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Astros closer Ken Giles finds new gas for his heater
After wearing out in the playoffs, Giles plans to shore up the weakness, not dissect it
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. - Ken Giles knows that being removed from the Astros' closer role during their World Series run inspired concerns about his reliability to finish games this season. And he does not care.
"I really don't give a rat's (expletive) what everybody thinks, or what happened," Giles said at The Ballpark of The Palm Beaches.
Records of the team's epic run will show Giles with an 11.40 ERA in seven outings. Only when gifted a 7-1 lead in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series did he exit an October game without allowing a run.
The franchise won its first championship despite Giles rather than because of him.
"We played to win, and that's all that matters," he said. "Are there things I could've improved on? Yeah. But you know what? First time through everything can't be perfect, and I wouldn't change it for the world, what happened to me."
A nasty attitude propelled the first 100-mph fastball to zip from Giles' fingertips. A seventh-round pick out of Yavapai College (Ariz.) in 2011, who the Astros acquired in a 2014 trade with the Philadelphia Phillies, he has not stopped feeling like he can "raise the middle fingers to all the doubters."
Astros manager A.J. Hinch repeatedly has backed Giles as the closer, even dating to the World Series.
Only 31/2 months later are they conceding "a weakness," as Giles called it, that they could not admit when the closer had clung to whatever confidence he had left.
"I'm not invincible," Giles said earlier this week. "I always have this mentality that I am and feel like I am the majority of the time. I just basically ran out of gas toward the end. I was relied on a lot during the second half of the season, and it took its toll."
'Fatigue … decreases execution'
Giles, 27, did not know it at the time, but firing pitches last year as hard as he could, starting on Valentine's Day and through Halloween, wiped him out.
He has thrown more than 1,100 pitches in each of the past three seasons, but Hinch expects the righthander to learn from the experience without requiring a reduction in workload.
"We could sense there was a bit of a grind for him," Hinch said. "Hitters responded to his pitches a little differently. In the moment you could sense a little bit of fatigue. Fatigue usually decreases execution."
Pitted in baseball's cat-and-mouse dynamic, hitters bested Giles near the beginning and at the end of his long 2017 season.
On June 6, a 12th consecutive win seemed guaranteed for the Astros. They led the Kansas City Royals 7-3, but four relievers blew the game, none worse than Giles. With the game tied in the bottom of the ninth, he worked through the middle of the order to get two outs. Then he allowed a single and hung a slider that Mike Moustakas hammered for a walkoff home run.
Spoiling the winning streak saddled Giles with a 4.24 ERA and punctuated the nadir of his season.
It also marked a turnaround. Hinch brought in Giles the next night. He pitched a perfect eighth inning.
"It's not a matter of rebuilding Giles," Hinch said. "He helped us win a lot of really close games throughout the regular season into the early postseason."
Giles dominated from June 7 through the end of the regular season: a 1.14 ERA and 12.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
The Astros love spin rate. They threw a greater percentage of off-speed pitches than all but three teams last year. But Giles recovered by establishing his fastball. Batters had realized his tendency for first-pitch sliders and let them dive out of the zone. So, he began throwing fastballs more often to get ahead and almost exclusively to climb back in counts.
His slider became more effective. Hitters whiffed on it four percent more often, according to Brooks Baseball.
Then batters undid his plan in the playoffs.
Platitudes about the different atmosphere of postseason baseball do not reveal the advantage teams get from more scrupulously curated scouting reports.
Playoff hitters either adjusted or figured out the approach that had righted Giles' regular season. They laid off sliders for balls and waited on easier pitches to clobber. Both the strike rate of his breaking ball and miss rate of his fastball dropped 10 percent.
When a lefthanded batter got ahead, he was guaranteed a fastball from Giles 100 percent of the time.
Game 4 of the World Series spun Giles around like the Moustakas home run on repeat. He squandered a good chance for the Astros to take a 3-1 series lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers and then win it at home the next night.
Hinch trusted Giles to handle the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 hitters in the top of the ninth with the score 1-1. He lasted eight pitches. Each batter reached base and runner scored. Cody Bellinger passed up a slider before lining a double that ended Giles' night.
Giles did not pitch again in the Series. He sat idle in the bullpen with a hoodie shrouding his face. The Astros seized the title by winning two of the final three games without him.
"Manning up" to the bad stretch feels like enough to Giles. He avoids dissecting it.
"It gives me the motivation to work on something that I was actually weak at, that I never really noticed in myself," he said.
Working out the frustration
The day after the Astros won Game 7, Giles vented his disappointments to his wife, Estela Pinon, a former college and professional softball pitcher.
"She knows the mentality," Giles said. "She's been on the diamond before."
He did not talk about the matter again. He said he did not discuss or watch anything related to baseball in the offseason.
Giles, whose muscularity and height resemble that of an NFL safety, also insisted on not breaking from ambitious weightlifting to prepare for another grind.
"I'm going to beat my body into the ground until it's going to fall apart," he said.
His hyperbole captures the physical and mental burden a closer embraces. Giles' ability to look past poor performances will be tested unlike before. Although he does not revisit his failures, he will be reminded of them until he redeems himself in the playoffs.
"Everybody has a weakness," he said. "The only way to overcome that is to work on it. And that's all I do. I prepared for it."
Despite what the world watched last October, he still sees himself as 100-Miles-Giles. He will hurl and push at a maximum effort until something gives.


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Teen Titans: Earth One Vol. 1 by Jeff Lemire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Pretty cool retelling of the Teen Titans' origin story.
These Earth One books have been hit-or-miss for me, so I went into this hopeful, but not salivating. Earth One titles (in case you aren't familiar with them) are basically What If stories, that re-imagine the beginnings of some of DC's most iconic characters. They don't fit into the continuity of the regular DC universe, so the authors can kind of do whatever they want, without it causing ripple effects.
First off, for all the fans out there who have been screaming bloody murder over Starfire's over-sexualization in some of other titles?
You can officially put down your torches and pitchforks. The majority of this book, you only see her eyes (sort of), and when you finally do see her, she's wrapped up in cloth from the neck down.
Like a mummy!
Sorry, that image just made me giggle, so I thought I'd share.
Ok. In this story, most of the (eventual) Teen Titans (Cyborg, Terra, Beast Boy, and Jericho) meet in high school.
Two exceptions.
Starfire, whose alien DNA has been used for experiments, and is currently in stasis at a lab.
And Raven, who's not the daughter of a demon in this one, but a Native American with somewhat undefined powers.
The other four kids are seemingly normal teenagers until they all start hearing Starfire's voice n their heads, asking for help. The voice triggers the different latent powers in each of them to go into some sort of hyper-drive.
Except Jericho.
He seemingly remains a normal kid.
The plot reminded me of Kelley Armstrong's young adult trilogy, Darkness Rising. In that one, a group of teenagers lived in a isolated town, blissfully unaware that the company their parents work for had been injecting them with stuff that eventually gives them supernatural powers.
An experimental town, so to speak.
Now, I'm not suggesting that Jeff Lemire ripped-off a young adult series. I doubt he's ever even heard of it. But if you know the plot of those books, then you'll understand the comparison.
The kids in Earth One are also 'experiments', and are unaware of the part their parents played in their new abilities. Now they've gotta go on the run, search for answers, yadda, yadda, yadda.
The Terry Dodson's art fits with the feel of the book. It's got a cartoony vibe to it, without being weirdly exaggerated. Good stuff.
And this is really just sort of silly, but I'm wondering if anyone else thought the dark haired chick on the cover was Amanda Waller? Maybe because I'd been looking at a tiny cover on my computer, but I was actually surprised to realize that it was Raven.
Overall, I liked this one, and I'm interested in seeing where they go with this story.

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PPPCS is now a Green School!
PPPCS is now officially a Green School! Take a look at the link to learn more about how we qualfied! Amazing work by all of our students!
I hope everyone can make it out on May 17th to see our Historic Field Day! Not only with the historical marker be unveiled for the Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail but we also have the pleasure of listening to our fifth grade Fife and Drummers play for us! They have been practicing very hard! Thank you Mr. Otto for working so hard with our students!
Service Day with Audubon
Some students spent this years' Service Day helping Audubon by planting native plants in the wetland garden in Patterson Park.
Star Spangled Banner Trail
Our fifth graders are continuing with their preparation for the Historic Field Day on May 17th as part of their Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail community service project with the National Park Service. Today students used their Math and Science skills to carve out muskets used during the War of 1812 and the Battle of Baltimore. We take the boat out on the water this Thursday! Everything they are constructing will be used in the film! Thanks for all your help Mr. Hendrick!
Whether it be first hand on trips aboard the "Snow Goose" or from a laptop at our desk, students have been conducting research on the health of the Chesapeake Bay all year. We have been graphing the turbidity, salinity, and dissolved oxygen levels specifically. We started with just the Patapsco but have now expanded our research to Annapolis and Jamestown. This link will provide with you with more infomation on just how we do it! A big thanks to NOAA for allowing us access to their buoys!
Star Spangled Banner Trail Film
Over the course of the next few weeks, the fifth graders will be preparing for a film that will be a "reenactment" of the Battle of Baltimore. The film will be shown at the Historic Field Day here in the park on May 17th as part of the unveiling of the marker for the Star Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. Yesterday in art class students utilized Math and Art skills to recreate the American Flag (Can you guess how many stars we had in 1814?) and the British Flag that will be used in the film. The fun is just beginning!
Harris Creek Project Day 2
Today we completed about 15 more yards of stenciling added a few more texts. Sixth grade will be coming by this afternoon to finish the project. We will check back in tomorrow to see the final product!
Football Superstar!
Imani Robinson waited all year before she decided to join the football game we play with fifth graders on Monday, Tuesday and Friday afternoons. Yesterday was her first game. Without a doubt she had the best play we have seen all year. On one long run she left 3 or 4 defenders laying face first in the dirt with some of her amazing moves! We are eagerly anticipating her performance this afternoon!
Harris Creek Project Day 1
Yesterday we started the stenciling for the Harris Creek Project. It was cold and very windy but our students worked together for two hours to get a good portion of it completed! We are very proud of the patience and teamwork they showed throughout the morning. We will be heading outside again today to finish!
Harris Creek Project Preview
On Friday students prepared for the Harris Creek project. Students walked over the top of the now underground creek and found evidence that there was a creek below them. (saturated ground, cracks in sidewalk, depressions in the earth). Next students created their own examples of what they think the stenciling finished product should look like and present them to the entire 5th grade. Today we will vote on our top 3 and begin painting!
Welcome to the 5th Grade Blog!
This blog is dedicated to the fifth grade at Patterson Park Public Charter School in Baltimore, MD. Our hope is that this blog will keep students, parents, and anyone else interested up to date with all that we have going on during the school year. Let us know what you think!
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For the first time in the course of the Stonechat project, this winter we attempted to gain a clearer picture of both site and territory fidelity by regular coverage of all the territories outside of the breeding season. We wanted to determine a number of things if we could.
How many of our ringed Stonechats remained on the reserve? How many of the existing territories were occupied during the winter and by whom? How many of our existing pairs would remain as they were or would new partnerships form, which would then continue into the spring? Would new pairs take over existing territories or establish new ones?
In other words, how much of a shake-up occurs each winter and does that picture change again by the next breeding season?
Each territory was visited at least once a fortnight, sometimes more often, by one of our volunteers. As the territories are spread fairly evenly throughout the reserve and the whole reserve was walked regularly, we're pretty confident that most of the Bog was covered throughout the autumn and winter. Such regular coverage through another mostly mild winter has thrown up some interesting sightings and probably raised as many questions as it answered in terms of winter territory fidelity.
Of the 13 active territories during the 2016 season, 8 were occupied consistently throughout the autumn/winter period; 3 more held Stonechat pairs intermittently and 2 territories appeared empty on every visit.
These two territories were both in areas where the conditions can be fairly harsh during winter; one is out on the mire and another suffers from a complete lack of sun in that part of the reserve in the winter. Interestingly, both those empty territories have now been reoccupied, one with exactly the same pair that bred successfully last season and who had been absent from the Bog all winter.
Of those 11 occupied winter territories, 4 were held by the same ringed pairs that bred in 2016; 2 other occupied territories held unringed pairs so we have no way of knowing if they're the same birds; 5 other territories were held by one of the existing 2016 ringed pairs but with a new partner. This change of partners proved to be a mix of new males and females scattered throughout the reserve.
We've speculated previously on how many Stonechat territories can be squeezed onto Dersingham Bog and once again last year, we thought 13 territories must be fairly close to the reserve's limit. But apparently no one has communicated that to our Stonechats!
During the course of the winter, it became clear that 3 new territories were being established. All were new arrivals and all were colour-ringed pairs from our 2016 broods and they carved out corners of existing larger territories. It will be interesting to see if those new pairs remain into the new breeding season or if it'll be all change again.
Our two most prolific breeders, a male and female from separate territories and born in 2013, both have new partners from the 2016 broods. They've also both stayed throughout the winter on territories which they've occupied since 2014. Some of the new colour-ringed birds who arrived on the reserve during the winter have spent time on their natal territories, some with one parent. Some have established new territories in neighbouring areas to where they were born, or have taken over existing territories but again 'next door'.
Once again all these observations and results have shown the value of colour-ringing. Without it, we'd have been unaware of all these changes and it would have been tempting to make the wrong assumption that any unringed pair staying from last year's breeding season through the winter would be the same birds, and that they'd be the same territory holders staying into this year's breeding season.
As it is, some territories have seen 3 separate pairs so far in the course of six months. And judging by observations by volunteers during the past week, it's all change again. Some of the existing territories now have new colour-ringed pairs entirely, as a wave of new arrivals seems to have taken place, either ousting the winter pairs or mixing up the partners yet again.
As the 2017 season starts, it appears the picture of territory occupation is by no means settled… which deserves a blog entry of its own soon. And if anyone knows of any monitoring of winter territory or site fidelity for Stonechats in other parts of the UK, we'd be interested to hear their findings.


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Can you think of one person who became successful at just one go, no, there was nobody, even the richest man in the world had gone through a rough phase in life before he could stand at a place where he is today. Take an example of a small child, have you ever seen him walking on the first day of his birth, he takes time, learn to crawl then slowly and gradually and of course with time he learns to walk and one day he increase his pace and starts running, bur way before that he falls, he falls and then get up, and this is what exactly happen to all of us in life.
Failure is nothing, it is no big deal, and it is just an occasion when you fall before learning to walk or run, that's all; however certain people have a tendency of taking failures too seriously. These days this is becoming one of the major reasons for children committing suicide, not only children but even adults, and the only reason behind them quitting their lives is "Failure", which indirectly means that they could not learn their lessons and hence decided to walk out of the class.
Here in the class refers to "Life", that's what we are here for, to learn lessons, the terms "Success or Failures" are the ones that were brought out of minds, there are lot of things which even the most successful people are unaware of, and there are incredible things which you would know but feel spooked to commence or enhance them. Failure is not the end of the world, in fact it is an occasion that gives you an opportunity to learn, and do better next time, don't go by the term, understand the essence of it, this is nothing negative and it does not mean that you can't do well, in fact it shows you your potential which, if you would have used, then you would for sure have succeeded.
Success comes when you learn to overcome the obstacles, which you can never do without learning lessons, and the failures in life teach you those lessons. It is up to you whether you want to learn and move on or, stay there and wait for the doom to decide things for you; you can be the creator of your destiny all you need you to do is, buckle up.


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The month of June has been extremely exciting, frustrating, stressful, kind, postive, and incredible all at the same time. It is safe to say that is has been a very emotional month for me, full of more incredible memories than bad memories.
I am still continuing to learn, grow, and mature, as the days come to me. I am still making mistakes, though…I am still a human being, and unfortunately, I make plenty of mistakes.
But, what can I say? I am still young and still have a handful of mistakes to continue making.
This month was a month full of growth, re-discovery, discovery, panic, anger, happiness, emotions, and self-awareness.
The stress and the heat of the Summer was beginning to get to me by the middle of the month, as I realized that time was continuing to fly, with or without my consent. As a result, all the things that I had continued to procrastinate still were left undone and unresolved, leaving me in a state of panic.
At the same time that the stress was hitting me, my urge to spend every waking minute outside, playing and enjoying the Sun, began emerging, with or without my consent. I found myself constantly wanting to enjoy my days, doing only things that I wanted to, not necessarily the things that I had to do, which only intensified my stress, as I often ended up choosing to enjoy my life.
I spent a lot of time this month focusing on having fun, or engaging in fun activities that I have always wanted to do, instead of constantly punishing myself for not working hard enough.
I can say with affirmation that I was much kinder to myself this month than I have been in a few years.
I am not ashamed to say that I do not regret any ounce of fun that I engaged in over the course of the last month, and I would not ever take it back.
I spent a lot more time outside, hanging out with friends, doing activities that I love, and learning to relax.
It was much more difficult than one would imagine.
Re-learning to relax, or to let myself relax and breathe, was extremely difficult.
In your head, it is quite simple, as breathing is one of those innate skills that should not take much energy, or stress, to execute. Unforunately, I completely forgot how to execute relaxing and breathing recently, and re-learning to do something that I have not practiced in a while was difficult.
I am extremely proud of myself for allowing myself to get out of my own head, and finally allowing myself to forgive, to forget, and to just be.
My mind has been working extremely hard recently to hold me captive inside my thoughts, and it seemed like lately my head was the only place that I could reside in.
It seemed like most times I was unable to seperate myself from the capitivity of my head and my thoughts, which often made it extremely difficult for me to simply just enjoy the moments passing by and impeded my ability to have fun.
My prison sentence in the nearest federal brain prison has finally come to an end, and boy, am I glad that it is slowly coming to a stop.
This month, after finally learning to live outside of my brain, I was able to push myself outside of my comfort zone, as I stopped using my anxiety as a valid excuse for everything. Living outside of my head has truly helped me manage my anxiety and panic attacks to a certain extent.
While I still experienced some painful panic attacks, racing thoughts, etc., I have seen progress within my growth. I have been experimenting with various new coping mechanisms, in order to experience blissful states.
I never realized how much my own brain, my own thoughts, and my own irrational fears could take control of my life. Your brain is truly a powerful muscle!
I have been doing my best to take advantage of this new success that I have achieved by attempting to continue to grow and to continue becoming a better person every chance that I can.
Another thing that I have been working hard to do is to SLOW DOWN, in every way, shape, and form. My mind became overtly cluttered and chlosterphobic when I was unable to simply allow myself some time to slow down. When my mind is working faster than I am able to process my thoughts, my obligations, my anxieties, or my fears, I begin to immediately panic and begin feeling like I am drowning in my own thoughts, without a life vest.
Slowing down allows me to simply break down fears, obligations, stresses, etc., without exxassperating an already uncomfortable situation.
Entering every day with a strong and calm mindset is not something that can simply be done. It takes a lifetime of practice, as life is incredibly stressful.
My mind loves to wander, so it is especially important that I keep her on a short leash. In a matter of milliseconds, my mind can turn a seemingly achievable task into the MOST ENORMOUSLY TALL HURDLE TO EVER COME ACROSS. My mind also can turn into a torture chamber in a blink of an eye. As a result, I have made it an utmost priority to work on training myself on catching myself before I let my mind do such unspeakable things. These are all things that can be improved and helped, which is something that I continue to remind myself.
Be kind to yourself and enjoy the beautiful life you live.
Learning to love yourself and be kind to yourself can be as simple as to stop saying that "you can't" do something, or be better.
I am the most forgetful person when it comes to being kind to myself and learning to let myself enjoy life.
No matter what you have done, or what you are going to do, you deserve to be happy, to enjoy your life, and to have fun! You deserve to laugh and you deserve to feel good about yourself. Try to enjoy, or even celebrate, your existence and your happiness. Share it with the world!
The world, including yourself, spends too much time and effort punishing you and trying to bring you down anyways. So, you may as well enjoy as much of it celebrating and DOING LIFE, in order to maximize your time on this Earth.
Be the light at the end of the tunnel for yourself and for others.
Happiness, joy, and a love for life is contagious, and it will be the only thing I will be catching this year.
Aichan Tewahade


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In the paper this morning there's a report about a number of well-known New Zealanders called themselves the NZ Climate Science Coalition saying that they want the Government to set up a Royal Commission investigating the reality of climate change, that is, whether there really is global warming, or whether the information we've been getting is 'incomplete, inaccurate and biased.'
Strong words. They say that the data from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) released this week actually bears against the idea of global warming, rather than giving support to it.
I must say that I find the whole concept of global warming a matter of concern, more than global warming itself. There are too many sensible scientists saying things that disprove global warming – in opposition, of course, to a large number who say global warming is a reality. After the Millennium bug, and the fizzer that bird flu has been, it's hard to know whether we're being driven by some agenda that wants to keep us in a permanent state of 'the sky is falling'. As I remember reading somewhere, it's only a few decades since scientists were concerned that the earth was cooling.
Whatever the case, no doubt those who have their investments in safe things like gold and silver will come sailing through. Gold investing is still regarded as one of the world's ways of keeping afloat through thick and thin, through global warming and global cooling, through bird flu and SARS and everything else that we've been battered over the head with recently.
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"My first acting role? I was nine and I played a shepherd for the church Christmas play. I wanted the role of Joseph but was told that I was too short and a little too dark-skin toned. Those words planted a spark in my soul and throughout the years it has grown to an irrepressible firestorm. Being a dark Latino actor has its restraints, but I'm no defeatist!" His sincere smile lit the poolside cabana of the W Hotel in Hollywood as we conversed for a brief time on a summer evening.
When CARLOS MORENO JR.
arrived in Los Angeles, he knew he was here to stay. He had a cause: to transform the portrayal of Latinos in Hollywood and reinvent acting in cinema. He's a force to be reckoned with.
You might not have heard of this rising star but MORENO has appeared in films such as TRANSFORMERS, DELTA FARCE, and the soon to be released THE OBAMA EFFECT. His TV credits include: CSI, THE UNIT and Carlos managed to achieve his goal by guest starring on ER's last Christmas episode.
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'Being a dark
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"As a kid I'd spent my summers as a migrant worker in Michigan; the best times in my life, thus far, until I get my Oscar.", he winks at me. "Yes, harvesting crop was painstaking but boy did I spend hours dreaming of becoming an actor while working fourteen hours a day; it made the day go by quicker and enjoyable. My father would say, 'Mijo, dont look at the entire field just look down and keep on picking; by the time you know it, it's finished.' Working in the fields prepared me for life. If we persist, eventually well reach our intentions; back then it was to finish a 100 acre field of asparagus a day and now its to work with the best artists in the film industry."
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"No I wasn't born with all my talent, he says laughing. I do have to give credit to my first acting teacher, MILTON KATSELAS. He was a true Master, a passionate artist and a witty man. After he saw my third scene in class he said to me, 'Now you're an actor, we had to fumigate this whole damn theater after your first scene, that's how bad you stunk. Now you can act with Al Pacino and the rest of the them. All YOU need is to BELIEVE. That's your entire critique. The more you believe the more you create, the more you create, the more you believe,' ...ah Milton. I know it sounds easy but don't be fooled, it takes time and patience."
The Beverly Hills Playhouse
Milton Katselas' Memorial Video
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"I'm currently studying with Jocelyn Jones. I go to class, or my playground, to expand my limitations and play roles Hollywood wouldn't see me perform; so when the time comes, I got all these characters in my pocket and baby I'm ready to go!"
"I love to play all types of characters. My favorite roles are the ones with some pathology. When I act, the work has to cost me something, you know, reveal or expose something about myself. I shock myself at times and say, 'Wow! I didn't know that about me!' I don't satisfy easily; the creation has to excite me or I'll continue to explore, asking questions til the answer is visceral. This feeling is...," he takes a sip of his gin and tonic, "...this feeling is, ART and it's sui- generis, unique." He stops for a moment looks at me and shakes his head. "This is how I work. This is how I give truth to the character; give myself permission to fully explore and I keep on asking questions, oh yeah, I ask while driving, while in the shower, you name it. And let me tell you something, if I'm not having fun, that means I'm working and I DONT LIKE TO WORK." He bursts in laughter with such pleasure. "What's missing in Hollywood is this type of acting/work, passion."
'This feeling is...
ART and it's sui
generis, unique.'
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"I just got acquainted with the music of Amel Larriux, I feel her; pick any of her songs, I swear music seeps out of her pores. There are many great and incredible music artists from Aretha Franklin to Prince. I tend to gravitate to artists who have something to state with artistic appeal."
"My father is a musician so I grew up with music around me every day, translation, I can carry a tune but I can't play a darn instrument at this point. Many hours are needed to play an instrument."
"I remember when I was around a boy, my grandparent's relatives would visit from Mexico and no sooner than later, I would hear my nickname, 'Giro!' and then in Spanish 'Come and dance for us.' And I'd be doing the Robot, Popping and dancing like the Soul Train Dancers, really. I knew back then I had a calling for entertainment."
"Latinos are so under represented in the industry, but things are slowly progressing; it's long over due." He puts on his Gucci shades, "I sometimes wish there were more roles than just your stereotypes but I'll do whatever comes along my path, believe me, whatever. I've noticed that there are many successful diverse TV shows right now; soon to be working as a series regular, yours truly. And the film industry also has opened it's arms to Latinos as you can see I've left my stamp. Yeah, Im looking forward to future projects: I'm creating a TV show, have finished co-writing a feature and started writing a script set in 1856."
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'I've got more
energy in me
than this town
can handle...'
"I'm very optimistic for the coming months. I've got a lot of work. I have to say that there is nothing more rewarding than doing something you love. When I'm acting or rehearsing, I feel alive, alive! I know the universe planned the artiste in me. I can't wait to share these ideas with others, baby I'm filling the rocket fuel on this rocket and I'm getting ready to launch! I've got more energy in me than this town can handle," he chuckles. "Seriously, I'm lucky to have the best, and most personal job in the world. It's my duty as an artiste to help the world be a better place. And you know what? I'm gonna have fun doing it.
Going back to the fields, I set myself to do something great in my life and when I set myself to do something, I do it, as a maverick. I'm ready to take the reins in Hollywood and steer it to where I want to go. I got nothing, nada to lose, nothing and so much to gain. I'm taking people on board in my rocket and I promise they won't regret being part of the escapade." He drinks and smiles again glowing even more than when we first started. and honestly, I could feel his fervor and words penetrating me. His enthusiasm is simply infectious.
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The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession of the French throne.
Plague, famine, and recurrent wars decimated the population. Feudal governments and papacy struggled against mounting chaos. Failures in institutions led to Western people fixing said institutions. Population dropped to an all time low, but by the 1500's had a more productive economy and more powerful technology. Overall a period of death and failure that led to revitalization and improvement.
The Italian Renaissance (Italian: Rinascimento [rinaʃʃiˈmento]) was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
More secular than Italian Renaissance
New monarchs gained power and made their countries stronger by distracting the nobility with wars or not relying on them. Italy was not centralized, leading to the prince
Time of questioning the catholic church, and taking the trend into politics and social change. Led to counter reformation
The European wars of religion were a series of religious wars waged in Europe from 1524 to 1648, following the onset of the Protestant Reformation in Central, Western and Northern Europe. The conflicts ended with the Peace of Westphalia recognizing three separate Christian traditions in the Holy Roman Empire: Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism, otherwise known as the Reformed tradition.
Time of great scientific advances and incorporating science into religion
Revitalized catholic church
Legitimized the Jesuit order
Time of human rational thought, social rights and contracts, and natural rights
Textile industry improved vastly and created jobs and urbanization
Overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon that rapidly brought many of its principles to Western Europe and beyond.
Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815.
Army officers want to have a change in government because they cant rise up because they're not nobles. It fails, prequel to 1830 revolutions
More focused on steel and production of bigger machines
More colonies, but European superiority belief and Social darwinism gave more justification
citizens want democratic rights, Czar fires on people then gives the citizens
War between triple alliance and Triple Entente, Austria's prime minister assassinated, issue ulitmatum to serbia and cash german blank check, France gets taken and Germany loses. Treaty of Versaiis issued and german war guilt
Hitler invading other countries leads to second World War, Blitzkrieg used to take land quickly, led to disillusionment and anti-facist movement
An intellectual war between America and Russia, the two super powers. Led to space race, many indirect wars and eventually the fall of communist russia
Populations across western Europe lost a about a third of their population, driving costs down and creating the need for more jobs
The specialized agriculture brought prosperity to the land-owning nobility, but also to dwellers, lawyers, bureaucrats, and wealthy peasants began to invest in land in the countryside. These people made considerable profits and gave rise to a new middle class called the Gentry
Brutal persecution of females, on the basis of being witches
Men and women worked in separate but complementary tasks
Renaissance and reformation led to questions of women's role
Delayed marriage and childbearing
Peasants' War, (1524–25) peasant uprising in Germany. Inspired by changes brought by the Reformation, peasants in western and southern Germany invoked divine law to demand agrarian rights and freedom from oppression by nobles and landlords.
Most widespread revolutionary wave in European History, Communist manifesto shook up middle calss
Emphasis on leisure time, consumerism led to the middle and upper classes mixing so they're almost indistinguishable from one another
Women during World War I had worked in factories and did the jobs of men and they started believing they were equal and fought for voting rights
Book written by Simone Beauvoir that explained women's role throughout history.
Women started fighting for more equal rights in the workplace and posed questions about their body and the idea of abortion and birth control pills.
Polish dock workers revolted for more voting rights
In addition to inspiring nationalism, the defeat of the Spanish Armada gave England the practical freedom it needed to begin large-scale colonizing missions. Without the Spanish threat on the sea in the years after 1588, British ships could ply the waters between Europe and America to bring colonists and supplies to the new lands and return with the products of colonial labor. The event also had implications for the Protestant Reformation. A Protestant country, England, prevailed against the more powerful navy of a Catholic country, Spain.
The fact that a big part of the English defeat derived from bad weather gave some weight to the Protestant claim that their cause was supported by God. The loss of the money used to build the huge fleet of 130 ships in the Armada also weakened the Spanish ability to project power in its new colonies. Many historians view the failure of the Spanish Armada as the beginning of a long, slow decline of Spanish power that eventually resulted in a total loss of its vast empire.
Granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time. Henry IV signed it, and said the famous quote, "Paris is worth the mass"
Great protestant leader and phenominal military leader dies, huge blow against prodestants
Caused by animosity between parliment and the monarchy. The first time a king was executed for treason.
William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch fleet and took power without any bloodshed
Fought between France and Austria over the spanish throne, Phillip took throne but renounced throne in France. First introduction to balance of power
War between britain and france in the Americas, featuring significant impacts of native americans. Britain then tried to take sugar colonies, against France and Spain. Also in Inda. British won all of them. First global war
Meeting that reaffirmed conservative power and promoted balance of power, anti nationalistically
Romantic nationalist revolutions in 1830, ex. Poland, Portugal, France, Belgium, Italy
German states excluding Austria unified under one crown, inspires nationalism
France feared the new power unified germany would have, fought war over balance of power
Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa, Germany emerges as an imperial power
Ottomans systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians
Overthrow Czar Nicholas, Duma created. Then Lenin sent in, overthrows duma and institutes communism, get out of WW1, then Stalin takes power
Treaty that levied heavy war raperations on Germany, screwed them over with inflation, Germany in chaos
Meeting between Stalin and Truman, said that Communism and Capitalism cant coexist
Russians sent in tanks to literally squash protests
Political liberilization in Czechoslovakia, put down by russians
Union between Europeans for mutual defense and economic help
Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, who was one of the earliest humanists. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. He is also known as the Father of Humanism.
an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including The Decameron and On Famous Women. He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in the Italian vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot.
First printing press invented, spurred spread of information and revitalized religion due to the printing of the bible
First book supporting the heliocentric theory, question the humanist belief that man was at the center of the universe
Established foundations for international law, based on natural law
A book that outlined the ideal monarch in an era where Italy desperately needed to centralize to survive
Invented best instrument for observing the stars before the telescope
English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. Father of scientific method
Invented the telescope, and proved the heliocentric theory. Also discovered new laws of gravity
Father of western philosophy and geometry
Published theories on gravity and how it relates to astronomy. Believed that the world was rational and believed in a divine clockmaker type god
Renaissance artist, Created another david
Ideal renaissance man, inventor and artist. Painted mona lisa, last supper, vetruvian man
Influential renaissance artists, created David, Creation of man, Risen Christ
Style that replaced plague era paintings with more realistic, accurate paintings
Sweeping brushstrokes of mostly religious views, meant to revitalize interest for the church and inspire religious zeal and emotion in who viewed it
Henry the navigator discovered Africa, Marking the beginning of a new era of exploration and colonization
Use of gunpowder lead to its defeat
Rise of mercantilism pushes exploration, desire of new reasources like spices, luxury goods, and gold
America revolting against Britain and gaining independence because of taxation without representation
British international trade organization that trades spices and other luxury goods from India and Asia
The Dutch created a monopoly on trade and were the strongest trading empire. Brought much well to the Dutch and Amsterdam.
The first modern bank that brought much wealth to Amsterdam.
Book about how capitalism was the best form of economy because peoples own interests line up wit hthe interests of the goverment
Time of Economic ruin in Europe and America, led to rise of many facist leaders
American stock market crashes, starting Great depression
French control over religion was not totally catholic, so allowed religious freedom
The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences are a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther, led to people questioning the church and the start of the Reformation, started Lutheranism, and inspired peasant revolts
Holy roman empire invades and sacks rome, forces pope to relocate
Catholics lead a counter to the reformation and try to fix their mistakes, but barely anything changes besides the influence of Jesuits.
John created Calvinism and the main belief was predestination. People believed god already decided everyone's path in life
Augsburg, Peace of, 1555, temporary settlement within the Holy Roman Empire of the religious conflict arising from the Reformation . Each prince was to determine whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his lands
The French Wars of Religion, or Huguenot Wars of the 16th century, are names for a period of civil infighting, military operations and religious war primarily fought between Roman Catholics and Huguenots (Reformed Protestants) in the Kingdom of France.
A religious war between Catholics and Prodestants in Western Europe. At the end of the war, the rise of strong centralized authority made political power the prize instead of religious power.
Ended the thirty years war, turning point into centralizing power
Systematic expulsion or forced conversion of all non-Christians in Spain to create a religious monotony in Spain


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Happy New Year Beauts!
Well I have to say it was so sad for me to see 2017 go – it was officially the best year of my life as I got engaged. I have read back through my previous 2017 goals post and want to do a round up before I go on to set my 2018 goals. Lets begin!


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Judge forces State Dept to release remaining Clinton emails by end of month
By Bonnie K. Goodman
February 11, 2016 8:14 PM MST
The State Department has to release former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's remaining 3,700 emails or 7,000 pages by the end of February according to a federal judge's order. Federal Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District for the District of Columbia ordered the State Department on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, to release Clinton's emails in fourth batches until the end of the month. According to the order, they are supposed to release email batches on Feb. 13, Feb. 19, Feb. 26 and Feb. 29. Judge Contreras wrote in his decision, "The Court expects that Defendant will endeavor to avoid any additional delay."
Judge Contreras decision comes hours after the State Department in a compromise said they would be willing to release 550 emails over the President's Day weekend. State Department official Eric Stein filed a document on Wednesday evening, Feb. 10, with the court saying the department made "significant progress" in reviewing the remaining emails from Clinton's tenure.
The State Department tried to appease the federal judge; and their court document stated that the department would release 550 of the emails on Saturday, Feb. 13. That number represents 14 percent of the remaining emails. Stein wrote the Saturday release, "provides time to address any additional problems that may arise, as have occurred in the past at this final stage in the process."
At a Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 9, hearing, Judge Contreras 'scolded" the State Department for defying his order and not completing the email release. Robert Prince represented the State Department and notified the judge that they would not be able to release any emails until Feb. 18, with Prince almost threatening the judge it "could slow down things," if they were forced to go faster.
Contreras told Prince "Government has put me between a rock and a hard place, which is a position I don't want to be in." Contreras came back with a threat that he could "force them to disclose" the emails without the redaction process being completed or "risk further delaying release of the emails."
Prince informed the judge that the department had 570 emails reviewed but said, "I don't think that's at all possible" to release them within the next week while 2,000 emails were at other agencies for review. Prince only suggested that the State Department could release one batch on Feb. 18 and the remaining emails on Feb. 29.
Judge Contreras is angry at the State Department for defying his original court order requiring the department to release publicly all of 55,000 pages of Clinton's emails by Jan. 29. Instead, the state Department filed a request for an extension, arguing that they needed an extra month because other departments need to review some 3,700 emails; they also blamed the massive snowstorm in January as part of their reasons why they need the extra time.
The State Department's request came just after they retroactively classified 22 of Clinton's emails as "top-secret," the "highest level" of classified. The Department insisted they had not initially classified as such when the emails were originally sent and received. At this time over 1,500 emails are classified at very levels, the majority at the lowest level.
Since the end of May 2015, the State Department has been required because of a court order to release each month a batch of Clinton's 30,000 emails with the original end date of Jan. 29. The order was a result of Vice News reporter Jason Leopold Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department aimed at compelling them to release all of Clinton's emails.


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February Is The Perfect Month To List Your Home For Sale, Here Is Why…
It is common knowledge that a great number of homes sell during the spring buying season. For that reason, many homeowners hold off putting their homes on the market until then. The question is whether or not that is a good strategy this year
The other listings that come out in the spring will represent increased competition to any seller. Do a greater number of homes actually come to the market during this season in comparison to the rest of the year? The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently revealed the months during which most people listed their homes for sale in 2018. This graphic shows the results:
The three months in the second quarter of the year (represented in red) are consistently the most popular months for sellers to list their homes on the market. Last year, the number of homes available for sale in January was 1,520,000.
That number spiked to 1,870,000 by May!
What does this mean to you?
With the national job situation improving and mortgage interest rates projected to rise later in the year, buyers are not waiting until the spring; they are out looking for homes right now.
Bottom Line
If you are looking to sell this year, waiting until the spring to list your home means you will have the greatest competition amongst buyers. Beat the rush of housing inventory that will enter the market and list your home today and contact our team to see what are your best mortgage options on your next purchase.
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- Parker gold-tone three-hand watch
- Crystal-embellished bezel
- Water resistant 100 m (330 ft)
- Analog-quartz Movement
- Case Diameter: 39mm
- Water resistant to 100m (330ft): in general, suitable for swimming and snorkeling, but not diving
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(TNS) — In an unprecedented public safety shutoff event, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. began cutting electricity to nearly 2 million people in Northern California early Wednesday in an effort to save life and property amid critical fire weather warnings forecast across the state over the next 48 hours.
By 4 a.m., PG&E had reached its estimated target of 513,000 customers in the first phase of outages, according to the company's website. The bulk of the blackouts lined the hills rising out of the Sacramento Valley and in the California's famed wine country.
PG&E warned customers in its vast electric service territory – stretching along the state's spine from Redding to Bakersfield and from the suburbs of San Francisco Bay to the foothills above Sacramento – that the power may not return until Tuesday, perhaps longer. An army of linemen and engineers with a "prioritized" approach would need to inspect power lines on nearly every mile of wire after the predicted winds, called Diablos in the north and Santa Anas in the south, dissipate as early as Thursday.
The historic decision to plunge 800,000 homes and businesses into isolation, the embattled utility said, was its "last resort" to ward off the threat of wildfires such as the Camp Fire, which tore through the foothills of Butte County, destroying the town of Paradise and killing 85 in the worst wildfire in California history. The fire was ignited by one of the company's power lines in the very deadly scenario the publicly traded company is trying to prevent this time.
The massive interruption was designed in the wake of a growing tally of wildfires that forced the utility into bankruptcy over an estimated $30 billion in potential damages from lawsuits.
Where The Power Is Out Now
The utility said the first phase would impose blackouts on roughly 513,000 customers in the following counties: Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Solano, Sonoma, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo and Yuba.
The first outages occurred a few minutes after midnight in Placer, Nevada and Yuba counties – in places like Rocklin, Penryn, Newcastle and Elders Corner, north of Auburn – according to PG&E outage page. Amador City, Vacaville and west of Corning were also among the first to go.
Images from the vast array of wildfire surveillance cameras set up by universities and PG&E to monitor wilderness in real-time for fire showed angle after angle of Northern California illuminated only by the nearly-full moon.
Then, a few minutes later, at 12:30 a.m., Marysville, Wheatland, Grass Valley – all north of Sacramento – as well as Plymouth and areas on the outskirts of Willows were taken offline.
Simultaneously, cities in wine country were cut in places like Sonoma, Napa and towns below St. Helena, as well as more cities along the Interstate 80 corridor, including north of the highway's split with I-505 in Solano County. Mill Valley and other parts of Marin County, due north of San Francisco, came offline next.
At 12:45 a.m., the first homes in El Dorado County, near Clarksville along Highway 50, were dark along with homes on the other side of Lake Folsom in Granite Bay. To the southeast along Highway 49, more areas followed suit.
Reports began to come in minutes later in Red Bluff and other parts of the upper Sacramento Valley. Images from that AlertWildfire network of cameras showed communities such as Bend plunging into darkness at 12:39 p.m.
At 1 a.m., according to the utility's website, more than 130,000 customers were a part of the mass-imposed blackout; over 200,000 by 1:30 a.m. At 2 a.m., the darkness extended to parts of the Emerald Coast in Eureka and areas as far south as Camanche Reservoir where Amador, Calaveras, and San Joaquin counties meet.
The second phase of the shutoff, the company said, would occur around noon clustered around Silicon Valley and the East Bay and affecting approximately 234,000 customers in Alameda, Alpine, Contra Costa, Mariposa, San Joaquin, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
The utility said a third phase is under consideration for Kern County, affecting 42,000 customers in the southernmost portions of PG&E's service area.
PG&E said it was informing customers by text and email about where and when the power would be cut. But its website, where it directed people to check whether their addresses would be affected, crashed most of the day Tuesday after being overloaded with visitors.
'Measure Of Last Resort'
PG&E during a news conference Tuesday night that the lights would begin to go out at midnight, prompting worries among many reliant on electricity for health and basic needs. The utility planned to shut down power to about 500,000 customers between midnight and 4 a.m. Wednesday, starting northward and following the winds south, expanding the outage as weather required it.
"This is the measure of last resort," Sumeet Singh, PG&E's vice president of the community wildfire safety program, said late Tuesday.
But the outages weren't limited to fire-prone areas because the utilities must turn off entire distribution and transmission lines to much wider areas to minimize the risk of wildfires.
The outage is expected to be by far the largest purposeful power shut-down in PG&E's history, dwarfing PG&E's Oct. 14, 2018, shut-off, the biggest to date, when 59,000 customers in El Dorado and Lake counties lost power.
"The safety of our customers and the communities we serve is our most important responsibility, which is why PG&E has decided to turn power off to customers during this widespread, severe wind event," said Michael Lewis, PG&E's senior vice president of electric operations. "We understand the effects this event will have on our customers and appreciate the public's patience as we do what is necessary to keep our communities safe and reduce the risk of wildfire."
As many as 28 community resource centers would open at 8 a.m. around the north state to offer residents without power restrooms, bottled water, charging stations and air-conditioned seating.
When Will The Power Return?
The planned shutoff, PG&E officials said, could wind up affecting more than half of California's counties – 34 of 58 – including broad portions of the Sierra Nevada foothills, the Sacramento Valley, the Bay Area and even Central California. No shutoffs are expected for Sacramento County, but more than 100,000 customers are expected to lose power in neighboring El Dorado, Placer and Yolo counties.
Capital region communities from Rocklin to Colfax to Cameron Park were among those in the outage zone.
Michael Lewis, senior vice president of PG&E's electric operations, said in a prepared statement that it could take "several days to fully restore power after the weather passes and safety inspections are completed." Windy conditions are expected to last through midday Thursday.
PG&E has emphasized in recent weeks that full restoration of power requires visual inspection of all transmission and distribution lines throughout the affected areas. That equates to thousands of miles of overhead lines, including some in rugged areas.
To the south, Southern California Edison said more than 106,000 of its customers in parts of eight counties could face power cuts as early as Thursday as Santa Ana winds loomed.
The Forecast For California
The engineered blackout – which could affect 16 percent of PG&E's 5 million customers – began ahead of the "strongest wind event of the season" to hit Northern California, with gusts expected to reach 60 to 70 mph in some of the highest elevations, according PG&E forecasts.
The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center in an overnight fire weather outlook report said that a 6,475-square-mile area of the western Sacramento Valley is likely to experience "extremely critical conditions" by Wednesday afternoon or evening. That area contains more than 280,000 residents and includes Vacaville, Clearlake and Red Bluff.
A map posted by the NWS Sacramento office showed gusts exceeding 30 mph recorded between 3 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. in areas just outside Red Bluff and Redding.
The NWS forecasts that valley winds will be highest Wednesday morning through the evening, while winds in the northern Sierra mountains will be strong Wednesday through early Thursday morning.
On Tuesday night from its headquarters in San Francisco, PG&E meteorologists said the winds haven't been this strong since 2017, when powerful currents of air stoked a wildfire that devastated Sonoma and Napa counties, including the destruction of entire neighborhoods in Santa Rosa. Those fires killed 44 people.
Red flag warnings are in effect for the majority of Northern California through 5 p.m. Thursday. Low humidity combined with high winds, the NWS said, is a recipe for potentially catastrophic fires.
How Sacramento Is Affected
Sacramento County, which is served by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, is not expected to suffer any outages. SMUD officials, however, will be monitoring their power lines in the foothills. A SMUD spokesman said those lines are designed to withstand the wind speeds expected in those areas.
"We're not on high alert, but we're monitoring," SMUD spokesman Chris Capra said. "The news that other utilities are doing public safety shut-offs concerns us, and makes us watch a little more closely."
Residents in many foothill areas east of Sacramento will be affected. That includes residents in some cities that are not considered high fire hazard areas, PG&E said. More than 100,000 customers could lose power in El Dorado, Placer and Yolo counties, including portions of Winters, Esparto, Woodland, Davis, Dunnigan and Zamora.
"It is very possible that customers may be affected by a power shut-off even though they are not experiencing extreme weather in their area," PG&E spokeswoman Brandi Merlo said. "That is because the electric system relies on power lines working together across cities, counties and regions."
How Californians Prepared
PG&E warned of the possibility of a widespread shut-off Monday morning, and expanded their projections to include the coast mountains in the state's northwest and the Tehachapi Mountains at the southern base of the San Joaquin Valley. The urgent soundings prompted residents to flock to stores for supplies as they prepared for dying cellphone batteries, automatic garage doors that won't work and lukewarm refrigerators.
"We sold out of lanterns this morning. The shelf is completely empty," said Howard Gibbs, the manager at Ace Hardware in the Contra Costa County town of Lafayette. "We've got just a few flashlights left, and we're down to our last couple propane tanks, too."
PG&E and public health officials urge residents to think about what they need to sustain life and meet health care needs: Be sure you have water, nonperishable food and a first-aid kit on hand. Make a plan to keep insulin and other refrigerated medication cool. Know how to manually open garage doors and how to safely operate electric generators. If you aren't well-versed in operating a generator, you risk being poisoned by carbon monoxide, shocked, electrocuted or burned.
Here are a few other things to consider: If pharmacies in your area close due to lack of power, do you have at least a week's supply of medication on hand? Do you have battery chargers for medical equipment and cell phones, and are they charged? Do you have enough gas in your vehicle to drive an hour to get medical equipment or emergency medical services?
The University of California at Berkeley also advised people in power shut-off areas to charge their cell phones and other electronic devices before the power goes out. People can also charge their devices using the electricity from running cars and trucks.
Local Government Actions
Counties activated their emergency centers and authorities urged people to have supplies of water for several days, to keep sensitive medicines such as insulin in cool places, to drive carefully because traffic lights could be out, to have a full gas tank for emergencies and to check the food in freezers and refrigerators for spoilage after power is restored.
Hospitals and skilled nursing centers would operate on backup power, but other systems could see their generators fail after a few days. Outages even posed a threat that fire hydrants wouldn't work at a time of extreme fire danger. While critical emergency city and county services were expected to operate, residents were urged to call ahead about routine office hours as many may be closed.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District, which serves Alameda and Contra Costa counties, recently spent $409,000 to rent 29 backup generators for use beginning at noon Wednesday.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf asked residents Tuesday not to clog 911 lines with non-emergencies and urged people to be prepared. The city canceled all police officers' days off in preparation for the outages.
"We all know the devastation that fires can cause," she said.
In 1991, a grass fire torched the Oakland Hills, killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes.
School districts across the region called off school Wednesday and Thursday in anticipation of the blackout, affecting thousands of students and their families.
"We're expecting the whole county to go dark. It's a 90 percent probability. Everybody's on standby," said Nevada County Superintendent of Schools Scott Lay of his area. With concerns over food spoilage, Lay said that his office looked into purchasing generators but that the items had been back-ordered.
Officials in Shasta, El Dorado, Placer, Butte, Alameda, San Mateo, Calaveras, Sonoma and Napa counties were among the nearly 100 districts to close campus. College campus also planned to shutter for the next 24 to 48 hours.
The University of California, Berkeley, Sonoma State University and Mills College canceled classes Wednesday.
The State's Response
State officials in Sacramento and across California fanned out ahead of the shutdown.
Caltrans said it was installing generators to avoid closing the Caldecott Tunnel linking the East Bay to San Francisco and the Tom Lantos Tunnel, which goes through Devil's Slide, on Highway 1 in Pacifica.
"The tunnels can't operate without power," Caltrans tweeted, after PG&E said the tunnels would be shut down because of the interruption.
BART, the sprawling commuter train in and around San Francisco, said its service was not expected to be affected.
Cal Fire also announced increased staffing levels during the wind event. Hand crews will be fully staffed and reserve fire engines will be on standby. A night reconnaissance aircraft was also stationed at McClellan Reload Base starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday to gather information on "emerging fires," Cal Fire said.
The agency, formally known as the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said it has called crews in and deployed them at key spots around the state, anticipating the higher potential for fire. Spokesman Capt. Scott McLean pointed out that PG&E's dramatic shut down will reduce the chance of wildfire, but fires can ignite for many other reasons, many of them caused by humans.
"Someone mowing or parking in dry grass, something that creates a spark," McLean said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said PG&E had no choice given that it would have faced liability for fire damage but he said customers are right to feel outraged. The utility needs to upgrade and fix its equipment so massive outages aren't the norm going forward, he said.
"No one is satisfied with this, no one is happy with this," he said.
Anger Over Outages
Residents of the Sonoma County town of Cloverdale, population 9,300, were preparing for the possibility of zero power and downed internet and cellphone lines, as happened during the wine country fires. Cloverdale homes were not burned then, but residents were worried sick over family in burn zones and in the dark without communications, Mayor Melanie Bagby said.
She accused PG&E of failing to upgrade its equipment.
"It's inexcusable that we're in the situation that we're in," she said. "We pay our bills and we gave PG&E a monopoly to guarantee we would have" reliable power.
But Santa Rosa Mayor Tom Schwedhelm said he was grateful PG&E was taking proactive action. His city lost 5% of its housing in the 2017 Tubbs Fire, which killed 22 and torched nearly 6,000 structures in Sonoma and Napa counties. State investigators determined the fire was sparked by a private electrical system, and was not the fault of PG&E.
"I'd much rather do this than address what we had to address two years ago," he said.
At the Dollar General store in Paradise, people were buying candles, gas cans, ice, flashlights, batteries and canned food, and the store ran out of ice chests Tuesday morning, manager Ben Humphries said.
Humphries, who moved to Oroville with his family after losing his home in Paradise, said there was a sense of irony to PG&E's aggressive action in the area now after the company opted not to turn off the power ahead of the Nov. 8 fire that wiped out Paradise.
"I understand their concerns. But in my opinion, it's too little too late. We already had our town burned to the ground," Humphries said.
©2019 The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.


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Fresh from shocking viewers at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the renegade film will have its Australian debut on October 20 at Event Cinemas George Street as part of the 5th Annual Sydney SciFi Festival.
In an unprecedented move, the Sydney SciFi Festival have warned viewers that Reflections in the Dust will be a challenging experience that 'some viewers may find disturbing'. This is no surprise following a highly controversial reception at Karlovy Vary Film Festival in July and rumblings around the industry that 23-year-old director Luke Sullivan has pushed Australian cinema to the limits with his debut effort.
The Sydney SciFi Festival have released the following statement about the film, which chronicles the relationship between a paranoid schizophrenic clown and his blind daughter:
"Writer/director Luke Sullivan's disturbing, abrasive vision may be the most striking Australian directing debut since Alex Proyas' Spirits of The Air Gremlins of The Clouds; while it recalls the bitter futuristic existentialism of Andrei Tarkovsky and the savage relationship dynamics of Harold Beckett, Reflections in the Dust is a blisteringly unique film experience from the cutting-edge/avant garde frontline of the local film sector."
Lead actress Sarah Houbolt, an internationally renowned patron for disabled inclusion in the arts who is blind and suffers from the rare Hallermann Streiff Syndrome, is set to receive the inaugural Vanguard Award at the festival, which is presented to an individual whose unique creative endeavours display a determination and fearlessness in the face of diversity.
Following the premiere, managing editor of SBS Movies Fiona Williams will conduct a Q/A with Luke, Sarah and the cast/crew.
When asked to comment, Luke Sullivan stated "I've had enough of an Australian film industry that is all politics and doesn't truly care about diversity, taking risks or progressing the art form. An industry that churns out films that no one wants to see. This film will change everything. Just watch."
Tickets are now on sale for the Australian premiere of Reflections in the Dust at the following link.
If you haven't already, check out Luke Sullivan speaking about shocking audiences with the film at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival:
Source: https://www.filmink.com.au/public-notice/audiences-warned-ahead-australian-premiere-reflections-dust/


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Bailout package's draft ready as Pakistan accepts several demands of IMF
ISLAMABAD (92 News) – The draft for International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package has been prepared as Pakistan accepted the major demands of IMF on Saturday. According to the sources of Finance Ministry, Pakistan has accepted major demands of the IMF for bailout package in the draft agreement. However, It also said that over strict … Read More


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Emirates and Turkish to commence flights to Kano
The renovated international terminal at Kano Airport was commissioned on Friday, 15 March 2013, by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. At the occasion, the Minister of Aviation announced that she granted Emirates and Turkish Airlines approval to commence flights to Kano, and that the airlines are expected to start operating into the airport before the end of the month. Asky Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines also expressed interest in serving Kano Airport in the past. Furthermore, the Federal Government will construct a cargo terminal at the airport.


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We took a recipe out of our own holiday shop to make these delicious, spice-filled gingerbread cookies! You'll love the healthy alternatives (like coconut sugar, almond butter, and coconut oil) that we've added to make them a LITTLE bit healthier but still REALLY yummy. Happy holiday baking!
Essential Oil-Infused Gingerbread Cookies
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 1/3 cup almond butter
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 2 flax eggs (2 tbsp flaxseed meal and 6 tbsp water)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 3 drops Améo Ginger Essential Oil
- 2 drops Améo Cinnamon Essential Oil
- 1-2 drops Améo Clove Essential Oil
1. Preheat oven to 350*F.
2. In a small bowl make the flax eggs by adding 2 Tbsp flaxseed meal and 6 Tbsp of water. Whisk the flax meal and water together. Let sit for 5 minutes to let mixture gel.
3. In a separate bowl beat together the almond butter, coconut oil, molasses, and coconut sugar until smooth.
4. Next add in the flax eggs, vanilla, and essential oils and mix till smooth.
5. In a separate bowl whisk the coconut flour, baking soda, and salt to combine. Then add to the main mixing bowl and mix till smooth.
6. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.
7. Use a spoon to form cookies about 2-2 1/2″ in diameter. Press cookies down to about 1/4″ thickness.
8. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are cooked through and puffed.
9. Let cool for at least 5 minutes on the cooking sheet then move the cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely. Then enjoy!


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"Think of many things; do one." It is hard to believe that it has been nearly one year since Andrea Diaz sent Safari Prez Tim Marsh an email inquiring about possible job opportunities at Safari Surf School in Nosara. Born and raised in San Jose, her teenage years were devoted to the pressure-packed world of… Read more »
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10% OFF ALL PACKAGES…INCLUDING CUSTOM TRIPS It's no secret that this time of year is one of the most popular for surf trips. Most of us have time off work, want to celebrate the season and head down to the tropical waters to catch some solid sets. There is also no bigger bummer than hearing… Read more »
New LGBTQ Surf Program…it's about time, right?
Recently, while doing some research for an upcoming project, I got tuned into a film that I found, both as a newbie surfer, and personally (in my first published acknowledgment of this…whew!) as a bi-woman, pretty eye-opening. Produced in 2014 (I know…I'm usually late to the party), Out in the Line-up, has won multitudes of… Read more »
Safari Surf School founder and Prez Tim Marsh can be summed up in one word: Irrepressible. Look it up and you'll find words that say "That's Tim!": passionate, unquenchable, everlasting, ebullient, exuberant, buoyant, [more]high-spirited, impossible to hold back… I remember hearing motivational speaker Joel Weldon touting his mantra "SUCCESS COMES IN CANS, NOT IN… Read more »
Don't Forget These 5 Surfing Essentials
One of the greatest moments of a surf trip is the second you first step onto the beach, feeling the anticipation of the adventure to come. The last thing you want in that moment is to realize in that you've forgotten something crucial. With so many items essential to your surfing trip, we've put together… Read more »
The Top 7 Surf Destinations for Surfers of All Levels
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International Lifestyle Magazine Features Safari Surf School!
We are excited to announce that Safari Surf School is featured in the latest issue (No. 56) of the International Lifestyle Magazine! This is a digital magazine that is really behind the pura vida vibes that Safari Surf offers its guests! You can see the full digital magazine right here — our feature starts on page… Read more »
The Inside Peak – Weekly Wrap Up 05.07.13
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Inside Peak Weekly Wrap Up. It is an absolutely gorgeous morning here in Playa Guiones. Clear blue skies, offshore winds and postcard-perfect water conditions have combined with a severe lack of crowds to make for an incredibly enjoyable morning surf session. After a topsy turvy week, weather… Read more »
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Location: A truncated ravine between Blinkwater and Porcupine ravines on the 12 Apostles.
Overview: A reasonably popular scramble route that branches off from the Diagonal path. Somewhat bushy due to a profusion of prickly Climber's Friend bush.
Route Description:
Start up the Diagonal path, and a short way before reaching the big Cave look for a cairn indicating a faint track back towards Blinkwater direction. This meanders across to a saddle overlooking Blinkwater ravine. An overgrown path now heads up next to the watercourse, but a bit higher it is possible to use the watercourse for quite some way in dry weather to avoid the bush. Eventually you are forced back onto the bushy path that continues steeply up into the left hand part of a split gully. At the top an exposed traverse leads out right, then up, and back left to a tea spot below the big blocky top of Blinkwater Needle. Now traverse right (South) below a cliff and up to an ascending traverse path going East with several short rock steps. The proper 'Blind Gully' is a steep rocky scramble quite high up, and after that the track meanders to eventually come out on top near the path to the Back Table.
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England footballing legend David Beckham and current Irish golfer Rory McIlroy are among the sportspersons named in Sunday Times' Top 10 most generous celebrities list. Singer Elton John topped the list, donating an astonishing £26.8m ($37.8m) to charities in the past year.
Beckham, the former Manchester United and Real Madrid star, is in third place in the list, having raised £5m through The Victoria and David Beckham Charitable Trust that he runs with his wife, and also via his role as an ambassador for Unicef.
Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, who gave away £1m of his wealth, is number eight on the list. His donations worth £780,000 went to his personal foundation while he gave £250,000 to Mencap. The golfer started The Rory Foundation with the aim of bettering the lives of vulnerable children. He has also helped set up a short break centre in Newcastle for children with cancer.
Another golfer to make the list was former Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie whose foundation in memory of his mother raised £4.5m for cancer care centres. The list was sponsored by the Charities Aid Foundation that helped people give to charities in 2015.
"Young people are the future of giving and the celebrities many people look up to can play a massive role in setting an example and showing how rewarding it is to give", John Low, chief executive of CAF, said, as quoted by the Herald Scotland.
"Those on the rich list who give to good causes provide much more than financial support. When stars from Coldplay and One Direction to Rory McIlroy and David Beckham give to charity, they send out an important message about the positive impact we can all have by supporting causes we care about", he added further.
More than £2.57bn has been donated in the last year alone with 32 billionaires listed among this year's top 200 donors.
The top 10 list of most generous celebrities are:
1) Elton John (£26.8m)
2) JK Rowling (£10.3m)
3) David Beckham (£5.0m)
4) Martin Lewis (£2.5m)
5) Coldplay (£1.7m)
6) Ringo Starr (£1.6m)
7) Jamie Oliver (£1.4m)
8) Rory McIlroy (£1.0m)
9) Colin Montgomerie (£0.9m)
10) One Direction (£0.8m)


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Big Pharma Giant Guilty of Selling Tainted Children's Tylenol – Knowingly
Even if it meant facing a federal criminal charge
How far does the fraud and contamination of our country's products go? The list is seemingly endless. Recently adding on to the list, mega-company Johnson and Johnson was recently found out to be knowingly selling adulterated bottles of Tylenol that contain metal particles.
The makers of this children's Tylenol seemed to think it was OK to pollute our nation's children – even if it meant a federal criminal charge.
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare ‒ which makes Infants' and Children's Tylenol and Children's Motrin ‒ agreed to pay $25 million to resolve the case, the Associated Press reported, citing court documents. The deal came at a plea hearing Tuesday afternoon.
"The proposed criminal resolution is sufficient to punish McNeil for its past failures and to deter McNeil from violating" federal law in the future, prosecutors wrote in a memo to the judge overseeing the case.
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"Metal particles ‒ including nickel, iron and chromium ‒ were introduced during the manufacturing process at McNeil's plant in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. The company began a voluntary recall in April 2010. The drugs may also have contained more of the active drug ingredient than specified, the company said in a statement at the time."
According to the New York Times, Marc Boston, a McNeil spokesman, had this to say:
"The particles may be solidified product ingredients or manufacturing residue such as tiny metal specks."
Though while the contamination issue is concerning all by itself, the truly large problem is that Johnson and Johnson knowingly continued to sell the product despite known adulteration. The prosecutors accused the company of continuing the sale of the product for approximately a year after the problem had surfaced. Immediate action wasn't even in McNeil's line of sight.
Court documents reveal that a consumer had reported black specks inside Infants' Tylenol in 2009, leading to McNeil to find metal particles during production. Still, production continued to months.
As mentioned, the problem was traced back to machinery at the Fort Washington plant in PA by the Food and Drug Administration. This is where manufacturing violations were discovered, where airborne contamination from a chemical used for wood pallets riddled the area. The plant was shut down in 2010, rebuilt, but hasn't re-opened.
Johnson & Johnson has been forced to issue a variety of pharmaceutical recalls since 2009. McNeil was not the only subsidiary that had quality-control failures during that time period.
Mike is the co-founder, editor, and researcher behind Natural Society. Studying the work of top natural health activists, and writing special reports for top 10 alternative health websites, Mike has written hundreds of articles and pages on how to obtain optimum wellness through natural health.
4 responses to "Big Pharma Giant Guilty of Selling Tainted Children's Tylenol – Knowingly"
The Persons that make and produce these infant formulae's should be taken to court and If found guilty charged with murder of Infants and receive Legal Increments not just Owners that include Pension Funds.
Corporate commandments start w/ 1. make a profit for the stock holders( not caring about the consequences) this inherent flaw is case in point they don't care about people or who they hurt along as their bottom line is being met. Mom and Pop stores or businesses of the past got feedback from the smaller communities they served, and would stop any and all practices that were not in the best interest of their community or neighbors. Globalization is is on the rise at the the death of the individual ( rights of the individual).This is a designed plan by the powers that be , and unless we take our consent away from their evil plans , then we are as much to blame as them.My pledge is to give this type of information to everyone I can and hope they see what is happening.
Who is this $25 million paid to and where does it go? Does it go to the FDA or some other corrupt
organization? Along with the fine should be public shaming by having it being made common knowledge to every country where this product is sold.
Umm the FDA helped track down where the origin of the problem was. Seems it did what it should have…


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let's finish our look at the essential components of any stitcher's workbasket.
Since we've already chatted about scissors and needles, let's dive a little deeper into my workbasket and see what we can find.
Is your workbasket nice and tidy – or do you have the Scarlett O'Hara syndrome? You know…putting off until tomorrow what you really ought to be tending to today.
Seriously, when's the last time you inventoried your workbasket? I mean, actually sat down and took stock of what you have stuffed in there – and what you're missing? Well, there's no time like the present to dive right in and start digging around to see what's inside yours.
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Tyga's money issues are piling up.
According to legal documents obtained by The Blast, the 28-year-old rapper was recently hit with a six-figure judgment over after he failed to make payments on a 2014 Land Rover. Tyga reportedly leased the vehicle from a company called Midway HFCA, which accused the rapper of defaulting on contractual payments.
The suit states Tyga agreed to pay $3,998 over 36 months with the option to eventually purchase; however, the "Taste" artist allegedly stopped paying his bill after he abandoned the vehicle at a repair shop called Final Touch Collision. He reportedly owed nearly $23,000 at the time the suit was filed.
Midway sought $202,739 in damages because Tyga neglected to return the luxury SUV. Though it was a pretty hefty sum, the rapper didn't seem too worried about the suit, as he failed to show up in court to fight the case. In June, a judge sided with Midway by issuing a default judgment of $141,000 in damages, plus interest and legal fees. Which means Tyga is now on the hook for $157,152.60.
Unfortunately for the West Coast native, this isn't the first lawsuit he's had to face in recent months. Back in March, Simon Cowell's ex-fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy sued Tyga for unpaid rent on a Beverly Hills Mansion. And back in June, Tyga was slapped with a $1,482,000 lawsuit for allegedly skipping out on an Abu Dhabi performance.
Though we're not sure what's going on with Tyga, it's clear his money management skills are lacking.
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