The Sussex High Weald is a mysterious and alluring landscape. Winding lanes lead down into tunnels of green; sand-coloured rock faces emerge from wooded ghyll banks; an occasional, spectacular vista is revealed across rolling, wooded hills and glimpses of bluebell and yellow archangel appear in spring.
Stretching over more than 500 square miles, from Rye in the east to Horsham in the west, more than a quarter of the Sussex High Weald is covered by dense, dark woodland. From high vantage points, the irregular-shaped Wealden pastures appear to have been hewn out of the primeval forest.
The heavy, wet clay soils of the Weald inhibited the spread of agriculture well into the Middle Ages. When small farmsteads did appear, the fields were nibbled out of the woods to raise sheep and cattle, rather than to grow wheat. Maintained by a scythe of hay in early summer, followed by livestock grazing into late autumn, these permanent pastures were soon colonised by an assortment of light-hungry plants and insects which had otherwise persisted only in woodland clearings and on the margins of the old droveways.
The Wealden meadows developed specialist communities adapted to the peculiar conditions created by soil, aspect, slope and fertility. Plants such as Dyer's greenweed, with its distinctive, bright butter-yellow flower spikelets; pinkish clumps of spiny rest-harrow; the ubiquitous oxeye daisy and the deep purple of green-winged orchid. The bizarre moundings of the yellow meadow ant were common, built to trap warming spring sunlight and the objects of foraging by hungry badger and green woodpecker. All of these species and many more have a natural lifecycle which fitted well, if entirely accidentally, with the customary farming of the hay meadows. This continued, largely unchanged from Medieval times until World War II.
The 1939 Agricultural Development Act (which subsidised the ploughing of established grasslands) started a period of rapid agricultural change. Financial incentives to increase productivity, together with the availability of cheap, inorganic fertilisers, promised a new era of prosperity for farmers. The vast majority (perhaps 97 per cent) of these flower-rich pastures were lost in the ensuing 50 years. Hay meadows were replaced by reseeded, homogenised fields, grazed short all the year round. Today these are invariably dominated by a narrow selection of fast growing, fertiliser-dependent grasses such as ryegrass and timothy.
Some ancient Wealden meadows persisted in forgotten corners, where old timers clung to the traditional ways, or where visionaries could see how times and priorities would change. One of these is the Coach Road Field on the Beech Estate. In June the field is filled with nodding oxeye daisy, sheep's sorrel, rough hawkbit, yellow rattle, common spotted orchid, common knapweed and many more. Farm manager Keith Datchler protected it from agricultural improvement when the last generation of the Rudman family retired in their eighties. It was of no agricultural value 30 years ago, but now that small-scale dairy farming is unprofitable in the High Weald, the ancient meadow is again valued by the holidaymakers who stay in the former farmworkers' cottages. Keith is an undoubted visionary who founded the High Weald Landscape Trust in 2004 and was awarded an OBE for services to conservation and to environmental land management in 2008.
Nature conservation legislation was strengthened in the 1980s and 1990s and agricultural subsidies also began to shift away from a singular focus on increasing production and more towards conservation. A tiny proportion of the ancient Wealden meadows were legally protected during this period, including Paines Cross Meadow. It has a remarkable mix of 'Atlantic' species which are normally confined to western Britain. These may well have survived from the original wildwood, sheltered in the secluded and humid microclimate of this Wealden hillside. Oxeye daisy may be missing, but sphagnum moss and cotton grass can still be found here.
In recent years there has been a move to create new Wealden wild flower meadows. Many Wealden farms are now owned by hobby farmers with cash to spare and a desire to enrich the natural landscape again. This change has coincided with the launch of national initiatives, such as Plantlife's Coronation Meadows. This began in 2012 with the aim of raising awareness and creating new meadows using seed harvested from the ancient originals. Sussex has two Coronation Meadows: Coach Road Field and Valebridge Common Field, which is just north of Burgess Hill.
for habitat recreation initiatives, such as the Weald Meadows Partnership which pays landowners to sustainably harvest seed from their ancient meadows.
In recent years, new pioneers in Wealden meadow creation have begun to emerge. Iain Parkinson, Conservation Manager at Wakehurst Place in Ardingly has been experimenting with seed and wild flower plant 'plugs' grown from the Millennium Seed Bank and has created an entirely new wildflower meadow in Bloomer's Valley. Colin Reader runs Wild Flower Lawns and Meadows, based in Horam. Colin creates new meadows for private clients throughout the Weald as well as offering meadow creation advice internationally. Learnt through years of trial and error, his technique first eliminates the soil seed bank and excludes rabbits from the seeding area. While not a substitute for the original, ancient Wealden meadows, these new meadows are visually spectacular and of great nature conservation value. Thanks to these and other pioneers, the future of the Wealden wild flower meadows looks more promising than at any time in a generation.


Having been passed by the Dáil (lower house of parliament) earlier this week, today's papers are full of the news that the Defamation Bill, 2006 was passed yesterday by the Seanad (upper house of parliament) (the full debate is here); all that is now required for it to become law is the signature of the President.
The Government lost a vote in the Seanad yesterday on the Defamation Bill but managed to salvage the legislation by calling for a walk-through vote which gave enough time for two missing Senators to be found.
There's more inside, under the headline Controversial Defamation Bill passes by a single vote. On the general substance of the Bill, Carol Coulter, under the headline Bill safeguards right to good name and media freedom argues that the "Defamation Bill reconciles the protection of a person's good name with freedom of expression"; while Michael Nugent, under the headline Blasphemy law is silly, dangerous and unjust argues that "[i]nstead of passing an anachronistic and medieval blasphemy law, we should be building a secular Ireland".
Update: I should say that, having been originated in the Seanad, the Bill had already been passed by that House (I blogged about it here), but for various reasons, having been changed in the Dail, it had to return to the Seanad before going to the President. Strictly speaking, therefore, the title of this post should have been: Defamation Bill passed by the Seanad, Again!


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Chevrolet has manufactured the Chevrolet Camaro. It is a mid-size American automobile. It was first sold on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year. The company has designed this model that competes with the Ford Mustang. The Chevrolet Camaro has shared its platform with the Firebird. Firebird had come into the market in the year 1967. Chevrolet had developed four distinct generations of the Camaro before ending its production in 2002.
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Head-Up Display of Chevrolet Camaro
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Secondly, the car is having a range of transmission options that will assist you in enjoying your driving experience.
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Chevrolet Camaro is having a dual-mode exhaust. The dual-mode exhaust changes sound with each of the three driver-selectable modes.
Driving a Chevrolet Camaro boosts your confidence
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The Chevrolet Camaro is available in Coupe and Convertible body styles.
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In addition to all these features, the car is having a Magnetic Ride Control along with Custom Launch Control with Line Lock. Moreover, this car is having a 10-speed paddle-shift automatic transmission. This car is also having 20-inch aluminium wheels that feature performance run-flat tires.
Regardless of being on the street, or the drag strip, the Chevrolet Camaro goes in alignment with the most advanced sports cars in the world. This car features massive upper and lower grille openings. Besides that, it also features the aggressive new taillamps and the latest aero features. The aero features include the front splitter and rocker moldings. This enhances the car's performance.
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The Chevrolet Camaro is having a 455-horsepower LT V8 engine under its vented hood. This will drive you from 0 to 100kmph in 4 seconds. The 10-speed paddle-shift automatic transmission will help you in driving fast.
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The Chevrolet Camaro has a cockpit that enhances performance driving. The car consists of aggressive seat bolsters. In addition to that, it is also having a leather-wrapped flat-bottom steering wheel and exceptional ergonomics. These serve the purpose of shifting. You can drive the car more comfortably as a result of its heated steering wheel, ventilated front seats, and power seats with the available memory package.
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In comparison to the Chevrolet Camaro Coupe, the Chevrolet Camaro Convertible offers the same roofline with a fully automatic soft-top. By just pushing a single button, the roofline disappears beneath the hard tonneau cover even at speeds up to 48 km/h. It can also disappear remotely by using the key fob. You will experience the sharp and delicate handling with modular underbody bracing.
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import random

def gen_bottle_cluster():
    for i in range(10):
        yield random.randint(-5, 35)

def log(print_arg):
    """totally fake logging function"""
    print(print_arg)

#check to see how many bottles we've received in the cluster
#raise ZeroDivisionError if we receive any value of zero or less then fake log it with fake log function
#get

def beer_problem(list_of_beer_clusters):
    leftovers = 0
    six_packs_made = 0
    if leftovers < 6:
        for beer in list_of_beer_clusters:
            if beer > 0:
                six_packs_made += beer // 6
                leftovers += beer % 6
            else:
                #raise ZeroDivisionError
                log("ZeroDivisionError")
    else:
        leftovers -= 6
        six_packs_made += 1
    print("list of beer_clusters_was:\n {}".format(list(list_of_beer_clusters)))
    return six_packs_made, leftovers

print beer_problem(gen_bottle_cluster())

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Most Popular Names: How "The List" Was Born
by the Wizard 2009-09-22 13:00:41 (edited 2009-09-22 13:13)
The following blog entry is reprinted with permission from the web site nameberry.com, a leading web site about baby names. I am also including a scan of an article that appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, on January 8, 1999.
We're honored to have Michael Shackleford, the inventor of the Social Security baby name popularity list, as today's nameberry guest blogger. Shackleford played a pivotal role in the history of American baby naming by constructing the first national count of the Top 1000 names. Shackleford, who can now be found at the Wizard of Odds, talks about the hows and whys behind his ground-breaking work.
The most frequent question I get about my baby name popularity lists is why I started making them. To give some context to why, my name is Michael, and I was born in 1965. At that time, and for every year from 1961 to 1998, Michael was the most popular boys name in the United States. When I was in elementary school, there were always one or two other Michaels in the same class. When the teacher called on "Michael," we all had to ask, "Which one" At my first job, in a fast food place at Knott's Berry Farm, there was a big board with everybody's name and daily cash register errors. When I was hired, there was already a Mike Smiley on the list. So I had to become Mike Sh. After that, everybody would whisper, "We better be quiet, Mike Shhhhh is here." To this day, every time somebody calls out "Mike" in public, I have to turn around and investigate. Usually, I'm not the intended recipient and end up looking like I came in second place in a popularity contest, when the other Michael is warmly identified. Over the years it have become very annoying. Almost as annoying as when people try to guess the spelling of my last name, and start out S-C-H, but that's a story for another day.
In 1992, I took a job with the Office of the Actuary at the Social Security Administration headquarters in Baltimore. My main duty was to estimate the effect to the trust funds given a hypothetical change in Social Security law. For example, I worked on many proposals to change the Social Security earnings test and taxation formula, both of which changed while I was there. To make such calculations, I used samplings of Social Security records, calculating the monthly payment under the current law and the proposed changed, took the difference, and adjusted for the sample size. I had lots of interesting data at my fingertips to make such calculations. One of the more interesting files was a 1% sampling of Social Security card applications.
Five years later, in 1997, my wife was expecting our first child. Naturally, I was not about to give my child a popular name, but I had no idea what the popular names were any longer. Keeping up to date was not easy at the time, especially for girl names, which go up and down in popularity much faster than boy names. It was only my intent to stay out of the top 25 or so. Many people incorrectly assume I take the extreme position of advocating a name nobody has heard of. No, a normal name is fine with me, just as it is not too trendy or conformist.
To determine what the most popular names were at the time, I wrote a simple program to sort the Social Security card data first by year of birth, then by gender, and then by first name. It takes a while to go through a tape of millions of records, but after about an hour the results came in. What I got back was a huge document of first name popularity lists by going back to the 1880's. I believe my eyes at that moment were the first to ever see an accurate nationwide sampling of given names.
It was too good to keep to myself; I thought the whole country would want to see this. Conveniently, this was the time the Internet was becoming popular. I already knew HTML pretty well and had a now-defunct home page. So, I put up some simple popularity lists and called it ?Mike?s Baby Name Page.? Through no effort on my part, the page became popular, and newspapers and magazines often quoted me. On January 8, 1999, I was very proud when my name was mentioned in a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times titled, "Jose Moves Into Top Spot in Name Game," about my discovery that the most popular name for boys born in California in 1998 was Jose. Peter Jennings also mentioned it that evening on the news.
To make the whole project look more legitimate, it was decided I should take down my shoddy baby name page, write up the results in an official ?Actuarial Note,? and post it on the SSA web site. This I did. Normally, Actuarial Notes are pretty obscure and don?t get much attention. However, I was told that mine was in the top ten most requested pages at the SSA domain. To accommodate the many requests, I made updates annually, as new data came in.
In 2000, I left government work to set out in the field of self-employment in the area of casino game analysis and consulting. The hardest part was leaving the baby names behind. I felt it was an enormous public service, but nobody seemed interested in taking it over. Coincidentally, it was another Michael who reluctantly agreed to take over, after much begging on my part.
Thankfully, the people with the SSA web site see that the public loves the baby name lists. They have done a great job automating the lists, making it easy to search on a specific year or name. It is really quite easy to cull the lists, but presenting them in a user-friendly manner is another matter. Every year on Mother's Day, the SSA web site is updated with the most popular names of the previous year.
Now it is 2009, and the only times I thought much about baby names were when our second and third children were born in 2002 and 2006. My own name has become an asterisk in the history of the study of baby names. Once in a while a reporter will find me and ask me a few questions about it. I always inquire about the names of my kids' friends and classmates, to give a human face to the process of choosing a name. Sometimes I wonder how many children's names I have affected since 1997. Whatever the answer, I?m proud for what I started, and I appreciate Pamela Redmond Satran asking me to write about it for NameBerry.com. Pamela has written several books on baby names, and has always kindly acknowledged my place in baby name history. Thanks Pamela for remembering me.
Michael Shackleford has a degree in math/economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, class of 1988. In 1995 he completed his last actuary exam and has been an Associate of the Society of Actuaries ever since. From 1992 to 2000 he was employed by the Social Security Administration in the Office of the Chief Actuary, largely doing short-term cost estimates on congressional legislation. In 2000 Michael turned his attention to the field of gambling where he currently works as a gaming mathematician and writer. He runs a web site on gambling, Wizard of Odds, and serves as a consultant largely for new game developers. In addition he is the author of the book Gambling 102. Currently Michael resides in Las Vegas with his wife and three children.


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Thomas Dähne
Goalkeeper GK - Holstein Kiel
A graph displaying Thomas Dähne's form, up and down via their performance for each fixture. The matchratings range from zero to 10 and are calculated via our algorithms covering more then 50 datapoints.
The next match which Thomas Dähne's team, Holstein Kiel, are involved in. This includes the date and location of the fixture.
23 Jan, 2022 at Continental Arena
2. Bundesliga - Gameweek 20
G2B 2 Oct 2021 L
Holstein Kiel KSV
Hansa Rostock HRO
G2B 16 Oct 2021 D
Ingolstadt ING
Darmstadt SVD
HSV HSV
G2B 5 Nov 2021 W
Dynamo Dresden DYN
G2B 21 Nov 2021 L
Heidenheim HEI
G2B 27 Nov 2021 W
W. Bremen SVW
G2B 11 Dec 2021 D
Sandhausen SAN
G2B 17 Dec 2021 W
St. Pauli STP
G2B 16 Jan 2022 D
Schalke S04
G2B 23 Jan 2022
Regensburg REG
G2B 6 Feb 2022
Düsseldorf F95
G2B 11 Feb 2022
Erzgebirge Aue AUE
All matches played by Dähne
The playing stats (including matchratings) of Thomas Dähne for the 2021/2022 season, with other seasons available to be selected. As well as competitions that can be viewed, the graphic can be filtered to general, discipline, defending, errors, disruption, passing, creation, attacking, and decisive statistics.
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Career stats of Dähne
About Thomas Dähne
Who is Thomas Dähne?
Thomas Dähne is 28-years-old, born on 04 January 1994, and is a both-footed professional football player from Germany. Born in Oberaudorf, Thomas Dähne has also played in Ekstraklasa for Wisła Płock, in UEFA Europa League for HJK and in DFB-Pokal for RB Leipzig. He currently plays as a Goalkeeper in 2. Bundesliga for club Holstein Kiel.
What are Thomas Dähne's last performances?
One of his best performances from last period, was the match against Hannover, played on 10 May 2021 in 2. Bundesliga (Regular Season). Thomas Dähne received a match rating from FC of 8.2 for his performance and Holstein Kiel won the match with a score of 1-0.
Other exemplary match performances of Thomas Dähne in this period were:
• Holstein Kiel - St. Pauli (4-0), played on 07 May 2021 for the 2. Bundesliga (Regular Season). He received a match rating of 7.4.
• Holstein Kiel - Sandhausen (2-0), played on 04 May 2021 for the 2. Bundesliga (Regular Season). He received a match rating of 7.1.
One of his least good performances was the match against Dortmund, played on 01 May 2021 in DFB-Pokal (Semi-finals). Thomas Dähne received a match rating from FC of 5.3 for his performance and Holstein Kiel lost the match with a score of 5-0.
Club: Holstein Kiel
Nationality: Germany
Prefered foot: Both
Wisła Płock, HJK, RB Leipzig
The main positions in which Thomas Dähne starts for Holstein Kiel. On the graphic main positions are highlighted green, with the brighest colour displaying their most-played position.
A shortlist of Thomas Dähne's team-mates, which holds a link to the full playing squad.
Thomas Dähne GK
Ioannis Gelios GK
Timon Weiner GK
Holstein Kiel Full Squad


Pisces fashion designers are among the most creative and naturally artistic of the zodiac signs, and their designs are decidedly dreamy, just like the Fish.
There is an ethereal quality to the Pisces zodiac sign and I think that Julien MacDonald captured the mood perfectly in his Autumn Winter collection, shown at London Fashion Week 2014.
Lots of shimmering sequins, seaside colours and translucent material used.


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This is a recent EP from Tangerine Dream. The story behind this and the album that followed is an intriguing one since it was a path started by Edgar Froese and realized after his death by his wife and his musical cohorts. I'm reviewing this individually, but also as a the two CD set along with that album, Quantum Gate. While this is worth having on its own, getting it in the box set makes a lot of sense. The story behind this whole project is documented in the booklet to the box set. It should be noted, too, that the opening track here is the closer for the Quantum Gate album, and I've used the same track review in both reviews for the sake of consistency.
Coming in gradually, the electronic rhythmic elements and musical drama build nicely. It drops back as it approaches the two and a half minute mark and some violin really adds to the magic of this mellower movement. As works back upward the electronic groove of the piece is just so classy and strong. The violin continues to contribute nicely. Around the five and a half minute mark there is a slightly weird, but still very cool sped up section. The track continues to evolve nicely from there. It gets quite lush as it approaches the end.
Rising up gradually, this works out to some pretty and quite powerful electronic sounds. There are some cool melodies built into this thing. The textures that serve up are just plain classic, too. I really love the violin work on this piece.
This comes in lush and quite pretty. It grows outward to cool electronic sounds and textures. This continues to evolve as it drives onward with tasty sounds. This is precisely the kind of thing you'd expect from Tangerine Dream. There is a lush, almost soundtrack like vibe to it all. By around the seven minute mark it drops way down and the violin guides a spacey, kind of trippy journey. A mellower electronic element rises up and holds the track until it eventually ends.
Tasty electronic textures rise up to move this forward as it starts. It shifts and grows in some tasty ways as it continues to evolve. There are some intriguing twists and turns along this road, but nothing changes quickly.


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using MonoTouch.UIKit;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using RedBit.CCAdmin;
using AlertView;
using RedBit;

namespace BackChannel
{
    public class UITweetsView : UIView
    {
        public UITweetsView() { }

        public override RectangleF Frame
        {
            get
            {
                return base.Frame;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Frame = value;
                // layout the controls
                Layout();
            }
        }

		public Action<Tweet> TweetClicked {get;set;}
		public Tweet CurrentTweet { get; set; }
        private UITweetTableView _tableView;

        void Layout()
        {
			if (_tableView == null) {
				_tableView = new UITweetTableView ();
				var t = this.Frame;
				_tableView.Frame = new RectangleF (0, 0, UIScreen.MainScreen.ApplicationFrame.Width, UIScreen.MainScreen.ApplicationFrame.Height - 44); // 44 is height of nav bar
				//				_tableView.ScrollEnabled = false;
				_tableView.SeparatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyle.None;
				_tableView.BackgroundColor = UIColor.FromRGB (242, 242, 242); //UIColor.FromPatternImage (UIImage.FromFile("images/login/loginBg.png"));

				// add a swipe handler for options
				var s = new UISwipeGestureRecognizer (SwipeHandler);
				s.Direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirection.Left;
				_tableView.AddGestureRecognizer (s);
				s = new UISwipeGestureRecognizer (SwipeHandler);
				s.Direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirection.Right;
				_tableView.AddGestureRecognizer (s);

				// wure up the remove row
				_tableView.RemoveRow = (tweet) => {

					var alert = MBAlertView.AlertWithBody ("Are you sure you want to delete this tweet? You cannot undo this.", "No", null);
					alert.AddButtonWithText ("Yes", MBAlertViewItemType.Destructive, () => {
						// call server to delete the tweet
						Helper.Default.ShowHud("deleting ...");
						Api.Default.DeleteTweetItem (tweet, (result) => {
							this.InvokeOnMainThread(()=>{
								if (result.Result == "ok") {
									RemoveTweetFromView (tweet);
									Helper.Default.HideHud();
								}
								else{
									Helper.Default.HideHud("Could not delete, try again.");
								}
							});
						});
					});
					alert.AddToDisplayQueue ();
				};

				_tableView.PromoteRow = (tweet) => {

					var alert = MBAlertView.AlertWithBody ("Are you sure you want to promote this tweet? You cannot undo this.", "No", null);
					alert.AddButtonWithText ("Yes", MBAlertViewItemType.Positive, () => {
						// call server to delete the tweet
						Helper.Default.ShowHud("promoting ...");
						Api.Default.PromoteTweetItem (tweet, (result) => {
							this.InvokeOnMainThread(()=>{
								if (result.Result == "ok") {
									Helper.Default.HideHud("Done!");
									_lastcell.Animate2 (0.2, ()=>AnimateCellRight(_lastcell), ()=>{
										_lastcell = null;
									});
								}
								else{
									Helper.Default.HideHud("Could not promote, try again.");
								}
							});
						});
					});
					alert.AddToDisplayQueue ();
				};

				// add to view
				this.AddSubview (_tableView);
			}
        }
		private TweetViewSource TweetViewSource { get{return this._tableView.Source as TweetViewSource;}}

		private UIView _lastcell = null;
		private void SwipeHandler(UISwipeGestureRecognizer args){
			if(args.State == UIGestureRecognizerState.Ended){
				// find the cell
				var swipeLocation = args.LocationInView(_tableView);
				var index = _tableView.IndexPathForRowAtPoint(swipeLocation);
				var cell = _tableView.CellAt(index);

				var view = ((TweetTableViewCell)cell).TweetView;
				if (args.Direction == UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirection.Left) {
					if(_lastcell != null){
						_lastcell.Animate2 (0.2, ()=>AnimateCellRight(_lastcell), ()=>AnimateCellLeft(view));
					}
					_lastcell = view;
					view.Animate2 (0.2, ()=>AnimateCellLeft(view));
				}
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'Graceland' takes viewers into unsettling darkness
Arnold Reyes as Marion Villar and Dido de la Paz as Detective Ramos in "Graceland." Sung Rae Cho
Asian Film Festival award winner about child prostitution gets national release
By Nina Garin
(in Tagalog with English subtitles)
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"Graceland," a gritty thriller from the Philippines, isn't easy to watch.
It deals with issues most people would rather pretend don't exist, let alone want to see on a big screen: child prostitution, extreme poverty, corruption.
Yet despite those topics, director and writer Ron Morales' story has been a festival favorite this past year. "Graceland" screened at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York and won Best Narrative Feature at the 2012 San Diego Asian Film Festival. Now it's getting a limited national release.
It's a movie that's distinctly Filipino, portraying the jampacked streets of Manila with a local's eye for detail. At the same time, the unsavory story could happen anywhere; the action doesn't necessarily have to be set in the Philippines to get its larger point across.
The story is about Marlon (Arnold Reyes), a chauffeur for a truly terrible politician named Manuel Changho.
What Changho likes to do is visit brothels filled with preteen girls. He gives these shockingly young girls drugs and booze and has his way with them. Marlon's job is to drive the girls home, which he does disapprovingly, because he has to support his daughter, Elvie, and a very sick wife in the hospital.
Marlon's duties also include driving Changho's preteen daughter, Sophia, to school. Despite their obvious class differences, Sophia and Elvie are good friends. So one afternoon, when kidnappers come after Changho's daughter, Elvie gets caught up in the mess, too.
This leads to Marlon's fast-paced quest for answers and money through some of Manila's seediest areas. Most striking are the mountains made from rotting garbage where terrible things happen to Sophia and leave the viewer with a lingering sense of ickiness.
Morales, who also wrote the script, knows how to pull at our heartstrings, especially with scenes involving child prostitutes. But right as we find ourselves rolling our eyes at plot points that seem obvious — remember, both Changho and Marlon have preteen daughters, too — the movie takes clever turns.
And in the end, "Graceland" makes its audience question just who is good and who is bad, or whether that concept even exists at all.
Nina Garin
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Tom Friedman Has Seen the Great Arabic Hope
And, believe it or not, it's the Palestinian Authority
By Jesse Oxfeld|August 5, 2009 4:00 PM
Mustachioed New York Times foreign-affairs guru Thomas Friedman trotted to one of his favorite corners of the globe for today's column, a dispatch from the Palestinian capital of Ramallah, in the West Bank. From there, he recounts the findings of the U.N Development Program's new Arab Human Development report, which contains all sorts of dispiriting, if not entirely surprising, details. Throughout the Arab world, there's huge unemployment, huge illiteracy, and stagnant economies, and things have only gotten worse since the last similar report, in 2002. It's evidence for traditional Friedmanian points: Arab leaders must embrace modernity rather than fight it, they must focus on their own people not their enemies, and other similar ideas, more pithily sloganized by Friedman than by your humble blogger. But, interestingly, this column offers a bright spot—and, even more interestingly, that bright spot is the Palestinian Authority. "The whole report would have left me feeling hopeless," Friedman writes, "had I not come to Ramallah, the seat of Palestinian government in the West Bank, to find some good cheer." ("I'm serious," he adds.) As it turns out, "Salam Fayyad, a former I.M.F. economist, is testing out the most exciting new idea in Arab governance ever," Friedman writes. "Fayyadism is based on the simple but all-too-rare notion that an Arab leader's legitimacy should be based not on slogans or rejectionism or personality cults or security services, but on delivering transparent, accountable administration and services…. He is an ardent Palestinian nationalist, but his whole strategy is to say: the more we build our state with quality institutions—finance, police, social services—the sooner we will secure our right to independence." And, Friedman points out, the strategy seems to be bearing fruit: The number of new businesses in the West Bank is skyrocketing this year, and the economy there should grow by 7 percent, according to the IMF. Who knew?
Green Shoots in Palestine [NYT]
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Social Butterfly Club Monthly Newsletter June 2014
Welcome to Summer and Happy Canada Day! Oh glorious sunshine and blue sky, how I have missed your loving presence and look forward to bathing in your energetic embrace. I have been playing reporter of late, and here I present two of my favourite interviews of people that are stirring the pot, and being a true inspiration. Feel free to share your thoughts and comments, as I have learned, it's impossible to be completely neutral. We're all walking around with our biases, conditioning, and filtered lenses from our upbringing/cultural values with each interaction with someone else. Let all of us be gentle with one another, and remember to live in love instead of fear.
Game Changer: Brice Royer, Founder of Vancouver Gift Economy Community
Brice Royer signing a cheque to pay for someone's full year rent
Photo courtesy of Kelli https://m.facebook.com/Stevestonvillagephoto
A: Tell me about yourself Brice Royer?
B: Two years ago I was in a wheelchair, bedridden for months and the doctors couldn't help. Now I'm climbing trees! All I did was avoid toxins and my body did the rest. No surgery, and no medication. It seems hard to believe sometimes. The doctors said I have a rare form of stomach cancer. I wasn't interested in a cure. I wanted to know the cause. "What causes cancer?" ...I asked my doctors. "We don't know." they responded. I felt frustrated. I lost my health. My friends. My work. So I spent several years consulting many experts from various Universities and Hospitals. I learned that 90% of cancers are caused by "environmental factors", such as diet, lifestyle, exercise, pollution and only 5-10% genetics. But why is our food toxic, our air polluted, and our lifestyle unhealthy? Why are babies born with over 200 harmful chemicals, such as plastic? Why are millions marching against GMO foods? Why do people smoke? It was a Nobel Economist who explained it to me: Money. This really surprised me because I couldn't see the connection at all between our economic system and my health. So for the past month, I've been on a journey to unlearn what I've been taught, and trying to learn a healthier way of living.
A: How is money related to physical health?
B:I had a really hard time understanding it too. It's kinda like telling me: "Eating French fries or candy from a fast food restaurant is unhealthy for you." Huh? What are you talking about? How can something that tastes so delicious be unhealthy for me? It was hard for me to see the connection. I needed to see the science. What I learned is that our economy is like an onion. It affects our health in multiple layers -- and not just our physical health, but our mental health, our relationships, our environment, and yes, our work, careers and careers as well.
A: Which economist told you that?
B: One of them is the Nobel Prize Economist and former World Bank chief Joseph Stiglitz. He basically is saying that our economy is unsustainable environmentally and socially. One problem is income inequality. He says and I quote: "Some people say we have this [income] inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society. They're not the inventors of the lasers the transistors, the computer, the discoverers of DNA. They're the bankers that exploited the poor, the CEOs who took advantage of the deficiencies of our corporate governing structure to a larger and larger share of the corporate revenues without increasing the productivity and performance of the companies or our economy as a whole.. Because the rich, needing few public services and worried that a strong government might redistribute income, use their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending. This leads to underinvestment in infrastructure, education and technology, impeding the engines of growth." So in other words, the reason why Vancouver has 'teacher strikes' and underfunded education, health care and social services, is because of one of those reasons. The economy is actually the biggest factor on your health, even more important than exercise, diet, and vitamins. One study, for example, suggested that the loss of life from income inequality in the US in 1990 was the equivalent of the combined loss of life due to lung cancer, diabetes, motor-vehicle accidents, HIV-related causes, suicide and homicide.
A: What was your profession before you got sick? What kind of life did you lead?
B: So that's only one layer of the onion. But there are more layers. Most people don't realize accumulating money has side-effects on your health. Social psychologist Paul Piff a doctoral candidate in social and personality psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, describes how wealth changes almost anyone's behavior, mental and physical health. His study went so far as to show that higher-class people will literally take candy from the mouths of children. He writes: "The more money a person makes or has, the less generous, helpful, compassionate, and charitable he is toward other people," Other studies found that consumerism and money causes a psychological disconnection linked to being worse for your health than smoking 15 cigarettes per day, twice as worse as obesity and alcoholism. Before I got sick, I was the founder of a non-profit organization. We support expat kids who grew up in different countries. But at a very young age, I was an internet entrepreneur. I started my first business at 8 years old selling magazines at my school. I was always into social entrepreneurship and believed that money could be a force for good. So this was really hard for me to understand.
A: Is it due to stress? that people get sick from income inequality? Canada is among the wealthiest nations. Go to India or Phillipines, people are happy living in garbage dumps
B:That's what's very surprising to me. Let's take the US for example, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and yet, they have an increase in health and social crisis. The scientists aren't sure why people die sooner in more unequal societies. They think it may be "social status" stress. They believe it's harmful because it puts people in a hierarchy that increases competition and causes stress which leads to poor health and other negative outcomes. What's interesting to me is if you're rich and upper class in an unequal country like the UK and the US, you will die sooner than if you're lower class in Sweden, which is a more equal country.
But like I said previously, money and our economy affects us in many layers, like an onion. Let's take a look at smoking for example, one of the biggest causes of lung cancer. If you ask yourself: "Why do people smoke?" Well, you simply need to go to the American Cancer Society website and they will tell you. The biggest reason teenagers start smoking is because of advertising in block buster movies and marketing. And the reason why most adults start smoking is because of stress from economic factors. These two factors are both related to money.
A: What is your solution?
B: I don't know. I'm not a Nobel economist. But what I do know is this is a huge problem. It may have increased my chances of cancer, and millions of others too. Most people know at a deep level that the system is broken, but nobody knows what to do about it, so they continue to feel stuck in the rat cage. So I tried to reverse engineer it by asking myself… Where are the people who live up to 100 years old? Where do they live? And how do they live? And then one day after reading the New York Times, I learned about Ikaria Greece, "The island where people forget to die", one of the highest concentration of centenarians in the world. I was surprised that 40% of them are unemployed. They don't trade or use money that much. One man over 100 years old said: "In [other cities], they care about money. Here, we don't. It's not a 'me' place. It's an 'us' place." For the many religious and cultural holidays, people pool their money and buy food and wine. If there is money left over, they give it to the poor. "Most everyone has access to a family garden and livestock, Parikos told me. People who work might have several jobs. Someone involved in tourism, for example, might also be a painter or an electrician or have a store. "People are fine here because we are very self-sufficient,"
A: If that the measure of a good quality life? How long we live?
B: Not just how long, but how well. Many centenarians are not only free of cancer, but have a great quality of life, lots of leisure time with their family, friends and communities. One of them says: "I was not unhappy in America. We had good friends, we went out to dinner on the weekends, I drove a Chevrolet. But I was always in a hurry." That pretty much describes the modern lifestyle we have today.
This was nice for them in Greece, but what about here in Vancouver? What can I do to change my life right now? So in my search for alternatives, I got in touch with Mark Boyle, an economist from the UK, who has lived without money since 2008. He only went to this extreme to make a point and start a discussion about our economy. But what stood out for me, is something he said: "Ironically, I have found this year to be the happiest of my life. I've more friends in my community than ever, I haven't been ill since I began, and I've never been fitter.I've found that friendship, not money, is real security.That most western poverty is spiritual, and that independence is really interdependent." This convinced me. I knew I was onto something.
A: Tell me about the community you have built and how it has effected you and your members?
B: Sometimes to move forward, I needed to look backwards. I needed to understand the history of money and our economy. I learned that in 5000 BC, there was no money or even trade. Humans never traded, "except with strangers and enemies." We still do that today. We never trade with our family; your mom would never charge you for cooking a meal, neither will your friend. But somehow, it's acceptable with strangers. And that's the problem. We created a separation from each other, our environment, and even what we eat. We're so disconnected. We don't even know where our food comes from. So why should we care about our neighbours? We're just too busy and focused on our needs. But it's not our fault. The system is designed that way. I've come to realize that this disconnection is the cause of most of our global crises today. So I wanted to return to our "roots". In my search, I was surprised there were many alternative economies, like the "gift economy" that we have with our family and friends. But I found it's this gift economy movement is all over the world that expanded beyond our families. Internationally, I found free housing, free transport, free food, free skills/services, and much more on this site for example: http://wiki.gifteconomy.org/
GiftEconomy
wiki.gifteconomy.org
I was shocked. How do restaurants afford to give away free food? How can businesses afford to give away their services?
This was a brand new world for me, I was intrigued and I wanted to learn more. Unfortunately I couldn't find a gift economy group in Vancouver. So I decided to create a gift economy group in Vancouver and within 15 min, there were 166 members. And a CEO at a health clinic donated a 1000sq feet space for us to meet. Three days later, the group has given: Free rent for 1 person Frankinsence resins A hotel room for two for 7 days A healing session and wellness services A keyboard, kombucha, gardening compost, A laptop, and an iPod Touch for the community. Eventually, a stranger read my blog, and gave me a free car. But the gift isn't the car. It's the connection, the friendship, and the removal of transaction which isolates us each other. I feel so much happier by giving and receiving, compared to buying and selling. I wanted to do an experiment. Will stopping trade make me feel healthier just like Mark Boyle? Since I decided to stop buying and selling, I had to figure out how to depend on relationships instead of money. Wow. It was scary at first because I stopped depending on my purchase power for my needs, and became vulnerable to others. But now I feel so happy! Despite having a stomach tumour, I sleep better, and I feel healthier than I've ever been. I normally wouldn't have the energy to stay on the computer for so long to do this interview, for example. Normally 5 minutes is all I can do.
A: Has your illness gotten better since you begin this free economy journey? or you just feel better emotionally and psychologically?
B: I am honestly surprised at how good and happy I feel, I have never felt like this for many years. I feel incredible. And I knew this was important because it affects your physical health. I read a study that the disconnection from monetary transactions and consumerism causes loneliness which was found to be a worse health factor than smoking 15 cigarettes per day and twice worse than obesity. This shocked me! We're so focused on diet, and exercise, but here we are, completely unaware how the isolation and separation we have from each other affects us. Most people don't realize how connected your mind, body, and environment are. That's another thing that trade does - it disconnects you from seeing everything in a holistic way. It's been said that "Vancouver is a lonely city", and it's the "2nd least affordable city in the world". Well, it looks like these two outcomes are far more interconnected than I realized.
A: That's great to hear you're feeling good. Are these connections in real life or mostly online?
B: I'd say 70% of the people I have met, and some I have yet to meet but plan to. It's hard to give someone a car online, you know!
A: How do you put gas in your free car? That still requires money?
B: Here's where most people get tripped: The problem isn't necessarily just money (or gold, corn, barley, whatever resource you use), but the social transaction we do with it which is the buying, selling, accumulating and trade of it. In an ideal world, we wouldn't need money. Unfortunately, most of us don't live sustainably off-grid and have a greenhouse growing our food. In Vancouver, we are dependent in the monetary economy. But what we do with money is still our choice. We can trade and exchange money for housing, gas, and services, which will further disconnect us, harm us, and contribute to an unsustainable economy, or we can freely give and receive money, housing, and food with no strings attached. Just like we do with family and friends.
As for the car, I already have someone who offered to drive me around so I had no need for it. I decided to re-gift the car to someone else. They were really happy to receive it! On a funny note, the man who gave me the car has another car that runs on vegetable oil from restaurants. Yes, vegetable oil. Not gasoline. He says: "In fact, when Mr. Diesel presented his new engine to the world at the beginning of the 20th century, it ran on....peanut oil."
A: then the homeless people in Vancouver should have the most right out of anybody to ask to be gifted, according to your logic
B: Not necessarily. That's another thing that also confuses people. Receiving a gift isn't about affordability. Everyone needs love, the rich and the poor. In fact, I believe it's the wealthy who need to experience removing monetary transactions the most. The poor already understand the value of the gift economy - receiving and giving without trade. They do it all the time. However, the wealthy rely on money a lot more, and are psychologically dependent on it, despite the fact that it harms their mental and physical health. Remember the study by Paul Piff earlier? He found that the more you have, the less you give. It surprises many people that the wealthy are financially insecure too. I recall one of them saying: "I will be financially secure when I have $1 billion in the bank." Because $500 million isn't enough. In many studies, it's especially the case for wealthy children. They tend to have more distress than lower income kids, and have a high risk of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, cheating and stealing. So I would say they need to experience love too.
A: So this gifting is healing our society as a whole, not just an efficient way of resource allocation?
B: It's both and more. Again, like the onion analogy, it has multiple layers. It starts in the mind. When you give and receive, it changes your psychology. Once your psychology is changed, then your behaviour changes. Once your behaviour changes, then you begin to heal yourself and others. You won't want to accumulate more for yourself or play Monopoly games by buying and accumulating more. Right now there are around 83 Canadians who hold 70% of our wealth, and have more than 11 million people. That's significant because this buys you political power. And as the Nobel Economist Joseph Spitglitz explained, it's not necessarily because they worked hard and earned it but because of governmental deficiencies. But once you're healed, then you can create a more equal society, which eventually leads to more investment in governmental infrastructure, health care, social services, and social enterprise. All these things leads to reducing factors contributing to cancer on multiple levels.
A: Why don't you like trade, how is it different from gifting?
B: I can only speak for myself and having experienced the difference between trading and giving. Buying and selling is trade. It's based on a system of scarcity. Giving and receiving is love. Love is very healing, and very different than trade. Of course, you can trade from a spirit of friendship and it can be a pleasant experience. But without a fair exchange of value... there is no connection anymore. It's a totally difference experience. As I said before, you don't trade with your family and friends. Why do this with others? Having someone cooking a meal for me compared to buying it at a store where you don't know where it comes from… is a very different experience. When you cook for someone, you care more about what you're doing. When you sell a product for the masses… you have other priorities, you care more about economic growth, reducing costs, marketing, and shareholders satisfaction.
A: This is all great if everyone is a good person, I can see people taking advantage of other's generousity and good nature through this system and keep on taking
B: Well, think of it like family. If you have a family member who keeps being a "taker" and taking advantage of it, you will have a discussion with them. You want to know what's going on. It's all about relationships. There are no 'strangers', we are all connected. Most people who take advantage of others are actually those who have the most such as the studies from Paul Piff showing the upper-class are more likely to steal candies from children. And in fact, if everyone did that and the society was more equal like in Sweden, social crime rates and those kind of selfish behaviours are reduced. People want to give more, because there isn't any stress of feeling scarcity, social status anxiety, or wanting to compete for resources.
A: I believe it's two tracks of beliefs and values... those raised to be true capitalist is about taking it all! and leaving none for their competition, hence small towns shuts down typically 4.5 years after a walmart moves in, killing all the mom and pop shops in town. how do you go talk to the CEOs of Walmart about the ethics and sharing? And what would talking accomplish? Why do you think it took a revolution for communism to be installed in Russia and even then that didn't work to create equality and sharing among people.
B: I don't have the answers. I'm not an economist. I'm not a policy maker. I'm a man with cancer fighting for his life, and trying to create ripples for others. But what I would love is to be part of a public discussion of social scientists, government policy makers, and businesses to discuss this problem. Unfortunately, this isn't happening. Our government and businesses are concerned about bandaid solutions and economic growth, which will lead to our destruction. We're all focused on "cures", instead of focusing on causes. What's the point of giving vitamins to a sick fish in polluted water? It accomplishes nothing, unless we talk to the polluter. So I absolutely agree with you. Yes, we need to talk to the CEO of Walmart.
A: How can people find you?
B: People can sign up to our website http://gifteconomy.ca I almost forgot we have one! The domain was gifted, and the web designer gifted $1000 worth of her services to build it, and our blog: http://gifteconomyinvite.blogspot.ca/
A: Anything else you'd like to share with our readers?
B: Have you heard of Jon Jandai? He's a TED speaker from Thailand. He said "clever people are so stressed working for 30 years to pay their mortgage, how can an uneducated man like me ever get one? but it took me 3 months to build my home. Now I have so much free time to think about what contribution I can give. There's lots of festivals in Thailand because people have so much free time." He's a funny guy with very simple philosophy.
Conscious Entrepreneur: RozeMerie Cuevas, Founder/Fashion Designer of Jacqueline Conoir and JAC by Jacqueline Conoir
Photo courtesy of Minaz Kurji at the most recent Summer Collection where a well dressed crowd browsed and enjoyed the show
A: Please tell us what stories you like our readers to know about you that other media hasn't covered already?
R: We have been in business 28 years, designing the Jacqueline Conior and JAC brand. I travel all over the world each year to bring the latest and greatest to my customers. I LOVE what I do, and this journey has been a constant challenge, but very rewarding both professionally and personally.
A: What has been challenging?
R: We reinvented` ourselves 3 times in that 28 years because fashion is ever changing, trends must keep up with the needs and changes of the consumer.
A: As a successful business woman with a great family, what is your secret?
R: As a mother of two daughters, age 21 and 24, I found balancing time is the most crucial key. I don't feel guilty working, but when I travel, I always save a few days just for me to relax. The ratio is about 80% work vs 20% play. Although I find it hard to turn my mind off on my days off. Another very useful tip is to bring your family into the business. My husband and I have brought our daughters from a young age to fashion shows, and events, so they grew up around the business. They are proud of the two brands and contribute daily to their success by continuing to assist in many ways now that they are young adults.
A: Where do you find your inspiration?
R: I do a lot of research by people watching, window shopping around the world. You look at how people style themselves on the street while sipping a cappicino, or see how they mix fabric and patterns in the window shops, then I add my own flare and signature to create Jacqueline Conoir and JAC by Jacqueline Conoir.
A: Where did you go last year?
R: Columbia, Miami, Asia, Italy, Paris, Los Angeles
A: Your favourite city among those?
R: Florence and Paris
A: How would you describe your designs?
R: North American cool, Italian sexy, and French Hippy chick. North American cool is edgy, Italian sexy is sophisticated, and French Hippy chick has a real feminine flair. Our main clientele is age 25-35 and age 35-45.
A: I find that most people save their "Good outfit" for a special events like a gala or holiday party, but dress very casual normally, what is your take on that?
R: Look good everyday, JUST wear it! I sometimes wear an evening gown with cowboy boots.
A: SHOCKED, to where?
R: To a dinner party that I host at my house for friends
A: So Rozemerie, a friend told me recently that European ladies due to their small closet dress very differently from North American women. Sticking to mostly black, good quality pieces, and change day to night with different jewellery, accessories, and shoes, is that true? And what do you think?
R: YES, it's totally true. Europeans invest in their clothes and buy more expensive quality pieces, and dress up everyday. Whereas North Americans' wardrobe is made up of casual wear for hiking or outdoor activities and very elegant black tie wear, but not too much in between. And people are afraid to wear their really nice outfits since they're so used to wearing casual clothes all the time. The west coast is changing slowly and we are seeing a slow shift towards conscious fashion statements delivered by the fashion savvy.
A: You keep mentioning "Good Quality" clothes, what exactly is your definition of good quality clothes?
R: Invest your money into new trend, not trendy, avoid disposal garment like $20 tops from big name fashion conglomerates that you can only wear once or twice before it loses its shape or the thread start coming off. Good quality clothes are made from natural fabric like cotton, silk, rayon and will make you feel amazing and will give you more bang for your money.
A: How often shall we add to our wardrobe, and how much is appropriate to spend?
R: You can consider adding 2-3 outfits to your wardrobe each season. When I say outfit, I mean a jacket, top and bottom or a jacket with a dress.
A: I read a lot of fashion magazines, and they always promote new trends, yet there are so many articles telling us to buy classic outfits like a little black dress. What gives?
R: When shopping each season, stick to 80% classic and timeless, 20% on trend.
A: Would you recommend buying in black since everyone looks good in black?
R: No, this year the neutral is white, Charcoal is also a popular neutral and next year it will be dark brown. Not everyone looks good in black. Any elegant women will look good in good quality clothes. The fit and fabric of a garment is way more important than the colour. A lot of women get stuck in a style rut because they're used to seeing themselves in a certain look, and when they try on a new look, they cannot be comfortable with this new version of themselves, despite the fact they look good. It is important to stay fresh in aspects of life, fashion is just one of the aspects.
A: Vancouver women are famous for running around in our yoga pants, what do you suggest is easy dressing for moms out there?
R: Gray jeans, with a cool casual T-shirt, platform shoes or kitten heel with a short-cropped jean jacket and you're ready to go. I am a mom, and I have never spent more time in yoga pants unless I am actually practicing yoga.
A: As our society become more critical of women's looks, a lot of people are getting plastic surgery, what are your thoughts on that?
R: That is a personal choice and I'm not here to judge. Everyone is beautiful what ever their size or shape. As long as you take care of yourself, it will show. Looking great is doing the best you can, choosing the pieces that will work best with your shape. We have always used real people as models for our fashion shows to showcase the beauty in diversity.
A: I sometimes see baby-boomer ladies dressing like a teenager, any advice there to looking young?
R: All women want to look "fresh", not young. Fresh is a feeling like right after a facial. It's an attitude that will carry with you throughout the day. There are many current, modern brands that will help give a fresh look, no need to go after the brands that cater to teenagers. JAC by Jacqueline Conoir is one of them.
A: A lot of wealthy Chinese ladies look up and try to emulate Kate Middleton's style, would you say she's a new style icon?
R: Every woman has different personalities, and fashion is the playground for you to express the different side of you. Maybe today you dress like Kate Middleton, tomorrow you dress like Kate Moss. You don't have to dress like a classy conservative to be a good person. Use fashion to express your many personalities. We all have them.
A: Sometimes, fashion design barely covers the body, as a mom of two young ladies, what are you thoughts?
R: Fashion and Music pushes the limits, as they're an art form. It's personal choice what you wear. I think it's great for entertainment, but not really for everyday situations. It's our job as parents to guide our children's fashion sense. To help them understand the difference between entertainment fashion and street fashion. It is then up to them to decide how they want to project their own personalities through fashion statements.
A: Why is it okay for Entertainment and not the street? Are you aware of the #SLUTWALK? Where women wear their bra and mini skirt with protest signs saying my outfit does not give you permission to rape me, shouldn't we able to wear whatever we want anywhere?
R: It's okay for Entertainment because it's their freedom for expression. In the perfect world, we should able to wear whatever we want, unfortunately, it is not a perfect world and so we must always be careful of where and how we express ourselves. Wear what you want but be sure you are in a safe environment, be aware of who you are with. If you are wearing something to go clubbing, go with 20 friends.
A: What are your pet peeves?
R: Disposable clothes.
A: Your favourite accessories?
R: Shoes and scarves.
A: Any favorite shoe brands?
R: All kinds.
A: If you met the younger version of you at age 19, what life advice would you give her?
R: Always work really hard in the direction you want to go. Every challenge and obstacle has a solution and there are so many possibilities if you chose to go after them.
A: How has your feminine qualities helped you success in this mostly patriarchal business world?
R: You'll see this a lot with top tier successful women. They negotiate different obstacles in a calm, compassionate, patient and logical manner with a 360 degree holistic approach.
A: As a Vancouverite, why are you proud of Vancouver?
R: It's a clean, beautiful city that is well planned with gorgeous mountains and oceans.
A: Any last word to our readers?
R: Just our philosophy:
JAC LIVES FREELY, leads by example, loves life, projects success, inspires, empowers action, knows what she wants. Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think & twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined.
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Are you searching for the Best Repost App For Instagram?
1 Best Repost Apps for Instagram: (Benefits)
2 4 Review of The Best Repost Apps For Instagram (2021)
2.1 1- Repost to Instagram
2.1.1 User Interface
2.1.2 Available
2.1.3 Pro Version
2.2 2- Repost Photo and Video on Instagram
2.2.3 There is no Pro Version
2.3 3- Repost Via Instant
2.4 4- Reposter for Instagram
2.4.1 Friendly Interface
2.4.3 No cost
3 Is Instagram Safe for Posting?
4 Most Frequently Asked Questions
4.1 Which Instagram repost app is the best?
4.2 How can you repost an entire Instagram story?
4.3 Is Instagram free to repost?
4.4 Is it possible to repost multiple images on Instagram?
5 Summing Up
Here are the top four apps to help you repost on Instagram. I hope you find the best Instagram repost apps. These apps can be downloaded from the buttons provided below each app's review. You can also review the app.
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Before we start the review, let's understand why the Instagram repost app is so important. Is this the right question to ask? If you know the answer, skip this section to read our reviews of 3 top Instagram repost apps. Otherwise, please stay with me!
Best Repost Apps for Instagram: (Benefits)
These apps offer many benefits, both direct and indirect. These benefits all revolve around Instagram marketing. Everyone wants to grow their Instagram followers. Some people are looking to gain fame by increasing their followers. Many people want more followers to help promote their businesses. Reposting is one way to increase your followers.
Two reasons can be given for reposting. Both reasons lead to the same conclusion: people want more followers. People don't have the time or energy to post on Instagram so they want to be as active as possible. They use Instagram repost apps to accomplish this.
People also want to repost photos and videos of celebrities in order to reach a large number of Instagram users. It is impossible with the official Instagram app. This is why I'm going to review the 3 Best Repost Apps For Instagram. These apps are great for reposting.
4 Review of The Best Repost Apps For Instagram (2021)
As I mentioned earlier, many apps are available on legitimate platforms such as Google Play Store or Apple Store. This review will help us find the best reposting app. To determine the best app, we will compare the speed, features, and user interface of 10 apps. I hope you enjoy this review. Keep reading!
1- Repost to Instagram
Our top pick is " Reply for Instagram". It's one of the most popular repost apps on Instagram. The app is available for download on Google Play Store. This app has received thousands of 5-star reviews.
This app will watermark the photo (of the username) so that the owner can credit you. It also captures the caption from the original image.
It's one of the most intuitive apps from an interface perspective. The options are simple and straightforward. Copy the URL to post any content directly from this app. This app also has a detailed guide in video and text.
Both iOS and Android users can access it. This app's uptime is 99.9%. You don't have to worry about Compatibility. For this app to work properly on Android, you need to have at least 4.2 Android version.
The pro version costs $4.99 and can be used to remove the watermark. You can also remove ads with the pro version.
This app is available for both Android and iOS. You can download it for free, but you will need to subscribe to get rid of ads and watermark.
2- Repost Photo and Video on Instagram
This app is an alternative to my first choice. This means there are quality features available in this app. This app allows you to repost videos and photos. To repost on Instagram, you will need to link to the photo or video.
You don't have to buy a subscription plan. However, you can donate $2 to support the app's development. I hope that you enjoy the features in this app.
This app's user interface is much more intuitive than the previous one. This does not mean the old one is not great. Both apps have a great user interface, but this one is better.
The app is free for both Android and iOS users. This app is powered by powerful servers that ensure high speeds all the time. It works even when there are many users.
There is no Pro Version
The app is not available in a pro version, but you can get all the features for free. If you wish to show your appreciation, you can give $2 to the app's developer.
You can get this app free for both iOS and Android devices, as I mentioned. Android Emulator allows you to use the app on your computer.
3- Repost Via Instant
Repost Via Insta acts more like a downloader than a reposter. You can use this app to download photos and videos for free on your device. These videos and photos can be uploaded to your Instagram account later. You can download videos and photos by entering the URL of a particular video or photo to be downloaded.
Because of its features, it is quite different from previous apps. The previous apps offered the ability to post photos and videos, but this app allows you to save them.
This app's user interface is simple and intuitive. The user interface is easy to use and anyone can quickly become familiar with it. To download a photo or video, simply enter the URL into the box.
This app is compatible with both Android and iOS devices. You can also download the app to your computer using Android Emulator. It can be downloaded from the link below.
The app is free to download and install on both your Android and iOS devices. To remove ads from the app, you can also buy the subscription plan.
4- Reposter for Instagram
Instagram is loved by the majority of users around the globe. Reposter for Instagram is also a great way to gain more fans for fame and grow your business. Did you know? This app is downloaded by thousands of Instagram users every day because it has unique and excellent features. Let's talk more about the features of this app.
Friendly Interface
This application was designed with easy-to-use keys. It is available to all Instagram users. It can even be used without any special techniques.
This application is available and accessible. It is available on both iOS and Android devices. Click on the "For Android and iPhone, Get Free Instagram Repost App Click " to download the most recent version.
Many Instagram users paid for this app. What can they do if they don't have any money? This is where we can help. Click on the link below to download this app for free.
Is Instagram Safe for Posting?
If you do it correctly, reposting Instagram photos, videos and stories is safe. This concept is essential. Official Instagram doesn't allow you to download videos, photos, or stories. It is also not permitted to repost any content.
However, you can still download and repost any item with permission from the owner. Some reposting apps have been shared. Some apps place the watermark as the username of the owner. Some apps do not give credit to the owners. It is up to you what you do with the stories, photos, and videos.
Instagram users have many questions about repost apps. Follow our words to find the answers to your frequently asked questions!
Which Instagram repost app is the best?
You don't have to worry if you want the best Instagram repost app. Repost for Instagram, Regrann and Repost via Instant are all available for download. You can also find all details about these apps in the section above.
How can you repost an entire Instagram story?
Our guidelines allow you to repost an entire Instagram story. First, open the post you wish to regram and then click on the three dots in the upper right corner. Next, open the repost on Instagram and the application. Next, select the "caption copy" option. The application will ask you to open Instagram.
Is Instagram free to repost?
You can download the Instagram reposting app free of charge. The best app for everyone was provided free of charge. You can find the download links in the section above.
Is it possible to repost multiple images on Instagram?
It is possible to repost multiple images on Instagram. It allows you to repost multiple photos, videos, or stories at once.
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CLEMSON, S.C. – Clemson softball head coach John Rittman will hold the first-ever John Rittman Softball Camps on the campus of Clemson University in April of 2018. Rittman announced the camp dates and information, and opened registration on his website, JohnRittmanSoftballCamps.com, on Friday morning.
Rittman will hold four one-day sessions of camp on April 6-9, featuring one pitching camp, one hitting camp and two hitting, infield and outfield camps. Complete details, pricing and registration information are available on JohnRittmanSoftballCamps.com.
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Custom Works Zon named the motorcycle "Departed" and unveiled it in December at the Hot Rod Custom Show in Japan. It also won Best of Show Motorcycle, which is the highest motorcycle honor at the hot rod event. This BMW motorcycle prototype has proven itself to be an amazing result of the collaboration between Custom Works Zon and BMW Motorrad.
The "Departed" motorcycle features a classic look that, according to Ultimate Motorcycling, resembles one of Ernst Henne's motorcycles from the 1920s and 1930s.
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On Easter comes Resurrection, although, the day may bring to a close an unimaginable period of pain in hardship, dying, burial. These are the extremes, the unexpected, the unexplained which lead up; the stuff which perplexes, shames, incapacitates. These take the limelight away from all former challenges of any sort; they ravage the mind, annihilate the soul, blow out of the proverbial water, and throw for a total loop. Have we seen them? They are not every day occurrences but may have found us. Our prayer is for God's delicate help when it happens.
So, with these personal tools, men and women navigate through life's bumps and bruises, doglegs and turns, sand traps and hazards. We adapt, we turn, we shift and we squirm; we go out of bounds but recover. Our gravitational pull again and again returns us and settles us into cozy well-being, comfort, balance, "rhythm" and hope for the future. Thus, from agitation to sensibility, discomfort to peace, shame to poise, fear to strength, we go; and it all requires a temper of cruciality, a level of attention, a degree of focus, a certain quantity of regard.
As faithful followers of Christ, we may be enthusiastic learners, but presently staggered, as death even now amputates the whole above scheme. We have obediently applied the Word and let it have it's way in us. We have reckoned ourselves dead and alive unto God with newness of life. We are gaining measures of repose. We have a level of surrender to God's will. However, dying changes every jot and tittle of efficacy —it had been a progressive undergoing, but now suddenly. "Former instincts just ain't working, prior guides can't be found, and previous senses won't be mustered!" Oh, No! "Levels of seriousness must be increased!" It is thought in panic. "I must give more diligence!" Notwithstanding, those skills are gone, caput, zeroed, yanked, shanked and banked. They disappeared! The whole darn set of em moved to Alaska. Is it a dirty trick? No, no, no; it is the plan of our loving, benevolent, all-knowing God. We are in the incubator of caring watch.
See folks, unless this kind of thing occurs in our secret world, resurrection remains an abstract concept. It doesn't come inside yet! It's nice and true and we own it, but it doesn't bear fully on our inner being. The house stands but the people ain't home. The true meaning of the Cross and resurrection must be allowed to impact our experience or they remain askew.
This helps us grasp the weird state of some poor friends; they refuse to let the cross have its perfect work, and patience; to become perfect and entire, wanting nothing. They experience the devastation, but try to cope with the loss without God's ever present resurrection life skills which are waiting to elevate, elevate, elevate.
Loved ones, your "street smart" navigational charting might be sufficient for you, but not for God. Maybe your regulated routine comprised "good moral decisions," maybe "instinctual flying by the pant-seat," maybe "psychological quackery with self-help maintenance," maybe "eating is everything," or maybe "religion" or "here a little there a little" —maybe a little nip in a pinch, or a fling for "sanity" sake. You hold to your ways, but Our Father continually offers a "come up here" for each of us. "Come away my love," "come out from among them and touch not the unclean thing, and I will be a Father unto you" This is resurrection.
So, let's review. "Capacity" is the ability to receive, hold or absorb something. Hence, the dismay of your inferior system-failure weakens natural receiving. It hinders your holding-on-to, and your absorbing ability. Nevertheless, released from its hold, your receptivity for God's Spirit actually increases, giving ability to absorb and keep His Word and Person. Your failed self-confidence, gives competence for God. Friends, your relied-upon rules didn't touch the problem —neither your intuition nor sixth-sense. You discovered that no level of seriousness was enough to handle this unique time, place, or event. Take heart fellows, all these losses are escorting us to resurrection aptitude, ability, faculty, power, capability, inclination, and proclivity, which are now vitalized in God's eternal quality of life.
Yes, the personal infrastructure which normalized our coping gives way to the loving presence and government of God and His Word. Our adapting settles in God's grace, our equilibrium in God's peace, our buoyancy in His love, and our "rubber meets the road," in His faith. In every situation we become grace oriented. Not a license to sin or Word violation, grace-filtering is our 24 hour a day shelter, and no matter what happens we adjust to it. If it appears that we will die, grace direction causes us to be relaxed, contented. If threatened, we are poised.
Folks, oppression comes often when blessings have been present; depression happens only when we accept the oppression. With our new grace point of reference we can make a series of godly decisions, let go, and relax. God is holding us and our soul in life. See, Spirit sensing remains ever present. The word of grace will metabolize, and our doctrine will become wisdom. We are now willing to be last, to relax, and even to joke around.
Finally, some get to suffer In 2 Timothy 3:12; and then these get to reign for eternity. They have traded in their "good moral decisions," or "instinctual flying by the pant-seat," or their "psychological quackery with self-help maintenance," or "eating is everything," or religion, or "here a little there a little." These forgot the little nip that works in a pinch, or the fling for "sanity" sake. Now they confess and cleave to Christ in all situations and communicate His nature, and manifest His life. They confess His doctrines, and do all in faith obedience and find grace relaxation in trials. They are the objects of His love, the apples of His eye. They are "all glorious within" and the King greatly desires their beauty.
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I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor. Having over 500 hours of training in Gestalt Therapy I continues to hone on my skills by consulting and working with seasoned Gestalt therapists around the country and applying this knowledge to my work in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP). Having its roots in Gestalt and Person Centered Therapy, EAP is an organic fit for my abilities, talents, and interests. I became certified by the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA) in 2006 and currently in the process of completing my Advanced Certification. I spend most of my professional time utilizing my equine staff to assist a variety of populations. The horses provide a bridge to self-awareness, mindfulness and healing that can augment, assist, and springboard treatment. Working with the horses promotes empowerment, self-esteem, personal responsibility and experiential learning, healing and growth. I have also attended the Level I training in the Murray Method and utilizes these tools in the arena; specifically focusing on the recognition and reuniting of the fragmented self that is often a result of trauma.