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Julia Coronado is Chief Economist for Graham Capital Management where she develops market views based on the outlook for the global economy and monetary policy. She also serves as a member of the Investment and Risk Committees at Graham. Prior to joining Graham Julia was formerly Chief Economist for North America at BNP Paribas and Senior U.S. Economist at Barclays Capital in New York. After receiving a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas Julia worked as an Economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. for eight years. Julia has deep expertise in aging and pension issues; she was formerly a trustee of Barclays Capital’s pension fund and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School. Julia is a member of the Treasury Market Practices Group, a group of senior finance industry professionals sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that develops best practices guidelines for Treasury and mortgage markets. She is also a member of the Economic Advisory Panel at the New York Fed, the Economic Studies Council at the Brookings Institution and serves on the Board of the National Association of Business Economists.
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In early July, Burbank, CA-based entertainment company Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), settled charges which were brought against it by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for deceptive marketing practices. The FTC’s order affects Warner Bros.’ activities regarding influencer campaigns promoting products and services offered by the company.
Warner Bros. has been under fire from the FTC over its activities related to marketing one of its video games, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. This open world action-adventure game was released for video game consoles during the fall of 2014 and is set in a world designed to mimic the Lord of the Rings universe developed by fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien.
The FTC filed a complaint against Warner Bros. for violating provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act by making payments to prominent members of YouTube for positive reviews of its video game without publicly disclosing those payments. The FTC focused on the activities of an advertising agency known as Plaid Social Labs which was contracted by Warner Bros. in 2014 to coordinate a YouTube influencer campaign which marketed Shadow of Mordor.
The FTC complaint listed two counts against Warner Bros., specifically one count for false claims of independent reviews and another count for deceptive failure to disclose material connection between endorsers and sellers. Technically, the YouTube video content did contain disclosures of material connection to Warner Bros., but those disclosures were made in the description box published below the video. Viewers would only see the disclosure if they clicked “Show More” link in that description box, effectively hiding the information from most casual users.
Individuals identified as YouTube influencers were offered advance copies of the game as well as cash payments ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars to create video content on YouTube. To earn this compensation, Plaid Social required that videos created by YouTube influencers would feature Shadow of Mordor gameplay, provide positive feedback about the game and include a strong call-to-action for viewers to visit the game’s official website. Plaid Social also required influencers to post a link of the video content to social media networks Facebook or Twitter. According to the FTC, the marketing campaign created nearly 30 sponsored videos which were viewed more than 5.5 million times. One such influencer contracted by Plaid Social was PewDiePie, a video game reviewer whose YouTube videos regularly receive millions of views; PewDiePie’s video received 3.7 million views according to the FTC’s press release regarding the Warner Bros. settlement.
Under the terms of the FTC’s settlement, Warner Bros. will have to clearly identify its sponsorship of marketing videos published on YouTube in the future. The FTC order mandates that Warner Bros. will disclose material connections between itself and influencers and will not misrepresent such influencers as independent users in the future. Warner Bros. will be responsible for informing influencers that they must disclose material connections in their video reviews and establishing a system to monitor video content and social media posts for such disclosures. The order will remain in place for 20 years or longer if the FTC files a new complaint alleging violation of its order.
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By Liz Premo, Alantic News Staff Writer
Atlantic News, Friday, July 27, 2007
[The following article is courtesy of Atlantic News]
[Atlantic News Photo by Liz Premo]
HAMPTON -- A spirited basketball game at Hampton Academy was the precursor for last Friday's energized campaign stop in Hampton by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Illinois senator shared some early morning court action with a group that included local firefighters, as well as David O'Connor, principal of Marston School where the candidate held a town hall meeting an hour or so later.
According to campaign staffers, approximately 600 people were in attendance at the event. The standing-room-only crowd was about five deep near the back of the school gymnasium, where folding chairs and bleachers were quickly filled to capacity.
The now-familiar basket-toting Cookie Mom and "I'm a Health Care Voter" folks worked the crowd as Secret Service agents kept careful watch over the surroundings. An earlier security sweep and inspection by bomb-sniffing dogs assured that everything was in order.
When Sen. Obama's name was announced, the audience welcomed him with a standing ovation to the "freedom" chorus from Aretha Franklin's empowerment anthem, "Think." A personalized introduction by NH State Sen. Jane Kelley followed.
"This is the biggest thrill of my life, to introduce the next president of the United States!" exclaimed Kelley, pointing out that "if anyone wants a woman in the White House, make it Michelle Obama," referring to the candidate's wife.
Kelley praised Obama for his "integrity" and for his "courage to come out against the war [in Iraq] when no one else did." She added, "His politics don't come from his head; [they] come from the heart."
Delivering his comments prior to a question-and-answer exchange with the audience, Sen. Obama swiftly addressed a number of familiar campaign issues, including healthcare, education, energy and the environment, the war, and government in general.
Of the latter he observed that "people are a little fed up and are paying attention to the fact [that the government] is broken." The Bush Administration's education policy is, he said, "leaving millions of children behind," and he bemoaned the opinion that there is "no energy policy in this country."
"Then we've got a war that should never have been waged, should never have been authorized," he noted.
The public is paying attention to current issues, the senator observed, because "they are desperately hoping for something new … they want to feel good about this country."
He also revealed he has been described by various entities as "a hope peddler or a hope-monger — but that's OK," he acknowledged, to vigorous applause.
Observing that the war in Iraq is "leaving us with no good options," the senator said made a case for pulling out the troops, saying "I believe we can still act responsibly [and] be as careful going out as careless as we were going in."
The United States, he said, "should not have to expect our men and women to police a civil war" in Iraq. "We need a timetable." He also stressed a desire to "close Guantanamo" and "restore habeas corpus" in dealing with the detention facility currently housing prisoners taken into custody in the War on Terror.
"If we put our shoulder against the wheel," he added, "we're going to be able to move history."
Following his comments, Sen. Obama dressed down to his shirtsleeves in preparation for what he humorously predicted to be "some tough questions" from the audience.
The first question asked whether the United States should consider withdrawing from Afghanistan, where troops have been deployed since just after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
"I do not believe we can get out of Afghanistan right now," Obama replied, noting that "we haven't handled Afghanistan well because we got distracted" by Iraq. "We've got to focus our attention there [to help the] Karzai government [and] stop al Qaeda" and keep Pakistan from falling into the hands of extremists.
Regarding global warming, the candidate claimed that "for the past six years we've been told it's a hoax" by skeptics, and that "every scientist outside the White House acknowledges that global warming is real." He reminded his audience that he is "a co-sponsor of the toughest climate change bill in the Senate right now."
When questioned about whether he will "be doing something to impeach President Bush," Sen. Obama firmly replied, "No," adding that it's "very important to not to get into the habit [of impeaching] every president."
Additionally, he said, to pursue impeachment "would be an enormous distraction," and he would prefer to dedicate his efforts to "undo the encroachments" upon Americans' civil rights rather than begin any sort of impeachment proceedings.
Prior to extensively addressing questions regarding education, federal housing and fair trade, Sen. Obama told his listeners that if elected president, "I will appoint people who are competent" and "people with integrity," which appeared to be welcomed as another crowd-pleasing comment.
As the event concluded, Sen. Obama took the opportunity to shake hands and greet his supporters, before leaving Hampton for a similar gathering in Manchester that evening. His trip to the Granite State took place just days before his participation in Monday night's unique CNN Democratic "debate" using videotaped questions selected from YouTube submissions. Depending upon the various polls, early results indicated that the senator had scored fairly well against his fellow candidates.
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The citizens of Florence have an exceptional reason to celebrate today, as one of the city’s most treasured artworks has been restored and is back on display. Hidden from view for the past 50 years to the day, The Last Supper (1546) by Giorgio Vasari has returned to the Museum of the Opera of Santa Croce in Florence after a decade-long conservation project.
Painted on five large panels, each constructed of several planks, and measuring over 8 by 21 feet, the painting was damaged in the disastrous Florentine flood of 1966 and considered beyond repair. Or, at least, that was the opinion of experts up until ten years ago. With the support of a grant from the Getty Foundation’s Panel Paintings Initiative, a team of experts at one of the foremost conservation centers in the world, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD) in Florence, have brought Vasari’s artwork back to life.
A Miraculous 470-Year History
I am a firm believer in miracles, but not of the kind shrouded in mystery with billowing smoke and flickering lights. I believe in miracles that happen because of human ingenuity and resilience, such as the rescue and restoration of The Last Supper. Vasari started the work in 1546 and painted it over a six-month period for the Murate Convent, located only a few blocks from the Basilica of Santa Croce.
The convent and church are located in one of the lowest parts of Florence, so the painting has been subjected to no less than seven major floods in its 470-year lifespan. The first happened shortly after the artwork was finished, when the Arno River spilled over its banks in 1547. After 1845, the Murate Convent was repurposed as a prison, so The Last Supper was moved to the Santa Croce, where it continued to remain vulnerable to the Arno.
The most disastrous Florentine flood of modern times occurred on November 4, 1966. After heavy rainfall in Tuscany in October and early November, a flood wave burst into the city, covering more than 7,000 acres with water and sewage, and depositing 600,000 tons of mud and debris. The water reached heights of over 22 feet in the lowest parts of town, including the area of Santa Croce. Inside the basilica and adjacent museum, it swelled to well over 8 feet high, damaging many irreplaceable artworks.
During the flood, The Last Supper was submerged in a slurry of water, mud, and heating oil for over twelve hours, which softened the paint and saturated the wooden support structure. When the sludge receded, some of the paint and gesso migrated with it toward the bottom of the painting.
A heroic effort to save the artwork by a team of conservators and volunteers ensued. The rescuers tried to protect the painted surface by covering it with conservation-grade paper and, when that ran out, any type of tissue paper they could get their hands on. The sheets of paper prevented the paint from peeling off and sliding down.
But this was just a first emergency response. The panels were drenched and needed to slowly dry out in a controlled environment to avoid warping and splitting. Conservators also had to carefully monitor humidity levels to avoid mold growth, which would have been disastrous. Faced with this monumental challenge, the painting’s five panels were put in storage, where they lay dormant for decades. Vasari’s artwork was almost given up as a casualty of the flood.
Given this history, it is a miracle that The Last Supper still exists. Equally astounding is the level to which it has now been restored. Not only is the painting back on display, but for the first time scholars can see color images of it; before 1966, the artwork had only been documented in black-and-white photographs.
Modern-Day “Mud Angels”
As the flood water receded, Florentines, experts from neighboring cities, and a large number of volunteers from all over the world—nicknamed “mud angels”—descended on the city to rescue and perform first-aid measures to artworks, books, and historic materials. Among them was a young carpenter by the name of Ciro Castelli. His skills were desperately needed to build gurneys and crates to protect works of art as they were moved to safety.
Due to the massive support and attention the city received, I think that it is safe to say that the 1966 flood put the conservation profession solidly on the map, and Castelli found his calling. At the OPD, he became a specialist in the structural conservation of panel paintings, and he is now one of the most revered experts in the world.
In 1986, when I was still at the beginning of my career in conservation, I visited the OPD, and I clearly remember my awe for the professionalism and skills of the conservators. Since then, I have returned many times, and my respect for the institution has only deepened.
When the Getty Foundation, together with colleagues from the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, began developing the Panel Paintings Initiative in 2008, it was considered paramount to ally with the OPD. As a premier conservation laboratory and training institution, the OPD was the ideal partner, as it represents over 50 years of experience in the structural conservation of panel paintings. The Getty Foundation was fortunate to have the Soprintendente of the OPD, Dr. Marco Ciatti, serve on the initiative’s international advisory committee.
The main focus of the Panel Paintings Initiative is to advance the knowledge of current experts and to bring a younger generation of experts into the field. To achieve these goals, the Getty Foundation partners with leading art institutions in the western hemisphere and supports side-by-side training residencies.
In 2010, the OPD received a three-year grant for the structural conservation of Vasari’s painting. For the first time since the flood, conservators felt ready to face the challenge of The Last Supper’s conservation. The painting was still in bad shape. The intense water saturation caused the wood to soften and expand, in turn stressing the painted surface and causing dramatic cracks and breaks. Wooden supports on the back of the artwork that kept the multi-panel object structurally sound also failed, leaving the painting in pieces.
The Last Supper was ideally suited to the initiative, given its large size and structural complexity, as well as the extent of the damage caused by the flood. Its conservation treatment offered training opportunities for both mid-career and advanced-level conservators. During the course of the project, three additional outside panel experts consulted with the OPD team, allowing the trainees to observe peer-to-peer decision making at the highest level.
Castelli, a respected and beloved teacher, led the training residencies at the OPD. Without a doubt, he has advanced the knowledge of a new generation of structural panel paintings conservators. He was ably assisted by Mauro Parri and Andrea Santacesaria, who benefitted from the initiative’s international collaboration with conservation experts in Brussels, Madrid, London, and New York.
Seven conservators from England, Hungary, Italy, and the United States—including the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Sue Ann Chui—completed training at all phases of the painting’s complex structural treatment.
Take a moment to imagine what it is like to handle a painting of such an enormous size—8 by 21 feet total; composed of five panels with a total of 12 thick poplar planks. How many people does it take to maneuver these large components around? During structural conservation, how can you assure that an intervention at the back gives the desired effect at the front? Asking these questions may help you begin to grasp the complexity of this conservation project.
There are many details to consider and problems to be solved, but to give you an idea of just one, consider this quote from Parri:
The treatment steps became more complicated from a technical point of view as we encountered a significant gap between the panels and the impossibility of bringing them closer due to the paint layer bridging them. After some brainstorming, we decided to apply wedge-shaped inserts along the previously prepared channels with the point facing down, as wide as the gap, to recreate the foundation on which to later set down and re-adhere the paint layers.
In 2013, the stabilization of the wood substrate was complete, and The Last Supper‘s five panels were reconnected for the first time in 47 years. It was a momentous occasion. The team’s solution was based on the support system originally devised by Vasari himself, which has stabilized the painting while also allowing the wooden panels to move naturally with standard temperature and humidity fluctuations.
Work on the final conservation of the painted surface was completed with the generous support of the Prada Foundation. A conservation team led by OPD conservator Roberto Bellucci was able to recover an unanticipated amount of the original painted surface, revealing the artist’s hand in surprising detail. The most talented conservators in the field skillfully saved a significant painting that was deemed beyond repair. Allora, many congratulations to the OPD on this remarkable achievement; now it’s time to celebrate!
With the Arno still flowing nearby, there is always the looming threat of another major flood, despite the water management dams that have been constructed upstream. As an extra safety precaution, a high-tech yet simple device was installed. If The Last Supper is in danger of another flood, a simple press of a button engages two winches, and the entire painting is miraculously hoisted toward the ceiling out of harm’s way!
Learn more: The Getty Foundation’s Panel Paintings Initiative project for the conservation of Giorgio Vasari’s The Last Supper (1526) was featured in the PBS NewsHour’s Culture at Risk series in October 2015. The episode focused on the work of the OPD, which the NewsHour host Jeff Brown described as “part museum, part workshop, part hospital for threatened treasures.” Watch the episode online.
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A Great Loss for St. Jude, Fundraising Community as a Whole
I didn't have the honor of personally knowing Dave McKee, the senior executive vice president and chief operating officer at ALSAC, the fundraising organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, who died last week from injuries sustained in a tragic automobile accident.
But I knew of his work, and of his dedication to St. Jude and its mission. And I knew how much his staff valued and appreciated him.
We were happy to give Dave the Lifetime Achievement Award in our 2011 Fundraising Profesionals of the Year Awards. You can read about his accomplishments here.
We at FundRaising Success offer our thoughts and prayers of comfort and condolences to Dave's family and friends, and to the many people who have worked with him and for him over the years who are now dealing with this loss.
Godspeed, Dave. Your dedication will be missed; your spirit will live on in those you have mentored over the years and in the continued good works of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. From the fundraising community and all of the children and familes your work has helped, thank you.
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“Collateral Murder” created a media sensation in 2010 and led to Chelsea Manning’s imprisonment and to a DOJ investigation of Julian Assange, reports Elizabeth Vos. But the war crimes the video exposed got no one else in trouble.
Consortium News today begins a series of articles, “The Revelations of WikiLeaks,” that will look back on the major works of the publication that have altered the world since its founding in 2006. This series is an effort to counter mainstream media coverage, which is ignoring WikiLeaks’ work, and instead is focusing on Julian Assange’s personality. It is the uncovering by WikiLeaks of governments’ crimes and corruption that set the U.S. after Assange and which ultimately led to his arrest on April 11. The “Collateral Murder” video was just the first of many major WikiLeaks revelations that made the journalist one of the world’s most wanted men, simply for the act of publishing.
The Video that Put Julian Assange
in the Crosshairs of the United States
By Elizabeth Vos
Special to Consortium News
WikiLeaks was founded in 2006, but it was the April 5, 2010, publication of “Collateral Murder” that made the whistleblower-publisher a world-wide phenomenon, attracting admirers and enemies.
WikiLeaks wrote of the film: “The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.”
WikiLeaks noted that Reuters had unsuccessfully attempted to gain access to the video through the Freedom of Information Act in the years after the strike.
The day after the release of the footage, The New York Times described WikiLeaks as a once-fringe website that had moved into the big time. “The site has become a thorn in the side of authorities in the United States and abroad,” it said. “With the Iraq attack video, the clearinghouse for sensitive documents is edging closer toward a form of investigative journalism and to advocacy.”
Before 2010 WikiLeaks received a few high-profile journalism awards. But in the years since the publication of the video, it has received a slew of honors, including The Sam Adams Award for Integrity.
On April 16, WikiLeaks announced a fresh award for its founder, Julian Assange, even as he remains isolated in a London prison.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 16, 2019
“Collateral Murder” was one of the most prominent releases sourced from then-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served seven years in a military prison as a result.
Manning, who had access to the video, having a Top Secret clearance, first offered the video to The New York Times and The Washington Post, which both turned her down. Manning then turned to WikiLeaks.
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Manning described the events that led up to her decision to submit the footage to the press in leaked audio of her testimony during her 2013 court-martial.
She said Reuters’ inability to get the footage via a freedom-of-information request contributed to her decision to leak it. “The most alarming aspect of the video for me, was the seemingly delight of bloodlust they [the pilots] appeared to have. They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging with, and seemed to not value human life in referring to them as ‘dead bastards,’ and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers.”
Marjorie Cohn, a legal analyst, is one of those who has described the contents of the footage as evidence of U.S. war crimes. As such she argues that Manning was legally obligated to expose such information. In a 2013 column for Truthout, she cites the Geneva Conventions, the Army Field Manual and the Uniform Code of Military Justice as all setting forth the duty of a service member to disobey unlawful orders.
None of the pilots, military officials nor policy-makers have ever been charged or otherwise held responsible for the events shown in the video.
U.S. Army 2007 Apache Helicopter Attack
The film depicts the July 12, 2007, shooting of over a dozen Iraqis by U.S. Army Apache helicopters armed with 30mm cannons in the Al-Amin al-Thaniyah neighborhood of New Baghdad, a district of Iraq’s capital city. The dead included Reuters’ photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and his assistant, Saeed Chmagh. WikiLeaks has said as many as 25 people were killed as a result of the incident.
After the initial attack, the helicopters fired on and killed people who stopped to try to rescue the wounded. A U.S. tank reportedly drove over a body, cutting it in half. Assange identified the individual run over by the tank as Namir Noor-Eldeen in an interview with Al Jazeera days after the publication of “Collateral Murder.”
Kristinn Hrafnsson, who now serves as editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, went to Iraq as an investigative journalist to locate victims’ families and confirm details of the event prior to the film’s publication. The New Yorker reported:
“He [Hrafnsson] claims to have found the owner of the building, an old man named Jabbar Abid Rady, born in 1941, a retired English teacher. Abid Rady told Hrafnsson that his wife and daughter had died in the attack. He said that five other people who had been living in the building died, too. Buildings under construction often serve as housing in war-ravaged places; people live in the lower floors, which are often built first and are inhabitable before construction ends. Abid Rady told Hrafnsson that three families had been living in this particular structure.”
Assange noted how the moving images had stirred public attention far more than any printed matter. “It’s very easy for people to see what’s going on,” he is quoted as saying in the April 2010 video interview with Al Jazeera. “It’s not too complex, there’s no language barriers with visual material. We released the policies behind this material as far back as 2007, classified US military policies.”
At one point in the video, American personnel can be heard laughing, saying: “The tank just drove over a body.” Assange commented on that, saying, “That was Namir’s body.”
Shortly after the 2007 killings — and three years before the video was released — the U.S. military was quoted as underreporting the death toll and context of the incident.
Assange argued that the military’s reports of a “firefight” preceding the events shown on tape had been misrepresented in order to justify the killings.
After WikiLeaks’ release of “Collateral Murder,” the Pentagon acknowledged the authenticity of the video but said it did not contradict the official finding that the helicopters’ crew acted within the rules of engagement,” The Daily Telegraph reported.
The U.S. military rejected calls to discipline the crew for the deaths of the Reuters journalists because it said the men could not be distinguished from suspected insurgents. “The RPG in the video is real,” The Telegraph quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying. “We had insurgents and reporters in an area where U.S. forces were about to be ambushed. At the time we weren’t able to discern whether (Reuters employees) were carrying cameras or weapons.”
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Chris Walach, commander of the Apache helicopter pilots, in 2013, spoke with Democracy Now about the footage. “In Iraq, you can’t put pink gloves on Apache helicopter pilots and send them into the Ultimate Fighting ring and ask them to take a knee,” he said. “These are attack pilots wearing gloves of steel, and they go into the ring throwing powerful punches of explosive steel. They are there to win, and they will win.”
Shortly after “Collateral Murder’s” publication, Assange appeared on the “Colbert Report.” At one point, host Stephen Colbert joked that Assange is “a dead man.” Colbert asked Assange about allegations of a firefight preceding the events shown on the tape. “That’s a lie,” Assange responded. [05.20/11:39] He said that 28 minutes earlier there had been a report of small arms fire and that the Apache helicopters circling New Baghdad “came across these men and killed them.”
The Politicians React
On April 11, 2019, the day Assange was arrested, Reuters’ reporter Alistair Smout wrote in hindsight: “WikiLeaks incensed Washington by publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, and in 2010 a classified U.S. military video showing a helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007 that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff.”
Within days of the publication of “Collateral Murder,” Obama Whitehouse Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered questions from reporters on the contents of the video. When asked whether the actions of the U.S. personnel were “appropriate,” Gibbs said that he was not sure whether then-President Barack Obama had seen the video, adding:
“Many of you all have traveled with the President – this President or other Presidents in war zones. Many of you know colleagues that have reported from exceedingly dangerous places in the world. Our military will take every precaution necessary to ensure the safety and security of civilians, and particularly those that report in those dangerous places on behalf of news organizations. I honestly do not know enough about what was done previous, which is why I’d point you to the Department of Defense.”
Then U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates blasted WikiLeaks for not providing context for the video. “These people can put out anything they want, and they’re never held accountable for it. There’s no before and there’s no after,” Gates said, likening the video as seeing warfare “through a soda straw.”
Gates said: “They’re in a combat situation. The video doesn’t show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. It’s obviously a hard thing to see. It’s painful to see, especially when you learn after the fact what was going on. But you—you talked about the fog of war. These people were operating in split second situations.”
The strongest response to the video came in the form of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation of Assange, by at most six months after “Collateral Murder,” and subsequent releases of the Afghan and Iraq War Logs, the next subject of CN’s series, that ultimately culminated in his arrest on April 11, 2019.
“The investigation has been quietly gathering material since at least October 2010, six months after the arrest of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the army enlistee who is accused of providing the bulk of the leaks,” The New York Times reported in June 2013.
The FBI had begun investigating Assange and WikiLeaks as early as 2009, according to an affidavit given by Assange in September 2013.
While the Obama DOJ stopped short of crossing a red line to criminalize journalism, the Trump DOJ has stomped over it using the same evidence abandoned by the previous administration.
“Collateral Murder” was unveiled at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington on April 5, 2010. The New York Times reported:
“’There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,” Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a spokesman for the multinational forces in Baghdad, said then.
But the video does not show hostile action. Instead, it begins with a group of people milling around on a street, among them, according to WikiLeaks, Mr. Noor-Eldeen and Mr. Chmagh. The pilots believe them to be insurgents, and mistake Mr. Noor-Eldeen’s camera for a weapon. They aim and fire at the group, then revel in their kills.”
The media’s reaction to the video’s release was mixed. The day after it was published, the Times ran a report, titled: “Iraq Video Brings Notice to a Web Site.” It described criticism WikiLeaks received for publishing an edited version of the footage:
“Critics contend that the shorter video was misleading because it did not make clear that the attacks took place amid clashes in the neighborhood and that one of the men was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade.”
Within months of the video’s release, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation noted the sentiments of journalist David Finkel of The Washington Post: “They [WikiLeaks] provided artificial agenda driven context. There was an operation underway in reaction to an ongoing war. Not that apache helicopters were circling looking for a bunch of guys to just shoot up and kill.” Finkel was stationed in Iraq in 2007 when the incident occured and included the event in his book, “The Good Soldiers.“
In response to such criticism, Assange told Al Jazeera that the decision to give the film its title hinged on the moment where the Apache helicopter pilots shot at the van and individuals who had stopped to aid the wounded. He said:
“This is why we called it ‘Collateral Murder.’ In the first example, maybe it’s a collateral exaggeration or incompetence, when they strafe this initial gathering. This was recklessness bordering on murder, but we couldn’t say for sure that was murder. But this particular event, this is clearly murder.”
Media that have since turned on Assange, at the time praised him and WikiLeaks.
On the day the video was released, The Guardian, which has lately been on an anti-Assange campaign, was quick to write an article that referred to the problems the video posed for military authorities: “The release of the video from Baghdad also comes shortly after the US military admitted that its special forces attempted to cover up the killings of three Afghan women in a raid in February by digging the bullets out of their bodies.”
Two days after “Collateral Murder’s” publication, The Guardian, then under editor Alan Rusbridger, published an opinion piece saying the footage was “heralded by some as the most important revelation since Abu Ghraib, and challenges not only the effectiveness of the US military’s rules of engagement policy, but also the integrity of the mainstream media’s coverage of similar incidents.”
James Fallows of The Atlantic called “Collateral Murder” the “most damaging documentation of abuse since the Abu Ghraib prison-torture photos” 12 hours after the video’s release.
“The Collateral Murder video is one of the best known and most widely recognized results of the ongoing WikiLeaks project,” Christian Christensen, a University of Stockholm journalism professor wrote in 2014. “These particular images were, in many ways, the crystallization of the horrors of war.”
Within days of the video’s publication, Haifa Zangana, a novelist and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime, wrote an op-ed for The Guardian, saying her family lived in the area where the events took place, which she described as having previously been “safe for children to play outdoors.”
“Witnesses to the slaughter reported the harrowing details in 2007, but they had to wait for a western whistleblower to hand over a video before anyone listened. Watching the video, my first impression was, I have no impression. But the total numbness gradually grows into a now familiar anger. I listen to the excited voices of death coming from the sky, enjoying the chase and killing. I whisper: do they think they are God?”
Elizabeth Vos is a freelance reporter and regular contributor to Consortium News. She co-hosts the #Unity4J online vigil.
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I am an Auburn Fan.
If you have read any of my previous pieces (articles? blogs? posts? What do you call these things, anyway? “Pieces” makes them sound like works of art. Which, of course, they are. I am way too humble to point out this obvious fact, yet there it is. But I digress…), you would certainly know that. My Auburn fandom is hereditary. It is in my DNA, my genes. Just as I got my ears and nose from my dad, so too did I receive from him my allegiance to what I firmly believe is the greatest institute of higher learning on the planet. That allegiance is unwavering. It is non-negotiable. I can no more turn it off or separate myself from it than I can make hair grow on my head (full disclosure: I can’t). This can, from time to time, cause a problem. Well, not so much a problem as a sizable challenge.
You see, for a living, I cover and talk about sports. Predominantly Auburn sports. And here, as they say, is the rub.
On one hand, my job is perfect! I love sports. I love Auburn. What could be the problem?
Just a little thing called “professionalism”, that’s all.
You see, for many in my business, what sport you cover, or what team, is a matter of pure business. You work for a paper and you get the Auburn beat. You work at a radio station in Atlanta and cover the Falcons. It’s a job. And if a better opportunity springs up in Ann Arbor or Austin, you pick up and move. No problem. And there is nothing wrong with this. Almost all of the most amazing writers and commentators do this. It is their profession. And that is part of what makes them so good. That objectivity. I really admire that. I admire it but I do not share it.
I have tried to come up with scenarios, or magic numbers, that would entice me to pick up and move to cover another team. I just can’t imagine one. It’s like trying to imagine what it would be like if everyone on the planet spoke Whale. It’s just so outside the realm of possibility that I cannot conceive what it might look like.
So why does this pose a problem? Well, the standard norms of professionalism (think MLB’s “unwritten rules”) dictate certain behavior in certain places. For the most part, they don’t really affect me. Not because I’m unprofessional (I am) but because what I do falls outside journalism into a gray area called “commentary”. I don’t so much report, as talk about what has been reported. But to do my job, I need to see as many as possible of the events that I will be talking about. Which means rubbing elbows and following the leads of those a fore mentioned professionals.
Nowhere is this more difficult than inside the press box at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Allow me to give you an example or two.
You know when you and your friends are at a bar having drinks, watching the game? And something good happens? A huge catch, a scorching run, a goal line stand? And you turn to your friend and give a “YES!” along with a high five? Or when something bad happens? A blown call by a blind ref (looking at you, Big 12), a missed tackle, an interception? And you slam your fist on the bar or table and yell “NO!”
Not in the press box. Can’t happen.
Please don’t misunderstand. I am not complaining! I understand and completely agree with the rules! It just that…well…it’s hard sometimes!
Think back to some of the best plays over the last 3-1/2 years in Auburn football alone. Imagine sitting on your hands and biting your tongue until it bleeds so you don’t yell out it agony or ecstasy. Imagine sitting next to one of your close friends and all you can do is share a smile and a raised eyebrow. Tough, huh?
But man… it is totally worth it! To be in the press box of every home game, to be around all those men and women who are so good at their jobs. To witness that wonderful machine operate the way it does. To experience on such a level that thing that you love so much. It really is amazing. And you would think that being so close to something you love might take the luster off a bit; reveal some warts. Not to me. If anything this closeness has deepened my affection for my alma mater.
My friends who have left Auburn for the suburbs are somewhat in awe of what I do for a living. And frankly, so am I. I will never get wealthy doing what I do. I make a living, thanks to a great employer, but this is a small market and I get an appropriately sized paycheck. But man… the perks!
And so, each Saturday I sit in the press box with all the professionals and I cheer. I cheer loudly. In my head.
After all, I am an Auburn fan.
Rich Perkins hosts The Drive, a weekday sports call-in show heard in Auburn on ESPN 106.5 and around the universe at espnau.com. He also has a little blog he occasionally updates with things that mostly amuse only him. Also, he thinks the movie Diner is one of the greatest movies of all time. Don’t ask.
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Today’s games are listed below.
Foxboro, 1 @ Attleboro, 2 – Final – Ryan Morry and Jake Parker each scored once to help the Bombardiers earn their first win of the season, a non-league victory over Foxboro. Warriors freshman Kirk Leach scored his first career goal for Foxboro in the loss.
King Philip, 3 @ Bridgewater-Raynham, 0 – Final – King Philip bounced back from its season-opening loss with a strong win on the road against the Trojans. The Warriors scored once in each period while junior James Lewis made 15 saves in his first varsity start to earn the win. Mike Curtin opened the scoring in the first off of assists from Garrett Maxwell and Collin Cooke. The Warriors made it 2-0 when Luke D’Amico converted off of a feed from Curtin. In the third, Cooke buried an unassisted goal into an empty net to secure the win.
Mansfield, 1 @ North Attleboro, 4 – Final – North Attleboro opened its season in style, scoring the opening goal just 21 seconds into the game and never looking back against the Hornets. Drew Wissler opened the scoring off of an assist from Anthony Zamiello, and then returned the favor to Zamiello later in the period to give Big Red a 2-0 lead after a period. Mansfield senior Cullin Anastasia scored a short-handed goal to bring the Hornets within one but Jeff Baker restored the two-goal lead for North within a minute to make it 3-1. Wissler scored an empty-netter in the third period to ice the game.
Stoughton, 2 vs. St. John Paul II, 5 – Final – Brendan Campbell and Sean Doherty each scored a goal for Stoughton.
Canton, 1 @ Falmouth, 1 – Final – Canton peppered Falmouth with 41 shots but only broke through once to earn a point on the road. Andrea McNeil found the back of the net for the Bulldogs in the first period while Colleen Kelleher finished with 30 saves.
Mansfield/Oliver, 2 Ames @ Franklin, 2 – Final – Click here for a recap and photo gallery from this game.
Stoughton, 0 @ King Philip, 7 – Final
Marlboro Early Bird (Canton) – Canton placed fifth overall among 16 teams. Sophomore Eddie Marinilli won the 138 bracket for the Bulldogs.
Mike Melish Duals (Foxboro, Sharon), 9:00AM
St. John’s Prep Quad (Franklin) – Franklin had the best team at the meeting, sweeping all three opponents. The Panthers opened with a dominant 45-18 win over Lawrence, earned a hard-fought victory over the hosts St. John Prep (31-21) and finished the day with a 58-16 win over Salem (NH). Jordan Carlucci went 3-0 on the day with three pins.
King Philip @ Milford, 10:00AM
Brockton Tri-meet (Mansfield) – Mansfield rallied for a win over host Brockton to pick up its second win of the day. The Hornets beat Barnstable (60-18) before coming back to beat the Boxers (39-31). Sam Isaacson (126), Ethan Nirenberg (195), and Sam Hutton (220) all picked up huge wins for the Hornets to help complete the comeback against Brockton.
North Attleboro Quad (North Attleboro) – North Attleboro picked up three wins on the day, including over one of the state’s best programs in Norton. Big Red beat Hope (RI) 53-22, took down Chariho (RI) 39-22 and picked up a win over Norton, 45-30. Seniors Jake Direnzo, Brady Folan, Zack Gould, Adam Eberle, and Brad White all went 3-0 for the day.
Marshfield Quad (Oliver Ames) – Oliver Ames dominated the day, picking up four wins to move to 5-0 on the season. The Tigers beat Whitman-Hanson (53-15), Pembroke (47-24), Toll Gate (57-24) and host Marshfield (51-27). Freshman Remy Creighton (106), junior Nick McGovern (113), senior Brandon Belleton (138, three pins), junior Anthony Berksza (145, four pins) and junior Dean Pacini (195, three pins) all went 4-0 on the day for Oliver Ames.
Sandwich Early Bird (Taunton) – Taunton had a successful day at the Sandwich Early Bird tournament with seven wrestlers finishing first, second or third. Josh Grasso (132), Alex Simon (195) and Woudanly Danger (220) emerged victorious from their respective weight classes while Candido Santos (160) and Mason Frank (285) finished second and Tyler Kennedy (152) and Jordan Manning (285) each finished third.
Boys Indoor Track (@ Reggie Lewis)
Attleboro, 29 vs. Oliver Ames, 70 – Final
Canton, 25 vs. Sharon, 75 – Final
Foxboro, 23 vs. North Attleboro, 77 – Final
Franklin, 61 vs. King Philip, 39 – Final
Mansfield, 76 vs. Taunton, 24 – Final
Milford, 46 vs. Stoughton, 50 – Final
Girls Indoor Track (@ Reggie Lewis)
Attleboro, 31 vs. Oliver Ames, 69 – Final
Canton, 17.66 vs. Sharon, 82.33 – Final
Foxboro, 23 vs. North Attleboro, 68 – Final
Franklin, 77 vs. King Philip, 23 – Final
Mansfield, 43.50 vs. Taunton, 56.50 – Final
Milford, 71 vs. Stoughton, 29 – Final
Taunton, 124.1 @ Attleboro, 134.65 – Final
North Attleboro, 136.15 @ Canton, 103.35 – Final – North Attleboro had four different individuals each win a single event in a victory over Canton. Kaleigh DeMarco won the vault (9.1), Caroline Szajda won the bars (8.4), Lindsay Robinson was first on the beam (8.7) and Paige Moore was victorious on the floor (8.8).
King Philip @ Canton, 7:00
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Government Greed Axes the Golden Goose
Stephen Michael MacLean condemns economic illiteracy
President Barack Obama mounted the bully pulpit last month, to decry the practice of ‘tax inversion’ and those corporations with the effrontery to believe in private property and the profit motive, thus escaping exorbitant tax bills by moving operations out of the United States for the welcoming low-tax jurisdictions of foreign lands.
According to an AP News report:
“Obama called it ‘one of the most insidious tax loopholes out there’ because it shortchanges the country. He said less tax revenue means the government can’t fully spend on schools, transportation networks and other things to keep the economy strong. He said the practice also hurts middle-class Americans because ‘that lost revenue has to be made up somewhere.'”
Oh, dear! Where does one begin to enumerate President Obama’s recurring penchant for economic (and constitutional) illiteracy?
A cursory critique would note the President’s assumption that personal earnings belong to the State, whose beneficence allows earners a share — but not more than their fair share.
Also notable is that this reputed constitutional scholar is more than a bit rusty on the actual text of the U.S. Constitution, which nowhere grants to the Executive authority responsibility for the quaint sobriquet of ‘internal improvements’; moreover, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments specifically reserved such public goods to private citizens and the States.
Yet it is on the economic front that President Obama’s jeremiad — sadly shared by most politicians — is most alarming.
Middle-class Americans would be among those most hurt by Washington’s tax grab, as it is corporate revenue that funds capital accumulation, innovation, and economic growth. Tax away profit, and you tax away employment opportunities.
“The old truth still holds,” Margaret Thatcher once told a Conservative conference: “there is much harm and only modest good that governments can do to promote a successful economy. And the more sophisticated the global economy becomes, the truer that will be.”
Moreover, to denote a ‘middle’ implies two opposites; within the political context, the ‘poor’ and the ‘wealthy’. State redistribution affects the three classes disproportionately: Wealth can take care of itself — as in the case of inversion, moving off-shore to escape punitive U.S. tax law … the poor, the dependent clientele of politicians, are taken care of through welfare schemes … while the middle class is left to its own devices. Yale sociologist W.G. Sumner skewered this phenomenon:
“All taxation has the same effect. It presses hardest on those who, under the conditions of their position in life and the demands which are made upon them, are trying to save capital and improve their circumstances. The heavier it becomes, the faster it crushes out this class of persons — that is, all the great middle class…”
The case against the folly of tax-greed was made a century earlier by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations. “Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the publick treasury of the state.”
Furthermore, “a tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the publick treasury,” Smith wrote. This is the essence of Laffer Curve analysis that proves that taxing beyond a certain point results in less tax collected.
If President Obama were truly interested in American economic well-being, he would be receptive to the reality that high taxes not only depress tax revenues, but starve entrepreneurial innovation of its necessary capital structure. Smith, too, foresaw this tax perversion:
“It may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance and employment to great multitudes. While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or perhaps destroy some of the funds, which might enable them more easily to do so.”
But ideology blinds many of the Washington élite. Not content to tax within the bounds of justice, governments have become gluttonous tax-eaters, feasting upon the sustenance of individual and corporate tax-payers. Like the greedy farmer who axed the goose that laid golden eggs, parasitic states will tax their host-citizens to financial death.
Stephen Michael MacLean is a freelance researcher, residing in Canada. He blogs as the Organic Tory at the Disraeli-Macdonald Institute
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Light Up Her Life
You do not necessarily need to spend a fortune in order to impress the woman that you love. When you are choosing Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend it truly is the thought that counts. Give a gift that reflects her personality and what you know about her hobbies and preferences. If you do this you really can't go wrong.If you are a student or on a very limited budget there are still many wonderful gift options for you to choose from.
More Important Things You Need To Consider
When you decide how much to spend on a gift it's also important for you to consider what stage your relationship is at. Your girlfriend may be overwhelmed if you buy her something very expensive when you have not been together for more than a few months. If you are in a long term relationship and you share finances then it may not be a great choice to give something that cost less than what she knows you can afford to spend.
Narrow It Down
Once you decide how much you would like to spend then decide on a general theme for the gift. You can get ideas for this by thinking about personality and hobbies as was mentioned already. You can also base it on things that she likes in general such as a favorite color or a favorite animal. Also do consider the type of work she does. You can buy something for the office for example.
Get it here - Umbra Zoola Ring Holder, Fox
Choosing Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend is fun when you can find cute little ideas like this to brighten up the holiday season. A sweet gift idea on it's own or you can give it as an accompaniment to that special ring that you know she really deserves!
Get it here -The Experimenter Bath Bomb 6.3 oz by LUSH
Giving personal gifts such as luxury toiletries is always appreciated because it's such a thoughtful thing to do. Lush makes premium bath bombs and this one is a great choice. You can give it alone as a stocking stuffer or you can give it with other premium beauty or bath products.
She will love this rockabilly style red dress, it's the perfect color for the holiday season. When you give clothing as a gift be sure to check that the size is correct. Also think about the things she usually wears so that you can give something she will enjoy.
Cute Stocking Stuffers
These cute notecards are perfect as a stocking stuffer. She will love the designs and be able to use them all year round.
Your cat lover girlfriend will adore this gorgeous music box.
These earrings are inexpensive so you can afford to buy a pair for every woman in your life.
This is another lovely idea to put in her Christmas stocking.
Get this set here - Sankuwen 15PCs Wool Makeup Brush Set Tools Toiletry Kit
You will give something very useful when this lovely set of make up brushes is under your tree.
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Jewellry doesn't always have to be expensive in order to be a special gift. You can give something special even if you do not have a lot of funds available. This beautiful leaf necklace is perfect if you are looking for Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend who loves nature.
If you are looking for stunning, high quality jewellry Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend these amazing green sapphire earrings are sure to do the job. These featured stones are set in a 14k Solid Gold Diamond Fish Hook stylish earrings. This jewelry is available in 14k solid yellow, white, or rose gold.
A lovely pair of earrings featuring a semi precious peridot stones. It is crafted from High-Quality Lead Free 925 Sterling Silver. The contemporary and distinctive design guarantees that these Peridot gemstone earrings are sure to be a great addition to any jewelry collection.
Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend Who Loves Pandas
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Anyone who has a favorite animal will love a gift that features the animal these are also available featuring other animals. These super cute panda nesting dolls are sure to be adored.
You may think this is more of a childs gift but not necessarily. Adorable stuffed toys can also make adorable gifts for adults. Something to cuddle when you are not there is always a super cute gift idea for someone you love.
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You can get her something for the office that is decorative and also useful by giving this gorgeous floral paper weight. Each one of these paperweights is unique and each one also contains a real dandelion. Every dandelion is handpicked and the paperweights are individually hand made.
Most people love music and if the woman you love does not already have a portable speaker then something like this is worth considering when you are choosing Gifts to Give Your Girlfriend . Also a good gift choice for someone who loves to take music everywhere they go. You will love this one yourself too!
Get it online here - The Sojourner Keyboard
Give an amazing office gift with this stunning steampunk keyboard. A handmade item that is creative and so cool! Every one of these premium designer keyboards is made from beautiful aged brass. Also features a unique parchment Elizabethan typeface that complimets the overall design of the keyboard.
You will enjoy giving this cute pair of shoes to any girl who really knows how to get stuff done. Gifts To Give Your Girlfriend who is a fan of female superheros are difficult to find if you want to also give something useful. Many superhero gift ideas are collectible or decorative items.
You can be sure that your girlfriend will love this beautiful lamp. If you are looking for Gifts To Give Your Girlfriend who is houseproud or who is very creative then this is a wonderful choice. The beautiful design and colors featured in the shade are sure to impress.
You can get this here - 0.7 3/4 Carat 14K White Gold Pear Diamond Solitaire Pendant Necklace E Color SI2 Clarity
When you want to give a gift to truly impress then this one is a great gift for you to choose. There is a sixteen inch gold chain included so that she can wear this beautiful diamond right away. You will receive a diamond that is untreated and also 100% conflict free. The stone weighs 0.70 carats.
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Get a fun gift that is sure to bring laughter with this cute body wash. This is a useful gift that doubles as a fun gag gift when she opens it.
For The Home
Get this cushion cover here - Generic Bright Color Flower Elephant Burlap Pillow Cases Cushion Covers, 18" x 18"
You can give a gift that ill be adored by your house proud girlfriend by selecting one or more cute cushion covers. Always think carefully about the color or theme she has featured in the home. You have to give something that suits so that it will be useable in her home.
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As part of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology’s (JKUAT) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the University has donated books worth Kshs 5.4 Million to nine institutions from three different counties in the Coast region of Kenya.
The institutions, drawn from Kilifi, Kwale and Mombasa counties are: Amani Primary, Ushindi Baptist Child Development Centre, Likoni, Miyani Secondary School, Gotani, Kajembe High School, Kadzondzo Girls Secondary School, Makomboani Secondary School, Women and Girls Empowerment Programme, St. George’s High School, Kaloleni Giriama, and Kizurini Secondary School. Each school was presented with books worth Kshs 600,000.
While presenting the books to the school heads and their students at a colourful ceremony held at JKUAT’s Mombasa CBD Campus, JKUAT Vice Chancellor Prof. Mabel Imbuga, said it was her University’s desire to ensure that there is equity in distribution of knowledge to all counties for the good of national development, a reason why her University was reaching out to complement training in areas that may be considered remote.
Prof. Imbuga said JKUAT was rolling out a programme to send out career guidance personnel to such schools in order to enlighten students on available courses offered at the university.
“It is our desire to bring all schools up to speed with the developments taking place in our university as interested stakeholders. We are aware that development can easily be achieved if everyone made a contribution towards our national goal,” she told the elated crowd.
Prof. Imbuga who was flanked by the JKUAT Mombasa Campus Director Dr. Frida Simba and the University’s Head, Corporate Communications Dr. Hindzano Ngonyo, pointed out that her University was trying to create capacity through the introduction of new and market driven courses such as Marine Engineering, Mining and Mineral Processing courses, among others.
The Vice Chancellor said, it was time the country started utilizing local expertise for the jobs that are awarded to expatriates since the local professional had come of age. Kenya, she pointed out, has the best and advanced ICT knowledge, creative and innovative population whose output has made tremendous impact globally. She advised the students to develop a reading culture, be responsible, remain focused and desist from any acts that could compromise their studies. She urged the students to ensure their performance in form four earned them government admission in public universities.
Addressing the same gathering, Mr. Edwin Okoth, an Assistant County Commissioner for Mwanamwing in Gotani location, hailed the gesture by JKUAT terming it a new trend in the academic sector. He said, the University had already become a household name in the region because what it offered at the University and its extension services had touched many hearts not only in the Coast region but also nationally.
While appreciating the donation made to his school, the Principal of Makomboani Secondary School, Mr. Moses Olenyo characterized JKUAT as an institution that was focused on supporting education in the country. He urged other Universities to emulate JKUAT’s gesture.
The Vice Chancellor also presented certificates to students who underwent the CISCO short courses training at the Campus.
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A Lingering Face follows an everyman named Lei Haiyang (Pan Yueming), who has recently broken up with his girlfriend. Deciding to go to Beijing, he hitches a ride with a driver (Ma Xiaoqing) and a fellow hitchhiker, Yanzi (Li Min). Waking up from a nap, Haiyang finds the truck parked in the woods and the driver raping Yanzi. Hiding in the undergrowth, Yanzi sees Haiyang, but does not reveal his hiding position. Terrified, Haiyang runs away.
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Center Hill Lake
Based on a view from the client's childhood home, this stove backsplash is framed by local sourced stacked stone.
This tile installation draws on art nouveau influences, inviting anyone who enters this beautiful stone home to connect with nature. Set in a private forest, the home also boasts views of the Cumberland River.
Images of flowers, a dragonfly, a butterfly, and a bee are interspersed in this travertine backsplash and paired with reclaimed wood countertops to bring nature into this country kitchen. This family loves to cook and eat together, so this space is the focal point of their small farm home.
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This bathroom features handmade borders and accent tiles in a field of limestone. The sink is a thrown bowl that has been altered to be a perfect shape for washing hands and delicate clothes.
Travertine is featured in this unique space. Handmade border tiles, sink backsplash and a round vessel sink accent this bathroom
Slate and oak leaves make this earthy bathroom unique and brings great reviews for a Nashville airbnb.
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New Committee / Boat Auction
Post date: Oct 3, 2011 10:39:03 AM
I hope your training for Fish went as well as expected and I wish everyone a safe trip to Cradock and back and a successful race.
Congratulations to all the prize winners for the 2010 – 2011 season and thank you to everyone who attended the Prize giving held at the club on Tuesday 20th September.
Please find attached a list of the prize winners.
Please also see herewith the Stella Canoe Club committee for the 2011 – 2012 season:
Chairman – Neels Meyer ( email@example.com )
Vice Chairman – Greg Glossop ( firstname.lastname@example.org )
Secretary / Admin – Martin Dovey ( email@example.com )
Treasurer - Lauren Glossop ( firstname.lastname@example.org )
Property Manager – John Dives ( email@example.com )
IT support – Bob Opperman (firstname.lastname@example.org )
As discussed in the last newsletter, we have decided to move the boat auction out to after Fish and the date earmarked for this is Sat 22 October at 11am.
The boat auction will be preceded breakfast at the club and a paddle for those interested.
Breakfast will be sold at R20.00 per person.
Please make a note of this date, which will also be circulated through the KNCU Newsletter.
At the AGM we discussed a number of fundraising events, so please watch this space for more info.
See you at the club.
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aaron • February 22, 2020 • Comments Off on The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities
A fascinating look at the world of Christian women celebrities from the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
Considering that the 1970s, an essential brand new figure has showed up from the center phase of American evangelicalism—the celebrity preacher’s wife. Although many evangelical traditions bar females from ordained ministry, a lot of women have actually carved down unofficial roles of energy inside their husbands’ spiritual empires or their very own ministries. The largest stars—such as Beth Moore, Joyce Meyer, and Victoria Osteen—write bestselling publications, grab high ranks on Christian russian brides tv, and also preach. An acclaimed historian of religion and the author of the bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved, offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths in this engaging book, Kate Bowler.
Whether standing alone or close to their husbands, the key females of megaministry play numerous parts: the preacher, the homemaker, the skill, the therapist, and also the beauty. Boxed in by the high objectives of contemporary Christian womanhood, they follow and periodically subvert the visible and hidden rules that govern the everyday lives of evangelical ladies, earning handsome benefits or incurring penalties that are harsh. They have to be pretty, not immodest; exceptional, although not fake; susceptible to sin, although not deviant. And celebrity that is black’ wives carry a special burden of respectability. But despite their impact and wide range, these women can be rejected the essential symbol that is important of power—the pulpit.
The storyline of females whom most frequently began as somebody’s spouse and wound up as everyone’s almost-pastor, The Preacher’s Wife is really a compelling account of women’s look for religious authority into the chronilogical age of celebrity.
“Bowler (Everything Happens for the explanation), teacher during the Duke Divinity class, explains in this exceptional analysis just how some evangelical females have actually been able to be mega-ministry a-listers by changing the restricted functions allotted to ladies in evangelical tradition into jobs of energy. Framing these females’s act as compared to spouses, moms, homemakers, and teachers—rather than pastors or company leaders—Bowler reveals exactly exactly how numbers including Joyce Meyer, Beth Moore, and Victoria Osteen wield enormous power in their husbands’ ministries, both on phase and behind the scenes…. This wonderful work provocatively considers exactly just exactly what women gain and lose in becoming ‘market-ready’ for evangelical communities. “—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Bowler, the writer of this everything that is wildly popular for the explanation: as well as other Lies I’ve Loved, is an intensive researcher and witty author. “—LaVonne Neff, Christian Century
“we cannot overstate the result this guide had on me personally. Whether you’re a pupil of US religious history, a follower of popular Christian tradition, or anyone who has never thought twice concerning the ladies who grant legitimacy towards the powerful males they marry, Kate Bowler will need you places you might not need gone by yourself. She’s a scholar that knows just how to inform a whole tale, a theologian who is able to prompt you to laugh away noisy, plus the type of listener whom earns the trust of her topics and visitors alike. She won’t let you know things to think, but she will familiarizes you with individuals you are going to forget, and never you’re going to be the greater for this. “—Barbara Brown Taylor, nyc Times bestselling composer of understanding how to Walk at night
“this will be a book that is surprising scholarly yet available, critical yet sort, feminist yet not ideological. Kate Bowler been able to help me to realize these females, marvel at these females, and also respect the imaginative tenacity of those ladies, whenever by myself, and without her guidance i might only have ever criticized these women—and for that I have always been grateful. She actually is a marvel. “—Nadia Bolz-Weber, nyc Times bestselling composer of Pastrix: The Cranky, breathtaking Faith of a Sinner and Saint
” With her characteristic mixture of sympathy and analysis that is searing scholarly rigor and utterly absorbing prose, Kate Bowler describes exactly just how enterprising feamales in ‘megaministry’ built their theological kingdoms by embracing strategies of celebrity—a Faustian deal that features exposed them to your starkest weaknesses and trade-offs. It is a masterful book. “—Darren Dochuk, writer of Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made contemporary America
“The Preacher’s Wife is a good, thought-provoking account of modern feamales in megaministry, but it is additionally a novel in regards to the extraordinary pressures faced by all females, religious or perhaps not, today. With empathy and humor, Kate Bowler paints a memorable portrait of the fascinating selection of evangelical females. “—Catherine Brekus, author of Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845
“Using The precision of a historian, the understanding of the scholar, plus the heart of the Christian frontrunner, Kate Bowler explores a phenomenon that is influential Christianity in this challenge to today’s church leaders. Visitors of Bowler’s past publications won’t be disappointed. “—Phil and Debbie Waldrep, founders associated with Females of Joy ministry
Kate Bowler’s account demonstrates, with great understanding, the difficult stability megachurch ladies must constantly keep, stepping in to the spotlight but never ever showing up to monopolize it. The guide advances our knowledge of evangelicalism and ladies’ part in contemporary religion this is certainly american”—Margaret Bendroth, writer of the past Puritans: Mainline Protestants additionally the energy regarding the last
“Kate Bowler has a portrait that is extraordinarily rich of feminine a-listers who’re breaking church obstacles on ladies’ functions even while they uphold a very very carefully crafted stance of holy obedience. These women in all their intricacy as they manage beauty, sexuality, family life, and money on a public stage with generosity, perceptiveness, and wit, Bowler analyzes. A really splendid guide. “—R. Marie Griffith, composer of Moral eliminate: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
“Fascinating, insightful, and utterly illuminating, this guide shows why historians must be associated with most of our conversations that are theological. Kate Bowler tosses the lights on, bringing us a desperately required viewpoint from the hidden guidelines regulating just just how, whenever, and which females lead within the spiritual market. As a female in public places ministry, i am grateful for the challenge and clarity of Bowler’s findings also her kindness, camaraderie, and knowledge. I will not see could work the way that is same. “—Sarah Bessey, composer of Jesus Feminist and Miracles and Other things that are reasonable
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Offshore Turbine Services are pleased to report that in conjunction with Seazip Offshore Service BV, they are providing a CTV (Lieutenant P) for the construction of the Tahkoluoto Offshore Wind Farm in Finland.
This is the first collaboration between both companies and is proving to be highly successful as they both operate in same quality and health and safety focused way.
Initially the vessel worked for the foundation installation contractor, supporting the marine civils aspect of the construction phase but once that was completed, the wind farm owners, took the opportunity to place the vessel on hire to assist with the next phase of the construction supporting the turbine manufacturer techs on site.
The Offshore Turbine Service vessels are particularly suited for this close inshore, shallow draft working as they use Rolls Royce jets for propulsion. The vessels are also very fuel efficient and their moveable wheelhouses allow them to be configured for a variety of tasks including generator refuelling, blade inspection and repair and marine civils work support. The vessels are also very reliable with an over 99% on contract availability statistic.
SeaZip Offshore Services is the commercial manager of the 6 Damen Twin Axe CTV’s owned by the company and also acts as commercial manager for third party vessel owners who see the benefits of collaboration to offer a diversified, efficient multi vessel solution to the wind energy, oil and gas and marine civils markets. On this occasion, the company had a good route into the Finnish market due to its JR Shipping fleet and trade lines. SeaZip believe in combining quality of network, the right vessel and approaching the market with the best solution for the project in hand and in Finland, OTS ticked the boxes required and both companies are looking forward to working together in the future.
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This is a game for upper-intermediate and advanced students. It was designed as a speaking game and serves as a revision tool for two lexical sets: professions and personality adjectives. The main focus is a better understanding of the subtleties of personality adjectives through group discussion.
This is a game developed using a format I outlined in a previous post – Apples to apples – adapting-games. There are two sets of cards: professions and personality adjectives. The game is played in groups of four to six students. There are 60 profession cards and 40 personality cards.
Each player is dealt six cards from the professions deck. A starting player is chosen, who will be judge for the round, and that player takes a card from the personality deck. They reveal the card to the other players, who then each choose a profession card in their hand which best matches the personality adjective. Then, players take turns explaining why their profession card is the best match to the judge’s personality card. After everyone has had time to explain their reasoning (including a degree of debate) the judge picks a winner.
Here is an example round of the game: There are five players, four players who are competing and one judge. The Judge’s card is ‘wise’.
The four players select professions which fit this criteria and reveal their cards. The four cards the judge has to choose between are surgeon, newspaper editor, lawyer and diplomat. Each player gives their reasons for their selection and the judge asks a few follow up questions. After a short discussion the judge then picks a winner (the judge’s decision is final).
The winner is given the personality card to show they won the round. Then the role of judge moves clockwise and the next judge picks up a personality card. Each player draws profession cards until they have a full hand of six cards (players sometimes miss this step so will occasionally need to be reminded). The game continues until a player has won three rounds.
The game is very simple to follow and generates interesting conversations and unusual arguments. The great variety of jobs and personalities in the game means that the game will be different every time. Students are encouraged to rationalise and justify their card any way they can, which means that they can try to gain the judge’s favour by being the funniest or most inventive. This gently competitive edge pushes students to think creatively and means they are more inclined to generate less conventional ideas. Players don’t win by having the right card, they win because they give the best or most interesting explanation.
The cards are available for download [Here]. The card sets include some tongue in cheek professions like drug dealer, queen and magician. This creates a lot of fun combinations and unexpected debates.
Thanks for reading!
Check out the front page, or use the search bar, to find dozens of games and activities on the site.
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Full Stack Web & App Development Course
This Full Stack Project Based Web & App Development Course is a part of the Concept Learner Coding Wizards Program which includes both front end and back end development. Both Offline and Online Classes are conducted in this program. You will be guided throughout by working professionals who have 5+ years of experience in industry. No matter if you are a beginner or already have some prior coding knowledge, this all in one web development course will make you a pro web developer. The projects that you will be completing throughout this course will be help you create a strong portfolio for your job or even if you want to start as a freelancer. By the end of this course, you will be fluently programming and be ready to make any website you can dream of. If you want to learn to code through building fun and useful projects, then take this course.
What You Will Learn ?
This Course is divided into three part : Frontend Web Development , Backend Web Development & App Development
Front End Web Development:
- Introduction To Web and its Functionalities
- Web Designing Projects
Back End Web Development
- Introduction to Back End Functionalities
- Installation of Development Environment
- Introduction to PHP with Laravel Structure
- Understanding of Laravel
- Backend Development with Laravel
- Web Development Projects
Android App Development
- Introduction to Android Studio
- Understanding Project Structure and Activity Life Cycle
- Understanding the design pattern using XML
- Introduction to backend functionalities using JAVA
- Android App Development Projects
Tools & Technologies That You Will Learn Throughout This Course
- PHP, Laravel
- Text Editors
- Local Server
- How To Use FTP
- Hosting Tools
- Command Line
What You Will Take From This Course ?
- Job-ready skills
- In-depth knowledge about programming
- Personal Laptop
6 Months (Phase I – 4 months, Phase II – 2 months)
During Phase I, the student will be guided to become a well-skilled developer so that he/she can build any kind of app or website using the basic knowledge that has been given in Concept Learner Coding Wizards program. After the completion of Phase I, the student will be taught about further advanced programming like server side handle in Phase II.
After the completion of Phase I, the student may decide to take part in Phase II if interested in further advanced programming or he/she may leave the course after the completion of Phase I.
Phase I : Rs 9000
Phase II : Rs 6000
Total Course Fees : Rs
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One of the best things about living in the age that we do is the simple joy of indoor plumbing. Most people take for granted the fact that they can turn on the tap and have clean water come out. Since it is available, and easy to use, we all find our daily lives need it. But it does come with a price tag. The more water you use, the more you are charged (most water service providers charge the lowest rate for the first 3 units of water, if you go over that, you get charged more per unit). There are ways to lower your water bill, and it does not take much sacrifice to do so.
No matter where you live there are certain plants that have become adapted to the environment. Almost every climate on earth has trees, flowers, shrubs, and a form of grass. These plants are well adapted to the amount of rainfall that naturally falls in the area. If you are just building a house, remodeling, or looking for a change, consider xeriscaping your yard. By using local native plants you will have to do minimal watering if any at all. For those plants that do need a little extra during the hot dry spells of summer, install drip lines. You will water just the plant, and will not lose as much to evaporation.
One thing that has become more prevalent in recent years is our desire to be clean. While showering every other day is in no way bad hygiene, most people find it a good start to the day to clean themselves up. If you cannot make it a day without taking a shower, aim for taking shorter showers. Less time spent in the shower (try for 3 minute showers) and you will not only save water, but also electricity (for the fan and lights) and gas (for heating the water). Whatever you do, avoid taking a bath. Showers are always more economical.
Use the Dishwasher
Do you hate getting your hands greasy when it comes time for dishes? Well the best way to save water is to use your dishwasher. You can keep yourself clean, save time, and get your dishes cleaner than washing them by hand. If you make sure to load your dishwasher completely (do not overfill, that could cause your dishes to be blocked and not get clean) you will use less water than if you were to wash dishes by hand. Remember, this only works if you have a relatively new dishwasher. Older machines waste a lot of water.
Install Low Flow Fixtures
Any showerhead manufactured after 1992 must use a maximum of 2.5 gallons per minute. If you have older fixtures, yours could be dumping 5.5 gallons per minute. For as little as $10 and about 20 minutes of work you can update your shower to use minimal water. Toilets, on the other hand, are a little harder to install, but will save you more water. A toilet from before 1982 will use between 5 and 7 gallons per flush, whereas a modern equivalent uses only 1.6 gallons.
Turn Off the Water
I am always surprised by those who just let the water run while they brush their teeth, comb their hair, or do other bathroom activities. It is easy to turn the tap off while brushing, and you can save yourself several gallons of water per day. If you want to take it to extremes, turn the shower off between lathering and rinsing. You could save a few more gallons by only having the water running for about a minute during the whole shower.
Saving water isn’t just better on your wallet, it is also easier on the environment. If everyone went to extremes to save water, there would never be any water shortages. More water available means that the price will not climb as rapidly. So by saving water now, you are helping to save money later. If nothing else, conserving natural resources is always a good idea.
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Here is a summary of some of the work our office is doing during shelter in place.
Fire & Resiliency
UCCE Sonoma is building on the foundational work of other county departments such as Sonoma Water and Permit Sonoma, by providing outreach to private landowners to address forest health, vegetation management and fire fuel reduction.
Lake Sonoma Decision Support System: Development of an online geo spatial reporting tool to help landowners assess:
Match.Graze: development of an online database that connects land owners and grazers.
- Filmed educational videos
- Creating website
- Current status: roll out in early June.
Good Fire Alliance: partnership with Audubon Canyon Ranch to assist landowners in managing fire fuels through prescribed burning on private and publicly owned lands. The following prescribed fires are in the active planning stage:
- 100+ acre burn unit at Cooley Ranch near Lake Sonoma; late May.
- Sonoma Ecology Center is planning a burn at Van Hoosear Wildflower Preserve; late May - early June.
- Bodega Pastures spanning several weekends in October/November.
Resilient Landscapes: Master Gardener collaborative project to:
- Host Firewise webinars
- Develop materials for Fire Safe Sonoma's Living with Fire brochure and webpage resource.
- Post Fire Survival/Mortality: research project to develop a quick and simple post-fire tree survival reference tool to aid with triage of burned landscapes.
- Working with local fire departments to homogenize fire-resilient landscape standards.
Oak Tree Health: organized, hosted and presented:
- California Oak Workshop with science based oak health information. Over 500 participants.
- Sudden Oak Death Blitz pivoted to online, educating and distributing 93 test kits to the public.
Food Systems & Security
- “Stay Home Grow Food” series has reached over 350 people with videos plus resources via an extensive social media campaign.
- Gardener Sense program delivered by video conference to help homeowners reduce water use.
- Master Gardener's are pivoting their classes to webinars.
The value of a strong, connected local food system to sustain the resiliency of our communities has never been more clear.
Coordinating with Sonoma County Food System Alliance and strategizing for a series of video conferences on longer term emergency food response planning & strengthening the local food supply chain looking to local production & distribution as part of meeting food need.
- Meeting on March 23 with over 50 emergency food responders to strategize on coronavirus response.
- Chairing the Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) Food group. Continue to collaborate with the group to meet the needs of emergency food organizations.
- Sonoma County Food Recovery Coalition
UCCE used connections to secure donations of over 12,000 wine boxes to
Redwood Empire Food Bank for boxing and distributing food.
Local Meat Supplies: Mobile Slaughter Unit (MSU)
UCCE is working with local livestock producers in Marin/Sonoma to create a business plan for an MSU which can assist local livestock producers with a local, safe option for processing livestock.
- Applying for USDA grant to assist these producers to determine the functionality of keeping it in production.
- Will develop educational and management strategies to ensure economic security for small-scale livestock producers.
Integrated Pest Management
- Collaborating with UC Davis researchers to continue projects that address soil and fungal pests that shorten the lifespan of vineyards.
Critical research on the newly detected invasive Mediterranean oak borer (pictured) found in valley oak in eastern Sonoma County. Collaborators include Cal Fire, US Forest Service, and CDFA.
4-H youth educational programs have continued to engage youth and adults with online technologies.
- Developed fact sheets to support volunteer educators in delivering online programs available at Youth Development Resources
- Short-term educational programs have been implemented reaching elementary-aged children with science and art content.
- Ongoing programming has been transitioning online focused for teens around college and career readiness (Juntos 4-H) and youth participatory action research.
Annual Sonoma 4-H Open House and ChickenQue transitioned from a full-day chicken BBQ lunch fundraiser to a radiothon.
- Partnered with local radio The Bull 93.7 to do a radiothon.
- The station promoted 4-H with interviews of staff, volunteers, and youth.
- The event also served as a public awareness campaign showcasing the program's legacy helping youth reach their full potential.
Working with local dairy and livestock producers to apply for grants from CDFA to reduce greenhouse gases:
- Alternative Manure Management Program
- Healthy Solis Program
If funded, these grants would bring over $5 million to reduce GHG by 4,154 MTeCO2
Support Local Producers
- Working with local creameries and FEED Sonoma, to develop a dairy CSA box option.
- Revisit the County Lands for Food Production program initiated by UCCE to increase the availability of county owned land to communities, farmers and ranchers.
- Find Local Food & Aid the Community
Providing information and updates.
Coronavirus Resources webpages provides information for agricultural enterprises focusing on financial resources, Ag worker safety and food safety and includes resources for where to find food from local farms and for opportunities to volunteer.
Sonoma county residents love their oak trees, and with good reason: Oak woodlands are a source of immense value not just to the more than 330 types of animals and hundreds of other organisms they support, but also to the cultural, economic, and social fabric of our society. Sudden oak death (SOD) threatens to unhinge these systems, imperil biodiversity, create hazard trees or fuel for fires, and potentially infect agriculturally or horticulturally important plants. So whether it means adapting educational events to virtual spaces, delivering materials by mail, training online, answering home phones instead of staffing the Master Gardener desk, or collecting leaves for the SOD blitz by bicycle while wearing a mask and social distancing, the UCCE Sonoma SOD Program is not letting COVID-19 slow us down.
A key endeavor of this group is the yearly Sudden Oak Death Blitz in partnership with UC Berkeley's Forest Pathology and Mycology Lab. This state-wide citizen science project allows landowners to receive free testing of California bay laurel and tanoak leaves, contribute to long-term scientific research, and update the SOD Map Mobile app used by landowners and professionals to assess disease risk in their area. As SOD Blitz creator Dr. Matteo Garbelotto wrote in a letter addressed to all Californians about this year's program,
“The SOD Blitzes have become a tradition for many, while providing key information to help us save our oaks from a devastating disease.”
UCCE Sonoma hosts six blitz events annually whereas most counties hold just one, and we were eager to test new areas of tree mortality that were discovered after last-year's blitz had already passed. Here's how we made it work:
- Training took place online.
- Three Zoom sessions were set up with SOD team members for participant questions.
- Collection packets were mailed to most participants, and the rest picked up following strict safety guidelines supervised by staff.
- Leaves were collected at homes and on public land by walkers, cyclists, and others engaging in outdoor exercise.
- Kashia Pomo staff continued to sample on their land.
- In collaboration with SSU's Center for Environmental Inquiry, we hosted the only SOD blitz in the state that was fully bilingual in Spanish and English.
Despite limitations posed by COVID-19 regarding how to train volunteers, access areas where leaves could be sampled, and safely pass materials and samples between participants and blitz organizers, this year's campaign is on track to be even more successful than 2019. Returning leaves by mail instead of in-person allowed residents on the coast and other remote areas to participate easily, leading to a better geographic distribution of sampling. Online trainings and Q&A sessions, though less personal and lacking physical demonstrations, encouraged people with schedule constraints to give the blitz a try. One participant with extra time on his hands reported that he thought this was a great way to give back to the community in a time of need. Based on the number of participants and collection packets requested, we estimate a 15% increase in sampling from last year, including all major areas of Sonoma county and most of Mendocino county.
And things are just getting started. Though a SOD-themed Plant Walk with the local Milo Baker chapter of the California Native Plant Society was postponed, discussions are underway about creating a live virtual field trip in its place, complete with 360 degree photos of highlighted spots along the trail. Similarly, SOD Specialist Master Gardeners have been presenting at public library series' for years, and are now hoping to create a recorded version to be posted on UCCE Sonoma's Sudden Oak Death webpage. Check back for announcements on these and other happenings.
Our gratitude goes out to every volunteer who has invested their time in staying educated, spreading the word, and participating in citizen science with us over the years, especially during the current shelter-in-place, with special recognition for our dedicated team of SOD Specialist Master Gardeners. We couldn't help our oaks without you!
- Author: Lisa A Blecker, coordinator for the UC Pesticide Safety Education Program and Office of Pesticide Information and Coordination
- Author: Whitney Brim-DeForest, UC Cooperative Extension rice advisor in Sutter and Yuba counties
- Author: Katrina Hunter, UC Integrated Pest Management Program pesticide safety writer
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice, UC ANR Assistant Director, News and Information Outreach
While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.
With increased demand for personal protective equipment, or PPE, to protect against COVID-19, these essential workers are facing shortages. Agricultural commissioners in 28 counties are hearing from farmers who are having trouble getting PPE for their employees and farmers in another 11 counties who are worried about running out of PPE in the next month or twoaccording to a California Department of Pesticide Regulation survey.
To reduce the spread of COVID-19, workers may wear homemade face coverings, but for applying pesticides, they must wear respirators specified on the pesticide product label, said Whitney Brim-DeForest, UC Cooperative Extension rice advisor.
Pesticide applicators may use gear that is more protective than required by the product label and regulations.
“Although this could change in the days ahead, half-mask and full-mask respirators are more available than disposable N95 respirators for now,” said Lisa Blecker, coordinator for the UC Pesticide Safety Education Program.
Before the pandemic, 10% of N95 respirators from 3M went to health care, but that number is now 90%, the company said in a letter to distributors. This has led to significant backorders of PPE supplies for distributors.
Carl Atwell, president of Gempler's, an online distributor of worker supplies, said that before the crisis, normal lead times for PPE was up to 10 days. He estimated disposable respirators will become available in the fall and other PPE supplies in August.
In the meantime, there is alternative PPE that agricultural professionals can use during the shortage.
Atwell suggests looking for lesser known brands of PPE as opposed to the first tier of choice: “It's sort of like searching for Purell hand sanitizer. Purell brand might be out of stock, but can you find a different disinfectant?
On Gempler's website, the more recognizable Tyvek coverall from Dupont is sold out, however disposable protective clothing is available from other brands. Reusable chemical-resistant clothing is also available as opposed to their disposable counterparts. Supplies in high demand are reusable and disposable nitrile gloves, protective clothing, disposable respirators and certain protective eyewear, such as goggles and face shields.
For workers who will be applying pesticides, Blecker and Brim-DeForest offered some guidelines on how to meet PPE requirements as the shortage continues.
General PPE requirements: “Remember, the label is the law,” said Brim-DeForest. “PPE requirements for agriculture are not being loosened.” The UCCE advisor recommends purchasing only what you need for the season and choosing reusable PPE whenever possible. Growers who have excess supplies of PPE can coordinate with their county agricultural commissioner or UCCE advisor to help other producers in their area.
Respirators: If you can't find the respirator required on the label, Blecker said, “Use an alternative, more-protective respirator. For example, if an N95 is required, you can use a half-mask with N95 particulate filters; these can be stand-alone filters or ones that attach to an organic vapor cartridge. You could also use a different pesticide that doesn't require a respirator. Consult with your PCA (pest control adviser) for options.”
Gloves: Chemical-resistant gloves, usually 14 mil or more in thickness are required for most California pesticide applications and should be worn by mixers, handlers and applicators. If nitrile gloves are not available, viton and laminate gloves are universal chemical-resistant materials for most pesticide labels. If the glove material is specified on the label, that instruction must be followed.
“Disposable gloves less than 14 mil can be worn, but not for more than 15 minutes at a time,” Blecker said. “Farmers should also note that thinner gloves cannot be layered on top of one another.”
Coveralls: Coveralls should be worn when required by the pesticide label or when the signal word is “WARNING” or “DANGER,” or when applying by backpack or airblast. “Coveralls can be made out of high-density polyethylene fibers (Tyvek and other brands), which are disposable, or cotton, which are reusable,” Brim-DeForest said. “If reusable coveralls are worn, the employer must ensure employees are provided clean coveralls.”
Goggles/face shields: Face shields are required for mixing and loading pesticides only if it's stated on the label. “If a face shield is unavailable, a full-face respirator can be used,” Blecker said. “Goggles or protective eyewear should always be worn in California when handling pesticides, regardless of what the label says. The face shield, goggles or safety glasses must provide front, side and brow protection and meet the American National Standards Institute Z87.1 standard for impact resistance.
For more information about PPE, contact your county agricultural commissioner or see the California Department of Pesticide Regulation's posters:
4-H families have been working hard sewing cotton masks for nurses, essential workers, and friends and family!
Now that home sewn fabric masks are required in Sonoma County, and N95 masks are reserved for first responders, we are busy sewing up a storm. It has been a challenge with fabric stores closed for regular shopping so it is a good thing that sewists (sewing artists) tend to have extra supplies on hand!
The count thus far is 277 masks sewn by 7 families and that is just the start! They were donated to hospitals, nurses, mental health workers, medical offices, Senior Center, to essential workers that must stay on the job and some to friends and other families in need.
Way to go 4-Hers, learning and helping is a beautiful thing!
A big thank you to Xobon Magazine for posting instructions:
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Golden Hills 4-H club volunteer project leader, Jemetha Cosgrove, and her two children, aged 12 and 7, repurposed their 3D printing equipment – part of a 4-H AgTech project – to make face shields to help in the COVID-19 pandemic. As of April 13, they've made around 120 and are donating them to medical and other essential workers in the North Bay.
They are using a Prusa MK3 printer. Prusa popularized the home face shield 3D printing movement from its headquarters in Europe and it has continued to spread around the world. Their shield design and others are being widely used by health care workers during the pandemic. The Cosgroves have been printing a design approved for use in hospitals by the U.S. National Institute of Health.
Each print takes about 2.5 hours and can take longer or shorter depending on the shield design. They are also printing bias tape makers, used to make mask ties, to support the cloth mask sewing efforts. They invite others who own 3D printers to join the effort.
Those interested in making masks can connect on the Facebook page:
Making a Difference Sonoma County.
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Endsleigh was founded by the Nation Union of Students (NUS) in 1965 to provide affordable car insurance for drivers in full-time education. Today it is a leading insurer for young drivers, students and graduates. Young motorists typically face the highest premiums of any drivers. Endsleigh tries to minimise these costs and provide policies tailored to the needs of young and student drivers. Its student car insurance therefore sometimes come with 10% discounts on servicing and 20% on MOTs.
And Endsleigh isn’t just for students. It’s also used by many professionals, including older people, and is the preferred insurer for several unions and professional associations, including the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, the Association of University Teachers and the Association of Optometrists.
What types of cover does Endsleigh offer?
Endsleigh offers three levels of car insurance: comprehensive; third party, fire and theft (TPFT) and third party only. These tiers are available on a range of insurance products:
- Student driver insurance: policies for college and university students and recent graduates; students at some universities receive discounts on premiums. These policies also give you 10% off servicing and 20% off MOT costs. Comprehensive student driver policies come with courtesy car cover as standard, and all policies can be topped up with legal cover for £4.99.
- Young driver insurance: policies for drivers under 25 who aren’t students. These policies come with 90 days of European cover and comprehensive policies with £100 of cover for personal possessions in the car and windscreen cover.
- Car insurance: policies available to those who aren’t students, including older drivers. Comprehensive policies include courtesy car cover and 24-hour windscreen and glass cover.
- Black box insurance: policies offered through ingenie which install a black box in your vehicle to record your driving behaviour. Your driving performance is assessed after three months and then two other times in a policy year and can give you discounts on your premiums of up to 21%.
- Learner driver insurance: short-term insurance for provisional drivers between the ages of 17 and 34, using someone else’s vehicle to learn to drive. These policies are offered in partnership Marmalade. Learner drivers can start accumulating a no-claims bonus with these policies which can be transferred to their permanent policies when they pass their driving test.
- Temporary student driver insurance: covers college and university students on a borrowed vehicle for a period of seven, 14, 21 or 28 days. These policies are ideal for students who want to drive their parent’s vehicle during holidays.
Why choose Endsleigh?
- Discounts on servicing: including 10% off servicing and 20% off MOT fees.
- Tailored for students: including coverage ideal for holidays between terms and discounts negotiated with certain universities
- No-claims bonuses for learner drivers: allows learner drivers to start accumulating a no-claims bonus before they even earn their licence
- No-claims bonus accelerator scheme: allows new drivers to reap the benefits of a no-claims bonus in just six months, rather than a year
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Courtney Boyd Camps
Who is Courtney Boyd?
Courtney Boyd enters her third season as Head Women's Coach at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa.
Clarke broke the program record for wins in a season in the '18-'19 season, finishing 23-12, and made its first-ever NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Championship appearance. The Pride advanced to the Quarterfinal Round after posting wins over No. 1 seed and third-ranked Columbia (Mo.) and No. 4 seed and fourteenth-ranked Shawnee State. Boyd's team was recognized with three Heart of America Athletic Conference All-Conference selection and one NAIA second-team All-American. The Pride boasted a 3.32 team grade point average.
A native of Keokuk, Iowa, Boyd came to Clarke from UW-Parkside, where she spent two years as associate head women’s basketball coach and was involved in all phases of the program.
Boyd received the WBCA Thirty Under 30 award at the conclusion of the 2016-17 season. The WBCA Thirty Under 30 presented by Marriott Rewards® program was created to recognize 30 up-and-coming women’s basketball coaches age 30 and under at all levels of the game. Each honoree has exemplified their involvement in community service, mentorship and impact on others, professional manner, and attitude and professional association involvement.
Boyd started her collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, helping the Vikings to a Midwest Collegiate Conference Championship and a trip to the NAIA Elite Eight, finishing the season 30-6 overall.
As a player, Boyd spent two seasons at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, leading the Eagles to a runner-up finish at the NJCAA Championships in 2006 before hoisting the national title in 2007. She finished her Kirkwood career with a 67-4 record before continuing her playing career at Division II Dixie State University in Saint George, Utah. At Dixie State, Boyd was named Newcomer of the Year and Honorable Mention All-Pacific West Conference in 2008 while setting a school record for most three-pointers in a game and landing second-team All-Pac West accolades in 2009.
Boyd received her bachelor's degree in elementary education with an ESL endorsement from Dixie State and her master of education degree from Augusta University.
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As I try to find more and more ways to amp up my outfits without depleting my bank account, I find that my answer is literally right at my fingertips. No matter what a fashionista is wearing, no outfit feels complete without that perfect color of nail polish. This season's nudes and grays are the perfect complement to any ensemble, and I've found some of the best colors at a most reasonable price. Borghese nail polishes are about $8 and come in the most sought-after shades, including my new stand-by color, Biscotto Beige. It screams ultra chic without saying a word.
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Pivotal Software and VMware launch new container service
@Pivotal Software Inc. and its @DellTechnologies Inc. sibling @VMware Inc. today announced the general availability of their @Kubernetes-based Pivotal #Container Service following an initial beta release last year. #PKS, as the service is called, is designed to enable companies easily create software containers, which bundle software applications together in a way that they can be run anywhere, and deploy them across both public and private clouds. The service also makes use of Kubernetes, the #opensource #container #orchestration service first developed by @Google Inc., to manage those containers. The main idea behind PKS is to help companies migrate their apps to Google’s #CloudPlatform and @VMware’s #vSphere #virtualization platform, which emulates a computer system in order to use corporate data center servers more efficiently. “As you evaluate your enterprise software portfolio, you’re going to have app platforms, containers, and functions,” Pivotal’s team wrote in a blog post. “So of course you’re going to have plenty of Kubernetes clusters in the mix. Your job now is to give your team a rock-solid, secure Kubernetes ‘dial tone.’” PKS is essentially a commercial version of the open-source Kubo project that was developed by Google and Pivotal last year, and enables developers to run Kubernetes at large scale in production scenarios. One of the main advantages of the new service is it allows users to create containers quickly and easily instead of having to provision physical servers for them in a data center. Another key benefit for VMware customers is it allows them to run containerized applications on-premises, using their existing infrastructure, said Holger Mueller, principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research Inc. But looking beyond Pivotal and VMware’s pitch, the release of PKS is really just an acknowledgment from those companies that Kubernetes has won the battle to become the industry-standard orchestration software for containers, Mueller added. “Amazon Web Services did the same at re:Invent last year,” Mueller said, referring to the launch of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes in December. “Enterprises want load portability and so everyone needs to support Kubernetes.” PKS 1.0 comes with multicloud capabilities, support for vSphere and Google Cloud Platform, as well as the latest Kubernetes 1.9.2 release. The platform also features advanced container networking capabilities, multitenancy with cluster-level security, and is certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the companies said. Other features of PKS include on-demand provisioning, an enterprise container registry, NSX-T network virtualization and fully automated operations.
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My name is Daniela. I offer private lessons to children and adults. I have an MA in Spanish, and my experience includes teaching at universities, schools and oil and gas companies.
My hours are flexible. Handouts and other resources are free of charge. Location will be decided upon mutual agreement. All students are required to fill out student registration form.
My teaching focus is on language learning strategies. I focus on raising students’ awareness of various communication strategies, including strategies to bridge vocabulary gaps, reading and listening strategies, and general language learning strategies.
Let me know if you are interested! ¡Muchas gracias!
I have been tutoring for the past 5 years, but I am also a Spanish teacher. I have received positive feedback from my students, and they have informed me that my lessons have improved their ability to better understand and speak Spanish language.
My rates vary according to the distance I have to travel.
The lesson should be cancelled 24 hours in advances in order to receive refund. I usually prepare lessons a few days in advance, and I prefer to be informed in advance of any cancellations.
If teaching groups, the price of one hour lesson is $45 + $20 per each additional student (ex., one hour lesson for 2 students is $65, for three $85, etc).
I have BA and MA degrees in Spanish.
Currently, I teach Spanish at a private school. In the past, I also worked as a Spanish Research Assistant and Sessional Instructor at University of Calgary. I have taught private lessons to adults and children for the past five years.
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Myanmar Unesco World Heritage SitesBurma Unesco World Heritage
The city is full of historical and culturally rich. It is home to the highest concentration of buddhistic architectural styles in the world, with over three thousand Buddha Schools, convents, Stupa's and memorials in one area. They are a cross-section of Burma's past, present day and future as it is a millenium long building.
But not all of these churches have such a wealth of historic and visible effect. Because of the buddhistic faith that there is a great spiritual value in the construction of churches, Bagan expanded until the construction work was stopped in 2010 to concentrate on the preservation of the present one. Burma's government has built a number of churches and palagodas, one of which is devoted to General Than Shwe.
Scientists, in particular Don Stadtner, have denied the intervention of the army and considered the archeological integrity of Bagan bad. The town councillor is against the designation of Bagan as a UNESCO world cultural heritage site: Many, like Stadtner, are against the motion because they believe that Burma does not merit association with UNESCO because it would be damaging to the organisation's seriousness.
Not only would UNESCO lower its own standard, it would reinforce that the unaccountable manipulation of such holy archeological sites can have an advantage. Stadtner's view is balanced by Naing Win, Bagan's chief archaeologist, who regards the accounts as wrongfully excessive and untrue. As Naing Win says, his staff adhered rigorously to the architectonic shapes and details of the ancient temple.
Therefore, with the sole exemption of ages, there should be no architectonic difference between the primitive and restored Buddhist shrines. Burma is one of the impoverished nations in Asia, despite its wealth of gems, mineral resources and petroleum, a product of years of militarily corrupt practices. Desperately to boost its tourist industry, Bagan's classifications will unavoidably entail external investment.
However, this increase in tourist activity could make the country's nervously fragile business environment vulnerable to commercialisation, and many are worried about Burma's role in this economy. Furthermore, there are fears that an increase in the number of tourists could harm the Buddhist structure itself, especially if Bagan does not have the necessary means or know-how to help a rising number of people.
Before the archeological site can be UNESCO classed, these results, both good and bad, must be taken into account. Since its first bid in 1996, the country's emergency situation regarding the designation of Bagan as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site has persisted and was denied due to bad governance policies and a lack of legislation. UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova visited Bagan in 2012 to debate how the relationship between the organisation and Burma will develop.
From now on, UNESCO specialists will work with Bagan's archaeology staff to improve their preservation and restorative capabilities and provide wall conservator schooling. This timid approach is a good point of departure for creating a sustainable administrative and commercial environment that can help the culture of Bagan.
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How to Reduce Chronic Inflammation
Dr. Murray is a highly accomplished physician who has been certified in four different medical specialties including internal medicine, osteopathic manipulative medicine, energy medicine and functional medicine.
From her clinical work, she has learned how much pain and suffering is caused by chronic inflammation, and how reducing this inflammation helps people reduce pain and live happier lives.
-Eat the rainbow. Vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. There are over 25,000 phytonutrients.
-Stretch. your body has 3 holistic systems in it, Nervous system, vascular system, and connective tissue.
-Eliminate gluten! If you give up gluten for the next 21 days, that could be the most important thing I tell you today.
Root Cause Medicine.
Functional medicine is about root cause medicine. Ideally, you’re only in the doctor’s office in extreme situations. So if you learn the tools, you can be empowered to do guided self doctoring and you don’t need to be in the doctor’s office as much.
I want people to be empowered because too much of us are running around thinking that someone else needs to care for us or someone else needs to do things for us. But the bottom line is if you’re educated to some basic concepts about how to take care of yourself and be in right relationship with your body, your mind, your spirit and your relationships, then you are not going to need to be in the doctor’s office all the time, or dependent on prescription medications.
10 Ways in 10 Days to Stop Your Suffering and Live a Pain Free Life.
It’s about Inflammation and Toxicity.
Statens essentially do not stop that. You’ve got to go to the root cause, which is the fact that the majority us are inflamed and toxic from our environment and our diet and the chemicals we’re exposed to. And you’ve got to go back to, you’ve got to go upstream and correct those problems and people can be trained and educated and given the tools to be able to reverse their underlying inflammation and immune dysfunction and never need a staten.
Make sure and check out Dr. Murray’s book Make A DENT in Chronic Disease: Your Guide to Living Pain Free Through Functional Medicine.
Immune dysfunction, inflammation, autoimmunity.
The immune system and inflammation is what’s causing most of the chronic disease in our world today. And your immune system is your military. I have a book out now, just came out about two weeks ago that I’m over the top excited about and it’s called Make a Dent in Chronic Disease. Right in chapter one I explain the immune system and how it works, but obviously not in high level science terminology, more in analogies and everyday explanations like I’m about to explain your immune system is your army, your navy, air force, and marines.
If foreign invaders get in, such as a bacteria or a virus or a mold or chemicals or a food sensitivity, some food that your immune system is sensitive to or allergic to, then your defense system’s going to go into effect and try and protect you. And the whole point of the your immune system is there are steps that it takes in order to fight against these foreign invaders. And that’s what inflammation is.
About those foreign invaders… Does time restricted eating help? (Intermittent Fasting)
Absolutely true. Intermittent fasting is something you want to do daily, preferably. There’s many ways to do intermittent fasting, but one of the most typical ways to do it is each day try and put between 12 and 15 hours of a time when you are not ingesting food that has any new information to your body, such as sugars or carbohydrates or fats or proteins or chemicals or things like that.
Any time we eat, even when we eat a clean diet, we are putting glucose sugar into our body. We’re putting proteins in our body and our body is going to have its information and our body has to respond to it. And sometimes we put allergens in our body.
With big allergies, you’re going to have a rash and then maybe even shortness of breath and God forbid, a full blown reaction. I’m not really talking about allergens. Most people know if they’re allergic to something.
So I’m talking about food sensitivities to gluten or dairy or soy for example. So that’s one piece. But the other thing is even when we are not eating a food sensitivity, our body needs to respond to whatever we are eating, including unhealthy elements in the food.
You can’t avoid all of them. Your immune system sits right behind that gut wall and is going to respond. So you’re military needs to rest in the same way that, if you think about it, a soldier does. If they have to work all the time and never gets to sleep, then they’re going to make mistakes.
And there’s going to be, as we all know, that term friendly fire. So the point is those 12 to 15 hours allows your immune system to take care of the last meal and then allows your immune system to rest. But also some of the soldiers that are on duty can be finding some of the pathogens that might be hiding in your tissues or in things called biofilms. For example, like plaque on your teeth. The plaque on your teeth is actually bacteria that are living in little communities that spew out a gel like substance or the plaque itself that protects them and hide them from your immune system and your soldiers that are looking for them to try and get rid of them.
So the intermittent fasting allows your immune system for rest, but also the troops that are still on duty while the others a resting can be looking for pathogens that may be hiding, whether that be bacteria or mold or chemicals and so forth.
Some important definitions: Acute inflammation versus chronic inflammation.
First of all acute inflammation is, again, your Army, your Navy, your police force going out and attacking any immediate invasion or injury. So if you stub your toe or you step off a curb and sprained your ankle, or you cut your finger, they come to clean up that wound.
And so certain types of cells come in and start laying down tissue to create the scab and then over time, other layers happen that start healing that wound. So we’ve all seen that and experienced that and acute inflammatory response. This is normal. It’s a normal healing response by your body.
The difference is that if we are constantly exposed to chemicals, toxins, stress, chronic bacterial, or let’s say Lyme as a bacterial infection or Epstein Barr like mono from a viral infection, or if someone lives in a moldy, wet, moist environment, then the acute inflammation never stops.
The inflammatory response is going on 24 seven and the person develops this iceberg of underlying inflammation that they’re not even aware of going on in their body, which can be the chronic reason and the root cause of many disease processes in our body.
How do you find out if you’ve got too much chronic inflammation?
Well, first of all, if someone is exhausted most of the time, if someone has chronic pain such as joint pain or abdominal pain, if someone has irritable bowel syndrome such as they never leave the bathroom feeling satisfied of emptying their bowels or anytime they eat anything they are running immediately right afterwards to the toilet and having diarrhea.
If someone has migraine headaches and so forth, these are all signs that you are chronically inflamed. So it’s not like you have to have a big lab tests to tell you what the symptoms are.
But also there are of course lab tests that are commonly done through any primary care doctor’s office that can test your level of inflammation.
When you talk about being hypersensitive to our environment, what does that mean?
The environment is everything that we interact with in our day. For example, the most typical one for people is food. So we eat at least three times a day, typically more. And Food is information. It can be either good holistic, healthy inflammation or it can be negative inflammation looked at as foreign invaders, or food sensitivity information. So that’s one piece of anyone’s environment.
In the science perspective, we talk about a term called Epigenetics, meaning the environment can affect your genes and either keep good genes turned on or it can cause negative genetics to be turned on and signaled to come to effect. So when referring to the environment, I’m referring to the food we eat, plus we are all exposed to air pollution, noise pollution, and chemical toxins.
They did a study on the umbilical of pregnant women and it showed upwards of 250 cancer causing toxins in that blood. So you can’t avoid toxins. We all are exposed to them in our environment.
We’re all exposed to stress in our modern world, the cell phone, it’s going off all the time. We never get a quiet moment and that affects our immune system. I’m also referring to infections. Again, as I alluded to before, someone may have had infections and even the down to the plaque on your teeth is a chronic bacterial infection of your guns. So the environment is everything.
What about cleaning chemicals and things like Lysol, Draino and other household chemicals?
Absolutely. Thank you for bringing that up because I should have listed that. If you haven’t heard of the environmental working group, ewg.org then I strongly suggest that you go there.
Most of us are slathering lotions on ourselves with parabens and phthalates in them, which disrupt your immune system and disrupt your hormone balance. And we don’t know it. And this is what I’m talking about, the tools for self doctoring and to keep you out of the doctor’s office and to keep you away from chronic diseases is that there are the chemicals in the cosmetics, the soaps, the shampoos, and then of course your whole household cleaners.
And if you go to the environmental working group.org it’s a wonderful nonprofit organization. I’ve been standing in a pharmacy and looking at the shelves at let’s say shampoos and I put in a brand on the ewg.org website and I find that exact product and they will rank it or rate it green. Go ahead and buy it. If it’s not green, don’t buy it.
Before buying anything, check with https://www.ewg.org
You claim chronic immune dysfunction is the root cause of most chronic diseases. That’s a powerful statement. Talk about that.
Well, again, your immune system is your military and as I said earlier, if your immune system cannot rest, if it is constantly working, then you’re going to end up having friendly fire, which leads down the path for many people to one of the most common conditions in our industrial world which are auto immune diseases, auto is self and immune is your immune system attacking self. So for example, one of the most common chronic auto immune diseases in our in women, predominantly women doesn’t mean men are a excused from it, but Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or Hypo-Thyroidism most commonly that is caused by chronic immune dysfunction. That’s caused by the fact that your immune system is constantly fighting and therefore it can’t even differentiate anymore between the enemy and you. And so your different organ systems in your body get attacked. Now some auto immune diseases are purely inflammatory related such as asthma.
Asthma is an allergic reaction if you will, and it’s a hypersensitivity inflammatory response. Your lungs are getting irritated and red. And like we talked about with the finger wound thyroiditis is a little bit of a different pathway through the immune system.
It’s not going through the army or the marines, it’s going through the navy and it’s just a different path of a complex system, but there’s still the same thing remains in that your immune system is dysfunctional and the immune system is not being able to differentiate between self and non-self and and it attacks and so this immune dysfunction, autoimmune disease and inflammation are so many times in our world as much as 60-75% of the time, the root cause of most chronic diseases, and if people can reverse it, then they will reverse the disease process or the disease process will never start to unfold and the bad genetics will be kept quiet and completely of course avoid or prevent going down a path of autoimmune disease or heart disease or migraine headaches or any of these things.
I have patients every single day that reverse their chronic conditions as a result of quieting their inflammation.
So what do we do? Give us some solutions.
Absolutely. I’ll give three primary solutions. And then if you’re interested, I’ll give a bonus. But number one, number one, and the most important again, is we put food in our mouth three, four, five times a day.
You want to eat the rainbow. And it’s the color red, yellow, orange, blue, green, and purple. I do not mean skittles.
I think real food, fruits and vegetables of all colors of the rainbow.
Why? It’s because every, you know, whoever put us here, whether you come from a place of saying God or the universe or whatever, your religion doesn’t matter. But the point is whoever developed us and created this wonderful creation we’re in, put different vitamins, different minerals and something called phyto nutrients. The prefix stands for plant and there are over 25,000 different phyto nutrients in plants, fruits and vegetables, and phyto nutrients protect the plants from their environment. So you notice we need to eat every color of the rainbow to maintain our health. So every day eat at least one serving of every color of the rainbow.
And it’s in chapter two of my book, make a dent in chronic disease.
Number two solution for today’s talk would be to stretch.
If you took all of your muscles, your ligaments, and your Fascia, which is the name for a type of connective tissue, it’s like Saran wrap, it surrounds everything in your body. If you took that all out and you made it three dimensional, it would look exactly like you.
And if it has restrictions in it, it will cause blocks in blood flow. You will get blockage of the ability of waste products to be drained out of your tissues.
So if you stretch with really, really basic stretches like I have on my website, you go to the health library and you drop down to exercise videos, I have a basic, less than 10 minutes of very gentle stretches. And if you were to do that, it will decrease inflammation and quiet pain.
One of my primary specialties is pain. I will say to a patient, over the next month, I want you to just stretch everything day and that’s all I want you to do. These basic basic stretches. And 99.9% of the time they come back to me if they’d done it every day and they say that is the best thing I’ve ever been taught and my pain is reduced by 85% at least.
You must be a fan of yoga.
Absolute fan of Yoga. But many people don’t have a 90 minute interval to go to every day. Many of my patients say, well, I go to a yoga class. I ask how often, and they say once a week. Okay, that’s great. I’ll also say that the patients that I teach these stretches to, that come back to me and say I do it two or three times a week… it’s not helping that much.
Versus the other example I gave in case study is that the patients that say they come in and they stretched every day come in and say, oh my goodness doc, that’s the best thing I’ve ever been taught. Why didn’t anybody ever teach me this before? My pain is 35-90% gone.
The third solution for reducing chronic inflammation…
So the third solution is to eliminate gluten. Especially with thyroid issues, but many other autoimmune conditions. If you give up gluten for the next month, or at least 21 days and see how you feel, that will be the number one in today’s discussion. I would say with the caveat that a person could do a comprehensive elimination diet and that’s more advanced. And of course I do cover that in my book, but today I’m trying to keep it simple. And for the majority of people I would say eat the rainbow and stretch everyday, gentle basic stretches and eliminate gluten for the next three to four weeks and see how you feel at the end of that month.
Well if you think about it, gluten sounds like glue and it is, it’s a protein that causes a glue like substance in your digestive tract that doesn’t process well. So that’s a problem.
Then there’s Celiac disease of course, which is a horrible disease. It’s an autoimmune disease but that’s only 3% or less of the population. Non Celiac Gluten sensitivity is at least 20% or probably more of the population and particularly in people with autoimmune or other inflammatory conditions.
Okay, how about the bonus solution?
The bonus solution is that every morning before you get out of bed, I want you to list at least one thing that you are grateful for in your life.
We’ve got to shift ourselves and our perception of our environment from things that are the stressors like fear, anger, frustration. These emotions are inflammation producers. So you want to start every day of your life from the place of the positive emotions that are healing and anti-inflammatory, gratefulness, compassion, joy. So just wake up each day and think of one thing or one to three things that you are grateful for in your life.
Learn more about Dr. Murray’s work here:
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Virginia Church Sex Abuse Attorneys
With an estimated 39 million people living with the scars of sexual abuse, it’s obvious the problem has become far more pervasive than initially thought. A growing number of brave people are stepping forward to discuss church sex abuse, with many known cases in the Catholic Church already exposed and more are being reported. If you’ve been sexually assaulted or inappropriately touched by a church official, you should immediately contact a Virginia church sex abuse lawyer at CHASENBOSCOLO.
Religious organizations, in an attempt to save face, may downplay your allegations. They may threaten to excommunicate you for bringing allegations to their attention, or worse. You deserve a safe place to worship, and the opportunity to be heard if priest, nun, or pastoral misconduct has shamed you to the point of fear. By calling our firm at (703) 538-1138, you’ll immediately put an ally in your corner who will fight to get you compensated.
How Church Sex Abuse Starts
It is difficult to imagine that someone would inappropriately touch, fondle, or rape those who trust them to guide them spiritually. With cases today dating back 50 years or longer, it’s an issue that’s gone unnoticed for far too long.
Once the abuse starts, it’s often hard for victims to escape. They fear repercussions from both their deity and the church official who is performing the sexual abuse. After the abuse cycle is finally broken, many victims are too ashamed or scared to discuss the incidents with loved ones or law enforcement. Years will pass, and victims may elect to come forward once they see others are doing so; in some cases, the church may fight your claim if they feel the accusations are too old.
Why Hire an Attorney for Abuse Claims?
Survivors of church sexual abuse are emotionally drained, physically battered and fear their assailants will retaliate if they report the incident to law enforcement. An attorney fears no pastor, priest, archdiocese or any church official; they’ll gladly help victims report their incidents and begin the civil tort process by collecting information and gathering medical documentation.
Putting an end to the abuse and holding those responsible accountable for their actions are common reasons for victims to employ an attorney. With an experienced lawyer on your side, you could take power back and demand justice for what you’ve endured.
How to Prove Church Sex Abuse
Like all cases of sexual misconduct or sexual assault, church sex abuse may have both criminal and civil implications, although churches are quickly setting up victim funds to pay people off before criminal charges are filed. To prove cases of sexual abuse, CHASENBOSCOLO would need to provide evidence that:
- An individual has been physically touched, raped or otherwise taken advantage of against their will within the confines of a church, or at the hands of an official of the church.
- In sustaining emotional, physical and mental injury, damages occurred.
Those damages caused economic and noneconomic losses which the church or official is entitled to pay.
Victims may hear the term “credibly accused” tossed around when they’re helping investigators and attorneys uncover sexual abuse. This term means that enough evidence exists to merit moving forward with one or more individuals who’ve been identified as potential assailants. Many times churches will hire outside investigation teams comprised of ex-military or current FBI investigators to help comb through decades of potential scandal to assure their leads are free of any sexual misconduct charges.
Church Sex Abuse Statistics
Although many reports isolate the Catholic religion, clergypersons accused of sexual abuse in all religions have amassed the tens of thousands. Here are some alarming U.S. church sex abuse statistics from a 2004 survey commissioned by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The information covers abuse from 1950-2002:
- 22.6% of abuse victims were under 10 years old;
- 80% of claims of church sex abuse were substantiated;
- 70% of clergy accused of these crimes were ordained before 1970;
- 149 priests, or 3% of all ordained, had 10 or more allegations against them;
- Female victims were normally much younger than males; and
- U.S. dioceses have paid out over $3 billion in claims up through 2009.
With many pending claims across America, victims may have billions yet to collect as each state uncovers more sex abuse scandals. To uncover sex abuse, it takes several brave individuals like you to make sexual abuse known.
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No amount of compensation can return the victim’s innocence and sense of self-preservation taken by an abusive church official. However, compensation can help victims continue seeking closure on this horrific incident.
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Once laicized, the archdiocese may sentence the clergyperson to a life of prayer and penance, which is similar to isolation. Major crimes could be referred to law enforcement for outside charges, although most dioceses keep cases out of the public by passing allegations between each other, and never reporting them to police.
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Steve got his start in politics as a young Navy enlistee turned anti-war activist and socialist. Learn what his campaign and the Freedom Socialist Party stand for, and read his personal statement about what he hopes to achieve with this campaign.
Hoffman was born in 1958 in Akron, Ohio, a city known as the Rubber Capital of the World. At 18, he left these industrial surroundings to enlist in the Navy, where he served for six years. After his discharge, he made an about-face. Fed up with U.S. imperialism, the military-industrial complex, and the mistreatment of rank-and-file troops, Hoffman joined the mobilization against U.S. intervention in Central America.
In 1991, he took a job as a maintenance technician for the electrical and ventilation systems at North Seattle College and became active in Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE) Local 304. He has vigorously represented his co-unionists as a shop steward for many years and serves as the recording secretary for Local 304, which he also represents on the Martin Luther King County Labor Council.
Hoffman believes strongly in the interconnection of labor, peace, environmental, and social-justice issues, and he walks his talk.
He helped form Organized Labor Against the War to protest the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. He took resolutions from his union opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the national AFSCME convention (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, of which WFSE is a part).
FSP’s candidate also has a history of taking on the ultra-right that goes back to the 1980s. Today he is part of protests against the white supremacists who are again taking to the streets to whip up support for their bigotry. He recently sent a union resolution to fight the right wing to the statewide AFSCME Council 28 convention.
When Black custodians in his union faced discrimination, Hoffman worked with his local to support them and collaborated with the NAACP to organize a protest. He is a strong supporter of affirmative action and a member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.
Hoffman’s call to “turn the tables on the rich” is longstanding. After the financial crash of 2007-2008, he initiated protests by his union against state budget cuts and called for taxing the wealthy and corporate profits to fund services. He also worked closely with Sisters Organize for Survival, a project launched by Radical Women, to bring unionists into the battle to save the state health plan for low-income people.
The Senate aspirant is a longtime supporter of Radical Women, FSP’s sister organization, and has walked the line defending abortion clinics, fought for pay equity, joined efforts to end sexual harassment, and stood up for the rights of LGBTQ people on and off the job.
An advocate for global working-class solidarity, Hoffman has organized support for teachers in Mexico, and public employees in Costa Rica, as well as immigrant workers in the U.S.
Hoffman belongs to Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS), a cross-union group of Seattle-area rank-and-file activists. When Washington legislators announced a state shutdown due to lack of revenue last year, Hoffman worked with OWLS and members of his union to organize a rally calling for a progressive business tax on large companies in front of Amazon’s headquarters. A fierce opponent of anti-union “right to work” legislation, he is also front and center in the OWLS-led campaign against the right-wing Freedom Foundation, a major backer of these laws.
A member of the FSP National Committee, Hoffman is a frequent writer on labor and environmental issues for the Freedom Socialist. He hopes his campaign will gain traction for the idea that working people need their own political vehicles, whether through socialist campaigns like his, slates of anti-capitalist labor candidates, or a labor party truly independent of the two parties of the bosses. His message is: Strength through solidarity!
An economy for working people! Public ownership of banks to ensure pro-worker economic development. Nationalize the energy industry under workers’ control to transition away from fossil fuels. Heavily tax the rich and corporations to increase Social Security and to fund universal, free healthcare, childcare and college. Cancel student debt. Expand public housing and end homelessness. Crack down on predatory landlords and real estate developers. Raise the federal minimum wage.
Support strong unions! Stop the Freedom Foundation and anti-union “right to work” laws. Stiff penalties for bosses who retaliate for union organizing. Ban permanent replacement of strikers. Government jobs programs that guarantee employment at union wages.
Equal opportunity and social justice NOW! Enact and enforce strong laws against discrimination based on race, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, and immigration status.
Stop deportations and disband ICE! Restore affirmative action. Elected community review boards to rein in police violence. End mass incarceration. Defend First Amendment rights. Honor Native American treaties.
Expand women’s rights! Prioritize meeting the needs of women of color because they face the highest barriers to equality. Access to abortion and employer paid reproductive healthcare. Vigorous enforcement of laws against sexual harassment. Equal pay for equal work. Outlaw separating immigrant parents and their children.
Bring the troops home! Close U.S. military bases around the world. Retrain soldiers for peacetime production. For a foreign policy based on solidarity among workers of all countries.
Why I'm Running
Working people have it rough these days. Our unions, our civil rights and liberties, and the public services we need are all under siege. Workers need a union militant like me in Congress who will fight for them.
Let’s face it, capitalist democracy in the U.S. means that millionaires run Congress and billionaires run them. My opponent, Maria Cantwell, is one of those millionaires, and it’s clear that her allegiance is with corporations like Boeing and Amazon. Just look at her votes for ruinous “free trade” treaties like NAFTA and CAFTA. I’m running because we working folks have to fight for ourselves and stop counting on the parties of big business to defend us.
I will be blunt about what it will take to defend workers and win a more just society. That’s why I’m proposing demands that take on the profit system — demands like public ownership of the banks and dismantling the war machine. And that’s why I’m calling for an independent labor party to represent the working class.
Senate races are important because we can’t solve intractable problems caused by the addiction to profits at the local level. Take the homelessness crisis. There are over 50,000 souls living on the streets of Los Angeles every night. We need to at least triple the amount of public housing. But where can we get the money? I point to the trillions of dollars spent on endless wars and bloated military production, which are enthusiastically supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.
And let’s look at the recent federal tax cuts for the rich and the corporate elite. The plan is to pay for the cuts at the expense of Medicare, Social Security and anything that benefits workers and the poor. I say repeal that scam! It’s time to tax those plutocrats and fund free education, healthcare, and childcare.
My campaign will travel Washington state hearing from people about their issues and offering working-class solutions. The Freedom Socialist Party which I represent fights for solutions that will unify people and actually help them, as opposed to dividing them and causing them harm as Trump does with his scapegoating and hyper-nationalism.
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Puget Sound Chapter
Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS)
Progressive Party of Washington
Radical Women, Seattle
Washington Federation of State Employees, Local 304
Washington Federation of State Employees, Local 1221
Washington Federation of State Employees, Local 1488
Alex Bacon, Washington Federation of State Employees, Local 304
Mohammad Bazargan, Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 587*
Juan José Bocanegra
Patrick Haggerty, LGBTQ rights activist, musician
Leith Jasinowski-Kahl, waterfront worker
Tia Jones, Seattle Silence Breakers*
Denise Krownbell, President, Seattle Chapter of Professional and Technical Employees Local 17*
Howard McCay, ILWU*
Vivian McPeak, Executive Director, Seattle Hempfest*
Matt Nagle, Director, Puyallup Tribal News
Albert Penta, Veterans for Peace*
Barbara Phinney, former President, American Federation of Government Employees, Local 3197*
Gabriel Prawl, Co-chair, Million Worker March Committee*
Oscar Rosales Castañeda, May 1st Action Coalition*
Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Councilmember*
Mike Tagawa, Seattle Black Panther Party*
Sybrina Woodson, WFSE Local 304 shop steward
Roger Yockey, retired labor organizer
Ziyad Zaitoun, civil rights activist
*For identification purposes only
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Former CBS entertainment reporter Kenneth Lombardi sued CBS and two of his previous bosses on Thursday, alleging that they inappropriately and sexually touched him.
In charges filed in Manhattan Federal Court, the 29-year-old reporter claims that CBS senior producer Duane Tollison kissed his neck and grabbed his crotch during a 2013 CBS News holiday party, NY Daily News reported.
The suit says that Tollison “slid his hand down Plaintiff Lombardi’s pants and grabbed Plaintiff’s penis and testicles,” New York Post reported.
According to the suit, Tollison wrote to Lombardi the day after the party: “I wanted to apologize if anything I did offended you or crossed a line. I like to get a little crazy. If you weren’t offended, then let’s do it again. LOL How is your day so far? :)”
On May 8, 2014, Lombardi says he spoke with CBS Evening News director Albert (Chip) Colley for professional advice. Lombardi alleges that Colley got drunk at a gay bar — Hardware — in Hell’s Kitchen and hit on him instead of giving him a professional review of his celebrity interviews.
In the suit, Lombardi alleges that Colley sent text messages to him with links to porn sites, kissed him and rubbed his leg. The documents also state: “Colley told (Lombardi) that he did not really believe being bisexual was real and told plaintiff that he was actually completely gay.”
“While I was being attacked by Chip, I was texting my brother, ‘Oh, my God, I’m about to be raped. Please, God, help me,'” Lombardi told New York Post. “It’s painful to even look at them again.”
“He would show up in my office. I’d catch him following me in the hallway, exhibiting predatory behavior,” Lombardi said.
Following the alleged encounters, Lombardi says he has developed signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he also admitted to having nightmares and panic attacks.
“The sound of ice hitting glass will trigger an episode — all of a sudden I’m back in that bar being assaulted by Chip again,” Lombardi said.
Lombardi allegedly reported the incidents to the human resources department, but says they were met with retaliation. He singled out CBS News entertainment department manager Paula Cohen in the suit for tormenting him following the complaint.
“You know you’re really p—ing me off!” Cohen allegedly yelled at Lombardi. She is also named in the suit.
“Cohen would smile and say ‘no’ as if defendant Cohen was amused by the torment she was causing plaintiff Lombardi,” documents state.
The papers state that Lombardi was forced to quit in November. CBS is also listed as a defendant.
CBS Interactive spokeswoman Annie Rohrs said, “While CBS takes all allegations of workplace misconduct seriously, we believe Mr. Lombardi’s claims are without merit and we intend to vigorously defend this lawsuit.”
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It’s a strange fact (maybe an outgrowth of reading too much) that I love reading descriptions of books I’ve already read. I suppose it lets me enjoy them again in an incredibly efficient way! So I read this book cover-to-cover, though it’s just an assemblage of brief reading lists with some commentary. Pearl (best-known perhaps as the model for Archie McPhee’s shushing librarian action figure) has very eclectic tastes (yay!) which don’t overlap with mine very much (too bad for me…) I’ve added a few to-reads to my ever-growing list, but I’m actually relieved there weren’t more (I couldn’t possibly make a serious dent in the list before I die, especially since I’m very attached to RE-reading). But if you don’t have such a list, this is a great way to start one; with segments from the Alices (Adams, Hoffman, Munro, Sebold, Walker, etc.) to Zero (books on the counter-intuitive concept that revolutionized mathematics), there’s something for most everyone. Especially intriguing: “Too Good To Miss” sections which highlight Hamilton Basso, Frederick Busch, George MacDonald Fraser, Robert Heinlein, Ward Just, P.F. Kluge, Mark Kurlansky, Jonathan Lethem, Elinor Lipman, Ian McEwan, Merle Miller, Iris Murdoch, Lewis Nordan, Richard Powers, Van Reid, Rex Stout, Ross Thomas, Gore Vidal, and Connie Willis. Heinlein and Fraser are the only two I’ve read; I agree with her on Heinlein (this book is what led me back to Red Planet, the only H. juvenile that was missing from my collection, though I don’t think it holds a candle to the later ones), not on Fraser, but reading at least one each of the others would be a good goal.
Recommended by the Adult Reading Round Table as a “Sure Bet”–and it was. A satisfying thriller, not great, but very hard to put down. One morning, everyone (his boss, his friends, his family) want Dave Elliot dead, and he has to figure out why while staying alive in the skyscraper where he works. Par for the course for a not-great novel: four brand names on the first page of the opening scene (Pratesi sheets/Panasonic clock radio/Nikes/Rolex president watch–it’s not just lazy, it’s obtrusively silly), cardboard characters, painful dialect (“Whut else can yew tell me ’bout him?”) But the popcorn-cruncher in me enjoyed it a lot.
It’s curious that this was marketed as a young adult novel–yes, the protagonist is young and the book is short (196 pages), but it’s a regular novel that some teens would enjoy if they are advanced readers. It even has a brief mention of sex (that was Robert Heinlein’s definition of his juvenile novels: short adult novels with no sex). In 4th century Britain, 23-year-old Centurion Alexios Flavius Aquila, in disgrace with his superiors, is exiled to take charge of the native Frontier Wolves. He grows into the command, gains the respect of the hardbitten Wolves, and makes friends with Cunorix, son of the local chieftain. It’s really about career: recovering from failure, learning a new job, dealing with the stupidity of management (Praepositus Montanus comes to visit and starts a chain of tragic events)–also touching on friendship, betrayal, and courage. Sutcliffe has a knack of making the past live. Most of her books seem to feature stoic male protagonists and lots of battles; they fit seamlessly into the stiff-uppper-lip school of British boys’ stories that I was weaned on.
Features the new-to-me word “kalegarth,” which isn’t even Googleable–now it is!–or in the OED. Looks like it’s more commonly spelled “calgarth” and means “kailyard”: “a cabbage garden, kitchen-garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage.” Here’s the context: “…this country that they knew as a man knows his own kalegarth.”
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Choosing the style of vacation to take as a family can be hard if you all have different preferences. If you love the idea of a camping trip out in the wild but your teenage kids can’t bear the idea of being away from wi-fi, or you have a young son or daughter you don’t think is ready for camping yet, it can seem like a wonderful family bonding experience out in nature might be off of the cards. However, a good happy medium that will satisfy anybody in your group who isn’t keen on the idea of sleeping under canvas but will still allow you to enjoy all of the traditional outdoor fun of a camping trip, is to stay in a modern lake cabin for your vacation.
Here are some of the reasons why this can be a highly suitably style of family getaway, no matter how much you might all disagree on whether or not a camping trip would be fun:
A Good Way to Enjoy a Relaxing Natural Setting at Any Time of Year
One of the things that puts a lot of people off camping is that the weather can have such a big impact on how enjoyable it is. However, when you stay in a cabin you can enjoy your natural surroundings, for example the lake and forest at Birch Forest Lodge, whatever time of year it is. If you want to enjoy the outdoors in the fall but don’t want to have to worry about staying dry, then this can be a wonderful way to do it, or, when summer is at its peak you can choose a cabin with air conditioning so that you can stay cool at night.
Access to All Mod Cons
Another aspect of camping that is not for everyone is having to do things like cook and wash using camping gear instead of the things they are used to. Staying in a cabin can mean having access to everything up to a dishwasher and microwave, though of course you can still eat outside if you want to! You’ll also have one or more suitable bathrooms for your family to use, so even if someone can’t stand the idea of being away from their hairdryer for their vacation, they’ll be happy!
Plenty of Outdoor Activities
While staying in a cabin reduces some of the perceived discomfort that some people don’t like about camping, it doesn’t take away the enjoyment of being able to do things like go fishing, hiking, boating and other enjoyable outdoor pursuits on your vacation. In fact, if you choose a location with these facilities, it can actually be even easier to do these things as you’ll have plenty of room in your cabin to store stuff like your own fishing gear and outdoor clothing.
If you would love to spend your vacation camping but can’t get your family to agree, choosing a cabin based vacation by a lake can be the ideal compromise for everyone!
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The Site Guard Plus is an easily installed, simple to operate, reliable site alarm. These units require no external wiring (unless you wish to link to other Evacuator products), are manufactured using high quality components and feature an extremely loud 118dB sounder.
- Operated by a push to activate and turn to reset button
- Easily installed and requires no external wiring
- Integrated high power flashing strobe
- Extremely loud 118dB sounder
- Powered by 9V PP3 battery
- Can be linked to other Evacuator products
- Manufactured in the UK
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With the new season upon us, it's a very exciting time. Not only exciting, but there also comes a sense of tension and nervousness. While the St. Louis Rams have solidified several key areas (namely QB - albeit Sam still needs to prove himself), there are still areas that are extremely vulnerable (yes even at positions we've seemingly solidified).
That coupled with last years injuries we compiled, would make any Rams fan tremble whenever they hear the word "injury". Heck, the new Rams mascot could have easily become the Red Cross mascot. It was BAD.
Looking at how the Rams training camp is progressing so far, it appears we've escaped "major" injuries (*GULP - awaiting Ron Bartell x-ray) for the most part, even though we still have a long way to go. I am however a bit worried about our D-Line as STLToday.com has given us details on our injuries thus far, and they include 3 D-Linemen:
"Defensive tackle Chris Hovan left practice early with lower-back pain. Defensive back Marquis Johnson tweaked a hamstring. … Defensive end C.J. Ah You (hamstring), guard Mark Lewis (ankle), defensive tackle Darell Scott (hamstring) and safety Darian Stewart (shoulder) sat out."
Like we need a good dose of back and hamstring injuries to THREE of our D-Linemen right?
*There is also early word about Ron Bartell being helped off the field with an ankle injury during yesterday's practice.. x-rays to follow today.. let's hope that one is minor.
At any rate, hearing about these injuries got me thinking about the painful scenarios if certain players on the Rams got injured, and how those injuries could potentially deflate the Rams and crush any hopes of a respectable season in the win/loss column. With respectable, I mean, an improved record over last year. I know it sucks thinking about stuff like this, but hey, sometimes you gotta' do it!
Let's have a look at the Rams top 5 potential team deflating injuries:
1) RB Steven Jackson OK this one is a no brainer. Losing Jackson is something any Rams fan can't even comprehend right now. Let's look at who we have behind him... Totson? Didn't he get jacked up in practice by Larry Grant? Oh wait, that was Mike Karney who got his helmet knocked off (thanks to infemous for posting that link earlier). Let's HOPE Ogbannaya steps it up and emerges during pre-season. The kid has talent and man oh man do we need that right now. Too bad Westbrook didn't pan out (yet?). That would have been a nice pickup, aged or not. SJAX is our lifeline, and our backbone. I'm sure we can ALL agree on that.
2) QB Sam Bradford I listed Sam #2 only because he has not proven himself on the field as of yet. Once he does, and if he shows some real signs of the prospect we're expecting, he could easily be moved to number 1 on this list. As it is, if Sam gets hurt, it not only hurts the position, but if the injury were serious and sidelined him for a lengthy period of time (can anyone say shoulder?), it could crush the entire future hope of this franchise for some time to come. Bottom line, a Sam Bradford injury would also seriously deflate a team already desperately searching for confidence. Somehow I don't think Feeley or Null would be the elixir to relieve the painful symptoms, do you?
3) MLB James Laurenitis (animal) OK this would be another crushing blow. JL emerged as a leader for us last year on the D-Side and it's not hard to argue that he got robbed in the ROY voting. Anyone who watched a few Rams games last year knows exactly what I'm talking about. He's a beast, a SMART beast at that, who I believe will have an even better year this year. Let's be even more realistic - even with an entire pre-season to determine the roster, Josh Hull could seriously be our starting MLB if animal gets injured. Bring on the Pepto.
4) DE Chris Long OK we all know how fragile we are on the DE side (also DT but we DO have more depth there). Even though Long has disappointed to a degree, he did show some spark toward the end of last season. I could easily see him doubling his production this year, especially with our weaker schedule. If Long gets injured, who would fill in? Ah You? One of a couple rookies? OK so Ah You isn't horrible, BUT c'mon.. Long is supposed to be our future here. This, in my opinion, COULD be one of the most devastating losses due to the sheer lack of depth at the position, and due to the fact that Long has struggled in the past already... that's all all we need... is to ad "injury prone" to Long's list of negative complaints many have had thus far. I'm sure we'd be hearing "bust" screamed as well.
5) P Donnie Jones OK so maybe this is going a BIT overboard? But hey, I had to give our star punter some love, after all, no one else outside of Rams fans is doing that. Listen, how many Rams games (the close ones) were close mainly because of Donnie? I'm being serious. The guy is a STUD and showed up every week. Clearly he got snubbed again from the pro-bowl, and even though HE IS, in my opinion, the best punter in the NFL PERIOD, being on a 1-15 team doesn't help his Pro Bowl chances. Bottom line, Pro Bowl or not we need him again this year.
On Offense.. The Bookends:
OT Rodger Saffold Eric Young will most likely be his backup.... Even though J Smith could rotate over if healthy, with Trautwein filling in for Smith.
OT Jason Smith Trautwein will most likely be his backup.. not horrible, BUT a #2 overall pick being injury prone SUCKS.. and oh wait, he's already injured with a toe problem... J Smith is one guy I have mixed emotions about. A part of me would think "oh crap" if he got hurt, another part would feel like "yea, no biggie and expected". Man i'd love to see him put together a solid string of games to at least make us feel a little better. So far we've seen almost nothing.. a few sparks followed by injuries.
On Defense.. Our turnover machine:
OJ Atogwe Can't deny he is a ball hawk and would be a severe blow indeed!
On Special Teams... Our Returner:
WR Danny Amendola OR
WR Mardy Gilyard
But seriously? At almost every position there is ONE player that could really harm the Rams if they got injured. I'm sure others will be named in the comments below.
There you have it, the top 5 injuries that would make you wince on Monday morning, and possibly make you cancel NFL Sunday Ticket.
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Each giant ostrich egg is equivalent to about 24 chicken eggs. The shells are thicker and a little tougher to crack than a standard chicken egg.
Do ostrich eggs and chicken eggs taste the same?
As compared to other eggs, ostrich eggs taste more buttery and richer. When scrambled, ostrich eggs tend to taste more gelatinous than chicken eggs because of their translucent bits. When boiled, the white part appears to be more rubbery-looking than a chicken’s egg, but the taste is similar to a boiled hen’s egg.
How much is an ostrich egg worth?
Ostrich eggs are expensive, relative to chicken eggs. The average ostrich egg price is around $30.
How many quail eggs equal an ostrich egg?
1. Animal-based egg alternatives 4 quail eggs 5 quail eggs replace 1 medium chicken egg 1 large chicken egg 1 duck egg replace approx. 2 chicken eggs 1 goose egg replace approx. 3 chicken eggs 1 ostrich egg replace approx. 15 chicken eggs.
Are ostrich eggs healthier than chicken eggs?
That means, per serving, an ostrich egg is a good source of choline and B vitamins such as vitamin B12, riboflavin and folic acid. However, ostrich eggs contain less vitamin E and vitamin A than that of a chicken egg. Ostrich eggs again are richer in magnesium and iron than chicken eggs.
What is the biggest egg in the world?
The largest egg on record weighed 2.589 kg (5 lb 11.36 oz) and was laid by an ostrich (Struthio camelus) at a farm owned by Kerstin and Gunnar Sahlin (Sweden) in Borlänge, Sweden, on 17 May 2008.
How much does a baby ostrich cost?
An ostrich chick from 30–60 days old costs around $525, according to ostrichgrowers.com, appreciating to almost twice that after 90 days. Yearlings run about $2500/bird, with adult birds running from $7500 to over $10000.
Can you eat emu eggs?
Emu eggs are not just pretty to look at, they’re nutritious, too! A single emu egg represents the equivalent of about ten regular chicken eggs, and an emu egg contains more of the “good” and less of the “bad” cholesterol than a chicken’s egg.
What can I do with ostrich egg shells?
Historically, ostrich egg shells are known to have been used by African hunter-gatherers as a light-weight and strong flask or canteen to store and transport various fluids, usually water.
Can pregnant lady eat quail eggs?
Quail eggs are recommended for pregnant women both during pregnancy and the postnatal period. These eggs are good for the mother and the baby and improve the quality of breast milk. Quail eggs are a rich source of anti-oxidants and essential fatty acids.
Which egg is most tasty?
1. Duck. With #yolkporn at the forefront of food sharing, people today are slowly appreciating the sexiness of the yolk. Duck eggs are great because they have all the taste of chicken eggs with a whole lot more yolk.
What eggs are bigger than chicken eggs?
Goose Eggs A standard goose egg is about three times bigger than your average chicken egg. Due to its size, its vitamin levels are higher- therefore it has a significantly larger amount of Phosphorous, Calcium, Iron, Potassium, Zinc and Protein. Are described as having a much richer taste than chicken eggs.
What is the difference between emu and ostrich eggs?
Emu Eggs are Smaller If you are around a flightless bird who has just laid eggs, it will be incredibly easy to tell them apart by looking at the shells. Emu eggs are dark green in color and small, weighing around one pound. Ostrich eggs are cream-colored and weigh up to three pounds.
Do eggs from different birds taste different?
We’ve also seen people look at our brown and blue eggs and ask how they taste. Regardless of these common beliefs, the short answer is no. All chicken eggs are made the same on the inside. Egg tastes only change because of a hen’s diet and the egg’s freshness.
What are the benefits of eating ostrich?
Health benefits. Ostrich is even lower in calories, cholesterol and fat than skinless chicken and turkey, while remaining high in iron and protein. The Diabetes Association approves and recommends ostrich as a leading source of protein It has also been approved by the American and British Heart Associations.
Is it illegal to eat ostrich eggs?
Yes, you can. In fact, there are health benefits available to people who make ostrich eggs a part of their diet.
Can you eat duck eggs?
You can cook duck eggs just like chicken eggs and will find that they have a creamier, richer taste. Some people prefer them deviled or in omelets or quiches, as they have a stronger flavor than chicken eggs when eaten plain.
What’s the biggest egg you can eat?
Ostrich Eggs They are the largest bird eggs on the planet. Ostrich Eggs have a thicker shell that makes it very hard to crack open. They can weigh about 2 kilograms and are roughly 20 times thicker than a chicken egg. The percentage content of proteins and fats is similar to chicken eggs though.
What is an egg fart?
A fart egg is a small egg laid by a hen. They are smaller than regular eggs and typically do not have a yolk. They often arise in the early stages of a hens reproductive cycle. However, it has also been known for them to be produced towards the end of their reproductive life.
Which is the smallest egg in the world?
The smallest egg laid by any bird is that of the vervain hummingbird (Mellisuga minima) of Jamaica and two nearby islets. Two specimens measuring less than 10 mm (0.39 in) in length weighed 0.365 g (0.0128 oz) and 0.375 g (0.0132 oz).
What animals lay eggs?
Birds and fish are not the only animals that lay eggs. Insects, turtles, lizards, and reptiles lay eggs, too. Only two mammals lay eggs: the platypus and the echidna. All other mammals give birth to live babies.
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The football legend has promised more than £8,000 through his lawyer to anyone who can help him unmask the man responsible for killing him off and forcing him to put out a statement confirming he was alive but had overdone it on the white wine.
The 57-year-old sparked fears for his well-being when he was helped away from his VIP box and assisted by medical staff after seeing Argentina avoid an early World Cup exit on Tuesday with a dramatic late goal against Nigeria.
Two Spanish-language recordings which have gone viral – recorded by the same man and released shortly after the match – claimed the 57-year-old had suffered a fatal heart attack.
One said an adrenaline injection to his heart had failed to save him and the Argentinian squad were yet to be told he had passed away in hospital.
A 42-second recording, a WhatsApp message sent to a mystery man called Mati by someone passing himself off as an Argentinian sports journalist based in Russia, added: “They are only going to be announcing the news tomorrow. It’s a family decision.”
Maradona had to phone his partner Rocio Oliva as he returned to Moscow on a private jet in the early hours of Wednesday morning to prove he was still alive and refute the heart attack reports.
He also sent a WhatsApp message to journalist friend Daniel Arcucci, saying he had simply drunk too much white wine and insisting: “I swear on the lives of my mum, my grandson Benjamin and my son Dieguito Fernando’s life that nothing happened.”
One of Maradona’s sisters is said to have collapsed after hearing the fake news Diego had died and trying without success to reach him.
The soccer star’s long-standing lawyer Matias Morla told Argentinian daily Clarin: “I’ve just spoken to my office in Buenos Aires and I have instructed them to make public the decision to offer a reward of 300,000 Argentinian pesos (£8,340) to the person who provides accurate and precise information about the author of the voice messages.
“When it comes to technological issues like these, I think we can get to the bottom of this.
“But especially if there’s a financial incentive, someone who knows how something started often ends up revealing it and helping to unmask whoever was behind an atrocity like this.
“It was a very long night. I was in Belarus for work reasons and helping to organise Diego’s travel arrangements.
“But Maradona’s sisters heard the news and couldn’t contact me or their brother. One of them ended up collapsing.
“We can’t let things like this go unanswered.”
Maradona’s daughter Dalma described the fake social media reports about her dad’s death as “miserable” yesterday.
She raged on Twitter: “I haven’t heard them but they told me what they said. They are false. There’s obviously some very twisted people out there.
“Don’t help them go viral. If you do, you should know they tell lies.”
Sports journalist Daniel Arcucci, who posted the voice recording Maradona sent him to his Twitter site as well as the one he sent Rocio, added: “Maradona’s truth doesn’t come from some leaked voice message of dubious origin.
“It’s what Diego told Rocio when she called him for a second time because she was worried about the rumours he had died which were still doing the rounds.”
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On October 17, 2013 Microsoft has introduced its newest update to Windows OS named as Windows 8.1 version. Strategically it is an incremental up-gradation of existing Windows 8 version as well as Microsoft has added some new improvisation for making it more preferred OS for smartphone and tablet users. The best part of the ultra-new operating system is its manifold compatibility like compatibility with Facebook, Twitter and mail apps, and Windows scan app to Bing Logo, all are accessible in latest Windows 8.1 version and this over all synchronization is its best advantage.
Windows 8.1: what’s new here?
Windows 8 Brought a new touch pad experience for PC users. The 8.1 version has retained the touch and tile features at one side, on the other hand old desktop style where keyboard and mouse plays the main show. In addition to this dual character, the version has come out with some gesture and finger-friendly short cuts for enjoying some touch-based apps.Some features are retained in this version about prime desktop modes with which a billion PC users are comfortable since decades.
Existing Windows 8 users can download this Windows 8.1 version free of cost. And it’s available in Windows store app. Now let’s have a quick view of its cosmetic change and improved functionality over its previous versions.
Desktop friendly features:
- Start button: the most wanted start button is back here. However not like Windows 7. In Windows 7 and previous version a simple click on start button could open the program and latest folders’ list. In this version a single tap will take you to new tile-interface where from you can tap tiles for opening programs. Otherwise a long press on start tab will bring forth critical setting like C panel, etc.
- Boot to desktop: Another conventional PC friendly Windows feature is back in Windows 8.1 version; here the machine, on request, can be started with booting mode.
Touch and Gesture enabled updates of Windows 8.1
- Swipe on onscreen keyboard: The on-screen keyboard now incorporates the access for typing numbers or the user can insert punctuation marks by swiping up from some specific keys within QWERTY layout excluding the requirement of toggling between alphabetic and numeric layouts. For better ease of use the user can select from proposed words mid-stream by using taps and swipes located on the virtual space bar.
- Gesture enabled apps: The new version Windows OS 8.1 allows its users to access apps by waving hands in front of the camera: for example with using the hand’s gesture a user can change the recipe page of a recipe app.
- Tile organizing has become faster: Now a user can tap/hold tiles on the Windows US interface in order to move them. There is another couple of taps which will allow you to convert these tiles in one out of four sizes. In comparison to previous version, where two size of tile option were available and user required to organize tiles with the help of mouse right click, the present shortcut is an up-gradation indeed.
- Easy access to apps: In this new version of Windows users may find all the apps available on demands a swipe on the screen. In the previous version, the user has a mandate to swipe up from the lowest edge and then all the apps get tapped, by default.
User friendly conveniences:
- Auto update feature: Updates get auto synchronized and does not require manual intervention or formality to visit Windows store for getting the version updated.
- Compatible for smaller screen- Windows 8.1 is now available with a home screen that looks attractive in its portrait mode at the size of 7-8 inches.
- Locking the screen access: Now users can answer Skype call without unlocking the screen: as par discretion of the user, notifications can be accessed under the screen lock on condition.
Facility of picture editing: this updated version contains a picture editor allowing the users enjoying photo editing facilities like touchups, cropping, contrast changes, etc.
Auto Integration of Xbox-one: a user can pause and leave a game after starting playing a video accessed on X Box Video on a tablet and then he can watch the rest on the available game console Xbox One.
Access to music streaming app: Xbox music refresh is a music streaming app find auto installed in 8.1 Windows version. It has a layout which can include multiple lists and small photographs. With swiping you can stream music and photos.
Functional up gradation
Better ease of browsing
In previous version only 10 tabs were accessible at one go in tile version IE browser. With 8.1 version users can open as maximum as tabs they want. In fact now two websites can be viewedat parallel view.
Better facility of Multitasking
In Windows 8.1, you can play maximum four apps at a time side by side can double the former amount, although users will require a large, HD quality monitor for doing so. With Windows 8.1 users can resize panes by using a side to side moving slider, in lieu of being incomplete to one bigger window and one slim one.
Better Global search
A user nay search an item from internet, the tile-based start screen will bring out-manifold search output — if valid — browsing through computer, from the Web and from the Windows app store.
Windows 8.1 has a “power pane” on the left side with folders for receiving updates from social networks like Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, and different newsletters.
An overview: pros and cons
Pros: Available free of cost for Windows users, Windows 8.1 offers utility fixes and tweaks, availability of start button, user friendly searching, boot to desktop facility, and a good app store.
Cons: The split between touch sensitive tiles and desktop models a bit unbalanced and it is difficult to use the operating system without having a touch screen. The windows app store does not have good gaming apps as well as utility software.
Those have Windows 8 version already installed in their computer this update is a sure bonanza for them, otherwise there is nothing exceptionally inevitable here in Windows 8.1.
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Batch cooking is a method of cooking where you cook the ingredients in batches. I had never heard of this make ahead meals method of cooking before about three months ago. But as I learned about it I realized that I was already doing this with some ingredients and not others. This made my cooking faster, but not as fast as it could be.
My friend Alea Milham asked me to review her new cookbook Prep Ahead Meals From Scratch, which is a fabulous new cookbook on batch cooking that has changed the way I cook every day. As I began to use batch cooking for my main ingredients, I noticed a huge shift in my cooking. My recipes have more variety and my cooking time has been cut in half.
Batch cooking is a time and money saving method that anyone can manage. It will change how you cook. No more prepping whole meals where you take up your entire freezer storing them for later and no more cooking for long hours for a week of meals.
Reasons batch cooking is for everyone
It saves tons of time. The biggest time-saving lessons I learned in Alea’s book was to stop focusing on the whole meal and start focusing on ingredients. Instead of cooking every meal individually, you’ll be cooking main ingredients in batches and freezing them. This means pulling together a meal on any given night takes minutes instead of hours.
How much time would you save if all of your protein was cooked in advance? Spending 2-3 hours one weekend using your pressure cooker, oven or even grill to batch cook chicken, pork, beef and even things like rice and beans can save you hours and hours throughout the week. Instead of a half hour to cook chicken, then assemble sauce and sides, you can have already cooked chicken thawed and combined with your sides and ready to serve in under half an hour.
It saves money in your grocery budget. When you have food prepped ahead from batch cooking you are much less likely to order takeout or make last minute expensive trips to the grocery store. It also makes it super easy to take advantage of great deals for sale foods. While this cookbook features mostly tips for batch cooking proteins and dry beans or rice, you can also batch cook many vegetables and sides.
I love taking advantage of the sales on sweet potatoes in the fall to slice and make my own sweet potato fries. Using a vacuum seal freezer system means these last up to 6 months in my freezer. They are super easy to take from frozen to cooked in the oven or the air fryer in no time. I can pay $.69 per pound for sweet potatoes in November and have enough for my family for dinner for under $1 instead of the $3-$4 bags of frozen ones I would normally buy.
It’s easy enough anyone can do it. A lot of people get frustrated when trying to create freezer meals or similar methods that require tons of steps to create meals for their family. The best part of batch cooking is that anyone can do this in any sized kitchen.
Some of you know that we have had a small kitchen for most of our marriage. We have never had a ton of space to cook and often have to use our kitchen table to chop and prep. When I attempted to do freezer meals as my make ahead meals, it took my whole kitchen, and I still didn’t have enough room for everything. It took me twice as much time because I had to juggle everything all the time.
When I changed to this method of make ahead meals, I have never had a space problem. I have never been overwhelmed by the amount of work or the space it took. I can throw one package of batch cooked chicken, one container of batch cooked rice, frozen vegetables and some milk, seasonings and cheese to create a quick rice dish in under half an hour. This makes any novice cook a chef in no time at all.
How batch cooking helps you make ahead meals
When people think of prep ahead meals, they often think of rows of Tupperware with whole meals prepped inside. while this is a great method for some, others just can’t do it that way. It never occurred to me that meals could be prepped ahead without them being completely made. But they can!
When you look at ingredients, individually you can easily prep your meals while having just a few extras that will need to be done. This gives the same effect of a meal prepped ahead while still having the freshest ingredients and the space to be flexible.
When you first are batch cooking, you should first read a little on how to batch cook. You need to decide what method of cooking works best for your space and time. There is no right or wrong so you can try multiple methods and figure out what works. There are tons of tips in prep ahead meals from scratch as well so be sure to check them out there.
Once you decide what works best for you, just get cooking! You can do a few ingredients at a time and always have some in the freezer or you can prep all your ingredients on one day for the week. It doesn’t matter what you do. Store them in containers with lids that can be stored in a freezer.
Once you have cooked your primary proteins, most of your meals will be ready in 1/2 an hour or less. It is easy to use them and get dinner on the table. So far every recipe I have tried has been fantastic, and my whole family has loved them. It has become a staple cookbook in our home.
Be sure you also check out these videos on how to batch cook different types of meats!
As you consider batch cooking to improve your own grocery budget, remember that everyone can do this. It is easy and makes dinner much less stressful!
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Note: This is a FLOW media release issued March 17, 2022. Members of the media can reach FLOW Executive Director Liz Kirkwood at [email protected] or cell (570) 872-4956 or office (231) 944-1568.
FLOW Executive Director Liz Kirkwood expressed strong support for legislation introduced in Lansing today that would shore up public trust protections for the Great Lakes and groundwater against water-bottling companies thirsting for profits and strengthen safeguards for waterways on state land.
“The Great Lakes must never be for sale,” Kirkwood said in a video-recording message for the press conference announcing the legislation. “And Michigan’s groundwater must never become privatized and siphoned away.”
Watch Liz Kirkwood’s video message below:
The three-bill package (House Bills 5953, 5954, and 5955) introduced by Michigan Reps. Yousef Rabhi, Laurie Pohutsky, Rachel Hood, and Padma Kuppa would close the legal loophole in the Great Lakes Compact that allows private interests and international regimes to take massive amounts of Great Lakes water as long as it is extracted in containers of 5.7 gallons or less. The legislation also would explicitly apply public trust protections to groundwater, which provides drinking water to 45% of Michiganders and helps recharge the Great Lakes, and would direct the Department of Natural Resources to be strong public trustees of the lands and waters it manages. Rep. Kuppa also plans to introduce a groundwater resolution on March 22, World Water Day.
“These prudent changes will ensure that Michigan has the ability to stop privatization of the Great Lakes and groundwater, and reject future water withdrawals that are not in the public’s interest,” said Kirkwood, an environmental attorney who directs FLOW (For Love of Water), the Great Lakes law and policy center based in Traverse City. “We must protect every arc of the water cycle.”
Michigan’s groundwater supplies drinking water to 45% of Michiganders. Groundwater that discharges to lakes and streams also is crucial to sustain coldwater fisheries, stream ecology, and wetlands, and also accounts for approximately 20-40% of the volume of the Great Lakes.
“Without these protections explicitly in place we face the very real possibility that our most valuable natural resource, the water which defines our state, could be treated as a commodity for sale like oil,” Kirkwood said, “and virtually eliminate the state’s ability to protect this vital resource.”
Water is life. It is the resource that not only keeps us alive, but also powers everything we do on this small blue planet. Living here in the Great Lakes, we are stewards of some 20 percent of the planet’s fresh surface water. It is an enormous gift and an enormous responsibility, particularly in the face of the global water crisis.
Water access and equity issues are striking the poorest communities the hardest, leaving 2.2 billion people worldwide without access to water and 4.2 billion people without sanitation. The United Nations estimates that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world’s population could be living under water-stressed conditions.
FLOW Executive Director Liz Kirkwood
Water insecurity and climate change, in turn, are fueling the increased economic value of water supplies, an alarming interest in the financialization and commodification of water, and accelerated privatization of public water infrastructure.
For the first time ever, in December 2020, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) listed California water futures as an investment to be bought and sold like grain or oil. In 2021, a private equity hedge fund called Blue Triton purchased all of Nestlé’s U.S. water bottling operations except Perrier. These and other privatization efforts degrade the singular importance of water, risk what is essential to all life on this planet, and exacerbate growing global and regional inequities between rich and poor to access potable water supplies.
To counter this privatization trend, the UN’s recent report titled, Risks and impacts of the commodification and financialization of water on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, recommended “that States take urgent legal measures to prevent water, as a public good, from being managed in the futures markets as a financial asset under the speculative logic that presides over these markets, thereby avoiding the risks of price volatility and speculative bubbles that threaten the human rights to drinking water and sanitation of those living in conditions of poverty and vulnerability, the sustainability of aquatic ecosystems and the most vulnerable economies.”
States and communities can accomplish this by resolutions, declarations, statutes and laws, or constitutional enactments or current ones, properly interpreted so that water remains in the public domain protected by public trust and commons principles.
In June 2021, the Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) unanimously approved a resolution affirming water as a human right and expressing concern about the trend toward treating water as a commodity.The resolution also affirms that “the water of the Great Lakes … shall remain in the public trust for the people of the Great Lakes region.” Read FLOW’s coverage here.
This resolution promises to be a milestone in the looming controversy over the creation of water futures markets and to establish clear principles to guide public policy and investments in water system infrastructure priorities in communities across the Great Lakes Basin. The issue of ownership and sale of Great Lakes water is not on the horizon; it is already here at our doorstep.
FLOW seeks to promote and extend this affirmation in Michigan communities and others across the Great Lakes watershed. Traverse City, whose City Commission will consider the resolution at 7 p.m. on December 6, has a unique opportunity and responsibility to join this movement to assure public ownership of water. The opportunity lies in securing newly available federal funding to beef up our public water infrastructure and to ensure clean drinking water, eliminate sewage overflows, protect shoreline and prevent beach closures as a result of E. coli contamination and other contaminants. The responsibility lies in demonstrating stewardship by avoiding the trap into which other communities have fallen by privatizing ownership of water services. This has led to dramatically higher water rates for customers and deteriorating maintenance of infrastructure. Keeping water public provides avenues for accountability and keeps decisions in our hands as residents and voters.
Now is the time to clearly articulate our community values and principles around protecting our water as a public commons as we prepare to make long-term water infrastructure investments and build climate resilience in communities across the Great Lakes.
Editor’s Note: The following is a media release issued by FLOW on November 16, 2021; please contact Executive Director Liz Kirkwood at (570) 872-4956 or [email protected] or Senior Legal Advisor Jim Olson at (231) 499-8831 or [email protected].
Judge Neff’s decision today addresses only the narrow, procedural issue of whether a state or federal court should decide if the State of Michigan lawfully ordered the shutdown of the Line 5 oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac. Although the federal court’s decision to exercise jurisdiction over this matter is disappointing, it does not resolve the validity of the State’s action to protect the public’s legally revered interests in the Great Lakes. Canadian energy transport giant Enbridge continues to defy the order to shut down Line 5.
The decision is legally deficient for multiple reasons, most notably because it failed to consider express provisions of federal law that affirm Michigan’s sovereign right to apply and enforce its own laws to protect its waters and environment. The court also did not properly consider the State’s sovereign interests as required when making a jurisdictional determination.
“The court overlooked the sovereign public interests of Michigan, an omission that seriously threatens not only Michigan’s sovereignty over its navigable water, but every state in the nation,” said FLOW Founder and Senior Legal Advisor Jim Olson.
The decision also threatens the sovereign interests of states by setting an extremely low bar for removing state-court lawsuits to federal court. This could result in the weaponization of federal jurisdiction by foreign corporations seeking to litigate disputes involving state law in federal court.
“Fortunately,” said Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director of FLOW, “until decided by a court, Governor Whitmer’s revocation of Line 5 stands firm. FLOW stands in solidarity with the State of Michigan as Attorney General Nessel defends the public waters of the Great Lakes in this nationally significant litigation.”
The public is invited to join FLOW on Tuesday, June 29, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Eastern for a webinar—Managing High Water & High Tension along the Great Lakes Shoreline—that will provide frontline, scientific, regulatory, and legal insights into efforts at the state and local level to manage high waters and high tensions along Michigan’s Great Lakes shoreline.
While Great Lakes waters have receded from their 2019-2020 historic high levels, surface waters remain higher than their long-term average—except for Lake Ontario. Concerns remain regarding high water levels, construction of seawalls and other armoring, and impacts to public and private property, the environment and wildlife, and public trust rights of people to safely access the shoreline and water.
Presenters will include:
Jim Olson, Founder and Senior Legal Advisor, FLOW
Jerrod Sanders, Assistant Director in the Water Resources Division of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
David Bunte, Supervisor of Chikaming Township in Berrien County in Southwest Lower Michigan
Scott Howard, Attorney and Partner, at the law firm of Olson, Bzdok, & Howard in Traverse City
The free webinar will include a question-and-answer session with the panel.
The United States and Canada are not only close friends and neighbours, but are also committed to resolving their differences with civility and common purpose. The 112-year-old International Joint Commission (IJC), which prevents and resolves disputes over boundary waters, is an example of this special relationship. So is the groundbreaking agreement among Ontario, Quebec and the eight Great Lakes states to ban water diversions from these shared and treasured waters.
The two nations, however, are clashing over energy policy and the effects of Line 5, the Canadian petroleum pipelines in the open waters of theStraits of Mackinac, a major shipping lane and important whitefish spawning ground where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron. If both Canada and the U.S. take a hard look at these issues together, they will swiftly realize that co-operation, not confrontation, is in the best interests of both — and, significantly, the interests of the planet.
The current discord between the two nations is over the decision in November by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to exercise her state’s sovereign constitutional authority to revokethe 68-year-old easementthat Enbridge has relied upon to transport petroleum by pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia, Ont., across the public bottomlands of the straits separating Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas.
The governor took this action in light of the clear and present danger from Enbridge’s appalling track record of easement violations in operating Line 5, including lake-bed erosion undermining support of the dual pipelines in the fierce currents where Lake Michigan meets with Lake Huron. Enbridge alsolacks adequate liability insuranceand has steadfastly refused to provide any of thefinancial assurancesthat Gov. Whitmer has demanded.
Enbridge knew at least 20 years ago that the original design of the Straits of Mackinac pipelineswas failing. Year after year, the company quietly sought approval from the state of Michigan to shore up the pipeline, passed off as “repairs,” by installing supports — now 228 of them — in effect lifting about three miles of the dual pipelines into the water column. Government officials, however, never required Enbridge to get approval for such a radical change that poses a whole set of new and serious risks.
Many families, communities, tribes and businesses understandably are skeptical of Enbridge’s safety assurances. Enbridge calls Line 5 “as good as new” and says it can last “forever,” even though Line 5 hasfailed at least 33 timessince 1968, spilling more than 1.1 million gallons of oil in Michigan and Wisconsin. In 2010, the company was the culprit in one of the largest petroleum spills in U.S. history. A leak in an Enbridge pipeline in southwest Michigandumped 1.2 million gallonsof heavy tarsands oil into the Kalamazoo River watershed, harming human health and damaging fish and wildlife habitat. The spill cost Enbridge over $1 billion to clean up to the extent possible. The U.S. agency that investigated the spill likened the Enbridge response to the spill to the “Keystone Kops” and cited “pervasive organizational failures at Enbridge.”
Many Canadians are concerned about the possible distortion of their energy supply. They shouldn’t be.Available capacity and flexibilityto meet energy demand in the Great Lakes region already exists in the North American energy pipeline system operated by Enbridge and its competitors without threatening our public waters and the economy, according to experts from the Great Lakes protection groupFLOW. They argue that when Line 5 shuts down,regional domestic energy needs and supplies for refinerieswill still be able to be met. The estimated increased cost to consumers would be afraction of a cent per gallon of gasoline, according to a study commissioned by the National Wildlife Federation.
The threat to the Great Lakes, both U.S. and Canadian waters, is clear. Equally clear is the risk to the planet of another 99 years of transporting carbon-rich petroleum from the Prairies to Sarnia for refining and ultimately releasing massive carbon dioxide emissions. Government promises of a new commitment to action on climate change are hollow if Line 5 continues operation indefinitely.
The law in the U.S. and Canada recognizes the waters of the Great Lakes are held in trust to be managed by the governments as guardians for navigation, fishing and other paramount needs of citizens. Unfortunately, the Canadian and Ontario governments have joined forces with Enbridge to forsake this guardianship by pressuring Gov. Whitmer. As the company spends resources on a slick public relations campaign exaggerating the benefits of Line 5 to the U.S. while neglecting to mention its history of environmental negligence, the governments dispute Michigan’s concerns about a Great Lakes spill.
In 2016, the IJC urged governments in the Great Lakes region to adopt the public trust doctrine as a legal backstop to assure the majesty of the lakes and bottomlands is not impaired. The IJC recommendation makes sense for present and future generations. If Canada and the U.S. do so, they will inevitably support decommissioning of Line 5.
By Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director, and Mike Vickery, Board Chair
Being in, on, or near water brings us into balance, restores clarity, and grounds us in understanding what matters most. Water is life. These elemental connections to water and nature were profoundly important to all of us in the tumultuous year of 2020, as the coronavirus upended our lives and economy.
In reflection, as we recount in our Annual Report released today, November 2020 marked an extraordinary milestone for the Great Lakes—and for FLOW. After seven long years of advancing public trust law as the legal basis to shut down Line 5, FLOW watched Governor Gretchen Whitmer and DNR Director Daniel Eichinger assert public trust law as the cornerstone of the state’s action to advance critical legal action to protect the Great Lakes from a catastrophic oil spill.
Equitable and affordable access to clean drinking water remained at the forefront of our work in 2020 as we partnered with frontline Detroit and Flint groups to successfully persuade Governor Whitmer, and then the legislature, to extend a moratorium on water shutoffs through March 2021. We also partnered to form Water for All of Michigan to evaluate equitable and just financing and funding strategies to assure safe, affordable water for all communities. FLOW’s model legislation, Public Water, Public Justice, is a key part of this work.
FLOW also worked to spotlight and protect the Sixth Great Lake, Michigan’s groundwater, unveiling a groundwater story map in March and a June webinar to highlight the implications of a preliminary state decision approving Nestlé’s permit to increase withdrawals for commercial bottled water. And we chronicled a baffling decision in November by the State of Michigan to dismiss the citizen-led contested case challenging the Nestlé permit. In a year dominated by a global pandemic, a reckoning with racial injustice, record-high Great Lakes water levels, an unprecedented national election, and profound challenges to our most important institutions, FLOW stood firm as a fair witness to, and advocate for, the power and value of the public trust in moving forward. Working alongside our partners, allies, supporters, and friends, FLOW planted new seeds from which will grow a more just, diverse, inclusive, equitable, prosperous and resilient water future for generations to come.
Your support and passion for the Great Lakes, groundwater, and drinking water for all inspires us and helps drive us forward. Thank you for our shared successes. We hope you enjoy reading about the fresh waters and public trust rights that we have protected together in our Annual Report 2020.
FLOW on Nov. 6, 2020, filed an appeal with the Michigan Public Service Commission of the October 23 decision by Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Dennis W. Mack granting in part Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership’s motion to exclude critical evidence from consideration by the MPSC in deciding whether to permit the siting of Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 oil pipeline tunnel through public trust bottomlands under the Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron.
FLOW’s appeal seeks to allow evidence that the proposed, roughly four mile-long oil pipeline tunnel under the Great Lakes would commit the citizens of Michigan for another 99 years to the unnecessary generation of more harmful greenhouse gases. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, greenhouse gas emissions already have resulted in the impairment of Michigan’s public health and natural resources – effects that will get worse unless CO2 emissions are abated.
Nothing less than the authority of the MPSC to protect the people of Michigan, environment, climate, and public interest of the citizens of Michigan and the Great Lakes for years to come is at stake, according to arguments filed by FLOW and other intervenors and made orally at a September 30 hearing.
“Authorizing a billion-dollar fossil fuel infrastructure project is fundamentally at odds with what science tells us must be done to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change,” said Liz Kirkwood, executive director of FLOW, a Great Lakes public trust law and policy center based in Traverse City. “Eliminating the determination of ‘public need’ when granting a Certificate of Necessity makes no sense.”
FLOW’s appeal also contests the ALJ ruling that the MPSC need not make a finding of “public need” to transport up to 8 billion gallons of oil a year for nearly a century in an era of falling demand for crude oil and an economy rapidly shifting to renewable energy. The pipeline tunnel proposed by Enbridge is inseparable from the business of transporting oil through existing Line 5, the Candian company’s 67-year old pipeline that runs from Superior, Wisconsin, through Michigan and on to refineries in Sarnia, Ontario.
Several market indicators suggest that investment in new pipeline infrastructure is highly questionable in light of clear trends indicating a precipitous drop in oil consumption in future years. Analysis released on August 9 by BNP Paribas, the world’s 8th-largest bank, reports “that the economics of oil for gasoline and diesel vehicles versus wind-and solar-powered EVs [electric vehicles] are now in relentless and irreversible decline, with far-reaching implications for both policymakers and the oil majors.”
FLOW is joined by several other intervening parties in the case in appealing to the three-member MPSC to overturn the ALJ ruling. Lawyers filed a joint appeal on behalf of the Michigan Environmental Council, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, and National Wildlife Federation, as well as a joint appeal on behalf of the Environmental Law & Policy Center and the Michigan Climate Action Network. Bay Mills Indian Community also appealed. Attorney General Dana Nessel also sought to support and join in the appeals filed by the groups and tribes.
FLOW’s appeal requests that the MPSC:
Reverse the ALJ’s granting of Enbridge’s motion to exclude evidence of public need and likely environmental effects and alternatives related to the new tunnel and tunnel pipeline and the intended purpose of the tunnel project to engage in business and operations to transport crude oil as part of the tunnel project and the existing Line 5 in Michigan; and
Remand to the ALJ to take appropriate action to incorporate the excluded evidence into the discovery and evidentiary hearing that will be submitted as a full case to the MPSC for final decision and order.
“We’re talking about water, climate, and the plummeting demand for crude oil,” said Jim Olson, FLOW’s founder and legal counsel. “The MPSC by law should fully consider and determine the effect on, and potential impairment to, the substantial risks, alternatives, costs, and damages, and the future of the State of Michigan under the public trust in the Great Lakes, environment, fishing, fishery habitat, and the communities, including tribal interests under long-standing treaties.”
“Enbridge’s attempted private takeover of the public’s bottomlands under the Straits of Mackinac for the tunnel project breaches the state’s duty to protect the public trust in the Great Lakes and is not good for the climate or Gov. Whitmer’s goals as the nation and world turn to clean energy for survival,” said Kirkwood.
Many groups, including FLOW and Oil & Water Don’t Mix, have articulated scientific and legal deep concerns about the Canadian pipeline company’s tunnel proposal and its lack of necessity, and risks to the Great Lakes, drinking water, the fishery in the Straits, Tribal rights, the Pure Michigan economy, the climate, and a way of life.
In more details, FLOW’s appeal asserts that:
The ALJ erroneously restricted the Broad Authority of the Commission under Act 16 by excluding review of the new or extended business and operations to transport crude oil through the new tunnel and pipeline.
The exclusion of evidence of “public need” under Act 16 is contrary to the law and deprives the parties the right to introduce evidence on questions of fact related to public need.
The State of Michigan has made new commitments to integrate climate change into government decision-making.
The duty to consider and/or determine the likely effects and alternatives under the Michigan Environmental Protection Act (MEPA) and its case law applies to the new tunnel and tunnel pipeline, and the intended purpose to extend the business and operations of Enbridge to the Straits and all of Line 5.
MEPA requires an evaluation of feasible and prudent alternatives, including a “no action” alternative.
Enbridge’s giant tunnel, at roughly 20-feet in diameter, would house a new Line 5 pipeline to continue for another 99 years carrying up to 23 million gallons of oil and natural gas liquids a day through the public trust bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan connects to Lake Huron.
On Monday, October 19, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) will conclude its public comment period on pending state permits for the expected wetland and wastewater impacts, and alternatives to constructing and operating Enbridge’s proposed, roughly four mile-long oil tunnel under the Great Lakes. The proposed tunnel, at roughly 20-feet in diameter, would house a new Line 5 pipeline to continue for another 99 years carrying up to 23 million gallons of oil and natural gas liquids a day through the public trust bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron.
It’s important for the members of the public—including individuals, families, business owners, community leaders, and others—to submit comments. Many people and groups, including FLOW and Oil & Water Don’t Mix, already have expressed deep concerns about the Canadian pipeline company’s tunnel proposal and its lack of necessity, and risks to the Great Lakes, drinking water, the fishery in the Straits, Tribal rights, the Pure Michigan economy, the climate, and a way of life.
Below is guidance from FLOW on what to include in your written comments and how to submit them online by Monday’s deadline. EGLE expects to issue its final decision on the oil tunnel permits and for wastewater impacts in late November and impacts to wetlands and submerged lands in early December.
Points to Make in Public Comments by Oct. 19
FLOW is providing this content for you to draw from and supplement with your own information and perspective in your comment to EGLE on the proposed Line 5 tunnel permits:
Not authorized by the state — EGLE cannot properly proceed on administering the Enbridge permit applications unless and until the December 2018 Easement and tunnel lease have been authorized under sections 2 and 3 of the Great Lakes Submerged Lands Act and the Public Trust Doctrine.
Not good for the climate or Gov. Whitmer’s goals — EGLE must take into account the lifetime greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the proposed petroleum tunnel, particularly in light of Governor Whitmer’s Executive Directive 2020-10 setting a goal of economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2050. Extending the life of Line 5 for the next 99 years with the tunnel project is fundamentally at odds with the reduction of greenhouse gases necessary to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
Not good for public health, safety, and welfare — EGLE is required to determine whether extending the life of an oil pipeline that will emit approximately tens of million tons of greenhouse gases annually for the next 99 years, under the state Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, “is consistent with the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare in light of the state’s paramount concern for the protection of its natural resources from pollution, impairment or destruction.”
Not a public need for the oil tunnel — EGLE must make a number of specific determinations, including whether the benefits of the project outweigh reasonably foreseeable detriments, the extent to which there is a public and private need for the project, and whether there are feasible and prudent alternatives to the tunnel project. Unless these determinations are clearly demonstrated by the applicant Enbridge, the permit is prohibited by the Michigan Environmental Protection Act and the Wetlands Protection Act.
How to Submit Your Comments to EGLE by Oct. 19
Be sure to submit your comments on Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 oil tunnel by the Monday, Oct. 19 deadline. The public can submit comments either by email to [email protected] — referencing Application Number HNY-NHX4-FSR2Q — or via two EGLE web pages for commenting separately on each of the permits. Click on each link below and follow the instructions provided by the state:
EGLE public comment page for Part 303 wetland impacts and Part 325 Great Lakes submerged lands impacts.
EGLE public comment page for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) wastewater impacts.
How to Learn More about Line 5 and the Risky Oil Tunnel
To learn more about Enbridge Line 5 and the proposed oil tunnel, see these resources on FLOW’s website:
FLOW Urges Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority to Halt Action on Unauthorized ‘Line 5’ Oil Tunnel
Proposed project Fails to Comply with Great Lakes Submerged Lands Act and Public Trust Law
FLOW, an independent Great Lakes law and policy center based in Traverse City, Michigan, filed formal comments today with the Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority, calling on the body to halt any further implementation of Enbridge Energy’s proposed Line 5 oil pipeline tunnel until the authorizations and approvals required by public trust common law and statute have been applied for and obtained.
The Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority and Enbridge have not applied for, nor received, the required legal authorization from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy to proceed with the oil pipeline tunnel. Canadian-based Enbridge hatched the tunnel scheme with the former Snyder administration to replace the 67-year-old decaying Line 5 pipelines in the open waters of the Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan meets Lake Huron.
“The oil tunnel negotiators and parties’ attempt to bypass the Great Lakes Submerged Lands Act (GLSLA) and the public trust law constitute one of the most egregious attacks on citizens’ rights and sovereign public trust interests in the Great Lakes in the history of the State of Michigan,” saidFLOW Founder and President Jim Olson.
“The Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority must understand that it is subject to the public trust doctrine and law that applies to the Great Lakes and the soils under them,” said Olson, a water law and environmental attorney. “When Michigan joined the United States in 1837, it took title as sovereign for its citizens under the ‘equal footing’ doctrine to all of the navigable waters in its territory, including the Great Lakes, and ‘all of the soils under them’ below the natural ordinary high-water mark. These waters and the soils beneath them are held in, and protected by, a public trust.”
The public trust doctrine means that the state holds these waters and soils beneath them in trust for the public for the protection of preferred or dedicated public trust uses of navigation, fishing, boating, swimming, bathing, drinking water, and other recreation. There can be no disposition, transfer, conveyance, occupancy or use of any kind of these public trust waters and the soils beneath them, unless there is a statute or law that expressly authorizes that action.
The State and Enbridge must first obtain authorization under the GLSLA for the public-private partnership to establish a long-term agreement for the 99-year lease and occupancy agreement for a tunnel or pipeline in or through the soils and bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac.
FLOW, as well as a coalition of state-wide public interest organization making up the Oil & Water Don’t Mix campaign, contends that boring an oil tunnel in and through the soils for an oil tunnel is not only subject to these public trust laws, but that crude oil pipelines in the or under the Great Lakes are not a solution given the risks and threats to the Great Lakes, its people, businesses, and communities. FLOW, OWDM, and other communities and organizations have also called for the shutdown of the 67-year old existing line 5 because of the immediate threat to the Straits and the risks posed by the pipeline’s more than 400 stream and river crossings in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. Enbridge’s proposal to allow electrical lines and other infrastructure to occupy the proposed oil pipeline tunnel is a bad idea that poses an explosion risk. There is adequate capacity in the thousands of miles of the Enbridge crude oil pipeline system to meet its needs for Michigan and Canada without the perilous existing Line 5 or crude oil tunnel for another 67 years.
Powered by our supporters, FLOW had quite a year in 2019.
Our legal advocacy work to restore the rule of law made a big impact at the state level. Michigan’s new Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a public trust lawsuit on June 27 to revoke the 1953 easement that conditionally authorizes Enbridge to operate its 66-year-old Line 5 oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac.
“This is a watershed moment in the battle to decommission Line 5, prevent a catastrophic oil spill, and protect the Great Lakes, an economic engine for our state and the source of drinking water for millions,” said FLOW executive director Liz Kirkwood about Nessel’s bold legal action.
On December 3, the Michigan Court of Appeals nullified a lower court order that would have allowed the bottled water giant Nestlé to build an industrial booster pump facility to remove millions of gallons of groundwater per year from Osceola Township. The court affirmed that bottled water is neither an “essential public service” nor a “public water supply”.
“Bottled water diversion and export operations can no longer be paraded as public,” said FLOW founder and president Jim Olson. “The purpose of the bottled water industry has only one purpose—maximum profit off the sale of packaged public water.”
FLOW launched several education campaigns in 2019 including a Groundwater Awareness Week, what it is and why it matters; the Michigan Septic Summit on Nov. 6 that convened parties from public health officials to realtors to watershed nonprofits to generate new partnerships and build political will to pass a statewide septic code; an environmental economics project and four policy briefs by former FLOW board chair Skip Pruss about the benefits of government regulation to protect the environment and public health; and a Public Trust month in July that included a “Great Lakes Passport” and a month-long series of videos that featured the public answering the question: “Who owns the Great Lakes?”.
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with people from all across the Great Lakes Basin to help improve protection of these public trust waters,” Kirkwood said. “Our challenge in this new century, then, is to break the constant cycle of ruin and recovery, and replace it with sustained protection and prosperity. This is critical in the context of the climate crisis where we are testing the capacity of our ecosystems to rebound.”
FLOW senior policy advisor Dave Dempsey was also invited to present at the Great Lakes Funders Conference in Cleveland in late October.
FLOW held several events in 2019 to recognize the importance of inspiring citizens viscerally and emotionally (as well as cerebrally) to protect the Great Lakes. We launched our “Art Meets Water” webpage to highlight examples of the heartfelt creativity that inspires us to fight for our public waters. “We all know that water is the source of the future,” says Leelanau County writer Anne-Marie Oomen. “But it’s also a part of our souls and our spirits.”
On June 28, cellist Crispin Campbell and “Mad Angler” poet Mike Delp performed at our “In Praise of Water” benefit for FLOW at the Cathedral Barn at Historic Barns Park in Traverse City. “The Mad Angler finds himself upset about the state of affairs that Michigan rivers find themselves in,” said Delp. “When you hear that deep sound coming out of the cello, that’s the heart of where this comes from… I’m right down inside that cello.”
On July 24, Oomen and the Beach Bards storytellers’ troupe presented, “Love Letters to the Lakes” (which she had solicited from writers across Michigan) in a live reading to the International Joint Commission, in hopes that deeply personal prose would impact public policy to protect the Great Lakes. And on October 11, Higher Art Gallery in Traverse City held “Artists for FLOW,” inviting local artists to share water-inspired works for a show that benefits our fight to protect that water.
“What I have learned, and what I believe in the most elemental way, is that our first and most basic relationship with water is anchored in love. In the absence of love, there is the great risk of indifference and failure to protect this resource that, under the Public Trust Doctrine, belongs to us all and is essential to life. If the heart is not engaged, the waters will not be saved. So, while we marshal facts and organize and encourage activism, let us remember to acknowledge the power of our affections and make them a guiding principle in all that we do.”
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Creamy Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken is a tasty and hearty meal. I like to serve it over rice and even in tacos. This cooks for several hours in the slow cooker and is a filling meal to come home to after a long day. This is an updated, slow cooker version of a stove-top Mexican Chicken dinner that I love. Throwing everything in the slow cooker makes this delicious dinner even easier.
Slow Cooker Tip For Best Results
When adding onions to a slow cooker, I always sauté them first. If you add them when they are still raw, they will be crunchy and raw tasting even after cooking all day. The extra 5 minutes it takes to cook the onion is definitely worth it in the Creamy Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken and in every slow cooker meal you make. You can even cook a few onions at once and freeze them for later use in other slow cooker recipes. Let me know if you try this tip!
Use Slow Cooker Liners for easy clean up. They are really the best way to use a slow cooker. When you are ready to clean up, just pull the bag out and throw it away. All you need to do is wipe down the slow cooker and it is ready to be put away. So easy!
My Favorite Slow Cooker Items
Other Slow Cooker Recipes To Try
Smoky Kalua Pork – Slow cook the most flavorful pork.
Mississippi Pot Roast – The best pot roast you will ever make.
White Chicken Chili – Easy slow cooked white chicken chili
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Creamy Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken
- Slow Cooker
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion, diced
- 3 lbs chicken breasts, boneless & skinless
- 3 cloves garlic, minced or grated
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 2 – 14 oz. cans diced tomatoes, with roasted garlic & herb
- 2 15 oz. cans red kidney beans, drained
- 15 oz. can corn kernels, drained
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 3 cups uncooked rice
- Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the diced onion and cook until softened and lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
- Put the chicken breasts in the bottom of a slow cooker. Add the cooked onion, chicken breasts, garlic, chili powder, cayenne, salt, pepper, chicken broth, diced tomatoes, kidney beans, and corn. Cook on high for 3-4 hours or low for 6-8 hours.
- Remove the chicken from the slow cooker and shred. Cut the cream cheese into pieces then add to the slow cooker. Return the chicken to the slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Cook the rice as you normally would. Serve over rice.
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Let me know how you guys like the story.
This is my first story on here.
When I first laid eyes on Ashley was in 7th grade. We were young. My First true feelings started in 9th grade. Her birthday was 2 weeks before mine. When I turned 16 i threw a big party. And of course, Ashley was there.
Between the years i was one of her best friends, she wasn't from our town, she moved from Florida her 7th grade year. She was the shy type of person. But the longer she was here, the more outgoing she was. She would be shy to the people she didn't know. But at school it was like she had been there her whole life. She grew popular very rapidly.
My birthday was really a Thursday but because of school had my party that Saturday. I heard the doorbell go off, and i headed for the door. When I opened the door, Ashley was standing there, with a amazing dress on, I was just frozen. The way the dress cupped her breast would have a teen girl kill for boobs like those. The perfect C cupped boobs.
I greeted her inside after what seemed to be hours. "Thanks for coming Ashley" I said nervously.
"Happy Birthday Anthony!" she replayed back.
I walked her to the back yard where all my friends where.
Ashley was a very popular by 9th grade and everyone knew her.
So when she walked to the back yard everyone said hello to her and continued to there chatting and socializing.
The party lasted a while, everyone was gone by 11p.m.
Ashley was the last to leave. Before she left she came up to me saying happy birthday one last time, and she went in for a hug.
When she started moving for the hug, time just stopped, and there were the perfect boobs again.
The hug lasted a while, she pulled away still staring at me. I was staring back.
She went in for a kiss. At that time, i didn't think that she liked me at all, maybe i was wrong. We were just centimeters way for our lips to met, as my mother comes to the back yard interrupting us. We both pulled away acting like nothing was going on. My mother said "Oh, i thought everyone left"
Ashley wasn't the type of person to be in a relationship, so she didn't have a boyfriend, she said that guys just want girlfriends just for sex, I asked "whats wrong with that". I got smacked for saying that.
"Hi Mrs. Duvall" Ashley greeted.
"Oh hi Ashley, its been so long!" My mother loved Ashley like she was her daughter that she never had.
"Well, I better get going. You're still coming to my party right Anthony!"
I wasn't paying attention, i was too busy giving my mother a mean look.
She hit me against my arm.
"What!" i said with surprise.
"My party! You're coming right!" she said with a loud voice.
"Oh yeah, why wouldn't I?"
She didn't have her party closer to her birthday. Her mom was out of town for the week and she said she didn't want to have a party without her.
We said our good byes and she left.
I turned to look at my mother.
"What?" she said with a puzzled look on her face.
That Monday at school, i just couldn't get that moment we almost kissed out of my mind.
We were to good of best friends to have a relationship, i thought in my mind all day.
Yeah, i had feeling for her. She was hot too, had a nice rack and ass, blue eyes, brown hair she stood at 5'3' with AMAZING legs. how could you not say she was hot!
I had fantasies of me and her banging a couple of times.
All day, i had not talked to her, until 8th period. Gym class. The only class where girls can wear tight short shorts to show off there asses.
We had to line up and do our stretches. And fortunately for me, she was right in front of me.
We had to touch our toes with our fingers, and boy oh boy did i get hard when i seen that view. Just a perfect bubble butt in tight shorts. I was in heaven.
We were playing dodge ball that day. Knowing me, i was the gym teachers favorite student and he picked me to be a Captain to pick teams.
But, the sad thing is, Ashley was a Captain as well. She looked at me with a puppy dog face saying "Can i pick first?"
I replayed "Whats in it for me"
She gave me a big smiley and said "We can think of something cant we?"
She loved trying to beat me in everything.
But not in dodge ball. I was in baseball, so i had a nice throwing arm.
I smiled back at her, giving up the first pick.
She wasn't the best picker, she had only picked her best friend Haylee first. And Haylee was NOT a good athlete
I had strategy when i picked, i pick people who was athletic and was strong enough to even throw a dodge ball
the gym class was only 45 mins long, and with the time wasted changing into our gym cloths and stretching, we only had 30 mins left.
We played 3 games. My team won 2 out of 3.
I always tried to be the last one out of the gym. just think sweaty teen boys, in a small locker room, Not a very good combination.
As I started to open the door to the hallway that leads to the locker rooms, Ashley opened the door still not changed yet.
"Why are you not dressed yet" i asked
"Don't think I'm stupid Anthony, i seen you looking at me when we were stretching!"
I tried to play it off like i did no such thing. But she knew me too well to get tricked by me.
"Yeah, yeah! i still owe you for the first pick, and with that in mind!" she grabbed my shirt and pulled me down and out of no where she started to kiss me. It was lasting a WHILE. I obviously didn't pull away. I was enjoying as much as I could. we was kissing for a good minute, minute in a half. In that little time, my dick was starting to harden. Ashley felt it on her leg, that's what made her to pull away.
"Looks like someone is enjoying this"
I slowly shook my head up and down.
She started heading for the locker room, I was still standing where i was the whole time, starting at the amazing ass.
She was about half way there and she turned around, and spoke 'Oh, can i have a ride home? My car is in the shop"
"Anything" I replayed.
When the bell rang for dismissal i headed for my truck. It was a gift to me from my grandparents. It was a blue 1999 dodge durango. And i just loved that truck.
I was waiting a good 10 mins. I took out my phone and called her. it rang 1 time and she walked out the doors to the school.
She got in the truck and i asked "gess what took you so long... oh wait.. your a girl, GOSSIP!"
She looked over at me and said "So".
I put the truck in drive and started heading to her house. She lived passed my house, so she was lucky that i was giving her a ride.
I made the turn towards my house. "Lets just go to your house". She insisted. "I don't have to be home right away"
Both my parents are working. My mom is a receptionist at a nursing home and my dad is Manager at a Golf Country Club.
So we were home alone.
We walked in and the first think i do is get a bottle of water. I ask if she wants one. Shes is too nice to accept anything she is offered, so she said no.
I was sticky from sweating in gym, so i told Her that i needed to take a quick shower. She stayed in my room the time being.
I got out was drying myself and i put on a T-Shirt and basketball shorts. I walked into my room and find Ashley asleep on my bed. I didn't wake her up right away. i just started at her. Looking at how hot she was.
I was thinking, and i got a idea to wake her up.
I got under my bed and lifted up the bed. She woke up screaming. She called me an asshole and all that, i was just standing there laughing.
"Why did you go to sleep on my bed in the first place". I said trying to pin it all on her.
We were laying on my bed watching t.v. and she blurted out "I still owe you for gym today, don't i?"
"I thought that kiss was payment".
"No, that was from the birthday party. when your mom interrupted us".
All you could see on my face was a Big smile.
"Well, what do i have to do, to get even?"
I was thinking for a moment "I have an idea" i started to kiss her, and pull off her shirt at the same time. After her shirt was all the way off, she announced "I may just like this idea".
I started playing with her boobs. Even with the bra on, you could tell that her nipples where getting harder and harder.
She started tugging on my shirt to pull it off. We had to break the kiss for a moment, the shirt was off and we were back at making out for a while.
10 mins went by and my cock is already rock hard. She felt it threw my shorts. She started to rub at it and play with it. While she was doing that, i unhooked her bra and let it fall to the floor, revealing the amazing C cup boobs right in my face. I took a nipple in my mouth and started to suck on it. She was letting out moans after moans. Saying "Oh baby, don't stop!"
I was flipping back and forth to each nipple when she got up and started to undo her jeans. I stood up as well letting my shorts and boxers fall to the floor revealing my 7 1/2 in cock.
Ashley was wearing a blue G string. She pulled them down showing that she was had a shaved pussy dripping wet with her juices.
I laid back down on the bed, she climbed on top of me and we started kissing again. I was playing with her ass, squeeze them and toying with them. she started to slide down towards my rock hard dick. She spit on my dick and started stroking it up and down. Then after a while of a hand job she started to lick the tip of my dick, making me lift my hips of the bed. She started to take all my dick in her mouth he got half way and pulled out. she started stroking even more. I was telling her "Faster! Faster!" about a minute of non stop stroking i shot my load onto her face, she caught some in her mouth , but mostly on her chin and cheek. She stop and got up. She motioned me to get behind her. I got up, he bend over the bed, i grabbed my cock and started slamming it into the back of her pussy. She started moaning and letting out noises letting me know it felt good. "Oh Fuck, Fuck me harder Anthony! FUCK ME HARDER" She was screaming. I was pounding my dick into her pussy and i could just feel she was about to cum. She tighten her ass making it feel even more amazing on my dick. I felt it tighten even more. "OH FUCK! OH FUCK!!" Ashley had reached her orgasm. I was still slamming my dick in her pussy faster and faster. "I'm gonna cum" i told Ashley. She tightened her ass knowing it would make my dick cum even faster. After slamming my dick into her, i finally shot my cum inside her.
I pulled out my dick, it was starting to soften. I laid next to her huffing and puffing from all the power i put into her.
"Are we even now?" she asked.
I was too tired to even talk. so i shook me head yes.
"We should do this more often". I shook my head agreeing with that statement.
I finally caught my breath, "Way to go, im sweaty again, i have to take another shower"
She looked at me saying "Can i join you?"
Not even a second later i shouted Yes!
As i started the shower, Ashley was getting her cloths and put them in the bathroom.
I let the shower start to warm up and we both got in.
I was starting to think "Wait, When did Ashley start having feelings for me"
So, i asked her.
She didn't respond at first.
"Right when we became best friends"
All that time and she never made a move or did anything to catch my attention.
"When did you start having feeling for me?" she asked back
"When I first met you!"
We started kissing, and i was playing with her ass and tits while she was stroking my dick.
"So does this mean we are boyfriend and girlfriend now?" she asked.
"If you want it to, then sure!"
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Physicians have the opportunity – and the responsibility – to provide LGBTQ+ patients a safe space to disclose and discuss their sexuality. As physicians, we can and should be thoughtful about the meaning of a patient disclosing that information. The “coming out” may take the form of a check box on a questionnaire, with that information having little to no relevance to the patient’s reason for being in the office or the hospital. Conversely, a physician may find themselves in the important position of being the first trusted person with whom the patient shares this information. Patients may have been out for years in many settings, or may be very secretive about their LGBTQ+ identity.
What is important for physicians to remember is that this disclosure is made by people who at some level are prepared for rejection, avoidance, devaluation, neutrality, acceptance, or in the best case the hoped for response of celebration. Whenever someone shares their LGBTQ+ identity with a new physician, they are taking a risk. They risk that the information will not be understood, validated, and appreciated for what it is, despite the patient’s wish to be known and understood by their doctor. Being present with the patient – truly listening to what they have to say – goes a long way towards making the experience a positive one. Our University of Vermont College of Medicine students begin the process of learning these important skills from their first day as medical students. I have seen how the College’s emphasis on these important humanistic aspects of the work of caring for others helps them become excellent physicians, making a difference in patient care everyday.
The following are some additional points to consider for a physician to whom a patient comes out:
- Acknowledge and express appreciation for the information being shared.
- Ask how it was for the patient to share that information at that time.
- Maintain eye contact.
- Thank the patient for trusting the relationship enough to share the information.
- Ask about family and refer to family members and dating partners using the patient’s language (don’t refer to boyfriends or girlfriends as friends. EX: “How is your friend?”)
- Offer to always be available to be a resource or to find the right resources if the patient has questions or concerns about their health and wellbeing and how their sexual/gender identity may interact with those issues.
And here are some additional tips for healthcare providers from the Human Rights Campaign (http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/coming-out-to-your-doctor):
- Educate yourself. Learn about the specific health issues facing LGBT people.
- Be sensitive. Make sure you and your staff know which pronouns are appropriate to use when referring to a transgender patient or same-sex couple. Present visual cues. Displaying an HRC equal sign or other LGBT-friendly emblem will demonstrate that your office is a safe space for all.
- Revise client forms. Allow options for male/female/transgender and use neutral terms like “partner” or “spouse” rather than “single,” “married” or “divorced.” Use “parent 1” and “parent 2” to include same-sex couples raising children.
- Don’t assume. Avoid making assumptions about a patient based on their appearance. When taking a sexual history, ask, “Are your current or past sexual partners men, women or both?”
- Listen attentively. Be sensitive to the fact that this disclosure may be difficult for your patients.
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I Am The Beer Whisperer, Beervangelist, Prolific Beer Drinker, Purveyor Of Wisdom and All around Good Guy!
Craft Beer & TV, A Little Respect Please!
As a craft beer guy, I like that we’re seeing more and more craft beer references on TV. The problem? It’s still mostly generic references. Brands shown are largely macro crafty and not real craft beer and/or blatant product placement.
Now, don’t get me wrong, any improvement is good, but here’s a couple of things that we need to work on.
“I’ll Have A Beer”
Have you ever seen anyone ever walk into a bar, pub, tavern, saloon, bowling alley, speakeasy, club, casino or illegal underground fight and order a “beer”? NO! No, No, No, No, No! If you can’t have your character order a specific brand, at least have them order a specific style.”I’ll have the IPA, brown ale, pilsner, stout, bourbon barrel aged whatever….” Are you following me here?
RIGHT OUT OF THE BOTTLE!
On a new TV show a character gets a box delivered to her that’s not hers. She takes it to where it belongs and he’s excited. It’s a rare sour and only a limited number of cases are made each year. That’s great, right? A rare sour craft beer reference can be! Well, she’s never heard of it. He pops the top on 2 bottles, hands her one. They both swig a rare, limited edition sour RIGHT OUT OF THE BOTTLE! RIGHT OUT OF THE BOTTLE! A true beer lover would have gone into the house and brought out a couple of tulips!
This may seem small to a non-craft drinker. Maybe even the casual craft drinker. However, anyone that has tracked down a rare sour and can afford to buy a couple of cases and have it shipped to their house would never under any circumstance SWIG IT RIGHT OUT OF THE BOTTLE! It turns out that she doesn’t like it and spits it out. There’s the typical sitcom witty banter about it and then they go into the house. Cut to her in the living room and he comes out of the kitchen with a glass of something else for her to drink. The problem? He went into the kitchen, he brings her something else to drink IN A GLASS yet he is still knocking back his rare sour RIGHT OUT OF THE BOTTLE!
Details, Get ‘Em Right!
In the grand scheme of things, this may seem small. However, I have family and friends that count bullets for realism while watching their shows. Some will immediately quit watching a show if the phone # starts with 555. So, I don’t think I’m being too nitpicky here.
All of these movies and TV shows hire consultants for realism, how about we get ALL the details right. Not every beer can be ordered by saying,”Beer”, not all beer is pale yellow and poured into a beer mug and if your character can open a bottle of wine and pour it into a glass, why does all beer have to be chugged right out of the bottle? I think your character could also have proper beer glassware in the cabinet and actually know how to pour it. They have WINE glasses after all!
So, to you TV producers out there, if you need someone to ensure accuracy and proper beer etiquette on your shows and be paid extremely well for doing a ridiculously small amount of work, I’m your guy. Until then, these tips are free, have at ’em and darn it, GET IT RIGHT!
I Am The Beer Whisperer, I’m Running For Beer Whisperer In Chief And I Approve This Message!
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I’ve ordered these reviews exactly opposite from the order in which I read them, just to make things slightly more confusing.
The Moving Target
I’m trying to review this book, but the plot has intermingled in my brain with that of The Drowning Pool. They are virtually indistinguishable from one another. It also doesn’t help that I finished this book about two weeks ago. I typically listen to audiobooks at work, but I’ve gotten kind of obsessed with the podcast Knowledge Fight, which critically examines Alex Jones’s Info Wars. I’m going through their series exploring Jones’s response to the Sandy Hook massacre – and it’s infuriatingly wild. So I haven’t been doing much reading lately.
Ross Macdonald is one of the main pen names of Kenneth Millar, and he was perhaps the most prominent crime fiction writer of the mid-20th century. At least, according to Wikipedia. I know about these books because they were available for free download (with membership) on Audible. The Moving Target is the first novel in his series about Lew Archer, private detective. But I actually read it after The Drowning Pool, for no other reason than I’ve heard of the movie adaptation of that one – though I haven’t actually seen it, so I’m not sure why it even matters. Though, apparently this novel became a Paul Newman movie, too (Harper). I haven’t seen that one, either.
Millar didn’t even use “Ross MacDonald” (probably his more famous pen name) for this book, choosing instead to go with “John Macdonald”.
Published in 1949, The Moving Target is a hard-boiled detective novel about a private investigator named Lew Archer. Archer is Macdonald’s Phillip Marlowe, and he would go on to write 17 novels about him. This is the first.
Archer is hired to track down a missing millionaire named Ralph Sampson. Hired by the man’s wife, he begins by interviewing Sampson’s pilot. This leads him along the post-war California coast, with Archer mixing with the wealthy and entitled Sampson family and the lower class citizens of the fictional town of Santa Teresa. The novel is full of the clipped fast-paced dialogue you’d expect from this type of novel, and Macdonald doesn’t shy away from tackling drugs and porn – which quite shocked me, considering when the book was written.
Overall, I found it fairly engaging, if not quite as entertaining as it’s follow-up. If crime fiction is your thing, I think it’s well worth a read.
The Drowning Pool
The further removed I am from this novel, the less I remember it. A year from now, there’s a good chance I’ll not remember having read it at all.
With that said, I quite liked it and it only took two days to get through the audiobook.
This go ’round, Lew Archer is investigating the blackmail of a woman named Maude Slocumb for her less than respectable behavior with another man. Maude’s husband is the son of a very wealthy woman, and she and her husband have a very unhappy marriage that’s only held together because of his inheritance and their daughter. There are few references to his possible homosexuality – and it’s presented exactly like I’d expect in a hard boiled detective novel from 1950.
Well, as these things tend to, the novel quickly turns into the hunt for a killer, as one of the characters winds up dead.
The Ice Harvest
I remember watching this movie about fifteen years ago mainly because the screenplay was written by Richard Russo (one of my favorite authors). I found it okay, and largely forgettable. Having now read the book, I found it a somewhat seedier noir-ish version of a Richard Russo novel. Wichita is depicted is a rundown city with little to offer, and the characters are all broken in some way, but charming in spite of themselves.
And I liked it quite a bit.
To be clear, I didn’t think anyone in this book was particularly good – but I don’t think anyone was supposed to be, either.
Charlie Arglist can’t wait to leave Wichita, but he’s waiting for his partner. He’s got a giant bag of money (which they’ve embezzled from a local crime boss), it’s Christmas (and there’s a snow storm), and he’s got some time to kill (so he spends most of his time in bars and strip clubs). I’ve just described most of the novel.
It’s got a pretty interesting cast of characters, and the story is kind of meandering in an novel way – but not much happens until the end. And that’s okay. It’s not really about the destination.
I know I don’t really have anything interesting to say about any of these novels. I read the last of these books a couple weeks ago, now, and don’t really have a strong feeling about any of them. The Ice Harvest was enjoyable without being overly impactful. The Macdonald books were serviceable, but I think I like film noir more than hard-boiled detective novels. I don’t know. I haven’t read many. I wasn’t blown away.
But, I’m also not really into reading right now. I’m still in my Wheel of Time malaise, which I didn’t expect to last nearly this long.
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It’s no secret that Italians show and share their love through their cooking. It is believed that one can not cook well if there is no love in their cooking – amore & cucina – go hand in hand. So who else better than to take a tip from than the Italians on to know how to prepare a menu for an evening full of passion!
If you’re looking to celebrate a romantic evening with your significant other with an aphrodisiac menu to satisfy the palate and ignite the passion, here’s the menu for you…
Menu di Amore calls for the right ingredients to stimulate desire: ginger, chili peppers, garlic, asparagus, truffles and chocolate.
This menu is meant to not only stimulate the romantic senses for a candle dinner for two but also be a light and playful meal, even taking the opportunity to share the same plate!Our advice to start off with an appetizer full of strong flavors but small portions, continuing with a classic first course, and an atypical but delicate second course , and ending with a seductive touch of dessert.
To open the menu you can bring intrigue by a light and fun appetizer with the Romeo Cocktail, Garlic Crostini Dip, and Chicken Strips al Peperoncino. To follow, prepare an asparagus risotto as the first course. And for a refined and delicate touch, as the main course, truffle eggs sun sided up.
MENU DI AMORE
(click on images to see the full recipe - find full grocery list to follow)
Grocery List :
2 Garlic cloves
1 Bottle White Wine
! basket of Strawberries
HAPPY SAN VALENTINO & EAT BENE!
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Closeness sensors which are intended to distinguish the present status of the control of the stopping slows down whether single, enormous or various stopping regions in both private just as recreational areas, are known as parking space sensors. These parking space sensors are remote in nature and recognize the event of the vehicles on the slow down and afterward pass on this data to the assortment of information just as the transmission control unit.
The parking space sensor is a framework that puts stock in saving energy. The entirety of the illuminating with regards to the accessibility of the parking spots helps in lessening the measure of contamination caused as well as assisting with the metropolitan traffic in a green and savvy way.
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The parking spot sensor has an assortment of provisions in its possession. However, the most significant of them to begin with would be the way it nearly takes out the common works and costs the least.
Simplicity of Installation
The establishment interaction is exceptionally simple since the parking spot sensor is remote.
The form of the gadget is made so that it can’t succumb to the defacing just as instances of coincidental harm excessively fast. The form and the quality are both strong.
Since the force utilization is a low-circuit plan and runs exclusively on the battery power the battery life is more than as long as eight years on account of ordinary use. Long-life batteries are taken into a here for the low support.
Advantages of utilizing the Parking Space Sensor
There is no prerequisite for driving while at the same time paying special mind to an accessible parking spot.
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The outflows from the vehicles are brought down for a huge scope.
There is high proficiency for stopping.
There are zero opportunities for a defacing to happen.
The prerequisite of the staff is least in case it’s utilized by parkers that are known.
The benefactors can hang tight for their separate vehicles in a climate that is profoundly controlled.
Basic and ticketless offices are introduced to individuals, on frameworks that are an obstruction free installment.
Full data is given on every one of the parking spots.
The most conceivable use is made of the accessible space.
The traffic stream is additionally worked on all the while.
Future arranging has been made beneficial using extensive data.
Leaving sensors that are ultrasonic in nature utilize the sound echoes for working out just as recognizing the distance between the vehicle and different articles. These ultrasonic sensors are arranged on the vehicle’s guard for guaranteeing that the sound waves can go with no interference. The blaring caution expansions in its recurrence to alarm the concerned driver when the vehicle crawls almost an obstruction.
Essentially, leaving sensor frameworks of the electromagnetic kind do the work of setting up electromagnetic fields all through the vehicle’s guard. At the point when any obstruction is distinguished close to the field, then, at that point the driver is cautioned about the situation.
Is it accurate to say that you are prepared to add to a superior tomorrow? Assuming indeed, take on the green lifestyle at this moment. The stopping the executives framework and parking garage sensor are surefire approaches to transform your city into a greener one.
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You probably know Chris Douridas from Los Angeles’ iconic, trend-setting radio station KCRW. He was the host of Morning Becomes Eclectic in the ’90s. He has been at the station for about 30 years. Chris is someone who has hired most of the staff that we know at KCRW and is an extremely influential figure in the Los Angeles music scene. Chris also started the premiere music showcase, School Night. He is also a music supervisor and was nominated for a Grammy award for his work on American Beauty and has music supervised a number of films, including the Austin Powers trilogy and Shrek 2.
Chris and I discuss how he listens music and what it takes for what it takes for him to play a new song on his radio show. We also talk about how he puts together the music for films he’s working on. Chris also shares a hilarious story about his first time on air as a radio DJ.
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Airlines and Airports in Australia have launched a major campaign to curb disruptive and abusive behaviour towards airline crew, airport teams and other passengers during the pandemic.
Called “No More Carry On”, it calls for patience and preparedness as travellers, airline crew and airport teams navigate a return to widespread flying while managing COVID-19 related travel requirements as a result of COVID-19.
The campaign, supported by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), follows an increase in disruptive and abusive behaviour towards airline crew, airport teams and other passengers during the pandemic, with hundreds of incidents reported across the airlines in 2021, many triggered by refusal to follow mask requirements.
In extreme cases, the crew have been threatened and physically assaulted by passengers.
The penalties are severe with a maximum of 10 years jail for assault and the cost of diversion of the aircraft if required.
In 2018, a Perth Court forced a disruptive passenger to pay the A$26,000 in diversion cost of a flight to Brisbane that had to turn back to Perth.
In 2012 a passenger was fined $120,000 for the cost of the diversion of a Sydney to Tokyo flight after the pilots diverted to Cairns.
The new awareness campaign plays on the concept that while carry-on luggage is welcome, disruptive or abusive ‘carry-on behaviour’ will not be tolerated.
Airports in capital cities and regional centres around the country will display digital billboards throughout terminals and a powerful video message from airline crew will be shared on social channels.
Jetstar, Qantas, Rex and Virgin Australia have also signed up to a voluntary Code of Practice on Passenger Behaviour, which ensures a consistent approach across aviation in Australia.
The key elements of the Code of Practice include:
• Refusing to allow a customer to board, where necessary, to protect fellow passengers and crew from offensive or disruptive behaviour.
• Holding passengers who are offensive or disruptive accountable for their behaviour, including recouping costs for diversions and damage to the aircraft and imposing bans on future travel.
• Airlines and airports proactively engage with law enforcement and CASA to support any administrative or criminal sanctions against a passenger found to have engaged in offensive or disruptive conduct.
Qantas Group Executive and CEO of the Jetstar Group, Gareth Evans said “over the next few months, millions of Australians will be heading off on holidays or to see family and our teams are here to help customers navigate the new travel requirements, like masks and border declarations, which are now in place across the country.
“While the vast majority of passengers do the right thing, unfortunately as with the hospitality and retail industries, we have seen an increase in the number of people behaving badly.
”At airports and on aircraft, critical safety procedures must be followed. There is no room for disruptive behaviour and we will act quickly to stop unruliness to ensure everyone remains safe.
AFP Acting Assistant Commissioner Specialist Protective Command Andrea Quinn
“It is an ideal time to revive and strengthen security measures at Australia’s airports as more people start to travel over the festive season.
“The AFP has zero-tolerance for any dangerous or antisocial behaviour and works tirelessly to ensure the safety of the travelling community.
“So as you head off on a well-deserved break these holidays – please remember – the silly season does not extend to behaviour in airports.”
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More than 70 employers and 400 students and alumni attended the Fall Career Fair which took place on Wednesday, September 22 in the Field House of the Richie Regan Recreation and Athletic Center. The large space allowed employers, students, and alumni to spread out while they networked.
Students and alumni were excited and ready to meet employers. We spoke with several students to find out what they were looking to gain from this event.
Kassandra L Griffin and Jessi-Marie Agosto
In speaking with Kassandra L Griffin (Finance and IT majors) and Jessi-Marie Agosto (Mathematical Finance) both scholars in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) attended the career fair because they are sophomores with a desire to learn what types of jobs and internships are offered. Attending the career fair was encouraged by EOP early on in their collegiate journey.
Alumni David Awad (Finance and IT), understands the value of building these relations. A major reason for his attendance was to meet people and see what's new in the field. David was also at the fair to showcase his skills that he acquired from working for a year.
Kelly Reyes (Social Behavioral Sciences) attended the career fair because she recognized that graduation is next year and she needed to better understand the job market. She stated,
"I want to make these connections before I graduate in the summer. This career fair has helped a lot because I did not know these companies existed."
Now a senior in the accounting major in Stillman School of Business, Ryan Karaty has already interned with two leading companies, yet he attends the career fair to continue to learn about the experiences that each employer brings to the table, especially in the fields he is most interested in.
Jorge Rivera, Assistant Director in the Career Center believes that when students start to pursue internships or even part time work, it serves as a stepping stone that could lead into an opportunity in the future as it allows students to walk away with a new connection in the industry.
Sara Barrientos who is majoring in Marketing & International Business said the following.
"I am amazed to learn that different companies from various industries all accept marketing positions."
Drisha Mishra (Public Relations) did not want to wait for senior year to start thinking about what might be next after graduation.
"I've been looking for internships and thinking ahead that maybe this internship could lead to a future job opportunity."
In an article published in the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), a leading source of information on employment for college students, authors Sean O'Keefe and Barry Posner explained that "Internships make college students more competitive in the job market because they give students a chance to gain knowledge, skills, and experience valued by potential employers." The article also mentions that career professionals need to engage with students to help them understand that "who you know" does not matter so much until "you know someone!" Moreover, the payoff from an internship appears to be greater in terms of leading to a job offer.
The university continues to provide the necessary avenues for our students to network within the local and global community. Click here for a listing of upcoming Career Center events.
The Career Center team is building up new opportunities and students can anticipate having more professionals who work in their field of interest on campus. This allows students to be introduced to various roles and functions within their majors.
Additionally, the University continues to introduce cutting edge software to ensure students are equipped to enter the work place. In Fall 2021, The Career Center launched the Handshake platform, which is the #1 way college students find internships and jobs. This platform allows students to gain direct access to employers and get a sense of the companies that are hiring. In addition, it allows the students to be more informed on where and how to develop their network. This cutting edge software is an app located in PirateNet.
The Career Center would like to extend our thanks to the ROTC cadets for their assistance and support in the breakdown of the event.
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Our driving instructors will often be asked the question 'how many driving lessons do I need?' from pupils during their first few driving lessons. This question can be difficult to answer accurately as every learner progresses differently and learns at different speeds. After your first couple of lessons or 2-hour assessment lesson, your driving instructor will give you an estimation of how many driving lessons you're likely to need. It's helpful to have this estimation so that you have a measurable goal to work towards, and it also means you can organise your finances for your driving lessons.
How many driving lessons will I need to pass?
The number of driving lessons needed to pass varies depending on the pupil. While some pupils will be test ready after as little as 10 hours, others may require significantly more. One thing you can be sure of is when learning to drive with DRIVE 321, we will never string you along or long the process out unnecessarily. We know that some driving schools will tell pupils they need more lessons, even if they are at a test ready standard so that they can get more money from the pupil.
Our driving instructors will always tell you how many lessons they think you need, and they will keep you updated throughout the process. We want you to pass as much as you do, and we want to help that happen as quickly as possible. You can see that we are consistently achieving this from our average pass time of just 26 hours.
The reason our pupils pass so fast is not that we rush the process or cut corners. It's because our teaching methods have been expertly developed to help you learn at your best, and we have exceptionally high teaching standards. Our driving instructors at DRIVE 321 are all carefully chosen by us and have to meet our high standard code of conduct. Our code of conduct ensures that our instructors are teaching to the standard we expect and that our pupils are receiving the highest level of teaching they available.
How much does it cost to learn to drive?
The cost of learning to drive depends on several factors such as the area you're learning to drive in, what type of lessons you're having, and how many hours you need. Driving is an essential skill for life, so the process of learning mustn't be rushed or cut short. Our driving lessons start from just £20, and we work hard to ensure our lessons are affordable, while still being able to provide top quality driving instructors.
We also have block booking deals which are the most cost-effective way to pay for your driving lessons. Rather than paying week by week, you can pay for a course of 10, 20 or 30 hours upfront. We offer an excellent discount on our block bookings, and it is also a great way of managing your time and money.
2-hour assessment lesson
Our 2-hour assessment lesson is designed for those pupils who want to get to know their driving instructor and are keen to get driving during the first lesson. During the 2-hour assessment lesson, your instructor will gather information about your current driving ability and assess what level you're at. At the end of the assessment, your instructor will provide some feedback and will be able to give you an idea of how many hours you need.
We have many different driving lesson options available, our driving lessons are explained here. We highly recommend that pupils begin their lessons with a 2-hour assessment lesson, whether they're a beginner or have driven before. From this lesson, your instructor will be able to put together a plan of action for your learning and tailor lessons to your needs.
Intensive driving courses
We also offer intensive driving courses in many areas across the UK. With one of our specialist intensive courses, you could be ready to take your driving test in just 1-4 weeks, depending on your ability and availability. Our driving instructors are specially trained in delivering intensive courses and will help you pass in as little time as possible.
Our intensive driving courses are all taught by approved DRIVE 321 instructors; we will never sub your course out to instructors we don't know. The reason our intensive courses stand out is that, unlike many other driving schools offering intensive courses, we tailor our courses to each pupil, giving you the best possible chance of passing quickly.
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Living room as you all must be aware of is the room for everything from entertaining friends to having a cup of coffee to watching reruns of your favorite Television series.
Now, we all have to rearrange or adjust our Living room for every occasion like when our friends are coming over or it is a festival party we are throwing.
This is hectic and annoying, changing your room decor for every occasion. Why don’t we settle down for a living room that is perfect for every occasion?
A perfect living room for every occasion is a dream come true. Balancing style and comfort takes great effort and time, but we can do that for a perfect living room, right?
We don’t have to decorate it in haste when any festival is coming and then going back after it ends. We will suggest some ways on how to get a perfect living room for every occasion. A new perfect living room will be like a breath of fresh air and stylish as well. Let’s start.
Designing your living room is an enjoyable process. So, we will start with Wall colors and then will add on the furniture and articles required in the room.
For the First Perfect Living room for Every Occasion look
We have created three looks so you can get any one of them. They all are plush and elegant looks and very easy to achieve.
All the items are chosen from the most trusted websites and all the looks are designed keeping in mind that you don’t need to change them anytime soon. Have a look at our first look.
Wall color: Warm Grey
Warm grey is a subtle and gentle color that never goes out of style. No matter if you are living sea-side or in the hills or the busy metropolitan cities this one is classic.
Having this color as your mains will give a warm appearance and if you are messy kind of a person then this will not highlight this.
You can use minimal decoration yet this one will leave an impression.
Sofa – Set
Ibiza’s two-seater sofa in blue color by Peachtree from Pepperfry is a unique and snuggly sofa that is perfect for every occasion and compliments the warm grey walls.
This two-seater sofa is for a small living room. This product is available in more than one color on the website. Keep it in the middle of your room.
The center table should match with the sofa or else it will look distinct from the overall decor.
Along with the above-mentioned kind of sofa, you can add the Square coffee table by exclusive Furniture from Pepperfry. Place it in front of the sofa.
A side table is never a turn off for the living room decor. Leo End Table (Large) in Bavarian Beech Colour by Lakdi from Pepperfry is a good choice.
It is a simple, small and light side table that will give your living room a perfect look and you can easily move it if you want.
Place it beside the sofa. Here, you can place a small photo frame for your family.
Global Home Fashion Premium Carpet by Amazon is a must-have for the living room.
It is Grey colored that matches well with grey color walls and blue colored sofa. Its fur material will give you an intimate feeling in the room.
Carpet should be placed in the middle of the room. Place it in front of the sofa or under the center table.
Cody Five Tier Book Shelf in Choco Walnut Finish by Live Home on Pepperfry is an item of complementary furniture.
It will look good with the side table. These shelves are not only charming but useful as well, you can add books there or place a nice small cute vase there. Position it in the corner of the room.
Wall paintings are the most interesting part of the Living room. There are multiple paintings out there that you can choose from.
Along with this decor, you should opt for Tomatina Canvas A Beautiful Tree of Cherry Painting from Amazon.
This painting gives a divine look to the room. Hang it in the center of the room wall or behind the sofa.
Lyse Decor Metal 3-Lights Round Cluster Wired Hanging Chandelier Pendant Light for Home Decoration (Black) from Amazon is just beautiful.
These well-designed lights give your living room a well-defined aura. Lights are important as it illuminated the room giving a fairy-like look.
You can illuminate your living room anytime with these good looking lights. Hang them beside the shelves to achieve a certain glow.
Ethnic Karigari Decorative Beautiful Indoor White Blossom Flower Vase from Amazon will complete the look of your living room.
You can place it on your side table, beside the sofa, on the center table or at the corner of the room. The white flowers of this vase bestow a peaceful feeling to your room.
For decorating your side table or you can place it on the shelf. We have TAYHAA Brown resin owl on tree showpiece from Myntra is a cute showpiece.
Owl showpiece also signifies intelligence and additionally, you can hang it too.
For the Second perfect living room for every occasion look
For the Second perfect living room for every Occasion look we have.
Wall color: Turquoise
A second wall color that we suggest is turquoise. It never goes out of fashion.
This color brings out a classy and royal look to your room and gives the perfect look when combined with nice and well-crafted furniture.
You can choose different shades of turquoise as it looks the best in all of its shades.
Jordan RHS Sectional Sofa in Blue and Grey Colour by Muebles Casa from Pepperfry. This double shaded sofa in RHS design is comfortable and it is multi-seater so you can place it in your large-sized living room.
Halsey Solid Wood Coffee Table in Dual Finish by Woodsworth on Pepperfry is worth it. A large-sized center table won’t be a good idea with the large-sized sofa so, you should go with this delicate one.
This center table goes well with the RHS design sofa while maintaining the clean look of the room.
A combination of a wooden table along with the turquoise wall color is always great and pleasant to the eyes so try to go for the wooden table.
New Butterfly End Table In Natural Finish By Peachtree on Pepperfry would be a good suggestion to try out. Place it in the corner of the room.
Selective Premium Shaggy Living Room Carpet by Amazon is comfortable to sit and walk. Also, it gives the royal look while keeping the homely feeling. Place it in front of your sofa, underlying the center table.
This carpet is good in size that fits in all sizes of your living room.
The House of Quirk Plastic Bookcase Cabinet by Amazon is one of the ideal shelves that you can select. It is light in weight and very affordable too. A good shelf is a must for your living room.
It just not adds to the looks but it is as useful as any other furniture. Place your achievements on this so everyone can have a look at some of your favorite books.
Pitaara Box Artwork Showing Beautiful White Flowers Canvas Painting MDF Frame from Amazon is a painting with all-natural feels as it shows the beauty of flowers.
Nature never goes out of fashion. This looks best in your living room if you place it just above the sofa.
Choosing the right lights is very important with the turquoise wall color as it reflects the wall color and highlights the best shades of it.
This wall color is light so, choosing the Imperial Wooden Wall Light/Wall Hanging Lamp by Amazon fits well. Fit it on the above section of the wall.
Ethnic Karigari Designer Home Decor Modern Art Long Wooden Decorative flower vase by amazon.
This vase is about 31cm long and suits best with the sofa size. Place it at the corner of your living room and complete the look.
Books stand are one of the most trendy and stylish things to own. Place it on the side table or shelf for a nerdy and cool look.
Flourish cycle bookend from Amazon is a unique book stand.
For the third Perfect Living room for Every Occasion look
Last but not least, our third look for achieving the perfect living room for every occasion look.
Wall color: Mint Green
Apart from the above two mentioned wall colors, you can go for mint green. This color is completely trust-worthy for the choice of your living room walls.
It creates a natural aura in your home and brightens the whole house. Paint your walls mint green with or without white color.
Using the combination color for Walls is always in trend.
Sofa – Set
Try to add Greendale 3 Seater Sofa in Greenish Blue by Dreamzz Furniture from Pepperfry to your Living room. This three-seater sofa looks best with the mint green color of your walls. It is simple yet sophisticated and adds a traditional look to the room.
Round tables are so much in trends and compliments almost all kinds of the decor of the living room. A glass round table would be a great idea to decorate your room with class and elegance.
You can seek Alexa Coffee table from Pepperfry.
This black colored glass table is trendy and traditional. Place it before the sofa.
It’s time to try something new to your living room. Going for an end table would never be a wrong idea. It gives a clean look to your room. Keeping it at one of the Corners of your room and enjoy the pleasant decor.
Iowa Wooden End Table in Teak Color by Nilkamal from Pepperfry is a must-go end table for this look.
Using a contrasting colored carpet with the wall color is so much in trend these days. So, you should go for the blue or yellow color in the choice of carpet.
Good price Lovely Carpets from Amazon would be a nice choice. It is a soft carpet and also much Comfortable.
Try to shop for Happie Shopping Wooden Wall Rack from Amazon. This is a different product and looks amazing on your walls.
It is three set shelves so you can set it on the front walls of your living room. It is a classic shelf yet looks modern at the same time. Fill these shelves with beautiful vases and Books.
Canvas Art Printed Oil Painting Wall Pictures for Living Room Abstract unreal Clouds No Frame, Multicolour from Amazon. This is a beautiful canvas painting that decorates your living room.
With the extracts of the colors, it looks brilliant and rich. Hang it on the front wall so you can enjoy it sitting anywhere in the room.
Gorgeous Glass Ceiling Including Lamp Pendant from Amazon. Light up your room with these beautiful lights at the ceiling of your living room. These lights highlight the bright Color of the wall.
You can adjust the hanging length as per your own choice. Lights are surrounded by the glass and give multicolor reflection when hits the wall and ceilings.
Anasa blue glass Ultra opaque glass vase from Flipkart is an amazing vase pot. It looks nice with the wall color.
It is a glass vase that you can put on your side table as well as on the center table. Add some Roses in a vase to make it look more appealing.
Showpieces are necessary to fill the space in the room and Silver Iron small Military Aircraft showpiece by Zahab from Pepperfry is perfect. It is unique and vintage. Place it on the side table.
Above, are some pleasing looks that you can create for your Living room for every Occasion. These are suggested so you don’t have to create havoc whenever any event is coming. Just relax and enjoy your family time after completing your living room perfect look. Good Luck!
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deegree PSC Meeting (2013-10-30)
- Actions from last meeting
- deegree Community Space
- Infrastructure access
- Other business
- Next meeting
2. Actions from last meeting
- Finalize Mission Statement: Initiate a voting on the final version (Herman)
- OSGeo material update (Jens)
- Voting process CR (Jens)
- Change committees' responsibilities (Jens)
- Documentation update/enhancement: Shall be done at the community space
3. deegree Community Space
Combine this with the FOSSGIS Hacking Event (22-24 November).
- If we have a good coverage of committee member participation then we'll go ahead and:
- Setup an agenda (see below)
- Make an announcement on deegree-users
- Send personal invitations to individual community members (all)
- Potential agenda items:
- Documentation and outreach material status
- Structures and procedures review
- New features discussion
4. Infrastructure access
- Discussion and approval of the process (see also Arie's Mail on deegree-users as of 2013-09-12)
Pending requests: Only one request. Decision to grant the access rights as requested to Arie Kraak (not to the website editing team as requested).
5. Other business
Register deegree at https://joinup.ec.europa.eu? - Decision: Yes. (Herman)
- TMC request on deegree desktop - Jens to find a deegree desktop developer and make a proposal to the TMC
- Andreas leaving deegree: There has been respective communication on deegree-users
- deegree 2 demo (Johannes' Mail 2013-09-16): OK to close the deegree iGeoportal demos on demo.deegree.org.
6. Next meeting
- The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 15 November, 8 a.m.
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Cross-sector fraud data could unlock millions in additional insurance savings
14 October 2015
Fraud data from other sectors can help insurers identify and tackle policy application and claims fraud, reducing the financial impact of insurance fraud on the industry and genuine customers, according to a new report from Cifas and Hill Dickinson, published today.
The report explains the results of a cross sectoral data match between motor insurance fraud cases and fraud cases from other sectors, such as retail, banking and telecommunications. It reveals complex networks of criminal activity and strong links between false claims on motor insurance and other fraudulent activity, such as money laundering. Data relating to the chronology of frauds has been uncovered, providing a more detailed insight into the behaviours of fraudsters.
The data matching exercise was between a sample set of confirmed fraud cases from Hill Dickinson’s Netfoil ACE database and confirmed fraud cases held on the Cifas National Fraud Database. In total, 196 of the Hill Dickinson cases matched on details within 347 Cifas National Fraud Database cases. The key findings were:
- 32% of false claims on motor insurance involved individuals who were also found to be involved in other types of fraudulent activity. The vast majority (82%) of matches were against cases in other sectors, showing the extent to which the same fraudsters are operating across different industries;
- 31% of the individuals involved in both insurance claim fraud and other forms of fraud committed the other fraud first, showing that the sharing of cross-sector data could have alerted insurance fraud investigators to the fraud risk at an early stage;
- 42% of matches were on activity indicative of money laundering, suggesting strong links between insurance fraud and serious organised crime.
The results also suggest that insurance fraudsters are operating across regions. Not only are some individuals involved in frauds at multiple addresses in the same region, many are linked to frauds in other cities. London, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham and Sheffield had the highest numbers of linked fraud networks.
The findings highlight the crucial role of intelligent data matching in fraud prevention. In some cases, fraudsters had deliberately used different names and addresses to evade detection but were identified purely through common contact details such as mobiles or emails.
Cifas Deputy Chief Executive Mike Haley said:
“These findings set insurance fraud into a much wider criminal context. The case studies unearthed by our research reveal vast networks of fraudulent activity. Intelligent use of cross-sector data can help insurers combat fraud and reduce the cost of insurance for honest customers.
“Fraudsters are some of the best collaborators out there – to combat them, fraud prevention professionals need to work ever more closely together and share intelligence wherever possible.”
Peter Oakes, Head of Fraud at Hill Dickinson said:
“This research demonstrates that financial services fraud is a volume based enterprise and we know the fraudsters targeting the insurance industry are determined and prolific. We are even beginning to see potential evidence of the franchising of fraud ring models.
“Cross-sector data sharing unquestionably assists organisations to prevent fraud at application and to better manage any existing fraud risk. Hill Dickinson is committed to assisting insurers in their use of cross sector data and intelligence to strengthen counter fraud controls.”
Notes to editors
- Given the number of matches found in this pilot study and the fact that the average loss from a single organised motor insurance claim case is approximately £20,000, it is evident that the insurance industry has the potential to save millions through increased cross-sector sharing.
- The data matching exercise was between a sample set of 618 confirmed fraud cases related to 2,307 individuals from Hill Dickinson’s Netfoil ACE database, and more than two million confirmed fraud cases held on the Cifas National Fraud Database. In total, 196 of the Hill Dickinson cases matched on details within 347 Cifas National Fraud Database cases.
About Hill Dickinson
Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with more than 1,250 people including 190 partners and legal directors, with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Sheffield, Piraeus, Singapore, Hong Kong and Monaco. The firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work to all forms of dispute resolution.
Hill Dickinson prides itself on fostering the strongest client relationships and adding value through innovation. The firm acts as a trusted adviser to businesses, organisations and individuals within a wide range of specialist market sectors: including transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.
The firm work with the Community Foundation Network, to raise vital funds for a number of charities. For further information about the firm and its partners please visit www.hilldickinson.com
Follow Hill Dickinson on www.twitter.com/hilldickinson
Cifas aims to make the UK a safer place to do business. For more than 27 years, Cifas has worked to prevent fraud by enabling organisations in every sector to prevent fraud and protect the public through the sharing of confirmed fraud data.
Cifas is a not-for-profit organisation with over 300 members spanning the public and private sectors, including insurance, banking, grant giving, credit card, asset finance, online retail, telecommunications, vetting and contact centres. In 2014 alone, Cifas members prevented over £1 billion of avoidable fraud losses by using Cifas’ National Fraud Database, which records confirmed fraud cases. Cifas works closely with law enforcement and runs a number of insurance specific working parties and groups, regularly undertaking research to explore fraud links between different UK industries.
Cifas offers Protective Registration for individuals whose identities are at risk of being used fraudulently. In 2014, Cifas launched a new scheme called Protecting the Vulnerable. This service is offered free of charge to local authorities to protect those under the care of Court Deputies who are unable to access financial products and whose identities may be at risk.
Please contact Emma Smyth at Cifas on 0203 004 3627 or Anne Staunton for Hill Dickinson on 020 8661 2444.
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Cifas fraud data included in official crime statistics
15 October 2015
Cifas’ confirmed fraud data is now included in the annual Office of National Statistics England and Wales Crime Survey.
Double danger for rugby fans
18 September 2015
Cifas’ DCEO Mike Haley responds to recent reports of consumers being scammed when purchasing tickets for the Rugby World Cup.
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|“||I'm a Carrington. And our business is literally power. If you drove a car today, charged your cell phone, or made breakfast, chances are Carrington Atlantic had something to do with it.||”|
Carrington Atlantic is the multi-billion dollar conglomerate company founded by Thomas Carrington's father.
The five grandchildren of Tom Carrington once battled for the ownership of the company, which was was eventually sold, and became a subsidiary company of Van Kirk Industries. It was owned by the Van Kirk family for years, before Blake Carrington acquired it once more.
Foundation and Present Day
Carrington Atlantic, often abbreviated as CA, was founded by Thomas Carrington's father. The company quickly became a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. When Thomas' father was retired, he passed the company onto Thomas. Subsequently, when Thomas was ready to retire he handed the company to his son, Blake Carrington. Blake was the Chairman of the Board and former Chief Executive Officer of Carrington Atlantic. He was a ruthless and manipulative man in both business and family matters
As the company grew and expanded into more ventures, CA became so well known that the average citizen used something to do with CA daily without even knowing it. One year, Blake's son Steven staged an environmental protest against CA that cost the company millions of dollars.
Celia Machado was hired at the company sometime after this, and worked her way up from the bottom ranks. Celia was appointed the COO of the company, a position that Blake's daughter, Fallon Carrington, had been vying for years. To get revenge on her father, Fallon founded a company called Morell Green Energy Corporation.
CA faced legal and PR issues when an explosion at one of their assets, Windbriar Energy, killed a worker.
Moldavian Oil Crisis
Blake, through Laura Van Kirk, struck a deal with the Moldavian government to secure oil for Carrington Atlantic. Laura tells him her plan to fire CA CEO Dustin in the morning so Colby’s blackmail plot against him won’t be an issue. Laura closed her deal with Moldavia early so she can rush the deal with Blake and secure him CA. ("She Cancelled...") Now back as CEO of Carrington Atlantic, Blake must handle an issue with the Moldavian King. He is forced to leave the country and fly to Moldavia per the request of the Van Kirk family. That night at the airport, while trying to leave Moldavia, Blake and Anders experienced difficulty with the government. They were kidnapped by the King. The pilot managed to escape and inform the Carrington family of the incident. ("You Make Being a Priest Sound Like Something Bad")
Blake and his right-hand, Joseph Anders, are imprisoned by the King for trying to "smuggle" oil out of Moldavia and to the states. The captains of the oil tankers won’t negotiate with the Moldavian government without the okay from Blake. The tankers aren’t leaving Moldavian waters, so the King asked Blake to call the captains and order them to turn around and return the oil. Blake refused to comply with the King's demands. Blake believed that the moment he signed over the oil the King would kill them. As long as they control the tankers they’re fine, as the King wasn't going to risk an international incident by shooting at the tankers. Blake and Anders are later rescued. Blake was able to hire local escorts in armed gunboats to escort the tankers back to Georgia. Adam thought the whole reason Blake was in this mess was that he couldn’t negotiate for the tankers. Blake clarified that he had the tankers the whole time, he just didn’t want to tell anyone. He didn't want to trade 150 million gallons of oil, which is worth $500 million, for their freedom. After the crisis, Blake appointed Adam is his right-hand man at CA. ("Robin Hood Rescues")
A few weeks later, the tankers are at a refinery, and Blake planned to host a press conference to announce he’s back at the helm of CA. Anders interrupted with bad news - someone leaked to the press that Blake stole oil from Moldavia and now the department of energy has launched an investigation into misconduct. Blake claimed the investigation is insane, as it wasn't his fault Laura Van Kirk set him up. Adam agreed that just because the King decided to nationalize oil doesn’t mean they can take what CA already paid for. Until the energy department agreed with the Carrington’s, all CA assets were frozen. Blake decided to turn to his friends in high places to squash the investigation.
His contact was reluctant at first, especially after someone threw a smoke canister with "Moldavia" written on it into her window. However, Blake was able to pressure the contact into doing what he wanted. CA would be back in business and the tanker released from the refinery just in time for the press conference. Blake delivered his press conference about CA being back in the family. The reporter’s phones chimed and the asked about the refinery explosion and how the loss of $500 million will affect CA. Adam pulled Blake away to tell him that the Moldavian oil was tainted and caused an explosion at the refinery. There were no casualties but it will be a nightmare financially and PR-wise. The press is going to be out for blood. Blake tells everyone the press conference is over and there will be no more questions. Unbeknownst to Blake, Adam bribed the captain to add a toxin to the oil. Blake believes that the Moldavians are out to get him. ("My Hangover's Arrived")
Board of Directors
Board of Directors
- Dustin Sawyer (chief executive officer; fired)
- Laura Van Kirk (formerly)
- Blake Carrington
- Tom Carrington †
- Fallon Carrington (formerly: first ownership)
- Steven Carrington (formerly: first ownership)
- Jeff Colby (formerly: first ownership)
- Monica Colby (formerly: first ownership)
Van Kirk Industries
- Laura Van Kirk
- Craig Thompson (Shareholder)
- On the original series, since it's set on Denver, Colorado, the company's name is Denver Carrington.
- A large portion of the company is rooted in oil trade.
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The Power of Thank You
At the end of a long and productive team meeting, the CFO asked me (the consultant) to offer the group some observational feedback. After making a few very specific remarks about the team’s behavior that was helpful and one or two things that needed continued improvement, I turned to one of the VPs around the table and said, “Mark, I especially want to thank you for managing your inclination to get stuck in the details. You did a great job of getting yourself out of the weeds. It was quite noticeable and helpful for the discussion today. Thanks.”
This prompted Mark to spontaneously say, “Wow. I can’t remember the last time I was thanked for my efforts.” The rest of the team jumped into this conversation with everyone complaining about the lack of gratitude they experience on a daily basis. The CFO tried his best not to be defensive and he promised to try harder to say thank you.
But I took the conversation into a less leader focused direction. “Why are all of you assuming this is only George’s (CFO) responsibility? Do you folks thank each other?” They got my point. When they asked my opinion about why this happens I offered up, “Look, we all know that we are supposed to say please and thank you. It’s not like anyone needs to tell us that. But in the heat of the daily action, we simply forget. And if no one is saying thank to us, we tend not to say it to others. Vicious cycle. But I cannot emphasize enough the importance of acknowledging people’s contributions and efforts. It is such a small thing to say that pays off in big ways.”
This scene has played out in nearly every client encounter over many years. With all the organizational trends coming and going over time, saying thank you has not made it to the list. Sure, sure, “showing appreciation” is on every stated values presentation. But nobody takes it seriously. It is one of those “soft, nice to have, yadda yadda” items that everyone ignores.
That is why this article caught my eye. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/03/100thanks-website_n_7714182.html I’m not advocating in this blog that people or organizations should start their own 100thanks journals or intranet sites or any program whatsoever. I’m more captured by the notion of saying thank you out loud, routinely, to those who deserve your gratitude, sincerely. To make “saying thank you” a corporate directive is just so wrong on so many levels that I can’t go there. But the idea that we just don’t take time to think of all the things that happen in a day that are good is valid…and sad. Our world and our organizations are so problem focused that we have all become (by degrees) negative and pessimistic.
But imagine stopping once a day (say, moments before you snarf down that sandwich at your desk that you refer to as a lunch break) and asking yourself, “What was the best part of my day so far? Who helped make that happen?” Even if your answer is, “When my spouse called just to say I love you” or “I got that report done”, say thank you out loud to your spouse or yourself.
There needs to be a sequence of events here. First, stop racing around physically and/or mentally. Second, genuinely respond to the question: what has been the best part of my day. Third, identify the object/s of your gratitude. Last, say thank you to that person. Face to face is always best but emails are a close second. Hand written thank you notes are unexpected gifts that employees keep for years. They are shoved into their desks and moved with them to the next company. It would be great if we could all write those notes but I understand what happens in the real world.
Personal story: In the process of buying a home lots of little things kept going wrong. (No news there) I relied on my lawyer to do battle for me. In spite of her best efforts, I had episodic freak outs. At least once every other week I placed a frantic call to her that did not show off my best behavior. Each time she talked me off the ledge and I was calm for another couple weeks. Once all the papers were signed I wrote her a detailed thank you email. I gave very behaviorally explicit examples (can’t take my work hat off some days!) of the great things she had done and how much I appreciated her efforts. On move-in day a beautiful bouquet of flowers showed up from her. When I saw her a couple weeks later she told me that, in all her years as an attorney, she had never before sent any client flowers. I, of course, thought the flowers were just her way of being a class act. When I asked her why she felt moved to do this she replied, “Because you sent me the most wonderful thank you I’ve ever received. My clients are always appreciative but no one ever told me in such detail what it was that I did that was so noteworthy. You even pointed out some things that I wasn’t even aware of. I have that email in my saved folder.” Something that was a no-brainer for me was an unexpected and unusual moment for her.
My suggestion is simple. Make saying thank you a habit; something you don’t have to think about. Within a very short period of time you will see the ripple effect. Those who receive your gratitude will have a spring in their step and work hard to please you again. They will feel so good that it will remind them they should pay it forward. And if two people say thank you…(with deeply felt thanks to Arlo Guthrie)
“And if three people do it! Can you imagine three people walkin’ in, singin’
A bar of “Alice’s Restaurant” and walkin’ out? They may think it’s an
And can you imagine fifty people a day? I said FIFTY people a day . . .
Walkin’ in, singin’ a bar of “Alice’s Restaurant” and walkin’ out? Friends,
They may think it’s a MOVEMENT.”
For more information on GetReal help: https://getrealleadership.com/get-real-help/
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Scrambled eggs can be made the night before and easily warmed in a microwave for breakfast the next day. Cooking eggs for the next day doesn’t mean eating cold scrambled eggs. … Pre-cooked eggs also work as a healthy lunch option, especially if you do not have access to a way to heat up your lunch.
Can you cook eggs and eat them the next day?
Generally, reheated eggs and egg dishes are safe to eat as long as they have been initially cooked to 160°F (71°C) and properly stored (5). Raw eggs should initially be cooked until they are firm and no longer runny. … Leftover eggs should be eaten with 3–4 days (5).
How far in advance can you cook eggs?
1. Cook and store the eggs up to a week in advance. There were a few camps on whether to peel them or not to peel them, but there is consensus on leaving the eggs uncut. Uncut hard-boiled eggs will last up to a week in the fridge.
Can you scramble raw eggs the night before?
Can You Make Scrambled Eggs Ahead of Time? Yes!! And you should, because it will save you so much time in the morning.
Can you boil eggs the day before?
Boil the eggs up to 48 hours in advance. Peel, cut in half, and remove yolks. Place egg whites on tray, cover with plastic wrap, and store in fridge.
Can you cook then refrigerate eggs?
Cooked eggs and egg dishes may be refrigerated for serving later but should be thoroughly reheated to 165° F before serving. … For party planning, keep hot egg dishes hot and cold egg dishes cold: Keep egg dishes refrigerated until time to serve.
Why should you not reheat eggs?
Best known as a protein powerhouse, reheating boiled or scrambled eggs should be avoided. The protein in eggs is destroyed once it’s exposed to heat over and over again. Also they become toxic and unfit for consumption once they have been cooked.
Is it OK to make deviled eggs a day ahead?
Make Ahead: You can make deviled eggs up to 2 days in advance. … Wrap the egg white halves well with plastic wrap and keep the egg yolk filling sealed in a resealable plastic bag with all the air squeezed out. Refrigerate everything until you are ready to fill and serve.
How long will boiled eggs last in the refrigerator?
Keeping Hard-Boiled Eggs Fresh
The shell will help to protect the egg from bacteria, and can help prevent them from absorbing odors from other foods in your refrigerator. A quick beginner’s tip is that hard-boiled eggs can be preserved up to 7 days in the refrigerator.
Can I meal prep eggs?
Yes, you can totally meal prep eggs and you can totally oven bake scrambled eggs all on one SHEET PAN! So bust out the eggs, the spices, the almond milk, and the sheet pan.
Can you refrigerate uncooked scrambled eggs?
It should be still safe to consume or refrigerate after 2 hours in the TDZ. If the eggs are still not cooled to less than 40 after 6 hours, they should be discarded. Once cooled the eggs will be fresh for up to 5 days.
Can you put scrambled eggs in the fridge?
How long can I refrigerate scrambled eggs? … Refrigerated scrambled eggs are safe to eat for up to four days after cooking, but after that you should toss them out. Also, make sure your leftover scrambled eggs are in the body of the fridge, not in the door shelves, as this may cause them to spoil faster.
Can I pre scramble eggs for camping?
Just crack all of your eggs into a water bottle or two before you leave, seal them up tight and pop them in the cooler, and you won’t have to worry about a single break over your entire trip. When you get to camp, shake up the bottle and pour your pre-scrambled eggs into the skillet. Breakfast in a snap.
Can you leave Hard-boiled eggs out all night?
“Hard-boiled eggs should be refrigerated within two hours of cooking and discarded if left out for more than two hours at room temperature,” said Rubin. … According to the USDA, the harder it is to peel, the fresher the egg was at the time it was boiled.
Why shouldn’t you keep eggs in the fridge?
Experts believe that eggs are best stored at room temperature. … Keeping eggs in the fridge cause the growth of bacteria on the shells and this turn and enter the insides of the eggs, in turn making them inedible. Hence, according to many studies, eggs should be kept at room temperature for ideal consumption.
Can you leave raw eggs in water overnight?
In short: if the water is good, no problem. If you absolutely can not wait to boil the eggs in the morning and prepare your breakfast like the proper ritual it really is, you have to take these in mind. Eggs are electively permeable.
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The City and County of Denver is working to establish a future vision for the Alameda Underpass!
The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) has conducted a comprehensive study of the Alameda Underpass between Santa Fe Drive and Cherokee Street to establish a multi-modal vision for the Alameda Underpass area and help plan for the implementation of improvements and design of the underpass.
The project identifies benefits and challenges of various ways the City might address the corridor’s identified needs, and vets those options with very preliminary conceptual design.
The project’s final Conceptual Study Report was released in May 2019. It identified a preferred roadway cross-section alternative and helped plan for the future, potentially phased implementation of these improvements.
Read the Executive Summary(PDF, 207KB)
Read the Final Report(PDF, 6MB)
Katie Gargaro, Project Manager
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Since 2011, Sarah has been creating beautiful and livable spaces tailored to her client’s distinct needs. While it is her passion, it has never been a hobby. Sarah graduated from Fairfield University with both her residential and professional certificates and is trained in the drafting process and building process, including local building codes which makes her a valuable part of the team when considering a new build or renovation. From concept to installation Sarah handles every aspect of the project and makes it seamless and manageable for the clients. Bringing the client’s personality into the project through furniture selections, color and fabric choices, lighting and final touches is always the goal when sourcing and creating spaces that feel unique. In addition to the needs of her clients, Sarah collaborates with her team at Tusk to curate the merchandise shown on the floor in the retail space by traveling extensively to find great things. Sarah lives in Fairfield with her three children.
Shannon boasts over two decades of Interior Design. With a keen eye for detail and a good listener, her ability to completely understand the scope of the project enables her to deliver a timeless interior exceeding the clients expectations. Understanding that every project, budget and client is different she is able to capture the true essence of the clients’ desires. Her passion for design is evident with the commitment to cultivating relationships by helping each client reach the best version of their overall vision. Shannon resides in Fairfield with her husband David and daughter Naomi.
Jessica’s passion for interior design began as a child, influenced by her father’s eclectic collection of art and sculptures from around the world, all of which had a story and meaning behind it. This taught her that a home can tell stories, and its design can represent life experiences, travel, and history. A home is so much more beautiful when it has meaning behind and within it, or when it simply elicits feelings of joy, comfort, and peace. Jessica draws from that influence when she works with clients on their own homes. Jessica graduated from Barnard College with a BA in Art History, and went on to receive her Interior Design Certificate from the New York School of Interior Design. Jessica’s background in art, marketing, and fashion, combined with her decade as an interior designer, brings a unique perspective to every project. Her first priority is always to understand her clients’ lifestyles and goals, and to create unique and personal spaces that reflect their personalities and bring their visions to life. Jessica’s astute attention to detail and ability to think outside the box make her an invaluable asset to any project. Jessica lives In Westport with her husband and two daughters.
Kathy runs the ship at Tusk, assisting the designers with coordinating all aspects of the design process and ensures all projects run smoothly. She manages all invoicing, accounts receivables and merchandise orders. Kathy resides in Fairfield with her family and has been with the Tusk team for five years.
Caroline is a design assistant for Tusk, and happy to support the design team in all aspects. Born and raised in Westport, Caroline recently moved back from San Francisco where she cut her teeth in the design industry, and excels at all things organizational. She’s excited to be back home to her roots, and lives in Southport with her four-year-old son.
Janet is a Showroom Design Associate. She has been with us for four years. She started her career at Ralph Lauren and has continued to pursue her passion for design and retail. She enjoys helping clients make the best choice for their homes and lifestyle.
Molly is a Showroom Design Associate at Tusk. She looks forward to helping customers with any of their design and aesthetic questions from furniture to accessories. Thanks to the pandemic, she left New York for Westport and the legal world for design and couldn’t be happier!
The heart of Tusk are the ladies that make the world go round at the store and behind the scenes. They are the left hand to the designers and allow us to be creative and focused while they handle the hard part, the endless paperwork, orders and deliveries. They are also the face of the store and available to help you with all of your design needs. Having an eye for design is part of their job description and they do it so well. So, bring in your pics and they will help find the perfect piece and answer any questions you have!
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Middlesex County Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer
Nursing Home Injury and Wrongful Death Attorney for Neglect and Abuse Claims in Middlesex County
Practicing for more than 20 years in Middlesex County and throughout New Jersey, Sugarman Law’s main practice area is representing the elderly and their families – taking on nursing homes, assisted living facilities, memory care units, home health aide agencies and other facilities and companies that neglect and abuse our elderly. Abuse or neglect that occurs in a Middlesex County elder care facility requires action – action for compensation and to make sure it doesn’t happen to anybody else.
We recently won a $930,000 verdict in New Brunswick for a Middlesex Borough family who suffered bedsores, infection and death at a New Jersey nursing home. In 2013 we settled a lawsuit for $750,000 for an Old Bridge family whose father was neglected in a local nursing home. We have successfully represented many families winning results against facilities that negligently cared for its elder residents.
Speak to a lawyer who will protect your loved one’s rights. Call 866-657-5660 for a free consultation with an experienced New Jersey Nursing Home Lawyer or contact us through our online contact form.
Nursing Home and Assisted Living Abuse Attorneys Dedicated to Helping Victimized Residents and their Families in Edison, New Brunswick, Old Bridge and Middlesex County
There are more than 30 nursing home, assisted living and other elder care facilities in Middlesex County. These facilities, large and small, are operated by large companies such as Care One, AristaCare, JFK Hartwyck and also include smaller private and state- and county-owned homes such as Roosevelt Care Center. Click here for a complete listing.
Sugarman Law carefully investigates the facts and details of every resident’s care and then aggressively prosecutes the case against the nursing facility for maximum compensation for yours and your family’s injuries, pain and suffering and wrongful death.
When Neglect of the Elderly Results in Serious Injuries and Death – Sugarman Law Holds Nursing Homes Accountable
When nurses, aides and staff members in Middlesex County nursing homes and other elder care facilities don’t provide basic care to residents this neglect and abuse causes serious damage including:
Schedule a Free Consultation – Speak to a Lawyer to Protect Your Loved One’s Rights
If you or a family member has been injured or lost their lives through a nursing home/assisted living/memory care or other elder care facility’s negligence, please fill out the contact form or call Sugarman Law at 866-657-5660. We are ready to listen to you and speak with you about your legal rights today.
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A gang of 12 men swarmed the store after the victim, 18-year-old Atiq Rehman, took shelter inside.
Rehman was chased around the store before being cornered and subjected to a savage beating. He died of serious head injuries two days later.
"The incident has been absolutely horrific," said store manager Thiru Kamalan.
"The whole community has been deeply distressed, particularly the staff who witnessed the whole thing. Many are now too scared to return to work," he said.
The store was forced to close for two days after the murder, and has lost almost £6,000 in sales.
"Closing was bad enough, but trade has been slow since we re-opened as many locals are worried about going out. We are at least 15% down," Thiru added.
The store also sustained major damage in the attack.
Three men have been charged with the murder.
Meanwhile, a Costcutter in Preston, Lancashire, was damaged in a suspected arson attack last week. Police believe a flammable liquid may have been poured in the letterbox.
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Carmen Rainbow Iridescent Mermaid Sequin Top
• All swimwear is handmade by the Designer. Please allow 7-10 days for your handmade suit to be made and shipped out
• Made to order and handmade by Designer
• Fully Lined
• Optional Padding - Light padding to add extra coverage
• Reversible Top (custom order the solid reverse top and strapping in another color instead of nude if you want another color) Email us!
• High Quality Iridescent Sequin Fabric
Custom order this fabric in another top style? Email firstname.lastname@example.org
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We don’t need to tell you that these are uncertain times, with each week introducing new challenges as we all work to navigate through the various government and corporate responses to COVID-19.
With New Zealand and Australia reporting cases of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) this document provides an overview of Lightwire’s response.
Lightwire is looking to proactively address the flow-on effects of the global situation that could impact our clients. This will help to ensure that our clients can make well planned and considered decisions relating to their telecommunications and wider business functions moving forward.
If you have an upcoming order to make with us, we recommend you place the order now, as there may be stock shortages or time delays relating to shipping. We are currently receiving weekly updates from our vendors.
New orders of routers, firewalls or phones may well experience longer lead times as supply chains are disrupted.
If carriers such as Chorus or NBN.co look to limit installations to limit social contact, this will have an impact on order lead times. Orders will continue to be accepted, however, lead times may become best effort.
We are reviewing the risk to our rural wireless installers on a daily basis as well, and at some stage it is very possible that provisioning of wireless services will be disrupted to some extent.
Lightwire has always provided its staff with a well-appointed and connected home office, which means we are ideally placed to continue support and admin functions regardless of whether working from home is encouraged/enforced. As such, we see no reason to suggest that support or admin functions will be impacted.
At a high level, below is an update on measures currently in place as communicated to our team;
- Companywide remote working test: a big part of how we can get through any outbreak successfully will be our ability to continue to work remotely should we need to. We will be trialling a compulsory “remote working day” within the Lightwire team shortly. It is designed as a gap analysis on our preparedness for the whole organisation to work remotely. We understand that Lightwire’s Customer Care and Field Teams are the outliers, so we are working on plans for these team’s preparation.
- Sickness: if you feel sick, stay home. We need everyone as fit and healthy as possible and the spread of any illness will compromise the Teams overall health. This is our expectation irrespective of COVID-19.
- Updates: these will be sent out regularly via email. Please also ensure you are subscribed to and monitor the Health & Safety channel in Teams.
- Travel: At this stage for New Zealand & Australian workers we have approved travel nationally. Travel to countries outside of current approvals will need to be discussed with the head of People & Culture and your Manager as there will likely be travel restrictions that need to be assessed.
- Vaccinations: we are inquiring if we can bring our annual vaccinations forward to ensure that our Team can maintain their strong immune systems and it is not compromised by getting the flu.
- Good Hygiene: continue to practice good hygiene habits. Wash and dry hands thoroughly, using good cough etiquette (into elbow or tissue), don’t put your hands near your eyes or mouth.
- COVID-19 Symptoms & Health Advice: for COVID-19 the New Zealand Health advice and information contact is Healthline Team on 0800 358 5453. Australian workers can call the Coronavirus Health Information Line on 1800 020 080. Symptoms include fever, coughing, difficulty breathing. Difficulty breathing is a sign of possible pneumonia and requires immediate medical attention. We don’t yet know how long symptoms take to show after a person has been infected, but current World Health Organization assessments suggest that it is 2–10 days.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to your Account Manager or email firstname.lastname@example.org
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REFIT ANIMAL CARE is one of the prominent manufacturer and suppliers of a wide range of Veterinary Products. We are a fast growing company that strives to establish itself as the most efficient Veterinary Products Manufacturers. We offer only the best and result oriented Animal Health Products in the market as our primary focus is the health of the speechless creatures called Animals and our secondary focus towards improving Farmers Economy.
In today’s world, Animals are facing nutritional deficiencies due to the lack of minerals and vitamins present in the feed or fodder is given by their caretaker. Every cattle farmer needs to take better care of the overall health of animals or cattle for various reasons. These cattle may face lots of health problems. Some cattle are susceptible to the health issues that may arise from imbalanced and poor diet. So every cattle farmer should rely on cattle supplements to ensure productive and healthy cattle.
Cattle Feed Supplements provide the lots of benefits to both animals and dairy farmers. These are required to maintain healthy herd of cattle. It plays very important role in maintaining value and productivity of cattle. Birthing, meat quality, auction value, milk production and health are impacted by diet. You can provide all required nutrition to cattle by offering cattle supplements and nutritional diet.
Refit Animal Care provides superior constituted Cattle Feed Supplements that contains the complete mixture of vitamins & minerals that fulfill daily dosage of animals to providing better health or improving health to the best level.
Our Mostly REFIT products start with letter ‘R’ which signifies
“Respect for Animals”
As we all know livestock provides us many daily use products like milk, curd, butter, cheese, eggs etc. and it’s our responsibility to take care of our animals. Both farmers and the veterinarians are keepers and attendant for livestock respectively that seeks animals better Health, Reproduction and Growth. We value Buyer’s as well as Farmer’s money because they are the actual (Real Hero) caretaker for their pet animals. We have the range of Poultry Feed Supplements and Poultry Products that help buyers to enhance poultry production and maintain the proper growth.
Our production branch is at Saharanpur(Uttar Pradesh) and we supply our Animal Feed Supplement from our registered office in Punjab. Our virtual office situated at Chandigarh and our internet marketing offices in Delhi, Rajasthan and Hyderabad.
Now we are online Amazon India, India Mart and trade India is our referral partner. Who looking for a secondary income source we also offer Franchise and Business Opportunities in Franchise Market.
Please feel free to contact us if you need further information about any of our Animal Healthcare Products or if you would like to obtain a Refit Animal Care Products Price List.
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Toyota Prius at Tint Magic Window Tinting, we are located at 11344 Wiles Road, Coral Springs Fl 33076. Call us for a free estimate! (954)840-7883.
The Toyota Prius has long been a polarizing vehicle. Enthusiasts don’t like it because it defined the car as an appliance, a way to get from A to B without any driving engagement. Of course, millions of people didn’t care about that in the slightest (Toyota’s sold 3.5 million Priuses), and simply appreciated the Prius because it let them get 45 or 50 miles to the gallon without a thought while encouraging a relaxed rate of progress – maddening to any driver stuck behind a slow-moving Prius on the road. After all these years, the Prius is as much a Rorschach test as it is a form or transportation.
The new Prius is going to present the world with a conundrum: The fourth-generation hybrid is Toyota’s attempt to redefine what it means to be a Prius.
If you’ve seen the new Prius, then you likely have an opinion about what it looks like. Initial response to the leaked spy photos was overwhelmingly negative. After spending some time with the new Prius in Japan and California recently, the look has grown on us. The back end is still the most difficult angle to appreciate, but walking up to a parking lot of these is not the dispiriting experience some of our readers might expect. And that’s before we tell you about how this thing drives.
The main reason Toyota was able to introduce actual driving dynamics into the new Prius lies in the Toyota New Generation Architecture (TNGA). The car is wider now, which helps, and has a lower center of gravity. The MacPherson strut suspension up front remains the same as before, but in the back, Toyota has gone to a double wishbone setup. TNGA increases the stiffness by 60 percent compared to the third generation, which helps with overall rigidity.
There’s an energy to cornering that simply didn’t exist before.
It’s no longer the case that the car “drives like a Prius”, but true driving aficionados won’t fall in love with the way the new hybrid handles. There’s an energy to cornering that simply didn’t exist before. You’ve still got electronically controlled steering and a CVT, but the entire package now promises that, if you want to – and this remains a big if – you can be sprightly while still getting well over 50 miles per gallon. For that sort of fuel economy, the new Prius is honestly more fun than it should be. You can learn more about the promise of TNGA.
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Ontario is the place par excellence for French or bilingual studies. One of the reasons why Ontario attracts over 48% of international students to Canada is its vibrant economy. In fact, it is the perfect place to start your career.
There is a huge shortage of bilingual professionals
Due to a shortage of bilingual professionals, Ontario managers have difficulty filling positions within their organizations. For this reason, bilingual candidates are in a strong position. In fact, they have better control over the terms of their salary and other benefits. For example, they can earn Up to 10% to 30% more than monolingual English-speaking candidates. Ontario is the Canadian province where bilingual language has the greatest impact on salary.
It is so rare for professionals to speak both official languages that some positions remain vacant for months. Thus, at the end of 2021, the number of jobs available in Ontario was at an all-time high, while the number of bilingual job seekers decreased dramatically.
Incredible economic growth on the horizon
As we emerge from the global pandemic, Ontario is in a very good position to continue its rapid growth.
First, Ontario is home to Toronto, Arizona The economic and cultural center of Canada. We find there more than others Large multinational companies from the country as well Hundreds of corporate headquarters All sizes. Next, the Rider Levett Bucknall Crane indicator shows that the number of cranes has increased by more than 80% since February 2020 in Toronto. Thus, the city retains the title The fastest growing city in North America, four times the second city (Los Angeles). This mega-scale construction heralds unparalleled economic growth and Create many job opportunities.
A suite of world-class high-tech functions
According to the latest report, Scoring Tech Talent, published by the American company CBRE, Toronto occupies a place 4th place and 10th Ottawa on the scale of major technology markets in North America. With more than 81,200 jobs added in this sector since 2016, Toronto ranks as the highest ranked Canadian city, even higher than the major US centers of Los Angeles and New York. This arrangement confirms that technology sector It is the main driver of the Canadian economy, particularly in Ontario. It is interesting to note that the Ottawa region Home to Canada’s largest technology park And that the latter is still expanding.
Practice for jobs that don’t exist yet
Offers Ontario Advantage Consortium facilities A complete set of hundreds of programs At all levels and in all areas of knowledge thanks to Nine universities and two colleges. Nearly 1,000 programs are offered, including more than 400 that can be completed entirely in French or in a bilingual format. In addition, many institutions offer majors, minors, certificates, micro-programs, certificates, cooperation programs, language immersion programs, international exchanges, and a double degree with a diploma in two countries. That’s why we add the occasions experiential learning The curriculum is multidisciplinary. Thanks to this wide range of possibilities, students can chart their own path and Develop advanced expertise, unique. They will also be able to adapt to different realities and better prepare for the economy of the future.
The winning combination: Studies that lead to interesting career opportunities in a growing province
Students who choose to study in Ontario in French or in a bilingual format benefit Interesting career opportunities. Knowing that Ontario is growing, and that there are future jobs And that we offer flexible training geared towards future jobs, it just makes sense that it should be The most popular province for international students in Canada.
“Subtly charming problem solver. Extreme tv enthusiast. Web scholar. Evil beer expert. Music nerd. Food junkie.”
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Jared Blount has had his feet wet with storytelling for almost two decades. Beginning as an actor at the age of 12, he began honing his craft and pursuing a career in the arts. Now an active member of the professional theater community, he has been involved in over 60 large-scale productions in the Oklahoma area. His passion for the creative narrative has branched into all areas of artistic medium, such as acting, directing, writing, sound design, music composition and filmmaking. He has created award-winning web-series for websites like TheEscapist, Newgrounds, and produced films that have won Special Jury Prizes at Film Festivals around the nation. You can see some of his previous work on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/tejeti
Kara Luther-Chapman is the Jack of all trades and master of many, with the abilities to back it up. The quintessential renaissance woman & modern-day fabulist; Chapman’s expansion of skills range from touring performer, director, writer, musical composition, costumer, set designer, filmmaker to production and technical aspects. Chapman, a born creator, knew her passion for art and storytelling was inescapable. Before blooming into a Broadway World nominated actress, singer, and director, Mrs. Chapman, began her artistic career as an international model for Guess by Marciano. Boasting a resume of theatrical, commercial, and blockbuster production performances, inspired to continue the narrative, Kara launched Aversion Media Productions with friend and colleague, Jared Blount. Aversion Media is a new version of storytelling without constraints.
Jon Haque is a fucking badass, and everybody knows it. His work ranges from acting, writing, producing, marketing, and anything cool. He’s won a bunch of shit, like “Best Actor” and a couple Emmy’s for work he did on Public Broadcasting channels. A prominent figure in the Oklahoma Theatre and Television community, his resume is unmatched. He’s received critical acclaim for his performances in Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Dracula, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (starring Robert Picardo), and most recently for directing a haunting production of 1984 at Third Act Theatre Company. Is it too much to say he’s a genius? I don’t think so. If you took umbrage with that statement, I’d think you were a complete fucking idiot- and everyone else would too.
Jordan has been a filmmaker, actor and writer for over 15 years. Working alongside his co-founded production company with his brother, Jared, he has created over 30 original works that can be seen along the peaks of the internet. With a bachelor’s degree in Theatrical Performance, his abilities have landed him major roles in countless theatrical productions, as well as major motion pictures. His artistic skills range from painting, photography, writing, and music production. His band, Bears Repeating, have almost completed their first album- and his music has accompanied multiple film and television works, as well as hit web-series like ‘Ranger Doosh’ and ‘The Shiv Show’.
Michael is excited to join the Aversion team as a cinematographer! Some of Michael’s film credits include Basket Case: The Musical, Ouija, Ouija 2 and Southern Tale. He has an extensive technical theatre background and specializes in lighting in stage and film. He holds a Bachelors degree in the Sciences of Digital Photography. He really enjoys the film making process, especially when guac is involved!
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What Our clients say about us
Any Injury, Any Problem, Anytime.
We Welcome The Chance To Heal You.
We Have The Best Patients Around!
Take a look below at what just a few of our happy patients have to say about us here at ACME Chiropractor.
Thanks so much for the continued care.
“I have been going to these amazing individuals for years now. They have given me back my life. I am so much happier and living pain-free life again. I highly recommend them if you are experiencing any back pain, neck pain or stiffness.”
“ I have been treated my MANY different chiropractors and therapists over the years. The doctors at ACME Chiropractor are the best I have ever found. They are truly kind-hearted and very patient oriented. If you need any kind of adjustments, go see these folks!”
Keep up the great work!
“ My physical therapy here has been a blast! What fun doctors and clinician you have worked here. The front desk staff is always kind and welcoming and I always feel so much better after my sessions.”
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“ When I was referred to you by my primary care physician I was worried about the pain involved in therapy. Goodness was I wrong! I have never felt better in my life than after I leave my appointments here. You have such amazing talent taking care of patients. Thanks again for everything you have done for me and my family as well.”
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Jail docket: 2 felony drug arrests made
Published 1:00 pm Monday, April 25, 2022
Lincoln County Jail docket, Friday-Sunday
- Praiveon Sanders, 11/06/1994, 110 West St. — arrested for felony possession of controlled substance x2, resisting arrest by non-violent flight, possession of controlled substance with intent to distribute, enhanced by firearm, by Brookhaven Police Department.
- Ashley N. McCully, 07/27/1990, 115 Chippewa St. — arrested for disorderly conduct/disobeying lawful order, by BPD.
- Tyteanna Christmas, 03/10/1998, 206 Rogers Circle — arrested for aggravated assault domestic violence, by BPD.
- Chuckie Barnes, 01/07/1982, 5096 Hwy. 98 E, McComb — arrested on Circuit Court Warrant, by Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
- Destiny Leco, 08/23/1994, 51625 Blue Ridge Lane, Franklinton, Louisiana — arrested for DUI first, possession of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoids in motor vehicle, by Mississippi Highway Patrol.
- Leslie Rutledge, 05/31/1986, 1291 Martin Lane, Ruth — arrested on bench warrant, by LCSO.
- William Blake Smith, 08/22/2001, 213 N Church St. — arrested for trespassing, by BPD.
- Frankie McKey, 04/05/1993, 7 Hewitt Circle, Jayess — arrested for disorderly conduct/disobeying lawful order, by LCSO.
- Heather Sisco, 02/19/1983, 322 Fern Lane — arrested on Justice Court warrant for probation violation, by LCSO.
- Shaquille Montrall Childs, 01/19/1994, 619 Saints Trail — arrested for possession/sale/transfer of stolen firearm, reckless driving, no driver license, misdemeanor possession of controlled substance, resisting arrest by non-violent flight, by LCSO.
- Evangelo Dominique Bell, 04/08/1973, 401 Industrial Park Road No. 25 — arrested for DUI first, speeding 1-9 mph, no auto insurance, by Mississippi Highway Patrol.
- Jose Filipe Santizo, 06/04/2002, 1024 Walton Drive, McComb — arrested for DUI first, expired driver license, no auto insurance, by MHP.
- Robert Fitzgerald Brooks, 07/30/1971, 204 Easley St. — arrested for felony possession of controlled substance x2, possession of paraphernalia, DUI first, improperly operating equipment, driving with license suspended, no auto insurance, by MHP.
Note: An arrest does not constitute guilt for the accused. All individuals are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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ACNS has a report of the recent meeting of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (Capa) which is headlined African Anglicans concerned by lack of “sustainable peace”.
The full text of the CAPA communiqué is available here.
At this event, Archbishop Josiah Idpwu-Fearon gave an address. The full text of that is over here.
There is a detailed discussion of this speech in an article by Mark Harris entitled Secretary General Josiah Idowu-Fearon speaks his mind.
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The ball mill is a key piece of equipment for grinding crushed materials, and it is widely used in production lines for powders such as cement, silicates, refractory material, fertilizer, glass ceramics, etc as well as for ore dressing of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals The ball mill can grind various ores and other materials either wet or dry
PC series ammer crusher is equipment using high-speed rotary hammers to crush materials, mainly applied to the industries of metallurgy, mining, chemistry, cement, construction, refractory materials and ceramics It can crush hard and soft ores into medium or small size, such as barite, limestone, gypsum, terrazzo, coal, slag, and up to 100 .
Williams manufactures a large variety of industrial hammer mills and hammer crushers to handle virtually any material size reduction job Our rugged hammer mills provide the efficiencies and economies of midair, impact crushing, grinding or shredding of a diverse range of materials
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For this reason, LAVAL LAB offers a wide selection of high-performance mills, in various product groups, for every application and every specific need: Planetary Ball Mills, Ball Mills, Cutting and Beater Mills, Rotor Mills, Jaw Crushers, Roll Crushers, Cone Crushers, Disk Mills and Mortar Grinders
Retsch Jaw Crushers are used for the rapid, powerful crushing and pre-crushing of mediumhard, hard, brittle and tough materials The variety of materials offered, their efficiency and safety make them ideal for sample preparation in laboratories and industrial plants
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Chapter 11: Crushers, Mills and Stock Treatment 11-3 Crushers (CR) Includes motor and drive unit Description Type Cone crusher for secondary and fine crushing for hard and medium CONE hard materials such as limestone, stone and rock The cone crusher is a type of gyratory crusher,
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I would just like to address the extremely poor customer service received as a new customer. I physically went to a Verizon store in my neighborhood on October 3rd with a friend to transfer my phone line from a different carrier, hoping to secure a connection service that does not drop your calls.
Due to Covid I was asked to wait in my car until called. I waited patiently for about 15 minutes. Once inside the store the Verizon Employee proceeded to transfer my line to the Samsung Note 20 ultra 5G that I selected. 5 Hours later as I waited on her going back and forth to the door to register other clients, she informed me that I would need to transfer my data from the old phone myself due to my phone being blocked and she could not get on the WiFi. She had transferred my office email after my long persistence for her to get it done. I am not a savvy Verizon technician after all! Some other data was also transferred.
She then wrote some information for me to contact Samsung Smart Switch and to call 611 for assistance when I got home. With me now sitting in a closed for the evening store, I was unable to follow through with contacting 611 or Samsung Switch.
Fast forward....been trying to call 611 from Ocober 4th to today. Phone kept insisting my PIN was incorrect...even though I had it on the paperwork transcribed by said Verizon employee on the paperwork given. With me being unable to reach anyone I needed to now carve out time apart from the 5 hours lost just to purchase the phone.
I asked for the senior 55 plan and was told I could not get same because i did not qualify? Well when last I looked at my drivers license and she got a copy...I will be 58 this year!!! She then told me to pay the first billing cycle and to call customer service the change to senior plan! Well, let me reiterate...unable to connect with anyone...due to PIN issue. I paid $90+ to get the phone in hand and then was told my next payment would be on November 3rd.
A few days after me trying to get to the illusive customer service by phone...I received a text informing me that I was to pay my first bill not on November 3rd..but was due on October 25th!!!! (not $149 as informed in store, but $220!!!) With all attempts and even asking a friend to check if I was following the correct prompts...I sat at my desk today at work listening to Verizin music for about 10-15 minutes before getting a live person in Customer Service. The inexplicably poor service continued. She apologized for he colleague and when I informed of all the problems and incorrect bill and incorrect due date.. she said she could transfer me to Finance. I asked about the senior plan and the response was..."who told you about that!" Well, did not know it was a secret. She then told me it is only offered to some, through Verizon! Now help me with this...again I am 57..soon to be 58!
Ms. Customer Service then suggested I speak with the Manager on duty at the store. Then asked me which store was it. I informed her of Store and number. Wanted to put me on hold to call the store. Told her no need I would call. Big mistake!! Got the run around once I dialed the number. Staff is busy with other customers and I need to make an appointment. Then there were no options to make one!! So I work directly across the street from the store, so drove over. To my surprise, I arrived to a client free store with 4 employees sitting at ther desks!! I waited outside at the door to attempt to make my appointment. I asked for the Manager, was asked what was it about before he was called.
The saga continued. I was met by a Male who didn't introduce himself and wanted to know what i needed. I in return asked for his name before introducing myself and proceeded with informing him of my dissatisfaction with the service and lack thereof. No apology given..asked me what did I want to do. On that note...I said would like to return the phone. I was told will cost me $50 restocking fee plus cost of use of phone from October 3 to today. I asked what of my $90 paid and the $220 bill due. Was informed all would be prorated and placed against my $90 paid.
I was ready to turn in the phone right there and then. Was asked for the box by another employee who was told to handle the return. The "Manager" just walked back to his office, total disregard and again no form of apology. The young man that took over was very courteous. The only person this far in this whole ordeal with some level of customer service. I now have yet another appointment to return this phone with the box.
I feel I should have been given a full refund. I will be returning to my previous carrier. Yes calls may drop from time to time, but when I call customer service, I get a live person on the other end of the line who truly go above and beyond to assist. Thank you Verizon for this regrettable ordeal. I am asking for you to address the way your team treats customers. You never get a second chance to make a great impression. My money will be spent elsewhere. This has been the most unbelievable experience and yes loss of my time and loss of my money.
Never have i been treated with such disregard as a customer. I had expected
Stores are awful places where all the reps know is dirty commission money and offloading any personal responsibility to Customer Care.
Our account has the 55+ plan, but only because we've been with Verizon for 10+ years and even then it was a random offer that popped up 2 years ago. This isn't a plan people can just ask for. The store rep who was insistent on that should be fired. Who knows how many customers they sent to call CS and how many reps got bad surveys because of it.
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Saturday, August 12, 2006
The DNA of embryonic stem cells is labeled in a unique and characteristic way, according to new research from scientists in California. The pattern could shed light on how embryonic stem cells maintain their ability to become any type of cell and might also help efforts to clone these cells, allowing scientists to develop better stem cell therapies...
...Epigenetic changes to DNA are those that alter expression of certain genes, for instance by reversibly tagging those genes, without changing the sequence of the DNA itself. In a paper published last week in Genome Research, researchers studied one such process, called DNA methylation, in which certain molecules within the gene are chemically modified, altering the activity of that particular gene...
The above is based on "Human embryonic stem cells have a unique epigenetic signature" (open access).
In an unusual undertaking for a science society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has produced a new book that discusses evolution and the rich diversity of Christian responses to the theory along with the quest for common ground on what has become a contentious issue in many school districts across the nation.
The book, The Evolution Dialogues (Amazon US), was written with the input of both scientists and theologians. Meant specifically for use in Christian adult education programs, it offers a concise description of the natural world, as explained by evolution, and the Christian response, both in Charles Darwin's time and in contemporary America. It has a glossary of terms from both science and religion, with 'bacteria' and 'Biblical infallibility' defined on the same page.
As an introduction to each chapter, the book features a narrative about the personal dilemma of a fictional college student, Angela Rawlett, as she struggles to reconcile her traditionalist Christian upbringing with her keen interest in biology.
Her story is rooted in reality, according to Connie Bertka, director of the AAAS's Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion program, which produced the book. [Bible, Intelligent Design]
Original AAAS news release here
technorati tags: science, society, american, association, advancement, book, evolution, christian, school, nation, education, darwin, america, religion, biology, ethics, bible, intelligent+design, aaas, dialogues
Trilobites, the extinct marine creatures famous to fossil-hunters everywhere, may have once done digging of their own, say British and Swedish researchers.
Rocks found in a Swedish limestone quarry contain the remains of trilobites inside networks of tunnels, which appear to have been sub-surface thoroughfares for the little bug-like critters.
'It's very rare to find a trilobite in a burrow,' said Amherst College paleontologist Whitey Hagadorn, an expert on tracks, burrows and other "trace" fossils that can give important clues to a long-lost species' behavior and environment.
The above is based on the Geology paper "Tunneling trilobites: Habitual infaunalism in an Ordovician carbonate seafloor": Abstract
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated that a key event during apoptosis (cell suicide) occurs as a single, quick event, rather than as a step-by-step process. Apoptosis eliminates extraneous cells from the developing body; and disposes of cells that sustain irreparable harm to their DNA or are infected with microorganisms.
The researchers photographed individual cells undergoing that process, allowing investigators to observe the release of certain proteins from pores in the membranes of mitochondria. These cellular structures contain enzymes that extract energy from food molecules, and the space within the membrane surrounding them holds a variety of proteins that are released during apoptosis.
Results of the study indicate the formation of pores in the mitochondrial membranes is a rapid process that allows a nearly simultaneous rather than a sequential release of many apoptosis proteins, according to Douglas Green, Ph.D., chair of the St. Jude Department of Immunology. Green is senior author of a report on this work that appears in the August 1 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The above is based on "Different mitochondrial intermembrane space proteins are released during apoptosis in a manner that is coordinately initiated but can vary in duration" which is open access: Abstract | Full Text
The Washington Post: 'Jurassic Park - The richest undisturbed cache of dinosaur fossils in North America may change the way we see the distant past. It's already transformed rancher Allen Cook's present'.
IT WAS THE PROSPECTOR WHO FOUND IT FIRST. Maybe 30 years ago, back when uranium was worth a lot, when people thought nuclear power was your friend. He was working a ridge up at Spring Creek, Wyo., looking for ore with a scintillometer, a modern-day Geiger counter. He was getting a lot of hits.
But there was something else. Big, off-color rocks in strange shapes were lying loose on the ground where the wind had blown the dirt off them. The prospector was a geologist. He knew what those were. Dinosaur bones. From big dinosaurs - like the ones that fill up museum exhibits... [Five page article]
And, if you live in the Washington D.C. area, tomorrow's Washington Post contains "Hunt for Dinosaurs":
Find any dinosaur fossils lately? Maybe you're not looking hard enough. After all, they're all around us. Prehistoric teeth, tracks, and to a lesser extent, bones are surprisingly common in parts of the District, Virginia and Maryland. The corridor between Washington and Baltimore, known among paleontologists as "Dinosaur Alley," produced the second dino fossil ever discovered on the East Coast.
If you can't hunt for these relics yourself, you can visit dinosaur exhibits in the area or tap the expertise of local paleontologists to learn about the legendary creatures that literally romped through our back yards and today enthrall parents and kids alike.
Another recent Washington Post article which may be of interest is: "And the Evolutionary Beat Goes On . . ."
technorati tags: washington+post, jurassic, park, dinosaur, fossils, north+america, prospector, spring, creek, wyoming, bones, museum, exhibits, d.c., virginia, maryland, baltimore, alley, east, coast, prehistoric, teeth, tracks, bones
The launch of the Mars Phoenix Lander is just a year away. The spacecraft will be aiming for the martian north pole, and if it lands successfully it will dig in snow and ice in one of the few places on Mars where scientists think life could be preserved.
Chris McKay, a planetary scientist with NASA's Ames Research Center, is a co-investigator for the Phoenix Lander, as well as for the Mars Science Laboratory, which is scheduled for launch in 2009. In this interview with Astrobiology Magazine editor Leslie Mullen, McKay explains why future Mars missions must dig deeper to learn about the martian potential for life. [Interview follows]
Friday, August 11, 2006
The United States ranks near the bottom, just ahead of Turkey, in a new survey measuring public acceptance of evolution in 34 countries.
The study ("Public Acceptance of Evolution": Summary), led by University of Michigan researcher Jon Miller, found that 40 percent of Americans accept evolution, down from 45 percent over the past 20 years. Among the nations examined, only Turkey had a lower rate of acceptance of evolution, with 25 percent accepting it and 75 percent rejecting it.
Songbirds use multiple sources of directional cues to guide their seasonal migrations, including the Sun, star patterns, the earth's magnetic field, and sky polarized light patterns. To avoid navigational errors as cue availability changes with time of day and weather conditions, these "compass" systems must be calibrated to a common reference. Experiments over the last 30 years have failed to resolve the fundamental question of how migratory birds integrate multiple sources of directional information into a coherent navigational system.
Last autumn, Rachel Muheim, a postdoctoral associate in biology professor John Phillips' lab at Virginia Tech, captured Savannah sparrows in the Yukon before they headed south. She was able to demonstrate that the birds calibrate their magnetic compass based on polarized light patterns at sunset and sunrise.
The research appears in the Aug. 11, 2006, issue of Science, in the article, "Polarized Light Cues Underlie Compass Calibration in Migratory Songbirds," (Abstract) by Muheim, Phillips, and Suzanne Akesson.
technorati tags: songbirds, seasonal, migration, sun, star, patterns, earth, magnetic, field, sky, polarized, light, time, day, weather, compass, migratory, biology, sparrows, yukon, birds, research, science
Vatican City, August 10 - Pope Benedict XVI will conduct a weekend seminar in early September examining Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and its impact on Roman Catholicism's teaching of Creation.
The seminar, titled "Creation and Evolution," is sure to attract the attention of supporters of "intelligent design" - the idea that the world is too complex to have been created by natural events alone - and Vatican scientists who do not consider it valid science.
The seminar is the latest edition of the annual "Shulerkreis," or "student circle," a meeting Benedict has held with his former Ph.D. students since his days as a theology professor at the University of Regensburg in Germany in the 1970s.
The seminar is to take place Sept. 2-3 at Castel Gandolfo, the pope's summer residence south of Rome.
[This news report also appears here]
Durham, N.H. - Scientists at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) have found that invasive crab species may precipitate evolutionary change in blue mussels in as little as 15 years. The study, by UNH graduate student Aaren Freeman with associate professor of zoology James Byers and published in the Aug. 11 issue of the journal Science, indicates that such a response can evolve in an evolutionary nanosecond compared to the thousands of years previously assumed. The paper is called "Divergent induced responses to an invasive predator in marine mussel populations." (Abstract)
"It's the blending of ecological and evolutionary time," says Freeman, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of zoology. "It's an important development in the arms race between these crabs and these mollusks." Crabs prey on blue mussels by crushing their shells. [Evolution]
Original UNH Report here (contains a link to larger image than above)
Also carried by this week's Washington Post 'Science Notebook' under the title "Mussels Quickly Evolved To Foil a New Predator Crab".
Fossils of a new hoofed mammal that resembles a cross between a dog and a hare which once roamed the Andes Mountains in southern Bolivia around 13 million years ago was discovered by Darin A. Croft, assistant professor of anatomy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a research associate at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
With Federico Anaya from Universidad Autonoma Tomas Frias, Croft reported on the new mammal find named Hemihegetotherium trilobus in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology article, 'A New Middle Miocene Hegetotherid (Notoungulata: Typotheria) and a Phylogeny of the Hegetotheriidae.' (Abstract) It is named for the distinctive three lobes on its back lower molar teeth.
The animal belonged to a group of animals called notoungulates—hoofed mammals native only to South America. The group originated in South America soon after the dinosaurs went extinct and evolved to include hundreds of species over a span of more than 50 million years; all of them are now extinct.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Love and Sex Influence Disease Evolution: "Dating, going steady, hooking up, settling down. There are many ways to be a couple and avoid the lovesick blues. Now it appears that in addition to lovesickness, there is a link between the types of relationships people have and how illness affect us all.
In a study of sexually transmitted diseases, scientists have concluded that the length of time people stay together can determine which infectious diseases circulate in a community and therefore how diseases evolve multiple strains.
Up to now, studies looking at how disease travels in groups worked with models that assumed people bump into each other at random, on a crowded street or some other public place. One disease strain could then hop easily from host to host until maximum infection was achieved.
In reality, of course, our interactions are more complicated. Some people have one long-term partner, while others come in contact with many people, each only for a short time. [Evolution]
The above is based on Coexistence and Specialization of Pathogen Strains on Contact Networks (Abstract)
technorati tags: dating, lovesick, blues, relationships, sexually, transmitted, diseases, infectious, random, host, coexistence, specialization, pathogen, strain, contact, networks, evolution, love, sex
In the long, dark days of winter, gardeners are known to count the days until spring. Now, scientists have learned, some plants do exactly the same thing.
Addressing scientists today (Aug. 9) at a meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Richard Amasino described studies that have begun to peel back some of the mystery of how plants pace the seasons to bloom at the optimal time of year.
...In a series of studies of Arabidopsis, a small mustard plant commonly used to study plant genetics, Amasino and his colleagues have found there are certain critical genes that repress flowering...
Recent publications by Richard Amasino:
Scientist Exposes Evolution's Weaknesses in Politically Incorrect Book About Darwinism and Intelligent Design (Book Review)
Book Review: Seattle, Washington - 'This book is going to upset defenders of Darwin's theory, because it exposes just how weak the evidence for it is and how irrational their criticisms of intelligent design really are,' says biologist Jonathan Wells author of the controversial new book "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design". The book will be published on August 21st by Regnery as part of their popular series of "Politically Incorrect Guides."
In clear, non-technical language, Wells explains who is fighting whom, the root of the conflict, and the evidence for and against Darwinism and Intelligent Design. He also explains what is ultimately at stake for liberals and conservatives, Christians and non-Christians, educators, policymakers, and scientists.
"The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design" is currently appearing on the 'Featured Books' page of the Evolution Book Store: UK | US)
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
The detailed images of embryos more than 500 million years old have been revealed by an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol. Writing in the journal Nature, Dr Phil Donoghue and colleagues reveal the various developmental stages of fossilised embryos, from the first splitting of cells to pre-hatching, using synchrotron-radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM).
In one instance this has exposed the internal anatomy of the mouth and anus of a close relative of the living penis worm. Another case has revealed a unique pattern for making embryonic worm segments, not seen in any animals living today.
Phil Donoghue, from the University of Bristol, said: "Because of their tiny size and precarious preservation, embryos are the rarest of all fossils. They are just gelatinous balls of cells that rot away within hours. But these fossils are the most precious of all because they contain information about the evolutionary changes that have occurred in embryos over the past 500 million years." [Tomography]
The above news release (another, the Washington Post's "Paleontologists X-Ray Fossil Embryos", is available here) is based on "Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos" (Nature). At the time of writing both Abstract and Full Text are available without subscription.
There is also an Editor's Summary.
Original Bristol University News Release.
technorati tags: washington+post
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH) announced that new fossils including human ancestors have been recovered in the Lower Omo Valley by researchers.
The Omo Group Research Project (OGRP) Team Leader Dr. Jean-Renaud Boisserie, from the Paris National Museum, told a press conference yesterday that the fossils discovered by his team date from 2 to 3 million years.
Dr. Jean-Renaud indicated that the paleontology team discovered abundant fossil assemblages, collecting identifiable specimens in 15 different places.
'The sampled fossil fauna is dominated by different species of monkeys related to modern baboons and other monkeys, but also includes remains of fossil pigs, antelopes, hippopotamuses, giraffes, horses and large cats,' he said.
According to the researcher, three hominid specimens were also found in association with the fauna.
The remains of a mammoth have been found near the town of Zok in southern Hungary, an expert from the institute of geography at the University of Pecs said Wednesday.
"The skull, a 150-centimetre (60-inch) piece of tusk and several of the animal's teeth were found on a hill covered with vineyards," national news agency MTI quoted Gyula Konrad as saying.
The original MTI (Hungarian News Agency Corporation) report is here (the news is only an hour old so I guess there'll be more later).
Another Washington Post report on the recent intelligent design v. evolution election result:
Topeka, Kansas - Moderates who will control the state Board of Education next year say it's only a matter of time before they unravel the work of conservatives who had pushed anti-evolution standards back into Kansas schools.
'I imagine everybody is anxious to get the science standards changed back to the mainstream,' Democratic member Bill Wagnon said Tuesday.
Evolution skeptics lost their 6-4 majority earlier this month with the outcome of primary races.
Related recent Washington Post reports include:
Providence, Rhode Island - How life takes shape is a mystery. Butterfly or baby, cells organize themselves into tissues, tissues form organs, organs become organisms. Over and over, patterns emerge in all living creatures. Spiders get eight legs. Leopards get spots. Every nautilus is encased in an elegant spiral shell.
This phenomenon of pattern formation is critical in developmental biology. But the forces that govern it are far from clear. Alan Turing, father of modern computer science, suggested that the basis for pattern formation was chemical. New research .. supplies another surprising answer: Physical, as well as chemical, forces can dictate pattern formation.
In a two-year study (Abstract of Microtubule bundling and nested buckling drive stripe formation in polymerizing tubulin solutions), Brown physicists James Valles and Jay Tang puzzled over the patterns created by proteins called microtubules. Shaped like long, skinny straws, these proteins are puny - they measure only about 250 atoms wide - but play critical roles in the body. Microtubules help cells divide. They also act as scaffolds, giving cells their shape, and serve as train tracks of sorts, moving important bits like chromosomes and mitochondria around inside of cells.
technorati tags: providence, rhode+island, life, shape, mystery, butterfly, cells, organisms, pattern, spiders, leopards, nautilus, formation, developmental, biology, alan+turing, computer+science, research, proteins, microtubules, chromosomes, mitochondria
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Why does sex exist? A long-popular view holds that sexual reproduction creates new gene combinations that help the next generation resist rapidly co-evolving parasites. Each species constantly changes to achieve the same result - evolutionary advantage - prompting evolutionary biologists to dub this hypothesis the Red Queen (who tells Alice in Through the Looking Glass "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place").
Recent theoretical studies have challenged the generality of the Red Queen hypothesis, suggesting that even though parasites can exert selection pressures that favor sex under some conditions, more often they select against it. They do this, the studies found, by selecting against genes that increase the degree of genetic mixing. And now, Aneil Agrawal has come to the Red Queen's rescue with his own theoretical analysis. While the recent models assumed that host-parasite encounters are random, Agrawal shows that when nonrandom interactions are assumed - so that a host is more likely to acquire parasites from its mother - selective pressures from parasites are much more likely to favor sex.
The above news report is based on:
John Latter / Jorolat
When it comes to tiny motors, the flagella used by bacteria to get around their microscopic worlds are hard to beat. Composed of several tens of different types of protein, a flagellum (that's the singular) rotates about in much the same way that a rope would spin if mounted in the chuck of an electric drill, but at much higher speeds-about 300 revolutions per second.
Biologists at the California Institute of Technology have now succeeded for the first time in obtaining a three-dimensional image of the complete flagellum assembly using a new technology called electron cryotomography. Reporting in Nature, the scientists show in unprecedented detail both the rotor of the flagellum and the stator, or protein assembly that not only attaches the rotor to the cell wall, but also generates the torque that serves to rotate it.
The accomplishment is a tour de force within the field of structural biology, through which scientists seek to understand how cells work by determining the shapes and configurations of the proteins that make them up. The results could lead to better-designed nanomachines.
No subscription is necessary at the moment because its an "advance publication". (NB The PhysOrg report does give a link to the full text but it has a typo in it - one of my usual tricks!)
John Latter / Jorolat
technorati tags: flagella, bacteria, microscopic, protein, california, institute, technology, flagellum, electron, cryotomography, nature, rotor, stator, structural, biology, nanomachines, evolution, evolution+research, john+latter, jorolat
Scientists Reverse Evolution, Reconstruct Ancient Gene
University of Utah scientists have shown how evolution works by reversing the process, reconstructing a 530-million-year-old gene by combining key portions of two modern mouse genes that descended from the archaic gene.
"It provides further evidence at the molecular level of how evolution has occurred and is occurring, and thus makes the process less mysterious," says Mario Capecchi, distinguished professor and co-chairman of human genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
"We've shown some of the elements involved in the process of evolution by reversing this process and reconstructing a gene that later became two genes," he adds.
The study by Capecchi and postdoctoral fellow Petr Tvrdik was set for publication Monday, Aug. 7 in the August 2006 issue of the journal Developmental Cell.
The process of one gene splitting into multiple genes, which then mutate, "has occurred many times in evolution, but no one has put it back together again," Tvrdik says. "We are first to reconstruct an ancient gene. … We have proven that from two specialized modern genes, we can reconstruct the ancient gene they split off from. It illuminates the mechanisms and processes that evolution uses, and tells us more about how Mother Nature engineers life."
The ability to reconstruct an ancient gene from descendant genes also raises the possibility of a new type of gene therapy, in which a portion of a related gene could be inserted into a disease-causing mutant gene to restore its normal function and cure the disease, Capecchi and Tvrdik say.
Genes that Divided are Now Reunited
The study involved what are known as Hox genes, which are like orchestra conductors directing the actions of other genes during development of an animal embryo.
Until sometime between 530 million and 480 million years ago, early animals had 13 Hox genes. Then, in jawed fish - the last common ancestors of modern vertebrate animals - each Hox gene had split into four, so 13 became 52. Later, duplicate Hox genes either mutated in a way that proved useful, or vanished because they were redundant, so today in humans and other mammals there are 39 instead of 52 Hox genes.
The study focused on two modern Hox genes:
- The Hoxa1 gene, which helps control how an embryo's brain stem develops and is compartmentalized into seven sections called rhombomeres. When Hoxa1 is disabled or "knocked out" in an embryonic mouse, the embryo dies shortly after birth because the brain stem is malformed, including the part necessary for breathing. (About 20 people with the same defect have been found among Apache and Navajo Indians in Arizona and in families in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Their brain stem defects result in problems with breathing, hearing, balance and control of the eyeballs.)
- The Hoxb1 gene, which orders the formation of particular nerve cells in rhombomere 4 - nerves that ultimately control facial expressions in animals. When a mouse is born with a disabled Hoxb1 gene, it suffers facial paralysis, and is unable to blink its eyes, wiggle its whiskers or pull back its ears.
Tvrdik and Capecchi say that by combining critical portions of Hoxa1 and Hoxb1, they effectively recreated a gene with the function that the original Hox1 performed more than 530 million years ago.
The result: A mouse with a disabled Hoxb1 gene still was able to move eyelids, whiskers and ears because the reconstructed gene made up for the loss of Hoxb1.
How the Study was Conducted
Evolution proceeds as cells divide and each gene within them duplicates. Having two identical genes allows one to keep doing its normal job and the other can change, or mutate. Most mutations are for the worse and disappear. Others persist because they perform a new job that holds some advantage for allowing an organism to adapt. The quadrupling of Hox (and also other genes) a half-billion years ago provided animals with an advantage "because they had more genes to use for specialized jobs," including adapting to environmental changes, Tvrdik says.
Each gene is made of DNA. Some of the gene's DNA carries a code or blueprint that makes a protein to carry out some specific function in an organism. Some genetic mutations change this "coding region" and thus change the protein a gene makes.
Other mutations change other parts of the gene, known as "regulatory sequences," which decide when and where the gene and its protein act in an organism's body.
Because the gene's regulatory sequences can be 10 to 100 times larger than the gene's coding region, mutations are more likely there.
A key question was whether the Hoxa1 and Hoxb1 genes are different because their protein-coding regions have changed or their regulatory sequences have changed. So the scientists switched the two genes' coding regions. Each gene then produced the other gene's protein. Mice born with the switched genes were essentially normal.
That means the coding regions were interchangeable, and that evolution has changed each gene's regulatory sequence, not the protein-making coding region.
Next, Tvrdik and Capecchi took a small portion of the regulatory sequence from gene Hoxb1 (which controls facial expressions) and put it into Hoxa1, (which allows mice to breathe and survive after birth). And they disabled the remainder of Hoxb1.
Mice suffered facial paralysis when they were born with disabled Hoxb1 and without a portion of that gene inserted into the Hoxa1 gene. In response to a puff of air in the face, they couldn't blink their eyes, wiggle their whiskers and fold back their ears.
But when a portion of the Hoxb1 regulatory sequence was inserted into Hoxa1, the new gene performed the jobs of both genes. Mice born with the combined gene still were able to breathe and survive thanks to the Hoxa1 gene, and they could move their facial muscles, thanks to the small bit of the Hoxb1's regulatory sequence.
Capecchi says that by combining parts of both Hoxa1 and Hoxb1, he and Tvrdik reversed evolution.
"What we have done is essentially go back in time to when Hox1 did what Hoxa1 and Hoxb1 do today," he says. "It gives a real example of how evolution works because we can reverse it."
The hybrid Hoxa1-Hoxb1 gene is not fully identical to the half-billion-year-old Hox1 because it lacks Hoxc1 and Hoxd1. But Hoxc1 vanished during evolution because it was redundant, and Hoxd1 plays a minor role. So the combined Hoxa1-Hoxb1 gene performs essentially all the functions of the ancient gene, Capecchi says.
A New Approach to Gene Therapy?
Capecchi says scientists hypothesized that when a gene duplicates into identical genes, mutations can occur so the once-identical duplicates evolve to split the original job - a process is called subfunctionalization.
"We are giving an example of how it actually happened - what elements are involved and how you initially separate the functions, and how can you reconstruct the [ancient] gene to put the functions back again," Capecchi says.
The study raises the prospect of a new approach to gene therapy, Tvrdik says.
If a gene duplicated into two and they evolved separate functions in the body - for example, one gene works in the liver and the other in the brain - then "if the brain version of the gene becomes mutated or deleted [to cause a disease] and its gene replacement is difficult or impractical, then our work shows that the ‘liver copy' potentially could be recruited to do the brain functions," Tvrdik says.
In other words, regulatory elements from the brain gene might be inserted into the liver gene to reconstruct a gene similar to the normal brain gene.
Capecchi speculated on a possible example: a form of inherited anemia named beta-thalassemia, which occurs when a mutant beta hemoglobin gene results in faulty production of hemoglobin. The new study suggests it might be possible to use regulatory sequences from the faulty gene to activate a similar gene, essentially creating an embryonic or juvenile beta hemoglobin gene that could make hemoglobin normally during adult life.
Source: University of Utah August 7, 2006
Reversal of Hox1 Gene Subfunctionalization in the Mouse
Petr Tvrdik and Mario R. Capecchi
Developmental Cell, Vol 11, 239-250, August 2006
In vertebrates, paralogous Hox genes play diverse biological roles. We examined the interchangeability of Hoxa1 and Hoxb1 in mouse development by swapping their protein-coding regions. Remarkably, the mice expressing the Hox-B1 protein from the Hoxa1 locus, and vice versa, are essentially normal. We noted, nonetheless, a specific facial nerve hypomorphism in hemizygous Hoxb1A1/- mice and decreased viability in homozygous Hoxa1B1/B1 embryos. Further, we established a mouse line in which we have inserted the 107 bp Hoxb1 autoregulatory enhancer into the Hoxa1 promoter. Strikingly, the newly generated autoregulatory Hoxa1 gene can deliver the functionality of both paralogs in these mice, providing normal viability as well as proper facial nerve formation even in the Hoxb1 mutant background. This study affirms that subfunctionalization of the transcriptional regulatory elements has a principal role in the diversification of paralogous Hox genes. Moreover, we show that the ancestral vertebrate Hox1 gene can still be experimentally reconstructed.
Discovery Institute: An editorial in yesterday's Washington Post, 'Nothing Wrong With Kansas' (there are links to related news entries here), contains many inaccurate statements about the Kansas Science Standards and intelligent design.
First, it wrongly frames the Kansas issue as being about intelligent design:
The conservatives regained the majority in 2004 and moved to promote intelligent design -- a challenge to Darwinian theory based not on biblical inerrancy or overt creationism but on purportedly scientific flaws in the theory.
('Nothing Wrong With Kansas,' Washington Post, Sunday, August 6, 2006)
But the standards are not about intelligent design. Not only do they clearly state, 'the Science Curriculum Standards do not include Intelligent Design' (Kansas Science Standards, pg. ii), but the standards only require teaching about scientific criticisms of Neo-Darwinism in a way that does not get into intelligent design (see here for an explanation).
Because the editorial board at The Washington Post mistakenly thinks Kansas is dealing with intelligent design, it then goes on to promote a mistaken and straw version of intelligent design, asserting that ID is all about the supernatural.
Monday, August 07, 2006
The Washington Post 'Science Notebook' (scroll down the page for this item): Scientists fishing for genes in the deep oceans have netted a huge catch of surprisingly diverse genetic snippets, providing the best evidence yet that the seas are home to far more microbial diversity than researchers had thought.
The work indicates that the world's oceans, once thought to be virtually sterile on the microbial scale, are teeming with bacteria and related organisms that have been evolving and swapping genes for billions of years.
Mitchell Sogin of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., led the new work - part of an ongoing census of marine microbial life. [microbes]
The paper the above refers to is:
Plants under stress not only activate their own defences, but also manage to pass on a possible protective strategy to their descendants. That's the surprising conclusion of a study published online today by Nature: "Transgeneration memory of stress in plants" (Abstract).
Stresses such as pathogen infection or ultraviolet radiation can trigger increased rates of genetic mutation in some plant cells, occasionally even scrambling regions of their DNA. Some scientists hypothesize that by augmenting their genomic flexibility, plants boost their ability to produce genetic changes that could allow them to adapt to stressful environments. Now it seems that plants can also pass this genetic pliability on to their offspring.
Researchers in Barbara Hohn's lab at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, study a process in which one piece of DNA within the genome replaces another fragment of similar sequence. This process, called 'homologous recombination', occurs more frequently in stressed plants. Plants grown near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear-reactor accident, for example, were found to have rates of homologous recombination that increased with the dose of radiation they received.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Washington Post: For the second time in less than a year, voters have turned out of office policymakers who insisted on teaching kids bad science. Last year, the people of Dover, Pennsylvania, got rid of a group of school board members who injected the theory of 'intelligent design' into high school biology.
Last week, Republican primary voters in Kansas ousted the conservative majority on the state Board of Education, which had adopted science standards embracing intelligent design and casting doubt on Darwinian evolution. Moderate Republicans replaced two conservatives -- giving those supporting science at least a 6-to-4 majority, even if the other conservatives hold on in the general election.
The vote, which should lead to changes to those embarrassing standards, is an encouraging sign that even in conservative jurisdictions, most people want kids to be taught biology, not religion.
The Kansas board has been fighting over evolution since 1999, when it moved to eliminate references to Darwinian theory from statewide standards.
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The DO-333 is now available! (ok, that’s not free: 215$ for an electronic version, or 300$ for a hard copy, pfew!)
Under this amazingly explicit name is hiding the formal methods supplement for DO-178C. Or, said otherwise, the document that allows you, as a developer of avionics software, to replace tests/reviews/analyses by formal methods. Or you, as a provider of techniques and tools for formal methods, to find customers in the avionics market. Ah yes, because the new version of the certification standard for avionics software, DO-178C, has been also issued at the same time. So that starts today!
Here is what the abstract of this doc says:
This supplement identifies the additions, modifications and substitutions to DO-178C and DO-278A objectives when formal methods are used as part of a software life cycle, and the additional guidance required. It discusses those aspects of airworthiness certification that pertain to the production of software, using formal methods for systems approved using DO-178C.
Formal methods are mathematically-based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software aspects of digital systems. The mathematical basis of formal methods consists of formal logic, discrete mathematics and computer-readable languages. The use of formal methods is motivated by the expectation that, as in other engineering disciplines, performing appropriate mathematical analyses can contribute to establishing the correctness and robustness of a design.
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DAVID RIGSBEE is the author of 18 books and chapbooks, including seven previous full-length collections of poems. His latest books, The Red Tower: New & Selected Poems and The Pilot House, a Black River Poetry Prize Chapbook, were both recently released. In addition to his poems, he has also published critical works on Carolyn Kizer and Joseph Brodsky. He has co-edited two anthologies, including Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry, a “notable book” selection of the American Library Association and the American Association of University Professors and featured on C-Span Booknotes. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, The Ohio Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many others. Winner of the Pound Prize and the Vachel Lindsay Award, he has also been recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Virginia Commission on the Arts, The Djerassi Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. He is 2010 winner of the Sam Ragan Award for contribution to the arts in North Carolina. Rigsbee is currently contributing editor for The Cortland Review.
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Quoting whack a mole crazy:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Mylittleone's (B.B.M):</b>" mine was a small patch on my ... [snip!] ... of my hips but nothing on my belly. Mine is very small little knots under the skin. I was told it was pupps by the nurse i saw."
yea it's bumpy mine felt like little bumps on my two stretchmark’s then the stretchmark’s became inflamed, red and sensitive to the touch probably from the scratching lol then it just took off went all over my belly then down my legs on my arms then on my neck. After I delivered it was horrible I felt so embarrassed when people where taking pictures because by that time it just looks like one big red welt everywhere :-(
I had my mom run and bring me back a zip up hoodie to hide most of it in the pictures because I wanted a few that didn't make me look like I had a skin disease I was very self-conscious and the nurses in the NICU made it worse.
There was one other mom with it and when we were both in the NICU the nurse looked at us and said I don't what is wrong with you to like we were dirty or something I remember the other mom and I just looking at each other and wanting to crawl under something it was horrible.
My only advice is don’t let them give you a high dose of Benadryl after you deliver they gave one to me and my lactation consultant went through the roof and about a week I was basically completely dried up I couldn’t even produce an ounce and the lactation consultant said it was the Benadryl.
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Over in the POTD thread S3000 commented on my Minolta Macro Lens and I thought a new thread discussing Macro might be worth while.
So, here's a pic of my Minolta MD Macro Lenses.
Originally Posted by S3000
On top, my Minolta MD Macro 100mm f4 Lens and matching extension tube and Hood alongside.
Below, the 50mm f3.5 Lens. The lens is fully extend and extension tube alongside
The "White" scale is for 1:2 magnification, that is to say, half size (or quarter size depending on definition).
The "Cyan" scale is for 1:1 magnification, that is to say, Full Size (by any definition).
The big difference between the two lenses is "Working Distance" and "Perspective".
For instance, for 1:1 magnification, the distance from the front of the extended 50mm and the extended 100mm lens to subject is 50mm(2") and 200mm(8") respectively.
If you fit the Hood to the 100mm, then the distance is reduced by some 60mm(2.5").
That 50mm distance can frighten away little creatures especially if the lens casts a shadow over it.
Worse still using AF to focus, the noise coupled with the expanding lens front can be enough to trigger the flight reflex.
That leaves perspective which is quite different for the two focal lengths and largely a matter of taste. No doubt those of us who chose a 50mm will argue strongly in its favour whilst the 100mm Brigade will be equally adamant of its virtues. It's my good fortune to have both so I fall between two stools but the truth is, they both have their pluses and minuses. I chose the 100mm for my recently posted Insect Macros simply because of "Working Distance" but for most plant/flower shots I prefer the angle of view of the 50mm lens. It gets close enough to avoid front clutter and gives that feeling of being really close. You "pays yer money and takes yer choice" as they say.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot about the cost. The Sony 50mm Macro will set you back £350 and the 100mm Macro £500. Ouch!
Or you could go Tamron 60mm, 80mm, 180mm at £390, £344 and £700 respectively. Once again, Ouch!
I mustn't forget the Sony DT 30mm SAM Macro at £160, however the working distance for 1:1 is around 19mm. Hmmm!
Both my lenses are 30 years old but fully functional and of course, manual focus. I don't count that as a negative because I find AF Macro lenses fail to do the job most of the time and are excruciatingly slow and noisy especially when the lens racks all the way out and back again. I did purchase a Mino 50mm f2.8 Macro with the intention of replacing the old ones but in the end got rid of the AF lens. I might have a different opinion if the Macros doubled as normal lenses as well but, in my case, they don't. I have no personal experience of any other Macro lens.
As it happens, I've had these two venerable lenses for donkeys years but a big plus today is the price. You can find good examples of the 50mm for £30/£40 and perhaps two to three times that for the rarer 100mm. You also need to factor in £15/£20 for an adapter to allow the MD mount to fit an A-mount
There are other cheaper options to try:
Macro Converter (seven-element 2x converter from Teleplus)
Zoom with macro function.
None of these is as good as a real Macro lens which is designed to perform best at high magnification and some of the options are a bit cumbersome but good results can be achieved.
Of course, you can simply use a long Zoom Lens, however, that will give you something like 1:5 magnification which is not true Macro, depending on your definition of the term. It used to mean "at or near full size" but now there seems to be more latitude.
Here's a 50% crop of a Red Admiral taken with a Minolta 200mm G lens.
Nice image but "Macro it ain't" and it has been cropped to quarter full size.
Also an uncropped Red Admiral with 100mm Macro.
This pic gives you an idea of the different sizes of 1:1, 1:2 and 1:5.
The big bugbears of Macro Photography are low light levels, Focus Accuracy and limited DOF (Depth Of Field).
Lack of light is always a problem at Macro Magnification. First off your f2.8/3.5 will be more like an f4/5.6 when its fully extended with attendant light loss. If you can get your subject in full Sunlight without casting a shadow, that's great, otherwise you may well need some flash assistance. Make sure you diffuse the flash or you're going to suffer from specular highlights. No need to spend a fortune, a homemade one will fit the bill nicely. I used a double diffuser for the shot of the screws.
In terms of easier (manual) focus acquisition, Pentaprism VF's are better than Pentamirror but the cheapest Sony with that is the A700.
Now that I have the A900, accurate focus is helped by the excellent OVF but changing to the M-screen would be better.
I've never owned a Live View equipped camera but that would definitely be a good way to achieve critical focus although I have my doubts about Bright Sunlight.
The A55 (A77?) may bring something entirely new to the Macro table. As far as I can tell, using the focus magnifier, you can get up to x15 magnification in the EVF (or rear LCD). That could prove to be a major plus for Macro work.
As an aside, here's an interesting use of a 100mm Macro with the A55.
Next up for scrutiny is the pitiful DOF (Depth Of Field). At these high magnifications, there isn't any (well hardly any).
Here are some pics of a couple of screws and a tape measure using the 100mm f4 Macro at full extension, i.e. 1:1 magnification, on my A900.
The screw head diameter is 8mm and the overall length is 9mm.
First pic is the whole frame and next are crops at various apertures.
You can see that f4/f5.6 are practically useless with a DOF around 1 or 2 millimetres.
Even at f16 the DOF is still only 7 or 8mm and diffraction degradation is visible.
You can forget DOF (Depth Of Field) in terms of Focal Length selection or Sensor size. At the same magnification and F-stop the DOF will be the same on whichever lens you choose. The Purists will now say that the last statement only works if the lens is of symmetrical design where the "Pupil Magnification Factor"= 1. This may come into play with a 200mm FL but at true Macro magnifications is still irrelevant IMO.
BTW, at these magnifications the DOF in front/behind the focal plane is exactly the same (the far DOF only lengthens with less magnification).
Here are uncropped pics using the A700 first with the 50mm Macro, then with the 100mm Macro.
Although switching to the the A700 will not affect the DOF, there's a big difference in image size.
This is an uncropped A900 frame with an uncropped A700 frame overlaid.
The vignetting is from a rather poor adapter overdue for replacement.
Sometimes you just have to pull the magnification down to get a (barely) sufficient DOF.
Here's a picture I posted in POTD but illustrating the crop used.
That's quite a big crop, 24MP down to 8MP. Try that with the A700 and you'll end up with a 4MP image.
Of course, although Focus Accuracy and DOF are separate issues, they go hand in hand at these magnifications.
You can see that the far wing is in reasonable focus as is the front wing although the wing tip is disappearing.
If you leave focus acquisition up to an AF lens, you have no idea whether it will focus on the edge of a Wing, a body hair or whatever. In any case, and yes I've said it often, the AF is not that accurate and the lens is likely to front or back focus which is another reason to prefer manual focus.
Whatever happens, anything that helps with accurate positioning for critical focus is a bonus. The ideal scenario is that you're using a stable tripod with a macro rail which gives 6" of movement in both horizontal planes.
With this setup I rack the lens out to the desired magnification factor, focus using the "rail" and fine tune with the focus ring; or whatever works. That's fine for a static subject but, for an insect, requires that you have prior knowledge that the creatures will be there, like for instance a rotting apple on a tree.
Other than that I use a monopod fitted with a quick grip ball head, or nothing at all.
Monopod with quick grip ball head
Again, rack the lens to the required magnification and then fine tune by swaying backwards and forwards until you get the required focus. If it sounds awkward, it is, but when it works...
Seeing as I have A700 and A900 cameras, my comments are largely based around those two. I mentioned the big advantage that accrues from having the larger frame of the A900. Basically you can crop away half the pixels and still have an image the same size as an uncropped A700 image. That's a big advantage and allows you to give up some magification to the benefit of DOF. The recent release of the 16.2MP sensor brings about a similar benefit to APS-C. The A55 has a 32% greater photosite density than the A700 so you could afford to sacrifice some of that gain in the interest of DOF. There are rumours that the A77 will have an 18MP sensor implying an ever bigger increase in density to 50%.
If an A77 with 18MP turns into fact, the extra density coupled with the EVF magnification could make that camera hard to resist for Macro work. Unless they release an A99, in which case.....
I guess there's more to say but I've run out of steam for the moment, need some sleep.
Comments and contributions welcome. Donít be afraid to stick your head over the Parapet.
Thank you for a very well explained post, Peekayoh. I am still learning and I learned a lot from from your post.
These old Minolta lenses are very good and I am looking one of those old md macro lenses. What I got is not a real macro lens so I am still searching.
one of these days i stick my ext tubes on this..lol..bug pics at 25 ft..
Yes, well, good luck with MF on that. ROFL
I'm not sure this is the best place to post this question, but here goes. I'm looking to get a macro lens for my Sony a55. I'm toying between:
I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to understanding lens specs. But based on your review, am I correct that the 100mm lens will let me get the "same" photo as the 50 mm, but further away from the subject (so as to not scare off the bug)? I realize the angle of view, size and cost of the lenses are different.
Other than the distance away from the subject, are there other advantages/disadvantages to the 100mm lens? (For me the cost is not so much of an issue...the weight might be).
Thanks for your thoughts!
I use the af 50mm 2.8 as a general lens and marcro...it takes great pics:d
Argelius, in Macro terms both lenses produce a similar picture.
Originally Posted by Argelius
Both lenses have a maximum magnification of 1:1.
Therefore either lens is capable of imaging your subject at full size on the sensor so effectively, "the same".
Because the magnification is the same, so too is the DOF.
Which is better?
In Macro terms, if you only have the one lens and cost is not an issue, then I'd probably opt for the 100mm simply because of working distance.
I really don't think that the weight poses a problem, not for me anyway.
Again, if you only have one or the other and it has to double as a general purpose lens, then the 50mm may be a better choice.
However, as cost is not a big issue, you could pick up a Minolta 50mm f1.7 pretty cheap. That's a stop and a bit advantage for indoors and a nice portrait length.
Off-topic here, but I noticed that you have a Manfrotto 222 pistol grip ball head. How do you like it? I just looked at one today at a store.
Sorry to ask here, but I was afraid the question would get missed in another thread.
Had one,,didn't like it..
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Tag: State Sen. Kevin Ranker
It started out as a bill to protect employees and job applicants from having to disclose Facebook and other social media information to bosses and prospective bosses.
The original text of the bill declares that employers have no right to demand social media access from their workers and their job applicants.
But now, according to this report from AP, business groups have proposed an amendment that would allow employers to get workers’ social media information if they are investigating workplace misconduct, such as supplying trade secrets to competitors.
UPDATE: The amendment was introduced Tuesday, April 2 and withdrawn the next day. Here is AP’s followup report.
I’m not sure of the status of this amendment. The link to it on the Legislature’s page contains the word “withdrawn,” so perhaps this proposal is dead for now. Stay tuned.
“Under the amendment, employees would be present when their social network profiles are searched and whatever information found is kept confidential, unless it is relevant to a criminal investigation,” the AP says.
Hmm. It seems to me that if the purpose of these social media searches is detection of criminal behavior, a search warrant is required. Law enforcement agencies can’t get a search warrant without some evidence to back it up, and evidence of criminality that is improperly obtained by those agencies is not admissible in court, under many circumstances.
UPDATE CONTINUED: Apparently this type of concern prompted the amendment’s sponsor to pull it.
This is probably just another footnote to our society’s ongoing effort to figure out how, and how not, to use social media. But this kind of thing bears watching.
By John Stark
Backers of SB 5805 insist that the measure has nothing to do with the Gateway Pacific Terminal coal export pier prop0sed for Whatcom County’s Cherry Point, but State Sen. Kevin Ranker is convinced otherwise.
Ranker, D-40th, says the backers are telling the truth when they say it had its origins in a desire to jump-start a long-stalled gravel-shipping pier project in Jefferson County. But that doesn’t change the fact that the bill’s language could also be applied to Gateway Pacific, Ranker said. He also suspects that many of the senators and lobbyists supporting the bill are well aware of that fact.
“This bill would remove Whatcom County from the decision-making process” on Gateway Pacific, Ranker said Thursday, Feb. 28. On Friday, Ranker filed several amendments meant to remove its potential impact on the coal terminal.
The bill, bill summary, bill digest and proposed amendments can all be viewed here.
State Sen. Maralyn Chase, D-32nd, and State Sen. Christine Rolfes, D-23rd, joined in that effort.
Among other things, the amendments would make sure that local governments must consent to an expedited permit process for a project deemed to be of special economic significance. Ranker’s amendments take the further step of stripping the bill of language that would make “transportation” and “basic commodity transportation” projects eligible for express-lane service in the regulatory process.
Here is an earlier blog post in which backers of the bill downplay its significance for Gateway Pacific, while stopping short of an outright denial that it could affect that project.
Ranker said he thinks it likely that the Republican-controlled (sorta, kinda controlled) Senate will pass SB 5805, but it won’t get through the House, and even if it does, it won’t get past the veto pen of Gov. Jay Inslee.
The Senate may vote on the bill today–Friday March 1.
UPDATE: Ranker’s legislative assistant, Kendall Farley, said the bill and the proposed amendments may come before the full Senate next week.
UPDATE NUMERO DOS: Gateway Pacific spokesman Craig Cole said he checked with SSA’s lobbyist in Olympia and was told that the company is not playing a role in pushing for the bill’s passage.
“It’s not our deal,” Cole said.
Asked if the bill could benefit Gateway Pacific if passed, Cole said he had no idea.
By John Stark
A Washington State Senate bill calling for expedited processing of permits for–among other things–”basic commodity transportation” is getting a lot of attention from opponents of the Gateway Pacific Terminal coal export pier proposed for Cherry Point.
The bill, SB 5805, was introduced Feb. 15, 2013 and passed along to the Rules Committee after a perfunctory Feb. 21 hearing in the Trade and Economic Committee. The bill comes up at 30:24 in the TVW video. Committee members make passing reference to coal projects and constituent concerns about it, but there is no definitive discussion of whether the bill would have any impact on those projects.
The bill modifies language in existing law for expediting the permit process in ways that would seem to apply to Gateway Pacific–especially the insertion of new language that would make “basic commodity transportation” facilities eligible for the fast-track.
State Sen. Steve Hobbs, D-44th, is a co-sponsor of 5805. Hobbs told me that 5805 has been introduced in previous sessions as part of an effort to get approval for a “pit to pier” gravel shipping terminal in Jefferson County that has beern simmering for many years. Here is some info on that project on the Jefferson County website; here is a critical view of it from a citizens’ organization, the Hood Canal Coalition. (Nobody mentioned this project during the committee hearing, unless I missed it.)
“Coal was not in mind when this bill was drafted,” Hobbs said.
Hobbs endorsed the Gateway Pacific proposal before his 2012 race for a 1st District House seat, in which he garnered 7 percent of the vote in the primary. He said he didn’t think SB 5805 would have any effect on Gateway Pacific.
Josh Swanson, a lobbyist for the International Union of Operating Engineers, also supports both 5805 and Gateway Pacific. Like Hobbs, he said the two are not related; 5805 is about gravel shipments in Jefferson County, and backers of the Jefferson County project have been trying to get this legislation passed for many years.
Swanson said he wasn’t sure if 5805 could also benefit Gateway Pacific if it becomes law, and he understands why Gateway Pacific opponents are worried that it might.
“I certainly think the argument could be made,” Swanson said. “I understand that.”
Meanwhile, Gateway Pacific opponents are sounding the alarm on Facebook, urging people to contact legislators to voice their opposition to 5805.
State Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, responded with a Facebook post of his own:
“Thanks to each of you who have written to me here on FB and through my office regarding Senate Bill 5805 that could allow permit streamlining of large scale projects such as the Coal Export Facility at Cherry Point or the Pit to Pier project.
“Know that I am strongly opposed to the bill and am helping lead the opposition here in the Senate. Make no mistake… This is a bad bill and each of us needs to do anything in our power to make sure that it never gets to the Governor’s desk.
“I will continue to work tirelessly to oppose this bill.”
I have contacted Ranker seeking additional comment.
UPDATE: Mike Ennis, government affairs director for the Association of Washington Business, also said that Gateway Pacific was not on the minds of those who drafted 5805, and he scoffed at the notion that it might benefit the coal terminal.
“I think it’s just scare tactics by the enviros,” Ennis said.
But when he was asked if Gateway Pacific could benefit from the bill if it becomes law, Ennis stopped short of a flat denial.
“I don’t think they could, but that’s as far as I’ll go,” Ennis said.
The Association of Washington Business is also on record in support of Gateway Pacific.
Republican candidates at the Wednesday, July 18 Whatcom County Tea Party forum joined in on the widespread criticism of a quote from President Barack Obama that is being interpreted as belittling the contributions of American business people.
The Obama quote that is getting all the attention runs like this: “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Republicans are interpreting this comment to mean, “You did little or nothing to build your own business,” which would certainly be an absurd thing for the President to say.
John Swapp, business owner and Republican challenger to State Sen. Kevin Ranker in the 40th District, observed: “I didn’t have any help from the government. The government was in my way most of the time.”
To me, Obama’s comment makes a bit more sense when you see it in context. Here’s a longer excerpt reported by the Washington Post:
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. ( emphasis added.) Somebody else made that happen.”
Not one of Obama’s more eloquent moments, to be sure. But when you look at the offending sentence, it doesn’t sound as silly. It looks like ”You didn’t build that” is supposed to mean, “The government, not you, built the roads and bridges that enable your business to exist.”
Swapp, at least, seemed aware of the full context.
“Yeah, I drive over a lot of roads and bridges, but so do a lot of people,” he said. He went on to observe that the business owners generate more than their share of the tax revenues that build those roads and bridges.
Matt Krogh, Democratic challenger to State Rep. Vincent Buys in the 42nd District, also referred to the wider context of Obama’s remark, attributing his own success in life to public school teachers as well as roads and bridges.
“The success that I have in life I owe to a lot of other people and I’m glad of it,” Krogh said.
Washington state boaters are bombarding State Rep. Jeff Morris and State Sen. Kevin Ranker with complaints, after the two men unveiled plans to use taxes and fees on boaters to help pay for a proposed new Center for Marine Innovation.
Morris’s plan, HB 2444, would shift $150,000 from the Recreation Resources Account that gets money from boaters’ fuel taxes. Those taxes would not be raised. But Recreational Boaters of Washington is asking members to express their opposition to the measure, because as they see it the money is supposed to be used for boating facilities, such as launch ramps.
Morris said he has heard their complaints, but he thinks that the shift is a reasonable use for a small part of the money from the $17 million fund.
He said the proposed new center should benefit boaters. Among other things, it will be charged with finding solutions to the ethanol fuel headache that boaters often complain about. Ethanol added to gasoline can cause problems in marine engines because it attracts water, Morris said. Despite that, even the gasoline sold at marine fueling stations often contains enough ethanol to cause problems for some boaters.
The new center would also help to focus the state’s ongoing efforts to support the marine trades industry that is an important job-creator in northwest Washington, Morris said.
Ranker’s bill, SB 6264, takes a different approach. His bill would add an additional $1 to the cost of each boat registration.
“I know they (boaters) are unhappy with Kevin’s funding source and they are unhappy with mine,” Morris said.
State Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, has invited his 40th District constituents to a town hall meeting scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26 at Fairhaven Middle School, 110 Park Ridge Road.
In a press release, Ranker said he wants to have a discussion of the state’s ongoing budget challenges and the effects on K-12 education, social services and other programs critical to local communities.
A similar event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sept. 27 at Anacortes Public Library.
We’re at the point in the legislative session in which bills die by the dozen, because they have failed to move out of their house of origin by last week’s deadline.
Ranker’s dead bill defined “small scale” as no more than two cows, nine sheep, or nine goats, and exempted such mini-producers only if they do not advertise their milk for sale. It sounds as though the bill was meant to enable hobbyists to sell a little milk to friends and neighbors without being in violation of state law.
State Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-40th, is among 17 sponsors of SB 5274, which would regulate the operations of “pregnancy centers” maintained by pro-life groups that encourage women not to choose abortions. A similar proposal is HB 1366 in the House.
Pro-choice advocates contend that these centers masquerade as health clinics and promote their anti-abortion agenda to women who should be getting information about all their legal and medical options.
According to NARAL, a national pro-choice group, the bill:
- Requires the centers to disclose that they do not provide service or referrals for abortion or comprehensive birth control and that they do not provide medical care for pregnant women.
- Requires the centers to keep any medical information they collect private.
- Requires the centers to provide pregnancy test results immediately.
The groups operating these centers argue that they are now providing millions of dollars’ worth of pregnancy testing and counseling to women in need, and that the provisions of the bill create potentially threatening civil liability for them. Among other things, the bill authorizes civil suits from women who contend they were damaged by the center’s activities, and give courts the power to triple any actual damages awarded.
Senate Bill 5194, sponsored by State Sen. Kevin Ranker and 13 other state senators, would impose new restrictions on sale and use of phosphorus fertilizer if passed by the Legislature and signed into law.
Among other things, the law would require immediate cleanup if anyone accidentally applies phosphorus-laden fertilizer to impervious surface, such as pavement.
The bill was scheduled for a Senate committee hearing this morning, Jan. 28.
Phosphorus-laden runoff is the biggest pollution problem facing Lake Whatcom, the source of drinking water for Bellingham and its outskirts.
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By Jim Schutze
By Rachel Watts
By Lauren Drewes Daniels
By Anna Merlan
By Lee Escobedo
By Eric Nicholson
Two women stand warily by a chain-link fence in old East Dallas, peering over their past, searching their fragile memories for landmarks of the abuse they suffered as children of the Hare Krishna movement. By age 5, each was sent by her devotee parents to a religious boarding school at the Dallas temple--its gurukula as it was called in Sanskrit, which means "house of the guru." Throughout the '70s and '80s, these "second generation" Krishna kids claim, they were subjected to all manner of abuse--physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual--by those entrusted with their care.
"Over there," says Ananda Tiller, pointing across an open field, "that's where this Venezuelan man pushed me up against the fence." He was a bhakta, someone who hadn't yet been initiated into the movement. "He put two fingers on my tongue and placed his thumb on my jaw to keep me from screaming. He was masturbating with his other hand, hunching me like a dog." He wanted to marry her, take her back to Venezuela with him, even asked her father for permission.
She was 9.
Tiller crosses the temple grounds and approaches a gnarly pecan tree, its branches mostly barren despite the mild November temperatures. The tree has a gaping triangular hole in its trunk, which Tiller will never forget. "My ashram [dormitory] teacher told me the tree was a woman in her past life, a prostitute, and this large mangled hole was her vagina. She said that's what I was going to be in my next life." Tiller was a high-spirited child, stubborn and rebellious. She doesn't recall what her particular infraction was that day, perhaps not covering her head or showing her ankle--or worse, being looked upon by a male devotee. "I remember staring at the tree and wondering if she felt as guilty as me."
Bridgette Rittenour laughs as Tiller tells her story, more out of recognition than humor. She recalls being "scared to death" that she, too, was going to be reincarnated as a tree and spend her next life "naked." A soft-spoken redhead, whose passivity was the source of her troubles, she was castigated by her teachers for engaging in "subtle sex" when she didn't towel herself off quickly enough after showering.
She was 5.
Rittenour, whose stay at the gurukula predates Tiller's, walks anxiously toward a short flight of steps inside the main temple, hoping the location will jog one of her more hellish memories. It comes in fits and starts, snatches of recollection, but she remembers standing at the end of a long line of children, ringing a bell. That's when the girl in front of her fell down the stairs, her head splitting open, blood everywhere. "I know I didn't touch her, but they said I killed her," Rittenour whispers, her eyes tearing easily. "They took my clothes off and beat me with a strap. All I could think about was how Krishna was going to punish me for being naked in the temple." She was locked in a room for two days, she says, given no food, no water.
She was 6.
Raised in a monastic lifestyle that made the Taliban look like Unitarians, these children of Krishna were cut off from all outside influences, denied access to radio, television, medical attention and any semblance of secular education. While devotees ecstatically danced in the streets, clanging tambourines and chanting Hare Krishna, gurukula teachers terrorized young students if their thoughts naturally drifted to fun, friends and family. These were material attachments, illusions (maya) of the body, which only served to separate the soul from its true spiritual path of returning home to Krishna, the supreme God. And what pleased Krishna was austerity--no drinking, no gambling, no meat, no sex--well, certainly not the kind that felt good.
Both women have come to Dallas to meet each other and share their stories, but they are also curious about whether the movement has discarded its cultic ways. Immediately, they are struck by the number of female devotees wearing blue jeans, not saris (traditional garb for Indian women). Few men appear to be "shaved up," although many still wear the long tuft of hair (sikha) that marks their renunciation of worldly things. Material possessions are in abundance. Nearly everyone has a cell phone; one home within the temple community is adorned with a satellite dish.
Reformers within Hare Krishna claim the movement has undergone its own reincarnation in the last 15 years, adopting a healthier attitude toward women and children, turning away from its harsh fundamentalist roots. But Rittenour and Tiller won't be dissuaded from suing the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) for the abuse they and 89 other plaintiffs allegedly suffered while attending its gurukulas. Their pending lawsuit, which seeks $400 million in damages, was filed locally by Dallas attorney Windle Turley, who successfully sued the Catholic Diocese for concealing sexual abuse by one of its priests, Rudy Kos.
ISKCON leaders are hard-pressed to deny these charges, particularly since research they commissioned documents findings of severe abuse throughout the gurukula system. Yet not every abused Krishna kid has joined the lawsuit. Many believe it goes too far, seeking to destroy their religion and implicate their spiritual founder, Srila Prabhupada--whom they worship as a god--in a conspiracy to conceal the abuse. His ascetic Hindu teachings, some of which are rabidly chauvinistic and racist, still captivate their spirits.
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All 203(k) applicants need to get three bids from contractors and must have an evaluation by a HUD-approved cost consultant. Such consultants can be found through a lender or via the FHA Web site, says Jeff Cook, a senior loan officer with Skyline Financial Corp., in Los Angeles.
"An appraisal will be done on the 'as-is' value of the home plus the improved value once the repairs are complete," Cook says.
Fernandez says borrowers are allowed to do some of their own work -- such as painting -- if it does not require a license or certification. Even then, they must provide a written statement that they have the time and materials needed to take on the task. Borrowers with a license or certification in fields such as electrical or plumbing work must present the certification for HUD approval.
Certain types of projects may be ineligible for 203(k) financing, says John Thomas, a Certified Mortgage Planner with Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. in New Castle, Del.
"No major structural repairs can be undertaken with a Streamline 203(k) such as putting on a new addition or fixing a cracked foundation," Thomas says. "But you can repair the roof, do plumbing repairs and even add an attached garage."
Full 203(k) loans allow almost any home improvement as long as it adds value to the home. Such projects include structural additions, finishing a basement or remodeling a kitchen.
"Luxury items such as a swimming pool or a hot tub cannot be financed with a 203(k) loan," Fernandez says. "But high-end materials like granite counters, stainless steel appliances and hardwood flooring are allowed."
Qualifying for a 203(k)To qualify for a 203(k) loan, you'll need decent credit. Most lenders require a credit score of 620 and above for an FHA loan, says Cook.
Like all FHA loans, 203(k) loans require a 3.5 percent down payment (based on the total loan amount, including the purchase and renovation costs) and an upfront mortgage insurance payment of 1.75 percent of the total loan amount. This can be wrapped into the financing.
Borrowers also pay a monthly mortgage insurance premium of approximately 0.5 percent of the loan, based on the loan-to-value and length of the mortgage.
"Interest rates on 203(k) loans are slightly higher than other FHA loans (about 0.2 percent to 0.5 percent higher) because there's a greater risk for the lender until the work is actually completed on the property," Thomas says.
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More people give to charity but average goes down
More people are giving to charity but the average amount being donated has fallen, according to new figures.
An extra 1.1 million people made donations in the year to April but the median average monthly donation - which excludes the effect of the most wealthy philanthropists - fell from £12 to £11.
The Office for National Statistics surveyed more than 3,000 adults for the study.
It found the total value of donations was £11bn - the same as last year.
The survey was carried out by the ONS on behalf of for the Charities Aid Foundation and National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Charities Aid Foundation Chief Executive John Low said it was "encouraging" that more people were supporting charities despite sharp rises in the cost of living.
But he added: "The economic downturn means many more people are turning to them for help, and charities themselves are struggling against rising costs, so every pound is really needed."
Medical charities were the most popular causes, with 11 million people donating to medical charities and nearly eight million to hospitals. Children's causes were also popular.
Fewer people gave to charities supporting arts, sports and the environment.
Andrea Cail, who manages Derian House children's hospice near Preston, agrees: "We have noticed in the last year that our income from donations is down.
"We have electricity and gas bills to pay and food, as well as staff salaries to pay, so all our general costs have increased.
Number of people, in millions, donating to causes on a monthly basis:
- Medical 11.1 (38%)
- Hospitals 7.7 (26%)
- Children 7.2 (24%)
- Overseas 5.0 (17%)
- Other causes 4.4 (15%)
- Animals 4.3 (14%)
- Religious 3.8 (13%)
- Disabled 3.3 (11%)
- Homeless 2.6 (9%)
- Elderly 2.3 (8%)
- Health 2.2 (7%)
- Schools 2.0 (7%)
- Environment 1.6 (6%)
- Sports 1.0 (3%)
- Arts 0.4 (1%)
Source: UK Giving 2011 - Summary of Findings December 2011 CAF NCVO
"We rely primarily on people giving us money - we get less than 9% from the statutory sector - so we rely on the generosity of everybody out there".'Timely reminder'
Large charities are also struggling. Claire Tomkins from the Refugee Council said the government had cut its funding by 62% and although loyal supporters had given generously it had been hard to recruit new ones.
She said: "This has been a really tough year.
"With demand increasing, individual donations have never been more important so we can make sure our clients get the help they need."
CAF says that while the total donated remains at £11bn, inflation means that it is worth £900m less than the amount given in 2007/08, the year before the UK entered recession.
The survey indicates that in 2010/11 58% of UK adults gave to charity, an increase from 56% in 2009/10.
The mean average donation was £31 a month. However, the charities prefer to compare median averages year-on-year as this gives a more consistent guide to trends.
Women aged 45 to 64 were the most likely to give and give the most - on average around £20 per month. Those aged 16-24 years were the least likely to give, it found."A few pennies"
National Council for Voluntary Organisations chief executive Sir Stuart Etherington said: "This research is a timely reminder that even in straitened times, the British public are prepared to dig deep and show goodwill towards those most in need.
"However, these figures also highlight that charities will have to work extra hard to attract donors and keep pace with inflation at a time of economic challenges and increased demand for their services."
One charity has been set up to make it easier for people to donate small amounts. The Pennies Foundation enables people to round up payments made on their bank cards while making purchases in selected shops.
The retailers then nominate a charity to receive the money.
Alison Hutchinson from the Pennies Foundation said the number of companies signed up to the scheme was growing: "These pennies are really powerful - if every UK card holder gave once a month, say 30 pence, over £150m could be given to charities up and down the country.
"There are 43 million card holders in the UK generating about a million transactions every hour, just imagine if all those transactions had the opportunity to donate a few pennies."
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Rich Maisel was your typical Jewish teenager growing up on New York's Long Island in the early 1980s. He had a strong Jewish identity, was a supporter of Israel, and was active in many Jewish social causes. Torah observance, though, wasn't really part of the equation.
Like many other Long Island high school graduates, Rich registered at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA). Freshman year for Rich at SUNYA passed fairly uneventfully. He was doing well enough in his studies, had part-time jobs at the kosher cafeteria and teaching Hebrew school in the local Reform temple, and he was making new friends. During his sophomore year, Rich was elected president of the university's Reform Jewish student group. At the same time, a messianic Jewish congregation called "the Seed of Abraham" opened in Albany.
DECEPTION AND SLICK MARKETING
The Seed used deception and slick marketing to appeal to uninformed Jews.
The Seed, like all messianic Jewish congregations, used deception and slick marketing to appeal to uninformed Jews, attempting to convince them that it is Jewish to believe in Jesus. The Seed's public functions and services were drawing increasing numbers, and somehow it had even succeeded in having one of its fellow believers hired as a Hebrew school teacher at the local Conservative synagogue.
All of this raised the ire of Chaim Feinberg, z"l, a young, fiery Orthodox Jew living in Albany's small Orthodox community. He brought his concerns to Scott Moskowitz, an active member of the Orthodox Jewish student's group at SUNYA. Scott, in turn, raised the issue with Rich and suggested that they endeavor to find a non-Jewish student to join the Seed to investigate its inner workings and tactics.
But finding a non-Jew willing to take the risks involved in such an endeavor was no easy feat. And so Rich boldly volunteered to accept the job himself. "While I don't know much about Jewish law," he said, "I've heard of the concept of saving lives, pikuach nefesh. Doesn't this job fall into that category?"
Unsure of what to do, Moskowitz asked Rich to speak with Chaim Feinberg about his proposal.
Rich called Feinberg, who immediately expressed his misgivings. After a lengthy discussion, however, Feinberg softened to the idea, but was not willing to make a decision on his own. There were many thorny halachic issues involved in the proposal, such as exposing Rich to apostasy and the attendance of The Seed functions on Shabbos. Feinberg spoke with a renowned rabbi. After clarifying the issues and gaining his support, he called Rich.
"Okay, Rich, we can move forward with the plan. But," Feinberg cautioned, "there will be strict ground rules that you'll have to follow throughout the process." These rules included the instruction that Rich was not to take a single move without Feinberg's approval, and that after each meeting with The Seed, Rich would need to sit and learn with Feinberg as a sort of deprogramming. Rich readily agreed to the rules, hung up, and promptly broke the first rule: he called Pastor Birnbaum, the leader of The Seed, directly.
INFILTRATING THE SEED
During that first phone call, Rich and Pastor Birnbaum spent two hours talking. Rich laid the bait: he was lonely, Albany was so gloomy, everybody was so materialistic, he was a twice-a-year Jew who yearned for more spirituality. Birnbaum did not just take the bait, he gobbled it up voraciously. He told Rich that he knew exactly how he felt since he, too, had attended college in Albany.
Birnbaum asked, "Do you have a Bible?" Rich responded affirmatively and Birnbaum instructed him to open it to the Book of Isaiah. Birnbaum then attempted to "show" Rich how the Tanach speaks of Jesus as the messiah and explained to him that believing in him did not make someone "un-Jewish." In fact, Birnbaum explained, believing in Jesus made a Jew "complete."
After hanging up, Rich excitedly called Feinberg to advise him of the call. Feinberg was irate. After all, Rich had broken his agreement not to take any steps without Feinberg's consent. At the same time, Feinberg saw in Rich a bit of his own passion and, deep down, he knew that they had the right guy for the job.
And so, now fully cognizant of the importance of following Feinberg's rules, Rich began to attend The Seed meetings. He was embraced with warmth by his "fellow members." They were enthused to share their love of Jesus and their common Jewish roots, and they were thrilled by Rich's musical ability.
Before long, he was baptized, anointed with olive oil, and became a "baby believer."
Rich quickly became a stalwart of The Seed community. Before long, he was baptized, anointed with olive oil, and became a "baby believer." Eventually he received "spiritual gifts," and the other members of the group believed that he could heal with his hands and receive prophetic visions. With each "spiritual gift," Rich rose higher in the ranks of The Seed until he became a messianic deacon.
Throughout this time, Rich maintained a full credit load at the university and continued to lead Hillel's Reform group, teaching Hebrew school and working in the campus kosher kitchen. Nearly everyone, including his parents, family, and friends, remained unaware of Rich's double life.
Rich was in constant contact with Feinberg, nearly matching hour for hour the time he spent with The Seed -- deprogramming, learning together, and reporting on the tactics, inner workings, and funding structure of the Seed. At one point Larry Levy, then executive director of Jews for Judaism in Baltimore, was flown in to add his expertise to the deprogramming team working with Rich. On the inside, other than Rich's insistence that Seed members seek medical assistance for serious conditions that they had been told would be healed by religion and belief, Rich pretty much became their poster child.
Months went by. Rich found himself in dozens of situations for which he never could have planned. He and Feinberg found that prior consultation was often not possible. Rich learned to think fast and fly by the seat of his pants -- and debriefing and damage control afterward became critical.
Nearly six months in, Feinberg decided to test the waters: how would The Seed treat a fellow believer who began expressing doubts? And so Rich began leaving meetings early, quietly expressing skepticism, and skipping meetings altogether. Before long, Rich was picked up by Pastor Birnbaum and a few friends, who invited him for coffee. As it turned out, coffee was not what Birnbaum had in mind.
Rich was taken to an abandoned farmhouse with a wooden table and chairs and a single swinging light bulb.
The ride was nearly two hours long through unknown, labyrinthine roads in upstate New York. It ended at an abandoned farmhouse with a wooden table and chairs and a single swinging light bulb. After sitting down, Rich was warned, "You can never leave from beneath the umbrella of Jesus." If he did, Birnbaum threatened, the devil would rip out his heart. While Rich didn't believe such nonsense, as the hours rolled on through the night -- there in the middle of nowhere -- and the gruesome stories built to a fever pitch, the fact that he was hours away from civilization with potentially violent strangers frightened him more and more.
Rich was not returned to his dorm for over ten hours. Shaking and terrified, he didn't even bother to go to his room. He phoned Feinberg and demanded, "Come get me... now!"
Rich spent the next three days recovering at the Feinberg home. Before he left, Feinberg told Rich, "That's it. It's time to plot our exit strategy."
Suddenly, Rich was a "believer" again and a faithful Seed meeting attendee. The Seed had been planning a grand, community-wide Purim play, followed by a speech by a Holocaust revisionist. Rich had already been cast in the role of Achashveirosh. It was decided that Rich would take advantage of the public forum to expose and denounce Pastor Birnbaum and The Seed of Abraham.
On the night of the play, dozens of Rich's fellow students were in attendance, secretly aware of Rich's intent. For some strange reason, Pastor Birnbaum and his wife remained close to the stage during the presentation of the play. Just as Haman's plot was revealed to Achashveriosh, who was about to order that Haman be hanged on the gallows that he had built for Mordechai, Rich broke character and began his denunciation:
Turning to Birnbaum he said, "This is the modern-day Haman in new colors!"
"Guard, guards, seize him! He shall be hanged on the same gallows that he has built for the Jews." Turning to Birnbaum he said, "This is the modern-day Haman in new colors!
"This man, this missionary, systematically deceives Jews into believing they can remain Jewish when The Seed of Abraham is so obviously and painfully a Christian conversion group. This is the new Haman, my friends. I have been here, personally evaluating The Seed of Abraham for six months, and I can honestly say to every person in this room that there is not a single drop of Judaism here, only a sad, sad pretense. What happens after a Jew is lured here by phony Jewish stars and sweet-sounding Hebrew words? Like me, he will be called a baby believer, not a Jew but a baby believer in Jesus.
"Yet Mr. Birnbaum has the nerve, the audacity, to call this group ‘Hebrew Christians.' This is a ridiculous contradiction, because a Jew is a Jew and never a Christian.
"I feel very sad tonight. This is Purim, a holy night, when the Jews were saved from soul-destroyers like The Seed of Abraham. I pray that each and every Jew in this room will turn immediately to a true Judaism, a Judaism that has no room for Christian messiahs and that celebrates Purim as it was meant to be celebrated -- as a true Jewish holy day when the Jews were saved from these Hamans, who would destroy them either in body or in spirit, by converting their souls to Christianity."
Pastor Birnbaum, who was standing nearby, rushed toward Rich and tried to push him off the stage. But Rich stood his ground. Rich's fellow SUNYA students shouted in support, and the crowd split into two factions. Pushing and shoving broke out. In the videotape of the play, a representative of the Assemblies of God (the world's largest Christian denomination, which funds projects to ensnare Jews) looks on dourly, and a pistol can clearly be seen being drawn from someone's waistband. Thankfully, no one was injured, and the police eventually broke up the fracas and forced Rich and his supporters to leave the building.
THE SEED EXPOSED
The denunciation was successful. It publicly exposed The Seed for what it was, and reports run by local newspapers helped spread the story. Birnbaum pressed criminal charges against Rich, and many of Rich's former friends from The Seed began to make large contributions to evangelical, Pentecostal Christian radio stations and other organizations in his name in order to save his soul. But these were the least of Rich's problems. Many Seed members believed that Rich was the devil incarnate, and so Rich began receiving repeated telephone death threats. It was evident that he needed to be out of the public eye.
Rich had always toyed with the idea of spending junior year abroad and now the idea seemed perfect. He enrolled in Hebrew University. After a few weeks at Hebrew U, the seed of Torah that had been planted in Albany and watered by Chaim Feinberg began sprouting. Why did I travel halfway around the world to study the same things I had been studying in Albany? Rich wondered. What am I doing in the spiritual capital of the world without tapping into anything spiritual?
By the end of September, Rich had enrolled in Aish HaTorah.
King Solomon teaches us "There is a time to plant and a time to uproot that which has been planted." Sometimes, it seems, by uprooting what has been planted, a person also plants anew. While The Seed of Abraham has been relegated to the dustbin of history, Rich Maisel and his family are living a blossoming Torah life.
This article is dedicated in memory of Chaim Feinberg, z"l. It originally appeared in Horizons magazine.
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“”"Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. VOO-doo economics."
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|The dismal "science"|
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The Laffer curve is the holy symbol of the faith of supply-side economics, also known as "trickle down" or "voodoo" economics. It was popularised by Arthur Laffer, a supply side economist who was a member of Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board between 1981 and 1989. The diagrams, famously sketched on a restaurant napkin, purport to show that under certain specific circumstances, a major cut in marginal income tax rates, along with careful spending discipline for the ensuing short term, will, in the long term, actually increase government tax revenue.
It was thought that at that time in US history, the tax rates and current budget fell within the window of what Laffer predicted. When Reagan attained the Presidency, he did indeed pursue an aggressive program of tax reduction—however, the required corresponding budget discipline was ignored as he went on a military borrowing and spending spree. Apologists for Reagan (and supply-side economics in general), of course, blamed the Democratic-led Congress for the spending.
The Laffer curve is often used as a blanket ideological justification to reduce income taxes, especially the higher marginal rates paid by high-income individuals, regardless of where current tax rates might lie on it.
The main argument using the Laffer curve to cut taxes is as follows:
- If the income tax rate were 0 percent, the government gets zero revenue because it isn't collecting any money.
- If the income tax rate were 100 percent, nobody has an incentive to work in taxable jobs because nobody gets to actually keep any money they earn. So nobody works in taxable jobs. When nobody works in taxable jobs, nobody has taxable income to tax. Therefore, the government gets zero revenue in this instance also.
- Given 1 and 2, the government revenue is maximised at some tax rate between 0 and 100 percent. The Laffer curve is a plot of government revenue as a function of tax rate. It is zero at 0% and 100% tax rates, and it looks something like a parabola (you should know this from maths class). Where the maximum occurs is a wild-ass guess.
- Given 3, taxes should therefore be slashed.
Why the argument is not currently valid in the United States
Unfortunately, economics sometimes requires drawing what appears to be a hand-wavy curve between two points, that has much more meaning to real economists but may not be well understood by partisans. To make a statement that cutting taxes will always raise tax revenue is simply ridiculous.
- Premise 2 is easily challenged. Obviously a country can't have a 100% tax rate; if nobody works in a taxable job, this would mean nobody is working any jobs other than subsistence farming, thereby setting the country back by roughly ten thousand years. However, even if the top-earner tax rate was very high (say, 90%), people would still work. After all, keeping 10 percent of your wages is better than earning nothing at all. Indeed, the highest income tax bracket rate in the United States was close to 90% during World War II, and everything seemed to work just fine then (albeit, this was for those making $100K then, before inflation).
- Point 4 above does not necessarily follow from point 3. Assuming the Laffer curve's assumptions are correct, cutting taxes would only increase government revenue if the current tax rate is greater than the "optimal" tax rate (where "optimal" means the rate that maximises government revenue, not necessarily the optimal tax rate for the overall economy and society). If the current tax rate is on the wrong (left) side of the maximum in the Laffer curve, cutting taxes decreases revenue, which counteracts the whole point of mentioning the curve in the first place. To justify cutting taxes on the basis of raising revenue, the Laffer curve's proponents have to, first, define the "ideal" tax rate that maximises revenue (which requires doing your maths homework); and, secondly showing that the current tax rate is on the high side of the "optimal" (as defined above) tax rate. You can't just shout "Laffer curve!", decrease taxes, and expect everything to be great.
- Doing the actual work required shows the Laffer curve calls to increase taxes right now. One study of the United States between 1959 and 1991 placed the revenue-maximising tax rate (the point at which another tax rate increase would decrease tax revenue) at between 32.67% and 35.21%. In 1991 the "average" tax rate was 19.58%. The US is currently on the lower side of the maximum tax rate predicted by Laffer's curve. Hsing also concluded that Reagan's tax cuts reduced revenue, since the average tax rate at the time was only 20.41%. This means Laffer's curve has completely backfired in what it was said it was supposed to do (increase government revenue).
- The tax rate the Laffer curve deals with is an "average" or overall rate. In a progressive tax system, lower income people should be paying, approximately, a total tax of 10-15% and upper income people in the 60-70% range, comparable to the 70% that was found to give an optimal result in Sweden in the 1970s. In the 2011 tax year, the highest Federal bracket was 35%. A worker earning about $20,000 a year pays a 15% income tax plus almost 15% in "payroll" taxes towards the Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid programs, or about 8% less than the tax rate paid by someone earning a hundred times as much.
- Feast of the Wingnuts
- A Laughable Laffer Curve from the WSJ
- See also: Martin Gardner's Neo-Laffer Curve
- ↑ Subsistence farming in an unincorporated area (so there is no property tax) is an example of a non-taxable job (the farmer has nothing to sell for profit so the farmer has nothing to be taxed)
- ↑ Or, one could try to use some method like binary bisection or graphing means to find the maximum. We've done this with interesting results, see below.
- ↑ http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
- ↑ Estimating the Laffer curve and policy implications, Hsing, Y. (1996). Journal of Socio-Economics, 25 (3), pp 395–401.
- ↑ Swedish tax rates, labor supply and tax revenues. Stuart, C., 1981. Journal of Political Economy, 89, pp. 1020–1038.
- ↑ The maths may seem confusing, but the "payroll taxes" only apply to the first $100,000 or so of income.
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some of you may remember that i made text editor program designed for book writing (look for a topic named "Blank line at end of textfile" to refresh your memory if needed )
so it all work *almost* great and i'm finding new ways to improve it and that lead me to my first question:
1) i was thinking about adding a system that hold a list of words for easy writing.
so insted of having to write certian words that repeat themselves many times i could just click a button and add them.
such system is easy: just a file holding the word list,code to load it into listbox and a button with code for checking what word was selected and add it into the textbox where the rest of the text is.
however what if i want to insert a word in the middle of the text? just marking the area where i'd want to insert wont work sice the correct code will add the word in the end of the text.
so is there a way to let the program know where i want to insert it?
the correct idea for code i have is this:
Private sub button_Click() 'code for checking what word was selected 'word selected placed inside string variable lets say TmpWord text1.text = text1.text & TmpWord end sub
now to my other question:
i noticed that when holding the backspace button the program start deleting more text then what i want and that force me to tap on the button.
i think the problem might be here but i'm not so sure:
Private Sub counter() num_words = 0 in_word = False For I = 1 To Len(Text1.Text) ch = Mid$(Text1.Text, I, 1) Select Case ch Case " ", vbTab, vbCr, vbLf in_word = False Case Else If Not in_word Then in_word = True num_words = num_words + 1 End If End Select Next I Label1.Caption = num_words If num_words < MaxWords Then Label1.ForeColor = vbBlack Call unblocker Err = False ElseIf num_words >= MaxWords Then Call blocker(num_words) Label1.ForeColor = vbRed Err = True End If End Sub
this code count how many words there are inside the textbox.
i cant debug in IDE because i'm kinda lazy to change all the reference to the INI file to be on specifice location and then having to change again before compiling (without INI file program wont run) (and honestly while debugging other problems on older versions with IDE i never got this problem, only after compiling).
some light will be nice
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Court narrows prosecutors' use of anti-hacking law
Warning that checking sports scores or updating Facebook could be considered a crime, a U.S. appeals court rejected the government's broad interpretation of a nearly 30-year-old anti-hacking law in trying to prosecute a man for misappropriation of trade secrets.
In a 9-2 decision (PDF), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected the broad reading of the 1984 federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, warning that millions of Americans could be subjected to prosecution for harmless Web surfing at work.
The case centers on David Nosal, a former executive at recruiting agency Korn/Ferry International, who is accused of violating the act by persuading some of his former co-workers to send him confidential client information to help him start a competing business. Nosal was also indicted for theft of trade secrets, mail fraud, and conspiracy.
However, the court ruled that the law was intended to prosecute computer hacking, not misappropriation of trade secrets.
"The government's construction of the statute would expand its scope far beyond computer hacking to criminalize any unauthorized use of information obtained from a computer," according to Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who wrote the lead opinion. "This would make criminals of large groups of people who would have little reason to suspect they are committing a federal crime."
"Minds have wandered since the beginning of time and the computer gives employees new ways to procrastinate, by g-chatting with friends, playing games, shopping, or watching sports highlights. Such activities are routinely prohibited by many computer-use policies, although employees are seldom disciplined for occasional use of work computers for personal purposes. Nevertheless, under the broad interpretation of the CFAA, such minor dalliances would become federal crimes," he wrote.
Judge Barry Silverman wrote the dissenting opinion, saying the "case has nothing to do with playing sudoku, checking e-mail, fibbing on dating sites, or any of the other activities that the majority rightly values. It has everything to do with stealing an employer's valuable information to set up a competing business with the purloined data, siphoned away from the victim, knowing such access and use were prohibited in the defendants' employment contracts."
Dennis Riordan, an attorney representing Nosal, told Reuters he welcomed the decision. "It leaves in place all the purposes of the anti-hacking statute, but it frees people from fearing they could be prosecuted for violating arcane provisions of employer policies," he said.
The U.S. Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment.
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Meow! My name is Shania
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DMH Dilute Tortie -- Spayed Female Adult
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Our adoptable cats are available in the Forgotten Felines cat room inside the Rohnert Park Animal Shelter at 301 J. Rogers Lane in Rohnert Park. Our adoption room phone number is (707) 584-4998. Hours are 1:00-6:30pm Wednesday, 1:00-5:30pm Thursday-Saturday, 1:00-4:30 Sunday, closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Our potential adopters fill out an adoption application and an adoption contract. They also must fill out their personal information for sending off the cat's microchip registration. Our basic adoption fee is $85.00. An adoption counselor carefully guides the adopter through the process, making sure the adopting party is a good match for each kitty. We provide a health record document to the adopter with all health history information including spay/neuter date, combo test results, vaccination history, and any additional medications and treatments received by the cat.
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Utahns living in communities with the highest concentrations of Latinos may get bilingual forms in the mail from the U.S. Census Bureau when it conducts its population count next spring.
The bureau is targeting certain census blocks in western Salt Lake City, much of Ogden, West Valley City and parts of Provo-Orem, among larger cities, said Todd Hansen, Census office manager for Utah. Bilingual surveys also will go to Wendover, the Tooele area and parts of South Jordan.
The language outreach is part of an effort to accurately count a population that traditionally has been difficult to pin down.
"Anything we can do to make the Hispanic community feel comfortable filling out the form is a good thing," Hansen said. Putting the form in Spanish will help some native Spanish speakers avoid confusion or uneasiness about certain words, he said.
Because the bureau only targets areas and not specific households, some Spanish speakers will receive English-only surveys. Those surveys, though, contain a line in Spanish telling residents where to go or call to get a Spanish survey. The same is true of other languages for which no bilingual form will be mailed in Utah.
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CLEARWATER — Andrew Hall is looking forward.
Forward to gaining enough strength and balance to move out of his motorized wheelchair and onto crutches.
Forward to moving into his own apartment.
Forward to getting a prosthetic limb to replace the leg that was violently ripped away from him in April.
"I want to walk so bad I can taste it like acid in my mouth," he said Thursday.
Hall was 19 years old when he was hit by a speeding drunk driver as he stood outside his Safety Harbor apartment on April 20. Among his injuries were a severed left leg, a crushed pelvis, a shattered left arm and dislocated right knee.
He spent 34 days in intensive care and another six months hospitalized at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, where he celebrated his 20th birthday. He was released in November and now lives in the Clearwater home of Hanyn Arana, who has been a father figure to Hall.
As a new year dawns, Hall can't help but look back, too.
To the many months confined to a hospital bed.
To the medical tests and surgeries and grueling physical therapy sessions.
To the man who, Pinellas County sheriff's deputies say, caused it all: Joshua West.
"He's changed my life and he's changed his. He needs to get an idea of what he's put me through," Hall said. "I don't know if he's ever seen me in the (newspaper), but you can be damned sure he's going to see me face to face (in court)."
Before he was arrested on three felony charges in connection with the crash, West was sentenced to 13 months in prison for violating his probation on an unrelated drug charge. He was transferred to the Pinellas County Jail, where he remains.
The Sheriff's Office said West had a blood alcohol level of 0.188 percent — more than twice the level at which a Florida driver is presumed impaired — and was going an estimated 90 mph when he slammed into Hall.
The effects were devastating.
Hall, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a toddler, worked tenaciously as a child to strengthen his legs to the point where he could walk unassisted. Ultimately, he did, and he said goodbye to the confinement of a wheelchair.
Then came the accident.
"I don't control my own mobility. It's all within the confines of this chair," Hall said. "All because a young adult didn't exercise good judgment."
After the crash, Hall received cards and letters from hundreds of people who were inspired by his story of survival and perseverance. In his bedroom sits a framed photo signed by more than a dozen of his rehab team, many of whom comment on how he inspired them during his stay.
"I live every day as if it were my last," Hall said. "I plan for the future, but mainly it's ideas for the future, because anything can happen that can change your life."
Hall is starting to get the hang of his wheelchair, though there have been a few mishaps, said Mary Arana-Andersen, a mother figure to Hall.
"We've all been run over," she said. "He just gets restless and starts twirling. I keep telling him 'that is not a go-cart.' "
"They didn't teach me in the hospital, so I'm learning it now," Hall said.
Hall said he's enjoying time bonding with family outside of a hospital setting and catching up with friends.
But he longs to recapture the independence and social life he had before the accident, he said.
"If there's anything I want to do next year, it's get my life back."
Rita Farlow can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org or (727) 445-4157.
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Earlier this week I headed out to a local Captain D’s with my eight-year son at the invitation of O2O member and Nashville blogger Sami Cone. Captain D’s has recently revamped their menu and is in the process of redecorating their restaurants as well.
The main focus of our evening was the food! Captain D’s wanted us to experience their new menu, most especially, the new kids menu that includes two grilled options (from four total entree options) and comes with two sides (from a list of TEN side dishes). They told us that between the four entree items paired with two of the ten side options, you could come every day for a year and not have the same combination! I can’t think of any other fast food restaurant that can make that claim about a kids menu.
In addition to new food choices, the kids menu now features the characters of The Pirates: Band of Misfits movie and comes with 3D glasses because everything from the box that the food comes in to the drinking cup & the activities booklet are in 3D! The children were encouraged to come dressed as pirates and Captain D’s brought in a face painter (a very talented woman who also did balloon toys, mostly swords of course) for the kids.
The adults were in for a treat, too. There are several grilled options on the menu and even some more high-end options like the Surf ‘n Turf (that I enjoyed) but without the high-end prices. (The Surf ‘n Turf meal was priced at about $8 and included 2 sides plus rice!) With everything priced so reasonably and so many options to choose from, Captain D’s has positioned itself to be a viable dining option for busy families on the go.
On hand during the event were several Captain D’s corporate team members as well as their executive chef. All of them were happy to answer questions and consistently worked the room, checking in with each of us multiple times to make sure we were taken care of. The manager and staff of the restaurant where the event was held were very friendly and accommodating, especially tolerant of kids chasing each other with balloon swords (yes, mine was among that group).
All in all, this was an excellent blogger outreach event. I was very impressed with Sami and her organizational skills as well as the attention and generosity of the Captain D’s staff. Not only did they give us a chance to get together (because even though we all live in the same area, we’re rarely all in the same place at one time!), treated us to dinner, entertained our kids, and sent us home with lovely gifts; they listened to us, were genuinely interested in what we had to say, candid in their answers, and showed true southern hospitality!
Thank you Captain D’s and Sami for the wonderful blogger event!
Disclosure: I was invited to attend this event by a local blogger. This post is written because I wanted to share about my experience. I was not paid to write it, One2One Network is not currently involved with any Captain D’s marketing initiatives, and all opinions are my own. I received thank you gifts for attending the event.
BlissDom is a truly unique and gratifying experience for the O2O Team. Since BlissDom started in 2008, we’ve been a devoted sponsor partner. We go there to meet, connect and maybe even ‘hug on’ the attendees a bit – many of which are O2O members.
Each year at BlissDom, we hope to show you the #girlpower side of O2O; our small but mighty team that loves working with women who love blogging and social media.
We hope to show you that we know you are more than the number of page views you get a month or the number of people who follow you on Twitter or the number of subscribers you have on YouTube. We hope to show you that you are valued for simply being you.
This year the BlissChicks took pampering us to an all new level with a fabulous Bliss Suite sponsored by One2One Network, Office Candy, V05, and NYX Cosmetics. … I had my hair and makeup done, got my photo taken, and then headed out to face whatever bliss might come my way! ~Beth Zimmerman
BlissDom is our chance to connect, one to one and face to face, with the women who participate in our projects and campaigns throughout the year. Plus we get to meet so many new people and tell them about the network!
The Alberto VO5/One to One Network suite had the absolute best vibe. VO5 was showcasing its new haircare line and had hairstylists on hand to fix you up, while One to One was offering makeovers and free headshots. The two fit together perfectly and the suite was buzzing with activity each time I went through. It felt like backstage at a Fashion Week runway show. ~Gigi Ross from KludgyMom
We also get to play and party and soak in all that BlissDom has to offer. From dancing at Girl’s Night Out to sitting on a ballroom floor soaking in the comedic brilliance of Ana Gasteyer and Jeremy Sisto during Girl’s Night In.
We posed with Stuart the Minion, drank coffee with Johan, perused the Handmade Marketplace, had margaritas at the Cantina, hung promises on the J&J tree, hung out with Chris Mann, and had our hair done by the VO5 girls.
BlissDom, through our eyes, is more than just another conference or ‘day at the office’. It’s connections and relationships and feeling part of something bigger.
We hope you saw that, too.
The Gals from O2O,
Barbara, Paula, Amber, Maryellen, Krista, & Malia
Hi y’all! It’s “Post-Bliss” week and the recap blog posts are coming in fast and furious! We love reading what you have to say about your BlissDom exerpience and we wanted to take this opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to everyone who stopped by the Bliss Beauty Suite to say hi, have a coffee, get your headshot, and enter our giveaways.
We figured, why must the fun end now that BlissDom is over? So, guess what? We have MORE gifts to giveaway! (We just can’t help ourselves!)
Simply link your BlissDom recap post below and you will be entered to win one of FIVE BlissDom prize packs that include: a BlissDom coffee mug, a Lisa Leonard ‘Follow Your Bliss’ Necklace, a BlissDom t-shirt, a Chris Mann ‘Roads’ CD, and a journal courtesy of Blissful Media Group!
We loved hanging out with the girls from VO5 and NYX Cosmetics. They made sure everyone had a fabulous look for their headshot taken by the awesome Kate Mackley! (If you’ve not seen your headshot yet, you can find them here.)
Here’s a look at some of the fun we had in the Bliss Beauty Suite!
Photos courtesy of Jana Warnke, Erica Mueller, Becky Branch, Becca Ludlum, and Malia Carden
We had the opportunity to sit down with some very smart bloggers and get their tips for simple, effective things that can be done to improve the look and functionality of your blog. During our chat, we discussed design and coding tips, SEO tips, and some general blogging “best practices”. You can watch the chat below and I’ve also highlighted some of the key tips that came out of our discussion.
Our panel members for this chat are: Angela England of AngEngland.com and Untrained Housewife, Becca Ludlum of Our Crazy Boys and Digital Media Consulting, Elan Morgan of Schmutzie.com, and Erica Mueller of EricaSays.com and EricaMuellerOnline.com.
Design and Coding Tips
What would you add to these tips? Are there things that you wish bloggers would or would not do on their sites? Let us know in the comments!
It’s been a LONG winter. Are you flush with Spring Fever yet? Capture your best skin for the upcoming season! Nowadays, our cell phones have turned every moment into a photo op worth a thousand words. Our friends at POND’S® have partnered with supermodel Molly Sims so you can get glowing every day. Picture perfect!
To encourage women to live life more luminously, POND’S® just launched its 30-Day Luminous Photo Challenge. And to kick off the challenge, One2One Network is having a #LuminousEffect Twitter Party on March 14 at 12pm ET.
Our host Molly Sims and co-hosts Danielle Smith, Jenny Ingram and Nicole Feliciano are no strangers to putting their best faces forward on camera. They’ll be sharing tips on looking and feeling luminous—inside and out!
And you know it wouldn’t be a Twitter Party without prizes. We’re giving away twenty-five gift bags throughout the hour, all containing the entire POND’S® Luminous Line of products and a $50 AMEX gift card.
Enter to win by RSVPing below, following @PONDS on Twitter, and tweeting with the #LuminousEffect hashtag during the party.
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from Dead Letter Game
At times I got off on the collision of bad luck and good timing. Something feral, almost seductive, in the conditions of sportive engagement. The result, as the advertisement says, a kind of “electric diary” transmutable in accordance with weather, state of health, work schedule, and 064e003>habits of conscious ordering064e003>.
For example, the order of actions was predictable, which made for an easy assessment of value. 064e004>Meaning fell into the shelter of a long-term project.064e004> 064e005>Value and meaning, thus conflated, had little if anything to do with the finished thing, the artifact.064e005> 064e006>Always a vanquished meaning in this efficient use of mourning.064e006> A sense of flow and accretion, to be sure, a formal satisfaction. If not empty vessel, then the weight of the cup when thirsty.
Then, the always important follow-through, turning over (weight of deeds performed). Plus, the tendency to work in groups of three: first, the drone of experiment (improvisation); second, duplication of perceived measure (prisonhouse of habit); third, a managed resistance to failure (secondary duplication, in dead letters).
I got used to the idea of craftwork as strategic self-defense. I could never finish and so could never lose, or win. Practice, as rite, defined every moment of every day. Nothing escaped.
064e046>Today I force back a grimace while reading through these records (the “electric diary” and other sources).064e046> No sense judging, even while the marks of discontent are obvious. 064e010>The desire to self-incriminate (a kind of psychic house-cleaning) remains.064e010>
064e011>Informing assumptions included an unconditional faith in the power of language as intermediary, go-between064e011>, like the trussed effeminate body (medium) receiving spirits on behalf of a small group of anxious, hyperventilating live ones. The trips and false starts (muco-seminal dribblings) of an ear-bent consciousness would lead the way, find the channel, 064e012>and in the wake of this experience an attendant flesh-node (me) could lean back and be impressed064e012>.
064e013>The work was scholarly in its effort to mine the research moment.064e013> A kind of “reading,” sure, but more the ruse of eliciting perception “nuggets,” later told true in the imprint, the finished sequence. 064e014>I see it now as bullshit but that’s hardly the point.064e014>
Playing this game is like scanning an old yearbook: the faces rise up afresh but as they have always been, secure and encrypted, perfect little corpses.
The habit of repetition is the first object: that pattern of threes, for example, but other strategies emerged too, 064e017>the worst requiring an exhaustive self-emulation to the point of emotional breakdown064e017>. And often some cataclysmic event was required to break the spell, or I’d go on in some mode indefinitely, convinced that I had cracked the code when really I had simply found yet another way to rally behind old habits dying hard.
One must practice, true, but 064e019>things went wrong when the object disappeared behind a series of rote duplications064e019>. Copies of copies of copies, ad inf., until the illness came or someone knocked on the door.
064e020>Which brings me to the second object: love.064e020>
It’s rather embarrassing, but I have to ask: When young, how else begin? What else motivates so readily? Death, maybe, but not with so many bills to pay. 064e021>Love is cheap, or rather easy to please, and for a while it makes the game worth playing.064e021>
True, winning in most games is the object, but love is the object worth winning for. When this game finally turns over (as promised), I’ll find a way to love it and maybe you will too.
Love repeated; repetitious loves; love’s repetitions, etc. This game recreates (does not repeat!) 064e022>the patience with which I lived out those days, in love and repetition, always on the lookout for the next good move.064e022>
064e023>I no longer use source text because I trust neither source nor text.064e023> 064e024>A source is too slippery, volatile.064e024> You never know where the next one will burst forth, and there’s no telling who has put in before you. Text, that seeming neutral, blankets an old regime. You can almost hear it like a chorus of giddy and wine-drunk cherubs: 064e026>we love you, they mutter dolefully, and the lie clings to every weave064e026>.
This near-diabolical reliance on metaphor pretty much makes the case. There must be better ways to organize (then pressurize) the activity of, what, wordcraft? Not quite, but at least to reconvene on the other side of this experiment, active since Mallarmé, by which the materiality of signs has come to stand in for the kinderwurk of an able if unschooled group of aspirants.
064e051>The world today at all of its fixed portals (ways and means of multiple, numbered worlds) communicates its losses sometimes faster than the losses themselves.064e051> 064e029>The cry of the burn victim in the aftermath of bombing rebounds absurdly, strikes distant listeners as an afterthought.064e029> 064e030>Perception is key, and worlds collide, disintegrate, recombine in the narrow spaces between one’s ordinary bouts with vision.064e030>
So, we can willfully buy into this faster-than-light self-immolation (a body, so to speak, turning inside out in an effort to catch itself winking) or we can opt out. 064e031>I’m not sure this is a real choice, but there are commitments to be made all the same.064e031>
064e032>The disjunctive text has its charms, but you have to admit it may not work well in weak economies, under conditions of suspect leadership, especially.064e032> It’s hard enough to know why the incense trail spirals the way it does, let alone 064e049>why currents flow not this way but that064e049>. 064e033>In other words, opacity haunts in the background, so why trouble the issue with ever-more sleights of hand.064e033> 064e034>There are other ways to provoke a mood swing, and really that’s what writing is all about anyway.064e034>
The question of right practice cannot be severed from one’s choices with regard to medium and mode. Here, a nod to the form/content dyad, but an added sense that practice as performance aligns differently with content. 064e035>I move with a game piece, decide on a course limited by options determined by the current arrangement of other pieces and the board’s configuration overall.064e035> 064e036>I cannot reselect either the game piece or my available options.064e036> Making a move (form as performance) is very much about making that very move (content). Moving into (or toward) a new arrangement (setting, set of relations, context) touches or combines with that arrangement as it goes.
064e037>A bloody mess, I know, but nothing like the one I’m about to get into.064e037>
064e038>Nearing play time.064e038> The pressure’s on to produce (I blame only myself for that) but in a different, perhaps reformed, way.
But why different? What reform? I’ve been close to it for a while now, this hesitation to name the game for what it is: the issue, I mean, is hesitation, deferring the inevitable, equipment assessment as convenient distraction.
But all is not lost: 064e044>imagine vital alliances between the given record (these entries, as proceedings) and future endeavors perceived as fresh and unmarked, untainted064e044>. 064e039>Maybe equipment has been there (available, ready) all along, and I have simply failed to pick it up and use it.064e039> More hesitation, distraction.
The eyes of the dead stare out while closed lids shield us from that eventuality. 064e041>These letters, a kind of shielding disguised as whimsy, preclude their own outcome.064e041> 064e042>That’s the best I can do, I’m afraid, to describe how the very act of playing can be its own equipment, its own arsenal against all forms of invasion, corruption, and competition (those life strategies requiring tactical responses).064e042>
Let’s put it this way, in italics: the letter-writer revisits his own letters with a healthier attitude. I have “come out in the wash,” so to speak, and am therefore equipped, i.e. ready, for anything.
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