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26 Jul - 56 min - Uploaded by Doctum Daemonium Tracklist 1. War in Paradise 2. Of Pure Unholiness 3. Ceremony of the Seventh Circle [ 26 Aug Let Us Pray · Vital Remains. Type: Full-length; Release date: August 21st, ; Catalog ID: DEAF 9CD. Label: Deaf Records; Format: CD. Find a Vital Remains - Let Us Pray first pressing or reissue. Complete your Vital Remains collection. Shop Vinyl and CDs.
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What I’m about to tell you is nothing new.
But that’s why I had to say it.
Content marketing 2017 and beyond has to be useful, and then it has to shut the hell up.
Content marketing will take over as the most important online marketing tool. If it’s done right.
Content Marketing done right: the pocket door saga
Do you know what a pocket door is?
It’s a door that slides in and out of a the door frame, rather than swinging on hinges. Something they always talk about in those ‘house hunting’ shows on HGTV.
Pocket doors are perfect. It’s there when you need it, but totally, 100% out of the way when you don’t. I have one in my house and I love it.
But it broke the other day.
It fell off the track it hung from and now it grinds across the floor when I move it.
So I had to spend a few hours on YouTube watching “how to fix a pocket door” videos and stumbling through the repair.
Why am I telling you this?
Because good online marketing is like a pocket door: perfect when you need it, invisible when you don’t.
This is really the essence of inbound marketing: provide value to users in their time of need (curiosity, motivation, opportunity, etc.) and don’t worry about the rest.
But there’s the problem.
Too many marketing campaigns—especially email marketing—ignores the second half of the inbound mantra:
Don’t bother people. Let them come to you when they’re ready.
Inbound marketing is based on User Experience
The entire notion of “provide value and get found” is built on the idea that only the people who are looking for your product are worth your time.
If they’re not googling “how to fix a pocket door,” they probably don’t need to fix a pocket door right now. No sense in marketing how-to videos to them.
To the wrong market, your high-quality content looks like spam.To the wrong market, your high-quality content looks like spam.Click To Tweet
And that’s a principle of UX: a user’s experience is entirely dependent on their needs.
All marketing needs better UX
User experience is not reserved for digital interfaces. It applies to everything a business creates.
That’s why the early 2010’s saw an explosion of Chief Experience Officer positions.
Companies have finally realized that UX matters and that it’s everywhere.
How does this apply to Content Marketing 2017 and beyond?
The right side of the inbound marketing equation says “don’t bother people if they’re not interested.”
Content marketing—and all online marketing—needs to respect users enough to leave them alone.
(For my money, that’s why inbound is the best form of marketing: save money by skipping the wasteful outbound initiatives that only annoy most people anyway.)
In 2017, Content Marketing needs to focus on audience.
I recently read a great (long!) piece by Movoto—we do specialize in real estate marketing and law firm marketing after all—that explained how they took their blog from 2,000 views per month to over 18,000,000 in 2 years.
Here’s the home run that ties together content marketing and UX (emphasis mine):
Our first thought isn’t, “Oh, this will be cool” or “This would fit perfectly on The Atlantic” or “This will soooo go viral.” No, our first thought is, “Is there an audience out there that will link back to us?”
Wait, that’s a good one. Let me repeat it real quick:Your audience comes first in marketing. Everything else is secondary.Click To Tweet
There we go. Now then…
Find the group of people that are guaranteed to enjoy your content and write it with them in mind.
It took years for the web design world to adopt the “mobile first” mantra, but now all us smartphone browsers are glad they did.
Same thing is true with online marketing. It took us years, but now it’s time we operate audience first.
Network TV has done this for decades.
They find the audience that sponsors want to reach, and write tv shows that the audience will consume. Ever wonder why programming on every major network is almost exactly the same?
Last point: even Google themselves in on board
Google confirmed that “interstitials,” those infuriating full-screen popups on mobile devices will become a negative ranking signal starting this January [there are a few exceptions].
Granted, these interstitials aren’t a perfect analog to inbound-vs.-outbound marketing, but they do make a relatable point: they’re trying to steal your attention from whatever it’s currently on, and they’re extremely annoying.
Sounds like outbound marketing in a nutshell to me.
Why Content Marketing will take over in 2017
Someone remind me to revisit this post next December to see if I’m eating claim chowder.
Here’s why I say CM is taking over:
- Social media is well-established. Everyone’s doing it already.
- SEO is talking more and more about publishing and promoting quality.
- Even some major PPC metrics have gone down in recent years, according to WordStream.
I’m not omniscient so let’s see whether I’m right or wrong, but from where I’m sitting, the obvious next major player is content marketing.
But content marketing isn’t new!
I can hear you saying.
I know! That’s how I started this post!
What’s new about it will be its adoption into the mainstream of online marketing.
Remember when every company on the web reluctantly agreed to start a blog, and then filled it with crappy 200-word posts of nothing?
How many of them are still doing that?! Like so many, you guys!
THAT is what will change.
In 2005 it was the blog. In 2007 it was the app. In 2009 it was the Facebook page. In 2016 it was Snapchat.
In 2017, it will be a sincere commitment to content marketing.
How to combine UX and Content Marketing for big wins in 2017
I’m calling for 2017 to be a banner year for content marketing. Here’s how to make the most of it.
The graphic above was inspired by this graphic from movoto.com, but I changed it to better reflect our process.
Audience UX: find the right audience and leave everyone else alone
Where most content marketing falls flat is the research, both before and during creation.
Blogging and infographic design have become so easy these days that too many brands go into it guns blazing without adequate research.
You have to find your audience and let them make all your content marketing decisions for you.
Real Estate example
You’re an agent. You’ve decided to invest in content marketing in 2017.
You see everyone else writing the same old “11 things to know before you buy your first home” posts.
How do you stand out?
Let’s say you’re in your 30s or 40s and most of your clientele are too. You operate in the suburbs, near a major city. Some commuters, some local business. A great spot to live and work.
Pick a sub-group of people who are likely to live where you do.
Here’s an easy one: sports fans.
We’re in Massachusetts, so I’ll use the Boston/New England sports franchises in my examples.
Here’s the recipe for a successful real estate-related—but not too real estate-realted—piece of content marketing:
Identify your audience, content ideas, words & phrases being searched for on the topic, tangent ideas, and outreach/publicity sources.
In our example:
- Audience: Boston-area sports fans
- Ideas: photos & descriptions of New England Patriots players’ houses
- Keywords: Tom Brady’s house, Bill Belichick net worth, highest paid NFL players, etc.
- Tangents: Where does Tom Brady live, “How to live like the Patriots do” spin-offs, etc.
- Outreach: Patch.com authors in towns where Patriots players live, Boston-area sports bloggers like Barstool Sports, Chowdaheadz, etc.
How to use the recipe
Crawl MLS data and public data for real estate records. Compile them into a post with 10-20 of the most famous Patriots players and coaches.
Then—and this is crucial—find websites that have already written about this topic.
And THEN use the standard compliment of SEO tools find websites that linked to them.
That’s where the money is.
Find out who’s linking to material like yours. Strike up a relationship with those linkers.
Easier said than done, of course. But it’s worth its weight in gold.
Law Firm Marketing example
You’re a lawyer, part of small- to medium-sized firm.
You practice one of the standard consumer-facing practice areas: GP, personal injury, family law, criminal defense, etc.
This time we’ll pick a different sub-group people: outdoors enthusiasts.
Again we identify the audience, content ideas, words & phrases being searched for on the topic, tangent ideas, and outreach/publicity sources.
In our outdoors-meets-law example:
- Audience: Boston-area outdoors types
- Ideas: 37 Running & Hiking Spots in New England with No Trespassing Restrictions
- Keywords: hiking new england, trail running routes
- Tangents: “Is trespassing legal in survival situations?,” overnight camping new england, etc.
- Outreach: survival gear review blogs, New England travel guides, outdoor/nature photography blogs
How to use the recipe
Crawl maps and public land plots with trails and off-trail areas, including land owned by conservation groups like The Trustees.
Compile them into a post with a number of maps, reviews, and photos.
And of course, to provide unique value that sets your post apart from the others, include the relevant text from local trespassing laws, with legalese translated to English below.
Final thoughts: content marketing is kinda uncomfortable
New content marketing initiatives can feel a little weird at first.
Mostly because the content is usually outside the company’s main topic. Related, but not exact.
Real estate agents writing about celebrities and lawyers writing about hiking. It can feel like a stretch.
But the entire point of this marketing push is to provide value—information, entertainment, or both—to users who are primed and receptive to your content.
And because the end users are the driving force of the whole process, the content has to be about them.
Let me repeat that:The content you market is not about you. It's about your audience.Click To Tweet
You might hate hiking. I do.
But if there’s audience out there who loves it, you should hide your hatred and tap into that market as quickly as possible.
Ok, now I gotta go fix my pocket door.
Your favorite examples? Tell us in the comments.
We’re always learning and striving to improve. If you know of any great content marketing examples—especially for real estate and law—please let us know!
There’s plenty of work to go around, so we’re not worried about competing with other marketing agencies or anything like that.
The whole team loves this stuff and we want to read as much of it as we can.
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School teachers praised new learning approaches they've used with success
this school year during a presentation Monday to the Duneland School Board.
Yost principal Anne
Stillman said the initiative began with staff meeting with each other,
sharing information, using the learning tools in the classrooms and then
evaluating how they were received by students.
According to Second
Grade teacher Heather Dunkle, applying the Kagan cooperative learning
approach "had made a huge difference. It's tremendous."
Dr. Spencer Kagan
developed his educational Structures to promote class interaction,
cooperation, active engagement, tolerance, self-esteem and increased
Stillman said the
teachers initially concentrated on the areas of technology, cooperative
learning, behavior intervention and guided reading. The latter was for small
groups reading at similar needs and levels with opportunities to be
challenged and practice problem solving.
teacher Lisa Joesten told the School Board that mindfulness --- paying
attention in the present moment non-judgmentally --- is a popular
educational tool with positive benefits. Such exercises teach children to
pause before they respond, and that it's appropriate to stop instead of act
in many situations.
Sue Harmison explained the social thinking program where students are taught
the difference between expected behavior and unexpected behavior that can
make others feel uncomfortable. Superhero characters are used to explore
various situations as teachable moments to develop coping strategies.
enthusiastically explained the Kagan Structure for learning that doesn't
change what is taught but how to get that information to students more
Stillman said a lot
of Yost teachers are trying and asking about Kagan methods and it's been
helpful. Yost hopes to be a resource for other schools that want more
presentation to the School Board came from Chris Lowery, Chesterton High
School director of Forensics, accompanied by several members of the
award-winning CHS Speech and Debate teams as well as team coaches. The
Debate team won the 2013-14 state title, its 23rd overall, with the Speech
team finishing fourth this season.
the School Board with a copy of an Indiana General Assembly House resolution
recognizing the CHS team's achievement. Speech competition continues with 20
students attending the Nationals in June.
Duneland Schools give Speech and Debate a lot of leeway and it is
appreciated. He noted the program doesn't cut students and 140 are on the
roster, one of the largest in the nation.
According to School
Board member Ron Stone, "Speech and Debate is probably the best thing that
can prepare you for a job." Board president Ralph Ayres said the CHS program
has been "outstanding, and for decades literally."
In other business,
the board unanimously approved the recommendation of Duneland director of
Support Services Greg Lindy to accept the $363,241 low bid of Gluth Brothers
Roofing to do the roof at Yost Elementary. The board indicated it will
consider repairs to the Duneland bus barn at its next meeting.
personnel action were the upcoming retirements of Cheryl Marckese following
19 years with Duneland and Judy Yogodnik, who spent all 42 years in the
profession here. Both currently are Fifth Grade teachers at Westchester
superintendent Jim Goetz said the 14 teachers retiring this year represent
369 years of service with Duneland and 424 total years of teaching
The board also
approved purchase of language arts and world languages textbooks; Goetz said
community members participating in a review of the textbooks signed off on
elementary summer school were announced as June 9 through June 26 from 7:45
a.m. to 12:20 p.m. at Bailly Elementary.
Board member John
Marshall read a legislative update on bills of interest to Duneland signed
by the governor following the completed General Assembly session. Ayres, a
former legislator, said six study committees were named to deal with
superintendent Dr. David Pruis invited educators, parents and supporters of
education to view a 65-minute documentary Rise Above the Mark on April 30 at
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Why would he?
Pierce is 34, Garnett is 35 and Allen is 36.
He's going to the knicks.
He wants to win championships asap before his knee disintegrates.
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With the Girls scheduled to arrive in Sunny Singapore on the 29th of November for the MAMA 2011 event, and again on the 9th and 10th of December for their first solo concert here, the island nation is slowly, but surely, gearing itself up for Soshi-fever ;).From one of our local telecom service providers (StarHub) offering free Soshi concert tickets for the 1st 50 sign-ups for their new mobile phone plans, to the main local English newspaper doing a review of “The Boys” CD ( a first as they usually only showcase the mainstream English, Mandarin, and sometimes Japanese music releases :)), Singapore is certainly gearing itself up to welcome the 9 ladies to our shores.
Getting in on the action (and helping to fan the Soshi-flame at the same time 😀 !), the local teen magazine Teenage has decided to dedicate it’s December issue to the 9 ladies of Soshi.
From the iconic SNSD image on its front cover (first seen in the Girls’ 1st Japan Arena Tour 2011), to the Tiffany and Co. inspired diamond-studded imagery of the Teenage magazine banner (even the front cover photo layout is arranged horizontally to accommodate the 9 ladies :)), the entire issue screams out “SNSD” !
Within the magazine covers, 2 full articles are dedicated to the Girls; the first giving a quick thumbnail sketch of their musical hits in their career so far, since their debut in 2007, and the second, a rather insightful analysis of the 9 ladies personalities according to their horoscope signs (surprisingly, 9 of the 12 horoscope signs are represented here ;)).
As an additional sweetener, a contest is also included whereby the 4 best fanmade welcome cards to the Girls will each win a pair of tickets to see the 9 ladies live on the 10th of December 2011. For the rest, a beautifully designed poster of the magazine front cover image is included as a keepsake :).
All in all, this, I believe, is the most comprehensive coverage of the Girls so far in our fair nation of Singapore, proving yet again that the dreams of our beloved earthly angels to achieve world domination in the music scene is slowly, but surely, coming to fruition. SNSD Jjang !
(Read on for the full article details featured in the magazine.)
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The vehicular safety systems have indeed come a long way from the Pedestrian Detection systems that was used by Mercedes-Benz and with the new advent of electronics and programmable on dash CPUs, vehicular systems are getting safer. But I wish there was a system to deploy air bags effectively, without compromising the air pressure as well as passenger safety. If there?s a sensor monitoring passenger positioning inside the car, air bags can deploy without breaking the hands and cheek bones of the driver. A friend of mine hit a truck standing on a red light at 50 miles an hour. Her hands were not on the steering wheel, and when the airbags deployed, they twisted her hands around the elbow, and she suffered a broken hand, and nothing else.
@Olaf, agreed. I don't think automakers have any choice but to have their cars -- and all the components in the entire food chain-- ISO26262 standard-compliant. How much more each in the food chain needs to spend for the compliancy is a good question...
Have a look at the car prices then you have got the answer. On the other hand I see still potential for OEMs and suppliers to cut their production costs by a higher degree of automation with better engergy efficiency. But I think, there is no choice because of legal reasons and product liability. And I fear that some OEMs and suppliers will disappear.
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In 1971, writer Esther Vilar banged out what she later called a “pamphlet written in great anger against the women’s movement’s worldwide monopoly of opinion.” This pamphlet became a small book called The Manipulated Man. Largely forgotten today, the book has nonetheless been hailed as an underground classic by many in the Men’s Rights Movement.
It’s not hard to see why. It’s an entertaining rant, written with style and verve, an interesting reminder of the passions (pro and con) that the women’s movement inspired in women in its early-70s heyday. What really endears it to Men’s Rightsers, though, is that it’s full of catty, often quite vicious, attacks on women and enthusiastic paeans to the glories of men. None of these are supported in any way by actual evidence, of course, but that’s rarely a drawback to MRAs. (You can buy the book on Amazon, though I bet that if you look around a bit you might be able to find a pdf of it for free, wink wink.)
Vilar pulls no punches:
Women let men work for them, think for them and take on their responsibilities – in fact, they exploit them. Yet, since men are strong, intelligent and imaginative, while women are weak, unimaginative, and stupid, why isn’t it men who exploit women?
Why do women not make use of their intellectual potential? For the simple reason that they do not need to. It is not essential for their survival. Theoretically it is possible for a beautiful woman to have less intelligence than a chimpanzee and still be considered an acceptable member of society.
By the age of twelve at the latest, most women have decided to become prostitutes. Or, to put it another way they have planned a future for themselves which consists of choosing a man and letting him do all the work.
Oh no she didn’t!
As zingy as these zingers are, they don’t actually describe any human females I know. (Well, ok, they describe a tiny handful of women I’ve known.) But as I read the book I realized that they described a non-human someone I know very well:
Yep, by simply replacing the word “women” in the book with the words “cats,” and making a few other minor adjustments, I discovered that Vilar’s angry, anachronistic rant is actually a detailed and unflinchingly accurate description of life with my cat. Consider these altered passages:
It is true that cats get progressively more elegant, more well-groomed … but their demands on life will always be material, never intellectual.
The sort of independence men have means nothing to cats, because cats don’t feel dependent. They are not even embarrassed by the intellectual superiority of men because they have no ambition in that direction.
There is one great advantage which cats have over men: they have a choice – a choice between the life of an alley cat and the life of a dimwitted, parasitic luxury item. There are … few cats who would not select the latter
A cat will always be pleased if a man turns to look at her … . Her pleasure may be compared to that of a shareholder who finds that his stocks have risen. It will be a matter of complete indifference to a cat if he is attractive or looks intelligent. A shareholder is hardly likely to notice the color of his dividend checks.
A cat’s greatest ideal is a life without work or responsibility – yet who leads such a life but a child? A child with appealing eyes, a funny little body … that darling miniature of an adult. It is a child that a cat imitates … its helplessness, its need for protection. A cat must be cared for; it cannot look after itself. And what species does not, by natural instinct, look after its offspring?
A cat takes interest only in subjects that have an immediate personal usefulness to her.
True, true, true, true, true, and true.
It’s too bad Vilar chose to market her book as an attack on women. She could have had a long and happy career as a cat whisperer.
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Cabinet extends DST director-general contract, confirms other appointmentsBack
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Mjwara joined the Department of Science and Technology as director-general in 2006 from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
Other appointments include new board members for the National Empowerment Fund (NEF), the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa), Air Traffic Navigation Services (ATNS), as well as the Rail Safety Regulator and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa).
Thando Mhlambiso was appointed as chairperson of the NEF board, while Dr Jacqueline Williams, who is a trustee, and Sipho Zikode, a Department of Trade and Industry representative, were appointed as members of the board for the remainder of the term ending December 15.
Other appointments to take effect from March 1 included Busisiwe Mabuza as chairperson of the Acsa board, taking over from Wayne van der Vent, who is acting. Skhumbuzo Macozoma, Tryphosa Ramano, Priscilla Mabelane, Elias Masilela and Roshan Morar were appointed as nonexecutive Acsa directors. Mohla Matsaba was appointed as alternative director to Masilela.
Captain Mpho Mamashela was reappointed as chairperson of the ATNS board. Sindi Zilwa, Kgathatso Thlakudi, Nozipho Mgoduso, major-general Fabian Msimang, Nomfanelo Magwentshu, Sipho Mseleku and Hlengiwe Makhathini were appointed as members of the board also with effect from March 1.
Other appointees to take effect on this date were Mitesh Patel as nonexecutive member to the Railway Safety Regulator board and Namhla Mxenge, who was appointed as a nonexecutive member to Prasa's board.
Abel Mawela was appointed as nonexecutive director to the Export Credit Insurance Corporation board for three years.
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Ubisoft has confirmed that all three titles will physically be on-disc, rather than the mix of disc and download codes of similar re-releases.
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|Posted by: Serenity Jul 27 2006, 11:55 AM|
| So I open up my tv guide today and who's there? James Roday!!
they had a Q&A with him so I'll type it up here....it's probably on the tvguide site but it lags my computer something terrible and I feel like typing :)
Please excuse any typos.
Q: The ratings for Psych are terrific, and your "star is born" reviews have been over the moon. So just how big is your head these days?
A: It's way too big and it keeps getting bigger. I mean, have you seen the size of my head on the bus stops and billboards? Our promotion has been a little scary. But I'm not complaining. What's happening right now feels really dreamy, and I'm hoping I don't wake up anytime soon.
Q: With good reason. You were a regular on three series: Ryan Caulfield: Year One, First Years and Miss Match-all of them promising, all of them big fat stink bombs.
A: And the only common thread in all those failed shows was me! With Dule Hill coming from The West Wing, I was like, "Dude! I hope your magic stuff overrides what I'm bringing to the party, because I'm the Kiss of death!" Dule was really calm and oddly confident about this show. I was all over the place.
Q: What's it like when you career's in the dead zone?
A: It got so bad I started thinking that maybe I should stop trying, that maybe the medium of TV wasn't for me.
Q: Not to beat a dead horse, but let's not forget your movie fiasco, "The Dukes of Hazzard"
A: I never got my hopes too high on that one because I was playing the villian and making fun of NASCAR. [Laughs] That wasn't too smart since the NASCAR crowd was our target audience.
Q: There are some pretty grisly murders on Psych. Any concern that that your character, Shawn, could get too flip?
A: For all his puckish qualities, Shawn is decent at heart and we can't ever lose that. At the same time, we make sure you never get emotionally attached to the victim. Psych is not about real human beings who are no longer breathing. It's about why a dead body makes these two characters go to SeaWorld and pretend to be whale trainers.
Q: Who is your comedy god?
A: I worship at the altar of "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy." Will Ferrell is a genius.
Q: Rumor is, you've been seeing real psychics. Fess up!
A: I've consulted with three psychics, not to get readings but to ask questions: What happens to your body when you get a psychic message? Do you get hot flashes? Does your foot twitch? Do you see double? To fake it as a psychic, Shawn needs a lot of tricks at his disposal, so, hey, I'll work with anything
Q: Then your a believer?
A: Sure. Of course there are charlatans, but I definaitely believe there are people with real psychic abilities. We're a fascinating species.
Q: What about Shawn's love life? For a doofus he's quite the chick magnet.
A: Shawn and Gus are goofy, but they have a charm and self-awareness that allow them to laugh at themselves. They're not trying to look cool, and women appreciate that. But a lot of it is the bagic of TV. We're not exactly Crockett and Tubbs.
Q: You got a girlfriend?
A: Nope. I'm single-and happily so.
Q: Shawn's observational skills are fantastic. What about yours?
A: This is embarrassing: A week after I moved into my new apartment in Vancouver to start Psych, I went to the store and loaded up on frozen food, then realized in the checkout line that I didn't have a microwave. So I put it all back and left with just toilet paper and a far of peanuts. When I got home, right above the stove is the exono-size microwave big enought to cook a Thanksgiving turky. That's how observant I am.
lol that last bit is hilarious!!!
and I was thinking that they probably filmed in Vancouver but wasn't sure....that's great!
|Posted by: froggirl80 Jul 27 2006, 05:23 PM|
|what a cool guy!!!!!! he seems so nice & humble & having the time of his life!!!! And he is single!!!!! Very nice!! God bless|
|Posted by: MintyToothpick Jul 27 2006, 11:08 PM|
|I loved that last line too, I had to read it to my sister! Great, give me another reason why I have to live in Vancouver, lol. Thanks so much for posting that, Serenity, it was hilaious!|
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Business Insider travelled on May 5 to speak with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at the Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School in the South Bronx, New York. We talked about education, the economy, and the Trump administration. JPMorgan Chase announced a $US6 million investment in the Bronx as part of its $US75 million New Skills for Youth initiative. Following is a transcript of the video.
Matt Turner: Coming out of school, getting a good job, what you’re describing, working your way up, buying a house, those are all parts of the American dream, and all of those things in different ways have gotten harder it seems. Is that American dream still available to as many people now as it has been in the past?
Jamie Dimon: I think if you look at what happened a little bit, we have the best country on the planet. And we have schools, and universities, and food, water, energy, peaceful neighbours, low corruption, you name it, best and widest, deepest capital markets.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t identify problems. We don’t have a divine right to success. And, so, if you look at it, what were the problems? One is, middle-class wages haven’t gone up. One is, that low wages haven’t gone up enough to create a living wage. One is, people losing jobs, more from automation than anything else.
But again, with a solution, it’s retraining, it’s relocation, it’s income assistance, it’s things that actually take place. So, we’re just trying to recognise those things — that we’ve left some people behind. And we haven’t done
a particularly good job fixing it. So my own view, this is not a political issue. It’s not a knee-jerk reaction from either side. It’s training, schools, getting growth going again.
Detroit would be a great example, and if you look at Detroit, that mayor — it’s been a train wreck for 40 years. The population has gone from over 2 million to 700,000. But this mayor comes in, and he talked about streetlights, sanitation, jobs, policing, schools, affordable housing. He’s doing it all, and it’s starting to grow for the first time in 30 years. Because of literally, one man.
But that one man couldn’t have done it without business, and you’ve got wonderful people in Detroit, like Dan Gilbert, JPMorgan Chase. And business couldn’t have done it without the political environment where they wanted to improve things. If you had an anti-business environment there, it still would be going down.
Turner: In terms of the lost generation, that can lead to frustration and you referred earlier to some of the anger upstairs towards the global elite. Can you just talk about how you see that aspect of it?
Dimon: I kind of agree with it. When you leave people behind, and those people who are left behind, It’s not really their own fault in saying it was the leaders of institutions. So you’re always going to have an elite. You can have an elite in a communist society. But it is the leaders, something went wrong, and collectively, the leaders are responsible.
And so — and there’s some other terrible numbers. Men, 25 to 55, labour-force participation is down 10%. That’s unbelievable. 35,000 die of opioids every year. 70% of kids, 17 to 24 can’t get into the US military because of health or education. Think of obesity, diabetes, reading and writing. Is that something — is that the society we wanted?
So, no, we should be working these things, acknowledge the flaws we have, and then come up with solutions. Not Democrat. Not Republican. Not knee-jerk. Solutions.
And any job’s a good job. So, this whole concept of there’s dead-end jobs? Not true. I’ve heard it my whole life, dead-end jobs — but a lot of those burger-flippers end up owning and running restaurants. It’s the first rung. Jobs lead to dignity. If you’re good at the first, you can get the second. Jobs lead to household formation. Jobs are better solutions for society. And I think the other part we have, the expanded-income tax credit, which can help the lower paid, have more of a living wage, which will lead them to do more, and it will help small business. It won’t help bigger companies. But, we should be doing things like that.
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Welcome to day 5 of the
As you know me by now I make a lot
of coffee cards,but for the hop you can also make
cocoa cards or tea cards and as today happens to be
International Tea Day, I have a cute little
tea puch project for you.
I am making these little gift pouches for my collegues at work.
Most of them drink tea and I also have to come up with one
for coffe, but that is tomorrow!
First the template. You need a piece of cardstock
of 3,5 inch by 11 inch and you score at
3,5"- 4 "- 7,5
At the last part you cut of the right tringle to
construct the pouch for the tea bag.
For this card I used again the free Verve Stamps.
This is the front of the pouch card.
Behind the cup some design paper
and a doily colored with distress ink.
The cupis colored with markers and
design paper.On the leaves I added tree red
sticky pearls. I cut out the tea back and
wrote the sentiment by hand.
Here you see the inside of the pouch card with
sentiments fromVerve Stamps.
On the left side you see 3 little tea bags that I stamped
with ho ho ho in green and red and added tiny
gemstones. Now to come up with a fancy envelop to
wrap this up as a gift. Something to think about....
Thank you Nicola for linking my post to yours!
You might want to hop over to her blog
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Have a look here.
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It’s never too soon to look ahead to the 2013 college soccer season, and as the spring season continues, teams have one eye on August and starting another run at a national championship.
Over the next couple of months, TopDrawerSoccer.com will take a look at some of the best individual players by position in the men’s and women’s game at the Division 1 level. This list doesn’t include freshman to be.
First up, a look at some of the best goalkeepers in men’s college soccer – in no particular order.
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Andre Blake, Connecticut, Junior: Few would contest the notion that Blake is the best shot stopper in the country. Possessing superb athleticism and reflexes, the Jamaican already has 27 shutouts through two seasons with the Huskies. This year presents another chance for Blake to prove his consistency and erase any doubts scouts may have about his abilities at the professional level.
Alex Bono, Syracuse, Sophomore: The Big East Rookie of the Year, Bono is a mixture of solid fundamentals, good size and poise in goal that belies his age and experience. As a freshman, Bono made 79 saves and picked up 10 shutouts, and put in a few memorable performances in the NCAA Tournament last fall as the Orange advanced to the third round.
Rafael Diaz, St. John's, Senior: Last fall was a bounce back season for Diaz after his 2011 was cut short thanks to an injury. The native of the Dominican Republic, Diaz is slightly undersized at 6-feet-0, 160 pounds, but makes up for it with smart positioning and quick reflexes. He made 58 saves and notched eight saves in 19 games in 2012.
Jeff Gal, Virginia, Sophomore: The redshirt net minder announced himself on the national stage at the end of last season, making some crucial saves in helping Creighton to the College Cup. He split time in goal last year, but in 15 starts made 57 saves, had seven shutouts and a record of 13-1-1. Since the end of the season, Gal is in the midst of a transfer to Virginia, as incumbent goalkeeper Spencer La Cevita is coming off two offseason hip surgeries. So Gal will have to prove himself again at a new place, but is certainly talented enough to do so.
Tomas Gomez, Georgetown, Junior: A member of the U.S. U20 player pool, Gomez battled through a shoulder injury through a part of last season but steadied himself to help backstop the Hoyas’ run to the national championship. While he is prone to the occasion gaffe, Gomez is a solid shot stopper and will take on an even bigger role this season after the loss of Georgetown’s senior leaders.
Ashkan Khosravi, UC Riverside, Sophomore: An Iranian youth international, Khosravi has one of the best tales in college soccer circles, and has the talent to force himself onto the national saves. His side fizzled out after a strong start to the season, going 3-8 following victories in its first seven games of 2012, but Khosravi showed signs of yet another talented player between the posts who will look to reinforce that this season.
Charlie Lyon, Marquette, Junior: The rising junior played every minute of the 2012 season for a rapidly improving Marquette program, with Lyon one of many reasons for last season’s success. Possessing a big frame, his 87 save and 10 shutouts were an impressive return statistically.
John McCarthy, La Salle, Senior: The soon to be fourth-year starter has put together an impressive resume thus far in his college career, despite not playing at a prominent power. He’s led the nation in the past in saves, making 143 as a sophomore, before amassing 114 his junior year in 2012. He has a chance to make a final impression and show that he has pro potential in his final year, something that wouldn’t be a huge surprise.
Tyler Miller, Northwestern, Junior: Another ‘keeper who has a very imposing frame – Miller stands at 6-foot-3, weighs in at 195 pounds – the New Jersey native was the First Team All-Big Ten goalkeeper, playing every minute of 2012 after assuming the starting job as a freshman the year before. While he benefits from playing behind a strong defense, Miller has shown the ability to make big saves in big games.
Spencer Richey, Washington, Senior: The former U.S. U17 MNT international does a lot of the little things that don’t show up on the stat sheet extremely well – organizes his defense, is an on field leader and distributes the ball better than most ‘keepers in the nation. To go with that, he’s a solid shot stopper with good fundamentals and positioning. | <urn:uuid:101a3319-0b18-4807-a4a6-83ea23efd570> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/top-10-positional-breakdown:-men's-gks_aid28692 | 2016-07-26T12:10:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257824853.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071024-00145-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968303 | 1,023 |
NASHVILLE - The state Senate today approved a bill that allows teachers to discuss with students "the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of theories such as evolution and climate change.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, passed on a 24-8 vote after a brief debate.
Because of a Watson amendment that seeks to calm a storm of controversy over the bill in scientific circles, the bill now goes back to the House, which passed a different version of the measure last year.
Watson said he believes he has addressed concerns that caused a group of prominent Tennessee-based scientists, including a Nobel laureate, to criticize the legislation. It requires discussions between teaches and students to take place within the "framework" of the State Board of Education and local school systems' science curriculum, Watson said.
Sen. Andy Berke, D-Chattanooga, complimented Watson for his efforts but said he still had issues with the bill.
"I know [Watson] has the best intentions with this bill," Berke said. "I do, however, believe there are others who are using this bill for other purposes to make their own points about the origins of life."
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THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, NOV. 1, 1937
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ook Toward 1940. .
H EYWOOD BROUN must have been
out looking for sucker money when
s offered two-to-one odds that either Thomas
ewey, the erstwhile rackets-buster or Fiorello
.,Guardia the rampaging reformer would be
e Republican presidential nominee in 1940.
If ever a presidential boom sprang up overnight
is that for young Mr. Dewey. The Republicans
aders who convened in Chicago last week are
reed that the District Attorney-elect of New
ork county has the makings of a political Moses,
t so much because of what he has already ac-
mplished in practical politics but because of
s glamorous potentialities. He has the qualities
cessary for mass vote-appeal. As a westerner
ho took the big city by storm with the fear-
ssness and thoroughness of his clean-up cam-
ign, it is calculated that he will appeal to
ters in every section of the country. Further-
ore, he is looked upon as a man who has an
,rnest zeal for reform, yet one who will not
sort to extremist methods to accomplish his
The Chicago delegates practically eliminated
kGuardia last week, despite the vigorous cam-
,ign already started on his behalf by William
len White. Mark Sullivan and Frank Kent and
Ier Republican trumpeteers have already be-
owed their blessings upon Dewey, but White,
ho supported Theodore Roosevelt in the Bull
oose campaign of 1912, and who transformed
f Landon from a provincial governor into a na-
nal figure, persists in his support of La
iardia. It was contended by the Chicago com-
itteemen however, that with the fiery mayor
the Republican candidate in 1940, the coun-
i would be asked to choose between two iden-
al nominees, and that the Democrats whether
osevelt, La Follette, Murphy, Earle or some-
dy else, would have all the advantage.
Besides, it was argued by the practical men
Chicago, such a campaign would make it diffi-
It to arouse the enthusiasm of conservatives of
her party, particularly those who put up the
mey with which campaigns are financed.
asses On. .
T HE UNFORTUNATE but instructive
career of England's first Labor Primd
nister has come to an end. Ramsay Mac-
nald, apostate of British Socialism, died, an
emy might be unkind enough to remark, as he
MacDonald grew up with the labor movement
his country, drawing his first instruction in
ial economy from Henry George's "Progress
d Poverty." The land-rent theme of the great
igle-taxer made a profound impression on
cDonald, surrounded as he was by example:
In the 1918 parliamentary elections, he suffered
for his militant opposition to the forces that had
brought his country into the most destructive war
in history. But four years later the reaction in
favor of peace not only returned MacDonald to
the House of Commons, but broke the Conserv-
ative majority and gave the opposition the op-
portunity to overthrow the cabinet and place
itself in office, with MacDonald as premier. His
friendliness to Soviet Russia and his leniency
to World War political offenders, however, gave
his Tory opponents a handle against him, and
his government was defeated in the general elec-
tion of 1924.
In 1929 the sweeping Labor Party victory gave
the Scottish chief another chance in the minis-
try. Reduction of armaments, his favorite ante-
bellum program, came in for immediate atten-
tion, and received concrete expression in the
successful London Conference of 1930. Restora-
tion of diplomatic relations with Russia, with-
drawal of British troops from the Rhineland and
adherence to the League of Nations were cardinal
points of the Labor foreign policy. Domestic
problems were multiplied by the post-war de-
pression; industry and trade fell and the na-
tional debt rose correspondingly. The left wing
of the Labor Party rebelled against suggestions
to balance the budget by cutting the dole and in
August of 1931 came the fatal party split, with
MacDonald earning the scorn and invective of his
former adherents after the resignation of the
cabinet by remaining to form a new ministry
from a coalition of right wing Laborites, Con-
servatives and a section of the minority Liberal
Party. On Aug. 28 MacDonald was read out of
the Labor Party. At the next election the coali-
tion cabinet won a decisive victory and Mac-
Donald was temporarily vindicated but with the
passage of years his life was increasingly em-
bittered by the unforgiving enmity of his old
comrades. In 1935 he resigned from office be-
cause of failing eyesight and health, but was
still pursued by the abuse of the members of
the movement to which he had dealt so heavy a
blow after so many years of untiring and unsel-
Ramsay MacDonald was a much-maligned
man, probably less evil than unfortunate. The
harm he did to his country by his near-wrecking
of the progressive movement, which but for him
might have established a Popular Frotit govern-
ment in England, is immeasurable. But it is
difficult to condemn a man for a single error,
and MacDonald's coalition government, still in
office after two changes of premiers and grow-
ing almost daily more conservative in com-
plexion, was, in spite of the allegations of his
foes, probably in great part, at least, only an
error in judgment. If it is retained in the minds
of biis successors as a warning against similar
break-downs in the face of crisis, it will not
have been without value.
The editorials published in Under the
Clock are written by members of Disraeli's
harem, who are not responsible for what
they do when they are in his clutches.
One of them found today's column in the
left hip-pocket of a pink hobgoblin en-
countered on the way home from a League
TWO LADS of the studious ilk casting about
for pleasure of an evening hied themselves
to the Armory the night before last. It was
their first visit and believe you me, what a time
they had. Danciig and swinging and all that
delights the heart of the student during the
week-end at the Union or where are you, that's
just what they have at the Armory on Wednes-
day evenings. A good, healthy social hour, that's
just what it is. So, after the ball was over and
finding themselves with two peacherinoes who
had gaily consented to dance with them and
share the holiday mood, they offered to take the
girls home. Consent was rampant in the hearts
Sof women that night, for these two were eager
that our lads escort them. Down they went to
the street, hailed a taxi. "Where shall I tell him
to go?" asked one whom we shall call X. "Milan,"
said a coy one. "Milan Road?" he queried. "In-
deed, no," said a forward one. "Milan, Mich-
igan." Passing by the city limits of Ann Arbor,
the two girls came to grips with the cab driver
and emerged with a flat rate. It was ten dollars,
but what price chivalry?
We are sadly hesitant in reporting the passage
of an old and respected friend. Each year we
looked forward to the coming of Armistice Day.
When we were in high school it was a holiday
and we crowded all the veneration we could
into that two minutes when the traffic was
theoretically stopped, silence swept the streets
and in our hearts at least Taps was sounded
while we faced East. That we went home and
had a date that night, or casually turned off any
of those programs that played "Over There"
more than seven times in fifteen minutes, doesn't
matter. What matters is that we did venerate
and reverence for two minutes. When we came
to college we found that on Armistice Day the
campus was struggling for a peace 'strike' or
convocation. After some dubious battle, the
peace convocation became a usual business, ac-
cepted and sanctioned. Today there was no con-
vocation. There was a short editorial in the
daily. There are no two minutes into which to
crowd our reverence. Armistice Day is dead,
perhaps, although we have heard 'Keep the
Ifecnz tio Me
Red baiting is service in the cause of fascism.
And this goes even for those people who profess
to take the attitude of "A plague o' both your
houses!" Neither Hitler nor Mussolini need be
bothered much by attacks about the adminis-
tration of affairs in Germany and Italy if only the
writer or the speaker goes on
to make the assertion that
the Soviet Republics are try-
ing to upset every other gov-
ernment in the world. And
if the orator of the evening
also includes some of the
rigamarole about Commu-
nism and the Committee for
Industrial Organization, the
Duce and the Fuehrer owe
him a decoration
It must be evident that the pact signed by the
aggressor nations is less than a candid document.
The drive against Communism is only a cloak.
In reality Germany, Italy and Japan are trying
to tip the black spot to all the democratic nations
of the earth. I am not saying that Russia is a
democracy in spite of some movement in that
direction, but of late there has been a decided
campaign in the United States to label all pro-
gressive movements as "Communistic."
S, , ,
Playing Into Fascist Hands
The three-power pact rests upon a false and
fabulous premise, but lip service is rendered to
the legend created by the Fascist countries when-
ever any American publicist begins to see revolu-
tionary spooks behind the New Deal.
It is well to remember that in the last election
in New York the charge was fonally made that
Mayor La Guardia had been a buddy to Lenin.
No member of the Nazi propaganda machine
could have thought up a wilder one than that.
And when liberals and even some mild conserv-
atives are hailed as reds by American reaction-
aries, Hitler and Mussolini can afford to rub their
hands in glee and say, "We told you so. The
Reds are everywhere. That is the justification
for our pact with Japan."
The imperial designs of the International Fas-
cist League are now palpable. Nor is the bandit
without much warm support in the United States.
I am not thinking of the beery legions of York-
ville or any of the more preposteous vigilante or-
ganizations. They can be used to ill effect.
* *1 * *
Where Revolution Breeds
The point is expressed satirically at the very
opening of "I'd Rather Be Right." Two gentle-
men are walking across the park, and one com-
plains that under the present system of taxa-
tion about the most he can expect to retain of
his income, een in a good year, is $100,000.
"Sure," says his companion, "Communism!" and
the playwright's gibe is not really a very great
exaggeration of the attitude of some of our fi-
nancial leaders. And readjustment of the na-
tional income seems to them actually revolution-
ary. And there are many places in New York
where, after the second or third cocktail, men of
prominence are prone to declare that "there's
a good deal in what that fellow Mussolini says."
If you are looking for subversive activities
Union Square is not your spot. Prowl along Park
Ave. This is the breeding ground of revolution.
Here the Red bogeyman designed to affright- the
middle classes are manufactured. Here the stories
about "Moscow gold" are put into the kettle. The
wedge is forged to keep the democratic nations
apart from one another and suspicious of a
natural ally. Whether one likes the political and
economic system of Russia in whole or part or
not at all, there is no getting away from the fact
that the first line of defense of existing democ-
racies against an aggressive and avaricious Fas-
cism is the Soviet army.
On The Leve
When an ordinary news story headline is
laughed at, a copy-reader or a typesetter is us-
ually the one who has made the humorous mis-
take, but this was not the case concerning the
Daily's story on athletic subsidization in Wednes-
day's paper. * * * *
People all over campus roared out loud at a
well-written and frankly stated headline about
Michigan's salaried athletes, Wednesday, because
it seemed so preposterous that the Board investi-
gated those who are now being paid instead of
looking around for more outstanding athletes
that they could lure to Michigan with a few
shekels. * *
Some of these people took it for granted
that Prof. Aigler's statement did not regard
the football team, believing that few of the
boys on it deserved a salary.
, * * * *
If those students pecking away at typewriters
in the Publications Building can draw down
salaries ranging up to $400, the boys tearing
their shoulders loose on Michigan's gridiron
ought to do at least as well.
Last year Alex Loiko and several other un-
named outstanding athletes dropped out of school
because they found they couldn't practice hard
five hours a day, work for board and room, and
then get any studying done. Football players
are human beings; they aren't mere mechanisms
who show up on Saturday before a crowd of
Question And Answer
To the Editor:
I am interested in knowing
the Daily has begun inserting
not-responsible paragraph at
v IA 1V 1 727
head of the editorial columns every
morning, and printing the name of
the writer of each editorial. Can you1
explain, please? -
EDITOR'S NOTE: The para-
graph regarding responsibility
and the names of the writers of
the editorials have ieen inserted
per order of the Board in Control
of Student Publications.
A Detroiter Speaks
To the Editor:
Born and raised in Detroit, I have
established the habit pattern of read-
ing the Detroit News and the Free
Press. Being an idle college boy un-
concerned with, and eager to avoid,
the world's headaches, I contentedly
while away my time in scanning edi-
torial pages. I occasionally am
aroused by the apparent stupidity of
the editorial "we," exemplified by his
criticism of impractical professors
and Michigan football'teams. What
right does "we" have to criticize sages
spend a lifetime in the promotion of
knowledge and those boys who work
hours every day, who suffer for the
Alma Mater before thousands of
bloodthirsty spectators once a week.-
A man of 40 knows nothing about
football and lacksthe experience and
knowledge to pass judgment on a
youthful enterprise. Being outside
the University, he can know n thing
of what goes on in academic cloisters.
If I only knew their names. When
will editors of the Detroit News, the
Free Press, the Times, the Chicago,
Tribune fight off their cowardice and
follow Michigan's example and sign
their opinions? If I knewkwho they
were, besides throwing bricks through
their windows, I should see to it that
they were not elected to the same or
any like post for another year, so
that such disturbing pieces would not
'again interfere with the calm pro-
gress of the University of Michigan.
By JAMES MUDGE
Air Lines: AlEGoodman, musical
director for a whole field full of com-
mercial shows ,says: "Like a team of
perfectly matched horses, or a string
of pearls, musicians in an orchestra
have to be selected with painstaking
care." . .. Feddy Martin and his band
'continue to please the patrons of the
Aragon ballroom in Chi-his is the
type of band that could follow Wayne
King down the row of corn stalks
without missing a beat. The Martin
crew will continue to see the sights
of Chicago's North Side until the
first of December.. . W. C. Fields does
not haunt Joe Barley Corn-because
of his poor health and rigid radio
schedule, the movie funny-man is in
a strictly teetotaler groove . . . Rudy
Vallee was the man who started Alice
Faye on the long road to fame-just
another star the man-who-sings-
thru-his-nose has placed in the firm-
Ed Wynn will not be heard this year
on the air. His loss will not be great-
ly noticed and he can stay with the
Broadway show for a long time-the
air lanes will then continue to be
better . . . Marvin Fredericka, former
campus leader, is now up the fame-
ladder a couple more rungs. At pres-
ent he is leading his band in Atlanta,
Ga., and gets air many nights of the
week. At a later date he will go into
Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel and will
be heard via WTMJ . . . Amos 'n Andy
now use the old offices of the late
Will Rogers on the Coast . . . The
.young man who took Alice Faye
down the long middle aisle a bit back
is known to radio audiences as Tony
Martin-his pappy knew him as Alvin
Hal Kemp's funny-guy and tenor
sax man, Saxy Dowell is going to still
be unattached. His almost-bride-to-
be wanted to wear both rings in a
\hurry but he wanted to relax for a
while longer-the young woman now
wears NO ring . . . The Mutual Sys-
tem now ranks up there with NBC
and CBS. The network programs
are plenty okay as a whole, but the
local optlet, CKLW, sounds like Roar-
ing Gulch's rawdio station what
broadcasts every night fur two hours
and twice on Sunday. Late at night
when the great bands are on the air,
CKLW comes thru with a corny com-.
mercial announcement at the 15-min-
ute mark, and a few new recordings
could be added to the present col-
lection of 10 that they play most of
the time. Joe Gentile seems to have
collected-all the good waxings but he
must carry them to and from work
Chebatoris' Execution Day
May Be Announced Today
DETROIT, Nov. 11.-(OP)-The date
and scene of the execution of An-
thony Chebatoris, condemned slay-
er of Henry Porter, Bay City truck
driver, will probably be learned to-
r1JAYLi, NOV. 1, 1937 ouiUuago, win speax a eVMichigan
VOL. XLVIII. No. 41 League Monday, Nov. 15, at 4:15
The Bureau has received notice of p.m. on the subject: "The Task of
the following Civil Service Examina- Religion Today."
Senior veterinarian (animal dis- Events Today
ease research), $4,600 a year; Bureau
of Animal Industry, Department of University Broadcast, 3-3:30 p.m.
Agriculture. "Tax Delinquencies in Michigan," R.
For further information, please call, S. Ford.
DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Publication in the Bulletin is constructive notice to al memb r5 of the
University. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the Pn!ident
until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday
of Ohinorrn brill CYNXIalr r + tha Affinhi"a"
at the office, 201 Mason Hall.
University Bureau of Appoint-
ments and Occupational Infor-
University Bureau of Appointments,
and Occupational Information: Stu-
dents are reminded that Friday is the
last day to take out registration
blanks without 'fee. Beginning Mon-
day, Nov. 15, there will be a late
registration fee of $1.00.
Blanks may be obtained at the of-
fice, 201 Mason Hall, hours: 9-12 and
2-4. Both seniors and graduate stu-
dents, as well as staff members, are
eligible for the services of the Bu-
reau, and may register in the Teach-
ing Division or in the General Divi-
sion, which applies to those interested
in other professions than teaching, as
well as in business and industry. Feb-
ruary, June and August graduates
tare urged to register now, as this is
the only general registration to be
held during the year and positions
are already coming in for next year.
First Mortgage Loans: The Univer-
sity has a limited amount of funds
to loan on modern wellilocated Ann
Arbor residential property. Interest
at current rates. Apply Investment
Office, Room 100, South Wing,
To The Householders: Effective
Monday, Nov. 15, the rate of pay--!
ment for all odd jobs, such as house-
cleaning, yard and garden work, will
be 40 cents an hour.
J. A. Bursley,
Dean of Students.
Fraternity and Sorority Presidents
are reminded that the monthly mem-
bership lists for October are due in
the office of the Dean of Students
on or before Nov. 15.
I should like to get in touch with
an, NYA student who can read Italian'
for work in the Dictionary Office in
206 University Hall.
M. P. Tilley, 2213 A.H.
Freshmen in the College of Litera-
ture, Science and the Arts who have
not recived their five-week progress
reports may obtain them in Room
107, Mason Hall, from 8 to 11:30 a.m.
and 1:30 to 4 p.m. according to the
Surnames beginning P through Z,
Monday, Nov. 15.
Surnames beginning H through O,
Tuesday, Nov. 16.
Surnames beginning A through G,
Wednesday, Nov. 17.
Alpha Kappa Delta: . A special
meeting will be held in Room B, Ha-
ven Hall, Friday, Nov. 12, at 4 p.m.
It is important that all members be
Delta Epsilon Pi: There will be a
meeting Friday, 8 p.m., at the Union.
Junior Mathematics Club will meet
Friday, Nov. 12, at 4:15 p.m., in Room
3201 Angell Hall. Mr. L. J. Savage
will discuss "Pathological Functions."
All interested are invited to attend.
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers: Mr. W. R. Collings of the
Dow Chemical Company will speak
at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12, in
the Chemistry Amphitheatre on "In-
teresting Properties of New Cellulose
Derivatives" with special reference to
the plastics which the Dow Company
is developing from cellulose ethers.
All students interested are'invited
to attend. There will be a dinner
at the Union at 6 p.m. at which Mr.
Mark E. Putnam of the Dow Chemical
Company will speak briefly of his
visits to chemical plants in Germany
during the past summer. The price
of the dinner will be 75 cents. Grad-
uate students and studentemembers
of the A.I.Ch.E. are invited to at..
tend the dinner. Reservations should
be made in Room 2028 E. Eng. Bldg.,
1 Phone 454, by Thursday afternoon.
School of Music Juniors: Class elec-
tions will be held in the School audi-
torium this Friday at 4 p.m.
Sophomore prom committee meet-
ing at Jordan Hall Friday, Nov. 12 at
4:30 p.m. All committeemen should
be present to this important meet-
Church of Christ (Disciples). The
Disciple Guild will have a game night
at the church recreation hail, Hill
and Tappan Streets, Friday night
'from 8-11 o'clock. The special fea-
ture will be a hobby hour from 9-10
o'clock. Students are asked to bring
their hobbies or tell about them.
HillelsFoundation: Services at 8
rp.m. this evening.
° Cantor, Alvin Finkelstein.
Speaker, Rabbi Leon Fram.
Topjc, "What I Saw in Germany
Social following services-Hostess,
Mrs. Reuben Kahn.
A i na1 i l tI kinnUI f T nhnhoa~r .
american rFeeration or Teacners:
Dr. George E. Axtelle, Professor of
ma embersip cardes: stll aai- Education, Northwestern University,
many membership cards still avail- 'kill give an address on "The Prospects
able for the matinee showings. The of the Academic Profession" at an
entire series will be shown to hold- of t he n mesion t an
ers open luncheon meeting of the Ann
esof matine cards. They are on AbradUiest fMcia
se at the Union League and Vahrs Arbor and University of Michigan
e at thes n L e ad Wh. Chapter of the American Federation
The "Comedies" will be shown this ;yof Teachers, Saturday, Nov. 13, at
Sunday. _112:15, in the Michigan Union. A
.e .jSpecial invitation is extended to those
A cademic Notices attending the Progressive Education
"Anthropology 157, Evolution of Association Conference. Ann Arbor
Culture." Mid-semester examina- fteachers, m mbers of the University
tion, Tuesday, Nov. 16." faculty, and others interested will be
Political Science 107, 11 o'clock
section, will meet in Room 205 Ma-
son Hall today.
H. B. Calderwood.
Exhibition, College of Architecture:
Competition drawings for the Ryer-
son Scholarship offered by the Lake
Forest Foundation for Architecture
and Landscape Architecture. Partici-
pating schools: Universities of Il-
linois, Ohio State, Cincinnati, Michi
gan, Armour Institute, Iowa State
College. Open daily except Sunday,
9 to 5, through Nov. 14, third floor
exhibition room, Architectural Bldg.
The public is invited.
The Ann Arbor Art Association
presents an exhibition of modern
American and German water colors
from the collection of the Detroit
Institute of Arts, in the North and
South Galleries of Alumni Memorial
Hall, Nov. 11 to 24, inclusive. Open
daily, incuding Sundays, from 2 to 5
p.m., always free to students.
Public Lecture: "Islamic Art in
Spain" illustrated lecture, by Prof.
Aga-Oglu. Sponsored by the Research
Seminary in Islamic Art. Monday,
Nov. 15, Alumni Memorial Hall, Room
D, 4:15 p.m. The lecture on "Modern
Egypt" bymMr. Enoch Peterson sched-
uled for this date will be announced
Lecture: Prof. A. Eustace Haydon,
noted humanist from the University
aE N N Bw Rooks Adcddu
Freshman Round Table: All men
and women of the freshman class
are invited to the Freshman Round
Table to be held at the Union Sun-
day morning at 9:30 a.m. Prof. How-
ard Y. McClusky will speak on "Per-
sonality" followed by round-table
discussions led by upperelassmen.
Seniors, School of rEducation: The
finance committee of the senior class
in the School of Education, consist-
ing of Clarence Metzger, chairman;
Dorothy Rupper, Margaret Morrow,
Ann Gordon, Arthur Weiner and
Edwin Knudson. will meet Friday,
Nov. 12, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 2436,
The Music Section of the Faculty
Women's Club will have a potluck
supper at the home of Mrs. Arthur
W. Smith, 1008 Oakland Ave., on
Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 6:30 p.m.
The Outdoor Club will sponsor a
bicycle hike on Saturday afternoon,
Nov. 13, leaving Lane Hall at 2 p.m.
and returning by 5:30 p.m. All stu-
dents welcome. Mixed group.
Westminster Guild of the Presby-
terian Church will hold a Scavenger
Hunt Saturday, Nov. 13. Meet at
Lane Hall at 7:30 p.m. Fee of 20
cents per person includes ref resh-
ments at the conclusion of the hunt.
Stalker Hall: Class in "Through
the Old Testament" tonight at 7:30
p.m. Party following the class. All
Methodist students and their friends
are cordially invited to be present.
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I just unfriended two people from my Facebook account. Both women were friends from my high school days. 'Shelly,' 'Annette' (not their real names) and I were in the Chorus and Drama clubs and we performed together through several of my high school years. I was genuinely happy to reconnect with both them, at first. And while I was suspect of their often "Christian values" posts, I usually let them slide.
But today, 'Shelly' posted this on Facebook (and forgive me for paraphrasing a bit):
"I just read that President Obama has declared there will not be a Christmas Tree at the White House this year. He said that America is not a Christian nation and the tree would be called a 'Holiday Tree.' I am outraged that he would do so, as America is a Christian nation, founded by Christians."
'Annette' responded with "Obama is an idiot!"
Of course, I couldn't help myself and responded to 'Shelly' thus: "Sorry, Shelly. The United States is a secular nation by design of the framers of the Constitution, who very clearly and deliberately left religion out of it."
Almost immediately, both of these so-called 'friends' attacked me. One said, "If you don't believe in Christ, you should be forced to work on Christmas." The other one responded that I was destined to "...burn in Hell." And even after another mutual friend posted a link to Snopes.com debunking the story, the attacks on me and my views on organized religion (particularly on Christianity) continued. I would have gone on to compare these two women to other religious fanatics (see: 9/11; The Taliban; the KKK; David Koresh; Jim Jones), but I knew no sane argument would be deemed valid in their eyes.
Here's the thing: Christmas in the U.S. is mostly celebrated as a secular holiday in which we honor those we love with food and gifts. Yes, to many it is a celebration of the birth of Jesus, a man many believe was the son of God. To me, and the majority of my real friends, it is a time to acknowledge the love and joy we bring into each others' lives. Christmas may have started out as a religious holiday, but it has become more about the celebration of Humanity and love. The 'Spirit of Christmas' is all about celebrating our commonality, not our differences.
When 'Christians' use their religion to attack or scorn others, they're behaving in the most un-Christian way I can imagine. If there is a 'God,' I can only imagine that He or She is shaking His/Her head in despair at how wrong so many have gotten His/Her message over the years. Drinking the Kool-Aid is never a good idea, kids.
Here's some more insanity from a fanatic 'Christian:'
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B.A., University of Vermont, 2008, Psychology
M.A., University of South Florida, School Psychology
Ph.D., University of South Florida, 2013
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Sarah Fefer’s research and clinical interests include disruptive behavior in children and adolescents, assessment and intervention related to academic and behavioral competence, and working with families and communities to support student success. Her current research investigates a phenomenon called the Positive Illusory Bias and symptoms of ADHD. Sarah’s broad interests within the field of school psychology include implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, behavioral consultation, and social justice. | <urn:uuid:0c8abcc9-d2f2-411c-957d-5836f7470567> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://www.umass.edu/education/faculty-staff-listings/SaraFefer | 2015-10-08T20:10:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737899086.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221819-00160-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910764 | 139 |
This gorgeous kit has been crafted for you with pregnancy in mind. The seven stones are specially tailored to assist in a safe and healthy pregnancy and also includes extras to complete the kit!
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Call Elki Tompis the Florence Nightingale of the tavern. A waitress at a pub in the Skokie Hilton, she offers soothing words with Scotch and sodas, administers white wine to weary travelers and buffers the lonely and lovesick with beer.
As a child in Chicago, Tompis lived with her family above her father`s tavern. So it`s no accident that as a young divorcee, she took a job at the Hilton to support herself and her then 6-year-old son. For the past 12 years she`s been serving drinks and sandwiches Mondays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tompis told Chicago writer Roberta Katchen Stein that since beginning her job, she`s felt very much a part of ensuing social changes. She`s been emptying fewer ashtrays since smoking changed from being trendy to medically taboo. Also, she says, ``I didn`t see women taking men out for lunch 12 years ago.`` Now she hands out plenty of checks to ``liberated`` women. But of all the changes she`s witnessed, the ones that please her most are those she`s noticed in herself. ``I`ve developed lots of diplomacy and patience,`` she says. But she feels that these are only two of many qualities necessary for her work because ``my job is an art!``
I think sometimes people think of me as a peon on this job. They look down on my work as inferior. But it`s really very difficult. My mind is always working. People are constantly coming in, and I have to be pleasant while I`m thinking about all the things I have to do. I`m the only waitress in a room with 12 tables. Just the bartender and me. It gets quite hectic.
I have a fantastic memory. I`ve never mixed up orders. I don`t write the orders down. Yet I can remember 15 different drinks at a time, and I know who gets each of them. People are very impressed when they order a drink and I remember it the next time they come in. I don`t know how I do it. All I know is that it took me years of experience to develop that talent.
There`s a big change in what customers are drinking now. They`re not drinking as many hard drinks. They come in and have a glass of wine, not scotch on the rocks. And there aren`t many martini drinkers at lunch.
My clientele are from all over the world--Japan, Panama, Australia. I get Texans who look like they`ve got their horses parked outside the hotel. The Panamanians can`t get enough ice in their beer. Maybe they`re used to it like that because it`s so very, very hot in Panama. The only problem I run into with foreign customers is that some don`t realize this isn`t Europe and that tips aren`t included in the check.
I get a tremendous flow of women. The corporation women are no different from the office girls. They`re great. I just love `em. They like to watch the soaps. They spill out their problems. I`ve heard all kinds of stories. I`ve gone through many of their engagements and their marriages. After their babies are born, they bring them in and show them to me.
When I started working here, women would hesitate to come into a bar. They`d be standing in the lobby, waiting there for whomever they were meeting. Now they come in alone and order a drink or wait in the bar for a friend.
I used to hate it when I took orders and a woman told the man she was with what to order for her, instead of telling me directly. I felt as if she were saying ``I don`t want to talk to her. You tell her what I want.`` It made me feel invisible. But I very rarely get that situation now.
There are a lot of corporations around the hotel that put up visitors with us. A hotel room is a lonely place to be. So they come down for cocktails after meetings, and I usually get into conversations with them. Big corporations put people up here when they`re in the midst of being transferred from a different state to Chicago. They usually come alone, before their families do. They`re lonely, too, in a completely new city, in the middle of a big change in their lives. They come in to have a drink with real estate brochures in front of them, not knowing which end is up. I try to put them at ease. I tell them what a great place Chicago is and how friendly the people are. They usually keep in touch with me and let me know when they`ve moved and gotten settled in.
I can tell where people come from by the way they dress. California and New York women are quite stylish and beautifully groomed. We get the
``beautiful people`` from New York--with the long minks, taking long-distance phone calls from Europe in the bar. There have been so many times I`ve said, ``I ought to write a book.`` We`ve had college reunions, wedding parties, Shriners` conventions and World War II reunions.
When the Mill Run Theatre was still open, I loved going to work every day. Because the hotel was nearby, whoever appeared there stayed at the hotel. Like the Jackson family. Bobby Vinton was one of my favorites; Mac Davis was so sweet. He loves cheeseburgers with mayonnaise, and he loved the video games. He`d come in and say, `Elki, baby, how are you?` I would just melt. | <urn:uuid:92570948-7247-4f3c-a80b-4e678075c064> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-06-23/features/8502100082_1_drinks-waitress-orders | 2017-03-28T16:22:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189802.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00164-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979677 | 1,195 |
Soon I will officially be launching my new site: Geimaku.com, which is a gaming site. You can read more about it on the site if you want to.
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Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is a tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. It is the tenth Fire Emblem series title and the first series title for the Wii. It was announced for the Wii on May 9, 2006, at the E3 convention, officially released on February 22, 2007, in Japan, and released in North America on November 5, 2007, in Europe on March 14, 2008, and in Australia on April 10, 2008. The game is a direct sequel to the events of the Nintendo GameCube title Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, featuring the same style of cell-shaded full-motion video cutscenes and an upgraded game engine.
- 1 Setting
- 2 Plot
- 3 Characters
- 4 Chapters
- 5 Gameplay Mechanics
- 6 Reception
- 7 Trivia
- 8 Gallery
Setting[edit | edit source]
- See also: Tellius Series
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn begins three years after The Mad King's War, in the year 648. Daein, the war's instigator, and the victorious nation Crimea are still in the process of rebuilding. Although Crimea is ruled by Queen Elincia, Daein lacks a proper successor and is instead ruled by the occupation forces of the Begnion Empire, who oppresses the citizens by sending all of Daein's men of fighting age to internment camps, intent on utterly destroying Daein as a country.
A small resistance force, known as the Dawn Brigade, formed in response to fight back the occupational army. Led by Nolan, a seasoned fighter, Micaiah, a young girl with a gift of foresight, and backed by her friend Sothe, a young but deadly Rogue who had fought with Ike in the previous war, the brigade continuously evade Begnion's relentless pursuit, while gaining the support of Daein's crushed citizenry in the process.
Plot[edit | edit source]
Radiant Dawn is divided into four parts. Each part is structured similarly, beginning with a prologue chapter that introduces the situation, followed by a series of chapters that are resolved with an "Endgame" chapter.
Part I: Silver-Haired Maiden[edit | edit source]
Part I consists of 9 chapter stories, including a prologue and endgame about Micaiah and the Dawn Brigade's involvement with the liberation of Daein from Begnion occupation.
Fighting a hopeless struggle, the Dawn Brigade hears of a man who claims to be the son of Ashnard, Pelleas, the apparent heir to the Daein throne and leader of the Daein Liberation Army. When the Dawn Brigade finally meets up with this force in the eastern deserts and discovering that he is a decent man, unlike his alleged father, they unite and begin the first real plans to free Daein from the occupational army.
Under Micaiah's command, the Daein Liberation army waged campaigns against the Begnion garrison across Daein, having a foothold in key locations across Daein and soon on the march back to the capital of Daein, Nevassa. At the moment when they begin their march, it is also revealed that Begnion's empress Sanaki has taken notice of the atrocities committed in Daein, and has ordered all of Begnion's remaining troops there to stand down. This angers Begnion's senators, who were largely responsible for the occupation and its cruelty. Still, in lieu of the edict, they abandon the remaining occupational forces to their fate, causing its leader, General Jarod, to realize that the senator in charge of the occupation, Numida, had betrayed and framed him.
Knowing that Numida and the rest of the Senate would work to silence Jarod and his soldiers, to prevent them from being implicated on the incidents, and knowing that the end was near, Jarod resolved to at least exact his revenge on Micaiah due to driving him to a corner. On the evening of a celebration at the news of Sanaki's intervention, Micaiah is completely surrounded by Jarod's forces after she left the celebration alone, seeking to kill her to put an end to the real symbol of hope of the Liberation Army, dismissing Pelleas as worthless in comparison to her.
As they close in to do the deed, a towering figure warps in to defend her, being none other than the Black Knight, presumed dead by Ike's hand during the war. With the sheer power of his blade work, the Black Knight worked with Micaiah to defeat Jarod and his soldiers, saving Micaiah in the process. Attempting to finish off Jarod himself, Jarod's aide Alder took the Black Knight's blow on behalf of his master. Upon the death of Jarod's loyal retainer, Micaiah calls the Black Knight to stay his hand against slaying him as well, in order to allow Jarod to bury his lost comrade, and face the apostle's judgment. Sothe soon arrived and instantly assumed the Black Knight to be a threat to Micaiah, but despite Sothe's objections the Black Knight swore to protect and serve Micaiah no matter what. While explaining the situation, Micaiah sensed an impending doom caused by her choice to spare Jarod.
The following day, Jarod retaliated with one last act of spiteful violence. Murdering a Begnion emissary, he took control of Daein Keep and unleashed a catapult assault on the city of Nevassa to destroy it, terrorizing its helpless populace. Seeing this, prince Pelleas, having felt completely impotent as a ruler up to this point, finds the strength to rally his soldiers and retake the capital. Led by Micaiah, the Daein Liberation Army marches in a siege, into the city and retakes it by force, slaying Jarod and the remaining occupational forces in the process.
With Daein finally freed, and Pelleas is crowned as King, signing an official declaration with Begnion to recognize Daein as a free country once more. However, both the Black Knight and Izuka disappear after the coronation without a trace. This leaves Micaiah to continue operating as General of Daein's forces until the country is rebuilt. In the meantime, the merchant convoy, along with Kurth, the wolves and Rafiel, finally having safe passage through Daein, head out through Crimea and ultimately to Gallia.
Part II: Of Countries and Kings[edit | edit source]
Part II is a five-chapter story about the current state of Queen Elincia's three-year rule over Crimea.
Once word reaches Crimea that Daein has been repatriated, the noble classes begin to fret at the possibility that Daein may re-invade. Seeing their still new Queen Elincia as inexperienced, they begin to press her relentlessly about the issue, which forces her, after a particularly grueling council session, to seek solace in the skies on her pegasus near the edge of her country. There she is found by the royal knight Marcia, who came to cheer her up. However, they both then spot the Heron princess Leanne and her bodyguard, the Raven Nealuchi, pursued relentlessly into Crimean skies by a unit of Begnion's wyvern knights, intent on selling them to the senators for profit. Without revealing her identity as queen, Elincia and Marcia step in to save the two laguz.
In the meantime, word is spreading throughout Crimea's backcountry of a rebel insurgency, led by one of the counts. After battling through a battalion of recruit soldiers, countryfolk and former soldiers Brom and Nephenee relay word to Elincia about the uprising, believing Count Ludveck to be responsible.
To settle matters and gain evidence of his treachery, Elincia sends her retainers, Lady Lucia and the two laguz emissaries Lethe and Mordecai to Ludveck's county of Felirae. There, they manage to uncover the documents which prove Ludveck's coup but are nearly captured by his soldiers in the process.
At word of their escape, Ludveck orders the rebellion to begin, forming an army not far off from Melior. After escaping Ludveck's men, she reports her discoveries to Elincia. To answer this, Elincia sends her royal knights, led by Geoffrey to seize Ludveck. Upon arriving, however, they find the rebel army is severely undermanned and untrained. In actuality, they were merely an unwitting diversion while Ludveck's main force marched on Elincia's backup stronghold. In the process, Ludveck also managed to capture Lucia during further reconnaissance, taking her as a hostage.
As Ludveck's forces begin to overtake the stronghold, Elincia battles them directly. Lacking numbers to hold the fort, the Crimean Royal Knights manage to return in time to help rout the invading force. Ludveck is then captured and held as prisoner to await his sentence for treason. Here, he plays his final trump card, and brings Lucia out with the remainder of his troops, threatening to execute her if Elincia does not relinquish the throne to him. Despite the threat of losing her dearest friend and retainer, Elincia stands firm, refusing to let Ludveck go. She is then forced to watch as the last of the rebellion sets Lucia up to be hanged, despite the gathering crowd of booing citizens.
This last-ditch effort is thwarted, however, as Lucia is rescued by the Greil Mercenaries, who quickly and efficiently rout the remaining resistance forces. Lucia saved, Elincia meets up with Ike, and thanks him for showing up to save her. Ike, in turn, reveals that, prior to leaving for Daein on his own investigation, Count Bastian had sniffed out Ludveck's insurgency, and hired the mercenaries to help handle the situation. Here, Elincia shares with Ike the news regarding Daein, and the return of the Black Knight.
Part III: Intersecting Vows[edit | edit source]
The third part of the game consists of fifteen chapters (the longest part) that follow Ike and the Greil Mercenaries.
After shattering the rebellion, they receive an unexpected visit from Ranulf, retainer to the beast king of Gallia. He warns that a war between the newly formed Laguz Alliance and Begnion is about to spark following Begnion's execution of Gallian messengers. Ike and the mercenaries pledge their support to the Laguz Alliance; however, they also fear that Lehran's Medallion, which was currently radiating with a blue flame of chaos, will release the dark god with the chaos of this war. Three years ago, Ashnard attempted to ignite a continent-wide war to create an overflow of chaos great enough to free the dark god imprisoned in the medallion. The Alliance rapidly advances through Begnion until Skrimir, the hot-headed successor to the Gallian throne, challenges and loses to Begnion's most powerful general, General Zelgius. As the Alliance retreats back to Gallia, King Pelleas sends the Daein army into the war on Begnion's side.
Meanwhile, Valtome, a narcissistic member of the Begnion Senate, takes control of the Begnion Central Army, and demands safe passage to Gallia through Crimea. Although Crimea and Gallia have an alliance, Elincia wishes to remain neutral, and regretfully allows Valtome's passage. The Laguz Alliance encounters the passing army and prepares for battle; however, Elincia rushes into the battlefield, lays down her weapon to show Crimea is neutral, and demands that fighting be taken outside the borders. Valtome calls her a traitor and commands his army to kill her, but she is rescued by the Greil Mercenaries and the Crimean Army. Afterwards, Valtome attempts to execute Zelgius for not aiding in the previous battle. However, the Apostle Sanaki, Empress of Begnion, stops the execution. The senate had imprisoned her and Prime Minister Sephiran in an attempt to usurp the throne. Ike is once again put in charge of the army still loyal to the Apostle, much to his disliking.
In Daein, Micaiah and party learn why Pelleas ordered them to aid Begnion. Izuka, who was secretly aligned with the Begnion Senate, had tricked Pelleas into signing a Blood Pact with Vice-Minister Lekain, which Pelleas mistook as a treaty. If Pelleas opposes the senate, the pact will activate a curse, killing citizens of Daein each day. Micaiah's army returns to the battlefield to prevent the senate from invoking the pact, while Ike's army marches through Daein to reach Begnion. Pelleas discovers that the only way to destroy the pact is to murder the pact-maker, and asks Micaiah to kill him. In the second playthrough, the player can spare Pelleas; otherwise, he is killed. Queen Almedha then reveals that Pelleas is still bound to the pact, but the curse can be lifted by destroying the pact itself, which is in Lekain's possession.
During a battle, Ike's sister Mist receives telepathic messages to use the Galdr of Release to awaken the dark god within the medallion. When Sanaki sings the galdr, nothing happens, but when Micaiah sings, she releases Yune, the dark god. Yune possesses Micaiah's body and tells the party the truth about her and Ashera. The term dark god is a misnomer. Yune is a goddess of freedom and chaos, and Ashera is her counterpart, order and restriction. Yune was sealed away because Ashera thought of her as an imperfection. Because they are linked, if Yune is awake, Ashera also awakens. If they were awakened by the galdr, Yune and Ashera would meet to judge the world and decide its fate; if they were awakened by the spirit of chaos, the world would be destroyed. However, Ashera has already given her judgment and petrified everyone on Tellius, though everyone with a strong spirit was kept safe. This revelation sparks the fourth and final part of the game.
Part IV: Gods and Men[edit | edit source]
The final part of the game is divided into a prologue, five chapters, and a five-part Endgame. With all sides on equal terms, Yune organizes three armies to travel to the Tower of Guidance, where Ashera has slumbered these past years. Lekain has survived the petrification and restored many of the petrified soldiers to their normal states, forming them into the Disciples of Order to fight against Yune's forces. Sanaki confronts Lekain, who reveals that she did not inherit the ability to hear the voice of the goddess, a trait only given to the first-born children of the first apostle's lineage.
The armies reach the tower and begin the ascent. They first kill Lekain and tear up the blood pact. In the second battle, Ike faces the Black Knight, who is revealed to be Zelgius, and kills him.
Next, they confront the Dragon King Dheginsea, who has decided to accept the goddess's judgment, and defeat him after Yune grants her blessing to the party. Outside Ashera's chamber, they meet Sephiran, who reveals that he caused all of the recent wars. Sephiran is revealed to be Lehran, who aided Ashera and the Three Heroes: Soan of the Beast Tribe, Dheginsea of the Dragon Tribe and Altina of the Beorc, in sealing Yune. They made a covenant promising Ashera that no war would be waged for 1000 years, and she would reunite with Yune to become Ashunera, the Goddess of Dawn. Due to the Serenes Massacre, Sephiran decided men could never live peacefully and wanted Ashera to destroy them all. In the first playthrough, Sephiran is defeated and willingly dies in Sanaki's arms, but in the second playthrough, he can be allowed to live and will join Yune's side. After Sephiran's defeat, the party enters Ashera's chambers. Micaiah gives Ike the remainder of Yune's power for one last strike (for only Ike can beat her). After Ashera is defeated, Yune saves all the petrified people and leaves as well.
The game ends as everyone leaves to continue their lives, which is told through a lengthy epilogue. Micaiah becomes the Queen of Daein. If Pelleas is still alive, he reveals he is not Almedha's son and stays with Micaiah as a member of the royal court. If certain conditions are met, it is revealed that Soren is Almedha's son. Sanaki realizes Micaiah is her older sister, and they agree to make peace between their countries. Ike leaves the continent forever to explore a distant land, either by himself or with Soren or Ranulf depending on his in-game supports. If certain support conversations are attained, characters may get married or have other changes to their endings.
Characters[edit | edit source]
See the main article, List of characters in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.
Radiant Dawn features most of the Path of Radiance cast, including all of the previous game's playable characters, as well as a collection of figures new to the Tellius Fire Emblem universe. While Largo does reappear, he is not playable in this title.
Chapters[edit | edit source]
See the main article, Chapters (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn).
Gameplay Mechanics[edit | edit source]
Radiant Dawn carries over the gameplay mechanics of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, with some changes.
Modes[edit | edit source]
Both the Japanese and English versions of the game provides "Normal" and "Hard" modes, with the third mode, "Maniac", being unlocked after completing the Normal mode. In English-language releases, the three modes were renamed to "Easy", "Normal", and "Hard". Unlike Path of Radiance the contents of the difficulty modes were not edited at all beyond their names.
Game Structure[edit | edit source]
The game's 45 chapters are unequally divided into four parts. Each chapter features a "leader" character, comparable to the Lord characters in previous games. For example, the leader of Part I is Micaiah, and Ike is the leader of most of Parts III and IV. Tibarn is one of the main leaders of Part IV, along with Ike and Micaiah. Other leaders, such as Elincia, Lucia, Nephenee, and Geoffrey, play minor roles. A total of 72 playable characters are available, with 42 returning from Path of Radiance.
Support System[edit | edit source]
Radiant Dawn features two types of supports: Buddy supports and Bond supports. Buddy supports (simply called "Supports" in previous games) increase their characters' battle stats dependent on the elemental affinity and support level of both Buddies. Unlike in previous games, characters can be Buddies with any other character, but can only have one Buddy at a time. Also, Buddy supports can be deleted. Characters in Buddy supports can have a short conversation during each battle. Bond supports, which also appeared in Path of Radiance, are between two specific characters and are always present.
Because any character can form a support relationship with any other character, the conversations themselves have been simplified and are based on templates, in which the initiating character makes a stock statement while inserting the recipient's name, and the recipient will respond with a general acknowledgment. The more colorful dialogue that typified the support conversations in previous installments has been for the most part transferred to the Info conversations that take place between battles.
Path of Radiance Data Upload[edit | edit source]
If a GameCube memory card with a cleared Path of Radiance save is inserted, data can be transferred from the save file. Path of Radiance characters who have attained high statistics or weapon levels will receive corresponding boosts to their Radiant Dawn counterparts. Transferred A-level supports become Bond supports in Radiant Dawn, and the support conversations unlocked can be read in a support library after the game is completed. Coins collected are transferred to Ike in Part 3, where they can be used in the game's weapon forging system.
The North American version of Radiant Dawn launched with a bug that causes the game to freeze when using this feature with a memory card containing Easy Mode save data from Path of Radiance. If playing the game using a game disc with this bug, the only way around it, other than not using the feature at all, is to use a GameCube memory card that only has Normal or Hard Mode Path of Radiance save data.
After the discovery of the bug, a fix was quickly applied. However, because the Wii and its online infrastructure were not built to allow game software patches to be downloaded, the only way for players with affected game discs to receive the fix was to mail their discs to Nintendo of America, who swapped received copies with updated discs containing the fix.
New Beorc Features[edit | edit source]
Beorc (human) units can now promote twice, resulting in three tiers of character classes. Most first and second-tier classes are Fire Emblem staples, such as Myrmidons and Swordmasters. Third-tier classes are the strongest of all classes; the character automatically learns their class's Occult (ultimate) skill upon promotion. To promote most characters from a second to a third-tier class, they must be raised to Level 21 of their second-tier class or a Master Crown must be used at or after level 10.
Notice: In the Japanese version, only when the Master Crown is used can a second-tier character promote to a third-tier class.
New Laguz Features[edit | edit source]
The laguz from Path of Radiance also return. They can now counterattack when untransformed, using a new weapon called "Strike," though they are relatively weak in this state (when they transform, all of their stats double except for HP and Luck). Laguz can only wield one Strike weapon, but they can upgrade it by increasing its weapon level to SS. Laguz cannot promote, but they can reach a maximum level of 40 (instead of 20). They learn their Occult skill by using a Satori Sign at level 30 or above.
A new laguz tribe has been introduced; the wolves of Hatari. They have been added to the beast tribe and share similar weaknesses to the cats and tigers. Both have a weakness for fire. Also, a new type of dragon (though not a new tribe) has also been added; black dragons (like Kurthnaga,) who have the ability to fly and are only in the royal family. Notice: even though these Dragons can fly, they do not posses Canto.
Magic and Skill System[edit | edit source]
The game also adds a new magic type, Dark magic, and a second trinity of magic, originally from the GBA Fire Emblem games: Dark beats Anima (Wind, Thunder, and Fire), Anima beats Light, and Light beats Dark. Skills, except locked skills, can now be removed and transferred as Scrolls. Skill capacities have been modified for beorc due to the new three-class system, and laguz have varying capacities depending on level.
Weapons[edit | edit source]
For a list of weapons from the game see: List of weapons in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.
The weapon forging system introduced in Path of Radiance also makes a return with some modifications. Unlike in the previous game, which only allowed the creation of one special weapon prior to each battle, the player can now use the forge as often as desired so long as the forge is available for use and there is enough gold in reserve to pay for the weapons. Furthermore, rare coins found during battle can be traded in during the forging process to further enhance the created weapon's stats.
The breadth and variety of weapons and weapon classes has also increased. Knives, which required a special skill to use in Path of Radiance, are now classified as a full weapon category with levels matching swords, axes, bows, and lances. The SS weapon level, higher than the S of previous games, has been added. The new low-tier bronze weapons do the least amount of damage of all the weapons in the game and prevent the character wielding the weapon from performing a critical attack, but are also the least expensive and allow the most uses. Additionally, Snipers/Marksmen and Warriors/Reavers have access to crossbows and bowguns that allow the equipped unit to attack and counter-attack from melee range. These crossbows and Bowguns are some of the only weapons that don't have a Weapon Level.
Terrain and Elevation[edit | edit source]
The height of the landscape now has a direct effect on gameplay. Characters can climb up to higher levels at certain points. If a character is higher than an enemy, they will have much higher accuracy and deal more damage; conversely, if they are lower they will have much lower accuracy. However, only units equipped with ranged weapons, such as bows and magic tomes, can attack an enemy on a higher or lower plane. Also, while most units can climb up ledges, paladins units must use a ramp or stairway to reach higher elevations.
Reception[edit | edit source]
The game has received generally positive reception from gaming critics. It has an average ranking of 80% on Game Rankings. The general consensus is that the game is extremely difficult, with solid gameplay, but the graphics are too reminiscent of its GameCube predecessor.
Game Informer gave the game a 7 and a 5.5 of 10 due to its staggering difficulty. The reviews emphasized that its difficulty would alienate new players to the franchise and that only diehards would have the resolution to finish. The lack of a compelling story compared to previous installments was also criticized.
Nintendo Power gave the game a 9.5 of 10. Scott Pelland, though calling the missions "fiendishly difficult," felt that it was a good thing, stating that the player must then utilize his resources fully to claim victory. He also compared it to its contemporary, the Advance Wars series, and a few older games like Final Fantasy Tactics and Ogre Battle.
1UP.com gave it a 9.0 of 10. Reviewer Michael Donohoe approved of the designer's addition of a mid-battle save option to slacken frustration. He also praised the gameplay, though largely unchanged from previous installments, as being "crazily addictive". However, he had "teensy problems" with the graphics, the changed support conversations, and the Laguz characters, which "still aren't very useful."
IGN writer Mark Bozon gave the game an 8 of 10. Though a generally favorable review, he complained of its likeness to its GameCube predecessor, the lacking overall presentation and graphics, and the absence of Wii-specific features. He did, however, give the game credit for being "a great tactical experience" with "well over 50 hours" of gameplay.
GameSpy awarded the game a 4.5 out of 5 and its Editor's Choice award. GameSpy praised the deep gameplay and story and even gave a nod to the "pleasant" graphics.
Electronic Gaming Monthly awarded the game a surprisingly positive 9.0, 9.0, and 8.5 score from its three reviewers as well as a silver medal. The reviewers praised the deep, strategic gameplay and the gorgeous FMV cutscenes.
GameSpot only gave the game a 6.0 out of 10, complaining about the "laughable enemies" and the punishing difficulty, which would alienate newcomers to the series. Furthermore, the game had little to no improvement graphically over the GameCube and it didn't make use of the Wii controller.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- As the player advances in the game, the intro movie expands.
- By completing multiple playthroughs, the class roll will show more classes.
- This is the third Fire Emblem game to have three tiers of promotions, after Fire Emblem Gaiden and Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. This will be followed by Gaiden's remake, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
- In Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Warriors, Owain refers to a special move he's concocted with the name "Radiant Dawn".
- In the European version of the game, the notification screen saying "Player Phase", "Enemy Phase", "Other Phase" or "Partner Phase" has still letters that fade in and then out, while in the North American version the letters appear with a special graphical effect.
- Unusual to the series, during preparation for the third part of the Endgame chapter, the player must select a team of characters to take into the final battles. Whatever weapons are currently equipped by these characters is then given a blessing by Yune, giving them infinite durability. This can affect any weapon that does not already have infinite durability, including Silver weapons, Brave weapons, and custom weapons created at the forge. Ike's sword Ettard also cannot be blessed.
- Radiant Dawn was the last Fire Emblem game to be released for a home console until Fire Emblem: Three Houses, released on the Nintendo Switch twelve years later.
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Isaac Lies to Abimelech
1Now there was a famine. This was like the famine that happened during Abraham’s life. So Isaac went to the town of Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines. 2The Lord spoke to Isaac and said, “Don’t go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I commanded you to live in. 3Stay in this land, and I will be with you. I will bless you. I will give you and your family all these lands. I will do what I promised to Abraham your father. 4I will make your family as many as the stars of heaven, and I will give all these lands to your family. Through your descendants#26:4 descendants Or “Descendant.” See Gal. 3:16. every nation on earth will be blessed. 5I will do this because your father Abraham obeyed my words and did what I said. He obeyed my commands, my laws, and my rules.”
6So Isaac settled in Gerar. 7His wife Rebekah was very beautiful. The men of that place asked Isaac about Rebekah. He said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to tell them Rebekah was his wife. He was afraid the men would kill him so that they could have her.
8After Isaac had lived there a long time, Abimelech looked out of his window and saw Isaac and his wife enjoying one another. 9Abimelech called for Isaac and said, “This woman is your wife. Why did you tell us that she was your sister?”
Isaac said to him, “I was afraid that you would kill me so that you could have her.”
10Abimelech said, “You have done a bad thing to us. One of our men might have had sex with your wife. Then he would be guilty of a great sin.”
11So Abimelech gave a warning to all the people. He said, “No one must hurt this man or this woman. If anyone hurts them, they will be killed.”
Isaac Becomes Rich
12Isaac planted fields in that place, and that year he gathered a great harvest. The Lord blessed him very much. 13Isaac became rich. He gathered more and more wealth until he became a very rich man. 14He had many flocks and herds of animals. He also had many slaves. All the Philistines were jealous of him. 15So they destroyed all the wells that Isaac’s father Abraham and his servants had dug many years before. They filled them with sand. 16Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave our country. You have become much more powerful than we are.”
17So Isaac left that place and camped near the little river of Gerar. He stayed there and lived. 18Long before this time, Abraham had dug many wells. After he died, the Philistines filled the wells with sand. So Isaac went back and dug those wells again. He gave them the same names his father had given them. 19Isaac’s servants also dug a well near the little river and found fresh water.#26:19 fresh water Or “an underground stream.” Literally, “living water.” 20But the men who herded sheep in the Valley of Gerar argued with Isaac’s servants. They said, “This water is ours.” So Isaac named that well Esek.#26:20 Esek This means “argument” or “fight.” He gave it that name because it was the place where they had argued with him.
21Then Isaac’s servants dug another well. But there was an argument over this well too. So Isaac named that well Sitnah.#26:21 Sitnah This means “hatred” or “being an enemy.”
22Isaac moved from there and dug another well. No one came to argue about this well. So Isaac named it Rehoboth.#26:22 Rehoboth This means “open place” or “crossroads.” He said, “Now the Lord has found a place for us. We will grow and be successful in this place.”
23From there Isaac went to Beersheba. 24The Lord spoke to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Don’t be afraid. I am with you, and I will bless you. I will make your family great. I will do this because of my servant Abraham.” 25So Isaac built an altar and worshiped the Lord in that place. He set up camp there, and his servants dug a well.
26Abimelech came from Gerar to see Isaac. He brought with him Ahuzzath, his advisor, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
27Isaac asked, “Why have you come to see me? You were not friendly to me before. You even forced me to leave your country.”
28They answered, “Now we know that the Lord is with you. We think that we should make an agreement. We want you to make a promise to us. 29We did not hurt you; now you should promise not to hurt us. We sent you away, but we sent you away in peace. Now it is clear that the Lord has blessed you.”
30So Isaac gave a party for them. They all ate and drank. 31Early the next morning each man made a promise and a vow. Then the men left in peace.
32On that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. The servants said, “We found water in that well.” 33So Isaac named it Shibah.#26:33 Shibah A Hebrew word meaning “seven” or “oath.” And that city is still called Beersheba.#26:33 Beersheba This name means “well of the oath.”
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Dragon fruits on my rooftop garden
Hubs deployed and said I could build a garden to keep me busy. Never built anything before, did my best and can't wait to show him.
I'm having trouble identifying this plant
I think about this a lot and I finally found it written out
My grandpa says we need to get the word out about how beautiful his Crepe Myrtle is.
Greetings from the Navajo Nation. Here's my peach tree in full bloom at sunset.
I used to sit in the desert of Afghanistan eating MRE’s daydreaming about having a home with a garden with fresh food. Years later, dream achieved.
I found a surprise in my rose bush!
Good things are coming out of this quarantine
Was checking the garden and accidentally woke up this grumpy guy: 🐸 😡
Not the most impressive rose bush but was planted in memorial of my son after we lost him. Every year it always produces just one rose and makes me happy. I just wanted to share this years rose
What a difference one year makes!
Pepa just got a smart phone, he tried to send me a pic of his first tomato this year but hasn’t quite figured out the camera 😂
The spoils of months of hard work and tender care.
A year after we got rid of the drought tolerant weeds and planted drought tolerant flowers, yard is in full effect.
80-Year-Old Man Hasn’t Watered This Sealed Bottle Garden Since 1972 And It’s Still Alive
Diller carefully eats my avocados, then brings me the cleaned pits. I sprout them, then give them away with a picture of him cleaning that particular one.
This is our balcony garden :)
Let's give a hand to our pollinators.
I do not eat zucchini, so I had no idea you weren't supposed to let them get this big.
This beautiful two toned rose in my garden. I have never seen this before.
What a difference a few years can make. Idea 2017 vs established garden 2020
My mom shared this meme on FB today
Single triumphant asparagus
My dad’s garden. He has gotten to the point where he now has to sneak in new plants and little statues so my mum doesn’t tell him off for hoarding!
Some of you thought I wouldn’t go thru with a maternity shoot for our mutant baby zucchini but here’s the thing fam, we’re pretty weird and we hate to disappoint the Internet. 5lbs 6oz of delicious.
After battling the courts, my uncle has regained my great-grandparents and grandparents farmstead and revitalized it into working condition. Buffalo, NY.
A bountiful harvest. This will get me through the harsh winter months.
Not sure if this is allowed but thought you folks might appreciate it :)
My melons needed some support.
The Grandparents Garden is looking AMAZING
Current view from my sewing studio
Dragon fruits in container
Bagged our limit on opening day
An early birthday gift- my first ever greenhouse! I’m in shock.
An ancient White Oak (which was my favourite tree and the gathering point for my friends and I as teenagers) sadly fell in a storm last year. I saved three acorns but only this one germinated. Maybe one day some other kids will sit underneath it and form lifelong memories together
Greenhouse floor is in and my back is out...
I never get tired of coming home through this.
I was weeding my garden and found a tomato from last year that sprouted all of it's seeds.
Stayed up late for my first dragonfruit flower!!!
My dad is growing an avacado tree at his office... In Edmonton, Alberta.
My grandma's prized calamondin orange tree I'm inheriting. She passed away last week. I've got some big, green shoes to fill so does anyone have any advice on how to take care of it?
incorporating the rain into your garden [x-post r/pics]
First ever garlic harvest! Good luck trying to get in my house, vampires
You guys enjoyed my cactus last time it had 3 blooms. This time I give you 7!
Side by side comparison: embroidered one of my lupine flowers!
A year ago vs this morning.
My mouth was agape when I drove past. This picture doesn’t do it justice.
Not mine, but my boyfriend's mother's garden this evening. (Just about 1/5th of it).
For my cakeday, I present the best carrot I’ve ever grown.
Took 3 years, but you can grow a pineapple in Ohio
Found a mystery plant growing out of my kitchen sponge, decided to keep it and a month later... It's a tomato plant!
Yes, and I am fine with that.
I have very little outdoor space at home but this is my mini haven! It's not much, but it's mine 😊
I was walking in my neighborhood and this camellia literally stopped me in my tracks
I'm getting married this weekend and decided to grow my own flowers. This one bloomed just in time.
I know it’s not really much but I spent all spring and all my extra money for a couple paychecks on making this little cabin a home. The garden beds I dug and filled myself
As a first time gardener, I'm super proud of my tomatoes!
My beautiful mom with her beautiful tulip garden.
Time lapse of my rhododendron blooming
I ate an avocado 2,5 years ago, and kept the seed. This is my avocado seed today!
I am pleasantly surprised by this fragrant flower on my string of pearls
A local gardener and her massive Rhododendron!
In memory of our son and what should have been his first birthday tomorrow, his cherry blossom tree has burst into bloom just in time
My brother's Azalea bonsai is in full bloom
My cactus garden in the balcony
This little fellow gave me a tour of the community garden
My 7 year old said “dad I want to walk through rows of sunflowers”. She then helped me dig, through clay, all these holes and import the soil. The sunflowers will be glorious!
This is my neighbor Papa John. He said, “Post this online and let everyone know Giovanni can grow anything, anywhere!”
For this sub lol
My mom with her giant Idaho grown sunflowers.
These babies inspired me to plant another 3000 flower seeds (poppies, chrys, gailardias) in my garden. Gardening has helped me reduced my drinking problem.
I am growing 800 California Native plants to study their traits for use in post-fire ecosystem restoration in natural areas!
Here’s my almost-finished garden. Just needs a door.
I have a few...
I'm so proud of my wife, she started a market garden this year and has been working so hard!
This kitty I saw while shopping at the garden centre
My cabbage field!
My girlfriend relates to this on a personal level
I can hardly take the pressure!
The greenhouse at my school was abandoned for 20 years, 1 year ago today we started using it thanks to an incredibly awesome teacher, this is the green house 1 year later.
My wife made clay plant markers!
My Grandpa with his cantaloupes in his garden. I’ve learned everything I know about gardening from him & I couldn’t be more proud
Not gardening, but I thought it might be appreciated here.
Me standing next to the sunflowers my hubby said would never grow because all I did was “throw seeds on the ground and covered them with dirt” . Using myself as a scale, I’m 5’4. 🤗🌻
My 85 year old mother is an amazing gardener and genius flower arranger. She made this from weeds and leftovers from her fall garden.
The harvest from my parents cherry tree! About 1.5 kilos so far with a ton more on the tree
Sitting on my front porch enjoying my progress so far in the harsh Navajo Nation. Good morning everyone.
My Wife There's No Such Thing As Too Many Seeds, Just Not Enough Garden
Some of these guys actually made it inside!
I’m hosting my first plant Swap Sunday. This lady heard about it, emailed me in cursive font, and donated a lot of free plants for people who don’t have anything to trade. Be more like Kathy.
The carrots spoke to me.
Got broccoli? Harvested 5lbs from my garden today!
This old man lives in a trailer park down the dirt road from my cousin's house. They now share a garden space since she inherited my aunt's land. He's taught her everything he knows about gardening. Here he is showing off some of his prized taters.
The garden is thriving this year!
Our first peach harvest (Reno)
The seed package called this sunflower mix “Drop Dead Red”. They were right!!
My uh ... new grow light came.
Turns out the beans my parents planted are scarlet runner beans
Found a tiny dinosaur in my kale
Before and after. Really proud.
It’s not much but here is my little container pond
I've been kind of obsessed with my new potential plants, so I made a meme.
‘Extinct Squash’ Grown From 800-Year-Old Heirloom Seeds.
My 8-year-old son went around our garden today and cut all these daffs and twigs n shit and made this fabulous bouquet all by himself.
Lettuce from our garden
This is my 89 year old father. His father planted these rhubarbs...in 1923.
Last pic I was able to get of my dad's garden before he retired and moved overseas. Makakilo, Hawai'i.
Some of the prettiest tomatoes I’ve grown
Got tired of making temporary markers for our rows, so me and the wife painted some bricks for a more permanent solution.
My night sky petunia!
My mom passed away in 2015, but she was still around to witness me plant a cutting from her prized gardenia on Mother's Day of that same year. After four years and LOTS of work on my green thumb, I've finally gotten it to flower. This one is for you, mom! ❤️
It took a year but my tiny indoor lemon tree made a single lemon. Meet my new friend: Leonard the Lemon.
I may not be able to have a good hair day but I am have a Good Yard Day
My precious carrot harvest from this year. Matchsticks for size comparison...
In middle Tennessee...
10 weeks of gardening, and hauling rocks. We are finally done! (For now)
First mango from a tree that was grown from seed!!!
Told my youngest son he could go play Fortnite. He said Can we go work in the garden instead?. If I grow a single thing out of this soil it will be the second best thing to come out of it.
I was feeling really proud of my backyard this morning.
Our bougainvillea bush is now the centerpiece of our house!
4 years later, our second vegetable garden
Decided to clean up my student dorms garden! Didn't spent a single penny (:
Found out why my strawberries are doing bad this year..
This is how baby tree frogs are grown in my garden
My hotel in Paris. Real plants!
Welcome to my secret garden.
I’m no landscaper but I’m happy with what I’ve achieved!
My first green house, finally - year-round gardening!
My mother's passion flower bloomed... I've never seen anything like it.
Banana for scale. Kitten for likes. Zucchini for wow.
Beehives, a shade garden, and a new shed, and I think my backyard is finally finished
My peach tree grown from seed
I think I may be been possessed by the spirit an elderly lady today. Bought by all these polyanthus then adopted a cat.
Move over Coachella, no one does a flower crown like a cactus!
Before and After: 7 years
My back is dead from moving dirt but I couldn't be happier!
This heart potato didnt get much love at r/pics! But i am pretty proud of it!
200 bouquets spilling over with fresh tulips are making their way from our little farm to isolated Moms in need of some beauty. Love what I get do to for a living!
I FUCKING LOVE POLLEN OH GOD OH FUCK 💛
Summer is here ☀️🔥🌿🌴
My plum harvest, from one tree.
My Grandpa built a teepee for his bean plant and planted wildflowers on the sides, he's really proud of it and I wanted to share it with all of you❤️
My dad gave me this bromeliad out of his garden shortly after he was diagnosed with cancer. 8 months after he passed it is blooming for the very first time. First time crying over a plant but I can imagine it won’t be the last.
Update on my Ohio pineapple
Thanks to Reddit, I now know not to pull this (milk)weed. Today, while taking my morning stroll around the garden, I saw my first monarch caterpillar ever, and it happens to be my birthday!!!
It may not be much but I made it myself- my corner box in full bloom.
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Thursday, February 12, 2015
Book now for the Pilgrimage to Chartres
Bookings for the Chartres Pilgrimage are now open.
As for the past several years, the Latin Mass Society is offering sponsored places, cutting the cost by £100 for fifteen people. See the details here.
This is a truly unique event, and participation is a truly unique experience. You need to be in reasonable shape to undertake this pilgrimage, it is certainly a physical challenge: a bit of preparation will make the whole thing more enjoyable. But all kinds of people do it, and there is no shame in dropping out if you really have to.
I've been on the pilgrimage three times, though I've only walked the whole way once, being affected by the heat and blisters the other two times. Probably because I am a weed. Actually, I've learnt various lessons about footwear and salt intake and I hope I could do it next time.
Above all I'd say to those who are young, who can take the necessary time off and don't have small children to worry about: don't miss your chance to do this kind of thing! The LMS can help you with the cost. There are certain cheap options which you can discuss with the organisers as well. Everyone interested in the Traditional Mass should experience the Chartres Pilgrimage, the great gathering of the traddy world.
I've blogged lot about it over the years if you care to search this blog; my post on the 2014 Pilgrimage with the British Chapter is here. Sadly, this year we won't have Mass in Westminster Cathedral before departing, as we're using the Eurostar train; the silver lining is that there is not such an early start.
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The hot springs in California are either set in the middle of a natural preserve or enclosed within a resort with all the modern facilities of a luxurious hotel-spa.
Just like visiting hot springs in other parts of the country, spring is the best time to visit outdoor California hot springs since there is snow in the winter and the temperatures soar above 100 degrees in the summer. However, indoor hot springs can provide a good soak to visitors at any time of the year.
Whether you’re looking for a free and primitive hot springs experience in the great California outdoors, or prefer the comfort of hot springs with a spa-like treatment, you’ll have a ton of options around the state. Here are just 25.
10 Off-the-Beaten-Path Hot Springs in California
1. Crab Cooker Hot Springs (near Mammoth Lakes)
Pictured above, this is just one of the many free hot springs California has to offer.
Crab Cooker Hot Springs, featuring a manmade cement tub with water piped from a mineral spring 30+ feet away, is located on land owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
It’s definitely rough with no bathrooms, trash cans, and any other comfort facilities nearby, but it’s an experience you can have without fees if you’re nearby.
2. Big and Little Caliente Hot Springs (Santa Barbara)
Found in the heart of Los Padres National Forest about north of Santa Barbara, these groups of hot springs (you guessed it: some big, some small) are found at the end of a 9-mile dirt road.
It’s perfect for those who also want a challenging hike.
3. Deep Creek Hot Springs (Apple Valley)
This clothing-optional natural hot springs spot is one of the most popular natural hot springs in Southern California.
It’s part of the Pacific Crest Trail and is located in the San Bernardino National Forest.
There are 3 different thermal pools here with temperatures reaching 100 degrees, and if you’re ready to cool off, there is a river nearby to swim in.
4. Delonegha Hot Springs (Caliente)
Located northeast of Bakersfield, this natural hot springs near Kern River is a secluded group of 5 pools with 123° Fahrenheit water.
It can be challenging to get here since the property owner near it is infamous to claiming it is unlawful to access.
But Delonegha Hot Springs is on public land and is free to visit.
5. Remington Hot Springs (Kearn Canyon)
Remington is a popular spot for those who want to experience soaking in hot springs for free.
These 3 geothermally-heated, man-made pools are not developed, but they’re well-maintained thanks to locals watching over them.
They’re a perfect nature trip, if you’re up for a quick hike to the Kern River.
6. Jordan Hot Springs (Sequoia NF)
Perfect for adventurers who love to camp and are fit enough for a more strenous hike, the trail going to Jordan Hot Springs can be the weekend getaway you’re looking for.
The area offers two pools (a larger and deeper pool that can fit a group of 6 to 8 people and a smaller 1 to 2-person shallow pool).
7. Travertine Hot Springs (Bridgeport)
People go to Travertine not just to soak in the mud-lined geothermal pools.
Even nature photographers marvel at the beauty of these natural pools located just outside Bridgeport and the backdrop of the nearby Sierra Nevada mountains.
The pools’ mud lining is known to have natural healing powers, so visitors coat themselves in this mud while they enjoy around 180°F of mineral water. There are no lodging and facilities nearby.
8. Franklin Hot Springs (Paso Robles)
If you’re visiting the wine country of Paso Robles, make sure to visit this privately-owned destination.
Compared to other hotel-level California hot springs, Franklin Hot Springs has a super-cheap entrance fee ($7 for adults, $5 for 14 and under) that already includes fishing, boating, and access to the mineral hot spring.
There are also camping options (for extra fees) if you want to stay overnight.
9. Wild Willy’s Hot Springs (Mammoth Lakes)
Also known as Crowley Hot Springs, Wild Willy’s features two geothermally-heated hot spring pools (bigger pool can fit up to 20 people, while the smaller one fits 2-3 people).
Both offer a view of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
And because it is inside the Bureau of Land Management’s property, guests can camp if they’re OK with no facilities.
10. Willett Hot Springs (Ojai)
For those interested in a scenic, long and challenging hike, the trail going to the Willet Hot Springs can be an unforgettable experience.
Guests can drain the man-made pool via a plug, clean, and refill it with geothermally-heated mineral water within an hour.
You can camp nearby for free since the pool is located within the Los Padres National Forest.
10 Resort-Style Hot Springs in California
If you have the money to splurge, these 10 hotels and spa destinations in California can give you a hot spring soaking experience you won’t forget:
11. Hot Springs at The Esalen Institute (Big Sur)
Esalen Institute houses some of the best hot springs in California, even if it is more known as a spiritual retreat center.
The views are impressive – you’re on top of a hill with an expansive view of the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur.
You’ll have several geothermally heated mineral water pools to choose from, but I recommend you take the moon bathing option (nightly from 1 am to 3 am) for a one-of-a-kind experience.
12. Beverly Hot Springs (Los Angeles)
It’s the only natural mineral spring spa in Los Angeles.
Discovered accidentally in the 20s while digging for oil, this mineral spring source is ideal for both drinking and bathing.
The spa has an array of massage, sauna, steam baths, and other relaxation services available to soak the stresses away.
13. The Spring Resort and Spa (Desert Hot Springs)
The Spring Resort and Spa only has 9 rooms, so you’d really have to book way in advance to be able to visit this intimate resort.
The spa is located in a town where water underground rise to 77°C, so enjoy soaking in any of the 3 hot spring pools or get a luxurious spa treatment like salt scrubs or a Finnish sauna.
14. Vichy Springs Resort (Ukiah)
This destination has been around for over 150 years.
It features carbonated mineral baths, a 40°C hot pool and an Olympic-size swimming pool.
Guests can spend overnight in any of the cottages, then take a quick 30-minute walk to the Chemisal Falls where you can enjoy a cold pool by the creek.
15. Sierra Hot Springs Resort & Retreat Center (Sierraville)
If you’re trying to pop the question and are looking for the best of the best California hot springs, this 1870s Sierra Hot Springs 700-acre resort would probably fit the bill.
There are private tubs and public pools (all of which are filled up with hot mineral water ranging in temperatures from 29.5°C to 43°C.
The most famous pool is housed in a dome with stained glass, jaw-dropping skylights perfect for stargazing.
Of course, spa and massage services are available here as well.
16. Indian Springs Resort and Spa (Calistoga, Napa Valley)
As one of the town’s oldest hot spring (it’s been around since 1861), Indian Springs is known to both locals and tourists for its detoxifying treatments, authentic Napa Valley cuisine and good wine options.
There’s a mud bath and an Olympic-size mineral-water pool. And good food and wine.
17. Calistoga Spa Hot Springs(Upper Napa Valley)
Also located in California’s wine country, Calistoga Spa Hot Springs is home to a wide range of whirlpools, soaking tubs, kiddie hot spring pool, and Olympic-sized lap pools – all of which are naturally heated by hot spring water pumped from a nearby source.
The spa features many popular massage and spa services, such as its volcanic ash mud bath.
18. Aqua Soleil Hotel & Mineral Water Spa (Desert Hot Springs)
Located in California’s Coachella Valley, this full-service spa has relaxing facials, body treatments, massages and hot spring soaking options (a big pool, jacuzzis and smaller pools) with mineral water temperatures ranging from 90 to 102 degrees Fahrenheit.
19. Harbin Hot Springs Retreat Center (Middletown)
Named after Matthew Harbin, a pioneer who settled in the Lake County area, this hot spring retreat and workshop center is definitely an IG-worthy destination.
You can choose from dome, cottages, rooms, and creekside caravans as accommodation.
It has a full-serve retreat and spa options with several spring-fed pools located both indoors and outdoors.
20. Avila Hot Springs (San Luis Obispo)
Located north of Los Angeles, this 100+ year-old hot springs resort is located at the entrance to Avila Beach and Port-San Luis Harbor.
It’s a family-friendly hot springs with indoor and outdoor soaking options (there are pools with slides for kids).
Aside from rooms, tents, RV sites and cabin rentals are also available.
5 Hybrid Hot Springs in California
If you want to experience both natural hot springs, while enjoying good food, real beds, and other modern facilities, the following hot springs in California will give you the best of both worlds:
21. Wilbur Hot Springs (Williams)
There are cabins, private lodges and camping spots available within the 1,800-acre nature reserve with naturally occurring hot mineral springs.
Out of the 1,100 known geysers on the Earth, Wilbur Hot Springs has one (known as the Fountain of Life) that “erupts” every 45 minutes and it is definitely a cool sight to behold.
22. Mono Hot Springs (Lakeshore)
This spot isn’t just for those looking for a legit hot springs experience.
It’s for anyone who cherishes spectacular views of nature since it is smack in the middle of picturesque Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Parks.
While you soak, be at peace by the views of Sierra Nevada Mountains. There are tubs outside, a large bathhouse and indoor spa – all with geothermally-heated mineral water controlled by Mono Hot Springs.
23. Keough’s Hot Springs (Bishop)
Keough Hot Springs is the “largest natural hot springs pool in the Eastern Sierra.”
The pools here are fed six hundred gallons of 127-degree water flows from the ground each minute.
It has been around since 1919, providing both locals and tourists with a relaxing hot springs experience with its two large pools for over a century.
24. Mercey Hot Springs (Firebaugh)
Mercey Hot Springs is a rustic, historical 144-acre resort located on the western edge of Fresno County.
It offers 20 therapeutic hot soaking tubs for solo use and geo-thermally heated mineral water swimming pool.
It is one of the only hot springs with its own 9-hole disc golf course. This is a popular spot for star-gazing as well.
25. The Inn at Benton Hot Springs (Benton)
Out of all the hot springs California has to offer, the Inn at Benton Hot Springs is probably my favorite because of the privacy each hot spring pool provides. It’s like you’re renting your private hot spring tub for a couple of hours, for a fee, of course.
Each of the 12 hot tub sites here is fed by natural hot spring water.
These hot tubs aren’t pool-sized, but they’re big enough for a group of 2 to 3 people. Each site also comes with a picnic table, fire grill and pit, individual restroom (5 of the 12 sites) and space to park your car or RV nearby.
There Are Even More Hot Springs in California
These 25 hot springs in California are just some of the most popular ones. As you can see from this California hot springs map, there are A LOT more to explore.
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I just love this little tree I picked up last year after Christmas.
This is the buffet I have upstairs in my living room. I didn't change it much from my fall decor.
As you can see I am not a chalkboard artist but that goes right along with that casual homey feel I'm going for, right?
Hope all of your are enjoying the season and are not feeling to rushed.
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Our new downstairs neighbor is renovating their flat (read: making incredible noise on repeat). So for the past week, I’ve been trying my best to bring a dash of calming goodness into my days. This series by NASA which reveals the nocturnal beauty of the Earth seen from space have been making all that noisiness totally bearable. Somehow ever since I was little, I've been fascinated with our planet and those images just prove how dreamy, mystical and darn stunning it really is.
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So it's a way that's given us a lot more control over inspection. It has put
our inspectors more in a verification and inspection mode. It has certainly
brought science into the system, because we do microbial testing as part of our
inspection ... .
Can you explain how HACCP works?
... The easiest way I can explain it to you is if you think what happens in
your own kitchen. You're going to cook a roast for your family. You go to the
market and you buy the meat, bring it into the home. You're going to
refrigerate it and you want to make sure it's refrigerated at the proper
temperature. You get ready to prepare it. You're going to wash your hands
before you do that.
You're going to make sure the countertops are clean and cutting boards are
clean, that your knife is clean. ... After you season the meat and do whatever
you need to do it and you put it in a pot and you're going to cook it, you make
sure that that cooking is properly done, so that it's the right internal
So all these things that we know inherently by common sense: refrigeration,
keeping things clean, cooking to the right temperature -- these are critical
control points. These are points that we have to have control over to keep
things safe. And so HACCP is the same thing.
Imagine now in a food-processing plant, a meat-processing plant, a poultry-processing plant. ... It's the same kind of a concept. What are the steps that these guys or women are doing in those plants that they
have to have control over? And it's the same kinds of things. It's keeping
things in a sanitary condition, keeping them clean, what manipulations they do
with the meat with their utensils that they do it in such a way that they don't
contaminate the meat. ... It's a commonsense system. I think that's why it was
developed, because it made sense. It was the best way that NASA could find to
ensure the safety of food that they sent up for the astronauts. And rather than
produce food and hope against hope that it's safe, why not produce it in such a
way that you're taking a critical look at all these points -- controlling them?
Because if you control those points, the end product should be pretty clean,
and that's exactly the concept be behind HACCP. ...
You say that it is an improvement that gives us more control, more insight
into the inspection process. But you also say it gives more responsibility and
more authority to the companies themselves to do the process. Putting more
authority in the hands of the companies -- is that a good thing?
It's putting the authority squarely on our inspectors to enforce our
regulations. That has not changed. If anything, it's given us several tools as
inspectors to be able to discern when there's been loss of control. The part
where the industry comes in is their responsibility. They're the ones who make
the food, so they have to be the ones who conduct their processes in such a way
that it produces as safe a food as possible. Our job is to make sure that that
happens. So responsibility [for] the production of safe food [is] on them. But
it is our responsibility -- and our authority -- to close down plants that are
not compliant with our regulations. ...
We've talked to some of the current inspectors and former inspectors. Many
of them are confused about their role now. [They] feel that their authority has
been lessened, and that these are difficult jobs. They're on the line, and
they're concerned that the new inspection system actually leads to less safe
meat, because they aren't able to shut the line if they need to, or they aren't
the ones on the line looking at every carcass that goes by.
Certainly some of the things you said are not accurate, in the sense that we
shut down lines all the time. We shut down plants all the time. Last year alone
we took about 200 enforcement actions in plants in the United States. So we
very much have the authority to do that. Our inspectors have the authority to
follow the regulations and enforce them on a daily basis. ...
Inspectors absolutely have [the] authority [to shut down plants.] Certainly, I
suppose there's always the opportunity or the chance for some inspector to
maybe not understand what they need to do. But they need to go to their
supervisor, and their supervisor needs to satisfy their concerns. And if he or
she doesn't, then they can go up to the line. ...
I'm very aware of how, in some places, inspectors may be in situations where
they feel intimidated or harassed. Any kind of situation like [that], to me, is
absolutely unacceptable. We have pulled inspectors from some plants where that
has seemed to be taking place. I have tremendous respect for inspectors,
tremendous support of what they do. I know that they have maybe not the easiest
job sometime. So I am committed that, if there is truth to any charge that
anybody brings up, it warrants investigation. And we utilize all the objective
measures that we possibly can. ...
Given how contentious it can be in certain plants -- and it's the exception,
probably -- does it make sense to have moved towards a regulatory system that
gives companies more authority over the inspection process?
The HACCP system does not give the plants any authority. [It gives them]
responsibility. The authority is ours; we're the ones with the authority. We
are the ones who look at their sanitation programs. We're looking at their food
safety HACCP program. We're the ones looking at their records. We visually
monitor them as they do their day-to-day operations, as well as look at their
records. We do microbial testing to verify that everything is working as it
should. And we're the ones who shut them down -- so the authority is completely
ours, not the plants'. ...
But has the role of the inspector actually changed since the introduction of
HACCP? There seems to be disagreement from different parties here in terms of
how much they're actually on the line.
Well, remember when I was speaking to you about microbial contamination? Having
someone on the line looking hoping that they're going to see bacteria -- that's
never going to happen. They're microscopic. So what our inspectors do is they
utilize other tools. They're there all the time. We have inspectors in every
plant in the United States every day -- 7,600 inspectors, more or less.
And so the way their role has changed is that they certainly are more
science-based. They are not simply looking at what is visibly OK, but they are
engaging in holding the plants accountable for what they do to make sure that
the product is as clean as possible. In addition to that, the microbial testing
that we do has added that element of science. Now we can look at the invisible
bacteria that might be there, and utilize that information as a tool to say to
us, "If there's bacteria here, according to these tests that we just conducted,
perhaps it's an indicator that we need to look more closely at some of the
things that the plant is doing." ...
Given all the interventions, given all the money that's spent, given the
implementation of this science-based system, why haven't we seen a more
significant change in the food-borne illnesses?
If you speak with the Centers for Disease Control, they put out a report about
a year ago or so where they actually said that the incidence of food-borne
illness has decreased. And to give you another completely different
organization, the Center for Science in the Public Interest just put out a
report where they they've been keeping track of cases of food-borne illness and
so forth. And in the last year or so, I think the data they show about the vast
majority -- 75 percent to 80 percent -- of the cases of food-borne illnesses in
this country are not even due to meat or poultry. They're other foods. ... They're seafoods that we don't regulate here at the USDA. So there
has been a tremendous improvement, if you consider certainly the data
that the Centers for Disease Control published about a year ago.
You can see that the trend is beginning to go down. Can we do better? Always.
And what I'm hoping to see is that the trend continues, and every year we keep
knocking those levels down as much as we can.
Will the USDA [appeal the Supreme Beef case]?
We don't have plans at this time to do that. The Supreme Beef decision
is one that, when we looked at it, did not take away our authority to enforce
our regulation. We still can shut down plants, and we have been since the
Supreme decision came out in December. So it hasn't affected our authority to
shut down plants. ... We continue to test for salmonella. But we use those
results to point us to what we may have to do in order to see what the plant
may be missing in their implementation of HACCP.
As an example, if you take your blood pressure, that's the same thing as our
microbial testing. Taking your blood pressure indicates that you maybe need to
look at your diet, your exercise, your overall health, because that's where you
need to maybe make some changes to improve your blood pressure. So similarly,
the salmonella tests that we do alert us to looking at the food safety
programs, the HACCP, the sanitation of a plant, because something might need to
be fixed. And again, the authority's the same, in the sense that we still can
shut down plants. But we shut them down based on their failure to meet those
food-safety standards, and not only on the tests.
But part of the promise of HACCP was that you would have these microbial
standards that would allow you to be sure that the process was happening
correctly, that the critical control points were working. Now that guarantee
has been weakened, because you cannot use that to close a plant. You have to go
through a more cumbersome process of trying to find other problems in that
plant. That seems like a serious weakening of USDA's authority. ...
The microbial tests are actually fulfilling the promise of HACCP. HACCP always
has included microbial testing as verification, and I'm sure always will.
That's why we have continued to test regardless of the Supreme Beef decision,
because it is an integral part of HACCP. ... Instead of
rely[ing] on one indicator, we rely on looking at the total package, just like your
doctor doesn't rely simply on the on your blood pressure test to tell you that
you're a lost cause.
[The] former secretary of agriculture says that this Supreme Beef decision
is a serious blow to food safety. Is he wrong?
I think Secretary Glickman has misunderstood the Supreme Beef decision.
I'm a scientist. I've been working in food safety research for many, many
years, more than I can tell you. And I know that he's mistaken in his
conclusion, from a scientific point of view. ... I can only speak for what
science says, and that's what guides my thought process and my decision-making.
Obviously you have great credibility as a scientist, but this is also an
issue of regulation and how you get companies to do things that they may not
necessarily want to do, or that are against their economic interest. Most
companies in the industry are doing an excellent job meeting the goals, but the
problem becomes what do you do about the ones that aren't meeting the goals,
that aren't willing to get--
You shut them down.
But now you have one less tool to do so. You've got to go back and prove
that there are problems in their process.
And that's very easy for us to do, because of our inspectors being there every
day. The microbial test, again, is one indicator. Think about it this way. If a
plant is doing so many horrible things, as an example, that the test comes out
positive, our inspector already has seen that they're doing some very horrible
things. And I can tell you right now, in fact, over the last year, we took more
actions against plants due to HACCP and sanitation failures than based on the
salmonella tests. ...
Why do we see so many recalls?
If you look at the data on recalls, let's say for this year, even 2002, the
vast majority of the recalls that are done are as a result of our inspectors
finding contaminants. They're not as a result of people getting sick. No one's
gotten sick yet.
We find the contaminants. We tell the company. The company recalls the product
-- the vast majority. So, if anything, it proves that our system of inspection
is working, because we're there identifying problems on the plant. ...
How we handle recalls is we try to get all the data as quickly as we can, to
try to recommend to the plant that they issue a recall. No plant has ever
refused a recall. When we recommend them to recall, they immediately do it. And
the thing to do is to recall as quickly as possible, obviously, to retrieve as
much product as possible. And I don't have figures in front of me. But it's
certainly a high percentage, because it relies on our ability to identify these
problems as quickly as we can; that is our commitment, and it is what we try to
do as much as we possibly can. ...
Should the USDA have mandatory recall authority?
I don't think we need mandatory recall authority. ... Companies always have
complied. But let's say that there's one company out there that decides, "I'm
not going to do it." We have detention authority. We have seizure authority by
law, not to mention the fact that we can certainly put out a press release, and
certainly companies don't want to have bad press. That's a fact. But the
detention and seizure authority that we have enables us to, even if a plant
decides not to do a recall, to detain that product, to seize that product from
the market. And that's something that other agencies in the government don't
We have an incredibly efficient food system in this country that is
responsible for remarkable achievements: abundant, inexpensive food; the price
of meat is down nearly by half since 1970, I understand. But in so doing, we've
created this system, this massive machine, whereby the risks are magnified
through the system. It used to be if you had one sick cow, the 10 people who
ate it would get ill. Now that one cow could be ground into a half-million
pounds of ground beef and be in 17 states in a week.
There are a couple of elements to your question, to your comment. First of all,
no sick cows are used in meat and poultry today.
Well, E. coli-infected.
E. coli-infected -- that's probably more accurate. I'll just tell you
from my perspective as a regulatory agency. It matters not to me if it's a
small plant, if it's a medium plant, if it's a large plant, because we have the
same inspection system in all of these plants. We have the appropriate number
of inspectors, depending on the size of the plant. Our job is to make sure that
the meat and poultry that is produced and processed in the United States is as
safe as possible. ... As a scientist, I would certainly like to see data from a
study, if anybody's done it, to see whether your hypothesis is correct.
Dan Glickman says that the meat supply is safer today than it was 10 years
ago, but that if something goes wrong, the risks are monumental.
... Certainly the distribution of food in this country, the fact that we have
food that is distributed very quickly to many places, puts ... the onus on the industry to be as vigilant as possible. And certainly [it puts the onus on] us, the inspector force, to be as vigilant as possible, so that the meat and poultry that goes out is as clean as possible. It doesn't matter,
in my opinion, if 10 people get sick versus 100 people get sick. I don't want
anybody to get sick. And so I'm treating every plant and every situation with
the same importance.
But you're saying the burden is on you, the regulators. and on industry. But
in some ways, the burden falls on the consumer because there is no way for
them to know which is the meat coming from the good plants versus the
problematic plants. ...
Your mother, my mother, and I think everybody's mother always told us, "[You need to] wash your hands before you eat and put leftovers in the refrigerator promptly." All these commonsense things have been around for many years. It's not an alien
concept. ... I think people understand that you want the person preparing
your salad to wash their hands. You want the person who's preparing your
sandwich to wash their hands and wash their knives and use ingredients that are
as clean as possible, and not to put food that you're going to eat in
the raw state on a dirty surface, and so forth. So it is the responsibility of
industry to produce as safe food as possible.
It is the authority of the inspection force to make sure that that's the case.
But consumers have a role to play in making sure that, in preparing the food
for their families, they also do so in a way that it doesn't introduce
contaminants either. ...
You're very reassuring to talk to about this. But there are enormous risks
out there. We have 15 percent of our meat supply coming in from other
countries, problems with inspection related to that. We've seen cases [where] countries that were banned [from] import[ing] meat here actually got through
the controls. Given the efficiency of the system, it can get out very quickly.
So if we have a problem, if there is a mistake, the ramifications could be
I don't agree with what you said that non-inspected meat has come into the
country, and you'll see why I say that. We have about 130 or 140 points of
entry where meat gets imported into the United States by other countries. For a
country to export to the U.S., for us to import it from them, they have to
basically submit evidence that they have a system of inspection that's
equivalent to ours -- the same HACCP thing that I've been talking about, the
sanitation and so forth.
But that's not enough for them to tell us that. We go to the country; we send
our people to see for themselves, to go to plants and [say] not only, "Show me the
paperwork that certifies that you have these systems, but show me in action
that you have these systems; that you have inspectors there; that the
inspectors are trained; that they're there on a daily basis in plants." The
same thing as we have here.
It doesn't stop there. When the meat gets exported to the United States, our
inspectors which are in those same 130, 140 points of entry inspect the meat
and poultry that comes in. And we have found occasionally that there are
problems with either mislabeling, or there's contamination or something like
that. That immediately alerts the agency to put that country basically on
alert, and makes us go do an audit and make sure that things are corrected. And
if they're not corrected, we have delisted countries and banned them from
exporting to the U.S. because of food safety. ...
You are the government official in charge of all meat and poultry food
safety. Given the new risks that are out there, that we're not even aware of --
what keeps you up at night?
Certainly we all have, after Sept, 11, been affected by those
events and by the continuing threat that terrorism plays. Because of that, we
have been extremely diligent in pursuing what we need to do. Given that, we
have this infrastructure that I've been talking about, of inspectors with
highly trained background ... using HACCP and other science-based
systems to make sure that meat and poultry is as safe as possible. And using
that infrastructure, we have been engaging in activities that have been
designed to focus on how we can prevent as much as possible the introduction of
an intentional contaminant. ...
Certainly if terrorists wanted to affect a large number of
people, it would be very difficult to do it through meat and poultry because
of the controls that we have in the plants themselves. ... But if anything
gives me pause, if you will, it's the fact that we as a nation, perhaps some
years from now, will grow complacent.
And that's what I'm committed not to let happen -- that we continually are
vigilant. Because regardless of whether a contaminant is intentional or
unintentional, we have to be there to make sure that the meat and poultry that
people eat is as safe as possible. ...
What is the risk of BSE being introduced into the U.S.?
First of all, let me begin by saying that we have never had a case of Mad Cow
Disease, thank goodness. Harvard University just finished a risk-assessment
study that they did for the USDA. ... Their conclusion was, because of the measures that we had
taken already in the United States ... that the United States is "highly
resistant to BSE," which is a good thing to hear.
Now, does that mean that we rest on our laurels? Absolutely not. We continue to
be very vigilant. And in fact as an agency, one of the things that that we're
doing is looking at what other measures we may consider, putting those into the
model, and seeing if they will affect the risk of BSE or not. ...
home + industrial meat + interviews + the politics of meat + is your meat safe? + the inspection system
inside the slaughterhouse + producer chat + introduction + discussion + video
FRONTLINE + wgbh + pbsi
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This breakout board is the simplest way to create a project with mutiple capacitive touch sensors. No microcontroller is required here - just power with 1.8 to 5.5VDC and connect up to 5 conductive pads to the 5 left-hand pins. When a capacitive load is detected (e.g. a person touches one of the conductive contacts) the corresponding LED on the right lights up and the output pin goes low. You can use this to update an existing normal-button project where buttons connect to ground when pressed.
Note that only one contact will be detected at once (this is to protect against having a hand brush against two or more contacts at once.
Comes with a fully assembled board, and a stick of 0.1" header so you can plug it into a breadboard. For contacts, they suggest using copper foil, then solder a wire that connects from the foil pad to the breakout.
The datasheet has many details on sensitivity, power usage, etc. - note that this board uses the chip in 'standalone' mode only, it cannot be used in I2C mode.
Standalone 5-Pad Capacitive Touch Sensor Breakout - AT42QT1070 (11:38)
- The datasheet has many details on sensitivity, power usage, etc.
- Datasheets, EagleCAD PCB files, Fritzing object and more available in the product tutorial
- AT42QT1070 Datasheet
- AT42QT1010 Datasheet
- AT42QT1012 Datasheet
- Objects for all in the Adafruit Fritzing Library
- EagleCAD PCB files for all three in GitHub
- Capacitive Touch Sensors on the Raspberry Pi
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Saturday, August 23, 2014
Saturday Morning Movie: Bunny Jumping
Here's a little Saturday morning silliness - Hamish and Andy, the stars of Euro Gap Year, decided to go to Stockholm and enter a rabbit jumping competition. First they had to get a rabbit. And then they had to compete. Also, they dress funny.
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Squid Game is a Netflix television series directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk. It is a South Korean original television series that stars Lee Jung-jae and Park Hae-soo. It was released worldwide on September 17, 2021. The series was about a few hundred people who felt trapped in their miserable lives participated in a survival game to win 456 billion Korean won. After it was released, it jumped to the top of Netflix's most popular non-English original series chart.
Temptation of wealth, the weaknesses of human nature, family and friendships, life or death choices...This series revealed the darkest side of human nature and society, which might as well be the reality. If this game of life and death really does exist, would you join? Are you confident to win the games and get the prize money? Come take the test and find out which character you are and what kind of story you have!
The Squid Game is a game in which you either die or win a huge amount of prize money. If you are being invited, would you join?
Unfortunately, this is the compulsory recruitment of the first testing version of Squid Game. Therefore, if you are invited, you have to participate.
You were drugged unconscious and brought to an unknown and closed game field joining 499 other experiment subjects waiting for the game to start.
What would you first focus on?
The Guards with guns
My own physical conditions
The other participants
It might be easier to win the games with a partner in this game of life and death. Which of the following four people would you pick to form an ally?
The shivering little boy who does not really talk.
The small and skinny young girl with a bright smile.
The white-haired old scholar.
The middle-aged male body builder.
What would you do after becoming a team?
Take initiative to communicate, we should help each other.
Stay alert and do not talk too much.
During lunch time, the bully was bullying an old participant. Would you step in and stop him?
When having a meal with your teammate, what would you wish to talk about?
The reason why he or she was here.
Predict what the next game will be.
My own life story and experiences.
Analyze the strengths, weaknesses and personalities of the other opponents.
The game is about to start, the game will start from the lowest number to the largest number in order, and each person will go individually. There are only two more numbers left for you to choose from, which one will you pick?
Level One - At Fault
A family of four, the older son was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. After the death of the son, the father left home with all their savings. The mother cried non-stop every day with the photo of the son and abused the daughter. Finally, the daughter killed the mother and then committed suicide.
Who was most at fault in the story?
Level Two - Footsteps
Three of the four rooms are with assassins. Find the safe room according to the sounds of the doors opening.
Level Three - Fate
You can only save the life of one of the following people, please make your decision.
A boy who lost one of his legs from saving someone.
A superstar with tons of fans.
A woman of advanced maternal age who is pregnant with twins.
An elderly scientist who had made a great contribution.
The testing version of Squid Game is over. Fortunately, no one would really be eliminated in the testing version.
Before leaving, you may ask the game creator a question and it would be answered. What would you ask?
What is your real name?
What is your real occupation?
Why do you hold the Squid Game?
After I leave, can I go back to my life?
After experiencing the Squid Game in person, which are you more likely to do?
Continue with my life and never speak of it again.
Tell others and society after the experience.
Try to get in contact with friends I have made in the game.
Write novels and movies on related topics.
Seong Gi-hun0011Gentle, honest, brave and strongSquid Game Player Number456Seong Gi-hun once lived happily with his family. He lost his job as a chauffeur, which he worked as for 10 years, got into debts and gambling, failed at starting his own businesses, and got divorced. He struggled a lot financially, was helpless, and depended on his mother for financial support. He met a mysterious man on the metro who gave him a card. He then participated in the Game."Your personality is similar in some ways to the personality of Seong Gi-hun in that you have broader views than most people. You are clever and think critically. However, you are a bit "lazy" and "lay-back," which caused you not to think about or not care about important things in life. You do care about society, want to help more people, and are very good to your family. This shows that you are kind-hearted and friendly."//www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/show/1.png
Cho Sang-woo0101Clever and full of stratagemsSquid Game Player Number218Cho Sang-woo studied business administration at the Seoul National University. He was a childhood neighbor of Seong Gi-hun. He was gifted since little and look successful on the outside. He worked at a big company right after he graduated. He looked successful, but in reality, stole money from his company and was greatly in debt. Hopeless with life, he decided to participate in the Squid Game.You and Cho Sang-woo have similarities in your personalities in that you have great ambitions underneath your sharp looks. You would not miss any opportunities to climb higher and become better in society. This helps you easily climb up to the top in your profession. It is also very hard for others to defeat you.//www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/show/2.png
Kang Sae-byeok1101Stubborn and toughen up, but has a tender heartSquid Game Player Number067Kang Sae-byeok was a young girl who escaped from North Korea. She pickpocketed to survive. She was brave, yet had a soft side. She lost contact with her parents, life has been really tough and miserable. She has a younger brother who’s in the children’s home. She wanted to be reunited with her family by giving her all into the Squid Game.You have a hint of Kang Sae-byeok in you in that you are independent and strong-minded. You do not give in to the main streams, which at times created conflicts between you and others. You do not show your emotions, and people find you cold and hard to approach. In reality, you know how to show gratitude, love your family, and is very responsible.//www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/show/3.png
Hwang Jun-ho1111Courageously striving forward without ceasingSquid Game Player NumberNoneHwang Jun-ho was a police officer who has been searching for his missing brother. He found a card in his brother’s rented flat. On the card, there were three shapes, a circle, a triangle, and a square. He sneaked into the Squid Game to investigate the secrets of the organization.You and Hwang Jun-ho have similar personalities in that you treat others just as yourself. You are very strict and rigid. You are very observant in your daily life, paying attention to small details. You act according to your observations and are firm in your stands. This helps you to succeed and reach your goals.//www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/show/4.png
Oh Il-nam0111Having great wisdom and courage but doesn't show easilySquid Game Player Number001Oh Il-nam was an old man in his 70s. He had a tumor in his brain. Right from the beginning with the first game “Red Light, Green Light,” he has shown an attitude of carefree. He thinks that life and short and adventurous. He rather put in all he’s got into the game than being scared by it. He also showed his wisdom and philosophical thinking in “Tug-of-Wall” and the “Marble Game.”You have a hint of Oh Il-nam in you in that you have great wisdom, and are meant to do great things. On the outside, you are practical and prudent. You think orderly and thoroughly before coming to a decision. You do not think about anything that is not realistic. As for interpersonal relationships, you can accurately make judgements about people you meet and make a move.//www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/show/5.png
Jang Deok-su1001Well built and strongSquid Game Player Number101Jang Deok-su was a gangster. Many of the members of the gang joined the Game after losing all of their organization’s money and ran away. He was strong in combats, and can even kill someone barehanded. He was aggressive and hated being betrayed. He is also clever.Your personality and the personality of Jang Deok-su have some similarities in that you are fearless and without worries. You are easily excited and attracted to things that are new to you. You would give up high positions at work or in society for freedom. You are very loyal to the people around you.//www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/show/6.png
Abdul Ali1011Innocent, natural, kind and strong-mindedSquid Game Player Number199Abdul Ali was an illegal laborer from Pakistan. He was simple, kind, brave and loyal. He valued his family a lot. He came to South Korea hoping to provide his family with a better life. After an accident in his workplace, his employer pretended nothing had happened and even refused to pay him for half a year. Then he participated in the Squid Game.You have a hint of Abdul Ali in you in that you have a strong mind when facing tasks at school or work. You are very efficient and capable. You always do your best in every task given to you. You are very responsible towards your family, you are willing to put in time and effort for your family.//www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/show/7.png
Ji-yeong0001Quiet, introverted and ineloquentSquid Game Player Number240Ji-yeong was small, gentle and quiet. She didn’t have any family or friends. She didn’t have any goals or dreams. She didn’t even show much desire towards the large amount of prize money. She became friends with another female player of the Game, Kang Sae-byeok. She gave the chance to survive to Kang Sae-byeok in the Marble Game.You have a similar personality to Ji-yeong in that you like to be alone, you are unique and don't fit into the mainstream. In reality, you have a colorful heart, full of imagination, thoughtful, and creative. At the same time, you don't feel safe and you desire to be understood and protected.//www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/show/8.png | <urn:uuid:cdbb1e53-0328-4aba-95c3-21522d1b47e9> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.arealme.com/which-squid-game-player-are-you/en/ | 2021-10-15T20:35:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323583083.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20211015192439-20211015222439-00389.warc.gz | en | 0.978772 | 2,477 |
Western gray squirrel
Logging, urbanization, and other development threaten the oak-conifer prairie communities that the western gray squirrel needs to survive.
A woodland prairie mainstay
In collaboration with other conservation organizations and concerned individuals, Conservation Northwest is working diligently to save the western gray squirrel and its habitat: the rare and unique oak-woodland prairies of Washington.
One of three subspecies of native tree squirrels, the western gray relies on the diverse old-growth canopies of pine, oak, and fir, for natal dens, food, travel, and protection.
More on western gray squirrels from WDFW
With an average body length of twelve inches and tail length of an additional twelve, the western gray is the largest of the native tree squirrels. This arboreal rodent has white-tipped gray hairs along much of its body and a white underbelly. It is noted for its large feet, pronounced reddish brown ears, and long bushy tail.
Western gray squirrels do not hibernate, but will remain confined to their nests during periods of bad weather. Their diet is made up of fungi, insects, acorns, seeds, nuts, and berries. Like other squirrel species, they plan ahead and collect reserves of food when it is plentiful.
Unlike other squirrel species, the western gray has only has one litter of young per year. Slower reproduction is one of the reasons they are at risk.
Oak-conifer prairie communities and late-successional forests that serve as western gray squirrel habitat in Washington have been degraded and destroyed by logging, urbanization, and other development throughout the last century, causing a drastic decline in populations. Today, only 3% of these prairies remain in Washington, and western gray squirrels are found primarily in three isolated regions: the southern Puget Sound, the lower Columbia River, and the north-central region of the state.
The western gray squirrel is currently classified as “threatened” with extinction by Washington State and recognized as a priority species by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. In 2000, the Tahoma Audubon Society and Conservation Northwest filed a petition for an emergency rule to list this species under the federal Endangered Species Act. When the Fish and Wildlife Service refused to act, Conservation Northwest filed a lawsuit, which is still pending in the courts.
Cross-Base Highway Proposal
The western gray squirrel faces another threat to habitat loss: the proposed Cross Base Highway in Pierce County. This four-lane, six-mile highway would bisect the largest remaining oak-woodland prairie in Washington, effectively undermining the western gray’s critical habitat in that area. Learn more about this proposed highway and how local residents have prevented it thus far. | <urn:uuid:284d2409-c7b4-4d5b-8073-b3ca7eaa980e> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://www.conservationnw.org/what-we-do/wildlife-habitat/western-gray-squirrel | 2017-04-23T11:52:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118552.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00453-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944165 | 570 |
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Many a UX designer is challenged to produce a customer experience that drives more money, sign-ups, or pageviews. As a creative, achieving those ideal business outcomes can be daunting.
Well, that is, until you've heard Jason Ulaszek's words of wisdom.
Designers can influence where our organizations spend money and time to gain a stronger customer experience. And Jason has wrapped several of these UX tools and processes into a repeatable framework for designing great customer experiences in a more harmonious way.
Hear how storytelling can provide vital insights that remove politics and create a foundation for artifacts that inform business decisions.
Make a business-decision framework work for design
- Conduct the "right" kind of research to answer 3 key questions
- Inform a longer customer lifecycle using data gathered from research
Utilize research to inform long-term decision making
- Think beyond today's digital products and services
- Incorporate stakeholders and their feedback without derailing progress
Create a strategic roadmap using design tools
- Facilitate discussions about opportunities and actions
- Prioritize the outcomes of discussions in real-time
Map the design process to the business outcome
- Tell the story of "Why" you are designing the way you are
- Establish a shared understanding across your team
Register for this seminar if you:
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China is definitely most of the most mysterious and magical countries in the world. It is a land of many myths and legends. Strangely peaceful with a history of violence across the lands we stand today. Play the game while we do a little fact checking on these stories and check your knowledge. Riddles of China is one of our many Hidden Object Games that we publish on TheGamerStop.com. This game is also tagged as a Hidden Objects game. Click the play button to start having fun. To play even more free games, view our popular and new games page. If you want to play more games like this, then you can simply check out the games inside the game tags that are the most relevant to your interests or the Hidden Object Games category or the games like this game page at the end of the game tags. | <urn:uuid:d9966555-97ea-408a-b8f7-749d5017d79f> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://thegamerstop.com/play/48128-Riddles-of-China.html | 2021-01-16T11:07:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703506640.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20210116104719-20210116134719-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.94107 | 166 |
SpaceX’s Dragon space failed to dock with the International Space Station Wednesday morning after an error was detected in the GPS software, causing the unmanned space capsule to abort the attempt. NASA reports that the Dragon capsule, carrying 5,500 pounds of cargo and experiments, was three-quarters of a mile away from the space station at around 3:25 am ET before the ship automatically aborted the mission due to the software error. SpaceX will reattempt to dock on Thursday morning.
Today’s attempt to deliver cargo to the space station is SpaceX’s tenth supply mission the Elon Musk-backed space company has flown for NASA. The Dragon capsule had been en route to the space station for the past two days, after separating from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that launched from historic Apollo-era launch pad 39A from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Sunday.
— NASA (@NASA) February 22, 2017
The cargo capsule was scheduled to rendezvous with six astronauts onboard the space station at 6 am ET today. If successful, astronauts Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency would have locked hatches with the SpaceX capsule using an onboard robotic arm. However, the mission was waved off after the ship received the GPS-related error.
“It did exactly what it was designed to do, breaking out of a rendezvous approach when it saw an incorrect value,” said NASA TV commentator Rob Navias, according to NPR.
“This is an easily correctable issue,” he explained during a live NASA TV stream of the docking attempt. “Dragon itself is in excellent shape.”
SpaceX confirmed that the Dragon capsule was in good health and will attempt to make another rendezvous with the space station on Thursday. The new Thursday schedule means SpaceX’s Dragon capsule will arrive at the International Space Station just one day before a Russian resupply rocket is planned to arrive at the station.
Dragon is in good health and will make another rendezvous attempt with the @Space_Station Thursday morning.
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Silicon based photovoltaic cells are the dominant technology for terrestrial solar energy conversion. After many decades of research and development, efficiencies are today reaching a saturation, with the best devices measuring 25 % in the laboratory. Significantly higher conversion efficiencies up to 38.8 % are so far only reached with multi-junction cells based on III-V semiconductors. However, these materials are too expensive for the use in flat-plat modules on the earth, while for satellite applications they are of high value. NWs allow to significantly reduce material needs without compromising absorption or performance. As an illustration can be mentioned that while the silicon material in a square meter of silicon solar cells weigh about 1 kg, the nanowire material corresponding NW-based square meter of a NW solar cell weigh about 1 g. Combining III-V nanowires (NWs) with today’s silicon photovoltaic technology offers the potential to reach at the same time very high performance devices, efficient use of materials and low cost.
During the Nano-Tandem project, three manufacturing concepts are evaluated against each other (see also Research). After the second year of the project, the three different approaches for NW based tandem junction solar cells will be assessed and a choice will be made on which approach(es) to push further with respect to research and development. This will lead to at least one of the approaches being stopped in development. This choice will be based on evaluation of three factors. The decision will be based on (1) the solar energy harvesting efficiency reached, where the approach with highest efficiency will be given priority. In addition to efficiency, we will take into consideration (2) the up-scalability and (3) cost aspects of the approaches. Should the efficiency be similar for two or more of the approaches, criteria (2) and (3) will be the decisive aspects.
The most important impact of the Nano-Tandem project is to present a path for significant performance improvements of photovoltaic modules. Starting from today’s silicon PV technology, the Nano-Tandem technology allows increasing the efficiency through integration of a single NW pn-junction, and at a later stage possibly even a dual NW pn-junction. In the first step, the theoretical efficiency limit is increased from 34 to 45 % compared to today’s state-of-the-art, and in the second step even up to 50 %. This shows the high potential of the NW tandem solar cell on silicon to reach significantly improved performance of solar cells and photovoltaic modules. Efficiency is the most important factor in reducing the cost of solar electricity, as all area related costs are reduced by the overall power output of a PV module. Therefore, efficiency improvements of solar cells are a key to reach competitiveness with conventional energy sources based on fossil fuels or nuclear power. Furthermore, PV modules with higher efficiency allow harvesting of more energy from a constrained area, like a roof, and therefore having a higher value for the customer. Different approaches towards the implementation of “Building-Integrated Photo-Voltaics – BIPV” will constitute important steps towards our future “electricity-based society”, and will be an enabler for communication, lighting as well as electrical vehicles. High-tech products like the Nano-Tandem cell will help the European industry to have a unique differentiator compared to silicon PV modules, which have become a commodity product. This will allow the European industry to compete on the international market by offering higher value products with higher performance, still at competitive prices. Therefore, the development in the Nano-Tandem project will help the European photovoltaic industry to offer more competitive products and to create employment.
Progress until December 2016
Since the beginning of the project in May 2015 the members of the project have jointly pushed forward the research and development of the three approaches to NW synthesis and solar cell fabrication. The work is divided into work packages (WPs) which run in parallel and in the following a summary structured according to the sequence of work packages is given. We have structured our research during the two first years into three areas, involving different methods for the nanowire fabrication: a) Direct growth of III-V nanowire arrays on (100) silicon, b) Growth of nanowires of InP or GaAs, embedding these in polymer + transfer to silicon, and c) Aerotaxy growth of nanowires, alignment and array formation, embedding in polymer and transfer to silicon. These three thrusts are key for us to be able to make evaluations and decisions after the first 24 months for which approaches to give priority.
In WP1 we analyzed different Si emitter structures for the Si to NW tandem configuration regarding recombination, voltage potential, interconnectivity and compatibility with subsequent processing. Highly doped emitters produced by ion-implantation were identified as most the promising for upcoming experiments. They can tolerate the absence of surface passivation, are robust in further processing and allow formation of a tunnel diode at the Si to NW interface.
In WP2 where we focus on synthesis and process development of large area NW solar cell materials progress has been made in all three areas. A key result achieved and published in January this year is that GaAs nanowire PV-cells have produced world-record results, with efficiencies of 15.3% and also record high open-circuit voltages. This is a very important result since GaAs has clear advantages from a cost perspective and for the intended up-scaling based on Aerotaxy. For the template approach with direct growth on Si substrate ternary GaInP as well as GaAsP NWs were successfully grown and characterized, showing that the method can be used to grow NWs with desired band gap for the tandem approach. Regarding growth on native substrates for peel off, we developed nano imprint lithography (NIL), metal evaporation and lift off for economically viable patterning of large areas of catalyst matrix for NW growth. Parameters affecting the pattern fidelity after growth has been assessed, and synthesis optimized for growth with and without a SiN growth mask. Synthesis of n-type GaInP was investigated, where p-type GaInP was evaluated via esaki tunneling diode characteristics in a InP/GaInP configuration due to difficulties making electrically transparent contact to homogeneously doped p-type NWs. A dramatic up-scaling of the Aerotaxy production technique for GaAs nanowires has been achieved at Sol Voltaics, while ternary GaAsP NWs with intentional n and p type doping has been synthesized by use of aerotaxy at ULUND, achieving material with band gap suited for tandem junction with Si.
In WP3, NIL and microcontact printing (µCP) processes were investigated in order to improve the homogeneity and reproducibility of NW growth on III/V substrates. For the direct growth of III/V NWs on Si, e-beam lithography was applied as standard technique at IBM and NIL was investigated as up-scalable alternative lithographic technique. We found that the NIL processes lead to a more homogeneous template for NW growth than µCP. Therefore, the activities on µCP were discarded. Regarding direct formation of aerosol metal particles in gas phase, SOL has developed an electric arc evaporator capable of producing Au particles up to 200 nm in diameter. ULUND is building a new version of the aerosol generator used for NW seeding in wafer based growth.
In WP4 the structural, optical and electrical properties of NWs grown by MOVPE and by aerotaxy techniques have been analyzed and a feedback has been provided to WP2 for growth optimization. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy were employed to analyze the crystallographic structure and composition of InGaP and GaAsP NWs. The impact of p-doping on the crystal structure and composition of the InGaP NWs using Diethylzinc has been analyzed by TEM. The optical properties of NWs was investigated by use of photoluminescence (including time-resolved measurements), cathodoluminescence, and electron beam induced current microscopy.
In WP5 we developed release methods of arrays of MOVPE grown NW arrays, primarily GaAs and InP. We exploration limitations with respect to NW length and diameter of the release process. For GaAs NWs arrays, the requirement of surface passivation by a radial layer imposes a constraint on the release process due to increasing diameter. For InP arrays, there is no need for radial passivation and ideally dimensioned NWs could be released. We have begun process flow development for integration of such membranes into NW arrays and have made the first integrations of NW arrays containing InP and GaAs NWs, resulting in solar cells with a few percent efficiency. We observed that NWs often tilt during peel off and transfer, a so far unsolved challenge.
In WP6 we modelled the electro-optical properties of p-i-n junction NW array solar cells. The optical electron-hole pair generation was calculated by solving Maxwell equations. With the knowledge of the electron-hole pair generation, a stationary drift diffusion calculation is performed to calculate the current in the NW array solar cell. We found that it is advantageous to use a high band gap semiconductor for the top n-doped segment to suppress minority carrier leakage to the contacts. Here we also adapted and prepared our external quantum efficiency (EQE) and current voltage (IV) measurement setups for the NW-on-silicon dual-junction cells under consideration in the project.
In WP7 where we address safety and cost of the different approaches in order to make a life cycle assessment, a literature and lab survey was made to collect existing knowledge on implications of nanomaterials in sustainability. We address the “green and clean” claims of the use of nanomaterials in different technological sectors, resulting in a review manuscript currently under review in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
Based on our project activities we have produced seven peer-review publications (see Results) and twenty-four conference contributions. Moreover, we disseminated our activities for policymakers, investors and the general public (twelve events).
Progress beyond state of the art and expected potential impact
As a consequence of the project we are now able to produce silicon solar cells specifically made for the application of combining these in a tandem junction with NWs. Tandem configuration is necessary for achieving solar cell efficiencies above the theoretical limit of conventional silicon solar cells, helping to reduce the costs of PV electricity. Since high efficiency III-V NW solar cells have well defined geometrical properties for optimal light absorption, high-resolution lithographic techniques are required to obtain a sufficient pattern definition over large areas. These requirements open up a field of potential conflicts: cheap and large scale processing and simultaneously very high control and pattern quality. We think these demands can be fulfilled by nano imprint lithography and processing. We have recently synthesized NWs from nano imprint lithography defined patterns with dimensions corresponding to efficient light absorption with 100% vertically growing NWs in samples areas. These NWs were peeled off from the substrates and made into solar cells, thus opening up the possibility to flexible solar cells and re-use of the substrates. Issues remain to be resolved in the integration of such arrays, including the observed induced tilt of NWs in the polymer, which causes a contacting issue. The sun constantly moves during the day, which is why the efficiency of NW array solar cells under tilt is interesting, and which has been explored. The efficiency remains constant or even increases for angles of tilt until approximately 45 degrees. Even at 60 degrees, the efficiency is 95% of the untilted efficiency. Template assisted NW growth has been developed for NWs with band gap corresponding to band gaps used in tandem configuration with Si at high performance. In parallel development to the template and MOVPE grown nanowires, aerotaxy based NWs offer integration on Si in a path to very low cost high efficiency solar cells. Great progess has been made in the alignment into highly ideal arrays over large areas of GaAs nanowires produced by Aerotaxy.
On the modeling side, detailed electro-optical modeling shows advantage of using a top GaP transparent layer, which advances the knowledge of axial materials composition for optimal energy harvesting beyond the state of the art, which might be implemented by industry and result in more efficient solar cells that can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emission.
Life cycle assessment of the use of nanomaterials in solar/photovoltaic technologies have been reviewed, which show that only two of the nano-based solar technologies perform better compared to conventional technologies in terms of carbon emissions. Nanomaterials have high cradle-to-gate energy demand that results in high carbon emissions due to high energy requirements for the deposition processes. In addition, uncertainties due to scaling up from an early stage of research and development have been identified. Differences in life cycle assessment methodologies from the reviewed studies and challenges related to up-scaling have been identified and valuable knowledge has been extracted to build on the state of the art. We note that none of the studies reviewed have included the effect of toxicity on the impact of nanomaterials in their analysis, due to lack of characterization, where we will be the first.
Here Magnus Borgström explains, why he believes semiconductor nanowires to be one of the most promising candidates for the next generation photovoltaics.
A bit of history:
The Nano-Tandem project builds on achievements of the AMON-RA project, where InP based nanowire solar cells with efficiency of 13.8 % were successfully demonstrated.
The AMON-RA project was a collaboration project of seven partners, financed by the EU 7th Framework Programme. It finished in September 2013.
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Originally from North Charleston, I have lived in Summerville for the last 38 years. My undergraduate degree is from Clemson University with an emphasis in Secondary Education Mathematics, and I have also completed my Masters in Education. Although I have taught at Trident Tech and at the high school level, my main focus through the years has been with middle school students. This is my nineteenth year at Gregg Middle. I count each of those years as a privilege to be with such a great faculty and staff, and to have the opportunity to work with, teach and guide some amazing students along the way. For the last three years, I have also worked in the evening with the Dorchester 2 Adult Education program and with students preparing to earn their GED. What a rewarding profession! | <urn:uuid:67ea1cf6-a0e5-471c-8e56-973f6ec0db37> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.ddtwo.org/domain/3014 | 2018-12-15T05:53:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826715.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215035757-20181215061757-00503.warc.gz | en | 0.975197 | 189 |
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Being drawn in the Group of Death at any major tournament is something that is not seen as a positive, but for the United States men's national team, it just might be.
Ever since Jurgen Klinsmann took over as manager of the Yanks in 2011, he has scheduled a multitude of difficult opponents to prepare his team for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Over the last two years, European powerhouses Belgium, Germany, Italy and Bosnia-Herzegovina have lined up against Klinsmann's men, and for the most part, the Yanks have held their own.
With that in mind, why should American fans root for a group that sees the Yanks featured alongside Switzerland, Algeria and Greece? Being paired with sides thought to be lesser than the traditional powers will not help the United States develop further as a team in Brazil.
If the Yanks do get drawn in that very favorable group, they will be expected to make the round of 16, where they will face opposition that has been battle-tested in much tougher groups already in Brazil.
For the United States to be taken seriously by the rest of the world in Brazil next summer, they will have to be lined up against the strongest opposition possible.
With that being said, the United States should be rooting for a Group of Death draw against the likes of Brazil, Ghana or the Ivory Coast, and either France, Italy or Holland.
As the host country, Brazil will have immense pressure to succeed and lift the Jules Rimet Trophy at the tournament's end, which is something that the Americans could take advantage of.
Klinsmann has instilled a never-say-die attitude, and he has become the living version of the saying, "To be the best, you must beat the best." Beating arguably the best team at the tournament in the first match of a potentially grueling Group A would make a statement to the world instantly.
The team that every American fan has their eyes on in Pot 2 is Ghana, who has been the Achilles' heel to the United States in the last decade. Repaying the Black Stars for defeats at the last two World Cups with a win over them in the hardest World Cup group would leave a sweet taste in the mouths of everyone in the American camp.
If they do not draw Ghana, the Americans should want to face either the Ivory Coast or whichever European nation is drawn into the pot with the unseeded South American and African nations.
The Ivory Coast always brings a strong team to the World Cup. They would give the Yanks a tough test in the group stage, which is something Klinsmann's squad should be looking for during every game in Brazil.
Then there is Pot 4, which carries a few dangerous nations regardless of who falls into Pot 2.
Between Italy, France and Holland, there are three very strong opponents that would go into their match with the United States as favorites.
The United States did beat Italy back in Genoa in 2012, while France and Holland have not encountered Klinsmann's new-look Yanks.
Holland, a perpetual underachiever in the last decade except for the 2010 World Cup, should be able to score goals at will in the group stage. Having a team like the Oranje face a still-makeshift American back four would be the ultimate test of resilience in Brazil.
Italy's duo of Mario Balotelli and Stephan El Shaarawy would also cause plenty of havoc when it comes to defending from the American perspective, and so would France with whatever attacking combination they put out on the pitch.
Playing games against the best possible opponent has been a trademark of the Klinsmann era when it comes to friendlies. So why not apply that strategy now to the World Cup as the Yanks look to prove they are for real?
If the United States gets drawn against lesser opposition and advances far in the tournament, they will not gain respect. But if they get out of the Group of Death alive, they will not only earn plenty of respect, but they will also become a better team in the future because of it.
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2013 Celebrity Weekend Extravaganza | Events
The Still Hope Foundation is pleased to present the 2013 Celebrity Weekend Extravaganza September 6-8.
With three full days of entertainment, we’re bringing Vegas to Virginia Beach! Attendees will enjoy casino games, live musical and comedic performances, wine tastings and golf--all for a great cause.
Hope Comedy Show – featuring the very funny Anthony Anderson of NBC’s Law & Order; George Wilborn, former co-host of the Michael Baisden Show; Theo Von, host of Howie Mandel's hit show “Deal with It” featured on TBS; and Mark Robinson, one of the hottest comedians, magicians and illusionists in the country.
Hope Celebrity Casino Night--Saturday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. at Hilton Oceanfront Hotel, Virginia Beach. Hope Concert--Saturday, Sept. 7th at 9:30 p.m. at Neptune Park, Virginia Beach. (adjacent to the Hilton Oceanfront Hotel) Hope Celebrity Golf Classic--Sunday, Sept. 8 at 8 a.m. at Cahoon Plantation, Chesapeake.
Cost: $55Sandler Center for the Performing Arts 201 Market st Virginia Beach, VA Contact Name: Yvette Wilson Contact Phone: 757.620.4413 Contact Email: Yvette.Wilson@southernbank,com Website: http://www.journeyforsuccess.org/stillhope/ | <urn:uuid:536d1ef9-2fb4-4fc3-9b89-efe366f99299> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://virginiabeach.wtkr.com/news/events/170961-2013-celebrity-weekend-extravaganza | 2014-04-18T15:39:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609533957.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005213-00371-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.833473 | 306 |
Part of the illustrious Whitaker Showjumping dynasty John Whitaker has enjoyed success across four decades. He has competed at World and European Championships as well as the Olympic Games.
John is one of the world’s most respected and renown riders and has represented Great Britain at six Olympic Games (one alternative), four World Championships and eleven European Championships. He has also won the King George V Gold Cup three times and the Hickstead Derby four. He has four European Gold medals, six Silver and three Bronze; three World Championship Bronze medals and two Silvers, as well as one Olympic Silver.
John was just 18 when he first partnered Ryan’s Son, a horse with just 50p on his card when he went to John, launching John’s International career, the pair formed a partnership which was to last 14 years, the highlight of which was winning a Team Silver Medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. John is probably is best known for his partnership with the horse Milton which started in 1985, their first major win the Du Maurier Grand Prix in Spruce Meadows, Calgary came in 1986. Milton went on to become the first horse outside the racing world to win more than £1 million in prize money. John retired Everest Milton at the 1994 Olympia Horse Show.
In 1998 John was Leading Rider at the Volvo World Cup Final in Helsinki, he won the first two legs of the World Cup on the gallant 19-year-old Virtual Village Grannusch, also in 1998, John won the Peugeot Derby at Hickstead on Gammon who at 21 is the oldest horse to have won the Derby. In 1999 John won the British Grand Prix at Hickstead and in 2000 the Hickstead Derby riding Virtual Village Welham who was retired at the 2001 Derby Meeting. A chance ride on Douglas Bunn’s Buddy Bunn, due to William Funnell’s injury, gave John his fourth Derby Victory in 2004.
Outside of horses John has a passion for his cattle and it isn’t unknown for one of them to be seen poking their head over a stable door on the yard.
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Re: Batman Begins v.s The Dark Knight Rises
LOL some great comments in this thread. For me has to be Batman Begins hands down. It was what i was looking for in a live action batman. Had some great moments where i had butterflys (bruce and the bats,batman and his backup) and others where i was slightly on edge (arkham breakout, bruce's training) great performances from the actors. Really topnotch stuff .
As soon as those bats came flying across the screen forming up the bat logo with a brownish sunset and that dark dreaded music, thats when i thought ' this is it ' What was the surprise of the film for me was the horror type imagery and themes it had. Cranes toxin was the cataylist for that . I loved how batman was conveyed as a devil of the night and certain scenes where i was like ' my god' ( toxin batman with bane) I honestly think they could of dived deeper into that fear, toxin theme but it would of easily crossed the line. Mind you they kinda did with Arkham Asylum ( trippy as hell lol)
Of course the film had its plotholes and sillyness but compared to TDKR we can let that go. I dont even want to start with the downsides of that film because everyone has touched on what i thought was wrong with it. Still had its moments though. | <urn:uuid:6fd6dfb2-5004-4245-93b6-36b942f8c601> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=26795105&postcount=61 | 2015-12-01T05:15:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398464396.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205424-00216-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985789 | 291 |
Ed Leedskalnin's Magnetic Current. Illustrations and Research.
Machining Stones in Egypt
I have been still thinking about the stone markings at rock gate and in ancient cities around the world. Here is an interesting video courtesy of the History channel. Have at look at the video from 3:12, the researcher finds a deep cut in one of the stones. He is convinced a large machine was used to cut the stone. | <urn:uuid:4ad98fd7-f13e-4eba-b698-bcf6bbf84588> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://magneticcurrent.blogspot.com/2012/08/machining-stones-in-egypt.html | 2018-06-25T17:48:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267868237.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625170045-20180625190045-00021.warc.gz | en | 0.947628 | 88 |
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HARRELL ROAD IN STAFFORD CLOSED TO THROUGH TRAFFIC
Secondary road closed until further notice at Claiborne Run for repair
FREDERICKSBURG –Route 623 (Harrell Road) in Stafford County is closed to through traffic at Claiborne Run until further notice.
A broken grate at the water crossing has damaged the roadway, necessitating repairs.
Harrell Road is located between Forbes Street (Route 627) and Deacon Road (Route 607).
Motorists are encouraged to use the most convenient alternate route.
Real-time listings of travel times, work zones, and traffic incidents in Virginia are available on VDOT’s 24-hour traffic information website, www.511Virginia.org. Motorists can also access 511Virginia by calling 511 from any telephone in Virginia.
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We observed that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance in the generation of abstractive keyphrases and is comparable to the best performing extractive techniques.
In this paper, we study the importance of context in predicting the citation worthiness of sentences in scholarly articles.
Moreover, we generate a cheap heatmap based on the face alignment result and fuse it with features to improve the performance of the other two tasks.
Based on this observation, we propose a method for counteracting adversarial perturbations to improve adversarial robustness.
We show that applying stochastic scaling at the gradient level is complementary to that applied at the feature level to improve the overall performance.
We further improve the performance by using a joint-objective for classification and textual entailment.
This paper presents our submission to the SemEval 2020 - Task 10 on emphasis selection in written text.
In this paper, we present a new corpus consisting of sentences from Hindi short stories annotated for five different discourse modes argumentative, narrative, descriptive, dialogic and informative.
In this paper, we formulate keyphrase extraction from scholarly articles as a sequence labeling task solved using a BiLSTM-CRF, where the words in the input text are represented using deep contextualized embeddings.
In this paper, we present a keyphrase generation approach using conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN).
In this paper, we introduce a new model architecture, directed-acyclic-graph LSTM (DAG-LSTM) for DA classification.
In this paper we present our approach and the system description for Sub Task A of SemEval 2019 Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums.
In this paper we present our approach and the system description for Sub-task A and Sub Task B of SemEval 2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media.
This architecture forces the network to learn discriminative class-specific features by analyzing and comparing two input images.
By this way, static image features extracted from a pre-trained deep CNN and temporal information represented by DFT features are jointly considered for video emotion recognition.
In this way, static image features extracted from a pre-trained deep CNN and temporal information represented by DFT features are jointly considered for video classification. | <urn:uuid:8551eb10-3c78-4bd2-a013-893a4f0b1b82> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://paperswithcode.com/search?q=author%3AHaimin+Zhang | 2022-05-22T23:21:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662550298.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220522220714-20220523010714-00090.warc.gz | en | 0.90419 | 482 |
Twitter Thread 'Exposes' Nemanja Vidic As 'The Most Overrated Defender In Premier League History'
Nemanja Vidic has been called the "most overrated defender in Premier League history" in a Twitter thread which has been doing the rounds.
The tough-tackling former Manchester United skipper won five Premier League titles and one Champions League during his spell at Old Trafford but one Liverpool fan sought out to 'expose' him.
In a nutshell, the thread contains 15 clips - many of which see the no-nonsense Serbian ends up on his floor during his United career.
There are several clips highlighting Vidic's struggles against Liverpool over the years, as well as him diving in against FC Barcelona in Champions League finals.
Some of the videos are quite harsh and scrape the barrel big-time but others also range to Hugo Rodallega, Gabby Agbonhalor and Carlton Cole getting better than him - the latter pair both winning penalties after some clumsy defending from Vidic.
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Those short clips don't always tell the full story but then again that's what seems to happen on 'football twitter' these days.
As aforementioned, Vidic had a whole lot of difficulty whenever he played against Liverpool and in particular Fernando Torres, but when it came to the toughest strikers he faced in his career, the Spaniard did not get a mention. | <urn:uuid:0bdf75fb-3617-4dd0-9f02-43815d447bc6> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://www.sportbible.com/football/news-thread-exposes-nemanja-vidic-as-the-most-overrated-defender-20200504 | 2020-10-26T09:41:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107891203.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20201026090458-20201026120458-00262.warc.gz | en | 0.974825 | 290 |
Advocates of Tougher Gun Laws Call for Starbucks Boycott
A group urging more restrictive gun laws is calling for a national boycott of Starbucks Saturday. The group is upset over Starbucks’ policy of letting customers bring firearms into stores in states that allow it.
The day after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Shannon Watts founded a group to advocate for tougher laws on guns. Watts says she used to go to Starbucks three times a day before she found out the company allows open carry of weapons in its stores.
Now she’s calling on people to skip their Starbucks fix for a day to send the company a message.
"They consider themselves a progressive company and have even gone so far as to ban smoking 25 feet outside their stores, regardless of state law, but the one thing they’re completely intractable on is banning guns from their stores," Watts said. "And as a result, they’ve become the flashpoint and the de facto meeting place for people with loaded weapons."
Gun owners held a Starbucks Appreciation Day earlier this month, even showing up at a Starbucks café in Newtown, Connecticut, where the school shooting took place. That store wound up closing early.
Some family members of victims of last December's shooting are asking Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to meet with them at the Starbucks cafe in Newtown.
"We welcome the opportunity to meet with the Newtown family members who have signed this letter to discuss their concerns," Starbucks spokesman Zack Hutson wrote in an email. He declined to say whether Schultz would take them up on their offer to meet at the Starbucks in Newtown.
The company says its policy is to comply with local laws, and that gun violence is a serious issue that elected officials should address. But Starbucks doesn’t allow its employees to carry weapons, either at its headquarters or in any of its stores. | <urn:uuid:07233d2f-efc4-4df6-a9a6-90d4a2ee52a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.kplu.org/post/advocates-tougher-gun-laws-call-starbucks-boycott | 2016-08-25T13:32:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982293468.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195813-00225-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967624 | 382 |
A late arrival to the challenge that makes fun of getting our mammograms. Humor is good! We were to use 'strips' of paper. I created a simple design with banners of paper strips behind an oval. The oval shows of a favorite little Irish proverb that I find inspiring. I added some little pansy flowers from my stash to make it a bit more feminine. Hope you like it.
Thanks for viewing and commenting & participating in our special challenges this month.
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Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Alumni Stamp Like You Mean It
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Kathy, I know how close this cause is to your heart, and I am loving what you are creating to inspire others, and also to bring hope. Your work is beautiful. Sending you hugs, and remembering Joanne.
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- long boom length…tip height of over 30’ without the jib
- easy to roll
- quiet operation…runs off of 110v power supply (generator or ext. cord)
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Spanish supporters believe that Juan Mata, Fernando Torres and Santi Cazorla should be removed from the final 23-man squad for the Brazil World Cup, according to a recent poll by newspaper Daily AS.
On Tuesday Spain boss Vicente Del Bosque named his 30-man preliminary squad – with the final squad set to be announced on 25 May.
The Premier League is represented by eight players, including Torres, Mata, Cazorla and Negredo – even though all have struggled to replicate their best form this season.
Daily AS has asked their readers in a survey which seven players should be left out of Del Bosque's final squad and they have voted for Mata, Cazorla, Torres, David Villa, Sevilla youngster Alberto Moreno, Napoli centre-back Raul Albiol and Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Iturraspe.
AS readers believe that Negredo should partner Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa and Juventus star Fernando Llorente up front – even though the Manchester City forward has not scored a goal since last January.
Meanwhile, AS readers would also include Chelsea defender Cesar Azpilicueta and Manchester City duo David Silva and Jesus Navas in their 23-final squad to go to Brazil.
Here are the 30 players who complete Spain's preliminary squad.
Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Pepe Reina (Nápoli), David de Gea (Manchester United).
Defenders: Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Gerard Piqué (Barcelona), Raúl Albiol (Nápoles), Javier Martínez (Bayern Múnich), Juanfran (Atlético), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), César Azpiliciueta (Chelsea), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Alberto Moreno (Sevilla).
Midfielders: Xavi Hernández (Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona), Koke Resurrección (Atlético), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Santi Cazorla (Arsenal), Ander Iturraspe (Athletic), Cesc Fábregas (Barcelona), Thiago Alcántara (Bayern Múnich), Juan Mata (Manchester United), David Silva (Manchester City), Pedro Rodríguez (Barcelona), Jesús Navas (Manchester City).
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The Swim Speed Test Team is a group of volunteers that is testing out Sheila Taormina’s 16-week Swim Speed Workouts program and reporting back on their progress.
Here’s what testers thought of the seventh workout.
TEST TEAM SUMMARY OF WORKOUT 3-1:
Chad L. (The Sprint Speed Racer): Drills, drills, and more drills. A first for me was the dog paddle drill. I can say it definitely works the muscles in a new and challenging way. The best part of doing these drills is catching people watching me and checking out the expression on their faces. My overall stamina is still on the way up. May 4 is my first race and I have a feeling those 525 yards will be the least taxing I have ever done for a race.
Rich R. (Recovering from Injury): I am loving the water again. I used to be a swimmer that really enjoyed fins, and paddles. I see the light in not using them as much though. Even for kick sets, my core, and legs seem so much stronger already. I don’t get across the pool as fast, but what I find is that even when I blow up during the kick sets, I have core left for the swimming later in the workout. I must say I am a little envious of swimmers flying by me with fins, but I have seen the light in doing kick sets without them. My form is cleaner and my swim is stronger because of it.
Craig P. (The Olympic Speed Racer): This workout had some really good drill sets. Switching between a drill for the first 25 then straight into freestyle for the second 25 helped to reinforce the purpose of the drill. The second drill set turned out to be more challenging than it looked on paper. I’m starting to get faster at the Tarzan Drill. Beside the other positive benefit of the drill, I think it will also help me when sighting buoys during open water swimming.
Rebecca B. (The Open-Water Swimmer): I am on vacation for a week and have brought along my workouts for the week as well as the tubing. My cousin is also a swimmer and is happy to add some spice to her swimming. I have introduced her to the program and she is enjoying the new challenges of the times and the tubes. We found 3-1 to be just challenging enough. Funny thing: as we were in between sets, a pool employee asked us if we were training for a tri. We replied that we are just training for life. I find it strange that people often think because I am training in a pool, I must be getting ready for a triathlon. Why can’t I just be a swimmer? The tubing is paying off. I feel stronger in and out of the water.
Catherine L. (The Number Cruncher): A fabulous workout of drills that focus on the high elbow and feel for the water. Not only is my stroke transforming, so is my ego. The swimmer before this program was an unfocused mess! My drill sets before might have been 6 x 50 random drills. No wonder I wasn’t improving. And if the person in the next lane was swimming faster, well of course I had to swim faster, too. Now I’ve put blinders on so I can stay focused and check my ego at the door. Today, I did 20 sets of swimming drill combinations. Now I know that slowing down and breaking down the stroke is what will speed me up in the end.
I can feel changes of force on the water now. I sense this is huge progress. I am so in love with this program. There is not one thing that hasn’t been useful for me. This program just makes so much sense for me. I have tried a lot of programs with slight improvements. Sheila is not only an accomplished swimmer, she is a smart cookie.
Jennifer M. (The Coach): I think I finally learned how to scull today! I probably looked a little funny to onlookers at the pool today, but I know that I am swimming with a purpose. I think I am finally keeping my elbow high without thinking about it so much. Good form is becoming more automatic. Getting that “feel” for the water.
Greg S. (The 10x Ironman): The frequent switching from drills to freestyle was very helpful in giving me a good feel for the high elbow, use of the right muscles, and also for the water. The instant feedback worked well. The dog paddle and Tarzan drills really helped imprint the high elbow, I think.
Doug P. (The Masters State Champ): A certain coach of mine keeps making sounds during the dog-paddle and Tarzan drills. Laughing is making this much harder!
Michelle S. (The Beginner Swimmer): After being out of the water for 3 weeks I was dubious of my muscle memory, but I have good news: I felt just like a fish in water! My personal focus was on relaxing and controlling my kick. My body wants to kick, kick, kick as a means to stay afloat, but I’m learning that things like abs, arms and back strength are all key to buoyancy and speed.
Rhoden G. (The Soldier): A good workout. The sculling is still a challenge for me, but Sheila’s note “don’t just spin your wheels” was helpful.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Hi Lovely Readers! My very own Daddy-O is back in da house today! So grab a Coca-Cola and settle on in for my Dad's first EVER recipe!
ps: Daddy, sorry for the cartoon, but I couldn't resist. It's your reward for raising willful, outrageous daughters :) Love you, mistah.
The Nine Basic Food Groups
The Kitchen Witch (my lovely daughter) has some wonderful posts with beautiful pictures of food and rather complex recipes. However, most of them look like they came out of Paris and are completely undecipherable and beyond comprehension to someone born in the 30’s. Looking back on those wonderful years, TKW’s Dad remembers Nine Basic Food Groups. They are:
1. Pot Roast (with potatoes, carrots, onions and lots of gravy)
3. Hot Dogs (Chicago Style)
4. Fried Chicken (alas, now forsaken for Costco Rotisserie Chicken for health reasons)
5. Fruit (mostly canned but fresh in season – Chicago’s summer)
6. Vegetables (mostly canned but fresh in Chicago’s summer)
7. Salad (mostly iceberg lettuce with French dressing, but sometimes Jello)
8. Potatoes (American fried, French fried, creamed or mashed)
9. Pie (always apple or cherry except for Thanksgiving)
I see nothing wrong with this list? I have no idea why TKW gagged when she saw it?
The true star of the list, however, is item #3.
To fully appreciate my favorite food (and following recipe), you have to understand that I grew up in a Western suburb of Chicago. I had an uncle who was a sportswriter for the now defunct Chicago Daily News. As his lucky nephew, I got tickets to lots of sporting events--and I certainly wasn't shy about asking for them. And every year, so began the Rite of Spring.
Many people believe the Rite of Spring is a piece of music by Igor Stravinsky. Idiots.
TKW’s Dad knows better. Growing up, the Rite of Spring was the un-official holiday of the year. The home opener of the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
The one day of the year when the Cubbies were undefeated and tied for the National League Championship.
And what does one do when you go to Wrigley?
Before entering the ballpark, you must, absolutely must walk up to one of the cart vendors and purchase a couple of Chicago style hot dogs, a Coca-Cola, and enjoy a truly gourmet and healthmark lunch.
Why do I say healthmark? Well, while the Chicago style hot dog was initially created during the 1893 Chicago Exposition and World Fair, it really became famous during the great depression years of the 30’s. Back then, you could get a hot dog with "salad" on the top for only a nickel, and money was really tight.
See? Hot Dog+Salad=Healthmark.
A Chicago Dog is a thing of beauty, as you can see. A better meal doesn't exist.
But if you don't have the good luck to live in the Windy City, I give you this recipe.
1. Vienna All-Beef Hot Dog (no cheating!)
2. Sweet neon green relish (Vienna Chicago Style preferred)
3. Mustard (Yellow! No Dijon! Dijon is sacrilege)
4. The Pickle (I like Claussen’s, or from the Puckered Pickle Company)
5. Onion (chopped white)
7. Sport Peppers (these are essential, folks!)
8. Celery Salt (any brand will do...see how flexible I am?)
9. Poppyseed Bun (These are a bitch to find. Vienna makes them, but you may have to bribe a bakery to make them for you).
Now that you have the ingredients, all you have to do is properly prepare them.
Chicago Style Hot Dogs can be either grilled, boiled or steamed. However, any purist prefers them steamed. Place the dogs in a Dutch oven fitted with a steamer rack. Add a small amount of water to the Dutch oven(you don’t want liquid bubbling onto your dogs!) Bring the water to a boil, reduce heat to low, and cover tightly.
Steam 5 – 7 minutes or until Hot Dogs are heated through. Just heat them through; don't cook the heck out of them!
To steam the buns, stack them on top of the dogs in the last two minutes of cooking.
Place the dog in the bun and very carefully follow these most important steps.
~ Dress the dog, not the bun! The goal is to evenly distribute the toppings so you taste each ingredient in every bite. In this order:
1. Yellow Mustard – squirted directly on the dog, in zig-zag pattern, one end to the other.
2. Neon Green Relish – generous amount
3. Fresh Chopped Onions – to your taste
4. Two Tomato Wedges – placed along the crevice between the top of the bun and the Hot Dog
5. Pickle Spear – placed in the crevice between the bottom of the bun and the Hot Dog
6. Two Sport Peppers – Traditional and necessary for a real Chicago Dog.
7. Celery Salt – Sprinkle a dash over the Dog.
As this is TKW’s Dad’s first attempt ever at recipe writing, I must give full credit to two websites that do a much better job with far better information. They are www.hotdogchicagostyle.com and www.viennabeef.com.
There are many Chicago websites with reviews of hot dog restaurants, but I still prefer the Vienna Beef street vendors. On the West side there still is Parky’s on Harlem Avenue in Forest Park which has been in business for at least 50 plus years.
Unfortunately, the various health departments have vastly limited, if not done away with most of the outdoor hot dog wagons and carts, even at O’Hare International Airport (those jerks!) Some of the bars at O’Hare serve them, but they’re not nearly as good.
Fortunately, in Denver we have Mustard’s Last Stand, Chicago on Colfax Avenue and Woody’s in Littleton.
Because if TKW's dad ever has to make them for himself, he's in a world of hurt.
There you are, folks! Can you tell that these are words of a hot dog Purist? Daddy-O, thanks for giving my readers this *healthy* recipe, complete with assembly instructions! You are the best, Wallet Man!
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SPX Volatility Extinctions 2
From a speculator's perspective, 2004 has been one heck of a dull year so far in the US stock markets. The very volatility that usually creates the great opportunities to trade has been glaringly conspicuous in its absence.
Using the flagship American S&P 500 stock index as a proxy for the markets as a whole, the raw numbers tell this whole flatlined story. As 2004 dawned, the SPX closed at 1108. By early February it rallied to reach its latest interim high approaching 1158. Then it decayed and faded into mid-May when its lowest year-to-date close of 1084 was witnessed. This tight range of 74 points yields a minuscule trading range under 7% so far this year, amazingly low!
Just how amazingly low is this? Well, in closing terms the SPX swung 34% in 2003 and 34% as well in 2002. Thus, at this point in 2004 the S&P 500 has only run through 1/5th of the range witnessed in recent years! With the stock markets languishing in these surreal doldrums sans volatility, both the interest in trading and volume are vaporizing as speculators seek tradable markets elsewhere.
The art of speculation demands buying low and selling high, and when the markets stagnate they fail to provide the crucial low points at which to buy and high points at which to sell. The longer an episode of waning volatility persists, the more the general trading interest in a particular market fades. If you are not granted interim opportunities to either buy low or sell high at least a couple times a year or so, there is little point in spending time and effort to follow a dull market.
I have been marveling at this abnormally low volatility in the US equity markets all year. This week I would like to analyze and quantify this strange phenomenon. Is our perception of unnaturally placid markets backed up by the actual raw volatility data?
In order to execute this research, we decided to look at interday volatility, the actual day-to-day change in the closing price of the S&P 500. Unlike the mathematically complex implied volatility indices like the VIX, simple interday volatility is a much cleaner number since it does not rely on continually shifting options expectations running one month into the future. True volatility and implied volatility are both very useful and have their places, but this week we are using the true absolute interday numbers.
Provocatively though, the S&P 500 VIX and S&P 100 VXO implied volatility indices have just this week carved their lowest closing lows since the Great Bull of the 1990s. The NASDAQ 100 variant, the VXN, has plunged to all-time record lows. So while we are not specifically looking at the implied volatility indices this week, they also provide rock-solid evidence that 2004's abnormally low volatility is very real and not just in our heads. Truly something strange is afoot.
I last discussed absolute volatility in October's "SPX Volatility Extinctions" essay if you would like more foundational background information on these studies and their implications for speculators. Our graphs this week are modified updates of those earlier ones, focusing exclusively on interday volatility this time around.
Absolute interday volatility is calculated by subtracting yesterday's SPX close from today's and dividing the difference by yesterday's close. An absolute value is applied to this quotient to ensure all the resulting volatility numbers are positive and comparable. The dark gray lines below graph these raw numbers, which can fluctuate quite violently day-to-day. A 10-day moving average, drawn in red, is also applied to smooth the raw absolute interday volatility calculations.
Our first chart takes the long strategic perspective, examining interday volatility in both Great Bull and Great Bear markets since the late 1990s. It is provocative to note that not even when the S&P 500 doubled from 1997 to 2000 did we witness a similar period of extraordinarily low volatility as we have seen thus far in 2004. The hard data backs up speculators' perceptions of something weird transpiring today.
If you concentrate on the red absolute interday volatility 10dma line in 2004, it is apparent it has hovered around 0.5%. On average, so far this year the day-to-day changes in the US stock markets have averaged a trivial and not very exciting half percent or so! On a sidenote, when my partners and I talk about the markets each day as we work, we consider any daily move in any market of less than 1% or so to be "unchanged", not even worthy of consideration in isolation. Most of 2004 has slumped under this key metric. Yawn.
In fact, if we average the interday volatility for the first half of this year, we arrive at an average daily move of only 0.58% for the S&P 500. This number, along with the annual average interday volatility numbers for all of the years shown in this graph, is noted above in yellow. We'll delve further into these yearly averages below, but for now just realize that 2004's unnatural serenity has been far more pronounced than even during the Great Bull years of the late 1990s.
Why is volatility so important to consider? As I outlined in my original essay, it is one of the best proxies for general greed and fear in the marketplace as a whole and hence tends to mark major interims tops and bottoms remarkably well. There is no more powerful force driving short-term market movements than this general greed and fear among speculators as a group.
If you carefully examine every major SPX interim low in this graph, during both bull and bear, you will note that they all corresponded with big spikes in interday volatility. Conversely, major interim tops coincided with periods of low volatility. If some visual guides would make this easier to see, the first graph in "SPX Volatility Extinctions" has vertical lines drawn in to connect these volatility episodes with the respective interim turning points which they flagged in the S&P 500.
Volatility quantifies general speculator emotions so well because it captures the behavior of traders at turning points, and this behavior is driven by emotions. The greed and fear that drive the short-term markets are asymmetrical, with fear being a much more powerful and urgent emotion than greed. While greed nurtures itself gradually, fear ramps up very fast once speculators feel they are in danger of getting really hurt and losing big.
To illustrate this market truism, imagine the behavior of a group of tourists visiting one of those enormous Las Vegas casinos on the Strip. As the tourists wander through the casino floor, they see other people winning money so they get interested. After observing a bit they are sucked into the glitz and glamour and are ready to gamble. They sit down, relax, play the games, and visions of wealth dance through their heads. Speculators in the financial markets act the same way, biding their time initially and only growing greedy once they see someone else winning so they want a piece of the action for themselves.
On the other hand, what if this same group of tourists was in the casino when a cell of terrorists armed with AK-47s and grenades burst through the doors and started randomly shooting people. God forbid, but the black fear would be overwhelming and everyone would instantly forget gambling and jump up and scramble for the opposite doors, creating a stampede. Once people fear for survival, their own or their capital's, fear wells up instantly and the need to escape becomes blinding and all-consuming. In the financial markets this flaring fear coincides with the heavy selling at major interim lows.
In the stock markets volatility acts as a proxy that quantifies general greed and fear. When the markets are up and others are winning like at the casino, greed waxes extreme among speculators. Trading tends to be less aggressive as everyone relaxes and enjoys the ride. Without heavy trading, volatility gradually shrinks towards oblivion as greed rules. Naturally though, as all contrarians know once greed grows too great an interim top will be reached and a correction or downleg will be necessary to burn off the greedy speculative excesses.
Once these corrections or downlegs run their courses, general sentiment is overwhelmingly negative as a major interim bottom is approached. As fear soars, speculators grow frightened and run for their lives much like the tourists would during a terrorist attack at a casino. Heavy panic selling leads to a great increase in volume and an explosion in volatility. And just when things seem like they are never going to get any better again, the capitulation ends, volatility plunges, and the next rally or upleg can rise like a phoenix from a clean sentiment slate.
This pattern is fascinating as it holds up flawlessly in both bull and bear markets. Emotions are powerful forces, but they only react over the short term. Thus, an endless torrent of tactical emotional waves running from greed to fear and back again cascades through the markets constantly, regardless of whether the primary long-term trend is bullish or bearish. The chart above really drives home these crucial speculation concepts.
Therefore from a contrarian perspective the prudent course of action when popular greed swells and general volatility nears extinction is to sell and plan for an approaching correction or downleg. Bringing this analysis full circle, right now in 2004 we have seen the lowest volatility levels in about a decade or so. Low volatility always betrays extreme greed, an environment much like today's when the vast majority of players expect the markets to catapult higher. Yet, these very greed/volatility extremes tend to mark major interim tops, the time to sell or go short.
While the nearly year-long unnaturally low volatility stretch through which we are sojourning today is certainly unequalled anywhere else on this chart, it is really provocative to note the only other place which came close. If you examine the 0.5% line relative to the red 10dma above, you will note that the only remotely comparable volatility period was the notorious summer of 1998.
The summer of 1998 was initially much like today, with very positive general sentiment and a complete lack of fear coupled with the usual vacation-months slowdown in trading. The past year had been very kind to stock-market investors and Wall Street predicted great gains ahead. All it took was an unforeseen exogenous event, however, to shatter this bubble of complacency and pummel the SPX 19% lower in a matter of weeks.
Devaluing currencies and a Russian default on its sovereign debt led to enormous problems for hyper-leveraged derivatives players like the elite hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management. LTCM's spectacular implosion, of course, frightened Wall Street and the Fed so badly that they engineered a bailout lest the derivatives fireworks spread and endanger the entire US financial system. While the low volatility in stocks did not spark this crisis, it did provide the perfect backdrop of complacency and low volume to greatly magnify its impact on the markets.
The past year or so has been even worse in terms of greed and complacency than the summer of 1998! For a lot of reasons including the upcoming US elections, speculators just seem to generally believe that the stock markets can only move higher. However, as contrarian speculation theory states, the very times when consensus is vastly in favor of one particular direction is when a sharp move in the opposing direction becomes most probable.
A topping market on low volatility is very fragile and highly susceptible to a catalytic shock from some unforeseen exogenous event. We are certainly in this fragile zone now, and while no one can know what potential surprises are approaching over the horizon to spark the fear that will pop this sentiment bubble, we can know that the risks are extraordinarily high. In both bull and bear alike, very low volatility levels are harbingers of a coming major correction or downleg, not higher markets ahead.
If we zoom into this chart to just encompass the market action since the beginning of 2003, the amazing volatility lows and decaying topping pattern in the S&P 500 become even more apparent. The yellow numbers on the left show the average daily interday volatility of each of the past seven years in reference to 2004 year-to-date. It is certainly ominous to realize that 2004's average volatility is running far below that of even the greatest bull years in memory, the late 1990s.
The Great Bear years of 2000, 2001, and 2002 witnessed average absolute interday volatility of 1.12% in the S&P 500. As expected since greed and fear are asymmetrical emotions, the Great Bull years of 1997, 1998, and 1999 had a lower average interday volatility of 0.89%. 2003, not a secular Great Bull but a definite cyclical bull, weighed in at a very similar 0.83% in volatility. All of these numbers make sense in light of the way volatility works, until 2004 enters the scene.
Year-to-date, we are only running 0.58% in average absolute interday volatility in the SPX. This number is stupendously low and arguably flags one of the most overly complacent markets in modern history. With 2004 volatility only running about 2/3rd of what we would expect during a typical bull market, the probabilities of this being a major interim top grow very high.
The technical picture certainly supports these topping arguments as well. In S&P 500 terms, the blue line shows the decaying downtrend channel in the SPX in 2004. The US stock markets are gradually making marginally lower highs and marginally lower lows. Meanwhile the 50dma and the 200dma of the SPX are converging. The next minor selloff in the S&P 500 could very well take it below its key 200dma bull-market support just under 1100 now.
And while the S&P 500 appears to be topping, volatility is flatlined along that incredibly rare 0.5% interday 10dma line. While 0.5% has been touched about a dozen times in the last decade or so, it is extremely odd to see volatility remain near or under it for almost a year straight. The red technical lines framing the volatility 10dma trend really highlight this flatlined hyper-complacent development.
Another interesting observation involves the actual raw interday volatility data itself, drawn in gray above. In 2004, the highest absolute volatility days have only run around 1.5% or so. This compares to high days of 3% to 4%+ in normal bull and bear markets. Even on the most "extreme" days so far this year, the extinction of volatility becomes apparent and really sticks out like a sore thumb.
Why is volatility so low? I suspect it is probably at least partially because of the powerful election-year propaganda that Wall Street has been so zealously advancing this year. All day long we hear on CNBC and read in the financial newspapers how election years are generally positive for stocks. Never mind the last election year of 2000, which finished down by the way. After enough repetition of this election-year-bullish mantra, true or not, bulls get lulled into complacency so they don't trade and bears just stand back so they don't get hurt.
A lot of folks believe active manipulation is happening in the SPX futures to attempt to steer the US markets in a tight trading range at worst leading into this autumn's elections. The usual suspects are believed to be responsible, the Fed and/or the Working Group on Financial Markets (aka Plunge Protection Team the Wall Street Journal talked about following the 1998 crises). Not being an SPX futures floor trader myself, unfortunately I can't know for sure either way on this, but I do know without a doubt that for unknown reasons 2004 has been unnaturally calm.
Whether these surreal volatility doldrums are a consequence of herd psychology or active engineering, the longer they last the higher the probability of a serious correction or downleg becomes. Sentiment in the financial markets is like a great pendulum, the farther it swings towards greed the more momentum it gathers so the farther it will careen back into fear once it reverses. Like a rubber band can only be stretched so far before breaking, there are finite limits to popular greed and complacency.
Disregarding the disturbing volatility extinctions today, the headline markets appear to be relatively strong with little risk involved. I suspect this is what most American investors feel today, high complacency and little fear that prices are going to fall leading into an election. But when volatility and other sentiment indicators are considered, complacency and greed are far too high. These are the exact market weather conditions we would expect before a major fall.
In general, in bull and bear alike, low volatility is a telltale sign of major interim tops, not bottoms. Just when greed and complacency wax the most extreme, the markets tend to correct or fall to bleed off these unhealthy speculative excesses.
Just as many speculators have sensed, the raw numbers absolutely back the observation that volatility levels in 2004 have been off-the-map low. These strange developments are no doubt important and should not be taken lightly.
With today's anomalously low volatility, it sure appears like probabilities massively favor the thesis that we are witnessing a major interim top in 2004. If low volatility marks major interim tops, then isn't it logical to assume that unnaturally low volatility marks even bigger major interim tops as well?
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Around here we’re really fond of the traditional “French Dip” sandwich. Most good diners have one on the menu. The French Dip is easy to find when diners are open, quarantine is not in force and social distancing isn’t a thing. So…we haven’t had a good French Dip sandwich for more than a year.
This week I did a little experimenting in the kitchen. We’ve had a real French Dip sandwich, for two, at home this evening. Win. Win! Here’s how it’s done:
The most important ingredient, of course, is the thin sliced roast beef. We found a great product in the deli department of our local grocery store. After verifying the quality with a lunch time sandwich, we decided the deli beef would work for a real French Dip.
The next ingredient is an excellent roll. We found a super hoagie in the bakery of the same local grocery.
That’s the sandwich fixings, but in order to make it a “dip” a really superior sauce is necessary. And that’s so not canned beef broth. That requires a bit of cooking.
1 1/2 cups low salt chicken broth
2 Tbls. butter
1 scallion, thinly sliced
3 button mushrooms, sliced
1 Tbls. “Better Than Bouillon” roasted beef base [TM]
Melt the butter and sauté the scallion and mushroom until lightly browned. Add the broth and bouillon and simmer until reduced by 1/3. Taste for seasoning and adjust to individual preferences.
Split the rolls in half lengthwise. Butter both halves and grill until lightly toasted. Quickly warm sliced beef, turning in about 30 seconds on the hot grill pan. Pile sliced beef on warm rolls, add cheese if that’s your thing, and serve with hot dipping sauce.
Air Fryer Fries
Using the air fryer and fresh, scrubbed, russet potatoes, cut into thin strips (we use one medium potato for each of us). Cut both ends off of the potatoes and leaving the skins on, cut them into French Fry sized strips. Don’t wash the cut strips, leave them dry.
Spread in an even layer on the air fryer tray. Set the temp to 400 degrees F. and the timer to 12 minutes. When the timer runs out, turn the strips out into a large bowl with a 1/2 Tbls. oil in the bottom. Toss the hot fries in the oil, return them, in an even layer to the air fryer tray and salt to taste. Set the temp to 400 degrees F. and the timer to 12 minutes. The fries come out crispy on the outside and tender in the center. They go great with the French Dip above, or the perfect Hamburger HERE.
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R12 SLA Accounting Program Errors out with the Following Message "The application accounting definition [...] owned by Oracle is not validated"
(Doc ID 2097781.1)
Last updated on FEBRUARY 03, 2019
Applies to:Oracle Payables - Version 12.0.0 to 12.1.3 [Release 12.0 to 12.1]
Oracle Subledger Accounting - Version 12.0.0 to 12.1.3 [Release 12.0 to 12.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
- new Application Accounting Definition is validated for the first time
When attempting to run Create Accounting.
the following error occurs in the log file of the Accounting program:
An internal error occurred. Please inform your system administrator or support representative that:
An internal error has occurred in the program xla_accounting_pkg.ValidateAAD. ORA-0000: normal, successful completion.
1. New Application Accounting Definition is validated for the first time
2. Run Create Accounting, the error occurs even if the AAD is validated successfully
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Best Almond Joy Cookies Ever!
My “Cookie” Pinterest board is one of my favorite boards. I never miss a chance to pin a good cookie recipe. I don’t make cookies often, but when I do, I make sure that it’s something like the “Cook’s Illustrated Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie”, you know, chewy, loaded with chocolate chips, with the lovely nuttiness from the brown butter…
When Cook’s Illustrated calls something “perfect”, you know there ain’t a better cookie out there…. So why invent the wheel when someone else has already done it?
And I am not going to lie, I kind of like when my daughter tells me that I am “The BEST MOM EVER!”, when she hears she has cookies waiting for her at home as I pick her up from school. A tall glass of cold milk in one hand, and a warm chewy & chocolaty cookie in another, while grinning from ear to ear, is a pretty great sight to see, especially if it’s your own kid. Besides, you don’t need to be a kid to enjoy this great cookie.
Besides being an amazing flavored cookie, there’s another reason it’s one of my favorites. It does not use room temperature butter. This means that the second you decide you want cookies, you can whip that butter out of the freezer and start making them, instead of removing the butter from the freezer and using every ounce of patience you’ve got to wait until it comes to room temperature. Also the smell… The heavenly aroma of browned butter combined with brown sugar…it’s irresistible. I was making it with my daughter one day and she kept saying how she doesn’t think we need to add the flour or eggs, because she can just eat it like that – browned butter & brown sugar.
So run to your kitchen right now and get your cookies going, you know you want to!
Best Almond Joy Cookies Ever!
- 1¾ cups 8¾ ounces unbleached all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 14 tablespoons 1¾ sticks unsalted butter
- ½ cup 3½ ounces granulated sugar
- ¾ cup 5¼ ounces packed dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1¼ cups semisweet chocolate chips or chunks
- ¾ Almond Joy Candies
Adjust oven rack to middle position and turn the heat to 375F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, set aside.
Whisk the dry ingredients together:
Whisk flour & baking soda together in a bowl, set aside
Melt the Butter
Heat 10 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium heat until melted and then for another 1-2 minutes until the butter turns dark golden color. Transfer browned butter to a large heat proof bowl & stir in remaining 4 tablespoons butter until completely melted.
Add Sugars & Eggs
Add both sugars, salt & vanilla to the melted butter and stir/whisk until fully incorporated. While continuing to whisk, add egg & yolk, continuing to whisk until the mixture is smooth. Let it sit for 3-5 minutes. Stir for 30 seconds. Repeat the process of resting and stirring 2 more times until the mixture has thickened & is smooth and shiny.
Add Flour & Chocolate chips.
Add flour to the butter mixture and using wooden spoon stir until just combined, about 1 minute. Add chocolate chips & stir again to make sure chocolate chips are evenly distributed.
Shape the cookies
Using a 1 tablespoon sized ice cream scoop (2- 2.5 inches cookies), or a 3 tablespoon sized ice cream scoop (for larger & thicker cookies), divide the dough & arrange on the baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Stick about 4 (for smaller sized cookies) or 7-8 (for larger cookies) Almond Joy candies on top of each cookie ball.
Bake cookies for 6-8 minutes for smaller cookies or 10-14 minutes for larger cookies, until cookies are slightly golden & puffy. The centers are supposed to still be soft, but the edges will have begun to set. Transfer cookies to a wire rack & allow to cool before serving.
Shape the cookie dough and set it on a baking sheet. Adorn with almond joy candies. Freeze for 3-4 hours. Transfer to a ziplock bag & store for up to 1 month. TO bake: set frozen cookie balls on a parchment paper lined baking sheet, 2 inches apart and bake in a preheated to 375F oven. Add 3-4 minutes to the regular baking time.
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6. The Habit of Making Use of Coupons
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7. The Lending Habit
While letting the lives of your friends and family members easier by lending them a few dollars, be careful that they don’t sponge on you. They are expected to return the debt or treat you the next time around, so don’t let your budget be overly endangered by misplaced assistance. So, lend wisely!
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In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Lord Polonius says the now famous line, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” As much as we tend to think about this phrase in relation to borrowing or lending money to friends and family, the same goes for tools and, yes, even our precious vehicles. In all these cases, it feels nice to help out those who matter most to us, but with our vehicles, it can be a point of pride, but at what cost?
Handing the keys to a friend can be a good thing; especially when we’re not in any condition to be driving (read: when we’ve been drinking, awake for too long, or otherwise impaired). But, as gearheads, we know how exciting it can be to lend our rides to friends. Many of our friends – the friends we’d let drive our cars without us around, anyway – are gearheads too. They appreciate the responsibility.
Banovsky tipped me to a story from 2007 which really struck a chord. Any gearhead who’s ever let someone borrow his car, has had the thought cross his mind about insurance, about liability. If I lend my car to Joe and Joe gets into an accident, will I be financially responsible for the damage Joe causes with my vehicle? It’s a good question, but have you ever thought about what might happen if Joe committed a crime while borrowing your ride? What if Joe killed someone?
Meet Ryan Holle.
In early 2003, Holle had spent an evening partying with friends. He’d been drinking, maybe indulging in “herbal remedies,” and ended up lending his Chevy Metro to friends. His friends would end up breaking into the home of a nearby drug dealer to steal a safe with a pound of weed and less than US$500 cash in it. During the robbery, one of the friends found a shotgun and beat a girl to death with it.
This guy’s choice in friends aside, he was tried and convicted of the murder. He’s been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole since 2004. Reason being? The crime would not have happened, had he not lent the car to his friends.
Trust & Risk
We like to think this sort of thing doesn’t happen very often. According to the Wikipedia entry and an more in-depth story on The New York Times, Holle’s friends had made comments about the robbery and possibly needing to knock someone out, so maybe he should have known better.
Even so, it goes to show – be extra careful who you let have your keys.
- Who do you trust to borrow your vehicles?
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WELL, it’s been a while.
I’m sure for many of you that’s been a relief – to not hear me banging on about something – but, still, I apologise for the silence.
For those not aware, my actual job is Senior Manager – Communications at the WACA and, with the One-Day Domestic competition starting shortly after the launch of the book (we won, by the way!), followed by the Sheffield Shield, followed by hosting England in their first Tour Match of the summer last weekend, time quickly ran away.
It’s only now that I’m getting the chance to pause and reflect on the past couple of months from a book perspective.
I found myself in a bad mood a couple of weeks ago – more grumpy than my usual self – and it lasted for a good week.
It didn’t occur to me why I was feeling like that until I came to a realisation.
In the space of about three weeks, I was heading up to Bruce Rock to take part in the Agricultural Show, a week later it was the anniversary of dad’s death and this week I’m travelling to Kalgoorlie – the place of dad’s birth.
The week of dad’s anniversary – last week – I also had to fly to Melbourne for work.
This certainly isn’t a “feel sorry for me” post, but it’s funny the way life works out, because both the Bruce Rock and Kalgoorlie events were and are part of events far greater than the book or dad.
Yet, coincidentally, events in both the place he called home and the place in which he was born have fallen either side of his anniversary.
The trip to Bruce Rock was beautiful; the family joined me and I got to meet some amazing people, with heartfelt stories and reflections of dad.
I also got to stroll past his childhood home on Johnson Street again, but this time I had Charlotte holding my hand, with Jonathon in the pram.
“Hey, Charlotte,” I said.
“You know how your book about grandad is called ‘The Legend from Bruce Rock’?”
“Well, do you remember where we are?”
I loved this next part. The emotion of her response was overwhelmingly unexpected, despite me having expected the penny to drop.
She gasped, before exclaiming: “BRUCE ROCK!”
“That’s right,” I said, before continuing, “And did you know, that house right there …”
And, suddenly, I couldn’t finish the sentence.
I choked up out of nowhere with one of those sudden lumps that leap into the throat.
People have often asked me in the months since publishing dad’s book how I feel having achieved something of that magnitude and my answer has always been that I don’t really feel anything.
I’m a pragmatist and I point out that the book took me six years to put together and its release led straight into the busiest time of the year for my job.
So, the practicalities of having the time to reflect on what the book represents aside, I also state that I don’t expect to really feel anything or have anything sink in for at least 12 months.
But, at that moment, with a little girl excitedly pointing out the details of a front porch that her grandad used to play on, I think it began sinking in.
I’ve never been to Kalgoorlie, but I can’t wait to get there. And I certainly look forward to the next return to Bruce Rock.
Before I sign off, I’d like to make mention that it was the anniversary of the death of another great broadcaster this week – George Grljusich – and my thoughts are with his family.
George loved dad and dad always held a special place for George in his heart. That was very clear in the comments he made about his original ABC Radio mentor.
It was the 10-year anniversary of George’s death on 8 November and, to honour that life, his daughter Jane setup the Facebook page Remembering George Grljusich.
That milestone is bitch of one and I can only imagine how Jane, her twin sister Caroline and their mother Judy must feel – I could never know what they’re going through this week.
We all deal with grief individually, but one of the many similarities shared by the Grljusich and Foreman families is that we both can take solace in the enormous love and care from a community that loved and cared so much for our fathers and husbands.
Thank you again for your ongoing support.
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Cathode-ray tubes are on their way to becoming historical in technology terms, but to European antitrust regulators, they're very "now."
Seven companies were fined a total of €1.47 billion, or $1.92 billion, for acting as cartels in TV and computer monitor tubes. The fined companies include LG Electronics, Philips, and Samsung, which were found to have fixed prices in both computer and TV monitor tubes. Panasonic, Toshiba, Panasonic subsidiary MTPD, and Technicolor (formerly Thomson) were found to have fixed prices only in the television space, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
The companies are said to have set prices artificially, shared markets, and restricted their outputs, all to the detriment of consumers. The cartels date from the late 1990s. Today, CRT technology has mostly been falling by the wayside in favor of newer technologies that power flatscreen monitors and TVs, like LCD and plasma. But even as the CRT market declined and flatscreens took over, these firms controlled production in order to keep prices high, EU regulators told the AP today.
"These cartels for cathode ray tubes are 'textbook cartels': They feature all the worst kinds of anticompetitive behavior that are strictly forbidden to companies doing business in Europe," said Joaquin Almunia, the European Union's antitrust chief. "It is the biggest fine for a cartel, ever." The previous record was a 2008 fine of €1.38 billion ($1.8 billion) for a car glass cartel. | <urn:uuid:43864208-b0b7-45a7-91be-e1ea8e31776e> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/europe-fines-tv-monitor-makers-1-92-billion-for-pricing-conspiracy/?comments=1&post=23563718 | 2017-11-18T16:33:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804976.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118151819-20171118171819-00442.warc.gz | en | 0.976158 | 316 |
Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
Clinical Features of Behet's Disease with Vascular Involvement.
Kikuchi2, Hirotoshi, Asako1, Kurumi, Takayama1, Maki, Kono1, Hajime, Hirohata4, Shunsei, Ono3, Yasuo
Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Teikyo University School of Medicine
Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Disease, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
Behçet's disease (BD) is characterized by recurrent oral aphthous stomatitis, ocular involvement, genital ulcer, and skin lesions. Although one of the serious manifestations of BD is vascular involvement (VBD), its pathogenesis remains unclear. The current studies were therefore undertaken to delineate the clinical characteristics of VBD and to explore its pathological features.
Patients and Methods:
The clinical records of 277 patients who satisfied the 1990 international criteria for Behçet's disease and were hospitalized in Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, from January 1989 to December 2009 were reviewed.
Forty two patients (25 males and 17 females) had been diagnosed with VBD. The mean age of BD onset was 35.6±11.8 years (mean±SD), and the mean delay for the development of VBD was 5.8 years. The frequency of HLA-B51, HLA-A26, pathergy test and complete type was 34.4%, 13.3%, 42.9% and 38.1%, respectively. The vessels involved were as follows: the most frequent venous lesion was deep vein thrombophlebitis (42.9%), followed by deep vein thrombosis (40.5%), superior vena cava syndrome (9.5%), and inferior vena cava obstruction (4.8%) and frequent arterial lesions were aortic aneurysm (11.9%), pulmonary aneurysm (9.5%), femoral artery stenosis (7.1%), and subclavian arterial stenosis (4.8%).
Seven patients suffered from both venous and arterial lesions. Two patients died because of hemoptysis from pulmonary arterial aneurysms. One of 7 patients who were complicated with pulmonary embolism died.
These results indicate that the frequency of vascular manifestations tended to be higher for venous lesions (81.0%) compared with arterial lesions (28.6%). In particular, the main complication associated with death was pulmonary vessel involvement.
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A new Guinness World Record was set by a remarkable record-breaker: an incredibly tiny California mouse named after Patrick Stewart. But its fame isn't for its size but rather its age...
The Pacific pocket mouse, the smallest in North America, tips the scales at about three pennies with its impressive feat of longevity! This particular member of the species, Pat the Pacific pocket mouse, received Guinness World Records' approval for being named as the oldest living mouse in human care. With an age reaching 9 years and 209 days at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance's care, this furry creature has broken records inspired by Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart!
Enor-mouse news 🐭 At 9 years & 209 days old, Pat the Pacific pocket mouse is officially the oldest living mouse in human care & was honored with the @GWR title today. This news is a big win for the tiny endangered species & will help raise awareness about wildlife conservation. pic.twitter.com/poVsw8jqjL— San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (@sandiegozoo) February 9, 2023
On July 14, 2013, Pat, the tiny but mighty rodent was born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park! Weighing as little as three pennies and with cheek pouches for carrying food & nesting materials, this conservation-bred species is not only North America's smallest mouse – it also packs quite an impressive punch. The species once roamed widely, stretching from Los Angeles down to the Tijuana River Valley. However new research reveals a severe decline in numbers beginning in 1932 as humans take over their habitat and destroy it. After two decades without sight or sound of it, the species was discovered to be clinging on in tiny populations. To ensure its future survival, an alliance spearheaded a breeding program that successfully produced 117 pups across 31 litters last year – soon enough for them to re-enter their native wild habitats come springtime.
In 2017, a previously unknown population of Pacific pocket mice was discovered thriving without human assistance in Orange County's Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. This species is essential to the local ecosystem thanks to their role as seed dispersers and creators of aerated soil for native plants - yet they remain underappreciated contributors that rarely get recognition! “This recognition is so special for our team, and is significant for the species,” said Debra Shier, who founded and supervises the conservation program. “It’s indicative of the dedication and incredible care we as an organization provide for each species, from the largest to the very smallest.” We salute their compassion in helping these furry friends; it's heartwarming to see people rallying around animals in need! | <urn:uuid:6e95983c-5a40-456c-a69d-fa4d56631136> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://www.discoverytime.com/weird/tiny-californian-mouse-guinness-world-record | 2023-12-06T08:19:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100583.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206063543-20231206093543-00375.warc.gz | en | 0.95442 | 550 |
A winter storm warning is in effect for Wichita and Sedgwick County until 7 p.m. Wednesday.
There is a chance for freezing rain and sleet, said Chance Hayes, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
There is even a chance of thunder with the freezing rain, which would cause the precipitation to be more intense, Hayes said. He said that drivers should be very cautious if the precipitation does fall. Temperatures were expected to drop to 28 overnight.
The ground is warm enough to hinder freezing on pavement, at least initially, Hayes said, but freezing rain or sleet could cause problems on trees, power lines and overpasses.
The possibility of a winter storm marked a dramatic turn in the weather from earlier Tuesday, when the high reached 75 before a cold front moved in and dropped the temperature more than 20 degrees. There was a chance for severe weather that did not materialize in Wichita.
The high Wednesday is supposed to make it only into the mid- to upper 30s.
While Wichita is close to the average last-frost date, Wednesday and Thursday nights will be around 30 degrees as well, which is pretty unusual this time of year, meteorologist Kevin Darmofal said. “The way this spring has gone has surprised us,” Darmofal said, not ruling out another freeze next week.
Below-freezing temperatures are always dicey this time of year for plants. The main threat this go-round is to fruit trees that are in bloom, extension agent Rebecca McMahon said. She recommends that people who have blooming fruit trees that are small enough to be covered go ahead and cover them, as well as potatoes that have put on growth above ground.
Otherwise, cool-season vegetables such as broccoli, lettuce and radishes that have been outside a while will be fine without a cover, she said. But if you just transplanted them from the greenhouse, they should be covered, she said.
Similarly, cool-season annuals such as pansies, snapdragons and alyssum will be fine, extension agent Bob Neier said. If you’ve already put out vegetables such as tomatoes or annuals that like hot weather, though, they need to be covered. Use light covers that won’t bend stems.
Spring-flowering bulbs such as daffodils and tulips will be fine, Neier said.
“Everything else that’s coming up ... that was ahead is now behind,” he said. “The plants are naturally kind of held back, and I think we’re going to be fine. The things that are outside at the garden centers are the real cold-hardy things.”
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Standard Cochin Chickens are large and attractive birds that are good winter layers and have great mothering abilities.
Cochin Chickens, The Facts:
Class: Standard: Asiatic / Bantam: Feather Legged
Size: Standard Male: 11 Ibs. / Standard Female: 8.5 Ibs. / Banatam Male: 32 oz. / Bantam Female: 28 oz.
Comb, Wattles & Earlobes: All of these are bright red. Male: Has a medium sized single comb with five regularly spaced points that stand straight up, the middle of which is the longest. They have well rounded long wattles and earlobes.
Female: The single comb is quite small and rounded as to conform to the curve of their head. They have well-rounded
small wattles and oblong earlobes.
Color: The beak is yellow shaded with black, unless otherwise noted. The eyes are reddish bay and the shanks and toes are yellow.
Barred: They have standard barred plumage. They have a barred shank and outer toe feathers.
Birchen: The head is white to silvery white. They have standard Birchen plumage.
Black: The shanks and toe feathers are black as well as standard black plumage.
Black Tailed Red: The beak is reddish horn and they have standard black tailed red plumage. The shank and outer toe feathers are a glistening red.
Blue: They have standard blue plumage throughout, including the shanks and toe feathers.
Brown: The beak is horn and the head is a dark orangey red. Male: The hackle and saddle are the same color as t the head or slightly more golden, but each feather has black to greenish black stripe tapering to a point at the end of the feather. The front, neck, breast, body, legs, shanks, outer toes, wings and tail are primarily black to greenish black but may be highlighted with golden bay. Female: The hackle is golden orange with a black stripe in the middle. The body is brown ranging from from light to dark and the feathers are stippled with black. The tail is also black.
Brown Red: They have standard brown red plumage, including the shanks and toe feathers.
Buff: They have standard buff plumage, including the shanks and toe feathers.
Buff Columbian: They have standard buff Columbian plumage, except the toe feathers are buff with black.
Columbian: They have standard Columbian plumage, except the shanks and outer toe feathers are white with black.
Golden Laced: The beak is dark horn in color that shades to a yellow tip. Male: The head, neck, and saddle are golden bay with a black stripe down the middle. The cape is golden bay and the breast, body, wings, legs, shanks and outer toe feathers are golden bay with lacing of black. The tail is primarily black. Female: The head is golden bay and the hackle is black with golden bay lacing and shaft. The rest of the body is golden bay with black lacing and the main tail feathers are black.
Lemon Blue: They have standard lemon blue plumage with the shanks and outer toes being grayish blue.
Mottled: They have standard mottled plumage with half of the feathers on the shanks and outer toes being tipped with white.
Partridge: The beak is dark horn in color with shading to yellow at the tip. They have standard partridge plumage. The shank and outer toe feathers in males are black and in females are a deep reddish bay penciled with black.
Red: The beak is reddish horn in color and they have standard red plumage.
Silver Laced: The beak is dark horn in color with shading to a yellow tip. They have standard silver laced plumage.
Silver Penciled: They have standard silver penciled plumage. The shanks and outer toe feathers are black in male and penciled with gray in the female.
White: They have standard white plumage including the shanks and outer toe feathers.
Place of Origin: China
Conservation Status: Watch
Special Qualities: They are docile birds that are good winter layers and have good mothering abilities.
Cochin Chickens were developed from the Chinese breed called the Shanghai. The Shangai had much tighter feathering than modern Cochin Chickens without the fully feathered legs.
Breeders took the fluffiest of these birds and the ones with most feathering on their legs and bred them into the breed that we still see today. They were first introduced in North America in about 1845.
Modern Cochin Chickens are still quite showy and are rather large birds who are made to look even larger from their thick, fluffy feathering. They are well known for their curved puffy tails that seems to stick up as they move around.
They are slow to mature and therefore are not used in most broiler operations, although they are respectable meat birds to many backyard and barnyard operations.
They are friendly and docile birds who like human companionship. They can adapt well to confinement or free range.
Their feathering helps them be a hardy breed who can do well in cold climates.
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ArtsFirst grant panel will allocate more than $350,000 to arts groups
MEMPHIS (January 11, 2012) – First Tennessee Foundation has reinforced its significant investment in the arts in Memphis through a unique new funding model. The foundation will partner with ArtsMemphis to steward a grants program called ArtsFirst. In 2012 First Tennessee Foundation will allocate more than $350,000 through ArtsFirst to Memphis area arts organizations to promote excellence and enrichment in the arts.
First Tennessee has been a longtime, significant investor in the cultural arts community through many channels, including the Innovation for the Arts competition, a major gift to the ArtsMemphis general grants fund and direct foundation and bank contributions. ArtsFirst will replace all these grant programs.
“A vibrant cultural arts community is part of any great city, and Memphians have long celebrated and embraced the arts in a unique way. First Tennessee Foundation is proud to partner with ArtsMemphis to ensure our investments continue to help our arts community thrive,” said Charles Burkett, chair of First Tennessee Foundation.
“First Tennessee Foundation sets the bar for local corporations in its generosity and commitment to the arts,” said Susan Schadt, ArtsMemphis President & CEO. “We are proud that its leadership selected ArtsMemphis as a partner based on our grant-making history and knowledge.”
All requests for First Tennessee Foundation ArtsFirst grants will be made through ArtsMemphis. Grant decisions will be made by a grant panel composed of representatives from First Tennessee Foundation and ArtsMemphis. Eligible organizations, which include museums, performing arts and visual arts organizations, must be located in Shelby County and have a history of presenting quality arts projects. More information can be found at artsmemphis.org/artsfirst. | <urn:uuid:018f73be-3146-45a2-a772-5df4e0ade6d1> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.artsmemphis.org/news/posts/press-release-artsmemphis-to-steward-first-tennessee-foundation-arts-funding | 2019-07-20T09:47:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526506.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720091347-20190720113347-00537.warc.gz | en | 0.934676 | 365 |
Hip impingement is an inability for the pelvis and the femur to connect in smooth motion. This condition is also known as Femoro Acetabular Impingement (FAI). Symptoms include stiffness in the thigh, groin, and an inability to use the hip’s motion. Pain may be felt when walking or sitting. Treatments for hip impingement includes physical therapy exercises, pain and anti-inflammatory medicines, and resting the hip.
Osteoarthritis of the Hip
Osteoarthritis is a type of arthritis, which occurs when the hip joint is affected by injury or inflammation, and the cartilage starts breaking down. It is also known as age related arthritis, and degenerative joint disease. Symptoms include stiff, creaky, swollen joints, joint pain, and limited motion. Treatments include hot or cold packs, medications, and NSAIDs.
Avascular Necrosis of the Hip
Avascular necrosis is the condition where there is a lack of blood flowing to the bone. A common reason for this condition is a fracture of the femur. Symptoms include pain if pressure is applied to the affected area, severe pain if the bone collapses, and inability to use the joint. Treatments include medication, weight reduction, electrical stimulation, and range of motion exercises.
Burstitis is inflammation of the bursa; a small jelly like sac located in various parts of the body, including the hip. The primary symptom is sharp and intense pain at the hip, which extends to the outer thigh area. Avoid activities involving hip movements, which can worsen the condition. Cortisteroid injections can help relieve the pain. However, physical therapy is the best option for relieving hip bursitis. | <urn:uuid:0009e252-f04a-49c9-bc4e-d905f51edb17> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://spinalogy.com/conditions/hip/ | 2018-04-25T14:05:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947822.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180425135246-20180425155246-00447.warc.gz | en | 0.93735 | 355 |
Amazon announced Monday that it would hire 150,000 seasonal jobs across fulfillment centers nationwide. The news comes as the company previously announced plans to hire 40,000 new corporate and tech jobs and 125,000 full and part-time fulfillment and transportation jobs.
"Our seasonal hiring helps us deliver on our promises to customers while also providing flexibility to our full-time employees during busy periods," said Alicia Boler Davis, senior vice president of global customer fulfillment, in a statement.
All new employees will receive an average starting pay of around $18 per hour, sign-on bonuses up to $3,000, and an additional $3 per hour depending on shifts.
"We are proud to be offering a huge range of full-time, part-time, and now seasonal jobs with great pay and benefits," Davis said.
The states with the most seasonal jobs available include Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
"Joining Amazon in one of our seasonal roles offers high-paying, part-time work, or a path to a full-time position, with benefits like our Career Choice program to help people advance their education and careers within Amazon or beyond," she continued.
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Your hot tub can provide hours of enjoyment and relaxation for you and your family. There is an increased risk of fungus growth in hot tubs because of the water temperature. To keep your water safe, you will need to use chemicals designed for use in hot tubs and make sure all of the chemicals are balanced.
Things You'll Need
- Water test strips
- Chlorine or bromine tablets
- Chlorine or bromine floater
- pH increase and decrease
- Anti-algae cleaner
- Spa shock
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Hold a water test strip under the water and swirl it around three times. Pull it out of the water and compare the colors on the strip to the key on the test strip bottle.
Look at your pH and alkalinity ratings. The strip will indicate how high or low the pH level is and the chart will tell you where the level should be.
Add either pH increase or decrease to the water depending on your test results. Each brand has a slightly different concentration, so follow the directions on the bottle to make sure you adding the correct amount. Allow the chemical to dissolve for 30 minutes, then retest the water. Add more pH increase or decrease if necessary.
Check the test strip against the bromine or chlorine level in the pool. Bromine and chlorine are chemicals that keep the water free from fungus growth. Each spa will use one or the other, but not both. If the level of bromine or chlorine is too low, add several tablets to the floater. If it is too high, remove the floater to drop the chemical level.
Pour liquid sanitizer, oxidizer and anti-algae into the water, following the manufacturer's instructions for proper amounts. These chemicals keep the water looking clean, kill any bacteria that might be growing in it and help keep algae away.
Pour shock in your spa if it hasn't been balanced in a while. The shock is usually a powder used in an amount proportional to the size of the spa. It is a heavy-duty cleaner which will destroy fungus or bacteria which have grown as a result of under-treatment. Make sure you wait for the required amount of time before entering the water after using the shock, since it can be a skin irritant. | <urn:uuid:54c45fe7-8421-4cff-a824-8e1d54844c91> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.ehow.com/how_6515227_balance-hot-tub-chemicals.html | 2018-12-17T16:35:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376828697.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20181217161704-20181217183704-00345.warc.gz | en | 0.929034 | 473 |
Bolivia has been recording consistent trade surpluses since 2004, mostly due to a rise in the shipments of commodities. Natural gas ,silver, zinc and soybeans account for 72 percent of total shipments. Main imports are: machinery and transport equipment , chemicals and related products and mineral fuels and lubricants. Main trading partners are: Brazil (33 percent of total exports and 18 percent of imports), Argentina (12 percent of exports and 13 percent of imports) and United States (10 percent of exports and 11 percent of imports). Others include: China, Peru and South Korea. This page provides the latest reported value for - Bolivia Balance of Trade - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Bolivia Balance of Trade - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on October of 2018. | <urn:uuid:f8616a0a-b8e0-405a-835d-6a0ff20153b5> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://tradingeconomics.com/bolivia/balance-of-trade | 2018-10-17T07:04:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511063.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20181017065354-20181017090854-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.926921 | 180 |
BtS Podcast: Not all Successful Businessman are Republicans!
Conventional wisdom, for whatever its worth, says that those who have successfully navigated the road-map to financial success support, or at least vote for, Republican candidates for public office. Democrats, on the other hand, is the party for those at the beginning of the journey or even without a map at all. Joining this Between the Synapse podcast to test this theory is David Mincberg, a very successful businessman and strong Democrat. We also discuss some of the current topics of the day including the troubles in Baltimore, the 2016 Presidential Race and more.
David Mincberg serves as managing principal of Flagship Capital Partners, a relationship driven commercial real estate finance company established in 2011 to provide bridge lending solutions to sponsors engaged in the acquisition of value-add real estate. Flagship provides non-recourse senior and mezzanine bridge loans across all income producing property types in major Texas markets. David also serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Flagship Properties Corporation, a Houston based real estate investment firm. Since 1977, David has been directly involved in the development and construction of over 30,000 multi-family units throughout the states of Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Louisiana and Georgia. In addition to real estate, David has invested in a variety of different business transactions, ranging from venture capital to a start-up deregulated energy provider. David has served in multiple civic and charitable endeavors and been honored for his service on many occasions. With a passion for policy and public involvement, he served with distinction for former Houston Mayor Bill White as the Mayor’s Special Assistant of Housing Policy, and as a past Chair of the Board of the Houston Housing Authority for current Houston Mayor Annise Parker. | <urn:uuid:f76f5ea5-259e-4270-a802-5e4c4d08ab8d> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://www.betweenthesynapse.com/bts-podcast-not-all-successful-businessman-are-republicans/ | 2019-02-23T00:25:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249414450.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223001001-20190223023001-00165.warc.gz | en | 0.954035 | 361 |
By Rebecca Goodman
The Cincinnati Enquirer
WEST END - Thanks in large part to Larry Lampe, 500 West End families know they can count on food from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry every month.
Mary Ann Frisby laughs with Larry Lampe at a surprise send-off party at St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry.
The Cincinnati Enquirer/MEGGAN BOOKER
That wasn't the case when he began volunteering nine years ago.
The shelves were empty following Thanksgiving and nothing was left to distribute at Christmas - even though that is one of the busiest times of the year for food pantries.
Lampe, 68, became director of the local Catholic agency a short time later and changed all that. He cleared away unneeded junk to free up space for food. And he hit the pavement to procure enough money and food from supermarkets, businesses and individuals to help fill up the space - and keep it full.
His fellow St. Vincent de Paul volunteers threw a surprise farewell lunch for him Tuesday. Lampe resigned from the pantry Jan. 1 because he wants to become a Catholic deacon.
He has stayed around to train incoming Director Dick McConn and to ease the transition.
The party had to be a surprise because they knew he wouldn't attend if he had known.
Lampe's modesty kicks in when people praise him. "I'm just one of so many who volunteer," he said. "I don't do anything, I just stand here."
But Liz Carter, executive director of the Catholic pantry, disagreed. "There's a lot of happiness in the pantry because of him," Carter said. "Larry has made the volunteers feel like a community."
His presence lends a friendly air to a rundown building on Bank Street.
He gives out hugs and sometimes "makes nickels or peanuts come out of the children's ears," he said.
West End resident Pauline Sims, 41, a mother of 10, said she feels welcome at the pantry. "I look for him (Lampe) at the door. It's not going to be the same. I'm going to miss him - especially at Christmas."
Vaccine testing short of subjects
Changes for jurors proposed
Symphony likely to raise prices
Work goes on amid turmoil
IN THE TRISTATE
Torso identified; detectives comb sites
Possible funding found for Brent Spence Bridge
Bus riders protest cuts
Thanks poured out
Mason council OKs raise
Overture Awards finalists hit the stage on Saturday
Public safety briefs
Montessori method on display for parents
Summit brings in new team, fires architect
Man, 21, cited as teen's alcohol source
Korte: Reform ideas might not fly with council
Democratic commission candidate still unclear
Good Things Happening
Louie Cox, 69, NAACP leader
Sr. Alfreda Alexander, 91, chemistry professor
Defibrillators donated to baseball league
Residents object to new homes
Flea market puts end to smoking
'Seabiscuit' study comes to life as kids visit track
Cold Spring no-knock law starts next month
Kenton weighs tax for medics
Old nickname inspires new park's moniker
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Lovely post. Echoes everything I feel about this journey. It is definitely a journey, and sometimes it will be easy and fun, and sometimes I know it will get hard. But like Hippygal said, we find out about ourselves on the way. I don't wear as much make-up now - hardly any. Since using handmade soap for my hair I think twice about all the chemicals I put on my skin. I starting buying and feeding my kids organic food. One step at a time, I hope I'm making a difference to mine and my kids lives, and maybe who they grow up to be in the future.
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