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So apparently it’s no longer victory Monday at the Lounge, it’s cranky Monday. And I’m about to join in. Somewhere beneath my rough exterior today, there is a person who is beyond ecstatic, but right now I’m annoyed. Normally I wait until Thursdays but let’s just be honest, crankiness can not be denied. Yesterday’s game was classic, perfection (well nearly) and we finally saw the emergence of the MIA Packers running game. But James Starks isn’t the only one who saw glory yesterday, the James Starks fans are also claiming victory. And with the gloating comes some confusion. Yesterday I heard the repeated, “I was right” or “Suck it Starks haters." I have had some fun with the Starks craze. I call him Neo, and have had many laughs over the hype. Yesterday I was accused of being a Starks hater. Let me set something straight. The jokes regarding Starks were never actually about James Starks; they were about his fanatics. I feel fairly confident that only Justin Bieber knows the love that James Starks experiences. I know that some people “watched” him in college or spent some quality time with YouTube, but even before he played a snap for the Packers Starks was a man with fans possessed. That is funny. The fandom, the defensiveness, the craze; it wavered from absurd to humorous. But at all times, it was something that caused me giggles. And while I laughed, I never stopped supporting James Starks. When he first stepped on the field, I didn’t pray he’d fumble, I crossed my fingers and hoped for a first down. And no matter how many times I try to explain it, I am not a James Starks hater. Someone told me yesterday that by mocking I was being "unsupportive" of him and therefore was indeed a hater. I can see that logic, if I, or most of the so-called haters, were ever laughing at Starks himself. I don’t know how to say this anymore clearly, so here’s me being the most direct I can. Dear James Starks fanatic, I was not laughing at James Starks. I was laughing at you. Please don’t be mad at me for “hating” Starks. Feel free though to be mad at me for laughing at you. That I can handle. Jayme. p.s. Even as Starks has better games, it will still be silly to me. That will never go away. Neo forever! p.p.s. Your general over-defensiveness of him still only makes it funnier to me now. Just so you know.
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Gaudate in Domino semper! Rejoice in the Lord always!
Advent originated as a forty day preparation for Christmas but was eventually shortened to 4 weeks. Since the origin of this preparation was originally penitential in character the Church offered the third Sunday as a break from the otherwise disciplined thread of what Advent hoped to inspire for all the Christian faithful. In fact, the entire Advent season has become more of a festive season and has moved away from an explicitly disciplined season in which a fast was called for, beginning the day after St. Martin’s Feast (November 12th). | <urn:uuid:82d4f68c-4fa1-482c-88b2-0e94bd35bd1c> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://holyangelsclifton.org/rejoice/ | 2017-10-17T16:46:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822145.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017163022-20171017183022-00463.warc.gz | en | 0.981533 | 121 |
Public policy, Judicial decisionmaking, Defective products, Federal courts, Courts of appeals, Fairness norms, Economic efficiency norms, Process norms
Courts | Litigation | Public Law and Legal Theory | Torts
Henderson, James A. Jr., "Judicial Reliance on Public Policy: An Empirical Analysis of Products Liability Decisions" (1991). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 868.
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I used to love Jennifer Weiner. I adored "In Her Shoes" and "Good In Bed" and even "Goodnight Nobody", although it wasn't as good. But her last few books have been subpar. This one was pretty bad. First, there were too many protagonists, and they were very difficult to keep straight because they weren't all that different. Second, the story was kind of boring. It kept building, but then fizzled in some weird deus ex machina endings. I don't know if I'll be picking up any more of her books unless one gets some rave reviews. | <urn:uuid:925fba49-8f5e-4bf5-b8aa-623f967d695d> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://meags.booklikes.com/post/180701/then-came-you | 2017-09-26T16:09:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818696653.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170926160416-20170926180416-00484.warc.gz | en | 0.99378 | 125 |
This artisans’ marketplace brings talented artisans from the Mid-Atlantic area to display and sell fine arts and crafts. This premier show will feature works in wood, pottery, jewelry, fibers, metal, and other media. Admission is $5 per person, free for members and children under six years old. Use Hagley's Buck Road East entrance off Route 100 in Wilmington, Delaware. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun.
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Chimney Sweeps in Guernsey
Hiring skilled chimney sweep firms to clear chimneys with brooms
A professional chimney sweeping expert will clean tar and soot from the chimney pipes by using different brush sizes and materials. Hand-held chimney sweeping brooms can be used to de-clog tar and soot from rigid flues to prevent gas build up. If bird nests, tar and soot block flues, or cooled tar has become stuck on the single skin flue, a trusted chimney sweep firm may operate hand held chimney sweeping brooms to eliminate grime and soot from pre-cast chimney flues flues.
You will need skilled tradespeople in Guernsey a few times a year depending on the stove being used, to ensure that your chimneys are brushed for safety.
Enlisting the services of experienced chimney sweeps in Guernsey to instate a chimney cap
You can hire a reputable tradespeople in Guernsey to install a chimney cap should your chimney have reached a point where it is no longer being used and you no longer feel the need to use it.
Once the time has come whereby your chimney no longer operates as an area that helps to accommodate a fireplace you are simply left with a way of high levels of heat escaping from your property.
Installing a cap in the chimney eliminates this heat escaping and means that you can avoid the nesting of birds in the disused chimney.
So contract the services of an an experienced chimney firm and have a chimney cap inaugurated for less than you might think. | <urn:uuid:9f297c6c-3904-45b1-8c1b-5a0ecafe4386> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.localtraders.com/chimney-sweeps-in-guernsey/ | 2016-07-02T02:00:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912024 | 334 |
Police are appealing for witnesses after a father was head-butted in the face while out playing with his son.
The 39-year-old male victim from Hartlepool was with his five-year-old son at the play park on Easington Road, Hartlepool, on Thursday, June 24 at 6.05pm, when he was approached by the father of another boy who was using the play equipment.
Following a verbal altercation, the victim was head-butted in the face causing a cut to the left eyebrow and bruising and swelling to his left eye, requiring him to attend the University Hospital of Hartlepool for treatment.
The suspect is described as being white, aged 42-47 years, between 5ft 10ins and 5ft 11ins tall, stocky build, with short brown hair. He was wearing thin framed oblong shaped glasses, a plain T-shirt and blue denim jeans. He was accompanied by an adult female and young boy aged approximately six to eight years of age.
Anyone with any information should contact PC John Holroyd from Hartlepool Police on 01429 302178 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111. | <urn:uuid:93941f04-b485-4753-a0df-2027fe6df08f> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/appeal-after-hartlepool-dad-head-butted-3701325 | 2020-09-19T19:12:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192783.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919173334-20200919203334-00241.warc.gz | en | 0.985494 | 241 |
laziest case mod ever? – you be the judge. is this cool? is this stupid? is this real?
one for me, one for my pda – a new fuel cell that uses ethanol instead of methanol to develop its power. interesting. when fully topped up can a pda (or laptop) then interpret drunk speak??? | <urn:uuid:a5d74680-4c31-407c-8179-38af3949db35> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://muddylaces.ca/lsotd_few_links_today/ | 2020-09-29T01:26:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401617641.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928234043-20200929024043-00224.warc.gz | en | 0.932062 | 72 |
So the Creative Arts Emmy’s are this Sunday, and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries will be taking home an award for Interactive Media for Original Interactive Program.
Do you know what happened a year ago this Sunday (or Monday depending on how technical you are with anniversarys)? Bing Lee tweeted that…
Erin makes a very good point.
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April Showers bring May flowers, but if you join me on May 15th and 16th, you'll see more than lovely blooms! Pack your bags 'cause you're going on a trip! Take a tour of 20 beautiful blogs, and you will see creations that will amaze and delight you. But it's only a two-day trip! It begins at 8:00 a.m. EDT on May 15th and ends May 16th at midnight! Bookmark this blog, and you will be able to hop on the bus to begin the journey!
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- 07 Oct 19
A visual artist and ex-punk who eventually ended up in prison - when it comes to positive mental health, Brian O’Rourke is a huge advocate of contact with the natural world.
The importance of that distant hill…
Knowing of my background with rivers, I was asked to be a bailiff and a fly-fishing tutor at a well-fished lake outside North London, by two of the founding members of The Windsor Chapter Hells Angels. An important event for a young punk. Although I had little understanding of the psychological effect of open spaces at the time, this event brought me to realise that I was in fact in a dark place – and I had unknowingly found my cure.
I had spent the previous couple of years immersed in city life, working as a roadie for a London-based punk/hip-hop outfit. I hadn’t seen much daylight during that time, let alone countryside. These behavioural patterns were a tad alien to a Catholic-reared, rural Irish boy.
Leaving Hackney, East London that morning and setting off to the lakes at Hoddesdon, beyond Epping Forest, an unlikely trio of outlaws buzzed with excitement for the day ahead. The emotional upheaval to come was both unexpected and unprecedented on a personal level.
As soon as the beautiful summer morning’s rural vista unfolded before us, so too began the flow of tears from my eyeballs! What the fuck must the two seasoned Angels be thinking? What kind of basketcase had they taken on here? I had no immediate answers, only embarrassment.
We brushed it off and got on with the day, a day where I got to meet The Who’s Roger Daltery and Arsenal’s goalkeeper of the time, David Seaman, both avid fly-fishermen. We caught trout, and showed young British anglers the Irish methodologies and appreciation of the water. A good memorable experience, barring of course the overlooked and unmentioned mental breakdown on the way.
Analysing the experience over the next few days, more out of mortification than anything else, I came to the realisation that I hadn’t seen the natural horizon line in over three years. Being both a visual artist – albeit an untrained and uninformed one at that stage – and an earthy Irish lad, I came to understand the importance of the natural environment on our psyche.
The green green grass of home…
Fast forward a few years, and that young punk has evolved into an ageing outlaw, who finds himself incarcerated within the Irish prison system for crimes against morality – primarily the distribution of cannabis. Which was to be expected, although not to the extent of the four-year sentence handed down at Limerick Circuit Court. Ho hum pigs bum, take it on the chin, head down and get on with it.
Two years into my expected three years, I found myself in the prison laundry, as was a common occurrence, having volunteered to work there when not taking classes in the prison education department. This particular morning a strong smell had magnetically drawn me into the corner of the laundry, adjacent to the grounds of the psychiatric hospital next door. The smell was so overwhelming, it evoked the same reaction a few years earlier in London. Head melted, tears flowed, but why so? The simple smell of freshly cut grass coming through the vents on a spring morning was so pure and sweet and again, on a personal level, that it compounded the importance of the natural order, and our place within it. But this time, I understood and had found that within myself; I had developed the necessary coping skills.
My humble prescription/remedies? Touch the earth, climb a hill, see the sea, sit in a town or city park. Better again, go to the dog-pound and share comfort with a dog. For these actions have the possibility to be far more beneficial than any psychotropic medications our trained doctors deem to be the solutions.
These personal experiences come from somebody who has continuously challenged the status quo, and who has lived his own life balanced on that tight-wire between what’s deemed normal vs alleged counterproductive behavioural patterns. My own self-medication these days consists of the love and support of my family, our four cats, our dog Pablo and the moderate use of THC, in conjunction with healthy outdoor activity. But it is vital to find what works for YOU to help keep YOUR balance on an even keel… | <urn:uuid:2ebf2358-d0a7-4c19-a297-d6bdd96a9ff0> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.hotpress.com/culture/brian-orourke-humble-prescriptionremedies-touch-earth-climb-hill-see-sea-sit-park-22790987 | 2021-03-03T20:52:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178367790.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210303200206-20210303230206-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.964086 | 924 |
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I love your outfits and the lenses are so cool :) should make the explanations for that , I'm curious! :)
omg, I thought I saw you at Hello Fest!! XD XD
errrr... it wasn't me LOL, my bad. I didn't post it with detail.i snap this gyaru girl at hellofest for street fashion subject. | <urn:uuid:9877517c-1b78-43a6-885f-415fb41eec54> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://www.pygmalionland.com/2012/02/gyaru-at-hellofest8.html | 2018-10-23T07:28:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583516117.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20181023065305-20181023090805-00444.warc.gz | en | 0.957956 | 74 |
A Motorcyclist’s Guide to Tail of the Dragon and Other Smoky Mountain Drives
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While there are a ton of great drives for motorcycle riders in the Smokies, the Tail of the Dragon is the one that reigns supreme! Between the amazing scenery and the breathtaking curves, it is on the bucket list for most motorcycle enthusiasts. Here is a complete motorcyclist’s guide to the Tail of the Dragon and other great Smoky Mountain drives:
Brief History of the Tail of the Dragon
The 11-mile route has a deep history that dates back centuries ago. While it is most known today for its thrilling ride, that was not always the case. Back in the early 1700s, the Cherokee Indians and early European settlers used this area as prime hunting ground. However, the Indians were forced off the land with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Then, in 1934 the road was paved so it could start being used for travel. The amazing part about the road is that it took nearly 60 years for it to gain popularity among motorcycle riders. It wasn’t until the 1990s that the road became the known entity it is today.
Details About the Drive
If you plan on riding the Tail of the Dragon, there are a few things you will want to know before heading out on the open road. First of all, make sure you have enough time planned out to complete the drive. On average, it takes around an hour and a half to complete the drive, depending on traffic. Because of the curvy roads, it is not recommended to ride it at night. Therefore, you will want to plan ahead to give yourself plenty of time. Be sure you always wear proper equipment when riding on any Smoky Mountain drive. That includes a helmet with a face mask, jacket, gloves, and any other protection equipment needed.
While this is one of the most popular drives for all motorcycle riders, there are still some interesting facts that you might not have heard about this famous road. Did you know that there are a total of 318 curves over the 11-mile stretch? Also, there are no intersecting roads or driveways to hamper your travel. Another interesting fact is that the road is bordered by both the Great Smoky Mountains and the Cherokee National Forest!
Other Smoky Mountain Drives for Motorcyclists
While the Tail of the Dragon is known as the supreme ride among motorcyclists, there are many other great drives that offer amazing benefits. Here are just a few of other drives in the Smoky Mountains that are worth taking:
Newfound Gap Road
This historic road begins in Gatlinburg and passes through the heart of the Smoky Mountains National Park. Newfound Gap Road travels a total of 31 miles and encompasses a variety of forest ecosystems. With an elevation of 5,046 feet, you will be treated to some of the best views imaginable. There are a couple of interesting facts about this drive. Not only is it the only road that travels through the center of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but it is also the only fully paved road in the park! One tip for driving on Newfound Gap Road. Because of the higher elevation, the air temperature could drop by as much as 10 degrees from when you start. Therefore, you will want to be sure to bring a jacket when riding it on a motorcycle.
The Foothills Parkway consists of 33 miles and connects US 129 and US 321. This is one of the best scenic drives you can take in the Smoky Mountains. There are numerous pull off spots that make this drive unforgettable. While the views are amazing during all times of year, it has become a popular scenic route during fall because of the spectacular sights of fall foliage. If you have just got done driving the Tail of the Dragon, the Foothills Parkway provides an easy connection to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg!
If you are looking for the best way to see wildlife in the Smoky Mountains, a motorcycle ride through Cades Cove might be the answer. This 11-mile one-way loop is the perfect way for motorists to enjoy brilliant views of the mountains at their own leisurely pace. It is not recommended to drive through The Cove if you are looking for a fast drive. Because of the popularity of the road, there is a good chance it could take between two and four hours to complete, especially during peak seasons. However, it is the best route to have the best chance to see some of the amazing wildlife that call the Smoky Mountains home, including black bears and white-tailed deer!
Now that you have a guide to some of the best Smoky Mountain drives for motorcyclists, including the Tail of the Dragon, be sure to check out some of the other fun things to do in the area. We hope to see you soon in the Smokies! | <urn:uuid:e10cfa48-9649-4999-8284-1274720ddc79> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.visitmysmokies.com/blog/smoky-mountains/motorcyclist-guide-tail-dragon-smoky-mountain-drives/ | 2022-12-01T06:09:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710801.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20221201053355-20221201083355-00848.warc.gz | en | 0.96232 | 1,018 |
Ever noticed the steering wheel is misaligned when driving in a straight line or the vehicle pulls to one side? If the answer is yes, this could well be the classic signs of steering geometry problems.
Steering geometry problems generally tend to occur with aging and wearing of components. Nevertheless, they can also be caused by impacting potholes, driving over kerbs and most certainly after the vehicle is involved in a major impact.
Steering geometry, also known as wheel alignment, is the procedure required to check and if necessary, adjust settings when they have deviated away from the manufacturers’ specifications. However, it is also important to bear in mind, if after a steering geometry inspection there is cause for re-alignment, not all geometry values are adjustable and whenever noticeable deviations from pre-defined settings are observed, the only remedial procedure available could well be component replacement.
Here we take a look at a few steering geometry essentials from the technical experts Autodata, to help you in your service, maintenance and diagnostic work.
- Camber angle
Camber angle is the direction the front wheel is leaning relative to the wheel’s vertical centreline and depending on the lean, the camber angle is either positive or negative. To explain in more detail, when observed from the front of the vehicle if the top of the wheel is leaning towards the engine, this is considered as negative camber. Conversely, if the top of the wheel is leaning outwards, this denotes positive camber.
If during a steering geometry examination, the measurements are outside specified tolerances and the camber angle needs amending, look for evidence of elongated holes on the suspension strut tower, or eccentric bolts or washers securing the upper and lower control arms as a means of adjustment. In their absence, scrutiny of the suspension and steering components is essential to check for any potential damage.
- Castor angle
Castor angle refers to the positioning of the steering axis centreline from the wheel vertical centreline when viewed from the side of the vehicle. If the steering axis centreline contacts the road surface ahead of the wheel’s vertical centreline, this is said to be positive castor. Whereas, negative castor implies the steering axis centreline contacts the road surface behind the wheel’s vertical centreline.
Most modern vehicles are designed with positive castor, this in conjunction with the other geometry angles, reduces steering effort and allows the front wheels to self-straighten after a bend is negotiated.
Yet, to avert the vehicle from wandering towards the kerbside because of the apex in present day roads, the average vehicle castor and camber angles, also called cross castor and cross camber, can sometimes be set at slightly opposed settings from left to right depending on which side of the road the vehicle is driven.
In most contemporary vehicles the castor angle is non-adjustable; nonetheless, aftermarket kits do exist that can be tailored to the suspension to permit castor angle alteration.
- King pin inclination (KPI)
King pin inclination (KPI), also called steering axle inclination (SAI), is achieved differently depending on the suspension arrangement. Typically, with the MacPherson strut type suspension, KPI is attained by leaning the strut. While with the control arm type suspension, the angle of the upper and lower swivel joint pivots is offset.
KPI being non-adjustable can often be left unchecked or overlooked in collision situations. Incorrect KPI caused by worn or damaged suspension components usually results in accelerated tyre wear along with poor directional stability and increased steering effort – particularly when the vehicle is implementing a parking manoeuvre.
- Toe-in and Toe-out
Toe-in and toe-out, commonly referred to in automotive terms as tracking, is the most frequent steering geometry adjustment undertaken. This is the degree to which the leading edge of the front wheels steer out or in from the vehicle centreline when observed from the front. Wheels pointing in towards the vehicle centreline is called toe-in whereas, wheels pointing away from the vehicle centreline is identified as toe-out.
Making sure the vehicle’s toe-in or toe-out measurement is correct offers many advantages including, improved straight-line stability, better road handling characteristics and more effective steering response.
Should it be necessary, this adjustment will also allow minor tweaks to correct suspension bush disparities caused in production or by accepted wear levels. If adjustment is needed, it is worthwhile remembering to adjust the track rods equally. Although, there is one notable exception to the rule which requires the repositioning of a misaligned steering wheel by minutely adjusting one track rod more than the other.
Guaranteeing precise steering geometry alignment is vital in prolonging the life of tyres and ensuring vehicle stability. Regular steering geometry checks are advisable, and not only when changing worn tyres, steering or suspension components. Checks should also be carried out if subframe removal is required to facilitate gearbox or clutch repair work.
Finally, it must be pointed out that rear wheel geometry can influence steering stability as well. It’s possible to have the front steering geometry angles correctly aligned and still have a vehicle that pulls to one side or displays abnormal tyre wear patterns. In such circumstances, it is imperative rear wheel geometry is also considered when confronted with a vehicle experiencing unusual tyre wear or stability issues.
Autodata has a dedicated Wheel Alignment module to further assist technicians with wheel alignment procedures and help provide workshops with an additional revenue stream. Within the module there is a comprehensive guide which includes information on subjects such as camber angle, ride height, tyres and adjustment procedures together with manufacturer-specific data.
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Digging back through my photos from our 2015 trip to Kauai, I discovered this Lydgate Park Heiau. This covers part of the Hikinaakala Heiau, a sacred area that was once much more built-up. Sadly, when the Hawaiian religion was abolished in the late 1800s, the rocks were torn out and used for roads. This is all that remains.
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Shooter Aperture 1/200
Lens at 55 mm
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS
Kit Lens (18-55 mm)
I just asked my mom to help me doing a good picture os a drop.
Being a good farm woman as she is, she loved the pictures I've taken.
-Thiago Lopes Pereira
Model: Nikon D5000
Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec
ISO Speed Ratings: 320
Focal Length: 55.0
Lens: 18.0-55/0mm f/3.5-5.6
I took zip lock bag with water poked a hole in it and suspended it from my ceiling, into a glass bowl with colored origami paper under and around the bowl. Used two florescent bulb lamps and flash on D5000.
This picture was taken at one of the water features at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
I used an upside down, partially open water bottle to make the droplets of water.
A friend dripped the water while I captured used high speed burst.
18.0-55.0mm nikon lens @ 55mm
1/250 sec @ f/8.0, ISO 100
-Cedric R. Macadangdang
Title of photo: Patrick
Summary: First time ever doing water drops, and I really like it. I added red food coloring to make the color pop, and tweaked it in photoshop a bit. The this is the rebound drop, after the falling drop hit the cup of water from the dripping sink faucet. It looks like Patrick from Spongebob... doesn't it?
Body: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikkor 100mm f/2.VRII Macro
F- Stop: F/ 14
Shutter Speed: 1/4000 sec
Flash: Mounted sb600 in TTL mode in shoe.
It's water from a kitchen faucet dripped on to an angled skillet. My Canon5D and 50mm macro lens were set to a 1 second exposure in a dark room. I hand held a Sigma500 flash at 1/16th power and fired it manual. This is effectively like freezing the motion at over 1/1000th of a second. I took ~50 exposures to get this one.
"I was working and it began to rain, I took my pocket camera and activates the sport option and takes the photo in the sidewalk in front of the door".
Camera: KODAK EASYSHARE M1093 IS DIGITAL CAMERA
Focal distance: 19mm
Nikon D200 with Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 Macro
Used built in flash as well as SB600 flash (off camera) triggered with Pocket Wizards.
Had the faucet dripping into a bowl of water. I wanted to use two flashes to highlight more than one area of the water. I also wanted the ripples to have dark shadows and bright highlights. The SB600 was off to the left side, pointing down on the water (cm away from it).
Shot in B/W.
f / 5.6
Took in well lit room to illuminate the drops and snagged a good shot at the right moment.
A photo of a water droplet melting off of an ice cycle in the sun, taken earlier today.
Taken with a Canon XSI, at 200mm, f/6.3 aperture, 1/2500 second shutter, and ISO 500.
For the water drip I lined a small grated basket with a coffee filter. No coloring on the water, just a clear container on a blue mat. I set up the camera on my gorillapod to get a nice low angle and shot furiously.
I chose this shot as it reminds me of Nessie breaking the surface of the lake.
Here is my entry. I chose to shoot an actual water drop, pre-splash. Please consider this as a submission.
Camera: Canon T1i
Standard 18-55mm Lens
I tried to capture a perfect water droplet pre-splash. I took the flash off of the camera using an ettl-cord, and pointed it into the sink. The result was distinct scene lighting behind the water drop, and an even crisper, brighter reflection in the water drop.
-Justin Alexander Veenema
Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length: 100 mm
Lens Model: EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Flash: SPEEDLITE 430 EX II
Technique: I filled a plastic bag with water and poked a small hole in it. I let the water drip while I shot as many photos as possible.
Although the contest called for a shot involving the motion of a water droplet, my entry is completely still. The reason is that in all my shots I failed to capture anything good that also involved motion. Anyway, I used a CD as a background because of a previous photo I shot using the same type of backdrop. This time I wanted to capture a water drop right as it struck the CD. Although I wasn't successful, I still like the final result.
-William "Matthew" Katzenberger
Nikon D80, 24-85mm 2.8-4, Shot at F32,85mm, 1/200 sec. using on camera flash. ISO 640.
Setting the tripod in front of the toilet, I used an eye dropper of yellow water in one hand and my remote trigger in the other. Then it was just a matter of trial and error and error and error. Added some contrast and noise in Photoshop; going for that grungy truck stop atmosphere. :D
Manfrotto 055XPROB w/ 804RC2 head
Focal Length: 200mm
f Stop: 5.6
Shutter speed: 1/60
This is my first shooting challenge and I had mixed feelings. Shooting this required a lot of patience and time. I put a tray of water on a low table and had the plastic bag of water about 2 feet above it. I used a box to prop up a shirt of mine in order to get the three colors, and I was quite pleased with the results. I used the flash on the camera body, but I put a small sheet of white paper to help diffuse the light. There are small air bubbles at the bottom of the tray because it wasn't deep at all, about one inch. To get about 50 useable shots, it took me about 2.5 hours for the setup, shoot, and teardown.
Nikon D40, 18-55mm Kit Lens.
Exposure - 1/1600
F - 4.8
Focal Length - 35mm
Poured a glass of wine and started dropping things in it. I found pennies made a nice splash and look cool while diving into the wine.
Played around with setting till i got the right amount of light and kept dropping and shooting until i got a handful of ok shots.
FInally i used Adobe Lightroom to reduce noise and remove some color so the wine popped.
This was taken in manual mode with built-in flash using my brand new T2i. I chose this image because of the droplet-like bokeh and the bird "ghost" above the main DROP.
Love this contest... just wish I had this new camera earlier.
Taken with a Canon 550D with a Sigma 50 mm lens mounted on a tripod.
A glass of water was placed on a black surface so to not reflect light upwards, with a black tshirt as background. Taken in full sunlight with the background angled so it was shaded to make it darker.
Took a table spoon of milk and started pouring, voila.
Hey great idea. I loved to do this shot session. I used a red laundry bowl. This gave a nice reddish effect. I used Tungsten light balance to give this effect during the shots. No further Photoshop changes were done.
I used a Sony alpha 350 and a wireless flash speed light. I shot at 1/160 and with F 16. Focal lenght 70.
Sony DSLR-A550, Tamron 90mm Macro Lens and External Flash
(f/20 1/125 sec. ISO 1600)
This was a simple setup with the camera mounted on a tripod just above table height and the external flash laid down near the top right corner of the face-down ipad. A re-purposed allergy medicine eye-dropper provided the drops, so now the back of my iPad is not only clean but resistant to pollens. As to what it represents, it could be a technique for cooling down an overheating device, a warning against leaving electronics out in the rain, or how Apple waters is walled garden on lazy Sunday mornings.
I used my canon eos 450d with 28-80 usm lens at 80mm, f13, 1/200sec, iso 200. i had setting on tungsten light for the blue effect and added coffee to the drop to get a browish water drop which i feel worked well. but next time will use a think black ink for effect.
Camera: Rebel XSi
Lens: Standard 18 - 55mm (set at 55mm)
For this shot I set a petri dish on top of an old red t-shirt and used an LED flashlight to illuminate the dish from the side.
I achieved this shot using a broken electronic water valve. I press a button and can control the number of droplets released over a programable time span, measured in milliseconds. The rest is hand, eye coordination. The Gizmodo logo was placed behind the water drop zone upside down to account for the refraction of the water acting like a lens, therefore showing it the right way round in the droplet.
Canon 5D MkII
f16 @ 1/200th
Tamron 180mm f3.5 DiMacro.
Canon 580EX MkII Speedlight @ 1/64th power to freeze the action at that speed.
Homemade light box
Manfrotto 501HDV Tripod
Body: Nikon D50 with remote shutter triger
Lens: Nikkor 18-135 with 10D close-up lens
Flash: Nikon SB-600 with remote flash triger
On the foto: used motor oil = no drops :)
This is 73th foto of my 120 picture set I made during this challenge
Focal lenght: 112mm
Tuned in Photoshop CS5
Here's my shot, this is my first contest and I'm not certainly the best photographer. But this is my hobby and this shot is the result of a rainy afternoon spent trying to get a good photo.
Hope you like it.
-Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
-Lens: EFS 18-55mm
focus step 55mm
I used a black tray standing in the balcony of my house trying to get more light I could, but it was raining, so the result is not brilliant.
Nikon L100- High Sport Continuous mode
This was shot on my back porch. I'm surprised by how easy this shooting challenge was! I always assumed that it was hard to capture something like this.
Camera: Canon Digital camera Powershot G10
F-stop = F/2.8
Exposure time = 1/60sec
ISO speed = 80
Focal length = 6mm
Max aperture = 2.96875
Flash = Yes
Yet again, you forced me to try something I've wanted to do for quite a while. I setup a large serving bowl just inside a window- I did it simply to have enough light so that I could do a 1/1000+ shutter speed to get good clarity. Along with that, I got some great sunlight highlights, and refracted images of the horizon in some of the water, which turned out great. I have some images that are more traditional than this one, but I really loved the other-worldly shapes the water took as a series of drops would hit. I used a Pentax K110D, with a 50-200mm lens zoomed all the way in from about 5 feet. F/5.6 and shutter speed of 14000 with an ISO setting of 800.
Im a 14 year old aspiring photographer, me and my friend are trying out these challenges separately. I used my cannon 20D for this, with a shutter speed of 60, and my auto flash on. I filled up a bowl with red food colouring, i put the bowl under my sink and dripped water in slowly and put it on multi shot and let rip. I pinned a red pashmina onto a chopping board behind it to give the red background. This is totally un-photoshopped.
Camera: Canon Powershot A70
Lens: Standard (5.4 - 16.2 mm)
I set up my PowerShot on a tripod level with the brim of the glass which was filled with water. I focused in as close as possible with Macro and then I set the camera on a 2 second timer and used a pipet to constantly drop water into the glass from the start of the timer till 2 seconds after the shutter released. It took a few tries but I eventually got the shot I've submitted.
I call It Blue Drops
Shoot it with my Nikon D80 with a nikkor 50mm lens and kenko extension tubes, it was the very first tests of a drop shooting that I did.
Used the sink in the kitchen and rotated the photo to give a floating sensation
Nikon Coolpix S3 (6 megapixel Point and Shoot)
I never thought I could get this nice of a shot with my mom's Coolpix S3, but I found an interesting Chinese bowl in my house and followed the Gizmodo instructions. I went into my bathroom and turned all the lights out, focused my camera in, and took the picture with only the integrated flash. I started photography only a couple of months ago and I'm loving it so far. I am in the works of making money so I can buy my first DSLR. Thanks a lot guys, and this is definitely my best picture yet!
Nikon D90 w/ Nikkor 60mm macro w/ sb900 + sb600
On the road, bored, in a hotel room figured I would finally submit something for the shooting challenge. Had a selection of gear with me so why not, shot in a Marriott bathroom using towels as a tripod and a tissue box as a flash stand. A speed-light on either side of the camera, fired wirelessly in Commander mode, speed-lights set to Manual at 1/64th power First time attempting to shooting water droplets.
I'd like to get more creative with this, a colorful backdrop as well as more more more light, would prefer to have another sb 900 to fire from directly overhead.
Canon EOS Digital Rebel w/ 18-55mm Kit Lens
Focal Length 41.0mm
I took this picture when it was my sons bath time. My wife was pouring rinse water over his head and the camera captured the water droplets and flowing water. I hope you like the shot. I also attached an edited version because I thought it looked awesome.
Totally new to the advanced photography terms, but I'll list what I think may be important as well as what was stated to include.
Camera: Cannon PowerShot A1100 IS
Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec.
Lens Aperture: F/8
Focal Length: 8 mm
Exposure Compensation: -0.7
Flash: On, no special settings.
I managed to grab this shot by placing some water into a long casserole plate and then took a turkey baster to create the droplets. Very high-tech, I know! Then since I have no tripod, I used an old butter container to hold the camera angled down. Took about 600 photos and only managed to come up with a couple good ones. Very low budget but wanted to see if I could manage to get some good shots!
Sigma 70-200mm 2.8 II
Wireless flash using generic triggers from ebay.
I wanted to create something vivid and playful and that's what I came up with. I'm glad I got a chance to get my camera out of my bag.
Canon Rebel XSi, 55 mm, f/5.6, 1/160 sec, iso 800
To create a blue water color I used a clear plate with blue tissue paper laid beneath it. To create the green highlights I used the woods outside my window as a backdrop. I simply used water and an eye dropper to create the drip.
These images were shot on a Nikon D90 with a Macro lens @ 60mm, f/5, 1/200th of a second and ISO 100. Flash was camera left approximately 6" off the ground, triggered via a wireless trigger. Flash powered down to 1/16th, shot hard, no gel or diffusion 2 feet away from subject.
I dripped a ziplock bag from the weight hook of the bottom of a tripod, set around 3 feet in the air. After much deliberation with my room mate about how to properly break a glass, I put the glass in a plastic bag and hit it with a hammer, and didn't get hurt! I spent a little while thinking about what would be cool to shoot dripping, since this is my first ever submission I wanted it to be clever. Then I got a glass of milk and it hit me - No crying over spilled milk.
Every morning I wake up and have a cup of coffee. Sometimes, when I'm pouring it, I notice some surface-tension effects, where the drop being poured will hover on the surface momentarily before it breaks and sinks. I set out to capture that effect, but ended up with something I feel is much more dynamic.
Canon 40D on a Bogen 3021/486RC2 tripod, Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens @ 20mm, 1/250sec @ f/7.1, ISO 100. Flash 1 was a bare Canon 550EX close-up at camera-left connected with a sync-cable @ 1/128th pwr, zoomed to 24mm. Flash 2 was a Canon 430EX optically-slaved behind the coffee pot at camera right @ 1/32 pwr, 50mm with a Sto-Fen diffuser. A shutter-release cable was used to fire the camera on high-speed burst mode with my left hand while I poured the coffee with my right. Cream was lightly swirled around right before the shot for added texture.
- Nate Purmort
A Nikon d60, Af-s nikkor 18-55 mm 1:3.5-5.6g lens in auto Sport mode. Overhead lighting and built in flash. Teal food coloring and water. Green and black granite countertops and a black and red bowl.
I'm 16 and have followed the shooting challenge for a while. I thought I would take a shot at it and see how it went.
Camera: Canon 400D aka Rebel XTI
Lens: Canon EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Focal Length: 100mm
I had a Vivitar 2600 shooting directly above and down onto the water drops through the water bag. I used a white grocery bag, one of those plastic ones you get from and grocery/ retail store. I then had a Canon 430 EXII snooted down to about 2 inches firing at 1/8 for about 45 degrees right of camera. I had filled a Pyrex baking dish full of water, and set a sheet of white printer paper in the bottom of the water pool. I also had a kid's fluorescent green dinner tray set on it's side behind the dish. I made some minor adjustments to the photo in Canon's Digital Photo Professional, and then cropped it in PhotoShop. This was my first time shooting water droplets. I have seen a lot of droplet shots and just find them intriguing.
Here's my submission. Thanks for having the challenge. With my busy schedule it helps me push myself back into taking pictures again.
-Jason S. Congdon
Taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel
Canon 28-80 mm lens
Set to manual focus.
Taken on kitchen counter, dropping red food colored water into blue.
My daughter and I love experimenting with this type of shot.
Canon 5D MarkII
I shot this in my studio at work after seeing the challenge. It was fun to do. I used a dixie cup with a hole in the bottom to control the drops. Then shot with the other hand while the camera was on a tripod.
Here's a shot I took just sitting by the pool during a little rainstorm. I was looking at how nice the color of the water was looking and all the neat waves from the raindrops. My camera rarely leaves my side any more so I grabber 'er up and started shooting. This was the best of the series IMO with all the drips and drops going on. Taken with my old Nikon D1 with (I think) my friend's Nikkor 70-300 f4-5.6 G lens. ISO 200 at 83 mm focal length with an aperture of f4.5 and a 1/320 shutter.
Lumix FZ35, f/8, ISO 100, shutter: 1/1600, focal: 13mm.
I wanted a very lo-fi take on the subject, so I used my Lumix FZ35 superzoom with a blue-tinted gel flash diffuser, as well as a slave flash angled toward the background. To get the drop, I simply used a hypodermic needle and pushed the plunger continuously while pressing the shutter.
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ35
Focal Length: 4.8
Exposure Time: 1/1,000
Flash On (Duh)
I took about 400 shots before deciding on this one. I used a Kleenex box as a blue background and a red piece of paper underneath the plastic cup. The cup has ridges on the side, which are distorted by the water, giving a cool effect. Unfortunately, I had to keep wiping water off the lens.
While getting the shot was challenging and required a ton of patience, the end result was worth it, to me.
My little buddy was on my desk when I read the challenge..... good thing he was thirsty!
Canon T1i - 50mm 1.4 set at f5.6 - Exp 1/200sec - iso100 - Flash - About 20 min of shooting - Cropped but no post editing.
This photo is shot number 1 of 250 photo's (could have just called it a day, but noooo)
Totally re-arranged the kitchen for this one, screwed hook into ceiling and suspended water filled bag above bench.
Used orange paper from wifes scrapbooking set and covered with sheets of glass from glass topped tables.
Used various lighting techniques of several hundred watts with powerboards and DRIPPING WATER!!
1/200 sec at ISO-200
This photo was taken in front of my garage. I made a Safeway's plastic bag as the water dropping device. It was hanging on top of the garage by a broom. On the ground, I placed a beautiful Chinese metal bowl.
This photo shooting made me more than 600 shot in two days. It was very tough to get the right focus on the splash because of the wind.
Photoshop CS3 for RAW editing, cropping, and re-sizing.
Camera :Canon EOS 10D + RS-80N3 remote
Lens :SIGMA DG 70-300mm f4-5.6
@ 133mm, 1/2000, f/4, ISO100
The Photo itself is called "... With Milk?" and features a small milk drop in a cup of coffee.
It was shot using a Pentax K20D with the DA 55-300 f4.0-5.8 ED, using a Metz 48 AF-1
as a Slave flash from the side.
I set up the camera as follows:
Internal Flash -2EV
I used a small styropor board with white paper glued on it to preserve the white background.
Now I set up the Metz at exactly +3EV as a Optical Slave Flash and put it on a bunch of books,
on the left side of the cup. The Internal Flash must be set at about -2EV, it shouldn't bring any
kind of power to light the picture.
After a bit of testing, I found that the drop of milk, falling off from about 50cm over the cup,
made the best results.
Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8
Focal length: 50mm
Shutter: 1/60 sec
I made this setup very similar to one of the tutorials with a flash shooting into a red backdrop. But instead of a dish I used a large glas tray. The bobbles on the bottom of the tray was caught by the flash creating an almost Big Bang'ish look.
For this shot I used an Olympus FE-210 (7.1 megapixel point-and-shoot), and red-colored water. I had a bag of the water dripping into a plate, and I took 119 photos. This one was the best. The mess in cleaning up afterward was definitely worth it!
I just loved this image
Sony Dsc H10
No Setup Just plain simple camera :)
This photo was shot at night with less light around.
I used a water source, a glass plate full of water & marbles inside the plate
Using a light source which comes right under the plate.
Device: Nikon D80
Lens: 105 mm F/2,8 D
Focal Length: 105 mm
Flash Mode: Built-in, i-TTL
Flash Exposure Comp: -2,0 EV
Flash Sync Mode: Rear Curtain
Shutter Speed: 1/200 s
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Spot
Exposure Comp: +1,3 EV
Tv - 1/1000
Very simply dripped some drops in a bowl, used the warm African morning sun falling on my patio.
Just increased contrast in PS.
Tried to do a drop of water hitting a hot pan, and failed miserably. So, phase two involved my son's Spongebob plate and his medicine dropper. The photo was cropped and levels were adjusted in Adobe Camera RAW.
Camera – Pentax k-X
Lens – 18-55mm Kit
Focal Length – 55mm
Shutter – 1/180
Aperture – f/5.6
Sensitivity – ISO 200
My name is Robbie Crace i'm a 14 year old aspiring photographer. For this photo i used my Cannon 20D DSLR, with a shutter speed of 60 and iso of 100. I put a bowl on the edge of my sink, filled to the brim with died red water, and let my tap slowly drip into the bowl and set my camera to multi-shot and let rip. The background is simply a red pashmina.
I took this photo in my kitchen with my Canon T2i using the built in flash, the kit 18-55 IS lens, and a cheap Hoya +4 closeup lens. I just filled this loteria-themed bowl (my girlfriend has a thing for them) with some water, poked a hole in a plastic shopping bag with a needle, and started squeezing little droplets out. I took continuous handheld shots with manual settings (1/200 sec, f/22, ISO 400). The only post-processing was a bit of cropping and enhancement in Aperture. I thought this one came out the best, just a perfect little sphere of water hovering in the air!
Camera used: Nikon D40x
Lens: nikkor 24-120
shutter speed: 1/80 sec
Aperture was at maximum
I wanted to take a rainy picture so i experimented with diffrent items. Finally decided on legos because they were the easiest to set up and looked really cool on camera. Used an old sock to pour water onto the minifigs. To get the desired dark and nightly effect I played with the shutter speed. I used two table top lamps for light.
Camera: Casio EX FC-100
Knowing the speed limitations of my P&S, I knew I had to find a "slow-moving" drop of water. Thankfully, there's this lovely fountain nearby on campus that has slopes and a low volume of water. Plus, there's a pineapple on top. What's better than a pineapple fountain? Since I have the FC-100, I also got some nice 210fps slow motion video. Looks nice!
Canon XSi with Kit lens(18-55mm)
Shutter Priority - 1/200
Was excited to be able to enter my first contest. Spent a few days experimenting and finally got these shots. Took them in the middle of my kitchen, in the dark, with the flash on.
I shot this water drop on 5/6 I used
Nikon D5000 Camera with 55-200 mm VR lens
ISO mode 320
Sutter speed 320
This is been shoot with help of my wife holding the water bag to have the water drop at consisten speed to freeze the shoot.
Camera: Canon XSi
Lens: Canon 18-55mm
I took a mirror outside to try to get the clouds as a background in the reflection, but the clouds only show in the puddle of red soda on the left hand side of the picture and not in the mirror itself. By using the mirror, I got a great reflection of the splash which seems to give the picture more dimension. Levels and sharpening were done in Photoshop.
Exposure 1/640 at f/8.0
Focal Length 132 mm
Used two fluorescent light bulbs instead of flash.
Used ziplock bag for water drops
Cropped and Color boosted in Lightroom
Camera equipment and set-up:
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
1/125 sec with built in flash
This is the first time I've tried to take any creative pictures of water drops. This is one of my green cereal bowls placed next to a dark red wall in my dining room. I filled the bowl with clear water and dropped clear water out of a ziplock baggie. It only took a couple tries to get the hang of catching the water drops. On this image I cropped out the wall so that the water drops show the only hint of red. I used Lightroom 2 to crop and adjust the exposure.
12mm extension tube
Canon 50mm F/1.8 lens
Canon Speedlight 430EXII (to the right)
Opteka EF600DG-C (to the left)
Shutter speed: 1/25th of a sec
Focal length: 50mm
Bag with a hole in it, suspended about 1.5 feet above the mug
Rear background is a blue felt piece of fabric
The photo was taken In my bath tub, using the bathroom light and the flash on my camera as light sources. I used a very short tripod to hold up my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 camera, which hovered over about 1/4 of an inch of water. To make the dropping device I first popped a hole in the bottom of a grape juice bottle and then tied some cotton twine around the neck of the bottle. Then I filled up the bottom of the bottle with some water, and standing on a ladder, hung it from our bathroom light fixture. This picture happened to be an accident, but somehow was better then any of the other 104 pictures that I took. The settings were: F2.8, 1/250(the lowest my camera would go), and ISO 100. The photo was then cropped and sharpened in Photoshop CS4 using the unsharp mask filter.
This Shot was a complete accident. We have a leaky kitchen faucet and when I read about the challenge I thought well I might as well put it to good use before I fix it. I took several shots before but they were all turning out dark so I decided to try one with the internal flash and this is what I got. I really like how the water drop is reflecting off the bottom of the sink. Overall I'm really happy with how it came out.
Shot with my Canon 300d ISO 100, exposure 1/200, f/4.5 and focal length of 50mm.
This is my first time submitting a shot to the photo challenge. I've been checking out the other challenges all year and though I'd give it a try. It was a lot of fun!
This shot was taken with a Casio EX-G1 point and shoot, exposure time 1/200, focal length 6.66 with built in flash. To get the shot I set up a tripod in the water on the sun shelf of my pool. I then hung a plastic bag full of water with a small pin hole in the bottom from the center of the tripod. Then I got down on the edge of the pool and dipped the camera about half way in the water (it's waterproof!) so i could get more of profile shot. After lots of floundering around and 700 pictures later this was the best of them. I tweaked the highlight and contrast a little in photoshop to make it pop out a little more. Thanks!
amera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Old Quantaray 70-300 1:4-5:6 (Macro at 180-300 1:2)
Shutter: 400 F/5.6
I know the settings seem ridiculous! Decided not to use a flash, instead shut all the lights off and used LED flashlights. I use a glass dish with a bag of water hung by a spare tripod. The pink comes from paper underneath and the blacks come from paper set up behind it. I took over 1,000 images to gain just a few selects. This was one of my favorites. FYI this was my first time ever doing water drops! It was so addicting! Gizmodo's contests definitely push you to learn some really cool things! Thanks guys, keep it up!
Shot with a Canon Rebel XS with an 18-55 mm wide angle stock lens zoomed to 55 mm.
Shutter Speed: 1/200
F number: 8
Lighting: Ancient hot-shoe flash and a desk lamp
Method: Friend stood up with eyedropper while I lay prone with the camera and an ancient hot-shoe flash. The drops landed in a shallow dish with clear tap water in it. He would drop water periodically and we would shoot 10 or so drops and check the photos before doing another set. The colors are just products of cranking up the pink tint while playing with the temperature to achieve the glossy purple hues. | <urn:uuid:41fb968c-9066-4fc3-be05-4ef90d5c22c1> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://gizmodo.com/5535084/shooting-challenge-water-drop-gallery-part-1 | 2015-11-27T00:32:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398447860.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205407-00018-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932304 | 7,394 |
A couple of weeks ago in San Francisco, the following proclamation was issued: "Be it resolved that I, Gavin Newsom, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, congratulate Colt Studios on the occasion of their 40th anniversary and proclaim Feb. 23, 2007, as Colt Studio Day in San Francisco!"
That evening, the Colt folks held a big party in the city by the bay attended by State Assemblyman Mark Leno and other local dignitaries.
There is, however, one small problem with all this, and it is spelled out on the Colt Web site, which states: "come inside to experience the hottest man-on-man action!"
Somehow, I don't think they're talking about the World Wrestling Association here.
No, Colt Studios is a major gay porn outfit that markets hard-core films all over the world. There are many movies available, including the "legendary bodies series -- the pinnacle of masculine erotica."
So the logical question becomes why, exactly, does Colt Studios rate a "day" in San Francisco. I put that to Mayor Newsom, who said he didn't really know about the proclamation. Somebody in his office just signed his name without telling him, according to the mayor. In the future, he said, he'd "review" the proclamations himself.
Might be a good idea.
But Assemblyman Leno was aghast that I would ask about this. He told the San Francisco Chronicle that "the owners of the studio are tax-paying, law-abiding San Francisco employers who promote safe sex."
He went on to tell the newspaper that the Colt "products" had "contributed to his development as a gay man."
This, of course, is the same Mark Leno who torpedoed tough legislation to punish child molesters. The good folks in California had to put a referendum on the ballot in order to pass "Jessica's Law" because Leno and his cronies blocked it in the legislature.
Mark Leno also had no problem with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passing an ordinance banning military recruiting in city schools. Nor did he object to the supervisors passing a resolution condemning a Christian youth rally at AT&T Park, the home of the Giants. The supervisors called the rally "anti-gay and anti-choice."
Critics of my book Culture Warrior put forth that I exaggerated the agenda of the secular-progressive movement. On the basis of what's happening in San Francisco, I was naM-ove. The S-P's are crazier than I thought.
I mean, think about it. Even if you believe, as I do, that adults should be able to consume so called "adult entertainment" without government intrusion, don't children live in San Francisco these days?
San Francisco is one of America's great urban showplaces, but the city has been hijacked by radical politicians who are destroying it. Mayor Newsom is in alcohol rehab after having an affair with his best friend's wife, the homeless situation is out of control because the city gives everybody cash, and now these loons are honoring pornographers.
What's next? Barry Bonds Steroids Day?
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What Are the Financing Options for a Surrogacy Program?
Gestational surrogacy has given new hope to couples struggling with infertility, single parents, and members of the LGBT community to complete their families. This process formulates a sound method for Intended Parents to maintain a biological link to their child. Moreover, Surrogacy offers Intended Parents the opportunity to build a meaningful relationship with the Surrogate Mother. However, we must remember gestational surrogacy is an intricate medical procedure. Thus, To-be-parents often find themselves having many questions about their surrogacy journey. For example, what would be the best surrogacy agency for them? How much does it cost to have a Surrogate Mother? And, what would be the total cost of their surrogacy journey?
Due to the number of people and services required, the surrogacy process can be very costly. It usually ranges between $80,000 to $100,000, or even more using a surrogacy agency in San Diego.
Although not all families have that kind of money lying around, Intended Parents don’t need to be discouraged by the surrogacy cost. The good news is, there are several financing options that help make the surrogacy journey more affordable.
In this article, we are going to provide you with valuable information about financing your surrogacy. These are some of the useful tips on how you can afford surrogacy even as an average earning family.Schedule A Consultation
Loans for covering the Surrogacy Cost
Intended Parents often depend on loans to help offset the costs of using a Surrogate Mother for gestational surrogacy. Apart from traditional credit lines, such as credit cards and home equity loans, there are a lot of organizations offering financing options for surrogacy and fertility treatments.
Below are some loans Intended Parents may want to consider:
Home equity loans
People who want to Become Parents may secure loans using their house as collateral. You need to have a good credit history to qualify for these loans.
401 (k) plans
Intended Families may decide to borrow money from their savings retirement accounts. Typically, 401 (K) loans allow an individual to borrow up to half of the money in his or her account. However, the money needs to be repaid within a particular timeframe. Also, the payments are made automatically through deductions from the borrower’s paycheck.
You can make certain surrogacy payments with credit cards. However, you need to remember that interest on credit cards can add up pretty quickly if you don’t pay the balance on time.
Friends & family members
We do understand that not everyone is okay with requesting financial assistance from friends or family members. However, this may be a good option to cover the costs of surrogacy.
Fertility financing loans
Some financial organizations offer loans and payment plans for Intended Parents who are dealing with infertility. A lot of these options can be used to finance a surrogacy program. Given that, here are some of the organizations offering fertility financing loans to Intended Parents:
Agency financing programs
A lot of surrogacy agencies give Intended Parents the chance to pay on a fee schedule instead of covering the whole surrogacy costs in advance. Some even have their own financing programs or are in partnership with financial organizations that offer fertility grants and loans. Hence, we suggest you ask your surrogacy agency for financing suggestions. It will help you to know if there are any loans you can take to help you cover the cost of using a Surrogate Mother.
Another good option for financing surrogacy is through grants. A lot of organizations give out non-repayable funds to help relieve the financial burden of infertility treatments and surrogacy.
Most of these grants are awarded every year to Intended Families who fulfill an organization’s criteria and complete the application process. However, each organization has its own requirements for applicants. For instance, some grants require residency in a particular state or certain religious affiliations. In most cases, surrogacy or IVF grants require that the applicant has been diagnosed with infertility.
Here is a list of organizations that provide surrogacy grants:
- Pay it Forward Fertility Grants – offers grants that may be used for fertility treatment. However, the fertility clinic must belong to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) as Physicisn’a Surrogacy do. This grant is also available for Intended Parents who want to finance their surrogacy journey.
- Baby Quest Foundation – gives financial assistance to people who are unable to afford the high costs of fertility procedures such as egg freezing, IVF, artificial insemination, egg and sperm donation, embryo donation, and surrogacy.
- Tinina Q. Cade Foundation Family Building Grant – offers close to $10000 to infertile families who are in need.
- Family Formation Charitable Trust (AARTA) – offers financial assistance to organizations and people looking to build their families via adoption and assisted reproductive technology, such as surrogacy.
- Journey to Parenthood Grant – This charitable organization dedicates itself to helping individuals and couples build families through fertility treatments. It offers aid for IVF, IUI, egg donation, and gestational surrogacy.
- Life Grants – The Life Foundation provides grants up to $10000. It is for the qualified Individuals and Couples who want to cover the costs of adoption, infertility treatment, and third party reproduction such as, taking service of a Surrogate Mother.
Surrogacy grants usually depend on donations. So, if you or a close one is dealing with infertility, consider donating to an infertility or surrogacy fund to help other Intended Parents build their family.
Fundraising for collecting the Surrogacy Cost
There are several ways Intended Parents can raise funds for their surrogacy journey. You can choose to host an online fundraiser or become creative with special events. Fundraising is one of the financing options available for Intended Parents.
Below are some fundraising ideas to help you start with:
- Host an online fundraiser – As an Intended Parent, you can set up a free fundraiser on online crowdfunding platforms such as YouCaring.com. This will be helpful to raise money for your surrogacy – all without any fees, deadlines, or goal requirements.
- Ask for donations – You can simply ask for donations towards your surrogacy instead of birthday or Christmas gifts.
- Sell something – You may also consider selling baked goods, sell handmade products online through marketplaces such as Etsy. Moreover, you can also partner with a sales consultant and ask if they could get a commission from a party you host.
- Host an event – As an Intended Parent, you can organize a golf tournament, silent auction, or a car wash and use all the profits to finance your surrogacy journey.
Whether you are organizing fundraisers, obtaining a surrogacy loan, or applying for grants, you need to know that getting the money you need for surrogacy takes time, effort, and discipline. Below are some helpful tips for saving money and financing your surrogacy:
Consider your insurance options. Figure out the medical costs that your insurance will cover, and research the available options for insuring the surrogate mother and the baby.
- Select the right surrogacy agency. When selecting a surrogacy agency, make sure to carefully investigate their costs, programs as well as fee structures, so that you only choose the best one. Look for hidden fees and other expenses that are not included in the agency costs. Create a list of surrogacy professionals you want to consider and compare their costs and services.
- Open a dedicated savings account. Include surrogacy savings in your budget plans. Set up an account for your surrogacy program and save money the same way you would for a new house, a college degree, or a big vacation.
- Ask around. Contact other hopeful parents and support forums for suggestions and tips on how to afford surrogacy. People who have undergone the process may know about other loans, funds, and grants. They may also have other suggestions regarding how to raise money for your surrogacy.
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After nearly a decade of searching for her long-lost husband, Karen Shepard found him in a Kmart parking lot. And not only was he still living in the same state where they first met, Wisconsin, but he was married to another woman.
"I just thought, 'How could he get married again?'" she told USA Today. "Am I dead? What did he do with my identity?"
When Karen first met her husband, Adam L. Marx, at a Outagamie County fair, he was married, but hadn't been living with his wife for years. "I figured, 'He's going to get divorced, and this means he really wants to be with me and the kids,'" she said.
Adam and his first wife finally filed for divorce in 2001, and he married Karen on Valentine's Day the following year. But a year later, Adam left Karen with just a note saying that he could not handle her kids. "The first time he left me, it was like somebody reached into my chest and ripped my heart out of me," she said.
Then, just before Karen received her Christmas bonus, Adam returned. Karen suspected that he came back because of the money, but she still took him back. However, she made it clear this would be the last time. "My ultimatum was 'If you ever do this to me again, I won't take you back.' I did it once. I won't do it twice."
Eventually, the reunited family decided to make a fresh start in Montana. And things were good for a while. But Adam started not coming home and racking up a lot of debt. And Karen started to suspect that he was cheating so she gave him an ultimatum: shape up or leave.
Adam decided to take the latter option and packed up his truck and moved out. Unfortunately, Karen was left with thousands of dollars of debt and poor health because of all the stress. "If it wasn't for my son who was out there with me, I'd probably be homeless," she explained. "I was trying to start a cleaning business, and after he left me, that totally ruined everything."
Karen saw Adam one more time in a Kmart parking lot and immediately asked for a divorce. He told her he'd call but never did. This was the last time she saw her husband.
So imagine Karen's surprise years later when she reached out to her mother-in-law after finding her on Facebook, and she told her the shocking news that Adam now had a new wife. Karen immediately contacted the authorities and asked them to investigate.
Adam is now facing charges of bigamy, fraud and making a false statement on a marriage license. "I consider myself married," Karen said, "I thought when you married someone, you married him for life, through sickness and health." | <urn:uuid:41dfa10e-2813-4356-9bba-f6d3ba8fca3c> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://www.womansday.com/relationships/dating-marriage/news/a46753/woman-finds-missing-husband-nine-years-later-remarried/ | 2020-11-28T10:52:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195417.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128095617-20201128125617-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.994028 | 585 |
If Sutekh Hexen continues their (1) A: [quest] B: [onslaught] C: [ritualistic crawl] through the (2) A: [noise] B: [black metal] C: [avant-garde] underground at this pace, they stand to build a legacy of restless experimentalism along the lines of (3) A: [Ulver] B: [Coil] C: [sunn 0)))]. Since 2010, the evolving Bay Area project has issued a stream of (4) A: [tapes] B: [discs] C: [baroque limited edition packages] documenting the aural and visual aesthetics of Kevin Gan Yuen, A.C. Way, and their collaborators. In less capable hands, such a busy release schedule runs the risk of diluting a catalog, but the SH camp remains consistent in their (5) A: [evisceration tactics] B: [rigorous studio documentation] C: [TONES] to the point that every burst of new or reissued material warrants deep listening.
Monument of Decay, the project’s fourth object of 2013, comprises four five-minute tracks, each of which twists and mangles signifiers of any number of “extreme musics” into a compressed narrative arc. On the screen in front of you, my adjective-laden description of the band’s (6) A: [guttural demonic howling] B: [overwhelming bass frequencies] C: [blown-out tremolo-picked guitar] can kinda hint at the intensity of this experience. In real life, with the stereo cranked and all infants or skittish adults either carted off wholesale or politely asked to consider leaving the room, shit gets serious. Prepare yourself for the (7) A: [widescreen terror] B: [dark ambient meditation] C: [shred] about to reach you in the stream below:
Monument of Decay ships this month in limited 12-inch pressings via Black Horizons and a lavish two-cassette edition (23 of which come with “two vials containing human blood and bone dust”) via Beläten. | <urn:uuid:c5a2bcee-09d7-4191-8f04-fdec9f9ecd05> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/premiere-sutekh-hexen-monument-of-decay | 2016-08-31T02:05:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471983077957.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823201117-00202-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890263 | 464 |
It is with some regret that we have taken the difficult decision to increase the price of our wares from £26 to £35. It was not an easy decision to arrive at but we felt that it was necessary. Burtonwode has customer service at its very core so in the interests of transparency we want to explain this price hike. The primary reason is that due to an initial manufacturing error, the cost of production was superficially low. We have always and will continue to base our prices from the price it costs us to make the product, so if manufacturing costs go down, the price will drop accordingly. As the price has gone up, we in turn are forced to increase our prices.
Secondly, the margins we operate on are unusually small. That is because we are dedicated on providing the best service possible, and that starts with the bottom line. Whilst £35 is no small amount, considering that all our garments are printed, softened and constructed in England we feel that the price is very reasonable, and we hope you can feel that quality and consistency in the end product.
Once again, we apologise for the increase in cost, but in order to operate and continue to provide best possible product, we do hope you will continue to support us, as well as UK manufacturing at large.
Many thanks for your support so far
David Huglin and everybody else who helps make this happen!! | <urn:uuid:362b5cb4-9497-4be9-8faf-c32e4aab79de> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://burtonwode.com/price-hike-why/2080/ | 2019-02-22T17:03:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247518497.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222155556-20190222181556-00194.warc.gz | en | 0.977641 | 283 |
Mental health problems and stress is a taboo almost everywhere. The social stigma which is associated with discrimination isolates individuals with mental health issues and prevents them from seeking professional help. Societies blame patients most of the time for their condition and mental health issues are neglected, undetected and left untreated.
Stress has major impact on health, economy, and quality of life. If people are constantly stressed due to pressure of workload or due to issues related to money and work-life balance, it may raise health-related concerns. Burden of stress is often underestimated because most widely used tools such as perceived stress scale and other questionnaires to detect stress subjects to emotional and memory bias. However, undetected, and untreated stress may possibly lead to multiple chronic conditions such as depression, anxiety, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Nowadays, stress is the major concern in most of the countries due to current pandemic situation which thereby raises potential burden on the healthcare systems.
Building sustainable and responsible economy is a big challenge in the world of finite resources. However, taking small steps such as quick access to stress relieving therapies can help to create responsible economies. Smart solutions including stress detection, prevention and reduction technology can improve urban livelihood. Cities can be made more sustainable by channelizing energies of people by digitalizing certain healthcare services, by reducing frequent visits to general practitioners (GPs) and psychologists, by allowing digital access to stress-relieving therapies and by reducing long-waiting times associated with consultant-led mental healthcare services. Moreover, people will feel motivated and engaged if transportation visits to GPs or psychologists are less frequent. They can manage work-life balance by prioritizing their work or family related tasks and responsibilities.
Sumondo helps to create positive work environment and help to reduce frequent transportation visits to GP and psychologists by providing self-stress detecting and management tool. This tool is a just-in-time intervention which provides quick access to mindfulness exercises. Mindfulness exercises provided through our app can help to relieve stress and to be more productive. The device is also beneficial in reducing logistic burden of the healthcare system, thus potential saving of GP’s and psychologist’s time can be maneuvered productively. This leads to efficient use of available resources and helps in creation of responsible and sustainable economies.
Written by Sneha Tambe, June 22nd, 2021.
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I am always on a journey of discovery as an artist.
Exploring your own art means learning from peers and artists you admire. I was lucky enough to take an intuitive painting workshop on the weekend lead by my good friend and amazing artist Karen McSwan Silsby (go check out her artist Facebook page or ‘dalek_gurl’ on instagram).
It was a fun weekend learning, experimenting and sharing with a great group of artists some just starting out in their journey and some a bit further along the path.
Check out this workshop “Paint as you are” next it is run. You will come out the otherside inspired and full of new enthusiasm to explore your own painting creativity.
So many thoughts, too many demands from every direction. Pulling and pushing.
Too many things happening at once, priorities, everything seems like it must be done now or I will miss the chance to get it right.
Too many opinions but no answers. No clear path to help. Too problems crowding my mind, overwhelming it, making each thought shout to be heard, all seemingly as important as the other.
Do this, try that. Do this now or the opportunity is lost. But this one needs help too. I cannot keep taking more on. I need to do more. It is all too much. So I do nothing.
It feels like nothing even though it is not. It is a constant cycle of seeking, fighting, trying to unravel the complexities of everything thrown in front of me.
Too many at once, I cannot think.
My mind retreats, my body shuts down. I cannot do it any more, the tears flow, the emptiness grows.
Constantly my body betrays me, the cracks appear too often now and the angst seeks its release.
Shortness of breath, racing thoughts that make no sense as they continuously multiply and push the boundaries of my mind.
My body shakes on the inside, shuts down on the out. The barriers go up too late. The cracks are to big to fix myself.
I need to escape, to stop this endless fury in my mind.
I need to be present and in control but I cannot. It is all too much at once.
I cannot find a foothold, a thought to hold onto to pull me back.
So I let go.
I now this is not the answer, but I know how to bring the numbness on.
I let it engulf me.
Slowly, I can feel it start to muffle the chatter, the shakes get less as it takes control.
It is a silent relief to finally feel it happening. I gasp at the peacefulness overtaking my mind.
But I know it is not the way to do it this but I need it now.
Slowly the guilt numb too.
The numbness grows.
It takes over my body first.
The twitches lessen, my breathe slows down and my head slowly sinks into the pillow with a delightful heaviness.
Then the numbness creeps slowly into my head.
The riot of thoughts finally subdue and the chatter stops.
Oh how I needed that to stop.
Finally, I can rest.
Finally I succumb to the numbness.
It is there. Suddenly appears in my thoughts. It is there.
Amongst my racing thoughts and constant chatter, it is there.
Like a crystal clear droplet, it is there.
It grows and pushes the other thoughts away, forcing itself into existence in a crowded space.
It is what is I have been wanting, desperate for answers, it is there.
So crystal clear. Just forming slowly, bring a sense of balance, of peace to the clutter on my mind, it is there.
But as soon as I realise its presence, it moves out of reach.
That crystal clear moment, that sought after clarity.As much I try I can not reach it but it is still there.
The more I focus the more it retreats.
My mind makes a sudden grab. That moment of clarity I have been so desperately seeking has gone. Engulfed suddenly by the messy clutter of my thoughts, the chatter rises again and it is lost forever.
It is no longer there.
First Signs of Asperger Syndrome in Young Girls Pre-school.
This is something close to my heart and I wish I had this reference list 10 years ago.
Why is it we so strongly identify ourselves from the perspective of our paid job? Yes, work is takes up the majority of waking hours but it is not what is really important to me. It is not what brings joy in my life.
So why do I let myself be defined by it in one breath, then try to escape from it as it doesn’t feel quite right or complete in the next?
This came up during a discussion with a friend recently about how when working as an accountant, I can be so organised, structured and manage my time and tasks. I can help clients with new software, business plans and business analysis but in regards to my own art designs, I totally baulk at committing to a business plan, costings, time allocation and even valuing my own time?
It is not that I can’t do it but I am finding it so difficult to do a mind-flip and accept that my art is a business and that is OK.
I have kept these two aspects of my life distinctly separate for so long it can’t see a way through.
My friend kept asking me what my fear was. It took a while to really understand what she meant. But it dawned on me that a major fear is leaving behind my identity of being an accountant. When people ask about what I do, I immediately answer I am an accountant. There are a variety of responses, some not very polite, but just saying it means I no longer need to justify my existence to them. I do not need to prove any further that I have some level of intelligence and worth to society. In contrast, if answer that I am a wife and a Mum or mention that I am an artist, I feel the judgement immediately. I feel the need to justify why I am a useful human being.
In chatting with my friend, I noticed how many times my internal conflicts came down to identifying myself and my skills as either an accountant or an artist. Most notably, how I constantly fought any aspect of being an accountant flowing over even the tiniest amount to being an artist. It is like a fear that my work will infect my enjoyment of my art.
This lead me to thinking more about how I see myself. To be honest, self reflection is essential to moving forward but it is a hell of a bumpy ride. Do I really see myself firstly as an accountant? Yes, I went to Uni and have a few sets of letters after my name, I have spent 2 decades in the industry, meeting some really interesting clients and businesses. But is that who I am? Is that what gets me up everyday? To be honest, no. Not now. Maybe not before either.
What does get me up everyday, makes me feel like a useful member of society and makes my heart sing is being a wife and a Mum and definitely being an artist.
So why do I let it my degree define me? Why do I feel not as worthy in other peoples eyes to be a wife, a Mum, an artist? That being an accountant is more important?
Having a degree is like having the proof that I have the right skills do the job. I have the skills but not the enjoyment or fulfilment.
I have no certified proof that I have the skills to be a wife or a Mum. Nor do I have a degree in visual arts to prove I have the skill set to call myself an artist. But these 3 things are what make happy, give my life meaning and get me out of bed everyday.
They should be as much if not more part of how I identify me to myself as well as to everyone else.
Getting past this mental block around this is going to take time but I need to do it to move forward and allow my art business to be all it can be.
So much going on and a lake full of excuses for not blogging for so long.
I can blame my new addiction to FanFiction (thank you very much dearest teenage daughter of mine!) for some of it. I think I have read more fiction in the past month than I have in the past 10 yrs! So nice to get back to reading for pleasure and escapism rather than my sole (and soul) focus on Autism , Aspergers and therapies.
Between reading and drawing, I can almost start to glimpse my old self. I don’t want to be that person anymore. I like who I have grown into and the realisation that I am a much stringer person than I ever imagined. But to get back in touch with this part of me is like meeting an old friend. Comfortable straight away and so much to catch up on. Rebuilding connections in my head, heart and soul. Finding some balance in my life that has felt out if kilter for too long.
So heres to finding yourself in such a busy, confusing world that we live in.
…. Now excuse me as I read some more Klaine FanFiction…..
It has been a pretty busy month in the Art Room so I thought I would share a few of creations evolving/evolved with you.
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Herman Brown Hall for Mathematical Sciences was built in 1968 with funding from the Brown foundation and the NSF as part of what was called the “Systems Grant.” (This grant–and its failure to be renewed–was hugely important in the history of the university. I’ll say more about it sometime.) It’s kind of a big square building, intended to provide a lot of office space and a few classrooms. In the intervening years there have been a lot of different departments (and pieces of departments) in there, everything from music to education–so many that I don’t have any confidence that I can accurately list them.
It’s not an especially attractive building and it sits a bit uncomfortably on its site. I believe it was built during a period when the original campus plan had been essentially abandoned and nothing new had yet taken its place. One of the interesting things about it is the covered open-air walkway on its west side. I don’t know why this is there–maybe a nod to the cloisters of Rice’s older buildings. In any event, my attention was really grabbed by this picture that shows the view through this walkway. Zoom in and have a look.
I was so taken that I immediately got up from my desk in the Woodson and set out to have a look at the same spot. At first glance, the view is totally different. That’s the Mudd Building, home of IT, you see through there now:
But if you walk over to the other side of the Mudd Building for a quick peek, there’s the same house, seemingly unchanged except for the vegetation. Surprise!
I spent many a late night in Herman Brown as an EE undergraduate taking my computer science classes. Later on, I worked at ICSA one summer. At the time, the main computer was an IBM 370 mainframe, housed in one large end of the basement. Typically for a mainframe, it sat in a room over a raised floor under which was an air-conditioning plenum. Sometime after I graduated, ICSA moved to the Mudd building and part of the music school moved into the basement of Herman Brown. I absolutely loved the way they transformed the big mainframe computer room with its area below floor level into an orchestra rehearsal room. I hope you can find some pictures.
I also spent a lot of time there when the 370 “ruled.” Herman Brown was actually an interesting place, but probably not in the way the architect truly intended. At least at that time, the building was inaccessible (the ramps were added around 1078 or so, I think), but the light switches in the classrooms were at wheelchair height. There were also no accessibhle toilets. Sigh
But, less known was the graffitti in the men’s room on the ground floor. While the men’s restroom in the basement was pretty well known for the truly inspired and geeky OS/370 and JCL oriented scratchings, the ground floor had an entire set of tiny graffitti in the grout around medium sized wall tiles that was also interesting.
I remember 1078. How we got a 370 from the future I could never figure out…
I’m pretty sure there are pictures of the IBM 370, but I’m not sure about the rehearsal room. I’ll keep my eyes open.
When it was there it was an interesting time since it was a batch system and everyone had to use punched card decks to submit and then wait for the job to run and pick up the printout. Initially you had to submit your deck to the operators but in 74/75 (I think) we got a card reader in the card punch room so users could run their decks through themselves. (Sometime after that the room eventually got its own printer so students could dispatch themselves and not have to wait for the operators)
We also started working with TSO (time sharing option) along with the ability to ‘read’ decks from files in TSO so we could bypass the lines for the card reader. This was important to those of us in ELEC 421 (compiler construction) since our card decks were 2-3 boxes in length. We could read them once and then edit the file online without having to reread the entire deck. End of the semester in Herman Brown basement was a zoo. You had students sprawled in all of the carrels, along the halls and into the terminal room as turnaround time increased. Those of us who worked for ICSA had a office so we simply camped there for the week (along with our lab partners)
The whole history of the 370/155 was interesting. Rice originally had a Burroughs 5500 as the primary student computer and was going to replace it with an IBM 7090 and Decsystem10 but
we got a ‘great’ deal on the 370/155 so we got it instead. The rumour was we got such a good deal because IBM was just about to release the 370/158 (had a ‘new’ feature called virtual memory) and wanted to move the 155s out. Rice eventually upgraded the 155 to the 158. | <urn:uuid:e2b22c6a-17e1-4008-acbb-964ff9fe82a6> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://ricehistorycorner.com/2011/10/04/the-view-through-herman-brown-hall/ | 2023-03-21T14:24:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943698.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321131205-20230321161205-00539.warc.gz | en | 0.983764 | 1,091 |
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If you’ve hit the magic Time Machine icon while in iPhoto, Mail, or Address Book you’ll have noticed that those apps show their own interfaces while in Time Machine itself. In other apps, either nothing will happen or (more likely) you’ll see the current Finder window.
As the image above shows, this isn’t impossible for non-Apple apps to do.
The source code is, needless to say, Leopard-only, and the Time Machine helper class uses ObjC 2.0 features such as properties and @optional protocol specifications.
The archive above contains the project, based upon Jon ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch’s CoreData tutorial. This was done purely as a time-saving measure, since this tutorial resulted in a small app with a single data store containing a bunch of separate data objects.
Yeah, okay, I was just too lazy to write my own.
The archive also contains a PDF version of a talk I gave on this subject for the Toronto CocoaHeads group. This PDF is available separately here. At some point I might actually make a screencast out of this. I have all the tools available, having bought them a year ago and then had no opportunity to use them; now it’s just a matter of finding the time (it’s a lot quicker to throw up the code & post here, after all).
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Judging by the attendance at the "People Side of the Supply Chain" seminars held during the recent ProMat 2011 Show, hiring and retention are hot-button issues these days. To industry insiders, that will come as no surprise. Although it's not as widely publicized as, say, the truck driver shortage, the warehouse and DC business has been facing an ongoing labor crunch of its own. DCs report that it's getting harder to find qualified workers, and if they're lucky enough to find them, it's getting harder to keep them. And the problem is being reported at all levels of the organization.
The situation isn't going to reverse itself anytime soon. In fact, it's expected to worsen. That's why a lot of far-sighted employers are already looking at ways to ensure they'll come out on top in the coming war for talent.
To that point, Dan Boos, principal and executive consultant for Boos Consulting Services LLC, who led the "People Side of the Supply Chain" educational track, had a couple of suggestions. Part of the solution will be to embrace diversity, he said. As the traditional labor pool shrinks, employers will necessarily have to broaden their sights to include traditionally underutilized segments of the labor pool—people of different generations, genders, and cultures. The other part, he said, will be making themselves more attractive to potential employees. In a tight labor market, people can be more selective about who they'll work for. In order to attract top talent, companies will have to figure out how to become employers of choice.
"Taking steps to become the employers of choice, coupled with a strategy and willingness to embrace diversity in your work force, could make the difference between success and failure," said Boos.
But how do you become such an employer? Obviously, it helps to know what today's logistics professionals want from their jobs. Our latest Salary Survey sheds some light on that question. In addition to asking about salaries and compensation, this year's survey included a number of questions about overall job satisfaction—what the respondents liked and didn't like about their jobs and what their employers could do to make them happier.
Job satisfaction proved to be extremely high among the survey respondents (a full 88 percent indicated they were happy on the job), but that's not to say they didn't see room for improvement. When asked what their employers could do to boost their job satisfaction (aside from upping their pay), respondents were ready with suggestions.
Some of the responses had to do with the work environment itself (like more up-to-date technology and better communication on the employer's part). And a lot of suggestions dealt with career development—such as greater access to training and more opportunities for advancement. But a striking number of responses centered on another area altogether: accommodations to help workers achieve a better work/life balance. Like flexible schedules. Like opportunities to telecommute. Like holiday scheduling to accommodate diverse cultures.
What's notable about the items on this wish list is that they're budget friendly. Unlike, say, on-site gyms or concierge services, most could be provided at little, if any, added cost for an employer. But the benefits could be huge. Employers that offer a better work/life balance will likely have the edge when it comes to recruitment and retention. And they can expect higher productivity as well. Studies have shown that employees work harder for companies that offer these types of accommodations.
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Obama’s Taylor Gourmet Pick: A Turkey Sandwich
What better place for a roundtable on small businesses than a small business that serves hoagies? That appears to have been the rationale for President Barack Obama's visit to Taylor Gourmet on 14th Street NW this morning. Most of the trip was a platform for Obama to push Congress to pass some initiatives of the administration's, which, due to the fact that the federal government barely functions in an election year, it will not pass.
But there was also a chance for the chief executive to eat. Per White House pool reports by Politico's Donovan Slack, which Washington City Paper obtained from a news organization that actually gets 'em, Obama ordered a 12-inch Spruce Street sandwich, with roasted turkey, prosciutto, roasted red peppers, and provolone. Slack also reports: "A White House official says POTUS did in fact pick up hoagies for his lunch with congressional leaders at the White House today. The official declined to elaborate on exactly what types, saying only that it was 'an assortment of sandwiches.'" The tab came to $62.39.
UPDATE: NBC Washington has the pool video:
After the jump, the official White House bios on the owners of Taylor, Yes! Organic Market, and Francis Lee Contracting, a Ward 8-based construction firm that also participated in Obama's visit:
The individuals noted below will be participating in the roundtable discussion.
Casey Patten & David Mazza, Founders and Co-Owners Taylor Gourmet
Philadelphia natives Casey Patten and David Mazza are founders and co-owners of Taylor Gourmet, an Italian deli with four locations in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. As the chef and creative partner, Casey is knowledgeable in quick-serve and casual dining. He has been involved in the service industry since 1995. David is responsible for the business planning and has a background in real estate. They opened the first Taylor Gourmet location in 2008. Casey and David were approved for an SBA-backed loan that helped them purchase their third location on 14th Street NW in Washington, DC. They will open a fifth location this summer and plan to hire more than 25 new employees. Casey and David are residents of Washington, DC.
Brian J. Smith, Founding Principal Francis Lee Contracting
Brian J. Smith is a founding principal at Francis Lee Contracting, a three-year-old general contracting firm that specializes in construction. The company employs 14 people and is headquartered in Washington, DC’s Ward 8. Brian has twenty years of experience in the commercial real estate development and financial services industries. With the help of SBA counseling, the company has experienced tremendous success, seeing an annual revenue growth of over 75%. Brian plans to hire additional employees this year and purchase needed construction equipment. Brian is a resident of Arlington, Virginia.
Kathy Rachels, President of Yes! Organic Markets
Kathy Rachels is the president of Yes! Organic Markets. Kathy was born in Korea and immigrated to the United States in 1971. She went into business with her two brothers Gene and Gary Cha, opening their first Yes! Organic Market on Columbia Road NW in Washington, D.C. With the help of two SBA-backed loans, they were able to purchase two separate additional locations, 3425 Connecticut Avenue NW and 4100 Georgia Avenue NW in Washington, DC. Today there are eight locations in the Washington, DC metropolitan region. Kathy has plans to open an additional store and higher more employees. Kathy is a resident of Arlington, Virginia.
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Collaborative development of domain-specific languages, models and generators
Methods and Tools, Winter 2014
Almost all software development activities require collaboration, and developing domain-specific languages is no exception. Language users provide feedback as the language is developed, and also different parts of the language can be developed in parallel: for example, one developer can focus on the abstract syntax, another on the notation, a third on code generators, and a fourth on integration with the development process. This collaboration becomes even more relevant when a number of integrated domain-specific languages are developed. In this article we share our experiences on how teams can collaboratively develop and use domain-specific modeling languages, and what benefits this collaboration provides.
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Like me in an Anthropologie, not realizing the dimensions of my own posterior and therefore backing into a large display full of felt Christmas ornaments, a moose was recently caught on TV accidentally ringing a doorbell with his butt in Anchorage, Alaska.
KTVA reported that when the Stultz family heard their doorbell at 1:30 a.m., they assumed it was a prank, before their security camera informed them that was in fact a moose butt:
After checking on their dogs and looking out the door to find nothing, Stultz assumed some neighborhood kids were playing a prank.
“We were thinking kids coming through playing ding dong ditch or maybe a neighbor coming through. We had no idea,” Stultz said.
So they checked their security system and were surprised to see a moose caboose.
Just a big old moose butt, backing right into their doorbell, then ambling off, much like me casually taking a couple books off the Barnes and Noble display table on my way to browse the cross-stitch books and maybe get a cup of coffee at the cafe. | <urn:uuid:fdcebcaf-868a-4a18-8ac0-42c13377794f> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://jezebel.com/moose-accidentally-rings-doorbell-with-butt-1830937785 | 2019-03-19T02:50:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201882.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20190319012213-20190319034213-00017.warc.gz | en | 0.979392 | 232 |
Experience the butterfly effect induced by this talented Canadian band with their electrifying fusion of Industrial Metal and Rock.
If you’re an enthusiast for the unorthodox and industrialized music engendered by iconic bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein and Combichrist, who are always reinventing themselves and never go with the flow, you should definitely take a shot at the multilayered loudness crafted by Canadian Industrial Rock/Metal act Projekt F. Hailing from the city of Montreal, Quebec, the band was formed back in 2006 by lead singer and main composer Jonh M. Miller, inspired by the Industrial Rock and Metal scene of the 90’s, and since then they have been on a roll releasing their first EP named 0000 in 2009, the full-length album Skins in 2013 and the EP Under The Skin in 2014, also sharing the stage with names like Angelspit and Motionless In White and playing alongside Combichrist at the biggest industrial music festival in Canada, Kinetik Festival, in 2012.
Not only that, they also had the opportunity to perform the song “Room 13” in a TV pilot called Cause and Effect, and the song “Oophorectomy” is also in a short movie called Purple Love, featured at the 2013 Cannes Festival. Add to that their looks, blending traditional Black Metal corpse painting with a futuristic concept, and it’s easy to understand how they’re capable of blur the line between reality and imagination in a truly compelling way with their work. Now in 2016, the band chose to face an even darker path with the release of their brand new EP entitled The Butterfly Effect, a direct sequel to their previous conceptual effort Skins and another solid step in their rising career.
The distorted and resonant bass lines by William Hicks create a wicked ambience before drums enter the music in the experimental intro named The Butterfly Effect, building the aura for Tongue, a powerful composition that proves to all metalheads that Industrial Metal can be as heavy as hell when a band wants to. Moreover, the Trent Reznor-like vocals by Jonh are full of melancholy and match flawlessly with the song’s metallic instrumental, not to mention his lunatic screams during the chorus. In other words, this is indeed the perfect theme song for an obscure cult movie, just like what already happened with two other songs by Projekt F as mentioned in this review.
Their sonic production line continues to smash our ears in the electrifying Cut Your Wings, where drummer Fred Linx showcases his ability to sound robotic and organic at the same time. This is the type of composition tailored to make the audience jump up and down with the band, with the maniacal growls by Jonh elevating even more the song’s impact. In Unbegun, another disturbing tune where Projekt F offer their potent Industrial Metal with hints of Sludge Metal, the guitar riffs by Simon Sayz will pierce your brain and make you bleed so heavy they are. In addition, although it features more electronic noises in the background than the other tracks, it’s unarguably a neck-breaking tune with extremely dark lyrics that will please even the most diehard fan of Death Metal or even Black Metal.
The acoustic and low-tuned track cryptically entitled 03:47:09:08:1945 works as a demented intro to Fat Man, a brutal Heavy Metal hymn with an interesting technological aura. Jonh and Simon have insanely good performances throughout the entire song, sounding as if Nine Inch Nails decided to get darker, heavier and more demonic, therefore displaying no mercy for our necks once again. And last but not least, we have the dark aria When the Angel Fell From the Sky (it looks like a song name Judas Priest would surely use) offering the listener some contemplative piano notes, atmospheric passages and a final narration, concluding the story presented in the EP the quaintest way you can think of.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. In music, that’s the exact outcome these talented Canadian metallers want to provoke in the metal scene, and in case you want to join them in this bizarre quest you can go visit their Facebook page for more details and news on the band, enjoy more of their music at their YouTube channel, SoundCloud and ReverbNation, and purchase The Butterfly Effect on iTunes or at the band’s BandCamp page.
Best moments of the album: Cut Your Wings and Fat Man.
Worst moments of the album: None.
Released in 2016 Independent
1. The Butterfly Effect 1:32
2. Tongue 4:53
3. Cut Your Wings 3:46
4. Unbegun 3:49
5. 03:47:09:08:1945 1:58
6. Fat Man 4:24
7. When the Angel Fell From the Sky 4:56
Jonh M. Miller – vocals, piano, synth
Simon Sayz – guitar
William Hicks – bass
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Virus Infection Collapses Territory Government’s E-Mail Server
According to the reports coming in from Australia, a malicious computer virus that propelled thousand of spam e-mails infected the e-mail server of territory government and ultimately, shut down it on September 3, 2008.
According to reports, the dissemination of the virus on the government e-mail system was so disastrous that the government office's work got delayed for many hours and several public servants had to take recourse to fax communications.
However, all this led to fast action, whereby IT security investigators found that the territory government's e-mail system had got infection from an employee of the government office itself. This resulted in bulk infection as the virus began sending spam messages immediately to the systems of other employees as well.
However, it was only by noon that the IT specialists and security researchers were able to spot the problem and eventually fix it, reinstating the lost e-mail accounts of the territory's 16,000 public servants back to work.
Meanwhile, Garry Haigh, Director of IT Services Management, confirmed that one of the government's computers was infected with the virus on September 2, 2008 and it began sending spam messages to other employees' accounts from 11 PM, as reported by Northern Territory News on September 4, 2008.
Haigh said that when the volume of spam became too high, his department put the government on an e-mail block list so that they could detect and resolve the problem.
Meantime, Haigh in common opinion with other IT specialists, security researchers and analysts added that there would be an investigation to determine the way the virus spread across the government's system.
According to him, in the current case, the virus possibly arrived via e-mail. According to him, a large number of computer viruses are concealed in e-mail attachments, the greatest potential zone for the entry of viruses.
Meanwhile, an alert was issued to public servants in the end week of August 2008 that two new viruses through spam mails had penetrated the government's anti-virus defenses.
Also, security experts stated that the government would have to initiate a formal action to withdraw itself from the e-mail block list.
Related article: Virus Infects Through USB Drives
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The Tennessee Titans head into free agency next month with a need for an edge rusher that can consistently get to the opponent’s quarterback and add an extra boost of aggression to their rising defense.
A multitude of names will hit the market in mid-March, and one of those to watch is New England Patriots edge rusher, Trey Flowers.
Flowers, 25, doesn’t necessarily have any numbers that beg to be recognized on the stats sheet, but he has been efficient.
Mike Herndon of Music City Miracles is one analyst who buys into Flowers as a serious candidate.
The numbers prove that he can be useful in pressuring the quarterback and stopping the run — both of which area areas the Titans have struggled in over recent times.
” …his pressure numbers are much better, finishing tied for 10th among all edge rushers in 2018 with 64 according to PFF,” he wrote. “He’s also an outstanding run defender, checking in as the 4th best edge rusher in PFF’s Run Stop Percentage metric.”
Last season, Flowers saw action in 15 games, recording 57 combined tackles, 7.5 sacks and two passes defensed. On his career, he totals 164 combined tackles, 21 sacks and six passes defensed over 46 games.
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At the BNC’s Annual General Meeting on November 4th, the 2018-19 board of directors was elected. The board remains the same with two exceptions. Dorota Porazinska departs due to relocation. Andrew Lainis joins as a voting director after handling the treasurer role for the last year following his appointment to the role by a vote of the board due to a vacancy.
The BOD elects its officers at its next meeting. Those officers serve for one year.
Thanks to D for her years of service to the BNC’s board. An accomplished researcher, she engaged the board in kind and friendly terms devoid of any self importance. She worked and collaborated on tasks, especially when it was a good fit for her skills. She kept the board on track in a gentle way, mostly by simply bringing her perspective which was distinct from the portion of the board that is veteran and prone to act out of habit. Good luck to D, she’ll be missed! | <urn:uuid:692a3e92-3366-43a4-aed0-61ae784c4973> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://bouldernordic.org/2018-19-board-of-directors-and-thanks-to-dorota/ | 2022-12-05T18:03:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711042.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205164659-20221205194659-00365.warc.gz | en | 0.983812 | 205 |
Political prisoners receive lecture before being released.
Hugo Pérez Hernáiz
On June 13 after the third round of releases of political prisoners by the government, Delcy Rodríguez (then president of the Constitutive Assembly, Venezuela’s Vice-president since June 14), announced that for now, this will be the final group to receive procedural benefits. She also said that, since December last year 200 prisoners have been released, 123 since June 1. Local human rights organization Foro Penal contends that of the 123 released in June, only 62 can be considered political prisoners. According to Foro Penal, there are still 280 political prisoners in different Venezuelan jails after latest releases.
The government is framing theses releases as a generous gesture of reconciliation. In the three most recent rounds of releases the procedure was almost identically staged. Prisoners were bused from their detention centers to the Casa Amarilla in downtown Caracas, a Nineteenth Century building housing the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry. There, before being granted different forms of procedural benefits, prisoners listen to government officials lecture them on the meaning of their release.
Then president of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) Delcy Rodriguez explained to the most recent group that their release was “a message of union for Venezuelans…a message of reconciliation for everyone, so that Venezuela will never again walk the path of destabilizing violence with political aims.” Ombudsman and former human rights activist Alfredo Ruiz admonished them, saying their release was forgiveness from “the victims of political violence,” referring to those who had suffered because of opposition protests. The prisoners, and sometimes their lawyers, also had to sign documents written by the ANC expressing their commitment to “fight for peace and democracy in Venezuela.” They were then bused back to their detention centers to be released there.
The government message is clear: these prisoners were not being unfairly held on political motivated grounds, but because they had engaged in destabilizing political violence. Indeed, the government denies the term “political prisoners” and prefers to call them people “implicated in political violence,” their political violence. Accordingly, among those released are several pro-government activists arrested for acting against opposition protests in the past, and also several people with no explicit political militancy that have participated in protests for basic services, medicine or food. Persons from all of these groups are now being released because the government is trying, according to the Attorney General Tarek William Saab, to “create a space for dialogue, reconciliation and coexistence.”
The list of those to-be-released is first checked by the “Truth, Justice, Peace, and Public Tranquility Commission,” which works in consultation with the pro-government “victims of political violence” groups. The most important of such groups, the “Committee of Victims of the Guarimba and Continuous Coup,” published a statement on June 2, announcing their support for the release measures because of the need for dialogue and reconciliation. But they also reminded the government that “it is not possible to reach a real and sustainable peace process without recognition and integral attention to the victims.”
Several government commentators have also supported the releases as a pragmatic way to get rid of a distraction and focus on winning the “economic war” the government claims is being waged by imperialist forces abroad and their local collaborators.
For example, the author of a piece in the pro-government portal Misión Verdad, starts by admitting to an almost “physical pain” at watching images of the “liberation of a handful of psychopaths who should remain in prison for ever.” But he goes on to explain that things are not so simple in the struggle against “the enemy,” and urges the reader to understand that president Maduro is forced to make concessions in order to win the longer war against this enemy. He explains, by way of example, that it is now very clear that opposition leader Julio Borges (who has championed international sanctions against government officials) is directly responsible for inflation, but that arresting Borges would not immediately lower food prices the next day and would instead have adverse political consequences.
Another opinion piece published by Misión Verdad, tagged under “The War in Venezuela”, explains the objectives of the prisoner’s release. The article says that even though it is true that those released have been “processed or sentenced” because of their participation in “violent networks of 2014 and 2017,” none of them belongs directly to the group of “assassins” that participated in those protests. And while Maduro has repeatedly told his followers that there can be no peace without justice, he has to handle the current crisis with pragmatism: “he has used both hands in the management of the internal conflict promoted by anti-chavismo. With one hand he has deployed the State’s security apparatus to contain or eradicate latent threats, but he has also offered his other hand for dialogue, reconciliation and reparation.”
The article goes to great length to explain that they are not simply being freed. Most of these activists are receiving varying forms of “procedural benefits,” from house arrest to conditional release, but that their judicial process continues. This is a point government officials have stressed. Regarding the first round of releases, President Maduro said: “If the resort again to violence, they will go back to jail. Justice will be applied to them.” | <urn:uuid:45d2f4ef-a0f6-4c32-8b03-845dc1c142c7> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://venezuelablog.org/political-prisoners-releases-government-says/ | 2019-03-26T06:45:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204857.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326054828-20190326080828-00140.warc.gz | en | 0.974701 | 1,152 |
Unintentional matching- Russian chocolates from Little Flower Candy Co.
Cute, tiny, delicious chocolate/ caramel/ sea salt tarts. From Little Flower as well.
Running into Katie yesterday.
This blog (funny!) that I happened upon today via Intelligent Clashing.
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In a world where we judge and most of the time treat people differently because of a person’s income. We overlook a man because of his dirty clothes, but give a special seat to a man who appears rich. Even […]
I posted a news article about a Muslim woman being punished for adultery by stoning to death, and I criticized it. Then a friend said, “It’s their law, we just have to respect it.” I find it really ironic when some people will […]
Sorry if the title of this blogpost sounds lousy, I could not think of anything catchy. Anyway, I’m just letting out my frustration about a friend of mine who was unresponsive to my texts and messages on Facebook. It was […]
Pikon ka? Are you the type of Pinoy that quickly demand apologies from somebody that belittles the Philippines or the Filipinos, then this video is for you. Frankly, this video is not for me, dili ko pikon or balat sibuyas. […]
This “tribute” by Lourd de Veyra might be too hard for the Apple fanatics. RIP Steve Jobs.
People in the big cities such as Manila and Cebu have a notion that they are the center of correct pronunciations. But Manilans are the most ironically notorious. Metro Manila being the capital of the Philippines, and the most advanced […]
1. When parents like to name their kids with two or even three names, but these parents call their kids with a shortened name or nickname. An example is a friend of mine whose son’s name is Samuel John, but […] | <urn:uuid:4c771a5f-a7db-4851-8b21-06551b65e3db> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gwapito.com/category/ironic-101/ | 2017-01-23T18:49:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282937.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00443-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961994 | 348 |
Click image to take Student Climate Survey.
Any student in grades 4 through 12 assigned to a traditional MPS, MPS charter, or MPS partnership school should feel free to take the survey.
We are interested in your opinion about the climate for learning in the schools. Please take a few moments to share with us your perceptions about the climate at your school. The data gathered from the survey are invaluable to the District as we seek to improve the educational environment in our schools. | <urn:uuid:6ab94aeb-5425-444b-9228-c58fdb19e42d> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://mpsportal.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_3753_335_0_43/http%3B/www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/survey/cstudent.html | 2014-08-29T22:07:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500833461.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021353-00415-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96658 | 97 |
We would like to do in your favour, services are therefore constantly broadened, changed and even justified to own needs.
What’s for free for our guests?
- During your stay a closed parking area is provided for free.
- Guests can use the wellness section between 10:00 and 18:00 hours for free.
- Those who use the wellness section are provided with bathrobe for free.
- Transfers to the Castle bath with the hotel’s electronic car are free for guests. (The car cannot be used when the weather is rainy).
- Guests can use the hotel’s bikes for free.
- Games are available for guests for free (XBOX, Darts, Chess).
- The accomodation for children under 6 years is free (if your child is coming with you please note the hotel beforehand).
- If you would like to hike the hotel’s Nordic Walking equipment can be used for free.
- 10% discount is provided for guests staying at our hotel at the gift shop, Annamánia.
- 50% disocunt is provided from the a’la carte menu. | <urn:uuid:25439bdb-f206-48df-8ceb-dffe79d73314> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://komloetteremgyula.hu/en/hotels-free-services/ | 2020-01-24T18:06:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250624328.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20200124161014-20200124190014-00022.warc.gz | en | 0.929069 | 243 |
It seems that I’ve come to an age where visiting the attic at my parents’ house has become an adventure again. No, it’s not due to the risk of collapsing while climbing the stairs. It’s just that everything I lay my eyes upon is both bringing back great memories and promising the thrill of playing with a new toy, should I decide to take it back to my room. Recently I gave in to such promise coming from a dust covered, white box.
This is an Atari 800 XE computer, which my father bought for me when I was nine or so. The box is all torn and dirty, but I swear I was opening it like it was a brand new iPad. Or some other geek fleshlight.
Funny thing at the side of the box. “Made in Taiwan” has been covered by a sticker, with the word “Taiwan” additionally painted over. Apparently using child labour was frowned upon back in the days.
Inside the box I’ve found the computer itself, not wrapped in any kind of protective foil, which is very nature friendly. Cardboard is made from recycled paper and polystyrene holders are surely edible. That’s how PC manufacturers were rolling those days.
At the bottom of the box there is another, smaller box. Inside I’ve found a power supply unit (less than 10 Watts, eco!) and a cable for connecting the computer to the TV. There was no smaller box at the bottom of this one.
Here it is. This piece of tin and plastic is what determined my whole future. If it wasn’t for this computer, right now I might have been a Champions League soccer player, a world renown novelist, Nobel Peace Prize laurate, or a baker.
On the technical note – it took PC industry twenty years to realise how awesome this everything-in-the-keyboard design was.
This baby has quite a few ports. And not just any ports. Those are “shit if I know what they’re for” ports. In my post-communist childhood I’ve never seen anything that could fit into those (well, besides stuff that I got with the computer, more on that later).
As it turned out, my bleeding edge peripherals were not as universal as advertised.
Thankfully, after one more daring escapade to the attic, I came back with these premium accessories.
Back in the days, people weren’t so obsessed with hedonistic terms like “inches”, “thin” or “gamut”. Picture was just a mean to express the idea. I remember spending countless hours staring in awe into this magnificent imaging device:
Unfortunately, my eyes now spoiled with all these colours and straight lines, couldn’t see past the noise. I had to bring in a less subtle device – an old TV my family has been using as a dust attractor in the basement. Thus my complete, old-school computer setup looked like this:
The way I remember it – in the early nineties, every store in Poland had an exclusive agreement with major silicon valley game studios. This allowed for this great game-packs to be released:
I remember hearing rumours, that some people used cassettes to store music. Strange.
Atari computer was designed to give users time to meditate while the game was loading. The sound produced by a game loading from cassette has been carefully designed by neuroscientists, sound engineers and Zen masters. It synchronized brain waves, thus inducing a state of gaming trance. User in this state would gain unprecedented focus, lightning reflexes and resistance to sleep deprivation.
Be quiet! It’s loading!
Right here should be a photo of me playing Mario Bros. Unfortunately, I was so immediately immersed in the fantastic, 8 bit world that I forgot to take a picture. You should just imagine me having a lot of fun. To help you with that, here’s a photo of a panda having a lot of fun:
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New Center Boosts USC Brain Power
The Dornsife Neuroscience Imaging Center enables scientists to capture images of the human brain and its activity in remarkable detail. The facility will accelerate research at USC and strengthen the university’s position in the field.
The USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences celebrated the opening of the Dana and David Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center on Sept. 7.
"Thanks to the generous support of the Dornsife family, we expect to see an increase in the pace of human brain research in the College and the university," said Joseph Aoun, dean of the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, who addressed the group of university leaders, neuroscientists, students and guests at the building dedication ceremony.
"This center will serve as a new focal point for USC's cognitive scientists," Aoun said. "Access to this indispensable, state-of-the-art brain imaging technology will foster new collaborations, further integrate our university-wide training program in the neurosciences and help us attract other top scientists and graduate students."
At the ceremony, USC President Steven B. Sample said, "A vital academic research tool, this new facility will serve as an interdisciplinary catalyst for important scientific, medical and educational breakthroughs that will improve human health and well-being. The Dornsifes' investment of their family's name, and their vision for what the research center will accomplish, are legacies that will last for generations."
Business executive David Dornsife, a USC trustee and vice president of the Hedco Foundation, also spoke before he and his wife, Dana, joined USC officials in cutting the red ribbon draped across the building's entrance.
"As part of the USC community, my family and I have experienced first-hand the benefit of the high-quality education and research provided by USC," Dornsife said. "We're confident USC will make major discoveries and strengthen its position as a major player in the field."
To celebrate the Dornsife family's legacy of support for USC and neuroscience research, a luncheon was held in the nearby Hedco Neurosciences building, which houses many USC College neuroscientists and is named in honor of the Dornsife family's generous donation toward its construction more than a decade ago.
The new Dornsife Imaging Center will provide increased access for USC neuroscientists to the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) system, which enables scientists to capture images of the human brain and its activity in exquisite detail.
The scanner was funded in part by a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Award.
Irving Biederman, the principal investigator of the NSF Award, said the prominence of USC neuroscientists and the establishment of the Dornsife Center both proved critical in securing the federal grant.
"The NSF decision was based largely on what they saw as our potential for doing outstanding imaging research and the clear commitment to this objective demonstrated by the establishment of the Dornsife Center," said Biederman, holder of the Harold Dornsife Neurosciences Chair in the College. "More concretely, without the Dornsife gift and the new building, we wouldn't have been able to apply for the grant.
"There's a tremendous range of research projects that our scientists will pursue at the center, from studies of the biological causes of violence and understanding how we are able, in a fraction of a second, to comprehend a scene we've never perceived before, to probing where and how "episodic memory" – the mental diaries of our lives – are produced and stored in the brain," said Biederman, a professor of psychology and computer science.
Projects include one probing the neurological basis of dyslexia and another exploring differences in how the brain processes the emotions of shame and guilt.
Users are expected to include 30 faculty and more than 100 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from a variety of academic units including the USC Neuroscience Program and the departments of psychology, biological sciences, kinesiology, computer science, gerontology, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and the USC-affiliated House Ear Institute.
The building was specially designed and built to hold the powerful magnet that forms the core of the center's fMRI scanner.
The fMRI magnet weighs approximately 13 tons (equivalent to a dozen cars) and produces a magnetic field of 3 Tesla – "about 60,000 times the strength of the Earth's magnetic field," said cognitive scientist Zhong-Lin Lu, an associate professor of psychology who trained as a physicist and is an expert on brain imaging techniques.
Because of the magnet's weight and extreme sensitivity – ground vibrations from cars can throw off the scanner's measurements and blur images – the building's foundation had to be heavily reinforced.
The strength of the magnet also meant that the scanning room had to be built with a minimum of metals. Instead, cables made of special materials carry electrical and data lines into and out of the room. To contain the magnetic forces, a thin layer of copper surrounded by many layers of steel plates, enclose the room.
The Los Angeles office of the architectural firm of Perkins & Will designed the building. The Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co. served as the building's general contractor.
Lu hopes that in the future the center will be known not only for its discoveries about the human brain and the nature of consciousness, but also for the development and invention of improved techniques to image the brain.
Aoun also underlined the key support provided by Sample and the university in creating the Dornsife Imaging Center.
"Our hope," Aoun said, "is that work undertaken at the facility will lead to new insights into the brain-based disorders and diseases that prove devastating for millions of Americans."
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Traffic was almost closed at the lockdown. As a result, there were several benefits of reducing air pollution. This time, as a result of reduction in air pollution, Kanchanjangha is clearly visible not only from Siliguri but also from Raiganj.
Kanchenjunga was seen from Raiganj for 10-12 minutes at 5:40 yesterday. Environmentalists say it reduces air pollution. This mountain peak has been clearly seen from so far.
At the time of the lockdown, NASA's satellite image showed that India's air pollution had decreased after 20 years. The main reason for this is of course the lockdown, as well as the aerosols floating in the Indian air due to the rains have decreased so much that the Indian sky is as clear as 20 years ago. The tiniest particles of air pollution that are trapped in our atmosphere. These particles can be made of solid material or liquid gaseous material. Clouds and fog are also a kind of aerosol.
The city of Delhi is at the forefront of air pollution in the world. There the amount of a.q.i has dropped below 38 which is very comforting. As a result of the lockdown, the amount of nitrogen oxides in the air of Delhi has come down at a record rate. According to Safar, on March 25, Delhi's overall AQI score was 8. | <urn:uuid:36c1304a-9203-418f-8f66-96d82074c781> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://www.latestlyhunt.com/the-peak-of-kanchenjunga-is-clearly-visible-from-raiganj-scientists-say-the-benefits-of-reducing-air-pollution/ | 2020-11-27T19:53:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141194171.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20201127191451-20201127221451-00304.warc.gz | en | 0.980571 | 282 |
Hamburger Mary's, Denver, Colorado's coolest patio, is a gay-themed and LGBT-friendly burger restaurant chain that started in San Francisco, California, in 1972. Their motto is: "an open-air bar and grill for open-minded people", and the eateries are often in "gay-oriented" neighborhoods. The menu consists of suggestive named items and the entire establishment is radiant, flamboyant & what everyone wants from a gay friendly bar. Cross-dressing is common, and the Mary in the name is a reference to the slang descriptor "Mary" used for gay men as far back as the early 1900's. There were twelve Hamburger Mary's in the U.S. as of 2012 & they no longer operate in San Francisco, and have offices in Chicago and West Hollywood, as of 2013.
Daniel, one of the most talked about bartenders in Denver, serves a mean cocktail with an sweet smile. His bright blue eyes (yes, they are real) are the most amazing color you will see. It's hard to not look at him. Whoever snagged him to work for Mary's must be some classy cat. Friendly, attentive and always laughing, he makes your entire experience at Hamburger Mary's one to remember.
Not only do they have awesome cocktails and Karaoke nights throughout the week, you obviously have to try their hamburgers. They're so good. Whether you're looking to sing, watch awesome, nostalgic music videos, drink, eat or just dance your ass off, Hamburger Mary's truly welcomes those of all colors, races, sexual 'preferences' & yes, women.
*It should not be frowned upon that women go to gay bars with their gay friends. Not only are they supporting them as amigos, they are spending money at your bar. It should not matter who they are and who they want to date, we're all human beings and for our community who splatters our desire for equality on a daily basis, should not think it's baffling that hot women want to accompany their dudes for a good night out. | <urn:uuid:f6c83206-ff57-49e5-8b3d-31656b2bba34> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.examiner.com/review/hamburger-mary-s-best-patio-denver?cid=rss | 2015-03-06T21:43:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936471203.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074111-00139-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96935 | 431 |
According to Leichtman Research, USA adults now report having Netflix in their homes than a DVR, for the very first time. According to the study, 54% US adults have Netflix, while some 53% have a DVR. In comparison, Netflix usage stood at just 28% in 2011 while DVR ownership was 44%.
“Today, over 50% of households have a DVR and, for the first time in the fifteen years of this study, over half of households have Netflix. The report also stated that traditional TV viewing also exists today and some 46% of adults agreed that they often flip through TV channels to see what’s on. | <urn:uuid:03ded1c2-d081-46fb-84ce-aaf3511d74db> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.muvi.com/industry-updates/market-surveys-studies-research-polls/netflix-usage-usa-tops-dvr-ownership.html | 2018-12-14T21:10:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826354.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20181214210553-20181214232553-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.981986 | 135 |
What makes the boulder split?
nor hurtling meteor
or earthquake’s jolt.
and fairy-fingered life
the spalled rock cracks, surrenders.
Once formidable, now hastening toward decline.
Thus toils the lichen,
the misty, gentle rain,
or, lighter still,
an idea borne aloft by barest strain.
A quiet decision,
expression of the will too soft to raise alarm.
And, like a spark
taking flight from bonfire’s glow,
the impetus for grand and violent change
stands as unpresuming David
to ten thousand-thousand Goliaths
and, underestimated, seems impossible that it were so.
Yet, that small spark has endless power to bestow.
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Insert Nuts Type D M6 x 13mm Pack of 50
I needed to make some routing jigs for a specialist installation and was struggling to find a quick and easy way of holding the workpieces. These worked brilliantly, allowing me to clamp the odd shapes to the router sled. And the customer is very pleased with, but puzzled how, I got the final shapes. Thanks Screwfix!
18 Apr 2015
Superb secure fixing into chipboard. however no instructions so used a 9mm drill and a 10mm chamfer to aid getting a square start when fitting.
30 Mar 2015
Neat and strong
I used these to make fixings into 18mm veneered MDF. They are easy to use, very strong, and look professional. As commented by someone else, there is no guidance as to the drill size to use. I used a 9mm bit and the grip was just fine. The cross dowel bolts work nicely with these insert nuts.
19 Mar 2015
These combined with the button screws item 40975 enabled reassembly of an old and battered chipboard wardrobe that would otherwise have been scrap. Brilliant product at brilliant price.
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Business Game Changers Radio with Sarah Westall: Part 2: PizzaGate and Child Sexual Abuse Realities w/ FBI Spokesman & Special Agent, Jeffrey Van Nest
03/03/2017 12:00 pm PST
FBI spokesperson and special agent Jeffrey Van Nest joins the program. He explains the role that the FBI plays in taking down pedophiles and sex traffickers. He also addresses my questions on whether the FBI will aggressively pursue powerful criminals as well as all potential traffickers. An important question many in the media are grappling with.
See the rest of the article here: http://sarahwestall.com/pt-2-pizzagate-fbi-spokesman-sex-trafficking-targeting-powerful-ordinary-criminals/
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Marisa DiNardo (pictured at left) worked in the World Trade Center, where she was killed on September 11, 2001.
Her mother, Ester DiNardo (pictured above), came to StoryCorps to remember the final night she and Marisa together. They celebrated Ester’s birthday at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center’s North Tower.
Marisa died in that same building the following morning.
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Houston, Texas is a dynamic, vibrant city with a diverse population. It is connected to the continental United States by freight rail lines, interstate highways and to the world via two international airports and a bustling sea port. This city, built aside bayous, has been dubbed “The Energy Capital of the World.” It houses the world’s largest medical center and NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Recently, the city of Houston and its business community offered an amazing package of incentives and our collective resources to secure Amazon’s “HQ2.” Now that the city has lost the bid, where do we go from here?
The purpose of this article is not to offer a postmortem, lay blame, or point fingers for losing the bid, but simply to offer a way to achieve the stated purpose of the proposed “Houston Innovation Corridor” without selling our collective soul to Amazon or any other outside entity. What is proposed here is that we reignite our enthusiasm and invest the same incentives and resources we offered Amazon, but this time, turn inward to create Houston’s version of the next generation of technological juggernauts.
First, let us resolve to further diversify our economy by focusing on education, entrepreneurship, and technological innovation. But instead of attempting to attract the “creative class” as identified in Richard Florida’s book The Rise of The Creative Class, (which has been characterized as a blueprint for gentrification), we should concentrate on growing our own creative class and high tech economy by accepting this challenge: create a new educational paradigm for the 21st century to propel us into the 22nd century. Our immediate task is to educate a diverse homegrown creative class that is sensitive to increasing inequality, racial or economic segregation, and the hollowing out of the middle class that now plagues other high tech cities. These are the unintended consequences of the rise of the creative class and tech economy addressed, in part, in Richard Florida’s follow up book The New Urban Crisis.
It is also proposed that we take a hard look at the University Of Texas McCombs School Of Business Professor John Sibley Butler’s lecture: How to Tap Into the “Austin Model” for Wealth and Job Creation delivered May 7, 2015. While we recommend replicating parts of the “Austin Model,” Houston should do so without the gentrifying displacement of poor communities of color that Austin is experiencing.
Second, sustainable community and economic development cannot be achieved without factoring in resilience thinking and practice. Hurricane Harvey should have profoundly altered our view of our relationship with the natural environment. In other words, it is past time we build and develop our city’s infrastructure, surface structures, industrial base, and multimodal transportation network with a profound respect for nature in order to actually make our city and region resilient. Truthfully, most who use the term resilience do not know that there are at least three types of resilience: engineered, ecosystem, and evolutionary. Engineered resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance or change while maintaining its identity, structure or function; ecosystem resilience is a system’s capacity to adapt and transform to a higher stable state equilibrium during a disturbance or change; and evolutionary resilience is a system’s capacity to transform on its own without a linear cause, disturbance, or change. Question: when you hear or read the word resilience, which of these delineations comes to mind?
We propose pursuing a forward thinking evolutionary methodology that combines elements of both engineered and ecosystem resilience in anticipation of future natural-manmade disasters or economic downturns. Note: Neither sustainability nor resilience, by any definition, is attainable without the consideration of equity which is defined as “[T]he outcome of a process of the appropriate distribution of benefits and burdens, within and across generations…” For any sustainable community or economic development or redevelopment to be resilient, it must be green, profitable, safe, secure and fair to our generation and the next regardless to creed, class, or color. To return to “business as usual” in this hour is to bequeath to our children a future that is unsustainable and vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances and unpredictable change.
In conclusion, we can and must focus on education, entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and resilient development if we desire to create favorable outcomes. As California has its “Silicon Valley;” and Austin, Texas is now referred to as “The Silicon Hills;” we propose that Houston become “The Silicon Bayou” by transforming part of the city and region’s economy for the 22nd century. Let us invest in Houston and our region during this century by leveraging the shrinking economic advantage the current oil and gas economic model now affords us. To become “The Silicon Bayou,” Houston must have more than an “out of the box” mentality. To be successful, the “Houston Strong” mindset, now and in the future, must believe and act as if there is no box at all!
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Last Saturday I was fascinated – and surprised – by a BBC Radio 4 programme, with a hard-hitting title that I could not have imagined just a few years ago: “Broken Banking.”
The BBC’s “iPlayer” website introduces the programme as follows:
“Big British banks are widely accused of damaging the economy by failing to support their customers. Michael Robinson reports on initiatives to do without banks altogether.
With peer-to-peer lending, borrowers and lenders are matched directly through sophisticated websites promising better returns to investors and cheaper loans to borrowers. Could such direct contacts form a significant part of the future financial landscape? At least one senior Bank of England official thinks it might.”
The programme talked about two such lenders: Zopa for personal lending and Funding Circle for business loans.
The key question is: how can both investors and borrowers get a better deal? The answer lies in a word: spread.
“SPREAD”: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
If you were planning an overseas holiday, have you noticed those ads for “no commission” foreign currency; and wondered “how can they do it? How do they make their money?” Well, you know that Thomas Cook, Travelex, etc are not charities; nor is your friendly high street bank, of course.
They all make their money on currency from the difference between the rates at which they buy and sell currency, i.e. the “spread”. For example, if you ask your bank their latest tourist rates, there will be selling rates at which they sell you Euros, dollars etc; and also buying rates for any you bring back. If you work out the difference as a percentage of the buying rate, that’s the spread and that’s how they make their money. If they charge commission as well, that’s a bonus for them (or maybe I shouldn’t use that ugly word nowadays). Maybe they’ll say “commission-free” as an inducement, because they can make enough money on the spread.
WHAT WORKS FOR CURRENCIES WORKS FOR LOANS
Exactly the same thing happens, of course, when banks take in deposits and grant loans. The “spread” between their deposit rates and their lending rates, (or between the rate at which they can borrow in the money market, the now-notorious LIBOR, and the rates they get on loans), is a major part of their income. It’s what would be called margin in most businesses. Fair enough; the banks have to generate margins to sustain their services. But then I got a shock.
According to this BBC programme, the AVERAGE spread at UK banks in mid-2007, just before the credit crunch, was 2%. By 2009 it had risen to 7%.
“That was a rise of over 5%”, the presenter said, but that greatly understates the case. Yes, it was five percentage points, but it was an increase of 250% on the 2007 figure, if I’m not mistaken … in just two years.
This year, the average has dropped to a more “reasonable” 6%. That’s still a rise of 200% on the 2007 spread.
In the clamour for greater transparency about banks’ account charges, the spread figure is another (and probably much larger) area on which the public is mostly in the dark.
What’s the connection with peer-to-peer lending, you may ask. Peer-to-peer lenders simply put two parties in touch, and never handle the money, so they take a commission for the service, instead of a spread. That commission, according to the BBC, averages 1%. Yes, you read it right: 1%. That’s why the borrower and the lender can both get a better deal.
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In the 1980s I was truly privileged to live 8 years among the noble people of the Koroba-Kopiago district in Hela Province, Papua New Guinea. These noble people took in a foreign white-boy who knew so little, who made so many mistakes, who had so much to learn, and they were kind, generous, and treated me far better than I deserved. How deeply grateful I am.
These 8 years among the Huli, Yuna, Bogaya and Sinali people I was never threatened or in danger by any human being. I never had anything stolen. I was never even asked for money. Instead, I could go anywhere I wanted. If I was hungry or thirsty people rushed to offer me food and drink. If I was caught somewhere with nowhere to stay, any number of people offered me all I needed. I learned Christian hospitality and godly generosity through them. I am a slow learner and am still learning. How deeply grateful I am.
I am on my way back to visit them. For three weeks I will be shaking hands saying a thousand thank-yous. I will be doing a lot of walking and am trusting that my troubled foot holds together. But regardless, let the pain and limping and shortness of breath be a visible testimony of how deeply I love and appreciate these blessed men, women, young people and children. You are the best!
N.B. This trip was back in November 2017. We had an absolutely wonderful time together. My foot caused a whole lot of pain, but the joys of everything else drowned it out. I so much want to go back this year. | <urn:uuid:dc80295b-2a96-4362-bf26-caa661151688> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://heardivinewords.com/2021/02/06/truly-privileged/ | 2021-05-12T08:42:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991685.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20210512070028-20210512100028-00037.warc.gz | en | 0.981784 | 338 |
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Paladins do have an OH SHIT button. They have several, in fact. This is, historically-speaking, a very OH SHIT-oriented class. They're just not group/raidwide and they require some outside-box thinking and cooperation/coordination with the affected parties. So they don't seem as useful in the current game.
Lay Hands, BoP, Divine Shield, and HoSac can all stop, with quick reactions and 1 GCD, a death from happening — just like that. It's "Nope. You're not dying." The end. No arguments. It's somewhat distinct to Pally healing.
The problem with LoH is that tank healing isn't really a 'job' anymore with Active Mit so aggressively in place, and it's not something you stack CDs for. And for non-tanks that suddenly drop, you can usually provide enough healing to get the same end result with much simpler/shorter CDs for example a Shaman's Mastery+UL+AS+GHW or even just a timely crit from IoL DL.
The problem with BoP & HoSac is they're creative use of game mechanics and require split-second coordination with multiple other players to use them effectively as an OH SHIT button in the good sense, instead of "OH SHIT we just lost 4 extra people, thank you idiot healer".
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Mr GILES (Scullin) (10:30): How extraordinary that the Deputy Prime Minister talks about this parliament respecting the mandate of the government after the debate we have seen on this budget of broken promises.
I rise in opposition to this package of 11 bills before us. I note, in doing so, as per the member for Port Adelaide, that this debate today represents the culmination of what has been, as he put it, a hysterical and mendacious campaign. I am very pleased to have the opportunity to be able to speak once more in this debate to put on the record again my views on tackling climate change. I am very proud to be part of the Labor Party that stood up for carbon pricing under Kevin Rudd, under Julia Gillard and now under the present Leader of the Opposition. I am proud to be part of a party that looks to the evidence and, in doing so, looks to our future.
Yesterday I did not get the chance to speak on the direct action or, rather, the carbon farming initiative legislation. The gag that was imposed once again betrayed the lack of confidence this government has in its policy settings, and rightly so. The member for Charlton, in his contribution, put to rest the straw men that constitute the best the government can put up in this case, as we saw through the contribution of the Deputy Prime Minister. I urge members opposite to look at Hansard to consider the contribution of the member for Charlton in yesterday's debate and perhaps compare that to the international overview that the Deputy Prime Minister offered us a few minutes ago.
Fundamentally, this is a government that does not have the courage of its convictions. This is a government that is continually afraid of debate and afraid of scrutiny. This is particularly disappointing in a debate such as this, a vital debate around Australia's future. This debate, or rather the management of it, over the past few months demonstrates the lack of bona fides the government has in the area of climate change, and that the tawdry political fixes that brought the current leadership of the government together are hurting Australia's economy as well as our environment. Of course it has not been a great couple of days for the environment minister—or the person we are to refer to using that title—because, whatever he may be, his record on the environment is less than zero.
Mr Bowen: The artist formerly known as—
Mr GILES: Yes, 'the artist formerly known as', as the shadow Treasurer says. I could not get the minister to respond to me in question time yesterday despite my best endeavours to help him out. But I do hold out some hope that he may be able to revert to type. Perhaps he can, in light of yesterday's events, dust off that thesis of his and walk away from the tragic history of the coalition's retreat from rationality and reality in the challenge of climate change.
We have seen some progress in the debate on climate change in very recent days. The Palmer United Party, it would seem, has looked to the evidence and to the future and has indicated it will support the continuation of the RET, the Climate Change Authority and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. This is good news, great news and a sensible development. In carbon pricing, the position is less clear, but I am hopeful. In that regard, I look to some comments of the Climate Institute from last night. They look to the fact that Mr Palmer is open to a meaningful debate, an evidence based debate. Mr Connor from the Climate Institute said:
It should be recognised that Mr Palmer has come a long way today and declared he has an open mind on the issue.
An open mind is really what we all should have in this challenge, and I hope members opposite in the coming weeks will follow Mr Palmer's example. I note also that the Climate Institute's polling indicates that Australians are demonstrating that they have an open mind on these matters. Despite the campaign of hysteria, the mendacious campaign waged by members opposite, Australians are seeing beyond this hysteria and more Australians now want to keep the current carbon laws rather than repeal them, and the majority clearly think that the Abbott government should take climate change more seriously. This is progress, and I am sure it is a curve that will continue.
This is a cynical act of a deeply cynical government which always goes to the lowest common denominator. In this case, the lowest common denominator means the climate change deniers, although at least they are honest. It is those who have conjured up this absurd policy that really are to blame here because in their hearts they know better, which is why they have been hiding from the debate.
As I thought about my contribution in this debate, I thought about two matters that have been consistently put by government members in the debate on the budget: the refrain, the pompous refrain that Labor is all politics and no policy—a favourite of the Treasurer—and the feigned concern for questions of intergenerational equity. I think both need to be applied to this debate. When I think about this politics charge, is this not the purist politics on the part of those opposite? They cannot find a disinterested expert to back in their position, and media releases from the likes of the Minerals Council are no substitute for that sort of evidence based analysis from disinterested parties, economists or climate scientists.
This is of course all about a price that has been paid in the leadership of the Liberal Party. It is all about the internals of the coalition giving way to the hard right. Concerns of intergenerational equity, spoken of so often in the debates on the budget, go to the heart of this debate. It seems pretty elementary to me that concerns of equity and sustainability go hand in hand. How can any of us deny our children and their children the quality of life that we have enjoyed, in particular, the opportunity to take pleasure in our wonderful natural environment? On this point, a few moments ago, the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia put the proposition, in effect, that what we do in Australia is immaterial. This is morally bankrupt. A developed economy, a high-emitting economy like Australia must play a leadership role. We must do our share in meeting this great global challenge. The alternative is unpalatable and morally wrong.
What is at stake today? We see 11 bills to amend a number of acts as well as some consequential amendments to a range of non-carbon related acts. What is at stake here is the abolition of the price of carbon and the removal of the ETS without any mechanism to take its place; the removal of important industry assistance, including support for Australian jobs through the steel transformation plan; the abolition of the Climate Change Authority, although we have had good news on that; and the abolition of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, although again there are grounds for optimism there—and that would, of course, cease any commercial term loans to help new, ambitious renewable projects over the estimates. I also note that this is legislation that is designed to work retrospectively if adopted after the end of this financial year—a presumption we should always be cautious of.
As the member for Port Adelaide has mentioned, the House and the Senate have already dealt with these bills. Then as now, we saw from this government procedural games seeking to prevent meaningful debate in this place. I simply say that the self-satisfied cleverness of the Leader of the House is obviously pleasing to him but makes even clearer the case that this is at its heart a mean and tricky government without the courage of its convictions. There are parallels between this government's aversion to debate, this notion of policymaking as a game, and its aversion to the science of climate change.
As I have previously said in this place, I believe that taking effective action on climate change is the most urgent priority facing Australia. Unlike members opposite, I believe that putting a price on carbon must be at the core of taking effective action. I believe the scientists of climate change, not the member for Dawson, and I believe the economists on how we should respond to meeting this great moral challenge. And of course there is a consensus in both of these communities of experts that flies in the face of the actions of this government. I refer members opposite to September's fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is important reading, and I urge them to have regard for those findings.
While we have heard the numbers plenty of times, I think and hope they are worth repeating. Perhaps, like Mr Palmer, members opposite may develop open minds. Ninety-seven per cent of climate scientists concur that climate change is drive by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. I am not sure about the Minister for Agriculture, and I hope that he makes a contribution to this debate. I look forward to hearing his contribution on these matters as I always look forward to his contributions in this place. Also, 86 per cent of economists, normally the friends of members opposite—normally the friends of last resort on economic matters—support an ETS as the cheapest and most efficient way to reduce carbon pollution. The contrast with the lack of support for so-called 'direct action' is striking.
Labor has consistently promised to put a price on carbon. I was elected to this place on this basis and I will continue to act accordingly to support a price on carbon. Putting a price on carbon is, of course, the most efficient way to allocate capital to cleaner ways of producing and using energy. We need also to put a cap on carbon pollution. We need to continue to support the development of our renewables industry, a job-creating industry, and we need to retain the Climate Change Authority so the Australian people can continue to have the benefit of that. It is what this government fears the most in this area of policymaking and right across the board: high-quality, independent advice to drive considered public policy debate in this place and in the community. We need to replace a backward policy, a policy that is all about a political fix—an internal political fix at that—the Liberal Party policy, which simply will not work, with one that will: an emissions trading scheme replacing the carbon tax with a market based mechanism that caps pollution and lets businesses determine the most effective and cost-effective way to operate under that cap. I am sure the Minister for Small Business in his heart of hearts would look to that example. As we know, there is a wide range of modelling, in particular from Treasury, that tells us that in earlier years we would also significantly reduce the cost of living as well as reducing the cost of carbon. We would reduce the cost of living while maintaining Australians' capacity to enjoy a decent standard of living into the future.
I think I should touch briefly on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation—not least because my capacity to participate in the specific debate in respect of that legislation was, unsurprisingly, gagged. I think I should make mention of the fact that that body has been a great success and will return real dividends. In its first months of operation it has been strikingly successful at providing loans to organisations, and over time we see the capacity to make investments that would account for 50 per cent of the five per cent emissions reduction by 2020 target at a profit to the taxpayer of $2.40 a tonne. In 12 months we have seen great success; but, despite those successful operations—again, in defiance of the evidence—through these bills the government is again seeking to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. This is a government that has been unable to see past its ideological blinkers and appreciate the role the Clean Energy Finance Corporation has been playing in facilitating investment in renewable energy that would otherwise be missed by normal commercial banks. It is the sort of innovative public policy that Labor is up for and members opposite are in denial about.
The choice today is stark. We have a choice to be open minded like Mr Palmer—a choice to stand up for our children and their children—or to blink in the face of this great moral challenge, to blink, as the Deputy Prime Minister has rightly put it, from our moral responsibility to play a leadership role, to blink and reduce our future to meaningless, misleading three-word slogans. The choice before us fundamentally comes to whether it should be polluter-pays or paying polluters that guides Australia's policy approach to this area. The coalition's approach is focused on the creation of an allegedly $2.5 billion emissions reduction fund, the core of Direct Action, which would pay Australian companies to reduce pollution. So, where the Labor focus is to cap the amount of pollution that can enter the atmosphere and then have a system for business to find the cheapest way to reduce pollution, the coalition will simply use taxpayers' money to pay big polluters.
I note, briefly, that independent research and modelling undertaken by SKM-MMA and Monash University Centre for Policy Studies shows that this fund will see pollution increase to eight to 10 per cent above 2000 levels by 2020, will reduce pollution by a third less than Labor's policy, will require significant additional investment to achieve the 2020 target, and will see both costs and pollution increase over time. In doing so, it will subsidise the pollution of businesses that do not make changes.
Despite these issues and the posturing by the coalition, there is still no comprehensive approach that marks anything like a credible alternative to Labor's policy. So, we in the Labor Party want to tackle climate change in the most cost effective way possible. That is why we support replacing the carbon tax with a system that puts a legal cap on carbon pollution and lets business work out the cheapest and most efficient way to operate within that cap. The science is settled here, and the way forward is clear. To turn our backs on science, economics and, indeed, the rest of the world is not an option. To mortgage our future on the farce that is direct action is not an option. I know that Labor stands on the right side of history in this debate. | <urn:uuid:3fa0b0db-4d77-4235-a3c5-1a9eaa756136> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://www.andrewgiles.com.au/clean_energy_bills_speech_in_parliament | 2017-07-24T12:32:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424876.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20170724122255-20170724142255-00303.warc.gz | en | 0.970698 | 2,861 |
One of the most misunderstood things about academic life is publication. Everybody knows “publish or perish.” Everybody. But nobody knows, or understands, how damn long it takes to get a paper done. They think we are ridiculous: after all, they wrote perfectly good papers in six hours the night before the paper was due! So we only teach twice a week and we write three papers a year at six hours each. Gah! Slackers.
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Roslyn Cousins, sales associate with Long & Foster Real Estate, has been named top seller and top closer for September 2016. Cousins is affiliated with Long & Foster’s Village of Midlothian office, located in Midlothian, Virginia.
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Ranking mobile sites higher, how the DoJ gagged Google over surveillance of Wikileaks, startup aims to bring fast free WiFi to cities, and free music streaming ahead of Apple Music debut.
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- Mobilegeddon: Is Google Really Ranking Mobile Sites Higher?
- Google to remove 'revenge porn' from search results
- Not Ok Google
- Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
- Google Startup Aims to Bring Fast, Free Wi-Fi to Cities
- Introducing the News Lab
- REVEALED: HOW DOJ GAGGED GOOGLE OVER SURVEILLANCE OF WIKILEAKS VOLUNTEER
- Google launches free music streaming ahead of Apple Music debut
- Google Reveals Health-Tracking Wristband
- Google Photos and the unguessable URL
- Google launches new $1999 Chromebox for meetings hardware w/ support for up to 20 people
- Android Wear Gets New Watchfaces From Hello Kitty, Angry Birds, And 15 Other Mega Brands
- Google Shoots First, Asks Questions Later With AirDroid After Broad Facebook Trademark Complaint
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With the summer heat, it’s cold beverage season. The perfect time to try a new smoothie recipe that not only tastes delicious but has great health benefits. This beautifully vibrant smoothie has a secret ingredient that you’d never expect: beets! If you’re thinking I’m a little crazy for putting beets in a smoothie, hear me out.
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That is not how it begins. On June 9th, the New Moon begins with the EARTH, MOON, and MERCURY in the same sign as PLUTO. There will be lingering issues of death and transformation. Each of us are experiencing the death of something… an illusion, a belief, a job, a relationship, or actual death of a loved one. We must succumb to the ashes before the Phoenix can rise.
The Enhanced Resonance emanating from the EARTH herself sounds like revolution. Millions of people are taking to the streets, as in Brazil and Egypt. We are awakening.
The women are experiencing the shift in frequency first and foremost. The organ in the body that is most attuned to GAIA’s Gravitational Field is the Uterus. The womb, where new life is created, is the portal of entry for rising Kundalini Energy or Shakti. The birth of consciousness begins here. Women all over the world are feeling “the EARTH move” and are being empowered to make change. Meanwhile, some men are having difficulties even recognizing the shift. Don’t be concerned. Everyone will be brought into harmony. GAIA power is unstoppable.
By the Full Moon on July 23rd, the Renaissance will be evident. Focus, Clarity, Passion and financial support will be rolling out with the spiritual revolution. From the end of July and through the first two weeks of August, we will be under the influences of the Goddesses in the asteroid belt. VESTA, (the High Priestess) and CERES, (Gaia herself) will be highlighted by the SUN in Cancer. CERES brings the sweet nurturing of our Great Mother into our pile of Ashes. Powerful ISIS oversees the soaring Phoenix. At the same time the EARTH will conjunct JUNO, the Goddess of the Water element, in Capricorn. ATHENA (Goddess of War) stands beside MARS in Taurus. Anyway you look at it, the Goddesses are in control of the house. They are working in magical ways to renew, restore, and celebrate the birth. We will have about a month to relax and enjoy the wave of blessings that accompany this transit. We have help. There is a greater plan evolving.
Artists, in particular, will be empowered at this time. Paint, Dance, play Music, Write poetry, Design, Cook… Whatever your art… Share your gifts and create your unique beauty in the world. This lunation is about bringing it forth. It’s show time!
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ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
Some Migrant Children Lack Soap, Toothpaste, Toothbrushes; Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) Is Interviewed About The Manmade Humanitarian Disaster At Border; Democrats Hoping For Breakout Moments At First Presidential Debates, Biden Still Leading Pack; Mitch McConnell Meets With 9/11 First Responders, Commits To Passing Funding Extension In August; Government Prosecutors Unveil More Information Against Rep. Hunter; Former Republican EPA Administrator Blasts Trump's Administration's Refusal To Acknowledge That Climate Change Is A Threat. Aired 8-9p ET
Aired June 25, 2019 - 20:00 ET
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[20:00:17] ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: There is breaking news tonight, action in Congress on the humanitarian crisis on the border and we'll bring that to you as we go tonight.
We begin, though, with the graphic reminder what this is about. It's a new photo which I do want to warn you is hard to look at but we think shouldn't be ignored. With that, the photo shows the bodies of a man, his name is Alberto Martinez, and his daughter Angie washed up on the Mexican side of the Rio Bravo River.
Now, they were from El Salvador and drowned trying to cross into the country, drowned trying to cross into the United States. Even had they made it across that river, they might have faced a difficult and possibly dangerous future.
What has become, keeping them honest, a human disaster involving the conditions these migrants face in U.S. custody especially kids. There are kids living in filth and crowded together, young children who are caring for even younger children. They are living this way because the number of people crossing the border in decisions made in Washington and policies set at the very top.
A guest who joins us momentarily, a pediatrician describes it this way. Children being held in conditions comparable she says to torture facilities. Extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care or basic sanitation or water or adequate food. Now, those are the conditions being reported to her.
It's some of the people responsible, as you'll see, simply don't acknowledge that as they compare the influx of migrants to a storm or flood or a tide as if this all fell from the sky or rolled in from the sea.
At the end of the day, though, this is not an act of god. These are people, poor people, young people and whoever you think about the case they may have for coming here, they are here. They are now in custody here and those words in custody don't just mean are being held, they mean in the care of or as Webster's has it, the act or process of preserving in safety, which is not what is happening.
We and others reported on it. Here is what "The New York Times" wrote after children's advocates visited the facility in Clint, Texas. Now, this is a facility where yesterday, we learned that about 250 kids had been taken out of because the overcrowding was so bad. This is also the facility where today we learned that about 100 kids have to be returned to.
Quoting now from "The Times", quote: Most of the young detainees have not been able to shower or wash clothes since they arrived at the facility. Those who visited said they have no access to toothbrushes, tooth paste or soap. There is a stench, said Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, one of the lawyers who visited the facility.
The overwhelming majority of children have not bathed since they crossed the border, she said. There is a stench, she said, speaking literally of human beings living worse than animals because animals at least have the means to clean themselves. She might have well been speaking figuratively of the stench coming from the places where the people responsible for all this are failing to take responsibility.
Today, John Sanders, acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, stepped down. An official unnamed tells "The Times" it was not clear whether his departure is or is not related to the revelations of the facilities. He'll be replaced by another acting official, the acting head of ICE in yet another acting capacity.
Today, his boss, the president, was asked whether he'd asked Acting Commissioner Sanders to step down.
(BEGIIN VIDEO CLIP)
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIED STATES: I didn't speak to him. I don't think I've ever spoken to him actually. But we have some very good people running it and, you know, I don't know anything about it.
I hear he's a very good man. I hear he's a good person. I don't know him. I don't think I ever spoke to him.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: He's heard good things about him, this official responsible for enforcing the president's supposedly tough border policy. But he's never spoken to the man, doesn't even know him. For all the president's tough talk on the border, he's never spoken to one of his front line officials apparently or perhaps he's doing what he did with Paul Manafort, barely knew him. Michael Cohen wasn't really important or George Papadopoulos, the coffee boy.
And again, perhaps, it's not so bad the president might be acquainted with an official carrying out the policy. He also seems confused about one of the policies that began this cycle of kids in custody. Zero tolerance enforcement which separated families at the border.
The policy has been abandoned. He still maintains falsely the last administration was responsible for it and that he, President Trump actually ended it and now in a new twist, this is what is driving the latest influx of families.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TRUMP: You know, under President Obama, you had separation. I was the one that ended it. I said one thing, when I ended it, I said here's what's going to happen. More families are going to come up and that's what happened.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Again, keeping them honest. The zero tolerance policy that produced family's separation was conceived and executed by the Trump administration as a deterrent. They admitted that.
[20:05:01] Not the president.
As for the current influx, experts say, there are many factors driving migration through Mexico from Central America's Northern Triangle countries. It starts in those countries and President Trump has said he's cutting off aid to them or wants to which used to go to improving conditions there and trying to reduce the reasons to leave. It continues through Mexico which is only sporadically guarded the southern border.
But right now seems the main problem the influx of migrants into detention facilities and top U.S. officials who talk tough but don't seem prepared to actually deal with the consequences of it. That is unless dealing with it means awkwardly chuckling while shifting blame elsewhere.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: We have money to give toothpaste and soap and blankets to these kids in El Paso County right now.
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Of course we do.
TAPPER: So, why aren't we?
PENCE: My point is, it's all a part of the appropriations process.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Well, part of the appropriations or part of the stench.
Perspective now from Dr. Dolly Lucio Sevier. She's a pediatrician who recently visited the detention center in McAllen, Texas.
COOPER: Dr. Sevier, what exactly did the kids you talked to tell you about the conditions that they are being kept in?
DR. DOLLY LUCIO SEVIER, PEDIATRICIAN: They have very similar stories. They all reported that the lights were kept on 24 hours. I think that was the most uncomfortable thing for them but, you know, the stuff that alarmed me the most like I mentioned is that they all reported no access to hand washing and equally alarming was the mothers with infants drinking formula from a bottle reported no access of washing bottles for those infants.
COOPER: Were you able to see, you know, the areas that they are kept in? Because I understand the room you were in there was some sort of wet wipes and things that could be used for cleaning. Were you able to see other areas?
SEVIER: No, we did ask for access into where the detainees were being held but denied. The area I saw was very clean. It was an office space that's where they did their work, but it just stood out that at every single workstation there must have been 12 or 15 computers in the room. There was a hand sanitizer and a container of Clorox wipes.
So, clearly, the border patrol officers are worried about getting sick, which I understand but it's just incomprehensible why that concern is not extended to the detainees that are in the crowded space themselves.
COOPER: You also write about seeing evidence of trauma in these kids. Can you explain what the evidence was, how you came to that conclusion?
SEVIER: Yes, the evidence I saw was entirely based on their behavior. They were all responding in an appropriately for their age. They were all extremely fearful, which I understand considering the circumstances but then after that extremely subdued in that they allowed me to examine them easily, which is completely unexpected and inappropriate behavior for their age.
The three children that were unaccompanied in the daycare setting had more evidence of trauma. One of them when he came to the room where I was, was breathing heavily the entire time and I asked the coast guard officer and she said, no, he just started doing this. But I think that trauma was from seeing his teenage mother he hadn't seen in three weeks, the person he came into the center with but initially there was no bonding. He didn't run to his brother. There was looking straight down and panting.
The two other girls alone kept repeating the statement. Maybe it's something they're being told, but they said my dad is getting the papers, my dad is getting the papers, and that's all they kept going back to and inappropriately I would say.
COOPER: Is this anything what you expected it to be? I mean, did you expect to find this? Did you -- is it better, worse than you anticipated?
SEVIER: Some things were better and some things were worse. The hygiene I'm completely dumb because if you don't care about the humanity and thinking of dollars and cents, it's cheaper to get soap than send people to the E.R. or quarantine them with flu. That's common sense. You don't need a doctor to tell you washing your hands will reduce the spread of infection. So, that I was completely dumbfounded by.
The bottles, that feels reportable to CPS. Really, it is. I had a parent come to my office and say they are not washing formula bottles for days on end, I would be concerned about the child's safety at home. So, that I was floored by.
The better parts -- the human decency I did see, I mean, the coast guard officer I saw was lovely. There was a lady who was cleaning the bathrooms when one of the unaccompanied kids, the 3-year-old walked out. You know, she said, hey, and named her by her first name and gave her a big hug.
[20:10:05] So, I mean, there is good and bad. Like anything else, it depends on who is showing up for work and how as a human with basic human decency treating the people they are there to protect.
COOPER: Dr. Sevier, I appreciate you being on. Thank you.
SEVIER: No problem. Thank you.
COOPER: As we said -- as we said at the top, there is action in Congress on this tonight. The Democratic-controlled House expected to vote on about $4.5 billion in funding for the border situation. The White House is threatening a veto.
Joining us now is Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon. He serves on the Foreign Relations Committee and spends considerable time on the border.
Senator Merkley, I just want to start by asking about the photograph that we showed earlier, a father, his almost 2-year-old child who drowned while trying to cross into the U.S. Obviously, the passage is incredibly dangerous for many people.
But when you see something like this, the reality of the situation for so many, it's hard to ignore.
SEN. JEFF MERKLEY (D-OR): Anderson, this father, this child were victims of American metering, where they attempted to cross at a port of entry. Reportedly, they were refused the ability, put back into Mexico and where they had no family, no friends, no resources, so they did what so many others try to do in that situation and say we've just got to try to get across the border.
And that means some people who approached the wall, crossed the river and in this case, we don't know all the specific details, but it's my understanding that this is a family that was rejected at the border.
COOPER: We just heard about some of the conditions that Dr. Sevier, a pediatrician, heard from some of the children at facility in Texas. Who is to blame for all of this and why -- is it just a question of numbers of people and that they are just, that these facilities aren't set up to deal with that or what is the problem? What is the kind of the breakdown? I mean, you know, not having soap and toothpaste seems a ridiculous problem.
MERKLEY: No, this is a huge level of incompetence and lack of compassion. The Flores standards for sanitation, for food, for medicine, for water, for cleanliness have been violated repeatedly and it seems like intentionally. I think any American would be horrified to see these conditions.
These are -- many of these things that are fairly easily remedied with bottles water, with soap, with access to a bathroom, with taking small children who have a medical condition and getting them to medical care.
So, I don't think we can simply say that it's the level of the influx. I just think that we need to have a thorough investigation of what has happened and hold people accountable for failures, whether intentional and deliberate. This is absolutely unacceptable.
COOPER: What do you make of the president's comments saying he didn't know the acting head of Customs and Border Patrol, that he had never spoken to them? You know, he clearly has made being tough on the boarder or what he considering tough on the boarder to be a major part of his administration, I can understand them not knowing a lot of lower level front line officials. But the acting head of Customs and Border Patrol, you would think he would know who that person is.
MERKLEY: Absolutely. With all of his attention on the border, you would expect he would have heads in there of ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, the head of Customs and Border Protection and then say, we got to solve these problems. What resources do you need? We're moving them over. Take care of these things.
But under line administration's approach has been the argument that if people suffer as immigrants, it will discourage them from immigrating. That was the base of child separation, mistreat or inflict trauma on children and it will discourage immigration.
So when you start from that perspective, there isn't this sense we would expect of our government in which they are doing everything possible to address these problems. They are not doing everything possible and the result is the horrific conditions we're seeing now. Many of these conditions would be neglect and prosecutable in any other setting.
COOPER: Senator Merkley, I appreciate your time. Thank you very much.
MERKLEY: Thank you.
COOPER: Just ahead in the wake of the most recent assault allegation against President Trump, I'll talk with Jessica Leeds who went public with her allegation of assault in the heat of 2016 campaign.
[20:15:03] And later, the aftermath of emotional meeting on Capitol Hill between first responders of 9/11 to Senator Mitch McConnell.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're satisfied. Are we happy? No. We're -- we're going to leave here and Louie Alvarez is going to die.
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COOPER: Most Capitol Hill Republicans are either defending the president or keeping radio silence. Two high profile GOP senators now say New York writers revealed sexual assault allegations against President Trump should be looked into. Senators Mitt Romney of Utah and Joni Ernst of Iowa said today the assertions made by writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll should be examined.
On the program last night, I talked at length with Ms. Carroll who repeated her claim that two decades ago, the president sexually assaulted her in a New York City department store.
[20:20:06] She also reacted to the president denying her accusation saying, quote, she's not my type.
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COOPER: I'm wondering, the statement that he said which he just made which is she's not my type, number one -- that was the number one thing.
E. JEAN CARROLL, COLUMNIST: I love that I'm not his type. Don't you love you're not his type?
He also called Miss Universe fat. Miss Piggy, I think he called her. Miss Universe, one of the most beautiful women in the solar system and he called her fat.
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COOPER: Well, 15 women over the years now made sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump. One of those women is Jessica Leeds, who went public with her claims against the president during the closing weeks of the 2016 campaign and it didn't take the president long to go after her.
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TRUMP: When you looked at that horrible woman last night, you said, I don't think so. She would not be my first choice that I can tell you. Man! You don't know. That would not be my first choice.
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COOPER: Well, joining me tonight is Jessica Leeds.
Jessica, were you surprised to hear the president essentially kind of using the same words against Ms. Carroll that he used against you, essentially talking about appearances and that, you know, he said she's not my type about Carroll. JESSICA LEEDS, SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMP GROPED HER ON PLANE DECADES AGO:
I was not surprised. He is set in his ways and he really needs a new script, but he's not going to change.
COOPER: It's interesting with Ms. Carroll that his first thing -- he said I'm saying this with respect, the first thing he said is she's not my type and then, you know, that it's not true and that she's lying.
The idea that that's the first thing one would talk about is the appearance of the person is interesting.
LEEDS: Yes. Yes. That's a common thread through all the other episodes that have come to light. He lies so much that he really is incapable of recognizing this situation as it literally exists.
COOPER: I remember when you and I first spoke back in October, it was of 2016, you told me that you knew when you came forward that the president would comment about your looks and that's intentionally why you came forward, you showed pictures of yourself when you were the age of the incident that you say happened. That was already in your mind. You knew that's what he would do?
LEEDS: Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.
My experience with men like Trump, they cannot see themselves in the mirror. They don't recognize their own ageing, so they can't recognize the ageing of other people, of women and they really basically are only attracted to younger women, to young women.
COOPER: When you came forward, you know, and again, this was in the during disturb -- during the campaign and -- during the campaign and other women came forward and would, were you surprised by the response and also by the lack of response and I'm wondering what you make of the response to Ms. Carroll's allegation as well, the sort of public response or lack thereof?
LEEDS: I was totally amazed at the response that I got because 100 percent support. I never ran into anybody who criticized my story or who gave me a hard time. I was surprised at this new story that it got any attention at all and, you know, thank you for giving it some time because it's still an important issue.
COOPER: You said you had great interactions with people face-to-face. Obviously, you know, there was a lot of coverage that was, you know, probably quite -- that was questioning what you -- your allegations. Would you recommend that women come forward?
LEEDS: Yes, I would encourage women if they feel strong enough. You know, we're so acculturated to make it our fault, as did Ms. Carroll the other night. She took responsibility to be stupid enough to go into the dressing room, so she feels and she --she's a strong woman.
[20:25:02] She wants to feel in control of her own life and what's happening. And, of course, the fact is he's bigger, he's stronger and he raped her. And she -- whether or not she wishes to acknowledge that, that's exactly what happened.
COOPER: Do you wish she had come forward at the time that you and other people came forward? Would that have somehow made a difference?
LEEDS: Oh, yes. Yes, I think -- yes. Numbers do matter, although to some degree the news media keeps mentioning the woman on the airplane which is me and my story without names. It seems to resonate with some of the media people. So, yes, I wish she had come forward at the time.
COOPER: Jessica Leeds, I appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. Thank you.
LEEDS: Thank you and please take care.
COOPER: A lot more ahead including who has the edge going to the first round of the Democratic primary debate that is one night away. More on that ahead.
[20:30:27] COOPER: Preparations are underway tonight for the first Democratic debate of the 2020 campaign. 20 candidates are going to face-off over the next two nights in Miami.
Looking ahead for us tonight is Jen Psaki, the former communications director for President Obama, and Joe Lockhart, the former press secretary for President Clinton, both CNN Political Commentators.
So, Jen, I mean, debates are tough enough in general when there are nine other candidates on the stage. That's a really difficult thing for candidates to navigate because they don't get much time that can often because of debate rules just end up kind of ping-ponging between, you know, one or two or three candidates.
JEN PSAKI, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: That's exactly right. I mean, they have 60 seconds to give their answers and 30 seconds to respond. That's a very small amount of time. Each candidate might only have a couple of minutes over the course of two hours.
So, you know, they all are going to have different strategies depending on where they are in the lineup right now or where they are in the polls. But for most of them, it's not about having a viral moment, that's actually really hard to do and it rarely is from a prepared line or prepared attack.
It's usually from being strong on your feet or really being firm and consistent about what impression you want to leave with voters. So is it about immigration? Is it about abortion rights? Is it about income inequality?
They have to be disciplined. I think many of them will be and really think about what they want to get out of the debate because they're going to have very few minutes to your point to really -- to make their impression.
COOPER: Joe, for Vice President Biden, how big of a test do you think this is going to be for him, especially given the fact that he's, you know, largely avoided sit down interviews and, you know, he's given some long speeches. But, again, this is a much different situation.
JOE LOCKHART, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: You know, I think he's advantaged by exactly what Jen was talking about. This is more like a cable T.V. interview where you have a minute, a minute and a half and then, you know, you just -- you try to work your way in rather than a formal debate that you'll see in the general election.
So I think, you know, he will focus on Trump as I think a lot of the candidates will be. He has to pick out a couple of issues that he wants to hone in on. But I think the format, the amount of people allows him to stand out just because people know who he is.
COOPER: Jen, do you think other candidates -- I mean, how are they going to deal with Biden? I mean, do you expect them to kind of, you know, play nice, ignore him or go after him?
PSAKI: I think they'll each have a different approach. So if you're Bernie Sanders, you're thrilled that you're not on the same night as Elizabeth Warren because she has been positioning herself as the progressive alternative to Biden. So he has to figure out how to position himself effectively that way.
Now, he doesn't want to appear nasty, but he also wants to appear strong, so he has to find a way to balance that. If you're some of the other candidates on the stage, you know, like a Beto O'Rourke or an Amy Klobuchar, you really want to make a move into the top tier.
So how do you do that? You know, you leave an impression on an issue. You have a good moment maybe with another candidate. People love, you know, the commitment to work together.
And if you're some candidates like Kirsten Gillibrand, you really want to survive. I mean, you want to make an impression that people -- to get vote -- to get more donations and support so that you can make in September.
So, I think they're all going to have different approaches. Most of them, I don't expect will be nasty off the bat, especially since it's the first debate. I expect most of them will be pretty congenial with each other, but they'll look for moment of like contrast, especially Bernie with Biden, I think.
COOPER: Yes. I mean, Joe, you talked about Biden, you know, focusing on Trump. I can't imagine that they're all going to be kind of focusing on Trump because -- I mean, that basically will be a Greek chorus of Democrats just going after President Trump. And at the end, none of them will have -- if that's happens, they won't have stated their actual positions or talk about what they're for as oppose to just what they're against.
LOCKHART: Yes, no. I do think that the sort of Trump is the baseline and then they'll all draw their own contrast amongst themselves. Some of them will be subtle references to both Bernie's age and Joe Biden's age. Some of them will be talking about the difference between new ideas and old ideas.
But, you know, I never thought I would disagree with Jen Psaki, but the one thing I do disagree with is that most of the great moments in these debates were practiced before the debates. Where is the beef line that the Ronald Reagan. I won't let your -- my youthful inexperience of my opponent, all of those things. So they're all practicing this one liners.
The question of executing though is really, you know, getting it at the right time with the right emphasis behind it. They have all got them. We're just going to have to wait and see which one works.
[20:35:08] PSAKI: That's totally fair.
COOPER: Yes. There's nothing worse than when they practiced a one- liner and it doesn't work and it falls flat.
PSAKI: And it falls flat. Exactly.
COOPER: We've got to leave it there.
COOPER: Joe Lockhart, Jen Psaki, thanks very much.
PSAKI: Thank you.
COOPER: The emotional testimony of 9/11 first responders and John Stewart may have gotten some results, next, and also the lobbying of first responders, frankly, from 9/11 for years now that meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today. The deal they may have struck for victim's compensation, ahead.
COOPER: 9/11 first responders left a meeting today with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, confident that a bill to fully fund the 9/11 victim compensation fund will pass both Houses by August.
As you remember, Jon Stewart and others gave an emotional testimony before Congress two weeks ago. Senator McConnell reacted by saying he supported funding, did not understand why Stewart was "all bent out of shape."
The first responders today said that McConnell sat with them and for a lot longer than he had during meetings in previous years, still, they say they know the fight is not over.
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JOHN FEAL, 9/11 RESPONDER: We're satisfied. Are we happy? No. We're going --if he strays from his commitment, then we'll go back into attack mode. But for now, we're going to put down our swords, we're going to pick up our rakes, we're going to form and we're going to be with our friends who are sick and dying.
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[20:40:19] COOPER: Let's talk about that meeting with two 9/11 first responders who were there, Brendan Fitzpatrick, retired lieutenant with the New York Police Department, and Michael O'Connell, retired lieutenant for the New York Fire Department, both also work for the FealGood Foundation which helps injured emergency personnel.
Michael, does meeting with Majority Leader McConnell, I'm wondering your impression of how it went. Did he promise you that this funding would get passed?
MICHAEL O'CONNELL, RETIRED LIEUTENANT, NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT: Well, for the most part we were very pleased with how the meeting went. We walked out of there, pleased that he actually gave us a timeline. He sense that there would -- was urgency behind it.
He listened to our voices and really showed that -- he showed some compassion and he actually gave us a timeline of August. So, there was no promises meant on the actual length of how long he would extend, so I can't say that. But my team walked out of there, pleased with how the meeting went.
COOPER: Brendan, do you take McConnell at his word that this will get -- you know, it will come up in August that will be done by August.
BRENDAN FITZPATRICK, RETIRED LIEUTENANT, NYPD: Yes, absolutely. We all shook his hand at the end of the meeting. Before we left the meeting, we went over everything again just to be sure. And he agreed to everything that Mike just said. He's taking the House bill and he's going to put -- bring it through the Senate.
COOPER: And Michael, I know that you all presented McConnell with the badge of your friend, Detective Luis Alvarez. I'm wondering -- I know he's obviously, you know, in very bad shape. He testified on the Hill before. Explain the idea behind presenting McConnell with that badge. Because giving -- an officer giving a badge is a -- that -- I mean that's a big thing.
O'CONNELL: It is. It's part of your life. It's part of your career. It's something that signifies what you've done. And, you know, it just goes to show you the resilience and the passion that somebody like Luis Alvarez has.
You know, it -- this came from him. It was his idea while he is basically on his death bed, that in his last few days of his life, what he wants to do is he wants to keep fighting and he wants to keep serving the public.
So, he extended that offer that we would bring this shield of his down to Washington with us and presented to Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and tell him that, you know, this is from Luis Alvarez.
It's the shield that he wore his entire career and he wants you to have it as momentum of knowing that he needs you to pass this bill. There's a lot of people that are very much in the same circumstance he is and this means a lot to everybody.
And Luis is in a -- Luis is going to be in a spot where, you know, we're not going to have him much longer and we'll miss him dearly and we got to all speak to him after the meeting, just basically get to tell him how much we loved him, that we love him and that he means the world to us. And his fight and his momentum through that shield is going to meet a big dividends for a lot of people.
COOPER: I do not understand how this is something that you all have to essentially repeatedly go down to Congress for to get done. I mean, when I heard earlier today, you know, over the course of a long time there's been hundreds and hundreds of meetings you've had. Hundreds of 9/11 first responders, you know, personally walking the halls of Congress.
It's -- as somebody who, you know, is a lifelong New Yorker, it just doesn't make any sense to me that this is an issue that it just -- it shouldn't be an issue. It's -- I mean, it just should be done.
O'CONNELL: You know, and that's -- that came up actually during our meeting. You know, it's mind-boggling to think that we have to fight. Here we are 18 years later and we put a little bit of real life scenario into that meeting.
I mean, I personally told him that, you know, we're not lobbyists. You know, we're firemen. We're police officers. We're construction workers. We're correction officers. And this isn't our job to come down here and fight. You know, we did our job on 9/11. In one of the darkest days of this country, we went down there and we fought like so many did to build this country back up.
It's just sad to say that, you know, although we did have a nice meeting and it seems like, you know, we came out happy, in the grand scheme of things, what are you happy about? At the end of the day, people are still dying, and what do we do? We're giving them a little bit more -- that they don't have to worry about find it-- to be financially taken care of but you can't put a price tag on human life.
[20:45:16] FITZPATRICK: We keep coming down here every five years and with hat in hand saying, we need more of this and more of that. There are people sick and people are dying and Senator McConnell understood that. He said today that he understands the urgency of this. So we hope that gets through and we hope it gets through the Senate as soon as possible, hopefully, August.
COOPER: Lieutenant Michael O'Connell and Lieutenant Brendan Fitzpatrick, I appreciate you taking time to talk to us today. Thank you.
FITZPATRICK: Thank you for having us.
O'CONNELL: Thank you. I appreciate it, Anderson.
COOPER: Well, there's new revelations about a California congressman already in hot water with federal prosecutors, details in that ahead.
[20:50:08] COOPER: A government prosecutors tonight have unveiled new evidence against California Congressman Duncan Hunter. The latest allegation said that he used campaign funds to pay for extra marital affairs with lobbyist and congressional staffers. He's been charged with wire fraud, false filling records and campaign finance violations. The congressman has denied any wrongdoing and won reelection last year. Hunter's wife, who's also facing charges, is now cooperating with federal prosecutors.
And Chris joins us now. Despite all this, he showed up today at White House Medal of Honor ceremony which is interesting.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Well, he is caring forward. First of all, that's his right, right? We all have that right of due process in this country. But he's also going with what we have learned recently works in politics, haven't we? Deny, deny, fight, fight --
COOPER: Just ignore it.
CUOMO: -- attack your accusers, say it's fake, it's rigged. We've seen it work at a pretty high level. Why not try it?
COOPER: Yes. I mean, it seems like everything is looked through the lens of politics and people just decide, you know, to kind of go along with what the -- whatever their side is saying. It's unfortunate. What are you working on tonight?
CUOMO: I am going to take a look at what's going to happen tomorrow night with the debates. We have a couple of surrogates for some of the big shots to do a plus, minus on who's better. I have Harry Enten who we're calling the wizard of odds, O-D-D-S, not O-Z. Don't let my queens get in a way of a great line.
COOPER: I got it. I got it.
CUOMO: It seems that my writer did. So, we're going to take you through it that way tonight.
COOPER: The wizard of odds, there it is. All right, Chris, thanks very much.
CUOMO: Come on.
COOPER: I'll see you just couple of minutes from now. I love it. I like it. It's good.
Coming up next, former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman on why Vice President Pence cannot answer a simple question about global warming.
[20:55:29] COOPER: Well, the Trump administration doesn't believe there's a global climate crisis. Today, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue appeared on CNN saying it's just weather patterns that change adding by way of example that "it rained yesterday. It's a nice pretty day today".
On Monday, "Politico" reported Perdue's department intentionally does not publicize study showing the dangers of climate change. And there's Vice President Pence on Sunday who was unable or unwilling to answer pretty simple question from CNN's Jake Tapper.
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JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: So you don't think it's a threat? That's all I'm saying. You don't think it's a threat?
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think we're making great progress reducing carbon emissions. America has the cleanest air and water in the world. We'll continue to use market forces --
TAPPER: That's not true. We don't have the cleanest air and water in the world.
PENCE: I think --
TAPPER: We don't.
TAPPER: I mean, you could get back to me with some statistics to show it.
PENCE: But we're making progress on reducing carbon emissions. We're doing it through technology, through natural gas, through continuing to support as our administration is.
TAPPER: You just rolled back all these claim.
PENCE: Turned back to nuclear energy, clean energy. The answer though is not to raise the utility rates of millions of utility rate payers across the country.
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COOPER: You heard the vice president claim the U.S. has the cleanest air and water in the world. According to an off cited index compiled by Columbia and Yale University, United States does ranked first in drinking water but ranks 10th in air quality.
Earlier, I spoke to Christine Todd Whitman, EPA Administrator under President George W. Bush and former Republican governor of New Jersey.
COOPER: You've said before that this administration is actually making it difficult for scientists. This is hamstringing government scientists.
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, FORMER EPA ADMINISTRATOR: Well, it's not allowing them to even go to conferences where this might be discussed, climate change might be discussed, and that's all across. It's not just at EPA, it's every --
COOPER: They cannot go to conferences where climate change is being discussed.
WHITMAN: No. No, they can't talk about climate change at all. I mean --
COOPER: That phrase is being -- is not something they use.
WHITMAN: We have -- our Secretary of State Pompeo went up to the Arctic Councils Meeting. Our joint chiefs of staffs have said this is a climate change in and of itself. It's a national security issue. And he won't let them put climate change in the final document.
I mean, it's happening. It's real. You can't keep -- you can pretend and act like an ostrich, but there's an off of big part of an ostrich that's still a wonderful target sitting up there.
COOPER: It was also interesting that Vice President Pence kept sort of saying, well, you know, we're going to follow the science on this.
WHITMAN: The science has decided. I mean, you can always find -- science is never absolute. And you can always find scientist that will find things that aren't as positive as people would like it to be. But it's so overwhelming now, the science, that this is happening.
COOPER: I've also heard you say in the past that essentially that the Trump administration is just kind of blanket rolling back regulations without even kind of looking at or why is this regulation in place.
COOPER: Is it still something that is important?
WHITMAN: Anything that had anything to do with President Obama, gone, good, bad or indifferent. I mean, every administration comes in and tries to put their own stamp on everything.
WHITMAN: But without looking at this, it's good to review regulations. You should do it from time to time because science evolves. We find new technologies. We can do things in a different way or we may find that this issue has already been dealt with.
COOPER: It's also interesting that they're sort of framing it as many as, you know, people increasingly have done as a liberal or conservative kind of argument. When you actually look at the history of environmentalism in this country, Teddy Roosevelt is responsible for so many of the national parks. You have Nixon --
WHITMAN: Abraham Lincoln set the first national land site, Yosemite.
COOPER: And Nixon created -- WHITMAN: And Nixon signed the Clean Air Act and established the EPA. It was Ronald Reagan that put climate change on the agenda of the National Security Council as a regular item. Not that he believed that necessarily humans were "causing it," but that he knew this was an issue that was coming and needed to be looked at.
COOPER: So, will anything change in terms of -- I mean, it's not like they're going to have a change of heart all of a sudden on this.
WHITMAN: They're not, but we have a chance to. I mean, 2020 is coming. And this is going to be the first time in my memory, and I don't know maybe you've gone through the history better than I, but where an environmental issue is going to be on the national agenda, is going to be part of the conversation.
And I think this election is a pivotal election. It's really going to be about who are we as Americans, what's right, what can we accept in our way of governance? And one of these issues is going to be what are we going to accept on climate, on environment overall because it's making us les healthy. It is threatening our health.
COOPER: Governor, thank you so much. Appreciate it.
WHITMAN: My pleasure.
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SAN JOSE -- Ron Caragher doesn't need to devise any special methods to make his players take their opponent seriously during his first game as San Jose State coach.
Sacramento State, despite its Football Championship Subdivision classification, has built a good track record against higher division foes heading into Thursday's 7 p.m. opener at Spartan Stadium.
"We know they're a good team," Caragher said of the Hornets. "Having seen them beat some Pac-12 teams, that's instant credibility."
Sac State has garnered a reputation as a giant killer. The Hornets won at Oregon State in their 2011 opener and beat Colorado in their second game of the season last year.
"You show them the scoreboard and really don't have to say much more," Caragher said of his players.
It's still tough to figure how much to glean from those wins, particularly the Colorado victory. The Buffaloes may have been the worst team from a power conference last season.
Plus, just a week earlier, the Hornets were crushed 49-19 by New Mexico State. The Aggies never won another game the rest of the season, including a 47-7 blowout loss to SJSU, and may have been the worst team in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Sac State has clearly shown it can get up for a big game, but will a contest at Arizona State next week steal away some of the Hornets' focus?
It's unlikely considering the proximity of the schools. Strangely, despite being just a two-hour drive apart, San Jose State and Sacramento State have never met. It's easy to expect the Hornets to be eager and ready to knock off their Bay Area opponent.
Caragher knows plenty about the talent level of teams like Sac State. He coached the last six years at the University of San Diego.
"Having coached at the FCS level, I have the utmost respect for those teams," Caragher said. "They have scholarships too."
Sac State has some weapons on offense. Quarterback Garrett Safron threw for 300-plus yards in both the New Mexico State and Colorado games. He had 2,540 passing yards last year and was also the team's second-leading rusher.
"He's a terrific athlete," Caragher said. "He can run the football. He's the guy that makes thing click with their offense."
Safron's top target is Morris Norrise, a senior wide receiver from Berkeley High. He had 60 catches for 777 yards and seven touchdowns last year. Senior running back Ezekiel Graham returns after rushing for 861 yards and five scores last season.
It will be up to the Spartans to showcase their depth -- and additional talent -- and put this game away early. With three tough games to follow, this would be an ideal opportunity to get some playing time for some of SJSU's backups.
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After long wait, Sarkodie grabs opportunity with Houston
It’s taken longer than expected, but Kofi Sarkodie is starting to make headway in MLS.
High expectations were placed on Sarkodie when he the Dynamo took him out of Akron with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft, but a stacked defense meant few minutes in the 21-year-old’s first two seasons.
That has all changed in the last month, as absences and a congested schedule yielded opportunities that Sarkodie, who has appeared in the past six matches with four starts, has taken advantage of in order to prove himself.
“He’s defended well and is winning a majority of his battles and is getting into the attack. I think he’s stepped in and done well,” said head coach Dominic Kinnear. “Before, the defense was just playing well and the guys that were playing well were playing. Now he’s gotten a chance … and he prepared himself well and has stepped on the field and looked good.”
The opportunity has been a long time coming for Sarkodie, who has worked behind Canadian international and 2011 Dynamo defender of the year Andre Hainault at right back since coming into the league. Despite being the youngest player to start a match for Houston at the age of 20, a 1-1 draw in March 2011 against the Seattle Sounders, Reserve League games and sparse Cup action have comprised his main opportunities.
With time on his hands, Sarkodie had to work on a skill that wasn‘t required much before in his playing career: patience.
“It’s been a long road and really I’ve just tried to do my best and stay focused and train as hard as I can and keep pushing,” Sarkodie said. “It’s been long, but that’s part of life and I’m glad I’m able to stay focused and healthy and now make an impact.
“The more I’m on the pitch and more I’m getting minutes, the more I’ll be effective for the team. It’s just keeping it going and being dangerous going forward and doing my job defensively.”
Having capitalized on this latest round of action, which could continue this week with Houston returning to CONCACAF Champions League action Thursday when they host CD FAS (7 pm CT, BUY TICKETS), Sarkodie has made his mark as a young player ready to do the job when his number is called.
“I think his mentality’s been excellent and I think it’s great for a young guy to get an opportunity and take advantage of it,” captain Brad Davis said. “He’s a guy that hadn’t played in a very long time. For him I think it’s been great and he’s done a great job and that’s why he’s still on the field.
“It’s very important for other young guys to see that and realize there’s always an opportunity and you have to be ready when your number’s called and he was. He got his opportunity and has done well with it.”
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Two members of Myanmar’s military have admitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to perpetrating atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims in the country’s western Rakhine State, a statement from an international rights group claimed Tuesday.
“Both men separately claimed to be acting on orders from senior commanders to ‘exterminate all [Rohingya],’ to ‘shoot all that you see and that you hear,’ and to ‘kill all’ Rohingya in specific areas,” Fortify Rights said in a statement.
Rights activists and experts have marked this as a major development in seeking justice for Rohingya against Myanmar authorities on genocide and ethnic cleansing allegations. They represent the first time such confessions implicated the Southeast Asian country’s armed forces in alleged mass killings, rape and crimes against humanity since reports of attacks on Rohingya emerged in 2012.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Matthew Smith, the chief executive officer of Fortify Rights, said the confessions would help the case against Myanmar’s army for persecuting Rohingya in the ongoing trial in the ICC.
“No perpetrators from Myanmar have ever officially been anywhere near the ICC, and now we have two perpetrators in The Hague who may become insider witnesses,” Smith said.
He added: “Significantly, both men were operational in two separate townships, simultaneously following orders under different commanders, which may indicate operational consistency between battalions, coordination and intent to commit genocide.”
According to the statement, Fortify Rights obtained two videos of the confessions of Private Myo Win Tun and Private Zaw Naing Tun.
Smith said both are in the ICC’s custody in The Hague, though the court has denied this.
“LIBs [Light Infantry Battalions] 565 and 353 were operational in Rakhine State during military-led ‘clearance operations’ against Rohingya civilians in 2016 and 2017,” it added, referring to the two soldiers’ units.
The statement added: “In the unpublished confessions, Private Myo Win Tun describes his involvement in killing Rohingya women, men, and children, and he admits to rape in Taung Bazar village and surrounding villages in Buthidaung Township in September 2017.”
“Zaw Naing Tun confesses to his involvement in killings, burying bodies in mass graves, and other crimes against Rohingya in five villages in Maungdaw Township during the Myanmar Army’s 2017 ‘clearance operations,'” said the statement.
The soldiers also provided the names and ranks of 19 direct perpetrators from the Myanmar Army, including themselves, as well as six senior commanders — a lieutenant colonel, a colonel and three captains — who they claim ordered or contributed to atrocities against Rohingya.
The statement added that the Arakan Army — an ethnic insurgent group currently engaged in armed conflict against Myanmar in Rakhine State — filmed Myo Win Tun’s confession on July 23, 2020 and Zaw Naing Tun’s on July 8, 2020.
In mid-August, the two men appeared on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, requesting protection from Bangladesh authorities, it said, adding that “as a state party to the Rome Statute, Dhaka notified the ICC of the presence of the two former soldiers.”
Referring to one of the confessions, the statement added that the army destroyed Rohingya villages in the vicinity of Taung Bazar in Buthidaung Township in September 2017.
“He also admits to rape, his involvement in the killings of 30 men, women, and children in Taung Bazar, and the additional killings of 60 to 70 civilians in ‘village after village’ in the vicinity of Taung Bazar,
“He and his battalion ‘wiped out’ 20 Rohingya villages in Maungdaw Township in September 2017 and that he participated in the killing of an estimated 80 civilians, ‘including children, adults, women, and even elderly people’ through coordinated massacres.”
Based on these confessions alone, both soldiers may be directly responsible for killing up to 180 Rohingya civilians, the statement said.
Fortify Rights’ head Smith said the confessions, which he said were reliable, “undermines everything Myanmar is arguing” at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case filed in 2019 by Gambia on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
However, he noted that the prosecutor’s office was “refusing to comment on an ongoing investigation, and a spokesperson from the court publicly denied the men are held in ‘custody.'”
“I believe the court spokesperson is relying on a technical definition of ‘custody,’ which is fair, but the reality is that two perpetrators of Rohingya massacres are in The Hague, effectively in court custody,” Smith said.
Expressing hope that the confessions would speed up the trial of all those involved in the massacre of Rohingya he added: “They [two soldiers] should be prosecuted and the prosecutor should work with them to hold others accountable.”
Also speaking to Anadolu Agency, John Quinley, a senior human rights specialist at Fortify Rights, said: “This is a major step for justice and accountability for Rohingya.”
“These two men confessing to crimes matches our ongoing documentation of genocide in Myanmar.”
The Rohingya, described by the UN as the world’s most persecuted people, have faced heightened fears of attack since dozens were killed in communal violence in 2012.
According to Amnesty International, more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after Myanmar forces launched a crackdown on the minority Muslim community in August 2017, pushing the number of persecuted people in Bangladesh above 1.2 million.
Since Aug. 25, 2017, nearly 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar’s state forces, according to a report by the Ontario International Development Agency (OIDA).
More than 34,000 Rohingya were also thrown into fires, while over 114,000 others were beaten, said the OIDA report titled Forced Migration of Rohingya: The Untold Experience.
As many as 18,000 Rohingya women and girls were raped by Myanmar’s army and police and over 115,000 Rohingya homes burned down while 113,000 others vandalized, it added.
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Free Stopover in Fiji: A Conversation with Cathy Udovch
Tell us about yourself! What do you do when you’re not traveling the world? Where do you live? What made you decide to go to Fiji?
I happen to be a travel agent, so when I’m not traveling, I’m selling it or learning about it. I live in Southern California, and have all my life, but I really do like getting out to see other places that are as different as possible from where I live.
I went to Fiji more as a stopover on a trip to Australia. Fijian Airways allows for a stopover, so I did, and ended up doing a three day cruise around the Yasawa Island group, and then stayed two nights at a beach resort.
How long did you go for? How did you spend your time?
I was there for a total of five days. The three days on the Island cruise was spent with twice daily snorkeling off various islands, some inhabited, some not. We also stopped at a village to visit with the school children, and then later be hosted to a BBQ by the townsfolk, it was nice. The Fijian people are very friendly, always smiling and singing tends to happen rather often and spontaneously with them.
After the cruise, I spent two days at the Sofitel hotel in Denarau, which was beautiful. It was school holidays for families in Australia, so there were a lot of families, but it didn’t really interfere with my spa time any, and they had hammocks by the beach, perfection.
What were your most memorable experiences? What were the biggest disappointments?
After spending the evening in the small village for the BBQ, we got back on the transport boat to a sailing vessel and the moon was just rising over the island mountain, and the sky was clear and full of stars. It was a lovely evening.
My only disappointment was not spending more time in Fiji, maybe on a small island resort, and taking that time to really unwind and disconnect. But Fiji is definitely the best place to do that, so I will just have to go back.
What do you wish you knew before you went?
To book a Beach Bure rather than a regular room in the resort. The Bures are a little bigger and are like private cottages, South Pacific style. I saw the various categories, but didn’t know what it was, now I do and that is what I’ll book next time I go.
Any favorite restaurants/hotels/hostels/sites you’d like to recommend? Tell us what made them great!
I really did love the Sofitel Denarau, they have lily ponds throughout the resort, and each evening they do a ‘farewell to the sun’ at sunset with a fire dance and lighting of the torches. It’s a really sweet ceremony, and then if you are lucky you can partake in a Kava ceremony, which will numb your mouth. It’s a local thing, but worth doing at least once.
Is there anything that women specifically should know before they travel to your destination?
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The 10 Most Popular SEO Questions & Answers 2017
7 June 2017, Jonathan Saipe
SEO and its endless progression is showing no signs of abating. The rate of change is fuelled by Google’s rolling algorithm updates, which in turn are a reaction to user intent, the evolving mobile landscape and the relentless growth of user generated content.
To help keep you informed of the latest SEO strategies and tactics, here are the 10 most popular SEO questions and answers we have encountered in 2017 so far.
1. Do keywords still make a difference to SEO?
If you’re fully up-to-speed on SEO, you’ll know that a huge focus will be on building backlinks and authority and thus increasing your rank. So what about the humble keyword? Does it still play a role?
The answer is yes, of course, but things have evolved considerably. Since Google Hummingbird, we have migrated from keyword search to semantic search. It means that old school techniques of keyword repetition have long gone (thankfully!). Topical relevance and user intent (see next question) are the de facto way of carrying out keyword research and creating a successful content strategy.
Whilst keywords still play a very significant role in SEO, you can’t lose sight of other factors. The last Search Engine Ranking Factors survey from Moz reveals the integrated and holistic nature of SEO.
The research points to the fact that keywords are one of the many signals that need to be considered in a truly holistic SEO strategy.
2. How does user intent relate to SEO?
In the last few years, Google’s updates has been focussed increasingly around user needs and their search experience. You’ll notice this with Google features such as Featured Snippets and infinite People Also Ask boxes (see below), but also by analysing search results.
Increasingly, the content that tends to rank higher is the content that Google believes is most valuable and relevant to readers, be it UGC on community forums, FAQs, articles, guides or tools, often over and above content that sells.
The SERP example below classically illustrates this. Google is displaying zero product pages despite my product search.
By carrying out persona development, you’ll start to understand the needs of your users. Are they novices or experts? Which part of the sales funnel are they in? What are their pain points? And ultimately what is their goal?
The answers to these questions will dictate your SEO content strategy, and on a micro level, how user intent translates into keyword searches and content requirements.
3. Does migrating a website to HTTPS help with SEO?
In 2014, when Google announced its algorithm update was incorporating HTTPS as a ranking signal, it was estimated that less than 1% of queries would be affected. However, moving forward to 2017, Peter Myers of Moz recently wrote that 50% of page 1 results are now HTTPS, with a prediction that 65% of page 1 could be HTTPS by the end of this year.
So, does HTTPS offer SEO value? Yes. But is the trade-off between development costs vs SEO value really worth it? If Peter Myers is correct, it would seem that HTTPS should definitely be on your development plan.
But, aside from SEO advantages, HTTPS offers conversion optimisation value, as users are more likely to trust and engage with a secure site. Visitors to your pages can see whether you’re delivering a secure page based on the HTTPS in the URL, and the small padlock icon that’ll appear in the browser address bar. Numerous studies have shown that these small visual cues reassure visitors and can increase conversions.
If you’re about to migrate to HTTPS, you may find this SEMrush post of use.
4. Are UX signals a ranking factor?
Over two years ago I wrote about Google’s obsession with UX discussing factors such as page speed, mobile UX, hidden or click-to-expand content and Google’s dislike of ads “top heavy” above the fold, all of which influence SEO performance. So, UX and its relationship with SEO is not new.
To corroborate this further, Wordstream wrote a fabulous post 6 SEO experiments that will blow your mind that demonstrated how clickthrough rate (CTR) in SERPs, as well as high bounce rates back to search (AKA “return to search”) had an influence on SEO.
All signs show that UX signals are becomingly increasingly relevant to SEO, starting with clickthrough data at the search engine results page itself, and throughout the site too.
5. Does website design affect SEO?
If your website has pink flashing GIFs, you use Comic Sans fonts and your visitors fully engage with your website, then keep it up! Google is not fixated on your use of colour, fonts or other aesthetic features.
Google isn’t even that fussed with your page layout until it starts to impact on your user experience.
It’s worth having a scan of the Google’s search raters’ guidelines. Its 157 pages demonstrate how each page should have a clear “purpose”, and that the “main content” of your page – typically the headline, main copy and supporting main images – should clearly demonstrate that purpose.
Furthermore, your “supplementary content” – typically supporting navigation, related content, footer links etc – should aid the user journey in a clear fashion.
Whether you achieve that with a rainbow of colours is your choice.
The upshot is that design values themselves are not as critical as the page itself performing its duties, delivering value to the user and helping that user achieve his/her goal.
6. Do social shares improve SEO performance?
Whenever I run an SEO workshop, it’s almost guaranteed that someone will ask if social media links count as regular backlinks and improve search rank.
Let’s first talk about the difference between correlation vs causation. A fair few studies have demonstrated that web pages with a healthy number of social shares tend to rank better. However, that’s correlation not causation i.e. we don’t know that the social signals caused the increase in rank. More likely it was due to the content being worthy of good backlinks and thus gaining authority.
The second question is: does Google crawl all social content? Although Google’s resources and capabilities are huge, they are still limited when it comes to crawling all social content, especially as it is volatile and changing by the second, making it imperfect.
If Google doesn’t have confidence in a signal and is missing data about it, the chances that it is using all of it in its ranking algorithm is unlikely.
This is nicely summarised by Matt Cutts below (and whilst this video is a few years old, evidence suggests that this is still current).
Looking beyond the direct SEO effect of a social media share, if you take a look at a multichannel funnel, you might well notice the positive impact social media has in providing assisted conversions. The example below shows that social media provided 30 “assists” and 15 “last click” or “direct conversions”.
SEO cannot be seen in isolation anymore, and the integration of social media performance into the SEO mix supports its role in SEO in more than one form.
7. What are Featured Snippets and People Also Ask boxes?
At the moment, there’s a lot of discussion around Featured Snippets (sometimes referred to as “position zero”) and infinite “People also ask” (PAA) content in SERPs, both evidence of Google’s machine learning. Both reside at the top of SERPs and feature heavily when search queries are Q&A based.
Below is an example my 11 year-old Googled yesterday:
Both spaces are very much coveted by SEOs and heavily rely on providing Google, and of course your users, with the right content.
To increase your chances of being included as a Featured Snippet, you will need to consider a multi-pronged approach, that includes the following:
- Valuable, topically-strong content that is focussed around Q&A related queries
- Well-structured code/HTML tags that Google can easily crawl
- Positive user engagement signals
- Long(er) form content
Featured Snippets and PAAs have actually been around for a while; in fact, People Also Ask boxes have seen a 1,723% growth in SERPs since mid-2015.
Research has also shown that a single PAA can show up in 21 unique SERPs, providing some great real-estate in Google results.
There aren’t too many tools that allow you to measure Featured Snippets, Knowledge Graph content and other SERPs features, but one to try is SEMRush, as illustrated below.
8. What is structured data and does it help with SEO?
Structured data is a system where names and values are paired, in order that search engines can easily categorise and index content.
A subset of structured data is microdata. Perhaps most commonly conflated with microdata is Schema.org, a collaboration between Google, Bing and Yandex, that provides a particular set of agreed-upon definitions for microdata tags.
Microdata is probably best known for creating rich snippets, such as event listing, recipes, customer ratings and product info such as prices and stock levels, allow of which appear in search results.
There’s debate around whether microdata improves rankings, but what is indisputable is the effect it has on increasing visibility and clickthrough rates within SERPs.
If you haven’t implemented any structured data, it’s probably easiest to pop over to schema.org and have a look around. It’s not for the faint hearted, so best to wear your technical hat when doing so.
And, if you want to test your own structured data implementation, visit Google’s snappily titled structured data testing tool.
9. Do accelerated mobile pages (AMP) rank higher than regular ones?
Last year I wrote a post explaining accelerated mobile pages and their role in SEO.
A question we get asked is whether AMP content ranks higher than non-AMP content. As I mentioned previously, there’s no evidence from Google that AMPs will improve your SEO rank.
Currently, AMP content appears either as “top stories” at the top of Google search results, or throughout SERPs, and often beyond page 1. So, unless you are a news site appearing in top stories, your content may rank anywhere.
It’s still worth noting that according to Google’s VP of Engineering, David Besbris, when there are two identical pages, one AMP and one mobile-friendly, Google will serve the AMP page on mobile devices.
10. What is voice search and does it impact on SEO?
One of the fastest developing areas of SEO is voice search. Voice search is a technology that enables users to search by speaking search queries aloud, rather than typing them into the input field.
Google recently claimed that 20 percent of mobile queries are voice searches, and that voice search is growing faster than conventional typed search.
Marketers and SEOs are starting to recognise this growing area. In fact a survey of 39 SEO experts listed voice search third in a list of the biggest SEO trends for 2017 and beyond. (And interestingly, AMP/mobile content scored first in this particular survey).
Voice-based queries are clearly different to typed queries, with searchers demonstrating longer search queries, including questions, and sometimes complete sentences.
My own personal use of voice search is mostly confined to finding directions, phone numbers and opening hours when driving.
Work that Google is doing in machine learning to generate Featured Snippets and People Also Ask boxes is very much a reaction to voice search.
The question on everyone’s lips (no pun intended) is how voice search will impact SEO. Brands will need to react to voice search by understanding user intent and language. More conversational, FAQ-based content will need to be planned and executed. But also the use of microdata – especially organisational content, such as location and contact details – will help Google better understand and deliver content users are searching for.
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Are you getting married? Why not forego the traditional guest book and use one of these creative wedding book ideas to remember those who celebrated your special day!
There’s really nothing I would have changed about our wedding – it was everything I had hoped it would be. Even though we planned it in less than two months, it was completely perfect!
Sometimes I wonder if it would have been different had I gotten married when Pinterest was really popular – I always hear people talking about their “Pinterest perfect wedding” or how they found all these creative ideas on Pinterest for their wedding. To be honest, it probably would have just been the process more stressful for me. I kind of liked just coming up with my own ideas and figuring out how to make them happen on my own.
With that said, I love seeing all the creativity from different weddings that is on the Internet (particularly Pinterest) now. It’s really fun to see so many fun ideas, and it makes me kind of wish I could be a wedding planner! One of my favorite things to see are creative wedding guest book ideas. When we got married, we didn’t have a traditional book, but a book of our engagement photos that everyone could sign. I always loved that, because I’m way more likely to look through that book with the pictures and see the sweet messages people left, as opposed to just a book with signatures. You can always find a great Groupon for photo books, and I even see deals from websites like Shutterfly and MyPublisher for free books all the time.
If you are looking for something a little more creative, there are a lot of awesome ideas out there. I thought I’d put together a list of wedding guest book alternatives, with links to ideas on how to make these ideas even more personal. For your convenience, I’ve created pins that you pin directly from here to your own wedding inspiration board. Be sure to check out the post that accompanies each pin to find the creative mind who posted about it!
Photo Guest Book
Photography is such a huge part of any wedding – it’s one of the only things you can take away from your wedding as a physical reminder. While I’m sure you’ll get lots of beautiful candid shots of guests at your wedding and reception, a photo guest book is a really fun idea.
There are lots of different ways to do this – you can set up a photo booth (and even include props to make it a little more fun), have an instant picture camera available for people to take their own pictures and then place in a book, etc. Here is a Pinterest search that has tons of great ideas on how to set up a photo guest book!
Sign a Decoration
If you want to be able to display all the names of your loved ones that attended your wedding, you consider having them sign something that can become a permanent decoration in your home. I’ve seen many people have their guests sign rocks that they put in a vase or bowl, have a piece of a tree stump sitting out (wouldn’t this tree stump table be cool?!), small wooden hearts or circles that are dropped into a glass shadow box, a decorative letter of the couple’s last name, or corks!
Newlywed Tip or Date Jar
This is something that I’ve done at bridal showers, but it might be really fun to do at an actual wedding. You can set up a jar or box for people to write down different date ideas, or tips for the new couple.
Here are some fun printables for weddings that you can download for one of these.
Finger Print Art
I’ve seen tons of finger print art guest books floating around Pinterest, and it’s so creative. Basically everyone puts their thumb in paint, and then they help create a beautiful work of art with it (and most of the time, sign their name on top of the finger print.) Here are a bunch of different ideas. You can buy them on Etsy as well (which is the route I would personally go!)
Pictures or Canvas
This is something I’m seeing more and more frequently, but it’s a fun idea. It goes along with the decoration idea I mentioned earlier. You can print of a large picture of you and your spouse, or just bring a blank canvas with a variety of multi-color sharpies, and have everyone fill it out with their name. It can be a fun piece of artwork to hang in your home for years to come!
I’ve seen this at quite a few different weddings, and it’s kind of fun! Basically all the guests write their names or a message on a Jenga piece, and then the newlyweds get to enjoy it for the rest of their lives whenever they play! You can buy a Jenga set here (great price), or there are some SUPER cute personalized Jenga sets on Etsy specifically made for weddings.
This might be a little daunting to guests if they are asked to write a letter, but it is definitely one of the most sentimental ideas I’ve seen. There is a table set up with envelopes and stationary, and everyone is invited to write a letter of good wishes to the bride and groom.
Another idea I saw was that people could write advice/letters to be opened on certain anniversaries. This would take a long time to get through (hopefully a lifetime), but I thought it was a lot of fun!
One thing you could do, which would help with the thank you card efforts, is have everyone put their address on the outside of an envelope, and on the inside, they can put a little card or notecard (that is provided) with a note or signature. Then, after your wedding, you can gather all the cards and put them in a scrapbook or something, and then have all the envelopes addressed for thank you cards! You can get some pretty affordable thank you cards on Amazon.
We love doing puzzles in our house. I saw all sorts of fun puzzle ideas on Pinterest. There is this beautiful custom wooden puzzle available on Etsy, puzzles in the shape of the state you met in/were married in, a blank puzzle so the signatures will show, or just a puzzle of an engagement picture. Shutterfly has some great options for creating a photo puzzle.
Who doesn’t love a quilt? You can either buy a quilt, have someone make you one, or, if you’re particularly crafty, make one yourself that all your guests can sign.
Since it’s wedding season, I’m hoping to get some more wedding posts up in the coming weeks, so be sure to subscribe to our email list to get them if you are in the middle of that exciting time in life!
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
How's It Working For Ya?
Let's take a quick look at one of the arguments about extending these cuts. One party says these cuts are absolutely necessary for the wealthy, because it is the wealthy who create jobs. Really?
The other party wants to increase taxes on the rich, so that they pay more. The rationale seems to be: they earn more, so they should pay more.
Now, these tax cuts went into law in 2001 and 2003, were extended in 2005 and several times afterwards. They were supposed to sunset in 2010. They were extended twice since the sunset clause was thrown out. And now we have both parties want to keep them in place for another year.
So, we have a disconnect between wanting to put more money in the pockets of the rich, who are supposed to be creating jobs so the unemployed can find these new jobs and add to the tax pool, and the real fact that jobs are not being created by individuals. They are created by corporations. Oh wait, I forget. Corporations are people. Well, dang. There goes that argument. But, the current debate is not about reducing corporate tax structures but about keeping tax rates low on the rich.
I'm not rich. I'm not poor. I'm middle class, part of the 99% club. I have friends that are searching for jobs. They don't want a hand out. They want to work. They don't want to see the rich piling up what could be tax money in their personal accounts.
Corporations are sitting on piles of money. They are unwilling to spend, because they don't see any buyers for their goods and services. Without people out there with money to buy the goods and services, we won't see much of an economic recovery. We'll continue pushing out tax cuts and deepening the deficit. And the vicious circle goes ever on and on.
We can't have it both ways. Either we accept the fact that tax cuts have not shown benefits in creating jobs or we don't. Either we face the fact that tax cuts in general add to the deficit or we don't. Either we accept that we pander to the political climate and push bad policies in order to get elected or re-elected or we don't.
Regardless of how this plays out, I have some questions. Are you finding it easier to find work because the tax cuts on the rich are creating jobs? Are the jobs popping up all over the place? Is the jobless rate tumbling below 8%? Are you part of rebuilding the economy through employment and paying your taxes? Probably not.
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A former pastor, professor of religion and humanities and financial planner, Hardy holds a bachelor of arts degree in theology from Walla Walla College, a master's of divinity from Andrews University in Michigan, and a Ph.D in psychology from Sierra University.
Hardy, of Oxnard, has nearly two decades of experience developing and managing nursing homes, most recently in Santa Paula. He most recently served as administrator of two health care facilities, and previously served as assistant administrator of Huntington Beach Convalescent Center.
Joining him at Forest Hill Manor's health center will be Diana Groendyke as director of nursing.
Steve Kenny, former publisher and owner of Construction Weekly, which reports building permits issued, has launched Construction Insider, a monthly publication offering information on construction projects in the planning stages for Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Contra Costa and Alameda counties.
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In the past, Kenny has founded, operated and sold similar publications, including Pulse of the County in Capitola, Lone Wolf Marketing in Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties and Construction Weekly in Monterey.
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Putnam County Circuit Court Judge Matt Headley reset a sentencing for a Greencastle man Monday after confusion arose over the exact nature of the man's alleged crimes.
Christopher J. Mullins, 24, was set to enter into a plea agreement in which he would plead guilty to theft and welfare fraud, both Class D felonies. In exchange for those pleas, charges of Class C felony forgery and Class D felony identity deception would have been dismissed.
According to court documents, Christopher J. Mullins, 24, fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and used the money for his own personal gain. He was arrested in May.
Mullins allegedly applied for and was granted unemployment benefits in the name of a former roommate. Mullins was identified as the person who used the card through surveillance photos from a Greencastle bank, court documents said.
But in court Monday, Mullins told Headley he had never applied for any benefits in the name of nor had he signed the name of the former roommate at any time. Rather, Mullins said, the roommate had loaned him a debit card onto which the roommate's unemployment benefits were electronically loaded. The roommate loaned him the card to get money for rent, Mullins said.
"He gave it to me to use for rent," Mullins said. "I don't know what happened after that, but he says I stole it. I never signed nothing."
After hearing what Mullins had to say, Headley was hesitant about allowing Mullins to enter into the plea agreement.
"If that's what really happened, it wasn't a crime," Headley said. "I want to continue this so we can see what's going on here."
Mullins spent 42 days in jail after his arrest and was released to home detention on June 24. Headley ordered Mullins released from electronic monitoring and reset his sentencing for Jan. 5.
Mullins' former roommate met with an investigator at the Putnamville State Police Post, where he signed a sworn affidavit saying he had never applied for unemployment benefits and that he believed his identity was stolen and used by Mullins.
The Department of Workforce Development confirmed that benefits had been dispersed in the roommate's name, and that the amount taken via the debit card was $861.
The former roommate was not in court Monday. Mullins told Headley he was "on the run," as assertion confirmed by Putnam County Deputy Prosecutor James Hanner.
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Energy Workforce recently submitted a request to extend the public comment period for the “2-23 Draft Supplement to the 1,4-Dioxane Risk Evaluation.” The EPA published a final risk evaluation for 1,4-dioxane in December 2020 but decided to create a supplement to assess previously unexamined exposure pathways, including 1,4-dioxane in industrial processes and products, general population exposures and new evaluation methods. They are now seeking public review and feedback on these new methods for risk evaluations, which will inform the final 1,4-dioxane risk evaluation supplement.
In the comments, Energy Workforce notes that the draft supplement in question introduces a groundbreaking methodology into the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) risk evaluation framework, which has far-reaching implications for the sector’s operations. Given this draft’s complexity and extensive content, Energy Workforce formally requested an extension of the current public comment period.
If granted this extension, Energy Workforce plans to gather input from Member Company subject matter experts, and conduct a thorough analysis of the proposed exposure scenario. This effort will be led by the Environmental Policy Committee, which has representation from Baker Hughes, DistributionNOW, Halliburton, Milestone Environmental Services, Newpark, SLB and Vallourec.
The EPA plans to hold a four-day virtual public meeting on the topic on September 12-15 for the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) to review the 2023 draft supplement risk evaluation. The feedback from this session will be considered in the development of the final supplement and may help refine the EPA’s methods for conducting release assessments and evaluation of general population exposures.
For more information on this topic or if your company is interested in engaging on the issue, contact Senior Director Energy Policy Maria Suarez-Simmons.
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Beauty to the Higher Power
Photo by Kevin Ramos
You never heard anything much like Go: Organic Orchestra. Its different in concept, different in sound. The concept comes from Adam Rudolph, a Chicago percussionist whos lived in our region for close to 25 years. And the sound . . . it wafts you through an abstract Africa outside of time and terrain.
It was like a spaceship, says Rudolph, exhausted, fevered and awestruck in the wake of an Organic Orchestra performance he conducted at Venices Electric Lodge on the last day of February. The afterimages stick: 21 musicians (five percussionists, a violist and 15 woodwind players) arranged in a crescent to face Rudolph, whos garbed in a North African tunic and striding around the open space, dashing now and then back to his congas, intermittently throwing up strange hand gestures. He waves up and down, makes fists, summons a chord block by raising however many fingers, hushes his lips for a diminuendo, points a digit to indicate a series of soloists. Hes improvising, and so is the orchestra, within a wide range of chordal and rhythmic structures that have been outlined in advance and coded out on music stands. The instant compositions ooze with dissonantly massed flutes, swell and fade, or cook like crazy. Butch Morris has been known to improvise with a jazz orchestra, but this has a more, uh, organic feel.
Younger adventurers in the ensemble include Chris Heenan on bass clarinet, Sara Schoenbeck on bassoon, Harris Eisenstadt on drums. Also present are somewhat older players, such as drummer Alex Cline, bansuri player David Philipson, and flutists Ellen Burr and Emily Hay. Windman Ralph Jones points out that three generations of Detroit jazz adepts are onboard: himself, windman Bennie Maupin and windman Yusef Lateef.
One of Rudolphs primary mentors, Dr. Lateef, now 83, is a living link to Americas music history, but no relic. Always he has evolved, manifesting his own expressions in blues, swing, bop, hard bop, avant-garde, world, electronic and even symphonic music, and making his most challenging contributions late in life. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for some years, and doesnt travel too much anymore, so the sight of him makes an impression. Bundled up in burnoose, scarf and skullcap, he presents concise, authoritative statements: lonesome opening hoots on ocarina, resonant blurts on a double-reed gourd instrument, cries of painful truth on tenor. The orchestra is the writhing universe, with Dr. Lateefs instrumental lines the Genesis narration: And darkness was on the face of the deep.
The Go: Organic Orchestras third album, In the Garden, an exciting and maybe revolutionary two-disc document of the performances from early this year, is now available as a collaborative release on the YAL and Meta labels of its two principal creators. So here falls a good opportunity to relate some of the thoughts Dr. Lateef (slow and patient) and Mr. Rudolph (quietly urgent) shared in Rudolphs Venice living room the day after the first concert this year.
L.A. WEEKLY: How did it feel?
DR. YUSEF LATEEF: I enjoyed it immensely, playing in a context where so many things inspire me. I felt that I was surrounded by something very related to my own aesthetic.
ADAM RUDOLPH: Yusef and I met in 1988, and hes opened up many, many doors for me, in terms of how to look at things in fresh ways. Since hes had such a profound influence on my compositional concepts, even though I have my own aesthetic, I think that he automatically felt comfortable. And in the past Ive always written all the music, but this occasion was a collaboration Yusef sent some music ahead.
What were the motivations for the Organic Orchestra?
RUDOLPH: This music is oral tradition. I wanted to connect with more musicians and find out who was here, and what I discovered was that its my turn to be passing on things that Ive learned. So theres a lot of these younger musicians from varied backgrounds, and its been an opportunity for me to develop a mentoring and also learning relationship with them. I think a lot of them were really happy to be involved in the Organic Orchestra, because theyre getting a chance to expand their ideas of how to approach music, and I know a lot of them have taken the ideas and carried them out into their own ensembles.
And what are some of the principles behind it?
RUDOLPH: Low sounds carry more overtones, so high is embedded in low, in a way that low is not embedded in high. Like a drum especially, you strike it and there are very complex overtones thats what gives it its character and its richness. So inside of that are all the other tones. But its also tension and release so you control the low, and that controls the motion. Low to high is tension, and high to low is release. In Middle Eastern music they have a concept called usala, and thats how they structure their rhythm. Also, Yusef and I were talking about Michio Kaku, the theoretical physicist he wrote this book Hyperspace. He postulated 11 dimensions that could exist, and as you get into the higher dimensions, the laws of physics become simpler and simpler. So rather than thinking about a stylistic milieu, we look at music in the higher dimensions it becomes simpler and simpler.
What has made you evolve?
LATEEF: It was my nature.
Who were examples to you?
LATEEF: Uptown from where I lived as a youth was Lucky Thompson. He wanted a saxophone, but he couldnt afford one. So he got a broomstick and carved notches on it, and practiced on the broomstick until he got a saxophone. John Coltrane, every time hed come to Detroit, we would get together and study. And he was always looking for what he didnt know. He always asked me, What have you been following? And I asked him the same question. He said, I found the secondary dominants [the fifth degree above a note other than the tonic], which were in Europe years ago, but no one had used them in improvisational music, and John told me he knew his secondary dominants backwards.
What moved you away from the blues and toward avant-garde and classical music?
LATEEF: I think the basis of it is the moments that I spent sitting in the library in Detroit, and taking classes at Wayne State University in classical music, finding out what it involves Mozart, Beethoven, and the Russian composers, Borodin et cetera. And I realized that to be a musician, theres much ter-
ritory to look into. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies Id like to write nine, too. Ive written one symphony, Ive got eight
more to go.
Both of you have spent considerable time in Africa. How has that changed your attitude?
LATEEF: Its more compassionate. You see somebody who needs help, you got to help.
What attracted you to Islam?
LATEEF: There was a mosque in Chicago, and I went and got some literature. It said through prayer and deeds ones natural tendencies are directed to the proper channels. The only virtue is in your actions thats what Islam teaches. And it spoke about respect of parents and of neighbors, and I already believed those things from my Christian upbringing. I joined Dizzy Gillespie in Chicago, and when we got to New York, a mosque was there, near Art Blakeys house. I started going to the meetings, and I said, I better try this. I thought I ought to change my name, and the reason I did was because Lateef means gentle and amiable, and Yusef means Joseph after the prophet Joseph. And Abdul Lateef means a servant of the gentle and amiable, a servant of God thats one of Gods attributes, gentle and amiable. And I said, Thats something for me to try to live up to.
Is nature an inspiration?
LATEEF: Nature is a prototype for painters, for musicians, for writers. We didnt create that, its beyond us. We observe it, and I think when we reflect on nature, it gives us ideas how to synthesize whatever were doing. Its a great teacher. Its reflections of the higher power. And were part of nature ourselves. This is something I believe: When we observe something thats beautiful, its not the thing that creates the beauty. The force that
created that beauty is really whats attracting us. So that means a thing of beauty comes in pairs. Theres the thing itself, and theres the thing that makes it.
RUDOLPH: Thats why I feel music is about something greater than music itself. Music is just a medium through which something is passing. Its all ultimately in service of something else.
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It is once again time for our collaboration with the ever-amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what this object is? If not, can you fake like you do?
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Duration: 2 days
- The Role of the Treasury Function
- Funding and Liquidity Management
- Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Management
- Value-at-Risk, Earnings-at-Risk and Cash-Flow-at-Risk
- Risk Measurement with CorporateMetrics™
- Organization, Procedures, Reporting and Controls
The objective of this seminar is to give you a comprehensive understanding of the objectives, tools
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Further, we explain how “Value-at-Risk”, “Earnings-at-Risk” and “Cash-Flow-at-Risk” are measured
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impacts of new accounting rules such as IAS39/FASB133.
09.00 - 09.15 Welcome and Introduction
09.15 - 12.00 The Treasury Function
- Treasury Objectives and Responsibilities
- Scope, Level and Content of Treasury Management
An ALM Framework for Treasury Management
- Difference between banks and corporations
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Funding and Liquidity Management
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Foreign Exchange Management
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12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 16.30 Interest Rate Management
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- Formulating a treasury policy
- Organisation and Responsibilities
Accounting Issues Related to Use of Financial Instruments
- Treasury IT Systems
- Benchmarking and Performance Measurement
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Warranty: 6 months from the manufacturer.
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Former Utah defensive tackle Dave Kruger joined free safety Jamoris Slaughter and offensive tackle Chris Faulk on the sidelines today during the second practice of Browns rookie minicamp.
Kruger, the younger brother of Browns outside linebacker Paul Kruger, stretched and did light exercises off to the side with Slaughter and Faulk. Kruger’s injury is unknown. He signed with the Browns as an undrafted free agent.
Slaughter is recovering from a ruptured left Achilles’ tendon he suffered in September, and Faulk is rehabilitating after tearing two ligaments in his right knee in September. Browns coach Rob Chudzinski said he expects Slaughter, a sixth-round pick from Notre Dame, and Faulk, who signed with the Browns as a undrafted free agent from Louisiana State, to be back in action by training camp, which starts in late July.
The other 45 players attending rookie minicamp participated. Although the Browns will wrap up their rookie minicamp Sunday, the final practice is closed to the media.
New regime watches
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam attended the second practice of rookie minicamp despite his family business, Pilot Flying J, being at the center of an ongoing federal investigation into an alleged fraud scheme.
Haslam chatted with CEO Joe Banner while watching practice. General Manager Mike Lombardi and President Alec Scheiner also watched the action. | <urn:uuid:ad00eaa1-ec2e-446f-865f-1645f13128db> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://www.ohio.com/blogs/cleveland-browns/cleveland-browns-1.270107/browns-rookie-minicamp-dt-dave-kruger-sidelined-leaders-of-new-regime-watch-practice-1.396898?localLinksEnabled=false | 2016-12-05T15:02:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541697.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00276-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960131 | 281 |
But those who work in big data will argue otherwise. Earlier this month, we spoke with David A. Steinberg, CEO of Zeta Interactive, a big data marketing platform he founded in 2007 with former Apple CEO John Sculley. Zeta Interactive helps its clients — like T Mobile, US Airways and Time Inc. — harness the copious data they regularly collect from their customers, and send out more effective, targeted advertisements.
Using big data, Mr. Steinberg contended, helps companies advertise more efficiently, and in turn makes your Internet browsing experience more enjoyable — if you can get past how creepy it is when Facebook ads seem to know exactly how much you love Harry Potter merchandise.
Big data marketing means that ads are targeted directly to your interests. While we still find it a little Big Brother-y, Mr. Steinberg says it’s nothing we should fear.
What if a company came to you and they had data that they collected in an unsavory way — maybe in a way that violated privacy standards?
We wouldn’t work with them.
Do you ever turn down companies that are collecting data in unsavory ways?
No. Most Fortune 1000 companies are doing this right… Of our approximately 700 customers, approximately 500 of them are Fortune 1000 companies. So we’re working with big companies on this… From recollection I can think of one or two we’ve had to say, we think you’re great companies but your policies don’t align with what we’re looking to do.
Does that make you guys the good guys of the big data world, or is that a general policy amongst other big data companies?
Everybody I know and everybody we work with is really focused on what’s happening with consumer privacy. There are some bad apples out there, and there’s some bad actors, and I think some of them give us a bad name… It’s almost all a fear of what could happen versus what has happened… We exist in a society that is sort of consistently worried about 1984.
Do you find yourself constantly having to explain that big data isn’t 1984-ish?
[Mr. Steinberg explains that his customers understand that big data isn’t scary, but that the average individual is still sensitive to it.]
The point I’m trying to make is, I just haven’t seen it where it’s been violated. Did Target get hacked a few months ago? Sure, but they weren’t hacked by a big data company, right? They were hacked by some individuals who decided they could crack through an antiquated sales system and figure that out. And it still remains to be seen what happens with that data, if anything. Obviously it hurts Target’s business, because people are scared of that. I get that; I’m a consumer as well as a CEO, I’ve got my data, I’m always concerned what’s happening with my data and my credit and all those things we worry about. But at the end of the day, the worst thing I’ve ever seen happen with a big data platform is somebody sends an offer that’s inappropriate to that individual. Not bad, not inappropriate, but just not appropriate to that individual.
So the worst part about big data is the potential for a mis-targeted ad?
Yeah, like, a hair transplant ad to a 24-year old with a full head of hair.
[We explain how sometimes we get weird ads for maternity swimwear.]
So overall, you’re saying people shouldn’t be scared of big data.
It helps them. Big data is trying to cure disease. [It’s] is trying to make sure that the offers you get are relevant to you, that you might be interested in. So you’re not getting maternity swimwear, you’re getting outfits from J-Crew that you’re interested in, with a discount that interests you. That’s what big data does. I haven’t seen any cases where big data is being used to the detriment of the user.
But people must freak out when their computers seem to know them better than they know themselves.
[From an industry perspective], If you customize the offers too much, you get to the point of diminishing marginal return on purchase rates.
Why is that?
Because you scare people. [Mr. Steinberg notes, however, that he hasn’t yet seen companies lose money for scaring people with their ads.]
How do you see big data continuing to grow and become a part of our lives?
I think that everything that touches your life is going to be driven by data… Look how Amazon has taken control of online e-commerce. The vast majority of that is because they use the best big data in the world to help people’s decisions on what they want… [And] Netflix, why do people love Netflix? Because the recommendation engine is the best in the world. When you open up Netflix and don’t have 56,000 movies sitting in front of you — you have ten — that’s big data making your life better. That’s going to continue to evolve.
Do you also see it applying to the physical world, like when you walk into a physical storefront or a physical restaurant?
There’s nothing that says that you wont one day wear a device that lets [a restaurant] know who you are, what you like, you can get your table in advance, they can know when you leave your house to get your table, they can have it ready for you the second you walk in with the appetizer you want sitting with the drink you want chilled and ready to be consumed. | <urn:uuid:fac36aba-24d3-4c5c-9d08-383c6bd783d6> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://observer.com/2014/05/big-data-sounds-scarier-than-it-really-is-says-marketing-ceo/ | 2015-03-28T05:30:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131297281.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172137-00199-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957524 | 1,207 |
Okemos and Williamston Boys Basketball Teams in AP Poll
Several High School boys basketball teams are off to a great season and lead area teams in the latest AP poll.
Let's start with Williamston High School. The Hornets, who are tied atop the CAAC Red standings with Haslett, started the season with nine straight victories before falling to Pickerington Central over the holiday break.
According to the Lansing State Journal, that success has Williamston tied for No. 9 Division 2 in the Inaugural Associated Press boys basketball poll of the season.
Williamston is one of four teams from the Lansing region that appear in the top 10 of their respective divisions in the opening poll.
Another local area team that's doing great as well are the Okemos Chieftains. CAAC Blue leader Okemos, which is off to a 9-0 start, is ranked No. 4 in Division 1 and is just behind a trio of programs from Detroit. To find out more about other local teams, please click on the above link. | <urn:uuid:00c26751-7712-4757-b86d-e964e7e885b0> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://99wfmk.com/okemos-and-williamston-boys-basketball-teams-in-ap-poll/ | 2019-05-21T08:43:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256314.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521082340-20190521104340-00123.warc.gz | en | 0.945022 | 214 |
The “alternative” Guelaguetza in Santa Maria del Tule started with the crowd-pleasing favorite, the Chinas Oaxaqueñas. I don’t know how the tradition of the name originated. Can anyone out there offer an answer?
Perhaps it is simply Oaxaca’s version of the Chinas Poblanas of Puebla. Their beaded blouses had origins in the Philippines and were likely imported on Spanish trade galleons coming from Asia to Mexico. Women from the Philippines came to Mexico in this fashion, too.
Goods landed at Acapulco and shipped overland to Veracruz, with a cross-roads stop at Puebla. It is said that the mantilla and rebozo/shawl with hand-knotted fringes had its origins in Asia, too. Spanish women loved this look then. We love it now. | <urn:uuid:f314c2dc-92ce-455c-813e-12eadd3db65a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://oaxacaculture.com/2018/08/video-chinas-oaxaquenas-at-the-el-tule-guelaguetza-2018/ | 2020-09-23T16:02:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400211096.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20200923144247-20200923174247-00211.warc.gz | en | 0.948975 | 193 |
A Defensive Function for the Stabilimenta of Two Orb Weaving Spiders (Araneae, Araneidae)
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Category Archives: mangaka
Im sorry Im writing this so late, but I need to tell you about my last weekend in Tokyo before reality and my trip back to Sweden takes ahold of me. The picture above is from my Sayonara party! I had it together with my darling friend Bameis birthday party.
A funny note; tanyoubi, which means birthday in japanse has a funny meaning, which ofcourse is congratulations for being born BUT also sayonara because you get departured from your mother. SO, this collaboration of Birthday party and Sayonara party went under the name TANYOUBI PARTY! ❤
then we ended up at HEARTLAND around 11pm
(which is a place for gaijins, that means loud drunk forigners that wants to score with Japanese girls)
then fast away to another bar I don´t remember the name of until 2.30am
and then to Shimokitazawa to a very small, gorgeous, wonderful little sidewalk izakaya where we hanged out until 5am and my first morning train went back home to Komazawa.
A SUGOI evening/night/morning with wonderful friends!
I slept 3 hours and then up and away to Shinjuku for photoshoot with NANA EMMA that studies fashion design, and I got to wear clothes from VIVIENNE WESTWOOD! Do you know the manga/anime NANA? I wear the same jacket as her! So awesome! (^ ^)
What a surreal day!
Then studygroup in Shimokita at my friend Sams place and then VIP-party at Roppongi Hills at Grand Hyatt.
Tokyo International Film Festival was this week and I was invited of my former workplace ShortShorts Film Festival
to celebrate this amazing animator and the Animations made out of his short stories and life,
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The Chinese government is notorious for having extreme censorship laws on public and private communication and information sources. The internet has not been immune from this censorship and in recent times people within China have been punished for accessing resources or publishing material the Chinese government deem inappropriate.
The 2008 Beijing Olympics will bring a flood of foreigners to China who are used to basically unrestricted internet access, however China is known for its stringent censorship laws. Aimee McIntosh spoke with David Tien a Chinese expatriate and Annamarie Reus a journalist about what effect Chinas watchful eye might have on tourists and journalists coming for the games.
David said that China’s current internet access rate is at about 12%, and that that would mean almost all people in cities access the internet. He explained how internet censorship in China works:
“There are two levels, one level is quite similar to the west, they don't want child pornography or how to make bombs for example. The other level has political concern; the (Chinese) Leadership don't want rumours spreading around. For example if you do a search on the Falun Gung movement, a lot of articles are blocked.”
One of the reasons internets is so often criticised or praised is because it is so difficult to police and monitor, Aimee asked David if people within China are finding ways to access information that is prohibited, In spite of heavy policing?
“There are ways to elude censorship; one of the common ways is to use a proxy server, which is located between the user and the website. The three well known ones are called the three musketeers.”
When China have hosted public events in the past, such as the APEC summit in Shanghai in 2001, China are said to have eased censorship laws and allowed access to banned websites temporarily, David said it was likely the same would happen during the Olympics but that it would be a temporary change.
“Even in Sydney during the Olympics everyone was on their best behaviour. I say that will possibly happen in China as well but once the games finish it will probably reverse back to normal.”
Annamarie Reus has worked as a journalist both within Australia and overseas for over a decade, she currently works for national radio news, Aimee spoke with her about what impact internet censorship might have on covering the Olympic Games.
Annamarie said the internet has become central to reporting on any event.
“Since the introduction of the internet I think it's not just about levelling off freedom of speech for different countries but it’s also about helping the work of a lot of journalists in different parts of the world. In particular technology has allowed quick access to information. I can't begin to emphasise how important the internet has become to journalists.”
“I remember when the Olympics happened in Australia, the moment any negative information came out about China, suddenly you couldn't access any comprehensive background information about those athletes.”
Annamarie said she thought it was essential for journalists to be familiar with China’s internet censorship laws so they could be sure their material was going to be accessible within China.
“I have been studying how I as a journalist can cover China, I have started looking up possibilities of where I could get my information from, and I have discovered just how difficult it is to get information. There’s already a few journalists (within China) who have ended up in gaol because they have used certain words. Words like freedom, democracy, Tianamen, human rights and democracy.”
“There is what they call the great firewall of china. There is actually an existent firewall in China that you can't get around. The people that recently ended up in gaol were the people who understood how firewalls worked and actually got around it. But after their reporting China pressured the service provider to provide the information and trace the journalists, and they all ended up in gaol.” | <urn:uuid:5bf9ef9c-02b3-43d7-8a28-078573fc394b> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://homepageradio.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html | 2017-03-29T07:15:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190234.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00201-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974635 | 820 |
Item - Vintage Kodak Six-16 Model C 616 Roll Film Camera complete with original case, protective cloth bag and shutter release.
Maker - Kodak of London, England
Circa - 1930s
Construction - Metal
Film - 616 Roll Film (Can be converted to 120 Roll Film)
Country of Origin - England
Lens Type - Anastigmat f:4.5 120mm lens
Shutter Type - Compur Shutter
'f' Settings - 4.5, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22 and 32
Speed Settings - T, B, 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 250
Case (Y/N) - Yes (also complete with original protective cloth bag)
Box (Y/N) - No
Dimensions - 7.25" x 3.75" x 1.625" (Folded/Closed)
Weight - 764 gram for Camera (Case & Bag 193g)
Condition - Excellent Used Condition though there is a few blemishes (please refer to pics)
Other Interesting Points - .
(Please see all Photos).
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The plums of Xiaomanguyu come from the hometown of Nanxi. Fat, luscious and delicious. Plumaster's insists on hand making these plums. No other additives, apart from only adding sugar and salt. The rest is up to Time - plums are fermented for at least 8 months. Thats just the way it is. Some foods are meant to be eaten fresh, some foods taste best only after the stomach yearns and heart aches for it. | <urn:uuid:628c7178-1669-4558-82e0-ab37be049ad1> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.isleprovisions.com/products/plumasterchewyplum | 2021-05-19T02:33:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991562.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20210519012635-20210519042635-00530.warc.gz | en | 0.940705 | 98 |
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*Aggression is any form of behaviour that is intented to injure someone physically or psychologically Berkowitz 1993).Aggressive behaviour is investigated by psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Lorenz based on the role of aggressive behaviour developed by innate instinct. Aggression was seen as a reaction to frustration experiences when humans seek pleasure( life instinct) . Freud suggested a second instinct the death instinct Thanatos, a tendency towards death. Freud assumed that aggressive behaviour diverts destructive energy and also reduces tension. Thus inferring the idea of Catharsis, that hostile aggression tendencies can be released in non-destructive ways such as biting homour or fantasy that will weaken the aggressive behaviour. Ethological approach by Lorenz 1963, like psychoanalytic theory notes the existence of instinctive aggressive energy, however, aggression is an innate behavioural disposition and not a drive like Freud noted, which derives from natural selection in order that aggression will increases the chances of survival. *Dollard et al 1939 in their book the Frustration and Aggression rejected the idea of death instinct and support that a person is motivated to act aggressively by previous frustration. Thus frustration is producing aggression and aggression is always a consequence of frustration. Berkowitz (1974) with his cue arousal theory, adds between frustration and aggression a basic stimulus for evoking aggression, an appropriate environmental condition (or cues). According to him through life experiences some objects become associated with aggression which foster a high value as aggressive cues i.e weapons.
*Social learning theory represent the opposite side of the debate. They assert that aggressive behaviour is learned through instrumental conditioning and / or modeling. Individuals behave in order to reach desired goals. The reainess to use this behaviour arises when it is seen as a useful means to an end in order to stop a situation which is psychologically or physically stressing due to others person control. It has been proved that people obtain different forms of aggressive behaviour through the process of instrumental conditioning (Geen and Stonner 1971- Paterson, Litman 1967). Bandura 1973 demonstrated that the initial steps for acquiring a new form of aggressive behaviour is modeling. In his experioment with Bobo doll (Bandura, Ross and Ross 1963) showed how a model could foster aggressive behaviour. A series of correlation studies shows that there is a positive association between viewing violent tv and behaving aggressive ( McCarthy et al 1975) also Leyens and Herman 1979 for a review).
*Aggressive behaviour is regulated by socially accepted and situational associated norms. The causes of aggression should not be investigated on the conditions that energise individuals drives or reduce the rational control of behaviour but on the conditions of the aggressor in which he sees his acts appropriate and justified in that situation. The instinct theories by Freud and Lorenz explain the aggressive behaviour as generating from aggressive instincts. The social learning on the other end argues that aggression is socially learnrd throught instrumental conditioning or modeling. The frustration-aggression theories explains that aggressive behaviour is motivated by a need to release aggressive energy. Other fators to consider will be the Biological theories and individual differences i.e Lagerspetz 1981 Genes, hormones, gender. | <urn:uuid:47c77e1a-f5c9-44d2-8b25-0411ec9f7df4> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://thepsychotherapy.co.uk/articles/article_view/Aggression | 2021-04-11T08:07:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038061562.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411055903-20210411085903-00404.warc.gz | en | 0.940399 | 634 |
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