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Trump's latest move has yet again shattered the Wall Street, especially the technology sector and worsened the trade spat between the two biggest economies. The Trump administration last week blacklisted Chinese firm Huawei Technologies and 26 of its affiliates, forbidding it from doing business with American companies.
The administration added Huawei to its "entity list", which means American companies cannot provide tech to Huawei without the government's permission. Per the Commerce Department report, Huawei is engaged in activities that are contrary to U.S. national security or foreign policy interest. The ban threatens Huawei's supply chain and could delay the rollout of 5G services around the world. It will also hurt sales of American companies whose revenues are heavily tied to this Chinese equipment maker.
U.S. chipmakers were the worst hit as a number of them have significant exposure to Huawei and are major suppliers to the Chinese firm. According to an estimate from investment bank advisory company Evercore, Huawei — the world's largest provider of telecom equipment — purchases $20 billion of semiconductors each year (read: Will Semiconductor ETFs Survive the Huawei Ban?).
In particular, Qorvo (QRVO) and Micron (MU) derive about 10%-15% each of its business from Huawei, while Qualcomm (QCOM), Skyworks (SKY) and Xilinx (XLNX) get about 10% of sales each from the Chinese tech firm. Broadcom (AVGO) gets 5% of its sales from Huawei. All these chipmakers will no longer supply Huawei with the components it needs to continue building 5G networks around the world.
Alphabet (GOOGL) suspended its business with Huawei preventing the company from accessing its Android operating system and apps such as Gmail, YouTube and Chrome. Mobile phone parts producer Lumentum Holdings (LITE), which gets nearly 18% of its business from Huawei, also announced the discontinuation of shipments to Huawei and cut its quarterly revenue expectations.
ETF Impact
The news pushed the technology ETFs space into deep red over the past week. In particular, Invesco Dynamic Semiconductors ETF PSI, SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF XSD, Invesco China Technology ETF CQQQ, KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF KWEB and First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF FTXL stole the show, tumbling more than 5% in a week (see: all the Technology ETFs here).
Below we profile these ETFs in detail and discuss some of the specifics behind their recent slump:
This fund tracks the Dynamic Semiconductor Intellidex Index, holding 29 securities in the basket. PSI has AUM of $179.6 million and sees average daily volume of about 38,000 shares. It charges 61 bps in annual fees and carries a Zacks ETF Rank #3 with a High risk outlook.
This fund tracks the S&P Semiconductor Select Industry Index, holding 34 stocks in its portfolio. It has AUM of $353.2 million and charges 35 bps in fees per year. The ETF trades in average daily volume of 108,000 shares and carries a Zacks ETF Rank #3 with a High risk outlook (read: Top and Flop ETFs So Far in Q2).
The fund follows the AlphaShares China Technology Index, which is designed to measure the performance of the investable universe of publicly-traded information technology companies open to foreign investment, which are based in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau. It holds about 70 stocks in its basket with AUM of $497 million while charging 70 bps in fees per year. CQQQ trades in solid volume of 237,000 shares and has a Zacks ETF Rank #2 (Buy) with a High risk outlook.
This product provides concentrated exposure to China's Internet market by tracking the CSI China Overseas Internet Index. In total, the fund holds 54 securities in its basket and charges 70 bps in annual fees from investors. The ETF has AUM of $1.7 billion and trades in volume of around 2.4 million shares per day. KWEB has a Zacks ETF Rank #2 with a High risk outlook.
This fund offers exposure to the 30 most-liquid U.S. semiconductor securities based on volatility, value and growth by tracking the Nasdaq US Smart Semiconductor Index. FTXL has accumulated $32.4 million in AUM and trades in average daily volume of 13,000 shares. It charges 0.60% in expense ratio and has a Zacks ETF Rank #3.
What Lies Ahead?
Despite the slide, the outlook for the sector is quite promising. This is especially true as S&P 500 Technology Sector Index has clearly outpaced the S&P 500 Index from the year-to-date look. In fact, the index has enjoyed a strong rally over the past year despite lingering trade tensions with an annualized return of 7.5% versus 4.7% for the S&P 500 Index (read: 5 Tech ETFs Up About 20% This Year, Still Have Room to Run).
The latest news that the U.S. government has temporarily eased trade restrictions on Huawei will bring some relief to the sector. This is especially true as the U.S. Commerce Department will allow Huawei to purchase American-made goods in order to maintain existing networks and provide software updates to existing Huawei handsets. However, the Chinese tech firm is still prohibited from buying American parts and components to manufacture new products without license approvals.
Further, the sector's long-term story remains intact with the emergence of cutting-edge technology such as cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, wearables, VR headsets, drones, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and machine. The deployment of 5G technology — the next wireless revolution — is creating further opportunities. The wave of mergers and acquisitions is also providing further impetus to the space. Moreover, the abovementioned ETFs have a favorable Zacks Rank #2 or #3.
Given the solid long-term outlook but somewhat bearish near-term sentiments, investors may want to stay on the sidelines for the time being. However, risk tolerant long-term investors may want to consider this recent slump a buying opportunity, should they have the patience for extreme volatility.
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In the car, the local C & W station switched to talk and the host was Rush Limbaugh. My first impulse was to put on Mozart for meditation because that man's attitude undermines my zen. Astonished by his hail and brimstone rants, his rude authoritarian stance, and all the negativity, bordering hatred to anyone differing just a smidgen with him, I do finally shut his screaming down and I wonder why people expose themselves to this and similar hollering. Do people like to be bullied? Do they embrace these bizarre points of view because then they have ammunition to condemn all people who hold different opinions, without having to think, just imitating the other bully? If so, then they are displaying several characteristics of authoritarian personalities. This doesn't mean they are all Nazi/Fascist racists, yet the extreme form of such a personality would lead to that. It seems that R.L.'s listeners want strong, straight opinions with no nuance. Options, ambivalence, careful analysis, exploring alternatives seem to disconcert them and thus these personality types become easy victims of the neo-con new-speak. They would believe that slapping, spanking a child is ok if screaming doesn't help. Regular talk, intelligent conversation, laying out options seems a waste of time if you think that you convince the other by putting fear in them, yell or 'correct' the child into submission. This is a fundamentally anti-intellectual stance, very prominent in this country. After all they choose John Wayne's 'Shoot first, ask questions later' attitude as a national icon. I do believe that confidence building, learning to trust the other, negotiating and striving for a win/win situation is the better approach, because each has his/her own responsibility and choices to make. The compassionate conservatives like the concept of tough love and translate the concept of responsibility in laying down the rules and then if you don't make it, well they told you what to do and obviously you failed to heed their advice and thus don't deserve any of their compassion… Neil Postman was a great educator. Let's look at his example. He suggested that one of the first things we need to teach a child or grown up is how to use their 'shit detector', wondering does that make sense what I hear or read? Questioning all authority should be encouraged, because in our society authority is based on power, force and intimidation and not on the recognition of what is right or wrong. Some people may say that religion tells them right from wrong: the 10 commandments, the rules of the Torah of the Koran, the mythologies and cosmogonies. In ways that is true, yet the copyright of right and wrong is not owned by any religion. We need to think in what we do of the seventh generation, preserve the earth with all that lives in it, so that our civilization doesn't over consume and die of obesity or suffocate in its own waste. And if we are not sure how to do this, well as Rumi wrote in the 13th century we'll have to
Be helpless, dumbfounded,
Unable to say yes or no.
Until we know. We are all related. So let's all wake up, think and drink from our own well and be fearless and authentic.
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Dutch current affairs magazine Vrij Nederland has published a lengthy article by Joep Lange's son Max.
The article describes Max' journey to find answers about his father, the AIDS professor Joep Lange, himself and the African content. About the latter he writes, "I'm much more optimistic about Africa now." The article interlaces personal stories from his childhood and the loss of Joep and Jacqueline with his current work. This includes working with the Joep Lange Institute on a documentary on the mobile revolution in Kenya.
– Vrij Nederland: Read the full article (in Dutch) here. Read the English translation here.
– LinkedIn: Max has recently published his first blog as part of the development of this documentary. Read it here.


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JAKARTA -- An apparent flip-flop by Indonesian President Joko Widodo on drastic reform of energy subsidies is taking a toll on Pertamina, the country's largest state oil and gas company.
Indonesia scrapped subsidies on regular gasoline in early 2015 to allocate a larger portion of the state budget to more productive areas, such as infrastructure. The move, which came less than three months after Widodo took office, was lauded by the business and international community, and soon became his symbolic policy as a reformist leader.
The end of subsidies meant that gasoline prices would move in line with benchmark oil prices.
However, amid concerns over the impact on consumer spending, the government, which reviews the price every three months, has not changed the price since April 2016, even though the price of Brent crude oil has risen more than 40% since then. Pertamina is now having to shoulder the difference between the market and government-set prices.
"The government looks at the soundness of the financials of Pertamina and we don't think it will jeopardize its existence," Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan said on Thursday. "Will Pertamina make much less profit this year? The answer is yes."
For the January-to-June period, Pertamina reported a 19% year-on-year increase in revenue to $20.5 billion, thanks to rising oil prices. But gross profit fell 20% to $3.5 billion due to higher raw material and production costs.
The price of gasoline will be kept at 6,550 rupiah ($0.5) per liter until December. Jonan declined to comment on the outlook for 2018. But economists say it will be increasingly difficult for the government to raise prices ahead of the presidential election in 2019, when Widodo is expected to run for a second term. While the central bank cut its policy interest rate for two straight months up to September, there are still no signs of a major pickup in purchasing power -- a phenomenon that Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati recently called "puzzling."
But putting pressure on Pertamina's profits is a risky move for Indonesia's long-term economic growth. The company is tasked with investing in increasing production and building new refineries to meet rising domestic demand for fuel. Indonesia became a net importer of oil in 2003, and oil and gas imports swelled to $18.7 billion last year as demand continues to outstrip supply.
"The oil price has increased over the past couple of weeks. This is something that we need to figure out," Arief Budiman, Pertamina's chief financial officer, said at a seminar in late September. "There needs to be an optimal balance ... if you want to support the mandate of $50 billion [worth of investments] over the next five years."
In a sign that the government recognizes the constraints, the 2018 budget proposal set fuel subsidies at 51 trillion rupiah, an increase from the 44 trillion earmarked for 2017. This, however, marks a step backward for Widodo's signature economic policy.


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Welcome to your Lake Anna home away from home! When we say 'our home is your home' we really mean it.
Located on a beautiful cove, this incredible 5 bedroom/3 bath lakefront home offers the best of lake living. built and furnished as our vacation home first and foremost, our guests will find a fully stocked kitchen, basement entertainment level with big screen tv, satellite, surround sound, huge dvd selection, pool table, ping-pong, foosball, darts and air hockey, wonderfully appointed bathrooms and luxurious bedrooms. No second-hand furniture, plastic plates, and folding chairs here!
Enjoy the wonders of the woods and water from our beautiful screened in porch, full deck w/gas grill, campfire area, and views from every room. on the lake, guests enjoy a large swimming deck, water trampoline, screened in porch and a floating dock with diving board and water slide.
It?s like summer camp?for the young and young-at-heart!
Whether it's a multi-family reunion or extended family vacation, the lake house is beautifully equipped to provide comfort and convenience for all our guests. After a busy day on the lake you'll look forward to the comfort of a quality bed and inviting room.
Master suite on the main level includes lake view with King size Select Air comfort bed, desk w/computer (sorry it's dial-up), dressers, television with satellite, ceiling fan, and sliding glass doors access the screened in porch.
Queen bedroom provides lake views, sliding doors to deck, dresser, wicker rocker, and large closet.
Full Bedroom includes dresser, toy chest, book shelf and closet.
Basement bunk rooms accommodate an entire family in style. Full size futons with eggshell support provide comfort for mom & dad or big brothers & sisters. Oak bunk beds provide the perfect lake bunkhouse for the kids.
This is a no-smoking rental. Severe allergies in our family prohibit us from allowing smoking inside or outside our home. Violation of our non-smoking policies will result in the forfeiture of the full security deposit.
Screened-in porch with dining area and room for younger children to play in an enclosed area.
Swimming Deck w/ chairs
Floating Platform w/diving board and water slide
Water Trampoline
Cleats for uncovered boat dockage along the swimming deck and floating platform
The enclosed boathouse and its contents are not included in the rental.
The House is located in a beautiful, quiet cove that is a No-Wake zone providing the perfect protection for swimming, canoeing and relaxing! The Main cove is where all the jet-skiing and boating action take place. See our Google Map for details at Lake Anna Lake House: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=112915740061590901820.00047933811232cbed168&ll=38.05


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Calls for public lights for children walking to GAA grounds in Castlecomer
Ageing stock: Council says there are requests for public lighting throughout the county
The N78 showing the entrance to Erins Own GAA club
Calls have been made for public lighting to be extended on the N78 from Ballyhemmon down to the GAA grounds at Ballycomey.
A recent meeting of Castlecomer Municipal District heard that many children use the road "two or three times a week" and public lighting is necessary there to avoid an incident.
Castlecomer Labour Councillor, Maurice Shortall, said: "Priority should be given to extend the public lighting from Ballyhemmon, Castlecomer to the Erins Own GAA Grounds at Ballycomey.
"This particular section on the N78 is extremely busy and is presently benefiting from a €664,000 overlay including the provision of footpaths.
"Erins Own cater for boys and girls teams from U-5 to U-16 with approximately 30 on each panel.
"I am requesting that we make provision to include this section in the Public Lighting Programme 2018 for a number of reasons."
He added: "First of all, safety given the volume of traffic on the road and secondly with the provision of footpaths it would encourage both adults and children to avail of the connectivity by way of an exercising walk."
Director of Services, Simon Walton, told members that there are 10,000 public lights in Kilkenny and it is an "ageing stock".
Members set aside around €1.2million to manage and maintain the lights with electricity costs alone coming to €750,000.
He said: "There are calls for public lighting throughout the county and we've an ageing stock.
"Maybe these requests should be considered on a priority basis.
"For a number of years, no additional public lighting was being provided and now there are additional lights."
Works began earlier this month on overlay works on the N78 from Dysart to the Golf Club Entrance, Castlecomer.
They will consist of a structural overlay of the existing carriageway along with drainage and footpath/kerbing improvements.
Motorists are also advised that a new speed limit is in place for the duration of the works.


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Charity events, food, music, unicorns, and re-living the 80s: the upcoming weekend has something to offer everyone. With so many things to do in the city and beyond, the list is too long to post, so we have selected a few to make your planning a little easier.
As you make your plans, keep in mind that a portion of Line 1 (Yonge-University-Spadina) is closed for TTC work.
Taste of the Danforth
The party on the Danforth is back for its 24th year. The country's largest street festival, which runs from Friday to Sunday, not only celebrates Greek culture and heritage but also multiculturalism in Canada. Those attending the event will be able to feast on tasty treats and restaurants on Danforth will be offering tasting menus for around $6. There will also be live music and entertainment, as well as kids, sports, 'Canada 150 experience' and 'Hollywood on the Danforth' zones. Proceeds from the festival will go to several charities.
The food attracts 1.6 million to #TasteoftheDanforth but music and dance are also popular features of Canada's largest street festival. pic.twitter.com/Z21Cjio8Ow
— Kevin Misener (@Misener680NEWS) August 11, 2017
Expert from Pan Mediterranean Cuisine cooks up some saganaki at Danforth and Logan ahead of the opening of #TasteoftheDanforth pic.twitter.com/G06c0W2pHb
— Kevin Misener (@Misener680NEWS) August 11, 2017
Ride for Karen
Hundreds of cyclists will be hitting the streets this Sunday for the 16th annual Ride for Karen. The event, which began in 2002, is held as a tribute to the life and legacy of Karen Tobias, who passed away after a battle with breast cancer. Ride for Karen has raised more than $2.4 million to date, to help build and furnish new cancer care facilities, provide resources for cancer support centres and send kids with cancer to camp. The event kicks off at Markham District High School at 8:30 a.m. It features a 200km, 160km and 100km route. There will be a barbecue and prizes handed out after the ride.
Paws in the Park
Unleash your inner pup at the Toronto Humane Society's largest fundraiser, Paws in the Park. The event runs this Saturday at Woodbine Park and helps support the animals cared for by the Humane Society. For the first time ever, guests will be able to adopt dogs right from the event. Aside from all the canine cuteness, there will be food, primping for your pooch, a pet photo booth, celebrity guests, entertainment, vendors and face painting. Paws in the Park helps fund a significant portion of the Toronto Humane Society's annual operating costs.
Sweetery Toronto
Indulge your sweet tooth at Canada's largest sweets festival this weekend. Sweetery will be making its third appearance at David Pecaut Square. The two-day event celebrates local chefs, students and artists. Post-grad students of George Brown's Advance French Patisserie class will be on hand, along with celebrity chef Christopher Siu, who was on season two of MasterChef Canada. Guests can also enjoy live music, a taste bud challenge, interactive games and a Lego Batman movie night on Saturday.
Colour Run Dream Tour
Imagine a world where unicorns exists and clouds carry you away. That world awaits you at the colourful run – dubbed the "happiest 5K on the planet" – at Woodbine Entertainment Centre on Saturday. During the run, participants will be surrounded by vibrant foam or "clouds" as well as lively music and giant unicorns. Runners will also be able to spray-paint their dreams on a wall. The dream continues after the run with a party and massive burst of colour thrown every so often. The run gets is at 9 a.m. on Saturday.
Boots and Hearts
If you love country music, then head on down to Oro-Medonte, about 15 minutes north of Barrie, for the largest camping and country music festival in Canada. It is being held at Burl's Creek Event Grounds from Thursday to Sunday. More than 35 country artists are slated to perform, including Keith Urban, Jessica Mitchell, Eli Young Band, and Keifer Sutherland. Admission is free for children under 12. Festival-goers can also camp out under the stars with other country music fans.
John Hughes documentary
If you grew up in the 1980s, you know all of John Hughes' movies like "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles" by heart. The 2009 documentary, "Don't You Forget About Me," tells the story of Hughes and his films from the vantage point of his hometown. It will be showing at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
TTC and road closures
Partial Line 1 shutdown
Subway riders, take note: Part of the TTC's Yonge-University Line will be shut down this weekend for signal upgrades. There will be no service between Sheppard West and St. George stations on Saturday and Sunday. Shuttle buses will only be running between Sheppard West and Lawrence West stations during the closure. Additional service is being added to bus and streetcar routes to help customers access other parts of Line 1. Regular service is scheduled to resume at 6 a.m. on Monday.
Road closures
The following roads will be closed for Taste of the Danforth:
- Danforth Avenue, from Broadview to Jones avenues, will be closed from 10 a.m. on Friday to 3 a.m. on Monday
- Pape Avenue, from Lipton to Hazelwood avenues, will be closed from 6 p.m. on Friday to 3 a.m. on Monday
- Logan Avenue will be closed from Garnock Avenue to the north side of the laneway north of Danforth Avenue from 3 p.m. on Thursday to 3 a.m. on Monday
Feast of St. Lawrence: Front Street East, from Scott to Church streets, will be closed from 9 a.m. on Friday to 2 a.m. on Saturday, and Market Street, from Front Street to Wilton Street, will be closed from 5 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Saturday. TTC buses will be on diversion.


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Rwanda will be spending only 2 trillion francs this finical year, according to a cabinet decision made on Tuesday June 6, 2017.
This was reached in an extraordinary Cabinet Meeting chaired by The Right Honourable Prime Minister, Murekezi Anastase, convened in Village Urugwiro.
The Cabinet Meeting approved the Draft Law determining the State Finances for the 2017/2018 Fiscal Year valued at two trillion, ninety four billion nine hundred and ten million, four hundred eighty thousand five hundred forty- five (2, 094, 910, 480, 545 Frw).
It was confirmed by a statement signed by Stella Ford Mugabo, the Minister in Charge of Cabinet Affairs.
Rwandan Minister of finance and economic planning, Amb Claver Gatete, while presenting the Budget to the Parliament in April this year, said that 83% of the whole budget was generated from Rwandan taxpayers and from other Rwandan contributors .
He said that the budget will help Rwandan government implement its social economic plan labelled EDPRS2, Sustainable Development Goals and the Rwandan government seven years economic plan.
Amb Claver Gatete said that this financial year's budget will be invested into normal activities and expenditures.
He revealed that Rwandan economy has increased at the 6.7% while it is planned that it will increase at 6.8% next year.
This year prices at market have increased at 7% while it is planned that it will increase at 5% in the coming year.
The exports have increased at 21.6% while imports increased at 0.7% as he told that Rwandan House of Representatives.
Summarily the budget increased with 140.7 billion Frw as compared to the one of last year.
The 2015/2016 national budget was Rwf1808.8 billion.


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From the NY Times:
By next month, all American medical schools will have abandoned a time-honored method of teaching cardiology: operating on dogs to examine their beating hearts, and disposing of them after the lesson.Somewhere, I'm sure a blogger is posting this article with the headline changed to "Murdering Dogs..." Did he or she enjoy a nice factory-farmed ham for holiday dinner, I wonder. Not for me, thanks. I think about our American factory farms whenever someone gets on a soapbox about, say, those evil, dog-hating Chinese:
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine was the last to use the method, but the dean, Dr. Pamela Davis, said it would no longer do so after this month.
On Nov. 19, New York Medical College in Valhalla joined New York's 11 other medical schools and announced that it would close its dog laboratory.
Among the 126 American medical schools, 11 still sacrifice animals for teaching, according to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an advocacy group that tracks the practice. Other than Case, none of them use dogs.
Francis Belloni, a dean at New York Medical College, said his students now used echocardiograms to study heart function, and the subjects were live medical students rather than live dogs. Dr. Belloni said the use of animals was not done lightly and had value, but added that students would "become just as good doctors without it."
Factory meat production is an industrial rather than an agricultural enterprise. Animal husbandry is nonexistent. Industrial pork barons produce pork chops and bacon and the animals themselves are treated only as industrial production units. Genetic manipulation for meat production has produced hog breeds that are high strung and nervous. They live short miserable lives characterized by extreme cruelty and extreme terror.Read the article that "deserves to be ranked with Schlosser's [Fast Food Nation] in the annals of excellent food-chain investigative journalism." And you might want to avoid these products the next time you're at the market. More here: Wikipedia. Testimony before the Senate Committee on Government Affairs [source of the blockquote above]. And an alternative to factory meat production: yes, there are alternatives.
By nature, pigs are active, inquisitive and intelligent, and they spend much of their time exploring ground cover and rooting for food. They are communal animals with a highly developed system of vocalization that they use in courtship, self defense and raising their young. The female pig, the sow, has a strong instinct to build a nest before giving birth. She will wean her young for several months and take care of them even longer.
In industrialized hog factories, pigs are raised in intensive confinement for their entire lives in huge windowless structures choked by their own foul stenches. Subject to disease from overcrowding and entirely deprived of exercise, sunlight, straw bedding, rooting opportunities and social interactions that are fundamental to their health, factory hogs are kept healthy only by constant doses of subtherapeutic antibiotics. Their growth rates are unnaturally sped-up by feed additives including antibiotics, hormones and toxic metals. Sows endure in tiny crates that are too small for them to turn around, giving birth on bare metal grate floors, their babies taken away after only three weeks of weaning. Driven by frustration and depression, sows continually gnaw on the metal bars of their crates. Severe restrictions on the pigs' movement over a lifetime impede bone development frequently resulting in broken legs. Injured pigs are "culled" sometimes by being dumped alive into waste lagoons. There are many accounts of brutal treatment of these animals, including teeth pulling, castration without anesthesia, and beating disabled sows unable or too terror stricken to walk to slaughter. According to the U.S. Humane Society, one in five of all factory-raised pigs die prematurely, before reaching the slaughterhouse.
In 1999, Smithfield made a major foray into Poland. At the invitation of the Animal Welfare Institute, Andrzej Lepper, the President of Poland's largest farmers' union, came to the United States and toured Smithfield hog factories. Mr. Lepper later recounted that he was shocked by what he saw in the American hog factories which he referred to as "animal concentration camps." He added that, "industrial husbandry methods of raising hogs are not in harmony with nature."


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Found this entry in my Penzu account, written during a trying time for the members of my beloved college org. I was already an alumna by this time, but I couldn't help the outpouring of emotions. Note: I had to delete some of the lines containing particulars from the application process.
Not gonna lie, the KEM application process was grueling, stressful, and at times excruciating. But when I got to the other side of it, I ended up not only with the right to call myself a KEMer (and with that name came a lot of positive synonyms), but also with more confidence in myself and loads of new experiences. It was like I can deal with almost anything thrown my way (insert dealwithit.gif).
Even now, I carry what I got from the application process: the ability to think on my feet, to stand up for what I think is right even if everyone is saying the opposite, to push myself to explore my limits, to be a leader, to know my strengths and talents but know when to be humble about it, to take responsibilty for my own actions, to learn to work as a team… the list goes on.
Looking back, I do not harken to the "humiliation" of the app process. Instead, I feel a measure of pride and a certain fondness for the memcommers who at that time made my life hell. And I am, more than anything, grateful for the organization that gave me a better, happier university experience. I can't even begin to explain what being in KEM meant to me and I can't imagine myself not being part of it all.
Going back to calling myself a KEMer– one of the things that it means is that there is a certain amount of pride in the exclusivity of an org that takes only the best (or is this a thing of the past?). I can declare that I did not just put my name on a sign up sheet to become a KEMer. I had to prove my worth. Consider real life, people, you always have to prove your worth.
I am not blind to the flaws in the application process. But to attack its very core, one that is not just dear to us because of sentimentality, but what we got from it… it's just insane. Bringing up legalities– OH MY GOD, have you taken a gander at the application process of about 70% of the orgs in UP?– feels like just an afterthought, a rationalization of some unfounded bitterness. A justification of why they had to go bitching about it.
Perhaps the execution of the application process has changed, or the meaning behind every task is lost since I was an applicant. All I remember is, everything had a point. Nothing was done out of spite, out of a desire for entertainment… Everything had a reason, and it all became clear in the end, if you listened and understood.
If we, indeed, get more applicants IF we change the system, then what? Would these new KEMers know what the name truly means? Will they be able to love the org as much as those who sweated for it loves it? Will they be able to withstand KEM month and Eng'g week, untested as they are in terms of pressure and skill? What would getting in the org mean to them? Perhaps it means the same as it does to these five noise-making members– a line on their resume.
I will not trade my experience for anything. I wish I could express what I feel more eloquently, in words that would move the least die-hard KEMer. I guess I'll leave that to the more convincing and less emotional among us.
-October 5, 2010
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6 Pantry Ideas To Maximize Space
Kitchens are typically one of the smallest rooms in a house, and pantry space is generally limited. Here are some clever pantry ideas to help you gain the most out of what you have.
1. Store Smarter
You can free up valuable space by simply rearranging the items in your pantry. Store large boxes and bottles in the back of the pantry, and bring cans and smaller items to the front. The smaller items can be stacked, and you can see them more easily than if they are hidden behind a large bottle of something.
2. Baskets
Utilize baskets to store small items that won't sit upright. If you have soup mixes, gravy mixes, packets of tea and other things, place these in a small basket in the corner of the pantry. You will always know where they are, and they won't take up space just strewn all over the place.
3. Utilize The Door
The doors of your pantry can be wasted space. You can purchase small baskets and hangers to place on the inside of your doors. You can store smaller items, and cans in these. If you have small pantry doors, consider a hanging shoe organizer. These generally have plastic pouches and are more compact. It will still serve the same purpose. Since you're placing them on the inside of the door they will remain invisible until you open the door.
4. Utensils
Instead of storing utensils in a drawer or pantry, free up that space by purchasing a caddie that can be set on the counter instead. You can generally find a nice spacious one for around $20 at most home goods stores. They are also available in a variety of styles and colors so you're sure to find one that will blend with your décor.
5. Airtight Containers
Invest in some nice airtight containers for the staples you keep in your pantry. Things like rice, flour, sugar, coffee, tea, etc can all be stored in containers. Storing it in the container will not only prolong the freshness of the product, but it takes up less space. By removing the bulky packaging you will have more room in the pantry itself.
Often you can find containers that look more like art, and you may want to display them on the counter-tops, freeing up even more room.
6. Storage Aides
Purchase a double-decker lazy Susan and place it in a normally hard to reach corner. This more than doubles the space in that corner, makes it easier to reach items that you may have otherwise had difficulty with, and makes a cleaner looking pantry.
Utilize under shelf basket storage and other pantry aides you can purchase. If you store plastic bags in the pantry, consider a hanging bag dispenser that will hang on the back of a door knob.
These are easy ways to get the most out of the limited space that most of us have with our pantries.


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In a previous article entitled 'Separate Time With Twins' we discussed how you can find ways to spend quality time with each of them individually. Individual time with your children comes with its own values and lessons that you might not be able to impart when they're always together. But while this is true, it's also true that certain values are best learned together. Psychology Today explains that common goals "lead to child-focused shared decisions". Here are three ways twins can learn good values together.
Find a Sport They Are Both Interested In
One of the advantages of having two children of the same exact age and, in some cases, physicality is that they can start at the same level of any sport of their choosing. Apart from the fact that you'll only need to supervise one activity, which saves you time, putting them in the same sport is also a good way to teach your children very practical lessons in teamwork. Twins have a natural affinity for working in the same team, as USA Today reminds us in their feature on how Wayne Bryan raised the now iconic doubles tennis legends, Bob and Mike Bryan. Together, these brothers have bagged more than 100 doubles tennis titles, and it shouldn't come as a surprise. Twins tend to be able to read each other, which is a fantastic advantage for soccer, basketball, football, hockey, doubles tennis, or really any game that will require them to work together.
Navigating New Environments
These same principles can be applied to the twins' academic studies. While enrolled in the same school and studying the same lessons, the twins can look to one another for help. Unlike most children coming to a new school, twins will instantly have a connection with someone. As they naturally fall into their own academic strengths and weaknesses, twins can provide help where the other falls short. Just like in sports, twins can act as each other's support system in school. The value of support, especially in unknown environments, will benefit them in later years.
Charity Teaches Empathy
The natural bond of twins sometimes allows them to create their own world away from everything else. While this allows them to support each other, it's not enough to create well-rounded, emphatic adults. Twins also need to be taught that life outside of themselves has value, and that not everyone is as lucky as they are to have someone who supports them all the time. This level of empathy is best taught early on, and one of the best ways to do so is through charity work. There are plenty of charities that do not shy away from the world's harsh realities but at the same time provide a hopeful framework from which your twins can draw emphatic inspiration. In an article by Save the Children titled 'How You Can Help' they reported that 6 million fewer children die today compared to 1990 due to foreign aid. Many charities are known for hosting fun and creative events like bike-rides and community runs to raise awareness and gain funding to address certain issues. Allowing your twins to know about the real state of the world – and more importantly, teaching them that they can do something about it – is perhaps the best lesson in empathy that a parent may provide.
About the author
Sarah Fields is a mother and writer who has spent the past years blogging about parenting. She believes that the children need to be taught good values from an early age, and hopes that her articles reach out to parents. When she is not writing she is looking after her own children.


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Although many had hoped for it, a notification indicator for the Galaxy S10's front camera dock never came to fruition. Since then, we've found other camera-cutting applications, from transforming it into a circular battery meter, to creative wallpapers. Fortunately, there is now an app that gives you LED alerts with a ring around the camera of your S10.
The Holey Light App developed by Chainfire of SuperSU Fame finally brings the desired functionality of the S10, S10 +. and S10e – no root required. The app can be installed for free even though you need to go through a short setup process to make everything work properly.
Step 1
: Install Holey Light
Before you install the app, it's important to note that Holey Light is still in beta, so there may be minor issues with inconsistent notifications. Apart from that, despite the minor errors, the app does a pretty decent job of illuminating the camera's section of the S10.
Although Holey Light is available in the Play Store, due to beta status, Holey Light may not appear in your search results. To install the app using the following link:
Step 2: Enable Permissions
If you open Holey Light, you must grant the app four Permissions to allow the LED notifications on your S10 to bite. Follow the instructions and make sure you grant all four required permissions.
Here is a difficult part. If you get to the second permission prompt, make sure that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are enabled. After pressing "OK" in the prompt, select your Wi-Fi network from the list. This is required as a workaround to prevent Android from hiding notifications from Holey Light. When you're done, follow the instructions to enable the last two permissions.
Step 3: Disable Always On Display
For Holey Light to function optimally, you must also disable the Always On Display on your S10 and set your device to lock immediately when the screen turns off. So open the Settings app, go to the "Lock screen" menu, and then disable the toggle next to "Always On Display." Then select "Secure Lock Settings", enter your PIN and set "Auto Lock" to "Immediate".
Step 4: Adjust Holey Light Settings
Now the app is ready to use, but you may want to customize some options. If you want the notification ring to appear while using your phone, check the box next to "Screen On." If you want the notification to ring when the phone is charging when the screen is off, select the "Screen off" check box.
In addition, you can control when notifications are marked as visible. If these conditions are met, the ring animation will no longer be displayed. This is useful if you want the camera section to stop the strobe without removing the notification from the notification tray. However, it can prevent you from seeing the effect in certain situations, such as when you pick up your phone without realizing it, and then hang it up immediately.
So it's your call, but go through each of the "markers" as seen "and check or uncheck the box next to each condition. They are pretty self-explanatory. For example, if you select the check box next to "On lock screen" in "Mark as seen: lock screen", the notification ring will no longer be displayed when you wake up and display your device
Fine Tune at the bottom of the main menu of the app The LED alerts adjust better to the hole in the S10 the animation speed. You can further customize the lighting by setting different colors that correspond to different apps to sort your notifications.
As cool as it gets, Holey Light is far from being a finished product. It may not work for your device yet, but it seems to work for most users. While testing the app, we found that certain apps like Gmail, Facebook, WhatsApp, and text messages successfully triggered the notification ring, even though most other apps like Google Calendar, Facebook Messenger, and Pushbullet did not trigger the alert.
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Minister, Kenyan Counterpart Sign on Increasing National Carrier's Doha-Mombasa Flights
Doha – Qatar
HE Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Saif Ahmed Al-Sulaiti and HE Kenyan Minister of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development Mr. James Macharia, today signed on increasing the number of Qatar's national carrier Qatar Airways flights between Doha and Mombasa by two flights to go up to six flights a week.
This comes within the framework of boosting business, trade and investment opportunities between the two friendly countries.
Mombasa is the principal Kenyan seaport and the second largest city in Kenya behind the capital city Nairobi with a major economic and touristic significance.
The two sides also agreed on signing a cooperation agreement before the end of this year between Hamad Port and Lamu Port, in addition to forming a joint working committee for enhancing all aspects of cooperation between the two countries in the fields of transportation and ports.
The signing ceremony was attended by HE Kenya's Ambassador to Qatar Mr. Paddy C Ahenda.


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Tuesday, Aug 4, 2020Last Update:4:35 AM EDT
title : Pokemon Sun and Moon Latest News: Preload It on Your Nintendo 3DS Today
summary : With Pokemon Sun and Moon ready to rock and roll this month, we gear up for the game's release with anticipation: will there be new Pokemon that we do not know of?
date : Nov 03, 2016 12:19 AM EDT
title : Pokemon Sun and Moon Release Date, Mega Evolutions Confirmed, Demo Rumors
summary : Are you looking forward to getting hold of Pokemon Sun and Moon? If you have answered in the affirmative, then brace yourself this November 18, 2016, as the title hits the Nintendo 3DS. Mega Evolutions have also been confirmed.
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Hi all,New to the process of setting up and having many challenges with connection stability. Some of the challenges from MyDlink:1) I just lose connection and get a 'Unable to access your DCS-932L'2) Advanced Settings takes 3-4 minutes to load and then mostly fails when I do an update (after another 3-4 minutes)It's like I am trying to connect from the moon when in reality I am in Australia.FYI all other internet base applications work fine. Running Java 7 update 21. Occurs in Chrome and FireFox.Any suggestions to improve?Thanks.


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Three Percent #49: Two Books, One Rant
This week's podcast is focused on crime and detective books—both fiction and nonfiction. First off,
we talk I monologue about Errol Morris's A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald and my recent Twitter fight with Joe McGinniss about this case, then we move on to talking about Wolf Haas's Brenner and God and what makes this book (and detective books in general) fun to read.
I do apologize for the long diatribe about Joe McGinniss and Blind Vision, but after reading A Wilderness of Error and then coming across this article about the new trial, I
was am a bit enraged at the smarmy way McGinniss is using this situation to his own benefit. As I explain in the podcast, McGinniss seems incapable of acknowledging that his book is part of the dominant discourse about this case, and that Morris's much more comprehensive investigation illustrates the way in which we tend to interpret ambiguous facts (or ignore totally them) to fit the discourse/narrative we've decided to believe in. I think that Morris's book makes it very clear that regardless of innocence or guilt, MacDonald did not receive a fair trial and that this is a travesty of justice. For McGinniss to use this situation to try and shill his book is really gross. Not just because of the fact he refers to MacDonald's 40+ year imprisonment following the murder of his wife and two daughters as the "#FatalVision hearing," but because it seems like he's much more concerned with being "the truth" about MacDonald's case rather than acknowledging that the man deserves a fair trial in one of the most compelling and strange mysteries of the past half-century . . .
/no more drunken tweeting
Anyway, this week's music is In a Big City by Titus Andronicus—the best song from their new album.
As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking here. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google's Listen, copy the following link.


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Tuesday, September 11, 2018
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What does it mean to CONFESS your sins?
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With tens of thousands of animals looking for a loving home in New York City, one local sports team has come to their rescue — while also celebrating their own beloved pooch.
Players of the WNBA's New York Liberty basketball team recently held a photo shoot with a group of rescue dogs from the nonprofit Best Friends Animal Society, which works with local groups to save animals in shelters across the city and tri-state area.
RELATED:Rescue groups hope next president will adopt nation's first dog from a shelter
According to a recent report, the city's three full-service animal shelters run by Animal Care Centers of NYC care for up to 35,000 animals. The city announced last month that it would provide funding to open new shelters in Queens and the Bronx to provide help to more animals.
The photos of the basketball players and dogs will be part of a promotional calendar giveaway at Saturday's game between the NY Liberty and Los Angeles Sparks at Madison Square Garden. The first 5,000 fans will receive a calendar.
Players pictured in the calendar include forward Adut Bulgak, who posed with Coco, a 5-year-old Labrador retriever and American pitbull terrier mix; and guard Brittany Boyd, who posed with an 8-year-old Jack Russell terrier mix named Freedom.
The calendar also features guard Tina Charles – who is heading to the Olympics this summer and posed with Carmela, a 10-year-old dachshund. Other players in the calendar are Carolyn Swords, Kiah Stokes, Lindsey Harding, Shavonte Zellous, Shoni Schimmel, Sugar Rodgers and Tanisha Wright
The team's mascot, Maddie,an energetic pooch named after the team's home arena, also cuddled with some of the rescue dogs for the calendar.
RELATED:City to provide $10M in funding to build new animal shelters in Queens and the Bronx
Since creating the calendar, almost all of the dogs, except for Coco, have been adopted.The Best Friends Animal Society will be at the Garden Saturday with a few dogs to interact with fans and share information about adoption.
May 21 is also Maddie's birthday, which will be celebrated with a cake for the mascot during halftime and activities for kids.
"We are very grateful to have the opportunity to partner with BestFriends Animal Society and Fidelis Care to create a unique and fungiveaway for Maddie's birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden,"said Kristin Bernert , SVP, Business & Basketball Operations for theLiberty. "Saturday evening is an outstanding opportunity for fans tocelebrate Maddie's 20th and see the Liberty take on another inauguralWNBA team, the Los Angeles Sparks."


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In case you are a regular user of the Spotify, then you may have noticed that your hard disk drive storage is getting full even when you do not download any new files or folders in it. Spotify cache may be filling up the memory, and it can also cause other issue. Here's how you can delete your Spotify cache.
Steps for Deleting Spotify Cache on Mac
• Open the users' window
• After that, choose the username.
• Choose the library folder.
• Find the Cache folder.
• After finding it, you need to launch the Cache folder.
• Go through the "com.spotify.client."
• You need to remove the folder provided in the "com.spotify.client."
In case you wish to delete the offline files cache, then you have to go through the steps mentioned below:
• Open the library.
• Choose the Application Support option.
• Tap on the Spotify application.
• Remove the "watch-source.bnk" file from the Spotify.
Steps for Removing Spotify Cache on Windows PC
In case you have installed the Spotify application by visiting the online site, then you need to follow the steps listed below to remove the Spotify cache on Windows PC:
• Open the local disk which is titled as C.
• Choose the Users option.
• Choose the user profile folder.
• Tap on the AppData option.
• Select the Local option.
• Tap on the Spotify app located in the Local folder.
• Remove the storage folder.
In case you have to find the Spotify application by going to the Windows store, then you have to go through the steps mentioned below:
• Enter "appdata" in the text field.
• Choose the AppData option given on the results listed on display.
• Tap on the Packages option.
• Choose SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_zpdnekdrzreaO file.
• Go to the LocalCache window.
• Type the Spotify folder in the text field.
• Go to the data menu.
• Remove the files and folders stored in the Data folder on the system.
Steps for Removing the Spotify Cache on Android
• Click on the Library provided in the drop-down menu given at the end of the display.
• Press on the Settings application.
• Choose the Other option.
• Press on the Delete cache and saved data option.
• Complete the removing the Spotify cache procedure by tapping on the OK button.
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AVIX Cooperate with TaiTung Police to Execute the "2019 Air Defense Drill"
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The UAV Team of AVIX was invited to cooperate with TaiTung Police Department to execute the "2019 Air Defense Drill" at the east coast of Taiwan, 29th of May. All the main roads had been closed and our UAV, which has been used to find their route in the sky now took off at the nobody's city and executed its service of surveillance at the four assigned venues. The drill is considered as one of Taiwan's most important war exercises, which are held each year to test the combat capabilities of Taiwan's armed forces in the face of the continued military threat from China.
The mission has been accomplished with great success. It's definitely a fresh experience for the UAV Team of AVIX, on top of that, we are encouraged by the great performance of our UAV in the execution of the drill, and we will continue to strive for more challenging tasks in the future.


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Author(s): Esther Krogdahl
Hazel Spratt was an agreeable child. Never impatient, unruly or wild.But when Hazel turns three-and-a-half, her parents notice a change. She is no longer their polite and pleasant daughter, Hazel, she is now Grumbelina, 'a grumpy child, so disgruntled yet small, with a list of complaints that could cover a wall.'Settle down and relax for a moment, this humorous and delightfully illustrated picture book takes a tongue-in-cheek look at tantrums - perfect for every home.
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Address: 939 Front Street Unit B, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-670-2896
Aplets & Cotlets/Liberty OrchardsDescription: Liberty Orchards makes Aplets and Cotlets and other fine candies at our Cashmere factory. Our confections are sold in stores and through our catalog and web site. Over 70,000 visitors tour our factory annually.
Address: 117 Mission Ave, Cashmere, WA 98815
Email: 509-782-2191
Website: http://www.libertyorchards.com
Apple Annie's Antique GalleryDescription: One of the top ten antique malls in America, boasts 70,000 sq. ft. of quality antiques and collectibles. Home to a 1950's diner and "The Fireplace Room" is available for gatherings.
Address: 100 Apple Annie Ave., Cashmere, WA 98815
Phone: 509-782-4004
Website: http://www.appleannieantiques.com
Broken Barrel MercantileDescription: Taste the best wines, ciders or beers from near and far - tastings start at $5. Hours: Mon-Thurs Noon-12, Fri-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Winter hours may be different.
Address: 220 9th Street Suite C, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-679-8297
Cup and KettleDescription: Cup and Kettle, located in the heart of Leavenworth, carries over 140 types of loose leaf tea, over 100 types of BBQ sauces, spice blends and so much more.
Address: 10265 Ski Hill Dr., Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-548-8327
Website: http://www.cupandkettle.com
Cured by Visconti'sDescription: NCW's finest artisan, house made salamis, whole cured meats and sausages. Old world methods, sourcing from local farms and providers. Selection of cheeses, sauces, mustards, and pickled goods. Gifting and ordering online.
Address: 636 Front St., Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-888-0424
Website: http://www.curedbyvisconti.com
Hilltop Harvest BarnDescription: Discover a fun, country, hand crafted experience. We specialize in Quincy wines, Washington food products Winegars ice cream and decor items along with locally grown and harvested produce! Open May 23rd-Mid October 9am-6pm.
Address: 10086 Rd U.7 NW, Quincy, Wa 98848
Phone: 509-787-2276
Website: https://www.facebook.com/HilltopHarvestBarn/
Jones GalleryDescription: Our gallery specializes in James Jones Photography for the past 27 years. We also have a great selection of home décor signs, handbags, metal sculptures and women's accessories.
Address: 220 9th St STE A, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-548-1077
Website: https://jamestjones.com
Liberty OrchardsDescription: Home of Aplets and Cotlets! Offering local fruit and nut candies and gifts. From healthful Orchard Bars to chocolate dipped confections. Holiday/year round ordering online and free tours.
Address: 117 Mission Ave, Cashmere, WA 98815
Phone: (800)888-5696
Website: http://www.libertyorchards.com
Lone Pine Fruit & EspressoDescription: Fully enclosed fruit stand offering seasonal produce, jarred goods, deli lunch menu, espresso, hard ice cream, baked goods, pies. Northwest wines, hard cider and micro brews. Growler fill station, garden center and free Wi-Fi.
Address: 23041 Hwy 97, Orondo, WA 98843
Phone: 509-682-1514
Website: http://www.lonepinefruit.com
Magenta BoutiqueDescription: We are a women's boutique store. We are open 7 days a week from 10am-6pm
Address: 217 8th St #12, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-293-9442
Website: https://magentaboutique.com
Oil & Vinegar CellarDescription: Tasting room featuring infused olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars. Come and experience these delightful flavors on your palette. Hours: 10am-6pm Daily. Winter Hours 10pm-5pm Daily.
Address: 633 Front St.,Suite F, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-470-7684
Website: http://www.oilandvinegarcellar.com
Polish SalonDescription: Hair and nail salon specializing in color and bridal styling.
Address: 224 8th St., Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-548-2001
Website: https://www.polishleavenworth.com
Posy Handpicked GoodsDescription: Located on the sunny corner of Commercial and 9th Street, Posy Handpicked Goods has a product focus on artisan goods sourced from small businesses and independent designers mostly from the Pacific Northwest. Summer Hours: 10am-6pm, 7 days a week. Winter Hours: Mon-Thurs 10:30am-5:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-5pm.
Address: 905 Commercial St. Suite 4, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-668-4651
Website: https://www.posyhandpicked.com
Pybus Cheese ShopDescription: Featuring great local cheeses as well as fabulous cheeses from around the country and around the world. We also offer slicing meats, gourmet food items, and grilled-to-order panini sandwiches! There is also a great selection of Vegan options.
Address: 7 N Worthen 5-W, Wenatchee, WA 98801
Phone: 509-888-9930
Website: http://cheesemongersshop.com
Pybus Public MarketDescription: Public Market with 16 year-round merchants in a historic building with food, dining, and retail sales. Open 362 days a year. Pybus hosts the Wenatchee Valley Farmer's Market with over 40 vendors, in season.
Address: 3 N Worthen Street, Wenatchee, WA 98801
Phone: (509)888-3900
Website: http://www.pybuspublicmarket.org/
Sage Mountain Natural FoodsDescription: A natural foods store offering a diverse selection of local and organic produce, house made deli foods, bulk goods, beer and wine, supplements, health and beauty products and much more.
Address: 11734 Hwy 2 Unit A, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-548-5707
Website: https://www.sagemtn.com
Smallwood's HarvestDescription: Large retail mercantile filled with specialty foods, fresh fruit and produce in season, wines, apple cider, and gifts. Beautiful grounds, farm animal petting zoo, maze, pumpkin patch, & cow train rides! Cabin for rent on farm property. Fully stocked garden nursery in season.
Address: 10461 Stemm Rd, Peshastin, WA 98847
Phone: 509-548-4196
Website: http://www.smallwoodsharvest.com/
The Cheesemonger's ShopDescription: Best little cheese shop in the Pacific Northwest!
Address: 819 Front Street, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-548-9011
Website: http://www.cheesemongersshop.com/
Twisted Couture Inc.Description: Women's retail clothing store that specializes in women's clothing, footwear, and accessories. Hours: Sunday - Thursday: 10am to 7:30 pm, Friday - Saturday: 10am to 9 pm.
Address: 932 Front St A-1, Leavenworth, WA 98826
Phone: 509-548-1300
Website: https://www.twistedcouture.com


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Edith Tolkien
Edith Mary Tolkien (21 January 1889 – 29 November 1971; née Bratt) was an Englishwoman, known as the wife and muse of novelist J. R. R. Tolkien, and the inspiration for his fictional characters Lúthien Tinúviel and Arwen Undómiel.
Edith Tolkien
Edith Mary Bratt
21 January 1889
Gloucester, England
|29 November 1971 (aged 82)
Bournemouth, England
(m. 1916)
Early lifeEdit
Edith Bratt was born in Gloucester on 21 January 1889. Her mother, Frances Bratt, was 30 years old, unmarried, and was the daughter of a local shoe and bootmaker.[1]
According to Humphrey Carpenter, Frances Bratt never married and the name of Edith's father is not listed on her birth certificate. Even so, Frances is reported to have always preserved a photograph of her daughter's father and this name was known within the Bratt family. Edith, however, was always deeply conscious of having been conceived illegitimately and never told her own children the name of their grandfather.[2]
Subsequent research has identified Edith's father as Birmingham paper dealer Alfred Frederick Warrilow, who had previously employed Frances Bratt as governess to his daughter, Nellie Warrilow.[3] When Warrilow died in 1891, he named Frances as his sole executrix in his will.[4]
Edith was brought up in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham, by her mother and also her cousin, Jenny Grove (related to Sir George Grove). According to Humphrey Carpenter, the circumstances of Edith's birth were a regular subject of neighbourhood gossip.[1]
Frances Bratt died when her daughter was 14 and Edith was sent to the Dresden House boarding school in Evesham. The school was run by the Watts sisters, who had studied music in Dresden. Although the school had a very "strict regime", Edith was always to remember it fondly. It was at the Dresden House School where Edith "first developed her great love, and talent, for playing the piano."[5]
Following school, Edith was expected to become a concert pianist or at the very least a piano teacher. While he considered how to proceed, Edith's guardian, solicitor Stephen Gateley, found her rooms at Mrs. Faulkner's boarding house at 37 Duchess Road, Birmingham.[2]
The boarding house at 37 Duchess Road, "was a gloomy, creeper-covered house, hung with dingy lace curtains". It was owned and operated by Mrs. Faulkner, whose husband Louis was, "a wine merchant with a taste for his own wares".[1] Mrs. Faulkner was also a Roman Catholic and, "an active member of the... parish", attached to the nearby Birmingham Oratory.[6]
Mrs. Faulkner also hosted musical soirées which were often attended by the Oratory's priests. Therefore, she was delighted to have, in Edith, a pianist to accompany the soloists. Whenever Edith attempted to practise, however, Mrs. Faulkner "would sweep into the room as soon as the scales and arpeggios began", and say, "Now, Edith dear, that's enough for now!"[2]
In later years, Edith would tell her children that her life at 37 Duchess Road was, "rather restricted". Once, Edith, who "had a lifelong enjoyment of the theatre", announced that she was going to a matinée at the Theatre Royal. In response, Mrs. Faulkner told her that, "she must take a book to read in the interval to avoid the risk of being talked to by strangers!"[7]
Edith first met Tolkien early in 1908, when he and his younger brother Hilary were moved into 37 Duchess Road by their guardian, Fr. Francis Xavier Morgan of the Birmingham Oratory. At the time Tolkien, known within his family as Ronald, was 16 years old and Edith was 19. According to Humphrey Carpenter,
"Edith and Ronald took to frequenting Birmingham teashops, especially one which had a balcony overlooking the pavement. There they would sit and throw sugarlumps into the hats of passers-by, moving to the next table when the sugar bowl was empty. ...With two people of their personalities and in their position, romance was bound to flourish. Both were orphans in need of affection, and they found that they could give it to each other. During the summer of 1909, they decided that they were in love."[8]
However, before the end of the year the relationship had become known to Tolkien's guardian. Viewing Edith as a distraction from Tolkien's schoolwork and bothered by her Anglican religion, he forbade any contact between them until Tolkien became a legal adult at twenty-one.[9]
Tolkien grudgingly obeyed this instruction to the letter while Father Morgan's guardianship lasted. However, on the evening of his twenty-first birthday, Tolkien wrote a letter to Edith, who had since moved to Cheltenham.[10] It contained a declaration of his love and asked her to marry him. She replied saying that she was already engaged but implied that she had done so out of a belief that Tolkien had forgotten her. Within a week, Tolkien had journeyed to Cheltenham[11] where Edith met him at the railway station. That day, Edith returned her ring and announced her engagement to Tolkien instead.[12]
Following her engagement in January 1913, Edith announced that she was converting to Roman Catholicism at her fiancé's insistence. As Edith was heavily involved in her local Anglican parish, she first resisted the demands. Despite Edith's misgivings, her landlord, a staunch Protestant, was enraged and instantly turned her out of the house.[13] The Tolkeins were married in the Catholic Church of St. Mary Immaculate in Warwick on 22 March 1916.[14] Their week-long honeymoon was spent at Clevedon, in North Somerset, and included a visit to the Cheddar Caves.[14] The Tolkiens had four children, three sons and one daughter, born in 1917, 1920, 1924 and 1929.
Soon after their wedding, Edith's husband commenced a course at the British Army signals school at Otley, and Edith moved to be as close to his military camp as possible, moving with her cousin Jennie Grove to a cottage in the village of Great Haywood, where she lived from April 1916 to February 1917.[15] Due to their wedding occurring during Lent, only the Marriage Service and not the Nuptial Mass had been performed; the couple received a nuptial blessing at the Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist, in Great Haywood.[14]
World War IEdit
Edith's husband was subsequently commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Lancashire Fusiliers, transferring to the 11th (Service) Battalion, part of the 25th Division, with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and arrived in France on 4 June 1916.[16] He later wrote:
Junior officers were being killed off, a dozen a minute. Parting from my wife then ... it was like a death.[17]
Edith's husband's service during the Battle of the Somme was very difficult for her, as she feared that every knock on the door might carry news of his death. To get around the British Army's postal censorship, the Tolkeins arranged a means for letters from the trenches to contain coded messages. By deciphering the code, Edith was able to track her husband's movements on a map of the Front.
After her husband's return from France, the Tolkeins' first child, John Francis Reuel (16 November 1917 – 22 January 2003) was born in Cheltenham.
While Edith's husband was stationed at Kingston upon Hull, she and he went walking in the woods at nearby Roos, and Edith began to dance for him in a clearing among the flowering hemlock:
We walked in a wood where hemlock was growing, a sea of white flowers.[18]
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of Beren and Lúthien, and from that the Song of Beren and Luthien."[19]
Post warEdit
After World War I, the Tolkeins had three more children: Michael Hilary Reuel (October 1920 – 1984), Christopher John Reuel (1924–2020) and Priscilla Anne Reuel (1929–).
Professor's wifeEdit
Edith's husband's professional career at the universities of Leeds and Oxford resulted in the family moving to these cities. According to Humphrey Carpenter, Edith was definitely not an intellectual and had a very difficult time functioning around her husband's colleagues and their families. As she often had no other companionship other than the children and the servants, Edith's loneliness frequently manifested itself as authoritarianism. Another result of her loneliness was her envy and resentment of her husband's close friendship with C.S. Lewis, whom she regarded as an intruder into her family.
According to Carpenter,
"There was also the problem of Edith's attitude to Catholicism. Before they were married, Ronald had persuaded her to leave the Church of England and become a Catholic, and she had resented this a little at the time. During the subsequent years she had almost given up going to mass. In the second decade of marriage her anti-Catholic feelings hardened, and by the time the family returned to Oxford in 1925 she was showing resentment of Ronald taking the children to church. In part, these feelings were due to Ronald's rigid, almost medieval, insistence upon frequent confession; and Edith had always hated confessing her sins to a priest. Nor could he discuss her feelings with her in a rational manner, certainly not with the lucidity he demonstrated in his theological arguments with Lewis: to Edith he presented only his emotional attachment to religion, of which she had little understanding. Occasionally, her smouldering anger about church-going burst into a fury; but at last after one such outburst in 1940 there was true reconciliation between her and Ronald, in which she explained her feelings and even declared that she wished to resume the practice of her religion. In the event she did not return to regular church-going, but for the rest of her life she showed no resentment of Catholicism, and indeed delighted to take an interest in church affairs, so that it appeared even to friends who were Catholics that she was an active church-goer."[20]
Later lifeEdit
According to Humphrey Carpenter,
"Those friends who knew Ronald and Edith Tolkien over the years never doubted that there was deep affection between them. It was visible in the small things, the almost absurd degree in which each worried about the other's health, and the care in which they chose and wrapped each other's birthday presents; and in the large matters, the way in which Ronald willingly abandoned such a large part of his life in retirement to give Edith the last years in Bournemouth that he felt she deserved, and the degree in which she showed pride in his fame as an author. A principal source of happiness to them was their shared love of their family. This bound them together until the end of their lives, and it was perhaps the strongest force in the marriage. They delighted to discuss and mull over every detail of the lives of their children, and later their grandchildren."[21]
In a 1992 lecture, George Sayer recalled his friendship with the Tolkiens during the 1950s and '60s,
"If I was there in the right time in the afternoon he would take me to have tea in the drawing room of the floor below, Edith Tolkien's room. The atmosphere was quite different, with hardly any papers and few books. She did most of the talking and it was not at all literary. Frequent subjects were the doings of the children, especially Christopher, the grandchildren, the garden in which I think Ronald enjoyed working, the iniquities of the Labour Party, the rising price of food, the changes for the worse in the Oxford shops and the difficulty in buying certain groceries. The road had deteriorated since they moved there. It used to be a quiet cul-de-sac. Now the lower end had been opened up and lorries and cars rushed through on their way to a building site or to the Oxford United's football ground. There were some very noisy people on the road. They even had as near neighbours an aspiring pop group. Ronald... told me that when she was younger Edith had been a fine pianist. Some of the conversation was about music. On one occasion she played to us on a very simple old-fashioned gramophone a record she had just bought. Her husband was relaxed and happy with this domesticity. Anyway, it was an important part of his life. Without a liking for the homely and domestic, he could not have written The Hobbit, or created Frodo and Sam Gamgee, characters that sustain quite convincingly the story of The Lord of the Rings, and link the high romance to the everyday and the ordinary."[22]
After his retirement during the 1960s, Ronald decided to move with Edith to a location near Bournemouth, which was then a resort town patronised by the British upper class. Although his status as a best-selling author gave them both easy entry into local society, Tolkien was never comfortable in Bournemouth and missed the company of his fellow intellectuals. Edith, however, was at last in her element as a society matron, which had been Tolkien's intention in selecting their new residence in the first place. Their grandson Simon Tolkien states on his website that Edith loved spending time at Bournemouth's Miramar Hotel.[23]
Edith Tolkien died on 29 November 1971 in Bournemouth at the age of 82, and was buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. Her husband was buried with her when he died twenty-one months later.
Below the Tolkiens' names on their grave are the names of the characters of Beren and Lúthien: in the Middle-earth legendarium, Lúthien was the most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar, and forsook her immortality for her love of the mortal warrior Beren. After Beren was captured by the forces of the dark lord Morgoth, Lúthien rode to his rescue upon the talking wolfhound Huan. Ultimately, when Beren was slain in battle against the demonic wolf Carcharoth, Lúthien, like Orpheus, approached the Valar gods and persuaded them to restore her beloved to life.
Shortly after Edith's death, her husband wrote the following in a letter to their son Christopher.
"I never called Edith Luthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion. It was first conceived in a small woodland glade filled with hemlocks at Roos in Yorkshire (where I was for a brief time in command of an outpost of the Humber Garrison in 1917, and she was able to live with me for a while). In those days her hair was raven, her skin clear, her eyes brighter than you have seen them, and she could sing – and dance. But the story has gone crooked, & I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos."[24]
- ^ a b c Carpenter (1977), p. 38.
- ^ a b c Carpenter (1977), pp. 38–39.
- ^ Duriez (2012), p. 33.
- ^ Duriez (2012), p. 222.
- ^ Tolkien & Tolkien (1992), p. 27.
- ^ Tolkien & Tolkien (1992), p. 26.
- ^ Tolkien & Tolkien (1992), p. 28.
- ^ Carpenter (1977), p. 44.
- ^ Garth (2003), p. 12.
- ^ Garth (2003), p. 29.
- ^ Garth (2003), pp. 29 & 43.
- ^ Carpenter (1977), pp. 67–69.
- ^ Carpenter (1977), p. 73.
- ^ a b c Garth (2003), p. 134.
- ^ Garth (2003), pp. 134 & 231.
- ^ Garth (2003), pp. 89, 138 & 147.
- ^ Garth (2003), p. 138.
- ^ Following rural English usage, Tolkien used the name "hemlock" for various plants with white flowers in umbels, resembling the poison hemlock; the flowers among which Edith danced were more probably cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) or Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota). See John Garth Tolkien and the Great War (Harper Collins/Houghton Mifflin 2003) and Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, & Edmund Weiner The Ring of Words (OUP 2006).
- ^ Cater, Bill (12 April 2001). "We talked of love, death, and fairy tales". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 March 2006.
- ^ Carpenter (1977), p. 157.
- ^ Carpenter (1977), p. 158.
- ^ Pearce, Joseph, ed. (2001). Tolkien: A Celebration. Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-0-89870-866-0.
- ^ "My Grandfather". simontolkien.com. Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
- ^ Carpenter & Tolkien (1981), Letter 340, To Christopher Tolkien.
- Carpenter, Humphrey (1977). Tolkien: A Biography. London: George Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-04-928037-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Carpenter, Humphrey; Tolkien, Christopher, eds. (1981). The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-04-826005-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Duriez, Colin (2012). J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend. Lion Books. ISBN 0745955142.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Garth, John (2003). Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-711952-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Tolkien, John; Tolkien, Priscilla (1992). The Tolkien Family Album. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-261-10239-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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Cons: Why do only black lives matter?
Other races don't matter?
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- Harry ButtsLv 61 month agoFavorite Answer
Lives matter.
The people who insincerely mouth the mantra of "black lives matter" only really care about black deaths they can use to advance a political agenda.
They've never cared about the lives of those black people, or their victims. Just their deaths.
Remember all that BLM outrage over the 16 y.o. black teen who was murdered in CHOP/CHAZ? Of course not, because there was none.
It didn't advance the political agenda.
- 1 month ago
All lives matter. There's oppression towards all races in different parts of the world.
If the Atlantic slave trade and colonisation had not of occurred then none of this would be happening right now.
It's just a shame the average everyday white person of today is having to feel the unwanted guilt of the atrocities their ancestors committed hundreds of years ago. Whenever we want to speak up we automatically get branded racist just because we happen to be the majority instead of the minority.
Let's put it i it prospective. If George Floyd happened to be white and it was a black cop that killed him, would there be just as much public outrage?
- Anonymous1 month ago
no lives matter everyone should get killedSource(s): no
- 1 month ago
Tbh, what about us Latinos/Hispanics?? , I understand that we aren't considered a race but we have cultures, native languages and also face discrimination, but it seems like in America it's all black and white. I feel like the Caucasians are scared of us bc we are different and the African Americans ignore us because "we don't suffer as much".
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- 1 month ago
my eyes were gouged out as a child by black slave traders because i am white
- 1 month ago
Because they're getting killed more or are more likely to be victims of police brutality
- rLv 41 month ago
cause their getting killed more then others. not right
- 1 month ago
I think the phrase should read "black lives matter too". As they are all humans like every other person of colour and matter too just like everyone else.
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It's a complicated matter. Initially, Black Lives Matter (BLM) as a movement was started to protest police brutality and killings of black people. This was justified at the time as black people were certainly disproportionately subjected to abuse by the police.
However, things have changed. Black people are no longer disproportionately discriminated. More white people die in police interactions than black. This is despite the fact that black people perpetrate disproportionately more violent crime than other races.
However BLM as a movement has not changed its stance. It can be argued that they don't have to. They started as an advocacy for black victims, and have every right to remain that way. However they have started attacking others for expressing advocacy for other racial groups because they feel it diminishes their own message/victimhood.
That's why only black lives matter. Because if anyone else matters, they feel they matter less.
- 1 month ago
Show me where someone stated that only black lives matter.....
- GregLv 41 month ago
Cons think that only black lives matter because they are racist white people who don't care about anybody else.


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