Weight loss affirmations can be an essential part of losing weight, erasing years of negative programming to build a better you.
Many people become discouraged when dieting because they are not receiving the proper nutrition, starving themselves, or eating foods they do not like. This can have damaging effects on you physically, not to mention the toll it takes on you mentally. This is one of many ways that the OPTIHealth system is very different. This program includes a complete makeover when it comes to your eating habits and the way you view food. You will find that it is not restrictive, and you will even start to feel stronger physically and empowered mentally. For sustainable weight loss and healthy living, it is important to not only train someone how to eat, but impact their heart and mind. Shifting our paradigms is the only way to completely solve the problem. Think of your beliefs as the root of a tree. Will the tree be healthy without healthy roots? Our negative programming causes many of our life struggles, including those with our physical health. Your mind has been programmed by default, all of your life, and you probably didn't know it. Our office in Pensacola, Florida can now help program you to enjoy the healthy lifestyle you deserve. One way of doing this is through weight loss affirmations.
When you first start saying your positive affirmations, they may not be true. With repetition, they sink into your subconscious mind, and you will really start to believe them. When you affirm positively, these affirmations become a self-fulfilling prophesy and absolutely will create your new reality.
By taking charge of your weight loss affirmations, you take charge of your mental programming process. By replacing bad programming with good programming, your results will reflect the new you. It's important to realize that your current programming didn't happen overnight, and thus, your results will happen gradually.
Weight loss affirmations really are are an amazing tool for transforming your life beyond recognition. They are so simple that anyone can use them. Even if you don't understand them yet, you can be using them for 5 minutes and be well on your way to changing your life. The people who commit to these weight loss affirmations invariably have the greatest results.
Pick some affirmations from the list below and start reading them aloud for about five minutes, at least three times a day. In the morning when putting on make up or shaving, would be a good time to start and really helps you start the day with the proper attitude. Lunch time would be another good opportunity to repeat your affirmations. And then for a third time, you could repeat your weight loss affirmations while making dinner or doing errands around the house.
Another effective technique is to write out your weight loss affirmations in a notebook several times during the day. By thinking it and putting on paper, you embed it more deeply into your subconscious. You may even notice that as the affirmations start taking hold, that your writing style changes.
I am slim and beautiful.
I visualize my ideal body and take action to make it happen.
I am dedicated to losing weight.
People are noticing my results, and it feels amazing.
I have a great body.
I am a disciplined eater.
I am dedicated to eating healthy every day.
I am focused on providing proper nutrition to my body.
Eating healthy is becoming easier.
I feel great thanks to my healthy eating habits.
I am consistent with my exercise plan.
I exercise every day, and I love it.
I am in great shape because I never miss a work out.
I always exercise even when I don't feel like it.
I am totally focused on getting myself in shape.
I exercise daily so I can achieve the body of my dreams.
I am a good person and deserve to be happy.
I have limitless confidence in my abilities.
I accept myself deeply and completely.
I have confidence in my ability to do whatever I set my mind to.
I can now fully love others because I have learned to love myself.
Others are starting to notice my self acceptance and increase in confidence.
Our Pensacola weight loss clients find that weight loss affirmations can be an essential tool in achieving their weight loss goals.
Weight Loss Affirmations - Utilizing the Power of the Positivity. For sustainable weight loss and healthy living, it is important to not only train someone how to eat but impact their heart and mind. Affirmations can be used to shift your mindset about food and eating.


I met some truly awesome people at the Summit of Awesome (with a title like that, how could you not?). I owe you all a post about all the inspiring ideas it exposed me to, but for now, I want to talk a little about a chat I had with Liz and Jeff about--none other than--weddings.
Liz and Jeff run a neat little site called cosa verde, which is a marketplace for eco-conscious crafts. They also happen to be planning and wedding, and we talked [briefly] about the deep stuff of weddings, like the question: What do you do if you don't want to be the center of attention at your own wedding?
I didn't have time to adequately think through all my ideas with them, so I wanted to take a few minutes to ruminate the idea here. Weddings inherently put the two partners-to-be center stage. Even if you get married at a courthouse, you are still the object of attention (although to a markedly lesser degree).
I'm kind of an odd bird. I have habits that put me in the center of attention (like wearing clown costumes and Scrabble costumes and doing random acts of kindness around town and wearing a 1950s party dress to weddings and out to dinner), but then I'm uncomfortable when I'm there. I like to dance like a crazy fool (like at the Peter Bjorn and John concert in DC on Saturday!) but not because I want people to look at me. I do it because I like the way it feels (despite the fact that it may draw attention my way).
Some people look forward to being the center of attention on their wedding day. They want to bask in the loving attention of their friends and family. They look forward to their walk down the aisle, for example.
We didn't walk down the aisle: First of all, there wasn't really an aisle to walk down. I worried about it for a few seconds ("Maybe we can rent a nearby cabin, hide out in it, and then walk down the "aisle" to start the wedding?") And then I realized, "Wait a second. I don't actually want to walk down an aisle. I'll already be nervous about speaking in front of everybody; I would rather forgo the expected aisle altogether." We simply pulled up in our car, got out, and started mingling with our guests. I was nervous for about two seconds. Then I saw my good friend, Luis, and got overwhelmed with love and affection for him. I pretty much stopped being nervous. People were definitely staring at me and checking out my dress, but I was too busy talking with people to notice too much.
We incorporated toasts into our ceremony instead of doing them during the reception: We love the sentiments of toasts, but we didn't want to stop our reception in the middle of the party and focus attention back on us. Therefore, we incorporated "toasts" into our ceremony. We asked five of our friends and family members to speak during the ceremony. People did the same thing they do during toasts: Tell funny stories, recite poems, read quotes, make wishes, etc.
We used the "cake cutting" as an opportunity to thank our friends and family for helping out with the wedding, rather than drawing more attention to ourselves.
We set up a reception with multiple activities going on simultaneously, so people could do their own thing instead of wait to see what we were doing. We had dancing on the patio, board games in the living room, hot-tub soaking, and roasting marshmallows around a campfire. We posted a sign with all the activities listed, so people had a sense of what options were available to them.
We encouraged our guests to get to know each other by having quirky name tags at the Welcome Picnic and an online guest book for them to upload their photos and a brief bio of themselves prior to the wedding.
We limited our guest list to a smaller number of our nearest and dearest rather than a larger circle of acquaintances.
I know it seems like we were major hams by doing a first dance, but honestly, it wasn't. I just love to dance, and I was so excited about the opportunity to choreograph something with my friends.
This fact may shock you (it shocks everyone who knows me well): I was a cheerleader for eight years (from age 8-16). I didn't particularly crave or like the attention; I just really liked to practice routines (especially the dances) and perform them with a group!
After my sophomore year, I couldn't stand the dynamics of high school cheer leading and decided to join the swim team instead. I appreciated the meditative aspects of long swim practices.
But I digress. What other options exist for people who want to minimize the spotlight on their own wedding days?
Have the ceremony in private and then party with your friends and family afterward.
Forgo one large wedding and instead hold smaller receptions at different places around the country, depending on where you friends and family are concentrated.
Skip things like the first dance, a bouquet toss, the garter thing--treat your wedding more like a regular party.
What other ideas do you have for couples who don't like the spotlight?
I love the cheerleader disclosure...I'm a closet cheerleader, too! 7th grade through 12th. The residual effects of that experience include excessive ongoing enthusiasm, which tends to rear its head in the form of an overly enthusiastic use of punctuation. I literally have to skim the emails I send so as to rein in any superfluous use of exclamation points, and I fully blame it on all those years as a cheerleader.
When I get together with my extended family for events-- weddings, graduations, babies-- we all know that the events are pretty much just excuses to get together. I'm extending this line of thought to our wedding. Sure, people are coming to the wedding, but really, it's going to be a large get-together that happens to have a wedding.
Thanks for this post. Both myself and my fiance hate being the centre of attention. I can cope with the aisle walk but we'd decided not to have a first dance or speeches/toast. Having toasts in ceremony is a great idea!
Did you end up using some sort of sound amplification? This is something we're discussing for our outdoor wedding - on the one hand, we want people to be able to hear (and FH already speaks softly and doesn't project) but on the other hand, I don't want to have to worry about getting and setting up a lot of equipment.
Hi Sara! It was so great to be able to meet you this weekend, even though we only got to have a brief chat. Thanks for the little shout-out!
For us, the decision not to have a ceremony was two-fold. Partly (ok, very much) because I really do hate being the center of attention, but also because an official ceremony feels kind of redundant to me. We've been together 11 years, living together forever, built a business together—we feel like we've already been married for a long time! And our families have all been treating us as if we're married for years. So a wedding to me is more an excuse to make our relationship legally recognized, and then have a killer party, because we'd never be able to get away with just eloping.
Hmmm... well neither my husband nor I enjoy being "center of attention" but I dislike it whereas he DETESTS it. In fact, when put in the center of a group, he gets so uncomfortable he just wants to leave the room. Not what we wanted for him on our wedding day! So... we planned a nice little brunch for after the ceremony where most people just munched and mingled and we could wander around among them without feeling like the "center" of anything. In fact, we hired someone to play a harp during the luncheon just so there would be a sort-of "focal point" for people to look towards when they didn't have anything else to look at... and it wasn't us. The result? I certainly never felt more peaceful (although admittedly I was in a crowd of all my favorite people, so I could have enjoyed if the luncheon lasted al week!) But best of all my husband didn't feel the least bit uncomfortable, either! It was the best kind of family/friend reunion.
Thanks for addressing this issue, Sara! There are some great ideas here. It seems to be assumed that if you're having a wedding, you want to play princess and be the center of attention, but this has never been the case for me. For the longest time, I didn't want a wedding for this very reason. Now I see it is about more - joining the families, sharing the days with friends - and I am delighted to have these ideas for directing the attention around the whole group, rather than just on us.
And, just for the record, there's a spectrum that ranges from don't-want-to-be-the-center-of-attention to I'm-a-pretty-pretty-princess-and-this-day-is-all-about-me. There are lots of extroverted people who don't mind being in the spotlight on their wedding days but still aren't narcissistic or self-absorbed.
At a a wedding I recently heard about from a friend, the bride and groom said their vows to each other with no microphone while a song was played for the audience to enjoy. I really like this idea (and might use it in my own wedding) because family and friends still get to witness the union, but the actual words are private between the couple. And for me, that seems make it so much more meaningful. I can think about what I want HIM to hear, and not what the audience will think when I say my vows. What a concept!
I agree with the anons on here. When I first started reading this blog I was excited because I thought it was a place where the value of a wedding was the relational part, and spending 30,000 was not the norm. But more and more it seems like its not a forum to enpower the budget minded, but to bash those of us who are still planning on encorporating traditional elements to our celebrations. I an not having a "traditional" wedding, but there are parts that are what people would term as normal. To me it seems like this type of post makes this blog look like a little clique of brides mad at the world because they dont find fufillment in centerpeices for example. Some of us know that that stuff doesn't really MATTER, but we're not going to make people who enjoy creating them feel inferior.
If this is a sort of clique, I am glad for it! I have been an emotional wreck trying to plan our wedding, always second guessing myself. This is the first website that I have found that I can identify with and it has really helped affirm our decisions.
I also think this website shows how it is possible to make even centerpieces meaningful. I think that is the biggest point of the wedding- how to make it meaningful. My mom is in charge of the reception flowers. She is going to the farmers market and we are going to put them in mason jars. We will have a lot of dahlias because they are special to Matt, and we will be supporting our local farmer's market. Mason jars are reusable and very affordable. I love that my mom has a specific job to be involved in. But if someone wants professional flowsers- THAT IS OKAY TOO. If you have always loved orchids or something, then that is what you should have.
I just love how this website makes me feel like it is okay to make the decisions that we feel comfortable with. I hope that "anonymous" finds that, even if it isn't on this website.
EmilyandMatt, I believe that was the perfect response. I'm not here to make those people who drop $30,000 (or who have a wedding coordinator, or anything else) feel bad, I'm here because there are so many places where I feel bad for NOT spending so much, and it's nice to have a place to chill. (Plus, I need the budget/DIY tips!) I like that this is a place for everyone to feel like what they're doing is ok.
Now, on to non-centre-of-attention ideas... I like the idea of having games (in my family it will be "corn hole" and/or water volleyball in the lake), and especially of making s'mores! I also think Sara and Matt's idea of having more than one thing going on at once was a good idea to get people interacting and enjoying one another.
I think it can be hard sometimes having to avoiding being the center of attention when it comes to getting married. I myself am getting married in a church. I'm very dedicated to my religion and I love my church. The focus will be on my fiance and I when we do get married. I'm kind of used to walking up the isle anyways because I work with children at my church. When mass starts a group of church memembers and I all walk up the church together. Everytime, I walk up the isle at church I'm always holding a book. So I know what it feels like to be the center of attention. After, doing this for many years I've gotten so used to it.
For my fiance and I, we won't really be able to avoid it at our wedding. At the reception, we can sort of avoid feeling like the attention is on us just by making little changes to our reception.
I've gone to many weddings where the bride and groom are introduced along with their wedding party right when the reception starts. In my opinion, I just might forgo that idea. I might just have my bridal party and I walk into the hall and start mingling with my family and friends. We don't need a big announcement from the DJ to tell our family and friends who we really are. Most everyone will already know our names.
Another idea would be to avoid the bridal toss and garter toss. I might do a bridal toss and a garter toss but I'm still on the fence about it. First, I want to learn more about those tradtions to see how important they are/aren't. If I don't feel they are that important, I will just forgo the idea all together.
The bride and groom could also avoid doing a champange toast as well. Or if they do decided to do the toast, do it early on at the reception when everyone is mingling. Don't do it during dinner when all eyes are on the bride and grooom.
Instead of having the bridal party sit together, they could sit with family and friends instead.
The frist dance between the bride and the groom could actually be a group dance. Why not incorrporate family and friends to dance together?
When couples have music at their wedding they could avoid getting a DJ or hiring a band and having to deal with the DJ always annoucing the fact the couple is married. If couples decides to get a DJ or hire a band, why not tell the person that you don't want to be the center of attention? That way they can avoid announcing the couples name so many times.
Instead of having the wedding photographers just take pictures of the bride and groom, why not have the photographers take pictures of the family and friends who are at the wedding? I've been to many weddings where the photographer only took photos of the bride and groom. Why about the family and friends who attend the wedding? Why not take pictures of them too? Instead, of getting a real photographer, why not hire family and friends to take pictures at the wedding? That way, both couples aren't embrassed to have their photos taken by some stranger.
When couples cut the cake they could avoid doing that. Why not have the cake already cut? So when dessert rolls around, the guest could get their own cake.


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Adrienne Monnier: publisher and bookshop owner
It is 65 years ago that Adrienne Monnier took her own life.
This is a brief overview of her life, her courage and her incredible achievements.
Born on 26 April 1892, Adrienne Monnier spent her life in the Parisian metropolis of Seine. Throughout her childhood her mother would take Adrienne and her sister Marie to visit the many theatres, galleries and opera houses in Paris and they both became well acquainted with the world of art, music and dance. The world-famous actress Sarah Bernardt made a particular impression on Adrienne and left a lasting impact on the young child. Her mother had successfully introduced her children to the world of art and theatre and Adrienne grew up dreaming of a life filled with books and authors and literature.
At the age of 18 Adrienne Monnier passed the Brevet Supérieur (comparable to the British A Levels) and after leaving school she took a job in England as an au pair. She returned to Paris a year later and studied to become a secretary. She secured a position with Les Annales Politiques et Littéraires – a popular newspaper in France, with a circulation of around 200,000 copies a week. Here Adrienne worked closely with Yvonne Sarcey, the co-editor of the Sunday magazine. Although she held a demanding role and was involved with many aspects of the editorial office, she still dreamt of owning a bookshop and continued to aim towards establishing herself as a bookshop owner in the Quartier Latin de Paris.
On November 15 1915, in the middle of the First World War, Adrienne finally opened her bookshop. She called it La Maison des Amis des Livres (Friends of Books House) and it was located at 7 rue de l'Odéon, in the elite Parisian publishing and university district. She was one of the first women to ever own her own bookshop.
Her bookshop together with Sylvia Beach's bookshop Shakespeare and Company, just a few houses away, became two of the most important meeting spaces for British, French and American authors, during the interwar period. Authors such as Nathalie Sarraute, James Joyes, André Gide, Jacques Prevert, Ernest Hemingway and Leon Paul Fargue, to name a few, all regularly met at the two bookshops and enjoyed the informal, 'family' atmosphere. The bookshop became a hub of cultural exchange and literary conversation, where like-minded people exchanged ideas and became friends.
During the German occupation of Paris between 1940 and 1944, Adrienne Monnier kept her bookshop open and it continued to be a popular meeting place for highly acclaimed authors, albeit under much changed and more difficult conditions.
Gertrud Woltmann and other female, German communications assistants, almost certainly would have strolled past this jewel of Parisian literary life, when on a walk through the Latin Quarter.
Adrienne was plagued with chronic rheumatism. In 1951, as a result of this extremely painful illness she was forced to give up her bookshop. The shop had become a highly respected and well frequented, Parisian institution. A short time later she was diagnosed with a serious illness of the inner ear, which affected her balance, caused her long-lasting dizzy attacks and gave her constant ringing noises within the inner ear. Faced with the constant progression of the illnesses and with no hope of recovery, she took an overdose of sedatives and ended her own life. She died in Paris, on 15 June 1955.
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I have always had a fascination with stories related to unintended consequences. Hollywood is ripe with story lines of young men falling in love with beautiful women, only to discover the relationship deteriorating to a tempest of tipping dominos and unlikely sub plots.
The same is often true with technology. We need to look no further than our country's battle with growth following the Revolutionary War. We all know of Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin. However, many of us might not know that his invention — which was thought to possibly end the need for slave labor – actually increased the need as the world's appetite for cotton grew due to the Cotton Gin's efficiencies. Slave labor increased from an estimated 700,000 in 1790 to over 4 million in 1860 just prior to the Civil War.
In 1863 there was Joseph Wilbrand who while attempting to develop a yellow dye, discovered trinitrotoluene. However, it was soon determined that trinitrotoluene had rather enormous explosive and destructive power. By 1902, under the name in which we are all familiar, i.e., TNT – the chemical became used extensively during the two World Wars to kill and conqueror.
Thomas Midgley who like me is a former NCR employee, later became an executive at DELCO and discovered Chlorofluorocarbon Freon as a safe refrigerant to replace the commonly used but highly toxic refrigerant ammonia. We know this discovery today as CFCs — which have caused extensive damage to the Ozone Layer.
Midgley later went on to discover that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline to be a remedy for engine knocking. As we all know today that discovery led to global health and environmental issues that include deaths from lead poisoning and serious damage to our environment. Mr. Midgley's own death was due in large part to his exposure to such chemicals.
So it is not surprising that today is no different. One discovery begets yet another use or creates a complication not formerly considered.
I had to laugh while driving into my office yesterday when hearing the story of an Indiana Farmer losing a lawsuit to Monsanto. The famer had apparently purchased soybean seeds that were marketed to be used for feeding livestock. However, knowing that the seed had been harvested from genetically enhanced soybean plants that were impervious to certain weed killers, he decided to plant the seeds rather than feed them to livestock. He later harvested the resulting soybean plants to be sold – while also harvesting some of the seeds for replanting and then growing in subsequent years.
His thinking: Why pay for a product each year if it can actually reproduce itself?
According to the Wall Street Journal, "The court unanimously found that farmer Vernon Bowman violated Monsanto's patent on herbicide-resistant soybean seeds by using them to grow successive generations of similarly endowed crops, rather than consuming or selling the seeds."
To put it simply, if you replace the word soybean with music, Mr. Bowman "was stealing copyrighted material." By purchasing one version of the seed and replicating it – he had somewhat created the "the agrarian version of Napster." Well… Maybe that's a stretch.
We are truly living in a new world. While most of us know that it is illegal to download music from iTunes and then make multiple copies for your friends — who would have thought that soybean seeds were the equivalent of software licenses?
To that end, who would have thought that the large, awkward cell phones that we see on syndicated shows like Seinfeld would have evolved into the small, powerful devices we use today to play games, communicate with friends and family and post videos onto places like Facebook or Twitter's VINE? (Yes Vine… another social media app that is on a growth path.)
This evolution of technology also requires an evolution in parenting skills. Parenting today is a much different animal than in years past. For example: I can recall purchasing our oldest daughter a cell phone when she turned 16 and began driving. Our rationale related to safety. If there was an accident or flat tire, she'd simply give us a call.
Four years later when our youngest daughter turned 16, text messaging had begun to grow in popularity. By 2002 text messaging became ubiquitous due in part to it being agnostic in terms of wireless carriers. It allowed a user to multi-task without regard to time constraints – and it was very portable. You could send a text during a movie; while in a meeting; from the backseat of your parent's car –or, from just about anywhere at any time.
Soon, text messages became the primary means by which young people communicated, eclipsing voice calls by a wide margin. However, just like Joseph Wilbrand's synthetic yellow dye ultimately became better known for its explosive characteristics — today's wireless technology has had its own share of unintended consequences.
Three years ago I would not have thought that teens would send naked pictures of themselves using text messages. Yet today, about 25% of teens have used the technology for this purpose now known as sexting.
Although bullying has existed since the days of the Neanderthals – did we understand that cell phones would be used in some cases to humiliate, bully and intimidate other young people?
Did we understand that social media sites and apps would open the world up to our children – while opening our children up to the world?
Did we think about these issues before handing the phone or tablet over to our children without any education or boundaries?
As of this writing on May 15th, 2013, I have spoken to over 70,000 students on the issues related to technology. In the three years that we have been making these presentations much has changed. In 2010, the Android phone only had a 33% global market share of smartphones shipments. By 2012 Android phones represented 75% of the global smartphone market. Moreover, it had a 90% market share in China.
Additionally, by 2012 there were over 700,000 apps available for the Android market with over 25 billion downloads.
According to Flurry Analytics, the U.S. consumer spends an average of 2 hours and 38 minutes per day on smartphones and tablets. 80% of that time (2 hours and 7 minutes) is spent inside apps and 20% (31 minutes) is spent on the mobile web.
What does this mean to parents? Simply put, the ways our youth culture communicates is significantly different than even 5-10 years ago. While much of this change is for the good, it is incumbent upon us as parents and grandparents to understand and monitor the technology that our children and grandchildren are using.
I have often used the analogy of New York City when discussing technology. I first traveled to New York in 1982. It was the biggest and most fascinating city to which I had travelled. It had the best art, music venues, food and diversity of culture I had experienced. But I would never allow my child to visit New York without being accompanied by my wife and I.
As I discovered on my first visit — It's easy to get lost in New York. It is easy to turn down the wrong street at the wrong time. Grabbing a cab back to LaGuardia at 4:00pm is almost impossible. There were people who wanted to sell me "authentic" Gucci and Rolex products at steep discounts. And there were very hospitable young ladies offering to escort me around the city for "a good time." I felt much like Gomer Pyle being transported from Mayberry to Times Square. I was not prepared. I didn't know the rules of engagement.
The internet, which was at one time limited to clunky desktops in your family-room is now available 7 x 24 on your child's phone. Much like New York, the Internet is a fascinating place to visit. But you need to be prepared and understand how to get around. You need to know what sites you access – and what people don't have your best interest at heart.
Additionally, there has been an explosion of growth in smartphones apps. While we often think that the Internet is the biggest of our concerns, the reality is that Apps might represent the biggest challenge for parents. Smartphone apps such as Instagram and SnapChat are often unknown to parents. In fact, in recent presentations I have asked the question, "how many of you have heard of SnapChat?" The majority of parents had no idea what it was. However, when we asked students, "How many of you are using SnapChat?" The overwhelming majority of the students raised their hands in affirmation.
How can you keep with with this constant evolution? Since the start of 2012 we have partnered with uKnowKids to provide up-to-date information on how students are using technology. I encourage you to access the site periodically to better understand the apps that kids are using; the websites they're accessing; the new technologies they're using and the fads related to these technologies.
Lastly, if you are interested in me visiting your school, church, hospital or business to present on these issues, please feel free to contact me at 513-841-5151. Or email me at stephen.smith@cbts.cinbell.com
Best of luck to you as you navigate this ever-changing digital landscape with your child, attempting to avoid "the tempest of tipping dominos and unlikely sub plots."
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Will Fragmentation Doom Europe to Another Lost Decade?
European Straits #156
Nicolas Colin Jan 15 4
Will Fragmentation Doom Europe to Another Lost Decade?European Straits #156
Nicolas Colin
Hi, it's Nicolas from The Family. Today, I'm reflecting on how fragmented Europe is, and how what used to be an asset has turned into a liability.
This week, I wanted to draft a 10-point manifesto on European tech to prepare the ground for launching a paid version of this newsletter. I logically started by reflecting on fragmentation and how to overcome it, and then realized that fragmentation alone deserved an entire issue of European Straits. So the manifesto will wait a bit, and you can enjoy an in-depth discussion about fragmented Europe.
Read along, and then let me know what you think 👇
1/ The key reason why Europe is lagging behind in the Entrepreneurial Age is the fragmentation of the continent. It extends across many dimensions:
It's about languages. There are dozens of different languages spoken across Europe, and the proportion of Europeans able to communicate in English is much lower than people think. This makes it difficult to build startups with a truly pan-European footprint.
It's also about regulations. There's a thing called the European Single Market, but it exists only in certain industries such as manufactured goods and financial services. This means startups that aren't in those industries have to comply with demanding legal frameworks that differ from one country to another.
Finally, it's about culture. Even when they're able to use a common language, people from various European countries have very different cultural backgrounds. It complicates informal communication and creates frequent misunderstandings within the workplace.
2/ This multi-dimensional fragmentation creates problems on all sides of building business ventures in the Entrepreneurial Age. Take the European market for talent:
On a personal level, it's complicated for, say, a French manager to hire and manage a German employee—and vice versa. And from an organization's perspective, once you've started building a team that's dominated by one nationality, it becomes extraordinarily difficult to attract and retain people from other countries. Cultural barriers are simply too high, and language is obviously a problem (a large group of fellow citizens will tend to reverse back to their native tongue rather than English).
It's also complicated to move people around, as it's hard to convince talented people to move from one large European city to another. It's not that European cities are not attractive, but there are simply too many practical obstacles to an individual moving (like finding an apartment, a job for your spouse, and a school where your children will be taught in their language or, at minimum, in English). Pre-Brexit London might be the exception here, but it can only lose ground from here (Amsterdam might replace it as the major European tech hub).
One potential source of aid is the rise of distributed work, in which I'm a firm believer and that we practice at a The Family, but opting for this approach doesn't solve every problem. Consider employee equity, the regulations regarding which depend on where the employee is located, not where the company is headquartered: the more distributed the team, the more complex the legal details. And that's just one of the many problems with distributed work. (Others are documented in depth in this ebook How to Manage Scattered Teams.)
3/ Another front on which fragmentation creates problems is fundraising:
Despite what they say, venture capital remains a local business. As a founder, it's easier to raise capital from a firm that belongs to the same local ecosystem as you. And as an investor, it's hard to build a brand and connect with the best founders if you don't spend most of your time on the ground in the same city as them.
Then there is the fact that many European VC firms have their national government as an LP, usually via a public investment bank of sorts, which usually comes with an obligation to invest primarily in local ventures. So even if the partners and principals are prepared to travel, they still have a big constraint that holds them to their local market.
4/ Finally, the European continent is fragmented from a customer perspective:
Few people realize it, and even fewer understand the reason why. We're all blinded by products that have long been distributed at a seemingly global scale—the commodities, manufactured goods, Hollywood movies, and apps that are used by billions across the world. But the reality of tech-driven products is that they are so deeply linked to a customer's private life that they have to account for cultural specificities. So many of them are not that scalable after all!
In a way, it's a bit like cuisine. Most cuisines from all over the world taste good (trust the late Anthony Bourdain on this one). But exporting a cuisine to another market always takes complying with local specificities. Likewise for tech applications and experiences: they might be good, but you really need to fit the local culture if you want your product to be purchased. (By the way, that's true for enterprise products as well as for consumer products.)
5/ The persistent fragmentation explains why European tech is lagging behind. Because of the core features of increasing returns to scale, tech businesses have a critical need to reach a very large scale if they want to be profitable and win out over competitors. If European entrepreneurs encounter barriers on all three fronts of building a business (customers, talent, and capital), they can't grow as quickly and steadily as their competitors from the US and China. And some things are even getting worse, as we're now having to let go of a hub that concentrates all the capital (which was London, but with Brexit comes the end of freedom of movement and a likely divergence in financial regulations).
6/ Here's an enigma, however: historians teach us that fragmentation is what made Europe strong and prosperous in the past. So why is that long-time asset now a liability? To understand the reasons, we need to go back in time. In Guns, Germs & Steel, Jared Diamond explains why fragmentation once helped Europe rise as the main Eurasian power at the expense of China, which was much more monolithic than fragmented Europe and thus depended on the (occasionally stupid) decisions of a single sovereign:
Christopher Columbus, an Italian by birth, switched his allegiance to the duke of Anjou in France, then to the king of Portugal. When the latter refused his request for ships in which to explore westward, Columbus turned to the duke of Medina-Sedonia, who also refused, then to the count of Medina-Celi, who did likewise, and finally to the king and queen of Spain, who denied Columbus's first request but eventually granted his renewed appeal. Had Europe been united under any one of the first three rulers, its colonization of the Americas might have been stillborn.
7/ The key finding here is that Columbus could play on the fragmentation to generate competition between potential sponsors for his venture, and importantly he wasn't limited by the fragmentation when it came to growing the venture itself. Alas the situation is very different these days:
Whereas Columbus had no problem shopping for capital all across the continent, today's startup founders are much more provincial. Imagine a French founder trying to convince VCs in Warsaw, then Copenhagen, then Barcelona, then Milan to back them. That simply doesn't happen. Even if they made the effort of travelling there, the meetings would probably not happen (or there would be no follow up).
When he finally pulled it off, Columbus managed to find all the talent and capital he needed in one single place—in this case, he raised funds in Córdoba, where he dealt with Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and he likely hired most of his crew in Andalusia. Today, you can't rely on one ecosystem only to staff a fast-growing tech company at a large scale.
Finally, Columbus didn't depend on having access to multiple local markets for his venture to be successful. Discovering the Americas was enough to make his fortune as the Spanish crown, which had sponsored the expedition, was also his sole customer. Yet today a European startup will never become a tech giant if it doesn't expand and conquer several markets across the continent (or in the US, or in Africa).
8/ By the 19th century, though, things had shifted. Inventors and entrepreneurs were still able to criss-cross Europe (which was then more open and cosmopolitan than today, at least for those who could afford it), but the scale and ambition of entrepreneurial ventures following the Industrial Revolution required amounts of capital that needed to be pooled from several places. This explains the emergence of pan-European haute finance epitomized by the Rothschild family, which formed a network across London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples. Today we need the equivalent of Nathan Mayer Rothschild (who was in London) and his four brothers, but for financing European tech companies: financiers that are able to pool capital from all over Europe and beyond to finance the most ambitious European tech ventures, wherever they're headquartered and whatever country their founders come from.
9/ You could argue that the VC industry is becoming more like the House of Rothschild, that is, pan-European rather than local. I agree, and it's good news indeed. But we still need European entrepreneurs to become more like Columbus: eager to shop around, even to relocate if necessary:
Here's the inspiring example of Malt's Vincent Huguet: I am moving to Munich. Another one is that of Antonin Cohen, of our portfolio company Harmony, which I documented here: Will Europe Miss the Cannabis Opportunity, Too? 🍁 In both cases, moving was a bold move that came with efforts and sacrifices.
If you want to play it like those entrepreneurs, you need to convince your whole family (including any potential spouse and children) to follow, then you need to find someone to replace you at the helm of the parent organization (or relocate your entire organization), and then you need to dive into a different country so as to master a different context and conquer a different market.
10/ This is the main conclusion that we should draw when reflecting on Europe's fragmentation:
You don't really need to be a Columbus shopping for capital anymore, because capital is on its way to being distributed, even integrated, at the pan-European level. Soon enough, European VC will function more like the Rothschild family than the royal courts of the 15th century.
And we can be confident that, in time, you won't need to shop for talent, either: the management of distributed teams will become easier, and the rise of successful European tech giants will inspire a common culture that, in time, will facilitate talented people joining growing tech companies in Europe.
What we really need today is entrepreneurs that move around like Columbus in order to overcome the strongest barrier of all: the fragmented market for customers (whether consumers or enterprises). It's an uphill battle because:
Europeans are typically unaware of and uninterested in what's happening in other European countries. As I mentioned in this article by Sarah J. Robbins, Forward to the Past, "In everyday life, you are where you are, and you watch your TV in your language. Weather reports in France are a map of France; we don't care that it's raining in the UK."
European governments don't have policies that encourage entrepreneurs to move. Rather, they're focused on convincing outside entrepreneurs to come settle with them—and with Brexit, it's bound to become even worse. But we need the European equivalent of Jiang Zemin's "Go Out policy"—or an upgraded version of Joe Studwell's "export discipline", in which European governments would support local tech champions only if their founders partially relocate abroad so as to establish a foothold on other European markets (or beyond).
The fragmentation is bound to get worse before it gets better—if only because it's the entire world that's currently going through a fragmentation process. Over the long term, I'm certain it will force Europe to rediscover itself and embrace its constraints, and so fragmentation will turn into an asset. Let me leave you with this enlightening tweet by Peter Zeihan as a conclusion 👇
Peter Zeihan@PeterZeihan
@Nicolas_Colin @rorysutherland @Vitolae @ne0liberal 2) w the exception of the 1950s-1980s when the world was recovering from the world wars, the US has <always> been a tech laggard. cheap land, capital, food and power means there's less pressure for moving up the value-added scale. it isn't a bug, it's a feature.
Please scroll down for a comprehensive reading list on fragmented Europe.
📣 Our own efforts at overcoming fragmentation at The Family include outreach to ambitious founders, no matter where they're currently living. My colleague Irina Nikolovska is publishing a series of articles explaining the philosophy and mindset that underlie The Family, with versions in English, German, Serbian, and more. The first was published yesterday (in 🇬🇧), with translations and the rest of the series coming soon. Stay tuned!
🦁 My cofounder Oussama Ammar is a master of the pitch, because he knows it's not just a question of turning it on when you're on stage; instead, it's about pitching simply being part of your daily life. He wrote about some of the big mistakes to avoid as you go around talking about your startup to every audience you can find: 3 Mistakes That'll Kill Your Pitch.
🇫🇷 Finally, if you're in Paris tomorrow, I'll be holding the first of a series of talks (in French) marking the new French edition of my book Hedge, this time published by Éditions Odile Jacob under the title Un contrat social pour l'âge entrepreneurial. I've reworked and updated the text, and will be talking about how the social safety net has been evolving since the first edition was published almost 2 years ago. Get your ticket here: Nos Jours heureux : Nicolas Colin présente la version française de Hedge.
Here are more readings about fragmented Europe:
What Was the Great Divergence? (The Economist, September 2013)
Disconnected Continent (The Economist, May 2015)
Cuisine and Empire (Eugene Wei—about Rachel Laudan's eponymous book, Remains of the Day, August 2015)
Europe's Other Crisis: A Digital Recession (Bhaskar Chakravorti and Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi, Harvard Business Review, October 2015)
The European Union's Digital Single Market Strategy: A conflict between government's desire for certainty and rapid marketplace innovation (Stuart N. Brotman, Brookings, May 2016)
From Clout to Rout: Why European Companies Have Become a Fading Force in Global Business (The Economist, June 2016)
How Europe became so rich (Joel Mokyr, Aeon, February 2017)
Towards a better understanding of convergence and divergence (Erik S. Reinert, Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, November 2017)
Europe Lagging Behind: It's Not The Safety Net (me, Forbes, August 2018)
Europe's History Explains Why It Will Never Produce a Google (The Economist, October 2018)
European Startups Don't Really Care About Brexit (me, Forbes, November 2018)
Europe's new Reformation (Brendan Simms, The New Statesman, February 2019)
Maybe Europe Can't Recover From the Financial Crisis (Noah Smith, Bloomberg, April 2019)
Will Europe Miss the Cannabis Opportunity, Too? (me, European Straits, May 2019)
Why Europe's Single Market Is at Risk (The Economist, September 2019)
The European Tech Ecosystem Doesn't Really Exist (Yet) (my colleague Hugo Amsellem, The Family, September 2019)
The End of the Roman Empire Wasn't That Bad (James Fallows, The Atlantic, October 2019)
The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets (Thomas Philippon, The Atlantic, November 2019)
Britain and Europe Are Destined to Be Rivals (Tom McTague, MSN, November 2019)
The Rising Threat of Digital Nationalism (Akash Kapur, The Wall Street Journal, November 2019)
In the Wake of Brexit, Amsterdam Is the New London (Vivienne Walt, Fortune, November 2019)
What Language Should Startups Speak? (me, European Straits, November 2019)
From London, UK 🇬🇧
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Eugene Carson Blake, Civil Rights Movement, American History
Eugene Carson Blake arrested, July 4, 1963 via youtube
Police were in place to meet the men who meant to go to jail. On July 4, 1963, the stated clerk of the UPCUSA, Eugene Carson Blake, was jailed in Baltimore, Md. for trespassing. Along with 283 activists from the Council on Racial Equality and the Baltimore Clergymen's Interfaith Committee, Blake had challenged the owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park to desegregate. The church had cameras rolling, and a 16mm film, with some of Blake's speeches on civil rights dubbed over it, was widely distributed. You can see PHS's copy below.
The march on Gwynn Oak was not Blake's idea. At a press conference the week before, called regarding his appointment as head of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race, the veteran reporter George Dugan asked Blake, "Name one thing that you plan to do." Blake, flat-footed, had just heard obliquely about a CORE march in Baltimore, and said he was looking into joining. Marchers and press gathered at Metropolitan Methodist Church, including busloads of activists from Philadelphia and New York, among them Daniel Corrigan, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., and Rabbi Morris Lieberman, who, when asked what he was doing in a Methodist church on a Thursday, replied that every American ought to celebrate Independence Day.
City and county police and private security guards were on hand when the buses pulled up to the main gate of the amusement park. Blake and the African-American Presbyterian elder Furman Templeton planned to approach first. They joked beforehand that they were stumped as to what to do if they both got in: Templeton didn't ride roller coasters, and Blake couldn't handle a ferris wheel. Someone read the demonstrators Maryland's trespass law. Blake approached the gate when the reading was over. According to Robert H. Heinze:
Blake said he wanted to go into the park. The police said, "Go ahead." Blake said, "But I want to go in with my friend, Mr. Templeton, here." Templeton was denied admission. Blake pressed the matter, saying they wanted to ride the miniature Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The police suggested that what was really wanted was a ride in the paddy wagon. [...] They declined, Blake saying, "You'll have to take us."1
Blake and the others were booked for trespassing, fingerprinted, pleaded not guilty, and were released on bond. Charges against Blake were ultimately dropped. His actions weren't without cost. Many Presbyterians were dismayed by the church's apparent abrupt transition from passive acceptance of civil rights work to active engagement. One wrote to Blake: "I am delighted to learn that you are in jail. If we could keep you there it would be a boon to Christianity. You are a disgrace (that's right) a disgrace to the Presbyterian Church and it makes me ashamed to identify myself as a Presbyterian when we have such a scallywag as you acting as the Chief Executive Officer." Another called him an "apostate," saying, "In your program, having driven our Christ out of the Church, and our Bible out of our schools, the capstone is to be putting the Negro on the roller coaster with our daughters[...]."2
On the 50th anniversary of this small act of defiance, and the 237th anniversary of another small act of defiance, we wish you a happy Fourth of July.
1. Heinze, Robert H. "Eugene Carson Blake among 283 arrested in Baltimore." Presbyterian Life, August 1, 1963. p.24-27.
2. R. Douglas Brackenridge. Eugene Carson Blake : prophet with portfolio. New York : Seabury Press, 1978. p.96-97.


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This is hot off the press so to speak. God broke my heart for all the babies and the women who carry guilt and shame from abortion and the doctors who are living with the death of souls in theirs.
To create more groups, leaders, pastors, spouses, people who will be the voice of the victims, who will leave Pro-Choice behind because they are spiritually convicted.
If you haven't seen Unplanned, I recommend you go and bring lots of tissues. I recommend you bring a notebook as God may speak to you. I recommend you bring a Pro-Choice friend or family member and pray the whole time God opens their eyes.
I pray to Our Mighty Sovereign God that He multiply the ministry of the movie, book and story to go worldwide.
I pray for you and your life.
To God, all life matters no matter how teeny or how messed up. Jesus loves you in amazing ways and will forgive you for all things if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth He died for us on the cross and rose to life 3 days later and that you need Him to be Lord and Savior of your life.
Amen Julie! I plan on seeing that movie and I echo your prayers. God bless!
Oh let me know what you think of the movie. God bless you right back., Ryan.


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We have been focusing somewhat here lately on linemen. There are good reasons for that. One reason is the big guys do a lot of work for very little fanfare. You can't remember the last time you opened your local newspaper to see a story about a big-time player playing with his hand in the dirt. We aren't saying it never happens, but it is far less frequently than we glorify skill-players. The second reason is the big guys along either the offensive or defensive front are chiefly responsible for the team's overall performance.
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Joan Lee, Wife Of Marvel Icon Stan Lee, Dies At 93
By AJ Caulfield/July 6, 2017 7:12 pm EST
Joan Lee, the wife of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, died on Thursday, July 6. The Hollywood Reporter lists her place of death in Los Angeles, California. She was 93.
A spokesperson for the Lee family gave a statement to the outlet confirming Joan's passing: "I can confirm the sad news that Joan Lee passed away this morning quietly and surrounded by her family. The family ask that you please give them time to grieve and respect their privacy during this difficult time."
According to unnamed sources, Joan Lee was hospitalized after suffering a stroke earlier this week. Her exact cause of death hasn't yet been announced.
Born Joan Clayton, Lee was a former British hat model who was married to an American solider before she met the comic book icon. The pair married on December 5, 1947 and had two children together. Joan Celia "J.C." Lee was born in 1950; another daughter, Jan, unfortunately died three days after she was born in 1953.
In 2016, Stan Lee told THR how he met Joan, calling her "the girl I had been drawing all my life." It seems fate brought the two together, as Lee's cousin originally set him up with another young woman and he ended up meeting Joan instead:
"When I was young, there was one girl I drew; one body and face and hair. It was my idea of what a girl should be. The perfect woman. And when I got out of the Army, somebody, a cousin of mine, knew a model, a hat model at a place called Laden Hats. He said, 'Stan, there's this really pretty girl named Betty. I think you'd like her... so I went up to this place. Betty didn't answer the door. But Joan answered, and she was the head model. I took one look at her—and she was the girl I had been drawing all my life. And then I heard the English accent. And I'm a nut for English accents! She said, 'May I help you?' And I took a look at her, and I think I said something crazy like, 'I love you.' I don't remember exactly. But anyway, I took her to lunch. I never met Betty, the other girl. I think I proposed to [Joan] at lunch."
Joan Lee has been credited as inspiring her husband to keep at his comic career despite truly wishing to become a novelist. At one point, he seriously considered quitting the business, but Joan stepped in to offer some advice. "Before you quit," Joan said to her husband, "why don't you write one comic you are proud of?" Her words of assurance pushed Lee to create the Fantastic Four.
Like Lee, Joan was passionate about writing. She wrote a novel, called The Pleasure Palace, in 1987, which followed the scandalous life of a man hoping to build the world's most opulent ocean liner all while courting a handful of women at the same time. In the 1990s, Joan gave her voice to Miss Forbes in the Fantastic Four animated show and to Madame Web in the Spider-Man cartoon series. Much like her husband, Joan made a sly cameo appearance in last year's X-Men: Apocalypse.
The Lees would have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary this December.


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Walls not taking the bait from Baldwin
By Keith ArnoldOct 7, 2010, 12:22 AM EDT
"I never even heard of him before we played them last year."
Those were the words of Pitt wide receiver Jonathan Baldwin, talking about fellow Pittsburgh native Darrin Walls, one of the highest-rated recruits to hail from the the area in 2006, two years before Baldwin would catch the eye of colleges nationally.
Even if you're to believe that Baldwin had never heard of an All-American candidate in his backyard, you've got to wonder if the standout Pitt receiver is playing mental games with Walls, a defensive back he got the best of during last year's match-up between the Panthers and the Irish, when Baldwin went for 142 yards on five catches and a touchdown.
"Everybody was telling me he was from North Hills or Woodland Hills — I'm
not even sure — so I never even knew him before that time," Baldwin said this week. "He didn't really press that much, so I can't really determine if he was
physical from the pressing standpoint. He didn't tackle
me, so I wouldn't be able to tell you that… I played a great game last year, so I circled the game on my calendar
for this year and I plan to have a great game this time, too."
If Walls is looking for bulletin board material, he certainly isn't taking the bait.
"I've seen what he said," Walls said Wednesday. "I really don't care really about it. I know
that I'm a different player from last year, and so is he. I don't
really talk much, and we'll see a lot on Saturday."
Walls' junior season was a disappointing one, as he struggled to return to form after sitting out the 2008 season for personal reasons. Walls talked about how hard it was to watch from the sidelines the last time Pitt came into Notre Dame Stadium, when they walked away with an overtime victory.
"The year off, it was tough watching at home. But I kept my energy up
and my kept talking to the guys, and my spirits didn't get down too
much," Walls said. "I came up for the game, and it was tough watching knowing
that I could have and should have been out there with my teammates.
But yeah, I was down on the sidelines when the game went into overtime
and it was tough watching, but I mean, I was rooting for my team, and we
didn't get it done, so it was tough.
Darrin was given a fresh start by the new coaching staff and has embraced it. Earlier this week, head coach Brian Kelly singled out Darrin for his work this season, and said he's consistently graded out as his top cover corner.
"He's been outstanding," Kelly said of Walls. "He's our best cover corner consistently. He's played through injury. He's probably been our most professional and locked-in player. I say
professional from a day-to-day standpoint. He is very purposeful in what
he does. He has been somebody that we can really point to in our senior
class and say that's mental and physical toughness. He's displayed that
each and every week."
Walls was measured when commenting on the tactics the Irish defensive will take to slow down Baldwin and a passing game that's yet to get up to speed with young quarterback Tino Sunseri. Taking his cue from the mindset Kelly and the staff are drilling into the players, Walls is trying to keep a level head.
"I mean, really just another game for me," Walls said. "I'm just trying to go out
there and help my team win, and we need to play well and we need
everyone else to play well. That's the mindset I have going into this
game. It's big because I'm from Pittsburgh, but the ultimate thing here
is the big three."
The "big three" Walls refers to is likely much needed win No. 3 for the Irish. If Darrin and his teammates walk away with that, Baldwin will likely know who Darrin Walls is after Saturday.


Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary General Francis Atwoli on Tuesday asked Kenyans to give President Uhuru Kenyatta more time to fight corruption.
Atwoli while addressing African union representatives during the International Labour Organisation training workshop in Kisumu praised Uhuru's fight against corruption and requested Kenyans to consider extending his term.
"I want to thank the president for the good job he is doing. Let us give him another five years so he can finish for us corruption," he remarked.
He remarked he will propose that the Constitution be amended if the fight succeeds.
"We will increase Uhuru's presidential term so he can finish up these people," he noted.
He also advised citizens to be very careful when electing leaders.
"What I know there are some people if you give them leadership, particularly those who are yearning for leadership, they would run away with the Central Bank of Kenya," added Atwoli.
Speaking about Ksh 10,000 bribery allegations in Parliament, he described the legislators involved as "cheap and worse off compared to Koinange Street prostitutes".
"Our children who go to Koinange are better off. They feed themselves unlike an MP who goes to Parliament to get Sh10,000 bribes.
Atwoli further added that Kenya has cheap leaders who have lost their dignity because of the poverty in the country.
"If we have cheap MPs, we will have a cheap government and cheap legislation. Everything will be cheap," the COTU boss concluded.


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Nick Gordon Arrested In Florida For Assaulting His Girlfriend
Gordon was the fiancé of the late Bobbi Kristina Brown.
Parker Riley
Nick Gordon — who was the fiancé of the late Bobbi Kristina Brown — has been arrested on domestic violence charges, according to People.com. The site reports that Laura Leal, his girlfriend, "claimed that she picked Gordon up from a bar and that he allegedly struck her in the face while she was driving. She added that Gordon also allegedly pulled her hair and 'stated to her that he should make her wreck the vehicle,' according to the arrest report."
Gordan claimed "that he wanted Leal to leave his residence after allegedly ripping his shirt and throwing a bottle at him. Gordon told authorities Leal was "crazy" and the alleged attack was unprovoked, though stated they both had been drinking alcoholic beverages." Leal didn't press charges, but Gordon was arrested for battery domestic violence due to her statement and injuries. "Gordon was given a bond of $500 and is currently in the process of being released, according to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office website. He is due back in court on April 6." See the mugshot below.
This is not the first time the two have been in a domestic violence dispute. In June, Leal pressed charges against Gordon for domestic violence. Allegedly, he assaulted for her six hours, but Gordon said Leal was the aggressor. However, by August she dropped all charges. The dispute between Leal and Gordon occurred less than a year after he was found guilty in the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown and was ordered to pay the Brown family $36 million. Brown died in an Atlanta hospice in July 2015, seven months after being found unconscious in a bathtub in her house in Georgia.
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Sun Xun has been selected to participate in K11 Art Foundation's group show 'Get A Life', the first exhibition of British apparel label Vivienne Westwood in China. The artist contributions for the exhibition are response pieces to Dame Vivienne's designs and environmental advocacy, creating a fusion of fashion, art and social commentary. The collection, curated by Song Zhenxi, is entitled "Monument of the Peach Blossom Valley," referencing a Chinese poem that captures a utopia untouched by humans.


Favours are one element of a wedding that couples are always on the fence about, they're a sweet little gesture to give thanks to your guests but when added up they can end up as an expensive extra. We've come up with some cost friendly ideas, whatever style or theme you're going for, you're bound to find a favour to suit your wedding.
Who doesn't love the thrill of a scratch card, package the lotto tickets up nicely in a envelope that incorporates your theme, you can also add the guests name and this can add up as a place card. You could even give guests a lucky penny to use when scratching.
There's nothing like a good game of cards, a deck of cards is extremely underrated, especially when you think of what can be achieved. Not only are there hundreds of games that can be played, there's lots of places where you can play them. With so much that can be achieved, personalised playing cards are undoubtedly make the perfect wedding favour for your guests to enjoy.
What's better than a wedding favour that involves food, in this day and age, wedding favours have become less traditional more quirky, this includes popcorn, lollipops, chocolates, sweets, cakes, spices and mini condiments, all great ideas for wedding favours. What's more is most food related favours will be snapped up and eaten before the end of the evening.
When it comes to favours, donating money to a charity to your heart is a great idea, you could also leave a card which explains the significance of the charity that you've donated to. Some charity donations provide badges with donations, so this is something that you can include to show you've made a donation.
Looking give the adults something to enjoy on the night, miniature bottles of spirits are a great option. There'll always be a drink to suit the mood or theme of your wedding and they're always sure to be well received. The choice of miniature could compliment the season of your wedding, so for a mid summer celebration, you could choose gin, whereas a winter wedding may be suited to a cream liqueur.
Everyone loves a candle, nowadays there's lots of weird and wonderful scents available too. So you can find something different and unique for your wedding favour. You could even create your own unique wedding scent, something for your guests to enjoy and remember your wedding by.
Cute and personalised bottle openers will be a fun wedding favour and something that your guests will find useful and they can use them again and again.
Your guests will adore these packets of seeds, you can choose from a range of blooms, whether it's your wedding flowers or something significant to you. You can add charming designs t the packaging and ensure that your loved ones will be reminded of your wedding when their flowers start to grow.


LAS VEGAS—The Doubletree Club Las Vegas Airport has become the first hotel in the state to introduce PURE allergy friendly rooms.
The location features an entire floor of 10 PURE rooms which create an allergy-friendly environment and remove up to 98% of bacteria and viruses. The PURE concept utilizes special purification techniques where each room is treated comprehensively to remove allergens and irritants from all surfaces, fabrics and air flow. Soft surfaces are sanitized to eliminate irritants and contaminants that can trigger allergies, and the room next undergoes a one-time shock treatment to remove any remaining living organisms and their associated irritants. A bacteriostatic barrier is then applied to all surfaces to prevent the growth of bacteria. To maintain these conditions in the room, an air purification system is installed, creating air quality that averages two times cleaner than the threshold necessary for asthma patients. Special micro-fiber, hypo-allergenic pillow cases and mattress covers are used to reduce allergies triggered by dust mites.
Ten Doubletree Hotels currently offer PURE rooms, including locations in Las Vegas, Orlando, New York; Washington DC.; San Diego; Tucson, AZ; Tulsa, OK and Palm Beach Gardens, FL.


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Private prison companies
At a recent URBAN-L. A. forum it was pointed out that deportations and detention have fueled the growth of the massive prison industrial complex, and a huge waste of economic resources. Mass detention has generated a billion-dollar industry for private prison companies, including the Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spend over $2 billion a year to detain immigrants. It costs an average of $164 per day per person to keep someone in detention. Prison corporations lobby heavily to secure government contracts to increase their profits. An even more troubling development is that prison corporations lobby to increase anti-immigrant legislation. The prison industry was the largest single funder of the notorious anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona, SB 1070. The policy of mass deportation is also part of the broader problem of mass incarceration. Our prison population has exploded from about 300,000 to more than 2 million in a few decades.
The Adelanto facility is one of those private prison companies. A report by the nonprofit immigrant advocacy group Detention Watch Network a few months ago detailed alleged abuses of prisoners at the privately run company, the Adelanto Detention Facility East, and nine other similar institutions across the nation where immigrants whose citizenship is in question have been detained by U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to await federal deportation hearings.
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WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) today welcomed 25 undergraduate students and recent graduates into its Congressional and C-Suite Internship programs. The cohort members began their assignments today and will spend the next three months working in congressional offices where they will observe first-hand the inner workings of Capitol Hill and learn how federal legislation is developed.
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Ratjoy.com » Forums » Off-Topic Discussion » I cordially invite all of you.
I've been a player of EoS for quite sometime off and on the past two years. Needless to say that I come along after Mr. Yang had given up on the game. Not sure that he comes back to often, but I hope that he wouldn't take offense to this post. I enjoy playing and the strategy that comes with it. Though I don't interact quite a bit with to many of the players on here, I do know and recognize some of the big players and respect the way that you have helped me and a few others that came in as of late.
Since Mr. Scott Yang had published the scripts on github for public use to take and use on their own servers, I've been playing very little here on the test server and even less on the CapOL server. I have spent the past few months coding the existing script from github on my own server.
While much of the code was very useable and I was even impressed with the way a lot of it was written, I did have to put quite a bit of work into it and even re-write a few scripts that just wouldn't complete or I thought would work better if it looked differently.
I followed losteconomy for a while and was interested in how it turn out, but seems to be down or removed now for the past few weeks.
While my server still needs quite a bit of work, I feel that I am ready to cordially invite any of you and all of you that would be interested in signing u p and growing with the BetterMember server.
As I will not fill RatJoy's message boards with spam from and about my server this will be the only invite. Looking forward to seeing and playing with each of you on this new server as we continue to build it.
There are 39 total players, of those players 10 has logged on in the last 24 hours. 11 had logged on in the last week. There are 42 active businesses in operation. There are 139 products in the game so far with many more to be added. Right now there are 26 different factories to build, 5 stores to choose from, and 8 Research and development buildings.
there is something wrong, i registered with my email but never got any link, not even in spam folder. broken maybe. it has been 3 days now but nope.
today i registered with another email, and again the same thing.
Don't worry about it. That version is too out of balance and is hard to play. Stick with this version for now.


In this variant of the Petri Net DSML the initial token distribution is part of the abstract syntax of the language and thus introduced in its metamodel (Integer attribute initialToken of the metaclass Place). Additionally the tokens held by a place at runtime are represented by the Integer attribute tokens of the configuration class PlaceConfiguration.
This exemplary model of the Petri Net 1 DSML (depicted in graphical concrete syntax) consists of a Net containing one Transition and two Places, whereat one Place serves as input and one Place as output of the Transition. The Place serving as input holds one initial token. According to the specified behavioral semantics of the DSML when executing this model, the Transition will consume the token held by the input Place of the Transition and put one token to the output Place.


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Touroultia is een kevergeslacht uit de familie van de boktorren (Cerambycidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van het geslacht werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2012 door Nearns & Tavakilian.

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Touroultia omvat de volgende soorten:
 Touroultia lordi Nearns & Tavakilian, 2012
 Touroultia obscurella (Bates, 1865)
 Touroultia swifti Nearns & Tavakilian, 2012

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Појам Битка за Тобрук може да се односи на:
 Битка за Тобрук (1911),
 Битка за Тобрук (1941), из јануара 1941.
 Опсада Тобрука, од априла до новембра 1941.
 Битка за Тобрук (1942)