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Unite hails victory in EDF meter workers' union recognition fight
- Wednesday 21 February 2018
The successful battle for the trade union recognition of EDF Energy workers transferred to Morrison Data Services has been hailed as a key victory by Unite, the country's largest union.
About 40 meter readers had unanimously voted for strike action if Morrison's, based in Newcastle, had not recognised the EDF workers after they had been transferred.
However, following talks between Unite and the management under the auspices of the conciliation service, Acas, a recognition agreement was hammered out.
Unite regional officer Onay Kasab said: "This is a significant victory which demonstrates that union recognition rights can't be quietly forgotten and silently pushed into the shadows when workers are transferred between organisations.
"The issue was union recognition after EDF transferred its meter readers in the London, south east and south west regions to Morrison Data Services.
"Following the ballot for strike action the employers agreed to talks which took place under Acas' umbrella.
"The result is a recognition agreement with Unite to cover that section of the business transferred from EDF to Morrison's. Members have now agreed with the proposal which the union recommended.
"It is an important win – in many cases where similar transfers happen, the recognition agreement does not transfer.
"Unless one exists at the new company, we end up losing recognition which can often be detrimental to the pay, employment conditions, and health and safety of our members.
"This was a fight worth fighting and Unite won't be found wanting in this respect in the future."
Notes to editors:
For more information please contact Unite senior communications officer Shaun Noble on 020 3371 2060 or 07768 693940. Unite press office is on: 020 3371 2065. Email: email@example.com
Unite is Britain and Ireland's largest trade union with over 1.4 million members working across all sectors of the economy. The general secretary is Len McCluskey.


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By Kayode Lawal, Abuja
Detailed accounts of how the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Ibrahim Lamode manipulated the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and Tribunal (CCT) to instigate the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki on spurious charges of false assets declaration have been uncovered.
Saraki's sudden trial initiated more than 13 years he left office as governor of Kwara State was said to have been orchestrated by Lamode to hit back at Saraki over the insistence of the Senate to probe him on the alleged diversion of about one trillion naira recovered as loots from convicted fraudsters.
It is revealed that the sacked EFCC boss put the embattled chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal Mr. Danladi Yakubu Umar under intense pressure to convict the Senate President within one week.
Lamode who had been shielding the CCT Chairman from probe over a N10m bribery scandal since 2012 was said to have summoned Justice Umar to his office and instructed him do the alleged hatchet's job or risked being exposed on his dirty past and face prosecution.
The ploy of Lamode, findings revealed was aimed at embarrassing the Senate President to influence his colleagues in the Senate to drop him as the Senate President.
The CCT boss, in a desperate move to satisfy Lamode and to continue to enjoy the cover-up in the N10m bribery scandal, was said to have swallowed the bait by agreeing to do the bidding of the ex EFCC boss at the expense of the Senate President.
Lamode had on March 5, 2015 authorised a memo to the then secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) confirming details of how in 2012 the CCT boss demaned for a bribe of N10m from a former Deputy Comptroller General of customs Mr. Rasheed Taiwo and later accepted a part payment of N1.8m.
The N10m bribe was said to have been demanded by the CCT Chairman from the said Rasheed Taiwo to quash a charge of false asset declaration against him.
Lamode in the memo with Reference No EFCC/EC/SGF/03/56 informed the SGF that upon interrogation, the CCT boss in writing admitted meeting the said Rasheed Taiwo privately in his chamber and that he (CCT boss) also admitted using his phone to send bank account detail to Taiwo to pay the bribe in a Zenith Bank Account.
Lamode's letter he personally signed was entitled "Investigation Report on N10m Bribery Allegation against the Chairman, Code of Conduct Tribunal, Abuja".
The letter read in part "We refer to your letter ref. no. SGF.19./S.24/II/451 and dated 23rd February, 2015 on the above mentioned case reported by one Mr. Rasheed Taiwo (DCG rtd) of 6AB Milverton Road, Lagos against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal Justice Danladi Umar and his Personal Assistant one Gambo Abdullahi".
"The complainant who is facing charges at the Code of Conduct Tribunal alleged that Justice Umar made direct demand for the sum of N10 million to quash the charges sometimes in 2012".
"He disclosed that he was compelled to pay the sum of N1.8M after persistent inundation with phone calls from Justice Umar, who received the bribe through the Zenith Bank account of one Ali Gambo Abdullahi, his Personal Assistant in December, 2012".
"Investigation was extended to one Hon. Justice G.A Oguntade (Rtd) who confirmed that the complainant informed him in 2012 of the issues he had at the Tribunal and the demand being made by Justice Umar. He disclosed that Justice Umar denied the allegation when he called him".
"There is a prima facie evidence to however prosecute the Personal Assistant, Abdullahi, who could offer no coherent excuse for receiving N1.8M into his salary account from Taiwo, who is an accused person standing trial at the Tribunal".
"The full money has been recovered from him in May, 2014 and aptly registered as exhibit. The fact that he made two contradictory statements on the reason he was paid the money, is clearly an attempt to cover up on the reason the money was paid to him".
"He has accordingly been charged to court in charge no. CR/137/2015 pending at the High Court of FCT, Abuja".
Lamode who had buried the case file of the CCT boss in his office since 2012 when the alleged bribed was received was reported to have exhumed the file and used same to threaten and harass Justice Umar to either deal with Saraki for him or be exposed on his shady deals in the CCT.
Commenting on the finding, the National Coordinator of Save Nigeria Group (SNG) Barrister Bernedict Ezeagu confirmed that the conspiracy by Lamode to use the CCT to settle scores with Saraki had been uncovered.
"Shortly after the bribe saga broke out, two members of the CCT petitioned their chairman, queried his morality and vowed never to set in judgment with him".
"Mr. Umar was brought back urgently by certain interest to do a hatchet job so that he can be left off the hook, and his sudden recall from his administrative bail under the current Buhari-led regime in spite of the available monumental evidence implicating him in the corruption allegation made against him and against the advice of the offices of the AGF, EFCC, CJN and SGF among others is a despicable political rather than judicial action which is destroying the criminal justice administration in the country as well as makes jest of the avowed anti-corruption fight of the current Buhari-led administration".
"Considering the weight of allegation and the monumental evidence against Mr. Umar it is our firm conclusion that he no longer has any moral basis or dependable reputation to sit in judgment against Mr. Taiwo and other accused persons brought or expected to appear before the CCT and should quit that position immediately".


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UNIJOS Long Vacation Sandwich/Part-time Admission 2019/2020
Pursue your degree programs at the University of Jos with the UniJos long vacation part-time degree programs.
This is to inform all interested candidates/aspirants that UNIJOS Sandwich Degree Programs application 2018/2019 is ongoing.
The 5 Long Vacations programs in the Institute of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Jos has various Bachelor of Arts Education and Bachelor of Science Education courses available and interested persons can follow the guidelines below to apply.
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a. Candidates should have a good NCE or a Diploma in relevant areas of study at Upper/Lower Credit level of at least two (2) full academic years duration.
b. Five (5) Credits in GCE/SSCE ordinary level in not more than two sittings are considered.
NB: All Candidates aspiring to read any B.Sc. (Ed) course must have Credits in Mathematics.
2. Admission requirements for PGDE
a. Candidates should have at least HND or its equivalent in any discipline from recognized Institutions.
Interested applicants are to follow the link bellow:
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Click on pay a Federal Government Agency
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Fill other information to generate RRR and proceed to pay the sum of N10,000 being the cost of the form and print receipt of payment.
1. Applicants could obtain the forms on-line using the University website (mis.unijos.edu.ng), and complete same.
2. Applicants could come to the Institute of Education Finance Office, to obtain the forms and complete same.
3. All Properly completed forms attached with photocopies of credentials must be submitted on or before 31st July 2019 to:
The Secretary,
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University of Jos.
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Plateau State, Nigeria.
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Capital Transit is the public bus service for the City of Helena. Operation is Monday through Friday excluding weekends and holidays. We offer two route buses, the Red Route and the Blue Route, a East Valley bus, and ADA Complementary Curb-to-Curb / Para Transit bus. Please refer to bus scheduling for times and locations of the buses.The ADA Complementary Curb-to-Curb / Para Transit bus runs every hour and half hour starting as early as 7:00am and ending at 6:00pm. This service is for approved ADA applicants. The applications can be found on-line: www.RidetheCapitalT.Org -or- www.helenamt.gov., or picked up at the Capital Transit office, or on the Capital Transit buses. The Red Route and the Blue Route are fixed route buses that crisscross across town from north to south and east to west. No call in is required. The routes start at 7:00am and end approximately at 6:12pm. The East Valley Bus is a deviated fixed route. A call in is required for an approved ADA pick up that is not at a designated bus stop. The East Valley Bus runs every hour starting at 7:00am to 11:00am - then again at 1:00pm to 4:00pm ending at the bus facility at 5:00pm. For additional information call 447-8080 or visit our website www.ridethecapitalt.org
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The Parthenon, which functions as an art museum, stands as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, a large public park just west of downtown Nashville.
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Ultimate Labor Day Fish Fry Menu
Smoked Pimiento Cheese Hush Puppies with Pickled Okra Tartar Sauce
Nothing says Southern quite like pimiento cheese and hush puppies. Married together, you have one salty, smoky, gloriously golden-fried appetizer.
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Deviled eggs are the perfect finger food, particularly because they play so well with modification. Ours emulates that creamy, Cali crudité favorite, Green Goddess, which is loaded with tons of grassy fresh herbs.
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It's a beautiful story, and it all starts with a simple question that any of us can ask right now, today:
Just how many seemingly impossible problems in the world only look that way because insufficient effort and imagination has been invested in exploring and testing clever ways to re-align the incentives?
This essay series and podcast, Dispatches From Our Abundant Future, explores that question, applying the answers that come back to seemingly impossible, allegedly intractable, so-called hopeless challenges all around the world…
- Revitalizing once-fertile, currently arid deserts into mass-scale carbon recapture systems that also generate natural rainfall patterns AND massive profits…
- Rebalancing the equations in healthcare systems so everyone from doctors and large health systems to insurance and pharmaceutical giants generate exponential returns when patients become genuinely, sustainably healthy…
- Shifting justice and mental healthcare systems from mindless, self-perpetuating cycles of punishment, trauma, neglect, and pain to conscientious systems of forgiveness, restoration, lasting healing and on and on.
The seemingly menacing, even terrifying threat of climate change seems like a great place to start, because so many of us right now seem convinced that it's a hopeless nightmare in the making.
On the one hand, we have everyone who would prefer the Earth not get warmer faster than civilization can possibly hope to adapt.
On the other, we have in the vicinity of $200 trillion dollars of infrastructure dedicated to the extraction, processing, and distribution of oil, gas, and coal and all the various byproducts available inside it.
And all the nations and states that rely on that revenue to feed their budgets and the men, women, and children who rely on all of it to feed and clothe themselves.
And all the hard working, highly intelligent, and powerful men and women who have dedicated their professional lives to building, expanding, and maintaining the networks of value that run on these things we call fossil fuels, who know the world we currently live is not yet equipped to operate without them, but also have a whole lot of vested interest that they quite reasonably have no desire to walk away from.
And on and on.
From what one might call the standard perspective, it looks like we are dealing with a zero-sum game, where for one side to win, the other must surely have to lose, or at least give up a meaningful percentage of something they hold dear.
But what if there were ways that no one on any side of the equation had to lose?
More tangibly, what if…paths existed that could align the interests of every major player involved in the climate change issue and then some…which is really all of us…to collaboratively, transparently, and ethically:
..design, test, launch, and refine a set of solutions that generate renewable sources of oil for energy and byproducts, raw materials for textiles, and new and ancient medicines, all while pulling millions and millions of tons of carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back into the soil…
…A solution that makes use of the oil companies's massive and well-orchestrated distribution networks, the chemical giants' industrial scale production capabilities, and the pharmaceutical companies extraordinary marketing machines…
…without trampling on the independence and autonomy of the pioneers in hemp and cannabis farming, who took major risks developing their expertise and building their businesses when those crops were fully illegal…
..without recreating another massive, top-down monopoly…
…Does all this while generating an unprecedented profit for everyone involved…
All while transforming some percentage of the melting ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctic from an apparently fearful symbol of environmental collapse into an incredible, life-expanding opportunity to revitalize once-thriving ecosystems that became deserts because of human activity?
And even better than that:
What if we had reliable, testable, repeatable ways to write new equations…not only that allowed everyone involved to keep the essence of the economic value they have…
…but also produce so much more of it than they would have imagined possible before, but also do so in a way that the economic benefits AND the gifts of personal empowerment re shared abundantly across the whole spectrum of humanity AND actually improves the well-being of the planet.
That took the dynamics of power from the long-standing paradigm of "power over others" to a new application "power to support, nourish, and empower others."
Yes, it may seem grandiose. Too big. impossible. Maybe it is all of those things. Maybe not.
Regardless, I'm here to highlight some important questions:
- What if the solutions to problems that seem impossible only seem that way because we aren't asking the right questions?
- What is required to demonstrate to all the relevant people and organizations involved…especially those with the most vested value…that there are ways forward that do not require sacrifices from anyone at the table…
- What if the whole thing was right under our noses this whole time but we were too busy assuming the worst things about each other to even notice?
- What happens when we begin to internalize the concept that so many of the stories we hold of hate and malevolence and evil and so on all persist because of something as simple and tractable as poorly designed incentives and presuppositions that made sense at the time but are no longer working well in this juncture of history?
- Then what? Then maybe long-time antagonists could work together to design new equations, tell new kinds of stories, and watch our whole world blossom.
As just one of the many examples we will explore over the life of this project, let's start with the many millions of tons of the freshest water on Planet Earth currently collapsing into huge chunks of ice off of the polar ice sheets, melting into the oceans, and threatening to consume coastlines and inhabited islands the world over.
There's a wonderfully filmed movie called chasing ice where a documentarian named James Balog goes to the Antarctic and captures breathtaking footage of ancient ice shelves the size of whole cities breaking off and collapsing into the sea.
The tone of this movie, and of so much of the dialogue around these things, seems to be a mix of helplessness and awe: "look at these giant forces so much bigger than we are! Look at us, wrecking our home planet! Maybe we're all just doomed."
Meanwhile, in many environmental circles, one hears talk of fresh water shortages and desertification…the transformation or previously green, vibrant areas into dry deserts…
And yet here we all are: millions and millions of tons of the purest fresh water available on Earth melting into salt and we're freaking out about the threats to our coastlines and island nations and dwindling fresh water tables and considering massive investments in huge, energy-intensive desalination plants.
Meanwhile, some savvy entrepreneurs are finding ways to bottle and sell this water to those willing and able to pay upwards of $150/liter.
We are a species that:
- Has traveled to the moon and back.
- Connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by digging a canal through allegedly impassable jungle terrain.
- Built giant, bustling diverse cities where there used to nothing but hills.
Along with the more famous pyramids of Giza, there's a 1200 year old multi-story temple in India called Kailash that human beings literally sculpted out of a mountain from the top down…not carved from the bottom up like most sculptures, but dug into the mountain itself.
…a project of extraordinary precision, beauty and craftsmanship that any modern sculptor would like tell you ought to be impossible.
And let's not forget that every single one of us here is alive today because those that came before us survived often extraordinarily difficult odds.
If sufficient ingenuity, resources, and conscious effort focus on it, surely the means exist to computationally explore the upsides and risks, and if the equations balance favorably, haul at least some of the newly created icebergs out of the oceans and transport them into desert regions with sufficient latent soil fertility.
After preparing the dry ground with the amazing part of a fungus called mycelium and a compost-like substance called biochar, we could then seed the ground with wide varieties of hemp, trees, and other earth-nourishing plants.
We now have something potentially extraordinary:
The foundation of a world-scale carbon capture system that with the cooperation, technical expertise, and distribution networks of the leaders of all the nations and industries that would experience the impact of such a project COULD also supply the world with carbon-negative sources of oil, raw materials for textiles, paper, and on and on.
Before we get to how THAT potentially draws the circle for everyone at the table, let's talk about biochar.
Here's Wikipedia on the subject:
"Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon, and can endure in the soil for thousands of years. Biochar is under investigation as an approach to carbon sequestration, as it has the potential to help mitigate climate change.
Independently, biochar can increase soil fertility of acidic soils, increase agricultural productivity, and provide protection against some foliar and soil-borne diseases."
Along with absorbing carbon and increasing soil fertility, biochar also has another property that makes it just about ideal for planting large crops in arid regions: it retains water like a massive organic sponge.
This is useful because one of the central challenges facing efforts to "green the deserts" is rapid evaporation.
Even if you water the desert intensely, the thin, dry sandy earth has a low moisture retention rate and the blistering hot sun tends to quickly evaporate whatever water does get into the ground.
While a robust quantitative analysis needs to be done here, biochar could, in concept, reduce or even eliminate that challenge by mixing a dense layer of highly absorbent organic material into the dry desert earth…the perfect base layer for the crop that gets planted on top.
OK, but what about the chemical companies who have a whole lot of value tied up in their current fertilizer businesses?
We'll get there.
Let's talk about the remarkable, earth-renewing capabilities of mycelium.
I first learned about mycelium from a TED talk by Paul Stamets, an expert on mushrooms, aka a mycologist.
Decent metaphors for one of the functions of mycelium might be "the nervous system for plants" or "the internet of the forest" because when mycelium networks are abundant in a forested region, the trees and other plants rely on it to share information with each other about soil moisture and mineral levels and encroaching leaf eaters, and actually distribute and share these resources from areas where they are overabundant to areas that could use a little help.
While mycelium has many remarkable properties and useful applications, it has two that are most relevant to the issue it hand:
First, it can distribute and manage the balance of moisture and nutrients across large planted areas while keeping undesirable crop predators and diseases at bay, potentially managing a task that normally requires heavy farm equipment and a fair amount of human labor.
Second, it can break down the hydrocarbons in oil-saturated Earth after an oil spill and turn them into plant food.
It's worth watching Stamets' TED talk above to see this process in action.
In one scene, he shows a big, toxic, sad-looking chunk of oil-saturated dirt infused with mycelium spores. Soon, the oily dirt begins to sprout mushrooms. Insects and other mushroom-eating organisms show up to the scene, carrying pollen and attracting birds that eat insects.
Hitching a ride on the bodies of the various forms of the life showing up to this party (and on the back of the wind), seeds from multiple species of plants find their way in as stowaways and gate crashers.
In a matter of weeks, that dead, noxious-looking piece of land teems with plant life. Flowers blossoming. Bees stopping by to get themselves some sugar.
When it comes to bringing our farming practices into the rest of this century and beyond, mycelium seems like it could be a powerful multiplier, creating a layer of natural intelligence under the large-scale hemp farming effort that I'm about to suggest, allowing nature do the heavy lifting work of moving moisture and nutrients around a network of large, diverse, inter-dependent crops, breaking down undesirable things in the soil and turning them into desirable things.
Now, much to their credit, the development of oil-derived fertilizers in intensive agriculture profoundly increased the amount of food a given plot of land could produce and was essential in preventing hundreds of millions of people or more from starving to death to the 1950s and 60s.
The challenge is that they also produced a range of unanticipated side-effects.
The runoff from farms that use these fertilizers ends up in the oceans and seems to have exacerbated the damage excess atmospheric carbon has been doing to the oceans.
Along with our modern sewage management practices…practices that sterilize and dispose of human waste instead of safely recycling it back into the Earth…our food production and waste disposal systems seem to have been depleting the natural mineral contents in soils around the world, reducing the nutritional value and positive health impacts that fruits and vegetables offer our bodies.
…but who on Planet Earth is best positioned to collaborate with mycologists and biochar experts on creating the exact right applications of those ingredients?
If you guessed traditional fertilizer and chemical giants, give yourself a kiss.
It might be helpful if someone more quantitatively adept than I, possibly with access to supercomputing resources and powerful simulation software could run the numbers on this.
However, if the hypothesis here is even close to correct, there ought to be hundreds of billions of dollars in completely new revenues and a significant number of new jobs available in shifting from oil-derived fertilizers and pesticides to highly organic, self-renewing compounds that generate dramatically greater yields and don't have unfortunate side effects.
Ok, but what about the oil companies and the oil producing states?
After all, they have literally hundreds of trillions of dollars of value tied up in supplying crude oil, refined petroleum, synthetics and other oil derivates to various partners in nearly every industry in the world.
And the political clout to back it up.
Here comes the magic of hemp.
Because when one combines the massive quantities of superfresh water from the glaciers and the biochar and mycelium compounds in arid but fertile desert soils, what do you get?
Fertile, moist soil with a network of organic intelligence: perfect for planting thousands of square miles of hundreds of varieties of hemp plants…a high-yield, self-regenerative new source of oil that also happens to be a carbon capture system of unprecedented scale.
Hemp has many, many properties that make it potentially ideal for this kind of endeavor. Too many to list.
Suffice to say that it's incredibly resilient, grows like a weed in a huge array of soil and climate configurations, and generates plenty of highly marketable byproducts. One of them is oil.
And who is well-positioned to become a market leader in the part of this enterprise that teaches the world how to most efficiently turn a well-balanced percentage of the annual hemp crop into oil and distribute it for all the dozens and dozens of applications that hemp oil provide?
There are many possibilities.
Here's just one: a new, unprecedented form of federated, international cooperative venture, the result of the fusion of all the world's great oil companies from ExxonMobil to Gazprom and the world's leading independent hemp growers and botanists and tobacco companies…
If the CEO of a leading oil company or a leader of a major oil-producing nation could see this potential clearly, would he go for it? Would he use his tremendous clout and leverage to facilitate its orchestration?
I don't know.
Maybe if he could pull back and see that what looks like an oil and petroleum and synthetics business is actually the business of using world-class expertise in extraction, refining, and distribution to leverage the gifts of the Earth into the substances that power the whole human civilization…
…and he could find it inside himself to to forgive the many various people and factions that have demonized him and his organization over the years…
Then why not?
Would there be significant upfront capital costs involved in retooling for all of this? For sure. Would it be fair to ask all the industrial giants to shoulder all that for the benefit of the rest of us?
Not a chance! But offsetting those costs with subsidies sounds like great role for Uncle Sam, Mother Russia, the House of Saud, the leading families of Iraq and the Ayatollahs of Iran.
And maybe we can go even further…
Instead of just hemp, maybe one of the influential leaders in the pharmaceutical industry fully grasps the pharmaceutical applications in naturally-derived cannabinoids, and from their position of influence starts to convince more and more of the governments of the world to relax their prohibitive attitudes towards the mind-altering version of the hemp plant.
And maybe then they get together with the alternative healing experts, and with the help of the cannabinoid derivates from this giant new garden and the public and private health insurers and policy makers of the world…
And together, they gently, mindfully pivot the business of healthcare from treating and managing the symptoms of various diseases towards patients and governments paying out a fair share of the social benefits in the increased productivity of a newly healthy, thriving population…from managing diseases to supporting people in healing from them.
Maybe with the guidance of a visionary CEO of a leading hedge fund, his peers across every great traditional human industry from oil, gas, and coal to heavy machinery and weapons to automobiles and shipping to pharmaceuticals and textiles and on and on that, they, too, could find deep veins of gold and diamonds in their industries simply by pulling back and readjusting their perspective on the businesses they are really in.
Because in oil, just as one example, some large swath of the trillions of dollars in value just happens to be mostly concentrated in a desert region that used to be one of the most fertile regions on Earth… where well-armed nations have been locked at odds for supremacy for as long as history itself…
With the intention of cooperation and collaboration instead of competition and conflict in the air, how long would it take for all that land to be repurposed and retooled into massive, self-sustaining hemp farms that absorb so much carbon that within just a few years, the carbon required to set everything up gets fully reabsorbed and the rains are coming back to the desert of their own accord?
Suddenly, the odds of a future of world-wide human thriving are better than even. They are strongly in its favor.
Suddenly, we're no longer talking about venturing into space as a matter of survival but as a matter of expanding human consciousness to other planets, and eventually beyond.
It might take a little bit longer than any initial models assume for the revenues to eclipse the initial capital costs involved in pivoting the infrastructure this way, but given the risks to coastlines, the potentially ruinous impacts of mass migrations, and so on, maybe the wealthy governments and powerful families of the entire world could find it in their self-interest to pitch in and subsidize the difference.
Every minute after that would be gravy.
The best gravy anyone has ever tasted. The best gravy humanity has in its long history, ever produced: the gravy of sustainable planetary cooperation.
Can we, as a species, move beyond our history of antagonism and competition over scarce resources and make this and other ambitions projects of this nature happen?
Is any of this possible? Of course it is.
Will we do it?
Let's find out.
Welcome to Dispatches From Our Abundant Future: The Story Of A Bright Destiny For Humanity, Life, The Universe, And Everything.
This starts with this essay, but the intention is to evolve it into a podcast, a series of videos and even virtual reality experiences about our shared road away from the anger, scarcity, conflict, and fear of today to the forgiveness, abundance, peace, and elegance of tomorrow.
The road where everyone wins together for perhaps the first time in our collective time on Earth. Where nobody gets left behind.
Over the course of this podcast, we will search for all sorts of potentially elegant solutions to seemingly intractable problems and seek to demonstrate that the more intractable a problem seems, the larger and more rewarding an opportunity it actually presents for everyone involved.
That concept for combining hemp, melting ice caps, biochar, and mycelium to plant a highly profitable carbon capture system and re-vitalize desert regions is just the tip of the iceberg.
Like how, within the next decade or so, it's possible to combine the coming wave of virtual and augmented reality technologies with a federated network of next-generation communication satellites and begin to make world-class wellness and education systems nearly free and accessible to almost everyone on planet Earth.
We will push into the frontiers of our understanding of consciousness, and explore how greater scientific awareness of the extraordinary connections between the mind and body light the way to effective, scalable approaches to healing multi-generational patterns of trauma and fostering widespread health and well-being.
We will seek to show how this approach offers a path for the traditional power brokers in healthcare…pharmaceutical companies, public and private insurers, large medical systems and medical lobbying associations to make and save unprecedented sums of money by helping to reverse, heal, and eliminate diseases rather than simply fight and manage them.
The thing about all the potential solutions we'll explore is that they are all rooted in the concept that everyone on this planet is in this together.
Accordingly, they're designed to expand the size of the pie and every slice of it so the people and organizations with the most value vested across the world's keystone industries have the opportunity to keep the essence of the value they've built and expand it exponentially while everyone else also benefits tremendously.
We will explore concepts that may seem like they're straight out of utopian science fiction but are technologically and economically practical to begin right now and expand over the course of the next 10 years.
We will share the perspectives of people who have conceived entirely practical paths to turning mass scale automation from a harbinger of social decay and mass inequality into an opportunity to transcend scarcity of all kinds, shifting the concept of work from "jobs we work to pay for stuff" to "discovering one's specific gifts and applying them towards both individual and collective health, happiness and well-being."
Depending on the narratives and belief systems you subscribe to, it's possible that along the way you may encounter concepts that seem illuminating and exciting, difficult and painful, inflammatory and upsetting, and in some cases possibly even debased.
If we had access to an artificial intelligence that could instantly translate across concepts and beliefs so we could quickly find the common ground between seemingly conflicting perspectives, we would use it in a heartbeat.
But for now, like with the case we'll make in Season 2 or 3 that forgiving ourselves, the most brutal moments in history and finding compassion and love for the people (often men, but women too) who perpetuated them and continue to do so is the most direct and low-risk way to a safe, healthy, and peaceful world.
Or the one where we explore the long forgotten healing practices of sacred prostitution and religious sexual rituals and make the case that the world would be a dramatically happier, less alienating and violent place if we brought them back in a big way.
While we hope that the general feelings here are inspired, optimistic, and empowered, we cannot promise that everything here will be comfortable, or easy, pleasant, and fun to contemplate, hear about, or confront.
In fact, there may be occasional moments that are the opposite.
But we do promise that everything comes straight from the heart, a place of relentless love and compassion, with as little ego as we can muster and still believe we have something worthwhile to share.
Because if we do this even approximately right, the story we seek to uncover is about humanity forgiving itself and each other and through that simple, powerful, not always easy act becoming much more humane.
It is about making way for the flow of life and the remarkable things that unfold when the gifts of the empowered feminine are fully supported and women achieve their rightful places as the guiding lights of the world.
It's about all the abundance that becomes possible when we apply the nurturing, supportive, collaborative aspects of the healthy feminine to the re-design of major social systems, so we align the generation of wealth and power with human well-being, and both of those things with the health of the Earth and all of the other life we share it with.
Accordingly, some of what you will discover here may test and sometimes break the conventional boundaries between science, spirituality, and metaphysics.
Because the central thesis that led to this podcast is that we, individually and collectively, already have the solutions to every single one of the most pressing, threatening, and allegedly impossible challenges the present and future seem to hold.
While I cannot say for sure because no one seems to have run that experiment yet, the hypothesis is that each and every one of them…
…all the mysteries of creation, life, the universe, and everything else are accessible in varying degrees of depth to every human being with a brain and a heartbeat willing to do the work necessary to face ourselves, process the pains and traumas and rewrite the stories of victimization so many of us carry, and upgrade our perspectives.
….to work on forgiving ourselves and everyone that has ever hurt us, including our families, ex-lovers, persecutors, perceived enemies, ancestors and enemies' ancestors.
…to open our minds, face down the fears and insecurities, find ways to process and release the traumas and doubts that we've collectively been carrying for far longer than most of us know, and yell, roar, scream, and cry it all out.
Depending on your personal experiences, the process may involve A LOT of crying.
But one day…maybe you'll be going inward and imagining someone you loved who broke your heart or whose heart you broke, or who hurt you in much deeper ways…engaged in an activity they love…
…and you'll be crying intensely for their pain and your pain and suddenly you may hear something you've never heard before: that the sobs surging through your body actually have the sound and weight of laughter.
And then maybe after the tears subside you'll just start laughing…
…because sometimes, even through the hardest pains, life suddenly reveals itself as so mysterious and extraordinary that you can't help wonder if whatever deep creative forces put this whole thing together have an absurdist sense of humor…because how else does one explain all the features of the duckbill platypus?
And then…as the crying recedes and you take slow, deep breaths deep into your belly and chest and eventually find your calm, grounded, centered happy place, come up with a question you've always wanted an answer to and fill your body and mind with the sensations of curiosity, wonder, and love.
Keep doing that and maybe no matter where or who you are, whatever bad, evil, horrible, unforgivable things you think you've done, the answer may eventually make itself available to you.
If this hypothesis is correct, here's what may happen: one day, you will spontaneously discover that somewhere inside, some part of you has the answer to the big question you've been asking or it's been revealed to you in another way…like a highly relevant book recommendation from a friend or stranger or an item in your newsfeed.
It may even show up in much more interesting and coincidental ways…
For those us that are fairly far along the path to self-Illumination, some or many of the concepts, ideas, and solutions presented over the course of this podcast may be an echo of something that was already bouncing around inside your head. You may have thought of them yourself in some form, and sometimes even verbatim.
If so: awesome. You probably have improvements, refinements, and other great solutions that aren't yet in here and should be.
If you're working on one of them, reach out and let's talk. Who knows what's possible when like minds connect?
For others, the experience of hearing this may feel a bit like a sense of remembering, like "yes!!" as if the words you encounter here are merely giving structure to feelings or insights you had, but had not yet developed into words.
If what you encounter here strikes you as totally novel, intriguing, or exhilarating, but feels like something you doubt you would have ever considered yourself, that's ok, too.
It simply suggests that you are beginning to open up, and the further you go inside that feeling, the more you will discover how much of it was already there.
And if your reaction to these concepts is well-informed skepticism…not to be confused with reactive cynicism… that's great, too!
It means that you are officially invited to play the role of red team: meticulously picking apart every claim, finding every hole and inconsistency, and revealing to the rest of us everything that is legitimately implausible or riskier than it seems.
Through the refinery of your skepticism and your passionate desire to find the truth, every worthwhile concept here becomes stronger, more resilient, and more practical, and everything that cannot adapt to the fire of scrutiny gets reconsidered, re-evaluated, redesigned, or disposed.
In the first season, we will take the bird's-eye view, flying over the landscape of seemingly intractable challenges to human and planetary well-being and presenting rough drafts of potential opportunities to develop win-win-win scenarios among all the players involved.
Given that the United States is my nation of origin, a country I love deeply, whose internal challenges and legacies of trauma I'm most keenly aware of, much of the first season may inevitably focus on the challenges the US faces, even as the perspective remains planet-wide,.
Like in one episode, we'll look at the apparently dense briar patch that is healthcare in the United States.
And explore a beautifully simple, elegant potential solution to one of the most seemingly intractable issues in that industry:
The misaligned incentives between doctors, health systems, private and public insurers (like Medicare), pharmaceutical companies, and patients, and seek to show how with the right designs, the seemingly impossible challenge of sorting things out so everyone profits together is not nearly as impossible as it looks.
In another, we'll survey the justice system and the intersection of seemingly intractable impasses that have resulted in one of the highest incarceration rates and multi-generational patterns of personal and cultural trauma in the whole world…
…and explore how just a little bit of clever reconsideration of incentives has the potential to transform a system of relentless punishment into a system that promotes revitalization and well-being at a significantly larger economic return to every player involved.
We'll explore how integrating the values of compassion, forgiveness, and redemption into systems design can end homelessness, gently break cycles of drug addiction, and foster widespread mental health. We'll also wade into education, child welfare, and food.
When possible, we'll do so through the lens of a startup, foundation, organization, individual, or large company that in their own small, large, and occasionally epic ways, embodies the logic of win-win-win cooperation this podcast seeks to uncover:
This logic says with the right mindsets, approaches, and sufficiently well-designed technology, it's possible to rebalance incentives so that everyone with a vested interest can win along together with everyone else…making unprecedentedly large profits by supporting, nurturing, and improving the health and well being of our fellow human beings and the planet we all share.
So season 1 will tell the story of conscious, mindful integration instead of mindless technological disruption. A story of the potential of cooperation and creative re-construction, rather than the old win-lose pattern of creative destruction.
As we intend to suggest in an episode on the under-appreciated and often unfairly demonized role organized crime has played in the world, there are no villains in this story, no anti-heroes…only heroes and heroines in various disguises…disguises that inevitably dissolve once we realize who and what we really all are.
This is an ambitious goal. A tall order. Is it grandiose? Yes. Unrealistic? Maybe. Maybe not.
My hope is that somewhere inside, everyone and anyone who listens will sense even a glimmer of the notion that with revisions, refinements, and upgrades, a cooperative, collaborative, peaceful, abundant world is entirely possible.
See you in Season 1, coming soon to a podcast app near you.
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Ahead of the 2020 circuit season, we at Collierhousehold Motorsport joined on as a sponsor/media partner to young driver Ryan Faulconbridge, to provide photography and media services, as he makes his debut in the Mini Challenge. In recent seasons Ryan raced a Fiesta in the BRSCC Fiesta Championship where we have supported him before, but now Ryan had stepped up the racing ladder after signing with (more…)
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The 15th March 2020 was the date for the conclusion of the MSN/Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship season 2019-2020, but it was also the starting date for the Donington Park season calendar. Whilst Coronavirus/COVID-19 has caused turmoil across the globe, the LDV Donington Stage Rally luckily was on, with an attractive line-up in each of the categories. Donington Park was converted into seven (more…)
Cambrian Rally gets BRC underway for 2020
The 65th running of the Cambrian Rally took place on the 8 February 2020 in the Welsh Forests, incorporating many sections from the 2019 Rally GB route. Crews from the BTRDA and BRC series would compete over seven stages, laid out in the Conwy Valley around the Betws y Coed area and Llandudno town centre. The running of the event would see the Saturday split into two halves, with runs through the forests (more…)
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A topic of conversation throughout the Motorsport world in 2019, which has been hotly debated, was the launch of the all-female championship, W Series. Argued whether it was good for the sport or whether it's sexist to segregate women from the men, the opening series has been very successful for promoting talents of women in Motorsport. As the series reached its conclusion at Brands Hatch as part of (more…)
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Pocket PC and Wireless
One hundred years ago, at his home in Italy, twenty-two year old William Marconi made a startling discovery. He found that he could transmit electronic signals, such as those generated by telegraph, between two points without the use of wires. For the next five years, he worked tirelessly on his discovery until finally it was unveiled to the world–and the world has never been the same since.
At the time, it was simply called wireless, and when Marconi demonstrated it at the turn of the century by transmitting and receiving a message across the Atlantic Ocean, people from New York to Paris were amazed. Nowadays we call Marconi's invention radio and the term "wireless" has moved on to become associated with computers, telephones and the world of data communications. While we may no longer be amazed by radio, we are still undoubtedly amazed by wireless. It most likely has to do with the fact that you cannot see it and you cannot touch it. At least you can see a wire (and trip over it for that matter.) But moving data over thin air, or ether as it was known in Marconi's era, still boggles the mind.
Now we've suddenly got hundreds, if not thousands, of companies vying to cut away the ties that bind us to electrical sockets and phone ports and enable us to fly free as birdsÑwhile still remaining in touch. And there are countless different wireless solutions as well.
Microsoft is one of those companies, and it believes that one of its solutions–combining wireless data access with a Pocket PC–will be the hot ticket for 2001.
But is it all do-able, to use a 21st century idiom? In other words, is wireless on a Pocket PC all it's cracked up to be? Or is it more hype than reality, more sizzle than steak?
Well, maybe it's a little of both.
The truth of the matter is there are three significant impediments that Microsoft and its cadre of Pocket PC manufacturing partners have laying in its path to mobile nirvana. These bumps in the road are not all their own doing. Regardless, they will likely not be easily overcome in 2001, or in the next five years for that matter.
First, there's the infrastructure. Although there are grand plans for high-speed wireless, the most promising ones–CDMA2000 Phase 2 and UMTS–are relegated to the distant future. The logistics involved with rolling out a new wireless infrastructure in the United States–even to just the urban centers, forsaking the rural areas–are overwhelming and necessitate a multi-year plan. Just ask Metricom, whose high-speed Ricochet wireless network's footprint remains tiny, and spotty, even after five years.
There's also the chicken-and-the-egg syndrome at work here. Which will come first, wireless Pocket PCs or high-speed wireless networks? Will we be stuck with PDAs capable of browsing the Web but networks that aren't up to the task? This is an age-old dilemma and, think about it, would we have ever seen an Internet if it hadn't been for governmental deep pockets? The answer is, more likely than not, a resounding no.
Second, there's cost. The average Pocket PC will set you back upwards of $500. Tack on a wireless modem and you're in the $700-$1,000 range, and then there are the monthly access and subscription fees. Scale that to tens of thousands of mobile workers in a company and you've got quite an investment, and that's before adding in the costs associated with custom software and modifications to existing systems to enable secure, mobile access to company data.
And, bottom line, is there a definitive payback for a company, or is it simply another high-tech gamble, a la the Web?
This also leaves Joe Consumer in the dark. Sure, you'll have a few million technology enthusiasts all over the world forking out the hefty wireless entry fee but, in general, most consumers will not. And it will take hundred of millions of Wireless Data customers to convince companies to accelerate their investment in high-speed networks. What's needed is a moderately priced wireless solution for the average consumer, something that may be at least five years away.
Finally, wireless needs a solid revenue model that will support content providers as well as service providers. As I mentioned, a business plan for the Internet would have never seen the light of day, even in 1999's money-to-burn VC world. Wireless Data is in the same predicament.
The Web's revenue model continues to evolve in an effort to find itself. Content providers locked into advertising based models found themselves part of a house of cards when the Web boom softened in late 2000. Will it take a "killer" mobile e-commerce app to promulgate a mass move to wireless Internet devices? Or will consumers be willing to pay for the privilege of data anytime, anywhere? Obviously there are more questions that answers.
As to how it will all shake out with Pocket PC's latest foray into wireless, I'm as curious to know as you are. Maybe that's what it was like during the prior turn of the century, when Marconi's utterly amazing discovery tickled the imaginations of inventors and entrepreneurs.
And maybe one day, when "wireless" PDAs are as common as radio and TV are now, the term "wireless" will once again come to mean something new and exciting that we haven't even yet thought of.
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Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase on 1 August 2072 Monday is Waning Gibbous, 17 days old Moon is in Pisces.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 94% and getting smaller. The 17 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17.
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2072 after 27 days on 28 August 2072 at 15:59.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 17 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 897 of Meeus index or 1850 from Brown series.
Length of current 897 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2072. It is 21 minutes shorter than next lunation 898 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 50 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠333.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠350.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 19:10, this is 15 days after last perigee on 17 July 2072 at 07:53 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 13 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 14 August 2072 at 14:59 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 405 886 km (252 206 mi) away from Earth. It is 478 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 823 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 17:10 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 15 August 2072 at 05:10 in ♍ Virgo.
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
5 days after previous South standstill on 27 July 2072 at 08:30 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.639°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.592° in the next northern standstill on 10 August 2072 at 21:36 in ♊ Gemini.
After 12 days on 14 August 2072 at 01:21 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.


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Tonight we are having a Learning Fair at our co-op. These are fun. I love to see what everyone has been working on throughout the year, or what their favorite books are or favorite country. We often do themes. The best year was a Countries theme and we made passports for all the folk who came and as they went through to every table (or country) they would get a sticker or get a stamp in their passport! It was very cool!
Tonight's Learning Fair does not have a theme. I signed us up to participate before the 3 weeks of sickness, and thought I would have to back out. I just couldn't muster the enthusiasm to do a display (again) of horse related stuff, and then inspiration (Thanks Lord!) - we would do our table display on one thing that we do everyday or at least several times a week. Baked goods!
The kids love to cook and bake and so we are offering up Sarah and Kyle's chocolate chip cookies, Rachel's oatmeal cookies, Emily's brownies and lemon bars and Lindsay is making bread!
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They will all have their cute aprons on, and will be offering samples and recipes, perhaps. We are going to decorate with a cute table display and have already purchased a beautiful bouquet of flowers that Rachel and Sarah wanted for our display!
I will take lots of photos tonight or have Lindsay do it! We'll post them tomorrow.
We love our co-op and the families that participate in it. It is our last year in co-op though. I have decided to step down as leader, don't know if I have mentioned that before here. There are many reasons, but the main one is that the Lord let me know that it is time. I find it bittersweet though. My great joy is to encourage home educating moms. I hope that the Lord will still give me an outlet for this.
One thing I didn't expect though was to feel replaced before the year was over. In a way it is understandable - this time of year is all about planning next year's classes. God is so good though and I know without a doubt this is the way He would have us walk.
On a bright note, I am looking forward to weekly field trips with my kids, without worrying that I have forgotten to call someone or email something. I am looking forward to a relaxed home school year with just three students next year!
Have a great day!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Learning Fair
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Happy learning and most definitely happy times with your precious ones!ReplyDelete
A baking display! What a great idea!ReplyDelete
Everyone will LOVE the samples!
A baking display! What a great idea!ReplyDelete
Everyone will LOVE the samples!
Now you are tempting me to come...we will see. No promises.ReplyDelete
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We are pleased to confirm the Original Juke Box Heroes will be attending Chiddfest Chapter 6.
Jeff Brown formed the band in 2005. The premise of the group was to construct a band of Original Glam Rock superstars and long-serving members from well known Glam Rock bands and deliver a show of Seventies classics with all the gusto and dedication that was present when the songs were originally released.
Aptly named, The Original Jukebox Heroes are a live action, select-a-disc spectacular that will catapult you back to the days of Glitter, Glam and Platform boots! The show is packed with an energetic cavalcade of toe-tapping Glam Rock classics and is a spectacular visual delight that leaves the audience screaming for more!
Jeff, Sweet's Singer and bass guitarist for 16 years is joined on stage by brothers in arms, Phil Hendriks, guitarist from Les McKeown's Bay city rollers, Steve Whalley who bravely filled Noddy Holder's shoes in Slade when he left the band, Pete Phipps, The original, drumming Powerhouse from The Glitter Band, Philip Wright who is a founding member of Paper Lace and plays drums and sings lead vocals and last but by no means least, on keyboards is Dave Major who has played with T-Rex since Mickey Finn re-formed the band as a tribute to Marc Bolan.
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Warning long post...Have just returned from another successful and (terf free) Sparkle weekend in Manchester with my dear friends.This year we decided that we would venture out in amongst the muggles.
Apart from our shopping trip which included a visit to a local wig salon (where we each got new hair) We thought this year let's push the envelope and just pop into local establishments,such as Starbucks for a coffee or somewhere for a bite to eat.We decided to visit a cpl of restaurants in the city centre far away from our comfort zone,and to be honest we ended up thinking why the hell had we never done this before,in every place we visited we were met with complete professionalism and a welcoming smile,the other diners barely glanced in our direction,we were just diners enjoying great food
After pushing the envelope so far I decided to rip it into a million pieces.I travelled home dressed and we stopped off at a very busy Service Station (brit gals may be aware of Tenbay services) And with the good nature and support of my friends I decided to hell with it,Im going in.Again I needn't have worried I recieved absolutely no negativity whatsoever,in fact I'll be damned if no one even noticed.We sat outside and had a bite to eat.
I've had cause to reflect on all this,and I've come to the conclusion that a lot of worry is in our heads,as long as we are sensible there's no reason we can't be out and visible in the community
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Three Lao-American men from Minnesota are missing in Laos0
MINNEAPOLIS — According to a friend of the families, the three men Souly Kongdaravong, Bounma Phannhotha and Bounthieng Insixiengmay, were on their way to the funeral of Mr. Bounthieng's brother-in-law around March 1, 2013, when family became concerned when they didn't arrive in Savannakhet, a city in the southern province of Laos.
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I love MAC's Studio Fix Powder with Foundation. Its long lasting, controls oil and gives you a flawless finish. You can build it to make it full coverage or apply with a brush for light to med coverage.
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I love L'oreal's Double Extend Mascara because it gives you length, thickness, plus its affordable.
My favorite brands for blush are Smashbox and Nars. Both lines have a wide range of awesome colors that are bold and long lasting.
Finally, one of my favorite lip glosses is Ulta Brand Super Shiny lip gloss. Its shiny, not sticky, the color is true, and the best part…its affordable!"
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We've skipped our usual 5 on Friday and Hobby Update posts this week as I'm currently without a computer. This is a particular pain for the 5 on Friday posts as the format is tricky to replicate on the mobile WordPress app. I have an order in for my new machine, but until it arrives,… Continue reading Box of Books
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Humble Bundle: Game Design & Puzzlecraft Bundle
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Bundle of Holding: Mindjammer
I'm still looking for the sci-fi RPG that fits me just right, giving me a good system that can be really flexible and gives an interesting setting that both gives a good jumping-off point for stories, but doesn't constrict with an existing and expansive IP. This latter point, on not being bogged down with a… Continue reading Bundle of Holding: Mindjammer
Worlds of Warhammer: Black Library Bundle on Humble Bundle
There's a really cool book bundle up just now on Humble Bundle, featuring lots of books from Games Workshop's Black Library. This includes titles about Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, the old Warhammer Fantasy, Necromunda and a book from the Horus Heresy series. There are also a bunch of discount codes for various video games.… Continue reading Worlds of Warhammer: Black Library Bundle on Humble Bundle
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I am a huge fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels. It was introduced to me by a friend in secondary school. And my first book was Hogfather. I have since read every book in the series, seen all of the TV adaptions, read the graphic novels, listened to the audiobooks, perused the maps,… Continue reading A World Unexplored: The Discworld
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Production is fiercely underway in the A-T-L for BET's newest drama American Soul. The upcoming series, which is based on the life and times of Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, arrives on the small screen in 2019.
ET's Kevin Frazier visited the set recently and posted the featured photo of himself and Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland, who will be portraying music icon Gladys Knight on the show.
American Soul is the untold story of the struggle to make the dream of Soul Train come true. Inspired by the personal trials and professional successes of a young, ambitious and troubled impresario Don Cornelius, the 70s period drama is an unflinching look at the entrepreneur, his Soul Train dancers, and musicians set against the backdrop of a cutthroat Hollywood – how they work, play, rise and fall. The series chronicles "the hippest trip in America" and what became of one of the most prominent and groundbreaking television shows for African-American culture.
In addition to Rowland, the series will also feature Kelly Price, Jason Dirden, Iantha Richardson, Christopher Jefferson, Katlyn Nichol, Jelani Winston and Sinqua Walls as Don Cornelius.
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What's springtime without a new release from Apple? The company recently announced the updates that have been made to its base-level iPad and they're not bad – they just might not wow you. We'll lay out the facts, and you can decide whether or not its worth a purchase.
The Price
Last year, Apple released its fifth generation of the iPad at a starting price point of $329. Considering all the new tech they included in the device, the lower price was a nice surprise relative to the price of previous generations of the iPad which were typically in the $499 -$599 range. This latest iPad will also start at $329 and gets you 32GB of space to work with; the price increases relative to the capacity of the device.
The Processor
If you find yourself constantly busy in multiple apps, this update might be of importance to you. The new iPad uses what Apple is calling the "A10 Fusion chip", which boasts 40% faster CPU and 50% faster graphics performance compared to the fifth generation iPad. You should see improved performance when using graphics-intensive apps and if you're using multiple apps at a time.
The Pencil
Remember when the iPad Pro was released and Apple released a neat stylus tool called the Apple Pencil to go with it? Previously, the Apple Pencil has only been available for the iPads in the Pro line, the 10.5-inch, and the 12.9 inch. The new iPad will provide support for use of the Pencil, so you can draw and write all over the screen just as simply as if you were writing on paper. It should be noted that the Pencil is sold separately to the tune of $99.
Everything Else
Aside from the processor and Pencil support upgrades, it doesn't seem as though a whole lot has changed with the release of the new iPad. It is very comparable to the fifth generation iPad that came before it: 9.7-inch Retina display, enhanced speakers, same camera specs, Touch ID home button, no Smart Connector for attaching a Smart Keyboard, support for iOS 11. There's not much else to it.
My opinion? If you use your iPad for typical things like checking email, browsing the internet, utilizing some of your favorite apps and you also like the idea of being able to use the Apple Pencil but don't feel as though you need all of the power of the iPad Pro (and want to spend a little less), the new iPad + Pencil combo might be a nice compromise and a good buy. Otherwise, you're probably just as well off with your current iPad (no matter the generation or model) so long as it still runs well for you.


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