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Metroland Cultures
A new charity established to deliver Brent 2020 and ensure its legacy thereafter.
Brent 2020 is a new model for supporting culture in the borough, one that actively supports youth development and the participation of as many people as possible in programming. This is a model for a collective endeavour - including young people, engagement boards, cultural leaders in schools, volunteers and community advisors.
The new charity – Metroland Cultures – delivers Brent's year as London Borough of Culture and, crucially, will take this new model beyond 2020.
Everything Metroland Cultures does – from commissioning new art works, to organising festivals and designing new support programmes – starts with local residents. After Brent 2020, Metroland Cultures will support an annual series of four artistic commissions in Brent; one of these will be led by young people and another will be commissioned with the London Borough of Brent. All are informed by Engagement Boards bringing together local people and national partners. After 2020, Metroland Cultures will also extend the London Borough of Culture's existing support programmes for young people, artists, Community Advisors and teachers to those in boroughs that border Brent.
Metroland Cultures will continue the work of challenging perceptions of Brent and the power dynamics on which they rest. The London Borough of Culture is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to change the status of culture in Brent - altering how the borough is seen and how creativity is supported here. Metroland Cultures will ensure that opportunity is not missed.
The first initiative to be launched is the Metroland Cultures Fund, a brand new fund providing financial support to Brent artists and creatives during lock-down. Applications are now closed and successful applicants have been announced. Click here to find out more.
Cultural Arts Consultant & CEO, Mindspray
Errol Donald
Errol is a pioneer of UK graffiti art and qualified creative wellbeing practitioner. He is also the CEO of Mindspray, a creative platform connecting globally to celebrate the art of cultural storytelling. In celebrating creative approaches to health and wellbeing, Mindspray aims to unite and inspire the next generation of creative leaders to create new approaches to mental health and emotional wellbeing. With a unique blend of experiences that include everything from brand strategy and cultural heritage, to leadership coaching, Errol advises clients on the planning of initiatives that meet at the intersection of arts, culture and healthcare.
Director, Flint Public Relations Ltd
Digby Halsby
Digby is an award-winning communications professional whose promotional experience spans public relations, marketing and publishing. At the Paris-based advertising agency Iceberg-Bozell he developed pan-European advertising campaigns for market-leading consumer brands. In agency and in-house roles within the publishing sector he developed the brands of breakthrough literary talents, media managed leading literary awards and publishing events and directed promotional campaigns for internationally bestselling authors, thought-leaders and cultural figures. In 2009 Digby co-founded Flint Culture, a specialist cultural consultancy that has gone on to provide cultural advisory and communications services to brands, businesses and organisations ranging from the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the British Library, Christie's and the London Art Fair, to BT, Time Out and the National Trust. Based in London and working across Flint's international offices, Digby offers expertise in brand management, audience engagement, business development and corporate, consumer and cultural partnerships.
Cabinet Member for Public Health, Culture & Leisure, Brent Council
Cllr Krupesh Hirani
Krupesh graduated with a Politics degree from the University of Nottingham in 2007 and has developed strong hands-on experience in the political sector, working for Barry Gardiner MP in the House of Commons and being on the Parliament and Government Programme at the Hansard Society. He then went on to work as a Policy and Business Development Officer for a new public affairs think tank and was mentored through the Operation Black Vote shadowing scheme by the Rt Hon David Lammy MP. In 2008 he was awarded with a Youth Gold Achievement Award during his tenure at the British Youth Council. He stood as a Labour Party candidate in the 2010 local elections and was elected as Councillor to the London Borough of Brent, representing Dudden Hill Ward. In 2012, he joined the Council's leading Executive Group after becoming the Lead Member for Adults and Health, making him the youngest person in the country to hold this portfolio. He is the current Cabinet member for Adults, Health and Wellbeing at the London Borough of Brent. He works part-time for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Young Theatre Director, Producer & Blueprint Collective member
Jessica Mensah
Jessica is a Young Theatre Director and Producer. She is a recent graduate in BA Theatre and Performance from the University of Surrey, Guildford School of Acting. She is also a member of the Blueprint Collective and performed a spoken word piece for Brent's winning video called This is Brent. Jessica is currently on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme; on a three-month placement at tiata fahodzi as part of the Artistic Director Leadership Programme. Previously, Jessica completed a year-long placement at Kiln Theatre and took part in the Young Vic's Introduction to Directing course and the Young Producer's programme at Battersea Arts Centre.
Designer, Filmmaker & Blueprint Collective member
Raden Anandra Natalegawa
Raden is a designer and documentary film-maker from Kingsbury who believes in the power of art and design to promote legal and social change. He recently finished a creative placement with Pentagram / Do The Green Thing, using design to raise awareness of the gender gap in climate action. Raden has made films for, and exhibited work with, The Photographer's Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Somerset House, exploring race, religion and sexuality. He studied Law and Politics (LLB) before transferring to study Graphic Communication Design (FAD) at Central St. Martins. Raden loves dancing, skating and Indomie noodles.
Co-Founder, Creative England
John Newbigin OBE
John is the Chair and Co-Founder of Creative England. As Special Advisor to the Minister for Culture, Rt Hon Chris Smith MP, he was closely involved in developing the UK government's first policies for the creative industries in the 1990s. He was Head of Corporate Relations for Channel 4 Television and Executive Assistant to Lord Puttnam at the film company Enigma Productions. As a policy advisor to the Rt Hon Neil Kinnock MP, he had responsibility for environmental and cultural issues, amongst others.
Artistic Director, Kiln Theatre
Indhu Rubasingham MBE
Indhu is the Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre. Productions as Artistic Director include: Red Velvet (Evening Standard Award and Critics' Circle Award, also at St Ann's Warehouse, NYC and West End), A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Multitudes, The House That Will Not Stand, Handbagged (Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, also West End transfer and UK tour), Paper Dolls, The Invisible Hand, Holy Sh!t, White Teeth, and Wife. Other selected directing credits include: The Great Wave, Ugly Lies the Bone, The Motherf**ker With The Hat, The Waiting Room, The Ramayana (National Theatre); Women, Power and Politics, Stones in His Pockets, Detaining Justice, The Great Game: Afghanistan, Fabulation, Starstruck (Tricycle Theatre); Belong, Disconnect, Free Outgoing, Lift Off, Clubland, The Crutch, Sugar Mummies (Royal Court); Ruined (Almeida).
Artistic Director, Brent 2020, London Borough of Culture
Lois Stonock
Lois is the Artistic Director of Brent 2020, London Borough of Culture and a consultant, writer, researcher and programmer working in the arts. She specializes in taking people and organisations through change and development with new approaches and strategic thinking. Lois' work in areas of cultural strategy with Associates is in collaboration with other academics, policy experts, curators and sector experts. Over 2018 she developed a cultural think tank, The Jennie Lee Institute, to imagine new cultural futures for the UK, engaging the voices of young people, artists and policymakers to extend the value of culture to all areas of the everyday. In addition to this Lois develops curatorial and research projects which are always artist and idea-led, working with artists to realise ambitious projects. This work also informs her strategic thinking in other areas, as she is increasingly working at the intersection of art and society.
Arts and Textiles Teacher, Alperton Community School
Andria Zafirakou MBE
Andria has been teaching art and design at the Alperton Community School for 14 years. In 2018, she was awarded the Global Teacher Prize and has recently set up a charity called Artists in Residence to support the arts in education. Andria received an MBE in 2019 for her services to education.


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Florence and the Machine: Wild at Heart
Her album's not out until july, but the new pop sensation already has a Brit Award in the bag. Meet a free spirit with a lust for life
"Oh my God!" splutters one tall, skinny girl with curly brown hair, cramming her new T-shirt over a black Lycra dress. "I love her, I love her, I love her! She's amazing! I'm gonna marry her! I am!"
It's halfway through this year's NME Awards tour and we are in Manchester, at the Academy. Glasvegas top the bill, but the gang of girls and one spotty boy pawing the merchandise stand - badges, posters and school exercise books decorated with curly bird and leaf motifs spread out on the trestle table - are not here to see four Scottish rockers.
At Florence and the Machine's arrival on stage, the group explodes like a flock of twittering birds someone threw a bouncy ball at. A tumbly

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Type: Bug
Status: Open
Priority: P2: Important
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: 5.12.5, 5.13.1
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: QPA: EGLFS, QPA: Wayland
This applies to QtWayland.Compositor usage primarily but also to any application trying to run with the eglfs platform on a VT on a common Linux workstation.
Running an application with the eglfs platform works fine - if the user running the application is part of the "input" user group.
Adding a user to that group opens a security hole for multi-user and/or multi-process systems and all major Linux Wayland compositors (weston, gnome, kwin, sway, liri) use the feature provided by logind to acquire VT session control and get handed the file descriptor from logind via dbus, without the user being part of the input group.
This affects the "libinput" plugin as it is de-facto standard on Linux distributions and the supported way to do this.
TakeControl() allows a process to take exclusive managed device access-control for that session. Only one dbus-connection can be a controller for a given session at a time. If the force argument is set (root only), an existing controller is kicked out and replaced. Otherwise, this call fails if there is already a controller. Note that this call is limited to dbus-users with the effective UID set to the User of the Session or root. ReleaseControl() drops control of a given session again. Closing the dbus-connection implicitly releases control, too. See TakeControl() for more. This also releases all devices for the controller that were requested via TakeDevice(). TakeDevice() allows a session-controller to get a file-descriptor for a specific device. Pass in the major and minor numbers of the character-device and logind will return a file-descriptor for the device. Only a limited set of device-types is currently supported (but may be extended). logind automatically mutes the file-descriptor if the session is inactive and resumes it once the session gets active again. This guarantees that a session can only access session-devices if the session is active. Note that this revoke/resume mechanism is asynchronous and may happen at any given time. This only works on devices that are attached to the seat of the given session. A process is not required to have direct access to the device-node. logind only requires you to be the active session controller (see TakeControl()). Also note that any device can only be requested once. As long as you don't release it, further TakeDevice() calls will fail. ReleaseDevice() releases a device again (see TakeDevice()). This is also implicitly done by ReleaseControl() or when closing the dbus-connection.
As Qt support a wide range of platforms, devices and use-cases it seems not right to look for a change in the qt_safe_open behavior, but when used with the libinput plugin it should be possible to opt-in for this logind based behavior to not require a user to be part of that group.
I have already tried to implement a patch (attached) for
but it is not working (libinput still returns an error being unable to create a device, but no more permission denied errors so far). Also this probably should be optional, as there could be existing Qt applications that use eglfs with libinput but do not have logind available.


text: I first came to Dr. Rachel because I was in excruciating pain in my upper back and neck. My pain was a constant 8/10 and could hardly perform daily activities. When I met with her the first time, we went through my medical history and she educated me on how not being aligned can have some really negative effects. I had no idea! After a few visits with Dr. Rachel, my back was feeling much better and I had no pain! My range of motion with my neck returned, I found I was sleeping better at night, but best of all my anxiety and depression had been at an all time low. I've been battling anxiety and depression for nearly 15 years and my symptoms after seeing Dr. Rachel is like day and night. My brain functions better during the day, I can concentrate more, and I'm overall in a much better mood day to day than I was before I started seeing her! I keep up with adjustments to make sure I'm keeping everything aligned and myself feeling good.. I know when I go too long without seeing her because my mood will decline with passing days, I'll feel less like "myself", or just "off" in general which then I know it's been too long and I'm overdue for another adjustment! I'm so glad I found Dr. Rachel and cannot recommend her enough! Especially for those who need help with their mental health! Amazing bedside manor and very knowledgeable. Thank you Dr. Rachel for your excellent care


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"As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him"
– Psalm 103:13
Initiated in the year 2009 with the aim of improving the overall quality of the institution and attend to issues related mainly to student behavior, interpersonal relationship, effective use of infrastructure (like the use of library).
Quality circles have been formed primarily to involve student participation in Quality Maintenance.
Quality circles in our institution is – voluntary group of students from each class who choose areas that need improvement and find simple and practical solutions to solve those. They meet at regular intervals to solve the students related problems and attend to small and solvable problems.
These circles help create the awareness on the importance of maintaining and sustaining quality in all areas and the drives home the relevance of student participation.
Contributes to the development and improvement of the academic culture and the improvement of the institution.
Creates cheerful learning atmosphere that make life worthwhile and where all individuals are respected.
Displays human capabilities fully and eventually draw out limitless potentials.


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Porsha Williams of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and her fianc? Dennis McKinnley share an inside look of their made for tv baby shower with PEOPLE magazine.
[READ: Porsha Williams Hosts 'All-White' Baby Shower for TV Special… (PHOTOS)]
As previously reported, Porsha held a 'Winter Wonderland' themed celebration for her first child with about 80 invited guests were asked to wear all-white attire.
The event was held on Feb. 24 at Suada Studio in Atlanta and attendees included Cynthia Bailey, Marlo Hampton & Kenya Moore.
Details + photos below… Continue Reading…


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Manchester United are trying to convince a classy midfielder to move to Old Trafford after a first round of talks, while Real Madrid have made their first play for Liverpool's Sadio Mane, according to Wednesday's European papers.
Manchester United are reported to have held initial talks with the agent of Ivan Rakitic over a summer deal to bring the Croatia star to Old Trafford.
It's claimed that Barcelona have told the former Sevilla man they are ready to cash in on him this summer and plan to sign former Jose Mourinho target Sergej Milinkovic-Savic with the funds.
Apparently, Barca boss Ernesto Valverde wants a three-pronged midfield axis of Milinkovic-Savic, alongside Arthur and another incoming star, Frenkie De Jong, next season.
And, according to Don Balon, they have informed Rakitic, 31, that as a result, his time at the club will be brought to a halt this summer.
While Rakitic would prefer to stay at the Nou Camp, it is said the player has reluctantly accepted he needs to move on this summer and with his asking price set at €70m, he will decide between moves to either United or Inter Milan.
The report adds that Rakitic is the midfield star that interim manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has set his heart on and the player he sees as finally stepping into Michael Carrick's shoes at Old Trafford.
It's also suggested that Rakitic's arrival at Old Trafford would spell bad news for 2018 summer signing Fred, who could be sold off after the Brazilian failed to make a significant impact at the club.
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Real Madrid will offer Liverpool €40m plus €100m-rated Marco Asensio in a bid to tempt Liverpool to sell Sadio Mane this summer (Don Balon)
Paul Pogba will demand astronomical wages of €14m per year (£307,000 per week) to join Real Madrid or Juventus this summer (Tuttosport)
Zinedine Zidane has instructed Real Madrid to pursue a deal for Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele this summer, who is also wanted by Man City and Tottenham (El Confidencial)
Liverpool loanee Marko Grujic has no immediate plans to return to Anfield and wants to extend his loan stay at Hertha Berlin into a second season (Bild)
Atletico Madrid defender Lucas Hernandez has 'agreed to be a Bayern Munich player next season' with the Bundesliga side ready to trigger his €80m exit clause (RMC Sport / Foot Mercato)
Barcelona have ruled out a future move for Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann, despite courting him last summer (Marca)
Real Betis midfielder Giovani Lo Celso is paying no attention to reports linking him with a move to Real Madrid and Barcelona this summer (Marca)
Manchester United are tracking St-Etienne's 18-year-old French defender William Saliba (Le10 Sport)
Mario Mandzukic has reportedly agreed a new contract with Juventus and it will be announced over the next few days (Sky Italia)
Atletico Madrid forward Borja Garces faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines after rupturing the ligament in his right knee (various)
Manchester United will turn down all offers for Paul Pogba this summer, despite talk of a double swap deal for two Real Madrid stars
Inter Milan won't stand in Joao Miranda's way wants to leave this summer, with Monaco and Benfica interested (FC Inter News)
Real Madrid are monitoring the possibility of a move for Juventus midfielder Miralem Pjanic despite the Italian champions asking price of €80m (AS)
Tottenham are ready to battle West Ham for the signing of Torino midfielder Soualiho Meite this summer. The player has a €30m asking price (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Fiorentina are not interested in permanently signing 27-year-old Belgian winger Kevin Mirallas – who is on loan at the Italian club from Everton (Corriere Fiorentino)
Hoffenheim left-back and Germany's latest matchwinner Nico Schulz – who is of Italian extraction – has confessed that Inter Milan are 'the club of my dreams' (t-online)
Benfica full-back Alejandro Grimaldo is now being targeted by Italian champions Juventus, with Manchester City and Arsenal also very much in the market to sign him (Calciomercato)
Former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has indentified French Ligue 1 clubs Lyon or Monaco as preferred next destinations (L'Equipe)
Marcus Rashford has 'zero desire' to quit Manchester United this summer in the wake of reported €120m interest from Barcelona (various)


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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Acta est fabula?
Have we finally begun to see beyond the events of 2001? Does this mean that we can finally put it in the Forgotten Days file along with Pearl Harbor Day, VJ-Day and Arbor Day?Or is this just an off-year for Islamic Terra drumbeating?
Or could it be because I was on the woods west of Chehalis - Twin Peaks country, folks - and was off the net and missed the parading of the bloody shirt?
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My bet, it is just an off year. I think everyone is holding off until next year for the 10 year anniversary. That will be a big year, as it will officially open the ever expanding timeline of the Presidential race. I still believe that Obama will use that 10 year milestone for some type of announcement of removal of troops from Afg, in prep for the upcoming election.ReplyDelete
I think the country is beginning to move beyond 9/11 and its power to unify our increasingly dissolute masses has waned to the point that we'll be able to list it among the "forgotten holidays" in a couple of years.ReplyDelete
No doubt, as bg mentioned, we'll see a big celebration at the 10 year mark. Probably something to the effect of "We're still here, you didn't kill us" (which is ridiculous because terror has never been an existential threat if you don't count what we do to ourselves) but that will be pretty much the end of 9/11.
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- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Personally, I spent the weekend camping with my family and some good friends. I didn't see one thing about 9/11, but it seemed like half the people in the campground were watching the Ohio State-Miami game via satellite. The Buckeye paraphernalia and propaganda was everywhere but didn't hear a peep about 9/11.ReplyDelete
I tend to think country is moving beyond it, especially in this economic climate.
Andy: I was equally isolated, in the middle-of-nowhere segment of the I-5 corridor and I got the same sensation. People seemed intensely preoccupied with the business of football season, kids going back to school, the difficulty of trying to keep accounts receivable exceeding accounts payable in a crappy economy.ReplyDelete
The one oddity I noticed is that the TV news talking heads, which was on CNN or Fox every morning at the hotel breakfast room, seemed WAY more overheated about the anniversary than anyone watching.
I wonder if this will turn into a sort of thing that's commemorated exclusively or largely within the "national greatness" faction of the conservative movement, where it becomes a sort of Lost Cause/Southern Liberty-type deal, where the folks who really, really want a clash of cultures preserve the memory of the Day We Were Attacked By Godless Islam?
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2010 at 5:42 AM
That's one of the main reasons I don't watch the newsies anymore. The people talking on them too often seem to be from another planet. I feel dumber after having watched them. Seriously, TV news cannot implode fast enough for me. The only "commercial" news I consume anymore is NPR on the radio. Almost everything else is crap.
I used to watch the Sunday morning news programs, but I've quit those too for the same reasons. Thankfully, there is CBS Sunday Morning which I usually watch with the family. I used to watch it with my Dad as a kid, so it's sort of a tradition. My favorite part is the closing nature footage at the end. Sadly, they've cut the time allotted for that over the years - sign of the times I suppose.


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June 20th
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. – Wayne Gretzky
TODAY – JUNE 20th
171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) with 194 days to follow.
Holidays for Today:
~ National American Eagle Day
~ National Hike with a Geek Day
~ National Ice Cream Soda Day
~ National Kouign Amann Day (round crusty cake, made with a yeast-raised dough)
~ National Vanilla Milkshake Day
~ West Virginia Day
~ World Refugee Day
~ International Nystagmus Awareness Day
~ Summer Solstice 2020 (first day of summer)
~ Cuckoo Warning Day (first day of summer)
~ National Seashell Day (first day of summer)
~ International Surfing Day (on summer solstice)
~ Anne and Samantha Day (bi-annually on the summer solstice and the winter solstice; honors Anne Frank and Samantha Smith)
The June solstice is when folks in the Northern Hemisphere see the highest Sun of the year.
But did you know that the Sun's highest point is getting lower and lower over time? That's because Earth's tilt is slowly decreasing.
The word 'solstice' comes from the Latin words sol "Sun" and stitium "standing."
On the summer solstice, the Sun's path stops advancing northward each day and "stands" still.
On this day, the Sun rises farthest left on the horizon, and sets at its rightmost possible spot.
Sunlight strikes places in your home that get illuminated at no other time.
- 1894 Lloyd Hall, Elgin, Illinois, chemist (contributed to the science of food preservation (amassed 59 U.S. patents))
- 1924 Audie Murphy, Kingston, Texas, WWII hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
- 1924 Chet Atkins, Luttrell, Tennessee, guitarist (Me & My Guitar) / record producer
- 1928 Martin Landau, Brooklyn, New York, actor (Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Red Maple Leaf)
- 1942 Brian Wilson, Inglewood, California, musician (The Beach Boys)
- 1945 Anne Murray, Nova Scotia, Canada, singer (Snow Bird)
- 1946 Bob Vila, home improvement television show host (This Old House, Restore America, Bob Vila's Home Again, Bob Vila)
- 1950 Lionel Richie, Tuskegee, Alabama, singer (Commodores)
- 1952 John Goodman, Affton, Missouri, actor (The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Monsters, Inc., The Monuments Men, Alpha House, Kong: Skull Island)
- 1967 Nicole Kidman, Honolulu, Hawaii, American-born Australian actress (Moulin Rouge!, Batman Forever, Happy Feet, Rabbit Hole, Big Little Lies)
- 1971 Josh Lucas, Little Rock, Arkansas, actor (Poseiden, Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, Glory Road, The Firm, The Mysteries of Laura)
- 1986 Dreama Walker, Tampa, Florida, actress (Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Don't Trust The B—- in Apartment 23, Doubt)
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
- 1782 The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- 1840 Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
- 1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state.
- 1877 World's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada by Alexander Graham Bell.
- 1893 Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother.
- 1944 World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
- 1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
- 1963 "Red telephone" established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1990 Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- 2003 The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
A dietitian is addressing an audience in the retirement home. "The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can have pesticide residues, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the impurities in our drinking water. But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and most of us have eaten it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after you eat it?"
A 75-year-old man In the front row stands up and says, "Wedding cake!"
A patient was at her doctor's office after undergoing a complete physical exam. The doctor said, "I have some very grave news for you. You only have six months to live."
The patient asked, "Oh doctor, what should I do?"
The doctor replied, "Marry an accountant."
"Will that make me live longer?" asked the patient.
"No," said the doctor, "but it will SEEM longer."
ONE-LINERS: Bumper Snickers
~ Fight crime – Shoot back.
~ I killed a 6-pack just to watch it die.
~ Remember Folks: Stop Lights Timed For 35mph Are Also Timed For 70mph.
~ Clear the Road I AM SIXTEEN.
~ I got this motor home for my wife. Best deal I ever made.
~ He Who Hesitates Is Not Only Lost But Miles From The Next Exit.
~ Hang up and drive.
~ Honk if you love peace and quiet.
~ If You Can Read This, I've Lost My Trailer.
~ If You Can Read This, Please Flip Me Over… [Seen Upside Down, On A Jeep].
Mail Pouch Barn by David Wilson
West Virginia Fact: Outdoor advertising had its origin in Wheeling, West Virginia, about 1908 when the Block Brothers Tobacco Company painted bridges and barns with the wording: "Treat Yourself to the Best, Chew Mail Pouch."
Transcript of a radio conversation between a U.S. naval ship and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland:
Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the captain of a U.S. Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I DEMAND that you change your course 15 degrees North — that's one five degrees North — or countermeasures will be taken to ensure the safety of this ship.
Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.
A woman went to a Florida lemon grove to apply for a job, but the foreman thought she seemed way too qualified for the position. "Do you even have any actual experience picking lemons?" he asked.
"Well, I think I do." she replied. "I've been divorced three times."
~ The college professor was in a terrible car accident. Seems he was grading papers on a curve.
~ As the the father porcupine said to his son just before spanking him, "This is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you.
~ A street performer was taken to the hospital with burns on his face. Using only gestures, he explained to the Doctor that someone in the crowd was unhappy with his act and attacked him with pepper spray, which apparently reacted with his white face paint and caused the burns.
The Doctor shook his head and said, "A mime is a terrible thing to mace."
We were staying at a country resort and became friendly with the handyman. "My neighbor has a nice little cottage for sale, case you're interested," he told us.
Despite its run-down appearance, we fell in love with the place and bought it "as is."
The day we moved in, our handyman friend dropped by. "You got a good buy, " he admitted. "Cottage needs some
work though. Roof leaks, plumbing's shot and the well runs dry in the summer."
Dismayed, I retorted, "Why didn't you tell us that before we bought it?"
"Weren't neighbors then."
I had always talked about my job a lot at home, and my young daughter had always expressed great interest. So I thought it would be a treat for her to spend the day with me at the office. Since I wanted it to be a surprise, I didn't tell her where we were going, just that it would be fun. Although usually a bit shy, she seemed excited to meet each colleague I introduced. On the way home, however, she seemed somewhat down.
"Didn't you have a nice time?" I asked.
"Well, it was okay," she responded. "But I thought it would be more like a circus."
Confused, I asked, "Whatever do you mean?"
She said, "Well, you said you work with a bunch of clowns, and I never got to see them!"
It was High School Graduation Day. The parents and graduates were all standing around chatting after the ceremony. Richard and his parents were having their picture taken by a professional photographer.
The photographer directed, "Okay, stand a little closer to the tree, but remain in the sunlight. Richard, stand between your mother and father. That's right. Put your hand on your father's shoulder. Make it look natural."
"If you really want to make it look natural," the father said, "have Richard with his hand in my pocket pulling out my wallet."
John, my high school-aged son came home from his girlfriend's house.
George, my other son was home from college and immediately started teasing him. I admit, I joined in a little, too.
After a while John said, "I'm going back to Sarah's house. They like me over at Sarah's house."
Immediately George replies, "We like you over at Sarah's house, too, John."
TODAY IN TRIVIA: It's West Virginia Day! Here's some facts about West Virginia. . .
~ Did you know West Virginia is the only state in the Union to have acquired its sovereignty by proclamation of the President of the United States?
~ Belonging everywhere and nowhere: West Virginia is considered the most southern northern state and the most northern southern state.
~ Jackson's Mill is the site of the first 4-H Camp in the United States.
~ The first state sales tax in the United States went into effect in West Virginia on July 1, 1921.
~ The first federal prison exclusively for women in the United States was opened in 1926 in West Virginia.
~ A bridge too far… The New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, is the second highest steel arch bridge in the United States. With an arch 1,700 feet long, it was for many years the world's longest single-span arch bridge, but is now the fourth longest. Every October on Bridge Day, the road is closed and individuals parachute and bungee cord jump 876 feet off the bridge. Its West Virginia's largest single day event.
~ Civil War: The first major land battle fought between Union and Confederate soldiers in the Civil War was the Battle of Philippi on June 3, 1861.
~ One of the nation's oldest and largest Indian burial grounds is located in Moundsville. Its 69 feet high, 900 feet in circumference, and 50 feet high. An inscribed stone was removed from the vault and is on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
~ The first rural free mail delivery was started in Charles Town on October 6, 1896, and then spread throughout the United States.
~ Apples of West Virginia: A variety of the yellow apple, the Golden Delicious, originated in Clay County. The original Grimes Golden Apple Tree was discovered in 1775 near Wellsburg.
~ Always in D.C. – Stone that was quarried near Hinton was contributed by West Virginia for the Washington Monument and arrived in Washington in February 1885.
QUIP OF THE DAY: Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. – Miles Kington
Thought for the day. . .
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford


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The success of the recent Free Month, when we had over 1100 visitors, has reassured the Museum Trustees that we are on the right track in proposing a major change for the West Highland Museum in 2011.
Thirty years ago 70,000 visitors a year passed through our Museum – but this peak has diminished dramatically, as it has for many museums nationwide. Other museums have found that free entry has increased their footfall by 3 to 6 times. From March 2011 entry to the West Highland Museum will be free and we anticipate around 35,000 visitors a year.
Our aim is to offer a real change to the visitors experience and hope to encourage many more people to see the treasures within and for locals to engage with the Museum.
When we re-open in March displays will be reorganised and we anticipate that there will be a different Museum experience. There will be a much bigger shop, some new exhibits and a real opportunity for you to support the museum.
We must also significantly reduce our costs. There will only now be two paid posts in the museum which means that sadly we can no longer employ our five part time reception staff. They have given many years of dedicated service to the West Highland Museum and the community, some also acting in a voluntary capacity. This is very regrettable but inevitable in these challenging times.
Applicants for a new paid part-time post of "Co-ordinator of Volunteers" are now being sought, together with support for our current team of experienced receptionists when we reopen in early March.
Could you give some time here and there – to be part of our team running and supporting the Museum – welcoming visitors, answering queries and questions, helping with sales and all the other tasks which keep the museums doors open?
Full training will be given and we expect to be able to offer an interesting and busy time for volunteers with the increased numbers coming into the free museum.
Please phone 70 2886 or 07900 665 301 and speak to Chris Robinson or visit our website at www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk and follow the volunteer link.
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Kanohar Electricals to build first 220/ 33Kv gas insulated substation in Dehradun, India
Kanohar Electricals to build first 220 / 33 kV gas insulated substation in Dehradun, India
The gas insulated substation (GIS) has been constructed by Kanohar Electricals Ltd in technical collaboration with Taiwanese giant Chung-Hsin Electric & Machinery Mfg. Corp (CHEM).
This substation involves 5 bays of 220 kV GIS, and 13 bays of 33 kV GIS, with transformation capacity of 100 MVA (two 50 MVA power transformers). The substation was constructed in plot area of barely 5000 m², which is roughly 15% percent of area required for conventional sub-station of the same capacity.
Kanohar Electricals Ltd is a leading manufacturer of high voltage power transformers and has extended to manufacturing gas insulated switchgear in India and is the EPC contractor of air insulated and gas insulated substations, with facilities in Meerut, UP.
Chung-Hsin Electric & Machinery Mfg. Corp (CHEM) is a leading global manufacturer of gas insulated substations up to 550 kV and GCB up to 765 kV, with facilities in Taiwan and China.
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So it's been a while since I last posted on my #tbt1998 playlist. There is no winter in Indonesia, but the rainy season has already started and if you are soaking wet and entering a shopping mall, you will completely feel as if you are stepping into a gigantic refrigerator.
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#ThrowbackThursday #1998 May playlist: Male vocals
It's time for another #ThrowbackThursday playlist from the year 1998 and this month it features 24 songs of male vocals.
#ThrowbackThursday 1998 April playlist: Record Store Day
This month's #ThrowbackThursday #1998 is to celebrate Record Store Day, and for me this means reminiscing the glory days of record stores, where in 1998, I paid a monthly pilgrimage. I still remember browsing for at least half an hour in Duta Suara, wondering which cassette tape to buy. And when I finally bought it, …
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It's mid-January, which is the start of my annual Month of Eating Dangerously. You might want to mark your calendar.
The combination of various Restaurant Weeks, multiple seasonal promotions, and trips to warmer climes to escape Washington's dreary winter gives me a great excuse to dine well, as if I needed one.
First stop this year is Persimmon, a charming little restaurant in Bethesda that calls itself "An American Bistro". That's a good description, because the menu offered a mix of American standards like Crispy Fish Tacos and Chicken Club Sandwiches, and French bistro classics like Steak Frites and Vanilla Bean Crème Brulee.
Persimmon serves a very good Bouillabaisse, with mussels and clams and shrimp and salmon and whitefish, etc. I liked the crunchy crostini.
My neighbour at the next table asked me what I was eating for dessert. It's that kind of relaxed, unpretentious place.
This was my first visit to Persimmon, and I'm adding it to my list of restaurants I want to try again. It was comfortable—the clientele was on the mature, well-dressed, and quiet side. The food was good, and the price was, too.


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Putin's Youth Camps: the New Hero-Worship
Again, "Russia is resurrecting", right… [[well, something is]].
(Sergei L. Loiko – Los Angeles Times) They wake up to the Russian national anthem and gather near the main stage lined with huge portraits of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his boss (on paper at least), President Dmitry Medvedev, where they do their morning exercises to music interrupted periodically by recorded quotations from both leaders.
As the day goes on, they are taught how to keep secrets from journalists, how to be active on the Internet, how to set up youth organizations and how to raise funds. They are trained in martial arts by an expert from the Vladimir Putin Fight Club and instructed to read books suggested by Putin.
One thing they don't need to be taught is to adore Putin. They already do. [[Read More]]


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His reputation as a famous American writer was cemented with the release of his second book, On the Road. It was written after The Town and the City, a poignant biographical account of his life in Lowell, Massachusetts, followed by the time when he entered Columbia University on a football scholarship.
Jack Kerouac, acknowledged as the founder of the Beat Generation, was a fellow traveler with his other soul mates Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and other writers of that ilk during a period spanning roughly from the late 1940's into the 1960's.
I have a library of Kerouac's books, but, until recently, had not read "Windblown World," a collection of Kerouac's post-war journals (1947-1954) edited by the eminent American historian, Douglas Brinkley.
After listening to Brinkley discuss the book on a morning talk show, I ordered a copy from Amazon. When I opened the shipping box and examined the book, my hand fell serendipitously upon a paragraph which I'd like to share with you:
"The earth will always be the same – only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble – only the earth will remain the same, there will always be men on the earth in the morning, there will always be the things made by God's hand – and all this history of cities and congresses now will go, all modern history is only a glittering Babylon smoking under the sun, delaying the day when men again will have to return to the earth, to the earth of life and God – "
Not bad for a young guy! That one-sentence, 105-word paragraph was penned by a newly-minted 25-year old American writer who entered it into his journal in June, 1947.
Incisive and prophetic, isn't it? There are not merely a few major issues in our present world that could be described as "smoking under the sun."
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Stan A. Carrizosa, president of COS, shares his final accomplishments before retirement
November 1, 2017
Stan A. Carrizosa has taken on many challenges in his career to better education in his community, and now he's ready to take on retirement.
"At the end of the night I'm tired, but when I see the pathways we've created it's worth being tired," said Carrizosa.
Carrizosa has been the Superintendent/President at College of the Sequoias the last six years. He has worked in education for the last 35 years and has always had a passion for being an administrator. However, after putting his life work into COS over the course of six years, he decided it's time to spend be with his family.
Carrizosa grew up in Dinuba, and after he graduated high school he attended College of the Canyons. After he finished his prerequisites he transferred to Northridge and got his degree in Physical education.
"I loved teaching and coaching but improving curriculum was important for me," said Carrizosa.
He decided he wanted to be pursue a career in administration, so he got his master's and licenses for administration.
Carrizosa first worked in Kings County, at the Hanford High west campus. Over the years, Carrizosa worked as a principal, superintendent and district superintendent in Dinuba and Visalia Unified school districts.
In 2012, he got the opportunity to be superintendent at COS, and expand his leadership at a college campus.
"It was an exciting new level of leadership, I used my experiences from my previous positions and it got me here," said Carrizosa.
When he started working at COS, the school was in a deep recession. Carrizosa had to deal with budget cuts, decline in enrollment and accreditation issues.
"It was a challenging time, we had to take resources from each campus while we went through this transition," he said.
While the college cut courses and summer school and lacked funds, Carrizosa refused to give up on COS.
"We had a commitment to our faculty and to meet our student's needs," said Carrizosa.
In a year, the board of trustees, faculty, staff and students came together to build a system. This system is the COS master plan: an annual report of the objectives and goals COS has met.
"It was a stressful time but it was worth it," he said.
In the next five years, COS opened the Hanford and Tulare Centers, making three campuses into one college. During this time, COS flourished again because enrollment and district budget increased.
"Having all three campuses up and running was great, the idea of the expansion was that we wanted students to be able to have the opportunity to go to school," he said. "Not everyone has access or transportation to get to Visalia, growing enrollment was a huge accomplishment."
In 2012, COS enrollment had lost over 5,000 students, and now it has almost increased to 20,000.
Another accomplishment that Carrizosa is proud of is hiring new faculty over the last five years. COS has been hiring more new staff members each year, last year they hired 28 new faculty.
"Hiring new faculty is a great feeling, it's part of something good," said Carrizosa.
Carrizosa expressed how all these accomplishments and getting COS back on track could not have been done without the help of his faculty.
His daughter Estee Carrizosa admires him because he has always been so hardworking.
"He is one of the most passionate and hardworking people I know, he's demonstrated intrinsic motivation to succeed," she said.
S. Carrizosa has worked endlessly to created new courses and programs for COS students. He is proud of the transfer center and the new pathway to law school unit course. If students are majoring in law, now they will have the opportunity to do 60 units pre-approved at COS that they can use to transfer.
"Education is a beautiful thing, it's not about the money it's about giving our students a better quality of life," said S. Carrizosa.
President Carrizosa has worked at COS for almost six years, but has decided to retire soon. His daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, and during that time S. Carrizosa realized it was time to focus on his family.
"My stars lined up everything has come full circle, I've been working for 35 years it's time," said president Carrizosa.
S. Carrizosa has enjoyed working with his faculty and everything they have accomplished together.
"I've learned so much in the last 6 years, I know the college will be secure and keep on flourishing," said S. Carrizosa.
As for retirement, he is excited for this new chapter in his life, and being able to spend time with his kids.
"I am excited for my dad's retirement because he has put so much of his life into his work. I look forward to seeing him explore other parts of himself that make him happy," said Estee Carrizosa.
President Carrizosa loves to cook on his free time and go to the movies with his family. He still enjoying his last year as president and excited for his last day on June 30, 2018.
"The harder I work, the luckier I get," he said.


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Under the composition levy scheme, a registered taxable person is qualified to pay, in lieu of tax payable by him, an amount calculated at such rate as may be prescribed by the proper officer of the Central or a State Government, but not less than 2.5% in case of a manufacturer and 1% in any other case of the turnover in a state during the year which means the minimum rate of tax payable by a manufacturer is 2.5% and 1% in any other case under composition levy.
Who are disqualified for Composition Levy:
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• Who makes any supply of goods which are not leviable to tax under this Act i.e. supplier of exempted goods.
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The first time Matthew Joseph heard the music from Hamilton proved life-changing.
He'd performed in school musicals, but his plan was to study math in university. When a friend insisted he listen to the groundbreaking Broadway musical's cast recording, Joseph had an epiphany.
"At that point, I made the decision that I had to pursue this," recalls the 21-year-old, now a third-year theatre student at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont.
Inspired by Ron Chernow's 2004 biography, Hamilton reimagines the tale of U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton as a mashup of hip hop, pop and R&B-influenced show tunes precisely crafted by creator Lin-Manuel Miranda — who also led the original production's cast of predominantly non-white actors portraying white historical American figures.
Five years since its debut, the phenomenon that is Hamilton shows no signs of slowing down, with its continued success changing attitudes and inspiring new voices in the wider theatre community.
Joseph's schoolmate Germaine Konji feels similarly about discovering the Tony, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize winning musical.
"I don't think I would be here pursuing this if I hadn't seen myself reflected there first," said Konji, now in her fourth year at Sheridan.
She appreciated how Miranda took preconceived notions about, and traditions of, musical theatre and "threw them in a melting pot" with hip hop movement, culture and rap, ultimately challenging "what we thought a musical is," said Konji.
The show opened Konji's mind to the out-of-the-box notion "to mess with what's been there before," the 21-year-old said.
She says previously she may have been "written out of those stories or I may not see myself in a history textbook." But Hamilton showed her there was no reason she should continue to be excluded.
Along with the ever-popular edition on Broadway, multiple incarnations of Hamilton are on the go in cities like London, San Francisco and — as part of a North American tour — in Toronto, where it kicked off a three-month run on Wednesday night.
Last week, Disney announced plans to release a film version in Oct. 2021, after having captured a performance by Miranda and his original Tony-winning cast in June 2016.
WATCH: Lin-Manuel Miranda's advice to aspiring theatre creators? Don't write the next Hamilton
Hamilton has been a game changer for the theatre world, according to Michael Rubinoff, producing artistic director of the Canadian Music Theatre Project, Sheridan's theatre incubator.
Surrounded by aspiring artists at Sheridan, Rubinoff says there's no question the musical has inspired a new generation of young people. It has "put the mirror up and shown that there is a place for students" from different backgrounds.
"Now we all have to take the responsibility within the community to continue that [momentum]… and show that you can have a lot of success if you broaden the scope of who you want to bring in to tell their stories.
It was generally believed in the theatre industry that diverse productions would not appeal to a mass audience; mainstream musical theatre productions that starred predominantly people of colour have been few and far between.
"I'm very aware as a white, privileged guy and as a gatekeeper … what is being developed and what might actually make it to the stage," added Rubinoff, who developed Canadian Broadway hit Come From Away with creators David Hein and Irene Sankoff.
Hamilton caused a seismic shift in the industry, he believes, because it showed how a musical created by a person of colour, starring a diverse cast and tackling a subject people might have considered musty, could be exciting, compelling and even commercially successful.
It's a "bold reminder that we need to engage writers, composers and lyricists from other communities and ask them about the stories that they want to share," Rubinoff said.
'An act of coming together'
Among those Miranda has inspired is Vancouver-based theatre artist Corey Payette, who created the 2017 musical Children of God, which delves into the painful history of Canada's residential school system and has been staged across the country.
Payette recalls repeatedly hearing the message that new shows from diverse creators were "riskier" for theatre companies because of a perception that they would only interest "niche" audiences.
"Hamilton has totally blown that away and made it where you can't use that as an excuse not to program diverse work anymore," said Payette, who is of Ojibway-Cree heritage.
A show like Hamilton — with "exceptional writing and creation… [and] just happens to also be diverse" — has inspired "an entire new generation of people to be brought into the theatre and to become theatre lovers," he said.
As he brought Children of God across Canada, Payette says he saw first-hand the powerful human connections and understanding that theatre can evoke in audiences, including in those whose perceptions were being challenged on stage.
"[People] were sharing with us how the show had shifted their perspectives and how it had given them a deeper understanding of this [Indigenous] history," he said.
"When you're experiencing a musical, you're joining. Your hearts are becoming in sync with the people around you. I think that it is an act of coming together. It is something that touches people very deeply…. That place is one that I think audiences are longing for," Payette said.
"That's what musicals do best."


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December 12, 2018 | The Toy Association has learned that the date of revocation for the Upholstered and Stuffed Articles regulation (Ontario Regulation 218/01) in Ontario, Canada has been finalized as July 1, 2019.
Initial implementation of the modernized rules was targeted for July 1, 2018 but was delayed in April. The Ontario government recently elected to remove the burdens the regulation placed on the toy industry by revoking it in its entirety.
Members are reminded that until the revocation date, the regulation remains in effect and manufacturers and retailers must comply with its current requirements for registration and labeling. In addition, similar requirements in Manitoba and Quebec remain in force, as do the stuffing material cleanliness requirements of the Toys Regulations under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act.


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A public agency reducing waste in Alameda County
Take a trip to the household hazardous waste drop-off center and see how easy it is to get rid of leftover toxic products.
We had a great time at the Livermore Lawn Conversion Party. It was not like any other lawn party - we converted a lawn into a garden using sheet mulch, all in one day!


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Will Kylie Name A Lip Kit After Kim?
Kylie Jenner's Lip Kits have moved from a simple launch of three matte nude and pink shades to a rather expansive range that includes everything from those nudes to the latest purple burgundy lippie called Kourt K. The newest lippie named after Jenner's sister Kourtney makes me wonder will Kylie name a Lip Kit after Kim? Kim Kardashian West may no longer be the most popular of the Kardashian and Jenner clans, but she's certainly the most well known. Some — including Kardashian herself — seem to see Jenner as the next in line for the social media throne, so it makes sense that a Kimmy Lip Kit could be on the way.
Another hint that Jenner could release a new Kim Kardashian-inspired Lip Kit? The fact that not only is there a Kourt K, but there's also a KoKo K. If you've ever watched an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashian, you've probably heard Khloe Kardashian referred to as either KoKo or Kokes. Khloe's nickname is how the KoKo K Lip Kit came to be. With Kourtney and Khloe already having Lip Kits, Kim has to be next right?
The question, though, is what would a Kim Kardashian Lip Kit look like? She's definitely one to experiment with her look, but I've got some ideas.
True Nude
Kim Kardashian is a nude-hued kind of gal. This true nude color is a definite option for her potential shade.
Kardashian doesn't always rock a deep lip, but the result is gorgeous! This oxblood color has no match in Kylie Jenner's Lip Kit collection, and that alone makes it a contender.
Kardashian definitely stays in the nude, but a peach-hued nude would definitely be a departure for the Kylie Lip Kits.
A Gloss
Hear me out. Kardashian almost always wears a gloss, and Jenner wants to expand her entire cosmetics line, so could the Kim Lip Kit be Kylie's first gloss? We'll have to wait and see.
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Consider a period of distribution (market topping process) such as 1987, 1999, 2007, 2011, etc. As an uptrend slowly ends and investors seek safety, they do so by moving their riskier holdings such as small cap stocks, into what is perceived to be safer large cap and blue-chip stocks. This is certainly a normal process and one that can't be challenged. However, the mere act of moving from small to large cap stocks causes the capitalization weighted (Nasdaq Composite Index, New York Stock Exchange Index, S&P 500) and price weighted (Dow Jones Industrial Average) to move higher simply because of the demand for large cap and blue chip issues. At one time I found that the top 10 issues based upon capitalization in the Nasdaq 100 accounted for about 47% of its movement. Breadth, on the other hand, begins to deteriorate from this action. It is said by Tom McClellan that breadth arrives at the party on time, but always leaves early. Another analogy is that the troops are no longer following the Generals.
Breadth data seems to not be consistent among the data providers. If you think about it, if a stock is up it is an advance for the day, so why is there a disparity? Some data services will not include all stocks on the exchange. They will eliminate preferred issues, warrants, rights, etc. This is fine as long as they tell you that is what they are doing. I use the breadth data provided by the Wall Street Journal and Barron's. This is the data that StockCharts.com uses.
At the beginning of this century, the number of interest sensitive issues on the New York Stock Exchange was increased so that they account for more than half of all the issues. These issues are preferred stocks, closed-end bond funds, electric utility stocks, to mention a few. Many analysts such as Sherman and Tom McClellan, Carl Swenlin, and Larry McMillan use common stocks only breadth indicators. Richard Russell refers to it as an operating company only index. Using stocks that have listed options available is another good way to avoid the interest sensitive issues, since most stocks that have listed options are common stocks. I'm not sure if the interest sensitive issues are a problem or not.
Each breadth indicator seems to have its benefits and its shortcomings. The fact that breadth measures the markets in a manner not possible with price is the key element in these conclusions. Breadth measures the movement of the market, its acceleration and deceleration. It is not controlled by General Electric, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, General Motors, etc.; any more than it is controlled by the smallest capitalized stock on the exchange.
Some indicators are better at Tops, Bottoms, and both; and at different times, but are only identified by Bottoms and/or Tops below. In my breadth book, great effort was made to determine if one appeared to be better at one or the other. If no difference could be ascertained, they were reported as being good for both Bottoms and Tops. Please keep in mind the nature of market bottoms versus market tops. Bottoms are generally sharp and quick and usually much easier to identify, whereas market tops are usually long periods of distribution where most market indices rotate through their peaks at different times. You will notice that considerably more indicators are noted as being good at Bottoms than at Tops. Add to that the subjective interpretation of the various indicators should be viewed as a beginning guide only.
Favorite Breadth Indicators
Here is a list of breadth indicators that I believe are good ones to follow. Some are for daily analysis and some are used merely to be kept aware of their indications. There are some decent breadth indicators that have made some very good market calls over the years – they are marked as awareness only below. I try to avoid noisy indicators that require too much interpretation and also ones that are very short term in nature.
Breadth Indicator When Used
Advance Decline Line long term and usually early
Advance Decline Line Normalized good breadth overbought oversold
Breadth Thrust awareness only
Eliades Sign of the Bear awareness only
New Highs New Lows Line long term trend
New Highs New Lows (Chart 7-17) intermediate trends
McClellan Oscillator short to intermediate
McClellan Summation with Miekka adj. longer term and market staying power
Moving Balance Indicator very good for bottoms (oversold)
Swenlin Breadth Momentum short term picture
Trend Exhaustion Index good for topping alert
Up Volume (smoothed) good for the beginning of market tops
WTrin10 short term overbought oversold
Zahorchak Method good for trend following
Zweig Up Volume Indicators awareness only
All of these indicators are available in my Market Breadth ChartPack including all the indicators in my book, The Complete Guide to Market Breadth indicators. And they are all available in StockCharts.com's symbol catalog. Here is the symbology:
!BI They all start this way; exclamation point followed by Breadth Indicator (BI).
Next is either NY for New York, NA for Nasdaq, or TO for Toronto.
Finally, in an attempt to help identify the indicator, for example the NYSE Breadth Thrust is:
If you enter !BI in the search you will see all of them. In order to see just the Nasdaq breadth indicators; enter !BINA.
Note: Tom McClellan wrote an entire chapter in my breadth book; which is worth the $19.99 price alone.
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Eddie Howe has praised his Bournemouth side's clinical edge during their 4-2 win over Leicester City at the Vitality Stadium.
Both sides headed into the game coming off the back of narrow defeats in their previous games, and the game began an open affair. However Ryan Fraser soon took centre stage, scoring twice in 20 minutes before Joshua King converted a penalty to send his side into the break 3-0 up.
Things went from bad to worse for the visitors when Wes Morgan was shown a second yellow card and was given his marching orders with 20 minutes left. Adam Smith made it 4-0 before the Foxes salvaged two late goals courtesy of James Maddison and Marc Albrighton, but they were merely consolation goals as Bournemouth took all three points.
Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, Howe was full of praise for his Bournemouth side and highlighted their clinical performance in front of goal, saying: "Leicester are a very good team and you could see that in stages of the game but we were clinical when the chances came.
"We were very effective in front of goal and bar the last part of the game I'm very happy. It's a good day for us. We go away with a very good result but also knowing that we still have got work to do and things to improve. That's a very healthy position to be in."
The win now moves Bournemouth up to fifth in the table having secured their third win of the season, and Howe went onto state how important the win will be for his team going forward.
He added: "I thought we scored some really good goals today. It was very even (in the first half). We had two good teams. It was a very open, quick game with plenty of transitions and counter-attacks from both teams. Thankfully for that first period we defended well and when we got our chances we took them.
"Today we knew it was a really important game. It's very easy to have a good start and then not back that up but today was a big game especially with the games to come. We now go to Burnley and we know how tough that is going to be so we're in good shape and very positive."
The Cherries will be looking to make it back-to-back wins for the second time this season when they travel to Burnley on Saturday.


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Democrats to Announce Formal Impeachment Inquiry of President Donald Trump
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she ordered an impeachment inquiry Tuesday against President Donald Trump. The decision follows concerning reports that the president may have threatened to cut off aid to Ukraine unless officials from the country investigated the son of Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden. In the wake of the allegations, a whistleblower in the intelligence community filed a complaint about the president, but the office of the director of national intelligence has refused to disclose the complaint to Congress.
Why now? Calling it a "moment of truth," Pelosi told her caucus that the allegation against Trump is a matter of national security.


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ALEP 2: There and Back Again – September 2011, Shaker Village Kentucky
Message board member, WhiteLadyEowyn sent us this announcement: Greetings Hobbits and other friends! Did you attend A Long-expected Party last September in Kentucky? Do you wish you had? Do you want to go "There and Back Again"? Well, here is your chance! The organizers of last year's events are just crazy enough to give it another go! The dates are confirmed, September 28th through October 1st, 2011, Wednesday through Sunday. The website is in progress, so I have no links to give you as of yet. The official annoucement was made at DragonCon in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday night. Marc Gunn, Celtic musician and past Party guest, was so excited that he immediately Tweeted the news to those that follow his blog. We hope to see you all there!Posted in Events, Fans, Meet Ups, Other Events on September 11, 2009 by Altaira


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Man killed and three others injured in multi-pile up
A 54-year-old man has been arrested and charged following yesterday's fatality on the Pacific Highway near Nerong.
The man was arrested at the scene and taken to Forster Police Station and charged with dangerous driving occasioning death, five counts of cause bodily harm by misconduct - in charge of motor vehicle and negligent driving occasioning death.
More charges are expected to be laid
Just before 2pm Sunday, April 14 emergency services were called to a multi-vehicle crash on the Pacific Highway, Nerong.
A Ford Falcon GT, driven by a 54-year-old Minmi man, a Subaru Forester, being driven by a 23-year-old Blackalls Park man and with a 26-year-old Kilaben Bay male passenger, and Hyundai Terracan, driven by a 71-year-old Port Macquarie man and three passengers, aged 70, 10, and 8, were all involved in the horrific accident.
The 23-year-old driver of the Subaru Forester died at the scene.
All other occupants suffered various injuries, ranging from minor to serious and were taken to separate hospitals for treatment.
None of their injuries are considered to be life threatening.
Officers from Manning Great Lakes Police District, with assistance from the Metropolitan Crash Investigation Unit attended and established a crime scene.
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Superbowl LII was a great game. It kept us on the edge of our seats, wondering who would be this year's winner. When the Eagles won the game, it was game on at Atlas Embroidery and Screen Printing, and then our production team got busy!
The local news channels of ABC and NBC (Ft. Lauderdale) came by to film our production crew. It was quite an event, with 79 employees running all presses at a rate of better than 400 shirts per hour from the end of the Game Sunday Night until well into Monday Afternoon.
The local news media interviewed Adam Cohen, Executive Vice President at Atlas Embroidery, and shot footage of the entire operation as Employees Printed the Officially Licensed Eagles Super Bowl LII Champs Tees for Fanatics for whom Atlas serves as a production partner!
How do you keep a crew of 79 employees going, all night long? Adam Cohen commented "Formula is plenty of Gatorade, Red Bull, prepared food for a quick middle of the night meal and readily available snacks to keep everyone burning the Midnight oil".
"Our production crew is well-seasoned at working the extended hours required of us to serve as the production partner of such prestigious companies as Fanatics. All know that each and every "Hot Market" (Superbowl, World Series, NBA Championship, etc…) production opportunity puts us in the Spotlight and all show serious pride in being counted on to perform at the highest level for such High-Profile Events.
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There are recipes shared by so many cultures that they must really have something very special: this is precisely the case of sarma, the Turkish, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Romanian, Greek stuffed cabbage or sometimes dolmas.
Serbs are true gourmets who love to cook and eat. The most conventional wisdom shared by the Serbs is that it is better to eat very well because "the strength passes through the mouth".
How to make sour cabbage
One of the most used ingredients of Serbian cuisine, especially in winter, is sour cabbage, a cabbage in brine, very similar to German sauerkraut and called, in the local language, kiseli kupus.
It is obtained by fermenting the cabbage, without any type of vinegar. For the preparation, the whole cabbage is left to rest in a solution of water and salt, under the pressure of a weight, inside barrels of clay preferably, which nowadays replaces the oldest wood barrels. Cabbage is stored in a cool place, at a maximum temperature of 68 F.
It is very important to put enough weight to squeeze the cabbage to prevent it from rising to the surface. Indeed, any ingredient that rises to the surface creates mold when in contact with air. After about a month, you will get a sour cabbage, a source that is very rich in fiber and vitamin C.
What is sarma?
The word sarma derives from Turkish sarmak meaning "to roll". Sarma (in Serbian, the dish is singular) is the king of Serbian cuisine. The name is synonymous with sour cabbage: sarma prepared with the brined cabbage is the most popular recipe, but it can also be prepared with vine leaves, or zelje, a plant that bears several names such as rumex patientia, patience dock, garden patience, herb patience, or monk's rhubarb.
Stuffed cabbage around the world
Stuffed cabbage is present in Polish, Russian, French, German, Ukrainian, Austrian, Armenian, Azeri, Chilean, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Chinese, Korean, Croatian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Moldavian, Romanian, Slovak, Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, Vietnamese, Iraqi, Turkish, and of course, Serbian cuisine.
Although there are a lot of stuffed cabbage recipes, here are some examples:
Sarmale is the name of the stuffed cabbage dish of the Romanian cuisine. This recipe is traditional for Christmas and New Year's meals, weddings and baptisms. The cabbage is stuffed with minced pork and rice mixed with vegetables, caramelized onions, mushrooms and herbs such as savory or dill.
In Croatia, stuffed cabbage is a staple. The cabbage is stuffed with smoked and chopped pork, and it is a traditional dish at Christmas.
In Russia, it is called goloubtsy (голубцы), and is stuffed with a mixture of pork and rice.
The Hungarian version of stuffed cabbage, served on New Year's Day, is called töltött káposzta. The cabbage, accompanied by fresh cream, is stuffed with minced pork, paprika and ground pepper.
In Poland, you can taste golabki. The cabbage is stuffed with beef or pork, onion, tomato, rice and all seasoned with various spices.
In Ukraine, stuffed cabbage is called holoubtsi. It is prepared either with fresh cabbage leaves or with brined cabbage leaves stuffed with pork or beef, fish, or rice, buckwheat or even with millet.
Kohlroulade is the stuffed cabbage of German and Austrian cuisine. Also known as Kohlrollen, Kohlrouladen or Krautwickel, it is stuffed with mixed minced meat, usually pork and beef.
The Egyptians call stuffed cabbage maḥshī kromb or maḥshī koronb (محشي كرمب). No cabbage in brine for this recipe. The leaves are fresh and barely pre-cooked. The stuffing is a mixture of rice, onion, tomato, herbs and spices (usually mint, dill and cumin).
The Swedish version of stuffed cabbage is called kåldolmar. The cabbage leaves are stuffed with minced pork and rice. Kåldolmar are also popular in Denmark and Finland where they are called kaalikääryle.
On the French side, there are different regional varieties of stuffed cabbage:
– In Poitou-Charente, stuffed cabbage is slightly different and incorporates Cognac and black pepper.
– In Brittany, the bardatte is a cabbage stuffed with rabbit meat or hare, with herbs. And it is served with quails and chestnuts.
– In Provence and Languedoc, cabbage is stuffed with meat and is called lou fassum.
– In the Massif Central, people do things in reversed order, it is the meat that is stuffed with cabbage and this dish is called maôche.
In Serbia, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Ukraine, sarma is a must-have for Christmas Eve meals and Easter meals. Sarma is also the irreplaceable dish for the Eid festival among Bosnian, Albanian and Turkish Muslims. And, in all these countries, sarma is one of the main dishes during wedding ceremonies.
This dish was just delicious. I had never eaten stuffed cabbage rolls using pickled cabbage and I must say that it makes a big difference!
- 1 large fermented cabbage (see recipe below)
- ½ lb smoked bacon
- 1 lb smoked pork ribs (or smoked beef)
- 2 lb ground meat (pork, veal, beef, or mixed)
- 2 onions , chopped
- 1½ cup rice
- 2 tablespoons paprika
- 4 bay leaves
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1 whole cabbage
- Kosher salt (non-iodized *)
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns
- 2 cloves garlic , halved
- Water
- * It is important that the salt is not iodized as iodine prevents bacteria fermentation that is necessary for this recipe
- Remove the fermented cabbage leaves one by one, being careful to tear them as little as possible.
- If one or more leaves are torn (especially at first), it does not matter, keep them as they will be used later. The tiny leaves at the end are useful too, so do not throw them away.
- Wash the leaves, then soak in cold water. This helps the cabbage reject the excess salt and acidity.
- In a skillet, saute onions, a tablespoon of sweet paprika and add the bacon.
- When they are nicely browned, add the meat, lots of freshly ground pepper and a little salt.
- After a few minutes, when the meat is colored, add the rice. Stir well. Remove the stuffing from the heat.
- Line a cast iron pot with the small cabbage leaves.
- Add a few pieces of ribs or smoked meat. You will add them between every layer.
- On each cabbage leaf, place one to two tablespoons of filling (depending on the size of the leaf), then roll so as to form a small cushion.
- Carefully place the stuffed cabbage down in the pan.
- Operate in the same way with the remaining leaves.
- After the first layer, put two bay leaves, a few other pieces of meat, sprinkle with a little paprika and continue to place the stuffed cabbage, doing the same thing every subsequent stage.
- Cover the sarmas with the large torn cabbage leaves that were previously reserved.
- Cover with water. Cook over medium heat until boiling, then reduce heat to low.
- Sarmas get their unique taste with a long cooking time. Simmer at least for 3 hours, or more if you can. Sometimes, sarmas are cooked at least for an entire afternoon or night.
- Sarmas are cooked when the top leaves become almost transparent.
- Serve sarmas hot in a deeper dish, with the sauce and bits of dried meat or ribs that were cooked with them.
Prepare the brine by mixing hot water with salt in these proportions: 33 grams of salt for 4 cups (1l) of water.
- Rinse a large bowl, ideally clay or glass with boiling water. Place the whole cabbage if possible, or alternatively, if the opening of the container is not large enough, place one leaf at a time, ensuring that they remain intact.
- Cover with brine. Add the garlic, bay leaves and peppercorns.
- The brine must completely cover the cabbage. Cabbage tend to rise to the surface, so place a large stone or a wooden or ceramic object at the top that is heavy enough to prevent the ingredients from coming back to the surface and be in contact with the air, creating mildew.
- Close the container, making sure there is enough air above the brine. Indeed, the fermentation will release gas, so it will need some space to release.
- Place a towel on the container if the container is transparent (glass) as the preparation should not be in contact with light.
Ideally, you should leave at room temperature (70F/20C). At this temperature, the fermentation will be optimal at 4-5 weeks. If the temperature is lower, the fermentation will take longer.


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On 20 June, the Maritime and Port Authority of
Singapore (MPA) announced
that it will be embarking on several new initiatives as part of continued
efforts to enhance safety at sea, especially in the Port of Singapore.
To capture vessel movements more efficiently and accurately,
MPA will upgrade the Vessel Traffic Information System (VTIS) this year. This
includes improvements to the resolution of CCTV and video analytics
capabilities, and expansion of the data bandwidth between the VTIS and radar
stations to enhance situational awareness through ensuring high resolution
radar plots.
To facilitate real-time data transfer between shore and
ships in the port, MPA will be investing $500,000 in the development of the VHF
Data Exchange System (VDES) over the next three years. This is part of the Next
Generation Vessel Traffic Management System R&D project at the MPA
Living Lab which provides a technology partnership platform that
technology providers and industry partners can plug into for the co-development
and piloting of innovations.
With greater data exchange between shore and ships,
predictive analysis relating to navigational safety such as traffic hotspots
and collision risks could be made at shore and shared with ships. The VDES is
currently being developed and prototyped. Field trials will be carried out
under the MPA Living Lab from the second half of this year across a range of
e-Navigation and digital applications.
At the official opening of the International Safety@Sea Conference
at the Marina Mandarin Hotel, Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Transport
& Ministry of Health, Dr Lam Pin Min, also announced that a new maritime
research Centre of Excellence in Maritime Safety (CEMS) will be set up by Singapore
Maritime Institute and Singapore Polytechnic to enhance
navigational safety.
Singapore Polytechnic's CEMS will focus on research and
innovations that enhance navigational safety. It will contribute to the
training and development of future-ready seafarers, through the use of emerging
digital technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality.
Organised by MPA, the third International Safety@Sea Conference
was held as part of the International Safety@Sea Week. Over 250
international maritime professionals attended the two-day conference, themed
Towards Safer Navigation – Lessons, Insights and Trends, to share best
practices, exchange ideas and collaborate to enhance maritime safety.
MPA organises the Safety@Sea Week annually to
enhance maritime safety by raising safety awareness and instilling a
safety-first culture. This year's programme runs from 18 to 22 June 2018. In
addition to the conference, there are also pre- and post-conference workshops
and industry visits as part of the week of activities.