a person who conforms to accepted behaviour or established practices.
"organizations where employees are loyal without being unthinking conformists"
conforming to accepted behaviour or established practices; conventional.
"the poet became more conformist in his later years"
Today I walking to school, when I saw her... she looked so beautiful with her (h/c) (h/l) hair swaying with the wind, I realised I was staring at her and she looked at me, I quickly looked away and blushed.
I quickly made my way to the back of the school "Hey Pete, are you still in love with that conformist?" Michael said in front of everyone, I blushed like a mad man.
"I'm sorry that I have these feelings but I do" I said storming off.
I walked to class for the first time in a while, I didn't want to be with my friends at the moment, now I can look at (Y/n) in peace. I sat behind her, she looked over her shoulder and looked at me, she blushed and I did too.
For the rest of class, I was started at her shiny hair. My train of thought was interrupted by the bell, I got out of class "Hey Pete!" I heard a voice say, I look in the direction and it was (y/n) ... I blush.
She giggled "Did you know you're really cute when you blush and stutter.
"ok cool, I'll meet to at the park, at 4" she said and I nodded, she walked off and waved.
It was the end of school and I was really nervous, I was slowly walking to the park as I was entering, (y/n) was sitting on the bench. I quickly approached her, "Hey"
"Ummm...w-we could sit on the swings"
"Sure!" She ran to sit on the swings and I walked behind her, she sat on the swing and I sat on the swing beside her.
We were talking for so long that we didn't know what time it was, I never want this moment to end. (Y/n) looked at her phone and saw the time, "Shoot I have to go, it's my bed time soon but I had an awesome time" she said kissing my cheek, I froze and stared at her.
She started walking away, then without thinking I grabbed her hand and pulled her towards me, I grabbed her waist and gently kissed her. I felt her kiss back, it was a magical moment, I let go and realised what just happened.
"S-so sorry (y/n) I wasn't thinking a-..." I was cut off by her lips on mine, i enjoy the moment while it lasted.
"(y/n) even though you're a conformist... will you be my girlfriend?" I said, "of course" she said giggling.
My friends are going to kill me... l don't care I have the best girlfriend ever.


Living with a reflux baby isn't easy. At four months old Toby takes 1ml of medicine in a syringe three times a day. He also has Infant Gaviscon added to every bottle of milk as well as Dentinox Colic Drops (although I'm not entirely sure that they really do anything!). I don't like having to give him medication so regularly but for now it is just something we have to live with.
I know that we are very fortunate that Toby's illness is in no way life threatening and, if we are lucky, he should grow out of it fairly soon. That said, gastric reflux has not made the first few months of my little boy's life as smooth sailing as it could have been. Before Toby was diagnosed I found a lot of really useful information online and from reading about other people's experiences so I hope that by sharing our reflux story (so far) we might be able to help another baby who is struggling with the same problems.
We first thought something might be wrong when Toby was just a week or two old. As I have already written we had some trouble breastfeeding in the beginning and a lot of that was trying to get Toby to latch on properly. Instead of rooting and turning towards the breast he would actively turn away. I think the difficulties we had were a big contributing factor to why we ended up moving to formula feeding full time. Of course it's only with hindsight that I can link these difficulties to reflux.
The second major indicator that something wasn't right were the noises that Toby would make when he was lying in his crib, especially during the night. He would make all sorts of grunting and choking noises, keeping both himself and us awake. Sometimes he would be asleep but still making these noises. It was horrible hearing my baby sounding so distressed even though it didn't actually seem to be bothering him that much. I mentioned it to our health visitor but she just dismissed it as 'babies are just noisy'. Toby was still sleeping in our room at this point and I even resorted to wearing earplugs to try and get some sleep!
When Toby was about a month old I turned to Google to see what could be causing all these noises he was making. One of the possibilities that came up was reflux. I didn't really know much about reflux; a friend's daughter had suffered when she was a baby and remember her having to have Gaviscon in her milk but that was about the extent of my knowledge. It was also at this point that Toby started being sick a lot more. This coincided with our move to full time formula feeding meaning he was managing to eat a bit more in one sitting. This vomiting was something which was also dismissed as normal by the health visitor. I know babies often bring up some milk after feeding but Toby was bringing up virtually full feeds, sometimes straight away, sometimes half an hour or an hour later. I would put him down to sleep and then find when I checked on him that he had been sick over his shoulder – his clothes, hair and sheets would be soaked. And I was terrified that he wouldn't turn his head and would end up choking. His vomiting was so forceful that on one memorable occasion I sat him up to wind him and he was sick all the way up my dressing gown sleeve, managing to get it up past my elbow!
The more I read about reflux, the more convinced I was that I had found the cause of Toby's symptoms. Along with the vomiting and the noises, there were also continued difficulties feeding even after we had moved to bottles full time. Reflux is really another name for heartburn. It is quite common in babies as the muscle at the top of the stomach can be underdeveloped making it very easy for the contents to come back up into the babies throat and the acid from the stomach can be very painful for them. During and after feeding Toby would arch his back and scream in pain. It was just heartbreaking to watch. Even very young babies can quickly learn to associate feeding with the pain of reflux, but equally they know that feeding can help to alleviate the pain temporarily as the stomach contents are pushed back down. What this led to was a cycle of feeding on and off all day. Toby would take an ounce or two of formula then refuse to drink any more as he knew it would hurt him but then he would be hungry again half an hour later and this went on day and night. It was exhausting for both of us.
From reading online I found quite a lot of tips of things we could do to try and help Toby. We tried to feed him in a more upright position, keep him upright after feeding (it was recommended to keep him upright for half an hour, which is fine during the day but not so practical at three o'clock in the morning!) and to tilt his crib so gravity would help keep the milk down. We tried all these ideas. We used books to raise the head of his crib. In fact at one stage it was at such a steep angle that we had to tuck his blanket really tightly under his arms to stop him sliding down the crib and ending up in a heap at the bottom!
However, after a week or so of trying anything we could think of without seeing any improvement I took Toby to see our GP. I explained Toby's symptoms and, after checking it was nothing more serious, the doctor agreed it was reflux. I suppose it is quite difficult to diagnose reflux accurately in babies. Certainly when we were at the doctor Toby was happy and showed no sign of any discomfort. The doctor just had to go on what I told him. Anyway, the first step in treating reflux in babies is Infant Gaviscon. For formula fed babies this is added to the milk (it can be used for breastfed babies too but administering it can be a lot more tricky). Unlike the adult version Infant Gaviscon contains only a mild antacid. Its main function is to thicken the milk, making it easier for a baby to keep down and so reduce the symptoms that way.
So we started with the Gaviscon and we did see something of an improvement in Toby. He stopped being sick pretty much completely and he did seem a bit more comfortable but the night time noises and the back arching were still there. After a week I took Toby back to the doctor, this time armed with a video to show him exactly what was going on. I knew there were other medications that could be prescribed that I thought might help Toby further. But as Toby had stopped being sick and was still gaining weight the doctor just wanted us to continue with the Gaviscon.
Small amounts of vomit produced all the time – we would often see a little bit of milk come up into Toby's mouth which he would then swallow back down, causing burning from the stomach acid both on the way up and the way down again.
So you can see, this is quite a diverse list of symptoms but when I read it and so many of them applied to Toby I knew his reflux still wasn't under control and so we headed back to see the doctor again. This time we saw a trainee GP so I just went in, explained Toby's symptoms hadn't improved and asked to be prescribed ranitidine, an antacid that I knew was used to treat reflux in babies. Cue much confusion from the trainee as she checked her reference books – ranitidine isn't licensed for babies even though it is widely prescribed so she was struggling to work out the correct dosage. As it turned out is was a good job we have an observant and thorough pharmacist because she actually prescribed over ten times the correct dose! Luckily it was all sorted out and Toby started on his new medicine. And there was an almost immediate improvement. Within a week most of his symptoms had gone, he was feeding better and sleeping better. Within a couple of weeks we had him feeding roughly every three hours and sleeping through the night. It was amazing.
Since then we have had to increase the amount of ranitidine Toby was getting – the dosage is calculated on the babies weight so as they get bigger the dosage can need recalculating if symptoms start to reappear, Which brings us to today. Toby is largely free of the symptoms of reflux. Babies do usually grow out of it at some point but the only way to really tell is to reduce or remove the medication and see what happens. We have tried reducing his Gaviscon recently but he just starts being sick again. However, yesterday I forgot to give Toby his lunchtime ranitidine and he was absolutely fine all afternoon. So today I didn't give him that dose again and still no problems. So we are going to keep on with his morning and evening doses for now and see how it goes and if all is well then maybe we can start reducing those doses too.
If I had any advice for parents of baby suffering from reflux, or who they think might have reflux it would be to see your doctor as soon as you can and if the medication you are given doesn't seem to be working then go back until you get something that does. I know we were lucky in a way that the ranitidine worked, but if it hadn't I know there are other medications we could have tried. If I could go back I would have gone to the doctor much sooner and maybe tried to get the ranitidine earlier so then Toby would have felt better quicker. But at least he's doing OK now and I'm sure there won't be any lasting damage caused by his difficult early weeks.
Reflux does seem to be more common now but I wonder if that is because parents can do more research themselves online and so are more aware of it, and therefore it is being diagnosed more often rather than dismissed as colic or just a 'sicky baby'. Did your baby have reflux? Did you find it easy to get a diagnosis and appropriate treatment or was it a bit of a struggle? I would love to hear about the experiences of other parents in a similar situation to us – feel free to leave your comments.
If you want to read more about our experiences with living with reflux babies you can find more posts here.
This is such a great post, my first had reflux and I wish I had read something like this, I felt so confused at the time. He used to projectile vomit and bring up while feeds but we managed ok with just the gaviscon but it never really left until he was 1. It's looking like my twins are going the same way, they are 5 weeks and showing the signs. It was great to read this and refresh my memory about it all so I'm ready when I go the doctors! I'm glad you got sorted, it is so stressful when you don't know what's wrong. I'm glad I'm more prepared this time round.
Thanks for commenting. I had never really heard of reflux before so it took us a while to work out what was wrong. Toby's nearly 7 months now and we're starting to try and wean him off his meds – I guess we'll just have to see how it goes.
This is really interesting post. My first had reflux so bad that at 2days old she was hospitalised due to a choking fit. They diagnosed her with a weak valve and said it would get stronger as she grew. She regularly brought up the whole feed all over me. We propped her bed up at one end and slept her on her side. She spent most of the day upright. No-one ever mentioned medication to us. She grew out of it eventually..
Our new baby is a month old and showing signs of reflux, although less severe. It is great to know there are medicines available. Although it sounds like breastfeeding and the medication would be a right hassle!
Good for you being consistant. My friends GP was rotten. I had to force her to keep calling and going back. Our GP was lovely and we got ranitadine very quickly. They outgrow the dosages so fast though, it's a constant battle. Fingers crossed Toby grows out of it like Munch did.
It was so reassuring to read your story. And it's great to hear that things have improved enough with your little one to start weaning off the medication. We've just started our 20-week old on gaviscon. He's struggled with MASSIVE vomits since he was born even though a paediatrician initially told us it wasn't reflux because it wasn't after every feed. But here we are all these months later and he cries and arches his back during and after feeding, he doesn't sleep for more than a few hours and I'm constantly drenched from all the vomit. I'm sad to say that gaviscon hasn't made much of a difference. I'll take baby back to see the GP as I'm at the end of my tether.
I'm sorry to hear your little one is struggling. It's so hard to see them suffering and it can be really difficult to get the help you need. Toby eventually stopped all medication when he was two and a half (although his reflux was well controlled for a long time and now he's three he doesn't have any trouble at all. I hope things improve for you soon.
I have a premature baby he was 2 months old ( corrected age) when i found out that he has reflux a severe one.
We have tried everything seriously everything, different formulas and different medications, nothing worked at all. I have been to different doctors none of them did help they all kept saying be patient he is a premature baby, until i came a cross your story i was very determined to try the same medication I decided not to go to any doctor just do it, so i called my sister who's a doctor ( infection control) and asked her to get the ranitidine prescribed by one of the doctors and find out the dosge for me, also I ordered the gaviscon online from amazon as its not available where we live. I have been using it for the last three weeks and really really I can't express how much i am happy the symptoms have completely gone and my baby is happy and he sleeps all night. I really thank you so much for sharing your story it did really help us so much.


TRANSPORT police will have new powers from this summer to give on-the-spot fines to vandals and trespassers on Wilmslow's rail network.
TRANSPORT police will have new powers from this summer to give on-the-spot fines to vandals and trespassers on Wilmslow's rail network.
Louts caught throwing missiles at trains or walking on the track will be given a £40 fixed penalty, similar to a parking ticket.
The clampdown is part of a pilot scheme introduced by the Home Office which, if successful, could be used by all police officers to punish minor crimes.
A spokesman for British Transport Police welcomed the initiative.
"It is another tool in police officers armoury which will hopefully act as a deterrent," the spokesman said.
"The only problem I can see is that juveniles are responsible for most of the crimes committed on the railway but we are only permitted to use the fixed penalty on people aged 18 or over."
Like a speeding fine or parking ticket, offenders will be given the option of paying the fixed penalty or appealing against it in court.


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If you've graduated university with honours, earned an advanced degree or completed another type of certification that is considered to be a valuable qualification for the role you're pursuing, add the initials for these credentials to the top of the CV, just after your name. By placing this important information towards the top of your CV, you're ensuring that HR managers don't accidentally overlook this valuable selling point during their initial review of your CV.
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Now that you're no longer an entry-level professional, employers expect to see more than a list of tasks associated with each of your previous positions. Under each job title in your recent work history, create a short description that explains the management responsibilities you held whilst performing that role. Then, use bullet points to highlight your most relevant and noteworthy contributions. Quantify your work, wherever possible, to provide further context for the reader.
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Liam Hemsworth & Miley Cyrus Spend Valentine's siku On the Beach!
The engaged couple spent the siku enjoying a romantic walk along the beach, pwani kwa their house.
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"Intern's Log: New EP from Red Handed Denial"
A beleaguered point has been made by me in my past few entries: pop music is stale, and someone's got to save us. We need rock legends, stat! Contending (and frontrunners) for that honour are a band who has emerged from the burgeoning Torontonian hardcore music scene, an act that marries exceptional instrumental proficiency with extraordinary melodic range. They are Red Handed Denial, with their new offering, the new Eyes and Liquid Skies EP.
This is a band where every member is performing at the top of their game for the entire duration of the songs. No track allows a member to rest on their laurels while the others carry the song forward. If Red Handed Denial had a middle name, it would be Complexity. There are more tempo changes present on one track than some bands have on their entire albums. Guitar riffs fly wildly and then disappear, already having morphed into something new. Yet throughout all of this that core tenet of accessibility remains.
Think Paramore, but with talent. The tracks on here are visceral but laden heavily with melodic hooks made of titanium; none are easily forgotten in any respect. Drums thunder along and the band flirts with the hardest part of their sound without sacrificing musical sensibilities.
A particularly memorable moment is the standout track "Love Talks, but Action Walks", this EP's magnum opus. Simultaneously containing the EP's most obvious anthem-ready chorus and book-ended with a searing guitar solo, it's a six-minute dose of quote-ready lyrics and general face-melting action.
With all these intricate time signatures and meticulously planned vocal harmonies, there is little doubt that RHD will shoot to the top of Toronto's hardcore scene very soon. Once they've reached the top of that tower, they will have a view of the land they wish to conquer, and being equipped with such an arsenal, they'll be able to go wherever they wish.
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Borne from the dark recesses of suburbia and forged in the steel furnaces of Toronto, Red Handed Denial are entering a new era of rock fully loaded. Loaded of course being a metaphor for the cohesiveness and singular vision of the group. However unlike that metaphorical biscuit, they are not aiming to excite your tastebuds but rather your eardrums. It's a new day for the band, and after a long journey, it's a welcome renewal.
The first incarnation of the band formed in 2006. The name arose from one of the members being on vacation in Egypt and putting his hands in the Nile when the rust-like algae was blooming, and it turned his hands all red-- "Red Hand in Da Nile" was ameliorated into "Red Handed Denial".
A climactic case of mutiny culminated in a lightning filled duel atop a Latvian fortress rooftop where the original vocalist was defeated. The band then brought current singer Lauren on board.
It was during this time that the band honed their sound into what would soon define them. A streamlined chimera of wild guitar licks, off-the-cuff tempo changes, and pop accessibility; their craft was fiercely imbibed by the masses at such venues as the Opera House, the Reverb, the Kathedral, the Blue Moon, and the Jam Spot. When it came time to contain that fury on a recorded medium, they chose Canadian Idol alumnus and vocalist of Brighter Brightest, Derek Hoffman, to smelt together the impeccably precise 'Eyes and Liquid Skies' EP.
Listening to that EP, it's difficult to trace the lineage that birthed the band; it's not often that you hear adamantium-grade hooks alongside virtuoso performances normally ensconced in Professional Music Observatories. It's like a team of Tiger Moms coached the band for 17 hours a day. But instead of indulging in neverending solos, they put laser focus on melody. Think Hayley Williams plugged into a nuclear reactor.
A brief hiatus occurred when guitarist Levar left on a sabbatical of self-discovery and enlightenment, a journey that took him down the gilded walkways of MuchMusic. Driven by litres upon litres of Coca Cola, he created unforgettable covers that earned him third place in the running to win a coveted MMVA. He may or may not have met Tony Danza in the green room. He then returned to the band wiser and ready to paint his hands red yet again.
Missing now was a bassist, as the old one decided to pursue the art of Tattooism. Neil Jones then descended from the mystic ether. Having trained for generations in ancient temples, he solidified the line-up and the latest make of RHD was thusly completed, like a latter day Megazord or something.
With a new line-up comes a new sound. Sources close to the band indicate that they are pumping up the guitars to levels not known to mankind OR womankind. Apekind maybe, cuz they had a really hardcore band with huge guitars, but RHD will probably beat them too.
Now, Lauren, Levar, Chris, Steven and Neil embark on a new journey. A more mature sound is driving the new RHD bus.
Feverish whispers rustle through the leaves and branches and twigs- "Have you heard? There's a new album coming."

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South Belfast Alliance MLA Paula Bradshaw has called for an increased police presence in the Lower Ormeau and Holyland, following the persistence of incidents across these two areas over the last few weeks.
She said: "We know the PSNI increased their presence in the area for the first two weeks following students returning, however, while normal policing levels have resumed in late September, we have seen a continuation of negative behaviour, causing great concern for local residents.
"On Sunday evening, there was a mass brawl on the Ormeau Road and at the bottom of Jerusalem Street a car was burnt out. Then on Monday evening, a teenager was robbed at knifepoint. Add to this the great disruption to family life for so many right through the night as revellers return to their homes from the local bars, including causing damage to cars, fences and gates along the way.
"The level of anti-social behaviour has far exceeded young people having a bit of fun and is now firmly in the realms of criminality, and it is the PSNI has primary responsibility for dealing with this. I have written to the local area commander asking for an increased police presence there."
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Curse of the Spawn | Comics
In the furthest horrible future, where the forces of Hell has waged a war against the humans and running it for almost 50 years after taking total control over everything. The only few remaining amount of people are unorganized and being hunted down every day. This man hunting slaughter fest is pure entertainment source of an evil from Nuvatican City, only known as Anti-Pope who enjoyed the carnage around him and sets within Vatican City. In this hellish new world, a boy named Daniel Llanso grew up by her loving mother along with his sister Madrid. On the dark side of the moon, they were lived by their father in a trailer dome. One day when the boy had enough of his mother getting beat, he shot and killed his father on an instant at the age of only ten.
After this, he was sent on detention centers and many prisons as he grew up and he ended up on a sentence in prison upon murdering a miserable punk. However, he made a promise to his sister that he always kept up and that is to never give up on him. He then died in a set-up accident and discovers himself magically re-animated as he was drafted as a Hellspawn by one of the archon of Hell, Phlegethonyarre. Daniel returned to an Earth that is torn in the war of evil and engaged to save the mortal family he once had. Thus he met his sister and her son Matthew, while fighting the dilemma of being a monster and finding peace within. At some point, Al Simmons, Angel Abdiel, Angela, Jessica Priest, Sam and Twitch is also going to be part of Daniel's world.
For more information on Curse of the Spawn comics series, you can check out the link below.
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Here is your links for "Curse of the Spawn" comics from Image Comics.
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Curse of the Spawn, Book 1 – Sacrifice of the Soul
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Curse of the Spawn, Book 2 – Blood and Sutures
Curse of the Spawn, Book 3 – Shades of Gray
Curse of the Spawn, Book 4 – Lost Values
As a spin-off to the main Spawn series created by Todd McFarlane (Haunt, Image United), Curse of the Spawn is a monthly ongoing comic-book series that was introduced by Image Comics in 1996. Initially the series was plotted out by writer Alan McElroy and artists Dwayne Turner, Danny Miki, Todd Broeker and Clayton Crain (Ghost Rider – Road to Damnation, Ghost Rider – Trail of Tears) has laid their marks on this 29 issue-long ongoing series. Though the series is set in a distant timeline, it still features characters like Al Simmons, Angela, Malebolgia and The Freak from the mainstream Spawn ongoing series in later issues. Several storylines has taken from the series was later re-published as different graphic novel.
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Collapsed state housing in Iranian quake shows corruption: Rouhani
EghtesadOnline: The ease with which some state-built homes collapsed in Sunday's earthquake in western Iran showed corrupt practices when they were constructed, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday in a sentiment shared by many ordinary Iranians.
Some of the houses which collapsed in an earthquake that killed at least 530 people and injured thousands of others were built under an affordable housing scheme initiated in 2011 by Rouhani's predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"That a house built by (ordinary) people in the Sarpol-e Zahab region has remained standing while in front of it a government-built building has collapsed is a sign of corruption," Rouhani told a cabinet meeting, state media said.
"It's clear there has been corruption in construction contracts," Reuters quoted him as saying.
Sarpol-e Zahab is the town hardest hit by Sunday's 7.3 magnitude quake, the deadliest in Iran in more than a decade.
A picture widely circulated by ordinary Iranians on social media shows a building with relatively little damage in Sarpol-e Zahab next to a heavily damaged government-constructed building.
This has fueled speculation that shoddy construction in the building of government housing had led to a higher number of casualties from the earthquake.
Rouhani said on Tuesday that any shortcomings in government constructed buildings in the earthquake zone will be punished.
Mohammad Hossein Sadeghi, the prosecutor general in Kermanshah, the largest city in the earthquake zone, said on Wednesday that the quality of construction of new buildings that were heavily damaged would be investigated and charges may be brought against anyone deemed responsible.
"If there are any problems with the construction, the individuals who were negligent must answer for their deeds," Sadeghi said, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).
An arrest warrant has been issued for a contractor responsible for a recently built hospital which was heavily damaged in the town of Islamabad-e Gharb, parliamentarian Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said on Tuesday, according to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA).
Residents in the earthquake zone have also complained about the slow and inadequate government response as they struggle to find food, water and shelter.
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139 starters grouped thus: 21 riders as 1st category, 26 were 2nd category and 92 independent touristes-routiers. 48 classified finishers.
Ottavio Bottecchia was the first Italian to wear the Yellow Jersey. Henri Pélissier took the lead in the Alps and held it to Paris.
Time bonuses: 2 minutes to the stage winner.
Riders were allowed to fix their bikes with spare parts rather than repairing the broken item.
The Pélissier brothers Francis and Henri have a lighter moment during the 15th stage.
Not only have the roads changed over the last 70 years, the nature of the traffic is also very different.
Romain Bellenger takes stage 13. Look at the muddy roads, what a dangerous stretch for a sprint.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using AC.AvalonControlsLibrary.Controls;
using AC.AvalonControlsLibrary.Exception;

namespace AC.AvalonControlsLibrary.Core
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Helper class for dates
    /// </summary>
    public class DateHelper
    {
        //the list of months in a year
        public static readonly string[] Months = new string[]
        {
            "January",
            "February",
            "March",
            "April",
            "May",
            "June",
            "July",
            "August",
            "September",
            "October",
            "Novemeber",
            "December"
        };

        //caches the days in a dict where the key is the number of days
        //the key is a hash of month, year
        readonly Dictionary<KeyValuePair<int, int>, DayCell[]> daysArrays = new Dictionary<KeyValuePair<int, int>, DayCell[]>();

        /// <summary>
        /// Generates an array of days in a month
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="month">The month to get the days for </param>
        /// <param name="year">The year to get the days for </param>
        /// <param name="maxDate">The max date to generate enabled cells</param>
        /// <param name="minDate">The min date to generate enabled cells</param>
        /// <returns>Returns an int array full of days in a month</returns>
        public DayCell[] GetDaysOfMonth(int month, int year,
            DateTime minDate, DateTime maxDate)
        {
            KeyValuePair<int, int> key = new KeyValuePair<int, int>(month, year);
            int daysCount = DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month);

            DayCell[] days = null;

            if (daysArrays.ContainsKey(key))
            {
                days = daysArrays[key];
                foreach (DayCell item in days)
                    item.IsEnabled = IsDateWithinRange(minDate, maxDate, item);
            }
            else
            {
                days = new DayCell[daysCount];

                for (int i = 0; i < days.Length; i++)
                {
                    DayCell item = new DayCell(i + 1, month, year);
                    item.IsEnabled = IsDateWithinRange(minDate, maxDate, item);
                    days[i] = item;
                }

                daysArrays[key] = days;//cache the array
            }

            return days;
        }

        #region Helper Methods
        /// <summary>
        /// Checks if the specified date is greater than
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="minDate">The min date</param>
        /// <param name="maxDate">The max date</param>
        /// <param name="cell">The cell to check</param>
        /// <returns>Returns true if the cell is greater</returns>
        public static bool IsDateWithinRange(DateTime minDate, DateTime maxDate, DayCell cell)
        {
            long ticks = new DateTime(cell.YearNumber, cell.MonthNumber, cell.DayNumber).Ticks;
            return ticks >= minDate.Ticks && ticks <= maxDate.Ticks;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the day of week for a specific date
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="year">The year of the date</param>
        /// <param name="month">The month of the date</param>
        /// <param name="day">The day of the date</param>
        /// <returns>Returns the day of week</returns>
        public static DayOfWeek GetDayOfWeek(int year, int month, int day)
        {
            return new DateTime(year, month, day).DayOfWeek;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a string that represents the string for the current month
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="month">a number from 1 to 12</param>
        /// <returns>Returns the string that represents the month</returns>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentException">Thrown if the month number is less than 1 or greater than 12</exception>
        public static string GetMonthDisplayName(int month)
        {
            if (month < 1 || month > 12)
                throw new ArgumentException(ExceptionStrings.INVALID_MONTH_NUMBER, "month");

            return Months[month - 1];
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Moves one month forward
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="currentMonth">The current month</param>
        /// <param name="currentYear">The current year</param>
        /// <param name="monthToGetNext">The next month</param>
        /// <param name="yearTogetNext">The relative year for the new month</param>
        public static void MoveMonthForward(int currentMonth, int currentYear,
            out int monthToGetNext, out int yearTogetNext)
        {
            monthToGetNext = currentMonth;
            yearTogetNext = currentYear;
            if (monthToGetNext < 12)
                monthToGetNext++;
            else//move a year forward
            {
                yearTogetNext++;
                monthToGetNext = 1;
            }
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Move one month back
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="currentMonth">The current month</param>
        /// <param name="currentYear">The current year</param>
        /// <param name="monthToGetPrevious">The previous month</param>
        /// <param name="yearToGetPrevious">The relative year for the new month</param>
        public static void MoveMonthBack(int currentMonth, int currentYear,
            out int monthToGetPrevious, out int yearToGetPrevious)
        {
            monthToGetPrevious = currentMonth;
            yearToGetPrevious = currentYear;
            if (monthToGetPrevious > 1)
                monthToGetPrevious--;
            else // move one year down
            {
                yearToGetPrevious--;
                monthToGetPrevious = 12;
            }
        }
        #endregion
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Enum that specifies the list of months
    /// </summary>
    public enum Months
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// January
        /// </summary>
        January = 1,
        /// <summary>
        /// February
        /// </summary>
        February = 2,
        /// <summary>
        /// March
        /// </summary>
        March = 3,
        /// <summary>
        /// April
        /// </summary>
        April = 4,
        /// <summary>
        /// May
        /// </summary>
        May = 5,
        /// <summary>
        /// June
        /// </summary>
        June = 6,
        /// <summary>
        /// July
        /// </summary>
        July = 7,
        /// <summary>
        /// August
        /// </summary>
        August = 8,
        /// <summary>
        /// September
        /// </summary>
        September = 9,
        /// <summary>
        /// October
        /// </summary>
        October = 10,
        /// <summary>
        /// November
        /// </summary>
        November = 11,
        /// <summary>
        /// December
        /// </summary>
        December = 12
    }
}

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Don't slouch! Sit up straight!
Well, to be honest, I feel like saying that to lots of people each and every day.
It's not that I'm bossy (honest guv), but it actually saddens me when I see people sitting or standing with bad posture. Because I know what it's doing to them!
Lots of my clients tell me that they want to improve their posture with yoga. Good on them! I think we all have an intuitive sense that good posture helps us feel better all round.
I think this description gives a very real sense of the challenge and importance of good posture – it gives us something to focus on. Good posture is about your head!
"Think of your head as a bowling ball, big and round and heavy. When that ball is balanced directly over an erect spine it takes much less work for the neck and back muscles to support it than when it's held several inches forward, a common postural habit. The head-forward position can lead to back pain, and contribute to such problems as headaches, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and even fatigue." (Dr Timothy McCall, from Yoga as Medicine).
So if the head is jutting forward all that weight is pulling on the neck, which leads to rounded shoulders which means we lose the natural curves of our spine. The vertebrae in the spine aren't stacked above each other as they should be, putting strain on the spinal joints, and squishing the discs between the vertebrae.
No wonder back pain is so common!
And now that the spine is curving forwards and out of alignment, our muscles become imbalanced.
Are you sitting? Then bring your awareness to your abdomen and the muscles there. Do they feel like they're doing anything? Chances are, they're probably soft because they've switched off.
Our core muscles are like a corset around our abdomen – they're vital in maintaining stability in our body and our spine.
Prolonged poor posture means they get used to no longer doing the job required of them. They switch off and lose their tone.
Now, I don't want to hear any "I haven't got any muscles there anymore!". They're still there. They may have not been used in a while, but those deep core muscles are there and we can activate them in yoga.
Think about your innards for a moment! If you're slumped forwards, you're compressing your digestive system – particularly your stomach. Not a nice feeling after eating a big meal!
And being constantly compressed is not great for your internal organs at any time of the day. Lift yourself up and give them space.
As well as your stomach, your lungs are compressed if you're slumped forward.
Try this now. Collapse forwards slightly – so your shoulders are rounded. Try and take a deep breath. Can you. How does it feel? Now lift your breastbone and sit tall – take another deep breath. Feels much easier doesn't it?
And if you're not breathing well you're not getting enough oxygen into your body nor are you breathing out all the toxins. And in yogic terms, you're unable to take in Prana – or, life force – well.
Your energy levels plummet as stagnant energy gets stuck in your body.
Rounded shoulders tends to make your chin jut forward – putting all sorts of strain on the vertebrae in your neck, leading to stiffness and/or pain as well as tension headaches and a clenched jaw.
Think of holding that bowling ball of a head in balance on top of your head instead.
And on a more subtle, but none-the-less very real, way, poor posture affects our emotions and our moods.
As we've seen poor posture leads to physical discomfort which will impact on our mood negatively because we're daily having to cope with aches and pains.
Even more subtly, poor posture impacts on our energy centres. Rounded shoulders mean we're obscuring our heart energy centre. We're closing down our connection to our self and others. We're constantly in a position of defence against the perception of attack.
And this is transmitted to others in ways we probably don't realize. Standing with poor posture is not giving off an aura of confidence or contentment to yourself or to others.
Sitting or standing tall (no matter your height!) can change your mood, your self-confidence and the way others perceive you.
Now, you may be thinking "that's all very well, but you're a yoga teacher, you're bound to have good posture" Well, as a teenager and into my twenties I slouched. I tried to hide my height and this meant I was dimming my light! I didn't feel confident and people often told me I was shy.
Now I stand upright and feel so much better for it on every level of my being.
Good posture aims to maintain the natural curves of the spine.
Engage your core muscles i.e. the lower abdomen, slightly. Enough so you can feel a slight tension there but you can breathe easily and the tension doesn't spread to other parts of your body.
As you breathe in, feel your spine is lengthening upwards.
Lift your shoulders up towards your ears and then gently roll them back and down.
Bring your awareness to your breastbone and feel as if you're lifting from there. That's the key to good posture: lifting from the breastbone.
Breathe, feel you're lifting up through your spine. Relax your jaw. Relax your shoulders.
Then please leave a comment below then use the icons below to tweet this post, like it on Facebook or send it to friends via email … and spread the yoga love!
I'm Stella Tomlinson and I teach slow, flowing Dru yoga in Southampton & Eastleigh (Hampshire, UK) to improve posture, flexibility, spinal health … and to help people improve their posture.
Dru yoga is characterised by graceful movements, directed breathing, relaxation techniques and working with affirmations and visualisations.
If you'd like inspirations, tips and reflections on well-being and yoga once a fortnight, then sign up for my newsletter.
Wishing you much good health and happiness!


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Gutenberg appoints Christina Daniels as Director of Content for India
Gutenberg, the global integrated communications agency, providing Digital, Content, Video and Public Relations services today announced that Christina Daniels has joined the company as Director of Content for India.
Harjiv Singh, Founder & CEO, Gutenberg, said, "I am pleased to welcome Christina in our leadership team. We have taken our time to find the right content leader, whose understanding of the communication business is phenomenal. Christina will be responsible for conceptualising and executing cutting-edge content that speaks to a global audience. The diversity of her experience and the depth of her talent will be key in driving the creative transformation at Gutenberg."
Christina brings an experience of 15 years in the field of corporate story telling. In past, she has been associated with several leading technology, retail and media brands - creating compelling sories that help them communicate powerfully. Christina is also the author of the bestseller "I'll Do It My Way: The Incredible Journey of Aamir Khan", a filmography that studies the work of the actor Aamir Khan, which was long listed for the Crossword Book Award, and now has a Turkish edition.
Prior to joining Gutenberg, Christina held the position of Marcom Manager at CGI. She led marcom content development at the Global Communications Center in India. Before this, Christina was also associated with organizations such as Microsoft, Metro Cash & Carry, Dell Services, Wipro Technologies, IBM and STAR, to name a few. "It is an honour to have been associated with Gutenberg, where story telling is at the core of the organization's approach. By working on content strategy and building out capabilities across the country, we will be able to provide brands with other engaging ways to connect with consumers. Working with the talent at Gutenberg, I believe sky is the limit", said Christina Daniels, Director (Content), Gutenberg.
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Holocaust denial is now banned on Facebook
Jewish groups have pushed for this for years.
By Matt Binder on October 12, 2020
> Tech > Tech Industry
Facebook is expanding its recent crackdown on dangerous conspiracy theories to include Holocaust denial.
On Monday, Facebook announced that it would update its hate speech policies in order to "prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust."
The move comes after years of pressure from Jewish groups and organizations that track hate. Facebook cited recent surges in anti-Semitism around the world (and on its own platform) as the reason for this policy change.
The social network highlighted a concerning new survey that found that a quarter of adults in the U.S. between the ages of 18 and 39 "believed the Holocaust was a myth, that it had been exaggerated, or they weren't sure."
Facebook's move was lauded by some groups that have been working with the company on combating hate speech on the platform.
"By taking the critical step to remove Holocaust denial content, Facebook is showing that it recognizes Holocaust denial for what it truly is — a form of anti-Semitism and therefore hate speech," said Ronald Lauder, president of World Jewish Congress, in a statement. "Denying the Holocaust, trivializing it, minimizing it, is a tool used to spread hatred and false conspiracies about Jews and other minorities. Today's announcement sends a strong message that Facebook will not allow its platform to be misused to promote hate."
World Jewish Congress' statement notes that the organization, which says it represents Jewish communities in 100 countries, has pushed for Facebook to remove Holocaust denial from its platform for years.
Facebook has taken a much stronger stance on hate speech and harmful conspiracy theories in recent months.
The company prohibited violent groups, such as some U.S.-based militia organizations, from its platform in August. Just last week, Facebook banned pages and groups pushing the QAnon conspiracy. The social media platform also expanded its hate speech policies earlier this summer to ban blackface and some Jewish stereotypes, but until today, Holocaust denial content wasn't prohibited.
Oftentimes, these policy moves are an about-face from Facebook's earlier public stance. When it comes to Holocaust denial specifically, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously defended the company's decision to allow that type of content on its platform.
"I find that deeply offensive," Zuckerberg said when asked about Holocaust denial on Facebook in a 2018 interview with Vox. "But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong."
While the new policy on Holocaust denial is in effect, Facebook says it will take some time to train its content reviewers and automated systems to act on the new ban.
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You are here Polish Aid / Knowledge Base / Repository of projects / "Huduma ya Kwanza" Volunteer First Aid and Health Education for the citizens of Kiabakari and Kukirango community.
"Huduma ya Kwanza" Volunteer First Aid and Health Education for the citizens of Kiabakari and Kukirango community.
The project was implemented between 18 June and 31 December 2012 in Kiabakari and the province of Kukirango in Tanzania, and counted with participation of two volunteers who stayed there from 1 July to 25 December 2012. The coordinator of the project was the Kiabakari Foundation, and the local partner was the Kiabakari Catholic Parish, Diocese of Musoma.
The project aimed at improving health condition of the beneficiaries of the project: residents of Kukirango province.
As part of the project, the volunteers worked in the health centre, carried out first aid trainings for teachers, students and local residents, and conducted educational activities with children covering healthy eating habits and first aid. 300 copies of brochures on first aid were published and distributed among the project beneficiaries. All schools of the province were supplied with first aid kits.
Throughout the duration of the project, the volunteers attended 30-40 patients daily in the health centre. They also worked in the walk-in clinic, gave out medicines and helped with updating medical documentation.
As a result of the project, the health condition of Kukirango residents improved, and their knowledge about health related issues increased noticeably. 164 teachers working in 12 state schools and Kiabakari Mission's school and kindergarten were trained. 7,000 students received training as well.
To conclude the project, the volunteers organised a health and first aid fair, and made a film presenting all the project activities.


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March 5, 2017 By Free Williamsburg
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Our Rating: RAVE
A wonderful, atmospheric Mexican diner at the end of Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. Start with the fresh tortilla chips and guacamole and move on to the Carnitas (roasted pork) or Chorizo (spicy sausage) Tacos. Portions are huge, so be sure not to over-order. One bite and you'll be transported to a bustling counter joint in Mexico City. The Tortas — the Mexican version of a sandwich – are stellar as well. It doesn't get any more authentic than Acapulco.
The enormous signboard menu behind the counter carries both Mexican and American basics from soft tacos to tuna melts with fries. A few surprises include tacos cecina, a sort of Spanish beef jerky with cilantro, onions and white sauce in a soft corn tortilla, and the Crunch French Toast made with thick fluffy slices of challah dredged in batter and coated in crushed corn flakes. The food's not San Diego quality, but nothing comes out too badly and it's all exceedingly cheap.
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Now That's What I Call Music! 53 is the 53rd edition of the Now! series in the United States. It was released on February 3, 2015. It features 21 tracks including the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit "Uptown Funk".

Now 53 debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart with 99,000 copies sold in its first week. As of July 2015, the compilation has sold 451,000 copies. It became the first album in history to miss the top position of the Billboard 200 despite being the best-selling album of the week.

Track listing

Reception

According to Andy Kellman of AllMusic, the number-one song, "Uptown Funk", leads the way in this compilation of hits from late 2014/early 2015 "followed by a succession of singles that fared either nearly or just as well."

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

2015 compilation albums
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The City of Lafayette Parks & Recreation Parks Board approved a $4.2M Master Plan for upgrades to Columbian Park's Memorial Island. The plan includes improvements to the stage and promenade areas, as well as a revitalized entry from Scott Street and a new boardwalk along the lagoon. Additionally, improvements are planned to the memorial areas to provide private spaces to celebrate and honor the region's veterans. The Parks Department hopes to encourage year round use of the site with these renovations and upgrades. The Lafayette Journal & Courier and WBAA have more on the announcement.


Taking better care of your eyes can help with your total health. When you take steps to take care of your eyes, you have a great chance of seeing and living well for many years.
The National Eye Institute offers these simple tips to help you keep your eyes healthy and happy.
Eating fruits and vegetables is good for your body and your eyes. A study found that eating fruits and dark leafy greens such as spinach, kale or collard greens can help keep your eyes healthy. Fish – such as salmon, tuna and halibut – is also good for your eyes.
Being overweight puts you at higher risk of getting diabetes. People with diabetes have a higher risk of having serious eye problems. If you need help losing weight, talk to your doctor.
Eye problems aren't just caused by disease. About 2,000 U.S. workers have a job-related eye injury that requires medical treatment each day, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And according to Prevent Blindness America®, accidents involving common household products cause 125,000 eye injuries each year. Wearing something to protect your eyes when you play sports or work with tools or chemicals can help you stay safe.
Smoking is bad for your health and your eyes. A report from the Surgeon General of the United States found that smoking can lead to eye disease.
Rays from the sun can damage your eyes and lead to blindness. Always wear sunglasses when outside. Sunglasses aren't just for summer. Wear them in the winter to block the glare from ice and snow. When choosing sunglasses, find a pair that blocks 99 to 100 percent of both UV-A and UV-B rays.
If you wear contact lenses, make sure you wash your hands before putting them in or taking them out. Also, be sure to clean your contacts as directed. Replace them as often as your doctor says. Following these simple steps can help protect your eyes from infections.
Check for sharp corners on furniture or other items. Either remove the items or cover the sharp edges.
Make sure toys in the house are right for your child's age. Keep toys with sharp edges and shooting parts away from any young children.
Have your child wash his or her hands often.
If you take care of your eyes now, you will have a great chance of having healthy eyes for life!


I am just about to sell my three Tascam units (144, 234, 414) on Ebay and have scanned and uploaded all documents associated with them. Feel free to wander around inside: http://www.mediafire.com/?5xdivf95pgb57 and download whatever takes your fancy. There is some info on a few other audio items apart from the Tascams, such as the dBx 117, and what I consider one of the most comprehensive and thorough reviews of mid-range microphones ever done (Mammoth Microphone Review). Not forgetting the best guide to multitrack recording ever written (TEAC Multitrack Primer).


The best thing is watching her leave!
How long does one let oneself flounder in this despair? Letting reaction be the norm?
Don't believe everything that you think!
When I'm feeling exhaustipated (my new favourite word) – the horrors that step through my thinking door!
At night I lay in a heap, mind turning. Trying to find justifications to cancel the next day.


When describing objects in telling a story, should the objects be referred to in past tense or present tense, if the effects of the story still hold true on them? Since it is a story it should be in past tense but if the objects remain the same to the present time from the story it should be present tense. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it poor grammar to mix past and present tense in a sentence?
I thought of this when writing the following: I just bought something from the deli at the grocery store and was surprised my receipt had one number.
Should it be had or has? I still have the receipt and it still has one number. A simpler example is "The man walked into a room that had red walls." vs "The man walked into a room with red walls". Assuming the walls are still red upon the telling of this story, which is correct?
Furthermore, I notice when people are unsure if something is untrue they tend to use the past tense. For example if there had been a car crash and someone observed the backed up traffic but left the scene before they saw the traffic resume to normal flow, they would say There was a car crash and traffic was backed up. I'm not sure if it is flowing again. Is common to speak of things in the past tense when unsure, for example why not replace was with is or is either acceptable?
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. . . I was surprised my receipt had one number.
The events you are describing are in the past, both your being surprised and your noting the characteristics of the receipt. In fact, it is possible you have destroyed the receipt, and it no longer has one number.
There was a car crash, traffic was backed up, and it still is.
In the context of your sentence you are describing not the state of the receipt or the walls but the state of mind of the subject, so past tense is correct.
In your traffic example it is not the certainty that dictates the tense. The sentence correctly using the current tense when discussing your current belief and the past tense when discussing the past observations upon which it is based.
By default the verbs in a narrative about the past will be in a past tense. Clearly, this must be so for action verbs: I bought, the man walked, etc. But the same is true for stative verbs: the receipt had, the walls were, the traffic was, etc.
I visited a shop yesterday which has red walls. You really must go see it.
I got a receipt that only has one number. Here, take a look.
I had a call from Mary last night. She seems really distraught.
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I vaguely remember my first class. I have no recollection of the first class I taught. I clearly remember my first class in Japan. I can tell you the date, and approximate time, but not the exact State I was in when I kissed my wife for the first time 31 years ago!
Some things are more life changing than others.
My first class as a student: 1986, a church hall in Hove, Sussex, UK, on summer leave from a brief spell in the army. Rolling on hard parquet floor, up and down the hall, everyone in outdoor tabi, Japanese, not the copies that flooded the market later. Techniques that I would later know as oni kudaki and musha dori with my overly compliant best mate who had found the club, known at the time as Bujinkan South Coast. Standing in jumonji and being kicked with zempo geri at the point where the arms cross and then doing it back to my partner, up and down the hall. My first experience of jodan uke, failing again and again to hit the incoming arm, flailing wide of the mark every time.
My first teaching experience of running my own class? In about one month's time! It will not be a memory as such, as it will be very fresh, but I can report back if anyone is interested. I am setting it up to get more training for myself, rather than from any strong desire to teach (see another current thread on this topic).
My first exposure ever to actual training was at Chris Weakley's dojo in Columbus GA back in 1989 or '90. I was new to the area and remember looking through the window of the first 'Ninja dojo' I had ever seen. I didn't expect it to be legit, but then I saw the pictures on the wall of heroes I had only read about, Stephen Hayes, Bud Malmstrom, Jack Hoban...and of course Masaaki Hatsumi! I couldn't believe it was the real thing, practically across the street from where we were staying!
The first class was very relaxed and upbeat, and I liked Mr. Weakley right away. We started with some ukemi and then worked on some form of muso dori coming from a rear shoulder grab, and then a simple (?) sword-evasion exercise. I knew from the first beat that if I was ever going to study martial arts, this was it. It was one of those rare times when the reality exceeded my hopes and expectations. I didn't realize until then that there were instructors elsewhere in the US than Dayton OH! I often regret not having written to the Shadows of Iga when I was younger and reading the Hayes books for the first time, as it turns out there was one for a while on Cape Cod where I grew up.
Then again, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear, and all that.
I didn't live in GA for long enough to settle in as one of Chris' regular students, but have very fond memories of the times I trained with him. A couple of years later, back in Boston, I met my current and true instructor, and the rest is my own little personal history.
EDIT: Sorry, I realize now that this question was intended for Shidoshi. I am not a teacher or Shidoshi myself.
Oops sorry, I am not a shidoshi either, apologies for posting.
No no no, don't apologize. I should retract my first statement partially, I think hearing about everyone's beginning is great stuff that we should all share, I was just particularly interested in those who teach now. More so because so of the fundamentals I try to train my Soldiers on when handling their weapons (balance, angling etc..).
I apologize, I ask a question and didn't even explain myself first! My first class, back in summer of 2009 in the garage of my current Shidoshi. The most vivid thing I remember is that I caught a shuto to the neck and was nearly knocked unconscious within the first 5 minutes. Took me a couple minutes for it to register "This guy really f***ing hit me!" A few techniques later and also being corrected on how I stand, being unbalanced etc...I knew it was the real deal after the first class.
I was hooked immediately, driving 1.5 hours every week to class, went to Japan in 2010 as Nana Kyu (used my free R&R leave while deployed to Afghanistan for the free plane ticket), there I trained with Nagato, Noguchi, Seno, several Gaijin Shihan and of course Soke.
What a ride it has been, and I'm loving every minute of it!
Jarod, my first class was when our karate teacher went to a ninjutsu seminar and came back to show what had been taught. All of us saw how much more effective and 'real' ninjutsu was than the karate we had been doing and so the whole class switched to ninjutsu. Our teacher of course knew no more then we and so it was a few years of trial and error training while bringing in sho-dan level instructors to teach us. That was in 1983 and almost no one had skills in the US. We struggled along this was until 1987 when our instructor met Charles Daniel, he started to give us seminars about twice a year and finally we started to learn. That also started my trips to Japan. There were no questions about the effectiveness of this art!!!
I first began to teach in 1989 after Sensei had made me shidoshi-ho and it was more just a training group with all of us learning together. Teaching this art is a journey in itself if you do it right and by that I mean if you focus is on the student. It is very easy to let yourself fall into the trap of "look what I can do", or "I can kick your a**", letting your ego take over. That happens to many and in EVERY case it is a big mistake. The focus must always be on the growth of yourself and of those you teach.
My first class was with Peter King (who is still my teacher) way back in late 1987. Doron was at the club that night, i think he had done a course at the weekend. Peter suggested I come a watch for a couple of weeks and I started after that.
The first time I saw Soke was at the first UK Tai Kai that Peter organised and we all helped out at. Soke just blew me out of the water, as he still continues to do to this day.
My first trip was to Japan in 1990, for the DKMS that was held at Ishizuka Sensei's dojo in Kashiwa. Anyone remember that one?
You couldn't be more correct, the ego problem is something I encounter often as there are many self-proclaimed MMA practitioners in my area (young military folk mainly) that are blind to the real essence of taijutsu and combat and only focus on strength, speed and sloppy technique requiring great amounts of energy. I see this all the time, it is very disappointing, but I remain quiet, to each his own I suppose, I don't think its my place to correct someone else on what they do or what they train in.
Soke blew you out of the water eh? Tell me about it! When I actually saw him in person, after just over a year of studying budo and then I am standing in the Hombu watching him and the Shihan...it was like being a kid and watching a magician for the first time. I am humbled and honored to have had the opportunity to meet and train under him and the Japanese Shihan as I will be for years to come.


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The first man So, for good reason, you have to start taking the medication as soon as you leave then, ok? Keep taking it one month after your return. Antimalarial medicine prevents you from getting sick.The second man Tell me what I have to do!The first man Ok, so: You need to watch out for mosquitoes. Wear long clothing that has been sprayed with mosquito repellent. Now, there are sprays to treat clothes. Or things that you can put in the washing machine with your travel clothes.The second man Washing machine.The first man Exactly. And it lasts for eight weeks, it's effective for eight weeks.


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In about four months, Play Attention has become something that has been very helpful to my work, my studies, and my personal well-being above all! Training two to three days a week for about 60-80 minutes per week has taught me not only how to focus my attention but to be more aware of my state of mind. I have been and still am the kind of person who gets frustrated easily when things go wrong - something that is part of life and the human condition. Training continues to help me to become aware of my state of mind - when I'm relaxed or stressed, awake or tired, disciplined or scatterbrained - and that helps me to decide what to do with myself. There have been days where I pushed myself through to the end when I didn't think I could make it. There have also been days where I realized I really needed to relax and give myself time to recover.
I was skeptical about the effectiveness of training, but what changed my mind was the exercises themselves. They are really well designed and focused around developing particular areas of attention. I used to think my problem was listening to people due to some auditory processing disorder. After training for four months, I was surprised to discover that I am more distractible than I thought. With that information, I make more of an effort to filter out distractions at school and in the office than I would have. Since I now know that my ability to listen to people isn't what I needed to work on. (To clarify, I've been tested for ADD and though I have some symptoms I have not been diagnosed with the condition).
If you are considering purchasing the Play Attention hardware and software and concerned about the price, I completely understand where you are coming from. I was also worried about making the investment in time and especially money. I waited until the time was right and decided to do it. I knew there would be days I didn't want to train, and I still allow myself to rest when I need to. But I treat this as exercise for my mind. I'm pleased with the results and I think you will be too. Just make sure you are ready to commit to this. It works really well if you do.


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ScienceBook Talk
What Darwin Didn't Know About Evolution
New aspects of evolution have come to light with the introduction of advanced technologies that didn't exist during Darwin's era.
By Simon Worrall
Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin's theory of evolution, from how heredity works to the gradual variation in species, had been regarded as settled and beyond challenge. But as David Quammen, a National Geographic contributing writer, explains in his new book The Tangled Tree, new discoveries in human biology in the last few decades have led scientists to radically alter the story of the origins of life, with powerful implications for our health—and even our very nature.
When National Geographic caught up with the author at his home in Montana, he explained how the discovery of a new "third kingdom" of life changed our understanding of evolution, how so-called kissing bugs can move DNA from one species to another, and why the gene-editing tool CRISPR presents exciting new possibilities, as well as ethical challenges.
Your book opens with Charles Darwin making a little sketch in a notebook. Put us inside that moment and explain how the image of the tree of life has altered over the centuries.
Darwin is home from the voyage of The Beagle, a young man living in London, and thinks that perhaps species have evolved over time. But he doesn't have a theory for how it occurred. He makes this little sketch in his B Notebook, one of his secret transmutations notebooks, which was his term for evolution, draws a little stick figure of a tree, and writes above it in his scrawly hand, "I think."
The tree of life is an old image, going back to the Book of Revelations. But that tree drawn by Darwin was the first evolutionary tree of life. My book is about the history of that but more importantly about the way that image has been radically revised as a result of the discoveries we have made from genome sequencing in the last 40 years.
One of the most arresting statements in your book is that "we humans probably came from creatures that, as recently as 40 years ago, were unknown to exist." Introduce us to archaea.
The archaea are a third domain of life that was unknown to exist before 1977. It was a group of organisms thought to have been bacteria. Through a microscope, they looked like bacteria, little bugs with no complex anatomy. But with genome sequencing they were revealed to be not only not bacteria, but more different from bacteria than they are from us in terms of their genomes.
Your book is as much about scientists as it is about science, and casting a huge shadow over the story is the biologist Carl Woese, whom you call "a brilliant crank." Explain why he is so important to this story.
He was a microbiologist at the University of Illinois, in Urbana, in the middle of the American prairie, working away during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was deeply interested in the early history of life on Earth, going way back to the beginning of cellular and pre-cellular life close to 4 billion years ago. He thought, "How in the world can I learn about that?"
He decided the way to do it would be to go inside living cells, find a single molecule common to all forms of life, pull that molecule out, sequence its genomic letters, and then collect paragraphs of those letters for one organism and another and compare them to see who was related to whom, how distantly, how closely, and the way life had diverged over billions of years. He then made the discovery that some of these creatures that looked like bacteria, were, in fact, not bacteria at all but the archaea, this third kingdom of life. That discovery got him on the front page of the New York Times on November 3, 1977.
The British research lab at Porton Down has been much in the news recently because of the Skripal affair. Take us inside this top-secret facility and talk about the strange case of NCTC#1.
I wrote a previous book about emerging diseases, like Ebola, and much work has been done on that at Porton Down. I then discovered it's also the home of the NCTC, a library of frozen microbes that have been preserved over time for scientific and medical purposes. I thought, "Well, I'd better go look at some bacteria."
Photography by Courtesy of Simon & Schuster
It's not an easy place to get into but after applying I was warmly welcomed and shown some of these freeze-dried microbes, including one called NCTC #1. It's called that because it was the very first acquisition of the collection: a sample of a form of pathogenic bacteria that causes the disease shigella, which is a sort of dysentery. The particular bug is called shigella flexneri, and was isolated from a British soldier named Ernest Cable in 1915 during WWI, when he died in a hospital in France from dysentery, which killed a lot of soldiers.
This specimen was tucked away at Porton Down until about a decade ago when one tube of the samples was pulled out, thawed, regrown in a laboratory by a team of scientists led by one Kate Baker, and its genome examined. Lo and behold! One of the things they found out about this 1915 sample of bacteria was that it was already resistant to penicillin. People said, "Woah, wait a minute! Penicillin hadn't even been discovered yet!" Its use against bacteria was not discovered until the late 1930s and not put into medical use until the early 1940s. But here was a bug killing a British soldier back in 1915 that already had resistance to that anti-bacterial substance, penicillium.
One of the key concepts you explore is "horizontal gene transfer." Give us a layman's explanation of what this is, with reference to the strange phenomenon of "kissing bugs."
Horizontal gene transfer is essentially sideways heredity. It's the passage of genetic material sideways, from one creature into another, from one species into another. It can even go from one kingdom of life into another, sideways, across great barriers. That was thought to be undoable. I first read about it back in 2013 and my reaction was, "Wait, what? No! That doesn't happen! That can't happen!"
In fact, genes can go sideways across vast species boundaries. For instance, a gene for resistance to one kind of antibiotic in one form of bacteria, like staphylococcus, can move sideways into another, completely different form of bacteria, say, E.coli. This can happen not just in bacteria but also in animals, plants, and higher organisms, generally as a result of infection or parasitism.
One example is a form of transposon. Big, complicated word. [laughs] What's a transposon? It's a stretch of DNA that transposes from one part of a genome within a creature to another part. But scientists have discovered that these things can also jump from one creature to another, and even from one species to another.
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One transposon has been given the name space invaders. It's a long stretch of DNA that invades lots of different organisms. It seems able to pass, for instance, from a reptile into an insect or from a possum into a rat, by way of something called a kissing bug, an insect that, when sucking blood, sucks in some of this transposon. The transposon then moves from one species to another and becomes part of the heritable genome of that new species.
A 2009 headline in the British magazine New Scientist said "Darwin was wrong" and was immediately seized upon by creationists. Explain the issues and how the latest science is rewriting the idea of natural selection.
It's not rewriting the idea of natural selection. Rather, it's rewriting our understanding of evolution, of which natural selection is still a very important part. There are two phases in classic Darwinian evolution. First, there is the arising of variations from one creature to another or one individual population to another. That was thought to occur incrementally, in very slow stages, by mutations in the genome. Once there are variations among individuals, natural selection, the survival of the fittest, acts upon those variations.
What is new, and caused New Scientist to run that over-stated and provocative headline, "Darwin Was Wrong," is that we now understand there is another, hugely significant form of variation. It's not just incremental mutation, but horizontal gene transfer, bringing entirely new packages of DNA into genomes.
One of the axioms in Darwin's day, natura non facit saltus, which your good Latin training [laughs] will tell you means nature does not make leaps; things happen incrementally. But horizontal gene transfer has revealed that nature does sometimes make leaps, whereby huge lumps of DNA can appear in an individual or population quite suddenly and then natural selection acts on them. That can be a very important mechanism in the evolution of new species.
Most of us are unaware of just how many bacteria are swarming in our gut or armpits. Take us inside our microbiome and explain how it is crucial for human health.
We now realize, because we can sequence genomes, that we have great populations of bacteria living within us. People think if you've got a bacteria you're sick. In fact, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of different kinds of bacteria that live benignly within our guts, armpits, ears, noses, pores, or on our skin. This is known as the human microbiome. It's the ecosystem of microscopic critters, mostly bacteria, which live on and in our bodies. The maintenance of that ecosystem of microbes is essential to human health, which is one reason why the over-use of antibiotics can be a bad thing. Most antibiotics tend to be broad range. When you take them to kill off a particular bacteria that may be causing you a sore throat, you're going to also be killing other bacteria, many of which are beneficial or even necessary to your good health and the balance of microbes within you.
One of the questions you pose is, "What implications do these discoveries carry for the concept of human identity?" What's the answer, David?
We now understand that we humans, along with most other creatures, are composites of other creatures. Not just the microbiome living in our bellies and intestines, but creatures that have over time become inserted in our very cells. Every cell in the human body contains, for instance, little mechanisms that help package energy. Those are called mitochondria. We now realize that those mitochondria are the descendants of captured bacteria that were either swallowed by, or infected, the cells that became complex cells of all animals and plants. Likewise, 8 percent of the human genome, we now know, is viral DNA, which has come into our lineage by infection over the last 100 million years or so. Some of that viral DNA is still functioning as genes that are important for human life and reproduction.
You end your book in the present, with the advent of the gene-splicing tool CRISPR. Tell us about it and how it is revolutionizing biology and genetics.
CRISPR is an acronym for a gene-editing tool discovered in the last 10-15 years that is very powerful and inexpensive. With it, scientists can now edit genomes, delete mutations or insert sections of new genes. It promises a lot of wonderful medical possibilities and a lot of really troubling moral and societal choices.
It's wonderful if scientists can correct a genetic defect in a fertilized human egg, and prevent a child from having a congenital disease by editing its genome. But how far does it go? Does it go to the point where wealthy people will be able to choose designer children, whose genomes have been edited to make them smarter or stronger? These are, to put it mildly, really difficult ethical propositions. So, there will be a lot of discussion about CRISPR in coming years.
But it is something that has always existed in nature. Microbes were using CRISPR to protect themselves and to edit their own genomes before it was ever discovered and put to use in a laboratory by some really brainy humans. [laughs]
This interview was edited for length and clarity.
Simon Worrall curates Book Talk. Follow him on Twitter or at simonworrallauthor.com.


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Q: how to send an image to email in html/EJS I am sending an email verification trying to send the logo of the company in the html file I created to be sent. Everything works fine except the logo which is not really sended correctly.
Here is the result and the logo should be in the blue div :

this is function of sending the mail using loopback(node.js framework) :
 user.afterRemote('create', function (context, user, next) {

    var nom = user.nom

    var options = {
      type: 'email',
      to: user.email,
      from: senderAddress,
      subject: 'Thank you for registering',
      template: path.resolve(__dirname, '../../lib/mail.ejs'),
      redirect: 'http://localhost:3001/home',
      host: 'localhost',
      text: '\n\t{href}',
      nom: nom,
      body: 'Veuillez vérifier votre email, en cliquant sur ce lien :',
      port: '3000',
      user: user
    };

    user.verify(options, function (err, response) {
      context.res.render('response', {
        title: 'Signed up successfully',
        content: 'Please check your email and click on the verification link before logging in.',
        redirectTo: '/',
        redirectToLinkText: 'Log in'
      });
    });
  });

and this is my html where to insert the image :

A: You can't directly take image from your own project directory path. because you are sending http. So upload your image to a website and paste the url.

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