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Egan-Jones Cuts Spain’s Debt Rating to B From BB- on Outlook
Spain’s sovereign credit rating was cut by Egan-Jones Ratings Co. to B from BB- on the country’s deteriorating economic outlook.
The nation’s 9.6 percent budget deficit, 24 percent jobless rate and bank losses of as much as 260 billion euros ($324 billion) weigh on the economy, the ratings company said in an e- mailed statement today.
“Spain will inevitably be faced with payments to support a portion of its banking sector and for its weaker provinces,” the Haverford, Pennsylvania-based company said. “Assets of Spain’s largest two banks exceed its GDP. We are slipping our rating to ‘B’; watch for more requests for support from the banks and money creation.”
Spain is trying to bolster its banks and help cash-strapped regions at a time of surging borrowing costs. The yield difference between Spanish and German 10-year bonds increased yesterday to the highest since the creation of the euro. As Spain’s market access narrows, it depends increasingly on domestic lenders, which in turn are getting cash from the European Central Bank, to buy its debt.
Foreign investors cut their holdings of Spanish debt to 37 percent of the total in circulation in April from 50 percent at the end of last year. Domestic lenders, bolstered by emergency funding from the ECB, have picked up the slack, increasing their share to 29 percent from 17 percent over the same period. At a bond auction on May 17, foreigners took 20 percent to 30 percent of the issue, a government official, who declined to be named, told reporters.
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Evaluating Starting Hands In No-Limit Holdem Tournaments
There are three main factors that influence how you should play your hole cards in No-Limit Hold'em Tournaments. They are: your position, the size of your chip stack, and the size of the blinds. As a basic rule you need to avoid marginal hands that appear playable pre-flop but which can lead to huge losses in a single pot. The classic starting hands that fall into this category would be any Ax lower than AQ where both cards are unsuited, any Kx unsuited lower than KQ, and low suited connectors.
The tricky aspect of no-limit hold'em both in a tournament structure and in a regular cash game is that these hands can also lead to the greatest rewards. They are extremely volatile, however, and much of the skill of no-limit is knowing how to recognize when that starting hand is a liability and when it could potentially break an opponent. This requires a great feel for the game after the flop. Naturally beginners lack this experience and nuanced understanding of the game, and so it is far safer for a novice to limit himself to playing premium cards only before the flop. The problem then becomes one of predictability - if you only raise with big pairs you are unlikely to get any action, and when you do get action you're in trouble because the rest of the table clearly knows what you're holding to begin with.
If you are one off the button or on the button you should loosen your restrictions and play more starting hands, including those marginal ones, provided no one else has entered the pot showing obvious strength. To vary your play effectively you should also consider raising with these hands as a semi-bluff tactic, but no more than one in four times.
Keep most of your initial raises down to between 75% and 100% of the pot. If you make it 3 times the size of the big blind to go that typically equals an 80% pot bet. This will protect you in case you get re-raised or called by stronger holdings. If there are limpers in front of you and you are going to raise then you need to make a significant bet, especially in no-limit where you have to make it punitive for other players if they intend to draw out. In that case you could raise as much as 6 times the big blind.
Have a healthy and watchful respect for strong-tight players who are rarely in hands, particularly if they play the hand out of position. If a player like this raises in early position you should fold all those marginal hands, and small pairs as well.
When weak players have entered the pot, you should be happy to call and take flops with them provided you can do this inexpensively. Slow playing big hands has a higher expected value in No-Limit than it does in Limit games where it is rarely the right way to play. That being said, it is a skill that takes a lifetime to master, and can easily backfire on you.
As the blinds increase in tournament play you must be flexible with your evaluation of starting hands as you have to keep your chip stack well ahead of the pace set by the blinds. In tournament play you cannot wait for the perfect starting hand, and frequently you need to make your own luck. Be selectively aggressive, especially in the later stages of the tournament. Initially you should be tight at least until you have a good read on some of the opponents at your table. Try to avoid coin-flip scenarios where all your chips are at stake. This happens all the time in online tournaments where players feel comfortable going all-in on AK and equally comfortable calling that hand with any pocket pair.
The winners of tournaments at all levels are usually those players who pace themselves early on, make a move in the middle stages of the event, and then start all over again at the final table by once again playing strong-tight.
Ryan D. is a poker fanatic and regular poker tournament player. For more interesting articles about playing online poker, visit http://www.online-poker-insider.com. Online Poker Insider guarantees online poker room deposits up to $500.
The Final Table: Pokers Lure
It should come as no surprise that Texas Hold 'em poker is responsible for the dramatic upsurge in online gaming profits. After all, one only has to turn on the television most any weeknight, and a poker tournament will surely be showing somewhere.
2005 World Series of Poker -- Final Tournament Report
Now that the 2005 World Series of Poker has finished, we can tell you what took place in Events #23 through #45. But most importantly we can announce what happened in the Main Event and who won the $7,500,000 top prize and became the 2005 champion.
Always Look For The Best Online Sportsbook Before You Start Betting Online
Before you sign up with an Online Sportsbook and start betting online, you sure need to find out what to look for in a sportsbook service.The main idea of sports betting is to defeat so-called oddsmakers in order to win some money.
The Rise Of Online Poker And Why This Could Spell Disaster For The Inexperienced Gambler
The growth in online poker has been phenomenal over the past two years with the industry more than tripling in size to a staggering $1.5 billion.
Bonuscodes Party Poker : Get more for your deposit buck
Bonuscodes for Party Poker are a great way to get a little extra. Imagine walking into your local casino to play some poker.
Compulsive Gambler Continues Down Self Destructive Path With Little Hopes To Stop Gambling
Everyday I here of compulsive gamblers who are continuing to gamble even though they have tried one recovery program or another. This is a story of a compulsive gambler named Robert who relapsed over and over again until he found the right recovery program.
The Secrets of the Outside Numbers
Raising vs. Calling in Holdem Poker
When playing poker we are constantly required to make decisions. Every time we must make a decision, we have a chance to make a mistake.
Has the Party Poker Fish Pool Dried Up?
Party Poker has long been known as the place to go to catch unsuspecting poker "fish". What are fish? Well they are the players who are just starting to learn to play poker or who have been around for a while but just aren't very good.
American Gambling Basics
Casinos have always been a destination for the wealthy and the famous, however, these days they are hoping to be a regular stopover. But the gambling cannot be confined to one spot.
States Lottery Basics
For those who dream of quitting their jobs and being independently wealthy, the lottery is an affordable way to take some chances and move toward a goal. Lotteries have been a great support to those aspiring to be great through the stroke of luck.
Slot Machine Basics 101
Let's begin with a little bit of basic knowledge about slot machines.Modern Slot Machines work on a computer program that randomly selects winning combinations.
Building Your Bankroll
The first thing one needs to do before they even think about laying a bet down is: set your bankroll before the season even begins. You have to know how much money you are going to start with.
Women Increasingly Prefer Online Poker
As poker continues to gain more and more mainstream acceptance, women are becoming increasingly interested in taking up the game. Until the most recent poker boom, poker was mostly a male populated card game.
Be Careful or Your Poker Nuts Will Get Crushed!
The origins of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain although it is thought to have come from old slang meaning "delightful thing, practice or experience". It is a "delightful thing" of course, because in Texas Holdem the poker nuts is the best possible hand that you can have at any point in the game.
My Teenager Has A Gambling Addiction
Over the past few months Stop Gambling Sites have received numerous emails related to teenage gambling addiction.With all the new programs on cable and local television, this negative exposure is affecting our youth.
Avoid These 4 Roulette Myths and Play Like a Pro!
Roulette is a fun exciting and simple game to play, requiring no skill. This makes it very popular.
The Secret of Field/Place Betting
The Concept of Value in Sports Betting!
In sports betting you need to make sure that your bets (and trades) are good value in order to make a profit. If you do not do this you will still win bets but profits may be harder to achieve.
Our Gambling Vacation To Louisiana
Before I begin to describe how we prepared for and then went on our first gambling vacation, there are few details you need to know.We are not wealthy!We do not have rich parents to call for money! In fact we don't have anyone we can call for money!If we screw-up, we are on our own!When we started discussing a weekend at the casino, it really scared us to think we could spend more than a hundred dollars at a casino.
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Five landing page strategies so you convert leads like crazy
The following landing page strategies come from the way I have created our own landing pages, which has been very successful. I’m going to share how I have done it with you and you can make adjustments so the tips apply to your business.
1. Start with your pull marketing questions to grab attention. Your ideal clients will answer “Yes” to each of these questions. In addition, these questions begin to develop interest, trust, and credibility among prospects.
2. Write a paragraph to reassure prospects nothing is wrong with them. You are letting them know there is no need to worry. You might say something like, “If you’re anything like me, you weren’t born with a silver spoon of marketing in your mouth. The good news is marketing can be taught.”
3. Tell prospects what they need to do and why. This is where you help prospects start to understand what they need to do to turn things around. Keep the focus on the “what and why” and hold off on exactly how to do it. This will create a need to work with you – to find out more.
4. Briefly describe your proprietary system. Take prospects through a brief description of your system. You can do this on the landing page or take visitors to a separate page. It all depends on how your website is set up. Either way, you can take the visitor step by step through the top line of your system.
5. Explain how you work with clients. If you don’t have your proprietary system yet, then your next step is to describe how you work with people so they can get comfortable with the idea of what you have to offer.
Your Client Attraction Assignment
The best thing you can do when writing your landing page copy, is to get it all down on paper first. Let your thoughts pour out following these five steps. Once that is complete, then you can start to edit. Use bullets and short sentences to make the text easier to read. Remember, a visitor’s attention span is very short, so you want your text to be compelling and grab their attention as quickly as possible.
Now, if you’re just starting out and trying to fill your practice in the FIRST place, then follow a step-by-step system that feels easy and authentic to you. The Client Attraction Home Study System™ gives you the most important things to do to set up simple, solid systems, so that you consistently fill your pipeline and continually get new clients. It’s all step-by-step, not a big mishmash of things. So, you do step one of the system, and when you’re done with that, you move on to step two, and so on. All the tools, scripts, templates, and examples are handed to you on a silver platter. Easy. You can get it at TheClientAttractionSystem.com.
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Art, for the most part, discourages physical interaction. Look, but don’t touch. And most certainly, don’t sit. But a new series of canvases encourage users to lean into it. To just go ahead and take all that weight off.
Almost like some odd illusion, the seemingly flat canvases are made from a highly elastic fabric that is meant to sustain weight. The screen-printed chairs conform to your body as you sit into them immediately transforming from art to furniture.
The “Canvas” series was designed by YOY (pronounced yo-ee), a relatively new design firm established in 2011 by Naoki Ono and Yuuki Yamamoto. Presented last week at Milano Salone, the canvases have yet to make their way into your nearest furniture shop. But hopefully we’ll soon be able to replace all our foldaway chairs that are stashed in every nook we can find.
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Prosthetic Replacement of the Infrahepatic Inferior Vena Cava for Leiomyosarcoma—Invited Critique
Arch Surg. 2006;141(9):924-924.
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These aromatic soy-based candles are designed and crafted by Margo Breznik in her Chicago studio, where she carefully blends each fragrance by hand. Tomato features the sweet scents of heirloom tomato accented with notes of orange and thyme. Approximate burn time: 40 hours. 3" diam.; 3" high.
Customer Reviews for Brigade de Cuisine Candle, Tomato
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|Featured Testimonial from ASHLEY ARGOTA, who plays the role of "Lulu" on the hit
Nickelodeon series, "True Jackson, VP"
|"I started acting when I was 5 years old. I can honestly say that I never really enjoyed acting classes
until I started taking classes at The Playground. I never thought I could learn so much in one place!
Gary, Gayla, Lee, and the rest of the teachers at The Playground are amazing. They made our classes
so much fun, but I still learned so much! I took classes for about a year and a half, and in that time I
gained so much confidence. I know exactly what to do when I get my scripts for the show every week. I
still do the tongue twisters that I was taught (PURPLE WURPLE!) and do my script analysis for the
scenes that I'm in. Honestly, I think that The Playground is a huge part of why I got my role on True
Jackson, VP. Without their help, I don't think I'd be here right now! The lessons that I was taught during
my time at The Playground will be with me for the rest of my life. And I'm never going to stop learning- I
STILL get coaching at The Playground! I LOVE IT THERE!! :)
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Hi, welcome to the Website for the Bates County Sheriff's Office. I would like you to know that the brave men and women of the Bates County Sheriff's Office are working hard everyday to bring better public safety, transparency and accountability to the Sheriff's Office. We believe in being leaders in protecting our citizens.
This Website is intended to provide you with information about every aspect of this great organization. I hope that you will partner with us in keeping Bates County safe. I also want to know how we are doing, which is why your input is important because we always want to do better.
Providing you with the best public safety is important to my Deputies, Jailers and I, which is why we encourage your participation in protecting and serving the citizens of Bates County. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or problems you may have.
Thank you for this great opportunity to serve you as your Sheriff.
~ Sheriff Chad Anderson
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International Human Rights and Development
Our lawyers, in a past human rights and development project, have developed the content for a booklet for the Western Cape Department of Education (South Africa) advising on the legislative and human rights framework in South Africa that protects all children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, human rights and the law in South African schools.
Our lawyers have also acted pro bono in assisting the International Legal Resource Centre of the American Bar Association, who, in turn, helped the United Nations Development Programme (Viet Nam office) assist the government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam by way of conducting a legislative assessment of proposed legislation to be tabled before the Vietnamese parliament that governed that country’s legislative response to addressing the challenges raised by HIV/AIDS in Viet Nam, and the impact thereof on particularly vulnerable groups within Vietnamese society.
We have a bold vision of who we are, where we’re going, and what we strive to achieve. Our genuine commitment to International Human Rights and Development work is central to that vision. We listen. More than that, we understand. We act for vulnerable and marginalised individuals who have had their human rights infringed, as well as for groups, organisations and international aid agencies advocating on behalf of vulnerable and marginalised individuals and communities.
If you want justice, please contact our offices by email, firstname.lastname@example.org or email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org or call us on +44 0203 059 7935. We respond to all queries. We shall answer your call, any day, any time.
- We Relate
- We have a heart
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- At Christian The Law Firm, we are more than simply committed to a better world.
- We’re making it happen.
- 5% of our global profits will go to a charity voted on by our clients.
- We understand.
- We listen.
- We pray.
- We are generous.
- We make our mums proud.
- Learn more about our charitable giving and our fee earning principles.
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I have been writing for nearly ten years now, but have never had the courage before to put my soul out there to the public eye. Now that I have made that first step, I am almost fanatic to write more and publish more. Its like an addiction!
This is a poetry collection ranging from poems of love, loss, and political commentary to the bitter knowledge gained in blood and battle. It is a small glimpse into the swirling madness behind the eyes.
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||Shadowplay is one of those episodes that DS9 did quite often in Season 2, the unexpected twist. The main plot follows Odo with Dax along for support, which takes a while to build up steam but rapidly twists when it does. The subplot is Kira character building with just a little added in from Jake Sisko. Vedek Bareil makes an appearance, thanks to Quark it turns out, who is again up to no good. In all, expect a run of the mill DS9 episode which is by no means a bad thing. The first ten to twenty minutes are all buildup so might drag a little, patience is rewarded.
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I just stumbled onto this website, and am pleasantly surprised. I tend to spend time on shooting, bullet casting, and hunting forums... and a few motorcycle forums. No, not harleys..
I confess I'm not much of a long-range hunter.. longest shot I've taken was at a coyote at 287 yards (rangefinder). But he was moving... does that count?
I am definitely interested in the discipline, however. You guys that can make the loooong shots "on purpose" are impressive. I'm somewhat limited by not having many ranges nearby that allow shooting over 100yds. I'd like to be able to shoot at 300, perhaps 400yds, but haven't had the opportunity yet.
I'm an old fart, just comfortably this side of 60... and I live in north Texas, in Allen. Originally from Lubbock, been here about 14 years. So, I'm for Texas Tech, and for whoever is playing against UT..
I'm also for whoever can beat Obama, but that's another story..
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Patch, Aol‘s hyperlocal community site, is introducing a redesigned website meant to create more social networking and discussion between members. According to paidContent, the redesign is also being used to reduce the need for paid editors and freelance writers. At the beginning, the changes will only show up on five Long Island Patch sites and will spread to another 50 by the end of the year. the 800 remaining sites will be redesigned at the beginning of 2013.
The goal of Patch is to combine “content, conversation and commerce,” according to Patch CEO Jon Brod. Traffic on the site is up 40% since the start of this year, and the redesign is intended to better incorporate readers and specific groups, like, for example, “Police and Fire.” All of the businesses listed in the Patch directory will become groups where business owners will be allowed to post content and customers have the opportunity to post reviews. Editors will still be writing editorial content, but will take a smaller role in the sites. Patch is also releasing a redesigned mobile app in November.
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Aliases for TBC1D4 Gene
External Ids for TBC1D4 Gene
Previous GeneCards Identifiers for TBC1D4 Gene
This gene is a member of the Tre-2/BUB2/CDC16 domain family. The protein encoded by this gene is a Rab-GTPase-activating protein, and contains two phopshotyrosine-binding domains (PTB1 and PTB2), a calmodulin-binding domain (CBD), a Rab-GTPase domain, and multiple AKT phosphomotifs. This protein is thought to play an important role in glucose homeostasis by regulating the insulin-dependent trafficking of the glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4), important for removing glucose from the bloodstream into skeletal muscle and fat tissues. Reduced expression of this gene results in an increase in GLUT4 levels at the plasma membrane, suggesting that this protein is important in intracellular retention of GLUT4 under basal conditions. When exposed to insulin, this protein is phosphorylated, dissociates from GLUT4 vesicles, resulting in increased GLUT4 at the cell surface, and enhanced glucose transport. Phosphorylation of this protein by AKT is required for proper translocation of GLUT4 to the cell surface. Individuals homozygous for a mutation in this gene are at higher risk for type 2 diabetes and have higher levels of circulating glucose and insulin levels after glucose ingestion. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2015]
GeneCards Summary for TBC1D4 Gene
TBC1D4 (TBC1 Domain Family Member 4) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with TBC1D4 include diabetes mellitus, noninsulin-dependent, 5 and lipodystrophy, familial partial, type 5. Among its related pathways are Translation Insulin regulation of translation and Thyroid hormone signaling pathway. GO annotations related to this gene include GTPase activator activity. An important paralog of this gene is EVI5L.
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot for TBC1D4 Gene
May act as a GTPase-activating protein for RAB2A, RAB8A, RAB10 and RAB14. Isoform 2 promotes insulin-induced glucose transporter SLC2A4/GLUT4 translocation at the plasma membrane, thus increasing glucose uptake.
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Listen to Seen it All , the new track by 2Eleven featuring Boo Rossini & Slick Pulla which was dropped on Thursday, December 8th, 2011. 2Eleven's odds keep getting better with each new leak, and Seen it All will undoubtedly improve his chances of winning. It's a worthy addition to a respectable catalogue that has seen a lot of growth since 2Eleven debuted in this game. We're looking forward to the follow-up.
Check out 2Eleven on Light One. If you dig this, visit 2Eleven's profile for the latest info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
What do you think of the features on this track? Thoughts?
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Welcome to the Cordovan at Haverhill Station
The Cordovan at Haverhill Station immerses residents in the history of mill-town Haverhill while surrounding them with the modern amenities and conveniences demanded today. In the midst of the bustling Haverhill arts district, and a short walk from the Haverhill Commuter Rail Station, The Cordovan is an ideal location to call home. With numerous floor plan options from studios to gigantic 2 bedroom Live-Work zoned townhomes, you're sure to find a living space to fit your needs. Apply today and start Living Well by Design!
Beacon Communities is proud to announce that The Cordovan at Haverhill Station is now a smoke-free community effective September 1, 2015. Smoke-free means that smoking is not permitted on the property, including apartment homes, common areas, parking lots, landscaped areas or at any Beacon corporate office. Thank you for respecting this smoke-free community. Click Here
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Not all lumps are noticeable, but that doesn't mean you have cancer. There are many a problem that can happen to the testicles so don't think you have the worst. Plus, testicular cancer is HIGHLY treatable. Especially when caught early.
So whatever the problem is go to a doctor and find out. Testicle size can be different and isn't a sign in itself, but change is important to look for.
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What it is
Hyperpigmentation is characterized by increased production or accumulation of melanin.
What causes it
Epidermal and dermal hyperpigmentation can be dependent on either increased numbers of melanocytes, melanocytic dendrites or activity of melanogenic enzymes. Ultraviolet light, chronic inflammation and rubbing of the skin, as well as abnormal α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) release are triggering factors for these disorders.
What it looks like
The clinical description for hyperpigmentation varies pursuant to the type of hyperpigmentation (melasma, postinflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH), etc.). Generally, hyperpigmentation is characterized by the appearance of lesions that vary in color, ranging from light brown to black. Some, like the port-wine stain, can be reddish to purplish in color.
How to treat it
Traditionally, hyperpigmentation has been treated using depigmenting agents (bleaching compounds) and, more recently, physical therapies such as lasers.
The most common depigmenting agents fall into three categories: those used before melanin synthesis, those used during melanin synthesis and those used after melanin synthesis. Here are the most common products in each of these categories:
Before Melanin Synthesis: C2-ceramide, Tretinoin, Retinoids, Lactic acid, Glycyrrhiza Glabra root extract (licorice root), Undecylenoyl phenylalanine
During Melanin Synthesis: Hydroquinone, Azelaic acid, L-ascorbic acid, Arbutin, Kojic acid, Lactic acid, Phenylethyl resorcinol
After Melanin Synthesis: Linoleic acid, Lactic acid, Glycolic acid, Retinoic acid
Treatments with argon laser, CO2 laser, Nd:YAG laser or Q-switched ruby lasers have been reported. Melanin photothermolysis can be obtained with any laser light having a wavelength in the absorption of melanin and sufficient energy levels to target melanosomes.
Therapies using other chemical agents have also been proposed, such as cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen, laser surgery, chemical peeling and superficial microdermabrasion.
PCA SKIN® product options for treatment include: Pigment Gel ®, Pigment Gel® HQ Free, C-Strength 15% with 5% Vitamin E, Intensive Clarity Treatment: 0.5% pure retinol night, Brightening Therapy with TrueTone and Perfecting Protection SPF 30.
Source: Stefania Briganti, Emanuela Camera, and Mauro Picardo. Chemical and Instrumental Approaches to Treat Hyperpigmentation. Pigment Cell Research, Volume 16, Issue 2, pages 101–110, April 2003.
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Michael Pollan wrote last year in In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, “…the history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: proteins against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.” This week’s New England Journal features an attempt at a fair fight: a trial that randomized 811 adults with BMIs from 25 to 40 to one of four reduced-calorie diets with the following percentages of macronutrients:
Fat Protein Carbohydrates
20 15 65
20 25 55
40 15 45
40 25 35
The diets were not named. Patients’ daily calorie intake was targeted at a deficit of 750 kcal, based on activity level and basal metabolic rate. The trial lasted for two years and found that all four diets produced roughly the same amount of weight loss at six months (6kg) and at two years (3 kg). Participant satisfaction with the diets was similar. The nutrient goals were only partially met; participants randomized to high-protein and low-fat diets found it harder to adhere. The bottom line is that motivation and number of calories mattered more that the composition of a given diet. The trial supports Pollan’s denunciation of the ideology of nutritionism: “there is no imperial nutrient.”
A commentary in this week’s JAMA advocates “more careful, cautious, evidence-based” prescribing practices. It sets forth twenty-five principles of conservative prescribing under six general categories:
Think beyond drugs
More strategic prescribing
Heightened adverse effects vigilance
Caution and skepticism regarding new drugs
Shared agenda with patients
Weigh long-term, broader impacts
The article provocatively suggests that “clinical inertia” may sometimes be a good thing. And there is one real zinger. Citing publication bias and the influence of the drug industry on study designs, the authors write: “The published medical literature is a minefield deterring conservative prescribing.” The article packs a lot into three pages and is well worth reading.
This week’s Lancet features a risk score for developing atrial fibrillation. The authors analyzed the records of 4,764 Framingham cohort patients examined from 1968 to 1987. Ten percent of them developed atrial fibrillation. Age, body-mass index, systolic blood pressure, treatment for hypertension, PR interval, heart murmur, and heart failure make up the seven risk score items, which are readily accessible to primary care physicians. A score of >=10 implies a >30% 10-year risk. Heart failure at an early age (45-54) counts for 10 points all by itself. The authors estimate that, because of the aging of the population, the current number of two million Americans with AF could rise to as many as 15.9 million cases by the year 2050. Identifying patients at high risk could aid attempts at prevention.
An article in the March Diabetes Care reported a subgroup analysis of the Fenofibrate Intervention and Event Lowering in Diabetes (FIELD) study, originally published in 2005. The >80% of the 9,795 FIELD diabetics with the metabolic syndrome had a very high risk of cardiovascular disease (17.8% over five years). Not surprisingly, the benefit of fenofibrate was greater in this high-risk group than in the group overall, with a number needed to treat of 23 for the primary outcome of cardiovascular death, MI, stroke, and coronary and carotid revascularization.
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With the imaginative efforts of Hormel Food Corporation and BBDO Minneapolis they have commissioned the magic mechanic hands of Charlie Smithson of CS Engineering to redesign a 3-cylinder 800CC diesel fueled motorcycle engine, and converted into a pork grease sucking café racer motorbike. The bio-fueled pig grime eating machine gets 70 miles a gallon, as its ripping the roads zipping across America, while its mouthwatering intoxicating exhaust is leaving behind the savory fragrance of freshly homemade bacon, now that is an awful tease to our taste buds America.
It is as if you are able to savor that crispy crunch in your mouth as it drives by, that it is so sinful. Come-now, that it is like having the "LT" (letuce and tomato) on a sourdough bun and only being allowed to smell the "B" (bacon), and "where is the justice in that?" The concept has gone far beyond riding a "hog", you are now able to smell it too, and it could have never smelled any sweeter.
So ladies, do not toss out those iron skillets, and for heaven sake, do not dump-out that bacon grease just yet. You could be dumping gold down the drain, pig oil that is golden or amber in color. Just think twice before using the pork grease on your morning hotcakes, spreading it on your rolls or smearing it on your neck in the morning, because you happen to like the “buzz” of flies round you.
Run out (or use your cellphone) and go tell your kinfolks, yes this has possibly become a scene like in the "The Beverly Hillbillies" (if you are old enough to remember them). As it can give crude oil (also known as "black gold and Texas' tea") a run for its money. Pork fuel would be much more environmentally friendlier with its low emissions as a bio-fuel, and that is also yummy, that the country can smell like bacon.
Since it is sort of green, this would be a great way for vegetarians to consider using the bio-fuel too, after all they are not eating it, and the plus side of that is that they are just sniffing a little protein, and that never hurts. The grand thought of it all: “is that we would no longer have the need to drill for oil that will ruin the environment.”
Just to imagine, you will wake-up in the wee hours of the morning reaching into the fridge and pulling out about 250 pounds of smoked-bacon, to get enough of that saucy fat, then stepping back to your lab to convert the pork grime into 275 gallons of bio-fuel for that fancy new grease sucking engine, it is that simple.
There you have it, snatch-up three skillets that are possibly hanging on the wall, switch on that stove then sit back for a bit until you hear the popping sizzling sounds of bacon fuel, so cook-it-up. Or you can always hope that Dan Kaderabek, founder of Bio-Blend Fuels, Inc. will share the skillet size and how he made the finger licking grease to fuel that café racer hog.
The slap to the pig's snout is the price of bacon has plans on going up, and the cost to fuel the hog might cost you as much as the price of gasoline and diesel fuel for that fact, adding in the time it would take to make. I do not think that anyone told these engineers. That there has been a pork plague that began last year when the a virus swept through America's pig farming industry infecting about 30 states that killed more than a million pigs. Ouch, another punch to the sow’s belly.
The hog-bike is expected to arrive on August 29 at the "2nd Annual International Bacon Film Festival' in San Diego, California, where it will be cheered and admired with many, many “ahs”. Once the hoopla is all over the lovely smell of bacon will leave our highways dry once and forever as the pork-belly motorcycle will be retired and displayed at the "Spam Museum" in Austin, Minnesota.
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November 22, 1963
In less than
"If you shut up the truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
- French author Emile Zola
"Treason does never prosper.
What's the reason?
When it prospers,
None dare call it treason."
Sir John Harrington
JFK REPORT FROM DENMARK
One of the points that has
been argued is; how many shots were actually fired? Some say three while
others say six or even more. We really don't want to spend much time
on the shots that missed Kennedy and never hit their target, and as
a result of this it would be much easier just to take a look at?
During the shooting it was
not only Kennedy that was hit. Governor Conally who was in the seat
right in front of John F. K. also got wounded during the terrible seconds
of the shooting. A total of seven external wounds were added to the
two persons the question is?how?
Let's begin with the anti-conspiracy
explanation mentioned in the Warren Report. According to the report
there was three shots all in all. They also say that one shot missed
its target another bullet caused the fatal head wound and by the method
of disclosure that leaves us with one bullet left?a bullet known from
this day on as "The Magic Bullet".
"The Magic Bullet" alone
should have caused all of the seven wounds by itself, by several analysis
of the Zapruder Film and the victims, experts have succeeded in finding
the exact entries and exits of the wounds. "The Magic Bullet" should
have done the following if the Warren Report is to believe:
1. With a downward angle
of 17 it hits Kennedy in the right shoulder.
2. Then inside his body
it turns upwards and exits through his throat.
3. On the way to Connally
it pauses for 1.6 seconds and the proceeds in a zigzag move into the
Governors right armpit.
4. Inside this body the
bullet takes a turn 27 downwards and destroys Connallys 5th
rib and exits through his chest.
5. Then the bullet turns
right and enters his right hand where it pulverises the radius bone
and exits the hand on the other side.
6. At last the bullet enters
Connallys left thigh where it finally is "put to rest".
7. But it is not over yet!
The bullet falls/crawls out of the Governor and ends up on the stretcher
beside Kennedy in the Parkland Memorial Hospital.
The people who believe that
there was a conspiracy and that there were even more than three shots
fired wouldn't have half the trouble explaining the wounds.
When Kennedy was shot it
was standard procedure to perform an autopsy. According to Federal law
Kennedy was supposed to be autopsied in Dallas, Texas, but this didn't
happen. Kennedy's body was flown back to Washington. Here three Army
pathologists were chosen to perform the autopsy. In the description
of the autopsy there are a lot of things that don't match with the rules
and regulations of how to perform autopsy. Example: The wound in the
throat was described as en exit wound:
1- This was overruled at
a later autopsy. The wound was actually an entry wound.
2- The pathologists weren't
allowed to dissect the throat wound. They were stopped by one of the
men from the different Government agencies represented at the autopsy.
If we are to believe the
Warren Commission Oswald was placed in a window in the Depository were
he was working at the time. Oswald supposedly shot the President in
the back. Yet the fatal shot came from in front of the motorcade. If
you look at the Zapruder-film you'll see that Kennedy's head gets knocked
back and to the left. From this you can conclude that the fatal shot
came from the front and to right of the car. Also if you shoot through
any kind of material the bullet will make a small hole. The exit wound
will be much larger than the entry wound. Doctors at the Parkland Memorial
Hospital witnessed before the Warren Commission that Kennedy was missing
about one fifth or more of the back of his head. It was simply blown
away. Also a large piece of the scull was hanging from the head in the
In order to find out where
the fatal shot came from it would be obvious to examine the brain of
the victim. The brain was weighed at the first autopsy but no further
examination was made. When Jim Garrison wanted to prove in court that
Kennedy was shot from the front he tried to get a hold of the brain.
The Department of Justice replied that the brain was missing from the
Room of Evidence. Or to put it in other words: it was gone! Somebody
must have taken it. The brain was never found again. The Department
of Justice had lost a very important piece of evidence.
Now let us take a look at
the back of Kennedy. It was concluded in the Warren report that the
pathologists didn't turn the body over so that they could examine the
back. Quote: " We were only interested in his head!" Unquote. At an
autopsy it is standard procedure to examine every single bruise, wound
and scar. In Kennedy's case it never happened...? This has to be considered
a very serious lack of professionalism.
All in all it is easy to
say that these pathologists either had very poor working conditions
or otherwise they were very bad at their job! Some even go to the distance
of saying that it was a very poor cover up by the US intelligence.
The Cover up
A cover up was of course
only necessary if the assassination really was a conspiracy. A reason
to believe that there was in fact a cover up, is the suspicious circumstances
that occurred right after the President was killed. Many witnesses said
that they saw strange people walking or running at different places
at Dealey Plaza right after the shooting. The thing is that if they
were investigating further or later at their interrogations they would
be told not to worry and that they had seen nothing suspicious everything
had already been taken care of. A lot of civilians were in one or the
other way forced by phoney Secret Service agents to pretend that nothing
weird had been going on, even if it was against their own personal opinion.
These people were told to remain silent about the happening in the future.
A number of witnesses have even been "removed" under distrustfully circumstances
and others again claim that their testimonies have been altered in the
Presuming there was a cover
up one must kind of admire that this succeeded so well that it has not
been discovered 100 % even thirty years after. But it is also very frightening
at the same time as it for sure pins out that it was the very top of
the American Government that stood behind this horrible killing of its
own 35th President. The media even supported the Warren Report,
and just this one fact is a great help for the cover up. Instead of
taking a critical point of view on the case and maybe start their own
investigation, they just swallowed the Warren Report raw and as it was.
Credibility of the Warren report
The Warren report is very
large. The 480 pages contain a lot of information about everything concerning
the murder, and the two characters Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.
Everything about them is in this report.
It lacks basic professional
structure and numerous other things. The Warren Commission doesn't follow
up on important leads and doesn't care about credible witnesses. Furthermore
the Commission makes selective conclusions meaning that it doesn't have
all relevant facts in mind when making the conclusions.
During the period ranging
from 1976 to 1979 an investigation conducted by the House of Committees
made it clear that the murder of John F. Kennedy actually could involve
a conspiracy. The House of Committees asked the Department of Justice
to investigate the murder in order to overrule the Warren report. As
of today we're still waiting for this to happen. The Department of Justice
hasn't made an investigation and probably never will.
It should be said that this
is the opinion of Jim Garrison and some other sites on the Internet.
We can of cause not yell about a bad report if we haven't read from
one end to another. We have NOT read the Warren report. Only extracts
of it. But in those extracts we have come to the opinion that Garrison
was right. The report tells us a little about a point but suddenly start
on a totally different point. That is pretty disturbing.
PEG FOR A ROUND HOLE
(Book by American career police officer)
What you will be reading
in Square Peg For a Round Hole is my passion for the Truth of the Assassination.
My disgust for the Government cover-up of such a despicable crime. The
audacity of those in power to assume that they could tell us anything
they wanted and we would believe it because; we should never question
our Government. This philosophy doesn't work anymore. People are hungry
for the Truth. The private sector is now the only place the people can
find the truth.
After the assassination
of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, it wasn't over yet. A couple of
other killings occurred and gave the public something to think about.
Especially two of these killings were of a certain interest to the people
that believed that JFK was assassinated by a conspiracy. Both his own
brother Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were killed in 1968 by
Martin Luther King was as
well as JFK fighting for better or equal rights for the black people
in America. He told the world that he had a dream, and he was determined
to make that dream come true. On April 4th at 6:01 p.m. 1968
the dream seemed to end though, MLK Jr. was shot by James Earl Ray under
at least as suspicious circumstances as JFK. Paradoxically his brother
was murdered as well!
Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy
was following his older brothers' footsteps and was elected as Senator
later he was as already mentioned killed. This happened on June 5th
1968 at about 12:50 a.m. and the assassin was a Palestinian Arab by
the name Sirhan Sirhan who shot RFK at point-blank range. About two
months earlier Robert Kennedy said the text quoted below:
"We've had difficult
times in the past. We will have difficult times in the future. It is
not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; it is not
the end of disorder."
Robert F. Kennedy, April
Why the JFK case still matters
Today the case of the JFK
assassination matters just as much as in 1963. During the years that
followed, the only thing that everybody wanted was the truth? everyone
except the US Government. Neither the Department of Justice nor the
Government have made any significant effort that could prove that there
actually was a conspiracy. They took the word of the Warren Commission
as a job well done. Never did any of the two parts even try to reopen
Part of the population of
America is very eager to known the truth about the murder of JFK. Maybe
they already know but don't want to admit the fact that it really was
the job of a crazed gunman. The population might in the end develop
a kind of distrust in their own Government. In the words of Dr. Cyril
Wecht, a forensic expert recognised by the US Government, the assassination
of John F. Kennedy was a coup d'etat. According to his own opinion he
has to be right because he is convinced that Kennedy was the victim
of a conspiracy made by the top of his own Government. Not only involving
the top of the Government agencies and the cover-up made by the same
agencies. Kennedy was very popular all over the country except in the
South. It was known many months in advance that the President was going
to Texas on his reelection campaign. Dallas was known as a so called
"hostile city". This had to be the perfect spot for the murder. Cyril
Wecht is afraid that the American population with time will lose its
patience with its Government. A nation cannot grow and gain prosperity
as long as the population defies the Government because of something
that happened more than 30 years ago. All it takes is an investigation
that would either support the Warren report or overrule it. The last
possibility would of course mean a new investigation that would conclude
who actually killed the President. This would again mean the Congress
would have to rule documents marked as top classified as available for
the population. These documents won't be released until the year 2029.
The Americans will never know what was wrong more 30 years ago.
As time goes by the hunger
for the truth grows and it really started to get hot when Oliver Stone
made the movie JFK and gave the world his view of the case. Numerous
private people and organisations have made it their mission to spread
the facts about the murder to the world and of course give their guess
on who was the murderer. New books, articles, pictures, etc. shows up
every month linking another person to the assassination. Many people
have so to say devoted their lives to finding the killer.
Historians from USA also
think that a lot of incidents followed the slaying of Kennedy. One of
the true ones is the acceleration of the Vietnam War. Some of the more
doubtful ones are the Watergate scandal, the Ruby Ridge incident and
the Waco tragedy. It is next to impossible to connect these incidents
to the Kennedy murder.
In this part we are going
to give a qualified guess of who actually killed President John Fitzgerald
Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd 1963.
We can narrow the suspects
down to two if we only think about the money involved.
1- In 1962 Kennedy started
his vendetta against the CIA. He fired the three holy cows inside the
Agency, Dulles, Cabell and Bissell. They were the back bone and were
all three a part of the group of people who made the CIA one of the
most powerful espionage agencies in the world. Kennedy didn't realise
what kind of organisation he started to fight. Not even the current
director of CIA is aware of how many people he can order around all
over the world.
2- The American Military
Complex thrives off war and as mentioned earlier in the report they
would have approximately 190 billion reasons annually for killing a
President who is resisting war in public. Of course all Presidential
candidates resist war during the elections but not many of them do anything
about it when they are finally elected...Kennedy did.
If we consider the suspects
from a social point of view.
1- The exile Cubans would
be more interested in having Lyndon B. Johnson as the President of the
USA as they knew very well that he was much more "aggressive". He would
most likely not withdraw the American forces from all the wars in which
they were participating at that moment.
When everything comes to
an end we believe that the CIA was the initiator of the conspiracy.
But they were extremely well supported by the FBI, top people in the
White House and the Dallas Police Department. Our suspicions are based
on the facts that they had the "best" reasons to get rid of the President
and further more they had the power to cover the whole thing up. Do
not forget that the media even supported the Warren Report, and just
this one fact is a great help for the cover up. Just think of the power
the media have today.
The case of JFK has a lot
of aspects. It is too big to describe in these few pages so we have
chosen the areas that we consider most interesting, vital, and poorly
done by the Warren Commission. If we were to cover the entire case briefly
we could easily write a couple of hundred pages, but we simply didn't
have the time for that. We know now that the subject is way too big
for a college report and would be covered much better if it was a university
assignment. Anyway we hope that you enjoyed reading the assignment just
as much as we enjoyed making it. Left to say is only that we are sorry
that we missed out extremely exiting subjects as:
? Oswald bibliography
? Assassins connection to
? Testimonies of witnesses
? And many more
Remark: Billy Joel was inspired
to write the hit "We didn't start the fire" by amongst other things
the assassination of JFK and Martin Luther King. It is about all the
mistakes that happened in the 60's and 70's. The Vietnam War is also
mentioned in the song.
The above pages were used
as a kind of mainsources, but their respective subpages have been used
Mænd af mod, John
F. Kennedy 1956, Samlerens Piccolobøger 1967, 5. Oplag, 98.63
Kennedy - en amerikansk
myte, Søren Mølstrøm 1997, Forlaget Kolorit 1997,
1. Udgave, 99.4
Warren Report (by Executive
Order No. 11130), Warren Commission 1964.
JFK - The Movie, by Oliver Stone, released in 1992.
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Xiaomi (pronounced she-yow-mee) is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world. It's the sixth-largest handset maker on earth and No. 3 in China, behind Samsung Electronics and Lenovo Group, according to research firm Canalys. Xiaomi's recent growth is impressive, and its potential is even greater. In 2013, the company says, it sold 18.7 million smartphones almost entirely from its own website, bringing in $5 billion in revenue. Earlier this year, Lei set an internal goal of selling 40 million smartphones in 2014, then raised it to 60 million. In a financing round last August, venture capitalists gave Xiaomi a $10 billion valuation, about on par with 30-year-old PC maker Lenovo and Silicon Valley darlings Dropbox and Airbnb. At the same time, Xiaomi has branched out from smartphones to tablets, the large-screen HDTVs, a set-top box and home router, phone cases, and portable chargers, as well as a $16 white plush toy bunny - Mitoo, the company mascot, who wears a red-starred Chinese army hat.
The technology establishment's biggest threat comes from the east.
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Kindred has landed a two-year retained brief across the company’s b2b business after a pitch. It focuses on helping Miele Professional, which covers the company's laundry and medical products, to increase brand resonance.
Miele Professional is viewed as an important driver of innovation within the group and now has plans to further strengthen its dealer network.
Les Marshall, UK sales and marketing director at Miele Professional, said: ‘In such an innovative market, we wanted an agency which could help us tell our story, demonstrate our leadership and communicate our offer to our business customers. Kindred's inventive approach – while ensuring robust and effective trade communications – will also allow us to deliver our brand messages far more creatively.’
The account will be led by Ruth Kieran, deputy MD at Kindred. She said: ‘Our role will be to ensure that its trade and corporate media engagement obtains the profile it deserves, while actively engaging with its customers and dealer network in new ways to bring the brand to life.’
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10 Year Treasury Back below 2% as Stocks Retreat for Fifth Day
(April 10th, 2012) 10-year Treasury yields dropped below 2 percent for the first time in more than a month as the safe-haven appeal of US debt increased amid speculations of worsening European debt crisis.
Treasury bonds continued their forward march as risk off sentiment accelerated and yields on spanish government bonds surged as much as 19 basis points during european trading. As the US sold $32 billion in three-year notes, foreign central banks remained the biggest buyers, scooping up 40 percent of the day’s auction, pushing yields down to 0.427 percent. The bid-to-cover ratio, a gauge of customer demand that compares total bids received with total securities offered, was 3.36 compared with an average of 3.37 in past 10 sales. Yields on 10-year Treasury bonds dropped seven basis points to 1.98 percent, trading below the 2 percent mark for the first time since March 12.
The iShares Barclays 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) jumped 1.27 points, or 1.09 percent, for the day, while the Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND) gained 0.24 points, or 0.29 percent over Monday’s close.
US stocks dropped sharply Tuesday, extending losses for the fifth straight session as fear trade gathered momentum over Europe’s fiscal health. All the three indices closed down by more than 1.5 percent after Spanish and Italian bond yields surged, rekindling memories of the Greek crisis ahead of the first quarter earnings season.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) slumped 213.66 points, or 1.7 percent, to end at 12,715.93, posting its biggest fall this year on Tuesday in a five-day losing streak. Bank of America Corp (BAC) and Caterpillar Inc (CAT) topped the loser’s list with 4.4 percent and 3 percent drops, respectively. PC maker Hewlett Packard Co (HPQ) was the only gainer in the 30-component index, adding 0.6 percent for the day.
The S&P 500 Index (SPX) slipped 23.61 points, or 1.7 percent, to 1358.59, making it the largest single day point and percentage drop for the index since Dec 8, 2011. US stocks took the day’s cue from European markets, which tumbled more than 2 percent Tuesday.
The tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite (COMP) shed 55.86 points, or 1.8 percent, to close at 2991.22, its first close below 3,000 since March 12, making it the biggest point and percentage drop in a single session this year.
Supermarket operator Supervalu’s (SVU) shares rallied more than 15 percent after earnings projection this year topped market expectations.
Oil prices for May delivery dropped $1.32 to close at $101.14 a barrel.
Gold futures for April delivery surged $16.60 to $1,660.50 an ounce.
The following article is from one of our external contributors. It does not represent the opinion of Benzinga and has not been edited.
© 2016 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
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Sunday: Great Lakes Loons (Scott Barlow, 5-5. 4.50) at South Bend Silver Hawks (Markus Solboch, 2-2, 3.73), 2:05 p.m.
Tuesday: Bowling Green Hot Rods at Great Lakes (Zachary Bird, 5-13, 3.93), 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday: Bowling Green at Great Lakes (Victor Arano, 4-6, 4.03), 7:05 p.m.
Loss: The Loons gave up just one run and four hits, but the Great Lakes offense couldn't muster a run Saturday in dropping a 1-0 decision to South Bend. Great Lakes' record fell to 23-25 in the second half.
Run: Michael Johnson's first pitch of the game was hit over the fences by Joe Munoz, who led off the South Bend sixth with a solo homer. Great Lakes had eight hits, but could not score a run.
Hitters: Jesmuel Valentin and Josmar Cordero had two hits each to lead the Loons offense.
Pitchers: Brandon Martinez started and gave up just two hits and four walks in five innings, while Johnson allowed two hits and one run, striking out four in two innings. Ralston Cash struck out two in one inning. In Cash's last 15 games covering 33 1/3 innings, Cash has given up one earned run, 11 walks and 15 hits, striking out 41.
Road trip: The Loons are 3-3 on their road trip, with the final game Sunday at South Bend. After an off day Monday, the Loons return to Dow Diamond for a six-game homestand beginning Tuesday.
Promotions: Tuesday is Dodgers Route of Champions Night, while Wednesday features Hump Day Happy Hour with $2 drafts from 6 p.m. until 8:05 p.m.
Radio: WLUN-FM, 100.9
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Sweden's rising Muslim tideHey, do they read Fjordman at the Christian Science Monitor?? With thanks to Charles Johnson and LittleGreenFootballs:
Sweden's rising Muslim tide
As a group of Swedish Muslims begin their midday prayers in a mosque still blackened by smoke from a recent Molotov-cocktail attack, Bejzat Becirov, director of Malmo's Islamic Center, is talking urgently. "I'm afraid the same thing will happen here as in Paris," says Mr. Becirov, a Macedonian immigrant who opened Scandinavia's first mosque in this city in southern Sweden in 1984. Malmo, which has one of the highest percentage of Muslims of any western European city, illustrates the challenges facing a continent whose native population is increasingly wary of a rapidly expanding and often discontented Muslim population. Bosnian authorities arrested a Muslim Swede in Sarajevo in October for possession of explosives while Islamist websites published several inflammatory but unsubstantiated claims in late summer that a mujahideen training camp has been established in southern Sweden. "France has a tradition of revolt and demonstration against the state," says Jonathan Friedman, professor of social anthropology at the nearby University of Lund. "But in Sweden it's almost as if the state has sided with the immigrants against the Swedish working class."
Some older Fjordman posts:
Is Swedish Democracy Collapsing?
There are few if any Western nations less suited intellectually to deal with the Islamic challenge than Sweden. It shows. Sweden is already a banana republic, perhaps on its way to becoming an Islamic republic. Swedish culture is disappearing with astonishing speed in front of our eyes. If the trend isn't stopped, the Swedish nation will simply cease to exist in any meaningful way during the first half of this century. The country that gave us Bergman, ABBA and Volvo could become known as the Bosnia of northern Europe. The "Swedish model" will no longer refer to a stable and peaceful state with an advanced economy, but an Eurabian horror story of utopian multiculturalism, Socialist mismanagement and runaway immigration. Sweden has national elections in 2006. This will be one of the last opportunities the country has to resolve its towering internal tensions in peaceful and civilized ways. Some fear it's already too late.
Another Arson Attack on Malmö Mosque
The mosque in Malmö was the target of a new arson attack just before midnight on Friday. Several minor fires were started in the main building, but these were put out quickly by the emergency services after passers-by had spotted smoke coming out of the building.
Swedish Cultural Symbols Targeted by Attackers
Two weeks ago in Malmö, the Scandinavian city with the highest percentage of Muslim immigrants, attackers vandalized graves in one of the city's churchyards. They only seemed to be interested in the crosses. This week, two important buildings and tourist attractions were destroyed by fire. Somebody also tried to set fire to an old church in the area. Is somebody deliberately targeting Swedish national and cultural symbols? Who would want to do that?
Sweden: Steep Rise in Crime
Instability is spreading to most urban and suburban areas. Street violence of all kinds is soaring on a national level. Private security companies are in great demand in major Swedish cities, as a serious lack of police to combat rising crime has made many citizens tired of being robbed. The official number of rape charges in Sweden has more than tripled in 30 years. The number of reported cases of physical abuse/assault in Stockholm has also tripled in three decades. This steep rise in all kinds of crime and violence has happened at the same time as an unprecedented amount of immigration to the country. Of course, Swedish politicians would never dream of connecting the two. However, in one of those rare cases where a Swedish newspaper has actually told the truth, Aftonbladet revealed that 9 out of the 10 most criminal ethnic groups in Sweden are Muslims. A trend known from other European countries such as France, where Muslims make up 10% of the general population, but 70% of the prison population.
Jihad in Swedish Schools
A high school teacher in Malmö, Sweden, who discovered that about a dozen Arab students were laughing and shouting "Allahu Akbar!" while watching a DVD of infidel hostages being beheaded in Iraq. The headmaster didn't think the incident was such a big deal. At least 139 schools in Sweden suffered arson attacks during 2002 alone. Björn Vinberg from the fire department in Kroksbäck in the Malmö area says it's humiliating and degrading to put out fires again and again in the same immigrant areas, with school kids laughing at them and lighting a new one just afterwards. His colleagues have been to the same place no less than twenty times, all totally unnecessary.
Swedish Welfare State Cracking?
Are we seeing some major cracks in the Swedish welfare state, with its 25% real unemployment rate? 500,000 people are on early retirement in Sweden today, 68,000 of whom are between the ages of 20 and 40. "If the sick-leave levels in Sweden really were an indicator of how sick we are, we would be facing a plague here."
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There are few people who have contributed to our understanding of the role of business on a small planet as Paul Hawken has. He has founded several businesses, including Smith & Hawken, and is the author of The Ecology of Commerce, The Next Economy, and Growing a Business.
In addition to this interview, there is an article in this issue by Paul Hawken on The Natural Step.
Sarah: A lot of people are very concerned with recent events, particularly in the US, where we’re seeing attacks on environmental legislation at the state and federal levels, and an overall sense that our economic and governmental institutions are failing us. How do you interpret all this?
Paul: I see these events as masking a more fundamental shift, a shift so powerful that it will occur over the span of one lifetime if not more. We’re so accustomed – if not addicted – to rapid change that we are not able to perceive a powerful long-term shift, especially one that is so quiet and pervasive that it is not discernible by the methods we use to gauge change, power, and control.
When you read the papers of Volta, Galvani, Barrows, Shelley, Blake et al. at the beginning of the industrial revolution, they didn’t describe industrialism per se – they didn’t use the word – but they did describe its benefits, its promise, and its shadow. Nobody knew exactly what it was that they were describing. Nobody at a party could say, "How does it feel to be at the beginning of the industrial age?" And yet that is exactly what was happening. People could sense it.
My guess is that we are in precisely the same situation. People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology – although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
Industrialism is about the appropriation by a relatively small group of white Europeans of global resources that they mistakenly thought were theirs, that they "discovered." That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. If anything, the technologies used to "produce" the information age are proto-industrial. There is nothing about its underlying principles that are post-industrial.
The next stage, whatever it will be called, is being brought about by powerful and much-delayed feedback loops. Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration. We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we’re surrendering it all at the same time.
Sarah: Why is this such a well-kept secret? How is it that there isn’t more understanding about the decline of industrialism?
Paul: Globally and nationally we are still looking at this set of problems as distinct and unconnected rather than seeing them as inextricably bound to the underlying assumptions that inform linear industrial systems. Basically, the underlying principles of industrialism don’t work. In short, industrialism is over.
The massive inefficiencies of industrialism are not more apparent because they are masked by a financial system that gives improper information. This is a classic case of "garbage in, garbage out." In this case the "garbage in" is what money tells us, what prices tell us, what the markets tell us.
Instead of markets giving proper information, everything else is giving us proper information: our airsheds and watersheds, our soil and riparian systems, our bodies and health, our society, inner cities and rural counties, the breakdown of stability worldwide and the outbreak of conflicts based on environmental shortages. All these are providing the information that our prices should be giving us but don’t.
Sarah: What do you say to people who are feeling discouraged, particularly by the strength of the backlash represented by the Republican Congress?
Paul: The shift we’re seeing is incremental and slow, which is what you would expect if it’s to be long-lasting. What is being focused on, quite rightly and understandably, is the strengthening of a laissez-faire corporate socialism in Congress, and second, widespread attacks on the environmental movement and ethos.
Those two trends would seem to suggest that the environmental movement has reached the high-water mark and is now ebbing, and that something else is replacing it. And I would say it’s completely the other way. I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing. Newt and family are not pointing to an adventurous new civilization, as much as they would like to claim that ground. They are actually afraid of the future because their singular mindset cannot encompass its complexity, even its beauty.
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future. I think the media, Newt Gingrich, and others are mistaking reactive thinking for a long-term trend. I see it as a short-term oscillation, although we have to be careful here in recognizing that reactionary minorities can easily come to power and wreak terrible damage on societies, even the world as we experienced in the ’30s and ’40s.
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change – even though they don’t really know what they’re trying to prevent – then you can get pessimistic.
But if you understand this collapse as both the precipitant and the symptom of a reformation, then you can read it in a different way. It’s still just as greedy, corrupt, or – probably the nicest thing you can say – inappropriate to this time and age. But you can also see it in a larger context and understand a pattern that’s occurring.
Sarah: What is the direction of this shift?
Paul: The shift is profoundly biological. It’s not about the celebration of nature, although that is certainly a part of it; it’s about the incorporation of natural systems into our industrial life, into our way of making things, our way of processing things and deprocessing things. And the only reason it’s going to happen is because it works profoundly better.
We are in the process of reinventing our entire system of making things, its relationship to living systems, our whole concept of waste, and in turn turning neoclassical economics on its head, reversing a 100-year process of emphasizing human productivity.
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital – the resource systems upon which we depend to live – instead of our human capital. We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
We have spent the last century, and most of us, the last decades or so, working our tails off in order to make fewer and fewer people more and more productive using systems of manufacturing, distribution, and communication that use more and more stuff. We are all doing this precisely at a time when we have less and less stuff, and more and more people. Talk about speeding trains racing towards each other in the night.
So this next industrial revolution, a terrible term really, is about this great reversal. Not a reversal to little house on the prairie, but one to an elegantly designed and imagined interrelationship between human and living systems. We will do it because it’s the only alternative that allows us to stick around as a species, which most of us want to do.
Sarah: You said to me in a conversation quite some time ago that global corporations aren’t more efficient, they’re just more able to externalize their costs. Could you say more about that?
Paul: We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. Global corporations are measured by that one financial denominator. They can most easily buy financial efficiency because they have the most capital. They can go to the factory, mining pit, forest, or country where they can do the most for the least money and do so quickly and do so on a scale that makes it very difficult for smaller companies to compete.
What this means is that we are seeing a worldwide pattern of decapitalization. Capital, whether it be natural capital in the form of resources, or human capital, in the form of low-wage workers, or local capital in the form of functional and healthy local economies, is being extracted and converted to financial capital at an increasingly accelerated rate. The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.
This makes it nearly impossible for local or regional companies who internalize their costs, i.e. companies that do not degrade their resources, or do not take advantage of local labor surpluses, to contend because they cannot compete on price. I don’t know where the leadership will rise to turn this situation around.
At the same time, the globalization of the world economy is really due to the fact that energy has become increasingly less expensive for 119 years. Since oil was discovered, there have been some little price blips on the screen, but in constant dollars, energy is cheaper now per BTU than it ever has been in the history of the world. And at some point that will turn the other way. Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.
When energy prices do go up and start to reflect their replacement value, you will also see some weakening of global transnational corporations. That’s because their advantage comes overwhelmingly from centralization and mass production, and those things depend on distribution and transportation networks that are basically cheaper than local systems.
Sarah: Could you clarify the distinction between the effects of a global corporation’s operation on the environment and the community and that of a local company?
Paul: A local company has more accountability. Local companies don’t have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids.
And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.
Sarah: Have you encountered businesses like that?
Paul: I think we all have. And I think we can all see that they’re frustrated because they’re playing on an uneven field. Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. They can only do that to a certain degree before they hurt themselves, their company, and their future.
On the other hand, there are many things that companies can do to make themselves more efficient, that internalize costs at a savings rather than an expense. This is where the excitement is, and this is where what we can call the next industrial revolution will start. It’ll start where the systems are badly designed.
Companies that create more elegant ways of doing things, that create material and energy flows that are exponentially more efficient will become inefficiency arbitrageurs. They’ll force internalization onto their competitors because these companies will achieve efficiency at negative or nearly negative costs, which will set the standards for the rest of the industry. This will be the wedge, the foot in the door. It’s not going to begin with legislation or regulation; it’s going to begin by imagination.
Sarah: You’re talking about the kind of work being done with energy efficiency and so forth?
Paul: Yes, energy efficiency, material efficiency, and system efficiency. The term used commonly in Europe now is "factor" for the amount of efficiency, "factor four" being four times as efficient, or a 75 percent reduction in throughput of energy and materials.
State-of-the-art thinking now, led by Amory and Hunter Lovins of Rocky Mountain Institute, and Ernst von Wieszacker of the Wuppertal Institute in Germany, is that we are going to a factor ten economy, an economy that allows us to do what we do now with 90 percent less energy and materials. I agree. That’s the future, and those companies that understand it and move first – and I should say those countries, too – will find themselves in an advantaged position throughout the coming decades and century.
The good news is that the perverse incentives that have characterized industrial market economies are gradually failing, despite the best efforts of national legislatures to keep them in place, and there are now positive incentives to move towards efficient and sustainable systems that do not rely on altruism or regulation. I’m not against altruism, or against regulation either, but these new systems are self-regulating. It’s very exciting.
Sarah: Which companies are catching on to this? Where do you see progress being made?
Paul: In many cases, the leaders are companies that would bore or shock you, either because most people have never heard of them or because they’ve been some of the worst despoilers of natural systems in their products and processes. Some of these companies are now becoming quite taken by factor four efficiencies because they have huge problems, both from the past and in the present, and thus they have the most to gain from a wholesale revision of what business they’re in, how they conduct themselves, and how they design their processes. It is not for me to say who they are because they are in mid-transition and have not made their intentions known publicly or to their shareholders. And there is always the chance that a new CEO could kill those initiatives.
Sarah: What is the motivation for these large companies to change?
Paul: It varies. In some cases the CEO got religion. In some cases it’s because they’ve been badly burned and chastised, and they’ll try anything. They’re open and they’ve been made open by failure.
Sarah: One of the things that seems to be getting in the way of a real transformation is the amount of investment that is already sunk into our current way of doing things.
Paul: Yes, and that’s why any systems change has to refrain from punishing current investment within a 15-20 year time line. So often, well-intended regulation has punished capital investments that were made in good faith – maybe not good science, but good faith. Any company whose capital investments are affected by such regulations will be tigers in opposing new standards or laws that basically create write offs. An intelligent strategy of moving towards a least-cost, carbohydrates-based, cyclical economy that rewards resource efficiency rather than only financial efficiency, has to be as imaginative as the very processes it seeks to replicate. Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production.
Sarah: Tell me more about what form those incentives would take.
Paul: Well ecological tax reform is the primary one. Over a 20-year period, in consistent and predictable increments, you shift the tax system away from personal incomes towards primary resources, energy, and waste. You approximate full-cost accounting, albeit in a somewhat simplistic way, but better than not doing it at all. In so doing, the system gives companies a long and predictable horizon within which they can invest in new technologies and new systems of natural capital productivity. And if they can make money by using less stuff, more efficiently through closed loops that do not cause harm to the environment, they will.
Sarah: That brings to mind what’s going on in Holland with their Green Plans. But when I try to imagine that happening in the US, it seems like the political situation here is heading in the opposite direction.
Paul: Yes, I suppose we are. That’s what I was mentioning earlier – the forces that are most threatened are the ones that are most coherent.
But ecological tax reform (ETR) in Europe will happen. There’s no question about it. The United States can try to go on its merry way, but the Swedes and the Germans and others who are talking about ETR are willing to pursue this because they are interested in two other important aspects besides the reduction in use of resources and production of waste. The first is that a tax shift lowers labor costs while at the same time it doesn’t lower real income. This makes the workers and their work more competitive in comparison to workers in other countries where no such tax shift has occurred.
The second is that it gives businesses incentives to become leaders in technologies and processes that accomplish these factor ten efficiencies ahead of other countries that don’t do ETR. CEOs in Sweden have already asked the Prime Minister to implement some form of ecological tax reform to gain an advantage over American and Japanese companies.
So if the Europeans adopt ETR and the US ignores it, American workers would become the highest paid in the world. They’re already having trouble competing with Germans, and if German wages go down 40 percent and there’s no change in real income for the German workers, then that’s going to be a real interesting situation for Americans.
With ETR, it’s really a race to see who does it first and best, and the others will have to follow. The country who does it first is going to have an advantage.
Sarah: Where is the energy going to come from to make the kind of system-wide transformation you describe?
Paul: I think it’s coming up and not down. I think we’re so used to hierarchical implementation of power that it’s hard to imagine that something reformative if not transformative, can come up and be more powerful. But I think that’s exactly what we’re seeing. We’ve seen it in Eastern Europe, we’ve seen it in South Africa, we’re seeing it right now in Belfast, between the Protestants and Catholics.
I believe this kind of reformation will be remarkably free of charismatic leadership. It’s based on distributive and adaptive intelligence – which is where the third wavers chime in for sure – and so by its very nature, there will be no person who will, can, shall, or could stand up and say, "This is the reformation. Let me tell you about it. I’m here." Because that won’t be it.
What I see is individuals, groups, families, communities, regions, companies, institutions, classes, churches, and other groups comprehending the shift, each in their own way. These groups are acting locally and regionally and are not aware of how often and repeated their initiatives are. These efforts don’t connect yet, but they are going to.
I think of this era as being like the second age of reformation. At the start of the Protestant reformation, Martin Luther was angered by the Catholic church’s sale of indulgences. Today, we are all angered and disturbed to see the sale of indulgences, only in this case it is by corporations and the indulgences are the profligate use of our forests, soils, water, air, and species. When Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the cathedral at Wittenburg, the resulting tectonic shifts in the social fabric led to the scientific revolution, the age of enlightenment, and the shift to the industrial age.
I believe we’re in the midst of the next reformation, which will be a shift from a secular to a biological age. There is no Martin Luther, and there will be no cathedral door, but like the first reformation, this shift is being precipitated by enormous corruption on the part of those people who hold the public trust, both politically and commercially. It’s feeding off the collapse of industrialism. The reformation has started and is as unstoppable as the last time.
Over the next 20 to 40 years we will witness the continued breakdown of industrialism. At the same time, we will experience the connecting of the dots if you will, a connecting of the different points of perception and initiative.
So you can see two signals; one of hope, renewal, and transcendence, and the other of decay and degradation. I suspect that the media will pay attention mostly to the latter, but both are going to happen very powerfully at the same time.
Readings that Put "Eco"
Back Into Economics
Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce, Harper Collins: 1993 – already a classic, this compelling book explores with remarkable clarity the changes needed to make doing business sustainably "as easy as falling off a log."
Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr., For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future, Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. A solid, thought-provoking theoretical basis for a new economy – co-authored by a former World Bank economist and a theologian.
Fritjof Capra and Gunter Pauli (editors), Steering Business Towards Sustainability, Tokyo: UN University Press, 1995. A collection of essays on the education, incentives, and implementation of a more sustainable business world.
Hazel Henderson, Paradigms in Progress, new printing: San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1995. A leading futurist and systems thinker on the transition to a sustainable economy.
Barbara Brandt, Whole Life Economics: Revaluing Daily Life, Philadelphia, New Society Publishers, 1995. Describes an economy that values and nurtures all aspects of life, from caring for children to supporting community.
Huey D. Johnson, Green Plans: Greenprint for Sustainability, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. The lessons to be learned from Dutch, New Zealand, and Canadian green plans, which are highly integrated, long-term planning for sustainability.
John Gowdy, Coevolutionary Economics: The Economy, Society, and the Environment, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Applying evolutionary thinking to economic change, from the time of hunter-gatherers to the anticipation of sustainability.
James Robertson, Future Wealth: A New Economics for the 21st Centruy, A TOES Book, NY: Bootstrap Press, 1990. A new economics based on "enabling" people and "conserving" the Earth – with a focus on reform of the tax and money systems to achieve sustainability goals.
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The Solihull-born speedster has enjoyed his rise to stardom at the Warriors and insists he will also continue to watch the club closely even when he is gone.
"Sixways has always been a place I have enjoyed playing at," said Benjamin. "It's been a long time now and I will be sad to go, but I have thoroughly enjoyed it and I am leaving behind some good mates and memories.
"I still remember my first season and running out the tunnel and that noise. It gets you pretty excited because suddenly you are playing in front of far more people than before coming through the age groups.
"I look back with pride at what I have achieved. A lot of us worked extremely hard, the likes of Alex Grove, Chris Pennell and I came through together.
"I will keep in touch with people and I still talk to people like Coxy (Matt Cox) and those who have left before and gone through similar experiences. We are tight and we will remain friends always."
Watch Miles Benjamin and the Warriors this Saturday at Sixways! Call the Warriors Box Office on 01905 454183 or click HERE
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Celebration Assembly 21st October 2016
21st October 2016
This week’s Group of the Week for each class:Lantic - Squirrels
Peer Mediator of the Week -
Play Leader of the Week - Will
Reading Raffle Winners - EYFS/KS1: Monty and KS2: Cruze, Lucie
Magnificent Manners and sitting at our 'Top Table' this Friday -
Cleanest Classroom Cup - Lantic
Delightful Diners Award (Golden Plate) - Cannis
Well done everyone!
Each week in assembly, a Thought of the Week is written and shared by children in Y5.
This week’s thought of the week is about politeness.
It is always important to be polite in everything you say and do. Having good manners shows you are being respectful of others.
For example, at school 'please' and 'thank yous' are essential in the classroom, lunch hall and outside at breaktime. You can also show good manners in your actions by keeping your hands to yourself, lining up sensibly and putting your hand up rather than shouting out.
Let's help our school be a happier and more enjoyable place to learn in by ensuring we are polite at all times.
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"Never fear, Nanny is here," says Nanny Stella of Nanny 911, the TV show that inspired this game. Parents with their own children may not care to play Nanny 911 when they already live and breathe the job, and everyone else might find that playing the unoriginal time management game often feels more punishing than entertaining.
The three nannies (none of whom have the same name as those on the TV show), stand by to help five families. Each nanny represents a level of difficulty. Nanny Claudia assigns the fewest tasks for the easy level followed by Nanny Matilda at medium and Betty for the hardest level. You pick the nanny to help the family. You can choose to start easy with the first one, move up to hard with the second, go back to easy with the third – it’s up to you.
Following in the footsteps of Nanny Mania and Babysitting Mania, your job is to click to clean, prepare meals, change diapers, put kids down for naps and stop the fights. The nanny you select gives you instructions on how to play and complete these tasks. A level in Nanny 911 consists of a daytime and a nighttime shift. Nanny grades you on both shifts based on how fast you finish them and then gives you an overall grade for the day. You can change nannies when working with a family, but you have to exit out of the game back to the main menu to do it.
The game resembles Gogii Games’ Nanny Mania, but one unique twist is that Mom and Dad have tasks they need to do to finish the level as well. They do it all even clean up, discipline the kids, set the table, cook dinner, playing with the dog, joining the family for fun and games and breaking their own bad habits. After all, kids model parent behavior.
Another difference is the mini-game that you play halfway through the week. The mini-game is a match three style game mini-game where you need to collect a certain number of bears, time, and folders. The game calls it taking a break with Nanny Advice mini-game, and it seems to serve no purpose beyond breaking up the time management gameplay.
It’s good to see the families differ in sizes, gender and culture. It’d be nice of their homes also reflected their personalities and cultures. With 70 levels, though, Nanny 911 could stand more diversity. Otherwise, Mom always kicks the sofa often and yells on the phone while Dad always argues a lot with the TV and eats outside of the kitchen. At least, the parents do everything – not just gender-specific roles. Sometimes Mom grills. Sometimes Dad changes diapers. The homes don’t change much with the first few families. The last two have the most different layout, but the style and design looks the same. It takes practice to get a feel for moving around the scene as it scrolls while you move your mouse.
The tediousness comes in managing the parents. You have a green and red hand for praising or chastising good and bad behavior. Mom starts eating in her room, get out the red hand and get her to stop. Now you need to have Mom set the table, you need to switch to Mom mode. To get Dad to do something, you need to switch to Dad mode. All this red, green, mom and dad switching is tiresome and not intuitive.
Another peeve is that when it comes time for the family to sit down for dinner and the toddler needs to go down for a nap, the family has to wait for the kid to nap. No way around it. And if the parent who is supposed to put the toddler down is already at the dinner table, you can’t use that parent.
You can click ahead a few steps, but the clicks mess up even though the screen shows you clicked. Those missed clicks can cost you an A on your report card. If you do the day shift and then quit the game, you’ll have to replay the day shift as the game only saves your progress after doing both shifts. After playing through all five families, you can revisit any level to try to score an A+ otherwise there’s little reason to replay the game.
Nanny may be here, but she doesn’t do a thing or calm your fears except sit quietly in the corner of the screen. She just gives assignments to clean up, discipline the kids and so on. At least, the nannies give you an update on the families at the end of the game. As in most families, Mom and Dad do all of the work including the cleaning up and that’s what you get in Nanny 911, over and over. While you can save the family, there’s not much else the game can do to save itself.
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Has anyone tried the Gatorade "G" Series? I tried the Recover formula this morning as the supplement I usually take prior to working out hasn't arrived in the mail and I wanted something to take in the meantime. All I can say (this is my personal opinion) is that Gatorade has successfully bottled ass in a bottle...and not the good ass either. The drink wasn't good at all....Anyone else feel the same?
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How to Be Single may be a hilarious romantic comedy that focuses on a group of gal pals, but at the film's UK premiere, Dakota Johnson was the one to steal the spotlight. The actress wore a custom Marc Jacobs gown that was elegantly draped, loosely hugging her curves as its train swept across the red carpet.
While the design is made from a crinkly silk that, for some, might not be easy to pull off, Dakota emitted pure elegance. Even as she and her costars — including Alison Brie, Leslie Mann, and Rebel Wilson — huddled under umbrellas, shielding their gorgeous dresses from the rain, Dakota still managed to achieve the sultry, stylish look she was going for. Read on for an all-angles view of her slinky number and take in all the little details, from her ruffled sleeves and Charlotte Olympia heels to her Messika diamond earrings and cuff.
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Today’s Tipful Thursday topic is, removing stains. What is your favorite remedy for removing those pesky stains?!
Even though P is only 10 weeks old, he can still cause some massive stains on his cloths! We have had a few blowouts and when he got his vaccinations at his 2 month visit, I found a little blood on his onesie.
We have been pretty particular about the cleaning agents we have been using around and for P. From dish soap, to detergent I wanted safe and green products. I didn’t want stain remover to be any different. We do a good amount of shopping at Buy Buy Baby and found a line of cleaning products called BabyGanics. I am a fan of several of their products but my favorite is the Stain Remover. It has gotten every stain out I have thrown its way!
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Many thanks to Kelburn Brewery for their continued support!
Kelburn’s Director, Derek Moore has for many years been proud to be part of the Tartan Army. He is a well known foot soldier who has been following Scotland home and away since the World Cup in West Germany 1974.
In 2007 Derek was asked to produce a beer for the Tartan Army and he did so with a light zesty 4.3% ale of the same name.
Until now, Tartan Army has only been available in casks when Scotland plays competitive matches.
The Tartan Army beer has always been very popular. Recently Aldi has asked us to provide Tartan Army in bottles as a one-off for their summer festival. Kelburn wanted to do a bit more and have pledged to donate 10p to the Sunshine Appeal for every bottle of Tartan Army sold.
Aldi will be stocking Tartan Army Bottles during their summer beer festival which starts on 29th May.
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Walt Brasch’s ‘The Joy Of Sax’
by Bethan Marshall
COPYRIGHT © 2001, 3 A.M. MAGAZINE. ALL RIGHTS
When Hollywood felt let down by Bill Clinton they invented Jed Bartlett. With control of the script they could ensure that gays would get into the military and that the surgeon general would not be sacked for suggesting that cannabis was no more harmful than alcohol and that classing it along side heroine was 'bizarre'. Sure they had to make the episodes of West Wing realistic up to a point – there is always plenty of talk about bipartisanship and the President did lay into the environmentalists for not being tougher on eco-warriors. But in essence in Jed Bartlett the liberal left have there man.
Perhaps significantly though President Bartlett comes from pretty patrician stock. His family, we are informed in one episode have practically owned New Hampshire for generations – the American dreams equivalent of a rotten borough. Despite all their democratic credentials perhaps the Hollywood folk would really rather a ruling oligarchy in which they, with the purse strings, held the balance of power. Of course they could never let such an un-American thought to be exposed. Hollywood receives a regular slapping down. A producer is given short shrift for calling the President a coward as a means of gaining cheap publicity for his film; a comedian is told he can't appear with the President, despite having contributed thousands of dollars to the campaign, because he made an unseemly joke. This president, you understand cannot be bought by vested interest.
But just as the decadent ruling Whig oligarchy of the eighteenth century, famed for their extravagant lifestyles bankrolled both the theatre and the politicians of their day, so Hollywood has always had an uneasy relationship with the powers that be. Reagan was of course one of their own – ex actor, head of the union dodgy on his House un American credentials – and yet he never seemed to be quite so part of the scene as Bill Clinton. Baby boomer, draft dodging, dope smoking – though of course he never inhaled – Bill Clinton was a home spun Warren Beatty. This was a raging bull, an easy rider in the White House.
Clinton exuded Hollywood politically correct glamour. He played the sax, had Maya Angelou for his inaugural and oozed charm from every pore. And more films on the corruption of power on the liberal conscience came out than during any other presidency. Hollywood, it appears kept sending messages to its boy in the White House. Kevin Kline had a stroke in bed with a prostitute and was replaced by a much nicer man called Dave. Dave stuck to his principles and what do you know the people loved it. Good old Dave. He had to come clean in the end but not before he'd given those cynical White House hacks a lesson in democracy. The spirit of Mom and apple pie swept through number one Pennsylvania Avenue giving tawdry thoughts a good spring clean.
Then of course there was Warren himself. He had to be brain damaged, become an idiot savant rather as Peter Sellers and Harrsion Ford had done before him, to discover that he had sold out long ago, forgotten his own constituency. But again that fickle public – they loved the new improved and honest Joe he had become. While his minders fretted the people applauded.
So much for fantasy. Primary Colours was surely the real McCoy. Written by that anonymous Clinton insider, tracked down and exposed by a computer geek who analyzed his written style, Primary Colours was Bill's story by any other name. Here he was a dodgy dealing , womanizing con artist charming his way into the highest office in the world – President of the United States. But even here he was redeemable. Bill you understand – understands the down trodden and oppressed. More nigger than the whip smart black Harvard lad, son of a senator, Bill from dirt poor broken home, one step away from trailer trash is the original Horatio Algiers rags to riches kid. He is the embodiment of the American dream of democracy. Any one can make it to the top.
So we see him hours before power is conferred upon him dunking doughnuts with an old man across the way from the hotel where he is meant to be. And whip smart Harvard lad doesn't get it. He just wants him back in the hotel with all the security and acolytes – but Bill man of the people – he listens and understands where the old guy is coming from – he can chew the fat and shoot the breeze – he is of for and by the people. So he might have got a young black girl pregnant. He's a complex guy with a weakness for women. Yeah he treats his wife like dirt. Keeps her in the dark, lies to her but they are a team, fighting for the same cause and it will overcome – even the suicide of their close friend who cannot stand how corrupt they have become; how far from the truth and justice the American way they fought for in the sixties.
And then there is Christopher Hitchens account. Much nearer the bone. No Hollywood schmaltz here. Just irredeemably Bill Clinton a man who has ‘No One Left To Lie To.’ (Verso, 1999) Here Bill and possibly Hilary, weren't even so squeaky clean all those years ago back then when they appeared idealistic. He weaves a tail of corruption and intrigue that no screen writer would produce. It would seem to far fetched. For Hitchens the womanizing is not just a man thinking with his dick it lies at the heart of his deceit. This is more than an old fashioned take on whether the private life should affect the public office. It is that in the case of Bill Clinton sex speaketh the man.
Hitchens asks whether or not we have a rapist in the White House. The question resonates both literally and metaphorically. But is the literal that is the most disturbing. He cites the case of Juanita Broderick, who was allegedly raped by Clinton before he became Governor of Arkansas and corroborates her story with others who have come forward but remain anonymous. The notion of a CREEP fund takes on a grotesque and all to appropriate twist as Hitchens suggests that government money bought off Clinton's victims.
So are Walter Brasch's little satiric vignettes enough to expose one of the most successful democratic presidents of the twentieth century – if opinion polls and re-election is to be the judge. Brasch's weekly columns, collected together in the highly entertaining ‘The Joy of Sax: America During the Clinton Era’ (Lighthouse Press Inc, 2001) read more as if the West Wing had been turned into a sit com than any serious attempt to engage with the murkier side of the Clinton era. And they beg the question – should we simply be satirizing this man. Is satire enough.
What they play with is more the absurdity of spin, a kind of weekly Walk the Dog. But the Clinton truth was much nastier than the witty fiction. There is not enough unease in these pithy little pieces. We are back in Primary Colours territory. He is a rogue but perhaps, despite the satiric edge a little to loveable. In fact it is those who carp and criticize Clinton who come in for the most biting satire. In a piece entitled Singing off Key in the Starr Chamber – how fortunate all those copy writers were to have such an appropriately named Grand Inquisitor with its overtones of medieval torture – it is Ken who gets it in the neck not Bill.
Brasch lists all those oh so corrupt presidents from Adams to Bush who escaped the clutches of a special inquisitor and asks that instead we should examine Clintons economic record. 'Of course, we refuse to admit that in his six years in office Clinton has done more than Reagan and Bush did in 12 years to move the economy and vital issues forward.' Adding that perhaps those standing for public office in future 'should be eunuchs.'
Starr is painted as the republican lackey of the tobacco giants in Joe Camel Sent Me. In another scathing attack on the attorney called Impaling the Presidency he is mocked as both prurient and absurd. As witness after witness comes forward with evidence of criminal activity from drunk driving to using government funds to bribe Boeing, Starr dismisses them all because no sex scandal is involved.
But it is in Can't stop Thinking about Tomorrow that we see Brasch's true sympathies. Having watched Primary Colours he writes 'We snickered. And we cried. For what has happened to Mr. Clinton. For What has Mr. Clinton done to his own reputation. But more important, for allowing ourselves to be so manipulated that we believe that sex scandals are more important than health care and worker rights, and for allowing our government to spend more than $40 million for an "independent prosecutor". '
These are acerbic and entertaining articles. Not all the essays in the book are concerned with Clinton himself, however. Politicians are roundly criticized as a breed. In a series of question and answer sessions from his readers Brasch points up the absurdity of the two party system separated only by the rhetoric that they twist and contort to stay in power. In an essay entitled 'The Flip Flop Philosophy of Politics' he writes:
Democrats say they are for the working classes, and blame the Republicans for societies problems. Republicans say they are for American enterprise and the proliferation of country clubs. They claim the Democrats are society's problems.
Q And just what are those problems.
A The Democrats and the Republicans.
And so it continues. The Budget and taxes get similar treatment in other pieces.
This is witty stuff but all such tom foolery begs the important question – should Clinton's victims have to say it's OK to be raped if they get treated better by a new improved medi-care. Perhaps what Clinton needs is the treatment of Swift. We need a modest proposal to trammel the depths of a man who could allegedly rape a woman and sentimentalize his politics; who could buy off, if not bump off his friends, when they became enemies to his cause, and yet be elected on the veneer of social concern.
Yet perhaps the real story of Bill Clinton is not the man himself but our relationship with him. He is not a Hollywood president after all but that amoral cowboy of the Sergioni westerns. He swaggers into town to sort the chaos but leaves carnage behind him. There is presence but no commitment to see it through. He is a hero for a day, even a year but then rides off into the sunset, into myth. Only unfortunately for Bill the credits just refuse to roll and so he lives on in the limelight we refuse to let him escape. Fascinated and repelled by him he is destined to play out the same tawdry part until we the audience simply leave the building.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Dr. Bethan Marshall is a lecturer at King's College London. She writes a column
for the Independent on educational issues and has written frequently for
the Guardian. She is a regular contributor to the journal Critical
Quarterly and often broadcasts on issues to do with education and the arts.
Her book ‘English Teachers the Unofficial Guide’ examines the philosophical
and political nature of English as a school subject. >
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In a world far far away.
Interviewer: Today we have an exclusive. An interview with the universe - famous coach of the Kol-Kanta Kite Riders "Johnnie Pukanon" and the owner of the team known simply as "The Bad Shah". Also sitting nearby is the Kite Rider's associate coach Mr. Pukanon (Junior), the Kite Rider's assistant coach (Mr. Pukanon's friend), the associate assistant coach (Mr. Pukanon's cousin thrice removed ) and mm...this other gentleman here whose name I didn't quite catch.
Mr. Pukanon (coach) [turns towards interviewer]: Frankly, I have no idea as to who that guy is.
The Bad Shah: [Hushed whisper] What do you mean you do not know who that guy is? I have been paying him $500,000 for the last two seasons. I always thought he was someone from your side of the baraat.
Mr. P: [Ignoring the Bad Shah]: Yes so you have some questions. Please shoot.
Interviewer: So sir. The Kol-Kanta Kite Riders have been doing horribly in the league this year once again, even worse than they did last time. The fans are again upset. They are saying that with such an internationally renowned coach who uses the latest laptops and boasts of the most advanced cricketing strategies, how come every match the Kite Riders end up looking like novice schoolboys?
Mr. P:[evil smile]: First of all the fans need to understand that I am very very special. Unlike other coaches who use common sense and cricketing knowledge, I always go "lateral". For instance, rather than analyzing the playing styles of our opponents I have been looking at weather patterns and historical data. Who do you think was responsible for the Kite Riders only win so far, that is the one over the Queen's XI? It was me. Because of my masterful weather analysis I was able to perfectly guess when the rain would come, and thus was able to manipulate the Duckworth Lewis rule so as to win the match with minimum effort.
The Bad Shah: That's why I love this man. He is just so smart. You know everything he does is guided by this ancient Chinese philosopher General Tsao who wrote this book called "The Art of Making High-Fat Chicken". Though I have not read it (just like I never read my scripts) I hear it is a marvelous book with an amazing recipe for making a ham sandwich. And hamming - that's something I am the expert in.
Interviewer: So Mr. P if indeed you are playing the weather, how come you thought it would rain in the game against the Raju-sthan Royals and based on that assumption (proven false later) you chose to bat second even though the pitch dictated otherwise? Not so smart right?
Mr. P: There are limitations to my powers of course. If Bad Shah hires my neighbor (and also childhood friend) from Ostralia who does a mean rain-dance for $50,000 I think we can make sure this does not happen again.
The Bad Shah: Sure. Whatever you want.
Interviewer: But how can you justify the other tactical mistakes committed? Like not picking Ajantha Circus for the first few games instead preferring the Great Moses. Like sending iconic player The Dadu, who still despite his advanced age is still one of the best batsmen in the franchise, after the dodgy Dodge and the talentless Lakme Suckla in the batting order. Like selecting all-rounder-who-does-not-bowl SuchJoy Banjar, the barren, whose recent performance was so exceptional that even the franchise who came last the previous year would have no more of him. And if that was not enough again drafting in all-rounder-who-cannot-bat-or-bowl " The Loin" Ajit even after he gave 17 runs off 1 over in the last match he played. I think the fans deserve an explanation.
The Bad Shah [getting angry]: What ! Who are these fans? No first tell me who are these fans? Tell them to buy their own teams and run it as they wish. Aare yaar bahoot tashan hain. Bahoot passionate hain hum. What do they think about themselves?Look if you guys have any problems then suck on this. Yeah you heard me right. To quote a great man "Khayega kela?"
Mr. P [quietly]: There is no need to get agitated. Lesson number 43 of General Tsao. Keep poker face when clueless and pretend to be in control. I will answer your questions. Or at least a few.
Playing SuchJoy "Sab Banjar Hain Sab Banjar Hain" was a sign of pure genius. On my part of course. True he was discarded by the worst team last year. But have you seen this "worst team" play this year? They are rocking. So I decided to give Banjar a chance today because I was sure that everyone who was associated with the said "discharged" franchise would do well this year. Okay so he scored at a strike rate of 22.00 but then it could well have been 220.0--after all what's a decimal point here and there? As to the Loin. He bowled one over in the first game for 17 runs. In today's game he gave 14 runs. He is such a young man with such potential surely you notice the improvement!
The Bad Shah [even angrier]: I do not understand why we need to explain all this. Look here kaun kambhakt jeetne ke liye khelte hain. Aare hum baazigar hain. When we lose we win. Samjhe? We entertain. What's better than one clown? Two clowns. What's better than two? Three. Now do you understand the selection process? Aeeeeee..aeeee....Gagan Chopra...
Interviewer: Well coming back to the Dadu. Dadu, despite all the humiliation that has been heaped on him, has performed pretty well definitely better compared to the much-hyped MainKhullam. Yet to have his captaincy stripped away from him seems unfair. If the captaincy is going to be rotated as a matter of principle, should it not be taken away from underperforming MainKhullam and given to someone who is doing better?
Many have been saying that all this Dadu drama is a part of Kol-Kanta Kite Riders conscious decision to distance itself from the city so that it can move elsewhere, a move which has been hinted at by the dropping of the Kol-Kanta from the franchise name.
The Bad Shah [lips curling]: Aieeeeeee..I love Kol-Kanta. Even if I leave it, I will sing:
Yeh dil deewana, deewana hain yeh dil,
Maine Kol-Kanta ko chhoda , uske gali main dil ko toda
Phir bhi pocket main dhadakta hain yeh bill...
I am at heart a Kol-Kantan no matter where I go. After all both of us share the same penchant for hyper-drama. As to Dadu, he will always remain in my heart. Somewhat like my dead girl-friend in the movie "Khich Khich Hota Hain" who was always with me even though I get married to someone else. As to Dadu's losing the captaincy, choti choti deshon main aise baade baade baatein hote hi rahete hain. It's not a big deal , at least nothing as big as me not getting a FilmFart award.
Interviewer: So in essence you are saying that the Kite Riders do not want to win. They are just content with staying in the headlines.
The Bad Shah [getting back to good humor]: "Aap ne pe haskar jag ko hasaya, Ban ke tamasha mele main aaya." No honestly okay. Maybe it's time we won the game just to show them that we can do it. Mr. P, make some plans so that we win at least one more game.
Mr.P: Not a problem. Give me about $500,000 more. Get me a rain-dancer, a sports shrink, two fire-eating circus artists and a right-handed pace bowler who can wriggle his ears. To quote from that great movie Triplicate "Bebe, ab main tujhe dekhaonga ke tera babloo apne bheje se mannu ko kaise harata hai."
The Bad Shah: I love this man. I really do. Korbo Re. Korbo Re..
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Choosing the Right Dog for you!
Before you even consider a specific breed you have research the type of dog that would be suitable for you and your family. Do you want an active dog that wants to go for a run even if it’s freezing outside or a lazy coach potato that will lay at your feet for hours at a time. This is just one of many questions that you have to ask yourself before deciding on a breed. Here you will find the answers to this and much more. There are eight dog groups in total and some are even divided into other subgroups. By understanding where the breed came from and what they were meant to do you will be able to choose the right breed for you.
1) Sporting GroupThe sporting group is made up of retrievers, pointers, setters and spaniels. As a general rule, these dogs are very athletic. They run fast, love to swim and are used in many hunting activities. Due to their athletic nature, sporting dogs need a lot of exercise or else they can become destructive. They are very intelligent as they were originally bred to track other animals in a complex environment.
Popular Breeds: Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever, Cocker Spaniel, English Setter, Vizsla, Weimaraner
2) Hound Group
Most dogs in the Hound Group have an extremely strong sense of smell and are known as Scent Hounds. But there are also those who have enhanced sight and are referred to as Sight Hounds. In terms of exercise level this group has a wide variety. Some are very active while others are lazy. Some love to sprint while others just jog along. One thing is certain; hounds do follow their senses and must have proper training in order to keep them at bay.
Popular Breeds: Beagle, Basset Hound, Bloodhound, Greyhound, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Whippet, Basenji
3) The Working Group
The working group contains breeds that were originally bred to assist humans in labor intensive tasks. These dogs tend to be larger, stronger and more muscular than dogs in other groups. They were, and still today, used for guarding property, transportation, general protection as well as search and rescue. While these dogs make great companions, extra care must be taken for training and socialization as they are usually very large dogs that can cause injury even if by accident while playing, especially with smaller children.
Popular Breeds: Akita, Alaskan Malamute, Boxer, Bullmastiff, Doberman Pinscher, Giant Schnauzer, Great Dane, Husky, Rottweiler
4) Herding Group
The Herding Group can be looked at as a sub-group of the Working Group. Herding dogs are able to control, group and direct other animals. They have a tendency to nip as this strategy was used to herd larger animals. Owners must actively train against nipping or put up with the possibility of these dogs nipping at your guests’ feet. Herding dogs also have a higher tendency to bark as this was also used during the herding process. Training can minimize this tendency.
Popular Breeds: Bearded Collie, Border Collie, German Shepard, Old English Sheepdog
5) Toy Group
Don’t mistaken size for personality! While the dogs in this group are small and make great apartment dogs, many of them have energy you would’t believe. Toy dogs make excellent watchdogs because they tend to bark to alert their owners of any intruders. It is important to note that some of the dogs found in the Toy Group are just smaller versions of larger dogs which may belong to another group. For example, while the Toy Poodle belongs in this group, the Standard Poodle belong to the Non-Sporting group.
6) Terrier Group
The Terrier group has been getting more popular. They tend to have a unique facial structure and some have a unique wired coat. A lot of terriers are smaller than breeds in other groups (but not as small as the Toy Group) and this makes them appealing to families and people in smaller homes. Keep in mind that Terriers usually don’t get along with other animals as many were originally bred to hunt other small animals. These dogs can be a little more difficult to train and some may not be suitable for first time dog owners.
Popular Breeds: American Staffordshire Terrier (and Staffordshire Terrier), Bull Terrier (and Miniature Bull Terrier), Miniature Schnauzer, Parson Russell Terrier (formally known as the Jack Russel Terrier), West Highland White Terrier
7) Non-Sporting Group
The Non-Sporting group is not as well defined as the above groups. Many of the breeds found in this group can be traced back to ancestors in other groups but don’t necessarily fit with the others.
Popular Breeds: American Eskimo Dog, Bichon Frise, Boston Terrier, Bulldog, Chow Chow, Dalmatian. French Bulldog
8) Miscellaneous Group
This group can be seen as a waiting period for a breed until they get to the American Kennel Club (AKC) seven other groups. The AKC recognizes that there are hundreds of purebred breeds throughout the world but wants to ensure that a breed is poised for long term success before allowing them into one of the other elite groups.
Popular Breed:Dogue de Bordeaux, Irish Red and White Setter, Redbone Coonhoundhttp://www.puppy-portal.com
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We can supply &/or install for most brands of receiver....
At the same time we survey the location for the best place to install the motorised dish. The survey is very important to get the best position to get all or the most of the wanted satellites and taking into account aesthetics, building type, local obstructions to view (trees/ buildings etc..) and calculations for exposure to wind etc.. and position the dish in the best location aesthetics wise but retaining all the wanted satellites, this can be on a wall, over a gutter, over a roof, on a chimney or ground mounted.
PLEASE NOTE: If our survey finds unsuitable or failing brickwork etc. our engineer will inform you and advise that it has to be remedied before installation. We supply a professional deep point or rebuild brick & mortar repair service - we do not advise a builder be employed that will shallow point over failing mortar without regard for structural integrity. Our work will usually add to the value of a property.
PREPERATION + INSTALLATION :
When the system is installed, most of the preparation & hard work & fine tuning is already done at our workhop so it is a quick installation with the minimum of disruption and you can start using the system straight away.
THE FINAL 'FINE TUNE'
If you choose the most popular Technomate TM5402HD satellite receiver - we will pre-program it with up to 40+ satellites & up to 10000 channels free of charge.... On other satellite receivers we will endeavour to pre program all satellites & many channels but finishing off of channels will normally be done by the customer... otherwise we do have to charge for a full programming of customers' choice receiver as this can take time... , but the process is easy for a customer to do in their own time.
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All our brackets are guranteed up to 5 years & up to 110mph with any dish size providing they are not altered from our original installation & survey specifitations**.
We supply a 12 month guarantee parts & labour gaurantee & up to 100mph** on Dish face, dish az/el brackets & feed arms, LNBs, cables, connectors, receivers & motors that all carry manufacturers 12 months guarantee.
Black Ultra LNBs carry an extended manufacturer's 5 year warrantee.
You are then free to enjoy a fantastic motorised dish entertainment system that provides up to 10000s* of channels, HD & 3D*, free premier movies, sport, music, culture, adult, documentaries, world & business news, etc.. and the ability to explore the world and visit other countries from your armchair .... at the press of a button.
We do not share any of your information with other organisations & we do not run any mailing lists.
Contact purplesat.com for any queries regarding satellite or aerial & HD/3D installations.
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But times have changed, and things have become portable in the truest sense. Speakers, definitely. Do we need to carry huge boomboxes around anymore? Definitely not. Particularly if you have gotten yourself one of these.
The SSD-600-USB speaker is packed much better than I had expected it to be! The speaker itself comes in a protective blanket. Also included in the box is a remote control, a 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio cable and a USB cable.
Straight out of the box, the SSD-600-USB does look an impressive package. The red and black color combo lends it an aggressive look. On the right of the speaker are the three buttons- for volume control as well as pause/stop/next/back. The side panel has a host of ports. There is the USB input, a memory card slot, an Aux-in port, the USB/power port and the traditional on/off switch!
To be honest, I had not expected too much from this portable speaker. But, must say I was in for a surprise when I did fire up this speaker for the first time.
Plugged in a 16GB USB drive and it started playing music off it after about just a couple of seconds. The sound quality was really good, with tonnes of clarity mixed with a fair dosage of bass. For a speaker this size, reproducing any amount of bass, however little it may be, is very very difficult. But this little monster did! This is true for low and mid volume ranges, but turn it up too high, and the audio tends to become a bit edgy. However, cannot hold this as a drawback, keeping in mind the speaker size.
The next/back and the volume up/down buttons right next to the speaker are the same, so it may get a bit confusing at first. But one press does the track change bit while long pressing the buttons controls the volume.
The built-in battery lasts about 4 hours, but that depends on the volume you play the audio at.
Apart from the USB, the SSD-600-USB also can play back audio off a memory card, via any external source connected via the 3.5mm jack or even the PC when connected via the USB port. The USB port charges the speaker’s built-in battery as well. And before I forget, there is FM Radio thrown into the mix as well!
The SSD-600-USB does offer really good performance for a price which is not earth shatterting. Is powerful enough for use in a small room and also will work with well in a small gathering. Good quality audio in a truly portable form factor.
Price- Rs 1299
2.1 channel speaker
Portable speaker type
Audio playback off USB and SD card
3.5MM input for connecting external sources
Connect to PC
Charge via USB
– Good Performance
– Ultra-Portable form factor
– Capable of audio playback from various sources
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Former NFL star Chad Johnson is being released immediately from jail after apologizing to a judge for lack of respect when he slapped his attorney on the backside in court last week.
Broward County Circuit Judge Kathleen McHugh accepted Johnson’s apology Monday and reduced his jail term from 30 days to seven days. Attorney Adam Swickle said the rear-end slap was just a football player’s way of saying thanks.
The 35-year-old formerly known as Chad Ochocinco was in court because of a probation violation stemming from a domestic altercation he had with his then-wife, TV reality star Evelyn Lozada.
Johnson was cut by the Miami Dolphins after that. He played most of his 11 NFL seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals and a year with the New England Patriots.
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King Hu’s films take place during ancient Chinese dynasties, with bandits and pirates running into imperial guards transporting prisoners. Cages break; later, a shy young man meets a mysterious, beautiful young woman at an inn. Villains burst in, and she leaps up, daggers drawn. The room explodes with clanging metal, whirling kicks, and crunching bones while bodies glide as gracefully as swinging swords. Opponents move in dancelike rhythm until constricting social structures are chopped down and individual freedom is claimed with force.
“King Hu’s martial arts films were different from the average fare,” recalls critic, scholar, and Hu authority Stephen Teo, in an e-mail. “They were better-made and truer to history, as well as more character-oriented. His importance as a filmmaker lies in his ability to integrate a very Chinese sensibility of history, art, and aesthetics with character and action, which is stunningly choreographed in a martial arts operatic style all his own.”
Eight of Hu’s 11 completed features, including all his martial arts films, will be screened in “King Hu and the Art of Wuxia” (a martial arts film genre focused on swordplay), running Friday through March 24 at the Harvard Film Archive. Born into a wealthy Beijing family in 1932, Hu (originally Hu Jinjuang) came to cinema after first studying opera. In 1949, the same year the communist People’s Liberation Army took control of Beijing, Hu moved to Hong Kong. After working several odd jobs, including as a film actor, he signed a contract with Shaw Brothers, Hong Kong’s most important film studio.
Hu acted in nearly 40 films, in addition to serving as a set decorator, scriptwriter, and assistant director. The success of director Lee Hanxiang’s opera adaptation “The Love Eterne” (1963), which Hu worked on as an assistant director, allowed him to direct “Sons of the Good Earth” (1965), which he also co-wrote and starred in as a fictional resistance leader liberating an occupied village during World War II. (“Sons” isn’t in the series.)
When his follow-up film, about a real-life resistance leader, was canceled, Hu turned to childhood memories. He transformed the opera “The Drunkard Beggar” into his first wuxia film, “Come Drink With Me” (1966). The film follows the efforts of an unshaven laggard with secret supernatural powers named Drunken Cat (Hueh Yua) to assist Golden Swallow (Pei-Pei Cheng, a ballet artist who subsequently became a wuxia star), a petite, liquor-swilling markswoman sent to an inn to rescue her captured brother from thugs.
Sequences in which Cat cheerfully leads children in song (they include an adolescent Jackie Chan) underscore how carefully the whole film is orchestrated. Whether in a fight scene at the inn or a love scene at Cat’s pagoda, full of vibrating plants and flowing water, the disparate parts of each frame are moving together and challenging viewers to keep up with them.
Hu, chafing at studio demands for more opulent and impersonal filmmaking, moved to Taiwan to work independently. His subsequent “Dragon Inn” (1967) shows disguised sympathizers arriving at an isolated inn to fight for a brother and sister who have been unjustly condemned to death. Two of the rescuers are also brother and sister. The film continues Hu’s interest in granting freedom of movement to both genders, with combat allowing women and men to attain equal grace.
Like Hu’s other films, it connects physical and spiritual movement. The more beautifully precise the characters’ motions, the closer they come to achieving a Zen ideal of integration within the natural world. This is clear in his best-known film, “A Touch of Zen” (1971). Along with “Dragon Inn,” it’s one of two screening in a new print. Its opening image of flies in a spider’s web foreshadows people being subjected to greater powers. The fugitive swordswoman Yang (Hsu Feng) and her bookish lover Ku (Roy Chiao) battle corrupt imperial guards through a town and into forests and mountains, where the cosmic forces that wind and swinging bamboo represent suggest they will triumph not because they are better fighters, but because they are more complete people.
A key sequence presents a wounded monk turning into Buddha. The characters regard the figure, partially hidden from viewers, with shock and wonder. Hu’s characters would continue searching for enlightenment as the filmmaker transitioned from wuxia films to slower-paced, gently comic spiritual journeys, at the same time that Chinese cinema was preferring contemporary kung fu to period swordplay. The late “Raining in the Mountain” and “Legend on the Mountain” (both 1979, and both shot in South Korea) present monasteries and temples where action scenes occur only sporadically as monks and secular companions debate how best to live in nature.
Hu’s broad concern with man’s place in the world partly suggests why mainland Chinese, Hong Kong, and Taiwanese filmmakers, regardless of genre, continue to be influenced by him after his death, in 1997 at 64. HFA programmer David Pendleton writes by e-mail that, in addition to overt King Hu tributes by filmmakers such as Ang Lee (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), Tsui Hark (“Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame”), and Zhang Yimou (“House of Flying Daggers”), Hu’s status “as one of the great filmmakers of the human body in motion” has influenced aspects of the work of non-martial arts filmmakers. Pendleton uses as examples the alternation between movement and stillness in such films of Wong Kar-Wai as “In the Mood for Love” and the attention to landscape paid by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (“Three Times”).
The poet of loneliness Tsai Ming-Liang, also influenced by Hu, sets his 2003 film, “Goodbye Dragon Inn,” on the last night of a Taipei movie theater. Its closing film is “Dragon Inn.” We study the faces of scattered audience members, including two of King Hu’s actors, present as though bearing witness to younger, freer selves.
As Tsai’s camera rests on an actor, a voice on the soundtrack of Hu’s film cries that a man’s spirit will not go away. The haunting moment pays tribute to a filmmaker who believed that magic could be found not just in past and future lives, but also in this one.Aaron Cutler can be reached at acod
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R.CCR.5 — that’s the fifth College/Career Readiness anchor standard within the Reading strand of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for ELA/Literacy — reads as follows:
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
There’s a lot of ways to implement this standard. For my brain, it helps to think of this in terms of questions I can ask to get kids thinking about how structural features affect the meaning of different kinds of texts.
One of my favorite novels of the past school year was All Quiet on the Western Front; I love the book for many reasons, but one of them is Remarque‘s inclusion of striking scenes that are at first awkward and then profound.*
In one of the novel’s early scenes, we find protagonist Paul sitting in a meadow with a couple of his comrades-in-arms. Everything is pleasant about the scene — they are sitting in a circle, playing cards, laughing, talking — except for one jarring detail: they are sitting on boxes with holes in the tops with their pants around their ankles. As we closely read this passage in class, I enjoy watching my students’ faces as, one after another, it dawns on them that these men are sitting in a circle together while defecating.
Once we get through with the scene, I begin to ask my students some questions:
- Knowing that Remarque wrote this novel “to tell about men destroyed by war,” why might this scene merit inclusion in this novel?
- Is this scene vulgar? Why or why not?
I give them a chance to propose hypotheses in pairs, and then we will go back into the scene, pencils in hand, and closely read it again with our questions as a focus. I will remind students that, in order to understand how this scene relates to the novel as a whole, we’ll have to look not just at what the scene says, but also what it hints at and what it doesn’t explicitly say. In teacherspeak, we’ll need to infer.
When we closely read the scene for the second time, students will notice that this isn’t such a pleasant scene after all: there are references to the nearby front, to badly wounded Kemmerich, to Paul and his friends having moments where there’s nothing they can say. After we’re finished, I have students ask three questions that they’re curious about (curiosity is a character strength that I explicitly teach students), and a big one that I’m hoping to see connects back to R.CCR.5: What on earth could have made these once civilized students into callous, crude, I-seem-to-care-more-about-getting-double-rations-than-I-do-the-deaths-of-half-my-company young men?
Through asking the right questions, students are led to discover that this scene is not flippant, but rather that it hints at the theme of the book: World War I was unlike anything humanity had ever seen; it devastated the men in death and life. Furthermore, this scene builds suspense at the start of the novel. It makes readers want to know what incurred such psychological damage on Paul and his friends.
2. Articles, Columns
Let’s take a look at a columnist who can usually be counted on to write cogent, passionate arguments every week for the Miami Herald: Leonard Pitts Jr. Whether you agree with his views or not, his argumentative writing hits on a variety of topics (a recent piece would be perfect for starting a CCSS Literacy-style debate in a health or government class) and it does a lot of work in a short space. Many, if not all, of the CCSS reading anchor standards could be taught using the work of columnists such as Pitts.
For the purposes of this discussion, let’s look at Pitt’s piece on “the stupid giant.” I haven’t read this text with students yet, but I will be doing so in the fall for the sake of increasing student awareness of our need to drink deeply from a variety of complex texts.
In “The Stupid Giant,” Pitts makes an argument, but his structure is a far cry from the standard five- or six-paragraph essay that I teach students to write in timed writing situations. One way to tackle this text could be by asking students to answer these questions after an initial reading:
- What is Pitts’ argument?
- If you had to choose one part of this column where Pitts summarizes his argument, where would it be? In other words, what acts as a thesis statement? (Students could argue that it’s the title or that it is contained in other parts of the column.)
- Where does Pitts address people who might be prone to disagree with him? How does he respectfully address what Graff, Birkenstein, and Durst call his “naysayers”?
- How does Pitts give this piece a sense of beginning and closing? In other words, which parts of the column act like an intro and a conclusion?
- What does x sentence do for the piece as a whole? How does x reference contribute to Pitts’ argument?
Similar to articles and columns, poems are a great medium for teaching about text structure. Some potential questions:
- How does this stanza relate to those before and after it?
- What does this recurring line do for the poem’s theme?
My primary goal in teaching poetry is not to mold my students into future English majors, but rather to equip them with the ability to see the impact that structure has on a text. Poems can help with that.
4. Primary Source Documents
If you’re in a history classroom where students are required to do the primary-source-reading work of historians, students can look at the structure in a different way: structure can help them determine what kind of a document they are reading. Is this an advertisement? A comic? A political cartoon? An argument? A legal document? Ask students to figure these things out for themselves, in part by using the structure of the document itself.
As with many of the reading anchor standards of the CCSS, R.CCR.5 can be taught by providing students with complex texts, redundant literacy instruction, and well-designed questions.
* I taught the book to freshmen — a perfect audience for awkward moments.
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Rats pest control service Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Northampton and all surrounding areas!
Intelligent Pest Control offer a prompt and effective pest control service for rats in Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Northampton and all surrounding areas.
Brown rats often live in filthy conditions and carry a number of nasty diseases the best known of which is Weil’s disease. They prefer small enclosed spaces and get around by smell and touch. Rats usually feed on cereals but will quickly exploit any available food source. Brown rats are able to reproduce all year round and a single female can produce more than forty young in a year.
We received a phone call recently from a local gentleman who was hearing strange noises coming from the attic of his family home.
He told us that this wasn’t the first time it had happened and a couple of times over the last year or so rats had got into his house and caused a disturbance. Although other companies he used had “got rid” of the problem for a time, no one had been able to offer a permanent solution.
Now we like a challenge so we arranged a convenient time to inspect the property with the homeowner intent on solving his problem once and for all.
During our inspection we found all of the areas where the rats had been hiding and got a picture of their movements around the house. We immediately began an intensive treatment to remove the rats from the property and continued the search for the cause of the problem. Now there are lots of ways that rats can enter a house but from our previous experience we believed a damaged sewer pipe was responsible in this case and we quickly arranged for a camera survey to confirm this.
Now we had identified where the rats had been entering and the damaged pipe was repaired we could confidently tell the homeowner that an end to his yearlong rat problem was finally in sight. We made two further visits to ensure there were no more rats left in the house and now noises in the attic are a thing of the past.
Identifying what was causing this reoccurring problem was the key to our success and meant we could provide the permanent solution our customer wanted.
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Things I am liking in March!
Stock Ticker with the Fam. Chips and Cheetos and the heady ups and downs of an imaginary economy based on a 3 sided dice
Sticky sweet Ribs with garlicky coleslaw
Learning how to speak Slovak with an African Grey Parrot named Rocco
The kitten sleeping in the sunshine
Tuna Salad Sandwiches and endless cups of tea
Road trips with my mum and Kristy
Morning coffees with my dad while every other loser be snoozin’
B-Bot pitching his awesome TV shows to CHORUS WOOO! *HIGHFIVEDICKPUNCHES*
My new book bag, made by my sister with my Bapa’s old camera strap which is amazing all of the time
These sweet rings!
5am breakfasts and learning to tape garages with CB! Wandering around the construction site with my knitted kitten ear hat on under my yellow hard hat, while various types of construction fellows went about their biz
Long walks with Oscar and my sister through the woods. Oscar losing his feeble doggy mind when Kristy got stuck in a snow bank.
Walking so far with CB and having to pee beside a field SUCCESSFULLY! No soggy piss pants for me!
Planning an awesome party weekend away in Niagara Falls with our friend Jazzy J! Oh yeah, seedy motel, boozin’, cruisin’ Lundy’s Lane with dollar signs in our eyes, taking in the sites and smells of the haunted house on Clifton Hill. Woooo!
AND, drum roll pleeeease….
Being one month away from NEW ZEALAND!!!
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Announcements and Sponsors This Week
Join our FREE meetups in San Francisco on August 24th and 25th (2016)!
We’ll be in San Francisco next week and we’ll be hosting two meetups on Wednesday Aug 24th and Thursday Aug 25th. Beers and Pizzas on us!
Wednesday Aug 24th 2016: Our first meetup will be a micro workshop to start off your personal brand. The stuff we’ll talk about is taken from our side project accelerator, This will be a part lecture / part hands-on experience in which we’ll discuss our philosophy of audience-driven product development, the giver vs. taker theory, and the techniques we use to create our content on Hacking UI.
This session will be interactive, and by the end of the night you’ll be on your way and have the tools to publish your first article and build your personal brand as a side project.
Thursday Aug 25th 2016: The second meetup is about Scaling a Design team. If you’ve been listening to this podcast you’re going to want to be part of it! We’re going to go into all the insights that we’ve learned from interviewing the world’s top design leaders, and also talk about what worked for us with our team in Similarweb.
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By the way, all of their prep courses are free and have great videos, and several books that you can start off with.
Episode #10: Jon Lax
This week we were fortunate enough to meet face to face with Jon Lax, Director of Product Design at Facebook.
Prior to joining Facebook, from 2002 to 2015, Jon was the co-founder and CEO of the legendary Toronto design studio, Teehan+Lax, which has since been acquired by Facebook.
In this insightful and brutally honest conversation, Jon shares the lessons he learned while scaling Teehan+Lax to almost 50 employees. We also talked about his personal story and his partnership with Geoff Teehan. He also shared with us the questions that he asks every designer at Facebook and some tips for aspiring design managers.
The Side Project Accelerator
The program works in batches, with only 3 batches per year. Registration for the next batch of the Side Project Accelerator is now open until November 10th, and there are only 50 seats available. Apply now to reserve your spot.
Key points from this episode:
- What does it take to not only be a great designer, but how can you create the conditions in which others can do it as well.
- How do different skill sets help to make a design team work? What is it about the diversity the enables a successful partnership?
- Why, as a designer, should you change your mindset from thinking you can convince others to believe things the way that you do, to have your belief system.
- Understand why for Teehan+Lax, trying to compete on quality of design in a client driven environment was actually useless.
- Corporate values for your business can make a great impact on how you operate your company.
- What does it mean to grow organically, and find out the different company growth levels that Jon experienced as they were scaling Teehan+Lax.
- Jon explains some of the pros and cons of flat organizational structures and why not having titles can hinder employees from understanding their personal growth.
- Learn why it is okay not to manage once you move up the career ladder, and the skill sets you need to develop if management is an option for you.
- Find out what three questions Jon asks designers when creating products for consumers.
Here are some follow up links from our talk:
- Jon on Twitter — @jlax
- Jon on Medium
- Jon’s LinkedIn
- Case Study: The Making of Medium.com
- Great follow up – watch Jon’s lecture Kill the billable hour
If you’d like to read the full transcript of this episode, you can download it.
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About The Hacking UI Podcast and the Scaling a Design Team series
The Hacking UI podcast is hosted by Sagi Shrieber and David Tintner, a designer and developer who are also both entrepreneurs, bloggers, productivity/time-hacking maniacs, and all around tech geeks.
In season 1, which we’ve called ‘Scaling a Design Team’, we meet with leaders from top notch companies, like Facebook, Apple, Invision, and Intercom, to discuss team structures, responsibilities, and workflows. We’ll also be talking to them about design management, hiring, and culture. This is a chance for us to get an inside look at some of the best design teams out there and to understand how they do what they do in drastically different environments.
More UX & Frontend goodness
- Take part in the 2017 Professional Development Survey - July 9, 2017
- Master Class #5: Why we should care about avatar embodiment in VR (w/ Ayelet Batist) - April 25, 2017
- Master Class #4: The Soul in The Machine – Developing for Humans (w/ Christian Heilmann) - April 20, 2017
- Master Class #3: How personal AI revolutionized our digital experience (w/ Ori Shaashua) - March 21, 2017
- Intro: How websites actually work - March 13, 2017
- Choose a domain name that will strengthen your brand - March 13, 2017
- Technical tips when buying your domain name (and what mistakes to avoid) - March 13, 2017
- Creative ways to get a website up with no hosting or actual ‘website’ needed - March 13, 2017
- Bought a domain and decided to put up a website? Here’s how you can do that - March 13, 2017
- Master Class #2: Getting Buy-In (w/ Dan Mall) - March 10, 2017
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Sierra Moore was all smiles Saturday afternoon as she received the red-carpet treatment from the Denver Broncos cheerleading squad.
Even in the pouring rain, Moore watched and tried to mimic the squad during practice. After all, she wants to be a cheerleader when she grows up.
“You get to meet people, have fun and make cheers,” she said, when asked about her ambition.
If not for the wheelchair her father, Michael Moore, used to whisk her around the field, it was nearly impossible to tell that the 8-year-old had been through eight surgeries to repair damage she suffered from a drive-by shooting in the Curtis Park neighborhood of Denver in June.
Clad in jeans, boots and a “High School Musical” T-shirt, Sierra and her father spent several hours before the game hanging out with the cheerleaders at Invesco Field at Mile High and in the locker room, eating lunch, and getting her hair and makeup done. Afterward, they got to watch the Broncos take on the Dallas Cowboys.
“It’s been one of my daughter’s dreams to meet the cheerleaders,” said her father, who also spent a lot of time smiling. “This is an amazing event and opportunity. She’s been on pins and needles.”
The excitement began when the cheerleaders ran out on the field for practice, many of them giving Sierra high-fives as she looked on, seemingly awestruck.
Back in the locker room, every cheerleader stopped by to talk to Sierra, and they autographed a Broncos cheerleader calendar and a squad poster. Between bites of salad and cake, Sierra answered questions from the squad and could be heard saying “nice to meet you,” and “thank you” to everyone.
Sierra said the best part was sitting in a beauty chair getting her hair done, which consisted of tying orange and blue ribbons around her braids, while she talked openly with some of the cheerleaders.
“I hope we make her happy,” said cheerleader Kaoruko Horike. “She has made us happy.”
The cheerleaders are required to perform at least 20 hours of community service every season, although many of them contribute more time.
“It’s a great experience for us,” said cheerleader Terita Walker. “We often don’t get to see what the community gets from us. It’s good to see her smiling.”
The outing was arranged by the Denver Health Foundation, which originally auctioned the “Denver Broncos Cheerleader for a Day” package at a fundraiser last April for about $3,500. A company won the package and donated it to Denver Health.
Sierra was hospitalized at Denver Health Medical Center for two weeks after the shooting. This is the first time the Broncos hosted such an event.
“We thought she was the perfect recipient for this,” said Candice Jones, special-events coordinator for the Denver Health Foundation and a former Broncos cheerleader.
While the football game didn’t appeal to Sierra as much as it did her father — who said he’s a Cowboys fan — the outing solidified her ambition to become a cheerleader, although she didn’t know if she would be up for cheering in the rain.
“Just not in shorts,” she said.
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Trenchant reflections on life and art from an award-winning critic and historian.
Hughes (1938-2012) is represented in this collection by chapters from 8 of his 13 books, along with 125 pages from his second, unfinished memoir. Outspoken and fiercely opinionated, the author had capacious interests and uncompromising standards. “What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890?” he asked in The Shock of the New (1980). “Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art” could offer insights into a “radically changing culture.” In Nothing If Not Critical (1990), a collection of his reviews for Time magazine, for which he served as chief art critic for more than 30 years, Hughes praises John Singer Sargent (“there is virtue in virtuosity”); acknowledges Whistler’s many faults (he was “an egomaniac, a fop, and a publicity-crazed liar”) but finds his work impressive; extols Pollock’s brilliance; and offers a long piece on the “voracious” publicity-seeker Warhol, who, he believed, pandered to “the age of supply-side aesthetics.” Chapters from Barcelona (1992) and Rome (2011) show Hughes engaging an expansive physical and cultural landscape. In his first memoir, Things I Didn’t Know (2006), he gives a harrowing account of a car accident that he barely survived. For more than five weeks, he was in a “semiconscious delirium,” experiencing “narrative phantasms of extreme clarity and unshakeable, Dalíesque vividness.” Hughes recalls his childhood in Sydney, Australia, where he reveled in the family library without the distraction of “that jabbering moronic babysitter,” the TV. The author’s unfinished chapters include an homage to his friend Robert Rauschenberg, recollections of living on Shelter Island, a satirical report of his tryout for the ABC news show 20/20, and a moving essay on the suicide of his son and his failures as a father.
The collection serves as a fine introduction to—and commemoration of—an incisive cultural critic.
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https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-hughes/the-spectacle-of-skill/
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National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) has issued a recruitment notification for the recruitment of Research Associate through recruitment notification – National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) Recruitment – Advertisement No. Acad/DBT/Dec 2014/02. Candidates who have completed Ph.D can apply for the new recruitment notification from National Brain Research Centre (NBRC)
Eligible candidates can apply offline for the Research Associate Job on or before 25/01/2015. Find more information about the vacancy like Age limit, Selection Process, Qualification, Application fee, How to apply etc can be found below.
|Company Name||National Brain Research Centre (NBRC)|
|Vacancy Name||Research Associate|
|Total No of Vacancy||01 Posts|
|Last Date to Apply for this job||25/01/2015|
|Address for the Job Vacancy||National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), The Registrar,
National Brain Research Centre, Nainwal Road, Manesar – 122 051, Gurgaon (Haryana).
Detail of National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) Research Associate Recruitment:
NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE (NBRC), Manesar-122051, Gurgaon, requires one Research Associate in Prof. Neeraj Jain’s Laboratory for a Project funded by Department of Biotechnology. Candidates with strong interest in Neuroscience research and excellent research experience evidenced by their publication record are invited to apply for the position of Research Associate. You will be investigating brain function and plasticity using 2-Photon imaging, and participating in experiments using electrophysiology, fMRI and neuroanatomy. Candidates should be highly motivated and have ability to work as part of a team.
- No of post : 01
- Title of Project: Mechanisms of Adult Brain Reorganization.
- Project Investigator: Prof. Neeraj Jain
- For enquiries related to the project, send email to: [email protected]
- Fellowship: Rs.22,000/- p.m. + 30% HRA (likely to be revised)
- Accommodation: On campus accommodation may be provided as per rules of NBRC, subject to availability.
- Minimum Qualifications: A Ph.D. degree* in any branch of science, including engineering disciplines. Candidates who have submitted their Ph.D. thesis can also apply. Please clearly state the date of award of degree, or date of submission of thesis if viva is awaited.
- Tenure: Initial appointment will be for a period of one year, which can be extended based on a performance review. The post is co-terminus with the project, which ends in 2018. Selected candidates will have to abide by the rules and regulations of NBRC and DBT.
Selection Procedure for National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) – Research Associate Post:
- Candidates can apply on or before 25/01/2015
- Only candidates who are screened by the screening committee will be informed and invited for
interview at NBRC.
How to apply for Research Associate Vacancy in National Brain Research Centre (NBRC):
Please provide information as per the application form below. In addition submit the following: • Curriculum vitae. • A write-up (not more than 3 pages) summarizing your previous research work, and your interest in the research area of the laboratory where you are seeking this position. All applications received by 25th January, 2015 will be included in the first round of screening. Send your application material to The Registrar, National Brain Research Centre, Nainwal Road, Manesar – 122 051, Gurgaon (Haryana). No TA / DA will be provided for the interview
Important dates to remember:
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Walking past the Sun Bear exhibit and watching the bears rest, climb or forage it’s hard to imagine Mr. Hobbs had a very sad and frightening beginning to his life.
In 1995 Mr. Hobbs was born in a Cambodian forest. While he was still a very young cub he was taken from the wild and his mother despite fierce efforts to protect the cub from harm.
Sun Bears are commonly used in the restaurant and traditional medicine trade. Bear Paw Soup is considered a delicacy and consumers flaunt their wealth by buying it for themselves and their guests. Luckily, Mr. Hobbs was rescued by an Australian businessman.
The cub was only the size of a puppy. After rescuing Mr. Hobbs and two other females from similar situations the businessman cared for them until he had to return to Australia. He handed the bears over to Free the Bears and founder Mary Hutton soon contacted Taronga Zoo. The Zoo spent almost two years working with the Cambodian Government and Australian Governments to complete the first-ever Memorandum of Understanding to bring Mr. Hobbs legally from Cambodia to Australia.
Mr. Hobbs has been a terrific bear to work with. His early times demonstrated his inability to climb and problem solve. He would get into areas in his exhibit and not know how to climb out; this was worrying as Sun Bears are the best bear climbers in the world. These are skills Sun Bears normally learn from their mother during their first two years of development and growth.
He has been improving since the arrival of his companion Mary in 2012. Mary was born at the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra. Her mother was also rescued in Cambodia. Mary’s exceptionally high skill levels are due to her spending over two years learning skills from her mother, and much of this has now been passed on to Mr. Hobbs.
While at Taronga he has slowly learnt typical Sun Bear skills. We offer Mr. Hobbs and Mary enrichment items to challenge them physically and mentally. These include presenting their foods wrapped in sacks, buried or in areas to climb up to. In the wild, Sun Bears spend large amounts of time and energy looking for insects, larvae, small animals, honey and available fruits.
Mr. Hobbs is one of the “lucky ones” to have survived the illegal wildlife trade. However, thousands of birds, mammals and reptiles are being taken alive from the wild for the pet, restaurant or traditional medicines.
The Wildlife Witness App is a very valuable tool that lets everyday people help the wildlife authorities such as TRAFFIC in South-east Asia. Everyday people, particularly in hotspots around South-east Asia, can photograph and report any suspicious incident where they may see trapped, caged wildlife, animal products being sold in a market place or delicacies in restaurants offered that may include illegally poached wildlife. The free app is user friendly and has the potential to help the authorities catch the poachers who are at the top end of the industry and help keep wildlife in the wild.
By Keeper Lesley Small
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https://taronga.org.au/news/2014-06-04/wildlife-witness-app-and-mr-hobbs
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Personalised Shopkins Water bottle. Your name on a aluminium Water Bottle featuring some cute shoppies. Perfect for kids and those that love the all things Shopkins! Fun and quirky, such a great gift! Perfect for child care centres and schools. The image wraps around the bottle.
Bottle is 600ml aluminium, comes in white or silver.
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Fantastic! I love how 3D it all looks. I feel as though Im on a 3D TV commercial for the future!
I agree. The forest comes to life. I am a masterful GIF maker!!!
I like that guy’s style. He sure does have dancer’s legs.
Ooooo, the first time I saw this, it loaded super slow, now it is fast and I see the 3D. Good dancing sir. Good dancing indeed.
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1 bedroom park home for saleDeanland Wood Park
Sold STC £117,500
- Superb Park Home
- One bedroom
- Living Room
- Modern Fitted Kitchen
- Modern Bathroom
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For the discerning buyer looking a for beautifully presented one bedroom park home this one is for you. Conveniently located to all of the facilities that Deanland Wood Park can offer having landscaped gardens with the added benefit of a driveway by the side of the property. The accommodation is arranged with a living room which opens into a superb modern fitted kitchen, a double bedroom with built in units and a modern fitted bathroom. Finally there is gas fired central heating and uPVC double glazing.
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Open Plan Living Room - 6.31m x 2.86m (20'8" x 9'5") - Incorporating Modern fitted Kitchen
Bedroom - 2.63m x 2.26m (8'8" x 7'5") -
Bathroom - 1.72m x 1.68m (5'8" x 5'6") -
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By Siri Espy, Animal Friends' Communications Team
Last Saturday, Animal Friends' supporters, staff, volunteers and residents turned into real party animals at the annual Black Tie & Tails gala! It’s a night of fun, glamour, and an opportunity to help Animal Friends continue its work on behalf of homeless, unwanted and abused animals.
Where else can you bid on an opportunity to sit in on Jim Krenn’s DVE morning radio show, or win a Steelers party for 25 at the Nevillewood home of Steelers legend Andy Russell? Watch out for three Eyetique ads featuring families (and their pets) whose winning bids will support Animal Friends’ work. And numerous silent auction items, from art to jewelry to autographed footballs and jerseys helped make the evening a success.
For the past several years, the live auction finale has been an opportunity to support Animal Friends’ lifesaving spay and neuter initiative. This year, CEO David Swisher announced that Animal Friends met and exceeded their goal to alter 24,000 pets in three years! A key component was our mobile clinic, which empowered Animal Friends to take our services into rural and underserved areas, offering low-cost services to those with limited means, and altering feral cats to put a halt to unwanted births.
We can guarantee that a good time was had by all who partied, humans and animals alike, and we’re sorry if you missed it. But it’s not too late to participate! By clicking below, you can extend our auction finale and support our spay and neuter program!We hope you can join us next year – but let’s make every day at Animal Friends something to celebrate by donating, adopting, volunteering, and spreading the word!
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Recently, Congress enacted a new section of the tax code that gave the IRS some additional power that could play a significant role in foreign travel
The post Could Your Passport Be in Jeopardy if You Owe Back Taxes? appeared first on IRS & State Tax News, Tips, Opinions and More.
It is not uncommon to discover someone’s assertion that the IRS has enacted a particular Internal Revenue Code section or even the entire Code. For example, in this presentation, readers are told that in 1996, “IRS enacts IRC Sectio...
With private debt collectors rounding up tax debts and the IRS having power of your passport and travel, 2016 could be a perfect storm for tax delinquents.
Long debated, a law tying your right to travel to your taxes is poised to become law. Is it legal to hold your U.S. passport hostage to taxes?
Congress enacted § 6038D of the Tax Code as part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act. In a nutshell, it requires certain individuals to report information about specified foreign financial assets. The IRS and D...
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http://regator.com/p/273324097/could_your_passport_be_in_jeopardy_if_you/
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Hope you are having a happy day. So do you know MAC has now come up with their Extra Dimension Collection? I am new to MAC products and I have never tired them. But their frequent new releases and raving reviews are getting me attracted to them :) I am planning to visit a MAC outlet here in Chennai soon. Okay, now check about the MAC extra dimension collection and the product photos below.
In Extra Dimension Eye Shadow’s Creamy, Silky, Near-Fluid Formula Creates Luminous, Well-Defined Eyes In Finishes From Sheer Crystallized Light To Stunning Metallic. In Extra Dimension Blush Delivers Polishedtextures That Reflect Light And Leave A Smooth Second-Skin Finish. In Extra Dimension Skinfinish, Now In A Split Pan, Brings Together Two Shimmering Shades For Highlighting And Sculpting, Together Or Separately. The 128 Split Fibre Cheek Brush And The 235 Split Fibre All Over Eye Brush Deliver Professional Results.
EXTRA DIMENSION EYE SHADOW (INR: 1,450)
Extra Silver true silver:
Zestful Pale iridescent lime:
Triple Impact Opalescent lavender with violet pearl:
Dimensional Blue Frosty blue:
Smoky Mauve Mid-tone cool mauve:
EXTRA DIMENSION BLUSH ( INR : 1,750)
Bareness Rosy beige:
Blazing Haute Dirty peach:
Flaming Chic Bright blue pink:
At Dusk Mid-tone rose:
Fiery Impact Burnt red bronze:
EXTRA DIMENSION SKINFINISH ( INR: 1,800)
Definitely Defined Silvery pink/soft rose with shimmer:
Shape The Future Pastel pink with iridescence/soft brick with light shimmer:
Double Definition Soft shimmery gold/patina bronze:
235 Split Fibre All Over Eye ( INR: 2,100)
128 Split Fibre Cheek ( INR : 2,250)
I liked Triple Impact Opalescent in Eyeshadows and At Dusk shade in blushes. Not so fond of skin finish highlighters as I am not that crazy about shimmery finish. So which ones did you like from this MAC Extra Dimension collection? Comment below!
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Right. Well. Art lovers….welcome to your delicious, satisfying demise into art based obsession!!! (that sounds scary but I say lets embrace!)
The One Art Club is a BRILLIANT new concept aimed to deliver fresh, exclusive works of art to subscribers on a bi monthly basis. Each artist (both local / international and upcoming /established) will be a surprise due to their strict embargo on information pre delivery, and each work will be a extra special limited edition piece created ONLY for eager The One Art Club audience.
There are options to select from in terms of time frames and payment plans, but one thing is for sure, this is a genius way to grow or gift the opportunity to collect carefully curated art that is truly exclusive.
How do I know it’ll be carefully curated?
Oh yeah…the brains behind this project is one of NZ’s most forward thinking young art minds; Evie Kemp!
Please take the time to explore the full spectrum of options and how the club works via the website. Remember – there are no pictures beyond those of the makers involved below to tempt you as its all an exciting surprise!!!!
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http://www.studiohomeonline.com/one-art-club/
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Manali is one of the most popular and visited hill stations in India. Located at an altitude of 1950 meters above sea level, Manali is known as the ‘Home of the seven great sages of Hindu Religion’. Manali is named after Brahma’s law giver, Manu, who was brought on earth to begin the seventh cycle of creation and destruction. Manali has many temples and religious centres for tourists. Apart from that Manali has a lot to offer in terms of adventure, sport activities and scenic beauties. The best time to visit Manali is from May to October when it offers a retrieve from the high temperatures in the other parts of country.
Kullu Dussera Dussera in Kullu is an International Festival which is celebrated differently from the rest of India. When the enthusias and celebration in the rest of India is about to end, in Kullu it has just started to begun. The festival in Kullu brings all the deep beliefs and religious ethos of people forward. Winter Festival Celebrated in the second and third week of January, the winter festival is celebrated for 5 days and is declared as the state festival by the Government of Himachal. The five day festival has much to offer in terms of entertainement, however, the last day has way much more entertainment to offer with the two contests that are organized to wrap up this festival; The Men’s Personality Contest and The Winter Queen Contest.
The Mall is the main shopping area in Manali, selling local Kullu and Kinnauri shawls, rugs, caps and footwear, imported goods, besides a range of Tibetan handicraft items. It is more of a busy commercial street with modern concrete blocks of hotels that spill over with tourists in the peak season. Other shopping zones in the Mall include- Hong Kong Market, Thai Market, Tibetan Market, Dragon Shopping Complex, Lama Underground, Shangri La Shopping Complex, New NAC Market and Snow Lion Underground Market. The Himachal Handicrafts Emporium and Bhuticco weavers’ co-operative in the main Manali Mall are good for local handicrafts. Handcrafted shawls and rugs are the major and the most popular buys here. The Tibetan Bazaar and Tibetan Carpet centre run by the refugee community sells thangkas, rugs, local tweeds, Buddhist paintings, bamboo souvenirs, Chinese goods (electronics, shoes, clothes etc), silver and turquoise jewellery and prayers wheels amongst other things. The place is overcrowded with tourists in the summers. If you are interested in buying more hippie and junky stuff, then the Old Manali market is a must visit. You could even pick up fresh fruit jams, jellies and pickles from the market and take them back as souvenirs. All the shops are open from 10 am to 7 pm. Bargaining is a must here as most shops tend to quote a higher price.
Bhuntar Airport – 10 km away
other Airport: Chandigarh is the nearest big airport.
Kullu is not approachable easily by rail. The nearest narrow gauge railhead is at Joginder Nagar, 100 km away. On broad gauge, there is Chandigarh, 235 km away and Pathankot, 275 km away.
One needs to come to Chandigarh and from there the national highway NH21 is used which passes through Bilaspur, Sundernagar and Mandi towns.
Manali sits at high altitude of above 6,500 feet and get eligible for snowfalls. Snow brings skiing possibilities; f... read more...
You got the Honey, Let's catch up with the Moon at the best hill stations reaching the Sky and get closeness like never befor...
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http://www.triphills.com/destination/manali
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Member Type: Diagnostic Companies
Metamark is a privately held company dedicated to improving cancer care by providing the next generation of diagnostic and prognostic testing. The company is advancing its contribution to oncology through its proprietary genomics and proteomics discovery platforms, a growing clinical research effort and corporate alliances. Metamark has assembled a unique portfolio of testing services and products to inform critical decisions at each step of the care pathway in prostate cancer. The company’s interests also include bladder, colon and breast cancers.
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http://www.personalizedmedicinecoalition.org/Members/Metamark_Genetics
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An elderly woman keeps calling me periodically by mistake, is there something I should do?
An elderly woman keeps calling my cell phone periodically for the last few months now. She leaves a message asking for someone that I've never heard of. She asks this person to call her and if she can bring her certain grocery items. I have tried answering my phone to tell her that she has a wrong number but she doesn't understand and continues to call and leave messages. My husband is concerned that this may be a scam of some sort, but I'm not entirely convinced that is true. I don't want to get involved but I do feel bad for this person and am wondering if there is something I should do. Thank you for your advice.
Oh, how frustrating! You have a elderly lady, who obviously needs help, calling you. You have already tried to be nice about it and talk with her about her calling the wrong number, but that didn't work. Please reassure your husband that I do not think this is a scam, as most people would ask for money, not groceries. They also wouldn't keep calling the same number. What I do think is that this lady may have some dementia, and she doesn't understand who she is calling. I think she is just dialing your number (incorrectly) sometimes, and she probably cannot understand what went wrong.
Unfortunately, I think you will need to block her phone number to stop her calls. If you do block the number, she will get a message when she calls you that her number is blocked, and she will have to try to dial the number again (hopefully correctly) so that she can reach the other person.
I've been getting a call from an elderly woman too! For over a year now. I wonder if it's the same woman, what is her phone number area code? She asks for her daughter and I keep telling her she has the wrong number but she continues to call anyway. After almost 1.5 years, it has really gotten to be a nuisance to be honest. I've tried blocking her calls but with the way my phone is, she can still leave messages.
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A couple of Sundays ago I went to Disneyland with a group of friends. I was captivated by Walt Disney’s fantasy world, fully transported by the perfectly themed landscapes designed to dazzle and mesmerize visitors.
After the fireworks show, my friends and I hopped onto the 5 freeway to head back home. It was while I was staring out the car window on the drive back I noticed all of the billboard advertisements dotted alongside the freeway. Their presence suddenly snapped me back to reality. I felt strange, suddenly noticing how obtrusive and prominent billboards are along the Los Angeles skyline.
Although I grew up in Los Angeles and billboards have been an everyday sight, I never stopped to think about how their presence affects the urban landscape. Billboards were always perceived as informational advertisements, telling me about upcoming movies and the season premiere of shows like Game of Thrones. Other times billboards were for public service announcements, like the memorable “Smoking Deaths This Year, and Counting” campaign.
After this sudden realization, I’ve been looking at billboards in a different way, wondering whether these massive structures can be transformed into something more informative, thought provoking, or just simply more fun.
Luckily, there are some amazing organizations out there that have already implemented or conceptualized creative ideas for integrating art and fun into billboard advertisements. Maybe one day all billboards will become an adaptive reuse project promoting the culture and ideas of Los Angeles instead of visually disruptive ad campaigns simply selling us things.
Los Angeles Nomadic Division – The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project is a Kickstarter campaign, a series of 100 billboards designed by 10 artists creating “chapters” all along I-10, each a unique interpretive link to the exhibition’s theme.
Urban Air – Stephen Glassman and team have started a campaign to transform billboard structures into an elevated urban forest.
Another interesting idea is Project Gregory, which transforms roadside billboards into homes for the homeless, funded by the advertisement rental revenues.
What are some of your ideas to transform these structures?
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https://ahbelab.com/2015/12/15/reimagining-the-roadside-billboard/
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One of the primary reasons for my shift in art activity from the street to my desk is my need to be more expressive in my writing. Keeping a positive message on the street is extremely important, but when the street is my only outlet, my other thoughts and feelings do not have a channel for release. By collecting writings in a journal and a web site, I can finally write more freely than I ever could when I was only on the street.
I will remain active in the street art community, but in a different way now. I will also continue to develop my spray painting skills. But, instead of being out three or four nights per week, putting out hundreds of stickers, I will reduce my street time and only go out when I have special stickers or projects.
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Buy plates from Dollar Store Use a Sharpie and decorate...Bake at 350 for 30 min. Becomes permanent and safe
10 DIY Pretty Plant Pots You Can Create This Weekend
So doing this next year for decorations on the tree and gifts seriously- cute!!
DIY:: Repurpose old candle jars to cute toiletry containers!
candy flower vase - an easy way to decorate for Christmas
Sayings for every candy bar - I'm sure I'll be glad I pinned this one day. Great for homemade gifts!
Spray painted curtain rods, because bronze and gold are boring.
DIY iced branches....easy 2 make..love it!!!
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https://www.pinterest.com/missmjq/gettin-crafty/
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Shelbourne withdrew the lawsuit they filed against 19 residents and civic associations objecting to the proposed assisted living facility.
Paul Feiner, Greenburgh Town Supervisor, issued a statement earlier this week encouraging Shelbourne to withdraw their lawsuit. He opposed the lawsuit on the grounds that they discourage people from speaking out regarding important community issues and proposals.
After Feiner met with some representatives. Shelbourne dropped the lawsuit.
The application is currently under review by the Zoning Board, which is independent of the Town Board.
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Welcome to Hotel Yuvraj Place
A Four star Hotel approved by Govt. of India.
Department of Tourism.
The graceful ambience of Ranchi is amply reflected in this Hotel. One of the finest luxury hotels in the city. The hotel, which is centrally air-conditioned, offers everything from elegant rooms with a pictures view, efficient service, multi cuisine restaurant, lively bar, fully equipped conference hall, banquet facility and personalized service.
Entering the gleaming marble lobby from the excitement and the bustle of the city, guests are greeted in a world of luxury. The huge lobby resplendent with marble & Jaisalmer painting in scattered with comfortable sofa.
Royal SuiteRoyal suiteThe comfortable king-size bed is topped with a 300-thread-count white cotton duvet and plump standard and European-size pillows.Details
Deluxe RoomDeluxe RoomCrossing the threshold of our Deluxe Rooms, you will be struck by the inviting serenity of the space—both luxurious and comfortable at the same time.Details
Regal RoomRegal RoomBeautifully furnished with crafted teak furniture, every Suite Room is decorated in pastels, accented by wall-to-wall Wooden Flooring.Details
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This is probably my third review in last few years of this hotel, This is my regular hotel,always in Ranchi. Same service standards ,courtesy, as in the past. Their GM talkers personal interest in every aspect and keeps Excellent relation ship with guests.
It is a nice place to stay in Doranda, Ranchi. It was very close to the place where I had my business meeting. Rooms were clean with high quality interiors. Felt Room that I stayed was Lil contested but rest is all superb.
Rooms are modern and equipped with amenities. Restaurant food especially pizza and French fries are awesome. Service was very quick. Staff was really courteous. Looks OK from the outside. No pools. Breakfast had decent variety too.
am here now! And the title of the review says it all, really. The staff is really what makes the difference, in my opinion. Super caring and ready to help. I stayed for 2 day with family and relatives easy access to all the places from the hotel and good service :)
The reason I am giving four stars is mostly location! The location is just great, you will enjoy this place. It is a nice hotel room you are seeking, keep looking! Rooms were clean with high quality interiors. Great Stay!!
The Traditional Indian restaurant services choices of delicacies, offers superb cuisine, elegant atmosphere and promise to be a popular meeting place for both resident as well as nonresident guests.
For a delightful morning indulgence, experience Shafali Restaurant, Signature Breakfast—a gourmet menu created exclusively for the hotel.
Also available for our guests' convenience is our 24-hour In-Room Dining service, offering a range of delectable choices for whenever the fancy strikes.
The bar is luxurious abode-where you can raise to toast to gracious living with finest cocktails and drinks.
soft blue lights and a striking ceiling canopy define the cosmically-inspired elegance of the Surahi Bar. As you nestle up to the half moon shaped countertop—made of blonde wood—an exceptional assortment of spirits meets your eye.
Allow our expert bartenders to create a special concoction as you relax to the sounds of soothing background music performed nightly by a live band.
Gracious hospitality is extended here along with sumptuous cuisine. Every effort is made to ensure that your business conferences and meeting are a grand success. The pain staking attention to detail is evident in the Banquet Hall’s décor & is matched by the Hotel’s unsurpassed commitment toservice. You can also hold a meeting, conference, Kitty party, engagement and birthday parties at our small hall ‘Panchayat’ at first floor for 50 persons.
We work closely with you to ensure that every aspect of your event is prepared to suit your needs and wishes. Yuvraj Palace offers an unforgettable experience that is thoughtfully planned and perfectly executed.
To facilitate successful business gatherings, the hotel has also partnered with a state-of-the-art technology provider—offering all of the latest audiovisual equipment, as well as electronic translation services.
Hotel Yuvraj offers the city’s first temperature controlled indoor swimming pool within a five star property. Guests can enjoy the swimming pool to relax and lounge.
The pool has been provided with continuous filtered and chemically treated water and an instructor cum life guard is in attendance all the time the pool is open. Mornings as well as afternoons are the most popular timings for the pool.
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Sphere was the last opening band for pg.lost live in Kuala Lumpur last week. In my opinion was the best out of three opening act.
Most of their songs are very catchy. I like the drumming on each song, such a powerful drumming. I was right in front of the stage, I could feel the air blowing when the drummer kicked the bass. Sounds like a post-rock version of My Morning Jacket, with less vocal and more beats. Guitars are mostly simple strumming with simple solos. Their songs are seriously catchy, it stills ringing in my head. Check their stuff up on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and Youtube.
The venue still dark like the other two opening band. ISO was all the way up to 3200 at f/1.8. You can’t tell in the photos, but the lighting was mostly red. I used to convert those red images to black and white because it’s just not pleasant to see red colored person. Then I learnt that a simple white balance tweak could tame down the angry color to be more pleasant to see. I always use auto white balance during concert just because the lighting is constantly changing, so there is no way I could pick up one color temperature and just get away with it.
That was a great show, now I’m off to listen more to Thunder by Sphere!
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https://dedyandriantoexperience.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/sphere-black-box/
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In this meditative spiritual memoir, Judith Valente, celebrated PBS religion journalist and poet, invites readers along on her transformative pilgrimages to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. The Benedictine sisters who invited Valente presented her with a view of monastic life and wisdom that brought spiritual healing to her fast-paced life--and promises to do the same for her listeners. The first time Judith Valente arrived at Mount St. Scholastica monastery, she came prepared to teach a course on poetry and the soul. Instead she found herself the student, taking lessons from the Benedictine sisters in the healing nature of silence, how to cultivate habits of mindful living, and the freeing reality that conversion is a lifelong process.
With the heart of a poet and the eye of a journalist, she tells how her many visits and interviews with the Benedictine sisters forced her to confront aspects of her own life that needed healing--a journey that will invite listeners to healing of their own. A beautiful and heartfelt work that crosses The Cloister Walk with Tuesdays with Morrie, Atchison Blue will resonate with readers of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Mary Gordon, and Anne Lamott.
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https://mobile.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Atchison-Blue-Audiobook/B00SJIVOH8
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Finaly have found some time to post my effort for May. I still have a walking staff under the knife to be finished and will show latter. My carving has slowed down some what after the burst after Xmas.
Anyway this wall mask is my take on a medival Foot Soldier.
The timber is camphor laurel 230 mm x 180 mm X 100 mm deep.
Not overly happy with the way the beard turned out, seem to have lost focus there. if any one has a opinion on the beard, then please comment with some advice for me.
The piece was finished with oil to pop the grain then sealed. The final coats are a spray of Crystal Clear Acrylic and wax.
happy carving everone,
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http://terryquinncarving.blogspot.com/2010/05/
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Skype is the most popular service around for voice calls over the internet. You can also use live text chat and send files. Many international organisations rely on Skype to reduce their costs, using it instead of the telephone. It makes online collaboration between global grassroots communities easier, as it is both cheap and universal, supporting calls to landlines and mobile phones.
Despite its popularity, there are several security issues related to this software. While according to Skype, it encrypts both messages and voice calls, this only happens when both sides are using Skype. Skype does not encrypt calls to phone or text sent as SMS messages.
If both sides are using Skype, its encryption may make the call slightly more secure than an ordinary call over phone. But because Skype is a closed-source program, making an independent audit and evaluation of its claims about encryption impossible, it is not known how well Skype protects users and their information and communication. Governments are able to monitor conversations with, and even without, the co-operation of Skype.
Free Software, such as Jitsi for voice calls and Pidgin for instant messaginge, are recommended alternatives to Skype. They are more secure, but not always as user friendly.
If you decide to use Skype as a tool for sensitive communication, it is very important to take some precautions. Read the Notice about Skype's security in Security in-a-box: https://securityinabox.org/en/chapter_7_3
Talking and communicating with people around the world for free.
Very compatible across different operating systems and in different parts of the world
High number of users
Fears of a back door for government
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https://howto.informationactivism.org/content/skype
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In addition to the output of products in the PUF isolation, the plant also manufactures steel structures:
- Metal towers of the type MT, FB, H for pipelines (up to Ø 1200 mm) without insulation (complete with rims and without);
- Plugs for pipes;
- Moving towers for pipelines (up to Ø 1200 mm) in heat insulation and without;
- Thermal cameras’ equipment: ladders, mobile platforms, non-standard manholes, carpet kit, fixtures, columns;
- Sliding doors, Inker, fences, bridges pedestrian;
- Modules of official and accommodation spaces.
The division of hardware of our plant also provides the following services:
- Repair of valves (up to Ø 1200 mm);
- Cutting and chipping of metal;
- Expander of the cylindrical and conical coverings.
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http://izoltech.ru/en/usl/
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The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce is one of the largest and most effective chambers of commerce in Massachusetts. The Chamber is successful because of the dedication and commitment of people who believe in our mission and work hard to fulfill it. As a membership based organization we could not exist much less flourish without the support of our members, our board, our volunteers and our sponsors. We invite you to click below to review some highlights of our most recent accomplishments. As you can see, the Chamber has a lot to be proud of—but it doesn’t stop here! The Chamber remains committed to providing opportunities for members to advance their businesses and to promote a healthier business and economic climate for all of us in North Central Massachusetts. We believe that working together, we can accomplish what none of us can alone!
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http://northcentralmass.com/accomplishments/
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Re: First class as a teacher
My first experience teaching was as a blue belt. I started a children's class. I had 10 kids including 2 of my own. I taught kids for 15 years.
Teaching is another aspect of training. Ron always says to me "teach what I know." Now I can teach what I want to explore.
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http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showpost.php?p=294020&postcount=10
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SOCHI, Russia — The International Olympic Committee says over 6,000 workers from Sochi Olympic construction sites have received their unpaid wages.
Preparations for the Sochi Games were marred by reports that thousands of workers building the venues, mainly laborers from Central Asian republics, were cheated out of their wages and some were underpaid.
Russian authorities originally denied there was a problem but have recently pledged to fine the construction companies in question and repay the workers — even though most of them have already left Russia.
Mark Adams, an IOC spokesman, told reporters on Monday that 6,175 workers have been compensated and some 500 companies were under investigation. Adams said Russian officials are still tracking down all the subcontractors who were cheating workers.
"We're slowly getting there," he says.
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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765647406/Over-6000-Sochi-Olympics-workers-compensated.html
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To explore more opportunities abroad and explore the many adventures of the sea
This was me 18 months ago. I went after my dream, sold everything, quit my full time job and booked a one -way ticket Nov 2010 to Bangkok. Open book, open road. I'm still going strong and loving this life! After a year of surfing Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, snowboarding the Himilayan Peaks, and dropping down into some deep spiritual teachings I'm now ready for some western culture. From India to back to Indonesia then Australia! A land I've been curious about for ages~~~~
I guess you could say I'm just a simple gal living in the U.S. and feeling the pull to explore another journey in life---travelling the globe. For how long? Who knows...what will I do? Who knows....what will come out of it? Pure adventure!
I currently live in San Francisco and have a full time 9-5pm job. It's great, I feel truly blessed to have such an amazing job that allows me to be free and creative, but the issue is I'm no longer challenged. The roots are splitting and need to be replanted. And not planted by moving up the corporate laddder, but rather by selling all my stuff...who needs stuff right...and travel! Since May I've been couch surfing with friends, housesitting,and subletting. I'm still working, yet living out of bag with no stuff! It's been an adventure soo far but the true adventure starts just around that next corner.
A month ago I booked a one-way ticket to Bangkok---an open road, an open book...why not, right!
The story begins mid Nov. May the adventure soon begin!
Live life as if it's your last day. Look into it deeper rather than just the mask- take it off.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
By spreading the word....once I get my first stay.
Well I have not couch surfed using this site- but recently I have been couch surfing amongst friends, and friends of friends. I can say that it's been a blast and an experience.
Travelling of course, anything under the sun,yoga,beach, mountains, good music, friends and embracing life!, laughing! the best therapy, surfing-snowboarding-mountain biking- socializing- and exploring new roads, new books, peoples stories, and strive for pure inspiration--
Music, Movies, and Books
I love music! Live concerts, festivals, in prompt 2's, etc. Books- I don't have a favorite as of now I need a new one and time to read one! Magazines are what I pick up-that is until the suitcase goes away and the backpack back comes out.
Not much for television- however a good flick is always nice. Favorite movie- gosh there's soo many- I'm a sucker for 80's- the color purple- and the breadkfast club- I know boring right...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Lived in Costa Rica for a year and trekked and worked in New Zealand for 9 months---this took me to where I am today.
Oh and graduating from college of course! Wow was that a great day! ----- and since this entry- travelled Thailand, Lao,Vietnam, Indonesia, Malasyia, India, and Sri Lanka
Teach, Learn, Share
I would love to learn about your culture- whether it's through just having a place to rest and checking out your couch, or exploring what you call your culture.
I can surely show you mine through cooking, conversation, a beer, some coffee, a surf, a yoga session, massage, a hike a laugh!. I'm just an easy going Cali gal that tries to live life in the sun! :)
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Take a look at one of the booklists below.
Goodreads Horror Book Lists
Horror Writers Association
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding book availablity. If we do not own, we can get!
Posted by Bethel Park Public Library Adult Reference Department at 9:42 AM
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Are you an adult who liked The Hunger Games or the Twilight series? Then this book discussion group is for you. We will read contemporary titles published for young adults but that have appeal for adults. Read Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi: we will be discussing it at our first meeting and selecting future titles for discussion.
Thursday, September 20th at 7pm
Please register at the front desk or call the Library at 412.835.2207.
Posted by Bethel Park Public Library Adult Reference Department at 4:55 PM
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http://bethelparkreads.blogspot.com/2012/09/
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Erica Diamond on @genConnect and The Importance of Dreaming Big
I am so honored to appear on the homepage of genConnect today. GenConnect, an online destination that connects us to trailblazers and change makers around the globe, is doing some incredible work in the digital inspiration space.
While in Silicon Valley earlier this year, I filmed a few segments for genConnect on inspiring girls, my dream for the future of our girls, and taking the leap off the fence.
“Erica Diamond used to be a “woman on the fence,” until she decided to get off it and make the best out of life.Today, Diamond is a world-famous Canadian blogger, author, television personality, life coach, and most importantly, a mother.In this series of exclusive genConnect videos, Erica Diamond discusses spearheading the world with the “Off The Fence Movement” and why all women should aspire to dream big.”
You can read the interview here: http://stgb.lc/b/2JV6
I hope you’ll also watch these little sound bites and then I would love to know your thoughts.
On The Importance of Dreaming Big
On Being Named the Chief Inspiration Officer for Entrepreneur Barbie
On My Dream for Teenage Girls and Shattering the Glass Ceiling
On starting WomenOnTheFence.com
Happy Hump Day! As I say above, my real dream is that entrepreneurship will be taught in schools nationwide at the elementary level. I think only good can come of this for our little future leaders of tomorrow. Do you agree?
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http://womenonthefence.com/2014/11/05/erica-diamond-on-genconnect-and-the-importance-of-dreaming-big/
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BURLINGTON — Flood waters knocked out power from electrical substation in Burlington Wednesday July 12th.
We Energies has re-routed power to get as many customers back in service as possible.
According to a recent We Energies press release, they are now working to get power back to the remaining 4,900 customers who are without service. Until the flood waters recede from the substation, they are unable to re-energize their system.
They’re bringing mobile transformers to the scene, and expect to get those installed and operating by early afternoon on Friday July 14. By that time, they are anticipating all homes and businesses in the area to have their electric service restored.
We Energies say their substation takes electricity from high-voltage transmission wires to a lower voltage for customers in the area. When flooded, the substation cannot deliver electricity to the wires that serve these customers. The water in the substation damages equipment that must be repaired or replaced when the water subsides. The mobile transformers being connected are part of a complex process to change the way power is delivered to customers in the affected area.
We Energies continue to advise extreme caution in flooded basements. If your home is flooded, call 800-662-4797 to disconnect power and natural gas service. The We Energies website also has information on outage safety.
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http://fox6now.com/2017/07/13/we-energies-update-flooded-substation-knocks-out-power-to-parts-of-burlington/
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SWMBO has been doing some interesting shopping at op-shops, including buying three sets of reasonable-quality leather boots at $10 a pair, thus equipping the Mills family (wife & at least one, probably 2, children out of 5) with footware in the course of about fifteen minutes.
Such marvels of economy can’t be universal, of course, otherwise the being-strapped-for-cash terms in one’s life wouldn’t be so bad.
It turns out that now is the time I set out to discover that certain ADSL routers can’t really forward inbound UDP traffic correctly through their NATs. It took a while to eliminate all of the other possibilities, but that seems to be it. 5-letter name, begins with a ‘d’, no surprises there.
Even though there’s not a lot of control to exercise here, to do this doesn’t make one look stellar as a technician.
Ah, well, hopefully a TCP VPN won’t be such a bear over ADSL. I can DMZ the server end, and that gives me half a connection, but can’t DMZ the client end.
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http://leonbrooks.blogspot.com/2006/09/ten-buck-boots.html
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This episode picks up right where the last left off, with both couples at each other’s throats questioning whether they should be together.
Jionni says he only took a picture with his cousin, but then says it may not be … and his indecisiveness makes him look guilty as all hell.
However, like all good guilty men, he has turned it around and is mad at Snooki for questioning him and flipping out over a picture he has yet to see.
Snooki hangs up on Jionni and both girls go to their bedrooms to take naps and sleep off their horrendous days.
Roger calls and wakes up Jenni to tell her that he is coming over so that they can talk face-to-face and figure things out. She says she does not want to see him and that she has nothing to say to him right now. He has yet to apologize for the things he said to her, and she is not sure if an apology will work this time.
Roger’s explanation: “When I get put on the defensive, I react and I win.” Translation: When you make me mad and knock me down, I will knock you down 10 times harder. Lame explanation, and not very “mature” there, old-man Roger.
Jenni killed it when she said, “The only thing you are winning at is losing me.” He says he will see her shortly, and does not take “no” for an answer.
Roger shows up to talk about “her issues” and let me tell you when he said those two words, I cringed. Remind me to add a chapter to my “A Guide To Women For Dummies” book. Oy vey! Never do you go to your girl’s house to try and talk things out and start off by saying that you are there to talk about her issues.
Jenni accordingly responded with “I only have one issue and it’s that you’re an a--hole.” Well said.
They went around in circles with being sorry but not apologizing, getting over it and not getting over it, breaking up and staying together. The only thing harder to watch than the-ever-strong JWOWW crying, was Roger crying. When men cry, I cry. It’s heartbreaking.
When he saw her cry, he cried. Then you see him in the confessional talking about how he has fallen so in love with her and doesn’t want to lose her.
The best part of it all was his little speech. I have gotten a similar one from my boyfriend as well and it’s sad and funny all at the same time. It’s like a dysfunctional version of the speech in "The Notebook" so you will definitely have to watch this one if you missed it.
They agree to make up because they can’t help it, they want to be together. They then begin to discuss the other dangerous duo — Snooks and Jionni, who are still not speaking.
Jenni calls Jionni and tells him to come over and he agrees. Meanwhile, Nicole gets up, gets pretty for him because she feels bad and thinks she may have been a bit overdramatic, which us girls tend to do every once in a while.
Snooki answers the door looking hot and apologizes to Jionni and they go out for a fun evening to celebrate his 25th birthday. The three do lemon drops and order Snooki shots of pickle juice, which makes her a happy little preggers guidette.
The episode wraps up how it normally does, the four of them together having a good time and Roger complaining that he doesn’t get any sex.
Things I Learned on This Episode of Snooki And JWOWW:
•••• Jenni is clearly attempting to quit smoking although they don’t address it, because she puffs away on an electronic cigarette for half of this episode. You go girl!
•••• Snooki is really “over” the fact that Roger never gets sex from Jenni. Roger agrees that he has more of a chance getting sex from Jionni than with Jenni.
•••• Pickle juice is better than alcohol because it makes you happy but does not give you a hangover.
Like the theme song says over and over and over again: I don’t care, I love it!
Agree with me or agree to disagree with me, let me know @KT_HUTCH.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bthesite/tv-lust/bal-snooki-and-jwoww-recap-couples-hell-story.html
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“By thinking continually, you become what you think of deeply”
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center
On Sunday, 22 September, Baba asked the women, “Who was it who said, ‘Unless you lose yourself, you cannot find yourself?’ ” …
It means three things in one:
first, love God so much that you forget yourself;
second, sacrifice your carnal desires for the soul; and
third, complete resignation to God’s will.
And when you love too much, you do forget yourself. Now how to do that practically? Love for other things like men, women, cars, dogs, et cetera, comes spontaneously. It is no gift, but spontaneity; it is natural. Loving God comes by practice and by process to a certain point. But loving God most is a gift.
To love Baba, you need to think of Baba. If you think of Baba, you do not think of yourself. The more you think of Baba, the less you think of yourself. So, to love God so much that you forget yourself means that you think of God so much that you can no longer think of yourself!
By thinking continually, you become what you think of deeply. The mind makes one [become] what one thinks of deeply.
If you think of Baba all the time, you cannot think of yourself. If you don’t think of me, you will remain unmoved. Only when Rano thinks of Nonny* does she feel bad. When she doesn’t think of her mother, there is no feeling.
Sept, 1940; Meherabad
Photo courtesy: MSI collection
*Nonny, the mother of Rano, died a year ago in 1939
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http://meherchannel.com/thinking-continually-become-think-deeply/
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Introduction: Quinoa and Sausage Stuffed Roasted Peppers
My sister made this recipe up because she loves substituting Quinoa for rice or other grains. And for good reason, quinoa is full of protein, gluten free and tasty! These Stuffed peppers are full of flavor and texture with wonderful, vibrant colors and packed with protein, what could be better? Maybe they could be super easy to make? Yes, they are. So lets get started, I'm hungry...
Here is what you will need to make these glorious little peppers:
1/2 Pound Hot Italian Sausage
1 Cup prepared Quinoa
1 Large tomato, chopped
1/2 Can Fiesta Corn
2 Slices American Cheese, or any other type
Chopped Green Onion, for garnish
Salt and Pepper
To get started, first preheat your oven to 425 degrees.
Cook the quinoa according to package directions, remembering to first rinse them really well to get wash away the bitterness. Typically, to cook 1 cup quinoa, you will need 1 cup boiling water and 1/2 cup quinoa. Just bring the water to a boil and add the quinoa, then reduce the heat and simmer the quinoa for 7 minutes, remove it from the heat and cover it for 15 minutes.
Ok, on to the peppers: Wash the peppers, cut them in half and scoop out the seeds. I use multiple color peppers because I think they are pretty, but feel free to use any color you like. Rub the peppers with olive oil and dust with salt and pepper. Stick them in the oven for 10 minutes while we cook the filling.
For the filling cook the sausage until it is no longer pink.
Add the chopped tomato with the seeds, the fiesta corn (which is just canned corn with peppers in it.) I don't know if it calls for a fiesta upon opening it, but pour yourself a margarita anyways, right? Unless it's lunchtime...
Cook that for a few minutes to soften the tomatoes and incorporate the flavors.
When the quinoa is done, incorperate it into the sausage mixture and put a few slices on top of everything. Stick a lid on your saute pan so your cheese melts.
Your peppers should be partially roasted by now, so take them out and stuff the sausage-quinoa mixture into the peppers.
Roast them for another 5 minutes to melt the flavors together, garnish with a little chopped green onion and that's it. Enjoy your tasty peppers!
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http://www.instructables.com/id/Quinoa-and-Sausage-Stuffed-Roasted-Peppers/
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In this new study, PQQ administration showed a number of benefits, including antioxidant effects, lower inflammation, and improved mitochondrial function.
It was a small study, but it's purpose was to show the benefits from animal studies can be translated to human health, which it did. I hope larger trials are on the horizon to give this interesting nutrient its chance to shine.
For many reading this, you may have not heard of PQQ...but now that you have, I'm sure you'll start to see it everywhere. Make friends with PQQ, because I predict future research will show it's like CoQ10--good for basically everything!
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Source: Dietary pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) alters indicators of inflammation and mitochondrial-related metabolism in human subjects.
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http://www.knowguff.com/2013/12/pqq-improves-mitochondrial-function.html
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Image left: Debra Reiss-Bubenheim portrait. Click on the photo for high resolution image.
Project Manager and Scientist in the Life Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center
Debra Reiss-Bubenheim is a project manager and scientist in the Life Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center. In 1990, she was hired by NASA to serve as a payload scientist for the Spacelab Life Sciences-2 mission that flew in 1993. She has managed the payload science for more than 22 middeck payloads consisting of more than 50 Principal Investigators. For her work, Reiss-Bubenheim has received several special recognition awards, both from Ames and from NASA Headquarters. She is currently the Project Manager for the non-exercise physiological countermeasures project supporting the Human Research Program. Prior to joining Ames Debra was a research technician at both Purdue University and Utah State University. She also taught in the plant science department at Utah State. Reiss-Bubenheim has a B.S. in ornamental horticulture from the Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture, and an M.S. in horticulture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
NASA Ames Research Center
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https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2006/bubenheim.html
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
The matter of debate is the aftermath, like in the case with Agassi. This is not a first time a sportsperson has stated, 99% of the times in his autobiography, of using drugs.
Why do people do this? At least, in Agassi's case this was not needed at all. Why? Because according to Tennis Drug violation rules, "Performance-enhancing" drugs would constitute a Class 1, which would carry a suspension of two years. However, "crystal meth" which Agassi consumed would seem to be a clear case of Class 2; Recreational drugs.” That would mean a three-month suspension. Frankly, a 3 month ban cannot make a sportsman guilty enough to reveal it after nearly 12 years of the incident. Or another argument could be that he came up to reveal it just because it was for a 3 month ban; if he had consumed performance enhancing drugs, he wouldn't have revealed this.
All violations relating to drugs have been a very thin line between accidental vs intentional and it is your past record which would speak up for you. I think the officials believed him due to that or may be covered him up, which is so unfair to the sport.
The most ridiculous outcome in all this drama was something my friend pointed out to me :
"Times of India were waiting for some chance and they posted semi-nude pics of Brooks Shields and Steffi Graf in their column for discussion about Agassi's confession."
Sunday, October 25, 2009
So, for folks like me, one of my friends suggested his own recipe for a spicy oat upma(kichadi).
I tried his recipe and found it very tasty. I am crazy for spicy food and hence I enjoyed it. It is very simple and would take just 2-3 minutes of your time.
Here goes the magic oat upma recipe:
3) Oats (quaker and others available in market).
4) Noodles taste maker.
How to cook:
1) Take a cup of oats.
2) Add 3-3.5 cups of water. Always, 1:3 or 3.5 oats to water ratio.
3) Heat it on high flame and stir.
4) Add pinch of salt.
5) Add pepper to the amount you would like to spice it up.
6) After the oats start sticking out, add 1-1.5 tea spoons of veg noodle taste maker, preferably, Knorr's taste maker.
7) stir for 1 minute.
That is it. Eat it when hot and the enjoy the spicy taste.
I completely understand that oats with milk add better value to your breakfast than this oat upma. But if you want to enjoy your breakfast and still make sure its healthy, this is a very good option.
Just try it once and let me know. Thanks to my friend whose name I would reveal after he gets married.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
On October 16th, a Srilankan tamilian Raj Rajaratnam, head of Galleon Hedge Fund was arrested by the US police on charges of "Insider Trading". Let us try to figure out what this exactly means and when it is legal and when it is not.
Insider trading refers to trading of stocks or other derivatives of a publicly listed company based on potential access to non-public information about that company.
Insider Trading is legal, if in case the CEO of a comapny is buying stocks of the same company based on a non-public information, but files it within 2 days to make it public. Most of the financial websites, like Yahoo Finance have information of "Insider Trading" details of listed companies which were filed.
If the same CEO had bought the shares on his wifes name and not file it, it would become an illegal insider trading.
Another example : suppose my friend is a CEO of a company X and I happen to meet him for a drink and knowingly/unknowlingly he reveals me a private information of that company. If I use that private information to buy/sell stocks of that company or if I even have documents containing those private information, I am performing an illegal Insider Trading.
The theory behind the prohibition on insider trading is that it undermines investor confidence in the fairness and integrity of the securities markets.
The SEC lists top employees of a firm to be Insiders and makes it compulsary for them to declare their trades. Potentially, anyone could be an insider and it is very difficult to normalize the list and have very strict rules.
End of the day, we representing the firm should always remember the confidentiality signature we had signed and make sure we are morally doing justice to the firm. Most of the big shots from the top financial firms may be involved in "Illegal Insider Trading" and to charge them of this, you would have to collect a lot of evidence. For Rajaratnam, they had been observing him for 2 years. He has come out in bail and has announced he is going to defend stating he is innocent.
Final Verdict : If the BOSS has decided to screw you, there is no way you could escape :) ...
Wha about Indian Market?
Very often, one would observe share prices of firms already having moved in anticipation of a major corporate announcement. Based on market gossip, many of these pre-announcement trades are at the behest of the promoters.
While the SEBI has investigated a lot of these trails, it hasn’t been as successful in prosecution as much as SEC. To be fair to SEBI, regulators worldwide have had little success with convictions in insider trading cases. The trades are generally difficult to prove since the evidence can be circumstantial.
India seems to be in the category where insider trading laws exist, but prosecutions are too few to be noteworthy. Hopefully, the Galleon case will prompt Indian policymakers to add more regulatory measures with respect to Insider Trading.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Its neither that I do not have anything to write nor that writing blogs does not interest me. Just some laziness to write. Will I overcome this? To have a check on my laziness(rather activeness), I have decided to judge it based on the number of posts/month.
The count should be minimum 6 to prove I am active enough; lets see.
For October, excluding this crap, the activeness threshold is minimum three.
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|Grand Erg: Sand, sand - and more then half of competitors slept in dunes.|
Rallyreport by Jörg Russler: Day 4. Tembaine, outdoor camp at Grand Erg. It’s 21:00 hours. The desert is ruled by darkness. A clear starry night lies over the dunes of Grand Erg and the extravagantly prepared outdoor camp. The scenery couldn’t be any more peaceful.
However appearances are deceiving. Since the sand released again only five teams today. The remaining 23 sand knights have to spend the night in the middle of the desert. They had been fighting their way through the sand one hill after another all day long.
Stage Report SS03 Chott El Jerid - Douz - Camp Zmela - Ksar Ghilane
The task was clear for the first ones already early in the morning: digging, digging, and digging. Even secret favourites as the Kastners in their Toyota HZJ, who were fighting for traction under their tyres, had to admit defeat. It hardly seems to be the question of technology.
After all Ralf Britz’s black 8x8 monster had its share of problems with the huge dune belt as well. Although they make it over the finishing line on time. Just as Ulrich Mueller with his Defender reconstruction, although he loses his radiator hose in the thick of it and has to sacrifice his complete water reserve for the motor cooling. As that happened, he still had over 100 km of dunes in full heat ahead.
The accommodations in the dune field just about fully booked. Although the teams are not alone out there as two teams from the organisers and one medical team have gathered them into two groups.
However spending the night under the starry sky isn’t as romantic as it sounds. There isn’t much space in the vehicle for depositing luxury goods such as tents, sleeping bags or even thermal mats. The amount of food is rather minimal. Furthermore only 12 of the stranded teams will resume driving the stage early in the morning and will have the opportunity of starting the fifth stage, if they appear at the start on time. The remaining six need to be salvaged due to damaged vehicles.
In the end, the fastest ride over the chain of dunes was accomplished by team Britz. Thanks to their MAN "KAT" they were not to be defeated, despite time-consuming assistance operations in the sand. "Yes, we had towed out a vehicle twice and three times we had to dig ourselves free, but we still managed to drive on quickly. The "KAT" is just super," navigator Jutta Britz swoons.
Second place went to the winners of the day before. Martin Geis, the driver, who had won the same stage three years ago and had been three hours faster at the time, couldn’t figure out where he had lost time: "It was all that different either".
"The sand was probably softer", Joerg Russler director of organisations says. "There was one point on the route, at which many got a technical damage and the sand was especially crappy."
On third place were Christian Muehlbach / Thomas Bergler, they had shown after their short performance from day 2, that they haven’t given up on the contest. On the other hand Sabine Merz, on fourth place, was really happy that they had reached the finishing line after all. "The trip was indeed intense, but in hindsight it was fun." Fifth place went to Uli Mueller, who "wants to finish at least once as first" in 2012.
The day’s last place award goes to the girls’ team in the VW Golf II Country. Their green baby was somewhat vigorously dragged through the dunes by the grey eminence - Klaus Malzer’s Unimog. Bad for the bull bars, this took their leave after dune number 3. Finally the rescue over the wavy sea was done by the rear. The bitterest flavour of the day was tasted by Simone Kamin and Heike Elfenthal.
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I have discovered that nothing
about freshers week interests me at all, and I really don't want to go. I can't decide if that's bad or not, but clubbing really isn't my thing and I'll still go to the induction day and the activities/clubs fair (if I can remember when it is), but otherwise I've no interest in anything being put on. Rather looking forward to classes though, so I hope we get more information about that soon.
I made my music community, listenhere
, which is pretty much ready to go! Pimp, post, comment on the posts that are already there-- whatever! I'll try and find some people willing to make posts soon and I'll probably write something up in a couple of days too. Anyone else that wants to get involved in the more mod-ish/admin side of the community are welcome to comment below saying so. Recent things in fandom:
- a bite off center is about to collect works in a week, and posting begins in ten days! There are a couple prompts that I was interested in, so I hope they were claimed. TEEN WOLF RARE PAIRS!(!!!!!) Why is this a thing that applies to most pairings in Teen Wolf, why?
- I think I might try writing hockey rpf? However that requires research and planning and people to hand hold, so maybe not. The idea I have is quite big and mature, so I'm not sure I'm the right person to write it.
- A new Harry Potter film was announced, and I've heard talk of people not being too excited for it. J K Rowling is supposed to be writing the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and she's reportedly really excited for the project. I'm quite excited, Harry Potter has never been one of my all time favourite books but I enjoy the franchise and more of it is not going to be a bad thing I expect, unless they botch the film completely.
Other than that, the weather is bad here and I need to buy decent food. Later, I'm going to go icon hunting because I don't like some of mine any more.
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If you are having problems with your Mac's hardware and nothing you can do on the software side can fix it, then follow these steps to reset your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM.
Step 1) Shutdown the computer and unplug its power cord.
Step 2) Hold down the CMD-Option-P-R set of keys all at once and turn on your computer.
Step 3) Wait until the computer restarts and you hear the startup noise a second time (usually at full volume).
Step 4) Let go of the keys that you were holding, you have now successfully reset your PRAM and NVRAM!
If you have any questions about this process, please feel free to leave a comment!
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The latest edition of the This American Life podcast has one of the best portraits and break-downs of the so-called subprime mortgage crisis. I say it is one of the best because, as TAL is good at doing, it puts the very human face on both who lends this money and who is the recepient of these loans.
There is nothing more disturbing and real then hearing the voices and feeling the emotion (or lack there of) when a mortgage broker explains that their office has 12 million accounts and therefore a piece of 12 million homes, 12 million lives. Or when a father talks about how he expected to be able to pay the loan back in a few months and years later, found himself taking money out of what had long been preserved as his son’s college fund… that man breaks down crying.. and again there is nothing more real to me. It is especially important to have such a program out there available for us to hear, when so often the commercial media outlets just play the numbers game or give it new titles like “the credit crunch” and shy away from the cold hard facts that lives have been destroyed, and that someone benefited from all this or even that banks allowed this to go on despite all the known consequences.
I highly recommend listening to this edition, entitled “A Pile of Money”. ( I even enjoy the fact that Ira Glass can barely speak throughout, a refreshing change of pace.)
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Quantum Ballistic Transport in Semiconductor Heterostructures
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27 Aug 2007 | Papers | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan
The development of epitaxial growth techniques has sparked a growing interest in an entirely quantum mechanical description of carrier transport. Fabrication methods, such as molecular beam...
Towards a Terahertz Solid State Bloch Oscillator
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12 Apr 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): S. James Allen
The concepts of Bloch oscillation and Zener breakdown are fundamental to electron motion in periodic potentials and were described in the earliest theoretical developments of electron transport in...
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It’s super easy even for beginner to successfully program VW Jetta 2011 remote key by XTOOL X100 PAD Tablet Key Programmer! Check below guide step by step to start!
- Connect XTOOL Bluetooth VCI box with car OBD port to connect XTOOL X100 PAD with car via Bluetooth.
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- Choose “Program remote” function and turn on ignition with the new key.
And click “VW” then “09 Central Control (CANBUS)”
- Choose “Program remote” and follow the tip to press any button of the new remote key.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg told CBS 2’s Maurice DuBois Saturday morning that going ahead with the New York Marathon on Sunday was a perfectly realistic option, but the issue had just become too divisive to be worth it.
“I still think that we had the resources to do both, and that we want people to take a break and that sort of thing. There are lots of people in this city – some hurt, some not. It’s a big part of our economy,” Bloomberg told DuBois in an exclusive interview – his first one-on-one since Superstorm Sandy. “But it was just becoming so divisive that whether it’s a good idea or not, we just don’t need the distraction.”
He said he would tell them: “I’m sorry. I fought the battle, and sometimes things don’t work out.”
Bloomberg had come under fire pressing ahead with the weekend’s event in a city still reeling from Superstorm Sandy, with some New Yorkers and many public figures saying that holding the 26.2-mile race would be insensitive and would divert police and other important resources while many are still suffering.
ING, the marathon’s title sponsor, said Friday that it supported the city’s decision.
“While holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, it is clear that it has become the source of controversy and division,” ING said on its Web site. “We cannot allow a controversy over an athletic event — even one as meaningful as this — to distract attention away from all the critically important work that is being done to help New York City recover from the storm.”
The financial institution said it made a $500,000 contribution to Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City for immediate and long-term disaster relief and recovery. They will also be matching employee contributions to relief efforts.
During Bloomberg’s conversation with DuBois, some angry storm victims addressed him in Queens, demanding answers about his response to the storm.
Bloomberg’s entire interview with DuBois can be seen Saturday at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Do you think the marathon should have gone ahead? Tell us below…
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Mansfield Colts inflicted Ripley Rangers U11’s with their heaviest defeat of the season following a 6-2 win.
Ripley started well and took the lead after ten minutes when Joe Frogson chased a high through ball and lifted it over the advancing keeper who went on to foul Frogson.
The referee played an advantage, but when the shot drifted wide he awarded the free-kick which Morgan Boyle curled into the net.
The resulting injury to Frogson meant he would play no further part in the game.
Their lead would only last three minutes as Ripley were caught out by a high through-ball which was poked home by Mansfield.
It was 2-1 when Ripley failed to clear a loose ball and it was scrambled in.
Then, with the referee poised to blow for half time, another long ball held up in the wind before a quick cross was finished well by Colts.
The second half continued on a similar theme with Ripley going 4-1 down when a goalmouth scramble crept in off a Ripley defender.
Ripley were conceding far too easily against a side they had previously matched in the cup.
Ripley continued to push forward only to be caught out on the break again when a long ball seemed to be knocked from keeper Tommy Austin’s hands into the net.
Ripley did get some reward when Todd Wells controlled a cross with his head and then drove his shot home to make it 5 – 2.
Despite continued Ripley pressure Mansfield were still creating chances, forcing Austin to save well and twice hitting the post.
Wells, Croshaw and Quinn came went close for Ripley and the Mansfield keeper made an excellent double save before Mansfield managed one more break to score in the last minute of play and make it 6 – 2.
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The Germantown Museum
A project in the making
|In Times Past………..
By Andy Pouncey
At our family reunion two years ago, we had some folks show up that I had never seen. One of the traditions we hold at reunions is a group picture on the front porch. That picture made it into the family’s genealogy book at its first printing.
Upon receiving my prepaid copy in the mail, I eagerly opened it and began looking at the various descendants and third cousins once and twice removed. And there it was, the latest family reunion picture, a good 5” x 7”, and front and center was the son of those new folks I didn’t know. You would have thought that his parents would have checked on his reunion attire, but noooooo….had to wear the black shirt with white letters that read “BITE ME”. What class!
At the Germantown Community Library’s Regional History and Genealogy Center (RHGC), on Poplar Pike just east of Melanie Smith Lane, there is more history on families than banks on corners in Germantown.
Thanks to the City of Germantown, the Germantown Civic Club and the Tennessee Genealogy Society, the city now hosts the headquarters for the Society and owns a research collection well over 14,000 volumes. The newly renovated (former library) and acclimatized facility is a wonderful venue in which to study the past and learn more about one’s family.
In 1943 President Virginia Field Walton Brooks (Mrs. Berry B. Brooks) graciously offered the hospitality of her home and library at 283 Hawthorne in Memphis to a group of 14 friends who shared a common interest in genealogy. Meeting once a week, one could be assured of a sympathetic listener to one’s personal problems of research, while no one made apologies for discussing one’s ancestry.
The Society grew, and when President Brooks moved to Epping Forest Manor in Raleigh in September 1948, the Society moved and there was ample room for expansion of their library. The furniture in her home was arranged so that groups of researchers could sit together or have seclusion for intense concentration. Virginia headed the organization for its first seven years and was awarded an honorary lifetime membership.
Ruth Henley Godwin, later Mrs. I.G. Duncan, realized the need of a charter for the growing society. The Tennessee Genealogical Society was founded in 1952 and chartered by the state in 1954.
The group soon evolved into the Memphis Historical Society .... then the Memphis Genealogical Society ... and finally, the Tennessee Genealogical Society in recognition of its being the first genealogical society issued a charter by the state.
The Society moved to the Davieshire Library on 9114 Davies Plantation Road in 1997, across a small drive from the birth home of Ellen Davies Rogers (Davies Plantation in Bartlett). The society was about to disband and the Manor Association was looking for someone to move into the Davieshire Library.
At Davieshire, the Research Center, home to approximately 9,000 genealogical books, histories and periodicals, fit nicely into the 2,800 square foot building. The Society focused primarily on Tennessee. The Center was staffed by volunteers. The society published a magazine to gain funds for acquisitions, though the majority of the materials were donated.
By 2004, the Society had begun to outgrow its current location and look for a new facility. Mayor Goldsworthy, City Attorney Tom Cates and Librarian Dr. Sue Loper made a successful case for its relocation to Germantown. With Board of Mayor and Aldermen approval, the Tennessee Genealogical Society (754-4300) and its collection took up residence at 7779 Poplar Pike and the rest is history (no pun intended). While the Society stands on its own, the collection became the property of the RHGC (757-8480)
The mission of the RHGC is to preserve and share across generations the wisdom, culture and history of the South. The RHGC, the special collections division of the Germantown Community Library, serves as a non-circulating repository and research center for historic materials related to regional history and genealogy. Information about their products, publications, membership, programming, events and services is available at www.tngs.org. The Center is open Monday from 10 – 2, Tuesday and Thursday 10 – 4 and Saturday 9-5.
One day someone may go through my family’s genealogy book there and find this cousin’s kid. Maybe ‘photo shop’ can change things for the second printing.
Left to Right: Jim Bobo, Bobby Lanier, Dr. Sue Loper, Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy Tom Cates..
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This weekend my old friend Jane came to visit us in Cape May with her two teenage children, Lucy and Leo. I was thrilled that they wanted to make things in my studio and we spent a splendid afternoon together being creative. It was so wonderful to be in the company of children who can appreciate this kind of experience. Wouldn't it be great if all teenagers had access to supplies and a space like this to play in and express themselves? What a different world we would all live in!
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Fashion FYI: White House Black Market
White and black
White House Black Market has opened a new boutique at The Mall at Robinson. The 3,000-square-foot store is on the lower level and offers fashionable and sophisticated clothing and accessories primarily in black and white with seasonal color splashes. The company has 429 boutiques and 55 outlets.
Marshalls is opening Oct. 10 in Washington Crown Center, the first in Washington County. Marshall's offers designer fashions for ladies, men and kids, as well as the latest shoes, accessories, and home decor at discounts. The 25,000-square-foot store will receive 10,000 new items each week.
Cops in Couture
The Mall at Robinson is hosting Cops in Couture Fashion Show at 6 p.m. Oct. 10 to benefit the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial of Allegheny County. The event will highlight more than 70 police officers and K9 units from police departments throughout Allegheny County. Officer James Kuzak, from the Clairton Police Department, who was injured in the line of duty, will be in the fashion show. Tickets are $35.
• Glitter & Grit in Lawrenceville is having a Claire la Faye trunk show Oct. 4 to 6. This designer features a whimsical, non-traditional approach to modern-day brides. The collection is known for taking old Hollywood glamour and fashioning a modern-day silhouette. Appointments recommended.
Details: 412-781-2375 or www.glitterandgritpgh.com
• Larrimor's, Downtown, is having a Jane Post trunk show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 10 to 12. Post is known for impeccable fit, wonderful colors and stylish quirks in ultra-chic rainwear and coats.
Details: 412-471-5727 or www.larrimors.com
The final showcase
RAW Pittsburgh's final artist showcase of the season called “Encompass” is at 8 p.m. Oct. 10 at Cavo in the Strip District. It features 27 artists, including fashion shows by Atelier Grand, Knewwd Fashion, Marshala Rutherford and PhiriVon Clothing. RAW is an indie arts organization for artists, by artists. Every month, RAW showcases artists in film, fashion, music, art, performing art, hairstyling, makeup artistry and photography. There will be an awards show in November where one winner in each category will be named RAW: Pittsburgh Artist of the Year.
The pink pony
Macy's has joined forces with the Pink Pony Fund, Ralph Lauren's worldwide initiative in the fight against breast cancer, by offering a special collection of items at “Pink Pony” shops in 80 Macy's locations, as well as online. Twenty-five percent of the purchase price of these products will go toward causes devoted to cancer awareness, education and research. Through Oct. 14, customers can purchase a pin for $5 and receive a 20 percent discount on an assortment of merchandise. Pink Pony items are available at Macy's in Ross Park Mall, South Hills Village and Westmoreland Mall.
— Staff reports
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