If you ever have to step up and manage people, it can be pretty difficult to figure out the best way to do it in a way that both works with your personality and gets the job done. This flowchart can help you figure out—in broad categories, of course—what type of leader you might be.
Not sure if you’ve been paying attention, but the world isn’t looking so great right now. People are scared. There’s no easy way to make yourself feel better in these trying times, but here’s something good—zoos around the globe are having a #CuteAnimalTweetOff.
The tweet-off began after the National Zoo released a picture of its adorable new seal. After a Virginia woman challenged her state’s aquarium to get in on the cuteness, the viral moment we all desperately needed was born.
So take a breather from checking your breaking news notifications, and instead, gaze lovingly at these good, innocent creatures.
Feel better now? No?
How about now?
With such fierce competition, it’s hard to declare a winner, but I’m pretty sure it’s all of us.
The Bookseller recently posted that E. L. James is in talks with theatre producers to make a Fifty Shades of Grey musical. Making a musical is no small feat, so I came up with some potential song titles in order to give them inspiration. Note that some song titles didn’t even need to be changed from their appearance in already well-established shows. Also, in case you are a newcomer to musical theatre you should know that any song with the word “dance” in the title is really about having sex. Seriously. Just replace “dance” with any word for having sex and tada, you get straight to the subtext. The genius Mr. Stephen Sondheim refers to this in his wonderful song, Can That Boy Foxtrot. Enjoy!
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Witchblade is coming to TV... again. Image’s supernatural comic series has a new show planned for NBC from the team behind Vampire Diaries, and someone out there is hoping the golden age of comic book TV can mean that the second (technically, third) time’s a charm for detective Sara Pezzini.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that the show, being produced by Sony Pictures Television for NBC, will be written by Caroline Dries, who will executive produce the show alongside her fellow Vampire Diaries producer and writer, Brian Young, as well as Sony TV’s Carol Mendelsohn and the co-creator of the original comic series at Image’s Top Cow Productions imprint, Marc Silvestri.
Like the initial incarnation of the comic, the show will follow cop Sara Pezzini (although transposed to San Francisco’s Mission District, rather than the New York City setting of the original) as she comes into contact with the mysterious Witchblade amulet, a sentient bracelet passed down through female hosts with tremendous supernatural power... which she then proceeds to use to help her solve crime. So it’ll be a procedural with supernatural elements, basically.
It’s not the first time the series has been adapted beyond its comic book origins—there’s of course, the aforementioned TNT series that ran for two seasons, and a failed attempt at a live action movie in 2008. This time, presumably NBC is hoping this new take on Witchblade will stick around for a little longer.
Det här ämnet fångade mångas intresse så låt oss titta närmare på det! Att inte kunna bryta ned mat ordentligt är ett väldigt vanligt problem som är ganska lätt åtgärdat! Vad man aldrig någonsin ska göra är att försöka neutralisera eller höja pH i magsäcken, särskilt inte med sk protonpumphämmare. Det är viktigt att ha magsyra med rätt pH och med rätt mängd för att kunna
Ju mindre maten bryts ned i magsäcken ju större partiklar kommer ned i tarmarna. Om man då dessutom har läckande tarmar, alltså tarmslemhinna som inte är helt tät – då har man problem! Autoimmuna problem kommer som ett brev på posten, men inte bara fysiska utan även psykiska (ADD, ADHD, ASD, stress, ångestsyndrom, hjärndimma osv) OBS: alla dessa är inget man bara får de är delvis genetiskt men symptomen förvärras när immunförsvaret måste hantera osmälta proteiner, särskilt som vissa passerar blod-hjärnbarriären)
Ju mindre maten bryts ned i magsäcken ju mindre mineraler och vitaminer kan kroppen tillgodogöra sig.
Om för stora bitar av mat kommer ned i tarmarna kan det också leda till SIBO (small intenstinal bacterial overgrowth) som irriterar tarmslemhinnan och bidrar med ökad produktion av gifter. Bakterierna i magen har en egen metabolism och fel bakterier kan skapa toxiska restprodukter som levern behöver ta hand om.
Jag lovar att det verkligen är värt ansträngningen att fixa magen för det är rätt meningslöst att äta näringsriktig och bra mat eller massa tillskott om de ändå inte tas upp! Jag tycker att saltsyra (betain HCL) är grymt bra för att få i mig mer näring från maten jag äter, jag länkar till Iherb som jag samarbetar med så blir de rabatt för dig och poäng för mig! 
Inlägget Näringsbrist och låg magsyra på LCHF dök först upp på Martina Johansson.
Everything you need to know about me, in one tweet.
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
-Bruce Lee
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard the most metal flight of your lives. Let’s do some sky crimes.
Finnair flight AY666 has, according to the Daily Mail, become something of a running joke for several reasons. Along with pentagrams and images of Baphomet, 666 is, of course, associated with Satanism. And several times a year, AY666 just happens to fly on Friday the 13th.
Today’s extra-unlucky flight also happened to be nonstop from Copenhagen to Helsinki. Or as ticket-holders would have seen it written: CPH->HEL.
Just to drive the point home, the plane itself is also reportedly 13 years old as of this year. However, it is unknown at this time which of the passengers were seated in the 13th row, or if any of them were 13 years old.
At 3:50 local time today, flight AY666 landed more or less on schedule and without incident. Thanks, Satan.
Back in October, I informed actress Zoie Palmer that the time had finally come. This season, we were going to give her character, the Android, a name. And a backstory. But, more importantly, a name. And so, the two of us got to work, pitching each other possible monikers via text over the course of three months.
I’d be lying in bed, just about to doze off when – PING! I’d check my phone: “Iris”.
Zoie would be sitting in trailer, getting her hair done when – PING! I’d offered “Alice”.
I’d be sitting in a visual effects meeting – PING! “Blake”.
She’d be doing some weekend shopping – PING! “Sydney”.
Me in the shower, shampooing – PING! “Jules”.
Her on set, rehearsing a scene – PING! “Marie”.
“Cleo”
“Clara”
“Zee”
“Destiny”
“Cal”
“Aloysia”
“Dee”
“Loyloy”
Finally, last night, we narrowed it down to our Top 10 and, over the next half hour, narrowed our choices down through process of elimination.
PING! She nixed “Lexie”.
PING! I axed “Tosh”.
She rejected “Amelia”.
I dumped “Elle”.
“Sam” was the next to go followed by –
“Cass”
“Reese”
Then “Kai” until –
Only two remained! Zoie deliberated and, in the end, decided on…
Eliminating “Evie”. Which left her with…
…
…
…
The Android’s name I’ll be dropping into Episode 10.
Yay Team Zolozzi! Is there anything we can’t accomplish?!
Oh, hey, while you’re hear, enjoy this concept artwork by Henry Fong for Dark Matter’s third season:
Tagged: #DarkMatter, Dark Matter 
A few times a week, I am asked by couples to recommend some two player Tabletop games for them to play. This is a very short, totally non-exhaustive list of (mostly lighter) games that I love to play with Anne, as well as some other games that aren’t her jam, but are still pretty great.
The idea is to take pieces that are basically Tetris shaped, and lay them down on a board, following some simple placement rules. The objective is to use up all of your pieces, or have fewer pieces left than anyone else when you run out of places to put them. It’s super simple to teach and learn, and way more difficult to master than you would expect. There’s a regular Blokus that’s for up to four players, and a version that uses triangles. This travel version is perfect for, well, traveling, and also is specifically designed for two players.
Jaipur is a very simple set collecting card game for two players. It’s portable, and has great replay value because it allows a lot of different strategies to be explored and utilized.
You may have seen us play Small World on Tabletop in the first season. It’s sort of like Risk, but more fun. It’s an area control game, and each player has a fantasy race + special ability combo that changes every game, or multiple times during the game, if they choose. One of the great things about Small World is that it comes with multiple maps in the box, and each map is designed for a different number of players, including a two-player map.
Pretty much any cooperative game will work for two players, or even as a solo game, but I think Pandemic is the best one for couples because it’s so freaking intense. You feel like you’re losing from the first turn, and that’s half the fun of the game. I’m not saying that it lends itself to strip variants, but I’m not not saying that. I should also mention that Pandemic Legacy is fantastic for two players, especially if you want to have the experience of watching a season of a TV show together, only you’re playing it and everyone on Earth is going to die if you fail.
Yes, Sorry! from Milton Bradley. This is the go-to game for Anne and me, because I hate Scrabble. This game is almost entirely random, but there is some strategy if you really want to go that route. It’s great for two players, especially if you want to have a drink or eleven while you play.
Ticket To Ride is a great infection vector for making new gamers, and this expansion is specifically designed for 2 or 3 players. You can technically play any of the TTR games with 2 players, but you run into the problems a large map presents, which (in my opinion) just make the game longer and less fun. So this particular map works well for 2 players, and works with either the original Ticket To Ride or Europe base sets.
Both are little card games that feature pattern matching and team work. Iota is more competitive, and plays like Set in reverse.
One of my favorite Tabletop games of all time, Takenoko is high variance when you play it with 4 players, but intensely strategic when you play it heads up.
Finally, there is also Magic: The Gathering (duh) and my friend Chris Kluwe’s upcoming Twilight of the Gods LCG. If you want something that’s intense and takes hours and hours to play, Twilight Struggle gets high marks from my friends who play it.
I’m sure there are a lot of other games (tell me in a comment, if you want) that work well for two players, but this is what I can come up with quickly off the top of my head, and I have 23 pages of dialog to prepare for a voice session tomorrow so I kinda have to get back to work.
Play more (two-player) games!!
Edit to add: HIVE! This was mentioned in comments (with a lot of other games that look really fun, but haven’t been played by me) and I need to add it. Hive is amazing. It’s everything you love about Chess and Othello and Go, with none of the things that make those games so difficult for new players. Rich Sommer introduced me to this game one night at a little coffee and pie place in North Hollywood, and what we thought would be a quick cup of coffee turned into like four hours of us playing Hive over and over and over. It’s really awesome. Get the pocket edition, because it’s portable and you lose nothing in the translation.
It’s a dangerous road to travel down, comparing yourself to others. It might just be the biggest no-no in polyamory.
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I will never forget the night I was murdered by Nick Cave. But then, if you’re going to be murdered by someone…
On a recent visit to Paris, I found it so strange that their eggs sat next to dried goods, at room temperature, since I’m used to refrigerating eggs in the U.S. We’re all concerned about the potential of Salmonella to make people sick, but the U.S. and Europe just protect against this threat in different ways.
Jag försöker lägga band på mig när jag pratar med kvinnor. Jag undviker att prata om saker som jag funderar på och jag försöker vara tyst långa stunder. Jag försöker se intresserad ut, även om jag inte är det. Jag ställer frågor som jag redan vet svaret på.
Inlägget I´m a mansplainer, yes I am…. dök först upp på Bonde på riktigt | Martin Moraeus.
On Sunday, Showtime released a new teaser trailer for the revival of ‘90s art kid favorite Twin Peaks. In it, creator David Lynch can be seen eating a (glazed?) donut as FBI administrator Gordon Cole and, well, that’s about it.
That’s the whole thing.
Those hoping for a bigger peak at the upcoming season might be a bit disappointed, but the promotional campaign has followed a kind of Lynchian logic. Much like the original series, Showtime’s spots have left viewers with more questions than answers so far.
Where did Cole get the donut? Was it any good? Is Cole’s entire donut-eating session, in fact, a dream? To find out, we’ll just have to wait—and argue about it in endless message board threads until then.
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Telenor och Tele2 är i färd att konstruera ett rikstäckande 5G-nät via gemensamma bolaget Net4Mobility som bildades för sju år sedan. Om allt går enligt planerna kommer de första kunderna till fullo kunna utnyttja 5G-nätet år 2020.
I en pressrelease skriver Telenor att det befintliga samarbetet och det gemensamma 4G-nätet utgör en bra grundstomme för utbyggnaden till 5G. Steget från 4G till 5G ger fördelar som snabbare svarstider och högre hastigheter.
Nätet blir även mer robust enligt Telenor och fler och tätare anslutningar sägs kunna hanteras. Tidigare i höst introducerade Qualcomm, Ericsson, Telstra och Netgear ett 5G-nät i Australien som lanseras kommersiellt på vissa ställen lokalt nu i vinter.
Det kommer dock som sagt dröja innan 5G ersätter 4G för gemene man här i Sverige.
Inlägget Tele2 och Telenor bygger gemensamt 5G-nät, aktiveras 2020 dök först upp på Swedroid.
We’ve known that Disney is doing a brand new DuckTales for a while, but now we’re starting to get some solid details about who’ll be providing the voices of our feathered friends... and it turns out a former Time Lord and Marvel villain is lending his brogue to Scrooge McDuck himself.
The full voice cast of the new series was revealed today, courtesy of the only way a new DuckTales cast should be revealed: a video of them all singing the classic theme tune for the show. Woo-oo!
Joining Tennant’s Scrooge McDuck will be Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, and Bobby Moynihan as Huey, Duey, and Louie, respectively. The main cast is rounded out with Toks Olagundoye as Mrs. Beakley, Beck Bennett as Launchpad McQuack, and Kate Micucci as Webby Vanderquack.
Holy cow, that’s one hell of a cast. DuckTales is set to premiere in the summer of 2017 on Disney XD.
Earlier this week, Evernote updated its privacy policy to make machine learning features—which let some employees read your notes—mandatory for all users. Now, the company’s walking that policy back, but there are still some problems.
After Agents of SHIELD came to a close for the midseason last week, Marvel announced a short new webseries for the show, Slingshot, starring speedy Inhuman Yo-Yo Rodriguez. Well, the wait is already over: you can now watch the whole thing online.
ABC’s YouYube channel has dropped all six episodes of Slingshot, which you can check out in the conveniently-placed video playlist below. The episodes are only about 4-5 minutes long, so in total it’s pretty much half an episode of Agents of SHIELD in length, but if you want to learn more about Yo-Yo and her past while you twiddle your thumbs waiting for the show to return next year, it’s a good way to spend some time.
You see a job you’d like to apply for—but there’s a catch, you don’t meet all of the requirements. Despite that, you know the difference between being underqualified or unqualified and you feel confident you fall into the former camp rather than the latter. You can do this job.
Ryktet visade sig stämma för nu har Pebble meddelat att Fitbit förvärvat deras tillgångar och att Pebble läggs ned. Meddelandet har publicerats på Kickstarter vilket är passande med tanke på att det var där Pebbles saga började.
All hårdvaruverksamhet upphör. Pebble tillverkar, marknadsför eller säljer inte längre nya produkter. Befintliga enheter kommer att fortsätta att fungera, men ”funktionalitet och service” kan reduceras längre fram. Firmware-uppdateringar och nya funktioner är heller inte att räkna med.
De som beställt en Pebble Time 2, Pebble Core eller Pebble Time Round (Kickstarter Editions) kommer att få pengarna tillbaka, då dessa enheter inte längre kommer att nå slutproduktion. Enligt Pebble får kunder pengarna tillbaka automatiskt, inklusive eventuell skatt och fraktkostnad.
Mer information finns på Kickstarter.
Inlägget Officiellt: Fitbit förvärvar Pebbles tillgångar, företaget läggs ned dök först upp på Swedroid.
Starting today, Netflix will let you download select shows so that you can watch offline. That means you can queue up your favorite shows to watch while you’re traveling or don’t want to use up your data plan.
An effort by thousands of social media users to help an autistic boy has paid off.
14-year-old Ben Carter is described by his father Marc as having “severe autism, he’s non-verbal and has very limited understanding.” Since he was two, Ben has drunk exclusively from a two-handed toddler cup and refused any other vessel, to the point that he was twice hospitalised with dehydration. To make things worse, Ben’s medication is administered via drinks of orange juice.
Although the family replaced the cup once with an identical model, the replacement also began disintegrating – a major problem given the model was long out of production. Marc tweeted his followers to ask if they could track a replacement cup down and the post wound up being retweeted more than 20,000 times.
Manufacturers Tommee Tippee said they no longer had any stock, but also posted requests on Twitter and Facebook. The appeals promoted numerous responses, including people posting spare cups of a similar model (which Ben rejected, instantly spotting it was an “imposter”) and suggestions of 3D printing.
However, not only did the family receive several dozen old cups of the same model but the interest prompted the manufacturers to search factories across the world. Eventually they tracked down an original production mold in China which had not been disposed of as should normally have happened. After confirming it still works and is in a food-safe condition, they have told the family they will produce a lifetime supply of cups for Ben.
It’s still not certain if Ben will accept the replacement, having rejected some of the donated cups that were in relatively good condition. The family now plans to collate the full set of donations, sort them in order of deterioration, start with the one in worst shape, and gradually replace them with ones in better condition in the hope that the adjustment will be subtle enough each time that Ben accepts the change. If that works, the hope is that eventually Ben will come to accept a new cup as “his” meaning the family will never have to worry about running out of cups.
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While they’re not medicated in any way, these DIY lemon ginger cough drops are simple to make, a little sweet, and the ginger and honey will help soothe a sore throat ever so slightly. Enjoy with a cup of tea, or in between mentholated cough drops and cough medicine if you need something stronger.
