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Child Protection and Vulnerable Persons Safeguarding Policy
Adopted by Council: 19th November 2019
Planned Review Date: November 2022
Crewe Town Council is committed to ensuring that all employees, volunteers, service users, clients and visitors are safeguarded in line with the provisions of the Working Together 2014 of the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (PHSA 3.1, 3.7)
Safeguarding means protecting an individual's right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect. It is about people and organisations working together to prevent and stop both the risks and experience of abuse or neglect, while at the same time making sure that an individual's wellbeing is promoted including, where appropriate, having regard to their views, wishes, feelings and beliefs in deciding on any action
It must be recognised that adults sometimes have complex interpersonal relationships and may be ambivalent, unclear or unrealistic about their personal circumstances. People have complex lives and being safe is only one of the things they want for themselves
1. Scope of the Policy and Procedure
The aim of this policy and procedure is to ensure:-
the safety of adults at risk by outlining clear procedures and
that all employees, volunteers, service users, clients and visitors within Crewe Town Council are clear about their responsibilities and are trained adequately
service plans consider the need to safeguard adults at risk (PHSA 2.4)
2. Definition of Adult at Risk
An adult at risk is a person aged 18 or over; who:-
has needs for care and support (whether or not the local authority is meeting any of those needs), and
is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect, and
as a result of those needs is unable to protect himself or herself against the abuse or neglect or the risk of it
This may include a person who:-
is an older person who is frail due to ill health, physical disability or cognitive impairment;
has a learning disability;
has a physical disability and / or a sensory impairment / or communication difficulty i.e. autism;
has mental health needs including dementia or a personality disorder;
has a long-term illness / condition;
misuses substances or alcohol;
lacks capacity to make specific decisions to make particular decisions;
Within the services provided by Crewe Town Council, adults at risk could be present in any group or session, at any time so this safeguarding policy statement is applicable throughout all of Crewe Town Council activities and provision. In the case of suspected abuse initially staff, trustees or volunteers should raise an alert and submit this to the named Safeguarding Lead who will contact the Cheshire East Adult Social Care see below, and other authorities as applicable. (PHSA 4.3)
What is abuse?
Abuse of an adult can take many forms. Abuse is a violation of an individual's human and civil rights by any other person or persons. It can take a variety of forms and can be both overt and covert. The following list is not exhaustive, but is illustrative of the kinds of abuse that might be experienced:-
Physical (including Female Genital Mutilation and Honour Based Violence)
Financial or material abuse
Neglect and Acts of Omission
Discrimination abuse
Organisational abuse
Self-Neglect
3. Standards
Crewe Town Council staff and contractors (PHSA 2.3) are required to:-
Where appropriate and required by regulations have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check when they commence employment. Where this has not been undertaken staff will not be allowed to work with adults unless supervised by a member of staff who has had a clear DBS check. (PHSA 7.2).
Demonstrate respect for all service users as individuals in all matters.
Reflect on their own approach and style, recognising the inherent power their position bestows.
Undertake relevant training in safeguarding, disclosure and diversity matters. Ask a senior member of staff if they have any uncertainties about how to deal with a specific service user. (PHSA 7.1).
Ensure that all service users experience a suitable and supportive environment to encourage service user disclosure of any issues which might affect the way in which they should be treated.
Ensure all service users are aware of our Equality and Diversity policy and that they know how to complain if they become victims of harassment bullying, unfair treatment or harassment.
Ensure a diverse range of services and training that is sensitive to difference.
Invite and encourage constructive feedback from service users about standards and styles of behaviour and promote an open and honest culture of respect for diversity.
Deal with complaints of abuse, unfair treatment or harassment and bullying promptly, sensitively, confidentially and in accordance with procedures.
Ensure that all persons working for or providing services to Crewe Town Council are provided with a briefing on these safeguarding policies and procedures before any work is undertaken or any services delivered.
Report any incidents immediately to any relevant partners or commissioners.
Service users, clients, volunteers and visitors are required to:-
Help prevent inappropriate behaviour by challenging and reporting behaviour that appears to be causing distress to others.
Support an open, constructive environment within which diversity is valued positively.
Dealing with claims of abuse perpetrated by internal members of staff
This Policy makes it clear how staff are expected to perform when dealing with all service users including adults at risk. It specifically ensures that claims made of abuse by internal staff will be investigated and dealt with.
4. Safeguarding Lead
The details of the named contact for Crewe Town Council is the Town Clerk
The named person will have full awareness of the policy and procedures guidelines and have attended training on safeguarding endorsed by the local Safeguarding Board.
The named contact will be a single point of contact for the organisation in relation to:-
Honour Based Violence
Mental Capacity Act
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Trafficking / Modern Slavery
Safeguarding Procedure
If you think abuse has or may have occurred act immediately. It is the responsibility of the person first becoming aware of a situation where there may be an adult subject to, or at risk of, abuse to make safe and deal with the immediate needs of the person. This may mean taking reasonable steps to ensure the adult is in no immediate danger and seeking medical treatment if required as a matter of urgency.
Do NOT discuss the allegation of abuse with the alleged perpetrator.
Do NOT disturb or destroy articles that could be used in evidence. Where an assault of some kind is suspected do not wash or bathe the person unless this is associated with first aid treatment necessary to prevent further harm.
Do NOT discuss concerns or disclosures with other members of staff other than the safeguarding lead. (PHSA 3.2)
If the allegation is about a staff member or volunteer of any organisation, ensure that the allegation is properly managed.
Contact the police if it is thought a crime has just been committed. Telephone 101 or 999 if an emergency
Record details of the allegation as soon as possible somewhere that can be kept secure. Include:-
The allegation or concerns, including the date and time of the incident,
What the adult at risk said about the abuse and how it occurred or what has been reported to you.
The appearance and behaviour of the victim.
Any injuries observed.
Whether any dependants are also at risk (PHSA 4.4) (PHSA 1.3)
2. If the allegation is against a member of staff a volunteer or a service user of Crewe Town Council (PHSA 3.6)
Crewe Town Council will ensure that any allegations made against members or a member of staff will be dealt with swiftly and in accordance with these procedures:-
The worker must ensure that that the vulnerable adult is safe and away from the person against whom the allegation is made.
The named person for safeguarding should be informed immediately.
In the case of an allegation involving the named person, alternative arrangements should be sought to ensure that the matter is dealt with by an independent person.
(Note: this could be a committee member, director or anyone within the organisation that is in a senior position within the organisation and believed to be independent of the allegations being made).
The named person should contact the local authority social services team for advice on how to proceed with the immediate situation. Outside of working hours the Emergency Duty Team can give advice and / or in the event of an emergency situation arising, the police.
The individual who first received / witnessed the concern should make a full written record of what was seen, heard and/or told as soon as possible after observing the incident / receiving the report. It is important that the report is an accurate description. The named person (if appropriate) can support the worker during this process but must not complete the report for the worker. This report must be made available on request from either the police and / or social services.
Regardless of whether a police and / or social services investigation follows, Crewe Town Council will ensure that an internal investigation takes place and consideration is given to the operation of disciplinary procedures. This may involve an immediate suspension and/or ultimate dismissal dependant on the nature of the incident.
Whistle blowing will not prejudice the position or prospects of Crewe Town Council staff or volunteers (PHSA 3.3)
3. Bring the concern to the attention of your Safeguarding Lead
It is the responsibility of the Safeguarding Lead to:-
Decide without delay on the most appropriate course of action once the allegation or suspicion of abuse has been raised.
Deal with any immediate needs:-
Ensure that the victim of the alleged abuse is safe
Ensure that any necessary emergency medical treatment is arranged
Ensure that no forensic evidence is lost
If the alleged perpetrator is also an adult at risk, ensure that another member of staff / manager is allocated to attend to their needs and ensure that other service users are not put at risk.
Clarify the facts stated by the member of staff but do NOT in any circumstances discuss the allegation of abuse with the alleged perpetrator or, if possible, the victim.
Check that the circumstances fall within the safeguarding adult's procedure i.e. meeting the definition of abuse as defined in this Policy and Procedure.
Address issues of consent and confidentiality, taking care to not promise confidentiality
A formal referral must be made on the same day as the alert is raised when:
A crime has been, could have been, or yet could be committed.
There is a suspicion that an abuse has taken place.
The allegation involves a child
The alleged perpetrator is themselves an adult at risk.
They are unsure if abuse has taken place
Where a decision is made NOT to refer, the alert must be recorded, with the reasons for the decision not to refer.
All incidents, allegations of abuse and complaints must be recorded, monitored and available for internal and external audit. (PHSA 2.1, 2.2)
The Referral Stage
This involves bringing the concern regarding alleged abuse or potential abuse formally to the attention of the following authorities as appropriate:-
All referrals should be made to: Cheshire East Adult Social Care. The following number should be called 0300 123 5010 or 0300 123 5500
The police if you think a crime may have been committed – Telephone 101 and specify it is a safeguarding issue (999 in an emergency).
If a child is also at risk contact Cheshire East Children's Services. The following number should be called 0300 123 5012 or 0300 123 5500
Outside normal office hours, or on weekends or Bank Holidays, contact should be made for children's and adults on the out of hours number 0300 123 5022 or 0300 123 5500
The person making the referral should ideally have the following information available; however, the lack of any of this information should not delay the referral:-
The name of the adult
Date of birth and age
Address and telephone number
Why the adult is considered to be at risk
Whether consent has been obtained for the referral, and if not the reasons e.g. the adult lacks mental capacity or there is an over-riding public interest (e.g. where other adults or children are at risk)
What the person involved has said they want to happen next (the referral needs to be made, with details of those involved even if the person has not given consent, but this needs to be included in the information given)
Whether there are any concerns or doubts about the mental capacity of the adult at risk
Whether the police are aware of the allegation, and whether a police investigation is underway
If possible, use the Cheshire East Safeguarding referral form (Appendix 2)
The designated lead should receive acknowledgement or the referral from the relevant agency, and be given feedback about what happens next. This will not always be appropriate to pass on to the person completing the first account report.
Appendix 1 - Crewe Town Council Safeguarding Action Plan
Safeguarding Action Plan Form
Appendix 2 - Cheshire East Council Adult Safeguarding Referral Form
Adult Safeguarding Referral Form
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The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says biologists have confirmed the presence of smallmouth bass in Kimball Pond in Vienna.
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After the Split, What Will the Two New HPs Be Worth?
Suprise! HP is worth more in pieces than together.
By Arik Hesseldahl Oct 6, 2014, 7:41am EDT
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Now that it has confirmed its plans to split into two companies, what HP shareholders (and potential buyers) would like to know is: What are they worth split up?
More, but not that much more, according to Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst with Bernstein Research who has covered HP for years. He has long argued that a split of some kind was likely.
In a not-so-surprising note to clients this morning, Sacconaghi argues that a sum-of-the-parts analysis of HP is worth as much as $42 a share, or about $78 billion and change, versus the $66 billion market cap it posted on Friday before news of the split was revealed.
He writes that the strategic reasoning for the break-up is "not compelling," but HP's shares are among the cheapest tech stocks in the S&P 500, which means that the breakup could boost the share price: "Splitting the company into two and ascribing the multiples of its weakest competitors still leads to upside in the stock."
Valuing HP was tough as several divisions are "challenged for growth and face heavy structural headwinds," making the case that CEO Meg Whitman has made that this is a move to "unlock value" a formidable task.
Worse, he says, splitting the companies in two will get rid of about $1 billion worth of operational synergies. That's not a made up number: When HP CEO Meg Whitman shelved a previously proposed spin-off of HP's PC unit in 2011, she underpinned her argument with this very $1 billion in saved operational costs.
So here's how Sacconaghi thinks HP's valuation breaks down:
Personal Systems or PC Group: Expected to bring in $34.3 billion in revenue in 2014, if it were a standalone company, this group would sell for about $6.9 billion or about 0.2x sales or about $3.60 per share. For comparison he says PC companies like eMachines, Gateway and IBM's PC division all sold at a similar valuation.
Imaging and Printing: Printing may be on the decline, but there's still a lot of cash to be made by selling ink and printer supplies. Sacconaghi figures the printing unit will bring in about $23 billion in revenue and post an operating profit of about $3.9 billion in 2015. Assuming a ratio of between 9 and 11 times forward earnings, the printing unit is worth between $28.4 billion and $33.4 billion, he says, or between $15 and $17.60 a share. For comparison, he looks to the valuations of Xerox and Lexmark.
All in, the company that will be called HP Inc. will be worth about between $30 billion and $35 billion.
That brings us to HP Enterprise. The Enterprise hardware group, which sells servers, storage and networking equipment, plus the software group would together be worth between 7.4x and 9.8x forward earnings which yields a valuation range of between $28.2 billion and $37.7 billion. He compares it to the valuations of companies like Cisco Systems, Oracle, EMC and NetApp.
Then there's the Enterprise Services business, a long troubled unit within HP. Sacconaghi pegs its value at a little below $15 billion, or about 0.7 times its estimated $22.5 billion in sales.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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Why is my power adapter not charging my computer?
Why is my keyboard unresponsive at times?
Why won't my Optical Disk Drive open?
For further information regarding problems with the Toshiba Satellite A105-S4074 and common troubleshooting issues, please see Toshiba Satellite A105-S4074 Troubleshooting.
The Toshiba Satellite A105-S4074 was released June 27, 2006 and is one of many models in the Satellite A105 series. Toshiba's earliest lines of consumer notebook computers were introduced in the early 1990's to compete with the IBM ThinkPad. Later laptops in 1995 featured the Intel Pentium Processor and CD-ROM drive to compete with the Acer Aspire, Dell Inspiron and XPS, HP Pavilion and Envy, and Lenovo IdeaPad. Improvements were made in 2000 with 14" TFT screens with 16.7 million colours and SVGA resolution, and built-in DVD/CD-RW multi-drive which let users access DVD audio or multimedia information. S-Video out ports gave connectivity to external monitors or televisions, and integrated video RAM graphics accelerators made 3D rendering and gaming possible.
As of 2002, various Satellite series laptops (5005-S507, 5105-S607, and 5205-S703) were the first to ship with the NVIDIA GeForce4 Go MX440 GPU, the industry's fastest mobile processor, cPad technology, and built-in DVD-R/RW drive. Updated from earlier Satellite 5000 series laptops in early 2005 was the Satellite M40, but its Celeron M and Pentium M processors between 256MB and 2GB of slow 333MHz SDRAM and 15.4" display in native resolutions could not compare to its M45 successor released in June 2005; and with it, the Pentium M 60 GHz processor, 512MB DDR SDRam, and 5400rpm hard drive ranging in capacities from 80 to 100GB, and various Wi-Fi cards. As of June 2006, the update from the Satellite M45 to the A105 featured a slightly different case, with sleek rounded edges and a black lid; as well as standard component updates: S-Video port, 15.4" TruBrite WXGA display with Intel Graphics, 120GB hard drive, and internal DVD SuperMulti drive and Intel PRO/Wireless card. The series was discontinued in 2016 due to Toshiba no longer manufacturing laptops.


H&W Global Industries offers high quality metal finishing, electroplating, and industrial coating services. We serve clients in the aerospace, defense, automotive, marine, mining, nuclear, and medical industries.
Our environmentally-friendly plant is located in west central Pennsylvania, about 45 minutes from Pittsburgh. All H&W coating, finishing, electroplating and painting processes meet industry-accepted standards. Many of our processes meet or exceed the more stringent military standards. We accept orders ranging from just a few parts to thousands of finished pieces, often requiring multiple processes.
H&W's metal finishing services include: anodizing aluminum and its alloys, anodizing titanium, black oxide coating, BR-127 priming, CARC painting, passivation of stainless steel – both nitric and citric, electroless nickel plating, zinc plating, zinc phosphate coating, conversion coating, powder coating, industrial painting, and more. We provide custom masking as well as custom printing and graphics, threaded inserts, kiting, and secure packaging services.
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Q: Chef appbox with Error executing action `create` on resource 'user_account[deploy]' I test the chef in vagrant of ubuntu 12.04. And I use the default vagrant account vagrant to run knife solo bootstrap vagrant@192.168.33.10 and every time it shows the error below:
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Error executing action `create` on resource 'user_account[deploy]'
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Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
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user[deploy] (/home/vagrant/chef-solo/cookbooks-2/user/providers/account.rb line 94) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '6'
---- Begin output of ["useradd", "-c", "deployer", "-g", "deploy", "-s", "/bin/bash", "-u", "9001", "-d", "/home/deploy", "-m", "deploy"] ----
STDOUT:
STDERR: useradd: group 'deploy' does not exist
---- End output of ["useradd", "-c", "deployer", "-g", "deploy", "-s", "/bin/bash", "-u", "9001", "-d", "/home/deploy", "-m", "deploy"] ----
Ran ["useradd", "-c", "deployer", "-g", "deploy", "-s", "/bin/bash", "-u", "9001", "-d", "/home/deploy", "-m", "deploy"] returned 6

This disappointed me so much. Hope someone can help me.
And here is my node config file(/nodes/vagrant.json):
{
  "appbox": {
    "admin_keys":[  "ssh-rsa blabla" ],
    "deploy_keys":[  "ssh-rsa blabla" ]
  },
  "databox": {
    "db_root_password": "welcome!",
    "databases": {
      "mysql": [
        {
          "username": "get_real",
          "password": "get_real",
          "database_name": "get_real"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "github_deploys": {
    "deploy_user": "deploy",
    "github_api": {
      "username": "xxx",
      "email": "xxx@163.com",
      "password": "blabla"
    }
  },
  "rackbox": {
    "ruby": {
      "versions": ["2.0.0-p247"],
      "global_version": "2.0.0-p247"
    }
  },
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A: It will be helpful if you can provide code of your cookbook. However, the error message is quite clear.
---- Begin output of ["useradd", "-c", "deployer", "-g", "deploy", "-s", "/bin/bash", "-u", "9001", "-d", "/home/deploy", "-m", "deploy"] ----

From this line, we known chef tried to execute the following command to create a user namely deploy in deploy group.
useradd -c deployer -g deploy -s /bin/bash -u 9001 -d /home/deploy -m deploy

Then, the error message is:
STDERR: useradd: group 'deploy' does not exist

The solution should be simple: create a deploy group before creating this user. You can use the builtin group resource to do this.

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The Woman Putting The Hope Back In Hopewell
Wyatt Gordon | April 9, 2019
Topics: Big H, Hopewell, Hopewell City Council, Jasmine Gore, Millennial Mayor, tri-cities
Hopewell Mayor Jasmine Gore wants to reinvigorate the civic spirit of Richmond's southeastern neighbor by involving and inspiring its community.
Hands full of a stack of binders as she rushes out of the small, mid-century elevator of Hopewell's Municipal Building, Mayor Jasmine Gore gives the immediate impression that she has a lot to do and little time to waste. At just 32, Gore is the youngest mayor ever appointed to lead the Wonder City.
The crisp paint and sleek decor of her newly renovated office embody the fresh approach that has earned her the nickname of the "Millennial Mayor." The fact that this moniker was first coined in a snide Facebook post shows that not all Hopewell residents are excited about the city's new leadership.
"Since I got elected, I've always had to fight to show I have something to contribute," Gore said. "Some people don't take me seriously because I'm the age of their children. It makes me question: 'When does your hard work and track record speak for more than your age?'"
Gore's history in Hopewell goes back to age fourteen when her military family relocated to the city for her father's work at Fort Lee. She graduated from Hopewell High School in 2004 and went on to earn dual degrees in Political Science and Biology from VCU.
An internship with then-delegate Jennifer McClellan sparked her passion for public policy and inspired her to set her sights on elected office. Seeing little to keep young people in Hopewell, after graduation Gore returned to her hometown to help build a better future for her younger brother by volunteering on several of the city's boards and authorities.
The Beacon Theatre. Photo by Wyatt Gordon
Her dedication and eye for detail began to earn her a reputation as a woman who does her homework, and in 2012 Gore ran as an underdog for a seat on the Hopewell City Council. Her choice to create a campaign website and pursue high-profile endorsements from VA NOW and the AFL-CIO helped set her apart from her more established opponents, who relied solely on retail politics. Gore turned her youth into her strength by appealing to voters' desire for a fresh voice on the council.
With 38% of the vote, Gore defeated two other candidates to become the youngest woman ever elected to City Council, and the first black woman to represent Ward 4. She prides herself on the volunteer work and grassroots engagement that paved her way to the mayor's office. "You've gotta start from the bottom and work your way up to have a perspective at all levels."
After six years of service on City Council, including a stint as Vice Mayor, Gore's fellow council members appointed her mayor in a 4-3 vote this February. She isn't taking her new role lightly. "I'm in a unique position to connect to the community, and my age is an asset to help us improve and modernize," she said. "We need to think outside the box and meet people where they are."
Mayor Gore's push for a new culture of participatory democracy may prove just as controversial as the "Big H" at the city's entrance on Route 10. "That sculpture was discussed for years before it was put up, but people only talked about it once it was under construction, when it should've been known and debated far earlier," said Gore. "The Big H is symbolic of the change that needs to come in our political culture."
The Big H. Photo by Wyatt Gordon
Gore's first aim is to provide this new council with a clean slate to focus on Hopewell's future by putting an end to the dual sagas plaguing the Wonder City's improving image: the year-and-a-half long search for a new City Attorney, and the fraud case against the city's Comprehensive Services Act (CSA) Coordinator.
Mayor Gore hopes an efficiency and technology review currently being conducted by VCU will give City Council a better understanding of residents' needs and offer a clear set of steps to move the city forward. She has a few ideas herself as to how Hopewell can adapt in the 21st century. "We currently have no online forms in government," she said. "We can't have people scanning and faxing stuff in 2019."
Last year, when the National League of Cities chose Hopewell to be one of twelve municipalities across the country to participate in its Cities of Opportunity program, Gore recognized it as a once in a lifetime chance to revitalize the city. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the mayor hopes to focus the program's grant money and national expertise on four areas key to the city's future success: health, housing, economic opportunity, and workforce development.
Beyond her policy proposals, Gore hopes her legacy as mayor will be one of a cultural change in Hopewell's government, towards greater transparency and engagement. A converted storage room turned council office space should facilitate that change by finally allowing council members to host office hours and meet with constituents at the city's Municipal Building.
"It used to be crickets when council did something," she said. "But now that we're seeing bits of progress, more people are getting involved."
Top photo via Jasmine Gore/Facebook
Wyatt Gordon
Wyatt Gordon is a born-and-raised Richmonder who holds a master's degree in urban planning from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and a bachelor's degree in international politics from the American University in D.C. Wyatt is an urban planner and community organizer working to foster safer, more sustainable cities and greater civic participation in local government.
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Introducing the new keyword Madame Tre Sesti!
Er. I mean. The new social viral Madame Tre Sesti from Vodafone.
Whereas I can't believe this has been done in entirely in Flash (a hybrid would have done - makes it more social!), I do think this is a good idea.
The viral really does put the focus 360's ability to join your social networking together - it's not a crystal ball you're peering into, it's your phone.
Mind you. I didn't let Madame Tre Sesti connect to my Facebook. Did you?
Who's behind the butterfly attack swarm viral?


I've never been a huge fan of Big Bang Theory… and this surprises a lot of people. I'm often told things like "I'll bet you love that show" and "oh come on, that's so you!" And I think that's one of the things that bothers me about it… I mean, I'm a geek, nerd, whatever you want to call it, and that's cool. I guess I just don't like to see that exploited so unabashedly. It makes it feel like they canned it, and made it a spectacle, and that doesn't sit right for me.
On a positive note, it seems to be reasonably well-written (relative to most sitcoms), for the few episodes I've seen. And they appear to do their research. So I guess I won't complain too much about something that's ultimately helping with "acceptance" of geek/nerd culture. Even if it does trivialize it at the same time.
For some balance here, I actually like Big Bang Theory. I came up with this idea while watching it. It's basically a live action cartoon to me, and I think that's why I like it. But, it's patterns really are very obvious, which means the show runs the risk of getting old (which I'm aware has already happened for a lot of people). Regardless, I'm still going to keep watching it for a cheap laugh.
I think the show has really improved and is more interested in their relationships than in the geek jokes. Sheldon remains very much a genius borderline asperger's syndrome case but the other characters are much more 3 dimensional.
I haven't watched it enough to really agree or disagree, but what I have seen spans several seasons, and that's how I feel.
Sometimes it is clever, other times it feels like they are bashing some of the people they are trying to get interested in it (target market I think?).
Personally, I enjoy it, but am not fond of when they making inaccurate gaming references.
Yes! Exactly. The bashing thing is unsettling.
You can live it with your friends, or watch actors go through the written motions. I prefer to live it myself.
Wow… that is a fantastic post. It takes my barely developed feelings/opinions on the show and elaborates, backed with well-argued points and facts. I especially like the contrasting analysis of Community. Thank you, Wrecklaimer.
Love me some Penny nip!
I completely agree, Coliver. I like the show, but it feels canned, sometimes. The thing that gets me the most is when they get things wrong. I have trouble getting into the episode when it is based on a premise which has a two minute fix.


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KPMG moves head office to Hong Kong
Fujiko Takahashi
At a time when western economies are weighed down by worries and positive signs are scarce, international investors have been seeking more opportunities in Asia and new emerging markets.
Michael J. Andrew (far right) who in 2011 became chairman of KPMG International. Picture : KPMG Facebook Singapore https://www.facebook.com/kpmgsg
Riding that wave — if not ahead of it — is Michael J. Andrew, who in 2011 became chairman of KPMG International. Working out of Hong Kong, he is the only head of a "Big Four" accounting firm to be based in Asia Pacific.
via West moves East | Bangkok Post: business.
Jasmine Goes Big On Broadband In Thailand
Rolls-Royce opens first showroom in Thailand
Giant Thai-Chinese wholesale hub opens in Bangkok's Pratunam
The region's largest wholesale hub features products from China at wholesale prices, and products from Thai manufacturers to export to China.
Asset World Corporation (AWC) has launched the region's largest wholesale hub in the Pratunam area of Bangkok, housed in the old Pantip Plaza tech mall.
Taking the top two spots on the region's leaderboard this year are Thailand's Central Retail Corporation Public Company Limited and SCG Packaging Public Company Limited with US$1.77 billion and US$ 1.27 billion funds raised respectively
Thailand's Central Retail Corporation Public Company Limited raised US$1.77 billion in 2020
THAILAND, 26 November 2020 — Capital markets across Southeast Asia stayed resilient in 2020 despite a host of uncertainties from the evolving global health crisis to the worsening US-China trade tensions and the impact of the US presidential elections.
Thailand's antitrust agency under scrutiny over $11 Billion Tesco Deal Approval
With the Tesco deal approved, CP Group will gain control over a network of about 2,000 hypermarket and grocery stores across Thailand, and the group already operates 7-Eleven convenience stores and the Siam Makro chain.
Thailand's largest conglomerate, Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) won on Friday the Thai antitrust agency's approval for acquisition of retail giant Tesco Lotus: the Office of Trade Competition Commission (OTCC) voted 4:3 in favour of the US$10-billion takeover deal.
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An unforgettable memory of a sad Preakness story
During Preakness week, you can't help but think back to the sagas of Smarty Jones, Afleet Alex, and Barbaro - all owned by lifelong Philadelphia-area residents - since the Preakness was so often the linchpin. In 2004, Smarty Jones won at Pimlico Race Cour
Memories of Barbaro's ill-fated Preakness run are still fresh for many horse racing fans. (AP file photo)Read more
by By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Staff Writer
During Preakness week, you can't help but think back to the sagas of Smarty Jones, Afleet Alex, and Barbaro - all owned by lifelong Philadelphia-area residents - since the Preakness was so often the linchpin. In 2004, Smarty Jones won at Pimlico Race Course by the greatest Preakness margin since 1873, the first running of the Preakness. The following year, Afleet Alex stumbled and righted himself, with jockey Jeremy Rose hanging on, as the colt won a most memorable Preakness. But the most memorable was certainly the most tragic, the heartbreaking breakdown of Barbaro just strides out of the gate in 2006.
Questions from that day - May 20, 2006 - remain unanswerable, such as whether Barbaro's premature break from the gate had anything to do with his breakdown and subsequent catastrophic injuries. Barbaro lived until the following January, when laminitis forced him to be put down.
The year before, Afleet Alex's recovery had been a feel-good tale, with five Philly-area everyman owners, joining together on their first horse, who ultimately won two legs of horse racing's Triple Crown after missing a Kentucky Derby win by a length. One of the owners teared up afterward, thinking of how close the horse had come to a different fate.
How is it even possible that the dominance displayed by Smarty Jones in the 2004 Preakness - when the Kentucky Derby winner won the second jewel by 111/2 lengths - was only the third-most memorable of the three Preakness stories?
The glory of Kegasus
Whether the latest Preakness Stakes marketing campaign is stupidly brilliant or brilliantly stupid, that's beside the point - it has proved to be a winner. At least the Kegasus campaign is getting credit for Preakness advance ticket sales' being up. Those tickets are mostly being sold to folks no doubt headed straight for Pimlico's infield, the most brilliantly stupid place to be on Saturday. Many infield revelers will spend Saturday without noticing the horses occasionally circling their muddy bacchanal. (And a great portion of the revelers make their way down I-95 from this area.)
Kegasus is a simple reminder that while urinal racing may now be outlawed at Pimlico, those who miss it are still honored guests. Kegasus, the new Preakness spokes-centaur, is "part champion thoroughbred, part infield fan, and all party manimal." That's right, half horse, half shirtless dude with a nipple ring.
And you're still sure that End of Days guy is wrong about the Apocalypse coming Saturday?
Where in the world is . . .
Mark Karcher? We'll stay with the Philly-Baltimore theme here. On Thursday, the former Temple hoops star will be one of the inaugural inductees into the Baltimore Catholic League Hall of Fame. Karcher led St. Frances Academy to three consecutive Baltimore Catholic League titles, and was tournament MVP all three years. After his Temple days, Karcher played professionally in France, and now coaches St. Frances.
By Mike Jensen, Inquirer Staff Writer


in biology, has several meanings. It can mean the adjustment of living matter to environmental conditions and to other living things either in an organism's lifetime (physiological adaptation) or in a population over many many generations (evolutionary adaptation). The word can also refer to a trait that is considered an adaptation. The ability to adapt is a fundamental property of life and constitutes a basic difference between living and nonliving matter.
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..... Click the link for more information. ). Among communal insects, such as ants and honeybees, the individuals are highly adapted to perform their functions in the community.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Those that aid the organism to meet the conditions of a changing environment or help it in its competition with other living things enable it to survive and reproduce, the changes thus being passed on from one generation to another and in this way perhaps producing a new species.
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In contrast to that clear example, it is often hard to be sure of the effectiveness of what seems to be an adaptation. For example, the scombrid fishes (tunnies and mackerel) seem to be adapted to fast, economical swimming. The body has an almost ideal streamlined shape. However, some other less streamlined-looking fishes are equally fast for their sizes. There are no measurements of the energy cost of scombrid swimming, but measurements on other species show no clear relationship between energy cost and streamlining.
Evolution by natural selection tends to increase fitness, making organisms better adapted to their environment and way of life. It might be inferred that this would ultimately lead to perfect adaptation, but this is not so. It must be remembered that evolution proceeds by small steps. For example, squids do not swim as well as fish. The squid would be better adapted for swimming if it evolved a fishlike tail instead of its jet propulsion mechanism, but evolution cannot make that change because it would involve moving down from the lesser adaptive summit before climbing the higher one.
In lighting design, the process by which the human visual system becomes accustomed to more or less light, resulting from a change in the sensitivity of the eye to light.
the way in which social systems of any kind (e.g. a family group, a business firm, a nation state) 'manage' or respond to their environment. According to Talcott PARSONS,'adaptation' is one of four FUNCTIONAL PREREQUISITES which all social systems must satisfy if they are to survive. He argues that in industrial societies the need for adaptation is satisfied through the development of a specialized subsystem, the economy. See also NEOEVOLUTIONISM.
the process of accommodation of the structure and functions of organisms (individuals, populations, and species) and their organs to the conditions of the environment. At the same time, any adaptation is also a result—that is, a concrete historical stage of adaptogenesis, the adaptive process occurring in specific habitats (biotopes) and their corresponding complexes of animal and plant species (biocenoses).
The existence of adaptation in living nature was known to biologists of the past. In the 18th century, deistic biologists developed a concept according to which the phenomenon of adaptation indicates that there is in living nature a certain primordial purposefulness, in the sense of an immanent property of forms of life. This meant a rejection of the materialistic, causative, and deterministic explanation of the phenomenon of adaptation. The theory of primordial purposefulness was refuted only in the second half of the 19th century by Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin established in 1859 that the evolution of forms of life (primarily, of species) is brought about by the evolution of their adaptations to the environment. Since that time, the view has become established in biology that adaptation is not something inherent in organisms and imparted to them beforehand but, rather, that it always arises and develops under the influence of the three basic factors of organic evolution—variability, heredity, and natural selection (as well as artificial selection—that is, selection carried out by man).
Related to the evolutionary historical aspect of adaptation are nonhereditary adaptive reactions of the organism (modifications) in response to changes in the conditions of life. The adaptiveness of its organization ensures the survival of any organism, increases its rate of reproduction, and lowers its mortality rate. Adaptation is most clearly manifested in the dynamic correspondence of the morphophysiologic organization and adaptive reactions of an animal or plant to the typical and most important conditions of the environment in which this organism has developed. The form and function of all organs, as well as of their sum total in an organism, are always correlated and coadapted—that is, they correspond to each other. For example, in many cases the protective coloration of insects matches the typical "resting posture" assumed by the insect when it settles on the surface that conceals it. Analysis of the organization of any animal or plant always reveals an amazing correspondence of the form and functions of the organism to the conditions of its environment. Thus, among marine mammals, dolphins possess the most perfect adaptations to rapid movement in an aqueous medium: they are torpedo-shaped and have a special structure of the skin and subcutaneous cellular tissue that increases the body's streamlining and, consequently, the speed of sliding through the water. The investigation of the mechanisms of adaptation of various forms of life for the purpose of using them as models for the development of various technological devices is the main goal of bionics.
Within each group of organisms, a more thorough study of adaptations and their classification is possible. For example, adaptations in mammals can be grouped according to type of habitat (terrestrial forms, or chthonobionts; soil-inhabiting forms, or edaphobionts; arboreal forms, or dendrobionts; aquatic forms, or hydrobionts; aerial forms, or aviabionts; and so on), according to form of nutrition (granivores, herbivores, carnivores, and so on), or according to means of locomotion (leaping, running, climbing, and burrowing forms), among others. The organization of mammals is characterized by adaptations that correspond strictly to their ecologic features—that is, it is comprehensively adapted to all the principal conditions of life. Thus, the European mole (Talpa europaea ) has a cylindrical body, powerful forelegs with strongly developed claws, whose position fully corresponds to their burrowing function, and a vertical orientation of the hairs (the spines of the hairs do not curve back at the top, as in chthonobionts), which permits the mole to move easily both forward and backward through a narrow subterranean passage.
Strict adaptation to the principal environmental conditions is very typical and widespread in all groups of organisms, including plants. The structure and form of the root system, the stem, the leaves, and especially the reproductive organs are characterized by a marked adaptation. The study of the organs of sexual reproduction of phanerogams provides the most striking examples of morphological and functional adaptation. The blossoms of many plants are adapted to pollination by definite species of insects or birds.
If there is a change in the conditions of life, adaptation may lose its adaptive value. In such cases, the relative nature of adaptation becomes clearly apparent. Thus, the incisors of a hare maintained for a long time on a soft diet grow excessively. Partridges who have not yet replaced their summer plumage by winter plumage are easily visible in an early snow. Animal behavior also does not always correspond to the concrete conditions of life.
The sources of evolutionary historic adaptation are hereditary or genetic changes, mutations, which are characterized by an enormous diversity, just as the diversity of changes in the material basis of heredity—deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)—is inexhaustible. However, the accumulation over generations of even minor mutational changes does not lead to adaptation but, on the contrary, has a disintegrating effect: it disrupts the adaptive organization that has become established in the history of any animal or plant species. I. I. Shmal'gauzen (1942, 1946) used this fact as evidence in favor of the proposition that adaptation cannot be reduced to a mutational process and regarded as an elementary consequence of rearrangements of DNA. A dialectical contradiction thus arises between mutations and adaptation (as a historical process); this contradiction can be resolved only by selection, which transforms the mutational shifts and changes into adaptation. Since the crossing of individuals of every animal and plant species (including the self-pollinators) results in genetic combinations, selection proceeds not according to mutant characteristics but according to combinational forms. A natural heterozygosis becomes established in populations, under whose conditions the adaptive morphophysiological organization bases itself not on mutations but, rather, on combinations. The heterozygosis of populations characterizes their morphophysiological unity, the community of their species characteristics. This principle of the interrelations between mutations and adaptation (including the adaptation of domestic forms of animals and plants under conditions of artificial selection) has also been accepted in agriculture: the more heterozygous a breed is, the more stable it is. Thus, mutations and their combination under the control of selection become the source of adaptation, while selection takes on the significance of the leading creative factor in the adaptive organization of the forms of life.
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Shmal'gauzen, I. I. Organizm kak tseloe v individual'nom i is toricheskom razvitii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1942.
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Darwin, C. "Proiskhozhdenie vidov. . . ." Works, vol. 3. Moscow-Leningrad, 1939.
Zelikman, A. L. "Organicheskaia tselesoobraznost' i estestvennyi otbor." In the collection Sovremennye problemy evoliutsionnoi teorii. Leningrad, 1967.
Paramonov, A. A. "Puti i zakonomernosti evoliutsionnogo protsessa." Sovremennye problemy evoliutsionnoi teorii. Leningrad, 1967.
Adjustment to new or altered environmental conditions by changes in genotype (natural selection) or phenotype.
The occurrence of physiological changes in an individual exposed to changed conditions; for example, tanning of the skin in sunshine, or increased red blood cell counts at high altitudes.
The process by which the eye changes sensitivity and becomes accustomed to more or less light than it was exposed to during an immediately preceding period.
This definition of acculturation implies that dominant as well as non-dominant cultural groups are influenced and transformed by their intercultural contacts and are expected to modify some aspects of their respective culture as a mean of adaptating to ethnocultural diversity (Berry 1997).
Thus, heterophylly in pteridosperms could also indicate that these plants were capable of adaptating frond morphology to environmental changes or that they produced specialized exploring shoots with small, undifferentiated fronds, perhaps in order to transition from one support tree into the foliage of a neighboring tree.
After the Pele pic, UIP is considering adaptating Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "In Evil Hour," from director Ruy Guerra.


If Data is Not in Your CRM, Does It Exist?
This guest post by Olono CEO Larry Warnock was originally published in Smart Selling Tools.
We've all heard the line, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" It typically leads to discussion on observations and perception, and the idea that if something is not heard, is it even there?
I asked this question recently to a handful of sales executives and the answer was, "we have mandated that all info needs to be entered into the CRM, but quite frankly, the reps aren't doing it." But that was far from the end of the conversation. What quickly evolved was a deeper conversation about how ineffective the CRM insights are if all the info and activity captured isn't understood and utilized.
If you're like most enterprise sales organizations you've invested in processes, tools, personnel, market research….and that's just the start. You likely have 10+ SalesTech apps your sales team is balancing. Even more if you include email, calendars, text messages, phone, etc.
All of these tools — the ones mentioned above, as well as automated emails, dialers, content management systems, help desk apps, you name it — are producing a massive amount of "digital exhaust." Data and insights. Reactions and responses that are sometimes quick, sometimes delayed, and at times, non existent.
We've always tracked "Records" using traditional, structured databases. But today with emerging Systems of Intelligence, we can move beyond these simple static data points (was an emailed opened or did they register for a webinar) to gather deep insights that are being referred to as "Signals" (that digital exhaust I mentioned). We can now analyze, measure, and monitor — everything from intent to speed, sentiment to intensity, and so much more.
Each of these "Sales Signals" can impact your sales cycle. They are critical to understanding the buyer's journey as well as a prospect's buying intentions. And they can help you weed out the bad leads, know where to focus your time and ultimately close deals faster.
Understand what digital Signals are being produced. Every Signal. From every sales and marketing application. And even better, understand those signals sent from IT support, finance, or other divisions in your company that may be communicating with your prospects. Yes they downloaded that white paper, but NO that does not automatically mean they want a phone call and to be put into a cadence for email outreach campaigns. The intent matters. And ignoring it can lead to a very negative customer experience.
Automate signal and data capture. For decades, we've required reps to manually enter in the details of their deal engagements. And it hasn't worked. They do it reluctantly, entering the bare minimum. The result is sales management has limited visibility into the pipeline. Get your reps out of the data clerk business using the many automated tools available and finally fill your CRM with complete and accurate customer information.
Know how each signal, and the combination of multiple signals, impact pipeline movement. Each customer journey is different. Just because two prospects end up at the same point, does not make them the same. They likely made the purchasing decision at different stages, with different budgets, different decision makers, and were motivated by different triggers. And yet, we've always grouped them as the same — simply as WINS or LOSSES. With Signals, we can finally piece together each individual puzzle to take the right action at the right time.
Just like the trees falling in the forest, "Sales Signals" are happening — whether someone is there to hear them or not. Innovative sales organizations are putting strategies in place to capture and understand them, and they are being rewarded. The results are not only increased pipeline velocity and improved quota attainment, but also an overall better customer experience which will deliver returns for many years to come.
You can meet Olono at the TOPO Summit in San Francisco, CA March 20-21.
"Each of these "Sales Signals" can impact your sales cycle. They are critical to understanding the buyer's journey as well as a prospect's buying intentions. And they can help you weed out the bad leads, know where to focus your time and ultimately close deals faster."
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I'm just getting into some HTML/CSS because I'm trying to develop a website for my job.  I currently have a logo that I want to use as a homepage hyperlink which is all working successfully.  However, the logo is a word that is underlined and the underline extends further down vertically basically turning the picture into an additional 100 pixels vertically when most of the image is in contained in the first 50 pixels (hopefully this makes sense).  Basically, I want to be able to customize a region of the hyperlink where I basically only need to hover over the image itself and not the invisible box that I have created in order to make the whole logo visible.  Can someone help with this?
The arrow indicates where the I don't want the cursor to turn into the hyperlink hand cursor.  I only want the hyperlink to be the exact dimensions of the image and not a box around the image.

A: You can use an image map for this! If you google "image map generator" you can build it yourself using online tools to the shape you want (rectangle, circle, or polygon). The generator should give you the area tags and the specific coords for your logo. You will have to put an image tag in place of your link tag and remove the background- stuff in your css:
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G20 health ministers commit to tackling dementia globally
When 20 health ministers from around the world met in Okayama, Japan, last week to discuss global health issues, dementia was high on their agenda.
The G20 Health Ministers Meeting brought together ministers for health from 19 countries and the European Union, as well as invited guest countries and organisations for discussion about the ongoing health commitments made in last year's Osaka Declaration.
Commitments "welcomed"
Two leading dementia organisations, Alzheimer's Disease International and Alzheimer's Association Japan revealed they were "delighted" with the outcome of the meeting, and "welcomed" the commitment to tackling the issue of dementia. Both organisations had lobbied ministers heavily in advance of the meeting.
Chief Executive ADI, Paola Barbarino, said the Okayama Declaration contains all the commitments the organisation lobbied for.
"Everything we asked for in the last year is present in this Declaration, from policy making to awareness, risk reduction, care, support for carers, data and research and it includes a strong reference to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities," she said.
"The overall framing into the importance of encouraging healthy ageing is also extremely relevant."
But Ms Barbarino said the ADI will continue to monitor the G20's work.
"We know that lots of wonderful words do not make this a reality and we will continue to monitor the execution of these intentions very closely, but we are heartened and encouraged and feel the G20 Health Ministers have really listened to our plea to create a better life for people living with dementia and their carers," she said.
People living with dementia, families, caregivers the focus
Noriyo Washizu, of the AAJ, was encouraged by the Declaration.
"One of the most significant things is that people with dementia, the families and the caregivers appeared a key focus."
He said the AAJ will continue to work with the Japanese government to help build an inclusive society and develop new dementia strategies.
Japan is recognised as a world leader in dementia strategy, with an estimated 7 million people projected to be living with dementia in the country by 2025.
Dementia impacts health, quality of life, the economy, society
The Declaration outlines the G20's strategies to tackle dementia.
"We recognize that dementia is one of our common challenges which has significant impacts on health, quality of life, economy and the entire society," the document states.
"Worldwide approximately 50 million people have dementia and there are nearly ten million new cases every year, resulting in economic costs equivalent to 1.1% of global Gross Domestic Product, according to WHO's latest available figure."
"We commit to developing and implementing multi-sectoral national action plans, adopting integrated approaches on dementia… to improve the quality of care and the quality of life of people with dementia, their families and caregivers.
"We will address risk factors and social determinants of dementia, according to the latest evidence and contribute to further building the evidence base.
"We will also enhance early detection, diagnosis, and interventions, including the development of care pathways and capability and capacity building of health and primary care providers including through strengthening primary health care.
"We will promote age-friendly and dementia-inclusive environments by raising awareness to enable better understanding of dementia and prevent and overcome stigma.
"We will promote the provision of appropriate care, including person-centered and integrated care, encouraging the engagement of all relevant stakeholders, including those at community level, and empowerment of families and caregivers to support persons with dementia.
"We will promote research and development for healthy ageing including for risk reduction, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of dementia."
Apathy "the forgotten symptom of dementia"
Apathy can be one of the most distressing symptoms of dementia. Seeing a loved one withdraw from the world and impossible to reach can be extremely worrying and upsetting for family. Apathy makes it difficult for someone to enjoy life, and it can even accelerate cognitive decline and increase mortality rates. Yet there is little... Read More
Communication Strategies: Connecting With Someone Who Has Dementia
Our lives as social beings hinge greatly on good communication skills. As infants we learn to fuss in a certain manner to communicate a need or to smile and laugh in delight. Children learn to communicate linguistically; teens develop more complex communication involving an ever-growing scope of vocabulary, body language and attitude. Generally speaking, our... Read More
Aged care residents are "very lonely", royal commission hears
One of the nation's leading dementia experts and a widely respected dementia advocate addressed the royal commission on Friday, explaining the challenges they see in the aged care sector and dementia care, and the solutions they propose. Professor Henry Brodaty, Scientia Professor at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at the University of New... Read More


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About Jollay The Jeweler
Yo I'm Jollay The Jeweler and let me tell you a story about when everybody thought my jewelry was fake.
This was years ago but I remember it like yesterday...
"Bro, your chains fake" "Those don't look like real diamonds" "No way those are real" "If it's real why doesn't it drip?" "If that's real then you got robbed"...
People were saying while EVERYBODY was LAUGHING AT ME!
I was the kid who wore the same clothes… dirty shoes… I had NO drip…
People were always roasting me...
I didn't fit in. At all.
You ever felt like this growing up? It's shot, right?
I was just tryna have nice clothes and shoes like everybody else growing up.
Call me materialistic. I don't care.
But when I started getting money, I wasn't just tryna fit in.
I wanted be above all these haters. You get what I'm saying?
I believe when people doubt you…
You got NO CHOICE but to prove them wrong...
And that's what I tried to do: with 2500 bucks I hit the jeweler. Copped a "VS lion and a 14k cuban".
I didn't buy no fake chains! I spent all 2500 at a jeweler…
But everybody thought it was fake... When I said I spent 2500 they said I got robbed or thought I was lying!
But I knew it was real. I got it diamond tested.
But they were kinda right about it looking fake...
The chains were mad light. And the diamonds barely hit.
Yeah, they didn't drip like that. Like how you see on IG.
I was tight. Wouldn't you be?
So I tried to get my money back...
And that's when the jeweler told me the truth...
He said he'd only give me 400 bucks back because that's all the gold was worth...
"What about the diamonds?" I ask.
"Son, a solid rock like this ain't even worth anything" he said while holding an expensive diamond ring. "Best I can do is 400" he said again...
I dipped... Didn't sell him my chain... I thought he was just trying to finesse me...
I could not believe it. How could diamonds be worthless?... When they're so expensive?
But, after doing research...
I found out the truth about diamonds, that they don't want us to know. They are worthless.
I know that sounds crazy. But you can't ignore the proof below.
All these claims are backed by reliable sources. (You can checkout the sources if you want)
➔[1] This little mark confirms all the claims below are backed by credible sources.
✔ They're only expensive because of shady advertising, and a monopoly. THEY LIED TO US... They're actually one of the most common gemstone. According to The Gem Society [1]
✔ They don't last forever, according to many sources - "diamonds decay faster than most rock and they eventually turn to graphite" [2] Yeah... They lied to us about that too.
✔ They lose value the minute you buy them, according to top economists. [3] Imagine needing money in an emergency, then finding out those "thousands of dollars worth of diamonds" you bought... Are really ONLY worth less than 100 bucks...
And I don't know if you've ever been robbed, but it's shot. It makes you look at yourself different. Makes you feel stupid... And that's how it felt when I realized I just got finessed!
And those bands I dropped? Were gone.
Now what? I was back to square one… Had no drip… With not a lot of money...
I was tight!
And that's when the big homie told me about a new real gemstone… A different one.
He told me these new gems hit way harder than diamonds.
"bullshvt" I was saying.
"Nah bro! You gotta see this. They hit harder than Vs"
And when I saw it...
I couldn't believe my eyes.
I was comparing the two. Seeing if they really did hit harder...
And these new exotic gemstones (that I use now) hit way harder than the diamonds for sure.
I worked on my own custom. (iced with these gems)
And when I pulled up with it…
The same people that were calling me out were saying:
"Now you got real jewelry"
"Damn, you really cashed out"
"I can tell Jollay got real drip now because it hits!"
And a few haters were real mad:
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HGTV show to feature 'lottery dream home' in Cicero
Updated Oct 06, 2019; Posted Oct 06, 2019
These video stills from an Instagram story posted by David Bromstad show the HGTV host visiting Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards in LaFayette, N.Y., on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019.
An HGTV star was spotted in Central New York last month, and a realtor has confirmed he was in town to film scenes for a TV show.
Real estate agent Erica Laquidara revealed on Facebook that HGTV host and designer David Bromstad used a property for sale in Cicero for an upcoming episode of "My Lottery Dream Home." The real estate reality TV show helps lottery winners find their dream homes, showing them three houses.
Laquidara tells Big Frog 104 that she was the agent for a buyer that bought the Cicero home -- but it wasn't the lottery winner. HGTV contacted the seller to feature the home on the show, but they didn't believe it was true.
"The seller actually thought it was a joke," Laquidara told the Utica radio station. "But they showed up."
Laquidara posted photos on Facebook showing Bromstad and a film crew at the property. She doesn't know who the lottery winner was or why they didn't choose the Cicero house, but said the new owner -- Crystal Ritter of Mattydale -- is "super excited to see the show and see the house she purchased on TV."
**Welcome to Central New York, HGTV!!** Shout out to my super awesome buyer Crystal, who is the future owner of this...
Posted by Erica Laquidara - Licensed Realtor, Hunt Real Estate ERA on Friday, September 20, 2019
Ritter is expected to be fully settled in to the new home by the time the episode airs sometime in January.
Rumors Bromstad was filming in CNY first emerged last month when he was seen visiting Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards in LaFayette. He posted photos and videos of himself on Instagram enjoying apple-picking and other offerings, from apple cider and doughnuts to its alcohol brand, 1911 Established.
"I'm in heaven," he sang in one clip.
Bromstad said he had finished a "half day" of work on Sept. 21, so he decided to visit Beak & Skiff for fun. The 116-year-old family-owned business south of Syracuse has frequently been named the best apple orchard in America.
Bromstad first rose to fame as the winner of the debut season of "HGTV Design Star" in 2006. The Miami Beach resident has hosted "Color Splash with David Bromstad" since 2007 and also hosts "My Lottery Dream Home."
Basking in the glory of an apple orchard. But really I just forgot my sunglasses 😂 😎 😂 If u want to see the whole story go to my insights and check out this adorable place to create wonderful memories. It's called apples yes!
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Tree census of urban green space with special reference to Gora Cemetery of Lahore, Pakistan
By: Shazia Pervaiz, Safdar Ali Shirazi, Filza Zafar Khan, Kanwal Javid, Tahira Aziz Mughal
Key Words: Azadirachta indica, Carbon sequestration, GIS, Global warming, NDVI.
Int. J. Biosci. 13(1), 431-439, July 2018.
The present study is carried out in the oldest Christian Gora Cemetery of Lahore, Pakistan. The main rationale of the research was to prepare the tree inventory of the study area. The inventoried data was analyzed to determine the diversity of growing trees species in the graveyard. In addition, spatial analysis of tree cover was also analyzed from 2000 to 2018 using NDVI technique. The results of field study showed that Azadirachta indica was the most dominant growing tree species of Gora Cemetery. Whereas, the least percentage was found with the fruit tree i.e. Mangifera indica. Moreover, the spatial results of study inferred the highest value of tree cover in 2000 whereas the least green cover was analyzed in 2013. Findings of the study showed that the significant fluctuation in green cover has the negative impacts on urban environment which ultimately creates hurdles in coping with global warming and curbing the climate change rising threat. So, the role of the government towards maintenance of green spaces in the graveyards for urban sustainability is very important. Hence, the present research would be helpful to provide baseline information for urban planners and foresters to plan appropriate composition of green space trees in the graveyards. In addition, the inventoried data would be valuable for city authorities for decision making about green cemeteries and also helpful for further research on urban ecosystem.
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Jennifer Hudson led an emotional tribute to Whitney Houston at the Grammys last night, following the star's untimely death on Saturday. The singer taped a tribute of Whitney's trademark ballad, I Will Always Love You, and, according to a source, "had to restart [the song] several times before making it through."
"All stars have been accommodating," the source said. "No one has batted an eye or been a diva...People are trying to be upbeat."
LL Cool J also played tribute to Whitney. "There's no way around this," he said, addressing the silent crowd. "We've had a death in our family, and so at least for me - for me - the only thing that feels right is to begin with a prayer for a woman we loved, for our fallen sister, Whitney Houston." He then led the audience through a prayer for Whitney before playing a video of her singing her hit I Will Always Love You.


Are you guilty of Supererogation?
Supererogation? It sounds like someone who over waters their lawn.
I don't think I've ever used the term before. I had to look it up. This statement, along with many of the other articles of religion, were written out of a Protestant response to Catholicism.
As best as I can describe it, Supererogation is over-doing it. God expects X from you, but you do X2 hoping to keep the balance of your goodness in your own little spiritual bank account, that you can draw from on a rainy day. (Or, to use to get out of doing penance for future wrong-doing).
Supererogation was one of Martin Luther's main concerns when he launched the reformation. His belief was that we're called upon to do exactly what Christ requires of us — no less, no more. To attempt to do more than is required is an act of impiety, going beyond Christs's wishes in an arrogant way.
Although I'm fascinated with the Catholic perspective about this, I'm more interested today in how little this is talked about in churches I've been a part of.
I don't think people are taught about supererogation.
In fact, I think we're taught the opposite: Serve Jesus till you drop!
The idea that Christ sets a limit on how much work you need to do would probably be a shock to several pastors I know, and church staff, and super-volunteers.
The whole Protestant work ethic prompts us to go-go-go! That there is no end to the work we might do for Jesus.
In this article is the notion that Christ commands us to do only so much. To do more than that is…excessive. arrogant, even.
Maybe that is the main point. There's only so much we need to do. There is no spiritual bank account to store your extra good deeds in.
There's a reason for boundaries when it comes to work, even in Jesus' name. Raise your hand if too much church work has ever burned you out before?
Perhaps you're guilty of Works of Supererogation, driven by the notion that by working too hard you're earning extra goody points. Don't do that!
As the 4th commandment reminds us, life is about more than work. Apparently Christ would have us discern that in our lives.
Don't be lazy, of course. And don't be a workaholic, for God's sake.
Just be a responsive, responsible disciple.


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- Tonal navy ribbed collar, cuffs and hem.
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_ Jersey sweat fabric lining.
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