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After Elevate co-founder Alan Bader received a degree in Industrial Design in Denver, CO, he worked professionally for a small startup as the lead product designer creating luxury jewelry from wood and precious metals, gaining valuable knowledge about CNC machining, laser cutting, 3D printing, and other modern manufacturing techniques. His close bonds with the manufacturers he's worked with and his passion for cannabis and high design paved the way for Elevate to be born.
Tell us about your typical day.
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Medical legalization at the federal level.
What is one change you'd like to see happen in the cannabis industry?
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What's your perfect setting to consume? (place, music, food, etc.)
End of the day, preferably a productive day so it feels like a reward, is my ideal setting. In the sun on the back porch at my house...an IPA from Colorado pairs well...listening to sounds of the neighborhood.
What is your go-to munchie?
A smoothie, if I have time to make one. Or, a snack plate of apples, good cheese, crunchy peanut butter, carrots and hummus hits the spot.
What's your favorite (and least favorite) way to consume cannabis?
I enjoy it all, but specific delivery methods depend on the day and time. I used to not like edibles much, but I am slowly learning to like them as I get older. I love to dab, but I can't dab certain uplifting strains because they make me too wired.
Name something that you've tried once but won't ever try again.
Eating snails. Tasted great, gave me the worst food poisoning of my life. They say, "It only takes one." I won't test my luck again.
Tell us the story of the first time you consumed marijuana.
It was 20 years ago. I was 15 (I can't believe I still remember it). It was the last day of freshman year. I told my best friend I just wanted to get "fucked up" and sure enough, my neighbor was having a little gathering/sesh. We headed over and joined the fun. The weed was low grade, but the joint we smoked was as pregnant as it gets! Everyone knew it was my first time and decided they would mess with me a little by talking really slowly, generally acting weird, and making me laugh harder than I ever have since. We didn't have far to go to get home. Once home, we promptly killed an entire pack of Oreos together. I never looked back. It was apparent that weed was for me!
Do you have a message for Donald Trump and/or Jeff Sessions? What would that message be?
Dear Mr Trump and Mr Sessions, You like money, right? I know of this burgeoning new industry that is as ripe as it gets and has more potential than the tobacco and alcohol industries, combined. It will even give the pharmaceutical industry a run for its money. Yep, I'm talking about cannabis. Not just the stuff you smoke to get high or to help ailments, but hemp, too. Be a part of the future and just legalize and regulate cannabis and hemp ASAP. Between hemp and medical/recreational cannabis, every industry and every citizen in America stands to benefit. Don't forget about all the jobs— I know how much you like jobs!


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10 Reactions to Biden Picking Kamala HarrisNewser — Evann Gastaldo
The reactions are pouring in, and the consensus is that Kamala Harris was the safe pick for Joe Biden's running mate—but that she's also an exciting one.
Our roundup:
- The choice was "groundbreaking" (a woman of color) yet also "conventional," as Biden elevated "a senator who brings generational and coastal balance to the Democratic ticket and shares his center-left politics at a time of progressive change in the party," write Jonathan Martin and Astead W.
Herndon in the New York Times. Harris is "establishment-friendly," yet the choice is still "energizing," in part because Biden is "taking direct aim at [President] Trump's brand of racial grievance politics." (Full piece here.)
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"Harris is the first Black woman, the first Asian woman, and the first graduate of a historically Black university to be selected as the running mate for a major-party candidate." Yet Craven notes there is also a "litany of concerns about Harris' political record—and her reluctance to fully address" those concerns.
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- Biden has done more than select a VP nominee—he's "all but anointed an heir, positioning Harris as the future standard bearer of a party in transition," write Molly Ball and Charlotte Alter in Time.
They note that "analysts described Harris as a sort of Goldilocks choice: not too far left or too inexperienced, she would neither jeopardize a Democratic Senate seat nor give the GOP unnecessary ammunition." (Full piece here.)
- At the Atlantic, Edward-Isaac Dovere points out that Biden himself has said he considers himself a "bridge" to a new generation of leaders that will carry the Democratic Party forward.
More than two decades younger than Biden, Harris "is now the odds-on favorite to be the Democratic nominee after Biden, whether that's in 2024 or 2028," he writes.
(Full piece here.)
- "It is a measure of these extraordinary times that Joe Biden's historic choice for vice president was also the most conventional," writes David Axelrod at CNN.
No one was exactly surprised at the reveal, and she's "unlikely to thrill or outrage many." The choice indicates that Biden "is focused like a laser on November, and he views Harris as the best bet to win." (Full piece here.)
- But don't expect her to "make or break the 2020 election," writes Christopher Devine at the Moderate Voice.
Analysis has shown that voters rarely make a selection based on running mate. (Full piece here.)
- At Politico, David Siders might beg to differ.
Though he acknowledges running mates don't typically matter, he argues Harris might. Biden's own insistence that he's a "transition candidate" puts more weight on her, he writes.
(Full piece here.)
- Harris' vigorous campaigning against Biden, back when she was running for president, likely helped her out, writes EJ Dionne at the Washington Post.
"If she was, at moments, very tough on Biden on matters related to race, she was even tougher in everything she said about Trump." (Full piece here.)
- On a similar note, here's John Nichols' headline at the Nation: "Kamala Harris Will Shred Mike Pence in the Vice Presidential Debate." Yes, the presidential debates will matter more, "but the Democrats need to build momentum at every turn, and a pummeling of Pence by Harris will do that," he writes.
(Full piece here.)
- One thing is clear: "Black women have been waiting for Kamala Harris far too long," writes Chryl Laird at the New York Times.
Black women are the Democratic Party's "most loyal members," yet their commitment often goes "unacknowledged." It's not yet clear whether Harris' selection is "simply symbolic, a token gesture" or whether it truly recognizes the importance of Black women to the party.
(Full piece here.)
- 'Nostradamus of Presidential Elections' Names 2020 Winner
- Willie Brown: Kamala Harris Should Say No to Biden
- Instagram Launches 'Uncannily Similar' TikTok Rival
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We invite you to experience the history and culture of the American West on this seven day tour. Unpack only once and enjoy six nights in one hotel in historic Rapid City, South Dakota- the gateway to the Black Hills region.
We begin with a visit to Mount Rushmore. The iconic sculpture, which features Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln was completed in 1941. Next, visit the Crazy Horse Memorial, another epic carving in the Black Hills mountainside. Construction started in 1948, but the sculpture is still a work in progress. We'll also experience a Buffalo Jeep Safari, allowing us to get up close and personal with the herd which makes Custer State Park their home.
We'll head west to visit Devil's Tower National Monument. The volcanically formed butte rises nearly 1,000 feet from the plains that surround it. Devil's Tower was the first National Monument in the United States and sacred to the native people of the region. Next, we'll visit Deadwood, a town steeped in the lore of the Wild West and home to iconic figures such as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
We'll also get to experience a ride aboard the 1880 Steam Train, a part of the Black Hills Central Railroad which was originally used to haul gold from the Black Hills and later used to transport equipment to carve Mount Rushmore. The scenic 10 mile ride gives a unique perspective on the Black Hills landscape.
Next, we'll enjoy the rugged beauty of Badlands National Park, home to stark landscapes which feature buttes, pinnacles and some of the world's richest fossil beds. A visit to the quirky Wall Drug Store, a roadside attraction known for their "free ice water" is sure to be a hit.
We'll conclude the trip with a chuckwagon supper at the K-Bar S Ranch, where we will enjoy dinner and a show.
Contact Saline County Gold Club director Kim Prewitt for more details.
Pacific Northwest
September 10, 2020 – September 17, 2020
A sampling of Seattle, the beautiful Oregon coast, and San Francisco make this magnificent journey along the Pacific Coast one you'll remember. Start your Pacific Coast tour in charming Seattle, end in San Francisco, and overnight also in Portland, Coos Bay, and Eureka. Sightseeing in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco includes the must-see sights, such as a visit to Seattle's Pike's Peak Market, Portland's International Rose Test Gardens, Oregon's Oceanside sand dunes, Rogue River Jetboat Trip, Redwood National Park, Sonoma Wine Country and the majestic Golden Gate Bridge.
Contact Saline County Gold Club director Kim Prewitt for more details.
New York City for the Holidays in 2020!
December 4, 2020 – December 8, 2020
Experience "the Big Apple" alive with the holiday spirit on this spectacular tour. From Rockefeller Center to Greenwich Village, New York
City shines even brighter during the holiday season. Spend four nights in the heart of Midtown close to Central Park's skating rink and
Times Square all dressed up for the holidays. Take your seat and watch the curtain rise for an exciting Broadway show. See the Christmas
Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall, featuring the world famous Rockettes! Ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. See the Empire
State Building and Central Park. Visit the poignant 9/11 Museum and Memorial. Enjoy plenty of free time on your own to shop and see the
elaborate 5th Avenue holiday window displays and the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center.
Contact Saline County Gold Club director Kim Prewitt for more details.


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A hot air balloon carrying 20 tourists crashed near the Egyptian city of Luxor Friday, killing one and injuring at least 12 others, officials say.
The balloon took off around sunrise and flew for about 45 minutes before strong winds forced it off course.
The balloon's pilot lost control over a mountainous area and crash-landed. The pilot was among the injured, officials said.
Earlier in the day, Egypt's meteorological service had warned of high winds in the area.
South African, Argentine and Spanish tourists were among the passengers on the Sinbad hot air balloon company's craft.
"The balloon was getting ready to land at 6:30 a.m., when a sudden, strong wind erupted causing a hard landing," Hany Al-Sayyed, Sinbad's traffic manager, told CNN.
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Mind-blowing sculptural illusions that we really want to see in the flesh
There's a really interesting and thought-provoking YouTube channel called 'Pursuit of Wonder'. Here is just one video where Neil deGrasse Tyson (American astrophysicist) attempts to explain the concept of multidimensional phenomena through the visual illustration of an ant walking across a table-top.
And one we were all expecting of course…. it's magnets on a trampoline!


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20 Celebrities That Were Kicked Out Of High School
High school is a time in our lives that many of us would like to forget. While some people enjoyed that time and would love to go back, most people would rather forget it and move past it, especially these celebrities! We may have hated high school, but at least we finished and that is more than the people on this list can say. Yes, these are 20 celebrities that were kicked out of high school. From fighting to getting their nose pierced, the reasons vary, but check out the full list here. Some of them may shock you!
Charlie Sheen
The famous actor has been #winning for years, at least in his mind. Sheen was kicked out of Santa Monica High School for having poor attendance and bad grades.
Albert Einstein
Einstein is a genius and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but he also had trouble in school. He was kicked out of many schools for being lazy and having a bad attitude. At the age of 15, he gave up and dropped out of school on his own.
Snoop Dogg
You are probably thinking that Snoop Dogg was kicked out of school for smoking pot, right? Wrong! It goes back to elementary school for him and being expelled for indecent exposure.
Amy Winehouse
Winehouse was such a talented musician that left this world way too soon. She was rebellious and that started back in high school, as she was kicked out for getting her nose pierced.


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The Pillar and Ground of the Truth
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What is the role of the church? In this message, we share 1 Timothy 3:14-15, in which Paul wrote that the church is fundamentally to lift up and hold forth the truth of God's word.


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I am very selective about my passions (If I'm going to be all in, I can only fit in a few 🙂 )
The Sport of Dressage…yup…passionate about that…
And to be passionate about my sport I have become very passionate about horse care. Our sport is all about producing a happy, sound, healthy equine athlete. There are no short cuts. And the best way is to produce the best is become more knowledgeable.
And I have become more knowledgeable about organic feed. Organic food for my family and organic feed for my horses.
I am passionate about organics.
I feed certified organic Genesis Horse Feed to all my horses.
I feed organic hay to all my horses. Thank you Michael Coen and family from Grass Roots Family Farms.
All our horses are turned out on organic pasture each day.
For all the reasons you may choose to feed your family organics (the first being simply…a steady ingestion of pesticides, herbicides just can't be a good thing), are the same reasons I feed my horses organic feed and hay.
And for the reasons you may choose not to feed your family organics (cost, availability), I have learned how to work with those set backs in order to feed organics. The pay off for my family and for my horses has been amazing.
I am totally passionate about organic horse feed. 🙂 🙂 🙂 ❤


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Christian Rock Ponzi scheme
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Woman pleads guilty in Christian rock Ponzi scheme
A Downey woman pleaded guilty Monday to a federal wire fraud charge and scheming to collect $1 million from victims who believed their money was going toward real estate investments and Christian rock concerts.
L. Baumann, 43, solicited loans from investors for her business, Stewardship Estates LLC, telling them that the money would be used to stage Christian "battle of the band" events that would generate profits from ticket sales. She also said the money would be used to buy houses, fix them up and sell them for a profit.
In fact, the vast majority of the money went to other investors or personal expenses, including $10,000 a month Baumann paid in rent on a historic mansion in Downey and private school tuition for her children, prosecutors said.
Baumann did not disclose to her investors that she had been convicted of securities fraud in Texas in 1999. More than two dozen investors suffered losses totaling nearly $560,000.
A sentencing hearing is set for Dec. 12. The maximum sentence for wire fraud is 20 years in prison, but under the terms of the plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend a lower sentence.
The Second Double Life of Lauren Baumann
Awhile back, we received a call from a woman named Faith Pyka in California. She'd found a story in our archives, "The Double Life of Lauren Baumann," from November 1998, that confirmed her worst fears. Pyka had fallen victim to a real estate scam. A decade ago, in Plano, Baumann had created a Ponzi scheme, cheating 80 investors out of $2.7 million, spending it on extravagant parties and Neiman Marcus shopping sprees. Her husband, Ed, turned her in to the SEC, but she has re-emerged with another real estate and loan scheme.
Intern Alexandra Millard picks up the story from there:
Pyka says she gave a total of $415,000 to Baumann, borrowing some of that money against her home equity line of credit. Pyka says that she and a man named Mitch Herre thought they were investing in a property in Laguna Beach with Baumann, but when the land was still undeveloped after six months, Pyka began to panic. One day, Baumann asked her business partner, Amee Parrott, and Pyka to meet her on top of a mountain near the property.
"She brings her Bible and she says she wants to bless this property," Pyka says. "She has this framed picture for me. It's black and white and it's a verse from the Bible. 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' She gives Amee some other slogan from the Bible, and she proceeds to tell us that she has spent time in the federal penitentiary in the state of Texas for embezzlement. That's when I knew I was in really big trouble."
That's when Pyka started poking around on the Internet for information about Baumann and discovered the D Magazine article. She was not only shocked to discover that Baumann had fooled so many others, but also that Herre and Parrott already knew about her past and trusted her anyway. She had fooled them, too.
"She used her faith in God and played the holy roller," Herre says. Her dedication to her church convinced him that she had changed. Baumann told Parrott that her ex-husband in Plano was to blame for her previous troubles.
"It's true she loves her kids, but you wonder how much when she puts herself back in this position," Parrott says.
Like she had in Plano, Baumann maintained the illusion of success to draw in new investors. She convinced a dealership to lend her a Ferrari and furnished her house "like the Taj Mahal" with Herre's money. She spent the first $6,000 that Pyka gave her in one shopping trip, telling Parrott she had accidentally used the wrong credit card.
"She has an obsession with her body," Pyka says. "She's always on the way to the gym when I call her, even at 9 p.m. She has three kids. What's she doing always going to the gym at 9 p.m.? Perfect body, breast implants, as I found out from the article. Totally a fake."
Baumann's ex-husband, Ed, wrote a letter in July 2007 warning Baumann's business contacts that she would try to scam them. Pyka never received a letter, but Baumann cut off all contact with her after it was sent out.
Baumann's behavior went from erratic to bizarre. She claimed that construction could not begin on the Laguna Beach property until a geological check was performed because God had told her that they would find diamonds. The property was on Diamond Street. Then she retreated to her house and wouldn't come out. When Parrott tried to get her to leave her house, she found that Baumann hadn't slept for days, wasn't bathing, and had been wearing the same western shirt and cowboy boots for a week. Leaving her sons in her mother's apartment, Baumann fled.
"She bought a new SUV in my name and took off to Santa Rosa, seven hours away, to go to some church," Parrott says. "I think she's setting up an insanity plea. The market dropped really bad, and she's spent so much money, and I think she just went nuts."
Parrott is putting together a class action lawsuit against Baumann and the broker who allowed her to operate with a license that expired in 1994. Pyka cannot afford to sue. "I have no money to get my money back," she says. "She took $415,000 from me, plus interest. She basically took everything I have and left me with a piece of property I can't make payments on. It'll probably go into foreclosure. God forbid I go bankrupt. My equity line was huge. If they call my equity line, I'm done."
Today, Baumann is hiding out in Herre's $2.2 million Huntington Beach mansion, which she promised to buy but has not made payments on in months. She refuses to leave even though Herre has shut off the electricity and contacted the sheriff. She has created an elaborate business plan for her church, run by the pastor who let her live in his parsonage when she was released from prison. She also claims she has come up with a new form of energy centered around pink flowers.
"She's so persuasive. She can convince you of anything," Parrott says. "She can tell you anything negative about her before it comes out, and she can put a spin on it so it doesn't make you think badly of her. She sat in prison for three years thinking of what she did wrong — not morally, but what she did to get caught." – Alexandra Millard
Plano's greedy girl took her investors on a wild ride, fooling everyone-including her husband.
Glenna Whitley
Published 11.01.1998 - From D Magazine NOV 1998
When Ed Baumann ihinks of his estranged wife, Lauren, two images come to mind. One is of Lauren ensconced in her luxurious office, dressed in a power suit with a short skirt, wheeling and dealing on the phone-to customers, real estate agents, bankers. Sharp with numbers, Lauren Baumann worked long hours, determined to make her mortgage business grow. "She was real smart, real creative with the mortgage business," Ed says. "She'd gel loans through that I couldn't understand how she got these people to qualify. But as far as doing anything illegal? No."
The other Lauren is the overripe vixen poured into a black lace gown with alarmingly low cleavage, posing in boudoir shots to show off her new breast implants, vamping in tight leather in a vanity video.
Now, as 47-year-old Ed Baumann surveys the ruins of his life in Piano's fast lane, the bewildered former millionaire ruefully wonders how far back he should have known that 30-year-old Lauren was a thief.
Long before the mysterious business dealings and lavish overspending, the flashy parties and the new breasts, there'd been the $2,000 bad check she made out to him after they got engaged, the forged credit cards, the hidden account statements, the suspicions about a secret lover.
Instead, blinded by love or bad judgment or both, Ed hung on until he had no choice but to help federal authorities set a trap for his wife, closing down her mul-ti-million-dollar Ponzi scheme and possibly setting up Mrs. Baumann for a trip to prison.
As he sits alone in his cavernous Piano Xanadu, which he soon will be forced to put on the market, and ponders how to rebuild his own ravaged reputation, Ed Baumann is a confused and bitter man.
"I tried everything I could," he says. "She wiped me out."
"Oh, honey, I have to have it," Lauren squealed. The 1990 Mercedes 300 CE, perched like a bonbon on a plate in front of a Southern California car dealership, was a unique shade of teal. Lauren spotted it as they were driving by in February 1992 and, in that instant, had to possess it. The Baumanns had been married a little less than a year, and Lauren was five months pregnant. The price was $40,000. Ed paid cash.
After all, he could afford it. After working for years as the territory sales manager of a medical supplies company, in October 1991 Ed had hit the jackpot: The company went public, and his stock options were worth about $ 1 million. His life was on the right track; not only was Ed a millionaire, he had a pretty wife 17 years his junior and a baby on the way.
But Ed didn't really like California or the mortgage business. He wanted a place to raise a family, a place where he could start his own company. In late 1992, after their first son was bom, the Baumanns, attracted by Texas' entrepreneurial culture, moved to Las Colinas.
In April 1993, they found a lot on Twin Lakes Way in Lakeside (off Parker Road near Preston). At $210,000, the land cost more than Ed wanted to spend, but it was almost an acre, next to a creek and a pond. They signed a contract with a homebuilder; for a down payment, Ed took $157,000 from his stock margin account at Schwab.
The house ended up being 6,200 square feet, with a three-car garage and a guest house. Lauren found a decorator, and they began to make changes and additions. To make payments easier while he traveled on business, Ed added his wife as a signatory on his account at Schwab.
When he finally added up the bills, the house had cost $766,000.
Though he thought Lauren had gone overboard on die decorating and additions, Ed didn't complain too much. "I felt we 'd get our money out of it," he says. The four-columned edifice was something more than a house; it became the symbol of his hard-earned success.
For Ed, it may have been a culmination. But Lauren was just getting started.
She decided to put her mortgage experience to work, incorporating Accelerated Funding Mortgage Corp. Her idea was to act as a retailer to the booming Piano market, handling the paperwork and then sending her customers' loan packages to wholesale lenders such as Sunbelt Savings for actual funding. In a few years. Accelerated was processing about S3 million in loans per month. Lauren toiled long hours. When the time came to give birth to her second son, she had the baby on a Thursday and was back at work on Monday.
In a flourishing market the money flowed, and Lauren quickly got used to it. Her weekly florist bill was $2,000. Dropping $6,000 to $8,000 at Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, or Bachendorf's on a Saturday wasn't unusual for her.
The Baumanns had become good friends with their Piano neighbors: Gary Hartstein, who had made his money in adult video stores; Paul and Wendy Morse, daughter of Wendy's Hamburgers founder Dave Thomas; and, especially, Pam and Brian Greninger. who owned Service Rubber Group-Lauren loved to buy her friends expensive gifts and to throw lavish parties. For a bridal shower for her masseuse, she bought a couple of cases of Dom Perignon and hired a former La Bare dancer to chauffeur the guests in a limo. For her oldest son's fifth birthday, Lauren threw a Jurassic Paik-themed bash, com- plete with a thatched roof over the pool and live parrots, monkeys, snakes, and cheetahs. Lauren always played down the costs to Ed, though anyone who attended could see that the food and decorations were always over the top. It was only later that Ed found out his son's birthday party cost about $50,000.
As early as 1994, the Baumanns' marriage was shaky. Ed's fledgling company had failed to take flight, while Lauren had more business than she could handle. So Ed pitched in at Accelerated Funding. But proximity did nothing to relieve the strains. They fought often about money- mostly about her spending his without telling him or lying about it afterward.
"I was made out to be the bad guy," says Ed. "People thought I had an anger problem." He tried to take Lauren's name off the Schwab account, but she refused to sign the consent documents. On a Thursday night in December 1994, after discovering that Lauren had taken $28,000 without his authorization, Ed got drunk and slapped her. demanding to know what she did with the money. The next Monday, Ed checked into Charter Hospital in Piano, spending a week in alcohol rehab.
But the money problems continued after his rehab. Ed couldn't understand how Lauren could drop $25,000 on clothes in one day. "You're going to wipe out all die stock in our Schwab account in a year or two." he told her after discovering one spending binge. "Oh. I'm making so much money I'll be able to pay you back." she said.
As Lauren's business grew, she seemed to become more obsessed with her image. In May 1995. after she complained that she needed a better car to court clients, Ed obliged with a leased $75,000 Jaguar. That summer, though she weighed about 125 pounds, she announced that she needed liposuction. Adamantly against it, Ed refused to drive her to the hospital. Undaunted, Lauren had her receptionist drive her there and back. A year later, she was back at the plastic surgeon, this time for size-D breast implants.
On Father's Day 1996, Lauren presented her husband with a slickly produced video, praising his strengths as a husband and dad, featuring photos and videos of his two blond sons. Then she led him to the Greningers' driveway. Hidden inside the neighbors' garage was a new red Porsche Carrera. The sticker was still on it: $75,000. Shocked and thrilled, Ed turned to Lauren, who promised that she had paid cash for it out of her business.
Ed says he chose to believe her.
How and when the scam really began is not exactly clear. But the first investor was a well-to-do retired businessman named Ronald Unger, who went to Lauren in 1994 to finance a mortgage. Quick with numbers, Lauren noticed a losing stock account among his assets and pointed out that the broker was inept. On investigation, Unger discovered he was more than that and obtained a settlement from the brokerage house. He was now willing to listen to anything Lauren recommended.
"She said she could do better for me than my stock market investments," Unger says. Lauren explained that her husband Ed was buying distressed properties, fixing them up, and selling them. She was loaning money at high rates for the construction work, secured with second liens on Ed's property, Lauren insisted it was legal. (In fact, Lauren was not an officer in Ed's company; any liens she put on those properties were illegal and, according to Ed. unauthorized.) Unger gave Lauren a little money, which she invested, returning a "fee" for the use of the money and interest for a total return of 35 to 40 percent. So he gave her some more.
"My problem became thai I never took any principal back," says Unger. "I kept rolling my principal over." Over a period of time, he introduced a dozen or so people-mostly close friends-to Lauren's program. Word-of-mouth brought other investors, including Mike Cul-well. of Culwell & Son, Vickie Mox, a high-powered Piano real estate agent, and psychologist Xandreya Zigel.
Her approach was never pushy or aggressive. "She was very subtle about it," says one investor. "It was take it or leave it."
As investors' money poured in, Lauren's shopping sprees became more extravagant. One day in April 1997, she dropped $27,170 at Neiman Marcus. The Baumanns' marriage-the alcoholic and the shopaholic-began to collapse.
Lauren told people that Ed was often physically abusive; she shows photos Pam Greninger look of deep bruises on her thighs and arms. Ed denies that he beat her, but admits that once during this period he slapped Lauren, threw her down on the floor, and sat on her during an argument over S 100,000 she had taken from the Schwab account without his knowledge.
At one point, Ed left for three days; he decided against filing for divorce. "I would have, if we didn't have two kids," he says. But they were still husband and wife; early that fall, Lauren got pregnant. And Lauren's Accelerated was still funding a few of Ed's deals.
Trying to figure out what was delaying some of those closings, Ed walked into Lauren's office one day in the fall of 1997 and noticed a piece of paper on her desk. On Accelerated letterhead, under her name, it described a program offering private investors amazing returns. A 45-day investment of $51,000 would bring a $5,800 "fee," plus 11 percent interest per diem for a 103 percent annual return. Investors with $210.000 could earn a $63,800 fee plus 11 percent interest, for a 193 percent return.
"What are you doing. Lauren?" he asked.
"That's my new investment letter." she said proudly, explaining thai she was putting together investor pools for refinancings.
Ed could see at once that she was promising unrealistic returns. "How can you do this?" he asked. "It's going to blow up in your face."
"Look, I'm the one making the money this year," Lauren said, furious. "The investor letter is bringing in big money. Don't tell me what to do."
Lauren had informed Ed that she wanted to give a Christmas party on Dec. 6, and that it would cost $ 15.000 to $20,000. Two weeks before the party, workers showed up to build a plexiglass floor over the pool. The theme was a beach Christmas. A truck dumped sand on the lawn and planted wooden statues of pink flamingos and Jerry Garcia drinking a pina colada.
On the night of the party, crews began arriving to set up a piano player, a band, and a fortune teller. The head chef of the Fairmont Hotel prepared dinner. Entertainment included a kilted Scotsman to pour Scotch and tell ribald stories, two Colombians to hand-roll cigars, and professional dealers to run casino tables, where guests could gamble for prizes like dinner at the Mansion.
"I was walking around and realized, 'This is costing a hell of a lot of money.'" says Ed. Dressed in a tuxedo, he went upstairs and found Lauren, squeezed into an extremely low-cut purple dress, wearing $300,000 emerald earrings she had rented for the night. Lauren insisted that her party planner, an investor, had made a lot of money with her and was paying for most of the party. "My wife's a pathological liar, and here I am still believing her," Ed recalls ruefully.
About 100 guests, mostly investors, ale, drank, and danced until after midnight. The price tag for the party, yard decorations, and a separate kid's party: about $215,000. But from Lauren's viewpoint, it may have been worth it. After the party, even more money flooded into Lauren's "investment program." The owner of a CPA firm invested $750,000. Two brokers from Dean Witter started referring their clients.
"We adored Lauren," says one female investor who became a close friend. "And we trusted her."
Besides, she looked the part of the high-finance high-roller. "She drove a $75,000 Jaguar," says linger. "Her husband drove a Porsche, She lived in a magnificent home. She was not the average little working girl."
Ed came into the office one day the first week of February 1998 to find his wife screaming into the phone at her banker. The bank had grown concerned about the hundreds of thousands of dollars flowing through her accounts and put a temporary hold on her activity. Her checks to investors were bouncing.
"I knew that day what was going on," Ed says. He confronted Lauren: "You're doing a Ponzi scheme."
"I don't even know what that is," Lauren said. He told her: She promises high returns to investors, then uses their money to pay off previous investors. With no real income or assets other than fresh money from new investors, the pyramid eventually collapses.
Ed told Lauren she had to go to those investors to whom she'd paid big "returns," get that money back, and then use it to pay off everyone's principal. "You'd better shut this thing down," Ed told her.
"I can't do it," Lauren wailed. "I'll lose my credibility. I'll lose my investors. I'll have to go back to doing loans."
Unable to convince her to quit the scheme, realizing that people would believe he might be a crook, too, Ed decided he needed proof of his suspicions. He asked a contractor, a former private investigator, to help, and he started looking through Lauren's files when she wasn't around, Ed says he found illegal second liens she 'd put on half his properties. From records, it appeared that by the spring of 1997, she was taking in $300,000 to $400,000 a month. In October 1997. she took in $929,000. In December, the total was more than $1 million.
In her Jaguar, he found something more personally shocking: a fantasy music video of Lauren dressed up in $2,400 worth of North Beach leather, vamping a macho biker on a Harley-shot by the same photographer who did his Father's Day video. She'd hired the actors and paid the photographer $2,100 to produce her waJk on the wild side.
Then Ed found her mobile phone bills, which showed Lauren talking to Brian Greninger 10 to 12 times a day. Greninger had left his wife two months earlier. Lauren rarely came home before 9 or 10 p.m.
"I knew they were having an affair," Ed says. He moved out.
Ed's divorce attorney took one look at the material and told him what he really needed was a good criminal defense attorney. He and Lauren were married; they officed together. Who would believe he wasn't involved in what apparently was a criminal scheme to defraud? Ed went to lawyer Jay Ethington, who recommended "going postal," and began secret negotiations with the U.S. Postal Inspector's Office (which investigates mail fraud). In late March or early April, Ed agreed to gather evidence against Lauren for the federal government.
Lauren hadn't slowed her pace. More money than ever was coming in. In February, about Si million; in March, $1.5 million. Then, during the first 12 days in April. $ 1.2 million. (She took a break on April 10 to have her baby.) Brokers from Dean Witter, Everen Securities, and Merrill Lynch brought in people to hear Lauren's pitch, all eager to give her their money for the promised 157 to 279 percent return. (One investor received 409 percent.)
Meanwhile, Lauren had figured out that Ed was up to something; she hired a former FBI agent to install defenses-trip alarms on file cabinets, video cameras running 24 hours. Her efforts may have been an attempt to intimidate Ed, but nothing is more intimidating than the threat of a jail sentence. And anyway, Ed still had a key to the office. On the night of April 23. he sneaked in and found, in a locked file, a document showing $400,000 from one investor immediately being wired out to six others. It was the one piece of paper the federal investigators had told him they needed. Ed's spy game was over.
On May 19, the Securities and Exchange Commission, get-ling wind that really big money was about to come in, filed an injunction against Lauren's companies, shutting her businesses down and freezing her bank accounts. Ed says he's broke; the money he made in the medical supply company is gone. The Twin Lakes dream house soon will be up for sale. Lauren's half of the proceeds will go to the receiver appointed to liquidate the assets to repay investors.
The SEC discovered that Lauren kept virtually no records, but by tracing bank transactions officials figured out that from Jan. 1,1997 to May 19,1998, she took in $9.6 million from 80 investors-many were sophisticated people with lots of financial experience. "They got beguiled by appearances," says Harold F. Degenhardt, district administrator for die SEC. "They [the Baumanns] wore their money, drove their money, and lived in their money. People should have asked some serious questions."
One big question remains: Where did it all go? She disbursed $6.9 million to investors, but that leaves $2.7 million. "We allege in our papers that a lot of the money was spent on personal expenses, but that's one of the things the receiver is doing now, tracing all of the money," says SEC spokesman Spencer Barasch. The SEC alleged that a lot of the money went to Greninger: a $137,500 Mercedes and $60,952 in furnishings for his apartment. Lauren spent $95,589 on jewelry for herself and friends. On May 9,1998, right before she got shut down, she spent $29,715 on domes at Lilly Dodson. The federal court entered a "repatriation" order, requiring her to return any assets outside the U.S.
Lauren insists there is no money in offshore accounts. She's moved to a rent house, but she's still in Piano, working as a loan originator and trying to pay her bills, awaiting news of whether she will be criminally indicted. She denies running a Ponzi scheme, although she admits she made "mistakes." She contends it was really Ed's demands for money for his business-and his determination to keep her in the disastrous marriage–that caused all the problems. But a friend says, "It just goes to show what a woman will do to live in a big house in Piano."
Lauren Baumann sits on her couch in early September, feeding her youngest child, Seth. The once-black edifice of hair is now a startling blond. She flashes a dazzling smile and says the hair switch, and an unfortunate experiment with self-tanner, led to a rumor that she is planning to flee the country.
"I want to accept responsibility for what I unknowingly did wrong," she says. "1 have integrity. I've cooperated completely. My sole intention is that every investor gets back every dime."
And who wouldn't believe her?


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HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam National Drama Theatre's artists will stage Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. The global masterpiece will debut in October.
Romeo & Juliet is set in Verona, Italy, where violence rules. Two families bear an old grudge and there is intense hatred against each other. In this world where greed, wealth and bitter feuds prevail, two disenchanted children dare to fall in love.
The work was staged in Việt Nam in 1980 for the first time by the Việt Nam Youth Theatre. While there are many versions of Romeo & Juliet worldwide, director Anh Tú will introduce more Vietnamese cultural elements such as martial arts and modern dances in the Vietnamese version.
"I will focus on singing and dancing in the play," People's Artist director Anh Tú said. "I will use dances to express conflict in the play." Director Tú also successfully staged Hamlet last year, incorporating traditional dance of the central province of Thanh Hóa.
The director edited the Vietnamese version of the script translated by Đặng Thế Bính. The team also comprises set designer Doãn Bằng, musician Tiến Minh and talented actors of the theatre group.
It is the second world masterpiece to be staged by the Việt Nam National Drama Theatre following Hamlet last year under the theatre's plan to perform world classics. The Việt Nam National Drama Theatre, a leading theatre group in the country, was found in 1959. — VNS


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May 30, 2018
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Poker Games Interactive LLC demonstrates the World's First Live Dealer Video Poker games at the Macau MGS Entertainment Show on November 15-17
Nov 14, 2016, 09:00 ET
MACAU, China, Nov. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Poker Games Interactive LLC announces the unveiling of two new patented video poker games made for the LT Game Live Multiple Game System which has live dealers, supports multiple tables and has a terminal-based multi-game selection system. The groundbreaking demo version of these games on this exciting new casino gaming platform will be unveiled today in the LT Game booth at the Macau MGS Entertainment Show and will be available to view and play at the show until November 17th.
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Forums › Niryo One › Programming Niryo One › Queuing move goals › Reply To: Queuing move goals
Thank you, Edouard, for your answer!
I followed your advice and tried to hook up with Joint Trajectory Controller via
/niryo_one_follow_joint_trajectory_controller/command topic.
Seems like this topic is also used in
arm_commader.py. So, I ended up with next modifications to
class RobotCommander
def __init__(self, position_manager, trajectory_manager):
self.arm_trajectory_subscriber = rospy.Subscriber(
'/niryo_one/commander/trajectory', RobotMoveCommand, self.callback_trajectory_command)
def callback_trajectory_command(self, msg):
rospy.loginfo("Robot Action Server - Trajectory command %s", msg)
cmd = msg
self.arm_commander.set_pose_target(cmd.position.x, cmd.position.y, cmd.position.z,
cmd.rpy.roll, cmd.rpy.pitch, cmd.rpy.yaw)
plan = self.move_group_arm.compute_plan()
if not plan:
raise RobotCommanderException(
CommandStatus.PLAN_FAILED, "Moveit failed to compute the plan.")
rospy.loginfo("Robot Action Server - Trajectory plan is ready")
rospy.logwarn("Send trajectory direct message %s", plan)
trajectory_msg = plan.joint_trajectory
trajectory_msg.header.stamp = rospy.Time.now()
Basically, now Niryo listens to the new topic
/niryo_one/commander/trajectory for
RobotMoveCommand message. Then plans trajectory with
and publishes it to the
/niryo_one_follow_joint_trajectory_controller/command topic.
Unfortunately, it does not work. Niryo does not move. I can see in logs, that
RobotMoveCommand message was received, trajectory was computed, and Joint Trajectory Controller started to process the new trajectory. After that is silence, i.e. no other log activity, the arm does not move. Could it be that
niryo_one_driver rejects trajectory or does not understand it?
How can I troubleshoot the chain after
Looking forward for your thoughts and hints!
- This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by achernov.


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Mikey will be home on December 18th!!!!! I am SO excited!!!! He will be here to celebrate Maddi's first birthday and Christmas with us. Did I mention how excited I was? Until I can actually see his face and pinch his little cheeks, I will just have to stare obsessively at these pictures. :)
Monday, October 12, 2009
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4 comments:
- Sarabeth said...
I love the whole video!!!! It's SO funny at the end. Well it's not on here but he is SO funny on the vids. Especially the one where he's wearing that weird curtain thing on his head or when he vid tapes that drunk guy.......... good times......good times lol
- October 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM
- Lyd Stew said...
I think it takes a special boy to be over there! What a great missionary!
- October 15, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Becki said...
How exciting! Can't wait to meet him!
- October 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Lee Family said...
Great pictures. I can't believe your brother has already been gone so long. Thanks for your comments on my blog. I'm glad to have your blog address now so we can keep in touch better.
- October 21, 2009 at 9:04 AM
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When the leaves start to turn colors and there is a slight chill in the air, you know it's officially time for PUMPKIN EVERYTHING! The store shelves are stocked with Halloween candy, you can grab a pumpkin spice latte at your favorite coffee shop and you can even celebrate the season with a super cute 'Pumpkin Spice' t-shirt!
If you're anything like me, fall weather puts me in the mood for a cozy sweater and a spatula. With the holidays in sight, I'm always on the lookout for new treats to make. This easy Pumpkin Pie Caramel Chocolate Bark recipe is a perfect way to incorporate the comforting flavors and colors of fall into one delicious treat.
Some of the products used in this recipe were supplied to us by Chocoley.com. As always, all opinions are entirely our own. Please read our disclosure policy for more information.
Ingredients for Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Caramel Bark
- Bada Bing Bada Boom Candy & Molding Gourmet Compound Chocolate
- This is a semi-sweet Belgian style compound chocolate made with a formula perfect for candy making. It's super easy to use – no tempering is required. It's also made with top quality ingredients – no hydrogenated oil and free of peanuts, tree nuts, eggs and gluten. It also uses socially responsible cocoa that's part of a program that helps life cocoa farmers and communities out of poverty.
- Chocoley Gourmet Caramel
- This "ready-to-dip" vanilla caramel is super creamy and doesn't stick to your teeth! It's made with real butter, no hydrogenated oils and is gluten free/celiac safe and AKC Kosher Dairy. It's PERFECT for making caramel apples too.
- Pumpkin Chocolate Flavoring Oil
- Unlike grocery store extracts that are diluted with large amounts of alcohol and/or water, this flavoring is 3x to 4x stronger than typical alcohol-based extracts! It's also meant for use with chocolate (some flavorings made with water with cause your chocolate to seize up – not good!)
- Decocoa White Gourmet Compound Chocolate
- This gourmet white chocolate is made from the highest quality, ethically traded ingredients. No hydrogenated oils, no titanium dioxide or other whiteners. It's also specially formulated so you can add chocolate coloring and flavoring oils.
- Crushed Graham Crackers
- Ground Cinnamon
- Light Brown Sugar
- Fall Sprinkles
Don't forget to pin this recipe to your 'Pumpkin Treats' board on Pinterest!
- Bada Bing Bada Boom Candy & Molding Gourmet Compound Chocolate
- Chocoley Gourmet Caramel
- 1 sleeve Crushed Graham Crackers
- 1.5 tablespoons Cinnamon (ground)
- 2 tablespoons Light Brown Sugar
- Pumpkin Chocolate Flavoring Oil
- Decocoa White Gourmet Compound Chocolate
- Fall Sprinkles
- Bark Mold/Baking Sheet or other items to pour the melted chocolate into such as Styrofoam plates, plastic coated plates, non-stick baking pans, or anything that will easily release the chocolate.
- Mixing Bowl
- Spatula
- Double Boiler (optional)
Warm the pumpkin flavoring oil to room temperature following directions that came with product.
Prepare the graham crackers mixture by combining crushed graham crackers, cinnamon, and light brown sugar and mixing well. (Use approximately 1.5 tablespoons of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of light brown sugar for every sleeve of graham crackers you crush).
Melt the chocolate using instructions that came with your chocolate. Ideally, use a double boiler (or a double boiler insert). Do not let the water touch the bottom of the double boiler. Only let the water simmer. Do not allow it to boil or you may burn the chocolate. If you must use a microwave, melt on medium heat for short periods being very careful not to overheat the chocolate.
Add pumpkin flavoring oil (to taste) to melted chocolate.
Pour the flavored chocolate onto a heavy weight dipping sheet lined baking sheet (or any flat bottomed surface – or pour DIRECTLY onto a sturdy wax coated paper plate or onto a Styrofoam plate) and spread with a spatula until it's about 1/4″ thick.
Immediately cover the chocolate with a layer of the graham cracker crumb mixture.
Refrigerate until set-up (hardened) – about 15 minutes. Don't leave the chocolate in the refrigerator for too long. The chocolate can become too cold and will "sweat" or even crack when brought to room temperature.
While the chocolate is setting, melt the Chocoley Gourmet Caramel on low heat until it reaches 170° F. You can use a microwave on medium heat for short periods being very careful not to overheat the mixture.
Remove chocolate from refrigerator and drizzle melted caramel over the top. Be generous with the caramel!
Return to refrigerator until caramel has set.
While the caramel is setting, melt Decocoa White Gourmet Compound Chocolate. Directions are on the package.
When it's ready, decorate bark with the white chocolate.
Immediately sprinkle on fall sprinkles before the white chocolate sets-up.
Return to refrigerator until white chocolate has set.
Cut or break into pieces of whatever size you want! OR Don't break up the bark before if you give it as a gift! It looks pretty cool as one big piece.
Seal in an airtight container until ready to serve. Store at room temperature in low humidity.
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I'd heard about sleep doctors and sleep studies. I had a couple of friends who had actually done one. But they creeped me out. The sleep studies, not the friends.
I had this vision of a sterile laboratory, horrible chemical smells and greenish, buzzing lights that flickered.
I'm strapped to a gurney in a glass room. Catheters and multi-colored tubes connect me to some machine like a lethal injection candidate. Two guys in stained lab coats hover over monitors and adjust high definition cameras focused on me. And then everything goes black as I fall asleep snoring and drooling like Homer Simpson.
I'm jolted awake the next morning to a spotlight being turned on me. The room I went to sleep in is completely gone and now I'm on stage in a macabre theater in the round. The two-way mirrors have faded away, and I can just make out where dozens of doctors sit shrouded in semi-darkness on the other side of the glass. They're all pointing and laughing at me from the other side of the soundproof barrier which makes it all the more eerie. I feel like Woody Allen in a Twilight Zone episode.
A hidden door from the glass wall opens and an official looking guy in a lab coat with a clipboard, steps out. The sound of laughter explodes into the lab like firecrackers. It's completely gone the second the door closes behind him. I stare at the laughing mimes on the other side of the glass. He clicks a button. There on the screen, in way too many pixels, is me, asleep on the gurney.
"Yes Mick, as you can see here, at 1am after scratching yourself rather indecently, you started snoring, choking and drooling while on your left side. At 2:30, the flatulence was so bad, we had to vent the lab as oxygen levels dropped dangerously. At 2:45am, you were back to drooling and scratching yourself indecently again."
It may not seem like it, but I do have a little bit of pride. That image of what a sleep study was surely like kept me away from one for at least 5-6 years. And now, here I was.
I went to meet the sleep doctor and feigned a non-plussed attitude in the waiting room while I read People Magazines from 1997. There was a ream of paperwork and by the end of the stack, I was sure they knew more about me than my closest relatives. Finally, I got to see the Doctor who was so shocked by my paperwork, that he said I could do a home-study since I was almost certainly a candidate for sleep aids. That was the best news I'd heard all day! I was thrilled to take home a very complex device that was going to measure my sleep. He also measured my neck and seemed impressed by how fat it was.
After going through a long, boring, detailed demonstration of the sleep study device, the Doctor was quite clear about one thing.
"You should do everything exactly the way you always do. If you drink a lot of wine before bed, you should drink a lot of wine before bed. If you eat too late, too spicy, or too much, that's what you should do for the sleep test."
This sleep study was looking better every minute.
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I intended to make two soaps today but I wound up not having the time. Instead I've been working on packaging and tried making a few solid lotion bars as a test. First, the new label pattern.
This may be a little dark, but I wanted something "citrus" themed for the label background for the "Tropical Citrus" soap. I like the almost glass-like look of the cut fruit. (My printer only does black and white).
Then I moved on to wrapping and labeling the round shampoo bars. These are my first label mockups. I learned that I have to put the label on the flat side (the top is bumpier than the bottom). Below that are my 4 tiny solid lotion bars to test out. They are made with shea butter, beeswax, coconut oil and sweet almond oil.


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One of the youngest cities in Europe, Birmingham is vibrant and richly diverse. It is well known for always offering a warm welcome to visitors from around the world.
Birmingham has a wealth of existing sports venues, arenas and conference halls that are ideal for hosting sport during the Games. With 95 per cent of the competition venues already in place, Birmingham 2022's Games will be both prudent and innovative.http://www.birmingham2022.com


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