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Fracking in California
Urban Oil Extraction
Los Angeles sits directly atop the nation's largest urban oil field, where there are thousands of active wells within a short distance of homes and schools. Nearly all of the oil wells that exist in densely populated L.A. communities were initially drilled in the early 20th century, and have been allowed to re-open after decades of inactivity without obtaining new permits or notifying nearby residents.
Magnified Impacts
In Los Angeles, oil drilling is taking place in the middle of urban communities where the potential risks to human health and safety are magnified by high population density. Recent reports estimate that 70% of the 5,194 active oil wells in LA are located within 1500 feet of sensitive land use areas like homes, schools, and hospitals.
The increased use of high-intensity oil extraction techniques, like acidization and hydraulic fracturing, in such close proximity to homes and schools, have introduced new risks to the surrounding community. These methods involve hazardous chemicals and air toxins that can have significant impacts on human health, safety, and the environment, and disproportionately threaten Los Angeles' most vulnerable communities. Sixty-seven percent of Angelenos who live within a quarter mile of an oil or gas well are Hispanic/Latino, and these communities often already struggle with the negative health impacts of air pollution and toxic waste.
Inglewood Oil Fields
Covering approximately 1,000 acres, the Inglewood Oil Field is one of the largest urban oil fields in the United States. Located in the northwestern portion of the L.A. Basin, more than one million people live within five miles of the oil field. Operated primarily by Freeport-McMoRan Oil and Gas, the field contains 959 wells extracting more than three million barrels of oil a year.
Residents and local organizations have expressed concerns about the environmental, health, and seismic effects of drilling in the community. The oil field "is adjacent to residential areas and other urban land uses where emissions from the operations result in continuous human exposure[1]." In 2006 noxious fumes – methane gas and hydrogen sulfide- leaked out from deep drilling sites in two separate incidents, forcing home evacuations and spurring years of litigation by local residents and community groups.
South L.A.
AllenCo Energy
Until recently, AllenCo Energy operated 21 oil wells, some of which use acidization on land leased by the Catholic Church. AllenCo purchased the 2-acre site, which borders low-income housing, day care centers, and numerous schools, in 2009 and quickly increased oil production by over 400%.
Soon after, nearby residents began to experience serve respiratory problems, nosebleeds, headaches, nausea, and other symptoms. After over 250 official complaints and repeated protests, the EPA investigated AllenCo, only to fall ill while inspecting the site. Following their visit, the EPA temporarily shut down the site and fined AllenCO $99,000. AllenCo and the Catholic Church are currently working to reopen the site. Allenco has also come under scrutiny from the L.A. City Attorney's Office and the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Murphy Site
Freeport-McMoRan Oil and Gas (FMOG) operates 22 active oil and wastewater injection wells at 2126 Adams Street on land leased by the Catholic Church. Since FMOG took over the site in 2013, neighbors have complained of sickening fumes from the toxic waste incinerators at the 3-acre site and have reported suffering from respiratory problems, chronic nosebleeds, skin and eye irritation, and headaches.
FMOG has been cited for a number of zoning abuses and air quality and health infractions. In January 2013, SCAQMD inspectors visiting the site recorded methane readings of 20,000 ppm—400% higher than the legal limit. A concentration of methane at 50,000 ppm is explosive. Freeport-McMoRan is currently attempting to expand their operations into a neighboring park. Their application is pending review by the Planning Department.
Jefferson Park
Freeport-McMoRan Oil and Gas (FMOG) operates 3 oil wells at 1375 Jefferson Boulevard 85 feet from homes and schools. Freeport-McMoRan's July 2014 acid job used over 24,000 pounds of acid to aid oil recovery. Recently, residents have complained about the loud noises resulting from the round the clock drilling and are worried about the long term impacts of potential exposure to the acids used in the well stimulation treatments.
In November 2014, FMOG applied to drill two new wells and re-drill one existing well at the Jefferson site. The application was withdrawn in January 2014 amidst community outcry and dropping oil prices, however oil extraction at the existing wells continues.
Wilmington Oil Field
Wilmington Oil Field is Los Angeles Basin's largest field in area and output. It extends from Torrance to Seal Beach, and includes drilling operations in Long Beach, Wilmington, and Carson. Since the oil field's discovery in 1932, more than 6,150 wells have produced close to 3 billion barrels of oil. The majority of oil extracted from Wilmington Field is pulled from the offshore portions of the field from four artificial islands build in 1964; however, there are a number of active onshore drill sites in close proximity to homes and schools.
In years past, scientists estimated that it might not be profitable to continue to extract oil from the field; however, new technologies like water flooding, steam flooding, and gravel packing have allowed oil companies to tap previously unrecoverable reserves.
Signal Hill
Oil was first discovered in Signal Hill in 1921. Today, drill sites dot the landscape across the small town. Popping up in residential communities and parking lots, some wells are as close as 200 feet from homes and schools.
Porter Ranch
The Aliso Canyon Oilfield borders the residential neighborhood of Porter Ranch. Recently, The Termo Company applied to drill 12 new oil wells in addition to the 18 wells already in operation.
Residents living near the oil field have complained of petroleum odors and loud noises from the trucks carrying chemicals to the drill sites, and they suspect that the respiratory issues and chronic nosebleeds they suffer from are connected to the nearby drilling operations.


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Director:Ron Howard
Written by:Jeffrey Price (Screenplay), Peter S. Seaman (Screenplay), Bob Camp (Storyboard)
Script Synopsis:Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Whos, an almost mutated sort of Munchkin-like people. All the Whos love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos, whom he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriend the Grinch.
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- How The Grinch Stole Christmas Transcript at Springfield! Springfield!
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New York, Jan 22 (IANS) US stocks traded higher as comments from the European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi signalled further stimulus.
At midday on Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 146.49 points, or 0.93 percent, to 15,913.23, Xinhua news agency reported.
The S&P 500 gained 14.52 points, or 0.78 percent, to 1,873.85. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 22. 39 points, or 0.50 percent, to 4,494.07.
"It will therefore be necessary to review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March," Draghi said, adding: "Work will be carried out to ensure that all the technical conditions are in place to make the full range of policy options available for implementation, if needed."
Draghi's comments suggested the central bank is willing to offer more stimulus at its next meeting in March, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Canadian stock rallies with energy boost
Canada's energy-laden main stock market in Toronto waged a strong comeback as crude prices bounced up from recent tailspin sell-off.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index regained 192.75 points, or 1.63 percent, to close at 12,035.86 points on Thursday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Half of the TSX index's eight main sectors turned positive.
The most influential drags on Thursday were the railways, with Canadian Pacific Railway Limited falling 0.88 percent to 149.84 Canadian dollars a share after it missed profit expectations on lower freight volumes.
The Canadian dollar gained more than one US cent on Thursday as oil prices recovered from their worst one-day plunge since September.
The Canadian dollar closed higher at $0.7003, compared with Tuesday's closing rate of $0.6901.
Chinese yuan strengthens
The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened by 13 basis points to 6.5572 against the US dollar on Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.
In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day, Xinhua news agency reported.
The central parity rate of the yuan against the US dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.
Tokyo shares open higher
Tokyo shares skyrocketed by opening the trading on Friday, with its benchmark Nikkei index jumped over 500 points higher briefly, as sentiment was boosted by the rebounding in oil prices and the retreat of the Japanese yen.
At 9.15 a.m. (local time), the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average surged 497.70 points, or 3.11 percent, from Thursday to 16,514.96, Xinhua news agency reported.
The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was up 38.11 points, or 2.93 percent, to 1,339.60.
Chinese shares open higher
Chinese stocks opened higher on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 1.06 percent, at 2,911.11 points.
The smaller Shenzhen index opened 1.2 percent higher at 10,095.42 points, Xinhua news agency reported.
The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, gained 1.32 percent to open at 2,140.28 points.


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Preventing more Heartbleeds
It's all over the news: a vulnerability has been found on OpenSSL that leaks memory contents on server and clients. Named Heartbleed, it has a very simple patch and some informative posts have already been written about it (Troy Hunt, Matthew Green).
What nobody is saying is that the real root cause is the lack of modern memory management in the C language: OpenSSL added a wrapper around malloc() to manage memory in a more secure and efficient way, effectively bypassing some improvements that have been made in this area during a decade; specifically, it tries to improve the reuse of allocated memory by avoiding to free() it. Now enter Heartbleed: by a very simple bug (intentional or not), the attacker is able to retrieve chosen memory areas. What was the real use of that layer?
Face it: it's a no-win situation. No matter how many ways these layers are going to be written, there will always be a chance for error. You can't have secure code in C.
But re-writing and/or throwing away thousands of security related programs written in C is no-brainer: the only way to securely run these programs is with the help of some memory debuggers techniques, like those used by Insure++ or Rational Purify. For example, the next technical report contains a detailed analysis of some of these techniques that prevent these kind of vulnerabilities:
How Languages are Changing Programs (et vice versa)
A graphical summary to Caspers Jones' latest book, "The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering", aggregating the data of thousands of projects:
- Note how application size is lowering in terms of number of lines of code, in direct correlation to the linear increase in the expressive power of programming languages. This observation fits well the growing number of web/mobile application that only do a very limited number of functions.
- The maximum percentage of code reuse is growing very fast, due to a higher number of libraries and open-source, but spotting projects with a 85% of reuse is a yet a rarity.
- Defect removal efficiency has steadily improved, but I expected a steeper line due to static analysis and better compiler warnings
- The percentage of personal dedicated to maintenance has surpassed that of the initial development, but there's little research on the success factors of this stage.
As languages improved (and their number, so more languages are available for specific tasks), so did the programmer's productivity, lowering the defect potential at the same time: this document about software engineering laws also provides another interesting outlook of the same datasets.
- Understanding understanding source code with FMRI: how does the brain understands source code? What areas are involved? Thanks to this research, now we know:
I wonder how does this fit with another partially-related publication, The Experience of Mathematical Beauty and its Neural Correlates: could well-structured, clean code with idioms and patterns produce the same neural experience of beauty?
- Visual Programming Languages: quick glance over dozens of VPLs.
- Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation: the first computer book to be awarded an Oscar! And open-source!
- Node.js is the biggest innovation in web development in years: this comparison with Java gives a little insight on its performance improvements.
- Common types of trading algorithms: a list of trading algorithms, with source code and some benchmarking. The Quantopian community is growing fast!
Cloud Deployment Manager: AutoCAD for the Cloud
Cloud Deployment Manager is the first and only tool to automagically deploy Microsoft clouds from a diagram, with just the click of a button: it represents the cutting edge of DevOps research and innovation on the Windows platform.
It's amazing what can be achieved to improve how systems are currently architected with the right tools and some code.
Books on Financial Programming
I've just ended these three books published this year on the intersection of finance and programming:
- C# for Financial Markets. This recently published book is just the translation to C# of all the previous books by the same author, especially the ones on the intersection between finance and C++. As such, one-third of the book delves into the implementation of basic mathematical finance (bonds, futures, options, swaptions, curve and surface modelling, finite difference method, …) and two-thirds of the book delves into teaching the C# language and its interoperability with Excel/LINQ/C++: note that if you're already a pro on C#, you'll better skip these parts since they are far from being the best authoritative source, although the sections on interoperability are really instructive. The best point of this book is that really full of examples to enlighten every concept (850 pages long!), although they never manage to compose a full application of any financial worth (that's left as an exercise to the reader!): thus, and only on this technology angle, it's the best book for beginners.
- Financial Modelling – Theory, Implementation and Practice (MATLAB). Do you need a book to quickly acquaint yourself with the state-of-the-art in financial mathematics for asset allocations, hedging and derivatives pricing, skipping the study of dozens of papers? Then this book is your definitive shortcut: it encompasses all from the derivation of the models to their implementation in Matlab, demonstrating that this language can also be used for prototyping purposes in the financial industry, efficiency and interoperability aside (if you don't know Matlab, a third of the book delves into that). My favourite part of the book it's the first one on models (stochastic, jump-models, multi-dimensional, copulas) that reads lightly and fast in just an afternoon, but the book is also overfocused on the numerical implementation of the models (a third of the book), when most of these details are just left to some library in the real world. Even so, just running over all its examples is worth its full price.
- Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization with R. R is the lingua franca of statistical research, and its under-utilization in the financial industry it's a real puzzle, the truth being that the sheer number of packages dealing with every imaginable statistical function should be enough to justify a much deeper penetration into daily use. This book is best suited for quantitative risk managers, and it surveys the latest techniques for modelling and measuring financial risk, besides portfolio optimisation techniques. Every topic follows a precisely defined structure: after a brief overview, an explanation is offered and a very interesting synopsis of R packages and their empirical applications ends the discussion. My favourite parts are at the end, on constructing optimal portfolios subject to risk constraints and tactical asset allocation based on variations of the Black-Litterman approach.
"The smallest of all seeds,
becomes the largest of garden plants:
it grows into a tree,
and birds come and make nests in its branches."
The Net is full of open-source code, and it seems that nobody cares about its preservation. If some old programs were to be preserved for the future, what would you choose? My legal choices are as follows:
- The APL source code and the first version of the C compiler.
- The Unix Tree: various old versions of Unix.
- The MacPaint, QuickDraw and Photoshop source code.
- The id Software source code repository for their old games.
- The Apollo and Gemini program listings.
The classic era of the analysis of algorithms exhibited limitations: worst-case running analysis and upper bound limits were not enough to compare algorithms in practice, neither to predict the real performance of algorithms. Although it enabled a fruitful research era in the design of algorithms, it had to be ignored by most practitioners. Neither lower bounds (Omega notation), nor theta notation (order of growth) were of much help: the field was in need of a profound paradigm shift.
Analytic combinatorics was the catalyst, a calculus built on the power of generating functions to enable the creation of predictive models for algorithm performance by using precise quantitative predictions of large combinatorial structures.
The book of Flajolet and Sedgewick, two key researchers that shaped the field with their fundamental theorem of symbolic combinatorics, is the best, self-contained source for learning (freely available on the web):
You may also want to receive some lectures from Sedgewick himself, a privilege only available if you go to Princeton (or by using the Coursera online learning platform):
There are more than 6000 languages in the world, though most distributions about languages are power laws: for example, word occurrence, language family size and language usage. In effect, only less than 100 living languages are used for written, and many of them do not even have a written form: many wrongly claim that languages are endangered, ignoring that their number is a function of population, and with a growing human population, their number will only grow.
The parallels between natural and computer languages are striking, even though their origins and purposes are so different.
In computer science, there are more than 4000 computer languages, and growing (note that there are only one million people who know how to program): the easiness by how parsers and DSLs can be created can only contribute to this growing trend. And the distribution of their use reveal a similar power law: the truth being that only a small subset of languages is being used in production systems, the rest being academic exercises. Note that their ranking is very volatile (TIOBE index) compared to natural languages, with largely isolated and fragmented communities matching the effect that territories have on natural languages.
Although some subtle differences between natural and computer languages may explain their large number in proportion to their smaller supporting population: computer languages may maintain their usefulness beyond the hardware that supported them stops working, a common occurrence within the world of COBOL.
How many natural languages do we need? Six, if you were to ask Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber. And that is also a pretty reasonable number for computer languages: after examining their calculation and analysis, I can only conclude that learning a number larger than this is a clear sign of being over-educated (I'm guilty as charged).
- What will programming look like in 2020?
- RE2: Non-exponential regular expression evaluation
- Practical auto-threading compilers in C#
- Blaze: Numerical Big Data in Python
- Python source code of Statistics, Data Mining and Machine Learning in Astronomy
Empirical, Evidence-Based Software Engineering
These slides review the state of the art of Empirical, Evidence-based Software Engineering, a recent field of research whose goal is to get rid of fashionable practices, methodologies and clichés that are so sadly common in software development: more than a hundred papers are examined on a range of diverse topics such as complexity metrics, estimation, debugging, refactoring, agile methodologies, team organization, technical debt and software architecturing.
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The Disney Store Twice Upon a Year sale continues with another great "Donald's Daily Deal" : select Vinylmation for only $5 today only! We never got into these until we visited the Disney Store in NYC and saw the unique Times Square styles. At this price, it would be a great way to start your collection! But you have to …Read More »


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We've helped various startups + SMB's launch highly tailored projects using Ruby on Rails.
Below is a basic snapshot on how we build web apps.
Every project starts with an idea, which is first converted into a wireframe. At this stage we put all your ideas onto paper.
Wireframes for a fitness app.
We keep updating the wireframes and make many revisions until you are happy with the first look.
Wireframes for a HR staffing business
Design + Slicing
Once we have finished the wireframes, we then create PSD mockups in the design stage. Mockups again will keep changing until we get the colours and the look and feel of all the pages right.
Slicing is the process of converting the PSD files which we created in the previous stage into web pages. We use HTML/HAML, CSS, JS, JQuery for this stage.
Only after we have finished the front end, do we start the backend development work. This cannot be done simultaneously as the backend work is driven by what is needed in the front end.
We build apps using Ruby and Rails. We use Test Driven Development (TDD), and follow the best practices for building real, robust and production quality web applications.
News feed page for a social networking site
Admin Panel for a HR recruitment firm
At Baseline, we have a passion for turning ideas into reality.


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Cat-tracks, a western exposure, and a little pluck make both hikes available almost year-round, but the time to consider passing on these trailheads is in high summer, when the parked vehicles spill onto Highway 86. Partly owing to their proximity and high visibility—it's just a few minutes by car from downtown—these are Bozeman's two most frequented trailheads. Their popularity, however, is deserved because they're fairly short, the network offers varying inclines and distances, and the slope is speckled with limestone fins and outcroppings, as well as offering plenty of outstanding viewpoints.
The newer of the two, Drinking Horse Mountain Trail, tends to be less trafficked, has an architectural footbridge over Bridger Creek and from the top overlooks both the Gallatin Valley and the lower Bridger Canyon (fantastic in the morning!).
About 850 feet above the parking lot and created by students from the local university in 1915, the M's variety and views of the mountain ranges that surround the Gallatin Valley are well worth the sweat.
If you're looking to... really crank the motor, the M Trail links into the multi-day Bridger Mountains National Recreation Trail or it can be stretched to 5 miles, one-way, via a vigorous route that hopscotches along the ridge to the top of Mount Baldy (8,914 feet).
Distance: 1.6 mile loop (M Trail), 1.3 mile loop (Drinking Horse Mountain)
Elevation gain: 850 feet (M Trail), 750 (Drinking Horse Mountain)
Seasons: Usually dry March through November, but sure-footed hikers visit year-round
Trail(s) used: #534, #512, #513
Map of trailhead:
View M Trail and Drinking Horse Mountain trailheads in a larger map
To learn more about the architectural footbridge near the Drinking Horse Mountain trailhead, we recommend this original Magpie article.


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Bitcoin Crushes $900 Barrier in A Matter of Hours; Next Stop $1000
Bitcoin Crushes $900 Barrier in A Matter of Hours; Next Stop $1000
Bitcoin seems destined to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, as we all do here at BitConnect. The timing of this epic "Bull Run" couldn't be any better during this holiday season. three days have triggered a level of Bitcoin demand, activity, and trading that may be unprecedented in Bitcoin history. This factors in the millions of people who have joined the Bitcoin ecosystem since the last time anything like this happened, during the rise of Mt. Gox in November of 2013. when many of you hadn't even heard of Bitcoin.
Next stop: $1000 USD - All aboard!
According to coinhills.com, the sheer volume of Bitcoin trades and the amount transacted over the last 72 hours hasn't been seen in years. On Thursday, their numbers had shown over 22,500,000 BTCs were traded, or almost $20 billion USD worth. Through early Friday's trading session during business hours in Beijing, another 16,360,000 Bitcoins were traded, which equates to over $15 Billion USD worth.
Bitcoin passed $900 USD less than 54 hours after it passed $800 USD, so at this pace, it will reach $1000 USD by Christmas morning, at least in the West. So you just made over 12% on your money within the last three days. Try doing that with Gold or Silver.
These numbers almost match the total market capitalization and bitcoins in circulation. This volume is almost exclusively out of China's Yuan fiat currency, which accounts for 98% of all Bitcoin trades. It is fairly easy to pin the blame, or thanks, for this market movement on the Federal Reserve's rate hike last week by 25 basis points, thus creating this ripple in the market.
Also, understand that this may also be happening as a hedge against futures, and Gold is moving down at the same time. Many are worried about the United States' economic strength to support an interest rate increase, and investors may be moving into Bitcoin as a "safe haven".
Over the past three and a half years, Bitcoin has been used as a 'safe haven' effectively several times, including in Cyprus in April of 2013, the "Grexit" in the summer of 2015, and the "Brexit" earlier this year. People who move fast usually make a handsome profit, and that is definitely the case for some who began moving on Tuesday and Wednesday.
So Happy Holidays from BitConnect's News Department, and have a great Christmas weekend, wherever you are. Enjoy your (potentially) $1000 Bitcoins! Buy a Tesla with Bitcoin (either a Model S or pre-order a Model 3.) You deserve it for being smart enough to invest in Bitcoin in 2016.


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Review: "Art School Confidential" At The New York Comic Con
Ahh, remember the days at art school, when undergraduates in the bloom of their youth, hungry for experience and learning, rested at the knees of wise, charismatic tutors who will mentor them and help them conquer the world with their talent, and their days filled with camaraderie and romance?
Well, then you must have been taking really good drugs and dreaming all through your college years.
"Art School Confidential", adapted, warped and expanded from Daniel Clowes' original short story in "Eightball" by Terry Zwigoff, scripted by Clowes and Zwigoff is a gleefully malicious satire of art schools and the ambitions of young artists scrambling for the big brass ring of Fame and Fortune.
18 year-old Jerome Platz (played with uncanny conviction by Max Minghella) is a shy kid who used his ability to draw in high school as an outlet for his feelings of inadequacy and his penchant for being a punching bag for the bullies. Sketching hot girls was also the only way he could find an excuse to talk to them, though he never got a date or even a hand-job from any of them.
Jerome is accepted to the mythical Strathmore Institute in New York City, where he hopes to realize his dream of becoming a great and famous artists, with gallery shows, the admiration of his peers, and, most of all, the love of a beautiful artist's model he had become fixated on when he saw her picture on the school's brochure back when he was applying to college.
Jerome plunges into the wild world of art school, with the unending parade of grotesques based on stereotypes anyone who has ever been to art school could never fail to recognize: the class kiss-ass, the holy vegan hippie, the beatnik girl who wears black and a bipolar condition like a second skin, the apathetic, bitter Asian American sculpture teacher who barely has the energy to shrug and sneer, and even his head instructor, Professor Sanderford (played by John Malkovich doing his best John Malkovich thing) is an Art world lifer who alternates lazy and self-serving with token nurturing lectures, all trapped on the phone trying to needle a new show out of a top gallery owner, spilling out all his neediness and neurosis in the process.
Jerome's roommates are Matthew, a Fashion major so fey and closeted that he'll be the last to realize he's gay, and the loud and gregarious Vince (played by "My Name is Earl" co-star Ethan Suplee), a Film major and wannabe-player convinced his thesis film about the still-at-large Strathmore Strangler will write his ticket to a big-time career.
Along the way, Jerome also finally encounters his dream girl when she poses nude for his class. He discovers his dream girl's name is Audrey (played by British actress Eve Myles), and she's virtually Art World Royalty – the daughter of a renowned New York artist, and her air of melancholy suggests years of unspoken regrets and betrayals from both her father and the Art world at large, which means her choice of lovers is a lot less than sound.
Max's earnest optimism and hopes are consistently corroded by the constant spite, back-biting and criticism of his fellow students, all of whom as self-obsessed as himself. His already-precarious belief in his own talent is further undermined when his vacuous jock classmate Jonah's artless and flat paintings of vehicles are lauded by both Sanderford and his classmates as innovative and groundbreaking while his own traditional and accomplished portraits are rounded greeted with indifference. That is, when they're not being roundly ignored altogether.
What's worse, Eve starts dating Jonah instead of Max, which plunges Max into a maelstrom of despair and failed attempts to one-up Jonah.
Max's descent into nihilism and bitterness brings him into contract with a middle-aged, alcoholic and forgotten alumnus also named Jerome (played by British character actor Jim Broadbent with scenery-chewing slouchiness), who represents the bleakest future Jerome could end up in.
As he plunges deeper into his drive for success and recognition, the shadow of the Strathmore Strangler looms closer and closer…
"Art School Confidential" is not a happy, fluffy movie with subtle, sensitive character studies, but a broad and mean cherry bomb thrown at a world of people who have been beaten about the head and raped with a copy of Artforum magazine for so long that they long to be accepted by it. Anyone who's ever taken an art course in college will recognize the people Clowes and Zwigoff are mercilessly satirizing here. As a veteran (or should that be 'survivor'…?) of New York art schools, Clowes is clearly telling a story from experience here. The world of gallery openings and their furious politicking, full of cynical, abusive and masochistic relationships, feels all too true. All the characters are supremely self-preoccupied, and Clowes and Zwigoff take that to a ruthless and bitterly funny conclusion. Max is so obsessed with his own pain and fear of failure that he tragically fails to notice or understand the signs of the world about to come down on him like a falling canvas. Anyone expecting the usual Hollywood ending of the hero learning from his mistake and doing right to redeem himself is in for a surprise. And through it all, Zwigoff keeps the comedy coming with the punchiest dialogue and cuts to deliver maximum irony, which is the prevailing sentiment of the movie. In fact, there's so irony here you'd think Clowes and Zwigoff consider it a tangy, exotic dessert to be savored like a slice of gourmet chocolate cake. This also seems to form a pessimistic and misanthropic trilogy next to Zwigoff's last two movies "Ghost World" and "Bad Santa".
"Art School Confidential" is the nastiest American movie of the year, with bitter laughs to warm the coldest bastard's heart. Surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel and veteran satirist Billy Wilder would have been proud.
Me? I laughed like a drain.
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City Food – Bulletproof Coffee, Chitli Qabar Chowk
The butter addition.
[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi]
Believe it or not, one of the big global trends in healthy diets finds resonance in Old Delhi.
But we should not get ahead of our story.
As 2014 approached its end, wellness experts and coffee connoisseurs, primarily in the West, raised the pitch about something called Bulletproof coffee. Actor Shailene Woodley declared herself a fan in an October episode of The Tonight Show. The UK-based Guardian newspaper wrote about it in November. The New York Times (NYT) featured it in its Style section in December — the newspaper credited its invention to a technology entrepreneur and biohacker Dave Asprey, who uploaded the recipe on his blog way back in 2009.
The NYT said: "The recipe — a riff on the yak butter tea Mr Asprey found restorative while hiking in Tibet — calls for low-mold coffee beans; at least two tablespoons of unsalted butter (grass-fed, which is higher in Omega 3s and vitamins); and one to two tablespoons of medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil, a type of easily digestible fat. Mr Asprey claims having the 450-plus-calorie cup of coffee instead of breakfast suppresses hunger, promotes weight loss and provides mental clarity."
Cut the jargon and you will find that the Bulletproof coffee is basically, more or less, a mug of coffee blended with butter.
This is an old idea in Old Delhi.
Meet Mohammed Moinuddin. In his 40s, this quiet, unassuming man has been serving butter coffee (15 rupees per glass; and plain coffee for 10 rupees) to loyal local fans for a decade. His roadside stall is on the congested Chitli Qabar Chowk, a few minutes' walk from Jama Masjid. The stall opens every winter evening at 5pm and closes at 2am (Mr Moinuddin serves cold drinks in summer).
The men-only crowd gathers at around 9pm. From then, the coffee vendor doesn't get a spare moment even to spit, seemingly the fundamental right of every Old Delhi dweller.
The only big piece of equipment in Mr Moinuddin's café is what most of us term an espresso machine. But this one actually produces nothing except froth with great sound and fury. The rest of the café's paraphernalia consists of a pan of hot milk (already mixed with Nescafé coffee powder), a tin of cocoa powder and a couple of slabs of yellow Amul butter.
All that Mr Moinuddin does is drop the butter slabs into a jug of coffee milk, which he then steams up with the "espresso machine".
The resulting brew, served in thick paper glasses, tastes buttery of course. And this being Old Delhi, it's very milky and sugary. And since Amul butter is one of the ingredients, the coffee is also salty.
The customers love it; they sit on Coca-Cola crates exchanging notes on politics and Bollywood over repeat glasses of the butter coffee. One regular says the drink is not only "very tasty", but that "it heats up the body on cold nights".
Butter coffee is apparently also available at a stall in the Ballimaran neighbourhood. In Chitli Qabar, however, the only rival to Mr Moinuddin's butter coffee is Mohammed Naeem's ginger-flavoured chai cart, directly opposite. But if the numbers are anything to go by, the (Walled City) Bulletproof coffee scores over the tea, at least on freezing winter nights.
New York's new trend is old in Old Delhi
5. (Bulletproof coffee regulars)


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Depending on what part of the country you are in, winter has hung on incredibly long despite the calendar's insistence that it is, indeed, spring. Last weekend at Kansas Speedway was once of those instances, as freezing temperatures in the morning along with the famous, blustery Kansas wind made walking around the racetrack nearly unbearable. Heavy jackets were aplenty and the hunched over, arms wrapped around your own waste stance was apparent at the coldest points of the day.Unfortunately, the alternative which was the June race the track held a couple years ago, is frying. Though I hate the cold weather and would rather deal with 100-degree temperatures than sub-zero conditions, spectators aren't going to have to go the various health centers inside the track to be treated for 30-degree temperatures. This is as opposed to the handful of individuals who were dealing with heat exhaustion when the first Kansas race was held in June.Read More »
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If you look just strictly at the numbers and past history of how some of NASCAR's top drivers have performed at Richmond, you would have a hard time knowing who to pick at Saturday night's Sprint Cup race at the one-mile oval because so many of them have done so well there in the past.However, if you look at the current points standings and the recent struggles of some of those same drivers, you may well be left scratching your head again when trying to decide who or who not to pick. Some of the familiar names such as Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Ryan Newman and even Dale Earnhardt, Jr. have had their share of success at Richmond. That group has combined for 11 wins there. But when looking at the points standings, the picture is not so optimistic.Read More »
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Laura Waugaman
Email: email@example.com
Hello! I am proud to be the Guidance Counselor at PPES. This is my 18th year working in the Park City School District and my 14th year at PPES. Before working as a school counselor, I worked in Children's Mental Health as a Child and Family Therapist. As a School Counselor I provide individual and group counseling as requested by parents. The counseling I provide is brief, solution focused, and strengths based. I also teach Life Skills Classes at PPES. I meet every other week with the first grade and second grade groups for 45 min on the A through F Specialist rotation. I meet with 3rd, 4th and 5th graders once a month. In addition to being fun, teaching Life Skills classes provides me an opportunity to get to know all students in the school.
I also supervise Kinder, First, Second,and Third grade lunch recesses and Fourth and Fifth as needed. Mr. Gomez joins us as often as possible. I work to keep our playground a safe environment for all students. I provide hands on life skills where we practice conflict resolution skills. I assist students who need help making friends and need help developing social skills. It is also a great time for me to follow up with students regarding various issues. Students practice being Friends on The Watch (see parent video link below). This is a school wide bully prevention program. The program teaches students to identify bully situations and what to do. Upstanders are encouraged to intervene if possible or report the situation immediately. We work to help bullies feel better about themselves and to develop positive and healthy relationships. We also work to empower victims to no longer be targets and we help these students develop assertive skills so that they may set healthy boundaries. During Life Skills classes we role-play bully situations and we practice how to be a Friend on The Watch. This school wide program encourages all students to take responsibility in keeping our school a safe place for all students
Other duties I support Mr. Gomez with 504 plans as a case manager, and administrative duties when he is out of the building. I manage job market program for 4th and 5th graders. I also manage (with a parent volunteer) student council for 5th graders. My greatest goals at PPES are to help students identify their strengths, feel a sense of belonging, and to feel special so that they may be successful in and out of school. If you have any questions or concerns, please call or e-mail me or stop by my office. I feel extremely lucky to be a part of the PPES community!
Counseling Delivery System
Laura Waugaman, PPES
School Guidance Curriculum
Life Skills Classes Provided for:
3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes 1 time a month
1st and 2nd grade every other week
Kindergarten bully prevention and as needed
Special Life Skills class include Child Abuse Prevention given by Peace House and Recycle Utah
Whole School Assembly:
Internet Safety
Parent Coffee with Mrs. Waugaman both English and Spanish sessions
Bully Prevention:
Friends on The Watch, every student in school signs the pledge
Reporting slips used also at Ecker Middle School
Bully Prevention Survey administered in February
Recess Social Skills:
Every day serving all students providing social skills, conflict resolution, and empathy which includes the Buddy Bench.
Individual Student Planning:
Parent – Teacher Conferences (SEOP) 2 times a year, Counselor attends as needed
Individual Education Plans teaming as needed
5th Grade Academic Counseling for students with D/F in power school during the school year. With this group of 5th graders, I provide counseling and tracking. I met with 19 5th grade students last year and all of these students improved their grades.
5th Grade Exit Interview for all 5th graders that includes Career planning.
Career Development Activity, Job Market for 4th and 5th grade students with 154 jobs assigned at the start of the school year. (This school year (2016-2017) 164 jobs have been assigned)
Responsive Services:
Letter home for 1st grade through 5th grades including counseling needs assessment.
Whole School Crisis Response
Individual Counseling
Group Counseling includes: Divorce, Grief, Complex Grief, Attention/Focus, Worry, Anger, Sad and Lonely, Friendship, and ELL social skills. Last year served 45 students providing 10 groups. To date this year serving 56 students and 11 groups in process.
Student Requested Counseling: Informal counseling for friendship problems, students sign board on Counselors door.
Behavior Plans, work with classroom teacher, and team administering and monitoring behavior plans.
Parent Meetings as requested.
Collaborate with outside providers.
School based therapy provided by Peace House (currently serving 4 students) and Valley Behavioral Health (currently serving 1 student).
System Support
Assist Mr. Gomez with 504 case management
RTI as needed
Assist Principal as needed
Teacher Training as requested
5th Grade Student Council
Elementary Counselor Team Meetings
District Wide Counselor Team Meetings
Transition Meeting for 5th graders going to Ecker
Community support, currently a member of the Suicide Task Force and Connect.
End of Year Data 2016 -2017
Individual Counseling / Case Management
Total Students = 114
Younger Grade level Bully Survey Results
1st grade
students who don't like school Beginning of the year =10 End of the year = 3
Students who believe that kids are mean here at PPES Beginning of year = 13 End of year = 1
Students who wish they had more friends Beginning of the year = 24 End of the year = 8
Students who feel they have no friends Beginning of the year = 1 End of the year = 0
2nd Grade
Students who don't like school Beginning of the year = 9 End of the year = 1
Students who believe kids are mean Beginning of the year = 9 End of the year = 6
Students who wish they had more friends Beginning of the year = 21 End of year = 19
Students who feel like they do not have friends Beginning 7 End of year = 1
In response to this survey results, I focused on Friendship Skills in Life Skills classes. I also implemented a Kind Card/Kind Apology program for second grade students.
Upper Grades Bully Survey
I have identified students who are at-risk by survey results in these areas:
Don't like school
Feel like a Victim
Don't know how to report
Do not trust adults
Peers experience him/her to be a bully
This information will be used at the Start of next school year to be reviewed with teachers and specialist. Specialist will select at risk students to monitor during the year and attempt to develop a strong positive teacher / student relationship.
23 small groups provided
5 Divorce groups 5 on-going all year
1 Grief group on-going all year
3 Attention/Focus Grade level Groups (3-5)
2 First Grade Girls Friendship Groups
5 managing Anger Groups by grade level (note all but one student made gains reported by self and parent)
1 Worry Group
1 Second Grade Girls Friendship group
1 Third Grade Dual Immersion Girls Friendship groups
1 Fourth Grade Dual Immersion Girls Friendship groups
First Grade Social Skills/Speaking Skills for ELL
Four students results:
Each improved from level 1 to level 3 measuring asking questions
Each reported not liking school at the start of school
Each reported liking school at the end of school
Second Grade Social Skills/Speaking Skills for ELL
All students were a level 3 at the end of the year.
All students with the exception of one reported liking school at the end of the year.
Note – Groups are developed according to Needs (check list sent home at the start of the school year and teacher requests and referral during school year)
Total Groups = 22
Total students served = 116
Referrals made for mental health services = 22
Students expressing suicidal ideation = 4
CPS referral made = 1
4 Behavior Plans
All have made improvements in behavior
5th Grade Student Tracking (any student with D or F during school year)
Academic Counseling for 8 students all made academic improvements
5th Grade Exit Interviews complete (see attachment)
Job Market
161 Jobs assigned to 4th and 5th Grade students
2013-2014 Life Skills curriculum topics for grades 1-5
First Grade:
One: Emily Breaks free, lesson about Friends On The Watch
Two: What is Poison, Substance Abuse Prevention
Three: Good Words for a Bad Mood
Four: Child Abuse Prevention with the Peace House
Five: Managing Stress
Six: Stranger Safety
Seven: Healthy Eating and Disease Prevention
Eight: Review Friends on the watch. Watch Sooper Puppy, Words can hurt.
Nine: Food Pyramid and healthy eating.
Ten: Sooper Puppy, What's the Difference (Tolerance Lesson).
Elevan: Careers
Second Grade
One: Friends on The Watch (Bully Prevention)
Two:Becoming a new moose, Substance Abuse
Three: What is Empathy
Four: Child Abuse Prevention given by Peace House
Five: Managing Stress
Six: Stranger Safety
Seven: Food Pyramid and healthy eating
Eight: Walk in my Shoes, What is Empathy
Nine: Career Awareness
Ten: Review of all topics. Trevor Romain, If you don't take care of your body where else are you going to live?
Third Grade
September: Ciques, Phonies, and other Baloney, Friends on The Watch
October: Substance Abuse with a focus on Tobacco
November: Child Abuse Prevention given by Peace House
December: Managing Stress and Peer Pressure (Refusal Skills)
January: Internet Safety
February: Bully Survey and Identify Authentic Strengths
March: Holland Personality Inventory (matching personality with careers)
April: No Life Skills class, Project Based Learning
May: Review of year. Job Market for next year.
Fourth Grade
September: Friends on The Watch, Job Market, and Holland Inventory (matching personality with Career)
October: A Different kind of High, Substance Abuse, Strengths Inventory and review of Holland Inventory
November: Child Abuse Prevention, Peace House
December: Review of Substance Abuse and How to Manage Stress
January: Internet Safety
February: Bully Survey and movied, Scars
March: Celebrating Differences
April: To be announced (Depending upon needs)
May: Review of year. Student Council next year. Job Market applications
Fifth Grade
September: Introduction, Holland Inventory matching careers with your personality, and goal setting
October: Substance Abuse, It Won't Happen to Me
November: Child Abuse Prevention given by Peace House
December: Managing Stress and Surviving Peer Pressure
January: QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer). Suicide Prevention given by Valley Behavioral Health
February: Authentic Strenths and Body Image
March: Surviving Middle School
April: Think Before You Click (Internet Safety)
may: Exit Interview with Mrs. Waugaman
Laura and her family have lived in Park City for 20 years. Laura was born and raised in Guilford, Ct. She enjoys traveling to Ct. every summer to visit extended family and spend time on her family beach. She attended Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Ct where she received a BS in Psychology. She then attended the college of New Rochelle where she received a MS is Art Therapy. Laura did her on-site training for undergraduate and graduate school at Yale New Haven Hospital. She has worked at the Crisis Intervention Program in Standford, Ct working with the adult menally ill adult population. She then managed a group home, Project Return in Westport, Ct for adolescent girls who have experience trauma and or mental health issues. She was married in 1991 and then moved to Bellingham, Wa. where she worked as a child and family therapist at Catholic Community Mental Health services for Children. She became certificified as a Child Mental Health Specialist for the state of Wa. Laura moved to Utah in 1998. She worked at The Children's Center as a Child Familty therapist before starting her work for the PCSD. Laura is a liscensed Clinical Mental Health Clinician and she has a Level 2 Professional Education Liscense for the State of Utah. She was hired in 1999 as Intervention Specialist for the School District and then transfered to Parley' Park Elementary School. Laura enjoys spending time with her family skiing and enjoying all the great music provided by Mt. Town Stages. She also enjoys fine arts and crafts.


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Cute as a button and loaded with charm, this 2 bedroom bungalow is located in the desirable Mayfair Park neighborhood. Many improvements have been made during the seller's ownership including cedar siding, all new windows throughout, totally remodeled kitchen with custom cabinets, granite counters, Mother of Pearl tile backsplash, matching stainless appliances, hardwood floors throughout, remodeled full bath with tile bathtub surround, updated vanity and custom lighting. The lot has also been completely landscaped with a classic white picket fence, mature plantings, huge 12'x16' backyard deck, plus a charming chicken coop with fully enclosed outdoor run. The backyard is fully fenced as well and provides a super safe outdoor space for play time and pets as well as a great entertaining environment. If you want the autonomy of a single family and love the trend towards smaller homes with super finishes then this is your opportunity to lead the way and live the dream.
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Copan, Honduras to Antigua and Chichi, Guatmala
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In my twenties, I spent several years exploring the world with all my possessions on my back. I travelled from place to place, making temporary homes in different countries for a few months at a time as I worked as a dive instructor to fund the next plane ticket. Then I got married, had two boys, got separated, and resigned myself to staying in one place for awhile. But after a few years, my feet have gotten itchy again, and I have recently forayed into the world of travel with a bus trip in Guatemala, this time with a 2 year old (Auri) and 4 yr old (Deo) in tow.
My home base at the moment is a beautiful island paradise called Roatan, one of the Bay Islands in Honduras. Roatan was the last spot of my travels as a single backpacker: it was where I met my husband, and after spending several years back in my native country Canada, my boys and I moved back here in November.
My friend Tammy from Maryland was coming down for a visit for two weeks. We had met years before, when she was on vacation at a dive resort that I had worked at, and kept in touch over the years. She had been to Roatan several times before, so she was interested seeing something new for part of the time that she was here. So we started talking about the possibility of visiting the neighbouring country of Guatemala. Once she arrived, we sat down with a Lonely Planet guidebook and planned our itinerary.
For those of you who might be considering doing a little bit of 'adventure travelling' (meaning not having all your travel plans booked in advance, hopping on some public transportation and digging a bit under the 'tourist' layer), two adults along definitely makes things much easier. As we only had a week to work with, we would be on the bus a few hours almost every day, so it just wouldn't have been enjoyable on my own. This way, there was always one person to be with the bags and children as the other went to the bathroom, got snacks, checked out a hotel. If you're a single parent and can't find a travel buddy, but still long for a travel adventure, I would suggest picking an end destination that you can settle in for a few weeks, and trying to break up your travel into stints of a few hours at a time, to save your sanity!
Packing is a bit of a fine science, striking the delicate balance between making sure you have everything that you'll need for yourself and your children (knowing that it is impossible to keep young children clean!), and not wanting to pack to much, as you'll be hauling around the bag from place to place.
We opted to fly to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and then it was bus transportation from there. The first day, we took a 3 hour ride to Copan Ruinas, some Mayan ruins near the border. Both of my boys travelled free, as long as they would sit on our laps if the seats were all sold. We loaded up on snacks: as every parent knows, this is a crucial part of any outing, be it 5 hours or 5 minutes! I had a little toy container with a couple miniature cars, animals, bubbles and crayons to combat restlessness.
On our arrival, there were some guys trying to get some business for their hotel. We decided to check it out, as they were offering a free ride there. It was cheap and adequate, close to everything, and it was only for one night, so we stayed. Once we had deposited our bags, we set out to take a look around the town, and find some dinner. We also booked the next lag of our trip, to Antigua, Guatemala. There was a shuttle bus that went direct in the afternoon, so we bought our tickets for the following day.
Copan Ruinas is a pretty little town, situated a 15 min walk from the Mayan ruins. It has cobblestone streets (a stroller nightmare!), and a pretty park at it's centre, with several bars and restaurants all in close proximity. We settled on a spot for dinner, and met a fellow traveller that we recognized from the bus, whom we made plans to meet up with the following morning, to split the cost of a guide at the ruins.
After dinner, we returned to the hotel: two young boys mean fairly early evenings! The boys slept with me, and Tammy had the other bed. The next morning, we found a restaurant for breakfast (pancakes, the boys were happy!), and then met up with Lorenzo for the walk out to the ruins. Part way out, Auri had a leaky poop, making me very relieved that I kept in a change for clothes, hand sanitizer and sarong (the wonder item that can be a changepad, blanket, towel, skirt, sheet- you name it!) in our little bag .
The ruins were beautiful. There were a few things that couldn't be touched, which was hard for Auri, but it was set in a big, grassy area, and the boys were both excited to climb to the top of one of the temples. The tour was over two hours, so we dropped off near the end, as by that point the boys had had enough, as had I (carrying Auri up and down the steps so that we could keep up). We walked back to town, picked up some lunch, piled our bags onto the stroller and went down to the shuttle bus.
The ride from Copan to Antigua was 6 hours long, and I was dreading it. I was amazed at how well it went! We had an extra seat, so we had the backseat of a minivan to ourselves, and Deo and Auri slept about half of the way.
When we arrived in Antigua, it was already evening and the sun was down, and we needed to find a place to stay. We walked up one of the streets and passed a McDonalds, so we took a dinner break in there for the boys, thinking we'd find a restaurant for us a little later.
What a cold night! Luckily I had two children to cuddle with. The next day, we took an early start, beginning with the golden arches, conveniently located just across the street from our hotel. It had a great playland, and internet! (unfortunately, that wasn't up and running until 9am).
After lunch, we relocated to our new hotel, and tried unsucessfully to get the boys to nap, so we decided we'd check out the market in town.
We refreshed ourselves at the hotel, and then ventured out for a stroll around town, followed by dinner. Antigua is beautiful. It's surrounded by 3 volcanoes, and the streets, like Copan, are all cobblestone.
The following day, we headed to Chichi. The shuttlebus was picking us up outside our hotel- Tammy made a breakfast run to the bagel shop around the corner (so helpful having a friend along!). The bus ride went well (I continue to be amazed at how great my boys have been on all this bussing!). When we got to Chichicastenango, I loaded up Auri on my back, and we prepared to brave the crowds. The plan was to do a kind of re-con loop to see what was around before we made any purchases, so that we wouldn't have to carry things for too far. That plan fell apart about 10 minutes into things :) The market was so huge (and crowded), I wasn't sure if we'd navigate our way back to the right vendor if we had spotted something we liked. Plus, I wanted to get an idea of pricing, and then as soon as I started asking, I got caught up in the bartering game- I love markets! So before I knew it, I had two bedspreads (so beautiful!) for the boys beds.
We took a little break at the cathedral in the middle- Deo was getting a little cranky from the crowds and noise, so we just sat on the steps while Tammy went in. The steps were all covered with fresh flowers for sale, and there was a processional of people swinging burning incense. After a ten minute breather, we faced the crowds again. This time, I scored with a gorgeous rug for our livingroom (which Tammy carried, since I already had 30 lbs on my back). Got some little animal-face backpacks for my nieces. After a bit more wandering, we found a restaurant that overlooked the market. 'Oh, regarde, c'est la fille qui vende le pain de banane!' exclaimed a couple sitting inside. More banana bread customers from Roatan, that was so funny, they recognized us everywhere!
I was happy to shed my weight for awhile, and the boys ran a little wild in the restaurant. We all had some lunch, and then we set out to do some final bargaining. The crowds had thinned out, so it was a bit easier getting through. Found some beautiful scarves, and I put my bartering skills to work for Tammy and I. I was down to my last few quetzales of what I had budgeted for the market, and I was determined to spend them too! Got a couple beaded bracelets, and Tammy picked up a hammock. I sat down with the boys, broke, while Tammy looked at a few of the stalls. Then along came a lady, determined to sell me a pretty woven cloth, about tablecloth size. She remained unswayed when I told her I was out of cash. Her price dropped, and dropped, and dropped. I couldn't take it anymore, it was just too good of a deal! I fished into the depths of my bag for our dinner money ('for everything else in life, there's Visa!'), and she smiled knowingly-'I knew you still had some money!' she said. Meanwhile, the boys were getting a little out of hand, running in and out of the fabric store. Another vendor strolled along, offering to trade his merchandise for my watch when I said I had no money. I asked him if he'd consider a trade for one of my kids ;)
Tammy finished up her purchases, and we made our way back to the bus, loaded up to the hilt. The boys crashed out on the ride back to Antigua. We carted all our treasures back to our room, and took a little break before heading out to dinner. We revised our itinerary, since I was broke, and it seemed like a trip into Guatemala City to see the zoo was going to be a bit of a hassle to get around (and a few travel agents told us all the hotels were full). We decided we'd just start making our way back the following day. So we picked up some shuttle tickets, the pickup was for 5am-yuck! Then we took a wander around the city before dinner. Found a store called Nim'pot, which wasn't too much more than market pricing, and accepted creditcards, so I added a hammock and a bag (to help carry all the stuff!)to my growing collection of Guatemalan handicrafts. And then we found a restaurant with the all-important 'VISA' sign on the door. Enjoyed a few last Gallos with dinner, before heading back to try to stuff everything into our bags. Not an easy feat! As I have been ranked in the top 10 of packers in the world, Tammy relinquished her bag to me, and I packed for all of us. Rolled, and stuffed, and crammed, and squeezed- I don't think that anything more could have been added to those bags! The stroller came in handy: we had all our bags strapped to it. Sometimes travelling with kids can be a bonus! Once we were all packed up, we set the alarm, and asked the security guard to knock on our door as well, just in case we overslept.
The morning came way too early. I left waking up the boys until the last minute- carted all the stuff out to the front, and then we scooped them up 10 min before we were supposed to be picked up. Well, true Central American timing, we got picked up half an hour later. The boys were awake and grumpy by then, but they fell asleep shortly after the bus got moving.
Again, another amazing bus ride (no drugs given, I swear!). We had a break halfway, and got the boys some pancakes. The shuttle was supposed to be door-to-door, but they just dumped us all out a the same spot. Luckily, it wasn't far from the hotel that we were splurging on for our last night of travels. So we loaded up the stroller once again (too stretched for cash to pay for a tuk-tuk), and headed for Plaza Copan, complete with the VISA sign, and a swimming pool- freezing cold, not worth the splurge! The afternoon we just spent relaxing poolside, and met a nice family from La Ceiba. Went to the bus station and got our tickets for the next morning, and picked up some snacks for the trip (snacks, the most important item when travelling with small children!) Then we found a great little restaurant for dinner (who's name escapes me at the moment), where the waitresses served chips and salsa balanced on a bowl on their heads. And they accepted VISA!
A good night sleep in a nice, soft bed. Then Auri disturbed the peace with a middle of the night wailing session: I was sure half the hotel was going to wake up! I took him for a walk in the hall to stop his crying, finally got us back to sleep again.
Up in the morning for our final bus ride. This one was even better than before! The bus was actually really nice for just the regular line of buses, and there was enough spots that only one of them had to sit on a lap. Arrived in San Pedro Sula, and negotiated our cab price, and we headed for the airport. Found a bankmachine, Tammy got out some more cash so we'd be able to pay for a cab in Roatan. Deo and Auri got to be very good friend with the security guy there: poor man, they wouldn't leave him alone!
So the end of the trip: back in Roatan, stuff everywhere, boys running around like madmen (I guess all that pent-up energy had to break loose sometime!). Glad we went, glad to be home! Nomad wandering has a whole new take when it's with kids!!! I'd definitely do it again, but wish that we had had more time, and of course, more money, and a nanny along would have been great :) My home looks incredible, with the new rug, bedspreads and hammock. And I am happy to be in my own bed, without two little pairs of feet in my face or stomach!


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The mighty Peanut Butter Lovesicle are approaching the end of their stint in London and this makes me a sad polar bear. In the space of about six weeks so far, they've turned a fairly diffident, indifferent audience, and a few discerning fans, into a great turnout at the Purple Turtle last night. Their tight, 3-piece Zep-esque brand of rock and roll never fails to get heads nodding and the girls gyrating. I'll be sad to lose them.
Peanut Butter Lovesicle, Purple Turle – Images by David Hodgkinson
They were running horribly late last night, and I was about to go for a wander in the drizzle but as I saw the band before setting up, I thought they'd be worth shooting at least. For their second gig apparently, Death by Sexy played a confident and competent, if plodding set and seemed to have decent support in the crowd including the almost obligatory mum and dad. The main guy seems to have landed himself a band it'd be nice to tour with at least.
Death by Sexy, Purple Turtle – Images by David Hodgkinson


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Team 1 is taken, leaving Team 2 as the only one available auction rounds begin 28 Feb, pre auction roster cutdown is 26 Feb so if interested let me know before 26th if possible
one team is a playoff team the second team needs a dedicated owner to move it out of the lower echelons of the league Team A 6 of 20 C D'Arnaud 1B F Freeman 2b D Pedroia 3b H Perez SS OF OD Herrera OF K Broxton OF K Schwarber Flex E Encarnacion Flex R Odor FLex Flex SP J Odorizzi SP J Lester SP Ed Rodriguez SP RP Z Britton RP D O'Day RP P Strop Rp Team 2: 16 of 20 C R Chrinos 1B M Moreland 2b J kipnis 3B M Moustakas SS X Bogaerts OF N Cruz OF ED Rosario OF T Naquin Flex N Ahmed Flex R Porcello Flex W Flores Flex M Tanaka SP Sonny Gray SP T Jungmann SP A Wainwright SP T Chatwood RP N Ramirez RP J Motte RP K Quackenbush RP J Familia
tec79 posted a topic in The Baseball ForumAll- 3 orphan teams in Mastersball Dynasty League, looking for committed owners to manage: 1. Mastersball Dynasty League has existed since 2001. 2. 20 team league: salary cap, 30 man roster including bench; 15 man Minor League Roster, H2H, 12 statistical categories; 4 Divisions-shuffled each year according to previous year's standings. 3. in season held at yahoo, FREE league: 8 teams make Playoffs 4. offseason held at Mastersball Forums: roster cutdowns, salary cap adjustments, Minor League Draft, Auction rounds to fill Active roster-during MLB Spring Training. Mastersball Forum thread here: viewforum.php?f=17 5. so as you can see this league takes about 1 month off after season ends, then begins offseason..... Auction rounds to fill Open Roster slots begin 28 February 2017. if you want to participate in that join us before deadline date for submittal of Active roster cutdown which is 26 Feb 2017. If interested reply to me here within Mastersball Forums or email me at t h co at yahoo dot com
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tec79 posted a topic in The Baseball ForumAll- looking to fill 2 orphan teams in league: Dynasty, Auction, Minor League Roster, Salary Cap.... 15 years in operation.... League operates 10+ months of year, need to fill 2 orphans, planning to start Minor League Draft this week if possible... if interested please contact me directly: thco at yahoo dot com A. Team A Active Roster C Chirinos 4 1B Moreland 14 2b Kipnis 26 3b Moustakas 19 SS Bogaerts 9 OF N Cruz 14 OF E Rosario 5 OF T Naquin 4 Flex N Ahmed 5 FLex Porcello 10 Flex Tanaka 6 flex flores 9 Sp S Gray 9 SP Wainwright 68 SP Chatwood 2 RP Ramirez 5 RP Motte 10 RP Familia 6 RP Quackenbush 6 Minor League Roster- 2 openings AJ Cole Mac Williamson Dus Hooper Casey Gillaspie Jeimer Candelario Rangel Ravelo LAzaro Arementeros J Bauers Chance Cisco Ruddy Giron Gavin Cecchini Samir Duenez Dom Nunez B. Team B Active roster: C Posey 35 1B Zimmerman 20 2b Rendon 13 3b Machado 13 SS Lowrie 2 OF M taylor 2 OF A McCutcheon 54 OF J Bruce 54 Flex M Semien 2 Flex M Wisler 2 Flex J Broxton 4 Flex J gyorko7 SP A Sanchez 9 SP C McHugh 10 SP Cashner 10 SP Samardzia 13 RP Betances 9 RP Storen 6 RP herrera 8 RP Knebel MiL roster- FULL C Shaw S Otnai A Judge L Weaver B McKinney D Vogelbach B Starling M Williams M Davidson 3B D Bichette Jr Trea Turner J Pankake B Zimmer KMateo K Lewis
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I apologize for this post being late and out of place, I am today on page 24 playing catchup, but I wanted to relate for what its worth a personal experience from visiting Omaha Beach for the 55th anniversary of the landings on June 6 1999. At the time I was living and working in London, England. My son's Boy Scout Troop, and many other from all over Europe, drove to Normandy and spent a couple days there for this anniversary. Our bus took us to Pointe du Hoc- the gun emplacement is still there today as are the trenches and the whole area is pockmarked with bomb and shell craters. not much has changed i guess. There is a monument to Gen Earl Rudder commemorating the Rangers assault (Gig'em Ags!!!). After this our bus took us a few miles to the east where we all walked to the southern edge of Omaha Beach, along the beach, up the cliffs to the American Cemetary located there (remember the scenes from Saving Private Ryan at this cemetary?) All the Scouts from all over Europe ringed the central area as the US Ambassador and other dignitaries made presentations. Afterwards each scout was given a flag and the name of an American soldier, he had to find that soldier and place the flag on his grave.... Words escape me in an attempt to describe this..... Walking along the sandy beaches that day and climbing the cliffs, those brave men who stormed the beaches and climbed those cliffs deserve our eternal gratitude. it must have been sheer hell......
bump so i can find this easier.....about halfway thru. this narrative is great....
tec79 replied to Linus Scrimmage's topic in Footballguys Free For AllNo...the political sides exaggerate on both ends...I've heard/read that crude can be extracted in as few as 3 years.The time scales associated with finding/discovering the oil/gas, determining how much is there, obtaining the necessary government permits, building the platforms, then connecting them to shore via pipeline or shuttle tankers can take up to 10 years. Reasons for that are- with possible exception of Destin Dome area offshore Fla, most of the rest of these hydrocarbon reserves are in very deep water (more than 5000 or 6000 ft of water), far from shore, and/or in inhospitable weather conditions (N Slope, E Coast, etc). The costs for large projects just to put the platform, pipelines and drill field development wells can be several Billion dollars. Typically from time of discovery to first production takes 8-10 years.Realistically to have an impact we need to start now so we can get these hydrocarbons to market in 8-10 years. So far the political will/climate of states like Fla, CA etc hold the rest of the country hostage because they dont want drilling to occur offshore. (e.g. the Destin Dome area offshore Fla Panhandle has discovered GAS reserves but we cannot develop them because Fla is afraid of an OIL spill on its beaches-to my knowledge there is little to NO oil associated with these gas deposits, so there you can see how people's fears impact the country.) What really needs to happen is the country and its politicians need to have a lesson in what it takes to find and develop hydrocarbons. then they/we need to embark upon a targeted campaign to find those hydrocarbons we can (oil and gas), put them in production, build more refineries (where?-this is the NIMBY mentality too!!), and in concert with this fund expanded research into the feasibility of alternative energy sources. Realize that these alternatives will not have an impact soon (next 10+years) but are more likely to be replacements in 30+years....Its easy to blame the politicians for the stances they take, both state and national, but what it really will take is a groundswell of individual people (voters) who express their desire to exploit these resources off CA, FLa, N Slope, E Coast, oil shale, etc.....until that happens the only thing that will happen is folks will vent in Forums like this and we wont get anywhere.....its like the Social Secuirty System, Health Care, etc - nothing will happen in Gov't until the dire end is near and then it may be too late!!tex


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The Hospital Now Provides Ayurvedic treatments and Panchakarma therapies along with various rejuvenation and healing packages
The word Ayurveda come from Sanskrit word, Ayur meaning life and longevity, and Veda meaning Knowledge or Science, Ayurveda is a nature friendly healing system practised and perfect over years and handed down through generations. The main objective of ayurveda is to prevent diseases, promote health and completely wipe out the diseases from the body. According to ayurveda, the thridoshas (condensed from of live elements) regulates every physiological and psychological changes in living organisms. A harmonious state of thridoshas creates balance health.


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ELLISVILLE — General Electric Co. plans to hire 5,000 veterans over the next five years and invest $580 million to expand its aviation business. The announcements today were part of a four-day event that the global conglomerate is hosting with partners in Washington, D.C., that focuses on issues such as manufacturing and job creation in America. GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt ...Read More »
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Report: Small businesses account for nearly half of state's jobs
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Office of Advocacy has released the annual Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories. This is the 16th year Advocacy has published a state-by-state profile of American small business for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. The Mississippi profile uses the most recent data available to provide details about the state's ...Read More »
Keesler AFB slashing another 38 civilian jobs
BILOXI — Keesler Air Force Base is scheduled to lose another 38 civilian jobs in 2012 as the Air Force continues it move toward eliminating about 9,000 such workers. The announcement comes two months after Keesler said it would eliminate 68 positions from the civilian work force in the 81st Training Wing and 403rd Wing. Brig. Gen. Andrew Mueller of ...Read More »
WIN Job Centers launching education campaign
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Department of Employment Security is launching a campaign to educate the state's businesses about the free services available to them through its network of WIN Job Centers. The agency's job order blitz will run Jan. 17-Feb. 24. WIN Job Center staff will be notifying employers about assistance they can provide for all their employment hiring ...Read More »
Hearing dates set for former airport administrators
TUPELO — Job discrimination lawsuits filed by two former administrators at Tupelo Regional Airport will be heard in federal court in 2013. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports former airport executive director Terry Anderson and former operations director Reid Dawe have sued the airport. Anderson's case is set for April 8, 2013, in federal court in Oxford. Dawe's trial is ...Read More »
Landscapers' illegal workers trial rescheduled
RIDGELAND — A federal trial for a landscaping business that allegedly used illegal immigrant workers has been moved to April 2. The Clarion-Ledger reports the jury trial was scheduled for today in U.S. District Court in Jackson, but attorneys for Love Irrigation said they need time to prepare. U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate approved the defense's motion, granting 45 more ...Read More »
UMMC letting go 115 workers, cites weak demand
JACKSON — The University of Mississippi Medical Center is reducing the size of its workforce by approximately 115 employees. Coupled with a decision to not fill 90 vacant positions, the UMMC workforce will be about 2 percent smaller than it was at the end of 2011, according to Dr. James E. Keeton, vice chancellor for health affairs. Keeton said a ...Read More »
Training Dick and Jane
The Governor's Workforce Conference held earlier this month in Jackson offered plenty of success stories, particularly the recruitment of the new Toyota plant in Northeast Mississippi. However, there were also words of warning about the state meeting the needs of businesses with a competently trained workforce in the future. The state is already struggling to meet the demand for skilled ...Read More »
Workforce conference explores new ideas about education
JACKSON — Gov. Haley Barbour said yesterday he wants Mississippians to look at new approaches to improve education, including more opportunities for job training instead of bachelor's degrees and the involvement of churches to help prevent struggling students from dropping out of high school. Other ideas include cutting tax funds to intercollegiate athletics, shortening paths to college degrees and pushing ...Read More »
Will UAW target Nissan?
CANTON — Top officials of the United Auto Workers have decided for now against targeting a single company in its effort to sign up workers at U.S. factories owned by foreign automakers. UAW president Bob King told The Associated Press in an interview yesterday that the union's executive board won't make any decision until it sees how the automakers react ...Read More »


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SLA-Based Resource Allocation Within Cloud Networking Environment
Today, cloud networking which is the ability to connect users with their cloud services and to interconnect these services in an inter-cloud approach, is one of the recent research areas within the cloud computing research communities. The main drawback of cloud networking consists in the lack of Quality of Service ...Download Now
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Non-expert managers in various types of organizations usually find it challenging to decide whether to adopt cloud computing services, which are internet-based, instead of the conventional in-house technologies, which are physically owned and controlled on-premises. This paper evaluates cloud computing management challenges that were selected and ranked by a number ...Download Now
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Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex
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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson is tired of "the corporate interests that we go abroad to slay monsters for."
As the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Wilkerson played an important role in the George W. Bush administration. In the years since, however, the former Bush official has established himself as a prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy.
"I think Smedley Butler was onto something," explained Lawrence Wilkerson, in an extended interview with Salon.
In his day, in the early 20th century, Butler was the highest ranked and most honored official in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. He helped lead wars throughout the world over a series of decades, before later becoming a vociferous opponent of American imperialism, declaring "war is a racket."
Wilkerson spoke highly of Butler, referencing the late general's famous quote: "Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
"I think the problem that Smedley identified, quite eloquently actually," Wilkerson said, "especially for a Marine — I had to say that as a soldier," the retired Army colonel added with a laugh; "I think the problem is much deeper and more profound today, and much more subtle and sophisticated."
Today, the military-industrial complex "is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought it would be," Wilkerson warned.
In his farewell address in 1961, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously cautioned Americans that the military and corporate interests were increasingly working together, contrary to the best interests of the citizenry. He called this phenomenon the military-industrial complex.


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Im not sure what's going on there for you Moggy.
Do you have a follow-up appt. with your Rheumy after having taken the pred?
Did she say what her next course of action was for you after the pred?
Sorry I cant help much and even sorrier you are still in so much pain.