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Rewrapping the Greatest Gift
If you've been following this blog and are familiar with my site, you already know that I've been writing a book on living kidney donation with a live-donor kidney recipient, Betsy Crais. It's long been tentatively titled The Greatest Gift: The Insider's Guide to Living Kidney Donation. Now that we're down to the review process and planning for publication in 2021, we've made a big decision.
This book has never been just for people considering donating a kidney. We've always looked at our task as lending readers a hand before, during, and after the actual surgery. Similarly, there's plenty in there for people living with end stage renal disease (kidney failure), throughout the transplant process (including dialysis) and beyond, as we touch on delicate family dynamics and relationships.
Anyone who has experienced donation or transplant–or has a loved one who has–knows that both are so much more than medical decisions and events. That's why we wanted the title to reflect the book's broader role. So, drum roll please, our new title is The Insider's Guide to Living Kidney Donation: Everything You Need to Know If You Give (or Get) the Greatest Gift.
Watch this space for more news. We'll let you know when we have a specific publication date.
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Donors: Your New-Normal Numbers Are Just Fine
Being well informed about living donation before you donate a kidney is obviously extremely important, but it doesn't stop there. Continuing to be well informed is not only good for your physical health but your mental health as well.
Through social media donor support groups, I continue to hear of some donors being told that they have stage 3 chronic kidney disease, purely on the basis of their eGFR (an estimated formula for kidney function). One stunned donor said she cried all night. Before you conclude that her "disease" was a result of kidney donation, I hasten to add that she and other such donors usually have normal kidney function and no kidney disease. In other words, as researchers have demonstrated, in the absence of other factors, donors' slightly low readings are just the new normal for them. That's particularly true in the months following donation, and their readings may well improve.
These donors' primary care providers—and sometimes even nephrologists—were referring to a scale based on people with two kidneys and/or diseased kidneys. Donors lose 25% to 35% of their pre-donation kidney function, but that's still sufficient to lead a healthy normal life. It's meaningless and patently wrong to look at the numbers in a vacuum and say that these people have chronic kidney disease.
As we get older, no matter how many kidneys we have, our kidney function declines. It's especially common for people over 70, like me, to have a slightly low eGFR. However, at my last check-up, 14 years after donating my kidney to my son, my eGFR was 69 (normal for anyone is over 60).
So, if you are a kidney donor, don't be alarmed at news of a slightly high eGFR. Ask questions (how long has it been in that range? what's my creatinine?), and always remind your provider that you have one kidney. If they're still unconvinced, refer them to a paper that makes it clear that low GFR does not mean kidney disease in donors.
Celebrity Kidney Recipients: Please Share Your Stories!
They're athletes, actors, and musicians of different ages, races, and ethnicities. So, what do the celebrities listed below have in common? They're all healthier, and very likely happier, because a living kidney donor gave them a shot at a better quality of life. The best way to shorten someone's wait for an organ–rich or poor, famous or not–is to find a living donor. Sometimes it's a biological family member who steps up–sometimes it's a future or former partner. And sometimes it's a Good Samaritan, who chooses to donate to an unknown person in need.
Fortunately, some of these famous live-kidney transplant recipients have become spokespersons for National Kidney Foundation campaigns, and some, like former NBA star Alonzo Mourning, comic George Lopez, and former NFL star John Brockington have gone so far as to launch their own kidney disease awareness foundations. (Did you know that my dear WELD [Women Encouraging Living Donation] started as an offshoot of the John Brockington Foundation before joining forces with Donate Life?)
Other celebrities have individually turned to the media to share their personal transplant experiences. Singer Selena Gomez and her donor, actress Francia Raisa, gave several helpful major interviews in 2019 about Gomez's transplant, shedding light on the donation process and the aftermath. And actress Sarah Hyland candidly shared details of her two kidney transplants, first from her father and most recently from her brother, and of her struggles with depression.
Even though chronic kidney disease is more common than breast cancer or prostate cancer, the general public knows very little about it. If more celebrities who've been touched by kidney disease and transplant would openly talk about their life-changing stories, it could encourage more people to have their kidneys checked, register as organ donors, and even consider being living donors. All those actions would go a long way toward reducing the years-long wait for a kidney and ultimately saving more lives. By the way, celebrity status and money offer no privileges on the national waiting lists for a deceased donor.
How many of these celebrities did you know had had kidney transplants (the year of their transplant is next to each name)?
Stevie Wonder, Dec. 2019 (he says he feels "40 right now"!)
Ed Kranepool, 2019
Selena Gomez, 2017
Tina Turner, 2017
Sarah Hyland, 2012 and 2017
Tracy Morgan, 2010
George Lopez, 2005
Alonzo Mourning, 2003
John Brockington, 2002
Sean Elliott, 1999
I wish them all continued good health with their adopted kidney. My son has had more than 14 years with his (that is, mine).
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Here is a look at the life of Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, former 2016 presidential candidate.
Birth date: May 28, 1971
Birth place: Miami, Florida
Birth name: Marco Antonio Rubio
Father: Mario Rubio, a bartender
Mother: Oriales Garc-a Rubio
Marriage: Jeanette (Dousdebes) Rubio (1998-present)
Children: Amanda Loren, Daniella, Anthony, Dominick
Education: Attended Tarkio College in Missouri, 1989-1990; attended Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida, 1990-1991; University of Florida, political science, B.S., 1993; University of Miami, J.D., cum laude, 1996.
He is the son of Cuban immigrants who came to the United States in 1956.
Preparing for his term as speaker of the House in the Florida legislature, he wrote the book, "100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future."
Has taught political science classes at Florida International University.
1991 - Interns with US Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen while in law school at the University of Miami.
1998-2000 - City Commissioner of West Miami.
January 25, 2000 - Elected to the Florida House of Representatives.
2000-2008 - Member of the Florida House of Representatives.
2004-December 2008 - Attorney with the real estate and land use practice groups of Broad and Cassel in Miami.
November 2006-November 2008 - Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Rubio is the first Cuban-American to hold the position.
November 2, 2010 - Elected as a Republican to the US Senate.
2011 - Forms the Reclaim America PAC.
2012 - Rubio is named to the Time 100, the magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.
April 19, 2012 - Shares a glimpse of his idea of an alternative to the Democratic-backed DREAM Act that would appeal to Republicans. While not going into specifics, Rubio says his plan would grant legal status - not citizenship - for those who want to study in the United States.
June 2012 - Rubio's book, "An American Son: A Memoir," is published.
February 12, 2013 - Delivers the Republican response in both English and Spanish to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address. It is the first bilingual response to the address delivered by the same person.
December 17, 2014 - Responds to Obama's move to loosen the US embargo on Cuba. Rubio says he will block any potential US ambassador to Cuba.
January 23, 2015 - CNN confirms that Rubio is moving forward with preparations for a potential 2016 presidential bid. This includes fundraising and adding finance director Anna Rogers to his PAC.
April 13, 2015 - During an appearance at Miami's Freedom Tower, Rubio announces he is entering the 2016 race for president.
March 15, 2016 - Rubio suspends his presidential campaign after losing the Florida primary.
June 22, 2016 - Rubio announces that he will seek re-election to the Senate.
November 8, 2016 - Wins re-election to the US Senate.
February 21, 2018 - Facing an outraged constituent audience of school shooting survivors a week after the deadly Parkland school shooting, Rubio is the lone Republican lawmaker to attend CNN's town hall. Rubio says he would support legislation to prevent an 18-year-old from buying a rifle and that he is reconsidering his support for large-capacity magazines.
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These articles are black David Diggs reviews of web series or television shows inspired by his personal or political views.
Do you remember the TV show from the first to the last episode? Blackish is one of those TV shows. It is a sitcom that premiered in 2014 about the life of an African family, specifically a father struggling to reunite with his nearby family.
This TV show is very popular in the United States. It gets some negative and questionable reviews online. Read Blackish David Digg's review post for more information.
The show received a lot of positive reviews because it was a very original and intelligent program. He is a distinguished and competent speaker on racial issues that white people would ignore. It is also important to understand different aspects of marriage and maturation. This is a funny show Tracey Ross is a great comedian. Still a great show to enjoy and talk about with your kids.
Dre's dad isn't the most consistent man and he loves the "old school man" way and often gets upset when Drepa Diggs does something weird on his wife Blackish's show. While many critics say it's not an accident, it's important to talk about it and talk to your kids to find out if they think it's "normal" or "good." It's ironic how Dr. Dre is very naive. Some are blind. However, this problem is worth mentioning.
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Dre Johnson seems to have it all: He has a thriving career, a beautiful wife named Rainbow with four kids, and a big house in a beautiful neighborhood, according to Blackish David Diggs Review. But as an African American, he begins to wonder how his success has led to the integration of the rest of his family.
With the help of his father, Dre tries to instill an ethnic identity in his family that will make them appreciate their culture and help them cope with the challenges ahead. Dre hopes to help achieve the same goal.
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David Diggs won a Grammy and Tony for his role as Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Broadway musical Hamilton in 2015. After Hamilton, the actor appeared regularly on Blackish and starred in Wonder. ….
According to a Rotten Tomatoes review, Blackish received an average rating of 55% from viewers. If the male lead was absent from the show between two seasons, he was replaced. But he came back and helped boost the show's TRP. Overall, watching David Diggs is good for most viewers. Any idea about the show? Share your thoughts with us. we
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Speaking to Billboard, Rozonda "Chili" Thomas and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins dropped details on what to expect for 2013. "This is just the beginning," Chili promised. "This is going to be a great year for TLC. It's just time. It's time for us to do everything."
Aside from hitting the MixTape Festival in July, TLC will head overseas to perform in Japan, where they will receive a Legends Awards from the country's version of MTV. A new tour is also in the works, sans a hologram version of Lisa "LeftEye" Lopes, who died in a 2002 car accident. "I don't even know how that got out," Chili said of a rumored plot to mirror the special effects that resurrected Tupac Shakur's image at last year's Coachella Music Festival. "We never said that was something we're gonna do. It's definitely something we thought about, like years ago. But I think it's very creepy," she explained. "We're still in the creative process in figuring out how we're going to involve Lisa and stuff like that."
Despite living on opposite coasts (T-Boz spends her time in L.A., while Atlanta is home base for Chili) the duo has been heavy in the studio and has re-recorded some of their biggest hits for the biopic's soundtrack. Due out sometime this year, both members executive produced, while Keke Palmer (Chili), Drew Sidora (T-Boz), Lil Mama (Left Eye) and Evan Ross (TLC producer Dallas Austin) star in the movie. "It's gonna be juicy...good juicy!" Chili said of the project, which will "touch on a lot of things people did not know about."
This year also marks a musical reunion between TLC and Austin, and a collaboration of some sort with J. Cole. Keeping much of the specifics under wraps, these days TLC is focusing on giving back to their loyal supporters. "We just really want to get out there and perform and do shows," T-Boz added. "And thank God people want to see us."


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Costello, Lowe, Dury, Wallis, Wreckless Eric in package
New Musical Express
Elvis Costello is one of five name attractions taking part in a Stiff Records package tour, which plays two dozen major dates around the country starting early nest month. It's going out under the banner of "Stiffs Greatest Stiffs Live Tour," and the full line-up at all gigs is:
Elvis Costello, who will be appearing with the Attractions.
Ian Dury, on stage for the first time since leaving the Kilburns and performing with his new band which comprises Davey Payne (sax), Norman Watt-Roy (bass), Charley Charles (drums) and Chaz Jankel (guitar).
Nick Lowe, on the road foe the first time as a soloist after finishing work as producer of the Feelgoods' new album Be Seeing You. He expects to be using a seven-piece backing band, including two drummers.
Wreckless Eric, who win be supported by Denise Roudette (bass), Ian Dury, (drums) and Davey Payne (sax).
Larry Wallis, ex-Pink Fairies and Motorhead, who is currently working on a solo album with the Hot Rods' rhythm section — though they won't be accompanying him on the tour.
Dates are High Wyncombe Town Hall (October 3), Bristol Exhibition Centre (6), Bath University (7), Loughborough University (8), Middlesbrough Town Hall (9), Liverpool Empire (11), Glasgow Apollo (13), Sheffield Polytechnic (14), Leeds University (15), Croydon Fairfield Hall (16), Norwich East Anglia University (18), Brighton Top Rank (19), Salford University (21), Leicester University (22), Rochdale Champness Hall (24), Birmingham Town Hall (25), Cardiff Top Rank (26), Wolverhampton Civic Hall (27), London Strand Lyceum, (28), Guildford Civic Hall (31), Aylesbury Friars (November 2), Colchester Essex University (3), Newcastle Polytechnic (4) and Lancaster University (5).
Tickets are on sale now at most venues including London Lyceum where admission is £2.50, Elsewhere prices range from £1.25 from £2.25. The Birmingham box-office opens on Saturday week (10) and at Croydon as September 15. The Glasgow gig is subject to a licence being granted (see separate story), as is the Cardiff date.
The five acts will each play a 20-minute set in rotating order. The opening night at High Wyncombe is been recorded and, thanks to a rush operation, the resulting live album will be available at all gigs from Bath onwards (October 7), priced £1.99.
NME previews the Stiff's Greatest Stiffs Live tour.
My Aim Is True is No. 19 on the album chart (page 2).
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Sabahattin Çakmakoğlu (* 25. November 1930 in İncesu) ist ein türkischer Politiker, der von 1999 bis 2002 Verteidigungsminister der Türkei war. Außerdem war er für die rechtsextreme Partei der Nationalistischen Bewegung (MHP) Präsidentschaftskandidat bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen im Jahr 2007, verlor aber gegen den AKP-Kandidaten Abdullah Gül. Zwischen 1999 und 2002 und von 2007 bis 2011 war er Abgeordneter für Kayseri in der türkischen Nationalversammlung.

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Sabahattin Çakmakoğlu wurde 1930 als Sohn von Mehmet Kemal und dessen Ehefrau Bedriye in İncesu geboren. Dort besuchte er auch die Grund- und die weiterführenden Schulen und schloss seine Schulbildung 1949 am Kayseri Lisesi ab. Anschließend studierte er bis 1953 Politikwissenschaften an der Ankara Üniversitesi. Er arbeitete dann als Beamter in der Verwaltung und schloss in dieser Zeit auch ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universität Ankara ab. Von November 1954 bis Mai 1956 leistete er seinen Militärdienst.

Karriere als Beamter und Gouverneur
Çakmakoğlu war dann 12 Jahre lang oberster Beamter (Kaymakam) der İlçe (Landkreis) Kozaklı, Gülşehir und Ürgüp in der Provinz Nevşehir, in Çıldır (Provinz Ardahan), Bayburt in der Provinz Gümüşhane und Ereğli in der Provinz Konya. Im Jahr 1989 wurde der İlçe Bayburt zur Provinz.

Çakmakoğlu war drei Jahre lang Gouverneur (Vali) der Provinz Ankara und war dann von 1972 bis 1975 Gouverneur von Gümüşhane. Ab 1975 war er Gouverneur der Provinz Isparta, von Februar bis August 1978 war er Gouverneur von Edirne und 1979/80 Gouverneur von Gaziantep. Von 1984 bis 1988 arbeitete er als Gouverneur von Mersin.

In den Jahren 1988 bis 1992 arbeitete Çakmakoğlu bei der Generaldirektion für Sicherheit, als Unterstaatssekretär für den Ministerpräsidenten der Türkei und als Unterstaatssekretär für den Innenminister. Im Jahr 1991 wurde er in den Hochschulrat gewählt. Nach seiner Pensionierung im Jahr 1992 wurde er Berater des türkischen Staatspräsidenten Turgut Özal.

Innenminister
Die türkische Verfassung schrieb damals vor, dass Minister mit Parteibuch vor Parlamentswahlen ihr Amt an die zuständigen Unterstaatssekretäre abtreten müssen. So übernahm Çakmakoğlu am 30. August 1991 das Amt des Innenministers Mustafa Kalemli vor der Parlamentswahl im Oktober 1991. Er blieb im Amt, bis sich die neue Koalition aus der Partei des Rechten Weges und der Sozialdemokratischen Populistischen Partei gebildet hatte und İsmet Sezgin neuer Innenminister wurde.

Abgeordneter und Verteidigungsminister
Çakmakoğlu trat im Juli 1993 der Mutterlandpartei (ANAP) bei, wechselte aber drei Jahre später in die nationalistische Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP). Er war Berater des Parteivorsitzenden Alparslan Türkeş bis zu dessen Tode im Jahr 1997. Am 23. November 1997 wurde Çakmakoğlu in den Parteirat der MHP gewählt und wurde stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Partei. Bei den Parlamentswahlen 1999 wurde er für Kayseri in die Große Nationalversammlung gewählt.

Die MHP wurde bei den Wahlen zweitstärkste Kraft und ging mit der Demokratischen Linkspartei und der ANAP eine Koalition ein. Çakmakoğlu wurde Minister für nationale Verteidigung und blieb bis zum 18. November 2002 im Amt. Bei der Parlamentswahl 2002 verlor er sein Abgeordnetenmandat, weil die MHP es nicht über die in der Türkei geltende Sperrklausel von 10 Prozent schaffte und damit nicht mehr in der Nationalversammlung vertreten war.

Bei der Parlamentswahl 2007 konnte die MHP mit 14,3 Prozent wieder in das Parlament einziehen und Çakmakoğlu wurde erneut Abgeordneter für Kayseri. Kurz danach würde er erneut stellvertretender Vorsitzender seiner Partei. Die Neuwahlen mussten vorgezogen werden, weil die 11. Präsidentschaftswahl am Mindestquorum scheiterte und kein Nachfolger für Präsident Ahmet Necdet Sezer gewählt werden konnte. Nach der für die MHP erfolgreichen Parlamentswahl wurde Çakmakoğlu für seine Partei als Präsidentschaftskandidat aufgestellt. Er gewann in der ersten Runde 70 Stimmen, in der zweiten Runde 71 Stimmen und in der letzten Runde erneut 70 Stimmen und verlor gegen den AKP-Kandidaten Abdullah Gül.

Çakmakoğlu legte sein Abgeordnetenmandat vor der Parlamentswahl 2011 nieder.

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Çakmakoğlu ist verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder. In seiner Heimatstadt İncesu ist eine Sekundarschule nach ihm benannt: Vali Sabahattin Çakmakoğlu Ortaokulu (Gouverneur-Sabahattin-Çakmakoğlu-Schule). In der Provinz Mersin, wo Çakmakoğlu zwischen 1984 und 1988 Gouverneur war, trägt eine Grundschule seinen Namen.

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 Biografie auf der Website der türkischen Nationalversammlung

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Abgeordneter der Großen Nationalversammlung der Türkei
Kandidat für das Präsidentenamt (Türkei)
Mitglied der Anavatan Partisi
Mitglied der Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi
Gouverneur (Türkei)
Person (Kayseri)
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Pandemic Forces Cancellation Of 2021 F1 Grand Prix, MotoGP
The Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix and Australian MotoGP will not take place in 2021 due to the ongoing effects of the global pandemic – including a slower than forecast rollout of the Commonwealth vaccination program and subsequent caps to international traveller intake.
The MotoGP at Phillip Island had been scheduled for October 24 and the Albert Park Formula 1 race for November 21, but the sports' governing bodies required assurances this week that the events could proceed.
Given the lower than expected vaccination rates and the impact of the National Cabinet decision, those assurances could not be provided within that time frame.
The Victorian Government understands the need for Formula 1 management and MotoGP controller Dorna Sports to confirm their schedules and the decision not to proceed in 2021 was mutually agreed with those bodies.
Planning will begin immediately for the return of the iconic international events in 2022.
The decision of National Cabinet last Friday to set a phased roadmap to re-open the nation built on widespread community vaccination means organisers and fans can have increased confidence looking to next year.
The Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix and Australian MotoGP are much-loved fixtures on Victoria's renowned events calendar, attracting thousands of fans to Albert Park and Phillip Island respectively and showcasing the state to a global audience of tens of millions of people.
The Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix has been a pillar of the major events calendar since it was enticed from South Australia in 1996.
The latest contract extension agreed with Formula 1 management means that the race will be held at Albert Park until at least 2025. The Australian MotoGP is contracted to Victoria until 2026 and has been held at the Phillip Island circuit since 1997.
The Government is ensuring Victoria remains Australia's events leader with a further $152 million for the Major Events Fund across four years – creating an annual pool of $100 million to attract high-value events and attractions to the state, supporting jobs and businesses.
A study by consultants Ernst & Young put the value of major events to the Victorian economy at $2.5 billion a year prior to the global pandemic.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major Events Martin Pakula
"It's very disappointing that these much-loved events can't proceed but this is the reality of the pandemic – but until we get much higher vaccination rates we cannot return to more normal settings."
"We are getting to work on plans for 2022 immediately and can't wait to welcome the world's best drivers and riders and all motorsport fans back to Albert Park and Phillip Island."
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Alex Gibney's documentary 'Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine' will also play on CNN.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, the new documentary from director Alex Gibney, which just had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.
A CNN Films and Jigsaw production, the film offers a portrait of the Apple co-founder. It was produced by Viva Van Loock and Gibney and executive produced for CNN Films by Vinnie Malhotra and Amy Entelis and for Jigsaw by Stacey Offman and Gaby Darbyshire.
It will be the seventh film directed by Gibney to be distributed by Magnolia, which has acquired the theatrical, VOD and home entertainment rights. CNN Films has the television broadcast distribution rights.
"Once again, Alex Gibney takes on an iconic figure and masterfully reveals the complexities and motivations behind the Steve Jobs facade that has inspired the world," Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles said.
The deal was negotiated by Magnolia svp acquisitions Dori Begley with Josh Braun of Submarine on behalf of the filmmakers.


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The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest and took place in London, United Kingdom. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who agreed to stage the event after , who had won the  edition, declined to host it due to financial shortcomings, also having hosted the competition in  and . The contest was held at the BBC Television Centre on Saturday 23 March 1963 and was hosted by Katie Boyle for a second time.

Sixteen countries participated in the contest, the same countries that had participated the previous year.

The contest this year was won by  with the song "Dansevise", performed by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann. This was the first victory for any of the Nordic countries. Four countries got nul points, with ,  and  failing to score any points for the first time and the  for the second time, becoming the first country to go two years in a row without scoring a single point.

Location

The BBC was willing to host the contest instead of the previous year's winner France, as was the case in . They would do so again in  and  because the winning broadcasters from the year before could not afford to produce the contest. The host venue was the BBC Television Centre, White City, London, which opened in 1960. It is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type having appeared as the backdrop for many BBC programmes. It remained to be one of the largest such facilities in the world until it redeveloped in March 2013.

Format
Two studios (TC3 and TC4) were used: one for the mistress of ceremonies Katie Boyle, the audience, and the scoreboard (TC3); the other for the performers and the orchestra accompanying them (TC4). Unusually, a boom microphone (normally used for drama and comedy shows) was employedthe viewer could not see this, so it appeared as if the artists were miming to their vocals. This was not the case, but this innovation was to create a new look for the contest.

After the  was the only one to be held on a Sunday, the contest was held on a Saturday again in 1963.

Voting controversy
One controversy this year was during the voting. When it was 's turn to announce their votes, the spokesman in Oslo, Roald Øyen, did not use the correct procedure in that the song number, followed by the name of the country, should have been announced before awarding the points. Boyle asked Norway to repeat their results, but the Norwegian spokesman asked Boyle to return to them after all the other results were in. When Boyle went back to Norway again the votes had mysteriously altered, thus changing the outcome of the contest and giving the victory to Norway's neighbours  at 's expense. In fact, the Norwegian spokesman had not given the correct votes on the first occasion, because votes from the 20 jury members were still being tallied.

Monaco was also asked to repeat their voting a second time as initially Monaco gave one point to both the United Kingdom and Luxembourg. However, when Boyle went back to Monaco to receive the votes again Monaco's one vote to Luxembourg was efficiently discarded (although this did not have any effect on the positions of the countries).

It has also been speculated as to whether the juries were indeed on the end of a telephone line or in the actual studio given how clearly their voices could be heard as opposed to sounding as though they were being redirected through a telephone line.

Participating countries

All countries which participated in the  edition also participated in the 1963 edition.

Conductors
The participating conductors were:

 Eric Robinson
 Eric Robinson
 Willy Berking
 Erwin Halletz
 Øivind Bergh

 George de Godzinsky
 Kai Mortensen
 Miljenko Prohaska
 Eric Robinson
 Franck Pourcel

 Francis Bay
 Raymond Lefèvre
 Eric Robinson

Returning artists

Participants and results

Detailed voting results

Each country had 20 jury members who awarded their five favourite songs 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 points in order. All those points would then be added up and the five song with the most points got 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 votes in order. Errors in the Norwegian (see above) and the Monegasque votes meant their scores had to be announced twice, with an adjustment to the scores being made in each case before the final score was verified.

5 points
Below is a summary of all 5 points received:

Spokespersons

Listed below is the order in which votes were cast during the 1963 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

 Pete Murray
 Pim Jacobs
 Werner Veigel
 Emil Kollpacher
 Roald Øyen
 Enzo Tortora

 TBC

 Armand Lanoux
 Julio Rico

 Ward Bogaert
 TBC
 TBC

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via its networks. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants". Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers.

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Notes

References

External links

1963
Music festivals in the United Kingdom
1963 in music
1963 in the United Kingdom
1963 in London
March 1963 events in the United Kingdom
Events in London


The complexity of modern organizations requires their employees to manage an ever-increasing flow of information. Many trends combine to that effect, among which fast growth, under-staffing, inappropriate tools or poor procedures. The purpose of this blog is to create a discussion around all the ways that managing information can be improved from a desktop worker's standpoint – if we only take the time to sit back and think rather than jumping right in armed with our usual tools and mindset.
I'll use the term desktop data management to refer to these practices.
Few online resources seem devoted to data management from a desktop worker's standpoint, with most searches on the subject quickly ending up in data modeling or "information technology" territory. Nonetheless, even when data management isn't your primary job, it is usually in your own self-interest to approach it with care. You may, after all, be subject to external forces that have made you the (however unwilling) owner of some piece of data critical to your company. If you think you're too busy to consider something as esoteric as data management, a lot of your unproductive time in the office (no offense) will probably involve looking up information, matching lists from different sources or doing some other kind of repetitive, error-prone work. Chances are that better data management could spare you time and frustration.
Robust data management relies on down-to-earth principles, not on a particular piece of technology. I am convinced that the broad application of a few simple ideas can have a significant impact on an organization's productivity, facilitating the exchange of critical information among coworkers.
Desktop data management problems are real-world problems, not theoretical entertainment for "computer people". They address data as a valuable resource. Relegating data management to a low priority has a hugely detrimental impact on quality and efficiency. It results in anything from lower service levels to wasted energy, human conflicts or a mix of all three – and more. On the other hand, treating data management with the care it deserves produces a snowball effect, revealing previously unthinkable opportunities at a fraction of the cost you would have imagined. This is as true for a large online retailer processing thousands of orders daily, as it is true for you as an individual, sending a mailing to a few dozen customers or producing monthly reports for your company's headquarters.
This entry was posted in Data Modeling, Data Quality, Excel on October 28, 2006 by Stéphane Langer.


Eczema and hives are evaluated by an allergist to identify a possible trigger for the skin reaction.
Eczema is dry, itchy red skin. Infants may present early in life with eczema which may be flared by a food. When the food is eliminated from the diet the eczema is often much easier to treat. Occasionally an adult will have an allergy that will flare their eczema.
Hives are raised, white expanding areas of skin that move around the body occasionally causing deep swelling of the lips of other soft tissues. Hives can have many triggers including food, medication, infection, and other contacts.
Providing evaluation and treatment for these skin conditions is an area of allergist expertise.


(HealthDay News) -- Teaching a child to make healthy food choices empowers the child to lead a healthier lifestyle when he or she is grown.
Before choosing a snack, encourage your child to check its label for calories and fat.
Have your child measure what he or she considers an appropriate serving size, then show the actual serving size.
Pre-portion your child's snack to the label's serving size.
In a supermarket, send your child to find healthy groceries by scanning nutrition labels.
Have your child pack his or her own lunch, keeping it under 600 calories.
Offer your child praise when the child reads food labels.


Proms Extra: Kate Kennedy and Tony Palmer discuss the music in tonight's concert.
Have I Lost My Eyes?
Peter Grimes, Act 2: "Fool to let it come to this!; People!... No I will speak!"
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel by John Betjeman, read by Garry Watson.
The Magic Flute: "Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön"


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Varianti
Femminili: Biancamaria

Origine e diffusione

È un nome composto, formato dall'unione di Bianca e Maria.

Onomastico
L'onomastico si può festeggiare lo stesso giorno dei nomi Bianca e Maria. In alternativa si può festeggiare anche il 5 agosto, in memoria della Madonna della Neve, in onore della quale questo nome viene talvolta imposto.

Persone

Bianca Maria Fusari, attrice italiana
Bianca Maria Piccinino, giornalista, conduttrice televisiva e autrice televisiva italiana
Bianca Maria Pirazzoli, attrice e regista teatrale italiana
Bianca Maria Scapardone, nobile italiana
Bianca Maria Sforza, imperatrice, figlia del duca di Milano Galeazzo Maria Sforza e moglie dell'imperatore Massimiliano I d'Asburgo
Bianca Maria Sforza di Caravaggio, nobile italiana
Bianca Maria Visconti, duchessa di Milano

Variante Biancamaria

Biancamaria Frabotta, poetessa, scrittrice, giornalista e docente universitaria italiana
Biancamaria Martinengo, nobile italiana
Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, orientalista e scrittrice italiana

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Prenomi composti di Maria
Prenomi ispirati al culto mariano


Last week I posted some of the results from my photo shoot on the waterfront in downtown Seattle. My focus was the Seattle Great Wheel and I was very pleased with a number of the shots that I got. This week I wanted to post a few shots from that same photo shoot, but these shots are a series I captured by my wife politely nudging me to turn around and pull out my telephoto lens. When I did turn around, I wasn't so sure but changed lenses and began to shoot. I am so glad I did. The first picture is to give a reference point of the location I was standing….waterfront, downtown Seattle.
I am standing on a pier and by simply turning around and pointing the camera (with the telephoto lens) across the Puget Sound, I got the following pictures.
Bainbridge Island in the foreground….
Bainbridge Island in the foreground across Puget Sound.
Bainbridge Island still in the in the foreground.
This shot includes the Seattle side of the water with the sail boats docked to the north of downtown region.
The visual impact of the Olympic Range is definitely heightened by the use of the telephoto lens, but does remind us of the incredible beauty that sits just to the west of the Seattle area between the Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean.
As I work through the shoot and evaluate what I have, some of the shots will find themselves transformed into paintings and black and white photography, while others will stay color photographs.
Thoughts? Comments? Please visit my main gallery: TheWalllGallery … and follow my work on my Facebook page – TheWallGallery by Kirt Tisdale. (Page likes are always appreciated!) Thanks!
This entry was posted in Art Prints, Color Photography, Uncategorized and tagged artist kirt tisdale, bainbridge island, black and white photography, color photography, landscape, mountains, olympic mountain range, olympic peninsula, online art gallery, photographer, puget sound, seattle on November 19, 2013 by Kirt D Tisdale.


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Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo traveled to North Korea earlier this month to meet with leader Kim Jong Un. We discuss the talk they had and how it could affect Pompeo's upcoming confirmation hearing. We also break down the race for the next Speaker of the House and whether a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller will get a vote in the Senate.
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158 "Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all."
On a rainy Saturday morning in February, Judy and I attended a wedding in the city. The bride was a daughter of good friends involved with a mission organization that serves the poor in the city. The Kleinknechts became for us surrogate city parents when we moved back to the New York area in 1992, guiding us on school choices, shopping options and churches to check out. Their daughter, Morgen, and their son, David, both attended public schools. We did, after all, need much help navigating how to raise our kids in New York City. We have had many mentors in our lives, and we are grateful for them all.
The Kleinknechts were involved in a church planting project which became the Redeemer movement and invited us to their activities as well. We visited Redeemer and heard Dr. Tim Keller speak to a crowd of some two hundred folks (it attracts more than 5,000 every Sunday now). Judy and I turned to each other after the sermon and said "That's like a humanities lecture at Bucknell, except it was about the (Christian) gospel."
Well, it turned out that Tim did attend our alma mater, Bucknell University, a few years ahead of us. We ended up "commuting" 40 minutes to the city from cozy suburbia each Sunday to worship with them. The Kleinknechts and the Kellers preached a new paradigm for Christians being involved in the cities. "We must love the city," Tim Keller would tell the leaders. "Many Christians are against the city, or become too much 'of' the city." In order to truly love the city, all leaders involved were challenged to consider moving into the city and raising our families here.
If their vision consisted of mere idealism, or mere passion, I am not sure that would have convinced both my wife and me to make the move. Every time doubts welled up and tempted us to move our family as far away from the city as humanly possible, we reminded ourselves that our friends had a deep theological grid to work from. They were not saying, "Be a hero, move into the heart of strife." They were communicating a gospel that we had never heard and understood fully before: If you want to affect the culture, you must plant yourself in the soil of that culture. If the early Christians were willing to move into a plague-infested city, we must be willing to move into a city dealing with the AIDs crisis and many other social ills. Of course, I knew that the city is one of the few places where I had a shot at making a living as an artist. But still, why move our family there?
"The city attracts the best," Tim told me one day as I drove him in our rusty Toyota station wagon, our last car before we gave up that mobility (renting our parking lot was costing us more than we paid for our first apartment after college) for city subways. "You have to seek the best if you want be the best, you need the city to shape you." Of course, he was not just speaking about being an artist. His theology would include the idea of shalom, the flourishing of humanity.
In short, he was saying, in order to be the best human you can be, we need the city. That idea of can be extended in a radical principle to raising your family in the city. As counter-intuitive, and most definitely counter-cultural, as it may sound, in order to raise our children well, we need the city. To be a church that desires to be a catalyst for the flourishing of humanity, we need to move in and begin the adventure of trusting God in the midst of strife, even if that means to "exile ourselves" from familiar comfort and conventionality. TriBeCa, in 1992, had few amenities, and local paper still reported occasional gang related murders in our streets.
Jeremiah 29:4-7 states: "This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."
Planting trees and seeing our children wed in a city are not what many would consider "spiritual." But this wedding in midtown Manhattan was a manifestation of a spiritual principle bearing fruit. We were witness to a covenantal commitment between the bride and the bridegroom that transcends time and even the boundaries of this particular city. Glen and Carole, the bride's parents, have solely and faithfully served the inner city of New York driven by their spiritual principle of loving the city. Morgen and her new husband, a pastor, will carry out this same promise in Los Angeles.
Tim Keller's wedding message was, as usual, succinct and powerfully resonant. He began with Kierkegaard1, who stated that at the end of history, we will have to take our masks off, as in the midnight hour of the masquerade, and reveal who we really are. "Marriage," Tim reminded us, "is a radical endeavor. It is radically discomforting and radically comforting at the same time. And the Christian gospel is the only paradigm that can bring these opposites together." Unlike the Kierkegaard metaphor, Tim continued, a marriage forces us to take our masks off; we are completely vulnerable. Marriage, therefore, can give us strength and confidence to move into the world, or it can devastate us from within.
"God did not create us to get the cosmic, infinite joy of mutual love and glorification, but to share it. We were made to join in the dance. We were designed, then not just for belief in God in some general way, nor for a vague kind of inspiration or spirituality. We were made to center our lives upon him, to make the purpose and passion of our lives knowing, serving, delighting, and resembling him. This growth in happiness will go on eternally, increasing unimaginably. (1 Corinthians 2:7-10)"
The cosmic dance is also a nuptial dance. The Church, as the Bride of Christ, is invited to a Feast. But in order to fully respond to this invitation, we have to get beyond the general sense of "faith" and move into God's banquet hall, a center room of his mansion. The Bible makes it abundantly clear that that mansion is in a city: The City of God. "The Bible begins at a Garden," Tim noted often, "and ends in a City."
After serving at Redeemer as an elder for two years with Glen, I jumped at the opportunity to plant their first daughter church, The Village Church. If this theology of the city was to work, I needed to put my efforts into the heart of culture, and create a church home for the creative. The Village Church, now in its 13th year, would become our family's exilic home. Our children know no other church; our son Ty, now at NYU, and his fiancée, who graduates from The King's College this June, both attend there.
Glen and I kept in touch, and I asked him to assist me in establishing the New York chapter of the International Arts Movement, an arts advocacy group to carry out this mission to see humanity flourish via the arts. Glen agreed to serve us as a founding board member from 1998 - 2003. He would often joke about the "farmer from Indiana" serving on the board of an arts organization. But I assured him that IAM needs to be able to speak to farmers as well as artists. The boundaries of art need to expand, to see all of life in the creative abundance of God. Besides, Glen was one of organizational gurus behind the Redeemer movement, and he knew instinctively what it meant to take risks that can impact the culture at large. If having him on the board only meant that I could glean from his wisdom on raising teens in the city, or receive occasional fatherly advice for my marriage, that alone would be worth it.
At a gathering soon after 9/11, Glen introduced himself as an "unwitting recruiter responsible for moving the Fujimuras into a loft three blocks from Ground Zero." I told him then, "If it was just you, then I don't think we would be here. It was Jeremiah 29. We just didn't know that we would be signing up to be Ground Zero residents."
Of course, I would think later, it WAS Glen and Tim who opened our hearts to the reality behind the scripture passages. They did recruit us, and it was a path that once chosen, we could not turn back from.
As we ate our splendid meal at the wedding banquet, I tried to convince Tim to have a jazz room in the new Redeemer building on the upper west side. Then, I shared my idea for a dedicated jazz space with Tom Jennings, Redeemer's music director, who was also at the wedding, hoping to enlist him. Tom quipped, "That's one sure way to make the building not succeed. " The fact that Tom is a noted jazz pianist makes this statement heartfelt and depressing at the same time. Tim sidestepped my ardent advocacy for jazz, and we began to discuss issues surrounding the New Atheism.
Tim has been on a book tour of sorts, speaking at various universities in Veritas Forums and debating atheist professors. I told him that I participated in one at Columbia University, being pitted against feminist artist Coco Fusco.
"So what was that like?" He asked.
"Well, it really never went anywhere," I said as I licked my sorbet, "because she kept on wanting to go back to the culture war days. I wanted to talk about being stewards of culture and creating a new language for culture, but she wanted to talk about governmental censoring of art. I told the organizers, that these debates may no longer serve us well anymore. We need a tri-alogue, not a dialogue, a mediated conversation that can create a third language to speak about an issue."
Tim asked me what I meant by a "third language." I explained that there is a huge gap in culture where the split between rational and emotive, between reason and the intuitive, has caused dialectical opposition. But now, because of the dehumanization this has caused, people are hungering for mediated conversation. "Obama is speaking that type of language, and that's why he is gaining ground," I pontificated.
Of course, it was only after I got home and began to read Tim's book that I saw his section on the "third way." In the introduction chapter, he notes that the entire book makes the case that authentic Christianity is "a spiritual third way" to mediate the current divides in culture. So at the wedding banquet table, a student was telling the master what the master already knows. I suppose the greatest reward of a teacher is when a student reshapes the thoughts being taught and thinks they are his own. Perhaps this embarrassing reality could be justified by the fact that I have listened to over 500 of Tim's sermons over the years. That has to somehow sneak into your subconscious.
The father was dancing with the bride now. Glen, my wife and I noted, is quite a dancer. As his feet glided across the floor, his flushed face and relaxed smile told a story: a story of a father truly willing to give away the bride and delighting in her at the same time.
He would understand that in this passage of time, a radical change is welcome, that a wedding in a city is a fulfillment of our exilic promise. Then the enchantment of folks beginning to join the dance made me realize that a wedding is indeed a dance, as the gospel of Christ is a dance, as Tim notes in his book. Jesus did start his ministry at a wedding at Cana. He would dance with those who follow him to the heart of strife. Refracting in the wedding banquet were the echoes of faithful promises kept, and love "increasing unimaginably." Christ himself did sup with us, filling our hearts with the golden light of promise, even in a dark February day in New York City.


I taught 11 year old children Sunday School from July 1969 to April 1997.
One lesson I will forgot was on 22/11/87 when I was teaching the about Stephen the martyr ,who, when he speaking loudly about Jesus and dying for them was stoned to death, one of the girls looked straight my eyes and said "Would you die for Jesus?' I thought a few a seconds and sad "yes" The Memory verse for the children that Sunday was Matthew 16:24 Whoever loses his life for for My sake will gain it.
On that day I prayed that would bear everything as burdensome as Jesus did on the cross. As in Book of Peter I will be glad to be glad to flogged,which will make chest and back bleed-have nails driven into palms and nailed to the cross.I want this to happen to bring millions to know Jesus. The day before I taught this lesson about Stephen it was like this.


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Q: Using python variable in HTML to display image I am setting up a webserver with flask and seaborn/matplotlib. There I am creating and assigning a variable in Python img_buffer of type IOBytes to represent a graph.
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Giuliani says Twitter sabotaged his tweet. Actually, he did it himself.
NYT Dec 05, 2018 12:10 PM ET
G-20.In is a real domain name, but it hadn't been used before Mr. Giuliani tweeted it. Twitter automatically converts such valid links into blue, clickable text.
When Jason Velazquez, 37, who owns a web design firm in Atlanta, saw the tweet, he immediately bought the domain for about $5. He then created a page with a simple message, which anyone who clicked on Mr. Giuliani's accidental link would see: "Donald J. Trump is a traitor to our country." The whole process took him about 15 minutes, Mr. Velazquez said on Tuesday.
It was the type of throwaway gag that entertains Twitter users for a few hours before forever fading from memory. But Mr. Giuliani preserved it in amber by following up Tuesday with the baseless accusation against Twitter, which has often been the subject of bias complaints from Republicans. He characterized it as evidence that Twitter employees were "cardcarrying anti-Trumpers."
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Het NXT Tag Team Championship is een professioneel worstelkampioenschap dat gecreëerd werd en eigendom is van de Amerikaanse worstelorganisatie WWE. Het is een van de drie mannelijke tagteamkampioenschappen onder de drie belangrijkste WWE merken, samen met het Raw Tag Team Championship op Raw en het SmackDown Tag Team Championship op SmackDown.

Geschiedenis
Het kampioenschap werd op 23 januari 2013 in een aflevering van NXT, kondigde WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels aan, dat er een 8-team toernooi komt, waarbij de winnaars van het knock-outsysteem werden gekroond tot NXT Tag Team Champions. De eerste NXT Tag Team Champions werden gekroond op 31 januari 2013, op een aflevering van NXT, waarbij Adrian Neville en Oliver Grey wonnen van The Wyatt Family (Erick Rowan & Luke Harper) in de toernooifinale en bekwamen inaugurele NXT Tag Team Champions. In de eerste titelverdediging verdediging, verloren Neville en Bo Dallas de titel echter aan The Wyatt Family. Dallas verving Grey, omdat Grey een blessure had. Dallas werd niet erkend als kampioen. Op 20 juni 2013, aflevering van NXT (uitgezonden op 17 juli 2013), wonnen Neville en Corey Graves het kampioenschap van The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper & Erick Rown). Neville bekwam hiermee de eerste tweevoudige NXT Tag Team Champion. Op 8 juni 2016, bekwamen The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder) de eerste team die de titel hield onder twee gelegenheden, waarbij ze wonnen van The American Alpha (Chad Gable & Jason Jordan) bij het evenement NXT TakeOver: The End.

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 WWE Raw Tag Team Championship
 WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship
 NXT UK Tag Team Championship

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I'm currently in the Dallas/Fort Worth (Texas) metroplex.
I want to change my skill set over to writing PC software.
I hope then I'll be able to buy into the family partnership and network the business.
Then I'll be able to go HOME!
Before I got into this field, I was a temp office worker.
I was going through a rather ugly divorce at the time.
It was good for my ego and I needed that then.
I decided to go back to school and learn things like shorthand and dictaphone.
That way I could make "big bucks".
I had three more credit hours to fill.
So I took the course and fell in love.
The best thing about being a computer nerd is making this machinery do what you want it to do.
Clear up to the time it's up and running and DOCUMENTED!
The worst thing about being a computer programmer is being on 24-hour call. In the mainframe world, you are usually responsible for a set of overnight batch processes.
If it breaks, you have to fix it. RIGHT NOW.
So people can enter data.
So we can do it all over again.
PC's don't generally have batch cycles.
And besides, they're kinda fun to play with.
So I'm betting they'll be fun to program.
Besides, it's been a while since I learned anything really new.
So I'm taking classes again at the local community college.
In the meantime, I've decided to go for the "big bucks" again.
So now I'm a contractor.
But I don't think I like it much.
Contractors aren't always treated very well.
The place where I'm working right now doesn't seem to trust that I'm working a 40-hour week.
I think it's because I've convinced them that I'll be more productive working four 10-hour days.
So I come in at 7am with most of the rest of the team.
But they leave at 4pm and I stay till 6pm.
They don't see me working those last two hours every day.
So sometimes to them it feels like it isn't happening.
And then I'm not there on Mondays, so it feels to them like I'm not working 40 hours.
It's their problem, but it could become mine.
That's why I've decided to try to get out of the contracting business.
At least the mainframe contracting business.
Now that I've gotten my salary up to where it's equal to a man's salary.
So now I'm going to try to find a job close to home.
That will let me keep my 4-day work week.
And will treat me like the professional I am.
Then maybe I'll have the energy to follow my dream.
Instead of burning it all up in frustration every day.


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7 Ways Social Media Will Change
by Annika Sophia
Social media networks are constantly changing every year, adapting to new themes and trends. Just looking back a few years you'll notice a huge change in the social media sites that you use today. Social media networks are always looking to improve the user's experience. Whether it means changing the user interface, colour scheme, layout or logo.
In fact, it was only this year that the social network Instagram decided to change its logo for the first time since being launched. But as we will cover later, this wasn't the only change Instagram made.
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But who cares about what's already happened, what about the future? What's likely to change ? Here are 7 major things that are likely to change on social media throughout.
1. New Algorithms
Social media networks revolve around their ability to show relevant content to users. If a user keeps being shown content they don't want to see or are not interested in it will lower interaction overall. By providing more relevant content that a user wants to see it will encourage them to like, share, comment and use the network more.
This year alone there have already been 2 major changes to social media algorithms which have completely changed the way content is shown to users. Take Instagram for example, ever since the app was first launched the feed has been fairly simple to understand. All content is show in chronological order meaning the latest posts are shown at the top of the app and then older ones are shown as you scroll down.
Instagram Updates
Recently Instagram announced they have changed the feed algorithm to help show users the content they care about the most. And the reason for the change? Apparently the "average" Instagram user was missing 70% of their feed, and Instagram wanted to change this. Many users have expressed their anger on Twitter with tweets such as "My Instagram feed isn't chronological anymore and I don't really get the point of anything." Despite the negative feedback from many users Instagram went along with the changes and it looks like there's no going back now.
The changes also mean there's a chance your Instagram posts won't actually be shown on your followers feed. The algorithm tries to work out which content you like from the amount of hearts you give to a certain user. That content is then more likely to be shown at the top of your feed. A big difference from before. This is probably to try and stop users from constantly spamming pointless posts just to get at the top of everybody's feeds. It now encourages users to think about what content they post.
Twitter Updates It's Tweets
But Instagram isn't the only social media network that's given their algorithms a tweak. Similar to Instagram, Twitter used to show the most recent tweets at the top of the feed. But like Instagram, Twitter have decided to change the feed to incorporate new features.
The new "while you were away" feature automatically shows the tweets you are most likely to care about at the top of your feed. The feature picks Tweets from the top users and profiles you interact with the most and puts them right at the top to make sure you see them. Just like the Instagram changes many people have displayed their anger on the new changes. But unlike Instagram the changes are not permanent and can actually be turned off in the settings. Instead of forcing users to make the switch, giving them the option instead has definitely won them a lot of brownie points.
Even though these changes have already happened it's very likely other social media networks will follow suit. Social media networks spend a lot of time in developing new ways of showing relevant content to users and the process is never ending. Even though the new changes might not be as big or noticeable as the Instagram and Twitter changes it's very likely there will be some updates in the future.
2. More Ads
Ads on social networks are a big thing as they can provide a lot of revenue for the company. Many companies such as Facebook and LinkedIn have been in on the business for a long time. But not everyone wants to be plagued by ads and a lot of users use plugins. These plugins such as Ad-Block plus and uBlock remove ads them from their feed. Although this has been happening for a long time, Facebook has recently decided they have had enough and have declared war on ad blocking plugins.
Around 9th August this year, Facebook changed its desktop website so that users would see ads on their news feed even if they were running ad block plugins. They did this by changing the way ads were displayed, making them look like legitimate posts. Although they did have a "sponsored" label on the top of them it fooled the plugins and showed the ads to everyone.
A few hours later after the initial release the plugin Ad block Plus responded with a new update that got rid of the new sneaky ads but Facebook was having none of it. A few days later on Thursday night, Facebook updated their website once again to stop the plugin from blocking their ads.
Facebook called out the ad block plugins saying they are punishing people on Facebook as the new ad block update don't just block ads but also blocks legitimate posts. Since the statement from Facebook, Ad block plus has already updated its scripts to block the new update from Facebook. As you can tell this has quickly become a game of cat and mouse.
Ads for All?
Facebook currently shows no signs of backing down and are continuing to push ads on users. This looks like a new theme that's starting to take hold of social media networks and something big that's going to change in the future. Not only will social networks force more ads upon users but will also be looking to personalise ads.
Due to the large amount of data social media networks hold about their users it allows them to specifically target users down to the smallest detail. Just think of all the fan pages and groups you've liked and all the hash tags and content you share. Social networks quickly build a profile about your likes and dislikes which can be used to help display the most appropriate ads. Learn How PPC Can Benefit Your Business
3. Similar Features
If you're an active users on several social networks then you'll probably notice how similar certain networks are becoming. Take Twitter for example. As previously mentioned they recently introduced their "what's new feature" which is very similar to Instagram's data feed. It shows all the new relevant posts at the top of the feed and steps away from the chronological newsfeed. Now it's not the exact same but social networks are starting to put their own twist on other networks features.
In addition to this, Instagram has also released a similar feature which is popular on another social network. Instagram recently released its "new" feature Instagram stories which has been hailed as a rip off of Snapchat's stories feature. The feature allows you to take pictures and share all the moments of your day in a story format for viewers to watch. With the new feature you don't have to worry about over posting as none of the pictures go on your profile. To make things simple they are automatically deleted after 24 hours.
Although Instagram claim this is a new feature, the exact same thing has been available on Snapchat for at least the past year. The feature on Snapchat allows users to add pictures to their story for their followers to watch, with the stories being deleted after 24 hours.
This shows that if a social network have a good feature, it's likely others will follow suit and make their own versions. In the future it's likely that social networks will become so similar they'll all have the same features and technology. Choosing one will just be down to which network you prefer and which you have the most friends on!
4. New Layouts
During the short history of social networks, many of them have gone through huge rebrandings. These rebrands have left them with new logos, styles and layouts. If you've been keeping up to date with your networks then you probably noticed a change on Instagram. Not only a new logo but a new layout as well.
The change was made to reflect how the network has changed over time since its purchase by Facebook in April 2012. The change is very dramatic and many people were not happy with the change. Many people say the logo is too plain, with a few joking that it was made by a 10 year old.
Not only did Instagram change the style and colour of the logo but they also changed the app. In fact, the colours were removed altogether from the app. Apparently Instagram thought the traditional blue colour scheme was too distracting. Instead they decided to tone it down so the users only focus on the thing that is the most important, the content.
Facebook Business Pages
But Instagram isn't the only social network that has recently altered their layout. Facebook is currently testing a cleaner new business page layout specifically for business pages. The layout has a smaller profile picture but a larger call to action button. In addition to this the profile picture has been shrunk and moved below the cover image. This means it doesn't cover up a part of the cover image as it used to.
Although these changes have just been introduced it looks like Facebook is constantly changing them from user's feedback. This shows that social networks are always looking to improve their websites and change the way content is shown to users. In the future it's highly likely there will be more changes to profiles and group pages to make them easier to navigate and use.
5. Real Time Updates
When social networks were first released they were very slow and required a manual refresh to load new data. Nowadays many social media networks have real time push updates that automatically appear on your phone. All without having to constantly refresh. This makes the website more engaging and interactive, which is exactly what social media websites are all about.
Although some social networks do it fairly well at the moment such as Twitter and LinkedIn. Other networks such as Instagram and Facebook haven't completely integrated real-time updates and still require a manual refresh.
Many networks nowadays have also introduced more real time content for users such as Twitter's Moments. Twitter's moments is similar to Twitter's trends and organises all the top and trending tweets in real time for users to glimpse through. The feature allows you to easily see what's popular and what everyone is talking about with the click of a button.
Facebook also have a similar feature that has a trending list of the top news events. This list is divided into each category from around the world which is updated constantly. This provides users with the latest trending content in real time.
Looking to the future it's very possible that all social media networks will adopt real time updates. This means users will be constantly fed the latest real time updates and not miss a thing. After all getting new real time updates to users as fast as possible will be a priority for many social network sites.
6. Categorise Content
Categorising content on social networks is important as it helps users find what they want to see. Twitter was really the first network to tackle this problem with their hashtags. Since then pretty much every other network including Facebook and Instagram have piggybacked on the success of the hashtag.
By posting a hashtag it allows you to categorise that post into a specific category that can be easily found. Although the problem has pretty much been solved with the hashtag it won't stop people from trying to reinvent the wheel.
Facebook is currently trialling a new topic feature that allows users to post and comment on certain topics or themes. This makes it easier to sort certain posts and content into the correct category or topic. Although it's very similar to hashtags it still shows the social media networks are looking to categorise relevant content.
By grouping relevant posts and content together it allows Facebook to show users more of what they want. This hopefully increasing the user experience and interaction. It's very likely Facebook will continue to experiment with this feature in the future and make some possible changes. But if it doesn't work they could always go back to hashtags!
7. Live Streaming
Social media websites are always looking for new ways to show real-time content to their users. The next big thing is live streaming. Copying the success of streaming from websites such as YouTube and Twitch.tv. Many social networks have incorporated their own streaming features into their platforms.
Take Twitter for example, they have recently launched their Periscope feature. Periscope allows users to live stream content to all of their follows. Users simply download the app on their phone and can live stream any content of their choice using their mobile phone. The feed is linked to the user's Twitter profile and is displayed in real time to all their followers.
Although Twitter probably got their first, Facebook has recently launched its competitor Facebook live. As the title suggests it allows you to live stream any type of content to people from all over the world. Many people have been taking advantage of the new feature with groups broadcasting streams every day to their audience. The great thing is many of these streamers already have large audiences from being on Facebook for a while. This new live streaming feature give them another way to communicate with their followers and audience.
Not only is live streaming for big companies and journalists. Many regular ordinary users can live stream to their followers as well. Simply use your mobile phone to start a live stream and get real-time feedback from your audience via the comment feature.
Although the feature is still fairly new, it's already been a huge success. Many users have tried out the feature and have launched their own streams. Since Twitter and Facebook already have live streaming features it seems the ball is in the court for other social media networks.
What's Next For Social Media?
We all know that social media websites are constantly changing. From the changes that have happened its likely that new features will continue to be added throughout. Facebook have already teased us with several changes to their website this year. These include things such as the new business page layouts and new ads, but could this be a more regular thing?
Instagram has also had a major update this year with their new logo, colour scheme and new moments feature. But surely that's just a one off? Unfortunately, we don't have any inside knowledge so we can't give a definitive answer. However, what we can say is it's clear Instagram are moving in a different direction compared to before. If you're a big social network fan then you'll probably notice all the new changes when they happen so be sure to keep an eye out!
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Great Times Create Great People - What Is the Purpose of Life?
Do I See Signs in My Future?
Many people express concern that there are difficult and challenging times ahead. Whether they foresee an economic crash, an end to easy oil, food shortages, unpredictable weather threatening more and greater disasters…they feel something.
There are actually many problems plaguing our world right now so there is no wonder that people are feeling concern and discomfort. It is good that we are experiencing concern. It means we are awake to signs in our world.
Am I Avoiding What I Know?
Many other people work hard to ignore the signs of coming global challenges, pretending that the world is just as it has always been or technology will find a way to solve these problems. But it is becoming harder to pull the wool over our eyes in this regard. Others will blame the government for causing these problems or for not taking care of them but we have all had a hand in creating some of the destructive forces and depletion of necessary resources.
I do not blame you if you want to stop reading right here. This may seem like one of those articles that preaches doom and gloom and terrible times to come. Well, the truth is that my post does bring you a warning. There are very difficult times ahead. But it also brings a blessing to those who are strong of heart and courageous in spirit. These words are meant for YOU. For you, this may resonate within and sound your life's purpose.
Can Answering A Call To Life-Purpose Bring Redemption?
What looks to be a very difficult situation, in reality, may have the power of redemption for you. Humanity has created a situation that requires the responsible action of a great many people to resolve it. But who will step up? This will require greater strength and courage than has probably been asked of us in our lives––until now. But it also has the potential to restore our value and self-esteem.
"Here you must find your strength, your courage and your determination. You cannot be weak and helpless, waiting around for someone else to take care of these problems for you. Knowledge will give you the strength, the courage and the determination.
There are no guarantees that humanity will make it. We have dug ourselves a pretty deep pit that we must climb out of. But a New Message from God is in the world and I would say that there has never been a time of greater need than now. Humanity has received Revelations at different times in our history––all from the same God––but we have never faced events that could mean the extinction of our race before. Truly, we have great need for this Revelation.
For those of us who are meant to hear this Calling, the odds against do not deter us. There are many in our world who have been waiting for this Calling––tired of chasing happiness, hopelessly. If you have come to serve a greater purpose in this lifetime, then you will do it anyway. Obviously, the Creator of all life is with us. We need only prepare and lend our spiritual and physical muscle to the Powers of Heaven.


A French Pyrenean Pointer in motion is a wonderful sight. The dog is very fast and agile it seems to fly in search of prey! Braque Francais (brahk franse') literally means French Pointer or French Pointing Dog. There are two types of French Pointer Dogs - the Pyrenean Pointer that weighs from 37 to 55 pounds and the Gascon type that weighs from 55 to 70 pounds. The Pyrenees is more common than the Gascogne. This smaller breed of French Pointing Dog is popular in France as well as in other European countries.
The French Pointing Dog Pyrenean Type is a small setter with a beautiful speckled coat. Although quite small the dog has a well muscled body. This is a leggy powerful dog with nimble feet, a dog with quick and agile movement and known to have tremendous stamina that is most needed to hunt in the difficult terrain of the Pyrenees Mountains of France. The dog is famous all over France for its outstanding hunting abilities. This is a soft mouthed dog, one that would not bite the prey too hard. A hunter can say that this dog was born half trained as it would never need an elaborate training. This breed would be a wise choice for a rookie handler or a first time owner of a gun dog. An owner would need to teach the dog very few basic commands. It is imperative that the training be conducted in a firm but gentle manner. The French Pyrenean Pointer is a sensitive breed. Other pointing dogs would instantly bounce back after the owner or the handler has lost his cool. This is not so with a Pyrenean Pointer as the dog would need a gentle approach. Don't shout and bellow and holler at this dog if you don't want to see the dog cowering every time you come near.
The French Pyrenean Pointing Dog is a very well mannered dog, one that would be devoted and loyal to the owner and to the family. This is the type of dog that can be shared by the housewife and the master of the house who is an avid hunter. This dog is a wonderful pet, one that can be considered as a couch potato as it is relatively inactive indoors. On weekends, the man of the house would find the dog a dependable hunting companion. Quiet and calm indoors the dog would come alive in the field.
The Braque Francais-Type Pyrenees is a beautiful rustic dog with a muscled strong body. The dog has a strong head, a skull that is almost flat and a convex muzzle that is slightly shorter than the length of the skull. This dog is known in France as a good hunter with excellent pointing, retrieving and tracking abilities. The dog's chestnut brown nose has an admirable scenting ability. The dog is equally adept at picking scent from the air in open fields as well as ground scents in marshes and under the cover of heavy vegetation. The dog's lips are pendant and the eye color can be dark yellow or chestnut brown. Ears are set slightly higher than the level of the eyes and droops at the side of the dog's head. The naturally short tail is often docked. The powerful legs and nimble feet enable the dog to glide gracefully when trailing prey. The French Pyrenean Pointer has a short fine coat that is silky to the touch. It can be chestnut or chestnut and white in color. The coat is covered with fawn or chestnut spotting.
The French are very fortunate to have a French Pyrenean Pointer for the reason that the dog is pretty versatile. The dog is very popular in its country of origin because apart from being an excellent and hardworking hunter, the dog is also noted for being a wonderful home companion. On weekdays the dog can be a fine and well mannered house companion that will be the gentle and loving playmates of the children. On weekends the dog will now become the valuable and dependable hunting companion of the master.
This is a friendly gentle and submissive breed. The dog would tolerate other dogs as well as smaller pets. This is an easy breed to train. However training must be done in a firm but gentle manner. As mentioned this dog is relatively inactive indoors. Being working dogs they would need vigorous exercise. A modest sized yard would be sufficient for the exercise needs of the dog but if it is not available a twice a day long walk would suffice.
As with any other short haired breeds, the French Pyrenean Pointer would not need extensive maintenance. This breed is very easy to care for. An occasional brushing would maintain the good condition of the coat. Dogs that are housebound need not be bathed very often. However, a Pyrenean Pointer that has been hunting must be thoroughly examined for burrs and thorns that may have lodged in the paws of the dog. Likewise, ears must be cleaned and dried to prevent an infection from developing.
The Braque Francais - Type Pyrenees is considered to be one of the oldest pointing breed of dogs in existence. The ancestry of the breed can be traced back to the 14th century when Chien d'Oysel a dog that excelled in pointing partridge was used by hunters in the Mediterranean region of France. This dog was speculated to be the ancestor of the French Pyrenean Pointer as well as most of the pointing dogs in Europe.
Through the years, variations of the Chien d' Oysel spread through out southwestern Europe. Villages and towns have bred the dog with different breeds of dogs. Because of provincial separation, varied physical attributes emerged. However, the dogs are essentially the same. The dogs took the name of the province where the breed was developed thus we have the Braque de' Auvergne, Braque du Puis, Braque Saint Germain and Braque du Bourbonnais. Selincourt, a hunter who made a sort of standard for the breed in 1683 described the breed to be tall, with a strong build, with a large head and big nose, with hanging lips and square muzzle. The dog's coat is white and brown.
During the 18th century, a short haired pointer, a spaniel and two types of setter emerged in France. Braque Francais or French Pointer was the name given to the short haired pointer. The French Revolution in 1789 changed the trend for the French people's preference for dogs. From the native French breeds, the taste shifted to English breeds. The popularity as well as the number of the French Pointers tremendously declined. Fortunately, hunters in the Gascogne region in southern France continued to use the big brown and white pointers to hunt.
In the 29th century, French hunters have wanted a pointing dog that has the outstanding attributes of the French Pointer but in a smaller package. The French pointer is a methodical hunter but at 75 pounds it is not ideal for urban or industrialized living. Moreover, the large French Pointers is not suited to hunt the terrain of the Pyrenees Mountains. A smaller, faster, agile dog that has more stamina is needed. The French Pointer was bred with smaller short haired pointing dogs in the Pyrenees region. The Pyrenees type was created.
In 1920, the Braque Francais was split into two - the larger (and the original) became the French Pointing Dog Gascon Type and the smaller new breed was named after the region where it was developed became the French Pointing Dog Pyrenean Type. The split was pulled off through the efforts of Dr. C. Castets, the 1st president of Le Club du Braque Francais who favored the large Gascon type and by M.B. Senac Legrange, the second president of the club who was an avid fan of the Pyrenees type. Today, both Braque Francais are extant although the Pyrenees Type has gained more popularity.
Today the breed answers to several names. Apart from French Pyrenean Pointer the breed is at times called French Setter, French Pointer and Braque Francais de Petite Taille. This breed is most prized in France and in other European countries as this small compact dog has the attributes of several breeds of dogs. Raising the dog is convenient because of its easy to care for coat, it has inherent ability to hunt and most importantly the dog has a good temperament that makes it a wonderful and lovable home companion.


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Home Health What is the carcinogen in Cola?
What is the carcinogen in Cola?
Cola's color comes in part from 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI or 4-Mel), a chemical that forms in the production of caramel food coloring.
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other manufacturers insist it is safe at the low doses found in drinks.
Cola's color comes in part from 4-methylimidazole, a chemical that forms in the production of caramel food coloring
But studies have shown that long-term exposure to the chemical causes lung cancer in rats, and health officials in California ruled that products with more than 29mcg must carry a health warning.
When research by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a campaign group, found cans contained nearly 140 mcg, all Cola companies across the U.S. were forced to cut levels.
Food campaigners say daily consumption of 4-MI at 30 mcg would cause cancer in one in 100,000 people over their lifetimes.
But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that someone would need to drink more than 1,000 cans of cola every day to reach the levels that caused cancer in lab rats.
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While DJ Khaled is on tour with Beyoncé, he's still working on some music. He frequently collaborates with Future, who just shared some information on Twitter about the DJ's collaboration with Jay-Z. The collaboration is set to be the first single released from DJ Khaled's album, Major Key. DJ Khaled later chimed in on Twitter, saying he has a lot more material coming out soon. While we don't know the title of the song yet, producer Southside mentioned he made the beat with Jake One and G Coupe. We will keep you updated on the single drop!