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Alternate Titl e: Why Can't I Just Write all Day and be Pretty?
Sick of my personal life? Well, buckle up beauty babes – it's about to get real deep here, but it's relevant. I promise.
In case you hadn't heard (insert eye roll emoji), I have an autoimmune disease. The specifics don't matter. For everyone with a chronic illness, it simply becomes part and parcel of your entire being – for better and for worse. Your illness colors every decision, every interaction and practically every thought.
In my real life, I'm a wife, a mom and a step-mom to adolescents, complete with all the activities that come with parenting – sports, school events, competitions, performances and extremely busy kid social lives. As any parent knows, this alone is a massive juggling act – one where your intentions are always good but, despite best efforts, outcomes are not always.
In my professional life, I am a Registered Nurse, something that is a source of pride for me. I have always defined myself by my career – and being a nurse is a huge part of my sense of identity, probably an unhealthy degree. My specialty is surgery and from the first moment I was in an operating room, I was head-over-heels in love. Currently, I'm the director of a surgery center that treats about 600 patients a month. We employ 40 amazing human beings and financially support a great many more than that. Every morning, my first thoughts are around this responsibility and most nights, I send myself to sleep considering this responsibility again. It's more important than doing good work every day. I think about how we can best care for our patients keeping them safe and happy, while providing an environment that makes employees feel valued, secure and confident in knowing that they do great work. Every. Single. Day.
Lately, though, my disease has decided to take center stage. It has become the award-winner for Best Drama, supplanting everything else in my life ensuring that of all the things I have to do, I'm not doing any of it very well at all. I've had to use words like "disability" in reference to myself, and the ambition that has always been palpable has given way to a mentality of "I can't".
I no longer recognize myself when I walk by a mirror and catch a glimpse of my reflection. The obscene weight gain certainly can't be on ME (but it is). I've evicted two humans from my body with less body fat that I'm currently lugging around. I've cried to my doctor that we must have my diagnosis wrong since nothing seems to work. That little display bought be a prescription antidepressant. I haven't started it yet only because I haven't had the chance to read whether it will pack more pounds onto my creaking frame that screamed "uncle" 20 pounds ago.
I'm weepy, clingy and way too sensitive. I fear that pain will become the only constant in my life. I feel hopeless and helpless and THAT grosses me out. I'm exposing it all. I have hit rock bottom – and I'm sharing it publicly for accountability.
I have decided that it's time to take control. There is one treatment that I haven't tried. One. To give this treatment a fighting chance to win, I am taking off the month of April. I will eat well, exercise, rest and begin to heal myself from the inside out. This sabbatical is going to be hard work. But it's work on me, and that simply must take priority right now. There isn't any going back to the old me, however, I need to find a new version of me that is happy and healthy.
Tomorrow begins Project Fabulush. I will rise early, enjoy a healthy breakfast with my family and enjoy the amazing spring weather with a daily "constitutional" walk. Late mornings will be for social media, blogging and planning the rest of my day. Afternoons will be spent in exercise and mediation, guided by my friend Sophie, an online health and fitness coach (@mom.who.loves2lift on Instagram). Sophie isn't just about exercising to the point of collapse. She uses social media to lead small groups through whole-body transformations that combine exercise, nutrition and meditation.
Bath and beauty comes next, before the kids get home, which will hopefully afford met he luxury of bathing without a constant barrage of questions screamed through the bathroom door. Family dinners are important in our household, but I will prepare dinners using organic ingredients, densely packed with nutrition and made with love (or at least not anger!). Finally, I'll unwind with whatever floats my boat before heading off to bed for a good night's sleep. There will be appointments galore – with doctors, physical therapists and massage therapists. There will be days that I don't manage to accomplish my goals. Through it all, however, there will be a daily post. My typical beauty topics will be front and center, but The Fabulush may be peppered with progress notes or a poem (that's a joke). I do hope that you will join me and follow along on my journey. I adore your comments and feedback. Share often and be loud.
PS – Don't feel sorry for me! I have packages arriving at their normal pace, an Origins Launch Party that @Influenster invited me to and a Skinceuticals-sponsored training event on chemical peels and advanced skin correction. My expectations of myself are extremely high, and I cannot wait to discover how deep I can go in a month. I will never be the old me – the disease has changed me too much – but I hope to find a way to a new and improved me.
This one is definitely true. And explains why I cannot stand how much time I have spent in doctor's offices lately!
I look forward to following along with your progress and seeing your usual beauty related post!!


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The Classic Lodges & Parks of the West
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Up to 7.5% off on 2020
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Based on 28th May 2020
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On this fun-filled National Parks tour, discover the majestic parks and historic lodges of the American West. Begin in Rapid City, South Dakota, gateway to the Black Hills, and end in Salt Lake City with overnights along the way in some of the West's classic lodges. In Custer State Park, stay two nights at the historic State Game Lodge, a gracious stone and wood lodge set in a beautiful mountain valley that served as the "Summer White House" for President Coolidge. Enjoy 2 nights in Yellowstone National Park's classic lodges, giving you the opportunity to breathe in the spectacular beauty and witness the amazing wildlife. You'll also overnight in Cody and Jackson.
In addition to overnight stays in the classic lodges, this National Parks tour features visits to Badlands National Park to see its stunning scenery, Crazy Horse Memorial, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, the Old West town of Deadwood, stunning Grand Teton National Park, and Jackson, where you'll have time to explore on your own. Globus has also arranged some special experiences for you, such as a backcountry buffalo safari and chuck wagon cookout in Custer State Park. Just wait until you see these majestic creatures in their natural environment! You'll also visit the world's largest excavation site for mammoth remains from more than 26,000 years ago in Hot Springs.
All of this and more are waiting on this tour of the West's classic lodges, breathtaking scenery, and historic sights—what a grand vacation!
RAPID CITY Orientation tour
BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK Scenic drive
CUSTER STATE PARK Buffalo safari & chuckwagon cookout
HOT SPRINGS Mammoth site
BLACK HILLS Visit Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Crazy Horse Memorial
DEADWOOD Sightseeing with a Local Guide
U-CROSS Enjoy lunch at a Western ranch
CODY Visit Buffalo Bill Center of the West
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK Stay inside the park; sightseeing
JACKSON Grand Teton National Park sightseeing
SALT LAKE CITY Farewell dinner
Save up to 7.5% on 2020 departures
Book now to save up to 7.5% on selected 2020 holidays. And once you've paid your deposit, your price is fixed.
7.5% off tour-only prices on Europe, North and South America Globus tours, 5% off Africa, Asia and South Pacific Globus tours, or £50pp off Cosmos-operated tours. Offer ends 28 January 2020.
Book this tour with flights and transfers and get £150 discount per person. Book by 21 February.
Total meals included:
10 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 5 dinners
ARRIVE IN RAPID CITY.
Welcome to Rapid City, gateway to the Black Hills. At 6:30 pm, meet your traveling companions for a welcome drink. Your Tour Director will prepare you for your upcoming adventure.
RAPID CITY–BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK–CUSTER STATE PARK
After breakfast, enjoy an orientation tour of Rapid City, then visit BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK to see some of the most spectacular scenery in the region. Afterward, there's time to explore Wall Drug, known for its quirky roadside signs and free water. Later this afternoon, travel into the backcountry and enjoy a BUFFALO SAFARI and CHUCKWAGON COOKOUT.
SPECIAL FEATURE: We stay overnight at the historic State Game Lodge in Custer State Park. This gracious stone and wood lodge is set in a beautiful mountain valley, surrounded by a ponderosa pine forest. Built in 1920 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the lodge served as the "Summer White House" for President Calvin Coolidge and was visited by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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This morning, we travel to Hot Springs to visit the world's largest MAMMOTH SITE, where scientists are currently excavating remains of mammoths that were trapped and died in the pond more than 26,000 years ago. After a short tour, you'll have time to stroll the sidewalks of the dig area and see the paleontology laboratory. Next, visit CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, built in honor of the fearless Sioux Indian chief whose fame is derived from the Battle of Little Bighorn. The remainder of the day is yours to relax in Custer State Park. Perhaps try some fly-fishing, mountain biking, or take a nature walk.
CUSTER STATE PARK–MOUNT RUSHMORE–DEADWOOD–SPEARFISH CANYON.
Today, visit one of the world's largest stone monuments: MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL. At Mount Rushmore, the solid granite faces of four presidents loom more than a thousand feet overhead. We then continue on a guided tour of the Old West town of DEADWOOD, where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane marked their place in history.
SPEARFISH CANYON–U–CROSS RANCH–CODY.
This morning, drive across the grassy plains of Wyoming and soak in the expansive blue skies. Enjoy lunch at an authentic WESTERN RANCH with free time to enjoy a variety of activities. Next, we cross the Bighorn Mountains via Shell Creek Canyon to Buffalo Bill's Wild West town of Cody, Wyoming.
CODY–YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Enjoy a leisurely visit to the BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST, a fascinating tribute to frontier America. Later, depart for YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, America's first national park, where wild animals roam freely in vast meadows and forest.
SPECIAL FEATURE: Enjoy two nights inside Yellowstone National Park. Each lodge has its own unique setting and atmosphere. Lodges featured are the Old Faithful Inn, Old Faithful Snow Lodge, Lake Yellowstone Hotel, Canyon Lodge, Mammouth Hot Springs Hotel and Grant Village. Specific lodges will be confirmed in your documents.
NOTE: The routing and areas visited within Yellowstone are subject to favorable weather and/or road conditions. When conditions are unfavorable, the routing may be adjusted accordingly.
Today, you will see the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone with its Upper and Lower Falls. Watch for herds of bison in Hayden Valley, and view many of Yellowstone's geothermal sites, including Old Faithful Geyser.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK–GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK–JACKSON.
This morning, tour GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK. The jagged Tetons form a perfect backdrop behind Jenny and Jackson Lakes. Next up: the Western town of Jackson. The rest of the day is free to explore on your own. You may choose to see a shootout in Town Square, shop for souvenirs, or relax with a cold drink at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar.
Today is at your leisure to explore on your own or perhaps take an optional float trip down the Snake River.
JACKSON–SALT LAKE CITY
Follow the Snake River and lovely Star Valley en route to Utah. Wind along the shores of beautiful Bear Lake before climbing through the Wasatch Mountains and on to the Great Salt Lake Basin and Salt Lake City. Tonight, enjoy a farewell dinner hosted by your Tour Director.
SALT LAKE CITY.
After a leisurely breakfast, bid farewell to newfound friends as your tour comes to an end.
This vacation visits national parks and other remote locations where facilities may not be up to the first-class standard you expect from Globus. Some lodges within the parks do not have air conditioning, televisions, and other amenities you would expect from most Globus hotels.
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Rapid City - The Rushmore Hotel
The Rushmore Hotel Rapid City is a great place to rest after spending a busy day in Rapid City exploring everything the city offers. The Rushmore Hotel is an eco-friendly hotel representing sustainability in South Dakota. The rooms have a fun decor showcasing the beauty and flavour of South Dakota.
445 Mt Rushmore Rd, Rapid City, SD 57701, USA
Custer - State Game Lodge At Custer State Park
Located in Custer State Park, this historic Lodge is set in a beautiful mountain valley, surrounded by a ponderosa pine forest. Sit on the front porch and watch as bison and deer stroll across the lawn. A short drive to the area's attractions as well as Rapid City Airport. The Lodge has a restaurant, bar, gift shop, and Internet access. Activities in the park include a buffalo jeep safari, fly fishing, hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking.
Hwy 16A Custer State Park, Custer, SD, USA
Spearfish Canyon - Spearfish Canyon Lodge
Log structure, log timbers set over massive stone pillars - Heart of the Canyon. The main lodge, with heavy log walls & nature's artifacts, is open throughout every beautiful canyon season; Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
10619 Roughlock Falls Road, Lead, SD United States
Cody - Buffalo Bill Village
Located in downtown Cody at the historic Buffalo Bill Village, this hotel features 83 log cabins with a cowboy allure. The amenities include an outdoor pool, an on-site restaurant, and nearby shops.
1701 Sheridan Ave, Cody, WY 82414, USA
Yellowstone National Park - Canyon Lodge - Yellowstone National Park
Canyon Lodge and Cabins is a sprawling facility, featuring the most accommodations in Yellowstone with more than 500 rooms and cabins. Canyon Lodge is part of a collection of lodges operated by the National Parks; space fills up quickly at these lodges and is therefore based on availability. Please note that all park accommodations are non-smoking and reflecting the natural surroundings of the park, rooms are not equipped with televisions, radios, air conditioning or wifi.
Please note: Each Yellowstone National Park Lodge, like the one shown here, has its own unique setting and atmosphere. The specific lodge for your holiday will be confirmed with travel documents. Lodges featured in Yellowstone National Park are the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, Old Faithful Inn, Old Faithful Snow Lodge and Grant Village.
Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA
Jackson - Rustic Inn at Jackson Hole Creekside
The Rustic Inn Creekside Resort & Spa welcomes guests with warm Western hospitality. Outdoor enthusiasts and hedonists alike indulge in the lavishly appointed historic lodging accommodations and luxury log cabins.
475 N Cache St, Jackson, WY 83001, USA
Salt Lake City - Radisson Hotel Downtown Salt Lake City
The Radisson is located in downtown Salt Lake City near ample shopping, dining, and attractions. The hotel has a concierge service, indoor pool, hot tub, fitness centre, guest laundry, gift shop, business centre, restaurant, lounge, and room service.
215 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA
Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park
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HomePoliticsIfeanyi Okowa Of Delta State Holds Valedictory Session With Commissioners… Attributes Success Of His Administration To An All-Inclusive Government & Asked Them To Handover On Friday.
Ifeanyi Okowa Of Delta State Holds Valedictory Session With Commissioners… Attributes Success Of His Administration To An All-Inclusive Government & Asked Them To Handover On Friday.
Precious Eze's Blog May 21, 2019
Okowa with his Exco members.
Ahead of May 29th commencement of his second term in office, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa today held a valedictory executive council meeting, promising to run an all-inclusive government in his second term as such was instrumental to the success recorded so far in the delivery of policies and programmes by his administration.
The governor who thanked members of the state executive council for their collective efforts and determination which ensured the execution of government programmes and policies to the satisfaction of Deltans, urged them to handover to their Permanent Secretaries before the close of work on Friday, May 24, 2019.
"In the last four years, I have had a working team; an Exco that realized that we are together and that our success story will be told together and I am proud to say that it is the collective efforts of each and every one of us that has given us our success stories which also resulted in the resounding victory we recorded at the elections," Governor Okowa said, adding, "God's grace was obviously with us but I believe that if each and every one of us had our own different beliefs, working in different ways , I believe that we will not have been able to achieve what we have achieved thus far; so, I will first of all want to thank each and every one of you (members of the state executive council) for the wonderful comments that you have made this afternoon and appreciate you more for the commitment of each and every one of you in your previous offices in the last four years, because, there is no doubt that you have all been very loyal to the deputy governor and myself and that loyalty has kept the team together; i want to thank each and every one of you; I can rightfully say that none of you betrayed the confidence that I have in you."
He continued, "in our EXCO meetings, we have had discussions and debates and I want to thank each one of you for being very frank, I have learnt a lot from individual comments, from ideas that people have which I may not have thought of and I am proud that there was room for us to debate issues; we talk about an open-door policy and I have had at a point in time to learn that if you are well tutored as a politician, you will have no choice than to run an open-door government ; I also realized that my Commissioners never abused that opportunity and I am glad to say that you all handled your duties with integrity and decorum."
"I must thank you all for agreeing that as an EXCO we will run a realistic budget; I thank God that we have tried to stay within the limit, so, when I looked at our papers and I saw that in the year, 2018 that our performance rate was at 98 per cent, I was very pleased, because realistic budget is important so that when we explain to the people that with this budget this is what we are expected to do and the people at the end of the day see you doing nearly all the things that you said you will do, it is better than to raise the hopes of our people and then dash their hopes at the end of the day; so, I thank you as an EXCO for not allowing our budget to go beyond what was realizable for that year," Governor Okowa disclosed, and used the occasion to call for internal democracy within the political parties to ensure well qualified candidates contest for elections.
"We give all the glory to God who gave us the grace to take certain steps in our administration and looking at the second tenure there is still a lot to be done and that can only come from God and we thank Him for His grace in our lives and as a government; I want to use this opportunity too to thank all Deltans for the support given to us as a government; the love they have shown to us and to urge and pray that they will continue to guarantee us the peace and the support that they gave us this first tenure and as we look forward to next week as the deputy governor and myself take the oath of office we want to reassure them that we will be there for them, we will continue to strive to improve on the things that we have done and we will looking forward to having the cooperation of the people because working together as a people will make us excel," the governor said.
Governor Okowa's Deputy, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro in his comments, thanked members of the EXCO for their commendations and prayers, stating, "I am very honoured to be part of this privileged team; I am very proud of the success stories and I thank our Governor and everybody for the success stories."
At the session, Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Hon. Joyce Overah who is the Chairman of College of Commissioners thanked Governor Okowa for giving them the opportunity to serve the government and people of the state as Commissioners, stating, "working with you (Governor Okowa), working with your Deputy, we learnt a lot of lessons and we are very grateful; the crew you assembled as Commissioners are very understanding and we pray that as you enter second term, God will guide you and your Deputy to continue to do it right for our people, the people of Delta State."
Other Commissioners who spoke at the session include, Chief Fidelis Tilije, Mrs Mary Iyasere, Barr. Newworld Safugha, Dr. Mordi Ononye, and Mrs. Omatsola Williams while the Secretary to the State Government, Hon. Festus Agas and the Head of Service, Mr Reginald Bayoko and Prof. Sylvester Monye also, joined the Commissioners to list their experiences working with the Governor and his Deputy and at the end, they profusely, thanked Governor Okowa for giving them the opportunity to contribute to the development of the state.


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La Coupe Kirin 1978 est la première édition de la Coupe Kirin. Elle se déroule en mai 1978, au Japon. Le tournoi se déroule entre la Thaïlande, la Corée du Sud et le Japon, des clubs (1. FC Cologne, Coventry City et SE Palmeiras) et la Japan League XI.

Résultats

Groupe A
  : Japon 0-1 Coventry City
  : 1. FC Cologne 5-1 Thaïlande
  : Japon 3-0 Thaïlande
  : 1. FC Cologne 1-1 Coventry City
  : Japon 1-1 1. FC Cologne
  : Coventry City 1-0 Thaïlande

Groupe B
 20- 5-1978 : SE Palmeiras 1-0 South Korea
 21- 5-1978 : Japan League XI 0-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach
 23- 5-1978 : Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-3 South Korea
 23- 5-1978 : Japan League XI 1-1 SE Palmeiras
 25- 5-1978 : Japan League XI 0-3 South Korea
 25- 5-1978 : Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-1 SE Palmeiras

Demi-finales
  : Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-1 1. FC Cologne
  : SE Palmeiras 1-0 Coventry City

Finale
  : Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-1 ap SE Palmeiras

Vainqueur

Coupe Kirin
Football en 1978

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I wore this casual look out this evening. That's a very tricky outfit there, i took some risks by combining these colours and trying to make them work and I think it did afterall. I'm falling in love with shirts recently, long sleeve shirts. I can't tell how good i look in them and i don't really care though hehehe, i'm doing this till it's over! LOL. Drop your comments about this look, let me know what y'all think!


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Explosive Television Event "O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?" to Air Sunday, March 11, on FOX
The two-hour broadcast will air with limited interruptions and will feature public service announcements on domestic violence awareness throughout the program.
[via press release from FOX]
Hosted by Award-Winning Journalist Soledad O'Brien, Shocking Two-Hour Special to Air with Limited Interruptions
In 2006, O.J. Simpson sat down with noted publisher, producer and host Judith Regan for a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred interview, in which Simpson gives a shocking hypothetical account of the events that occurred on the night his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were brutally murdered. During their conversation, Simpson, in his own words, offers a detailed - and disturbing - description of what might have happened on that fateful night of June 12, 1994.
For over a decade, the tapes of that infamous interview were lost - until now. Simpson's explosive words finally will be heard, as he answers the questions that gripped a nation during the notorious "Trial of the Century."
Hosted by award-winning journalist Soledad O'Brien, the shocking special O.J. SIMPSON: THE LOST CONFESSION? will air Sunday, March 11 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. The two-hour broadcast will air with limited interruptions and will feature public service announcements on domestic violence awareness throughout the program. Additionally, O'Brien will be joined by a panel of analysts who will discuss the historic and newsworthy interview, providing timely analysis and context for this shocking, never-before-seen footage.
Today, Simpson is a free man. His criminal case and subsequent civil trial, however, continue to captivate people around the world. Although exonerated of murdering Brown Simpson and Goldman, Simpson was later sued in civil court, found responsible for both murders and ordered to pay $33.5 million in restitution to the victims' families. In 2007, he was arrested in Las Vegas on felony charges of kidnapping, armed robbery and counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The following year, he was found guilty on 12 counts and sentenced to up to 33 years in prison. Simpson was released on parole five months ago on October 1, 2017.
O.J. SIMPSON: THE LOST CONFESSION? is executive-produced by Terence Wrong. Follow the special on Twitter @FOXTV.
About Soledad O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien is an award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, author and philanthropist. She is CEO of the Starfish Media Group, a multi-platform media production and distribution company. O'Brien anchors and produces the political magazine program "Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien." She also reports for "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," regularly contributes to "PBS NewsHour" and WebMD and serves as host and executive producer of the cable series "Mysteries and Scandals." Earlier in her career, O'Brien co-anchored "Weekend Today," and reported for the "Today" show and "NBC Nightly News." In 2003, O'Brien transitioned to CNN, where she was the face of CNN's morning news shows for many years. She also anchored the CNN documentary unit, where she created the "In America" documentary series. "Black in America" and "Latino in America" continue to be produced under Starfish Media Group and are subjects of an annual speaking tour. In 2016, her critically acclaimed documentary film, "The War Comes Home," was released and distributed to more than 350 theaters in the U.S. In September 2017, she co-led and executive-produced FOX's investigative crime special, WHO SHOT BIGGIE & TUPAC?. O'Brien has been recognized with three Emmy Awards for her coverage of the Haiti earthquake, the 2012 election and a series called "Kids and Race." She was honored twice with the George Foster Peabody Award for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina and her reporting on the BP Gulf Coast Oil Spill.


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Flight Explorer, a Fairfax company that offers Internet-based flight-tracking and information systems, is teaming up with Intiex, a data integration company with offices in Rockville, to offer a range of services to airports. Flight Explorer's flagship product lets subscribers view on their computer screens the location of airborne planes in the United States, Canada and Britain. Intiex helps companies exchange similar data and is creating a clearinghouse so airlines can honor each other's electronic tickets, even though each airline has its own e-ticketing system. Flight Explorer and Intiex said in a statement that combining technologies will provide airlines with more accurate arrival and departure data for their billing systems and more affordable multi-user flight information displays.


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BUSINESS OF HOME
Aux Abris Plans to Tailer the Wallpaper Market to Designers
Dec 10, 2018 | Press
A pair of snake wall sconces are to blame for Aux Abris's Garden of Eden raw silk mural wallpaper. The owner, Karen Robert, was contacted by a friend who had just installed the set of lights in her bathroom and requested a serpent-inspired wallcovering. "I got it in my head, and I went home and collaged that afternoon," says Robert, who designed a small-scale collage of art deco motifs on the computer before printing samples. "The file [for Garden of Eden] kept getting bigger and bigger and it kept crashing my computer, so finally I had to buy a new computer to accommodate it."
Basement startups and technological disturbances isn't just reserved for Silicon Valley. Robert launched wallpaper manufacturer Aux Abris in 2014, printing glass cloth wallcoverings in her basement in Bronxville, New York. Then a self-taught graphic designer with more than a decade of interior designing under her belt, Robert set out to create a textured alternative to the market's "flat, old-fashioned and cheap-looking" papers for a wallpaper-heavy project she was working on at the time.
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"Instead of spending $25,000 on wallpaper [for the project], I've spent $100,000 on printers," she tells Business of Home. "I launched with a printed grass cloth, but now we're also printing on silk and Japanese woven papers. That, for me, was what was missing in the market."
It's been an investment well spent, says Robert, whose work has garnered the attention of interior designers for retail and, increasingly, hospitality projects. That Garden of Eden mural, for example, has since appeared inside the Presidential Suites at the Four Seasons in Boston and this year's Detroit Designer Showhouse. Per interior designer requests, Aux Abris will debut its first vinyl collection in May at the HD Expo. "It's my way of trying to give hospitality a little more punch," says Robert of the new line.
That designer need has long been a driving force for Aux Abris, which currently retails through a number of specialty trade showrooms across the country. "Because I was an interior designer for so long, with every wallpaper I design, I have the designer in mind. How can they use this to layer in a room? If I can't figure out where wallpaper would be going, I'm not interested in designing it."
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Carol Bruneau is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, After the Angel Mill (1995) and Depth Rapture (1998), and three novels, Glass Voices (2007), named a Globe and Mail Best Book, Berth (2005) and Purple for Sky (2000). Published in the U.S. as A Purple Thread for Sky, the novel won the 2001 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award.
Shortlisted the same year for the Pearson Readers' Choice Award, Purple for Sky was recommended by Pamela Wallin on the CBC's Canada Reads and as a prime pick on her Chapters website. In the U.S., Booklist praised it as a "hilarious, moving and poetic book." Kirkus called it "a refreshingly unsentimental debut [...] deeply original in style. In Canada, Purple for Sky was included in The Globe and Mail's "Best Books of 2000." They praised Bruneau as "a first-class storyteller who uses words magically," and Chatelaine called it "a warm engaging look at the small dramas that shape our lives...salted with down-home metaphors and pithy observations."
Considered "one of the brightest lights of Atlantic fiction by acclaimed novelist Joan Clark, Bruneau's stories have been anthologized recently in Victory Meat, edited by Lynn Coady, and Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland, edited by Lesley Choyce. As well, Bruneau has contributed book reviews to The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, Atlantic Books Today and the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, which has also published her essays and articles.
Besides the Atlantic Fiction and Dartmouth Book prizes, Bruneau has been awarded four grants by the Canada Council for the Arts, and appointments in 2001 as Writer-in-Residence at Acadia University and in 2009 as Writer-in-Residence at Dalhousie University. Among many guest appearances, she has read at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto, the Eden Mills writers' festival in Ontario, the Northrop Frye Festival in New Brunswick, Read-by-the-Sea in Nova Scotia, and the Winterset Festival in Newfoundland, where she appeared with Cape Breton writers Alistair MacLeod and D.R. MacDonald. Though born and raised in mainland Nova Scotia, Bruneau's maternal family roots are on the island.
Bruneau teaches classes and workshops in fiction writing, and has also worked as a photo editor and a journalist. She teaches critical writing part time at NSCAD University and fiction-writing at Dalhousie.
A Purple Thread for Sky. (US edition of Purple for Sky). Carroll & Graff, 2001. ISBN 0-7867-0860-3.
Why Men Fish Where They Do. Gaspereau Press, 2001 (chapbook). ISBN 1-894031-38-5.
Purple for Sky. Cormorant Books, 2000. ISBN 1-896951-24-4.
"First You See a Light." Gifts to Last.. Goose Lane Editions, 1996. ISBN 0-86492-206-X.
Third-prize winner in the Sunday Star short story contest, 1996.
Awarded Canada Council Explorations Grant, 1994.
Second-prize winner for children's writing, Atlantic Writing Awards, 1994.


As moving and full of impact as I hoped.
The OST for this series is an element I always praised about and they knocked it out of the park once again. The emotional stakes in the episode were also insanely high and these types of themes of believing in others this hard and particularly Endeavor's despair over never being good enough is something that always rings something in me personally. Now I'm just curious where they'll end this season on.
Now that the fight to dwarf most all fights before it and most fights after it is finally here, there's just one scene I'm looking forward to the most in this event and it's at the very end, after the one fight quote that I know will be quoted for a long time when it airs. The question still remains where Season 3 will end off though, either after all the home visits or a short time after the new semester rolls around.
Well just like I said, it seems the climax of the arc is approaching fast.
The climatic fight is either going to be the whole episode this week or one full episode and bleed into the other. I'll probably go with the latter since Bakugo still needs saving and there's a lot of monologues to be had with what the future holds. Can't wait for that pointing scene though.


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This article focuses on modern scientific research on the age of Earth.
Earth as seen from Apollo 17.
Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the age of Earth to be around 4.54 billion years (4.54×109 years).[1] This age has been determined by radiometric age dating of meteorite material[2] and is consistent with the ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples.
2 Historical Highlights
2.1 Some early geologic concepts
2.2 Nineteenth-century calculations
3 Radiometric Dating
3.2 Convective mantle and radioactivity
3.3 Invention of radiometric dating
3.4 Arthur Holmes establishes radiometric dating
3.5 Modern radiometric dating
3.5.1 Why meteorites were used
3.5.2 Why the Canyon Diablo meteorite was used
3.6 Helioseismic verification
Following the scientific revolution and the development of radiometric age dating, measurements of lead in uranium-rich minerals showed that some of these minerals were more than a billion years old.[3] The oldest such minerals analyzed to date – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – are at least 4.404 billion years old.[4]
Comparing the mass and luminosity of our Sun to the multitudes of other stars, it appears that the Solar System cannot be much older than those rocks. Inclusions rich in calcium and aluminum – the oldest known solid constituents within meteorites that are formed within the Solar System – are 4.567 billion years old,[5] suggesting an age for the Solar System and an upper limit for the age of Earth.
It is hypothesized that the accretion of Earth began soon after the formation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Because the exact accretion time of Earth is not yet known, and the predictions from different accretion models range from a few million up to about 100 million years, the exact age of Earth is difficult to determine. It is also difficult to determine the exact age of the oldest rocks on Earth, exposed at the surface, as they are aggregates of minerals of possibly different ages. The Acasta Gneiss of Northern Canada may be the oldest known exposed crustal rock.[6]
Some early geologic concepts
Studies of strata, the layering of rock and earth, gave naturalists an appreciation that Earth may have been through many changes during its existence. These layers often contained fossilized remains of unknown creatures, leading some to interpret a progression of organisms from layer to layer. Xenophanes interpreted fossil-bearing strata in much the same way during the sixth century B.C.E.
Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī (eleventh century C.E.) discovered the existence of shells and fossils in regions that once housed seas and was later transformed into dry land, such as the Indian subcontinent. Based on this evidence, he realized that the Earth is constantly evolving and proposed that the Earth had an age, but that its origin was too distant to measure.[7] The principle of superposition of strata was first proposed by Avicenna (eleventh century). He outlined the principle while discussing the origins of mountains in The Book of Healing in 1027.[8][9] Shen Kuo (eleventh century) also later recognized the concept of deep time.[10]
Nicolas Steno (seventeenth century) was one of the first Western naturalists to appreciate the connection between fossil remains and strata. His observations led him to formulate important stratigraphic concepts—namely, the "law of superposition" and the "principle of original horizontality." In the 1790s, British naturalist William Smith hypothesized that if two layers of rock at widely differing locations contained similar fossils, then it was very plausible that the layers were the same age. William Smith's nephew and student, John Phillips, later used this approach and calculated that Earth was about 96 million years old.
The naturalist Mikhail Lomonosov, regarded as the founder of Russian science, suggested in the mid-eighteenth century that Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thousand years before. Lomonosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in 1779, the French naturalist the Comte du Buffon tried to obtain a value for the age of Earth using an experiment: He created a small globe that resembled Earth in composition and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that Earth was about 75,000 years old.
Other naturalists used these hypotheses to construct a history of Earth, though their timelines were inexact as they did not know how long it took to lay down stratigraphic layers.
In 1830, the geologist Charles Lyell, developing ideas found in Scottish natural philosopher James Hutton, popularized the concept that the features of Earth were in perpetual change, eroding and reforming continuously, and the rate of this change was roughly constant. This was a challenge to the traditional view, which saw the history of Earth as static, with changes brought about by intermittent catastrophes. Many naturalists were influenced by Lyell to become "uniformitarians," that is, they believed that changes were constant and uniform.
Nineteenth-century calculations
William Thomson, aka Lord Kelvin.
In 1862, physicist William Thomson (who later became Lord Kelvin) of Glasgow published calculations that estimated the Earth's age at between 24 million and 400 million years.[11][12] He assumed that Earth had been created as a completely molten ball of rock, and determined the amount of time it took for the ball to cool to its present temperature. His calculations did not take into account the Earth's ongoing heat source in the form of radioactive decay, which was unknown at the time.
Both geologists and biologists had trouble accepting such a short age for Earth. Charles Darwin, who had studied Lyell's work, had proposed his theory of the evolution of organisms by natural selection, a process involving random variation and cumulative selection requiring great expanses of time. Even 400 million years did not seem long enough. In a lecture in 1869, Darwin's great advocate Thomas H. Huxley attacked Thomson's calculations, suggesting they appeared precise in themselves but were based on faulty assumptions.
German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz (in 1856) and Canadian astronomer Simon Newcomb (in 1892) contributed their own calculations of 22 and 18 million years respectively to the debate: they independently calculated the amount of time it would take for the Sun to condense down to its current diameter and brightness from the nebula of gas and dust from which it was born.[12] Their values were consistent with Thomson's calculations. However, they assumed that the Sun was glowing only from the heat of its gravitational contraction. The process of solar nuclear fusion was not yet known to science.
Other scientists backed up Thomson's figures as well. Charles Darwin's son, astronomer George Darwin of the University of Cambridge, proposed that Earth and Moon had broken apart in their early days when they were both molten. He calculated the amount of time it would have taken for tidal friction to give Earth its current 24-hour day. His value of 56 million years added additional evidence that Thomson was on the right track.[12]
In 1899 and 1900, John Joly of the University of Dublin calculated the rate at which the oceans should have accumulated salt from erosion processes. He determined that the oceans were about 80 to 100 million years old.[12]
Radiometric Dating
Rock minerals naturally contain certain elements and not others. By the process of radioactive decay of radioactive isotopes occurring in a rock, exotic elements can be introduced over time. By measuring the concentration of the stable end product of the decay, coupled with knowledge of the half life and initial concentration of the decaying element, the age of the rock can be calculated. Typical radioactive end products are argon from potassium-40 and lead from uranium and thorium decay. If the rock becomes molten, as happens in Earth's mantle, such nonradioactive end products typically escape or are redistributed. Thus the age of the oldest terrestrial rock gives a minimum for the age of Earth assuming that a rock cannot have been in existence for longer than Earth itself.
Convective mantle and radioactivity
In 1892, Thomson had been made Lord Kelvin in appreciation of his many scientific accomplishments. Kelvin calculated the age of Earth by using thermal gradients, and arrived at an estimate of 100 million years old.[13] He did not realize that Earth has a highly viscous fluid mantle, and this ruined his calculation. In 1895, John Perry produced an age of Earth estimate of 2 to 3 billions of years old using a model of a convective mantle and thin crust.[13] Kelvin stuck by his estimate of 100 million years, and later reduced the estimate to about 20 million years.
Radioactivity would introduce another factor in the calculation. In 1896, the French chemist A. Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. In 1898, two other French researchers, Marie and Pierre Curie, discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium. In 1903 Pierre Curie and his associate Albert Laborde announced that radium produces enough heat to melt its own weight in ice in less than an hour.
Geologists quickly realized that the discovery of radioactivity upset the assumptions on which most calculations of the age of Earth were based. These calculations assumed that Earth and Sun had been created at some time in the past and had been steadily cooling since that time. Radioactivity provided a process that generated heat. George Darwin and Joly were the first to point this out, also in 1903.[14]
Invention of radiometric dating
Radioactivity, which had overthrown the old calculations, yielded a bonus by providing a basis for new calculations, in the form of radiometric dating.
Ernest Rutherford in 1908.
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy had continued their work on radioactive materials and concluded that radioactivity was due to a spontaneous transmutation of atomic elements. In radioactive decay, an element breaks down into another, lighter element, releasing alpha, beta, or gamma radiation in the process. They also determined that a particular radioactive element decays into another element at a distinctive rate. This rate is given in terms of a "half-life," or the amount of time it takes half of a mass of that radioactive material to break down into its "decay product."
Some radioactive materials have short half-lives; some have long half-lives. Uranium, thorium, and radium have long half-lives, and so persist in Earth's crust, but radioactive elements with short half-lives have generally disappeared. This suggested that it might be possible to measure the age of Earth by determining the relative proportions of radioactive materials in geological samples. In reality, radioactive elements do not always decay into nonradioactive ("stable") elements directly, instead, decaying into other radioactive elements that have their own half-lives and so on, until they reach a stable element. Such "decay series," such as the uranium-radium and thorium series, were known within a few years of the discovery of radioactivity, and provided a basis for constructing techniques of radiometric dating.
The pioneers of radioactivity were Bertram B. Boltwood, a young chemist just out of Yale, and the energetic Rutherford. Boltwood had conducted studies of radioactive materials as a consultant, and when Rutherford lectured at Yale in 1904[15], Boltwood was inspired to describe the relationships between elements in various decay series. Late in 1904, Rutherford took the first step toward radiometric dating by suggesting that the alpha particles released by radioactive decay could be trapped in a rocky material as helium atoms. At the time, Rutherford was only guessing at the relationship between alpha particles and helium atoms, but he would prove the connection four years later.
Soddy and Sir William Ramsay, then at University College in London, had just determined the rate at which radium produces alpha particles, and Rutherford proposed that he could determine the age of a rock sample by measuring its concentration of helium. He dated a rock in his possession to an age of 40 million years by this technique. Rutherford wrote,
I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realized that I was in trouble at the last part of my speech dealing with the age of the earth, where my views conflicted with his. To my relief, Kelvin fell fast asleep, but as I came to the important point, I saw the old bird sit up, open an eye, and cock a baleful glance at me! Then a sudden inspiration came, and I said, 'Lord Kelvin had limited the age of the earth, provided no new source was discovered. That prophetic utterance refers to what we are now considering tonight, radium!' Behold! the old boy beamed upon me.[16]
Rutherford assumed that the rate of decay of radium, as determined by Ramsay and Soddy, was accurate, and that helium did not escape from the sample over time. Rutherford's scheme was inaccurate, but it was a useful first step.
Boltwood focused on the end products of decay series. In 1905, he suggested that lead was the final stable product of the decay of radium. It was already known that radium was an intermediate product of the decay of uranium. Rutherford joined in, outlining a decay process in which radium emitted five alpha particles through various intermediate products to end up with lead, and speculated that the radium-lead decay chain could be used to date rock samples. Boltwood did the legwork, and by the end of 1905 had provided dates for 26 separate rock samples, ranging from 92 to 570 million years. He did not publish these results, which was fortunate because they were flawed by measurement errors and poor estimates of the half-life of radium. Boltwood refined his work and finally published the results in 1907.[3]
Boltwood's paper pointed out that samples taken from comparable layers of strata had similar lead-to-uranium ratios, and that samples from older layers had a higher proportion of lead, except where there was evidence that lead had leached out of the sample. However, his studies were flawed by the fact that the decay series of thorium was not understood, which led to incorrect results for samples that contained both uranium and thorium. However, his calculations were far more accurate than any that had been performed to that time. Refinements in the technique would later give ages for Boltwood's 26 samples of 250 million to 1.3 billion years.
Arthur Holmes establishes radiometric dating
Although Boltwood published his paper in a prominent geological journal, the geological community had little interest in radioactivity. Boltwood gave up work on radiometric dating and went on to investigate other decay series. Rutherford remained mildly curious about the issue of the age of Earth but did little work on it.
Robert Strutt tinkered with Rutherford's helium method until 1910 and then ceased. However, Strutt's student Arthur Holmes became interested in radiometric dating and continued to work on it after everyone else had given up. Holmes focused on lead dating, because he regarded the helium method as unpromising. He performed measurements on rock samples and concluded in 1911 that the oldest (a sample from Ceylon) was about 1.6 billion years old.[17] These calculations were not particularly trustworthy. For example, he assumed that the samples had contained only uranium and no lead when they were formed.
More important, in 1913 research was published showing that elements generally exist in multiple variants with different masses, or "isotopes." In the 1930s, isotopes would be shown to have nuclei with differing numbers of the neutral particles known as "neutrons." In that same year, other research was published establishing the rules for radioactive decay, allowing more precise identification of decay series.
Many geologists felt these new discoveries made radiometric dating so complicated as to be worthless. Holmes felt that they gave him tools to improve his techniques, and he plodded ahead with his research, publishing before and after the First World War. His work was generally ignored until the 1920s, though in 1917 Joseph Barrell, a professor of geology at Yale, redrew geological history as it was understood at the time to conform to Holmes's findings in radiometric dating. Barrell's research determined that the layers of strata had not all been laid down at the same rate, and so current rates of geological change could not be used to provide accurate timelines of the history of Earth.
Holmes's persistence finally began to pay off in 1921, when the speakers at the yearly meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science came to a rough consensus that Earth was a few billion years old, and that radiometric dating was credible. Holmes published The Age of the Earth, an Introduction to Geological Ideas in 1927 in which he presented a range of 1.6 to 3.0 billion years.[18] No great push to embrace radiometric dating followed, however, and the die-hards in the geological community stubbornly resisted. They had never cared for attempts by physicists to intrude in their domain, and had successfully ignored them so far. The growing weight of evidence finally tilted the balance in 1931, when the National Research Council of the US National Academy of Sciences finally decided to resolve the question of the age of Earth by appointing a committee to investigate. Holmes, being one of the few people on Earth who was trained in radiometric dating techniques, was a committee member, and in fact wrote most of the final report.[18]
The report concluded that radioactive dating was the only reliable means of pinning down geological time scales. Questions of bias were deflected by the great and exacting detail of the report. It described the methods used, the care with which measurements were made, and their error bars and limitations.
Modern radiometric dating
Radiometric dating continues to be the predominant way scientists date geologic timescales. Techniques for radioactive dating have been tested and fine tuned for the past 50+ years. Forty or so different dating techniques are utilized to date a wide variety of materials, and dates for the same sample using these techniques are in very close agreement on the age of the material.
Possible contamination problems do exist, but they have been studied and dealt with by careful investigation, leading to sample preparation procedures being minimized to limit the chance of contamination. Hundreds to thousands of measurements are done daily with excellent precision and accurate results. Even so, research continues to refine and improve radiometric dating to this day.
Why meteorites were used
Lead isotope isochron diagram showing data used by Patterson to determine the age of the Earth in 1956.
Today's accepted age of Earth of 4.55 billion years was determined by C.C. Patterson using uranium-lead isotope dating (specifically lead-lead dating) on several meteorites including the Canyon Diablo meteorite and published in 1956.[2]
The quoted age of Earth is derived, in part, from the Canyon Diablo meteorite for several important reasons and is built upon a modern understanding of cosmochemistry built up over decades of research.
Most geological samples from Earth are unable to give a direct date of the formation of Earth from the solar nebula because Earth has undergone differentiation into the core, mantle, and crust, and this has then undergone a long history of mixing and unmixing of these sample reservoirs by plate tectonics, weathering and hydrothermal circulation.
All of these processes may adversely affect isotopic dating mechanisms because the sample cannot always be assumed to have remained as a closed system. In other words, either the parent or daughter nuclide (an atomic species characterized by the number of neutrons and protons in the atom) or an intermediate daughter nuclide may have been partially removed from the sample, which would skew the resulting isotopic date. To mitigate this effect, it is usual to date several minerals in the same sample, to provide an isochron. Alternately, more than one dating system may be used on a sample to check the date.
Some meteorites are further thought to represent the primitive material from which the accreting solar disk was formed. Some have behaved as closed systems (for some isotopic systems) soon after the solar disk and planets formed. To date, these assumptions are supported by much scientific observation and repeated isotopic dates, and it is a more robust hypothesis than that which assumes a terrestrial rock has retained its original composition.
Nevertheless, ancient Archaean lead ores of galena have been used to date the formation of Earth, as these represent the earliest formed lead-only minerals on the planet and record the earliest homogeneous lead-lead isotope systems on the planet. These have returned age dates of 4.54 billion years, with a precision of as little as 1 percent margin for error.[19]
Why the Canyon Diablo meteorite was used
Fragment of the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite.
The Canyon Diablo meteorite was used because it is a very large representative of a particularly rare type of meteorite which contains sulfide minerals (particularly troilite, FeS), metallic nickel-iron alloys, plus silicate minerals.
Barringer Crater, Arizona where the Canyon Diablo meteorite was found.
This is important because the presence of the three mineral phases allows investigation of isotopic dates using samples which provide a great separation in concentrations between parent and daughter nuclides. This is particularly true of uranium and lead. Lead is strongly chalcophilic and is found in the sulfide at a much higher concentration than in the silicate, versus uranium. Because of this segregation in the parent and daughter nuclides during the formation of the meteorite, this allowed a much more precise date of the formation of the solar disk and hence the planets than ever before.
The Canyon Diablo date has been backed up by hundreds of other dates, from both terrestrial samples and other meteorites. The meteorite samples, however, show a spread from 4.53 to 4.58 billion years ago. This is interpreted as the duration of formation of the solar nebula and its collapse into the solar disk to form our Sun and the planets. This 50 million year time span allows for accretion of the planets from the original solar dust and meteorites.
The moon, as another extraterrestrial body which has not undergone plate tectonics and which has no atmosphere, provides quite precise age dates from the samples returned from the Apollo missions. Rocks returned from the moon have been dated at a maximum of around 4.4 and 4.5 billion years old. Martian meteorites which have landed upon Earth have also been dated to around 4.5 billion years old by lead-lead dating.
Altogether, the concordance of age dates of both the earliest terrestrial lead reservoirs and all other reservoirs within the solar system found to date are used to support the hypothesis that Earth and the rest of the solar system formed at around 4.53 to 4.58 billion years ago.
Helioseismic verification
The radiometric date of meteorites can be verified with studies of our Sun. Our Sun can be dated using "helioseismic" methods, which strongly agree with the radiometric dates found for the oldest meteorites.[20]
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The Woman Who Deflated Anthony Weiner's Balls: Meet the real Sydney Leathers
It's pretty obvious that in most major political sex scandals, the men involved generally suffer minor embarrassment but are able to seamlessly return to public life. The women involved, no matter what the circumstances, are mocked, slut-shamed and forever banished from polite society.
Take, for example, David Vitters, the senator from Louisiana and Family Values Man (FVM) who back in 2007 was reported to have been a client of brothels in New Orleans and D.C., and who possibly had a diaper fetish. Personally I don't care if people wear diapers in their spare time or how much they have to pay to have sex outside of their marriage, but if you're a professional FVM you're just asking for trouble.
Not surprisingly, exposure of what some of us refer to as "Diapergate" turned Vitter into a late night TV joke, but he retained his senate seat and ran for governor last year. He did pretty well, too, until allegations resurfaced that he had fathered a child with a hooker.
How did Vitter's dalliances with prostitutes originally surface back in 2007? His name and phone number were found in a list of records of a company run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, aka the "D.C. Madam," who was convicted by the U.S. government for running a prostitution service. In 2008, when she was facing at least five years in prison, she was found hanged and her death was ruled a suicide. So no matter how embarrassed Vitter was by exposure of his hypocrisy, it's safe to say he got off lightly next to Palfrey.
More recently we've seen the revolting spectacle of William Jefferson Clinton giving a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention that focused on his deep and eternal love for his wife and presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. It's a heartwarming story, but somehow he omitted the part where he received oral sex from Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office as he took a call from a Cuban-American sugar baron and major donor. (In fairness to Bill, the sugar baron was from the crucial battleground state of Florida, which in 1996 was thought to be in play.)
After giving his DNC speech, Bill, who clearly is suffering from Advanced Dorian Gray Syndrome, pranced around the stage chasing after balloons with a demented grin on his face that suggested he'd pumped them up himself and then finished off the tank of nitrous oxide. The crowd roared its approval, in a moment of grotesque amorality that hearkened back to Nuremberg. So Bill is back and he may be on the road back to the White House.
What about Monica Lewinsky? In the immediate aftermath of the scandal, she was relentlessly slut-shamed, especially by "feminists" who defended Bill Clinton, and she became a punching back for late night comedians. She was generally seen as a whore — even though you'd have to be blind not to see that Clinton was a sexual predator who used his position and influence to seduce Lewinsky and that he never cared a rat's ass about her, other than wanting to be serviced by her whenever it was remotely convenient. Meanwhile, a lot of men respected Clinton more because of the Lewinsky incident, which was totally in keeping with his past conduct, because it showed that he could get fellated by a younger woman, whether it was entirely voluntarily or not.
Monica Lewinsky has somehow recovered to become quite a remarkable woman, but she'll probably never be able to introduce herself for the rest of her life without being thought of as the woman in the blue-stained dress.
Then there's the illuminating case of former Congressman Anthony Weiner— whose long-suffering wife, Huma Abedin, happens to be one of Hillary Clinton's closest friends and top campaign aides and fundraisers — and Sydney Leathers.
Back in 2011, Congressman Weiner was toiling ineffectually in the House. He was perhaps best known for voting for the Iraq War in 2002 and savagely attacking UN diplomats for not paying parking tickets while racking up large sums of unpaid parking tickets himself. Then he accidentally posted a picture of his own penis to his Twitter feed, thinking he was innocently sending it to a 21-year-old woman in Seattle he'd been sexting. It's a mistake that could clearly happen to anyone.
The ensuing "Weinergate" scandal soon led the congressman to resign from the House. He laid low for two years but in 2013 he announced that he was seeking redemption by running to be mayor of New York City. Within months explicit pictures leaked showing that Weiner had been sexting at least three young women.
One was 22-year-old Sydney Leathers, who was outed by Buzzfeed. Weiner had been sending her pictures of his penis but, in an effort to cover his tracks, had cleverly been using the alias of Carlos Danger. Weiner remained in the mayoral race, ending up in fifth place with less than 5 percent of the vote.
OK, Weiner became a national laughingstock for a few years and he's still a joke, but what were the long-term consequences? He's out of politics — though he's clearly hoping that if Hillary gets elected it will be his ticket back— but he got hired by a PR and crisis management firm (seriously) called MWW. That firm is run by Michael Kempner, a top fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
And just last month the eye-bulging, screws-loose Weiner turned up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to discuss the new and highly acclaimed documentary Weiner, which was co-directed by Josh Kriegman, his former congressional "chief of staff." (In retrospect, that is not a title you'd really want on your resume.) The shark-jumping Colbert, who once upon a time, long ago, was worth watching, poked good-natured fun at Weiner and a fine time was had by all. In one especially poignant moment, Weiner admitted that he cried when Hillary lost to Obama back in 2008.
Meanwhile, Slate has also helped resurrect Weiner in an interview with Kriegman and co-director Elyse Steinberg. "I think that most people who have seen the film come away liking him more, but it's hard to explain why," exclaims Hanna Rosin, one of the interviewers. "I think it might be because you see him as a fuller human being at the end of the film." Yeah, I guess that explains it.
What's truly bizarre to contemplate is that Huma Abedin obviously must have turned to her dear friend Hillary for advice during her public humiliation, and it's equally obvious that Hillary advised her to stay the course. And whereas one can almost build a case for Hillary to stand by Bill back in the dark days of the mid-1990s — she desperately longed to be president down the road and thought at the time that she needed his political network — Huma had nothing to gain by sticking with her revolting Weiner. She had aligned herself with Hillary, the most powerful sponsor imaginable, and Weiner was clearly going down. That she chose to share a house — and bed???? — with such a repellent figure suggests she either has no moral compass or is loyal to a fault. Or possibly, and I'm speculating here, both.
(Note: I asked Weiner for comment via Twitter and thus far have not heard from him. If I do, I'll update this story immediately.)
Meanwhile, Sydney Leathers was not treated nearly as compassionately as Carlos Danger after Weinergate II broke. And here I have a personal confession to make. I've known Sydney since 2015, when she was introduced to me via a mutual friend and we started DM-ing on Twitter. I didn't even know much about her then, but my view was that anyone who helped destroy Anthony Weiner, wittingly or not, was OK by me.
She turned out to be smart and funny and utterly enjoyable. I wrote her the first night after we exchanged messages and told her I was seriously glad to know her. "Thanks," she wrote back, "because most people who message me say i hope you die of AIDS bitch." That's a pretty astonishing and sad statement if you think about it. In any case, we've been friends ever since.
Anyway, when I heard about the film Weiner, I immediately thought that Sydney would be the perfect person to review it. And she turned in a great piece, which is not only funny and insightful but also has new revelations as well — including the predictable yet somehow surprising possibility that Carlos Danger is still up to his old tricks.
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Trump Wife #1, Ivana, Launching Campaign To Help Fight Adult Obesity
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Ivana Trump, the president's first wife, reportedly will tackle America's obesity epidemic.
A month after First Lady Melania Trump announced her "Be Best" initiative, the woman who called herself "the first Trump lady" has announced an initiative of her own.
Ivana Trump – the president's first wife and mother of Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric – will join forces with Italian nutritionist Gianluca Mech to tackle America's obesity epidemic, according to CNN.
"The obesity rate in the United States has reached epidemic proportions and together with my dear friend Gianluca Mech, we will be introducing the 'Italiano Diet' to Americans from coast to coast," Trump said in a statement provided to CNN. "We have to fight this now because it is getting worse particularly among young people who need to be taught how to eat and exercise correctly so that they can have a long and healthy life."
President Trump himself might be interested in more information – following his physical earlier this year, he said he hoped to lose 10 to 15 pounds in an effort to avoid crossing into obese territory.
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At the invitation of the International Institute for Counterterrorism ICT - International Institute for Counter-Terrorism Head of the Emergency Management Office, Pavle Kalinic participates in the work of 15. International Conference on Counterterrorism World Summit on Counter-Terrorism - ICT's 15th International Conference held by 7. to 10. September 2015. in Herzliya, Israel.
An annual conference organized by the International Institute of Counterterrorism is one of the most important global gatherings that deal with counterterrorism in an interdisciplinary way. This year's conference is particularly important in view of the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levanta (ISIS), the spread of terrorism, as well as the instability in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and a large part of Africa. The main program of the conference is realized through panel discussions and workshops dealing with a specific phenomenon of contemporary terrorism, including defining, analyzing terrorism, media, and strategies in the fight against terrorism, and analyzing specific versions and manifestations of terrorism. The conference serves as a platform for creating international co-operation with leading world experts and counter-terrorism institutions.
International Institute of Counterterrorism ("International Institute for Counter-Terrorism "- ICT) is a renowned research institute devoted to the development of innovative public policy solutions to international terrorism. ICT seeks international co-operation in the global fight against terrorism and creates a path for multilateral action against terrorist networks and states that sponsor terrorism.
More than 1300 participants from the 70 countries participated in the last year's conference, and the organizers expect that this year's participants will be even more.


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