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You can do that on two sides of A4 paper or you might need a more involved plan. But you do need one. If you don't have a marketing plan and you're working on your own, how are you going to guide your efforts and keep yourself focused? If your marketing is done by other people who work with you, how do you control their efforts? And how do they know what they're supposed to be doing? Most importantly, how can you tell when things aren't going to plan?
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Bitcoin ATMs (or virtual currency vending machines) are operated by an "Exchanger," in the eyes of FinCEN. "An exchanger is a person engaged as a business in the exchange of virtual currency or real currency, funds or other virtual currency."[8]
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A Bitcoin ATM's operator is typically an MSB, and as a result there are two primary consequences. First, all MSBs must register with FinCEN. "Any person who owns or controls a money services business is responsible for registering the business".[9] FinCEN registration must be completed within 180 days of the date upon which the MSB is established, and renewed every two years thereafter. The BSA and its implementing regulations declare it unlawful for an MSB to operate without registration.[10] Further, FinCEN has the authority to impose substantial fines for failing to register, and it is a federal crime to operate any unregistered MSB. [11]
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The second important federal consequences of being a statutory MSB is that the Bitcoin ATM's operator must develop and implement a written BSA and Anti-Money Laundering ("AML") program. The BSA/AML program needs to address, at least, the five following areas:
- Create procedures and internal controls to assure operations are conducted in compliance with the BSA. The written policies must be approved by senior leadership of the operator's entity, like the board of directors if operated as a corporation. And the policy must be commensurate to the size of and risks anticipated by the operator.
- Appoint a compliance officer responsible for implementing the controls, and otherwise guiding compliance with the AML program. The compliance officer must have knowledge of the controlling laws and operations risks; must have serious leadership authority within the organization; and must update the compliance policies as needed. The compliance office will also responsible for the organization's filing of suspicious activity reports, as facts and circumstances may warrant.
- The operator must train, and retrain, its staff on BSA/AML rules and procedures. The training must include exposure to red flag situations which are commonly seen as indicative of suspicious activity and/or money laundering.
- The operator must test its policies for effectiveness. The test results must be documented and acted upon if deficiencies are revealed.
- The program must meet the Know Your Customer ("KYC") requirements via a written Customer Identification Procedure ("CIP"). This is relatively new component of the BSA's mandate is derived from Act's basic goal of preventing the nation's financial system from being used for illicit purposes. Although there is much to say respecting proper CIP protocol, the three main components are to verify the identity of the person opening the account or transaction, to maintain the verification records, and to determine if the person is on a list of suspected terrorist persons or organizations.
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The regulatory hurdles are all manageable, of course. While compliance with the BSA is important, many businesses have obtained federal registration and thereafter have successfully operated their affairs in compliance with the BSA's implementing regulations. Strategic planning and the correct team approach is essential to minimizing the business-costs incumbent in federal registration and the implementation of the compliance program. The correct time to consider all these regulatory issues is before one purchases and eagerly awaits the delivery of the Bitcoin ATM kiosks.
If you have specific questions or would like more details, please do not hesitate to contact Josh Rosenblatt, Bill Repasky, or Jeff Gorham with Frost Brown Todd's Blockchain and Digital Currency Group.
[1] 31 CFR §1010.810(a).
[2] 31 USC §5312; See also, the BSA's implementing regulation 31 CFR §1010.100(t)(3).
[3] See e.g., "Application of the Definition of Money Services to Certain Owner-Operators of Automated Teller Machines Offering Limited Services," FIN-2007-G006.
[4] Note: industry standard usage dictates that the capitalized Bitcoin refers to code, whereas lowercase bitcoin refers to the unit of currency. For the sake of clarity, this article series will refer to the currency as Bitcoin tokens throughout.
[5] See e.g., 31 CFR §1010.100(ff)(5)(B)(ii) ("definition of a money transmitter does not differentiate between [the transmission and acceptance of] real currencies and virtual currencies").
[6] "Application of FinCEN's Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies," (FIN-2013-G001) ("Guidance").
[7] Id.
[8] Guidance, supra. However, non-typical functionality and unexpected methods of operating the Bitcoin ATM may make problematic the likely FinCEN determination.
[9]31 CFR §1022.380(c).
[10] 31 USC §5330 and 31 CFR §1022.380(e).
[11] FinCEN also has the authority to assess civil fines and criminal penalties (including imprisonment) for "willful violations" of the BSA. 31 CFR §§1010.820(f) & 840, respectively. See also 18 USC §1960.


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Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 4:24 am
Post subject: repairing/rewinding vintage gold foil pickups?
[ok, serious business here...]
i've got a handful of 60s japan gold foil pickups here that aren't functioning properly, if at all. can these be repaired or rewound? do people work on these old designs? do you think there would be any noticeable difference in the sound of one that's been rewound compared to a functioning original?
here's what they look like:
i'll add some interior pics as soon as i can, but i'll try to explain... the casing is in two parts, the flat metal base and the "hood". riveted to the base is a metal bar with six screw holes that runs up the right side. to the left of this is the magnet and windings, wrapped in some sort of paper. two twat-hair sized wires lead out of here - one soldered to the shielding and base, and the other soldered to the conductor and covered up with some sort of primitive heat-shrink tubing. the gold foil paper and metal hood go on over this, and the six "pole piece" screws secure it together along with metal fold tabs underneath.
i think i've figured out what the problem is, at least with some of them. the wires coming out of the packet are a bit long and are tucked between the packet and the metal base. the base is corroded, (possibly from the adhesive used to hold the packet together? weird that they'd all rust like that from external moisture, but that could be the case.) which ended up basically rusting the tiny wire. do you think i might be able to snip back the wire, or maybe try to fish a bit out of the winding and re-solder them to the conductor and ground? is it all as simple as it looks? i'm not sure how "fragile" pickups are, or what might cause them to malfunction.
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which wire, the ground & the positive coming from the pickup or the coil wire?
If it's the former you could rewire the connections if anything else is working. It just depends on where the connection is (if it's directly attached or with rivets like modern pups). I have a pair that I could look at, but they're styled differently, I don't know if construction / ohmage varies.
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which wire, the ground & the positive coming from the pickup or the coil wire?
ahh, good question. the wires with obvious corrosion that i mentioned are the +/- wires, the coil wire is wrapped inside paper and those two are sticking out of that. haven't opened up the paper to look inside yet, not sure if i might further damage anything by doing so. i mean, can you handle the bare coil with no problems? you just want to make sure not to damage any strands, right? i'm not sure how the =/- are connected to the coil wire. could the =/- just be the two ends of the coil and they're not "connected" to anything inside there? i do have one that's been stripped, the magnet is rectangular with rounded ends and a hole through it near each end.
just got in from work, i'll try to play around with it over the next few hours and see what i find...
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i think i'm having a bit of luck so far. looks like two of them just had loose/disconnected ground wires, and i think i at least got them working. the one that i cut back the one wire on seems to be working a bit now, but i can't remember exactly what it was doing before i started (whether it was completely dead, or just very quiet). either way, the three that i've "fixed" so far all have very low output compared to some of the others that i have here.
i'll try to get some of them installed over the next day or so and see what's up.
any idea what would cause the output to be low on some? it's like it's so low that it doesn't register on the meter. the "normal" ones read about 5.5k.
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Super low output could be a due to a break or crimp in the coil. If the solder connecting the ground or positive isn't a solid connection then that could also be the issue.
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- Jules AF said...
I like eating too much.
- March 16, 2010 at 6:18 PM
- Tiffany said...
Is this a Utah thing? I haven't heard anything about it out here.
Looking forward to reading about it. No judgement here.
- March 16, 2010 at 6:56 PM
- Kristina P. said...
I am definitely judging.
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- March 16, 2010 at 7:48 PM
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Maybe I ought to read all that original research to soothe my qualms. I know that no other diet on earth has progressed other than glacially. Yeah, 15 lbs in 3 years on Weight Watchers, but I AM 67. My doctor praises me.
But in order to get rid of Gastric Reflux (you don't want to know) I'm advised to loose another 15 lbs. EGADS! I haven't weighed that low since Jennie's Wedding!
I'll be watching you, Kiddo!
- March 16, 2010 at 8:05 PM
you said Gonad.
- March 16, 2010 at 8:21 PM
- Lyns said...
No judging--I tried it for like a week and got the flu so quit and THEN got pregnant...I will say that I DO lose weight when I'm pregnant so in theory it works (but it could just be that I don't like that stuffed bloated feeling of baby pushing on stomach)
I know people who have had GREAT success and those who have had success and gained the weight back...just like any other diet...I'm going to watch faithfully and see how it works for you...
- March 16, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- mCat said...
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Good luck with it though
- March 16, 2010 at 8:54 PM
- Omgirl said...
Well, you don't have to "qualify" per se. It's not like gastric bipass where you really have to be very over-weight to do it. With HCG, you just do it for less time if you have less to lose. Heavier people can do it longer and do it several times to lose all their weight. I'm hoping once will do it for me. (I'm very good at maintinaing weight through moderate eating and exercise. I just can't exercise and diet long enough/extreme enough actually lose any weight. I've been yo-yoing at this same weight, while dieting and exercising, for a year. So I just need the extra push to burst through this weight plateua. Enter HCG.)
- March 16, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- Mrs. O said...
It does work (and I think it depends on if you do the shots or homeopathic how well it help curbs hunger).
You'll have to let me know how it works on skinny people. I did it when I was much heavier and it worked great for me. I eat a lot healthier now - for the most part. Anyways, it was a godsend for me.
- March 16, 2010 at 9:08 PM
- Chelsea said...
Tiffany, Yes, it is a Utah thing. Or at least, it's not a mid-Atlantic thing, since I don't know anyone around here who's done it.
The whole hormone thing freaks me out, but if it's what you need for that final push, more power to you! I am excited to follow your experience with it.
- March 17, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Nicki said...
I'm totally anxious to see your progress...was it super expensive?
- March 20, 2010 at 5:53 PM
- kado! said...
you are so thin already...unless you are not posting your current pics? but good luck to you! I don't know much about it...but am never against medical enhancements...I'm basically the poster child for them! ;)
- March 23, 2010 at 5:52 AM
- Cook Family said...
I'm catching up on your blog.
I know a few people who have tried it and done very well.
- March 28, 2010 at 2:01 PM


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PUNE, Maharashtra — When violence in Bhima Koregaon last year galvanised the country's Dalit movements, Prakash Ambedkar — B.R. Ambedkar's grandson — emerged as a face who could potentially unite the fragmented protests.
Yet a year later, it is the Bhim Army, a nascent Dalit group from Western Uttar Pradesh fronted by its charismatic chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, who has stolen the spotlight for this year's gathering.
The continued rise of the Bhim Army marks the ongoing churn in Dalit politics as young leaders, personified by Ravan and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani, take up space vacated by political fronts like the Republican Party of India (RPI).
This year, Ravan was scheduled to address rallies in Mumbai and Pune, hold discussions with students of Pune University, and shower flowers from a chopper on the crowds gathered at Bhima Koregaon.
Maharashtra police, and a nervous district administration, has made sure he has not been able to hold a single event in the state.
As soon as he landed in Mumbai last week, Ravan was detained and restricted to his hotel room for three days. When Bhim Army members moved the Bombay High Court against it, the police allowed him to travel to Pune. However, the authorities denied permission for all his scheduled events in Pune and Bhima Koregaon.
On Monday, a cordon of policemen encircled the Hotel Sagar Plaza where the Bhim Army chief is staying. But the Pune police told the Bombay High Court on Monday that Ravan has "neither been arrested nor detained".
The cordon was withdrawn after the court hearing.
"Police told the court that they did not deny permission to his program or arrested or restricted his movements. But the fact is we had applied for permission for our programs over a month ago but the police did not grant us any permission," Bhim Army's Pune district chief Datta Pol, who was the petitioner in the case, told HuffPost India.
The High Court has refused to direct the Pune Police to grant permission for Ravan's programmes in the city.
Rousing welcome
Yet the Maharashtra police could not stop hundreds of the Bhim Army's followers from giving Ravan a rousing welcome. The size of the crowd was surprising for an organisation which had no presence in Maharashtra till recently, and gained prominence in Uttar Pradesh only two years ago.
If Pol, the Bhim Army's Maharashtra coordinator, is to be believed, his front has now penetrated in every district of the state.
"Factionalism in the RPI, their love and hate relationship with the Congress and the BJP and the leaders' complete disregard to issues faced by the society had somewhere brought a sense of alienation among Dalits youths," said Pol, who was with the faction of the RPI associated with Ramdas Athawale, the Minister of State for Social Justice in the Modi government, before joining the Bhim Army.
"In this atmosphere, Chandrashekhar has provided new hope to the Dalit youth in Maharashtra which has always had a robust Dalit movement," Pol concluded.
According to Balraj Dabhade, the Bhim Army's Marathwada chief, the organization is now present in every block of the state.
When asked what attracted him to join Bhim Army, Dabhade said, " It was astonishing to see a person teaching Babasaheb's (Ambedkar) thoughts in a feudal state like Uttar Pradesh. Despite facing all kinds of atrocities he revived the movement there and is now running Ambedkar Pathshalas. He has done that despite being jailed."
Dabhade said Ravan and the Bhim Army had come as a relief for those fed up with the splintered groups of the RPI.
"We hope that he will force all Dalit leaders in Maharashtra to come to one stage. He doesn't want to contest elections," Dabhade said. "His sole agenda is to unite Bahujan Samaj which is why everyone is joining him.
Dabhade said the Bhim Army works on the same lines in Maharashtra the way it works in Uttar Pradesh.
"We have opened over 30 Ambedkar Pathshalas in various parts of Maharashtra," said Rahul Meenakshi Wagh, the Bhim Army chief in northern Maharashtra. "We reach every spot where atrocity is reported and help the victim in every way possible."
In the state municipal elections in August 2018, Wagh stormed a polling booth and destroyed an Electronic Voting Machine in Dhule district when his complaints of EVM misuse to polling authorities went unheeded.
Unapologetic about his action and not bothered about the cases he is facing for vandalizing a polling booth, Wagh claimed that even Muslims and Marathas are joining Ravan's organization in the state.
"Our Dhule district chief is a Maratha and Vidarbha area chief is a Muslim," Wagh said. "Our Sangali district chief is a Muslim as well. Bhim Army is not restricted to one section of the population. He (Ravan) is taking everyone along like Shivaji Maharaj."
Pol, Wagh and Dabhade said they could not estimate the number of Bhim Army members in Maharashtra as they were yet to start a formal membership drive.
"We are not registering people as members now but we have reached almost every Tehsil of the state in less than two years. Our Pune district Bhim Army Facebook page only has over 10,000 followers," said Uttareshwar Kamble, the Bhim Army's Western Maharashtra head.
These Bhim Army officer bearers in Maharashtra say that their immediate aim is to defeat the ruling BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections "to save the constitution of India".
They say that Bhim Army's work in Maharashtra will be somewhat similar to RSS's work for the BJP in the election and point out that if the Dalits did not have the power to influence elections, the NCP and Congress would not value them much.
Rahul Dambale, a Dalit activist from Pune, does not, however, think the Dalits of Maharashtra will accept Bhim Army so soon.
"There is attraction among Dalit youths for Ravan because there is an atmosphere of terror in the country," Dambale said. "But the Dalits of Maharashtra, including youth, value suave and intellectual leadership and they have seen movements like Dalit Panthers which was somewhat similar to Ravan."
Dambale said the Bhim Army was yet to sink deep roots in the state. Till then, he said, "People still see [Prakash] Ambedkar as a leader in Maharashtra."


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Rectory, formerly the vicarage. 1836 by J. Cock of South Molton (D.R.O.) for Joseph Thorne, incumbent, 1835-71. Stone rubble, colourwashed and plastered to the principal elevations, roughcast to the rear; 2-span slate roof, hipped at ends; 2 stacks to the left end, internal front and rear lateral stacks to the right hand rooms, all with rendered shafts and moulded cornices. Plan: Original plan preserved. Double-depth west-facing main block, the south elevation overlooking the garden, with a service wing adjoining at the north. Central entrance into a deep entrance hall: study to the left with the stair rising behind it; dining room to the right, rear right drawing room, rear left kitchen, rear centre store room or gun room. The north wing contains a back kitchen with a stack back to back with the kitchen stack; a game larder; pantry and service stair. Exterior: Remarkably intact. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front (west) elevation, all the features original, with deep eaves on shaped, paired eaves brackets. Left and right pilasters with incised Greek ornament. Steps up to a 7-bay paved cast iron verandah, with a hipped slate roof on decorated cast iron uprights with decorated cast iron segmental arches, the central arch wider and the verandah returning to the south and extending across the south elevation. Original C19 front door, the upper panels replaced with glass, with narrow half-glazed panels to left and right and a narrow entablature with a Greek key ornament on 4 fluted timber colonnettes. Original 1836 painted glass is preserved in the elliptically arched fanlight with decorative glazing bars. Blind recesses in the right hand bay, where there is an internal lateral stack, match the left hand windows : a transomed French window with margin glazing to left, 2 C19 12-pane hornelss sashes to first floor left and centre with eared architraves. The south elevation, overlooking the garden, is similar, but of 4 bays with an 8-bay verandah. 4 original French windows, 4 first floor hornless sashes and a central pilaster in addition to the outer pilasters. The rear (east) elevation also preserves its original sash windows with a smaller, possibly C20 window on the ground floor. The service block, adjoining the north elevation, has a date plaque of 1836 with the initials J.T. for Joseph Thorne. The fenestration, including the pantry and game larder windows, is original except for 2 C20 first floor timber casements. Interior: Very complete. The joinery includes original doors, doorcases, shutters, skirting boards and a stick baluster dog-leg stair with a ramped wreathed handrail. Original marble chimney-pieces survive in the principal rooms except the study, with more modest ones on the first floor. Original plaster cornices are also preserved, including one combined with a ceiling frieze in the drawing room. A remarkably complete C19 rectory, still owned by the Church of England and preserving its original garden and vegetable garden walls and stables (q.v.), a rare survival.
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What Plants are Commonly Misidentified for Japanese knotweed?
Japanese knotweed is commonly misidentified by many people including architects and housing surveyors. Therefore; it is important that you call in the expert to identify Japanese knotweed.
To help you identify Japanese knotweed we have listed below some commonly misidentified plants for Japanese knotweed:
- Convulvulus arvensis commonly known as Bindweed
- Fallopia baldschuanica commonly known as Russian vine (or Bukhara fleeceflower)
- Rumex obstusifolius L. Commonly known as Broadleaf dock
- Cornus sanguinea commonly known as Common Dogwood
- Lilac Syringa macrophylla commonly known as Daphne Lilac (superba)
- Sambucus nigra commonly known as Common elder
- Impatiens glandulifera commonly known as Himalayan Balsam
- Bamboo
These are just some of the commonly misidentified plants that are mistaken for Japanese knotweed. If you are still worried about a certain plant in your garden and think it may be Japanese knotweed, why not send us a photo?
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Ishikawa spoke at a workshop on social protection for women and girls in Ha Noi yesterday. The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs found that last year 83.9 per cent of female workers were unskilled, compared with 79 per cent of male workers.
Nguyen Thi Lan Huong, director general of the Institute of Labour Sciences and Social Affairs, said more attention should be paid to women with disadvantages, including poor women, ethnic minorities and women working informal jobs. Insurance schemes should also respond more effectively to the special needs of women.
"Research should be conducted on additional measures for protection against sexual abuse, unintended pregnancy, childbirth and sexually transmitted diseases," she said.
The ministry also found that more than 10 per cent of poor, female household heads lacked a job because of their demanding household chores. The rate for male heads of households was 5 per cent. The rate of literacy in women was lower than in men, at 93.1 per cent and 96.6 per cent, respectively. Women also made up 56.3 per cent of the unemployed.
Poor and ethnic minority women were entitled to free health insurance by law, said Nguyen Thi Tu, director of the Department for Ethnic Minorities under the Committee of Ethnic Minority Affairs. But often they didn't know how to use health insurance for medical treatments and exams.
"For that reason, in my opinion the Government needs to train local staff on social protection policies," she said.
Those entitled to the free health insurance in ethnic minority areas also needed more information on the benefits they would receive.
"We must acknowledge that social protection programmes cannot be gender-blind," Ishikawa said. — VNS


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Running with your Dog to Burn Calories
For both humans and dogs, running is a great way to burn calories and stay lean. When compared to walking, running can burn a lot more calories per minute of exercise and even help build muscle tone (if you are pushing hard enough). Why is running more efficient at burning calories than walking (or other lower intensity) activities? Because intensity directly impacts the calorie burn.
Calories Burned while Running
There is a mathematical formula often used to estimate calories burned:
Intensity x time X body weight = Kcals burned
Obviously, the greater the intensity, the higher the calories burned per unit of time. Running with your dog, at a fast pace (as fast as you can handle), is the key.
Let's take a look at a graph of calories burned by a 50 lb. dog at different running speeds.
As you can see, the faster and more intense the speed, the more calories are burned. Indeed, running at "only" 6 MPH for 30 minutes will burn more than 3 times the calories as will a slow walk!
Furthermore, there has been some recent research that suggests that higher intensity workouts can burn even more calories after the workout is over. This phenomenon, known as excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, or EPOC, is even more reason to include running (or other high intensity exercise) in your dog's (and your own) exercise programs.
The bottom line is that keeping your dog lean can result in a longer and more active lifespan for them, almost 2 years longer on average. Similar benefits are available to humans who stay fit and lean. Running is one of the best ways to accomplish this, so what are you waiting for? Get outside with your dog and "just run"!
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Hi Y'all!
Y'all look so great running. Eventually we reach an age or suffer an injury when running is no longer an option so we have to walk more and increase or substitute other forms of exercise.
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It was great to see you running together. I hope I will find a good area once too where we need no leash. Easy "burnt" calories today literally while touching an electric fence (great drama lol). Have a great friday!
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I am doing pretty good at working my body up to a full run session. I have extended the amount of time in the intervals. At first it was 2 mins walk, 2 mins run, I have extended that quite a bit. My dogs love the intervals actually because once we start to walk again, they like to smell every telephone pole we walk by! BOL But I think i'm doing pretty good at building up to a good run! Thanks SLim!
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Great tips! Especially good to know about EPOC. See you later… gotta run! hehe! Happy FitDog Friday
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Mom is so happy to have a real excited running partner again. Bailie does a real good job and enjoys it so far. It has also mellowed Bailie down a little bit. Long walks tire us out, but nothing works as well as a run to drain dog energy!
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Running with your dog also has the added benefit of making you run faster to keep up!
Great information on the benefits of running! I especially love the chart–on average, Barley and I walk at about a 3.4 mph pace, so it's really neat to see how that fits in with the different running paces on the chart. Maybe we'll be inspired to pick up the pace a little more every now and then 🙂
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Love to see how happy running makes Jack! Plus keeps you in shape too
Cricket and I are getting out there running, but we still need to work on picking up the pace!
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Great post about calorie usage and running. We love to run, even if it just to chase the squirrel up the tree.
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I am not a runner but the dogs and I walk at a 4-6 MPH pace so we burn a lot of calories! Thanks for the great info and inspiration as always.
Right now I feel like the kids in elementary school – I'm in a "walk – run – walk" program at the moment, but I'm determined to keep it going. Great post, will share – thanks
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What a great video, Jack is so happy!
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Nice video. I like the way Jack conquered the hill. 🙂
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I was pretty surprised the first time I got a bag of sunchokes (also called Jerusalem artichokes) in my CSA back in November. Most of the produce we get is pretty Korean and it's an exciting week for us when vegetables that are either expensive here (like broccoli) or impossible to find (like kale) show up in our box and even in America, sunchokes are a pretty under-utilized vegetable. I had always assumed that sunchokes were native to North America but them showing up in my Korean CSA made me momentarily question my assumptions.
Some quick internetting taught me that my assumptions were right, they are indigenous to North America, but it hasn't taught me how they got to Korea or how they're used in Korean recipes (which might solely be because I'm searching in English). If somebody with either better research or Korean skills than me can answer these questions, I would love to know, and gladly update this post.
One of the things that really struck me while I was reading about sunchokes, was how many article or recipes warned that they might get mushy and should be cooked quickly to keep them crunchy or said that you should just use them as a replacement for potatoes. I think both these ideas devalue a truly delicious and unique tuber. With just a little bit of preplanning but a low amount of effort, you can really get the most of the sunchoke's artichoke heart flavor and change the texture from crunchy to creamy.
This is more about method the measurements.
The first step, of course, is to clean your sunchokes. The most recent batch we got looked already scrubbed but they're often filthy. I find the best method is to soak them in a large bowl or plugged sink to get off the first layer of filth and then I give them a good scrub with a brush and another rinse in a strainer. This method of cooking requires keeping the skin on, so getting the dirt out of all the knobby corners is crucial.
Next I halve them lengthwise and then chop them into roughly one inch pieces. They should be as close to the same size as possible for even cooking times but they're a pretty funky shaped vegetable, so don't worry too much if there's some variation in size. After you've got them all cut, put them in a container to marinate - tupperware, glassware, a mason jar, ziploc, whatever you've got around that you can close or cover and refrigerate.
For this most recent batch I then threw in a handful of chopped spring onions, smoked sea salt and cracked black pepper. For Thanksgiving, I had purchased every type of fresh herb I could find in Korea (not many) and added a handful of torn up basil leaves, rosemary, thyme, mustard seed, chopped leek, smoked salt and pepper. My spring onion ones were good, but if you have access to fresh herbs, you'll get a more complex, interesting flavor. Pour olive oil into the container until everything is almost all the way covered. Mix everything together. I usually use a gloved hand but you can also use a spoon or if your confident of your containers seal, close it up and give a good shake.
Refrigerate for at least 24 and up to 48 hours.
Remove from the refrigerator about an hour before cooking and let come to room temperature. Preheat your oven to 375 (Fahrenheit). Use a slotted spoon to remove the sunchokes from the marinade and spread them out on a sheetpan (I made the mistake of using a silicone baking mat instead of a bare sheetpan this last time, and they got nice and creamy but really didn't brown as well). It's fine if most of the herbs come with them. Sprinkle with some more salt. Roast for 30-45 minutes or until the sunchokes are browned and crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside.
You can either serve the sunchokes hot or toss them with a little more marinade for a room temperature salad.
You'll probably have a fair amount of olive oil leftover but don't worry, it doesn't have to go to waste. Keep your herb-y olive oil in the fridge and use it to toss other vegetable before roasting or in a vinaigrette.


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Bill Miner, the Gentleman Bandit, a Legendary Outlaw From American History
Legendary American Outlaw
Ezra Allen Miner, most often known as "Bill" Miner, was a legendary American outlaw who should not be forgotten. Often called "the gentleman bandit," for his politeness with the people he robbed, Bill Miner made a huge impact on America, and indeed, the world, with his legendary line, "Hands up!" Should you to try to recall every single time you'd seen some movie where an outlaw, robber, or even police officer pulled a pistol, and ordered folks to " hold em' up, " "hands up," so forth and so on, then you'd be completely unable to recall them, the sheer numbers alone astound - every time you see this happen, or hear reference to a "stick up man, " etc; then you've just recalled or heard a reference to the legendary Bill Miner.
"Hands Up, Boys, Hold Em' Steady!"
Born in 1847, and upon his death in 1913, Bill Miner turned American Law enforcement, and American jails and prisons on their ears, as he easily evaded police and whenever captured escaped jail or prison time and again; nobody but nobody matches Bill Miner. They say that crime doesn't pay, and this is often true, as the wealthy class created the laws to begin with to protect their own interests, but wealth has never been synonymous with intelligence, and certainly not with politeness.
Bill, it's reported, left home at the wise old age of thirteen years, and crossed America alone for California. Finding his way to beautiful San Diego, Bill landed a few cowhand jobs at various ranches, but always one for adventure and daring, Bill took upon himself a very dangerous job that nobody in the United States Army felt quite up to, and besides the $100.00 offered for anyone who could complete it, Bill managed to pull some side jobs in for himself along the way.
The Gray Fox
In 1863, at sixteen years of age, Bill Miner took a very dangerous job as a message courier for the United States Army; can you see it? A sixteen year old boy taking the job of not a grown man, but a fool, delivering a message in the night, with waring Apache Indians, trained scouts, Natives to the land, and terrible foes against him, Bill Miner was King David, against, indirectly, many Goliaths. The message was to be delivered to a Colonel Corner at a fort on the Gile River. Besides the one hundred dollars paid to him for his amazing feat against tremendous odds, Bill also delivered many a message to the fort from the citizens of San Diego, charging between $5.00 to $25.00 per message. Perhaps it is this great adventurous feat where Bill obtained the additional moniker and nickname, "The Gray Fox."
Stagecoach Robber, and San Quentin Prison
Bill's daring spirit often comes with other, parallel traits typical of such a personality; and following life's own script, not his own, Bill's high life loving ways led him to poverty, and at the same time, the birth of his criminal career ensued. Typical of a world where people are so often misunderstood, and talents never utilized by a law obsessed culture that benefits only the wealthy creators of such laws; the intelligent, needy, non-sheep of this world find another avenue for their life, and talent. Criminal enterprise is the path of least resistance when talent must inevitably flow, like water; and it's all Karma, is it not?
In 1869, following the theft of his property by creditors come a callin', Bill, with a very inept horse robbed his first stagecoach in the Sonora desert, and got away for a while with a few hundred dollars. A posse came after Bill, and he was caught as his horse tired and dropped in the pursuit. Bill was sentenced to fifteen years in San Quentin penitentiary, but was released for good behavior five years early in 1879. As is so typical of any American jail or penitentiary both then and now, no rehabilitation was achieved at all, and surely, Bill came into contact with many who encouraged his chosen vocation. Nobody has ever went to a prison in North American and left anything but a wiser criminal with even fewer chances to succeed in this world. Bill Miner, every bit a human, only went back to what he could do, and do well.
Bill Miner, Bill LeRoy, the hanging, England, Turkey, South Africa, and Brazil
Two heads are always better than one, and three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead - but a man like gentleman Bill Miner surely wished that things had turned out differently for him, and his chosen mentor, Bill LeRoy.
The same year that Bill Miner was released from San Quentin, he left California for Colorado, and met up with legendary Colorado highwayman, Bill LeRoy. Like Gasoline thrown upon a fire, the two of them, men of daring, brains, and perhaps more testosterone than usual, Miner and LeRoy robbed stagecoaches by the dozens, lived a high life, and had a fine time; but a vigilante posse caught up to them, and Bill LeRoy was captured an hung by vigilantes; but Bill Miner, surely disgusted with the death of his friend, got away; and headed to greener pastures far, far away. From San Francisco, Bill left aboard a ship for London, England. Though Bill never admitted to any train robberies, or other mischief in England, one can never be sure. Soon though, Bill would leave the more civilized world for Turkey. In Turkey, Bill Miner found a home for a short while running with desert slave traders, but Bill wanted more, and found the lure of the South African diamond fields much more appeasing to his imagination, and he moved there, but for whatever reason, Bill decided that robbing a diamond train wasn't a practical idea, and so he moved to South America. Living in Rio, Bill pulled a few jobs, but tis said that that nothing there appealed to him nearly so much as the adventurous American West, and all of the growth there. It was, after all, home, and soon Bill returned to the Sonora desert.
There's Gold in Them There Hills!
In 1881 Bill Miner was back at home in the Sonora desert, doing what he did best, robbing stagecoaches, and Bill robbed an untold and incalculable amount of wealth in Gold that was in transit via stagecoach. As we criminals often do, Bill had developed his third eye, that inner voice, the gentle nudge that whispers "get out of here while you still can" from within. Bill took his earnings, and fled local law enforcement for Chicago, and then to Michigan, and pretended to be an Old Money elite.
Back To California, and Back to San Quentin Prison
I've been to California myself on several occasions, and despite God's own description to Abraham concerning Palestine, in which the almighty described it as a land "flowing in milk and honey," I wonder if God hadn't smoked a joint that day when he spoke to the founder of so many nations; and the man who's children outnumber the sands on the world's beaches. God, after all, placed marijuana pretty much everywhere, it's idiocy to believe in a creator, and then think that he created plants that grow everywhere because Bronfsman owns Seagrams, and that you'd be better off drunk than smoking Mother Nature. I think God meant to tell Abraham that California was, in fact, a land flowing with milk and honey, but that he'd only lead a bunch of media moguls who claimed to be Jewish there instead.
Bill Miner heard God, and thought that he was Abraham, and again headed back to Sunny California, a land truly flowing with milk, honey, and beautiful women, and stagecoaches ready to be robbed. Bill, now with a gang of followers, robbed a few of those stagecoaches, and he and his entire gang was caught. This time Bill received a TWENTY FIVE year sentence, but once again, received no sort of rehabilitation, and once again, was let out early for good behavior. This time, Bill got out of prison in the year of our lord, nineteen hundred one, and to quote Norman Blake,
The twentieth Century was young, he bought himself a gun.
Canada, and The Great Train Robbery
The Canadian CPR is and was a tremendous public work, and a huge engineering feat which connected that huge nation's East and West coast via railway. Not the least bit surprising is the fact that besides a terrific song about Bill Miner, Norman Blake also composed a song about the legendary CPR. Neither subject is something that today's successfully dumbed down American typically has ever heard of. While Rockefeller has the American idiots thinking about bling, whether or not they are really gay and don't know it, and how they'd do were they staring on "reality" television, smart people are studying the world around them. Bill Miner, in the pre-Rockefeller dumbed down American parasitic media with the globalist goal days, studied the world around him, and considered how he might take advantage of such, in order to elevate himself to the level of those who imposed their wills upon him, in order to maintain their wealth. Bill Miner's basic thesis, given to the "elites," consisted of the same two words that I'd like to impart, words of wisdom those, to today's members of the same socio economic class; and those words are, "FUCK YOU."
In nineteen hundred three, near Corbett Oregon, Bill Miner single handedly robbed a train. Perhaps the situation in his previous imprisonment was that his help had got him busted? I do not know, but I do know that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead, this, of course, is a generalization, and I can certainly keep your secret if I love you. Later, Bill Miner, with one accomplice robbed his first Canadian CPR train, and a bounty of $15,500 was placed upon HIS head, dead or alive. For three years Bill Miner remained in hiding, but when he saw the film, "The Great Train Robbery," he was inspired to live again in the style with which he'd become accustomed.
A truth that perhaps you'd never believe, yet truth it is, is that when that film was released, many theaters were closed because of the damages that occurred when movie goers would pull their pistols, and fire into the roof, filled with glee..This sort of inspired lunacy has not been lost on today's mass media moguls, who now employee many another method to seduce you and yours into doing their own will for your lives.
The Great Train Robber, All Ten Minutes Of It!
Another Train Robbery, Another Life Sentence, and Another Escape
The second of only two armed robberies of the CPR's entire history occurred when Bill Miner and two other men successfully robbed another Canadian train at Duck's Landing, but on June 11 1906, the Canadian North West Mounted police caught Bill Miner, and again he was sentenced to yet another life sentence. It is reported that Bill Miner, as politely as he could, told the Canadian judge that it did not matter at all, that, in fact, there was not a jail that could hold him; true to his words, two months into a life sentence, Bill Miner escaped.
Back To the United States!
Having escaped again, Bill Miner, the incorrigible gentleman bandit, headed back home to the United States; and he then robbed any number of trains from Oregon state, all the way back to his state of birth, Georgia. In February 1911, a detective from the Pinkerton Detective Agency, used the modern mode of police communication, the telegraph, to catch up to Bill, and he was apprehended near White Sulpher, Georgia. Bill Miner then spent the remaining years of his life in the Georgia State Penitentiary, where he, indeed, escaped three more times; and was recaptured.
"I'm Getting Too Old For This"
Following Bill's last escape and recapture, he remarked to his capturer, "I think that I'm getting too old for this." Indeed he was, but Bill Miner enjoyed a brilliant life. I've looked, and I can not find an instance where Bill Miner ever killed anyone; he'd only robbed the wealthy, who in fact, rob every last one of US. It is for this reason that Bill Miner is a personal hero of mine, one that I'd love nothing more than to see many, and in fact, an unlimited number, emulate successfully. This is the entire reason that I've shared this story here. I'd like to conclude this article with a quote from the great American patriot, writer, and social philosopher, Woody Guthrie; from his wonderful outlaw anthem "Pretty Boy Floyd."
Yes, as through this life you travel,
You'll meet some funny men.
Some will rob you with their six gun,
Some with a fountain pen.
Bill Miner had achieved something of a Robin Hood like Status in the United States and Canada for his robbery of the hated Canadian Pacific Railroad; and when he died at sixty six years of age in the Georgia State Pen, the families in the surrounding area did something that they'd never done before for a Georgia State Pen inmate, they paid for his funeral.
So On that Day in 1913
Bill Drew his Final Breath,
But his escapes were not finished
He escaped prison once again
Arm In Arm with the Angel of Death!
Ol' Bill Miner (The Gentleman Bandit)
© 2010 Wesman Todd Shaw
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I just stumbled across this hub, apparently an older one that I had missed before. I very much enjoyed it, although I was a little confused about the reference to marijuana in California. Was Bill Miner a pot smoker? In any case, great hub, I liked it very much.
Great telling of the "Gentleman Bandit." Looks like an alternative occupation to consider if all goes to hades. Except they don't make stagecoaches no more. Darn!
I believe the story is on his last escape from prison.He was never found.no one to this day knows where he ended up perhaps nova scotia?
That is undoubtedly true.
That was certainly an engaging and very interesting hub about a very capable character, although hardly a laudable one. I was brought up to believe that robbing was wrong. Did this Bill Miner ever give away any of his ill gotten gains?
Also I dont feel that someone who worked for an arab slave trader is a person to be admired.
Well, I'll give it shot and see what happens if I can figure out the adsense thing. Don't have much sense in that direction.
Damn, Wesman, looks like you have found your purpose in life. "Millidgeville"? We have one of those in GA, it's the insane asylum. Tha ain't where Bill went was it?
Good writing and GREAT story telling! and 99 hubs? WOW! Congratulations on that milestone but I know there are many stories yet to come. Keep writing!
one of your best.
Nice! Sounds like a bloke Id love to hang out with.
You really know how to tell a story, Todd!! Well written and researched. Engaging and witty!! I liked it--alot!!
Very Welcome! I would be dizzy with joy to have this caliber of content in my 99th, it will be a goal to set. Thanks again.
Excellent Hub, well researched and put together. Thanks for sharing and the hard work. Congrats on 99 Hubs!


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It was 14 days later. I first noticed Mobius kept rubbing his eyes before bed. He'd never been sick before. You notice everything as a new parent, and this was certainly out of character. Then the next morning, he was quite warm. I took him out of his co-sleeper, undressed him to cool him down, and first noticed a couple of spots on his chest. When I took his temperature is was 101.8. My husband and I gave him a closer look over and I noticed a bigger cluster of spots on the back of his head. By now, he had more spots on his chest, too. I called the pediatrician at this point, who suggested cooling measures and close monitoring of his fever. I gave him medicine to bring his fever down, but within a couple hours it went up to 102. At this point, I was convinced I was crazy, but was suspecting measles. I got out some of my nursing textbooks to reference measles and other viral infections. I didn't want to believe my suspicion, but it showed measles starting with a high fever with a rash beginning from the hairline, or behind the ears and then traveling down the body. That was exactly what was happening.
Because I had a difficult time controlling his fever at home and his spots were getting worse, I called the ER to tell them I suspected my baby had measles. I was scared, but calm enough to know I needed to get Mobius medical help and also make sure we didn't infect anyone else. My husband was understandably concerned. With something like measles, you don't know what you're dealing with. We didn't know anyone whose child had been ill with measles. Even the staff at the hospital admitted they'd never seen a case before. We were facing something unknown—and that made it all the more scary.
At the ER
The hospital arranged to have a negative pressure room (specialized for contagious patients) ready for us and staff rushed out to meet us in the parking lot with masks as they whisked us in the back entrance away from other patients. My reading had reminded me that measles is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet. We weren't going to take any chances infecting anyone else. Mobius wasn't feeling great, but was happy to meet some new faces to smile at.
They gave our baby a nasal swab and blood test for measles. All of the staff who came in gowned up and had masks on for their protection. None of the medical staff had ever seen a case of measles before, so none of us really knew what to expect. The pediatrician who saw him made contact with the health department while we were there. It felt like we were all learning about his condition together and he was so little. We had done everything right and we were now scared for our baby son. We were there for a few hours until we controlled his fever, and were then allowed to go home. I called the health department on the drive home to make sure we were all on the same page.
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