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Hi Rachel - I have a lot of empty walls! You come????? :-)
Oh, btw, love the words on your pants!!!! :-)
wow! wonderful!!!! i'm el from face book!!!
Hi Rachel! Thanks for dropping by my blog! I found you through Cathy (Tinnie girl too) AND (big smiles!) I must confess I have a few of your beautiful words and pics posted on my inspiration wall in my studio to remind me of all that is lovely....your gorgeous spirit shines through your work and I've added you to my blogs I ♥ list on my blog xo
Oh what fun! Bravo, you!
wonder-full ! And I have brush envy.
to see the close up of you creating the bird with a brush .. happy ! i so enjoyed the idea and series of photos this morning ...keep us posted!
The perfect spot for a little somethun/somethun! Nice touch, great job!! Likey! Are't the paint color names a hoot! That's half the fun!
I love it, Rachel.........looks like a dove coming right into her hand.......I love the BIG.....Hugs and blessings
oh Rachel, this is fabulous!!!
Love love love love love love LOVE!
So glad you listened to your call . . . the large scale is awesome!
Love it ! Putting a bit of you on the walls of your house is such a brilliant idea !
such a wonderful placeto be a wall!!!I love your bright braveidea and that you followedyour heart all the way to the edge of your fireplaceand splashed it out loud!I imagine those seeds willscatter and incite a riot ofbeauty:)Love, love, love,Jen
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! now you've done it SUPER WOMAN...you and she! how great is this? LOVE!!! you'll brighten everyones lives even more than you do now!!! LOVE XOXO
I just LOVE it! xo
beautiful radiance,i love this so much and i love that you showed up for the wall and it's calling out to you!!! its perfect!!!oxoxoxooxok
Beautiful image--love the lights above it. Something about little white lights...they make everything more magical.Where did you get the Wonder Brush? That is one serious looking brush, and I think I could have some fun with one of those. If you wouldn't mind sharing where you found it, please do. And your mug is beautiful, too. Your images continue to light up my life. Thank you, Rachel. Happy Summer to you.
absolutely gorgeous. what a joyful and amazing way to decorate your home.now i wish you lived closer, so you could come and paint one of our walls!
wow that is so pretty you look like your having soo much fun hugs xx
So glad you showed up! So very cool! Thanks for sharing! I love the color toothpaste:)
OH! Such freedom! I love it, Rachel!
That brush is only a wonder brush because you are holding it! Gorgeous piece you made right there!
how wonderful that you painted on the wallso lovely and soothingthe color 'toothpaste' feels good on my eyes
What a fun project! I love that you did a painting in your living room. It looks great :) and you didnt even need to find a frame!~!
And show up, you did! I love it, Rachel!Hugs,Suz
She is beautiful. This makes my heart happy.
You are a wonder! I love your magical wall♥♥♥Hugs to you,Jenny
OOh please tell me that you are going to do this again Rachel cause I LOVE ITTTTTTTT!!!!! Oh my goodness I just think this is totally the bees knees and If you do prints,.... Well there goes my money he he he he he! This is the best!Big hugs to you,V
the perfect little touch for the perfect little corner! who knew that toothpaste could look so fabulous?! xoxo
This is awesome! You are brave, I am afraid to mess up the wall (my perfectionism kicks in - lol!) Good for you, it looks beautiful!
wow you need to come to my house
I love this! I've just recently discovered you and your art--I'm still crushing!!!! You can't paint large scale at my house ANYtime! Thanks for sharing your art, vision, and life with the rest of us!
Oops got carried away and should have proof read. You CAN paint at my house anytime!!!
Love this and the little sparkling lights that look like stars!
Oh wow! Rachel, wish you lived closer so I could commission a wall painting:)
There is a paint color called toothpaste?! Love that.How neat to see your work in an even larger size!
yes! paint big Rach! show up and paint mama! xoxo
Rachel, it's lovely to se your work on a big scale! It works so well and looks great. I've been redecorating my living rooms walls too, not quite so original looking as yours though I'm afraid. Thanks for your comment on my blog and I'm sorry I took that particular post off. I was feeling quite vulnerable about it so I hope you understand. :) Jess xx
I love how your work translates to this larger scale, and I love the colour, in fact my bathroom is that colour, maybe you should drop by and paint a lovely inspirational image in there too, all the walls are blank right now as I haven't put up the new paintings I bought to go in there. just a thought!lol! Great work. I just love how uplifted I feel after stopping by here.
Isn't is a great thing to be able to paint for our living rooms like this!I had to laugh at the name of the paint colour....did you make that up? or is it actually called that? lol Do your teeth feel minty fresh when you look at your wall now? heheee....sorry, I couldn't resist!I always love your illustrations!thanks for popping by to see me!croisant and coffee works for me!ciao bellaCreative Carmelina
Oooh, I wanna do that!!! I love that color "toothpaste", you did a wonderful job giving life to the empty wall... (^_^)
good for you rachel...love it!
oh gasp. it's perfect!
that's super amazingly awesome! That wonder brush does look like a wonder---it looks like it might work like a big pen? I might have to try that!
that is so cool! Love your blog and your style
I know this was posted about a week ago, but I just found your blog (from your little birdie today) and I love love love this painting in your house! So sweet and beautiful. What a great idea!
first. l love painting these little pieces of love.i have one in my studio and i am trying to figureout how not to cover it up when we re paint the studiosoon.two. what is this wonder brush. do tell.so fun.
hi kelly (& all!),i found the wonder brush at a local st. paul paint store (abbottpaint.com)..xox
i love that you are painting fearlessly on your walls! And what is this "wonder brush" you speak of?:-)
this is so wonderful and delightful!!!
ahhh! i love it & your cuteness! 2 weeks ago i was painting my living room & did a little mural i eventually covered up w/ the roller. i think my hallway needs a little diddly-doodly-dee & now you've inspired mee! weeeee!xoxoxoxoxoXO!C
Oh I love this!!
Oh my GOOOOOOOOOOOOODNESSSSSSSS!!! This looks so fabulous!!! I adore the simplicity and freeness of it. It's so fun being here and catching up with your summer. You are so invigorating!
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North English-Alan Ray Greenlee was born July 3, 1955 in Sigourney, Iowa. The son of Glenn and Thelma (Kelley) Greenlee. He graduated from North English High School. He was united in marriage to Katherine Fischer on February 4, 1989 in North English. Alan worked at Williamsburg Manufacturing. He enjoyed helping his dad on the farm. Alan died Friday, July 3, 2020 at Parkview Manor in Wellman at the age of 65.
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MPD: Man uses tree saw during assault at bar
Published 5:30 pm, Tuesday, September 10, 2013
A Midland man walked into a bar with a tree saw and then went to jail.
It was no joke when Alejandro Perez Raya, 21, allegedly threatened three people in a south Midland establishment Sunday with a 24-inch serrated blade before Midland police arrested him.
Raya was being held Tuesday on a $30,000 bond for three second-degree felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Midland police responded to the disturbance at about 6 p.m. Sunday at Tio’s Lounge in the 800 block of South Weatherford Street.
Raya was involved in a fight with a man inside of the bar before leaving to go outside. The three alleged victims said Raya came back into the bar with a “large machete-type weapon and a pair of pliers,” according to the arrest affidavit.
The suspect began threatening the three men and several others inside the bar with the weapons when one of the men used a chair to block Raya out into the bar’s entrance. Raya left the bar once again to hide the weapons before re-entering the bar, at which point officers arrived at the scene, according to the affidavit.
Raya attempted pulling away from the officers as they detained him, but he was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car. The officers then found the weapons, which they identified as a 24-inch tree limb saw with a serrated blade and a pair of pliers, according to court documents.
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Atratune – “Day Goes By”/”After Midnight” – Singles Review
As I pulled up the Soundcloud page for Atratune and began to listen to one of these new singles here in review, called “Day Goes By,” I couldn’t help but feel someone already beat me to the main point I’d be making while I looked over the comment section. Right there, first in-line, was a post from someone out there that was feeling exactly how I was feeling IMMEDIATELY in listening to the new Atratune single – it read simply: “This is your best track.” And honestly, no matter what I end up writing here – I don’t know if I could put it any better than that. You can instantly hear the improvement here in Atratune.
Like…for real, this is sparkling stuff! “Day Goes By” has that incredibly uplifting vibe that’s a signature staple of Atratune’s style & sound – you couldn’t possibly miss it in this song, it’s in the music, it’s in the vocals, it’s threaded right into the very fabric of the writing! If there’s one thing beyond all others that I love hearing in an artist’s/band’s material over time, it’s those steps forward…the refinement…the evolution; I’ve been listening to Atratune’s music since early 2018 and each time, there’s been an improvement to some degree in every experience I’ve had, which there have been plenty since. It’d be hard NOT to be impressed by that – clearly this project of Samer Abou Hassan’s has been absorbing what the people have taking away from their listening experiences and incorporating all kinds of ways to level-up from the best of the advice he’s been receiving. And no – I’m not implying we’re responsible for that…hopefully we’ve written a few encouraging words that have helped push his music & career in the right direction – but if you look at his social-media pages, you’ll see the feedback comes from everywhere & just about everyone out there. The general consensus can be a powerful source of advice when going forward with your music…my point is that, one way or the other, Atratune is listening, adapting, changing, & tweaking those small details to get the maximum out of his material now – and when a song shines as brightly as “Day Goes By” does, you’ve got proof that these improvements work.
The potential in Atratune has always been there from day one…so what’s changed? Time for one thing…that’s always a key part of fully tapping into any artist’s or band’s sound ultimately…and I’m sure that counts for a lot when it comes to Samer’s work as well. From what I know & what I’ve personally experienced, he’s making music around the clock pretty much all the time…with that kind of dedication & commitment, it’s bound to speed-up the evolutionary process and yield results even more quickly. Noticeably however…is a name I didn’t recognize from my past reviews on Atratune this time around though – and it may be a massive factor in why these tunes have come out sounding as spectacular as they do – it seems as if Samer’s enlisted Sherby Records to handle the production of these new singles.
And after everything I’ve heard on both “Day Goes By” and “After Midnight” – I might just argue that this could very well be the best investment Samer’s ever put into his music & career. Everything about these tunes sounds like an enormous step forward for him yet again…this IS the best he’s sounded. Like, once I’d heard “After Midnight,” I was convinced I’d just heard him at his best, again, after JUST feeling the same way only moments prior when listening to “Day Goes By” – what’s to not love about these new Atratunes?!? Evolution can be a natural thing, sure…but that doesn’t mean it can’t be stunning at the same time…and that’s kind of how I feel here in listening to these new songs from Atratune – stunned, truly. I think it’s absolutely remarkable how far he’s come in such a short period of time.
I’m also truly impressed by the production…honestly, I think it might very well be a large part of what’s making the difference here. Atratune deserves a large share of the credit of course…songwriting-wise, I think it’s probably also arguable that this is some of the strongest stuff he’s put out there so far & the catchiest as well. What I love about this partnership with Sherby Records on these songs, is that it’s clear they adapted to him, not necessarily the other way around; there’s obviously give & take in any relationship between creative-types, but you’ll get what I mean when you listen to the differences between both these new singles. To me, as a fan with a frame of reference for Atratune’s past material, I can tell ya firsthand that the polish on the production of a song like “Day Goes By” shows what kind of professionals that Samer is working with at Sherby…because that’s HIS sound, just 100% fully enhanced & brought shining to the surface for all to experience, exactly as it should be. Again, you’ll get it when you check it out (so do that above!) – this is much closer to the inspired roots of this project that you already know & love, but captured so brilliantly here on this recording that it’s like there’s all-new life in the veins of Atratune. More than enough hooks & catchy sound to warrant its single-worthy status; you can easily hear absolutely everything going right from the music to the microphone on “Day Goes By.”
“After Midnight” is essentially right up my alley – I love energy & melody in a musical dosage like this. What Atratune’s got goin’ on in this second single is a lot closer to what I love about, say the music & sound of something like Owl City…beautiful natural tones, solid mix of digital ingredients swirling through the atmosphere, providing a wonderfully uplifting vibe that gives you that feeling you could go out & conquer the world with this as your soundtrack. Not that Atratune hasn’t incorporated synth sounds or Electro-inclinations in the past…but again, I’d reckon it’s this partnership with Sherby Records that might be what’s having the production shining so spectacularly throughout this tune & getting the best out of Samer, especially on the microphone on “After Midnight.” Musically, I’m thinking this might represent more of a collaboration between the two entities, combining their own individual expertise as one perfectly throughout the flow & sound of “After Midnight.” Whatever the recipe is or may be – I can’t help but feel that just about everyone out there would agree that, whatever’s taking place across the internet way over where Samer is…is truly a beautiful thing. The evolution you can hear in his music – and ultimately in his own abilities, confidence, tone, and performances…is absolutely something he should be extraordinarily proud of. Not a thing out of place on these two new singles from Atratune – every angle has been covered, the attention to detail is staggering, and literally everything sounds great from the attitude in the lyricism, to the energy on the mic, to the brilliantly sweet & solid vibes he’s got goin’ on in the music. If this is the quality & level he’s already at after such a short timeframe, there’s truly no telling just how far Atratune could go…and if these new singles are any kind of indication of what he’s got in-store for us, I think we’re all in for a new phase of this project in 2019 beyond our wildest expectations. Very excited by what I’m hearing in these songs Samer…really well done brother.
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PSY ft. 2 Chainz and Tyga – “Gangnam Style (Diplo Remix)” [LISTEN]
Produced by Diplo, the South Korean-entertainer taps the Based On A T.R.U. Story rapper and the “Rack City” MC to keep the fad on life support. Despite keeping the catchy “Oppa Gangnam Style” hook, the song has a completely new beat courtesy of the multi-platinum producer.
This version might not have the same catchy breakdowns as the original, nor does it have a new verse from PSY, 2 Chainz carries the bulk of this song with his trademark charisma and ad-libs.
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In Clearwater, John Niesen and his mother Mary Riley are suing the Florida city and five ex-police offers for his brother’s death. Riley says that city cops bludgeoned his brother Michael, then age 18, to death over 30 years ago.
Niesen and Riley are accusing the city of Clearwater of conspiracy, including failure to conduct a complete investigation, and destroying evidence. Their Florida wrongful death lawsuit seeks damages that include loss of companionship, loss of support and services, and past and future mental pain and suffering.
According to Niesen, Michael died in July 1977 after he was attacked by police officers that were upset when a fellow cop died after being thrown from the truck that the teenager was driving.
The incident allegedly occurred on July 13, 1977, when Officer Ronald Mahoney stopped Michael’s pickup in Clearwater Beach. Mahoney cited Michael for reckless driving and found out that the truck had been stolen. As the officer came toward the car, Michael reportedly sped up his car. Mahoney, who jumped into the truck’s flatbed died after being thrown from the vehicle when it flipped-Michael had reportedly fishtailed the car a number of times.
The Niesen’s say that Michael was alive after the car collision but that officers Michael Egger, Edward Garner, Mark Cairns, James Gravely and Charles Butler beat him with their nightsticks. Michael died soon after.
John had first filed his lawsuit last year, but withdrew the case wanting more time. His attorneys say the statute of limitations for this case has not begun running because the defendants continue denying the family the chance to sue for wrongful death.
The Clearwater police department maintains that its police officers did not engage in any criminal conduct resulting in Michael’s death and that the 18-year-old died in the crash. John, who has spent at least $1 million investigating his brother’s death, believes otherwise.
If you believe that someone you loved died in Florida because of another party’s reckless or negligent actions, you should speak with a Florida personal injury lawyer as soon as possible. You may be entitled to financial compensation from the negligent party.
Man sues Clearwater again over death of his brother, TampaBay.com, August 15, 2008
Claims shaky in tragic case, TampaBay.com, January 14, 2007
Related Web Resources:
Clearwater, Florida, MyClearwater.com
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PPDL Picture of the Week
October 10, 2016
Bruce Bordelon, Professor,
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University
Chestnut is a
popular nut tree for the Midwest. At one time American chestnuts dominated the
landscape of eastern North America. Unfortunately, most American chestnuts died
due to chestnut blight, caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. Today
most commonly planted chestnuts are hybrids between the Chinese chestnut (Castenea mollissima) and the American
chestnut (C. dentata). Chinese
chestnut hybrids are generally resistant, but not necessarily immune to blight.
Chestnuts produce abundant crops each year. In early fall
the burs of the chestnut tree open to release the nuts (Picture 1). The nuts
fall to the ground and are collected (Picture 2). They are a nutritious food for deer,
squirrels, and other wildlife (Picture 3). They are also popular food for
humans. The first line of The Christmas
Song, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…Jack Frost nipping at your nose…”
is known by many. However, local chestnut roasters may be surprised to find
that their nuts are full of worms. These worm are almost certainly the larvae of
Two species of weevils pose the
greatest risk of injury to a Midwest-grown chestnut crop. These weevils lay
eggs inside chestnuts starting in August and continuing until the burs open.
Larvae of the chestnut weevil are white, legless grubs that can devour the
entire contents of a nut (Picture 4).
Life cycle: Small chestnut weevils (Curculio sayi) emerge from the soil in
late May through July. Adults feed on chestnut foliage until nut kernels enter
the dough stage in mid to late August. Although they can lay eggs any time
after kernel filling, most eggs are laid after the bur begins to open. The
female weevil uses her long proboscis to drill a hole through the shell before
turning around and placing her ovipositor into the nut and laying five to seven
eggs. Eggs hatch in about 10 days and larval development is completed two to
three weeks later. Mature larvae chew a small round hole through the shell
(Picture 5), exit the nut, and then burrow into the ground under the chestnut
tree. The insect remains in the soil for two to three years before re-emerging
as an adult.
Large chestnut weevils (C. caryatrypes) emerge from the soil in
late July and August. Because of their larger size, large chestnut weevils are
more successful in laying eggs in nuts before burs open. The long proboscis of
large chestnut weevils enable females to drill ovipostion sites among the
spines of the bur. Eggs hatch in five to seven days producing large, legless
grubs. The life cycle of the large chestnut weevil is similar to that of its
smaller cousin but the larger weevil spends only one to two years in the soil.
Although harvested nuts may appear
sound when put into storage, some will soon show obvious signs of infestation.
These infestations began while the nut was still on the tree. In our experience
with chestnuts at the Horticulture Research Farm, once weevils infest a
planting, nearly 100% of the nuts will contain larvae each year.
Management: Weevil damage can be
reduced by gathering nuts daily, and heating them to 120ºF
for 20 to 30 minutes to kill larvae in the nuts. A cold treatment, holding nuts
at 0ºF for four days may be effective, but
it may affect the nuts’ flavor. Sanitation can help reduce weevil populations. Collect
and destroy fallen, infested nuts before larvae have a chance to escape and
enter the soil. Maintaining bare ground or closely mowed grass beneath the
trees will aid in finding the nuts and reducing weevil populations. The adult
weevils can be scouted and monitored for their presence by jarring the tree and
counting fallen weevils. Sevin is the only insecticide registered for
chestnuts. Applications have proven effective if applied during the mating and
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Today marks Toni Morrison's 88th birthday. Because we believe in giving our lauded elders their roses, we wanted to bring you a second excerpt from Morrison's newest release, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. As we perused her words and took them in, it struck us that some of them, especially her tributes and remembrances, deserved to be heard aloud. The piece above, her beautiful eulogy for fellow author and intellectual, James Baldwin, is one of those. We invite our readers to grab some headphones, hit play, close your eyes, and let Morrison's tribute to her friend wash over you.
Excerpted from the audiobook of THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison, read by Bahni Turpin, published by Penguin Random House Audio.
THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD by Toni Morrison, read by Bahni Turpin (2/12): The most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection, a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. Bahni Turpin is an award-winning audiobook narrator known for her narrations of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
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2019 Heartland Torque- And So The Adventure Begins!
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Hillsborough River State Park is a prime destination for your summer holiday, offering easy access to the big city alongside the serene solitude of nature. The park is close to Thonotosassa (eight miles), Zephyrhills (ten miles), and Brandon (17 miles). This is particularly important for visitors looking to purchase camping supplies or rent an RV near Hillsborough River State Park. The bright lights of downtown Tampa are just over half an hour from the park.
Most of the park's acreage is covered with oaks, pines, and saw palmettos, while other parts of the park are swampy. As far as fauna is concerned, some of the most common species include alligators, sandhill cranes, and red-shouldered hawks.
Aside from observing the wildlife of the park, visitors interested in state park RV camping can also engage in a plethora of exciting activities. Canoeing, swimming, hiking, and biking are among the favorite pastimes here. If all this sounds right up your alley, start planning your motorhome camping adventure and search for RV rentals in Hillsborough County.
Since Hillsborough River State Park is home to a variety of animal species, you should kick off your adventure by observing the unique denizens of the forest and swamps. Don't forget to pack your binoculars in the RV rental to get a closer look. To learn more about the plants and animals that live in the park, visit the ranger station.
The biggest attraction of the park is, undoubtedly, the Hillsborough River. This is a popular fishing spot, so if you consider yourself a fishing aficionado, make sure you bring your gear and supplies. Expect to catch plenty of bream, catfish, and bass. Paddling is also permitted along the Hillsborough River, so feel free to bring your canoe or kayak, or rent one from the park.
Florida is known for its perpetually sunny weather and humidity, so when it's time to beat the heat, head to the park's swimming pool. This huge, half-acre pool is accessible for guests with disabilities and supervised by lifeguards from May to September. However, bear in mind that a fee applies.
Hiking is yet another popular choice for many park visitors. Four hiking trails wind through the park, totaling just over seven miles in length. Pick up a trail map from the ranger station and start your hiking adventure. Although hiking trails are open year-round, it's better to hike during the off-season, as the trails may flood in spring and summer.
The Hillsborough River State Park campground offers pretty much everything you'll need for camping with an RV. In total, there are 112 campsites that can accommodate tents and RVs up to 50 feet long. Each campsite features a water hookup, a fire ring, and a picnic table. Most sites come with electric hookups, and campers can also access a dump station.
Restrooms, showers, and laundry facilities are provided for added convenience. Pets are allowed at the campsites, but they must stay on a leash. Visitors planning to go RV camping at Hillsborough River State Park can reserve their site up to 11 months in advance.
For those interested in something more rustic and adventurous, primitive camping is another option. These sites are hike-in and don't feature any amenities. Although this might be the ultimate Hillsborough River State Park camping experience, it nevertheless requires a considerable amount of preparation. Pets are also prohibited in the primitive sites.
Once you're all done camping at Hillsborough River State Park, take some time to explore the attractions nearby. Start by checking out the Fort Foster State Historic Site, located right on the park's grounds. This reconstructed fort is an accurate replica of the 1836 fort built here during the Second Seminole War. While the site isn't open daily, visitors can join a guided tour or attend a re-enactment. The accompanying interpretive center features artifacts from the original fort.
For reptile lovers, there's no better place than Croc Encounters. This animal haven is the perfect place for people who want to learn more about crocodiles and a variety of other snakes and reptiles, including the alligator snapping turtle and the boat constrictor. This family-friendly attraction is just 17 miles southwest of the park, in Tampa.
History buffs will want to set a course for Zephyrhills to check out the Barracks Museum. During WWII, this place was an Army airfield. However, after the war, the airfield and pilot barracks were demolished. Today, the former infirmary houses a museum where visitors can experience the memories of WWII veterans from the area.
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MARTIAL ARTS - ALBUQUERQUE SCHOOL - REVIEWS
Martial Artistry Shaolin Kung Fu and Chinese Wushu
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Students in the Little Dragons kung fu class learn discipline and courage.
"Greatest Martial Arts school in Albuquerque: My son has been a student at Martial Artistry from the time he was 3 years old. The respect the students learn and the friends they make at this school are outstanding."
Ben Berling performs in Albuquerque on the New Mexico State Fair main stage with Martial Artistry's Team Steel Phoenix
I have been training at Martial Artistry since August of 2003, and I can honestly say that it has changed my life. Before I had started my training I had a lot of self-confidence issues that really inhibited my ability to interact in any kind of new social environment. Over the years, my confidence has grown and my physical abilities, which used to be limited, now seem limitless. Because of Sifu Kayne, I had invested a lot of my time and energy into my training, she is a very inspirational, understanding and gentle teacher, whose knowledge and experience seems completely limitless. The environment at Martial Artistry is also quite unique. Rather than being a super intense military-style martial arts school, everyone there is relaxed and learns at their own pace. All of the instructors are very capable and understanding and will even laugh with the students, all the while making sure everyone is getting exactly what they want from their training. I would recommend this school to anyone who is looking for serious martial arts training, wants to get some excercise or even just wants something to do for a few hours a week. Any and all of these things can be met, and the ability students can reach is completely up to them. I can honestly say that joining and staying with the Martial Artistry family is one of the best decisions I have made in my entire life.
— Ben Berling (Yahoo 5-star review)
Absolutely love it. Wish I had done this years ago, but, as I've discovered: it's never too late. Sifu and the instructors are motivating, giving personalized instruction, and making it fun. Leading by example, they take great interest in the students' training as well as their own. I cannot wait to see how far I can really go. I see this as a good and healthy challenge, and hopefully a lifelong practice.
— Shelley Barratt (5-star Google+ review)
John Shelnutt - Martial Artistry student in Albuquerque, NM
Wushu family: My wife, 8-year old son, and I all do wushu at this great school. The instruction is the best in the state, the environment is excellent for kids and adults, and the facilities are wonderful. Sifu has created a fun and friendly environment for students of all ages. I am 61, my son is 8, and my wife is 45; we all love Martial Artistry.
— John Shelnutt (Merchant's Circle 5-star review)
"I highly recommend this school for students of all ages."
— Sherry Riddle
I've been studying wushu at Martial Artistry for over 10 years and greatly appreciate the resulting personal improvements in strength, balance, flexibility, and confidence. Students receive individualized instruction, allowing each of us to learn at our own pace. This is significant because it allows students of varying ages, martial arts experience, physical ability, and motivation to progress according to our current capabilities, which also allows for variations by individual. For instance, a student's schedule, goals, wellness, and focus will change from time to time, and the individualized approach allows for continued instruction, paced according to your current circumstances. The instructors guide students to facilitate learning and mastering new techniques. The spotlight attributes that make Martial Artistry a first-class school are the assured physical and mental challenges of learning kung fu and wushu, the consistently outstanding instruction, and the camaraderie among students at all levels. I highly recommend this school for students of all ages.
— Sherry Riddle (YELP 5-star review)
"Her (Sifu's) time in China, coupled with her continued learning, passes as spirit to her students that one can always be better with harder work and determination."
— Amanda Burroughs
What can I say about Martial Artistry. A welcoming family environment that can provide the correct level of training for anyone. 3 year olds to teenagers to students in their 60's all enjoy a fitness experience appropriate to them. As an instructor, I have seen my own skill skyrocket as I enjoyed watching others learn. Hi flying kicks to more traditional forms, Sifu Kayne knows it all. Her time in China coupled with her continued learning passes a spirit to her students that one can always be better with harder work and determination. A very family friendly place, great if you want to work out with your child, a sibling, a half cousin twice removed, you name it and it can work. After 4 1/2 years at Martial Artistry it is with a heavy heart that I leave soon for college out of state, but I know the things I've learned mentally, physically, and morally will endure.
— Amanda Burroughs (5-Star Yahoo review)
Fr. Barney Deane (review below)
I have been a student of Martial Artistry studying under Sifu Kayne for a year and a half. I have studied several forms of martial arts over the years, and out of all of my teachers Sifu Kayne is the master who has it all. Sifu's egoless love and mastery of the art of Wu-Shu (Kung-Fu) has created an optimum learning environment for all ages and ability levels. Master Sifu's school focuses on self mastery and personal best, a discipline which brings out the best Wu-Shu each student has within themselves. Master Sifu has set the standard that all schools should aspire to. Martial Artistry is not only preserving and doing justice to the art of Wu-Shu, but is also futhering the art for future generations through Master Sifu's continual study of the art and impartment of the tradition.
— Fr. Barney Deane (5-star Yahoo review)
A kung fu student of the Albuquerque martial arts class for children aged 4-8
Martial Artistry is a great place for kids. The kids classes have lots of instructors and this excellent student teacher ratio guarantees your child lots of individual attention with very little time waiting for their turn to do an activity. Also kids get the chance to lead class activities for their peers and present in front of the teaching staff to obtain higher sash levels. This is great public performance experience at an early age. My 4 year old has gained confidence, balance, and coordination and loves his time there. Highly recommended.
Ashley Wann (review below)
I came to Martial Artistry a scrawny college student with no athletic ability whatsoever. My first day I was scared that I would be made fun of, "snubbed," etc. But I wasn't. Each and every instructor treated me with patience and understanding because they knew that everyone had to start somewhere, and they had been in the same boat before. Students here don't compete with one another; we encourage and support each other. The mirror is for perfecting technique, and for self-critique. I've never felt threatened, and everyone at the school makes mistakes and has to practice to make them right again. No one here thinks themself a prodigy, and each student's talent is reflected in the amount of training they commit to. I have never felt so accepted and comfortable in any other environment. I know after a long day, I can look forward to a good workout without dealing with any of the stigma inherent in the many, many other martial arts schools I visited when looking for the right place for me. We don't spend an hour beating the crud out of each other and undermining each other for some holy grail of martial arts greatness. We go there to learn technique, do some forms, and probably fall on our butt numerous times. It's relaxed, it's fun, it's constructive, and it's the best decision I think I've ever made.
— Ashley Wann (5-star Yahoo review)
Jesse Tafoya with kung fu three-section staff
(his mother's review appears below)
Rigorous place & great for kids too: I am a parent of a young Martial Artistry student. I have seen his self-esteem and his inner discipline blossom at this school. He is now an athlete, thanks to the careful instruction and opportunity to excel at his own pace. I checked out several schools and disciplines before deciding on Martial Artistry. It is a somewhat informal atmosphere, yet genuinely respectful. The teachers are humble! The trophies on the wall are evidence that gifted students will get what they need. Not-quite-so-gifted students are treated with patience and respect. There is a reason you see more advanced female students there than at many other schools. Everyone is respected and encouraged. It is truly an atmosphere of good values and expert instruction. I highly recommend it.
— Mary Tafoya (5-Star Yahoo review)
(by the way, you should see little Jesse now - he's the 2015 Albuquerque MMA fighter of the year!)
Jonathan Milton wields a kung fu straight sword
I have been taking classes here since 2003 and love it.
— Jonathan Milton (5-star Google+ review)
Lily Jensen, daughter of Amberlyn Lopez (review below)
Excellent learning environment, supportive and instructive. My daughter has been going here for seven years and I've been nothing but thrilled with her progress and the staff.
— Amberlyn Lopez (5-star Facebook review)
Chad Petty (review below)
ABSOLUTELY the best place in Albuquerque to study Martial Arts! I have studied Judo, Kenpo, and attained a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do. I always hit a wall becoming bored and lost interest within the first year. I have been studying Wu Shu (a style of Kung Fu) at Martial Artistry for four years now. I am constantly challenging myself. I can see that no mater how long I study I will always have something to learn. I enjoy learning and learn more through teaching. For the last two years I have been an instructor for our Little Dragons program for 4-8 year olds. The best advice I can give you is to come down and visit Martial Artistry. You will find a great family environment, caring instructors and assistant instructors, and much more.
— Chad Petty (5-star SuperPages review)
Lee Ann Haluska (review below)
My husband and I have been at Martial Artistry for almost a year now and we absolutely love it! We are in our 20s and wanted an activity we could share while getting in some good exercise. What we found at Martial Artistry was all that and so much more. The community of students and instructors is phenomenal. Everyone is friendly and helpful. If you really want to learn Wushu, and have fun and feel encouraged along the way, this is the place. :-D. Going to Wushu is something that I look forward to every week!
— Lee Ann Haluska (5-star Google+ review)
My 6 year old son has been studying at Martial Artistry for 2 years. We selected this program over the others we tried out because the student teacher ratio is the best I have ever seen in any kids program and provides for both group experience and one-on-one time during each class. I enrolled him in the classes with the intention of providing him with a fun physical fitness activity, an opportunity to make friends, and a way to develop his own path in life. My son has found all of this and more through Marital Artistry's Little Dragons program. He loves the challenge of learning the martial arts forms and has gained self confidence by achieving these goals. He is also thriving in the environment that teaches the lessons of respect to others and embracing the efforts of hard work. Aside from these character building benefits, he is developing a wide array of fine and gross motor skills including balance, agility, strength, flexibility, and attention to detail. If you could see the smile on his face when he earned his most recent sash, you would sign your kids up right now.
— Local Mom S. (5-star YELP review)
Daniel Robson (review below)
I started training with Sifu Kayne about 15 years ago and learned quite a lot from her for a little over 3 years before some life changes happened and I was unable to continue classes. A couple of years ago I sought her out again when my children began expressing an interest in learning martial arts and to my excitement I found she was still in business. There are not a lot of martial arts schools that can stay in business for a long period of time without truly being good schools and this is definitely one of the best. If you are looking for a black belt mill this is probably not the school for you, but if you are looking for a teacher that will expect only your best and only awards a black belt to those who have mastered around a decade of martial arts training with her, then this IS the place for you. If you want to learn a wide variety of weapons styles, want to learn in a family friendly environment, like to laugh, enjoy respectful people, then this is the right place for you.
— Daniel Robson (5-star Yahoo review)
Ken Gant (review below)
I don't have the experience with other schools and martial arts that many other reviewers here do, but I do know that Martial Artistry and Sifu LaTrans have me hooked. The students are indeed like a family, in a very good way. The more advanced students are always willing to help, the instructors take the time that's needed to help (rather than hurrying the students), and five days a week, Sifu provides individual instruction to each and every student in class. I started a couple of years ago, and while I've learned much, I know there's /always/ more, and I plan to continue at Martial Artistry as long as I'm here and it's here.
— Ken Gant (5-Star SuperPages review)
April Dawn Duncan (review below)
I have studied under Sifu La Trans from even before she started her own school and have faithfully and gladly followed her throughout the years. Her respectful attitude, broad and deep knowledge and experience of the martial arts, strong work ethic, and wry sense of humor combine to make her an earnest, knowledgeable, capable, rigorous, dynamic, and unique teacher. Likewise, Martial Artistry is a school unlike any other. With no down time, useful and practical practice, one on one work both with instructors and Sifu La Trans herself, and careful attention to details, this school fills all the holes many schools are riddled with. The atmosphere is friendly and supportive and invites you to take risks and push yourself without fear of rejection.
Whether you are young or old, athletic or just finding your inner martial artist, this school caters to all levels of ability and interest. Martial Artistry is truly a large family of those interested in the Martial Arts. I would highly recommend it to anyone!
— April Dawn Duncan (5-Star YELP review)
Albuquerque Martial Artistry student Danielle Hayden with kung fu double warfan
I have always enjoyed the martial arts, Karate, Aikido and the like. But when i came to Martial Artistry i got the training I had desired for so long. I have attended this school for almost 3 years now and I have to say, I love it here. This is where i want to be during all of my free time. Having been there a while I found that Sifu Kayne has constructed a brilliant school. The space is very large, the ceiling high (so as to practice weapons like staff and spear) and the environment is a very kind one. The instructors are patient and very nice with new students as well as older ones. All in all, I cannot find anything wrong with this school. No one is ever turned away, unless they are asking for something that Sifu Kayne does not teach, in which case, she is pointing them in the direction they wish to go to find what they are looking for. Martial Artistry is a great school!
Joel McIntosh performs kung fu with Martial Artistry at the New Mexico State Fair
I began learning kung fu with Martial Artistry several years ago. From the beginning, I liked the fact that each student had the opportunity to get as much or as little out of the classes as they chose. There was no option to “buy” the black sash level. I trusted the instructor’s ability since the school contains dozens of trophies won by her over the years. When I started, I was very eager to master the basics so that I could learn some of the more beautiful acrobatics that the higher level students exhibited. Like true kung fu, there is a definite balance between discipline and fighting, peace and martial force, and hard and soft styles. Some of my classmates have been to China to witness wushu schools first hand. They have confirmed the accuracy of the kung fu that we learn at Martial Artistry. I recommend this school to anyone who truly wants to learn real kung fu and is willing to challenge themselves to become a true master of this ancient and respected martial style.
— Joel McIntosh (5-Star Yahoo review)
Albuquerque martial artist Gwen Lattimore poses with kung fu weapons called shuang kandao.
As the years keeping adding on (almost 55), I realized I needed ways to maintain (ok, I have to regain) balance and flexibility. Martial Artistry has been my key to assist in achieving those goals. I tried numerous gyms, but would quickly get bored - same equipment, same routine. But at Martial Artistry, there is always something new to learn, and goals to work toward. I love the class format, wonderful instructors that provide encouragement and help. Sifu does an incredible job of instructing, motivating and encouraging in a superbly professional manner.
While I am a student with more age than the average student, the program is structured so that all can advance and achieve at the level desired, in a very organized, fun environment.
It is fun for me to watch the kids class and see the enthusiasm, self discipline and physical training they are developing - what great skills to cultivate at young ages.
I look forward to many years of training at Martial Artistry - helping me to maintain and improve my health, flexibility, balance, self discipline, and enjoyment of staying active, while learning the beautiful art of Kung Fu.
I recommend Martial Artistry to anyone wanting to participate in an activity that promotes physical activity, conditioning and encompasses the wonderful art of Kung fu teaching respect for self, others and personal growth.
— Ann Hague (5-Star YELP review)
Samson Riddle with the kung fu weapon called mandarin duck razor.
I looked many places to find the right atmosphere for my son to learn a form of martial arts and Martial Artistry was the right fit for us. They are very professional and patient with the students my son's self esteem has grown tremendously.
Diana Ma with Chinese kung fu straight sword.
I had been out of wushu a couple of years. I decided it was past time to get back into it, so I signed up at Martial Artistry. I wasn't sure what to expect, but what I found was a great bunch of students and instructors that are super friendly, highly knowledgeable in wushu, and overall a great school I'm proud to be a part of. Wushu is an amazing martial art, and Martial Artistry is a great ambassador for this great art. You won't be disappointed if you join!
Martial arts student Michael Garcia with kung fu three-section staff
My wife, 11-year old son, and I all do wushu at this great school. The instruction is the best in the state, the environment is excellent for kids and adults, and the facilities are wonderful. Sifu has created a fun and friendly environment for students of all ages. We all love Martial Artistry!
Liz Shiels demonstrates the grace and power of kung fu double hook swords.
There are a lot of places to go--and I've shopped it. If you want authentic, good instruction and people who "walk the talk" come here!
— Liz (5-Star Facebook review)
Martial Artistry student Amir Shirkhorshidian strikes a classical kung fu pose.
I've been taking lessons at this school for four years now. It's very friendly atmosphere and the knowledge of its instruction staff make it a wonderful place to learn and practice Kung Fu and Wu Shu. It has many long time students so that's proof that the students are happy! Many students who have left due to work or going off to college have come back to continue their education in this art. I highly recommend Martial Artistry!
Ellie Wilson has trained in dragon, one of the famous five animals of classical kung fu.
I've taken classes in a few martial arts styles but none compare to Martial Artistry. The learning environment is supportive and you can't beat the kind of staggered work out you get. I've lost almost 30 lbs at Martial Artistry since joining the school in January 2011. I enjoy going to class. I love learning wushu. I love Martial Artistry!
- Ellie Wilson (5-Star Yahoo review)
Brian Baker with kung fu double broadsword.
I have studied at MA for over 10 years and hold a second degree black in taekwondo in addition to my rank at MA. I feel that my time here has been of more value, as I am at the best shape in my life at age 43. If learning the martial art showcased in most martial art films is your game while at the same time having fun and meeting great people, then come to MA and give them a chance to show you what a martial arts school should be.
— Brian Baker (5-Star YELP review)
Albuquerque Martial Artistry student Natasha McGinnis demonstrates a kung fu side kick.
I've been with this school a number of years and there's nowhere else I'd rather be. The head instructor knows her stuff and genuinely cares about both the martial arts and her students. A great value, and a great place to learn.
Martial arts classes teach children respect and self-discipline.
The staff is very patient and worked to make sure both of my kids had the kind of attention they needed to succeed.
Mark Smith with pudao, a Chinese kung fu weapon.
Like every cliche martial arts movie, inner peace comes from studying kung fu. I began searching around and with relentless research I narrowed down my options of schools to attend to about 4 total. After trying a class at each, only one stood out for me, Martial Artistry. The classes were very well planned out. The instructors helpful and friendly,and the general feel of the school is literally unforgettable. I paid tuition with my next paycheck and began taking classes as often as I could. Which ended up being every day of the week sometimes. Another thing I love about my school and Sifu in general is the constant support and help from everyone. I highly recommend coming to this school if you have even an inkling of curiosity in martial arts. Hands down best decision I've made.
— Mark Smith (5-Star Google+ review)
Emily Lattimore with kung fu wind & fire wheels. (Her father's review below)
As someone who has been involved in Martial Arts for 30 years and who is an instructor in Aikido, I found the studio welcoming, the instructors gifted, the students dedicated, and the practice rigorous. Martial Artistry was a great place to bring my children.
— Alan Lattimore (5-Star Facebook review)
Kung fu training instills strength and determination.
This is a great kung fu school for people of all abilities and ages. Sifu and her instructors are excellent at teaching a challenging, fluid martial art style in a way that honors both the art and the practitioner. Martial Artistry is especially wonderful for its Little Dragons program--it teaches the technique as well as respect and discipline in a fun, honest, active and friendly manner. This school is also WONDERFUL for people new to the martial arts (regardless of age--seriously, if you've even wanted to learn martial arts and just "never got to it"--it is never to late, and this school proves it). Plus, Sifu's wealth of experience in martial arts (not only kungfu/wushu) brings value to those who already have martial arts training. In short, this in an great, unique, welcoming, challenging and honorable school.
Shuangtou Qiang 双头枪 (Double head spear)
I've been studying at this school for over five years. It's a very friendly place with great instructors! A great place to learn Kung Fu and wushu. It's improved my balance, flexibility, reflexes and self-confidence. I highly recommend!
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The Chicago Blackhawks want to clinch the President’s Trophy, awarded to the NHL team with the best regular season record. They want to enter the playoffs on a good note.
On the other hand, common sense dictates that coach Joel Quenneville will ease up on the throttle and allow his team to coast a bit during the final week. The Blackhawks need to catch their breath before embarking on a (hopefully) long playoff journey.
So what was Coach Q to make of his team’s listless effort in a 3-1 loss at Vancouver Monday night?
“It was the worst game of the year,” Quenneville told reporters. “That was the one game maybe this year that we can say that we weren’t at the level that’s needed from start to finish.
“We know when we play Vancouver it’s an intense game and you’ve got to be ready. They were much more prepared to compete at that level that’s necessary to win in our game and give them credit.”
Quenneville didn’t belabor the loss during his post-game address. Defenseman Duncan Keith also kept things in perspective.
The Canucks were the more motivated team and it showed.
“We feel good,” Keith told reporters. “Obviously we’re not happy about tonight, we know we need to play with more jump than we did tonight, and we’re confident, it’s one game we’re not happy with.
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Significance and application of decision
A recent Court of Appeal decision has restored certainty that, under Irish law, there is no general duty of good faith in the context of commercial contracts.Court_of_Appeal_V2 PDF | 0.25 MB
The decision at first instance represented a significant departure from established principles of Irish contract law which could have had significant consequences, not only for shareholders’ agreements, but other long-term commercial contractual relationships, had it not been overturned on appeal. The Court of Appeal decision has wide application and is of interest to all parties across the entire spectrum of commercial contractual arrangements. It clarifies important questions in relation to the proper approach to the interpretation of and implication of terms into a commercial contract.
On 8 March 2017, the Court of Appeal delivered its judgment in the appeal of a High Court decision which held, amongst other things, that there was an implied duty of good faith and fair dealing in a shareholders’ agreement relating to Blackrock Clinic. This was the first time an Irish court implied a general duty of good faith into a commercial contract. The Court of Appeal overturned the High Court judgment, holding that the shareholders’ agreement in question was not an agreement of a type to which any general duty of good faith applies.
Breccia, a shareholder in Blackrock Clinic, acquired the loans, which were long overdue for repayment, of another shareholder, Benray Limited. Benray's loans were secured on its shareholding in Blackrock. All of the shareholders in Blackrock had provided cross-security for Benray’s loans such that the continued failure by Benray to repay its loans could have resulted in the enforced sale of all of their shares in Blackrock. Breccia made demand of Benray for repayment, and when Benray failed to discharge the demand, appointed a receiver to Benray’s shareholding in Blackrock. Benray sought to restrain Breccia and the receiver from selling its shareholding on a number of grounds, including, that there were implied terms in the shareholders’ agreement that (i) each of the shareholders owed each other a duty of good faith and fair dealing; and / or, (ii) they would not take any step which would cause any other shareholder’s shares to be sold other than in accordance with the shareholders’ agreement.
The High Court held that the shareholders’ agreement should be interpreted to include such implied terms and granted Benray a permanent injunction restraining Breccia from calling in the loans and / or appointing a receiver to sell Benray’s shareholding in Blackrock.
Court of Appeal Finding
The Court of Appeal’s main judgment applied the well-established principles of contractual interpretation to the shareholders’ agreement and ultimately finding in favour of Breccia, held that:
- the shareholders’ agreement did not contain an implied term which restricted Breccia from calling in Benray’s loan;
- the shareholders’ agreement did not limit a shareholder’s right to recover outstanding loan monies, pursuant to another shareholder’s loan which had been validly assigned to it;
- the relationship between the shareholders was purely commercial and that the shareholders’ agreement did not constitute a “relational contract”; and
- the shareholders’ agreement was not the type of contract to which any general duty of good faith applies in accordance with established Irish authority.
The Court of Appeal’s main judgment notes that Irish contract law does not recognise a general principle of good faith and fair dealing, although there are certain, limited categories of contractual relationships which imply a duty of good faith, such as partnerships and in relation to insurance contracts. It also considers English jurisprudence which has held that a duty of good faith and fair dealing could be implied into ‘relational contracts’. However, given the findings, it was not necessary for the Court of Appeal to decide whether the English jurisprudence should be followed in this particular case.
The judgment is to be welcomed by all parties involved in commercial contractual arrangements as restoring certainty that, under Irish law, there is no general duty of good faith in the context of commercial contracts. The decision provides a helpful, and welcome, reaffirmation of established principles of contractual construction in a commercial context and restores certainty in the area. The detailed reasoning of the Court of Appeal is summarised here.
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Rodger Hodgson, legendary co-founder of Supertramp and singer-songwriter of the classic hits like “Dreamer,” “Breakfast in America,” and “Give a Little Bit,”
Thirty five years later, Hodgson has embarked on his 2014 Breakfast Around the World tour at Wild Horse Pass and he totally rocked the house! The whole crowd was begging for more at the end of the night.
He performed all of his classic hits as well as “Logical Song,” “Take The Long Way Home,” “It’s Raining Again,” “Fool’s Overture,” “School,” “Hide in Your Shell,” “Lovers in the Wind,” and “Lord is it Mine.”
This is easily one of the best shows so far this year at Ovations in Wild Horse Pass.
Check out photos from the KOOL VIP Party hosted by Charlie by Clicking Here!
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Action movies give you a kind of pleasure that no other genre can do, depending on your mood of course. We start loving action movies from our childhood and we never grow out of this love for action movies. Netflix has quite a good collection of them. We put together a list of 7 action movies, that are some of the best, on Netflix that you can watch right now.
7. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt really make the story of this sci-fi action movie come alive. Directed by Doug Liman, the plot says
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.
This movie will hook you from the first scene and keep you interested throughout. With superb action scenes, this movie also has a fascinating story. This is funny, intelligent and action-packed. Scoring a 7.9 out of 10 on IMDB and 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, this movie made 370.5 million USD worldwide on the box office. Open up Netflix and add this one to your list right now! | <urn:uuid:7830c69f-b1f0-4ac0-a70c-b0e9f938c279> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://curiousmob.com/best-action-movies-on-netflix/ | 2023-02-08T11:33:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500758.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20230208092053-20230208122053-00751.warc.gz | en | 0.924476 | 230 |
Season two of Real Housewives of Atlanta has ended and VP of Programming for Brave Andy Cohen is hosting the reunion show...again. This one is so big and boring they had to make it two nights long so part two is tonight. Somehow TV producer Andy has fashioned himself into a TV personality by hosting all the reunion shows. But that wasn't enough and he had to created a talk show just for him called Watch What Happens Live. It's just awful. He tries to talk about current pop culture and politics. Please stop, you are such a self absorbed douche.
Anyway, The Real Housewives of Atlanta is just fascinating. First off, only one is a housewife. Sheree is a NFL divorcee and a wannabe fashion designer, not a housewife. Kim's husband just left the NFL and he seems to be taking care of the kids while she runs several businesses. Kandi is a never married songwriter who used to be in Escape. And then there's Kim. She's got that Big Papa money but she's certainly not a housewife. I don't really know what she does all day. Only the chemically imbalanced Nene is actually a housewife. Most of the episodes had to do with someone having a big party or event and then one of the other women making it all about herself. They are awful. I can't wait for season three!
BTW, I bought Kim's Tardy for the Party from iTunes this weekend. I'm just supporting bad behavior. Sorry.
It's hard to say what are my favorite comedies this season. 30 Rock is as funny as even and Parks and Recreation is getting really good. Community is a great addition to the Thursday night line-up. Last week Parks and Recreation was particularly good. The show could be about a bunch of characters who work together but don't like each other but instead it's a lot more fun with them being slightly annoyed at each other but not hating each other.
CBS has the good Monday night shows. HIMYM is great because the cast is so good. I love all the Robin Canada jokes. Big Bang Theory is always a laugh.
But the best new shows are on tonight on ABC. Modern Family is hilarious and Cougartown is a hot laugh riot with Courtney Cox even funnier than she was on Friends. I've skipped the other two and I've heard they suck. Here's the full video from the song the teenage boyfriend sang on the Shelly Long episode.
The new reboot series "V" starts tonight on ABC. It stars Juliet from LOST as the lead FBI investigator, Scott Wolf from Party of Five as the intrepid report, and Inara the prostitute from Firefly as Anna, the leader of the Vistors. I was a big fan of the original mini-series and one-season show. In my defense I was 12. Remember when there used to be mini-series? They were cool. North and South, The Last Days of Pompeii, The Stand. And Roots. I never saw that one. Anyway, I digress. V is back and I like the new look. The old one had some core problems with the premise. There is so much easy water to get in the universe than the high gravity well of a planet with a population that might not want their water supply shut off. Also I can't imagine taking people as food is a good idea either. They should have stuck with the story that everyone taken was being reprogrammed to serve as soldiers to fight the Visitors enemies. But no, they stuck with an absurd premise and put the protagonist in an unwinnable situation that only biological warfare would solve, something so repulsive to most modern civilization. Hopefully they will drop the cannibal part of the story like they are dropping the Nazi parallel of the first series. Instead they are more like Fox News and the Bushies, a far more relatable bad guy in our times.
Last night I watched the direct to DVD follow-up movie to Battlestar Galactica called The Plan. It was an interesting back fill story which shows alternative views to many of the events from the first two seasons starting shortly before the attack on the 12 Colonies. There's not much new info but it is great to see how Brothers Cavil's "Plan" hits one snag after another. Since it is a direct to DVD movie, there is some nudity. First we see the boobies from the stripper/bartender on Picon as Ellen meets Brother Cavil shortly before the attack. Later there's a most gratuitous hot Galactica bathroom scene with a hot naked ass and a full frontal shot of the same extra with very nice bait and tackle. But the attack on the 12 Colonies is the best part of the movie. We get to see more of the planets before they are engulfed in flames. So overall I give the movie a thumbs up. Get it now.
I love TV. Movies are great but there's so much more story and character development that can be accomplished in episodic television. Since I started unwittingly studying television over 25 years ago I've noticed many patterns and advancements. I will share my views, opinions, and TV news several times a week. Please leave your own comments. | <urn:uuid:b39ffb2a-a798-4222-96f7-0966849636ac> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://danielstvblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/ | 2021-05-14T17:19:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991428.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514152803-20210514182803-00057.warc.gz | en | 0.979302 | 1,074 |
Dear Doctor: I want to be better about protecting my skin from the sun, but the sunscreen aisle of our drug store is so confusing. Are all sunscreens the same and are they equally effective?
Dear Reader: Ultraviolet radiation (also referred to as UV rays) from the sun is the No. 1 cause of skin cancer, so your resolve to wear sunscreen is right on the mark. And with so many different products on the market, it's no surprise you're feeling overwhelmed.
Sunscreen is any cream, spray or lotion that combines specific ingredients that will prevent UV rays from reaching your skin. Two different kinds of UV rays -- UVA and UVB -- are targeted by sunscreen.
UVB rays cause sunburn. UVA rays, which reach into the deeper layers of your skin, cause premature aging. Both types of ultraviolet rays increase your risk of a variety of skin cancers.
You'll notice that sunscreen is rated by a number system -- SPF 15, for example -- which signifies its level of Sun Protection Factor. The SPF factor of a sunscreen refers to its level of protection against UVB rays only. It does not measure protection against UVA rays, which are equally harmful. To be sure you are getting protection against both UVA and UVB rays, choose a product whose label says "broad spectrum."
What the SPF number tells you about any brand of sunscreen is how it will protect your skin. Just multiply the amount of time it takes for your skin to begin to burn by the SPF number.
Let's say you typically start to turn pink after 10 minutes in the sun. A sunscreen with an SPF factor of 15 will, in theory, give you 150 minutes of protection. However, numerous factors are at play. Did you go swimming? Are you sweating? Did you put on enough sunscreen? Did it rub off on your hands or clothes? The rule of thumb put forth by skin cancer specialists is that an application of sunscreen lasts no longer than two hours. And if any swimming or sweating or rubbing occurred, reapply liberally and often.
The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates sunscreen products in the United States, recommends that you use an SPF of at least 15. But the experts at the American Academy of Dermatology say an SPF of at least 30 is the safest bet.
So which sunscreen should you choose and what's the right way to use it?
-- Go for one that's labeled "broad spectrum," so you're shielded against both UVA and UVB rays. Waterproof formulations are best. And remember -- SPF 30 or higher.
-- Apply the sunscreen 15 minutes before you go out. Yes -- before going into the sun.
-- It takes about 3 tablespoons to coat all exposed skin, including the tops of your ears, the back of your neck, your hands, your feet and any exposed scalp.
-- Don't forget to protect your lips -- products rated SPF 30 or more will do the trick.
-- Remember to reapply as needed.
Even with sunscreen, be sure to wear loose clothing and a hat. And stick to the shade for added protection.
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Britain goes cool on the teapot as sales plummet by nearly 40 per cent in just five years
The idea of enjoying a pot of tea has sustained Britain's princes and paupers alike since the 17th century.
The ceremony of warming the pot before adding the tea and boiling water, then leaving to brew to guarantee the perfect strength has been part of the national culture.
It was often a genteel process and an essential element of the British high tea with its cucumber sandwiches, scones and a selection of cakes.
Tea is considered an icon of British culture and its popularity can be traced to the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza, who arrived in this country in 1662
Even today, tourists queue to be served tea in a pot with all the traditional trimmings at top hotels like the Ritz.
However, the reality is that sales of teapots have plummeted as people have become impatient with the whole process.
In an era of instant gratification when pot noodle and microwave ready meals substitute for home cooked food, the idea of slamming a teabag in mug and pouring on the hot water has now taken over.
Sales of teapots are down by 39 per cent compared to five years ago, according to Debenhams.
While sales of traditional teacups and saucer have seen an even greater decline, registering a fall of 44 per cent.
By contrast, the store said its sales of mugs have leapt by 59 per cent compared to 2006.
According to Debenhams, sales of teapots are down by 39 per cent compared to five years ago
Despite the popularity of American-style coffee shops, Britons still drink as many as 165 million cups or mugs of tea every day.
Debenhams, which sells nearly five million cups of tea in its restaurants and cafes each year, is fighting to restore the teapot's place on the nation's tables with the launch of a Campaign for Civilised Tea Drinking.
This means it will only serve tea in stores in a teapot, with a traditional cup and saucer.
The campaign has the support of social etiquette expert, Liz Brewer, who said: 'Tea is the most quintessential of English drinks, and the act of tea drinking has long been one of the greatest British traditions.
'We must preserve the custom which, for centuries, has been the hallmark of polite society - tea served in a teapot before being poured into china cups.'
The teapot's first foray into European society was in the 17th century, when it was shipped from China, and made from porcelain.
While tea is considered an icon of British culture, its popularity can be traced to the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza, who arrived in this country in 1662 to become the wife of Charles II.
She was reputedly a tea addict. It was her love of the drink that established it as a fashionable at court, and then among the wider wealthy classes.
Debenhams head of home design, Alison Hill, said: 'Tea served in a pot has always been a feature of British life – it's as famous as the Tower of London or Big Ben.
'As well as being an historic, pivotal part of everyday family life for generations, tea has helped us through the Blitz, and many hard times since then.
'We believe it is an essential part of what it means to be British, and therefore we want to do all that we can to preserve this practice for the future.'
She suggested that dispensing with the teapot was simple laziness.
'We know that people have busy lives and so often find it easier to use a tea bag in a mug. However, at the same time, we don't want to see an essential element of British society disappear because of expediency,' she said.
'While using high quality tealeaves provides drinkers with probably the ultimate cup of tea, we're also recommending using teabags in a teapot. The great British ceremony of making a pot of tea is infinitely adaptable.'
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ArvinMeritor has reached agreement for the sale of its off-highway axle business, which principally manufactures planetary axles for off-road applications, to AxleTech International of Troy, MI, an affiliate of Wynnchurch Capital, Limited.
The sale includes manufacturing sites at Oshkosh, WI, and St. Etienne, France, and the planetary axle operations in Osasco, Brazil and Seoul, Korea. The sale excludes ArvinMeritor’s interest in its joint venture operations in Xuzhou, China.
ArvinMeritor’s Tom Gosnell, president, Commercial Vehicle Systems, emphasized that the sale also does not include ArvinMeritor’s on-highway drivetrain, trailer axle, suspensions or specialty products businesses.
‘ArvinMeritor remains committed to these core businesses that serve a wide array of global markets, including on-highway medium- and heavy-duty trucks, trailers, buses and coaches, military, construction, utility, and emergency vehicles,’ Gosnell said.
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"The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Telstra have recently been discussing a possible investment by Telstra in a Fibre to the Node (FTTN) network," a statement by the ACCC to the Australian Stock Exchange late this afternoon said.
"The discussions have been constructive," ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said in the statement, "however, no decisions have been made, nor any agreement reached."
Telstra put its plans to build a FTTN network on hold in December, believing government regulations would force it to open access to the new infrastructure to rivals as it currently has to do with its copper equivalent. According to the ACCC today, the carrier has explained to it its need for regulatory certainty as to access arrangements before making an investment decision.
"[Telstra] also wishes to ensure that it can recover the costs of investment in new infrastructure before it proceeds with any investment," the ACCC said.
"In turn, the ACCC has signalled its longstanding view that regulatory arrangements should provide incentives in the long term for both facilities-based competition and competition in downstream services".
The FTTN network would, the carrier claimed, deliver speeds of 12Mbps to around four million businesses and homes.
The ACCC noted the ongoing talks between the regulator and Telstra "should put Telstra in a position to develop a comprehensive undertaking, which can be submitted to full public consultation."
"It is anticipated that public consultation on a proposal will be sought as early as May 2006," the statement continued.
The ACCC noted such public consultation would allow it to take into account industry and public views on Telstra's planned network, including "whether and how" Telstra should have to allow rivals access to the network as it currently does its copper infrastructure. | <urn:uuid:e76216c3-b751-43a1-a098-93ae6d9c4827> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.zdnet.com/public-to-get-say-on-telstras-fibre-plans-1139251387/ | 2014-03-13T13:05:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394678674071/warc/CC-MAIN-20140313024434-00064-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976553 | 364 |
Originally Posted by ckchan
I'm able to dl free books online from the BN.com store, but I still can't register the device itself (perhaps it can detect that my IP address is outside the US). My question is:
If I purchase a VPN service, how can my Nook Simple Touch connect to it? Do I have configure my router? Thanks for the help in advance.
You can register the NST anywhere in the world, there are no restrictions. Just make sure your B&N account is registered with an US shipping and billing address.
You NST must have a Wifi connection to register it.
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The one thing I love about this Monday, is the fact that it’s great for when you’re in need of retail therapy. Perhaps money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you a lot of wonderful things to fill the void of your emptiness, if only for a temporary moment of happiness.
I kind of impulse bought some Kylie Cosmetics lip kits, mainly for the free International shipping but also because, it’s not often I can afford them. Dare I say it, my first time ever buying any of her products. Thinking of writing a review on them when they arrive, since I’ve never done stuff like that on this blog before. I suppose it’s better than sounding like a mad woman with all these endless thoughts of mine and the rants that go along with it.
Also, I am hoping to finish the poems for my book by the end of this year, so I can actually see a little progress in my journey to publishing some, a lot, or any of it. Being a perfectionist is tough when you’re a writer, or at least if you’re aspiring to be.
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Information on the new Affiliates Report in Infoporte
The Affiliate Report shows information on all active affiliates or affiliates who were terminated within the last year
This webinar covers two new error checks that have been put into the Gradstar system, and what you can do to prevent such errors. Going forward, Gradstar won’t be able to process entries with errors, which could affect whether recipients receive their awards.
A webinar about changes to the Campus Vendor Request system coming early 2016. Includes information about the new Affiliate vendor class as well as information on what changes can be made to each vendor class.
This webinar teaches how associated budgets work, when it applies, and how it affects your available balance.
This Computer-Based Training course explains what an affiliate is and how to complete the Add or Update an Affiliate ePAR form. It also explains the process for requesting a PID for an affiliate and how to use the affiliate ePAR form to add or update affiliates. | <urn:uuid:1e8adc7e-8d40-4ce3-91bd-cba425b3aadb> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://ccinfo.unc.edu/resources/search/?wpv_post_search=aff&wpv_aux_current_post_id=89314&wpv_sort_orderby=field-wpcf-version-date&wpv_sort_order=desc&wpv_view_count=89831-TCPID89314 | 2017-03-27T04:44:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189403.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00365-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921392 | 204 |
Reps. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., and John J. Duncan Jr., R-Tenn., and ex-Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, will help steer the direction of the new Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity as members of its board, they announced Wednesday at a Capitol Hill event.
"It's a natural instinct for people to want peace and prosperity," ex-Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, the institute's CEO, said during the event. The institute is a nonpartisan educational organization aimed at capitalizing on the groundswell of young people who have supported Paul's presidential bids and anti-war position.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who also spoke at the event, counted himself a member of that young population and said Paul's appeal stems from his honesty and principles, particularly in the votes he took as a congressman.
"More than once we've stood on the floor, I think, since Congressman Paul left and wondered, 'What would Ron Paul do in this situation?'" Massie said.
Duncan discussed the pressure he faced to vote for authorization of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, including a White House briefing with then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director George Tenet and CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin. Duncan said that at the time, they could not convince him that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States.
"I think it is so sad what we've done through the years, so I'm in very strong support of what Dr. Paul is trying to do here," he said.
Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute and foreign policy adviser to Paul during his time in Congress, said the institute will monitor lawmakers' votes and issue assessments in the form of a Peace and Prosperity Scorecard.
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I don’t even remember now how I came into the site, but somehow I wandered over to the College Humor video section, and found that they’ve started a series of short movies called “Street Fighter: The Later Years.” It’s quite funny and there are even a few twists and turns (and just enough special effects to work.) I spent a while watching all five episodes that have been released, and look forward to more. (Though I still like the Punch-Out idea better.) I recommend watching them- even the characters lament the movie- and I’ve embedded the first episode after the jump.
Dave "The Game" Chalker is the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of Critical Hits. Since 2005, he has been bringing readers game news and advice, as well as editing nearly everything published here. He is the designer of the Origins Award-winning Get Bit!, a freelance designer and developer, son of a science fiction author, and a Master of Arts. He lives in MD with e, the Geek's Dream Girl. | <urn:uuid:aaccb593-10d5-49d4-99fc-3976b3ef497f> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.critical-hits.com/blog/2007/11/15/street-fighter-the-later-years/ | 2014-07-25T18:21:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997894689.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025814-00093-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97178 | 224 |
To propose an appropriate prophylactic antimicrobial therapy for patients undergoing brachytherapy, we evaluated the relationships between various antimicrobial prophylaxis (AMP) protocols and the incidence of postimplant infections in a multicenter cohort study conducted in Japan. The records of 826 patients with localized prostate cancer who underwent a transperineal 125I brachytherapy procedure between January 2009 and December 2010 were retrospectively reviewed. Perioperative infections, including surgical site and remote infections, were recorded up to postoperative day 30. A total of 6 (0.73 %) patients had a perioperative infection following seed implantation, of whom all received AMP for 1 or more days. None of the patients who received a single-dose protocol of AMP using fluoroquinolone p.o. or penicillin with a beta-lactamase inhibitor i.v. developed a perioperative infection. Statistical analysis showed that a single-dose protocol was more significantly related to a lower risk of perioperative infection as compared to the other AMP protocols examined (p = 0.045). Furthermore, our results indicated that bacteriuria and preoperative hair removal were risk factors of perioperative infection with statistical significance (p = 0.007, p = 0.004). Analysis of patient clinical parameters, including age, American Society of Anesthesiologists score, diabetes mellitus, prostate volume, numbers of implanted seeds and needle punctures, operation time, and indwelling duration time of the Foley catheter, did not reveal significant differences in terms of perioperative infection. Our results indicated that a single-dose AMP protocol is sufficient to prevent perioperative infections following seed implantation. On the other hand, AMP is only one of several measures to prevent perioperative infectious complications. It is necessary to know that the patient must have no bacteriuria and that preoperative hair removal should be avoided.
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WEEKLY DIOCESAN BULLETIN
SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2014
First Sunday after Pentecost – All Saints
RESURRECTIONAL TROPARION - TONE EIGHT:
You descended from on high, O Merciful One! You accepted the three-day burial to free us from our sufferings. O Lord, our Life and Resurrection: Glory to You!
TROPARION TO THE SAINTS - TONE FOUR:
As with fine porphyry and royal purple, Your Church has been adorned with Your martyrs’ blood shed throughout all the world. She cries to You, O Christ God: Send down Your bounties on Your people; grant peace to Your habitation, and great mercy to our souls!
RESURRECTIONAL KONTAKION - TONE EIGHT:
By rising from the tomb You raised the dead and resurrected Adam. Eve exults in Your Resurrection, and the world celebrates Your rising from the dead, O greatly Merciful One!
KONTAKION TO THE SAINTS - TONE EIGHT:
The universe offers You the God-bearing martyrs as the first-fruits of creation, O Lord and Creator. By their prayers keep Your Church, Your habitation, in abiding peace, through the Theotokos, O most merciful One.
HYMN TO THE MOTHER OF GOD - TONE SIX:
Steadfast Protectress of Christians and constant advocate before the Creator, do not despise the cry of us sinners; but in your goodness come speedily to help us who call on you in faith. Hasten to hear our petition and to intercede for us, O Theotokos, for you always protect those who honor you!
The Prokimenon in the 8th Tone:
Pray and make your vows before the Lord our God. God is wonderful in His saints, the God of Israel.
1st after Pentecost: Hebrews 11: 33 – 12: 2
Brethren, who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented - of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise. God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The Alleluia Verses:
The righteous called, and the Lord heard them. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.
1st after Pentecost: Matthew 10: 32, 33, 37, 38; 19: 27-30
At that time Jesus said, “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” So Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
From The Prologue for June 2/15 by St. Nikolai Velimirovic:
Saint Nicephorus the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople
Nicephorus was a nobleman of Constantinople. His father, Theodore, a high-ranking official of the imperial court, was wealthy and pious. Nicephorus served at the court for several years in the same profession as his father. Seeing all the vanity of the world, he withdrew to the shores of the Bosphorus and founded a monastery. The monastery was quickly filled with monks and he governed it; but he was not willing to receive the monastic tonsure, under the pretext that he was not worthy, even though in all things he served as a model to all. Before that, he had participated in the Seventh Ecumenical Council [Nicaea, 783] as a layman, at the wishes of the emperor and the patriarch, and the Council had benefitted greatly from his superior knowledge of Sacred Scripture. When Patriarch Tarasius died, Nicephorus was elected patriarch against his will. Immediately following his election in the year 806, he received the monastic tonsure and, in succession, all the ecclesiastical ranks. He was enthroned as patriarch in the Church of Hagia Sophia. This took place during the reign of Emperor Nicephorus, who immediately after that went to war against the Bulgarians and was slain. His son Stauracius reigned only two months and died. After him there ruled the good Emperor Michael, surnamed Rangabe, but he reigned for only two years, until he was overthrown by Leo the Armenian and exiled. When Leo was to be crowned, the patriarch sent him a book of the Orthodox Confession of Faith to sign (according to the custom of all Byzantine emperors, which was considered an oath that they would uphold and defend the true Faith). The emperor did not sign it but rather postponed signing it until after the coronation. When the patriarch crowned him, Leo refused to sign the book, and he quickly proved himself to be a heretic, an iconoclast. The patriarch attempted to advise him and restore him to the true Faith, but in vain. The emperor forcibly banished Nicephorus to the island of Proconnesus, where he remained for thirteen years, enduring every kind of misery and privation, and he entered into eternity in the year 827. He governed the Church of Christ as patriarch for nine years.
The Holy New Martyr Constantine
Constantine was born of Moslem parents on the island of Mitylene. Having been healed of a grave illness with the help of holy water in church, and having witnessed other miracles of the Faith of Christ, he was baptized on Mount Athos in the Skete of Kapsokalyvia. Later, Constantine fell into the hands of the Turks, who hanged him in Constantinople on June 2, 1819, after forty days of cruel torture.
The Holy Martyr John the New of Suceava
John was a nobleman from Trebizond. He was accused by an envious Latin and suffered for Christ in the city of Akerman in the year 1492. After being tortured for refusing to embrace the Persian religion (for the governor of the town was an adherent of that faith), St. John was tied to the legs of a horse and dragged through the town. Upon seeing John, an evil Jew ran up to him and slaughtered him. That night many saw a fiery pillar over his body and three light-bearing men around it. With great honor the Moldavian commander Joalexander later translated his honorable body to the town of Suceava and buried it in the metropolitanate church, where it reposes even today, miraculously saving men from various pains and illnesses. John suffered honorably and was glorified on June 2, 1492.
The Hieromartyr Erasmus of Ohrid
This saint was born in Antioch and lived during the reigns of Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. He lived a strict life of asceticism on Mount Lebanon and was endowed by God with the great gift of working miracles. As a bishop, he went out to preach the Gospel. Arriving at the town of Ohrid, Erasmus by his prayers resurrected the son of a man named Anastasius and baptized him. Through this fortuitous circumstance Erasmus baptized many other pagans and destroyed the altars of the idols in Ohrid. For this he was denounced before Emperor Maximian, who was residing at that time in Illyria. The emperor brought him before a copper idol of Zeus and ordered him to offer sacrifice and worship the idol. St. Erasmus manifested so great a power that a horrible dragon emerged from the idol, terrifying the people. Again the saint manifested great power and the dragon died. The saint then preached Christ and baptized twenty thousand souls. The embittered emperor ordered that all twenty thousand be beheaded, and he subjected Erasmus to severe tortures and cast him into prison. An angel of God appeared to Erasmus, as once to the Apostle Peter, and led Erasmus out of the prison. After that this servant of God departed for Campania, where he preached the Gospel to the people, and then he returned to the town of Hermelia, where he retreated to a cave, in order that he might live a life of asceticism there until his death. Before his repose, he bowed down three times toward the east and with uplifted arms prayed to God that He forgive the sins and grant eternal life to all those who would with faith call upon his name. At the completion of his prayer a voice from heaven was heard: “Let it be as thou didst pray, my little healer Erasmus!” Utterly joyful, the saint gazed up at the heavens once more and saw a wreath of glory descending upon him and choirs of angels, prophets, apostles and martyrs coming toward him to receive his holy soul. At last he cried out, “O Lord, receive my spirit!” and reposed, in about the year 303. The cave, with a small church dedicated to St. Erasmus, exists today not far from Ohrid, and from it the great power of the God-pleaser Erasmus the hieromartyr is manifested even today.
HYMN OF PRAISE: Saint Nicephorus
Great was Nicephorus, great among the saints;
Great was Nicephorus, like a giant among men.
But the emperor with the name of lion was small;
His entire “glory” consisted of spite and malice.
An emperor is to lead the affairs of state,
Not to judge the dogmas of the Orthodox Faith.
Patriarch Nicephorus interpreted for him the dogmas,
But the arrogant little emperor pretended to be wise.
Though he had become emperor, he remained a simple shudra,
Not heeding the counsels of the wise saint.
The emperor banished the patriarch to a desolate, distant place,
And he began himself to interpret divine truth.
Great was Nicephorus, great in exile,
As also on the throne in his dignity.
All of his greatness was from within,
And not false and incidental, changing from day to day.
Nicephorus became a saint by faith and purity,
By strong faith, fasting and humble simplicity.
And Emperor Leo was slain—terribly slain.
Perhaps he would have repented, but it was too late.
The veneration of icons is an integral part of Orthodoxy, from which it cannot be separated. That the veneration of icons appears to some people to be the same as idolatry is no proof against icons. To the Jews it seemed that Christ worked miracles by the power of Satan and not God, and to the Romans it seemed that the Christian martyrs were ordinary sorcerers and magicians. St. Nicephorus said to Leo the Armenian, the iconoclastic emperor: “An icon is a divine thing, but not to be worshiped.” Then he explained how God commanded Moses to make a serpent of brass and to raise it in the wilderness, even though just before this He had commanded: Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image (Exodus 20:4). The latter He commanded in order to save the chosen people from the idolatry of the Egyptians, and He commanded the former that He, the One and Most-high God, might manifest His power through a visible thing. In the same manner He manifests His power through icons. This is His holy will and our aid for salvation. If icons are things of little significance or even idolatry, why would many of the holiest and most spiritual men and women in the history of the Church have suffered to the death for icons?
Contemplate the miraculous healing of the leper (Matthew 8:2):
1. How the leper implored the Lord to heal him and how the Lord touched him with His hand and he was healed;
2. How I, too, am leprous from sin, and how the Lord can touch my soul and heal it, if I pray to Him.
on how wisdom proclaims itself everywhere
Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the open squares she raises her voice; down the crowded ways she calls out, at the city gates she utters her words (Proverbs 1:20–21).
The Wisdom of God is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, through Whom every created thing was created. All that was created manifests its All-wise Creator, both that which is in the fields and that which is in the city. In the fields is pure and bright nature, while in the city is man with his trades and skills. The Wisdom of God cries out—and does not whisper—through all of nature and through all the beneficial trades and skills of man. She has covered all the fields; she has filled the entire city; she is above the earth and under the earth, in the starry firmament and in the depths of the seas. He who wants to hear her can hear her in every place; he who wants to learn from her and be delighted by her can be taught and delighted in every place; he who wants to be corrected and built up by her can be corrected and built up by her in every place. Thus the Wisdom of God is clear and evident in all created things in the world from its very beginning. But the Wisdom of God is clearer and more evident in the prophets and in other men of God who were made worthy to approach her outside created nature. Through their mouths, the Wisdom of God has been proclaimed in the fields, in the cities, on the streets of the cities, and at the doors of men. But the Wisdom of God is most audible and most clear in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. In the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of God was manifested in the flesh and demonstrated to men in Its miraculous power and beauty. This Wisdom of God does not speak through things or through men, but speaks of Itself and from Itself alone, personally and directly. By His wisdom the Lord has filled the entire world through His Holy Church, so that it can be said that today, just as twenty centuries ago in Palestine, He cries out in the fields, on the streets, to the greatest throngs in the world, throughout the cities, and before all doors, through the servants of the Word.
O my brethren, let us open the doors of our souls to the Wisdom of God, incarnate in the Lord Jesus Christ! O Lord Jesus, Wisdom and Power of God, open our souls and abide in them. To Thee be glory and praise forever. Amen.
In the Slavonic Prologue and Menaion, St. Erasmus is commemorated on May 4, while in the Greek Synaxarion on June 2. The latter is more correct, since this saint has been commemorated in Ohrid on June 2 from time immemorial.
Shudra: one of the four original castes in India, whose members engaged in the lowest professions.—Trans.
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Chula Vista Bank Plans HQ Shift to IrvineFINANCE: Pac Trust also due for Santa Ana office in Gateway deal Sunday, November 20, 2011
Chula Vista-based First Pactrust Bancorp Inc. plans to relocate its headquarters to Irvine, a move that would place its subsidiary Pacific Trust Bank among the largest commercial banks based in Orange County.
The bank expects the move to be completed in the first quarter of 2012.
Orange County is “a centralized location for our Southern California expansion,” Chief Executive Gregory Mitchell said.
Pacific Trust has two acquisitions in process—Manhattan Beach-based Beach Business Bank and Gateway Business Bank in Cerritos.
Beach Business Bank was a $37.2 million buy. Beach Business Bank Chief Executive Robert Franko is expected to become president of holding company First Pactrust.
The $17 million deal for Gateway Business Bank brought Santa Ana-based Mission Hills Mortgage Bank-ers under First Pactrust’s fold.
Mitchell said he expects the Irvine location to “accommodate the staff from the Gateway acquisitions.”
Pacific Trust had about $930 million in assets at the end of the third quarter, up 7.7% from the same time a year earlier.
Completion of its pending deals is expected to bring the bank’s assets to more than $1.3 billion.
That would be good enough to place Pacific Trust in the No. 2 spot on the Business Journal’s ranking of commercial banks based in OC.
First Pactrust Bancorp Inc.
· Headquarters: Chula Vista
· Business: banking
· Founded: 1941
· Ticker symbol: BANC (Nasdaq)
· Market value: about $135 million
· Notable: plans to move headquarters to Irvine early next year
Opus Bank holds the No. 1 spot with assets of about $2.2 billion. Pacific Mercantile Bank follows with about $1 billion in assets.
Pacific Trust will lease 40,000 square feet from the Irvine Company on the top two floors of 18500 Von Karman Ave.
It has about 13,000 square feet at its current headquarters in Chula Vista.
About 150 employees will work at the office in Irvine, including some employees from the Santa Ana and San Diego offices.
“The San Diego office will be downsized, and we anticipate most of our employees to move up to OC,” Mitchell said.
Pacific Trust plans to open a new branch in Tustin early next year as part of a push into the Orange County and Los Angeles markets.
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State police have arrested the man who fled into the Susquehanna River near the Clarks Ferry Bridge when a trooper stopped his car.
A state police helicopter located the man shortly after 7:30 p.m. He was hiding in the brush along the river bank.
The incident began about 6 p.m. today in Perry County and continued on the Dauphin County side of the bridge.
One state police trooper suffered a knee injury in the incident and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
A state police helicopter and boat rescue crew joined the search for the man.
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Skype for Business Server 2015 is a next major release after Lync Server 2013. There is no major architecture level change from the previous release. Skype for Business Server is coming up with many improvements and one new server role “Video Interop Server (VIS)” has been added which will work as an intermediary between third-party video teleconferencing system and Skype for Business Server infrastructure.
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Welcome to the Summer Bliss Sunny Studio and Studio Katia Collaboration Blog Hop!!!
Both teams are celebrating Summer Time with fun and colorful cards using stamps from Sunny Studio and dies and embellishments from Studio Katia. There are prizes too! Both companies have a prize to give away too so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!
For the sea scene, I prepared a piece of watercolor paper, colored in blue/green shades. On top of it, I stamped cute images from Sunny Studio Ocean of Joy
stamp set in Versafine Onyx ink.
Then I made a top panel using Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Creative Dies. For the top cover, I used glitter paper from Michael’s. To match colors on the top panel I chose Light Blue Metallic Star sequins, Enchanted Sea Sequins, Radiant Pineapple Sequins, Clear Iridescent Seed Beads and Clear Round Drop Mix for the shaker filling.
The sentiment was stamped on the banner from Dotted Frames Creative Dies with one of the elements from Sunny Studio Ocean of Joy stamp set. Lastly, I decided to add flag banners from Birthday Lion stamp and matching dies set.
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The training squad for the forthcoming match against the Czech Republic in the CEE Bowl competition has been announced following several months of preparation and introduction to the sport of rugby league players aging from 18 to 42 (a father and son combination) and experience.
Captain - Zsolt Haboczki
Forwards - Zsolt Haboczki, Lajos Bihari, Joel Jimenez, Geza Goleth, Andre Brand, Matyas Bihari, Luca Tramontin, Cedric Gaidet, Phil Angel, Laszlo Dekany and Geza Juhasz
Backs - Peter Fustos, Adam Nunn, Laszlo Harangozo, Gergo Zubornyak, Scott Torrance, Federico Sciotti, Imre Szalontani, Nandor Szabo and Mehdi Benaniba
The squad has been preparing well over the last 6 - 8 weeks with players travelling long distances within Hungary and making commitments to travel from Italy and the UK to available for the game - preparations have been a little disrupted by the closure for maintenance of the main rugby pitch in Budapest, leading the team to train on the slightly less than ideal park on Margit Island in the centre of the city - although this has meant post-training beers overlooking a UNESCO World Heritage site.
'If our levels of enthusiasm and desire can be matched by a certain understanding of the rules, then we believe that the team will be able to offer the opposition from the Czech Republic a good and exciting match - we have heard alot about the Czech team, having seen their standing in the world rankings and read about their previous encounters with the likes of Germany and the Nordics, and we look forward to offering them a challenge here, in the heart of Central Europe.We would also like to thank Dove Men+Care for their support in the start of this great adventure.'
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Cogenhoe Cricket Club has always been a supporter of good causes close to the hearts of our members. The club annually supports the fundraising efforts made by Suzanne Tarpley and Maggie Irvine on behalf of MacMillan nurses and in 2008 for the first time decided to nominate a chosen charity that the club would support. That charity was Marie Curie and thanks to Phil Whiteman the club helped Marie Curie by collecting used printer ink cartridges which were recycled by Marie Curie.
As many of you will be aware 2008 also saw the club hold its first ever charity quiz night and raise over £200 for various charities and as our chosen charity was Marie Curie and the winning side captained by Gareth Goddard handed over a cheque for £150 to Marie Curie and the club has received a very nice letter from the charity thanking everyone for their efforts. The Jennifer Trust and The Air Ambulance also benefited from our quiz night. We at Cogenhoe Cricket Club are very keen to offer our support to charitable causes and so have decided that each year we will choose to support a different charity which is close to the heart of our members. I am delighted to announce that the club’s chosen charity for the next five years at least will be The Jennifer Trust. The Jennifer Trust was nominated by Chris and Julie Mason and was a unanimous choice when put before the committee. Below are just a few words from David and Louise Towler about the Jennifer Trust and how you can find out more information about the charity. We will of course keep you up to date via this website and the village Parish magazine of all our fundraising efforts. Our Charity Quiz night held on Friday 30 th September 2011 was another tremendous success with£210 raised for four different good causes. The winners Matt Morrissey`s The Burkes and Hairs carried off the Pat Whiteman Trophy and donated their £120 winnings to the Air Ambulance. The Chairmans 6 supported a charity close to Matt Golbys heart Kidsaid a local charity that relies totally on donations so it can help local children suffering from lifes trials and tribulations such as family bereavements, bullying, domestic violence and neglect. Two past champions the Towler and Mason families and Gareth and Dan`s Bar Flies finished joint third with their £15 winnings going to the Jennifer Trust and a Dementia Charity. Along with another quiz run by Gary Brough the club raise and donated £469.50 to charity in 2011. A superb effort by all our members and supporters. Gary also very generously donated a further £210 to the Jennifer Trust by donating the money he would have spent on Christmas cards a quite superb gesture.
In 2012 the club will continue to support a wide range of good causes starting with the clubs annual Race Night which this year will include two races where the winning horse will be running for a charity. The nominated charities include The Jennifer Trust, Cynthia Spencer, Air Ambulance, Parkinson`s UK and The Alzheimer`s Society. The clubs annual Charity Quiz will take place on Friday 28 th of September.
The club also played a major role in Phil Whitemans Pints make Prizes fundraiser for The Cynthia Spencer Hospice. Phil along with Dave Foley and Andy Robinson set off on June 23 rd to the Poppy and Pint in Nottingham and had a beer and a packet of crisps all in the name of charity!Over 1 500 people had paid £1 to guess the cost of the round of 3 drinks and 3 bar snacks with the winner Kathryn Reed correctly guessing the round would cost £14.20. Kathryn won the first prize of 4 first class tickets to anywhere on the London Midland train network. During the evening of June 23 rd the club hosted the second part of Pints make Prizes which was a Curry evening and prize draw. The curry was supplied free of charge by Bhavika Dave and she produced the most gorgeous selection of Indian food which was enjoyed by everyone. Bhavika was helped by Bev Bryant and Brenda Lee-Brown and the money raised from the curry all went into the fund. Then the club did the prize draw which featured donated prizes from Michael Jones Jewellers, The Saints, Cobblers and County Cricket, Force One Formula One team, Althorp House, Rockingham Speedway, Sixfield Tenpin Bowling, The Hopping Hare, Rockingham Castle, The Trumpet, The Royal Theatre, Homebase and DHL. These marvellous prizes were donated thanks to the superb efforts of DHL`s Steve Millard whose enthusiasm and support for the fund raiser really got us off to a great start. In the end we raised a superb £1 835 for Cynthia Spencer and we presented the cheque to Sue Bownass at our Presidents Evening Barbecue on July 21 st.
The Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) provides ‘Help for Today & Hope for Tomorrow’. It is the only national charity in the UK dedicated to both supporting people affected by SMA, and investing into essential research into causes, treatments and finding a cure for the condition.
SMA is a condition that affects the nerves in an area of the spinal cord. These nerve cells become damaged, breaking the link between the brain and the muscles. As a result, the muscles can’t be used and become wasted or atrophied.
Youth team member, Chris Towler, was diagnosed with SMA Type III a few years ago and Chris & his family are delighted that the club has chosen to support the Jennifer Trust this year.
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Sample of female dating profiles sda online dating sites
Stay away from stating what you do not want or describing that you are not a certain way.
Notice how the language is not negative, but is fun and flirty.
There are 107 million singles in the US over the age of 18.
In the world of online dating, where up to 40 million singles search for love every day, first impressions are everything.
When I was 8, I saw acrobats in the Bozo circus and thought it would be pretty cool to swing from a jungle gym rope…with my teeth. After grad school I sold everything I owned to move to Guatemala to volunteer teach, and lived abroad for 8 years.
The response to suggestive or revealing photos is usually also suggestive in nature.
You want to attract genuine and respectful attention, not attention that objectifies you.
Statistics show that those viewing your profile want to see body shots.
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Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, was nominated for a Causey Award for building the TARP office from the ground up.
Debra Vess's program, HR Connect, has been recognized for benefitting many agencies in the field of HR. It's the reason she was named a 2011 Causey Award winner.
The Causey Awards recognize the exceptional efforts of those distinguished individuals who work in the Human Capital Management field specifically in pay, benefits, human resources and human capital issues in the federal government and in industry. Nominate someone today.
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Just arrived to the Washington, D.C. area after stints in Cincinnati and L.A. I've been writing screenplays for over twelve years and have been optioned four times. I've also won or placed in screenwriting competitions five times, most recently placing in the 2011 AAA Screenplay competition for my script "Dead Below Zero."
I work on assignment on features, shorts and documentaries as a writer, and I'm looking for opportunities to direct as well.
Name: Edward Case
Lives in: Greenbelt, Maryland
Company: Square Medium
Game For Motel Room
Film by Kind Right Films Writer
The Dangers of Daggermore
Film (short) by Hal Burdick (Adventure, Fantasy and Horror) Writer A party of adventurers enters the infamous Daggermore Dungeon in a search for the Well of Souls. Along the way, they meet a damsel in distress chained to a dungeon wall. Knight want to free her, but Wizard has not come to Daggermore on a rescue mission. As they decide what to do they disturb a shrieker that screams like a siren until Wizard bashes it to death with his staff. But every adventurer knows that a shrieker alerts other denizens to intruders into the dungeon, and this shrieker is no different. A monster is coming, the jailer of the damsel in distress, and he's coming for blood. Written by Anonymous
Film (short) by Alvin Case (Drama, Mystery and Sci-Fi) Writer A writer finds himself time shifting after visiting the abandoned military installation at Montauk.
Lights Out Rowan
Film by Hal Burdick (Adventure, Fantasy and Thriller) Writer In a modern day fairy tale, Rowan ventures into mysterious darkness that contains dangerous creatures to save her family from the clutches of the evil Dr. Ravenen.
Film by Alvin Case (Drama) Writer When his old estranged band mate dies, Bobby Nomad is asked by his ghost to go introduce himself to the daughter he never knew.
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The Duchess of Cambridge navigated another royal first Tuesday when she joined Queen Elizabeth – and 8,000 other people – at a garden tea party at Buckingham Palace.
Under sunny skies and an uncharacteristically warm 77 degrees, she wore a familiar outfit: a hat by Jane Corbett and the same $2,000 pink Emilia Wickstead coat dress first seen 11 days ago at the Windsor Castle lunch the Queen gave for visiting royals.
Led by the Queen and Prince Philip, the royal party, including Kate, stood to attention for the national anthem before stepping down onto the garden’s lawns.
Husband William, 29, was not able to attend – he’s on duty in north Wales, where he is based with a Royal Air Force Search and Rescue squadron – but his grandmother did appoint him a new honor: With the title the Earl of Strathearn, he’s to be a Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.
As for Kate, amid the sound of small brass bands and some 400 staff members serving the invitees 27,000 cups of tea, 20,000 sandwiches and 20,000 slices of cake, she told guests she was “slightly nervous” about walking into a sea of faces.
“She congratulated us, and asked me how long I’d been in the RAF,” Gareth Jones, 23, told PEOPLE about Kate’s greeting to him and his new bride, Rebecca, just back from their honeymoon in Florida. “She seems to share a lot of empathy and genuine interest in people.”
Also there was Sarah Burton, designer of Kate’s Alexander McQueen wedding dress.
The garden party is a traditional highlight of the London spring-summer season, and Tuesday’s event was the second of two being held at the Palace. The parties were started by Queen Victoria in the 1860s and have gradually evolved into a way of recognizing those who have played a role in public service.
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A review of Sacred Journeys and Profane Travelers: Representation and Spatial Practice in Varanasi (India), by Cristiana Zara.
The city of Varanasi, located on the banks of the Ganges river in Northern India, is framed as ancient, unchanging and eternally sacred in a wide range of academic and popular literature. It is the quintessential Hindu city for eighteenth-century Orientalists as well as for contemporary publishers of coffee-table volumes, tourism blogs and websites. Varanasi is consistently equated with the “authentic” India, one that is supposedly untainted by either Westernization or the sub-continent’s pervasive Indo-Islamic identity, both seen as intrusive and alien to its urban landscape of temples, lanes and riverfront ghats. It is this construction of Varanasi, the ultimate spiritual destination within an Orientalist discourse (that also engulfs the notion of India), that Cristiana Zara addresses. She unpacks the ways that it is actively constructed, represented and lived through the experiences of Western tourists to the city.
In the Introduction and Chapter 1, Zara lays out the theoretical framework of her study. While acknowledging post-colonial critiques of landscape representation, her focus remains on its perpetuation through experiences that are both consciously and unconsciously scripted. Traditional studies and theories on tourism have emphasized the tourist’s quest for the ultimate “authentic” experience. When coupled with an Orientalist discourse, the tourist gaze has also been conceptualized as directed through a lens of difference. Zara acknowledges her debt to these concepts, but pushes her study towards the embodied experience of tourism with a modern, relatively privileged, mobile, yet gendered subject. She also indicates an interest in the Darshana/Karma opposition in South Asian thought as a means of dislocating and enriching the eternal dichotomy of East/West, the scholarly mainstay of an Anglophone academy.
In Chapter 2, Zara describes her ethnographic method that is based on a combination of semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and participant observation directed mainly at Western tourists (from Europe, Canada, South America, and Australia). Of this category, she encountered two sub-groups, the backpackers who largely congregated around the Assi ghat area along the riverfront, and package tourists who tended to stay in groups at the higher-end hotels in the city’s cantonment area. Her interviews (64) and observations were directed at the first group whereas data from the second group were collected through questionnaires (135 completed) that were distributed through local guides. In addition, she conducted interviews with members of the tourist industry (7 interviews with tour leaders, tourist agents, agency branch heads in India and abroad). Conscious of ambiguities in her own position as a Western researcher-tourist, Zara also recognizes that the process of analyzing this data was never strictly impersonal and academic, but deeply inflected with personal memories and emotional ties.
In Chapter 3, Zara analyzes the dominant visual and narrative discourses on the city and their trajectory from nineteenth-century orientalism to consumption within contemporary (largely hippie) culture. Within such frames, Varanasi manages to be “anomalous” and “typical” at the same time, a strategy that is locally re-appropriated. A range of published materials are vehicles for the promotion of a mystical and spiritual Varanasi that acts as a threshold between “the material and the transcendental,” (or simultaneously, in South Asian terms, “bhoga and moksha” [indulgence and liberation]) (p. 146). These are directed at both foreign and domestic visitors. Western tourists who are eager to experiment with their identities actively engage with notions of the city’s timelessness and exotic qualities (often framed as chaotic, disorderly and even repulsive). As one of Zara’s industry informants puts it, “we do not create the imagery, we nourish it…” (p. 151).
In Chapter 4, Zara studies tourist practices in the city and their place within a broad sweep of visual and narrative representations of India. Gazing on Varanasi is often viewed as gazing on the “real India” (non-modern and impoverished). Zara likens such visual production to a “hermeneutic circle of images” that is sensory as well as emotionally charged (p. 185). For instance, gazing on the “Ganga Aarti,” a recently invented riverfront spectacle (sponsored by hotel chains as well as by an organization dedicated to the environmental mission of cleansing the Ganges river) is recounted by tourists as a spiritual experience. Tourists also engage in the telling and re-telling of stories, “Indo-babbles” as Zara describes them, and in so doing replicate behavior and spatial experiences (p. 203). More structured practices include renewals of vows through Hindu marriage ceremonies and taking classes in yoga or classical Indian music. The figure of the flaneur is useful here, but as an embodied subject who chooses the degree of her engagement though numerous sensory and olfactory options that are facilitated by the city and its tourism industry.
In Chapter 5, Zara maps the geographies of Western tourism in Varanasi. Tourists move between “zones” such as the “peaceful” riverfront, the “cacophonic city center” and the “enclave” of the cantonment (p. 248; p. 292). Each zone is defined through particular narratives and frequented by tourists looking for a range of experiences and on a variety of budgets. Besides these zones, Sarnath, the locus of Buddhist archaeology and pilgrimage, provides another experience to a Western tourist in quest of “Buddhist spirituality” amongst the “multicultural architecture” of modern Japanese, Burmese, Tibetan and Korean Buddhist temples and monasteries (p. 286). She concludes however, that despite the tangible prevalence of these constructed geographies, they are ultimately rendered “unstable” (p. 299). Connections to an outer world, that are a sustained world through a network of cybercafés, render such discrete spatial categories meaningless.
Through her analysis of the intersection between spatial representation and embodied spatial practices, Zara demonstrates the ways in which these are mutually constituted and continually reinforced. Yet, if tourist practices reproduce certain essentialized and mainly Western narratives, the category of the “West” itself might be in question. Foreigners, who have lived in Varanasi for many years, increasing numbers of Indian middle-class tourists, and a visiting South Asian diaspora, further complicate the dichotomies inherent to Orientalism and its visual and narrative productions. In sum, Zara presents a comprehensive and powerful picture of Varanasi as a site of on-going tourist consumption. She also successfully interrogates its narratives and their construction within structures of power and representation that have global implications.
Department Art History
The Pennsylvania State University
Ethnographic fieldwork (interviews, questionnaires, participant observation) in Varanasi, 2009
Photographs and video footage
Tourism promotional materials (CD-ROMs, booklets, brochures, postcards, leaflets)
Publicly posted materials (notices, flyers, posters, paintings)
Royal Holloway, University of London. 2012. 367 pp. Primary Advisor: Claudio Minca.
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Manage devices with Intune Overview
A core component of enterprise-level security includes managing and protecting devices. Whether you’re building a Zero Trust security architecture, hardening your environment against ransomware, or building in protections to support remote workers, managing devices is part of the strategy. While Microsoft 365 includes several tools and methodologies for managing and protecting devices, this guidance walks through Microsoft’s recommendations using Microsoft Intune. This is the right guidance for you if you:
- Plan to enroll devices into Intune through Azure AD Join (including Hybrid Azure AD Join).
- Plan to manually enroll devices into Intune.
- Allow BYOD devices with plans to implement protection for apps and data and/or enroll these devices to Intune.
On the other hand, if your environment includes plans for co-management including Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, see Co-management documentation to develop the best path for your organization. If your environment includes plans for Windows 365 Cloud PC, see Windows 365 Enterprise documentation to develop the best path for your organization.
Watch this video for an overview of the deployment process.
Why manage endpoints?
The modern enterprise has an incredible diversity of endpoints accessing their data. This setup creates a massive attack surface, and as a result, endpoints can easily become the weakest link in your Zero Trust security strategy.
Mostly driven by necessity as the world shifted to a remote or hybrid work model, users are working from anywhere, from any device, more than anytime in history. Attackers are quickly adjusting their tactics to take advantage of this change. Many organizations face constrained resources as they navigate these new business challenges. Virtually overnight, companies have accelerated digital transformation. Simply stated, the way people work has changed — we no longer expect to access the myriad of corporate resources only from the office and on company-owned devices.
Gaining visibility into the endpoints accessing your corporate resources is the first step in your Zero Trust device strategy. Typically, companies are proactive in protecting PCs from vulnerabilities and attack while mobile devices often go unmonitored and without protections. To ensure you’re not exposing your data to risk, we need to monitor every endpoint for risks and employ granular access controls to deliver the appropriate level of access based on organizational policy. For example, if a personal device is jailbroken, you can block access to ensure that enterprise applications are not exposed to known vulnerabilities.
This series of articles walks through a recommended process for managing devices that access your resources. If you follow the recommended steps, your organization will achieve very sophisticated protection for your devices and the resources they access.
Implementing the layers of protection on and for devices
Protecting the data and apps on devices and the devices themselves is a multi-layer process. There are some protections you can gain on unmanaged devices. After enrolling devices into management, you can implement more sophisticated controls. When threat protection is deployed across your endpoints, you gain even more insights and the ability to automatically remediate some attacks. Finally, if your organization has put the work into identifying sensitive data, applying classification and labels, and configuring Microsoft Purview data loss prevention policies, you can obtain even more granular protection for data on your endpoints.
The following diagram illustrates building blocks to achieve a Zero Trust security posture for Microsoft 365 and other SaaS apps that you introduce to this environment. The elements related to devices are numbered 1 through 7. These are the layers of protection device admins will coordinate with other administrators to accomplish.
In this illustration:
|1||Configure starting-point Zero Trust identity and device access policies||Work with your identity administrator to Implement Level 2 App Protection Policies (APP) data protection. These policies do not require that you manage devices. You configure the APP policies in Intune. Your identity admin configures a Conditional Access policy to require approved apps.||E3, E5, F1, F3, F5|
|2||Enroll devices to Intune||This task requires more planning and time to implement. Microsoft recommends using Intune to enroll devices because this tool provides optimal integration. There are several options for enrolling devices, depending on the platform. For example, Windows devices can be enrolled by using Azure AD Join or by using Autopilot. You need to review the options for each platform and decide which enrollment option is best for your environment. See Step 2. Enroll devices to Intune for more information.||E3, E5, F1, F3, F5|
|3||Configure compliance policies||You want to be sure devices that are accessing your apps and data meet minimum requirements, for example devices are password or pin-protected and the operating system is up to date. Compliance policies are the way to define the requirements that devices must meet. Step 3. Set up compliance policies helps you configure these policies.||E3, E5, F3, F5|
|4||Configure Enterprise (recommended) Zero Trust identity and device access policies||Now that your devices are enrolled, you can work with your identity admin to tune Conditional Access policies to require healthy and compliant devices.||E3, E5, F3, F5|
|5||Deploy configuration profiles||As opposed to device compliance policies that simply mark a device as compliant or not based on criteria you configure, configuration profiles actually change the configuration of settings on a device. You can use configuration policies to harden devices against cyberthreats. See Step 5. Deploy configuration profiles.||E3, E5, F3, F5|
|6||Monitor device risk and compliance with security baselines||In this step, you connect Intune to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. With this integration, you can then monitor device risk as a condition for access. Devices that are found to be in a risky state will be blocked. You can also monitor compliance with security baselines. See Step 6. Monitor device risk and compliance to security baselines.||E5, F5|
|7||Implement data loss prevention (DLP) with information protection capabilities||If your organization has put the work into identifying sensitive data and labeling documents, you can work with your information protection admin to protect sensitive information and documents on your devices.||E5, F5 compliance add-on|
Coordinating endpoint management with Zero Trust identity and device access policies
This guidance is tightly coordinated with the recommended Zero Trust identity and device access policies. You will be working with your identity team to carry through protection that you configure with Intune into Conditional Access policies in Azure AD.
Here’s an illustration of the recommended policy set with step callouts for the work you will do in Intune/MEM and the related Conditional Access policies you will help coordinate in Azure AD.
In this illustration:
- In Step 1, Implement Level 2 App Protection Policies (APP) you configure the recommended level of data protection with APP policies. Then you work with your identity team to configure the related Conditional Access rule to require use of this protection.
- In Steps 2, 3 and 4, you enroll devices into management with Intune, define device compliance policies, and then coordinate with your identity team to configure the related Conditional Access rule to only allow access to compliant devices.
Enrolling devices vs. onboarding devices
If you follow this guidance, you will enroll devices into management using Intune and you will onboard devices for the following Microsoft 365 capabilities:
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Microsoft Purview (for endpoint data loss prevention (DLP))
The following illustration details how this works using Intune.
In the illustration:
- Enroll devices into management with Intune.
- Use Intune to onboard devices to Defender for Endpoint.
- Devices that are onboarded to Defender for Endpoint are also onboarded for Microsoft Purview features, including Endpoint DLP.
Note that only Intune is managing devices. Onboarding refers to the ability for a device to share information with a specific service. The following table summarizes the differences between enrolling devices into management and onboarding devices for a specific service.
|Description||Enrollment applies to managing devices. Devices are enrolled for management with Intune or Configuration Manager.||Onboarding configures a device to work with a specific set of capabilities in Microsoft 365. Currently, onboarding applies to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft compliance capabilities.
On Windows devices, onboarding involves toggling a setting in Windows Defender that allows Defender to connect to the online service and accept policies that apply to the device.
|Scope||These device management tools manage the entire device, including configuring the device to meet specific objectives, like security.||Onboarding only affects the services that apply.|
|Recommended method||Azure Active Directory join automatically enrolls devices into Intune.||Intune is the preferred method for onboarding devices to Windows Defender for Endpoint, and consequently Microsoft Purview capabilities.
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|Other methods||Other methods of enrollment depend on the platform of the device and whether it is BYOD or managed by your organization.||Other methods for onboarding devices include, in recommended order:
Learning for administrators
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Reynoldsburg City Schools' principals are letting parents know that new state reading assessments began this year for students in kindergarten through third grade, although retaining third-graders for not passing new benchmark reading scores will not begin until the 2013-14 school year.
Ohio's third-graders must pass new state reading requirements by next school year; otherwise, they will not be promoted to fourth grade, despite their achievements in other subjects, according to the third-grade guarantee that became law when Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed Senate Bill 316 this past summer.
French Run Elementary School Principal Chris Hardy sent a letter home to parents about the third-grade guarantee, using information from the Ohio Department of Education.
"Parents should know this information now, because they must be informed early and often about their child's education and their future in education," he said. "Parents are an extremely important partner in education."
Hardy said school districts were required to conduct reading assessments on all students in kindergarten through third grade by Sept. 30.
The result of those assessments is that teachers must identify students as "on track," meaning their performance meets expectations for entering a current grade level, or "not on track," meaning their performance is currently below expectations for the grade level.
"School districts are required to notify parents of students identified as not on track with a letter following the assessments," he wrote to parents. "A plan for student intervention and monitoring growth and progress must also be completed and updated throughout the school year.
"Beginning next year, third-graders who do not reach the state-determined success mark on the Ohio Achievement Tests will not be able to be promoted to fourth grade," he wrote.
Hardy said reading diagnostic assessments are not new.
"Our classroom teachers already complete individualized student assessments and use the results of those assessments to plan for teaching and intervention to meet each child's unique needs," he wrote in the letter. "Our school has always provided a variety of intervention supports in reading. We believe that addressing reading concerns early is the best path to overall student success."
He told parents that students identified as not on track would receive additional classroom reading instruction and intervention.
It may worry parents to receive such a letter and learn that their child is not on track after only being in a new grade level for a few days or weeks, Hardy said, but he cautioned parents that this assessment doesn't mean a child won't be successful in school.
Hardy said one thing parents need to take away from the third-grade guarantee is that "reading is essential for our kids."
"As we look to prepare our students for college and jobs, reading is at the core of almost everything," he said. "Spending time reading, teaching them to become fluent and fostering a love of reading with our kids at a very early age is vital."
State officials have said $13 million has been set aside to create grants to help districts with any additional expenses related to intervention for the third-grade reading guarantee.
ODE officials said parents who receive information that their student is not "on track" for reading at grade level must receive from the school district a description of current services being provided to the student, information on proposed supplemental instruction and a notice that if the student does not attain the benchmark reading competency score by the end of third grade, he or she will be retained and not promoted to fourth grade. | <urn:uuid:ed7e968e-7c40-40f3-b20a-f3eb0c7a7ffb> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/reynoldsburg/news/2012/10/03/parents-learn-details-of-third-grade-guarantee.html | 2014-12-18T04:18:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802765610.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075245-00105-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979972 | 694 |
Making Abilene a home, sweet home away from home for airmen
By BRIAN BETHEL | Abilene Reporter-News | Published: November 5, 2017
When William Stinson, 21, came to Dyess Air Force Base 13 months ago, he soon realized how far away from home he really was.
Thanksgiving rolled around, and Stinson, from Savannah, Georgia, recalls he felt "horrible."
"As far as that day, I didn't have anywhere to go, and I was by myself," he said. "Thanksgiving is usually a huge thing, where your family's all together and you're sitting at a table eating and having a good time. And here I was, just by myself."
It's a 14- to 16-hour drive to get home, Stinson said, and "you get homesick sometimes."
"I miss everyone -- my mom, my grandmom, my brothers and sisters, granddad, my uncles," he said.
He hadn't yet met Judy and Allan Farmer, two people he now considers family.
And he wasn't yet a part of Home Away From Home, a program that matches new airmen with families for both fun and support.
Situations like Stinson's are where Home Away From Home shines, Judy Farmer, said. The Farmers are among those who have so far stepped up to become volunteer families.
Now that they've been matched to the Farmers, Stinson and his friend, fellow airman and Home Away From Home pal Maleek Smiley, have somewhere in town to regularly go and things to regularly do.
They and the Farmers hang out several times a month, watch movies (most recently the "Lord of the Rings" films), go out to eat, talk and share thoughts and concerns.
"These young men and women are away from home, sometimes for the first time in their lives," Judy Farmer said. "We just want to reach out and be family to them."
Smiley, who came to Dyess at year ago last week from Brooklyn, and Stinson were already becoming fast friends when they and other first-term airmen heard about Home Away From Home.
"When I first got here to Dyess Air Force Base, I didn't know what my life would be like," Smiley said. "I think it's important that we have this program so we remember what it's like to have a family. When you're away from home you're not with your (loved ones) anymore. You're pretty much on your own."
Like Stinson, he recalled his first Thanksgiving here as bittersweet, missing his small family -- his mother and brother.
"My mother, that was her first Thanksgiving without either of her children," he recalled. "So, it was harder for her than it was for me."
Smiley remembers Facetiming his mother, who told him how proud she was of him and what she was doing.
"I missed her a lot during that time," he said, while he found Texas a new experience, vastly different than what he had known before.
He flew home to see his mother in May, but having the Farmers be here for him, to be forces of stability, help, and fun, has made an enormous difference, he said.
"It kind of helps me stay level," Smiley said. "I know that I have people who love and care for me here in this town, and it's not just I'm 1,000 miles away and I'm all alone. I'm not alone anymore."
For the Farmers, the reward is equal, if not greater.
"We think the world of them," Judy Farmer said. "They come over, we cook them meals, we take them out to dinner. We watch movies, we've invited them to church, just however we can be a part of their lives, and to just be able to have that home away from home."
Allan Farmer said that to him, the value of the program is simply apparent.
"They live in our community and they serve our nation and they defend our freedom, and they're a long way from home," he said, noting that "whatever us and the community at-large can do to help them feel more welcome, to help them feel a little more secure" was beneficial to all.
"I consider them my sons," he said. "I'm very proud of them, and I want them to know that."
Experiences such as Stinson and Smiley's with the Farmers are exactly why the organization exists, said former Dyess Air Force commander Michael Bob Starr, founder and board member of Abilene's Home Away From Home program.
Starr retired from the Air Force and stayed with his wife in Abilene, where today he is director of Global Samaritan Resources.
The program's goal is to match first-term airmen living in the dorms at the air base with Abilene families, he said.
"A first-term airman is what we call someone relatively new to the Air Force," Starr said. "They've been through basic training, they've gone to their follow-on training and then they get their first operation and first real assignment."
Those who typically fit in that mold are 18-20-years old when they first arrive, he said.
The program itself is modeled after one originally established at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. That in turn is modeled on programs that exist at the nation's military academies, Starr said.
"It's almost like a dating service," he said. "We ask the airmen for their list of interests and preferences. We do the same for the families so we don't end up pairing dog people with cat people or Texas A&M fans with University of Texas fans. We don't want anything bad to happen like that."
Families are asked to host two airmen at minimum. Airmen room in the dorms in groups of three, so many roommates want to sign up together to be assigned to the same family, he said.
Volunteers are asked to do something with their airmen at least once a month for the length of their assignment in Abilene.
That can be inviting them over for dinner or a movie, or an activity out and about, such as the recent West Texas Fair & Rodeo.
"The airmen benefit, the families that host benefit, and I think the community benefits," Starr said.
The Air Force spends a good deal of time talking about "resiliency," Starr said, which "in plain English is the ability to cope with challenges."
"Heaven knows we throw a lot of challenges at these young men and women," he said. "So, having that local resource, someone to lean on, helps them cope better with life in general and just being a young person."
Many will be buying their own car for the first time, while some are going to live alone for the first time as they transition out of dorm life. Some are earning a paycheck for the first time, and need to learn about being financially wise.
"We were all young," Starr said. "They get some help coping with that stage of their life and the unique challenges of the Air Force. They also get exposed to some of the great things that West Texas has to offer."
Starr believes families should get an understanding of the Air Force mission at a much finer level.
Every time a B-1 or C-130 takes off, that event is preceded by "thousands of little events," he said.
"And the people doing those thousands of little events are your airmen," Starr said, from fuel truck drivers to cargo loaders to those who coordinate with the FAA for flight plans.
"They are very proud of what they do, and they're very good at what they do," he said. "And so I think the people who host will see a side of the Air Force that makes them appreciate what happens at Dyess even more."
The program had its initial run of airmen matched to families just before the holidays last year, but there are around 550 airmen who live in Dyess' on-campus dorms, said Judy Farmer, who in addition to being a volunteer is also now on the local nonprofit's board.
While not all of those personnel will want to be part of Home Away From Home, many do -- but can't, at least yet.
"We have so many airmen out there that want a family," Farmer said. "But we don't have the families."
At a recent board meeting, a goal was mentioned of getting 250 airmen adopted.
"We've only got like 10 right now, so we've got a long way to go," Farmer said. (And) that's why we have to get the word out."
Farmer, who serves on the Abilene Chamber of Commerce's Military Affairs Committee and was for two years an honorary Command Chief at Dyess, said that Abilene is both a caring community in general and one that cares about the base itself.
"I think we won't have a problem getting the people, they just need to know about it," she said.
Stinson and Smiley said they hoped more airmen could get the sort of help and support that they've found in their Home Away From Home family.
"Having a support system here in the palm of your hands to support you (in) anything you're going through, whether it be financial, emotional , or spiritual, you have that family outlet that you can go to at any point in time," Stinson said. "That gives a great feeling."
Smiley agreed, calling himself blessed to have a family such as the Farmers.
"If you're blessed enough to have a family like this, you'll never feel like you went away," he said. "You'll never feel like you left (home)."
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MAD FIGS Digest #13-4 - 9/22/09As some people may have heard, the MAD FIGS webpage was recently moved to a new server that allows a lot of interesting features to be added. One thing that I put in as I updated the files was tracking through Google Analytics, which provides detailed statistics on how many people have visited the site. Normally we get about 0-2 hits per day, so I don't keep a close eye on it. However, when I checked it recently I saw that since August 15th, the visitors had increased by 880 percent to an average of 75 per day! Virtually all of them were coming to read the Brick Joke:
If you search for "brick joke" we are the first result (due to the page being in pretty much the same location for well over 10 years), but I'm not sure why there is suddenly a renewed interest in this. I guess it must have been mentioned on a TV show or something, but it's still very mysterious.
Another interesting thing you can learn is what search terms people entered in order to find the site. Here are some of the most interesting ones this month:
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Keep an eye on madfigs.com - I'm almost done updating the old pages, so there may actually be new content coming soon! Current ideas include a satellite map of the frisbee golf course, more information on the long-rumored MAD FIGS movie, and more new Septathalon statistics. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know! | <urn:uuid:e8a0017d-1709-42bf-af4d-fb55d6246b39> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | http://madfigs.com/digests/digest1304.php | 2018-12-17T08:06:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376828448.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20181217065106-20181217091106-00354.warc.gz | en | 0.959331 | 369 |
My time seems to have suddenly disintegrated. Between 9 hours of German lessons per week (3 hours on Monday, Wednesday and Friday), training, exercise and festivals, I barely seem to have time to check my online comics or even sit and watch a tv series.
Just last Sunday, where I was expecting to take it slowly, I went to the Grüneburgpark to train @ firedance a bit and I ended up hanging out with a party of people sitting around playing with drums (Τουμπερλέκια ελληνιστί) and generally having a good time. They drew me in and I went home at 11pm instead of the 7:30pm I was initially planning to. I’m not complaining mind you, I like meeting new people and doing stuff but I don’t seem to be able to manage some time for computer projects and the site and I’m also afraid people will start to think that I’m ingoring/avoiding them. | <urn:uuid:af17a014-cfd4-4508-bb6e-ef9d40c98e40> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://dbzer0.com/blog/swamped/ | 2017-03-30T02:34:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218191984.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212951-00388-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976472 | 220 |
Having the fridge repaired and the brakes fail on the same trip from the dealer was more excitement that we wanted. But today, we gather the motor home from Monument Chevrolet in Pasadena and begin four weeks of scheduled maintenance for Thursday along with packing for our little trip. Gee, I wish I were twins!
We got a new portable grill as I killed our old one using it for our only family grill for months last year after hurricane Ike. I still have to wash/wax the coach but it may just have to travel in it's "natural" state this trip. The journey is kind of tight with PowWow for the first two days then off to Crater of Diamonds State Park for a bit of dirt sifting and some quartz mining on the "mountain". This is something we have put off for a few years now but should make it back this trip if all goes well. We plan to add a day to the trip and swing by Lake Charles the last day for a Peter Frampton concert at the Isle of Capri (thanks Isle for such a great summer series with Lonestar, Frampton, the Commodores and 38 Special, May-August. The room at the Isle is small and has the feel of a private party. Well worth the bucks we wager at the casino.
Our "house / cat sitter" is lined up...Thanks girl you are the greatest.... so no worries on the home front.
For those who frequent http://Jatexas.com you will note my "hurricane" link...June starts the Atlantic Hurricane season which should prove to be a busy travel/evacuation season but time will tell. Our "Hurricane Action Plan" is in place and we await whatever surprises Mother Nature passes our way.
If we find a nice stone, win the lottery or stay poor it matters not. Shari and have the life we planned when we got married in 1974 and thanks to the Grace of God are able to enjoy our home, RV and each other for the rest of our time together. I always say "if we were having any more fun we would have to be twins to enjoy it all".
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This week is the inaugural Tokelau Language Week (29 October – 4 November). The theme is Ke mau ki pale o Tokelau: Hold fast to the treasures of Tokelau. To celebrate, the Pacific Cultures team will post a blog each day highlighting cultural treasures from Tokelau in Te Papa’s collections.
This second blog post acknowledges the relationship and treasures gifted by the Mafutaga Tupulaga Tokelau from Porirua to Te Papa (then known as the National Museum) in 1986. Of the 20 treasures, items included a walking stick, paddles and tuluma (container). According to the 2006 census, about half of the Tokelau population in New Zealand live in Wellington.
Since the 1970s, in April, an Easter Festival has been organized by the Tokelauan community. This year, the festival featured Tokelau treasures from Te Papa’s collection in an exhibition held at the Te Rauparaha Arena in Porirua. To read more about this special occasion, click on the following blog post: Tokelau Expo – a different loan request. | <urn:uuid:349c5bf8-e0cc-4796-a3ec-d0ff052b110b> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2012/10/30/treasures-from-the-porirua-mafutaga-tupulaga-tokelau/ | 2015-11-28T09:32:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398451872.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205411-00289-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907203 | 232 |
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Kent has more shops selling legal highs than any other county in the UK, it's claimed.
Only Greater London has a higher number of so-called head shops than Kent, according to research by the Angelus Foundation.
The charity, which aims to raise awareness about legal highs, says the county has 13 head shops - which specialise in selling legal alternatives to drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy.
That is around 5% of 260 such shops logged by the foundation for the UK as a whole.
Jeremy Sare, director for government affairs and communications at the Angelus Foundation, said: "In the absence of government doing anything about it, we decided to embark on research.
"It was based on online information we could obtain and also follow-up calls with Trading Standards in each individual county.”
He added: “A 100 per cent perfect figure is impossible to achieve but we have strong indications that the total is in the hundreds. Ours is a low estimate, it’s a much worse problem than we can measure.”
The research was conducted between September and November last year.
Greater London was the only area with more head shops - with 16 identified across the city.
However, Mr Sare admitted the findings from Kent came as a surprise, as much larger counties including Lincolnshire and Yorkshire where analysed, with lower figures.
He is concerned about the dangers posed to youngsters across the county.
He said: “The risks on health are immediate. This stuff can really knock you absolutely flat and hospitalise you if you put too much in.
"There’s the short-term immediate risks but in the long-term, it’s completely unknown.
"We can’t have any reassurance from the suppliers about them because they know as little as anybody else - which is nothing."
His warning comes after several incidents in Kent, including at least one teenager dying after taking legal highs.
The most recent case involved three teenage girls in Ashford needing hospital treatment after taking the substances last month.
“The risks on health are immediate. This stuff can really knock you absolutely flat and hospitalise you if you put too much in" - Jeremy Sare
He called for head shops to recognise the impact of the products they are selling.
Mr Sare said: "They all have a massive responsibility and I don’t see any evidence that they are taking that responsibility seriously – how could they when there have been no tests on the health risks of these drugs.
"So they just have to go through this absurd double-think where they have to sell stuff which they know is dangerous.”
The organisation is now urging head shops to change their behaviour, to prevent further tragedies involving legal highs.
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One night only, Oct. 25, 2019 @ 8pm at The Mansion in Branson, Missouri.
In concert, their performances were simply magical events, filled with incredible family harmonies, total professionalism, and downright fun for both the trio and their audiences. Over the next decade the Brothers scored more than a dozen Top 40 hits, including "Denver," "Houston (Mean That I'm One Day Closer To You)," Midnight Choir (Mogen David)," and "She Used To Be Somebody's Baby," "I Don't Want To Cry," "Statues Without Hearts," "What Are We Doing Lonesome," I've Done Enough Dyin' Today," "Take Me To Your Lovin' Place," "Night Time Magic," "Love Is Just A Game," "The Lady Takes The Cowboy Every Time," and Talkin' To The Moon." It was also in 79' that Larry Gatlin won the ACM's "Top Male Vocalist," Straight Ahead won "Album of the Year," and "All the Gold in California" won "Single of the Year."
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"Super Bowl or 'Downton'?" I asked my neighbor as she walked her dog last night. "We switched back and forth," she replied. Me? The game was so lopsided by the time "Downton Abbey" came on, I abandoned the 21st century for the Roaring '20s for the entire hour and, apparently, I did not miss much.
Those of you who are more technologically proficient are asking, "What about TiVo?" I confess, I do not have one, never have, am not sure if TiVo is a gadget or a service, and whenever someone says the word TiVo, my first thought is that they have a slight speech impediment and are commenting upon the once famous, now sidelined, Jesus-thanking quarterback Tim Tebow. But I digress.
The national obsession over the Super Bowl makes little sense to me. While last night's game was one of the least interesting Super Bowls in memory, everyone knows that the best football game of this season was Alabama vs. Auburn, and we knew it was going to be the best game of the year before it happened. The stunning way that game ended -- a missed field goal attempt, caught and run back for a touchdown -- was icing on the cake. College football is not only a far more interesting game, but it affects people differently from the way a pro football team does. Yes, Seattle's players and coaches couldn't stop talking about their "12th man" last night, but college loyalties run deeper than pro loyalties, not least because the players stick with one team in college. Pro teams, not just football, have lost much of their ability to generate civic pride since the advent of free agency and the athletes' subsequent habit of jumping to the highest bidder.
This loss of civic pride quotient was compounded in those cities where the owners of the franchise picked up and moved the whole team to another city. I remember when the Colts left Baltimore and moved to Indianapolis, which seemed like yet another nail in the coffin of a once great American city. In the sequel, Baltimore got the last laugh and is, in fact, a thriving city. The willingness of owners to uproot an entire franchise has also resulted in weirdness, such as the fact that the NBA team is Utah sports the unlikely name "the Jazz."
Sports has long fascinated humankind, and we all need our diversions. Still, I do not understand how and why the Super Bowl becomes such a big event. Yesterday, at the vet, while Bernie the black lab was getting X-rays and tests, the animal hospital's TV was tuned, appropriately enough, to Animal Planet. The Puppy Bowl was playing. At Masses around the country, priests mentioned the Super Bowl in their homilies. Cardinal Timothy Dolan deftly got in on the action, speaking about Vince Lombardi's deep commitment to his faith and his hometown. Bravo to the cardinal: That was great!
Of course, with every human enterprise, the sin accompanies the grace. And, so, the Super Bowl has become a prime venue for sex trafficking. Millions of dollars are wagered and lost on the game's outcome. And the commercialization of the event leaves less and less time for the actual game: How many times did we see news clips about the Budweiser ad, which, admittedly, was a well done ad but was, still, just an ad!
The obsession with "Downton Abbey" is of a different sort. Americans, perhaps because we are always chattering on about progress, and equality, and the American Dream, seem to have a special nostalgia for times and cultures of severe social stratification. Think "Gone with the Wind." And when the nostalgia comes with an English accent, we go bonkers. Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson, the 5'11" quarterback who made it despite his diminutive size, likes to say things like, "You can be whatever you want to be," which is a lie, and Mr. Wilson, a devout Christian, should know better than to tell a lie. But his lie is part of the mythos of America. Perhaps we all feel the need for some engagement with servants and liveries and "the gong" as an antidote.
I missed the first two seasons of "Downton." Not sure why. I got caught up and have become a fan. The most obvious reason is the simplest: Maggie Smith. But "Downton" is also not like watching regular TV. For starters, it is run commercial-free because it is on public television: God bless PBS! More importantly, the script and the characters are believable, although the first episodes of this fourth season struggled a bit. It is funny, but there is no laugh track. Nothing is over-the-top. You can empathize with these people, both upstairs and downstairs, not because you know what it feels like to a the lord of the manor or because you have experience as a lady's maid, but because the plot and the acting are of such good quality, you know how they will react to the situations that come their way. Or am I the only one who really, really wants Mrs. Hughes to be my neighbor?
These cultural obsessions come and go. When I was in college, Granada Television produced "Brideshead Revisited" -- those Brits again! -- and it became the rage. In our dorm, for the final episode, we all dressed up in period attire and watched it together. I, alone among my heathen friends, undergrads at Catholic University all, was thrilled when God won at the end! I am told that when shows like "American Idol" and "Survivor" first began, they had a similar cultural saturation, although I am happy to report that I missed them both. And in sports, I think baseball was bigger in the '60s and '70s when I was growing up, and football not so big, but my impression may be the result of having grown up in Red Sox nation.
I feel like an alien in the culture at times when I think that as many people, or more, watch the Super Bowl as vote in a presidential election. People sit down for a drink on Mondays and talk about how they can't believe what happened to Anna or Carson, but then speak nastily to their waiter. And in this sports-obsessed society, obesity remains a pressing health issue. All cultures are messy and some sense of structure and sanity is placed upon them after the fact, by historians, who must abstract the cultures they study to make them fit for rational organization. Still, our messy, obsessive culture is the culture we are called to evangelize. It is a challenge. It is also the only thing that matters ultimately. Just ask Russell Wilson. | <urn:uuid:6320a00e-09aa-49d9-8465-08374bef3cac> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/our-cultural-obsessions | 2014-10-30T12:38:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414637897717.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20141030025817-00116-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977264 | 1,400 |
Our dog Spike has fallen in love with a possum. Her first love was the white cat from across the street that moved away recently. We didn’t tell Spike because we knew it would upset her. We just pretended the white cat wasn’t home every time we went out walking. Eventually, Spike moved on in life, until she met the giant brushtail that thinks it owns our house.
It happened like this. I left a rubbish bag of fruit on the front verandah. The possum came down and ripped the bag apart with his claws, intending to gorge himself. Spike screamed and scratched at the screen door in a manner we haven’t seen since the early white cat days. The possum looked up, hissed and ran off. Spike spent two hours panting like a marathon runner as she scratched and licked the floor where the possum had been.
I worry about Spike’s mental health. She’s a gentle, loving cavoodle who suffered puppyhood trauma (we don’t talk about). Sometimes she thinks she’s a human, other times a cat, now a possum. But the creature she most certainly isn’t, in her own mind, is a dog. It’s a word we’ve stopped using in the house as it only upsets her. Even the neighbours agree Spike is more like us than a canine. The psychologist neighbour has started a reparenting program, carrying Spike around during the day in a sling so that she develops a secure attachment, perhaps hoping it might make up for the early trauma. Maybe it will also help Spike move on from her new relationship, which isn’t doing her any good at all. Frankly, we were happier with the white cat, who at least had a pedigree.
The possum is a thug, no other word for it. When we moved in to our tiny Queenslander five years ago, we did all the green things. We set up a worm farm where we could compost. I left the lid ajar and in one night, the possum ate all the fruit and vegetable scraps, leaving only a few worms. We planted herbs. Hah! I came out in the morning to half-inch stalks where the herbs had been. I half expected to see the possum lounging in the easy chair belching basil. Men came and put expensive woollen insulation in the roof. The possum shredded it for his bed in the eaves, throwing bits down on to the verandah to mock us.
You might wonder why we haven’t got rid of the possum, using one of the approved methods. It’s because our family has always loved possums, although after my herbs disappeared for the third time, I did send away to New Zealand for possum wool gloves – my own little statement about what pests they are – much to the family’s horror. “How do they get the fur off the possum?” my son asked. “They wait for the possum to die,” I lied. The gloves are very warm.
The possum spends the day in the eaves, weeing down the walls at will, occasionally fighting with other possums who try to move in. They thunder after one another in the roof and it sends Spike into a frenzy. She becomes so excited I’m starting to wonder if she might need a little something from the vet to calm her. But when I mention this to my husband, he looks at me as if he thinks I might need a little something to calm me. At night, if Spike spots the possum, she goes insane.
Finally, I do suggest we get rid of the possum and I find a possum man who relocates them to a nice place in the bush for a fee. But you can’t tell a ten year old the possum man is coming. Or if you do, you’re very stupid. Because the ten year old says, and you should have predicted this, “But this is the possum’s home. We can’t send him away.”
And so the possum remains, a little pink hand hanging down from the gap in the eaves as he sleeps away the days on his fat stomach, his brush out behind him. I wave my gloves around threateningly. He rolls over and snores loudly. He’s not scared, and Spike screams with joy at the smell he gives off. | <urn:uuid:b8e702e0-e1a0-445a-be78-8718ae264419> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://mary-rosemaccoll.com/blog/2013/4/21/possum-love | 2018-11-17T10:49:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743353.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20181117102757-20181117124757-00102.warc.gz | en | 0.974915 | 938 |
Turn it inside out and see what it is like - what it becomes like when old, sick, or prostituting itself. How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.”
(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.21)
“Turning it inside out” is Marcus’ way of saying know and understand all there is to know about something, without bias.
Let’s take something very personal to me: my wife. Rev. Bee is soft, and beautiful, and warm, and kind, generous, intelligent, and ultimately loving. Most of the time those words are the ones I use to relate to and describe her, within my own internal dialogue, as well as outwardly to others. But sometimes I practice thinking of her without the biases of love, desire, or commitment. Sometimes I image her infirmed, or as the victim of age and gravity, or dementia, all the bits about her that made her special, gone. Sometimes I contemplate my wife through the simple lenses of biology and entropy, nothing personal. Sometimes I turn it the other way inside out and imagine her as “more”, doubling her already-blinding brilliance.
The stoic idea behind all this “premeditatio malorum” is this: by consciously examining situations from the inside out, we can be less daunted by them, and thus, less likely to be swayed by them.
Interesting thoughts on the eve of my 48th birthday.
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Talk about a fabulous birthday gift idea–I think Tyler was spot on when he asked if I could photograph a family session as his gift to Kim for her birthday. Would I? Absolutely, I would! And we had all sorts of fun pulling this off! This family brought their A-game for family fun–and I brought in my own fantastically fun assistant–my husband, Dan. Throw in their new dog, a few jokes going on behind my back as I’m taking pictures, and we get results like these.
One common theme I’ve been hearing over the course of my family sessions is from the husbands and fathers. After all is said and done with photographing the session, many have approached me to tell me that they weren’t really looking forward to the session going into it. (No surprises, there!) BUT then they go on to say that they were surprised at how it wasn’t what they expected at all–that it was actually…(dare I say it?)…kind of FUN!
Yes! Yes, it is! And when they come to my office to see all their final portraits for the first time in a video slideshow…well, let’s just say it’s not only the moms who shed a tear or two. 🙂
So here’s to another fabulous family! Enjoy!!
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It's that special time of year - April 10th - which means we're only twelvetyteen days from our next anniversary party. Sounds like as good an excuse to drink as any, right?
Even we can't make "brewed with barley, hops, and shards of glass" sound good - It's in the best interest of everyone that we let you know about the Sam Adams recall.
Sure, but which on goes better with Oscar Meyer bologna? - From the Mercury News comes this article about one of Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione's beer vs. wine dinners - and a mention of his new book.
Beer people: Dedicated. Maybe a little crazy. - A guy over at the beer advocate forums spends his spare time browsing Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau records and stumbles across what appears to be a new beer from Bell's.
Three blogs for every beer - The always growing Indiana beer website family adds a new member with Brew Bits - who's reporting on the R. Bistro/3 Floyds Craft Beer dinner on Tuesday, May 6. Welcome to the family, Brew Bits - I'm right there with you on the Triple.
Subscribers: 0 - And if you were ever wondering about the creative process behind the graphics at Hoosier Beer Geek, I've written a short guide over on my stupid blog. One thing I failed to mention - it was Jason's idea to have the sausages flying out of the car windows on the Oktoberfest poster. I guess the odd thing is that he's requested sausages on every poster since. | <urn:uuid:6efe5d2f-f42a-4f31-a8e9-dca7fb717770> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hoosierbeergeek.blogspot.com/2008/04/random-beer-roundup.html | 2013-05-26T03:31:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706578727/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121618-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967145 | 332 |
Phil Hill, education consultant and blogger, is giving the keynote on the second day of UD’s annual Summer Faculty Institute, May 29, 2013. In this interview, Hill talked about the history of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and how they fit in with the overall history of open education and “distance” education. He also talked about many of the complexities of MOOCs and other open education initiatives–there is not one monolithic model for a MOOC, nor is just one type of student attracted to a MOOC.
Hill talked about the diffusion of educational innovation; hybrid models of education that include faculty innovation, open resources, and changes in the classroom; MOOC use outside higher education; faculty response, pro and con–including some valid faculty objections to certain kinds of MOOCs; and more issues raised by MOOCs and the open education movement. In short, Hill’s interview goes a long way towards separating the hype from the reality on the use of MOOCs in education.
Listen to the interview
Phil Hill, Speaker, May 29, 2013, at UD Summer Faculty Institute
About our guest
Phil Hill is co-publisher of the e-Literate blog and has spent the last 10 years advising online education and educational technology organizations and providing insights into the broader education market trends and issues. Hill helps higher education institutions develop effective strategies to understand and implement online education programs. Hill’s clients have included the University of Iowa, UCLA, University of Maryland University College, and other universities and colleges.
Hill is the co-founder, along with Michael Feldstein, of MindWires Consulting, a strategic consulting company that helps higher education institutions and the companies that support them to make necessary changes based on the new world of digital education.
Phil gave the keynote address at this year’s EDUCAUSE Learning Institute online spring focus session, “Learning and the MOOC” and has also written for EDUCAUSE Review and been quoted in a number of national publications.
- UD Summer Faculty Institute
- @PhilOnEdTech twitter feed (Phil Hill)
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Elements and Elaboration
The horrific days of the Great Hunger (1845-1852) are documented by many historians, and we have learned so much by considering the writings by Christine Kinealy, Kerby Miller and Cecil Woodham-Smith, among others. Documentaries have been done over recent years that have put faces and names on those who suffered and died during those tragic years.
The City of Baltimore was among the important immigrant ports: America’s 2nd largest city in the mid-19th century, and second largest point of immigration prior to 1900. The city's significance brought many Irish to the Chesapeake region, and ships of all dimensions found their way to the city’s quarantine station, known as Lazaretto Point Lighthouse (see image).
We have writings available via the historical Baltimore Sun that tell the stories of famine ship arrivals during the worst days, known as Black ’47. Our Museum has featured these in our Great Hunger Remembrances over the years, and also in our Passage Room display in 918 Lemmon Street. Knowing the worst of those days is important, giving us context on our immigrant ancestor’s experiences, and building up our own understanding of their sacrifices on our behalf, historically speaking.
A striking example of the pain and suffering experienced by many just surfaced a few days ago via our recently revamped web site (www.irishshrine.org ). We received an email from a curious descendant who wanted to learn a bit more about the final disposition of ancestor Thomas Brennan. Family lore told her that he had died while being quarantined in Baltimore once his ship had arrived. This really piqued our curiosity, as we had spent considerable time learning about Lazaretto Point Lighthouse and Quarantine Station in Baltimore’s South Canton neighborhood (see this modern image below).
Newspaper accounts have told us how some died just as their ship arrived in Baltimore, while under quarantine, despite the best efforts of civil, religious, medical and ethnic groups. Learning about a particular person who died there, and was buried in the nearby shallow graves was a sobering experience, and encouraged me towards a more careful examination.
Thomas and Bridget Brennan were among 69 passengers who sailed westward aboard the tiny Brig John Begg, destination Baltimore. Ship passenger records were provided by a descendant of the Brennans, and we learned much about their particularly harsh and traumatic journey.
The Brig John Begg, captained by William McDonough departed Galway on December 7, 1848. The ship itself had a capacity of 79 passengers(on the small side). This makes sense given that Galway harbor was a fairly shallow one in comparison to Liverpool, where ships triple the capacity of the Begg could board passengers in a deep harbor.
It is said that small ships sailing from smaller harbors were particularly apt to be in poor condition, as inspections were less likely to be as thorough as they might have been in larger departure points. Suffering Irish who might not have survived the land journey to Queenstown/Cobh, Liverpool or Derry/Londonderry, due to severely compromised health, could have survived the walk from their homes in the West of Ireland to Galway’s closer harbor.
Another remarkable realization is that this small ship departed in early December: not exactly sailing season. Ships sailed the Atlantic year-round, but a winter sail could be particularly treacherous. This seems to have been the case with the John Begg, which took eleven weeks to cross the Atlantic. People ask us at the Museum about the length of the journey the Irish took during famine times, and our general impressions, based on occasional research has led us to reply that the typical journey could have been from 4-8 weeks…but not this time.
Food on Board
Imagine how far stretched rations were when your journey took twice as long as many did! Captains were responsible to supply food on a daily basis for his passengers, but were also the decision maker when it became obvious that the ship could not make it to its destination within the time period on which the ship’s food supplies were based. Less food meant weakness among the passengers, and was especially dangerous due to the poor condition of many.
Food became even more desperate on the John Begg during its disastrous journey, as high seas and treacherous weather brought considerable damage to the brig. Bulwarks and stancheons were lost at sea, and passengers who cooked at the fires on deck would have been in considerable danger to be swept into the sea by rough waters. It is likely that the desperate would have been ordered to take their meals below deck. This would have led to them eating even less, while suffering from a lack of space, fresh air and light (see image, courtesy of Rodney Charman).
Their tiny ship and its tumultuous voyage led to an inevitable consequence: deaths at sea. Six Irish passengers died during the eleven-week voyage. We do not know their physical condition when they boarded ship, but we do know that even the healthiest could become ill and die during these treacherous journeys. The Begg’s trip would have doubled the likelihood of death due to the length of the journey and the lack of medical care.
We like to think of the arrival of ships at Baltimore’s Lazaretto Point quarantine station as a hopeful moment for most. Medical care was waiting for passengers such as the Brennans, but was sometimes too late for those who barely survived the journey. Thomas Brennan was one of five passengers of the John Begg who died while under quarantine, bringing to eleven the number of passengers who did not survive the journey. Sixty-nine boarded in Galway harbor, but a mere fifty-eight finally made their way into Baltimore to begin new lives, or journey further.
Thomas Brennan was not without a legacy in the country where his body was laid in early 1849. He and his wife Bridget had left their daughter Mary in County Galway, who they thought would join them later.
Mary (pictured) did eventually come and join her mother Bridget in America, and her second husband James Tierney. She eventually married Stephen Tierney herself and they had nine children together, including 5 beautiful daughters (pictured below) who would perpetuate the family themselves.
We remember Thomas Brennan and his fellow passengers who did not survive their flight westward across the Atlantic from the horrors of the West of Ireland. The shallow graves that held the dying arrivals have been lost to time, as the area became an industrial center in later years. That does not mean that we cannot remember our desperate ancestors who arrived in those days. We encourage you to spend a few moments at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry when you can, and look across the water where a large section of storage towers for Lehigh Cement are located. Just to the right of them is a replica of the Lazaretto Point Lighthouse, constructed just 50 feet from the original location. It was placed in remembrance of Norman J. Rukert, a historian of the port of Baltimore. We can also remember those who survived eleven winter weeks on the open sea…and those who did not.
Thanks to each who contributed to this writing, including:
American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 1849
Baltimore Sun, 1849
Boston Courier, 1849
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Making a chair at home isn’t difficult, though! All you need is to have a bit of patience and put in a little amount of effort, and it shall be done. If you are still wondering where to start from, refer to the complete guide of how to make a chair at home right here, and you would be able to do it for yourself all at ease.
Collect the DIY materials:
Depending on the kind of chair that you want to build, gather the materials, be it plywood, dowels, wood glue, screws, a drill, a circular saw, or a jigsaw, whichever you would need to get the task done. You can easily avail these items either from the hardware stores or from some other local companies.
Assemble the sides:
Drill the holes into the posts and cut the sides, thereby making the correct size. Cut the holes into both ends identically. Next, take the glue and insert the dowels into the holes. Once you have fit all the pieces together to both sides of the chair, flush off the sides with the tops. Of course, your DIY Home office chair depends solely on your requirement, and thus, you will have to select accordingly.
Prepare the connections:
Once all the parts are ready, now it’s time for you to put all of them together. Cut the pieces and then arrange a square from the plywood to form the seat. Next, you will have to cut the notches out of the corners to make the back post. Make sure that you are drilling the dowel holes from each end of the board. You would thus, need to line up the piece with the seat segment. Your next task would be to drill the centered pilot holes in the posts to align with the decking screws from the bottom of the tall posts and the top of the short posts.
Build the back area of the chair:
Complete building your DIY Home office chair with glue and insert the dowels into the both ends of the pieces. Give some time for the glue to set with the segments. Once you have positioned the seat in place with both sides of the chair, give the posts some time to fit snugly into their respective notches. Insert the decking screws via the plywood and then put them down into the center of the front posts until everything appears to be secure at their places. If you want, go for staining or painting the chair to offer a more refined look!
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E-ticket sales for Royal Norfolk Show have already surpassed last year’s total
Online ticket sales for the Royal Norfolk Show have already eclipsed last year's total – and they're still available at reduced prices.
E-tickets were introduced for the event last year, and can offer families savings of up to 30pc by booking in advance on the internet.
By 9.30am today, 20,750 E-tickets had been sold, compared to about 15,000 for the whole two-day show last year – of which, 5,000 were bought during the event.
Organisers said a further 7,000 online car passes have also been purchased this year.
Family tickets to the show cost £50 in advance/£70 on the gate (two adults, three children); Adult: £19/£24; Children: (aged five-16) £7/£10; Under fives: free; Over 65s: £17/£22; Registered disabled: £17/£22; Carer: £10/£12.
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There is a 10pc discount for groups of 25 or more.
Online tickets are available via the Royal Norfolk Show website, www.royalnorfolkshow.co.uk.
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- 10 Gypsy and travellers await planning appeal result | <urn:uuid:5f27c3c1-ec3e-4c2a-9ebb-36f83c1a280b> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/e-ticket-sales-for-royal-norfolk-show-have-already-surpassed-673394 | 2021-06-19T13:13:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487648194.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20210619111846-20210619141846-00584.warc.gz | en | 0.947191 | 410 |
Introducing Lusya — 120 photos
She started her every week cleaning late in the evening. Firstly she cleaned first level of her house and when she decided to clean the second one she felt herself very tired. She couldn’t walk more.
The air was very stuffy. So she took her cloth off and lay on the stairs. Because of this we were able to see her figure and body. She even showed her pussy to us.
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Officers investigated for misuse of images
Two Broome police officers have been stood down while an investigation is underway into whether they illegally misused a police computer.
It is alleged the constable and senior constable unlawfully used forensic images outside of their official duty.
The officers have been sent to Perth and a police internal investigation will examine whether criminal charges should be laid.
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Born December 30, 1887 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Under the management of George Engel, he began boxing in 1904.
Short and stocky, Klaus was an aggressive, two-fisted battler who possessed an incredible ability to absorb punishment, yet still come back to hurt his foe. Klaus met the top men in the middleweight division, engaging in “no decision” bouts with Hugo Kelly, Billy Papke, Harry Lewis, Stanley Ketchel, and Cylcone Johnny Thompson among others. Wins over Jack (Twin) Sullivan (W 12), Jimmy Gardner (W 12), and Leo Houck (W 12) propelled him to a vacant middleweight title bout (recognized in Europe) with Georges Carpentier in Diepe, France on June 24, 1912. Klaus won via foul in the 19th round when the Frenchman's manager stepped in the ring to save his charge from absorbing more damaging blows.
On March 5, 1913 he won universal acceptance as champion when he defeated recognized champion Papke in Paris via foul in the 15th round. Seven months later Klaus lost the title in an upset loss to George Chip (KO by 6). Unsuccessful in the rematch later that year, Klaus would be inactive from 1913 until boxing Harry Greb in a 1918 “no decision” bout.
He retired with a pro ledger of 51-4-2, 33 NDs (27 KOs). In retirement Klaus was active in the hotel business. He died in Pittsburgh on February 8, 1948.
Born: Dec. 30, 1887
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Are you always looking for a fast and easy snack? Like oatmeal but lack the time to make oatmeal from scratch or do the dishes? Yoplait Plenti Oatmeal Meets Greek Yogurt has a solution!
Available in 6 flavors of Blueberry, Apple Cinnamon, Maple Brown Sugar, Peach, Strawberry, and Vanilla, there’s a taste for any preference. And there’s no microwave or stove pot needed.
Plenti Oatmeal Meets Greek Yogurt features:
• The texture and goodness of oatmeal
• The cool creaminess of Greek yogurt
• Ready-to-eat and convenient – no microwave required, just grab a spoon!
• 6 delicious flavors: Apple Cinnamon, Maple Brown Sugar, Peach, Blueberry, Strawberry, and Vanilla
• Each cup has 16 grams of whole grain*
• Each cup has 11 grams of protein
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Boeing has chosen Android to power the in-flight entertainment system of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft. For other aircraft, airlines are able to choose their own entertainment contracts, but the 787 will feature a package deal to save costs.
The inflight entertainment system will feature music, videos and apps that will run on screens ranging from 7- 17 inches. This is a big win for Android as it will see further expansion on all airlines that will use the 787 Dreamliner. If you know much about the 787, it has continuously been delayed. However, there is much anticipation for it and once it starts flying, it will likely be an incredibly popular aircraft due to its fuel efficiency. No word yet on when exactly we'll see Android inside, but it's an exciting prospect for the future.
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Ross is a graphic designer who specializes in identity development. He renders compelling designs through print, digital and environmental media. His experience, creativity, and collaborative spirit set him apart.
I’d love to get to know more about you and your project. Feel free to send me an email or connect via social media.
Ross Geerdes, Creative Director
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Excerpt from CALLING FROM THE SKY
Posted by Elfriede Copple
Today we would like to share another excerpt from our book that was published recently. We hope you enjoy the reading.
The jump would be static line, not freefall, and it would be from a C-130 Hercules flying at only 1,000 feet above the ground. The jumpers were reminded that reaction time for malfunctioned parachutes would be diminished by the lower parachute opening altitude of 820 feet.
On the previous four jumps, Ned and Luke had been the first two to exit on two jumps and the last ones in their sticks on the other two. They were the two highest ranking people in the class, and it was typical to manifest the jump order in this fashion. The order was purposely reversed for every other jump mission so that all jumpers could equally experience moving their heavy equipment bags to the door in the proper, timely manner.
Smiling at Luke, Ned said, “Corbett, both times we were first out, you got out your door before I got out mine. It’s not going to happen this time. I’m leaving before you.”
Stupidly, Luke accepted Ned’s challenge. He replied only with a knowing smile.
The jumpers boarded the C-130 well after dark. It was an engines running onload. Luke was last to walk up the tail ramp on the left side, and Ned Mayfield was last on the right side. This would have them seated on the canvas side-facing seats nearest the left and right troop doors, respectively. Once all jumpers were seated, the Hercules began its taxi to the runway. The roaring, changing pitch of the turbo props added to the excitement.
Upon taking the runway, the big cargo plane started to vibrate and rattle as the pilot levered the throttles forward. Speaking with another jumper was virtually impossible over all the noise—especially since each man was wearing a steel pot helmet.
They were airborne for about one hour before approaching the drop zone. All lights in the rear of the aircraft were minimized to better the jumpers’ night vision. At six minutes prior to exit time, the jumpmaster gave the command “Stand up!” All jumpers stood, their static lines were hooked up to the aircraft’s anchor line cable and they waited for the one-minute-out call, signaling the jumpmaster to give the “Stand in the door” command. Luke’s thoughts were occupied with how to be the first one out of the airplane.
“Stand….in the door!” The jumpmaster gave the next to last command.
Luke, with his feet barely touching the floor, moved himself and the heavy, long equipment bag to the door. Standing in the doorway, he was able to use his knees to lift the bag off the floor and push it out into the turbulent wind from the prop blast and the plane’s 135-knot speed. The bag, fastened to Luke’s harness and whipping in the prop blast, nearly pulled him out of the aircraft. He kept his hands on either side of the troop door, fingers on the outside to help pull himself up and spring himself out and thumbs on the inside, holding him in.
He didn’t focus on the red jump light yet. First, he wanted to see the drop zone below. All he could see down there was total blackness. It was an overcast night, and it was pitch black dark.
Finally, Luke could see the two small green timing lights that marked a perpendicular line just before crossing the leading edge of the drop zone. The navigator used the timing lights for counting off seconds before switching the jumper’s red light to green. This visual indicator was the jumpmaster’s signal to give the final command, “Go!”
Luke didn’t wait for the jumpmaster’s command. He didn’t wait for the green light either. Upon passing over the drop zone timing lights, he’d switched his focus to the red light. Both hands were wrapped around the outside edges of each side of the door, ready to lunge his body out into the air—even if that light so much as blinked!
When he saw the red light go off—not even seeing the green light—Luke leaped out as fast and as far as he humanly could thrust the mass of his body and the heavy equipment bag.
The cool air felt refreshing, and he had that same feeling of freedom that he always experienced when getting away from the violent wind and noise produced by the engines and propellers.
He welcomed the canopy opening shock at the usual three seconds away from the huge C-130. When he looked up to check his canopy, making sure it had not malfunctioned, it was so obscured, he couldn’t see. It was too dark. Everything felt normal. The transition of the high wind and noise a few seconds before to calm and quiet created the feeling of being suspended in total stillness.
He looked down, trying to orient himself to the drop zone. Suddenly, he felt himself bounce slightly, a feeling usually not apparent because the parachute is usually at the mercy of the wind. If the wind speed increases, the parachute simply flows with the air current. The jumper doesn’t feel the resistance, because the parachute travels with the air movement. By instinct Luke looked up to check his canopy again, because he was definitely experiencing an accelerating falling sensation. The only way his speed could have picked up would have been in the vertical direction—down! His canopy must have malfunctioned.
A split second thought flashed through Luke’s mind: Is this one of Green’s tricks?
Looking up into the blackness of the night above him, he wasn’t sure, but it looked like the canopy was distorted from its normal round shape. There was no time to waste! In the jump school training, it was thoroughly instilled into the jumpers never to waste time if there was any doubt. Open the reserve parachute immediately. “When in doubt, whip it out” was the phrase the instructors used to drill it into the new parachutists.
Instead of just pulling the ripcord on the reserve and taking the chance that the reserve might become entangled with the malfunctioned main canopy, Luke used his skydiving training and began a hand-deployment of the chest-mounted reserve. This meant that while pulling the reserve ripcord with his right hand, he held the container closed with his left hand. Then, his next step would have been to throw away the ripcord, freeing his right hand to help scoop out the reserve canopy, hold it with both hands, and throw it out away from himself and away from the malfunctioned canopy above him. This would greatly decrease the chances of an entanglement with the main canopy—a situation that could result in a main and reserve canopy streamer situation.
Pressing the front mounted reserve container closed with his left hand, Luke pulled the reserve ripcord but left the ripcord handle secured in its elastic pocket so as not to lose it. Now the reserve canopy was accessible, and Luke maintained pressure on it with his left hand to keep it from falling out and becoming entangled with the main canopy until he could scoop it out and throw it. But suddenly he saw another jumper descending at a high speed only a little over an arm’s reach in front of him!
“Luke, is that you?” Luke heard Ned Mayfield’s voice, now from a few feet below.
Luke had beaten Mayfield out of the airplane only to have the tech sergeant end up directly above his own canopy. This meant that there was no air to fill Mayfield’s canopy. The pressure that would have held Mayfield’s round canopy open would have been produced as the parachute descended into new air below. However, since Luke’s canopy was already below, Luke’s canopy was using that air, creating a vortex, or an eddy, like a hole in the air—a vacuum. Therefore, Ned Mayfield needed to run off of the top of Luke’s canopy to get away, fall off the side, and find air for his own canopy.
But, when Mayfield ran off, he could not see in the dark that he was running to the rear of Luke’s main canopy, directly into the opening that was cut out in the back of the chute that produces forward speed and creates some maneuverability. Ned Mayfield was now trapped beneath the canopy and inside the lines of Luke’s parachute!
“Yes, Ned, it’s me.”
At that moment, Ned had descended enough below Luke for his canopy to find the air beneath Luke’s canopy and had gotten enough force to open his main. However, Mayfield’s parachute was now using the air immediately under Luke! Now there was no air remaining to sustain Luke’s canopy. He fell below Ned, resulting in the opening of his own canopy again, and then Ned’s parachute lost air. They were in a fatal “seesaw” entanglement on a low-altitude pitch-black night jump!
They were dangerously close to impact with the ground. They both knew from the excellent training they’d gotten that one of them needed to reach out and get a hold of the other’s suspension lines to stop the canopies as nearly side by side as possible. Just as he was thinking about this, Luke heard Ned ask, “Luke, can you get a hold of my lines?”
“I’ve got my hands kind of full here.” Luke was still pressing tight to the opened reserve container to prevent the canopy from getting out and worsening the situation! He knew there was no choice, because Ned’s voice sounded like he had given up.
Pressing the reserve container tightly with his left hand to keep it from opening, Luke reached out with his right hand, grasping for the other man’s suspension lines as they went flying past each other. The force was too great. He felt unbearable pain in his hand as the friction of the nylon lines burned the inside of his bent fingers. He lost his grip.
Loosing your fingers or loosing your life?
What will it be?
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There's a lot going on around here…
Yah Sure You Betcha Shoppe is a retail gift shoppe and then some. We've got a retail shoppe with a whole lotta creativity happening in the background!
The Retail Shoppe
We've got a little bit of everything at Yah Sure You Betcha Shoppe... Tees, sweatshirts, souvenirs, Midwest- and Norwegian-themed gifts and apparel. Since 2012, we've also been the exclusive outlet for Spring Grove Lions apparel and accessories.
We moved to Main Street early in 2014 and absolutely love it here! Spring Grove, Minnesota is a great place to be!
Since 2010, Robin has been providing custom apparel designs for customers in and around Spring Grove. It all began with a few orders for custom apparel for a local school's athletic boosters program. Most designs in the retail Shoppe have also been designed by Robin. Anything from employee logo wear, to fun shirts for a group or fund-raiser, can be ordered at Yah Sure You Betcha Shoppe.
To shop for apparel for your business, employees, or fundraiser, please check out the following links:
I've been doing freelance graphic design since... well, a super long time. The idea of building a business around this began in 2009. Since then our client base has grown and we have designed print, signage, apparel, logos, promotional products and more for a wide variety of clientele. More about my design here.
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Angeles Emeralds Proposes A Motion to Regulate Cannabis in LA County
At the request of the office of LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis, Angeles Emeralds submitted today a motion on how to proceed with cannabis regulations in LA County.
Most notably we have recommended setting up an advisory committee with various community voices to represent interests and concerns with the goal of recommending responsible cannabis policies.
With the anticipation of the passing of Prop64 we look forward to working with the county on its' next steps towards establishing a regulated market and helping us transition existing operators, ultimately providing safe access for LA County's residents.
On June 19th, LA County Board of Supervisors were being presented with full reports on cannabis regulations and were asked to decide on three options.
LA County Board of Supervisors were officially presented the Cannabis Advisory Workgroup's Recommendations Report, and presenting Angeles Emeralds co-founder Jonatan Cvetko, and other workgroup members an award for their efforts.
On May 24th, 2016 a small group of us began our journey advocating for responsible cannabis regulations in LA County. Over the last two years we've achieved many notable milestones.
LA County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a motion in support of Assemblymember Bonta's automated expungement Bill AB 1793. | <urn:uuid:9b2bd0e1-cc57-4fcb-9555-6f25eb98247d> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.angelesemeralds.org/news/2016/10/28/angeles-emeralds-proposes-a-motion-to-regulate-cannabis-in-la-county | 2019-08-19T09:35:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027314696.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20190819073232-20190819095232-00002.warc.gz | en | 0.955395 | 263 |
Yes, but you must ensure that you collect the contact's email address in any Freshchat conversations and then map this to the ticket when the Freshchat/Freshdesk integration creates it.
Freshdesk needs an email address for a contact to send ticket replies. The Opinyin Freshdesk app uses the Freshdesk platform to send out Survey invites there it also needs this information. If the Freshchat/Freshdesk integration does not map the contact's email address to the ticket when it is created, then Opinyin App will not be able to send a survey invite on ticket close.
Collecting an email address in Freshchat
We recommend using a bot to do this as this will then collect to information irrespective of the channel you use, i.e. web, WhatsApp, etc.
For more information, read: https://support.freshchat.com/support/solutions/articles/50000000976-hallway-lead-bot
An alternative solution is to use a pre-chat form, but this is only available in the web interface with Freshchat.
For more information, read: https://support.freshchat.com/support/solutions/articles/233349-pre-chat-form
Mapping an email address to the ticket created in Freshdesk
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Nigel Rogers of suburban Harrisburg’s Capital Punishment Boxing Club captured a Pennsylvania Golden Gloves open class title in impressive fashion Saturday night at Philadelphia’s Front Street Gym, knocking out defending 178-pound champ Aaron Wright with 1:17 gone in the opening round.
"It is [exciting]," said Capital Boxing Club trainer Jose Martinez. "Even the Pennsylvania Golden Gloves president Lola [Cariello] came over to our corner when Nigel was still in the ring and she said, 'You know you just beat the defending state champ. You just knocked out the defending state champ.'
"We were like, 'We knew that, but we were ready for that guy.'`"
And Rogers (8-3), who has won eight of nine bouts since aligning with Capital, obviously was ready for Wright. Ironically, in his last fight in Philly, Rogers also scored a first-round knockout to win a Mid-Atlantic championship and earn a trip to the USA Nationals tournament in Fort Carson, Colo.
The 24-year-old Rogers, who lives in Lewistown, now advances to the National Golden Gloves tournament April 30-May 5 at Casa Blanca Resort in Mesquite, Nev.
Rogers will be the first Harrisburg-based male fighter to compete at the National Golden Gloves since Josh Bowles reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 tournament in Salt Lake City. Bowles, like Rogers, trains at Capital.
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Prepare to defend yourself against an attack without using lethal force by learning the same techniques taught to law enforcement and military personnel worldwide!
ADI offers two levels of unarmed self-defense training as well as a special two-part class for seniors (55+)
IMPORTANT: To take our unarmed self-defense classes you must be in good health with minimal mobility restrictions. These are hands-on class using partners for skills drills. Train at your own risk! | <urn:uuid:682f2d34-b078-483a-8c92-0fa9dc7c3e4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artemishq.com/self-defense-classes/ | 2022-08-12T02:12:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00722.warc.gz | en | 0.950833 | 98 |
TWEAK - Tweaking Wikis for Education and Advancement of Knowledge (completed)
We have developed a note-sharing tool that is now available on App Store for use on Apple iPads. It is named Socius (latin for sharing and partner).
About the project
The TWEAK project develops new designs and models that balance learner exploration and negotiation with more goal directed efforts to bring knowledge advancement more up front in school subjects.
The TWEAK project has two interrelated goals. First, to match collectively oriented tools such as wikis with tasks that require collaborative efforts. Secondly, to address the role of the teacher as a most vital force in designing and supporting activities conducive to knowledge advancement. We will:
- tweak wikis, adding prompts and different supporting mechanisms that facilitate concept development and domain specific vocabulary.
- facilitate the possibilities for teachers to participate in the wiki and the opportunities for more flexible interaction among learners.
Theory and methods
Design experiments, agile development, extreme programming, recordings of teachers and students activities at school, interaction analysis.
Funding and timeframe
Funded by: ITU and the University of Oslo
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Show & Prove: Your Week 1 NFL Recap Brandon Caldwell September 14, 2010 Sports By the gods we have football. Hope springs eternal for 32 football teams all wanting to find a spot in JerryWorld for Super Bowl XLV. We’re well aware that certain teams may not make the field but hey, they’re at least out there trying. Why does opening day of the football season mean so much? Everybody hasn’t lost, nobody has won and everybody is on the same playing field in attempting to reach the Big Stage. With that being said, the 2010 NFL season opened up with a lot of teams proving that all the preseason and off-season talk were more than just fluffed hyperbole and others showing us that well, there’s some stuff to be worked out. Prove: – The Houston Texans, that sexy pick to be a sleeper team for three consecutive years finally looked sexy enough in thoroughly dispatching of their hated nemesis the Indianapolis Colts. I know everyone in Houston considers the Cowboys to be the big nemesis but I got an idea for you – the Cowboys don’t stop you from making the playoffs, Peyton Manning and his oblong face do. Despite Manning putting up huge numbers (430 yards passing), I’m quite sure the Texans will live as long as they got the W. With Arian Foster putting up 231 yards and 3 scores on the ground, maybe this is FINALLY the year the Texans break through. – Lovie Smith, even in victory is coaching his way out of a job. To let the Lions get that close to beating you only to lose on some dubious (but correct) officiating should tell you something. Do I believe Jay Cutler is going to throw 30+ interceptions this season? It could happen. I know him not hitting Greg Olsen enough killed my fantasy prospects this week. – To Calvin Johnson and the rest of Detroit, I feel for you. If this were street football, that’s a touchdown and some YouTube footage waiting to happen. In the NFL, it’s baloney. – In order for Chris Johnson to get 2,500 yards he would have to put up 200+ yards in at least 14 of his 16 games. 142 isn’t bad but it’s a start. – New England is looking like its juggernaut self again, and I cannot be happier. I’m sorry, Super Bowl XLII still holds bitter in my mind. Coasting to a 28-point lead before easing up showed that Brady’s gang on offense is lethal, very lethal. – Pittsburgh might be alright without Big Ben, long as that defense holds up. – Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, huge props to Michael Vick for stepping up when Kevin Kolb essentially got flapjacked to the turf. 100 yards rushing and almost 200 yards passing proves that the former Atlanta Falcon still has some go in the NFL. With Kolb probably out for the Eagles next game, looks like vick’s going to start. Show: – Dallas … how cruel can it be? They’ve been pampering the ‘Boys to get to the Super Bowl at home and in game numero uno, they drop to Donovan McNabb and the Redskins on an offensive penalty. Not just any regular offensive pass interference call, but holding. Alex Barron basically had Brian Orakpo lined up for a Rock Bottom as Tony Romo threw a touchdown pass to Roy Williams. Too many boneheaded decisions killed the Cowboys in certain games last year and Wade Phillips might be on the outs if it keeps up. Sidenote: Does God have it out for Williams? First Dez Bryant and now this? – The Niners for getting blown up by the flying Pete Carrolls. Preseason hype had the 49ers winning the NFC West and getting back to the playoffs. Let’s hope Frank Gore & co. pick it up next week. – Hard Knocks did the Jets little good on the offensive side. Granted they were playing against the Ravens but for Mark Sanchez to have only six completions and 60 passing yards against a patched up secondary? C’mon mayne (c. Cris Carter). Condolences: – Injury timeouts to Connor Barwin of the Texans and Leonard Weaver of the Eagles. Both of their injuries were gruesome to look at in real time as both their seasons are done. Get well soon. Share this:TweetShare on Tumblr Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. | <urn:uuid:ef7ec7eb-934c-4d1b-a98d-1d10b3d1cc31> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://dayandadream.com/2010/09/14/show-prove-your-week-1-nfl-recap/ | 2018-06-24T01:34:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865995.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624005242-20180624025242-00155.warc.gz | en | 0.966957 | 946 |
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It took a couple of moments of genuine class for 10-man Sunderland to see off a battling MK Dons side in their Capital One Cup third round tie at Stadium:mk.
The game was short on quality for long periods but two second-half goals – a fantastic Craig Gardner free-kick and a well-taken solo effort from James McClean – secured a safe passage into round four for Sunderland.
Martin O'Neill saw his captain Lee Cattermole sent off for the fifth time in his Sunderland career for a nasty first-half challenge on MK Dons defender Adam Chicksen but the Barclays Premier League outfit still had just enough in reserve to see off their npower League One hosts.
Neither side could keep hold of the ball for a prolonged period of time and no-one could produce a clear-cut chance in the search for an early breakthrough.
A touch of class was injected into proceedings in the 18th minute when Sunderland winger McClean's piece of skill on the touchline beat three Dons defenders.
The Republic of Ireland international continued his run into the penalty area and his effort was deflected into the path of Louis Saha, whose firm shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ian McLoughlin.
Moments later the former Tottenham striker, making his first start for Sunderland, had another chance to open his account for the club but bent a curling effort past McLoughlin's far post.
It was the home side who came close to opening the scoring with the next attack, a short corner catching Sunderland off guard and allowing Stephen Gleeson to fire in a shot from the edge of the box that whistled just wide of Keiren Westwood's upright.
MK Dons were starting to threaten on a more regular basis and only a smart clearance from Matt Kilgallon stopped former Leeds team-mate Alan Smith making contact with Daniel Powell's drilled cross.
Cattermole received his marching orders on 32 minutes after referee Stuart Attwell adjudged that the midfielder had lunged into a challenge with young full-back Chicksen following a heavy touch from the Black Cats' skipper as he tried to lead a counter-attack for the visitors.
Powell had a chance to make the numerical advantage count for the hosts when he skipped past makeshift centre-back David Meyler but chose to pick out a pass when he appeared to have a clear run on Westwood's goal.
With the first half drawing to a close Dean Bowditch, fresh from his hat-trick against Bury at the weekend, came close to opening the scoring for MK Dons but could not bend his shot inside Westwood's far post.
MK Dons started the second half in a lively fashion and saw Darren Potter force Westwood to tip his long-range effort behind for a corner.
But Sunderland were ahead after 53 minutes when a free-kick was awarded to the visitors following Anthony Kay's bodycheck on McClean.
Gardner struck the ball perfectly and found the top corner of McLoughlin's net with the goalkeeper left motionless on his line.
Powell curled an effort inches wide before McClean's flashed a free-kick just past the post at the other end.
Karl Robinson introduced Charlie MacDonald and Ryan Lowe from the bench to give his side some fresh impetus and Lowe had a good chance only a couple of minutes after entering the fray as he found space inside the Sunderland penalty area but fired wide when well placed.
A number of Sunderland players started to look a little jaded with the game reaching its climax and MacDonald almost capitalised when he darted to the near post to meet Bowditch's pass - but shot wide from close range.
The game was then wrapped up when McClean eluded several challenges to find space inside the MK Dons' penalty area and fire low past McLoughlin.
O'Neill introduced winger Adam Johnson late on with the winger looking for match sharpness as he returns from a thigh injury.
The second goal seemed to take the edge off of MK Dons' performance, although MacDonald and Chicksen both had chances to score what would have been a thoroughly deserved consolation.
O'Neill not impressed by Cattermole
Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill blasted captain Lee Cattermole for getting sent off in his side's Capital One Cup success over MK Dons.
The Black Cats progress to round four courtesy of two fantastic second-half goals from Craig Gardner and James McClean but it was the dismissal of Cattermole that left O'Neill with a bitter taste in his mouth.
The 24-year-old combative midfielder has now been shown five red cards in his Sunderland career and O'Neill felt his skipper gave referee Stuart Attwell little choice but to send him off for a first-half lunge on young MK Dons full-back Adam Chicksen.
He said: "From the minute you start lunging in you are giving the referee no option. It looked from the sideline that the referee had no option.
"I think that whatever we say, we can watch it back a hundred times, the referee is watching someone lunge in and you run that risk, it is crazy."
O'Neill, who has won the League Cup on two occasions as a manager with Leicester, felt Cattermole set a bad example for his team-mates.
"You can't do it, we talked about discipline before the game and there we are, down to 10 men, it is a hard enough battle here and he didn't help himself and he didn't help his team," he said.
"He started the season off brightly for us and he's a great leader - but he has to have discipline himself.
"There is no point asking for discipline from the team when you don't show it yourself."
Gardner's tremendous 25-yard free-kick and an individual effort from McClean secured a relatively safe passage into the next round and O'Neill felt his players overcame a potentially tricky fixture to get there.
He said: "I don't want to go overboard about it but it is good to win.
"I was very concerned tonight considering some of the players we had to leave out of the team.
"To win tonight was great, considering the circumstances of playing most of the game with 10 men.
"I'm obviously delighted we won the game and it is really pleasing to be in the hat for the next round."
Another positive for O'Neill was being able to give some game time to winger Adam Johnson.
The summer signing from Manchester City has been missing with a thigh injury but was introduced with six minutes to go as he continues his comeback.
O'Neill added: "Of course McClean was excellent and scored a great second goal that allowed me to get Adam Johnson on the pitch for a few moments.
"It was one of those where I wanted to try and give him just a feeling for things again.
"In an ideal world it would have been great if he had a little longer, another aspect was of course that there was a chance of the game going into extra-time and there was a chance of him getting on."
MK Dons manager Karl Robinson felt his side could have come out on top in the game but was pleased with the way his players took the game to their top-flight opponents.
He said: "I thought we deserved a little bit more out of the game to be honest and I think most people in the ground would agree with that.
"What a wondergoal that was at 0-0 and that took the stuffing out of us.
"We had to go on the front foot, because we have got the man advantage and we were also a goal behind.
"We knew then that if we were going to concede a goal it would be on the break to either (Louis) Saha or McClean because that is the quality they possess."
Robinson was also looking forward to learning from his counterpart and enjoyed pitting himself against a Premier League club.
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If there’s one thing that Israelis hate, it’s being “freiers” — suckers. But it seems many consumers are when it comes to buying items for the house.
Few know that when they clean the kitchen, the price of their Palmolive liquid soap and Ajax window spray is set countrywide by a single Israeli importer and distributor, who also provides them with their Colgate and Elmex toothpaste, Revlon and Neutrogena beauty products, Speed Stick deodorant, Band-Aid bandages and more.
All of these brands are exclusively franchised to a company few have heard of, called Schestowitz. Founded in 1954 by Shimon Schestowitz and run today by Yoni Schestowitz, it also has exclusive import and distribution rights for fashion brands such as Abercrombie and Fitch, Issey Miyake, Burberry, Calvin Klein and Jimmy Choo.
If you use Oral B toothbrushes, Gillette shavers, Wella shampoo or Head and Shoulders for dandruff and enjoy snacking on Cadbury’s chocolate, Toblerone, Oreos or Pringles, the prices you pay at the checkout are fixed by another little-known but major single importer and distributor called Diplomat.
Founded in 1963 as a partnership between an American family called Mendel and an Israeli one called Wyman, Diplomat is currently run by Noam Wyman, who operates under the radar, eschewing media interviews. The business daily The Marker, which has been covering and campaigning against the concentration of economic power in Israel almost daily since 2008, has dubbed him (in Hebrew) “Mr. High Cost of Living.”
Together, Schestowitz and Diplomat have exclusive rights to both import and distribute a staggering array of name-brand products that can be found in most Israeli homes.
This kind of centralized control can be found throughout the Israeli economy. It stifles competition, ensures that prices remain high, and helps to explain why the Jewish state was ranked earlier this month as having the eighth highest cost of living in the world. Nine years after massive social protests against that cost of living, Israel still has more monopolies than the US or any European country.
2011 social protests and the fall of holding group tycoons
After mass demonstrations in 2011 that brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis onto the streets countrywide — it was estimated at the time that the ten biggest business groups controlled 41 percent of the market value of public companies — the Knesset passed the Law for Promotion of Competition and Reduction of Concentration in 2013.
The law defined a monopoly as a business concern controlling more than 50% of the market, and gave business tycoons until December 2019 to reduce the number of layers allowed in pyramid-type holding companies. And it prohibited companies from holding financial concerns such as bank and insurance companies worth over NIS 40 billion ($11.6 billion) as well as non-financial companies with more than NIS 6 billion ($1.8 billion) in revenue. This was because the same owners were using public money to take loans from their own banks to finance their own companies.
The tycoons that survived had until December last year to get rid of excess ownership. According to The Marker, those invested in public, exchange-listed, companies sold shares worth NIS 5.5 billion ($1.6 billion) in 2019 as a result of the 2013 law.
But following scandals, several big names in big business also fell by the wayside.
Nochi Dankner, the former owner of IDB, was sentenced to three years in prison for stock manipulation and other offenses. On February 2, he was released four months early due to unspecified health issues, with the blessing of President Reuven Rivlin.
The authorities are still trying to find some of the assets of disgraced former media and real estate mogul Eliezer Fishman, who declared bankruptcy in June 2017.
Bezeq’s controlling shareholder Shaul Elovitch is implicated in the so-called Case 4000, allegedly having benefited from NIS 1.8 billion — some $500 million — in an illicit quid pro quo agreement in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw to Elovitch’s business needs and in return, Elovitch ensured him positive coverage in his news site, Walla.
Israel’s banks were exposed for having cozied up to tycoons like these by giving them outsize loans, writing off hundreds of millions of shekels’ worth of their debts, and then balancing their own books by charging their regular customers more for everyday financial services, costing the public billions of shekels.
High market concentration
While there is a little less concentration than there was before 2013, the Israeli economy is still highly concentrated. One of the consequences is a massive gap between the wealth of a few families and the rest of the Israeli public, as illustrated by a Haaretz newspaper analysis last year of the 30 richest Israelis.
The most glaring example is the monopoly over natural gas that Netanyahu personally bulldozed through the Knesset in 2015, ensuring windfalls both for Delek Group owned by Yitzhak Tshuva (who is valued at $4.5 billion by Forbes) and for the Texas-based Noble Energy. The motive for the move, which pushed then Antitrust Authority Commissioner David Gilo to resign, has never been clear. Tshuva is also substantially invested in water desalination and is a major shareholder in TV Channel 12, along with Drorit Wertheim, sister of Dudi Wertheim (see below). Channels 12 and 13 broadcast the most popular news programs in the country.
Idan Ofer (see below) owned Channel 13 but agreed last year with the Competition Authority that as a condition for entering the private power station market, the Ofer Group would quit communications for 25 years.
Ofer, together with his two siblings, have divided up the business of their late father Sammy Ofer, controlling another substantial chunk of the economy. Ofer presides over fertilizers and specialty chemicals, controlling the country’s mineral extraction and oil refinery industries via the Israel Chemicals Limited and Oil Refineries Ltd (Bazan) holding companies. Brother Eyal controls the shipping and, with Dudi Wertheim, shares the controlling stake in Bank Mizrahi Tfahot, the third largest bank in the country and a major mortgage lender. Laura Ofer oversees the family’s massive real estate activities.
Factories connected to Ofer were responsible for at least NIS 1.2 billion ($340 million) worth of damage to public health caused by air pollution in 2018, a study published in November found.
Higher prices, less choice
Market concentration not only leads to high prices but also to less choice for Israeli consumers. The Israeli food market, for example, is dominated by just a handful of companies — Tnuva, known for its dairy products, also owns Adom Adom meat, Sanfrost frozen vegetables, Mama Off chicken and Tirat Zvi deli meats.
Unilever Israel presides over salty snacks such as Beigel Beigel, along with Klik chocolate, Dove, Knorr, Lipton’s Tea, Hellman’s Mayonnaise, Telma breakfast cereals and Strauss ice cream.
Osem’s holdings include Nestlé’s breakfast cereals, Bamba, Bissli, pasta, ketchup, soups, soup croutons, Vitaminchik fruit cordials, Taster’s Choice coffee, and vegetarian food producer Tivol.
These products tend to dominate the “eye-level” shelves in the big supermarkets. As smaller producers have testified on Israeli TV in the past, getting into the big supermarkets is Herculean. Being relegated to top or bottom shelves where few people look is then par for the course.
According to the Israeli Institute for Economic Planning (IEP), a nonprofit think tank, the monopolistic markets that most affect the consumer directly include food and drink, baby products, toiletries, paints and lacquers, electricity, water, air travel, recycling, parking lots, postal services, cable media, telephone and internet infrastructure, TV broadcasting, refined oil products and gas exploration.
The IEP examined 317 markets that directly affect consumer bills and found that 111 of them — over a third — were controlled by monopolies. Of the 111 monopolies, 69 had been declared as such by the Competition Authority.
It also found that those hardest hit by the lack of competition were the poor because the high prices ate up a bigger slice of their income.
And just as there is insufficient competition within Israel, competition from overseas — which could bring prices down — is limited by formidable import barriers, particularly in sectors such as agriculture.
VAT on all Amazon, Ali Express orders being considered
The Finance Ministry’s chief economist Shira Greenberg has been talking over recent months about charging VAT (17%) on all items ordered from overseas online retailers, such as Amazon and Ali Express, to help raise cash to pay off the country’s deficit.
To date, purchases totaling less than $75 have been VAT exempt, offering Israelis a way to sidestep inflated prices at home and bringing pressure to bear on Israeli retailers to lower their prices too. The number of packages arriving yearly in Israel from platforms such as these has risen from 8.5 million 10 years ago to around 50 million today. The country’s population is around nine million.
Asked how much the government is expected to make from abolishing the exemption, a Finance Ministry spokesperson would only say, “It will be relevant when there is a government and budget discussions.”
Elections are set for March 2.
High cost of living
It is the extensive market concentration at the Israeli economy’s heart that goes a long way to explaining why a CEOWorld survey published earlier this month found Israel to have the eighth highest cost of living on the planet, above nations known to be expensive such as Singapore and South Korea.
It should be noted that average monthly Israeli salary stood at NIS 11,004 ($3,163) as of July 2019, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. In Singapore, it is reportedly $5,596.
Lobby99, a nonprofit organization which crowdfunds to lobby the government and the Knesset on the public’s behalf, found that Schestowitz controls around 66% of the toothpaste market while Diplomat commands around 80% of the razor market, 81.5% of the dandruff shampoo market and 57% of the liquid soap market. (Lobby 99’s director of Public Policy and Government Relations is the spouse of a Times of Israel staff writer.)
According to The Marker, Schestowitz also controls nearly 52% of the pasta sauce market, through its exclusive rights to import and distribute Barilla, and 32% of the soy drink market, through its rights to Alpro.
Lobby99 researchers compared Israeli prices for just under 70 products imported by Diplomat, Schestowitz and another company called Leiman Schlussel with those in the US.
(Two additional companies that exclusively import similar products, but were not included in Lobby99’s research, are Unilever Israel and Alpha Cosmetics, the latter owned by the Brand family. Alpha has exclusive rights to import Nivea, Labello, and a host of prestigious fragrances.)
The most glaring gaps related to sales of Procter & Gamble’s Gillette by Diplomat and of Colgate toothpaste by Schestowitz. A pack of 16 Gillette Fusion razor blades were found to cost NIS 159.90 ($46.60) in Israel and NIS 54.36 ($15.85) in the US, while a Skinguard shaver cost NIS 64 ($18.65) in Israel compared with NIS 29.36 ($8.56) in the US.
A 100 milliliter (3.4 ounce) tube of Colgate Optic White toothpaste cost NIS 23 ($6.70) in Israel, compared with ust NIS 8.23 ($2.40) in the US.
Of 69 items, just 16 were cheaper in Israel, including (from Diplomat) Jacobs coffee (imported from the Russian Federation), Pampers (from Germany and Mexico), Tide laundry gel from France, Milka products from Germany and Baci bonbons produced in Italy.
Alongside the high prices are recurring allegations of bullying behavior by the big importers and distributors to stop what are known as parallel imports. Large international companies set different prices for different countries. Importers who buy stock overseas where a particular product is cheaper and then offer to sell it in Israel for less are called parallel importers.
Fox Group, owned and directed by Harel Wiesel, has the franchise for Nike and Foot Locker (through its subsidiary Retailers), as well as for other leading brands such as American Eagle, Billabong, Mango, Children’s Place, Urban Outfitters, Fox (fashion) and Fox Home. It owns the online fashion and homeware site TerminalX and partners with the baby clothes and toys retailer Shilav and with Laline, which sells bath and beauty products.
Fox Group sells Nike products at its Nike and Foot Locker stores, as well as to other smaller, privately owned sports outlets. At present, it is also creating a new chain called Just Sport.
Last week, eight sports store owners submitted a NIS 230 ($67) million class action suite at the Tel Aviv District Court against Nike Israel and Retailers, accusing them of discriminating and taking punitive action against them (for example, by halting supplies, delaying deliveries of models featured in other stores), blocking cheaper parallel imports and coordinating prices at stores.
Schestowitz, meanwhile, has been in the dock at the Jerusalem District Court, which acts as the country’s competition tribunal, for colluding with Colgate-Palmolive to try to limit parallel imports and ward off competition. The Competition Authority brought the case in 2018 after discovering more than 2,000 email communications between Schestowitz and Colgate Palmolive sent over several years and containing detailed reports by the former about parallel imports of Colgate products in Israel.
The Marker reported Wednesday that the court had suggested a compromise and gave the Competition Authority and Schestowitz until March 9 to reach a deal. In the interim, it imposed a temporary order allowing Schestowitz to continue reporting details to Colgate-Palmolive such as the name of the store where parallel imports are being sold, but without details such as bar codes and photographs. The communication has to be in writing only and in a format that the Competition Authority can monitor.
Earlier this month, Channel 13’s “It’s worth money” interviewed Yossi Kagan, CEO of Lindo, a major parallel importer of perfumes into Israel. Kagan said that around two months ago, he began to supply Shufersal’s Be branch, which sells beauty and home products, in what he described as the first move by a large chain to sell parallel imports. Lindo, and in turn the Be chain, sold for lower prices than those determined by Schestowitz.
Suddenly, Kagan claimed, weird things started happening. He had a surprise visit from four Health Ministry officials who questioned him about his sales to the Be chain. There were attempts to stop some of his clients from buying his products. “Even if I buy at higher prices, I still sell for less than Schestowitz, ” he told the program. As an example, he said that the Be chain was able to drop the price of a 100 milliliter bottle of Narciso Rodriguez from more than NIS 400 ($117) to NIS 299 ($87) after signing with him. Last week, it was still selling at the drugstore chain Superpharm for NIS 424.50 ($124).
Coca Cola fined NIS 39 million
In March 2017, Dudi Wertheim’s Central Bottling Co. (Coca Cola Israel) was handed a NIS 62.7 million ($17.85) million fine for exploiting its monopoly status and trying to stave off competition. The fine was dropped in December to NIS 39 million ($10.36) million.
Among the policies the company was said to have adopted was refusing to allow competing products to be displayed in refrigerators it provided to retailers, as well as trying to force retailers to remove competitors’ refrigerators.
The Central Bottling Company exclusively markets Coca Cola and soft drink brands such as Kinley, Fanta, Sprite and Fuze Tea. It also owns the Tara dairy (and its subsidiary Meshek Zuriel Dairy), Neviot mineral water, Prigat fresh juices and the license to brew the Tuborg, Carlsberg, Stella Artois, Guinness and other beer brands in Israel.
Colgate: Only fighting cavities?
Lobby99 was created in response to the presence and power of the 215 commercial lobbyists employed by businesses to influence the 120 Knesset parliamentarians.
Members of the public who donate to Lobby99 get to vote on the issues that the organization should focus on. In a September vote, fighting the high prices of imported goods won the most support.
Lobby99 wrote to Competition Authority head Michal Halperin earlier this year: “The case of Schestowitz [and its alleged reporting to Colgate-Palmolive on parallel imports of the company’s toothpaste] provides a representative case study of the lack of competitiveness in the market for imported consumer goods.”
It asked the Competition Authority to review such exclusive arrangements and to impose sanctions on restrictive practices, which are prohibited by law.
Dror Strum, a former head of what was then called the Antitrust Authority, who now heads the Israeli Institute for Economic Planning, asked Halperin to declare Schestowitz and Diplomat monopolies, citing both the 2013 law’s definition of a monopoly as controlling more than 50% of the market in a particular sector, and the broader definition contained within an amendment to that law passed in summer 2019. The amendment extended the definition of a monopoly to companies which do not necessarily control more than half the market, but which charge prices much higher than they could do in a more competitive economy.
Halperin has not yet replied to Strum. But she did inform Lobby99 earlier this month that she would not be declaring the two behemoths monopolies — despite the fact that Schestowitz and Diplomat control more than 50% of the market in certain sectors, and that their products have been shown to cost more than they do overseas.
Halperin argued that the Authority did “not, essentially, prohibit exclusive arrangements,” adding that, “exclusive arrangements, being vertical arrangements, may impose consumer efficiencies.”
She claimed that any ruling that the companies were monopolies would be solely declaratory, and stepped back from defining the exclusive arrangements of these monopolies as restrictive practices.
Declaring a monopoly can have serious consequences. First, it makes it considerably easier for members of the public to take legal action against monopolies because they do not have to prove monopolistic practices, which is notoriously difficult. They just have to prove that the monopoly abused its position. Second, it forces the company to put its house in order — to review its pricing and its behavior toward rivals and to ensure that it does not leverage its power over one product to sell another by bundling both together. (An example would be only selling a Gillette razor together with a deodorant.) Failing to adhere to the law would then open that company not only to class action suits in the courts, but to action by the Competition Authority.
Last week, Economy Minister Eli Cohen weighed in, threatening to bring legislation unless Halperin tagged companies such as Schestowitz and Diplomat as monopolies. Halperin hit back, saying the authority was not subject to political interference.
Appearing on “It’s worth the money,” Halperin insisted that parallel imports had grown in recent years and that the Competition Authority was standing up to “tens of large companies,” among them Coca Cola, Tnuva, Bezeq (handed a NIS 30 million fine), the Ashdod Port and Schestowitz.
But she has refrained from using her power to criminally prosecute monopolies. In fact, there hasn’t been a criminal prosecution in Israel for many years.
And the fines that have been imposed are petty cash for giants such as Coca Cola.
Tree-trimming and laundry cartels
The authority’s report on its activities during 2018, issued in Hebrew late last year, detailed fines “agreed on” with some large companies such as the Shufersal supermarket chain (NIS 290,000) and the Delek Group (NIS 257,000).
But a Haaretz editorial earlier this month charged the organization with focusing on smaller and medium-size businesses such as tree-trimming and laundry cartels and a bid by the taxi drivers’ union to stop drivers giving discounts to people driving to Ben-Gurion International Airport, rather than standing up to the big monopolies. (Incidentally, it’s no coincidence that Uber cannot be found in Israel — the country’s taxi lobby is far too powerful.)
It mirrored claims by critics that the authority has failed to tackle the principal areas of economic concentration that really impact people’s lives, such as the banks and the natural gas monopoly. And it pointed out that other public bodies such as the Israel Securities Authority, the Israel Tax Authority, the Bank of Israel’s banking supervision department, the Standards Institute of Israel and the Environmental Protection Ministry similarly treat the big players with kid gloves. Why? “Because big corporations have batteries of lawyers and economists that undermine the authorities’ confidence in their ability to file charges and make them stick.”
In a statement to The Times of Israel, the Economy Ministry listed various measures it said had been taken to reduce market concentration and bring the cost of living down. These included the so-called cornflakes law, passed in 2015 — which allowed parallel imports and sought to cut the time in which goods are released from the ports — along with regulatory reform and steps to allow bringing into the country up to five items, or up to $1,000 of goods (whichever is higher), per month, without an import permit, as detailed on the government website (in Hebrew).
But the critics say there is no real political will to stand up to the monopolies and there is also no concerted consumer effort to force the prices down.
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Bihar girl rescued from borewell after 30-hour operation
Munger (Bihar): A 3-year-old girl who had fallen into a 165 ft-deep borewell was rescued tonight after a 30-hour long operation in Bihar’s Munger district, officials said.
Sanno had fallen into the shaft and got stuck at a spot around 45 feet below the surface at about 4 pm yesterday.
She was taken out, smeared with mud, at 9.45 pm today, Munger Superintendent of Police Gaurav Mangla told reporters.
The girl, accompanied by her parents Nachiketa Sao and Sudha Devi, was taken to the Sadar hospital in an ambulance.
Local people who were consoling the distraught parents since the incident took place, shouted slogans applauding the local administration, the Army, the NDRF and the SDRF for their concerted effort to rescue Sanno.
Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pal and DIG Jitendra Mishra were also present at the spot.
Sanno had come to her maternal grandparents’ place at Murgiyachak locality of the town and she fell into the borewell while playing, Munger Superintendent of Police Gaurav Mangla told reporters.
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Why we do what we do.
We have a passion to help people renew and sustain their child-like movement instincts during all daily activities while at work, at home, or at play.
We recognize in order for anyone to age gracefully, they must “re-learn” how to move better. Moving better is about effective adaptation to your environment. To physically adapt well means restoring and sustaining structural and functional integrity of your body. HUMOMA was created in an effort to blur the line between everyday movement and exercise.
There is growing need for 21st century humans to move well utilizing different movement patterns as they navigate throughout the modern world of convenience. By moving better and differently you provide your body the essential stimulation required for the normal function of its neurological and biomechanical systems. We are committed to assisting and guiding you in the development of your movement management practice that will help you achieve optimal overall human performance throughout your life activities. | <urn:uuid:dc841e98-c47a-4616-a6c0-2752aa918594> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.humoma.com/why | 2022-01-24T04:21:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304471.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124023407-20220124053407-00422.warc.gz | en | 0.966119 | 192 |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Cashes In $2.3 Billion in Options
The 28-year-old founder of the world's largest social media company also took $2 million in salary in 2012, plus $2 million in security and private air travel, according to a Friday regulatory filing.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earned $2 million in 2012, up from $1.7 million a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Zuckerberg also exercised $2.3 billion in options during the year.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, earned $26.2 million, down from $31 million a year prior. But the vast majority of her compensation both years came via stock awards. Sandberg realized a gain of $822 million in vested stock awards on the year.
Facebook also said Friday that it spent $2 million for security and travel on private aircraft for Zuckerberg.
David Ebersman, the CFO, earned $17.5 million, down from $18.8 million, while chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer earned $20.7 million, down from $24.8 million a year earlier. David Fischer, vp of business and marketing partnerships, made $12 million.
Also on Friday, Facebook said that director James Breyer would not stand for reelection to the board and his tenure would end at the company's shareholder meeting June 11. Facebook didn't say whether it would replace Breyer, but it recently added two directors: Sandberg and Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco. | <urn:uuid:4e92633f-e36f-4c2a-9e67-b50778d2cfae> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-earns-23-billion-447410 | 2016-05-26T03:23:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275437.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00036-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959463 | 336 |
Photo: Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network FACT Members to include (from left to right): Shemiah Campbell, , Beau Reaves, Jamal Jenkins, Chris Davis, Chloe Spann, Kana Clipps, Noah Johnson, Kelby Spann, and Makayla Campbell.
On Friday, August 17th, youth Fighting Against Corporate Tobacco (FACT) members from the Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network (WAATPN) teamed up with the American Heart and Stroke Associations for the Most Powerful Voices Gospel Tour’s Health & Wellness Fair at Parklawn Assembly of God. The health fair included educational materials, health screenings, and giveaways. The Most Powerful Voices Gospel Tour featured Gospel Singer Marvin Sapp, who tied in an awareness message and urged attendees to take better care of themselves.
As part of its outreach at the event, WAATPN FACT members used several educational tools, known as FACTivisms, to educate and engage their peers in a dialogue about the harmful effects of tobacco use. FACT members also raised awareness among parents and youth about Big Tobacco’s marketing practice of targeting teens.
FACTivisms (a word created by FACT members which combines sharing facts and engaging in activism) are fun, educational activities that youth use to connect with their peers about tobacco prevention efforts. The FACTivisms conducted at the health & wellness fair include: Call Out Candies, a game where big tobacco’s tricks of the trade are wrapped in candy paper and passed off as fake treats to demonstrate the deceptive practice of flavoring tobacco products and wrapping it in colorful wrappers, Hello My Name is…Manipulicious, which prompts those in attendance to ask the meaning behind the name and provide an opportunity for FACT members to discuss the tobacco industry’s tricks to appeal to young people, and Spot the Not, where players have to differentiate real candy packages from flavored tobacco products which are produced to closely resemble real sweet treats.
For more information about WAATPN visit www.waatpn.org. To learn more about FACT visit www.fightwithfact.com | <urn:uuid:acd289a5-0db4-408d-b16a-8b6d84e5a9f2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://communityjournal.net/milwaukee-youth-use-factivisim-to-share-dangers-of-smoking-at-wellness-fair/ | 2017-01-24T13:11:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00373-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933849 | 434 |
Proximity to border helps make Tucson an epicenter of Arizona’s heroin epidemic
TUCSON — Laura Johnson found heroin relatively late in life. Though she had done cocaine in her 20s and had gotten hooked on pain pills after the birth of her first child, in her early 40s heroin grabbed her and held on like the other drugs hadn’t.
“The withdrawals from heroin make you just want to die,” Johnson said. “It’s like the worst flu you’ve ever experienced.”
Heroin cost the 51-year-old Johnson her house, her job as a paralegal and her relationships with her husband and daughter. She stole money from her employers and spent time in jail as a result.
What’s the next step?
But while the individual details of Johnson’s story are unique, they reflect a larger pattern of heroin use in Tucson, where Johnson moved in 1998.
“I grew up in the late ‘60s, and heroin was not common at that point,” Johnson said. “I never saw heroin before I moved to Tucson.”
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Drug Threat Assessment Survey for 2013 said the amount of heroin seized at the southwest border between the U.S. and Mexico had increased by 232 percent since 2008. As a result, it said, overdoses are on the rise due to younger people using the drug, varying levels of purity and inexperienced users switching from prescription opioid painkillers.
That’s playing out in Arizona’s second-largest city, a little more than an hour up Interstate 19 from the border.
According to a Cronkite News analysis of public records from the 2009-2013 Arizona Hospital Discharge Data Set, gathered by the Arizona Department of Health Services’ Bureau of Public Health Statistics, Pima County had an overdose rate almost twice as high as any other Arizona county. The five ZIP codes saw the most overdoses during that period were all in metropolitan Tucson, the analysis showed.
Amelia Cramer, chief deputy for the Pima County Attorney’s Office, said that the trend may be intensifying. The county saw 248 drug convictions in the 2013-14 fiscal year, up from 155 the previous year.
“It shows that there’s more importation and more heroin use,” Cramer said.
Geography, transportation and increased demand each play a role in making Tucson one of the epicenters of the state’s heroin epidemic.
Dr. Mazda Shirazi, a medical toxicologist and the director of University of Arizona’s School of Pharmacy, said Tucson’s proximity to the border makes it a hub for Mexican heroin smugglers looking to drop off drugs for distribution around the western United States.
“It’s easy to distribute heroin to California, Texas and Colorado from Tucson,” Shirazi said. “Smugglers bring it to the largest community close to the border because it’s easier for them to disappear.”
He said the confluence of freeways and other transportation corridors makes it easier to distribute heroin after it arrives in Tucson but that increased demand for the drug means that a large portion stays in the city as well.
A rise in the use of opiate-based prescription painkillers such as Percocet or Oxycontin also contributes to the problem because they can lead to addiction, Shirazi said.
Those addicted to these drugs, which are also known as opioids, often switch over to heroin once the pain pills become too expensive.
“In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s doctors consistently under-prescribed pain medication,” he said. “And the pendulum sort of swung the other way after that.”
Though Johnson arrived in Tucson well before the recent heroin spike began, she said she fell into the same pattern of prescription drug addiction when she got hooked on pain pills following the birth of her children.
“My counselor traces back to when I was 15 and I had ankle surgery, and I liked the pain pills then,” Johnson said. “So I was always looking for that high.”
As she became more and more addicted to the prescription opioids, Johnson said she became adept at figuring out exactly which doctors were willing to provide them.
“I could walk into any doctor’s office I chose and I could get whatever I needed,” she said.
This pattern of use lasted about 15 years, before advances in technology allowed pharmacies to communicate with one another more effectively, making it harder for Johnson to keep her multiple pain pill prescriptions. Around that time, she discovered heroin.
Everything came to a head when Johnson was arrested for two felonies for drug possession near the end of 2013. After spending four days detoxing and entering her plea agreement on Christmas Day, she was placed behind bars in the Pima County Jail for three months.
In 2011, the Pima County Attorney’s Office began a program called the Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison, according to Amelia Cramer. The program, which claims to be the only one of its kind in Arizona, allows repeat non-violent criminals who are addicted to an illicit drug to go to a residential treatment program rather than prison in exchange for a guilty plea.
“If they fail, they’ll be sent to prison. If they succeed, they’ll still have that felony conviction on their record, but they won’t be sent to prison,” Cramer said.
Of the program’s 99 participants, three-quarters successfully completed their treatment programs, according to the county attorney’s website, which says that the cost to the state was less than half of what would have been required to incarcerate someone for the average sentence among the group. | <urn:uuid:620a865e-6c9c-47e5-834b-48b67de2d917> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | http://hookedaz.cronkitenewsonline.com/proximity-to-border-helps-make-tucson-an-epicenter-of-arizonas-heroin-epidemic/ | 2019-04-22T13:11:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578553595.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20190422115451-20190422140550-00010.warc.gz | en | 0.965513 | 1,220 |
- Route: Christchurch - Queenstown - Wanaka - Fox Glaxier - Hokitika - Christchurch
- Attention road bikers: You have the option to cycle up to 100 km+ (60 miles+) each day.
Experience the scenic ‘Jewels’ of the South Island on a tour starting and finishing in Christchurch and taking you via Queenstown and the rugged West Coast. You can choose from rides between 60 km (40 miles) and 100 km+ (60 miles+) each day. Just pick what suits you!
From Christchurch you drive to the foot of the Southern Alps, where the cycling starts gently with a ride through the open beauty of the Canterbury Plains. On quiet backroads, you continue through rolling farmland which gradually opens up into the expansive Mackenzie Basin. From Tekapo, travel past sparkling lakes and turquoise canals, while admiring breathtaking views of snow-capped mountains and the golden tussock grasslands of the Lindis Pass area. Pass though historic goldmining towns before arriving in Queenstown, the outdoor Adventure Capital of New Zealand.
From Queenstown you travel through the ‘High Country’ and alongside Lakes Hawea and Wanaka. You continue to the West Coast and can’t help noticing how the landscape dramatically changes from relatively barren hills to the dense rainforest of the Te Waipounamu World Heritage Area. There is the opportunity to visit the face of Fox or Franz Josef Glaciers, explore the special charm of West Coast gold rush towns, visit a jade (pounamu) factory, and take a walk on the wild West Coast beaches at sunset. Your tour concludes with a beautiful bike ride alongside Lake Brunner followed by an unforgettable road trip. You will traverse the scenic splendour of the Southern Alps back to Christchurch.
Note: Tour ends on the evening of day 8.
Day 1: Arrive in Christchurch: no cycling
Day 2: Christchurch to Lake Tekapo: 80 km-150+km cycling
Day 3: Lake Tekapo to Queenstown: 87 km-150+km cycling
Day 4: Free day in Queenstown: no cycling
Day 5: Queenstown to Wanaka: 81 km cycling
Day 6: Wanaka to Fox Glacier: 65 km-100+km cycling
Day 7: Fox Glacier to Hokitika: 30 km - 110 km cycling
Day 8: Hokitika to Christchurch & departure: 45+km cycling
- Airport transfers
* Day 1 only: Christchurch (between 7 am & 2 pm from the Airport)
* Transfers outside these days/times are your own arrangements
- Sightseeing tour: Christchurch
- Accommodation: 7 nights in 3-4 star (NZ standard) hotels & motels
- Meals: breakfasts (7) & lunches (6) & dinner (1) as per the itinerary
- Tourguide (who is also the driver)
- Support vehicle with bike trailer (& luggage space)
(luggage limited to 1 suitcase per person + 1 daypack)
- International flights & airport taxes
- Airport transfers outside the days/times specified above
- Travel Insurance
- Meals (unless specified in the itinerary)
- Drinks (except daily drinking water), phone calls & Minibar expenses
- Personal expenses (including any specific medical related requirements).
Single Accommodation Surcharge: NZD $770.00.
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Book your room at Hotel Indigo Vernon Hills
Studio Suite, 1 King Bed, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child)
One King Bed Studio Suite NonsmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children)
Suite, One Double Bed, AccessibleMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child)
Standard Studio, Non-SmokingMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child)
Studio, Two Double Beds, Non-SmokingMax Occupancy: 5 guests (up to 4 children)
Hotel with an indoor pool, in Vernon Hills (North Suburbs)
With a stay at Hotel Indigo Vernon Hills in Vernon Hills (North Suburbs), you'll be convenient to Cuneo Mansion and Gardens.
This hotel is within the vicinity of Lambs Farm and Trinity International University.
Make yourself at home in one of the 127 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and complimentary weekday newspapers.
Enjoy recreational amenities such as an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Breakfast is available daily for a fee.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, a computer station, and express check-in. Planning an event in Vernon Hills? This hotel features 1100 square feet (99 square meters) of event facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Hotel Indigo Vernon Hills features an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center. Event facilities measure 1100 square feet (99 square meters). This Vernon Hills hotel also offers multilingual staff, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Hotel Indigo Vernon Hills is a smoke-free property.
- Indoor pool
- Total number of rooms - 127
- Express check-in
- 24-hour front desk
- Express check-out
- Multilingual staff
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Number of floors - 6
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Computer station
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Free self parking
- Year Built 2008
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 1100
- Conference space size (meters) - 99
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
Park your car
Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
In your room
- Premium TV channels
- Climate control
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- LCD TV
- Sofa bed
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Free Wi-Fi
- Separate living room
- Room service (limited hours)
- Sofa bed size
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Eat and drink
Breakfast is available for a surcharge and served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10 AM.
450 North Bistro and Bar - This bistro specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests" section of “Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Braille or raised signage
The fine print for Hotel Indigo Vernon Hills
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is noon
How you can pay
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
Pets allowed, Only dogs and cats are allowed, Pet maximum weight in kg is 75
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Service animals exempt from fees/restrictions
- Pet fee: USD 75 per pet, per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
We should mention
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My must have beauty essentials this month.
1. Crest 3D white Brilliance treatment toothpaste. There are varying degrees of white teeth obsession that a person can have. If you’re anything like me, then you fall somewhere on the line around wanting a whitener, but far from serious whitening treatments. The answer to that is Crest 3D white Brilliance toothpaste system. The treatment actually consists of TWO different toothpastes. One, a deep cleaner, and the other, a whitening finisher. It may seem counter productive, but in reality, a 3 minute change in your routine can actually give you a whiter, and brighter smile. Try the treatment to see your smile go to new heights. $14.99 at Walgreens.
2. Botanics Hydrating Day Cream. As many know, the life of a lifestyle, and beauty blogger can mean receiving a lot of products from month to month. Much like any busy person in their respective fields, when there is an abundance of something at your door, it’s not always easy to discern what’s valuable. So when a valuable product does fall at your feet, you have to make sure to take notice of it. And then give credit where credit is due. I received a jar of Botanics moisturizing cream in the most recent Influenster Spice Vox Box. I could have treated it like I do many of the new things I’m given to try, but this was different. The cream was so smooth, and hydrating; instantly absorbing into my skin. From the moment I ran it over my face, the scent was simple, yet lovely, and lingering. So this moisturizer quickly went from monthly beauty review to prime real estate in my medicine cabinet.
3. Lavanila The Healthy deodorant. This sport luxe deodorant is a healthy alternative to the popular, drugstore brands. Voted Best of Beauty in 2015 by Allure, the healthy deodorant is designed for an active lifestyle, and smells insanely good. It’s easy to use, and the vanilla breeze mixed with white jasmine, honey-dew and green apple is infused with a patented smart sport technology that lasts all day long. Lavanila products are dedicated to being made from the purest natural, and organic ingredients. That’s what makes it the perfect product to put in your makeup bag this month. $16, shop here.
4. Pur Minerals 2 in 1 Cheek Stains. I love these little cheek stain sticks from Pur Minerals. Not only do they give you color in TWO ways, both cream stick, and powder brush, but the colors are the perfect amount of pop to your cheek for winter. The Cabernet provides just a tint of rosy glow, either dabbed on, or layered dramatically. And the Peach Bellini is a dewey highlight to your skin in drab weather.
5. Kevin Aucoin eyelash curler. I had my She Umera eyelash curler for longer than I prefer to admit. The cult classic has long been favored among the beauty set, but in recent years, other, bigger and brighter brands have taken the top spot. Now, I finally admit the time has come to retire my old friend and take up with a new partner. I think the Kevin Aucoin will do nicely…… Okay, can you keep a secret? I still have the other one too… just in case. | <urn:uuid:17a5bcbe-1b93-45e1-b83a-93666c05fd5b> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://style-island.com/beefive-beauty-essentials-this-month/ | 2019-06-20T17:38:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999263.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190620165805-20190620191805-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.947002 | 720 |
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I believe that it is of crucial importance that registration for voting should be made as easy as is reasonably possible. Any step to make voter registration more difficult risks serious alienation of the people from their government and its institutions. We are seeing the consequences in the streets at present, and it is foolish to give them even more serious (and perfectly legitimate) concerns.
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The Bears survived the first leg of their huge three-game, 11-day stretch with a 34-22 victory over the Lions on Sunday afternoon. Mitch Trubisky threw three touchdowns and the defense forced three turnovers to help overcome another shaky performance from kicker Cody Parkey.
Trubisky continues to look like the real deal under center for head coach Matt Nagy. The second-year QB completed 23 of 30 passes for 355 yards and three touchdowns against the Lions’ defense, plus he ran in another score himself.
Those big numbers helped the Bears overcome the struggles of Parkey, who missed two field goals and two extra kicks in the game. Thankfully the team didn’t need those eight points in order to come away victorious.
The Bears improved to 6-3 with the victory and hold onto their spot alone atop the NFC North standings. Relive the team’s Week 10 victory here:
Final score: Bears 34, Lions 22
Bears 34, Lions 22: The Lions get the ball back with 1:04 remaining and zero timeouts, so they’ll need to get moving quickly and hope for a stunning finish here.
Bears 34, Lions 22: Anthony Miller gets called for a fairly weak unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after making his fifth catch of the afternoon and signaling for a first down. Pretty sure stuff like that happens pretty regularly in every football game.
Bears 34, Lions 22: A Mitch Trubisky run gets the Bears a much-needed first down to continue milking the clock. The Lions don’t have any timeouts left, so they’re unable to stop the clock at this point.
Bears 34, Lions 22: A delayed screen to Kerryon Johnson allowed him to run into the end zone practically untouched, then the Bears held up on the two-point conversion to keep the lead at 12 points. An unsuccessful Lions challenge lobbied the call on the two-pointer and cost them their final timeout.
Bears 34, Lions 16: Kenny Golladay makes another big catch over Prince Amukamara on fourth down to keep the Lions’ drive alive.
Bears 34, Lions 16: After Anthony Miller illegally smacks the ball out of bounds on their first attempt, the Lions successfully execute an onside kick that gives them possession with 8:26 remaining in the game. We’re not quite done here yet as the Bears’ special teams issues persist.
Bears 34, Lions 16: Matthew Stafford hits Kenny Golladay for his first touchdown pass of the afternoon, but he’s forced to throw the ball away on the two-point conversion attempt.
Bears 34, Lions 10: The Lions lose the challenge, so the Bears punt it away.
Bears 34, Lions 10: The Lions are challenging for a safety after Mitch Trubisky was tackled right at the goal line, but the referees put the ball inside the one-yard line. If the Lions lose the challenge, the Bears will have to punt from their own end zone.
Bears 34, Lions 10: What a sequence from the defense. Two sacks force the Lions into a fourth-and-15, then Matthew Stafford throws an interception on a deep ball when they go for it. Prince Amukamara might’ve been better off dropping the pass from a field position perspective, but that can be easier said than done in the heat of the moment.
Bears 34, Lions 10: Bryce Callahan checks back in, so it appears he’s been cleared for whatever was checked on.
Third quarter: Bears 34, Lions 10
Bears 34, Lions 10: Marvin Jones draws a pass interference penalty that gets the Lions near midfield as the third quarter comes to an end. Bryce Callahan also recently left the game, seemingly to undergo concussion protocol. DeAndre Houston-Carson is in for him.
Bears 34, Lions 10: LEONARD FLOYD SACK!!! After coming close on the last series, he stayed with it and finally got his hands on Matthew Stafford. That’s his first sack of the season.
Bears 34, Lions 10: Who needs a good kicker when you can just keep scoring TDs, right? Allen Robinson takes it in from 26 yards for his second touchdown catch of the day and fourth of the season, then Mitch Trubisky hits Trey Burton for the two-point conversion.
Bears 26, Lions 10: Leonard Floyd was so close to getting his first sack of the year, but Matthew Stafford just got the ball away in time. After a Lions punt, the Bears’ offense takes over at midfield.
Bears 26, Lions 10: Tarik Cohen returns to the game with a solid punt return, so it appears he’s okay going forward.
Bears 26, Lions 10: ANOTHER UPRIGHT?!? HOW?!? Cody Parkey appears to be cursed.
Bears 26, Lions 10: Tarik Cohen is walking the sidelines after being shaken up on the previous play. His status will be worth monitoring here.
Bears 26, Lions 10: And then the defense delivers! Adrian Amos recovered a Kerryon Johnson fumble after a great punch-out move by Prince Amukamara on the running back.
Bears 26, Lions 10: Cody Parkey with another miss, this time on a 41-yard field goal attempt. He’s hit the uprights more than he’s made kicks today.
Bears 26, Lions 10: How does Anthony Miller get so wide open again? The wideout found some huge open space for a 55-yard pickup that pushes him over 100 yards for the day.
Bears 26, Lions 10: Matt Prater slips through a 52-yard field goal after the drive stalls out. Bryce Callahan made a very good play on third down to get the Lions’ offense off the field.
Bears 26, Lions 7: The Lions are moving after a 32-yard catch by Marvin Jones off a perfectly placed Matthew Stafford pass. Despite the lack of point production, Stafford is now 10-of-12 for 122 yards in the game.
Halftime: Bears 26, Lions 7
Bears 26, Lions 7: The Bears go conservative for a couple plays to wrap up the first half with a 19-point lead. Detroit will get the ball to open the second half.
Bears 26, Lions 7: It took three tries from the one-yard line but Kerryon Johnson went over the top to score his second career touchdown. Getting on the scoreboard is good news for the Lions but it took them roughly seven minutes, which doesn’t leave much time in the half.
Bears 26, Lions 0: The Lions have found some offensive rhythm on their fourth drive of the game, and they need to score ASAP to make this interesting. We’re less than three minutes to halftime.
Bears 26, Lions 0: Mitch Trubisky with the QB keeper for his third rushing touchdown of the season. The Bears now have a 244-44 lead in total yardage.
Bears 19, Lions 0: An illegal formation call on the Bears pushes them back to first-and-goal at the Lions’ 6.
Bears 19, Lions 0: Mitch Trubisky breaks out of the pocket for an eight-yard gain, then the Lions’ defense gets busted for a late hit after the QB runs out of bounds. That was an easy call for the referee … and hopefully the guy who got ran over on the sideline is okay.
Bears 19, Lions 0: Bryce Callahan, who already had a big sack early on, picks off Matthew Stafford to give the Bears another chance to extend their lead. That’s the Bears’ 22nd takeaway of the season, which matches their total from ALL OF LAST SEASON.
Bears 19, Lions 0: As easy as it gets. Anthony Miller is absolutely wide open and needs to break just one tackle to go 45 yards for the touchdown. The Lions’ secondary appears to be a mess right now … but the same goes for Cody Parkey, who misses ANOTHER extra point. C’mon dude.
Bears 13, Lions 0: Another defensive stop for the Bears, who have held the Lions to just 41 total yards through two drives. Prince Amukamara might want to get a new jersey at halftime, though:
First quarter: Bears 13, Lions 0
Bears 13, Lions 0: Welcome back, Allen Robinson! The receiver’s third catch of the game was a beauty for 35 yards and the Bears’ second score of the game. Mitch Trubisky actually seemingly threw the ball short but Robinson did an impressive job adjusting to get around the defender and get his hands on the ball.
Bears 6, Lions 0: Mitch Trubisky finds his fifth receiver of the game, Ben Braunecker, as the Bears are driving into Lions’ territory again. Matt Nagy just took the timeout to hone his strategy for scoring another TD here.
Bears 6, Lions 0: The Bears’ second sack of the day and Roquan Smith’s third sack of the year comes as a crucial third-down stop that pushes the Lions back out of field goal territory. Instead of a 55-yard attempt from Matt Prater, the Lions punt the ball away to play the field possession game.
Bears 6, Lions 0: Kerryon Johnson converts a fourth-and-2 opportunity for the Lions to keep their opening drive alive. They’re already in field goal territory.
Bears 6, Lions 0: After Leonard Floyd gets called for offsides on the Bears’ first defensive play of the game, Bryce Callahan delivers on the blitz to take down Matthew Stafford and set up a second-and-long for the Lions.
Bears 6, Lions 0: What an opening drive. Mitch Trubisky went a perfect 5-of-5 for 61 yards and Tarik Cohen punched it in from up close to wrap up the eight-play, 75-drive opener. However, Cody Parkey hit the upright on the extra point, continuing his shaky play at kicker.
Bears 0, Lions 0: The Bears open the game with the ball after a touchback. Here are today’s captains:
Before the game
The Bears begin one of the most crucial stretches of the 2018 regular season with a home matchup against the Lions on Sunday afternoon. The game, which begins at noon CT, starts an 11-day run in which the Bears will play three consecutive games against NFC North opponents. The results will go a long way toward determining who wins the division.
Coming off back-to-back wins over the Jets and Bills, the Bears narrowly stand atop the standings with a 5-3 record. The Vikings are directly behind them at 5-3-1, and the Packers and Lions are both still in the mix despite being below .500. The crowded standings put extra importance on the coming weeks, when the Bears could make a statement by extending their lead.
The good news for Chicago is that its returning to full strength, or somewhere close to it, after being without Khalil Mack and Allen Robinson for the past two games. Both players are listed as active and slated to return to duty Sunday after some welcomed recovery time. It’s fair to say that the defense is excited to have its cornerstone and “multiplier” back in the fold.
The Lions have been a mixed bag this season. They had a very good run from Weeks 3-7, winning games against the Patriots, Packers and Dolphins, but are coming off back-to-back losses. Whether you look at the passing game, running game or defense, they’ve been mediocre. Still, any team that can beat New England and Green Bay deserves the Bears’ full attention.
How to watch Bears vs. Lions
Time: 12 p.m. CT
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Trees snapped like twigs at every turn. One fell on this truck at the Shadowood Community.
Ronn Gadd with Southern Oak Tree Service came out to make a bid to clean up the downed trees, a job that he says could take up to three days.
"There is a lot of stuff on roofs, there is a lot of uproot, limbs stuck in trees," said Gadd. "So, we got to get all that, these twisters just tear everything off."
"We never want to wish no harm on people but we kind of make a living off this hate to say," Gadd said. "You just got to watch how you bid, you never want to shaft nobody, you don't want to raise your prices, it is just a storm, get in and get out."
Diane Camden has been in tree surgeon business 18 years, doesn't like to make her money like this.
"It is a dangerous job anytime there is storm work. It is very dangerous, you just don't know about it," said Camden.
Joyce Elkner had to get inside her condemned townhouse at Shadowood to get a checkbook to pay bills. She couldn't believe what she saw after the tornado.
"Devastated, I wasn't here when it happened, I was at my daughter's. I came down yesterday and seen this, it was a terrible shock, terrible shock."
Ginger Cahill brought a cooler of ice water to the neighborhood to give out to workers, and helped an elderly lady clean up her yard.
"I just think it is a good thing to do. Nothing happened to me. I live on Monument Road also, but further down," Cahill said. "I just think it is great to help one another during these bad times."
Retired FBI agent Chuck Blaylock, a photography buff, came out to record history he never thought he would see here.
"I have lived here 60 years and this is the first time I have ever seen a tornado come this close."
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Richie Havens Special Tonight at 8pm
Folk icon Richie Havens died this week. "Live at the Linda" will not be heard tonight so that WAMC may bring you a celebration of the life and music of Richie Havens.
FM Odyssey invites you to this rare, intimate, in studio interview with Richie that recreates his 5 decades in music, digging deep into his catalog of songs with great music and stories. A great way to honor a man that brought so much to this earth through the music in his heart.
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GARDEN CITY, NY, (12/20/18) — The Mackool Eye Institute and Laser Center and affiliated entities, Astoria, NY, and New York Eye Surgery Center and affiliated entities, Bronx, NY, are pleased to announce that they have executed Letters of Intent (“LOI”) relating to a potential transaction with OCLI and the related Spectrum Vision Partners, (“SVP”), a leading ophthalmic management service organization for OCLI, Island Eye Surgicenter, Ophthalmic Consultants of Connecticut, and New Vision Cataract Center.
Dr. Richard Mackool stated, “there are significant financial and practice benefits from a partnership with a leading organization such as OCLI and SVP, but our vision is to accomplish more. Our member physicians will have immediate access to world-class ongoing internal surgical and skills update programs, and I know we can do this extremely well. We have a great deal of teaching skill and experience in our practices, and we are very serious about this.”
Dr. Jerome Levy, long-term past president and now President Emeritus of the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society (OOSS), an organization dedicated to ophthalmic ASCs nationwide, stated, “We look forward to working with our colleagues from both OCLI and The Mackool Eye Institute to continue delivering exceptional patient care. The economies of scale of multiple leading ASCs and many affiliated practices in the NY metropolitan area will allow our surgeons to expand their ability to examine and treat patients, and to care for those requiring surgery in our very efficient ASCs.”
“SVP is extremely pleased to be assisting OCLI with its continued growth as these prestigious practices join to expand their partnership of eye care doctors and surgeons in the New York metropolitan area.” Tom Burke, CEO of SVP stated. “We are particularly pleased to collaborate with Dr. Richard Mackool and Dr. Jerome Levy, whom we have known and respected for more than thirty years. They are both innovative thought leaders, whose significant personal and clinical dedication to the advancement of eye care and eye care leadership is renowned. Our team is honored to have been chosen as the management services organization who will lend guidance and support to these state-of-the-art practices and their Ambulatory Surgery Centers.”
“The doctors and respective teams at these practices deserve recognition for all they have done to uphold the high standards of their profession. They are truly at the forefront of ophthalmology, and have led the way with significant efforts to improve their patients’ eye health, first and foremost. Again, we are very proud to call them partners and to be at their service.”
Dr. Eric Donnenfeld, past president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, stated, “The addition of two legendary giants in the field of ophthalmology, Drs. Richard Mackool and Jerome Levy, greatly enhances the dedication of our practice to superb patient care, innovation, and extraordinary surgeons.”
The Bloom Organization (“Bloom”) served as an advisor to both New York Eye and The Mackool Eye Institute. Bloom negotiated terms of the letter of intent and assisted with sell-side diligence on OCLI and Spectrum Vision Partners. In addition to advising ophthalmologists across the United States, Bloom is advising physicians and executives in all lines of healthcare services. “Dr. Dick Mackool and Dr. Jerome Levy are national leaders in the ophthalmology space and well respected amongst their peers. We believe they bring tremendous value to their new partners at OCLI,” said Brian Liberty, Senior Vice President at The Bloom Organization.
For questions or further information regarding the OCLI team or Spectrum Vision Partners, please contact:
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Development Officer
About The Mackool Eye Institute
The Mackool Eye Institute was established in 1983 by Dr. Richard Mackool, with the purpose of providing eye surgery and laser treatment with minimal patient recovery times. Dr. Mackool’s practice was founded in 1973, and is located in Astoria, NY. Dr. Richard Mackool and Dr. RJ Mackool have patented processes and instrumentation, pioneering innovation in Ophthalmology around the world.
About New York Eye Surgery Center
New York Eye Surgery Center was founded in 1983 with the purpose of providing eye surgery and laser treatment in an outpatient setting. The affiliates consist of an anesthesia practice and a prodigious ophthalmology practice founded in 1972. New York Eye Surgery Center is long considered a leading institution in the Bronx, NY and has been recognized by numerous dignitaries, societies, and neighborhood associations for its contribution to the community throughout its 40+ year tenure.
Founded in 1997, OCLI is one of the leading ophthalmology practices in the United States. OCLI includes 52 state-of-the-art medical facilities across Manhattan, Nassau and Suffolk counties, housing the most advanced technology available, to offer patients a variety of ophthalmic services and treatments. OCLI is led by 133 highly skilled eye surgeons in each major sub-specialty of eye care, providing comprehensive eye care services, including treatment for cataracts, corneal disease, refractive surgery, glaucoma, oculoplastics, retinal disease, and neuro ophthalmology. OCLI also employs seven Doctors of Optometry, three Physician Assistants, and one NYS Licensed Aesthetician.
About Spectrum Vision Partners
Spectrum Vision Partners is a leading management services organization, serving the ophthalmology sector. Spectrum Vision Partners has over 700 employees, providing world-class practice management solutions to a network of nationally renowned, multi-specialty ophthalmologists in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Tri-State region. The Spectrum platform in New York and Connecticut consists of 23 clinic locations, two State Licensed Ambulatory Surgery Centers, and over 50 surgeons, doctors, and other medical professionals. Spectrum Vision Partners provides a comprehensive set of business support functions, including billing and collections, credential services, marketing, physician recruitment, ASC development, financial and accounting services, benefits and payroll management, and information technology. The company’s corporate headquarters is located at 825 East Gate Boulevard, Suite 111, Garden City, NY 11530. | <urn:uuid:dbca71d7-32ad-47f0-bf1f-e60febb8a355> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://www.ocli.net/blog/the-mackool-eye-institute-and-new-york-eye-surgery-center-sign-letters-of-intent-related-to-a-transaction-with-ophthalmic-consultants-of-long-island-and-spectrum-vision-partners/ | 2023-03-28T10:51:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948858.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328104523-20230328134523-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.944752 | 1,345 |
Barry Arvin Young didn’t plan on making a living on music in Maine. But after dropping out of college, Young found himself joining a band called Blitz. As he met new friends and role models, he joined other bands and toured continuously through New England during the late 1970s and 1980s, never stopping, never finding […]
James Page, CEO of the James W. Sewall Company in Old Town and adjunct of professor of philosophy at the University of Maine will be the new chancellor of the University of Maine System. UMS Board of Trustees Chair M. Michelle Hood announced the decision Thursday at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. Page will replace the current chancellor, Richard Pattenaude, who has served since 2007, in March.
Meg Weston, vice president for advancement at the University of Southern Maine and president and CEO of the USM Foundation is leaving the university to take the helm as president at Maine Media Workshops + College. Weston’s last day at USM will be March 9, and she will begin her new job at the end of the month. The university has not yet chosen her successor.
The University of Southern Maine women’s track team swept the Little East Conference and Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference to capture their 12th straight New England Alliance and LEC Championships Saturday at the USM Field House. The lady Huskies won by a 205 to 1324 margin over UMass-Dartmouth in the Little East and 168 to 136 over Worcester State for the Alliance title.
Whether you’re looking to play it safe this Valentine’s Day or take a walk on the wild side, Portland candy shops have something to offer everyone. Like every gift-giving holiday, however, last-minute shopper syndrome is prevalent. If you need Cupid’s arrow to remind you not to procrastinate, there might be some dangerously tasty consequences.
With the opening of the new learning commons in Portland and Gorham, students can now go to one centralized location on either campus for studying, tutoring and much more. The learning commons in Gorham and Portland officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the Glickman Family Library Thursday. The university undertook the renovations to create […]
The city of Portland has issued Occupy Maine an order to vacate their encampment in Lincoln Park following a court ruling that stated Occupy Maine does not have a constitutional right to camp in inhabit the park around the clock.
USM men’s basketball player Jeremy Jackson hadn’t been in his hometown just outside of New Orleans since August. But Jackson joined his teammates for a holiday tournament in the Big Easy over Christmas break, and the team was able to take away much more than just wins and losses from its trip.
A cure may be on the horizon for students sick of trekking to Gorham to access University of Southern Maine health services thanks to a project currently in the works to reopen a student health center on the Portland campus.
Portland has been without a health services center since 2010. But now USM health and counseling services and the School of Nursing are teaming up to fill the void and provide services for students in Portland while also providing a learning opportunity to nursing students.
Ron Paul, candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination, is set to speak at the University of Southern Maine this Saturday. Paul is tentatively scheduled to speak at 11 a.m. in the Hastings Formal Lounge on the Gorham campus, according to Paul Madore, the state chairman for the campaign. He said the itinerary is still being developed for the rest of Paul’s visit to Maine. | <urn:uuid:7c132b14-5fab-469e-8de3-d4f807d865ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://usmfreepress.org/tag/highlights/page/2/ | 2013-12-10T09:46:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164014852/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133334-00054-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953468 | 744 |
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT:
There seems to be some confusion out there in land about La Ley Seco (Law for selling alcohol this weekend), here in La Paz for the upcoming Presidential Elections.
City council of La Paz decreed the following…”veinticuatro horas del sabado 30 junio (from mid night Saturday) hasta nueve horas lunes 2 de julio” (until 9 a.m. on Monday)
So that is the way it will be. Failure to comply could mean a loss of license and a large multa. (Fine) | <urn:uuid:c5940a4c-3044-4328-a208-fdf713f03f20> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://www.bajacitizen.com/ley-seca-in-la-paz-for-presidential-elections/ | 2017-02-27T13:38:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501172831.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104612-00448-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.803272 | 131 |
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