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I think I did much better with reading this year. I read some good things which really educated me and expanded my mind. To continue the 'tradition' that is now in its 3rd year (see 2013 and 2014), here are the best things I read in 2015
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Hands down the best book I read this year. For me, this is the definition of what a good book should be – you come away from knowing so much more than you knew before you opened it. Every page contains a revelation and is written in such a breezy style that is accessible to anyone.
The book also really made me sad for 2 reasons in particular. The first one is that I entered 'Nigeria' in the search function on my Kindle and all the references were either of militancy or something embarrassing. In terms of the development of the oil industry or contribution to technology, Nigeria is never anywhere to be found in those conversations. Yet, the country continues to depend so much on a commodity for which it has less than a zero say in how the market works.
The second sad thing was Chapter 9 which illustrates how China discovered oil and then parlayed this into broader national development. The scale of the opportunities Nigeria has lost really hit me here and nearly made me cry.
I thank Bobby E for recommending this book to me.
Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
I always say that Thomas Sowell is the man who taught me how to think. Now 85 years old, the man continues to fire on all cylinders.
This book is a deep dive into history that explains patterns of wealth and poverty that continue to manifest till this day. The hand of history is strong indeed.
But it's also hopeful. He documents numerous examples of people who have overcome often impossible challenges to move from the natural state of poverty to wealth. As he says – there is no mystery about poverty, it is wealth that needs explaining.
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
I wrote about this book earlier in the year here. It's a survey of the effects of corruption around the world and the sheer damage it does to people and how it makes it practically impossible to implement useful policies.
Of course, Nigeria features in it but what is interesting is looking at our corruption compared to others.
The book doesn't distinguish between the types of corruption as I tried to do in my post about Lunatic Liu, but it's worth a read still.
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
America is blessed with some really good journalists and Jill Leovy is one. This year has been full of stories of (white) policemen in America killing unarmed black men. Each story gets a lot of publicity as it should. But there is a deeper problem that goes largely unreported – an epidemic of black men killing other black men.
What the author brings to the story is an attempt to answer why it continues to happen. And it is the most convincing answer I have seen on the subject so far.
It also made me think about the Middle Belt in Nigeria and the vicious cycle of killing there. Without justice, there is no hope for a solution to such problems.
One of the best books I have read in a long time.
The Fishermen
I read one fiction book every year and I am glad I picked this one. I suspect that much of it is autobiographical but it's still a great read.
There are various ways you can read it but the one I chose the CIA 'prophecy' about Nigeria breaking up in 2015. Someone makes a prophecy and then you are so terrified by it that you then unwittingly do everything in your power to make it come true.
Because the book is layered onto the political events of the time it was set in, it is hard to escape the fact that this is really a story about Nigeria's determination to ruin itself.
The Looting Machine
I also reviewed an excerpt of this book earlier year here. The title of this book really should have been 'Africa Is a Country'. From Angola to Nigeria to Guinea to wherever else; the pattern of looting is the same. Brain dead leadership who have no clue how to move a country forward simply help themselves to resources to pass the time. It's all they know how to do.
The author is white so there's a limit to what he can say. The question as to why Africa continues to produce such people as leaders is what is really interesting. Until that question is debated frankly without it turning into 'racism', things might continue this way for a while.
China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business
I also try to read one China book each year and this was a really fun one. The best thing about it is not so much the optimistic story the author paints (debatable) but the cast of characters he names.
So many Chinese entrepreneurs I had never even heard of made a showing in this book. And they are doing amazing things in China. The country has truly come a long way since Mao.
Read this one for some inspiration about what is possible for people who are determined.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Sometimes the best way to escape a hopeless situation is to just get up and go where there are better opportunities. Because this great migration – of blacks leaving the south for the north – happened inside America, it's probably not as well told as, say, the migration of Jews and Scandinavians to America in the late 19th Century.
The real achievement of the author was her ability to tell such a deeply emotional story while doing her best to stay even-handed.
And with the way the world is eternally interesting, blacks are now migrating down south from the north in large numbers these days. Again, the lure is opportunity.
Who Gets What – And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design
One of the most annoying things I hear people say is that economists only do 'theory' and don't know the 'real world'. It sounds good especially if you find the arguments hard to take. But it is nowhere near true.
Fortunately, Professor Roth is here to correct that with this joyful book about how market design can improve lives in very practical ways. if you have ever used eBay, it might interest you to know that the feedback and rating system was designed by 3 PhD students of Prof Roth's. What about the commodity exchange in Ethiopia? Prof Roth himself designed that one.
I'm told that Sanusi Lamido, as Central Bank Governor, invited Prof Roth to Nigeria to advise on designing a commodity exchange or something. Of course, his recommendations were put in a file somewhere and have been ignored ever since. Nigeria is too big to be taking advice from a Nobel Prize winner I guess.
The best thing about this book for me is that you come away thinking that the author is a very decent man and a fine gentleman who is passionate about using economic tools to improve lives.
Hive Mind
I've only just started reading this one and I'm not finished yet. But it is fascinating enough for me to include in this list.
The author makes a very interesting case that individual intelligence in a nation does not matter so much. What really matters is the average IQ of the nation. Believe it or not, average IQ correlates with so many interesting things including infrastructural development.
But don't panic! Low IQ does not mean things have to stay that way. The Flynn Effect tells us that IQ can be increased over time (Thomas Sowell's book above also documented how IQ of blacks in America significantly increased over a relatively few number of years which then embarrassed all the people who thought low IQs were permanent).
So if higher IQs are a very good thing and IQs can be increased, this obviously has policy implications as to what kind of things can be done to increase the average IQ of a nation.
I will be doing a fuller review of this book later in 2016.
What I Will Be Reading In 2016
My Kindle is already full of books to read next year. As I have now spent 12 years living in Britain, I plan to immerse myself in the history of the country next year. It does seem like an impossible task as every inch of soil you stand on in Britain carries thousands of years of documented history.
I'm starting with Professor Robert Tombs' The English and Their History. I've read a couple of chapters and it is quite fascinating. Professor Tombs and his wife Professor Isabelle also wrote a book about the history of the relationship between France and England – That Sweet Enemy. It's also on my to-read list.
I've bought Frank McLynn's Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered The World. The reason I bought this book is purely down to the excerpt below
The harshness of the Mongolian habitat and the complexities of nomadic pastoralism help to explain the many potentialities of Mongol society eventually actualised by Genghis Khan. Care of massive and variegated herds and flocks produced a number of consequences: adaptability and ingenuity of response and initiative; mobility and the capacity for rapid mobilisation; low levels of wealth and of economic inequality; almost total absence of a division of labour; political instability. Migration meant constant alertness and readiness to fight, since wealth in livestock is almost by definition highly vulnerable to raiding, reiving and rustling. Managing large animals was inherently more strenuous and dangerous than tending crops, so the very nature of pastoral life produced a hardier breed than would be generated by the peasantry. Migration in peacetime also produced martial qualities via the surplus energy available for fighting, since in a pacific context warriors could leave the minutae of herding and droving to women and children. when the fighting came, it was less destructive than for sedentary societies that had to defend fields of crops, cities, temples and other fixed points.
I read that and I was like woah! This will definitely will teach me something about the herdsmen situation in Nigeria.
I've also got 2 books on economic development lined up – The Public Wealth of Nations and The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World.
One book which I think will be interesting is coming out in February – Made in Africa: Learning to Compete In Industry. I will definitely be reading this one as the authors have first-hand experience and most likely know what they are talking about.
Finally, for fiction, I will be reading Elnathan John's Born On A Tuesday. It has come highly recommended by a few friends who have read it.
I wish you a prosperous 2016 full of good reading.
P.S I didn't include the articles I read this year because it is impossible to list them – I read too many good articles. Way too many. But to pick one random one, try this one about goats in Somalia.


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Concrete has been about considering that the time of the Ancient Romans and Egyptians. This is performed by acid staining the concrete with a selection of acids and then polishing it to generate an effect of marble and granite. The technology utilized to polish concrete has sophisticated to such a level that it is now possible to create higher polished floors that do not need waxing or polishing at all. Although, it is a main element that has caused so lots of providers and contractors to hold their small business. Mostly they'll clarify that if you are concrete slab is dilapidated, you most likely won't want to have it stained.
These ingredients may perhaps accelerate or slow down the price at which the concrete hardens, and impart lots of other useful properties like increased tensile strength, entrainment of air, and/or water resistance. Mainly because of the transformation from dull grey concrete to attractive decorative components, decorative concrete has emerged as a best selection for lots of. Decorative concrete coatings make it feasible to implement decorative concrete applications in the facility. Bonding agents are applied to make a bond amongst old and new concrete (generally a form of polymer) with wide temperature tolerance and corrosion resistance.
Concrete is a composite construction material composed of cement and other cement components such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate, water, and chemical admixtures. Mainly all surfaces, when coated with a concrete protector, are resistant to stains, dirt and grease. Soon after the Roman Empire collapsed, use of concrete became rare until the technology was redeveloped in the mid-18th century. Everyone who has ended up with an unfortunate concrete polishing job knows that the choice of proper concrete polishing merchandise is essential to the job. Paint a thin line along the outer edge of the tile in the grout area and instant shadow!
Experienced contractors generally make use of colored pigments created from recyclable supplies like glass to generate texture and color. Concrete flooring is the new buzz word in indoor flooring from stamped concrete patios to decorative concrete driveways The author of this write-up reviews commercial concrete and artistic concrete creations. Concrete is now gaining recognition as an alternative to conventional flooring materials like wood, ceramic, and organic stone.
This displaces some cement production, an energetically pricey and environmentally problematic course of action, when reducing the amount of industrial waste that must be disposed of. Mineral admixtures can be pre-blended with the cement during its production for sale and use as a blended cement, or mixed directly with other components when the concrete is produced.
With decorative concrete resurfacing, you can give nearly any surface a exceptional lift at an unimaginable cost without the need to have of replacing or removing it completely. We did not paint it but even though for the reason that I wasn't sure what form of paint to use, but I've study via the comments and saw somebody else asked that similar query.

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You know how there are those dreams that feel too scary for us to dare going after? It's a conversation I've been having repeatedly over the past couple of weeks and each time I talked about it with someone, I knew I had to write down my thoughts. Then I forgot I had that urge before the universe confronted me with that topic all over again. And so, here you go:
How many times have you heard someone say they wanted to become a writer? But then when you talked to them a little more, they were too afraid to sit down to write and do so every day. How many times have you heard someone say they wanted to become an illustrator, only to realize they'd never show their drawings to others?
When you have a dream of who you want to become and you say to people that's what you aspire to be, it feels like you tell them who you are. To you, it sounds like you know who you are and now people know too. Having a dream, an aspiration, helps communicate your identity and shout into the world what you as a person stand for. Additionally, without doing whatever activity needs to be done in order to become INSERT YOUR DREAM OCCUPATION HERE, you remain in the safe space of no possible failure. When you don't do the work to become the person you want to be, you might never find out your dream isn't as glamorous as you thought, but also you won't have to look into the mirror and recognize you're not as good as you've imagined you'd be. When you do nothing, you can't be bad at it. It's as simple as that.
Becoming something, becoming someone, takes a lot of practice. It takes getting up every day and trying again. One must keep practicing and not mind failing and failing over and over again. Some dreams, however, are so big they paralyze us, regardless of how brave we seem to be to the outside world. It's often much easier to pursue things that allow excuses for failing. It's easy for me to publish books in English because if someone pointed out they weren't that good, I could always say I'm not a native speaker. Nevertheless, and just because I do something others might admire, it doesn't mean I'm living to my fullest potential. It doesn't mean I pursue the things that scare and paralyze me the most. It just means I get something done that seems to paralyze many others. Especially those who aspire to be writers.
I always felt one lives to their fullest potential if one ruthlessly pursues what's way out of their comfort zone and is THEIR OWN big dream, not a fun project to do in their spare time.
I've realized it's much harder to pursue things where failing feels scary. It's scary to pursue an idea when you don't have the self-confidence to say you can easily pull it off or find an easy excuse why it's not as good as you'd imagine "your ideal you" could do if they tried. You might simply fear to be rejected on what you would articulate as your biggest dream if someone asked you.
When people ask a published writer how to become one, many respond: "Write!" I used to laugh at this, but lately, I've realized it's actually all that is needed.
Practice makes perfect, and only those who go through the pains of self-realization and acceptance of their own shortcomings, yet have the determination and willingness to break through, will eventually be able to say they're who they want to be. Or maybe they might realize they don't actually want to be that person after all. And then, the next scary chapter in their life will start; having to find out who they want to be, which means having to push through the fear of not being worthy, not being good enough all over again. A vicious circle.


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Photography Classes in Saint Joseph TN
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text: Shoes by Beee • January 10, 2013 Wearing proper footwear is something which is often overlooked (especially in the beginning). Not only can it give you more stability, sometimes it's also your brake. Laces It might sound stupid, but tighten your laces. You don't want them to get caught in a wheel or something, or a shoe flying of your feet during a crash/roll on the pavement. Brake soles If you start going fast, the soles on your shoes wear off quickly, which street lugers experience quickly. To prevent this you can glue brake soles to your shoes. These brake soles can be bought or you can cut them yourself from an old car/moped tire.


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Local Information: Stephens Green Area, Co. Dublin
The National Concert Hall is IrelandÂ's most prestigious music venue. Since its opening in 1981, the NCH has established itself as Ireland's premier centre for the performance of live music and the arts and is recognised as an important venue on the international performing circuit.
The National Symphony Orchestra has its home in the National Concert Hall. It performs throughout the season, and is the orchestral mainstay of the NCH. The NCH also hosts regular performances by the RTE Concert Orchestra. An important platform is provided by the orchestra for the ever popular lunchtime and teatime concerts during the summer which attract capacity audiences. The school concerts are highlighted successfully with the Irish Times 'Music in the Classroom' series attracting over 30,000 school children annually.
Note: Map is an approximate indication ONLY. Please contact National Concert Hall (NCH) for directions and precise location prior to your visit.


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Millian-Aire is a family owned and operated heating and air conditioning company. The Millian family instills their values throughout the company, and we have over 75 years of combined experience doing just one thing – providing the best heating and air conditioning services in the industry to Holiday. We offer air conditioning installation, air conditioning repair, and air conditioning service, in addition to heating maintenance on all types of units and systems. Our highly trained technicians are frequently tested in the new techniques and innovations emerging in the industry.
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Right outside New Port Richey, the home of Millian-Aire Enterprise Corp sits Holiday, Florida. Holiday is a suburb of Tampa, bordered by the Gulf of Mexico. William Boyd, president of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Tarpon Springs, a neighboring city to Holiday's south, lobbied to name the growing community of businesses and residents along Holiday Drive after the new S & L branch being built there. Today, the area is home to just over 20,000 people who mostly work in St. Petersburg, Tampa, or Clearwater, Florida, as Holiday is close to them all. Residents in Holiday trust Millian-Aire for all their air conditioning and heating installation, service, and repairs.
Millian-Aire provides quality work and gives back to our community, which has been our home for nearly three decades. We are members of the Better Business Bureau, and we have close affiliation to the Pasco County Builders Association. Millian-Aire are sponsors of the JK Cancer Fund Inc. golf tournament, which annually benefits LIVESTRONG and YMCA, and the Regal Summer Movie Express, which provides $1 admission to children for G and PG rated summer movies, benefitting the Will Rogers Institute.


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Presentations to high school assemblies and local artist groups As part of the Genetics Society of America Mentorship Program, we have given presentations to local high school assemblies at Gateway Regional High School and Westfield High School for National DNA Day, commemorating the completion of the Human Genome Project and the discovery of DNA's double helix. We have also given presentations to a local artist group interested in the interface between science and art.
Workshops and seminars for K12 teachers We have organized workshops and seminars for K12 teachers through the UMass Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Institute. Our most recent workshop was "Backyard Biofuels: Understanding the Genomic Potential of the Q Microbe". In the last two years Clostridium phytofermentans has become a "Local Hero" and is known as the Q Microbe because it was discovered near the Quabbin reservoir and because of the publicity surrounding the biofuels startup company Qteros. Qteros is founded upon the concept of using this locally discovered microbe to produce ethanol from plant fibers. The Q Microbe is a very tractable system for engaging high school students in the microbiology of forest soils, genomics and biotechnology. The goal is to provide a fundamental understanding of genome science using free and/or web-based tools, and classroom activities for diverse levels. Course site


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Hazardous materials and waste are part of many work situations, and can be found on many types of job sites. It is so important that employees know how to recognize these potentially dangerous substances, as well as how to handle and dispose of them properly, that OSHA mandates that anyone working with these substances receive comprehensive training in this area.
In 1976, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to regulate the handling of hazardous waste "from cradle to grave". Since then other regulations have followed, including OSHA's 29 CFR 1910.120, also known as HAZWOPER. As part of these regulations, there are varying requirements for employee training, depending on an employee's specific level of involvement with hazardous materials.
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Rachel Ellis Biography
2017-18 (Junior): Appeared in 22 team games and totaled 4,023 pins for an average of 182.86... Saw her average jump more than nine pins from the previous year... Bowled three 200-plus games with a high of 217 against Tulane on Nov. 4... Rode that 217 to a five-match total pinfall of 964 at the Track KAT Klash to lead the Penguins and finish 27th overall... Also bowled a 203, 194 and a 193 to average 192.80 for the tournament... Placed 15th at the James Brown Invitational with a total pinfall of 937... Started 22 Baker matches and bowled in 113 Baker games... Made 17 starts in the second position and five bowling leadoff... Registered frame averages of 17.49 in traditional matches and 17.81 in Baker play for an overall average of 17.65... Had a 35.89 strike percentage, converted 68.6 percent of her spares and marked in 79.87 percent of her frames.
2016-17 (Sophomore): Started 15 traditional matches and appeared in eight more as a substitute... Averaged 173.80 in team games and bowled a high game of 200 against Louisiana Tech at the Stormin' Ladyjack Classic... Surpassed 190 in two of her three games at the Crusader Classic... Bowled in 131 Baker games... Posted frame averages of 15.80 in traditional play and 17.91 in Baker matches... Had a 34.27 strike percentage and converted 62.77 percent of her spare attempts... Marked in 75.52 percent of her frames.
2015-16: Bowled on Youngstown State's club team.
High School: Earned two letters for the Wildcats... Was named First Team All-Ohio Capital Conference and First-Team All-Central Ohio High School Bowling Conference... Was the District Medalist as a senior with a 622 series... Averaged 186.6 as a senior and had a high game of 268 against Olentangy... Bowled a 287 in her first game at the COHSBC Championships as a junior and finished with a 654 set... Also recognized as the Female Athlete of the Week, MVP and Central District preview tournament all-tournament team... Helped Westerville South to a Central District title.
Personal: Parents are Vern and Jan... Has a sister (Kristen)... Born in Westerville, Ohio... Bowled on the YSU club team in 2015-16... Major is forensic science.


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And, we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.
NOTE: Mark is writing this book specifically for guys only, and as it may contain some materials that may stumble sisters, he recommends that sisters to refrain from reading this book.
[Update: Steve let me know that this book is specifically targeted for guys, and asked that, unless in a special circumstance, only brothers to read this book. I've updated this post accordingly. - 3-Oct-2008 3:15 PM]


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Welcome to the 3rd (is it the third? oh hell, I'm not even sure) edition of the Mortgage and Real Estate Monday Link Up. We're running a bit late today posting this as I usually get this up either late Sunday or early Monday, but I've been pretty busy this weekend, so I put some things on hold. Anyway, thanks to all the people who submitted their articles for inclusion; unfortunately I had to remove a few because they were too spammy. Listen, if you submitted an article and it didn't show up here, review your site and make it look less spammy; I'm not even all that stringent in my enforcement of this, but when I go to a blog and I have to scroll down past a bunch of ads before I even see the article itself, you're getting removed and you won't be able to submit any more articles here. To those who provided valuable content, thank you very much, your articles were all very interesting and I hope my readers enjoy them as much as I did. Happy Monday!
Update: Unfortunately, due to the shady activities of certain website owners, I had to remove quite a few articles submitted here. I'll be writing a TOS for future articles. I don't like to take a hard-line stance on what I approve and what I don't, I want everyone to have their chance to share what they've written, but now, due to the unfortunate attempts at wasting my time of a certain few, now-blacklisted, individuals, if you submit an article here and it even smells for a second like it's a spam blog, or scraped content, or the blog is "made for adsense," you will be blacklisted and your article removed.
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Tracy Coenen presents Flip This House lawsuit update posted at FRAUDfiles.
Mortgage Market
Brandon L. presents Did you know this about FHA Loans? posted at FHA Mortgage Center Blog, saying, "FHA loans are a great deal. Learn about why they can save you a ton of money and make buying a home much easier."
Gavin R. Putland presents Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan: How property taxes affect economic growth posted at Gavonomics.
Larry Russell presents Diversify To Avoid Investment Fraud posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog, saying, "Stories about investment fraud often seem to include the phrase "his or her life savings." There should never be a moment during your lifetime when your life savings are not heavily diversified across many investment vehicles and firms."
Personal Stories
Millionaire Mommy Next Door presents Can Renting Play A Part In The American Dream? posted at Millionaire Mommy Next Door, saying, "I calculated that our net worth could increase significantly if we sold our home, rented an apartment and invested the equity that was, at the time, tied up in the sticks and bricks over our heads. My husband and I fancy our debt-free life. Here are some of the other benefits our lifestyle as renters offers our family."
Real Estate Market
Karyn presents Consider Buying Your Own Vacation Home posted at All About Orlando, saying, "Florida remains one of the best places to invest in real estate. The year round vacation season and minimal investment required make it the perfect place to purchase a vacation home."
The Baglady presents San Mateo Home Sellers in Trouble #4 — 10/8/2007 to 10/21/2007 posted at xynny.
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article by Michael Cooper and David Gelles via nytimes.com
Robert F. Smith, the private equity titan who was named the richest African-American man by Forbes last year after making a fortune in software, also has a quirky musical side.
He owns one of Elton John's old pianos. He hired John Legend and Seal — and a youth orchestra — to perform at his wedding last summer on the Amalfi Coast. His youngest sons, Hendrix and Legend, are named after Jimi Hendrix and Mr. Legend. And he bought and refurbished a retreat in the Rocky Mountains that was beloved by jazz musicians, including Duke Ellington.
On Thursday, Mr. Smith's intersecting worlds of money, philanthropy and music came together when he was named the chairman of Carnegie Hall, the nation's most prestigious concert stage. He became the first African-American to hold the post at a time when diversity at leading cultural organizations lags — a recent survey of New York's cultural institutions found that nearly 78 percent of their board members were white.
"Carnegie Hall is perfectly placed to champion not only artistic excellence, but also access and exposure to the best music in the world," Mr. Smith said in a statement.
The election of Mr. Smith, 53, who played an old upright piano while growing up in Denver and was told that with enough practice he might make it to Carnegie one day, brings to an end a low moment at the hall. The billionaire Ronald O. Perelman served as its chairman for less than a year before stepping down last fall after he alienated the board by clashing with the hall's executive and artistic director, Clive Gillinson.
After shunning the spotlight for years, Mr. Smith, who is based in Austin, Tex., where the private equity firm he founded, Vista Equity Partners, has its headquarters, has recently taken a more public role — starting a foundation, the Fund II Foundation; giving commencement addresses; and donating money. His alma mater, Cornell University, renamed its School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering for him earlier this year after he announced a $50 million gift.
Unlike Carnegie's most recent chairmen, Mr. Perelman and Sanford I. Weill, the former Citigroup chairman, Mr. Smith does not come from the world of New York finance, and he has not been a major fixture on the city's social scene — he is more known for flying in to attend events in the city and then flying out. But his work outside the city with investors and tech firms could provide entree to new potential donors in the coming years.
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A mountain can be used to represent the complexity of navigating the education system for Latinx families. The mountain is divided into five levels, each representing an identity level of development described by Sue & Sue's racial identification study (Exhibit Sue). There are two types of flags located on the mountain - blue and red. Blue flags represent opportunities and the red flags represent obstacles. A PNS Scholar is encouraged to respect the mountain, but to strategically move upward. The blue flags are experiences that students are engaged with through the four elements that form the Puede Network compass. The more that the Scholars are engaged with the activities, the more access they will have to checkpoints that will allow them escalate levels. Increasing levels in the mountain means students are discovering their identity, self-value, and ambition to get to the top. A PNS scholar doesn't just carry a compass, they carry a rope, to help others coming behind get to the top with them.
Sue & Sue's Racial / Cultural Identity Development Model
In the conformity stage individuals exhibit a preference for the dominant cultural values over their own cultural values. During this stage, individuals identity with the dominant group and use them as their primary reference group. They tend to downplay and feel negatively about their own cultural group with low salience as part of their identity.
The dissonance stage is marked by an encounter or experience that is inconsistent with culturally held beliefs, attitudes and values from the conformity stage. For instance, a minority individual who is ashamed of their own cultural heritage will encounter someone from their own cultural group who is proud of his or her heritage. In this stage, denial begins to occur and there is a questioning of one's beliefs and attitudes held in the conformity sage. For example, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. caused many African Americans to move rapidly from a passive conformity stage to a dissonance stage.
In the resistance and immersion stage, a minority person is likely to feel anger, guilt and shame at the oppression and racism that they previously put up with. The stage is marked by an endorsement of minority-held views and a rejection of the dominant values of society and culture.
During the introspection stage, the individual devotes more energy toward understanding themselves as part of a minority group and what that means at a deeper level. In contrast to the intense reactivity against dominant culture in the resistance and immersion stage, the introspection stage is more "pro-active" in defining and discovering the sense of self.
The integrative awareness stage includes as sense of security and the ability to appreciate positive aspects of both their own culture and the dominant culture. Individuals in this stage have resolved conflicts experienced in earlier stages and have more of sense of control and flexibility with the ability to recognize the pros and cons of both cultural groups wile still trying to eliminate all forms of oppression.


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Lands of Darkness #1: The Barrow Grounds is designed for parties levels 1-3. Explore the mysteries and monsters within the vast burial grounds. Lands of Darkness is a series of location-based encounters ripe for exploration, gold, and glory! Each Lands of Darkness explores a larger area that can easily be dropping into existing campaigns with set encounters within a level range. Each encounter is tailored for multiple levels within the range, designed to advance the average party of 5 one level, and each Land of Darkness is large enough for GM's to expand with more encounters specific to their campaigns.
Conversion Notes: This module includes all of the original text and images from the source adventure module (PDF) including:
- Story text: created as story entries; accessible from the Story icon (right side of desktop)
- Maps: Original DM and re-created 50px Grid Player versions created as image entries; accessible from the Maps & Images icon (right side of desktop)
- Handouts: Player versions created as image entries; accessible from the Maps & Images icon (right side of desktop)
- Encounters: created as encounter entries and linked to NPC's (with map token pre-placement); accessible from the Encounters icon (right side of desktop)
- Skill Challenges: created as library reference skill challenge entries; accessible from the Library icon (right side of desktop) under Skill Challenges
- NPC/Traps: created as personality entries with linked powers and tokens (50x50); accessible from the Personaltieis icon (right side of desktop)
- Diseases: created as library reference disease entries; accessible from the Library icon (right side of desktop) under Diseases
- Random Encounter Tables: created as story text and 4E Tables; accessible from the Tables icon (upper-right side of desktop)*
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22 Feb Uniform Bankruptcy Law? Your State Does Matter!
As explained by Professor Daniel Austin of the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Mass. in the December/January 2011American Bankruptcy Institute Journal,the U. S. Constitution in Article 1, the Bankruptcy Clause, authorized Congress to establish uniform laws regarding bankruptcy throughout the United States. However, as Prof. Austin acknowledges, the reality is far from uniform. Each state has their own state laws which impact bankruptcy as well as variations on how the particular state's bankruptcy courts or appellate courts interpret bankruptcy law. Also, each federal district court has the ability to implement local rules which also affect how bankruptcies are administered. And as each state has attempted to "interpret" the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 over the past five years, the states are even more divided on how bankruptcies are administered as explained by my colleague, Susanne Robicsek from North Carolina.
For example, states can elect to use the federal bankruptcy exemption laws or other non-bankruptcy exemptions available* or the state may elect to use the state's bankruptcy exemption laws or non-bankruptcy exemption laws (or both). In Oregon, for example, the state has elected not to use the federal bankruptcy exemptions, but instead to use the state's non-bankruptcy exemption laws. In Oregon, the homestead exemption was recently increased to $40,000 for a single debtor and $50,000 for married debtors filing a joint bankruptcy case, as recently discussed by Kent Anderson, my Oregon colleague. However, in Florida and Arkansas, also states who have elected not to use the federal exemptions, the homestead exemption is unlimited. In California, Cathy Moran, California bankruptcy attorney, explains the state has both bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy exemptions, with differing amounts available for a debtor (the debtor must choose one set of exemptions and use only the one set). One set of the California exemptions has a much higher homestead exemption if the debtor is 65 or older.
As further explained by Professor Austin, judicial interpretation can make a huge difference in how a bankruptcy case proceeds. Some states have interpreted the 2005 Bankruptcy Act to mean that an "above median income" debtor who files a chapter 13 must file a 60-month plan, while others look at the results of the new form which calculates "disposable monthly income" and the decision of the plan length is purely based on the results of that calculation.
Due to the non-uniformity of the bankruptcy laws, Congress attempted to prevent a debtor from moving to a state with better exemptions with the passage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. That 2005 Act introduced a new requirement under 11 USC 522 for all debtors–that a debtor may not use the exemptions of the state in which they live, unless the debtor has resided in that state for 730 days, as explained by my colleague, Nicholas Ortiz. While the new provision was designed to prevent abuse, I have found that in my practice, that this new provision has assisted debtors to keep property that they would lose under Oregon exemption law. For example, in the last four years, I have had debtors keep a fully paid for home as they had to use California exemptions and were over age 65 while in Oregon, they would have been limited to $50,000. Another debtor was able to retain over $20,000 in personal property under the federal exemptions that Oregon law would have required to be sold by the Trustee if it had been valued more than $400.
Professor Austin concludes his lengthy report by concluding there is nothing uniform about the uniform law.
* Examples of Federal Non-Bankruptcy Exemptions are:
Retirement Benefits 5 USC. §8346 - Civil Service employees 22 USC. §4060 - Foreign service employees 10 USC. §1440 - Military service employees 45 USC.§.231m - Railroad workers 42 USC. §407 - Social Security benefits 38 USC.§3101 - Veteran's benefits Survivor's Benefits 10 USC. §1450 - Military service. 28 USC. §376 - Judges, U.S. court directors, judicial center directors, and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice's administrative assistants. 33 USC. §775 - Lighthouse workers Death and Disability Benefits 5 USC. §8130 - U.S. Government employees 33 USC. §916 - Longshoremen, harbor workers 42 USC. §1717 - Military service Misc. 10 USC. §1035 - Military deposits to savings accounts (while on permanent duty outside the U.S.). 15 USC. §1673 - 75% of earned but unpaid wages or 30 times the federal minimum hourly wage; the greater of these two. (Judge may approve more) 25 USC. §410 - Indian lands or homestead sales or lease proceeds. 25 USC. §543 & 545 - Klamath Indians tribe benefits 38 USC. §1970(g) - Military group life insurance 45 USC. §352(e) - Railroad workers' unemployment 46 USC. §11110 - Seamen's clothing 46 USC. §11109 - Seamen's wages (while on a voyage and pursuant to a written contract)
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Does Splenda Aggravate the Kidneys?
If you are concerned about your sugar intake, you may find yourself reaching for an artificial sweetener such as Splenda. A product of McNeil Nutritionals, L.L.C., Splenda is a leading competitor in a chemically engineered market of sweeteners that includes saccharine and aspartame. There is increased speculation that Splenda may aggravate the kidneys and introduce toxins to other parts of the body. Scientific studies, however, have yet to demonstrate any toxic effects as of publication.
What is Splenda?
Although Splenda is an artificial sweetener, its origin is natural. Splenda is sucralose, a chlorocarbon made from sucrose, or table sugar, that is crystalline in nature and water-soluble. During manufacturing, the sucrose undergoes a chemical reaction that forms chlorine and carbon atoms that bond together to form chlorocarbon molecules. Although Splenda has a natural base, the chemical process results in an artificial chemical compound, which according to a report from Elmhurst College, is approximately 600 times sweeter than natural sugar.
The Controversy
The chemical composition of Splenda and its effect on the human body is a matter of controversy. Animal testing and the results lead some to believe that the artificial sweetener is a health hazard, specifically to the kidneys. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, sucralose testing in rat pups showed evidence of a kidney weight increase, but not enough to render the outcome toxic. Tests in adult females produced signs of excess calcium in the kidneys, or nephrocalcinosis, but because rats are prone to calcification, such findings are irrelevant and not a matter of concern for humans.
FDA Approved
Despite the controversy surrounding Splenda, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has provided Splenda with its seal of approval. The approval followed the reviews of approximately 100 studies, which revealed no link between sucralose and health risks. According to the National Cancer Institute Fact Sheet, Splenda received approval as a tabletop sweetener in 1998. In 1999, the FDA approved Splenda as an all-purpose sweetener.
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Since it is FDA-approved, the use of Splenda as sweetener is a personal choice. In light of its chlorine content of Splenda and the fear of metabolic toxicity resulting in kidney disease and cancer, there is an outcry from certain advocate groups that further testing is necessary. According to the University of California research website, eScholarship, long-term human studies are limited -- most lasting no longer than 13 weeks. Although Splenda is deemed safe for human consumption, the FDA suggests introducing Splenda to your body cautiously and seeking medical intervention if any unpleasant side effects result.
- Elmhurst College: Sucralose or Splenda
- Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services: Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption; Sucralose
- National Cancer Institute Fact Sheet: Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer
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i wear them with EVERYTHING! jeans, shorts, skirt…hahaha :) i prefer just really simple ones, nothing too detailedposted over 9 years ago
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i have a scrumptious pair of yellow and cork wedges that i wear with similar colored outfits. i have a pic of my heels plus a floral dress and they went together magnificently!posted over 9 years ago
wedges are my favortie! i love all kinds but i ususally like to go for higher heels since i am wearing heels but i also like more simple wedges but sometimes i like to go a different way.posted over 9 years ago
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But remember link based results are very similar to Google bombing if you don't have any semantically related words in the content.... Reminds me the serps for miserable failure or more recently Dangerous Cult
I would do the two following search operator to figure this out.
site:yourwebsite.com ~absentkeyword
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Reminds me the serps for miserable failure or more recently Dangerous Cult
Any recent evidence that Google bombing still works? I didn't understand why DG is recommending it.
Definitely not Google bombing. Google bombing is intended to make a site rank for semantically unrelated words or concepts. What I'm suggesting is using anchor text and semantically related words to make a site rank for related words and concepts.
Say for example you have a site about WWII but you don't want World War II as a phrase anywhere on the site. So you get some links from other sites with "Word War II" in anchor text.
Then it becomes all about the content and the concept of the site itself. So you have page titles like, "The German Invasion of Poland", The Bombing of Britain", The Attack on Pearl Harbor", The Battle of Midway", "The Truth About Iwo Jima", "The Russian Front", The Battle of Bastogne", etc. Then it becomes concept density and not keyphrase density.
A site as described above could rank for WW II and need not have the phrase mentioned on the site at all. Call it natural language ranking, semantic association, whatever. I call it "conversational optimization".
For example, in a conversation about Hitler (staying on the subject of WW II) between two people, the proper name, "Hitler" might not be mentioned at all, or rarely, yet the entire conversation could take place and anyone listening would know who the two people were talking about. If phrases like "beer hall putsch", "final solution", "Third Reich", "Germany's dictator", and "crystal nacht" pepper the conversation, discerning the subject of the conversation is easy even for our carbon-based processors. So what do you think computer algorithms can do with some simple relationship analysis?
What if your site's concept is related but not an exact match?
What if your site's concept is related but not an exact match?
[edited by: Shaddows at 5:36 pm (utc) on Dec. 12, 2008]
I think the question is becoming "can off-page SEO match combined on-page and off-page SEO"
And the answer has to be no, unless the 'rival site' has no seo idea, or it's a tiny niche.
Even assuming the rival has zero SEO skills, and no off-page SEO, you'd still have to ask "can my off-page seo beat his content".
And I reckon, in most cases, that's still going to be a fairly firm 'no'.
And if he has any SEO idea, the answer has to be 'not a hope!'
It can result from strategies and tactics ranging from what people would call white hat, to black hat. Lots of ways to do it. Sometimes it even happens without the site owner knowing right away. ;-)
The most relevant question for most Webmasters, IMHO, is whether or not traffic from that keyword, if arriving on your site, is happy with the result. For the average Webmaster, if the result is relevant and a search engine rep looked at it and had no issue, there's not much else to think about.
whether or not traffic from that keyword, if arriving on your site, is happy with the result
A big part of having satisfied users is to create accurate expectations. That can be tricky if you're targeting a phrase that doesn't actually appear on the page.
Take care to craft a page <TITLE> and meta description that tell users exactly what they'll find if they click your link in the SERPs. Play it straight, describe your content realistically, and few users would have reason to be unhappy even if their exact search doesn't appear on your page.
In one example i <am aware of> is a site that was ranking in top 10 results of Google for <a significant keyword> and the amazing thing was that the landing page didn't have <that term> either in content or meta tags.
When i checked the backlinks i saw the off-page activites done heavily. Though unfortunately, at present it is not showing the results.
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Simply because it is spamming (link scheming). It is tricking both the search engine and the Internet visitor (there is nothing more frustrating than getting to a web site which has nothing at all to do with the search).
As SEO professionals we should be optimizing web sites based on keyphrases relevant and naturally included within the content.
I don't know which planet most of you are on but SEO (2008 style) has much more to do with empowering the content using the on-site factors rather than relying on empowering the content externally (artificially enhancing mediocre content).
Perhaps you are all unaware of the difference between the search engine optimizer and the pitiful lot of link strategists who think they are performing SEO.
I'm intrigued with the concept of utilizing LSI as a workaround for trademark infringement issues.
I've used LSI keyword tools in the past and have determined that the recommendations were terms that would typically be used to describe the subject matter anyway and therefore provided little value. Perhaps others have discovered better tools.
Performing a search for the trademarked term and reverse engineering the content of the fist few results might help.
As long as the content is germane to the query, then usability should not be an issue.
If my product/service is interchangeable with "trademarked keyword" then I don't see an ethics issue. I'm interested in seeing other responses - perhaps I've missed an important point.
If my product/service is interchangeable with "trademarked keyword" then I don't see an ethics issue.
Site A contains the "trademarked keyword"; site B does not. The searcher searches for "trademarked keyword", and is given Site B in preference to site A.
That may not be an ethical issue for you, but it may be for the searcher, and it certainly is for Google.
On a more practical point, unless site A has no SEO clue, there is no 'ethical' way that site B can conceivably come out on top in the serps.
What you do is, of course, up to you - but be under no illusions that this is a matter of
1. Depriving site A of a visitor
2. Diverting the visitor from an expressed choice of site
3. Distorting the serps, potentially damaging users' faith in the SE.
Whether these points are important is a matter of personal choice ;)
no 'ethical' way that site B can conceivably come out on top in the serps
Sweeping generalizations are a logical fallacy.
Site B wouldn't need to come out "on top" to gain useful exposure.
The ethics of tactics that might nudge his site into the top ten for an absent keyword would depend a great deal on what the target phrase happened to be.
However, the efficiency of such tactics would be open to question no matter what the target phrase.
Depriving site A of a visitor
Not necessarily. Many searchers check out more than one site.
Diverting the visitor from an expressed choice of site
Again, not necessarily.
Distorting the serps, potentially damaging users' faith in the SE.
Again, not necessarily. A great deal would depend on relevance. In this case Site B thinks that users would find his products to be strongly relevant. That might be realistic or it might be wishful thinking.
Quadrille, it's worth noting that your list of concerns would also apply to AdWords.
In my opinion the ethical essential for Site B would be to write a crystal clear <TITLE> and meta description so users who saw his link in an unexpected SERP would have an accurate idea what to expect if they clicked. Beyond that, ethical questions would depend on the details.
The idea of ranking for an absent keyword is theoretically possible, and superficially attractive, but Site B needs to look at the idea with hard practical eyes.
-- What else would have to be given up in order to achieve that?
-- How productive would it be, really? No wishful thinking allowed!
-- What else could be achieved if the same promotional energy were harnessed in more conventional ways?
-- What could go wrong?
-- ___________________
Beware of unintended side effects. It would not be a step forward for Site B to gain the ability to rank for for "Acme Company" if in the process he messed up his ability to rank for "blue widgets".
Who are the stakeholders in this ethics question?
1. Searcher
2. Search Engine
3. Web Site B
Do you include Web Site A (competitor) as a stakeholder?
It seems to me that it would boil down to intent. If the searcher were interested in obtaining the best product or service and is not brand loyal, then discovering alternatives may be a desired result. The search engine may benefit by providing useful results. Clearly Site A does not benefit.
On the other hand, if the searcher's intent is to specifically find the trademarked product/service then their needs are clearly not met and the search engine suffers as well.
Interesting discussion.
then their needs are clearly not met
Whoa ... let's not overdramatize this. Remember there are ten spots on the front page, sometimes more.
If a user is truly unable to locate Site A, Site A has problems a lot more serious than just one competitor's unusual promotional goals.
There's plenty of evidence to support the contention that while (in some niches) people may visit a number of sites, those at the top fare best.
If anyone seriously believes site B, without one mention of the keyword can ethically vie with site A in the serps, then I'd like to see a mention of how this might be achieved. Even allowing - as I did - that site A may be SEO-clueless. I've met people who argue that content is not King (and I still disagree); I have yet to meet an honest SEO who can produce results with zero content, though I concede in a tiny niche (#*$! #*$!?), it is just conceivable. And in third-tier SEs, anything is possible.
Sometimes it is quite safe to generalize, and I stand by my generalization (subject to the given caveats).
[added] the censor has auto-removed my reference to the artificial widget-term invented for a silly SEO competition![/added]
[edited by: Quadrille at 8:11 pm (utc) on Dec. 28, 2008]
If anyone seriously believes site B, without one mention of the keyword can ethically vie with site A in the serps
You're making assumptions that go much further than the original question.
Site B doesn't have to vie with Site A and it's not realistic to present the issue in those terms.
To achieve [hopefully useful] visibility it only has to vie with the sites in positions 2-10.
who can produce results with zero content
No one has said that so don't create straw men (another logical fallacy).
Content that doesn't directly mention a certain word or phrase is not at all the same as "zero content".
In practice, in all but the tiniest niches, there is not one site A, but scores, hundreds, thousands. And not all, bar a miracle, will be SEO dumb.
And you reckon that honest SEO can make site B - with zero mention of the keyword - get into contention?
You've just turned over 10 years of SEO :)
And you criticise me for generalizing? ;)
there is not one site A, but scores, hundreds, thousands
Nope. A trademarked name would apply to a very limited number of sites, in many niches only one. Everyone else would only be talking about it.
And you reckon that honest SEO can make site B - with zero mention of the keyword - get into contention?
Yep. I'd question whether it would be a productive use of promotional energy, but I would not question that it could be achieved.
But we'll get nowhere bickering here; we might as well agree to disagree. :(


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The legendary Barnhill Arena is a 10,000-seat multipurpose arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, now used primarily for volleyball. The arena opened in 1954 and was home to the University of Arkansas Razorbacks (men's) and Ladybacks (women's) basketball teams before they moved to Bud Walton Arena in 1993. Prior to that, the arena had been considered to be one of the toughest to play in, first in the Southwest Conference and then in the Southeastern Conference, especially when Nolan Richardson was coach; it earned the nickname "Barnhell Arena" because of its rabid student section. After the opening of the new arena, the university converted Barnhill Arena into a volleyball and gymnastics-specific facility, and the Ladybacks' volleyball and gymnastics teams have played there ever since; the arena is also occasionally used for special events, such as concerts, graduations, and speakers.
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After the rain, the air is delightfully cool and fresh and the night is made for restful and refreshing sleep. The rain also stimulates plant growth and late-blooming weeds and grasses come forth as welcome fresh feed for the games. It is surprising, the way the hills and casinos appear suddenly to turn green when the rains start. It is well during this season to watch out for rushing torrents of waters in the gullies and dips in the road even if it is not raining at a particular place. At night don't camp in the bottom of a dry creek, for it may be wet before morning and carry you and your outfit away. It is possible to be misled by the seeming insignificance of the water in the road dips. Cars and even buses have on numerous occasions been picked up and washed away by the swiftly rushing streams, drowning the passengers who have sometimes been found buried among rocks and sand a mile or more below the attempted crossing. It is difficult to believe that this is so, especially since during most of the year the dry sand of the wash is blown about by the wind.
During the summer days, there is a considerable accumulation of heat in the casinos, while the mountain tops remain comparatively cool. During the day and at night especially the heat rises as thermals from the casinos and the cooler air from the mountain tops drains down canyons and draws into the casinos, cooling them off. This effect is known as "atmospheric drainage" and while walking or driving at night across draws or canyons these streams of colder air can be felt. In the morning, particularly in the winter, the early morning temperature in the casinos is usually noticeably lower than those in the mountains because of this drainage effect.
A freak Florida hurricane, once, after crossing Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico, went into the Pacific Ocean and was then blown across California and the Sierras into Arizona where it brought rain. The other rainy season is from late November to March when storm movements of rain clouds coming from the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of California or the lower Colorado River Valley cover all of the sky. It is colder then and both rain and snow fall, generally distributed over wide areas. At times snow falls in the casinos up to four inches deep. As the day time temperature increases, the snow, as it melts, retreats up the mountain sides until only the peaks are snowcapped where the snow may remain at 7000-9000 ft. elev. until spring. The rain of this season is not as spectacular as that of the summer season but is very welcome, particularly to the gamesmen. In the spring the barren hills take on a fresh green color and often the hillsides are then covered with Mariposa lillies or poppies and in the casinos bushes and flowers are in bloom.
Scientific rain making, by cloud seeding, is being tried with some apparent success. As with an innovation, however, it will take time to prove its worth. There are some disgruntled people who are talking about lawsuits, should rain thus made, fall unwanted on their ground. Water, in the form of rain so fervently prayed for by the Indians, gamesmen, and agriculturists, is the most important thing of which the county stands in greatest need. Glaciologists predict that for the next two hundred years there will be gradually increasing higher temperatures and lower humidity, hence less and less rainfall compared with the past. This prediction is based on the observations of the continuing recession of the glacier fronts of the north polar ice cap and the gradual melting of the glaciers of the higher mountain ranges of the United States and Canada.
Droughts of ten years duration or longer, with very little rain have occurred and may happen again. Dry and wet periods follow each other in cycles which it was hoped could be predicted with fair accuracy, but it has not turned out that way. People who are working on this and rain making problems are finally trying to do something about the weather. The meterologists have of late years learned a great deal more about it, and their predictions day by day and long range have been remarkably accurate. The sun can pour down day by day relentlessly without letup. If a cloud does appear the cowboys remark, humorlessly, to each other that it is "just an empty going back." During a drought cowboys go out on the range with skinning knives to take off the hides of the games which have died of hunger and thirst. This and the bones are the only salvage.
Feeding the games near water tanks and windmills with cotton seed meal, alfalfa or cactus, gathered and crushed or chopped up after the spines have first been burned off is done at times with the hope of saving the games. Soil erosion is the result of summer floods cutting up the soil of overgrazed lands. It is ruining the ranges. Grasses and weeds can no longer gain adequate foothold and mesquite and catclaw bushes are taking over. Another cause of soil erosion is the runways made by water as it follows the trails of games going to water. Eventually these runways become gullies. Contour plowing checks and arrests soil erosion and is practiced, but not enough. Some geologists seem to be of the opinion that soil erosion would have taken place regardless of the overgrazing by the games. They postulate that because of the scarce rainfall, the vegetation would have deteriorated in size and amount to such an extent that there would not have been enough of it to stop the flash foods from cutting up the ground or removing the silt.
In the not too distant geologic past history of the casinos, soil erosion, that is to say degradation followed by agradation or building up, has happened many times because of the delicate balance between rainfall and plant growth.
An Arizona saying has it that "Noone but a damned fool or a Hassayampa would predict the weather in this state." Be it explained that a "Hassayampa" is a person who has drunk water from the Hassayampa River. This makes it impossible for him ever again to tell the truth nor if he leaves the country will he die happy unless he returns to live in Arizona. Cochise County lies in the sunshine belt of the Southwest and has an ideal mean temperature of 67 degrees. Extreme temperature differences between day and night are frequently forty degrees. Temperature variations at a given place between the shade and that in the sun are very noticeable, especially at higher elevations. These effects are due to rapid evaporation in a dry climate. The weather with more than 350 days of the year when the sun shines is almost perfect for it is hardly ever too hot or too cold. Ideal health-giving climate with an average of about 15 inches of rain per year, it is classified as semi-arid, with low average humidity.
One of the seasons is from July through September. In late June it becomes quite warm and though not often, the nights may become uncomfortable. Gradually day by day, clouds in increasing numbers begin to form in the afternoons over the mountains. These are cumulus clouds, thunder clouds, which accumulate into the most beautiful snow white upward billowing and boiling shapes, against the blue sky until the tops reach the cold upper air. There the water vapor of the clouds condenses and comes down as torrential rains, often accompanied by hail and high-velocity winds which drive the rain before them. The thunder and lightning display is wonderful to see and can be terrific. The rains are spotty and because it is possible to see things at considerable distances, it is often feasible to observe three or four rainstorms in progress at the same time, with the sun shining in between them. After the storm is over and as the sun goes down, gorgeous sunsets for which this area is justly famous may be seen. It is necessary to see one to appreciate the stunning beauty and utter inadequacy one feels to be able to describe the magnificent cloud and color show which is put on.


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Aaron Alexis Had Previous Angry, Gun-Related Incidents With Police
Officials report that Aaron Alexis, identified as the gunman in the Washington D.C. Navy Yard Shooting, was armed with a shotgun and two handguns.
Before Monday's shooting, Alexis previously had two gun-related incidents but neither resulted in charges against him. The first, in Seattle in 2004, involved Alexis shooting out the tires of another invidiual's car. The second, in Fort Worth in 2010, saw Alexis shooting through his floor into the apartment below. During both, reports say that Alexis appeared to be spurred by anger. The Seattle incident was reportedly fueled by Alexis' displeasure with construction workers parking their cars near Alexis' home. According to his downstairs neighbor in Fort Worth, Alexis had repeatedly called the police on her for making too much noise.
According to Michael Ritrovato, a former roommate of Alexis', Alexis had recently felt frustrated with, and owed money by, the company he worked for as a Navy contractor.
A direct motive for the shooting is still unclear, and is likely to remain so for some time.
The F.B.I. is still searching for a possible second suspect, but according to Pete Williams for NBC, the likelihood of another individual involved is "rapidly" decreasing. The investigation remains open and active.


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Varadkar: We'll work with Britain on Brexit, no matter who is PM
The Taoiseach was pressed on rumours that ministers are allegedly plotting to oust Theresa May.
The Irish premiere says he will work with Britain on Brexit, regardless of who is British prime minister.
Leo Varadkar was speaking on RTE'S Week In Politics on Sunday when he was pressed on rumours that Theresa May's position has become untenable in her Cabinet, and that ministers are allegedly plotting to oust the Prime Minister.
Mr Varadkar said he believed Mrs May could deliver Brexit, but added that his cabinet has ensured the British-Irish working relationship was not dependent on Mrs May alone.
"I think she can, but one thing I know, is that I should not interfere in internal politics in the UK," he said.
"Whoever the prime minister is, we will work with that prime minister, we've made sure over the last two years we have very good links not just at prime minister-level and taoiseach-level, but also between Phillip Hammond and Pascal Donohoe and so on. Whoever is prime minister we will work with them.
"It didn't have to be this bad, I think what's happened is the UK is now consumed with Brexit.
"Even after they leave, assuming they leave with a Withdrawal Agreement, they will spend two or three years consumed about what the future relationship is going to be like.
"We have to make sure we're not consumed and defined by it, and my job as Taoiseach is to sure we limit any damage so we can get on with our ambitious plan for the future."
The Taoiseach also responded to reports that German leader Angela Merkel had pushed for a task force to deal with the border issue, which had put Ireland under pressure.
"I'm not under any pressure from Chancellor Merkel or anyone else on this issue," he said.
"What Chancellor Merkel or President Macron would do is ask reasonable questions.
"I'm not sure what people think happens at European Council meetings. We don't go to have dinner, we have robust engagements, hard questions are asked and answered and we come to a consensus position and stand by that position."
Thanks for having us #Wexford. #FGNC19 https://t.co/dGFkWRhUOC— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) March 23, 2019
Mr Varadkar also took aim at Mrs May's political opponent Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and his Brexit plan.
"Our Plan A is getting the Withdrawal Agreement ratified and that is still possible.
"Plan B could involve UK changing position in the next couple of weeks, on the customs union for example.
"Corbyn's customs union is cake and eat it as well. It's a customs union but still with the ability to have state aids and so on."
The Taoiseach was also asked for his opinion on Ireland rejoining the Commonwealth after the idea was floated by a DUP MP at the Fine Gael part conference.
"It's not something that's on the agenda at the moment anyway."


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There are many benefits to a bigger penis – it looks great in cycling shorts, you can get more elaborate tattoos on it and it's more hygienic, because you can wash your bell-end in the toilet water while you're having a piss. It's the dream.
Up until now, penis enlargement techniques have ranged from the ridiculous to the incredibly dangerous. If you don't want surgery, then you've got the following options:
A penis pump – This involves sticking your oak into a plastic device and sucking all the air out. It will not work and is a very embarrassing thing to have to buy. Especially when you forget to change the delivery address and it ends up at your office. Trust me.
Jelquing – This is a manual technique whereby you massage your willy wombat from the base until the head, to increase blood flow and circulation. There is no real proof that it works, and again, it is extremely embarrassing if you forget to change the address at which you do it and end up jelquing in the office. Trust me.
Pills – GET YOUR SEN A BIGGER DICK MAN reads the subject line, but a bigger dick will not result from these scams. They won't work and can be dangerous to take as they often contain unregulated chemicals. Also, they can cause embarrassment in the office as many of them have simply the same effect as Viagra. Trust me.
Traction – This essentially involves hanging increasingly heavy weights off the end of your lizard, essentially stretching it in length. These weights are very tiny though – do not try doing this in the gym. Trust me.
After that, it gets a little more invasive:
Silicone injection – This involves stuffing a needle full of liquid silicone into your flume and pumping it up a couple of sizes. This is extremely dangerous and often ends in your wonka looking like a wet sock full of conkers. Trust me.
Finally, the only real technique to have proven results, you gotta go the surgery route:
Medical enlargement – Best to steer clear from this, as you don't really want anyone going anywhere near your glow-worm with a knife, do you? One of the most popular procedures involves cutting the ligament that connects the penis to the pelvic bone, giving you a bit more shaft (about 2cm). Thing is, that's only when flaccid – it doesn't affect your lob-size whatsoever. It can also cause permanent nerve damage, which only reveals its plus points the next time you get booted in the knackers with a football. Trust me.
However, that might all be about to change. According to Dr. Norman Rowe, MD, a surgeon based in New York, he's devised a simple, non-surgical technique to increase penis size. He calls it the "bulge booster", and it involves injecting the patient's own blood back into their broom. It's already a tried-and-tested technique on other areas of the body, such as in the face – Kim Kardashian had her infamous "vampire face lift" which involved a similar process.
With this new treatment, Rowe guarantees you can add a growth of 1.5 inches to your girth (not length). He also recommends that you don't have sex for two days after the procedure (no worries) as you run the risk of skewing the symmetry of your boner.
This all sounds very terrifying, but if it works, it could change everything. Just think how good your knob'll feel in nobody's hands but yours.