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The Midway State's frontman Nathan John Ferraro has released a record under the name Nate J, and it's definitely more of a pop-oriented effort than his main act. The very danceable song "Alien" breaks on to the chart this week at #30.
After hitting #1 a few months ago with "Near To The Wild Heart Of Life," Japandroids are back with the cheer-inducing "North East South West" and it's the highest debut on our chart this week.
Other new songs on the chart include "Figure It Out" from the Matinée and "Brothers" from Jon McKiel.
Broken Social Scene climbs to #1 with their new single "Halfway Home." The supergroup just announced their first new album in seven years, Hug of Thunder, will be released on July 7.
Here is the full rundown of our top 30 this week:
30. Nate J, "Alien"
29. The Courtneys, "Virgo"
28. The Matinee, "Figure It Out"
27. Pick A Piper, "Nikko"
26. Jon McKiel, "Brothers"
25. Land Of Talk, "Inner Lover"
24. Japandroids, "North East South West" *highest debut*
23. Blood And Glass, "Block Of Ice"
22. Mise En Scene, "Young Leo"
21. Fleece, "What You've Done"
20. Wilsen, "Garden"
19. Louise Burns, "Young Mopes"
18. New Pornographers, "Whiteout Conditions"
17. Julien Sagot, "Ombres Portees"
16. She-Devils, "Hey Boy"
15. You'll Never Get To Heaven, "Images"
14. Said The Whale, "I Will Follow You"
13. Lydia Ainsworth, "Into The Blue"
12. Close Talker, "Okay Hollywood"
11. Timber Timbre, "Velvet Gloves & Spit"
10. Frederick, "Watching You"
9. Young Galaxy, "Stay For Real"
8. Hollerado, "Don't Shake"
7. Homeshake, "Every Single Thing"
6. Partner, "Comfort Zone"
5. Besnard Lakes, "Laura Lee"
4. Tops, "Petals"
3. The Luyas, "No Domination"
2. Feist, "Pleasure"
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Volt demonstrated its reliability, efficiency and commitment to a key client when a non-starter had to be replaced at short notice. Volt worked tirelessly to quickly source a suitable replacement contractor for a difficult to fill role to minimise any disruption to their business.
Volt was tasked with staffing a client's brand new service desk (10 contractors) within a timeframe of 8 weeks. Operating from 08:00 CET till 19:00 CET, the service desk was to support all the client's employees across the globe, apart from English speaking countries, by providing support in French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew, with all staff having the ability to also communicate effectively in English. Staff also needed to be backfilled when on leave or absent due to sickness.
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I am meeting so many wonderful families these days:) Here are some favorite pics from last week's photo shoot. The little girl was quite shy at first but warmed up quickly to the camera. I like to especially catch people just being themselves.
Gail's family at the Experimental Farm
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I really love this course, and it really teaches me to see people and the world with other perspectives.\n\nHope more meaningful and inspiring courses coming out.
Love as a Force for Social Justice is a great course to open up your mind and open up possibilities to look at the World with a pair of new eyes :-)
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Maybe you've been thinking about running a marathon later this winter. If you've got an Ironman planned for late summer or fall that could be a very good idea, especially if you've never done an Ironman-distance race before. It's always good to experience such a run distance without a swim and bike before just to find out what it feels like.
If your only goal is to finish a marathon, which is a great idea if this will be your first time at this distance, all you need to do is put in some long runs. It will take about six runs of two to three hours done over eight to 10 weeks to have you ready to go the distance. Expect to do some walking every couple of miles both on the long runs and in the race.
Or maybe your purpose in running a marathon is simply to build a good base of aerobic endurance for running since it's hard to bike much in the winter where you live. Marathon-type training with long runs and hills will certainly do that for you, too.
But if you want to run a personal best time in a marathon while also building your running base before launching into full-time triathlon training, there's quite a bit more to it. In this case, training goes well beyond simply doing long runs.
What It Takes
First of all, you must forget the notion that weekly volume is the key to running a fast marathon. Increasing logged miles every week is not the way to get faster. Race-specific intensity is what will have you ready to run full out for 26.2 miles. Here are the workouts that will prepare you to run well in a marathon.
· Long run. Before you can train for speed you've got to first be able to go the distance. I call a "long run" for the marathon one that is two-and-a-half to three hours in duration. Regardless of your race goal time this is as long as you need to run. Going longer won't give you any additional aerobic fitness, but will greatly increase your risk of injury and overtraining. Start from your longest run now and add 15 to 20 minutes each time you do one of these. The pace is slow – at least two minutes per mile slower than your 10k pace.
· Hilly run. Besides the long run, this is the most valuable workout you can do early in the season. These will give you not only strength for hills on the marathon course, but also a more powerful stride.
· Tempo run. The longer a race is the more critical having a good sense of pace becomes. If you go out too fast you'll crash and burn. In fact, I encourage marathoners to break the race into three distinct parts with a unique pace for each (see "3-Part Pacing").
The basic tempo run is 30-45 minutes at the pace you'll use in miles 4 to 20 of the race. This is done following a 10- to 20-minute warm-up and is followed by a five- to 10-minute cool down.
The more advanced tempo-finish run comes at the end of a long run. For example, run 60 minutes at your long run pace described above, and then pick it up to tempo pace for another 30 minutes for a 90-minute workout. Gradually make the tempo portion longer until you run 60 minutes of long-run pace and 60 minutes of tempo. This is a great session for preparing you for the rigors of a marathon.
· Cruise intervals. These are mile repeats done a bit faster than your average marathon pace in order to improve muscular endurance. "Mile Repeats" below shows how many repeats to do and at what pace based on your marathon goal time. The recoveries between repeats are 200-meter walks. This is a grueling workout that comes after the basic endurance and hill training are completed. The pace will make the marathon seem easy.
· Downhill strides. The purpose here is to improve your running economy – how smoothly you run – while "inoculating" your legs against the quad soreness that typically shows up late in the marathon. On a two-percent grade run for one minute downhill at slower than top speed. This is best on a soft surface. Do not run these on concrete or asphalt. Concentrate on perfect form and relaxation on each one. Walk and jog slowly back up the hill. Get in eight to 12 of these in a workout.
· Cross-train. Don't run every day. Bike and swim on recovery days. Athletes in their 20s may run five or six times a week since they recover quickly. For every decade of life after age 30 subtract one day of running per week to a minimum of three.
Marathon Periodization
The following 12-week schedule is an example of one way to prepare using the workouts above. It assumes that you begin with a good base built with runs of two-and-a-half to three hours, and sound, total body strength developed in the weight room. The following suggested schedule is based on four-week mesocycles. If over age 40 or prone to injury or overtraining you may be better off training in three-week periods. Every third or fourth week reduce the volume by half for five or six days and then test your progress on the sixth or seventh day. Be sure to separate the long and intense runs by 48 or more hours.
· Weeks 1-4. Do a long run on a hilly course in weeks 1, 2, and 3. Also complete a basic tempo run each of the first three weeks. Include one cruise interval workout in weeks 2 and 3 starting with about one-fourth of what is indicated in the "Build to x Reps" column.
· Weeks 5-8. Complete a long run on a rolling (not hilly) course in weeks 5 and 7. In weeks 6 and 8 do a tempo-finish run. Do cruise intervals in weeks 5, 6, and 7 adding one or two more reps each week. Also do downhill strides in the first three weeks of this block. Start with four and add one or two each week.
· Weeks 9-12. You're now starting to taper for the marathon at the end of week 12. Reduce volume by 20 percent each week. In weeks 9 and 10 include tempo-finish runs of 90 minutes. Also maximize your cruise intervals and downhill strides in weeks 9 and 10. In week 11 include a basic tempo run and half of the maximum number of cruise intervals and downhill strides done in week 10. In week 12 run a basic tempo run of 15 to 20 minutes early in the week and otherwise keep everything short and easy.
Testing Progress
Recall that every third or fourth week, depending on how long your periods are, is a rest week culminating in a test of progress. One of the best tests is to run a race of less than 10 kilometers. Another test which I've found to be an excellent gauge of progress is eight to 12 x 800 meters run as fast as you can with 20-second walking recoveries. As your hoped-for marathon fitness improves so should your average time for this workout.
The average time may also provide a ballpark prediction of how fast you can go in the race. For example, if your average was three minutes and 10 seconds expect to run about three hours and 10 minutes for the marathon. It's uncanny how closely this workout predicts race time.
The Race
When you get to the starting line you should be ready for a fast marathon based on three-part pacing. Forget about going out hard to "build a cushion." Running fast early in the race will only cause you to crash and burn later on. Be patient and have confidence in all of the hard training you did over the last 12 weeks. It will pay off.
Joe Friel is the author of The Triathlete's Training Bible. Visit his web site at http://www.ultrafit.com for a free monthly training newsletter, FAQ, seminars, coaching services, and self-coaching resources.
3-Part Pacing
Goal Time Avq Pace Miles 1-3 Miles 4-20 Miles 21-26.2
4:00 9:10 9:25 8:59 9:28
3:55 8:58 9:13 8:48 9:16
3:50 8:47 9:01 8:37 9:04
3:45 8:35 8:49 8:25 8:52
3:40 8:24 8:38 8:14 8:41
3:35 8:12 8:25 8:03 8:28
3:30 8:01 8:14 7:52 8:17
3:25 7:49 8:02 7:40 8:04
3:20 7:38 7:51 7:29 7:53
3:15 7:27 7:39 7:18 7:42
3:10 7:15 7:27 7:07 7:29
3:05 7:04 7:16 6:56 7:18
3:00 6:52 7:03 6:44 7:06
2:55 6:41 6:52 6:33 6:54
2:50 6:29 6:40 6:22 6:42
2:45 6:18 6:28 6:11 6:30
2:40 6:06 6:16 5:59 6:18
2:35 5:55 6:05 5:48 6:07
2:30 5:44 5:53 5:37 5:55
Mile Repeats
Goal Time Build to x Reps Pace
4:00+ 5-6 8:50
3:55 5-6 8:40
3:50 5-6 8:25
3:45 6-7 8:15
3:40 6-7 8:00
3:35 7-8 7:50
3:30 7-8 7:40
3:25 8-9 7:30
3:20 8-9 7:20
3:15 8-10 7:10
3:10 8-10 6:55
3:05 9-11 6:45
3:00 9-11 6:35
2:55 9-12 6:20
2:50 10-12 6:10
2:45 10-13 6:00
2:40 10-13 5:45
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This is possibly the most recognizable 22 acres of Yakima River frontage in the Tri-Cities and it's close to EVERYTHING being just on the Richland side of the Yakima River bridge into West Richland. The Seller is relocating to Texas and has been super "Torn" about giving up this property he has developed over the last decade and a half. There are 12 acres of Senior water rights from the Yakima River. The Home that's perched on it's own protective land-mass is just over 2,500 square feet in size and has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms; an attached 2-car garage as well as a detached 40'X60' shop that is rough-plumbed for a bathroom. There is a significant amount of graveled parking for all the "TOYS" and several groomed "domestic grass" areas with timed underground sprinklers to enjoy with family or friends. The two story home design captures the view from numerous rooms and various windows, let alone simply walking out onto the decks and capturing a nearly 180 degree view of the Yakima River within rock throwing distance. It's Spectacular! The home is wrapped in low maintenance Hardi-Plank siding and finished with River-Stone accents in the front. The Milgard vinyl double-pane windows and the electric heat pump add to the energy efficiency. The large "Oak kitchen" is open to the Great Room which has a spacious high-volume ceiling. There are two large bedrooms on the ground floor and a nicely finished full bathroom with tile flooring and marble counter-top. The stairs to the second floor open up to a den/library area that overlooks the main level Great Room. The east end of the 2nd story has a billiards room with a wonderful view of the River. The billiards room has a corner "wet bar." This room could easily be converted to a 4th bedroom with a private bathroom if needed. The West End houses the master suite with a private view deck overlooking the River and a custom bathroom with heated tile flooring and a tile shower surround with dual shower-heads. The home has two water heaters; is hard wired throughout with cat-5 cabling and speaker wiring; is equipped with an interior commercial-grade fire suppression sprinkler system among numerous other well-thought-out amenities. CHECK OUT THE AERIAL VIDEO!
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Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish believes Andy Carroll is "playing his best football" for the club and is pushing for inclusion against league leaders Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday.
Carroll, 22, impressed during the corresponding fixture last season, scoring twice as the Reds ran out 3-0 winners.
However, Liverpool's £35m record signing has struggled to convince Dalglish that he warrants a place in the starting line-up this season, with most of his eleven appearances coming from the bench.
But the Liverpool manager stressed that Carroll remains in his long-term vision for the club and said the player is in arguably the best form of his career.
"You take into account first and foremost what's happening at the moment, and take it from there," Dalglish said.
"Andy scored two great goals against them last year but we got our reward for that and so did Andy. That's not to say because he scored two last year he's going to score two this year.
I went on record as saying Stoke and West Brom have been his two best games for us."
Dalgish also used the press conference to reiterate that Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard remains side-lined with an ankle infection.
Gerrard has been out of action since late October but Dalglish remained upbeat about his long-term fitness.
"Like we've already said, we are delighted with the progress he's making and we've said that we won't put a date on his return - and we won't put a date on it now. We are very happy with his progress."


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Houston Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins had some pointed words for the president regarding the once-and-future controversy over protests during the national anthem.
Caught at Los Angeles International Airport in one of those TMZ on-camera ambush interviews, Hopkins held forth on the state of protests, suggesting that we're nowhere near the end. "I think Trump is more closed-minded and he thinks the reason that we're kneeling is because of the flag," he said. "When that's, like, not at all the reason we're kneeling."
The anthem controversy has ground forward a few yards since last season. Let's recap.
The players' perspective
The NFL protests began with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling during the 2016 preseason to protest systemic racism and police brutality. A few players joined him, but in an election year, Kaepernick's stance didn't draw as much attention as it otherwise might. But when Kaepernick, still clearly in possession of NFL-level skills, went unsigned after the 2016 season, eyebrows raised.
A few players protested in sympathy with Kaepernick's plight early in the 2017 season, but then Trump sent the issue into orbit when he thundered against kneeling players at a September 2017 rally in Alabama. Hundreds of players knelt after that, taking issue with the president disregarding their concerns and calling anyone who knelt a "son of a bitch."
The Houston Texans saw matters grow even more hostile; after the revelation that Texans owner Bob McNair had compared the players to inmates, the team protested en masse. But none of the protests were directed at the American flag or the idea of America itself, the players noted on multiple occasions, despite opponents' attempts to portray them as unpatriotic.
"I kneeled last year and one of my best friends is a Purple Heart veteran and my uncle is a Purple Heart veteran and they understand that it's not about the flag," Hopkins said. "But, when a general person like that makes it look like, 'Alright, they're doing this because of the flag,' then of course his followers are going to think the same. But, that's not the case at all, you know?"
Many NFL fans took the protest as disrespectful because of its timing, and suggested that the players were being unpatriotic by protesting during the anthem. Even though the protests were silent, unobtrusive, and the very essence of patriotism — the right to speak one's mind, regardless of location or paycheck, is a bedrock American freedom — opponents of the protests nonetheless seized on the idea that the protests were in some way disrespectful, and the president seized on and amplified those charges.
Trump's pardon offer
Early in June, Trump offered up an unexpected positive statement on the anthem saga, offering to consider pardons for names the players suggested. "I'm going to ask all of those people to recommend to me — because that's what they're protesting — people that they think were unfairly treated by the justice system," he said at the time. "And I understand that. I'm going to ask them to recommend to me people that were unfairly treated and I'm going to take a look at those applications and if I find and my committee finds that they've been unfairly treated than we'll pardon them. Or at least let them out."
Trump has not since offered any public updates or clarifications of his stance on pardons.
The players' response
Shortly after the president made his pardon offer, several players penned an editorial in the New York Times explaining both the players' position and the specific steps the president could take to help, starting with reducing the number of inmates imprisoned for nonviolent or drug-related offenses.
However, the players cautioned that this is not an issue that can be solved with a few quick pardons: "[A] handful of pardons will not address the sort of systemic injustice that NFL players have been protesting," they wrote. "These are problems that our government has created, many of which occur at the local level. If President Trump thinks he can end these injustices if we deliver him a few names, he hasn't been listening to us."
What's next?
For the president, the opportunity awaits to prove that he is serious about his pardon offer, and that he's not "closed-minded," in Hopkins' words, about the anthem issue. For the players, the question of whether to protest remains open, given that the NFL will require players to stand for the anthem or wait in the locker room. Regardless, the underlying issues aren't going away, and neither is the criticism of the protesting players.
Jay Busbee is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or find him on Twitter or on Facebook.


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Nobody But You Dear
It's Valentine's Day this weekend. So, my thoughts are all mushy about love and romance. I love my wife. There's nobody I'd rather be with. I even told her that.
After being married for 20 years, we've grown comfortable with each other. As we've spent time around other couples or other women. I've realized my wife isn't perfect, but she's perfect for me.
As I've said, "After 20 years together, there's nobody I'd rather be with." But after 20 years, sometimes I'd rather be alone. So, if I have to be with someone, I guess I'd pick her.
File Under Jack of all Trades
Comments on "Nobody But You Dear"
February 9th, 2015
Hummmmm….. Back-handed compliments for Valentine's Day.
February 9th, 2015
Ha, how to win points.
February 9th, 2015
At this point in our marriage, any "compliment" is a good compliment.
February 13th, 2015
[...] 2015As you know, here at Male Pattern Madness, we don't usually get too mushy. (Just look at Joe A's post.) But while looking for a good Valentine's Day comic, I ran across this video. It's [...]
February 13th, 2015
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Our cookbook of the week is Vegetarian Any Day: Over 100 Simple, Healthy, Satisfying Meatless Recipes, by sisters and bestselling authors Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming. Over the next four days, we'll feature recipes from the book and an interview with its authors.
Next up: Eggs Mornay over tender asparagus and Portobello. To try another recipe from the book, check out and a sandwich of caramelized onion, Gruyère and sauerkraut on dark rye, and summer salad with peaches and lime herbed buttermilk dressing.
This recipe is the perfect candidate for everyone's favourite meal – breakfast-for-dinner. Mornay is a French sauce akin to Béchamel but with the addition of grated Gruyère cheese. Here, it's served Benedict-style over sunny-side up eggs, asparagus, whole portobello mushrooms and sliced tomato.
"It's not a traditional béchamel sauce, it's a lighter sauce," Carolyn Hemming says of the recipe. "And it just has great flavour on a portobello. The great thing about portobellos is that they're so meaty and such a nice foundation for a meatless dish."Hemming and co-author Patricia Green list mushrooms as an essential ingredient in their pantries. Their chewy texture and earthy fragrance lend depth to meatless dishes.
This recipe is gluten-free as written but Hemming notes that you can swap out the rice flour for the flour of your choice (e.g. all-purpose, millet or spelt) if that's not a concern.
Serves: 4 | Gluten-free
For cheese sauce:
3 tbsp (45 mL) grapeseed oil or butter
2 tbsp (30 mL) rice flour
¼ tsp (1 mL) dry mustard
¼ tsp (1 mL) sea salt
1 cup (250 mL) warm milk or non-dairy milk
¾ cup (175 mL) grated Gruyère cheese
4 portobello or 8 mini portobello mushrooms
2 tbsp (30 mL) olive oil, divided
¾ lb (340 g) asparagus, tough ends trimmed and halved
½ tsp (2 mL) minced garlic
Pinch of sea salt
2 tsp (10 mL) fresh lemon juice
2 large beefsteak tomatoes, cut into slices ¼ inch (5 mm) thick
8 large eggs
2 tbsp (30 mL) thinly sliced fresh chives
½ tsp (2 mL) ground black pepper
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 325°F (160°C).
Step 2
Heat a small saucepan on medium-low heat. Stir in the grapeseed oil and flour. Allow the mixture to cook for approximately 30 seconds. Add the mustard and salt, heating for another 10 seconds. Whisk in the warm milk until it starts to thicken and coats the back of a spoon. Stir in the Gruyère cheese until melted. Turn off the heat and cover. Set aside.
Step 3
Heat a Dutch oven or wide-bottomed saucepan on medium-low heat. Add 1/3 cup (75 mL) of water to the pan. Place the mushrooms top side down in the pan. Cover and cook for 7 minutes or until tender. Remove from the pan and place in a 13- × 9-inch (3.5 L) baking dish. Cover with foil. Place the baking dish in the oven to keep warm.
Step 4
Return the saucepan to the burner. Heat 1 tbsp (15 mL) of olive oil in the saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the asparagus. Cook for about 4 minutes. Stir in the garlic and salt. Cook, covered, until tender-crisp. Drizzle with the lemon juice. Place the asparagus in the baking dish with the mushrooms, cover and return to the oven.
Step 5
Again return the saucepan to the burner. Heat the remaining 1 tbsp (15 mL) of olive oil in the saucepan over medium heat. Add the tomatoes. Fry each side until hot, about 3 minutes. Set aside.
Step 6
Clean and heat the saucepan over medium-high heat. Brush with oil. Fry the eggs sunny side up. Plate immediately, first placing one slice of tomato, then a large mushroom (cap side down) on each plate. Top with eggs (two for large portobello, one for each smaller portobello), then place the asparagus across the eggs. Top with cheese sauce, a sprinkle of chives and pepper. Serve immediately.
Excerpted from Vegetarian Any Day: Over 100 Simple, Healthy, Satisfying Meatless Recipes. Copyright © 2017 by Carolyn Hemming and Patricia Green. Food photography by Ryan Szulc. Published by Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.


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From a customer point of view, a service provider network is as good as the service he perceives. Having a high bandwidth, well designed, and reliable backbone is not good enough if the access network is not on the same level.
Broadband access is the vehicle by which ISPs can recover their investments in their backbone networks and intercontinental bandwidth. It is critical for the access network to be reliable, easy to troubleshoot and amenable for fast provisioning of services in response to customer requests.
Salec provide all the elements of broad band access networks: ISDN remote access, xDSL access multiplexers, CPEs, authentication platforms, and B-RAS equipment.


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Janet L. Brockett was certified as a school teacher in the State of Texas on June 1, 1909. She taught in the Itasca Independent School District from 1909 - 1911.Mrs. Brockett came to the Mansfield ISD in 1943 as the Principal and Math Teacher. She later stepped down as Principal but continued her math teaching until 1957.Mrs. Brockett served as a role model for all with whom she came in contact. She belonged to the First Baptist Church, The Arlington Women's Club, and the Retired Teachers' Association and the Women's Auxiliary Club at Arlington Memorial Hospital. She put in more than 1000 volunteer hours at the hospital from 1959-1969. She was also chosen as "Mother of the Year" by the City of Arlington in 1961. Her advice to her students was: "Get right with God, get an education and get married if you wish."Mrs. Brockett died in 1979, but her legacy lives on at Janet Brockett Elementary School. "This wonderful lady is very deserving of having a school named for her, " said Nancy Pat Sims Griffin, Mansfield High School, Class of 1953. "She was a great math teacher who pulled a lot of us through. She always went the extra mile to help her student."
School Mascot - LionSchool Colors - Black, Gold, RedGrades Taught - Pre-Kindergarten through 4th gradeTeacher/Student Ratio - 1:19
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Transport Fever is a game currently under development by Urban Games. They're a couple of guys from Switzerland who made Train Fever. It's one of my most anticipated games in many, many years! It's been displayed in it's Alpha state at GamesCom in Cologne and gotten positive reviews, making me ever-more hopeful.
Train Fever
Train Fever is a game all about running a train and/or truck transport company. Much in the same vain as Transport Tycoon back in the day. Dear god how I love(d) that game.
I really enjoyed playing Train Fever and think that the dynamic system of placing tracks at many levels and curvatures was absolutely brilliant. When playing it I always hoped they kept working on it and strived to make their game better and elaborate on it with more trucks, industry, boats and flights...
Transport Fever
This game is the (in my opinion) natural follow-up to Train Fever where they add Boats and Train-transport as well as adding more Trains and road-based transport.
I can't begin to tell just how hyped I am for this game. It's currently being developed and I've been following the development attentively, though unfortunately didn't get into their beta test. It's a project I'd love to help to improve.
If you're curious about it, you can check out their development blogs and videos on their website: Transport Fever


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The Lowdown on Bygone Dirt
I smile because I've never forgotten being informed by English literature professors in my college days that, beneath all their copious, colorful and exaggerated finery the royalty and the nobility in those days were a mess. Those founts of useful information put across in no uncertain terms the revelation that there is a huge disconnect between the ideas of sanitation in the regal settings of just a few hundred years ago and today's admonitions toward super cleanliness that in nearly every string of TV commericials we are urged to achieve. And I wondered if it was actually true that, if we could go back into Versailles or one of those other fabled halls where all that gentry was gathered, at one of their balls or a meeting of lords, dukes, and even kings, whether our noses would indeed be assailed by all sorts of scents that we associate with pigpens and untreated sewage, while, if we were to look closely, we would see complexions on that bygone elite that would make us think of sandblasting activities or unhappy experiences while trying to climb Mt. Everest.
It seems that we would.
There's a principle that rules in many areas of our lives and is a staple of dramas of all kinds, in which rogues attract far more of our attention than do saints. So, since being unkempt and dirty has the ability to garner our interest at least as much as being tidy and clean -- that is, if you're not going to a dance or a singles bar in the next half-hour -- there are two recent books that sound like they offer engrossing reading.
I couldn't resist grabbing for this post the following passages from a review of both books that appears in a recent issue of the Wilson Quarterly. (The quarterly's site was so cagey about supplying the issue's exact date that I couldn't find it in the two minutes that I allotted to the search, though I'm guessing it is Spring 2008. Meanwhile thanks, Angry Arab.)
The real Dark Ages of cleanliness began in the 16th century. Fear of disease helps explain why people just stopped bathing—indeed, doing any meaningful washing. Ashenburg blames the plague, which produced so many corpses that they were layered in mass graves "just as one makes lasagne," wrote one Florentine. Smith thinks the likelier culprit is syphilis, which by the 16th century was both virulent and prevalent. Clueless doctors declared that bathing was dangerous, because it opened the skin to the malign "vapors" thought to cause much illness.
....Most of the deliciously dreadful things you know about how dirty people used to be are drawn from this lengthy Age of the Great Unwashed. Even aristocrats were filthy and louse ridden beneath their jewels, brocades, and furs. In England, Elizabeth I declared that she bathed once a month "whether I need it or not." In Spain during the Inquisition, Ashenburg says, Jew and Muslim alike could be condemned by the frightful words "was known to bathe." Nor was sanitation prized in France, where feces left in the halls of Versailles were carted away once a week. Instead of bathing, smelly, grimy people changed into fresh linens, which became a consumer craze among the Dutch. When John Wesley famously remarked, in 1791, that "cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness," he wasn't talking about the body, but about clothes.
If you want to read more, one of those books is "Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity," by Virginia Smith. It is described by the quarterly as being "scholarly." The other is "The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitary History," by Katherine Ashenburg." It is described as being "gossipy." I know which one will be grabbed first.


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This insanely high cliffside glass bridge shattered right beneath tourists' feet http://t.co/4JPr7h1EHN pic.twitter.com/kJr8fQLRAA— Popular Mechanics (@PopMech) October 7, 2015
This 3500-Foot High Glass Walkway In China Just Cracked Under Some Tourists Feet
October 7, 2015
Just nope.
This glass suspension bridge at the Yuntai Mountain Geological Park in Henan Province, China hangs some 3,500 feet above ground.
It also just cracked.
According to the Yuntai Mountain Tourism Administration, the crack was caused by a tourist dropping a heavy object on the bridge, causing the top pane (and only the top pane) to crack.
The association also told the People's Daily In China the tourists were never in any danger ... but still. It's one thing to be afraid of heights, it's another thing to not want to take a 900-foot walk across a glass bridge that hangs more than half a mile in the air.
Apparently, these glass bottom bridges are all the rage over in China with 3 more opening this year per USA Today. One of them actually translates to "Brave Men's Bridge" in English. No thank you.
In case you're interested, here's also video of the aforementioned 900-foot walk across the bridge courtesy of Mashable.
Here's to highway overpasses.


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A woman who lost weight after being insulted is now helping others in a similar situation.
Maria Robson, of North Shields, decided to change her life around after realising her weight was out of control.
She said: "I felt so overweight and frumpy. I was scared that when I turned 50 I was going to be even bigger and my health was going to deteriorate."
After being insulted about her weight at a party, Maria joined her local Slimming World group in May 2013.
She has since dropped five dress sizes, going from a 22 to a 12, and has picked up several group awards.
Now Maria is keen to help others and has become a weight loss consultant for the business, opening a group at the Sure Start Riverside Children's Centre, in Minton Lane, North Shields.
It meets every Monday. For details call 07940 049861.
Maria said: "I was so terrified about joining, walking into a room full of strangers, thinking they would be astounded at my size, that I took my husband with me.
"I was determined this time to lose a stone or two and wanted my husband to understand how whatever I was going to be told was going to work, so he could help me too.
"He needed to lose some weight too as after a heart attack in 2009 he was told his diet needed to change, but we hadn't really changed much at all."
She added: "After losing three-and-a-half pounds in my first week, never going hungry and enjoying every single meal I cooked, I knew this plan was for me.
"The following week I got more ideas from group and was astounded as to how easy and delicious the meals were to make.
"I have always had a passion for cooking since I completed a catering course when I left school and my passion has intensified now."
Maria said: "My life has totally changed since I joined Slimming World and for the better.
"After losing the weight I am healthier, fitter and have an unbelievably positive outlook on life, and I'm already planning my 50th for next year.
"I have a wonderful social life and love eating out more than ever.
"I am the energetic nana I always imagined I would be."


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hey everyonei know what i'm about to talk about can't be changed... but it's pissing me off and i know i'm not alone in it... can i just vent and feel better here? otherwise i'm wrapping my 9 iron around something... anythingi'm still a bit of a neophyte to the online game.. maybe been taking it seriously for about a year now... and fool that i am, i approach the online arena the same way i would approach a live tablei'm pretty decent... mostly i play 45 man sit n go's on PS (and consistently place in the chips save my odd getting sucked out by the suicide runners.. more on them later)what pisses me off is i struggle and fight my way thru 5 tables of play to make the final table and sure enough there's at least three people sitting out.... their chip count is usually low.... maybe enough for two blinds topsand sure enough, the second these folks "come back" it's to go all in on the blind...(i can appreciate a strategic suckout, don't get me wrong.. i have overbet to protect pots as much as the next guy)i was in a tournament today where, with four tables active.. i was forced into a heads up situation because everyone else at our table was sitting out !!! wtf is that all about ??and whats worse is these little cockroaches, when they win.... go right back to sitting outthis, to me, takes the integrity away from the game....its like steroids in baseball, or oversized goalie equipment and composite sticks in hockey... it messes with the pure fabric of the sporti understand the need for abbreviated sit outs ..really, i have to use the bathroom too.. but to win on the first hand and sit out until deep into the final five (never mind the final table.. some of these pieces of work would rather sit in with less than 1,000 chips until its already a money position, then come out and play)i filed a grievance with PS and got a pleasant, but stock reply to my problem(at one point in the tournament.. i was the only active player at my table.. with the chip lead)i just wanted to vent... i realize PS isnt changing the policy any time soon.... and im thinking it doesnt happen as much in the bigger stakes games ( it may happen, but not as much)like to hear others thoughts herethanks for letting me bitch
Just Venting
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Posted 08 November 2007 - 03:03 PM
Posted 08 November 2007 - 04:10 PM
There's nothing unethical about playing tight, which is all they are doing. There's nothing unethical about playing to make the money rather than to win.You would rather they wasted time pretending to be thinking about playing the hand and then clicking fold?Why not be happy that you get to steal the blinds with a min-raise *every* hand.
Posted 08 November 2007 - 06:21 PM
Obviously you are talking about play money, as this never happens in any real money sngs. Anyways, when people sit out, you have an advantage.
What's wrong with this? People shoving blind = easy chip accumulation. You are going to take some bad beats when they do this, but a majority of the time you will win.
and sure enough, the second these folks "come back" it's to go all in on the blind...
So go back to stealing their blinds, and then hopefully beat them the next time they come back.I really don't understand this post, I would be glad to have half of a final table sitting out.
and whats worse is these little cockroaches, when they win.... go right back to sitting out
Posted 09 November 2007 - 10:16 AM
I don't get why you posted this on this board? What made you post it here? And stop playing play money.
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It doesn't matter who you start because you have a horse shoe up your ass so far I'm not really sure how you get through the day. You must be gay.
It doesn't matter who you start because you have a horse shoe up your ass so far I'm not really sure how you get through the day. You must be gay.
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text: Romania wins silver at the Fencing World Cup Good News by Mihaela P. - May 5, 20150 The Romanian team won on Sunday the Silver medal at the Fencing World Cup held in South Afrika. Romania's team lost the finals to China 24-26, after beating Francd 34-21. Romania's team consisted of Ana Maria Branza, Simona Gherman, Simona Pop and Loredana Dinu. Related Share on Facebook Share Share on TwitterTweet Share on Google Plus Share Share on Pinterest Share Share on LinkedIn Share Share on Digg Share


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A picture post of stillwater solitude in June and July. Getting on the water at sunrise, being by yourself and targeting trophies in Oregon, California and Nevada...don't get much better than that.
Mt Bachelor loaded with snow this year.
June is the month of the damsel, they hatch all throughout the summer with major and minor hatches, but June is the major hatch.
Watch for the nymph to swim up from the lake bottom to reeds, logs and bullrush that line the shore, then wait to see them climb up and hatch into adults.
Fish usually won't refuse damsel nymphs, and you'll feel the takes from Cranebows...they're not subtle.
Caddis pupa can be top of menu this time of year as well. When caddis pupate, they're vulnerable, hanging in the surface film as they wait to eclode or for their back to split open and the adult to emerge on the water surface and fly off.
Common tiger, take something.
When damsels are out in numbers, it's one of the few flies trout just won't refuse.
Sometimes you learn more by just simply observing, don't screw it up by casting, sit and watch your quarry, you'll learn something every time.


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Vittra 'Telefonplan' School
When a new Vittra school was being developed in Stockholm, designer Rosan Bosch was appointed to work on the proposal in collaboration with children and teachers. The Swedish free school organisation Vittra generally strives to develop innovative teaching and interaction methods for educational purposes, incorporating digital media and digitally-based teaching and learning methods. Going beyond the conventional classroom-based teaching, their concept of teaching is organised around learning groups which are structured according to achievement-level and which follow the school's specific educational principles. The principles centre on ideas such as 'the cave', 'the campfire', 'the show-off', 'the watering-hole' and 'the laboratory'.
Seeing the school spaces as the most important tools for learning and education development, the designer Rosan Bosch approached the project with forming a core 'design group' consisting of children, teachers and designers. The main purpose of working with the users was to design a school for what it is actually being used as a supportive learning environment for various types learning and learners. In accordance with the Vittra philosophy, this process was aimed at adding to the learning functionality of the school, by creating a school that children would love and enjoy using.
Children's involvement
Before the project began, the designers carried out interviews with children from different schools to gain a better understanding of what would motivate them to learn more effectively in a school environment. After this initial exploration, a core design group was formed to address concept making and design development, including decisions on some details such as material selection. The teachers and children invited to the core design group came from different schools, backgrounds, age groups and social environments to allow a certain variety. Children were recruited on a voluntary basis, with some of them being recommended by the teachers. Although the group members were not future users of this school, two teachers involved in the process applied for a job there after the school was completed.
The design workshops took place in 5-6 meetings over a period of 4 months. The children were given an important role and their voice was considered equal to the rest of the team. Some teachers found themselves experiencing a switch in their way of working and thinking in order to design a learning environment entirely different from that to which they were accustomed. The role of children as expert consultants and creative inspirers was reinforced by giving them the power to speak out and have their voices heard and respected. They were engaged in discussions about what kind of school would appeal to them and which parts of the intermediate proposals they did not like. Those involved in the core design group did not attend the new school as pupils, so they took part at the opening celebration to see the realised results of their collaborative work.
The pupils were taken on a journey through their needs and preferences in their life as learners. First of all, the children's learning behaviour was observed, then a group was encouraged to imagine a course of their typical day – in a form of a film script – describing daily activities and how they would like to feel according to what is happening. Some basic questions were discussed around what kind of design would support such a timeline of the day, using various methods to aid the conversation such as pictures, slideshows and movie clips through the on-going process. After each session, the designers went back to their offices and designed a proposal, which was then commented on at the following meeting. Variations and alternatives were discussed and tested on models. The drawings and models were mainly used to aid the dialogue and express ideas rather than to sketch the actual learning spaces. Teachers, children and designers were all equal partners in the process and came to a solution through this dialogue.
Outputs and outcomes
A new Stockholm school –Vittra Telefonplan – was built as a result of this design process. The final interior design included some distinctive custom made features aiming to serve Vittra's requirements for a school to act as an educational tool for learning through everyday activities. Children's and teachers' wishes and needs for most effective learning were respected and incorporated in the final design.
Although the project shows the most important sign of success: happy users, there are some divided opinions about the innovative school design. The pupils' opinions are generally very positive towards it; however Vittra school organisation, for a time, struggled to find people who were willing to teach in these unconventional environments. The majority of criticism was aimed at what was perceived to be a lack of walls dividing the school into classroom spaces. Yet, the school provides a variety of spaces with differing degrees of enclosure tailored to both children's varying needs and to what is considered to be effective learning. Soon after opening, the school became so popular that the first year's intake exceeded the expectations of the school.
After the completion of the project, the designer's experiences were brought together into a design manual to guide the future designs of Vittra schools in Sweden.
'… to be honest, the way I see Vittra schools design, I would love that my office looked that way as well. I feel that children's design is just as much about allowing a kind of playfulness, and letting it be part of our lives and environment. Why when we get adult does everything have to be so dull and serious and kind of easy to clean? And nobody gets disturbed by it, you know? It's just because you put colour on something, you can't be taken seriously, which is rubbish. So I also think it's as much about actually designing with and for children as maybe also not thinking of children as children. In a way, it's just taking them seriously as users of what you are designing …' Rosan Bosch, Architect
Euronews (2012) 'Building the schools of tomorrow Euronews August 14 2012. Online. Available: http://126.96.36.199/2012/08/14/building-the-schools-of-tomorrow/ (accessed 9 December 2013).
Personal communication with Rosan Bosch (2013).
Rosan Bosch 'Vittra School Telefonplan' http://www.rosanbosch.com/en/project/vittra-school-telefonplan (accessed 5 December 2013).
Vitrra Telefonnplan presented by Videobrigade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYH1aIyaBjM (accessed 9 December 2013).


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We have so much fun helping, like this outreach we are doing for our church.
We are wrapping pumpkin bread for Thanksgiving meals for the lest fortunate.
We are our overjoyed to be there:)
We have wrapped 20,000 so far for local homeless people or people that will need a meal for Thanksgiving. We are hoping to wrap 100,000 by Thanksgiving. I think we can do it!!!


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They cannot be used for inclusion in any other clip art collection being sold for profit. Thank you!
Ballerina Bears (Includes 22 graphics)
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text: Share: Comments Print July 26, 2013 at 11:37 AM Why it's easy to let things slide in an online class Posted by Katherine Long One of the criticisms often leveled at MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, is that people who sign up for them often have no staying power. By one count, as many as 90 percent of those who sign up for a free online university class never finish it. Several weeks ago, we asked Seattle Times readers planning to take the University of Washington online course "Introduction to Public Speaking" if they were interested in giving us their feedback. More than 80 people expressed an interest. We picked 20 who seemed especially committed. This week, we had only two active participants. What to make of this? Perhaps the stakes are so low for signing up that it's easy to drop the class. Maybe after five weeks of videos, participants decide they have learned enough. Perhaps it dawns on people that after hours and hours of work and study, no credential will come of it. But on to the week's work. We're nearly halfway through the class, and I asked our participants how taking the course online might differ from taking it in person. Often, UW senior lecturer Matt McGarrity tells us to do a quick little practice of a speech – an introduction, for example – while sitting at our computers. If we were in an actual classroom, our failure to participate would be obvious. Not so online. I'm taking most of the course at work, so I can't start rehearsing at my desk. Ching Yee Wong, a communications professional with Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, admitted she too, doesn't practice often – and certainly not when she's catching up on viewing assignments in a public setting, as she often does. James Ehrmann, a higher-education professional from Bellevue, also rarely practices in response to McGarrity's prompts. "I've talked about my participation in the course with my wife on multiple occasions, but always find myself alone when I'm actually going through tutorials. If, perhaps, I were completing online sessions with others in the room, I might be more likely to practice with the promise of immediate feedback from peers." Our second speech assignment was to do an impromptu speech and upload to YouTube. If we were taking the class at the UW, we'd be doing our speeches in front of small groups of 15 students, led by a graduate student. Wong didn't upload a speech to YouTube. She wrote: "While the presentations improve my understanding of the theoretical structure for different public speaking approaches, it is easy to let things slide in a distant-learning class and avoid 'homework' aka applying this new knowledge to the practical sessions. Also I do wish to receive feedback for my practice videos from a credible source instead of a peer who may not be well-versed in the nuances of public speaking." Ehrmann finished and recorded his speech, but didn't upload it because he missed the deadline. Still, he was generally pleased with the way the performance went. "The examples (in the video lectures) were helpful and I found his lectures to be valuable – I took quite a few notes that I will likely reference in the future." Wong wrote: "I definitely think as a student enrolled in a proper 'live' class, I'll be absolutely more focused and diligent with the practice sessions and the course as a whole, But from the perspective of a working professional-mother where time is of essence, I signed up for the MOOC because it offers a flexible learning environment." And Ehrmann noted that while the online forum is perhaps a more comfortable platform for introverts, "it provides a false sense of security, in my opinion. Nothing can replicate human contact and immediate feedback from peers (even if in-person peers are dishonest in their verbal feedback, you're still able to glean their facial expressions and physical reactions to your speeches) and I think that's why 'live' classes are more rigorous and certainly, by extension, more valuable." Comments | Topics: Coursera, University of Washington


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Nothing is better than an extended, chunky wood dining desk as it's so purposeful and nice for entertaining. The wonderful thing about window therapy ideas for seaside house style is you don't have to spend a fortune! The above Beach Villa photographs exhibits that seashore theme rooms should not have to be blue and brown. In my old home I had a beach themed rest room which was just lovely 🙂 A lovely lens! This is not a proper adorning tone like Italian or French, this is one thing that says loosen up and have a very good time.
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Sunday, July 31, 2016
Latest Yarn Addition.
The yarn on the left is a skein of glorious hand-dyed yarn that my amazing mother-in-law bought for me in Alaska many many many years ago. (It may be over 10!) I have technically been knitting for a long time, but mostly squares and rectangles. This yarn was so glorious and beautiful that I didn't want to knit it up in a plain ol' scarf. It needed a majestic project. I needed more skillz. And I needed more comfort with a pair of needles in my hand.
After knitting up my first pair of socks, I figured I would attempt a shawl, and while I was unpacking, I pulled out my lovely beautiful Alaska yarn. I think it's meant to be. I teamed it up with this yummy mustard color from a the most amazing LYS that I visited yesterday, and I'm in business! I'm always super inspired by Alia and Samantha's knitting (and sewing!) adventures, and after watching them churn out so many lovely shawls, I want one too!
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Five years ago Senator Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.) made an amazing speech on the Senate floor outlining how the rich have taken over the country and are ruining it for everyone else. I thought it was a major wakeup call and so I recorded it and showed it to my friends. It can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU2P6OAbevw. The speech will be familiar to those who have been listening to his current speeches as a candidate for the Democratic nomination, except since then things have gotten worse due to the Supreme Court's outrageous Citizens United decision, which struck down limitations on how much the rich can spend on buying elections. I endorse fully all of Senator Sanders's remarks on the financial disparity existing in this country and how important it is to do something about it immediately. With things as they are Congress is bought and paid for by the rich, and the current deadlock there will continue until this is no longer the case. I also favor most, though not all, of Bernie's other proposals on many topics. He is smart, dedicated, and unwavering in pushing an agenda this country desperately needs to adopt. I truly admire his logic, his intelligence, his commitment, and his talents at explaining the complexities of the mess we are in.
But it's vital that we nominate a Democratic candidate for the presidency who will win the election and prevent a Republican from getting into the Oval Office. A Republican president would partner with a Congress containing Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, driving a Republican agenda that gives what's left of the country to the rich and does nothing to deal with the rest of the issues that need to be solved. Every bit as important, the Supreme Court's quasi-liberal majority hangs by two slender threads: the occasion support of Anthony Kennedy and the continued health of the four true liberals, one of whom, the wonderful Ruth Bader Ginsberg, is 82 and in delicate health. One more conservative on the Court replacing her would give the foxes the key to the chicken coop, and out would go fair taxation, civil rights, and federal regulations controlling everything from safety to climate change to education to consumer protection (the list goes on and on). This must not happen, and Democratic voters must make sure it doesn't happen.
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Why won't I support Bernie Sanders in spite of my admiration for his positions? Let me give you a list. Any one of these things alone would not be enough to keep him from being a strong candidate, but cumulatively they make his nomination a very, very risky proposition. Here's the list:
1. He's an announced Socialist. Yes, I know that he's a "democratic socialist," a far cry from the basics of Marxism and communism, and that all the term really means is that he favors solving problems through the government, with his announced model being the Scandinavian countries. But the term "socialist" has been mingled with "communist" for so long that to many voters subtle distinctions are lost and what they hear leads to images in their heads like this:
Even if the voters learn, in large numbers, what socialism is, they then will be told by the opposition that funding socialized programs will cost them a great deal more in taxes. Based on 2012 rates this is true. While the USA then had a top marginal tax rate of 41%, Denmark was at 60.2%, Sweden 56.6%, the Netherlands 52%, Finland 49% (although, surprisingly Norway was lower than the USA at 40%!). Bernie will tell voters that this rise in taxes can be paid for by taxing the wealthy and (at last!) making them pay their fair share, but, alas, that depends on the cooperation of Congress (at which point we all laugh loudly). I know that Bernie's supporters are legion and strongly want this issue to go away, and they have clever ways of trying to help:
Humor aside, electing a socialist President of the United States is no small step. It is a major change—Bernie himself is calling for a "revolution"—and lots of voters will stick to the devil they know rather than the devil they don't.
2. He's too old. If elected, President Bernard Sanders will be take the oath of office in January of 2017, the year that he turns 76, making him the oldest person ever to enter that high position (Reagan was 69, turning 70 shortly after being sworn in to his first term). Bernie's in good physical and mental shape now (as far as I know), but I myself am 72 and I know that septuagenarians like us can fall apart fast, we get set in our ways, we have more and more difficulty suffering fools gladly (an issue, see below, that Bernie already has major problems with), and the pressures of the toughest job in the world can land stronger and much younger leaders in major trouble with matters both mental and physical. Ask any septuagenarian you know if this isn't of some concern to them and most will say that it at least gives them pause.
3. Bernie doesn't play well with others. In an article entitled "The Trouble With Bernie," http://lansingcitypulse.com/article-12189-the-trouble-with-bernie.html, author Mickey Hirten, who agrees with almost all of Bernie's positions on the issues, says that he would make an awful president based on what those Vermonters who've had to work with him in the past experienced. Hirten was the editor of the Burlington Free Press when Bernie lived in Burlington and was the state's only congressman. He dealt with him on a regular basis. Hirten comments:
Considering that the Free Press' editorial positions were very liberal, reflecting the nature of a very liberal Vermont community, one might think that meetings with Sanders were cordial, even celebratory.
They weren't. Sanders was always full of himself: pious, self-righteous and utterly humorless. Burdened by the cross of his socialist crusade, he was a scold whose counter-culture moralizing appealed to the state's liberal sensibilities as well as its conservatives, who embraced his gun ownership stance, his defense of individual rights, an antipathy toward big corporations and, generally speaking, his stick-it-to-them approach to politics.
Hirten quotes others who know Bernie. Chris Graf, long-time Associated Press bureau chief in Vermont: "Bernie has no social skills, no sense of humor, and he's quick to boil over. He's the most unpolitical person in politics I've ever come across." A Vermont weekly spoke with Bernie's former staff members and reported that "They characterize the senator as rude, short-tempered and, occasionally, downright hostile. Though Sanders has spent much of his life fighting for working Vermonters, they say he mistreats the people working for him." Steve Rosenfeld, Sanders' press secretary during his 1990 House campaign, is quoted as adding: "At his worst, he falls prey to his own emotions, is unable to practice what he preaches (though he would believe otherwise) and exudes a contempt for those he derides, including his staff."
In a recent Time Magazine column political writer Joe Klein had this to say concerning Bernie's comment about Hillary's "damn emails" during the first Democratic debate:
If you kept the Brooklyn accent and replaced "emails" with "bunions" or "heartburn" or "kishkes" (Yiddish for intestines), you could have been eavesdropping at any given Thanksgiving dinner of my youth. All Jews have an Uncle Bernie . . . . [H]e was a humorless Old Testament Jeremiah, not the sort of person you'd want holding forth in your living room for State of the Union addresses or declarations of war. He barely smiled.
4. He has no sense of humor. As Klein just noted and others quoted above agreed, Bernie has no sense of humor. His attempts at showing otherwise, appearing on Ellen DeGeneres's TV show and trying hard to joke, are painful to watch. Imagine a President of the United States who grumps his way through his job and you see how such an attitude can be a major flaw. Frankly, this is a deal breaker for me.
5. He's Jewish. I think the American People are ready, or at least almost ready, for a Jewish president, but he/she had better be personable and charming or it's a no go. Bernie is not that attractive candidate (which is a shame given that Jews typically have a terrific sense of humor). Sadly, there is still much anti-Semitism in this country, probably more than even polls can reveal. In a close race the percentage of the population who would refuse to pull the lever simply because a qualified candidate is Jewish might be enough to swing the election the other way.
Conclusion. None of these things, in and of themselves, would necessarily keep Bernie Sanders from being the best candidate in 2016 for President of the United States of America, but combined they are a dangerous political mixture. If the Republicans nominate one of the clowns currently at the top of their polls (Trump, Carson, Cruz) Bernie would have a so-so chance at winning, but in all likelihood in the end the Republicans will come up with a more palatable choice (Rubio, Jeb, Kasich), and Bernie would be in major trouble.
Hillary Clinton (sigh) has flaws, but she is obviously qualified—from day one—to be President of the United States, and is very electable. She's highly likely to stomp anyone the Republicans nominate. Given the vital importance of keeping a Democrat in the presidency at least until there are more liberals on the Supreme Court and Congress is better balanced, it's my opinion that making Hillary the nominee is the smart thing to do. I wish Bernie Sanders well, but he's not the best candidate for the job.
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NEWMARKET — What better way to warm up on a frigid winter night than with a steaming bowl of chowder or chili?
NEWMARKET — What better way to warm up on a frigid winter night than with a steaming bowl of chowder or chili?
The Newmarket Junior/Senior High School eighth grade class is optimistic that it will draw a crowd to the third annual Chili/Chowder Challenge, being held Friday night at the school.
For a $5 admission, which is a fundraiser for the class trip to Washington D.C., people can eat all the chowder and chili they want. So far, six chefs have offered to bring chowder, while six others will bring chili.
"This will be my first Chili/Chowder Challenge," said eighth-grade teacher Stacy Perkins, who's co-organizing the event this year. "I love the community involvement, seeing everyone out there. And, of course, the opportunity to try all the chili."
One would-be chef is hoping the third time's a charm.
"My husband, Ben, is making chowder with a family recipe," said eighth-grade teacher Amanda Perkins (no relation to Stacy), co-organizer of the event. "This is our third year entering. The first year he came in second place; last year he came in third place. He's hoping for first place this year."
There will be a first, second and third prize for both chili and chowder. They will be judged based on presentation, smell, taste and originality. This year's judges include assistant principal Chris Mazzone, school board member Elizabeth McKinney, Barbara Carano (owner of Pao Brazilian Caf� and Bakery in Newmarket), and previous winners Sue Bernier and Ray Richardson.
Money raised will go toward the eighth-grade trip to the nation's capital. The trip costs $500 per student, and so far they've raised about two-thirds of that, according to Amanda Perkins.
"I love that it's only $5 and I get to eat all the chili and chowder I can eat," said eighth-grade student David Silvia. "I'll probably eat more chili, I like it really hot."
Silvia said his mother will be making a chili for the event.
"It's going to be a lot of fun, I really love chowder," said eighth-grade student Reagan Jordan, whose grandmother, Bernier, who won two years ago for her chowder. "This is the coolest fundraiser we've done so far."
In addition to the chowder and chili, they will offer donated bread from Panera Bread. Students will be selling water and eighth-grade class T-shirts, and the freshman class will be running a bake sale for desserts.
There are boys basketball games that night against rival Epping, 5 p.m. for JV and 7 p.m. for varsity.
"We're hoping people planning to go to the game will stop by first for some chili and chowder," she said.
The Chili/Chowder Challenge will be held Friday night from 5 to 7 p.m. in the cafeteria.


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Best student segments to target for recruitment, as rated by campus officials on a recent poll
Fred Longenecker
March 16, 2016
In a poll of higher education officials conducted in November 2015, campus leaders at four-year institutions gave their highest marks to in-state students when evaluating a list of 10 populations to target for enrollment. The poll from Ruffalo Noel Levitz asked the officials to rate the effectiveness of targeting the 10 populations using a four-part scale: "very effective," "somewhat effective," "minimally effective," and "practice not used."
In addition to in-state students, respondents from four-year private institutions also gave theirhighest marks to out-of-state students and high-academic-ability students, while respondents from four-year public institutions gave highest marks to transfer students and out-of-state students.
Despite the high ratings for targeting out-of-state students, the poll found that 21 percent of four-year private institution respondents and 15 percent of four-year public institution respondents were not targeting these students.
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With increased access to data and robust analytics, banks no longer need to rely on anecdotal information when setting hurdle rates. While using pen-and-paper and spreadsheet methods for loan pricing might have worked just fine in the past, these outdated techniques no longer provide banks with the full capabilities they need to increase wallet share and grow margins.
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Bonobo AI raises $4.5M seed round to help companies turn interactions with customers into valuable data
Bonobo AI, an AI-based platform that helps companies get insights from customer support calls, texts, and other interactions, announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by G20 Ventures and Capri Ventures. Founded in 2016 and led by co-founder and CEO Efrat Rapoport, the Tel Aviv-based startup claims that its technology has been used to analyze more than a billion interactions so far and that it has signed up a "few dozen" clients including DreamCloud and Honeybook. The idea behind Bonobo is that […]Read more


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Oliver Law
k-Law, Oliver. (Law, John), b. October 23, 1900, Texas; African American; US Army 24th Infantry 1919-25; Married; Party functionary; CP; received passport# 360284 on January 7, 1937 which listed his address as Chicago, Illinois; Sailed January 16, 1937 aboard the Paris; arrived in Spain on January 30, 1937; Served with the XV BDE, Lincoln Battalion, MG Co., promoted to Section leader, then Company Commander and Adjutant Battalion Commander; Promoted to acting BN Commander; Served at Jarama and Brunete; Killed in action on July 9, 1937 at Brunete in the assault on Mosquito Hill.
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Oliver Law was the first African American to lead an integrated military force in the history of the United States. Law was born in west Texas on October 23, 1900. While still in his teens he joined the U. S. Army and from 1919 to 1925 served as a private in the 24th Infantry, a black outfit stationed on the Mexican border. After leaving the military, Law moved first to Bluffton, Indiana, where he worked in a cement plant and shortly thereafter to Chicago where he drove a cab for the Yellow Cab Company. With the onset of the Depression Law drifted among the ranks of the unemployed. Eventually, he landed a job as a stevedore and joined the International Longshoreman's Association. Following this, Law opened a small restaurant and when this venture failed, he went to work for the Works Project Administration. While out of work, Law joined the International Labor Defense and in 1932 the Communist Party. His political activities led to frequent run-ins with the Chicago Police Red Squad during one of which he was seriously beaten. Shortly before departing for Spain, Law was arrested while leading a rally to protest Italy's invasion of Ethiopia. During this period Law married Corrine Lightfoot, sister of a prominent African American in the Communist party, Claude Lightfoot. Law was among the earliest U.S. volunteers. He received his passport on January 7, 1937 and left for France, aboard the Paris, on January 16,1937. In Spain, Law's leadership qualities and previous military experience were highly valued. He first served as Section Leader of a machine-gun company. When the Lincoln battalion was re-organized after the disastrous assaults on February 27, 1937 at Jarama, Law was promoted to Commander of the company. Law continued to advance in rank during the long period of trench warfare on the Jarama front. He was selected as Adjutant to the Battalion Commander. After an abortive attempt was made to form a regimental system within the brigade and the Lincoln commander, Martin Hourihan, was transferred to the regimental staff, Oliver Law was chosen to replace him and given the rank of captain. Law led the Abraham Lincoln Battalion during the initial days of the Brunete offensive. On July 10, 1937, the fourth day of the campaign, he was mortally wounded while leading his command in an assault on Mosquito Ridge. Fifty years after his death, Law's historic achievement was recognized when Chicago Mayor Harold Washington declared November 21, 1987 "Oliver Law and Abraham Lincoln Brigade Day." ~ Chris Brooks
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Who's got the most juice on Capitol Hill? Here's a list of the top interest groups contributing to members of the 114th Congress during the 2017-2018 election cycle. The first list shows the overall 50 biggest interest groups. The other two highlight the top 25 interest groups giving to members of each of the two major parties. In all cases, the Top Recipient listed is the individual member of the 114th Congress who received the most from the interest group. Totals shown here include only the money that went to current incumbents in Congress.
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I haven't done a post like this for a long time so I thought it would be nice to let you know what has been happening in my life in the last few weeks.
It's Summer's 1st birthday soon and I've been spending loads of time planning her birthday party, however something I haven't really thought about it what to buy her, people keep asking me what they should buy and I haven't got a clue lol.
We haven't done much in the way of days out recently as we've all been ill but we did manage to take Riley bowling for the first time and he absolutely loved it.
A friend of mine is having a nightmare organising a move to Scotland and after spending hours on the phone to estate agents in Edinburgh I thought it would be nice to try and get her to chill out with a cup of tea and some cake. I remember what it was like when we were buying our house, lots of stressful phone calls to solicitors and mortgage lenders, the one thing that made a big difference was working with a good estate agents, they can help things run more smoothly with the sale of your house and take a little bit of the stress out of buying a house. One thing I love about buying a house is looking for the perfect house, I love browsing the internet looking at houses and going to view them, it's so much fun. Sometimes if I'm bored I still look at house on the internet just for fun, is that weird? Let me know if you do that too.
I made her some 100 calorie brownies because we're both on a diet and she loved them. I'm going to be sharing the recipe with you in next weeks Weight Loss Wednesday post over on Beauty by Emma.
Speaking of my diet it's going really well, I've lost 6lbs in the last 4 weeks and I'm feeling so much better for it, I still want to lose another 11lbs but I'm on the right track and I feel like it's going to be achievable if I carry on and keep focused.
So that's pretty much all I've been up to lately, if anyone has any ideas for good presents for a 1 year old then let me know.


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Mystics throughout the ages have sworn off, given up and ceased the pleasures of the senses in order to become closer to their diety. In truth the diety and Self are one. In this light one may deprive the senses in order to realize the true self. From retreating to caves, cabins, temples or Ashrams seekers have realized God, the Tao that cannot be named or Buddha nature. Whatever we Earthlings name the Divine, seeking "it" has been written about and studied since either existed.
I was speaking with my daughter recently about spirituality. Her comment was " I didn't think anyone did that anymore". Even though she regularly attended Yoga classes. I mentioned that Yoga meant union with God but I m not sure she heard me. Many but not all western instructors and then students who participate in Yoga assume it's the stretching of body parts. In any event, I wondered if the idea of spirituality becoming extinct was only my daughters opinion? Does the fact that our electronic gadgets, the current world smorgasbord of appeals to the senses along with the lighting fast change going on all around us blind us to the idea.
There is nothing so blinding as perception. -ken wapnick
Our perception is continually bombarded with images and sounds. Keep up or get run over and better get yours before it's all gone attitudes prevail. The idea that we are all one, connected into the Unified field has debatebly been proven. This idea either has not permeated the culture or everyone may always be engrossed with getting their share. This is how it's been for ages. The fact that we are one with nature and our brother, are comical to most in this day and age. Yea, yea, I've heard all that before, is the reaction of a majority. However together with a strong movement of Spiritual seekers across the globe as well as awareness of the destruction of the planet there is potential for change.
The outside world is a reflection of the inside condition of the state of mans mind.
This world is so old that everywhere you stand someone either died or was buried there. Twenty-five thousand people die every hour. Twenty- five thousand six-hundred are born every hour. This apparent world is a field of flowers arising, flowering and then decaying to make room for the next. It's been going on for longer than anyone knows.
All that arises passes away, this I know!
Will the earth and its inhabitants pass away also, and if so when. I suppose it's inevitable. In the context of eternity time is a mere dot. Time is the distance between cause and effect. That is, the illusion of what we have attempted to create "time" is the distance between our eternal Self and the identity we have created or the "me" we have come to believe we are.
Tibetan Zen Buddhist practice the art of dying. In the Tibetan book of the dead these techniques are outlined.
The opposite of Love is fear, but what is all encompassing has no opposite. What is everything leaves room for nothing else. Love is the removal of all fear, including death. Do not fear death but prepare and embrace it when it comes. This fear of death is one element of Socrates teachings. He would place a skeleton by his students side and say in effect- look right at it. That's YOU! When we feel as though we have nothing in common with our brother, think about that. We all have a great deal in common with each other. We come from and end up in the same place, and not too far from now. With this fact one might see Everything in a new light. I have nothing special that you do not have, however I have focused like a laser beam on the ethereal unseen for many years. Once in meditation I was taken out past the Omniverse so that I could look back and see that this entire Cosmos of matter is merely a fabrication utilizing mental constructs. Simply-it's ALL mind. Time as well is only an idea. At some level you certainly know this as well. How might one use this knowledge. Inevitably we all consider the point of being here? With consideration of the declaration that space and time are illusions, what is the purpose. Practically speaking, what good are these concepts to us today. Let's look at an idea together.
Every decision one ever makes will stem from what he thinks he is!
I won't go through what that statement means to me, rather I would like to invite you to take it with you. Examine it, talk about it, use it. See if it serves any use for YOU. What might you be in reality vs what you have come to believe you are. This is how all true science operates. Imagine an idea then seek to find out if it holds true for you. This is only slightly different as it is the science of your mind. Our experience is the final test.


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When World War II came to an end in the spring of 1945, Germany lay in ruins. The latter years of the war in particular had seen massive Allied bombing raids on Nazi Germany's biggest cities. Dresden was destroyed by a firestorm on Feb. 13 and 14, 1945. Some 25,000 people were killed and the city center was reduced to rubble.
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