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Quaker Steak & Lube® Makes Your Taste Buds Scream With New Seasonal Menu Items
Award-Winning Casual Dining Franchise Announces Limited-Time Ghost Pepper and Seafood Menu Sending Taste Buds into Overdrive
January 11, 2016 // Franchising.com // SHARON, Pa. - The Award-Winning casual-dining franchise Quaker Steak & Lube®, known for its Best Wings USA and more than 25 sauces, announced today the introduction of its newest flavor, Dusted Ghost Pepper, which will be the centerpiece for the brand's limited-time Ghost Pepper and Seafood menu. Beginning Jan. 12 through April 11, Lubies can walk on the wild side as they enjoy new Ghost Pepper specials at Quaker Steak & Lube® locations nationwide. The limited time menu features the new Ghost Pepper QBurger, Ghost Pepper Thick-Cut Steak Fries and a variety of signature seafood menu items to enjoy during the Lenten season.
"We're kicking up the flavor in 2016 with the addition of our newest flavor, Dusted Ghost Pepper, to give our guests what they want – new menu items that make your taste buds scream for more," said Greg Lippert, President and CEO at Quaker Steak & Lube®. "We know that these new offerings will excite our guests who crave intense heat with each bite. Additionally, Lubies rely on Quaker Steak & Lube® during the Lenten season and we're proud to offer seafood options that are family-friendly."
With 11,000 SHU's (Scoville Heat Units), Dusted Ghost Pepper is scary good and really hot. For a limited-time, guests can enjoy our already delicious dishes on a whole new "supernatural" level with menu items such as:
- Ghost Pepper QBurger – This new hand-smashed burger, served as single or double patty, will make you want to put your tastebuds to the test. Topped with Pepper-Jack, jalapeno and an addictive creamy, spicy Ghost Pepper mayonnaise. Served with Lube Fries and Sriracha ketchup or any Sidecar.
- Ghost Pepper Thick-Cut Steak Fries – You can ask for water, but it won't help. These fries are seasoned with our new Ghost Pepper spice and topped with jalapeno and scallion. Served with a side of Queso or Sriracha ketchup.
Lubies looking for non-meat options during the Lenten season this February can also turn to Quaker Steak & Lube's® new limited-time menu, which features a variety of lent-friendly specials, including:
- Pub-Style Fish & Chips – Hand-breaded cod served pub-style with new steak fries, tartar sauce and malt vinegar on the side.
- Premium Garlic Shrimp Skillet – Jumbo shrimp coated with a buttery premium garlic sauce and served in a sizzling skillet with garlic bread to dip.
- Mango Habanero Shrimp Tacos – Mango Habanero dusted jumbo shrimp, crispy slaw, creamy avocado lime ranch dressing and Pico de Gallo. Topped with cilantro and a fresh lime.
Founded in 1974, Quaker Steak & Lube® now has more than 50 locations across 16 states. The compelling decor, including race cars suspended from the ceilings, motorcycles, Corvettes and motor-themed memorabilia, combined with its craveable food and SuperCharged events, has created a cult-like following for The Lube® for more than 40 years.
For more information, visit www.QuakerSteakAndLube.com. Follow The Lube® on Twitter and Instagram at @QuakerSteak and on Facebook at Quaker Steak & Lube. For more information, visit www.QuakerSteakAndLube.com.
About Quaker Steak & Lube®
Founded in 1974 and built in an abandoned gas station in Sharon, Pa., Quaker Steak & Lube® has expanded across the United States. The unique decor, including gas station memorabilia, classic cars, motorcycles, race cars and corvettes suspended from the ceilings combined with the crave-able food and high-octane events has afforded The Lube® a cult-like fan following. Today, Quaker Steak & Lube® has become one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains in the country, and has won hundreds of national and international awards for its wings and more than 25 different wing sauces.
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This is one of my most used ND filters.
Graduated ND filters are essential tools in landscape photography. One of the main problems when shooting landscapes is when you get to a beautiful scene and every time you take a picture you get either overexposed sky or underexposed foreground. It happens many times due to a big difference between the large amounts of light coming from the sky comparing to the smaller amount coming from the ground, especially when shooting sunrise or sunset with the sun right in front of you. Our camera sensors are very advanced but still can't handle the big light differences (large dynamic range) and they don't see everything properly like our eyes.
Before and after using a graduated ND filter
Graduated ND filters help us overcome this problem. The graduated ND filter is half dark at the top part and half transparent at the bottom. When setting it in front of the lens you can set the dark part to cover the sky in your photo and the transparent part to cover the ground. This setting simply reduces the amount of light coming from the sky and balances the large differences between the sky and ground, creating a well balanced photo!
The Lee graduated 0.9 ND is one of the best filters in the market. It has high optical performance and it doesn't have color casting (it doesn't change the natural colors of the photo, a problem many ND filters have). I find the 0.9
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1880 – Belfast Royal Academy, Cliftonville Rd., Belfast
A rather dour school building in a late Gothic style, finished in Scrabo stone. The Academy was founded in 1785 by Rev.
A rather dour school building in a late Gothic style, finished in Scrabo stone. The Academy was founded in 1785 by Rev.
A scheme of waterworks submitted to the Town Council of the City of Limerick in September 1880, G.B. Nichols and Son,
"OUR illustration is a perspective view of a half timbered cottage, designed some years ago by Mr.
Runs from Donegall Place to Fountain Street, the Queen's Arcade is a long shopping arcade to designs by James MacKinnon,
Constructed between 1878 and 1880, and demolished circa 1970. William Kirk & Partners was a linen wholesale warehouse and described as being in the Venetian-style.
Unbuilt proposal in an architectural competition. Four years later, a design by J.J. O'Callaghan was constructed.
Designed to be constructed behind the Royal Irish Academy of Music on Westland Row by William Kaye-Parry,
Described in The Irish Builder, as "the site is at Bloomfield, Co. Down, one of the rising suburbs of the "Northern Athens.""
Designed for Robert Atkinson J.P. of Beaumont. Published in The Irish Builder, September 15 1880. The lodge still exist but the gateway has been widened by removing the central gateposts and the gates removed.
Although the convent building and school were constructed largely as illustrated – the church was not.


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Forty years or so ago, the book "Remembering Roberts Creek" was published.
It covered the very early days, up until the 50s. In its way, it was good; but so much of what the Creek means to us really happened in the 60s and 70s.
Ed Lands and your loyal publisher are putting together a follow-up to that work, and we are looking for your input. Stories. Art. Spoken word. What was your experience in those days?
Ed and I hope to publish a vibrant, strange, shocking, revealing, odd . . . oh, the adjectives are endless! Something memorable. A portmanteau.
If you have a story to tell, a song to sing, an image to show, then, you can submit your idea or completed piece by email to firstname.lastname@example.com We'll be canvassing you in other ways and in other venues; Coast Independent is just one.
We are looking for pieces in the 300-400 word range, though if you have more to say then fill yer boots!


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Languages of Egypt
|Languages of Egypt
|Official languages
|Modern Standard Arabic
|Egyptian Arabic (68%) (de facto lingua franca)
|Minority languages
|Sa'idi Arabic (29%), Bedouin Arabic (1.6%), Sudanese Arabic (0.6%), Domari (0.3%), Nobiin (0.3%), Bedawi (0.1%), Siwi, and Coptic (only for Coptic Christian rituals)
|Main immigrant languages
|Greek, Armenian, Italian
|Main foreign languages
|English and French
|Sign languages
|Egyptian Sign Language
|Historical language(s)
|Egyptian and its Coptic descendant
|Life in Egypt
There are a number of languages spoken in Egypt, but Egyptian Arabic is by far the most widely spoken in the country. Arabic was adopted by the Egyptians after the Arab invasion of Egypt. [1]
Official language
The official language in Egypt is Modern Standard Arabic, used in most written documents.
Spoken languages
Arabic came to Egypt in the 7th century, and Egyptian Arabic has become the modern spoken language of the Egyptians and is understood by almost all Egyptians. In southern Egypt, Saidi Arabic is the main spoken language for most non-urbanized people. Of the many varieties of Arabic, Egyptian Arabic is the most widely understood first dialect in the Middle East-North Africa, probably due to the influence of Egyptian cinema throughout the Arabic-speaking world.
A Bedouin Arab minority speaks a variety of Bedouin Arabic mostly in the Sinai Peninsula. Sudanese Arabic is also spoken by the Sudanese minority.
Lingua franca
Egyptian Arabic is the commonly spoken language, and is occasionally written in Arabic script, or in Arabic chat alphabet mostly on new communication services.
Nubian languages
In the Upper Nile Valley, around Kom Ombo and Aswan, there are about 300,000 speakers of Nubian languages, mainly Nobiin, but also Kenuzi-Dongola.
Other languages of Egypt
Approximately 77,000 speakers of Beja live in the Eastern Desert and along the coast of the Red Sea.
Some 234,000 (2004) Dom speak the Domari language (an Indo-Aryan language related to Romany) and are concentrated north of Cairo and in Luxor.
About 30,000 Egyptian Berbers living in the Siwa oasis and its surroundings speak Siwi Berber,[2] which is a variety of the Berber language of North Africa. Siwi Berber is well mutually intelligible with Libyan Berber dialects. In ancient times, the population of western Egypt was probably made of Berber-speaking tribes.
Foreign languages
English is the most commonly used foreign language and most of the street plates are bilingual in Modern Standard Arabic and English. There are a few street plates with French instead of English. French is also widely spoken and used in business and educated circles.
In addition to English and French, Italian, German and Russian are widely used in the field of tourism.
During the period of the British colonization of Egypt French was actually the medium of communication among foreigners and between foreigners and Egyptians;[3] the mixed French-Egyptian civil courts operated in French, and government notices from the Egyptian Sultan, taxi stand information, timetables of trains, and other legal documents were issued in French.[4] This was partly because of some Egyptians had French education and partly because of cultural influence from France.[3] Despite efforts from British legal personnel, English was never adopted as a language of the Egyptian civil courts during the period of British influence.[5]
Bilingual Arabic-English sign in Cairo.
Bilingual Arabic-French street sign in Alexandria.
A market in Hurghada with a Russian language banner (on the right).
Historical languages
Other Egyptian languages (also known as Copto-Egyptian) consist of ancient Egyptian and Coptic, and form a separate branch among the family of Afro-Asiatic languages. The Egyptian language is among the first written languages, and is known from hieroglyphic inscriptions preserved on monuments and sheets of papyrus. The Coptic language, the only extant descendant of Egyptian, is today the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
The "Koiné" dialect of the Greek language was important in Hellenistic Alexandria, and was used in the philosophy and science of that culture, and was also studied by later Arabic scholars.
- ↑ http://www.historytoday.com/eamonn-gearon/arab-invasions-first-islamic-empire
- ↑ Siwi (siwi or žlan n isiwan) is a Berber language spoken at the oasis of Siwa in western Egypt (Matrūħ Province), about 500 km west of the Nile and 250 km south of the Mediterranean coast, by a little less than 15,000 people, forming a majority of the oasis' population. The nearest Egyptian oasis, Bahariyya, is some 350 km east of Siwa. Siwi is also spoken at the tiny oasis of Gāra near Siwa, and I was told of a multigenerational Siwi community at nearby Jaghbūb in Libya. page 16 of the book GRAMMATICAL CONTACT IN THE SAHARA: Arabic, Berber, and Songhay in Tabelbala and Siwa, August 2010, by: Lameen Souag.
- 1 2 Mak, Lanver. The British in Egypt: Community, Crime and Crises 1882-1922 (Volume 74 of International Library of Historical Studies). I.B.Tauris, March 15, 2012. ISBN 1848857098, 9781848857094. p. 87.
- ↑ Mak, Lanver. The British in Egypt: Community, Crime and Crises 1882-1922 (Volume 74 of International Library of Historical Studies). I.B.Tauris, March 15, 2012. ISBN 1848857098, 9781848857094. p. 87-88.
- ↑ Mak, Lanver. The British in Egypt: Community, Crime and Crises 1882-1922 (Volume 74 of International Library of Historical Studies). I.B.Tauris, March 15, 2012. ISBN 1848857098, 9781848857094. p. 89.
- Badawi, Mohamed; Caroli, Christian A. (2011), As-Sabil: Grundlagen der arabischen Grammatik (in German), Konstanz
- Bateson, Mary Catherine (2003), Arabic Language Handbook, Georgetown University Press, ISBN 0-87840-386-8
- Durand, Olivier; Langone, Angela D.; Mion, Giuliano (2010), Corso di Arabo Contemporaneo. Lingua Standard (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, ISBN 978-88-203-4552-5
- Gregersen, Edgar A. (1977), Language in Africa, CRC Press, ISBN 0-677-04380-5
- Grigore, George (2007), L'arabe parlé à Mardin. Monographie d'un parler arabe périphérique, Bucharest: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, ISBN 978-973-737-249-9


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Bee the Solution – Newsletter 3, December 2016
By Chrystel Vert-Pré
The end of the year is the time that we spend with our loved ones – we hope that you have this chance and we wish you a festive season with friends and family.
And being the last newsletter of the year, we wish you all the best for 2017 – may it bring all you need to you and you loved ones.
What happened this month
Doing the projects is not just about the projects. It does have a lot of different ramifications and this is about those side-activities, behind the scene, along with issues and challenges that we encounter in doing projects.
As one person on the ground, and doing 99% of the running around, writing updates, travelling, meeting with people, activities for the projects themselves, this does take quite a chunk of the time in the month. Projects involve thinking the steps, writing for and about them, meeting people, making connections, discussing, keeping ears opened on the ground.
The newsletter is about all of these activities, what does have an impact on setting-up and/or running projects and also bring general information on project conduct.
|Why do we do what we do… and why do we do it this way?
In recent weeks, I have been more and more convinced that there is a need to help at local/community level. Since "officially" launching Bee the Solution in September 2016 (only a few months ago), the word has been going around in some places where I go. And a lot of people have projects that they wanted help with, if only to phrase them or review their documents at first.
This is the essence of Bee the Solution: we do not necessarily need to arrive with a project that we think would improve the community from a nice office in Europe – people on the ground know their needs, but they have also thought about solutions. Often, they just don't know how to start them off… Other times, they need some discussions to show them that they actually know what they can do, they have just not thought about it.
In other cases, I have also seen how things work while on the ground and how everything stops until the next visit. On the ground presence makes a difference to keep things moving.
Remains the issue of financing those projects – including financing Bee the Solution to be on the ground.
Stay tuned – We will address those topics in future newsletters throughout 2017!
|Administrative challenges
The main reason for coming back to France is administrative… indeed, after nearly 4 years of travelling in Africa, my passport was full and I had to renew it.
I have now a new passport for the next 10 years. But this time, I have an "intensive traveller" passport which contains more pages: from 32 pages to 48 pages (which translates into 42 pages for stamps and Visas instead of 26…)
|Planning challenges
Planning is not easy sometimes. There are many reasons, and the administrative challenges of the passport is one of them. Just to name two that affected planning for 2016:
I had initially planned to go back to Tanzania for the cooker project, but I could not due to the need for 2 more pages in my passport. Likewise, I could not apply for a longer stay visa in Namibia until I had a new passport (passport number…) and thus will only be able to do so next year… possibly only for 2018 and not 2017 as originally planned!
We continuously have to adapt to circumstances and adjust plans…
Since the last newsletter, I have travelled nearly 20'000 km… don't worry, not all by road… as I came back to Europe, this included the flights from Johannesburg! Maya and I were on the road in Africa for only 1'500 km.
Leaving Zimbabwe had less challenges than anticipated, which was a nice surprise. Zimbabwe roads can take time to travel due to numerous road blocks, which were anticipated to be even higher this year. But, the only hurdle we encountered was that the place were we used to stop on the way had safety concerns in the current climate and we couldn't park there safely. So we had to continue to Botswana, crossing border fairly late at night and driving the last 100 km of the day very slowly under a massive thunderstorm, in the dark. The driving conditions that we want to avoid as much as possible. But all went well and the following day we reached South Africa without any issues.
Maya was securely stored in South Africa, staying with friends for 2 months.
The rest of the mileage was between France, UK and Switzerland in a 2 weeks road-trip to visit friends and family – as always with this type of trip, it was too short and I did not manage to see everyone, but it was nice to catch-up with some, even if I have not seen everyone I wanted to see… Next time we meet, it might be in Africa… Who knows…
Please do not hesitate to contact us @ email@example.com.
Feel free to send us feedback. We are open to suggestions and comments. As we are young and learning, we value your opinion even more than usual and are very grateful for it.
Let us know about what you want to see in the Newsletter, which projects you are interested in, any ideas you have for a project.
Have a safe year 2017 ahead
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From Cain to the prophets, from John the Baptist to the disciples, the world has always rejected (the) Truth. Now with VOM's release, In the Shadow of the Cross, you can join the late Glenn Penner of VOM Canada as he explores suffering and persecution throughout the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Included are observations and studies from nearly 200 Christian scholars, both ancient and modern. Never before has such an intensive study of persecution in the Bible been assembled, and no student of the Bible should be without this incredible resource.
Two brothers present an offering to the Lord. One is a "keeper of sheep," the other a "worker of the ground." One of the offerings is acceptable to God; the other is not. This results in one brother rising up against the other and killing him. Within the initial four chapters of the Bible, we witness the first act of martyrdom (or religious persecution): Cain killing Abel (Genesis 4:2-8). Throughout the Scripture (Old and New Testament), the trials and persecutions of those who chose to live godly are revealed.
"The Bible (especially the New Testament) was written by persecuted believers to persecuted believers. This context cannot be ignored without it having profoundly negative implications for how we read and apply the Bible and how we follow Christ individually and corporately. A cross-centered gospel requires cross-carrying messengers." – Glenn Penner, from In the Shadow of the Cross.
Author: Glenn Penner
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 260 pp.
Topic/Country: Suffering, Persecution, Martyrdom
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Back Issue__ Earn Your Keep: Una Kim of Keep Shoes
Interview: Hana May Photos: Kenza Chaouai
Una Kim, one of the founders of Keep Shoes, has been DIYing it since she was in high school. She staged one of her most memorable projects when her parents were out of town. She threw a concert at her house. "Not only did I organize the show, I cooked a huge meal for every one who came over, and I even made the paper that the invitations were made out of, using a blender and old newspaper."
Members of the bands that performed that night now play in little-known bands like Animal Collective, who Keep also happens to have a collaboration coming up with.
Her early efforts may not have thrilled her parents, but it would be hard for anyone not to be proud of Una's ability to make something out of, well, anything. "I think both the DIY ethic and the sense of community and family really empowered people to feel that you could make anything, that you were capable of anything," Una says. "That realization was one of the most fundamentally influential things in my life."
With this experience and confidence, Una launched Keep with Margot Jacobs in 2005.
Originally from the East Coast, Una relocated to the West Coast (she completed her MBA at Stanford), where Keep is based. The West Coast lifestyle has had a strong impact on Una, affecting the style and beliefs with which she infuses her line. All Keep shoes are all cruelty-free. No animals were killed in making them. And, as Una puts it, "No kids, no whips, no factories where you can't take bathroom breaks." Una still misses the East Coast every day, but has no plans to take Keep away from sunny L.A.
Sticking to the do-it-yourself ethic, Una has kept Keep independent. But as such, Una sometimes has problems with the big kids. Large companies have so many resources, so Una believes they should be the ones driving culture. "Too often, they're too scared, too paralyzed, too lazy or too encumbered to be able to produce their own creative, and therefore pay scraps to real artists and end up co-opting culture with watered down designs." She believes companies are incapable of connecting with intellectual human beings, which is why big companies have so much trouble designing sneakers woman actually want to wear—which, shockingly, aren't always pink. "I am sure there are lots of women who want to wear pink and sneakers; I just don't know any of them."
As a philosophy, Keep values its friends and family and keeps them near. This helps Keep stay grounded. The Keep extended family reaches from Ray Potes of Hamburger Eyes to Wendy Yao of Ooga Booga (who both happen to be hearty past features). Shoes are named after their friends and family, and their most recent lookbook paid homage to the people that had helped them build to where they are today.
With their fifth anniversary on the horizon, we caught up with Una to talk about shoes, life and success. From punk music to taking shots at Nike to the shoes she likes to wear (which aren't always her own), learn all about Una Kim and Keep.
Punk and independent music and arts scenes were a huge influence on you. What would you say was the biggest influence?
I think music and art was the framework through which I discovered things—it was how I met people, how I got into different interests. It was something of a filter through which I processed the rest of the world. Most of my closest friends to this day are people I met through music – whether it was playing with them, booking their bands, or just listening to their records. I think when you grow up with people who are naturally creative and curious, you in turn are inspired to be creative and curious.
This helped in demystifying the process of creating things. Can you explain what you meant by this?
When you realize that the things or people you idolized, like musicians, are humans just like you, then you approach the world as a player and not just as a spectator. So often when you're young you don't value your own creative energy. You think it's not as valid as people who are established. Punk and indie rock fundamentally changed that. Labels like Dischord and Simple Machines, which were based so close to me, not only produced amazing records but also encouraged and educated their listeners to participate and also produce. They were saying, 'We make music and you can too.' A simple philosophy like that can change your entire relationship to culture.
You played in bands. What instrument did you play, did you sing and what kinds of bands?
I sang in middle school chorus. I grew up playing piano and cello, and played those instruments in bands, but mostly I played the drums. It's hard to describe what kind of bands I was in. I guess whatever music I was into at the time. Some were more experimental than others, some more pop-y like a Talking Heads meets Minute Men.
You have your MBA and run a creative company. How do you balance your right brain and left brain?
It just happens naturally. I'm not sure, but I think that's my secret weapon.
The Keep name was partially based on the idea of a keepsake.
We weren't named Keep just for the idea of a keepsake, though that was part of it. I like the concept of a keepsake, that an object could hold a memory and be valuable enough on a personal level to want to treasure it. But I also like all the other connotations of "keep" such as "earning your keep" which signifies independence or to "keep at it" which suggests perseverance.
What are your favorite personal keepsakes?
In regards to keepsakes, I am a bit of a pack rat so I have a lot of little things that are favorite keepsakes of mine. I've got a little coin purse that my grandmother used to carry around with her until the day she died. I have a pretty big coffee mug collection--probably one of the reasons why we have a Keep mug.
Keep was initially created as a brand for women, when did men start adopting your silhouettes and wearing the shoes?
Since day one I've received emails from guys who wanted to wear the shoes. We expanded our size range pretty quickly, starting with the second season. I didn't expect to get that much love from the dudes, but it was pretty heavy from the beginning.
I think it really says something when you have a women's company appeal to men, because the inverse is usually the norm.
I suppose I felt vindicated in a certain sense, because so many things I was into growing up were denied to me, simply because it didn't come in my size. But beyond the initial smugness, I'm just happy we appeal to a broad range of people. I'm psyched that guys like Keep and I hope they continue to buy Keep and support it. Gender, especially in fashion, is such a construct. Just like what you like and support the things that resonate with you. That's all I could hope from my customers.
You've said having bigger companies copy your styles at times helps you by making the mainstream public more aware of your aesthetic. With your aesthetic pretty well known now, do you still feel the same way?
Of course it annoys me when companies steal our designs, but it's more out of principle than anything. A large company has so many resources, I feel like they should be the ones who drive culture. But too often they're too scared, too paralyzed, too lazy or too encumbered to be able to produce their own creative and therefore pay scraps to real artists and end up co-opting culture with watered down designs. They buy their way into understanding the consumer, and that just annoys me. I wish they just stuck with what they knew best. That's why companies like Patagonia or Nike in the early days were so rad, because they created their own culture around what their core values were--they were originals. Now Nike just chases cultural tail like they're a horny teenager with no game. It's disappointing.
I supposed I am too tired to care when people copy our styles. I think the beauty of Keep isn't just in the colors or the materials, but what the brand represents. I also think that consumers, the ones who really care, can tell when there is an implicit understanding of the aesthetic in the product. I think it's funny when brands rip us off and make their version of Keeps and they get it all wrong--they just make us look better. Though sometimes they do an exact replica and that's hard to swallow. Some people will always care about who the original is. At the same time, if you don't care then that's cool. Buy Keep if you like it, leave it if you don't. We're just a shoe company, so there's no point in taking it too seriously.
Do you wear other shoe brands?
Sure. People say I don't wear my Keeps enough. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a band wearing my own band's t-shirt. It's not in my nature to be a 24/7 promoter. Maybe that's why we aren't bigger or more successful. If I don't rock Keeps, I wear Clarks or a particular kind of Birkenstock. Sort of crunchy hippie if you know what I mean. I wear New Balance running shoes. Flip flops. I do live in Cali after all.
I wear heels on special occasions. Typically when I'm in New York or on the East Coast which is funny since you walk more then. I like Marc Jacobs heels from the early 2000s--that was a good era for Aerosoles as well. My most recent heels purchase was from Slow and Steady Wins the Race. In general though, I look pretty soccer mom-ish on the day to day in Cali. I'm one step away from wearing my mom's SAS orthopedic shoes.
What Keep styles are the most popular right now?
The Ramos is our number one, all time classic. The Nuss and the Benten always do well and we just launched the Solis and that's been getting a lot of love.
Will you ever move back East or relocate the company back East?
I don't think we'll ever re-locate the company. Will I ever move back East? I'm not sure. I guess being bi-coastal could be cool but I'm a long way away from having the dough to do that. My family is all on the East Coast though, so never say never. I love my life on the West Coast, but I do miss the East Coast almost every day.
What advice would you give young female entrepreneurs?
There is no crying in business. Suck it up, don't let your emotions overrun you. Always be cool, calm and collected. Work hard, work smart, and don't bitch. Don't take things too seriously. Believe.
What's coming up from you and Keep?
Personally, I've got about three other companies coming up that are in the works. Hopefully getting married soon if the economy stabilizes enough. As for Keep--Keep will keep being Keep. There is a men's clothing line coming in the future. Also our fifth year anniversary is coming. Plus a collaboration with Animal Collective that will benefit charity as well as a project with British based artists Atherton Lin.
Where's your heart at?
With my family, always. You know who you are.


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The Trinity: God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one. The trinity is an essential teaching in Christianity. While it is never clearly explained in Scripture, it is clearly alluded to throughout the OT and NT.
*See Gen 1:26; Matt 3:16-17, 28:18-20; John 1:1-5, 14:9-11; 2 Corinthians 4:4, 13:14; Col 1:15-20; I Peter 1:2, etc.
The Bible: We believe in the inspiration, inerrancy, and authority of the Scripture. Our "Equip" class teaches about the history, authenticity, and interpretation of Scripture.
*See Psalms 12:6, 119:105; Proverbs 30:5; 2 Timothy 1:13, 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21, etc.
Sin: Man is made in the image of God to be like Him in character. Although every person has tremendous potential for good, all of us are marred by an attitude of disobedience toward God called "sin". This attitude separates people from God and causes spiritual separation from God. We are all sinners!
*See Genesis 1:27; Psalms 8:3-6; Isaiah 53:6a; Isaiah 59:1-2; Romans 3:23, etc.
Salvation: We believe people are saved by grace when they express faith in Jesus. The appropriate responses to Christ's offer of salvation includes: hearing the gospel, trusting in Christ for salvation, turning away from sin, confessing Christ as Lord, and being immersed in Christian baptism.
*John 1:12, 14:6; Romans 5:1, 6:23; Galatians 3:26; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5, etc.
Eternity: People will either exist eternally separated from God by sin, or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation. We believe in a literal heaven and hell.
*See John 3:16, 14:17; Romans 6:23, 6:23, 8:17-18; 1 Corinthians 2:7-9; Revelation 20:15, etc.
Unity: We believe that church unity is absolutely essential. We are a church that has agreed to disagree on negotiable issues, and we refuse to fight, or allow divisive behavior in the church.
*See John 17:20-23, 1 Corinthians 1:10, Mtt 12:25, etc.
In His Image: We believe man and woman were created in the image of God. Though Christians may disagree about creation and evolution, we must understand and agree that we are created, with a eternal/spiritual component, in the image of God.
*See the creation account in Gen 1:27 where Adam and Eve are both created in God's image.
Communion: We take communion at every worship gathering. We believe that communion is a memorial; we remember what Jesus did for us. Communion is an announcement; we are expecting his return. It should be taken in a worthy manner; after examination and remembering.
*see 1 Corinthians 11:23-28
Sacrificial Giving: We do teach tithing (10%) as the biblical standard of giving in the local church. 2 Corinthians 9:7 says, "You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. "For God loves a person who gives cheerfully."
*See Leviticus 27:30; 2 Samuel 24:24; Malachi 3:7-12; Matthew 23:23; Mark 12:43-44, etc.
Ministry: The Bible teaches that every Christian is called to ministry. We believe that every Christian is gifted by God's Spirit to serve and we encourage every partner to find a place to serve and minister.
*See 1 Cor 121:31, Rom 12:3-8, Eph 4:11-16; 1 Pet 2:9, Rev 1:6, etc.
Gender: We believe God created human beings, male and female, in His own image. Adam and Eve belonged to the created order that God Himself declared to be very good, serving as God's agents to care for, manage, and govern creation, living in holy and devoted fellowship with their Maker. Men and women enjoy equal access to God by faith in Jesus Christ and are both called to move beyond passive self-indulgence to significant private and public engagement in family, church, and civic life. Adam and Eve were made to complement each other in a "one flesh" union that establishes the only normative pattern of sexual relations for men and women, such that marriage ultimately serves as a type of the union between Christ and His church. In God's wise purposes, men and women are not interchangeable, but rather complement each other in mutually enriching ways. God ordains that they assume distinctive roles which reflect the loving relationship between Christ and the church, the husband exercising headship in a way that displays the caring, sacrificial love of Christ, and the wife submitting to her husband in a way that models the love of the church for her Lord. In the ministry of the church, both men and women are encouraged to serve Christ and be developed to their full potential in the manifold ministries of the people of God. The distinctive leadership role within the church given to qualified men (elders) is grounded in creation, fall, and redemption and must not be sidelined by appeals to cultural developments.
*see Genesis 1:26-31, 2:15-25; Acts 2:17-18, 21:9; Romans 16:1-16; 1 Timothy 2:12-3:13; Galatians 3:23-29; Ephesians 5:22-33; 1 Peter 4:10-11.
In 2002 the Christian Churches in Yamhill County contacted Bill Putman, the director of the O.C.E.F. Church Planters, regarding the possibility of planting a church in McMinnville. Bill called Erik Neilson and asked if he would consider planting a brand new church to reach the new people who were coming into our rapidly growing town. Like all OCEF church plants, Adventure Christian Church was started people for who don't know Jesus Christ and for Christians without a church home.
After going through church planter assessment, boot camp, and a few interviews, the Neilson family began the greatest "adventure" of their lives…planting a new church. Adventure's beginnings looked something like this:
We started our first life2life group in a living room on Nov 1, 2002 and 3 subsequent small groups.
We formed a launch team, and officially began worship services on Easter Sunday 2003, at the facilities of the McMinnville Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
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On Easter Sunday 2004 we opened our newly remodeled facilities.
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Professor Pamela Maseko, Associate Professor in the African Language Studies Section in the School of Languages and Literatures has been shortlisted for the prestigious South African Literary Awards (SALA) for the book William Wellington Gqoba: Isizwe Esinembali, Xhosa Histories and Poetry (1873 – 1888) and D.L.P. Yali-Manisi Imbali Zamanyange (Historical Poems).
Both books, co-edited and co-translated with Prof Jeff Opland and Wandile Kuse, and with Prof Opland respectively, have been shortlisted for the 2017 Literary Translators Awardcategory. The winners will be announced on Tuesday, 7 November 2017 in Gauteng.
The books are the first two volumes of the Publications of Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature Series, an academic library Opland assembled in the course of his research into Xhosa folklore, praise poetry, and the history of Xhosa literature. Opland and Maseko are the General Editors of the Series, published by the University of KwaZulu Natal Press.
The Series presents diplomatic editions with English translations of significant works in isiXhosa, previously unrecognised or unavailable as published books.
"This nomination recognises our scholarly endeavours in using translation to enable access to isiXhosa literature of the 19th and early 20th century. Considering the craft that goes into establishing English equivalents for isiXhosa words, this nomination is an affirmation that the strategies we have adopted are outstanding," said Prof Maseko.
With a PhD in Sociolinguistics, Prof Maseko currently teaches Sociolinguistics with a focus Applied Language Studies. One of her teaching and research areas is Translation Studies: Theory and Practice. She has translated and adapted various scientific, literary fictional and non-fictional texts into isiXhosa, including texts in the Nelson Mandela Museum in Qunu, Mvezo and the Bhunga Building in Mthatha. With Jeff Opland she serves as General Editor of the Publications of The Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature. Her research has been published in journals and as book chapters both locally and abroad. She is also an executive member of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa.
Prof Maseko has been shortlisted as one of twenty-eight South Africa's authors for the 2017 SALA. This year marks the highest milestone for the awards as the shortlist includes, for the first time, the! Xam and! Kun languages.
About the Book: William Wellington Gqoba (1840-1888)
Gqoba is a prominent African intellectual from the Eastern Cape. By trade, he was a wagon maker, licensed preacher of the Free Church of Scotland, teacher, historian, poet, folklorist, and editor. For much of his brief life, he served at mission stations as a catechist, and he ended his career as editor of the Lovedale newspaper Isigidimi sama-Xhosa.
He contributed subversive poetry that was outspokenly critical of Western education, the European administration of black people, and the discrimination suffered by colonised blacks.
Unrivalled in his time in the generic range of his writing, he was the author of letters, anecdotes, expositions of proverbs, histories, and poetry, including two poems in the form of debates that stood for over 50 years as the longest poems in the Xhosa language.
This book assembles and translates into English all of William Wellington Gqoba's clearly identifiable writings. They offer an insider's perspective on an African nation in transition: adapting uncomfortably to Western mores and morality, seeking to affirm its identity by drawing on its past, and standing on the brink of mobilisation to resist white control and to construct its social, political, and religious independence of European colonialism.
The future of African literature, according to Prof Maseko, is to translate and publish as many of these texts as possible - many of which appeared in isiXhosa in newspapers.
"We have five volumes in the series up to date and two more volumes will be published in 2018. We are working on John Ntsiko, the Harp of the Nation and another volume by Samuel E. Krune Mqhayi. What would be ideal is to build a literary archive that recognises this Eastern Cape literary heritage," she said.Source: Communications
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Question: My husband had an affair and I'm wondering what I should do with our relationship? Should I stay married to him or leave him? He said it was just a one time thing and he was drunk. I don't know. I'm worried it may continue. I mean, my husband had an affair! What should I do?
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Once you go away and come back, hopefully you will have cleared your head enough to make a decision. If your husband is truly remorseful and still loves you, then he will understand your need for space. He will also be waiting when you get back.
Taking some time off also has the added effect of letting him think about what he's done. If it was really spur of the moment, then he might be feeling extremely ashamed and might not want to talk to you out of fear that pressing the issue too soon may exacerbate an already tense situation. If he's not apologetic, and instead took the time to continue his behavior, well I think you have your answer now.
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May is Bike to Work Month, and locally that means participating in the Group Health Commute Challenge. Alas, I work at home. It's the ultimate way to reduce the carbon footprint of my commute, but it means I can't join the biggest cycling event of the year.
What's a girl to do?
I could just decide to ride my bike for 10 miles in the morning and 10 miles at the end of the day for fun, but that sort of kills the spirit of the event, which is to find ways to trade in your car for your bicycle. I decided instead to sign up for Clif Bar's 2 Mile Challenge.
According to Clif's website, 40% of all urban travel in the US happens within two miles of where people live. Nearly all that travel is by car! What they didn't say is that most of the pollution emitted by a car in a trip is within the first few miles, while the car is warming up. Clif Bar created the 2 Mile Challenge as a game to see how many car trips could be replaced with a bike instead.
Here's the map, showing the 2-mile radius around my house.
I see a couple challenges already:
First, all of my regular grocery stores – PCC, Safeway, Trader Joes, and Costco are in the 2-mile radius. Yes, I'm going to have to make Costco runs on my bicycle. This could be an interesting experiment in multiple trips to the same store if I need to buy more than I can carry in my grocery panniers.
Second, I live on top of a hill. No matter which way I go, it's downhill from here and uphill to get home. Riding uphill loaded with cans of tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, apples, cat food, soy milk, and other heavy grocery items will certainly make my quads a lot stronger! I'm not complaining. I mean, I used to carry crates of sparkling water up six flights of stairs to my home in Germany. I'm just acknowledging the challenge!
Finally, my local coffee shop is in the 2-mile radius. You wouldn't think it's a big deal, but I frequently meet people there needing to look nice – as in suit nice. Maybe some of those trips I'll do by foot in slightly more casual clothing than a suit and make an exception for the suit days. I'll have to think about this more. I hate to start making exceptions, if I can figure out a way to make it work.
Even though it's not May yet, I'm going to start today – a test run if you will. Costco, here I come!
Update: I did my first two trips by bike today. The first was to PCC and Costco. Everything was fine, except maybe the tortilla chips. I might have a few extra crushed ones thanks to the tight fit in my panniers. Then it was down the street to Safeway. All in all, I estimate that I hauled about 30 pounds of groceries home. Not bad for my first trip. The total time it took for grocery shopping at the three stores was only 90 minutes – about 20 minutes longer than normal. I didn't really mind though, because I was killing two birds with one stone – shopping and exercise. It really helped that the it wasn't raining. I'm not sure how I would keep my groceries dry in the rain.


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Oversight Requests Justice Department Documents on Mortgage-Backed Securities Settlements
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding oversight of the Department of Justice's litigation policy with respect to large financial institutions accused but not convicted or adjudicated of illegal conduct in conjunction with the financial crisis.
"On July 14, 2014, you announced a $7 billion settlement with Citigroup Inc. to resolve federal and state civil claims related to Citigroup's conduct in the packaging, securitization, marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities prior to January 1, 2009," Chairman Issa wrote in the letter. "This announcement follows a $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan for similar conduct in November 2013. Both settlements were predicated on violations of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989. While FIRREA authorizes the Department to initiate a lawsuit for civil money penalties, both Citigroup and JPMorgan resolved the investigations through pre-suit settlement negotiations."
Issa continues in the letter:
"The Department's inclination to enter into settlement agreements with respect to mortgage securities fraud stands in marked contrast to the Department's litigation strategy in other contexts. In May, the Department secured a guilty plea from Credit Suisse AG concerning charges that it entered into a conspiracy to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers in filing false income tax returns; the plea agreement requires Credit Suisse pay a total of $2.6 billion in penalties. In June, BNP Paribas SA pled guilty and agreed to pay $8.9 billion in penalties for illegally processing financial transactions for countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions."
The letter requests the following documents:
- All documents and communications since January 1, 2011, referring or relating to the settlement agreement with JPMorgan announced by the Department on November 19, 2013.
- All documents and communications since January 1, 2011, referring or relating to the settlement agreement with Citigroup announced by the Department on July 14, 2014.
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This morning's Buffalo News headline featured the photo of a bright, beautiful 16-year old girl with a promising future, her life snuffed out by a silent killer yesterday.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) is colorless and odorless. It strikes with symptoms that could easily be mistaken for the flu. Small doses accumulated over time can be as dangerous as a prolonged exposure. Left undetected, there is potential for harm and death in almost every household in America.
Carbon Monoxide is a normal by-product of combustion. Natural gas fired appliances (stoves, boilers, hot water tanks, furnaces, etc.) give off carbon monoxide. So do wood burning stoves and fireplaces. However, under normal operating conditions and with sufficient ventilation, the CO does not accummulate to levels that can be dangerous to your health.
It's when there is insufficient ventilation, incomplete combustion or a lopsided air to fuel mixture that problems occur. Such was the case with the hot water boiler that is believed to be responsible for Amanda Hansen's death as she slept on a basement floor with her best friend and fellow swim team mate.
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Every house needs at least one and the best place to install them is closest to a potential source of CO build-up (gas or wood burning appliances) AND closest to where you'll hear them. The more the better. They're designed to alert you long before readings reach deadly levels.
I've listed some resources that will help you understand what CO is and tell you lots of ways you can keep safe from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. But, all of this information is useless without a CO detector installed in your home.
So, I'm asking you this one favor, actually I'm begging you: Please CO-operate by purchasing a CO detector for your home today. Don't wait. Don't put it off until tomorrow, for as this most recent tragedy teaches us, tomorrow could be too late.
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Buffalo News Article: http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/552790.html
Carbon Monoxide Safety Information –
EPA – http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/coftsht.html
US Fire Administration – http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/all_citizens/co/index.shtm
CDC – http://www.cdc.gov/co/
Home Safety Council – http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/safety_guide/sg_co_w001.aspx
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Uber's human resources chief becomes the latest exec to exit
Uber's head of human resources has resigned, becoming the latest high-profile executive to depart a ride-hailing giant that is only just emerging from a year of internal upheaval.
Liane Hornsey's exit came after an anonymous employee, emailing Uber's whistle-blower account and Chief Legal Officer Tony West, threatened to go public with grievances if the company didn't take action. The whistle-blower accused Hornsey of dismissing internal allegations of racial discrimination, according to a person who read the email. Bloomberg hasn't obtained a copy of the complaints.
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced Hornsey's departure in a staff email obtained by Bloomberg. Her resignation came just after she led an off-site gathering for HR employees Tuesday.
"I know this comes a little out of the blue for some of you, but I have been thinking about this for a while," Hornsey wrote her team in an email. Reuters first reported her resignation. Uber declined to comment, while Hornsey wasn't immediately available for comment.
Hornsey arrived at the San Francisco company in January 2017, just a month before former Uber software engineer Susan Fowler published an explosive blog post chronicling the sexual harassment she faced at the company. In June of that year, co-founder Travis Kalanick resigned as CEO amid a number of scandals, including accusations that Uber fostered a hostile workplace culture.
Hornsey had initially defended Kalanick and the company, only to later promise that Uber would reform under a new CEO. That made her a divisive figure among employees who thought Uber had changed too much and others who reckoned it had changed too little. For his part, Khosrowshahi praised Hornsey's leadership.
After the complaint against her, West enlisted Gibson Dunn, an outside law firm running independent investigations of Uber's top executives, to look into the accusations. West later told the anonymous complainant he didn't intend to disclose the firm's findings, according to a separate email Bloomberg obtained.
"Serious allegations alone, even when they turn out to be unsubstantiated, can damage a person's career and reputation, implicating important due process, privacy and moral concerns," he wrote in the email. "We should keep in mind that the simple fact that we may not observe disciplinary action doesn't mean serious measures haven't been imposed, if and where appropriate."
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September saw 270,010 tourists coming to Malta and spending €243 million
September 2018 saw a total of 270,010 visitors to Malta, an increase of 15.6% when compared to the same month last year.
Of these, 239,377 were here for holiday purposes, while 21,416 were for business purposes.
Most inbound tourists, 39.5%, in September were aged between 25 and 44. The total tourist expenditure for this month was estimated at €242.7 million, an increase of 4.8% over last year.
The figures released by the National Statistics Office on Wednesday showed that in the first nine months of 2018, more than two million tourists visited Malta. This corresponded to a 15.6% increase.
Tourists from EU member states went up by 11.9% when compared to September 2017.
Visitors from the UK made up 70,541, an increase of 18.4%.
Total nights spent in Malta in September went up by 10.2%, surpassing the two million nights. The largest share of guest nights was spent in collective accomodation establishments.


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Lucky in Love
Katie West
Received from Edelweiss
LUCKY IN LOVE by Kasie West is exactly why I love this wonderful author's stories. She always leaves me feeling so happy with a huge smile on my face. No one else writes clean YA like Ms. West does and I love the fact that my fifteen year old daughter loves her books as much as I do! If I didn't need to sleep and eat I would have finished LUCKY IN LOVE in one sitting because once I started reading it was very hard to stop. I love when an author can do that to me and Kasie West does it each and every time.
Maddie has spent her whole life, preparing for college and works really hard so she can get the scholarships she needs to make her dreams a reality. That is until she takes a chance on her eighteenth birthday and buys her very first lottery ticket! Well, you know what happens right? Of course, she wins! She wins fifty million dollars, takes home thirty million and her life is never going to be the same. LUCKY IN LOVE now has Maddie being one of the most popular kids in school and kids who never even knew she existed, all want to be her friend. Maddie is so naive, she doesn't realize who is taking advantage of her and who is her true friend.
LUCKY IN LOVE will show everyone who reads it, that money doesn't buy you happiness. It also creates lots of problems as Maddie soon finds out. She begins to question everyone's motives including the guy who is slowly but surely winning her heart. Seth is a friend who works with Maddie at the zoo. He has been trying to get her attention for months but Maddie doesn't see it. They go through some rough spots as far as the money goes too, but overall, this story left me with so much hope for the two of them. I loved the teasing between Seth and Maddie and Kasie West made me feel as if I were right there at the zoo cleaning out the animal pens with them. Now I'm going to quickly devour all the other Kasie West books I haven't had the chance to read yet. So excited!!


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Every child baptised at St Michael's Church is given a knitted comforter.
They are made by the Knit and Natter group.
The person who knitted the comforter commits themselves to praying
for the child who receives it.
Here is a link to a prayer written by a mother of a child baptised at St Michael's.
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Gov't Mule
Gov't Mule
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Legendary rock torchbearers, Gov't Mule, are ramping up their 2016 schedule with an extensive tour and the release of a new archival album entitled The Tel-Star Sessions, the band's very first, and never-before-released, demos made in June 1994 at Tel-Star Studios in Bradenton, Florida. These newly mixed and mastered recordings feature the original line-up: Warren Haynes, Allen Woody and Matt Abts. "Having listened to them recently, for the first time in decades, a big smile came over my face. These recordings capture the rawness and excitement of the earliest stage of Gov't Mule," explains Haynes. Gov't Mule has showcased its virtuosity, intelligence and breadth for more than two decades, which have encompassed 15 studio and live albums, millions of album and track sales and thousands of performances. The band has become a human encyclopedia of timeless American music while adding to that canon with their signature sound.


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Twitter's User Streams Launching Soon
According to a recent post from Twitter infrastructure employee John Kalucki, the highly anticipated User Streams API product will be moved from a closed beta to an open beta testing period quite soon.
Twitter first announced User Streams at Chirp, where Twitter Director of Platform Ryan Sarver told a crowd of eager developers about a new feature and API that would get data in real time and without rate limits. Onstage at the conference, Sarver pinged content from Twitter.com onto TweetDeck in real time. The API was made available to devs for a brief period during the conference, but any apps or features created around it were not shown to the general public.
However, the company did open the API to two partners in July: TweetDeck and Echofon. At that time, Twitter also announced a new Streaming API product called Site Streams.
Today, Kalucki took to Google Groups to let developers know that the User Streams product launch "is moving along as planned.
"We haven't had any downtime, and we've only had a few subtle functionality problems to refine. In short, all is going very well... We intend to move this product into an open beta test period soon, and then on into full production shortly thereafter."
Originally, the open beta was slated for late August. Still, we'd be just as happy to see a smooth launch in September. Twitter's roadmap for User Streams includes an at-scale launch in Q3 or Q4 of this year.
What do you think of User Streams so far? Are you excited about the potential for user applications?


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It's all about YOU and the experience!
Hangout Vapor Lounge offers you and your friends & family the best vaping experience in the area. When you come to our lounge the first thing you notice is it's new and clean, not your typical Vape Store or Smoke Shop. With a Huge Sample Bar where you can try the juice before you buy and ALL the latest and best Box Mod's are waiting for you at the store. We have the experts on staff so if you are a beginner or an advanced expert your best vaping experience is waiting for you at the Hangout Vapor Lounge. (the regulars call it Hangout and so will you!). So come on over and check out the our wide range of selections where you are in control and can be best tips for your vape.
Hangout Vapor Lounge located at 375 Windsor Hwy. in New Windsor, NY (across from K Mart Plaza) and 1400 Route 300, Newburgh, NY 12550 (across from Newburgh mall) is a vape shop that features a wide selection of authentic vapes, e cigs, e juices and vape supplies to their vaping customers in Newburgh, New Windsor and surrounding Orange County, NY communities.
The Hangout Vapor Lounge proudly offers their vape customers the best vaping experience in the Newburgh & New Windsor area. When you first visit their vaping lounge you will immediately notice how new, modern and clean it is. Certainly, this is not your typical vape store or smoke shop.
Also, the Hangout Vapor Lounge (HVL) features an awesome e juice sample bar where you can taste and experience over 50,000 combinations of e juice flavors – and all the latest & best MODs are here and waiting for you to try at their clean and modern vape lounge in New Windsor & Newburgh. More importantly, the Hangout Vapor Lounge in New Windsor & Newburgh has the best and most experienced vaping experts on staff. So whether you are a beginner or an advanced vaping expert, the best e cigs, vapes, e juices & vapes supplies are now conveniently here for you to try at the Hangout Vapor Lounge in New Windsor, NY and Newburgh, NY.
Stop in today and browse – let the staff at the Hangout Vapor Lounge explain some of the financial advantages of switching over to electronic cigarettes.
So check us out relax in our comfortable Lounge and enjoy a good company of an XBOX ONE, choice sporting events on TV & shows.