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- Supporters.
"We have reached the conclusion that this is not a winnable battle at this time," Councilwoman Lisa Herbold said before the vote. "I am not someone who walks away from what looks like a losing fight, but ... there is so much more to lose between today and November."
Pressure from Amazon had already cut the original tax nearly in half, but then the company joined Starbucks and others in backing a campaign to put the tax to a referendum vote this fall. The No Head Tax campaign had raised more than $285,000 through the end of May, according to filings with the city.
RELATED: Seattle council approves smaller $48 million head tax for homelessness
On Monday, the council and Mayor Jenny Durkan formally caved to the opposition, announcing Tuesday's special meeting and indicating they would largely support repeal.
Against the din of protesters chanting in city council chambers, the council struggled to complete its vote on the measure, with Councilwoman Kshama Sawant holding out her vote until the crowd acknowledged the vote was happening behind them. The final tally was seven in favor, with just Sawant and Councilwoman Teresa Mosqueda dissenting.
The decision to repeal the tax was blamed on the bottomless coffers of the opposition, a nod to Amazon's stunning wealth, and thus, influence in local politics.
"I have been unable to find a way forward that we could out-fund and out-resource the opposition campaign by November," said Councilwoman Lorena Gonzalez ahead of the vote. "Money has funded this campaign that put us in a position where we have to repeal this law."
During public comment on Tuesday, which ran 50 minutes before the council considered the measure, many called the moved to repeal with such little notice a "betrayal" and a "backroom deal" that put corporate interests above people.
A snapshot of the crowd at Seattle City Council's head tax repeal meeting on June 12, 2018.Media: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"I wonder about the homeless state of emergency, I wonder if it's just that here we are in the city of Seattle paying lip service to a state of emergency but we're not actually fixing anything," said Matthew Lang, with the Hope Coalition.
In a statement from seven members of the council and Durkan on Monday, they argued that the political fight to keep the tax would prove too costly and wouldn't help the homelessness crisis. Instead, they pointed to a need for the city to find a solution everyone could agree on.
During comments before the vote Sawant pushed back on the idea that the council would come out ahead in backing down on the issue so soon.Read Full Article
"Do council members actually believe that by completely capitulating to big business today, that somehow we'll be in a better position to win this next year?" she asked.
Gonzalez ultimately backed the repeal effort, but hedged her support in a statement Monday.
"I am deeply troubled and disappointed by the political tactics utilized by a powerful faction of corporations that seem to prioritize corporations over people," she wrote in Monday's statement.
Opponents to the tax have argued that the city hasn't properly handled the money it already has for dealing with the homelessness crisis, something that was officially declared a city emergency in November 2015 by then-mayor Ed Murray.
Seattle has doubled its spending on homeless services in the last few years, with $63 million earmarked for the crisis in 2018. Countywide, about $195 million was spent in 2017, according to a Seattle Times analysis of funds that included state and federal sources. By comparison, San Francisco, where around 10,000 people are living without stable housing, will spend about $305 million this year on the crisis.
Durkan recently said the city would launch a website detailing how it spends its homelessness funding, but the site hasn't appeared yet. Credit rating company Moody's gives Seattle an Aa2 credit rating, the third-highest rating, and found the head tax to be a credit positive move, while it warned of the impact Amazon may have on the local government of its HQ2 city, wherever that will be.
Amazon had a big influence over what the head tax that did pass looked like. After the original proposal was released, the e-commerce company halted planning on two tower projects in Seattle pending a vote on the deal. Durkan struck a compromise deal that was just over half the original amount of the tax in response, a deal that Amazon approved enough to resume work on its tower projects.
RELATED: Report: Amazon halts planning for new Seattle towers over head tax
Neither council members or Mayor Durkan had offered up alternatives to generate the same funding that was expected from the head tax.
Senior editor Daniel DeMay covers Seattle culture, city hall, and transportation for seattlepi.com. He can be reached at 206-448-8362 or danieldemay@seattlepi.com. Follow him on Twitter: @Daniel_DeMay. | https://m.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Seattle-council-mayor-cave-to-Amazon-other-12987980.php | 2018-10-15T17:55:56 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
DOMESTIC
Prosecutors Give Account of 2010 Fatal Shooting of Border Patrol Agent, Seek 30-year Sentence
Holder begs court to stop document release on Fast and Furious
New immigration exemptions putting US at risk?
good interview with Mike Cutler
Manhunt Underway For Mexican National Who Raped Teen Girl 70 Times
Drug cartels recruiting US military veterans
Pelham High grad missing in Mexico, on way to recreate scene in ‘Shawshank’
(an American on a motorcycle)
Mexican border town sees spike in drug violence
ICE Data Shows Mexicans Get Special Treatment
US Foreign Policy in Latin America Leaves an Open Door for China
Drug Bust Shows Presence Of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel In Northern California, Authorities Said
Man’s murder, decapitation stymies Wyoming police
Heroin Use Increases Despite Deadly Consequences
(as the cartels increased their heroin flow to the US, I predicted it would become plentiful and cheap, as cartels need addicts to keep the profit flowing in to them-parents watch your kids, per my grand daughter, a lot of teens are now using it due to ready availability-Ed.)
Funeral services set for slain Utah County sheriff’s sergeant
(illegal alien suspect in fatal deputy shooting dies of wounds)
Television show glamorizing cartel leader to be shown in U.S.
U.S. immigration bill ‘in doubt’ this year, Republican Ryan says
Immigration Officials Warn Of Amnesty ‘Overload’
ICE Union Boss Urges GOP: Don’t Ignore Immigration Officers
Group Says REAL ID Enforcement Needs To Include Tough Measures To Intercept Counterfeit Driver’s Licenses
Licensed to drive-Hawaii
10 Reasons Why Biometric Exit May Advance in 2014
More states grant in-state tuition
The U.S.-Central American Border
Rising US interest rates cause market, currency trouble in other nations
New US Coast Guard facility to enhance Caribbean operations
Arizona lawmaker seeks $30M ‘virtual fence’ near US-Mexico border
Losing Steam? Americans Don’t Think Immigration Reform Is Absolute Priority
Homeland Security blacked out recommendation on Border Patrol restraint
“Partnership for a New American Economy” Ganging up on American Families-Mike Cutler
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents no longer performing courthouse sweeps
Illegal immigrant college-aid bill now backed by the WA State Senate
Puerto Rico Prison Guard Sentenced to 67 Years for Aiding Drug Traffickers
U.S. Seizes Ton of Cocaine South of Dominican Republic (VIDEO)
Killer Arrested Trying to Sneak Into Texas
WA
U.S. Border Patrol Blotter, Blaine Sector
China, India, Nepal, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Eritrea nationals caught
Chicago Strike Force chases ‘perfect storm’: Gangs linked to Mexican heroin cartels
IA
Former Slaughterhouse Manager Gets 41-Months In Prison For Exploiting Immigrants
TX
Juarez consulate killings: Witness says Barrio Aztecas were trained by Zetas cartel
CA/AZ
New technique to smuggle drugs increasing along the border
Man Smuggles 40,000 Piranhas
CA
3 plead guilty to smuggling migrants by plane
AZ
Nogales CBP Officers Seize $297k of Hard Drugs
TX
U.S. says it busted worker smuggling ring
indicted are immigrants from China
TX
Agents arrest man on sexual assault charge
TX
31 people detained in San Juan stash house bust
CA
2 Men arrested when trying to smuggle drugs, $51,000 in cash
CA
Border Patrol Canine Team Sniffs Out Guns Hidden in Car
CA
18 kilos of cocaine found in car
CA
Border Patrol seizes nearly $500,000 in narcotics
TX
CBP Locates Deeply Concealed Cocaine Load
NY
North Man Faces Prison, Fine After Smuggling Conviction
Manhunt Underway For Mexican National Who Raped Teen Girl 70 Times
TX
Agents seize nearly $6 million of marijuana
WA
Two Wanted for Crimes Against Minors Arrested by CBP
AZ
Border Patrol agents arrest convicted sex offender in Ariz; Previously faced charges in Iowa
Four MS-13 Leaders Sentenced
Serious Threat Removed from Atlanta Streets
FBI Shuts Down Virginia Bribery Scheme for Illegal Alien Driver Licences
California: Mexican Wrestler Battles ‘Border Patrol’ Bad Guys for Illegal Alien Audience
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La Prensa Gráfica San Salvador, El Salvador 2/4/14
features a news item from the U.S. reporting that the Sheriffs’ Association of the State of New Mexico visited the state capitol last week to demand more resources for their members who must face border related problems. Jack LeVick, executive director of the association, said that the heads of the Sheriffs’ Departments consider that the border “is not secure” and that they still confront problems ranging from the activities of the Mexican drug cartels to searching for immigrants suspected of being in the country without legal authorization.
LeVick added that the group opposes converting an area of Doña Ana County (a NM county that borders Mexico just to the west of El Paso, TX) to a National Monument because the law enforcement chiefs believe this would help the cartels to open up new traffic routes open up. (Original Spanish item in El Salvador paper)
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MEXICO
Coahuila’s Clandestine Grave Body Count Rises to 500
20 Years on, Mexico is NAFTA’s Biggest Lie
Mexican Government Says 314 Flu Deaths Have Occurred This Year
Zapatista’s Warning Over NAFTA Rings True 2 Decades Later
Zetas Cartel Is Mexico’s Most Violent Gang, Author Says
Government Unveils Strategy to Fight Kidnapping in Mexico
Troops Clash With Cartel Gunslingers In Northern Mexico
Mexican president pledges help for troubled Michoacan state
Mexican Vigilantes Beat Back Ruthless Knights Templar Cartel
Will Mexico’s Successful Anti-Cartel Militias’ Seek Systemic Change?
Mexican Government Signs Agreement with Vigilante Group
Sexual slavery in Mexico – a pimp tells his story
Sex trafficking entraps thousands of Mexican women every year. A jailed pimp, who claims to be reformed, explains his role.
Breakfast with…Adrian Alejandrez, a pastor fighting against drug trafficking in Michoacan, Mexico
Tens of thousands in Mexico protest energy reform
Mexican consul general ‘angered’ by CBSA in-custody death
Mexico energy reform could bring $1.2 trillion to border towns
Mexico’s Economic Activity Grows 0.39%
Castaway pleads to return home to Mexico
Edmonton teen witnesses terrifying robbery on Mexican bus
Mexican plane destroyed in Venezuela belonged to drug cartel
Major Increase Of Illegal Oil Siphoning In Mexico Leads To Losses In The Millions
Security Forces Find 2 Human Heads in Community in Western Mexico
Police reporter kidnapped in southern Mexico
Mexican journalist abducted
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Proceso Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2/3/14
Migrants Intercepted Going to the United States
A Central American newspaper reports that Mexican officials have just intercepted a total of 245 “undocumented” emigrants by checking northbound passenger buses in the states of Puebla and Queretaro.
The total includes 178 males and 67 females, including one who is pregnant; there were also 20 minors, 5 of whom were traveling alone. One of the minors is an eight month old child.
The nationalities represented are : Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua and El Salvador. (Note: the current U.S. administration has done away with passenger bus/other transportation immigration control checks.) (Spanish)
Prensa Libre Guatemala City, Guatemala also reports on the 245 northbound “undocumented” Central Americans and Cubans caught in Mexico. (Spanish)
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CENTRAL AMERICA
President Runoffs Seen for El Salvador, Costa Rica
Former guerrilla leader ahead in El Salvador’s presidential election
Costa Rica in a tough battle against dengue
65 Police Slain in Honduras in 2013
Is Nicaragua’s Economic Growth Reaching the Poor?
No clear leader as Costa Ricans vote for new president
Drug trafficking driving deforestation in Central America: study
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La Hora Guatemala City, Guatemala 1/31/14
This editorial deals with the debate on immigration reform in the U.S. from that country’s perspective.
Sadly, it’s a vital issue.
The debate in the United States about immigration reform ought to be an issue pertaining to the North Americans due to the significance of the legalization of millions of persons who entered without complying with the legal requirements to reside and work in the country. However, it turns out that few countries have as much interest in that debate as does Guatemala, a country that has “exported” almost two million of fellow citizens who didn’t find opportunities to improve their living standard here and who traveled with the hope of supporting their families with hard work that would provide a more proper income.
It turns out that it isn’t only the migrants’ families that are following the debate, but that all of society and the more important members of the economy are doing so because one must acknowledge that lacking a solid growth of our productivity and internal demand we depend in large measure on the individual monetary remittances (trans. note: funds sent to foreign countries by persons in the U.S. many of whom are here illegally) which have become the engine of our economy, reaching more significant levels than the product of traditional and non-traditional exports, which confirms my thesis in the sense that Guatemala’s main export product is its own people who, contrary to what happens here, are well valued for their abilities and kills for all kinds of work and the ease they show to become technical workers when they get the opportunity to do so.
Unfortunately, the Temporary Protection Status was not extended. It has been of great benefit to citizens of other Central American countries who have had storms and misfortunes such as the ones that have affected Guatemala, especially hurricane Mitch, the same one that made it possible for Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans to obtain the TPS due to their governments’ request. The one of Guatemala decided that it wasn’t needed and that finally produced the deportation of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens who could not be part of that benefit.
Guatemala has a small maneuvering room to lobby in the main centers of power of the United States, especially because surrounding the immigration issue there are ideological considerations that are deeply divided among members of Congress. But it’s important for the Guatemalans who may benefit from the reform to be organized and properly informed about what they must do to not be marginalized, because lack of care can be the difference between the achievement of legal status and obtaining a work permit and facing the risk of deportation.
Given that there are also among the emigrants tensions and special interests from the operating activists’ groups, it is essential that the government, by means of the Embassy and the standard Consulates, plus the mobile ones that ought to be created, ought to have a close contact with the community of emigrants so that they may receive precise and specific information about the status of the reform project and about the documents which will be needed in all cases by the ones who live in the United States to receive the benefits that may finally be decided. If we depend so much on the effort and money from the Guatemalans who work abroad, the least we can do is to assist them to make sure that no one misses out from the advantages of the reform. (Spanish)
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SOUTH AMERICA
Violence Tests Brazil Ahead of World Cup
Catholic priest who ran right-wing death squad arrested in Colombia
Colombia’s coffee farmers impatient with ‘unwilling government,’ set deadline for new strike
Colombian Rebels Burn Canadian Oil Company Vehicles
Bolivia: Flood Emergency Declared
As Argentine Peso Falters, President Keeps a Low Profile
Venezuela, Cuba Aim to Cement Economic Cooperation
10 Die in Colombia Prison Fire
Venezuelan journalists protest over paper shortage
Colombia rural leader claims existence of $150K reward to kill him
Venezuela Oil Price Jumps Higher
500 Dolphins Die in Northern Peru
Gunmen rob patients in Brazilian hospital
Brazil Letter Carriers Get Police Escorts
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CARIBBEAN
22 Undocumented Cubans en Route to U.S. Detained in Honduras
Dominica says its time to end the US economic, trade embargo of Cuba
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ELSEWHERE
UNITED KINGDOM
Bath Starbucks branch used in Columbian cocaine smuggling plan
CANADA
Mother ordered deported without baby
PHILIPPINES
PNP maintains Mexican drug cartel operates in Philippines
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Who Is Nick Gordon? 10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobbi Kristina’s’));
Ever since Bobbi Kristina was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her Georgia home, there have been a lot of questions about how she ended up that way, Nick Gordon’s involvement in everything, and of course, the marriage between Bobbi and Nick, that according to Bobby Brown’s lawyer, wasn’t ever real. Since all the facts aren’t out and probably won’t be for some time about this tragedy and the confusion surrounding it, we wanted to share some facts about Gordon, who many have said they don’t know much about. Here are 10 things to know and remember about the 25-year-old.
Nick Gordon Was Taken In By Whitney Houston When He Was 12
Though never legally adopted by Whitney, she took Gordon in at a time when, according to The Huffington Post, his “birth mother could no longer care for him.” He was raised alongside Bobbi Kristina for more than a decade. Gordon has said in the past that Whitney “treated me like she gave birth to me,” and he has only called her “mom.”
He Wasn’t Included In Whitney’s Will
According to Forbes, when Whitney passed, she left everything to Bobbi Kristina as the sole beneficiary. She might have tried to include Gordon in an updated version of the will had she actually updated it sometime before her death, but the will was created and signed back in 1993, and the only amendment to it was made in 2000–before Nick started living with her, and while she was still married to Bobby Brown.
Now 21, Bobbi Kristina had just inherited 10 percent of her mother’s money through the trust set up for her, was going to get one-sixth of it at 25, and the rest at the age of 30.
He Works In The Tech Business
According to ABC News, through records they obtained, Gordon is reportedly a partner in a small tech company, but around the time of Whitney’s death, he was still living in the Houston family home near Atlanta.
He Has A Huge Tattoo For Whitney
On his wrist is a large tattoo of Whitney Houston’s initials with doves and crosses flying around it, as well as a picture of Houston that matches this photograph she took a few years ago. He got it done for the late singer’s birthday last year.
Was Asked To Look After Bobbi Kristina If Anything Happened To Whitney
According to Gordon, he said in an interview with “Extra” that Whitney had asked him to protect Bobbi Kristina if anything should happen to her. He said this last January:
“[Whitney] made me promise several times to look after Krissy. I will never, ever, ever break that promise.”
He Got Into A Fight With Gary Michael Houston, Bobbi’s Cousin
We all know that the Houston family wasn’t too keen on Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon’s relationship. And things got ugly between Gordon and Bobbi’s cousin, Gary Michael Houston, while at Pat Houston’s daughter’s 16th birthday party last year. The fight was allegedly about Gordon not being respectful of the family, with Gary confronting and then attacking him. They ended up airing one another out on social media afterwards:
Pat Houston Filed A Restraining Order Against Him
As you saw from Nick’s tweets on the last page, he has major issues with Pat Houston. Pat, who was Whitney’s manager and sister-in-law, filed a restraining order against Gordon after the fight at her daughter’s birthday party. He was ordered to stay 200 awards from her after she claimed that she feared for her safety because Gordon posted pictures of guns and allegedly made some threatening comments about her. Gordon has quite the appreciation for firearms (see his Twitter page for further examples). He told TMZ at the time that he “doesn’t give a f**k” about the order.
He’s Had Trouble While Behind the Wheel
Gordon and cars seem to be a bad mix. In August 2014, he was arrested for DUI after losing control of his BMW, hitting a curb, taking out a fire hydrant and flipping his car upside down. He walked away with no big injuries after the scary crash. And in 2012, he was accused of reckless driving and speeding, which according to ABC News, is a case that still seems to be open. It’s unclear after checking out paperwork in the Roswell, Georgia case, whether or not a plea deal was made in the DUI case, or if it was closed.
Relationship With His Biological Mom Is Not In A Good Place
According to RadarOnline, Nick Gordon’s biological mother has been trying to reach out to him to offer support as Bobbi Kristina lay in the hospital. Gordon’s cousin, Joseph David Savoy, told the publication that sadly, Gordon is not interested in trying to connect with her after all the years, especially not now:
“Nick’s mother is really hurt: She’s been trying to reach him to talk to him but he’s not taking her calls or answering her text messages.”
Cissy Gave Bobbi And Nick Her Blessing To Be Together
Although the Houston family has been very much against Bobbi and Nick’s union, which we would later find out through Bobby Brown’s lawyer, wasn’t a real marriage, Gordon said that it was Bobbi’s grandmother who finally gave her blessing and supported them when others didn’t. “We saw her at our cousin’s Sweet 16 and she gave us our blessing.”
Bobbi Kristina told “Extra” this:
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Excellence awards ceremony and reception from 5 – 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the Shields Library Courtyard. Faculty members who received major awards and recognition from Sept. 1, 2017- Aug. 31, 2018, will also be honored at the event.
Shrinivasa Upadhyaya, a professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, has distinguished himself as an outstanding teacher and educator over the course of his 35 years of service to UC Davis. Upadhyaya is recognized as an incredibly knowledgeable teacher who is able to translate extremely complicated subjects such as experimental designs and modeling into clear, practical and relevant concepts. His development of hands-on activities and exercises that foster student learning have been key features in his teaching strategy at UC Davis and abroad. Internationally, he has developed joint engineering graduate education programs through a formal collaboration with the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and has served as the faculty liaison for international agreements for cooperation in education with Japan, Spain and India. Upadhyaya has also been instrumental in developing courses and programs in the field of precision agriculture. As a result of his teaching approach to the course “Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments” – particularly for students from different engineering backgrounds – Upadhyaya has become a sought-after resource for helping students plan their own thesis experimental designs. Colleagues praise Upadhyaya for his exceptional ability to “demonstrate the practical relevance of complex topics and for his kind and generous personality, which make him an outstanding mentor who has positively impacted the personal and professional lives of many students.”
During her 21-year career at UC Davis, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Professor Jean VanderGheynst led a highly-productive research program focused on the transformation, decomposition and conversion of biomass derived from plants to products. VanderGheynst’s understanding of transport phenomena and microbial consortia has been instrumental in addressing agricultural sustainability through improving the efficacy of soil solarization as an alternative to chemical fumigation for pathogen reduction. Her research is well-supported by multiple funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the California Energy Commission, the UC Office of the President, Chevron and others. VanderGheynst has authored more than 150 publications and reports and has served as a principal investigator on extramural awards totaling over $11 million and a co-principal investigator on an additional $15.5 million in contracts and grants. In addition, VanderGheynst’s outstanding leadership in developing and managing the Renewable Energy Systems Opportunity for Unified Research and Collaboration and Education (RESOURCE) program has supported and trained 30 engineering graduate students on communicating STEM to a broad audience of teachers, students and the public. In their nomination of VanderGheynst, colleagues say, “what makes her particularly special, is that she has achieved this research record in a collaborative, team-building, and collegial way.”
Cristina Davis, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is a high-profile researcher, leader and mentor who has made significant contributions to her field, to her departments and to UC Davis. Her research has resulted in more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in high-impact journals, ten patents awarded and many additional ones filed. Beyond her contributions to a wealth of new scientific understanding in the physical sciences, Davis has also developed a wide range of new technologies with practical applications in the areas of bio-detection, detection of emerging pathogens, bioinformatics and chemical detection with applicability to environmental science and point-of-care medical diagnostics. Especially notable is her development of a micro-electro-mechanical system, or MEMS technology that can be used to identify a broad range of chemicals from environmental samples while operating on common direct-current batteries, such as a 9-volt or watch battery. In their nomination of Davis, colleagues praise Davis for her ability to “strike the right balance between fundamental and applied sciences,” and characterize her a leading researcher among the scholars of her generation.
Barbara Linke, an associate professor in the Department and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is recognized for her inventive and effective teaching, her commitment to the UC Davis research and student communities and for her nationally and internationally-recognized research in sustainable manufacturing, grinding, tool technologies and machine tool technology. Since arriving at UC Davis in 2012, Linke has published more than 20 journal articles and 22 peer-reviewed conference publications, authored a 2016 book with Springer and co-edited a new textbook, which appeared in August 2018. Her research is funded by a number of competitive research grants, including an NSF grant to integrate aerospace and manufacturing science and application in a new undergraduate course. Colleagues say Linke’s scholarly contributions are “exceptional in their importance, relevance, originality and significance and her papers are already among the best in the disciplinary areas she works in.” In addition to her research and regular teaching load, Linke has taught an undergraduate course and a first-year seminar as overload courses. She has also been consistently involved with the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program since 2013. Colleagues say of Linke, “her service has been commendable without restraining her research and teaching excellence in any way, and her achievements at UC Davis place her among the very top of her peer group.”
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Loan Modifications: 500,000 or 1200? All right… ENOUGH is ENOUGH.
Before I dive into the meat of this commentary, let me make sure that I have things right going in…
It was in the latter part of this past July when the mortgage servicers participating in the Home Affordable Modification Program (“HAMP”) were summoned to attend a meeting in Washington D.C. The administration, the media reported, had recently decided that it was very unhappy with the servicer performance as related to loan modifications, both in general, and specifically related to HAMP modifications, and they were calling the servicers to the table so they could be read the riot act. There was a new sheriff in town and his name was Timothy Geithner.
Right so far? I think so.
After the meeting the statements that came from Mr. Geithner made most people believe that he had laid down the law, telling the servicers that they had better shape up, or else… well, he didn’t specifically say what else, but we were led to believe that he was pissed. He set a wonderfully arbitrary goal for 2009: the servicers, who at the time were reporting that they had helped 200,000 homeowners with HAMP modifications to-date, would have an additional 300,000 HAMP modifications done by the end of the year.
So, the thinking went… Yay!
Within two weeks of that meeting, around August 4th, I believe, the servicer “report cards” were released for the first time. Bank of America, the country’s largest mortgage holder and servicer came in dead last, with Wells Fargo Bank in the penultimate position, scoring 4% and 6%, respectively. Publishing the relative performance of the nation’s mortgage servicers as related to HAMP modifications was supposed to publicly shame these financial sociopaths into doing better.
Within a week or two, I remember hearing the numbers going up almost daily. Within a week, Bank of America announced that it had initiated over 100,000 modifications, as I remember it. Wells, Chase and others released more of the same type of performance numbers, and I remember thinking to myself… “Wow, that’s much too fast. They should be lying slower.”
While attending the California State Bar’s annual meeting, held this year in San Diego, I pointed out to those attending the symposium on loan modifications that sending out letters essentially saying: “Dear Borrower, you may qualify for a loan modification,” should not qualify as actually “initiating a loan modification”. Brilliant insight, I’m aware.
I also pointed out that “trial modifications,” in point of fact, are bullshit. Sorry, but that’s the right word in this instance.
What is a “trial modification”? The Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB to those in the know, publishes a regulation, Financial Accounting Standards No. 5, or FAS 5 for short, to address how loans and contingencies are to be accounted for, and nowhere does it say anything about a loan being in a “trial period”. Loans are either “impaired” or they’re not impaired, and basically, if they are impaired, you have to treat them a certain way… place them in a heterogeneous pool of loans and reserve for their expected losses, for example.
Is this what the banks are doing when a loan is said to be in the “trial modification” phase? Or is a trial modification a way of keeping the loan in its performing status and picking up a few thousand extra dollars before foreclosing? I mean… I don’t remember “trial mortgages”? Before they actually give you the mortgage you have to make a bunch of trial payments? Why in the world can’t these giant financial institutions follow the rules and modify a mortgage when it’s in the investor’s best interest to do so? You’d think we were asking them to convince Senate Republicans to support Obama’s health care proposal.
As anyone who knows the real situation related to loan modifications knows… trial modifications are very near meaningless. Homeowners with trial modifications find their homes in foreclosure all the time. In fact, I’m about to write several stories about homeowners who’ve lost their homes after making all of their trial payments as agreed, and one story of a homeowner who was granted four trial modifications by Indy Mac/One West Bank… only to find their home in foreclosure and about to be sold.
Okay, so who cares, right? I’ll get back to the point of the story…
So now, ex-Fannie Mae Chief Credit Officer Edward Pinto has come out attacking Treasury’s claim that 500,000 homeowners have entered the HAMP loan modification program. He doesn’t buy it. In fact, Pinto says that HAMP is rapidly becoming “I will pretend to modify your loan if you will pretend to make the payments.” Lovely… that’s just friggin’ lovely, especially when you consider that HAMP is a $375 billion federal program and one considered a lynch pin to our nation’s economic recovery.
Even though there were 200,000 loans in the trial modification phase as of late July, and even though Secretary Geithner has announced that the industry has exceeded its goal of reaching 500,000 by year’s end, Pinto says that to-date there are only something like 1200 borrowers that have received permanent modifications.
Again… that’s 1200 BORROWERS THAT HAVE BEEN GRANTED REAL MODIFICATIONS. The rest, as my Grandmother used to say, is BUPKES, which is a Yiddish word meaning something worthless, absurd, or stated publicly by Timothy Geithner.
Further, and as if that news wasn’t bad enough, according to Michael Young, Vice Chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association, 99% of the loan modification packages are incomplete, which has led to speculation that many of the 500,000 will never submit the necessary documentation or otherwise will not qualify.
Okay… time-frigging-out over here. Everyone just stop whatever else you’re doing as you read this. Put your coffee down. Stop opening your mail. Go back and re-read that last paragraph. You know, the part where it says: “99% of the loan modification packages are incomplete”.
Now, I realize that some of my readers don’t agree with my position on the whole loan modification thing. Some probably feel that loan modifications won’t work for whatever reason, others may still hold the view that homeowners don’t deserve to have their mortgages modified, and still others may not be close enough to the situation to have a strong opinion one way or the other. But if this isn’t starting to make any of you realize that we, the American people, are being fed endless lines of unadulterated horse manure… well, then I just don’t know what to say. 99% of loan modification packages are incomplete?
I’d like to say a few words in response to Pinto’s and Young’s assertions: It’s your industry… either do something productive about the problem, or shut the f#@k up.
How was that? Clear enough for you, Mickey? I’m not being too technical, am I? Going too fast for your obviously diminutive brain, Mick? If there’s a God… and I’d like to think there is… then one day soon you’ll be on some sort of panel discussion and I’ll be in the audience. Be afraid, Mickey… be very afraid, because no one gets away with saying things that mind-bogglingly stupid with me around.
If 99% of the loan modification packages are “incomplete,” you jackass, then who’s fault would you say that is, Mr. Vice Chairman? Must be those lazy, good-for-nothing borrowers, right? Or maybe it’s those horrible attorneys or mortgage professionals who charge for their services, but just can’t seem to get it right, even after submitting and receiving approval on literally thousands of loan modifications in the past. Is that what you’re asking us to believe, Michael?
For God’s sake, does that even sound possible to anyone? Does it sound even potentially correct? The only way that 99% of 500,000 loan modification packages submitted could be considered incomplete is if the lenders and servicers are simply coming up with new requirements after the fact… and I have no trouble believing that’s the case. Can anyone imagine ever hearing that kind of statistic about mortgage originations? If 99% of new mortgages had incomplete application packages I wonder what the banks would be doing right about now? Blaming the borrowers? Probably not so much.
Young says the industry is also concerned about an “expected dropout of a sizable number of qualified borrowers who fail to make all the payments required during the trial period”. Is that what the members of the Mortgage Bankers Association are concerned about? Really? That the homeowners won’t make their trial period payments? Boy, I’d love to see the data on that as it comes in, not that it will ever be published, of course.
Young also says that this fear of borrowers not making their trial period payments has been heightened by a concern of some servicers that “borrowers will use the trial period to game the foreclosure process and delay their own foreclosures by another 5 or 6 months”.
Borrowers will “game the foreclosure process” in order to delay their foreclosures by 5-6 months? Are you friggin’ kidding me? Who is likely to game the foreclosure process? The borrowers? The borrowers are going to “game the foreclosure process”? Not the servicers, huh? The servicers wouldn’t try to game anything, right? It’s the borrowers that are gaming the system, don’t you know.
See… that’s the kind of thing that keeps me going. I start to get tired of writing about the enormous lie that is the Obama Administration’s Making Home Affordable Program, and then some servicers come out saying something that stupid… and presto… for me, it’s all brand new again.
Pinto’s math states that ultimately only 100,000 to 200,000 of the 500,000 trial modifications will become permanent, and that assuming a re-default rate of 50%, only 50,000 to 100,000 performing loans will result.
Okay, so this guy’s obviously no math major, let’s just say that, shall we? A difference of 100,000 to 200,000 is a difference of… hmmm… quite a bit… what… 100%? That’s like describing a suspect as being 6-12 feet tall, weighing 200-400 pounds.
And as to Pinto’s re-default rate of 50%… first of all, let’s get something straight for the innumerate Mr. Pinto… 50/50 isn’t a re-default rate at all, it’s a colloquialism that means: “I don’t know.” When something has a fifty percent chance of happening and a 50% chance of not happening, it’s considered by mathematicians to be “RANDOM”. Like flipping a coin… you’ve got a 50% chance of it landing on heads and a 50% chance of it coming up tails.
Of course, as any 11 year-old worth his or her salt can tell you… this doesn’t mean that if you flip a coin 100 times, you’ll end up with 50 heads and 50 tails… in fact it’s highly unlikely that will be the outcome. It depends on how many times you flip it, right boys and girls? Eventually, you’ll hit 50/50, but when someone says the chances are 50%, they’re saying that the outcome is random and therefore cannot be predicted with confidence one way or the other.
Mr. Pinto is likely the kind of guy who would flip a coin 10 times, find it landed on heads seven of those times and then publish the sentence: “In a recent coin tossing study, 70% of coins preferred heads over tails.” Do I have your math skills level nailed down about right, Mr. Pinto?
I know that there were a couple of studies, published by banks and servicers having to do with loan modifications made in 2008, that showed up to a 60% re-default rate on said loan modifications, but they were only taken seriously until we all learned that 60% of the so-called modifications granted in 2008 resulted in higher monthly payments. Once we found that out, we should have called out the industry for being the unabashed liars that they are, but at least those of us possessing fully developed adult brains stopped listening to the fabricated nonsense published by lenders and servicers related to loan modifications.
More importantly, and besides all that, why in the world would anyone assume 50% to be the re-default rate of HAMP modifications? HAMP modifications take into account the borrower’s income and expenses and are supposed to result in a monthly payment that’s no more than 31% of the borrowers gross monthly income, right?
And… Memo to the Mortgage Bankers Association, et al:
A loan modification is when the amount of the borrower’s monthly payment goes down… not up, morons. You know how we can all know that to be the case? Because if I were to line up 10 million American homeowners from coast to coast and ask them whether a loan modification meant that a mortgage payment went up or down, it’s extremely likely that not one single person would check the box marked “UP”. Get it, you slimy, deceitful, manipulative covet of number crunching clowns?
(It seems obvious that the 60% re-defaults came from the unfortunate homeowners who believed the government’s unfounded, irrational and deleterious advice that people should not hire someone to help them get a loan modification, but rather call their bank directly. I say this because there’s not a loan modification firm in the country that could sell their client that getting them a higher payment constituted getting them a loan modification. In fact, having interviewed well over 1,000 homeowners from across the country… and with all having hired a firm to help them obtain their loan modification… I’ve never heard of a single instance where a higher payment was the outcome. Never, not even once. Down right spooky, don’t you think?)
Anyway… so, Mr. Pinto’s ultimate point is that, based on his industry’s obviously highly scientific projections, the Obama Administration’s stated goal, which is to keep 3-4 million homeowners in their homes by modifying their mortgages instead of foreclosing, would require 15-30 million homeowners in trial period modifications. Or, in other words, half a million trial mods isn’t going to cut it, and twelve hundred is one heck of a long way from 3-4 million.
The irony that Mr. Pinto, Mr. Young and yours truly all agree that the Obama Administration’s plan to stabilize the housing markets by stopping foreclosures has absolutely no chance whatsoever of succeeding is certainly not lost on me, nor on you the reader, I would imagine. However, we come to the same conclusion as a result of traveling very different paths marked by very different assumptions along the way.
Mr. Pinto believes that in order to make the program work, we should have more homeowners in trial modifications than there are homeowners at risk of losing homes to foreclosure. Mr. Young seems to think that borrowers being unable to qualify or complete paperwork is the problem.
I, on the other hand, believe that mortgage servicers simply have to stop being the unscrupulous liars and war profiteers they have thus far proven themselves to be, and start modifying loans in the best interests of investors and our nation as a whole.One final question: When does a lender or servicer get paid for a loan modification? When it goes into the trial period? I really don’t know, but the reason I’m asking is that, if only 1200 of the 500,000 HAMP modifications being tossed about in Treasury Department press releases these days are permanent modifications, then we should have only spent like $1.8 million of the $75 billion allocated for HAMP, and I’m guessing that’s not the case.
Although I could certainly be wrong, I suppose. Maybe everything is going just fine… according to plan… A-Okay. I’m just thinking out loud over here…
As Jeff Nielson writes in an article published on SeekingAlpha.com, and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading anything he writes in its entirety:
“… at the beginning of this year, when the Case-Shiller index was reporting that the collapse in U.S. housing prices had reached their most extreme level (a year-over-year decline of 19%), the U.S. government was reporting that U.S. home prices were rising.
As with many other U.S. government “statistics”, I now pay absolutely no attention to government housing propaganda. While it is possible to critically analyze mere exaggerations, there is no analytical value to numbers which are simply invented – and in direct contradiction with what is actually happening in markets.”
Nielson goes on to point out the absurdity of what we’re all being fed in the form of statistics from our government and “reliable” sources, like the National Association of Realtors (“NAR”). He points out that more than 10,000 American homeowners are entering the foreclosure process every single day and that millions more are only one or two missing paychecks away from joining the club.
As to today’s inventories of homes, Nielson states:
Keep in mind that U.S. banks have been accumulating empty/unsold properties for roughly two years – as “distressed sales” have never kept pace with the rate at which banks are accumulating these properties since the U.S. housing collapse began. A conservative estimate is that they are currently holding roughly 5 million empty/unsold units – equal, by itself, to a year’s worth of consumption.
Add to that the millions of U.S. homeowners desperate to sell in order to avoid foreclosure, and the return of large numbers of speculators to this market and this represents at least another 5 million units of inventory – since speculators don’t buy-and-hold houses, but rather put them back on the market (either immediately, or after some cosmetic changes).
As a result, none of these speculator-purchases remove any inventory from this market. True, in theory, speculators can rent-out the homes they purchase. However, with U.S. housing vacancies already at their highest level in 23 years and still soaring higher, the combination of crumbling rental prices and huge over-supply means that any speculator foolish enough to become a “landlord” rather than simply trying to “flip” properties is doomed to be just another foreclosure victim.
There have been a number of recent reports attempting to “pump” this market – which actually claim that buyers are having a hard time finding “distressed properties” to buy. Don’t believe a word of this nonsense.
Here, here. I don’t know about you… but I love this guy…
Ultimately, what this means is that in the real world, there are about 10 million units of “inventory” – which represents nothing more than “REO” homes (those held by the banks), the properties being flipped by speculators, and “distressed” homeowners who are desperate to sell. This estimate excludes any “normal” sellers in the market (i.e. people simply wishing to move to relocate of their own volition).
Thus, the “official” inventories of unsold homes represent less than 1/3rd of actual inventory, and most likely only about ¼. The reality is that U.S. housing inventories have risen to their highest level in history – and added millions of units to the 19 million empty homes, which existed a year ago.
When stacked up against real inventories, the sales of only 5 million units this year sets up another nasty “leg” downward for this market by itself. However, as I (and an increasing number of other commentators) are reminding people the second spike in mortgage-resets for the dreaded “ARM mortgages” (adjustable-rate mortgages) is just about to begin.
Can you dig what he’s saying here?
Nielson explains that the next spike in foreclosures, which will begin in earnest in the beginning of 2010, will be much worse than what we’ve experienced to-date. Why? Because the last wave of foreclosures didn’t occur with unemployment levels at their worst in 70 years, or with a “shadow inventory” of at least seven million units over what he calls the “laughable” numbers published by the NAR.
For the U.S. financial sector, this next crash in residential housing comes just as the crash in U.S. commercial real estate has worsened into a crisis of its own. Combine this with record rates of delinquency, which are simultaneously occurring with every other category of bank credit to U.S. consumers, and obviously the losses ahead for the U.S. financial sector will greatly exceed the losses already incurred.
Gee… maybe the whole “recession is over” thing was overplayed… just a bit. Maybe. Here’s Nielson’s advice going forward:
Stay focused on the “big picture” and do not allow yourself to be deceived by fraudulent “statistics”, absurd “spin”, or the occasional, positive “blip” in this market. In even the worst crashes, nothing goes down in a straight line. Given that the U.S. experienced a collapse in its housing market more than three times worse than the worst year of the Great Depression (based on data from the highly respected housing economist Robert Shiller), a “dead-cat bounce” for this market was overdue.
At best, this lull in “the eye of the hurricane” will last to the end of this year. Early next year, the new spike in mortgage-resets will begin. At that point, U.S. banks (who have up until now totally ignored this oncoming disaster) will have to confront this next crisis – which will most likely be characterized by the U.S. media as a “surprise”.
By this point in time, there can be no excuse for responsible adults to be “surprised” by developments in the U.S. economy. The same fools and shills who were “pumping” U.S. markets and the U.S. economy at the peak of the U.S. bubble (and Wall Street Ponzi-scheme) are pumping again. Meanwhile, the fundamentals for the U.S. economy continue to deteriorate.
It is only the fact that the U.S. government pretends there is no inflation in the U.S. economy which allows it to pretend that some aspects of the U.S. economy are experiencing a tiny improvement. Even then, most of the statistics it spews are not improvements but simply a reduction in the rate of collapse.
The U.S. propaganda-machine has completely erased this important logical distinction. When the Titanic had already taken on almost enough water to drag it to the bottom of the Atlantic, would rational passengers on that doomed ship really be encouraged to hear that the ship was “only” taking on water at a slower rate – simply because most of the ship was already water-logged?
Of course, I’m no real estate expert, but maybe… just maybe… our government should step in and do something about the crimes being perpetrated by banks and mortgage servicers against homeowners and our nation every day in this country. Maybe, just maybe… they should be forced to help fix the disaster they’re responsible for creating, instead of being allowed to pay themselves billions in bonuses yet again… as if nothing has happened or continues to happen.
Ask yourself this question: What do you think our country will look like after another year that’s worse in every way than the one we’re about to finish… and then after that, another year that’s worse again… and then yet another? Can you imagine what it will be like after two more worsening years… and then it starts to get really bad?
Consumer spending will continue to decline… unemployment will continue to rise… foreclosures, which are already forecasted to hit 12 million over the next two years, will hit the 15 million mark. Our homes… all of our homes will continue to drop in value. How many retirees will find that they are at or below the poverty level, unable to pay for health care, or even basic necessities?
What will it feel like to drive around our nation’s cities after two more years worse than the last? What will our children, now growing up, learn from each other while at school or when playing with their friends? What kind of adults will they be after growing up through years like the ones to come… if nothing is done to force meaningful positive change?
I can’t speak for every homeowner in America… yet… but I personally wonder what our nation’s homeowners are going to be thinking about next year at this time after their property values have dropped another 10-30%, and we’ve seen another 7-14 million homes lost needlessly to foreclosure… only to sit in inventory dragging the value of every home in America further and further down.
Will some still be parroting idiotic things like: “I don’t want to pay for my neighbor’s kitchen remodel,” as the moron, Santelli of CNBC, suggested earlier this year?
We have to stop the madness… we have to stop buying the banking lobby’s propaganda. It wasn’t the borrowers, it was and is the banks, both commercial and Wall Street, that caused this catastrophic state of affairs, and yet they continue to have the greatest amount of influence in Washington D.C. It’s time for the people of this country to say loudly and clearly… ENOUGH!
Can anyone say: “Send home incumbents in the mid-term elections”? I’m thinking that quite a few among us could say just that… and I’m praying that enough of us will say exactly that when behind their respective voting booth’s curtain in 2010.
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There's something about studying these fluffy rodents in one of the most beautiful landscapes in the country that draws you back for more. My name is Kwasi Wrensford, a rising senior from the University of Connecticut by way of Albany, Georgia, and this will be my second summer as a Marmoteer! Along with the regular Marmot Team duties of trapping and observation, I will also be working on a project that looks to quantify and model escape behavior in marmots. So along with catching and watching marmots, I'll be chasing them as well (for science of course). It's an honor to work with Dr. Blumstein and the rest of the Marmoteers for another season, and I can't wait to see what the next few months have in store!
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Welcome Andy!
Hi, I'm Andy. I'm from Indianapolis, IN and I'm a sophomore at Indiana University. I just started working here at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, CO a week and a half ago. Ana and Gabi have been teaching me everything there is to know about observing and trapping marmots. The mountains are amazing and the field work is always exciting. I'm getting a real taste of what it is like to be a wildlife biologist. Here's Colorado's second newest marmoteer signing off. Peace.
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Welcome Rachel
Hey there, my name is Rachael and I from good ol' Maryland, home of Old Bay. I am absolutely thrilled to have the chance to study marmots here at RMBL. Not only do I get to work with such an adorable study species, but I have the opportunity to learn so much from Dr. Blumstein and the other researchers in the lab. This will definitely be a summer to remember!!
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Marmots Galore
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As we approach the end of the free Windows 10 upgrades this month so different from what they were just last decade, they are like a brand new product and company.
We’re on the eve of big Windows changes. I’ll explain and then close with my product of the week: a US$360,000 fantasy Jaguar that would make Bill Gates and Jay Leno jealous.
Windows: We Knew It Well
I’ve been covering Windows since it was a real product. In fact, Windows 95 was my path to fame, and it was largely responsible for launching my career as an analyst. It was also pretty crappy. That wasn’t entirely Microsoft’s fault — that was when hardware differences went vertical, and Microsoft learned how not to support a product that sold in the tens of millions.
Windows was defined by its releases. Each one was tied to release date and the need to generate revenue — not build and ensure a platform upon which an empire not only could be built but also sustained. It clearly worked as a builder, but with the PC market collapse the “sustain” part was forgotten.
One of the now most ironic videos to watch is Steve Ballmer’s “developer, developer, developer” speech — ironic because it was largely the loss of developers that forced him to step down. The old Steve was right. Unfortunately, it was a new and improved Steve who ran Microsoft, and that didn’t work out so well.
The product was hard to install, hard to update, and buggy, and it stood as one of the biggest barriers to folks buying new PCs. I’m actually kind of surprised the PC market didn’t collapse a decade earlier. I remember going to a meeting at Intel and asking why more Intel employees didn’t have newer PCs, and it was because they didn’t want to go through the pain of upgrading.
Some versions of Windows were so bad they became legendary. Windows Millennium kind of set the bar for horrid, but Windows 2000 wasn’t that much better and both were rushed because of the Y2K bug. Then there was the disaster that was Windows Vista, and finally the train wreck that was Windows 8 — which did, finally, crater the PC market.
Microsoft brought out the Xbox and shifted most gaming efforts to that in an attempt to keep Sony from taking over the segment. It was a bad bet. The Xbox pulled a ton of value from Windows, and because Sony imploded, the PlayStation never became a threat to the PC. So Windows became less valuable over time as the Xbox bled premium buyers away from it.
We stuck with Windows, regardless of the pain, but Windows as we knew it died with Windows 10.
Windows 10
Now I’ve been on Windows 10 since before its release, and it is such a breath of fresh air. Migrations are easy. I typically just have to hit one button on my keyboard to wake it up in the morning, and updates are both free and relatively often — each one bringing a few new surprises, good ones for the most part.
Migrations to new hardware take minutes instead of days, and it currently is running on a whopping 350 million devices. That is pretty impressive for a version of Windows this young. There are 1,500 different products shipping with Windows 10 preloaded, showcasing much more variety than we have ever had before.
Gone are the pains of Windows 95, and ME. Gone are the screw-ups with Vista and Windows 8. Windows 10 is much more like what we’ve come to expect from a smartphone operating system in terms of ease of use and reliability, and yet it still runs on the most powerful systems in market.
In addition, Microsoft has re-energized game playing on the platform. I can speak to this, because I’ve already racked up a whopping 282 hours on Ashes of the Singularity, and I only started playing it last month. I’m kind of surprised my mouse hand still works.
Finally, as Apple backed away from being the design leader in the segment, Microsoft stepped in with the Surface tablets and everyone upped their game. Now companies like Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are massively design-forward, and the age of ugly desktop or laptop PCs is over.
However, it isn’t just Windows that has been reborn.
Microsoft’s Rebirth
When I started, and for much of its life, Microsoft was defined by being just a platform-and-tools company with Office (a product that needs a rebirth). Yet if you look at Microsoft’s financials today, it clearly is trending to be the leading company supplying the enterprise cloud with Azure.
I was at a BlackBerry event — where you’d typically not see Microsoft, because it would be a competitor — but Microsoft instead was one of the biggest supporters (just after Samsung, which kind of reflects on the change in BlackBerry, come to think of it). Microsoft currently has the best enterprise cloud solution, in terms of coverage and redundancy.
This is actually big, because for a long time it didn’t really seem like the whole “enterprise focus” thing was working for the company, and it clearly weren’t the first to the cloud platform. However, as with racing, it matters less who has the pole position than who comes in first at the end of the race.
Microsoft historically has been known to be arrogant and nonresponsive to the hardware manufacturers. That honor now belongs to Google, and it isn’t unusual to hear thes OEMs lament that they wish Google were more like Microsoft. This is a story in and of itself, because Google rode in as a white knight to kill the black knight, Microsoft, and somehow the two firms switched positions. Go figure.
Wrapping Up: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King!
As we approach the end of the free window for upgrading to Windows 10 and the broad market release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, it is amazing how much change there has been since Satya Nadella took over.
With so much focus on corporate boards selecting clueless CEOs — seemingly on purpose — it is great to see a board step up and do it right. Nadella has transformed the company. He not only has fixed Windows so that it bears little resemblance to the product we loved to hate, but also has shifted the focus of the company to the future. Instead of being a bad follower, Microsoft is starting to lead again.
Perhaps boards now will see how critical it is to pick CEOs who know the business, understand the market, actually have a workable vision, and can execute. Maybe, just maybe, turnarounds like we’ve seen from Apple and Microsoft will become more the rule than the exception. We can only hope.
Before the Jaguar F-Type, which I have, there was the XK-180, which was an even tighter homage to the E-Type on the show car circuit. Years ago, while attending F1 racing as a guest of AMD, I saw one of the two Jaguar built, and I immediately fell in love with it. Since then I’ve been looking for a way to own one, and I recently ran into a company in Europe that is building near-exact replicas.
This is actually a trend now. You can buy near completely new and updated versions of cars like the Jaguar E-Type and Triumph TR-4, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone create a near-exact replica of a car that never made it to market. This car is rolling art, and it still has modern day performance. (Given that it is less than half the age of the other reproductions, achieving that wasn’t so difficult.)
This new Xk-180 isn’t a cheap date, though, costing $360K (at current exchange rates), which had my wife looking at me like I’d better get a second and third job if I want that car.
So, sadly, for me, that won’t happen — but for those who like to dream or maybe have a car that still will be counted in the 10s and be one hell of a collectible — not to mention drop dead gorgeous — this is a viable option.
I expect if you want to drive it in the U.S., you’ll need to buy a 2000-era U.S. spec XKR and ship it over as a donor, but the rules surrounding this kind of car have become far more lenient of late. In any case, because I so lust for this car, the bespoke XK-180 sports car is my product of the week.
By the way, Bill Gates is a bit of a car collector — he has an impressive collection. He’s not quite in Jay Leno’s league but close. I’ll bet even Bill and Jay would look at you with envy if you drove up in one of these. Just saying… . You know, that might just be worth it. | https://masaj.us/index.php/windows-rip-thankfully-died-windows-8/ | 2018-10-15T18:21:50 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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When Tim Cook unveiled the Apple Watch in September, he teased an "early 2015" launch date. But a new statement uncovered on Sunday indicates that we may have to wait a little longer — try spring.
The new time window comes via a report from 9to5Mac, which obtained a transcript of an internal Apple video statement from Angela Ahrendts, Apple's Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores, addressing the company's employees.
"We're going into the holiday, we'll go into Chinese New Year, and then we've got a new watch launch coming in the spring," reads the transcript of Ahrendts' video message obtained by a source in contact with the site.
Assuming Ahrendts was addressing Apple's U.S. staff, that would mean that we won't see the Apple Watch until around March 20, at the earliest.
Many had hoped that "early 2015" meant late January or February, at the latest. This unofficial update regarding the device's launch window could serve to cool at least some of the anticipation from consumers anxious to give Apple's first wearable device a try. | https://mashable.com/2014/11/02/apple-watch-coming-in-spring-2015-report-says/ | 2018-10-15T17:14:52 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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Exhibitions
Creativity and design are synonymous with Mashmob. There is a wealth of talented people out there and we just love to work with them. By hosting exhibitions, we keep our finger on the pulse of our industry. We seek to create an environment where artists and professionals have the opportunity to network, which any artist will tell you is crucial. So far, our exhibitions have focused on Illustration. For our next exhibition, we will be turning our eye to animators. Watch this space.
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Mashmob presents ‘The Best of Belfast Illustration’ as the first exhibition to be held in our new gallery. Featuring a mish mash of established and new local illustration talent! We are also hosting Loft Belfast’s monthly Drink and Draw(B.Y.O.B but we’ll provide some too!) event on the night with prizes for the best drawings kindly being sponsored by InkMonkey
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Our second to date, Culture Vultures is an illustration exhibition featuring an array of artists from all over the island of Ireland as part of CNX(Culture Night Week). As with our last, there will be great art on display and to buy on the night, free booze, stacks of craic and a chance to mingle with fellow creatives. We are also having a live draw this time with one of our favourites Stephen Maurice Graham who will be painting a wall mural in our studio for the duration of the night. Hope to see you there! 🙂
Featuring works from: Stephen Maurice Graham,Mark Reihill, Sarah Bowie, Donough O Malley, Niall McCormack, Lauren O Neill, Paul Ryding, Ryan O Reilly, Aoife Dooley, Jacky Sheridan, Linda Coulter, Paul O Reilly, Ailie O Hagan,Mel Carroll, Ben Connolly and more! | https://mashmob.co.uk/exhibitions/ | 2018-10-15T16:58:49 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Why is ‘Presenting with Impact’ Important?
For many people “presenting” fills them with dread – so much of our work is helping people to overcome nerves and apprehension and be comfortable in whatever speaking situation they may be. Providing a solid structure to plan and prepare and showing them how to rehearse takes away much of the anxiety. They are then in a position to let their personality and natural style shine through.
Masterclass™ Training developed the training programme ‘Presenting with Impact’ to train professionals in any organisation shine and deliver impactful presentations. If your teams are in need of freshening up their presentation skills or simply need help overcoming presenting nerves then this training programme is ideal for you, contact our sales team for more info.
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several items you are not able to place in the container. Several typical forbidden items include: paint, gas, gasoline, any hazardous spend, any flamable liquids, as well as toxic resources, car car tires, car battery power, asbestos, and so forth. Once again, usually ask about some sort of prohibited objects list. Inserting any of these belongings in the dumpster may result in an additional charge.
The larger the capacity on the rent a dumpster product, the much deeper they tend growing. This is because many businesses use a regular sized body so that the unique containers is usually hauled all-around easily. This may be a problem for those who order huge dumpsters but should get heavy resources inside. If that is likely to be true for you, be sure to request that your rental comes with changes for handiness, most depots should not have any trouble doing suitable changes as long you let them know what exactly you need.
Apart from understanding the above details, you should seek the guidance of the spend management business in deciding on the right sized dumpster. This will likely save your income besides living in the much less space in your job area.
Equipment rental such as this not only makes easier the scheduling details of getting rid of a large volume of refuse but in addition can save assembling your garden shed a lot of money. Many landfills as well as dumps charge about a hundred dollars a ton. That might seem like a lots of weight nevertheless think of simply how much material have to be torn out and about and the fat of timber or dirt. The amount of issues that needs to be removed adds up quick on jobs like these. Besides the dump charges you will have the tariff of transporting the waste, meaning if you don't have just one you will need to get a truck. You can easily see how the expense of not having some sort of dumpster quickly accumulates. Simply contacting your local equipment rental company may help you find a far better solution.
In our disposable modern society, you don't have to live in a home for lengthy to accumulate increased amounts of broken-down crap. If your attic and other storage area areas have become nothing but throwing grounds, you need to contact your neighborhood 6 Yard Dumpster in Tiline, KY service pertaining to convenient cleaning in as little as at some point.
All the earlier mentioned, the most important considerations that adds to help credential associated with best serving company is expertise of the service offered and transparency in charges. If you want to check out about the service quality of the dumpster business before placing an order you should try within approaching the customers can use of business who presently experienced their helps or method the provider within Connecticut according to its track record not for your name as well as the service.
May very well not put wet paint into your dumpster but you are capable of put dried out paint beers inside of it.
The large volume of junk generated using a construction web site is staggering nevertheless regardless of the dimensions of your project there may be sure to possibly be an adequate container, anywhere from 10 to help 30 cubic metres, for your needs. These kinds of dumpsters are huge metal storage containers that can take many different materials of all sizes. Kitchen cabinets, Drywall, drywall, possibly dirt as well as rocks are typical suitable for such a equipment rental. One particular caveat, in case your project involves taking down trees or perhaps a large amount of comb cleaning ensure that yard spend is acknowledged by your neighborhood transfer place. Often spend disposal businesses require which yard spend be taken away from so be sure to find out prior to going through the toil only to find out they just don't take it.
When you go to get a lowest price, the corporation usually has to take corners somewhere. This may be with paying staff lower salary or preserving fewer dumpsters available. They might likewise take their time providing and getting your hands on dumpsters in an attempt to help to make things suit their agenda instead of the buyer's.
Donations to a charity like a registered second hand store or possibly a Habitat regarding Humanity keep really help the type of organizations. It's hard to hold all of the substance you want to get rid of from a office or home building separated, but an excellent dumpster will be much like an additional staff member on the job site. There are several measurements to suit practically anyone's need -- from a 12 yard little dumpster up to a 30, thirty, and even 40 lawn size. They are delivered to your blog or residence, dropped off, after that picked up as soon as full.
If your scenarios belong to this category, you can seek the permission of the municipal specialists to place the roll-off container on the streets, if the regulations of your city permit. One other way to handle the issue is to put the trash trash can in the parking garage subjected to the terms and conditions of the 6 Yard Dumpster in Tiline company that has the support. Lack of certificate and anxiety about theft would be the few explanation why the waste materials management organizations deny inserting the dumpster within the parking area.
It's really a good signal that you have used a decision to cope with waste developed in an Eco- friendly manner yet, important job here is the method you plan to help dispose the generated waste materials. Trash developed in the jobs like construction, house redevelopment, industrial jobs and eco-friendly yard cleansing is very big. Planning to remove the waste materials on personal makes you drop sick with a few injuries if it is not properly dealt with. Handling this sort of huge a ton of waste calls for expertise in addition to professionalism. The idea even wipes out your time due to the fact all the garbage will be dealt with manually.
Being the fourth the majority of populous condition of US, we can expect the total amount trash developed due to industrialization and also other business jobs as well. It's very important for the inhabitants of Connecticut to remove the trash correctly and reduce their effects on the environment of the state.
You need to go dumpster scuba dving at night when you don't want to always be too obvious. If possible, approach your course ahead of time, in addition to note achievable dive places on your way to a store or residence from perform. Avoid brilliantly lit places with high-traffic, and bring your own light source you could turn on in addition to off as you need, like an Brought about flashlight. Brought about headlamps are also advantageous because they abandon your hands cost-free for foraging.
Along with the size and weight of the pot, you also have to help inquire with the service provider kinds of materials should be placed within the container. Every city and state should have different principles about what waste materials can be removed in this way. Some of those that won't be allowed consist of gasoline, essential oil, and anything that could be regarded toxic, like a car electric battery or mesothelioma. By questioning about this details prior to renting the container, the method will go better for you.
By renting a dumpster you can store all that is not required and also have it transferred out in the event the work is comprehensive. This not simply keeps your property clean almost all helps keep your neighbors satisfied. During a redesigning process, when waste is not managed appropriately, the bordering houses may additionally have to have with debris and dirt. Therefore, an effective way out is to rent a dumpster once the remodeling will start.
Every type of economic requires some sort or other for dumpster leases for its house. The type of dumpster leases service and also size of dumpster necessary for a specific enterprise depends on the particular of business. Dumpster leases services provide different pick-up options such as daily, regular, or event monthly trucks. These companies furthermore rent out specialty dumpsters (made for recyclable goods) to the businesses. In case you require a compacting dumpster for boxes and also cardboard goods, you can rent these individuals from the very same waste supervision company which rents out and about any other type regarding dumpster.
Dumpsters are big trash packing containers that are applied to dispose large tons of rubbish on finishing major assignments. Containers commonly arrive in 2 different types, throw off dumpster and also trash dumpster.
Usually, roll off dumpsters are leased out using the amount of rubbish they can maintain in terms of internal cubic yards, nevertheless heavier materials will make your dumpster reach the edge long before it is completely packed. The actual number of weight that may be put into any given container depends on the size of your bin under consideration, so down below is an outline of the common roll off container rental measurements, along with their highest weight allowances.
These dumpsters is going to be of great help inside situations regarding natural disasters like deluges, earth quakes. Professional 6 Yard Dumpster in Tiline, KY services will probably pile up each of the waste directly into dumpster and recycle for cash them. Environmental friendly squander management methods followed by your professional 6 Yard Dumpster in Tiline, KY program reduces the impression of the normal calamity around the environment at this time there by reducing wide spreading regarding infectious diseases across the region.
For more information on 6 Yard Dumpster in Tiline, KY products and services check out the Price range Dumpster company. They are a countrywide company with a reputation for reasonably priced, upfront, complete pricing and also great customer support. 1-866-284-6164 Ideally the organization has been around for a minimum of several years to actually establish by themselves. This will make certain that they are less likely to make mistakes as well as their reputation can be more important to these individuals. They have expended too long making a name for by themselves to simply rebrand if they get lots of complaints.
Cleaning out an entire property, building, or maybe storage unit suggests sifting by means of items to decide what's salvageable and also what's rubbish. Some goods can be stored or sold again; others move straight to your recycling middle or the nearby dump. You may need somewhere to placed junk as soon as it's outside the building-and chances are, there isn't the time or maybe energy to drive back and on to the garbage dump every hr. That's where an expert junk elimination team can be purchased in, to get that rubbish off the house and through your life. When you're dealing with the loss of a loved one, you would like the house cleanout to be as smooth and also painless as you possibly can. A rubbish hauling company will strive to make that happen.
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, and therefore they'll not just provide the dumpster consider the trash, nevertheless they'll likewise help you bring items from the home to your truck or dumpster. Look at whether you would like this service in line with the scale from the cleanout and your family and friends' ability to try this heavy lifting yourself. It will most likely cost more, nonetheless it can get the job done swiftly. Note that when you find yourself paying for labor, especially if you might be paying per hour, you may not have the ability to take the time to sift through every package and bag in search of expressive items.
Whenever you are to rent a dumpster you do not need the hassle of all that online form filling out and many others. Find a good organization, fill out a fairly easy form, and then return to striving to get the stone countertop to match your new home. Dumpsters come in quite a few sizes and why throw away cash on people you won't possibly be filling to capability (sometimes a couple of times over). For any small project there are mini dumpsters that are just ten foot long. From that point you can rent a 20 lawn one, or perhaps a thirty or even forty lawn one. Its not all dimensions are precisely the same, so check about that also to maximize your gain.
Before booking a dumpster, marketing and advertising to do some research in regards to the 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater, SC service organizations. Select the perfect 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater, SC company to remove all the clutter piled up for the job location. Renting a dumpster to remove waste will keep the planet clean, hygienic, and maintains you from health problems. These companies help in discarding trash from your location and our environment devoid of pollution.
Packing, transportation, discretion recycling these tasks entails huge price when reached individually due to the fact construction derby entails huge throw away disposal. A considerable way of discarding such a significant waste will be hire professional 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater, SC provider that can assist you in finishing the task simple.
Once you have worked through the clutter and have built progress about getting rid of things you no longer require or wish, the company can take the dumpsters within you. The company will probably handle the particular hauling out of the product and other products for you and dispose of them without any additional charge. Should you be to put these things on the curb for your waste pickup, in contrast, you may find yourself paying a fee for having to dispose of lots of trash. Should you have to take it to the particular dump your self, the costs may even possibly be higher.
It's your decision to replace of which broken entrance or each of the old doors in your home. The actual baseboards could need to replaced also. The floor covering in your historical home could need replacing as well as some of the wood made floors. With these a big project you know that you will need to rent a dumpster.
Bodyweight Limit: Just about every dumpster comes with a bodyweight limit therefore you can place your throwaways to a limit just. The Weight control of dumpsters may range between 2 to 12 tons. The dumpsters are weighted in case weight is located above the permitted limit compared to you have to shell out extra money. So it will be very necessary to get information about the dumpster bodyweight limit.
The most recommend and low-cost methods of discarding the trash are generally recycling the waste and sanitary dump disposal. These recycling the waste materials in eco-friendly fashion will decrease the impact of trash for the environment. Non recyclable trash can be disposed in the dump and remainder will be treated by the land fill authorities.
Choosing the 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater services would allow you to enjoy the free added room on finishing of your work. Upon hearing this I am sure you could be looking for a 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater service provider who can place a full cease to all your waste materials management wants. Dumpster direct is certainly one such biggest 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater service provider within USA which provides solid waste materials collection waste materials disposal, move and recycle services to each industry and hose keep services also. The company is honored for it can be customer centric services round the clock.
Each and every dumpster has a limit on the tonnage on the trash disposed, letting the representative understand about the tonnage of the waste disposed will set right type of dumpster at your home step. Almost any excess waste disposed over the said limit will encourage extra charges from you, so it will be very important for you personally to let the representative know about the tonnage on the trash that has to be disposed.
When it comes to a new garage that will require clearing out, likelihood is good that there's a pretty quite a bit of trash to be dumped. Since plenty of local waste companies impose limits about how much waste you can put available a week, and many things might just be too large and awkwardly molded for waste bags in any case, you're going to want to rent a dumpster coming from a reputable 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater business. Just thinking about a dumpster-sized weight of trash gone out of your garage must make the job at hand appear much more achievable.
Besides the transportable restrooms that come in selected different styles determined by what they are to supply for, a number of 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater companies have got recycling centres which make this very easy to digest the different components of your waste products. You may have noticed these centres in store airport parking lots, and often at days off. While these are intended for aluminum ales and containers etc., the idea is the same.
For more information on 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater services check out the Budget Dumpster business. They are a new national business with a good good name for affordable, transparent, all inclusive costs and great customer service. 1-866-284-6164 The following point discussed over the rental process is when often the business will need to vacant, or alter out, the dumpster. A specific payment schedule will be offered regarding to when the dumpster will require to be swapped. Another thing to take into account is how very long the dumpster will be rented intended for. If it is just short term, a specific plan will probably reflect this. Custom made pricing and planning is amongst the customer service oriented options a new trash business offers. Pickup truck of the dumpsters can be at any time in a 24 hour interval, and instant pickup can be arranged. Normally the wait occasion is below two hours, depending on the exact situations.
As soon as hiring a or maybe 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater, SC company to help you with your house cleanout, look for somebody that will treat you together with compassion as well as care during what could be a difficult time. The speed and simplicity gained via professional house cleaning help will be taken moot if the business's representatives are pushy, irritating, or disrespectful. Examine each business's Web site to see if they checklist estate washing as one of their specialties, or maybe call to talk to a customer assistance representative. The proper company can understand what you are going through as well as do anything to meet your needs.
Renting a dumpster for your residence can not be built any easier for one who's going to be in need of the particular service. Between your easy leave and acquire, your garbage can be from a way inside of a matter of a long time.
A great answer for detaching the trash at many affordable cost hassle free would be to hire a dumpster from a 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater, SC service provider. In placing an order together with dumpster hire company supplying your specs, a right sized dumpster will be delivered to your job place on time. The dumpster will sit on the garage without worrisome your hectic agenda. You can place the trash into the dumpster making the most of your handy time and the particular dumpster will be dispatched to the right place at the right time without hindering your work.
You should leave sufficient space around the bigger garbage box or roll off dumpster so your track can easily return back all-around and easily pick it up. Most of the people makes mistake, particularly they are doing this for the first time. Although a lot of people squeeze dumpster at the appropriate place but they also park their cars all-around it in a manner that it the particular dumpster becomes inaccessible to the truck. You should place cones or other obstacles to prevent others from parking their cars around the roll off dumpster.
Cultivating a strong functioning relationship with a 6 Yard Dumpster in Clearwater, SC company is vital to contractors. Using home building and restorations, there is always particles to be dumped, and when you do have a good functioning relationship with a dumpster company, you can rely that the simply waste on your own project will be debris, not really your time and funds.
Renting roll away from dumpsters couldn't be easier, although there are a few exactly what you need to think about previous to placing an order: Around the world people employ rent a dumpster companies to provide roll off containers for the convenience of civil and industrial waste, for the reason that renting portable dumpsters are by far the most cost effective waste supervision strategy when it comes to dealing with enormous amounts of waste that has been made over a short time (such as the variety generated within a building undertaking).
There are various dimensions of dumpsters available to dispose massive tonnage of waste. Different sizes involving dumpster are 3-5 backyard, 6-8 yard, 10-15 backyard, 20 backyard, 30 backyard, and also 50 yard dumpster. The customers have the flexibility to make the selection accordingly.
Subsequent comes, the length of the dumpster, certain projects end up in piling massive tons of waste and where while some together with less waste. Roll away from dumpsters will be the most suitable option if you are looking over to dispose massive tons of waste. These roll off dumpsters cover anything from 10 to 50 yard. As soon as your trash convenience includes ungainly items, check with the vendor if these roll off dumpster encapsulated with the again doors. These types of dumpsters would provide a fantastic convenience for you to dump the particular bulky waste into the dumpsters. As being the name uncovers, these roll off dumpsters are mounted on small wheels and can be easily rolled to the trucks. You need a tall dumpster if the trash has heavy products. Make sure that you check with | https://maxdumpster.com/south-carolina/6-yard-dumpster-clearwater-sc/ | 2018-10-15T16:43:06 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
By Lexi Myer
Did you know that according to a recent study by Gavop.com, home insurance premiums in Olathe, KS can vary up to 184%? The median price for home insurance in the city of Olathe is $2,189 for a 2,500 square foot home. So where does MutualAid eXchange (MAX Insurance®) fall in this? MAX Insurance®, a company that our agency represents, ranks as the least expensive home insurance carrier in Olathe at an average of $1,271. Not only do they have great rates in Olathe, but in the rest of Johnson County, as well as Lawrence and Douglas County.
The great thing about MAX Insurance® is that not only does it rank as the least expensive carrier in the city of Olathe, but they go above and beyond to be much more than just an insurance carrier.
- MAX’s principles are to be fair, faithful, and socially responsible. Their average prices reflect that they are fair on premium price, but they are also fair on their claims. Surveys that insureds take after working with the claims staff constantly praise them for being fair and wonderful to work with during their crisis. They are a faith-based company that uses their values when making decisions, and they are socially responsible by encouraging their staff to volunteer at nonprofits in their local communities.
- They offer extra coverages that some other carriers do not at this time. The most important one being Service Line Coverage. This coverage covers utility lines that run underground from your house to the city street for things that collapse, tree roots, etc. This coverage comes in at just a few dollars a month, when these losses can cost thousands of dollars to fix without coverage. They also have programs where your policy deductible is completely waived in the event of a total loss, give you increased coverage on your personal property, and identity theft coverage.
- MAX has a Mutual Aid Ministries program that is funded by a portion of their revenues. This program gives grants to nonprofit organizations in their agents’ communities, like helping wildfire relief in western Kansas, donating backpacks to kids in foster care, and providing meals for people in need.
We are very proud to work so closely with a company that truly lives up to their values of being fair, faithful, and socially responsible. If you would like a quote with MAX Insurance®, please give us a call at 913-338-1100 and we would be happy to help you. To read the full report by Gavop, you can check it out here.. | https://maxinsuranceagency.com/least-expensive-home-insurance-carrier-in-olathe/ | 2018-10-15T17:59:49 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Florence Broadhurst was a visionary Australian designer of textiles and wallpaper in the 1960s and 1970s. Her designs have become popular again over the last ten years, maybe because of the publication in 2007 of a simply gorgeous book about her work and life.
I’ve always been a fan of Broadhurst, and I found her very inspiring in my own textile work. This is my chaise longue upholstered in one of my fabrics.
Last year Broadhurst’s estate licensed her work, and I fell in love with the luggage range, but it was just way too expensive to even consider buying, because I hardly ever go anywhere. Until, this year, the pieces started appearing on clearance websites. I guess I wasn’t alone in finding them out of my price range.
So, seeing as how I am going to visit my daughter this week, and I released a book in March that earned a tiny bit of money, I decided to treat myself. And I bought a cabin bag.
Also in the back of my mind was that I plan to do a US road trip – tentatively summer 2017 – and it would be perfect for that, too (I pack light and only take carry-on).
I bought it from the Australian store Peter’s of Kensington, because their shipping is fast and everything is packed securely. And I followed the tracking number all the way to Auckland airport customs, where the bag stopped dead. A week later, it hadn’t moved. This was not right.
So I emailed Peter’s of Kensington, and a real person emailed me back, and gave me a contact in New Zealand, and I emailed them and told them it was cabin luggage in a big pink box. And they actually looked! And they actually found it!!
Here – finally – is the point of my story. This is what the package looked like:
Someone had ripped open both shipping manifest envelopes and removed the documentation. They’d removed the Australia post tracking sticker. They’d also opened the box and removed the packing slip. So there was no way for NZ Post to identify who they should deliver the box to. And the box had been inspected by customs, so it wouldn’t immediately be apparent someone had opened the box a second time.
I would chalk this down to a one-off accident, except at the beginning of the year I bought a wooden desk caddy from France. And I tracked the parcel all the way to Auckland airport customs, where the parcel stopped dead. The store contacted NZ Post who said it hadn’t been released by customs yet. And it never was. A week later it vanished. The seller refunded me, so no loss to me, but it still went…somewhere. And you can’t ask a CSR to look for a “medium sized plain white box” in a sea of plain white boxes.
If I didn’t hit a good CSR when I emailed, and if Peter’s of Kensington didn’t use bright pink boxes, I would never have got my pretty, pretty bag. I paid by Visa, so I could have done a chargeback. Again, no financial loss to me. And a high-volume overseas seller is unlikely to bother getting to the bottom of what happened.
So my question is, what happens to parcels that are incorrectly addressed and with no tracking details? Are they auctioned off for a fund raiser, as I know happens in some places? Or are staff allowed their pick of unclaimed parcels once a suitable time period has passed? And is someone at NZ customs, or NZ Post, deliberately removing all identifying details from parcels in order to make sure they have their pick of the good stuff? Or did someone just slip and their fingers ripped the document envelope by accident and the paperwork fell out? Twice.
These questions are interesting because Yixin Gan went on trial here last month. She ran a business shipping food from China to Tonga, via New Zealand. A man called Mosese Uele, who worked for a freight forwarding company and had access to secure areas, opened the parcels when they were in the bonded warehouse during the stopover, removed the pseudoephedrine – used to make meth – hidden inside, replaced it with actual potato starch, and perfectly legal goods were on-shipped. Uele already pled guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison, along with several co-conspirators. But Uele says Gan was the mastermind behind the whole thing, while she says she had nothing to do with any of it. Her trial ended up aborted due to juror shenanigans, and she’ll face a retrial later in the year.
If Uele could make drug substitutions, and someone could rip the documentation off my parcel, how secure from tampering is the whole system?
New Zealand has always been a trustworthy country. We’re fourth in the world for least corrupt place to do business. But just a few years ago we were #1. My bag is only a bag, but how many other parcels are going astray? I’ve always had a sense of security that if I ordered something online, the system would work, and I’d get it. I didn’t even have to think about it. But now I don’t necessarily think that’s the case any more. I used to trust that New Zealand was a basically honest place, but that blind faith has faded.
But I have my pretty bag – thank you team at New Zealand Courier Post! And I’m flying to see my girl! Woot!
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Paris Fashion Week, Spring 2013
It’s no secret- I absolutely adore print design. So this Chanel suit, certainly arrested my attention. The subtle red/blue geometric pattern, large blue collar, blue trim (to sleeves, jacket hem) and pattern/colour contrast of jacket and dress is pure Chanel understated elegance … another Lagerfeld design success. And yes – the statement fingerless gloves, simply in red.
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Original airdate: April 10, 2016
The premise: Marge takes Lisa on a trip to Capitol City to mend their strained relationship. Meanwhile, Bart’s prank game is reinvigorated by teaming up with Maggie.
The reaction: Fucking hell, another one of these? We’ve had four Lisa shows over the past five, the first two featuring her being self-righteous and smug, and the latter two being a raging, uncompromising bitch toward her own mother. The writers remember Lisa is supposed to be a sympathetic character, right? The rift occurs when Lisa overhears Marge gab on and on about how much she hates jazz, and she feels hurt over all the times her mother had encouraged her and told her the contrary. We see Homer and Marge bond over their mutual hatred, so between this and Bart ragging on jazz to her sister in select jokes over the past decade or so, it seems the entire family is against Lisa and the musical genre. It just feels weirdly negative of Marge to be so blunt about something she knows Lisa loves so much. So for once, Lisa is actually upset about something for a reason, and Marge arranges a girls trip to hopefully mend fences. In their hotel room, we seem to get a repeat of the last scene from “Pay Pal” where Marge starts crying that she hurt Lisa, and Lisa has an inner monologue explaining what she’s feeling, except this time, she chooses to stay pissy. It’s really hard to pin down exactly what the emotional arc is for this story. After Marge takes her to a terrible musical, Lisa concludes (via inner monologue again) that her taste is terrible and that she’ll have to mother herself from now on. Since when did their mother-daughter bond depend on shared cultural interests? She later gives an interminably long monologue to our helpful guest star toward the end, where she eventually talks herself into forgiving Marge by the time she finishes talking. She mentions how her mom always sees the good in everything and everyone, and that hardly anyone likes jazz, so I guess that’s okay and she hugs Marge. Then we get a musical number from Lisa with a bunch of Broadway references in the background and we wrap this one up. I once again ask, what’s our takeaway? Lisa gets mad that Marge doesn’t like jazz, but then she gets over it, because nobody likes jazz. Okay? I just don’t get it.
Three items of note:
– The B-plot seems to speak to my thoughts about how antiquated elements of this show still live on, as Bart finds that no one is falling for his pranks anymore. Classic stuff like the dollar on a string, the spring-loaded peanut brittle, and that thing where you pour salt in the napkin dispenser (?) What kid in the year 2016 with a smartphone is going to be pulling shit like this? This stuff seems even too softball for 90s Bart; the closest I can think back is when he and Milhouse ran wild in that joke shop in “Lost Our Lisa.” With Marge and Lisa gone, Bart takes to using Maggie in his pranks, and we get a bonding montage with them, set to that music they used in “Treehouse of Horror II” during Bart’s segment. I remember from the commentary that music is a riff on the music used in an old father-son anti-smoking commercial. “Treehouse” used it ironically, seeing as we were seeing all these gags with Bart bonding with his jack-in-the-box father. Meanwhile, this has got to be the third time I’ve heard them use this music over montages sincerely over the past decade-plus. As usual, the show is content to slum in the tired old tropes it used to savagely lampoon.
– Marge looks around Capitol City to find the perfect musical to take Lisa to. She glances over at three different marquees which show song clips from the musicals, and it’s the same joke each time, being musical adaptations of movies with an American Idol contestant in the cast. When she finally lands on Bad News Bears: The Musical, Lisa is weirdly offended (“Is there nothing so beautiful that they won’t keep exploiting until it’s worthless?”) Why would an eight-year-old girl have seen that movie, and why would the non-athletic Lisa even care about it if she had? But immediately after that line, we get the payoff to the joke, with “SIMPSONS SEASON 17 DVDS STILL ON SALE!!!” flashing on the screen. It’s just another example of this show’s self-awareness; as much as I’d like to think otherwise, it’s pretty clear the crew knows how subpar these shows are, and how little they seem to care.
– Andrew Rannells guest voices as the star of Bad News Bears: The Musical, and tags along with Marge and Lisa during their quick and easy emotional reconciliation. The joke with him is that he thinks he’s a bigger star than he is, but no one really cares (“It’s a tourist trap, celebrities don’t actually come in here.” “Until today, right?”) But I think Rannells is a little too unknown for that joke to work. I see he had a recurring role on Girls, but off-Broadway, I don’t think many people know who he is. To remind the audience, he gestures to a series of helpful signs: Andrew Rannells from The Book of Mormon (Not The Fat Guy). Meanwhile, “the fat guy” Josh Gad has been getting a lot of major film roles, and is arguably more well known. Maybe they could have had Rannells be bitter and jealous of Gad’s success, drop a Frozen reference or two… something.
One good line/moment: Despite having just complained about his role on the show, Rannells is very charming, and has a great voice for voice over. He also shoots Lisa down for her heartless bitching, and later digs her when she’s playing the sax (“Hey, that little turd can play!”)
The b-plot of Bart molding Maggie into a little him (as in, he even reshapes her hair to look like his) was somewhat original, but even THAT plot is done much better in “The Loud House” episode “Changing the Baby”. With more quotable lines to boot (“I came in here to show Lily my fashion magazine, but then I got stuck in this baby cage! WAAAA!” “Upsy-daisy.” “A-goo.”)
Um… yeah. How… quotable.
What’s “Changing the Baby?” Is it a cartoon series?
What gets me about Rannells’ appearance is that the Riverdale gang show up briefly during the b-plot. Interestingly, before Book of Mormon, he was actually the voice of Archie himself in DiC’s 90s Archie cartoon.
I’m honestly wondering if that was intentional on part of the writing staff, or just something they never knew and it’s just simple coincidence.
Bart’s pranks were definitely one of the many things degraded over the course of the show. Not just in originality, but in softening up Bart’s character too much to the point where he just became a wimpy loser who occasionally pranked. Even the Bongo comics handled Bart better than the current show
Which is a bit unusual, because it is something that could kept up with the times–just have Bart humiliating Skinner or Homer and putting it on YouTube or live-streaming it, or have an episode where he trolls Springfieldians on the internet. In addition, there are pranks he pulled earlier on that are essentially timeless
I mean, part-of the reason he enjoyed Krusty so much early on was because of all of the mean-spirited humiliations at Mel’s (and previously Bob’s) expense. He always got a kick out of humiliating authority figures and kids like Martin.
The only truly antiquated thing is Bart’s slingshot, something I’m surprised still turns up in the show.
Exactly. To me, the best characterization of Bart (and Lisa) is the one from seasons 1-4, and while from season 11 the other characters became a disgusting version of themselves, Bart’s had a different treatment: he simply lost any trace of personality. This not only writing ineptitude, but it is another demonstration of the writers distance from the middle class life. They have no fucking idea what a troublemaker kid does, what he thinks and how he behaves.
As you said, the Classic Bart(as any well written thing) is time-less; this bunch of retards behind these episodes are not even good at copying what already exists.
Oh, about this episode, the Bad News Bears Musical is the only thing I actually remember. It was a far cry from Planet of the Apes The Musical by a quantum spectrum, but it had a bit of charm and Rannell was a rare highlight.
The thing that gets me though is that musicals this crappy should be what we expect to see in Springfield (again, like PotA), instead of a place like Capitol City
I particularly like this episode.
The Bad News Bears parody was a funny segment, Andrew Rannells was a really nice guest star, and for once both Marge and Lisa apologized. Lisa removing the pearls from her hair was a cute detail.
The B-plot was also good, and it’s the second Maggie plot of the season (!).
A decent effort by Jeff Martin.
I had no idea that Rannell guy was real. I thought he was just made up for the episode. This episode is just awful, but I did laugh a lot during the Bart plot. | https://meblogwritegood.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/592-how-lisa-got-her-marge-back/ | 2018-10-15T16:41:07 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Pure Joy
It has been a minute, or about 3 months, since I have written anything. God continues to put amazing new opportunities, people, and experiences in my life that have challenged, grown, and taught me. As each month passes, I take a retrospective look at the year… a sort of YTD report on life (I blame this analogy on my job working with data, charting things, and finding trends over time). As I sit and recollect the last 12 months, there is one data point that stands out to me — trials. James 1:2–4 tells us to “consider it pure joy” when we face trials because we learn perseverance. I’d be lying if I said pure joy was experienced shortly after events like a break up or losing close friends. But I’d also be lying if I said there wasn’t anything I needed to learn through those trials or that there was some growth that needed to happen. It was certainly not some epic waste of time. The pure joy comes from what I’m doing right here and what happened earlier this week. That pure joy is experiencing God’s love, grace, and forgiveness and in turn reflecting it back on the world around us. Pure joy can come from even the most painful experiences, either our own fault or the fault of others. Those trials can be redeemed by God as lessons that show us how to move forward and be better for it if we are in a place to receive it. I know that in my heart, if I am to live a life in the image of Christ, I have to learn to react to trials like him.
Earlier this year I burnt a bridge. A whole highway’s worth of bridges really (sorry E91 Life Group). I had created a toxic and dramatic environment with an ex-girlfriend, my small group, and the leader of said group. At the same time I began losing focus in work and felt abandoned on a difficult project I was assigned to. I attempted to stay the course, focus on my relationship with Christ, and work toward building up the community I was involved with, but emotions, impatience, assumptions, and spiritual immaturity got the better of me. I allowed anger and resentment to build up. I turned the people I once considered friends into villains. When I had finally convinced myself that nothing good would come from it, I walked away and I cut all ties — a full on slash and burn. No more small group, no more job in Fishers, no more Broad Ripple apartment, no more north side. I convinced myself I could escape it all and “start fresh”.
And as time went on that proved to be partially true. There were plenty of fresh starts. God brought new opportunities and new people into my life. A new apartment, new job, new church, and even a new small group. New, new, new!!! But right in the middle of all of this “new car smell” goodness sat me. With some old car stank wafting along despite how grateful I was for all of the new.
See, I hadn’t learned or even acknowledged the lesson God had set before me with those trials. I tried to hide from them and pave over it all. I tried to pave over anger and resentment. My half-hearted attempts at forgiving myself and others were not going to cut it. Just like a poorly re-paved street, cracks started to form and the ugliness beneath it all re-emerged with a few deep potholes. I knew my brokenness was still there when the leader of the group reached out to me months after I had gone silent. I lashed out with anger and sent a vitriol laced text and ended any future dialogue. In the days and weeks that followed that text, I wrestled with what it meant to truly show grace and forgive. I prayed for understanding. I prayed for peace and the ability to forgive and love those who had wronged me (intentionally or unintentionally). And as always, God answered.
Earlier in the week I started my day off like any other day at the office. While I was listening to my music I followed a recommendation (and branched out of my standard genre of music that sounds like robots fighting) to listen to a new album I’d never heard from Ben Rector. I hit the shuffle button on the album and first I heard the track “More Like Love”, which was part one of a one-two punch, message from God. This song made me think about all of things I prioritized and it has a verse that particularly struck me, followed by the refrain;
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The next track that came on was “Like The World Is Going to End”. Punch two, lights out… or lights on depending on how you look at it. The message to this song is mostly self-explanatory — live like the world is going to end. What would you suddenly find important as well as suddenly find worthless? One line from the song goes, “Callin’ everbody I’d ever hurt and reconcilin”. Did it need to be anymore clear? I fought back tears sitting at my desk when I finished listening to these two songs.
Hebrews 12:1 says “Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us”. My sin was my Anger and it was certainly hindering me. I couldn’t make sense of claiming to be a follower of Christ while I clung to this darkness. I knew Christ certainly wouldn’t. And there was that word again, perseverance. Defined as “steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success”. I knew all along that it would be easier to try to hide from my pain and problems, but that wasn’t perseverance at all and it achieved nothing. And so with the encouragement I found in those song lyrics along with what I can only describe as God’s presence, I decided to reach out to the old group leader with grace, an apology, and an offer to meet up and talk. I experienced joy. Pure joy. His response was one of grace, excitement, and kindness. Exactly what Jesus would have done and exactly what I know God needed me to see and understand. | https://medium.com/@KeepOnTryon/pure-joy-4827a90b8c43 | 2018-10-15T17:02:03 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
What’s the Difference Between Evercontact and ContactRescue?
So — you want automatically updated contacts but aren’t sure if you need Evercontact or our one-time service called ContactRescue. Many use both!
While our core technology (email signatures → address book) is the same, the simple distinction lies between your past and present emails. Let’s start with all of those valuable contacts sitting within your existing emails.
ContactRescue recovers contacts from your email archives
By extracting contact info from your past emails (up to 1 or 5 years back), ContactRescue is the best way to play catch-up and get your address book complete and up-to-date. It is a one-time service that allows you to capitalize on the value of old contacts that you never had time to add or update yourself. All in all, it’s a HUGE time saver.
Use Cases
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On that note…
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Use cases
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TL;DR
Evercontact = ongoing service that works in real-time as new emails hit your inbox
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Both utilize the same core technology of turning email signatures into new/updated contacts. You’ll get new contacts added, while existing contacts are updated with the most recent + complete info.
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- They each scan incoming email signatures and headers, gathering relevant info such as name, email, current company, position, phone number, and more.
- They’ll then store these accurate, updated contacts in a selected folder in your address book. We also have CRM integrations available for Salesforce and Highrise users!
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As such, the two often work together. Typically, users get a ContactRescue to fully catch up and then rely on the ongoing Evercontact service to keep the automatic updates coming!
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Originally published at Blog | evercontact. | https://medium.com/@evercontact/whats-the-difference-between-evercontact-and-contactrescue-234e31a7e2b8 | 2018-10-15T17:30:15 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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The island vibes were recreated in August 2018 in the two Russian cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg with the campaign “Endless Summer with the Seychelles Islands.”
The workshop was conducted for the second time this year in Moscow. It was held on August 30, 2018 and saw the participation of 70 representatives from the tourism industry in the city.
Subsequently, a first session of the same workshop took place on August 28, 2018 in St. Petersburg where 50 representatives from the tourism industry from St. Petersburg city gathered for the event.
The Endless Summer celebrations were honored by the presence of Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) Marketing Director for the region Ms. Karen Confait, Marketing Manager of the representative office in Russia, Ms. Olga Demina and partners.
The Seychelles Archipelago is famous for the remarkable greenery of its fauna, hospitality of its inhabitants, rustic laid-back lifestyle and amazing cuisine.
The STB team in Russia recreated all the features under the roof of the picturesque Orangery of the Tauride Garden in St. Petersburg and the open terrace of S.H.E.L.K restaurant in the heart of Moscow.
Talking about the event, the STB representative for Russia, Mrs. Olga Demina mentioned the utmost significance to recreate the style and decor to the smallest detail preserving and transmitting the true Seychelles vibe.
She further mentioned that as part of the décor the venues were embellished in tropical greenery and flowers. As part of the Island experience, guests not only had a chance to get memorable pictures but also to create their own refreshing smoothie at the pop-up booth.
“Following the success of the last year’s event in Moscow, we decided this year to bring Endless Summer also to St. Petersburg. We strive to make these events a yearly tradition and bring more and more representatives from the Seychelles Islands to new cities in the region. We are happy with the interest in the destination and both events were hugely successful. We received great feedback from agents; they found the events very inspiring, they loved the concept, the décor and most confirmed that it was the best event they have attended this year, “said Mrs. Olga Demina.
The event gathered 9 partners from Seychelles, among which were Hilton Hotels Seychelles – Maria Eremina, North Island – Valentina Myagkova, Raffles Praslin Seychelles – Marina Lyashko , The H Resort Beau Vallon Beach – Isabelle Le Strat, 7° South – Olga Fedorenko, Air Seychelles – Christine Ozouf, Turkish Airlines – Maria Ozay and Emirates – Oxana Kamachkina.
The evening event commenced with the refreshing Welcome Cocktail followed by workshop and a set of presentations prepared by the partners. The workshop was followed by the dinner and then all agents split into groups to take part in the Seychelles Quiz Challenge. The Quiz Game is an interactive intellectual educational team game dedicated to Seychelles, which was the highlight of the event.
The participants of the challenge received great prizes from the partners such as a bottle of Takamaka rum, organic cosmetics from the Islands, hotel and domestic flight vouchers and excursions. The main prize, round trip flight tickets to Seychelles sponsored by Emirates & Turkish Airlines, was awarded to the winners of the Quiz Challenge in both cities.
The Endless Summer Event aimed to motivate the Russian travel trade to continue to offer Seychelles to their clients as well as educate them on the various partner products and services in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. With Russia being one of our main markets, such events are important to re-enforce our presence in the region as well as to thank our partners for their continued support.
SOURCE: eTurboNews | https://meetings.travel/2018/10/01/endless-summer-workshop-brought-seychelles-islands-to-russia-for-second-annual-event/ | 2018-10-15T17:43:57 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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Many people expressed their disdain towards civil service in the country saying how bloated it is, its slow pace, its uselessness, etc. Being a civil servant, I found that majority of the civil servants are willing to change their working ways provided they were given the flexibility to act. As it is, the rules and procedure for them to follow is so voluminous that many stumbled, fumbled, and muddled their way through. Take finance for instance, all funds disbursed to departments are strictly pre-divided according to certain headings called “objects”. Monies allocated to certain object cannot simply be used for other object even though there is a surplus. Let me cite a simple case in my office, we have some money for “service” and no more money for ” maintenance”. We cannot simply divert the money from service to shore up maintenance work without prior permission from the central controlling officer. Being a huge ministry with more than forty separate divisions and thousands of staff, getting permission from the controlling officer would probably take a week at the earliest! Now, let say we save money in procuring some ICT equipment, we cannot use the excess funds to procure other equipment or extra things without permission from central controlling officer. Imagine you are given permission to buy 10 computers with a certain amount of money with certain specifications. If you manage to procure the 10 computers at a price lower than the amount given, again, you cannot use the saving to buy more computers or any other things without permission. Even if you get to buy a better spec computer at lower price, it is not allowed, unless you get clearance. It may sound inefficient but that’s the environment that we operate in. We do understand all these procedures were built in to prevent abuses and frauds by some rouges officers. So we all suffer because of some unscruplous people. A real catch-22 situation. one one hand we need all the flexibility to move fast, on the other the flexibility tend to get abused.
Transforming to Top notch civil service
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Golden Child Vintage
I spotted Golden Child vintage at the start of the year and fell in love. Not only am I a vintage addict but with most of the clothes being from the 80s and 90s it was a major nostalgia bomb. Recently they had an amazing 50% off sale which meant my order which originally would have cost almost 100 euros was reduced to just a little over 40euros!
If you’re a vintage lover who is looking for something a little bit different from what’s in the shops at the moment check out their website below as they’re planning on having a whole bunch of new stock in very soon.
With Love And A Needle
With Love & A Needle make some fantastic custom garments and accessories and recently I purchased a ‘surprise parcel’ from them. I got a glimpse of some of the fabric being used to create a baby outfit but the rest I would have to wait and see when it arrived.
In the end my parcel included a matching trouser and bib set, a 2 sided toggle blanket, a fabric brooch for myself and some matcha tea. All handmade and costing only 20euro!
If interested in finding out more check out the link to their Facebook page below.
Me Mamma B
I was the lucky winner of some labour socks from Me Mamma B recently and have to admit they are some of the most comfortable socks I’ve ever worn especially in pregnancy when a lot of socks feel too tight on your swollen ankles.
Me Mamma B do a whole range of maternity wear and accessories and if you’re on the lookout for a baby shower gift for the mum to be you really can’t go wrong with their matching sets.
Flopsy Shop
I like to shop as ethically as possible and Flopsy Shop is a great way of making sure perfectly good children’s wear doesn’t go to waste.
Selling good quality second hand clothes you can find a real bargain on their site including designer labels at a fraction of the original cost.
Flopsy also buy in clothes (and accept donations) so whether you’re buying or selling it’s good for your pocket and the planet.
Lollipops and Daydreams
I’ve been a fan of looking through Lollipops and Daydreams dresses for awhile but being a boy mammy had never been a customer but as I’m expecting a little girl any day now I finally had the excuse to purchase one of their custom made garments.
As they are made to order the price depends on the size of the child (mine coming in at 30 euro for 6-12 months) but they are unique and perfect for special occasions particularly birthdays.
Orders can take a couple of weeks to arrive so I’ll do a little post when I’ve received mine.
Have you discovered any fantastic local businesses you think other parents should know about?
*This is not a sponsored post. All orders I paid for myself, except for Me Mamma B which was a competition win*
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In the closing hours of General Conference, the Judicial Council announcement came through. Plan UMC was “constitutionally unsalvageable.” On the large video screen that broadcast the session, a delegate held up a sign, “John 11:35” – Jesus wept.
For good or ill – most of the delegates believed the plan (or anyone of its three predecessors) was a move toward a new missional focus that went deeper than downsizing. It would have been a platform for change. But the platform collapsed.
Some speculated this felt like an historic moment for the denomination. They had a few hours to craft a new and hopeful way forward. And they did. It wasn’t as broad-sweeping, but it significantly cut the boards of directors at the General Church level. Money will be saved and those savings can be passed along to local churches, which will pay less in apportionments, having more to invest in mission and ministry.
In was legislative drama. But as the final amens were sung – looking back, I wondered what had been accomplished. The General Conference did away with guaranteed appointments (a move pending a challenge to the Judicial Council); cut $6 million from its budget; but did not create a position of set-aside bishops, nor did it adopt the Call to Action plan for restructuring or Plan B. No changes were made to the church’s stances on homosexuality.
There were several hundred pieces of legislation passed, but I’m not certain they’ll significantly reverse the decline facing the denomination. In my mind, I keep replaying an awkward little vote held early in the session. There was a proposal to add language to the preamble of the Social Principles. It said, “We stand united in declaring our faith that God’s grace is available to all. Neither belief nor practice can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.”
Simple. But many delegates voiced their opposition. They were firm in their conviction that a lack of belief and sinful living could indeed separate a person from God’s love. An amendment was made: “Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus,” — straight out of Romans 8. But the delegates voted, by only a margin of 53 to 47, percent to support this statement.
Of course, this vote was loaded with undercurrents about tolerance of homosexuality. A lot of things were. But it struck me that it might also be a vote most churches and most individuals might take each day as they begin or end their day. Do our beliefs and practices reflect God’s love? Are we living prayers, living witnesses, living texts to the world that God’s love is available, unconditional and abundant? Are we voting “yes,” to grace far beyond the bar of General Conference?
In a closing sermon, Bishop Rosemarie Wenner, the new Council of Bishops president, reminded the delegates that church really exists “out there.” Our ingathering is essential. Strategy, structure, budget, and tending to and living out the connectional system that makes us United Methodists should never be discounted. But ultimately, it’s in the pulpits and pews of United Methodist churches where the cross and flame will transform people’s lives. It’s in those places where 11 million people across the globe gather to worship and serve and try their very best, each in their own unique way, to make disciples for the transformation of the world. | https://melissalauber.com/2012/05/06/living-prayers/ | 2018-10-15T16:41:51 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Now I wish to offer you a blog post on a subject close to my heart. How will we legalize cannabis?
The answer is that there will be a number of methods employed to do so. There are lobbyists who work on the issue in D.C., activists who promote awareness and opposition throughout the country. Drug dealers continue to serve as the vanguard of the movement, more militantly involved than the rest of us, but doing things that need to be done to perpetuate and promote marijuana culture.
But what the movement needs is not more such people. They serve purposes and work towards the final goal, but they cannot do it without tackling large social issues within marijuana culture. Certain harmful steryotypes must be demolished brick by brick and the only way it’s going to happen is if you are open and honest about the habit.
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. A tragic example. It is clear that if you can continue to set motherfucking world records for a sport that necessitates holding your breath then weed is probably not the deadly addictive, world shattering drug we were all told it was. Obviously the guy isn’t lazy, he just dug getting stoned a couple of times. But when confronted for it HE APOLOGIZED… as if he had done something wrong. This was not helpful to efforts to legalize the drug. This stabbed everyone in the back.
Get the fuck out of the closet, how do you think the LBG movement got anywhere? By getting out of the closet. Don’t like tell cops you’re holding or shit like that, but be honest about smoking weed in your personal relationships, work hard until they can’t call you lazy or unmotivated, live your life as a model pothead. The same examples can be made based from within the previous civil rights movements. I’m sure that when the leaders of the LBG movement started they asked themselves how black people overcame steryotypes about their brutish nature and the answer is simple, they let themselves get lynched without objecting, they produced individuals like MLK who became such a beacon of nonviolence that he dispelled much of the illusion singlehandedly. But not with his larger than life rhetoric, with his daily actions that showed massive love for all of mankind and convinced the people around him that he was legit.
Obviously neither the struggle for gay rights or civil liberties with regard to prohibition are as large or honorable as the civil rights movement. But to the extent that it was a wildly sucessfull civil liberties movement there are definately lessons to be learned. Women got the vote by proving they weren’t stupid or unqualified and maybe it should have been self evident but to America at the time it wasn’t so they put in the hours to prove it. Maybe it should be self evident that potheads are by and large as productive and upstanding members of society as anyone else but if they can’t see it then they must be shown. That’s on us.
And so what we really need is not epic cultural crusaders, but individuals willing to confront the close minded people out in the crowd with their open, healthy, and productive lives that involve smoking weed. Even if we needed epic cultural crusaders then the only way we would produce such people would be by making them do exactly that.
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Tue, Jun 23rd, '15 - 1:53 pm
Belleville has a new deputy police chief.
Mayor Taso Christopher introduced Ron Gignac at a news conference at city hall this afternoon.
Gignac is a former member of the Canadian Army with an extensive military career, and has served as a paratrooper in the Airborne Engineer troop , part of the Canadian Airborne Regiment Battle group. He was deployed to Cyprus twice, the Persian Gulf War and the Middle East.
He was a member of the Ontario Provincial Police at a number of locations throughout the province, at one time an Emergency Response Team Tactical officer. Most recently he was chief of the Deep River municipal police service.
He says meeting people is a priority.
He paid tribute to Belleville’s two sectors.
Belleville Police Chief Cory MacKay says she’s pleased with the hiring of a new deputy chief after a six month search.
Mackay says the police service will soon be developing its new business plan for 2016 and the deputy will be “on board” for that.
Forty-eight-year-old Gignac joins Belleville Police Service on July 2.
He succeeds former deputy, Paul Vandergraaf, who left last fall to become deputy chief in Cobourg. | https://metisvets.webs.com/newsjan2015todec2015.htm | 2018-10-15T17:08:48 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Hello: Jaylen Kelly-Powell
Jaylen Kelly-Powell gets coached up by Mike Zordich at SMSB 2016. [Bill Rapai]
Four-star Cass Tech safety Jaylen Kelly-Powell committed to Michigan this morning live on Sam Webb's WTKA radio show, fulfilling a long-awaited expectation that he'd join the 2017 class—an expectation that may have gone back to birth, as Kelly-Powell was named after Jalen Rose.
Kelly-Powell is the 19th commit in the class and the second at safety, joining three-star AL S J'Marick Woods. His commitment could help Michigan reel in his cousin, four-star Detroit King CB Ambry Thomas, and his five-star Cass Tech teammate, Donovan Peoples-Jones; Michigan is already considered the favorite for both prospects.
GURU RATINGS
Kelly-Powell is regarded as a four-star prospect by every outlet save Rivals, which has him two spots outside of four-star status in their safety position rankings. Rivals is balanced out by 247, which is the most bullish on JKP, and his composite ranking ends up right in the area of his Scout and ESPN rankings.
There's a strong consensus on Kelly-Powell's measurables: he's listed at 6'0" and either 175 or 180 pounds by all four sites. While JKP has mostly played safety at Cass Tech, he's also moonlighted at corner, and he's got enough cover skills that he could be either a safety or nickel at the collegiate level. In Don Brown's system, he should wind up at safety, where he'll be utilized much like a fellow Technician: Delano Hill, another safety who the coaches are comfortable putting head-up on a receiver at the line of scrimmage.
SCOUTING
As you'd imagine for a highly regarded Cass Tech prospect, there's quite a bit of scouting on JKP, including plenty from this here site.
The earliest scouting report I've got open is from MGoAlum Tim Sullivan, who watched JKP participate in Ohio State's Friday Night Lights camp in July of 2015:
Kelly-Powell looks very impressive physically, boasting a build that looks chiseled with no fat. He doesn't have great size overall though, coming in under 6-0 and 190 pounds, looking more like a cornerback with up close observation than a safety. However, he showed that his skill set is well-suited to safety, with an understanding of large-concept defensive ideas. He doesn't quite have the hips to play corner (other than in a pinch), and will continue building up to be the bigtime safety that he has the potential to become.
That fall, I watched Cass Tech take on Southfield, and in a game featuring a number of high-level prospects, JKP stood out:
Kelly-Powell has good size and athleticism and he plays with the type of controlled aggression you want from a strong safety. That aggression got the better of him on an early missed tackle when he overran an outside run play; otherwise, he tended to end up around the football, and the play tended to end when he got there. He had one especially impressive trackdown from the opposite hash of a ballcarrier going down the far sideline, laying a lick that knocked the ball free when he got there—unfortunately the ball flew out of bounds. When he tackles he does a good job wrapping up and he reads plays well.
Kelly-Powell was generally solid in coverage, even holding up well in man coverage against slot receivers. He got victimized on a corner route when he got caught peeking into the backfield instead of playing the receiver. Otherwise he displayed quick feet and good hips for a safety.
In the summer, Kelly-Powell went all-out to get to The Opening. When he didn't get an invite despite making Scout's top ten defensive performers at the Columbus regional, he took part in the Chicago regional the following week and punched his ticket to the finals:
Detroit Cass Tech four-star safety Jaylen Kelly-Powell came to Chicago with a mission: to be invited to The Opening Finals after not being invited in Columbus. Mission accomplished as he was once again a physical presence in coverage and challenged himself against the best receivers at the camp. While he did not win every single rep, he won a lot of them and proved himself worthy of the challenge.
JKP made it clear he deserved his spot with his performance at the finals. His one-on-one coverage stood out to 247's Tom Loy:
The Detroit (Mich.) Cass Tech four-star safety was one of the top performers when it came to one-on-one drills. In a three-play stretch, Kelly-Powell had two pass breakups and an interception. He had a strong week in Beaverton.
He also made Scout's top ten defensive performers in the Friday session, and Brian Dohn was impressed with his overall performance:
Kelly-Powell, the No. 27 safety in the nation and top safety in the Midwest, demonstrated an ability to drive on the ball and he tracked the ball well.
In addition, Kelly-Powell has the length to match up with bigger receivers down the field, and he plays physical in the secondary. He reads plays well in front of him.
Although I didn't see JKP take as many reps of as I'd hoped, his play at Sound Mind Sound Body was a cut above the other safeties in attendance:
In the early drill session, Mike Zordich pulled JKP and a couple other safeties aside for a separate drill that had them start off the line, go into a backpedal, and then close on the ball. That was the spot in which JKP stood out the most to me; despite being the biggest of the three prospects, he had the quickest feet and most impressive closing speed.
Kelly-Powell isn't as smooth an athlete as [Ambry] Thomas, and on the first rep I saw of him in one-on-ones he allowed a catch after getting a solid jam at the top of the route because he stopped moving his feet. He's fast and physical but doesn't look totally comfortable in man coverage; from what I've seen of him, he's better suited to full-pad settings—as a safety, he's not usually alone on an island like he is in camp one-on-ones. With some refinement in technique, however, he could become a solid cover safety, and he's already excellent playing the run.
TMI's Brice Marich got an illuminating quote from Cass Tech coach Thomas Wilcher after CT's victory over Oak Park at this fall's Prep Kickoff Classic:.”
Oak Park QB Dwan Mathis had two early touchdown strikes before JKP shifted to corner; he didn't have another after the switch.
Adam scouted the marquee Cass-King matchup in this season's PSL title game, which CT won 27-25 as JKP took on multiple roles in the defense:
His awareness extended beyond recognizing plays as they developed (which he did really well) as he seemed to be the one responsible for making checks and getting his teammates lined up on every play.
Cass likes to line Kelly-Powell all over the place. They’ll have him walk down into the box and play near the level of the linebackers in run support, play man over the top as a safety, and play press man in the slot or on the outside. He can cover almost anyone; in Cass’s first meeting with King this year, Kelly-Powell won most of the times he was covering [Ambry] Thomas (more on that in a Future Blue Derivatives post sometime down the road). That wasn’t the case in this game. Kelly-Powell flips his hips quickly and can stick with Thomas for a bit, but once Thomas gets downfield he’s usually able to gain a step or two of separation. That’s what happened at 00:49, and a closer matchup can be seen at 1:23. It didn’t make the highlight reel for the sake of avoiding repetition, but that same jam-turn-trail happened over and over again that night.
At 1:27 Kelly-Powell moves laterally for a split second before he realizes that Thomas didn’t get the ball, at which time he reverses course, loops around King’s blockers, breaks down, and misses in the open field. At 1:36 he’s still directing traffic when the ball is snapped, but he reads the handoff, bounces a gap over, and sticks the ballcarrier. When I’ve watched him play, I’ve seen much more of the latter. Kelly-Powell is agile enough to weave through traffic and fast enough to get from sideline to sideline in a hurry, and he also takes good angles to the ball. He’s generally an excellent run defender, and I don’t recall seeing any open-field struggles in the earlier Cass-King game. It’s a concern as a safety, but the (extremely) small sample size caveat definitely applies here.
Speaking of agility, Kelly-Powell’s was on full display on offense. He sticks a foot in the dirt and explodes past defenders at 1:43 and 1:52. He had his best game as a running back against King, but his collegiate future is likely at safety, where he has all the tools needed to succeed as one in a Don Brown defense.
Thomas is nearly as good a wideout as he is a cornerback; that JKP could stay competitive with him in man coverage is an excellent sign for a safety, even if he lost some of those battles. His command of the defense, meanwhile, is a consistent theme across several scouting reports. ESPN's underclassman eval called him a "savvy defender," and while their senior-year eval says he's a little undersized, they mention that he plays bigger than his listing, and they have high praise for his run support:
Not consistently smooth with footwork but transitions quickly in and out of pedal. Shows good burst coming forward jumping routes. Sharp in his redirection skills mirroring receivers tightly out of breaks. Quick to recovery and make up ground when ball is in the air.
Aggressive box player who will set the edge. Plays with some pop and edge to him. Lacks size behind him but will stick his nose in the mix and work leverage maintain force. Runs the alley with proper angles when aligned at safety. Understands fits and retaining leverage on ball. Tackles high with some pop but slides off some tackles as well.
Kelly-Powell has some playmaker qualities to his game. He plays fast, competes hard and has great recovery quickness. Lacks some size and and at this time may project best as a Nickel corner with safety still being the position with the highest ceiling with continued physical development
Finally, Scout joins the chorus of those praising JKP's football IQ in their free evaluation:
EvaluationNot considered 'big' for safety, but not small either as he's at right about the average for height and is well put together as far as his build. Can play man to man and has been out on an island at cornerback before. Changes directions well and has good coverage technique. Aggressive both at the line of scrimmage jamming and when in run support. Solid wrap-up tackler more than he is a striker. Very smart and disciplined and gets himself in the right places. Would like to see him make more plays on the football as far as turnovers, but he is a good, smart, productive football player.Strengths
- Change of Direction
- Coverage Awareness
- Jamming AbilityAreas to Improve
- Ball Skills
Kelly-Powell doesn't have prototype size and he's not quite fluid enough to be a full-time corner, but he makes up for that with his intelligence, instincts, and physicality. I expect him to become a very good safety, even if his size prevents him from being considered a big-time NFL prospect. He possesses the well-rounded skill-set and football IQ required to succeed as a safety playing multiple roles in Don Brown's complicated defense.
OFFERS
Kelly-Powell has an impressive offer sheet that includes the likes of Alabama, Auburn, Cal, Colorado, Michigan State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Penn State, Pitt, Stanford, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, UCLA, and Wisconsin, among many others.
HIGH SCHOOL
I don't need to tell you about Cass Tech, Michigan's most important in-state pipeline program.
STATS
I couldn't find complete stats for JKP; MaxPreps only has bits and pieces from his sophomore year.
FAKE 40 TIME
Kelly-Powell has a SPARQ-verified 4.66 40-yard dash, which gets zero FAKEs out of five.
VIDEO
Regular season highlights from this season:
Clips from The Opening:
Junior highlights and single-game reels can be found on his Hudl page.
PREDICTION BASED ON FLIMSY EVIDENCE
Kelly-Powell should get an opportunity for immediate playing time with Delano Hill and Dymonte Thomas both graduating after this season. Tyree Kinnel looks to have one safety spot locked down; Josh Metellus has the inside track at the other, but there will be snaps to go around between him, Khaleke Hudson, and the incoming freshmen. JKP is likely to find his way into the rotation, either as a slot corner or backup safety, and he should be an integral part of the secondary by his junior year.
UPSHOT FOR THE REST OF THE CLASS
Kelly-Powell fills a big need at safety, and Michigan may be done recruiting that spot—while they have other offers out to safety prospects, none stand out as likely to join the class, and Michigan can also take an extra corner and move somebody back. (Darnay Holmes, for instance, is a corner who's also a promising free safety prospect.)
Michigan now has 19 commits in a 2017 class that should reach the low 30s. Biggest needs going forward include wide receiver, a few more offensive linemen, defensive tackle, and linebacker. | https://mgoblog.com/comment/4206662 | 2018-10-15T17:50:59 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has embarked on her second presidential bid, the Democratic front-runner hasn't hesitated to call out her Republican rivals by name, castigating GOP hopefuls like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for their stances on issues from voting rights to immigration reform to reproductive health care.
But as the contours of the Republican race shift with just under two months until the Iowa caucuses, Clinton is training her sights on a new target: Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
The focus on Cruz comes amid signs that after months of being overshadowed by Trump, the first-term senator is parlaying his popularity among evangelical and tea party voters into electoral support. The epicenter of Cruz's surge is in Iowa, where he's won support from key conservatives, including Republican Rep. Steve King and influential radio host Steve Deace. Those endorsements could reap dividends: According to the most recent Quinnipiac University poll of Iowa Republicans, Cruz has moved into a statistical tie for first place with Trump.
With Cruz on the ascent, "Hillary and Bill Clinton have increasingly begun to muse about the possibility of a Cruz candidacy — after months of focusing on the fast-fading Jeb Bush," Politico's Glenn Thrush reported Monday.
A new focus: By Tuesday, we had the most vivid demonstration yet that Clinton is starting to take Cruz seriously. After Cruz told Iowa voters he's "never met ... any conservative who wants to ban contraceptives," Clinton's campaign pounced.
Clinton's rapid response director Christina Reynolds fired off a list of "5 times Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception," pointing to examples like his past support for a "personhood amendment," which would prohibit some kinds of birth control; his threat to shut down the government unless Planned Parenthood was defunded; and his opposition to the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage mandate.
"Ted Cruz wants to be president (and he's got as much of a shot as any of the Republican candidates)," Reynolds wrote. "But he not only refuses to face the truth that women's health and rights are under attack in this country — he has a long record of trying to limit access to birth control."
The memo offered a window into the Clinton campaign's strategy for undermining Cruz. As Hillaryland sees it, Cruz can speak the language of a deeply conservative GOP base or, as he sought to do this week, seek to appeal to the more moderate voters who will decide the general election — but he can't do both.
Why the hits? Sure, Cruz may be looking better in Iowa, but ask Presidents Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum how winning the caucuses worked out for them.
There's a crucial difference between Cruz and the Iowa victors in 2008 and 2012, however: Unlike those cash-strapped candidates, Cruz has assembled a formidable financial juggernaut. He ended the last fundraising quarter with more cash on hand "than any other GOP candidate," as the Washington Post noted.
Cruz's financial prowess — built on both grassroots goodwill and support among titans of industry — promises to power him well beyond Iowa. From the outset of his campaign, Cruz has had his eye on the so-called "SEC primary" on March 1, when a number of heavily conservative Southern voters head to the polls.
Still, Cruz can't win the nomination on victories in Iowa and the South alone. As the New York Times' Nate Cohn laid out in January, blue states are, paradoxically, disproportionately influential in selecting GOP nominees. As Cohn observed, states won by President Barack Obama will award half of the GOP's delegates next year. With Republicans in those states skewing more moderate than in Cruz-friendly states like Iowa, that poses a hurdle for the brashly conservative Texan.
But with a splintered GOP field — and in a primary process that's already laid waste to the conventional wisdom more than once — Cruz may yet overcome such obstacles. Clinton, accordingly, has taken note. | https://mic.com/articles/129511/here-s-why-hillary-clinton-is-suddenly-going-after-ted-cruz | 2018-10-15T16:51:19 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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Are you looking longingly at the glowing reviews for the new PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn on Metacritic and wondering whether it'll ever come to Xbox One and PC? We've got bad news: It's not going to happen.
It all has to do with Horizon Zero Dawn developer Guerrilla Games' status as a first-party studio. Let us explain.
Horizon Zero Dawn Xbox One and PC release date: What's a first-party studio?
Guerrilla Games, the company that developed Horizon Zero Dawn, is "wholly owned" by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, which means the studio's whole purpose is to create cool games exclusive to PlayStation platforms. The casual term for this type of studio is a "first-party" studio. Another example is 343 Industries, which makes the Xbox-exclusive Halo games.
If you're shaking your fists wondering, "Why, god, why? Why does it have to be this way?" the answer is simple: capitalism.
In the competitive world of console gaming, companies try to develop compelling platform-exclusive games to entice customers to purchase its consoles. It's as simple as that.
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Anatomy of a Meal
UC Berkeley's Michael Pollan examines what we eat, and how to decide what to eat.
By Troy Jollimore
San Francisco Chronicle, April 9, 2006
That we are living beings who must, to continue living, physically consume other living organisms, is one of the most fundamental facts about our lives. If, as a matter of habit, comfort and self-protection, we allow ourselves to remain less than fully conscious of the biological origins of our food, and of the nature of the processes and industries that bring that food to our plates, this does not alter the fact that eating constitutes one of the most significant links between each of us and the larger world. As Emerson wrote, “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
One must not underestimate the effects of Emerson’s “graceful distance of miles.” Most of what we eat today is produced by an immense industrial system that aims to strip its product of any characteristic that might indicate where it originated or how it might have been transformed along the way. As Michael Pollan writes in his new book, .”
“The Omnivore’s Dilemma” is an ambitious and thoroughly enjoyable, if sometimes unsettling, attempt to peer over these walls, to bring us closer to a true understanding of what we eat — and, by extension, what we should eat. That last phrase risks making the book sound like a diet plan; but whereas the typical diet book begins with the availability of a plethora of foods as an unquestioned given, and moves forward from the act of eating to its effects on the body, the project of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” is to trace the chain that connects the origin (pasture, feedlot, forest) to the meal. It is interested not only in how the consumed affects the consumer, but in how we consumers affect what we consume as well.
Pollan distinguishes three types of food chain: the industrial, the pastoral and the personal. The personal food chain is, in essence, pre-agricultural, involving what one has hunted, gathered or grown oneself. As such, it is by far the tiniest of the three chains, in terms of how most Americans sustain themselves, and involves the shortest physical distance between the food’s source and the dinner plate. The industrial food chain, by contrast, feeds the most Americans and sends its food on the farthest journey: the McDonald’s cheeseburger, which Pollan chooses as his representative industrial meal, is eaten in California, but the corn from which most of its ingredients are composed or derived was presumably grown in or near Iowa.
The industrial chain also utilizes the least diverse set of initial ingredients. “The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket,” Pollan writes, “turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.” As a result, this chain involves the greatest amount of processing. Pollan’s account of corn cultivation in the United States — the technological developments that enabled it, and the quirky economic policies that encourage its vast overproduction — is fascinating and disturbing. Corn’s ascendancy, he writes, “is one of the plant world’s greatest success stories. I say the plant world’s success story because it is no longer clear that corn’s triumph is such a boon to the rest of the world. … Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.”
As Pollan convincingly demonstrates, the corn-based industrial food chain does a poor job of giving its consumers what they want: healthy food produced and delivered in healthy ways. (In contrast to the so-called “French paradox” — how can people eat like that and be so healthy? — Pollan proposes “an American paradox — that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily.” )
Indeed, this country’s overproduction of corn is a major segment of our fossil fuels problem, not only because of the amount of fuel it takes to move trucks over those vast distances, but because the nitrogen fertilizer that makes the production of corn in huge quantities possible is derived from petroleum. (Thus, the industrial food chain is in reality even longer than stated above: It stretches back not just to Iowa, but to the Persian Gulf.) Moreover, it is impossible to opt out entirely of the system: Those who choose to eat only organic food are still very much affected by the negative consequences of waste runoff from fertilizer, overuse of antibiotics in animals (which encourages the development of medicine-resistant microbes) and other such practices.
Pollan follows his account of the industrial food chain by exploring a number of alternatives, from “big organic” companies such as Whole Foods and Horizon all the way down to personal hunting and gathering. Regarding the big organic firms, Pollan expresses ambivalence: While it is true that their products are preferable in some ways to those of the industrial food chain (they tend to avoid harmful pesticides, hormones and antibiotics), their practices are in many other ways indistinguishable from the larger nonorganic producers against whom they set themselves. Like the largest producers, they are committed to economies of scale, tend to transport their goods over large distances, and, contrary to the “happy cows” image they covet and cultivate through the use of such comforting but misleading phrases as “access to pasture,” often house animals in inhumane factory-farm conditions.
At the other extreme, sustaining oneself by hunting and foraging is hardly a realistic option for most Americans, as the author himself is the first to point out. He does, though, make a compelling case that an occasional venture of this sort might do wonders for individuals in terms of re-establishing genuinely conscious relationships with their food. In any event, Pollan’s account of hunting, cooking and serving a wild boar (along with wild mushrooms and bread baked from “wild” yeast), with which he ends his book, is entertaining and memorable.
The most promising alternative, though, would seem to be the in-between option: small, off-the-grid operations such as Polyface Farm, described by its proprietor, Joel Salatin, as “beyond organic.” Actually, the methods used by Salatin, a libertarian Christian given to long and inspired anti-governmental harangues, are simultaneously radically innovative and deeply traditional. Through various pasture and animal management methods, he achieves truly sustainable farming in which the soil gives up no more energy than can be replenished through its natural cycles, and in which animals are allowed to live and behave according to their natural predilections. Thus Polyface manages to avoid the use of petroleum-derived fertilizer, antibiotics and a great many other deleterious practices common in larger producers. And, according to Pollan, the food tastes better, too.
Farms such as Salatin’s represent a tiny minority of food producers in the United States, and given competition from bottom-line industrial producers, resistance from various government agencies and American consumers’ general lack of interest in peering over the high walls separating them from what they eat, it is most unlikely that those farms will come to dominate the field. Still, as long as they exist, those who do desire a more meaningful, more responsible relationship to their food will have the option to opt out of at least some of the more negative aspects of industrialized farming.
Some might worry, perhaps, that to learn too much about one’s food, and to consider it as yet one more area of life in which one has to behave responsibly, might drain the very pleasure from the act of eating. But this worry rests on the dubious assumption that these pleasures are, by nature, shallow and would be undermined by understanding. Readers of this intelligent and admirable book will almost certainly find their capacity to delight in food augmented rather than diminished. “To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction … in the end this is a book about the pleasures of eating, the kind of pleasures that are only deepened by knowing.” | https://michaelpollan.com/reviews/anatomy-of-a-meal/ | 2018-10-15T18:16:47 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
UAW-Ford Locals to donate nearly 5,000 to children in need countrywide
In continuing its mission to community service, UAW-Ford will debut its “Jackets for Joy” initiative providing 2,000 Michigan youth with winter jackets. The jackets will benefit youth who are either homeless or without parents, including: orphans and children whose parents are incarcerated. The organization aims to help warm the hearts of children who otherwise may feel a great “loss” during the holidays.
In total, nearly 5,000 jackets will be distributed at UAW-Ford Locals located in colder region climates throughout the country.
“Serving the communities in which our members live and work is paramount to UAW-Ford’s mission,” said UAW-Ford Vice President Jimmy Settles. “UAW-Ford aims to improve the quality of life, uplift others in need and essentially fight for the equality of all people.”
“Our organization is one of the few remaining of its kind taking actionable steps to stand guard for the people – all people. This year, we felt it was most important to help stand in the gap for youth, whom for whatever reason are without their parents during this holiday season,” Settles added.
UAW-Ford will donate new winter jackets to more than two-dozen area non-profit organizations, including: Bridging the Gaps, the community service division of the Detroit Police Department; Detroit Public Schools Community District; Butzel Recreation Center; Angel Tree Network, a non-profit that services youth whose parents are incarcerated; Tindal Recreation Center, Ennis Center for Children, H.O.P.E., the community outreach offspring of Tabernacle Church and SOAR to name a few.
Each organization will distribute the jackets to its population.
“The availability of a warm coat is the norm for many of us, but for those who battle the winter months without one, it can make a tremendous positive impact,” said Bill Dirksen, Ford Motor Company vice president, labor affairs. “At Ford, we understand the power we have to make a difference in the community, and we couldn’t be happier to be a part of bringing smiles to thousands of youth this holiday season.”. | https://michronicleonline.com/2017/12/14/uaw-ford-to-donate-2000-winter-jackets-to-homeless-and-parentless-children/ | 2018-10-15T16:43:36 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Antiques tend to be extremely valuable in its possessor’s eyes, regardless of it’s weight in precious metal or its diamond karatage. Sentimental worth is always priceless. Then factor in its age, rarity, and craftsmanship, and you might have yourself a very expensive piece.
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Heat oil in large pot. Add onion and sauté for 5 minutes. Add cashews, stir, and sauté for 5 minutes. Add apple, carrot, and butternut squash. Stir together and cook for 5 minutes with lid on. Add vegetable stock, thyme, and salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer with lid on for 15-20 minutes until squash is soft. Remove from heat. Using an immersion blender, purée in the pot, or transfer to a stand blender in batches and purée. Recipe makes 4 large bowls of soup.
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Beautiful words from the Philipines written by RL KenDen. Her motivation to start writing was based on her experiences on social media. She shared her poem Is Anybody Listening?
About the poet
RL KenDen is the pen name of Rhea Lopez Torreblanca. She lives in the Philippines and started writing for a special reason.
I feel so much for the people around me and writing became the extension of my being. Before, I would just scribble some thoughts and leave it forgotten or throw the paper where I’ve written my poems in the rubbish. Then one night as I was browsing my Facebook notifications, I saw this account full of poems and prose, the fire grew for me to write and do the same. Share and somehow touch other people’s soul with my poetry. It was just recently, February of this year that I made my Instagram and FB page accounts, dedicated for sharing my own writings and the writings of other poets.
She also gave a good quote about why she writes poetry:
Writing kept me company. I will never be lonely.
The work of RL KenDen can be found on Instagram or on Facebook and we hope to publish more work of this enthousiastic poetess. Keep up the good work!
Is Anybody Listening?
My words must not be heard
I try to speak to you in silence
Can you hear me?
I am here
In the dark
In a bottomless pit
Of lies
Of make believe
Of deceit
Of denial
Of jealousy
Of hurt
Can you hear me?
It’s cold here
Nothing grows in this place
How did I get here?
She hid me from the present
She thought she’s saving me
But I’m dying out here
Slowly
You don’t know me?
Come find me
Can you hear me?
Is anybody listening?
Yes
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A Reflection by Sr. Clare Walsh, MHSH
Pange Lingua, the smell of incense, The Stabat Mater, ” Were you there…?”, crucifixes draped in purple cloth…. just a few of the sights and sounds of a Holy Week long embedded in memory.
When we are familiar with something, it can lose its edge, its ability to disturb us, move us to action, or rest in its solace. The scriptures of Holy Week are not immune from this familiarity. We know the narrative, we know how it ends. At least, we think we do. Familiarity can lead us to dismiss the mystery, to fail to let it engage us, and to escape from “going the distance” with Jesus.
When Columbian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was asked about his relationship with his wife, Mercedes, he replied, “I know her so well that I have not the slightest idea who she really is.” For Marquez, rather than dismiss, familiarity contained an invitation. An invitation to adventure, intimacy, and mystery.
Marquez’s words challenge us to enter these holy days more porous, more vulnerable, more willing to render our hearts. Do we know Jesus so well that we have not the slightest idea who he really is?
How can we accompany Jesus through Holy Thursday and Good Friday? How can we experience these days as if for the first time? How can we console Jesus for the betrayal, the loneliness, the feeling of abandonment? How can we be with Jesus at the table, walk with him in his suffering, and companion him in death?
As scripture scholars remind us – Jesus’ passion for the Kingdom of God led to the passion of his death. We cannot separate them.
Does my life story reflect the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Caesar? With whom does Jesus stand today? Are we at his side?
What if, as Jesus did, we let the stranger break our heart and enter our prayer? The refugee, the prisoner, the person brought low by poverty, the neighbor who annoys us, the one burdened by life? What would it take for us to wash the feet of the stranger, to accompany the one forsaken, to be Simon of Cyrene?
What if our prayer these Holy Days led us from the beauty of a Holy Week liturgy to the streets where Jesus lives? | https://missionhelpers.org/these-holy-days/ | 2018-10-15T18:17:55 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Maple Island Park
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Location
Latitude: 45.97289 Longitude: -94.364885 Elevation: 1079 ft
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Interests and Areas of Expertise
I am owner and host at Great River Inn Bed and Breakfast in Little Falls, MN. I enjoy gardening, bird watching, and photography. Our front garden is a MonarchWatch.org registered Monarch Waystation.
Recommended Place
Great River Inn Bed and Breakfast
Recommended Activity
boating and fishing on the Mississippi River, cycling the SooLine Trail
Recreational Opportunities
Maple Island Park (and the adjacent James Green Park) is a beautiful Mississippi River riverfront park with fishing, walking paths, places for quiet meditation, and family picnics.
The park is host to the Little Falls Dam Festival and Rock the Park concert.
Seasons Accessible
The park is accessible year round though paths are not cleared and restrooms are not open in winter.
Accessibility Notes
All park areas are wheelchair accessible.
Pet Friendly Notes
Pets need to be leashed but are welcome at the park.
Contact Information
City of Little Falls - Parks, Grounds, and Maintenance
(320) 616-5500
727 3rd Street NE
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Northern Lights rocket launch could solve GPS interference
Rocket containing multi-needle probe is fired into the Northern Lights to unlock the secrets behind Aurora Borealis and solve the interference caused to navigation systems by electron clouds. Jim Drury reports.
The ICI4 rocket had a unique job. It was fired into Aurora Borealis - the Northern Lights - in a bid to answer why loose electrons caused by solar flares interfere with navigation and communication systems. SOUNDBITE (English) ANDRES SPICHER, PHD STUDENT AT UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, SAYING: "The Sun is constantly bombarding the Earth with a very hot gas, with a solar wind, and that gas is made of electrons and protons and when that solar wind reaches the Earth the particles manage to follow the magnetic field lines and as the magnetic field lines converge towards the poles this particle will just follow the field lines and get in our atmosphere at about 250 kilometres altitude and collide with the particles in our atmosphere, with the neutrals and then these interactions between particles with origins in the Sun and origins here will create the Aurora Borealis." Researchers at the University of Oslo fired ICI4 into the Lights in February. They hope the data will help scientists improve GPS and communication systems - and predict space weather. Attached to the rocket was their newly-designed four-needle Langmuir probe, which can take hundreds of times more electronic measurements than other systems. SOUNDBITE (English) ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, WOJCIECH MILOCH, SAYING: "This is the Langmuir probe, the probe that collects electrons and ions free charges in the ionosphere and from that we can actually understand the structures and processes that are occurring, that are happening in the high latitude ionosphere in the Aurora." The researchers say the mission was a success, though analysis could take years. With their Langmuir probes now used by both NASA and the European Space Agency, the Oslo team says it's put a rocket under the whole future of space exploration. | https://mobile.reuters.com/video/2015/07/23/northern-lights-rocket-launch-could-solv?videoId=365048741 | 2018-10-15T17:01:31 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
A Lust For Life – Complete at last!
Three momentous events have occurred in Mobi’s life over the past week.
The first event was the long awaited completion of my novel, ‘A Lust For Life’, which I first started writing back in late 2009, but didn’t really get into it seriously until January, 2010, when I stopped drinking.
There were also some longish breaks along the road, especially in 2010, but I think it is true to say that if I exclude these breaks, the novel has taken me around 2 years to write, including the substantial editing, which is now finished.
I’ll probably still continue to ‘tinker’ with the text over the coming months, but I feel it is ‘there or there abouts’, and will now embark on the next stage, which is to see if there is anyone out there in publisher-land, mad enough to consider publishing my weighty tome. (Yes it came in at 215,000 words, which would mean a paper back novel of some 600+ pages.)
Highly doubtful – I know – but I have to try.
In the meantime,
I have to say that over the past two years or so I have had very few comments on my novel in progress. Those that I have received have been largely positive, but I confess that all comments, of whatever nature, dried up completely, many months ago.
I am not sure if this means that very few of my readers have taken the trouble to read ‘Lust’ – which is quite possible, as I am the first to admit it’s not everyone’s cup of tea – or that you are all too polite to tell me what you really think.
Anyway folks, it’s time to get real, and I would greatly appreciate any comments you may have on my novel – good or bad – as it will help me to know if I am simply flogging a dead horse and that my energies might be better directed elsewhere.
One final word on this. When I started my massive editing exercise back in December, I realised how badly written parts of the novel were, which is why it has taken me so long to try and bring it up to par.
So if any of the ‘early’ readers were put off by my awkward and amateurish prose, then may I respectfully suggest that you give it another go, as I believe it is now a much better read.
But what do I know?
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As for the other two momentous events in my life this week, well those who follow me on Twitter will be aware of one of them, and the final event is still too painful to write about.
I will try to get another blog out within the next few days, but much depends on other factors, so fingers crossed.
3 thoughts on “A Lust For Life – Complete at last!”
i loved reading it .. and very much enjoyed it . even the one or two mistakes i noticed that are still in it ! i only found you thru stickmans blog last weekend, it took me all of 3 days to read it all ..
my word life can be hard and cruel at times.
Hi Tim,
Thanks for your kind comments.
As I have written in today’s blog, I would be eternally grateful if you could point me towards my mistakes and I will try to fix them.
Thanks,
Mobi
OK, you asked for comments good or bad……… I love your writing style when writing of your life and loves and thoroughly enjoyed reading the articles but the book just doesn’t do anything for me. Sorry | https://mobithailand.com/2013/03/24/a-lust-for-life-complete-at-last/ | 2018-10-15T17:59:28 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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haha oh man, now I have to go back and read more!
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hahaha “Let’s dance close to her”
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The Landscape Urbanism module introduces contemporary landscape architecture topics or issues relating to the urban condition. This encompasses local and regional scales, social and ecological systems, water sensitive design and place and identity relationships. Students investigate complex issues relating to the design of urban places and extend their knowledge, comprehension, evaluation and application of design theories. Seminars, tutorials, and workshops will provide the student with the theoretical knowledge and applied methods to understand and critically assess a given project. This assessment and critique underpins the process of developing concepts and proposals to improve and refine built projects.
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D, or "C++ Done Right(er)"
One of the languages that I spend a lot of time using is the D Programming Language. I've gotten quite a bit of (mostly) good-natured ribbing at my choice of language, but I normally just respond by showing people some of the more interesting features that I consider to be a huge improvement over C++, such as:
- Templates that are actually easily usable
- Compile-Time Function Execution, to do heavy processing at compile time instead of at run time
- United Function Call Syntax, allowing developers to simulate extending classes using a natural syntax
As a small example, last night another D programmer was asking about a way to do something similar to Python's
setdefault for dictionaries.
After a short setup period, I produced the following code:
import std.stdio; ref T setdefault(T, U)(ref T[U] aa, U key, lazy T defaultvalue) { if(key !in aa) aa[key] = defaultvalue(); return aa[key]; } class A { this(int i) { writeln("A's constructor ", i); } } void main() { A[string] aa; aa.setdefault("t2", new A(3)); aa.setdefault("t2", new A(4)); auto b = aa.get("test", new A(2)); }
The key part is that my
setdefault function could be used as if it were a member if the associative array - UFCS in action.
Some of my code examples and breakdowns will be in D, because it's an interesting language that has some cool capabilities. | https://msoucy.me/2013/10/dlang/ | 2018-10-15T17:09:13 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Love Letter To A Record: The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe On Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Are You Experienced’
“It’s absolutely phenomenal and nobody has ever been able to touch that”
“It’s absolutely phenomenal and nobody has ever been able to touch that”
Part of the third album of a trilogy.
We go through our 10 favourite wah wah tracks ever made
Noted Guns N Roses riff-maker turned frontman Slash, has often topped lists of the world’s premiere guitarists, but even the best have been influenced by those who came before. Now the Guns N’ Roses legend has drawn up his own list of the twelve best guitarists of all time, perhaps giving fans a look in
It’s been nearly half a century since rock god Jimi Hendrix released his second studio album, Axis: Bold as Love, the cover art for which featured him and his band The Experience as various forms of the Hindu God Vishnu, but time has played no factor in the Malaysian government’s decision to ban the record.
The first footage of Outkast‘s Andre 3000 playing Jimi Hendrix in the new biopic All Is By My Side has surfaced, with the John Ridley-directed film set to debut at Austin’s South By Southwest Festival on 12th March. The minute long clip from the film sees Hendrix asking muse Linda Keith (Imogen Poots) to join
The London flat that guitar god Jimi Hendrix touchingly described as “the only home I ever had” is to become a permanent museum dedicated to the life, work, and creative legacy of the man himself. Hendrix rented the flat in the late 1960s with girlfriend Kathy Etchingham for £30 a week in rent. Thanks to
The first image of Outkast member Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix for the upcoming biopic All Is By My Side has surfaced, ahead of the film’s official premiere at the Toronto Film Festival later this year, and the resemblance is kind of spooky. 3000, real name Andre Benjamin, is the spitting image of the legendary
People, Hell And Angels, the upcoming 12-track album comprised of previously unheard material from Jimi Hendrix, will soon be unleashed on Tuesday, 5th March. With only a couple weeks until its release, a never-before-heard version of Earth Blues has been revealed to a global audience. The track list for People, Hell And Angels is made
Last week the word was out that the late, great Jimi Hendrix would be releasing one more album titled People, Hell and Angels. The album will consist of 12 previously unreleased tunes from arguably the greatest guitar player of all time and is expected to be out Tuesday, March 5, 2013. At the helm of
Music.
Only two days after multiple reports confirmed a new film based on Jimi Hendrix titled All By My Side was in pre-production, Hendrix’s estate has stated it does not support the proposed movie..
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Longtime denizens from the Minneapolis rock and roll picture, the Cows are among America’s great degenerate punk rock and roll bands. Starting as near-total incompetents, they will have become more theoretically polished musicians through the ’90s, but their white-hot sound rock and roll is not tamed one little bit. In lots of ways, the Cows stay as gloriously messy, primitive, and fascinating as they had been your day they began. Formed within the middle-’80s by idiosyncratic business lead vocalist Shannon Selberg, the Cows appropriated the hardcore electric guitar blur that characterized fellow-Twin Citians Hüsker Dü, but stripped apart every concessions to melodies, hooks, riffs — essentially whatever remotely resembled pop. What they provided was a blazing wall structure of distortion which was punk rock and roll at its crudest; a feral racquet that sounded as though the guitars had been being used metal data files. Above the din was Selberg, free-associating surreal vignettes about, well, God understands what, but his squealing, shrieking, and general lunacy supplied the bizarre, frequently engaging, concentrate. He has trumpet, as well — well, not really much has as blasts an email or two when he’s sick and tired of ranting. Following the release of the first record in 1987, the Cows had been roundly derided being a talentless, tasteless joke (a charge that might be leveled a couple of years afterwards against Babes in Toyland). Nevertheless, they’ve stayed accurate with their anti-commercial position and punk root base, releasing a small number of odd, noisy, gleefully unhinged information that appear to progress (i.e., even more focused and much less obtuse) and wthhold the band’s devotion to mania. | https://musicianbio.org/the-cows/ | 2018-10-15T16:48:37 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Get your reflection on
Mirrors are one of the best ways to make your tiny space feel open and airy. This space from West Elm shows off the dramatic impact multiple mirrors can play, plus they reflect any and all light available in the room.
Fill ‘er up.
Go for the wow factor
Sometimes the best way to visually increase the square footage in a space is to keep the eye constantly in motion (so you don’t notice how small it is). Take a cue from entertaining expert Lulu Powers in her LA bungalow seen on One Kings Lane: pattern on pattern, bold color next to bold color—cozy perfection!
Keep things linear
Try implementing varying geometric and linear prints, as seen on Design*Sponge. This gives a small space a sense of structure while also providing the illusion of additional length and width.
Lose the legs you feel the need).
Make the best of strange angles
A feature wall is a great way to properly weigh and focus a room with awkward angles, like in this room from Alvhem, that uses a bold floral wallpaper to pull the attention to the seating area.
Invite tiny keepsakes & treasures into your space
In this charming living room via Domino, your attention is occupied and delighted by all the personal accents and accessories that draw you into each area of the little space.
A wall of books, and add molding to polish off the custom look.
The power of the tuck.
Keep your space alive.
Keep things monochromatic.
Floor to ceiling draperies.
Behold the power of threes.)
K.I.S.S..
Fit it all in
Packing your teeny space with lots of purpose is another way to trick yourself into thinking things are bigger than they appear. In this apartment on Homepolish, the living room seamlessly connects to an office area, feeling cohesive and interesting.
Layer your lighting
This living room feels big and spacious due in large part to tall ceilings and big windows, but also of note is the layered lighting. Keeping light at multiple levels (via floor lamps, chandeliers, and task lights) creates a moody yet well-lit room.
Don’t overlook underused spots
If you have some windows in your tiny living room, put those window sills to work holding books, plants and other decorative objects.
Opt for floating shelves).
Go big
With a rug that is. A large rug like this one in the West Village apartment of Lee Lenox makes a tiny space feel much bigger than it actually is.
Go bold (but neutral!).
Stack storage
Spotted on Marie Claire Maison, this non-traditional “sofa” is perched atop vintage storage bins—chic and smart!
Forego traditional pieces.
Design on a tilt
The best way to shake up a space is to give it a fresh furniture layout. If you’re bored of your little living room, consider angling a few key pieces to keep things interesting like this room on Domino (via Airbnb).
Get creative with storage
Okay, so this one is reserved for homeowners who can invest in custom solutions, but how enviable is this media center designed by London-based firm Sigmar?
Go vertical).
Skip the coffee table in place of an ottoman or pouf).
Thinking clearly
Acrylic or glass furniture has long been a designer trick for small spaces. They serve a purpose (i.e., holding drinks, etc.) while basically disappearing into the space. The result is a room with all the function you need, but without all the visual clutter.
Be delicate.
Be matchy-matchy.” | https://mydecor.org/30-absolutely-brilliant-ideas-solutions-for-your-small-living-room/ | 2018-10-15T16:57:10 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
my first half Ironman, and overcoming running injuries. Depending on the situation, I might wait until I’ve overcome or made it through the worst before sharing – particularly for the more emotional things. For others, I like to take a more in-the-moment approach. In the case of today’s post, it’s the latter.
I talked in my last monthly intention check in about how January was full of tests, and the powers at be certainly seem to thing this is a good season of my life for testing! For context, about a month ago I was promoted to a manager role at work. I knew that with this exciting news, I’d have a ton of opportunities to develop myself as a leader and have a positive impact on others. I also knew it wouldn’t be without a lot of additional responsibility, accountability…. and time.
Last week was a wild one. Double-booked days, plenty of curve balls, an overflowing inbox and longing for some sort of cloning machine so that I could make 5 of myself to keep up with it all. I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep, went to bed thinking about work, dreamed about work, woke up thinking about work, and spent far longer than usual doing work. There were some high highs, some low lows.
By Friday, it was almost as though my body didn’t even detect the fatigue any more. Guys, this is NOT something I subject myself to often! I’m used to a very regular early-to-bed, early-to-rise sleep schedule, but the candle was burnt at both ends all week long. Anyone else know the feeling?
Thankfully, it’s a long weekend here in BC, and i’ve intentionally been spending the time getting myself back into a restored, rejuvenated state. Self care is a huge priority for me this year, and although the past week was one I don’t wish to experience again for a while, I feel I’ve developed a good little toolkit of self care practices to bring me back to feeling great when these life tests hit. If the year has been off to a fierce start for you as well, I hope you’ll use these ideas to inspire your own self care routine.
What makes these practices effective?
There are a few different things going on in each of the ideas I’ve provided, but for the most part, it’s all about stimulating the natural chemicals and hormones in our bodies that do things like:
- Lower cortisol and adrenaline – the stress hormones we release in ‘fight or flight mode’ which can lead to poor sleep, irritability, weight gain, belly fat storage, headaches, anxiety, low sex drive, food cravings, hair and skin irritation, weakened immune function and thyroid imbalances. All not fun issues to deal with!
- Boost feel-good hormones like oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine and endorphins
- Increase blood flow around the body, which can make us feel more energized
- Stimulate the pleasure centers in the brain, including the amygdala (regulates emotion), cerebellum (for muscle function), pituitary gland and VTA, which release some of the happy hormones I listed above. These are the same areas stimulated in people with substance addiction1, but in the case of self care practices, you’re doing it in a far more holistically helpful way!
20 ways to restore yourself after a crazy week
1. Sleep
Listed as #1 and for good reason. Sleep is one of the most restorative, healing and impactful things you can do to improve everything from mood, energy levels and ability to focus, to biological health markers like cortisol levels and inflammation2. It’s kind of like an insurance policy in the sense that you don’t realize how important it is – until you don’t have it and something goes wrong. On the other hand, sleep is better than insurance because it’s free!
2. Take a bath or shower
Hydrotherapy (or the use of water to address a range of health conditions) is becoming a common alternative treatment for things like muscular pain, improving range of motion, strengthening weak muscles and improving circulation and sleep quality3. You don’t need any fancy pools to reap the benefits of water. Simply taking a hot shower or bath can reduce muscular tension, blood pressure and cortisol, and if you add some calming essential oils such as lavender, chamomile, bergamot and jasmine, you get bonus points!
3. Use aromatherapy
Speaking of essential oils, you probably know that different oils have different effects. The ones listed above are great for calming the mind, but I love using others in my own concoctions to serve different purposes. For example, citrus and peppermint scents can help to boost mood and energy, while lavender, arnica, eucalyptus, peppermint, wintergreen and ginger can help reduce muscle tension and pain.
4. Spend time with a friend
Especially a friend you won’t be tempted to talk a lot about work with. Trust me, I LOVE my work friends and some are among my closest friends. But if you’ve been doing nothing but work work work and just need a mental escape, try hanging out with non-work friends so that you’re not tempted to bring up the same subject during your precious weekend hours.
5. Journal
I think this is powerful for everyone, but especially those of us who do a lot of talking, presenting, meetings and phone calls during the week. Talk therapy is powerful and can help us express our emotions. At the same time (and speaking from personal experience), sometimes I just need to stop talking for a while and just be in my head.
If that sounds like you, journalling can be a great alternative way of getting your pent-up emotions expressed. I’ve kept a daily gratitude journal for over a year now which I feel has made a significant impact on my happiness, but you can journal about whatever you like. Here’s some prompts if you feel stuck.
6. Get a massage
Like the water therapy I mentioned above, physical touch is a powerful thing and sets off lots of feel-good hormones in our bodies. Massages are my favourite way to work out stress and muscular tension, and regardless of whether someone’s massaging you or you’re working on yourself, massage helps to open up energy pathways, increase blood flow and reduce the likelihood of headaches.
If you don’t have time to book a treatment, an at-home or at-your-desk session can still help. I like to roll a lacrosse ball under my feet when I’m sitting at my computer, and have a slightly larger ball that I roll my upper back around on to relieve stiffness. This is especially helpful in the winter when my neck tends to tense up more often due to the cold.
7. Breathe fresh air (outside!)
Let your eyes see shades of green and earthy hues – both of which are calming on the mind. I’m almost embarrassed to say that over the past week, I think I only managed spend a total of 1 hour outside. It was walking to and from my car and my gym. In the dark. In the rain. How sad and uninspiring is that!?
Not only does breathing fresh (non-air-conditioned, non-heated) air have an invigorating and refreshing effect, but assuming you’re outside during the day, you’ll also get some vitamin D through sun exposure which we also need for optimal health. If that’s not possible, or if it seems to be all rain, all the time where you are like it is here in Vancouver, try bringing some greenery into your home.
8. Move your body
I’m not necessarily talking about HIIT sessions or crazy tough spin classes, because if you’ve had a ridiculous week fuelled by adrenaline (and probably caffeine too), you’ll already have plenty of the stress hormone cortisol coursing through your veins. The goal is to bring that back down to normal and help the central nervous system recover. Lower-intensity exercise can help because it stimulates production of feel-good endorphins in the brain, all while flushing toxins out of the body. Exercise also forces us to move out of the positions we fall into the habit of sitting in all week long, which takes strain off of the joints.
9. Laugh
Nothing feels quite as good as a good belly-busting laugh, and if it’s enjoyed with other people, that human connection makes the impact even bigger. Whether it’s watching something funny on Netflix, spending time with funny people or a pet, or starting a Pinterest board of funny quotes, all of these things can help reduce cortisol and adrenaline.
10. Listen to music
Everyone has different tastes, but I like to resort to my personally-curated feel good tunes playlist on Spotify when I’m in a bad mood. I also like Spotify’s Ocean Escapes playlist (ambient ocean waves) when my brain just feels too full for anything else, aaannnnd I have a Guilty Pleasures playlist. If you guessed Hanson, Savage Garden, One Direction, Shania Twain, Mariah Carey (circa 1990s) and Justin Bieber, you guessed right. Dancing gets bonus points and looks after the ‘move your body’ box too!
11. Load up on fruits, veggies, quality proteins and healthy fats
It’s definitely not earth-shattering news that eating well will make you feel better. Plant-based foods help to reduce inflammation, provide our bodies with vitamins and minerals we need for everything from appetite regulation to energy production and inflammation control, and they’re delicious! Adding a source of fat to your meal helps your body to make better use of the fat-soluble vitamins in all that fresh produce, and has an overall calming, grounding effect. If you want to take things even further, try incorporating a few adaptogens to bring your body back to feeling like its fabulous self faster. You’ll find a whole bunch of delicious recipe ideas here!
12. Enjoy a meal with no distractions
No screen in front of your face, no books or magazines, no work – just you and your food. I’m willing to bet you’ll enjoy it a lot more this way, an probably feel fuller faster as well.
13. Take a digital detox
It might not be a total detox with zero electronics, and if the thought of going completely disconnected feels scary, even committing to only checking your email once during the day can be a great place to start. I did this on Saturday and it felt wonderful! Other ideas:
- Read a real book with real paper pages
- Write with a pen instead of typing
- Deactivate social media notifications
- Put your phone on silent so the noises don’t interrupt what you’re doing.
- Leave your phone at home when you go out to do errands
14. Volunteer or practice giving
It might sound counter-intuitive because this is supposed to be about bringing more energy to yourself, not giving it away. But the cool thing about giving to others is that the effects are reciprocated and both sides benefit. You could give something physical like a clothing donation, write a card to someone to express your gratitude, or give the gift of time which is something I feel is often more valuable than anything tangible.
15. Meditate
You guys know I’m a big fan of this, and I can honestly say meditation has been making a huge impact – mostly on my ability to feel grounded and patient.
My favourite app (yes, I know app use would violate the whole digital detox thing) to date is Insight Timer because the sessions are free and you can choose to cater what you hear to needs like anxiety, leadership, sports performance, sleep quality, happiness, grounding etc. There’s even SOS meditations – 1-2 min sessions you can do when sh!t hits the fan and everything inside you is screaming “haaaaalllllllppppp meeeeee!”.
I think there’s a type of meditation for everyone, so if you’ve been frustrated by what feels like a lack of ability to concentrate in the past, don’t give up – just keep experimenting. I actually find cleaning quite meditative sometimes!
16. Give yourself a manicure, pedicure or facial
It kinda sounds like work, but all 3 of these things seem to help me feel more put together. Or, if you want to splurge, treat yourself and have a spa do the treatment for you. When you feel good about yourself, it shows in the way you walk, talk, and engage with other people.
17. Dry brush your skin
I didn’t think this was a big deal until I tried it, and now I believe the hype. Dry brushing helps to boost circulation, exfoliate the skin, may encourage detoxification of the lymph nodes, and just feels really good. It sounds weird to say my skin feels more awake afterwards, but it does! Dry brushes come in all shapes and sizes, but I like ones with long handles like this to make my back easier to reach.
18. Be inspired by a TEDtalk
I’ve been watching tons of these lately and never fail to learn something new. With such a diverse range of speakers, you’re bound to find at least a handful of videos that help you get through whatever challenging predicament you’re in. You can check out my roundup of TEDtalks on gratitude here.
19. Do whatever makes you lose track of time
Maybe it’s cooking, colouring, crafting, writing – anything that you absolutely love, even if it has no productive purpose. Our brains need a break, and even if you don’t consider yourself a creative person, I’m willing to bet that you are in some way.
20. Say “no” and be firm on your boundaries
I learned a while back that if I don’t allocate a significant amount of my weekends to solo time, I head into the next week still feeling a bit fatigued and not totally present. The idea of being able to see a whole bunch of people I love spending time with in one weekend is so tempting, but pacing is key. If you’ve signed up for things but just need a break to look after yourself, there’s no shame in saying no.
Lastly, I very recently came across Girls’ Night In, a website and community that encourages women to make taking care of ourselves a priority. Every Friday they send a newsletter packed with tips, inspiration, and real stories about real women crushing it in life. As someone who truly values my ‘me time’, and who for years felt guilty about not wanting to spend Friday nights out on the town, stumbling across this was like a breath of fresh air. You can sign up for free here .
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Tuscan Bread With Rosemary & Olive Oil – Use a good quality olive oil. It has a tender crumb and is very tasty!
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cups warm water
- 2 1/2 teaspoons dry active yeast
- 2 1/2 to 3 cups of bread flour* + more for kneading
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoons salt
- 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary needles, chopped
* the quantity of flour differs according to the weather! Start with 2 1/2 cups and then add if needed.
- Put the water in a large bowl, add the yeast, and leave it 10 minutes, until the mixture is frothy.
- Add the flour, oil, salt, and rosemary. Stir until mixed then transfer to floured surface.
- On the floured surface, knead the dough for about 12 minutes, until it is satiny and elastic.
- Form the dough into a ball and cover on floured surface to rest for 45 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the pan on which you will put the bread: Place parchment paper on the baking sheet and sprinkle corn meal on it. The corn meal will raise the dough and let air circulate under it.
- Punch the dough down, and form into a large ball. The surface will be smooth, as in the photograph. Allow to double in size which should take about an hour.
- Place on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper & generously sprinkled with corn meal.
- Allow to rise in a draft free place, covered with a kitchen towel, another 45 minutes.
- In the meantime, preheat oven to 450 degrees and fill a shallow saucepan or skillet with water. The steam will make a hard crust.
- When bread has risen and oven is preheated , place pan with water on lower shelf and bread on middle shelf.
- Place the bread in the oven and immediately lower temperature to 400 degrees and cook until golden, about 40 minutes.
- Transfer to rack and allow to cool. This bread keeps well and makes delicious sandwiches.
Alternative shape!
This recipe can be divided in two after the second rising. Cut the ball in two and gently roll the dough on a floured surface to make a log. Place on a parchment covered baking sheet with corn meal sprinkled on it or even better with a specialty pan to make “Italian Bread”. These were purchased from the King Arthur Flour web site.
Cooking time will be less – about 25 minutes. These loaves were given a little egg washed and sesame seeds sprinkled on them. Yum!!!
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Billionaire owner of South African league champions Mamelodi Sundown, Patrice Motsepe, will reportedly fork out $7.9 million (Sh 790 million) to fly in Spanish champions Barcelona to Johannesburg for a friendly match slated for May 16, 2018.
According to The Times, the international friendly between the two clubs, to commemorate the 100th birthday of anti-apartheid hero, the late Nelson Mandela, was supposed to come barely 24 hours after Sundowns’ Caf Champions League match against Guinea’s Horoya in Conakry.
However, Mamelodi successfully petitioned Caf to have the match postponed to May 22 to allow them host the friendly match against the Catalans.
Caf granted Mamelodi their wish but on condition that the club would pay for the extra TV productions resulting from the postponement.
“We would also like to draw your kind attention to the fact that this postponement will lead to extra TV production cost, flight tickets modification, remote on-screen graphics and commentaries. Such amount should be deducted from Mamelodi Sundowns revenue,” reads the Caf statement.
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Mamelodi Sundowns to play Spanish giants Barcelona in South Africa
This will be the second time the South African club’s owner is paying all the expenses for Barcelona to play his side in South Africa.
In 2007, Motsepe is reported to have spent close to $1 million (Sh100 million) to fly in a Barcelona squad that at the time included Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho and Cameroonian striker Samuel Eto’o.
This time round, with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez expected to make the trip, fans who wish to enjoy the match at the FNB Stadium will also have to dig deep into their pockets for pricey match tickets.
The cheapest tickets will cost 40 Rand (Sh320), while fans will be required to pay 350 Rand (Sh2,800) for VIP tickets and 550 Rand (Sh4,400) for VVIP tickets. | https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/sports/barcelona-tour-south-africa/ | 2018-10-15T17:47:12 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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This week we’re celebrating Earth Day 2018 with some of our favorite images of Earth from afar…
At 7.2 million Miles…and 4 Billion Miles
Voyager famously captured two unique views of our homeworld from afar. One image, taken in 1977 from a distance of 7.3 million miles (11.7 million kilometers) (above), showed the full Earth and full Moon in a single frame for the first time in history. The second (below), taken in 1990 as part of a “family portrait of our solar system from 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers), shows Earth as a tiny blue speck in a ray of sunlight.” This is the famous “Pale Blue Dot” image immortalized by Carl Sagan.
“This was our willingness to see the Earth as a one-pixel object in a far greater cosmos,” Sagan’s widow, Ann Druyan said of the image. .“
A Bright Flashlight in a Dark Sea of Stars
Our Kepler mission captured Earth’s image as it slipped past at a distance of 94 million miles (151 million kilometers). The reflection was so extraordinarily bright that it created a saber-like saturation bleed across the instrument’s sensors, obscuring the neighboring Moon.
Hello and Goodbye
This beautiful shot of Earth as a dot beneath Saturn’s rings was taken in 2013 as thousands of humans on Earth waved at the exact moment the spacecraft pointed its cameras at our home world. Then, in 2017, Cassini caught this final view of Earth between Saturn’s rings as the spacecraft spiraled in for its Grand Finale at Saturn.
‘Simply Stunning’
”The image is simply stunning. The image of the Earth evokes the famous ‘Blue Marble’ image taken by astronaut Harrison Schmitt during Apollo 17…which also showed Africa prominently in the picture.“ -Noah Petro, Deputy Project Scientist for our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.
Goodbye—for now—at 19,000 mph
As part of an engineering test, our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of Earth and the Moon in January 2018 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million kilometers). When the camera acquired the image, the spacecraft was moving away from our home planet at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour (8.5 kilometers per second). Earth is the largest, brightest spot in the center of the image, with the smaller, dimmer Moon appearing to the right. Several constellations are also visible in the surrounding space.
The View from Mars
A human observer with normal vision, standing on Mars, could easily see Earth and the Moon as two distinct, bright "evening stars.” our Earth Science Division. kilometers).
A Slice of Life
Earth from about 393,000 miles (633,000 kilometers) away, as seen by the European Space Agency’s comet-bound Rosetta spacecraft during its third and final swingby of our home planet in 2009.
So Long Earth
The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of our home planet on Aug. 2, 2005.
Earth Science: Taking a Closer Look
Our home planet is a beautiful, dynamic place. Our view from Earth orbit sees a planet at change. Check out more images of our beautiful Earth here.
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NEW YORK - Top-rated American comedian, writer, producer, director, actor, media critic, Jon Stewart, has slammed America’s response to the mass shooting in an African-American South Carolina church, predicting that nothing would be done in the wake of a “terrorist attack” that left nine people dead.
In a sombre opening to his highly popular 'Daily Show', he promised it would contain no jokes, Stewart said some people were already working hard to discount the idea that racism was the motive behind the massacre.
Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, is currently in custody in Charleston, South Carolina.
"I have one job, and it's a pretty simple job. I come in in the morning, we look at the news, and I write jokes about it ... but I didn't do my job today," Stewart said.
Prior to introducing his guest – the Pakistani.
“Our guest tonight is an incredible person who suffered unspeakable violence by extremists and her perseverance and determination through that to continue on is an incredible inspiration,” Stewart said. “And to be quite honest with you, I don’t think there’s anyone else in the world that I would rather talk to tonight.”
Malala told Stewart it’s important for regular people to speak up about injustice.
“Sometimes we wait for others, and think that Martin Luther (King) should rise among us, and Nelson Mandela should rise among us and speak up for us,” she said. “But we never realize that there are normal humans like us, and if we step forward, we can also bring change just like them.”
Malala's life exemplifies that philosophy. She began to gain international attention in 2009, when she wrote a blog for the BBC about living under the influence of the Taliban. She subsequently became an international advocate for girls’ education.
The teen was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 while riding a bus home from school. A group of men boarded the bus, asked for Malala specifically and shot her in the head. After her recovery, she founded the Malala Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to helping girls worldwide attend school. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. | https://nation.com.pk/21-Jun-2015/malala-appears-in-us-daily-show-as-guest | 2018-10-15T16:58:06 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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DeMar DeRozan hasn’t hidden his disdain for Raptors president Masai Ujiri trading him.
How does Kyle Lowry, a close friend of DeRozan still left in Toronto, feel?
Lowry dodged DeRozan questions while at USA Basketball’s minicamp in July. At media day yesterday, Lowry repeatedly gave an iteration of the same answer about his relationship with the Raptors: He’s there to do his job and try to win, just as always.
per league sources, Lowry had also been dodging calls and texts from team officials, including president Masai Ujiri and new head coach Nick Nurse, who Lowry said he only spoke with briefly right after Nurse was promoted in June.
This obviously isn’t the healthiest arrangement. Teams function best with open communication.
But the team president and point guard needn’t talk regularly, especially now. Lowry is locked up for two more seasons. The status quo is fairly locked in for the season.
Lowry and Nurse not speaking would be a pressing issue, but training camp just opened. It’s too soon to assess how Lowry will respond to Nurse.
Ultimately, what Kawhi Leonard said about how the Raptors can appeal to him also applies to Lowry – win. If Toronto wins this season, Lowry will likely get over his issues with the DeRozan trade. | https://nba.nbcsports.com/2018/09/25/report-kyle-lowry-dodging-calls-texts-from-raptors-president-masai-ujiri-coach-nick-nurse/ | 2018-10-15T17:44:51 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
By Erica Pieschke SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – The Food Bank of Central New York provides healthy food options to those in need. Covering 11 counties in central and northern New York, the food bank distributes more than 1 million pounds of food monthly.
While non-perishable items are important to have, such as canned fruits and vegetables and rice, Lynn Hy, Chief Development Officer for Food Bank of Central New York, says that they are trying to focus more on receiving perishable items.
“They’re the types of foods that tend to be a little bit out of reach,” Hy said. “Because of their expense for families that are stretching their budget dollars, so your fresh produce, low-fat dairy items and lean meats and protein items.”
The food bank delivers these products to food pantries within each county. Each food pantry can go online to see what is available in the food bank at the moment and compare it to their needs, then order what is necessary to fill their shelves.
“People don’t have to leave the community that they’re in to access that healthy nutritious food that they need,” Hy said.
One in eight people in the central and northern New York area don’t have access to nutritious food year-round, but as the holidays approach more community members are looking to help and make their own contribution. Food drives are held across the country during this time of year to help others enjoy a festive meal.
However, Hy says most people don’t realize that the summer months is where the demand is. This is when kids are out of school and they no longer receive the free or low-cost meals that they get during the school year.
Hy feels it is important to come together as a community to help those in need. After working with the organization for seven years, she loves the sense of satisfaction.
“It’s great to know that every single day, that what I did in my efforts,” Hy said. “I helped feed hungry people.” | https://nccnews.expressions.syr.edu/2017/10/22/food-banks-provide-nutritious-food-year-round/ | 2018-10-15T16:39:40 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Yesterday was the grand opening of the most awaited event of all discerning moviegoers – the festival “New British Cinema”, whose partners are the Company LLC“ROYAL HOUSE” with residential complex “New England.
Honorary guests of the event were British Ambassador Judith Gough and the head of the British Council in Ukraine Simon Williams. From the lips of such respected figures it was particularly pleased to hear words of gratitude for the support and promotion of the Festival of British culture in Ukraine. | https://new-england.com.ua/en/torzhestvennoe-otkrytie-festivalya-n/ | 2018-10-15T16:43:04 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
The Red Devils boss has already identified the areas of his squad that he intends to strengthen, but has suggested there will be no elaborate rebuild
Jose Mourinho has lifted the lid on Manchester United’s summer transfer plans, while warning that there will only be “basic” investment.
The Red Devils have spent big in recent windows, splashing out a club record £89 million on Paul Pogba and £75m on Romelu Lukaku.
Sizeable fees have also been required to land the likes of Eric Bailly, Nemanja Matic and Victor Lindelof. | https://newsdesk.ng/mourinho-reveals-man-utd-summer-transfer-plans-but-warns-of-basic-spending/ | 2018-10-15T17:10:43 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY
WITH BILL NYE, QUESTLOVE AND U.S. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, SALLY JEWELL
ON MONDAY, AUGUST 22ND
AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK
For the First Time Ever, New Yorkers Work Together to Control the Lights of One World Trade Center’s Spire in Celebration of Centennial Anniversary
WHAT: The National Park Foundation and National Park Service, Bill Nye and Questlove celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Park Service on Monday, August 22nd. In partnership with Brooklyn Bridge Park and One World Trade Center for the celebration, for the first time ever, New Yorkers will work together on a giant digital circuit board to control the color of the lights of One World Trade Center’s spire. The celebration will feature music by Ramblin’ Dan, Questlove and Atlas Genius.
Family-friendly activities during the day include free ice cream from Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory with national park-themed flavors.
The free and public event is part of the #FindYourPark/#EncuentraTuParque movement, which invites people from all backgrounds to discover and share their own unique connections to our nation’s natural landscapes, vibrant culture, and rich history.
Our National Park Foundation and Find Your Park partners will also be hostingawho.
WHO: Bill Nye (The Science Guy and Centennial Ambassador for the Find Your Park/Encuentra Tu Parque movement), DJ Questlove (Grammy winning artist of The Roots, in-house band for Jimmy Fallon), Atlas Genius (alternative rock band) Will Shafroth (President of the National Park Foundation), National Park Service Rangers, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, Ramblin’ Dan & the Freewheelin’ Band, Andia Wilson (NYC trainer and professional athlete), National Park Foundation Find Your Park partners American Express, Subaru of America, andThe Coca-Cola Company as well as New York Park Exchange Partners – One World Trade Center and Brooklyn Bridge Park and Atlas Genius.
WHEN: Monday, August 22, 2016 from 1:00pm—10:00pm
- 1:30 – 3:30 PM– Ice cream social with Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
- Includes family-friendly activities like sand-art, corn hole, temporary tattoos, games, prizes and learning and interactive stations
- 2:00 – 4:00 PM– Musical performance by kid-friendly band, Ramblin’ Dan
- 4:00 – 5:00 PM – #ParkRx: Prescription to Move! fitness class with NYC trainer and professional athlete, Andia Winslow ?at Brooklyn Bridge Harbor View Lawn **no equipment required and all levels are welcome**
- 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM– Musical performance by Atlas Genius (alternative rock band with new album Inanimate Objects)
- 6:45 PM– Red Carpet with Bill Nye, Questlove, Secretary Jewell, National Park Foundation President, National Park Service representatives and rangers
-) **there will be risers for photo capture**
- 8:00 – 10:00 PM– Bill Nye, the Science Guy, hosts interactive experience where participants work together to control the color of the One World Trade Center spire and celebrity DJ set by Questlove
WHERE: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 1
Entrance on corner of Old Fulton and Furman Streets
Brooklyn, NY 11201 | https://newyorkrag.com/2016/08/22/national-parks-celebrates-100th-birthday-with-bill-nye-the-science-guy-questlove/ | 2018-10-15T17:44:22 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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The great movie (and more) website Wonders in the Dark is currently running the second (and, according to plan, final) “TV Countdown,” in which a diversity of writers are penning essays about their favorite series and other TV items. I know very little about TV, so didn’t participate in the earlier countdown. However, WitD’s Sam Juliano, knowing me better than I know myself, told me that this time around I was going to be the one to tackle Kolchak: The Night Stalker—the series is, after all, in its way noirish.
Me being me, I went a bit overboard on the enterprise. So, while my piece on the series will be appearing in a few days’ time on WitD (and I’ll try to remember to put a link here when that happens), I’ve split off the individual entries on the two Kolchak movies—already posted on Noirish HERE and HERE—and will over the next few days be posting to this site my illustrated notes about the twenty episodes.
Episode 1: The Ripper
Aired September 13 1974
US / 52 minutes / color / Francy, Universal, ABC Dir: Allen Baron Pr: Paul Playdon Scr: Rudolph Borchert Cine: Donald Peterman Cast: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Beatrice Colen, Ruth McDevitt, Jack Grinnage, Ken Lynch, Marya Small, Robert Bryan Berger, Roberta Collins, Mickey Gilbert.
A reworking of elements of the two Kolchak movies (both already covered on this site). The mashup is done, it has to be said, with no great intelligence or inventiveness.
Beatrice Colen as Journalist Jane Plumm.
Someone is killing masseuses (clearly regarded as little more than hookers) in Milwaukee and making off with their kidneys. Kolchak (McGavin) wants to investigate, but he has sufficiently antagonized Capt. R.M. Warren (Lynch) of the local PD that Vincenzo (Oakland) takes him off the story, assigning it instead to Kolchak’s colleague Ron “Uptight” Updyke (Grinnage), even though the latter goes all queasy at the very thought of murder.
Roberta Collins as undercover cop Susan Cortazzo.
Even though reassigned to manage INS’s “Miss Emily” agony-aunt column, Kolchak partners with supposedly rival journo Jane Plumm (Colen). She thinks the killer suffers from a “Ripper syndrome”; Kolchak, who is of course right, thinks it’s the original Jack the Ripper (Gilbert), who must periodically murder and mutilate five women. (Why? We’re never told.) In fact, the Ripper portrayed here bears more resemblance to the Victorian-era urban-legendary character Spring-heeled Jack, who terrorized London and surrounds and could jump on and off high buildings without suffering harm.
Ken Lynch as Captain Warren.
McDevitt, who plays an elderly witness in this episode, would return as regular character Edith Cowles (sometimes billed as Emily Cowles), responsible for the INS’s puzzle and “Miss Emily” columns.
Episode 2: The Zombie
Aired September 20 1974
US / 52 minutes / color / Francy, Universal, ABC Dir: Alex Grasshoff Pr: Paul Playdon Scr: Zekial Marko, David Chase Story: Zekial Marko Cine: Alric Edens Cast: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Charles Aidman, Joseph Sirola, Val Bisoglio, J. Pat O’Malley, John Fiedler, Antonio Fargas, Scatman Crothers, Paulene Myers, Earl Faison, Carol Ann Susi, Ben Frommer, Roland Bob Harris.
Usually or unusually, an episode 2 of a TV drama series that’s more interesting than its episode 1. Someone is ruthlessly knocking off the personnel of Chicago’s white numbers rackets, led by Benjamin Sposato (Sirola) and his sidekick Victor Friese (Bisoglio). The obvious assumption is that the campaign must have been organized by the black numbers racketeers, led by Bernard Sweetstick Weldon (Fargas). But Carl Kolchak knows better!
Antonio Fargas as Bernard Sweetstick Weldon.
The truth is, of course, that an old voodoo mamalois, Marie Gillette Edmonds (Myers), whose grandson François (Faison) was murdered by the white gangsters, has resurrected him from the dead as a zombie with instructions to slay his killers. But why is the Chicago PD’s Captain Leo Winwood (Aidman) on the list?
Paulene Myers as Mamalois Edmonds.
This episode saw the introduction of intern Monique Marmelstein (Susi) and informant/morgue attendant Gordon “Gordy” Spangler (Fiedler) to the series; neither would last long, although Gordy would have a swansong in episode 19. There are bit parts for Scatman Crothers (billed as Scat Man Crothers) as the owner of a voodoo store and J. Pat O’Malley as a cemetery caretaker.
Charles Aidman as Captain Leo Winwood.
Episode 3: They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be . . .
Aired September 27 1974
US / 52 minutes / color / Francy, Universal, ABC Dir: Allen Baron Pr: Cy Chermak Scr: Rudolph Borchert Story: Dennis Clark Cine: Eduardo Ricci Cast: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, James Gregory, Mary Wickes, Maureen Arthur, Dick Van Patten, Jack Grinnage, Carol Ann Susi, John Fiedler, Rudy Challenger, Fritz Feld.
Something’s killing animals at the zoo and sucking the marrow from their bones. Something’s leaving a strange, malodorous substance lying around that appears to be halfway between asphalt and vomit. Something’s stealing electronic components from all over the city with no rhyme or reason. Radio reception’s atrocious. Watches are stopping. A two-ton stack of lead ingots just disappears into thin air in front of witnesses . . .
Mary Wickes as Dr. Bess Winestock.
It can all add up to only one thing, at least according to Carl Kolchak (McGavin): an alien invasion.
Rudy Challenger as Dr. Stanley Wedemyer.
The requisite frothing police chief dead set on suppressing the story and, for preference, jailing Carl Kolchak is Captain Quill (Gregory). Pathologist Stanley Wedemyer (Challenger) is eager to help pull the wool over Kolchak’s eyes. Biochemist Dr. Bess Winestock (Wickes) helps Kolchak by analyzing the xenopuke. Maureen Arthur has a charmingly sexy bit part as a ditzy UFO contactee.
James Gregory as Captain Quill.
Episode 4: The Vampire
Aired October 4 1974
US / 52 minutes / color / Francy, Universal, ABC Dir: Don Weis Pr: Cy Chermak Scr: David Chase Story: Bill Stratton Cine: Ronald W. Browne Cast: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, William Daniels, Suzanne Charny, John Doucette, Jan Murray, Larry Storch, Kathleen Nolan, Milt Kamen, Jack Grinnage, Anne Whitfield, Noel de Souza, Bill Baldwin, Alyscia Maxwell.
Kathleen Nolan as Faye Kruger.
Carl Kolchak is sent to Los Angeles to interview a fashionable guru but instead chases down a vampire—Catherine Rawlins (Charny), onetime Las Vegas hooker, now using her profession as a way of meeting supper. He ropes in Faye Kruger (Nolan), erstwhile reporter and now a realtor, to fake his interview feature for him . . . with unfortunate results. This time the apoplectic cop is Lieutenant Jack Matteo (Daniels) of the LAPD. There are cameos from Anne Whitfield as an implausibly sweet callgirl and Milt Kamen as gullible building supervisor Gingrich.
William Daniels as Lt Jack Matteo of the LAPD.
Where in earlier episodes the comedy was subservient to the drama, here it feels as if the balance has been shifted the other way—and not to the episode’s benefit. Add in that the dark-fantastical elements are numbingly unimaginative—the vampire, hissing and spitting, is a dreary caricature, as if no one involved could really be bothered to try for something more interesting—and there’s the sense that, for this series, the end has already begun.
Milt Kamen as Gingrich.
At one point Kolchak compares the vampire to Veronica Lake.
Yeah. Right.
As if I’d willingly surrender my immortal soul to Catherine Rawlins.
Suzanne Charny as the vampire Catherine Rawlins.
4 thoughts on “Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-5), episodes #1-#4”
The TV series might be a leap too far for me, I’ll just keep an eye out for the films I think.
It turns up every now and then. The SyFy Channel reruns have the episodes each cut by several minutes, though, so try to catch it elsewhere.
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Michelle bundled herself up for her treatments, the hood of her robe covering her head, tights beneath it, and slippers over those. With her hands withdrawn into ample sleeves, virtually none of her skin was showing. If not for the rising and falling of her chest, Dennis would have thought her dead, or a mannikin.
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Michelle crouched down over her husband’s body. Paying no heed to the racket he was raising, she obeyed his earlier missive and removed the mask. His cries reached a feverish peak as he saw what lay beneath…and saw it occluded by the mask slipping over his own features.
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By Surma
They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire (Superpower), and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace – Tacitus (56 – 117 AD)
Have you heard the one about the Bangladeshi farmer and the Indian Border Guard?
Picture of 15 year old Felani killed by Indian Border Guards (BSF) on the 7 January 2011
There was once a Bangladeshi farmer who was ploughing his fields with his cattle near the Indian Border. The Indian border guards (BSF) as part of their live exercises, for the sake of target practice, crossed the border shot the farmer and took his cattle. The BSF re-brand the cattle as Indian cattle and then sell it to an Indian cattle smuggler, who in turn smuggles the cattle into Bangladesh, with the help of the BSF, and sells at a premium. All this time our helpless Bangladeshi farmer is lying in his field bleeding to death.
First the the local Awami League Chairman comes along, see’s the farmer walks over the farmer, crosses the border and has tea with the BSF guards at their station.
Second, a civil society, Sushil type, Nirmul Committee member comes along, see’s the farmer, takes pictures and then crosses the border and writes a report with the BSF guards. In the report the farmer was part of international Islamist terror network, and his cattles were being used to fund that terror network, thus both the farmer and his cattle created an existential threat to the Bangladeshi state and needed to be neutralised.
Third, a correspondent from the Dhaka Tribune arrives and takes an interview of the farmer, noting down all the facts, then writes a sympathetic piece in the paper about the problems faced of being an Indian Border Guard.
The above comical anecdote sadly reflects the state of affairs that is amongst the ruling clique, political and civil in Bangladesh. A culture of submission to an aggressive foreign power, which regularly kills citizens of the country, interferes in domestic politics and is economically exploiting the country’s resources. It is a culture of subservience which permeates the ruling Awami League, to a myopic civil society members, whose indignity is masked by spineless corporate media. This pro india bias was recently highlighted by former ambassador Sirajul Islam, in the Weekly Holiday. The Dhaka Tribunes role of propaganda as an extension of the state was confirmed when it and its editor Zafar Sobhan received an award by the Better Bangladesh Bangladesh Foundation (BBF) for creating a better image for the country. The other awardees are (post Rana Plaza) Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association for its contribution in the garment sector, the (post internationally criticised elections) Ministry of Foreign Affairs for contribution in the field of international relations, Bangladesh Armed Forces for serving in the United Nations Peace Support Operations and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for its role during the Liberation War and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.
Policy of Appeasement – ‘Please Sir, can I have some more!’
(l) Neville Chamberlain proclaiming foolishly ‘peace in our times’, after rewarding Nazi aggression at Munich 1938. ( r) Famous scene from Oliver Twist 1968, ‘Please sir can i have some more!’
This culture of subservience reached new heights, with the recent editorial by the Dhaka Tribune by its editor Zafar Sobhan, where he beseeches the Indians to extend the cricketing Indian Premier League into Bangladesh:
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The article and its timing displayed new a new marker for the paper, in its ‘Walter Mitty’, type editorial policy, a new level of a comic detachment from the reality faced by ordinary Bangladeshis. Instead of confronting criticism of the papers Islamophobic and pro India bias, the article just confirmed those accusations and further silenced an ever decreasing number of sympathisers, The reality on the ground, which the paper ignores and is insensitive to, is that one sided elections were held with the open support of the Indian government, with a brutal security crackdown with an alleged assist from the Indian army, all held against the backdrop of an increasing number of Bangladeshi citizens being killed by the Indian security forces at the border.
The content and timing of the piece could be interpreted as a rerun of Munich 1938, where instead of aggression against the sovereignty of a neighbouring country being opposed and resisted, we have a cringe worthy acceptance of the aggression by masking it up and seeking to reward such aggression, in this case unilaterally seeking an IPL franchise.
The ignorance multiplier effect – one import size fits all
The proposal shows an incredible disregard for developing Bangladeshi cricket, which can be throttled by importation of franchise and precious resources being diverted to it. Instead of advocating investment and development of local clubs, the newspaper’s solution, like so many other solutions adopted in current Bangladesh, is to import a ready made manufactured Indian solution. This is in the foolish belief that such a solution, of a single franchise, is for the benefit of development of the game in a country of over 150 million.
A similar dynamic, rather stagmatic, can be observed in every domain of indigenous social-technological development, from water resources engineering, to urban planning and education. The systematic undernourishment of our own talents is no basis for a state with pretensions of autonomy. Realise this, even (y)our foreign development partners are laughing all the way to the bank and up their career ladders
The attitude in the paper seems to be hangover of the Mujib-era one party state of the early 70s, where dogma superseded practical technicalities. Then it was the import of ill fitting Soviet blueprints, now we have the advocacy of ill fitting, counter productive Indian ones, for our politics, culture, economics and now cricket. For too long, the Dhaka Tribune and its ilk, has gotten away with weaving a fairytale of Bangladesh. Until people start complaining – and loudly too – the corporate media agenda will be shaped by supporters of government, pro AL big business and Indian foreign policy. That does not just subvert honest journalism: it undermines our democracy.
(l) Scene from the famine of 1974, mainly caused by the political and economic ineptitude of the government of the day. ( r) Memo to the Dhaka Tribune and the corporate media of Bangladesh, from a real journalist, George Orwell. | https://nuraldeen.com/2014/03/25/accommodating-the-new-imperial-order-the-dhaka-tribune-and-the-ruling-culture-of-subservience/ | 2018-10-15T18:07:04 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
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Information Liberation reports: Here’s the full clip. I’ll warn you in advance: it’s literally the most cringeworthy television I’ve ever watched (the russkie conspiracy theories are at the end).
She treats her viewers like they’re literally retarded — which I guess isn’t that unreasonable — but still, you’d think she wouldn’t want to limit her reach. She pauses after every point she makes and bugs her eyes out for dramatic effect as though she’s talking to a disabled child. It’s extremely off-putting, at least speaking as someone without any developmental disabilities.
To answer her idiotic conspiracy theory: the reason Trump ended war games is as a show of goodwill to try and make a deal in the interests of America and the people of South Korea who desperately want peace and an end to military tensions.
Shocking as this may seem, South Koreans do not want a nuclear bomb to be dropped on Seoul, which has a population of some 26,000,000.
I realize the war machine’s special interests come first for Rachel Maddow and her corporate masters, but Trump was elected without kowtowing to our ruling elites and ran on a platform of peace with Russia and ending stupid neocon/neolib wars, which is exactly what he’s doing now by working towards peace with North Korea. | https://nworeport.me/2018/06/16/rachel-maddow-blasts-trumps-nk-peace-talks-its-a-russian-conspiracy/ | 2018-10-15T18:16:10 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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New York residents paid $5,058 to attend the two-year public institution this year $198 more than the $4,860 charged for 2016-17.
Non-residents paid 84 percent more than residents this year, or $9,308. Their price tag grew 4.1 percent from $8,944 in 2016-17.
About 98 percent of the school's undergraduate population are New York residents. About 1 percent are residents of other states and 2 percent are citizens of other countries.
Data shows 95 percent of full-time undergraduates who started school in 2015-16 received student financial aid in some form. In all, 991 students received grants or scholarships totaling $6.08 million and 450 students took out student loans totaling more than $2.23 million.
Including all undergraduates, 3,605 students used grants or scholarships totaling $22.5 million. Another 1,896 took out $9.65 million in federal student loans. | https://nybusinessdaily.com/stories/511443841-cost-of-college-went-up-for-all-students-at-mohawk-valley-community-college | 2018-10-15T17:26:42 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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With David Wright and Ike Davis on the disabled list, the Mets’ lineup has taken on the appearance of a split-squad game. But one silver lining in the every-present injury clouds has been Justin Turner, and the 26-year-old rookie was impressive yet again in last night’s 3-0 waterlogged win over Washington.
Turner was 2-of-4 with a walk and two RBIs in front of a rain-soaked crowd of 24,527 at soggy Citi Field. He has been red-hot since May 7, hot enough that it at least raises the question of what the Amazin’s plan to do with him once Davis and Wright return, and whether Turner carving out a platoon role, or even better.
With Wright going on the DL yesterday, Turner got the start at third base and hit second in the lineup. He doubled in the second inning, walked and got stranded at third on Ronny Paulino’s strikeout to end the fifth, and crushed a double over the head of center fielder Roger Bernadina to plate Scott Hairston and Jose Reyes in the seventh. A nice play to rob Danny Espinoza in the second was icing.
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Turner has reached base safely in his last nine straight games, hitting .387 with eight runs scored and nine RBIs in that span. It was even more impressive considering, though he has strafed righties this year, he has struggled to hit .222 against lefties so far, and Washington started left-hander Tom Gorzelanny.
Since coming on for the injured Davis out in Colorado, Turner has been one of the few Mets to show a penchant for hitting with men in scoring position. It seems Turner will get extended playing time while Wright and Davis are out. Davis isn’t eligible to return for another week.
But even when both sluggers come back, if Turner shows the ability to hit left-handers, could he be an option at second base? Daniel Murphy, who started for Davis at first base, is hitting just .239 after an 0-for-4 night, and young Ruben Tejada just got called up.
Turner never got his expected call-up last September, despite a solid Triple-A stint that including an impressive 6-for-6 game when he hit for the cycle. But Mets manager Terry Collins praised him in spring training as having a “very, very good winter,” and perhaps his chance is coming, half-a-year delayed. | https://nypost.com/2011/05/19/turner-taking-advantage-of-chance-with-mets/ | 2018-10-15T18:25:29 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Allan’s Base Camp
Address: Mill Creek Lodge, Main Road, Stewart Island, Southland, South Island
Description:
Accommodation
Cabins $35 per night
- Communal kitchen
- Pizza oven
Family crib $120 per night
- Sleeps up to 6
- Minimum 2 nights
Located at the Gateway to Rakiura National Park,NZ`s most Southern Private Bush and Wildlife Reserve on Stewart Island.
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Phone: 027 5522113
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Maoists unleash terror again, shoot villager to death
Malkangiri: In yet another incident of mindless violence, a villager was allegedly shot dead by red rebels at Sudhakonda village under Kalimela police limits in Malkangiri district late last night.
As per sources, more than 20 armed red rebels called the deceased, identified as Ganga Madakami of Sudhakonda village from his house, tied up his hands and feet and took him away
Family members of Ganga later discovered his body from the outskirts of the village this morning. The body bore bullet injuries on head and hand.
Red rebels killed Ganga suspecting him to be a police informer, alleged the family members.
The red rebels are trying to scare people and make their presence felt in the area by unleashing terror, said sources. Following the killing, security personnel have intensified combing operation in the area.
Earlier, the red rebels had murdered a village head at Silakota in the locality. | https://odishatv.in/odisha/maoists-unleash-terror-again-shoot-villager-to-death-303813 | 2018-10-15T17:18:40 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Road communication affected as water flows over bridges in Malkangiri
Malkangiri: Road communication between Malkangiri and Balimela was disrupted after water flowed over the bridges at Korakonda and MV-37 in the district today.
Incessant rain in the district for the past few weeks has caused swelling of the water bodies at many places in the district leading to the situation.
Meanwhile, hundreds of vehicles were seen stranded on both sides of the bridges at Korakonda and MV-37. “Water is flowing five feet over the bridge making it impossible to cross the structure and thereby affecting the road communication. If the rain continues, many areas will be marooned,” said a local.
Moreover, a diversion road was washed away by the flood water near Govindpali affecting communication between Jeypore and Malkangiri.
Sources said the Malkangiri district administration is yet to reach out to those who are stranded. On the other hand, the Regional Meteorological Department has predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall today in coastal and interior parts of the State.
While the low pressure formed over north western Bay of Bengal has intensified, the axis of monsoon trough is also active, the met department added. | https://odishatv.in/odisha/road-communication-affected-as-water-flows-over-bridges-in-malkangiri-309341 | 2018-10-15T17:03:21 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Bucharest,Romania
Published by Nicola Mustone
I’m a 20-something years old developer based in Bucharest. I proudly help people all around the world with WooCommerce at Automattic. I started working for Automattic on July 2015 as WooCommerce Support Ninja in the Enterprise team and I immediately felt in love with the company and everything which is A8C. I joined Automattic after they acquired WooThemes. View all posts by Nicola Mustone | https://officetoday.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/bucharestromania/ | 2018-10-15T18:00:44 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [
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Because of relationships both here and back “home” we decided to have two parties; a simple sleepover here with three of her closest girlfriends and then an old-fashioned BBQ with her friends and family at my parents house in Tennessee.It was a lot of work, but a whole lot of fun and everything turned out perfectly for this milestone event.
To help keep things simple and stay within our budget I planned both parties to have the same color scheme (pink & green), which saved a lot on decorations. We also utilized much of what we already had including serving pieces, tea-light candles, diamonds, christmas lights and scrap lumber from my parents little farmette.
Here is just a little peek at how it came together and all turned out.
First up was a sleepover on MacKenzie Grace’s actual birthday. Simple and girly all was fitting perfectly for her.
MacKenzie Grace is crazy about anything that sparkles & shines or dangles, so we incorporated a lot of that into her sleepover decor.
Working against the horrible South Carolina humidity, I managed to make her cake fairly close to what she wanted. My icing did not want to set up at all!
Dinner was was simple sliders with traditional burger toppings, baked beans, chips & salsa.
Easy, peasy.
That’s the name of the game!
And after an entertaining game of truth or dare, karaoke along with manis & pedis, these girls settled in for a night of movies and laughter.
It was good, clean fun that you really can’t beat!
Party number two was a BBQ in Tennessee. While we have lived all over the southeast, our roots belong in Tennessee & Alabama. That is home as my children have spent most of their lives there. “Home” means so much to them as they have lifelong friends who have always been special to them and remained true no matter where we have lived. It is also where most of our family resides which makes visiting very special indeed.
Planning things from a distance can be a challenge, but my Momma was an awesome partner. My father’s birthday was also to be celebrated at this second party so it was going to be big!
We had over fifty RSVP!
Once again I kept the menu simple, ordering BBQ from one of our favorite places in Alabama (Mud Creek BBQ).
Seriously, Southern Living needs to feature these guys. They are a Tennessee Valley legend.
{They have good fried catfish, too.}
Momma made baked beans and I made homemade guacamole, peach salsa and tomato salsa.
We also ordered mustard slaw from Mud Creek.
{No BBQ sandwich is complete without it.}
Drinks were also kept simple and consisted of tea, lemonade and water.
I have learned over the years that a good party is not necessarily the quantity of the food, but most definitely the quality that will leave people talking.
Daddy & Audley “built” our little party space which was decorated with twinkle lights and Chinese lanterns.
Colored tablecloths and simple centerpieces of floating candles & lime slices in Mason jars completed the space.
We kept the cakes simple as well …. nothing is refreshing as a Dairy Queen ice cream cake on a humid, Southern summer night!
MacKenzie Grace truly loved sharing her party with her Pop!
From start to finish, It was a perfect night!
I mentioned earlier MacKenzie Grace & her bond with lifelong friends.
It’s a bond that goes way back!
I’m linking up with Foodie Friday this week. Stop on over and see what everyone else is serving up!
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Ohhhh…now that makes perfect sense…the utensils at the end! I hope that I can remember this. Your parents are about my age…a little older than I am and a little younger than John is. Ackkkk…that's the joy of Blogdom, you meet people for their spirits and not their age.
Love how you honored this birthday for Mackenzie (who is one adorable 16-year-old) and your dad who is making 63 look pretty darned good. Happy Birthday to them both. | https://ohfiddledeedee.com/2013/06/28/simple-sweet-sixteen-soiree/ | 2018-10-15T16:55:54 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Be Nourished
John 6: 1-15
Ephesians 3:14-21
Alice Fleming Townley
July 29, 2018
And a large crowd followed Jesus. Who were they? Jesus had gone to the ‘other side’ of the Sea of Galilee, from the Jewish side to the Gentile side. This was a crowd of those ‘other people.’ And they followed him because of what he was doing for the sick. This was a crowd that was curious, wondering, and hoping. And this was a crowd made up of many, each with stories, and heartache, and needs. They weren’t in the temple, or in the city, or at anyone’s home—they had come to the edge.
Jesus came as companion of people pushed to the edge. Jesus reached out his hands and welcomed the least and the lost. Jesus became vulnerably close to their distress. Jesus entered their loneliness and desolation with compassionate presence. Jesus sought out those easily forgotten, those rejected, dismissed and violated, and his heart ached with how they were treated. Jesus’ love knew no boundaries, and so he traveled to those on the far borders. Jesus love reached and embraced and yearned to feed.[i]
Jesus asked Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people?” Philip said, “We don’t have enough money and wouldn’t even if we all worked for months.” And then Andrew said,
“There is a small boy in this large crowd . . . with barley loaves.”
Barley was understood to be for animals. Only the very poor ate animal food. And the boy had two fish. Fish caught in the Sea of Galilee were no bigger than sardines.
John wrote in his gospel, there was a great deal of ‘grass.’ Jesus invited them to sit in the green pasture, there beside the still water. Jesus took —the 5 barley loaves and the two fish. He valued them, blessed them, and gave thanks to God for them. And there in the shadow of Passover, Jesus fed them. There was enough food for all, in fact there was more than enough, 12 baskets of leftovers. The crowd was fed, young and old, poor and rich, men and women, Jew and Gentile. That place of scarcity became the place of abundance. The Shepherd fed the sheep.
We don’t know ‘how,’ but we do know ‘who.’
In the Sacred Text, God is the one who feeds, and who is known in the breaking and the sharing of bread. When manna came in the wilderness, when Abraham and Sarah fed the three strangers, when the widow fed Elijah, when the disciples ate with the stranger on the road to Emmaus—God’s living presence was made known to those struggling on the edge of life. They were nourished in body, mind and spirit.
When the people saw this, they prepared to take Jesus by force to make him king. Then Jesus withdrew, and went away to the mountain by himself. Being king in the way they wanted was not his calling. Perhaps it was tempting to please them and be given such power. But instead Jesus slipped away– from the crowds to solitude, from the busy-ness to stillness. Even the disciples went elsewhere. Jesus had just poured so much of himself out in the feeding. In the stillness, Jesus could sense hunger and exhaustion, just like all the others pushed to the Edge. Jesus went away—to rest and to pray. Jesus abided in his Father’s love, as the Father’s love abided in him. [ii]
Richard Rohr wrote, “For Jesus, prayer seems to be a matter of waiting in love, returning to love, trusting that love is the unceasing stream of reality. Prayer isn’t primarily words; it’s an attitude, a stance . . .” [iii] Prayer is the flow of loving union with the Divine.
The writer to the Gentiles in Ephesians wrote from jail, from his place on the edge to theirs. “I pray you may you be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit. . . May you be rooted and grounded in love. . . and have the power to comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”[iv]
And so just as we are called to go and serve with Jesus. So also, we are also called to withdraw and be filled with Jesus. John Wesley believed that God’s grace was known both through works of mercy and works of piety. He understood works of mercy, to include activities like feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger, and visiting the sick. Works of piety included prayer, worship, studying scripture, and of course, singing hymns.
Perhaps going deeper in one, strengthens us to go further in the other. The more we pray, the more we can serve. The more we serve others, the more we come to know needs to pray. We listen to our neighbors on the sidewalk, we care for growing children and aging parents, we go to work and wonder how to make things better, we listen to the news and wonder what we can do about it. We realize we have at least some barley, and a few small fish to share. And we give them to God, and mysteriously they get multiplied. Small boys and even Jesus get hungry. So do we. We get depleted and exhausted. We find ourselves as those ‘other people’ in the crowd. And during nights such as these with so many needs in our homes and church, nation and world . . .many of us find ourselves wondering how we will feed all these people. What is our calling? From whence cometh our strength? And we hear Jesus, the companion of those pushed to the edge say to us, “Come to the green pastures and the still waters.”
The deeper our roots draw from the soil of God’s love–the more fullness we have to be present. The more our inner being is renewed, the more courage we have to take risks and reach farther. When we only receive, we get full and stagnant. When we only give, we get so depleted we can hardly function.
“I have so much to do, I must pray.”
He would begin each day with 2-3 hours of prayer. Richard Rohr and his staff pause for 20 minutes of silent meditation together each afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Imagine that.
I like to pause in the morning, after my husband has quietly slipped off to work, and the kids have been fed, lunches packed, and hopefully everyone and everything driven to school, and some dishes and laundry moved around— but before I leave for work. I sit for a moment. In the winter I light the fire, and in the summer, sometimes a candle. I play the instrumental music that my sister also meditates to in the morning, hundreds of miles away. And I take some deep breaths. So many tasks and needs whirl in my head. I try to return to my breath, and consciously breathe in Union with Divine Love. Rest in love. Trust in Love. Sometimes I have time for three breaths, sometimes I take 30 minutes. Always I am too busy for this, and too busy not to breathe. And then throughout the day, I try to continue in that breath prayer. And when inadequacies come, I intentionally return. When I don’t know what to say, or do—or even if . . . I can breathe.
When it’s time for me to write a sermon—then that same music I play, candle I light, and deep breathes I take. I gather the notes of my readings and ideas. I spread an empty sheet of newsprint across my dining room table and get out the colors–and I a pause between fear and trust–praying that God again would feed, and I might have a morsel to share with you. I start in the center of what I have most received in the text and what I most want to share with you, and then I radiate from that center first drawing and then typing.
Last fall Jim and Jean Kocher approached me in the sanctuary. Jim asked me what I was going to preach on next, and I started talking but soon stammered and rambled. Jean listened and then leaned in to me. Unspoken, but known to all three of us was that it was Thursday night and I was overwhelmed. “Alice, go home to your table and get out the colors, and it will come.” She was telling me to go back to my prayerful place and to trust. Her words comforted me. I would be fed, so that I could feed again.
It is as important for us to hear that Jesus fed the 5,000, as it is to hear he withdrew to a quiet place. It is as important that we come to know ourselves as both people who have something to give, and people who hunger in need. We have too much going on not to eat, not to breathe. May we open to the flow of Divine Love nourishing us deeply. . . and flowing through us fully. May we find our true selves in the giving and receiving of Healing Love. May our breathing and our praying and our living be as one. Amen.
[i] “People Pushed to the Edge,” Joyce Rupp, Prayers of Boundless Compassion.
[iii] Richard Rohr, “Radical Politics,” Thursday, July 12, 2018,
[v] Richard Foster, Celebration of Disciplines. | https://okemospres.org/be-nourished/ | 2018-10-15T17:06:06 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
dancing like nobody is watching because … they aren’t. And more tears, I’m not sure how many a human contains but I feel like I’m discovering the answer. There is something about music that transports your heart back in time.
As you can see – the music can be cranked, there is nobody to bother – except maybe Betsy the cow though she doesn’t seem to mind. This is my little cottage, taken from Betsy’s place, down by the river among the Poplars. | https://onethousandwordsorless.com/uncategorized/350/ | 2018-10-15T18:18:37 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
Medical Interpreting Workshop
DUE TO THE WEATHER
this event is rescheduled to April 21st and 28th.
Seats are still available, please email Piet Koene if you would like to attend.
Saturdays, April 21 and 28, 2018
8:45 am to 4:15 pm
Northwestern College Interpreting Lab, Van Peursem Hall lower level
$200 per person* | Two day introductory course | limited to 12 participants
*Organizations that send 3 or more attendees will receive a $50 discount for all registrations after the first two.
The Medical Interpreting Workshop is an introductory course that includes hands-on training and practice. The course is. | https://online.nwciowa.edu/medical-interpreting | 2018-10-15T17:58:42 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
It’s not so easy to create online store in India especially for the beginners. Any new small business owner is reluctant to open store because of multiple factors like complexity and pricing.
Though, different e-commerce SAAS platforms have made it easier for anyone even without any technical knowledge to open online store with ease, newbies have to struggle to customize it or to hire some expert.
But, now you can open stunningly beautiful and affordable online store in India using fully-hosted solutions — Wix and Ecwid, which is super easy to set up and is perfect for the beginners.
WIX is a popular cloud based free hosting and website builder where you can create a professional website without any coding skills using drag and drop editor. When you create store on WIX, all the technical stuff including security is taken care of by them. More than 100 million users in 18o countries have created websites on Wix.
You have two options to create online store in India using Wix:
1. Use ‘WIX store builder‘. The only problem Indian online sellers have with this option is that they can not use any payment gateway like CCAvenue or PayU. Wix doesn’t support Indian payment gateways at present. But, you can give choice to customers to pay offline or can give instructions to pay using UPI. Choose this option if you don’t want to use payment gateway service.
Price: Rs. 550 a month
2. Install Ecwid app in your wix store. Ecwid offers amazing features that merchants of any business size need to sell online. Ecwid also solves the problem of integrating Indian payment gateway as it allows you to use PayU, a popular payment gateway service in India.
Price:
Wix hosting: Rs. 247 a month
Ecwid: Free for 10 products and Rs. 560 a month (paid annually) for up to 100 products.
TOTAL COST
For selling 10 products: Rs. 250 a month
For selling upto 100 products: Rs. 250 (Wix)+ Rs. 560 (Ecwid)= Rs.810 a month
Compare with any e-commerce SAAS platform, this is the most affordable solution without compromising on quality and features.
Both WIX and Ecwid provide rock solid security which is an essential requirement for any e-commerce site. All sites on Wix are also enabled with HTTPS which is good for your customers and they feel confident to make transactions on your store.
Follow these steps to create online store in India using Wix and Ecwid:
STEP 1:
Open account on WIX. Create your free account here. All you need to enter is your email address and a password.
Choose a template of your choice. There are hundreds of templates to choose from.
STEP 3:
Choose a domain name for your store. If you don’t have one, you can get free domain with WIX premium plan option that starts at Rs.247 a month. Wix also offers domain privacy to help protect your confidential information. You will have to connect this domain to your site created on Wix.
STEP 4:
Now go to Ecwid and open an account there. You will get free starter site with an option to upload 10 products. To sell more products, you need to opt for the paid plan. You can configure your ecwid store on as many sites as you want using any platform like WordPress or Joomla and not only WIX. You can also sell on Facebook using Ecwid.
STEP 5:
In your WIX website, go to ‘App Market’ and add free “Online Store App by Ecwid”. An online store will automatically be created. Now you can easily manage your Ecwid store from there. Also, any changes you make on Ecwid will automatically reflect on your Wix store.
STEP 6:
As you can see in the image below, online store is added to your awesome site. Now replace the demo images with your own and do other settings in Ecwid to start selling. Double click on the blue button to setup your store.
You will see this popup. As you already created account on Ecwid (step 4), sign in and if you didn’t create earlier you can create now. Once this is done, you have a live store.
Go, create online store in India on WIX.
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Open Road Scotland day tours offer transport services and Scotland day tours tour options for the conference and convention market in Scotland. For conference delegates and corporate groups our Scotland day tours are ideal to allow clients to get the most out of their free time.
If you are organising a corporate event or conference in Glasgow or you are visiting on business then please contact us to discuss your transport and tour requirements. We have a wide range of Scotland day tours and transport options to fit your requirements.
One of our most popular tours this can also be offered as a half day option if time is limited. It covers some of the best know Glasgow landmarks and will give you an insight into the history of Glasgow as well as the people, places and culture of the city.
Highlights include:
Another one of our popular tours this will give you the opportunity to experience the beauty of Scotland’s most famous Loch and also to visit a wonderful malt whisky distillery.
Based within easy reach of Glasgow, Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park was established in 2002 to protect and enhance one of the most scenic natural areas of Scotland. Surrounded by mountains and teeming with wildlife it’s a highlight of Scotland’s natural outdoor heritage.
Glengoyne whisky distillery is a unique malt whisky distillery situated at the foot of the Campsie Fells range of hills. It’s a particularly picturesque whisky distillery and it produces a wonderful range of our national drink.
Highlights include: | https://openroadscotland.com/tours/corporate-tours-of-scotland/ | 2018-10-15T18:20:06 | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | 1539583509336.11 | [] |
OPJSAA was initiated in order to resume the contact between the School, its alumni and the students currently studying. The Association came into proper existence on May 23rd, 2010, when few people met and decided to hold the first ever Alumni Meet. This would help generate an industry interface and a community which would help each other in all matters. OPJSAA would like to act as a gateway to innovations, career prospects and a support as an Alumni body.
The association is recognised by the school.
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