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By Jared Chausow
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By Elizabeth Flock
By Albert Samaha
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By Jon Campbell
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In the issue before last, the Voice published a cover article headlined "AA Unmasked," alleging that Alcoholics Anonymous has been attempting to discourage members who are cross-addicted from sharing (talking) about drugs during meetings. Approximately 200 letters were received in response to the piece. Some of the mail is being printed on the first page of letters this week. As in the article written by "M.T.," and in conformity with the practice of 12-step programs, writers are identified only by initials or partial names in order to protect their anonymity.
'12-STEPPED' BY THE 'VOICE'
As a reader whose life was changed many years ago by a collection of Village Voice articles on AA, I would like to respond to the article "AA Unmasked" [May 15], on the issue of cross-addiction and sharing.
In your July 23, 1985, issue, the Voice ran a special section about AA on its 50th anniversary ["Living Sober: Celebrating 50 Years of Alcoholics Anonymous"]. I was sitting in my office with my usual hangovertoo sick to do any workand I picked up the issue and started reading. I was 25 years old and hitting bottom, a stone cold drunk. I've been sober ever since, and I always like to think that The Village Voice "12-stepped me" (introduced me to the program).
I was also cross-addicted 16 years ago, but alcohol was my primary drug of choice. Contrary to the article by M.T., throughout my years in AA, I don't recall ever feeling that I couldn't share freely about any of my substance-abuse issues. Whining about not finding the perfect meeting is a pathetic excuse. It's the classic addict response to blame outside circumstances.
WILD WEST VILLAGE
Living in downtown Manhattan, I have never seen anyone cut off from talking about drugs in meetings here. Everyone shares about everything, and drug and alcohol addiction absolutely are considered the same thing. People share about all kinds of addictionsfood, sex, gambling, cigarettes. I have been to meetings in Utah, Florida, upstate New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and Paris, France, and in most cases the message is the samethat drugs and alcohol are the same thing. In Paris and Puerto Rico, I met people who had been to my home group, Perry Street, in Greenwich Village. Everything goes there, which can have its drawbacks, but I treasure the freedom I have to say whatever the hell I want. Good luck, M.T., and thanks for sharing.
M.T. makes a crucial distinction that AA dangerously ignores. A drinking problem is not, in itself, a disease. It is merely one symptom of a far more complex psychological condition known as the addictive personality, which easily shifts to other symptoms. In AA meetings I have attended, some die-hard members have encouraged me to take up cigarettes, eat all the fat I desired, up the coffee intake, and attend sex partiesharmless daily relief from the power of the demon drink. This is sober advice?
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In five-plus years of attending four to five AA meetings in Chicago, I have never heard someone tell another member not to share about drugs. I have only heard people talk about how it is the same disease. I don't know where M.T. is getting his or her information.
ADDICTION AND SUBTRACTION
Thank you for printing M.T.'s article. Finally, the word that many addicts have known for years is out. Drug addicts are not welcome to share their experiences in AA.
The basic struggle to make that first meeting is virtually insurmountableand once you find the strength to get there, you are again shamed, isolated, and desperate.
BACK TO THE BASICS
One thing M.T. failed to mention is that many NA members attend AA meetings because they have found the quality of recovery to be better in AA. Recovery is a difficult process that is based upon principlesnot personalities. M.T.'s article was more about the behavior of people than the principles of the program.
Here in Boulder, Colorado, we have about 80 AA meetings a week, and everyone talks about what they want to: drugs, food, relationships, sex, shopping, gambling, and of course alcohol. We have every addiction known, and our AA community is a cross-section of the hippest small city in America. Considering that AA cofounder Dr. Bob was a barbiturate addict (read "Dr. Bob's Nightmare" in the AA "big book"), it's no wonder that drugs have been up for discussion at most of the meetings I'm aware of.
Sober 23 years,
I found M.T.'s article on the shortcomings of AA interesting. I identified as a black drug addict who felt m uch the same alienation described in her rap. Since I had problems with subst ances in addition to alcohol, I had to leave AA early to find a home for my recovery. I found NA and have stayed there. It only makes sense. | <urn:uuid:11e11e8c-9080-429a-b3d6-7668ed5de21a> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-05-22/specials/letters/ | 2015-04-19T11:56:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246638820.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045718-00204-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967303 | 1,098 |
Hello everyone! This is my first time to do a diy. I have so many ideas on diy like the ombre shorts but I was afraid that I will fail and doesn't like the outcome. Lol! So, this diy is about how to do homemade pore strips. I have seen a video by Michelle Phan how to make a pore strips but it needs microwave oven to make it and we do not have that kind of appliances. So, I was discouraged to make it. Then, one day, my classmate told me that she tried it without using microwave and it works she said. So, I tried it also. And yeah, it really worked. No machines needed. Lol!
So, all you need to have is an unflavored gelatin. There are a lot of unflavored gelatins available at the supermarket but I think it will work properly if you use the brand Knox. I haven't tried other brands but if you want to save then, you can have an alternative brand for it as long as it is unflavored. This is what I used.
Okay! So let us go now to the steps.
Step 1: Boil a cup of water. When it gets hot, place the part of your face where you want to put the pore strip onto the steam or the smoke of the hot water. In that way, your pores will open so it would be easy to get the white and blackheads.
Step 2: On a small plate, pour an enough amount of the gelatin and warm water. Mix them properly. Feel the mixture if it's watery or sticky. If it's still watery, pour again an enough amount of gelatin. If it's sticky, then you can place it already to where you want to place it.
Step 3: After you place the gelatin, put a tissue on top of it to make it easy to remove. Put it like this:
|please excuse my oily skin >.<|
Step 4: Wait for at least 30 min for it to absorb all the white and blackheads and also the oils in your skin if you have oily skin like mine.
Step 5: When it is already dry, remove now the tissue carefully. Then be amazed of the white and blackheads on the tissue. I was also amazed when I first did it. xD
So, that's it. I hope you learned something through this post. And I'm sorry for my english. >.< Thank you very much for viewing. :)
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FREMANTLE has suspended Jason Carter for five games after he was charged with a drink-driving offence.
The 20-year-old was stopped by police at 1am on Sunday in Spearwood.
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"Jason put the lives of other road users and himself at risk by getting behind the wheel after consuming alcohol," Fremantle CEO Simon Garlick said.
"As a club, we believe it is important to hold this type of behaviour to account.
"Therefore, the club has determined that Jason will be suspended for five games, be required to step away from the club during that time and also undertake an alcohol counselling and education program."
The AFL was made aware of the details of the incident immediately and conducted an investigation.
The League deemed that there was no sanction applicable to Fremantle or Carter in relation to the COVID-19 protocols.
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This is the second off-field incident for Carter this year after he posted a video to social media in April showing he was not adhering to social distancing requirements by holding at gathering at his home.
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I was given the task of supplying a dessert for my husbands company picnic this year. Last year I brought a strawberry pie, which was excellent and went over really well, but the picnic also took place in June during strawberry season. Since they moved the picnic to September this year, I decided to come up with something a little different. Root Beer Float Cake was just what I was looking for.
This is a super rich cake, and a little goes a long way. With the Root Beer replacing the water in this cake mix recipe, it adds a flavor boost as well as a little extra rise. You will notice that the cake is very fluffy and airy, with a nice rich flavor that is complimented by the Root Beer Frosting.
I loved the idea of having a chocolate root beer flavored cake, but was a little hesitant about whether it would be too root beery. The opposite actually happened, I found myself wanting more root beer flavor, so I swapped out the vanilla extract in the frosting for root beer extract. This helps add in just enough extra flavor that was missing. I also think next time I will use a stronger root beer. I used A&W Root Beer for the cake and frosting, which is not a very strong tasting root beer, and think something with more bite would provide that flavor I was looking for.
Root Beer Float Cake Recipe
1 (18.25-ounce) package German chocolate cake mix
1 ¼ cups root beer (no diet)
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
Root Beer Frosting (recipe to follow)
Combine first 4 ingredients in a mixing bowl. Beat at low speed with an electric mixer until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour batter into a greased and floured 13×9-inch pan.
Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Spread Root Beer Frosting evenly over warm cake.
Makes 12 servings
Per serving: 479 calories, 19.2 g fat, 4.5 g protein, 74.3 g carbohydrates, 67 mg cholesterol, 377 mg sodium, 44 mg calcium.
Root Beer Frosting Recipe
½ cup butter or margarine
7 tablespoons root beer (not diet)
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1 (16-ounce) package powdered sugar
1 teaspoon root beer extract
Bring first 3 ingredients to a boil in a large saucepan over medium heat, stirring until butter melts. Remove from heat; whisk in powdered sugar and root beer extract until smooth.
Makes 2 cups
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Let's Go 510! The East Bay's 10k
Let's Go 510! The East Bay's 10k is a 6.2 run finishing on the racetrack at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley, CA.
The run kicks off at 10:00am on October, 19, 2013. After the run, stick around for the horse races at 1:00pm.
Brazen Racing & Represent Running
This exciting event is the result of a new partnership between Brazen Racing and the Represent Running Series.
Let's Go 510 is a part of the "Run the Bay Challenge." The Challenge connects three upstart Bay Area events including: the San Jose 408k, the Marin 415 Mile & Miracle Mile, and the Let's Go 510. Finishers of all three events in the span of 12 months will receive the coveted "Run the Bay" medal. It is big, it is bright and it is in recognition for your loyalty to the Bay.
East Bay Friends & Family Discount
Receive a 10% off when you register sign up with a friend. As long they're human and you register in a single transaction then you both get a 10% Discount. There is no limit to how many you can register in a single transaction, so get your whole crew and family moving. Boom. That just happened.
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The Let's Go 510 Video: http://vimeo.com/75622468
Includes 10k run entry, race swag, parking, and entry to Golden Gate Fields horse races.Closed
|Jun 20 - Sep 23||$44.00|
|Sep 24 - Oct 9||$49.00|
|Oct 10 - Oct 19||$54.00|
Open to kids 3-12 years old, includes race goodies and kids 17 & under receive free admission to race track.Closed
|Jun 26 - Oct 18||$20.00|
Can't make it, but want to participate? Run 6.2 remotely on your own & we'll mail out race swag items. To be sure to get your remote racing materials before the 19th, we recommend signing up by 10/11.Closed
|Jun 20 - Sep 23||$40.00|
|Sep 24 - Oct 19||$45.00|
October 19 10:00 AM PDT - 10K Run/Walk
October 19 11:45 AM PDT - Kids Race for 3-7 years olds
October 19 12:45 PM PDT - Stay for the horse races at Golden Gate Fields
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- February 14, 1957 - November 8, 2010
- Laguna, New Mexico
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Paul was born on February 14, 1957 and passed away on Monday, November 8, 2010.
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1966 World Cup
A memorable tournament for the host nation, obviously, as Sir Alf Ramsey's squad claimed England's first, and still only, World Cup victory. There was plenty of drama throughout the 1966 tournament, culminating in a truly epic final between England and West Germany that featured, amongst other things, six goals, a "Russian linesman", extra-time, the only World Cup final hat-trick and one of the world's classic football commentaries.
THE OFFICIAL 1966 LOGO
Well, it was certainly colourful! Good to see the Jules Rimet on it, but there's a bit too much going on there compared to some of the design classics that would follow in subsequent tournaments.
1966 TOP SCORERS
Eusébio was, without doubt, a genuinely worthy top-scorer at the 1966 World Cup finals. The Portuguese legend failed to score in their opening match against Hungary but then went on a fantastic run, scoring in every game that he played, including the semi-final defeat against England. His finest moment came in Portugal's epic quarter-final against North Korea at Goodison Park, where his four goals over-turned a three-goal deficit that saw Portugal eventually go through 5:3.
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THE OFFICIAL 1966 WORLD CUP TOURNAMENT FOOTBALL
The Slazenger Challenge
The English sports equipment brand Slazenger got the nod for manufacturing the official ball at the 1966 World Cup. Slazenger had been best known for supplying their tennis balls and golf balls all around the globe but produced a fine football for the tournament. They created it in three colours: white, orange and yellow, and whilst the white ball was actually the most commonly used throughout the tournament, it's the iconic orange ball for which the tournament is best remembered, as that was used during the incredible 1966 final between England and West Germany.
1966 PANINI FRONT COVER
1966 SQUAD SONGS
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I’m becoming more puzzled and concerned about new products released by hardware and software companies that invariably get poor reviews and need to be “fixed”. We’ve seen that lately in the Apple 15 inch MacBook Pro (which has been “fixed” by the 16 inch released Nov 15/19). We’ve seen that in Skylum’s Luminar 3 (which as of this writing, has been “fixed” by Luminar 4, released Nov 19/19). We’ve also seen that very recently in Adobe’s Photoshop for iPad, which as of this writing, has not yet been “fixed”, after having been essentially trashed on its release in Oct. First-release mirrorless cameras from Canon and Nikon both needed firmware “updates” (i.e. fixes). And lastly, ON1’s Photo Raw 2020, released in October, seems to have a bug that causes it to do what should be background file management tasks in the middle of a photo edit, preventing any meaningful work from getting done. As of this writing, that has not been “fixed”.
There seem to be four main factors contributing to these problems.
First is the sheer pace of new technology, mostly on the hardware side, but also now with the advent of “artificial intelligence” or AI that seems to be flooding all software and requiring more and more hardware resources. I used to be able to make good use of hardware for a decade. Now the timeline seems to be half of that.
Second, the engineers that find new ways of making things work – more miniaturization, more standardization, more communication, better cooling, better data transfer, more speed. They don’t just build on what has come before; they replace it. These efforts create obsolescence even before you can remove the previous generation’s hardware from its shrinkwrap.
Third, retail marketing machines that have convinced us that perfectly good hardware ain’t no good no more. More cores, more threads, more cycles, more megapixels, more speed, more immersive, more real. Supposedly, we need it. The hype is getting ridiculous.
Fourth, an uneven pace of change between hardware and software, forcing software to often be released before it has been fully developed or tested on either existing or new hardware platforms. Competition contributes to that too, with everyone trying to beat each other out on release dates and trying to get consumer attention. Software just can’t be fully tested if it has to be released earlier and earlier to meet an artificial window of artificially created demand.
Related to this is that not all of us will replace our hardware and software at the same pace anymore. We just can’t keep up – financially or time-wise. It used to be the case that switchouts were much more predictable and came with new releases of operating systems – remember Windows XP? Many companies have recognized now that they have to build products that serve both new and older platforms if they want to stay in business. But how many previous generations do you include? And frankly, there is no real way to test every possible use case.
Last, a generation and a society that has convinced us that the knowledge economy is the only economy of the future. The majority of our young people want to be in this economy. Many of the top corporations are in this economy. With so much energy directed here, there are drawbacks. This might be controversial, but I think sometimes that we can have too much competition, so that all products are cheapened and are released before being fully tested and risk-assessed. Some claim that the price of breakthrough innovation is mistakes and failures. Maybe so. But that doesn’t mean that I should be asked to buy it and be the one to have it fail.
Another “benefit” of the knowledge economy is that every guy in their garage now claims to be able to take apart and analyse the performance of a new component or system. They give me the “real truth”. They even offer hacks for making things better, and document the effort on YouTube. How can I make an informed choice about a product when this is my sounding board?
All of the above has changed my personal outlook on technology a lot. I used to be at the front of the line, drooling over the latest toys. Now I don’t pay much attention at all until a product has been out for at least a year. I also physically make a list of needs and wants, and abandon products that cover little of the former and only the latter.
By way of example, I recently decided to invest in a full-frame mirrorless camera system. I did my homework, looked at several makes and models and applied my needs/wants test. What came out the winner for me: the Canon EOS R system.
This camera has been panned by many pundits, who suggested that Canon took a safe route and didn’t build in the bleeding edge technologies that many were craving. It doesn’t have full resolution 4K capability for video, frames per second performance for shooting action or moving subjects is middle ground at best, its main processor and electronics seem to parallel if not copy the technology in their last DSLR, including the pioneering dual pixel autofocus system from 2013. When I picked up the camera, I was skeptical as to whether I would find anything redeeming. Now I’m about to purchase it. It is solidly built, reliable and gives me amazing image quality. No glitches, no “why did they do that?”, no strange workarounds to compensate for something they tried but didn’t get right. All the features important to me have been thoroughly tested, sometimes in other generations of cameras. They did, however, like other manufacturers, have to issue a firmware update to address the recent ransomware issue for WiFi capable cameras. But so did everyone else. The one bleeding edge change: the multifunction touch bar. Also panned by many. I actually like it. Not too bleeding edge – just a way of addressing a lack of space for a joystick.
To confirm my choice of camera, I also looked at a bleeding edge contender, which I won’t identify here. Features like the ability to get extreme high resolution images on demand, in-body image stabilization, full resolution 4K video recording with no time limit, and the world’s highest resolution EVF were all cool to see but didn’t make my needs list. More importantly, they didn’t justify the additional cost or the additional physical weight of the camera. And I didn’t have the interest in or time to check what the performance of the camera has been since its release.
Personally, I think Canon got it right for me. I “needed” a camera with better dynamic range and colour reproduction. I had moved away from Canon 3 years ago but still had some of their equipment tucked away. I’m able to use it all with my new system – another tribute to their understanding of the equipment fatigue I and many others are now experiencing.
That said, I’ve heard that Canon are working on a pro version of the EOS R that will include twice as many megapixels, along with other “pro” features. It’s my experience that the race to be first and feature rich comes at the expense of reliable performance. I’d rather have the latter. And remember, after your base needs are met, it ain’t the gear that makes a photograph, it’s the photographer. | <urn:uuid:1c1405b6-704b-4cf9-94c8-0ad207ecf899> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://oldgirlphotography.ca/2019/12/01/we-can-fix-that/ | 2021-12-02T23:15:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362297.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20211202205828-20211202235828-00208.warc.gz | en | 0.971534 | 1,591 |
CASES; A Disorder Far Beyond Eccentricity
By ERICA GOODE
Published: October 9, 2001
Henry Cavendish discovered hydrogen, weighed the earth and investigated the powerful electric shocks delivered by the torpedo fish.
An 18th-century Englishman, Cavendish was known as widely for his oddity as for his accomplishments. Reclusive and detached, he published little, never married, dressed shabbily, appeared oblivious to his wealth and spoke rarely. He ''probably uttered fewer words in the course of his life than any man who ever lived to fourscore years, not at all excepting the monks of La Trappe,'' a contemporary is said to have remarked.
Such traits, in the brilliant or highly creative, are often dismissed as simple eccentricity. But writing this month in the journal Neurology, the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks suggests that Cavendish may have had Asperger's syndrome, a psychiatric disorder thought to be related to autism.
''Many of the characteristics that distinguished Cavendish are almost patho gnomic of Asperger's syndrome,'' Dr. Sacks wrote, quoting a biographer who said Cavendish showed ''a striking literalness and directness of mind, extreme single-mindedness, a passion for calculation and quantitative exactitude, unconventional, stubbornly held ideas and a disposition to use rigorously exact (rather than figurative) language.''
In Cavendish, Dr. Sacks wrote, these qualities were combined with ''a virtual incomprehension of social behaviors and human relationships.''
Asperger's syndrome is named for Dr. Hans Asperger, the German doctor who first described it, in 1944. The official diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association lists as the disorder's two essential features a ''severe and sustained impairment in social interaction'' and ''the development of restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and activities.''
Dr. Asperger called his young patients ''little professors.'' Dr. Fred Volkmar, a psychiatrist at the Yale Child Study Center and an expert on the syndrome, said Asperger's patients often suffered from disabling preoccupations. Patients he has treated, Dr. Volkmar said, have been gripped by overwhelming interests in the Titanic, deep fat fryers, ancient religions, refrigerators or plate tectonics.
In his journal article, Dr. Sacks quoted an 1851 biography of Cavendish, in which the biographer, Dr. George Wilson, wrote of the scientist, ''He did not love; he did not hate; he did not hope; he did not fear; he did not worship as others do.''
''An intellectual head thinking, a pair of wonderfully acute eyes observing, and a pair of very skillful hands experimenting or recording, are all I realize in reading his memorials,'' Dr. Wilson wrote.
Dr. Sacks said it had become fashionable in recent years to attach a diagnosis of Asperger's or autism to famous eccentrics, including Albert Einstein and Bela Bartok. But such claims, Dr. Sacks wrote in the journal, ''are thin at best.''
The case for Cavendish, he said, seems stronger, adding that his interest in the scientist developed out of a fascination with 18th-century and 19th-century figures in chemistry, physics and natural philosophy. ''And Cavendish is certainly one of the greatest,'' Dr. Sacks said.
The journal article also appears as a footnote in Dr. Sacks's new book, ''Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood,'' scheduled to be published this month by Knopf.
Dr. Volkmar agreed that the diagnosis of Asperger's was often applied too widely. ''There is unfortunately a sort of cottage industry of finding that everyone has Asperger's,'' he said.
He added, ''Certainly, Henry Cavendish sounds like a very strange person.''
But Dr. Volkmar said that even with the descriptions of Cavendish's peculiarities, he remained skeptical that the scientist had the syndrome.
Cavendish was taciturn, and yet, Dr. Volkmar said, Asperger's patients often talk incessantly about their interests. And though Cavendish did not publish much, he still made significant discoveries, in contrast to many Asperger's patients Dr. Volkmar sees, whose illness interferes with any sort of real accomplishment.
''The trouble for many of our folks is they just engage in an endless acquisition of facts, without doing anything productive,'' he said.
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Consider the recent series of floods globally and in the United States–Pakistan in late July; in Tennessee, where “1,000-year flooding” occurred over hundreds of miles this May; in the U.K. last year; in Atlanta last September; across the northeastern seaboard last March. Taken together they are, some believe, the kind of weather disasters that are too improbable to be explained away as chance occurrences. They are part of the new “weirding of the water cycle,” where changes in regional weather patterns have been linked to global warming.
Expect this type of rhetoric to heat up by 2020. The proponents of weather weirding may be correct, but science moves at its own steady, judicious pace and will be slow to make a clear, definitive causal link between a warming climate and all the recent headline-making torrential disasters or any disasters to come.
To someone like Jay Gulledge, a climate scientist who studies societal risk at the Pew Center on Climate Change, the debate about weather weirding and climate change is a red herring: “It’s a distraction from what we really need to pay attention to,” he says. Individual weather disasters mainly illustrate how vulnerable humankind is to such events, according to Gulledge, and policy decisions can more swiftly address that vulnerability. In short, whether Hurricane Katrina or any other weather disaster to come is caused by global warming is at best an academic question. “Before Katrina,” he says, “nobody knew that a major American city could be complete cut off from every form of outside emergency aid and assistance. Now we know.”
More scientific study, Gulledge says, has been done on water scarcity, particularly in the West and Southwestern U.S., where the signal for a large-scale creeping environmental disaster is stronger, more clearly linked to climate change, and will likely emerge as a landmark development in the next 10 years. Possibly one of the most under-reported stories of the decade are water conflicts between large Western U.S. cities, counties, states and Native American tribes, which have their own sovereign water rights.
Computer models project drastic reductions in media water runoff by mid-century. Research published recently in the journal Science concluded that the Southwestern U.S. has already transitioned into permanent dust-bowl conditions. The storage capacity of the Colorado River system has been reduced by half between 1999 and 2007. The river supplies water to more than 30 million people, including residents of Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver. The most troubling fact: More people are moving to the Southwest than to any other part of the country. More people and no water to sustain them? That spells water wars by 2020.
About 90% of insured catastrophic losses worldwide are weather-related. In the U.S. weather disaster accounts for about $320 billion in insured losses between 1980 and 2005, as measured in 2005 dollars. The cost of these disasters is escalating. Swiss Re, the second largest reinsurance company in the world, expects natural catastrophic losses, including earthquakes and epidemics caused by disasters, to grow by roughly 10% annually.
So how does anybody manage this kind of risk–be it deluge or drought? Enter the parametric insurance instrument. It’s called an alternative risk transfer mechanism, and it’s nothing new–catastrophic bonds (Cat Bonds) have been in play for many years, as have derivative deals, reinsurance deals and even loan products. They all differ to some degree but have in common the fact that payouts are triggered by a prearranged parameter–sometimes sustained wind speed over a period of time–sometimes, in the case of drought insurance, the number of days without rainfall.
“Historically, parametric insurance deals have been struck between reinsurance companies like Swiss Re and small developing nations that often have difficulty tapping into the insurance markets,” explains Swiss Re’s public sector vice president, Nikhil de Victoria Lobo. And that’s what makes the recently announced deal between Swiss Re and the state of Alabama worth noting–it’s the first time that such a deal has been made in an industrialized country. You can expect more of this by 2020. State governments along the Gulf Coast, in the Southwest, and in the prairie states (where drought conditions might trigger a parameterized payout) will likely follow because, as de Victoria Lobo explains, the escalating cost of weather disaster has outpaced the ability of both federal and state governments to cover their liabilities.
He points to Hurricane Ike as one of many recent examples where insured losses far exceeded the payouts from the federal government and the insurance industry, creating, in the case of Ike, a $16 billion shortfall. And that’s the niche that Alabama’s parameterized insurance deal will fill, according to de Victoria Lobo. One advantage of such deals is that payouts are swift. The government of Haiti had an $8 million parameterized policy that was triggered by the recent catastrophic quake; the money was received in 10 days. That’s good news for Alabama, whose 15-year parameterized policy covers the state against a hurricane of Category 2 or 3 wind speeds–and arrives just in time for this year’s hurricane season.
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For today’s stops we have four+ amazing swim makes and another prize package, this time sponsored by Gracious Threads and Raspberry Creek Fabrics*. Scroll to the bottom for full giveaway details and how to enter. BUT don’t forget to stop by these lovely ladies’ blogs and check out their work and leave them some comment ♥.
First up is Kimberly of Momma You Can Make It/Nini and Ash:
Next is Gemia of Phat Quarters: (I’m so intrigued by this!!)
Then, new to our blog tours, we have Maryanna of Marvelous Auntie M:
and finally we have Essence of Adventures with Bubba and Bug with her adorable daughters:
And now, the prizes!!
Today’s daily prize is 1 PDF pattern of choice from Gracious Threads AND $50(USD) gift card to Raspberry Creek Fabrics*. Enter through the Rafflecopter below. The more options you do the more chances you have to win!! This Rafflecopter closes June 29th EDT at 11:59pm.
And for the Grand Prize!
You could win: $25(USD) gift card to Phat Quarters AND $100(AUD) gift card to Boo! Designs AND $20(USD) gift card to Simply by Ti AND Swim Super PDF pattern bundle from Made by Jack’s Mum (consists of four patterns)
Enter through the Rafflecopter below AND for bonus entries post a photo of a swimsuit you’ve sewn this month (June 2017) following these guidelines:
- Post your *sewn* swimwear photo on your Instagram account and include the hashtag #TheSwimsuitEditionTour and tag @luluandceleste @deborahzaleski
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Closes July 2nd at 11:59pm EDT. For full details >> Swimsuit Edition Tour Prizes and Instagram Contest
While you’re here, why don’t you play catch up and check out the last couple days of the tour:
Monday, June 26
Tuesday, June 27
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If you are looking for a book group, we invite you to come to The Book Center's Books On The Bricks. Our group is free and open to the public, with no commitment to attend every month and no registration is required. Each meeting features a thought-provoking paperback of varying genres. We often video chat with authors for live Q&A sessions whenever possible. Participants will receive a 20% discount on the selected books. We meet on the 2nd Tuesday from 6:00-7:30 pm in the store monthly (except in January and February). Check Our Events for the schedule.
If you are interested in participating, sign up for email updates to get the latest news in advance on upcoming meetings, books and author talks.
We have 5 authors confirmed to join our discussions in 2020. We're excited that Ron Rash will talk to us about his most ambitious novel, Serena. Wayétu Moore, April Dávila, Andrea Bobotis and Samantha Silva have each written critically acclaimed debut novels and we're thrilled to have them talk to us about their works of fiction. | <urn:uuid:a1ae4b8d-2ff1-4ab2-9ec3-b0faceff6057> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://thebookcenteronline.com/books-on-the-bricks | 2020-04-02T17:52:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370507738.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20200402173940-20200402203940-00527.warc.gz | en | 0.955173 | 224 |
Happy Tuesday, Athletics Nation!
While we are awaiting the BCDC vote this Thursday that is the next big hurdle to clear for the Howard Terminal ballpark project (and things are looking good!), the A’s and MLB have still been working on the oft brought up parallel path for the Athletics to move to Las Vegas if the Oakland park is untenable. Vegas talks have been generally quiet for the last bit, mostly since the Nevada state government made it clear that they did not want to help fund ballpark construction. Yesterday, word came out that MLB would offer an extra boon to the A’s if they leave Oakland.
Reporting for the New York Post, Josh Kosman brought forth the news that MLB has offered the A’s a special deal: if the team moves to Las Vegas they would not have to pay the usual relocation fee. The expectation currently is that the fee would be over one billion dollars, making this a huge get for penny-pinching A’s ownership. With the Athletics going through a two decade-long process to sort out a new stadium in the Bay Area there is hopefully an end in sight before November’s municipal election, but things aren’t set in stone yet.
If all goes well with outcome of the Howard Terminal process there could still be use for the development put into Vegas by the A’s. According to Mick Ackers of the Las Vegas Review Journal, the A’s have currently narrowed their Vegas options down to two sites, though they still face a lack of funding from the Nevada government.
Having a site ready for stadium development, and having it potentially owned or earmarked by an MLB team, means that Las Vegas is primed to be an expansion city if the A’s manage to stay in Oakland. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has stated that expansion will happen once the A’s and Rays’ stadiums are settled, and Vegas has become a hot sports market with the addition of NHL’s Golden Knights and the move of the NFL’s Raiders from Oakland to Nevada. The lack of a relocation fee is a nice contingency for MLB, as even if the A’s were to move to Vegas it would just help fast track the timeline for expansion in two other cities and a pair of $2.2B expansion fees to get paid to the league.
MLB seems ready to get a team in Las Vegas one way or another, but if all goes well with Howard Terminal the removal of a relocation fee will be moot. Check back on Thursday to see the results of the BCDC vote and the next steps for the Athletics new home.
- Ashford: Game #75: A’s drop series opener, fall 9-5 to Yankees
- Kosman: MLB would give Oakland rare break on fees if team moves to Las Vegas
- Ackers: MLB won’t charge Oakland A’s relocation fee if team moves to Vegas
- Lockard: Jordan Díaz and the Oakland A’s mid-season minor-league All-Stars ($)
- He: Murphy’s two catcher’s interference calls cost A’s in bad loss
- Kawahara: A’s find new way to lose as catcher’s interference calls fuel Yankees’ six-run inning ($)
- Wilson: 2 starting pitchers the Yankees could be targeting at the trade deadline (Montas discussed)
- Kawahara: Former A’s minor-leaguer embraces his better future as Yankees’ bullpen catcher ($)
MLB News & Interest
- Brock: Mariners feel ‘classless’ retribution sparked brawl with Angels on Sunday ($)
- Dodd, Jenks: Max Scherzer’s former catchers on his intensity, hilarity, and the Legend of Mad Max ($)
- Shusterman: Rafael Devers has earned extension from Red Sox
- Nesbitt: How Jesse Winker’s ejection led to autographs, pizza, and the tip of a lifetime ($)
- Clemens: Are Returning Pitchers Throwing Harder?
- Lee: Manny, Pedro and Papi’s kids are on the same team!? Meet ‘The Sons’ of the Brockton Rox
- Jaffe: Bryce Harper’s Broken Thumb Could Derail Phillies’ Comeback
- Gleeman, Hayes: Twins pitching coach Wes Johnson leaves abruptly for same job, big raise at LSU ($)
- Foolish Baseball: What Bad Umpiring Looks Like (video)
- Creamer: 2022 MLB All-Star Game Cap Design Gives All 30 Teams the Gold
- Lukas: Our Latest Flag Project: The MLB Parade of Nations
- Today in Baseball History
Best of Twitter
A’s minors just squeaking into the better half of whiff rates
Hitter swing and miss rates this season by organization (LowA ➡️ AAA). Mets, Reds, and Giants hitters with the highest whiff rates... pic.twitter.com/5PkoF6ndKP— Down on the Farm (@downonthefarm12) June 27, 2022
Former Athletic, and Tigers favourite Willie Horton will assist Dusty Baker as an honorary All-Star Game coach
MLB announces coaches, trainers for next month's All-Star Game: pic.twitter.com/YKZTyAB5bp— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) June 27, 2022
Replacing the apostrophe in the A’s logo with the star makes their All-Star hat look way more cohesive than most other teams
Here's a look at all 30 #MLB team cap designs for the upcoming 2022 MLB All-Star Game to be played at Dodger Stadium on July 19.— Chris Creamer (@sportslogosnet) June 27, 2022
More details, pics, and how to buy one in my story here: https://t.co/qzAEfHV9Bc pic.twitter.com/uhZYq4PwM2
Stephen Piscotty’s return is imminent
Stephen Piscotty will meet the A's in New York tomorrow, team will decide when to activate him (not necessarily tomorrow), Mark Kotsay said.— Matt Kawahara (@matthewkawahara) June 27, 2022
Congrats to Austin Allen on being named PCL Player of the Week!
Minor League Baseball announced Austin Allen as the PCL Player of the Week Allen appeared in four games against ABQ and batted .600 with three doubles, two home runs and 7 RBI— Las Vegas Aviators (@AviatorsLV) June 27, 2022
Read more: https://t.co/Bwyl393FRL pic.twitter.com/5wngBN61oR
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Check out ESPN FC’s Euro 20Bracket – scores, fixtures and for all knockout stage matches. The 20UEFA European Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 20or simply. UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA European Football Championship (UEFA EURO 201 UEFA EURO 20etc).
Portugal overcame France after extra time in the UEFA EURO 20final in Saint-Denis on Sunday – how did they make it all the way and when . Euro 20is here, and this edition of the European Championships should be the most unpredictable one in a long time. Euro 20has reached the quarterfinal stage. That quarterfinal stage does not include Spain or England.
LYON, FRANCE – JUNE 26: Antoine Griezmann of France shouts during the UEFA EURO . The path to the final is set at Euro 2016. After Saturday’s meeting between Germany and Italy, Euro 20will be down to it’s final four matches. The final eight teams for Euro 20are set, complete with one of the greatest upsets in the history of the sport. The countdown to Euro 20is on – and you can gear up for all the games with the Sky Sports wallchart.
Euro 20arrives this week as teams battle it out for Europe’s top international trophy. It all starts with host France playing Romania at p. As the group stage of Euro 20comes to and en we now know who will. France, Germany, Italy AND Spain in the ‘Bracket of Death’.
The countdown to Euro 20is on after the draw for the finals in France – and here is your brilliant Mail On Sunday wallchart to get yourself . The round of will finally be set in the UEFA Euro 20tournament with the conclusion of play on Wednesday. The knockout stage of Euro 20starts Saturday, with plenty of outsiders believing they have a chance to go a long way. If you wanted drama at Euro 201 you’re going to get it in the knockout stages. Specifically, you’re going to get it in one half of the bracket in . France tournament will be first to feature teams rather than the it has had since 1996. Rank Top teams from each group you think will advance to the next stage.
Then proceed to pick your favorites in the bracket. As we all know the worldwide famous 20UEFA European Championship or simply Euro 20will be start in . Fixtures, groups, venues and more – all you need to know about the European Championships with our handy interactive wallchart. Follow Euro 20standings, overall, home/away and form (last games) Euro 20standings.
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Considering its position at the heart of Manhattan as central as central gets-it’s a bit odd that the area between 26th and 30th streets, Park Avenue and Broadway didn’t, until recently, even have a name. But for decates there wasn’t much there: just a wasteland of dingy wholesalers and shops selling hair extensions and counterfeit perfume. The tide began to turn with the 2009 arrival of the Ace Hotel. Whose restaurants and lobby bar were soon luring trendy downtowners to its obscure, patch of Broadway.
Other pioneers followed. Yet if urban renewal has a tipping point, the just-opened NoMad Hotel is it. Named for the neighborhood’s newfound acronym (North of Madison square Park), the 168 room property is a collaboration of Andrew Zobler, developer of the Ace, and will Guidara and Daniel Humm, the duo behind Eleven Madison Park, the best restaurant in New York City at the moment. Occupying a 1903 Beaux-Arts tower on Broadway at 28th Street, the NoMad feels like the ancestral home of some raffish, fabulously wealth bohemian with elegantly burnished interiors (courtesy of Hotel Costes designer Jacques Garcia) and air of unbuttoned privilege.
Food and drink take centre stage: in a serried of intimate dining rooms and lounges surrounding a light flooded atrium, chef Humm offers a more rustic and affordable take on the French inspired cuisine he’s famous for, including whole-roasted chicken from the open-hearth oven. There’s also a rooftop terrace: a leather penelled bar seemingly teleported from 1872 – complete with outsize mahogany elephants; and, of course, a burgeoning foodie playground just outside the NoMad’s doors. | <urn:uuid:a6d0e045-40be-4bb9-bd3b-4ea292154e35> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://www.holidayshub.net/mad-for-nomad-hotel/ | 2018-11-17T14:42:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743714.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20181117144031-20181117165404-00040.warc.gz | en | 0.925701 | 377 |
“The villa was only matched by the humour and congeniality of Peter and Mark - will recommend to all”
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Massages are provided by our resident Masseuse bien étre, Sheda Savage, originally from the United Kingdom.
In anticipation of a career change, and move to France, in 2003 Sheda began retraining in Indian Head Massage before undertaking further qualifications in Swedish Body Massage and then Aromatherapy.
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with Ellen T. White
Why did you want to write this book?
Truthfully, I could spend hours talking about romance. Even when I don't know the players, I love to hear the story behind a relationship—how the couple met, what attracted them at first, and the lurid details of their sex life. I've been thinking about a book for years. I just had to figure out what form it would take!
The "self-help" books out there on romance and seduction discouraged me. Even the most popular ones seemed to say you have to be someone you're not. Each offered its own prescription for seduction that presumes men are only attracted to a particular kind of woman or that there's a fail-safe formula that works for everyone. But attraction is far more complicated than that.
The women I know who are irresistible to men come in all shapes, sizes, and personalities. The same is true of the women whose romantic reputations have survived centuries—women like Cleopatra or Catherine the Great. This got me thinking: what can these women—historic and contemporary—teach us about being irresistible? And maybe being irresistible to men is more empowering than women have come to view it.
How is your book different from other relationship books in bookstores today?
No other book out there uses the lives of famous seductresses as role models. It's a real how-to with case studies drawn from life. In bookstores there are certainly very interesting, quite serious books on muses, courtesans, and on seductresses in general. Many of these books helped me understand these women when I was writing Simply Irresistible. But my sense was that women wanted to know—in a step by step fashion—how these Sirens actually did it. I wanted to know how they pulled it off! I wanted readers, whatever their age or circumstance, to see these icons as real women and to identify with them, so I wrote about them as I might about a girlfriend—with humor and without historical reverence.
What is a Siren, and is it important to be a Siren?
A Siren is a woman men get excited by—on a sexual level and on other levels, depending on who she is. Not every woman is going to want to be a Siren in the sense that she wants to attract hordes of men. But every woman has someone in her life that she wants to be irresistible to—so, in that sense, being a Siren is important. Simply Irresistible says, above all, that being a seductress is not so much a case of pleasing men as it is about being your most attractive self, which in turn is irresistible.
You outline five siren archetypes—the Competitor, Goddess, Sex Kitten, Companion, and Mother. How did you come up with these categories and what’s a short description of each.
While it’s true that there’s no set formula for seduction, every woman has to work her seductive arts from a solid Siren archetype. Of course, a Siren doesn't necessarily have all the qualities of her archetype. And she can borrow from another when it serves her purposes. But it's useful for a budding seductress to understand what kind of Siren she predominantly is, before she begins to refine her individual approach. Archetypes work because they correspond to primal male needs.
Here's what I mean: On some level, men never really outgrow their need to be mothered. A woman who operates within the Mother archetype gives him that same kind of unconditional support. The Mother Siren has a sixth sense about what men need emotionally, sexually, physically, and has an uncanny way of providing it.
- The Goddess keeps men on their toes through her illusiveness. For men, she's offers the whole gotta-have-what-you-can't-get syndrome. But even when a man has his Goddess, he doesn't feel it.
- The Competitor is a risk-taker and is often as successful as her man at sports or in the board room. She's a tomboy and she's more comfortable with men than women. She's sexually free and aggressive. She's low maintenance and often commitment averse.
- The Companion is his ultimate friend—the corporate wife, the not-so-little woman behind the man. She is ambitious, but for him. She takes a keen interest in what he does, but as his strategist. She's often an optimist and a party girl.
- Finally, there's the Sex Kitten. She relates to men on such a physical/sexual level that she runs the risk of becoming a caricature—which is in a sense where Marilyn Monroe went wrong. The dyed-in-the-wool Sex Kitten is ultra feminine, touchy-feely, and a bit of an innocent. She's his muse, often, and he's her protector.
Who are some moderns sirens that you name in your book, and how do they differ from the sirens of the 20th century?
Modern Sirens are women like Angelina Jolie, Nigella Lawson, Susan Sarandon, Nicole Kidman, and Camilla Parker-Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall. Sometimes, a historic woman will represent a "lesson in love"—for instance, Lola Montez, a 19th-century courtesan, represents the lesson "Create a Scandal." But to illustrate that lesson, I weave in contemporary women—such as Paris Hilton—who have also used scandal as a tool to heighten and embellish their irresistible appeal.
By looking at women through the ages, I'm illustrating that what's irresistible to men has never really changed, but that it is also infinite and various. It's everything from possessing brains and talent to having a strong sense of humor or being sexually intrepid.
In a way, the historic Sirens were more interesting because they were more outrageous. For example, Cora Pearl, a French courtesan during the Belle Epoque, served herself up to her male dinner guests on a massive dish, covered in nothing but icing florettes, a grape in her navel, and powered sugar. Sirens have always broken the rules, but women today are much more careful of their reputations than the women of yore.
SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE is in part a case study of famous femme fatales throughout history, how did you choose the iconic women in the book to represent the various archetypes?
I never chose a woman just because she was beautiful. Many may have been beautiful, but that's not what being a Siren is about. It's more about force of personality. I wanted to present a wide range of examples for everyday women to relate to, in order to prove that being irresistible is vast and various. There were also women in history that I was intensely curious about myself. For instance, I wanted to know if Catherine the Great really died while attempting to make love to her horse. Many of my choices revolved around the lessons I was looking to provide. For example, I chose celebrity chef Nigella Lawson when searching for a woman to represent cooking and aphrodisiacs—as I have come to learn that there is a great deal of truth to the expression “the way to a man's heart is through his stomach." I also wanted women who represented brains, talent, and humor—all very sexy qualities. I found that Clare Boothe Luce, Edith Piaf, and Carole Lombard, respectively, were all perfect embodiments of these attributes.
Which sirens in the book do you relate to most, and why?
Simply Irresistible really started with Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill, who was the mother of Winston Churchill. I was living in England for six months around the time that a two-volume biography came out about Jennie. I was totally gripped by this woman because she was brilliant, phenomenally accomplished, but also very seductive and very human. Even though my "introduction" to Jennie was long ago—and I've learned about hundreds of women since—I still identify with her the most. She was a Companion Siren, according to the archetypes, and so am I, predominantly. She was a vivid, flawed, fascinating woman who delighted in men and who always sought out the joy in life.
That being said, of all the women in my book, I admire Queen Elizabeth I the most. I admire her for her bravery. To survive as an unmarried woman and as a queen in the 16th century was an act of sheer will and passion on her part. But she also had a special weakness for men and was a notorious flirt.
What are three things a woman can do today to begin unleashing her inner siren?
In Simply Irresistible, I talk about the three things all Sirens have—and these are qualities that will make any woman more irresistible to men, as well as more powerful generally.
- Have absolute confidence in your allure. Women are often looking for confirmation that they are attractive to men, when in fact they should begin with the attitude that they are. It takes a leap of faith for some, but it is a leap that makes all the difference.
- Celebrate men. There's still this whole “men are from Mars and women are from Venus” mentality out there. Women often view men warily, as if they are the enemy. But think about it: don't you like the people most who like you? Women need to view men as their cohorts and companions. Most men think a smart, confident woman is sexy.
- Embrace life. This really means play up your strengths, make the most of what you have, and embrace your circumstances. Sirens have a kind of vitality, a sort of unquenchable life about them. They aren't whiners, they are doers and survivors.
Today, women are by and large strong, educated and independent, but it is essential for sirens to celebrate and praise men. Do you think it’s difficult for contemporary women to express such adoration? And why is celebrating men so vital to being a successful siren?
By advising women to celebrate and praise men I am essentially saying hold men in esteem and affection. Women today celebrate and praise women—lavishly, unabashedly. Women should celebrate and praise men the way they do women. I mean, why not? Men are human. They have as many hurdles and difficulties as we do, though maybe of a different kind. Very few set out to be our enemies. Don't you love a man who loves women? Isn't he a pleasure to be around? Well, then, it shouldn't be so surprising that men love women who love them. I guess what I'm saying is that a little mutual admiration doesn't compromise anyone. Strong, educated, independent women and women who love men are not mutually exclusive. | <urn:uuid:29613072-68e4-4f9b-bbe4-c76806076251> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ellentwhite.com/conversation_with_ellen_t_white.asp | 2022-08-15T00:23:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.97766 | 2,268 |
But what if your home could give a little back? It’s possible to put your home to work for you, bringing in extra income and offsetting some of the costs associated with it.
Following are several examples of ways you can make money with your home:
1. Rent a room to travelers
Make a room in your home available to those passing through your area.
A reputable site like Airbnb vets its travelers and offers insurance to help protect you.
2. Sell your clutter
Sometimes it’s about clearing the clutter and your property can help here, too.
Use your property to hold a yard sale so you can earn money selling things you no longer want. For pointers, check out “15 Tips for a Super-Profitable Yard Sale.”
Another option? Sell your unwanted stuff online. In “7 Websites for Selling Your Clutter — Safely,” we tell you how to do just that without having to take the risk of meeting up with the buyer in person, as you would when selling on Craigslist, Letgo or OfferUp.
3. Pet sit
Interested in making a few furry friends? Use your home for doggy daycare, or even dog boarding.
Many pet owners don’t like to leave their critters alone for the weekend, or even during the day while they’re at work.
If you have a flexible schedule and can accept four-footed family members into your home, look into Rover, a site that can connect you with people in need of a pet sitter where you live.
4. Rent out a ‘granny pod’
Not comfortable with a stranger inside your home? Add a small “granny pod” to your property and rent it out. A granny pod is a small, usually pre-fabricated home that can be set in a corner of your backyard.
Another version of this is the tiny home. As long as you meet local regulations, you could rent out these dwellings to a permanent tenant or even use one as your Airbnb rental.
5. Lease your land
If you don’t want to pay the upfront cost for a small dwelling to put on your property, consider leasing your land for someone else’s tiny house.
List your available space on a site like Try It Tiny, and you could make a little extra cash when someone parks their tiny home in your yard.
6. Store other people’s stuff
Now that you’ve cleared out your own clutter, use the extra space to store the things that belong to other people.
That’s right, others might be willing to pay you to keep their things in your attic, basement or storage shed. The sharing economy makes this possible. Check out websites like Store At My House, which link you up with people willing to pay to store their belongings in your extra space.
7. Rent out a parking space
Do you have room to park other people’s cars? If you live where parking is hard to find, you can make money by renting out your unused parking space. SpotHero is a website that allows you to list your space so it can be found by people desperate for parking spaces.
Another option: If you live near an event venue, consider offering parking in your driveway (or your yard) to attendees. You may be able to make decent money in an evening, or over the course of a few days.
8. Make your home a star
Filming crews always need settings. Wouldn’t it be fun to see your home become the star of a show?
Rent out your home for filming, and you might be able to earn a few extra dollars. Even if your home is not right for a major Hollywood production, it’s possible that local and regional crews need locations for small movies, commercials and more.
Film Locations Wanted is one website that helps you list your home for film projects.
Have you tried one of these money-making options? Tell us how it went in a comment below or at Money Talks News on Facebook.
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Zenithereum AI Overview
Zenithereum is a decentralized AI protocol that aims to advance the field of AI and provide benefits for humanity. The focus of the project is on researching and developing AI tools that can help agents grow and thrive in both crypto and real-world environments.
With its decentralized approach, Zenithereum seeks to provide a secure and transparent platform for AI development and deployment. The goal of the project is to enhance agent performance and provide a range of applications and services that can improve the lives of people around the world.
Whether it's through improving supply chain management, enhancing financial services, creating new forms of digital identity, or another application, Zenithereum aims to use the power of AI and blockchain technology to benefit humanity. The project is at the forefront of a rapidly evolving field and holds great potential for creating positive change in the world.
The vision of Zenithereum is to be a decentralized AI protocol that focuses on AI research and tool development to improve agent growth in crypto and real-world environments. The ultimate goal is to benefit humanity through the use of cutting-edge AI technology.
Our mission is to create a decentralized platform for AI research and tool development that enables agents to grow and evolve in crypto and real-world environments. By fostering a community of researchers, developers, and users, we aim to drive innovation and advancement in the field of AI.
"Zenithereum is dedicated to advancing the field of AI through decentralized technology. Our goal is to provide a secure and transparent platform for AI development and deployment, with the ultimate aim of benefiting humanity. By combining the power of AI and blockchain, Zenithereum is poised to create positive change and drive innovation in the world." | <urn:uuid:f73fd12f-4cf2-47bd-bbf4-36968249906d> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://whitepaper.zenithereum.ai/overview/zenithereum-ai-overview | 2023-03-23T18:07:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945182.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230323163125-20230323193125-00101.warc.gz | en | 0.92894 | 356 |
Hey everyone. My name's skbc31 and I made a WiiHacks account so that I can help anyone or post problems that I have on my Wii. Anyways I have a Black Wii (brought in brand new in 2010) and I softmodded it using Maurifrog's softmod guide. I got to know this website when I was searching for a way to Softmod my Wii and stumbled across Softmod any wii guide. So yeah. that's all my basic info. :)
One thing I found good about this site is that it has professional members to help you. I once fully bricked (it said system files corrupt) my Wii when i downgraded from 4.3 to 3.1. I knew somoene that has an account here in Wiihacks and he told me to do some bootmii nand backup stuff. it worked but i had to resoftmod (which is when I just used the softmod any wii guide) because i lsot all of my wad managers and stuff. but yeah. good thing my wii's life didn't end in 5 months. | <urn:uuid:50b0416f-0177-44e0-8837-92064e5e4e39> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.wiihacks.com/printthread.php?t=98927&pp=10&page=1 | 2015-03-06T01:14:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936465069.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074105-00008-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96635 | 232 |
Previously unknown to me, Den Ishu has just released a really nice four track EP on Supernature.
Title track 'How U Gonna Feel' drops some heavy funk, a hard, substantial bass line keeping things moving amongst tweaking strings and the odd flourish of live bass. This is a track that instantly feels very, very close - the drums high in the mix and the whole thing incredibly crisp. It's a pretty irresistible start to the EP.
'Your Experience' may be a little less immediate, but it's just as good - a Detroit groove builds whilst a clipped vocal harps on about the importance of 'the experience'. It's clearly a dance floor piece but it does it pretty well. 'Say The Word' continues the progression - it's harder and more introspective than either other cut, synths swirling claustrophobically, holding one pretty much continuous warbling melody line for about a third of the song. With nice percussive breaks and plenty of high-end it once again proves Ishu's chops.
Avatism turns in a seriously deep remix of 'How U Gonna Feel' that focuses on a few key elements and throws in some piano jazz for good measure. It's very dark and creepy but also seriously catchy, dropping a massive bass line halfway through that you can't help but move to.
A really consistent but varied release.
High U Gonna Feel is out now on Supernature. | <urn:uuid:782270f9-46ab-4d16-a56a-cc2a5ea7648e> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | http://www.blackplastic.co.uk/alternative-electronic-music-b/tag/avatism | 2019-10-24T00:12:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987836368.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023225038-20191024012538-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.952045 | 294 |
When thou cam'st first,
Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me
Water with berries in't; and teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee
And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle,
The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile. | <urn:uuid:b4388c88-0615-46d2-9f3c-88fbc32e13a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://www.worldofquotes.com/quote/25929/index.html | 2016-09-28T10:28:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738661349.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173741-00192-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.876075 | 91 |
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I had downloaded some ringtones that I no longer wanted, so I deleted them. When I go to the Media application and select ringtones, I still see the titles of the ringtones I deleted. When I attempted to play them, there was no ringtone, just the title. When I attempted to delete the ringtone from within the Media app, it would allow me to do it, but they still show up in the list of ringtones. | <urn:uuid:c44b250e-9869-44d6-9c3c-6d2e20f2e468> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.blackberryforums.com/1140396-post1.html | 2014-08-21T22:33:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500821666.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021341-00158-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965782 | 113 |
The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Greenville is a modern, independent pharmacy striving to assist our valuable customers and bring you everyday low prices on popular generic drugs. We take pride in helping our customers to better their healthcare while saving them money when the opportunity presents itself.
We always strive to provide friendly, competent, and quick service to all of our customers. We have a knowledgable, well-trained staff with pharmacists that take the time to address every customer’s concerns. We give back to the community often with contributions to our schools, churches and other community involved activities. | <urn:uuid:13dcf667-8ad4-40b5-831e-84344c3f8858> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://erieedrx.com/home/ | 2019-11-13T16:17:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667262.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113140725-20191113164725-00450.warc.gz | en | 0.93734 | 121 |
The Romanian Television host, Lulia Vantur is not a new name for the Indian audience. She is allegedly in a relationship with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan. The gorgeous foreign beauty was reportedly born on 24th July 1980. Lulia is one of the famous and well know faces of Romanian television industry.
Lulia Vantur Relationship with Salman Khan
The Romanian beauty is reportedly in a relationship with Salman Khan. The ‘Sultan’ actor first met Lulia in 2010 during the shooting of ‘Ek Tha Tiger’. Since then, Salman was in contact with her. Later after his breakup with former girlfriend Katrina Kaif, Salman and Lulia came closer.
Lulia Vantur Photos
If reports are to be believed then, Lulia Vantur is all set to make her debut in Indian Television with a reality show along with Salman Khan. Industry insiders mentioned, that the reality shows named ‘The Farm Along with Salman Khan’ will feature the Romanian beauty. Thus, she is trying to learn Hindi lately to overcome the language barrier.
Was Lulia Vantur Married Before?
As per reports, she was earlier married to Romanian actor cum filmmaker Marius Moga. The report suggests that Lulia was married for four years before she divorced Marius after he got involved with another woman. However, the 35 years old actress clarified that she was never married before.
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Last Saturday I had a marathon face painting session at the University of Leicester, who were holding a fun day for the families of the Psychology and Medical Science departments. I painted for 5 hours non-stop & managed only a couple of photos, my favourite being this little cutie!
Her lovely mum also sent me the photo below, which I absolutely adore! Love our smiles and love my jaunty banner put up for me by the friendliest, most accommodating event managers I’ve encountered 😁
Such a lovely day, albeit incredibly busy, and the only food I ate for 5 hrs was some freshly made popcorn donated to me by one of the mums! Really lovely people all round, and really grateful to all the mums who kept telling their children to “stand back & give the lady some space” without any prompting from me!😍💜🌈
Just to prove I do paint boys too, here’s the birthday boy from yesterday’s party in Leicester! Absolutely loved face painting this little hulk at his 5th birthday party – such a cutie! Love his little upsidedown badge. Love his little shirt. And I love that you can’t see his neck in the photo so it kind of looks like he’s wearing a mask/ his face is super-imposed! ❤
And here’s me face painting the birthday boy!
Livi Lollipop – available for face painting at birthday parties in Leicester – girls and boys – corporate events, University events eg fresher’s fairs, weddings, nightclubs, markets, fairs, fetes, cafes and many more! Please get in touch firstname.lastname@example.org
Always so amazed and so grateful to receive feedback like this!! xo
Livi Lollipop face painted at our daughter’s 4th birthday party last weekend and we would definitely recommend her and book her again. Not only are her face painting and designs fantastic and some of the best and most creative we’ve seen, but she is absolutely wonderful with the children and generally lovely; warm, patient, very professional, enchanting and tons of fun! My daughter, her friends and our family loved meeting her! Thank you so much Livi, you made our little girl’s day!
Love, rainbows and fairy dust,
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"In recent years, OpenStack, software utilized for the establishment and management of public and private cloud platforms, has had a substantial impact on the computing industry. Now, not only is this set of tools being used in more initiatives than ever, but the biggest names in the technology sector are growing their brands by acquiring OpenStack-based companies. The result of these mergers is an even bigger shift toward OpenStack in enterprise IT environments.
""IT is headed toward being something more akin to a utility service, transformed by OpenStack's open standardized cloud architecture, which will improve interoperability and render vendor lock-in a thing of the past,"" wrote Network World contributor Orlando Bayter.
OpenStack acquisitions: Who is buying who?
Bayter noted that this year, several significant OpenStack acquisitions took place. However, it appears that the trend toward OpenStack didn't begin in 2015.
According to ITWorld contributor Nancy Gohring, some of the most critical acquisitions taking place last year were also tied to OpenStack. This includes a number of big purchases, such as EMC's acquisition of Cloudscaling, a provider of OpenStack-based private cloud platforms, for an estimated $50 million.
Last year also saw the purchase of Eucalyptus, a provider of private cloud technology compatible with Amazon Web Services, by HP. Gohring pointed out that this acquisition likely hinged upon Eucalyptus' CEO Marten Mickos, former MySQL CEO, who will now manage HP's cloud sector.
Cisco also made moves within the OpenStack community, purchasing Metacloud, a unique company offering OpenStack private cloud as a service, enabling remote management of customers' cloud environments.
Red Hat made two notable OpenStack-based acquisitions last year, including its purchase of eNovance for $95 million, as well as Inktank for $175 million.
""[T]raditional enterprise vendors continue to see potential in OpenStack and they're willing to shell out the cash to buy the expertise and technology they need to pursue the market,"" Gohring wrote.
2015 OpenStack mergers
This year brought even more OpenStack acquisitions by big names in the technology industry, including IBM. Fortune contributor Barb Darrow reported that in June, IBM moved forward with its purchase of Blue Box, a provider of OpenStack private clouds. Many experts noted that this merger will considerably boost IBM's cloud company SoftLayer, which it acquired for $2 million two years ago. Although IBM surpassed its goal of $7 billion in cloud revenue before this most recent acquisition, it's clear the cloud is still a prime focus for the company.
Cisco also made its second OpenStack-based acquisition this year with the purchase of Piston Cloud Computing, a startup offering OpenStack cloud infrastructure on commodity hardware, Data Center Knowledge contributor Jason Verge reported.
Bayter noted that OpenStack can be considerably valuable for service providers, particularly due to the technology's ability to support private-to-public scalability and workload portability. This will surely change the way enterprises interact with their services.
""Adoption of OpenStack by these providers signals a major shift for the industry, moving away from dependence on hardware sales and heavy contractual service agreements to a scalable IaaS utilities model, where customers pay for what they need when they need it and expect it to just work,"" Bayter wrote. ""Providers may need to shoulder the burden of maintaining data centers but will reap the reward of pulling the maximum value from their commodity investments.""" | <urn:uuid:8a71b525-cb35-4e75-83f0-3821d9608f48> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.datacenters.com/news/openstack-leading-the-way-in-next-generation-cloud-computing | 2022-11-27T08:38:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710218.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127073607-20221127103607-00534.warc.gz | en | 0.957654 | 725 |
That famous cloud
That famous cloud …
What do the French really know about the consequences of Chernobyl’s radioactive cloud on their country ? Not much … . Our technocrats in nuclear power have had the good idea to make “That famous cloud …” stop at the Maginot line.
Thirteen years after the catastrophe, one state agency, The Institute of Nuclear Protection and Safety has officially acknowledged the contamination figures on the French territory that the CRII-Rad had announced as early as June 1986. Some places in France like Boréon Forest and the Mercantour Massif have been contaminated up to 800.000Bq/m2 of caesium 137. The contamination rate of the highly-watched area of Chernobyl starts at 555.000Bq/m2. In France, these highly contaminated places are touristic sites !
Thyroid cancers have increased of 9 % according to the French Ministry of Health, and an investigation dated of May 1999 led by the Regional Union of Health Insurance clearly states a significant yearly increase of 11%. The only exhaustive register of thyroid cancers is that of Champagne-Ardennes that has existed for 30 years. The 1986-1996-time period indicates an increase of 30% for woman cancers, a 100% increase for man cancers, and of 300% for the 12 to 19 year-olds.
What did the French government at the time lie to us for? Could the recognition of the importance and the risks of the catastrophe have led to challenging the issue of France’s nuclear policy? France is indeed the most nuclearized European country with one third of the European nuclear civilian sites on its territory. It is the second in the world after the United States of America. Despite the various demands from The European Parliament, thirteen years later, there has still not yet been a relevant political intention from the successive governments in power to look for a possible link between current thyroid diseases and Chernobyl.
For two years, Jean-Michel Jacquemin led a meticulous investigation on the field, among the best scientific and medical sources. He reveals the truth about those who are to blame, but who are they?
The second part of the book is dedicated to the sanitary and ecological consequences in the former USSR. Beyond the haze of lies in which some try to hide it, “That famous cloud …” keeps raining on us. | <urn:uuid:1a5d1198-0576-46a0-b957-4531c2f67f02> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://jeanmicheljacquemin.com/index.php?link=20000x&PHPSESSID=1c26a648c1063908348144292a8c3acc | 2018-06-24T12:33:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866937.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624121927-20180624141927-00210.warc.gz | en | 0.95241 | 489 |
There are hundreds of independent community news sites in the U.S. — thousands if you count blogs — but only 131 of them meet the standards of “Michele’s List.” The list was assembled and is periodically updated by journalist/researcher/consultant Michele McLellan, who was the principal founder of Block by Block, a network that inspired (and goaded) “indie” community editors and publishers to focus, and stay focused, on achieving sustainability in the brave new world of digital journalism. McLellan, who still compiles her “list,” talked with Street Fight recently about what her new survey revealed….
Hyperlocal news sites are struggling to earn money. In part, that’s because they have imposed the artificial burden of a full church-state separation (ads / news) like the New York Times and other top-flight pubs. In an ideal world, this separation works. But in small town papers or small papers covering hyperlocal areas, church and state will never be separate – and never have been.
“People are beginning to figure out that the display advertising model is a bad carryover from mass media,” says Gordon Borrell. “What does that mean for the future of hyperlocal websites? I think there’s value in them, but I honestly don’t think there’s enough value to sustain the business model in any single market beyond being a very small niche.” | <urn:uuid:25976e28-485a-4ed8-8b6f-fc117b9e8e5a> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://streetfightmag.com/tag/block-by-block/ | 2018-09-25T14:51:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267161661.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20180925143000-20180925163400-00141.warc.gz | en | 0.946809 | 311 |
A long practised way of keeping wrinkles at bay is to mix Olive Oil with a little lemon juice
Mix olive oil with a few drops of rosemary oil to create soothing massage oil for weary feet and tired muscles.
Mix equal amounts of olive oil and salt together to make a traditional skin softening lubricant. Massage gently into hardened skin then rinse off with warm water and pat dry
DRY SKIN OINTMENT
Mash half of a ripe avocado and mix with three spoonfuls of olive oil into a smooth cream. This remedy can also be used as a mask: apply mixture to face, leave on for ten minutes, then rinse with warm water.
Mix olive oil with a little lemon juice and gently rub on skin and leave on overnight.
Soak nails in warm Olive Oil for about five minutes, then cleanse with soap and water. | <urn:uuid:7160630d-537a-4d17-a919-6a52ec208307> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.filippoberio.co.uk/olive-oil-health/olive-oil-health-benefits/wellness/ | 2018-03-19T02:48:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646213.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319023123-20180319043123-00333.warc.gz | en | 0.927591 | 177 |
In 1 Corinthians 11:29, in the middle of Paul’s discussion of the Lord’s Supper debacle in the Corinthian church, he wrote this: “For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself” (NET). It’s not uncommon for Christians to read this text and think: “If I come to this table in an unworthy manner, I could face God’s eternal judgment and wrath! If I don’t examine myself enough, or if I do it wrong, this could mean condemnation and hell for me.” In fact, some Christians simply stay away from the table because they have these kinds of thoughts.
However, in 1 Corinthians 11:29 Paul is not talking about eternal condemnation or eternal judgment. He’s talking about temporal and physical judgment; that is, weakness, sickness, and even death (v 30). In fact, Paul goes on to say that this “judgment” is God’s fatherly discipline (think Heb. 12:6) to prevent his people from falling into the condemnation that the unbelieving world will face (11:32).
Matthew Henry explains this well:
Note, A careless and irreverent receiving of the Lord’s supper may bring temporal punishments. Yet the connection seems to imply that even those who were thus punished were in a state of favor with God, at least many of them: They were chastened of the Lord, that they should not be condemned with the world, v. 32. Now divine chastening is a sign of divine love: Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth (Heb. 12:6), especially with so merciful a purpose, to prevent their final condemnation. In the midst of judgment, God remembers mercy: he frequently punishes those whom he tenderly loves. It is kindness to use the rod to prevent the child’s ruin. He will visit such iniquity as this under consideration with stripes, and yet make those stripes the evidence of his lovingkindness. Those were in the favor of God who yet so highly offended him in this instance, and brought down judgments on themselves; at least many of them were; for they were punished by him out of fatherly good-will, punished now that they might not perish forever. Note, It is better to bear trouble in this world than to be miserable to eternity. And God punishes his people now, to prevent their eternal woe.
That’s excellent and worth reading a few times in case we need correction in this area of our Christian thinking about Communion.
The above quote is found in Henry, Matthew. Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994.
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Q: I’m wondering what you mean by the passive one always “wins.” [Comment on topic: “Couples: Passive and Controlling Partners”] I don’t see how anyone wins in this type of relationship.
I am the controller and he is passive aggressive. I’m sure we will get a divorce as he wont sleep with me at all and yawns at my advances. If you could elaborate it would be most helpful. Thank you.
A: I think the quotation marks on “wins” are what matters here. I’m saying that in the battle between one person who keeps insisting on things her way and another person who keeps on being a immovable donkey, the immovable donkey is the most powerful. If both people play their parts intensely, the passive person makes everything grind to a standstill and the controlling person eventually gives up.
You don’t mention if you’ve done the “Relationship Analysis” at my site, but I’d suggest it. If you do this analysis, remember that it only rates the amount of GOOD things in the relationship, so you could expect a quite low score. The scoring, however, isn’t the valuable part of the analysis. The advice after you are finished with the scoring is what I think will be interesting for you.
I strongly suggest couple’s counseling and/or individual therapy, even if only one of you are willing. Remember, either person can always find someone else to try to control or be passive with… and this needs to change in each person before the chances of a successful relationship with anyone can improve. (I’m assuming from your question that the power struggle in your relationship is quite severe. Since I only base this on these few words you typed on a particular day, I know that assumption could be wrong.)
I sincerely hope both of you will decide to change.
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Written by: Paula Limbaugh
I have to say I was quite excited when I was given this book by Random House to review. As an avid reader and long time Dean Koontz fan, I couldn’t wait to begin reading. Alas, after a few chapters I found myself a tad disappointed, thinking that this was just another coming of age story, I felt a bit let down. Thankfully I was wrong!
The City is told by an older Jonah (Kirk) Bledsoe but begins when he is eight years old. The story is about a young boy growing up in the sixties. His mom is a nightclub singer and Grandpa, a piano man. Jonah has music in his blood and aspires to one day be better than his Grandpa.
“When I was eight, I would meet the woman, who claimed she was the city, though she wouldn’t make that assertion for two more years. She said more than anything, cities are people.”
The city, in the form of a woman called Pearl takes young Jonah under her wing and begins grooming him for what’s to come. In a series of nightmares he begins to see what lies ahead and who the enemy is. When a strange woman named Fiona Cassidy shows up one day as a new tenant in Jonah’s building, his hackles are raised, she has been in his nightmares.
After a harrowing encounter with Fiona, Jonah enlists the aid of another neighbor Mr. Yoshioka to find out more about Fiona. With the investigation underway the mystery deepens. There’s a lot of subterfuge and a touch of the supernatural going on. Somehow the father, who had abandoned Jonah, is involved and the plot just keeps on thickening.
When Jonah begins to despair over the turn of events, the city is there once again to pick him up. With the sage advice from Pearl, “No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run.” stuck in his head, Jonah is able to go forth and face his destiny.
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Irvin Industries, Inc. Overview
Irvin Industries, Inc. filed as a Domestic for Profit Corporation in the State of Florida and is no longer active. This corporate entity was filed approximately sixteen years ago on Thursday, February 3, 2000 as recorded in documents filed with Florida Department of State.
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Judie Dziezak, Attorney
- Dziezak Law Firm, P.C.
- B.S., Chemistry & Biology, Marian University, Indianapolis, IN; M.S., Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL
Judie Dziezak has been an attorney for about 20 years, and heads her own law firm practicing in U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulatory law and intellectual property law.
When she graduated from college, Judie had no intention whatsoever of going into law. She was targeting a career in pharmacology or food science. Armed with an M.S. in food science from Purdue University, she sought a position in the food industry. However, at that time, the industry was hampered by a recession and was not hiring. That prompted her to broaden her search to consider positions that would utilize her bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology. The position she accepted was as a chemist in the adhesives and polymer industry, with Morton Chemical Company.
Driven by her interest in the food industry, she was delighted to be offered a job as a food scientist with Quaker Oats Company. For four years, she enjoyed the challenges of R&D. In the course of that work, she discovered an inherent interest in writing and speaking. When Food Technology magazine — an international publication of the Institute of Food Technologists — posted an ad for an associate editor position, she leaped at the opportunity. In that position, she wrote more than 65 articles, including comprehensive technical reports, attended numerous conferences, and met many people, many of whom were lawyers. With each successive job building upon the knowledge base of its predecessor, she was lured into law school by her interest in analysis, writing, and speaking.
She went on to law school, passed the patent bar exam, worked as a litigator and acquired experience in several law firms, ranging from a medium-sized, international firm (with 230+ attorneys) to small boutique firms. She, however, disagreed with certain questionable business practices she observed at some of the firms, and decided to start her own firm. She did so in 2003.
I have a Juris Doctorate — i.e., a J.D. My highest technical degree is an M.S. from Purdue University in food science. My thesis was directed toward stabilizing chromatographically isolated and purified anthocyanins (plant pigments) by complexing them with flavonols so they retained their color. Before entering the Food Science Department, I worked in the Department of Pharmacology. There, I conducted research on the effect of halogenated benzenes on acetanilide esterase, acetanilide hydroxylase, and procaine esterase, working with rat models. That work culminated in an article in the journal, Research Communications in Chemical Pathology and Pharmacology.
As an attorney, I practice in two areas: FDA regulatory law and intellectual property (IP) law.
On the FDA side, I help companies in the food, dietary supplement, and cosmetic industries to stay off of the radar screens of FDA and FTC. My work focuses on helping them comply with assorted regulations in terms of manufacturing, marketing, and developing their products.
And on the IP side, I help businesses identify which intellectual assets — for example, trade secrets, trademarks, and innovations — are protectable, develop strategies for protecting such assets, and help the companies monetize those assets through licensing and other technology-based agreements.
I am blessed with a lot of variety in my work! Some days are spent at the desk, writing, counseling clients via telephone conferences, developing strategies for complying with FDA regulations or for protecting innovations, and negotiating technology-based agreements. Other days involve meetings outside the office, and lunches with colleagues.
As an attorney, my workplace is a law office.
Typically, my work week runs from about 45 to 52 hours, which includes out-of-the-office events.
I love the variety in the work I do. I enjoy using my technical background, married with a touch of creativity, in helping clients resolve their legal issues. I am “big” on preventative guidance, especially if it requires a creative touch — I try to keep clients from getting ensnarled in situations that would cost them a lot of money to extricate themselves. Knowing that I helped a client advance its business and achieve its goals gives me tremendous satisfaction.
Lists!! I strive to get a minimum of three things done each day, no matter what happens. I keep an up-to-date list and cross off each item as it is completed.
The only career advice I ever received was after I had worked as a chemist and was seeking a position as a food scientist. I was interviewing with a Fortune 300 company (at that time). The R&D director there said to pay attention to the atmosphere and “see if it’s right for you.” In other words, pay attention to the general “feel” of the place — if it’s positive, negative, accepting, or repressive — and how the people treat each other. I did, and I ended up accepting the job offer presented to me at the interview. I appreciated the wisdom of that advice and invoked it through my careers.
To my chagrin, however, when I entered the world of law, I dismissed the wisdom of that advice and accepted a job I should have turned down.
I had been offered a position with a law firm which I didn’t feel I wanted, but also didn’t want to turn down. My gut was saying, “walk away.” But the legal matters the firm handled sounded fascinating. So, I dismissed all the “signs” and accepted the job. Shortly after starting, I saw business practices there that I did not agree with. I also later found out that the patent attorney I was hired to replace, who handled chemical patents, had been let go for submitting fraudulent dinner receipts.
So now, when asked what advice I have for new graduates ready to embark on job-hunting, I always tell them to pay attention to the atmosphere and the energy of a prospective employer. Think about any clues revealed about their ethics. Don’t compromise your values just to “fit in.” Don’t be afraid to stand up for what’s right, even if you are the only one doing so. When you get older and look back, you will have absolutely no regrets.
It’s more of a “trait” than a “talent”: I thrive on variety in my work, I love learning new things, I need to be challenged, and I am pretty flexible.
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About Joyce Gordon Gallery
A commercial fine art gallery located in the downtown district of Oakland California, Joyce Gordon Gallery exhibits art that reflects the social and cultural diversity of the Bay Area and ...
Black Market (Front Gallery)
Milton 510 Bowens
When: February 2 – 24, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, February 2nd, 6-9pm
Joyce Gordon Gallery presents, “BLACK MARKET,” an exhibit of paintings by Milton 510 Bowens which focuses on the black dollar in the context where all capitalism and commercialism is conducted without respect to a true revenue enhancement system that sustains the black Community and its Infrastructure.
It has been reported that, “Black money today is created at every level of the American Economic system”. Yet Blacks continue to represent the lowest categories when it comes to wealth and wealth creation in this country. The work in this exhibition will explore how the almost non-existing circulation of black money has adversely affected the Black Communities Cultural and Economic Systems in several ways. Bowens does not claim to be an economic expert, nor a societal scientist. He is merely an artist whose work looks to the people for the cause and the reply. He takes a bold stance by suggesting that his people, African Americans, Black Folks today can be both the cause and solution to their economic struggles here in America. “Eye want this exhibition to generate more than dialogue, Eye want this work to spark a real action.” – Milton Bowens
Born and raised in Oakland, Calif., Milton Bowens, is the fifth boy of ten children and also the youngest of the ten, that’s the origin of his unique signature Milton 510. Milton’s artistic promise began at the age of five with nothing more than a few pencils and cut up brown paper bags stapled together and used as sketch paper, thanks to his mother’s ingenuity of making the best of lean times. Milton never lost sight of his humble roots. Discreetly placed on many of his collage works is a piece or strip of brown paper bag a subtle reminder it doesn’t take much to spark creativity. Years later, Milton’s formal art education took off while he attended the Renaissance Art School in Oakland during his junior and senior high school years.
Milton is a nationally recognized artist and activist, who has been creating powerful work for over the past 20 years. With his unique brand of mixed media paintings, enveloping the viewer as witness, participant and long lost relatives, they’ve became reflections on family, life and culture. Having one of his jazz collections “Afro-Classical” used as a part of course study on the Harlem Renaissance at Cornell University since 2009. | <urn:uuid:42d8803e-bf88-4ba7-b7a6-10c45281c4a7> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://oaklandartmurmur.org/events/black-market-artwork-by-milton-bowens/ | 2018-08-15T11:41:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210058.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815102653-20180815122653-00459.warc.gz | en | 0.967492 | 562 |
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Greetings to you in the Name of Jesus Christ and welcome Week 2 of our series on The Power of the Tongue. This week, the focus is on The Doubting Tongue.
Operating in the Supernatural requires Faith (Mark 16:17a) and one of the ways Faith is expressed is through our declarations.
Mark 11:23 “For assuredly, say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” NKJV
One of the greatest stories of the manifestation of the Supernatural the world has ever known is that of a virgin that conceived and gave birth to a son without any human involvement. There is absolutely no medical explanation for that divine event except that it is a wonder (Isaiah 7:14).
In studying that great event, I found out that this virgin (Mary) used the Power of the tongue to her advantage (Luke 1:38).
Worth noting is the fact that female anatomy requires that she meets with a man for conception to take place and it would have made logical sense for Mary to respond to the angel in doubt but the Bible records that she expressed Faith in the Word sent to her from God and indeed she conceived and gave birth to a son as prophesied; while still a virgin.
There are many things we require in life that will take the Hand of God to deliver but to see these things come into reality, we must become proficient at declaring Faith. The more we assert our confidence in God by making declarations of Faith, the more we are guaranteed to see the fulfillment of prophecies. On the other hand, the more we declare our unbelief, the more reinforced impossibilities become.
With God all things are possible but you have to cooperate with God by getting rid of a Doubting tongue.
Have a great week.
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The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) and
allied agencies seized more than 31,000 marijuana
plants during a recent eradication operation.
On Thursday, Sept. 22, the SCSO Marijuana Eradication Team (MET), Sheriff’s Special Response Team, United States Forest Service (USFS) and the Jackson County (Ore.) Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) conducted a marijuana eradication operation on the North Fork of the Salmon River in the vicinity of Red Banks campground, which is located between Sawyers Bar and Forks of Salmon.
A large marijuana garden had been detected in this area during a recent SCSO reconnaissance of the area, according to an SCSO press release.
About 31,035 mature marijuana plants were located and seized for destruction during the operation. The estimated street value of a mature marijuana plant is approximately $3,000; total street value of the plants seized is estimated at $93,105,000.
A large tent containing food supplies was found within the garden. It is believed that there were three to four suspects living at the site who left the area about a week prior to the raid for unknown reasons, according to the release.
Earlier in the month, the MET, Special Response Team
and USFS Law Enforcement division conducted
reconnaissance and eradication operations on five
different gardens in western Siskiyou County within
the Highway 96 corridor. Two of these sites were
located north of Happy Camp, near the Oregon border.
These two marijuana gardens were found unoccupied,
and the seizure of over 4,500 marijuana plants
resulted from the operation, the release said.
Three additional sites were located west of Happy Camp along the Humboldt County line close to Somes Bar. Two of these sites are believed to have been operated by the same suspects, according to the release.
Several tents and living areas were found unoccupied by investigators.
The largest of these sites contained 66,578 marijuana plants in two separates pods most likely being operated by a drug trafficking organization. All of the marijuana plants were seized for destruction. Evidence was collected and an ongoing investigation is underway to identify the suspects involved in these illicit drug operations, the release said.
Total seizures for the two-day operation were 71,056 plants, with an approximate street value of $213,168,000.
“I would like to remind the public to be especially alert and vigilant during this time of year since the marijuana harvest season is still underway and conflicts between the public and those conducting illegal growing operations are possible on public and private lands,” Sheriff Jon Lopey said. “People who encounter gardening supplies, irrigation systems and isolated camps should immediately leave the area and contact law enforcement authorities. The Sheriff’s Office’s Marijuana Eradication Team will aggressively investigate all reports of suspicious marijuana cultivation activity.”
Lopey commended the assistance and support the SCSO received from the USFS, the JCSO and the California Department of Fish and Game.
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Nulato Tribal Enrollment Process
If you are a lineal descendant of a Nulato Resident and would like to become a tribal member, please fill out the Tribal Enrollment Application. You will need to enclose your original birth certificate along with the application, it will be returned to you when the enrollment process is through.
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Strategies for minimising human – elephant conflict in Zimbabwe
Because of ever increasing human growth and encroachment into wildlife habitat, degraded foraging, reduced landscape connectivity and a significant decline in historical elephant populations, the problem of human – elephant conflict increases, not only in Zimbabwe, but in other African countries such as Zambia and Namibia and elsewhere with the problem being particularly pressing in Sri-Lanka and some of the Indian states.
Until now most strategies have been human-centric and weighted against wildlife offering solutions to deter elephant behaviour and have been based on keeping humans and elephants apart.
In Zimbabwe, Jacqueline Kubania of the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) writes that they understand the economic benefits of having a thriving wildlife population that promotes wildlife tourism – these funds have been used to build schools and healthcare facilities. However, destroyed crops and injured or killed humans also builds resentment towards wildlife.
Nero Mtupaunga, a small-scale farmer from Mbire district says: “I have woken up to half of my crops gone after a night of elephants rampaging among the sorghum, cotton, and groundnuts. Couple that with other challenges including water shortages and pests and it means that there are times I only manage to harvest a quarter of what I planted, which is barely enough to feed my family, let alone sell for profit.”[i]
Collen Matema is AWF’s Community-based Natural Resources Management Officer in Mbire and knows the area well. The biggest challenge in implementing conservation activities in Mbire district has been demonstrating to the local community that peaceful co-existence between wildlife and people is possible if they put in place a few effective measures. Some of these strategies are discussed below.
Being long-lived animals, elephant survival depends upon seasonal migration across large areas to meet their needs for food, water, and social and reproductive partners. They consume about 150 kg of forage and 190 litres of water per day. Meeting those needs requires a large area to ensure they get a variety of grasses, shrubs, tree leaves, fruits and roots. An African family herd will typically range over 11 to 500 sq. kms.[ii]
In return research has shown they play a key role in shaping the landscape and a healthy elephant population maintains wide biodiversity.
Results of human-elephant conflict
As humans encroach evermore on elephant habitat, the likelihood of conflict increases. In India it is estimated that half a million families are affected by crop-raiding; there are 400 human deaths annually with 100 “problem” elephants being culled. Sri Lanka annually has about 70 human deaths and 200 elephants culled. In Kenya about 200 humans are killed by elephants and 50 to 120 problem elephants culled annually. Other Southern African countries have lower, but significant numbers.
Many of those directly affected are amongst the world’s poorest and live in marginalized communities that increasingly compete with the elephant for space and resources.[iii] There is often competition during the dry season between human needs for water for themselves, their crops and livestock and elephants.
Elephant conservation efforts
Conservation efforts in recent years have focussed on reducing human and elephant lives due to conflict to reducing habitat damage and ivory poaching and wildlife trafficking. Internationally the ivory trade has been curtailed and made illegal in many countries, but not all.
L J Shaffer, K K Khadka, J Van Den Hoek and K.J. Naithani write that: “Research in Zimbabwe suggests that elephant populations will co-exist to varying degrees with human communities until a threshold of about 15–20 people/km2 is reached (Hoare and Du Toit, 1999). At this point, the habitat loss and fragmentation accrued from a 40–50% transformation of the landscape for human livelihood activity use renders the area unfit for elephants.”[iv]
Human encroachment deprives elephants of their preferred forage and concentrated elephant foraging contributes to biodiversity loss and restricts their migration patterns…the habitat fragmentation leads to human-elephant conflict with roads and farms around their fragmented feeding grounds. The proximity of agricultural fields leads to crop-raiding.
Most strategies rely on altering animal behaviour by instilling fear in them
In the past most of the strategies have been to condition fear into elephants so they avoid human contact. Early efforts were directed at killing “rogue animals” that invaded villager’s fields – this had the advantage of also providing ‘sport’ for the hunter and many early written accounts by district commissioners and district officers give details of how they dealt with these problem animals and earned the grateful praise of villagers.
Fencing methods - Other attempts were made to fence off areas with barbed wire or chain link, more recently with electrified fences, but often these are overcome by the animals themselves as the photo below shows. Elephants are quick to learn when electric fences are inactive and that their tusks do not conduct electricity, so they use their tusks to break an enclosing electric fence, resulting in costly damage to the fence.
Physical barriers also negatively impact by further isolating already fragmented elephant populations, disrupting their movement and access to seasonal food and water resources and impeding gene flow between herds.
Experiments have been done in applying chilli pepper paste to a rope and beehives hung on fences or nearby trees have been shown to be quite effective at deterring elephants and have the added benefit of providing pollinators and honey. These all rely on fear responses from the elephant.
Perimeter methods – buffer crops such as chamomile, coriander, mint, ginger, onion, garlic, lemongrass and citrus trees can be planted around agricultural areas that are unappealing to elephants, trenches or ditches can be dug around fields which elephants find difficult to cross, trip-wires can be placed to warn crop guards.
Repellents – chilli pepper guns can be used, burning chilli and dung, chilli bombs utilised (dried chillies combined with dung and water) burning wood fires or using spotlights which are shone in elephants’ eyes to drive them away.
Acoustic deterrents – loudhailers playing loud sounds, using hand-held firecrackers whose light and sounds drive the animals away, hiring guards or local farmers occupying watchtowers, paying compensation for crop damage, human injury and death. Farmers have traditionally guarded crops and scared away crop-raiding elephants by yelling, setting off firecrackers, hitting metal objects, and throwing stones. Research has shown that elephants quickly learn to tolerate these sounds and return to raid crops.
Early detection and warning
Some warning systems incorporate detectors that monitor the infrasonic sounds “elephant rumbles” that they use to communicate and send texts to the mobile phones of farmers and local officials so that the elephants can be driven away before they begin their crop-raiding activities. In remote areas however there may not be the phone coverage to send texts to farmers. Satellite collars on elephants have also been used to trigger detectors into alerting individuals of their presence, but of course they need to be initially captured and collared.
Relocating elephants – moving elephants by drugging and immobilizing them before transporting them to new areas may result in increased conflict in those release areas and the spread of problematic behaviour. In many cases the elephants attempt to return to their original territory.
Paying compensation to those affected by crop-raiding
The attitude of local communities is crucial in managing human-elephant conflict[v] and compensation for crop losses can play a major role in building positive attitudes and tolerance towards their elephant neighbours. The process involves reporting any crop or property damage to park officials and then a visual assessment of the damage before making a compensation claim. In both Asia and Africa this creates opportunities for corruption, many African countries lack any official compensation process and others, including Zimbabwe, lack the financial resources to pay meaningful compensation.
The culling of ‘problem’ elephants, particularly those that have killed humans has been practised for a long time…it provided meat to local communities and offered ivory to the hunter. The widespread killing of elephant in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe forced the herds into more marginal areas where they were protected by the presence of tsetse-fly. Illegal poaching and commercial safari hunting have targeted bull elephants with their heavier tusks, and this has potentially degraded the genetic health of fragmented elephant populations.
Mumby and Plotnik say that human – elephant conflicts take a variety of forms ranging from agricultural, environmental and / or financial impact related to elephant crop-raiding or foraging, to damage to property and water points and grain stores as well as injury and death to livestock and humans which often leads onto retaliatory killing of elephants by humans.
The above methods are all human-centric and offer wildlife deterrents, addressing the symptoms rather than offering solutions
They argue that more attention needs to be paid to the underlying causes of the problem from the elephant’s perspective – in fact interactions between humans and elephants are not always negative “and coexistence is a better term because it highlights that positive relationships can and do exist between species living in the same habitats and landscapes.”
They acknowledge: “that humans and elephants do often compete for resources and are often involved in agonistic interactions across both African and Asian landscapes.”[vi]
In the article on “human-elephant conflict” the authors argue that many strategies designed to minimise human-elephant conflict frequently transfer the conflict risk from one place to another.[vii]
There is a need to take the “elephants' perspective” to prevent conflict between humans and elephants
Mumby and Plotnik argue that more research needs to be done in: “investigating elephant behaviour, cognition and ecology at the level of the individual to prevent conflict from occurring in the first place.”
It is clear that: “in the social context, elephants are generally regarded, like humans, as cognitively complex, socially intelligent animals that display empathy toward and learn socially…”[viii] For example, they will respond to changing environmental conditions such as droughts by adjusting growth and reproduction rates. The young learn behaviour patterns and the layout of their landscape from both their mothers and the herd matriarch. Bulls live in a bachelor herd where they learn correct behaviour from the leader.
A clearer scientific understanding of their non-visual sensory modes - i.e., their sense of smell and hearing and listening will definitely lead to strategies that mitigate human – elephant conflict.
They believe that erecting physical barriers will not serve human – elephant conflict in the long-term.
Crop-raiding may be not only to access food
Mumby and Plotnik argue that migration may be a primary reason for crop-raids with limited space available in National Parks, the demography of the elephant population and dispersal patterns of male elephants may be another driver or other reasons not yet clearly identified.
There has been research done on the use of elephant communication – the low infrasonic rumbles they make – to better inform humans about the presence of elephants and to provide early warnings of their presence.
Mitigation strategy requires awareness of human and elephant behaviour
Before any action is taken, a careful evaluation of both human and elephant behaviour in any locality needs to be carried out with all the disciplines - biology, psychology, anthropology and ecology at this level being involved, with: “both the social dynamics and landscape use of the humans and the elephants must be considered.”
In village communities with good leaders and friendly relations between local people then projects that require collaboration over maintaining several kilometres of electric fence may find success. Where good relations do not exist, they must be resolved first for people to co-operate if such a project is to succeed.
Elephants show individual behaviour towards conflict
The question of why some elephants come into greater conflict with humans than others has been studied and the solution could relate to:
- Parasite load
- Body size
- Social hierarchy
Identifying if specific behaviours, physical characteristics, demographic or personality traits correlate with their tendency to crop-raid or engage in conflict would help prevent these conflicts occurring in the first place.[ix]
Research is required to identify individual differences in elephants in confidence, innovation, risk-taking, leadership or neophobia (fear or dislike of new or unfamiliar situations) and in any study area it is important to get a clear understanding of each individual elephants’ characteristics as well as the leadership structure within the groups.
Influencing an elephants’ decision-making process
Armed with this information, Mumby and Plotnick state; “that instead of forcing animals away from resources they desire or need, the animals make decisions on their own to avoid them. This would inevitably promote coexistence rather than conflict…we believe scientific research into behaviour, ecology and cognition has great promise for helping develop new strategies to prevent conflict between humans and wildlife.”
Long-term resolution of human-elephant conflict
L J Shaffer, K K Khadka, J Van Den Hoek and K.J. Naithani highlight the importance of including anthropological and geographical knowledge of site-specific considerations to find sustainable solutions for the African elephant population of 550,000 to 700,000 elephants in sub-Saharan Africa and far smaller elephant population in Asia.
Alternative Suggestions for mitigating conflict
L J Shaffer, K K Khadka, J Van Den Hoek and K.J. Naithani suggest:
Ecological corridors between fragmented habitats (and National Parks) which facilitate connectivity between elephant herds, provide rescue routes and enhance gene flow by providing routes for seasonal migration and allow herds to move to new feeding and water sources.
In Zimbabwe local community leader Chimukoro states: “One of the biggest challenges exacerbating human-wildlife conflict in this area is the settlement pattern. People are scattered all over with no thought to wildlife areas. So even when we try to deal with the elephants and successfully repel them from one place, they go on to affect the next household. As council members, we are trying to fix this by organizing settlement areas to ensure that wildlife corridors are opened up to prevent wildlife from straying into farms.”[x]
Effective strategic planning that seeks to support both humans and elephants must focus on their co-existence rather than conflict by addressing what causes the conflict. They focus “on resource competition and resulting conflict for water, food and space between humans and elephants.”[xi] Strategies could include digging new wells or boreholes along elephant migration paths that divert them away from areas populated by humans. They argue that it is crucial to identify potential conflict hotspots and to identify how humans living close to these hotspots use natural resources. Only then can effective land management strategies be devised.
Some specific solutions expanded
An article by Hannay Thomasy details how Beehive fences can help mitigate human-elephant conflict. The article explains how crop-raiding by elephants can cause catastrophic losses to small farmers and even lead to injury and death.
One solution that has been tried with success is beehive fences - surrounding fields with beehives attached to fence posts and strung together with wires. Trials in Tanzania have shown that they can be a success as long as the farmers are willing to manage the bees and the bees are willing to co-operate!
Zoologist Lucy King of the NGO Save the Elephants told Mongabay the idea came from Kenyan farmers, who noticed that elephants avoided foraging in trees that contained beehives. Beehive fences are made with the hives ten metres apart on posts with thatched roofs to keep off the sun and connected to each other by wires: any movement on the wire makes the hives sway and agitates the bees.
Trials have taken place in fifteen African countries including Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and four Asian countries, they have shown that beehives are much more effective than traditional thorn fences and that 80% of elephants were deterred from entering the fields. Many communal farmers have requested to be part of the trials in both Africa and Asia.
Other benefits are that bees provide additional pollination which increases crop yields and honey is a useful by-product which can be sold for cash. Although initial results look good, African honey bees are extremely aggressive and beekeeping skills need to be taught with further trials needed to be carried out to see if the scheme can be rolled out on a larger scale. In some trials beehive fences have been supplemented with chilli oil on the fences to deter elephants.
Shreya Dasgupta in a BBC article titled ‘five ways to scare off elephants’ reveals that elephants don’t like chillies. Apparently, Capsaicin, the chemical within the chillies that makes them hot is an irritant which even makes elephants cough and sneeze and is an effective deterrent.
Buffer crops of chillies can be grown around maize crops and The Elephant Pepper Development Trust in South Africa has been teaching farmers to smear rope fences with a mix of waste engine oil and red chilli and hang cow bells to deter elephants away from their fields. Sarah Fretwell states in an article Zambian Farmers Use Spicy, Natural Deterrent to Ease Conflict with Elephants that in Zambia’s Eastern Province natural deterrents, such as chilli fences, are being used to keep elephants away from their crops and reduce human – elephant conflict.
Smallholder farmers struggle to produce enough food for their families and their crops can be destroyed overnight by a small herd of ten to fifteen elephants.[xii] Malama Njovu, Community Liaison Assistant for Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) says farmers will resort to spearing, snaring or poisoning the elephants if they are not provided with workable solutions to defend their crops with obvious negative impacts on wildlife conservation.
Chilli fences are made of two to three strands of sisal string strung along poles surrounding a crop. The ropes have cloths (mutton cloths work well), or rags soaked in chilli oil hung between the two strands of rope in between the two nearest poles. Both the rags and the sisal rope are first soaked in spent engine oil that has had crushed dried chilli powder mixed into it.
The DNPW works with local farmers to provide alternatives and chilli fences are an example. A main advantage of chilli fences is that they are inexpensive for farmers to build, taking just a few days to construct. Once farmers have dug holes and erected poles around their crops, they simply need to string rope between the poles and attach pieces of mutton cloth that have been smeared with a mixture of ground chillies and grease.
Malama says: “Once an elephant touches the cloth smeared with chilli paste, the chilli enters the elephant’s pores and starts to itch. This further dissuades the elephant from entering the field.”
Collen Matema, AWF’s Community-based Natural Resources Management Officer in Mbire says training community scouts and farmers to grow and use chilli has proved successful.[xiii]
“Both these efforts are working well so far. The use of chilli especially has proven to be sustainable, cost-effective, and easily adopted by households. Other than chilli blocks, farmers can also dip string in a mixture of oil and chilli powder and use it to fence off their farms. Testimonials from farmers show that this has also been quite successful in driving elephants away.”[xiv]
Creating pungent smoke – farmers in southern India combine dry grass with tobacco and dried chilli pods and seeds wrapped in newspaper to make a strong-smelling smoke that elephants with their keen sense of smell dislike. Clearly for this technique to work, the farmer must be in his fields when the elephants arrive.
In Zambia the DNPW shows farmers how to make chilli bricks that work the same way. Elephant dung is mixed with chilli to make the bricks and dried. When elephants are sighted, the bricks are lighted downwind in the direction of the elephant’s path and that drives them away.
Malama says: “Chillies are relatives easy to grow and there's a big demand for them since they are used often in Zambian cooking. So, farmers are really excited to integrate this new crop,” which provides additional cash income.
Jacqueline Kubania in her African Wildlife Foundation article Chilli peppers stop human-elephant conflict in northern Zimbabwe describes local Zimbabwean farmer Chenjerai Chimukoro driving off a herd of nearly 70 elephants from his fields of sorghum, cotton and maize using the same chilli pepper blocks whose smoke irritated the herd without harming them and drove them away. Again, Chimukoro says he made the effort to grow chillies to keep the elephants off his lands and to earn extra income and his efforts seem to be paying off.
In the remote parts of Zimbabwe these human – elephant encounters are almost a daily occurrence and in the past small farmers suffered severe crop-raiding which led to retaliatory attacks on wildlife. Zimparks reported that 20 people died from elephant attacks between January to October in 2019.
Using ‘chilli balls’ to reduce human-elephant conflict in Zambia
An article in Africa Geographic describes how twenty volunteers with Conservation South Luangwa (CSL) from communities around the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia have been using chilli balls, which are ping pong balls filled with chilli oil, to drive away elephants. They patrol at night as this is when elephants are most active.[xv]
The chilli ball is fired from a “chilli blaster” which is an ingenious device and does not hurt the elephant. The end of the “chili blaster” is unscrewed and the ping pong ball filled with chilli oil inserted. Flammable insect spray is sprayed into the chamber – an igniter at the back of the device when clicked ignites the gas and fires the chilli ball.
The chilli ball leaves chilli oil on the elephant’s hindquarters, which they dislike and so move off, the oil being washed away the next time the elephant sprays itself with water.
Emma Robinson, Human Wildlife Conflict (HWC) Program Manager says: “The nine chilli patrollers achieved 1,333 man-nights, firing 839 chilli ping pong balls to deter over 1,363 elephants in four months. This real practical help makes such a difference to the farmers, who are supportive of the project. In return, they help the patrollers by clearing pathways to their fields, so they can move around easily and safely after dark. They also increase the patrollers’ effectiveness by raising an early warning when they see approaching elephants. Not surprisingly, it’s much easier to move an elephant on, before its found a plentiful supply of deliciousness.”[xvi]
Apparently, elephants hate the ringtones on mobile phones, and they can be used to scare elephants away.
In southern India where elephants live in close proximity to tea and coffee plantations there have been many surprise encounters which can lead to human fatalities. The Nature Conservation Foundation has devised a simple SMS system to warn farmers. If an elephant is spotted, the NCF is alerted, and they text everyone living within two kilometres of the initial contact. A red elephant alert light on a mast also starts flashing in the vicinity to warn farmers of elephant presence and this can be set off by dialling its number to warn people returning to their homes in the dark. The system appears to be very successful in warning people of the presence of elephants.
H S Mumby and J M Plotnik. Taking the Elephants' Perspective: Remembering Elephant Behaviour, Cognition and Ecology in Human-Elephant Conflict Mitigation. Ecol. Evol., 20
L J Shaffer, K K Khadka, J Van Den Hoek, K.J. Naithani. Human-Elephant Conflict: A Review of Current Management Strategies and Future Directions
Hannah Thomasy. 11 September 2019 in Beehive fences can help mitigate human-elephant conflict: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/beehive-fences-can-help-mitigate-human...
Shreya Dasgupta. 7 December 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20141204-five-ways-to-scare-off-elephants
Sarah Fretwell. 30 October 2019. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/10/30/zambian-farmers-use...
[i] Chilli peppers stop human-elephant conflict in northern Zimbabwe
[ii] Human-Elephant Conflict
[vi] Taking the Elephants' Perspective
[vii] Human-Elephant Conflict
[viii] Taking the Elephants' Perspective
[x] Chilli peppers stop human-elephant conflict in northern Zimbabwe
[xi] Human-Elephant Conflict
[xiii] African Wildlife Foundation, with the support of the European Union, has so far supported 48 chilli growers in Mbire district,
[xiv] Chilli peppers stop human-elephant conflict in northern Zimbabwe
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The use of solar panels means that the Trust's fleet of RRVs can be fully mobile at all times to provide the best in mobile healthcare services to patients suffering life threatening injury or illness across the four counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire.
SCAS will be trialling solar panels on Front Line Double Crewed ambulances generating more benefits for more of patients and increased operational cost savings.
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Las Vegas, NV, December 03, 2015 --(PR.com
)-- Naylor & Braster, Attorneys at Law, has changed its firm name to Maupin • Naylor • Braster. The firm focuses its legal practices in commercial litigation, construction law, appellate law and alternative dispute resolution. It is managed by long-time Las Vegas attorneys John Naylor and Jennifer Braster, with the Honorable A. William Maupin. Naylor and Braster founded the firm in 2014.
According to Braster, the name change reflects the firm’s experience and honors retired Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court A. William Maupin, who is an attorney with the firm. “Justice Maupin is one of our legal community’s most respected professionals, both as an attorney and judge,” she said. Prior to joining Maupin • Naylor • Braster, he was a shareholder at Lionel Sawyer & Collins.
Maupin • Naylor • Braster’s office location, website and phone numbers remain the same. “We look forward to continued growth at our firm with some of the Nevada legal community’s brightest minds on our team,” said Braster.
ABOUT Maupin • Naylor • Braster
Maupin • Naylor • Braster is a law firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada that was founded in 2014 as Naylor & Braster, Attorneys at Law by John Naylor and Jennifer Braster. The firm focuses on commercial litigation, construction law, appellate law and alternative dispute resolution. For more information, visit www.naylorandbrasterlaw.com or call 702-420-7000. | <urn:uuid:a9e67d9c-7c60-4f35-ab3d-74624a0156fc> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.pr.com/press-release/648847 | 2021-01-21T03:05:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703522150.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20210121004224-20210121034224-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.929229 | 347 |
It would be hard to find a podcast-hosting duo more totally invested in answering your financial questions than Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp -- they put "Answers" in the show's name, for goodness' sake! And this week, they're at it again, combing through the Motley Fool Answers mailbag in search of conundrums to address for their listeners. But because three heads are better than two, for this episode, they've enlisted the help of Sean Gates, a financial planner with Motley Fool Wealth Management.
In this segment, they have high praise for Brian, who convinced his employer's financial advisor to put some index funds and target-date funds on the 403(b) menu. But now, he needs some advice on how to move things further into the favor of the employees -- and how to convince his coworkers to take the best advantage of their new choices.
Sean Gates is an employee of Motley Fool Wealth Management, a separate, sister company of The Motley Fool, LLC. The views of Sean Gates and Motley Fool Wealth Management are not the views of The Motley Fool, LLC and should not be taken as such.
A full transcript follows the video.
This video was recorded on June 26, 2018.
Alison Southwick: Next question comes from Brian. "I work at a community health center and have been trying to improve our 403(b). Our financial advisor has had us in some high-expense funds. The 12b-1 fees," ugh, 12b-1 fees!
Robert Brokamp: The worst.
Southwick: That's my least favorite fee. "They're 0.25%, and most of the expense ratios are around 1.25%. This year, with extra support from the health center, the financial advisor agreed to offer three index funds. He was not keen on doing this, but agreed. He also is putting in target date funds, as I had recommended. However, he went with American Funds and not Vanguard.
"I'm frustrated with this. What can I do? Also, I'm trying to explain to others so that they understand how index funds are generally better than actively managed funds. The problem is that the financial advisor picks funds that seem to out-perform the index funds."
Brokamp: How dare he!
Southwick: "Am I missing something? How do I explain this to others?" Aw, keep fighting the good fight, Brian!
Brokamp: I was going to say, first of all, you should be treated like a hero by your colleagues. They should be naming babies after you. Or at least taking you out for lunch, one of those two. But, good for you for improving the company plan! That benefits everybody. We mentioned the 12b-1 fees. Basically, you're paying the mutual fund company's cost of marketing.
Southwick: It's bananas!
Brokamp: It's bananas. To a certain degree, everybody does that for every business that they use, but it's so explicit --
Southwick: But not so blatant about it!
Brokamp: [laughs] It's so blatant! This came out in 1980. The idea was, if people pay for the marketing, we'll attract more assets, then we can lower overall costs. But studies have shown that's not exactly what has happened.
Southwick: Companies don't usually do that. "We got more customers, now we're going to lower costs."
Brokamp: [laughs] Right, exactly. That just annoys me. Anyway, the deal with this financial advisor, from what I can tell, the bottom line is, different mutual fund families have different payouts schemes for the advisors. The reason why this guy probably chose American Funds' target date funds over Vanguard's is, he's making more money from American. In fact, I think Vanguard doesn't pay anyone anything.
Sean Gates: Including their employees.
Brokamp: [laughs] I've been to the campus. It's nice.
Southwick: Nice enough.
Brokamp: It's nice enough. That's why he's doing it. I also assume -- I tried to look this up, it was definitely true in the past, but I couldn't figure out if it's still true -- basically, advisors get paid less from index funds than they do from other types of funds.
Southwick: So, Brian needs to stand up during a company meeting, point at the advisor, and say, "J'accuse!"
Gates: Throw bananas at him.
Southwick: Throw bananas at him!
Gates: I didn't know what the B stood for, and I've been in this industry for 15 years!
Brokamp: For bananas!
Southwick: Bananas 1 fees.
Brokamp: I will say that, I don't think there's anyone at The Motley Fool who are bigger proponents of index funds than Sean and me. Me and Sean? I don't know. I wish I were a grammar. I admire that you are pushing for the index funds.
That said, you can have a good plan with actively managed funds. I own actively managed funds. The Motley Fool 401(k) is an actively managed fund. If the advisor is picking ones that do beat the indexes, that's good. I don't think you have to go whole hog on that. Having three index funds is actually above-average. That's good.
But, basically, if I were to recommend anything, it would be to question whether you even need the financial advisor. You can go to companies that will just administer the plan for you without the help of a financial advisor. If he is not adding value, and if he seems more of getting in the way and is an obstacle to you having an awesome plan, maybe you should just go directly to a plan provider. It could be a bank, it could be a big mutual fund company. They will work directly with companies. You don't need a financial advisor.
Southwick: We go directly with a bank, don't we?
Brokamp: We go directly through a bank, yeah.
Southwick: Yeah, with Motley Fool.
Gates: I think the only caveat I might mention with our plan, where we go right to a bank, is, a lot of companies will hire a financial advisor because, in this case, I think the DOL does apply, where you are a fiduciary as the plan administrator. So, you need some figurehead to represent the fiduciary standard in administering the plan. Most people just outsource it to financial advisors. If they went direct to a bank, they might not have a team of fiduciaries available. They might, they might not. But, it's something to be aware of, in terms of why.
And I think I'd just make a plug for the fact that you did an awesome job, and I want to make a baby with you so that we can then name it after you.
Southwick: We all love Brian.
Gates: I think more broadly, what I would say is that, Bro and I are some of the largest advocates for index funds. I use index funds. But I also pick my own stocks. I think I can out-perform the market, and have, in some cases. There's a tendency to think it's a zero-sum game or mutually exclusive, in that if you have index funds, that's all you should have. People are becoming almost overzealous about it. But having both options is fine. That's good, good job.
Brokamp: But really, keep up the great work! Good for Brian!
Gates: Yeah, totally.
Southwick: Yay, Brian! And all of the babies to come in nine months named Brian!
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Julian Pettifer investigates Sierra Leone as the country strives to put aside years of civil war and horrific violence. On the surface is a picture of hope. But will the peace hold, is the cycle of violence finished for good?
Arriving in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, one's first impression is of hope and confidence.
With the help of the large UN Peacekeeping Force, order has been restored after ten years of civil war. With substantial British help, the police and the army are being retrained and re-equipped.
There is talk of reconciliation and of justice to be meted out by Special Courts set up by the UN. Here in a country where lavish natural resources include large deposits of diamonds and other minerals, there are plans to rebuild the economy.
It's the mention of diamonds that casts a shadow over the picture. Despite the superficial air of optimism there are deep-seated doubts about the future. It is feared that unless the diamond industry can be regulated and freed from corruption, it may become the focus of civil war as it was in the past.
There is also the feeling that not enough has been done to investigate war crimes and bring the guilty to justice. That these fears are justified was confirmed by my visit to the diamond fields in the district of Kono.
There my guide was Peter Kamara. I met him at the Ministry of Mines office in Koidu, the principal town in the diamond belt. Peter is supposed to inspect and monitor the diamond workings; but as he has no transport, it's a hopeless task.
He hitched a lift with me to an area pock-marked with giant holes. From the air, they look like bomb craters - but they are mines - swarming with young men, up to their waists in muddy water, feverishly searching for diamonds.
Peter Kamara explained that each mine owner employs scores of young men who earn two cups of rice a day plus a few pence in wages. Any diamonds they find, they must sell to the owner - at a price set by him - and subject to arbitrary deductions. In short, they are systematically cheated.
We travelled to a village called Tombodu, deep in the bush, but never reached it's mines, because the villagers made it clear there was something else they were determined to show us.
During the war, Tombodu was occupied by different rebel factions - the notorious Revolutionary United Front and the Armed Forces Ruling Council - fighting each other for diamonds.
They left behind their grim signature. Beside a flooded mine working, I was shown what were undoubtedly human bones. I was told that beneath the water there was much more damning evidence.
In the village itself, I was taken to a ruined house where there were piles of human remains. I heard that the victims had been locked in before the rebels torched the building.
We heard conflicting stories about the number of murders in Tombodu. Some say 400 bodies were thrown into the flooded mine. Others speak of 1000. Until there's proper investigation by forensic experts, it's guesswork.
The villagers say the human remains have been reported to the authorities and that they did have a brief UN visit back in February. Since then, nothing more has been done to examine or even to secure the evidence.
We were told by a UN Field Officer in Koidu that the Tombodu atrocities are hard to investigate, as there are no surviving eyewitnesses. But we found one. Samuel Komba.
Samuel told us how he was one of a group of captives lined up for amputation of their hands. When his arm was struck with a bush knife - we saw the terrible scars - the other prisoners ran for it.
Most were shot, said Samuel, and their bodies thrown into the flooded pit. When I asked Samuel who had been responsible, he mentioned two names: Colonel Savage and Johnny Paul Koroma. I understand that Savage is in gaol; but Koroma certainly is not.
Lieutenant-Colonel Johnny Paul Koroma is a former army officer who was installed as Head of State following one of the military coups inflicted on this country during the troubles.
Following the coup, Johnny Paul allied himself with RUF rebels and is accused of leading troops responsible for many atrocities. Since then, this one-time warlord has achieved an astonishing transformation.
He re-invented himself as a born-again Christian and leader of his own Peace and Liberation Party. He was elected Member of Parliament in May.
Back in Freetown, I wanted to know why the UN has done so little to investigate what appear to be serious war crimes and why the evidence is not being preserved.
My conversation with the head of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone's Human Rights Section left me with the strong impression that the investigation and prosecution of war crimes has a low priority.
Resources are clearly inadequate and I gather that morale in the section is poor. The recent arrival of a four-man forensic team is regarded as too little, too late.
Comforting news for people like Johnny Paul Koroma who must fear investigation of his war record and a summons to appear before the Special Courts.
At present there's little danger of that. But he is still shy about talking to the BBC. When I finally tracked him down, he refused to record an interview. Off the record he denied everything. He could not, however, disguise his ambition or his contempt for the elected government.
It is little wonder that the people of Sierra Leone are nervous about the future. They know that members of the old elite, the corrupt powerbrokers are still in circulation; waiting perhaps for the departure of the UN, to re-emerge.
One of the most dangerous, because he enjoys support in the armed services, is thought to be Johnny Paul Koroma.
Sierra Leone - a mass war crime: Monday 08 July on BBC Radio 4 at 20.30 BST.
Reporter: Julian Pettifer
Producer: Bill Law
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A Neighborhood in Transition-Murals in Bedford-Stuyvesant
An exhibition of community murals throughout Bedford-Stuyvesant
by Elke Weesjes
Photographs by Tiffany Hagler-Geard
This exhibition, which combines image and text, was inspired by the book, Do Not Give Way to Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx, 1979. Through a number of essays and stunning photographs by Lisa Kahane, this book documents the devastation and rejuvenation of the South Bronx. Fascinated by the powerful combination of word and image, I wanted to do a similar project in my own neighborhood, Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Through images of murals in Bedford-Stuyvesant, this exhibition examines the transition of this infamous Brooklyn neighborhood. Visitors are taken on a historical and visual journey from Bed-Stuy's dark days characterized by poverty, racial tensions, violence and the slogan, "Do or Die Bed-Stuy," to a new dawn defined by restoration, community building and the brand new slogan: "Bed-Stuy and Proud of It!"
Elke Weesjes lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and has a PhD in contemporary history from the University of Sussex (UK). She is a research associate for Colorado State University's Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis. She specializes in cultural memory, history of political activism and neighborhood/community change in times of acute and chronic stress.
Tiffany Hagler-Geard is a Williamsburg-based photographer and has been shooting since 1995. Her images have been published on People.com, ABC News, in the New York Post, Life Magazine and other publications. Tiffany works as a photo editor at People.com and photographs for the Humane Society of New York. | <urn:uuid:10dce557-fbb3-4152-ae55-c119399c1f2c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.bklynlibrary.org/events/exhibitions/neighborhood-transition-m | 2016-10-26T11:15:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720941.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00519-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910014 | 364 |
London Animal Rights is a network which helps to co-ordinate and organise the various groups, campaigns and individuals in and around London who campaign on behalf of animals, including:
- An email list called “ARevents” which sends out alerts about forthcoming events such as protests, exhibitions, marches, festivals etc.
- A Diary of Events on this site, which lists the forthcoming events in London, as well as important national and international dates.
- Meetings in Central London where campaigners meet up to discuss, plan and co-ordinate their various campaigns.
- Organise transport to national protests, meetings, gatherings in other cities.
- Advice, help and practical support to people who want to start a campaign or need help with an existing one.
This site is quite new, and more information and content is being added all the time, but all the contact details, event dates and places, and other info you need to get active for the animals can be found here.
Please visit the rest of the site to find out what’s going on, and how you can get involved in the various campaigns around London. In most cases there should be contact details for the campaign concerned, but if these don’t work, or if you have any questions, please get in touch with us and we will try to help. | <urn:uuid:4cee6eae-497c-4c22-a0ae-9d815aecf976> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.londonanimalrights.org.uk/ | 2014-12-18T22:23:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768034.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00068-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953101 | 273 |
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FRIDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF ADVENT
One of the great mystics and prophets of our own time was Father Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of Gethsemane Abbey, Kentucky, who died tragically in Thailand on December 10, 1968. I have a fondness for Father Thomas as he died on December 10, which is my birthday. The years are different though; 1954 and 1968.
I share this reflection from another modern-day mystic and prophet, Sister Joan Chittister, OSB:
In an age when all of religious life itself was bursting at the seams, shedding one period of history, trying to become leaven in another, Thomas Merton began to live into the new model right before our eyes. Merton knew that the role of religious life in the modern world was to develop people of substance who were immersed in questions of social significance. Merton knew that religious life was not the fine art of maintaining monastic museums. On the morning of his death, Merton delivered his last public paper Marxism and Monastic Perspectives, to the Bangkok conference of Benedictines and Cistercians. The monastic, he said, is essentially someone who takes up a critical attitude toward the world and its structures … (saying) that the claims of the world are fraudulent. Merton the man taught the world that the spiritual life is not the elimination of struggle; it is the sanctification of struggle. It is struggle transformed to wisdom. Merton the monk taught the world that withdrawal is not of the essence of a holy life. The essence of a holy life is immersion in the spiritual and commitment to the significant. Merton the contemplative taught the world that we know that we will have come to see God when we have come to see people as sacred.
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Eye On US Education, an Education "Watchdog" Network, Has Organized the "War on Common Core" National Demonstration
Margate, FL, March 31, 2014 --(PR.com
)-- The "War on Common Core" demonstration is being held on Saturday, April 5th at 2:00 pm ET, 1:00 pm CT, 12 Noon MT, 11:00 am PT.
The date was chosen because it is the birth date of Booker T Washington - an education innovator.
Throughout the nation, all demonstrations will start, at the same time, with the Pledge of Allegiance. Parents, teachers, children, and all who are concerned about the Common Core State Standards are welcome to attend.
In Broward County, Florida - where the office of Eye On US Education is located - the demonstration will be held at 2600 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Florida - just East of I-95.
Those who are not in the Southeast Florida area can contact a local Tea Party, 912, or Conservative group to see if a demonstration has been organized. | <urn:uuid:13081134-de40-4e0f-b60d-944b114a2c3f> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.pr.com/press-release/550272 | 2015-09-01T14:11:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645191214.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031311-00291-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933811 | 220 |
Ascension Parish Council delaying sewer contract vote
ASCENSION PARISH - The Ascension Parish received a revised version of the Bernhard sewer contract Wednesday, but will not vote on the changes at Thursday's council meeting.
According to Councilwoman Terri Casso, the council will review the changes and allow the public to look at the revised contract.
The decision would delay the vote on a 30-year deal with Ascension Sewer LLC, owned by Bernhard Capital Partners, to operate the $215 million regional sewer system. It has been in the works for nearly a year.
According to the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, incoming Ascension Parish President Clint Cointment says he and some newly elected members of the Parish Council have questions about the deal. | <urn:uuid:8dccced5-381a-4e24-b1a9-356fe3bc3701> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.wbrz.com/news/ascension-parish-council-delaying-sewer-contract-vote | 2020-07-08T09:06:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655896905.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20200708062424-20200708092424-00184.warc.gz | en | 0.944757 | 152 |
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This 7-bedroom, 5.5-bath, Colonial Revival-style house sits on a double lot of almost a third of an acre with a front lawn and side garden. Located at 4671 Delafield Avenue, it was built in the 1920s and designed by Fieldston’s preeminent architect Dwight James Baum.
Features include: a center hall; living room with wood-burning fireplace; formal dining room with French doors to flagstone wraparound roof deck; kitchen with granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances by Sub-Zero, Bosch, Miele and Liebherr; large walk-through butler’s pantry; breakfast room; heated south-facing sunroom; master bedroom suite with walk-through wardrobe room; full unfinished walk-out basement; private driveway; attached 2-car garage; 0.31-acre double lot in landmark district.
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Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (“we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Company”) is the largest producer and marketer of shell eggs in the United States. In fiscal 2013, we sold approximately 948.5 million dozen shell eggs, which represented approximately 21% of domestic shell egg consumption. Our total flock of approximately 31.0 million layers and 7.5 million pullets and breeders is the largest in the U.S. Layers are mature female chickens, pullets are young female chickens usually under 20 weeks of age, and breeders are male or female chickens used to produce fertile eggs to be hatched for egg production flocks. We operate in a single segment. Our primary business is the production, grading, packaging, marketing and distribution of shell eggs. We sell most of our shell eggs in the southwestern, southeastern, mid-western and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. ... More ... | <urn:uuid:3e699300-d8fd-4e91-bade-44b249ede158> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/calm | 2014-07-13T09:54:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1404776437601.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20140707234037-00042-ip-10-180-212-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945997 | 241 |
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If you are planning
an event or working with
a group organizing a party,
a guest at your own event, no matter how big or small.
Whether your celebration
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or retirement, baby or bridal shower, family or school reunion, or even a formal
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event, and many other decisions are impacted by these as you continue in your
When is the event?
The date of
the event will need to be established, as this can impact many aspects of your
event; vendor reservation, guest availability, venue access, and other services
needed for your event.
How many people are coming?
When you know the date the event will happen, determining the number of guests
in attendance will be critical in securing vendors, the venue, and determining
amount of food needed. On average, between 70-80% of invited guests attend an
What will my budget be?
Having a good
estimation of what your event budget will be, will help in the decisions being
made by the vendors and the event planners. Your biggest expense will be for food
and the venue. Other vendor costs, such as DJ or photographers are not dependent
on the number of people attending the event. Cherith Hall can help you through
this process to make your event special and within your budget.
|Number of Guests||Do-It-Yourself ||Full
Service by Cherith Hall|
|50 - 100 ||$500 - $1500||$900
|100 - 150|| $700 - $2000||$4000
|150 - 200||$900 - $2500 ||$5000 - $10,000
Do-It-Yourself - All aspects of the
event are done by the event planner or shared with Cherith Hall.
Service - Cherith Hall provides all catering and setup negotiated with event
These numbers are very general as each event is unique
to what is planned, and there are many variables to take into account. Should
the numbers in the chart above not fit into your budget, don't hesitate to discuss
with us your plans and we can help you trim without compromise to your event.
How long does it take to plan an event?
of time needed to plan an event is generally dependent on the number of guests
attending, and the scope of the event itself. Other factors may be a hard date
that can not be changed. On average the chart below helps in putting an event
together at Cherith Hall when a hard date is being asked for:
|Number of Guests||Time Needed to Plan |
|0 - 50||1 - 2 Months|
|50 - 100 ||3 -
|100 - 200||4 - 5 Months|
than 200||5 - 6 Months|
have the time needed for average planning? Don't worry! Events can be planned
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Cherith Hall completely as a full service can take much of the hassle
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will I have the event?
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Richmonders and those in the Triangle area of North Carolina will find us surprisingly
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Elk Neck State Park, North East: Hrs, Address, Elk Neck State Park Reviews: 4.
Near the state woodland with a rifle, archery, as well as pistol ranges consisting of skeet capturing. In summertime there is a beach on the North East River for swimming and also the Turkey Point Lighthouse is nearby. The community of North East is close and also is a quaint town with a Key Street and also terrific little stores. Woodys well-known crab home exists along with other dining establishments. There are views of the Elk River from lots of sites.
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Email alerts are just sent daily, and just if there are new matching items. Every one of this nature is to be discovered barely 2 miles away from Interstate 95. ” It’s neat because you can be around and in 2 minutes be here,” Benson stated. The park can additionally get instead active, particularly during weekend breaks and vacations between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Like lots of parks in the Chesapeake area, Elk Neck has seen a boost in website traffic as people have actually started arising from coronavirus lockdowns.
Elk Neck State Park A Height Chesapeake Experience.
Elk Neck State Park is split into four locations. Turkey Factor Lighthouse is located elk state park maryland at the southerly pointer of the Elk Neck Peninsula.
Elk River Camping Area.
Elk Neck has numerous brand-new campgrounds with full hook-ups that are completely easily accessible, including a pathway to an available bathhouse. Numerous websites are offered for disabled hunters throughout shotgun and muzzleloader deer seasons. On the whole, we appreciated our August 2020 stay at Elk Neck State Park. We stayed in the North East Loop as we required both pet-friendly and also electric hook ups. During our hikes, we discovered that the outdoor tents websites have some truly remarkable water views. There’s a camp store, watercraft ramp, swimming, angling and lots, of great walking.
Elk Neck State Park
It produces fantastic camping near Washington. The park has 2,370 acres of land as well as includes 250 camping sites, 4 youth team websites as well as 15 cabins. Differed landscapes consist of marshlands, heavily wooded locations, white clay cliffs, as well as sandy coastlines. Follow Path 272 South, till it dead-ends in the Turkey Point parking area.
Complying with the state’s acquisition of additional property, the Civilian Conservation Corps developed park enhancements from 1937 to 1941. Comply With Route 272 South, 1/4 mile previous park headquarters, turn left onto Campground Road, into the Elk River Area, across from the North East Coastline entry. For more information, please call Elk Neck State Park at.
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Really enjoyed the barking audio of a generator and the brilliant flooding lights all night long (yes, all night … the “peaceful time” was not observed/enforced). I love the campground yet will definitely be much more careful on website selection in the future.
Please reference the current policies for periods, dimension, catch, and also belongings limitations. A lot of float journeys including transportation don’t cost that much.
All that fresh water suggests jellyfish rarely come this much up the Bay. He saw massive flocks of birds pass expenses on the Atlantic Flyway migration route, as well as he saw vast stands of water vegetation waving beneath the water’s surface. Read more about elk park maryland here. The North East Coastline Area offers swimming accessibility to the Susquehanna Flats of the Chesapeake Bay. There is additionally a canoe and also kayak hand-launch area, simply north of the swim area. If making use of the boat launch there is a $10 charge for instate cars as well as a $12 cost for out of state vehicles. Generators are permitted 7am to 10pm at Elk Neck State Park camping area.
Elk Neck State Park Comments & Testimonials.
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A former top American defense official has said the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan is enabled by the group’s safe havens situated in the neighboring Pakistan besides an internecine struggle among different Taliban factions playing a role in the growing violence.
“At the hands of the Taliban. This offensive is enabled by sanctuaries in Pakistan. And it has also been enabled by an internecine struggle among different Taliban factions and with a new factor in Afghanistan, Da’esh, the Islamic State, which is seeking inroads there as well,” David Sedney told PBS during an interview published on Sunday.
Sedney has served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia from 2009 to 2013.
He said the insurgency activities by the Taliban group should be halted, insisting on peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban.
Sedney also warned that violence will persist and more will die if the Afghans are not assisted in their fight against the Taliban-led insurgency.
“The Afghan forces have done very well. But we built a large Afghan army. And the numbers are there. And the Afghans are willing to fight. The big problem is, is, we didn’t put in the enablers that Defense Minister Stanekzai was talking about, air support, helicopters, intelligence. We ripped those out of Afghanistan before the Afghan forces were ready to operate on their own,” he said.
Sedney further added “And we’re now paying the price. But the causes go beyond that. The Taliban have mounted in the last two years, since we stopped fighting, we stopped using combat forces, their largest offensives ever. More Afghans are dying today than at any time since before 2001.”
The remarks by Sedney comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistan for remaining reckless to act against the militant groups waging war in Afghanistan using the Pakistani soil as their sanctuaries, including the notorious Haqqani terrorist network and Taliban group operating mainly from it’s Quetta council. -KP
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett thinks the U.S. is in a recession. And he predicts that weakness will persist for several more months at least. Interviewed on CNBC, Buffett says lingering effects of the credit crunch are still causing problems for financial firms and the broader economy. Displaying his trademark optimism, Buffett says the U.S. will be doing better five years from now, but could be worse off in five months. Buffett says the federal government will have to assist mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac calling them too big to fail. But he says "they don't have any net worth." And he expects more banks will fail, as he puts it, "where the bankers were dumb in what they did."
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the financial crisis that has pounded the country--coupled with higher inflation--is taking a toll on the economy and poses a major challenge to Fed policymakers as they try to restore stability. "Although we have seen some improved functioning in some markets, the financial storm that reached gale force" around this time last year "has not yet subsided, and its effects on the broader economy are becoming apparent in the form of softening economic activity and rising unemployment," Bernanke said in a speech to a high-profile economics conference in Wyoming. Bernanke says the lingering credit crisis is causing rising unemployment and "softening economic activity," and says the recent drops in the prices for oil and other commodities are welcome, suggesting inflation should moderate this year and next. Even so, he says the inflation outlook remains highly uncertain. He says the central bank will "act as necessary" to ensure that inflation doesn't get out of control. Bernanke says the current financial and economic environment is one of the most challenging for Fed policymakers "in memory." The Fed meets again on September 16th.
Attorneys say they've settled the last remaining lawsuits filed after a deadly 2005 explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City. More than 4,000 lawsuits were filed following the blast, which killed 15 people and injured more than 170, but attorneys for blast victims announced that the last four cases were settled. Another remaining case had been settled on Monday. All five cases were set for trial next month. The terms of the settlements, as has been the case when other blast-related suits, were confidential.
Federal regulators say Merrill Lynch will buy back up to $7 billion in auction-rate securities over its role in selling the risky bonds to retail investors. Merrill's preliminary agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission comes a day after the largest U.S. brokerage agreed with state regulators to hasten its voluntary buyback plan by repurchasing $10 billion to $12 billion of the securities from investors by January 2nd. Merrill also agreed to pay a $125 million fine in that deal. The SEC said the new agreement will enable retail investors, small businesses and charities who purchased the securities from Merrill "to restore their losses and liquidity."
A Russian court has rejected a parole bid by jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The court in the Siberian city of Chita on Friday denied Khodorkovsky's appeal for early release from a sentence for tax evasion and fraud. Khodorkovsky formerly headed Yukos Oil and was once Russia's richest man. He has spent almost five years in jail. He was sentenced in 2005 to an eight-year term and has been eligible for parole for the past ten months.
The University of Houston System Board of Regents has approved a $1.25 billion budget for fiscal year 2009. That's a 12 per cent increase from last year. The new budget increases financial aid and scholarship funding, increases faculty, finances construction, maintenance and renovation and provides some salary increases.
Former Dynegy trader Michelle Valencia faces a 57-month sentence on seven counts of wire fraud, for reporting false trading data to industry publications, manipulating gas markets. The sentence from U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas follows another sentence given to former El Paso trader Greg Singleton. He was assessed a 28-month sentence on a single wire fraud count. Valencia's attorney plans an appeal, saying it's another case of subordinates going to jail while their supervisors get away. The defense argued that the two were following orders.
An appeals court has upheld a lower ruling in Texas that people can't sue over wind turbines just because they don't like how they look. Some landowners sued in 2005 over FPL Energy's Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center near Abilene. Critics said the turbines were too loud, lowered their property values and ruined their scenic views. Jurors in 2006 ruled in favor of Florida-based FPL Energy. The 11th Court of Appeals says the trial judge did not err because Texas law "does not provide a nuisance action for aesthetical impact." FPL Energy attorney Trey Cox of Dallas welcomed the ruling. A plaintiffs lawyer didn't immediately comment. Horse Hollow spans about 60,000 acres in Taylor and Nolan Counties and has more than 400 turbines.
Advertisers will continue trimming their advertising budgets, according to a survey by the Association of National Advertisers, as reported by the Houston Business Journal. Most polled say they are already being challenged with identifying cost savings or reductions with current advertising. Ten per cent of those surveyed say marketing budgets might be cut by over 30 per cent.
Frugal grocery shopping habits developed this year may continue even after the economy improves, according to Toronto-based Precima, as reported by the Houston Business Journal. In fact, 82 per cent in the retail analyst's nationwide survey plan to continue cooking at home instead of eating out. Eighty per cent plan to use coupons as much as possible. About 54 per cent intend to continue buying generic or store brands.
The president of Brazil's state-run oil company says the United States must exploit offshore resources while limiting environmental impact. Petroleos Brasileiro President Sergio Gabrielli says that the current debate over offshore drilling in the U.S. is important, but adds, "you can't leave those resources untapped." Gabrielli said that Petrobras would significantly reduce the environmental risk at its offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 by deploying drilling ships that can detach from the wells in case of a hurricane. Petrobras is a world leader in deep-water drilling and the company claims to produce oil with minimal environmental impact.
Direct foreign investment in Mexico has fallen and officials blame it partly on the U.S. economic downturn. Mexico's Economy Department says direct foreign investment fell to $10.5 billion in the first six months of this year. That's a 20 per cent drop from the same period a year before. Still, the amount puts Mexico on target to reach its $20 billion goal for 2008. More than half of Mexico's direct foreign investment comes from the United States. The European Union follows with a third of all investment, and Canada provides eight per cent. More than 40 per cent of the investment went toward manufacturing.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber has received a judge's permission to make a $1 billion contribution into a health care trust fund for retirees. Akron-based Goodyear agreed to creation of the voluntary employees' beneficiary association trust in a deal ending a nearly three-month United Steelworkers strike that began in October 2006. Goodyear has been waiting to fund the trust until U.S. District Court Judge John Adams completed a review and gave approval. Goodyear's obligations for providing health care for union-covered retirees will be transferred to the trust. The company's one-time contribution will be made from existing cash reserves and available credit lines.
Private refiners aiming to extract helium from a pipeline allegedly got improper deals with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Office in the Texas Panhandle. The deals alleged by the U.S. Interior Department could cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 million. The Interior Department says the bureau's Amarillo office made deals with four refiners who take crude helium from the pipeline that runs from a field northwest of Amarillo to central Kansas. Interior says the bureau also allowed the refiners to garner huge profits by overcharging for construction equipment. The refiners formed a private shell company in 2000, four years after lobbying Congress on behalf of a law that privatized production and refining of helium. The report didn't identify the private company involved in the helium agreements, but BLM officials confirmed to the Washington Post that Amarillo-based Cliffside Refiners was the subject of the investigation.
An elderly Fort Worth woman fighting a natural gas pipeline to be placed beneath her front yard has settled with the company. Jerry Horton, who will be paid $15,500, said she only agreed to give up the right-of-way after realizing there was almost no legal way to stop the company. Thursday the 72-year-old woman said she's heartbroken and had to sign. It was the same day as her court appearance for a condemnation hearing. Officials with Texas Midstream Gas Services, a division of Chesapeake Energy, have said the line will be bored beneath the front yards of 44 homes and vacant lots. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports little surface disruption is expected. According to the settlement agreement, the line will be at least 20 feet deep and Texas Midstream will replace any of Horton's trees that die within six months.
The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States rose by eight this week to 1,998. Of the rigs running nationwide, 1,594 were exploring for natural gas and 395 for oil. Houston-based Baker Hughes reports nine were listed as miscellaneous. A year ago, the rig count stood at 1,816. Texas remained unchanged. Baker Hughes has tracked rig counts since 1944. The tally peaked at 4,530 in 1981, during the height of the oil boom. The industry posted several record lows in 1999, bottoming out at 488. | <urn:uuid:804f7c43-ed14-46d8-a9a5-d181f3cf4c24> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/news/1219425969/ | 2015-10-04T13:20:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443736673632.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001215753-00005-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96696 | 2,024 |
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Annie Achee knew she had a choice: let worrying that her husband’s cancer may return take over her life or find a more productive path. Find out how becoming a cancer advocacy leader gave her control over the fear of an unknown future.
The Your Stories podcast series from ASCO’s Conquer Cancer Foundation provides insight into what it’s like to conquer cancer from different viewpoints. The podcasts featured here investigate what inspires doctors and nurses to give the best care.
Mammograms are a very important part of follow-up care in women with breast cancer. But what about older women? How long should they continue to receive mammograms?
TeMaya Eatmon’s friendship with a fellow breast cancer patient inspired her in ways she never imagined possible. Learn how heartbreaking loss led to a life-changing role as an advocate.
The Your Stories podcast series from ASCO’s Conquer Cancer Foundation provides insight into what it’s like to conquer cancer from different viewpoints. The podcasts featured here touch on the many ways that cancer can affect a family.
In this podcast, Cancer.Net Specialty Editor Dr. Timothy Gilligan discusses some of the quality-of-life research featured at the 2018 Cancer Survivorship Symposium: Advancing Care and Research.
The 2018 Cancer Survivorship Symposium: Advancing Care and Research will address key issues in promoting well-being in people who have finished active cancer treatment, covering topics such as exercise, follow-up care in young adult survivors, and better support for sexual problems.
In this month’s From the Editor’s Desk, Dr. Schapira outlines important ideas in cancer survivorship that should move forward in 2018.
A cancer diagnosis is stressful, and the discussion of the treatment plan starts quickly. But a cancer diagnosis affects everything and involves more than just the treatment plan. Here are 3 things to consider.
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“A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles — whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled — is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these anti-conditions, your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.”
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Look up dysfunctional in the dictionary and you’ll see a picture of China
One of our many loyal readers sent me a brief comment the other day (his longer comments are usually very entertaining.) He said, regarding Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being over in China to quell their worst fears of a US default:
“Kind of wish I was a fly on the wall for these Hillary meetings in China. From where I sit, we really have no leverage on China other than our growing debt.”
Obviously he has a point – China is stuck in a pretty big investment that’s starting to look a bit inconvenient. David Cohen, a former economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. is now the Director of Asian Economic Forecasting for Action Economics. Mr. Cohen recently summed up the US position of borrowing from China:
“I owe $1 and I have to worry. I owe $1 trillion and you have to worry.”
Now, it might be a bit different if we were privy to all the political theatre in the undisclosed meetings, discussions and deals between leaders of the two countries, but China did play an active and determined role in devoting so much of its FX reserves accumulation to US dollars.
Why did they continue to make the same decisions to pile so much money into US debt?
Because it made sense for them. [Them being the Chinese political elite who prefer backing Chinese production at all costs in order to prop up headline GDP.]
Why did the US continue to borrow money?
Because it made sense for them. [Them being the US political elite who prefer boosting US consumption at all costs in order to prop up headline GDP.]
So my point is: damn right China has to worry … but let’s not lump all the blame on the US for this little (or not-so-little) debt predicament.
Back to our reader comments … it currently seems (to him and others) the US lacks any real long-term leverage over China. At the very least, the US seems to be squandering what leverage it might still have left, which makes the current proposal aimed at deep spending cuts all the more important in restoring credibility and economic prudence that leaves the US in a position to rebuild its economy and retain its status as a world superpower.
Unfortunately, should a US debt/deficit deal arise in the next week or so, much more restructuring of the US political system will still be necessary. And that’s what should cause China the most worry …
If the US somehow, in some unforeseen way, gets on the fast-track towards limited government and prudent spending, it will likely bring about important changes in the culture of the US economy. These changes (for the sake of this discussion let’s call these changes ‘global rebalancing’ since that’s a somewhat familiar term) would force China to make a consequent transition in its economy.
Andy Xie, now just an “independent economist” according to Reuters, notes that US dollars account for 60% of China’s FX reserves; it is their plan to diversify into other currencies as it brings on new reserves. Naturally. No problems with that.
Xie also comments on why the need for this diversification (which is obvious to everyone at this point but I still want to share his choice word) …
He states the US was once a powerful and efficient system capable of overcoming crisis and financial adversity, but now the US is stuck with a dysfunctional political system.
Dysfunctional? I read that word and I am embarrassed.
Surely the US government is not dysfunctional, right? As much as I think our government is awful and needs a major haircut, that word dysfunctional bothers me. But it is reason for Mr. Xie to suggest that US Treasuries are no longer the safe-haven they once were and that China might instead consider diversifying into US stocks … since corporate balance sheets are strong.
Gee. Talk about a vicious cycle …
China is afraid its massive base of reserves will lose value, rightly so … so they will diversify out of US dollars (Treasuries) which are at risk because the US economy is shaky and overly reliant on debt and deficit spending … they will diversify into US stocks which are supported by global optimism stemming from persistently high Chinese GDP which the latest data shows is decelerating (and to some extent perpetual quantitative easing from the Fed of which there is no guarantee will continue) … and they will feel comfortable with these reserves in US stocks as global deflation looms, the real estate bubble deflates, and private deleveraging seems to be leading to a deeper manufacturing pullback? Hmmm …
The US may be dysfunctional. I’ll argue that China is more dysfunctional. A good way to test that would be to see who can restructure themselves most quickly.
My guess is that China’s potential restructuring would not send shock waves through the US economy. I cannot say the same for a potential US restructuring.
Which is the more dysfunctional system? Which has the most leverage (the good kind)?
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I grew up along the South Carolina coast and can remember spending many a Christmas eve pressing my fingers against the glass windows to see if it was cold enough for a snowy Christmas.
Yes, this amateur weather man rarely realized that clouds did not mean there was a good chance of rain. Still, it never snowed for me, but kids in Beaufort this year have a chance -- however slim.
First lets address the bit of freezing temperatures: While we're headed down to the low 30s tonight, the rain isn't due until Christmas afternoon and evening when the temperatures are due to be in the mid 50s to high 30s at night. So the best chance of snow is really the day after Christmas, Sunday, when rain is expected to continue as we slip into a nighttime low of 29 degrees.
Upstate is, of course, a different story where snow is a good bit more likely.
Stay tuned to the National Weather Service's forecast page for the latest in this possible Christmas miracle. And even if it doesn't snow now, we can at least remember the great snow earlier this year.
A word on traffic
Snow is no fun matter for the South Carolina Department of Transportation which is bracing for the worst by activating 109 maintenance employees and dumping 21 tons of salt on state (mostly upstate) roads.
If you'll be driving, do read these 10 snow/ice driving tips.
The department has also turned on its "Winter Road Conditions" page that lists conditions for freeways and state highways, which are first to be cleared during inclement winter weather.
It also issued this statement on preparations in the various areas of the state:
Engineering District 1 (Richland, Lexington, Kershaw, Lee and Sumter counties) – All first shift employees are prepared to come in Saturday night. As conditions change, we will modify accordingly.
Engineering District 2 (Anderson, Abbeville, Laurens, Newberry, Greenwood, McCormick, Saluda and Edgefield counties) – SCDOT crews are pre-treating Interstate routes today. Based on the current forecasts, crews will report throughout the day on Christmas. This may change as the situation warrants.
Engineering District 3 (Greenville, Oconee, Spartanburg and Pickens counties) – District 3 started pre-treatment operations on Wednesday. At this time all interstate routes, overpasses and ramps have been treated. This afternoon, crews began pre-treating primary routes and other more isolated locations. All counties will continue to pre-treat until the end of the work day today. Crews are on stand-by to work on Friday if the weather dictates or if the storm comes in earlier than it is now predicted. Under the current forecast, we anticipate phasing in our full complement of staffing on Christmas day.
Engineering District 4 (York, Cherokee, Union, Chester, Lancaster, Chesterfield and Fairfield counties) – Crews will continue start pre-treatment activities throughout the day tomorrow. They are prepared to start operational shifts on Christmas day, and will adjust based on the forecast.
Engineering District 5 (Horry, Georgetown, Florence, Marion, Williamsburg, Darlington, Dillon, and Marlboro counties) – In anticipation of a possible winter storm event, the crews in District 5 are scheduled to report Christmas night. This may be adjusted as the forecast changes.
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Yokogawa Corporation of America is proud to announce the release of three new additions to their UTAdvanced® temperature controller product line. The UP55A and UP35A profile controllers and the UM33A Digital Indicator with alarms. These products will replace the UP550, UP350 and UM330 products which are a part of the Green Series.
Industry wide, Yokogawa’s control products have been acclaimed for their ability to deliver precise control in the face of challenging control dynamics; the UTAdvanced® is no different. Significant changes in the marketplace are demanding control instrumentation be easier to use while at the same time more capable. The UTAdvanced® accomplishes this by balancing an easy to use controller with the power to handle your most challenging applications.
The UTAdvanced® Hybrid Controller takes the superior PID control that Yokogawa is known for and combines it with embedded ladder sequence control. The ladder sequence control will be standard in all UTAdvanced® models (except the UM33A) at no cost. It supports 84 ladder commands and a variety of analog and digital I/O points. Up to 500 ladder steps can be programmed and run together with the PID control. The PLC capability allows engineers using a temperature controller along with a mini / micro PLC in an application to obtain the same control functionality in one package at the cost of just the controller.
The UTAdvanced® has great look and feel with a high intensity LCD display and a simple user interface. Features include full text scrolling configuration prompts, three configuration levels, user defined function keys, user settable default values for OEMs and multiple language support for English, Spanish, German and French. Other features include a NEMA 4 / IP56 front panel, USB powered configuration tool with software, fuzzy logic, universal inputs / outputs and a three year warranty.
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A monthly survey conducted by Practical eCommerce polled readers about the importance and trustworthiness of Google products.
The May 2010 survey asked four questions about Google products, with a comment section for each response. Readers who completed the survey, and then provided us with their names and email addresses, were automatically entered in a contest to win a $25 Amazon gift certificate. The May contest winner is Anssi Ruohtula with Crema, a Finland-based coffee retailer.
Which Google products are used most regularly?
When asked what Google products were used on a regular basis, respondents were encouraged to check all products that applied to their businesses. “Analytics” edged out “Gmail” by a slim 5.8 percent, receiving an 81.2 percent response.
Other Google products not included in our survey that were mentioned in respondents’ comments include “Google Docs,” “Google Places” and “Google Merchant Center.” One respondent said, “Blogger and Google Analytics are great free tools to work with. With the help of Analytics, we can create our suitable strategy…to target a quality audience.”
Which Google products are valuable to you?
When asked what three products were most valuable to them, 76.8 percent of respondents chose “Analytics,” while “AdWords” came in at a close second with 62.3 percent and “Webmaster Tools” followed with 42 percent.
Some respondents requested that we include “Google Maps,” “Merchant Center,” and even the “Search” function in our survey. One respondent also said, “According to most newsletters I get, all of these are important….”
Do you trust Google?
When asked how much trust respondents had in Google’s handling of their information, 58 percent voted that they trusted Google “Somewhat.” Thirty-six and two-tenths percent of respondents voted that they “Completely” trusted Google with all their information. Four and three-tenths percent of respondents do not trust Google at all with information, and 1.4 percent of respondents simply said, “I don’t know.” One respondent even said, “I know they have a ’don’t be evil’ policy and I assume they’re using my data to develop products and make more money – which is fine as long as I’m kept anonymous.”
Who are the respondents?
When respondents were asked how they would represent themselves, 52.2 percent said they would identify as an “Ecommerce company.” 18.8 percent were “Developers, Designers or Programmers” and 4.3 percent identified as “Software, SaaS or other vendor to ecommerce merchants.” Twenty-four and two-thirds percent of respondents simply indentified as “Other.”
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Many of the concepts in this series are based on Stephen Arroyo’s book “Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements” and Richard Idemon’s book “The Magic Thread”.
Creativity and the 4 Elements
Many of my readers confirmed my observations, but they also inquired about how to deal with the imbalances in their chart. They wanted to learn about the impact of and what they could do about it.
To answer their questions, I decided to write this new series on creativity and element imbalances in the chart.
This 5 part series will start with a look at the energy imbalances in general and proceed to dive into more specifics with an analysis for each element and how to deal with the element imbalance from a creative standpoint.
The lack of an element in your chart
A missing element in the chart is likely to exert a powerful and unconscious influence over it.
The manifestation of this missing element generally shows in one of the five following ways:
Denial – I am going to deny it exists
Repression - I acknowledge its existence but I am not doing anything about it
Projection – I will let somebody else carry the missing element for me
Sublimation - I will direct the energy where I want it to go, not where it wants to go
Compensation – I will master the qualities of this missing element to compensate for its lack thereof.
Missing Fire: No passion
When you don’t have the Fire element in your chart, you lack passion, hope, enthusiasm, and joie-de-vivre, both of which make us feel connected with the Universe.
There is a distinct lack of energy when fire is missing. People without fire often feel depressed, helpless in the face of the world, melancholic and even withdrawn.
To compensate for their lack of fire, these people often come out as aggressive and full of rage.
They also will be drawn to fiery people with whom they can have a passionate relationship, where they can feel alive and energetic and have such confidence in themselves that they seem to burst at the seams.
Missing Earth: Never Enough
Often times, people with a missing earth function have a difficult relationship with their body. They might become body obsessed (plastic surgery, bodybuilding, exercise fanatics, etc….) or develop food disorders such as anorexia or bulimia. At the heart, there is an inherent dislike of body functions because they never know when it is enough. They seem incapable of grounding themselves.
Missing Water: I don’t know what I feel
People with no water in their chart have a difficulty knowing what they are feeling or expressing it. They may not understand pain or be able to feel it. On the other hand, they might become addicted to it.
People with no water might compensate this lack by becoming super sensitive, compassionate, and empathetic. They might also become lost into fantasy, illusion and the imagination as a result of their lack of boundaries.
Missing Air: I am dumb belief
The missing air quality is evident with the inability to stand back, analyze, detach, and be objective. More often than not, they go into extremes, becoming specialized in one area of knowledge while being incapable of functioning in others. They are the super-intellectuals, the geniuses, and the student with multiple doctorates who is always apologizing for his “stupid” questions.
The element imbalance and creativity
The lack of an element in a chart is often the place where there is the most opportunity to learn about oneself and grow. The difficulties and the accompanying pain can act as creative catalysts. Something, I can attest too.
Personally, the lowest element in my chart is earth. Not missing, but I have an emphasis in fire and water to the detriment of air and earth.
I am always compensating for these two elements. With earth lows, I cook a lot and tackle culinary difficulties such as making bread, French macaroons, and homemade marshmallows after going through a phase on learning how to saw and knit. My best friends are mostly earthy types.
I have difficulties expressing my thoughts either in my speech or in my writing, considering them unintelligible or too common sense to be interesting. For a very long time, I would often apologize for my dumb question. Over the years, I have pushed myself hard to write in a clear and concise way, to be easily understood.
How about you? What is your missing element? How do you deal with the lack of that element? Share your story here.
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Recently, I was watching Project Runway and found myself thinking about a dynamic that is too prevalent and unhealthy: the belief that one’s talent can compensate for a lack of social skills.
Just because the designers and judges on the show, for example, are extremely talented, doesn’t mean they have the right to be rude or catty.
This isn’t another rant about reality TV; that’s a battle for another day. What struck me was how I have experienced this when my path crosses with a certain someone I know.
This person is unbelievably gifted, even awe-inspiring. Except when she stops and rubs your nose in her talent. I stand up, confused, amazed and a bit scuffed on the schnoz. She is opinionated, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but she’s also disparaging and a force with which to be reckoned. I’m nice to her, hoping to not give her an excuse to degrade me. But that fuels her pride in getting away with it.
On the other hand, I want to stand up and confront her. While cowering in a corner only empowers her, I know that if I win one battle, I will be made into cannon fodder in a war to come. She looks at me expectantly, triumphantly even. I sit up ramrod straight, set my jaw and fix my gaze to the wall straight ahead of me. Not today.
So here’s the question: What happens when extreme talent surpasses social skills? Too often, we, the public, hand out a free pass. We get lax and allow courtesy to be thrown to the wind. Sometimes society overlooks someone’s snarkiness — “Just tolerate it and move on.” And then that belittled feeling creeps up in us: “Who are we to tell them otherwise?”
Talent and IQ can run on different levels, but I hold on to my self-confidence with the understanding that each and every person is born with humanity, dignity and value. When we keep this in mind, we can accept the differences and uniqueness we each bring to the table without limiting our value.
Just as vital as the need to cultivate our talents is the need to foster our own humanity. We are given gifts so that we may share and give back. The talent snobs of the world limit their full potential by being haughty. As much as we’d like to go in with some power tools and fix people, the best way to promote change is to “be the change …”
When you’re on the receiving end of harsh words, it’s easy to dish that same spiteful behavior out to others, creating an endless cycle. Instead of dealing with this pain by lashing out, take that hurt and make it a catalyst for personal examination and healing.
We can’t make people change, but we can change ourselves and set the example that we “wish to see in the world.” Then people will see that true greatness is not just a measure of talent — it’s marked by grace.
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If you are looking for Bed Bug Pest Control in Oak Hill Texas, you have many, many options you can choose from. The number of pest control companies in and around this area are many and varied, and all offer many choices when it comes to termite control for your home or building.
Vermin As well as Pest ControlThere are lots of bugs in this world, and also at some point every person will find themselves battling a pest. Pest could invade our garden, our home, buildings; the listing goes on and on.
It is necessary to understand ways to appropriately control these bugs that invade our lives. It is almost difficult to eliminate bugs, however it is vital to regulate these intrusive parasites. There are different methods of managing insects; these could include chemical control, organic control, mechanical methods, or a mix thereof.
Mechanical pest control is generally one of the most affordable and also if implemented prior to a vast invasion happens can generate wanted outcomes. Mechanical methods include hand selecting (such as drawing weeds) and catches (such as a mouse catch). Mechanical methods of pest control are generally the most eco-friendly.
Organic pest control includes pesticides that are originated from plants or various other naturally taking place substances such as bacteria.
Chemical pest control consists of using even more hazardous synthetic pesticides. Chemical pest control is not eco pleasant and also is never ever thought about as an organic technique of control.
use of pest and ecological details along with offered pest control approaches, including social, organic, genetic and also chemical approaches, to avoid unacceptable levels of pest damages by the most cost-effective means, as well as with the minimal hazard to individuals, residential property, as well as the environment". (Proceedings of the National Integrated Pest Monitoring Discussion forum. 1992. American Farmland Trust).
Pest Monitoring emphasizes using corresponding methods of pest control such as the introduction of natural predators. This approach of pest control is far more ecologically audio than relying on chemical methods.
The initial step in pest control is to identify the issue. Often identifying the pest is noticeable, if you see a mouse hurrying throughout the floor it is evident you have requirement for pest control. If you have a large invasion of mice, you could need to resort to more powerful chemical approaches or discover it necessary to hire a specialist pest control specialist to free your house of the pest problem.
There are whole lots of parasites in this globe, and at some point everybody will discover themselves fighting a pest. It is almost impossible to remove parasites, however it is essential to regulate these invasive parasites. There are various approaches of regulating insects; these could include chemical control, biological control, mechanical approaches, or a combination thereof.
"Pest Management is the collaborated use of pest and also environmental information along with readily available pest control techniques, including social, biological, genetic and chemical techniques, to stop unacceptable degrees of pest damages by the most cost-effective means, and also with the least possible danger to people, residential property, as well as the setting". In some cases determining the pest is apparent, if you see a mouse scurrying across the floor it is noticeable you have requirement for pest control.
Bed Bug Pest Control in Oak Hill
Pest Control Services near Oak Hill is important because once pests get into your home, they can cause devastating damage that must be stopped before they take over your home and make it expensive to repair. Let’s take a look at a few of the pest control companies we’ve found for termite control in Oak Hill TX that can help you with your termite problems.
Eliminate Rodents - At lastThey may be adorable, or they may be hideous and also huge, but their constant have to chew is not assisting your residence. Rodents could do significant damage to your woodwork, insulation, wallboard and also home siding. The mess they leave in your kitchen cupboard is discouraging, certain, and also with the costs of food going up you can not afford to hand over for your furry friends' dinners in addition to your personal.
Deal with the rodent concern quickly as you spot signs of their infringement - do not wait till you find yourself jumping onto a chair to avoid that rat racing across the kitchen. Then, you'll be waging a battle instead of simply safeguarding your boundaries.
If you have actually copped on to the presence of pests early sufficient, you could be able to use non-lethal pressure. It may be a matter of obstructing their entryways and motivating them to go somewhere else.
If you have animals or children you might desire to attempt all-natural rodent repellents. One more remedy is an odor based repellant - these utilize the smell of aggressive animals to scare rats off.
Be conscious that rodents spread out condition, which you may want to believe concerning prior to you go transporting them around town. The routine, dangerous traps are possibly a much safer, a lot more efficient option. Think of the positioning of your catches. The majority of rats have poor vision and keep close to the walls, only venturing into open space when required so establish your products in their flow, not in the center of the area.
For others that wish to keep their hands tidy, or that have a persisting rodent problem, getting a pet cat can be an excellent service. Keep in mind, not all pet cats are birthed mousers and also you may certainly require to step up your game. Relying on where you live, you might wish to enhance the boundary of the building by constructing nest boxes to bring in natural killers such as barn owls.
When all else falls short (or if you haven't the perseverance to wait that lengthy), it's time to turn to poison. The nature of rodents suggests that they will certainly consume a little, wait and if they don't get ill, return for one more dish. Before using a poisonous substance, you could desire to overlook routine food for a few days, to make sure that the rats discover how to rely on the food source before including poison.
mindful that they aren't contact with the lure or the dead pet.
When you have actually lastly won the battle, aim to stay clear of rounded two: make an effort to maintain kept in secured containers and also know pet food, composts and also other possible attractions. Use bird feeders that regain any kind of unwanted seed, instead of allowing it to become snack food for unwanted bugs. By eliminating the food reward you can give up welcoming those rascally rats for a return browse through.
If you have children or animals you might desire to try natural rodent repellents. For others that desire to keep their hands clean, or who have a repeating rodent issue, obtaining a pet cat can be a superb option. Prior to using a poison, you might want to leave out normal food for a few days, so that the rodents discover to rely on the food source prior to including poisonous substance.
Some animals could get secondary poisoning by eating the infected rodent, which could take place when the hazardous rodent goes outside to pass away. By eliminating the food incentive you could discard welcoming those rascally rodents for a return check out.
You have many options. Just make sure that you choose a company you are comfortable with so you don’t waste your money on a fly-by-night operation. Check out their references and find someone you trust. All homeowners need to take the risk of pests seriously. Getting Pest Control Services in Oak Hill Texas is easy, so get on top of it right away! | <urn:uuid:fa56db7c-d927-417c-aaac-1221b712c0ff> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.homesafepestcontrol.com/bed-bug-pest-control-in-oak-hill-texas/ | 2019-08-26T04:30:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027330968.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20190826042816-20190826064816-00400.warc.gz | en | 0.953478 | 1,551 |
In a down economy and a struggling construction market, how do you lure developers?
Dauphin County officials are using the Internet to bait their hook.
And there are 100 potential bites.
County commissioners and redevelopment authority officials unveiled their Internet-based fishing strategy Monday during a summit that drew about 50 developers to Fort Hunter’s Centennial Barn.
The focus was a just-activated online directory of potential development sites for commercial, industrial and housing projects throughout the county.
Entries span the length and breadth of the county. They range from a relatively small redevelopment prospect in Lykens to behemoths such as the Harrisburg Mall.
The aim, Commissioner George Hartwick said, is to spread the word about their availability throughout the Web’s reach.
He said the online directory should extend the redevelopment authority’s reach many-fold, to prospective developers outside the county, the region, the state and perhaps even the country.
“This is a global marketplace,” Hartwick said.
The timing is good, he insisted, because with the housing construction industry depressed, developers might be looking for other projects, especially redevelopment ventures in government-private partnerships.
John Mizerak of Delta Development Group said the online listing was pared from around 200 initial prospects after discussions with municipal officials and property owners.
The registry lists specifics of each site, photos, location maps and demographic information developers need to gauge a project’s economic viability.
Unoccupied and underused properties are listed, as are undeveloped land and blighted blocks, such as the Adams Street and North Front Street redevelopment initiatives in Steelton.
There were few questions from developers after county officials made their presentation.
Jeff Camp, managing director of Plymouth Meeting-based Vision Properties, called the registry awesome.
“They’re putting their best foot forward here,” he said. Camp said he hasn’t seen anything like it offered by any other Pennsylvania county.
His firm does business in the midstate and has revitalizated blighted brownfield commercial areas elsewhere in the state, Camp said.
He said redevelopment projects such as those on the county’s listing can be attractive to developers because much of the infrastructure is in place, saving millions of dollars and years of seeking permits.
Fred Banuelos, housing management director for the county housing authority, said the online registry can’t help but increase the county’s pull to developers.
“It’s already done a lot of the legwork for them,” he said.
“Nobody else has really done a registry by county. It’s an innovative step,” said David Black, president of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber and CREDC.
The slump in development aside, now is when developers are “kicking the tires, so to speak, and seeking prospects for when the economy revives,” Black said.
“Rather than waiting for the economy to heat up, [county leaders] are being proactive,” he said.
On the Web
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This City has a problem with pigeons .. There is nothing worse than a bird who forgets to fly and gets in the way of your moving forward. The pigeons here have gotten lazy and crazy and have forgotten they can fly at will. Not the brightest of bird to begin with these rats with wings have recently exhibited behavior that is stupid even by bird standards some even seem to forget they can fly. This is the second time I remember seeing this which begs the question ..How many pigeons does it take to cross the street ???
The difficulty of crossing the road with wings
by Royal Hopper
You approach a Sin City intersection in your burgundy dust covered proletariat chariot on the way to work and cannot help but notice a group of pigeons huddled in the turn lane to your left trying to cross the sun baked dusty asphalt like tiny little pedestrians waiting for the Go sign to light up.
One pigeon looks particularly vexed bobbing his tiny little pigeon head his tiny pigeon brain all but overloaded at the decision of which way to turn its tiny pigeon body. One moment in darts forward and left only to be cut off by cars turning the other direction in the four way intersection. The next moment it turns on its heels like a soldier in a parade stepping with purpose toward the imagined safety of its starting point only to be cut off by cars in the turn lane to your immediate left.
After ten or fifteen quick trips to the left and an equal number to the right most of the pigeons decide they have had enough. As if a light goes off in the tiny pigeon brains some suddenly realize they can fly and take a running leap at the relative safety of the raised concrete median in the center of the road ..Three quick flap pf he wings and they are resting in the median in the center of the road planning their trip and a way around the scary scary scary Sin City traffic monsters.
A few more of the more daring pigeons realize they can fly for long distances and rise up in the air flapping their wings like mad and landing in a small triumphant pile on the other side of the road some roosting on a sign some on the concrete others diving into the dusty dirt just beyond the concrete sidewalk . A few are roosting on the far side of he sidewalk to your right refusing to move forward perhaps fearing it is simply not worth the trouble. Those pigeons in the middle seem content to stay there and as you are pulling away toward you r mortgage paying endeavor the pigeons who have moved on get tired of waiting and fly off toward new and hopefully greener sidewalks… There are no pastures in the City of Sin just sand, neon and sidewalks and asphalt. .
Mr. confused pigeon is still confused as the light in your lane changes and experience and the left side of your brain urges you to take your foot off the brake and move on he is still going back and fourth unable to make up his mind up. Afraid to walk forward unable to go back and apparently he has forgotten he fly. Perhaps he has forgotten how to try and is so busy deciding on a left turn or a right turn he is stuck in a never ending loop..perhaps but whatever the case he was still stuck in traffic a moment from being squashed and still would not take to the wing and fly forward.
The answer is they don’t their birds they can fly over it. Those who can fly (birds, people and countries) and move forward remember how to move on and forward and remember how to try generally do.
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Laura Jane Grace of Against Me has penned her memoir titled ‘TRANNY: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout’.
In Billboard’s list of 100 greatest music books of all time, Grace describes in great detail the personal turmoil she has faced as a transgender woman in the punk rock scene. Co-written by music journalist, Dan Ozzi, the book touches on subjects like sex, drugs, failed marriages, parenthood and the struggles she faced overcoming these issues.
Grace does not hold back her emotions, she is brutally honest within her explanations in her quest to find her true identity. This book brings to light the issues surrounding gender acceptance and how Laura spent 30 years of her life searching for who she really was- all in secret, only detailed in journals and hidden in lyrics. Since coming out as transgender in 2012, Laura Jane Grace has become an advocate for transgender awareness and has created a web series titled “True Trans” which in 2015 was nominated for an Emmy award.
TRANNY also reveals the story of Against Me! the punk band who formed in 1997 as one of the most influential bands in the scene. It describes their struggle with the evolution of the band, the trouble with drummers and legal problems.
In December, Against Me! will be returning to Europe for a run of shows, including a few stops in the UK:
6th – Birmingham, O2 Academy 2
7th – Manchester, Academy 2
8th – London, Electric Ballroom
9th – Glasgow, Garage
10th – Bristol, SWX
11th – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
13th – Amsterdam, Melkweg
14th – Brussels, Magasin 4
15th – Zurich, Dynamo
16th – Munich, Backstage Halle
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18th – Vienna, Wuk
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When I was a psychology intern, one of the psychiatrists on the unit used to describe the problems of most of the inpatients as a “closesness-distance” problem. They couldn’t find the right distance from people—people were either too close or they were too far away. This dilemma always reminded me of animals who had been treated badly—the cat wanted to get close to you, but when you tried to pat it, it would run away.
Trauma almost always creates a closeness-distance problem, especially repeated trauma. Surviving trauma requires creating protections—and many of these protections are about keeping others out. It doesn’t mean that there isn’t the longing for closeness—or the longing for connection. But the protections that were in place for so long meant that you lost the practice of connecting. Lost the practice of letting people close—letting in the love from others.
I am thinking about this because the holidays are upon us. It is the end of Hanukah and Christmas is approaching. It is the season of giving. And it is also the season of receiving. And where trauma creates a closeness-distance problem, it also usually creates a giving-receiving problem.
Giving and receiving are really the actions of closeness-distance. In mundane terms, giving and receiving can be merely acts of communication or acts of everyday care. And for people who have experienced trauma I have noticed something important: they often can give, but they can’t receive. They can reach beyond their walls, but their walls don’t let anything in. It’s not plain stubbornness, or even deliberate protection: it is a sheer lack of practice. It is a lack of neural pathways. It is a lack of brain receptors for the good, for the positive, for the kind.
It is why if you love someone who has experienced trauma, they never seem to hold on to the good things that you say or do. You tell them you love them, you tell them the good you see in them, you do kind things for them. And when they are upset they say that no one loves them. It is as if they don’t remember anything you said or did. And this can be horribly frustrating for everyone.
It’s not that they didn’t hear you when you said it. It is that it didn’t stick. They couldn’t feel it, and it couldn’t register as a real memory. This is why the work of healing from trauma is so important—so you can get to a place of taking things in. And it is why it takes a long time. Because you are, literally, rebuilding a brain.
So I think it is really important at the holidays to acknowledge how hard it can be to receive. Because receiving a gift is risking closeness. It is the hurt cat risking being patted. But if receiving is to be healing then you have to slow down and breathe and take in the kindness as much as you can. And you don’t have to start with gifts. Start with anything people give you: a smile—breathe, take in the smile and smile back. Or hello, or Happy Holidays, or Merry Christmas! Each time someone gives you the gift of any kindness—acknowledge the gift, breathe and take it in like a long drink of water. Drink it way, way into your roots like a tree that has lived through a drought. Because it has. The thing about healing is there isn’t a state of hurt and then a state of healed. Healing is about creating a constant state of mending.
And if you are someone for whom the whole receiving thing is too scary or too overwhelming—then practice with giving. Giving can begin to help you build your closeness-distance muscles. But you need to work on feeling the feelings that go with giving for you. Say something kind—breathe and feel the kindness you are giving. Do something kind and take in the feelings of the action. The practice of giving can prepare you to eventually work on the practice of receiving.
Understanding the impact of trauma on giving and receiving can give you a way to understand some of the stress that can come up at the holidays. It can help you be more compassionate with yourself or your loved one who has experienced trauma. it can help you slow down and actually begin to heal through the holidays, rather than protect yourself from them. You can use the moments that the stress flare up as a way to help yourself check in and say, “What’s happening right now for me? Too Close? Too Far Away? Difficulty Giving? Difficulty Receiving?” These questions can give you a way to talk with yourself differently and ways to coach yourself differently. The questions, and the answers to them may also give you language to talk with your loved ones about the holidays and the more mundane days of giving and receiving.
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Occasionally, I will give you a glimpse into my little personal world and this is one of those days. This is totally un-fiber related, so you can move on if the personal tidbits don't matter.
My darling daughter (herein after known as DD), ever so precocious, in third grade and just turned 9 in December approached me last week and said she had to ask me a question. Seemed very serious, so I put down what I was doing and plopped next to her on the couch for "a big question". Here it is: How do boys pee?
Now, at first I just thought she meant, you know, how do they know when they have to pee. I told her "Kinda like you, they feel the urge and then pee." Here's how the conversation went:
DD: No, no mom, I mean HOW do they pee?
Me: What do you mean, HOW do they pee?
DD: You know, with a penis, how?
Me: Well (digging deep into my brain to analyze the correct response) they can either stand up at a urinal and pee or sit on a toilet and hold it down or stand in front of the toilet.
Me: You've seen a urinal (Her father has taken her to the movies and such and if she has to use the public restroom, and she always does, he clears the mens room and lets her go in).
DD: Oh, those thing-I thought they were weird sinks.
Me: You DID NOT wash you hands in them did you? (All I could envision was that scent cake being used as soap)
DD: Of course not, I used the regular sink, I didn't understand those other ones.
Me: (wiping sweat from my brow at this point). Well, Elena, most boys stand up and pee at the urinal.
DD: You mean they pull their pants down right there in front of each other ? (said in aghast)
Me: Oh, no, no, they unzip their pants and take their penis out.
DD: What about their underwear?
Me: (thinking "this is really getting in depth, why does she have to ask so many questions?") Well, boys underwear has an opening that they can take their penis out to pee built in.
DD: Really, can I see a pair?
Me: Oh, Elena, let me get a pair of dad's new undies and I'll show you. I show her.
DD: Oh, that's just ridiculous. The silliest thing I have ever seen.
Me: Well, it's how they pee.
DD: No it isn't, you showed me how they set up to pee.
DD: How DO they pee? Is is like a cow udder, you know they have to kind of pull it like an udder (I am shuddering as she is showing me the motion and remembering back to that damn Amish farm where I let her milk a cow)
Me: OH NO Elena, it just comes out like it does for you, they kinda have to hold it up. Oh, and please, do not show anyone that cow milking demonstration at school, please.
DD: Just comes out??? Do they wipe it because I don't recall any toilet paper next to the urinal?
Me: Ummmm, I think they just shake it a little, maybe some dab with toilet paper if they're in a stall.
DD: You gotta be kidding me, they "shake it", how is that clean?
Me: You hope they wash their hands is all I can say. Elena I'm not a boy or a man, I don't know their techniques, but don't ask anyone in school and we'll let this slide with your dad, okay?
DD: Next question, how comfortable can their pants be carrying all those extra parts down there? Are they heavy? Do they get in the way?
Me: Elena, I am a woman, I don't know and I am not asking anyone and do not Google this. They are born that way and it's all they know. You were born your way and it's all you know.
DD: You're sure it's not like an udder, right?
Me: At this point, I am laughing, I admit it-quietly, but laughing. Yes, I am sure and I repeat DO NOT SHOW THAT COW MILKING DEMONSTRATION AT SCHOOL, PLEASE.
DD: Okay mom, thanks for all the help.
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Hopefully, a quick and painless end via meteor, but I feel like we won’t be so lucky.
That quoted nonsense above is the rallying cry of the pearl clutchers on Facebook as of late. The idea that *gasp* transgender people might need to pee while out in public is apparently cause for great concern. The need to pee while out and about is a great concern of mine as well, but only because public bathrooms have a tendency to be fucking gross.
It seems that people who have never met a transgender person, never educated themselves on transgender people, and therefore have no fucking clue how it works are convinced that the ONLY reason a transgender person would go into a public restroom is to commit heinous acts of violation against others and not to, ya know, take a piss.
First, let’s clear up a few things and do a little education here. Here are some definitions you need to know.
A cisgender person is someone whose gender corresponds with the sex they were assigned at birth
A transgender person is someone whose gender identity doesn’t correspond to their biological sex assigned at birth or someone who does not conform to societal gender norms or roles.
A transvestite is a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
A sexual predator is someone who would dress as the opposite sex for the specific purpose of entering a bathroom for voyeurism or to commit sexual assault.
Oh, hey, were you one of those guys that made a joke that you’d totally dress up as a chick so you could go into the girl’s bathroom because your working knowledge of life apparently comes from repeated viewings of teen sex comedies? Congratulations! You’re a sexual predator!
“But I was just joking! I wouldn’t actually do it!”
I don’t give a fuck. You’re part of the fucking problem, Beavis.
There is a HUGE bathroom problem. The problem is that men will gather their torches and pitchforks to protect their womens from the big, bad trannies lurking in bathroom stalls, but at the same time would scrutinize every detail of a woman’s account of actually being sexually assaulted by a cis male because this sort of accusation could destroy a man’s life, you know. The same man rending his clothes about the idea of a transgendered person peeing in the stall next to his wife at Target will automatically say that any woman accusing a celebrity of rape is lying and only doing it for the money. The men outraged about a trans woman needing to pee while out and about in public are the same ones that will tell you that “boys will be boys” and “she shouldn’t have drank so much” and “if you don’t want that kind of attention, don’t wear those clothes”.
Am I singling out the men here? Yeah, but I’m going to admit that there are women that feel the same fucking way and shame on them, too.
There’s another BIG bathroom problem that’s hardly getting a mention at all. You’re all so worried about what’s going on in the women’s room, but what about the men’s? What about the transgender women that would be forced to use the men’s room due to their sex assigned at birth? What about them?
That’s a rhetorical question because I already know what you bathroom defenders would say about them. You’d say, “Fuck them. They get what they deserve if they go into a men’s room because that’s what happens when you’re a freak.” My pants aren’t on fire, so you know I’m not lying.
And that’s just it, isn’t it, kids? Trans folks are more likely to be sexually assaulted, more likely to be physically assaulted, more likely to be murdered by cis folks than the other way around.
Because this battle of the bathrooms isn’t about protecting women from sexual predators. If that were true, if that were really the endgame, then public bathrooms would not be your chosen battle ground. College campuses and right inside the home would be the places to start.
No, this isn’t about protecting women from sexual predators. This is about protecting your ignorance, protecting your narrative, protecting your view of the world. The idea that someone exists outside your scope of understanding makes you uncomfortable, threatens you, scares you, and therefore, must not be allowed to thrive, to exist.
This isn’t about keeping women safe in the bathroom. It’s about keeping transgender people out of society, out of view, to make it harder for them to exist, to be normal, to be like everyone else. Because that’s what they really want, you know. They don’t want to destroy the sanctity of the public bathroom (God, if that were only a real thing, then maybe they’d be cleaner); they want to be treated with the decency and respect you would treat any human that needs to go the can when they’re out running errands, that you would treat any human anywhere, regardless of circumstance. They want to be like everyone else.
Guess what? They are. You’ve probably already interacted with one. You’ve probably already peed next to one. And you didn’t know it. Why? Because the transgender folks are trying to protect themselves from YOU.
And in the end, that’s what this whole fucking debacle is about, isn’t it?
You and your ignorant bullshit (courtesy flush that deuce, if you please).
If you’re that concerned about the inner workings of the women’s public restroom (Seriously, what the fuck do you think happens in there? What are YOU doing in there that’s so goddamn interesting?), maybe YOU should only pee at home.
The rest of us, trans and cis, are happy to pee together in peace.
So long as you don’t piss on the seat.
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What lovely pictures! I like doorways, too. And you have captured some very beautiful artsy doors. I love the icon of the Madonna, and the flowers. I had a heavily landscaped 3/4 yard at the house I lived in for 18 years. I put so much of my life into that place, then lost it in a divorce. You're lucky to have so many beautiful places all around you to enjoy, that you will never lose.
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As you remember, last week, Rockstar company announced the launch of Rockstar Editor in GTA V on PS4 and Xbox One. However, the developers didn’t specified when exactly it will be added to the project. And recently, they have not only shared its release date but also revealed a few new features that the video editor will include.
As it’s reported on the studio’s official site, Rockstar Editor will come out in GTA V on PS4 and Xbox One sometime in September as a separate free update. This option will also get several additional features. They will be available on all three platforms. So, here are these features:
- new fonts for titles and credits;
- ambient audio and sound effects that will make the video more realistic and atmospheric;
- copy and paste of various markers;
- Snapmatic integration which will let export your favorite shots into this program;
- new options in the Director mode. You will be able to stop the time, add various water and air vehicles. An enlarged minimap with marked points will be presented as well.
Also, the developers of the popular action-adventure have reminded once again that after GTA V on PS4 and Xbox One gets Rockstar Editor, everyone (regardless on a platform) will have an ability to take part in the studio’s video contests. | <urn:uuid:5dd6ae51-8912-4af2-8cd9-d385a5f6d33e> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://gamespace.daemon-tools.cc/eng/news/gta-v-on-ps4-and-xbox-one-will-get-rockstar-editor-in-september-2015-08-25 | 2017-12-13T13:17:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948523222.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20171213123757-20171213143757-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.93981 | 280 |
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Last Fall, I was involved in a pop-up blow-dry event at Eastwood Cycle with AG Hair. It was an incredible event that helped raise funds for an organization called Women Leading Change. I met so many wonderful people there, one of them being Vancouver based Jewelry Designer, Leah Alexander. I couldn’t stop noticing all of the beautiful jewelry she was wearing and loved everything about her style. OK
yes, I’ll admit that it was “girl crush at first sight”. We hit it off instantly and I had to schedule a photo shoot at her Gastown design studio to learn more about her. You all should know by now that when I’m obsessed with something, I want to share it with everyone, right?! I’m sure after you read this post you’ll understand my obsession with this pretty lady!
When did you start your business and how did you come up with the concept?
I started my business almost 10 years ago (big anniversary approaching!) and I decided to turn my passion for gemstones into a business!
Tell us about your beautiful studio space and what clients can expect when they shop in your studio?
We’ve been in our Gastown studio for over 2 years now, clients can expect to visit a beautiful historical building with a big open floor plan where you can take a peek at a busy production area and a display of finished jewels.
What inspires you when designing a new collection? Tell us more about your collection this season.
I find so much inspiration from the gemstones themselves, from their shapes and colours. You can expect to see beautiful pastels in the new Spring collection, such as rose quartz, which happens to be Pantone’s colour of the year!
Who are your style inspirations/icons and how would you describe your style?
What are the staple pieces you think every woman should have in their wardrobe?
Everyone should have a pair of ear climbers in their wardrobe. Icing on the cake, even if that’s just with a white t-shirt!
What are 5 beauty products that you can’t live without?
Which do you prefer: New York or LA? Paris or London? Coffee or Tea? Wine or Champagne?
New York, Paris, Coffee, Wine.
What’s your definition of being a confidence woman?
“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely” – Roald Dahl
What’s the next for Leah Alexandra? Any new projects coming up?
Planning something special for our 10-year anniversary – stay tuned!
Leah’s work has been feature in many international fashion and bridal print publications including, Vouge, Elle, O Magazine, Sports Illustrated and The Knot, to name a few. Her jewelry is timeless, fresh and versatile, and she uses materials such as sterling silver, 14 karat goldfill, 24 karat gold vermeil, and carefully hand-selected gemstones and freshwater pearls. Her collection is available at select boutiques and department stores across the globe, including Nordstrom.
Thank you, Leah, for having us at your studio! I’m loving all of the beautiful pieces I picked up — who knew that I would love moonstone so much! Wishing you continued success and looking forward to seeing the new Spring collection. Hope to catch you at an Eastwood spin class one of these days soon! xo | <urn:uuid:ba107e50-9738-49f9-98c3-d9e194cc84a3> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.nadiaalbano.com/leah-alexandra | 2021-10-20T17:11:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585322.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020152307-20211020182307-00426.warc.gz | en | 0.945799 | 742 |
Victor's First Road Trip 05.05 - Adler Family
Victor's First Road Trip 05.05
He seems a little bored with this posing stuff.
Already a fan of Henry Winkler's the Fonz.
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Community Action Partnership Employee Recognized with National Award
May 26, 2021
Contact: Kristy Aurand
THRIVE TO FIVE DIRECTOR, STACY LEWIS, NAMED “GAME-CHANGER”
Lancaster, PA – Stacy Lewis, Director of Lancaster County’s Thrive to Five program, formerly Head Start, has been named a 2020 BOLD “Game-Changer” leader by the National Head Start Association.
In early spring, NHSA named 14 individuals as 2020 BOLD Prize winners in recognition of their extraordinary leadership in response to the unique circumstances of the global pandemic. Ms. Lewis was honored for her bold leadership in preserving Early Head Start and funded preschool spaces in the community. Between March and October 2020, the program successfully licensed two new facilities, took over two programs that were closing their doors, preserved the care options for families that would have been displaced by these programs and retained more than 100 funded spaces for children ages birth to 5 in Lancaster, while offering continued employment to more than 20 early childhood professionals.
“Under normal circumstances, Head Start teachers, administrators, and staff demonstrate creativity and commitment daily,” said NHSA Executive Director Yasmina Vinci. “But during the pandemic, a different, more innovative, and bolder approach was required. Thankfully, Head Start proved its commitment and dedication to meet the needs of at-risk children and families when they needed it most. Stacy Lewis was a shining star of that BOLD leadership and well-deserving of her honor as one of our BOLD Leaders.”
Underwritten by the Ford Foundation, the 2020 BOLD Leadership Initiative rewards leadership brilliance demonstrated in the Head Start field during the school year. Grand Prize and Game Changer category winners have the opportunity to participate in a series of best practice leadership conversations with six Head Start BOLD Alumni – Head Start alumni who have excelled and demonstrated exemplary leadership in their respective fields.
“I have been very fortunate to be surrounded throughout my career by amazing mentors—people who really believed in my capacity to impact change and who sculpted my leadership approach,” Lewis said. “Having leadership that believe in you and the value of the work you are doing helps me show up, especially when things are hard—this is what I try to provide to my team as well.
“I couldn’t possibly consider doing the things we have done without the trust and support of my team—they are the ones that really make it all happen.”
“In order to drive lasting social change, we need to empower people to propel their ideas forward, giving them the resources and support they need to make long-term impact,” Ford Foundation president and Head Start alumnus Darren Walker said. “The passion and commitment demonstrated by the NHSA 2020 BOLD Prize Winners to find creative ways to help children and families in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic is nothing short of inspiring, and serves as proof that Head Start continues to play a critical role in our society.”
NHSA will share the insights and takeaways from the BOLD Leadership Initiative with the Head Start field with the launch of the “BOLD Leadership Summer Series,” a timed release of pre-recorded videos and webinars between May and Labor Day.
About the National Head Start Association
NHSA is a not-for-profit organization committed to the belief that every child, regardless of circumstances at birth, has the ability to succeed in school and in life. The opportunities offered by Head Start lead to healthier, empowered children and families, and stronger, more vibrant communities. NHSA is the voice for more than 1 million children, 270,000 staff and 1,600 Head Start grantees in the United States. Visit www.nhsa.org and follow @NatlHeadStart for more information.
About the Community Action Partnership
CAP is Lancaster County’s largest anti-poverty organization, helping under-resourced families achieve economic empowerment. CAP’s service profile interrupts inter-generational poverty with programs that support families and individuals at every age and place in life. CAP is the countywide administrator for Thrive to Five, the new name for Head Start and CAP’s early education services. For more information, visit www.caplanc.org. | <urn:uuid:a2c593f9-0357-4d09-923f-81dc978cd954> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://caplanc.org/blog/community-action-partnership-employee-recognized-with-national-award/ | 2024-02-22T21:00:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.957599 | 903 |
Sometimes it happens during a concert that from the beginning up to the end the music just happens! One of those rare moments took place on the 9th of march 2017 at the MuTh in Vienna. Norwegian piano player Tord Gustavsen and me meet every couple of years to perform together one or two concerts. So […]
Enjoy the very first small „Café Drechsler Teaser“ for our upcoming album, filmed by Max Parovsky during the bands last studio session. The album will feature Oliver Steger on double bass, Alex Deutsch on the drums and my person on the saxophone. The album will be released about mid of june. And find here the new Café […]
For more than a decade occasionally I followed up to the music of Thelonious Monk, composer & pianist and one of the real shining lights and individualists in jazz history. And I always had the dream to play these wonderful strong compositions full of brittle beauty in a solo context. So now I’ve started my journey […]
That’s the way the original lineup of the legendary trio „Café Drechsler“ sounds nowadays during our first real concert after more than 10 years!!! With Alex Deutsch on drums, Oliver Steger on double bass and Ulrich Drechsler on the tenor saxophone.
„Little Peace Lullaby“ receives more and more raving press reactions from austrian and german media as well which you can find on the album’s page! To celebrate this we’ve uploaded with „Little Peace Lullaby No. 5“ a new unreleased track from the recording session to SoundCloud. Enjoy!!! Finally we’re excited to announce the cooperation with another new […]
At the end of may my new duo album „Little Peace Lullaby“ with italian piano virtuoso Stefano Battaglia will be released by prestigious german record label ENJA! We’ve recorded the album at the wonderful ambient of the „Glaeserne Saal“ which is part of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s home, the Musikverein, one of the most famous […]
Click „Little Peace Lullaby No. 3“ to listen to the first official audio sample of the upcoming album „Little Peace Lullaby“ (Enja Records)!!! Also I’ve added „Little Peace Lullaby No. 8“ to the music player. We’ve recorded 23 songs, 10 of them will be released on the album. „No. 8“ is one of those songs which […] | <urn:uuid:0c507171-665e-4c57-a457-d475d8a4b761> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://www.ulrichdrechsler.com/ | 2018-01-20T07:06:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084889473.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20180120063253-20180120083253-00629.warc.gz | en | 0.90857 | 555 |
All parents know that when it comes to bed time, their kid can be a stubborn little so-and-so.
Case in point: John Thomas. In this video from 2000 (that is just now surfacing), young John can be heard singing-shouting, "I'm not sleepy" to himself over and over.
His parents, wanting to document the cuteness, took a video camera into John's room in the dark of night. The whole thing looks a lot like "Paranormal Activity," but with a much happier ending.
At first young John freaks out when he senses somebody in the room with him, but after getting some assurances from his mother, he returns to singing and begins playing with what looks like a toy dinosaur. Yay for being a kid.
"I uploaded it privately to YouTube a few years ago, just to show friends and family," Lauren Marek, John's older sister, wrote Yahoo News in an email. "Everyone had always thought it was hilarious and I just wanted to put it out there for people to see. I put it on reddit a few days ago and it just took off."
She explained that the not-sleepy John is now 17. Like most of the Internet, he thinks the clip is hilarious. His singing in bed was a one-time thing, but, as a kid, he did have a tendency to get a burst of energy around bed time.
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