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I think he's a good player. He's unquestionably better than what we've got.In the context of a season that's all but over though, it's a little more short-term than I'd like. We have a window of opportunity to give our young players 5 months of pressure free first-team football. Yet here we are putting additional barriers in front of Calvert-Lewin, Lookman and Vlasic. It's a results-driven business. Allardyce will 100% of the time choose a proven Walcott over an unproven Lookman (for example). Is Walcott better than Lookman now? Of course he is. Would Lookman be better for us in a couple of years time than a 30+ year old Walcott though? Quite possibly. Will Lookman progress if he's not actually playing first team football though? Not a chance.Walcott's not going to be the difference between us winning a trophy or not this season. He's not going to be the difference between finishing in the top 4. He's not even going to be decisive in finishing the top 6. He might help us finish 7th, but half our fans don't even want that.I don't particularly have any faith that Walcott or Tosun will prove the difference in future years either. So at this point it's all just a little disappointing for me really.
So, and i assume i must be massively wide of the mark here because it seems like nonsense:We shouldn't buy good players because we don't have the calibre of players to play around them for them to continue being good?
I don't believe 'is he better than what we have?' should be the defining criteria because every other winger in the league has a better goal scoring record than Aaron Lennon over the last two seasons, but that doesn't mean we should sign them.
We should be looking at players like Lozano or Pavon. The next generation of superstar wingers.
What barrier are we putting in front of DCL?
Whether he will improve to be that player, only time will tell. But he is clearly not the answer and having better quality strikers in the squad should help him be better. In terms of better quality rubbing off on him, competition, and also to ease the pressure of being the main man.
For it to be mentioned by Sam means it's pretty much done.
I would have thought it was clear that I was more concerned by our wider players, like Lookman, but Tosun and Walcott are clearly barriers for Calvert-Lewin. Whether or not you rate him is entirely besides the point.A player improving without playing because better players around him? I'm not sure I can think of one of those, to be honest. I'd love to hear a few examples?
Point blank disagree with you there. It is absolutely the defining criteria. Without passing that test then you get no further (after that you get into the 'is he the best we can get'/'is he worth the fee' questions. but they're all irrelevant compared to the above.2 genuine questions about this:1) Will they be ready to start the first game of next season and actually be better than what we have immediately?2) The second we put an offer in that is accepted, do you reckon Chelsea/City/Juve/Arsenal would sit back and let us have them? keep reading @KoemansNumberTens , it was cleared up. (although, to your point specifically. What if the weakest players of the top sides are still miles better than our best players? Swerve them because they won't be quite as good for us?)
It will be up to DCL to up his game then to prove he should be the main man. The fact he hasn't done it for half a season is why we're buying reinforcements.As for the other wide players, they are not as good as Walcott yet. They've shown flashes, but they are not consistent enough for a prolonged spell in the team. Your final question, being around better players should certainly help improve a player. Absolutely. When you learn something, do you learn from someone who knows less or more about the subject than you?
So should we sign Chris Brunt or James McLean, because I think they've scored more than Lennon?I think the question should be 'are they sufficiently better than what we have to justify the overall spend?' and will they improve.Yes, Pavon or Lozano would be ready.The big clubs don't sign all the best young players. A number of those players realise they need game time to develop. That's why Malcolm joined Bordeaux for example. That's why Lozano went to PSV. So for me, that argument doesn't wash at all.
Why does it have to be one or the other with regards to established or up and coming, you can get both, like I think we would if we got Walcott?We've had Deulofeu, arguably one of the most sought after wingers in the world at that time and that didnt work, weve got Lookman who has massive potential and most teams would be after him, same with Vlasic. Swansea have got Sanchez, who was similar to Gerry, and he looks average at best. At least with Walcott it will give you the opportunity to play the up and coming players as and when it suits, and if they perform better than him then so be it.
Not if I'm not putting it into action, no. Would still love to hear some examples of players who've improved sat on the bench though.
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In recent years Oppo Digital has followed a simple recipe for success: Just build universal disc players that offer greater versatility, more audiophile-friendly features, and more sensible pricing than the competition does, and then give them decisively better sound and picture quality than their peers. Naturally, this laudable goal is a lot easier to describe on paper than it is to achieve in the real world, but Oppo has made good on its promises, year after year and player after player, in the process earning a reputation as the nearly automatic "go-to" source for players that will satisfy discerning music (and movie) lovers on a budget.
Historically, many of Oppo's most popular players have sold for around $499. But with the 2011 release of its BDP- 95 universal/Blu-ray player ($995), the firm began to explore a more upscale market. What set the BDP-95 apart was that it was not merely a "hot-rodded," sonically tweaked version of a standard Oppo player; rather, it was a unique, dedicated high-end model with a distinctive configuration all its own.
The award-winning BDP-95 sounded remarkably good both for its price and in a broader sense. Never a company to rest on its laurels, however, Oppo has recently announced the successor to the BDP-95; namely, the BDP- 105 ($1199)—a player that promises to do everything its predecessor could do and then some.
Like its predecessor, the BDP-105 can handle virtually any format of audio or video disc, including Blu-ray Video, Blu-ray 3D, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, SACD, CD, HDCD, and more. But with the BDP-105 the universality theme doesn't end with disc playback because the new player is also designed to serve both as a network-streaming player and as a multi-input high-resolution DAC (complete with asynchronous USB).
To really "get" what the BDP-105 is about, think of it not so much as a powerful multi-format disc player (although it is that and more), but rather as a multi-function digital media playback hub whose bag of trick includes, but is in no way limited to, disc playback. In practical terms, this means the BDP-105 neatly resolves debates about whether it is better to listen to discs, to stream content from the Internet, or to enjoying audio files stored on computers, because it can quite happily do all of the above.
The BDP-105 comes housed in an all-new steel chassis said to be significantly more rigid than the chassis used in previous Oppo players (including the BDP-95), and it benefits from a fan-less architecture, meaning all internal components are convection-cooled (most previous Oppos required fan-cooling). Do such seemingly small detail changes like a more rigid chassis or a fan-free design make for meaningful sonic improvements? My opinion, based on extensive comparisons between the BDP-105 and 95, is that they do. Specifically, the new player offers a noticeably more solid and "grounded" sound with quieter backgrounds, improved resolution of low-level transient and textural details, and superior three-dimensionality.

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It's that time of year again... We should be showing the ones we love regularly just how much they mean to us. But sometimes it is nice to make a little more effort on Valentine's Day.
You don't have to go out and spend a fortune. These crafts are quick and easy to make. They also make good projects for children who want to do something for their friends.
These Hand Sewn Valentine's pouches are perfect to present little love notes in and are great for children and adults alike.
Children will love the simple design and with a little help they should be able to stitch them up themselves.
These Valentine's DIY Love Bugs can be made with things purchased from the dollar store and children will have so much fun decorating their own. One eye or two, pink or green, so many different options :)
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The REALLY BIG movement for sustainable design started in the early 2000's and the product reps streamed into our office with the latest sustainable product. Innovation, however was mostly about reinventing existing products into more sustainable products. How can paint be made with less outgassing? How can carpet use more recycled content? How can more be reused in a remodeling project?
Now many years later the innovation is more holistic. How can basic paradigms be shifted to solve an issue in a totally new way? Not just alter the product but create a new solution. Here are four products that address the way we deal with space conditioning for offices, storage of solar power, ventless dryers, and LED lighting.
Mechanical systems control the temperature to a set point and maintain the temperature typically between 72-75 degrees where most people are comfortable. A narrow band of temperatures means the system cycles on and off which is not efficient. What if the band could be increased between 68-77 degrees?
The Hyperchair allows individuals to control heating and cooling right at their seat (literally) with their smart phone. A lithium battery charges off hours and is good for two days of operation. Studies show a one degree increase in the temperature setting band can save 5-15% in a buildings energy needs. Some studies show a 40% savings when the band is nearly ten degrees.
An issue with solar energy for our homes has been what to do with excess generation during the day and the lack of it at night. Battery storage in the past has used old technology and not been efficient.
Elon Musk, the driving force at Tesla Motors, is leveraging new battery technology to store excess generation for solar energy. PowerWall efficiently stores electricity for use during hours of non-sunshine.
Clothes dryer technology has been the same for decades. Gas or electric models heat air to high temperatures and require all that heat to be exhausted.
Whirlpool has invented a dryer using heat pump technology which uses low temperatures and larger volumes of air to dry clothes. A heat pump dryer recirculates hot air while removing moisture from clothes. As a result no venting is required and it's better for your clothes.
LED lighting is so efficient and long lasting because it uses a lower voltage to power the lamp. Therefore, each LED fixture typically has a transformer that reduces 110 volts to 24 volts. The transformer makes the LED fixture not as efficient.
Power Over Ethernet (POE) uses computers to provide low voltage power to LED fixtures without a transformer. The wiring is a simple Ethernet cable anyone can install. Since its digital you can control with endless combinations.


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The next bright idea The roles government and industry play in innovative research have changed dramatically. Will America continue to lead the world in innovation?
Legislative ideas Lawmakers are considering packages that seek to boost science and technology research
Wanted: Information assurance-savvy people DOD is poised to push a new training and certification program to all military services and civilian departments
BPM aims to be a better team player Success with business process management software lies in winning over weary users and linking to other office applications
TSA considers sole-sourcing TWIC contract
Bill language steers contract to a group that ID management companies view as unqualified
FAA manages air traffic with Linux
Agencies, unions brace for first phase of NSPS pilot program
Editorial: Research and development Most people agree that innovation is important, but they disagree about what role the federal government should play
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XO spinoff beams broadband
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Our friends at Pi Style Boutique are having a special fundraiser for Clothes That Work on Thursday! Customers can come in on September 8, 2016 for a "stuff the bag" sale. Snag a bag for $100, stuff it with clearance merchandise, and $20 of your purchase will be donated to Clothes That Work!
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We have been hearing rumors for a while that Samsung's new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III would come with a quad core processor, and now it would appear that this has been confirmed by Samsung.
According to the Korea Times, a Samsung executive, who hasn't been named has confirmed to the publication that the Galaxy S III will feature Samsung's new quad core Eynos processor.
We had previously heard that the Samsung Galaxy S III would feature a quad core 1.5GHz processor, and it looks like the device will feature a quad core Exynos 4112 processor.
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For every three roundtrips on United, United Express or Ted flown between September 7, 2004 and January 31, 2005, United will give you a free coach domestic roundtrip ticket.
Tickets must cost a minimum of $250, and discount economy tickets can't include a Saturday stay. Registration is required by November 30th.
The free tickets will be valid through June 10, 2005 for travel within the 48 contiguous US states (though residents of Hawaii and Alaska can fly from their home state to the US mainland). The free tickets are not upgradeable, require 14-day advance ticketing and a Saturday night stayover, and certain travel dates are blacked out. On the plus side, they are booked in "S or T class" meaning deeply discounted coach rather than coming out of award inventory.
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America's immigrant workforce flexed some political muscle on Thursday.
It's hard to determine how many individuals participated in the one-day walkout called the "Day Without Immigrants," but the boycott was visible in major urban centers on both US coasts and in cities from Detroit to Dallas. Foreign-born workers stayed away from restaurant jobs and encouraged employers to close businesses. Some shops and eateries stayed open, but offered reduced services or set aside a portion of the day's profits for immigrant organizations.
"This is the time not to sit on the sideline and watch what's happening but really to get engaged," says Andy Shallal, owner of Busboys and Poets restaurants in Washington, DC.
Shallal shut down all six of his restaurants on Thursday, offering paid sick days or vacation days to his 650 employees. The restaurateur isn't worried that taking part in the walkout might jeopardize the livelihood of other immigrant workers who have less generous employers.
"Everyone is going to use their conscience to be able to do what they have to do," he says. "I think people recognize that the fear that has been instilled in people in the last few weeks, the raids that have been happening, are creating a huge amount of hardships."
The event comes amid heated debate about new Trump administration policies toward immigrants, raids to deport undocumented workers and a stalled bid to ban immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations.
Immigrant labor made up about 17 percent of the US workforce in 2015. Foreign-born households contributed more than $100 billion in income tax revenue in 2012, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Shallal says he doesn't know how many of his workers are immigrants. But he's inspired by the story of an immigrant employee who has worked as a hostess at one of his restaurants for about seven years.
"She works almost nonstop, like literally day and night oftentimes. And she sends money back to her daughter whom she hasn't seen for seven years because of policies that make it impossible to see her daughter," he recalls. "So that's one of the issues we want to highlight in this Day Without Immigrants, is to talk about immigration reform."
The modern immigrant saga is personal for Shallal. He was born in Iraq and came to the US as a child. His wife was born in Iran. So both of them are from countries singled out by President Donald Trump's executive order restricting immigrant travel.
"We're both on the ban. We're both American citizens, we've been here for a long time and we feel American," he says. "But at moments like these — when suddenly you really feel like an outsider — it doesn't feel very good."


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A shibori indigo box top with a beautiful dyed pattern. Wear it oversized or fitted. layers perfectly over a dress or paired with your favorite high waist jeans. it's striking textures and color variations make this piece the perfect elevated basic.
Made with vintage textile from Mali, West Africa. This beautiful textile was handwoven in small strips that were then hand sewn together to create a sarong like cloth before being dyed. The whole process takes weeks. Even longer when you consider that they often grew the cotton and indigo!
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Bakeries and pastry shops
b. Patisserie
Macarons are to die for, kouign ammans are definitely baked with butter (so good!), bread, supercalifragilidelicious pastries!
The location on California is big and wide, filled with light.
Belinda Leong's partner is Michel Suas (the founder of the San Francisco Baking Institute and Thorough Bread Bakery): glorious partnership!
2821 California @ Divisadero
Thorough Bread
One of SF's best French baguette, deliciously crusty. Try their Chocolate Bread et pastries as well. Charming patio for lunch and friendly staff.
248 Church street (proche de Market st.).
Closed on Monday.
Le Marais Bakery
One of the latest bakery openings. Tiny blue store on Chestnut that should get extended soon. The tradi baguette is awesome (as in good, tasty, crusty and reasonably crunchy) which is a good point especially when you're named after a French parisian neighborhood.)
2066 Chestnut Street
Tartine bakery & cafe.
This bakery is an institution mostly among americans. Bread is served at 5pm from Tuesday to Sunday. They also serve delicious Croque Monsieur lunch but be prepared for long lines. Extremely crusty bread.
600 Guerrero street, Mission.
Acme bread.
On of the Bay Area's tastiest fresh bread. A Berkeley based bakery, you can buy their organic baguettes, batards, rolls, pain epi, pastries... in SF at the Ferry Building Market Place, in Mountain View, in Berkeley and in many grocery stores.
1 Ferry Building, Embarcadero, SF
846 Independence av, Mountain View
1601 San Pablo Av, Berkeley
Craftsman & Wolves
So Valencia! Simple, uncluttered, a menu offering so many sweets for breakfast, lunch and tea time! Plus a terrasse on Valencia.
746 Valencia (@ 18th Street)
Arizmendi Bakery
A neighborhood bakery based on cooperative principles. Their bread is crunchy and their Gourmet pizza, served at 11:30am is a must !
1331 9th avenue, Inner Sunset
1268 Valencia street, Mission
Closed on Monday.
Noe Valley Bakery
A very good neighborhood bakery that sells delicious baguette, lemon tarts, cupcakes... and amazing custon made kids birthday cakes.
La Boulangerie
A French institution in the Bay Area ! This friendly neighborhood bakery with many stores in San Francisco sells organic breads, traditionnal French pastries, seasonal treats, like galettes des rois or buches de Noel + wholesome breakfast, soup and salads for lunch. Warm countryside atmosphere.
PanoRama Bread.
Artisan bread, served in some SF restaurants and at Alemany farmer's Market on Saturdays.
Andersen Bakery
A small bakery which deserves to be mentioned here. Fresh bread and good sanwiches. Two locations in SF : Japan Town and downtown San Francisco in Crocker galleria.
Schubert's Bakery
Their Mousse Cakes are best sellers.
521 Clement street (@6th av).
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La Bedaine
A reference!
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La Farine
Everything you like and beyond.
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Bouchon bakery.
If you visit Napa Valley, you must stop by Bouchon Bakery and taste their macaron au caramel, lemon tart, croissant aux amandes… You won't regret it ! (well yes, you will ;-)
Yountville, Nappa Valley.
South peninsula
Petits Pains
Opened in Burlingame beginning of 2013 but its reputation easily and quickly reached San Francisco. Bread is awesome. We tasted it at Bar Amélie that has the bright idea to pair it with its ham and cheese plates.
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27 October 2016
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Dorothy displays exceptional talent in overcoming
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one of two women on a 200 strong engineering course at Manchester University,
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Hatch Green Chile Cheeseburger Kit - 12 Pack
There is no other way to put it—Sparky's simply makes the best green chile cheeseburgers out there. Sparky's won Best Green Chile Cheeseburger at the New Mexico State Fair in 2017. They've also been named the "Best Green Chile Cheeseburgers in New Mexico" by USA Today and "Green Chile Wonders of the World" by Albuquerque Style Magazine. Each burger patty is made with 100% Angus Ground Chuck and is charred to perfection then topped with Hatch Green Chiles and cheese.
These burgers have the perfect combination of smokiness and heat. It's impossible to stop after your first bite!
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This package includes 12 Green Chile Cheeseburgers ready to be assembled:
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A Flashback of our Wood Sunglasses Coverage in German Celebrity Fashion Magazine Runway 64
Posted by CaliSons Wood Sunglasses on 1st May 2016
CaliSons was excited to be part of Germany's Celebrity Fashion New's Channel Runway 64. Head to the Runway 64 here and see what the have to say about the CaliSons Wood Sunglasses Collections from last year , with more pics from our Venice Beach photo shoot last year. You better speak German because if you don't youre going to miss a lot!
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Ah the wonders of electronic mail. We have all quickly grown so accustomed to using e-mail in our day-to-day business affairs that we wonder what we ever did before it came along. No longer must we play telephone tag to get an important message in front of another busy person. We can simply dash off an e-mail and a notice will pop up on the other person's computer screen whether he is in the middle of a meeting talking on the phone or drafting a memo. Life works smoother with e-mail.
Still e-mail is a mixed blessing. In fact I would like to post on all e-mail systems in inch-high letters an old Latin proverb: Verba volant scripta manent. It means: Spoken words fly away but written words stay on. In other words think twice before you fire off that passionate e-mail note because written messages can come back to haunt you.
A couple of cases in point:* In a federal agency in Washington D.C. not long ago two staff members began carrying on a love affair. They frequently expressed their affection in purple prose over the agency's e-mail system. The spouse of one of the staff members got suspicious and sued for alienation of affections. In the process of discovery the e-mail records of the two staff members were subpoenaed. The agency not only had the records but also had no good reason for saying no to the court so the two lovers' intimate sweet-nothings were exposed in court for all the world to see.* A supervisor in another agency told me he had spent an entire morning arbitrating between two angry staff members. One had volunteered via e-mail to punch out the other in a dispute over some work-related issue. The question quickly became not who was right with respect to the issue at hand but rather how one staff member had threatened physical violence in writing to the other. That's a serious no-no.
Here is a prudent rule of thumb: If you write anything in a fit of passion - be it anger joy lust avarice or whatever - put it away in your desk drawer for a day before you send it out. That gives you the opportunity to read your words a second time in tomorrow's cold light before you go ahead and make a damned fool of yourself.
With e-mail you are mistaken if you think your mindless maunderings simply vanish into the air.
Moreover your right to privacy of communications in the work place is highly circumscribed. As the examples suggest your agency or company may have a legal obligation to turn your e-mail messages over to a third party under some circumstances.
You also are mistaken if you think you can use your employer's e-mail system to commit a crime or violate someone's copyright - one of the most frequent abuses - and you may be exposing your employer to liability if you do so. Remember your employer can assert a claim to access and disclose your e-mail messages if the employer has good cause to think you are engaged in illegal or wrongful conduct.
Then there is the more mundane reason why your e-mail will not remain private: System administrators may need to look at message traffic in the course of routine system maintenance and security activities. They will need to protect against possibilities such as your unwittingly using e-mail to download virus-laden software.
On the other hand employees should be informed regularly that their e-mail messages will be monitored under certain circumstances. Arguably employees deserve to be told whenever management accesses their e-mail traffic. Certainly they have a right to know when employers disclose that traffic to third parties.
The downside to the many blessings of e-mail then is that thoughtless impulses can lead employees to use e-mail in ways that will embarrass themselves and their employers. The creation of good e-mail policies in agencies and companies will go a long way to help employees avoid the pitfalls of e-mail.Sprehe is president of Sprehe Information Management Associates Washington D.C. He can be reached via the Internet at [email protected] This column can be read on FCW's home page at www.fcw.com.
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Teardrop Concrete Planter
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Lea Tran grew up in Vietnam, she was the eldest daughter who was expected to take huge responsibility toward the well being of her younger siblings. A year prior escaping from Vietnam, her dad took her out of school to learn crafts such as sewing, knitting, and cooking. She excelled and discovered her love for creating new fashion clothing. She made clothes for her cousins, sisters, friends, and relatives in the family.
During 1978, life became scary for the Chinese community in Vietnam. The government took action against the "Hoa" people, they were the major minority and owned a large sector of commerce in South Vietnam economy. To eliminate the economy's capitalist, the government forced, searched, ransacked, and confiscated the asset of about 50,000 retailers where they lived. Her family property was seized and everything was registered to the government.
As part of a mass exodus in 1979, her family escaped on a crowded wooden boat and survived four pirate attacks, they ended up living at a refugee camp in Indonesia for seven months. During that time her and mom set up a tailor shop to make clothes for the refugees before her arrival in the United States in 1980 with the support of a sponsor from a Lutheran church in Minnesota.
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Precarity: Uncertain, Insecure and Unequal Lives
The new publication, Precarity: Uncertain, Insecure and Unequal Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand has strong links to NPM's Whai Rawa research theme and ongong work, as well as a selection of our researchers and investigators, including Dr Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Dr Natasha Tassell Matamua, Dr Shiloh Groot, Dr Mohi Rua and Professor Darrin Hodgetts
The book looks at the day-to-day reality of life for those who are living life on the edge of sustainability - the precariat - who have to deal with barely adequate housing, lack of job security, and irregular income derived from multiple jobs and/or ongoing welfare and state assistance - however it also moves beyond the world of labour to identify and illustrate other forms of precarity in New Zealand, including the lack of opportunities for cultural expression and the struggle to be safe.
These are our most vulnerable citizens - the poor, unemployed, elderly, disabled, homeless, students, refugees – whose lives of uncertainty, dependency, powerlessness and insufficiency have been fueled by globalisation, the free market, neo-liberal politics and technological disruption.
Precarity focuses on this emerging class, not to further vilify it but rather to place its members' lived experience in plain sight. As the editors say, 'It is time that all New Zealander's understood the reality of what many of our citizens endure in the struggle to make ends meet and live dignified lives.'
In a recent interview with Radio New Zealand Professor Darrin Hodgetts commented that, "These are people who often rotate between benefits and paid employment and often juggle multiple jobs, so-called flexible jobs, they rely on welfare to fill in the holes in their budgets.
"They're often accused of being at fault for the conditions in which they stand."
And once you're in the precariat class, you're likely to stay there, he says.
"Their rights are stripped away from them and their life chances are steadily diminished."
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El Farolito's run through the NPSL playoffs came to an end on Saturday at Boxer Stadium when FCM Portland defeated them 2-0. Portland scored on either side of the half for the final score.
Watch highlights of the match below:
The loss ended Farolito's impressive first season in the NPSL going undefeated in the Golden Gate Conference with a record of 9 wins and 5 ties. Their first place finish should also ensure them a date in the US Open Cup in 2019.
SF City and SF Glens end seasons
The last weekend of the USL PDL season featured the final two games each for SF City and the SF Glens.
In the second leg of the SF Derby, the Glens won 1-0 on a late penalty kick goal by Arda Bulut.
Watch highlights below:
On Saturday the Glens tied the Fresno FC U23 with the Glens' Ranier Plantinos scoring a goal. SF City finished their season on the road Sunday scoring a 2-0 victory over the Santa Cruz Breakers SC with two goals by Gerardo Mendoza.
The two San Francisco teams finished level in the standings with 16 points from 14 games, but SF City was ranked higher based on league tiebreaker rules.
San Jose Earthquakes host Manchester United at Levi's Stadium
The Quakes take a welcome break from their MLS schedule to face off against the English Premier League side Manchester United at Levi's Stadium on Sunday, July 22nd at 2 pm. Tickets are still available for the match.
The two teams also faced off in the International Champions Cup in 2015 when the Quakes were defeated 3-1.
It has been a disappointing first half of the season for San Jose. They have won only one game since their season opener and currently are riding an 11-game winless streak.


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Mark Carney's Departure won't Impact Mortgage Rates
Mark Carney has been named governor of the Bank of England and will leave his current job as the head of the Bank of Canada mid-2013. Many Canadians take great pride in the fact that one of our own leaders has acquired such international respect as to be hired to oversee a foreign bank. No doubt that this appointment speaks volumes of the respect he's enjoyed internationally and his departure … Read More
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Non-Mortgage Debt on the Rise
Canadian non-mortgage related debt increased 4.6% in the fourth quarter over the same period last year bringing the average to $26,768, its highest point in 2 years. This increase has many pundits scratching their heads trying to understand why Canadians aren't getting the message. Both the Bank of Canada and the Department of Finance have been so concerned about the amount of overall consumer debt that have been working to … Read More
Fixed Mortgage Rate Forecast – November 2012
5 year fixed mortgage rates are tied directly to the government of Canada benchmark bond yields. The last reported yield was at 1.29% on November 8th. This is the rate of return mortgage lenders can expect to receive when they sell pools of mortgages on the open market. This yield is 1.7% below the 5 year fixed mortgage rate of 2.99% that's available in the marketplace. The 1.7% spread delivers … Read More
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Self Employed Excluded From Home Ownership
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Representation of Places: Reality and Realism in City Design
University of California Press, 21.03.1998 - 232 Seiten
People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how those changes will affect our lives. New modes of imaging technology—from two-dimensional maps, charts, and diagrams to computer models—allow professionals to explain their designs more clearly than ever before. Although architects and planners know how to read these representations, few outside the profession can interpret them, let alone understand what it would be like to walk along the streets such representations describe. Yet decisions on what gets built are significantly influenced by these very representations. A portion of Bosselmann's book is based on innovative experiments conducted at the University of California, Berkeley's Visual Simulation Laboratory. In a section titled "The City in the Laboratory," he discusses how visual simulation was applied to projects in New York City, San Francisco, and Toronto. The concerns that Bosselmann addresses have an impact on large segments of society, and lay readers as well as professionals will find much that is useful in his timely, accessibly written book.
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Thanks, Bella. I hope this gets widely distributed.
A Child of a Single Parent Asks, Why the Hurtful Digs?
Are the children of single parents doomed to a lesser life?
Posted Feb 28, 2013
When I talk about singlism (the stereotyping, stigmatizing, and discrimination against people who are single), the people I have in mind are typically adults. Single men and single women are told, for example, that they "have issues" or that they are selfish and immature. They are often excluded from our couples-based society. And even the official laws of the nation disadvantage them.
Recently, I was reminded that it is not just the adults who have to deal with this. So do the many children of single parents. A high school student who is the daughter of a single parent recently got in touch about a paper she is writing:
"…throughout my research process for this paper I have come across many articles that stereotype children of single parents as delinquents and failures… and that these claims seem to be made without factual support. While these claims may not have support with facts, they have the support of the general public's opinion and that is what is most hurtful."
I don't know her or her mother (and she wishes to remain anonymous). She read the chapter on single parents in Singled Out, as well as some of my blog posts, and wanted to know more.
I want to share some of her questions here (lightly edited), as well as some of my answers. I hope that people who read her questions will be reminded that when politicians, pundits, academics, and people from everyday life make dismissive and degrading comments about single parents and their children, there are consequences. The children are listening. They are wondering what it all means.
Here are some of her questions:
- Do you feel that there are any psychological effects to the children of single parents brought about because of the way they are stereotyped and how their future is portrayed?
- If the information and research data is out there showing that the children of single parents are not the stereotyped delinquents or "next generation of monsters," why, in your opinion, do people still believe that the children of single parents are problematic in society?
- In the ninth chapter of your book Singled Out you state that "The issue, in short, is not ( just ) having too few parents, it is having too little money." In addition to money, are there any other factors which contribute to the difficulty of being a single parent today and raising a successful child?
- What do you think needs to be done in order to help single parents and relieve them of the accusations that they raise less-than-fit children?
In this post, I will discuss issues raised by the first two questions. My second post will focus on the last two questions. [Here's Part 2.]
What happens, psychologically, to people who get stereotyped?
Stereotyping is one of the liveliest topics in psychology. Researchers are studying all sorts of stereotyped groups. There are literally thousands of published studies of stereotyping. So far as I know, though, there are no studies specifically of the implications of being stereotyped for the children of single parents.
Most likely, the experiences are similar to those of other stereotyped groups. Getting stereotyped hurts. Research has shown that when people feel stereotyped, they also feel more anxious, insecure, and self-conscious; they feel less genuine and less free to say how they really feel; and they also feel less powerful.
Stereotypes are also, of course, unfair. Even in instances when negative stereotypes have a grain of truth, they never apply to every person in the group. With regard to the critical descriptions of the children of single parents, the children who fit those descriptions are truly in the minority – typically, a very small minority. What people believe about the children of single parents is often, for the vast majority of those children, just plain wrong.
If it is possible to say that there is a positive consequence of getting stereotyped, it is this: People who are stereotyped most often are also most resilient. They learn how to deal with bad behaviors in ways that others do not.
As a social scientist, I like to make my arguments based on studies of thousands of people. But sometimes individual examples are telling. What did two of the last three presidents have in common? Both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were children of single parents. President Obama is not shy about saying that he wishes his father was more involved in his life when he was growing up. Yet, as he told the students, teachers, and other guests at Hyde Park Academy in his hometown of Chicago, "As the son of a single mom who gave everything she had to raise me, with the help of my grandparents, you know, I turned out O.K."
Why do so many people believe the misleading claims and why do they make such hurtful statements about single parents and their children?
When people in public life put down single parents and their children, sometimes they are doing so because they have an agenda. Conservative pro-marriage groups (which are typically advocates only for traditional marriage) are often well-funded and promoted by media-savvy spokespersons. They want to turn back the clock to a (mostly imagined) time when everyone got married, had kids they raised in a home of their own, stayed married, and then had grandkids. Sometimes the people in those groups really do have strong and sincere convictions about the proper way to live, but there is also good money in it.
The conservative pro-marriage groups aim their criticism at particular single parents – those who get divorced, or who have kids without ever marrying. I think it is shameful to stigmatize any single parents or children of single parents. There is an irony, though, in the public criticisms and dire prognoses that are made about the children of single parents. Those denigrating statements are typically sweeping ones, about all children of single parents. Particular children who might otherwise be viewed sympathetically by the stereotype-perpetrators – such as those who are being raised by one parent because the other has died, sometimes while serving the country – hear the same blanket condemnation as other children of single parents.
To me, as a social scientist, the most disappointing force behind the stereotyping and stigmatizing of single parents and their children is the social science that is so consistently misrepresented, misunderstood, exaggerated, and distorted. Some of the people in public and private life who say, essentially, that the children of single parents are doomed to a lesser life, really believe that's what the science says. They are wrong.
I won't review the arguments again here, but will instead refer you to the chapter on single parents in Singled Out, and to my article, 10 things no one ever tells you about the parents of single children. I think that we should all know more about the strengths and resilience of the children of single parents. When that sort of knowledge is commonplace, then single parents will less often feel that they are being put on the defensive.
[Notes. (1) Many thanks to the student who shared her questions with me and now with you. (2) Stay tuned for Part 2: Here it is. (3) My most recent essay elsewhere: What is the cost to society of pushing women to have kids?]
This is beautiful
There are many, many positive stories of single parents
As a single parent myself for many years, at 23 years old my son is a very confident, bright young man who is carving out a successful career with a UK top 50 law firm. This dispels the stereotype of children of single parents.
Whilst it would be ideal that a child is raised in a home with 2 loving parents, unfortunately for various reasons, it does not always work like this.
It is a shame that there is so much focus on the negative aspects of children of single parents. It would be nice to see and hear more of the positive stories and perhaps if this was the case, it would serve to inspire more single parents, inform the wider society and reduce the negative stereotypes that exist.
There are many, many positive stories of single parents
As a single parent myself for many years, at 23 years old my son is a very confident, bright young man who is carving out a successful career with a UK top 50 law firm. This dispels the stereotype of children of single parents.
Whilst it would be ideal that a child is raised in a home with 2 loving parents, unfortunately for various reasons, it does not always work like this.
It is a shame that there is so much focus on the negative aspects of children of single parents. It would be nice to see and hear more of the positive stories and perhaps if this was the case, it would serve to inspire more single parents, inform the wider society and reduce the negative stereotypes that exist.
Speaking as a person raised by 2 parents
I've met people from all kinds of families along the course of 49 years, and I think it's quality, not quantity. I've known horrifically messed-up products of two-parent homes (often in an addict-enabler dynamic), and one-parent homes as well. I've known great adults from all family types.
Being loved and wanted is the key. Having at least one parent who provides a consistent moral guide is vital. It's not enough to simply provide for physical needs, you need to actually raise the child. I had a friend who sent her child to a religious school because she wanted him to learn values, and I told her she shouldn't expect the school to do that, it was her job, and she wasn't doing anything of the kind.
Parenting is hard; not everyone is up to job, with or without help. But it's unfair to suggest that certain family structures are less valid simply because they don't meet the "ideal." A better word would be "default."
Anecdotal Evidence
Pointing to President Clinton and Obama as evidence that stereotypes can be wrong has a double edge sword for two reasons.
1) It shows even though there may be discrimination against children from single parents it seems both these people did not seem to suffer from it.
2) Also, even after being raised by single parents they both seem to have avoided this for their own children.
Bill Gates did not graduate from college but at the same time that doesn't imply that you should not go to college.
Not a "Should" or "Shouldn't" Stance
Your last line as an analogy implies that you think Bella is advocating being a single parent. I don't agree. What she IS saying is that single parenthood in and of itself does not prophesy a lesser life for a person's offspring. Single parenthood, whether a matter of choice or circumstance, should be viewed from a perspective of truth. It is so sad that there is such a push to believe the negative stereotype about children of single parents. The last two presidents ARE great examples of that stereotype being wrong. They did not become single parents themselves, true. That was by luck since nothing happened to their marriages or to their spouses. My daughter will grow up as the child of a single parent BY CHOICE. If she grows up to be a great person/citizen and chooses to marry and have children, does that negate the fact that single parenting did not create a doomed child? No. The proof that single parenthood does not doom a child is based in the kind of person that child is as an adult and how fulfilling his/her life turned out to be. It has very little, if anything, to do with that child's personal choices about how to live a fulfilling life.
Thanks, Bella, for these recent threads/articles about the stereotyping that children of single parents face. As a single parent, I appreciate the truth getting out there. And, as a teacher of young children, I've heard too many teachers perpetuate the myths. I plan to copy as many threads/articles as you write on the subject and leave them on the Teachers' Room table!


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Editor's note: Today we discovered that Christian the News Intern, a graduate journalism student at UNT, once played in a grunge band and hasn't really updated his tastes, making him, we figure, one of about nine people alive to take offense to the politicization of a Foo Fighters song. Here's his take:
Last night, like any upstanding tattooed extremist, I found myself sitting in front of my TV, watching the Democratic National Convention and strumming by guitar, feeling brain dead by the sameness of it all, when a welcome sound suddenly poured from the speakers: the Foo Fighters.
"It's an honor to be here," Dave Grohl said, strumming the intro to "My Hero" on his guitar, "and I think this song makes perfect sense tonight."
What the fuck? How dare he defame the name of his dead friend by dedicating that song to President Obama.
Before I could smash my guitar and write inflammatory remarks about the Fighters of Foo all over the nearest Walmart's bathroom walls, Kurt Cobain's voice echoed through my mind: "The song's not about me, asshole."
And maybe he's right. Or maybe not.
"My Hero" first appeared on the Foo Fighter's second album The Colour and the Shape in 1998, but Grohl has been playing the song since 1995, a year after Cobain committed suicide. Despite the numerous "My Hero" Kurt Cobain video tributes that litter YouTube, it's almost impossible to find the meaning behind the song.
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Several blogs claim that Grohl said the song was about ordinary people who are real heroes. President Obama ain't that.
But in a 2009 interview with Mojo, Grohl said: "I don't see what's wrong with someone not knowing the specific inspirations to a song. There's a wonderful part of songwriting that perhaps everyone could relate to a lyric for their own reason so that when go out and play, say 'Best Of You' for 80,000 people, maybe they're singing along for 80,00 different reasons. You're going to sing a song a lot fucking louder for your reasons than for mine."
So, with his words empowering my anger, I stalk the aisles of Walmart, searching for a perfect marker.
*It's just me, isn't it?


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Last Friday (September 26th) Logan's Godparents took the plunge. Josh and Melanie got hitched! Team T-Lo wants to express our very warmest congratulations to the happy couple.
Josh and Melanie aren't only the best Godparents Logan could hope for, they are our best friends and fabulous babysitters. We couldn't be happier about their marriage.
Here is a picture of the wedding party. Terry was best man. The wedding was at the Aboriginal Centre in Winnipeg and it was a beautiful setting for the ceremony.
The reception took place the next day in Miami Manitoba at Josh's parents' place. It was a beautiful day and we had a great talking catching up with friends and celebrating togetherness under a great big tent. Logan loved running around the big yard and especially enjoyed the spinach dip on chips and of course, Bar-b-que!
Here is Team T-Lo enjoying a wedding dinner.
Now is the time to ask a serious question - and present Team T-Lo's first poll!
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Logan's Godparents Get Hitched
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Former San Diego Mayor Sanders On Upcoming Mexico Trip, Linkage Fee, Balboa Park Celebration
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March 27, 2014 5:39 p.m.
Jerry Sanders, CEO, San Diego Regional Chamber of Commercee
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MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: This is KPBS Midday Edition, I am Maureen Cavanaugh. Our top story in midday edition, a conversation of former San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders. He is headed to Mexico City in a few days along with Mayor Faulconer and other cities to suggest strengthening national trade relationships. You will tell us but he thinks the triple achieved and will also get a take on the city's recent changes from SDPD and the San Diego Opera. Welcome to the program. We frequently hear about business and civic leaders headed off to a conference somewhere on strengthening trade relationships, but is it you want to accomplish to make this Mexico City trip a success?
JERRY SANDERS: There's a lot of issues and one of the top issues is border infrastructure on both sides, Mexico is ahead of us in infrastructure and building especially in the border region. But it has to link up and we have to have the cooperation on both sides, another huge issue of across the border railroad which exists but does not run because of hurricane Kathleen in the 80s that destroyed a lot of the line there and that would really enhance cross-border trade and also would get a lot of the trucks of the freeways because you would not have to rely on truck traffic.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Would this be a freight train line or at commercial train line? Or commuter train?
JERRY SANDERS: It would be at commercial line. Tacoma Toyota matrix result Tacoma's and ring of us would have to be trucked out in the cell about 400 freight trains a day and those would be sent out through Riverside County and there are about 600 plants in Tijuana that reduce the huge variety of consumer goods and biomedical goods and having a free line would really enhance the movement of that freight. But: what about comprehensive reform, will that be on the agenda?
JERRY SANDERS: I don't think that Mexico is is concerned as we are, we support comprehensive reform from a chamber standpoint we think it is critically important that we get that looked reform, it's not just with Mexico it is with all different countries and between a lot of engineers United States and are most prestigious universities like UCSD and SDSU yet the day they are out of class their visas expire and they have to go back to their countries instead of using the knowledge base here. There are a lot of various issues with comprehensive immigration reform and we can get critically important.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: What do you mean that Mexico is not interested in that?
JERRY SANDERS: There interested, that going to Mexico for the city therefore impression reform. Going down in September which we have done every year and to talk about this with congressional delegations to ask them to push reform through.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: So basically preaching to the choir?
JERRY SANDERS: It is preaching to the choir but we have a lot of high-level meetings of set up and Governor Gavin Newsom is joining us in the trade mission and the mayors Kevin Faulconer and they are going down with us along with representatives and we also have several council members going down because of how important trait is to the San Diego region through Baja California.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: What is one thing that you want to come back with work and is a really successful trip?
JERRY SANDERS: If it's a successful trip we are going to be signing and him Faulconer will be signing a MOU, they have a huge manufacturing industry in Queretaro and they will be signing of both business and cultural issues which makes the trip a success for even get down there and a lot of this is relationship driven in my skull and we want to introduce our delegation to Mexico officials which helps up there all over 70 million members going down a lot of those are Mexican members from behind the informed the same business relationships just by the fact that everyone goes on together.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: That is a memorandum of understanding.
JERRY SANDERS: It is a bureaucratic term but yes that it.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: The chamber was successful in getting San Diego city Council to rescind an increase in the linkage fee and the linkage fee is a fee paid for by commercial developers intended to go toward providing affordable housing, what is the chamber fight so hard against that increase?
JERRY SANDERS: Feature we are not fighting against affordable housing, we've have built hundreds of buildings and that was part of redevelopment and there is about 40% of the tech instrument ñ tax increment was building that and cities all over the state of rushing around trying to find out how to increase formal housing stock. I was not involved in that at the point of their was an industry committee that met with the Council for over two years and came up with about twenty different alternatives. Counsel chose just to taxes developers because that is easy to come up every knows what a developer is and what that broke down to is a lot of small businesses, it just rolls downhill so small business wanting to expand or start a business has to pay $42,000 additionally which cannot be financed, we felt there are better ways to do that through infrastructure bonding and taking transient occupancy tax. It also do it through infrastructure financing districts, there a lot of ways to do it instead of putting in of one piece of business, then expecting businesses to do that.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: San Diego was boosting those fees to the fees would be in line with those paid up in Los Angeles and Oakland and I'm wondering, since commercial destruction ñ construction is not hurting what you think would her business in San Diego?
JERRY SANDERS: First we do not know how it is working the cities but it was a 500 to 750% increase. That is a huge increase and the fee just to take effect immediately. San Diego is not competing with LA, and is not competing with Oakland for commercial instruction, ñ construction, it is competing with Carlsbad and Solana Beach and other cities in the county and that starts to hurt sales tax and you cannot do that in a microcosm like that and not expect to hurt it.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Official said that we're way behind, we were behind Jan and we were way behind in demand for affordable housing here in San Diego, they say that we need 64,000 units by the end of the decade and so, part of the reason as I understand up at the city Council decides to rescind the fee is because there's going to be a collective discussion between the chamber and other business entities about what to do in order to get those funds together and he talked about infrastructure bonds and so forth, is there a concrete plan to find money for a formal housing in San Diego?
JERRY SANDERS: Let us be frank about this, the Council rescinded it because without 53,000 signatures in twenty-two days, did not do it because they wanted to have a discussion with us, and we had Artie had the discussion. We are meeting and sells the jobs coalition which is the chamber and about fifty other organizations, they are meeting with Rick chantry from the housing commission and they have already met three times and they are trying to come up with a plan and we're cautiously optimistic that we can come up with that that that a section for the city to decide how to solve some of these issues and just to throw it off and say come back, those I hope works. There has to be a willingness on both parts to actually come together to compromise and councils going to have to make some tough decisions, did I want to go out for an infrastructure on because that is the incredibly difficult to do and they can't just pick the one thing that they think is going to be easiest, and then throw it off on another community to handle that.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Will the chamber be actively involved in coming up with a plan?
JERRY SANDERS: We are actively involved and another person from the jobs coalition and another to lead on this are meeting frequently and as I said there already been three meetings with the housing commission that will ramp up, we all see the need for affordable housing but in the past a formal housing money has not just been workforce housing is exposed to be, it went for homosexual does another things which is not part of any link which if you want to look at it that way.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: That we move on to the Balboa Park celebration nonprofit, it was created during your administration and it is now admitted defeat and disbanded, some city leaders are saying now that the plans were overblown for the celebration from the very start, what was your vision for the Centennial?
JERRY SANDERS: I think my vision was a vision of a lot of people, we wanted to see a grand celebration Balboa Park and ate it been 100 years and the city of 40,000 in 1950 actually put on a world exposition, the small city ever to do that we felt we should be able to put on a grand exposition this year which would have increased tourism, business opportunities,, given the chance for a lot of businesses that just the highly innovation because on the city.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Are you disappointed in the Centennial committee performance?
JERRY SANDERS: I'm disappointed in a lot of things, I think if you look back to where I think this started to go stray is when Doctor Erwin Jacobs was willing to commit $34 million to commit to bypass and redo the interior Balboa Park and a lot of people in the philanthropic community found that that was badly handled and a lot of people said they would not get involved in the park and be demonized for wanting to give money for celebration or wanting to give money for anything else, I think that the tone was set right there and I think it became harder and harder as we went through the film there administration and steps there and getting rid of people and bringing people back in all new things, I think that people lost confidence in the whole thing.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Do you think it was the committee's job to retool after that Panama project was off the table and to find sponsors and put this thing on?
JERRY SANDERS: That is what exactly everyone hoped for and I helped in lining up people to talk with him and people reticent to do that especially after the debacle during the first six months of last year with the mayor that was in office and it lost him at that point and people started pulling back.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Another question about this, you were instrumental in appointing these people to Balboa Park's celebration incorporated nonprofit, why wasn't the project given to tourism and event given to professionals rather than tourism market marketing experts?
JERRY SANDERS: The reason was not given to them actually there was a tourism marketing district on their and business representatives were on it and it was a broad based thing to bring everybody together instead of just putting into a one corner and sing this is only about one when that was not what is all about.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: What would you like to see happen now?
JERRY SANDERS: I think the city can still put on some celebrations and it will obviously be skilled back a lot. I think that is fine, it's disappointing for people who are expecting a grand celebration but we have seen a lot of different things happen in philanthropy in the are very sensitive about how they are treated in their given money and I think San Diego is going to have to figure out how to work with people and figure out how to they feel about giving.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: As a former San Diego police chief as well as Mayor how do you think of of the retirement of William Lansdowne?
JERRY SANDERS: I think he understood what was going on.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: What was going on?
JERRY SANDERS: There had been several different scandals of last year and when they are handled when something else pops up priests and the weight of that means that you need new leadership and he did a great job in crime went down for ten years and he did a good job and all of that, but it reaches a tipping point where you have to have new leadership and she did a credible job and I believe it will bring fresh air into the police a permit and the city.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: If you were police chief now, how would you handle the scandals and a sexual misconduct allegations, the allegations that there are some racial profiling going on?
JERRY SANDERS: When I left we were the first city in the United States to actually voluntarily collect data on racial profiling and we thought it was very important, you can't police a city if you don't reflect the city and we were trying to hire people from every ethnic group and religious group in San Diego and what needs to be done is a top to bottom review but also to set the tone of chief and every conduct like that needs to meet with him immediate discipline or termination that is what you'll see with Shelley, she's very proud of the least of homage when to the police academy since I was the Academy Commander and I found her entire career and she wants to restore people's trust in the institution and she's the perfect person to do that.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: Looks like a proposal to increase San Diego's minimum wage is moving forward at City Hall, the newest economic research that we've been talking about size that was in the minimum wage don't actually cause a major cut back in job growth or the old saws that people talk about.
JERRY SANDERS: That is also labor study, you can go out and find about thirty different economic analyses by economists and other the unrelated to the business side for the labor side and about twenty-seven of them say there will be job impacts because a lot of copies of minimum wage jobs will not hire or find other ways to augment the workforce and we know it will happen in the fast food industry and sometimes you will swipe your card and your food will come out with is this post be entry-level jobs for young people and they are not supposed to like those jobs, they are supposed to want to go to a better school and move up, it will regard to find is that there could be an impact economically and they need to collect the studies, call it down and actually figured out before you do a feel-good program and this is simply a political issue, I don't know if it's nap and economic issue are not that many of the council members want to see this on the November ballot, it will be something that people fought on because it draws out a different voter and if you can try to the different demographic than he can change the results of elections.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: From what you are saying with a result of all of those studies, as the chamber, with a hard and fast now against the minimum wage increase?
JERRY SANDERS: Are taking a no right now, first no one has told us what if they refuse to say what it is and until we know, you're not going to negotiate against ourselves which is what the city is trying to do right now at least the Council President, the mixed docents and we want to see the economic data and we were funding a study so we can make an informed decision.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: I'm out of time here but what ask quickly about the San Diego Opera Opera folding, getting that hurt San Diego's economy?
JERRY SANDERS: It certainly hurt the economy and the arts and culture industry brings about hundred and $70 million here and tourism to San Diego and the opera is a big part of that, that's about 400 jobs. There is very disturbing because those are good middle-class jobs and yes there is a ripple effect, and it's one of those issues that is unfortunate.
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: I have to end it there, I been speaking with Jerry Sanders, think you for giving us your time. I really appreciate it.
JERRY SANDERS: Thank you Maureen.


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Ringhio Notifications
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Ringhio is a notification system for the Amiga Workbench. Notification messages pop up on the Workbench screen generated from any application that uses it.
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NotificationServer is installed in the System drawer and runs from the WBStartUp
Notifications is a Preference program which is installed in the Prefs drawer
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Revisions and Updates
The latest version of the NotificationServer is 53.47 (22.03.2016).
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Yin & Yang are the 2 aspects of vital energy. Energy is one but it has 2 polarities.They are basic principles of entire universe & function.; as two opposite forces like +ve & -ve.They are complementory to each other & balance each other but at the same time they are opposite to each other. Thousands of years before Newton proved that action & reaction are equal & opposite , the Chinese had the concept of yin & yang.
Without day there can not be night & without night there can be no day. Interdepending relation of the two is necessary for the existence of either. Nei jing says that the universe is a state of oscillation of forces of yin & yang & their changes.Because yin & yang relate to each other in harmony , balance exists in the body. Good health is a state of energy balance between yin & yang . Upset in the balance is disease.