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Fab Friday.

****Firstly, before I start my Fab Friday, I want to apologise for my lack of posts. You've probably guessed that I am still without the Internet at home. I'm trying to post from my phone where I can but its slow and honestly, a pain in the backside. I miss daily blogging so so much and cannot wait until I am back!****

So now.. What's been Fab this week?

I am 99% sure I felt Peanut kick last night! This makes me so happy :)

I painted James' bedroom at the weekend. I've wanted to do it for so long. I still have the ceiling and the skirting boards to do but the walls are done and I love the colour.

I'm not normally a big fan off ice cream but lately I've been craving mint choc chip and I currently have a whole tub in the freezer.

I *think* touch wood, I have finally turned a corner with my morning sickness. It is still there on and off but nothing as bad as it was.

James has been so funny this week! I think 4 years old is my favourite age so far. The other day we were walking and it was windy, he turned to me and said "Mummy. My eyes are melting.." Obviously he meant his eyes were watering but it was cute.

My sister is due with her first baby on this Wednesday!!! I cannot wait for my little niece to make her debut :)

I hope you all have a Fab weekend!

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Monthly Archives: August 2014

This Ought to be Fun

The people pushing these laws are the same ones who find “penumbras” and “emanations” and “dog whistles” and whatnot whenever it’s politically convenient.  I wonder how long the first “here is her signed, sealed, notarized authorization for intercourse” statement holds up in court?

But the California legislation’s language becomes clearer when it specifies which situations do not constitute consent. “Lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent, nor does silence mean consent,” the bill reads. “The existence of a dating relationship between the persons involved, or the fact of a past sexual relationship, shall not provide the basis for an assumption of consent. Consent must be ongoing throughout a sexual encounter and can be revoked at any time. The existence of a dating relationship between the persons involved, or the fact of past sexual relations between them, should never by itself be assumed to be an indicator of consent.” Parties can’t consent when they’re asleep or unconscious, or incapacitated from drugs or alcohol.

Via Vox Day’s “Game” site, Alpha Game.

Remember, lunatics like Amanda Marcotte — who still believes the Duke lacrosse players are guilty and Dan Rather’s memos are real — are at the forefront of this “rape culture” hysteria.  I can’t even conceive of the circumstances under which people like her would believe the man in one of these cases….

….well, no, that’s not quite true.  I can think of one scenario.  But it’s so gross and disturbing that I caution the weaker stomachs among our readership to skip this next part.

This “affirmative consent” insanity will end when, and only when, an impeccably left-liberal individual boffs one of these feminazi she-beast bloggers with her full, informed, authorized, signed, witnessed, and notarized consent… and then backs out and claims he was raped, because she didn’t get consent.

Now, actually achieving this is a Herculean task.  I figure our side has the tech savvy to work up an unbeatable alias for a deep-cover operative.  I mean, liberals routinely fall for the ol’ “117% of the district voted, all for one party” gambit; how hard can it be?  A few Daily Kos diaries, a few photoshopped pictures at Burning Man, a “Ready for Hillary” bumper sticker on the Prius, and you’re good to go.

The problem, of course, is this….

Marcotteand this….

Lesbian_Heteronormative_Oppression_Feministand this….

Smash_Patriarchy_Slut_Walk_2014_Chicago_Feministand this….

358599871_rachel_maddow_031009_300x296_answer_1_xlargeYou get the idea.  And that is one taaaaallllll order, because remember, our sleeper (ugh!) agent has to be provably sober the entire time.  Not even aspirin, just in case. And I know lesbian sexuality doesn’t work like male sexuality, but ye gods, that’d be a struggle for Gay Nyarlathotep.

Sooooo… any patriots out there up for the challenge? I think I can speak for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy when I say we’ll happily pay all your expenses, including a lifetime of therapy and / or a lobotomy after.  It’s the only way to stop the madness.

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Stick Your Head in the Ice Bucket and Keep It There

Can I vent for just a sec about how much I hate this stupid fucking “ice bucket challenge” thing?

Here again, we see the terminal narcissism of the Millennial Generation.  Yes, ALS is a horrible disease, and I want to encourage anyone and everyone to give up to 100% of their income to anti-ALS research.

That said: It is not about you.

It is not about you.

It is NOT about you.

It is NOT about you.

It is NOT about you.

Please cut, paste, and repeat this as many times as you find necessary.  Thanks.

Still not about you.

Still not about you.

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Maybe Lakoff is Right

Y’all are familiar with George Rhymes-With-Jackoff, the guy behind “frames.”  You know, if we call it “economic patriotism” rather than “socialism,” people won’t realize that it’s socialism, even though it completely and totally is, down to the last detail.

Those of us who read conservative political blogs think this is stupid, but as National Review‘s Jim Geraghty points out (via Ace’s overnight thread), this stuff does seem to resonate with the Low-Info Voters:

We political junkies love political philosophies, and keep subdividing ourselves into smaller and more precise groupings. (Crunchy Cons! Neoconservatives! Libertarian Populism! Reform Conservatives! Eisenhower Anarchist!) We love these labels and terms, because we feel that they help explain a coherent way of looking at the world, government, the Constitution, human rights, society, etc. But to a lot of people, they might as well be Dungeons & Dragons character classes. They don’t know which political philosophy best matches how they see the world because they flat-out don’t understand the terms and, perhaps most maddeningly, are not convinced that they need to know them — nor much about anything else.

The D&D metaphor is a good one.  Now, this is not a knock on D&D, or “gamers,” or whatever.  Please keep your nerd rage bottled up over the next few paragraphs.  But: Everybody knows D&D has no real world consequences.  Lots of people don’t want to learn the arcana of the game because, hey, if I wanted to put in hours and hours of study, I’d take a night class and actually learn something I can use to pad my paycheck.  Right?  There’s just no cash value there.

This is a rational economic decision.  Yeah, ok, the non-gamer doesn’t know D&D; he only knows the stereotypes, and yes, of course, all those stereotypes are wrong.  But there’s one thing he does know that’s indisputably true for him: He’s got better things to do with the 6-20 hours it would take to become minimally proficient at D&D.  Economists call this rational ignorance, and it’s an important concept.  P.J. O’Rourke explained how it works in politics in The CEO of the Sofa:

The danger with political issues, for liberals, is that you might try to understand them.  This would bum you out.  Big government, that you’re so fond of, is as complicated as airline fares.  You’d go nuts if you really tried to fathom all of Washington’s programs, regulations, restrictions, discounts for seniors, and frequent campaign-donor upgrades.  So you do with the U.S. what you do with US Airways: you hand over the money and let yourselves be sent to hell by way of Pittsburgh with nothing but peanuts on the trip.  Economists call this “rational ignorance,” meaning that you could go to hell for $20 less (and get two bags of peanuts), but the time and effort wouldn’t be worth it.

The point of “frames,” I’m coming to realize, is to play up the rational ignorance, to use it in a bait-and-switch.  We readers-of-conservative-political-blogs tend to use “low-info voter” as a synonym for “dumbass.”  But they’re not.  They’re rationally ignorant.

It’s an important distinction.  LIVs don’t want to have to think about that wonky stuff.  “Socialism” is wonky — ask someone who knows what he’s talking about to define “socialism,” and within five minutes you’re deep into “modes of production” and the whole 19th century schmear.  But “social justice,” now… and “progress”… we all have an instinctive idea what those words mean.  That our vague, fuzzy ideas are quite different from — in fact, usually diametrically opposed to — their specific, precisely defined policy goals is the whole point of the exercise.

The buzzwords, the “frames,” are designed to communicate one single, simple idea:  We got this.  You don’t need to put in the hard work of thinking about how “social justice” is to be achieved.  Oh, sure, you could –and, of course, if you did, you’d find yourself agreeing with us 100% — but why bother?  Don’t you have better things to do with your time?

One could, in fact, expand this maximization-of-rational-ignorance thesis to a lot of leftist attitudes.  Their cult-like faith in “experts,” for instance.  Data?  You don’t need to see the data.  Our guys have seen the data, and they’ve spent decades in college, racking up fancy degrees and reading articles in The Peer-Reviewed Journal of Peer-Reviewed Journals.  They know what big words like “heteronormative” and “cisgendered” mean.  These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.  And besides, American Idol is on.  Did you hear Jennifer Lopez is back this year?

indexIt’s important for us not to get frustrated with these people.  We want to say — because it’s true– that rational ignorance of the small picture is dangerous, irrational, wildly irresponsible ignorance of the big picture.  We don’t fall for baloney like “frames” because we’re accustomed to thinking in big picture political terms.  When we hear political buzzwords, our first instinct is to ask for clarification:  “Ah yes, comrade.  ‘Social justice.’  And what policies do you plan to implement to achieve this?  Oh, I see.  So ‘economic patriotism’ is, in fact, just the same ol’ marxoblather that has been impoverishing millions since the 1840s.  Got it.”

LIVs don’t do that.  They don’t hear this guy

358599871_rachel_maddow_031009_300x296_answer_1_xlargeblathering on and hear propositions to be dissected and debated.  Instead, they hear “this person is an expert.  Look at those glasses!  Listen to those big words!  He must know what he’s talking about, because Rhodes Scholar.”

Because they themselves aren’t very good at it, garden variety liberals know how tough thinking is.  How time-consuming.  How boring.  To someone like George Lakoff, who is good at thinking, this difficulty is a feature, not a bug.  He teaches the notso-hotso reasoners among his disciples a technique for playing that up.  And it works.

Geraghty suggests a possible line of counterattack, a possible reframing of liberal frames:

A little while back, I talked about celebrities who are not closely identified with the Republican party or conservative movement, who can articulate a conservative approach to an issue, and enjoy widespread applause: Adam Carolla, HGTV host Nicole Curtis, CNN host/chef Anthony Bourdain, Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs,” Gene Simmons of KISS . . . They say what they think, directly, but they rarely if ever frame their arguments in terms of political philosophies.

Which argument is likely to be most effective?

A) School choice is a good idea because it is consistent with the conservative principles that the government that is closest to the people is most likely to make the best decisions, is most accountable for those decisions, and is easiest to correct those decisions.

B) School choice is a good idea because it is consistent with the libertarian principles that the power of the state should be limited and the power of the individual should be maximized.

C) School choice is a good idea because it puts decisions in the hands of parents, who know what is best for their children.

This is the way to do it.  Stealing another page from the liberal playbook, I’d highlight the speaker over the message.  Ok, maybe Gene Simmons isn’t the best spokesmodel, but Mike Rowe can certainly deliver simple, effective, timeless messages about independence and free choice.  He’s clearly a masculine guy, articulating, both consciously and subconsciously, the message that real men look after their families.  They don’t turn them over to the nanny state.

The first step is admitting that Lakoff was right.  The next step is to steal his idea and make it better.

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This Explains a LOT, Actually

Tim Blair, via Ace of Spades:

This is beautiful rhetoric.  It’s like boxing.  Here’s the jab — Blair quoting some puff piece on a climate activist agonistes —

Several experts suggest that the overall intersection of mental health and climate change is one we ignore at our peril.

then the crushing overhand right:

There’s a 100 per cent overlap for those particular Venn diagrams, that’s for damn sure.

Note that the following is from the puff piece:

“We can be very sure that many people in the field of climate change are distressed – highly distressed – and it can have a significant psychosocial impact on their wellbeing,” Burke said. “If you’re feeling stress, anger, guilt, anxiousness or hopelessness, it has effects on your life. Depression becomes a real risk.”

Yeah.  I think “highly distressed” covers it.  “Bugfuck insane, with a side order of Asperger’s” is what I’d call it, but then again, I’m not a shrink and don’t play one on teevee.

What…too harsh?  Then definitely don’t read Mr. Blair’s sendoff:

Are they self-harming yet? Because that would be awesome.

Squirty sez: "Oooh... burn!"

Squirty sez: “Oooh… burn!”

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Chick Pitchers

Yeah, I said "pitchers," but here's a great picture anyway

Yeah, I said “pitchers,” but here’s a great picture anyway

You may have heard of Mo’Ne* Davis, the girl pitcher from one of the teams in the Little League World Series.  She is, of course, the latest proof that anything you can do I can do better.  Standard Media You-Go-Girl Story #3.2.2(a4).

I’m sure she’s a sweet kid, which makes busting this particular rotten chestnut seem extra-mean, but c’mon, people.  Y’all do know that boys and girls mature at dramatically different rates, right?

Yes yes, fine, it’s all a social construction, but every sixth-grade class in the history of the world has been socially constructed in such a way that most of the girls tower over most of the boys.  Even if they’ve managed to overcome this cisgender patriarchalist bias in the posh Upper Manhattan academies where New Soviet Men are forged New York Times writers go to junior high, the “ohmigod their star player is a girl!” storyline has been a staple of kid-lit since the 19th century.  We’re supposed to be surprised by this?

But, as always, feel free to check my work.  Here’s my fearless prediction:  Mo’Ne Davis will kick ass in Little League for at most one more year, and then she’ll either a) discover softball, or b) drop sports entirely.  Either way, she’ll never be heard from again, because by the time she’s 15, she’ll still be throwing 65mph heat while the boys on the JV squad start hitting the mid 80s.  And that will be that.

That’s all the “Little League World Series” — which, for the record, I find both silly and offensive on any number of levels — really measures, anyway: The rates at which different tranches of kids mature.  There are exactly twenty four big leaguers who have played in the LLWS.  That’s in the entire history of baseball, mind you.  And that’s not because MLB guys are playing in some other, special, secret league as kids; they play Little League just like everyone else.  It’s just that lots of boys grow into their bodies sometime after the Little League years (11-13).  Why do you think those hyper-competitive Latin American and Asian countries are always trying to sneak 15 year olds in?

I’m glad for Mo’Ne* Davis, I guess.  I hope she has fun.  But no, Virginia, she’s not going to be the first girl drafted by a major league team, she’s not going to be mowing down batters in college, or even high school.  You know, because biology.

*[sic], I think.  I can’t keep this lunacy straight.

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An Alternate Theory: Gell-Mann Amnesia

UPDATE (8/19/14):  Take it from Stacy McCain, if not from me.  My sentiments exactly.

Ace thinks the Amazing Ever-Changing Narrative re: Michael Brown comes from leftist reporters (BIRM) treating their readers like children.

The media is writing their reports like Children’s Stories because they conceive of their audience as essentially children, whom you must protect from jarring facts which might teach “the wrong lessons.”

Allow me to suggest an alternate theory: It’s the lefty reporters themselves who are the children.

Have you heard of Gell-Mann Amnesia?  It’s a coinage of the late, great Michael Crichton:

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray [Gell-Mann’s] case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

We always forget that reporters are, as a group, incredibly stupid and woefully uninformed about basic stuff.  They’re not presenting big, complicated, messy stories as Aesop’s Fables because they’re afraid their readers will draw the “wrong” conclusions.  This is literally how they themselves understand the world.  Brown’s black, the cop’s white, what more is there to say?  If they could handle nuance and ambiguity, they wouldn’t think these

BvPX1U1IMAAPttBare rubber bullets.

It’s pretty simple: The left and the media (BIRM, of course) really really really wanted George Zimmerman’s white hispanic scalp last summer.  Or, failing that, a good old fashioned race riot; either one would distract from the ongoing implosion of the entire liberal project.  Or, ideally, both — Obama could give a few thousand more speeches, and they could cover those speeches, and pronounce them supra-Churchillian and uber-Lincolneque, and wouldn’t that be just swell?

But they didn’t get either, and they’re determined not to let another golden opportunity slip away.

That’s it.  They’re petty, petulant children who can’t even grasp the extent of their own ignorance.  But we can.  Don’t fall victim to Gell-Mann Amnesia.

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The F-Word, Again

If you don’t want to hear any more about it from me, there’s always science fiction author John C. Wright.

One thing Wright doesn’t emphasize (because he’s talking about theory, not practice) is the sense of belonging that gives both Fascism and Communism their appeal.  Marx wrote so convincingly about “alienation” because he was an omega male loser, writing to other omegas (it’s no accident that a communist lady once observed that “the leaves die wherever we go“).  Having the correct opinion about politics is literally the only thing these people have going for them, and they’d rather die than give it up (many of them did).

The same is true of National Socialism.  We’ve been so over-exposed to Hitler that it’s almost impossible to get a sense of this now, but try watching a special on the Third Reich with the sound off and your eyes half closed.  Turn off, if you can, the part of your brain that says “ah yes, this is the 1935 Party Rally” and just look at the images on the screen.  Doesn’t Nazism seem… cool?  Exciting?  Thrilling?  The boots, the drums, the flags, the torches… it’s a high school pep rally on speed and X and mescaline.  The doctrines have nothing to do with it.  You respond primally.  Which is why, if you’ll recall, leather-jacketed shop kids and study-hall Sartres alike scored pep rallies and all that rah rah bullshit… but they went all the same.  You know, just to make fun of all the squares who like it.

This is why no leftist can never be argued out his leftism.  Because Marx’s theories a) purport to be scientific, and b) are obviously crack-brained gibberish, conservatives have been “debating” leftists to no avail since the middle of the 19th century.  Leftoids are impervious to facts and reason, because facts and reason never had the first thing to do with anything.

And that’s why I think something like fascism is inevitable here.  Wright may or may not think so (I’d guess not), but he’s dead on the money with this:

Conservatism (ironically, considering the firm, clear, and abstract ideals of the movement) prides itself on practicality and the lack of an abstract ideology; since National Socialism likewise sought a pragmatic method of putting the Marxist program of heaven on earth into practice, both are distinct from the airy and ethereal intellectual carbon monoxide fumes which pass for ideals in the brains of the Left.

The veneer of practicality + the primal appeal of flags and badges and uniforms = widespread electoral appeal.  The only thing needed to complete the coup is culturally sanctioned hate, and oh boy have Our Betters, the liberals, prepared us beautifully for that.  I’ll quote Henry Hazlitt again:

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others.

Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weaknesses, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects — his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity. Never believe in the honesty or disinterestedness of anyone who disagrees with you.

This basic hatred is the heart of Marxism. This is its animating force. You can throw away the dialectical materialism, the Hegelian framework, the technical jargon, the ‘scientific’ analysis, and millions of pretentious words, and you still have the core: the implacable hatred and envy that are the raison d’être for all the rest.

Our Betters, as we well know, are functional illiterates who have never read their movement’s scriptures, but they’re past masters at aping Marx’s fundamental attitudes:

Ask a leftist what she’s for, and you’ll get a list of gassy bromides about “equality” and “justice.”

Ask her how that’s to be achieved, though, and the first words out of her mouth will be “first we have to stop / end / eliminate _____,” where the blank can be filled in with whatever you like.

Ask her how we’re to achieve that, and it will always boil down to people like her depriving people like you of something you have — guns, votes, money, speech, whatever.

Ask her, then, what happens when only the elect have guns, money, votes, and speech, and….. no answer.

And no answer.

And no answer, because there is no answer.  Like Marx, like Lenin, like Hitler, she has no idea what the socialist utopia could possibly look like.  Not because she lacks imagination, but because utopia never had anything to do with it.  The entire leftist project, from start to finish, is about nothing more than culturally-sanctioned hate.  I hate you because you have more, but as I am a Good Person, I don’t hate — only right wingers do that!  I only want to take away your money, your guns, your vote, your speech, your life for the greater good.  That it will satisfy me on a deep personal level to see you suffer is just a coincidence, I’m sure.

The American left’s biggest mistake of these last few decades is to assume that history’s arrow flies only in one direction.  What’s done can never be undone; there is only “progress;” the clock can never be turned back.  We will always have the leisure security and money money money to burn on “animal rights” and “gay marriage” and “pacifism.”  The only thing preventing free health care and Skittle-shitting unicorns for all is meanness.

What they don’t see is that they’ve sawed the branch out from under them with this nonsense.  They don’t see — probably can’t see — that in pushing all of this on us, they’ve alienated a very substantial fraction of the population.  They have openly declared themselves the enemies of straight white Christian males, not realizing that in doing so, they’ve given their enemies all the tools needed to organize against them.  As they of all people should know, he who controls the discourse controls the country.  Flip “hate” to “pragmatism,” and you’ll have fascism here in fairly short order.

Obamacare is a prime example.  Leftwingers may be idiots, but they’re not stupid.  They knew — and they now admit — that there will be death panels.  But trapped as they are in their illusion of “progress,” they really seem to believe that these will be administered on a case-by-case basis.  And not, say, disproportionally directed at a disfavored group.  Because that would be “hate,” right?

Except when it’s pragmatism. What happens when the money starts running out and the electorate starts noticing that a certain demographic practices a lifestyle that almost guarantees a long, very expensive demise?  And that this lifestyle by definition isn’t adding anymore suckers productive citizens to the tax base?

You know, hypothetically.

In short: A movement that openly, unabashedly promises to administer the all-encompassing nanny state for the benefit of [take your pick] whites / Christians / straights / the native-born but calls it pragmatism could clean up at the polls in a lot of jurisdictions right now.  Throw in a well-orchestrated social movement – a Red Guards, a Bund Deutscher Madel — and you’ve got American Fasicsm, in practice if not name.

And the left made it happen.

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Musings on Suicide

So, this story

broke today. Robin Williams, aged 63 and one of America’s most beloved actors, has committed suicide. Millions are heartbroken, he was a gifted actor, his fellow stars enjoyed working with him, we’ll all miss him…blah blah blah. The president even took time out of his busy schedule of golfing, fundraising, giving speeches, and otherwise ignoring America’s problems to get in a kind word or three.

Just great.

You know what this says to me? It says, “The fame, the fortune, the adulation of millions – it just wasn’t enough for me. I couldn’t kick my drug habit and stop feeling sorry for myself, so I threw my life away. Screw you, fans.”

He became bored with life and decided to off himself.

Did those words actually come out of Robin Williams’ mouth? No, but that’s precisely what’s being said by the act of killing himself.

It’s been less than 24 hours since his body was found, and already the Internet is abuzz with talk about what a great guy he was, what a tragedy this is, and so on and so forth. My Facebook feed is cluttered with people crying over it.

You know what? I’m going to go against the grain here. Screw that guy. Screw him. Screw Robin Williams. I don’t feel sorry for him and I’m not calling his death anything other than what it actually is – a waste.

And it’s the worst kind of waste – the self-inflicted kind. The guy at least $50 million, had a long string of high profile credits earned over a four-decade career in film and television, and the adulation of millions. It wasn’t enough, apparently. He’d spent most of his life battling drug and alcohol addiction – in and out of rehab – and when he couldn’t sack up and get over his issues, he decided death was the answer.

Is Robin Williams the first celebrity to have a drug problem? Certainly not – it seems like most of them have at one time or another. We all can come up with the names of those who died of overdoses, from Jimi Hendrix to Amy Winehouse and hundreds of others. But those people died in an accidental way. They made poor choices. So did Williams, but unlike the others, he actually sought death. He willfully and intentionally killed himself.

Williams is guilty of murder – the murder of self. He took life – a great gift, one being denied right now by evil men such as the blood-soaked terrorists plaguing Christian communities in Iraq. Denied 3,000 times/day in American abortion mills. And threw it away. He threw away not only life itself, but also the other gifts God had given him: acting talent in such quantity as to earn him $50 million (and that’s just what he still had at the end, not what he actually raked in over the years). He was an international acting sensation, a man millions upon millions of people wanted to meet, wanted to emulate, wanted to honor just because he’d done such a good job entertaining them.

Can you get your head around that? I’m having trouble with it, personally.

Suicide is a despicable, disgusting act – one of the most hateful and selfish things a person can do. No matter what kind of signs there were (or weren’t) there before, what kind of notes of explanation might be left behind, the bereaved will never feel like they have the answer to the two big questions – “Why did this happen?” and “Was there something I could have done to prevent this?”

Now, a friend on FB criticized me for my remarks. She said that while she agreed with me, that I was long on judgment and short on compassion for Mr Williams. You know what I said to her?

What can I say? Suicide angers and disgusts me. My uncle took a troubled youth into his home and showered him with kindness. The little punk repaid him by stealing his handgun, blowing his own head off, and leaving his body for my aunt to find.

And I’m watching my dad – who is about the same age as Williams – struggle with addiction to the same drugs, and depression – and go on and on about how life isn’t worth living – when he’s surrounded by people who love him, and more money than I’ve ever seen. So forgive me if I’m coming up short on “compassion” today.

Compassion is great, but I reserve it for people who’ve been dealt a bad hand in life – who suffer through no fault of their own – especially those who don’t lose their optimism and their faith in God despite that suffering. Those are the people who are truly worth our compassion. Right now, I’m feeling compassion toward Robin Williams’ wife and family and the fans of his movies, not the man himself.

I don’t have compassion for people who commit suicide. It’s a crime against God, who is our Creator and our Maker. He’s the one who formed us together in the womb and is willing to walk beside us all the days of our lives, no matter how good or bad it gets (Psalm 23 comes to mind here). Our bodies are not our own, but belong to our Creator (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Williams violated the covenant God has made with all men – to be born, to live, and to die on God’s timeline and according to His prerogative – not our own.

Robin Williams failed to place his faith, trust, and hope in our Lord, in Jesus, the one who promised He would be with us always, even to the end of the age. He destroyed the body God created for him. He willfully chose to use drugs and alcohol. He willfully chose not to use the resources available to him in such a way as to beat addiction for good.

So rest in peace, Robin Williams. And screw you.

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James Madison Bobblehead

James Madison was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States, and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Considered to be the “Father of the Constitution”, he was the principal author of the document. The first President to have served in the United States Congress, he drafted many basic laws and was responsible for the first ten amendments to the Constitution, and is thus known as the “Father of the Bill of Rights”.

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Little Tips and Thoughts

The blog has been a bit quiet lately as I've been working on assignments and my thesis. I can't believe that I'm having my last courses already! It feels like I just got to Uppsala to start my master. I guess soon is the time to start making a plan for what's gonna happen next, or perhaps no plan is better?

Saw this fun pic with Bill McKibben tweet on Facebook this morning. Wonder how much damage that hurricane Sandy will manage to make?

Little bit late but I do recomment this movie, Genetic Roulette, on GMO food, you can watch it here for free until Thursday.

And a last tip, I wrote about the Sustainergies cup a few days ago. I've been involved in the group starting up Sustainergies in Uppsala and next Tuesday we will organize a meeting and After-School get togheter if you are interested to know more about what Sustainergies do. All students from all different areas are welcome! Sustainability is not limited only to students in a certain science, on the contrary we need people in all areas. Link to the Facebook event. We're meeting at 18:00 in V-dala nation, unfortunately, I can probably not go myself but do go if you are a student in Uppsala!

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Galway Sightseeing Tours

The West is sure to be the highlight of your visit to Ireland and you will need time to explore its incredibly varied landscapes.

In Galway city you will find one of the single, most vibrant and dynamic cities in the country.

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Elsewhere, from the lake lands of Lough Mask, Lough Corrib and Lough Conn to the rugged beauty of the Aran Islands and the intricate coastline of Connemara , there is a unique charm and a sense of hospitality you will find nowhere else in Ireland.

Your visit to the West would not be complete without a visit to the extraordinary stone landscape of the Burrin and the awe-inspiring Cliffs of Moher towering over 230 meters over the Atlantic Ocean.

Guided Tours to all of the above places of interest are available on a daily basis.

With the exception of the Galway City Tour, you can book your tickets at Rusheen Bay House and the Tour Bus will collect you here at the house at 9.15am in the morning and will return you home to us in the evening at 5.00pm.

In order to assist you with your decision on which Tour would be of interest to you I will give you a brief synopsis of each area and outline the highlights of each one.....hope it helps!!!


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« on: January 12, 2016, 05:40:10 PM »
Our departure from the MidWest was delayed a few days, so on Sunday I accompanied several family members to the Ohio RV & Boat Show at the Expo in Columbus.

We had snow on the ground, and the wind chill was "bitter". Fortunately, the show was held indoors, primarily in 3 buildings (covered walkway between two of them, and catch a shuttle to the third). I'm glad I attended, but was not really impressed with the show. It appeared that there were no manufacturer representatives or manufacturer's RVs on hand, and the show was really put on by a couple of RV dealers and a couple of boat dealers.

Nevertheless, there was a decent showing of a variety of RV types, including Class A, B, C, travel trailers, fifthwheels, tent trailers, A-liners, teardrop trailers, and speciality RVs.

Vendors were virtually non-existent, except for a poor display by Camping World.

There were a few tire kickers, but overall few attendees. I suppose that, given the weather and the time of year, I wouldn't expect too many people in OH to be shopping for RVs.
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Sediakan asuransi pensiun anda mulai sekarang

Masa pensiun akan tenang, jika anda menyiapkan dana pensiun dengan baik

Asuransi itu tidak wajib tetapi sangat penting

Ketika sakit dijamin anda tidak dapat mengambil asuransi

Kami menyediakan solusi financial anda

Salah sau solusi financial dengan mengambil asuransi

In order for Paychecks Are Not Wasted, Follow These Ways

For workers, certainly no stranger to wait in monthly payday. Generally, payday time in Indonesia is done every 25th day for employees of private companies and 1st for civil servants (PNS).

Before the salary is received, usually we have prepared several lists (items) needs to be met, and plan to buy the goods that are desired.

Remember, quite often, people immediately spend their salary because it has long held back the desire to spend. “If not now when? Kan, have been waiting for a month! “As soon as these workers rationalize.

Then the routine shopping was done. This is exacerbated if it turns out the shopping is unplanned and uncontrolled. So all sorts are purchased, even though they are not needed. No doubt, the salary money was quickly depleted, the term passes just pass.

Well, things like this are not uncommon, especially among those who feel not to have responsibility alias still live alone. Of course this action is not something wise. Do not think only in the present moment, and throw away the reason while still single so that it can live as it wishes.

For what kind of life in the future will depend on how to manage life today, right? Of course, the current good financial arrangements will bring a bright future.

Then, how to get around the payday money so it does not run out easily and does not provide benefits and positive impact in the future? Check out tips on managing payday money in order to end up in vain:

1. Dampen the Unstoppable Shopping Wishes
Want to Shop
The desire to continue spending money should be suppressed

When the paycheck arrives and we have received the money, the thing that often happens is that we feel we have a lot of money at that time. Then, the unthinkable is to buy whatever is being desired while there is money.

Higher shopping desire is often not only offline shopping, but also online shopping is quite easy transactions, only once swiped with debit cards and credit cards, then purchased goods obtained.

But after awakening, it turns out your finances getting thin before the time. If you have this, no matter how big the salary would never be enough. Well, how to avoid getting used to such things?

Preferably priority needs priority, such as paying all kinds of compulsory bills each month such as vehicle loans, residential rental fees, purchase credit, and others. Separate this monthly mandatory expenditure budget, and the rest can be used to fulfill those shopping desires.

2. Make a Special Schedule for Shopping

Not only when there are important events in the workplace, hanging out with old friends, or other parties, who have a special schedule, but there’s nothing wrong we also have to make a separate schedule for shopping.

This can be done from afar and you have to first make a list of groceries what is needed and what the price range. Try to apply the rules that are a little tight like this, so we become a person who is more appreciative of money and more efficient certainly.

3. Select a Large and Complete Supermarket

When we are ready with a shopping list of goods to be purchased from far-away days, but when he arrived at the supermarket, it turns out there are some items that are not available, then what happens is to move to another supermarket.

Of course it will add to other expenses, right? We will incur more transportation costs for it. Not to mention this will take up more of our time than we should. Therefore, you should select a supermarket that is larger and more complete to meet the needs of the products we are looking for.

One more thing to know, in addition to large supermarkets that sell products in full, usually also provide promos such as discounts to spend their stock. Well, this will save more shopping, right?

4. Do not Shop When Stomach is Empty or Hungry

Yup, can not be denied, when the stomach is hungry, when looking at various food products in the supermarket, it would feel like to buy everything. I feel like eating this and that, everything!

Well, before shopping, it’s good our stomach is not empty. Make sure the stomach is full to avoid hungry eyes when in the supermarket. Because sometimes, often, when in the supermarket there are always things or food and drinks that suddenly want to buy when the stomach feels hungry.

5. Use a Small Shopping Cart

When using a large basket when shopping, as if purchased goods are still a little, when in fact already a lot. Of course this is different if we use a small basket, then the groceries that we buy will be enough.

Because after all, the size of the basket to put groceries before the payment at the checkout is enough to give our psychological effects. So, siasati shop with small baskets for groceries already seen a lot.

6. Buy Products in Big Packaging

Maybe when we buy things like groceries or toiletries in retail it feels light. But actually it actually makes more extravagant. For products with packaging will certainly be used up quickly.

Meanwhile, from the same type of product with larger or larger packaging, it can be used for a longer period of time. While the price if not too expensive when compared with small packaging when combined.

7. Use Credit Card When Shopping

Do not be afraid to use credit cards to pay for groceries. Because, usually merchants cooperation with banks issuing credit cards and provide discounts from certain products.

Well, who knows our shopping stuff that turned out to be much discounted for using the credit card. Fortunately, is not it?

So, there’s no reason to worry about using a credit card to pay for groceries. Because when we pay the bill later on time and paid in full, then no interest charged on our credit card bills.

8. Online Shopping Could Be a Choice

One more thing that can also be a consideration and choice in shopping for more efficient is to shop online. Of course we all know how easiness to shop online, in addition to saving energy and cost because it does not need to go out and go to the supermarket, but just sit sweet whenever and wherever it can get the product sought. The pay was not necessary to queue.

Moreover, many products are sold online, such as marketplace and others, ranging from daily necessities to durable goods such as electronics and more. In fact, the products offered online are also a lot of promos. We’ll be better off, right?

Shop Wisely and Make Saving Precisely
Monthly spending is something that must be done to meet the needs. However, try to shop wisely, by just buying the main needs or main that is needed. Do not forget to set aside buying goods that are just a wish. That way, not only targeted shopping, but also can make the maximum savings and our monthly salary money does not run out in vain.

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Klaserie River Safari Lodge
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Relax by the waterhole
Bush Dinner

Klaserie River Safari Lodge

The Klaserie River Safari Lodge is located in the heart of the African bushveld, just
20 minutes from the town of Hoedspruit in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
It forms part of the Jabulani Private Nature Reserve within the Kruger National Park
The Klaserie River flows through this reserve, with the riverine forest and Lodge
gardens providing sustenance and refuge to the Big Five (lion, leopard, elephant,
rhino and buffalo) along with a myriad of other wildlife including zebra, impala,
warthog, giraffe and more than 200 bird species.
In addition to providing sustenance
and refuge to guests from every
corner of the globe, the Klaserie River
Safari Lodge offers some of the most
spectacular wildlife viewing in the
Kruger-to-Canyon Biosphere, the third
largest biosphere region in the world.
We offer a supremely relaxing
experience with air-conditioned
chalets nestled among the indigenous
trees on the river bank, allowing every
guest to savour the tranquility of the
wilderness and to delight in the sights
and sounds of the African bush in
perfect safety and comfort.
Each chalet has its own wooden
veranda with spectacular views of
the river against the backdrop of
the Blyde Mountains.

South Africa

Kruger National Park excursions, guided walks, Riverfront accommodation, Near-by tourist hot-spots, elephant encounters, river cruise, cultural village, Big5 viewings, Jessica the Hippo, Hot-air-balloon trip, wildlife-rehabilitation projects, bush-front dining, local cuisine, and much more.

Need to Know

Any and all facilities and activities we offer are fully customizable to suit our clients needs and requirements! We take pride in making your dream experience come true.

From Safari Expeditions to sleeping arrangements to local wine-and-dining, we can cater for you!

The Klaserie River Safari Lodge provides a full range of safari packages to make the
most of your South African experience.
Whatever your choices – from trips in the Kruger National Park in our luxury airconditioned
bus to personal encounters with elephants, cheetahs or hippo – you will
go home with enough memories and stories to last a lifetime, or to come back for
Unlike other safari companies, the Klaserie River Safari Lodge takes pleasure
customizing adventures for our guests. Arranging your choice of accommodation,
transport and activities to make your African dream come true is our passion.
Please share your dreams with us, and we’ll do our utmost to turn them into reality.

Wildlife HighlightsWildlife Highlights

Not only will our guests be able to view "the big 5" from vehicles but the environment is inhabited by 100's of other bird, animal, and plant life aswell.

Local ActivitiesLocal Activities

The Klaserie River Safari Lodge embraces holistic eco-cultural tourism to conserve
the most important wilderness biosphere in the world and to protect the wildlife
which is endemic to the region.
Eco-cultural activities include:
• Wilderness walks, accompanied by experienced trackers
• Exploring the bush and viewing the Big Five from an open vehicle
• Taking a ride on the back of an elephant
• Sailing over the bushveld in a hot-air balloon
• Taking a boat trip on the Blyde River
• Visiting wildlife-conservation and rehabilitation projects
• Exploring cultural villages
• Visiting Jessica, Hoedspruit’s most famous hippo.
Our guests can also choose to be introduced to local communities and natural
heritage attractions, including visiting craft projects and sampling indigenous
cuisine. This will not only broaden your experience of Africa and create lasting
memories, but will help others to help themselves.

Other facilities
• A boma (open entertainment area) for al-fresco dining
• A main lounge area and indoor dining area
• Three swimming pools
• Two bars – fully licensed
• Four luxury chalets and seven standard chalets
• Conference facilities for small groups
• Free WiFi in all common areas and limited signal in chalets
• Mains electricity (220v/50hz)
• Secure parking.

The Klaserie River Safari Lodge hosts a maximum of 22 guests in 11 double chalets,
so that each can receive individual attention.
All chalets have beautiful views from timber verandas overlooking the Klaserie River.
The seven standard units offer a choice of twin or double beds, while the four
luxury units feature extra-length twin or king-size beds.
All rooms are air conditioned with en-suite bathrooms,
including a shower, toilet and basin. Mosquito nets are
provided for those who prefer to open their windows to
the fresh night air.
Every chalet has tea- and coffee-making facilities, a wellstocked
minibar and a safe. Hairdryers and international
adaptors are available from reception.
Families can be accommodated in adjacent chalets with a
shared veranda and inter-leading door.
Our rates include a continental breakfast and African-style
dinner – other meals can be arranged at additional cost.

The yearly average maximum temperature at the Klaserie River Safari Lodge is
28.6°C (83.5°F) and the yearly average minimum is 15.4°C (59.7°F).
The warmest months of the year are December, January and February, with an
average monthly maximum over 31°C (90°F) and a minimum of 20°C (68°F). The
coolest month of the year, July, registers an average maximum of 24.7°C (76.5°F)
and an average minimum of 9°C (48°F).
Hoedspruit normally receives about 410mm of rain per year, with most rainfall
occurring mainly during mid-summer. It receives the lowest rainfall (0mm) in July
and the highest (84mm) in December.

Average StayAverage Stay

Customized Itineraries for any individual with any requests,

Our specials include the 2, 5, and 7 day stay(s) at the lodge.

Dinner, bed and breakfast. which also incorporates "game-drives" to the Kruger National Park or Bush-walks.

All durations are catered for and can be adjusted to suit our clients needs and their pockets!

Average PriceAverage Room Prices

(per person per night unless otherwise stated)

Guests can expect to pay:

R 1 900.00 - R 2 500.00 ( pppn ) Dinner, bed, and breakfast. according to our 2016 pricelist.

(please note this price may vary with season)

Children PolicyChild Policy

Children under 13 years of age charged at 50%.

Contact and Social Media

To find out more, visit Klaserie River Safari Lodge's website.

To find out more call us on +44 (0)1865 982290 or email us at enquiries at safariawards.com.

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Saints Go 3-0 27 Mar 2017

Saints win again on the road

The Wellington Saints grinded out two tough road wins.

It was always going to be a tight affair between the Saints and the SIT Zerofees Sharks who faced each other for the first time since last season’s semi-final. Tonight, the result was similar to the 79-75 semi-final with the Saints edging the home side 88-86.

After trailing 84-75 with three and a half minutes to play, the Sharks made a late rally which saw the scores tied at 86 with under a minute remaining. Southland had a chance to take the lead but a turnover from the home side forced them to foul Leon Henry. Henry would miss both free throws as the Sharks quickly gathered the rebound and drove it up the floor. But they were unable to get a shot as Corey Webster stripped the ball and quickly threw it down the other end as Henry made amends with a dunk with 1.5 seconds left.

Sharks still had a chance to win or tie the game and after a timeout they elected to give it inside to Nick Kay who had took a contested baby hook on the baseline which went astray.

It was a result Head Coach Kevin Braswell will be pleased with after winning in Canterbury the night before and now making it three wins to start the season. Braswell relied heavily on his starters who all played at 32 minutes or more. Corey Webster scored a team high 22 and added six assists and five rebounds. Leon Henry had 21 points, Tai Wesley had 17 and Shea Ili nearly had a double-double of 13 points and nine assists.

Southland will be disappointed they could not build on their eight-point lead as they attacked the paint scoring 44 points thanks to the aggressive play of Reuben Te Rangi who had a game high 27. Point guard Mitch Norton and Kay each added 16. Coach Judd Flavell will take solace that they were without start player Alex Pledger.

Friday, March 24

At ILT Stadium, Invercargill

SIT Zerofees Sharks 86 (Reuben Te Rangi 27, Mitch Norton 16, Nick Kay 16)

Wellington Saints 88 (Corey Webster 22, Leon Henry 21, Tai Wesley 18)

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What's On?

Cigna Saints announce head coach after finals weekend 30 Jul 2018 - Cigna Saints announce head coach after finals weekend Paul Henare to succeed Kevin Braswell
Cigna Saints get two wins on the road 09 Jul 2018 - Cigna Saints get two wins on the road Double Match Report on our two road games
Cigna Saints survive in thriller with Rams 04 Jul 2018 - Cigna Saints survive in thriller with Rams The Cigna Saints have claimed their eleventh win
Cigna Saints beaten down South 22 Jun 2018 - Cigna Saints beaten down South The SIT Zerofees Sharks have again ended a Cigna Saints winning streak with a 98-86 win.

Points Table 2018

Cigna Saints 10 1 20
Nelson Giants 9 2 18
Southland Sharks 7 3 14
Hawkes Bay Hawks 6 5 12
Canterbury Rams 6 4 12
Taranaki Mountainairs 2 8 4
Supercity Rangers 1 10 2
Manawatu Jets 1 9 2

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Friday, March 23, 2018

Parliament passes Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill 2018

‘Gratuity’ ~ the dictionary meaning is :  a tip given to a waiter, taxi driver, etc. It also means :  sum of money paid to an employee at the end of a period of employment.  Every employee looks forward to peaceful retirement as they near the homebend !!

For topic of the day – it is about Employee benefit (social security !) .. ..  Gratuity is a benefit received by an employee for services rendered to an organisation. For companies covered under the Gratuity Act, this benefit is paid when an employee completes five or more years of service with the employer. The Gratuity Act applies to establishments employing 10 or more persons.  The primary objective of providing a gratuity scheme is to provide a retiring benefit to the workman who have rendered long and unblemished service to the employer and thereby contributed to the prosperity of the employer.

In Western Nations the concept of Social security is "any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income." Social security is enshrined in Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states: Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

In economic parlance, Gratuity is a defined benefit plan given by the employer to the employee parting for the services rendered.  In India, we have a statue - Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 - an Act to provide for a scheme for the payment of gratuity to employees engaged in factories, mines, oilfields, plantations, ports, railway companies, shops or other establishments and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. It was  enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-third Year of Republic of India and called  Payment of Grataity Act, 1972.

Section: 4 of the Act states :  Payment of gratuity. (1) Gratuity shall be payable to an employee on the termination of his employment after he has rendered continuous service for not less than five years, - (a) on his superannuation, or (b) on his retirement or resignation, or (c) on his death or disablement due to accident or disease: Provided that the completion of continuous service of five years shall not be necessary where the termination of the employment of any employee is due to death or disablement: Provided further that in the case of death of the employee, gratuity payable to him shall be paid to his nominee or, if no nomination has been made, to his heirs, and where any such nominees or heirs is a minor, the share of such minor, shall be deposited with the controlling authority who shall invest the same for the benefit of such minor in such bank or other financial institution, as may be prescribed, until such minor attains majority.

As per Section 4(1), the completion of continuous service of 5 years is not required where termination of employment is due to death or disablement. In such case mandatory gratuity is payable. Gratuity is paid at a rate of 15 days wages for every completed year of service or part thereof in excess of Six months. The wages here means wages last drawn by the employee. The "15 Days Wages" will be calculated by dividing the last drawn wages by 26 and multiplying the result with 15.

The good news for employees is that  Parliament has passed the Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill which will increase the ceiling of tax-free gratuity amount to Rs 20 lakh from Rs 10 lakh. Further, this will allow the government to increase the gratuity ceiling from time to time without amending the law.

The amendment bill is seen as a  long awaited change, much expected to bring private sector employees at par with their public sector counterparts as far as gratuity ceiling is concerned. The gratuity amendment act, once it comes into force after receiving Presidential assent and publication in the Official Gazette, would provide greater defined benefit advantage for employees as it is likely that income tax limits are increased as it has been the case in the past. The amendment also gives flexibility to the Government to extend the ceiling in the future by mere notification as opposed to the requirement of an amendment.

The amendment further  allows the government to fix the period of maternity leave for female employees as deemed to be in continuous service in place of the existing 12 weeks  enhancing the maximum maternity leave period to 26 weeks.

The enhancement in ceiling could mean  that  tax liability will be nil in respect of  any amount upto Rs.20 lakh as gratuity. After the Amendment bill comes to force, the government may raise the limit of Rs. 20 lakh further to increase the cap in gratuity amount as and when the need arises without having to change the law. Amount of gratuity is directly proportional to the tenure of service, and also to the last drawn salary.  According to the  formula, the time period of over six months or more is considered as one year.

Section: 13 of the Act categorically states that :  No gratuity payable under this Act and no gratuity payable to an employee employed in any establishment, factory, mine, oilfield, plantation, port, railway company or shop exempted under section shall be liable to attachment in execution of any decree or order of any civil, revenue or criminal court.

With regards – S. Sampathkumar
23rd Mar 2018.

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Agro Centre

Welcome to Saskatoon Co-op Agro Centre. Whether you come from the country or just have the country in your veins, we have the products and services you are looking for. From your back yard to your farm or ranch, no need is too big or too small.

Our Agro Centre is located at 1327 North Service Road Highway 16 W  (306) 933-3835
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Diamond Island - Bora Bora

Subsequent Kusto Home’s prominent Diamond Island Phase 1, a totally new lifestyle awaits. Diamond Island Phase 2 utilises the unique island location to bring to life a philosophy of healthy living for families of all generations.

In Phase 2, Kusto Home offers a friendlier and optimised unit layout to meet the demands of the ever-changing family unit. Following the success of Hawaii Tower, Kusto Homes will introduce the second tower – Bora Bora in November, 2016.

Diamond Island Property features:

Location     - Binh Trung Tay Street, District 2
- The only island within HCMC area
- Apart from the metropolitan hustle;
Developer     Kusto Home, a prestigious member of Kusto Group
Land area     - Diamond Island: 8 ha;
- Bora Bora Tower: 1,250 m².
Total units     261
Type of unit     1 - 3 bedroom, Pool Villas, Garden Villas & Sky Villas, ranging from 52 to 416 m²

- Community area totals 86.5% of the island’s land area; plentiful space for family activities and recreation;

- Other perfect resort style facilities such as river park, BBQ garden, meditation garden, outdoor library, spa, and mini golf and sports complex;
Water taxi and private yacht dock exclusive to island residents;

Status     Under construction
Handover condition     - Handover time: Q2/2018;
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Washington, DC—John Schlitt, president of the School-Based Health Alliance, issued the following statement today on the passage of the American Health Care Act (H.R. 1628) by the U.S. House of Representatives:

“Yesterday, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the dangerous and reckless American Health Care Act—a bill that widens the unjust gaps in health and education outcomes that low-income and minority children, adolescents, and families already experience every day. In addition to fundamentally dismantling Medicaid’s financing structure and ending the Medicaid expansion option for states, this bill does away with core components of the Affordable Care Act by making coverage unaffordable for those with pre-existing conditions and giving states the risky option to cut essential health benefits, such as mental health care, for vulnerable families.

Protecting Medicaid is critically important to the millions of low-income children and adolescents in this country who comprise nearly half of all Medicaid recipients. The restructuring of Medicaid from an entitlement system to a capped one threatens access to care and may even force state governments to cut eligibility and benefits that include comprehensive well-child visits and other services offered in our nation’s 2,315 school-based health centers.

Today, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), 95 percent of children in America have health coverage—an historic high. The American Health Care Act endangers this progress at a time when we must move forward for children, not backwards. We urge the Senate to be thoughtful and deliberative as they consider this bill and ensure that any future law does no harm to children and adolescents and their families.”

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Report Published: "Mexico Insurance Report Q3 2014"

New Financial Services research report from Business Monitor International is now available from Fast Market Research

Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/10/2014 -- The latest results of the leading insurance companies in Mexico, both in the non-life and in the life segment, confirm that the main trends are positive. Secular trends mean that volumes are growing in most lines and sub-sectors. Premiums are also being boosted by product innovation on the part of the leading players themselves. In general, pricing is disciplined: a number of the majors emphasised how they have reduced claims and expense ratios through 2013. The positive trends should continue through the forecast period. .
Both the non-life and the life segments are seen by leading multi-national insurance companies as opportunities which are too large or too rapidly expanding to ignore. In the swifter growing non-life segment, especially, it is possible to identify long-term trends which should support the growth in premiums. These include: the general expansion in financial services; the growth in consumerism and; initiatives to reduce the numbers of uninsured motor vehicles. Rapid expansion in private health spending through the forecast period should underpin strong growth in health insurance premiums. This is an opportunity for both the non-life and the life companies that are active in Mexico.

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Recent Developments

- Leading life insurers typically reported growth in premiums of around 10% in 2013.
- Life insurance and pensions appear to be rising in importance as conduits for organised savings.
- Qualitas continues to consolidate its leading position in the motor vehicle insurance sub-sector.
- In both major segments, particular companies have highlighted benefits from specific initiatives such as the buying-out of minority shareholders and the introduction of innovative new products.
- Many of the leading insurers commented on improvements of claims and cost ratios.
- Property & Casualty claims in 2013 were boosted by Hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel.

Key BMI Forecasts

- In 2014, total gross premiums should increase by 9.5% to US$27.1bn.
- Life premiums should rise by 6.2% to US$11.6bn.
- Non-Life premiums should grow by 12.0% to US$15.6bn.
- Within this sub-total, motor vehicle insurance premiums are likely to increase by 10.0% to US$5.8bn.
- Property insurance premiums should grow by 5.2% to US$1.0bn.

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A Scam Email with the Subject "Loan Offer!!!!" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 31 May 2011 15:55:05 -0700 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam. The sender was Barron Bill Loan Investment <>, although it may have been spoofed.

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Working with our partner Cycle Toronto we have tailored their popular Safe Cycling 101 Workshop to highlight the opportunities and challenges of cycling in suburban areas.

We will cover basic safety rules, the most enjoyable routes in Scarborough, how to correctly use a helmet and bike lights, how to make the most of your bicycle, and more!


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Scientific Games to gain Italian scratch card deal

NEW YORK, NY – Scientific Games Corporation, the worlds largest supplier of lottery tickets said this Friday that is among the lottery companies to receive a 9 year long instant ticket concession for lotteries in Italy.

The AAMS, Italy’s national lottery operator is in the process of awarding new 9 year lottery concession in the country as the current one is running out at the end of the month.

Scientific Games will be producing scratch off tickets in conjunction with Lottomatica, who earlier in the week said that they had no competition for the full lottery concession.

Scientific Games corporation recently announced that they had made a first quarter profit, helped by lower expenses and efficiency savings.

Published: May 14, 2010

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The High Hopes Choir

Tyrone Productions eye moisteningly inspirational documentary series ‘The High Hopes Choir’ struck a huge chord with audiences nationwide when it aired in December 2014.

The three part series follows David Brophy, former principal conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, as he embarks on his mission to form Ireland’s first homeless choir, to help change the public perception of what it means to be homeless in the process, as well as raising funds to support the services and facilities which play a vital part in ending the cycle of homelessness.

The choir went on to record a stirring cover version of Kodaline’s High Hopes after receiving advice from the likes of Bressie and Ed Sheeran, with the single made available for viewers to purchase on itunes and Google Play. 90 cent from each download was then split equally between Dublin Simon Community, Saint Vincent De Paul and Focus Ireland.

Directed by Paul Golding for Tyrone Productions, the incredible  Juangus Dinsmore edited the series here at Screen Scene, where Mark Fitzpatrick handled the sound mix, John O’Riordan supplied the graphics and Warren Dowling onlined. Elish Sheridan Supervised post production.


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That’s according to the earnings report released Thursday by parent company Seacoast Commerce Banc Holdings.

The bank earned nearly 28 percent of that yearly net income during the fourth quarter of 2016, in which it took in $1.9 million in net income, 18.4 percent more than the $1.6 million it earned in the prior year’s final quarter.

It was Seacoast’s 26th consecutive quarterly profit.

“We are pleased with our 2016 results, especially our record loan production, and maintaining our return on equity above our balance sheet growth, which creates excess capital, enabling us to pay dividends to our shareholder,” said Richard Sanborn, president and CEO.

Seacoast has full-service banking branches in San Diego and Chula Vista and production offices in the states of California, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Washington.


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We repair any brass or woodwind instrument. (flute,clarinet, oboe, english horn, bassoon, bass clarinet, saxophones, trumpet, trombone, baritone, tuba, susaphone) and many more..

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Sep 17, 2007

happy monday

i delayed leaving the house for this mornings' 7 miles.
was so convinced from mondays past, that monday runs suck.
i wasn't in any rush to get it started.
i love being wrong.
it couldn't have been more perfect.
7 fast, happy, zen miles.
sunny, chilly - long sleeves pulled over hands miles
that ended at the coffee shop to catch up with a friend.
warm coffee to take off the chill
and a walk home in the sun.
one more square crossed off the schedule.
one more day closer.
i've changed my mind.
monday runs don't suck.
a monday run can be bliss.

Anonymous said...

That makes me very happy for you.

Gotta Run said...

Now that is a perfect Monday morning run!! Can I join next week?

With a break in all this heat it gave me a renewed spirit on this past weekends runs. Just dreamy I tell ya!!

erin said...

it sounds perfect!

Vickie said...

Its always hard doing a semi-long run after a long run, but its what makes you stronger, and eventually you realize it! Aren't you glad the weather has cooled a little?

See Zanne Run said...

haha - that's exactly what happened. the sudden realization that it didn't suck. like - whoa! when did this get to be not so bad?! i think the weather definitely helps, too! totally dreamy.


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Pros and Cons of Using Visual Content for Your Promising Marketing Campaign

Marketing has always been an important aspect of any type of business. A few years back, business professionals didn’t have all of the luxury resources that we now possess. The uncontrollably fast technology breakthroughs have truly influenced the way in which marketers promote items and services.

Visual Content for Your Promising Marketing Campaign

Most of the marketing activities nowadays are performed within the online environment. Successful marketers have developed new strategies and approaches that no one has ever thought about a few years ago. As an example, content marketing strategies are extremely popular among online marketers in the present moment.

As the time is passing by, we can definitely notice a substantial growing number of marketing choices. The possibilities are becoming almost endless; we just need to have the courage to exploit what’s out there, and take advantage of all our current possibilities.

In order to create a promising marketing campaign, one has to possess the necessary knowledge first. Then, it’s all about the skills and the commitment the person develops. There are two types of marketing campaigns: free and paid. Neither one can guarantee success; that’s up to you!

There are also more ways in which a webmaster or an online marketer can develop his marketing strategies. Here are few of the options: content marketing, social media, search engine optimization, blogging, networking, and much more.

No matter what platform you choose in order to perform your marketing campaigns, you must understand and be able to create a professional campaign. That means that you must recognize and apply the elements that will successfully influence your efforts.

During today’s article, we’ll talk about the importance of visual content in any type of marketing campaign. We’ll also analyze the pros and cons while also offering you plenty of powerful tips and marketing insights.

The Role of Visual Content in a Marketing Campaign

Let’s start off with an interesting “did-you-know” type of question. So, did you know that 90% of the information which is perceived by our brains is actually visual?Now – considering the fact that a big percentage of the content which is posted online is text-based, you can surely link the importance of visual content to the potential success of a marketing campaign.

They also say that “a picture is worth a thousand words”, so what about an infographic…or a video? The marketplace’s tendencies tend to quickly move from one place to another. In the present moment, visual content is extremely important for any type of marketing campaign.

Here’s one more interesting fact: when individuals hear information, they’re most likely to retain around 10% of what they consumed three days later. If that information is paired with a visual element, the retention rate increases by 55%, therefore they’ll remember 65% of the information three days later.

So what are the most popular types of visual content nowadays?

  • Images (94% more total page views when an image is present in an article)
  • Infographics (excellent informational content which focuses on specific topics)
  • Videos (great for conveying more complicated messages, better marketing results)
  • Memes (a new trend, easy to create, conveys many messages at once)
  • Presentations (online presentations gain more traction than the offline ones)
  • Screenshots (usually used for offering a glimpse into a company’s inner environment)

Each of these options could be efficient alternatives for your future marketing campaigns. I’d suggest analyzing your business model and deciding upon few of these visual content types. Once you figure out which ones works best for your marketing campaigns, continue testing and optimizing until you reach the scale that you desire.

PROs of Visual Content in a Marketing Campaign

1. Concrete and Relevant Messages

Let’s take images as an example. When you include an image in your blog post, for example, that specific picture must totally convey your overall content message. You can use two or three of them, of course, but their main purpose is to convey what words can’t.

Videos, infographics, and presentations are more complex forms of visual content. They’re more modern, more efficient, and more specific than pictures are. If your text contains few of the previously mentioned visual contents, you can bet that your reader will understand more from your overall message.

2. More Backlinking Opportunities

Each of the visual elements that you choose to include in your content is going to be linked to individually. Considering this aspect, we can conclude that we can create more backlinking opportunities that will eventually positively alter our SEO efforts.

Whenever you include a visual content piece, it’s wise to link the source of creation. Even if they’re not your visual contents, linking to the website which first published it could push you towards a productive backlinking collaboration with that specific website. If it’s your content that you’re using, make sure that you create relevant inbound links.

3. Capturing Attention is Easier

Think about it; when you come across a content piece while scrolling on Facebook, which of its elements grabs more of your attention? Is it the title? The image? The video thumbnail? More than often, the answer is simple. It’s the visual content which attracts our eyes and motivates us to find out more.

If you are able to convey powerful messages through your visual content, you’ll have a lot of success with your marketing campaigns.

CONs of Visual Content in a Marketing Campaign

1.  Often Limited Lengths

An article can always be improved. You can edit and proofread it, modify the content according to your needs, and also increase the length of it. Visual content is quite different. When you create an image/infographic/video/presentation, the flexibility that you’re getting isn’t quite satisfactory.

The biggest problem with visual content is represented by a marketer’s ability to convey his message within reasonable time and dimension lengths. For example, extremely long infographics or quite long videos will often negatively influence your viewer’s attention.

2. Time Consuming

Creating visual content is often time-consuming. Like with any type of content, one must focus on the value that he’ll provide to the marketplace. Creating efficient videos, infographics, and pictures is more than often a time demanding activity.

Certain aspects may go wrong; therefore, you have to go back and start working again. Even though the creation part is time-consuming, the effort you dedicate will often prove to be profitable for your business.

3. Requires a few Skills or Outsourcing Budget

Some of us have really poor designing skills. We can’t just throw some bad visual content and expect marketing wonders. If you are willing to develop and then constantly improve your visual content creation skills, I’d suggest taking some courses, watching some videos, and reading a few books on the topic.

In case you’re not really interested in creating your own visual content and you’d rather pay someone to do it for you, start searching for freelancers or different content creation services. Either way, you must choose between these options!

It’s not false to assume that visual content can influence your marketing campaign in more positive ways rather than the opposite. Taking advantage of the contemporary statistics, you should definitely consider adopting new strategies of crafting your future marketing campaigns.

By using visual content, you’re making sure that the audience that you target will witness an appealing and promising place where they can consume valuable information. Don’t waste time…the marketplace is definitely going to change soon, so take advantage of what still works right now!

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Jessica Freeman

Jessica Freeman is passionate about content writing and journalism. She finds her calling in making others interested in topics of education, blogging, and marketing developments. Jessica often contributes her content writing pieces to Australian Writings company. Meet her on Facebook and Google+.

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