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At times like this it is hard to remain positive. It has been a horrible few weeks with too many tears shed a long the way. I was moved by the London Gay Men's chorus singing Bridge over Trouble Water at the Orlando LGBT vigil, dissolved at the picture of Syrian's in Aleppo paying tribute to Jo Cox and burst into tears when the lovely girl who serves me coffee everyday and practices her English with me told me she thinks it will be ok and it isn't my fault.
For Orlando and Jo Cox I felt disbelief that these things could happen but also comforted by the flood of love that poured out across social media and into the streets. Today, it just feels like grief. I feel like I want to hold a vigil for the UK, to acknowledge that my heart is too full. It is too sad. I am aghast and heartbroken, completely ashamed and appalled by the decision to leave the EU.
I am furious for the lies told in the campaign, that people didn't really expect it to happen voted leave anyway. I feel devastated for the areas of the country like Cornwall who rely on EU funding and I pity the poor local governments who will have to find yet more funding to fill the gaps that it will leave.
I have a sense of relief that the horrible divisive debate is over but I am anxious about the scars that it will leave on our society. I am scared for our bees, for our nature reserves, for our farmers, for the fact that experts aren't listened to and that the country is so divided.
I believe in openness, multiculturalism, collaboration and supporting people in need. I hate the idea that we are a racist, xenophobic country who is making many of my friends feel that the UK doesn't want them living here anymore.
Unlike last year, I feel also like my hope is getting smaller with the cumulative weight of bad things. I haven't yet worked out what to do next. It feels like it is harder to see the light. Today I grieve. Tomorrow we need to organise and think of some solutions.
Any ideas?
:: It is May and there are lots of good songs about May. This weekend we have been enjoying singing to My Father's Farm by Megson. (So good for singing with small people).
:: David Attenborough. I have been greatly enjoying all the DA 90th birthday celebrations, particularly the programme about Darwin this weekend. Made me teary at the end when he read the closing paragraph of Origin of the Species.
:: Poppies – there are gorgeous red and orange poppies spring up in unlikely places at the moment which injects bright pops of colour on pavements & roadsides.
:: Trip to Manchester where I visited the Whitworth and my favourite veggie/vegan cafe.
:: Trip to Green Dragon eco-farm. Sheep. Kids (as in goats). Bottle-feeding lambs. Go-karts. Piglets.
:: My veg box contains sorrel this week. I love that my box magically appears on a Monday morning.
:: Being nearly at the end of a book and loving it so much I can't bear to finish it. I have been labouring over it for some weeks but the time has come!
:: I have a new gorgeous little nephew (or nephlet as I like to call him) which is so so lovely.
:: Sunshine – bright gorgeous days make make such a difference. I have been revelling in the sunshine.
:: Sadiq Khan being elected as London Mayor. It made me feel all warm towards London.
:: A lovely long hot bath while it is still light outside in the early evening. It feels much more luxurious somehow than a regular bath.
:: My local neighbourhood today, it is open studios weekend and I have had such a lovely day getting to know the area a bit better.
:: Delicious veggie and tofu stirfrys and peppermint and liquorice tea.
:: Sara Pascoe has written a book, Animal ,which sounds really interesting and I can't wait to read it. (She is also wearing a lemur tail on the cover which gets extra points in my world).
:: Trees look spectacular this time of year – both with new green leaves and blossom.
:: Birds of Peckham chirping happily away throughout my early morning yoga class.
:: Lovely colleagues. I feel throughly spoilt this week with beautiful flowers and kind words.
:: Orange and almond cake.
:: Planting up the front garden. Eeek!
:: Ballet.
:: Nobody loves microbeads – hurrah one day we will be free.
:: Having coffee in the sunshine.
:: Gardens can teach you lifeskills.
:: Kind words on my recent blogposts. Thank you!
:: Lemon and spinach orzotto. Delicious.
:: My indoor collection of succulents. I'm worried I'm addicted.
Sometimes ideas appear to you at the right time, finding their way to you when you need them the most. Today, I went to a talk hosted by the School of Life on how to cultivate resilience and bounce back from adversity.
The talk discussed that rather avoiding bad things when they happen or getting thrown off course we need to find ways to accept and learn from it. It isn't about merely "getting over it" or "moving on" but rather it is about accepting loss and change as part of our everyday lives. I think that this is fundamentally a positive outlook and one that resonates for me, I have always felt that it isn't what happens to you that is important but how you deal with it and what you learn from it.
However, accepting that adversity is a natural part of life or inevitable is challenging. It means we need to embrace the idea that we can't control everything. The workshop advised us to consider adopting some thinking from the Stoics (who are frankly a bit too miserable for me) by accepting that adversity in life is inevitable and that we should mentally prepare for its occurrence. By expecting it to happen, apparently we will be less thrown off course when it happens. While I completely understand the logic here, there is a fine line between anticipating change and being fatalistic.
Resilience is affected by the neural pathways in the brain which were created in first five years (although in teenage years they also get re-wired which can fundamental change how people respond to situations). In our early years, we develop core beliefs and mindsets which impacts our coping abilities in later life. Resilience can be learnt in later life but like lots of other behaviour change it requires changing ingrained habits and mindsets. There are lots of exercises and ways to retrain your brain and responses but it requires regular practice to do so.
I was taken with the idea that we need some 'grit in our lives'. It is the 'daily grit' which helps teach us things, helps us adapt and grow as a person. It is the 'grit' which helps us create and appreciate beauty. Like oysters, we can create shiny and beautiful things by embracing the difficult aspects that life throws at us.
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I grew up surrounded by plants and green space. It is something that I crave and need to relax. One of the reasons I love South East London is how leafy and green it is. I would love a garden of my own but my flat, alas, has no outside space and allotments are hard to come by these days. So I dream of garden, building my plant knowledge slowly and saving links to Pinterest in anticipation of the day I get my first proper garden.
I have been thinking recently about how to live more in the now and so I have been thinking how to scratch my gardening itch. In my front garden there is a tiny patch of neglected land, so small and insignificant it has scarcely seemed worth it. But working in the Elephant and Castle I have witnessed first hand the lovely planting that Richard Reynolds has created with his careful tending of unloved spaces. London could be transformed if everyone did something nice with their front gardens rather than concreting it over and filling it with cars and bins.
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Our space hasn't been very loved. It was full of brambles and rubbish. It doesn't belong to me but I have decided to cultivate it and show it some love with a few plants anyway.
Today, under blue skies the first plants are in the soil. Hurrah! The sense of achievement is great – this small place will be perfect to practice some gardening. Today, Mum and I planted hollyhocks, lavenders and thyme to see what happens. I kept also some stray pretty flowers from next door. It has poor soil and I wanted plants which could quite happily thrive in dry, stony conditions. I hope that the lavenders and thyme might spread. I also wanted plants which would be bee-friendly and aromatic so when we brush past we catch a whiff of something nice. I think there might be space for some fennel, purple sage and some nasturtiums in the future but we will see.
It felt great – hands in the soil, sun on my face, chatting with my mum as we planted the area. I'm excited to see what grows. Gardening can teach us so much; it is full of hope and love. I'm hoping this little patch flourishes but for now it is full of anticipation and possibility.
1. I can drive but I often choose not to. Learning to drive was a traumatic experience involving 4 driving tests and including taking a wing mirror off a parked car. I am clearly *not* a natural driver.
2. My favourite colour is blue. All shades; turquoise, sea-blue, teal & azure.
3. I don't have a middle name so I invented ones for myself. Rosebud. I tried at Primary School to get it added to the register, they wouldn't. Boo
4. I once broke my knee dancing in a nightclub and didn't realise at the time. It was quite a surprise the next morning.
5. I swear quite a lot in real life. Knobhead is one of my favourites.
6. I'm a huge music fan. I played oboe and piano growing up and went to music camp where some of my best friends were made. I love all sorts of music – classical, indie, folk, world. Listening to live music makes my heart beat faster and want to dance the night away.
7. Charles Darwin is one of my heroes. I have a secret love of Victorian scientists but I think Darwin writes so beautifully.
8. At University, I was involved in running an ethical investment campaign which led to our university being the first to have an ethical policy.
9. I am convinced that organic wine doesn't give you hangovers…
10. I would like to be an extra in an Agatha Christie. (Preferably a Miss Marple but at this point I'm not fussy.)
11. I still haven't spent a night in a yurt to my shame. This must be remedied!
12. I have secret dreams to build my own house but considering it took me three years to get a wardrobe we aren't holding much hope of this happening any time soon.
13. I still haven't read Middlemarch. It is my book nemesis.
14. When I was growing up, I had a dalmatian and we lived at 101.
15. If i was an animal, I would like to be a lemur so I could swing through the trees.
16. I have a serious stationery addiction.
17. In the fictional heroines debate, I would pick Cathy Earnshaw over Jane Eyre. Every. Single. Time. (while singing Kate Bush)
18. I secretly want to learn to dance – ballet, clog dancing or ballroom are top contenders.
Tarmac Tuesday from Madeira #tarmactuesday #tiles #madeira #funchal
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A little later than usual this week as I am just back from a last-minute trip to Madeira.
:: The ability to travel and just go some place else in the world. I love holidays with a passion. Particularly last-minute ones. Madeira was lovely – I loved the flowers, the mountains, the embroidery, the fruit and ach, the tiles! Fabulous.
:: Reading Signature of All Things – I never want it to end.
:: Humming Minnie Riperton Les Fleurs to myself. It is sunshine in a song.
:: This might be my favourite thing on the internet.
:: These splendid photos of Edwardian women. Super inspiring.
:: I love the weather today – the bright sunny morning good for walks and rain showers this afternoon to remind you it isn't quite Spring yet.
:: Lyra was introduced to some alpacas yesterday and she got excited when she heard them humming.
:: There is so much spring loveliness on Instagram at the moment. (Take a look at #embracingtheseasons hashtag)
:: My loft is now insulated with wool! So pleasing and warm.
:: Quentin Blake's handwriting has been made into a font.
:: This week I have discovered Modern Love podcast which I'm enjoying as a refreshing take on modern relationships. I have also started watching Love on Netflix which I'm also enjoying.
:: Ella Gordon is the patron for Shetland Wool Week, I love Ella's blog and she has designed a truly gorgeous crofthoose hat to celebrate it too.
:: It is Easter. Hurrah!
Hope you are having a lovely Sunday and have some good reasons to be cheerful today too.
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Hurrah! It is the Easter break – a chance to celebrate Spring. It is such a hopeful time of year – celebrating new life, new beginnings and longer days. Since the equinox on Sunday, I have been feeling that Spring is really starting with some blue skies and gorgeous spring flowers. I have been enjoying listening to birdsong and charting the longer daylight hours.
This week I have been really thinking about the rhythm of the year and cycles and how we should adapt our lives to suit it. The longer days give me more energy and I want to be outside, move more and eat lighter foods. I have been on a massive declutter; spring cleaning/clearing is well underway in the Lara nest. I'm enjoying clearing the dust from the corners and feel like it is shaking off the dark winter months.
Celebrating the seasons is a useful way to bring you into the present, into the now and connect you to you to the world around you. For me, Easter is a celebration of nature and spring which I love. However, it is worth bearing mind that the environmental cost of Easter can be high and each year, more than 8,000 tonnes of waste is generated just from Easter egg packaging and cards alone. So over recent years, I have experimented with different ways to mark the festival.
:: Go for a walk to look at beautiful spring flowers. I am partial to hellebores, cherry blossom and I have been enjoying the parks in London planted with crocus and daffodils. I also love having spring flowers around my house. Beautiful flowers are in season at the moment and have pots of daffodils on many surfaces.
Trip to see snakehead fritillaries in Cotswolds: field full of these subtle beauties. #flowers
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:: Support fritillary open days. Snakehead fritillaries are beautiful subtle flowers and once common place in Britian's water meadows. Sadly, this habitat is harder to find and this plant is an endangered species in the wild (mainly because of intensive farming methods) but there are few places in the country where they can be seen during April. Near Cricklade in the Cotswold, there is a field which fills with fritillaries which I visited few years ago. (I warn you the aubergine colour is subtle against grass but it is still a really good thing to support).
Easter Sunday – cooking for family and celebrating spring.
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Easter Feast inspired by city of Jerusalem #ottenlenghi #jerusalem
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For the Easter feast, I made Roasted chicken with clementines, lamb meatballs with broad beans and lemons and then plenty of salad goodness for the vegetarian options so I didn't go hungry! These included Baby spinach salad with dates and almonds, root vegetable slaw with labneh, basmati and wild rice with chickpeas, currents and herbs, with pitta breads and humus.
It was fragrant, delicious and felt suitably celebratory. My sister made an amazing rosewater meringue for pudding which we decorated with figs and honey.
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Last week we had 10 IPOs, with an average return of 16%. Caesars (NASDAQ:CZR) was a big contributor — it soared 58.20%. But there were six other deals that saw double-digit returns as well:
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Homestreet | HMST | 0.00 |
Synacor | SYNC | 5.00 |
FX Alliance | FX | 11.10 |
Caesars | CZR | 58.20 |
Cementos Pacasmayo | CPAC | -4.30 |
ChemoCentryx | CCXI | 11.30 |
EPAM Systems | EPAM | 16.30 |
Roundys | RNDY | 20.20 |
Cempra | CEMP | 14.56 |
This week there are only three IPOs planned. Let's take a look at each:
Ceres (NASDAQ:CERE). The company sells seeds to produce renewable bioenergy feedstocks, which helps reduce reliance on petroleum fuels.
But Ceres' products are still in the early stages, and sales were only $6.6 million last year, with a net loss of $36.3 million.
The lead underwriter on the deal is Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). Ceres plans to issue 5 million shares at a price range of $16 to $17 each, which is down from the prior range of $21 to $23 (indicating soft demand for the transaction).
Brightcove (NASDAQ:BCOV). The company develops a cloud-based platform that allows companies to distribute and manage videos as well as mobile apps.
From 2008 to 2011, revenues jumped from $24.5 million to $63.6 million. But there was a loss of $17.3 million last year.
The company plans to sell 5 million shares at a price range of $10 to $12. The lead underwriter is Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS).
TVAX Biomedical (NASDAQ:TVAX). This biotech focuses on the development of targeted cell-based treatments for cancer. This involves the use of a cancer cell vaccination and the activation of killer T cells.
After the public offering, the company plans to run a Phase III clinical trial.
TVAX plans to sell 2 million shares at a range of $9 to $11. The lead underwriter is Roth Capital.
Tom Taulli runs the InvestorPlace blog IPO Playbook, a site dedicated to the hottest news and rumors about initial public offerings. He also is the author of "The Complete M&A Handbook", "All About Short Selling" and "All About Commodities." Follow him on Twitter at @ttaulli or reach him via email. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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So it was also smart of Mr King to make the point that everyone in the supply chain – from retailer to supplier, small or big – has a duty to act to restore that trust. He's obviously taken some lessons from the banking crises where the bosses are only just beginning to accept blame and demand new standards, as Antony Jenkins has done at Barclays, by telling staff that if they don't meet the new values they can leave.
But all these apologies – and chief executive demands for new standards – are throwing up some other rather fascinating psychological issues at work, according to my head-hunter friend Lindsay Leslie-Miller. She's been recruiting top executives for some of the UK's biggest retailers and telecoms for more than 20 years but says she's never known them to be so jumpy, scared and aggressive.
Since the financial crash most companies have been focused because most of the senior executives have been concentrating on slashing costs and meeting sales targets. But now they've cut everything to the bone, and there is still no sales growth. The rules have changed and executives don't know what to do; which is why there's lots more back-stabbing.
Leslie-Miller should know: her search firm, Hunter-Miller, recruits at the sharp end – the sales, trading and marketing executives trained to meet demanding targets. By contrast, the chief executives do know where they are going but need to start explaining themselves at work as well as to the public.
A new survey for the Edelman Trust Barometer shows less than 20 per cent of the people they spoke to trust business leaders to make good decisions. It would be interesting to ask those same people what they think of their own bosses – it might be even lower.
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Destroying Masculinity
Western society is to lay down and submit to rape it seems just as northern European nations insist their women submit to rape and keep quiet about it.
Certainly there is no masculine response in those nations to the abuse of their women because the emasculation of the west has been in progress for a long time now.
Is there a concerted effort to create a servile submissive population who believe and do as they are told?
The feminine side was maimed by centuries of brutality and ugly unnatural social demands that women be rarely seen and never heard on pain of severe consequences. The feminine side of creation was debased into something only slightly useful only on masculine terms.
The backlash was feminism which was only partially successful until it was quickly hijacked and used for many purposes other than elevating the position of women in society. It became a tool of those who wanted to destroy the feminine and create unnatural mini-men.
We see a plethora of movie heroines who fight like men and in some cases are shown to be far more powerful and larger than life.
A ridiculous scenario is created and fed to young girls who begin to believe it is possible for them to take on a man and over power them quite easily! With no real world experience they really think this might be true. Caution flies out the window and they make themselves targets for violence.
Now it is the males turn to be ground down into the dust by those whose agenda seems to be world domination. But domination is a male trait, that must be over thrown before society can be over thrown. The gatekeeper must be taken out first before you take the city.
One can only imagine where it will end but we live in ugly times.
The Election of Discontent
To the current crop of young people who are currently burning the American flag and showing their hatred for the democratic process and to those of the eternally childish and petulent narcissists of Hollywood and rock music who now seemingly despise democracy and want power imposed by force and threaten in tantrums to leave the country for residence elsewhere I have this to say:
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The LeBron James-Kevin Durant Debate Is Closer Than Anyone Wants to Admit
LeBron James has a peer.
For so long, there's been James, a near-immeasurable chasm and everyone else. Not even Kevin Durant, the NBA's unchallenged second-best player, came close to equaling James.
Already one of the all-time greats, James is unrivaled. He is beyond comparison of any active player. No one has touched him. No one will touch him.
Four league MVPs, two championships and countless statistical accolades have left him standing alone, miles and miles (and miles) above everyone else.
Except Durant.
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Careerwise, James has always been safeguarded against eviction.
Players have improved and new-age superstars arrived, but no one's put up the numbers he has for so long. No one.
Continued dominance is a difficult craft to master. Forfeiting an MVP award to Derrick Rose—or Durant this season—doesn't mean much. Michael Jordan wasn't named league MVP every year, because those awards aren't all-defining barometers.
For one season, a player can rival James. Be more valuable than James. Aberrations happen.
When comparing career production, though, James stands the test of any one player. That's a fact. But Durant's output has approached James-like levels of consistency and absolutism, more so than most realize or care to admit.
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Player | PTS | FG% | 3P% | REBS | ASTS | STLS | BLKS | Off. Rtg. | Def. Rtg. | PER |
Durant | 27.1 | 47.9 | 37.9 | 6.9 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 115 | 105 | 24.4 |
James | 27.5 | 49.5 | 33.8 | 7.2 | 6.9 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 116 | 102 | 27.7 |
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The numbers clearly favor James, even when comparing his first seven seasons to Durant's current totals.
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Player | PTS | FG% | 3P% | REBS | ASTS | STLS | BLKS | Off. Rtg. | Def. Rtg. | PER |
Durant | 27.1 | 47.9 | 37.9 | 6.9 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 115 | 105 | 24.4 |
James | 26.9 | 47.5 | 32.9 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 114 | 102 | 26.9 |
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Once again, there's no question James' marks are better, but they don't put Durant's to shame. In most categories, he's right there, having posted comparable numbers.
Where James actually begins to separate himself even further is win shares. He collected 103.3 win shares through his first seven seasons while Durant is only tracking toward 90.3. The gap in average win-share accumulation only increases when you factor in James' forecasted total for this season (16.4), too.
Even where James is most different, Durant is still in the vicinity of his performance. James has routinely registered more impressive stat lines and accounted for more wins, but he hasn't left Durant staring at the abyss that exists between him and every other player.
In more ways than one, Durant has come along for the ride.
Recent Headway
One season's matchup doesn't mean everything, but Durant's current tear cannot go unnoticed.
Durant has the opportunity to outperform James this season. A fourth scoring title seems imminent and Durant has made great strides in every aspect of the game, so much so that his current production levels cast a shadow over James'.
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Player | PTS | FG% | 3P% | REBS | ASTS | STLS | BLKS | Off. Rtg. | Def. Rtg. | PER |
Durant | 31.2 | 51.2 | 41.9 | 7.7 | 5.5 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 124 | 101 | 31.1 |
James | 26.1 | 57.3 | 35.8 | 6.9 | 6.6 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 121 | 105 | 28.6 |
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Call Durant's season what it is: better than James'.
The Oklahoma City Thunder superstar leads the league in PER, a feat that's been James' God-given right for the last six years. And if Durant's PER continues to hover above 30 (it will), he'll become just the eighth qualified player in NBA history to top 30, joining Wilt Chamberlain, Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal, David Robinson, Tracy McGrady, James and Jordan.
Are we supposed to ignore that? Or gloss over the fact Durant leads the league in win shares, too?
For the last five years, James has never been usurped in the win share department. Not only is Durant on course to break his streak, his projected total (21) is higher than any of James' single-season marks. It would also make Durant the fourth player to ever hit 21, making him part of an exclusive club that only now includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chamberlain and Jordan.
Tell me, where is it that James pulls away? It took him six years to exceed 20 win shares and it will (probably) take Durant seven. That's beyond eerily similar.
Relying on the two-way argument doesn't work anymore, either. James may be able to guard every position, but Durant's defensive rating has rivaled his for the last three seasons. It's actually better this year.
The belief that somehow James has pulled away in recent years because of his offensive balance is outdated as well. More similarities are found there.
At no point over the last few years have we been able to say Durant is better than James. But looking back, and looking at this season, we shouldn't have been so hasty to deem James this unparagoned, matchless superhuman.
Understanding the Discussion
James is still the world's best player.
Is he playing like the best player in the NBA right now? Absolutely not. That honor belongs to Durant, who has picked apart opposing offenses and defenses like they're mere stepping stones. In doing so, he's put Oklahoma City in position to contend for the league's best record, largely without Russell Westbrook.
That doesn't mean he's better than James. He's not. But, like USA Today's Adi Joseph writes, Durant's candidacy is worth discussing:
LeBron James is amazing, but let's not call him peerless.
Why? Well, Kevin Durant is around. And he's pretty amazing, too.
James is the defending NBA MVP, and his Miami Heat are the defending NBA champions. So let's not make any missteps when speaking about Durant, the Oklahoma City Thunder star and James' only one-on-one rival. The only trophies he has won in his career are the 2007-08 NBA Rookie of the Year Award and the 2012 All-Star Game MVP. But he's turning a corner.
This season alone, Durant has reached new heights, taken his game to new levels. The Thunder are perhaps the best, most well-balanced team in the NBA, and that's because of him.
Don't carry on believing that Durant's ascension is some sort of anomaly, though. His progress and how it relates to James has been a long time coming. For years, he's been rivaling James' production. Approaching James' value.
Touching the untouchable.
Grazing James' ceiling may be as close as Durant ever comes. He still hasn't won a championship and even if he does, there will always be those who doubt and underrate him in this conversation because James is near-flawless in their eyes. But Durant remains right there, almost next to James, a not-so-distant second in a legitimate head-to-head debate that's only intensified as the former inches closer to a league MVP award.
"To be honest, I'm going to be totally real, like, I don't go in every day, when I go into the gym and work on my game, I don't have a LeBron picture [on the ball], or I don't have his name in my mind when I'm going in there and working," Durant said before Oklahoma City torched Miami on Jan. 29, per ESPN's Brian Windhorst. "It's all about trying to get better for myself."
Bettering himself, for himself, has left Durant trailing James, a player he may never catch, but one who wasn't supposed to be chased in the first place.
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Using oxford cloth and a hodgepodge assortment of buttons, I used two different suffolk puffs to create a flower. Suffolk puffs {also called Yo-Yo's} were popular in the 30's and 40's to embellish quilts, tee shirts, hair accessories, and so on.
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Just learned that I have four poems in the Park University Literary publication. Haven't seen them yet and it was quite a while ago that I submitted them - I'm stretching to remember which ones they were. If I was at home, I have it on my manuscript tracking system, but for now I'm too shocked. Actually this is the second time they have published my work.
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Ciao and welcome to Carrabba's where you can enjoy a casual dinner in a warm, festive atmosphere. Discover a variety of fresh, handmade Italian dishes cooked to order in our lively exhibition kitchen.
At Carrabba's you'll experience flavorful foods prepared just for you and find hospitality our passion.
Join us any night for our house specialties including crispy calamari, chicken marsala, tender filet, unique pasta dishes and handmade pizzas baked in our wood-burning oven. But your Carrabba's experience is not complete until you've tasted the "Thrill of the Grill!" Fresh fish, seafood and meats basted with our special seasonings, grilled to your liking over our wood-fired grill and served with a variety of homemade sauces. Magnifico!
For our "bambini" (younger guests) we offer a special menu including pasta, chicken fingers and kid-size pizzas. We also offer pizza dough to our bambini for their entertainment (and yours). Children are always welcome at our house!


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Top : courtesy of Button n Thread Boutique
Skirt : DIY
Tights : courtesy of Romwe - super cute, I love them!
Shoes : General Pants $50
Sunnies : Princes Vintage $10
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Yeeey, I love this Giveaway! Adore the button earrings. I've created an account on Button n Thread Boutique and subscribed to the newsletter and liked them on facebook. Amazing shop! Oh and I'd love having that coat in my closet too! The collar is beautiful! :)
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhh finally! 're the first person I've found that it is of my opinion! to me was also the one I liked! I commented on Facebook, in a debate where all the bitterly criticized. Here in my country have criticized all TV programs, and named as the worst dressed. And I do not understand! I love the coat and headdress s head. Very original while protocol and very age-appropriate. The other guests seemed to old ladies.
Glad to avert found, I thought I was living inother planet! hahaha.
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I love your skirt! x
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Also, you're not crazy. That coat and even the shoes to macth, I'd be happy to give the little space I have in my wardrobe for it but the milliner she went to must have hated her
Bright Green Laces
very nice top~!!and i love all your DIY skirts! IF you make some for sale I'd definitely get one~~ Am looking so hard for one with wide stripe =P
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i actually really enjoyed her outfit, her coat was gorgeous and i'd love to own it. her hat was huge weird but i think that's why i liked it. It was eugenie's that was horrid, she could have chosen much better than that! And OMG, Kate's dress was absolutely perfect for the occasion i swear.
As for your outfit - love the DIY skirt, and nice top too :) go cute together.
that skirt is so adorable! and I love your hair :)
super cute outfit <3
and I love your polkadot skirt too
Little Berries
Adore this whole outfit! you look so chic!
I think Princess B didn't look as bad as her sister haha, the headpiece was indeed questionable and her makeup was way to heavy but the dress on it's own is alright. I love your outfit too, the cut out top is really cool and look awesome with the polka dots =)


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THIS WEEK: Slapstick fencing. DESTROY YOUR HOME. Mystical snake shit.
EGGNOGG by Paul Pridham and Connor Pridham
Niddhogg is amazing, but it isn't out yet.
So this is a cover of Niddhogg that captures a lot of the greatness of the original–slapstick two-player fencing with chasing and stabbing and sudden death–while bringing its own ideas to the mix. Swords ricochet when you throw them instead of dropping to the ground, you raise and lower your sword incrementally rather than in stances, everything is a little cuter, etc.
As always, each player wants to reach the opposite end of the map. If you kill your opponent, you have a chance to advance to the next screen, if you're fast enough. Advance enough screens and you win, that is, you throw yourself into a pool of lava.
You know you won though because the word WINNER flashes across the screen. Defeat means rebirth into this plane of eternal duelists, victory is permanent death. The loser LIVES.
You die in one hit, which encourages mind games. Are they lunging high? Going low? Throwing their sword? Jumping around like a goofball? Everything happens so fast that luck and skill collide and you're not always sure which played a factor. These constant reversals are joyous.
None of which would matter if it didn't FEEL GOOD. Not stabbing feels good because you evoke the archetype of the poised musketeer who differentiates themselves from Other People With Swords by Not Stabbing Immediately and Being Fancy For a Few Seconds While Thinking About Sword Science. If you're good at blocking, you can smirk as they loose their cool and thus gain social dominance.
But failing to kill someone feels good too because the act of a sword blocking another sword causes a metallic ping, a spray of sparks, and a wobble–a delicious sensory nugget of visual, audio, and motion feedback.
And stabbing feels good because they DIE and being stabbed doesn't feel terrible because you respawn in a few seconds and now they're in a position of vulnerability, forced to present their back to you in order to make any progress.
At this point you might need to throw your sword to kill them before they escape. Unlike the other emotions in the game, which are mostly based on instantly dying or instantly not dying, throwing your sword is a delayed emotion with lots of swish. This is the video game equivalent of throwing a cracker at someone's mouth and seeing if they catch it, except the cracker is a sword and they're trying to get the fuck away from you, you monster. Failure leaves you unarmed, imbuing the swish with the added weight of sacrifice. Gambling with swords.
Misadventure by Matzerath
Demons have invaded your retro game console and they're trying to kill you inside the game and if you don't beat it fast enough they'll kill you outside the game. This was the perfect thing to show me as I came down from a terrifying bad reaction to cough syrup, thank you Increpare for sending me this melting demonic glitchspace.
I like this because it combines the game itself with all this organic intrusion. Trying to obey the rules as the rules get spattered all over the wall.
We are in the woods by between
This is perfect, better played than read about.
What a way to play with short form. Which games become possible when, and only when, we make them 20 seconds long? 10 seconds? 5? 1?
And it is shortform in the way only a game could be, summoned up in a burst of interaction, confused fingers and eyeballs suddenly snapping into comprehension.
Robert Yang might say this plays with focalization, with our expectations of how consciousness is distributed throughout a game.
Explain menstrual periods to me like IAMA [cis] man by Kevin McGowan
Began as a Reddit thread designed to explain heavy periods to cis men, but a useful lesson to anyone who doesn't have a uterus.
There's a lot of mysticism over periods in mainstream culture–men are taught to be grossed out, women are told to conceal them. This ancient monthly cycle is frequently the subject of sexist humor (classic jokes like "what bleeds for a week and doesn't die" that connote the period as "not only abohorrent but potentially non-human") and a common insult when someone of any gender displays emotion.
So maybe understanding what a period actually signifies is worth our time.
Notes by Droqen
It's a platformer with significant metatext. That is, you can't get the high score of 8 points without consulting the notes written alongside the game.
The notes seem helpful at first. Type "111" to get a super jump, for instance. It's made for people who like cheat codes, who thrill at playing God with just a few keystrokes.
But follow the notes faithfully and you'll score nothing. So you have to experiment. The cool thing is going back after you score 8 points and reverse engineering how the codes work, if you have that kind of brain (it might appeal to a certain kind of programmer more than anyone else).
Canon by sparkleswirl
Make the cubes jump so they don't get hit by other cubes. Four sides, four arrow keys. You can't fix your eye on any one part like you would leaping through a platformer, you have to take in the whole screen and listen to the music of jumping. In Canon, leaping correctly is a tune, to the point where you could probably play blind if you tried hard enough. So it exercises peripheral vision and tunefulness as much as any amount of reflex.
Destroy your home by fabienporee
Destroy your home!
You have no weapons, no fists, all you can do is hurtle your body into your house over and over again until it breaks!
There's a doggy too! The doggy has a secret!
I like that the premise of this game is that you destroy your house in the middle of an infinite grass wasteland under a gorgeous sky as a dog watches. That's the kind of "outside perspective" we need in games.
Doodal by Pishtaco
This is a FRACTAL PAINTING PROGRAM.
Tweak the position of the blue rectangle for FRACTAL ZOOMING. According to Terry, "This is the bit that's AWESOME. Grab one of the corners and move it around and you'll see!"
Under "fractal tools" you can add and remove layers, enable complex roots, that sort of thing.
Colors can be mixed like a palette, by selecting one of the white squares in the third row down, holding shift, and clicking on colors to mix them.
The Queen of Snakes by JO99 and Kronsilds
The Queen of Snakes is a point and click adventure in a truly eerie temple full of petrified snakepeople and nigh-hallucinogenic textures. Every inch is crawling with JO99's intricate, hyper-detailed art, a lush, byzantine density that feeds the mind as you search for clues.
Kronsild's music starts out with a hypnotic rattle and the slow, ominous beat of drums, building at your descent into the almost alien corridors. Every item you take sounds like you disturbed a rattlesnake.
Alien, yeah, otherworldly menace, not the fantasy world equivalent of a bunch of office cubicles reskinned with rock textures. It feels like a place where a snake queen lived and mystical snake shit happened.


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Medical school enrollments -- once largely male -- have an even gender split these days. But the senior faculty ranks have failed to achieve gender balance, in part because female medical school professors are more likely than their male counterparts to leave academe.
Research published in the new issue of Academic Medicine suggests that part of the problem may be unequal demands on female professors at home, combined with a lack of flexibility about the idea of part-time careers in academic medicine.
The study is based on a survey of all 615 full-time faculty members at the University of Minnesota Medical School, 57 percent of whom responded. Women and men reported equal levels of productivity by various measures and also of hours worked on the job.
But off the job, differences were notable. The full-time female professors (in a profession where full time rarely fits into 40 hour weeks) reported that they performed an average of 31 hours a week in family and household duties, while the men reported an average of 19 hours.
The women were less likely than the men to be married or have children. But of the male and female professors who are married, the men were much more likely than women to have spouses who worked at jobs less than full time.
Family Characteristics of Minnesota Medical Faculty, by Gender
Characteristic | Women | Men |
No partner or spouse | 19% | 5% |
Partner/spouse employed full time | 70% | 36% |
Partner/spouse employed part time | 5% | 26% |
Partner/spouse not employed | 7% | 33% |
No children | 16% | 9% |
Given the demographics and division of household labor, it may not be surprising that more women than men (33 percent vs. 14 percent) were interested in creating a part-time tenure track. And while women on average took longer parental leaves than did men (8 weeks vs. 2 weeks), 60 percent of women thought the length of their leaves was not adequate for their families, compared to 50 percent for men.
On a series of work/family balance issues, women were more likely than men to cite policies or practices as obstacles to their career success or satisfaction.
Obstacles Cited by Men and Women on the Faculty
Policy/Practice Cited | Women | Men |
Lack of part-time promotion track | 22% | 3% |
Meetings after 5 p.m. or on weekends | 38% | 18% |
Lack of on-site child care | 23% | 11% |
Lack of emergency child care | 30% | 16% |
Inadequate formal parental leave policy | 19% | 5% |
The same issue of Academic Medicine includes a commentary [1] urging medical schools to find ways to create meaningful part-time opportunities for faculty members.


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Monday, July 11, 2011
Ready, Set, Can . . . or Dream
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i can't wait to tell you this...i have a special JAM SHIRT...julie knows the shirt
it is a yellow and white gingham and i wear it to MAKE JAM...it's my jam shirt...actually...i wear that JAM shirt all summer long...almost everyday :-)
loved reading this...
happy canning
p.s. i bought a bag of pickling cucumbers yesterday !!!
sending love,
kary and teddy
xxHello Mary:
Alas, since we no longer have a garden we do not have the opportunity to be preserving our own fruit and vegetables any more. But, that said, we do enjoy the summer for all of the different things as they come into season.
Just now a summer dream would be to be eating freshly caught lobster in some small, seaside [maybe in France] restaurant. Some hopes in landlocked Hungary!!Here are my summer dreams.......I would like to sit in my garden with a pitcher of Pimms Cocktail with all my virtual friends that I have met on-line, I would then feed them with fine food and wine. The herbs would be from my garden and the wine will be from the local vineyard! We would talk well into the night and watch the shooting stars that we see this far down in France!
Lavender and LovageI have zero experience with canning as I'm terrified I'm going to do something wrong and poison someone. Silly, but true. However, I LOVE radishes and often eat them alone with salt, olive oil, and red wine vinegar. I grew up eating this as it's a typical summer Portuguese side. And it's yummy!
ReplyDeleteI am growing cucumbers for the first time this year and hope to have a bumper crop so I can make pickles too. I also love my mother's old fashioned refrigerator pickles that I'm hoping to make from them.
I don't want to rush the season either - winter is just too long here! It does sadden me to think it's the middle of July already.How I wish I could preserve the warm summer breeze long into the months of November and December. The sounds of the birds in the morning, the longer days. And fresh tomatoes!!!
Congratulations on your 1 year blogiversary!!! And no, I've never heard of canning radishes, but I'm sure someone has.Thanks so much for popping over to my blog and introducing yourself. I'm so happy to "meet" another blogger that has ties to Maine! I look forward to getting to know you and maybe even meet you in person at some point too! I also love gardening, so I was excited to see this post. I'm going to have a look around, I already know I will enjoy your blog immensely! ~Lili
ReplyDeleteSo glad you stopped by, Mary! It is always nice to find a new Maine friend.... Things here have been crazy/wonderful with the arrival of my Hong Kong based family. I have looked at a few posts of yours and I will be sure to be back. I love your photos and your cooking recipes. But first things first: my grandson!! ;o)
ReplyDeleteIn reply to your comment...funniest thing, all three of my children went to OU! The boys graduated from there and my daughter attended her freshman year. She was too homesick to stay too far away from home and ended up going to OSU. My boys graduated in 1999...wonder if that was close to your hubby's time there??


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Arthur Koestler: 1905-1983
Moral indignation did and still does affect me in a direct physical manner," he once confessed. "I can feel, during an attack, the infusion of adrena line into the bloodstream, the craving of the muscles for violent action." For most of this century, Arthur Koestler lived by those words. Last week at his home in London, he died by them at the age of 77. The "rootless cosmopolitan," as he styled himself, had been an ardent supporter of "autoeuthanasia," and when the suffering of old age and disease grew in...
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Donald G. Franzen, 77, of Merrill, passed away surrounded by his loving family on Thursday, November 29, 2012 at Ministry Good Samaritan Health Center. He was born December 27, 1934 to the late George & Violet (Jeschke) Franzen in Chicago, IL. On May 25, 1957 he and Sherida "Jean" Ward were united in marriage in Chicago. Donald served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War from 1953-1958. He worked at Brickners as a mechanic for many years. In his spare time, Donald enjoyed leather crafting and wood working. He was a fan of off road racing and enjoyed working in his garage. Most importantly, Donald cherished time spent with his family and with the family dog, Angel. He was a member of St. John Baptist Church in Gleason. Donald was a Member of the Knights of Columbus serving as a 4th Degree Honor Guard. He was also a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Boy Scouts of America. Survivors include his wife, Jean Franzen, Merrill; Five children: Roger (Linda) Franzen, Scott (Dawn) Franzen, Carol (Jerry) Cortright, Larry (Andrea) Scolley, Dennis (Heather) Scolley; 14 grandchildren: Carrie Franzen, Jenny (Jason) Schulz, Loni Young, Stephanie Young, Tammera Graap, Kenna Smith, Nick (Kayla) Franzen, Tyler Franzen, Logan Franzen, Keaton Scolley, Aiden Scolley, Aiyana Scolley, Kambrie Scolley & Aubri Scolley; 9 great-grandchildren: Carlie Franzen, Collin Franzen, Dezi Schulz, Ryan Schulz, Jordan Erickson, Violet Weiss, Jenna Weiss, Destiny Weiss & Aceson Graap; sister: Barb (Thomas) Schwager, a sister-in-law and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents: George & Violet Franzen; son: Thomas G. Franzen and grandchildren: Jonathan Franzen and Jerome Franzen. Funeral Mass will be 11:00 AM Monday, December 3, 2012 at St. John Baptist Church, Gleason. Father Ronald Serrao will officiate. Military honors will be presented by VFW Post #1638. Visitation will be from 4-8 PM Sunday, December 2, 2012 at Waid Funeral Home and again from 10-11 AM Monday before the service at the church. Waid Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements. Online tributes may be made at www.waidfuneral.com.


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Risky Business Thriving Black Market In Bad Parts Plagues Airline Industry
When an American Airlines plane smashed into a Colombian mountainside last December, outlaw salvagers didn't even wait for all 159 victims' bodies to be collected before they moved in.
Using sophisticated tools, they extracted engine thrust reversers, cock-pit avionics and other valuable components from the shattered Boeing 757 and then used helicopters to fly the parts off the steep ridge, U.S. and Colombian sources say.
The parts were offered for sale in Miami, a hub of the thriving black market in recycled, stolen and counterfeit aircraft parts.
"They wanted to sell the whole lot, including the landing gear," a law enforcement source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Parts illegally salvaged from crashes, counterfeit parts and other substandard components regularly find their way into the world's air fleets, sold at bargain prices, often with falsified documents about their origin or composition.
For the flying public, they are a growing peril.
"The whole system is contaminated," said Peter Friedman, director of quality at an aircraft repair station in Oakland, Calif. "In my position, I find unapproved parts on a daily basis."
"Unapproved parts" is the Federal Aviation Administration's term for components not certified as airworthy - from fraudulently produced knockoffs made from inadequate alloys to recycled pieces misrepresented to hide defects, age or crash damage.
In the industry, they are known as "bogus parts." For people with no qualms about putting the flying public at risk, it's a lucrative market. The worldwide aircraft parts inventory is worth $45 billion.
Just how many unairworthy parts have claimed lives is not known. Internationally, no one keeps records. In the United States, the number of cases is in dispute.
The worst confirmed accident occurred on Sept. 8, 1989, when at 22,000 feet over the North Sea, the tail section of a Convair 580 turboprop plane began vibrating violently and tore loose. The charter aircraft, carrying 55 people from Oslo, Norway, to Hamburg, Germany, splattered over 3-1/2 miles of sea. Everyone aboard died.
Norwegian investigators painstakingly dredged up 90 percent of the 36-year-old plane and found the cause: bogus bolts, bushings and brackets. The charter company, Partnair, went out of business, and the origin of the parts was never determined.
Most major international airlines have encountered unapproved parts - and the problem is more serious in the developing world, where regulation is lax when it exists at all.
"It's a real can of worms," said Michael F. Rioux, chief of engineering and maintenance at the Air Transport Association of America, whose 20 member airlines carry 97 percent of U.S. commercial traffic.
Brian Wall, security chief for the International Air Transport Association, which represents more than 260 airlines, promotes seminars on bogus parts.
"We view this as a potentially dangerous situation. Who knows if we know the whole picture?" Wall said from IATA headquarters in Montreal.
Many industry executives refuse to discuss the issue on the record.
Even officials at United, American and Federal Express, among air carriers widely praised for tightening up their control of parts inventories, would not speak openly about their experiences with bogus parts.
Japan Airlines said the carrier's quality control chief would only answer questions on the subject in writing, and Air France executives refused to grant an interview to discuss what one spokeswoman called a "touchy subject." Swissair's quality control chief also declined to talk on the record.
That the industry is worried shows in American Airlines' unusual decision to make public a 14-page list, complete with serial numbers, of parts missing from the remains of Flight 965 after it crashed near Cali, Colombia, last Dec. 20.
The list put the industry on alert.
Sold to repair stations or airlines by brokers whose business is unregulated - more than 5,000 are active in the United States alone - black market parts come from theft rings, from counterfeiters, from "strip and dip" shops that mask flaws with a new coat of metal plating. Some even come from the production overruns of legitimate manufacturers - parts that may be airworthy but also can be production line rejects.
The money is so good that one Colombian parts trafficker told a Miami detective she switched to the trade from drug-running.
As the world's commercial air fleet ages, more overhauls are required and the potential increases for a bad part getting on a big plane.
Yet until congressional pressure and a series of groundbreaking investigative reports by the Cleveland Plain Dealer last year forced a policy shift, the FAA did not treat bogus parts as a serious threat, arguing they had not caused a single U.S. commercial aviation accident.
"Do unapproved parts pose a significant safety problem for the flying public?" then-FAA administrator David Hinson said at a May 1995 Senate hearing. "The answer is no, they do not."
Howard Davidow, a Miami aviation consultant with 37 years in the industry, warned at the hearing, however, that the potential for a bogus part causing a catastrophic accident "has entered the stage of critical mass." Three months later, the FAA created a task force on unapproved parts.
A study by the FAA of its accident-incident database done at the request of The Associated Press found that unapproved parts played a role in 174 aircraft crashes or less serious accidents from May 1973 through April 1996, resulting in 17 deaths and 39 injuries. None involved major commercial carriers.
But critics, including outgoing Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, suggest the FAA may gloss over the role bogus parts played in some accidents because it does not want the onerous responsibility of regulating the parts industry.
James Frisbee, quality control chief at Northwest Airlines until his 1992 retirement, is among those who feel bogus parts have contributed to many more accidents than federal records indicate.
"It's very, very hard to pin the cause of an accident on a part that failed … especially when the airplane is scattered over five acres," he said.
Major airlines have as a rule been discreet about bogus parts, not wanting to spook passengers. Frisbee says standard procedure has been to alert other airlines to a discovery by phone call but rarely inform the FAA, which does not require them to report such incidents.
Frisbee said he and colleagues from American, Delta and Federal Express sought stricter regulation of the parts market in 1990 but the FAA didn't take them seriously.
A. Mary Schiavo did. Appointed the Transportation Department's inspector-general by President Bush that year, the former federal prosecutor made bogus parts a priority.
Investigations launched under Schiavo have yielded more than 150 convictions in such cases, with jail sentences ranging up to five years and more than $47 million in restitution and fines paid.
Schiavo, who stepped down in July, is proud of the campaign.
A recent catch: Allan L. Ausman of Seattle, sentenced in July to four years in prison for selling thousands of counterfeit Boeing replacement parts over 10 years. Some were what the FAA classifies as "safety category one" parts - such as bolts that hold engines to wings - whose failure could cause an aircraft to crash.
"About $2 million worth of parts were put into the system by Ausman and what happened to them after that I do not know," said Thomas Wales, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case.
Ausman's biggest customer, Avio- Support, serviced such airlines as American, United, USAir and Aer Lingus, court documents show.
Bogus parts often come from abroad. U.S. agents have seized shipments from Germany, France, Kuwait, England, New Zealand, Japan, China and the Philippines. The Air Transport Association has complained of a mass dumping of questionable aircraft screws, rivets and bolts made in Taiwan and Mexico.
The FAA is now stepping up vigilance and training inspectors better on unapproved parts. And many major airlines are tightening up their parts acquisition - cutting down on suppliers and auditing them better.
In October, SAS airlines replaced wing control wires based on an FAA-issued warning that the parts could be bogus. The airline said it was unable to obtain proof from its supplier that the parts were genuine.
In June 1994, the Air Transport Association petitioned the FAA for regulation of parts brokers, but the agency balked.
Asked its reasons, the FAA said, "There are several thousand parts brokers and distributors and regulating all of them would be a monumental task."
It put the onus on the industry: "By using accredited brokers and distributors and by closely inspecting parts during incoming inspection, the industry can ensure it meets its responsibility to use airworthy parts."
No senior FAA official would agree to an on-the-record interview about the situation, but the agency provided answers to written questions submitted by the AP.
The FAA oversees parts' manufacturers, aircraft repair stations and the airlines themselves - but no one in between. There are no laws mandating, for example, that crash-damaged or life-limited parts be destroyed; the FAA only recommends it.
Many parts, like jet turbine blades and disks, must be replaced after a set amount of hours aloft because of the stress they undergo. Or they must meet hardness standards, which the bolts responsible for the Norwegian crash did not.
Yet criminal dealers in recycled and crash-salvaged parts can circumvent inspections and tests by simply lying about where they got them.
In the Colombia crash last December, salvagers lifted parts from the site via the same helicopters used by the country's civil aviation authority - ostensibly in control of the mountainside - for ferrying investigators.
The parts were cleaned, boxed up at Cali's airport and flown out of the country, U.S. and Colombian sources say. What eventually happened to them isn't known.
American Airlines was amazed to discover that the salvagers used specialized tools, including cutting torches, to extract pieces from the Rolls-Royce engines, company spokesman John Hotard said. U.S. law officers in Miami trying to track down the Cali parts say such salvaging happens often.
For instance, Dennis Brett of Dallas pleaded guilty to wire fraud in 1994 for trying to sell engine turbine disks without mentioning they came from a Varig Airlines Boeing 737 that crash-landed in a Brazilian jungle in 1989. He served five months in prison.
Parts from a British Airways Boeing 747, which was burned in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi troops at the end of the Gulf War, made their way into the inventory of a Chicago company. A Kuwaiti salvage company had dismantled the plane and promised British Airways it would destroy the parts.
Decommissioned aircraft are routinely stripped throughout the world, their parts easy to come by. Often, the paperwork is questionable.
But even the paperwork of new parts can be suspect.
Under Schiavo, a DOT audit of FAA-certified repair stations outside the United States found 43 percent of the parts they obtained from manufacturers lacked documentation proving them airworthy. The same was the case for 95 percent of those they got from brokers.
MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: Bogus parts come from many sources, of many types FBI identifies four basic fraud schemes involving bogus aircraft parts: Affixing FAA yellow airworthiness tag, which certifies part as having been rebuilt or overhauled, to used part on which no work has been done. Making part based on manufacturer specifications but with inferior materials, so it resembles genuine item without meeting flight specifications or having been tested. Buying, and then reselling, production overruns from parts makers who supply major aircraft manufacturers. Such parts may be airworthy, but they can be factory rejects. Obtaining parts that are fatigued, worn or damaged to point of being unfixable and selling them as refurbished. - Associated Press


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Over fifth of the water sources in the world are underground water sources, or Aquifers. In an Aquifer water flows through a layer of rock, absorbing some of it on their way. Once water has reached your tap, it contains residues of elements the rock layer was made of, usually Calcium and Magnesium (that is of course if your region relies on such water sources).
Such water are commonly referred to as Hard water. Water which were treated, either industrially or domestically, and had the rock residues removed from, are commonly referred to as Soft water.
Hard water wreaks an invisible havoc on your little piece of heaven. The stone-like residues have a tendency to accumulates on indoor plumbing systems and home appliances, such as laundry machines, either clogging them, or greatly decreasing the water flow pressure through them. This is a process of gradual deterioration, and given the fact that it takes place over a period of a few years, you might not even notice it.
The more obvious effect of Hard water is its reaction to detergents. When coming in contact with soap, for example, Hard water would react to it and leave an oily residue on your skin, rather than washing it thoroughly away. The same thing happens with laundry detergents, which is why most people use laundry softeners, without even knowing the reason (my dear mom: It's supposed to make the clothes smell good, isn't it?). In fact, laundry softeners perform the same role as a water softener.
Health, of course, is another major concern about Hard water. Many researches, published since the 1960's, suggest that there is a connection between Hard water, and the high levels of Magnezium it contains, and certain heart diseases. Though many claim any such connection is purely statistical.
Say you found out your water are Hard, what do you do? Most people would be indifferent about it, and will regard it as the responsibility of their water company. Others will choose not to rely on a major corporation to solve their problem, and will install a Water Softener in their homes.
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