Going for the Throat: What Exactly Does Euthyroid Mean, Anyway ?, written by Robyn Davis Hahn, Editor-In-Chief, Health Care, Dear Thyroid, gave us a global overview of what it means to be Euthyroid and what it means to her; a very personal and inspiring Going for the Throat this week.
Many questions were asked and stories shared about each person's experience and knowledge of Euthyroid. Truly, a WONDERFUL conversation; and if you missed the conversation, check it out right, here.
Today's Dear Thyroid Letter was written by, Theresa, a patient with Graves disease and a host of other symptoms. Her letter raised a lot of questions about feeling better or worse post diagnosis. "It's a lot like Panning for Gold" is a wonderful read. In fact, Theresa also shared an additional letter that she wrote to her doctor.
If you missed the conversation, well, you must check it out and share your two cents. Everybody was incredibly supportive, insightful and shared their thoughts regarding diagnosis versus post-diagnosis wellness, among other things.
This might not be the best place for this but I liked what Theresa said and how she's working on being in control. I've been reading these notes for maybe two months now. I'm 52, I've been hypo for at least 10 acknowledged years and because of no insurance, or had insurance but only spent money on the deductible for my child, my hypo-ism was kept silent because I didn't' put myself first. When I was a teenager, the Dr. told my mom that I was just the upside of normal. No comment. Now I have a new doctor who is working with me, I've been at range twice "then fell off" and we are adjusting meds again. I know that what I eat has a big part in how I feel each day. Fiber/Protein seems to be the key for me, but I can only eat so much each day! What I would like to know from others is: I have been unemployed for over a year now. I'm very good at what I do, but how do I tell employers what I've done with my time off, when I've been healing a very damaged Achilles tendon all the while not feeling happy, because I'm fatigued, emotional, crying at everything? (I went through menopause fast and early) Tell them it's okay, I feel better when I'm doing something constructive and if I take my vitamins too?
Hi Cathy, I am the same as you, what I eat every day has a huge impact on the way I feel. I know after keeping a jounal, glueten is a major negative in my diet. AS to being out of the work force for a year, I really don't think it is anyone's business, what you did. You took a year off because you deserved it!, you did some research, travelling etc!the employer does not need to know on what and why. The bottom line is you are willing and eager to work again. If you are qualified for the job, then there is no reason why they shouldn't employ you. Keep your personal information to yourself, do not give them any reason to doubt your abilities, because if they can they will.Believe in yourself and the rest will fall into place, I have noticed with myself and others with hypo, that it makes us feel very insecure, because we are never sure as to how we are going to feel tomorrow,but I am sure that you are very much like all of us with thyroid conditions, we may feel like crap, but it doesn't stop us delivering, whether that be at home, work, or school. Good luck Cathy Believe!!


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CARE Continues to Feed Sierra Leonean Refugees in Guinea Despite Peace Agreement
GUECKEDOU, Guinea (December 7, 1999) - CARE is feeding more than 250,000 Sierra Leonean refugees who continue to seek shelter in a highly forested region of neighboring Guinea, despite the signing on July 7 of Lome peace accords that brought an end to the conflict in Sierra Leone.
Many of the refugees fled Sierra Leone after the rebels launched a new offensive in the fall of 1998 and winter of 1999 in an attempt to gain control of this West African country. Now, five months after the peace agreement brought an end to this, one of the world's bloodiest wars, refugees - a majority of them women and children - remain in more than 80 camps near the city of Gueckedou, where the borders of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia meet.
"Each family has the right to decide when they feel safe to return to their homes," says Jack Soldate, director of CARE's West Africa programs. "So far, very few families have elected to return to Sierra Leone and CARE will continue to meet their food needs in Guinea."
Almost monthly, CARE distributes food to the refugees at 47 different sites. Each family receives a supply of vegetable oil, wheat flour, green peas, a corn and soy blend, and burglar wheat. Often, it is difficult to deliver the food since Gueckedou is a heavily forested region and the roads are very poor. With the recent end of the rainy season, the unpaved roads are drying out, making them more passable than during the country's wettest months from May through October.
Many of the refugees have not returned to Sierra Leone since it is still difficult for them to sustain themselves in their home country. During the war, many businesses were forced to close or were torched during battles, and farmland was destroyed. Economic development and the rehabilitation of agricultural land is just beginning occur in to Sierra Leone.
"I do not have any food except the supply (of food distributed by CARE)," says Lucy Senesis, who arrived in Guinea in February 1999 with two of her four children. "The food supply is my only way to eat since my husband died during the war."
Currently, Guinea is home to more refugees than any other African country. Nearly 90 percent of them live in Gueckedou and near Nzerekoré, two of the poorest regions of Guinea. CARE supplies life-saving food to most of the refugees in Gueckedou.
CONTACT: Sue Aitkin, CARE USA, (404) 681-2552
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Cleaning Your Instagram Audience: The Why and How
Updated Dec 28, 2020 – Instagram will now prohibit you from seeing your followers if it detects suspicious activity, like you removing followers via the app or using another app to identify inactive accounts. This is to "fight the bots" and will lock you out for a day or so.
Before you continue reading, let me pose a question for you to think about. What's more important to you: having a large Instagram following, or having a more engaged but smaller following?
TLDR: You do have fake & inactive accounts following you that are hurting you.
Keeping up with changes in Instagram
Which followers should you clean from your Instagram account?
How to clean Instagram followers
Some final thoughts on cleaning Instagram followers
Instagram has undergone quite the metamorphosis in the past few years. They're doing their best to keep up with the evolving user base and tactics, and it ultimately affects everyone.
If you take audience engagement seriously – after all, it is a social network – you need to keep up with the changes also.
Also Read: Instagram is Ruining Everything
Audience size – bigger is better?
In the "old days," the mark of success on Instagram was a huge base of followers. Oh wow, that person has 250,000 followers! So, of course, many people gamed the system.
There were a number of ways in which people gained a large following:
Paying people to follow them
Subscribing to automation to "interact" with people for them
Hiring virtual assistants to interact with people for them
"Comment pods"
Following thousands of people, hoping they follow back, and then unfollowing them
In just about every case, there was one common theme: low engagement rates due to the low quality of followers. But no one cared, because, large following.
Instagram engagement rates
The metric of "engagement rates" has recently become more and more important.
It's estimated that 95 million photos and videos are posted to Instagram every day in 2018, and growing. Instagram needs to find a way to figure out which photos to put in front of an audience. It's physically impossible to show all of them.
The engagement rate – the ratio of how many people like or comment on your photo to how many followers you have – is one way Instagram determines which photos to show people.
Math example: a person with 10,000 followers posts a photo that gets 50 likes & comments in the first hour. That's an engagement rate of 0.5% in that hour.
If someone with only 1,000 followers has the same engagement, their rate is 5%.
Instagram wants people to stay on their app because it's good for their business (ads). You're the product. So they're going to keep you there by showing the photos with the highest engagement rate first. Instagram users feed on eye candy, and higher engagement rates typically equate to more delicious eye candy.
And no, you can't buy engagement anymore. Instagram has been actively identifying and penalizing this.
Why Instagram engagement rates matter
Maybe you just want to post photos. And that's cool, more power to you if you don't care about statistics.
But if you're trying to take advantage of the power of Instagram and build a community, engagement matters.
This isn't just something I made up. I've spoken to a number of editors and world-famous photographers lately who echo the same sentiments.
Follower quantity doesn't mean nearly as much as the quality of interaction between you and your followers.
There are two main reasons why Instagram engagement rates matter:
It matters to real human beings, editors and marketers, evaluating if they could leverage your Instagram audience to get their message out. And it should matter to you because this should be fun. Do you have a close community?
Instagram uses the number to figure out how often your photos are shown.
A good Instagram engagement rate is around 4%. You're on fire if it's near 10%.
Your numbers will be on the lower end the larger your audience is; that's just the nature of it and people understand that.
A person with millions of followers, like the Chris Burkards and Jimmy Chins, are expected to have rates around 2%. The rest of us should be shooting higher.
So if your account has accumulated thousands of disengaged followers over the years, these followers – fake accounts, inactive users, ghost followers – are lowering your engagement rate significantly.
You can use a tool like HypeAuditor to determine the makeup of your audience.
What can we do? Clean our Instagram followers!
Related: Do you even need Instagram to be a successful photographer?
Fake accounts
These fake accounts are fairly obvious, and you should remove all fake Instagram followers.
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They're the accounts with no profile photo or profile, no posts, a couple dozen followers, and following thousands and thousands of accounts.
They were most likely paid by someone else to follow you, even if you didn't pay them.
Something fishy about these accounts…
Mass followers
Instagram has imposed a "following" limit of 7,500. Who honestly wants to follow 7,500 accounts? How many of them do you actually see on a daily basis, or even really care about?
The people who do follow 7,500 accounts are only doing so to gain followers. The "I'll follow them in hopes they follow me back" play. We've all done it, but hopefully not to this extent.
They will never see your posts, and you can verify this by checking "ghost followers", explained later.
These are just two of the hundreds and hundreds of followers who will never see my posts.
Inactive followers
Some people have taken a break from Instagram or have stopped using it altogether.
The "dormancy" period is up to your discretion, but I'm comfortable with 180 days. If they've been out for more than six months, they're most likely not just "off the grid" on vacation.
Chances are high they'll never be back, and you can remove these Instagram followers if you wish.
"Ghost" followers
Accounts that are following you but haven't interacted with you for some time, if ever. I use the Unfollow app and set it to tell me who hasn't interacted with my last 100 posts.
The list of "ghost followers" most often includes "mass followers," people following more than a couple thousand accounts. They never see your posts among the thousands of others. It will also include inactive followers.
It will also identify business accounts that obviously followed you in the hopes you'll follow them back and/or give them business. Like the advertising agency in Sicily – I'm sure you do great work, but seriously?
Thanks for the follow, but why is an ad agency in Sicily really following me and 7,495 other accounts?
Manual removal
Identifying bad accounts can be extremely tedious, especially if you have a large following.
You can remove Instagram followers by going to their profile.
Go to your "followers" list to see all accounts following you.
Tap on the profile you want to remove.
Tap on the three dots on the upper right in that profile.
Select "Remove Follower" from the menu that pops up, and confirm the removal.
These Instagram followers will be removed from your account. They will no longer be following you, and they won't be notified you did this.
Using automation to clean Instagram followers
There are a few apps that can clean Instagram followers for you automatically, or at least aid you. They're finicky and not without their problems (mostly due to Instagram limiting third-party apps), but they're better than nothing.
The app I use is Unfollow (available for iOS). It's free. Some people also use Cleaner (iOS | Android). No doubt others have come out after this was published. Instagram is constantly changing third-party app access, and these apps are also always changing. Look on the app store and find one with the highest, most-recent reviews.
I hate full automation. I don't trust it, so I use this as a tool to help me identify accounts I may want to remove. I have it tell me who hasn't been active for 180 days, and who hasn't interacted with my last 100 posts.
Then I assess the account and manually remove them on the Instagram app. Remember that if someone hasn't interacted with your last 100 posts, maybe it's just because Instagram chose to not show them your posts. If it's an honest account, active, with similar interests, not following thousands of people, I'll leave them be. I don't want to alienate a potential sincere audience.
But if they haven't interacted with my last 100 posts because they're following 6,000 people, they add no value to my community.
The other thing I don't like about the full automation is that it can't "Remove" Instagram followers from your account. It can only "Block" them, and I don't want it to block thousands of people without my input.
Cleaning your Instagram followers manually is tedious and time-consuming. But I think it's the most effective middle-ground to maintaining your audience.
Community. I'd rather have a close-knit group of folks gathered in a small room. Having an arena full of countless zombies doesn't seem fun.
I was shocked to learn how much of my audience was either fake, dormant for a year or more, or hasn't interacted with my photos for over a year. But it made sense looking at my engagement rates. It hurt, but call it necessary housecleaning.
I've been at it for a week and have removed over 33% of my followers, with much more to go.
Stay on top of it by removing or blocking obviously fake or dishonest Instagram followers as they follow you.
Now, this doesn't mean you should go deleting all but your most loyal ten followers to get an engagement rate of 100%. That's not the goal. Audience size is still a factor – you still want to maximize your reach – but you should also be looking at your engagement rate as a more important metric. Clean the spam.
Objectively ask the question: Will this person add value to my community, or will they detract from it? This makes it easier to determine which Instagram followers to remove.
Please leave your thoughts or questions about cleaning Instagram followers in the comments below!
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Kibbi
Sunday 14th of August 2022
Thank you for your article! I'm going to clean :)
Saturday 7th of May 2022
Thanks for your comprehensive post. I've removed 2000 fake account in a day and now my business page is removed (suspended or deactivated) by instagram. How long does it take to reactivate my page. Regards
Friday 27th of May 2022
@Mo, After 4 weeks, my account is still disabled!
I have no problems deleting people I don't know or who are trying to "find romance" that's not the place for it. IF I don't know you. I don't add you. IF I know the person in real life or in the blogging, or any other interest I will add you. IF in time I get bad vibes then off they go.
That's a pretty good rule to follow :)
Elle Boyd
Friday 21st of January 2022
How did removing the ghost followers affect your engagement? Did it help??
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Thursday 21st of October 2021
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Dark lanes and low civic sense: Barriers to #MyAccess
For the last day of the #MyAccess campaign, we went to Smt Kamla Mehta Dadar School for the Blind, where we have also conducted sexuality workshop in the past. Our participants included students from St. Xavier's College and students of Kamla Mehta School. They introduced each other with a meet and greet session.
Like the previous day's safety walk, this one too was carried out in two groups, in each of which a blind girl was paired with a sighted girl from Xavier. One pair included a blind-folded girl and a sighted one.
Eight pairs went on Route 1 towards the Dadar station on Dadasaheb Phalke Marg and the other nine pairs went on Route 2 in the opposite direction.
Participants reported the following issues in the area:
Traffic signal not visible to the non-sighted. So, there must be an alternative auditory signal to help the people with visual impairment cross the road
Vendors blocking the pavement and parts of the road especially on the route leading to Dadar station
Narrow Roads especially because of the traffic congestion and vendors
Parked vehicles near the pavement blocked their way
Trees made the already dark lanes darker and this made the lanes more unsafe
Steps, ditches and potholes increased their feeling of unsafety
People walk on the wrong side of the road. This leads to more chaos and people bumping with each other.
During the de-briefing session, a participant felt that people should be more sensitive to the blind persons on the road. A girl said, "People walk absent-mindedly and bump into us."
"If the signal turns green for twenty seconds for pedestrians, ten seconds out of these are taken up by rash bikers. This is not right. People should follow traffic rules."
The girl who volunteered to walk blind-folded while narrating her experience said that her sense of smell and hearing felt stronger than her sense of sight. Her partner also told the gathering that while the non-sighted girls were more confident walking, her blind-folded partner was less confident and afraid.
Nidhi Goyal of Point of View summarized the day. She said, "Kamla Mehta school's girls will go to college in a few years. You will have to then think about the number of crossings because you might need to seek help. Sometimes you will need to seek help from men. You might have not needed help if there were facilities (such as auditory signals)."
To the Xavier's girls, she said, "You are in college now but someday you will have to travel to new places for projects, go to isolated lanes and feel unsafe."
"Most people are non-disabled, so we make facilities according to them. So, when someone who is disabled asks for facilities for accessibility, it is considered "extra". This is not the case. Accessibility helps all. We need to become more inclusive in our understanding of accessibility", she concluded.


The Gospel-Centered Life in Ruth by Jared Wilson is a ten-week accessible study that brings to life the theological depth and gospel centrality of the Scriptures. For the next generation, this invaluable resource is interactive and engaging in a time in which biblical illiteracy is growing among Christians.
Jared C. Wilson is the Director of Content Strategy for Midwestern Seminary, managing editor of For the Church, and director of the Pastoral Training Center at Liberty Baptist Church in Kansas City, MO. He is the author of numerous books, including Gospel Wakefulness, The Imperfect Disciple, and Supernatural Power for Everyday People. In ministry for over twenty years, Wilson has also written numerous church resources and Bible studies, as well as contributed the study notes for 1 and 2 Peter and Jude in the ESV Gospel Transformation Bible. He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN.


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For all of you who like to drink beer, here's some good news: the heady brew has some health benefits, including those noted in a newly published study. Although this statement is not an invitation to begin drinking beer or to drink more of it if you already imbibe, the following explanation may give you and your friends a new perspective on the beverage.
At the entrance to your stomach is a valve, a ring of muscle called the lower esophageal sphincter or LES. Normally, the LES closes as soon as food passes through, however, if it does not, digestive acids produced by the stomach can move back up - or reflux – back into the esophagus. This can lead to burning chest pain called heartburn. If these acid reflux symptoms happen more than twice a week, you have acid reflux disease, also known as GERD.
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Apple cinnamon water is one of several infused waters that has been populating the Internet recently, and part of the pitch accompanying the photos and recipes is that this flavored water has no calories (and thus could help with weight loss), is an energy booster, and/or has detox powers. So are any of these claims true, or is making apple cinnamon water a waste of time?
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Hard work is the core value that speaks to me the most, and this covers much more than simply filling up time.
Hard work is the omnipresent in any situation, and I always have a choice. I once heard someone say, "if you want to master life, always do what is difficult." I am not master, and I would never claim to be, but I know what I must do...work hard.


The Chicago-based artist Alex Chitty will exhibit a site-specific exhibition in the McCormick House designed by Mies van der Rohe. They will bloom without you is a reference to Chitty's observations of flowers, in particular lilies, and how their daily bloom takes place independent of an audience. The lilies also gesture toward the designer and architect Lilly Reich who collaborated with Mies van der Rohe, but is often omitted from the credits of their collaborations.
Alex conceived of her installation imagining how people used the McCormick House as a living space while also responding to its cool, minimal interior. Chitty's investigation began with dualities present within the architecture of Mies van der Rohe's McCormick House: the rectangular North and South wings of the home are joined at a singular point, and the glass walls that enclose the home also allow views of the exterior. Her sculpture, drawings, photographs and video reflect upon simultaneous states such as interior/exterior, movement/stillness, and the narrative/utilitarian function of objects.
Alex Chitty (b. 1979, Miami) is an artist based in Chicago. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Smith College and a Master in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she is a professor in the Sculpture and Print Media departments. Her recent exhibitions include: Objectifying the Photograph at NIU Art Museum in DeKalb, IL, Small Sculpture (2017) at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, IL, slight pitch (2016) at LUCE in Turin, Italy, the sun-drenched neutral that goes with everything (2016) at PATRON in Chicago, IL, Turning Spoons into Forks (2016) at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL, Alex Chitty and Chris Bradley (2015) at Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago, IL, Orchid (2014) at ADDS DONNA in Chicago, IL, The Way They Wanted to Sleep (2013) at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, IL.
A preview of Alex Chitty: They will bloom without you. Chitty will lead a tour of the exhibition at 7:30 p.m.


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crazy garage-built bike builder #1: professor robbie robinson
Posted by: Trent Reker in Uncategorized October 25, 2011	2 Comments
You may know about about the madman from Wallesend, UK who has been building seriously unique and scary choppers for longer than most of you have been alive. If you do not know of him, let me introduce you to Robbie Robinson, born in April, 1964.
My friendship with Robbie began when he signed up to be a member of bikerMetric. When he signed up to my ship of doom, I shot out the obligatory public thank you like a cannon blast at a foreign ship and got to know Robbie a lot better.
Initially, I was told by some that Robbie was crazy, as were his bikes. I wondered what he might be like as I started trading messages and emails with the man, but as a fellow crazy motherf***er, I discovered he's like many of us; a human struggling to live free of the corporate regime, creating what he dreams, and always seeking to push boundaries to achieve greater technological success with each custom motorbike he builds.
Young Robert was born in a small mining village in northeast England. From an early age he discovered he didn't fit in with other kids as he didn't play football and was a bit of a loner. Robbie had a vivid imagination and was often found scribbling space ships and Martians on his school books.
This reminds me of myself, and maybe some of you relate to this story. You watched Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica. Robbie watched Boris Karloff Frankenstein movies on the TV every weekend. They used to scare the life out of him, but he loved watching the scary flicks. He was never interested in playing with friends, knowing he was different and more inquisitive than his mates. Even so, young Mister Robinson would always fix the other kid's toys. He used to sit for hours repairing them, spending enough time on these tasks until the kids at school called him "The Professor."
Mister Robinson had a great passion for wanting to know how things work. After school he was often found digging through junk yards in rubbish piles for old TVs, bits of old cars, and whatever fit his dreams of making, rebuilding, or creating something new from old ****.
He was about ten years old in 1974 when his father brought home a chemistry set for Christmas. It was then that the trouble started. Robbie began reading books on bomb making and chemistry, electronics, and more bomb making. This led to him setting afire his family house while **** near killing his mother. He had made a bomb, "a small bomb," and set it off while his mother was in the kitchen. It wasn't a very big explosion but big it was enough to cause a fire and blacken his mother's face. There was no malice in his heart; he says he was "experimenting."
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Now Robbie was in a bit of trouble because he couldn't help himself, which his loving parents thought might be cured by many visits to shrinks. Drugs for kids! Pharmaceutical companies love this. His parent's desire to drug and brainwash the boy lead to Robbie being sent to a "children's hospital" in Stannington. It was a place for "wayward kids" and children who needed help from "specialists." By then, Robbie believes he truly needed assistance because he genuinely believed he was a robot. He was so sure that one day he decided to prove it and cut his arm open with a razor. There was a lot of blood and Robbie, only a boy, began crying.
I'd cut myself in a children's mental hospital, too.
Three years later, after leaving the hospital, he went back to school. He was no longer a robot, but a boy seeking a place in life. On his way to the prescribed educational facility, he used to take a shortcut leading through a block of garages and there was always an old hippie guy working on his BSA chop. Robbie used to bunk off school while the hippie guy showed him how to build engines and grind valves.
That's when he knew he wanted to have bikes in his life.
Robbie would spend hours after school and many weekends helping the hippie and when the BSA started up for the first time he couldn't believe the rush he had. It was "F***ING ****! I LOVE THIS!" In his mind and heart, it is something he still feels every time he builds a bike or hot rod.
He can't remember the guy's name but the old hippie was responsible for getting Robbie into customizing rolling machinery.
When he was 15 he started seriously applying himself to metalwork class at school. He got into trouble because he flunked everything while getting A's for metalwork. Robbie was sent to the head teacher who congratulated him at being so good at something but went mad because he thought Robbie was deliberately underachieving in everything else.
Yeah. Like being an honor student in English means you should ace Algebra. And why don't more policemen moonlight as astrophysicists?
The headmaster's stern lectures to study harder had little effect. After school Mister Robinson used to buy old mopeds and wrecked motorcycles to thrash about town. Being young and with few cares, most of the bikes were stolen. Finally, he bought an old BSA C15 from two of the biggest and baddest lads around, telling them he had to have it but he couldn't raise the cash.
Soon, they came to his garage and beat the sh*t out of him.
Robbie cried, this time not because he was a frightened boy, but because after the beating they took the bike. There is the pain of loss and the pain of physical punishment. Loss always hurts most. Especially when it's the loss of a dream that would change your life. He thought his dream was over. I am unsure how long he felt this way. Not too long, it seems.
He started working in factories and garages doing mostly engineering gigs. Robbie learned how to fabricate metal and fix engines damned well, which is something he still does. He went from from one job that could help him to another he could use for more wisdom and understanding.
For a while Mister Robinson worked on Harrier jump jets, saying, "It was a good job with good pay and lots of aerospace metal." He's also worked on old Fords where he often scores more sheet steel for his bikes. He's been a tire fitter, an Harley mechanic, and now his day job is in the plastic molding business.
This is the place where I call upon my readers to give a man his dream and support him as a bike builder, not a labororer for the corporate man. Robbie is a better custom motorbike builder and mechanic than he is a molder of plastic. There's a great metaphor, and some irony, within this facet of his life. It may be a great metaphor for many of you as well.
Robbie admits to shedding tears over the love of being true to oneself and the need to provide for those he cares for. It's the conundrum of many a crazy garage bike builder.
In 1989 he met his wife, Yvonne, at a lesbian march. They were both ****** off and shouting abusive words at the lesbians! At the time, Robbie was running around on a matte black Honda CB550 called "Reggie" while going through a messy divorce. He spent his spare time taking drugs and getting incredibly drunk while going to the local nightclubs, usually leaving Reggie dumped on it's side. It was always there when he came out, usually with Yvonne, both wasted and waiting to tear back to Robbie's home. He doesn't know what it was that attracted them but they understood each other inherently. Yvonne was a calming influence and knew Robbie needed help, even though she was a bit of a handful herself. Somehow, they chilled each other out and have been an item for over 21 years with barely a crossed word between them. She usually laughs when Robbie does something stupid or builds something mad. She loves bikes and more importantly loves Mister Robinson. He believes he'd be lost without her.
Such is the story of many a crazy motherf***er with a love for motorbikes.
About the time he met Yvonne in the early 1990's, Robbie started building his own frames and girders and since then has attended many custom shows where he usually wins something. Even the French dig him.
Robbie used to read all the custom bike magazines including Back Street Heroes since it first came out in the early 1980's. BSH is the only print magazine that really inspires him because, "it's filled with lots of cool bikes, not all HD's, but *** fours and everything in between." Sometimes, when Robbie had no money, he'd nick the mag from the newstand. He buys them now and has many thanks to give BSH.
His first bike feature was in 2006 but he can't remember which magazine. I can hardly remember 2006, either, man. Let's blame the beer! The featured motorbike was an over-bored Honda CB750. Robbie did a huge burn out on top of a local bridge and ripped the red tarmac off the road.
After that display of uncivil attitude, he made the front cover of BSH magazine with a CB750 low rider. Since, he has appeared in numerous magazines in the UK and on the other side of the pond (including the one-off RUSTYMETRIC fagazine). With each bike he likes to create something different. He knows what he wants his bikes to look like in his head when he starts but never makes a definite plan. All Robbie does comes straight out of his brain and heart and on the fly. His bikes seem to be emotional sculptures of repressed aggression. They're all souped-up hot rods, low and long, with mechanical features that make it clear each is faster than a brain-starved zombie high on PCP.
Now he says he's "blinked," and the young man he once was is now 47. He's still crazy, still loves listening to Hendrix while building bikes and cars, and feels the same mentally as he did when he first discovered his love of messing with motorized mayhem. The only difference in his head is that he enjoys toy robots, but no longer thinks he is one.
Thank you, Robbie. Men like you have saved my life and maybe others. Giving up is becoming a robot.
Visit Robbie at fumesngears.blogspot.com, where he chronicles his builds with a few photos and some choice words.
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Youngsters re-name out of school club after competition
Pupils from Holly Spring Infant School held a party to celebrate the club being renamed the Amazing All Stars Out of School Club.
Becky Barnes
The new "Amazing All Stars Out of School Club" at the Holly Spring School in Bracknell opened on Wednesday, renamed in a competition won by Rebecca Kennewell (10, kneeling centre
Little stars celebrated a new name for their out of school club after a competition to relaunch it.
Pupils from Holly Spring Infant School, Lily Hill Road, had a party to celebrate Holly Spring Out of School Club being renamed as the Amazing All Stars Out of School Club last month.
Kirstie Rolfe, who has recently taken over as manager, said: "We were struggling to get people in so we put out a suggestion box for the children to suggest a new name.
"We used to have about 30 children and a waiting list but it went down to 18 to 20 – people don't know it exists."
Year Six pupil Rebecca Kennewell chose the winning name, with the name Honey Bees awarded second place and Panda Club third.
The winning youngsters were presented with a certificate, medal and sweets, with cake for everyone afterwards.
Kirstie said: "It's a great club and we hope to get new members soon. It gives the children a chance to do something they might not be able to do normally."
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You may have heard the heart touching and wonderful transformation for Vassos on Radio two on Thursday with the help of hypnotherapy. I am sure you will agree it was a fascinating and motivating morning for all. Hypnotherapy is truly remarkable and can be life changing. As a hypnotherapist I can put my hand on my heart and say that it changed my life also and has enabled me to help others.
You may have also heard coverage and discussion regarding Pippa and James's up and coming wedding as the show also went on to ask for Cool Bride Stories.
Well, what I am about to share with you is a personal and the true life changing glimpse into my story of how hypnotherapy also changed my life. This story has been prompted by my wonderful clients of whom I am grateful and proud of and thank deeply and of course yesterday's spectacular coverage.
I hope yesterday's result and my outcomes will go towards helping you make the right choices for you.
After what seemed like a lifetime of wonder, abundance of love, joy and laughter with my soul mate David; he popped the question!
Raptures of joy generated and travelled at lightning speed through each and every cell in my body from my head to my toes. Wonderful feelings I never knew existed before fizzed and popped all over me. It really is true what they say about love and the simple raw beauty of a proposal. Time stood still and it really was the most magical moment I can recall. I felt like I was floating on a cloud of elation. Looking slowly away from my now fiancé to my parents who appeared to be moving in slow motion! I recall my beautiful mum reminding me to answer and assured David that I had accepted his proposal, I agreed enthusiastically. With my head in a spin and the most beautiful feeling l have ever never known I telephone my brother. "Well pleased for you cyst!" Very laid back is our Mark!
A magical moment for all. I was now engaged and to marry my soul mate.
After a romantic night's sleep I awoke feeling wonderful and blissfully happy. Peaceful calm and consumed with love. My thoughts wandered towards our big day and what we would do?
That brought on different thoughts and feelings, feelings I had not expected or ever thought about or knew existed!
"I can't do this" What a miserable transformation from just the night before!
David is the most wonderful man and I knew in my heart and in my head that I really wanted to marry David but I really couldn't see how I would manage it? I felt terrible and began to imagine all sorts of ridiculous things. I did not want to disappoint him or anyone else for that matter. What could I do and how had I gone from being the happiest in my life to my lowest in such a short space of time? I felt miserable and couldn't even to talk about the wedding now to anyone. I was devastated and at a loss. I thought long and hard about my options and after much delaying, deliberation and soul searching I sought help through hypnotherapy and from that moment my life changed forever, quite unexpectedly!
Hypnotherapy for me was the single most life changing, positive and all-consuming experience I have ever patriated in. I could not believe the change in me. It was amazing! I couldn't recall feeling this good, this positive with such drive, inner peace and confidence. I was now back on track, the wedding was on! Hypnotherapy inspired and changed me and it was something I now wanted to learn and maybe share with others. To be able to help other people be all they want to be, to relax, be confident and to aspire to the life they want. I soon began my studies and qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist.
Hypnotherapy has given me a greater understanding of myself and opened up life and its great potential. I have since had the opportunity to work with some wonderful people and experience possibilities and change that hypnosis can bring. It also gave me another thought about my own wedding that had initially brought me to become a clinical hypnotherapist.
I have always had a love of music, a single note of certain songs or pieces of music can bring goose bumps to my skin and flood me with joy, energy and emotions. David and I love music, it's an important part of who we are and feel.
Of course it made perfect sense to sing our song to him on our wedding day!
In my youth I recall singing but the idea of singing at my own wedding seemed insane even to me! Also slightly challenging. I recall wondering why I would do such a thing and put myself through this after all this was the girl who initially thought she couldn't walk down the aisle, would be swallowed up by the day and had been thinking of calling it all off. I had those unwanted feelings again. However now life is different. Hypnotherapy had helped me before and I knew it would again. Time to put my money where my mouth is. This was a knee knocking challenge that would really put me and the power of hypnosis to the test.
I kept my idea from David and others whilst I set about my quest of hypnotising myself, extending my horizon, thinking outside of the box and using the tools and skills I had been taught and learned. I immersed myself once again into hypnotherapy. This was going to be ambitious!
Blessed with glorious sun our wedding day finally arrived. Time to open up my mouth, heart and soul, to sing my inner most feelings to the man of my dreams, in front of everyone who knows me.
This is the rest of my story…..
Just in case you're wondering it went exactly as I had imagined and envisaged it. The pictures speak for themselves as do the comments at the bottom from the lovely guests and our wonderful family.
This isn't quite the end of my story. My skills as a clinical hypnotherapist were also called upon by others who would be attending our wedding day with various issues and concerns. What a wonderful gift to be able to help the ones you love. I got married and helped others on our wedding day. It's the greatest joy and feeling.
When I am working with a client I tell them all about hypnosis, the benefits and if I am asked how I became a hypnotherapist I tell them what you now know. How hypnotherapy came into my life quite unexpectedly. I did it for me, to help me. Some of my clients think it's quite an amazing story and know of others who have been in a very similar situations, whether it be wedding related or on life's journeys. As a result my clients inspired me and told me to write up my story and urged me to use what I know to continue to help others.
Now chuck!! Remember the ceremony been very chilled and laidback. Very natural!!
It was wonderful to see my initially nervous bride transformed into a calm and smiling beauty. To say I was shocked when Rachel sung her wedding vows to me is an understatement! Relaxed and calm and all quite natural, no tensions just the Rachel that I love and know. It all added to the super relaxed atmosphere of the day with all our friends.
I remember Rachel been nervous about getting married and upset with herself for feeling that way. As her mum I wanted to help her in any way I could. I was impressed with her determination to sort it out and was pleased once she had chosen to use hypnotherapy to help her, she was suddenly relaxed about the whole idea and took to planning the day with excitement and joy. I too was nervous about the day. I am a quiet person who prefers to keep out of the way and I have had some health issues of my own that may have stopped me from enjoying my daughter's big day. I asked her to help me and I was amazed at how different I felt. I actually looked forward to meeting new people and knew it would be all fine, that everything would be ok. I could not believe it when my daughter sang her vows. What a wonderful moment for her and to see her radiant and confident. Hypnosis has continued to help me and I had a wonderful day with my daughter, family and friends.
It was a privilege to be part of Rachel and David's wedding preparations from the night before to the morning after. The atmosphere throughout the weekend was magical! Everyone was so chilled out and relaxed and having fun. Most of all Rachel and David, who's love for each other and enjoyment of the ceremony from start to finish affected us all. Being a very close friend of Rachel (and David) I knew how nervous Rachel could be. Listening to Rachel singing her vows to David was a big surprise as well as a very emotional experience for me. I admire Rachel so much for finding the courage to perform that song in front of so many people, helped I am convinced by having hypnotherapy.


We all have something to say, but how we say it (or choose not to say it) can make a tremendous difference in the workplace or our personal lives. If you feel your communication skills are not up to par, consider working through the following to make you more effective at sharing your thoughts both at the office and among friends.
The first step in good communication is to listen to what others are saying. If you are so focused on saying your piece, you'll miss important points and could even offend those around you. Listen to the points colleagues or friends are making. When they have finished their thought, go ahead with your own. It also helps to build relationships if you can address another's comments in your own.
For example by saying, "I agree with Mary that we should expand our target demographic…" will be much more effective and demonstrate that you are a team player better than the more self-centered, "I think we need to…" By acknowledging that you are listening, others will pay more attention to what you say in return and respect your style of communication. Besides, being a good listen is just plain polite.
If you say everything that crosses your mind exactly when you think it, it's unlikely anyone wants to speak with you. Everyone suffers from ugly thoughts and sometimes even positive or neutral thoughts come out sounding bad if you don't put the right amount of thought into your presentation. It's the proverbial foot in mouth that can be avoided simply by thinking a thought before saying it.
Planning what you are about to say can go a long way in avoiding embarrassment on your part or someone else's hurt feelings. It is also crucial when you are trying to deliver constructive criticism or negative feedback. Softening a blow with a compliment can make a hard statement much easier to swallow. Just be sure your point is clear. Stopping to think before speaking gives you time to filter your thoughts and ensure that you are sharing exactly what you mean to say.
You can't possibly know every spoken language in the world, but some styles of language are more universal. It is important to speak with not only words, but your body, face and tone as well. If you are telling a joke, you should smile. If you are serious about a situation, your tone and body should express that.
Others will listen to your words, but they are always tuned in how you are saying those words to get a full understanding of your message. If you're truly engaged in what you are saying, the rest should follow easily. It's easy to see when someone is faking enthusiasm, so don't. If you feel it, great. If not, don't pretend. Everyone will know your real thoughts on the matter regardless.
In the business place, there is little time for long rambling thoughts or stories. Eliminate most of the idle chatter in a professional context and get to the point. Stories and random thoughts are great among friends at the water cooler or lunch table, but they don't belong in the conference room or office. Of course, you don't need to speak only in short bursts, but a few extra sentences to introduce a thought are much more appreciated than a fifteen minute narrative.
Your message should be clear both at home and at work. If you're simply relaxing with a few friends, think about how much more you enjoy a brief funny story than a long, slightly boring one. Keep it simple. Not only will your friends appreciate your wit, but they'll also appreciate your not monopolizing the conversation. Plus, you'll have the details you failed to share as fodder for a future conversation.
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communication is a two way process; where message from source is generated to target receiver to achieve certain objectives. Hence the feed back of receiver tells how much our communication remained effective in this process.
Secret of good communication is to target your audience and speak up on commonalities. Most of the people lack comunocation skills becuse of their involved styles i.e. either nothing to say or say it as vaguely as they can. To avoid this, lucidity is the first requisit, think clearly avoiding confusion and speak clearly.
Communication is the best thing that can ever happen to two people too many people.
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Everything I have read here ASSUMES there is no passive aggression being demonstrated either by management or by HR.
It presumes all reports are simply true on the face of them.
It presumes Management has the intention to maximize good outcomes for all concerned.
Given what I know about corporate UN-accountability for outcomes, results and effects, I think these materials need a great deal more work, to identify who's telling the truth about what problem.
After all, obfuscation and avoidance are elements of the workplace that constitute problem and anxiety-driving opportunities.
Communication is a very important in and kind of situation be it in a relationship in or out side the office, one has to be able to talk to others in order to relate if one doesn't have this or do this boundaries start to brake down and things can start to fall apart and this is not good especially with staff and business. This post was very helpful and informative with regards to this important subject.
Hi there! I come to your site is just because I'm kind of person who are afraid to express my thought. I really envy to people who can just say what's on their thought directly. Every time I want to tell my thought, I feel hesitate. I'm afraid that the person to whom I talk to will get hurt or they will get mad of what I say. There's so many "what if…" in my life (just want you to know that). And may be that "what if" becomes the most reason why I choose to not speak my thought. There are two options that usually come at the time I want to express my thought; wait for seconds (not a second) or rather to not say it all.
I really need your help on how to be so brave to express my feeling or thought. I know it is hard to be understood if others don't know how we feel. But that's me, I always afraid to express my feeling. Please email me for some advises. Thanks at advance.
i think communication is a simple process, but need to be specific, think what is in mind before say something.


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Resumption of Syrian Peace Talks Confirmed as Humanitarian Conditions Deteriorate
This undated handout photo released, Jan. 2, 2017, by the Russian Defense Ministry claims to show Russian Military engineers operating in Aleppo, Syria.
GENEVA - The United Nations confirms Syrian peace talks will resume February 20 in Geneva, amid reports of further obstruction by the Syrian government to allow the distribution of humanitarian aid.
The United Nations says it will send out invitations to the warring parties to attend the Syrian peace talks on February 8. The negotiations originally were set to begin that day, but were postponed until February 20 to allow a cease-fire to take hold, a basic demand by the opposition.
Special Envoy for Syria spokeswoman Yara Sharif says a joint group has been established to ensure an effective cease-fire takes place.
"The Special Envoy welcomed [Monday's] follow-up meeting of the Joint Group and expressed the hope that their efforts will strengthen the cease-fire on the ground and thus contribute to the U.N.-led intra-Syrian negotiations in Geneva and a political settlement in line with Security Council resolution 2254," Sharif said.
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FILE - Boys warm themselves around a heater inside a shop during cold weather in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria, Jan 4, 2016.
Syria's six-year long civil war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and wounded many more. The country's infrastructure has been largely destroyed. Millions of people within the country are in desperate need of food and other aid.
Sharif says U.N. efforts to get humanitarian access to people in need continues to be frustrated by the Syrian government. She says January marked the worst month since March 2016.
"Out of 21 requests for convoys to access a total of 914,000 people, only one convoy was delivered for 40,000 people," Sharif said. "... The Special Envoy calls for unconditional, unimpeded and sustained access to all 4.72 million people in hard-to-reach locations across the country, including the more than 600,000 in besieged locations."
Sharif says residents of the formerly besieged neighborhoods of east Aleppo now are accessible. But she says humanitarians are unable to deliver aid to some areas because unexploded ordinance and other remnants of war make it too dangerous for them to enter.
Analysis: New Tactics or Grand Strategy for Trump's War Plan?
On the presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump demurred when asked to outline his war plan to defeat the so-called Islamic State terror group, arguing he wasn't going to tip his hand to America's foes by revealing his intentions.Last Friday, though, President Trump turned to his generals for a detailed military strategy, and he signed an executive order instructing members of his Cabinet and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to come up with a plan within 30 days - one that…
Rebel, Kurdish Areas in Syria Hit by Heating Fuel Shortages
Wracked by civil war and Islamic State occupation, Syrians living in areas under Kurdish or rebel control are suffering from a major shortage of heating fuel in an unusually harsh winter.People in the Kurdish region of northern Syria say they have been running low on heating supplies for more than a week.Many households "don't even have a drop of fuel anymore," said Marwan Khanke, 35, a father of three children who lives in the Kurdish city of Qamishli…
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Dallas awarded $500,000 grant to preserve African American civil rights history
September 24, 2019 annemarie
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Dallas–Juanita Craft House Museum, home of local Civil Rights activist
Dallas, Texas – The City of Dallas was awarded a National Park Service (NPS) Grant in the amount of $500,000 to preserve African American civil rights history. This funding will support major renovations of the Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House. The African American Civil Rights Grant Program awarded $12.2M and is funded by the Historic Preservation Fund and administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Through this nationally recognized award, NPS seeks to support efforts nationwide to preserve resources, places and stories which tell defining parts of our nation's history and the African American experience and civil rights movement.
"As Mayor, I truly believe that the Juanita J. Craft House tells a piece of our City's history that has been long ignored," said Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson. "Telling the full history of Dallas and highlighting the leadership of those who helped advance our City through the Civil Rights Era is vitally important as we continue to address our contemporary challenges. I was heartened that the City Council included $250,000 in next year's budget for this project, and I am elated to receive this generous grant so we can properly honor Juanita Craft's legacy and inspire generations to come. I am eager to visit the restored Craft House — and to take my children with me."
The 1,300 square foot, one-story frame home is located at 2618 Warren Ave. in the Phyllis Wheatley Historic District of South Dallas. This was the home of Juanita J. Craft, one of Dallas' most significant civil rights figures and only the second African American woman to serve on the Dallas city council. Juanita J. Craft lived in this house for 50 years and both Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., visited her there to discuss the future of the civil rights movement. Craft played a crucial role in integrating two universities, the 1954 Texas State Fair, Dallas theaters, restaurants and served the NAACP for 50 years helping to establish 182 chapters across the state of Texas.
"The Office of Arts and Culture is honored to receive this monumental investment in the Craft House by the National Park Service," said Jennifer Scripps, director of the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Cultural. "Juanita Craft's legacy of serving her community, advocating for civil rights and mentoring young people will now be able to be appropriately honored in the home once it is restored and re-opened."
In May of 2018 a major flood occurred resulting in major damage to the home, resulting in its closure to the public. In June 2019, the City of Dallas Arts and Culture Advisory Commission adopted the first-ever Historic Structures Report, a document with a complete assessment of the home, its historic significance and recommendations for how to improve it going forward. Efforts to engage the community in conversation about their collective vision for the home and to raise funds for its restoration and exhibits and programming for future audiences are currently underway. The entire budget for this project is just over $1M, and the City of Dallas 2019-2020 budget includes $250,000 in capital funds for this project.
"I am thrilled that the National Park Service will grant $500,000 towards the Craft House," said Councilman Adam Bazaldua. "South Dallas has always recognized the legacy of Juanita Craft in our community, but this high level of support by our nation's Historic Preservation Fund signifies that her work and inspiration is valued and recognized nationally. Juanita Craft's legacy carries on in the fight for equity in District 7 and throughout Southern Dallas. It is my hope that preserving and reopening the Juanita Craft House will draw perspective, inspiration and vision from across Dallas – and our country, to spark civic engagement, inspire activism and bring together allies in our continued fight for equity."
Renovations for the Craft house are scheduled to begin in 2020 and anticipated to conclude by the end of 2021.
To learn more about the Craft House visit: https://dallasculture.org/cultural-venues/juanita-craft-house/
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Samuel Wilson est un personnage interprété par Anthony Mackie dans l'univers cinématographique Marvel (MCU), basé sur le personnage des comics Marvel du même nom et appelé généralement par le nom de son premier alter ego, Falcon. Wilson assume plus tard le titre de Captain America après la retraite de Steve Rogers. Il est décrit comme un vétéran de l'armée de l'air des États-Unis en tant que Pararescue. Sa spécificité est qu'il vole à l'aide d'un jetpack aux ailes articulées. Il est recruté en tant que membre des Avengers où il utilise ses compétences pour défendre la Terre contre diverses menaces.

Sam Wilson est une figure centrale du MCU, ayant joué dans six films de la franchise (chiffres de 2020) ainsi que l'un des protagonistes de la série de Disney + Falcon et le Soldat de l'Hiver (2021). Ce personnage est remarquable en ce qu'il est le premier Captain America Afro-Américain à apparaître en live-action, et la manière dont Anthony Mackie joue Sam Wilson a été accueillie  positivement par le public. Mackie devrait reprendre le rôle de Wilson dans un futur film de Captain America en cours de production.

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