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The Revolution Devoured Its Own
- By Richard Bernstein
- Aug. 22 1998 00:00
One of the more noteworthy of the many documents that have poured out of the opened archives of the former Soviet Union is How It All Began, an autobiography in the form of a novel by Nikolai Bukharin, generally regarded as the most prominent of the Bolshevik leaders killed in the Stalinist purges of 1937 and 1938.
During his months in prison, Bukharin, who had fallen afoul of Stalin in 1929 and was stripped of his power then, wrote four books, including a philosophical work and "How It All Began,'' a portrait of a sensitive young son of the lower middle class and his acquisition of a political conscience. The truth is that "How It All Began,'' newly translated from the Russian by George Shriver, is more important for its historical than its literary value. That does not mean that it has no literary value. Bukharin, writing in his cell at night after all-day interrogations by the Stalinist police, produced a rich portrait of Russian life at the end of the 19th century. It is etched in nostalgia for youthful days in the countryside but also replete with terse descriptions of the tawdriness, the poverty, the brutishness of life under the tsars.
Bukharin's book was published in Moscow in 1994, 56 years after his death. It is half essay, half novel, and had it been written by an unknown, it would certainly not figure very prominently as literature today. It is important for the glimpse it gives into the mind of a central figure of the Russian Revolution, the youngest of the circle around Lenin, who called Bukharin "the golden boy of the revolution.''
And the book is important because of the circumstances of its composition, since Bukharin was aware as he wrote that his days were numbered. What does one say in such a condition? What does one remember? In his informative introduction, Stephen Cohen argues that Bukharin wanted to demonstrate that the revolution gone mad had originated in the best impulses of human nature and among the best and most moral people of old Russia.
"He wanted to leave behind a personal testimony of how it had really been,'' Cohen writes, "a testament to the idealism that had led them as young students to become Marxist radicals in tsarist Russia -- and how, he still hoped, it might be.''
The "them'' in Cohen's explanation, some pictured fictionally in Bukharin's book, are his many contemporaries who were imprisoned, tortured, forced to give false testimony against one another and then murdered in Stalin's camps. Bukharin himself was one of 21 defendants in the most spectacular of the Moscow show trials to take place in 1938, an 11-day affair that presented the confounding spectacle of several old Bolsheviks readily confessing to transparently false charges.
Cohen, who published a biography of Bukharin in 1973, maintains in his introduction that, if you read between the lines, Bukharin, using "double talk, code words, evasion and digressions,'' actually strove to show that "the criminal accusations were really political falsifications.''
Bukharin's novel is not easy to interpret. Certainly Cohen is correct to see it as an attempt to remember the idealism of the early revolutionaries. But it was written by a man who, while eventually an opponent of Stalin, was his political ally for several years in the 1920s. Bukharin also served the revolution faithfully after Lenin had turned it into a police state.
Bukharin's status as one of Stalin's victims has given him a martyr's aura, but his novel provides no apology or regret at having taken the politically radical course, no rueful reflection on the waywardness of youthful idealism. Then again, Bukharin was writing under the eyes of Stalin's guards, and he was sending letters to the dictator asking him to let his book be published. Perhaps under other circumstances, his book would have struck a more disillusioned, more tragic tone, but this we will never know.
The novel tells the story of Nikolai Ivanovich Petrov, nicknamed Kolya and quite clearly a stand-in for Bukharin himself, following him from his early childhood in the late 1880s to his adolescence in 1902. The earlier chapters especially are a reminiscence of a family of minor intellectuals who run into hard times. Bukharin describes the upper-class Moscow neighborhood of Bolshaya Ordynka and the Ordynka Street School where his father taught. Quickly, he describes contrasting neighborhoods "where things were dirty, loud, drunken and poor,'' the first of numerous descriptions of the desperate and harsh side of Russia.
Kolya's father, forced to leave the school, takes a job as a civil servant in a provincial town in Bessarabia, where Kolya witnesses both rural poverty and ferocious anti-Semitism. He portrays the small-town Jews as "unfortunate paupers, with eyes hollowed out by trachoma, with bodies devoured by fleas,'' who "lived on whatever sorry crusts they could get.''
The "chinovniks," the government officials, "were all Russians, and usually Russians of a rather specific kind: thick-headed, arrogant, and "patriotic," the kind who threw the word Yid around contemptuously and scorned the Moldavians too.'' (Bessarabia had a large Moldavian minority.)
Kolya, a precocious atheist, develops "a love for the people of the 'lower orders' of society as well as a kind of nihilism regarding all the conventions of the life of the upper echelons.'' Kolya and his friends, who read voluminously and talk ceaselessly, hear about what Bukharin calls "the gleaming weapons of Marxism, that highest product of the revolutionary side of Western European development.'' Eventually, in the final chapters, they are reading Lenin and engaging in heated Marxist ideological debates.
Did Bukharin write that politically correct line about "the gleaming weapons of Marxism'' in the hopes that his book would be published? That is possible.
But more likely, he remained a believer in revolutionary Marxism even inside a Marxist prison and about to be executed by Marxist executioners. His novel is poignant and heart-rending precisely because it shows the terrible power of the idea that dominated the mind of a brilliant and idealistic generation that perished in its service.
"How It All Began" by Nikolai Bukharin. Columbia University Press. 345 pages, $28.95.


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If you thought Felix and Oscar were an odd couple, try Viv and Hans.
As a long-time Rev attendee I sometimes see patterns and recurring themes in the programme. It's quite likely that these patterns exist nowhere outside my own head. Nevertheless I can't help saying this one reminds me of that one. Finding Vivian Maier brought to mind In the Realms of the Unreal, which screened at Revelation about ten years ago. In the Realms was an exploration of the life and works of Henry Darger, a recluse who devoted his private hours to a fantasy tale that ran for more than 15,000 pages. Darger is sometimes described as an outsider artist – a title which also suits Maier. Their lives have unusual parallels. Darger was a janitor in a hospital; Maier worked for most of her life as a nanny and a housekeeper. Both were posthumously discovered almost by accident as artists with a unique eye; they were also both obsessive hoarders with scratchy personalities. And while it's just coincidence, it does bring on the Twilight Zone music to observe that Darger named the heroines of his huge story… The Vivian Girls.
Maier almost lived long enough to receive the recognition she deserved. She was still alive when John Maloof bought a box of her negatives at auction in 2007. But Maloof had very few clues about her identity, and in the end his search ended in 2009 with Vivian's death notice.
Vivian Maier's photos are now available at vivianmaier.com. Here's a selection of Vivian's photos, accompanied by a narration by a fictional Vivian.
In terms of his vision, Hans Rudi Giger was the outsider artist without equal. His early work was so far from the mainstream that galleries had to wipe the spit of disgusted passersby from their windows. Then a movie called Alien happened, and the outcast became the admired visionary.
Giger was admired for his unique vision and, I would venture, for his courage in putting it on canvas for all the human race to see. Giger's work came from a dimension where the organic and the mechanical blended, with results that were both alluring and repellent.
Dark Star spends a lot of time with Giger in his home. He was clearly not well during the filming, hobbling around most of the time with the help of a cane. This house seems to be deep in a forest, until the camera pulls back and shows a modern metropolis surrounding it on all sides. Many of Giger's friends and business partners are interviewed. There is footage of an old interview with Giger's parents too. Though they appear stereotypical European bourgeois, middle-class and conservative, they speak of their son with immense pride. Hans Ruedi was anything but the black sheep of the family.
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On 27 November 2018, Dak Nong Provincial People's Committee held press conference to announce information on the 1st cultural festival on Vietnamese brocade and the conference on investment promotion soon, held in Dak Nong at the year end
Showcase of brocade applied fashion at the Press Conference
Accordingly, the festival is scheduled to take place from 28 to 30 December 2018 at the Floating island of the Central lake in Gia Nghia town of Dak Nong province. The festival features the following events: The cultural space for brocace and culinary; openimh ceremony of the festival; workshop on Vietnamese Brocade culture; festival on the street; showcase of brocade applied fashions; closing ceremony of the festival.
The festival is one of the events held to celebrate the 15 aniversary of the province's establishment. Besides, it aims to preserve and promote the patterns as well as traditional costumes of the ethnic minorities all over the country as a whole and of Dak Nong in particular.
By organizing the festival, the province also aims to introduce and showcase its potential and advantages for the development of tourism as well as cultural herritage value of its ethnic groups as parts of innovation, intergration and development tasks.
Another event also announced at the Press conference is the Conference on investment peromotion of Dak Nong in 2018, scheduled to be hold in the afernoon of 28 December 2018. This is also an event inside the framework of the festival.
The agenda of the Conference includes Presentations delivered by big economic organizations on the objective, diriection and stratergy for cooperation and stratergy for calling investment; the handing down of investment certificates to enterprises, signing of MOU on investment cooperation, signing of MOU on capital sponsor...
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Seriously, who voted for this dipshit with multiple bankruptcies and now has brought us to a trade war with China?
Who, in God's Name, was stupid enough to fall for his lies? Don't you remember when Thomas Jefferson wrote to Horatio Gates Spafford on March 17, 1814:
"but merchants have no country. the mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. in every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. he is always in alliance with the Despot abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. it is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them: and to effect this they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man, into mystery & jargon unintelligible to all mankind & therefore the safer engine for their purposes."
So much for the Christian Right, huh?
Let it be known that President Jefferson was not a Christian, but a Deist-which puts a racist's unfounded bitching about President Obama's beliefs right down the toilet, because Obama is a Christian, while Jefferson was not.
It is this columnist's conclusion that anyone who voted for this moron should never be allowed to vote again, as he said: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-king-of-debt-224642
If you are one of those who sees no difference between the two major political parties, I pray to God you used to work at Harley-Davidson or Carrier. It would be even better if you're under the age of thirty and you are saddled with college debt-from which you will never recover.
It serves you right for not casting your vote in favor of Hillary Clinton in 2016.
No difference between the two parties my unwiped ass, as the past two years have proven that there are major differences between the two parties.
One wants to educate, the other wants to annihilate, and it's too bad the middle class can't figure it out, but I really don't care about that anymore. The only people I care to save are the ones you left behind. Guess what's next?
Deuteronomy 6:9-11
"9Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. 10And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you— a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build, 11with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied."
And you conservatives say we have to work for everything we get! Ha! Not after the way you treated the developmentally disabled and certainly not after you voted for Donald Trump.
As for you kids who think there's no difference, look at what is happening to you. You can't afford your own apartment, can you? Well, unless you vote Democratic, you won't even be able to afford to live in an alley.


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The 80th anniversary rides are planned for Sunday 23rd September 2018 from the Rugby club.
Rides of 80 miles and 80 km will be run followed by a BBQ at the Rugby club.
This is the 80 mile route using Longnor for café stop. https://www.strava.com/routes/14410788 Start 8:30
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Agrostis aculeata is a species of Crypsis.
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It's getting harder and harder to get attention these days.
We're all inundated with marketing messages, social updates, email and even boatloads of "snail mail." We're growing weary and cynical. Daily news of corporate blunders and celebrity missteps aren't helping matters either.
But we do still pay attention to people who matter to us. We do still listen, and more and more, we take their opinions and advice to heart. Most of us check with friends or family, before making purchases or taking action. Many of us read online reviews and search social networks for advice and recommendations.
And sometimes the people that matter to us, that we consider influential, are people we've never met face-to-face. "They are people who have established credibility and influence over an audience. By virtue of their reliability and authenticity, they can convince their audience about what they endorse," says Andrew Cravenho, CEO of cbacfunding.com, in a post for MarketingProfs.
Enter influencer relations, a part of niche public relations that grows in value and importance every day.
What Is Influencer Relations?
Simply put, the work involved in managing the development of relationships, with those deemed influential, for marketing or public relations campaigns. Influencers can be bloggers, or journalists, celebrities or just people who are highly regarded in our social circles, marketplaces or industries.
Influence campaigns are being used to do everything from increasing sales to public education campaigns, event promotions, fundraising, new product introductions and reputation management.
Public relations has always been about building and maintaining relationships. Influencer relations programs channel relationship building for specific purposes, ideally, clear cut goals, objectives, and deliverables.
As in the development of any relationship, influencer relations programs take time, organization, sincerity and a lot of effort. As our world continues to evolve, with new channels of communications, technologies and consumer demands, the practice of influencer relations should as well.
"We still tend to define influencers in 'traditional' terms and influencer relationships as largely tactical and temporary," says Laura Ciocia, Director of Media & Engagement for W20 Group. "It's as if we settled into early 2.0 era definitions of what influencer marketing encompasses, ignoring all of the external shifts that are challenging and reshaping these notions."
According to Laura, the change must come in seeing influencers as partners in business growth instead of elements, however valuable, in a campaign. With this mindset, we must view building relationships with influencers as extending beyond a single campaign or initiative.
Influencer relations campaigns are often designed with short timelines built to support specific campaigns. For the most part, the relationships you build can and should be nurtured to maintain long-term relationships.
"Having quality influencers in your back pocket can be great when you need to execute crisis management, when you have a tight turnaround for an Influencer program or when you simply need someone you can trust," says Robin Shroyer of Ignite Social Media.
Building Long-Term Influencer Relationships
So how do we do this?
The same way we build any other relationship. Only more so.
"The key to unlocking powerful, lasting influencer relationships is consistent one-on-one communication; two-way conversations interspersed with the occasional push of some valuable, relevant information.," says Ed Schauweker, Principal, of AVID Public Relations™. "But you can't stop there. Influencers don't want to just share their insights. They want to see that your company's behavior is modified and improved by their insights and counsel."
"So, leveraging automated tools to help find the right influencers can be good. Automated measurement tools can be very beneficial," adds, Schauweker. "But, to be effective, make sure your communication with influencers is consistent, one-to-one, two-way and authentic."
Where to start?
Begin by getting to know your influencers, which means paying attention to what they do. Read their articles, posts, and updates, listen to their podcasts and interviews. Watch their videos, observe their updates and notice who they pay attention to and what they view as important. Comment on their updates and shares, but do it sincerely.
Start to get to know them the way you would someone you'd just met at a networking event or cocktail party. Be genuine. Then, at the conclusion of your campaign, practice these six steps to take those budding short term relationships into something long lasting and enduring.
1. Thank Them
It seems obvious, doesn't it? And yet, we can forget to say thank you.
Send them a quick thank you via email. Write your influencers a short, hand-written note of thanks (this tactic is even more valuable today since few of us get hand-written anything anymore, so you'll stand out in the crowd.) Just make sure to communicate your gratitude, simply but sincerely.
2. Think Long Term
Building a long-term relationship means investing your time, attention and interest in the other person. Communication is essential, and that often means listening more than talking and looking at things from your influencer's perspective. Be careful not to be seen as only making contact when you want something from an influencer.
"Nobody wants to be recalled only when they need something. You'd be quick to dismiss that kind of relationship in your personal life, so why shouldn't the same apply in business," Laura Ciocia says.
She advocates finding opportunities to invest in what's important to your influencers.
3. Deliver Value
Again, look at things from your influencer's perspective. What do they view as valuable? Can you introduce them to people within your network? Can you offer them other projects?
As you get to know your influencers over time, you'll discover opportunities to serve as a resource and deliver value.
4. Put in the Time
In most cases, you can't get to know someone in a few moments. While there are a few exceptions to this, most relationships take time to develop. Putting in the time, on a regular basis is an essential part of taking a budding relationship from initial contact and campaign participation to a longer-term business friendship.
You may find it helpful to set up a system of tracking so you can remember when you last checked in with your influencer and what you heard them say. Be willing to invest your time in them.
5. Share
Most of us have networks of people with whom we share content, ideas, and conversations. Use your networks, and those of your company or organization, to help your influencers grow their own. Share, where appropriate, the content they create and help them build new audiences.
6. Meet Face-to-Face
When possible, meet your influencers in person. Face-to-face conversations offline are invaluable and can be helpful in taking a cordial business relationship to the level of friendship.
Take advantage of industry events or any travel that takes you to their part of the world, to set up a meeting. No matter how short, those face-to-face meetings help build influencer relationships for longer-term friendships.
"If you conduct influencer relations appropriately, a large volume of the relationships should blossom into true friendships," says Jay Swansson, co-founder of content marketing platform ClearVoice.com. "Congratulate them on wins, pick up the phone and check in with them, thank them for their time, buy them a drink at the next conference. Your relationships with influencers shouldn't be kindled only when you need them."
A version of this post was first published on Cision.com.
Image: Sean MacEntee, Iain Farrell, Anne Adrian, Alan Levine (Creative Commons)


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Description of problem:
Xterm closes when outputing weird characters such as ones generated from
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat /dev/random
Actual results:
xterm crashes. Running xterm from another xterm in the foreground produces the
following when it crashes.
xterm: warning, error event received:
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 77 (X_ImageText16)
Serial number of failed request: 299
Current serial number in output stream: 761
Expected results:
Random characters
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Also happens when viewing certain pages in lynx, when viewing ALL manpages, and
using mutt in screen.
Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it.
Is this on a xinerama setup? Any resource settings for xterm? Which video driver
is used?
It would help to have a non-random set of data which breaks it,
since the cause would be some specific code sequence.
Can you please try xterm-225-1.fc6 from FC6 updates testing repository?
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<form> tag are used to making forms on web pages. These forms are used to interact directly with users. Its elements are different types of input, like text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, submit buttons and more. Attributes of these <form> tag are action, method, name, class, id, etc. The <input> tag can be displayed in many ways, depending on the type attribute.
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In HTML page comments begins with "<!–" and ends with "–>."
Image map lets the user link to many different web pages using a single image. We can define shapes in pictures that we want to make part of an image mapping. It is the process of establishing unique ways inside a photo and links it to different destinations.
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Scene 1
One-hour call backstage at the Westbeth Theater. Eight actors from the Tweed
Fractured Classicks Series sit at mirrors in their communal dressing room making up for tonight's performance of 'Imitation of Imitation of Life,' director Kevin Malony's shrewd, arch, sidesplitting burlesque of a classic Lana Turner B-movie weepie about ruthless ambition, demented mother love, and the anguish of racial 'passing.' Cast:
John Epperson a/k/a Lypsinka, Flotilla DeBarge, Jackie Hoffman, Jodi Lennon, Flloyd, Brenda Bergman, Mark Gentsch, Steve Hasley. Plus Dot the dog.
JACKIE HOFFMAN (rubber-faced, rubber-voiced actor-comedian, ex-Second City; ex-cabaret; ex-one-woman shows during 15-year-career Off-Off), applying Tan Number 2 makeup for her role as Flotilla DeBarge's "colored" daughter: "I'm a Queens girl originally—Bayside, yeshivas, but you could never tell. I went to Tisch School of the Arts, then I worked at Second City in Chicago for eight years—we wrote all our own material in that joint—and I've worked with Amy and David Sedaris, won best actress in a revue, closed the last weekend at Eighty–Eight's, did Tweed's Bad Seedling and The Children's Hour with Lypsinka and Charles Busch, so you can see I've worked with drag queens and the odd diva before. Not that it's a problem. I can handle it. I can be as big a bitch as anyone."
LYPSINKA (legendary drag performance artist)—wigless, wearing kimono and down booties: "How many hours of my life have I spent getting in and out of makeup? I don't even want to think about it. It's too depressing."
LOUIS BRAUN (makeup artist)—applying two-inch false eyelashes to Lypsinka: "This is a very natural, unconstructed look."
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "Totally natural, honey. It's Cover Girl for day. The thing about Lypsinka getting into makeup is, it's not like if you blink you miss it. If you took a three-hour nap maybe you might miss it."
LYPSINKA: "I'm trying to become an alluring creature, darling. Did you ever see the Howard Stern where they put a hidden camera behind the makeup mirror when Zsa Zsa Gabor was on? They sent in the guy who stutters and he said, 'M-m-m-miss G-g-g-gabor, I j-j-j-ust want to know what you need.' She said, 'I vant to be lit and I vant to be lit vell!' Then they sent in someone else who asked the same question and she said, 'I vant to be lit and I vant to be lit vell!' Finally they sent in the wardrobe assistant, who was dragging the dress on the floor, and Zsa Zsa lost it. They got the whole thing on camera. But there was nothing she could do. She'd signed a release."
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "Louis is John's personal makeup artist. But he takes pity on the rest of us."
LOUIS BRAUN: "For Jackie, I use a tan foundation to get that light ethnic thing happening."
LYPSINKA: "It's very Ava Gardner in Show Boat—light Egyptian."
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "Yeah, my character's a mulatto—Mint Mulatto by Pepperidge Farm. Hey, Louis, have you seen my pickaninny wig?"
LYPSINKA: "Louis is makeup, honey."
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "Oh, sorry. Louis is the face homo. I want my wig homo. Where's Jeremy?"
LYPSINKA: "Did anyone notice that the follow spot didn't work on me last night? And Jackie, your mother got up and put on her coat during my curtain speech."
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "What curtain speech?"
LYPSINKA: "The one where I mention that we've added a performance."
FLOTILLA DEBARGE: "Is that what that was? Then, honey, tonight I'm gonna make a curtain speech for Black History Month."
Half–hour call.
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "Look at these flowers that just arrived for Jodi and John and Steve."
JODI LENNON: "Who are they from?"
LYPSINKA: "The people we made that movie, The Finger Lakes, for."
JODI LENNON, opening plastic Hefty bag filled with lilies and roses: "They're beautiful."
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "We don't get any flowers."
LYPSINKA: "They're for the people who were in the movie."
JACKIE HOFFMAN, stage whispering to visitor: "Just put down that the black family didn't get any flowers."
LYPSINKA: "Hon, just enjoy the flow and don't be so bitter."
Fifteen-minute call.
LYPSINKA: ''When I started out back in the East Village, at the Pyramid, I didn't know exactly what it was that I was doing. The whole lip-synching thing was postmodern, but I didn't know what that meant. I was doing it to be what I thought was glamorous. Eventually, when my own psychotherapy kicked in, the Lypsinka character got more theatrically evolved. You know, drag is a trap and lip-synching is a trap within a trap. I used to go to parties and people would not think I could say anything. They thought I couldn't talk without a tape. So I've changed. I figured I had to start talking. I also learned what postmodern meant."
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "The real challenge here is being as broad as I am comedically and keeping the moment real. That and winning the audience over to a biological girl."
FLOTILLA DEBARGE: "Honey, is that what you are?"
Five-minute call.
BRENDA BERGMAN: "Don't I look like Dietrich in this makeup?"
JEREMY TCHUNG, hairdresser, spraying a rat-tail comb: "No."
FLLOYD:"Did you guys see that Fox show where they capture people on secret video? They had a guy who worked in a piñata factory and they captured him fucking a piñata. It was on the family hour!"
BRENDA BERGMAN: "I love that."
FLLOYD: "The guy said, 'It enticed me.' "
JODI LENNON: "Imagine when they open it up. Like, 'What's in this one?' "
FLOTILLA DEBARGE, sitting at makeup table in bra with no padding, stocking cap, and knee length skirt: "I don't have my tits on yet. I don't have my wig. I'm a mess. Jeremy better get his ass over here soon. We can talk while I wait. I'm originally from downtown Brooklyn. My family's from Florence, South Carolina. I started out in the East Village at the Pyramid and P.S. 122 and Boy Bar. I always wanted to be an actor or a singer since my mother took me to Radio City Music Hall as a kid. I didn't know how to go about it. I tried going into the corporate business world. Then, when my grandfather was 85 and dying, he told me to follow my dream. So I immediately stopped going to Baruch College and invented Flotilla DeBarge. I always thought Flotilla was such a good name. I'm not a thin man. I'm more larger than life. I'm not an -ette or an –ina. Plus I always loved the musical group DeBarge. So I was sitting in Battery Park City one day and a barge went by and then it just came to me—Flotilla DeBarge."
Seconds before places. Unearthly moans are heard outside the dressing room.
LYPSINKA: "What's that noise?"
JODI LENNON: "That's just Jackie doing her queer actress exercises."
JACKIE HOFFMAN, appearing at dressing room door: "Guys, come quick. You just missed Mark grabbing his scrotum."
JODI LENNON, lacquering her blond pigtails with hair spray: "Am I nervous? Yes. Definitely. It's nice to be nervous. It's scary when you're not. Especially when it's a big house. Hey, is my wig anchored? Is the hair on straight? Oh, I'm so high right now from this Aqua Net."
JACKIE HOFFMAN: "Guys, Jodi's drunk again."
STAGE MANAGER: "Ladies and gentlemen."
Cast hugs.
DIRECTOR KEVIN MALONY: "Go out and rock 'em sock 'em robots."
LYPSINKA: "Did Isabella make it? Isabella Rossellini? Does she have good seats?"


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Personally, when it comes to gifts for my significant other, I'm way more into experiences. For our first anniversary, I booked a swim with the sharks in an aquarium tank and it's still such a memorable topic we reminisce about. Mostly because I couldn't tell who was the instructor and who was my boyfriend under the mask, wet suit and through my anxiety that I would run out of oxygen. But that's a story for another time. Now that I get to see my boyfriend a little more often (we've been doing long distance for the last five years!) I like to treat him to gifts too. For this Valentine's Day gift guide for him under £250 I've shortlisted some items I've personally had my eye on. And if you've ever read any of my previous gift edits, you'll know that whilst I like things pretty, they also have to be practical. Don't get me wrong, joke presents are great but probably too personal to be putting on a gift guide!
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White sneakers are always going to be in style and if you're a little cautious about spending £350 on the Common Projects ones, I've found a great retro alternative from Nike that doesn't break the bank. Alternatively, if you're celebrating a milestone or just feeling a fancy, the Saint Laurent wallet is a great price and is sure to excite. Not many people know this but I'm actually really into menswear and tailoring. I love Trunk clothiers in Marylebone, a boutique that stocks tasteful and pared back brands such as Bigi, who makes the beautiful chocolate brown linen scarf. Then there's Drake's who's known for their ties and even do custom ones. Their candy pink tie really stood out to me, it would look great against a navy suit. Canali is known for their shirts and this lightweight classic piece is so versatile and perfect for spring/summer.


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Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way he treats women-the way that he loves. –John Eldredge
Have you ever made a list of the qualities you're looking for in a man?
If you're anything like the average woman, you probably have and I am sure it started long ago as a teenage girl. At a young age my list had qualities like fire-fighter material, surfer, makes lots of money, tall-dark-handsome, wants 4 kids, etc.
I hope I'm not the only one that wrote silly, materialistic things like that. Needless to say, my husband is a musician, is shorter-than-average height, wants 2 kids, and does not surf that I am aware of. Lucky for me though, he does have the "fire-fighter material" part down (my man is a hunk!).
So let's talk about some things that may or may not be on your list. I have found these to be super important, they are character qualities, which I will say mean more than any other status quo, "make lots of money" and "ridiculously good-looking" quality out there. However, it doesn't hurt if he's nice to look at.
1. Is he teachable?
Is he willing to learn? It is important that your man be teachable and shows a desire to learn, otherwise, your relationship will most likely become stagnant, stale, and boring. You want a man who will lead you in learning and growing together, as well as individually. There is so much to learn in the world, and it would be so disappointing to ever cease to be a student of life.
2. Is he humble?
Is he able to say that he doesn't have everything all figured out? Is he willing to cheer others on when they have successes? Is he able to say "I'm Sorry?" I have learned a great deal from my husband about this. He has the most humble attitude towards others success. Instead of allowing jealousy or envy to consume him, he chooses (yes I said chooses) to be happy and excited for others. And this prevents him from comparing himself and instead finds a unique type of joy that only comes from being able to celebrate others. It's truly inspiring.
For a man to be able to say he is sorry and genuinely ask for your forgiveness, no matter the issue is HUGE! It shows his humility and his ability to put others before himself. Not being able to apologize is a prideful issue and let me tell you, this is something I struggle with far more often than my husband. His ability to say he is sorry and ask for forgiveness convicts me every time, one of these days I am the first to apologize.
3. Does he make you smile/laugh?
My husband says the silliest, dumb, seriously off-the-wall corny things. But it makes me laugh. He has always been able to make me laugh back to the beginning of our friendship together, and he always will be able to make me laugh. He finds joy in it, he says.
Nobody should take life too seriously. Laughter is supposedly the best medicine and I genuinely agree. If your man doesn't try to make you laugh, then the future looks pretty glum.
4. Does he make you think?
Does he challenge you intellectually How about spiritually? What about physically? No man should be able to let you slack in any of those areas. He does not have to be a drill sergeant about it, but he should be able to encourage you to be the best you can be.
5. Does he cherish you?
Does he know what he has when he has it? Does he remind you how beautiful, lovely, and captivating you are to him? This is one of the most important because it will speak directly to your hearts deepest longing. And if you don't feel cherished by him, you will continually be striving for ways to grab his attention and that can lead down a very dangerous path.
6. What is the fruit of his life?
Does he produce good fruit or bad fruit?
But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard — things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely. -Galatians 5:22–23 (Message Version)
We can measure our Spiritual growth by the fruits of our lives. Are we growing in the areas mentioned above or are most absent? You can measure this in your man's life as well. Put another way, this question asks: is he a spiritual leader for your life?
7. Does he respect you?
A man's ability to respect his girlfriend, wife, mother etc. is a huge factor in what your life will look like with him. Are you free to disagree? If he is controlling of your time, friends, and money, or really anything in your life, he is not respecting you. As you become husband and wife it is important to be on the same page regarding who you hang out with and who you don't, how you spend your money and how you don't, etc. But if you are already noticing his appetite for control, get out of there quick!
8. Is he able to control his temper?
Self-control is not easy. Is he able to use self-control with his temper? Does he have a temper? A man that isn't able to control his temper is not a man worth marrying. Who know's how he will eventually lash out. Anger can evolve into many ugly things if not controlled. The number one thing is if you don't feel safe with him, seek the help you need to remove yourself from him.
9. Is he trustworthy?
Warning: I am going to go pretty deep here. Trust is huge. And I want to share a part of our story with you because being able to trust your man is a big deal- particularly with his eyes.
My husband has a flip phone. Now before you start laughing or rolling your eyes, let me tell you why. Pornography is a huge issue, and it is very physically and emotionally damaging to relationships when it is used and abused. Gordon has had a damaging past with pornography and has come a long way with a lot of self-discipline, accountability, encouragement, and prayer. The last time he looked at pornography was through his iPhone. It broke me.
It has been years since I felt the effects directly from my husband using pornography, and years since he switched from iPhone to flip phone. Changing his phone is not the only thing he has done to gain my trust, but its just one example. It might seem a silly thing just changing phones, but it has made me be able to trust him like no other in that area of his life.
Being with a man who you can trust in all areas of your life (spiritually, physically, emotionally, with finances, with children, with his sexuality etc.) is vitally important to your safety and security.
10. Are you his favorite person?
Do you like to be around each other? Does he think you're an awesome person? If you are with a man that really drives you nuts most of the time or vice versa, I would say to look elsewhere. You want your husband to be someone you can have fun with and be excited about spending time with, apart from the physical intimacy.
It's the best being married to your best friend. Gordon and I love doing everything together, which will not be everyone's experience, but if you're going to spend the rest of your life with someone, hopefully, it's someone you like to hang out with. A physical relationship only will fall and crumble unless you make friendship the base.
All of these qualities are important, however, you will not find a man who has them all down perfectly. They are a lot to live up to and no one is perfect. Grace will need to be extended. But if it is important to you, it will be important to him.
Evaluate the man in your life: What qualities is he great at? Which ones not so great? If he desires to love you better, he won't mind if you bring these up. Be encouraging and believe him there. If a man knows you believe in him, he can do anything.
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Let me hear your thoughts in the comments below, which of these qualities listed above would you say is most important to you?
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Blockchain presents new opportunities for Africa
In Africa, blockchain technology presents another platform for digital empowerment.
This is according to pan-African telecommunications company Liquid Telecom in its African Blockchain Report 2018, which takes a look at the early pioneers of the technology across Africa, highlighting some of its potential use cases and applications, as well as exposing some of the challenges that lie ahead.
Blockchain is essentially a distributed ledger technology that allows information to be exchanged among several parties but not altered. It can create a shared system of record among network members, eliminating the need to reconcile disparate ledgers.
"Essentially, blockchain works as a global and public ledger without a central database that can be tampered with," says Charles Pittaway, managing director of Sage Pay.
"It is a permanent, cryptographically sealed record that cannot be corrupted, creating a trail of financial DNA. Information relating to trades is stored across a number of computers, which makes hacking theoretically impossible," he adds.
Revolutionary tech
However, Liquid Telecom points out that of all the emerging technologies making their mark across Africa at the moment, blockchain doesn't initially seem the most revolutionary.
"Compared to some of the weird and wonderful connected devices introduced as part of the trend towards the Internet of things or the science-fiction-meets-reality potential for artificial Intelligence, it is no real surprise that blockchain hasn't quite captured the general public's imagination in the same way," says Ben Roberts, Liquid Telecom's group chief technology and innovation officer.
Nonetheless, he points out that to the African business community, blockchain represents a new opportunity to improve processes and drive efficiency.
"Consumer trust in online services and platforms has been shaken by years of fake news, major data breaches and serious misuse of personal data.
"Blockchain presents an opportunity to shine truth across the Internet; placing digital records and transactions into a shared ledger and ensuring there is no single point of failure or no one organisation controlling that data."
Regarding digital empowerment, Liquid Telecom says in a region of fragmented data, complex supply chains and inefficient trade, blockchain has the power to transform the way businesses share information, track assets and deliver their services.
It explains that its ability to deliver transparency across transactions and services also makes it an ideal fit for governments and their delivery of public services, which for too long have found themselves susceptible to fraud and corruption.
"What we discover is a real appetite for public and private organisations alike to seize the blockchain opportunity while it is still in its nascent stages," Roberts says.
"There is much work to be done. There are no global standards or regulations in place for the technology, and new skills are required in the workforce to support its rise. One thing is for sure, as the global discussions around blockchain technology continue to grow; Africa will be part of it."
Roberts points out that Liquid Telecom is starting to see the first crop of African start-ups experimenting with blockchain and crypto-currencies.
Digital crowdfunding
Take Rwandan start-up Uplus, which is utilising blockchain to secure all transactions on its digital crowdfunding platform, he says.
"The technology also allows the platform to take contributions from any country and convert it to the local currency. A lot of existing applications in Africa tend to fall short when it comes to user experience, and blockchain could certainly help address some of these issues; be it by creating a new trusted way to make payments or verify user identification."
Roberts believes that during this early stage of blockchain experimentation and proof of concept, it will be crucial for start-ups and businesses to develop solutions that are relevant for African communities. Without that, the technology won't gather momentum, he adds.
"Regulation can nurture or constrict the technology and will have a role to play in being a 'make or break' for blockchain. Living in Kenya, I'm proud to see how proactive the government has been in seizing the blockchain opportunity."
In SA, the central bank recently trialled a blockchain proof of concept designed to simulate a "real-world" trial of a distributed ledger technology-based wholesale payment system.
The project has laid the foundations for SA's future collaborative work, essential in the blockchain context and fulfilled its objective of providing useful insights to all participants.


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We've been making this Homemade Buttermilk Syrup Recipe for decades. It's creamy and rich and has a deep sweet caramel flavor. It only takes a few minutes to make and is perfect on waffles, pancakes or french toast.
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If you're looking for something to kick up your breakfast game a few notches, this is the syrup recipe for you. It only has a few ingredients and is delicious on everything...everything people!
We especially love to serve it with a classic French Toast Bake, Coconut French Toast, German Pancakes, and Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast.
What is buttermilk?
There are 2 types of buttermilk, real and cultured buttermilk.
Real Buttermilk and how it's made:
I grew up on a farm and milked cows so we had a lot of fresh milk around. We constantly had buttermilk and were always coming up with ways to use it.
When you have non-pasteurized milk, it's whole milk. After you milk the cow, the milk you have leftover is body temperature--the cow's body temperature. When the milk is refrigerated, the milk fat rises to the top of the container that is cream. In the stores, it would be considered heavy whipping cream. The cream is what produces butter and buttermilk.
If you were to whip that cream, it would get really fluffy and in just a few minutes, it would turn into a cream that would be perfect to add to the top of a pie or cake. If you continue to whip the cream, it would turn into butter. About 15 minutes of whipping cream you would have a big glob of yellowish colored butter and the by-product of the butter is buttermilk.
Real buttermilk is actually a little watery looking. It's a little tart but smells much sweeter than store-bought buttermilk. It's perfect to use to make this buttermilk syrup or even buttermilk pancakes.
Cultured Buttermilk:
The buttermilk you buy from the grocery store is cultured buttermilk. Cultured buttermilk tastes sour and is much thicker. It almost has the consistency of cream, just a little more frothy. It's made from lower fat milk and is soured by adding lactic acid bacteria, or culture like yogurt. This type of buttermilk is referred to as cultured buttermilk.
Now that you probably know way more about buttermilk than you ever wanted to know, for this buttermilk syrup recipe, cultured buttermilk from the store works great.
How to Store Buttermilk Syrup:
You can store buttermilk syrup in a glass jar or an airtight container in the fridge. It will keep for a few weeks. To reheat, put it in a saucepan and heat it on medium heat until it reaches a soft boil.
Here are some other amazing homemade Syrup Recipes:
Homemade Buttermilk Syrup Recipe
- 1/2 cup Butter salted
- 1 cup Sugar white granulated
- 1/2 cup Buttermilk Cultured
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- In a large saucepan, (use a large one because the mixture is going to more than double.) on medium heat, combine the butter, buttermilk, sugar. Bring the mixture to a rapid boil. Boil for 2-3 minutes or just until the mixture starts to turn a caramelly brown color.
- Stir in the baking soda and vanilla and stir until combined. Take the syrup off the heat and let it cool for 5 minutes before serving.
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We've been making this Homemade Buttermilk Syrup Recipe for decades. It's creamy and rich and has a deep sweet caramel flavor. It only takes a few minutes to make and is perfect on waffles, pancakes or french toast.


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Gustave Sherman was born in Montreal on October 15, 1910 to Jewish parents who had immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe. Gustave started his career in the jewellery field as a salesman before hiring jeweller Dmytro (aka Jimmy) Kurica (pronounced Koretza), and opening his Montreal manufacturing firm Sherman Costume Jewellery in 1947.
Sherman jewellery was known for its quality and is often identifiable by its use of aurora borealis coatings and monochromatic colour combinations.
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Students explore tide pools and study marine plants and animals
–On Friday, May 27 students from Liberty High School explored the tide pools at Shell Beach as part of the Rocky Intertidal, Marine Life Monitoring Program sponsored by the Central Coast Aquarium. Students explored the tide pools to learn how to collect data using transects and quadrats to study population levels and trends of different species.
They observed and learned about marine plants and animals in their natural marine habitat, including hermit crabs, turban snails, anemones, chitons, purple sea urchins, gooseneck barnacles, sea stars, muscles, limpets, acorn barnacles and tube worms. Many students had not experienced the tide pools to such an extent.
Students also video conferenced with Francesca Henderson, a long distance education Ports interpreter for California State Parks. Henderson discussed tide pools with students from her location at Crystal Cove State Park. Students made connections with the cause of tides, high versus low tides, different zones in the intertidal zone, state regulations for Marine Protection Areas, and were able to get a "first observation" of marine plants and animals via an underwater video camera placed in a tide pool.


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Whether you're new to the recruiting industry or not, conducting pre-employment drug or alcohol testing is a complicated business.
Consider that the federal government doesn't regulate drug testing in the private sector. The Drug-Free Workplace Act does not require or restrict testing in any way. Since drug abuse is not considered a disability, neither does the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Still, each state supports its own drug testing laws that vary across state lines. California laws, for example, only apply to employees in sensitive positions at state agencies. Laws in Alabama, Hawaii and Idaho apply to all employers. But in Connecticut, they only pertain to private employers.
As a national hiring manager or recruiter, it can be difficult to remember which laws each state observes. For a state-by-state chart of drug and alcohol testing laws, click here.
Meanwhile, there are still basic questions some recruiters may have about the pre-employment testing process. Consider this partial list of FAQs designed by A Worksafe Service, Inc., to help you better navigate your way through an industry that is often confusing, complex and constantly evolving.
- What drugs should I test for?
Most employers test for marijuana (THC), cocaine, opiates, amphetamines (including methamphetamine) and phencyclidine (PCP).
- What about testing for alcohol?
A breath alcohol test provides immediate results and is directly correlated to a blood alcohol test result. But attorneys argue that if employees know their job offer will be withdrawn if they refuse to take the test, then taking the test is no longer an option. In other words, they don't freely give their consent. So avoid pre-employment alcohol testing for nongovernment-regulated employers.
- What happens when an applicant fails a pre-employment test?
This test is not any different than other employment tests. If job applicants flunk, they do not meet your hiring standards or criteria. In most cases, organizations rescind the job offer.
- What is DOT testing?
The U.S. Department of Transportation and the United States Coast Guard have alcohol and drug-testing requirements of safety-sensitive workers employed in the aviation, public transit, trucking, maritime, and pipeline industries.
- If job applicants fail a DOT drug test, can they dispute the results?
Federal regulations permit job applicants to request that the split specimen, which was collected at the time of the original specimen, be sent to another laboratory for testing. Companies cannot deny this request. However, it must be made within 72 hours of the applicant being notified of the positive test result.
- If a company receives a negative/dilute test result –when the urine is diluted – does the applicant have to retest?
No, employers can accept the result as a negative result. But employers can retest if it's stated in their policy but must then retest all applicants that have a negative/dilute result in the same testing category. For example, an employer may choose to retest on pre-employment tests only. If so, all applicants with these results will be required to retest.
There's another key question that every recruiter should pay attention to: Are drug tests reliable?
Drug screens used by most companies are not always reliable, according to the National Workrights Institute. At least 10 percent of common drug tests yield false positive results. That number can quickly rise to as much as 30 percent if job applicants use over-the-counter medicines. Formula 44-M, for instance, has proven positive results for heroin, Advil for marijuana, and Nyquil for amphetamines. Other substances that have caused false positives include Sudafed, certain herbal teas and poppy seeds.
Still, drug testing may be the best approach we have for identifying job applicants who may be drug users or abusers. It offers recruiters and employers another layer of protection and information about a candidate's background that could potentially impact workplace productivity and safety.
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Recently I came across an advertisement for a new DLC (Downloadable Content) pack for the newest Call of Duty video game Call of Duty: WWII. The expansion pack (entitled The Resistance) provides players additional maps for gameplay (including the game's 'Nazi Zombie' mode). I personally haven't given this game much attention but I was intrigued. In the past, I have played previous Call of Duty games and their previous iteration set in World War II also featured a mode where player are able to maintain a safe house against hordes of the undead wearing Swastikas. The idea of having Nazis as the antagonist for this game mode strikes me as interesting, as our conversations in class. I feel like it is almost too removing of the actual context of the Holocaust. Given that these were actual humans who committed actual atrocities, it almost seems a poor choice to depict members of the Third Reich as supernatural monsters. To me, that takes the agency away from the people who committed such awful acts and almost neuters the power that Nazi imagery should have.
Additionally, after investigating the 'Nazi Zombies' of the game; I was curious how the game handled the Holocaust aspect of World War 2 (if at all). I was able to find several articles that commented on the game's depiction of a concentration camp. The game does depict the main characters entering an abandoned shell of a camp. Although it doesn't go as far as it could with depicting the actual killing camps (the camp in game is described as a labor camp), the American GIs in the game do make a point of documenting the conditions that they see (video below). Given the game's more 'approachable' attempt at depicting the Holocaust (not showing corpses, emancipated prisoners), I feel like this is in line with a more marketable depiction of the atrocities of WWII, without potentially alienaning an audience. I think it is interesting that consumers are more than willing with interacting and portraying the battlefield carnage of WWII but that realism stops at the depictions of the Holocaust.


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Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has alleged that 140,000 votes for the All Progressives Congress were voided in the last presidential election.
He said in spite of that, the state was the only one in the entire South South and South East geopolitical regions to give the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, over 45 per cent of the votes cast.
Mr. Oshiomhole disclosed this in a broadcast to thank the people of the state for voting the APC in the last general elections.
"During the presidential election, you refused to be swayed by the campaigns of hate, religious and ethnic bigotry," the governor said. "Consequently, it is on record that Edo State is the only state within the South-East and South-South geo-political zones where the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, secured the highest number of 45 per cent of votes cast.
"It is now clear that the about 140,000 votes out of the 150,000 voided votes were actually APC votes. If we add 140,000 votes to the 208,000 votes declared by INEC, it is clear that General Buhari won the election in Edo State."
The Edo governor said he was excited with the outcome of the election. He added that all Nigerians other than those "blinded by religious and ethnic sentiments", are proud of the outcome.
"I'm glad that you resisted the subversive generosity, the open monetary inducement displayed by our opponents and you voted for change," he said. "I cannot thank you enough for doing us proud in the manner you voted.
"In the House of Assembly election, you rose in unison to re-affirm a vote of confidence in my stewardship. You demonstrated clearly your commitment to change and your desire for us to sustain and build on the gains recorded in the last six years of my stewardship, as Governor of Edo State.
"Indeed, the outcome of the just concluded elections has confirmed unequivocally that the APC is the darling of the people across the three senatorial zones of our dear State, and in fact, across Nigeria.
"Not only did we win convincingly in all the 7 (seven) local Government Areas in Edo South and the 6 (six) Local Government Areas in Edo North Senatorial zones, but even in the home base of the god-father general, we still won convincingly in 3 (three) out of the 5 (five) Local Government Areas in Edo Central Senatorial zone. I dare say with all sense of humility that it could not have been better than this."
Godfathers have been retired
Mr. Oshiomhole again took a swipe at some of the leaders of the state who belonged to the opposition PDP.
He said going by the way the people of Edo voted, they have silenced "all the godfathers across the state; a small clique that has for about 16 years at the federal level and 10 years at the state level, feasted on our common patrimony, criminally privatized our resources and presided over the underdevelopment of our State.
"You have now effectively and permanently retired the four political ruling houses across the state that have kept our state and our people in political bondage," he said. "In the same vein you have enthroned a new leadership and a new culture of politics and governance that is based on popular participation, inclusion and development.
"The full import of these and other political developments must not be lost on us. We are now more than ever before, determined to continue to harness and manage our resources in such a way that it delivers the greatest good for the greatest number of our people."
The governor also said after being in power for six years, he must have offended some people. He, therefore, used the opportunity of the broadcast to apologize to them.
"Over the past six years, in our bid to improve the lot of our people, through aggressive urban renewal, rural development and revenue generation, we may have offended some individuals or groups," he said.
"To those we have inadvertently offended by our actions or inactions, I offer my unreserved apologies. However, to those that had deliberately constituted themselves as cogs in the wheel of progress, we have no regrets.
"Now all hands must be on deck. With the support of President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari, we are well positioned to do all we need, to take Edo State to the Next Level."


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Little Home Things, Big Home Improvements
If you're anything like me (which for your sake I kinda hope you're not), you view the holidays and their aftermath as an occasion to Make Stuff Better Around The House. "WHAT IS ALL THIS JUNK? UGH, GET RID OF IT. ALSO, UPGRADE." To that end, here're a few things I've acquired (for myself or as gifts) that definitely count as "whoa that's so much better" :
KALKGRUND SOAP DISPENSER ($9.99 at Ikea) : Dude I cannot tell you how many fucking soap dispensers I've bought over the years — most of them way more expensive than this. And always, after a few months (or weeks, in some very disappointing cases), they fail me. They break, they start leaking, they're impossible to open, the nozzle or other metal parts start to rust or just straight-up crumble (looking at you, every single one I've bought from Target). It doesn't matter if they're from the dollar store or Saks, and I know because I've owned both — most of them are shite. But THIS ONE. <3! I've had this one for over a year now and I still 10000% adore it. It's clean, it's sleek, it dispenses a reasonable amount of product every time, and it still looks good as new. The whole stainless steel top screws off for cleaning, but you can also just lift out the top portion (the round top surface with attached nozzle) and refill via the hole. I waited a while to make sure this thing wouldn't end up disappointing me, but now I'm buying one for every sink in the house.
SIMPLE HUMAN GROCERY BAG HOLDER ($14.97 at Amazon) : Do you have a drawer full of plastic grocery bags? Or worse, do you have a wad of them inside another bag in a cabinet, and every time you try to grab one there's a little plastic avalanche? Get one of these. Wad your bags up, stuff 'em down the top, and easily pull one out the front slot as needed. Mount via screws or even heavy-duty double-stick tape on the inside of a cabinet or its door (mine's on the wall of the pantry), and have one less mess in your life.
FINE, Stannis. Fewer.
LANCASTER STEEL PINT GLASSES ($16 or four for $56 at Amazon) : I just got these as a gift for le boy and holy crap they're legit AMAZING. Brushed stainless steel, suuuuper light weight and surprisingly slim, with double-walled vacuum-insulated construction and a smooth lip. They're gorgeous, they're exceptionally pleasing to hold and use, and you will straight up not BELIEVE how long they keep a beer (or whatever) cold. Like, leave two inches of beer in the glass, come back half an hour later, and it's still chilled AF. HOW. (
Magic! Science!)
TILE FOR DIY COASTERS ($8.40 at Amazon) : Do you struggle to find coasters that're both attractive and, you know, actually functional? Me too. So I ordered this here sampler of tumbled grey marble tile (a perfect 4″ square and about 3/8″ thick), because it's pretty, it's sturdy, and it's actually kinda absorbent. Grab some self-adhesive felt furniture pads, cut one into four quadrants, stick 'em on the corners, and boom — cute and functional coasters.
RECHARGEABLE LED MOTION LIGHT BAR ($14.99 at Amazon) : Yeah, my closet has a light. BUT! I have limited options for my standing mirror, and the only place that really works involves putting it right on top of the closet's light switch. UGH, I just need to grab ONE THING REAL QUICK, I do not want to pull out the mirror to turn on the damn light. Oh hey now I don't have to! This little guy isn't bright enough to provide full illumination, but it's definitely bright enough to allow me to locate a particular thing. Comes on when you open the door (or wave at it), recharges pretty quick via a USB hookup, and the charge lasts me a month or two. This would also be ideal for poorly-lit pantries or large cabinets, or even as undercabinet lighting — no cords, slim shape, and installs easily via an adhesive magnetic strip.
ANCHOR HOCKING TRUESEAL GLASS STORAGE : (various sizes and prices on Amazon) I have a slew of these in the two-cup size, and I use them for evvvvverything. I don't know if I'd trust them to, say, pack a soup-based lunch to take to work? But for everything else they're aces. Chopped herbs and other cooking-prep stuff, dips, sauces, leftovers … and they're glass, and actually attractive enough to serve out of. Lids come off and on easily without a lot of irritating futzing around, they're sturdy, they're microwaveable, and I hearts them lots.
ACRYLIC RISERS (various sizes and prices on Amazon or eBay) : Limited space, and bolting a shelf to the wall isn't an option? SADDLE RISERS. Also called a "u-shaped riser," these can also be found if you just search for like "acrylic display products." Create tiers for stacking shoes in your closet, a second level of makeup organization in the bathroom, slap one under the sink to increase your storage space, and I've got one straddling the output tray of one of my printers to "file" stuff on, i.e. pile up things I need quick easy access to.
Got any little fiddly house things you love and can't believe how long you lived without? Tell tell tell!


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Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 7 minutes
4 - 6 people
- 1.5kg ground beef (70% beef / 30% fat)
- fresh chives, chopped
- garlic, coarsely chopped
- pickled jalapeños, sliced
- red onion, finely chopped
- 2 wheels of feta cheese
- ground pepper
- coarse sea salt
- olive oil
- Preheat the grill to high heat, between 200°C - 250°.
- Mix all the ingredients together, make sure not to overwork the meat.
- Overworking the meat will make the burgers dense and dry.
- Gently using your hands, form meatballs with the meat then gently press them down to take the shape of burger patties.
- Lightly brush the patties with some olive oil and throw them on the grill.
- 3 minutes a side will get you a nice and pink centre, 4 minutes for medium.
Tip 01
Make sure that you don't overwork and over mix the meat. Coarse is the name of the game.
Tip 02
Experiment with the ingredients mixed in with the meat, try chopped chorizo & smoked paprika for a Spanish style, or chopped parsley, sun-dried tomatoes & parmesan for an Italian style burger.
Tip 03
Ask your butcher for a coarse ground beef mix, made up from brisket and chuck for that extra beefy flavour!