Encourage a friend. Find out if your child's friend is playing a game, acting in a play, or doing something new and take your child to that event to cheer their buddy on.
12) Remind and help your child make thank you cards for the gifts they have received.
13) Help your child write one nice thing about each family member on a sticky note. Then let your child find a good spot to stick the notes where the family member will find them.
.15) Walk around the neighborhood with your child and pick up the garbage (you may want to purchase gloves first, and teach your child to leave any sharp items on the ground).
16) Send a package, write a letter, or draw a picture for our servicemen/women who are protecting our freedom. You can go to www.anysoldier.com for help with where and who to send these packages/letters to.
Try and talk with your child about how it feels to be kind. It should make everybody involved feel good. Kindness never hurts!
This Cars party is the masterpiece of my friend Jaymee. She is the most detail oriented person I know. She has this amazing knack of making everything cute and perfect. This was the perfect party for her Cars obsessed 3 year old. I don't think she missed a detail in planning and hosting this party.
The summer can be lllllooooonnnnngggg! But no fret, I've come up with a list of activities for you to do with your pre-schooler and/or kindergartner. Now remember, I live in the southwest and it gets ridiculously hot here, so a lot of these activities are indoor.
Day 1: Cut pictures out of old cereal or crackers boxes and glue onto another piece of paper. Then use crayons to make their own picture.
- Remember to have your child use "kid" scissors and please supervise.
Day 2: Draw a "city" with streets and parking lots on your patio or sidewalk with chalk. Then your child can drive their toy cars around the city they created.
- Stretch plastic wrap around a cutting board or plate making sure it is tight with no ripples. Then let your child draw pictures, write their name, and be creative with squeezable glitter glue. When they are finished, let it dry overnight, then peel the masterpiece off and stick on your windows. (Make sure to test a small area of your window first to make sure there is no damage) I found the glue at Joann.com for $1.50 per color.
Having your child help you, prepare the play-dough according to the directions. I found a recipe at Fun Family Education. Then sculpt, roll, squeeze, and have fun!
Make puppets using brown paper lunch sacks, buttons, yarn (or whatever odds and ends you have lying around the house). Then use a table with a table cloth on it for the stage. You can write the story before hand or improv.
This will take a little preparation without the help of your little one. Take pictures of different objects you have around the house (rubber duck, toy car, an article of clothing), and hide them around the house. Then print the pictures onto one page. Give your child the page of pictures and a crayon. As they find each object, they can cross it out on the paper. When your child has found the last object, help them find the "prize".
This may be an early morning or evening activity for us southwesterns. Give your child a couple of choices where they want to to plant flowers and let them pick. Then plant away. Let your child use a spade or small shovel to make the hole. After you put the flowers in the hole, let your child fill it in with dirt and pat it down.
Pull out as many plastic dishes as you can. Then show your child how to trace the dishes onto paper with pencils and/or crayons. Then talk about the shapes and sizes they drew. If time permits, let your child cut out each shape. (This may require a little hand over hand help).
With your supervision, help your child take 10 or 15 pictures with your digital camera. Then print out the pictures (at home or at a photo processing store). Using card stock or index, staple 10 or 15 papers together to make a book. Help your child come up with a title and write it on the first page. Then help your child glue one picture onto each page. Underneath each picture, your child can write (remember that sounding out and attempting is great) what the picture is.
Pick an easy recipe that little hands can help with. Some good treats to make are: rice krispie treats, chocolate chip cookies, english muffin pizzas, no bake cookies. . . .
own bucket of different objects to model how to do it for your child.
Fill a bucket outside with water and a little bit of dishsoap. Give your child rags and sponges and let them "wash their cars". Basically let them wash their outside toys such as bikes, cars, skooters. This is a win win situations. They have fun, and your outside toys get cleaned!
Use pillows, blankets, furniture, or whatever you need to build an awesome fort in the middle of your house.
If you register your child at KidsBowlFree.com, they can have two free games everyday this summer!!!
If you don't want to go to a bowling alley, start saving your coffee creamer bottles, and clean them out. Then with a some little finger help, peel off the label, paint, decorate, and fill each bottle with sand (about 2 inches of sand). Then set up your the pins in a hallway or outside and let your child roll a ball towards them.
Using large marshmallows and pretzel sticks, help your child build structures of all types. Using marshmallows is fun because your child can stick as many pretzels in it as they want.
Using pre-made alphabet cards, tape them in different (but visible) spots around the house. Then help your child find each letter in order. Once they find the letter, they can grab it. You can re-do this several times (your child will most likely want to do it again). If your child has already mastered the alphabet, place sight words around the house. You say a word, and your child can go find the word and bring it to you.
Use a notebook, or staple white paper together. Then let your child put stickers, stamps, or draw pictures on the pages. When they are done, ask them what is happening on each page, and write the story together.
This is a fun activity to do when it is hot. You can find the kid friendly recipe and directions at Disney Family Fun.
Day 26: Have a (indoor) picnic.
It may be way too hot to have a picnic outside, but there is no reason you can't enjoy one in your living room. Let your child help you make the sandwiches and sides. Place a blanket on the floor and use a basket just like you would do outside.
I needed a DIY Mother's Day Gift that could 1) go in the mail 2) have the baby's pictures on it. So I came up with Mod Podge Flower Pots with bags of flower bulbs in the pot instead of live flowers (which would be a disaster in the mail).
2) Then I spread a thin layer of Mod Podge over both pots (I used an "Eco" pot because it was lighter and be less expensive to mail), and allowed it to dry.
3) Then I painted on Mod Podge on the back of the paper and again on the flower pot where I wanted the paper.
4) I continued this with the paper and pictures, until the flower pot was mostly covered.
5) Then I added stickers and words.
6) Finally I painted on another layer of Mod Podge over the entire pot. This makes it look like one piece).
7) Then I added the ribbon (you can add any embellishments you think would look good).


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J. Scott Miller, Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, received his B.A. from BYU in comparative literature and later earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian studies from Princeton University. He was an associate professor of Japanese at Colgate University prior to joining the faculty at BYU in 1994. Currently chair of the department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages, he has also served as Asian Studies Coordinator in the David M. Kennedy Center, associate dean of Undergraduate Education and Honors Program Director, and as co-director of BYU's International Cinema program.
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TNG and The Fantasy Sports Industry.
We've been involved with the fantasy sports industry for over a year now. I personally have played fantasy sports since 2001 and the industry has absolutely come a long way since then. It's gone from a place that had nothing but season long commitments to Daily competitions. It's become an industry where, thanks to the internet, placing bets is now seamless. So rather than just playing for bragging rights with a friend, or even a stranger on an internet fantasy site; you can play for coin.
That is why the fantasy sports industry is becoming so attractive. It's drawing enough attention to where business people like you and I have a real opportunity to get involved and benefit from what's happening. However, we have to be careful about which opportunities we align ourselves with. Following people into a business because they've made money in network marketing does not mean they know where money is being made in fantasy sports.
Like any industry, the fantasy sports industry is full of companies that want a piece of the pie. As is usually the case, we work 'with' these companies, help them grow, and WE get a piece of that pie along with them. The bigger the slice we're able to help them carve out, the more we all eat. Hopefully if you're reading this you already understand this. Just in case you don't, i hope that analogy helps. Network Marketing is one of those industries that has a bad reputation. A lot of people have failed to make money here. There are a lot of reasons for that.
Those reasons however, have little or nothing to do with whether or not you can make money in the fantasy sports industry.
First and foremost, you can make money on the games. Simply by participating there is a real chance that you can win money. To be totally transparent there is also a chance you can lose money too. The very same way many of us are playing with friends and family now, we can do the same thing with these new platforms that allow us to 'share in the wealth'.
We Recommend putting yourself on a Budget.
Do not spend 'over' a certain amount each month.
Meanwhile, if you refer a handful of people, to play along with you and others. Together you can all actually generate some significant earnings from playing fantasy sports.
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Mary's job is threatened when she accuses Detective Greyson of hiding evidence. Has she overstepped her bounds, or is Greyson a dirty cop?
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The poorest and most vulnerable members of society were condemned to live in the worst housing. The drama "Cathy Come Home" shown on the BBC in November 1966 – a year before The Hyde Group was founded as a provider of affordable housing and community support – dramatically highlighted this social injustice. Fast forward to February 2013, Ad Hoc Property Management took over management of the Hyde Group's former community centre in Oval, London.
A community space at The Oval, Kennington provided a large venue to protect with the relocation of Hyde Group facilities.
Ad Hoc identified Apart Arts – an independent publishing house promoting creative writing – as a potential commercial Guardian. The not-for-profit organisation was quickly and efficiently installed into the building. Apart Arts immediately took over the rates payment saving the Hyde Group £6091 per annum. As with all of the companies installed into properties by Ad Hoc, Apart Arts had been carefully interviewed and checked before being allowed to occupy the building. By installing Commercial Guardians into the building, Ad Hoc secures it against squatting, vandalism and anti-social behaviour and puts the building into use.


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If you missed it last week I decided to start a new series every Sunday in the name of 'Meet the Blogger'. I ask some of my favourite but what I think to be underrated bloggers to answer a few questions. They all definitely deserve more recognition so here I bring you part two.
"Jane. 22 year old beauty & lifestyle blogger studying Moving Image & Television Production at University. PoptartsBeauty consists of beauty, fashion and lifestyle blog posts and specialises in bargain products for those on a tight budget!"
I started my blog just over a year ago because I was becoming obsessed with fashion blogs. I'd always been online, writing a Tumblr blog but I was becoming interested more into makeup and fashion and wanted somewhere I could write about it.
Liquid eyeliner - not a day has gone by in the last 5 years that I've not worn it!
I have a very strange style and it changes daily but I admire Mary-Kate and Ashley, Alexa Chung and Agnes Deyn.
Laura from Lisforladybird.com - she is such an amazing blogger and a very good friend of mine! We became friends through blogging and I'm so lucky to have her in my life!
I love Stefy from http://www.stefypuglisevich.com/ she deserves loads of credit because her blog is amazing!
www.motelrocks.com - my absolute FAVOURITE online store ever! And Primark is probably the only high street brand I can afford right now so let's say that one!
Be nice to other bloggers and make as many friends as possible, the rest will fall into place.
Condition, condition, condition. I don't do a lot with my hair to be honest, but I really believe conditioning it every two days will keep it looking perfect.
I'm still unsure about this! I just want to carry on and meet new people and enjoy it! I'd also like to start a youtube channel but I'm too much of a scaredy cat!
If you haven't seen the first in this series then you can do HERE. Don't forget to take a look at the lovely Jane's blog too! & There is still time to feature in this series, you can find my email on my contact page.


Playgroup at the skate park. Massimo on the skateboard.
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First time on the skate park for Andrew. With Henry and Yohann.


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Every year, the Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE) organises a student contest aimed at rewarding young people for their work in various surveying-related areas. This year, the CLGE Students' Contest was awarded at INTERGEO in Berlin on 27 September 2017.
The three categories awarded this year were:
Geodesy and Topography,
GIS, Mapping and Cadastre and
Galileo, EGNOS, Copernicus.
Leica Geosystems had the pleasure to support the Geodesy and Topography Award. The awarding paper for this year's category was: "An investigation into the empirical accuracy of GNSS-NHN heights using SAPOS after the introduction of the GCG2016 as a component of the integrated geodetic spatial reference 2016" by Vitaly Winter, Geodesy and Geoinformation student at the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Bonn, Germany. The awarded paper is a local and practical study which shows the opportunities and accuracy of geodetic GNSS receivers for cadastral and engineering surveying.
The research displays for the first time the achievable accuracy of SAPOS HEPS (Network-RTK) after the introduction of the new geospatial reference 2016 in a scientific investigation using Leica Geosystems GNSS equipment.
The goals and objectives of the investigation were:
To obtain an empirical accuracy value for GNSS-NHN-heights in a specific region
Compare target and measured values
Derive the accuracy of the Quasigeoid model GCG2016 using Leica Geosystems GNSS receivers
Determine factors on which the accuracy of height measurement depends on.
A Leica GS16 Self-Learning GNSS Smart Antenna and a Leica CS20 Field Controller were used to obtain normal heights by connecting with the network-RTK-service HEPS from the provider SAPOS. 138 official height markers in the Rhine-Sieg-county in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany were measured. The used data type collected included useful information on normal heights, ellipsoidal heights, undulation values, DOP values and measured positions (duration) in the standard Leica Viva format.
The Leica Geosystems GNSS equipment played a crucial role in achieving the conclusive results of the investigation. "The hardware [of the Leica GS16 and CS20 Field Controller] is reliable and conveniently designed. On top of this, the software settings can be deeply customised to improve reliability and the workflow. The chosen equipment had to receive various satellite systems, such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou with a fast and stable communication," said Winter.
The results of the investigation test the precise positioning of the Network RTK method used by the satellite positioning service (SAPOS). The observations concluded a high accuracy and precision of under one centimetre using Leica Geosystems GNSS solutions. "GNSS-technologies are continuously improving so the results of my investigation can be used for comparisons to future investigations or to similar investigations in other regions," concluded Winter.
Right: The deviation of observations at a single control point showing how accurate the used equipment and services work under favourable conditions. Left: Deviations of the height-markers in the study area in a target-actual comparison.
The Leica GS16 and CS20 Field Controller used attached to a height marker.
For more information about this study, visit: http://www.clge.eu/news/index/150


My dear child, when you come to your Heavenly Mother you truly find the Love of God.
I am in love with my children because they are the wonderful gift that the Lord has given me to glorify Him.
I became the mother of Jesus, the Eternal Word and I was made the happiest of mothers, but the Lord increased my Joy when he consecrated me as the Mother of all His children.
Enter my joyful heart of a mother and discover how to love with motherly love. Enter into my sorrows and understand why I suffer, and why I am so concerned for the salvation of every soul. Jesus has been the price for their salvation and I must love with all the powers of the Love in my Immaculate Heart to retrieve the lost and to heal the wounded, to bring them all back before the Presence of the Lord.
Imitate my motherly love; enter now into my sorrows for the salvation of the world and in Heaven you will share the great joy and glory of your Heavenly Mother.


This story was first published in 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the fatal shootings of Acie and Carolyn Worthy. Tuesday marked 29 years since the Worthys were killed.
Just about every seasoned homicide investigator has one unsolved case that haunts him throughout his career. For Chief Loyd Baker, the double slaying of Acie and Carolyn Worthy 25 years ago is that case.
For Chief Loyd Baker, the double slaying of Acie and Carolyn Worthy 25 years ago is that case.
Baker had only been assigned to the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit for a few months when the Worthys were found shot to death in their home that was burned to the ground on the night of Oct. 15, 1989.
Evidence linked the deaths to homicides of a wealthy Graceville, Fla., couple nine months earlier. Robert and Kathryn McRae were shot execution-style in a similar home-invasion robbery. Two ski masks were found at their home in northwest Florida, suggesting that at least two people were responsible. A reward of more than $200,000 is still available for information leading to an arrest.
Worthy, 68, was a World War II veteran who served as head of the Bessemer VFW post and was known as a charitable man who often carried large sums of cash. Carolyn Worthy, 55, was the director of the Lakeview Baptist Church choir. Friends and family say that she wore jewelry worth $50,000 at times and owned three expensive fur coats.
Although the Worthys were wealthy, investigators don't believe the killers were primarily after money or high-dollar items. A criminal profiler suggested a much more chilling motive.
Some jewelry and money were stolen from the home, but not everything of value was taken. The couple was building a home in the Million Dollar Lakes area of Lake View, where they planned to spend the rest of their lives.
On the night they were killed, they drove their matching white Lincoln Town Cars from the Sunday night service at Lakeview Baptist to the house they were renting on Alabama Highway 216.
Baker said he believes they were shot outside and then dragged inside the house.
Baker immediately started investigating suspects in Tuscaloosa County. He was eventually contacted by Florida investigators working the cases in Graceville. He won't reveal details, but he said that evidence does positively link the two crimes. During the investigation, he was able to link a one-time suspect to a murder-for-hire case in Louisiana and a murder in California.
"We've been looking for people with ties to Tuscaloosa County and Graceville, Fla.," Baker said.
He said he believes the Worthys' deaths were planned at last a year before.
In May 1988, Carolyn was returning from a Wednesday night church service when a masked man armed with a gun confronted her. She also had a handgun, and after a brief standoff, she escaped and filed an attempted robbery report with the Sheriff's Office.
Later that month, two girls riding a motorcycle in the area of the Worthy home saw a man watching the house. He was wearing camouflage and holding a scope. He left the area when he saw the girls, and they called police, Baker said.
More than a year later, in June 1989, an arson fire damaged the Worthys' home that was under construction. No arrests were ever made in that case. They were killed four months later.
Logan said that the loss of his mother and stepfather changed their family forever. His mother had a spirited personality, he said, and was the coordinator of many family functions.
He remembers the Fourth of July events the Worthys would host at their house. His mother would set up a loudspeaker by the pool and play patriotic songs that the family would sing along to.
Logan was a Bessemer police officer and later a Jefferson County Sheriff's Office deputy who spent his last years before retirement helping family members of crime victims. It was a good way to end his career, he said, because he understood what many of them were experiencing.
Anyone with information can contact Baker at 205-752-0616 or Tuscaloosa County CrimeStoppers at 205-752-STOP (7867).


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VV Hoeven is een Nederlandse amateurvoetbalclub uit Hoeven (Halderberge) in Noord-Brabant, opgericht in 1940. Het eerste elftal van de club speelt in de Derde Klasse (seizoen 2020/21).

De club speelt op sportpark Achter 't Hof in Hoeven.

Competitieresultaten 1948–2018

 2005: de beslissingswedstrijd om het klassekampioenschap in zondag 5G werd op 8 mei bij RSV met 0-1 verloren van VV Wernhout.

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Danielle Badra received her BA in Creative Writing from Kalamazoo College (2008) and her MFA in Poetry from George Mason University (2017). While there, she was the poetry editor of So To Speak, a feminist literary and arts journal, and an intern for Split This Rock. Her poems have appeared in Mizna, Cincinnati Review, The Maynard, Outlook Springs, 45th Parallel, The California Journal of Poetics, Duende, The Greensboro Review, Bad Pony, Rabbit Catastrophe Press, Split This Rock, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. Dialogue with the Dead (Finishing Line Press, 2015) is her first chapbook, a collection of contrapuntal poems in dialogue with her deceased sister.
In addition to teaching undergraduate composition, literature, and poetry at George Mason University, she has led writing workshops at The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Split This Rock Poetry Festival, OutWrite DC, and in high schools. She has been a featured reader for Split This Rock's Sunday Kind of Love series, a judge for Brave New Voices in DC, and a participant in Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (a festival commemorating the 2007 bombing of a historic book market in Baghdad, Iraq).
Her manuscript, Like We Still Speak, was selected by Fady Joudah and Hayan Charara as the winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and published through the University of Arkansas Press fall 2021. It was named a semi-finalist for the Khayrallah Prize and listed in Entropy's "Best of 2020-2021: Poetry Books & Poetry Collections." The book is reviewed here in the Washington Independent Review of Books and is given a deep-dive closer look here in this interview in the University of Arizona Poetry Center Blog: 1508.


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The following historical information was taken from the first installment of a series of articles about the founding and history of the present-day Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. The series began running in the August 1957 issue of the Oregon Publisher to commemorate the association's 70th anniversary. The articles were written by George S. Turnbull, author of "History of Oregon Newspapers" and former dean of the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
"Over on Yaquina Bay, in Lincoln County, is a tiny hamlet that once had its dreams of future greatness. In its good days it was known as Yaquina City, and its founders and promoters were sure it was to be the terminus of a transcontinental railroad; it borders the present city of Newport, which has became (sic) a substantial and growing community.
"The dream faded. Looking now at the few buildings on the old site of Yaquina City, you wouldn't believe that at one time the little town had two competing newspapers, one of which ran a daily as well as a weekly issue for a short time.
"Here it was that the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, under another name, had its inception. Attracted, no doubt, by the superlative recreational facilities of Yaquina Bay and the nearby Nye Beach on the ocean, Oregon's editors and publishers selected the ambitious little 'city' as the place where they would organize the Oregon Press Association. This later (1909) was to become the Oregon State Editorial Association, and finally (1936) the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.
"The group formed at Yaquina City was not Oregon's first organization of newspaper editors and publishers. A previous association was formed at Salem in October 1878 for a specific purpose, to promote the passage of an effective libel law by the legislature, in session at the time. In this aim it was successful.
"As explained in the published history of Oregon newspapers, it took a bit of manslaughter to prepare the way for the libel law. Verbal strife among this state's newspapers, waged in the so-called 'Oregon style' of personal abuse, had just culminated in the killing of A.C. McDonald, one of the publishers of the Portland Telegram, by the assistant editor of the Portland Bee in a street fight. The fatal brawl followed personal abuse of the Telegram man's family in the columns of the rival paper. The slayer, J.K. Mercer, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary.
"Realizing that this sort of thing had gone much too far and called for preventive action, ten Oregon newspapers and one in Washington Territory (the New Tacoma Herald) signed a call for formation of a newspaper association to press for passage of a criminal libel law. Presiding over the sessions of the new association, which lasted for two weeks, was Mart V. Brown of Albany, retiring state printer. Besides President Brown, promoters J.H. Turner of the East Oregonian, Pendleton, and W.H. Odell, Oregon Statesman, corresponding secretary, were chosen trustees.
"... When the new State Press Association adjourned after giving the new libel law its start, it was voted to meet again in Portland in June 1879. That meeting, apparently, never took place. The new association was unfortunate in some of its personnel; both Mr. Brown, the retiring state printer, and Anthony Noltner of the Portland Standard, prominent in the group, were under fire in connection with allegedly excessive charges for printing done for the state, and their fellow editors found their enthusiasm for the meeting fatally chilled. So far as this writer knows, no further meeting of the old association was held, and no new start was made until 1887. Under different names but with no lapse of continuity, the organization that was started at Yaquina City has continued to this day.
"A total of 18 editors, publishers, and other newspaper workers assembled in the ambitious little Yaquina Bay town August 12, 1887, to organize the statewide group."
The first person to serve as president of the Oregon Press Association was Martin L. Pipes, representative of the Benton Leader of Corvallis. In May 1928, Harris Ellsworth, advertising manager of the Four-L Lumber News, Portland, became the association's first field manager. In this position, Ellsworth spent part of his time managing the association and the other part teaching in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
The office headquarters of ONPA, up until 1971, were at the University of Oregon. During the summer of that year, ONPA moved its office to Portland. In 2014, ONPA moved to the Kruse Way Place office complex in Lake Oswego, where it remains today.
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I should start off this post by saying that this most recent trip to New Orleans improved my opinion of the city in one respect, and probably only one respect: food. The city is still as smelly, sleazy, hot, and humid as I remember it being; but my verdict on the city's restaurants has experienced a major shift. My only other visit to the city was for a volleyball tournament when I was 15, a point at which I was a very picky vegetarian, wouldn't touch seafood with a 10-foot pole, and was going through a thoroughly anti-fried-food phase. Needless to say there wasn't much for me to eat, especially at the restaurants we (we = 10 teenage girls, two coaches, and a smattering of parents) frequented.
Now a confirmed foodie who will try anything at least once and actively seeks out interesting food, I had a very different dining experience this time around. Armed as I was with Gourmet's restaurant picks for New Orleans (organized in four categories for your convenience: high end, budget, hot spots, and local favorites), more often than not I was the one who got to decide where we were eating dinner. Gourmet did not disappoint, and on more than one occasion I was seen with a decidedly euphoric look on my face--in other words, grinning like an idiot. I've listed the restaurants I liked and would recommend. A few of them (e.g. Cuvée) also deserve their own review, so stay tuned for some pure foodie bliss.