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Important: Please read the guidelines and all Fellowship requirements carefully before completing the application. Make sure you are eligible before you send in your application. Ineligible applications will not be processed.
Applications for the Academic Year 2019-2020 are now open! Application Deadline: April 19, 2019
- Completed Fellowship Application Form for Diploma (1.11 MB);
- Two Essays - Applicants are asked to answer questions about their leadership potential and their interest in interreligious studies;
- Official Transcripts of relevant studies;
- Curriculum Vitae - American style, not narrative;
- Writing Sample - A maximum 10 pages long piece of, preferably, academic writing (or excerpt) in English related to interreligious dialogue;
- Two Letters of Recommendation from individuals who can attest to the applicant's academic record, leadership potential and interest in interreligious affairs. Applicants are encouraged to find recommenders whose reference assists the forming of a complete picture of them.
Eligibility and Tips
- Read all the fellowship requirements and directions carefully, and apply only if you are eligible. Ineligible applications will not be processed. Please find more information on eligibility here.
- Complete the application form in full. If a question does not apply to you, note that on the application. Do not leave any question blank. Be sure to supply all additional supporting materials, including transcripts, letters of recommendation, and essays.
- The application and all supporting materials must be submitted in English. All supporting documents in other languages must be accompanied by an (unofficial) English translation.
- Follow directions. Provide everything that is required. However, do not supply materials that are not requested, as they will not be taken into consideration.
- Neatness counts. Always type your application, or if you must print (handwrite), do so neatly and legibly.
- Keep a backup copy of your entire application.
- Give it a final 'once-over' before sending it. Proofread the entire application carefully. Be on the lookout for misspelled words or grammatical errors. Ask a friend or teacher to proofread it as well.
- Ask for help if you need it. If you have questions or problems with the application, do not hesitate to email (or call) the program administrators.
- Please do not mail application material hard copies to IIE. No application materials will be returned to applicants.
- Be mindful of the deadline. Applications received after the deadline will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Application Submission Instructions
Electronic documents to be submitted by APPLICANTS
Please include your name and the words “Russell Berrie Fellowship Application” in the subject line of the email (e.g. Emily Little_Russell Berrie Fellowship Application)
- Scanned copy of your completed Application Form with your handwritten signature and the date.
- Two essays – preferably in pdf form.
- Scanned copies of your OFFICIAL transcripts of relevant studies. Students currently studying at the Angelicum should submit an official transcript for the academic year they are currently attending. An official transcript is issued by the university and should include an official stamp and/or signature from the university and your information (e.g. name, date of birth, etc.) to verify that the transcript belongs to you. Please do not send print-screens or self-made lists.
- Curriculum Vitae – preferably in pdf form.
- Writing sample – preferably in pdf form.
Please provide an (unofficial) English translation for all materials not in English. Upon submission of the electronic application, candidates will receive a confirmation email from IIE that the application was received. This, however, does not constitute a complete application package.
Electronic documents to be submitted by RECOMMENDERS
- Two Letters of Recommendation – Your application will be complete once we also receive the two Letters of Recommendation from your recommenders via email (firstname.lastname@example.org).
In addition to the Recommendation Letter, recommenders are also required to complete the Student Evaluation Form. The Form includes a rating section and has guidelines on what recommenders should include in their Letters. Download the Form here (935 KB).
Please ask your recommenders to send the Form and Letter directly to email@example.com. In order to ensure confidentiality, please also ask recommenders NOT to copy you on the email. We can only accept confidential recommendations.
IIE must receive Recommendations Letters from the recommenders by the deadline. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure recommenders submit on time.
IIE will send another confirmation email to the applicant that their application is complete upon receipt of the two Letters of Recommendation. Please note: if you have not received confirmation from IIE that your application was received, it is your responsibility to follow-up with IIE.
If you have any questions or difficulties with the application, please contact IIE at firstname.lastname@example.org or call (+36 1) 472-2250.
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Philippians 3:13-14 (New International Version)
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
1 Samuel 17:30-34(New International Version)
30 He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before. 31 What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”
33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, | <urn:uuid:4dbc3bb8-cc47-4f11-b188-3f26261b002d> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://parkschapelamesfv.org/sermons/i-wont-complain-the-gift-of-gratitude/ | 2024-03-02T19:37:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475897.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302184020-20240302214020-00711.warc.gz | en | 0.972398 | 237 |
At Home Safety Services, Inc., we enjoy using our respective talents to tangibly improve the lives of others, and we try to do so in a professional and family-oriented work environment. We are always open to expanding our team to include others who possess a passion for helping seniors. In addition to the altruistic satisfaction of helping others, we offer competitive pay and benefits and an enjoyable work environment that includes frequent training, diversity of tasks and regular team building events.
We are open to entry level apprentices and interns to seasoned professional candidates. If you are interested in exploring an opportunity, please submit the form and then give us a call. If you really want to impress us, send us your resume with a cover note (like in the old days) describing your favorite experience of helping a senior. | <urn:uuid:6f64592a-28b1-495c-bef7-8cf6e3f1d29a> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://www.homesafety.net/about/careers/ | 2020-06-06T00:16:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590348509264.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20200606000537-20200606030537-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.9432 | 160 |
Jacquard Beloved Ring Sling Cool Mint size M/ 2nd Grade
- Beloved Ring Sling Cool Mint size M/ 2nd Grade - frozen mint in a cone. Mild and toned colors are perfect for summer days.
- BELOVED SLINGS – high quality jacquard ring slings for babywearing
Tous les echarpes Little Frog sont certifiés selon STANDARD 100 par OEKO TEX (classe 1)
This is a 2nd quality wrap - with minor imperfections. Wrap may contain small spots, folds or discoloration. Keep in mind that even though it is 100% secure and safe to use!
Beloved wraps - are dedicated for most demanding users!
Those High quality woven jacquard are sewn in Poland, You will love them from the beginning!
Beloved Ring Sling Cool Mint size M - frozen mint in a cone. Mild and toned colors are perfect for summer days.
This jacquard design ( white and mint) is made of 100% combed cotton, 270 gsm (after washing/shrinking).
Length: size M (200 cm /6,6 ft - longer edge)
Soft from the beginning, easily tightening, not too thick, but sturdy - are perfect match for newborns, but also for older babies.
Our wraps are made in Europe, with the highest quality, combed cotton yarn, in compliance with standard OEKO TEX 100 and EU Norm EN 13209-2 .
There is also included carrier bag (size: 37x42xm), which may be useful to transport and cover your Beloved Sling, but also for carrying other baby’s or your accessories. | <urn:uuid:779c1c70-cfda-43c5-9cd2-37a98871801d> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://littlefrog.fr/fr/products/factory-outlet/produits-de-2e-classe/ring-sling/jacquard-beloved-ring-sling-cool-mint-size-m-2nd-grade-6324.html | 2022-06-30T18:51:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103877410.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630183616-20220630213616-00589.warc.gz | en | 0.872117 | 360 |
Recognizing the growing demand for telecommunications infrastructure installation, King Electric established a specialized telecom division in 2002 with a wide range of network cabling system installation capabilities. Since then, we have served the unique needs of a wide variety of customers, including municipalities, retailers, industrial facilities, offices, residences, and many others.
At King Electric, we take a great deal of pride in our telecom wiring infrastructure installation capabilities, experience, and past successes, but our approach to serving our customers does not stop there. Our top focus is to achieve full satisfaction from every client we take on, meeting their needs for timeframe, budget, and quality while exceeding all of their expectations.
King Electric Company, Inc., located in Burlington, North Carolina since 1922, serves residential and commercial clients with experienced electrician and electrical wiring services, commercial electrical contracting, telecommunications wiring, generator installation, lighting fixture installation, and a newly-expanded home lighting fixture and home-decor retail showroom | <urn:uuid:5da216c3-9c08-4ea3-9a55-a2990de42f1b> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.atlasinstallers.com/listings/king-electric-company-inc/ | 2023-01-29T20:18:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499758.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230129180008-20230129210008-00222.warc.gz | en | 0.931979 | 195 |
Americas Market Intelligence (AMI) has just published a new report, entitled 5 Megatrends in Latin America's Energy Sector for 2023 and Beyond, which is available for free download on the AMI website.
AMI has completed more than 100 studies on Latin America's energy market over the years. It has produced proprietary research and market intelligence covering Latin America's oil/gas market, Latin America's renewables market (solar, wind, hydropower, biomass, biofuels), LatAm's energy storage/batteries market, Latin America's natural gas sector, Latin America's hydrogen market and more. AMI's experience is what drives the analysis reflected in this report, which highlights five major changes taking place in Latin America's energy sector:
- The acceleration of natural gas demand and the growth of LNG exports.
- Distributed generation will overshadow utility-scale solar as the grid suffers underinvestment.
- Green hydrogen's success will be limited to the production of derivatives.
- Latin America will become a major source of feedstock for renewable fuels.
- Battery storage solutions will see limited adoption.
"Since we published the LatAm energy megatrends in 2021, the market has changed drastically due to a number of factors," explains Arthur Deakin, Director of AMI's energy practice. "The war in Ukraine, a possible recession, shifts in regulations, congested grids and other factors made it necessary for us to revise our analyses and offer a new set of megatrends based on hard data and current market conditions," says Deakin.
Among the key data points highlighted in 5 Megatrends in Latin America's Energy Sector for 2023 and Beyond:
- Future natural gas demand by country and projected LNG exports.
- Current gas reserves, gas production and years remaining of proven gas reserves in Latin American countries.
- Installed green hydrogen electrolysis capacity by 2030, by country.
- Feedstock availability for renewable fuels (renewable diesel and SAF) in Latin America.
- Projected sustainable aviation fuel production in Latin America by 2030.
- Distributed generation growth projections for 2025 and 2030 in Latin America.
- Battery energy storage solutions (BESS) growth projections in Chile.
"Overall, we hope this report will help energy operators, equipment providers and investors have a deeper understanding of risks and rewards in Latin America," says Deakin. "Since we're constantly producing market intelligence studies for all energy verticals in the region, we've gained a strategic, holistic view of the region that we wanted to share."
About Americas Market Intelligence
Americas Market Intelligence (AMI) is the premier market intelligence and strategy consultancy for Latin America, providing powerful research insights for companies to succeed in a wide range of verticals in the region, including payments, healthcare, logistics, mining, energy, infrastructure, consumer goods and the industrial sector. Its customized research reports deliver data-based clarity and far-reaching strategic direction based on expert sources.
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10 Ways To Save Money On Electricity During The Summer
Electric Bills as you know, can really get expensive, especially during the summertime. It cost to stay cool. Here are 10 ways to help save money and be comfortable...
10. Learn your peak hours...Many electric companies give discounts for using less electricity during their peak hours. Check with your electric company to find out.
9. Ask for discounts...Ask your electric company about any discounts you might be eligible for, such as being on a fixed income or having a disability.
8. Change your filter...Keeping your air filter clean could help reduce your electric bill in a couple of ways. It helps to make the system run more efficiently, and will also keep it from working as hard.
7. Draft blockers...Draft blockers or weather stripping are great for keeping cold air in and hot air out of your home. Check for drafts around your doors and windows. If you find one, use a draft blocker.
6. Use your fan...When the temperatures aren’t overwhelmingly hot, try using a fan instead of your air conditioner to stay cool, especially at night.
5. Change colors...If you have a dark roof or dark paint colors, it might be time for a change. Research shows that homes with lighter colored roofs can reduce their energy usage by as much as 40 percent. Switching to a light paint color is also a great way to save. Remember...dark absorbs, light reflects. This is especially true with heat!
4. Install a programmable thermostat... This will allow you to adjust your AC to your lifestyle.
3. Use energy-saving products and bulbs...Consider switching out your light bulbs and appliances for more energy-efficient options. It can save you a lot of money just turning the lights off when not in use.
2. Get outside...Why not adjust the thermostat up and spend some time outside when it's not too hot. Enjoy the great outdoors, especially in the evenings.
1. Plants...Shady plants and trees outside your home, especially near windows and doors certainly help to reduce the amount of electricity you use.
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This scholarship is for high school seniors who are graduating from a high school in California with a PTA/PTSA unit in good standing. To qualify, applicants must be members of their high school PTA/PTSA and be residents of California. The scholarship is to be used during the fall semester or quarter following high school graduation at an accredited college or university, community college, or trade/technical school. This scholarship recognizes volunteer service in the school and community.
How easy is it to apply?
Not too bad
This scholarship's application process may have items such as essays that could take a couple hours.
How much competition is there?
This scholarship won't have as many applicants as most. | <urn:uuid:bdfde48e-849d-4074-bd9d-22b4ca04ee64> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://www.cappex.com/scholarship/listings/California-State-PTA-Scholarship-Program/-s-d-43215/ | 2016-05-03T15:24:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121561.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00034-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970968 | 143 |
- Prepping for 0.6
- Bug triage
- Partial views, partial sync
- Talk about unified account system.
- l10n fire drill.
- about:weave, pop-up menu, pref window (can be P2), notifications (high P2)
- Freeze for 0.7 preferably around 16th of Sep. AI: Ragavan to check with SethB if that will work.
- Need a plan for what we are going to do with the auto-login pieces for 1.0.
- Prepping for 0.6 - 3 things needed.
- Get auth.services to talk the right User API.
- Migrate users to nodes, Toby has kicked them out.
- Test the hell out of the client/server integration.
- When users upgrade, the client will see the server as being empty and initiate a new upload. Will freeze for the key generation. Backup is guaranteed because the 0.3 server data will still be available.
- 0.3 server will be deprecated in a month.
- All the server side stuff has been completed already.
- Still seeing replication delays, can't get 0.6 soon enough.
- Partial views, partial sync is likely not going to make 0.6. We'll punt it to 0.7pre1.
- AI: Ed is going to write up a WEP for partial views, sync and we'll get more eyes on the spec before getting too deep into the code. | <urn:uuid:05f3cf51-cc0c-4a67-9b5e-90289926ea3e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Meetings/2009-08-24 | 2023-10-01T00:19:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510730.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930213821-20231001003821-00541.warc.gz | en | 0.846537 | 338 |
So, you wanna successfully leverage online marketing. How thick is your SEO skin? Would you mind if I combed over your initiatives with a felt-tipped, red pen. I used to get ‘my red on’ regarding student essays. I wasn’t being malicious; as the song goes, ‘you gotta be cruel to be kind’ sometimes.
I’m going to go ahead and prescribe your medicine. This may hurt (just) a little; but, it will make you better. (Pops the top of the pen, stretches, and puts his kinder sentiments on Penguin ice.)
Your Social Media Participation is Awful
Are you Facebook fooling me? Are you tweetin out of your mind? The errors are so rampant, I can’t include them in a flowing paragraph. I need to resort to bullets.
- You don’t engage. You simply share.
- You don’t share the content of others
- You handle expresses zero personality, you know those things real people have
- You follow people just to gain followers then un-follow them.
- You share the most-popular content, that which everyone else shares
That’s a good place to start. In short, use social media effectively; or, don’t use it at all; because, using it in a poor fashion is worsening your state, as if you were better off not engaging at all. Wow, the irony…
Here are two good resources on how to use social media. Read them.
No One’s Reading That
I get it. ‘Content is king.’ You need content on your site. Let’s plan for good copy. Nah. On second thought, let’s just throw anything up on the site. Readers can’t tell the difference, right? (Sighs) I need to go back to bullets.
- Your content is incredibly basic, even for laypeople, offering little to no value
- Your content does not link to other helpful resources
- You’re focused on quantity rather than quality
- Your site content reads like you’re just ‘going through the motions’ rather than using copy to connect with people
- You don’t devote enough time to the process end-to-end (ideas, research, reflection, etc)
Content is king; but, yours is more like a jester. Do you want to engage consumers or just host content? I can tell the difference. I’m not the only one. Are you serious about improving your content? Read the following.
You Live in an Online World; But, Goods, Services, and Customers Reside Elsewhere
Don’t get too bogged down in search engine obfuscation.’ SEO is marketing using a search engine. Is that so revolutionary of a concept? It’s really not. Perhaps it’s due to limited understanding, but many business owners have a fallacious understanding of SEO methinks.
In what reality does a platform afford the opportunity to discredit traditional marketing sympathies, ones that focus on people? I’ll tell you right now; there’s no such SEO reality. Maybe some providers have you ‘fooled.’ It’s time to wake up now.
- SEO is not magic. It is a form of marketing.
- SEO does not compensate for a lack of brand quality, nothing can.
- SEO is about engines. Any business is about people.
- Learn about SEO before you spend your money and your provider’s time
- Stop chasing trends. Start chasing your consumers’ interests.
This is one of the most recent, simplified, and succinct SEO posts I’ve seen in some time. Read it. | <urn:uuid:5729466b-79cd-4ffa-a5f2-cdc8c108e69c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.webimax.com/blog/social-media/hey-you-missed-a-marketing-spot | 2014-12-18T18:18:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767453.104/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00117-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909264 | 803 |
Welcome to our Archive SectionFor your convience we provide you with information of sold out series and models. You can see Pricing, Photos and Detail Image Views, Product Descriptions, Watch Dimensions and Instruction Manuals. When a Series or Collection has been discontinued you still can get information of your purchased watch. Feel free to browse our archives and find information about the watches you are interested in. Download instruction manuals und print out watch pictures with descriptions.
Another reason to discontinue a collection is when watches don't pass our standards. These Watches are no longer available to been sold as 'Brand New'. There were cases of lost and/or damaged timepieces where we could help collectors and individuals to replace their valued item.We provide not only 'SOLD OUT' Series but additional 'Discontinued Collections' where you still be able to buy a watch no longer featured in our main catalog. As we continuesly improve our collections we move older models to this section. For example the first military series for Men and Ladies have been moved to the Archieves. | <urn:uuid:46303080-b063-42dd-af8f-59dfa2c93c5e> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.aaawatchclub.com/archives.html | 2018-03-22T17:30:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647901.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322170754-20180322190754-00567.warc.gz | en | 0.935928 | 214 |
NetWellness is a global, community service providing quality, unbiased health information from our partner university faculty. NetWellness is commercial-free and does not accept advertising.
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Thyroid Storm and Heart Failure
Can thyroid storm cause increased blood pressure and thickening of the heart wall?
Thyroid storm is a life-threatening critical illness. It wouldn't last long enough to cause thickening of the heart wall. The patient would either recover (in which case there shouldn't be much effect on the heart wall) or die. Patients with thyroid storm can have an increased blood pressure, at least initially.
Thomas A Murphy, MD, FACP, FACE
Associate Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
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Hello everyone, hope ur all doing ok? I really need to move my butt and clean up again, I'm really slacking today but hate sitting here thinking it needs to be done lol then I can have a nice bath and go to my moms the night. I need to be there before 7 as of watching the voice
My name came out the hospital after 8 weeks on Tuesday late afternoon. She's in the living room as she can't get out of bed. The carers come out every four hours the last time at 8 in the evening. Shes very thin but as ate abit more since coming out, better them nothing at all. I'm in her bed upstairs with the boys instead of on the settee.
As for my anxiety I've had abit today while I was at bingo. It doesn't help wen I've felt bloated all day and abit sick. At least I've happy news this morning that my mate has her little boy at half twelve today. Can't wait to have my Bradley 24 wks left to go xxx | <urn:uuid:73415156-2359-4545-b0e9-df2b7af72449> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | https://healthunlocked.com/anxietysupport/posts/130446847/hi-all | 2016-12-11T04:41:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698544097.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170904-00044-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98579 | 219 |
Littlecodr is an insanely fun card game that gets kids 4-8 to learn the basics of coding. Here at Sir Square Toes, we like Littlecodr quite a lot because it fits in with our ethos. It creates a wonderful opportunity for you to spend quality time with your child while keeping it very educational.
Coding is little more than a serious of instructions presented in order and that's exactly what Littlecodr prepares them for. While they take delight in ordering you to move around, you can engage and learn together, even if they are pre-readers. It also teaches coding away from devices so that children learn to plan to achieve results without finding themselves out of touch with the needs of the modern world.
This is not something that you'll just give to your child, it's something that you do with them. Because spending quality time learning and growing is what games should be all about.
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This is the text of a speech given at the International Symposium on Environmental Courts and Tribunals, hosted by Pace Law School and the International Judicial Institute for Environmental Adjudication (IJIEA), on April 1, 2011, in White Plains, New York. Any annotations to the text of this speech have been added by the author in connection with its publication in this Special Edition.
Recommended CitationAntonio Herman Benjamin, We, the Judges, and the Environment, 29 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 582 (2012)
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I have already had one of those moments today where I’ve scowled at my own needs overriding my viewpoints on society. I am in full support of Wikipedia’s blackout against the US’s SOPA law which will affect internet freedom across the globe, but at the same time, I’ve tried to find a two things out today where I automatically went to said site, only to be greeted by the ‘blackout’ screen and a stream of expletives that flowed freely from my gob. It’s a horrible instinctive viewpoint Tourette’s that I sometimes have. All in all, I know what they are doing is right. While I’m partially against internet piracy, I am a downloader of sorts, and by that, I mean I download things illegally. And sometimes legally. But mostly only after downloading them illegally then deciding they are worthy of money. However, I nearly always buy the CDs or see the bands live that I download and eventually get the films I like in Blu-Ray just so I can pretend to be snobbish about ‘the picture’ quality, which is usually the same as if its from my computer anyway. But, I do believe that while it loses some creative types money, overall, it spreads the word about them around the world. Further to that, if the SOPA law comes in, it will affect the way website run and ultimately the way in which information is spread around the world. And if that’s all to stop me downloading episode of Adventure Time then its all bit petty.
Yet, if protesting against a law I really don’t like means that today I couldn’t find out who the manager of FC Barcelona was for a competition answer then fuck you wikipedia, I am no longer a friend of the cause. I’m not sure where this lack of patience or tolerance for things I don’t like has arisen from, but its definitely got more evident as I’ve got older. On Sunday Nat was watching Sherlock in the living room and while I said that was fine, I found it impossible to point out consistently why I thought it was shit, what annoys me about it and then read a HP Lovecraft graphic novel while constantly explaining why the storyline in that was better. I am, if nothing else, a really annoying flatmate. And yes, I can already guess that some of you are absolutely enraged as to me not liking Sherlock. Though blogs, Facebook and tweets, you had probably assumed that I was one of the cool kids and therefore down with everything everyone else is. This would prove you hadn’t read my blog of Sunday but on all other accounts, yes, you’d be right. Except for Sherlock which I have never liked. Reasons are as follows: 1) If you are going to make a new detective show based in the 21st century, then why does it have to be a future version of Sherlock Holmes? Why do you have to take an absolute classic and modernise it when you could just write a story about a new autistic detective? Its as though originality has been sucked from the world once again. I’ve been rewatching The Wire again just to remember how television can be made if it goes back to the days where it didn’t patronise its viewers. 2) It’s all too slick. The reason the original Holmes was amazing was because technology didn’t exist, they couldn’t just grab a criminal by his DNA and therefore his deducing skills were incredible. Cumberbatch’s Holmes feels very one dimensional in comparison with just his Rain Man like qualities and lack of drug addiction. ‘Jim’ Moriarty more so for using phone apps. The whole thing bounces along at such a pace it doesn’t feel like much of a mystery at all and uses this technique to gloss over plot holes and improbabilities. Look, to be honest, I may like it if he wasn’t called ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the stories weren’t bastardised versions of Conan-Doyle’s originals.
It’s that that upsets me the most. Its the way that since the TV show has been on, I’ve found myself in a bookshop looking at a copy of ‘Hound Of The Baskervilles’ with Cumberbatch and Freeman’s face on with the blurb ‘you’ve seen the series, now see where the story comes from!’ which made my miserly Tourette’s throw out a retch and a ‘fuck off’ much to the disconcertion of those in Waterstones York. US TV station CBS have now just announced too that they are also doing their own version of Sherlock set in New York in the 21st Century. WHY? JUST WRITE A NEW DETECTIVE SHOW! Is it that hard? Clearly it is. Or clearly they’ve realised they can just patronise audiences with substandard TV and because its not as shit as Take Me Out, everyone thinks its gold. I honestly think that Sherlock Holmes himself would deduce that pretty damn quickly.
See? That’s what I mean. I didn’t want to write about Sherlock today because I know you, the public, will lambast me. You’ll tell me how great it is because text messages pop up on screen in writing so you don’t have to make any assumptions as to what they say. You’ll say that it means you don’t have to struggle with working it out as it spells it all out for you. You’ll say that Martin Freeman is great as Watson because he’s meant to be just like Tim from the Office and Arthur Dent in the Douglas Adams raping film version of Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. You’ll say that it doesn’t matter that we lose a large part of the mystery because we now have action sequences instead and its far easier to sit while drool escapes our mouths when explosions happen than try and work anything out with brain power we may need to work out where our mouths are to shovel chips in at a later time. If you disagree then maybe use the internet before SOPA kicks in to download some of the Sherlock Holmes episodes Jeremy Brett did. I would point you to links for the wiki page for all of those but I can’t. Because of its bloody great, shitty, brilliant protest.
I should point out that you are allowed to like Sherlock, in the same way I’m allowed not to like it. That’s the lovely way the world works. And the lovely way the internet works is that we can see everyone’s opinions and make our own based on all the facts and views. Let’s hope the law doesn’t ever change that. | <urn:uuid:6f3bda86-83c6-4e43-a088-ca7feebc02d5> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/2012/01/elementary-level-tourettes/ | 2018-01-20T02:57:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084888878.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20180120023744-20180120043744-00520.warc.gz | en | 0.967404 | 1,431 |
Analysis of Lattice Vibrations in Two Dimensions
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At first glance, the hexagonal and square lattices appear to have the same symmetry as their unit cells (a simple hexagon or square), but closer examination reveals more rotational and reflectional symmetries, not to mention a countably infinite number of translations. Of course, a real crystal lattice deviates from perfect symmetry as it interacts with photons in energy transfer that results in the creation of discrete vibrational states.[more]
Simple restoring force models of linear crystals can be extended to planar crystals by considering angles as well as edges. Resolving the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a Hessian matrix can help to understand how superpositions of vibrational modes relate to possibly observable spectra. Only some of the computable values will be observed in the laboratory. The best predictions of observable transitions also consider the symmetry of the vibrational modes, as determined by their equivalency class.[less]
Snapshot 1, Energy Summation Unit: As a tile in the lattice deforms according to the propagation of a wavefunction away from the equilibrium configuration, the potential energy of the entire tiling increases because of the deformed edges and angles. Each contribution to the increase in potential energy is shown as a highlighted edge or highlighted vertex, and the magnitude of the highlighted region indicates the contribution of that deformation to the total potential energy.
Snapshot 2, Hessian Matrix: An array plot of the Hessian matrix shows the magnitude of the second derivative of the potential energy, which is computed using a central difference method and two perturbations for each atom. The eigenvectors and eigenvalues of this matrix are the normal modes and their corresponding vibrational frequencies. The Hessian matrix, given by , has the units of a force constant.
Snapshot 3, Block Diagonal Transformation: The perturbation basis elements transform into one another according to the operations of dihedral symmetry, for both square and hexagonal lattices. The Hessian matrix computed from these perturbations does not change under conjugation by any transformation of the dihedral group, that is, . Thus, can be reduced to block diagonal form using a transformation derived from the irreducible representations of the dihedral group. Eigenvectors computed from the block-diagonalized matrix can all be real even if eigenvectors computed from the untransformed matrix are complex.
Snapshot 4, Energy Level Diagram: This plot shows energy levels for each selected wavefunction. The left-hand side of each level is labeled by some number linearly proportional to a frequency, computed from the square root of an eigenvalue of the Hessian matrix . Indices on the right-hand side correspond to symmetries of the vibrational modes, which can be determined using sets of simple linear functionals.
The construction of the Hessian matrix is adapted from . Each angular dimension resists deformation with a factor of , and each linear dimension resists deformation with a factor of . The total energy of a lattice acted upon by periodic deformations is infinite and thus incalculable. However, an adequately apportioned fraction of the total energy can be computed by summing the energy from each tile multiplied by the population percentage of that tile. Care must be taken not to count edges twice.
In this notebook, the energy computation is correct for the square lattice and for the A hexagonal lattice but not for the B hexagonal lattice. The A hexagonal lattice contains only three species of tiles, while the B hexagonal lattice contains 24 species of tiles. A correct computation for the B hexagonal lattice in 12 dimensions could be accomplished by changing the energy function to sum over the six edges and six angles of all 24 species, with the appropriate prefactors according to relative population and overlap of edges. Each basis pattern has a unique spectrum and perturbation periodicity. It is unknown how many basis patterns exist, and the existence or absence of a basis pattern containing 720 tiles is unproven but not excluded.
Block diagonalization is performed by considering the irreducible representations of the appropriate dihedral group. Block membership determines an important equivalency class for eigenvectors, related to selection rules and transition probabilities. A classification system based on annihilators and orthogonal to block membership has been used to number the degeneracies.
This Demonstration should not be considered physical, but systems of springs and masses can give insight for problems where restoring forces hold atoms in a specific geometric pattern while some energy excitations attempt to move them, thus creating phonons.
Thanks to Janette Dunn for providing educational resources regarding representation-derived bases.
D. E. Weeks and W. G. Harter, "Rotation-Vibration Spectra of Icosahedral Molecules. II. Icosahedral Symmetry, Vibrational Eigenfrequencies, and Normal Modes of Buckminsterfullerene," Journal of Chemical Physics, 90(9), 1989 pp. 4744–4771. doi: 10.1063/1.456571. | <urn:uuid:f3a8ac29-d9db-4d34-a27a-eab7a90533d8> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://www.demonstrations.wolfram.com/AnalysisOfLatticeVibrationsInTwoDimensions/ | 2019-05-22T04:40:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256763.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522043027-20190522065027-00509.warc.gz | en | 0.889214 | 1,112 |
Anchoring in strong tidal currents
Many areas in The Bahamas make tricky work of anchoring, especially where reversing currents can break out an anchor and set you adrift. The Bimini Channel, Normans Cay Cut in the Exumas and the North Current Cut near Eleuthera are three notorious places that wreak havoc with anchored boats as the tides turn. If you want to sleep well at night, review your technique, your choice of anchorages and your ground tackle before your next anchoring adventure.
A popular two-anchor technique that works well in reversing currents is the appropriately named Bahamian moor. Two bow anchors are set 180 degrees apart with the bow of the boat as the midpoint. Drop the first anchor up-current, motor back and set it, letting out double the rode you’ll need for a 7:1 ratio of rode to depth. Drop the second anchor down current, then fall back to the midway position and snug up both lines. Take care not to wrap the line in the props when backing down on the second anchor. If nearby boats lie to one anchor, your swinging radius will be different from theirs so give them plenty of room.
A Bahamian moor works best when a consistent wind blows across the current and keeps the bow steady in one direction. Without a breeze, the boat may spin as the current reverses, twisting the lines. You can minimize this in two ways: First, if possible, cleat one anchor line at the bow on one side and the other a few feet back on the other side. The boat will not be able to spin in place with both lines taut. Second, use a swivel with three lengths of chain. The swivel has two eyes or shackles on one side to connect to the chain leading down to the two anchors, and one shackle on the other end connects to a third length of chain that reaches up to the vessel. Regardless of the boat’s dance at the surface, the swivel does all the twisting. Keep in mind, however, that this method takes advanced preparation, extra equipment and more time to set and retrieve the anchors.
Most Bahamas anchoring is done in less than 15 feet of water, so 100-120 feet of chain or line should be sufficient. A bow lookout can guide the driver to a nice patch of sand on an otherwise grassy bottom and watch for the telltale cloud as the anchor makes contact. When setting the anchor, take care not to pull it out of the sand and into the grass. Hitting a small target with an anchor hanging off a moving vessel requires practice. Don’t be shy about repeating the process until you’re successful—it’ll be worth it.
On a coral pan, there is nothing for an anchor to dig into and it will generally just slide on its side without hooking up. This is a dangerous situation and you’ll recognize a dragging anchor by the chain skipping or jerking in the bow roller. Always try to snorkel on your anchor to check its position and its environment. An anchor painted white is easier to spot underwater and is an easy DIY project.
Of course, the last tip—which arguably should be the first—is don’t anchor in sketchy places like cuts where water gets squeezed and currents speed up. If a mellower anchorage is one bay over from where you’d like to snorkel, use the dinghy to commute, but stay overnight around the corner.
The Best Anchor
Types of anchor are a hotly debated subject. I find at a bar, the opinions grow louder and convictions stronger with each cocktail. The truth is that the best anchor is the one that fits the circumstances: type of holding ground, current, and tides, and the type and size of boat. In a perfect world, we’d have one of every sort just to be safe.
Not having that kind of space or budget, I carry three: a Manson Supreme, an original Bruce, and a Fortress. The first two are on the bow and the last one is used as a stern anchor because it’s aluminum, so it’s light and easy to manage by hand from the stern or dinghy.
My Manson (similar to a Rocna) has dragged only once and that was in the grass, the nemesis of all anchors. I’ve found the advantage of a claw like the Bruce or Lewmar, is that it tends to reset quickly and typically on its own if it breaks out. Fortress and Danforth anchors with opening flukes are excellent in mud and sand and stow easily off the bow roller on smaller vessels. I’ve also had good luck with a Delta and a Spade.
I believe in all chain rode, at least for the primary anchor. The chain won’t chafe through on rock or coral, creates a nice catenary and adds a bit of heft to an undersized anchor. The secondary anchor should have chain equal to at least one length of the boat and another 100-150 feet of nylon rode. My stern Fortress has 50 feet of chain and 265 feet of flat polyester webbing on a Quickline that stows nicely.
A working windlass is key to any successful anchoring routine. For a Bahamian moor, a windlass should have a chain gypsy on one side and a line winch on the other. If you haven’t serviced your windlass in a while or even used it for that matter, remember that it’s cheap insurance so it should be in working order. Take off the cover, check the pawls, lubricate necessary points, and lay eyes on the wire connections to ensure they’re solid.
Finally, be sure to check the weather before choosing an anchorage, and set an anchor alarm on your GPS. Then, I promise, you’ll sleep like a baby.
By Zuzana Prochazka Southern Boating May 2017
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CSMN: Market Neutral ETN from Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse launched a new exchange-traded note (“ETN”) on Wednesday (9/21/11) linked to the performance of an index designed to provide exposure to a market neutral investment strategy on North American, European, and Japanese stocks. The Credit Suisse Market Neutral Global Equity ETN (CSMN) will track the HS Market Neutral Index Powered by HOLT, minus the investor fee of 1.05%.
The underlying index typically consists of 75 long positions at 1.33% each (100% allocation) and another 75 short positions (an inverse 100% allocation). The selection universe consists of 750 stocks (275 North America, 300 Europe, and 175 Japan) based on size and liquidity constraints.
Stocks are grouped into 10 sectors and ranked by the proprietary Credit Suisse HOLT system, a cash-flow-return-on-investment framework. Stocks in the top 10% of each sector and top 34% of each region are included in the long allocation. The short allocation then pairs the selected longs with the lowest ranked stocks in the same sector and region to ensure market neutrality.
The index has been in existence for four years, and the performance looks like this (chart from CSMN fact sheet):
Although the index is market neutral within each sector (“sector neutral”), the sectors with the largest number of positions include Financials 17%, Consumer Cyclical 17%, Consumer Non-cyclical 13%, Communications 13%, and Industrials 12%. Data on current region allocations was not available.
Because CSMN is an ETN instead of an ETF, it is an unsecured debt obligation subject to the credit risk of Credit Suisse. The overview page contains additional information and provides links to the fact sheet and prospectus.
Disclosure covering writer, editor, and publisher: No positions in any of the securities mentioned. No positions in any of the companies or ETF sponsors mentioned. No income, revenue, or other compensation (either directly or indirectly) received from, or on behalf of, any of the companies or ETF sponsors mentioned. | <urn:uuid:83ad8b2b-f4db-474f-b062-01416e54fc2c> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://investwithanedge.com/csmn-market-neutral-etn-from-credit-suisse | 2015-10-13T23:00:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443738087479.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001222127-00182-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905309 | 440 |
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New York’s techno scene is in a constant state of flux. Like the city itself, there’s this ever-present renewal—new clubs and basement spaces sprout up every day through the cracks in the concrete to replace those swallowed by the city. New DJs move in and old heads move out on the first of every month. Every day some kid is booting up a cracked copy of Ableton for the first time, trying their hand at making tracks for the first time. Point is, this stuff ebbs and flows—there’s always new energy.
This feels especially true at the top of 2019. New York’s year began with the shuttering of one of its biggest electronic institutions—a place which, to be frank, served its purpose as a club for moneyed hedonists but never offered much to me. It seems symbolic at the end of a year that, for me, involved a lot less big club outings and a lot more small parties, thrown with love by and for the community. I will admit no small amount of bias here, of course I’m going to love nights thrown by people I loosely know within walking distance of my apartment, but in the near decade I’ve lived in the city, I’m not sure there’s been a time more friendly to open-hearted listeners of electronic music. There’s cool shit to do and cool people to see every night of the week.
Wyatt Stevens, a producer and DJ who works as MoMa Ready, is deeply in tune with the new energy coursing through the city right now. He’s the source of a fair amount of it. Especially over the last six months or so it feels like you can’t have a long night out in New York without catching a MoMa Ready set. He seems comfortable playing in more or less any context, whether in crowded bars and basement rave settings (on New Year’s I saw him play at 5 am in a cold warehouse space that kinda seemed like a meat locker, shortly after a series of sets from noise artists). In every one he more or less just does his thing, spinning techno, house, acid, and other pulsating sounds united by the feeling that they’ve been scuffed on Brooklyn asphalt.
Those sounds—which also tend to be the sorts that he favors in his productions—just feel alive in his hands. Like his bud AceMo, he has a knack for precisely engineering and playing these tracks without making them feel overdetermined. Synths are programmed with a pointillist’s dexterity, the drums always hit just so, but there’s also a sense that anything can happen. It’s machine music, but it’s free.
Stevens captures this new New York energy and the unique proposition of his electric approach to familiar sounds on this week’s Noisey mix.Over the course of an hour through he roils through a ton of head-noddy house and techno, as well as sounds both more blissed and more broken. Alongside the mix, Stevens also answered a few questions about his upbringing around the rave, and the state of New York scene at the moment.
Noisey: How are we meant to enjoy the mix? What's the perfect setting?
MoMa Ready: Hmm thats a tough one, would have to say the best place is wherever the listener decides, I know that’s probably a frustrating answer to receive.
Is synesthesia a real thing and if so, what color is this mix?
I have a visual relationship with music among my other relationships with it so I believe in synesthesia, wouldn't say I have it, at least not apparently as described. this mix feels various shades of purple and dark shades of blue I would have to say.
Was there any specific concept to the mix?
Not a specific concept, I put it together based on energy. That’s the through line, but the only concept is honesty.
Do you have a favorite moment on this mix?
Probably the second to last song, it's an unreleased track by AceMo and myself and it really captures the beauty within the energy going on in our community right now.
Tell me the MoMa Ready origin story. Who are you? What do you do? How did you get here? How did you find the rave?
I'm from Newburgh NY originally, moved to NYC for school. The name MoMa Ready stems from the experience I had as a black kid at a high level creative institution. I attended The School Of Visual Arts, studied filmmaking, had a weird experience that made me question my position on art and what constitutes it as such. Got tired of the pretentious crap I was seeing, needed more honesty.
I come from a musical family, grew up dancing, singing, and playing instruments. My aunt used to rave when she was young, [she] would baby sit me and blast house music, so I've heard 4x4 my whole life. As I got older I developed my own relationship with it through dancing. I dance and that’s my relationship with the music. There used to be an old rave den/indoor skatepark in my hometown. [It] was way before my time and closed before I could attend. But I used to dream about it, and that’s where my curiosity started.
Could you tell me a bit about what draws you to a track as a DJ and listener? Is there an energy or a sound that you feel most connected to?
The only answer I have to that is my emotional reaction to the music. Does it make me feel?. I don't care too much for labels in certain regards. Names aren't the only thing that make music good so I try to look past them. I find music all over because I know it doesn't only exist in one location. Growing up around music probably has a lot to do with that.
It is an exciting time to be a fan of techno in New York. It seems like you’ve really found a community of people with a similar approach and disposition. Does it feel like that from your perspective? Do you feel like “the scene”—insomuch as there is a singular techno scene in New York, I know it is more a series of overlapping communities—has swung in the direction of your tastes?
NY is in rare form right now. I'm happy to have found other artist and DJs that understand this new energy. There are several scenes within the Techno scene in NYC. We've carved out only a small section for ourselves. I wouldn't say it swung in our direction, we made a fuck load of noise where everyone else was whispering. The music was uninspired, and no one was dancing, and it became a circle jerk. I would say we're only part of a new guard that’s tired of being bored at parties.
You tweeted something the other day that struck me about how DJing allows you to deal with the social anxiety of being in club spaces. Could you talk about that?
I've struggled with social anxiety at varying levels my whole life. I grew up in church so it was always awkward for me to develop relationships with my peers outside of my household. I was never really allowed to party growing up, but toward my mid-late teens I'd begun DJing, but I felt like I skipped certain social experiences so being at the party was still weird. So I would hide behind and near the DJ booth to feel like I belonged at the party, like "this is my contribution, this is why I'm here, this is why you should accept me." As an adult i still catch myself doing it sometimes when Im solo at a function. It’s a defense mechanism. All us DJs are just nerds after all.
You make a lot of tracks—and just compiled a lot of them on Body 18 —do you have plans to keep the faucet flowing in 2019? What keeps you motivated to keep working on stuff? What’s next?
I do indeed make a lot of music so I will be releasing more very soon. lately what keeps me motivated is all the people we've already been inspiring. I have an digi LP titled SOFT, HARD, BODY coming early February I'm working on as well as an EP project coming out with AceMo soon. both projects are more focused than Body 18. In the future I’d like to expound upon these ideas I've set in motion, but there are definitely sounds I want to explore. Hard to say what they are now, but they will be apparent soon. | <urn:uuid:9231d370-8a79-4002-9859-543b5a3c5c9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.vice.com/en/article/yw7y5g/noisey-mix-moma-ready-interview | 2022-10-04T08:17:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337480.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20221004054641-20221004084641-00769.warc.gz | en | 0.977956 | 1,798 |
I often hear the comparison of an amorous relationship to a job: it’s work. And with your dream career or any job you want to keep, you show up, do your best and get rewarded with money, health benefits, PTO, accolades, experiences, a 401k, a corner office, a growing salary, etc. And if you’re really really fortunate, this work is also fulfilling; it’s challenging. It gives you a sense of purpose. It allows you the freedom to bring your unique ideas to the table. You feel appreciated, supported and welcomed. It enhances other parts of your life. The great days far outnumber the not so good. And it would take some time to adjust if you suddenly lost that job or got demoted, right? For many, that’s a scary thought.
The same should go for a healthy partnership; although they’re ofttimes not portrayed to be nearly as valuable as a job, worthwhile relationships are priceless with endless benefits. It should not feel strenuous, but rather rewarding to have a person that loves you and comforts you yet challenges you. Sees the best in you and is there to steer you right when you lose your way. A person that accepts your dark, not so likeable side. A person that forgives you and loves with understandable conditions.
The person who is for you just might scare you into bettering your communication. You just might scare him into making healthier decisions and reaching his highest potential. Good! Know that it’s worth staying instead of running back to safety; when it comes to partnerships, a partner who fights for (not with) you and the relationship is truly as good as it gets. And I know everything is temporary, but it’s so worth it to cultivate something worth losing in the meantime. You deserve it! No mediocre!
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Oshogbo (ōshōbˈbō) [key], city (1991 est. pop. 421,000), SW Nigeria, on the Oshun River. Primarily a farming and commercial city, it has cotton gins, a steel-rolling mill, a traditional textiles industry, and cigarette and food-processing factories. The city is also a road and rail junction, and has an airport. Oshogbo was probably founded in the 17th cent. as a town in the Yoruba kingdom of Ijesha (see Ilesha). In 1839 it was the site of a decisive battle in which Ibadan, a Yoruba city-state, defeated Ilorin, an expansionist Fulani state, thus halting Ilorin's southward advance. An influx of refugees after the battle swelled Oshogbo's population.
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– 67 is when we think we will retire… but we want to retire five years earlier
– 32% of Brits don’t have a pension
A new report by Friends Provident has revealed that people in the UK expect to work beyond the new default retirement age of 66, with 40% saying they plan to work past the age of 70.
The report, Visions of Britain 2020: Ageing and Retirement, polled 1,200 individuals across the UK to take the temperature of the nation and gauge its views towards retirement.
When asked at what age they think they will retire, it was found that the average worker expected to retire at 67 years of age. Conversely, when asked what age they would like to retire, the average response was 62.2 – meaning a 4.8 year gap between the age at which people would like to retire and the age they think they will actually retire.
The findings also demonstrate varied expectations when it comes to the length of working life across the country, with people in Nottingham expecting to retire the latest (aged 68.4). People in Birmingham and Wales expect to retire at 65.6, before the new default retirement age, whilst people in Leeds say 66.8 and Scots say 66.4.
Trevor Matthews, CEO Friends Provident Holdings (UK) said:
“It is interesting to compare the various levels of awareness about later life across the country, and it is clear that people are more accepting of the fact that they will have to work longer. As individuals we now have more choices, but coupled with this comes increased responsibility and the need to plan adequately for retirement. It is crucial that we do this planning early enough in life whilst we have more options available to us rather than waiting until we reach our mid 60s when the only stark choices might be to keep working into our 70s or accept a lower than expected standard of living in retirement.”
Moreover, the research shows that for many, working longer is a positive decision. 24% of respondents fear that they will get bored when they stop working with 52% stating that they enjoy the social contact that comes from being in a working environment.
The report uncovered regional disparities in current levels of pensions saving with nearly a third (32%) of those across the UK failing to have a pension. People in London and Birmingham are the worst offenders, where 37% of people do not have a pension.
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With summer just a couple weeks away, our mouths are beginning to water for juicy tomatoes, fresh green beans, buttery homegrown corn and other flavorful fruits and veggies of all kinds.
Thankfully, Franklin County has two great sources for locally-grown produce.
Our county boasts two thriving farmers markets – one in Russellville, adjacent to the A.W. Todd Center, and one in Red Bay at the Fun Park. Each market is open multiple days of the week throughout the growing season to provide fresh, homegrown fruits and veggies to our citizens.
We encourage everyone – both growers and customers – to give their support to these local markets.
Our markets need more farmers to set up and sell fresh produce, and people in our communities need to patronize these markets and take advantage of the locally-grown items.
These farmers are your friends and neighbors, and when they sell you a melon, a potato, a cucumber or a zucchini, you know exactly where it came from. You know that as recently as a few hours ago, it was still rooted in warm north Alabama soil.
You just can’t get any fresher than that.
The Franklin County Farmers Market in Russellville opened May 24 and is open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 6 a.m. to noon through October. Farmers set up at the covered pavilion next to the A.W. Todd Center.
The Red Bay Farmers Market pavilion is located at Red Bay Fun Park, just across the parking lot from the water park. It is open from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday through September.
Both of these markets are coordinated by the Franklin County Extension, and both participate in the Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, through which qualified senior customers can purchase fruits and veggies using voucher coupons received through the Franklin County Extension.
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Today’s post is the first of a two-part interview with Mark Fiege (pronounced FEE-gee, rhymes with BeeGee), who has just published The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012). Mark is a colleague of mine at Baa Ram U., and his book delivers what its sweeping subtitle suggests–a striking reinterpretation of American history as environmental history, with chapters that span the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.
Because we have had conversations on this blog about many of the issues Mark addresses in his book, I believe that many of you will want to learn more about The Republic of Nature. Those of you who are training graduate students in history and who are looking for ways to bring environmental history into your survey and upper-division lectures and readings will find this book indispensible. American historians will learn something new, and non-U.S. historians will behold a model for using environmental history in telling a national story. Furthermore, all readers who enjoys brisk prose and surprising insights into stories you thought you already knew will be rewarded with discoveries on nearly every page.
The Republic of Nature is not a textbook, but rather an attempt to interpret key episodes or turning points in American history as environmental history, reconsidering them from the different angles employed by environmental historians and their extra-disciplinary colleagues. Its nine chapters explore New England witchcraft, the Declaration of Independence, “King Cotton,” Abraham Lincoln, the Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address, the Transcontinental Railroad, the atomic bomb, Brown v. Board of Education, and the energy crisis of the 1970s. (Click here to learn more about the book at its own website.)
In today’s conversation, we talk about nature, race, and their central roles in American history:
Historiann: Abraham Lincoln and race are emotionally and actually at the center of your book: Lincoln’s profile at Mt. Rushmore greets us on the dust jacket of your book. Your introduction opens with a fascinating meditation on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Chapters 3 through 5 focus respectively on slavery and cotton production, the mythic and actual biographies of Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle and Address of Gettysburg. And finally, your interest in race and the color line in American history are evident again in your choice to focus on Brown v. Board of Education in chapter 8. What is it about Abraham Lincoln and America’s record on race that attracted your interest as an environmental historian? I can’t help but perceive a rebuke to environmental historians who perhaps have not attended to this aspect of the American historical landscape–or is that an unwarranted assumption?
Mark Fiege: Researching and writing this book has convinced me that race and the black freedom struggle are central to American history, perhaps even its defining elements. But I’m an environmental historian, and another part of me recognizes that all social struggles unfold in the material medium generally known as nature. So I felt that I had to explain how race and nature are at the heart of the story.
While working on the book, I came across “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the national anthem composed in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. I had never heard it performed, so the ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong gave me a version of it on a CD. It is profoundly moving, as great as any of the other national anthems. In it, people wander across an awesome providential landscape until they come to a place where they can live in God’s sheltering grace. It presents a kind of alternative Manifest Destiny that is about redemption, not conquest. It captures perfectly the sense that the struggle is centered in a landscape and involves a people’s special relationship to nature.
So I think my focus on race is less a rebuke to anyone than an embrace of what I take to be the truth of the matter–that this is what American history, at its core, is really about.
This is fascinating—although in many respects it’s not a surprise, is it, that people who were overwhelmingly or are descended from agricultural laborers would use nature as a powerful expressive concept? Your work in the chapter “King Cotton” on the harnessing of the”bio-power” of “natural increase” and the new staple crop to spread slavery into the southwest, speaks to this intimate relationship between African Americans and nature.
MF: You’re right, it’s not a surprise that agricultural laborers would use their experience of nature as the source of ideas about themselves. What is surprising is how important this was but how little scholarly attention it has received. Somehow, many Americans have segregated–and I use that word deliberately–race and nature not only in scholarly discourse, but in much of our popular and political discourse, too. Nature is John Muir and Henry David Thoreau; race is Frederick Douglass or W.E.B. Du Bois. In fact, Douglass and Du Bois had plenty to say about nature, it’s just that to them, nature was wrapped up in the problem of race, and race was wrapped up in the problem of nature. I can no longer read their works without imagining them to be nature writers.
One of Du Bois’s most stunning books is Darkwater (1920), which is shot through with discussions of nature–and race. At one point in the book, Du Bois describes his visits to the Grand Canyon and what is now Acadia National Park in Maine. Is it possible that nature writing somewhere along the line underwent a kind of whitening that has enabled its otherwise well-intentioned enthusiasts seemingly to avoid the problem of race? Is it possible that 21st century academicians have inherited intellectual categories constructed in the Jim Crow era and the origins of which we have forgotten?
It’s interesting that you describe consulting a musicologist. I’m sure that in writing such a sweeping retinterpretation of American history that you had to rely on the guidance and support of experts outside your original field of expertise in history, as well as people like Wong outside of history entirely. That’s one of the things I really enjoy about environmental historians—their methodological catholicity, or promiscuity, if you prefer. Are there particular chapters that have received strong pushback from “traditional” experts in their fields? Do you anticipate that one or two chapters in particular might be controversial?
Mostly people have received my work with great interest, which I appreciate, but there has been some pushback from friends and colleagues both inside and outside of environmental history. Some are uncomfortable with my interpretation of the atomic bomb, for example. This is an emotionally disturbing and morally unsettling topic, and it filled me with intense anguish when I researched it and wrote about it. In the story, childhood nature study and the emotion that Rachel Carson called “the sense of wonder” inspired the atomic scientists to produce the knowledge necessary to build the bomb. I now believe that an honest appraisal of the bomb requires us to understand that it embodies the purest of tragedies, that the emotions we associate with children and the impulse to align innocent human life with a fundamental order in the universe enabled the atomic scienstists–consciously, and with the best of intentions–to produce a weapon of overwhelming malignity. I did not enjoy writing this story, and I hope that angry readers will forgive me for telling the truth as I saw it.
Some friends and colleagues also have been skeptical that the Brown v. Board of Education case as experienced in Topeka really is environmental history: too much pavement, buildings, schoolrooms, ideas of race, and so forth. Their objections raise basic questions about what is, and is not, environmental history. Obviously, I would like to extend environmental history analysis into other realms of American history, beyond the histories of agriculture, forests, rivers, national parks, animals, and the like, my own work included, that have defined the field. The color line, it seems to me, was more than just a legal abstraction; it was a material practice grounded in the social experience of landscape and its physical properties. The color line ran through fields, forests, wildlife, water, and fish, to be sure; and its architects drew it into the urban landscape, where it ran up and down hills, through freezing weather, along muddy streets and into flood-prone neighborhoods, through houses and schoolrooms, and into the organic bodies of people.
Here and in your Brown v. Board chapter; you’re making a forceful argument for understanding the embodied consequences of segregation, in effect asking your readers to consider the long-term material effects of the color line. You are working in the grain of environmental historians who see the human body as a subject for environmental history. Is that at the root of the controversy you allude to here–your inclusion of humans along with non-human animals, whereas your critics are resistant to including humans and their bodies as part of nature? You and I have talked about this before, and you know that I (along with many other historians of women, gender, and sexuality) agree with you that human bodies must be considered as part of environmental history.
Do you see this controversy mostly among environmental historians who (as you wrote above) want to restrict environmental history to “agriculture, forests, rivers, national parks, [and] animals,” or do you see this pressure as coming from non-environmental historians who see you (and others) as “invading” their turf? Or is it a little of both?
It may be that some environmental historians are uncomfortable with collapsing the boundary between people and nature. One strain of thought in the environmental movement has separated people out as either a special (and deeply problematic) part of the creation or as inherently unnatural. Much early environmental history, my own work included, assumed a “people and nature” dichotomy even as it broke down that dichotomy. That dichotomy is now virtually untenable as historians such as Linda Nash, Conevery Bolton Valencius, and Nancy Langston point out that the body (setting aside the fact that it is an evolved organism) is permeable to the substances in the environments through which it moves. I think this is one of the most exciting trends in environmental history, because it enables us to talk to colleagues outside the field who study the body in cultural and social terms.
I think we now have a historiography that enables us to locate people at the center of history but also in relationship to the material substances of which they are made and which surround them, a historiography that takes into consideration the ways that bodies are culturally constructed, socially conditioned, material things. Probably there is an inherent tension in this because environmental history has prided itself on making non-human things relevant to human history. Ultimately I don’t see this as an irresolvable problem because the focus on the body’s materiality can help us see how human life and history are inextricably bound up in the lives and histories of plants and animals and in the properties of the matter, energy, and forces that make up our world.
If there is or will be resistance to this approach from outside the field of environmental history, it might derive from our inescapable but nonetheless problematic use of the term “nature.” As Raymond Williams pointed out years ago, nature is one of the most complex, difficult, but extraordinarily useful words in the English language. The problem for many historians is that some people often made claims on nature to suppress other people and to legitimate hierarchies of power and domination. According to the logic of the powerful, because some people are “naturally” inferior or their behavior “unnatural,” those people must be suppressed, marginalized, excluded, removed, enslaved, or exterminated. I don’t think that environmental historians will ever resolve this problem, but I don’t think that the answer is to assume that there is nothing in the world that is nature or natural. It seems to me that the utility of “nature” is that it allows us to describe the holism of human history in a way that incorporates but is not limited to economics, geography, technology, ecology, and other material relationships, processes, and things.
Having spent hours and hours pondering this, I have to say that “nature” is a problem for any historian, environmental or otherwise. But I don’t think the answer is to run from it; quite the contrary, I think the answer is to embrace it and wrestle with it. To do otherwise is to ignore a huge part of the human experience, and it is to ignore the ways that past people who resisted oppression, people such as W.E.B. Du Bois, themselves made legitimate, justifiable, compelling claims on nature.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post on “The bloody, rich mulch of life.” (Aren’t you curious?)
Mark’s national book tour begins today in Madison, Wisconsin, and continues in the East through the end of April. The list price for The Republic of Nature is $34.95, an amazing deal, considering that this is a handsomely produced hardback with three lengthy and lavish photo essays interspersed in its pages. (You can find it for as low as $22.83 at major internet book sellers, too.) Here’s Mark’s book tour schedule–specific dates and locations for his Pacific Coast tour will be announced later.
March 27, Tuesday, 4:00-5:30pm, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Culture, History, and the Environment
April 2, Monday, 4:00-5:30pm University of Chicago, Program on the Global Environment and the Workshop on American Social History
April 3, Tuesday, 4:00pm, Georgetown University Department of History
April 9 and 10, Monday and Tuesday, public talk Tuesday, 4:30-6:00pm, Bryn Mawr College
New York City:
April 11-12, Wednesday evening TBA, Thursday morning TBA, New School for Social Research
Marlton, New Jersey:
April 14, Saturday, 2:00pm, Marlton Barnes & Noble
April 16, Monday, 4:00-6:00pm, Educator Event, and 6:00pm, book talk, Barnes & Noble downtown
April 17, Tuesday, 6:00pm, Warwick Barnes & Noble
April 18, Wednesday, 7:00pm, Harvard Co-Op Bookstore
April 20, Friday, 1:30pm, Organization of American Historians conference
Fort Collins, Colorado:
April 29, Sunday, 2:00pm, Old Firehouse Books, Old Town Fort Collins
May 24, Thursday, 7:30pm, Boulder Book Store
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Life Link III, an air medical transport nonprofit consortium of nine hospitals, held an open house Aug. 15 at the Anoka County-Blaine Airport.
The event was held inside and just outside the Golden Wings Museum, so various historic planes were on display, but Life Link III had a couple of helicopters at the event as well that some got to ride in.
There was a slideshow showing what a flight nurses typical day is like. There were door prize drawings, which included a helicopter ride.
The Anoka County-Blaine Airport is one of four bases in Minnesota for Life Link III, according to its website. The others are in Alexandria, Hibbing and Willmar. It also has a base in Rice Lake, Wis.
Life Link III recently purchased six helicopters through AgustaWestland of Philadelphia, Pa., with the option of buying six more, according to Life Link III spokesperson Kristen Brand.
Brand said the first helicopter should arrive in November or December and the others would be delivered about once a month until all six helicopters are in place.
Life Link III currently leases its helicopters through Air Methods Corporation, which is based out of Denver, Colo. This company will continue to provide pilots and mechanics for Life Link III, however, Brand said.
The purchase will reduce the overall annual cost of aviation operations because helicopters generally retain 50 percent of their value after 10 years, and this fits nicely for the company to continue preparing for reimbursement changes under health care reform, Brand said.
According to a press release from Life Link III, the AW119Kx model helicopters being purchased features a Garmin G1000H avionics system, which includes a synthetic vision system, moving map, highway in the sky and obstacle/terrain avoidance systems for enhanced situational awareness and safety. The system is optimized for diagnosis and data analysis for maintenance purposes.
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I sit in my room, cross legged on my bed. My heart is heavy. I look at the patterns on my quilt, yet don't see any of their beauty. My mind is everywhere. I'm tired. And I'm alone.
"I should talk to God about all of this..."
I glance up briefly but my eyes quickly go to the floor when I realize I don't have the words right now. My God that was so close to my heart yesterday seems miles away right now. Or is it just me believing that? I can't feel Him today. And today, of all days, is when I just want Him to hold me or at least feel His hope invading my heart.
"Maybe I should just try."
I hold back my words. What if He doesn't show up? I could be left high and dry. Isn't that what happens when you trust or expect something? I don't even attempt to look up now. I decide to risk one word. What harm could that do? I open my mouth as soon as I decide.
It's more of a question than anything. Are you there? Do you hear me? Can you see me? Do you still love me? Why aren't you here right now?
As soon as it leaves my lips I feel the glass wall I put up between me and Him shatter. The glass wall I didn't even realize was there. The glass wall that was broken down with a small hesitant call of His name. It is like the tense sad air I have breathed in all day is pervaded with a rush of relief that is let in by the shattered glass. I don't need the things crashing around me to go away. I just need to know someone is here.
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I purchased this bait 2 months ago and gave it a try at a lake i had never fished before with no luck . After that i threw it in my tackle box and forgot about it till i went to fish one of my honey holes the other day. I can always catch a few cats at this pond on liver,perch,worms,etc but have never had much luck with any brand of dip bait at the pond. I was fishing 3 poles baited with liver,perch,and this dip bait after 3 hours of fishing I had caught 0 on liver 1 on perch and 8 on the dip bait. The best thing about the bait is that unlike other dip baits it holds to the hook well and dosent sling off. The only downside i can think of is that the only way to get the bait on the hook is to man up and grab a glob and form it to the hook its to thick to dip it in and pull out like most dip bait.
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It was brand new and I thought it would be good. I sort of reminds me of barbecue pork and I didn't have a bite on in 12 hours trying to fish with it 3 different days with in a 2 week period. I don't know it just might be a spawn time?
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Baked Chicken Stew Recipe
This baked chicken stew has some coconut milk as part of the gravy and goes very well with rice.
1/2 pound chicken breasts, cut into bite sized chunks
3 potatoes, cut into cubes
2 carrots, cut into 1/2-inch thick slices
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
salt and pepper to taste
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup coconut milk, thick
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Cut the chicken into small cubes and peel and cube the potatoes.
In a dutch oven, heat the oil and saute in the onion, garlic, mushrooms until tender.
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Q: You recently spent several weeks in Sri Lanka. After experiencing so many new sights and sounds, is it difficult to get back to work in your studio?
A: It definitely requires some readjustment and a period – maybe a day or two – during which I feel removed from the painting on my easel and need time to become reacquainted with it. It’s a time to refocus, stay put, and reflect. For weeks I’ve led an action-packed life, exploring a fascinating country on the other side of the world. Over time, all of the experiences I’ve had will stay with me, or not, and in some ways begin to influence my work.
It’s funny. I often think of my studio as a cave. It’s a rather dark place and sometimes I have to force myself to go. In Sri Lanka I saw many ancient Buddhist cave temples, wild and vibrant, with colorful paintings on the walls and ceilings, chock full of statues of Buddha and other deities. My travels have given me a new appreciation of the riches to be found in caves of all sorts, including (especially) my own studio!
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Every wrestling fan knows about the Katie Vick storyline. During the tail end of the WWE’s Attitude Era, Triple H was in a feud with Kane. In order to torment the Devil’s Favorite Demon, The Cerebral Assassin brought up Katie Vick, who was supposedly Kane’s girlfriend when he was a teenager. She died in a car crash and, to top things off, Triple H claimed Kane committed an act of necrophilia on her corpse. As this was the Attitude Era, the WWE had cameras to film the entire thing.
Of course, it was just Triple H in a Kane mask but it was still bad. The angle was done in such poor taste and the WWE immediately distanced themselves and wrapped the entire thing. The damage had been done and, while all the participants managed to move past it, the Katie Vick storyline still looms over their heads as one of the worst storylines in wrestling history.
However, just because many fans thinks it’s one of the worst, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any challengers to its crown. So, with that in mind, here are five other storylines in wrestling history which are just as bad as the Katie Vick storyline.
The entire Snitsky “It’s not my fault” and Lita’s miscarriage
Oh, Kane. While you’re not directly linked to this, you’re still a part of the reason why this storyline happened in the first place.
Basically, in this storyline, Kane managed to “impregnate” Lita to continue his “legacy.” This led to their eventual (kinda forced) marriage. During Kane’s match with the debuting Snitsky, the Big Red Monster accidentally fell on Lita after Snitsky hit him with a chair. Lita then suffered a miscarriage and lost the baby. Snitsky then kept saying “it’s not my fault,” referring to the accident… yet still continued to torment Lita by, of all things, kicking a fake baby like a football.
This was bad in so many levels as it didn’t really help anyone. Snitsky acted both too cowardly and too much of a bully. This resulted him in not really developing a character. Lita, who was a badass wrestler, was relegated to a damsel in distress role. What’s worse, Kane was taken out of the picture early in the storyline because he was “injured” by Snitsky. He did get his revenge eventually but it was so delayed that it didn’t matter anymore.
David Arquette becomes the WCW Heavyweight Champion
While a lot of new fans will say Jinder Mahal is the worst Heavyweight Champion ever, they’re flat out wrong because, well, there’s David Arquette’s 2-week reign as the top guy in WCW.
Yes, that did happen.
In short, it was just a dumb publicity stunt to promote the WCW-centric movie Ready to Rumble, which had a lot of WCW wrestlers and David Arquette in it. Winning the WCW Heavyweight Title wasn’t the end of it, though, because things, somehow, got a whole lot worse.
As the video shows, David Arquette won the belt in a Fatal Four Way against Diamond Dallas Page, Jeff Jarrett and Eric Bichoff. At the time, he was best buds with DDP because, well, wrestling. Two weeks later, Arquette had to defend his WCW Heavyweight Championship in a Tripe Threat match in a Triple Cage match, the same match shown in the climax of Ready to Rumble. This time, Arquette turned on Page to give the title to Jeff Jarrett. The reason? It was because Eric Bishoff wanted to screw with the fans, which just means the writers couldn’t really think of a good enough reason.
I will actually give David Arquette some credit as, even if his tenure and title run in WCW is considered to be one of the lowest points in wrestling, he used it to fuel his passion and actually become a part-time wrestler!
Good for him! That doesn’t still make his WCW reign any better but good for him!
The oWn vs The nWo
Let’s get one thing straight: I like the Ultimate Warrior. He’s just super fun as he just steamrolls over his opponents like a freight train on steroids. His WCW run? Eeh. Not so much.
Ultimate Warrior went to WCW, the nWo was in full swing so it only made sense for him to go after Hulk Hogan. What happened next was a flurry of un-Warrior-like moves like kidnapping Hogan’s “Disciple” and converting him to join the One Warrior Nation AKA the oWn, using smoke to knock out nWo members as well as to disappear and appearing in mirrors which, for some reason, Hogan, the commentators and the audience could see but not any of the other nWo members.
This entire feud didn’t go anywhere as well since the
Ultimate Warrior only wrestled a handful of matches and, sadly, his most “memorable” match was a terrible botch job involving magic flaming paper that didn’t go off at the right time and blatant cheating by the nWo. This was a very sad, sad storyline but, in hindsight, was due to poor execution. That still doesn’t excuse it for being super bad.
“I wish you died in the womb!” with the Bella Twins
Maybe this is my personal bias against the Bella Twins, more specifically Nikki Bella, coming out but this was just cringeworthy to the nth degree.
For some odd reason, the Bella Twins broke up when Nikki Bella decided to turn on her twin sister Brie and sided with Stephanie McMahon. They reason given? Nikki was jealous of Brie or some nonsense. No one really remembers why but everyone does remember the super cringey “I wish you died in the womb!” line Nikki belted out.
This was supposed to be a huge feud as the Bella Twins were favorites in the WWE. However, what killed it for a lot of fan was how bad the acting was! No, really! It was horrible and, considering they’ve been in the WWE and the wrestling business for so long, you would expect at least one of the Bella Twins to be a teensy bit good.
What makes it worse is there was literally no payoff to the entire thing! Nikki beat Brie in a “Loser Becomes a Personal Assistant for a Month” match (that was a real thing, apparently) and belittled her for a few weeks. They made up off screen and reformed the Bella Twins because the WWE decided to give up on the angle, I guess. Yeesh.
The Nexus’ Rise and Immediate Fall
Why, WWE? You had gold when you had the Nexus crush everyone in their debut? Why did you have to kill of the stable in such a disastrous way?
The entire Nexus storyline had a lot of promise. The wrestlers who were featured in the first iteration of NXT banded together and simply wanted to destroy everyone and show what a force they are when they ban together when they interrupted a match between John Cena and CM Punk. To say they wrecked them is an understatement as the Nexus not only did just that but everyone outside the ring as well as the ring itself!
It looked like the Nexus was going to be the next big stable in the WWE… but it didn’t happen. Soon after this, for whatever reason, the Nexus members started to fall for various reasons. Eventually, the Nexus, a seemingly destructive force started to look like a blip in the radar. I really had high hopes for the Nexus but the WWE just squandered their potential.
BONUS: Brock Lesnar breaks The Undertaker’s Wrestlemania Streak
Okay, this is not as bad as the Katie Vick or the other storylines listed above on a writing perspective. This isn’t even a storyline as it’s more like a historic moment in wrestling! However, Brock Lesnar breaking The Undertaker’s unbeaten winning streak at Wrestlemania was a poor decision.
On a certain level, I do understand the logic behind it. This made Brock Lesnar to be more of a monster than ever before as he did the impossible. However, the WWE simply destroyed one of the most pure things in “sports entertainment” by doing so. The Undertaker’s Streak, while by pure accident and wasn’t planned from the start, was something genuinely beloved by everyone. The Undertaker’s Streak could’ve been a legendary icon in wresting history.
Sure, 23 wins and 2 losses is nothing to be sneezed at but the Deadman’s subsequent matches at Wrestlemania just felt hollow because he wasn’t defending The Streak anymore. His matches were just ordinary matches with no stakes. At least, that’s what it felt to me. I just didn’t care all that much anymore if he won or lost.
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Just as I was getting ready to address the topic of the "so-called" rich making over $250,000, Glenn Reynolds' retarded ass dropped this gift directly into our laps. Hence Brad DeLong and Michael O'Hare have already done the requisite rhetorical bitchslapping of Reynolds' ridiculous argument.
To recap in brief, Instarube writes of a fellow law professor, one Prof. Henderson, with a working spouse. Together Henderson claims that their incomes exceed the "$250,000 threshold for the super-rich (although not by much)." O'Hare proceeds to do some math based on the information provided by Henderson/Reynolds and determines that the prof and his wife make about $330,000 – comfortably over the "threshold" after all. Their approximate budget looks something like this, O'Hare estimates (and shows his work):
Housing* $65,000 mortgage + 15,000 insurance & maintenance = $80,000
Two really nice cars $.70/mile x 15,000** miles = $10,500
Student loan payments (20 year amortization at 10%) = $60,000
*Why a couple with a half-million dollars of debts decides it needs a million-dollar house in Chicago, where the Hyde Park average price ” near their work” is a third of that, is not entirely clear. Also note that $25,000 of this is going into their own pockets, building equity in their house.
**They live near their work, so this is probably generous.
This leaves about $90,000, a lousy $245 a day, for food, clothes, vacations, cable TV, and like that. You can walk into Nordstrom’s on Upper Michigan and spend that in a minute, and for stuff you really need. Really, I don’t know how these people get by; their adaptive skills, economical habits, and modest living style is an inspiration to all of us. Perhaps they are careful to tip no more than 15% at the Sizzler when they splurge.
Henderson follows up with DeLong, pointing out, among other issues, that this approximate budget omits "education and daycare", which will "come close to $60,000" this year. Then the wheels, tenuously attached as they were, really fall the fuck off:
Like most working Americans, insurance, doctors’ bills, utilities, two cars, daycare, groceries, gasoline, cell phones, and cable TV (no movie channels) round out our monthly expenses. We also have someone who cuts our grass, cleans our house, and watches our new baby…. [W]e have less than a few hundred dollars per month of discretionary income.
So they have three domestic servants, a million-dollar home (in a Hyde Park neighborhood in which the median home price is about $300,000), and they devote to their three children a combined $60,000 in K12 education and daycare. And he's angry, for some reason, about the $500,000 in student loans for Wifey's med school that must be repaid.
See, this is the problem with this entire debate and with accusations of "class warfare" in general: these people do not feel rich because they are essentially living paycheck-to-paycheck. Their personal financial skills are so piss-poor and their sense of things to which they are entitled is so great that they look at the balance sheet and decide that they aren't rich after all. How can they be "rich" if they struggle to make ends meet?
The median family income in this country is just over $50,000. The Henderson clan makes seven or eight times that, yet they still don't have any money. Prof. Henderson is panicked about a small Federal tax increase because they have no leeway. Everything they make, they spend. Often they spend the money before they even make it. So despite the $300,000+ in annual income, they can't afford many of the outward signs of wealth – fancy vacations, lavish wardrobes, shopping/redecorating sprees, $20,000 watches, and so on. Those are things that rich people have. Ergo people who do not have them are not rich, right?
Never mind the fact that every aspect of the Professor's personal finances represents a choice, not to mention an indulgence. The million-dollar house, the nanny, the $60,000 in private school tuition, the maid, the landscaper…none of these things are necessities. If they want to live MTV Cribs-style on a third of a million dollars, they could put the kids in public school or live outside of Chicago city limits. They could clean their own kitchen and mow their own lawn. That would leave plenty for bling, vacations, a couple of BMWs, and all of the other "show-me" aspects of wealth.
DeLong suggest that the problem is the growing gap between the merely rich like Henderson and the Super-Rich who live the lifestyle that Henderson et al associate with being rich. They go to Dubai, own multiple homes, eat at the $1000 restaurants, and so on. I'd argue that this is a simple failure to realize that the rest of us – and I mean like 99% of Americans – can and do get by on less than one Henderson kid's kindergarten tuition. We make it work. In most cases, we do just fine. We'd like more money and we don't live in luxury, but we're getting by. That we can't afford a million-dollar home and a nanny is not evidence that we are poor. We aren't. More importantly, Professor, you are neither poor nor an Average Working Joe just because you manage to piss through the huge amount of money you make with such stunning alacrity. | <urn:uuid:131a3b24-1465-4878-87c1-bc10df5e4822> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ginandtacos.com/2010/09/21/failure-to-perceive/ | 2017-01-20T07:42:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280801.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00246-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967103 | 1,217 |
The expression and localization of PfRON3 in Plasmodium falciparum merozoites. (A) Detection of PfRON3 in schizonts. Lanes 1 and 2 represent healthy human red blood cells (negative control) and schizont-rich stage parasites. Two bands of approximately 260 and 180 kDa were detected in the schizont stage of the parasites (arrow-headed). (B) PfRON3 is expressed inside Plasmodium merozoites. Schizont stage parasites were dual-labeled with PfRON3-specific antibodies in combination with MSP1-42 antibodies. Nuclei are stained with DAPI. MSP1-42 protein was located at the merozoite membrane (red fluorescence) and RON3 was located inside merozoites (green fluorescence). (C) PfRON3 location shown via immunoelectronic microscopy. The section of merozoite in mature schizonts was labeled with purified rabbit anti-PfRON3 antibodies and subsequently detected with a secondary antibody conjugated with gold particles (arrow-headed). The black dots indicate signals from gold particles localized in the rhoptry body. Bar represents 200 nm. | <urn:uuid:7f2de458-aade-4836-a14c-ac32a8b2bedc> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2875-13-490/figures/3 | 2022-09-27T21:47:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335058.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220927194248-20220927224248-00194.warc.gz | en | 0.928433 | 251 |
Introduction: DIY Keyboard Light Lampshade
The room I work in doesn't have the best lighting, and I hate turning on the overhead room light because it's hot and glaring. When I work away from home, lighting can also be a challenge. So I hunted about a bit for USB powered keyboard light, and found a good candidate. However, like many similar lights, it's kind of a bare LED bulb thing and while it illuminates my keyboard and work area nicely, it's can be a little stark and unpleasant too.
So I took a page out of DIY Nightlight Shade from last summer, and cobbled together a keyboard lampshade. It works quite nicely, especially the little Dixie Cup 3 oz size cup, and its decorative, too!
Step 1: Materials
- a keyboard light
- Plastic or paper cups
Step 2: The Problem
The problem is the same as the benefit-the keyboard light is really bright! It tends to be more of a spotlight that a diffuse desk light, and angled for best keyboard illumination tends to also be angled in such a way that it hits me in the eye in a rather distracting fashion.
Step 3: Measure Light Diameter
You can measure or trace your light diameter onto a cup with a marker.
Step 4: Cut Hole
With plastic cups, you may need a starter hole, since these things are rather tough at the bottom, but can crush easily when you try to start your cut with the scissors. Having a starter hole makes the cutting go better and preserves the integrity of your plastic cup lampshade.
Step 5: Insert Light
In this case, the access hole to insert the light is larger than the neck of the keyboard light, which doesn't bother me. But you might want to create a collar for the lampshade, out of tape.
Step 6: Adjust As Needed
The big 8 ounce cup was too big for my tastes, so I cut mine down about half. Taping the edge with black electrical tape cuts down on the little glare that remains and seems to give a nicer quality to the light on the keyboard.
Step 7: Enjoy the Light!
Different types of cups will give different effects, so pick what works best for you. It's an cheap and easy mod to any keyboard light and adds a nicer ambiance than the LED light alone.
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Michael Cyra is a nationally-known painter and fine-art photographer living in Charleston, SC.
Michael is a cheddar-head, originally from Wisconsin. His passion for art and photography started early when he first “borrowed” his older brother’s graduation gift…a 35mm SLR film camera. Since then, Michael hasn’t put down his brushes or his camera and continues to develop his craft through education and workshops. He earned a marketing degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and later an MBA from Wake Forest University. Michael owns and operates PhotoGraphics Photography in South Carolina.
“Family and friends make fun of me because I’m constantly pointing out the way light and color embrace certain subjects in the landscape. It’s a wonder I don’t drive off the road sometimes! As a professional photographer I feel I have a duty to capture the reality of what’s in front of me, and it’s this vision that drives my true passion of interpretive painting. I get this incredible opportunity to not only represent reality but to give a sense of how I am feeling about a subject through the use of pigment and brushstrokes. I feel fortunate to be able to share this window into my mind’s eye.”
When you hire Michael, you’re hiring an artist. Every venture is a creative challenge and he embraces all projects with his unique viewpoint. His fine-art photography of real estate, architecture and the landscape is as accomplished as his work with family portraits and milestone events. Collectors are thrilled to see Michael painting more and more in recent years. He is honored to be represented by Hagan Fine Art Gallery in South Carolina. | <urn:uuid:c72e64a2-2026-4c7a-9a6e-954912619546> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.michaelcyra.com/about/ | 2022-05-18T13:02:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662522270.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220518115411-20220518145411-00313.warc.gz | en | 0.96313 | 354 |
- a type of grenade equipped with a simple rocket-propulsion system
- a grenade launcher designed to shoot this type of grenade
Origin of RPGprobably from r(ocket-)p(ropelled) g(renade) (launcher)
- rocket-propelled grenade
- role-playing game
rpg - Computer Definition
(1) (Role Playing Game) See CRPG.
(2) (Report Program Generator) One of the first program generators designed for business reports, introduced in 1964 by IBM. In 1970, RPG II added enhancements that made it a mainstay programming language for business applications on IBM's System/3x midrange computers. RPG III and RPG IV added more enhancements and have been widely used on the AS/400. RPGLE added the "Integrated Language Environment (ILE)," which enables C, Java and other modules to be integrated into the program. Until RPGLE, all processing statements were written in strict columnar format. The following RPGLE example changes Fahrenheit to Celsius. The A lines are Data Description Specs (DDS) code. They define a display file and are compiled separately. The F line links the processing code (C lines) to the A lines: A DSPSIZ(24 80 *DS3) A R FHEITR A CA03(03 'End') A 6 18'Enter Fahrenheit:' A FRHEIT 3Y 0B 6 42DSPATR(PC) A EDTCDE(J) A 9 18'Celsius is:' A CGRADE 3Y 0O 9 42DSPATR(PC) A EDTCDE(J) A 23 8'F3=End' FFheitd CF E Workstn C *IN03 DoWEq *Off C ExFmt Fheitr C Eval CGrade=0 C Eval CGrade=((Frheit-32)*5)/9 C ExFmt Fheitr C EndDo C Seton LR | <urn:uuid:52ec9437-317e-4e0e-8144-1ce479a6f00e> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.yourdictionary.com/rpg | 2017-10-17T13:30:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187821189.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017125144-20171017145144-00782.warc.gz | en | 0.756267 | 402 |
Today’s games are listed below.
Franklin, 4 @ Attleboro, 3 – Final – Franklin senior Steve Ferguson scored what turned out to be the winning run on a squeeze play in the top of the seventh and the Panthers held off a late surge from Attleboro to earn the win. Franklin scored two runs in the top frame to go up 4-1. Jake Noviello went 6.1 innings for Franklin, striking out nine with four hits allowed to earn the win. Bryan Woelfel picked up the last two outs to earn the save for Franklin. Offensively, Jake Lyons had two hits, including a double, and scored a run, Ryan Hodgkins belted an RBI triple and scored a run and Cam Lupien knocked in a run. Attleboro’s Matt Callahan had two hits, scored a run and drove in two, Dylan Maskell had two hits and an RBI and Tyler Davis reached base four times, stole two bases and scored once. Tyler McGovern was the tough luck loser on the mound, tossing a complete game. “He pitched well, made it tough for us,” said FHS head coach Zach Brown.
Foxboro, 9 @ Canton, 7 – Final – Colin Thoener did it all for the Warriors, tossing a complete game and knocking in a team-high four RBI in a close win over Canton. Thoener scattered seven hits, walked two and struck out five to earn the win while going 2-for-4 at the plate with four RBI. AJ Bubencik also had a strong day offensively, going 3-for-4 with three runs and a stolen base and sophomore Anthony Mollica had two hits, three RBI and two stolen bases.
Mansfield, 8 @ King Philip, 5 – Final (8 inn.) – Kevin Dow (2-for-4) knocked in Cullin Anastasia (2-for-3, RBI) for the winning run in the top of the eighth and Aidan Cahill brought in two more insurance runs — Max Boen (2-for-2, RBI) and Matt Farragher — as Mansfield escaped with an 8-5 win in extras at King Philip. Mansfield took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first but KP responded with two in the bottom half. The Hornets tacked on single runs in the second and third to make it 5-2, but KP cut into the deficit with a run in the third and tied the game with two runs in the fifth. Mansfield’s Kyle Moran earned the winning, tossing 3.1 innings in relief with just two hits allowed and two strikeouts. Stephen Murray knocked in two runs for KP while Will Weir (2-for-4, two runs) and Ben Furfari (2-for-4) each knocked in one.
Milford, 2 @ North Attleboro, 9 – Final – North Attleboro junior Peter Cohen shined in his first ever varsity start, allowing just one run on four hits and no walks, striking out five to lead the Rocketeers to a big division win. Offensively, the Rocketeers had nine hits, scoring two runs in the first, five in the second and tacking on single runs in each the third and fifth innings. Zach DeMattio (three RBI) belted a two-run home run in the first and John Brennan had a solo home run in the third.
Oliver Ames, 5 @ Taunton, 8 – Final – Taunton junior Christin Simoes had two hits, including a home run, and knocked in a pair of runs as Taunton prevailed against OA. OA took a 1-0 lead in the first, only for Taunton to respond with two runs in the bottom half. Taunton added three more in the third to take a 5-1 lead. OA didn’t go quietly, tying the game with four runs in the fourth but Taunton added three more in the sixth to get the win. Jacob Crawford added two hits and Matt Machado had one hit and an RBI for Taunton. Tyler Medeiros earned the win on the mound, tossing a complete game with seven strikeouts and four earned runs allowed. Oliver Ames’ Cam Johnson went 2-for-4 with a stolen base and an RBI and Sam Burr added two hits as well.
Sharon, 3 @ Stoughton, 4 – Final – Stoughton overcame a one run deficit with the tying run in the third and then the go-ahead run in the fifth to edge out the Eagles and clinch their second straight Davenport title. Senior Josh Roos delivered the big hit for the Black Knights, connecting for a one-out triple in the fifth and came on a sac fly from Ruben Gonzalez for what turned out to be the winning run. Gonzalez also scored the tying run in the third, scoring on a passed ball after singling and stealing second. Stoughton took the lead with two runs in the first on Luke Johnson’s two-out two-run triple. Johnson also earned the win on the mound, going six innings with three runs allowed on eight hits, three strikeouts and one walk. Evan Gibb pitched a scoreless seventh inning for the save.
Attleboro, 0 @ Franklin, 3 – Final – Franklin got all three of its runs within the first two innings and junior Jackie Cherry did the rest in the circle, tossing a complete game shutout. Franklin freshman Anna Balkus singled, stole second and used two wild pitched to come home. Ally Shea also scored in the first inning for the Panthers. In the second inning, Cherry helped her own cause, reaching in the second and having courtesy running Emma DiPhilippo scoring the Panthers’ third run. In the circle, Cherry allowed just two hits, issued two walks and struck out five.
Canton, 5 @ Foxboro, 10 – Final
King Philip, 4 @ Mansfield, 0- Final – King Philip Elise Pereira allowed just one hit while fanning 10 batters in a complete game shutout. Jenn Hutnyan paced KP’s offense with three hits, an RBI and a run scored while Hailey McCasland added two this and Faith Turnese contributed with a key pinch hit double. Mansfield’s Sarah Cahill had three strikeouts while giving up eight hits while Megan Letendre had the lone hit of the day for the Hornets.
North Attleboro, 3 @ Milford, 6 – Final – North Attleboro cut into MIlford’s 3-0 lead with a pair of runs in the top of the third but the Scarlet Hawks had an answer, tacking on two runs in the bottom of the fourth to pick up the win. The teams traded single runs in the sixth inning. Junior Emily Piergustavo paced Milford’s offense, going 4-for-4 with three doubles, three RBI and two runs scored. Kate Irwin (1-for-3) added three runs, Jess Tomaso had two hits and an RBI and Maggie Farrell reached twice and knocked in one run. MHS head coach Steve DiVitto said Maddy Bonvino “played an exceptional defensive game at second base.” Kelley Reichert picked up the win, going six innings, scattering five hits and striking out one. Ali Atherton earned the save, striking out two in one inning of work. For North Attleboro, Meg Barlow had two hits and a a run scored and Ashley Cangiano drove in pinch runner Kat Munley.
Taunton @ Oliver Ames – Postponed to Thursday, 5/18 at 3:45.
Stoughton, 12 @ Sharon, 0 – Final (6 inn.) – Brianna Ferrandiz went 3-for-3 with three RBI to pace the Black Knights on offense, while Gina Carafa allowed only two hits and struck out nine in a six-inning shutout. Jordan Lyons added two hits and three RBI and Nikki Coppola drilled a three-run homer for Stoughton.
Attleboro, 2 @ Sharon, 10 – Final
Canton, 18 @ Taunton, 0 – Final – Canton senior CJ Martin netted first career goal and then went on to add two more to record a hat trick in the Bulldogs’ big win. Brian Albert and Alec Raguso also scored their first career goals while Connor Proctor and Matt Mackay found the back of the net for the first time this season.
Foxboro, 5 @ Franklin, 9 – Final – Franklin raced out to a 5-1 lead after the first quarter and used that strong start to take down Foxboro. The Panthers gained a 7-3 edge by halftime but were blanked in the third quarter by Foxboro’s defense and the Warriors cut the deficit to three at 7-4 entering the fourth. But Franklin recovered and won the fourth quarter 2-1 to prevail with a win. Eric Civetti had three goals and three assists, Packie Watson also netted a hat trick and had one assist and Nitin Chaudhury had one goal and one assist. Chase Tanner and Jake Davis each added one goal while sophomore Jacob Alexander notched 15 wins at the face off X.
King Philip, 21 @ Milford, 1 – Final
North Attleboro, 12 @ Mansfield, 6 – Final – North Attleboro built a commanding 7-2 lead by halftime and never looked back to notch a key road win and clinch the Davenport division outright. Jason McNeany won 10 of the 15 face offs he participated in to help give Big Red the possession edge. Jack Dakin scored a team-high five goals and added two assists, Zach McGowan (two goals, two assists) totaled four points and McNeany finished with a pair of goals and one assist. Owen Costello also recorded four points for the Rocketeers while Colin Young scored once and had one assist, Tommy Lindstrom added two assists and Hunter Sarro notched one helper.
Oliver Ames, 17 @ Stoughton, 7 – Final
Taunton, 12 @ Canton, 14 – Final – Emily Fabbiano scored six goals to lead Canton to a come-from-behind victory, while Mary Kent added a hat trick and Kathryn Doody made 11 saves for the Bulldogs. The Tigers were led by Abbey Kingman’s five goals and four from Alana Tavares, while Lorna Li made 17 saves.
Franklin, 9 @ Foxboro, 8 – Final
Milford, 5 @ King Philip, 21 – Final
Mansfield, 11 @ North Attleboro, 18 – Final – North clinched its tournament berth with the win and had 14 assists on its 18 goals. Chloe Olsen had four assists, while Julia Dakin, Katie Lindstrom, Kenzie Rosenberg and Erin Holley each had two assists apiece.
Attleboro, 0 @ Franklin, 5 – Final – Franklin bounced back from just its third loss with a sweep of Attleboro, dropping just four games total. Eli Brooks moved up a spot and earned a 6-0, 6-1 win at first singles, Rohan Herur won 6-0, 6-0 at second singles and Tyler DiPalma, usually a second doubles player, notched a 6-0, 6-1 win at third singles. The team of James Johnston and Derek Wu continued their strong season with a 6-0, 6-0 win at first doubles while Dan Angermeier and Tony Calderone won 6-1, 6-1 at second doubles.
Canton, 0 @ Foxboro, 5 – Final
King Philip, 3 @ Mansfield, 2 – Final – King Philip prevailed from a competitive divisional match with Mansfield with a close win, taking two wins in singles and one more in doubles. Cole Ginter prevailed 6-1, 7-5 at first singles and Martin Matous recorded a 6-0, 6-0 at third singles. KP’s team of Ryan Gemelli and Marco DiStefano earned a key 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 win at first doubles to seal the win. Mansfield’s Luke Nickerson won 6-0, 6-1 at second singles and the team of Gus Daganhardt and Stephen Zenack won 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 at second doubles.
North Attleboro, 5 @ Milford, 0 – Final – It was a clean sweep for the Rocketeers, winning all five matches in straight sets to earn a road victory. Zac Pfeffer won 6-1, 6-3 at first singles, Alex Rinaldi moved up a spot and earned a 6-2, 6-1 at second singles and Alex Pfeffer prevailed from third singles with a 6-4, 6-2 win. The team of Daniel Zhang and Ben Pfeffer won 6-1, 6-4 at first doubles and Andrew Harris and Vikram Senthilakumaran notched a 6-1, 6-0 win at second doubles.
Taunton, 5 @ Oliver Ames, 0 – Final – Taunton’s first doubles of sophomores Dylan Kullas and Charlie Fiske emerged victorious from a 10-set super tie breaker to complete the Tigers’ clean sweep. Kullas and Fiske won 6-7, 7-5, 11-9 while the team of junior Kyle Dennehy and freshman Alex Pugh won 6-2, 6-4 at second doubles. Taunton swept singles as well with sophomore Brett Beaulieu (6-1, 6-1), junior Mike Briggs (6-2, 6-2) and senior Eric Gwozdz (6-2, 7-5) all winning in straight sets.
Stoughton, 0 @ Sharon, 5 – Final
Franklin, 5 @ Attleboro, 0 – Final – The Panthers earned their second 5-0 sweep of the season, both coming in victories over Attleboro. Hannah Sweeney (first singles) and Anja Deric (second singles) won in straight sets without losing a game while junior Stephanie Schiavo won 6-3, 6-1 at third singles. Franklin’s first doubles team of Madison Derby and Julia Hogan won 6-4, 6-3 and juniors Jillian McLaughlin and Alexa Katsaros notched a 7-5, 6-0 win at second doubles.
Foxboro, 5 @ Canton, 0 – Final – Foxboro lost a total of four games in singles play, winning all three matches in straight sets in a win over Canton. Sophia Prinos won 6-0, 6-1 at first singles, Lexi Nelson recorded a 6-0, 6-0 win at second singles and Julia Muise walked away with a 6-0, 6-4 victory at third singles. The team of Kayla Prag and Olivia Dantona won 6-2, 6-1 at first doubles for Foxboro while Jacey Nicklas and Morgan Krockta prevailed 3-6, 6-3, 10-4 at second doubles.
Mansfield, 1 @ King Philip, 4 – Final – King Philip won a pair of matches in both singles and doubles to take down visiting Mansfield. Erin Regnier won 6-2, 7-5 at second singles and Meghan Sepich picked up a 6-2, 7-5, 10-5 win at third singles. The team of Megan Davenport and Carly Adams recorded a 6-4, 6-0 win at first doubles and Corinne Palumbo and Gracie Jarest won 6-1, 6-0 at second doubles. Mansfield’s Paulina Martin won at first singles, falling 2-6 in the first set before winning by default.
Milford, 0 @ North Attleboro, 5 – Final
Oliver Ames, 0 @ Taunton, 5 – Final – Taunton’s Jillian Pagliuca prevailed in a tight match at third singles, winning 7-5, 6-3 to complete the sweep. Olivia Sweeney won 6-1, 6-0 at first singles and Jordan Pagliuca notched a 6-1, 6-1 at second singles. Taunton lost just two games total in doubles play with Ashley Eason and Emily Moor (first doubles) and Caroline Hebert and Jordan Martin (second doubles) each winning 6-0, 6-1.
Sharon, 5 @ Stoughton, 0 – Final
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All Hands Hoay! This January 23, 2016 marks the return of the Gasparilla Season to Tampa Bay with The Children’s Gasparilla Extravaganza. The Children’s Parade has been a part of the event since 1947. The parade route is the same as The Parade of Pirates along the beautiful Bayshore Blvd. in South Tampa. This is an alcohol free event, so put on your pirate gear and take the kids out and enjoy the parade and festivities.
Explore all the fun activities with your little buccaneers and enjoy all the entertainment the Gasparilla event has to offer. As the floats ride past, the marchers will hand out a bounty of beads, soft footballs, pirates’ “gold”, and CANDY! The entire staff of South Tampa Smiles would like to wish all the families a wonderful time and experience this event to the fullest. But, Pirates aren’t exactly known for their bright and healthy smiles. All those sugary sweets throughout the day, without proper brushing, can lead to tooth decay. Keeping around some water can help rinse away some of the sugar on the teeth until you can get to brush and take care of them properly after all the fun.
Keeping that “pirate smile” at bay and ensuring your children’s smiles stay healthy and bright is a real treasure. Enjoy this 2016 Gasparilla Season and remember your family’s dental checkups. Give us a call at (813) 289 – 0560 to make your appointment with Dr. John Cannariato, your South Tampa Dentist. | <urn:uuid:ae95d22c-1810-47de-973a-15e7a0db555b> | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | https://www.southtampasmiles.com/happy-gasparilla-season-from-your-south-tampa-dentist/ | 2021-06-22T22:13:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488525399.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210622220817-20210623010817-00303.warc.gz | en | 0.935938 | 333 |
Memorial Service for His Holiness Pope Shenouda III
A memorial service for His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, hosted by the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of North America was held at St. Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church in East Brunswick, New Jersey on Sunday, March 25, 2012.
Numerous clergy from all denominations, along with political dignitaries from the United Nations and the State of New Jersey, came to pay their respect to the Coptic Church and Community on their great loss. Representing His Eminence Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim and the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese for the Eastern United States were Very Rev. Fr. Shamoon Asmar, Very Rev. Fr. John Khoury, Rev. Fr. Joseph Chamoun and Rev. Fr. Eli Shabo. Representatives from our Archdiocese Executive Council were Elias Sarkar and Sami Mourad.
In a letter from His Eminence Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim, read by the Very Rev. Fr. Shamoon Asmar, the Archbishop noted that he regrets that he could not attend the memorial service and that he was currently on a three week visit in India. In his letter, the Archbishop mentioned that he was greatly privileged and honored to have had His Holiness as a teacher in theology during his student years at the Coptic Theological College in Anba Rwais, Cairo. The Archbishop recalled in the letter that “His Holiness always made sure I was well taken care of. Whenever I would meet him he would show extra attention and tender love towards me. His Holiness’ leadership will be dearly missed, but our faith and trust in the Lord, the High Priest of our Faith, fills us with hope that the church will always be cared for by good shepherds chosen by God’s divine love and compassion.”
As part of the memorial service, the Lord’s Prayer was sung in Syriac. Two gigantic projection screens displayed the words for all those in attendance to and follow and sing along with our Syriac Orthodox clergy and attendees.
A video biography of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III included numerous photos of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III and our Patriarch, His Holiness Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas. Both Patriarchs had mutual respect and admiration for one another and worked together for years advocating Christian unity, love and forgiveness. Their combined efforts resulted in making noteworthy advancement in work towards ecumenism and mutual understanding.
His Grace Bishop David, General Bishop and Patriarchal Exarch of the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese for North America, in his concluding remarks, thanked everyone for attending the memorial service and sharing in the grief and sorrow of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Community. | <urn:uuid:ecb189d1-5a42-44f3-9d59-394cc78d5fcf> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.syrianorthodoxchurch.org/news/2012/03/28/memorial-service-for-his-holiness-pope-shenouda-iii | 2014-11-23T03:20:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400379063.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123259-00016-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975591 | 567 |
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– How good are you at pub quizzes? Guess these caricatures!
– Have you ever had lobster? And French jazz in Kennington…
– Debbie bares all on live TV!
– And as promised, Simon Brown's recipes for our cook's essentials mixer…
Pub quiz in Camden
Now it's a little-known fact that I'm actually quite – er – competitive. In certain situations of course(!). So did my pal Shyama know what she was letting herself in for when she agreed to come with me to the weekly Sunday night quiz at The Prince Albert in Camden? No she didn't!
I can't help it, I just can't help it! There's something that kicks in when I think there's an anomaly in the scoring, or the quizmaster sets a question that's actually wrong (he did this week, as it happens! – at least we weren't the only ones who pointed it out!). I just have this inate urge to make things 'fair' – it's a childhood thing and being the oldest of five, what can I say! But into the pub we went – and actually had a really fun night! The caricatures above were one round – I got seven – see how many you can get and I'll tell you the answers next week!
There was a wines anagram round (Shyama aced those!), and a Family Fortunes round – for instance – see if you can get the top answer to this – 'name a pop song with the words Lord or Lady in it'. The homonyms round – (words that sound the same but are spelt differently) – was where it all fell apart for quiz master Al, bless him. (eg 'an underage person/and less important', – the answer was 'minor' and er, 'minor'! Lol! – he thought they were spelt differently! In the end after a quick Google check, he admitted it didn't actually count as a homonym! But he gave it to everyone anyway! We – well Shyama – who is a journalist! – did well on the others. Didn't get 'to set a dog on/brilliant' though – that was apparently 'sic' and 'sick'… Eh?! Haha!)
But it was the music round – which is normally my favourite! – that really let us down. Whereas we'd been getting 7-9 out of 10 in the other five rounds, we got half out of ten! Half!! In the music round. Too bad it was things like 'Guru Josh Project', and 'Third Eye Blind' – who?!! The quiz master is obviously into indy pop and we failed miserably as a result! Lol. Oh well.
I thought the name we picked for mine and Shyama's team was not a bad attempt tho – this week's theme had to be a mixture of an actor and confectionery – we came up with 'Helena 'Bon-bon'ham Carter'… doh! Others were 'Hari-bo' Connick Junior, and Jack 'black-jack'. Can you think of any others?
OK so 5th out of 16 teams wasn't too bad. Will have to go there again! Only this time take my kids for the music round! Hehe!
More magic meals out
As I mentioned last week, I had a packed week of socialising. It's not often I get a lot of evenings free, so I made the most of it! Apart from my pub quiz night with Shyama, I also saw my lovely pal Thea one night, at the local Italian round the corner from QVC – San Gennaro – they think I live there some weeks I'm sure!
Then I caught up with my son's godfather who we call Gaffer (his real name's Nigel) for a super Thai meal in Wardour Street – where I used to go a lot with LJ when I worked in London a few years back, it's called Busaba and I loooove their smoked chicken and broccoli in noodles. But the piece de resistance was my Friday treat – lobster!
If you get a really special occasion to celebrate, I heartily recommend The Lobster Pot in Kennington. The food is absolutely amazing! Rocker Nigel and I had a fab night there – the décor adds to the ambience – it's kind of 'interior of a cruise liner' – even the waiters had white jackets with brass buttons and epaulets!
Loved the netting on the walls, and the authentic ancient mariner-type mouthpiece and instrument panel by the door! Genius! And the sounds of seagulls instead of music!
Afterwards we went upstairs in the Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec (yes really!) next door, where a beautiful French jazz singer was performing with an ensemble that included piano, guitar and double bass as well as the ubiquitous accordion! It was quite magical – made me feel like I could have been in the South of France! Shame I was with a pal and not a romantic interest but hey ho! Lol.
Mais oui! All in all, a lovely night with a good pal. Nige was on good fun form as usual during the meal – not sure the fellow diners appreciated his humour with the remainder of the lobster tho – but I did!
So some lovely nights out – and I decided over the weekend it's time to start dating again – so I'm on the lookout for some good singles nights in and around the south east, Surrey and London, OK? Let me know if you can recommend one! And if his pal Sam from Kingston is reading this – get in touch – sounds like you and me are kindred spirits! Hehe!
Simon Brown's tips
He certainly knows how to make a cake, that man! Even if I couldn't wait for him to cook the mixture before eating it during the show! Nothing like licking a bowl! Lol. And since my new mixer just arrived I'm planning to put it to good use and I've promised him I'll attempt proper baking! Simon's back on Wednesday 26th October by the way, with the next in the range of our new cook's essentials Ultra Pan range.
If you missed the mixer in the blue, I hope it comes back in stock again soon – add your own recipe below on the comments section if you'd like to share it with me! Remember though – the main thing is, the ingredients should all be able to be piled into the main bowl and let the mixer do the hard work!
On-air fun – Debbie bares all!
No it's not a black eye – Your's Truly took off telly tart make-up, live on air during Saturday's Liz Earle TSV show – for the full low down, watch the link! They said I was very brave to take off my makeup on live telly, but to be honest, it's easy with a range like Liz's.
It just shows you how good Cleanse & Polish is – I love it and use it all the time! (We featured the limited edition duo – if you hurry you may be able to get it in its special size and packaging for Christmas pressies!)
READ: Wow how proud was I recently, going down the book aisle in my local Tesco superstore and finding my writing group pal's new Mills and Boon novel on sale! It's her second one – if you like Regency romances, do go buy it – it's only £3 or so, and she has a lovely turn of phrase and some great research of what life – and love – was like in the olden days!
When I'm a grown up – one day – I dream of MY book being on those shelves! Hers is called 'The Earl Plays With Fire', it's green, and it's by 'Isobelle Goddard' – aka my pal Maureen from my Tuscany writing group!
If you've ever wondered what it's like in Tuscany, take a look at this lovely place from one of my first blogs. And if you're not into romances, well not the traditional ones, make sure you have a look at the interview I did with Lee Child last month – his new book is the nearest that his hero Jack Reacher comes to a romantic involvement with a laydeeee – I've added the link to the interview in one of my comments at the bottom of this blog – do go watch it, it's utterly fascinating how this man works, unlike most other authors!
WATCH: Haven't had much time for cinema this week – needless to say! But in the midst of my computer work, this little funny popped up – animal outtakes make me laugh, and this one is just sooooooooooo cute!
QVC: Well, there's a lot to see on QVC in the coming week – I'm thrilled to be presenting the new range from one of my favourite jewellery ladies, Carolyn Pollack. Do join me on Monday at 5pm-7pm for Sincerely Silver with Carolyn and me.
PLUS: In what's become an annual event – our Prices Candles Christmas gift TSV on Sunday night at midnight! I love the new type of clever candle that becomes its own little lamp including their classic vanilla pod fragrance!
Simple Victoria sponge cake
225g/8oz self raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
225g/8oz caster sugar
225g/8oz softened butter or margarine (butter gives a much better flavour)
Jam to fill
1 tablespoon caster sugar for dusting
Put all the ingredients into the bowl and fit the flat beater. Start on speed 1 then gradually increase to speed 6 and beat for 2 minutes. Meanwhile grease two 20cm/8" non-stick sandwich cake tins or silicone cake pans.
Spoon the mixture into the tins and level with a spoon then bake at 180C/Gas Mark 4 for 25 – 30 minutes until the cakes are well risen, golden brown and firm to the touch.
Allow to cool for 10 minutes then carefully remove from the tins and cool on a wire cooling rack.
Sandwich together with jam and dust with caster sugar before serving.
Peanut butter cookie – makes about 24
175g/6oz softened butter
55g/2oz crunchy peanut butter
85g/3oz caster sugar
85g/3oz soft brown sugar
280g/10oz plain flour
Put the butter, peanut butter and both types of sugar into the bowl and fit the flat beater. Start on speed 1 then gradually increase the speed to 6 and beat for 2 minutes. Now add the egg and beat on speed 6 for 1 minute. Add the flour and mix in on speed 1 – 2 to form a firm dough.
Using floured hands, roll the mixture into walnut-sized pieces and place on a silicone baking sheet or a greased baking tray. Press each piece with a fork to flatten a little. Bake at 180C/Gas Mark 4 for 10 minutes until golden brown.
Allow to cool for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire cooling rack and cool completely. Store in an airtight container.
Bread dough (for a loaf or pizza base) – makes one loaf/pizza base
500g/1lb 2oz strong white bread flour
7g/¼oz sachet fast-action yeast
3 tablespoons oil
300ml/18 fluid ounces luke warm water
Butter for serving
Put the flour, salt and yeast in the bowl and fit the dough tool. Start on speed 1 then gradually add the water and oil to the bowl. Now increase the speed to 3 and leave the mixer to knead the dough for 5 minutes. If the machine begins to slow then increase the speed to 4.
Now cover the bowl with oiled cling film and leave to stand for about an hour until the dough has doubled in size. Remove the cling film and switch the machine on at speed 2 or 3 and knead for a couple of minutes.
For a loaf, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and shape into a round loaf. Transfer to a silicone baking sheet or an oiled baking sheet and cover with oiled cling film. Leave to stand for about an hour until doubled in size again.
Remove the cling film then bake the bread at 220C/Gas Mark 7 for about 30 minutes until golden brown and the loaf sounds hollow when the bottom is tapped. Cool on a wire rack for a few minutes then serve warm with butter.
For a pizza, roll the dough into a large circle and transfer to a silicone baking sheet or an oiled baking sheet. Add your favourite topping then bake at 220C/Gas Mark 7 for about 15 minutes until bubbling and golden brown. Allow to cool for a few minutes then serve in slices.
Meringues (or Pavlova) – serves 12
4 egg whites (with absolutely no yolk in them, or else they won't whisk properly)
8oz caster sugar
300ml/½pt double cream
450g/1lb fresh soft fruit (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries etc)
Put the egg whites into the bowl and fit the whisk. Whisk on speed 6 for about 3 minutes until the mixture forms stiff peaks (you should be able to turn the bowl upside down without the egg white falling out!). Now continue whisking as you add the sugar in tablespoonfuls. Once all the sugar is in the mixture should have become thick and glossy.
For meringues spoon the mixture onto a silicone baking sheet or a baking tray lined with non-stick baking parchment. Bake at 130C/Gas Mark ½ for 10 minutes then reduce the oven temperature to 100C/Gas Mark ¼ and bake for 2 hours until crisp.
For Pavlova pile the mixture onto the baking sheet and spread out to form a 25cm/10" circle. Bake at 130C/Gas Mark ½ for 10 minutes then reduce the oven temperature to 100C/Gas Mark ¼ and bake for 3 hours until crisp.
Meanwhile whip the cream. Wash and dry the bowl and whisk, then put the cream into the bowl and fit the whisk. Whip the cream on speed 6 for 2-3 minutes until thick but not grainy (or it will become butter!). Cover and chill.
Remove the meringues/Pavlova from the oven and allow to cool completely then carefully remove from the baking sheet and peel off the baking parchment (if using).
Use the whipped cream to sandwich the meringues together in pairs then pile on a serving plate and serve within one hour of filling (or else the meringues will become soggy).
For the Pavlova, transfer to a large serving plate and spread with the whipped cream. Pile the fruit on top then serve within one hour (to avoid sogginess).
Traditional dark Christmas cake (he's not kidding about more adventurous! Debs x)
400 g/14 oz currants
7 oz/200 g raisins
7 oz/200 g sultanas
50 g/2 oz glacé cherries, rinsed, dried and quartered
3tbsp brandy, plus extra for 'feeding', if desired
225 g/8 oz dark muscovado sugar
225 g/8 oz softened butter
4 large eggs, beaten
225 g/8 oz plain flour, sieved
½ tsp ground mixed spice
½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
50 g/2 oz mixed candied peel, roughly chopped
50 g/2 oz whole un-blanched almonds, roughly chopped
½ tbsp black treacle
Grated zest of 1 orange
Grated zest of 1 lemon
In a large bowl, mix together the fruit and brandy, cover and leave in a cool place overnight to soak.
Line a 20cm/8" round or 17.5cm/7" square cake tin with greaseproof paper and grease well. Tie a double layer of brown paper around the tin.
Fit the flat beater and beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy (a table mixer is good for this to save your wrists!) Now add the beaten eggs one by one, beating well after each addition.
Next, gently fold-in the sieved flour and the spices then fold-in the soaked fruit and any remaining liquid from the bowl, the peel, nuts, treacle and orange and lemon zests.
Carefully spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface then gently form a shallow hollow in the centre of the cake so that it can rise but still have a fairly flat top for icing. Loosely cover the tin with greaseproof paper.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 140C/275F/Gas Mark 1 for 4½ – 5 hours until firm to the touch and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Allow the cake to cool in the tin for about ½ an hour then transfer it to a wire rack and leave until completely cold. Now wrap the cake in a double layer of greaseproof paper, place in a Snapfresh or airtight container and store in a cool, dark place until ready to decorate.
If you wish, you can 'feed' the cake on a weekly basis by unwrapping it and piercing holes in the surface with a skewer then spooning over a couple of tablespoons of brandy which soaks in and adds to the richness.
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Fire damage restoration has to be done in a swift and efficient manner. To make sure this is the case, the right equipment has to be utilized. What type of equipment plays an important role when it comes to fire damage restoration? Let’s take a look at some of the most important tools to ensure this restoration process goes ahead as desired.
A lot of smog can build up inside due to the smoke that comes along with fire. To ensure air is coming in and removing this smoke, air movers are used. These act as fans to get the process going. In fact, this is the first step in the restoration process after the initial assessment has been made and a plan has been put in place.
A mess is going to be an obvious result of any fire and it is important to ‘degrease’ the area as soon as possible to reduce further long term damage. This is where quality degreasers play a role when they are used properly. The area is going to be filled with grease and having it removed efficiently is imperative.
A lot of areas are going to be damaged within the property and therefore will have to be sealed as soon as possible. This is where a professional is going to use sealers to cover the areas of concern as soon as possible. This will ensure the damage does not become a long term concern.
These are just some of the tools and equipment that is used for fire damage. Generally, whenever there is fire damage, there is also water damage, so there is a lot more equipment and tools involved with the repair and cleanup process.
Odor Control Sprays
There is a distinct odor, which comes along with burnt items and it is critical to get rid of it as soon as you can. What is the best solution to do this when talking about fire damage restoration? Odor control sprays are specifically designed for this purpose. Find a professional fire damage cleanup company here on Manttus – www.manttus.com/6995294/restoration-services/Action-1-Restoration.html
The damage inflicted by fire can be a truly devastating sight. As a homeowner, it is important to get started with fire damage restoration as soon as possible. What’s more is that oftentimes homes that have been ravaged by fire will also need water damage restoration as water will have most likely flooded the home when the fire was put out.
With that being said, why is it important to act quickly with fire damage repair? The first thing to keep in mind is that the smell of smoke will not go away on its own. In fact, it can seep into the walls of the home and permanently settle on objects and furnishings. The longer the home is left without professional intervention, the more time the smoke has had to turn the air in the home toxic.
Professional companies dealing with fire damage restoration can also help return the home to its former glory. Fire damage repair work involves a lot of cleaning, disinfecting, neutralizing and of course, the proper disposal of belongings that are beyond help.
Homeowners also have to take into consideration the structural integrity of the home. Even if at first glance the home doesn’t appear to have suffered any damage to the structure, one can never be too safe. Intense heat can cause beams to warp, which can hinder a home’s ability to withstand the elements. A professional damage repair company knows how to check for structural damage and can help return the home to its former glory.
The cost of fire damage restoration may not be built into any homeowner’s budget, but it would be simply irresponsible to ignore the hazards and the damage that fire can cause. Dealing with a home impacted by fire should be left up to the professionals.
It’s crucial to learn what you could dry a house out with when points splash. This isn’t really too hard to get information on, you just need to want to learn. That’s the type of information that will certainly be examined below, so continue reviewing.
An excellent number of fans will certainly be needed when drying a residence, however they could need to be saved for last. This is because you do not desire to plug them in and also then have them fall under the water. If you could obtain them connected to the ceiling or somewhere they can be stable as they dry out, then by all implies that’s where they need to go. Make sure when making use of any type of kind of electrical energy in a moist area. This could be something you’ll wish to obtain an expansion cable for as well as connect in far from where the water is and make certain that cable isn’t in any type of water. Check out this video to see more equipment used at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3_a1eT3l80
An air mover is an excellent item of devices that can assist you to obtain water out of a location. This is basically a follower that you can use with your hands that’s really powerful. While it can dry areas, the main factor of it is to have you relocate the water to a better location for drying out or perhaps to the exterior. It’s also fantastic for drying wall surfaces or carpets, yet it can take some time for this to work which means you might would like to position it on a stand while you wait.
Dehumidifiers have the ability to remove all the excess wetness from the air so it’s best to make use of these along with the other devices pointed out below. It’s going to take this a long time to function similar to everything else, however the much more you have in the location the quicker the process will be. You need to check the tank on your dehumidifier from time to time. By doing this, you’re going to have the ability to unload the excess water out so it can remain to acquire all the water in it as it functions.
You’ll desire to put this advice to good use so you can start drying your residence out promptly. It can in some cases take a while, however it is feasible. When you’re ready to acquire started all that requires to be done is that you need to place this advice to good usage. The equipment used and steps taken, require many hours of work depending on the extent of the water damage, you can hire a professional company – visit http://www.action1restoration.net to handle this for you. | <urn:uuid:8b0c10ad-b508-47dd-9686-c820601c6072> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.aquaticguru.com/ | 2019-07-16T19:09:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524685.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716180842-20190716202842-00049.warc.gz | en | 0.971453 | 1,349 |
The Cost of Creative Excellence
Take an experiment with me. First, consider this.
When it comes to production value, I’ve noticed we creatives can get trapped between extremes. By production value, I mean how well we execute and produce our final products, stories, designs, jewelry, services, presentations, or offerings – or even marketing.
On one extreme, we can get trapped in expecting perfection. On the other extreme, we can compromise and claim “authenticity” for producing mediocre results.
We deserve better.
Aiming for creative excellence does not mean perfection. Aiming for creative excellence is not about showing off your stuff. On the contrary, it often means working your tail off behind the scenes so you create something so seamless that it transports your peeps, even for a few minutes or an hour, to another place. You give them, in other words, what only you sensitive creative people can offer – a taste of transcendence.
Sometimes it means you obsessively follow your own creative breadcrumbs into the woods of your own making – and bring us along with you for the adventure.
Creative virtuosity is about honing craft and crafting an immersive experience for your patch of the planet. Tinged with delight, surprise, and wonder, the memories and feelings a creation elicits will outlast, with any luck, the creator’s personality.
Creative virtuosity does not have to be expensive to be excellent. But it likely will demand hours of care that go unseen. From such care and giving, meaning arises.
An Experiment: Set Your Wonder Bar High
Watch an exceptional animated film or dance performance, or observe a design whose intricacy and wit surprises you. If you’re a creator, you might feel a wee bit of envy, but if you harness envy into admiration, then you feel a trace of awe at someone else’s or a team’s talent.
Be open. Observing examples of creative virtuosity with an open mindset can instill the desire to excel at what you do and how. You bring out your best potential. And we’re the better for it.
Let’s try an experiment.
I’ve included below five sources where wonder reins in different ways – three corporate ads and two solo creatives’ work (a Google Lab geek’s experiments in tech & music and a dandy punk’s experiments in mime & digital light).
May they induce your admiration and trigger serendipity. SERENDIPITY is not only the chance fortunate encounter or connection itself. It’s also the disposition itself to be open to such accidental good luck.
My Tracking Wonder invitations to you. Try one or more.
#1 – Prime your mind on an existing creative problem. Watch and absorb these five videos. Then, watch what happens with your mind in the next 48 hours. See if watching one of them gives you an idea. I’m not responsible for crazy dreams. Share results below.
#2 – See how many connections you make among these five. Bonus: Find a theme that holds together all five. Share entries below.
#3 – Which one of these inspires your admiration and desire to excel? Imagine what you could do differently to promote your next offering. How could story, surprise, and creative virtuosity in digital technology or video truly captivate and elevate your patch of the planet? If you lack the technical virtuosity, how could you collaborate with someone who possesses it?
May they send you down the serendipity slide, through the wonder portal, and out again on this side of creative excellence.
1. Chipolte’s “The Scarecrow”
Watch this 3-minute animated short called “The Scarecrow,” released by the Mexican-food chain Chipolte. Its ingredients: A storyline with an overt message about factory farming + stellar animation + a nostalgic hearkening of Willy Wonka + covered by the delicious Fiona Apple. (Yes, I have a crush on her voice now.) At over 6.3 million Youtube views, it’s struck a few nerves, good and bad.
By the way, are you a little cynical and suspicious that a corporation with 1,400 branches globally could have this much talent, sensibility, and integrity? Funny or Die is. But in The New Yorker today food journalist Michael Pollan says, after speaking with people who work with and buy from Chipolte, that he’s “generally encouraged” by their efforts.
2. True’s commercial “Giving”
Our second example of corporate advertising, this three-minute film might even yank a tear. It comes from True, a Thai telecommunications corporation. A bit predictable in its karmic arc, it nonetheless convincingly dramatizes an elevating point that any creative or solo-preneur or blogger could remember: Give without expecting a return.
3. Touch Wood – Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring in the Forest
This time the commercial comes from a Japanese smartphone maker. For the sleek Touch Wood SH-08C handset, the company took four days for a team to shoot this elaborate act of creative virtuosity. The ingredients: smart choice of a mathematically awe-inspiring composition related to desire + an astounding xylophone experiment constructed in wood + a stunning forest back drop = a memorable zag to Apple’s neon set.
4. Alexander Chen – Baroque.me
Alex Chen spoke at STORYChicago last week. The Google Labs geek took us on his tracks of constant curiosity related to music, drawing, and programming. He wondered if you could make a pitched line drawn on a computer make a sound. That curiosity led him to collaborate with more advanced programmers to prototype and then create a series of programming experiments designed to delight and surprise in their mathematical elegance. Ingredients: geometrical simplicity + Bach Cello Suite #1 + computer design + geeky obsession. (By the way, here’s another favorite: Mta.me, a way to illustrate the music of the MTA’s subway schedule.)
5. A Dandy Punk – The Alchemy of Light
Gillian Ferrabee, Cirque de Soleil Creative Director, turned me onto this Cirque performer’s experiment – a video experience of movement, whim, and melancholy.
#4 and 5 above might encourage you to pursue your own quirky obsessions and talents. If not you, who? #s 1-3 might inspire a whole new approach to how you tell the story of what you do and create.
By the way, Tracking Wonder Handbook Two is called THE SERENDIPITY SLIDE: 20-Plus Resources to TRACK WONDER For Your Creative Profession & Life. You can get it by entering your e-address in one or both of the boxes to the right. Delight guaranteed.
What serendipitous connections or feelings of admiration did these videos inspire? Your questions, challenges, and additions to the Wonder Cabinet here are welcome.
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Ghana Postgraduate Training Program
Global Initiatives is currently documenting the factors related
to the high retention rate of trained OB/ Gyns in Ghana, evaluating
the impact of the program, and determining how the educational
enhancements to the training program affected program success.
Watch the following vodcast with Timothy R. B. Johnson, M.D.
Academic Partnerships to Improve Health
A long history of “vertical programs” have not significantly improved maternal mortality in sub Saharan Africa. As has been demonstrated in Ghana, a commitment to human resources for health, human capacity building and authentic partnership can create a national context for improved maternal care. This concept could be replicated in other SSA and American OBGYN department partnerships. Global health priorities are converging to create more opportunities for mutually beneficial global programs. This concept is being replicated in other SSA and OBGYN departments. Click here for more information.
A talk given at the 2011 Sujal Symposium discussing academic partnerships to improve health.
Grand Rounds at the University of New Mexico entitled “Academic Partnerships to Improve Maternal Health”
The objectives of the video are to understand:
- The problem of maternal mortality in a global context Global Health research and program priority setting.
- How health systems research and Human Resources for Health (HRH) programs can transition from vertical programs to nationally sustainable horizontal programs.
- The Role of University Partnerships in Global Health and Maternal Mortality Reduction
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This is a beautiful, stunning, breath taking guest house. I was greeted with a very helpful taxi driver, who explained Jamaica to me on the ride. When we pulled up to the guest house, my jaw dropped from the beauty of the house. The inside will literally have you in shock. The rooms are beautiful, extremely clean with amazing furniture and the bathrooms are every woman's dream. Steve is a wonderful host, he cooks to order, gathering the fresh ingredients from the local markets. He actually speaks to you and laughs with you. He can tell you about the area and the safest places to go, if you decide to go out and play. I had so much fun there and the best part was that the guest house is so clean I could actually walk around barefoot without fear. This is a beautiful secret luxury Negril. I will be back to stay!!
- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- Jah Freedom- Inn, Negril Negril Jamaica We are located on Westland Mountain Road on the West End. This is very conveniently located only about a 5 minute walk or a 30 second drive from the center of Negril. The house is a 3 story house with magnificent views overlooking Negril Beach. The property is beautifully landscaped with flowers, fruit trees, and a small farm where fresh veggies, spices, and fruits are grown. The 1st floor has 2 bedrooms each with its own bathroom and the 3rd floor has 3 bedrooms (one is my own) a living room, kitchen, and laundry room. The 2nd floor consist of 2 recording studios and the office, a lobby, a powder room and a kitchen for the guests. The 3rd floor kitchen is available for cooking and preparing meals or we can arrange meals to be prepared for our guests at reasonable prices. The upstairs guest rooms (Guava Room 1 and the Negril Sunrise Room 2) share a bathroom ( I only book both rooms for people traveling together so the bathroom on the third floor is private for the Guava room) with an enclosed tub/shower and the downstairs bedrooms have their own separate bathrooms one with a standing shower and one with an enclosed tub/shower. All 4 deluxe rooms rooms have have air conditioning and ceiling fans and are extremely comfortable to sleep in... The house has Maid Service and we can arrange laundry services as well for a nominal charge. Local Taxi, tour guide, transportation as well as motor bike, motor scooter , bicycle and car rentals can be arranged by your host at reasonable rates. Jah Freedom Inn, Negril now offers Dive and Stay packages. We accommodate SCUBA divers looking for a convenient and relaxed diving vacation Inn Negril, Jamaica. We have joined with Negril's premier Scuba Diving and fishing Operation, Stanley's Watersports, to offer PADI Diving packages for guests who enjoy the adventure of SCUBA and want to dive the wonderful reefs of Negril, Jamaica. We can arrange one and two tank diving excursions on a daily basis as well as night dives and specialty dives. We can accommodate beginners and advanced divers as well as instructional packages that include PADI Certification courses from basic to instructor. Our dives are done from a brand new 42 foot boat set up for an easy and comfortable SCUBA diving experience. Please inquire for more information. I hope this description has interested you and I hope you will become one of our guests and will tell your friends about us when they are coming to visit Jamaica. ... more less
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Memories are so precious to us that we choose to store all sorts of things in boxes as cute and unique as possible. Airline tickets, receipts, love cards, souvenirs, are just some of the things that we store.
We store things to keep alive memories that we do not want to give up.Every time we discover them, we revive the memory.
As far as I’m concerned, I kept from love letters from childhood to poems or simple drawings created during some boring classes. I do not have a box, I think I have 10.
In each of us, there is a desire to keep as much of the past, not wanting to let it pass, even if the things we preserve are no longer of any use and should be discarded normally.
But what happens to the stored memories?
Storage of memories has a dual meaning. On the one hand, we want to keep them alive, but on the other, we have resigned, we are determined to go further, to create new memories. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
The reality is that memories enter into a kind of vegetative state. They live in the box, but in fact, it may take years to open those boxes, depending on how often you get melancholic.
In fact, any random happening that is called a memory is important because it means it was not forgotten. Not every occurrence becomes a memory. That would mean we can relive our life as a movie that would last about … yes … a lifetime.
People have the ability to record an infinite number of memories, but man chooses to store only one part, he is selective, but even more, he sometimes also takes some memories out of Heaven with the help of Forgetfulness.
How do we distinguish a random occurrence from a memory?
It is an ultra-fast and involuntary process. We do not stop to reflect about which occurrence is more meaningful and we do not submit them to an analysis. It simply happens. I assume that memories are the happenings that have had a greater emotional impact and not those that may actually be useful to us later. Memories make us who we are today.
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"Willie Robinson, in the last couple of days of his life, asked his parents to take him to a hospital and would say things like 'mommy, it hurts,'" said Ohio's Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason.
"They didn't take him," said Mason, citing police reports that are not public record in the state of Ohio until after an investigation is complete.
Willie died after collapsing at his parents' home in Cleveland March 22, 2008.
His parents, William Robinson and Monica Hussing, were indicted March 11 on charges of involuntary manslaughter, child endangering and felonious assault, according to court documents.
Attorney Margaret Isquick, who is representing the couple, did not return repeated calls made by ABCNews.com for comment.
Cuyahoga County coroner Frank Miller said that he ruled the death a homicide because it was so clear to him that the child had received no medical care before his death, despite obvious signs he was in grave condition.
Miller said Willie had been suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma, one of the most treatable forms of cancer. The coroner said the cancer may have been curable had the child's parents sought the appropriate medical care.
"We were the first to diagnose him," said Miller. "This boy had not received any medical attention before he got to us."
"He had swelling in his neck and pneumonia when he died," said Miller. "He looked gaunt and pale and certainly would have appeared visibly ill to the average person."
Sheila Slawinski, the boy's aunt, said that she suspected something wasn't right with her nephew in the year before his death.
According to Slawinski, Willie first starting shows signs of illness in April 2007, when she said he had a noticeable lump on his neck.
"We were trying to get my sister to take him to the hospital because of the lump and he was just staying in his room and complaining," Slawinski told ABC News.
Mother Ignored Her Sister's Plea to Get Son to Doctor
"He looked like Casper the ghost," she said. "He had blue circles all the way around his eyes."
Slawinski alleges that she was constantly telling her sister, who has five other children ranging in age from 6 to 15, to take Willie to a doctor and even offered to do it herself.
"He would stand at the bottom of the stairs and say that he needed help to get upstairs [to the bathroom] and my sister would tell him to get his a-- upstairs," said Slawinski.
When she finally confronted her sister, Slawinski said that the conversation quickly turned hostile, with Hussing telling her to "stay the f--- out of my life."
"I don't know what is wrong with my sister," she said. "I'm so embarrassed and ashamed that this happened."
Slawinski claims that her sister would promise to take Willie to the doctor but would never follow through.
In July 2007, Slawinski called to complain to the Trumble County Department of Child Services, hoping that it would force her sister to seek treatment for the boy.
Slawinski says she is not satisfied with the job the agency did in helping her family.
"They told me their job was to keep families together," said Slawinski.
Marilyn Paee, a department manager at the Trumble County Department of Child Services, confirmed to ABCNews.com that agents were working with Willie's family from July 2007 until Feb. 14, 2008 -- a month before the boy's death.
"Our initial goal is always to work with the family and if they're cooperative -- which this family was -- then the idea is to work to resolve the issue," said Paee. "When it became clear in January 2008 that they weren't following through with our demands, like enrolling the kids in school and getting a doctor, we told them we'd go to court."
Paee said that was the last her agency heard of the family, which later moved to Cleveland, was that they had moved out of the Trumble department's jurisdiction.
"I don't know if they moved as a result of [the threats to take them to court] or if they'd planned all along to relocate," said Paee.
Child Services Worker Also Missed Abuse
Asked whether Willie looked as sick as his aunt described him to be, Paee said that agents would visit the home several times a month and never saw anything unusual.
"The worker observed him, saw him watching television," said Paee. "We never saw him in a sickly state."
Slawinski said she's convinced that department officials must have been shown her nephew's brother.
"If they didn't notice that boy was sick then they're crazy," said Slawinski. "Maybe they were shown a different kid when they visited."
Mason, the prosecutor, called the boy's death one of the most "tragic cases of abuse" he's ever seen.
"Honestly when I read the file for the first time my eyes watered," he said.
If convicted, Robinson and Hussing each face up to 10 years in prison. They will be arraigned March 25, according to Mason.
"Certainly I want to see a conviction and a message sent out to the rest of the world that you've got to take care of your kids and if you don't, you're going to get prosecuted," said Mason.
Willie's aunt, choking back tears, said that she too hopes to see a conviction, even if it means her sister will be sent to prison.
"I want to see my sister come out of this a better person than who she is now," said Slawinski. "It breaks my heart but I don't care if she goes to prison."
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Which of the following will give a better quality of voice and overall better skill in music- Learning Indian Classical music (probably on a western Instrument like harmonium whose frequencies are different) or singing by 'voice trainers'?
Long story short: if you live in an area with strong Indian culture and are very familiar with Indian Classical music, start there. If you just think Indian music is cool, start somewhere else.
Either one is going to provide you with a lot of the fundamentals of vocal training (breath support, pitch, posture, etc.) Anything that doesn't overlap between the two (specific techniques, repertoire, community, etc.) will have very little crossover (unless you learn both and create a crossover yourself). Here are a few things to consider:
1. Location and local culture: If you live in an area where Indian Classical music is prevalent and it is more familiar to you it may be a good place to start (especially if you are not familiar with western vocal music). If you live in an area where Indian Classical isn't common and you are not already familiar with it (like, adolescent nostalgia familiar) and you just think it is cool, don't start with it (you can always pick it up later)
2. Resources: How difficult will it be for you to find educational books, teachers/tutors/mentors and decent repertoire? This is closely related to #1, but goes a step further. You may have grown up with Indian Classical, but if the only resources available to you teach western vocal technique, this is something to take into account.
3. Personal preference: Are you particularly passionate about one or the other? Don't skip out on what you enjoy because you think the other will be more beneficial. If you have the resources available to you (as described above) neither will give you a significant advantage over the other in terms of vocal training.
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Full text of the papers to be presented at We Robot 2019 are now available on our Program page. If you are attending We Robot you should read the papers before the conference.
We Robot doesn’t work like ordinary conferences: other than on panels, most authors do not present their papers. Rather, we assume everyone has done their homework, and go straight to the response by our expert discussants. What’s more, the discussants only speak for a short time, and then we open it up to your questions and comments. his makes for a much more interesting and engaging events, and takes advantage of the terrific people who come to We Robot – but it does mean that if you haven’t read the papers, you won’t be ready to take full part.
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UH title brings back fond memories for Podlewski
Maui High graduate was starting libero on Warriors’ 2002 squad
Before Colton Cowell, there was Vernon Podlewski.
Cowell, a King Kekaulike High School graduate, capped a remarkable career on the University of Hawaii men’s volleyball team Saturday with an NCAA crown when the Rainbow Warriors swept BYU in Columbus, Ohio.
Podlewski, a Maui High graduate, was the starting libero on the 2002 UH team that beat Pepperdine in four sets in State College, Pa., for the NCAA crown that was later vacated due to the use of an ineligible player.
Podlewski was watching intently on Saturday as UH climbed back to the top of men’s college volleyball.
“It looked like they were handling the situation just fine — it seemed like BYU could not pass the ball,” Podlewski said Tuesday during his lunch break from work as a stevedore on Hawaii island. “And they just went pedal to the metal.”
Like Cowell, who was a little-used walk-on for his first two seasons in Manoa, Podlewski’s journey to national champion for UH was unconventional. He had 11 digs in the national championship match, but it took some time for him to get there.
In 1994, he graduated from Maui High, where he played for Sheryl (Hoopii) Paschoal, who was fresh off of two NAIA national titles while playing for BYU-Hawaii.
Podlewski stepped away from the game for five years before returning to play for Santa Barbara City College, where then-Hawaii coach Mike Wilton found him playing the new position of libero.
“I was working in between then, wasn’t ready to go to college, wasn’t prepared,” Podlewski said. “So, when the opportunity came to play JC it just came at the right time.”
Libero was a godsend for Podlewski, a defensive specialist made for the serve-receive, passing position.
“My sophomore year at JC, 2000, was when libero came out,” he said. “My plan was never to go to UH, they didn’t know who I was. I was just this little guy. When that position came out, that’s when I got the call and Mike Wilton came to watch me practice at Santa Barbara. He said, ‘I want you to come out and play libero.’
“My plan was to come home and use my Hawaiian tuition waiver to pay for my schooling, finish off my last two years at UH. And now I got to play for two more years? It was the best thing ever.”
He is now married to the former Sara Harvey — they have two children, Maile, 13, and Makena, 9. Podlewski pulls out a grainy copy of the national championship match on DVD for his kids to watch every so often.
“They laugh and what they say is, ‘Wow, the TV is terrible,’ and the second thing they say is, ‘Dad, you were so young,’ “ Podlewski said with a laugh.
Podlewski has watched Cowell with pride for several years. Podlewski stands 5-foot-8 and hails from Haliimaile. Cowell is a 6-1 outside hitter who grew up in Makawao.
“Huge pride for the guy, the guy has always been a stud,” Podlewski said. “It is like it goes back to him being a smaller outside hitter, probably proving everybody wrong. Same situation as me with my position of libero. After that win that he has now, that just solidifies things, proves all the doubters wrong.
“It’s gone, like, ‘Can they win a championship?’ Like the way they did, and all the doubters are all gone because it is their time and their celebration. What a good win for that guy, he’s worked so hard.”
Podlewski perked up when asked about the pride he felt for his home island after the ‘Bows wrapped up the crown convincingly against their arch-rival.
“It was like watching myself,” Podlewski said. “A small guy in the big fishpond. You’re balling out with joy, for him, for me. I just enjoyed playing volleyball. Being from Maui, it was never like I was on the best team. I enjoyed training and getting better, seeing how far I could go.
“Whether I had to make the move to Oahu or the Mainland, all that was just coming from a small island. It was great to have everything come together and the reward is when it comes together.”
Podlewski remembers his days with the loaded 2002 Hawaii starting lineup of Costas Theocharidis, Dejan Miladinovic, Eyal Zimet, Tony Ching, Kimo Tuyay and Delano Thomas fondly.
“Even the guys now, whenever they watch a volleyball match, whoever wins, they are going to be like, ‘Dude, I was there, I had my time, too,’ “ Podlewski said. “It’s time to celebrate and talk story with your friends.”
Podlewski played for the U.S. national team for three years — he was an Olympic team alternate in 2004 — before playing three years professionally, one in Romania and two in Germany.
Another Maui High graduate, Dionisio Dante, was a standout for UH after Podlewski.
“Absolutely, Maui guys can play,” Podlewski said. “I remember playing a lot at Paia gym all the time, playing sand at Kamaole (Park) I. I think now Kalama beach has the nets; Kanaha, too. I remember all those places. I remember growing up, it was just good people. Volleyball just brings out good people that play and you just can’t help but keep coming back.
“I remember all the guys on Maui, they would teach you how to be better. … Growing up on Maui was just awesome. I think Colton is the same way, he had good people to support him and grow with the sport.”
Podlewski still has his national championship ring despite the banner being taken down from the Stan Sheriff Center and the official crown being vacated.
“My job was to show up and do my job — and I did,” he said. “It wasn’t my job to worry about the rules and everything. It kind of leads me into life lessons at work. I come to work, I do my thing, I don’t worry about other people, what they think and what they do.
“I’m here to do my job and as long as my bosses are happy with me, that’s all I care about.”
His championship ring makes an occasional appearance on the dinner table.
“Oh yeah, yeah, it’s there,” he said. “It’s nice and shiny. I have to bust it out every once in a while.”
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Avoid Dieting Disasters in 2018
The motivation of your New Year’s resolution to lose weight may be running strong, but to make it sustainable when that initial determination fizzles away, practice the principles of eating psychology. This requires tuning into your body’s unique needs as well as understanding how your psychology affects your relationship to food. Avoid dieting dysfunction by following the tips below:
1.Traditional dieting exasperates restriction and binging rather than addressing the root cause of emotional eating. Learn to identify triggers and develop coping strategies to navigate vulnerabilities such as social situations.
2.Everyone has a unique genetic make-up which causes them to respond to food in vastly different ways. Most diets don’t consider bio-individuality. Don’t get discouraged if you are not experiencing the same results as your friend.Be prepared to explore and experiment.
3.Diets often teach you to ignore your body’s signals and instead follow the rules of a program. Certain diets can be therapeutic but following a program without first learning to tune in to your body’s wisdom can be detrimental.
4.Simplified meal planning and prep must be learned to make healthy eating sustainable. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.Explore why you may have resistance to planning and prep; seek help if necessary.
5.Diets focused on calories and rapid weight-loss are based on outdated science rather than building a healthy metabolism. Many of my clients suffer from a damaged metabolism due to a calorie restrictive diet that was later followed by hormonal imbalances and weight gain. Eat real, unprocessed food with healthy amounts of fat to heal your metabolism.
6.Individuals who maintain healthy eating do not rely on willpower—though to outsiders it appears that way. They developed habits and strategies that eliminates an uphill battle with food. Dieting leaves you relying on willpower which only exists in finite amounts each day. Understanding the psychology of willpower and howskillpowercan eliminate the need to rely on willpower can be a game-changer.
To learn more about eating psychology & weight-loss in 2018, contact me today.
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Rotini Pasta (Durum wheat semolina (enriched with iron (ferrous sulfate) and B vitamins (niacin, thiamin, mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)), Tomato Sauce (Tomato Powder, Food Starch-Modified, Sugar, Milk Fat, Whey, Salt, Sweet Cream, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Spices, Nonfat Milk Solids, Nonfat Milk, Carrot Powder, Dextrose, Sodium Caseinate, Sodium Phosphate, Maltodextrin, Natural Flavor, Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Silicon Dioxide (anticaking agent), Annatto Color), Parmesan Cheese Powder (Pasteurized milk, salt, cheese, culture enzymes, disodium phosphate, lactic acid), Onions, Sugar, Tomato Powder, Tomato Dices, Salt, Granulated Garlic, Italian Seasoning Blend (Oregano, Basil, Rosemary, Thyme, Marjoram, Sage, Savory), Peppercorn Blend (Spices, Red and Green Dehydrated Bell Pepper, and less than 2% sunflower oil added to prevent caking).
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A 20 year old barista residing in Oregon, USA. Mexican-Irish. Coffee lover. Adventurer.
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Obeck is a producer of bottles and jars. They are based in Germany and are a specialist in quality PET packaging for the pharmacy and cosmetics sector. We are exclusive distributor in the Netherlands and supply most of our products directly from our own stock.Check out the product range in our catalogue
Obeck produces packaging in accordance with Food Safety System Certification (FSSC) 22000 and, in doing so, meets the GSFI standard. The packaging is widely used in the cosmetics, pharmacy and foodstuffs sector.
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HARTFORD - State Rep. Arthur O'Neill, R-Southbury, recalls seeing rooms in Waterbury Hospital with placards on the walls warning hospital staff to wash their hands more thoroughly after working with this patient.
That's because these patients, which included
father, contracted an infection while in the hospital.
"It's not what my father died of, but it greatly weakened him," O'Neill said. "I read up about how diseases are spread in hospitals and how patients develop a drug resistance."
Now O'Neill wants Connecticut hospitals to have to report infections - ranging from pneumonia to urinary tract problems - that patients develop while they are being cared for. He's not alone in claiming that hospitals can make some people ill just as they make some people well.
Infections contracted in hospitals kill 90,000 people national each year, according to the
for Disease Control. An additional 1.9 million patients survive their infections but have to stay longer in the hospital for treatment.
O'Neill's bill would mandate that hospitals report all infections to the state
Department of Public Health
. Under the proposal, in 2007, the department would compile the information on infections acquired in hospitals for the year. In 2008, infection rates would be broken down hospital by hospital.
Public Health Committee
already approved the bill, and the
is considering it.
Connecticut requires hospitals to tell the state if a patient dies or become disabled because of medical errors. However, hospitals don't have to report infections. O'Neill said if that information were public, medical professional might work harder to come up with ways to reduce the number of infections.
"My real hope is that hospitals will recognize the seriousness of the problem and figure out what the best practices are," O'Neill said. "I'm not sure what people advocate that ignorance is the best policy."
Connecticut Hospital Association
officials oppose the proposal, saying that it could produce misleading data.
Different hospitals could measure infections in different ways, said Dr.
, the chief medical officer at
. It's important that the state reporting requirements allow people to make a valid comparison.
"Most hospitals in the state support transparency and public disclosure," Miller said. "It can be misleading if the risk of the patients isn't considered, only raw numbers are reported and the reports are done differently."
The hospital industry is concerned misleading numbers could give the impression that one hospital is superior to another in preventing infections. But hospitals with burn units, cancer units or those that perform major surgeries all have more patients prone to infections that smaller hospitals that don't have these units.
"It's just the number of infections and it won't help reduce the number of infections," said
, director of inpatient services at
New Milford Hospital
. "Each hospital has their own units with patient diagnosis that may lead to infections while other hospitals may not."
, executive director of the
for Patient Safety, said it's unbelievable that the hospital industry does not support the legislation to curb infections, which drive up the cost of health care. Estimates on the cost of treating infections vary widely, ranging from $5 billion to $50 billion annually.
"Most of these infections aren't necessary," said Rexford, who lives in Redding. "It's a matter of clean hands and clean tools. Connecticut hospitals have failed to address the problem."
The states of Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri, Virginia and New York have all adopted infection reporting regulations.
Pennsylvania was the first state to mandate reporting. It requires hospitals to report the number of infections contracted in the hospital in four major categories - surgical, bloodstream, pneumonia and urinary tract.
Last year, the state issued a report that stated the death rate was highest - 32 percent - for patients who developed pneumonia while using a ventilator. The most common were urinary tract infections in patients who were using a catheter to empty their bladder.
The average cost to treat a
patient who developed an infection was $29,000, compared with $8,300 for those who did not, the report found.
However, the Connecticut Hospital Association says that Connecticut should wait until national standards for infection reporting are created before moving forward with its own bill.
A national group made up of doctors, hospital administrators, consumer advocates and statisticians is working to establish national guidelines, said
, spokeswoman for the Connecticut Hospital Association.
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Aiming to push against an uncomfortable malaise that threatened some days to overwhelm me, I decided to give it a shot. I also purchased a “one line a day” journal, in which I take a few moments each evening to jot down some thoughts – positive or negative – about the day’s events. I keep the journal where I easily see it each night, and I’ve set a notification on my laptop so I don’t forget to do the weekly summary. Then, when I think on Friday night or Saturday morning about what to say for the week’s submission to the blessing jar, I refer back to my daily journaling and also reflect on what’s happened in the lives of each of my family members during the previous week.
Being a pessimist-leaning realist by my (human) nature, I sometimes focus first on the “bad” things about which I may have vented in the journal. I must actively choose to recall the positive. But I’ve seen so far that there’s always something – and often multiple occurrences – to document for the jar. Taking time to acknowledge that each week has, indeed, had its share of blessings has softened the sting of inevitable struggles. And recalling the positive gets easier with each passing week.
It’s not too late to start counting your blessings in a similar way. There’s nothing magical about January 1; helpful practices can stick no matter when we launch into them. In fact, you can even extend what I’ve done by including your children and spouse, perhaps assigning each family member a specific paper color to ensure that everyone participates fully.
And by now if – like me – you’re music smart, it’s probably inevitable that you’ve got Johnson Oatman, Jr.’s 1897 hymn in your head. Thus, I can’t think of a better way to remind you to get started counting your blessings than to get his song stuck there for the rest of the day!
When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one,Count your blessings, see what God hath done!Count your blessings, name them one by one,And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will keep singing as the days go by.
So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
Do not be disheartened, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.
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Fabric: Upada Silk & Pure Organza
Care Instructions: Dry Clean only, Steam Press Kurta & Flat Press Dupatta & pant
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|Country of Origin||Belize|
An all time favourite sauce by Marie Sharp. Green Habaneros are combined with Nopal Prickly Pear s, truly one of a kind and one of Chile Mojo's absolute favourite sauces.
Marie Sharp’s sauces are made from the finest habanero peppers grown in Belize, crushed down to make the base for each hot sauce. This is evident when tasting one of the sauces as the texture is thick, with chunks of habanero, creating an explosion of flavor in every bite.
There are five different heat levels: Original Mild, Hot, Fiery Hot, Green Habanero and Beware. Whether you are crazy about eating the hottest foods or someone that only likes a little heat, Marie Sharp’s has a sauce for everyone to try.
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Ingredients: Nopal Prickly Pears, Green Habanero Peppers, Onions, Garlic, Salt, Caye Lime Juice, and Vinegar. Ingredients: Nopal/Pricky Pears, Green Habanero Peppers, Onions, Garlic, Salt, Key Lime Juice, and Vinegar.
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I haven’t posted in a long time so I wanted to reconnect with subscribers in the most transparent and interesting way possible – by giving an open book breakdown of my last month of earnings and sharing the struggle I went through to get here. I’m fascinated with internet entrepreneurship and I wanted to post some insight into the 500 days of skill building that got me to this point.
A snapshot of my last 30 days of earnings:
The breakdown I’ve shown above is about 75% affiliate earnings, 15% product sales, 5% consulting and another 5% to random immaterial revenues (such as donations, at about $15 for march) The costs formula is wonky due to time zones and how I was recording costs so I balanced one column to zero on March 16th. There’s a few remarkable things about how I’ve been earning money – most interestingly is that nearly all the money I made in March was from work done in February and before…
Why a dollar isn’t a dollar
1) Business income has advantages over employment income. Also, I’m a non-resident of Canada earning income from non-Canadian sources giving me a tax exempt status.
2) I live in a third world country and keep my monthly expenses around $1,000 USD. I no longer have a commute, living expenses are extremely cheap, and I enjoy a higher standard of living at a fraction the cost (relative to Canada) This arrangement also allows me to completely outsource all my domestic necessities – (I never cook, clean my room, or do my laundry)
3) Perhaps most importantly: 90% of revenues were ‘passive’ or payouts on assets I built in previous months.
I still work a lot – about 60hours/week, but interestingly all the work I’m doing now is for projects that won’t materialize till next month (or even next year) It’s not ‘passive’ income – it’s assets I’ve built in the past paying out. You don’t just ‘get’ money. You have to build something first that provides value and benefits others in the future. The asset building part is very hands-on but once complete the fruits of your labour are often automated (thanks mostly to online systems)
Over 500 days ago I set my goal for total freedom and now I’ve managed to get off the hamster wheel. I’m completely out of the rat race. I don’t know if this is a chicken / egg situation but work wise I’ve changed – almost everything I do day to day sees nearly ZERO immediate reward. I’m involved almost exclusively in long term projects. The best part of diligently plugging away at long term goals is experienced in their manifestation. That’s what I’m going through now.
Short terms goals like health and fitness are now rewarding me energy and vitality.
Mid term goals for money are rewarding me with daily passive income.
Finally, long term goals for skills and assets are beginning to reward me with competencies, financial security, and a growing circle of influence.
Seeds were sown days ago and soon I’ll enjoy their harvest. (after some tumultuous periods of farmer-like work ethic)
How did I get to this point?
I made the decision I was going to fully earn my income through the internet 500 days ago now. Since then I’ve undergone the most intense learning curriculum of my life. This was much different then the four years I spent at university earning a business degree; for some perspective:
If someone asked me how valuable my 4 year business degree was, I’d say, “$10’000”
If someone asked me to value what I’ve learned in the last 500 days of self-directed education, I’d say, “$100’000”
In other words self education has given me 10x the value a university degree in half the time. That’s powerful.
As Jim Rohn said:
What you study in school has a low relevance factor. You also have a low level of applied learning – literally meaning you don’t apply what you learn. This leads to pointless memorization of stuff (stuff which you could google in the future anyway). Compare formal education to a self-directed regime where your curriculum is dynamically constructed to help solve your most pressing issues. Then everything you learn becomes applied. Everything you learn becomes relevant. Everything you learn becomes valuable.
My journey began approximately 500 days ago. I had set a very specific goal: to earn at least as much as my salary from sources entirely on the internet, giving me the freedom to travel and live anywhere in the world. From inception it took 500 days to get there. I remember vividly when it started, a month into my at my tax accounting gig right out of college. I was working with people I didn’t know and was living with people I didn’t like – just to make make ends meet. With a stressful 9-5 time for things like quality R&R, a social life, and hobbies were laughable. What little spare time I did have was reserved for maintaining a sliver of connection with the people I loved. The rest of my time was spent recovering and preparing for the next work day, so I could pay the bills and keep working the next day, and so on and so on.
Above all I wanted to be free. But with most of my time and energy spent working a job to afford survival… I needed to find a way out. And I did,
The way out
My life changed when I went full hardcore with my time. No more going out. No more boozing. All my free time to getting something – anything off the ground and going. The last month at my corporate job I was sneaking away on lunch breaks to meet web design clients at a Bistro down the street. I’d come back to my desk with a $1’000 cheque in my pocket feeling pretty pleased, knowing that my final day to quit was approaching.
All or nothing
This is my new home office in Bali, Indonesia….
You can get an idea of what my new work life looks like in the video below. We did a 24 hour time lapse work session that I put together for another hobby site of mine here:
People you meet, experiences you have and books you read all contribute to your world view. With an open mind reflection on life’s experiences expands your perspective. I find it interesting I was more arrogant when I was younger, knew less, and was less capable. But now that I am more capable and know more than ever I feel the least so – after being repeatedly chewed up and spit out, failing hundreds of times over, humbled again and again. It’s a more accurate map emerging.
I’m 24 years old and I can honestly say that I experience my day to day life peacefully. I consider this my greatest accomplishment to date. Good things, bad things, all just things. Pleasure, pain, all just sensation. I’ve detached from classic objects and ownerships of success and come into touch with the things that truly make me happy. The two biggest being:
Surrounding myself with loved ones and having a wealth of time to not rush – but enjoy – the activities I love with some tender love and care (Read this book to really get the concept of having a ‘wealth of time’). Through understanding my happiness I can furlough the superfluous fluff typically ‘sold’ as a ticket to happiness; those percentile moments of existence defined by hedonistic consumption – vs. the TLC moments of doing what I love for hours a day and sharing life with people I love for hours a day.
And this is pretty much what growth looks like. It hasn’t always been easy. I have some serious problems with pills and alcohol, I can’t seem to manage my sleep, I frequently slip into 2 or 3 day long modes of lower consciousness, and I consistently fall short of the goals I set out for myself.
I guess that’s it for now.
What would you like to see? Comment/email me if any of this resonates with you. I’ve done a couple fairly ‘off the wall’ things that people might be interested in hearing about, let me know if you want me to write something up or do a video – I have lot’s of spare time here in Bali 🙂
• Last year I did an intense 23 day experiment in consciousness exploration. The first 10 days going into flotation tanks for increasing amounts of time (up to 4 hours) Next I spent 10 days at a vipassana retreat meditating in silence at a Buddhist sanctuary in the wilderness, I then went deep into the rocky mountains – several hours down dirt roads – where I rented a cabin to experiment with LSD and isolated meditation. I have a few interesting things to say on that subject
• Right now I live in Bali. I’ve been ‘habit’ hacking for a long time and I was thinking of posting a video of my daily routine and things I do to stay on top of my game.
• There’s a few life altering books I’ve read this last year that I definitely think are worth sharing
• Anything else you would like to see?
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Western Michigan University and St. Cloud University have accepted invitations to join the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.
They are the seventh and eighth schools to join the NCAA Division I league that starts play in 2013-14.
For the next two years, St. Cloud State will play in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and Western Michigan in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.
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We just did a flip in the area and here’s your chance to get in cheaper than we did! Great 4 bed 1 bath house. Clean out completed.
Covert to a 4 2 1/2 for maximum value. Or make it a rental. House needs a renovation.
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Who’s Testing What #23 – www.dummies.com
Here’s a nice test from Dummies.com. Too bad the tested element is a bit below the fold, which means that around 40% of the visitors will not see the tested variables if they are not scrolling. It’s a good idea to test elements that are above the fold. Don’t just believe usability experts screaming out loud that the fold doesn’t matter anymore. Test that for your self and see if it’s true or not.
Here’s screenshot of the tested page, using Google’s Browser Size tool:
And here is the test:
Pitstop Media offers ROI based internet marketing services such as landing page testing services and conversion rate optimization services. Our A/B and multivariate tests have helped companies increase conversion rates by as much as 75%. Let us increase your conversion rates, too!
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Testing was conducted using the Sound Blaster Titanium HD audio hardware on an AMD/ASRock Phenom dual core platform @ 3.00GHz with 2GB DDR3-1333, running Windows 7 Enterprise.
Straight up, we found that the Sound Blaster Titanium HD is truly one of the best, if not the best sounding board we have tested. Build quality is good, although we feel in this area the ASUS Xonar STX wins out by a small margin, and also in some of the choices in capacitors used, although this is fairly academic stuff in the overall wash of things.
The choice of digital to analog converter is a great one also and gives the sound a very mature vibe, which when paired with the Creative proprietary main chipset makes for an engaging audio experience.
Without a shadow of doubt one of the most impressive we have tested in recent memory. The high end has an elevated and sparkling characteristic that sounds fantastic at any volume, and even better when the volume does go up; there is not a hint of fatigue to be felt whatsoever. Symbols and guitar runs were solid and present, while never being a bourdon or requiring a quick run to the EQ.
The high end also had a very controlled nature that seemed to be able to steer everything between the markers of being present, but not overly to the point of detracting, if you get where we are coming from. It was almost as if there was a built-in compressor working away, smoothing things over to make sure that there are never any nasty spikes or deviations occuring that can make the high end sound harsh and unpleasant. Perhaps it's a couple of filtering capacitors on there helping things out; all we know is it really does sound good to the ear.
Our testing of the mid range revealed again quite impressive results with a strong centre defuse point from which to listen outwards, as explained in our last article covering the Corsair HS1 headset. Usually difficult mid range duties such as various different drum transients and the like were handled with ease by the Titanium HD, with our listening tests of a live concert track coming through in nearly full HD (720p) sounding absolutely spot on in terms of that centre frequency as well as really nice contrasting transients going on through the mid.
What we witnessed here was a very detailed and wide soundstage that just has that open relaxed feel that is instantly attractive to the ear and without doubt making anyone who loves music want to keep listening.
The low end is an interesting beast indeed with this new Sound Blaster. And to cut right down to the chase, the only area that we firstly thought could have been more refined, and secondly was in our opinion better on the Xonar Essence STX. Now, the low end is a subjective thing and certain people will enjoy a slightly more excited character to the low end, which is fine. On the positive side of the low end, bass was not at all one notey with plenty of audible changes in bass note coming through our subwoofer and main speakers.
Because this board features full support for the latest iteration of EAX, there is plenty of scope for some top notch game audio, not withstanding that Creative sell a version of this for gamers already. Even so, we see no problems with plugging in some nice headphones and having a gaming session once in a while thanks to EAX handling surround duties. The only issue with external speakers is the lack of analog outputs for rear and side speakers.
The Titanium HD has the potential to be a really good board for some casual movie viewing. However, the only issue with surround is that the lack of analog outputs for the rears requires the signal be sent externally out for decoding, which means that all the Titanium is being utilized for is a 'digital pass-through', which is a little bit of a shame. Otherwise, connect some decent stereo speakers and enjoy! - We would take a nice two channel movie experience any day over a set of cheapie surround speakers, so just enjoy that sound quality for what it is.
There is also the THX suite of different options as well, which can add to the movie experience. However, these would have to be used with a set of headphones. Creative Labs do sell boards for gaming and movies specifically, so bare that in mind please before rushing into any purchases. But if you do these things secondarily to music listening, definitely consider!
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The season is half
way complete, but with the trade deadline a couple weeks away and fantasy
playoffs quickly approaching, you are running out of time to fix your lineup in
time for it to matter.
The obvious entry in
this slot in Crosby's line. Kunitz and
Dupuis are working magic with the best player in the world. Let's move on to the less obvious…
Chris Stewart (STL)
After a slow start
(ok, a slow couple of years), Stewart is showing flashes of the brilliance that
had his name in the conversation for "top power forward". Since the calendar flipped to March, he can
certainly make a case for that title.
Stewart has piled up 6 goals and 7 assists through 8 games this
month. The PIMs and +/- are coming along
as well, making him once again an all-around good guy for your fantasy lineup.
Michael Ryder (MON)
Ryder has been one
of the most under-rated fantasy forwards over the past decade. He continues to quietly put up goals year
after year without fanfare as he moves from town to town. Since arriving in Montreal, he has picked up
his assist totals, amassing 9 points in 8 games. He has 3 multi-point contests in the past 5
Sergei Bobrovsky (G-COB)
No goaltender is as
hot as the man in Columbus. He hasn't
lost a game in regulation since February, going 5-0-2 in the process, while
averaging less than 1 GAA. It's probably
too late for you to cash in on this mad streak, but he deserves a nod in this
Jonas Hiller (G-ANA)
wasn't willing to just step aside and allow Fasth to claim his job after
all. He has reclaimed the crease with an
amazing run, going 7-0-1 over this last 8 starts.
Shea Weber (D-NAS)
Weber got off to a
tragic start, waiting until Valentine's Day to wake up and contribute. Since then, he's back to being an offensive
beast for Nashville. His last couple of
weeks have been particularly productive, with 6 points in his last 5
games. He's back.
Ryan Suter (D-MIN)
Speaking of Weber
and defensive beasts, his former partner has been exploding on offensive over
the same timeframe. In his last 16
games, he has piled up 17 points.
Doesn't get much better than that.
WHO'S COLD / TIME TO DROP?
If you're going to
make room for a new edition, you obviously need to let someone go. Though it's tough to part company, here are
some guys that it may be time to cut ties with...
Joe Pavelski (F-SJ)
Just 1 goal and 1
assist over the past 10 games. He's even
seen his ice time dive down to the 16 minute range as of late. I'm a big believer in Pavelski and expect him
to wake up at some point, but it's hard to keep the faith with these numbers in
a short season.
David Clarkson (F-NJ)
Clarkson was a
monster at the start of the season, even leading the league in goal scoring
through the first month. Since then, he
has disappeared completely. He has zero
goals and just 2 assists through his last 13 games.
Dany Briere (F-PHI)
After a hot streak
through February, Briere has disappeared offensively. He hasn't put up a point in 5 games, with a
-8 rating during that stretch. His ice
time is in the 4th liner territory. Drop
him and don't look back.
- Viktor Fasth (G-ANA) - upper
- Patrick Sharp (F-CHI) - upper
- Jamie Benn (F-DAL) - wrist,
- Entire Florida Panthers
- Raphael Diaz (D-MON) -
- Evgeni Malkin (F-PIT) -upper
Brent Burns (D-SJ)
Burns just returned
from a series of injuries. Before this
week, he had no points and sat at a -5 on the year. In his two games since returning, he has been
utilized as a forward, which has resulted in 2 goals and 1 assist, while
maintaining the valuable "D" designation on the roster. Take advantage now!
Ryan Whitney (D-EDM)
After a dark period
of healthy scratches, Whitney apparently got the message. In his last 8 games, he's put up 3 goals and
Slava Voynov (D-LA)
Last year, Voynov
hit a stretch where he took off as a top fantasy option. He seems to be back there again as of
late. 9 points in his last 8 games for
Jake Allen (G-STL)
It may be a
short-term situation, but Jake Allen has kicked Halak and Elliot to the curb,
as he's gotten the Blues back to winning.
He has gone 7-1 on the season and has gotten the nod in 4 of the last 5
starts for the Blues (all wins), including a shutout last night.
Derek Stepan (F-NYR)
Stepan has been
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The Social Security Death Index is further regulated in the recently passed U.S. Budget. The text is much as stated in my last posting, Killing the Social Security Death Index? — decedent names registered within the past 3 years will be available only to those who are certified under a program administered by the Department of Commerce and who have a “fraud prevention interest or other legitimate need for the information and agree to maintain the information under safeguards similar to those required of Federal agencies that receive return information…”
What does this mean? As yet, we don’t know whether vendors who purchase the records will continue to do so or whether they will sell it to third parties: private investigators, attorneys and other professionals. Why not? Because there’s a hefty penalty attached to unauthorized disclosure:
A penalty of $1,000 for each disclosure or misuse of the information is imposed on any persons who improperly disclose the DMF information. A certified person in receipt of DMF information is responsible for any subsequent disclosure of such information. Even if the initial disclosure to a third party is appropriate, if that third party subsequently improperly discloses the information, the certified person is deemed to have also improperly disclosed the information. Thus, in a case in which the improper disclosure is made by a third party who received the information from a certified person, both the certified person and the person who improperly disclosed the information are subject to the penalty. The penalty may not exceed $250,000 per person for any calendar year, except in the case of willful disclosure. In such cases, the penalty is not limited.
The terms of access will require vendors and users to establish data safeguards and a standardized record keeping system, which will be further defined by the Commerce Secretary. Since this is a cost-cutting maneuver disguised as fraud prevention, there will be a fee to obtain certification.
Genealogists and family history researchers may lose access if the largest current providers — Ancestry.com and Familysearch.org — opt out of the certification program. These are low-cost databases — FamilySearch is free — so how are they going to ensure that those who access the SSDI have met the requirements of the Act? | <urn:uuid:7e571206-a8b6-4782-b820-6c8da5352591> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://pibuzz.com/social-security-death-index-restrictions-now-law/ | 2017-03-23T04:18:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218186774.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212946-00539-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937989 | 446 |
Some Tickets for the show are not shown on the Shop, why is this?
As much as we would like to have a thousand people come to see the show each performance unfortunately we cannot cram that number into the hall.
The shop has a maximum number of tickets for each performance and once that number has been sold, the performance is automatically removed from the sales list.
Occasionally we have tickets returned to the Box Office and we would ask that you email to check for this if your required performance is not shown on the shop.
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GARY CLARK JR. - Live, North America 2016 (2017)
More than most musicians working in the 21st century, Gary Clark, Jr. is dedicated to the live album. He released Live two years after his 2012 major-label debut, Blak and Blu, and Live North America 2016 arrives on a similar schedule, appearing in 2017 after the release of 2015's The Story of Sonny Boy Slim. Clark worked his second major-label album throughout 2016, so it's little surprise that a good chunk of that record appears here, along with a few choice selections from his debut. To this set list, Clark throws in covers of Jimmy Reed's "Honest I Do" and Elmore James' "My Baby's Gone." Clark nails Reed's laconic delivery and James' hypercharged slide guitar, proof of his versatility and taste, since he doesn't use either as vehicles for his virtuosity. He saves such pyrotechnics for his own work, but that's not even the key to why Live North America 2016 works as well as it does. The album succeeds because Gary Clark, Jr. knows that blues needs songs, feel, and groove in addition to solos. Indeed, the striking thing about the album is its vibe: he may be playing to large audiences, but the record feels warm and intimate, sliding into soul grooves as often as it gets gritty. In many ways, it feels richer than his studio albums, which rely on pushing his contemporary flair to the forefront. Live North America 2016 is all about the basics and that's why it works as well as it does.
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Matthew Linley is an Assistant Professor at Temple University, Japan.
The past few months have seen a number of problems in the Japan-China relationship. Numerous commentators cite the dispute over the Senkaku Islands and the re-election of Shinzo Abe as prime minister as reasons to predict a worsening of relations in the coming year. The recent request by the Abe Cabinet for a US$2.4 billion equipment upgrade to strengthen border defences suggests a harder line on its territorial disputes with China.
But what about the Japanese public? After all, Japan is a democracy so we should expect politicians to respond at least minimally to what citizens think, either for idealistic reasons or more likely to survive the next electoral cycle.
While foreign policy remains an elitist sphere of policymaking and generally of little interest to voters, the public cannot be completely disregarded, as anyone familiar with the US-Japan Security Treaty negotiations of 1960 knows. For a Japanese prime minister, having the public on his side means one less worry when building a consensus on difficult decisions.
So what does the Japanese public think about China in 2013? To answer this question, it is useful to turn to the Japan Cabinet Office's annual survey on public opinion about foreign policy, released in November 2012 (sample size of 1912 respondents, conducted in October 2012). The graph above shows the Japanese public's affinity for China between 1978 and 2012.
It's hard to believe that in 1980 approximately 80% of respondents said they had an affinity for China. Today, it is below 20%. The most striking trend is the steady decrease in affinity (and increase in no affinity) for China since 1985. Although the mid-1990s to early 2000s saw the Japanese public evenly divided, friendly feelings towards China dropped sharply — almost 30 percentage points — from 2003 to 2012. Overall, the data indicate that, despite increasing economic interdependence between the two countries, public opinion in Japan has increasingly worsened.
Next, consider the data only from 2012. The next table examines respondents from varying levels of city scales. Since the ruling LDP traditionally has close ties to rural voters, we should expect the views of respondents in more rural parts of the country to matter:
The data show that differences among respondents from different parts of the country are very small. However, the greatest percentage of respondents (84.1%) who said they have no affinity for China were from towns and villages (which we can use as an indicator of 'rural Japan'). The city scale with the smallest percentage of respondents saying they had no affinity for China, meanwhile, was in medium-sized cities (79.7%). The gap between rural and urban citizens is not very large but the data do indicate what might be a significant difference.
Lastly, let's look at differences among age groups. In Japan, as in other societies, older citizens turn out to vote more than their younger counterparts, so their views are important to politicians. This last table shows the Japanese public's feelings toward China by age:
We see here a rather large difference in respondents who have no affinity for China. While the percentage of respondents in this category was well over 65% for all groups, 84.2% of respondents in their seventies and over had no affinity with China compared to 68.3% of respondents in their twenties, a gap of 15.9 percentage points. Looking at the broader pattern, the data indicate that older Japanese feel less affinity for China than do their younger counterparts.
To summarise this rather limited examination of the data, the average percentage of Japanese with affinity for China was 18% while the mean for those with no affinity was 80.6%. The percentage of respondents with affinity for China has steadily decreased over time, more rapidly over the past ten years. At the moment at least, far more Japanese citizens have unfriendly feelings towards China than those with friendly feelings. Citizens from rural areas seem to have slightly less friendly views of China than those in other parts of the country while older citizens have significantly more unfriendly views of China than younger citizens.
Does any of this have a direct effect on foreign policy? No, but it does suggest that Shinzo Abe's recent move to increase Japan's security budget is unlikely to face much opposition from the public. In fact, he may find that older voters and those from rural areas — two vital constituencies — will be quite supportive. He may find it easier to push through policies than if China was viewed as positively as it was in 1980.
So while Abe certainly faces limits on his foreign policy towards China (the constitution, the US, his cabinet, his coalition party, his own party, the upper house of the Diet, the mass media, opinion leaders) he may at least not have to spend too much political capital convincing the Japanese public of the necessity for a stronger stance towards a country it once viewed as a friend. | <urn:uuid:34a81439-b2f1-45f4-9508-4081e2979341> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/01/22/Unfriending-Japanese-public-opinion-on-China.aspx?p=true | 2014-03-12T18:44:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394023864543/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305125104-00085-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969832 | 988 |
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The day you arrive at the beach is sunny. You take your book and your beach hat down to the sand. They eliminated your job at the research institute and gave you notice last week. The work you were doing was given to a researcher with more seniority but less heart. You could look for work elsewhere. But things are tight all over.
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A Maltese-flagged bulk carrier crashed into a historic mansion on the shores of Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on Saturday after its steering gear failed, according to media reports.clutch bag pink crystal satin Packham Jenny 1 'Priscilla' No Pale F4q68qwB
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Taupe Fae grab bag Fiorelli small Video from other boats in the area showed the ship, identified as the Vitaspirit, crash into the waterfront mansion. The vessel was later pulled back from the crash site.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, but photos and video showed extensive damage to the historic seaside mansion located under the Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridge.
The Hekimbasi Salih Efendi Mansion has stood on the shores of the Bosphorus Strait since the 18th century and is used to host weddings and concerts, according to the mansion’s website.
Taupe grab small Fiorelli Fae bag Taupe bag Fae grab small Fiorelli Here’s some video from inside the mansion at the time of the accident:
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All is not well between Harmonize’s ex, Wolper and American lady, Sarah as revealed recently through a WhatsApp screenshot shared on social media by the Wasafi record’s girlfriend.
From the conversation seems that Wolper and Sarah have been having issues between themselves since they are both in love with the same man and from the look of things none of them knows what the singer wants, and for that reason they have to stay cautious of each other.
Wolper and Harmonize however broke up a few months after learning that the singer had been cheating on her with the Caucasian lady.
However even though things between the two are over, Wolper is seen ‘threatening’ Sarah not to dare her when it comes to Harmonize since she can take her man anytime she wishes.
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Illinois attempted a fake punt versus Nebraska on Saturday, and it proved to be successful. But there were a few shaky moments along the way.
The biggest surprise of Saturday’s college football outcomes came in the Big Ten, but not from the Indiana-Ohio State game. Rather, the Fighting Illini jumped out to a strong lead over the Nebraska Cornhuskers and never looked back.
Illinois had just one win this season entering Saturday’s Big Ten showdown. The same could be said for the Huskers, but at least their win came over Penn State. No matter what happened prior to Saturday’s game, Illinois was the better team this afternoon.
The Fighting Illini pulled out all the tricks to beat the Huskers on Saturday. One of those tricks included a fake punt which resulted in an easy conversion – that is, after Illinois’ punter had a few shaky moments on his way to the first down.
Here it is, the most Big Ten play of all time pic.twitter.com/QJKQ0fCy34
— Farmer Jones (@thefarmerjones) November 21, 2020
We have so many questions. Why was the Illinois punter so hesitant with so much wide-open field ahead of him? And what’s up with this side-step move in the middle of the run with no defender within 10 yards? I guess there’s a reason punters are typically only tasked with kicking the ball.
Luckily, the punter converted the fake for an easy first down. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have heard the end of it from his teammates.
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At Jack's Place, Jack pulls away from Livvie's kiss and declares that he can NOT allow himself to get involved with Livvie again. Livvie insists that she only wanted a little comfort and then blurts out an admission that, when she had possession of the Morley Family Heirloom Power Ring, Livvie had wished that Jack would stop hating her. Jack declares at first that it is obvious that Livvie's wish is NOT working! However, Livvie persists in trying to remind Jack of happier times they enjoyed together. Jack suddenly declares that he can NOT hate Livvie any more and accuses Livvie of having stripped Jack of his only defense against her. Then Jack shocks Livvie when he begins to declare his undying love for Livvie and pleads with Livvie to marry him. Jack promises Livvie that he will be able to protect her from Caleb. As Jack insists that Livvie is his soul mate ~ a stunned Livvie pulls away and tries to convince Jack that he is mistaken about what is going on between them. As a panic-stricken Livvie heads for the door, Jack begins to laugh and announces that he was only putting her on. Livvie angrily slams out of the door, leaving an amused Jack chuckling in her wake.
Alison arrives at Caleb's apartment and begs Caleb to use his ring to erase the night they spent together in the barn. But Caleb announces that the ring does NOT have the power to change the past. Caleb confides that he is fascinated by the fact that Alison has NOT yet leveled with Rafe about Alison's night with Caleb at the barn. Alison confides that, when she went to the barn later with Rafe, the ONLY thing that Alison could think about was the night she spent in the barn with Caleb. Caleb explains that Alison is unfortunately paying the price of getting caught in the middle of Livvie and Rafe's obsessions to gain possession of Caleb's ring. Caleb confides that the night with Alison led Caleb to kick Livvie out of the house, fire his band and get his life started in an all new direction. Alison surprisingly argues that Livvie was trying, with her wish on Caleb's ring, to do something FOR Caleb ~ but the ring used something like dark magic that twisted the wish into something hurtful. Alison is appalled when Caleb suggests that perhaps Alison is upset because she did NOT fight the magic of the ring a little harder and that the ring merely fueled the attraction that already existed between Caleb and Alison. Alison slaps Caleb, but Caleb again declares that the ring can NOT change the past. Caleb confides that he is using the experience of one night with Alison in the barn to make changes in his life and move on in all new directions in his life. Caleb advises Alison to quit torturing herself about the past and move on. When Alison declares that she WILL be able to move on from that unfortunate experience ~ Caleb declares that he believes that Alison will NOT be able to enjoy the happily ever after with Rafe that Alison always talks about. After Alison declares that Caleb is wrong and then leaves, Caleb told himself: "You go ahead. You try to ignore that ache. Try to ignore the knot in your stomach. The longer the pain went on, the sweeter it is! I warned you! Like everyone else, you were given a chance to save yourself, but you would NOT listen! So, now, you ARE going to get what you deserve!"
When Caleb hears a knock at the door, he expects Alison ~ but Caleb is surprised to find Livvie on his doorstep. Livvie Asks: "So ~ Alison was here?"
Rafe returns home and looks in vain for Alison. Rafe's search is interrupted by Elizabeth's arrival. Elizabeth immediately senses that something is wrong and demands to know what is going on with Alison. Rafe admits that he does NOT know what has made Alison so upset. Rafe describes for Elizabeth how he took Alison to the barn because that was where they fell in love. But, as Elizabeth and Rafe talk, Rafe suddenly admits that he now remembers that not ALL of the memories of the barn would be happy memories for Alison ~ because Rafe had married Livvie at that barn and because Rafe and Alison had been at the barn together when Livvie shot Rafe. But Elizabeth surprisingly argues that she believes that Rafe and Alison share a mutual love that is true and lasting and assures Rafe that she believes that Rafe and Alison will be able to overcome all obstacles. As Elizabeth suggests that Rafe and Elizabeth go together to search for Alison, Rafe thanks Elizabeth for her unexpected vote of confidence. At that moment, Alison returns home. Before leaving, Elizabeth advises her daughter to NOT let anybody or anything stop Alison from enjoying the happiness she deserves. After Elizabeth leaves, Rafe admits to Alison that he had unfortunately blocked out all of the bad memories of some of the events that took place at the barn. However, when Rafe kisses Alison, she flashes back to her night with Caleb ~ and Alison pulls away from Rafe's embrace.
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In Silver Hill, Alabama, Jamal calls Jack to let Jack know where Jamal has gone in his search for Imani. However, Jamal discovers that his phone has suddenly quit working! Jamal spots Imani's grandmother and recognizes Madea from the picture Imani had shown him earlier. Jamal tries to get chummy with Madea and soon becomes convinced that Imani's grandmother is eating out of his hand. Jamal claims that he is in Silver Hill, researching his family history, but gives his names as Jack Ramsey. Unbeknownst to Jamal, he has failed to convince Madea of his story. As Jamal sits, having what he believes is an amiable chat with Madea over dinner, Jamal suddenly becomes sleepy and realizes that Madea must have slipped some kind of sleeping powder into his food. After Jamal falls asleep in his chair, Madea takes Jamal's phone, then calls someone and orders them to come pick Jamal up.
At the Hospital, Elizabeth tries to get cozy with CHRIS, but Chris brushes Elizabeth off by curtly reminding her that he has a REAL job in a REAL Hospital, taking care of patients who seriously DO need his attention. Then Chris rushes off to tend to Ian. Lucy blasts Chris for Ian's condition, but Chris reminds Lucy that Ian stole the serum from Chris and took a double dose because Ian was desperate to try to have a normal life with Lucy. Ian wakes up angry when he realizes that he is held down by restraints. Ian becomes more angry when he advises Chris that they need to move forward even more urgently with their research and Chris announces that he got rid of every last drop of the secret formula they had been working on and destroyed all of the research notes as well! Later, when Chris returns to the Nurses' Station, Chris overhears Elizabeth cancelling dinner reservations for them at the grill and tries to apologize to Elizabeth for his rude behavior earlier. However, Elizabeth frostily explains that she was just trying to do something nice for Chris because she realized that he WAS stressed out by the situation developing with Ian's health. Meanwhile, Lucy is shocked when Ian admits that he ENJOYED the rush of power he felt when he took the double dose of Chris's antidote. Lucy attempts to convince Ian that he is wrong about himself, but Ian persists in claiming that the possibility that Ian will turn into a dangerous animal is ALWAYS at the forefront of Ian's thoughts. At the same time, Chris finally convinces Elizabeth to accept his apology and they agree to meet later for dinner. In the meantime, Ian begs Lucy to allow him to go away by himself to learn how to control the beast within himself. Lucy reluctantly agrees to stand aside while Ian deals with his problem in his own way.
Caleb is annoyed when he discovers Livvie on his doorstep and even more annoyed when Livvie whips off her coat and reveals that she is wearing NOTHING underneath the coat. Although Livvie tries her most seductive moves to cuddle up to Caleb, Caleb hands Livvie's coat back to her and coldly informs Livvie that he has NO intention of EVER taking her back because he knows that every other word out of her mouth is a lie. Livvie warns Caleb that she has NO intention of giving up her quest to be reunited with Caleb and predicts that Caleb will ALWAYS be haunted by memories of Livvie. However, after Livvie leaves, Caleb told himself: "You are deceiving yourself, Olivia! We will see who haunts who in this world!"
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When Jamal regains consciousness at the Silver Hill Cafe in Alabama, he finds himself tied to a chair and alone with Madea and Madea's friend ~ Junior! Madea angrily sifts through Jamal's wallet. When Madea discovers that his name is really Jamal Woods, Madea accuses Jamal of lying about everything he told her because he was "sent" by "them!" Jamal protests that he has been looking for Imani but was afraid that mentioning Imani's name would be dangerous. Madea points out that IF Jamal found Madea, then someone else might be able to find her as well. Jamal explains that Imani told him about the corrupt sheriff who framed Imani and is chasing Imani. But Madea remains unconvinced that Jamal is a friend ~ and orders Junior to get rid of Jamal! But, at that moment, Imani arrives and told Madea and Junior that Jamal really IS her friend! Jamal informs Imani that Madea drugged him and left him tied up overnight. Imani scolds her grandmother and unties Jamal. When Jamal admits that he found Imani by locating the Cafe in the picture that Imani had showed to him, Imani worries that she should have burned that picture! As Imani and Jamal hug, Madea looks on disapprovingly! Imani informs Jamal that she left Port Charles to protect Jamal's life and begs Jamal to go home and forget about her. But Jamal insists that he can NOT leave Imani and her grandmother to face their enemies alone. Madea instructs Imani to inform Jamal that he MUST leave! However, Imani argues that it will be OK if Jamal stays. Madea warns Imani that, IF Jamal sticks around, he MIGHT learn too much ~ but Imani assures Madea that Imani will be able to keep Jamal in the dark! Madea warns Imani that she will probably end up regretting her decision! As Imani assures Jamal that it will be OK for Jamal to stay, and they hold hands, Madea looks on, disapprovingly.
As Ricky glumly downs drinks at Club Elixir, he is annoyed when a bubbly Reese suddenly appears. As Ricky complains to Reese that their lives are going to limp along in the slow lane now that they have all been fired by Caleb, Reese cheerfully suggests that being fired could ALSO turn out to be a blessing in disguise that will lead them in exciting new directions! Reese whips out a couple of tickets to London and told Ricky that she has a lead on where her mother might be and suggests that Ricky accompany Reese to London to find her mother ~ and maybe pick up some new jobs over there as well. When Reese leaves to answer her cell phone, Casey shows up and told Ricky that, IF Ricky chooses to go with Reese to England, Casey will NOT be going along! Ricky points out that, at least, Reese is a REAL person ~ and Ricky DOES like Reese! As Ricky and Casey go outside the Club, Casey informs a stunned Ricky that the girl he has been talking to for weeks has NOT been Casey! Casey gives Ricky an ultimatum ~ tell Reese to go to England by herself ~ or give up Casey forever! Reese suddenly arrives and, finding Ricky talking to himself, guesses that Ricky is talking to Casey again! Reese ALSO demands that Ricky make a choice ~ between Reese ~ who is real ~ and Casey ~ who is a figment of Ricky's imagination! When Reese realizes that Ricky actually has to THINK about his choice, Reese accuses Ricky of wasting his life, pining away after a dead woman who does NOT even have as much substance as a Blow-Up Doll! Reese warns Ricky that he COULD end up in a padded room if he hangs on to his obsession for his fantasy ~ then Reese storms away. When Casey returns, she asks Ricky if he realizes what he has done! As Ricky and Casey talk, a stranger passes by, bumps in to Casey, and asks her to excuse him! Ricky is shocked that the stranger could SEE Casey when he bumped into her! Casey informs Ricky that she IS really there and that the girl Ricky has been seeing has been a figment of Ricky's imagination. Casey kisses Ricky to prove that she IS "the real thing!"
At the Loft she shares with Rafe, Alison dreams that she confesses to Rafe that she jumped in bed with Caleb the last time Rafe disappeared into the Great Unknown! In her dream, Alison tries to explain that she went to Caleb to get Caleb's help to return Rafe to the Land of the Living, but Livvie got hold of the Morley Family Heirloom Power Ring and wished for a night of passion for Caleb while Caleb was with Alison instead of with Livvie. Although Alison protests that neither she NOR Caleb could help themselves, because of the power of the ring, Rafe angrily declares that he is going to put an end to Caleb forever! As Rafe grabs his bag of weapons and rushes out of the door, Alison begs Rafe to stay with her and warns Rafe that he MIGHT be killed if he confronts Caleb this time! As Alison mutters: "I should NEVER have told you about Caleb!" in her sleep, Rafe overhears Alison and, realizing that Alison is having a nightmare, Rafe gently wakes her! When Alison is awake, Rafe suggests that Alison will feel better if she shares the details of her nightmare with Rafe. However, Alison insists that she does NOT want to recall her nightmare and has already forgotten all about it! As Alison tries to brush off the effects of the nightmare by busying herself with starting breakfast, Rafe shocks Alison by assuring her that he can guess what caused the nightmare! Rafe went on to explain that he believes Alison's nightmare was caused by Alison's worry that Rafe has NOT really ended his war with Caleb! Rafe explains that the Fleur~de~Lis pendant that Rafe gave to Alison was given to Rafe to symbolize his destiny in the battle against evil forces. Rafe told Alison that he gave the pendant to Alison because giving up the pendant symbolized Rafe's decision to choose his own destiny ~ which is his life with Alison! However, as Rafe and Alison kiss, Alison flashes back to the night she spent with Caleb in the barn. When Alison declares that she is afraid that she has let Rafe down, Rafe reassures Alison that she has NOT let him down ~ then Rafe dashes off to shave. After Rafe leaves, Alison again flashes back to her night with Caleb and breaks down in tears, sobbing into her pillow!
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At the Hospital, Nurse Lisa congratulates Kevin on the amazing progress he is making in recovering his ability to move his left arm. At the same time, at Lucy's Place, Ian packs to leave and says a sad farewell to his son, Danny, and to Lucy. As Ian kisses Lucy goodbye, Ian promises that he WILL find a way out of their current unhappy situation. At that moment, Kevin arrives, announcing that Christina had called him and finds Lucy and Ian in the midst of their tearful farewell. Kevin announces that he will just go on inside to see Christina. Before Kevin goes, Ian tries to apologize for his recent attack on Kevin, but Kevin told Ian to forget about it. As Kevin went inside to see Christina, Ian gives Lucy one last goodbye kiss and leaves. When Kevin returns and finds Lucy alone and in tears, Kevin suggests that he could call Mario and have Mario send a spaghetti dinner over for the kids in an effort to try to lift Lucy's spirits. But Lucy declares that having Mario send something over will NOT help and announces that , instead, Lucy will take the kids and GO to Mario's:
KEVIN: "Well, this has been a hell of a day. Lucy, is there anything I can do? I could call Mario’s ~ have them send some food ~ Spaghetti for the kids ~ it might make you feel better …"
LUCY tearfully replies: "That is NOT going to make me feel better! I am going to GO to Mario’s, and THAT will make me feel better! "
KEVIN: "Are you sure?"
LUCY: "I’m sure! I am going to take Christina and Danny and me ~ and we’re going to Mario’s! "
LUCY: "You know - - this is NOT OK! It is NOT OK! Because I’m fine with you being Christina’s father,. And I’m fine with you being in her life ~ and my life. But you are NOT my family any more ~ that is not what you can call this! IAN is my family now ~ and I don’t know if I am ever going to see him again!" Lucy hurries away.
Outside Club Elixir, Ricky is stunned when Casey reveals that she made a special trip back from the Here After to set Ricky straight about the fantasy girl Ricky has dreamed up. Casey explains that Ricky HAS been speaking to a figment of his own imagination ever since Casey left the Earthly Realm the last time ~ and that Casey has now returned to urge Ricky to let the memory of Casey go for good. Casey told Ricky that getting bounced out of Caleb's band is Ricky's golden opportunity to realize his life-long dream of being the star of his OWN show! Casey advises Ricky to quit tying himself up in the past. However, Ricky reminds Casey that letting go of their past together is easier said than done! Casey advises Ricky that there are MANY kind souls ~ right under Ricky's nose ~ just waiting to cross his path and lead him toward some happiness. Casey assures Ricky that he WILL find love again! Ricky hugs Casey and promises that he WILL make a serious effort to let go of the past. As Ricky told Casey how much he will miss being able to see her and gives her a final kiss, Casey slowly fades out of sight. Ricky sadly wishes Casey goodbye, then is pleasantly surprised when a passing girl asks for his autograph. When Ricky returns to Club Elixir, he is again pleased when one of the waitresses begins trying to flirt with him.
Inside Club Elixir, Jack spots Livvie, sitting alone, and relishes teasing her about the wish she made on the Morley Family Heirloom Power Ring to end the animosity between Jack and Livvie. Jack guesses that, after Livvie stormed away from Jack's Place, Livvie went rushing back to Caleb's apartment to try to seduce Caleb. AND that Caleb gave Livvie the gate! Jack advises a disbelieving Livvie that the NEXT time Caleb gives her the brush off, Livvie should just be grateful. Jack points out that, so long as Caleb has his ring, CALEB has the power to control the show. Jack urges Livvie to take charge of her OWN show for a change. Jack told Livvie that a photo art gallery is opening down by the river and that he plans to attend the opening. Jack invites Livvie to "tag" along with him instead of hanging around Club Elixir, waiting for Caleb to snap his fingers and show a little interest in Livvie again. Livvie finally agrees to go with Jack to the gallery opening.
At Caleb's apartment, Caleb auditions a potential new female singer for the band, who has little talent but a LOT of enthusiasm! However, when the "musician" decides to try to cozy up to Caleb, Caleb finds himself remembering Livvie's promise to haunt Caleb forever, and Caleb gives the nubile cutey the brush off. After Caleb hustles the musician wannabe out the door, Caleb flashes back to some of his favorite memories of Livvie. Then Caleb remembers Livvie's promise that Caleb will NEVER be able to get rid of her! Caleb says to himself: "Oh, we will see, Olivia! We will see! I WILL get rid of you!" And Caleb slams out of his apartment. Caleb arrives at Club Elixir, just as Jack promises that he will be back to pick Livvie up in an hour, AFTER Jack runs some errands. After Jack leaves, Livvie decides to run home and change for her night out with Jack. However, when Livvie turns around and spots Caleb, Caleb says: "Olivia ~ Just the girl I was looking for!"
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At the Silver Hill Cafe in Alabama, Imani's grandmother, Madea, cracks the whip over Jamal and keeps him hopping, keeping the Cafe ship-shape. However, Jamal and Imani take advantage of the time they spend working together to grow even closer, in spite of Madea's obvious disapproval of Jamal. As Madea watches Jamal and Imani flirting with each other, Madea pulls Imani aside for a warning:
MADEA: "And you – I noticed something just now - -"
IMANI: "Yes, Madea?"
MADEA: "Now, I know you’re liking his company – I ain’t THAT old – but I still think –"
IMANI: [interrupting]: "You still think it’s a bad idea letting him stay here! See? I know, too."
MADEA: "Yeah – you KNOW. But you’re still wanting to pretend you are not who you are and forget you have secrets to keep… and if you don’t stay sharp and keep this boy from turning your head around – you are going to get burned!"
IMANI: "You still don’t’ think he’s one of the bad guys, do you?"
MADEA: "I think any distraction is bad."
IMANI: "But – it feels so right – me and Jamal - -this is the real thing."
MADEA: "What’s real is I love you, baby – you’re all I have! Now, I know you like this young man – but listen to your Grandma – I’m looking out for you – and I need to know that you’re safe."
IMANI: "You know that I love you too – but right now I couldn’t feel any safer!"
MADEA: "You can never feel too safe – not until this nightmare is over! Now, you make mistakes – there will be no second chances! They are still after you, baby and if Jamal is not one of them –"
IMANI: " He is not!"
MADEA: "Well, then now ~ maybe they’re after him too, now – and you’re bringing trouble on him. You think about that if you care the way you say you do!"
After Madea returns to the kitchen, Jamal urges Imani to ignore whatever it was that her grandmother was telling her. But Imani reminds Jamal that her grandmother has a GOOD reason for her constant caution. Imani tries to explain to Jamal that she has a Sixth Sense that is warning her to be afraid FOR Jamal. But Jamal kisses Imani and told her that it is too late for Jamal to walk away now. Jamal then reminds Imani that none of his friends even know where he is. However, even as Jamal speaks, the Sheriff who has been following Imani arrives at Club Elixir, in Port Charles!
Alison returns to the Loft that she shares with Rafe and whisks Raff off to a meeting with a minister at a local church. In separate interviews, Rafe and Alison each confess to the minister that they believe they have made serious, seemingly unforgivable, mistakes in their relationship with each other. But the minister advises Rafe and Alison jointly to quit beating themselves up over past mistakes and, instead, realize that there WILL be many more obstacles and challenges in their future, and, as long as they face those challenges together, they WILL be able to overcome ALL of the obstacles! Then the minister leaves Rafe and Alison alone together to discuss what they think is most important. As Rafe and Alison once again declare their love for one another, Alison thanks Rafe for being willing to go with her for counseling with a pastor, and they leave the church. When Rafe and Alison return home, Rafe reminds Alison that they will ALWAYS be able to forgive each other ~ and they hit the sheets.
When Livvie runs in to Caleb at Club Elixir, she informs Caleb that, since he threw her out of his apartment, she has moved on ~ and is rushing to meet Jack for a date. Caleb hesitantly apologizes for his recent extreme reaction to Livvie's attempt to steal the Morley Family Heirloom Power Ring and Caleb further admits that Livvie was right ~ because Caleb can NOT forget Livvie! As Caleb begins to kiss Livvie, Livvie agrees that what she wants MORE than anything else in the world is to patch up their relationship. Livvie soon forgets all about meeting Jack and went home with Caleb. However, as Caleb and Livvie eagerly hit the sheets again, Caleb keeps remembering Livvie's vow to haunt him forever and NEVER let him go. After Livvie falls asleep, Caleb vows to make every one who has ever stood in his way sorry that they ever made the attempt:
CALEB: "Never say never – I’m well on my way to doing just what you’re so sure I couldn’t do – but don’t worry, sweetheart! You won’t be going alone – I am going to get everyone that deceived or challenged me. I’m going to remind you all one last final time how the game is played – and best of all ….. None of you know what is coming …."
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The proposed agreement for GolTV to be purchased by SCP Worldwide for $200 million has fallen through, according to the St. Louis Business Journal.
The Business Journal reporter quotes industry sources speculating that the deal fell through because SCP Worldwide, owned by Dave Checketts, “could violate Major League Soccer non-compete rules because SCP, owner of the St. Louis Blues hockey team, also owns MLS team Real Salt Lake. But SCP executive Chris Bevilacqua said that was not true.”
Whatever the reason for the deal falling through, the news will come as a blow to GolTV after an agreement had been made in principle in March. Even at that time, questions were raised about the possibility of the deal being signed, however.
To soccer fans in the States, a concern now will be what TV network will acquire the rights to the South American World Cup qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup because SCP Worldwide owns that rights. It was presumed that GolTV would get those rights.
For GolTV, meanwhile, the network has increased its awareness within the U.S. soccer community during recent months as the home to La Liga on television in the States, the growth in popularity of its American Soccer TV show, more professional graphics on screen, quality programming and growing popularity of presenters such as Phil Schoen and Ray Hudson.
Even though the deal has fallen through, GolTV is ripe for purchase. It’s a flourishing network with tremendous amounts of potential and now that the deal with SCP Worldwide has fallen through, there should be several interested parties willing to step in and begin serious business conversations.
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Kent Brushes Supports Movember
Movember – or as it’s more commonly known, November – is the one month of the year that is responsible for encouraging men all around the globe to put down their trusty razor, in an effort to grow a moustache and raise money and awareness for men’s health – specifically prostate and testicular cancer.
With this in mind, the guys over at Kent Brushes have once again decided to show their support to the cause, by releasing the perfect companion for your moustache growing journey; a limited edition selection of handmade moustache combs.
With 3,200 combs having been developed, a £2 donation from each sale is set to go directly back to Movember’s official charities.
Completely handmade, these specially designed combs benefit from being saw-cut then hand polished and buffed to create soft, rounded teeth. And what’s more, it even features a handy little key ring sized hole to keep your comb safe and easily accessible for those pesky moustache emergencies.
This is a truly worthwhile collaboration, and with the combs retailing at just £4.50, you can be confident in the knowledge that you have contributed your part to this great cause.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Police say an 8-year-old boy died from injuries he sustained when he ran into the path of a taxi minivan.
The accident occurred around 2:15 p.m. Saturday on the campus of Vanderbilt University. Police say Max Coppinger Nance was headed to a Vanderbilt football game with the family of a friend.
When the friend's father stopped his vehicle to let everyone exit, police say Max exited the rear passenger side door and ran around the rear of the car into traffic where he was struck by the cab.
He was rushed to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital where he was pronounced dead from injuries sustained in the collision.
Investigators say the cab driver was not at fault.
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A sure sign of brisk sales… we were 90 minutes into the 17th annual Big East Snowmobile Show here in Syracuse, New York, when we ran out of one-dollar bills. We thought starting out with a cool 50 would be a good, but our special rate here at the show is an odd number, and everybody is paying with larger bills!
The show has begun, and the pace is brisk. Some folks have stopped by the booth with compliments – others with complaints, but that all goes with the territory.
So who’s here this year as far as vendors? Well, you’ve got the big four manufacturers, obviously. If you want to see all of the 2011 sleds in one place, this is it. The ski industry is very well represented here this year – including the pioneer (USI), a strong local challenger (Curve Industries), a longtime player whose primary focus is other performance parts (Starting Line Products) and a complete newcomer (Split Rail).
There are a lot of performance guys here as well. Rich Daly from Dyno Port and Bender Racing stopped by our booth with some stories of his recent racing exploits, while one of the principals of the aforementioned Starting Line Products had a bit of trouble getting here – including an unscheduled night in a rough neighborhood in New York City. He’s here now – along with a couple of really hot sleds in their booth. Bikeman Performance came all the way from Wisconsin with some hot items as well – and we’re not just talking about Dani Medin – the model in Snow Goer’s SpeedGear department this year!
The early talk among the vendors is all about Klim. The premium outerwear giant has a monstrous, high-end booth designed by a company out of Las Vegas. The booth was put together for the first time ever for this show, and it looks better than the Polaris booth here.
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Last week Boris Johnson presented the third annual Margaret Thatcher Lecture, a speech that’s got him a fair amount of attention. Johnson attracts attention, it’s fair to say, but this time it wasn’t the hair or the jokes, or a stunt gone wrong. For a change, it was the Mayor of London’s politics that made the headlines. Newspaper editors weren’t sure what to run with – the shameless elitism, the defence of greed, or the suggestion that 16% of the population are too stupid to succeed in life? The line that jumped out to me was this one:
“I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed, some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.”
There are a raft of contradictions about equality in Boris’ speech, but others have covered those. I wanted to mention the envy.
Envy, you may remember, is something we’re warned about in the Ten Commandments. You’d think that, of all the wildly creative forms of human wickedness, there might have been something more serious than envy to take a place in the top ten. But where there is envy, there is no goodwill. Not in either direction. It is a poison to society.
Envy is corrosive. It draws us away from what we have and towards what we can’t have. It breeds dissatisfaction and discontent, unhappiness and low self-esteem. It’s also divisive, pushing a wedge between the haves and the have-nots, eroding trust and increasing suspicion.
Living in envy is no way to live, but being envied is hardly as wonderful as the advertisers imply either. People are jealous and predisposed to find fault, to pull you down and highlight your hypocrisies. (See the gossip magazines at any supermarket checkout for evidence.) We hate the people we envy. Why would we want to be hated?
So why does Mr Johnson think envy is a good thing? This is where I get particularly mad. He believes that envy is ‘a valuable spur to economic activity.’ Yep, social discord and personal unhappiness is not just acceptable, but a good thing, because it leads to economic growth. What an inhuman philosophy growth economics can be.
It’s strange. We look down on previous generations that were oppressed by religious hierarchies, or who gave up their freedoms for nationalist pipe dreams or a dead-end ideology. But we live in a society where people have to be kept miserable in order to drive economic growth, and we hardly notice. Future generations will pity us.
As Mike Konczal wrote recently in the New Inquiry, “in neoliberal society markets don’t serve the pre-existing needs of subjects; subjects are fabricated to serve the market. The subject’s purpose in life becomes synonymous with the facilitation of economic growth.”
And that’s why postgrowth economics isn’t just about sustainability. It’s bigger than that. It’s about what it means to be human, what a good life is, what we’re here on earth for in the first place. ‘More economic activity’ is a hollow and meaningless concept on its own. It’s not a fit ambition for a country, or for us a species. We can do better than that.
And no, no and thrice no, that does not mean communism. That would be a return to past failures. We’re not going to fix 21st century problems with 20th century dogma, neither Marx’s nor Thatcher’s – thank you Boris, you can sit down now. We will learn from the past, but the way we put things together will be new, of necessity untested and iterative, because the world is not the same today as it was.
Boris Johnson still gets the headlines, but the future does not belong to him and his futile politics of greed. It belongs to those working on how to make economic prosperity, environmental sustainability and human welfare into convergent goals. If you’re working on ways to move us beyond our blind allegiance to growth, you’re engaged in one of the most important projects of our age. | <urn:uuid:9529db6a-7355-4d29-98bd-b0cbf7ca07cc> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://earthbound.report/2013/12/04/is-envy-a-good-thing/ | 2019-09-21T17:32:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574588.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190921170434-20190921192434-00412.warc.gz | en | 0.953597 | 909 |
Microsoft has added three new titles to its Xbox One Backward Compatibility list and with this addition, the list continues to grow and has reached around 500 comprising games of Xbox 360 and Xbox. The three new additions are Earth Defense Force 2025, Prince of Persia, and Sine Mora.
— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) August 7, 2018
In the last month, we have seen the addition of Dante’s Inferno, Silent Hill Homecoming, and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist, and Double Agent and it continues to add this month also.
Earth Defense Force 2025 priced at $49.99, Earth Defense Force®2025 is an action shooting bonanza that arms players to repel the most terrifying invasion of giant aliens the world has ever seen. Hundreds of weapons across four character classes meant to exterminate menacing creatures of all sizes to save the world.
Prince of Persia priced at $19.99 launched in the year 2008. According to Ubisoft, the game is set in a land rooted in ancient Persian mythology, with the “Prince” finding himself caught in an epic battle between the primal forces of light and darkness. The Prince arrives just in time to witness the destruction of the legendary “Tree of Life”, an act which threatens to plunge the entire world into eternal darkness.
Sine Mora priced at $ 9.99 is the original version of Sine Mora EX which launched on Xbox One a while back. The game is a horizontal shoot ’em up that provides a unique take on the challenge, where time is the ultimate factor and mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation makes it one of its kind.
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Glo Coalson is an artist, illustrator and a sculptor from Abilene, Texas. After graduating from college, Coalson moved to Alaska where her brother and his wife lived. Her sketches from her time there provided the inspiration and material to illustrate children's books with Eskimo characters.
I did a post on another book by Glo (love that name) awhile back, and unfortunately my scanner went out after just three pages. I need to find that book and repost it, as there is a limited number of images and info on the web
about Glo Coalson and her work.
In my previous post the link for her website is no longer active as she seems to have moved on to other work. Click here for a short paragraph about Glo Coalson and her current work.
I'm not sure what medium Coalson used for this book (charcoal and ink?),
but I like her style and obvious skills.
An Eskimo Birthday
By Tom D. Robinson
Pictures by Glo Coalson
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Kudos to the Boston Police Department, Massachusetts State Police, and the FBI. To identify the Boston marathon bombing suspects in the thousands and thousands of pictures, and with such a large crime scene, in only three days, is remarkable. My hat goes off to all the officers and investigators.
According to CNN (admittedly, not the most reliable source, as we have seen over the past few days), Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers and the one who was killed this morning in a shootout with police, once posted on social media, “I don’t have a single American friend.”
I’m no Emily Post, but blowing up a beloved event and maiming and killing people doesn’t seem like the best way to make friends. Maybe try buying a round of beers next time. In a place like Boston, you will instantly have an entourage.
And now we find out that the younger brother, Dzhokhar, has been tweeting while on the lam. Are young people really so addicted to Twitter? Didn’t he have other things to do this week?
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If you are as interested in the accuracy of your blood glucose meter as I am, a new meter from AgaMatrix Inc. in Salem, New Hampshire, might well be just what you need.
The meter’s accuracy specs are outstanding, according to a white paper that founder and Chairman of the Board Sonny Vu sent me. Two studies with a total of more than 100 users and 10 different lots of test strips had 100 percent of its blood glucose readings in Zone A, which is the zone with no effect on clinical outcome. Meters from three other leading manufacturers did not do so well.
The study used the new Parkes Error Grid, which is replacing the older and still better known Clarke Error Grid. They checked blood glucose levels against the industry standard, the YSI 2000 STAT Plus blood glucose analyzer.
What makes such a high degree of accuracy possible is the company’s proprietary biosensor and dynamic electrochemical technologies. Other meters use static electrochemical or optical technology.
For at least four years I have been complaining about the woeful lack of meter accuracy. Back in 2002 when I wrote about the Food and Drug Administration’s lack of accuracy standards, I exposed what I still consider a scandal. There’s more background on the accuracy issue in a June 2002 issue of my newsletter.In 2003 I wrote about the accurate HemoCue 201 Meter (http://www.mendosa.com/accurate.htm), but it is only available to health care professionals. Earlier this year I wrote about the forthcoming HemoCue Monitor, which is accurate, but as far as I can tell isn’t available in the United States yet. The website for the HemoCue Monitor is, for one thing, still only available in Swedish, Finnish, and Danish.
Sonny Vu, the AgaMatrix chairman, sent me one of his company’s new Wave 1 meters, which just went on sale in April. I have begun to use it, and it compares well with the meter that I have been using recently, the Accu-Chek Aviva.
The Wave 1 meter, however, is considerably smaller. So too are its test strips. That’s good when you are traveling, although people with limited dexterity might well find the strips a little too small to handle easily.
Sonny says that the Wave 1 corrects for hematocrit levels and temperature. So it tests a few points higher than many other meters.
Even better, the Wave 1 is very fast and takes very little blood. The timing is somewhat variable, depending on blood glucose levels, Sonny says. But technically it is a fast as 4 seconds – and no other meter is faster than 5 seconds. The Wave 1 takes a 0.5 microliter drop of blood, less than almost any other meter.
Yet Sonny isn’t bragging about these numbers. “The specs are pretty standard,” he says. “They have become commodity features. The key feature of the Wave 1 is its accuracy. Our focus is to make a meter that is really safe and accurate.”
AgaMatrix knows technology and manufacturing, Sonny says. “We don’t know sales.”
That’s why U.S. sales are through Liberty Medical. Liberty is a wholly owned subsidiary of PolyMedica Corporation, the nation’s largest provider of blood glucose testing supplies and related services to people with diabetes.
The Wave 1 meter that Sonny sent me identifies AgaMatrix as the manufacturer. But it is labelled as a Liberty, not Wave 1 meter.
“We are considering other sales options,” Sonny says. “For now we just want to make sure that Liberty is happy.”
Actually, AgaMatrix made the Wave 1 to validate the technology. “But people said just to sell it, so we did.”
AgaMatrix has several models of Wave meters coming. Its website mentions a Wave 2 and a Wave 3. Product literature that Sonny sent me mentions KeyNote and Wave 1.5 meters.
The AgaMatrix motto is “The Wave is coming.” It may well be coming your way.
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Some of our visitors ask us why all our materials are printed in lower-case letters as opposed to upper-case letters. We know that many preschool and kindergarten teachers focus on teaching upper-case letters first.
The ability to recognize lower-case letters (a, b, c, etc.) on sight is more important for reading. Just look at this webpage. Almost all the letters here are lower-case letters!
Because most of the words children read are made up of lower-case letters, we at SightWords.com strongly recommend that you use the lower-case letters to teach the letter sounds. Reading consists of taking the individual letter sounds and blending them together into whole words.
Use lower-case letters to teach the letter sounds.
Use upper-case letters to teach the letter names.
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Epic news promised
On the forums for the upcoming Xbox 360 shooter Gears of War, Epic boss Mark Rein has tantalisingly promised "big news" next week. We've known for some time that Gears of War is nearing completion, and speculation is rife that Epic or publishing partner Microsoft will give a firm date soon.
That said, it sounds like this big news won't be a date, Rein responding to chatter of such with "Sounds like maybe the announcement that is going to be made isn't what you think it is." What could it be? Who knows, though we're already aware that Epic has Unreal Tournament 2007 in the works, so perhaps something pertaining to this? Or could it be Unreal 4... oh they are teases. We'll keep our noses to the ground.
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- Telltale gives their Game Of Thrones series final release dates
- Large patch arrives to tackle the matchmaking issues with Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- BioWare looking into a bug stopping banter between party members in Dragon Age: Inquisition
- New Assassin's Creed: Unity patch introduces a new visual bug
- Metal Gear Online will return, reveal coming at The Game Awards 2014
- Ever wanted to know which next-gen console would survive a 15-foot drop?
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