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Staying Vigilant
A conversation with Senator Ted Kaufman, visiting professor of the practice
"There still is alive and well on Wall Street the idea that we can operate without regulations. That it is like running a city without any police."
— Senator Ted Kaufman
Ted Kaufman represented Delaware in the United States Senate from Jan. 16, 2009 to Nov. 15, 2010, after which he chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) until its completion in April 2011. On the Senate floor, in committee, in his frequent public commentary, and in Duke Law's Duke in D.C. program where he teaches Federal Policymaking and oversees externships as a visiting professor of the practice, Kaufman has called for financial regulation that would, among other things, separate commercial and investment banking activities, pare down the size of too-big-to-fail banks, and track the market impact of high-frequency trading. In spite of such positive developments as the formation of the Consumer Finance Protection Board and moves by the Financial Stability Oversight Counsel to begin addressing systemic risk, he expresses frustration with regulatory progress to date.
Kaufman talked with Duke Law Magazine about his ongoing concerns in mid-May, shortly after the announcement by JPMorgan Chase of a $2 billion (now estimated at more than $3 billion) loss attributed, by the bank, to "hedges." »
Duke Law Magazine: What does this news from JPMorgan Chase tell you about what banks, policymakers, and regulators have learned since the 2008 financial meltdown?
Senator Kaufman: There hasn't been very much done, in fact, to alter what caused the great financial meltdown. I think the multibillion dollar loss is the latest example of the fact that it's still easy for financial institutions to make the same type of bad bets that caused the taxpayer bank bailout and could lead to one in the future.
DLM: What are your biggest concerns?
Kaufman: The same concerns I talked about on the Senate floor. The same things I talked about in the Senate committees. First, you have to decide what caused the meltdown — what you believe the problem was. For example, many oppose any real financial regulation because they don't believe that Wall Street had anything to do with the problem.
I think the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999 [the 1930s-era legislation that separated commercial and investment banking activities] and our failure to regulate derivatives by enacting the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) of 2000 were two of the very big problems.
I was in the debates and I urged my Senate colleagues to be sure that Dodd-Frank ended too-big-to-fail banks. If you read what independent economists say, what financial people say, if you read what people on Wall Street say in their newsletters to their customers, none of them believes that our major banks are not still too big to fail. The biggest problem is that there is no way to have resolution authority of these gigantic banks across national lines. After three years, we are still trying to work out Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy, which was relatively simple compared to what would happen if one of our five or six major banks went down. We're still three years working on it because it's very difficult to deal with the creditors in England in a bankruptcy action in the United States. And when you start thinking about Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase, and Citibank with their hundreds of offices and investments around the world, there is no way that if they had a financial problem that we could rapidly — and it would have to be rapidly — deal with them other than to bail them out. I just don't think there's any data or information to support anything else.
DLM: Do you anticipate future bank bailouts?
Kaufman: One of two things is going to happen if the president and Congress face a crisis like we had in 2008: Either we're going to have a bailout, or we're going to watch the financial system disintegrate. No one involved in the negotiations around TARP who I've talked to believes that we could afford to not bail the banks out. When faced with the prospect of Citigroup going under without any real way to resolve it in the short term, I don't know what else the government's going to do. And as far as I'm concerned, we really haven't implemented anything to materially alter that no-win choice at some point down the road.
DLM: Should the biggest banks be broken up?
Kaufman: Breaking up is a strong term. I favor "skinnying" some of the major banks. … Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio just reintroduced what was, originally, the Brown-Kaufman bill. There's nothing draconian in that; it just begins to slim down the banks. If we don't slim down the banks, they are too big to fail.
I also understand members of the Senate will introduce a kind of revised Glass-Steagall bill, which basically says that if you're in the commercial banking business you're in the commercial banking business, if you're in the investment banking business you're in the investment banking business. It worked for us for over 60 years. We have to go back to something like that. My feeling is that we're going to go back to something like that; it's just a matter of how much hardship we have to go through first.
Look at the multibillion dollar loss by JPMorgan Chase. Jamie Dimon (the bank's CEO) says that's not proprietary trading. What is a bank that has major assets guaranteed by the United States government doing in a situation where some guy in London can lose billions on what the knowledgeable observers keep referring to as a bet? That's not why we designed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) — to make banks feel more comfortable in investing in what they call hedges against potential activity down the road. Hedges by definition are designed to reduce risk not to create gambles.
The Volcker rule in Dodd-Frank wasn't half a loaf, it was like a tenth of a loaf. I wanted to put Glass-Steagall back. But when faced with nothing — you couldn't pass that financial reform bill without saying that large FDIC-insured banks should not be engaged in incredibly risky behavior. And the Volcker rule was the way to do it. But I said on the Senate floor, again and again, that trying to define proprietary trading is like the Middle Ages when they were trying to define how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Trying to define proprietary trading is, I believe, almost impossible.
DLM: To what extent have you seen a change in the resolve of rule makers — the regulators?
Kaufman: One of the biggest problems you have when you legislate is unintended consequences — where the law creates a situation that was unintended. I think that what's gone on with the rule makers now was "intended consequences" by those who opposed any new real bank regulation. I said at the time that in Dodd-Frank we didn't make some tough decisions. After the Great Depression, the Pecora Commission came in and said, "We're going to make some real laws here," and created the FDIC and implemented the Glass-Steagall Act. … What happened in Dodd-Frank — with me complaining the whole time, without much success — was to avoid tough laws and a constant march to kick these things back to the regulators. I had a number of concerns with that. One was that regulators change with every new president, so we should put something in that's more permanent. But the bigger problem is that when you put all of this back to the regulators then you have a situation where the vast majority of people contacting the regulators are those with money and influence. Professor Kimberly Krawiecs's excellent analysis of Volcker rule contacts shows that over 90 percent of those contacting the FDIC, SEC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Federal Reserve were from Wall Street banks, financial trade associations, lawyers, and accountants. (Read more, Page 22.) Wall Street has completely stopped Volcker rule implementation.
DLM: What are other major threats to the financial system that we haven't even begun to address as yet?
Kaufman: My major concern is that we do not know what's happening with the changes in our financial markets and their structure. The major change is the development of high-frequency trading. The regulators do not collect enough data right now to determine the effect of high-frequency trading on our markets. A number of years ago, I called for a consolidated audit trail, which would give us a contemporaneous record of what is happening in our markets. Over 50 percent of our trades are now high-frequency trading. We cannot answer simple questions like why over 90 percent of the trades are cancelled by high-frequency traders. What's going on there? Chairman Mary Schapiro has said the SEC is going to develop a consolidated audit trail. The head of the CFTC, Gary Gensler, said he wants to have a consolidated audit trail. But years have gone by without one, and once we decide we're going to do it, it's going to take years to implement.
Just as happened in the derivatives market, there has been an explosion of money in high-frequency trading, without any real transparency. Congress outlawed the regulation of derivatives in the CFMA, so we had no idea what was going on in the derivatives market throughout this incredible explosion. Without transparency you can't have regulation. And when you have lots of money, no transparency, and no regulation … we saw what happened in the derivatives markets and I think it's just a matter of time before, unfortunately, we will see the same thing happen in the high-frequency trading on our markets.
Our free markets are one of the things that made this country great. Free markets are incredibly important to this country. Credible markets are incredibly important to this country. … What do we do if we lose the credibility of our financial markets? … We now have 15 different exchanges, and a lot of them have no regulatory responsibility, and 50 other trading venues including "dark pools." There still is alive and well on Wall Street the idea that we can operate without regulations. That it is like running a city without any police. Essentially there are going to be problems. There are bad things going on and the police are there. That doesn't mean you're going to stop all the bad things, but at least you have a handle on it and you're trying to deal with it.
DLM: What are your final thoughts on TARP, given that you chaired the congressional oversight committee?
Kaufman: When I first showed up in the Senate in 2009, in the first couple of weeks the freshman members met in small groups with [Federal Reserve Chairman] Ben Bernanke and [Treasury Secretary] Timothy Geithner. And there was no doubt in my mind that at that point, they were very, very, very concerned about the potential for a financial meltdown even after TARP was put in place. So I think that in terms of "Did we need to put something like TARP in place?" Absolutely. It had to be done.
I would have leaned towards doing it differently. I would have leaned towards doing what the British did with the Royal Bank of Scotland, where they essentially went in and took it over. I wish they had done a lot more with regard to housing. Neither the Fed nor the Treasury really concentrated on the housing problem like they did on helping the big banks.
But in the end, it started out with estimates that it would cost over $700 billion and the last time I looked, the projections were that it would cost $25 billion. It's like the saving of General Motors and Chrysler. It's turning out to have been an incredibly courageous move by a bunch of people in the Bush administration and then in the Obama administration to take. And we're still having the political fallout; one of the big issues being used against a number of members of Congress in the 2010 election, and it looks to continue in the 2012 election, is that they voted for TARP.
It was such a horrendous thing that I just keep focused on how do we make sure that this never, ever, ever happens again. And I just don't see nearly enough in changes in the way we operate our financial system — our market structure, the size of our financial institutions, the risks that our financial institutions that have major pieces of FDIC insurance, or just the financial institutions, period — I just don't see steps being taken to avoid this situation happening again.
And the final thing is that I just don't think there is enough awareness or concern out there in places of power. "Financial amnesia" has set in. Average people have lost their homes and their jobs — there should be major changes implemented to reduce the possibility that this could ever happen again. But I just don't see a sense of urgency on Wall Street to take into account what happened and who was hurt, and how bad it was for so many. Even worse, I do not see the efforts being made at all levels of government to enforce the changes required to protect us from the pain inflicted on so many Americans by the financial meltdown.


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Tom Brokaw Involved in Multi-Car Accident that Leaves 28 Year-Old Woman Dead - Video 12/4/09
Here is video from the local Fox affiliate in New York reporting on a multi-car accident involving former NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife. The Brokaws were unhurt, but a 28 year-old woman was thrown from an SUV as a result of the accident and died.
UPDATED 6:42 PM CT: The video does not mention Brokaw by name, but he and his wife were involved in the accident. They were unhurt:
An SUV swerved out of control on the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx Friday afternoon, causing a three-car accident that killed the woman driving the sports utility vehicle. NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw was in a car involved in the crash but was not harmed.
The expressway was closed for much of the afternoon as police investigated the fatal crash. Upon impact, the victim, whom police did not name, was hurled over an embankment and onto nearby railroad tracks. The woman, who officials said was Hispanic and in her 30's, was pronounced dead at the scene. . . . MORE


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Williams branch offers free family program
Families are invited to learn about the biology of monarch butterflies and how to create a pollinator habitat at a free program from 2–3 p.m. on Wednesday, August 30 at the Williams branch located at 20695 Williams Hwy.
Participants will learn about specialized pollinator gardens called monarch weigh stations that create a "milkweed railroad" along their migration route. Dr. Tom Landis of Native Plant Nursery Consulting will be presenting.
Registration is not required. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or call the Williams branch at 541-846-7020.


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By Pritha Lal
Springville, Utah
Yes , I just finished Khaled Hosseini's second masterpiece and I am at cross roads of trying to pen down what the pages made me think and feel. Interestingly, I still haven't completed the Kite Runner but this one, I couldn't put down for a second. The first thing that strikes you about the book is the fact that it is the story of the lives of 2 women amidst a battered Afghanistan, spanning several decades, but more importantly, it is a story written by a man, completely from a woman's perspective. This is even more striking when you realize that this is the same author who made his readers' eyes sting with the accounts of "Baba Jaan" in the Kite Runner.
I am in no way qualified to critique this masterpiece but I don't want to lose the essence that it left me in me today. As one reads the book, one is made brutally aware of the atrocities that are lashed out on women in different levels of society in different ways. One feels a sense of revulsion towards fundamentalism in all its forms. One is apalled at how close to truth, some of these pages probably are. Yes, the storyline speaks to one geographical area and one socio-political community, and yet as I went through the pages, the paragraphs that left my face moist with tears were not the ones that shouted atrocities, rather the ones that would resonate with any woman today, in any part of the world, in any community, in any faith.
Whether it was the unshed tears of an incomplete love story, or the sorrow of a woman to lose her child even before the little one made an appearence in this world; whether it was the joy of the same woman to find opportunities where she could be a mother in ways that completed her very existence without ever giving birth; whether it was that friend who would kill for you; that friend who would die so you could live your dreams; at the end of the day this was a story of the best and worst facets of human relationships. No one is without frailties, least of all a woman, and yet what makes you look in awe at the 2 principal characters in the book is their very imperfection; their inability to probably fight their circumstances and yet their ability to be the best they can be.
Anthologies have been written through history about the "fairer sex", the "weaker gender", the "opressed lot" etc. Both literate and educated women all over the world have stood up to fight for their sisters, for the wrong and right causes, with the wrong and right means. Repetition of what women have to go through seems as pointless as meaningless. This book inspires at a very different level. It makes you look at reality head on, makes you lock eyes with the most brutal beast that can get you down, some call it fate, some call it circumstances, I call it my reflection in my mirror. You truly are your own worst enemy if you let that reflection determine your image rather than the other way around.
Laila and Mariam - the 2 principal characters in the book, didn't live, they merely existed, but somehow in all that they went through, their spirit shone with a radiance that can only be a gift of the Divine. Yes, they are characters from a work of fiction, but as I started to look around me, I realized I have the privilege of knowing a lot of women who may not suffer the physical adversities that Laila and Mariam did, but mentally they could have been reduced to a shell of a human being. Yet these women not only survived but have done so with pride, dignity, with their heads held high. We call them by different names, mothers, sisters, friends, aunts, grandmothers etc. They each had a cross to bear, and for some reason it was not a burden, rather a gift from Above.
Look around you, there are women whose faces remain hidden either behind make up or smiles, behind twinkling eyes or an infectious laugh... and if you looked really closely, you would find, they cry a silent tear when no one is looking, they sigh wistfully when no one is around, they wonder about their "what-ifs" in a moment of solitude, and yet when life takes over, they shine with the brilliance of a thousand splendid suns....
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Radiance of a thousand splendid suns in a woman's heart....
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- AnonymousOctober 17, 2009 at 11:55 PM
sounds like a gr88 read....shall pick it up..ReplyDelete
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If you haven't ever tried Pandora Internet Radio, you must give it a try. It's great to be able to pick an artist or song and build a radio station of simular music. This is one of the best ways to find new music.
When you get tired of having a browser open to play the music, download this Wrapper Application for Pandora.
(source: Jeff Sandquist – hope you're feeling better Jeff)


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iServe is an open source platform that unifies the discovery, publication, analysis and use of sensors and smart devices, Web APIs and Web services available on the Web. iServe provides advanced search and discovery support for Web developers to locate and use existing components to create smart Web of Things application and API mashups.
I launched iServe in the context of the European project SOA4All. Since then we have strived to provide both end user support through a publicly available registry as well as to help advance the state of the art around search engines and registries for sensors, Web APIs, and services by offering a modular and extensible open source platform ready to be customised and extended for research and development purposes.
The main goal of the project is to help developers in identifying and integrating reusable services available on the Web, such as the Twitter API or some temperature sensor in a remote location, in order to enable a more rapid and effective development of smart Web applications. To this end, iServe combines state of the art Information Retrieval, Web Mining, and Semantic Web technologies into an integrated platform.
After carrying out a series of advanced analyses on the data collected, the entire registry's data is exposed following Linked Data principles in order to better promote and support its use. Additionally, for those developers who are not familiar with Linked Data technologies or those who simply wish to make use of the advanced search support within their software, iServe offers a simple yet efficient RESTful API.
Finally, in the interest of promoting further take up and progress in the area, iServe is not only open source but it has also been designed in a highly modular manner. Notably, it embeds a plugin-based infrastructure allowing users to add support for new formats, new discovery algorithms, novel ranking approaches, or further filtering techniques, by dropping a new library in the server deployment. In this way, researchers and developers wishing to work on novel techniques can avoid the time-consuming implementation of the core functionality of the registry and focus instead of providing novel features.
If you are looking for services and sensors to use in your application and using traditional search engines provide frustrating results or if you are looking for a powerful registry to embed within your infrastructure, iServe is certainly a software you may want to have a look at!


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There are four types of leagues in OOTP: standard, historical, fictional, and imported. Remember that in OOTP, one saved game can contain multiple leagues. So, your saved game could theoretically contain a combination of all of these types of leagues!
Standard Leagues
Standard leagues are based closely on professional baseball leagues that exist in the world today. In standard leagues, league structure and details have been configured to match the real-world details of those leagues as closely as possible, although the player and team names are different. OOTP comes with the following standard leagues:
- Major American League (This is league similar in structure to the Major Leagues, but with different team names. Players who want a true Major League experience should use the Create a Major League Game option.)
- Japanese Pro League
- Korean Baseball League
- Taiwanese Baseball League
- Mexican Baseball League
- Cuban Baseball League
- Mexican Winter League
- Dominican Winter League
- Puerto Rican Winter League
- Venezuelan Winter League
For information about creating a Standard League, see the Standard League Wizard, or the Advanced Mode screen about Standard Leagues.
Historical Leagues
Historical Leagues are closely based on Major League historical data. You can think of this option as the "Major League option for every year but the current one." This option is most commonly used by players who prefer to do historical simulations. Historical leagues are based on statistical databases that are created by third parties. These databases include all of the true Major League baseball statistics for every year from 1871 through last year.
OOTP comes with two types of historical databases already loaded and available for your use:
- The standard Lahman database by Sean Lahman.
- A "park-neutral" version of the Lahman database created by OOTP forum members Garlon and Spritze. In this database, all stats have been park- and run-neutralized using Bill James' neutralization process, so that it provides the truest possible representation of a player's abilities. (For example, players who played their entire careers at a hitter's stadium like Coors Field will not receive inflated ability ratings.) See here for more information about neutralization.
Note: Other OOTP modders often create their own versions of historical databases. You can generally use any historical database that matches the Lahman format in OOTP, although the game works best with one of the two databases above.
For information about creating Historical Leagues, see the Historical League Wizard, or the Advanced Mode screen about Historical Leagues.
Fictional Leagues
Fictional Leagues allow you to create your own baseball universe from scratch. You can define all the details of a fictional league however you see fit, including the team names, cities, financial model, free agency, player settings, and more. For information about creating a Fictional League, see the Fictional League Wizard, or the Advanced Mode screen about Fictional Leagues.
Imported Leagues
OOTP also allows you to import OOTP leagues from prior versions of the game. See Importing Old OOTP Games for more information about which versions can be imported, and how it works.
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When we aren't working on raised beds and gardens with an annual focus, we are working on food forests. Food forests are a great way to take up a larger amount of space with plants that you can eat! Food forests consist of fruit trees with a lot of other edible plants growing in the spaces around the fruit trees.
Food forests can be installed in a wide range of sizes, and are typically planted during the rainy season. Once matured, food forests can provide abundant harvests all year long. Since most of the plants in food forests are perennial, there is less of a need to replant as often as one does in an annual garden. For more information on our food forests, visit our food forest page.


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Via Jerusalem Post (h/t Honestly Concerned):
The right-wing Im Tirtzu organization and the liberal think tank known as the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute have exchanged letters over a planned institute promotion of a book that commemorates together the Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba.
The book, titled The Holocaust and the Nakba: Memory, National Identity, and Jewish- Arab Partnership, is set to be promoted at the institute on September 7. The institute is also listed as one of two publishers of the book.
"The book invites the readers to think of ways to remember and discuss the Holocaust and the Nakba together, and investigate the possibility of such combined thought – not because the events are identical or even similar, but because they are both traumatic and identity- constructing," stated the Van Leer website.
Segev Israel Afriat, CEO of the NGO Shorashim Shel Netina (Roots of Giving), which supports Holocaust survivors in Israel, wrote a letter on Tuesday to Motzkin, urging him to think twice about holding the event.
The event would be "the first nail in the coffin of the memory of the Holocaust," said Afriat.
He said that he would be happy to refer him to "thousands of Holocaust survivors that would tell him how such an evening is a cancellation of our history." more


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This hectoring rogue caught my attention this morning. Just browse this fat cat's lifestyle and wealth. Your tax emoluments to him probably barely cover his wine cellar. Guido leads his blog on this this morning, too.
It appears that the expenses scandals and troughing pig is really back in its box and the lid nailed down. That notwithstanding it still irks beyond measure they still deem it perfectly OK to morally rip off the tax payer themselves but slag that same remuneration cash cow for struggling to pay bills.
The repugnant unfairness with which Government willy nilly takes and then pisses up the wall of hypocrisy, is atrocious. Peoples' hard earned income is decimated by the bullies in HMRC. Meanwhile rewarding the feckless and the scroungers, the hook handed cleric terrorists and the flotsam and jetsam of the worlds unwanted elsewhere, goes on unabated.
This is a total failure by the Cobbleition and The Boy. Their inherent weakness as people and characters, particularly The Pretend PM, who was torn a new orifice by David Starkey last Sunday in The Times, knows no depth of understanding. Personally, as erudite as it was, I thought Starkey quite gentle. That our PM is a lazy and rather foppish fool is not comforting. Still Prof Starkey knows well how to go at the Cameron lefty friends and young girls. Another red head you might note.
Now back to Gaulke and his behaviour. Another part of his brief will be as an ineffectual observer of the EU mess. That disaster is a stricken vessel now stranded on the rocks of hubris. What's our Government's and their cronies response? Get on board and gather round to comfort the soon to be drowned. Feed them and give them more of our borrowed dosh to destroy in the depths of their ocean of despair and failure.
The Yank apologists for The EU whinge that more of the same Federal and political methods that navigated us onto these rocks is the way to go. Well, buddy Rogoff, of Obummer and the NWO, your qualifications didn't help us avoid the economic melt down, did they. Still he and his ilk preach with the Gaulkes to continue climbing aboard their stricken ship. Mad, bad, bald and very ugly, our Rogoff.
Of course the real ship of fortune sailing blissfully on barely gets a mention. Its holds stuffed to the gunnels with our money and our wealth. Now these are the sods needing a lecture, you cretins. Still they can afford to buy your treacherous allegiances at our expense with all that dubiously ill gotten loot. That final link is worthy of clicking on to see what really happens as these morons in power preach penury to you and I. Not, however to the shady people helping their bank balances and easily met repair bills, clothes and groceries.
I'm no socialist but if real, decent, fair minded system, without the chip on the shoulder hypocrisy, existed, I would look very hard at signing up. Not if the Bliar like Toynbee pretend socialism did, though!


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Last night I had a night at Nama.
A dear foodie friend had been eager to try it, I had heard about it during the summer, in particular their breakfast pancakes that had been circulating instagram and after last night I will definitely be back for breakfast!
Situated on Talbot road, Nama is all white washed walls and wooden floors.
They serve a small but fantastic menu of raw goodies, a great selection of starters and nibbles, a fantastic spread of mains and delicious, delicious desserts.
This Place is a must, raw foodie or not Nama captures flavours and textures that will have you questioning your eating habits, and understanding the appeal of the ever growing raw food craze.
You can book late from Thursdays through to Saturday, we booked early, our table was 6:30 but didn't feel too early as the small back room was soon heaving with regulars and other first raw foodies.
We browsed the menu...'Lasagne'...'Pizza.'..'Thai Curry'... while tucking into some sprouted crackers and fresh guacamole.
Cool cucumber water is brought to your table... if you have never tried cucumber in your water. Do. it is really refreshing and you immediately feel healthy and hydrated.
Spicy guac and tasty crackers, we were off to a good start.
Before long out came our mains... Thai Curry and Green pizza.
The Thai Coconut Curry...kohlrabi rice packed into a dome in the centre with cauliflower, courgette, red pepper, leeks in sweet chilli and a sweet coconut sauce.
Really delicious and packed full of flavour.
The Green pizza. A courgette and walnut base, fresh kale with avocado cream, sliced caper berries and a micro herb salad.
Full of flavour and surprisingly filling.
Next we decided to try out their 'Chocolate Submarine' a hot chocolate, where you choose your milk.
We both went for coconut which was tasty and yes 'hot' raw food can still be raw although there are certain rules.
Everything can be heated/cooked to 42C anything above and it is no longer raw. Out hot chocolates were warm and served with a big hunk of dark chocolate.
The desserts were the really treat of this meal...
Chocolate Ganache Tart...
and Mocha Cheese Cake. smooth, indulgent and all raw.
The base a mix of coconut, seeds and maple syrup was divine. Cocoa nibs, crumbs and sauce smeared underneath added to the uniqueness of these raw desserts.
Extra servings of coconut sugar for the hot chocolates was on hand.
On your way out you can't help but notice the goodies for sale. The fridge is also worth a look, next to the bar. You can buy fresh coconuts that they smash open for you.
Watch this space!
You can find them and book a table here...


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Come by the community center in Avila this Thursday the 28rd for a 3rd district board of supervisors debate.
The debate will begin at 7pm and is scheduled until 9pm at the Avila beach community center located at 191 San Miguel, Avila Beach.
Bring any questions you may have for the candidates as there will be an audience mic provided. (See flyer attached)


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By David B. Freeman
A couple of weeks ago I was conducting a one-on-one pistol lesson with a young woman who, though small, seemed physically fit. After firing at least a box of .22 ammo in a Ruger Mark III, I asked if she wanted to try a 9mm. She was hesitant, afraid it would hurt her hands. I had my Beretta PX-4 Storm with me. This is a gun I normally consider easy on the hands.
After one magazine, she was done. At first, she was afraid she would drop the gun and wanted me to put my hands on hers to make sure. Me being the size I am and the range partitions being spaced the way they were, that just wasn't going to work. So, I stood behind her and put my hands on her shoulders for support and told her to fire away. She dipped several of the shots and after I told her she was anticipating the recoil, she relaxed a bit and put some on target like she had been doing with the .22. But, like I said, after emptying one magazine full of 115 grain WWB, she was done, not only with the 9mm, but with shooting altogether. I hope only for that day, but I may never know.
Fast forward a week and I'm at the range with one of my own guns, a SIG P226 Elite in .40 S&W. It was hurting my hand. Strange, I've got a couple of 45 autos that don't hurt my hand when I shoot them. My FNP 40 didn't hurt my hand when I shot it. What was going on?
Being an instructor, I'm always looking for what works, and for me, that day, what worked was relaxing my grip. Yes, I know, a semi-automatic pistol needs a firm grip to function. Actually, what it needs is a solid wrist and arm to slam into as the slide does its work of ejecting the spent round and loading the next one. But, as I found out with a little experimentation, it didn't require a death grip on the "handle" to stay in my hand.
I fired a box of shells and was pleased with the result. Later, I was talking with Jerry Colliver about it, and he compared it to control touch in an airplane. Now, why didn't I think of that. I've flown airplanes and helicopters for years, all the time working to maintain a light control touch so as to not fight the airplane and to produce as smooth a ride as possible.
Darned if it doesn't work for pistol shooting, too. Hold the gun firmly. Make sure your wrist and arm are supplying a solid platform for the gun to cycle against, but you don't have to squeeze it to death to make sure it stays in your hand. Just like you relax your breathing to minimize muzzle arc, you can relax your grip slightly to minimize tension and felt recoil. Try it and see if it works for you.


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We've reached the top of our countdown.
Having spent the past few days ranking the year's top celebrities - from Kate Upton at #10... to Walter White at #9... to Jennifer Lawrence at #8... to Christian Grey at #7... to Twerking at #6... to Justin Bieber at #5... to Lamar Odom ar #4... to Kate Middleton at #3... to Kimye at #2 - we've finally hit the apex.
And who else could be #1 except... MILEY CYRUS!
The 21-year old simply could not stop making headlines over the past 12 months, from dancing without a lot of clothing on to filming music videos... without a lot of clothes on.
And it all paid off, criticism be damned.
Miley earned the top spot on the Maxim Hot 100 and also her first-ever #1 single with "Wrecking Ball."
But the crazy year really got underway with the artist's VMA performance, alongside Robin Thicke, in August:
The controversy took off from there, as Miley ignored rumors about her relationship with Liam Hemsworth, stripped down and straddled a wrecking ball, totally nude:
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The singer hasn't commented much on the split, preferring to keep her heart private, while - ironically - making everything else public. To wit, this birthday suit-laden Rolling Stone cover:
But Sinead O'Connor then entered the picture and took the focus off both Miley's break up and her breasts, getting into a major back-and-forth with the superstar over mental illness, the music industry and a lot more.
From there, it was off to the MTV Europe Music Awards stage, where Cyrus once again stirred up some serious controversy by actually smoking pot on stage. For real!
Cyrus then spent the holidays Twerking up a storm, often on Santa's lap, while performing at a number of Jingle Ball concerts:
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The people of France have long been obsessed with aviation. From sponsoring the Wright Brothers to perfecting the hot air balloon, the French love to take to the air. This is why it should come as no surprise that Dorine Bourneton, a paraplegic from France, made history as the first woman with paralysis to receive her acrobatic pilot's license in the world.
But it wasn't easy getting where she is today. From her injury that also occurred in the skies to receiving her professional pilot's license post-injury, Dorine has one indomitable spirit. Read on for her amazing story.
Why she's fearless
Long before her injury, Dorine had already fallen in love with flying. In 1990 when she was just 15 years old, she joined the local flight group – Aero Club d'Auvergne. Her love of flight was inspired by her father growing up, who also loved to fly. But the next year in 1991 while on a small plane with three friends, the plane crashed into a mountain.
All three of Dorine's friends died, while Dorine survived, but had to wait for help for 12 hours and somehow miraculously survived. She however sustained a complete back injury in the crash, and has been paralyzed from the waist down since. Her love of flying however hasn't diminished as some might think it would. In fact, she decided to become a champion for pilots with spinal cord injuries in France.
It wasn't until recently pilots with disabilities could fly professionally in France. In 2003, it was signed into law that pilots with disabilities become professional pilots, and this is in many thanks to Dorine. Dorine has had her private pilot's license since she was 20 years old (a license France has been offering pilots with disabilities for awhile), but this is pretty cool.
In the 1990s after receiving her private pilot's license, Dorine made a name for herself in the aviation world in France. In 1996, she took part in the Aerial Tour of Young Pilots and in 1997 she was part of the Disabled Pilots Commission. And after it became legal for pilots with disabilities to fly professionally, she flew as Leader Patrol for Sky blue for one year.
Soon however Dorine found herself pregnant with her daughter Charline and married her longtime love Bruno, and she decided to take a break from aviation. And in 2011 she flew again publicly – a presentation flight at Le Bourget, one of the biggest aviation festivals in France. This was also when she began to dreaming about her next goal – flying acrobatically, something pilots with disabilities were you not yet allowed to do in France.
But she studied acrobatic training in an effort to get the law changed, to prove that she was just as capable as acrobatic flying as anyone else, and change the law she did.
What's next?
It occurred October 2014 when Dorine made history becoming the first woman with a disability in the world to receive her certification for manual steering commands on an aerobatic airplane. And just last weekend at Ferté Alais 2015, one of the biggest aviation festivals in France, she debuted amazing acrobatic skills. Watch her fly
She, along with William Feral (another paraplegic who received his acrobatic license along with Dorine) will be performing at Bourget 2015 next month; another huge aviation festival in France. That should be something to watch for.
And Dorine went on to become an author as well, writing two autobiographies. Her first autobiography is titled, The Favorite Color of My Mother, and her most recent book, Above the Clouds (Au-dessus des Nuages), which profiles her aviation career.
And next month on June 25th "Air Handivoltige" will air in France. This is a documentary on Dorine's life and why to never to give up on our dreams. Something, clearly, Dorine is exemplary at.
Would you fly a plane again if that is how your injury occurred?
– Visit her site: Dorine Bourneton
Watch the videos!
(get ready to brush up on your French. All videos below are in French!)
– Dorine flying acrobatics at Ferté Alais 2015
– France Infos – Femme d'Exception – Dorine Bourneton
– Dorine Bourneton : Rendez-vous à Roissy CDG!


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Chef David Burke's Favorite Spring Recipes
Everyone looks forward to spring, especially because all of the wonderful ingredients that come into season. Along with peas, chanterelle mushrooms, and spring garlic, one of my all-time favorite spring ingredients is asparagus. Here are some of my favorite asparagus recipes. I think they'll easily become some of your favorites, too.
Scrambled Eggs with Shallots, Roasted Asparagus, and Crème Fraîche
The soft flavors of roasted asparagus and sauteed shallots are complemented by salty bites of pancetta in this scrambled eggs recipe, and after trying the eggs with a sprinkle of Parmesan and crème fraîche, you'll never want to make them another way again.
Were your eyes too big for your stomach this past weekend at the farmers' market? This asparagus soup recipe is the perfect way to make use of a surplus of asparagus. Eat it fresh or keep it frozen to enjoy well past asparagus season.
Pan-seared salmon with Asparagus Butter
Most people just throw away the blunt ends of their asparagus after they've trimmed them, but this asparagus butter is a great way to make sure none of the spring vegetable goes to waste. Sautéed in butter and lemon juice, the salmon's citrus flavors complement the roasted asparagus and asparagus butter.
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Okteenerfest 2017 Registration opens, at only $75 per person. Running from Thursday, September 14, through Sunday, September 17, 2017, Okteenerfest 2017 is stacking up to be better than ever in honor of the Porsche 914.
Click here to learn more about the origins of the Porsche 914 Okteenerfest and its annual celebrations.
Okteenerfest 2017 Registration opens, inviting all Porsche 914 revelers to converge this year on the charming Alpine village of Helen, Georgia. At the same time, the town of Helen will be celebrating its own 47th annual Oktoberfest.
In short, all can share in the Helen Oktoberfest's traditional Bavarian festivities and cuisine — from oom-pah bands and lederhosen, to hot pretzels and German bier. All these fun activities will be enjoyed while also celebrating the origins and staying power of the Porsche 914.
The Okteenerfest organizers tell us the registration fee includes the following:
- Event T-shirt
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- Lots of Door Prizes
- Awards
- Thursday Night Snacks
- Friday Afternoon Lunch at Raby Engine Development
- Saturday Night Awards Banquet
- Peoples Choice Car Show Entry
- Peoples Choice Car Show Vote
- Commemorative Photo
- Driving Some of the Best Roads Anywhere!
- And much more!!
The Helendorf River Inn is the host hotel this year in Helen, Georgia.
The planners of the event have reserved a block of 25 Standard Rooms, 22 Riverfront Balcony Rooms and 8 Patio Rooms for the group for the nights of September 14, 15 and 16, 2017. In order to secure these preferred rates, you MUST mention that you are with either "Okteenerfest" or "the 914 club."
PLEASE NOTE: The block of rooms and the PREFERRED RATE will be honored until August 1. After that, the rooms will be released to the public and the rate will revert back to their rack rate for everyone booking after August 1. So register and book your lodging as soon as possible.
For more detailed Event, Registration and Lodging info, visit the official Okteenerfest website by clicking here. Once on the site, you can register immediately, sign up for the latest email notifications, see who's attending this year's Porsche 914 Okteenerfest 2017, plan your travels and caravan with attendees from your area, and much more.
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I am set to enjoy the fascinating annual celebration of light out of darkness this week, and do just what it says in this email I received from FridayLight.org:
This weekend (Saturday night and Sunday) is the festival of Purim. Why do we dress up on Purim? We're commemorating the miracle of Purim, which was hidden in nature. On Purim, what's inside turns outside, and what is outside turns inward. The whole world is upside down! To add more meaning to your Purim, try dressing up as something that evokes the internal dimensions of your soul. What positive aspects of yourself are concealed? Let them out to play on Purim! This afternoon, when you light your Shabbat lights, take a minute to meditate on the aspect of yourself that is hidden, but that you'd like to bring to the surface, on Purim.
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End of January and spring is still very far away (unless you live on the southern hemisphere, then this is still summer, with fall quite a ways away yet).
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Personal essay/blog: "Flying high – The day I hated Chicago"
When I strolled out of the jetway into the terminal there was no sign of the snow storm that had stranded me in Columbus the day previous. There had been some snow on the ground when we taxied over to Terminal 1 to be sure, but the sky above us was a brilliant blue with a sleepy winter sun shining down on the world. It felt like one huge trick had been played on me, one which had now successfully delayed my homecoming with one long day.
Poetry: "On Poetry III"
I have made other efforts on this topic, one day I might repost them all to show my progress.
Poetry: "Blood ties"
A little poem about blood and family.
Poetry: "My heart"
My heart
I carry my heart upon my sleeve
Though it's a foolish act
To let it sit so openly
Exposed to all that harm
I carry my nerves upon my skin
Where they throb and pulse
They swell with all my troubles
Until they're fit to burst
I carry my hopes upon a string
Like a kite they flutter high
Though when the weather turns on me
My dream kite crashes down
I carry my dreams upon my tongue
Both the bitter, and the sweet
I let them linger in my mouth
Until they are forced away
Poetry: "Three white men"
Another snowy themed poem.
Short story: "A breeze from the west"
There is a certain…Structural thing I applied to this story. I wonder if you can notice it or not.


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3d Printing Light Fixtures
Also these guys, Freedom of Creation, who do great work with a related technology called Selective Laser Sintering.
The Zcorp machine builds up the geometry by depositing layers of gypsum based power and drawing successive "slices" of the form in 2d planes of glue. Here is a video of the printing interface, where you can inspect your geometry to make sure the elements are thick enough, connected, etc.
If the geometry isn't thick enough, it crumbles, so doing fine details can be problematic. This can be a problem for doing railings, or other architectural details. But with doubly curved elements, the material is surprisingly strong.
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Wow, just... wow.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM
so how much you selling the lamp for??? and what color is it available in????ReplyDelete
For those (like us) without easy access to a 3D printer, you might want to take a look at http://www.shapeways.com/ReplyDelete
We recently did a small job with them using their metal printing process and it came out pretty well. It's neat stuff!
Jeffrey, thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking for a nice laser sintering service.ReplyDelete
Anonymous, unfortunately the file that I printed the lamp from is not playing nice with shapeways (too many facets), otherwise I would give you a price.
Hi Zach,ReplyDelete
Great lamp! I have a question regarding 3d printing if that's ok. We want to export from Revit 2011,is there a way to print directly to the ZCorp 3d printer? We've 3d printed before but only from Rhino- we've recently moved to Revit. We'd really appreciate your help. Thanks


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International Community Organisation of Sunderland (ICOS) was able to help out a 21-year-old, single mother from a Polish background. She has been long term unemployed and has been highly motivated to find a part time job. However, she needed more support with access to services and employment opportunities. While living in the UK she has experienced many issues such as being a victim of domestic violence and had no family here to support her through this difficult time. She was staying in temporary accommodation for young mothers and had received some support from a social worker but she needed more support from services in her own language. She turned to ICOS for support as she needed help with finding part time work and finding long term stable accommodation.
She was accepted onto the Wise Steps programme (employability project) in August 2017 and provided with support with job searching, including techniques and information where and how to look for work. She received help to create a covering letter and to update her CV. This was not easy as foreign qualifications were not compared to UK equivalents and therefore were not appealing to UK employers. Additionally, support to register with job searching websites was provided. We also provided holistic support, including liaising with the council regarding her housing benefit, which helped to stabilise her situation. This support increased her confidence and improved her chances of finding work and in December 2017 she found employment at a local hotel.
In November 2018, ICOS started being supported through the Healthy Steps (a project focusing on connecting people to services and improving wellbeing within the BME Black and Minority Ethnic community). Our outreach worker has helped MK to complete an online food hygiene course so that she could improve her future employment opportunities as well as English language skills. With our help, she gained a level 2 certificate in food hygiene. We have also signed her up for the E-learning lounge hub (run by Sunderland City Council) so she could complete some interesting free online courses in her own time.
In December 2017, she set up another appointment with us, she was very grateful for our support because she found a weekend job as a housekeeper in a hotel in Sunderland. However, she did not know if she was able to get the prescription exemption certificate. Our outreach worker had a one-to-one session with the individual and explained that she will have to complete a low-income scheme form for help with prescription charges, they have spent some time together filling out the low income scheme form, she needed some help with it as she could not understand the questions herself, she didn't know such form existed and she was very grateful for the information and support we have provided.
The individual asked us for help again in January because she lived in an accommodation for young single mothers, which was not supposed to be long-term and she wanted to find her own flat in Sunderland. I explained to her that she would be able to get a council flat for her and her son and would be able to receive housing benefit as well as she only worked part time. She then booked an appointment with us and our outreach worker helped her with filling out an online Gentoo (social housing) application on homehunt. The individual now feels confident in applying for flats and houses from Gentoo herself.
The individual has been very pleased with the support received from ICOS, as it improved her knowledge of access to services, wellbeing services, employment opportunities and her lifestyle. It has also improved her English language skills, relationships with others and confidence.
Here are more case studies:
Case Study – Employability – 1
Case Study – Employability – 2
Case study – Magdalena Balcerowiak


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Sunday is the 2012 Club Championships from Under 8's up to Masters
Competition starts at 9.00am
Nippers are required to wear Rashies and club caps.
Medals will be awarded for all age groups Male and Female so come along and grab some bling.
Club Championships - 9th Augustposted 6 Sep 2012, 04:32 by Kristy Prowse


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Romans 13 International Children's Bible (ICB)
Christians Should Obey the Law
13 All of you must obey the government rulers. No one rules unless God has given him the power to rule. And no one rules now without that power from God. 2 So if anyone is against the government, he is really against what God has commanded. And so he brings punishment on himself. 3 Those who do right do not have to fear the rulers. But people who do wrong must fear them. Do you want to be unafraid of the rulers? Then do what is right, and the ruler will praise you. 4 He is God's servant to help you. But if you do wrong, then be afraid. The ruler has the power to punish; he is God's servant to punish those who do wrong. 5 So you must obey the government. You must obey not only because you might be punished, but because you know it is the right thing to do.
6 And this is also why you pay taxes. Rulers are working for God and give their time to their work. 7 Pay everyone, then, what you owe him. If you owe any kind of tax, pay it. Show respect and honor to them all.
Loving Others
8 Do not owe people anything. But you will always owe love to each other. The person who loves others has obeyed all the law. 9 The law says, "You must not be guilty of adultery. You must not murder anyone. You must not steal. You must not want to take your neighbor's things."[a] All these commands and all others are really only one rule: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."[b] 10 Love never hurts a neighbor. So loving is obeying all the law.
11 I say this because we live in an important time. Yes, it is now time for you to wake up from your sleep. Our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The "night"[c] is almost finished. The "day"[d] is almost here. So we should stop doing things that belong to darkness and take up the weapons used for fighting in the light. 13 Let us live in a right way, as in the daytime. We should not have wild parties or get drunk. There should be no sexual immorality or evil conduct, no fighting or jealousy. 14 But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ. Forget about satisfying your sinful self.
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- A condition in which there is a lower-than-normal bone mass or bone mineral density (the amount of bone mineral contained in a certain amount of bone). Osteopenia is a less severe form of bone loss than osteoporosis.


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Salvation Army Corp Centers in Henry County – Both basic needs and some limited emergency assistance may be available. They also generally partner with, and have referrals, to other charity and government programs in the county as well as the greater metropolitan region.
The financial assistance is offered as a last resort in a crisis. The organization may have funds to pay rent if the applicant has an eviction notice. Or for those Henry County families facing a disconnection of their power, apply for utility bill help. Homeless families, including children, can explore transitional housing programs, shelters, security deposit assistance, and help in locating a new home.
Other more basic needs are free food from a pantry, Christmas assistance/toys such as Angel Tree, free back to school supplies and clothing. Vouchers for prescription may also be obtained from the Salvation Army. Location is 401 Racetrack Rd., McDonough, Georgia 30252. Call (770) 957-8868. Read more on Salvation Army assistance programs Henry County.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul offers resources and social services in the entire area. As funding allows, the charity and its churches provide access to a food bank, short term loans or other types of financial assistance for paying bills or rent, and clothing. Assistance will only be given after a Home Visit from a case manager. (770) 957-5441
Samaritans Together of Henry County is a charity that addresses housing needs. The organization, which is based in Stockbridge Georgia, may have assistance with rent, mortgage, utilities, or security deposits. The faith based group will also provide other assistance to low income families. All support is very limited and often relies on donations. Dial (678) 565-6526, or read more details.
Community Services Authority is arguably the leading non-profit in Henry County. They administer a number of services, referrals, and support for the low income and working poor. This particular agency supports a few different counties in this part of Georgia, in particular Clayton County.
In a crisis, financial aid in the form of grants or in some cases loans may be issued by Community Support Division. Assistance may pay for a portion of back rent to prevent an eviction or heating / cooling bills during the winter or summer months. Boxes of food and other basic needs can be addressed as well. Clients of the Henry County Community Services Authority will also generally need to attend case management and of course meet low income levels.
Energy bill assistance is available from the federal government LIHEAP and weatherization programs. These can either help pay a utility or heating bill, or assist the household with saving energy from conservation measures. The aid is limited and is normally offered first come and served to those that qualify in Henry County.
The case management offered by the agency will include financial counseling, budgeting, and general educational services. All of this is really key to the family, or individual, gaining self-sufficiency.
Another focus of the Henry County organization is on job search assistance and training. Whether someone is unemployed, or looking for skills, the community action agency may be able to assist. They may even be able to direct clients to clothing closets for work attire or maybe offer a gasoline voucher for an interview. The goal is to help the individual gain self-sufficiency.
Some of the other resources in Henry County include Head Start for children and students. The agency also works with local attorneys and law firms in an effort to provide free legal aid and representation to those with civil matter, such as debt collection or foreclosure issues.
Transportation assistance is available as part of a coordinated inter-agency transportation system offering rides and accessibility. It is offered mostly during the work week. Special emphasis is placed on the transportation needs of the handicapped or elderly. Transportation can be arranged through the county too for seniors, the elderly, and maybe other very low income residents.
To get more information on their programs, dial (404) 363-0575. Or continue with community action in Henry County.
Hands of Hope Clinic, Inc. can be reached at (770) 507-1344. The location serves as a free Christian dental and medical clinic for income qualified residents of Henry County. It will assist those who do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare. They can't have private health insurance. The center and dentists/physicians may offer basic medical care, free medications, and urgent dental care as available. Appointments are needed, and there is often a long waiting list in place for any free medical or dental care.
Helping in His Name Ministries, Inc. - Runs a food pantry. The assistance is for those living on a fixed income, unemployed, seniors, underemployed, single parents and those individuals who meet income limits. Groceries, fruits, dairy items, formula, and more may be passed out in Henry County. 85 Bellamy Pl. Ste. A, Stockbridge, Georgia 30281, telephone (678) 565-6135.
House of Prayer and Fellowship is a church group in Stockbridge that offers clients up to 80 pounds of non-perishable and perishable groceries, fruits, breads, and more. People from Henry County can receive groceries once per month. (770) 507-0154.
Stockbridge Assembly of God runs a food pantry for area residents. Or get referrals to public aid such as SNAP food stamps in Georgia. Main number is (770) 474-8383.
Additional charities provide free food and support to struggling households. Based on donation levels, there may be fruits, items such as diapers or baby formulas, applications to government benefits, and other services. Find Henry County food pantries.
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Marketing Youtube Videos
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WASHINGTON -- The site where a historic Chinese restaurant used to reside soon will be home to a chain pharmacy.
Cleveland Park's new Walgreens will open this summer at 3524 Connecticut Ave., which used to be the address of Yenching Palace, DCmud reported.
That's the restaurant where President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev worked out an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Walgreens purchased the site in 2006 and have made numerous revisions to their plans, DCmud reported.